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THE OREGON r DAILY JOURNAL, . PORTLAND, , OREGON.
MONDAY. JUNE 13, -JX21.
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Jnrnal. Portland. Orecon.
Everything i in a state of mvtamorpbosis.
Tboa tbyseli art in everlasting change and
tn corruption to -eorreapond ; ao la the whoin
niuene Uarcus Aurehtu.
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THHAT $50,000,000 of public money
,1 be made available as credit for
the livestock Industry in carrying on
its operations, is the recommenda
tion of the federal reserve board.
Once this would have been called
state socialism. Though the govern
ment coddled and nursed manufac
turing Industry through tariffs for
generations and still does, certain
groups always scouted any proposal
ty government! to throw out life
lines to farm activity. True enough,
there was a pretense at protecting
agriculture by tariffs, 'yet the inade
quacy of that system as a help to
agriculture is proven by the fact that
farms continued to go under the
mortgage with the result that nearly
JiaJf the farms in America are oper
ated by renters. '
L- For 40 years efforts by farmers to
secure a farm loan system were de
feated. : Groups who profited 4 from
lending, money on farm mortgages
wanted their business perpetuated,
and they successfully . fought the
farmers' movement for a farm loan
system until seven years ago.
The motive behind the federal re
serve board's recommendation for
aid to the livestock industry is the
realization that the industry must be
helped or it will become decadent,
the livestock supply become short
and. enormous prices result. It i$-a
belated realization that government
has something more to do than fill
the offices with partisans, collect
taxes and pay-salaries.
: This realization is hastened by the
census returns. With more than
half the population of America; liv
ing in cities and the movement from
country to town ; going on more
swiftly than In any past 10-year
period, men at , Washington are at
last convinced that farm life must
be justly dealt "with by government
or the process of disintegration will
,go on.
The new idea which has at last im
pressed authorities at Washington,
may next be sensed by chambers of
commerce and the great business
groups in cities. When they get, and
act on, the thought that agriculture
Is the' basic industry, that agricul
ture is the mudsill on which all else
rests, and that a prosperous agricul
ture means a -prosperous country,
one great American problem will be
well along the way to solution.
r Two approaching dates demand
the "safe and Bane?, consideration of
Portland citizens. One is July 4, the
ether June 18, the date of the school
election, when four school directors,
a majority of the . board, will be
elected. . ' . ,
KINO STRAWBERRY
BANNERS ; flaunted from" public
buildings. - Flags floated over
homes. - Lamp posts .... swathed . in
bunting. Flowers everywhere. " Happy-faced
people ..thronging . the
streets. Cherrians and Strawberri
ans, automobiles and' wagons,- pa
rading ;. and marching. All in a
league of festivity to celebrate the
ripening of the strawberry.
; Thus it happened at Lebanon. But
wherever in Oregon the berries grow,
fheir rich, red. Juicy, marvelously
flavored maturity is the signal for
merrymaking. t
If Oregon were not such a demo
cratic state, so thoroughly- and ln-
dissolubly wedded to the Initiative
and referendum, the direct primary
and the recall, we would speak of
the Oregon . strawberry as : king of
the, family rosaceous. By common
consent, during the dsxs of his as
cendancy, he rules: an absolute j but
benevolent monarch. , Plucked amid
the dew from the vine he stains the
reddest Hps redder still. Served for
breakfast with sugar Tand yellow
cream beaten Into foam, he throws
enchantment over the beginning of
iny day. Couched between the
flaky crusts of shortcake, he makes
a dessert over which poets could not
sing, being too full for utterance. :
The Oregon strawberry is the big
gest and finest of 1 the strawberries
grown. : But as he increases in size
he grows in flavor. Long: may ne
reign! , . j
The , federal bureau of : commerce
finds that , of .12,307 officers of
American merchant marine vessels' in
overseas trade, 8315 are native born
American and 3397 naturalized. But
of 82,810 men in the same trade ion
the; same vessels J only 28,646 are
native born and 6976 naturalized. In
the latter instance, 11,134 of the sail
ors are British and- 80?2 SpanIsh.j In
theleoasting trade the average of
native born Americans is larger. Of
the, total number of 25,264 officers
in ' the American merchant marine
16,803 are" native born and 6985
naturalized? Of 155,024 men, 50,966
are native born and 10,898 natural
ized.',. ! -
WHERE THE MONEY GOES
THE burden of taxes in this day is
well illustrated by a government
estimate of what will happen to the
proceeds of the Dempsey-Carpentier
fight ,on July 2. - - ' : .-r .
The country gasped when the tre
mendous amounts to be received by
the ; principals was publicly an
nounced.? The $300,000 that Demp
sey is to receive and the' 8200,000
that Carpenter's contract calls for
were heralded as revolutionary sums,
as the height of extravagance.,. .The
world was astounded, almost dis
gusted. ' . -,:
But the announcement that the
government of the, United States will
receive more from the affair than
either principal, the promoter, .or all
combined, will undoubtedly serve as
just cause for another awakening.
The internal revenue bureau an
nounces that of the $300,000 that
Dempsey receives, $161,000. will go to
the government in income taxes. Of
Carpentier's $200,000, after exemp
tions are made on account of his
wife and child, $93,000 will go to the
government, 'making $254,000 that
the government will properly obtain
from the ' encounter against the
$246,000 to be collected by the prin
cipals. In. addition, the government
will ..demand a heavy , share of . the
promoter's profits in income and
amusement taxes, Sto say nothing of
the levy of the state of New Jersey
against revenues. I j
, These are days when imaginations
are taxed to comprehend events. In
ventions, evolutions and actions con
tinually outdo what has been done
before. It will, however, require no
great stretch of the imagination to
picture"; the day a few years hence
when people will "become the serfs
of; government instead of govern
ments serving the people, if the
march of the tax collector goes on.
