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4 THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, S21. AS IVnKPENDKVT JfKWSPAPER C. ; n. JACK.SU.X s ... . Publisher He ealm, be confident b cheerful and do unto rnr a yon wrmlri have tnem do nnto yon. J 1-uLi Lined erary week (in? and Sunday morning The journal building. Hroaaway ena ii lull -tnret. Portland, OrrffMi. v- ' LuUred at the nortiiltfu.it Portland. Orrmm for trsnmiaion through the mail aecoud ' matter. " '" ' '" 'JUtti'liONUS Main 7173, Aotomauc 6S0-l. ! rinertmer)Ta rwrhM b the-e iramwn NATIONAL. ALrVKKTLttINU KKFKKMKNTA- ,. TITK Benjamin tt Keatnor Co., Branawick bnilding, 2 2 Fifth aTenm New York; 00 Maii-r minmnn. t niraen. , l'A inJ COAST REPKKSENTATlVK-i-W. K. Baransrr Co.. Examiner building. Ban Fran . - eino; Title Insurance building.' Los Angeles; ! t-lntlliineer jMiMding. Seattle. IktH uUKiiUN JOLKNAL, rerrrea the riaht to reject adrertJinns cpy which it deems . ob jectionable. ' It alio will not print any ccpy that in any way simulates reading matter or that cannot readily be recogniied a adrer- tiin . SLBSCHlll ION KATKS By farrier, f'tty and Conntry One week t .1ft i One month .63 DAILT : SUNDAY One week......! .11 Ona week..,.. Iln m..ni . . . 45 1 03 BY MAIL. AIJT, RATrStATABT;E W ADVANCK UAII.Y AND SUNDAY -One year.. $8.00 Six month 4.23 Three month.. . $ 2.23 One month. .... .75 , DAILY (Without Sunday) On yer .00 Six montha..... 3.2.1 Three montha... 1.75 Oae month .60 , WKEKLT i I (Every Wednesday) fHM vMr II on SUN OA I' (Only) One ' year. ..... $3.00 Six month.,... 1.75 Three months, . . 1.00 WEEKLY AND . SUNDAY One year. .... .$3.50 Six montha..... .oo f - Theu rates a only only in the West. Kate to Eastern points furnished oil applica tion. Make remittance by Honey Order. Express Order or Oreft. If your poHtotrioe w - not a Money Order office. 1 or S cent alanine will be accepted. Make all remittances payable to The Journal, Portland, Oregon. The Lord has risen indeed. : Luke 24-34. EASTER'S MESSAGE DAVID, 'who played upon a harp of a thousand strings in- the spiritual consciousness of humanity, looked into the firmament and upon the vastness of the universe. He jnuncnea inia me uses nie m ucauyu, "What is man"? What is man? Scientists not so long ago said that man had become, in fact, the ruler of creation. His steel ships were staunch against wind and wave and rock. His buildings upreared their tdwers against the storm, the lightning and the earth ' quake. ' His vaccines immunized frail flesh against the insidious destruction of contagious disease. His methods of sanitation warded off fever and pestilence. His agrarian experiments had in - creased production until there was . food for all humanity. His devices for the preservation of meats and fruits extended the seasons of bounty into tho seasons of need. His perfected systems' of communication and transportation .drew, the world closer together and made men brothers. - . And yet how like the grass that withefeth is man in t the midst of his triumphs. His ships of steel are sunk to the bed of ocean by the floating fragments' of glaciers or .burled like chips, the sport of the waves, upon the rocks. T-here are a thousand peaks, yet the overflow ing of the molten content of one may crumple the strongest struc tures like egg shells and the slight est seismic tremor sends terrorized men and women fleeing from the buildings most looked to tfor protec tion. . ' Death from guns and cannon and poison gaa mocks the preventives of disease. -Epidemic sjill blights whole portions of earth's surface. Want stalks abroad. Famine with death's head leer cuts down millions, sparing neither the hope of childhood, the strength of maturity nor the feeble ness of age. Like a breath that passes, or a leaf in a moment consumed, is man. And yet where revelry and despair take their turns the miracle' of life, arising . where . only death seems to be, persists. y ' v Out of the pain and cold and suf fering of . winter come spring and the .; song of birds. The . leafless branches become tents of green and bloom. ; A- brown v and inert , bulb goe intO( the dark earth and comes forth a lily arrayed, in beauty beyond the raiment - of ) Solomon . in all his glory,.. - ' . ; : , ' . ; . : . Suffering and sorrow .are ever the dull background which heighten the vividness "of. .Joy. The crucifixion must precede the' resurrection. ( In the ' coneern'pf. ; individual men, .in the enterprises, of Nations and in the broken -progress of the world, the eternal balance , is Jealously kept. Thus;,-at this Easter season, men and peoples receive from the mind of Omniscience the message that de feat prepares the way for victory, failure leads persistence toward suc cess, ''"and even death is the open door to life. " ' ' A corn 'of . wheat 'goes into" the ground,;"; dies and " lives ' again and fructifies for the feeding of the "mul titude. ; The' brown .bulb of the lily disintegrates below' the surface j of the soil ; that it may bloom into J beauty and fragrance. - , , -The world drinks from the cup of sorrow that pride may be van quished and men come into under standing. j , .'