THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1821. "" AN I-VrTCPK?erKNT KEWbTAPIB , C. S- JACKSON . ...Pubhaber I Be film, be eoif ideet, be chearful and de unte grners a yon wouig pave tnere do goto yog, j iUt)kel evenr Mpk da and Sunder morning - ' it Th Journal building. Broadway and Yam: tn lered at Ida po toffies at rrrt!nd, Orefon, - for tranmUaton .through the mailt aa second ' elaas matter. TELW'HQNES Main 7 1 7 8. Automatic 0-51. AM department reached by these numbers. .NATIONAL advertising rephkwenta- TIVE Bent, mi n At. Kentnor Co., brSMWlrk building. 215 Vth avenue. Km Tort; "00 PACIFIC COAST HKPHESEXTATIVB W. R. , Bfnar Co., Suaiatr building Has rran eico ; TH1 Inmiranee building. Loa Angeiea. iHlfi. OlthXjN JOUUNAL reserves Uw right to .' refect advertising copy which It deems ob , iectionabJe. It alio will not print any copy that ia any way simulates, reading matter or that euiM readily be : secognized al tdm-ti-ing, , ; SUBSCRIPTION RATES By farrier. 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' TIlo true hratorical seniiua, to oar think Ing ia that which can are tha nobler mean' ' in; of event that an neat him. aa tha tru poet ia ha who ifotecta tha dirirta in tha caa tiaj; and'wa eooirwhat anspect the depth of, "Ma iniriftUt Into the pa who cannot reo ,'oKBise the godlike of today under that dia piw in which it alwaya iita ua. Lowell. ISOLATED? hj'PHK farmer cannot sell his prod s' 1 - ucts at a fair profit. .Wages are going : down. Estimates place the -unemployed In the country at j from Jthree to five million people. The railroads are in trouble. Business houses are reducing expenditures because their incomes are reduced. ivAs 'business expenditures arej : curr tailed employment falls off, .wages are lowered and buying power, de creases. " " : '' ; "Thers is explanation in the March Jf igures (n our foreign trade. Our Imports dropped 62 per cent; over the figures of a year ago and our exports' declined S3 per cent, j 5 Kurope is in industrial paralysis. vShe cannot buy from us, and as a result depression is, felt in this country. That is the reason the United vStates is vitally interested in the preparations negotiations.. Secretary ,? Iugh.es recognized, the facts when jjie said in hTs note to Germany that jhe" ynited States is "fmpressed with the seriousness of the issues In- 5viveU as they affect the wtyole world," . : J?-.: - ., vj 4-; president Ilafdlngr emphasized the Sneedfor cooperation with Europe .when he 'determined yesterday; that ithe". United".. States should be repre ' sehted' at' the meetings of the su , Jjreme allied council, at the confer ence -ef ambassadors and at the sit : 'tings of the. reparations -commission. -It is-because we are rmateriallyaf ifected'that all political and economic Vvents in,Europe are of vital interest j in ; 'Am erica, and the reason why iAmeflca, Is not now and can never ;be in Isolation. i 1 f.The Confidential exchange, a J clearing house of information ta pre--vent "duplication among agencies I tnat respond to the appeals of need, JiRS completed its first year. It has "answered,. 10,000 -calls from" 39 'par T.tlcipating agencies. In 25 per cent , of'the instances it was found jthat ;those. who called for help had al , ready been, aided by other organi zations. This means that unneces sary. duplication of effort and ex pense was obviated in 2500 instances. .Such' enterprise puts the heart in ;;charity. . , , 1 ., ; 'j' " CAN TOU BEAT IT? . SEE by ;The Journal where, an . 1. Eastern Oregon farmer shipped some beef hides to Portland and was :in debt' 20. cents after paying Ithe 'shipping; charges," writes C. A. jKnowles, Kingsley, Orfgon. 'He Utdds: : ; ' ' ' . 1 One of our farmers here sold a beef ' hide that weighed 73 pounds. He got 1.C3 for Jt. ( A few days later I bought 1 pounds of sole leather. It cost me $3.10, or $1.60 a pound. It takes three bushels and 40 t pounds of wheat to pay for It. I bought fftur pairs of men's shoes and one pair of boys' shoes.. They cost me $28.29. It '.takes 3t bushels of wheat' to pay for ahem. X should like to see those fellows fckia beeves at $1.03 each. Someone tmust be making money. - The 72-pound beef hide brought thef farmer less than 1 H cents a pound.' The sole leather, which came out of a similar' hide, brought $1.80 a pound, or more than 100 times the price of the raw hide, ? If the entire "hide sold by the farmer should go into sole leather, it' would, at the 3 ' i ' same rate, bring 1115.20. Such' things are! absurd. That a beef hide after being tanned Into sole leather should be worth more than 100 times as much as the raw hide is monstrous. - " -. Tanning is a (comparatively inex pensive process. yet here is a raw hide bringing the farmer less than a cent and. a half a 'pound while the sole leather brought the leather trust $1.60 a pgund. The colossal rate of profit taken by middlemen out of the process cannot be defended or satisfactorily explained. A late report by the federal trade commission announced that in the leather industry the five big packers controlled 90 per cent of air stocks of hides in America. LIFT TUB LIU f'T'.HERE was admitted before 1 the jury evidence which was probably determinative of . the case, and which in my opinion was incom petent," says Solicitor General Krier son, referring to the Albers case. He. added: j :...:U Whether he (Albers) was too drunk to know or realise what be said when he uttered the prohibited and disloyal words was. as has already been observed, the real question in the case. The degree , of Albers drunken ness was a question of fact and not of law, a question for the-jury and not for judges or the attorney gen eral's office. And, as Bcouf Young Auxiliary of the Spanish War Vet erans of Portland i said in a wire of protest to President Harding in the Albers incident;, "many of our boys, young in years, 'who offered their lives in defense of Old Glory are today serving in federal prisons as a result of slight disobedience of orders while