, Benson Polytechnic school is to
serve as the model of institutions for
vocational training ; at the annual
session of .,' the i National i Education
association in Des Moines, July 3-8.
Benson, school has won the distinc
tion. ON THE PITTSBURG STAGE
IN SMOKY Pittsburg there may not
appear on the stage of any thea
tres -' . j ;
Human deformity or monstrosities.
Gambling in any form. .
; Grafters, phrenologists, fortune
tellers, palmista ; ;
Dialogues, gestures, songs (espe
cially parodies), language or conver
sation of any kind, which are, direct
ly or by double meaning, obscene.
Females In bare legs, r
Wearing of one-piece .union suits
b females when intended only to
display the figure as in living pic
tures.' '
Portrayal, by performers of either
sex, of dope fiends..
Profanity, likewise, on the states
of Pittsburg is barred bv "order of
the director of ; the department of
public safety. r' Performances for
men. only are , banned. Runways
over the heads of the people in the
audience are forbidden. Actresses
may only repeat: their spoken lines
on the stage and not while seated in
a box or chair or walking in the
aisles. No, creed or nationality may
be ridiculed. ' ,
Many theatre I habitues may I say
that the prohibitions comprehend
nearly everything pertaining ' to j the
stage, particularly some of the vau
deville programs. Closer reading,
however; may disclose thai the Pitts
burg rules, while extreme, forbid
those things that tend to bring the
stage Into disrepute and make it of
fensive to wholesome-minded people.
An investigator has discovered, to
his own satisfaction, the reason both
for the short stature, of the Japan
ese and for their lack of success In
aviation.' As babies most of I the
Japanese are carried about on their
mothers backs. The position is said
to cause the head to fall back, dislo
cating the bones that control equi
librium, and also to check the growth
of the legs. Another; economist,
however, avers i that the Japanese
could grow tall,- as a" race, if more
of them , drank milk and ate butter
and meat. ; '
SILENT TREATMENT
A NOVEL experiment in seeking a
confession is under way in a
Connecticut prison. The method em
ployed has been named the "silent
treatment." - ' 7
Six years ago three members ef a
Connecticut family were murdered
and an : attempt made to burn : the
bodies."" A ifew weeks ago an aged
employe of a farmer was murdered
and an attempt made to burn his
body. More recently the farmer was
arrested on j a charge of felonious
assault after he had pursued his wife
with, a revolver. -J. ' ' S:r'.
The farmer is suspected of the four
murdera ' (He is known as a bully
and has repeatedly .beaten his wife
ahd other members of his family.1;
Instead f of cross-examining the
suspect, Connecticut police are seek
ing a confession through psychology.
The farmer has been in jail for some
time. No one speaks to him. ' There
has been no hint of the murder sus
picions. He has not been told why
he is under $10,000 bonds on a tech
nical ; charge. His guards are in
structed not to 'reply to queries as to
why he is bein so treated. His re
quests for newspapers have been de
nied. His family has not visited him
in his cell. i t
. The officers are relying on his
own conscience to open his mouth.
A ; bully, they reason, cannot with
stand the confinement, suspense,
mystery and .silent treatment that
are his. They have been encouraged
with the success of their theory in
sofar - as the prisoner - has shown
signs of ; extreme nervousness, that,
he has jumped feverishly, from his
cot when a guard nears his cell, and
that his desire for communication
and Information has been ; increas
ingly marked. ;";' ,f - :";: p ;;
There 1 are undoubtedly cases in
which men are more vulnerable from
Within than from without. ? The Con
necticut case has the background for
a 'fair test on the man held, Inas
much as he has supposedly held for
six years a secret that the police are
now attempting to wring from; him
by the silent' treatments
Dr. H. B. Torrey, director of fun
damental medical research for Jhe
University of Oregon, says that the
Northwest needs each year 75 ad
ditional physicians but doesnt get
them. .-'.
"THE JOB AND THE MAN
HPlrlE, school board is one of the
A very Important public bodies, of
Multnomah. county. ; On Its mem
bership is the responsibility for the
effective education of thousands of
Portland children. '
'The membership of. so important
a public body should include only in
dividuals ' of caliber and character,
of vision and ability. It should in
clude only those with a capacity for
effective endeavor, only those who
are above the petty ; considerations,
and only those with a high sense of
public duty. It should Include only
those who have been tried and found
fit to ably discharge grave responsi
bilities. Such a man is E. C. Sammons.
In the departments at Washing
ton 36,000 women are employed. and
32,000 men, and yet no one has yet
spoken -of this as a woman's gov
ernment. : . f
DALLAS
ONE of the attractive little cities
of Western Oregon is Dallas, the
county seat, of Polk county. 5 r i
Pioneer families and their descen
dants reside in the vicinity in ; num
bers, and ' many of the names are
identified with ?the early history of
Oregon, The population is between
3000 and 4000 and with two rail
roads and numerous industries,' there
is an air of bustle and activity about
the place. With Che Dallas. Machine &
Locomotive works, the Southern Pa
cific machine shops and roundhouse
and the Willamette Valley Lumber
mill with a capacity of 160,000 feet
in eight hours and. 100 men on the
payroll; to say nothing of fruit pack
ing and other industries, there Is a
lot of work in Dallas for busy hands
to do. ;
'Dallas is in the heart of a country
famed for good farming and, high
class livestock.' All the young peo
ple have had high school and very
many of them college training. The
whole atmosphere is one of cultured
and hospitable community life. -U; i
The school system includes Dallas
college," which, besides sending out
many graduates of high - character
and training, produced a basketball
team which, toured the East for two
months and won 50 out of 57 games.
