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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, PORTLAND SUNDAY HORNING, MAY 3, 1C2I. EDITOR ASCRIBES SUCH OF SUCCESS ) TO TOWNER ""William Wheeler, Aged 71, Gives " Sketch of Brownsville Career jn Times Anniversary Edition. VETERAN EDITOR AND WIFE a Brownsville, May il.Dr. Osier's "favorite tenet about the genera! Vorthlessness of elderly people wan given a rude setbacic last week by "Editor 'William Wheeler. 71 years of age, when he completed the thirty first volume of the Brownsville "Tlmes-by issuing an eight-page pa- .. -Ia this Issue of the Times the veteran editor pays tribute to the worth and ''ability of his wife. Mrs. Jennie Wheeler, who for two years past has been book-keeper, star reporter, proof reader, ad ' "vftrtiaing man and bill collector. The "way in which Wheeler came to discover " his wife's ability in the newspaper line ''reads as follows: ; JTJRIED HOMESTEADIXG "After 25 years of newspaper work, .during which I ran all. the way from the" position of office devil to that of editor, publisher and manager, I left the -occupation, forever as I supposed, and ; went to reside on a homestead in the .Xne county woods. After some 17 years xj&t the homesteader's -life, death left me ; alone en the little farm in the woods. I4fe under those conditions proved quite too lonely for me, and in time ! formed - atl alliance with a new partner, a widow whose life had been spent in large cities. The charms of nature on a backwoods - farm soon palled on her and, seeking a change. I ' naturally gravitated back to the print shop and nearly two years ago 1 took; up the publication of the Browns Ylle Timea . w'-"Then a new discovery burst upon me. My silent partner with no previous experience in a newspaper office sud denly became transformed into a mod efficient member of the firm. She took up the duties of a local reporter as Well as those of business manager, book keeper and greeter of customers who -visit the office. She has been the more efficient half of the firm which pub TUshed the Times. : fW"FJ5 WRITES FIEE 8TOBT "'She . wrote the account of the "fire which scorched Brownsville when we 1 had been here a month, a report which the managing editor of the Eugene Reg it ister complimented as an able piece of J reportorial work, and she wrote the report" of the recent Charles Sterling entertainment, which drew a crowd of 1 1200, persons, ' in the big red warehouse of the Brownsville grain merchant. This 2 story called out Governor Olcott's com- piimentary letter. The Wheelers have a fine home in the beautiful Falrmount district at Eugene, 'and to this they will probably retire when the lure of the newspaper game 'begins to pall. The Times is owned by M. Brown, chief deputy game warden. : 'and as he is averse to experimentation . with young and inexperienced newspaper "folks in his office, it may be that the 71-year-dld youth and his wife will con tmue to publish the historic old paper 2 for some time to come. In spite of many difficulties and dis t couragemen ta, the present publishers - if have caused the Time to flourish and expand. When they "landed" here, they knew not a soul, and only by persistent effort could they find living quarters. STABTKD OJT "SHOESTRING" J . They inherited bad accounts and debts at the Times office and the remembrance Jof subscribers that their predecessor had Vflzxled" at the newspaper game. Then one day about two years ago, Mrs. Wheeler sat in the office and remarked that she needed a top-head story. As . J if in answer to her wishes, the fire bell langed out a wild alarm. - She dashed lout to witness the whole business sec it ion of town aflame. Before night two- , thirds of it had gone up in smoke, and iMrs: Wheeler had her story. It is not J so well, known that the Wheelers' own house was in the path of the big eon fflagration and that only a part of their belongings were with great difficulty - irescued. I Wheeler was born in New England, at East Charleston. Vt His parents Imoved across the Canadian line, how Jever, and his boyhood days were spent inr Canada. -When he returned to the 'states in 1868. he entered a print shop Sand became thoroughly acquainted with the printing business. CHAMPI05S FABMEES - Soon he worked up to the position of .editor of the Vermont Farmer, and won popularity, by his championing of the grange movement, then developing. jJSver since that time he has been In close tsympathyr with the Interests of farmers, and this agricultural bent shows up in the Brownsville Times, two newspaper pages each week being given up to agri T cultural topics. ,i In 1876 Wheeler came to the West and ; found employment with the Enterprise t Virginia City, Nev. He came on to California " two years later and bought : the Watsonviile Transcript. He pub fished this for two years with great success and then worked for three years Son the San Francisco Call. To make ' Als experience in newspaper work com plete, he then Joined the San Francisco "Chronicle and was coast news editor for . Jk long