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Newspaper Page Text10 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON TUESDAY. JUNE 21. 1C21. -I - AW 1XDBPEMDKWT KEWKPAPEK I Be calm, be confident, fc eWrfu) sad de ante s yrm would nsro litem a unvo you. Sublisead erery met day and Knndajr JnorninJ at TM Joarml bwildins, jfraeaway ana am- nm rtrsrt. Portmml. I' farm. ifiuinl at the poatofflee at Portland, Oregoo, for inmMti throws tha auils aa second tUsj matvr. 4x,LU'HU.NM Main 7 1 7 8, Automatic 0-6U iH departments reached by tixae narabgr. iinil.NAL AUVtBTlalNU ItEFBESENTA TJVE Beniamtn Kentnor Co., Hruaswick buldio(, 32ft Fifth stease, Kw; Tort; 00 MUlrn rnnnitns, i;hmm IrACIiHJ ('OAST KK.PIiVXi-lNTATIVli W. H. 3araner Co.. Eumiorr bnikiinaY San Fraa- ' eraco; TUt insurance mbuiubs, ixa, ancetes; yot-intemaenceT ptiiklms. Meatus. iiiS OfUj4JX JOUKNAJL, rawnc tha riht to reject advertising oopy Which it dirnu ob - Jecttonabie, It also win not print any copy that in aoy way simulates reading matter or ,,: that eaaaot readily be recognized M adrcr twing. - -: j SUBtlCaiPTlON RATES By Carrier. City and Country PAIL.T AND SLTNDAT OM woet .14 On month, . . . . $ .83 ! DAILY Ana Mk . .....$ .1ft On. month. .... .45 8CNDAT ' One week......! .05 ST HAIL. ALL RATES PAT ABLE IN ADVANCK DAILY A D Hl.NDAI One year.. . . ,.0O Three month...! 2.25 lux months... . .2 Dm month. . .78 DAILY -(Without Sunday) Oua year .00 "t months.,... 8.25 Three month., 1.7S One month. . , . . .80 WEEKLY Every Wednesday) "has year. . . . . .8 LOO Six months..... .60 orNDAT (Only) On y' ..... Mis months. ... $8.00 I.TS Three moo tha, . . 1.00 i - WEEKLY AND ?'.-- SUNDAY . One year. . . . . . tt.50 Tha. ratxe apply only in in west. Rates to Eastern points furniahed on applica tion. Make remittances by Money Order. Express Order or Draft. II your postoffiee is not a aloney Order office. 1 or Z-eent stamps will be accepted. Make alt remittances payable to The Journal, Portland, Oregon. The happiness of your hfe depends upon .the quality of your thought. Marcus Ait ratios. PLUCKED COAL CONSUMERS WITH the Frelinghuysen bill, compelling coal ; operators to submit production costs and Belli. g prices to the government,, before, the senate, the operators seem destined to lose the strenuous fight they have made to withhold all Information of the coal business from the public. The bill will undoubtedly -pass, and with' its enactment the federal gov ernment will be in position to apply greater regulatory measures for the protection of the coat buying public if more drastic regulations are justi fied by the facts Coal deposits were Yormed in the bowels of ' the earth : for the ' ben efit of all mankind. They were placed there by nature in its great scheme of things in preparation for the coming of man, JJust as soil, for ests, changing seasons, water, and other minerals were provided for the sustenance of millions of people. ; It was never . intended that any group or groups of men should be in position to stay the natural pro cesses of coal production and distri bution. 'It was never intended that the world's coal or even a country's coal should be appropriated to the selfish purposes and; sole gain of a small body of men. It was never in tended that a few individuals should wield control over the supply of coal, "and through that control gouge the public for tremendous prices for the product. But that is exactly what has hap r pened lnthe United States. - It has been established that the annual - production.; of coal !fhv this country is about 650.000.000 (tons. 'The underground j supply is: abun dant in fact almost inexhaustible. There are men to mine it. But the people of this country, in spite of the supplv. and in spite of the manpower to bring it to the earth's surface, have on occasions suffered from lack of fuel, and when they did get it they were compelled to pay a staggering price. Even the government of the United i States, when it was in dire need of fuel, was . forced to pay a coal operator a'com mission of 60 cents a ton to get it. . Coal mined for three or four dol lars a ton has cost the consumer from lis to $20 a ton. Frequently four or five times the cost of pro duction has been the selling price, Bituminous coal which before the war sold for $1.50 now costs from 13.50 to $15 a ton, and anthracite that sold at the mine before the war for $3.50 n ton, now sells for $8 to $20.V;;,;:;:.-;-.;V-i... j i.w..,.,. . It has been publicly stated on' the : floor of congress that there has been profiteering in coal. Interstate Com merce Commissioner Altchison told a congressional committee that he had no doubt that there was profit- eering, and added :: that in fall his business experience he had never seen so much "double-crossing and manipulation as In thle coal business in this country. But when the gov ernment asked the coal operators for figures relative to costs and to production,- the operators,, refused! to give them, and went to court to se cure an injunction preventing the federal trade commission from ob taining their books. Itr is apparent hat the coal " re sources of the country cannot longer te entrusted to tha , coal operators tor uncontrolled exploitation. ?I is tpparent that the federal govern nen must so regulate the operators a to assure the public aa adequate supply of its own coal at reason able prices.