THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
SATURDAY, MAY 7, 1821.
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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.
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'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.
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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.
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Ji-st occurs to us to ask whether pro
posed blue legislation will have any In
fluence on the Reds?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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. .
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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. ! -
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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," .'-'". '