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If no God. whence duty? There remaina
no other eoorce than blind, brutal, tjran
noue force. Duty never iaaaea from that -Masuni.
A NEW AMERICA
RIGID restriction of immigration
has been recommended to con
gress by Secretary of State Hughes.
The recommendation is simultaneous
with the report of a. house commit
tee favoring immediate passage of
an immigration bill limiting admis
sion of aliens for 14 months, begin
ning May 10. to 3 per cent of each
nationality resident in -America in
mo.
Sounder advice could not be given
congress at this time. The earlier
irftmigration to America was by for
eigners who wanted to become
-Americans. Many of them, like Carl
Schurx and his kind, were among
our best citizens, as are some late
arrivals. They were constitutional
ists in Europe, and fled to America
where the ideals they . sought Ho es
tablish in Europe were in full func
tion. '
Many of the present Immigrants
are different. They come here as
the miners go to Alaska, to make a
stake and return to Europe to spend
it. There are .known cases in which
they spend part of each year in
America gathering profit, and return
to Europe to spend the remaining
months of each, year in elegant Idle
ness. -
They haven't a thought or concern
about American institutions, Ameri
can government or . American, pur
poses. Their ideals are European
Ideals and their aspirations Euro
pean aspirations. Their true -allegiance
is not te America but to the
land of their origin. They are 'not
6t America by America or for
America.
There is a double drain in their
operations in America. Their living
standard is low and their competi
tion with American labor is destruc
tive. The bulk of their earnings is
spent, not herp, but in Europe. To
the loss of capital you must add the
weakening effect of a population
whose alliegance is not American
but European.
Nor has this taken into the ac
' count those aliens who come with
heresies, and fantastic theories to
plant, their European ideas of gov
ernment, to spread among Ameri
cans false formulas, false propa
ganda of . social, political and eco
nomic organization. ,
The war taught us much about the
unassimilated alien. , It revealed
here the presence of thousands who
wanted American policy subordi
nated to the ends and aims of cer
tain European governments. Their
presence here and the peril of their'
presence here drove us to the enact
ment of over-drastic war laws by
which to prevent them from under
mining our effectiveness in the field.
We had to Increase to an extraordi
nary degree our home guard in or
der to meet enemies in the rear with
the same earnestness that we faced
. the foe at the front.
Some tremendous things have hap
pened in America within . & genera
tion. The last of the free land is
. gone. During the first century of
the American nation, when a resi
dent was dissatisfied or discontented,
he moved westward and with others
, set up a new civilization to his liking.
Cheap land and free land were the
great safety valve.
- But now the land is all settled.
'
The tide of immigration .rolls back
on itself.' And, about the same time
there happened another ; thing
freighted with all kinds of possibil
ity. - That wa the shifting , of the
balance in population from rural to
urban life and the 'change of Amerr
lea to an industrial nation.
,Th historic background of the
first , American j century will . not
sere; as a guide for the' second
American century. ; The safety valve
is gone in the disappearance of the
free land and the country that was
rural and tranquil has become indus
trial and troubled. We have got to
put our'house in- order for this sec
ond century as a nation, and we can
not do it with our population loaded
down and; saturated with great
groups who are of Europe, by Eu
rope and for Europe.
It is claimed that a Western sown
of 50,000 inhabitants! has a divorce
every hour and Zt minutes and a
marriage every eight hours. It is also
said that if the present rate of di
vorce continues, in two years eight
months and 17 days from April 10,
every married couple .in the place
will have a divorce decree.
PAYING THE PRICE
THE Portland I Railway, Light &
Power company has given the
city of Portland a check for $8570.
It pays for damages to two fire
trucks sustained when : the trucks
were rammed by streetcars. The
corporation may still be compelled to
pay: for personal injuries received
by. firemen in the collisions.
The two collisions, then, have al
ready cost the company 8570. Com
pany cars are in scores of collisions
every year. And every time the re
sponsibility for the smash up is
placed on the company, the corpora
tion is compelled to pay damages.
But the money is not paid by the
company. It comes from the pockets
of Portland car riders. Part of the
money collected in every fane goes'
to pay for collisions. Fares are a
trifle higher to make allowances for
the smashups. And every smashup
makes the fares increase.
Traffic accidents are not merely
costly in life and .Jimbrbut in treas
ure. Because there are accidents,
people are forced to pay more for
things they purchase. If a depart
ment store, a public service corpora
tion, or an insurance company has
to pay for damages In collisions it
has to charge more for its prod
ucts or Its premiums. Then, every
smashup avoided is money saved.
There "are more streetcars in oper
ation in Portland, more automobiles.
and more pedestrians on the streets
than ever before. There is greater
opportunity for accidents than ever
before. And it is Incumbent for
operators of streetcars and auto
mobiles and tfr pedestrians to be
more cautious than ever before un
less they are to pay the price of
smashups with dollars, with limbs
and with lives. !
Congressman jgo to school. The
121 newly elected members of the
house have been attending night
school to. learn the congressional
game. They wereltaught the prac
tices, procedure and rules of the
house and were ready for gradua
tion at the end of a week.
HIS LAST PAYMENT
ANEW YORK man who had Just
paid his federal taxes and still
faced a considerable indebtedness in
state income taxes wrote the follow
ing note to the state ; income tax
bureau "Heaven help me! Inclosed
please find notice of additional as
sessment of the state income tax. I
am giving you I everything I have
left" which was a shirt.