- The coal operators are merely entitled to a reasonable profit for mining the coaL and their action la the past is sufficient cause for a government control which congress now' promises to Impose. A party of " 50 young men and j women tinder the auspices of Com munity Service picnicked last Sun day on the- shores of Oswego lake. It -was by local residents said to be the first part that has visited the lake and left the picnic .rounds, in better condition than it found them. IN REVOLT THE ) harvest of excessive taxes, passed along by the various levy ing bodies of the state, is to be reaped by the public school system of Port land. The Reaction from the tre mendous costs, built up indiscrimi nately, has set in, and in its fury it threatens even the Institutions which are cornerstones of our state and our social order. ' i ; ,' The.f 8 mill levy for the public schools of this , city 'should not have been defeated. Portland is in need of additional school buildings whose erection -has for years been post poned.' Present structures are over flowing.. Certainly space and the ad vantages of education are not to be denied. Portland's youth. But with a suspended building program still x uninitiated, $950,000 of the income provided for the schools last year was lopped off by vote of the people.' ' It was lopped off as a protest against present taxes, just as the fire bonds were defeated a little more than a week before as a protest against recurring and un necessary baby bond Issues. The people of Oregon are In re volt against taxes. There is Immi nent danger that they will not dis criminate , between j the necessary taxes and: the unnecessary, but will defeat every measure which is pro posed and which contemplates the expenditure of funds, regardless of purpose and return.5 - The revolt is the heritage of a crushing tax.rate. It is a public sen timent that; will only be tempered and will only Spare the necessary measures when governments are stripped to the bone and appropria tions are made for none other than the most pressing needs. Are tax levying bodies warned by what has happened ? One hundred and twenty years ago the British admiralty planted 100,000 oaks in order to assure a supply of sturdy timbers for the construction of men of war. When the oaks had reached their maturity steel alone was considered fit material for fight ing vessela In another ! hundred years wj.ll air fighting have rendered all war vessels obsolete or will war Itself be abandoned as an act of barbarism unworthy of civilized peoples? ; V: 1' ! A FAILURE HAS anyone noticed a reduction in the number . of murders and murderous assaults In the state of Oregon in the last year? Has any one recorded the great saving in life that was to have followed the re enactment of the capital punishment law? . ; . : y: - j j;-;.;.. , There were two murders and one near-murder In Portland last week. Portland has practically averaged a murder a, month since January. There 'have been recurring assaults on life. : ; ;:l , . :. " From other parts of the' state comes frequent word ,of a murder on a lonely road, of a murder In a cabin, or of a murder or attempted murder somewhere else. As a pre ventive of murder, 'the capital pun ishment law is a distinct failure. There will be those to argue that the law has not been, applied with sufficient frequency, that those con victed of first degree murder have not gone to the gallows. But why haven't they gone? f For the simple reason that the juries repeatedly re fuse to recommend, capital punish ment. - : - j s -iX-.: In some cases leniency has been recommended because there was ap parently some doubt in the minds of jurors as to the transcendent guilt of the accused. f. But will there be one to argue that a man's life should be taken, when there Is a possibility of mistake? And haven't' there been repeated ' cases tin which j the mistake has been discovered after the innocent victim! has spent years in jail? j ; . The death penalty does not deter. But the assurance that every man who commits murder will receive a penalty would deter. . . Oil production; like other things in life, seems to swing from one ex treme to another, j The news that petroleum wells are" turning salt in heated Mexico is followed by the announcement of an immense oil field in the Arcyc region along the Mackenzie river. So far the. most certain way of reaching the new oil field is by airplane, $1000 a ticket. but transportation facilities capable oi nanaung tne output are promised THE BUILDING OWNERS TWO AND A : HALF BULLION X DOLLARS of capital invested in office buildings Is represented in the convention of office building .owners and managers which began sessions in Portland today. , i ; . The delegates come from B0 prin eipal cities in America and Canada. They represent one of the great con structive factors in human ' affair. They provide shelter and floor space for the vast and complicated activi ties that keep tha world of finance? commerce and industry in motion. Am is well known, the Income from office buildings In general is very modest in comparison with that from other forms of investment. As low j per cent' and not more than 4 Is a very common revenue from such properties. They shared not, at all in the colossal gains that came to many other activities during tha war. Portland is honored and gratified to De host to such a convention. Neither the city nor her guests will do other than -profit from the week of .association and acquaintance. A center of great financial strength, a city with an enormous back coun try, a port of tha first magnitude, a place noted for having, less industrial trouble than any other in America, a - community conspicuous for . the high, percentage