.'He Is Risen" is the song of the stars and the anthem of the universe. The' Community Chest plan will cost you less than the haphazard, helter-skelter plan. You can't afford to let it fail, i CRIME'S ANCIENT FOE '-piIE warden; at Sing Sing, which 1 is probably America's most no torious - penal j institution. is ' con vinced that crime as an antirfote for crime is a miserable .failure. . The warden didn't lise those termsK but he meant' the same thing. What he did. eay was that capital punishment has been tried and found wanting as deterrent ff or murder. - -The warden expressed alarm over the growing disregard at taking hu man life and the equally increasing indifference to death.' "Step on her give her the i Juice," v were words which i hesaid came from 'a man who was recently about to be elec trocuted. "Even (lie warden, perhaps himself, a casehardened individual, shuddered to think - that : a con demaed criminal should view so jocularly the prospect of having his life 'taken by the state In cold blood. '-They, may hang them, electrocute them, gas them for committing mur der, but murder goes on just the same." was the , summary of the warden's remarks. . , Yet,' it seems logical that men who view death rwithout misgivings should view the, taking of lifewith Just' as little i respect. Asman will not halt in the projected commission of a crime if he does not shudder from fear of consequences. : It fol lows that if execution, the penalty for murder in most states, -does not deter, then thej basis on which the law is postulated must be all wrong and wrong mainly ; because It de feats its own ends. It follows, also. that we must look beyond the gal lows and the electric chair for a remedy. j Few can agree on what is causing the increase in hellishness. Some say it is a, result of the war, some say something else. Each group may be partly right This or that may be correctly defined as an incentive to law violations, but each cause, if we trace it far enough, ultimately will end perhaps at that point where a man or a woman lost his or he faith in a personal God, a personal devil and a rewarding or an aveng ing ! hereafter, j 5 y When a person loses his love for the first, gives up his horror of the second and abandons his fear of the third, he becomes a potential crimi nal himself because he has shut from his! conscience the only agencies which he once; believed could and would adequately punish him. No man or woman; who sincerely be lieves in this trinity God,. devil and hereafter and j their capacity to mete out unerring justice, Is going to sanely commit crime. . We sorely need most of the ab stractly-bred isms trimmed from our spiritual concepts. In all likelihood we should find that a great deal more 'of the old time religion would mean a great deal less .of crime. HAVE A HEART SUPPOSE the " Community Chest aw campaign were a failure. A drive a week would follow Some weeks there would be two drives. : j : ' There are 52 weeks in a year. The condensed needs of 63 charita ble and character building organiza tions are budgeted in the Community Chest. . : . , That : which Portland people evaded in the form of a week's cam paign to finance relief organizations for a year would come, back again and again. i'i y ' y, - y Suppose the I Community - Chest campaign were a failure and or ganized charity and character build ing abandoned fin Portland. Ten per" cent of humanity is al ways dependent upon the productive. seir-sustaining 9 0 per cent. Relief of its distress is society's compulsory act of self-defense, t One ofjfthe 63 organizations bud geted by! the Community Chest has recently been earing for 609 needy f am Hies. If left unsheltered, unfed, unfueled, unclothed, unsupervised, from them would come disease, de generacy, crime ; and menace that would speedily result in S. O. S. or ganization of citizens committees to combat destructive evil at a cost many times that of. the . preventive measures of charity. ' . Someone hasaid that if you need a thing you pay for it whether you buy it or not., Charity is a modest pleader " compared with the extor tions of unrelieved poverty. The un paid debts of distress exact usurious interest. v; .. . -y-"- ; : :: - It'wIU Pay Portland in measurable cash to care for ' need, to broaden tie opportunity of the repressed and to build citizenship. The selfish mo tive is alone sufficient for abundant contribution.- But the unselfish Impulse of com passion for misfortune, substantial sympathy for need and active in terest in the welfare of thpse who are weak or whose chance is limited is a divine impulse and is the highest reason for filling the Community Chest to overflowing. Some Bay that they do not wish to give through the '. Community Chest; that they like to give only - r - to the organizations which they ap prove, and not to others. A few of these are sincere. Many who offer this argument simply do not want to give. - , ' ' The Community Chest is an or ganlzation of givers. Those who like this organization and those who like that- are making their, campaign jointly. Together they represent Portland's organized response to the claims of necessity, v Gif ts may be designated by givers. ;' If gifts are not designated each organization will be provided with its quota In strict conformity to the best an alyzed general budget which lias ever been presented to the people of Port land.- . ' ".: Although subscriptions may be paid; in installments during the re malnder of the year, the success ofJ the Community Chest ; means that there will be, with but one' or two possible exceptions, no more drives. tag days or appeals until next year Someone says. The cost ' of this plan is great. The most costly giv ing is that done directly ' by indi viduals' untrained in social service to know' legitimate need. '; The second most costly giving is the method of srivlng to unrelated and uncoordi nated organizations as in the past The cost of collecting funds for charity in Portland has been rang ing. from $15 to $35 of every hundred given. The complete collection cost under the Community Chest must not exceed 2 per cent. ; But there is another element of economy, in the support of the Com munity Chest, The budget com mittee was confronted with requests aggregating $2,000,000. which ; its careful service reduced'to $850,000 The latter amount iav-tbe budget sub mitted to the people pt Portland for local and foreign relief for 1921 in the campaign from March 