intoxicated"? and the re versal for Albers ' because he was under the influence of liquor is a "distinction strictlyj unconstitutional and a breeder of disloyalty, leading to Bolshevism." i The 'insistence of the Spanish vet erans that confining American sol diers in federal prisons for slight dis obedience of orders while intoxicated and reversing the j decision of the appellate court by the attorney gen eral's office because Albers was In toxicated leads to; Bolshevism is emphatically and notoriously true. The Frierson statement, however, insists that the admission of utter ances of Albers made in Id 15 was the real error, yet the appellate court itself, in deciding the Albers case, held that it could not rule out former utterances of Albers without revers ing the United States supreme court in the Equi case. . Former utterances in the Equi case were admitted to show intent. They were admitted in the Albers case to show Intent. Equi is in prison on the admission of such testimony,Albers is not in prison and his case has been reversed . by the attorney general's office be cause of such testimony. Congress has been very much'given of late to' investigations. Why not lift the lid and uncover the extra ordinary situation in which there is prison for one citizen through action of the highest courts and no prison for another citizen j through action of the attorney general's office, both ! having been9 tried on practically identical testimony, i ; John Kepler, besides being a great astronomer and discoverer of the laws of planetary motion, was the Inventor of the card index system and a stickler for marriage accord ing fo scientific principles. When Kepler lost his first wife, he set about choosing a second In. a most methodical way. He formed the acquaintance of 12 maidens, studied them carefully, put! their respective merits on- a card index, and then, after more careful consideration, he made his choice. Keedless to say, Kepler's" second marriage was both a sidereal and a terrestrial success. V SWINGING BACKWARD THE pendulum continues to swing backward in the commerce of the Port of Seattle.! The report of the Seattle port warden shows that the total value of foreign and domes tic exports and imports in March this year was $26,383,401 as com pared with $78, 109, 36 for the cor responding month a year ago. The loss reaches the dismaying sum ,of $51,826,335. A similar reduction in the tonnage of all exports and imports is noted, that for last March being 31T.689 tons and for March ia year ago 455,- 8s tons. j ; The loss in the value of foreien imports and exports was $45,824,814 and in tonnage 75997. The loss in value of domestic exports ' and im ports was $6.001,421 and in tonnage. 20,097. In both foreign and domes tic commerce the Import losses were greatest, indicating that post-war re adjustment may be as responsible as the general diversion of business for Seattle's port difficulties. A prominent doctor has recently come forward with the statement that dancing prolongs life. -Would the doctor kindly specify which is the most T beneficial form the "shimmying-she-wobble," the "buz xard lope," the 'chicken switch," the "rabbit hop" , or 5 the "turntable gallop"? - L' . BORAH SEES LIGHT A LTHOUQH Senator Borah's de sire for peace and disarmament through international agreement has come to light several months late, and although he is one of the sena tors who, took the lead in jettisoning the pacf : Which' provided - for peace and disarmament, and which had been signed by the foremost coun tries of the world, his belated efforts in behalf of disarmament will be widely approved. ' J Senator Borah, like other I ob servers," realizes that there is a tre mendous sentiment for abandonment of naval building in Japan, in Eng land and in America. Like others, he realizes that an armament race between the big powers will not only result In bankrupting those coun tries, but is certain to lead, as it has all through hlstoryv to another deadly war. Senator Borah further understands that Japan and Eng land' will not curtail naval building while America rushes to the jingoes with orders for more armaments and to the shipyards with plans for more dreadnoughts. Those who support disarmament are not urging this government to disarm alone.- They are hot asking that this nation set a mere example for disarmament by refusing to build while the ; other , nations construct fortresses of the sea. They are not appealing1 for abandonment of arma ments by one nation alone. But they are asking. Senator Borah among them, that the United States take the lead in substituting trust for distrust- among the nations, in forestalling the . race for naval su premacy and bankruptcy, and in re moving the. black shades of war from the world's horizon by agree ment among the powers of, the uni verse ' 1 A Denver woman "ran Into i the street crying for the police. ; She said her husband was attempting I to murder her. With drawn guns the bluecoats entered the house. They found the husband unconscious in the bottom of a locked trunk. - He had been knocked there by the wife. It isquite likely the ferocious and bloodthirsty husband will i be charged . with attempted murder. Certainly, in the light of the facts, the vicious man could not be charged with a lighter offense. ,1 IN THE DAY'S NEWS A SUBURBAN bank In Chicago had just opened for business. The employes were at their posts. Thou sands of dollars lay in the cages. Five robbers with drawn revolvers entered and ordered "Hands up!" The employes complied. They were ordered into the vault. Everyone filed into the vault. ', The robbers gathered cash. They Were engaged in dumping precious paper into sacks when a fusillade of shots ripped their way into the bandits, bodies. The fire was re turned, but soon the duel had ended. One robber was dead, another 'lay mortally wounded, and two others were captured and placed behind prison walls. , 'is Not one cent , was removed from the bank, but a bandit gang was wiped out.: It was