of Its home owner ship, Portland should , present much to interest men of the high type of those in tht convention. f) . Superstition through coincidence wins its point just often enough to be maintained in credulous minds. Tvie Thirteen club of Marseilles left on Friday, March 13, for Monte Carlo in a motor numbered' V-13. At 13. minutes past X) (13:13 According to continental time) each staked 1300 francs on the; number 13 and each won 40,800, or a total of 603.400 for the 13 members of the Thirteen club. BY SHIP - r. "T0 ENABLE deep sea freighters to 1 pass between the : Great Lakes and the Atlantic at the lowest trans portation cost, is a project under In vestigation by leading engineers in America . and '. Canada. I The cost la estimated at $100,000,000, and feasi bility of the: plan is a question that is expected to be determined within: three months. ' The; movement of products from place to place is one basis of civili zation. The constant effort of man is to cut the cost of the transit. Waterways are particularly turned to now because raii rates are at a level that is almost confiscatory. Operation of roads as the annex of Wall street bankers instead' of legiti mate transportation enterprises has brought confusion and embarrass ment to the lines and piled up rate requirements under which traffic is demoralized. . ' - If during all these years the carriers had been operated as railroads by real railroad men without meddle some interference and juggling of capitalization Ty the great financial institutions, there would - be I no watered stock on which to pay divi- 'dends, no mountains of debt created by frenzied financiering on which to pay Interest.: The dilemma of the roads, the high rates and the products rotting in fields and ware houses because rail rates are so high that they cannot be moved, are the direct result of the manipulations of men who used the carriers to gather in unholy and enormous profits rather than, for ' the great public service which transportation is de signed to render. ; The Panama ' canal has demon strated to tha .world the incalcula ble.' value of water transportation. But for it, there would today be lit tle hope of reducing transcontinental rates. It is because of the canal that the big lines are proposing a cut in rates between great water ter minals, j.. :. 1 Portland's best hope is that she will not let languish the great start she has made in water transporta tion. When the best engineering minds of two great nations contem plate cutting a deeper channel from the lakes to the Atlantic at gigantic Cost, it should be notice to Portland that the Columbia and ships . and steamboats are her surest and best Interstate ; commerce i: commission. her most powerful regulator of rates. her most dependable means of pro gress and prosperity. ; ' When the gas company, the elec trie light company, the heating com pany, the water bureau, the sewer bureau and the - other agencies which have a right to cut into any body's pavement without anybody's permission, refill their trenches, they are apt to leave the pavement bent downward all around j the edges of the hole and finally replace so that a: dish-in place considerably larger than tthe original Incision is left to jolt motorists. . Whose business is it to see that they replace to the orig inal elevation and smoothness? - WHEN HOSPITALITT . GOVERNS Wtrn credit men, building own ers, social workers, graduate nurses and Guernsey breeders in convention within the gates of Port land, and with man' other distin guished gatherings a matter of recent memory, it must be apparent jthat Portland grows in prestige and pop ularity as a convention city.u The Municipal Auditorium with its elastic facilities for meetings, large and small, accounts in part for the distinction. Portland's possession of an unusual number of first rate ho tels is another important qualifica tion. The beauty of the city and the multlpUed routes which by high way, rail and boat lead to pleasure places are undeniable assets. But back of all these, less tangible but not less enduring, is Portland's hospitaUty. When the motorist from Texas passes by, the Impulse, ' fre quently yielded to, is to - call out "Hello. Neighbor." When a party of visitors goes touring the Columbia river highway, they are. cordially granted right of way and any other courtesy which home folks can' show a guest, i . . Roses ' in hotel -rooms and the smile of traffic officers on the cor ner have a lot of meaning to the per son, who comes from -afar. ' Guests love to gather where sincere hospi tality makes them feel at home. Some wizard with figures has es timated that conventions don't pay. The funds raised , for entertainment and other costs ; usually exceed the amounts spent by delegates. But this fact, if It be a fact, doesn't chill Portland. - It merely furnishes op porunity to show that the welcome which comes from the heart delights in service without thought of return. : The Hood River gardener whose inundated vegetables were devoured by marauding carp has . one come back, and that is to use the now stranded fish as fertilizer for re newed production. But the ware houseman whose basement was left full of .the fish has a chance to re coup flood damage by packing two or three carloads of carp in Ice and shipping them to New York for sale as gefultefische. TODAY Disgrace to the Nation Menace to the Future Vicious Opposition A Public School Party By Arthur Brisbane- You may attract attention to a dull subject by beginning in puzzle form. What is most