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12 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON THURSDAY. APRIL 7, 1821. C. W. JACKSO.V imbusner I He calm, be confident, txi cheerful ami do onto erher a yon wrmk) haro them n unto yog-1- IlibluhMl rrry wrk day and Hunday morning at The Journal building. Broadway and Iam bi H fret. Portland, Orrtrm. JiBtrrwl at the pontoflrr at Portland. Urea-oa, . . for tmwmnaioa through tba mails aa second clan, matter. TSLKHiONW Mim 7173. Automatic 060-61. AIT oVriwrt.rn'jM rwarhed by the nqrohrr. A4TIONAI, AIV tHTIHIN; KKi'WSKNTA TIVK Benjamin 4. Kentnor Co., Brunwic . building. 225 Fifth arenue. New Tork; 000 Msiirr buiMing, Chtaao. PA Ino COAST REFRKSK.ViATlVB W. It. Beranger Co.. Ksaminer building. Ban Fran : rt; TMIe Inrunm building. Loa Angel-; -prr-t-Intlliirenrr building. Hostile. 1HK iKK;JN JOL'KNAL, merres the right to revert advertising copy which it dmu ob jectionable. It also will not print any copy I Hat in any way simulates reading matter or that ran dot readily ba recogniaed aa adrer trMng i 8t:BSCUIi'riJ.N KATKS By Carrier, City and Country Om week . ,15 Ofo month. . S .63 iAii.r On week .10 Ona month..... .43 H IN DAY Ona week $ .03 BT MA1U A1X. RATES PATABI.E XS A1TANCJC lAIi.Y AND SUNDAY On year .fH.OO i Three months.. . $2.25 Six Booths. 4.23 Ooe montn...'. . .73 DAILY (Without Sunday) One year .0 t m on tin S.23 Tu rre months. . . 1.75 Una month 60 WKKKIV i (Every Wednesday) Ona year..,. ,.$1.00 Mil months. 60 SUNDAY (Only) One year. .... .(3.00 Biz montha.... 1.75 Three months... 1.00 WKEKT.Y AND 8 IN DAY One year $3.50 Thesa rate apply only In the Went. Rates to Eastern point tarnished on applica tion. MaJta remittance! by Money Order. Krpraaa Order or Draft. If yonr postoffico i not a Money Order office 1 or 2 -cent stamps will be arrwpted, Make all remittanoea payable to The Journal. Portland. Oregon. Persevering moderately is much ma.Mii table, and unspeakably .mora -useful, than talented hioonstaney. , James Hamilton. PERHAPS HAVING exchanged the Chamber of Commerce building for partly Improved east side water front prop erty. Mauritz Thomsen, Seattle, Ta coma and Spokane milling magnate, says he has no plans for developing his new holding for flour milling purposes or otherwise, Perhaps not. And then again he may look at it this way: The prin ciple has been laid down by the interstate commerce gommission that the haul from the interior down the Columbia is a better haul, a cheaper haul, the natural course that traffic will ultimately follow. A 10 per cent differential in favor of the Columbia route from vast areas of grain land Will inevitably make Portland the great grain center of the West, Mr. Thomsen doubtless reasons. . By the lame inexorable law of fitness, wheat will more and more be shipped as flour rather than as wheat. The laws of economics will ordain it so and It will ' be so, whereat Portland will become a vast flour milling center. Max Houser, wheat and milling operator on big lines,- some time ago predicted that Portland would in time be a second Minneapolis in flour milling. ';, The big Fisher milling establish . raent of Puget sound has taken steps for an .extensive development of its milling industry in Portland. And' Mr. Thomsen, a great flour miller, has acquired .Portland prop erties peculiarly suited , to milling. Perhaps, as he says; he isn't plan ning a great institution here for the manufacture of flour. But, perhaps, genius at his game as he is. Mr. Thomsen knows what the Columbia rate decision' means, 'reads In the principles laid down in that decision what is ordained here In milling achievement, and has ; quietly acquired property in readi ness for that development. ; It was'such a movement-that The Journal foresaw when it long ago began the fight for Justice for the Columbia gateway, won in the Co lumbia rate decision. Charles is having even & more dif ficult time regaining his throne than the little fellow has in paying his taxes in Oregon. CUTTING THEM DOWN NOT a single death occurred in Portland In Jlarch from injuries received in an automobile accident. The injury rate has been reduced frort around 150 . during the winter months to 118 last month. The number of collisions was well under the 1000 mark. The March report; of Captain Lewis of the traffic department is one of the most encouraging re corded for months. Despite recent exploits ofja few reckless motorists, the report (of the traffic captain in dicates that there is an excellent chance for the death rate to be re duced below the figures for 1920, when Portland was one of the few, if not the only city in the country, to report a decrease in the number of deaths from automobile collisions. The March report ; shows -again that the great majority of smashups are at intersections. Failure to give right of .way and ; cut corners re- suited in scores of avoidable collis ions. Such accidents are invariably the heritage of an uncontrolled ma chine or lamentable carelessness. With the opening of the spring automobile season, the police net should be spread wide for offend ers. Let Portland of 1921 outdo Portland of 1820 in saving life, and limb in automobile collisions. One chunk of comfort hurtles out of all this fuss about railroad wage schedules. It ought to be perfectly clear that if the' workers are getting most of ? the. revenues there isn't much, if any' 14ft for the specu lators, the traders and the exploiters of the 'public, j DAWES AND SOLDIERS PRESIDENT HARDING made a happy selection when he com missioned Charles G. Dawes to head the committee to' investigate the causes for failure of' the government to properly care for disabled soldiers. The Job was one that called for a man of the Dawes type, and it is not surprising that! the committee has already reported reasons for government failures and is prepar ing to suggest remedies. Dawes came to the public eye when he upset all traditions as a witness before- a congressional smell