all the result of an. electric button located on the floor near the cashier. When the robbers ordered him Into the vault. his foot pressed the button, the alarm was sounded in a police station, and a squad of patrolmen responded on a moment's notice. Man is constantly beset with new problems and new menaces. But as surely as the problem arises a head and a hand, somewhere, sets to work to conquer it. The electric button In the Chicago bank and in other banks is only illustration of the effective ness of man in dealing with the ob stacles that present themselves in the course of life. With Senator Borah leading the fight for disarmament and peace, al though he shunned both in the League of Nations, it may be pos sible that Hiram will also discover that the league was not "all bad." BETTER THAN AVERAGE ALWAYS ltTHB average product is never 1 worth while," the Oregon Growers' Cooperative association ad vises its members who are berry growers. "You have got to, bring your product up far above the aver age 'to be classed aa ? a successful berry grower.": 1 The counsel adds that among the essentials to success are cover crops, manures, commercial fertilizer and intensive tillage. Diseases are to be guarded against vigilantly. Crops are to be rotated. Discouragement because of a poor season is to : be resisted Areas to be planted are to be kept in units sufficiently small to permit the highest quality of care and the . least fear from adverse labor conditions and yet must be sufficiently large to provide an ade quate living. .4 ';; , ' The advice is fully" worth repeating if for. the sake only of the berry growers whose natural .opportunity in the Willamette valley is not sur passed in any - other region in the world. But the phrase, "The aver age product is pever worth while," merits a broader application. ; It might well be framed and hung conspicuously in every farm home. The soil, the climate and the nature of the markets provided the Oregon grower permit success based only upon above-the-average products. It might well be the motto of the preserving and canning industry of the state, and, for that matter, of all home industry. ' The Oregon product must commend Itself by superior quality and reasonable price. Sentiment will never carry it even as far as the doorsteps of local consumers. i "The average product is never worth while," is something for the youths 'in schools and colleges and business to learn and remember. ; THE WEEPING HEMLOCK OF THE ALSEA ; The subjoined ' poem! appears" 'In the current issue of the Benton County Courier, accompanied with the following note by the editor of the Courier : "The only weeping hemlock in this part of the Northwest is located Jus off the Corvallis-Alsea road to the south and is pointed out by the stage drivers as a curiosity. It is in the Alsea country and a source of 'pride to Alseans. v How It came to be there alone is a mystery. In the following free verse 'Alseaite,' the unknown poet of Alsea, sings the praises of this tree and of his community." Like a aentJne! on duty by the paas it etanda Demanding praia -front each i one that eomea. And beckoning the way from each drooping bough To the farina and homes to Ithe rslley below; And pointing with pride to I tha akiea aboTa. For there lies the aecret by which it grew. This the one weeping hemlock of A lues. ' But what great sorrow has saddened its We? Why does it seem to weep as though in aha ma? Is it for the loss of some near kin That hsa eraahed to earth in days gone by? Or ta it longing for A people who played at its feet . In the days that were born when tBia land was new? Ah, no. Tis neither of these they aay, , But jut a whim of nature that bent down the liratn - j Of our lone weeping hemlock of Abes. The wild roaring tempests with: wind-driver rsins That aob through, its branches on long winter nights ! The mad rushing torrents that pass to the Sea, The fierce biaaU of lightning that pierce the dark roads. The raging wild-fires, the bunting of cloudy Are Just voices of crastioa that go by unheard And are as naught to this sentinel of ours. The lone weeping hemlock of Alsea. As the summer sun beats down the glsde Shriveling the leaves of the alder end oak. And dries up the aprings that cote from the earth. As fluffy white clouds are whipped, rom the sea By soft gentle breexea that breathe from the west There still stands etur tree with its wings furled to rent . '' And its tears hidden deep, 'neath .a foliage of blue. ! And as we paas down, the trail for homes that are dear No word do we speak save that of respect For the lone weeping hemlock of Alsea. Aa the moon peeps over the ridge at Bight, And paints the canyons with a silvery aheen And the long-eared owl gives forth his lonesome call A rail that vibrates to each small home And Mnds to bed with s quivering heart. The little brown bunny and gray colored mouse The ridera of night give homage and cheer To tha only aad tree ia the Upper Alsea, For it guards well the trail that winoa down the hill. Each night of winter, each day of spring. Till the soft breath of summer cornea back from the south To daub with green silver the tip of each wing And furnish with bronze the ! needles shed Of the lone weeping hemlock of Alsea. Letters From the People ( Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department should be written on ouly one side of the paper; should not exceed 800 words in length, and must be signed by the writer, whose mail address ia full must accom pany the contribution. J . REPLYING TO DR. j TURNER Dr. Owens-Adair Tells Him He Doesn't Understand the Bill He Denounces. Portland. May 4. To the Editor of The Journal Will you allow me space to reply to that irate Dr. Turner, who has used space in abasing me and the marriage bill. No. 174? He says it ia a menace of the worst kind; calls it a monstrosity ; advises people to annihi late and massacre it. Permit me to address the doctor, as follows : Now, Dr. Turner, I advise you to look over your communication, and