Important and . most neglected? - r- What is vital to everybody without really interesting everybody? What Is the duty of today and the hope of tomorrow? The answer is PUBLIC SCHOOL EDUCATION. .a a - , General Pershing, reviewing conditions revealed In war, says: "The illiteracy and ohvsical inferiority of America's young men in the World war were absolutely disgraceful." Mental and physical inferiority go to gether. An uneducated brain lives in a neglected body, j Our conscription of millions of young Americans revealed conditions that, ac cording to General Pershing, would disgrace any nation in f he world." General Pershing describes the na tional neglect of education as dull in difference to the country's most import ant duty. - a Another report equally shocking comes from a committee investigating public schools in New York, richest city of the richest country. School buildings are out of date, un safe and insanitary. Of 40 school build ings investigated 21 were wretchedly insanitary, 11 "fair" and only five good." Of the 40 schools 21 had no fa cility for outside play. - The richest city. apie w supply speedways, anveways, magnificent parks for the prosperous. sends the school children to play in the gutters, among trucks and filth. And what is true of the shamefully Indifferent richest city in the world is true to a greater or less degree of all our cities. : Not one proves complete understanding of the fact that the na tion is built in the public schools, charac ter created there and the future made secure or uncertain. . - A recent report shows real estate values alone in the state of New York exceeding $14,000,000,000, an increase of 2, 000,000,000 within a short time. New York is a financial sink into which gold is pouring from the whole nation and the whole world. A fraction of a cent in the dollar, if our governing system allowed property to be fairly taxed, would provide the best education for every child in the state of New York, with magnificent school buildings and good pensions for teacfters, mall classes, well equipped laboratories, all that the prosperous give their own in private education. m 9 What New York could do the whole country could do if It would. It finds easily enough $10,000,000,000 to help the peoples of Europe, engaged in cutting one another's 'throats. It finds billions to spend on the national army and navy. But education of children means even more to the nation's future safety than guns, battleships, submarines or dyna mite. No power could ever conquer per manently a really educated, . intelligent nation. - - a v . . ; Pershing says ' the great army " of slackers was due to brutal ignorance. Millions of men could - not read. ' Mil lions were diseased, vilely diseased, an other result of ignorance. Education is not expensive. The price of one modern battleship would equip properly all the public schools of New York city. The battleship Is obsolete in a few years. The work done by , $40,- 000.000, intelligently spent on public school education, would benefit the naUon forever.' Two or three 'of the billions squandered so lightly in war would revolutionize the nation s 6choola The people of the United States should understand that there is persistent, well organized opposition to public school education. Powerful influences : oppose it. because they do not believe in it. Sooner or later they will pay the penalty of that opposition. The ignorant and selfish 80 per cent of .wealth dislikes the public schools - because they represent taxation. The rich ignorant man that educates his children privately with millions that he has extracted from the labor of other men's children asks him self: l -', "Why should I be taxed to educate common brats while paying separately for the eduoation-of mv own children?" a a - a .- This nation needs a political party based upon the determination that every child in the United States shall have a thorough American public school educa tionnot as good as any othee but better than any other, not as good as Lany rich man can give to his child, but better than the individual rich man could afford. . . f Neglect of public schools is a disgrace to the nation. It is a menace to the future, and especially a menace to those that blindly oppose free public school education. They are piling up for them selves, trouble that they little under stand. Fools among them hold to the old idea of slave owners. "Don't teach your slaves to read." Eighty per cent of the Russians couldn't read, and the Russian grand dukes thought that state of affairs quite correct. Aslc them : what they, think now. - Ignorant masses are always dangerous ; intelligent, educated men, never.;-- ... -vi.; v-;--- Curious Bits of Ihformatibn Gleaned From Curious Places Niagara Falls is merely the successor to a grander cataract that . eons ago. shook the forests about the present site of Thorold, Ont, according to the opin ion of several engineers who have inspected - the excavations for - the new Welland ship canal, r Here. ; ten miles south of Lake Ontario,' and the same distance west of the present water fall, precipitous ledges : have been un covered, over which water from Lake Erie is thought to have poured in seek- ing the lower leveL la support of this theory is adduced the remarkable evi dence of the rocks themselves, these bearing unmistakable signs of erosion through counUess years. Letters From the People TCoaamenieatiaas sent ta Tha - Journal " tor publics. oon in thia department should be written on eeuy on aide at the paper) snavld aoc eaoeed 100 words in hrncth, and must ba sicned by the writer, whose mail address te full mast accom pany the contribution. 