Dallas was the home city of the late
Carl Fenton of the University of Or
egon, who was one of the few ath
letes who ever won 12 letters in four
years at college. He died a 'month
after his return from service in
France. . . - "" ,
At Dallas there is a high school
building of 20 rooms, built of white
pressed brick, t It was opened for
use in 1912, and cost $60,000. ? There
are grammar schools to match, with
a school attendance of nearly 900.
TheV school - organization is very
thorough. .
sin few Oregon towns is there as
general and emphasized art interest
in education,' a fact shown by prizes
offered ? by i fraternal organizations
and private individuals for excellence
in certain subjects in the schools.
It was in Dallas that Ralph Wil
liams, now national - vice chairman
of the Republican party organiza
tion carved his way to wealth. He
went to Dallas without means and
became a clerk in, a bank. He now
owns two'banks In that city, several
ether banks in near-by .towns, and is
identified witlj some very large busi
ness interests in. Portland. . It was
through sagacious and lucky opera
tions in hops as well as being a highly
capable banker that he wooed and
won wealth. ' ' .
TODAY
It Can Be Done
If Gold Dust Fell
Ramadan's Sad End
-By Arthur Brisbane-
. Henry Ford owns a small railroad in
connection with his ; factory. "' It will'
carry supplies for his factoryv lumber,
iron, coal ; aJao carry milk and crops
fori the fanners. The lowest was on
the road will be $6 a day. , Some other
"privately owned railroads' will wonder
how that is possible It is not difficult
when you. buy the road for cash, don't
issue any, millions in watered stocks or
bonds,' and when " 9ou don't buy-your
railroad supplies from any "Diamond"
Jim who Introduces you to charming
ladies of the chorus and In return gets
twice the usual price for car wheels.
- At faroff Dawson, a "rain of yellow
dust has fallen on the ground. Chemists
are analyzing It. It may be sulphur
that clouds and wind "picked up" from
some volcano in the unexplored North.
It may be pollen from distant pine "trees,
carried to Dawson. It isn't gold, which
is the important thing. If it were gold,
if' from interstellar space a rain of gold
dust should begin settling on the earth,
how industriously brooms and shovels
would be used. And how soon you
would read, as financiers and govern
ments hastily, rearranged their ideas on
money. "Gold now cheaper than copper.
Our Turkish friends, including the
sultan, are just finishing; ramadan, the
fast of 30 days which comes in the
ninth month, and are starting the three
days feast that follows the solemn
period. .. .' :; - ' , y. -'.;"..
: The sultan says it is a sad festival,
all things going wrong. The allies say
the same, for . the Irrepressible , Bolshe
vlkl. having organized all-Mohammedan
troops, are sending- them into Turkey,
and the Turks admit them. It would
surprise Western v Europe if, some fine
day, it should find Mr. Trotzky, with
his military suit and gaiters, in posses
sion of Constantinople, back of the
Mediterranean.
The stock market once more Imitates
Humpty Dumpty and his-great fall. A
New Tork stock exchange seat sold for
$84,000 yesterdayvery ; cheap. The
buyer can soon get his money back by
betting that the stock of the small steel
companies will go lower.
Two, British freight ships are limping
into port' badly damaged by bumping
icebergs. The fields of ice in ' the North
Atlantic are large and. more dangerous
than ever-since 1912, when the Titanic
went down. In a day tthat is coming
men will control those ice fields as a
man controls the snowdrift in his front
yard. ' That surplus ice may be used "to
cool off the Tropics, and tropical beat
to warm the North. . .
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The United States is selling $500,000,
000 worth of short notes, paying 5& per
cent interest, and the notes are selling
well. They, ought to. , . -
The government, which manufactures
money, allows a banker to take its bonds
and issue currency against the bonds.
Why doesn't it issue its own notes, up
to v billion or so, as legal . tender, ahd
save the $26,000,000 a year interest that
the public will have to pay on the $500,
000,000 in notes? Something useful could
be done with $26,000,000 a year for; the
soldiers, for instance. .
Romance , Lacking in I slands
: '. . of the South Seas
Bassett ; Digby in London Mail.
The romance Of South Sea Island
beaches is overrated. Ton probably have
formed your own ideas : of a tropical
beach, but let me disillusion you. The
coast line of those empty looking islands
in the southern seas , is generally a lot
more built over than the coast of Kent.
The beach Is one interminable village
street. Sometimes the queer leaf -walled,
leaf -thatched huts, perching aloft on
their bamboo legs, are side by side.
Sometimes they stray a little aparC
down along the strip of palm grove that
fringes the picture-booky sea.
There are often lovely shells and fatry
fans of coral along the water tine, but
also there are always dead cats and
fowls and fishes and snakes and cast
away vegetables and rotten fruit and
squalid banana skins by the million, and
greasy ashes and charred fuel and refuse
from fishing nets, and sodden ancient
rags and decaying coconuts. , All this
stuff languidly follows the tide up and
down, day after day, week after week,
forever lolling along the. water line.
Peace? But there is no peace for
you.