The Jfew Yorker had paid his
share for-the wars of the past. He
hadpaid his share toward tlie pen
sions of those :who had fought in
those wars. He had paid his share
toward the tremendous cost of the
late world war. And he v had paid
his share toward the $972,000,000
that is to be spent for the ! 6 huge
battleships now under construction,
and the submarines and destroyers
that are calculated to fight the wars
of the future, j
It might be entirely proper to
congratulate the New Yorker on
having a shirt "left.
Compared with what it would do
before the war a dollar will not buy
83 cents worth.; Today a dollar will
buy nearly three times as much
sugar as lastyear. It will buy three
times as much rice, nearly six times
as many potatoes, more than twice
as many eggs and twice as much
butter. .. '. ! !
AT SIXTEEN
IS, YOUR boy) away from home at
night? . !
"My boy I 18, and he is out sevon
nights in the week; I don't know
what he is doing out there in the
streets." remarked a Portland father,
with a shade of sadness in his words.
Two 16 -year-old Portland boys,
with hands and feet manacled, es
caped from their captors on a train
bound from Los Angeles to Portland.
They had stolen an automobile and
were trying to evade the penalties
of violated law. ; - .
Sixteen-year-olds dashing from a
train in the heart of the mountains
is the kind of, thing hardened ban
dits do. Later they broke into a
boxcar, appropriated food that be
longed A to others and were again
captured. t
All this and more by boys only is
is a mournful story of youth. How
many times can a wholesome, future
come, out of such a beginning? f j
What a welcome and what a reas
suring thing it would be if these
boys would begin alt dvr again, be
gin,aay, by staying at home with the
family at night instead Of roaming
the streets and falling in with bad
associates and winding up in mana
cles and- behind steel bars.
lit is a matter of concern to a com
munity whether boys roam the
streets at night. Statisticians de
clare that the bad boy of 1$ has cost
his community $1809 and that the
good boy of 18 has been worth $S 00
to the community. It costs money
for police and sheriffs to guard and
capture and Jail bad boys, and costs
money for courts and trials and re
formatories that seldom reform bad
boys. i '
But above all, there is the cost in
tears and grief to parents.
SHAMEFUL TREATMENT
BEING a "taw enforcing person is
not always a pleasure. There
are drawbacks to the business as
some officers of experience are quite
willing to admit. ; , r 1
For instance, isn't an officer fre
quently in peril of - losing his
trousers? Didn't a deputy marshal
from Los Angelas awake from a
sound sleep to find his prisoners
gone evaporated and, with them,
his trousers?' Didnt he start from
Ashland afoot, bound fr California
in search of his erstwhile prisoner
only to find them captured, and to
find one of them swaggering about
in the very excellent trousers that
but a few hours before had shielded
the Los Angeles deputy's lower ex
tremities from the rigors of Cali
fornia weather?
And didn't that same deputy, after
rubbing his eyes and stretching after
his nap. miss $115 that had recently
been his? Hadn't his money, too,
gone as the trousers had gone ? :
Law enforcing people must ex
perience quite a chill when they
awake to find prisoners and money
gone, and with, them their own
their very own1 trousers. Couldn't
prisoners have some little considera
tion for the feelings of the law's rep
resentatives and leave at least the
officer's trousers behind when escap
ing? .
BROKEN FIVE CENT CONTRACTS
THAT five cent fare franchise
contracts with traction compan
ies in San Antonio,' Texas, and in
certain cities in Iowa are "confisca
tory" is the announcement of the
United States supreme court in de
cisions last week.
The statement is that the court
held that , "a contract calling for a
confiscatory rate will hot stand i in
law." To what extent the finding
applies to the broken five-cent fare
contract of the streetcar company
with the city f of Portland is not
known, but traction interests all
over the country are claiming that
all their former contentions are fully
confirmed by the court.
If the court has so held, if
changed costs, increased wage and
higher priced materials coming
along after the original agreement is
made, invalidate the contract in the
case of public utilities, what about
contracts in private business? ; Where
is the constitutional mandate about
the obligation of a contract." The
the point, does the contract bind the
public, but not bind the utility?
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For a century, ; the federal su
preme court has uniformly held that
no state may pass a law "impairing
the obligation of a contract." The
principle was laid down in the Dart
mouth college case and it has been
given life and force by every great
decision from that time to the pres
ent. If the new decisions are without
qualification as they are represent
ed to be, the court has laid the basis
for any private interest to cast aside
contract obligations to the public
whenever the risks of business make
that contract less profitable than
had been expected. Under such a
theory, there was not only moral
but legal reason for the city of Port
land to reimburse the contractor for
losses In the construction of the mu
nicipal auditorium;
HIS TRUMP CARD
WHEN the Vancouver barber was
repulsed In his attentions to
his victim, Mrs. Baker, to what did
he turn? When he found himself
unable toegain his end by peaceful
means and decided upon violence,
of what was his first thought? Where
did his hand reach for the medium
of death? Immediately it went out
to the revolver. U..I
The gun was his trump card.
When all else failed, he reasoned,
the death-dealing weapon was left.