28 ; to April 2. Who will say that at least $1,000,000 has not been saved in this way alone ? : : Portland, . first of Western cities, has attempted her initial , applica tion of business methods to. organ ized philanthropy. It is the most intelligent community giving the West has seen. It is putting busi ness method into charity on a scale commensurate with the social lm portance of the task. It is not elimi nating the heart impulse, which is the vital essential of charity, but the success of the Community Chest will leave to : the executives of charity and character building opportunity, uninterrupted by money begging, to perform the merciful tasks for which their training fitted them. ' j The rest of the .West will watch Portland. This city has not failed and has a delight in leadership in issues of public good. The Liberty loan organization, - of splendid war record, is In charge of the campaign The Community I Chest cause has two slogans. The first Is, "Have a Heart, and the second, "Enough in a Week for a Tear for All. ? Some men make obstacles rungs in the ladder of success. J. F. My ers of Portland became blind many years ago. He might have given up He might nave sold pencils at a street corner. , Instead,' he perfected himself in work the sightless can perform. He trained himself to go about the city as safely, practically, as a man with unimpaired vision. A few days ago he was chosen super intendent of the Oregon state insti tution for the blind which is soon to be built by appropriation of the people of Oregon in the city of Port land. . He was chosen because he was deemed better " qualified than any other applicant. MEETING HIS MATCH UNLESS one is possessed of un limited patience and an abund ance of toleration, observation of streetcar manners offers proof that fare should be based on a graduating scale. Assuredly 8 cents is not enough to charge some men and women , just as it is too much , to charge others. But a happy medium. aesiraoie as it may be, will ever elude realization, because it '. ia not in things human. - Take, for instance, that moderate- sized . gentleman who ; boarded a Mount Tabor car a few afternoons ago. He ought to be .willing to pay 16 cents for the accommodations he confers on himself. A fellow pas senger may stand up beside him and eye with tired envy the seat he is actually, occupying as well as the potential seat which he holds in re serve for additional comfort, but this self-centered individual, secure in his capacious location, is unmind ful of all. His arms spread over 14 columns of space, his knees crossed, one at an angle of '45 degrees, his supporting foot extended half way across the car aisle, he 'gazes on his afternoon paper, the picture of one who has just been informed that the world and all it contains is his. The car may lurch,7 its human cargo may pitch to and fro, but he remains un disturbed, unperturbed, effacing all else but himself. His mental view point is so totally eclipsed by self- interest he cannot see beyond' the paper in front of him. s y But here comes his match. She is a stout lady with two shuffling bundles. She has already Indexed herself by holding up the passenger line by not having; her fare ready. She finally pays the conductor as if she were ' showering blandishments on a poodle. In her face is determ ination. She pushes herself forward, shoving all others aside.'!: Her flash ing eyes fall on ' the potential seat beside the self-centered man. There is not room enough for her .there. because there is only one seat. whereas her perfect 6 requires at least two seats. But that doesn' daunt her. She flops herself into that space, pulls the absorbed per son's coat nearly off In her descent, holds It. firmly pinioned to the seat, while with- her aggressive oltsity she nearly , smothers the - little woman next her. One can almost hear her whisper, '.'Alabama, which, trans lated, means "Here 1 rest" s "The self ish man's snarls and frowns and the little woman's sighs are unavail ing. . Mrs. Obesity has met the enemy and he is hers. . THE SHOE PINCHES "THE nub of Puget Sound's petition X " or a rehearing of the Columbia basin rate case is ' that a diversion of business caused by ' modification of " the Northwest, rate structure would be hurtful to Investment in terminal : facilities, .mills, factories and business enterprises. Can Puget Sound answer fairly this paragraph in Portland's and Van c'p u v e r answer to the. petition: Puget Sound's argument on this point sugxest an interesting line, of thoug-ht and that is to what extent Portland' mills, factories, warehouses, industries and - terminal facilities generally ' have been prevented from developing - and growing in normal fashion by the dis-r criminatory and prejudicial adjustment of rates that the commission in Its report in this case has condemned. ' Unquestion ably the parity of rates to and from territory south of Snake river with Puget Sound and Astoria, has worked serious Injury to Portland and Vancouver and their industries and the shipping and consuming public located " therein for many years. When the shoe is on the other foot it usually pinches. , . ;, : Can the Washington pub1iiferv Ice commission fairly" answer I1 this paragraph in Portland's ; and - Van couver's answer to'-'fts. petition for rehearing: .