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Oregon. - FUUarara ara tha worst kind of traitor. ! ..for they will strengthen thy imperfection. nothing, but ao shadow and paint thy fol lies and Ticas m thou sbalt never, by their will, ditroTer rood from evil, or rice from virtue. Sir Walt Kxleifh. i A REMARKABLE INTERVIEW . vi iAPITAL.ISM , is necessary to carry out . the constructive ' Ineasures we have in mind." In these words Nicolai Lenin confesses that the system of gov ernment he has tried to carry out ' n Russia cannot succeed. They are rom a written interview by Lenin fvired to the United States by Louise Bryant, herself a follower of Lenin. Her story - was printed io Friday's Journal. Here t other language "from the interview, in which Lenin announces a greatly modified policy lr the soviet system which he has . attempted to carry on in Russia: The enormous destruction caused by 'war and revolution aggravated by bad harvests in 1920 made a change neces sary in view of the impossibility of re constructing the large industries under old conditions. " Ail exchange- of gooda means free . trade, which in turn means capitalism. This is not dangerous to proletarian power, for. the proletariat still retains power. It only means the holding of transportation and large industries. -1 bfelieve that experience will show that the measures were tight The present fight against speculation - must be changed to a fight against cir cumvention of government control, reg' titration and supervision. By such control we shall direct xm- -Voidable capitalism which Is necessary f-O carry out the constructive measures we havw in mind. 2fThis does not mean the abandon : fnent of communism by Lenin. But - C does mean the introduction' -of capitalism under limitations. It had io, be done because . the industries 2ouJd not be operated successfully kinder -the communistic plan. After tjTlnJ unsuccessfully to do so, Lenin began long ago to convert some of tU communistically managed Indus ines into tne capitalistic or wage system, and 'his present announce ment is a frank, even though fruarded, confession that "capitalism Is necessary in order to carry out the constructive measures which we have Jn mind.", - ' It is illusion for the world to hope to get away from exchange, and ex- : change- has its inevitable corrollary of capitalism. It is not necessary tx have 'the dishonest, dominant and euper-capitalism which has , grown . ijp In America and every other coun ty. In time, with a growing educa Mon and intelligence among the "masses, that sort of capitalism will be driven put, as it should be. VU There was a reason why the prjm ; ltive man who was skilled in making bows and , arrows bartered them to the other' primitive man for the Skins taken with bow and arrow in the chase. Jt gave to each the op portunity to do the thing in which he was. most skilled. It was a natural division ' of labor that will Continue as long. as there, are men left in the world. "And just so Ions SB one man produces the thing in Which he is most skilled and ex- . changes it for that which other men can best produce, there will be ex . change, and just so long as there is exchange there will be capitalism. Capitalism is fundamental to society ' because it is fundamental to human pjtture and any hope of getting away ffom it Is an idle dream. Lenin's interview is formal notice to his followers in Russia that he is about , to introduce capitalism into h la soviet system, and it will be tidings to those in America who have preaehed adoption of his plans here that what they have) been advocating has failed. . It was attempted. 4 In Russia fender the most tavord( con ditions. Lenin is an absolutist , la the administration' of hi , govern ment. ; Anything tht it was possible to do he could do with the unlimited power in his hands. If he saw fit to apply a complete communis tki system,- there was a highly : efficient j ard . al powerful army to -carry, out, his order.. In the attempt to apply his plan to the industrial plants be detailed his loyal soldiers to appear - as workmen in the shops to see that the .employes there were faithful to his system. It was: the greatest effort ever made and1 carried out en the widest scale under the most favorably circum stances to prove that industrialism is possible without 1 capitalism, and it has failed, failed by the : open and written confession of the world's foremost advocate and exemplar of the system. : ' There are two groups In America to whom f the L e n I jv interview, should be of very great significance. 1 Those men who have tried to suppress alt information about Rus sia and what was going on there now know that theywere wrong. 3--These who L have been advocat ing overthrow of the American sys tem and adoption 1 of the Russian plan now knew that the Russian proletariat plari Is an empty dream and cannot be practically applied. In the "White House at .Washing ton, D. C, under, the administration of President Taft;1 there was held. May 13-15, 1908, a conference on the conservation of natural resources. Prominent in 'the gathering were Andrew Carnegie, James J. Hill, Theodore Roosevelt and the late chief justice of the United States supreme court, j These men have passed out of the field of earthly usefulness but many others who at tended : are still in the full tide of serviced Would it not be a good plan to reconvene' the conference " and. ascertain what has been accom plished in conservation in the more than a decade that has elapsed since the first conference T ' FIFTY YEARS AT M'NEILS - - ROY GARDNER is admittedly one of the cleverest criminals ever kndwn to the West. He is a master at planning, , certain in execution, and resourceful in escape. He is among the cleverest of the clever.. Gardner was the genius In several daring and . apparently successful robberies. He participated in. thefts that were ' among the largest. He enacted spectacular and thrilling escapes. . , , ! ' ' '. ., ; , -; If t there was ever - a remarkable crlminal,.:;Roy Gardner Is the man. He is a master at his trade., If any man could succeed at his ehosen prO-fesslon-train robbery Gardner "is undoubtedly that man .