If he couldn't secure what he desired
he could destroy all destroy with
the gun. f
That is what revolvers are for to
destroy. All men who desire things
that they must secure by force have
guns. They - will have what they
want under threat of the gun, or they
will destroy. i
The barber's threats availed him
naught. He turned to the gun. Be
cause he had a gun to turn to, two
people lie wounded in the hospital,
one perhaps fatally.. . !- '. J : ; : j. : j
" If the barber is taken alive he will
likely be sent to the penitentiary.
He will be locked up. But the gun
won't be. It will be free, lying
around for the grip of another des
perate hand and ready to collect
another toll. ; - '.
PACKER TrjCE
GIVES HOPE
Rule of Reason as Against Arbitrary
Force la Considered to" Have Scored
a Triumph Both Sides Accord
ingly Congratulated by the
Country's Opinion Moulders. '
Daily Editorial Dieest
, Consolidated free AooeiaUcs)
The peaceful settlement or the dispute
between the packers and the unions, even
though it has been described by oue of
the labor men as only a "truce," is con
sidered toy most newspapers, as a "tri
umph" for the Harding: administration
and. particularly for he secretary of
labor, who presided over the -hearing.
The fact that the employes yielded to the
packers' demand ; for a reduction in
wages is looked upon' with satisfaction
by 'a number of writers as a sign of the
times indicating that labor has. come to
recognize that wages must go down if
prosperity is to return. Although the
disputants are bound by their agreement
only until September 1. when the war
ruling concerning- the eight hour day
will no longer be effective, the majority
of editors feel that both .sides have
shown that the tendency from now on
will be away from the use of force and
toward arbitration.
The New York Evening Post Ind.).
hardly an enthusiastic supporter of the
Republican regime, considers the settle
ment "a notable triumph for President
Harding's administration," far "to post
pone a strike for six months is equivalent
to averting it." The Scran ton Times
(Dem.) calls the work of "Secretary of
Labor Davis, Secretary of ' Commerce
Hoover and Secretary of Agriculture
Wallace"' a "first class job." and the
Harrlsburg Telegraph tRep.). while it
admits that "the caliber of Mr. Davis as
secretary of labor is. not demonstrated
by this one Instance," it grants him "a
good start." ' The Milwaukee Leader
(Ind.) says the "six months' truce" is "a
bright feather' In bis cap and the ad
ministration's. Justification of the choice of Mr. Davis
as a cabinet official is seen in his suc
cessful role of mediator by the Sioux
City Journal (Rep.), which regards the
decision as "significant" in that it shows
that labor has a "disposition to accept
lower wages in the adjustment of costs
which affect living conditions." Adopt
ing this course, the Kansas City Star
(Ind.) believes, will strengthen the labor
organisation with the public. Whether
there is full basis for the hope that labor
will generally accept lower wages is not
a settled question to the Sioux City Trib
une (Ind.), however, for even the pack
ers' agreement may not be permanent if
prices do not keep pace with wage cuts.
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It was rather a question, in the opinion
of the Indianapolis Star (Ind. Rep.), of
establishing the fact that "the readjust
ment program is not aimed at reducing
their strength as well as their wages"
that troubled the workers, who "are
evidently disposed to be reasonable" as
to the cut in pay. They "evidently real
ize." tae Wheeling Register (Dem.) be
lieves, "that a strike was useless and that
more was to be lost by a long fight
against reductions than by accepting
them," and the "course they followed is
a tribute" to their "common sense." To
this the Chicago Tribune (Ind. Rep.)
agrees: 'The workers' representatives
displayed rare good judgment in submit,
ting to the wage cut fixed by the packers
in exchange for concessions on the eight
hour day and continued arbitration ar
rangements. There has been less meat
produced, less consumed and less ex
ported in the United States in the last
year than in either of the last two pre
vious, years."
. The, attitude of the workers in agree
ing to the cut was bound to come, de
clares, the. Mitchell (S. D.) Gazette
(Rep.. "with the decline in priees and
the general return to normal conditions
and will undoubtedly set a precedent for
other groups and for wage and salary
workers generally." To the Savannah
News (Dem.) it is an indication that:
"The wild days when wages were any
thing the employe wished to ask and
when prices were anything the seller
wished to ask, are over. Conditions are
sifting down to a common sense, normal
basis, which they must reach as the
basis of the only prosperity that can be
permanent."
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The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.) is
not so optimistic as some of tha com
mentators, for, though it admits some
thing has been accomplished, it quotes
the words of the employes' representa
tive to the effect that they merely es
tablished "a truce for us to prepare for
war." The employes, "though protest
ing that it is unjust," have accepted the
wage cut. The employers have granted
the eight hour day and "scored" in
"securing a definite termination of the
war time agreements on September 15."
but. It adds, "After that, what?"
To this the New York Globe (Ind.)
feels there is a satisfactory answer in
the possibility that "between now and
September 15 the industry has time to
put its house in order," and "the fact
that a treaty, or, as one of the spokes
men of the unions viewed it. a truce,
has been obtained, is in itself encourag
ing." This optimistic standpoint is
maintained by the Chicago News (Ind.),
which urges that the doubters should
"bear in mind that the packers have
announced their definite intention of
establishing other machinery for the pre
vention or settlement of labor disputes
and of giving. their employes a voice in
the determination of certain questions
relative to wages, hours, safety and
other' working conditions." The Dallas
Times-Herald (Ind. Dem.) la another
to find grounds for hope in the "at least
temporary" settlement of difficulties.