ing committee. He talked straight from the shoulder. He knew what he was talking about. And he is one of those rare specimens who act as well as talk. The treatment accorded disabled soldiers has, in instances, been crim inal. Some ' of the men who gave eyes, limbs and lungs for their coun try have been neglected, abandoned and forgotten. ' They have been without fit accommodations and medical care. Their job done, they have been pushed aside to fight their own crippled way back to health and strength. ' If any man can, Dawes will hasten relief to the gassed and maimed. His work will be quick and sure. May the country., more and more avail itself of the I ability of Dawes and men of the Dawes type. The pictures of Portland's first of ficials disclose the fact that either hirsute adornment was more popular or barbers less frequent then than in our modern day. Beard wearing was unanimous 70 years ago, but there is not a single bearded officer of city government in the city hall today. A MILLION FOR TWENTY DAYS M' prietor of a small cafe in Paris. The, profits from her business af forded her a bare living. But her lack of success in the field of finance was overshadowed by her success in acquiring friends. She had hordes of them, j , Suddenly ' madame came into riches. She participated in a lottery, and as her reward she acquired 1.000.000 francs. Her financial suc cess strangely served to increase her ability to find new and charming friends to whom the madame was affectionately devoted. She was; so devoted that she loaned, without asking any security whatever, 400,000 francs to the man ager, of a small Paris theatre. He became bankrupt. An officer of the gendarmerie, another friend, bor rowed 60,000 francs from her. He became insolvent. A doctor friend borrowed 12,000 more and disap peared. A ; restaurant keeper bor rowed another 200,000 francs from her. His place was closed by his creditors. And how, Madame Hofer is again to fee found at her little cafe. . Her! fortune lasted 20 days in the-"hands of the madame and her friends. . A big heart is an excellent-possession. The world loves its possessor. But it can ruin as well as reap. "Portland First" records in war drives were won because Portlanders were in deadly earnest. Only the same quality of devoted effort and unanimous cooperation will win the Community Chest campaign. .THE PASSING WOODS I S YOU look out from car win- a dow or automobile as you pass between Portland and Astoria you see many a hill that is the scene of a near tragedy. Commercialism has wrought its ruin there. There is nothing in sight but almost numberless stumps, relics of what was yesterday a beau tiful and valuable forest. The giant firs are gone. The stumps stand there in mute warn ing to civilisation to replace what it has destroyed. As you gaze on the dead stumps, you think of the great floods in the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, which reckless man has helped intensify by cutting down the forests, which nature in its wonderful scheme of things, pro vided as ;a storage for the great water sheds in order that the spring sun might not send the melting snows too suddenly into the rivers below. Ill And as you gaze you think of one of the reasons why great districts In China are being bared of population by , a horrible "famine. They, too, laid their woods low and made no provision for reforestation. They cut down the wonderful trees and applied them to their needs without thought of what the consequences might be to future generations. And one day when the grain In the great Yellow River valley was almost ready to garner and when the people were ready to reap the fruits of their labor, a summer sun shone down with' tremendous heat upon the snows where the ancient forests had been, and within 40 hours the mighty Tellow river rose 40 feet. It inundated the fields, carried away homes and implements, buried thousands of human beings under its angry waters i and spread ruin and devastation where there was promise of abundance. In the Pacific Northwest, com mercialism is moving on the last great woods of America. If they go without reforestation your chil-. dren's children will be left a problem that you would not wish to leave them. . PORTLAND IS SEVENTY J JOW 'Bryant, first mayor of Port land, would open if he could come back out of the past and, with the mayor of Portland today, review the growth of the city. Would he consider it possible that we receive 202,000 letters on 45 trains each ; day and that we send out 200,000 letters, not to ; mention parcel post packages, on 35 trains daily? Would he say, "Quit your string ing me!" or whatever expletive of incredulity was current in his day, if we told him that Portland's last Thanksgiving dinner required 5000 turkeys and that we consume 55, 000.000 pounds of beef, pork and mutton in the course of a year? And wouldn't it be as far beyond pioneer belief as it was beyond pioneer vision if we told him that we have 243 churches with a seating capacity of 100,000 and 48 theatres, which entertain an average of 50,000 persons daily? Mayor O'Bryant presided over a city of 321 souls. He would come back to a metropolis which the last census credits with a population of 258,288. It was even more widely spread out proportionately than Portland today, for its area was then 154 acres, today 42,630 acres. One teacher probably comprised the public school staff when Port land began 70 years ago, and today more than 1300 teachers are re quired for the instruction of 45,000 children in the schools and the oper ation of the school plant will cost $4,475,900. A handful of presumably uncom pensated officials administered pub lic affairs then; what would Mayor O'Bryant have thought of a city whose manifold official duties re quire the services of 1900 employes a city which has 1277 miles of streets, 763 miles of water mains. 697 miles of sewers. 