Swim and alons; In the deeps, out by
the reef, sharp black fins signal a warn
ing.. Get nearer inshore and nightmare
purple jellyfish, with a poisonous sting,
await your passing. And groups of
vicious little yellow and black banded
sea snakes, basking on the steaming
surface ; of the water, scatter at your
approach 'to pursue guerrilla tactics. Still
nearer In, there is the sons of stewing
garbage, and the coral rock under foot
cuts like s knife. i ' -
TThe , beach itself is " unbearable. The
glare of the brazen sun half blinds you,
and : to sit down is like sitting, on an
even. T 'r - -j
Go a little higher -into the fringe of
palm grove. Here the shade is scanty
tn the extreme. iThe ground is hard
sun-baked. - Grass? ; There is no grass.
There are myriads of ants, passing- and
repassing, and other small creeping in
sects, ,'s S---K
It is too hot to move. It Is too hot
to sleep. The ground is as hard as iron
and i swarming with insects, that prick
you and chew you and troop up your
trousers' legs and your coat sleeves and
down your neck. '
- The bottles of lime juice and water in
your knapsacks, cold when you came out
in the dawn, are as hot as tea.
Your fruit is hot, your sandwiches are
hot. ; Your cigarettes burn like tinder.
You manage to doze for a moment.
Then native children, or their parents,
recommence' the favorite tropical pastime
that so endears them to tired English-men-r-of
kicking around an old tinned
meat can with stones in it. A breath of
breeze sighs through the coconut palms,
bringing with it the full bouquet of the
broiling garbage down-beach. 1 --
I can understand : the romantic fervor
of those tropical, beach young men and
maidens in the novels of South Sea life.
Any young couple who could be romantic
on a South Sea island beach must indeed
be in love with a capital Li Otherwise
the thing is impossible.
Curious, Bits of Information ;
Gleaned From Curious Places
Don Ramon Arguello, a near relative
of Governor Arguello of early California,
used to eat ratUesnakes after the fashion
of the Indians, says the San Francisco
Call.-When Don Ramoa went camping
he would kill on the average a dozen
rattlesnakes a day. . He broiled a portion
of the body of the snake over a hot fire
and remarked that the meat of the rat-
tlesnake was more nutritious - than that
of a fat chicken. He called rattlesnakes
tidbit," He tried to make converts to
his taste, but he was not successful.
Letters From .the People
; Communication sent to The Journal for
publication in thi department should be written
on only ana aide h the paper; should not exceed
100 words in length, and must be signed by the
writer, vhoce mail address is full must accom
pany the contribution. f . .
MEMORIALS AND JOBS .
"Portland, June 10. To the Kditor of
The Journal X have read your recent
editorial on "Bills and Memories," and
will ? say you are right. Jobs would
mean more to most of . the ex-service
men than all the medals and memorials
in. the world. .
Let there be more power to your
editorial arm. Horace H. Welch,
I AT THE UNION STATION
An Advocate of , the City Beautiful
' 1 Thinks Much Must Be Done.
Portland. June 10. To the Editor of
The Journal I am moved to Inquire
(with apologies to the author of "The
Lay of the Last Minstrel") : I .,-.
Breathes there city with soul eo dead
I That neTery to itaeU hath said.
A. beautiful station ground i
Should , be tbe pride oi our town"J
The writer thought the above as he
walked out of the : Union station and
looked out on the barren, vacant- block
in front of it. - It reminds one of - a
bit of the unirrigated Snake river coun
try; Instead of Western Oregon. The
only thing to attract one's eye Is the
glaring billboard which ' hides (part of
the Broadway bridge, the assumption
being, I suppose, that the billboard is
more ornamental than the bridge.
I It was Just about a year ago that this
block was cleared of some very dirty
ramshackle frame buildings, j It took
a millionrdoUar Shriners", convention to
bring -this improvement about. Is it
going to take a convention of similar,
magnitude: to cause us to beautify the
block with shrubbery, grass, etc., as it
should be? w
1 Since cities are no longer walled and
have no formal city gates, the railroad
station has become the main gateway
or entrance.. Here it is that the traveler,
the visitor or the newcomer gets his
first impression of the city. The first
impression ! of PorUand is decidedly not
favorable, nor does it compare with the
numerous beauty spots in other places
of public interest in the city. .
. i Some may 'say, "Oh, well, we will
have a new Union depot very , soon, so
what's the use to fix the ground up
now?" or, t"We just as well wait until
1925, just before the exposition, to beau
tify it."'; There is no. question that Port
land needs a new and larger Union sta
tion, but we have, to wait on the rail
roads to realize the necessity enough
to build it. In the meantime, which
may be at long time, the thousands of
visitors and tourists to PorUand are not
getting the true impression of Portland's
wonderful f civic spirit, as is shown in
the Rose Festlvala The city j is being
misrepresented daily right at r its en
trance. ; , ( yS;,. . ';..-:
I If the cost of landscaping this block
and eliminating the large billboard were
very great there might .be some argu
ment against it to those who thlnk the
site of the railroad station ; may be
changed. But the cost would; be very
small. I Co not advocate the complete
elimination 6f billboard advertising ; not
at all. Outdoor advertising has- its
rightful and legitimate place.! But it
is hot right that it should be j the only
thing on the horizon. Those billboards
should be brought down to the ground
and beautified with grass and shrub
bery, justv-as outdoor advertising is
handled in the residential parts of the
city, it would not lessen the good effect
of the advertisement; in fact.) it would
increase it; givmg a much more pleasing
and satisfactory idea of the announce
ment of the product ' ; 4 i
I If some! live club of the - city would
take the lead in. urging the beautifying
of the view in front of the station there"
is no doubt that every "citizen fwould be
heartily in favor . of it All i it needs
is a leader some organization to back
the movement. What organization is
going to take the honor and 'credit of
doing it? j . L. Gleriri HalL
"THE! FEAR OF THE LORD" '
In This. It Is Here Argued, Children in
Schools . Should Be Reared.