I think you will find I will call them mistakes, for they are - not true. You say that two years ago the legislature, filled with doctors, druggists and dentists, passed "a most infamous measure." There was no such bill before the legislature two years ago. Why do you abuge the pro fessional men? You put "Dr." before your name. My sterilisation bill passed and become a law in 1917. j Many doctors and many people say it is the best law on the books. Why? Because it stands at the head of all human laws. This year Washington copied Oregon's law, and now has her sterilization law.' Do you think those legislators were all fools and knaves? j You say that Da Owens-Adair has conceived the preposterous idea that human beings can be bred like sheep, which is a fallacy of the rankest sort. What do you know about cross-bre'ed-ing? I suppose you are a white man. Perhaps you have red hair. You might fall in love with a colored lady and marry her. Perhaps your first baby girl would be red-headed like your pec pie, but surely some of the children would resemble their mother. Later your pretty red-hatred girl grows into womanhood and marries j a red-haired man. You are expecting a bunch of red haired grandchildren. Don't be disap pointed If the first one that comes is as dark as its grandmother. This is heredity a law of nature that no man can. avoid. ' You deride sterilisation because you don't understand it. Sterilization Is the greatest, humaa remedy that has ever been discovered by man. It protects the subnormal . from themselves, thus pro tecting the unborn child. Sterilization takes nothing from man or woman, only the power to reproduce. 1 If you shoot a man you forfeit your life, but if you bring a diseased child into the world, subnormal mentally and physically, you have committed a greater sin than mur der, for you have rqbbed that child of its birthright and made it a curse both to itself and to the world, i . . Dr. Owens-Adair. THE HIGH COST TERROR Portland, May , 2. To the Editor of The Journal The old giant. Hi Cost of Living, ia now turned over to the faith ful, patient common housewife by Attor ney General Daugherty. This agitation against high prices, which has been with us many weary months, is the tragic question of the hour, but not a new sub ject. It is -an old curse redressed, when war and greed are most pronounced, and, when wise men fall out, turned over to the unlearned housewife by direct com mand. J . ! - The' tired woman from her. dull, )drab and narrow- quarters must face life's most important 'drama. j. It Is the woman drudge, not the light of. love, who is told to direct her on slaught to : the thousand and one small dealers, rather than to molest the for eign miller sympathizer, who powerfully plants his toll on mill and bin, besides all the other food products.' Is it Barab. baa or , the woman the woman now in durance vile, the "woman stung to the quick, made desperate.- when her little ones cry for bread. Later reverberates the roar of unemployment, ; when the lit tle 'one, perhaps having escaped the scythe of j starvation and neglect, is stranded on the Charybdis of unemploy ment, that appalling situation that, stag gers and destroys all human estimates. Our modern unemployment terror stalks by day and haunts the night with its terror till the dawn. ? j " - A mother cannot protect her little ones without proper food and shelter. The child does not run . true to life (form) without an environment that is suitable to the human family. So the giant, Hi Cost of Living, devours at will. -. '.i.-: M. B. L. - -IFS" IN THE ALBERS CASE -Rainier, May 2. To the Editor of The Journal Yes, the attorney general re versed the decision Of all the courts in the Albers pase but .why? Was it be cause Albers wa innocent and was be ing railroaded, or because he has money, or just simply because he wai drunk and didn't mean it? How do we know he didn't mean what he said, even if he was drunk? If it had been a working man, instead of getting two years for making the disloyal remarks; he would have got at least , 28 years, another 10 for being drunk and 15 more for having whiskey in his possession in a dry state. It is plain enough that there is some thing wrong. Take the Mooney case, for instance. One of the main witnesses says be perjured himself, and he offered to swear to it. But is Mooney a free man? No. Why? Because he has no money and is a labor leader. ' A Worker, i L W. W. PROPHECY . FULFILLED And the Law's Hand Lifted From the Wealthy Offender. ; Portland, April 30. To the 1 Editor of The Journal As predicted by every I. W. W. in the country, Henry Albers has got just what wes expected at the hands of "justice," and this because he had an abnormal bank account. The way the case has been handled, along with others, has done more to foster the cause of the I. W. .W. than any other thing that has happened in the United States in years. It is a' challenge todestlfiy, a red flag in the face of an Infuriated bull. It has transformed the federal con stitution from a palladium of liberty into, an instrument of oppression. It is a -crime) against every soldier that fought and diod in France and a poisoned dirk driven into the very vitals of the Amer-, ican rejpublic, a foul blasphemy of lib erty and equality. ,; j Permps Attorney General Daugherty in disposing 'of ; the case resembles Bru tus in that he is an "honorable man," but such an act or verdict brought in by a . petit jury would - be ground for more than a suspicion of bribery. We cannot charge Daugherty with bribery or with having committed a crime in having instituted a despotism of wealth with having deliberately endangered the very existence of- Uus American gov ernment by an abortiva science of defi nition in an error of the presentation of the case ; hut one point sticks out clear and that is that Daugherty has shown that such, pressure was brought to bear upon him by the plutocracy as to shame fully defeat the ends of justice. The disposing of the case Is simply