-. - The attitude and position of the public service commission of the state of Wash ington has been and now'-is one of an tag-on ism to the welfare and prosperity of this section of the state (Southern .Washington), and yet it has assumed to speak for the producing, shipping and business interests of the whole state. In assuming this attitude it , has evidently concluded that Vancouver is located in the state of Oregon, for its course of conduct toward Vancouver is excusable only upon the theory that it does not know or recocnize that Vancouver Is situated within the state of Washington, and contributes its share towards the support of the public service commlS' sion. The petitions for rehearing the Columbia basin issue and the answers" will soon be in the hands of the Interstate commerce commis sion. Its duty is to decide whether the contest that it . once decided unanimously and in the terms of Justice, should be reopened. j The petitioners for rehearing have been unable to offer the federal com mission any substantial fact not al ready in its possession and previously considered. "Have a heart" at least for this week. THEIR CHANGED POSITION T"HE railroads are now spectators They were defendants in the Co lumbia basin rate issue as Originally tried.' Thus the lines in the trans portation contest have been cast anew since the decision issued by the interstate commerce commission last December. V' The railroads have become inter ested spectators, certainly, in the at tempt of Puget Sound and Astoria to reopen the case through peti tions for rehearing Which have been filed at Washington. But their in erest has' ceased to be identical and unanimous. The Great Nprth.ern, the Northern Pacific' and ,the Milwaukee would doubtless desire to preserve the rate parity which was attacked by the shippers of the interior and the up per ports of the Columbia. The S. P. & S. and the O-W. R. & N., on the other hand, were as directly beneficiaries by the federal commis sion's order as were Portland, Van couver and the zone south of the Snake river 4:. ? ; The lowering of the Columbia gal ley rate means to the yaHey -lines not loss of revenue but gain in ton nage and, hence, gain ; In earnings from the larger movement, of bus! ness. Business from the interior. which was divided between Puget Sound and the Columbia river under the artificial parity, which exists by sufference until the petitions for re hearing are considered, will be tribr utary to the upper ports of the Co lumbia and will be. handled by the Columbia gorge railroads' when the new -rates are established. The fact that, the northern lines with traffic to lose through the de cision enunciated by the commerce commission have not joined " Puget Sound's petition for rehearing Is, perhaps, the hardest blow to the hopes which Seattle may entertain of being able to evade or stay the Just conclusions of the commission. The significance of the unanimity of the decision doubtless did not escape the northern lines. " They knew; the case had been thoroughly thresh jjd out. They knew that, Puget Sound's opposition to the ending of entrenched injustice - was not apt to appeal to the interstate commerce commission as a sufficient reason for reopening the case. . The only culpability of the rail roads is their failure to file amended tariffs In conformity with the direc tion of the commission. They would be In better position today had they done so. But there .is, a strange co incidence In the fact that the traffic bureau which formulates the tariffs for the railroads of the Northwest is located in Seattle, the city chiefly back of the appeal for. rehearing. A MEDITATION FOR EASTER An Inquffy Into . the Significance of Easter in Vew of the Widespread , . Misery and Privation in America and Throughout the World. Not-, ably China and Armenia. By Herbert Powell Lee . A new resurrection dawns. , The earth, long dead with winter's frost. Is awaken ing in forms of living green and blossoming- in fragrant and colorful promise of fruitful harvest. And" this' Easter day bears : witness to the resurrection of Christ. Is the story but a nature myth personifying the return of spring? How much more inspiring and uplifting is the belief, that the resurrection is the su preme manifestation of the Creator's power and love! Nature's resurrection is but the rainbow reflection of the Great Resurrection, proclaiming that because Christ was able to rise, nature can also have a resurrection and we, too. shall rise from the dead. The Easter story does not point earthward to nature ; rather does nature. point heavenward to the resurrection. : V ,-. i. Thrice happy are they who realize the deeper significance-of Easter. The grime and toil of life's struggles threaten our faith in human nature and divine provi dence. ; Is there any genuine unselfish ness? Is truth really mightier than er ror? Can life be stronger than death The resurrection is the triumphant an swer to : our gravest doubts and fears, the fulfillment of our deepest yearnings, Life has conquered death. - ' ' V But what is . life? The resurrection radiance reveals thai only as we live the brotherhood of man can we Bhare the fatherhood of God and the resur rection of life. If our supreme aim be the pursuit of pleasure or power or honor or learning or wealth we are dead. -Am I unmoved by the agonized wail of a child or the 'heartbroken sobs of mother or the silent despair of a strong father? Or am I- less moved by these than by some selfish consideration? If so. I am but the tomb of my soul nd the resurrection is for me but a dreadful warning. 