- : , . .. But where Is j Roy Gardner and what has he?. fHe 13 at McNeils Island penitentiary, watched by day and by night by a heavy guard. He is there under a : sentence. , of B0 years.;! If he completes his term. hi will, come from McNeils island bent of form and gray of hair, a man mors than 80 years old. His life will have been spent. . ; j ' . " What has he or his wife? Nothing. Much of the loot stolen by the daring Gardner has been recovered. The rest is out of his reach. His wife, in an interview, made the statement that he had never made a cent from his unlawful practices. $ The; master criminal, one of the greatest of the West,; is an im prisoned and penniless man. He robbed and escaped and robbed and escaped but he failed. ' He failed because the odds against him were unbeatable, and where Gardner failed there will be none to succeed. .' The slxe of the average English woman's foot is said to have in creased from No. ;4 to No. 5, as shoes are measured on the last, during the last decade. What ismore, the Eng lish seem to be proud of the fact. Englishwomen have always refused to cramp their feet as have some of their American cousins.. They si.y that small, brains and small hearts go with unnaturally small feet. WHY NOT NOW? npHE city council, representing the i i a people of Portland, haa srone on record as opposing the delay by the Portland Railway Light - Power company in seriously undertaking the task of placing its track areas In proper condition. The council correctly represents the sentiment Of its constituents. In some , places , the track areas are abominable. In most places they are extremely rough. In- few places ate they in good condition. ".: Railway officials were energetic in pushing forward the dire need of maintenance and reconstruction work at the time of the hearing on in creased fares. The track areas are In worse condition now. And more to the point, a very small sum has been spent in the attempt to-keep them up to standard. ; j . , , V The! cost of the work has de creased. Hundreds of men are with out jobs. The company U getting, a comfortable revenue. Then, why not do the work now?' And, by the wayji how Jong U the t cent fare to continue? A 12 -year-old boy walked out of a New Jersey hospital recently bear ing five No. 7 shot imbedded In his heart muscles and 14 more in his lungs. He is apparently In the best of health and physicians believe he will go through lif without IlUef fecta from the burden of lead he carries In his heart and lungs. It has been widely known that the human i body ' ; can ; stand I rigorous treatment, and that hearts can with stand many an onslaught, but the New Jersey case is one of the few in which the heart is known te continue its work under the strain of a load of buckshot. , i EMBARRASSING .THE . : PENT PRBSI- TO THE independent observer It would seem that "congress Is over-zealous in its efforts to "avoid "embarrassment" to the president. Fear of "embarrassing the president" has come to be the perpetual alibi for failure of congress fo act. When somebody proposes that congress; take steps rooking to dis armament the suggestion is side tracked to save the president from "embarrassment. When a move Is made toward Reduction of taxes, it is brushed aside so that the president will not be "embarrassed;" . When a proposal for. action of any kind is uttered It is blocked to avoid "em barrassing the1 president" For In stance, here is & news dispatch: TTie bulk- of the members of eongreas wotld like to make the reduction tn taxes) but they: don't want to do it until such time as .they can get assur ances from the president that their ac tion does net embarrass him. For congress to perform only its own duties Is the ideal status. . For presidential prerogatives, as laid down by law, to he respected, is the ideal situation. ' But for disarma ment to be indefinitely postponed, for peace to be delayed, for? taxes to continue at their peak until such time as the "president will not be embarrassed" is anything but Ideal and acceptable to the country at large. If the president acts quickly, and wisely, if he acts In accordance with the wishes of the masses and for their benefit, if he exhibits the 'be neficent leadership that a president is expected to wield, he will not be embarrassed by congress or by any one else. But if he continually post pones and delays, if he sidesteps and evades, . if he only opposes and blocks, the president, and his con gressional supporters, will all be very much embarrassed when tha returns from the future elections are re corded. Washington had ; 647,000 acres under irrigation last year and the products of this area were valued at 178.000,000. This Vould mean that the average value per acre of one year's production was - a trifle more than $120. Can the corn Jan d of. Illinois Ao as well ? . 