Although for the time being "there is to
be an administrator who is. in a sense,
'over the packers and employes, yet
opportunity is to be given for these two
to develop plans for handling between
themselves matters pertaining to both."
The attitude of both the packers and
the unions and the course taken by the
government all seem to awaken hope in
the El Paso Times (Dem.) that we are
approaching the end of "the day of the
employer who wills to rule or ruin, or
the agitator who stirs up trouble jn order
to hold his job, and the spineless govern
ment offiicaL"
! Lansing's. Explanation
From the Vancouver (Wash.) Columbian
Thousands of clear headed, far seeing
American citizens marveled when Presi
dent Wilson announced to the world that
he would head the American delegation
to the peace conference. Thousands
more were amazed when a few months
later he formally requested the resigna
tion of Secretary of State Robert Lan
sing. Lansing is an international lawyer of
strong parts, had been educated in the
school of practical American diplomacy
and was recognized as an exceptionally
able member' of the president's official
family. I His curt dismissal, with little
or no explanation, other than that the
secretary of state appeared to be out of
harmony with the president, caused more
than a mild storm of censure and tem
porarily increased, rather than dimin
ished, the standing of Lansing among a
very considerable number of Americana
Not until the publication of Lansing's
new book was any satisfactory explana
tion made of these two very extraordi
nary events in the Wilson administra
tion, and, strange as it may seem, it
inadvertently comes from Lancing him
self. ;.. i ... .
While clothed in the polite language of
diplomacy and giving ' to the average
reader the idea that the writer desires,
above all other things, to be fair and
impartial, ' the Lansing articles are. In
fact, intended as an indictment against
Wilson and Wilsonism. The writer dis
closes two very Important sidelights on
the two acts mentioned in the first
paragraph. v -
First, he admits that he was out of
harmony with the president prior to the
date of the peace conference. He had
but little confidence in the proposed plan
for a League of Nations and his school
of what might ' be termed "practical
statescraft" was constantly running con
trary to the idealism of his chief. It is,
therefore, apparent that personal contact
with his secretary of state convinced the
president that it would beunsafe to per
mit Lansing to head the American dele
gation. In view of the Importance which
he placed in th successful negotiation of
a just peace treaty and League of Na
tions agreement, in view of the fact that
he regarded Mr. Lansing as lukewarm
in his approval, and that his secretary
of state matde no move to resign as a,
member of his cabinet, there was but
one course left that of going to Paris
in person and taking charge of the nego
tiations . v
The personal diary of. the secretary of
state as reprinted in his own book indi
cates very jclearly that Lansing was
completely put of harmony with his
chief, and that he felt' humiliated and
vexed because his own-- ideas bad hot
been more cheerfully embraced, and af
fords abundant re asons for him to have
voluntarily given up his post and thus
relieved the president of very, great em
barrassment. A man of less considera
tion for the personal feelings of his
associates than Wilson would have de
manded the resignation prior to the date
of the Versailles conference. That Lan-'
sing continued to serve as a member. of
the cabinet when he well knew that he
was completely out of harmony With"
the president's program will ever remain
a national question mark and an unfor
tunate blunder in a diplomatic career
which is otherwise most creditable.
: A
Letters From the People
'Communication sent to The Journal fat
pablioatioa in this department ahould be writtea
on only one aide of the paper; ahould Dot exceed
300 worde in length, and must be aigned by tha
writer, whose mail addreaa ia fall must accom
pany the contribution.
"UNDER THE YOKE"
A Discussion of the Struggle in Oregon
to Get From Under It.
Corvallis, April 16. To the Editor of
The Journal In the Sunday Journal of
April 10 is reproduced a telegram from
the New York Globe - to Senator-elect
E. F. Ladd of North Dakota requesting
reliable information on the mooted Non
partisan league work. Mr. Ladd's reply
thereto puts quite a different light on
what some profiteers are wont to call
"Townleyism." This struggle of the
Nort Dakota producers for emancipa
tion from the clutches of privilege, and
the latter's efforts to thwart them, form
quite an example of how history repeats
itself. Demetrius, the Ephesian silver
smith, noticing a slump in the demand
for. images of a pagan goddess, found its
cause In the people being turned to the
true God by the apostles of the Christ
Acts, ninteenth "chapter, tells what he
did to them. We have a struggle on in
Oregon for the people's liberation from
the many ill effects of private appro
priation of public funds, economic or
land rent and, like the crusaders in all
ages for restoring human rights, its
aggressive workers are made the objects
of ridicule by the camps of privilege and
the press dominated by them, and who
will not meet the issue openly and fairly,
knowing their position indefensible.
Your series of editorials entitled "Un
der the Yoke" has brought a letter from
a benefactor of society, an apartment
house owner, who tells of his difficulty
in meeting taxes and interest on his in
vestment. His difficulty is largely in
paying interest on that part of his in
vestment which he paid to a site specu
lator, a continued tax to the state on
the site, a tax on his industry, the build
ing and equipment. .
If all ground rent was taken into its
natural repository, the public treasury,
the state Would realize a larger revenue
than it does from the present system,
which is only a partial tax on land rent,
with the deficit khifted to industry.
Any land that has a market value will,
if put to full capacity use, yield its user
many times its annual ground rent,
which is determined by the market value.