; Lebanon. June 6. To the Editor of
The Journal You are to be heartily
commended for your effort to solve per
plexing and neglected problems. It is
very sorely needed. But. of course, any
one individual can not encompass every
thing, eves on any single subject, because
one can learn pnly from his own life and
experience, ( and community matter in
cludes alLfc Because of that I make , this
attempt to addV my little thought to
your editorial in a recent issue of The
Journal, entiUed, "The Moan of the
Night". .( .-- w .;,: ; v ...,-,..; "
I shall hot condone the shortcomings
of parents in regard to safeguarding
the character of youth, but the parents
are not the whole thing in this case, nor
the ones most to blame, but our system
of education. The most profound sage
Of all time said, "The fear of God"
(that is, love, knowledge, respect and
reverence of God) "is the beginning of
wisdom." i Now, the sum of all educaUon
Is, or should be. the acquiring of wis
dom,, and Solomon says the first thing
In acquiring education, or wisdom, is
the fear of God.
I maintain that the state is responsible
for the children's - learning, in ''every
home where there are children of cer
tain age the state enters-and takes such
children and, requires them for a certain
time to attend school and prescribes,
what shall be taught them, j Much of'
what they learn is useless and when you
come to higher education some things
that are taught are absolutely wrong.
But the will and word of God. which
should be the foundation of educaUon,
is omitted.
j As a great part of the parents of this
generation are unlearned in the will and
word of God, how can they be expected
to 1 teach the children what they knuw
nothing of themselves? .Vi-
This is professedly a Christian nation,
and aa such its schools should be more
Christian and less dross. -Children
should be instructed ' in the ' will and
word of God, but the teaching should be
entirely non-sectarian, which is the only
way. and easy, because there- is no sect
In the Bible. What Is Impressed - on a
child's mind when it is young is what
it will retain when it grows up ; after
persons reach maturity they are not so
easily impressed nor do they .retain so
welL - " "
I Though I do not approve of a state
church, I do approve of the way state
churches , Instruct the children, where
the building of character is of first im
portance. I was educated in - a state
church and I know that positively the
best part was the teaching of God's will
and word. Chris Lee.
FEMINISM PLUS 8EX
""From Leslie's
' With the amazing progress of femin
ism in the world,. and particularly jn this
country, comes what?. ..The severe and
single-minded -female, in severe and sim
ple clothing, unmindful of sex and its
coquetry of adornment?'
:: Hardly. , ' ' -' ' - '
: The age of feminism is also the age of
filmy' shirtwaists,; of . sheer silk stock
ings, of summer furs and winter straws,
ot French heels and advanced "make
up, to, say nothing of well bathing
suits. '-: - V: . v ;;-;,. ,v';-, ..
''The world of business and -the pro
fessions is full of girls. More girls to-
COMMENT AND
.SMALL CHANGE.
Several prominent "dark" horses, if is
said,, have been perfecUy whiter v
. The urge that we oat cheese just re
minds us that lots of folks talk like they
were full of it .
" A " ';. '.
Not all of Portland's rare beauty is
out of doors. Some of them stay at home
juiw uequenur.
Some day automobile drivers will learn
mat a motor car is small pickings for
av raurvao train.
This idea of ltnnixlno- mnnrwiiia nr
clever crooks isn't helping the law to
u,a Aui irupvr cvursc
e .. -,.-,... -r.T"
Idaho reports that"Bluebeardess asks
quick trial." She's already had that . at
the hands of pracUcally everyone who
reaas trie papers. ' -
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When Roy" Gardner escapes a few more
times secret service officials will begin
applying sand and anti-slip devices to
ms smootn places.
Sugar went down to a reasonable flsr
ore about the time strawberry prices
oevame pronioiuve, go mat mere lsn t a
bit. 01 sweetness in the case.
Hot fight is to , be wared for control
of the naUon's forests, and the hottest
ngnter in tne bunch will be fire, the
wickedest enemy the Umber country has.
, - . e e
The fact that young Vanderbllt has
a munon aonars ooesn t ot itself make
him a newspaper man. The "know" , is
one of the things money can't buy in
tma Dusmess or any otner. ,
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
The crest of the high water in the
Columbia . river has been reached, pre
dicts Frank Seufert, who is spending
the week-end in Portland in conform
ity with his fixed habit Mr. Seufert
bases his prediction, not on government
reports nor old settlers' forecasts, but
on the , movements - of - salmon. . "They
know more, than anybody else." he said
"When the waters are rising they sink
down to the bottom, to rise again as
soon as it begins to fall and re
sume their journey to ' the 'spawning
ground. That they are going up the
river now is indicated, by the fact that
more are being caught in the fish
wheels operated by the Seufert can
nery at Celilo." , .
Antelope are more numerous in Lake
county than state and national game
authoriUes realize, says-F. B. Light,
district deputy game warden in charge
of the district around Lakeview, in a
letter to Captain A. E. Burghduff. state
game warden. A-five hours', ride from
Lakevtew will take a person to a
district where at; least 1500 antelope are
ranging. On one ranch in that district.
Light says, he counted a- herd of 150
antelope. :.i ...... .j':;," .'