859 miles of gas mains, 2ol miles of electric con duits, 170 miles of street car tracks, and public parks within and without the city valued at $5,000,000? One of the first recorded acts of the Portland city government was. in highly commendable fashion, to prepare for water transportation. But suppose Mayor O'Bryant could look upon our $10,500,000 system of ocean terminals today and learn that the canoe and clipper transportation of his day has given way to steam ship service which connects the Port of Portland with the Orient, Europe, Australia,! the Atlantic coast and South America? There is absolutely no record that Mayor O'Bryant or any of his as sociates visioned the day when the assessed value of the city, which in 1855 was $1,162,565 would exceed $314,000,000 in 1921". But it would not be necessary for Mayor O'Bryant to return to the scene of earthly affairs in order to produce an individual who was startled past belief by the growth of Portland. There were men living here 50, 25 years ago, who thought Portland had reached the maximum of its growth. One of the reasons the streets are not wider is that such a growth as that of the present was thought impossible. But if Mayor O'Bryant could come back and see Portland as it is today, he would probably have something to say to the generation of today. It would doubtless be this: "The growth of 70 years is, after all, but a beginning. The greatness "of Port land is in the future. Let no small plan and no incomplete hope fore shorten the goal of realization. From the flow of the Columbia and its branches out of a quarter of a million square miles, from the power which will be converted to the uses of industry, agriculture and trans portation, from the unmeasured forests and the unsunk shafts of mines, "will come the means of city building and man building beside which the accomplishment of 70 years will be small. From looking backward take the courage and the energy to go on." , THE LAST WORD A BRITISHER, whose wife was exceedingly talkative and equally grasping, took his own way of get ting the last word. After his death, this paragraph was discovered in his will: , ' s My estate would have been consider ably larger if It had not been for my unfortunate marriage with the cleverest known daylight robber. My associa tions with this perambulating human vinegar cruet I consider to have cost me considerably over 400 pounds. Another Englishman departing the affairs of this life made his will a spite -vent for his daughter-in-law. His bequest to his son was 34 pence with which to buy "a hempen cord or halter for the use of his dear wife which, t trust, she may make use of without delay." . j' GENERAL WOOD'S 'MISSION 1, Many Believe He Is the Best Man That Could Be Chosen to Go to the Philippines, Although Some Oppose the Appointment. Daily Editorial Digest (Consolidated Prena . Association) - About the only divergence in news paper opinion concerning the appoint ment of Leonard Wood as "investigator general." of conditions in the Philippines are the suggestions from variously minded editors as to how he may report, both on the general situation- as the re tiring Governor Harrison left it and on the question of Filipino independence. Everybody seems to think that the gen eral is about the best man that could be chosen. ' - ' - There Is. of course, a minority senti ment. The Des Moines Register (Ind. Rep.) may be said to represent it : "If General Wood is being sent to report on the reasonable aspirations of the Fili pinos for self-government,, then no more unfit selection could be made," it says. The explanation of this statement Is the "fear" that the purpose of the ad ministeration is in line with expressions from Colonel Harvey and others like him. who desire to make the Philippines a military outpost in the Orient and to bold them for that purpose." Thus the Register suggests, General Wood's mis sion "will be to reassure the people here at home that the Filipinos are unfit for self-government and undependable." The Sioux City Tribune (Ind.) repeats the gist of this argument and points out that "it cannot be denied that Major General Wood will not be able to know as much in a hurried tour of the islands regarding the ability of the Filipinos as Governor Harrison, who ihas been with them for the last eight years." For the rest, however, even those who plead for the cause of Filipino liberty are generous in praise of the general. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dera.) is anxious to know "what kind of a governor General Harrison has made," anu believes that this inquiry, as well as the question of independence, in which the paper believes, will be an-, swered by Wood. The Saginaw News Courier (Ind.) thinks that "the man for the Job" has been found, and the Au eusta Chronicle (Dem.) declares that "there will, be general approval of the selection," emphasizing the fact that his mission will be the more effective since Wood goes cus an army officer and not as governor general as was at first ru mored. "The people will feel confidence in his judgment," adds the Boston Post (Ind. Dem.) The desire to get "the truth about the Philippines" is expressed by a num ber of writers who hint at stories of retrogression under the Harrison rule. "There are disquieting reports of lax administration," says the Chicago Post "(Ind.), "and a relapse into the ways from which the United States has sought to lead the native population by educa tion. In these matters, "and in the broader question" of independence, "the advice of General Wood will be re garded as of the greatest value." Be cause of the general's investigation, the Baltimore News (Ind.) things that "for good or bad, a mystery, of eight years duration is about to disappear." Says the Indianapolis Star (Ind. Rep.) : "The first thing to be done is for the present administration to find out just what the situation is there before outlining a policy to fit the case. The appointment of General Wood to under take the mission assures that the task will be well done and by the man who Is preeminently