an official notification that a man can com mit treason or even cold blooded murder and bring In a defense of drunkenness and his crime is excused in the eyes of the law ; granted, of course, that he is a wealthy man. That is the way. at least, the department of justice views the proposition. The gross injustice of such ruling is too palpable to require comment, while its utter absurdity must be evident to every man capable cf rea son. There was no dental of: the facts in the case by the defendant. Judge Wolverton said the man was guilty, and the court of appeals at San Francisco fully agreed with the lower court, and yet the power is given one man to throw a monkey- wrench into the wheels of justice, which, if applied to all cases of a like nature, will throw federal prison gates wide open to uch offenders as Henry' Albers. ' 4 . ' The public will demand that Henry Albers gets what is coming to him. Charles A. Nutb QUESTION OF j TWO LAWS One for the Rich, the Other for the Poor, Raised by Albers Case. Portland, April 30. To the Editor of The Journal There I is an idea very prevalent that in our country the law operates one way for the rich and an other for the poor. Such, being the case, it Is very unwise of the! government to do things which confirm this opinion and that is just what is being done if Albers is not to be i punished for his.; treasonable utterances ; and if . he .has been correctly reported, there is noth ing a traitor would do but what he said he was willing to do. i If an I. W. W.. or any other poor man, had expressed himself in like, manner, it is doubtful whether he would have lived long enough to have been placed urtder arrest. The wonder is that Albers was not smashed on the spot i When Dr. Equi persisted in speaking in aid of the poor cannery girls, under Mayor Albea and Torn Word's adminis tration, she was seized by "peace offi cers and pitched into the patrol wagon like a bundle of laundry. Congressman McArthur is reported as 6aying he will do nothing to aid in miti gating the punishment meted out to Debs, or other political prisoners; that there have "already ! been too many crocodile tears shed over these traitors and near traitors who furnished aid and comfort to the enemy." Will he do any thing to prevent this traitor from escap ing punishment? Justice. TWO IN AND ONE OUT Bandon. April 28. To the Editor of The Journal I notice in today's Journal ti i f at raiirrirtv- attorney eeneral of the United States, has found (after threo years) there was a mistake maae in the conviction of Henry Albers, mll- lUnsira mill,, nf Portland, who has been living on the fat of the land at his home near Milwaukie wnue laugene V. Debs and Dr. Marie Equi are In prison for the same offense (saying what, they thought). Is this the democracy our soldiers gave their lives to uphold? I thought Albers had too much money ever to see ti e inside of a jail. Why can't they find the mistake that is keeping . Dr. Equi and Eugene Debs in prison? Subscriber. CALLS FOR THE RESIGNATION OF MR. DAUGHERTY Portland. May's. To the Editor of The Journal The steps taken by the American Legion, the Oregon Bar asso ciation and the Portland Federation of Women's Organizations in " the Albers case are most commendable and should receive the hearty support of all Ameri cans. Attorney General Daugherty should be asked to resign before he has a era nee to make another such blunder. If such a resignation can be asked for omy by the president . of the United States, it is UP to ths' voters of Oregon to bring to bear pressure so strong that the president will find it necessary to do so. F. B. IN PRAISE OF PORTLAND MEN Springbrook, May 2. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial in The Sun day Journal, entitled "Unity in Port-r land," rings true and lal good citizens should sit up (or stand up) and - take notice. ; L -. " "Unity of Good" is a beautiful slogan and should fit Portland, right down to the ; ground. Perhaps the appended acrostic will partially at least bit it off. Portland! Port of many men I Of sturdy minus and purpose they. u Besting not, neither recking the cost; Taking all odds, playing a fair game; letting no legitimate opportunity get by. All for each, and each for all Nothine daunted by any sort of obstacle Dealing at all with Portland'a fame. . ; C E. Carlisle. MEASURING STARS ' From Popular Mechanics i It is a curious circumstance that the diameters of the most remote stars ex pressed in millions of miles should be successfully measured ' with the same ruler that is used to determine million ths of an Inch in laboratories. The phenom enon of interference of light is the prin ciple, used in the instruments for both purposes, and with Its aid Professor A. A. Michelson recently discovered that the star Betelgeuse, in the constellation Orion, is 260,000.000 miles in diameter, or as broad as 300 suns, with a mass equal to 27.000,000 suns ! - Students of physics know that a COMMENT AND NEWg IN BRIEF . SMALL CHANGE Bryan Is harder to down than some kinds of medicine. - ' - " .'"-':.'.' ' ' V Torrential rains in Los Angeles. Fair and warmer in Portland. Just as If we had any license to say any tning bad about rains I A man has real crust when he blames hie'bibbling on the babies. ; .Today is the day before the greatest day on the calendar Mother's day. .This guy Frierson must think he's an Oregon public service commissioner. ; ' These high society divorce scandals are interesting even if they are not edifying. . The retailer never profiteers, says the retailer ; nor does the wholesaler, says the wholesaler. Likewise the producer, of course. Some of the political Warwicks at Washington are about due to have their wicks trimmed. " '! Ji-st occurs to us to ask whether pro posed blue legislation will have any In fluence on the Reds? . . . About the only strength Germany will retain when the allies are done is that of her horrible cheese. i . . " How dare we doubt the freedom of the republic as long as we have free verse and plenty of Bull Run? . 