time. - He came into Oregon In .413, working on the Eugene Register, nd later on living on a homestead as ' . Already related in this sketch. J Wheeler is perhaps the most widely quoted small-paper editor in Oregon. f Us editorials fare trenchant, sane and earless, andhe turns out several col Jimns of them for each weekly issue of ' 2he "Times. f Mr. and Mrs. wi Warn II. Wheeler SCHOOLS AWARDED PRIZES FOR FIGHT ON TUBERCULOSIS Institutions in 28 Counties Are Recognized; for Proficiency in Crusade; School Plans Report For high proficiency in the mod ern health crusade schools in 28 Oregon counties have been awarded pennants this month by the Oregon Tuberculosis association. The cru sade is a plan of teaching health and hygiene to children by 1 means ' of the performance of certain health chores by way; of instilling health habits. So close was the competition in a num ber of counties that Miss Elizabeth Hop per, crusade director, was compelled to determine the winners by the average number of chores performed during the 15 weeks. A 100 per cent modern health crusade school ia one where every stu dent who enrolled completed the cru sade work. ! SCHOOLS RACE 15 CSU8ADE With a maximum of 10 chorea a day, together with , two baths a week, the total chores for the week is 72. A few schools had the high average of 70 for the year. Because the crusade was en tered late in Baker. Douglas, Josephine, Malheur. Morrow and Polk counties, pen nants will bo given to the winners in June. -: Wheeler had no crusade school. Pennant winners this month were Ben ton, Clackamas, Clatsop, Columbia, Coos; Crook, Curry. Deschutes, Gilliam. Grant, Harney. Hood River. Jackson. Jeffer son, Klamath, Lake, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Marion, : Multnomah. Tillamook. Uma tilla, Union, Wallowa, Wasco, Washing ton, Yamhill. . The Douglas County Public Health as sociation is the latest auxiliary organ ization to the Oregon Tuberculosis asso ciation, it having Just been formed following- a three months' demonstration of public health nursing put on by Miss Ebba Djupe. Mrs. William Bell, a di rector of the association, is the presi dent ; O. C. Brown, county school super intendent, is the i vice president, and J. A. Booth is treasurer. BULLETIN OJT SCHOOL PL ATOTEP : In answer to almost daily inquiries from all pars of the United States and Europe, a special bulletin on the A. L. Mills Open Air school is being prepared by the Portland board of education. The bulletin will be profusely illustrated and will be replete with instructive reading matter. In response to wishes of representative citizens of Benton county, a special tu berculosis survey! of that county is now being' conducted by Robert W. Osborn, field executive, to show whether or not there is need for' county sanatoria. Mrs. Saldie Orr-Dunbar. executive sec retary of the Oregon Tuberculosis asso ciation, will leave next week for Nev York to attend the annual meeting of the : National Tuberculosis, association, after which she will take the course for secretaries in the Institute for Advanced Tuberculosis Workers. On her way east Mrs. Dunbar will attend the northern Idaho tuberculosis conference, at which she will be one of the speakers. ' Early Day Settler of Eastern Oregon Dies La Grande, May 27. A. C. Huntington, one of the early pioneers of Eastern Oregon, died at his home here late this afternoon in his eighty-ninth year. He was" for many years engaged in business here, having retired several years ago. One daughter, t Mrs George E. Currey of thid city, survives him. Exceptional The exceptional Quality of our : professional conduct matches the up-to-dateness of our equipment. We serve with an experienced discre tion. I -ev rju ''ijj MILLER TRACEY MILLER & TRACEY Main 269 1 Independent Funeral Directors Aut. 578-85 Washington at Ella St Bet. Twentieth and Twenty-first SU-, West Sid MAP COMPARISON SHOWS VASTNESS OF COAST STATES ---y .' '"eserssssssaMSfSfswraswBSBBBsssi - . Chamber of Commerce Official Finds Eastern Business Men Are Ignorant of Geography. Failure to comprehend the vast ness of the .West is a, common error made by tourists who ' come to the Pacific coast from the Atlantic sea board, but when this blunder is made by the manufacturer and the dis tributor the misconception is likely to prove costly. - Disaster has been narrowly avoided many times by the eastern manufac turers who located branch agencies or distributing organizations on : the ; Pa cific coast without a careful prelimin ary comparative study of distance on the Atlantic and Pacific coasts. In view : of this mistake, which so often causes trouble, William H. Craw ford, manager of the department of in dustries of the Chamber of Commerce, has taken a map of the United States and folded it in hair so that the Pa cific coast line is superimposed on the Atlantic shore; line. - ; COAST EXFASTSE SH0W2T The result Is startling - to the person who does not have a thorough knowl edge of the West. It shows the extreme northern tip of the state of Maine rest ing on a parallel with