qualified to make recommendations as to what is needed in the islands." . The Hartford Courant (Rep.) seems to think that the report, as far as gen eral conditions go, will not be too cheer ful, for Harrison has "succeeded most effectively in undoing much of what had been accomplished" by his prede cessors. The Courant finds the majority or evidence in band against indepen dence, but like many writers of the same view, thinks "General Wood's opinion will be awaited with interest." The New Haven Register (Ind.). which discovers a weight of sentiment at pres ent on the side of freeing the islands, still thinks the choice of the administra tion fortunte and one which "ought to be satisfying to all who have an unself ish desire to see the course taken which is best for the islands." It is possible now, it believes, "to find out what the fects .really are." "Sane and clearheaded observation" is needed for the work," the Hartford Times (Dem.) remarks and ventures a prediction "General Wood will find what he finds, of course," it declares, "out it will be by no means astonishing IE his finding leads to the conclusion that the road to Filipino independence is much shorter than many of his active opponents suppose!." For even those who are heartily op posed to immediate action that will cut the archipelago loose from this country, the Wood appointment meets with favor and the opinion of the appointee will be taken, it seems safe to state, as ex ceedingly valuable, if not, indeed, final. What the Japanese have ever done for us. the Manchester Union (Ind. Rep.) is unable to find, "that we should make them a present of the Philippines," as we would if we blindly yielded to the "belf-determination propaganda." Now, however, "we shall have the facts." since "General Wood is going for them." Sen timent can't run away- with sense, the Birmingham News (Dem.)' reminds its readers, and much as we like we can't give the Philippines freedom without exact knowledge of conditions there. General Wood's conclusions, however, "will be of invaluable assistance to the president and congress in arriving at this knowledge. The general's familiar ity with the "Spanish temperament" and the' fact that he is "the leading ex pert in this country where there is any question of dealing with the. territories held in tutelage" will make it hard for "ripecial pleaders to deceive .or over-influence him." Regarding both sides of the question of granting freedom to the Filipinos the Minneapolis Journal (Rep.) asks, in con clusion, "what, then, is it wise for the United States to do, not only from the viewpoint of the Filipinos. but from that of our own interests?" To this "vital" question, the-Journal believes, "Leonard Wood . can probabl-' find the best answer." Uncle Jeff Snow Says Perfessor Washington deMote was a'tellin' the eighth grade last Friday that there was insects so, small you couldnt see 'em 'thout a microscope : which is all true enough. Then he went on to say that them insects has got diseases caused by : microbes, so small you couldn't see 'em 'thought a special kinder microscope that magnifies 4000 times mebby more and that them mi crobes has got diseased inards caused by still smaller bugs that nobody can see with any kinder microscope. And Ma "lows to run him outer the country if he don't quit fillin' young and tender minds with sich foolishness. . She b'leves the first microscope part of it, 'cause she has saw 'em in draps of water, but that's as fur as she's a-goin' to bleve microscopes. ; "STICK 'EM UP!" From the Baltimore Sub As a matter of fact, the hold-up man Is merely a vest-pocket edition of an empire builder. f Letters From the People f Coaunanieatinna eent to Tne Journal for publication in thia department abould be wnttten on only one aide of the paper; abould not exceed 300 worda in lenrth. and most be aicaed by the writer, wboae mail addraea in full must accom pany the contribution. LANSING'S BOOK A Journal Reader Finds It a Confession 'of Its Author's Errors. ; Union, April 4. To the Editor of The Journal The brief synopsis as given by the press of the book just being .pub lished by ex-Secretary' Lansing entitled "The Peace. Negotiations" lead one to the conclusion that the ex-aecrctarjij w a actually a "misfit" as secretary of tate. Notwithstanding the wide differences lr. opinion between him and Mr. Wilson as to the framing of the peace treaty! and the natural assumption that the secre tary of state would have a leading part in any such negotiations, Lansing) held on as secretary of state more th;an a year thereafter, notwithstanding thje fact that, according to his own admissions, he was sidetracked and practicality ig nored by the president on many prom inent issues. The very admissions of Lansing put hini in the ! mediocre j cate gory. Would a man of the caliber of Root, John Sherman. Hay, Olncy, Blaine. Evarts, Seward, Webster or Bayard have remained in the cabinet under sucti cir cumstances? Hardly. And again, in giving his "legal rca- sons for his opposition to many propositions of Wilson, and to br the those acquiesced in by him, he places Himself in direct antagonism to some' eminent lawyers whose opinions would be by the country, rather than Lans; taken ng's for instance, ex-President Taft add oth ers. The changes suggested by Root and Hughes In the original draft of the covenant indicate that these authorities did not take Lansing's view that the covenant created a "super-government" or that it in any wise interfered with the independence of the United States. The eminent lawyers composing the committee of the American Bar asso ciation who reported after months of Investigation and study that the peace treaty with the covenant should be rati fied without amendment, found against Lansing. As to whether or not Wilson should have attended the peace conference and personally directed the negotiations, this resolves itself into the proposition whether someone else Under all the cir cumstances could have better repre sented us. According to Lansing's Own statements. it is very questionable whether any. other one man, could have better represented American ideas at that time than President Wilson. "This country and all Europe had'given sanc tion to the 14 points as the foundation of a just peace. With his great pres tige at the time, no other man could have wielded the influence that he did at the conference table. And those who say to the contrary are those who had a personal, political or other grievance against the president, as investigation will show. B. F. Wilson. PUT ON. THE BRAKES Increased Taxation Inspires Suggestions For Reduced Public Expenditure. North Bend, March 28. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial "Under the Yoke" was read with much interest, then read again. And, as you declare, the brakes must be applied. I have been thinking, what brakes? You stop there, while I. after being awakened, just kept on thtnkmg and here are some of my thoughts : We iwill and do hold our legislators In esteem, but will notify them they will b needed no more, as we will have our state run by our governor and eight commissioners, and cut their -salaries down until money seekers will not apply for the place. Sad as it would be, we will excuse our supreme court and risk getting a square deal, from a circuit judge and jury, who have the opportunity of see ing plaintiff, defendant and witnesses. 1 and should be in a position to come nearer the truth than a supreme bench. Make our state prison self-supporting by raising its entire living necessities. together with enough for the inmates of the asylum. Have a tannery in the prison, a shoe shop so the ward3 of the state can wear shoes, good honest shoes made of leather." I suppose 'they produce their own eggs and butter. If not, why not? The prison should, if not able to raise the meat, have cold storage and a butcher shop, and buy beef, pork and mutton on foot for all the state wards, Give our prisoners plenty to do. They can be useful even in prison, and some of our state taxes will stop. Put the ban . on trucks speeding, or anything else that tears our public roads to smithereens. There's no sense in putting so much cash in roads and allow them to be torn up to carry heavy freight that railroads should haul. It is said they haul cheaper than the rail roads. Well, build and keep up the railroads and they will haul cheaper r maybe. Think ' and let us have more brakes put on our train before it's wrecked. C. H. Waymire. RECALL IN WASHINGTON . People Who Elected Hart Should Blame Themselves if They , Feel Aggrieved. Orting. Wash., Apri 1. To tVie Editor of The Journal It seems that there are a good many people in Washington who think they made a mistake In electing a governor last, fall and would now recall him. ' Those who voted against him knew that if he were elected it would be an indorsement of all the waste and extravagance that had gone on . when the legislatures that tried to put Gov ernor Lister in the hole piled up taxes on the people which he vetoed. It is estimated by one collector in Ta coma that it will cost so much to col lect the poll tax that the state will only realize $1 out of five, but the people are stuck and they know it.; But they will pay it and all the rest of the taxes and two years from now turn around and ulect the same old gang In the same old way until some time in the remote fu ture they may get their wisdom teeth cut, but that time is not here yet. So let Hart alone and kick yourselves. . S. Van Scoyoe. IN REPLY TO MR. REIMANN Portland, April 4. To the Editor, of The Journal.1, Mr. Reimann claims he has read scores of letters from Germany, which all voice utter contempt "for ex President Wilson and he states they go as far as to -charge him with all the star vation and misery and suffering since the armistice. Well, it is too bad about the women and children of Germany suf fering so much for so long, but they haven't suffered or been tortured one third as much as the heroic women and children of Belgium, who endured it all bravely for four whole years and more, and the babies In Belgium were just as dear to their mothers as any German child could ever be to a German mother. Waa Wood row Wilson responsible for that, too? No ; but the kaiser was. I only wish the powers that be would have let the war go on three week more, and there would have been no dickering over a peace treaty today. Kaiser Bill would now be where he ehould be. One Who Was Over There. CHEER 'UP. KID Tired Mother Dear me ! What Is baby crying for now? i Active Little Sister He's cross with me because I tried to make him smile with. vorr giQve-retcher. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE j T.afTns' iiwn and huddlnr hooes are commonly wonders of spring. w m The most difficult thine law enforcer ment has to do is to enforce the law. Some human heads are light enough to find their way in the darkest places.1 Portland is 70 years old and there seems not to be a half dozen good crops of whiskers in the city. ; A sreed officer confined with smallpox cannot be suffering as much as some ef his victims had wisriea. mum This dispatch of notes to the Japanese government- is all very well so long as we don't have to read the answers.' .... When watermelons are approved as natural distilleries the potato patch- will disappear from the backyard garden. Announcement of rich silver ore. dis coveries on the Yukon probably will not attract the attention or the bread trust. The Northwest has coal en ou eh to last 12.000 years. But lonsr before that time seme Edison will harness the power of the sun. 1 Timber men have set out to combat pests. Why not start with the thou sands who despoil the forests in . the annual quest for Christmas trees? - The sale of paper napkins, plates and the like is -about to be resumed for the summer to eive careless oicnic Darties material with which to clutter up the beauty spots. . . MORE OR