1 ' ' .':' t rt:: - ?" . THE NEW MOTHER'SHIPTON MAHTtN J JNSUtx4 'president, of the National, Electric Light , as sociation, said at the Chicago, con vention v of ' the organization1 that J5.0QQ, 000,000 will be needed during the next 10 years to . enable ; the power-companies of the country to keep abreast of the demands 'upon their service'. ?. ". , H. W. Aylesworth, executive man ager of the association, disclosed in Portland what the electric utilities have fh mind. In a decade, he said, the nation will be crossed and criss crossed with power transmission lines. These lines will be connected in series at sources of power supply until a great interconnecting system will be found to have come into ex istence. . I ' ;' .L ' i, : Every imaginable service, contrib uting to the efficiency, the comfort and the "happiness of human life will be rendered in industry, in transpor tation, in municipalities and - In homes. . .. This is a broad vision, but would not a prediction 10 years ago as to the achievements of electrical sci ence today have seemed as far fetched? ;.. ; The wonders of electrical develop ment have only commenced. We are entering what history will record as the electric era. It Is highly re assuring, to reflect that two-thirds of the potential hydro-electric energy of the nation is to be found west of me itocay mountains and that a third of it is in the Columbia basin. A small girl is quoted as having asked her father why it is that big rivers always flow by great cities. ome of the local discussions as to the rights of water transportation might furnish tha answer. THE ERIE COMES BACK I ,YATER transportation in the end wT wins. The famous old Erie canal of New York is about to come into use again. The fleet of 750-ton steel barges for which the govern ment paid i?,s,poo a year and;. half ago, has been sold to a New York -and Chicago syndicate. ThjO barf es will be put to 'work on the canal and Lake Erie. Grain from Duluth, Milwaukee and Chicago and general freight will be ; carried to New York for local use and for ex portation. . tub Darge neet nas ; a carrying1 capacity of 50,000 tons - trip. It will feed grain to the new S.500,000-bushel grain elevators at New York and to other elevators tit Oswego ' and' Brooklyn, j Handling facilities at Buffalo and other lake ports have been Improved with the view of -adding efficiency to the service. - , . ' . , A western railroad traffic 'manager once stated that railroads can never compete with water transportation in the handling of heavy, giovr mov. OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON. A ing commodities. Given terminal fa cilities, carrying power and efficient administration, more than ona of the waterways of a ; generation :one could be reconstructed ""for - modem service. y The modsrnJiing of wter carry ing service, whether en the Columbia or an eastern, artificial canal, is the secret of successful water transpor tation, ' t TODAY What Hit mcx Pet" Wive Mut Flatter Dipping Into Capital Folly Helps Progress A Message to Heaven Free Power? Not Yet " gy Arthur Brisbane ' Somebody sold 81,000 shares of Mexi can petioienm stock Thursday and the day before somebody sold 84,000 shares. Wall Street cripples would like to know who did the Helling. .Thursday the stack sold at tot. Nine days ago it sold at J SO. What hit it? That question; sad eyed losers would like to have answered, . -. : ' : One gentleman In Wall Street has been supplying every reporter that would lis ten, with sad stories about Mexican oil, all the well turning to salt water. An event like the Mexican petroleum panic might easily start a bigger panic and ruin millions where the Mexican pe troleum incident as ruined thousands. wan istreet ana tnose that pisy wtm the ticker will have trouble enough with out any psnics cooked up to order. a , In her latest interview Mrs. Stlllman, who is doing for Wall Street what Jlero dotus did for antiquity, petted a Jersey cow belonging to a- lawyer, tied" a ban dana handkerchief around her bobbed hair and said: "Some women's love is commercialized and their affections in fluenced by the size of an emerald. Men of money are always flattered, and their vanity always responds to flattery. There the -lady spoke wisely, but she was mistaken when she said, "Men wives never flatter them." Flattery of husbands is . Jto married life what ball bearings are to automobiles. It would amaze , the world to learn how many bald, pale faced, nervous little American male wrecks live happily because their wives persuade them that each is a Com bination of Antinous, Adonis and Her cules. Mr 8. Stlllman thus describes the lady who lured her husband: "Oh. you know, she is one of those women who believe in hypnotism, mesmerism and ghosts, and carries a rabbit s reot for luck, and all that" V . All that is interesting, but mere inter esting is the intensely intimate knowl edge that each lady in a triangle seems to have of the other lady in the triangle. When the lady of the house boat Mod esty brings her contribution to American history youH be surprised (and so will Bars. SUIIman) at her information. .! The Northern Pacific railroad didn't earn enough money, so it -"dips into sur plus to pay dividends, as the stock re port has it WheSr you "dip" into your capital to pay a dividend that hasn't been earned, to stockholders that do not work for the railroad, there is respectable "high f i nance." But if yon' suggest dipping into capital to pay workmen money that they have earned, that Is "vile socialism, or. at the very least, "bad business," In Paris, Americans, enjoying them selves spending money, often miss the last-train to ealch the beat sailing from rtavre tor. America. . Tne aaaptaDie French, always resourceful, announce that flying machines will leave Paris for every ship two hours after the last train.. Americans can get into the flying ma chine, pass the train and catch the boat That is progress. : And, as often happens, the progress is due to foolishness. The automobile was developed originally because some fool ten rich people thought they were In a great hurry, when it really did, not mat ter in the least how slowly they moved. . la India, the Charaye, a religious sect. did not want to pay taxes. Sepoys. Brit ish native troops, were sent to collect. The natives, to call down heaven's ven geance en their persecutors, took a poor old woman and burned her alive, the fire being lighted by her nearest relative. The burning expressed this message to heaven : "You see what they have driven us to do; come and rescue us. . That is what happens in India, which sent early knowledge, science, civiliza tion, literature and thought to the rest of the world. You can imagine how long it will take to make the whole earth thor oughly