1 ? But with the warning of the resurrec tion is mingled a loving call to the soul that is dead and a splendid opportunity for a spiritual resurrection. Two hun dred and fifty millions of our fellow creatures face starvation, the most in tense suffering and need being in Ar menia and China. These men have as red blood, these women have as tender affections, these children have as win some ways, as our own nearest and dear est. The Creator has intrusted us with these precious lives that we may honor Him by preserving them. Let us not dishonor His tender love and care .by abandoning them. : Either we must die to our selfishness and our indifference and our "I'm too busy," or they must perish .under circumstances that would constitute the greatest imaginable out rage on all that is sacred in either hu man or divine affection and suffering, Shall we put ourselves in their 'places It would be simple Justice that our abundance be Instantly carried to them leaving us with their scarcity, and that they" deal- with each of us individually as we have measured to them. But the resurrection power and love has already put us in their places by, decreeing that if ; we leave these to perish physically we shall perish spiritually. "Inasmuch as ye have done It unto one of the least of these ye have done it unto me." "Coma ye, blessed of my Father," and "Inas much as ye did it not to one of the least of these ye did it not to me." "Depart from me, ye cursed." Thus does .the Cre ator'obey his own golden rule and sol emnly enjoin obedience upon us. Hence the golden rule-is not an empty, goody goody motto, but a searchlight upon the only road to eternal life. But.' the golden rule demands more than our money ; it is satisfied with noth ing less than ourselves. It demands the first place in our thought, our study and our planning for those who are dependent upon us either by the divine tie of kin ship or the divine tie of friendship or the divine tie of spiritual need or physical suffering. It demands for them also place in our affection and sympathy above that of any selfish alms. In that case our money will be at their service in the right proportion. And we shall then realize that 90 per cent of the world's physical suffering ia due to hu man indifference and -reAd and lack of sympathetic insight into our social and political problems, and we shall dedicate our social and political . influence to hasten the dy when no. man shall starve who , IS willing to worK and when the human heart shall fully respond to the message of the resurrection. Now if we shall give ourselves to these people in the spirit in which Christ gave himself to humanity, then shall our souls thrill with the resurrection life that de fies and conquers death, that scorns alike earthly calamity . and earthly reward. and that assures us -eternal fellowship with the infinite power and wisdom of love.- - Then shall nature's - resurrection be but a reflection of that of our own soul. And the immediate fruition of our resurrection shall . be the displacing of the winter of despair and agony and death in Armenia and China and else where with a springtime of hope and joy and life. l Calm Easter Day By June MacMillan Ordway. Upnn the area, calm rirer - from worlds wnere pears la norn, am tbe tight that eently comes This holy faster mora. come, I come, 'mid soft spring bresse; I come tike a smilinc bride: - Along Columbia's glistening shores. l am the morning tide. ' - ; w y come, 'the breeze, 'mid the noontide 'bright; 1 cone wnen toe world s ur waft thro' trees of beauty rare. And bleaa each eprucs and. fir. am the brightest evening star; I rails 'on rock and rill.- -J At close of a prayerful Easter . day. With blessings I go when the world is stuL Letters Front tne People f Communication sent to The Jonmal for publication in this department should be writtten on only one aide of tits paper: should not exceed 30O words in length, and must ba aigned by the writer, whose mail address ia full most accom pany the contribution. J VOTERS' QUALIFICATIONS r Portland, March 24. To the Editor of The Journal How long does a person have to reside in the city of Portland to become a legal voter? If a person has resided In the state six months and In the precinct 30 days and registers at the courthouse,' does that make him a legal voter of -the city of Portland? J. G. Pierce. ' I Six months' residence aaaHfies one to Vote in the state of Oregon. One is required to reside 30 daya in a precinct in order to vote la the Portland school etectiooa.) - A WOOLEN LABEL Portland, March 25. To the Editor of The Journal Tour paper some time ago carried an advertisement of a woolen mill offering a money prize for the best name of an Oregon-made yarn. Who secured the prize, and what was the name chosen. - A Reader. IMia T. tTtrlw of MeMinirile won the 2 SO money prizs offered by the Oregon Woolen Mills. The name chosen was "Uixvoim. , COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Spring songs aren't necessarily set to music. , - White bridea and water and oil. Oriental ' grooms Today's Easter bonnet may be out of style next week.- .. . - e -. - , ' -. If it isn't rain and .cold, . it's flies and heat; so why worry? What's - the difference between - an Easter egg and any other?' . ... It is human nature to travel the easi est road, regardless of the goal. . . - . - When God sees fit he acts promptly on a challenge and makes a very thorough Job Of it, tOO. . :: -. . - Not how much do you want to give to the Community Chest, but how much can you give. ... ... - . . If the steam engine made as great a burden out of a load of steel as some men make out of a little responsibility, we'd have no transportation. . . . Imagine a beautiful little body of Oregon water, mirroring the magic vf-rdure ef its wondrous, mountain hem, being- called "Fish" lake! MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town On the register at the Hotel Oregon is a complicated and sinuously distorted mass of curls and angles that look like a pile of snakes that have gone into win ter quarters at Klamath lake, or like a futurist design of a crazy quilt. "No," said the clerk, "I do not suppose you can read it, nobody else can not even the man who wrote it. but I saw who signed it. so I know who it is. That in decipherable worm-fence effect was put there by Fred Buchtel, and is supposed to be his signature." y : The signature of Mrs. Simon Benson decorates the register of the Benson hotel. Mrs.' Benson writes as her place of residence "Hood River." She is a guest at the hotel; built by and named for her husband. ' ' ' ,"' W. F. Isaacs, Vern Vawter and George Collins, all of Med ford, are in Portland to meet with a committee to discuss ways and means of financing the Crater Lake hotel project. , - Roscoe N. Green, hailing from the city named for Aaron Rose, Is at the Benson and reports business conditions at Rose burg good. - . e s Leslie Butler, who is still lame from being runv into by a small boy on a sled during the snowy weather, is a guest at the Hotel Benson. T. M. Morris, chief clerk of the Hotel Osburn at Eugene, is visiting in Port land. . "' Mr. and Mrs. J. H. .Smith, from the Round-Up City, are registered at the Cornelius. - - .'