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"Conditions seem good around Port
land." says W. A. Beckler of Cincin
naU, passenger traffic manager of the
Southern ' Railway system. "There
seems to be a great amount of build
ing going on. and financial conditions
are In great contrast with the East"
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
t it s nam to muywum on XI.
plrneer. but here is a man who waa Ja Oregon
aJmoftt before pioneering waa tnret.ted. He gio
Mr Lockley a good story of the days when the
fur' companies were about sit- there -.was to K).
Alexander Duncan Birnie of Cathtamet
was a recent visitor in PorUand. "I
doubt if there is anyone living," said Mr.
Birnie, "who is an, older' resident of As
toria than myself. I was born there 78
years ago. My father went there about
100 year? ago. His name; was James
Birnie. He was born at Aberdeen. Scot
land, in 1795. When he fas 22 years old
this was in 1817 he entered the serv
ice of the Northwest Fur company He
was sent to Montreal, where he put in a
year learning the French-Canadian dia
lect and also studying the methods of
trade of the Northwest company. In 1818
he was sent to the Columbia river, so you
see he was in Astoria moregfjhan 100
years ago. In 1820 he was sent , to The
Dalles to establish a. trading post there,
so I guess my father has the honor of
being .the original white settler of The
Dalles.. After three years' at The Dalles
he was again sent to Fort George, at the
mouth of the Columbia river. He sues
ceeded John -Dunn. John Dunn ' was
there from 18S4 to 1836. In the latter
year Dunn took' passage on the Hudson's
Bay steamer Beaver for FortiMcLough
Hn, to serve as trader and Interpreter
under Manson. After three years of
service at the mouth of the- Columbia
father was appointed factor at Fort
Simpson. In 1840 he was sent back to
the mouth of the Columbia and remained
at Astoria from 1840 to 1846. In 1846
the days of thV Hudson's Bay company
in the Northwestern states were about
over, so father moved to Cathlamet,
where he spent the rest of his life. He
died there December 21, 1864, in his Sev
entieth year. , - .
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. "During the time spent in Montreal,
in 1818 and 1819, tie married Miss Char
lotte Bolio. Her father, was a French
voyageur and her mother : of the Cree
tribe. I have often heard my mother
speak of her wedding Journey. They
started out immediately after their
marriage for Fort Spokane. They -took
along plenty of dried peas. At almost
every meal the principal Itesi of the bill
of fare was dried-pea soupJ My mother
said she got so sick of it that she could
hardly eat it My father had along with
him a muzzle-loading fowling piece, but
he disliked firearms. My mother saw a
duck on the river and persuaded him to
shoot at it By good fortune he killed It
As he scrambled down toward the river's
bank to get the duck an eagle swooped
down, grabbed the duck from the water
and flew away with it . My mother was
so disappointed she cried over the loss of
the dUCk. . . " i r ' ' .': :
s "e ,f ", ".'V;'-" r. .-;'. --
"In the old days when I Was a boy, elk,
deer, bear and all sorts of waterfowl were
plentiful in the vicinity of Astoria, but
father had no use for firearms. I doubt
if he ever killed a bear, deer or elk in
his life. He was very genial and affa
ble and,' like most Scotchmen,! an expert
at accounts, but when it came to row
ing and shooting he let his employes do
that work. ;. . t - ,
"When father moved to Cathlamet In
day are Independently earning their own
living, than ever before in history, and
more . girls than ever before are pub
licly featuring sex. powdering their
noses, rouging their cheeks, employing
the lipstick, dyeing their hair, doctoring
their- eyebrows. Among the latest aids
to beAuty in popular demand are detach
able . eyelashes, "beaded" or not as
desired, which, like the ramuiar swucu
in the coiffure, may be used to reinforce
the eyelashes provided by nature. .
It sounds like a paradox; does it net?
This was the sort of thing from which
feminism was to rescue the eex by re
leasing It from the economic necessity of
attracting man. And yet, strangely
enough, it may be set down that woman
Is breaking all records now in the matter
of sex adornment just because she is
NEWS IN BRIEF
r- SIDELIGHTS J .
Washlns'ton countv la the nlctue-w. rtt
Plenty these davn. with Its rreen Sietria
and splendid rrorectB. Hulsboro Ar
gus. , 1 1
Great Britain and Angora are quar
reling, and your first guess Is likely to
be right as to which will get the other's
goat Athena Press. i
If an editor printed all happenings he
heard, it might make spicy reading, but
cause a lot of explaining. (All isn't
news that's newsy. Aurora Observer.
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The- president is- criticized for his
ponderous use of English. These be
times, anyway,' when the country's af
fairs need writing teas and righting
more. Weston Leader.
i v.
; Portland's building " code
may ; be
amended to oermit the buildinw of con
crete houses. This should be a welcome
innovation.. There are too many : "glajui
houses" in the metropolis- Eugene Iteg
ister. -, - i .
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If a celebrated custom in congress ever
grows popular,, we'll have millions of
husbands and wives of opposite political
faith not taking the trouble to vote, be
cause they're "paired. "La Grande Ob
server. . . ...
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Down In McMinnvills the preachers
say the young people are going to ruina
tion because of the dsnce evil. 1 Better
move to Eugene ; everybody dances here,
the biggest church buildings are crowd
ed with people every Sunday, the young
people are the finest on earth,! and every
body is happy. St. Vitus' dance is the
only variety that Is unpopular here.
Eugene Guard. - .
1 :-.f-
"I am glad it is all over." said Phil
Metschan as he divested himself of his
admiral's uniform "A lot j of 1 people
took me for a real admiral, and it kept
me busy answering questions about the
ships and whether I thought there was
going to be war -between the '; United
States and Japan some day, or what I
thought about Admiral Sims' speech.
This playing admiral has its drawbacks,
just tike, the hotel business."