LESS, PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Walter RydaU of Elkton is registered at the Seward. Elkton is on the Ump qua river in Douglas county. It is abbut 60 miles west of Drain. In the old days before the construction of the railroad to Marshfield, practically all of the travel went by the : way of Drain through Elkton to Scottsburg on a stage. Old-time travelers will remember - the wonderful chicken dinners served at Elkton. In those days a trip to Marsh field was something of an undertaking. Leaving Portland, one traveled by Southern Pacific train to Drain, staying overnight there. Next day they went by stage to Scottsburg, where they took the steamer to the mouth of the Umpqua river. They were ferried over by row boat and caught the stage down the beach. At the end of the stage line they took a launch across the bay to Marsh field. It was not at all unusual in winter weather to have a high, wave overturn the stage and often the trip had more of adventure than pleasure in it. ' .' Enos Fluhrer and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Fluhrerof Mayger, In Columbia county, are guests of the Hotel Cornelius. Mr, Fluhrer is a shingle manufacturer and runs a store at Mayger. Henry Trowbridge of Grant county, who has been spending the winter in California, is jn Portland and will leave for John Day shortly. v Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Pernot of Corval lis are visiting Dr. and Mrs. E. F. Pernot in Portland. - e Mrs. Minnie Lee of Corvallis is visit ing friends in Portland. Mrs. Victor Patterson of Albany is vis iting friends in Portland. Mrs. C. W. Sears of Albany is a Port land visitor. Mr. and Mrs. K B. Patty and son of Klamath Falls are Portland visitors. Miss Gertrude Shank of Corvallis .is visiting relatives in Portland. . ; C. V. O'Glesby of Eugene is a guest of the Cornelius. , - Benjamin Franklin Conger from Eu gene is at the Seward. Victor J. Miller from Seaside Is trans acting business in Portland. Dr. and Mrs. W. B. Swackhamer. o Boise are guests of the Cornelius. T. M. Easterly, mining man- from Waldo, is a guest of the Hotel Portland. P. E. Garrison from Prineville is at the Hotel Portland. e e -S. E. Easton from Kellogg. Idaho, is registered at the Hotel Portland. m m - - Timothy Newell from Hood River is registered at the Hotel Cornelius. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS -r OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred r a n. Ar tka mn.n' rnnT.nunn now in I SIIUflV. VI ' " , ... eatdon in Portland. Mr. Lockley presents an in tereetina' article on the "daya of gold." when" Oreg-on waa almost depopulated by the exodua of her male citizens to the gold fields of California. Many of Oregon's well known men got their start toward fame and fortune .in the mining game. When the news of the gold discovery in California came to Oregon almost every able-bodied man in the Willamette valley started for the gold fields. By December, 1848. there i v.,, a KlkKrw! ct mpn left In the village of Salem, while Oregon City was a community of women and children. In September a wagon, train was organ ized at Oregon City. There were 50 wagons with their ox teams, while many1" of the goldseekers went on horseback. Peter Burnett, later the first American governor of California, but at that time a farmer near Oregon City, was elected captain of the wagon train,' and Thomas. McKay, pilot. Among the well known residents of Oregon City, Portland. Sa lem and. the other Willamette valley communities to go to ithe California gold diggings were A. L. Lovejoy and F: W. Pettygrove, founders of Portland, Joel Palmer, James McBride. W. W. Bristow, Tom Owens, W. L Adams. John-E. Ross, General M. M. McCarver, George. Gay, P. B. Cornwall. Walter Monteith, Horace Burnett. Peter Crawford, Ninewon Ever, man. W. H. Gray, William H. Rector, Ralph Wilcox. Hamilton Campbell, bet ter known as "Cow" Campbell. Robert jtcw ,11, 1 . " - - - - and William Byrd, Benjamin Burch and- scores of other wen Known pioneers whose sons and daughters, grandsons and granddaughters are residents of Ore gon today. An echo of the old days, a reminiscent memory of the days of old r the days Of gold, the days of '49-ap-peared in a. recent press dispatch from Idaho Springs, concerning Nathan S. Hurd. an old time prospector and miner, now 86 years bid. In , speaking of the days when he was j a husky, bearded, booted and red-shlrted miner, answering the lure of the yellow metal, he said : ' "In 1860 I left Denver in the rush, of the newly discovered gold fields at Span ish Bar. about two miles from where Idaho Springs is now situated. Ilufd said. "There I met Colonel John H. Dumont, later a prominent mining man of the state. . ! "It was customary in those days, when we made our own laws, to form -mining districts whenever a rush occurred. The first "persons reaching the camp after the original discovery could stake off 200-foot claims adjoining the original claim. The next could procure adjacent claims; and so on. . "Zien aa the camp grew, and Its was NEWS IN BRIEF . SIDELIGHTS 1 Portland feels chesty over, the results of her charity drive ( Portland always has a heart and it is not hard to reach. Moialia Pioneer. - "Emperor Karl wants to come back, and if .-he finds the sledding good very likely we will soon hear something about the return from Doom. Pendleton East Oregonian. i - ...' j !" J Another reduction- in freight rates Is "soon to be announced, according to ad vance reports utonating from railroad centers. We will aotn be back to sanity. Baker Herald. " - . " . . - - Th ordinary fellow 'pays his taxes with about ' the same ' spirit a woman takes off her hat when jshe didn't have a chance -to comb her hair before leav ing. Klamath. Falls Herald. ' i " 1 The drop in price of calico does not interest the girls much, but they are profoundly stirred by; the news that fur coats have come down from $700. to $598.00. La Uraride Observer. -! The.'News Is booming Oregon. The News is booming its home, port of Port land. First, last and all the time-the News is booming Sherwood, the finest little town, this side of heaven. Tualatin Valley News. . i Senator Stanfield has a plan , to raise a big-national highway fund by higher taxes on motor vehicles; but the Idea is not mw- since -taxing -automobiles is now. the principal diversion of legis lators in every state of the nation. Eu gene Guard.. ! " Mrs. Mary L. Mallett, state president or the W. C. T. IT., held a conference with Dr. Owens-Adalr yesterday to for mulate plans, for securing publicity and educating the public as to the merits of Dr. Adair's marriage bill. "We liave been working very hard," said Mrs.