1 . 1 . 1 1 , 1 1 1 , 1 1 . . 1- MORE OR LESS PERSONAL j 1 1 " f 1 T'" " -1 11 - in.. a, -'.I , - , i-... w ...i i.ai..l I Random Observations About Town "My card," be said, as be advanced to the register at the Multnomah and ex tended a small piece of pasteboard to the clerk. "Even though I write plainly enough, people sometimes get my name and occupation confused, especially after they have traveled over Ed Budd's road." The card read,- "Angeloa Christ, section foreman, Ilwaco, Wash." C L. Ireland, who runs a newspaper at Moro. is taking a vacation in the metropolis. - ; W. L. Campbell of Tillamook, who is in Portland, is reported to be a candidate for United States marshal. a a O. P. Coshow, who dispenses legal advice at Roseburg, is in Portland in the interest of some of his clients. ; C. C. Fisher of Bend and O. C. Hol land of Westport are registered at the Portland. e Dr. J. M. Blaisdell of Pomona, Cal., ij in Portland in the interest of Pomona college, of which he is president. J. Russell Wyatt. an Albany attorney, was seen on the streets of Portland Friday. ' OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred fvtrv .1- .. wilt heeome a pertinent query if Mr. Lockley keepa this sort of thing going. But no matter where he gets it. it's aU good stuff, and good reading at that. J The Chicago Journal of Commerce says the- demand for onions has more than doubled since the passing of the prohibition act. Whether it is because the 'onion has a kick as well as a hang over is hard to say. A wholesale dealer in onions in Chicago bought and sold dur ing 1920 over 60,000 carloads. In 1917 the whiskey consumption in the United States amounted to 90.000,000 gallons. In 1920 the consumption of whiskey had dropped to less than 6,000,000. gallons, while beer had decreased from 61.000.000 gallons to 9,000,000 gallons. Possibly our country is not yet bone dry. It may still be moist in spots.- but is certainly dry ing up rapidly. Old-time booze fighters are taking to fried onions and candy, end as a consequence the onion growers and candy manufacturers are prosperous. The slight drop In retail prices of meat scarcely -compares with the record drop made by Lieutenant Arthur G. Hamilton, who established a world record for para chute leaping when he dropped -24,600 feet at Champaign, III. Church associations at Pittsburg are making a list of rent profiteers with an idea of expelling them from church membership. . a The Mexican government has recently seized part of the ranch of General Lewis Terrazas. The acreage taken by the Mexican" government was 3,700,000. He had agreed to divide up his land Into small tracts for the benefit of his peons and he failed to make good on his promise. a a Professor Peter C. Crockett of the University of Oregon is the . author - of an interesting article in a recent issue of the Survey, lie discusses the tradi tions and obsolete customs that still hold the sailor while at sea in a state of vassalage. Almost every other trade has secured improved conditions but on many of the tramp steamers the . sailors still are at the mercy of harsh captains and cruel matea ' - ; , , That thieves; will steal almost anything but a red hot stove Is proved by- the fact that clever thieves recently stole the lightning conductors from the twin towers of Notre Dame cathedral in j Paris. The tip of each conductor was of J beam of light, passing the edge of an l Hlierhtlv deflected, the extent depending on the wave length. To use this airrracnon principle, um scope Is closed by a cap with two slits, .d1.it,hla In n?irlth and seDaritinn. If the two beams through the slits differ by a half wave length wnen tney meet w low the cap, they interfere, producing Wmri" nf He-nt and darkness. By sep arating the slits until the fringes disap pear and measuring the separation, the minute angle of the heavens covered by the disk of a star may be computed. Knowing the star's distance, obtained by triangulation, calculating its diameter is simple..-': : - -t ; - :; Professor Michelson improved upon the slit method by using two: mirrors and two reflecting glasses at an angle, one 01 them slightly silvered to reflect half the ith orvi transmit the other half. This apparatus measures small angles with nf nnnl nf e second of arc. roughly equivalent to one thirty-second of an inch at .luuu miies. in ' " Instrument with wmcn Beieigeuae. nu lisrht vears or 1,070,000,000,000,000 miles away, was measured. EXTREME SELF-DENIAL From the Jtichmond Ind.) Item, tf .-. nil rip-ht for our natriotic Amer ican girls to send clothing so generously cm ..tA fio.iiT in. . TieiinirM 11 ri mr: .a j . trm f h& innk, nf Home of them on the streets didn't they over-do it? Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places tvi Pivpr Tvburn. which, along with the Thames, helped to make Westmin ster, In London, an lsiana- m oxon e-an aiilt - h traced from the firhi Arrh ruiehborhood to Westmin ster. It originally flowed through Hyde Park ana Sit- James rr at a um when these were marshlands.- Several SIDELIGHTS - In a world full of injustice, the one that sticks out the farthest is the paying of Marshal Foch of Franc I leas money than a second loot, U. S. A. Medford Mail-Tribune. - , Spooning in autos is. to be stopped Headline. We doubt it, unless all auto ists of the spooning variety are chaper oned by a sheriff. Benton County Courier. e e A Portland headline says. "Council to Tackle Traffic Nut." We would suggest that a big money-wrench applied to his head would help the suffering public some Molalla Pioneer... j ' ' - A London paper publishes the birth of twins to Mr. and Mrs. Adam Berst and says the children. I have been named Phyllis May Berst land Sidney Will Berst. How ie that fort predestina tion ? Pendleton East Oregbnian. .-' .