Of course, the land speculators need
votes to defeat single tax. and they
frighten the uninformed home owner and
those who have; but one lot on which
they expect to build, with the bogie that
single tax v means that their lot will
evaporate from under their house, leav
ing it suspended in space. . Those whose
only incentive to own a lot Is for a home,
will find by becoming acquainted with
single tax that it will be a big help to
them and give greater security to their
tenure, for they wUl be less liable to
become tax delinquents. No reliance
must be put upon the Portland press
for proper information, unless it be The
Journal and the Oregon Labor Press.
The Single Tax league will gladly direct
inquirers to, the accessibility of reliable
books and periodicals. ,
C. A. McLemore.
A CORRECTION
Eugene, April 19. To the Editor of
The Journal While at Crabtree in a
meeting a boy by the name of Clarence
Alexander had the misfortune to drown
while swimming in the Santiam river at
Sanderson's bridge. In an account of
this unfortunate affair The Journal
stated the boy lost his life "just as he
was to be baptized." ; - '
The drowning happened an hour be
fore the baptizing was announced to be;
in fact there was no baptising there9 that
day. W. L. Straub.
Curious Bits of ' Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
Proof that migratory birds return to
their old haunts was obtained by J. D.
Lawe of Kaugauna, Wis., when a robin
he had doctored for a broken leg one
summer, returned to his home the next
Kpring. Lawe kept a feeding board for
birds in his yard. ' One summer the
robin fjew to the board, suffering from
a broken leg. ; Lawe nursed the bird
back to health! and it remained about
the house as a pet until the first snow in
November. Then it disappeared, and it
was thought to have perished in the
storm. The bird was identified on its
return- by the scar where the leg had
mended. : ' ''-
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Down on the lower fork of Bear creek
in the Ozarka in about '68 a big brown
bear played smash with hogpens night
after night, and dogs nor guns nor
nuthin' seemed to skeer her or run her
off. Finally fellers seen her" take to a
bunch of timber at daylight and the
neighborhood surrounded that timber
with ever kind of weepon up to that
date from spears and flintlocks to the
ney Yankee Henry rifle. They trompeu
a road around that there timber 'fore
they found -out Mrs. Bear wasn't there.
Us humans is like that' in some other
lines. We're alius inclined to tromp
around evils that in the end , turn out
to be somewheres that we ain't a-thinkin'
they're at. . .
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE,
Why do we call 'em "cob" webs?
'
The weather man is the ranking
genius among. the false prophets..;
When criminals are deprived of their
guns there will be far less crime.
Although you can't fish in the rain.
lust think what fun the ducks are hav
ing. The "lure of spring" usually appears
in the milliners' windows about this
time of the-year.
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There are very few amona? as who
don't think they can tell the president
a lew tmngs about tne business of run
ning the government.
.
A man who has . been 15 years In
America without seeking or desiring
citizenship and shirking service under
arms should peddle, his warea else-
wnere. . .
Regular, honest-to-gosh men will be
delighted to learn .- that the v newest
shades in georgette, crepe de chine and
mignonettes are tomato, porcelain. Jade,
honeydew and bisque.
A journal at hand says: "The pres
ence of somatic cells in the ' anterior re
gion of the coenobium was- observed in
most of the neodorina illinoiensis Ko
foid, but it was not always possibte to
separate the algo from Eudorlna ele
gans." Just then the band played and
we all came homef
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Penland of
Pendleton are visiting at the homfe of
Mrs. Penland's sister. Mrs. Will Evans,
in Portland. They came from Pendle
ton by automobile, leaving Pendleton
at 6:30 a. m.. taking two hours for
lunch and -arriving in Portland at 7
o'clock that evening, all of which goes
to prove 'that roads between Pendleton
and Portland are in good condition.
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Bend citizens visiting in Portland In
clude George Cawlf ield. A. C. Clark.
Robert Keys. Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Staats, Mr. and Mrs. C. V. Enloe and
Oscar and Walter Franks.
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Lee Drake, business manager of the
Evening Budget of Astoria, is a Port
land visitor. He came up by motor
from Astoria and will go from Portland
to Pendleton by train.
Mrs. P. T. Randall with her children
and Mrs. Anna Haines and her daugh
ters of Burns is visiting friends in Port
land. .
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Mr. ; and Mrs. E. E. Woodcock ' of
Lakeview are in Portland and are reg
istered at the Hotel Imperial.
'..
Mrs. W. A. Garoutte of Cottage Grove
'is visiting at the home of her sister.
Mrs. Jack Callahan.
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F. R. Strom, who operates the hotel at
London Springs, not far from Cottage
Grove, is a Portland visitor.
Director K. L. French of the depart
ment of agriculture of the state of
Washington is here from Olympla.
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Mrs. H. I. Rice of Fort Rock is a
guest of the Benson.
- Mr. and Mrs. E. I. Garland of Silver
ton are registered at the Hotel Benson.
.
Mrs. George Berger of Astoria is a
Portland visitor. -
Mrs. E. O. Parker of Pendleton is a
guest of the Benson. .
'
1 Clev Jackson of Mocllps is at the
Multnomah. , :
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C. G. Sailing of Heppner is at the
Oregon. ,
J. H." Walker of Astoria is at the
Multnomah.
P. L Idleman from the Round-up
city is a guest of the .Multnomah.
i
W. A. Marshall of Salem is taking in
the sights of Portland.
Fred W. Falconer, well known stock
man of Pendleton Is at the Multnomah.
e .