1 "SAFE AND UNAFRAID President Harding's Words Furnish a Critic an Effective TexU -Oakland. June 14. To the Editor of The Journal Lo and behold, at last the Republicans have a pro-German for their national committee chairman. Isn't that going some in the gold old U. S. A.T What would Lincoln say. could he know that the Republicans had a man for their chairman who defended the German in vasion of Belgium? It matters not how much we might disagree with Theodore Roosevelt on some questions, we all agree he was a genuine American. What do you imagine he would think If he were here? This case connects with the Albers case , and the Knox resolution. 1 imagine their next move will be to keep us out of an effective league of nations. The other day in a speech our president ssid, "Ajnerica, safe and unafraid." At the same time his party is talking of voting money to build and . equip one of the most powerful navies in the world. If President Harding had spoken those words and advocated going into an ef fective league of Some kind which pro vided for disarmament, as is provided in the present league of nations, then we should he proud of him. How is it possi ble for - America to be : "safe and un afraid," with the greatest navy in the world,, unless -the rest of the world is1 afraid of us? - Then, if that is a fact, those words, "safe and unafraid," run parallel to those of the kaiser when he satd, "Germany can whip the world." But she didn't. America today pays $92 of every $100 it collects, for causes due to war. Harding was elected by a party that was pledged to economy. : Is spend ing $500,000,000 economy? A party's paomises are equivalent to a promissory note. ;.. C; E. Goodman. HARVEY IS STILL THERE Holds Job Although Rebuked by Presi dent and Secretary of State. " Portland. June leVa-To the Editor of The Journal Colonel . Harvey . finished the work at London Which the senate began at Washington. In a cold-blooded manner the senate undertook to blot out from the minds of the people of Euroie and of the world the inspiring thought that America entered the war and fought the war because of a great principle in volving liberty and justice, i Those peo ple had been led ts believe from- an nouncements from eminent men of all parties in the United States, from the pulpit and the press, that America had entered the war "to save democracy" and to prevent, if possible, the recurrence of such a war. They were led to believe from all this that the attitude of Amer ica was spiritual and . not material. Colonel Harvey, occupying the most' rep resentative position in the world as the mouthpiece and spokesman for the presi dent and people of the United States, blasts this hope. In unmistakable lan guage Colonel Harvey shatters the ideal istic picture . which had been painted-of America's self-sacrifice in the - interest of civilisation and humanity. . The beau tiful picture which the American mother has painted in her mind of the glorious cause for which her son died, is ruthless ly torn from her gaze and cast into ob livion, leaving nothing for her eyes and imagination to feast upon except a sordid old man demanding "his pound of flesh." President Harding ' and. Secretary Hughes have said things since Harvey's speech at London contradicting the idea expressed by Harvey. . But Harvey is still there, . occupying his post - and thereby sustained as spokesman for the president and the people of the United States. It looks mightily like Harvey was a part and parcel of the things we voted for last fall, j B. F.Wilson. THE RAILROADS' DEMANDS -n ...... ..ni. TiitiJiit ii.. Piii. r The Journal A mere astounding act of rascality, as shown by your article in & rannnr ixnn nf : TVia Jnumal nn the present railroad situation, cannot be cited in the annals ot any country, xne low wages for these employes, and the AntM,Min rA a Vtsi i rri salaries, riaid their officials,. are a disgusting contrast xne supreme court once oeciareo, w uie Dred Scott decision, mat a oiaca man hi, Tin rl,M thit a - whit man la bound to respect Now it seems that a poor man has no rights tnai tne ricn are . bound ; to respect Henry Ford - mot - ti Ttroi and pays a minimum wage of $6 a day and not only pays expenses nut naa a proni. and does not ask the government to guarantee him 6 per cent interest on his investment The fact of It is, 75 per cent of their stock is nothing but water, on which they ask the govern ment to pay them interest 1 As your article plainly shows, their Immense de ficit is caused by pure graft Suppose a rancher would ask the government to guarantee him 6 per cent on his ranch investment People would think him crazy. Big business men flatter them selves that they are strongly entrenched in power and can make any demands they choose; but ' the people many ' of whom are blind and stupid, will even i.)iv i.m a. little) sense. But it takes a long time. It remains to be seen what further exactions the ranroaas wui ue mand. J- P. AverilL WEST POINTERS IN THE ARMY From the Army and Nary Journal Colonel C A. Williams, U. S. A., re tired, a graduate of the V. S. M. A class of 1874. has recenUy compiled sta tistics showing the percentage of West Pointers in the army, on the active list n with th authorized com- -O bUiupnii - - - - ... missioned strength. He finds that this percentage Is but it.s inciuamg tne ca of 1921. and believes this should have weight in discussing the relations be tween army officers. In this connection Colonel Williams says: ; "It is my-contention that the West Point graduate is, as a rule, made to bear more of the blame for the feeling alleged to exist toward the regulars by the volunteers, national guardsmen and reserves than should be attached to him, the popular s impression being that the proportion of graduates from the mili tary academy to the total commissioned strength is far greater than the facts bear out "I have just gone through the army register for January 1. 