. '. Mrs. C. G. Keller, from the Apple Capital C of America, Is at the Hotel Benson. ' y - '- ". . Carl A. Barnee of Eugene is a guest at the Hotel Oregon. , -.. "..'"' W. C. Van Emon and son of Klamath Falls are at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs! J. t. French of Corvallis are guests at the Perkins. : Ruth Dixon of Umatilla is registered at the Perkins. ' S. T. Vaughn "and Dave Vaughn -of Bend are at the Perkins. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley ( The story at the founding and the earlier Ticissitudes of certain educational Institutions oi Oreaon is hers told by Mr. Lookley. who alao skatchea the career of the president of the University of Oreaon. who is 'a eon oi one o the early Oregon school loanaers-i One of the most fascinating' chapters in the history of Oregon is the story of the founding and growth of Its schools and colleges. The first, schools and colleges of Oregon were sponsored by the various religious denominations. Thomas Franklin Campbell, father of President P. L. Campbell of - the Uni versity of Oregon, was a minister -of the Christian church. What is now Mc- Minnville college, which operated under the auspices of the Baptist church, was founded by James McBride, William Dawson and'S, C. Adams, who belonged to the Christian church. This school was transferred to the Baptists,- who agreed to continue it. Just about that time Bethel . academy was founded in Polk county. That was In 1856. It was founded by Elder G. O. Burnett, Amos Hardy, and Nathaniel Hudson, all ef whom - were members of the Christian church. The- legislature- of - 1855 gave it a charter as Bethel institute. This institute opened In November, with more than 60 Btudents. Dr. L. L. Rowland later became superintendent of public instruction and Professor N. Hudson taught there in 1859. In 1860 the legis lature changed the act of incorporation and made it Bethel college. y i - At about this time or shortly before Bethel academy was founded, a group of prominent Polk county people, consist ing of Ira F. Butler, Judge R. P. Boise, E. Murphy, T. II. Hutcnison, j. , . Smith, S. Simmons. William Mason, H. Buford, T. H. Lucas, S. S. Whitman and D. R. Lewis, became trustees of a col lege at Monmouth. - Ira Butler became president of the board. - In 1855 a char ter was granted, incorporating Mon mouth university. A tract of 460 acres was donated and a towneite was laid out, named Monmouth. After -10 years the school at Monmouth and that at Bethel were consolidated under the name of Monmouth Christian college. This was in the fall of 1866. L. L. Rowland, who had come from Bethany college in Virginia,; and Ed Hudson became as sistants. In 1869 Rev. Thomas Franklin Campbell, who was born in Mississippi and who, like Dr. Rowland, had gradu ated at Bethany college, became' prin cipal of the college. The following year he was elected president For 13 years Rev. Campbell was president of Mon mouth college. . He resigned in 1882. His son. Prince Juucien uampoeii, was Dorn at "Newmarket, Mo., October , 1881. y ".'-..:' ,.'. : ;. , . - a - e ' ; ! . J met President Campbell recently at meeting of the Civic - league at the' Hotel Benson and asked him to tell me some, facts about his early life. A few days later I received a letter from Eu gene, from Aiirea powers, inclosing ine data I had requested from President Campbell. , Because Dr. Campbell has asked me not to tell his story in the first person, I am complying with his request and will not quote him directly. When. be was. 4 years old bis family moved from Missouri to Montana. From St Joseph, Mo., they went by steam boat up the river to Fort. Benton, a trip that took 11 weeks, f From Fort Benton they went in a prairie schooner to Hele na, where they .settled, the father adding teaching and mining to his duties as a preacher. They lived In a log . cabin. NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Tour chickens In a neighbors newly made garden don't help a bit in build ing up any friendly relations. Amity Standard..''..'..': - A lower berth to Portland costs JI 8G. a distance of 347 miles. It Is patent that one does not have to make reservations far in advance. -Baker Democrat. e .. e , . - An Astoria physician claims to have restored two patients to sanity by pulling their teeth. When they see the bill they will g-o craxy agpn. Atorla Budget, Several of our Republican friends have called our attention to the fine weather we have been enjoying since the Hard ing' administration took over the reins of government Polk County Itemizer. Kvrvthln& is drODoine back toward rormal but telephone, railroad, gas and other public utility rates. -The robber Darons or - oia were geniie piunuerem compared to these modern bandits of the "big business" . world. Eugene Guard. ; C. E. Ingalls. versatile -editor of the Corvallls GaseUe-Timefl, is being boomed for minister tg China. The talents of Mr. Ingalls qualify him for something better than that He would make an admir able ambassador to 'Kansas. Pendleton Hast Orejronlan. Willamette valley guests at the Hotel Seward Include : R. W. Ell ithor of Sa lem. Bernard H. Fuche of Eugene, Lydia FrederiCkson and Eloise Roderick of As toria, R. G. Henderson and J, A. Adolph of Salem, f Mrs.' J. It Whitehead of Eu gene, Lyle'J. Flcklln of Albany and J. F. Allen of Corvallis. ' - - - ' .