F. T. Kress from the Capital City is
visiting in the metropolis.
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Miss L. Luckey of : Eugene is at the
Oregon. - ;
D. S. R. Walker of Eugene is a Port-'
land visitor. j
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN i
By Fred
(An honor roll ia Mr. lockiey'a of ferine today.
It i a lint of men. oldei" and yminer. who liara
been or are today ecu rone of that spirit which
has d latin euished the Round- Vp city ever aince
tha day of ita foundinc I
Felix Mittehell has been a member of
The Journal family ever since the paper
started. Before that for a dozen years
or more he was C. S. Jackson's right
hand man on the East Oregonian at
Pendleton. A day or two ago we wefe
talking of the old days in Pendleton
and trying to analyze the reason why
Pendleton has forged ahead of many
other cities whose advantages of geo
graphical location are equal. !
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"A city is not composed of streets and
biddings," satd Mr. Mitchell, fany mora
than a person is of bone and flesh. Just
as the character and the personality of
a person make him successful or the re
verse, so the spirit of the citizens of a
community will build a' city up or cause
It- to languish. Pendleton has always
been a city of public spirit. I used to
be?in the city council and I know some
thing of the character of the early day
residents of Pendleton. Such men as
Bill Matlock, Jim Baley. Judge Lowell,
Walter Pierce. Sam Sturgis, Tom Hailey,
Dr. Vincent, Leon -Cohn and score of
others I could mention are the explana
tion of Pendleton's growth and prosperity:-
Many of the early citizens of
Pendleton were both pathfinders and
empire builders, and were not nappy
unless they were on "the frontier doing
constructive work such men, for ex
ample, as William Martin, who served
as sheriff of Umatilla county, mayor
of Pendleton and later as county judge
of Umatilla county. : Men of this type
have left their impress not only on
Pendleton and Umatilla county but on
the entire West."
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what Felix Mitchell had
told me I jotted down the names of a
few of the men in renaiewn wmvj
helped to put Pendleton on the map in
Urge letters. The pioneer residents of
Pendleton have been succeeded by an
eaualiy aggressive and progressive crop
I? mn like E B. Aldricb,
George Hartman Jr.. Roy Raley. Lee
Drake ana scores i oinem i
... , OTtiri nt mnfti mn that has
X k lot HJ "I""
made the Round-Up successful.
ann tv well known pioneer resi-
dents of Pendleton in 1891. many or
a. now taken the long trail.
were W. F. Matlock, who was born
in Missouri in 1849 ana wno came to
the Willamette valley in 185S. Bill Mat
lock was not only one of Pendleton's
v.., vnnwn itin hut he was known
all over Oregon and throughout the
NEWS IN BRIEF
' SIDELIGHTS ' j
There's a considerable gap, 'twlxt the
Jap and the Yap. Astori Budget.
What has become of the oldfashioned
16-year-old girl who got a good spanking
if - she- wasn't home bv 9 o'clock at
flight? KlamathFalls Herald. -
We are told that Ere was made from
a marl's, rib, but sort of think from ail
appearances that 'it was .his backbone
that man lost. Roscburg ; News-Review.,
, j .;-. '- e e . e. , -
; After teaching continuously for 59
years, a Portland lady resigna She
was no doubt "disgusted with the change
in the teachers' tenure law. Corvallis
Gazette-Times. . 'j . ...
Isn't 5 It strange thai with all these
messages from the Other World, there's
not one of them that tells us how to
solve any . of our:.-war or Industrial
problems? 'Albany Democrat.
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Business L condition are said to . be
worse In Seattle than in Portland. No
doubt of it, because that is the Seattle
way; their booms are bigger and they
drop farther when? the bottom falls out.
The -Puget Sound city is anything but
conservative.-Eugene Guard.
-What Oregon needs in a bunch of
common sense in government. We-are
governed to death- Wo could get along
with one fourth th ' covfrnment - we
have, and no one would ever miss the
other three fourths except the boys who
draw the salaries. La Grande Observer.
.Eugene; citizens visiting' in Portland
Include Ernest K. Highland, who owns
a sawmill at Dexter; K. W. Merrell,
Raymond E,- Vester. manager of the
Oregon Emerald ; Mrs. Thomas Bailey,
and Mrs. D. C KeliemsV '
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- Mr. and Mrs. ; Sid Ross and family
and Dick Cox. with Dick Cox. Jr.; are
guests of the Cornelius. Sid Rosa and
Dick Cox are members of the Portland
baseball club. .
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Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Dlekschneider of
McMinnville were reeent visitors at-the
home of their daughter, Mrs. Cordes
Shipley. " , v
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Mr., and : Mra G. R. r Replogle and
Charles N. Walt' of Bucoda are guests
of the Cornelius. -
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"Lefty" Schroeder of . Salem, former
member of the Portland, baseball team,
is a guest of the Cornelius. j
Dr. W. C. Belt and D. D. Fletcher of
Newport - are registered t the Hotel
Oregon. ' - - - ;
' O. P. Hoff, state treasurer, is shak
ing hands with", his numerous friends
In the lobby of the Hotel Imperial.
' . ' ,.
S. E. Morten of Klamath Falls Is a
guest of the Imperial.
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i A. C. Nelson of Condon is a guest of
the; Oregon.
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Guy E." Dobson of Redmond is a Port
land: visitor.