1920, the latest edition published. -1 find the military academy officers distributed as follows: General officer .... . ......... d ... . 1 Adjutant enerel"s department ....... . - - Inspeetor seneral's department ......... . 1 Judge adroeate cenerai a department.... 10 Quartarmaateir eorpa ...... . . . Engineers ...-........' J1 Ordnance department... ............. - 18 Bisnal oorps ..-...........-.. A . . -,. .- Insular affairs . ., ....,...,... J Military academy Oaralry J Field artillery;...,, , Coaat artillery i. ....... Infantry 19ZB Pbilippiaa aoouts 8 Total number of Wast Pointers tai army .. 27S8 Tha aathoriced trenfth icommiarionsri) at that tima was ............ .1M Perrentat from West Point.......... 24 "This exceeds the maximum which could have obtained during the world war, including, as it does, the class of 1919. ' - The authorized commissioned strength under taa act of June 4, 1920. is 17.726. The above1 number of ,graduates from the academy has been increased by the class of 1920, with a membership of 270. and the 17 graduates next month, the COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Some ' Of the stuff dreams are made of Is black, coffee at midnight, ',-.-- a - e a - "Up-to-the-nilaute" Ideas seem some times to have ' been unnecessarily de layed en route. e .-a ... a-r Medicinal beer may soon be author ized. If it smacks of medicine there's no hope for its popularity with the younger generation. Secretary Mellon is becoming famous for bis own brand of cigars. Heaven help his friends if we ever have a Sec retary Cabbage in the cabinet . - . :u . a a e We've "often wondered how some of the people who carry so much of their conversation with their hands can talk and drive an automobile at the same time. e -a a ;.: :.';.; '1;--. Without the moon and the meadows, the shimmering clouds and the hedge rows, the novelists would have a sorry time for a setting for the romances of theur characters. - a a ' We're thankful to the newspapers for the announcement of the first day of Bummer. It buoys up hope just when we had been expecting Santa Claus to ap pear on-the scene. . - . a a " "Californlans ask for more "Oregon power," says a headline. California takes our fruit for its cans, our beau ties -for its movies and it may now as Veil have some of our power to keep itself: from perishing. " iJ-A e . e a ;,.-;. .. ' Popular resort advertises. "Go to Blank Springs for Rheumatism and Pol son Oak." Which would be the height of folly, since we already have the for mer and the latter is abundant on the lot across the street. . - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random $ Observations About Town At a luncheon given Monday by Phil Metschan in honor of G. T. Halverson, mayor of Salem ; Al Pierce, who runs the Marion hotel, and J. R. Linn, a wide range of subjects was discussed, includ ing everything from the intelligence of Boston bull terriers to the "old hop gang" which once stirred the placid current of the Capital city at frequent intervals. Some of the reminiscences would tax the credulity of unsophiati ca tion. a a E. O. McCormick, vice president In charge of development for the Southern Pacific, was in Portland Saturday and Sunday en route to Seattle and British Columbia. Upon his ' return from the North McCormick will spend several days in this district in the interest of land settlement and national park de velopment work. a. a . a Another visitor from the eastern part of the state was Duval Jackson of En terprise. . . . - a a a Tom Nolan, " a merchant of Corvallis, came down Monday to attend the North west Golf association tournament a " a H. A. Bell of Nehalem spent Monday in Portland- on business. Pendleton was represented in Portland Monday by Mr. and Mrs. S. It Thomp- OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred fAn old-timer who wsa friend and neiahber ok Air. juocaiey at nnoieani vn wdo , known Pmatilta county since tha middle '80a de tail pioneer lore and personal reminisce oca in mast interesting fashion. - A -noteworthy episode ma train. ; A day or so ago while going from New berg to Corvallis I happened upon Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hale, old-time acquaint ances at Pendleton. ."I have lived in Umatilla county nearly 55 years," said Mr. Hale. "My father, ; Henry J. Hale, was born . in Kentucky. He met and married my mother, Jane Teague. in Missouri. They crossed the plains by ox team in 1852. They wintered in 1852 in the Willamette valley. The next year he moved up to Lewis county, in what is now the state of Washington. I was born near what was then called Skookum Chuck but is now the city of Centralis, in 1854. Father took up a donation land claim on Baker prairie, near where en tralia is now located. . We lived there 12 years. I was the oldest child. Then came John Calvin, Daniel J.. Lee and Edward J. I live at Pendleton, ' John lives at Walla Walla, Daniel at lone and Lee in Montana. Edward died at Hepp- ner. -' - a a a . "We moved to a farm near the present town of Weston, in 