Seattle and the city of "Charleston, S. C, almost coin ciding with the position of San Dlego in California. , - Crawford says that eastern manufac turers have located distributing agencies 6a the Pacific coast without a thought being given to the length of hauls be tween Pacific coast points. He Bays that they are used to thinking in terms of the Atlantic coastal distances. - When a person travels from Portland to San Francisco it is almost impossible for an eastern man to realize that It would mean exactly the same as travel ing from Ottawa, Can., to Richmond. Va as . the relative position of : the four ; cities coincides when : the maps of the two coasts are superimposed. STATES LOOK LIKE COU2CTIES The graphic illustration shows ,( the New England states of Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut and Rhode Island all grouped along the Oregon : coast, while the state of New Jarsey looks like the tracing of a large county in Northern California. The northern boundary of Pennsylvania stretches along the southern boundary of Oregon and looks like a large county in Northern California, and possibly two large counties combined in one in North ern Idaho. S ; r To - the resident of the East a trip from Boston to Detroit is not an or dinary event, yet to the resident of the coast country of Oregon it does not seem like a great distance to Boise or Poca tello, Idaho, yet the comparative dis tance is practically the same; : - It is still a greater undertaking to travel from Portland. Maine, to Chicago, yet that distance compares with a trip from this city to Denver, and it is the same as a resident of Quebec, Man., traveling to St. Louis, Mo. - The eastern manufacturer has been overlooking the. facts which this com parative data shows, according to Craw ford, who says that - the position of Portland on this double map shows why it has such a natural advantage as a distributing point. POPULATIONS COMPARED . " Another chart has been prepared by Crawford to show the distribution of population on the Pacific coast. A tri angular dividing line has been drawn from Portland to Ogden and from Oak land to Ogden. Within that space dwell only slightly less than 1,000,000 people. The same corresponding area would be a triangular shaped area with the corners touching Portland, Maine ; New port News, Va.. and Indianapolis. Many millions of people live in the correspond ing triangular area in the Eastern sec tion. North of this triangular division there are' more than 3,250,000 ' people, . and south of it are almost the same num ber. Crawford points out on the maps that if a distributing agency ' wers to be ' placed in the northern section a long haul would be necessary to reach the densely populated section in South ern California. On the other hand If branch factories and distributing agencies are placed at Portland, the two heavier populated sec tions of the Pacific coast are easy of access by rail and water shipping. Ramapo Hotel Is Leased by M. E. Pope The Ramapo hotel . at the northeast corner of Fourteenth and Washington was leased last week for a 10-year per iod to M. E. Pope and wife, formerly of San Francisco, The building is a four story brick structure containing; 100 rooms. - Furniture and equipment were Included in the lease. E. M. Laze r us is the principal owner and former propri etor of the hotel. ALASKA TIMBER, POWER POLICY IS SHOWN IN OFFER Government Calls for Bids for Tract, on Shrimp Bay; Dates Announced for Opening of Bids Development of waterpower and the paper pulp industry of Alaska on th basis of perpetual resources is the policy adopted by the U. S. forest service officials of the service announce. ; Leases for power sites and the sale of timber lands suita ble for pulp manufacture are con trolled so as to" give the producer a constant supply of raw material. Wanton cutting is not permitted - in the national forests of the territory, and all -cutting is made under supervision of the service to insure future demands. An example of this policy Is found in the proposals now being circulated for the site on Shrimp bay, on the northern end of ReviUeglgedo island the some island on which Ketchikan la located. FKOJTTS OJT WATEB According to the estimates nade by Fred Ames of the timber sales division of the - service approximate 100,000,000 feet of hemlock and spruce In the right proportions for paper making are on the land ! adjacent to the power site at Shrimp bay. All this timber is so situ ated that it can be felled and rafted to the mill in deep water. The frontage on deep water is some M miles. - Power sufficient for the operation of a 100-ton mill is available in the stream flowing into the head of the bay, P. H. Dater of the engineering section, state The actual horsepower to be had is be tween 7000 and 8000. he states. - ' Miss Carin H Degermark, head of the Application for this site has been made piaygrounj8 work in Portland, who has of Los Angeles and the Alaska-American section of the work. In this case the two bids are separate. In timber sales the general rules are