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- The last of the prineville i Irrigators,
who constituted , a diverting i feature of
the -Rose Festival parade, checked out
Saturday night for home. Many of them
bad gone the day before, not because
they -wanted . to go home so soon but
because they had spent everything but
their return tickets, which were no, good
after Friday. -
. -. I ,
F. J. Miller of Albany, who used to
come to Portland quite often when be
was. chairman" of , the public.- service
commission, is in town to see the aft
ermatcb'Of the "week's festivities.
B. A. Roberts and E. K. Garshlpp of
Shanghai are - among out-of-town . vis
itors. -. ,. 'v.-. - . : J L ...
" '',,-'':.; -,"" ; , i ' ,. ".
: John Barnhouse ot Lafayette arrived
in Portland Saturday, just a little too
late for the Rose Festival, j -
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" Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Smith r of The
Dalles are In Portland on pleasure and
business. . .." 4 i . .,- .
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S. S. Wold of Astoria was a weekend
visitor.
Lockley
1846 he opened a store of his own. He
traded goods with the Indians, as he had
always -done, for in , those days' there
were-very few white people In that part
of the country. My father was a large
man, broad-shouldered, deep-chested and
about six feet tall. There were 11 of us
children. Betsey, the eldest, was born
at Fort Spokane. There are only three
of us still alive. My sister Victoria, now
Mrs. Wllber Andrews, lives at Cathlamet.
My sister Mary, now Mrs. ; William
Charles, " lives at Victoria, "B.; C. My
father became postmaster at Cathlamet
When he died I kept the store; and became-
postmaster. I was I postmaster
there 26 years. Our postoffice was. on
wheels. When ' a . new postmaster was
appointed it was moved from my wharf
to the lower wharf, and as the different
postmasters resigned or were let out the
postoffice was moved to different loca
tions. I married Melissa Robinson of
Cathlamet We had three children. Alios,
now Mrs. Niles, is the only one now
alive. - - ; '1 .
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"When father joined the service of the
fur company, they used to have pretty
lively times, for the Northwest company
and the Hudson's Bay company were bit
ter rivals, but in 1821 the two companies
were consolidated, and after that father
worked for Dr. John McLoughlm. , . In
1834 Dr. McLoughlln sent out from Van
couver a party to establish a trading
post on the SUkeen river. Peter Skene
Ogden was in command and W. T. Tol
mie went along as physician. This was
in June. 1834. The Hudson's Bay party
went in a boat called the Dryad. When
they got near the north end of Wrangell
island, not far from the entrance to SU
keen river, the Russian officers came out
and told them they could not sail up the
river. Word was sent to Sitka. Wran
gell, the Russian officer in charge, was
away, so Peter Skene Ogden could not
secure permission to sail up the river.
While they were there they decided to
change the location of Fort Simsson.
They moved the trading poet to a stnall
bay about 40 miles distant. ; My father,
with Duncan, Totmie and Anderson, se
lected a site for the new trading post
' "When father was the Hudson's Bay
factor at Astoria he entertained William
A. Slacum. who belonged to the United
States navy, and who came in December,
1836, to investigate conditions in Ore
gon. Father sent a, canoe from Fort
George to Fort Vancouver to tell Dr.
McLoughlln of Slaeum's arrival Dr. Mc
Loughlln sent Douglas from Vancouver
with nine French voyageurs at the oars
to take Slacum to Vancouver as the
guest of the Hudson's Bay company. Dr.
McLoughlln always entertained all vis
itors royally. He sent Slacum in charge
of Duncan, Finlayson up the Willamette
river to the French settlement at Camp
Maud de Sable. 7 Being at the mouth of
the river, father entertained most of the
distinguished people In the early '80s
and '40s who earns to Oregon via the
mouth of the Columbia river. 1
"Some day when you are down in
Cathlamet I will show you some of my
father's old papers and you can learn a
great deal more about the days when the
Hudson's Bay company ruled the Ore
gon country." j - " i- '
Independent economically and therefore
has the actual or the potential means
and freedom to gratify her ambiUon.
' Before, it was the admonitions of
father, brother, husband that restrained
her. .. .-- - ,.'-' .
But now, oh. Woman ! - t - ,
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
The farmer climbed up on the prof
iteers' band wagon the very last one,
and he natcherly has got to be the first
one to climb down. - He hardly got his
feet off en the ground 'fore the big
profiteers, begun kickln' him back; and
it looks now 'sif he was plum bound
to hit the duet kerflump while the band
wagon goes on down to the picnic
grounds 'thout him altogether.
The Oregon Country
northwest Happenings Is Brief Form for the
Busy Reader
OREGON NOTES '
Newberg HlRfh school will graudate
a class of 45 Friday evening, June 17.
The first Tre Jn the Cascade national
forest was discovered above Lost creek
ranch last Tuesday. -
The Eugene Growers' uumolitlnn tan
nery has announced a reduction in
wages of about 20 per cent
The soldiers loan and hnniia Vl)1 was
the only measure that passed in Polk .
county at the recent election. ..
Four men operating two stills were
arrested on the Luckiamute river last
Tuesday by Sheriff Orr of Polk county.
More than 2000 In premiums will be
offered to exhibitor, at the Clackamas
county fair, which will be held Septem
ber 14 to 17.
The': banks of Union county have
agreed to absorb the $400,000 ef - road
bonds, alvertlseed several weeks ago
but not sold. -
Estimates place the wheat crop of
Wasco county this year at 1,400,000 bush-
?,Biacmpar.e1 wlth the 1910 crop of
1.120.000 bushels.