-y ' -''-''' .-" ,'!'''' Colonel ' Carl Abrams. manager of the Pacific Homestead, formerly command ant at Winnel Down camp at Winches ter, England, and for more than 25 years a "member of the national guard, is greeting old-time friends and acquaint ances in Portland. " ". r - - r-' J. H. Kirk of Dorena. Lane county, a station on the Pacific & Eastern and the J trading point for a rich lumbering. dairying and farming country, as reg istered at the Perkins. . e a s ."v. Mrs. j; Ward Chlids, whose son la manager of the Hotel Portland, has gone to Tacoma to visit friends for a week or 10 days. : e W. S. Carpenter of Corvallis ia at the Seward. ' - L. H. Huffman of Corvallis is a Port land visitor. s s e . S. E. Notson, from the county- seat of Morrow county, is at the Cornelius. e Mr. and Mrs. J. F. .T. Galloway of Elgin, Union county, are at the Cor nelius. . . O. Orafos of Pendleton is registered at the Imperial. ' ' s s ... Edith Miller of La Grande la a guest at the Imperial. see G. H. Tracy of Salem Is a guest at the Hotel Oregon. Mr." and Mrs. J. F. Howell of Wasco are jruests at the Multnomah. e - .' .' Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Hager of Corvallis are registered at the Multnomah. e e . e - . - J. H. Sturgris of Pendleton is a guest at the Hotel Benson. e e - C M. Prlngle of Bnd Is at the Benson. . . e :..- '. E. A. Green of Aurora Is at the Seward. C. W. Fox of Dallas is -at the Seward. The back door looked out on an old oak tree several hundred yards down In the gulch where vigilance committees meted out summary and noctural Justice. The morning often revealed a dangling form that had been left there by this quick and final retribution. -' President Camp bell remembers that his Sunday- school teacher took her class down to the old oak for a closer view one Sabbath morn ing. . . " " ' '..' e After four years in Montana the family moved farther, west this time to Oregon. In 1869 they began the Journey to the Willamette valley over the old Mullan road in Concord coaches, by. way of Walla Walla. After six weeks they reached - The Dalles, . going thence to Portland by steamboat Their Portland camn was made where the Union eta tion now stands. A steamer from San Francisco had just arrived - and its an nouncJng gun brought the whole town out v- " ...-.'.' His father took charge 'of Christian college at Monmouth, as president and also established and edited a religious newspaper, the Id Christian Messenger, Dr. Campbell became a student at Chris tian college and was graduated in 1879, He stayed on as an Instructor, until 1882. when he entered Harvard univer sity. . He left the university in 1885 to become a reporter on the Kansas City Star. After his Harvard graduation, in 1886. he returned to Monmouth and taught English and history In the Oregon Normal school, which nad succeeeeu Christian college. After three years as Instructor he was elected president, in 1891. the same year that the normal be came the Oregon state normal, y On September 12, "1887, Dr. Campbell married Eugenia . T. Zleber of Forest Grove, a member-of a well mown pio neer family of Portland. They had one child, a daughter, Lucia, now Mrs. Sid ney Henderson of Pitcher, Ok la. Mrs, Campbell died in February, 1891. While at Monmouth he helped to-organize the Polk County bank in 1892, and was its president serving two years in- that ca pacity and six years as vice president. He was president of the Oregon State Normal school from 1891 until 1902, when he became president of the Uni versity of Oregon. ; When Dr? Campbell became president of the university it had an appropria tion of less than $50,000 a year and. less than .200 students. The enrollment is now 4026. in all departments. The vari ous referendums and initiatives through which the university has gone have served as a means' of education as to the purposes and plans of higher educa tion. - :-'- i,i '- ' Dr. Campbell married Mrs. Susan A. Church of San Francisco August 20, 1908. - . - - . . In the way of play, Dr. Campbell, as a boy, used to. make trips with pioneer baseball teams, when it was like invad ing the enemy's territory and when vari ous means of adjudication more violent! than polite were the order of the day. The game itself was often unimportant compared with its more sensational ac companiment?. He is a -mountain climber and is a member of the Ma- zama Club. In bis reading be leans to ward philosophy. - During the World war, in 1917 and 1918. he wag secretary- treasurer or the American Council on Education, a patriotic organization of 18 national educational societies. Including ail the American colleges, universities, the N. E. A. and others. The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for the Vuay Header " OREGON' NOTES ; The prune crop of the pant season In Linn county in estimated at I.ZIJ.IW pounds from 8l cr$s. 4 The Standard Oil company at Con don has reduced the price of gasoline from 40 to 36 o-nt a gallon. For the purpose of "getting thins started" in Itend, btiildinx traJes unions have voluntarily reduced tiieir wuga scales $1 a day. W. J. Sproat, for eight years a mem ber of the Deschutes national forest ad ministration, has been transft-rred to the Colvllle national forest- . "he Brooks-Kt-anlon Lumber company at Mend shipped 40 cailouds of lumber during the week and the ShevUn-Ilixon company sent out 46 cars. Forest Grove and Hillsboro people have subscribed $2000 to complete the $10,000 fund sought by Puclflc univer sity for promotion purposes. ' Thieves entered the