that ample protection must be provided against fire in the logged off land, that the trees marked to save by the forest ranger are not to be cut, that approved logging methods, eliminating waste, are to be used and the deposit of a surety bond of S20.OOO. The purchaser is al lowed until October, 1923, to begin log ging operations and must have the stand cut by 1963. . Miss 0.! Degermark, Playground Head, Resumes Position Paper corporation of New York. WILL OPEX BIDS - In compliance with the law for open bids the two departments have an nounced the dates for the opening of all bids sent in. The power- site hearing will be held- June 15 in the . new post office building at Portland. Bids for the timber will be opened July 7, In bidding, suitable evidence must be given of financial backing sufficient to carry out the terms of the contract and that the land is not to be held for specu lation. The accepted bidder must de velop the power and operate the logging been in New Haven a year, has Just re turned to this olty and will resume her official duties here. She was engaged in reconstruction work immediately after the war and then went to New Haven to organise recreation work there for women and girls and was also associ ated with the women's community serv ice. Mrs. Elsie Centro has been acting head of the playgrounds work In Port land during Miss Degemark's absence. ' .As a means of identification's Euro pean scientist has combined X-ray photo graphs of persons' fingers with their finger prints. CITY WILL KEEP HANDS OFF ISSOE OF MUSIC SHOPS Opponents Can Take Grievance Against ''Nuisance" to Courts, Declares City Legal Advisor. Owners or occupants of the Couch building who feel they have a griev ance against musicians who have studios in the adjacent Kothschild building, will . have to obtain their remedy through litigation on the ground of maintaining a nuisance, and not through passage of any reg ulatory city ordinance. This is :the gist of the decision of City Attorney Frank S. Grant and la alao in line with the declarations of Mayor Baker on the subject. $ Some weeks ago building owners peti tioned the " cfty council fur a law that would KKjuire persons maintaining muitlo studios in the downtown district to Imve double windows and keep tlu-m cioaed when pupils were practicing. There was a spirited hearing, in which musicians and others on their behalf declared they were conducting a legitimate bunl neus and they Intimated that if their neighbors didn't like the melodies pro duced, the neighbors could move. The matter was referred to City At torney Grant. In his report thereon, he says : "The matter is a private nuisance, and I believe the owners of ,the Couch build ing have a right to abate a private nui sance tbe same as the council has a right to stop a public nuisancu." Mayor Baker says: I cannot recom mend the patraaKe of an ordinance to remedy the condition." It is probable that the city council at its regular meeting next WedneHuay will vote to give the mutter no further consideration. Sues for $5000 Insurance Suit for .r.0K) was flted in circuit court by Mrs. Elizabeth Edwards against the Travelers' Protective Asho ciation of America. The plaintiffs hus band, Frederick Edwards, had a $500 insurance policy with "jthe association. He fell out of a window January 4 in Portland and " broke both his legs, dying shortly afterward. At "the time of his death he was a member in good standing, the complaint sets forth. , i ; 1 I ; J 5 jjljl , - J 3 New Shoes from C. H. Baker irjf LI I 13 i WWW If , yam Ha . . It matters not what be the season, or the time of the season, for Baker shoes will be found on the high, unvarying plane of faultless style and intrinsic worth. Glance at the shoes shown here real 'achievements in good shoe making. No, Baker prices are not high. In fact, we notice that those who habitually "shop around" are returning in greatly increased numbers to the Baker stores to buy.' 1617 Dark brown kid one strap pump, with ball strap, welt sole and leather cuban heel. Price $10.00. C1620 This oxford is in the new shade of sand buckskin, with ball strap, welt sole and leather cuban heel. Price $12.50. A1617 Dark brown kid sport oxford, with ball strap, welt sole and leather cuban heeL Price $10.00. C1617 Dark brown kid street oxford, perforated tip and vamp, , welt sole and leather: cuban heeL Price $10.00. A2220 Nut brown russia calf one strap pump with ball strap, welt sole and leather cuban heel. Price $10.00. 1213 Black or gray suede afternoon pump with kid strap and foxing, imitation straight tip and small orna ment on vamp, turn sole and covered French heel. Price $12.50. 1210 A conservative new pattern with medium French heel, in black kid, brown kid or . brown suede, with one strap and turn sole. Price $12.50. P1201 This model is of black kid with perforated tip, vamp and heel foxing. A dainty pump for afternoon wear with turn sole and Junior French heeL Price $13.50.. Three Baker Stores in Portland 380 Washington Street 308 Washington Street 270 Morrison Street f- I, n 'Km T