1867. Weston, next to Umatilla, is the oldest town in Uma tilla county. T. J. Lieuallen settled on the site of what is now Weston, In 1865. He put up a house and built a blacksmith shop. This was about a mile above the Taylor Green crossing.. Uncle Tom Lieu allen named Weston after the town of Weston, Mo.' Uncle Tom was the first postmaster there. The first store wss run by a man named Bell. George Hayes ran the first saloon in Weston. Rube Baskett. a sort of lawyer, attended to the legal business thereabout and R. A. Steel was notary public Charley Pat terson was the first stage driver on the Walla Walla-Pendleton stage line. Bar ney Keen an was another pioneer stage driver on tha line. S. F. Neff was the first teacher at Weston. My first teacher was Professor Hugh McArthur. My next teacher was W. M. Pruitt a preacher. Afterward I Went to school to his brother, John. After a while Sal ing & Rees bought "out HU1 & Baker's general merchandise store. "In 1878 Weston became an incor porated town. T. J. Lucy was the first mayor, D. W. Dwlght was recorder and L. S. Wood, treasurer. Barney F. Prine, for whom Prlneville was named, was the first city marshal. - Charley McM orris, Jacob Proebstel. J. W. Beckett J. S Morgan, John Hartman and J. S. Miller were the first men to serve as. city coun cllmen. Pretty soon they started a paper called the Weston Leader. It was run by W. L. Black. a ' a ' a "When I was 22 years old this was in 187 I went to Texas. I spent three years there, working as farmhand, cow boy, carpenter and .at any job that turned up. While I was working' for s man named Perkins as a farmhand I met and married his daughter, Clara We were married in April, 1879. ' That fan we started for Umatilla county. , ., . a - " "In the "70s a man had to be a goo'; scrapper to hold down a job as con ductor In Texas, Arizona or Nevada. , total on June 30, 192L being 3075, not taking into consideration casualties since January 1, 1920. "In the proportion of 2075 to 17.72$ the percentage of West -Pointers would be but 17.3." ----- -' Colonel Williams feels that this should not be lost sight of in. charging gradu ates of -the military academy with ac countability for., so-called army evils, particularly in connection with debates m congress relative to unfair treatment of the national guard, etc. .: s Uncle Jeff Snow Says """ Down in Uvalde. Texas, right after the Civil war, there was two fellers lived that claimed to be the only survivor of NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS A Burvey of the field of men reveals that too many half-mile horses have been entered in the mile run. Koseburg News-Review. - a . a -a An Illinois man recently regained his sanity after - having his teeth pulled. Might be a good idea, to turn Sims and Harvey over to a dentist Astoria Bud get . . . - You may speed and get by with' it for quite a while, but sooner or later you are going to have reason to regret It Why not use a little common sense and be on the safe side? Amity Stand ard. v - ' . . . a a a A Japanese representative has Intro duced a prohibition bill, with no success, at 19 consecutive sessions of the diet The natural Inference is that prohibition does not agree with the Japanese diet Eugene Guard. - Idleness Is quoted, as the devil's work shop, while persistent toil, accompanied by a happy . attitude toward it, aids the highest development physical, mental and moral-of the individual. Oregon City Banner-Courier. - ---- The time to economize and reduce tax ation is now.. If we do not put a stop to the ever-increasing taxation, a little more at each election, we will eventually vote ourselves into bankruptcy and confisca tion of property. Salem Capital Jour nal. . ' .. We wish to thank Mr. and Mrs. Nick erson, who have entertained us so many times and so willingly. About 10 re freshments - were served, one or mere games played and we departed for home feeling very gay and very much as though we would like to have another party some time. Banks Herald. An unusual: combination of circum stances brought much of the state high way department into Portland Monday. There were C C Kelly, assistant chief engineer ; J. "Cv McLeod. division en gineer; J. M. Devers, assistant attorney general, and Nick Drew, chief of the paving experts. e . : Governor Olcott's father, who is visit ing his son at Salem, thinks Oregon is a wonderful State. He ts understood to be. especially impressed , with the straw, berry fields around Salem. To his sur prise there are ripe berries, green ber ries and blossoms on the vines, all at ' a a a For a few hours Monday Salem had no mayor. He was in Portland, flanked by a lot of other Salem residents, all on business and pleasure bent : a. " a - Hector Macpherson of Corvallis was in Portland Monday. He is interested in the Oregon Growers -Cooperative associa tion. - - - a a - a Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Hochrodel of Rose burg motored down Monday. They were accompanied by Miss Maude ;Heim and Mra, W. Borbden. , a a - - Mr. and Mrs.