civilized. The job hasn't been begun yet ; come back in a million years and you will see, a good start," ? . a . Many gentlemen are engaged in "free ing the power locked up in the atom or the molecule, or something else. A man says he will produce "thousands of horsepower from less than a gallon of water." He doesn't need a gallon. The electrons that make up the atoms in the molecules ef a teaspoonful of water rep resent in their cohesion a force quite be yond conception. But it won't be re leased, for the present. We live on a driving wheel, but we must 'create our own little power plant. Wise providence intends that we shall work for what we get. Kree power would ruin us alL We are not fit for it. - a - a a , . There is lack of theological students, young men to be preachers. Five thou sand pulpits are vacant, and 10,000 will be empty soon. Some say the war raised religious doubts. Young men asked them selves questions, and the answers kept them out of the pulpit That may have something to do with it The rich roan In, America, oa the aver age, pays more to the individual that takes care of his automobile than he does to the individual that takes care of his souL That has mere to do with lack of clergy, for even a clergyman must have enough to eat and" a placeHo sleep. perhaps some of the prosperous and stingy say to themselves ; "I know that I have an automobile. I am net quite so sure about a soul." Some of them have reason, to say it. v-. - .''':-..': Letters From the People (Communications sent te That Jeamel for paklieaaea in Uitt eepartpBaBt should be written on only onfe side of the paper; should sot excaed 0 words la ieagth. and most be aicwed by the writer, wbaae mail add rasa is full must accom pany iaa roewiounon, j LANE AND SINGLE TAX Advocate of That Principle Claims the -.' Heeretary as an Aonerent Cervallis. June IS. -To the Editor of The JournalIn the Oregoniaa of last Sunday appeared an editorial tribute to the memory or tne late jrranKiin vl. Lane. As a medium for expression of part of its appreciation, the editor quotes rrom tne wores oi a iijejong ana ciose friend of the distinguished American. Lawrence F, Abbott Mr, Abbott's words are. In part : - As I think It over, I be lieve that what moat appealed to me about Franklin JC Lane was his genu ineness, v He was not afraid to express hlmaadf. He had sentiments without be ing a sentimentalist visions without be ing a visionary, imagination without being a mere day dreamer;, practical Judgment and compromise without being a materi alist,' etc. . . I join with Mr. Abbott and the Oregonian ; in exalting the noble life of the man, yet wonder if the Oregonian is aware, that Mr. Lane exercised his fear lessness by ex preset ng his convictions of the Justice and rightness of a principle tor . which expression others : have In curred the Oregonlan's derisive epithets, The Principle referred to is introduced py quoting Mr, Lane s own words r I am : persuaded - that the principle of Henry George is right"- '..;'-y It is safe to say that Mr. Lane arrived at his conclusion with reference to the single tax by Informing himself from Mr. George's works themselves and not y merely relying - for - information on publications of the type of the Oregon ian, which, seems to be so deathly afrsld the - voters will really knew. - what the truth is about the slnsrle tax that it sen- eraliy devises some sort of smoke screen to befog t. .. 1 Among other prominent men and women who have expressed similar con victions in , concurrence with Mr.. Lane are Justice Louis D. Brandeia, Judge f -a- . . .1 jamas ncumre, uongreasman HOPert Croaser, Judge Lindsey of Penver, ex- senator . r. rettigrew, Lincoln eter fens, Ella Wheeler WUcojr, Henry Ford. Rev, Edward McGlynn ; tCatholiO. Its advocates do not claim that the single tax wut bring In the miuenium, but that its adoption as a primary and funda mental factor of Justice will make much more easy of solution many sociological problems that ' are vexing and restive, and which will so continue until we fin. ally adopt it c c. A. McLemore. ARRAIQNB RAIL . MANAGERS Charging They Contrived to Discredit Government Management Portland. June To the Editor of The Journal The American people have again heard from the railroads. That august body, which comprises the man agerial association of the American rail roads, has presented to congress a bill for collection of 81.250,000,000 which they claim the government owes. a- the period of government control. Actu ally what is meant, no one but that learned body knows. And all that the American people can say is "God for give them ; they know not what they do," -w-r '-.A- . .--; The unlimited nerve required to pre sent this bill after what transpired dur ing the period of government control fills with amasement to say the least those who know the facts. During this period, apparently mandates emanated from Wall street placing a premium on the managers who could spend money most lavishly, and at the same time give the most unsatisfactory service so as to discredit government control, so that immediately following the war it would place the railroads back into the hands of the exploiters and railroad wreckers, ; who have enjoyed that privi lege so many years. They spent money like drunken sailors, creating useless of ficial positions, maintaining excessive payrolls In every department rebuilding tracks, bridges and buildings, thereby draining their treasuries and the govern ment treasury as well, through the pre war guarantee which prevailed. . Now. their treasury is so depleted and the people have revolted at their shame ful tactics, patronizing motor and water transportation : and now, through a mad effort to regain a semblance of prestige and hide their own dirty linen, they cry in desperation, "Save us; we are being ruined by organized labor." A subservient congress gave Us the Ksch-Cummins bill as written by the railroad attorneys, and