-Mallett,. "on" the' bill -that comes up in the June election which gives the women the privilege of serving on juries. We be lieve. that if women have the privilege of their citizenship they should exercise its duties.. We are" back of the women's jury bill as well as Dr. Adair's marriage bill." . . . . - e " : Do you happen to know the where abouts of Mrs. Helen M. Stafford. She is supposed to be in Portland and she is-one of four heirs -of a. $100,000 trust fund left by her parents. Her maiden name was: Salisbury. Her brother, I L, Salisbury of the First National Bank of Oakland, . Cal., is' trying to get in loucit wiui uer. - . . . . Mrs. Edith 'Rhlnehart of John Day, Mate vice president of the' Degree of Honor, will be In Portland shortly. She is making official visits at Pendleton Heppner. The. Dalles and other points while on her way to Portland. ' . ' Mrs. F. II. Blethan and Mrs. Florence Young, her sister of Baker are visiting relatives in Portland. - - Mrs. G. V. .Spankie from Seaview Is spending a -few days in the. city, and Is registered at the. Hotel Cornelius. Mr. and Mrs. P. A. Goodwin from Al bany are registered at the Hotel Port land. - . - - M. McAIpine of Albany Js a guest at the Hotel Portland. B. F. Forbes of Salem is registered at the Portland.' ,. - . - -- . Mrs. W. J. Clements, from the Capital city, is at the-Portland. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Daniels of Medford are-guests of the Portland.. May . Russell of Corvallis la of the Hotel "Seward .- a guest -Dr; C. H. Smith is up from Lakeview and is registered at the Imperial. -'", W. D. Miller from Klamath Falls is a guest of the Imperial. - '-- Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Verdun from Grants Pass are registered at the Hotel Oregon. Frank Kirk from Halsey is at the Oregon." " - " R. Chandler of Eugene is a Portland visitor. ": W.'T, Theodore Flint of iJondon- is registered at' the Hotel Benson. . - - W. P. O'Brien of" Astoria is ;at the Benson. " . Lockley necessary to support some sort -of gov ernment these ctaims were taxed. Of course, many of them would prove to be valueless and their original claimants would abandon them to be sold for taxes. "It was at - such a sale held in the rear of an old shack that I bought the cjaim later called the 'Old Whale' mine: The owner had abandoned it, believing it was too far from the original strike -to', contain pay ore!- Nobody would bid on it, so I finally offered a half dollar. The bid wasn't raised, so the claim waa knocked down. to me for 50 cents. , "A few months later I did some work on the claim during my spare time and uncovered what seemed to be paying traces of, ore. Colonel Dumont looked the claim "over and offered hie $1200 for it, which I was glad to accept. . "Colonel Dumont developed the claim, found rich ore, bought some adjoining ground and. a few years later sold the mine for $200,000. ; ! "Think "of it'" " : Hurd exclaimed, "$2,000,000 for a claim I paid 0 cents for." - -, i "But that's not all," he Concluded. "Since that time $2,000,000 worth of ore has been taken from the Old Whale mine, and offers of several million dol lars for it have been refused. : - " . . ; , It was not till 1S52 that Oregon be came the. mecca of the gold aeekers. After the discovery, of ;goid at Jackson ville came the finding of gold at Sterllng ville. then the Willow Spring diggings, followed ,by the Althouse, Sailor Diggings-and the Sucker creek discoveries. In the 70s came the rush 'to Red Dog, a 'tributary of Briggs creekl Before this in the. 60s the, rich- diggings In Eastern Oregon 'at Auburn, John Day and else where were pouring .out a golden flood of dust and nuggets. ' Wi know the old camps now but as a memory. Kanaka flat, near Jacksonville no longer echoes to tfie. shout fit' the drunken reveler nor the shot of the" gambler "caught with an extra ace. Williamsburg ; in Josephine county today is a 'ghost city.' It was In this deserted camp that Sam Simpson, while wandering one day. In Indian sum mer, sat down and wrote: " . . Ijjri t ioMm pheasant sunning - : Vpon. a branny hill 'October flaunts her ptaroag " . Of bronze and amber utilt. While an anrient mining village at th foot jot the slope await Like a- begirar rudely htmli . From fortunes shining , gates. Silence where life was J stormy And sadness where life waa gar ." A court of dso!aUoa- a." And a kingdom of decay. Ike camp. oDoe crowned wiJ cominest Now pays ita TOwal dues. While all the bannered seasons - . March o'er the Hukfjous. The Oregon Country Northwest Happening 1n Brief Form for the Busy Header OREGON NOTES Mrs. Ada Parks Gray, wife of Ernest E. Gray; Is dead at Philomath after to weeks of "sleeping sickness. The new dormitoi-y for women at Ore gon Agricultural college Is now in use, accommodating 70 young women. An epidemic of smallpox is sweeping Brogan. in Malheur county. Schools are cloned and a ban placed on public gath erings. Durine March 30 nermlts were Issued In Eugene for new residences and im provements, estimated cost- of "which is $46,775. Of the many persons who settled in Baker county prior to 1862, tfce Raker Democrat finds that there are only 13 now living. W. A. Held, secretary of the Marsh- field Chamber of C'ommeroe, h ax been elected president of the club of Oregon commercial secretaries. John Bader, who died at Cottage drove a few days ago, was one .of the wealth iest men in iane county, nls property being valued at $108,247.75. , ILfAla.. 