Forty-three arrests wers made In I.a
Grande during May, of whom 12 were
drunks and two were charged with hav
ing liquor in their possession, ,
Ashel Mack, 17. of Canby, Is men
tioned as a candidate for a Carnegie
medal aa result of saving Kloyd Neff,
also of Canby. from drowning in the
Molalla river.
Wllholt mineral springs, discovered 60
years ago, opened for the summer season
Sunday, after $75,000 worth of improve
ments had been made to the buildings
and grounds.
The Bay Horse mine, located in the, .
eastern part of Baker county, is pre par
Ing s tramway which' will; accommo
date the shipment of about 50 tona of
ore dally to Spokane.
Earl White, who escaped from the
state hospital for the Insane a year ago,
was returned to the institution Thurt.day. ,
He had been living on a farm near
Halsey since his escape.
James, the 5-year-old son of J.
Knight !s in a serious condition Irt a
Springfield hospital as the result of a
srun wound In the stomach from a shot
fired accidentally by his 4-year-old
brother.
WASHINGTON
The first good rain in four years fell
in Ferry county during the past week,
and crop prospects are excellent
A taxpayers' league haa been organ
ized at Walla Walla with 26 charter
members, all business men and farmers.
Charles Wilson, son of W. W. Wilson,
living on a ranch near Chewelah, waa
killed when the walls of an old well he
was cleaning out, caved in.
Students of the Lewis and Clark High
school in Spokane have raised $6000 in
three months for the new $25,000 pipe
organ they hope 4.0 have Installed.
The summer quarter at the Chervev
State Normal school began class , work
last week with an enrollment of 640
students, over 60 per cent more "than
last year.
The postoffice department announces
that civil service examinations will he
held soon to select postmasters at
Coulee City, Endlcott Kennewlck and
Quincy, Wash. , .
Dan Munro, a Spokane contractor, has
been awsrded $1,000,000 contract for the
construction of the Lethbrldge northern
Irrigation system to water 100,000 acres
near Lethbrldge, Alta.
A prime Palouae-fed beef, 600 pounds
of navy beans and 200 gallons of coffee
will be distributed free at the Fourth
of July celebration at Pullman under
the auspices of jthe American Legion
post . I
A. E. Rhodes shd R, C. Johnson were
arrested by Sheriff Bear at Yakima, to
gether with eight bales of hops, 600 hot
ties of home (brw, 1000 empty bottles
and oth-.-r material used in an up-to-date
disUllery.
' . IDAHO '
' Total cost of building in Boise during
May amounted to $88,061.50.
According to the annual report, mem
berships In the Boise Y. M. C. A. total
430.
The Northr Idaho Chamber of Com
merce, in convention at Coeur d'Alene,
voted In favor of a new state.
The month of May wee the wettest
that Gooding and vicinity has ever
known. The rainfall waa 2.86 inches.
Washington county-In Idaho Is alleged
to have lost $40,000 In Improper handling
of a bond Issue by county officials.
f Contract has been let for building the
centrsl portion ot the new Boise High
school. The structure will cost about
$225,000.
Despondent because of III health, J. L
Durbin, well known barber of Kellogg,
sbot and killed himself with a 38-caliber
revolver. i
The state board of education has an-
E roved the appointment of Miss Lazetta
ubkin of Boise as supervisor of voca
Uonal commerce.
The eight-room school building at
Cralgmont was completely destroyed by
fire Friday. ' Insurance to the amount
of $9500 was carried.
Four carloads of lambs sent from
Idaho, to South' Omaha by R. Bennett
of Mountalnhome brought $13.75 etraight '
They averaged 68 pounds.
Tom Jorcovich, believed to "be suf
fering mentally, left the St Alphonsus
hospital at Boise a week sgo and despite
diligent search has not been heard from
since.
I6NOW youivL
PORTLAND
(Continued from yesUrday.)
: Among the shrubs and trees that
grow luxuriantly In the beauUful out
door, country there is only one with
poison in Its touch. Its name is well
devised to warn ?the stumbling
stranger that he may leave It alone.
Poison oak (rhus dlversiloba) may
brush hand or face ever so llghUy
but leave heavy and torturing effect.
Many people are not affected by it
One man who had made at least
weekly expeditions along the various
trails of beauty which radiate from
Portland didn't even know what poi
son oak was, until It was pointed out
by a better informed botanist; and
then he recalled having handled It
many times and having likewise upon,
one occasion gathered its flaming,
frost-colored leaves as part of a
woodland bouquet
Among the beautiful natural flow
ers which grow in the mountains
near Portland 'are the rhododendron
(rhododendron calif ornlcum), the
flat red and the flat white spiraea,
hard hack, ocean spray, red flower
ing currant the nutka rose and the
Indian paint brush. Nearly every
where will be found scattered the
hazel, the Western chinquapin (cas
tanopsis chrysophllla), the woolly
manzanlta, mountain ash, nine bark,
and dwarf maple.
The fruits of the forest sre also
often encountered. The thimble
berry, the red huckleberry and the
salmonberry have been referred to.
There ' are also the blackcap rasp
berry, the purple huckleberry, the
trailing huckleberry, the wild straw
berry, the elderberry and the high
bush cranberry- "
- One of the fruits which grows In
the open spaces cannot be put in any
"also" list. The wild, trailing black
berry Is the most delicately flavored
fruit of all the outdoors. It has an
aroma and a flavor that bring back
the wild lands to the wanderer as
vividly as though he reclined among
the trees, even though in reality he
may be thousands of miles distant in
the crowded congestion of alien cities.