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M.. D- Shanks . of Lebanon is trans
acting business in Portland. "
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B. J. Heeker of "Albany is at the Im
perial. . -i. . .
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E. F." Collins of Baker is a guest of
the Imperial. .
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. George B. Messerve is down from La
Grande, r -
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C. G. ' Hal vereon v of Silver ton ; is a
guest of the Hotel Perkins.
. - . ,- . : . - ;
. Fred Womack of Elk City is trans
acting business - In Portland.
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Mr. and Mra - E. L. McAllister of
Pendleton are registered at the Perkina
e
W. A. Darling of Condon is a Tort
land visitor. -.'.'- .
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F. E. Brbsius of Prinevllle is trans
acting business In Portland.
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Mr. and Mrs. Theodore P. Neste of
Astoria are at the Cornell u a j
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" L. F, Ftckland of - Albany is at the
Seward.- - . .'j
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; Mr. and Mra C E. Deforce of Astoria
are guests of the" Imperial. f
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Dr. W. E. Phy, proprietor of the Hot
Lake sanitarium, is a Portland visitor.
Mr. and Mrs, W. II. Renter of La
Grande are registered at the Imperial.
liockley
West. He came to Umatilla in 1869 and
ran sheep with George Swaggart on the
Wild Horse. He moved to Pendleton in
1879. r., ' "
James H. Raley was' bom In Ne
braska Territory, in 1855. and came with
his -parents to Mill Plain, near Van
couver, in, 1862. In 1.864 the Raleys
moved to Butter Creek. . near Echo.
Colonel Raley was one of the early and
vigorous fighters for ah open river. -
James A. .Fee, another Pendleton at
torney, who has won fame all over Ore
gon, was bom m Wisconsin in 1857. He
moved from Walla Walla to Pendleton
In 1884, -and for a While, with J. B.
Eddy, ran the Pendleton .Tribune, Mr.
Fee - doing the editorial--work on the
paper .. . "
- Walter M,' Pierce, also a lawyer, was
born in Illinois in 1861. He landed a
job as a farm hand with Nathan Pierce
at Milton in 1883. He was elected county
school superintendawtt of Umatilla county
in 1886.; - . . j-
: W. J." Furnish, who in 1891 was sheriff
of Umatilla county, 'is' now a resident
of Portland. He was born, in Missouri
1rf 1862 and. came ; to Oregon when he
was 3 years old. He 'was graduated from
the Portland Business college in 1888
and shortly thereafter he secured a Job
as bookkeeper in Umatilla county. -
John M. Bentley, who, with Lot Liver
more and Major Lee Moorhouse, is one
of. the pioneer residents of -Pendleton,
was born In Missouri In 1842. Ha came
to Umatilla county in 1871. . He has been
rancher, officeholder.' hotel-keeper and
sawmill man, and was one of the early
stockholders of the East Oregonian.
William Martin was also a resident, of
Pendleton in 1891. He was bern in Viri
ginla in 1822 and ' came to Oregon with
the Applegate-and Waldos in the emi
gration of 1843. He settled in the
Waldo Hills, just east- of Salem. In
1846 he was elected sheriff of Champoeg
county, whieh in those days embraced
the present ' counties ' of - Marion and
Linn and parts of Clackamas and Lane.
He served in the Cayuse Indian war in
1848 under Colonel Gilliam. The fol
lowing year he went to the California
gold diggings and In 1860 was elected
sheriff of Siskiyou county. Ii 1862 he
went to Eastern Oregon and rnld in
the 'Granite Creek? district in Grant
county. In 18S0 he was elected sheriff
of Umatilla county, and was reelected in
1882 apd 1884. He . was later elected
mayor of Pendleton.nd In 1888 became
eounty" judge of Umatilla county.
-- These are but a few of scores ef resi
dents of the Pendleton of that day who
have since made their mark in the his
tory of Eastern Oregon. .
The Oregon Country
Northweat Happenings In Brief Form for tie
' 6uty Header
OREGON NOTES
At least 110 tons of ice manufactured
in Bend will be used in Central Oregon
towns outside of Bend this summer.
Thomas "Russell is under arrest at Sa
lem charged with passing a number of
worthless checks on locallmerchanta.
Fruit men about Eugena have begun
to note that some damage has been dona
by the recent heavy frosts to the cherry
crop, -j .
Alexftnder Crawford, Identified -with
the upbuilding of Oregon since 1853, in
dead at his home in Arlington, aged 88
years. .
About 60 feet of the South Inlet county
bridge near North Bend went down
Monday when piling eaten by teredos
broke off. .
There Is yet five : eet of snow at the
Tempest mine in Baker county, and sup
plies for the miners are being taken in
on hand sleds.
Beginning May 1 members of Salem
Carpenters' union will charge $7.20 for
an eight hour day Instead of 87.50. which,
ia the present scale.
The Oregon and Cat Creek Oil com
pany, .with headquarters In Portland,
and capitalized at 8350,000, has filed ar
ticles of incorporation at Salem.
Stockholders of the Hotel Btnenn In
Corvallis have agreed that the structure
shall be started un noon as $00,000
worth of stock has been placed.
A number of worthless checks have
been scattered over Dallas during the
past week by a pair of sharpers, ail be
ing drawn on the tauas t;uy bank.
Althouch the Santiam river has been
dragged from Sanderson's bridge to its
mouth, no trace has been found of the
body of 13-year-old Clarence Anderson.
drowned while swimming.