described by emi nent men as a crime, and the present powers that be at Washington have every earmark of being willing to fawn at the feet of mammon but If they at this lime bow in humble submission U the rail roads' mandate for another 11,250,000,- 000 from the government's treasury, it will be the black crime of the age. A Railway Employe. THE SLACKER AMBASSADOR Soldiers' Home, Orting. Wash.; June 1 To the Editor of The Journal All men who love their country and have risked all' in its defense, are Justly enraged when a man chosen by our chief execu tive to represent our nation as Its mouth piece in the councils of the greatest t.ng lish speaking peoples of the world, first parades the disloyalty of his forbears to this country and then goes over to an other country and gets up and tells those people that only what we were afraid Germany would do to us when she had whipped the rest of the world caused us to go to war, It is that same kind of pa triots that are all the time telling us what Japan Is going to do to us. There has never been a time when Germany and Austria . combined could come over and eonquor America when we were one nation, as we were in this last war. If they were such terrible fighters, how came it that Americans, one year from shops and farms, could oust them from strongholds that in their minds could never be taken? Why does our president send men who represent the slacker ele ment of our nation," to insult men who never yet turned their backs to any foe? Give us men for foreign courts who rep resent patriots, not slackers, or send none at all. ' i S. Van Scoyac. OREGON LEADS ALL . , From the Salem Capital Journal Oregon was the fourteenth state to authorize a bond issue for soldiers bonus. Six other states have not yet voted on referendum measures - submit ted by their legislatures. Only one other state, California, has provided aid for ex-soldiers in obtaining land and homes by long time loans, and the amount voted was only 818,000,000 as against Oregon's 830,000.000. The states providing? bonuses are Maine, giving a bonus of f 100 to each of its soldiers and sailors ; Massachu setts, 8100 ; Michigan, 815 for each month in service Minnesota, 815 a month ; New Hampshire, 100 flat; New Jersey. 810 for " each -month, with a romanum of 8100; New York, 810 for each, month served, with a maximum of 8250. for re turned soldiers and sailors who were living in the state at the time the bonus was voted on in November, 1920 ; Rhode Island. 8i00; Vermont J10 far each month, with a maximum'Of 80 ; Wash ington, 815 a month, maximum 845 ; Wisconsin, $15 for -each month served ; North Dakota, 825 for each month, and South Dakota, 818 a month with a maxi mum of 800. ... In Auerust of this year, Missouri will vote upon the pending referendum meas-' ure. In November, Ohio will vote upon a 825,000,000 bond 'Issue and in Novem ber, 1922; Kansas wiy. -vote upon 825, 000,000 bonds, Iowa upon ; 822,000,000 bonds, and Illinois upon 855,000.000 bsndtv To authorize a bonus In Penn sylvania It is necessary to have a bin for a constitutional amendment . pass two sessions of the legislature and then be submitted to the people at a general election. The bill has passed one ses sios. It it passes the session of 1922 it will be voted upon by the people in 182 J. Jt calls for 835,000,000. Montana has yet to vote upon the bonus. It will be seen that none . of the states has authorized so large an ex penditure tn proportion to resources as OregoB despite the heavy taxation en tailed and none of these . has treated those called to the front so generously. It is another case Of Oregon first Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places That many o the algae, fr seaweeds, of the Middle Cambrian .epoch of geolo gic time, ! some 25.000,000 or JO.OOO.OOO years ago, closely, resemble, the algae growing In the sea at the present' time, COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE . . Has anyone heard from Pr. Cook re cently? . ., . , ,i e e The nation can resume ' its normal channel ef thought when the Pempsey Cerpentier tiff is settled. - , . . a a- - If it was really empossible for you to vote early today you may rush over to the polls right new and do your duty. s a j . Chivalry, like many -others of man's finer graces, pfttlmes goes by the board when personal interest is to be served. .i--:r: - ;--; " !,-" ..:; Senator Kenyerr says big business "would" grip the nation. Pardon us, senator, but ."has" is the proper word. - - - - e a - ... -, - - Regardless of the world's vast scien tific advance, thousands of people still nave impure water rorcea upon mem. The weather man premises those who 1 ..li a Planned Hunday outings an intimate es timate of what is meant by Blue nun day. .- '-,;:-K!s-;---;o ":r;,i:---,'-v;"r.''i-,-''' v The platitudes of optimism are today very real for a great army of happy young graduates. Would that it might ove- be sol - . ''.;., - ; m-:n; :.'.-.,' .y f '."'r Those who urge that women I wesr trousers are the sort who are never sat isfied, for the sex now has all the pre rogatives of the wearer, without any -of tne inconveniences. i : a .. a a .