- I. People . who think that country fairs and farmers' exhibits are merely festival occasions fail to -realize what" a big factor they are getting to be( in booming the rural industries of a section Rose- burg News-Review. - Those correspondents friendly to. the soviet rule seem agreed that all Russia lacks is food, clothing, real money, stable employment and protection to life and property. Given these few requisites, the Lenin-Trotzky government would be all that could be desired, so they tell us. Eugene Guard. 1 Thomas H. Tongue of Hiflsboro took luncheon in Portland Friday. Although be is chairman of the Republican state central committee he says ( he has no candidates for federal patronage. So long as the plums are awarded to effi cient party workers he will be -satisfied. ' 1 F : Major William O. White of Eugene is attending the meeting of ithe Oregon National Guard staff. He motored down and was accompanied by Mrs. White, Mrs. 'Louis Fering and Mrs. William Pritchett. j : - Ike Burpee came in yesterday from Yaquina bay. He Is building a jetty there but says he has not been able to do much this spring on account of un favorable weather. He does not figure on completing the job before) next year. From Eastern Oregon there came Fri day Charles H. Latourelle of Heppner, Neal Crawford of La Grande andMr. and Mrs. E. B. Custer of Pilot Rock. They are stopping at the Imperial. Captain John Groat, who operates the government dredge at Tillamook when ever congress makes an appropriation for the purpose, is visiting Portland friends. . j Lockley solid platinum, worthy about 14,000 rrancs. The thieves had to work hun dreds of feet above ground to secure the plunder. The finance minister of Austria re cently opened an old iron trunk tn the treasury to look up some old records and discovered that in place of old rec ords the trunk was filled wjith a won derful collection of opals and other gems. It is not known to whom they belonged. . - r Have you tasted the "tangelo." It is a new fruit formed by a crossbetween the tangerine and the grape fruit. They believe in tempering justice with mercy in Samoa, Every Saturday after noon the American civil prisoners there are paroled till Monday morning. - This enables the prisoners to spend the week end visiting relatives or taking care of their private affairs. Delaware is still "In the dark ages in some respects. , She still binds out her children. A recent investigation brings out some startling facts as to the treat ment of children bound out inj that state, Delaware also still uses the whipping post. . ' , I The next time you go slumming in Chinatown and smelt the peculiar acrid odor of the joss sticks see ft you can recognise -the aconite and camphor in which the filament of bamboo is rolled. The camphor causes them to burn stead ily ; the aconite is used to prevent the -rats and mice from bothering them, . . . ... , Fur dealers are now manufacturing high grade sealskin -coats from the -skins of black rabbits. The fur is dyed and shaved down to .the proper length. I The old Indian hunter known as "Fig Tree John," who served as I Fremont's guide in bis expedition to the" Pacific coast, is still drawing his pension. This is a new blue suit with brass buttons, which is Issued to him every jfive years. The government has been furnishing him a suit of this kind every five years ever since H45. , ' '- e A recent ordinance in New York city provides a fine -and imprisonment for aviators who fall, with or without their machines, anywhere within the city limits. Stunt flying or the operation of airplanes in any manner at n altitude of less than 2000 feet above the city is forbidden. v - feet below" the pavement In Great Col lege street are the remains of a bridge. which spanned the Tyburn at this spot just before It entered the Thames. But the most famous of all the bujried rivers of London, observes Answers, Is un doubtedly the Fleet Ditch. ) It', flowed through Jack Ketch's Warren, where dwelt at times such notorious . charac ters as Dick Turpin and Jack Sheppard. It was a favorite dodge of the highway men and other thieves who infested the district of Saffron Hill and Hatton Oar den to drop through a trapdoor,, to the Stygian hanks of the Fleet, put a plank across, skip over and draw the plank after them and so escape capture by the Bow street runners. The Kieet Ditch ran into the Thames at Blackfriars; and small craft used to put into it with mer chandise. In the middle of the city was the Wellbrooke, and on the east side the Langbourne, and in the western suburbs the pleasant stream of the Old bourne, also deep enough to accommodate good sized crafU Other London rtvra riot yet wholly sewers are the Roding, the Lea, the Ravensbourne and the Wandle. but the Brixton is no longer visible any where.. ! i Uncle Jeff Snow Says Sorne of our American Legion fellers is a-ragin at the release of a millionaire by some sorter hocus-pocus at Washing ton, who was convicted of say in' some hot things agin the gov'ment and In favor of Germany a while back. 'They hain't got nuthin' to rage about nary a mite. The- law's like the screen on! the .back door It'll hold agin files and skeeters, but It ain't made to keep elephants from bufitin' through, and millionaires is ele nhants. I never lieerd tell of .lt ever' oncet hold in', a millionaire long enough to git a rope around his neck, and hardly ever long enough to git a leg-iron onto him. ! - - The" Oregon Country JSorthwest Happenings In Brief Form for the Busy Bsadef ; OREGON NOTES During the month of April Vhe city of Eugene collected $137.05 in fes for building permits. . The Jackson County Farm Bureau Co operative exchange has just been in corporated with a $60,000 capital. The Dallas. city jail is now empty, tho last occupant, William Guy. 19 having dug his way out a few nights ago. Because the postal authorities have refused to provide him with a deputy. J. H. Brooks has resigned as postmaster at Silverton. Plans are already under way for the rebuilding of the Albany Creamery as sociation's plant, which was burned last Sunday morning. Lessees of the new $100,000 hotel at union plan to open the hotel in time for accommodation of visitors to the stock