office of the Eu gene Grangers' warehouse, blew open the cafe and made away with about $llf besides several indorsed check?. Enrollment In the Uhiverslty of Ore gon for 1920 totaled 4108, Including med ical classes and the summer pen:. ion- , students in Portland and Kugene. The Cooperative Wheat Marketing as sociation of Oregon expects to handle 30,000,H)0 bushels of this year's wheat crop, 20.000,000 bushels already having been signed. The Port of Astoria will complete the improvements of the Skipanon river by finishing dredging of the turning basin at Warrenton and the channel to a. con nection with the Columbia. ' ' WASHINGTON Prosser's apple crop has been entirely disposed of. Every , fruit warehouse Is empty, ; , Colonel Joneph D. Iltch has become chief of staff of the Fourth division at ' Camp Lewis. He has just returned from the Philippines. It will take more than $100,000 to ray the bonus money due Stevens county's returned soldiers who had filed applica tions up to Saturday. R. D. McLaughlin of Port Angeles has been appointed deputy state treasurer to have charge of the license division In the treasurer's office. Ten thousand dollars has been ex- penaea Dy the Heatu city commiHsion ers in feeding the unemployed and the . mayor la asking for $1000 more. Forces in the state industrial Insur ance department, the medical aid and safety boards, are being cut. It is en tlmated that &0 persons will be laid off. Up ta the present time 3700 bonus checks have been drawn by the" state auditor and 1786 of this number have been mailed out to the ex-service men. , Found unconscious in the alley back of the Dillar hotel at Seattle where he had fallen from the fourth story, James Deal, 63. was taken to the city hospital only slightly Injured. The state examiner reports the aHsets i of Lewis county as $ir9.563.15, while the liabilities are $417,856.82. There in $300,000 outaandlng in county bonds and $95,000 In road bonds. The Klickitat valley has been visited during the last week with a heavy down pour of rain, which has caused a halt in outdoor work. Much Snow has fallen in the SImcoe mountains. - A twenty-fourth Indictment was re turned Friday against Ole H. Larnon, president of the defunct Scandinavian bank of Tacoma. This last Indictment was for the alleged embezzlement of $17,500. . . IDAHO .'" ' Ten carloads of cattle were shipped from Bliss Tuesday to tho Portland market. It Is stated that the cost of building In Boise is 25 per cent less now than it-was a year ago. The T, M, C.A. building under con struction at Boise will be completed by June 1 at a cost of $175,000. Cost of government of the state of Idaho for the next two years will bo $4,964,359.68, according to figures com piled by the department of f inance. For $15,000 Salt Lake parties have secured a four-year lease on the Arizona group of mining claims near -Hailcy owned by Mrs. Charles Cuneo, Walter Kline, who has spent more than 60 yeara in the Idaho hills hunting for gold, has just been admitted to the t county farm at Moscow. He is 80 years old and nearly blind. Uncle Jeff Snow Says A whole lot of wise heads told us in 1920 to vote, to restore hangin' so's to stop sich awful murders. Ourin mur der by hangin has been tried out a million times In 1900 year and It don't nroluce the goods. There has been more murders sence we have went back Into the back track towards barbarlsm'n there was while we was part way civil ized. I reckon there's been more killin's In Portland in the last nine months n In all Oregon for the four years before that Some people'd cure everthlng with hangin', but the only trouble Is that when you hang tho wrong feller apologizln' to the widder don't set things back nowheres nigh the startin pint. jcnow youR. PORTLAND The Chamber of Commerce is the parent of nearly all Portland's busi ness and civic organizations. -The old Chamber of Commerce was V rganized in 1884. - . In April, 1915, ' the Chamber of Commerce and the Commercial club, vlth several minor organizations hav ing similar objects, merged In the Portland Chamber of Commerce, but the merger was materially different in form from the organization as it exists today. The idea of the merger was that everything from charity, to the ex ploitation of scenery would be handled by business 'men grouped in bureaus. A very short experience brought reali zation that a few major objectives must be selected upon which to con centrate the energy of the business community. Since that time the chamber has recorded real accom plishments in port building, indus trial promotion and outstate develop ment At the same time the cham ber has not been less effective than under the merger plan. In publicity of Oregon's scenery, resources and Industrial opportunities. H. li. Van Duzer, manager of Inman Poulsen Lumber company, is prest lent of the Chamber of Commerce ; A. J. Bale, vice president of the Pacific Coast Biscuit company, and Isaac D. Hunt vice president of Ladd & Tllton bank, are vice presidents of the cham ber ; E. a.' Crawford, vice president of the United State National bank, is treasurer; Max S. Hirsch, bead of Hirsch - Weiss Manufacturing com pany, is secretary; Charles F. Berg, president of Lennon's, Is chairman or the Members' forum and W. D. B. Dodson is general manager, r The directors. In addition to the of ficers named, are Roy Bishop of the Oregon Worsted company ; H. L. Cor- bett. head of .the Corbett estxte ; Peter Kerr of Kerr-Glfford company; A. G. Labbe of Willamette Iron A Steel company ; William MacMaster, finan cial agent ; O. W. Mielke, manager of Blake-McFall company ; F. H. Btrrsjg. manager f Ladd estate ; W. D. Whit comb of Whitfield. .Whltcomb & Co., and Frank Andrews of Hlcks-Chatten- company. - The Portland . Chamber, of Com merce has approximately 3000 mem-. be nr. y ' "