- : j- - . Roy Gardner draws fine distinctions. He didn't "steal" cAickens, because chickens outside their proper pens are anybody's property. If we could adopt hia moral rules our Sunday meat bill would be nit . MORE OR I LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Although he is one of the few remain ing old-timers of Canyon City. Martin Lucas settled there too late to be eligi ble to the ranks of the Pioneers or the Indian War Veterans. After serving through the Civil war In a Vermont reg iment he came to Eastern Oregon in the '80s with a company of infantry sent out to take care of Indians. After his en listment expired he liked Grant county so well that he settled down. XJne of the unwritten Incidents of his army experi ence was the massacre of a band of Piute Indians on the north fork of the Malheur near pinnacle rock. The In dians had killed a couple of white freighters. .The soldiers took the trail and surrounded the Indians one night. At daybreak the troops Were espied by an aged squaw, who gave the alarm. The fight then began and when it ended there was not an Indian left to tell the tale except a 4-year-old boy who was found alive. He was fatten and cared fop by the soldiers and finally given over to a man named Bonham, who reared and schooled him and made of him a good citizen. a a a . ... j What was thought by the Hotel Port land staff to be a cipher message Or the work of a 'disordered mind, turned out to be a reservation in the French language sent from Glenns Ferry, Idaho, by the Vicomte de SarUges, who arrived in Portland Friday morning and registered from Paris. He secured a room: I ", e ' A party of tourists from Montclalr, N. 'J., Is constituted of Mrs. F. C. Stllson, Colby and Judd Stllson, Charlie Stllson and Mrs. E. McColly. All are delighted with Portland. ' I ' OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS QF THE I JOURNAL MAN 'By Fred Lockley ( A modest man, though a man of achievement nevertheless, here talk to Mr. toe-ley about Portland, Orexoa and the Columbia rlrer high way, and he lets it ce at that Mr. Ickley also quota Charlee U. Schwab and an Oregon poet each after hia i' kind. j Once in a while, but not T very ! often, you run across a man or a woman who says. "I really do not care for public ity.' Some who say so really, mean it I had a friendly visit recently with A. I Craig, for many years general pas senger agent of the Union Pacific sys tem. He told me so many Interesting things that I got out my pencU to take a few notes. He said : j "Put up your pencil, Mr. Lockley. I really Wpuld be grad to give you a story, but my life has been very uneventful, and If I tried to tell you a story for publication, it would turn ou to be a dud. One time my father asked me to go over soqpe notes he had written In which he had atteirn&sd to tell the story of his life, and when I boiled the story down, about all there was to it was that he had been born In Scotland, had moved to America, bad turned his attention to farming and had been a farmer all his life, and that so far as I could discover, he had gone on the even tenor of his uneventful way: with out any incidents worthy of special menUon. When I size up my life I find I am very much In my father's class, "My three boys have all reached man's estate and all are happily and busily engaged in productive work In the East We-lived five years in Portland, and though we lived longer in other places, the people of Portland were ao kind to us and we became so fond of Portland and Oregon that we always feel that we are turning toward home when we turn our faces westward toward Oregon. I have Just come from a day on the Co lumbia river highway. I did not need to go out there to learn of the beauty ef nature, but I found that man has worked with nature in making the high way a dream of delight The rock work, the artistic bridges, like bits of the eld world dropped down here In Oregon,' the wonderful ribbort-Uke road that winds beside the river Hheae exeeded my ex pectations. We should love to spend our declining years In Portland, though our boys, being In the East, will always be pulling our heart strings, so that I guess we should have to -oscillate be tween Portland and the Atlantic sea board." . L -; -. a e-:; ;- r-f. Charles M. Schwab la a man who not only has made good, but often says a worth-while thing about how others can make good. Recently, in talking about why men fail, he said; v "I have yet to hear of an Instance where misfortune hit a man because he worked overtime. I know lots ef in stances where It hit men who did not Misfortune has many cloaks. Much more serious than phyeioal Injury is the slow, relentless blight that brings standstill, lack of advancement final failure. ' is a statement made by Charles D.iWaV cott, secretary of the Smithsonian Insti tution, In describlnjr fossil remains of these ancient sea plants 'discovered by him in the Middle Cambrian rocks of the Canadian Rocky mountains. In the remote time when these plants were de posited on the muddy sea bottom the rock formations that are now thousands of feet above sea level, formed the shore line of a Middle Cambrian sea. The fossil remains from which these primi tive plants were identified occur as shiny black films on the surface of the hard, dark siliceous shale. The mucous er gelatinous mass of the plant has been replaced by a shiny black siliceous film containing iron pyrtte in varying pro portions. It Is evident that the original organic and inorganic matter was re moved by solution and' replaced by the black film, the convexity and relief of NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The next thing, presumably. Is a broad side from tha "wets" to the effect that ,the rivers are getting full in spite of pronfpiuon.-;ugene ttegisier. a - Of course the world needs reforming, always has end always will but do you believe, after thlnkinar carefully over your own life, that you are the one to do it? Roseburg News-Review. - - 9 V W After being twice bawled out for pro nouncing: Carpen-ta-ay's name correctly. Nace Grant Informs this col. that from now n it will be Carpen-teas or nothing. so tar as ne is concerned. -Astoria Budget . '.";-: - i i- a ' a a ; f-:-' . People should read the Democrat mere closely.; then - when the next sunrise prayer meeting comes and the church bell is tapped they would not be running around thinking tnere is a (ire in town. Albany Democrat . . ., ! Magistrate Kochendorfer ef New York has a weird idea of punishing wife beaters. He would force the wife to eat breakfast rooked by hubby as if she hadn't suffered enouih already. Meaiora wan-in oune. Salem canneries pay 63 cents a crate for . strawberries and stores