show of June 8 to 10. The Salem board of education has abolished manual training in all three junior high schools and ha.s refused to raise the wage scale of instructors. Describing recent actions of the county court as "lavish," the Linn county Pomona granco has adopted resolutions urging tho recall of the members. .Bend school directors have designated May 20 tor a special school election, at which time a bond ls.suo of $25,000 for a new school building will bo submitted to the voters. . - Workmen on the ocean front Improve ments at Seaside struck Tuesday when the Tillman Construction company an nounced a reduction in wages. There has been no trouble. The Nc-bergall Meat Packing company of Albany has taken over the Quality Meat market at Eugene and will soon start the construction of a $0,0i)O build ing at the latter place. As a result Of n.n Mamlnallnn taken last December. Se.rjreant Carl W. Ilol comb of Company F in Salem has re ceived word that he has been appointed a cadet at West Point Military academy. The body of Peter Kufner, drowned near -Riddle on March 2a, was found in Rogue rivet last Saturday within 10 feet of where that of Ted Farris, who was drowned at the same timer, was re covered. Special school taxes approved by vote of the patrons of the various school dis tricts of Oreg-on during the past year aggregate $9,000,813.34, not Including th 2, per cent state levy and the regular taxes levied within ths 6 per cent limi tation. WASHINGTON .Permits for 48 new houses to cost $130,850 were Issued in April by the Spo kane city building Inspector. Bond interest disbursements amount ing' to $981,750 were marie ' May 1 by the ' Federal Land bank of Spokane. . Unless further damage should occur, Yakima valley will this year have the biggest crop of apples in its history. The body of Daniel C. Mills, killed In action in France, arrived at Sprafrue a few days ago and was glvon a military funeral. Paving operations between Aberdeen and Hoqutam are more than 'half fin ished and the road will be open to traf fic on July 4. Contractors have begun work on the Inland Kmplre highway between Gar field and Palouse, Eight miles of road will cost $87,000. Mrs. J. T. Hawkes, Washington pio neer died at her home in Huntington Thursday. All her 14 children except one were present when death came. Crops in Douglas t-ounty were seri ously injured Friday by the wornt wind and dust storm In many years. 11 is es timated that 5000 acres must bej-eseedod. The government will sniend between $400,000 and $oOO,(00 in altering present buildings and erecting new ones at Kort Walla Walla to turn it. into a hospital for ex-service men. J. Steenbergen of Selah paid his poll tax, returned home, looked up the fam ily Bible, discovered he was more than 60 years old. returned to the county au ditor's office, claimed his money and gut It back. Dredging of the Lake Washington canal to a depth of 34 feeUfor oni mil', below the. Ballard locks at an estimated cost of $72.000' Is authorised In orders re ceived by tho United States district en gineer. . ; E. M. Chandler. until recently chief engineer of the state reclamation nerv ice, has been elected secretary of the National Society of Engineers at,a salary of $10,000 a year, with hciidnuarters in New York. ' IDAHO - Montpelier, Kemmerer. Soda Springs, Green River and Rock Springs have or ganized a baseball league for this season. More than 300,000 brook trout havi beer, planted in the Weiser-Council-Mc-Ca.l section of the state during the pat week, : " Edwin F. McPermott. Idaho news paper man, has been appointed chief of police of Boise at a ealary of HSo per mr.rtth." Payette county will maintain a farm bnreau agent in the person of-J. K. Spcngler, . who has just arrived from California. Although there are no vacancies, from 15 tc 20 applications are received daily, by Walter M. Campbell, supervisor of the Boise forest. R. K. iJteward. government hunter and trapper, is in Mackay to begin the work of exterminating a band of wolves which has been a menace to livestock in Cen tral Idaho. , . During the period from April 1,-1919. to )Urch 10, 1921, the Idaho department of public investments has collected and remitted to the mate treasurer $183,559.9:1 la land lease rentals. The largest graduating cla?s In th hlattry of the Twin Falls high rehool. with more than 100 membership, of wherr. 65 per cent are girls, will receive diplcmas when, school closes. May 27. Members of the Kmmett Irrigation district, by a vote of 4)tt to 2, have de cried to sign a contract with the recla mation service for the construction of a $1,000,000 dam on the Payette river. icnow youRc PORTLAND Portland's harbor frontage total 26$ miles, with 20.5 miles' available ffr deep sea shipping. This frontage la based on quay construction, sub ject 4o Increase by the building of additional piers and slips.' The depth is from 22 fo 60 feet throughout the harbor at zero stage. " Approximately six miles of munici pal and private docks provide berths for ocean carriers. Marine losses are Unknown in the Port of Portland harbor. It is tho safest In the world, with no high :nds, cyclones, hurrlcares, typhoons, monsoons 'or other destructive forces. It is an absolutely fresh water t arbor. It affords exceptional oppor tunity for cleaning hulls and boilers, and for tanks : an abundance of Port land's world-famed Bull Run water U served direct from tee mains, Rail lines with a maximum' of two-tenths of one per tent grade be tween tidewater and the heart of the great producing territory east of the Caacade mountains serve the port on a straight' gravity basis. There is also an Improved system cf waterways between the port and the resources of the interior, with ICS miles, of streams now navigable. Including the Columbia," the Willam ette and the Snake rivers, converging at the Port of Portland, capable of accommodating annually from four to Lve million tons of traffic. This Information is officially furn ished by ths port and dock com missions," .'-'". '