Ray Johnson, a sheen shearer, was
found dead near Kowsil by the side of
his saddle horno with a Jagged wound
in his right leg, thought to have been
caused by a fair of elieep shears tied
to the horn of his saddle, the shears
severing an artery, causing him to bleed
to death.
WASHINGTON
Stricken with cerebral 'hemorrhage.
James M. Orlffith. 4, a retired rancher
of Latah, died in a few moments without
reraininir consciousness.
To reduce expenses. Chelan county
commissioners have consolidated the ol -fices
of county agent, county soil pert
and horticultural inspector.
The Walla Walla city librarv is on
the verge of bankruptcy, and 1500 pat
rons living outside the city will be asked
to pay a fee for use of books.
Seattle will ftsge a campaign next
wek to raise 1000 tons of flour to h
shipped by water to the relief of the
starving children of Europe,
Mra Zada Bowers is in a critical con
dition in a Yakima hospital from botul
inus poisoning as the result of eating a
spoonful of home-canned corn.
The Deer Park school board is mak
ing arrangements for a school election
to pass upon a bond issue of 845,000 to
meet the expense of a new school build
ing. ,
The Barnes sawmill at Twin Lakes,
near Colvitle. resumed operations this
week with a full crw. There is enouch
timber in sight to keep the mill running
25 years.
Governor Hart has appointed V. K.
Froula, principal of the Broadway high
school in Seattle, to th state board
of. education to succeed 1L M. Hart of
iripokatie. f
Reducing teachers salaries and do
ing away with free text books and sup
plies to keep within the limit of ex
penses is being discussed by the Walla
Walia school board.
Upwards of.SOO Indians are expected
to assemble at Proeser in Mar and re
main well into June to avail themselves
of their ancient fishing rights at Pros
ser falls on the Yakima river.
Nels Peterson, retired rancher, who
was found dead in a SeatUe hotel. t
believed to have committed suictdo ty
dynamite. A piece of fuse and bits
copper were found in the bed-
A seepage of heavy oil is reported !
the basement ef the br"re of Al?r4
L'Ecuyer In Spekane. The flow has
totaled many gallons of crude otl con
taining e high percentage of gasoline.
Alleging that Barnev Danaidmn. imi
ing Non-partisan league organizer, had
embezzled $J0,tK of the funds of tha
Farmer-Labor State bank at Hillyard.
depositors have petitioned for a re
ceiver. t IDAHO
Two mail sacks were cut open at the
Roberts depot, near Idaho Kalis. Tues
day night and contents stolen.
The Idaho Clay Products company,
owning 1500 acres of clay latd near
Weiser, has Incorporated with a capi
tal of $250,000.
J. F. Honess. superintendent of the
fish hatcheries at Ashton. planted 60,000
baby trout in streams in the Arco lo
cality last week.
Burglars Tuesday niacht looted the
safety deposit boxes in the Valley State
bank at Post Falls and took money and
securities valued', at 'thousands or dol
lars, i
At! an election held In Cnkeville last
Saturday the matter of a t'Ml.duQ bond
issue for a new high school building was
voted upon and carried by a majority
Of 41.
A state-wide butter and cheese scor
ing contest for six months, beginning
with May, will be held under the eu
pervision of the dairy department of
the University of Idaho.
ICNOW YOUR
' n .-w s-t -w a a a t Va
Sixteen lodges of the I. O. O., F.
(Odd Fellows) are located in Port
land. Their membership ranges from
116 to 711 for each lodge. There are
3980 Odd Fellows in Portland and
25,109 In the state as a whole..
The local lodges are: Arleta, Al
berta. City View, Harmony, Hassalo,
Industrial. Laurel. Minerva, Mount
Scott, North Portland, Orient, Penin
sular, Samaritan, Star, Villa and
Woodlawn.
The first lodge of Odd' Fellows to
be located in Portland waa Samari
tan No. 3, which was organized
April 8, 1853.
" The order owns the L O. O. F.
home, valued at f 100,000, at Holgate
and East Thirty-seventh streets. It
has a valuable building site, valued
at more than $100,000, at First and
Alder streets, which will be disponed
of and a site at Tenth and Salmon
streets will bo built upon noon. The
order - owns approzimately $30,000
worth of property in Portland. It
carries on much philanthropic work.
The general relief committee admin
isters a large work in relief and visit
ing members of lodges outside the
City, expending on behalf of the
lodges to which those needing assist
ance belong many thousands of dol
lars annually. Resident members
are ministered to when In need by
their own lodges. Charles Christiansen-
is secretary of relief.
E. E. Sharon, with headquarters In
the I. O. O. F. temple at First and
Alder, has occupied the position of
secretary for more than 28 years.
"Dr. A. H. Johnson of Portland is
grand master and Fred M. J. Melndl
of Portland is grand marshal.
The L O. O. F. in Portland has
two encampments Golden Rule and
Ellison where further advancements
are made in Odd Fellowship. There
are about 1200 members in the two
local encampment lodges. J. Nolan
of Portland is the incoming grand
patriarch of the state encampment.
The 1. O. O. F. has also a "Canton
Portland. No. 1, Patriarchs Militant,"
the uniformed order within - the or
ganization, with ever 100 members.
Major F. P. H. Mills is head of the
Canton Portland.