retail them at 75 cents this year. A year ago. when we had not yet returned to normalcy. berries did not sell at retail under 20 cents a box. -Eugene Guard. Admiral Sims may retire behind the eld refuge of , public men and say he was misquoted. He may get away with It so far as the government is con cerned. But it's a 10 to 1 shot that he'll never sue any of the agencies that -misquoted" him for libel The Dalles Chronicle. ' ."I guess It's an old story to you folks,' said Charles E. Dunscomb, publisher of the Berkeley (Cat) Dally Gasette, "but I've traveled over the world, and seen nothing like this," Dunacomb's outburst came about Sunday, when he and ! his wife were taken on a drive over the Co lumbia river highway by their friends. Joe Rogers, presiding clerk of the. cir cuit court, and Mrs. A. K. McLaughlin, of the county clerk's office- The Duns- combs left for the North In the evening. They are great travelers and this trip will take them to Alaska. ; u:.?: ;-e;. :"V -':": '.;:,; ,;T , Rains In the Coeur d'Alene country this spring have, been highly beneficial to the crops of that district, and the Oldest Inhabitants report they cannot re member when -the fields looked better. according to A. C. Martin, aslstant gen eral passenger agent for the O-W. R. A X.. who returned this morning from a three days' visit to Spokane, Coeur d'Alene and other cities and towns in that district .a a - a The ; tourist business . at Anchorage, Alaska, Is growing, according to the re port of Frank W. Redmond, who keeps a hotel at that place. He also says that political conditions in Alaska are getting more satisfactory. . , a T. .A. 'McCann, a prominent resident of Bend, is in Portland on business, and In cidentally to chaperon T. H. Foley. , a . a "a . W. E."Coman, a former citlsen of Port land but now of Spokane, is attending the electrical convention. - a W. A. Wade of Pendleton Is among out of town, visitors. - "The man who fails to give fair serv ice during the hours for which he is paid is -dishonest. The man who la not willing to give more than this is foolish..-;--.:--:;; -. :;;-, ' .. ... . j y "In the modern business world 'pull' Is losing Its power. 'Soft snaps' have been sponged off tha slate. In most bi com panies a thousand stockholders stand guard over the cashier's window, where formerly there were 10. The president's son starts at scratch. Achievement is the only teat The fellow who does the most is going to get the most pay, pro vided he shows equal, intelligence. "Captains of Industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with It They are seeking brains specialized brains and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital. - ; "The man who attracts attention is the man who Is thinking all the time and expressing himself in little ways. It is not the man who tries to dazzle his em ployer by doing the theatrical, the spec tacular. The man who attempts this ia bound to fail." - . - . ..... T Guy Fitch Phelps of Roseburg,! one of Oregon's most promising write rji , of verse, under the title "Pay Dirt" recent ly wrote the following excellent bit of verse : y : N villa a mine In Arcadia, . No Alhambra fair to bahald. 'o ledge is the land ef the Ineaa . Yields ingots ef ellter and fold. My foot 1s "the foot ef a rrpur : ; .And long have I followed the trail; - I have battled with atom sad atsrvetloa. And fought, when I knew 1 would 14. I ha ea borrowed In mock like a beggar; I hare moiled, I have toiled like a slaea; X hare sweat tne blood out ot my templea And took what Jita gntdgiagly gave. 1 - I have found and here boarded ay treasure. Whatever fair fortune might aend, Bot I know, yea I know,- that true lichee 1 love In the breast ef a friend. - The crowd is aa fickle as ahadow' And aa .greedy and eeifiah. aa hell, . Tor kfammns throw dice that ara loaded ; .' And throw the B exceedingly wall. A hero la such for an hour, y". i ' Tha (inger'a fegot with his song. And the mirth-maker pall like a sickness On tha iharl which goes chattering along. Bo -aire me a few noble spirit. Brave, .generous, true to tha and, i -.'For I know, ah 1 know, that true riches - I lave in the heart of a friend. What profit Is all of tha fever And madness for office and fame? Why fight like the swine in their wallow. And traffic in weakness and shame 1 y - ... . - y - - Why swsrm after fashion and folly 1 Why trifle the best things away . Till tha spirit baa dead and nnfteling y In ugly and otter decay t Tor fabe that suecees and fast fleeting Which Truth cannot atoup to defend. , But worthy, ah, let us be worthy Of .the love in the heart ef a friend. the plant being lost in the process and by subsequent compression. . Uncle Jeff Snow Says One of our most patriotic bankers wants to lynch the mshative rWsht off He has a idee that only the legislature should be 'lowed to propose tool bills and amendments. So fur the legisla ture's several laps ahead pf the people on that kinder dolp's. The bankers has spent more money lobbyin and stormin the legislature to prevent Us passin some outrageous -bill or othern they have a-buckin somethin" they don't like, proposed by the nlshative. . Then agin, measures the people tuck the advice of the bankers -on and voted down has finally been passed and no barm hain't never come of it nuther. SATURDAY, JUNE 18, 1C21. The Oregon Country Wertkwan Ha opening la Brief Form lot the Baaf Read' OREGON NOTES A Masonic lods-e ha bfn organized St MolaHa by George B, Brown, grand warden of the state. The measure trrantinar hla-har salaries to officials of Union county was defeat er by a vote of nearly four to one. J"rom 15 to 25 per cent of the 1920 wheat crop in Waaco county remains -unsold on the eve of the 1931 harvest. Since May 1 lls.000 trees have been set out on JO0 acres of rovfrnment land in the Detroit district of the Santiam forest Barring the possibility of a hot east find.. Wasco county's wheat crot this year win approximate 