1 in - ,.1,1 I.-.. 1 A. t lo death near Klamath Kails by a roll ing boulder which had become dinlodced by the boy and his BChoolmalea while al play.. ' - Organization of the medical detach ment of the coast artillery corps of the Oregon National Guard has been com pleted. The unit was sworn in at Al- Dany Monday. Two bond issues will come before the voters of the city of KuuenV al the June election, i One is for $fiO.MKI lo build ; bridges, the other for $10,000 for a street intersection fund. Owing to the collapse of the old tim ber work of the spillway at the Kustenn Dower plant at Waltervllle, the now or. water has been entirely diverted, caus ing a shutdown of the plant. ' All state institutions, with the excep tion of the indualria.1 school for girls and the blind school, reached their peak populations last month, according to re ports to the state board of control. WASHINGTON Seattle's municipal water syttem fchowed a profit of $487,661 for 1920. During March 134 marriage licenses" were issued at Spokane and 17 divorct suits started. Consolidation of the Northwest Trust and Savings bank and the State Bank rf flAuttlA u ill H,rom, ftfffHtlv Anril 18. Five thousand acres have been planted to sugar beets in the Toppeninh district and. 1000 acres more are ready for plant ing.' ' The Eastern Ttailway" & Lumber "com pany of Ontralia has resumed opera tions, the plant having been closed ainco December. The Armory association has called for M,l a fnr Anwtnirtinn of f'entrali&'s new armory, which will ,cost In the neighbor- hood of $50,000. Mrs. Anna Hall. 52. a long time resi dent of Spokane, is dead from injuries she received when the fell down the steps of her home. Notice of wage reductions averaging $1.04 a day has been received at Sixk ane by boilermakers, machinists and maintenance of way unions. Students of the pe Ell high school will publish an annual this year for the first time. The publication will be called the. "Peshell" and will contain 70 pages. Of the dozen or more mills in the White Salmon district, only one is op erating at present, owing to ' the stag nant condition of the lumber market. The Hutchinson coal mine near Choi halia has been taken over by the Hutch inson Fuel company of Tacoma, which is making preparations to reopen the mine. Joseph, 10-year-old son of R. V. Hop per of the Nachez valley, is dead from injuries received when his bicycle col lided with an automobile driven by Mrs. D. F. Rice. Approximately 1000 bottles of beer, supposed to have been a consignment found by Sheriff Long and' hi deputies under a bridge near that city. Oeorge Akl, a Hawaiian and formerly a court interpreter, is held in jail hV Tacoma in connection with the slaying Of Henry Bacon, 60. whose hody wa.i found in hia home near Dupont. Fire of unknown origin destroyi-il $10,000 worth f property and wveml hundred dollars in cash in Taholulr Tuesday afternoon. Taholali is tin; headquarter of the Quinault Indian, n-H-ervatlon. i News Is received at Seattle that the schooner Zilla May lost ber way In h blinding mow storm and crashed on th rocks of Strait Island reef. The r w of 13 landed safely, but the Zilla May is a total loss. AH outstanding warrants have been called and the Seattle city llstht depart ment has been put on a cash banis or the first time in six years. Two years ago the department had nearly $.,0in,oou Out in warrants. IDAHO. Grain dealers of central Idaho, aie offering $1 a bushfl for wheat the coin ing, harvest, for October de.live.ry. , The city hall and courthouse ,at Cofur d'Alefie was damaged by fire uvu water last Friday to the extent Of $2.1.000. W. L. Priest, for many years con nected with the forest service at Hailey, has tendered his resignation a-nd will remove to Portland. About 60 ranchers and ftookmi n have formed a Boundary County Ktoek Grow ers' association for the purioie-of pro moting the livestock industry. " l.gRS to the number of 120 cases, or 3600 dozen, were the extent of one day s trading this week with Rupert mer chants on the part of lo:al farmers. Ti ntnndard weicrht of a Quarter of a barrel of flour in. Idaho will le A3 pounds after May 1. Heretofore the standard weight has been 48 pounds. The- Ohio Match company has two miles of railroad in from Jokl and dur ing the coming year plans logging about lu.000,000 feet of white pine match Um ber. eioise is sai a io nave tne iwwi mi levy, the lowest expenditure and th lowest bonded indebtedness per dollar and per capita of any first or second rlaxs city In the state. icnow youi PORTLAND The Oregon Technical council I a central body, composed of delrgatrs representing local branches of na tional technical orgaryKations. It Is organized for the purpose of securing and extending Information on subjects of technical character which are also of public, interest and In which engineers may he helpful.' The administration of the technical council Is in charge of an executive committee of which D. C. llenny is president; E. W. Lazeil, vice presi dent; A. M. Roykin and Oorge M. Post, directors, and V, II. Murphy, secretary-treasurer. The. offices of the council are in the Electric build ing. "The constituent societies are the Oregon chapters of the following: American Society of Civil Engineers, D. I' Henny and J. C. Stevens, dele- gates; American "Society of Mechani cal ICngineers. B. C. Ball and E. W. Is.zell. delegates; American Institute of Electrical Engineers, R. M. Boykiiv and IX T, Merwin. delegates; Ameri can Institute of Architects, IL A. Whitney and Oeorge M. Tost, dele gates; National Electric Llht asso ciation. F. 11- Murphy and IL H Scof field, delegates. The American Institute of Mining and Metallurgical Engineers, which has been meeting in Portland this week, has decided to affiliate with the Oregon Technical council, but lta delegates have not yet been named.