1,400,000 bushels. More than 6000 is the eatlmatA for the total enrollment for the 1920-21 school year at Oregon Agricultural college. The enrollment to date is 4370s The citybof Kusrene has filed a nroteet against tht. proponed advance in fare on the street railway lines owned by the Southern Pacific company. Accidentally striking hia knee on a school desk a week ago, Jarne,, 10-year-old son of William R. Kingston, died at Salem, Monday, of blood poison- , To facilitate-the work of the air na- trol in Dousiaa county, a radio station la to be installed at Big Camas and an emergency landing field for airplanes at Illahee. Assets of Willamette university. In cluding grounds, buildings and equip ment are vaiueu at $62,922.61 ana tne total endowment yielding Income is now JS71.S4U.13. Because his wife has not learned to speak and read Knglish, the application or Oswald JvesKiiaio or Astoria ror ad mittance to citizenship was denied by Judge Eakin. - .Mr. and Mrs. If. W. Slmma of "Eugene" sustained only alight Injuries at a cross. Ing pear that city when their automobile was struck by the Shasta Limited and hurled 50 feet Lieutenant Walter V., Brown, flyer of the marine corps, who was killed at Colonial Beach, Va., was the son of Win S. Brown, editor of the Gate City Her ald, published at Nyssa. " Captain O. C. Appleftate, "the grand old man of Klamath," who was born in what Is now Polk county June 11, 11145,, has Just celebrated his seventy-sixth birthday at Klamath Falls. Wheat ' growers of Oregon have now' signed up 1451 contracts with tle Ore gon Cooperative Grain Growers' associa tion whereby the latter is given power to sell 4.1S3,4U bushels f the 131 wheat crop. -1 . WASHINGTON Growers and business men of Grand view are financing a cold storage plant that will have a capacity of 135 cars. The high -water of the Columbia did about 25,000 damage to the truck gardens in the vicinity of Whtte Sal mon. j Accidents In lopslhg camps last year coat the Industrie' and employes in Washington 81.000,000 in injuriea and time loss. Jonas Johnson, a cloyed at the Brix timber-cutter em- Logging company's J 1.. L. ,v v II.. camp, was drowned in river Sunday afternoon. Two dollars for' "orchard run" Is being offered at Proaser by cash buy ers who are trying to contract much of the 1921 apple crop as possible. . The largest graduating class In the history of the Aberdeen high school, numbering 62, Trecelved diplomas at the annual graduating exercises this week. With completion of two hangars at the base of a cliff facing the ocean at Pacific beach, the West Coast Avia tion School of Flying will be pperied to students. .... For lack of prosecution, 31 cases were dismissed by Judge Simpson of the Clarke county superior court Tues day. The oldest -.case dated back to January, 1920, , , The Watervilie American Legion is planning a community building to In clude quarters for the city council, commercial club,' American Legion and tha Watervilie library. Maalon Johnson, be, a night watch man at Waverly, south ot Spokane, was shot to death Tuesday night by burglars whom he discovered in the act of robbing a garage. After -waiting 41 .years for action on n application for a pension. Henry Ellis, Wenatchee resident and a veteran of the Civil war, has received jslco that his application has been approvM. Frank Kees, well-known Walla VJalla rancher and a member of the It ('pub lican county central committee, U a candidate for appointment as United States marsrral for the Eastern district Of Washington. Removal of state "officers now In out side buildings and transfer of various state headquaretrs from Seattle, Spo kane and Tacoma to Olympia will ef fect a saving of 822,000 a year in state department expenses. Claiming that he pulled her Into n automobile against hey wish and that she was' compelled to Jump from the machine to escape him, Mrs. Jonephinei Woodson of Yakima has sued E. J. Perry for 85000 damages. IDAHO Cutworms are doing much damage to the spring grain in the Orofino section. Feter Adams, B4, the oldest pioneer of Silver City, ' died Friday morning at Nam pa. Work will begin soon on a new flour ing mill at Buhl with a capacity of 200 barrels a day. . : The hay crop In the vicinity of Ham mett Is turning out 40 to .0 per cent better than last year. Eleven graduates of-the University of TinhA law school DMed the bar exam ination at Lewlston this week. For the first time In the history of the Twin Falls-Oakley Carey act project, the reaervolr is impounding a capacity storage of water. Idaho's spring and winter wheat crop Indicated June 1 u possible production of 25.733,000 bushels. 2.133.000 more than the 1920 yield. Quarantine against Idaho potatoes on account of "eel worm" found In some sections has been lifted. Rigid Inspec tion, however, will- ba continued. I6NOW youRi PORTLAND Widows pensions during the six years ending with ,1920 show but lit tle Increase tn expense to' the county. The total was $37,912.05 In 191.r, It Increased to $41,030 in 1916 and to 847,823.51 in 1917, but in 1918 it dropped to $39,888.84 and. In 1919 to $36,474.14. A slight Increase In 1920 was shown over the preceding year; the amount was $38,650.03. The care of Indigent soldiers by the county has shown a marked increase. The amounts are as follows: 191a ......................818,404 S -1916 24,285.43 1917 .. 31.711.34 1918 31,89808 1919 31.440.88 1920 41,270 20 Multnomah farm, near Falrvlew, which ' is partially self-sustaining, represents, however, a mounting bill of expense. The figures are : 1915 $51,489.22 1918 ...f 68.122.18 , 1917 f.9,491.79 1918 64.814,80 1919 88.843 68 1920 99,850.89 " The cost of maintaining the county hospital at Second and Hooker streets the new county hospital on Mar. quam hill will soon be ready for use, similarly shows Increases as follows : 1915 ..,.$11,034.11 1916 ....83,261.28 1917 37,842.63 1918 ... 40,834.57 1919 44,?)'3.14 1920 ...... 60.106.18