- F.'E. Hague of Marsh field are visiting in Portland. ' C. W. Vail of Carlton is among the out of town arrivals. Lockley. couple of train robbers got n'our train. V man Came through telling us to bide our valuables, as two train robbers were working back- through the cars. "A Chinaman in our car-had over $60CNn him. When the train robbers demanded his money he pulled out a revolver. One of the robbers shot at him, but the shot went wild. The bullet went through the shoulder of my wife's new coat, hit the stove and was deflected and broke one of the-car windows. The conductor was good "and sore at them for shouting things up that way. He stopped tho train and threw them off, and he wasn't very gentle about It either. He used the toe of bis boot to make a good job. . a a a "My wife and I got a homestead in the Union schoolhouse district about 10. miles north and west of Pendleton. For the past SO years I have lived at Pendleton, where I have worked at car pentering and building. I own 640 acres of wheat . land near . Pendleton. The price , of wheat during the . past few years has been good, and as the wheat runs 25 to. 40 bushels to the acre I have been able to save some money. " . a a a - "After" my wife had been In Oregon for a few years she got to honing for Texas, so we went back. She got so homesick to get back to Umatilla county that we returned, and she has been mighty well contented to stay in Oregon ever since. She is as good an Oregon . booster as I am, and that ts saying a lot" . . a . a - . Incidentally it is interesting to re member that . what .is now Umatilla" county was at one time a part of Clack amas county. During the days of Ore gon's provisional government the Ore gon country was divided into three dis tricts or counties Tualatin, Champoeg and Clackamas. Clackamas county in cluded all of Eastern Oregon, that part of Montana lying west of 'the Rocky mountains and the present states of Idaho and 'Washington. Clackamas county Was later divided, Wasco being created : from it Wasco county com prised all of Oregon east ' of the Cas cades. Wasco, county became the mother of .counties, the following being cut from the original territory : Sher man, Crook, Klamath, Grant, Lake. Malheur, Morrow,- Gilliam, Harney, Baker, Union, Wallowa, Umatilla, Wheeler, Hood River, Jefferson and Deschutes. Umatilla county took its name from the Umatilla ' river. The Kluse (or Cayuse) Indians lived between the Umatilla and Snake rl vera In the narrative of Lewis and Clark they, re fer to' the river -and on the map pre pared by Clark it is spelled You-ma-lo-lum river. Later it was spelled Youma talla and also' Umahtillah. One of its principal tributaries was named Bitter creek, as it flowed through an alkali soil and had an alkaline taste. In 1879 the general land office issued a map in 'hlch a clerk made an error ahd mis spelled Bitter creek, making it Butter creek and Butter creek It has been ever since. V The name Umatilla, as applied to the. river, : Is an Indian word and -neans a stream passing over stones - hat make ripples in the water," so the leaning of Umatilla la "Rippling .Vater." - ' . the ' Alamo massacres' when the gentle Mexicans killed4 'ever last one, of the Americans In that institution. Each one was mighty careful not to call .t'other a dam liar. To Insinuate that he was crazy and a honest gentleman, was the right thing, that not be In' jest cause fer shootin.' Right now we've got fellers in ever town that could tell us the truth about their doin's Ip the World war, but they're so af eard of beinV called liars that they don't say nuthln whatsoever. The Corners , Commercial- club t'other night tried to git Abraham Niche to tell us about bow he lost the fingers on his left hand at Verdoon, or some sich plaee. and be told us a German soldier bit 'em off, and-wouldn't stay.' The Oregon Country North woet Bappenincs in Brief l"orm for tba Busy header OREGON NOTES The Tillamook' fair board tits derided on September 13, 14, 15 and 16 as dates tor tne annual county fair. Mrs. W. A. Cox. nioneer of Oreron and a resident of Albany for 46 years, died In that city last week, aged 72. t The Canada thistle Is spreading rapidly In Lane county and the weed inspector has been Instructed to enforce the law to the letter, . Aonarentlv erased hr rrf m,r tha death Of his wife. Kirmund Meatia. formerly of Portland, Is in the county jail at Roseburg. A. D." Sachter. a farmer near Condon. was run over by a truck and seriously injured. Three men were in the truck, which did not slop. , A $25,000 order far fanned Min nf last year's crop and coming from Eng land is being filled by. tha Lurent Fruit growers' association. G. O. McOllvrav. Dostoffia Inincrtnr at Canyonville, was seriously Injured when his auto plunged 25 feet down an embankment turning over twice. The remarkably hir-h oualltv nf tfea Hood River strawberry crop has bern a boon to growers this season, as there Is no canning demand for cull fruit The Pacific highway from Portland to Oregon City, which is being improved by the state hiehwav i-nnimUnlnn h, been completed as far 'as Gienmorrle. The Eugene school board was saved $160 In the election Monday by the Parent-Teacher association furnishing its members as election official with out charge.. Up to June 16, 1921. a total of $916, 628. So had been paid by the state to ex- service men on account of educational financial aid authorised at a special elec tion in 1919. - Contractors employed on the west side Pacific highway will continue operations until enjoined by the courts, notwith standing the suit filed by residents of Independence. ' A sheriffs posse at Echo secured Les ter Nester, two stills and so much moon shine that their car was stalled In the sand, when a ranch near that town was raided last week. Archie McBae of Jefferson, who was Injured in an accident Wednesday in which his' wife was killed, when their car was struck by a Southern Pacific train, will recover. WASHINGTON The Washington state savings and loan convention will meet at Aberdeen Au gust 19 and 20. . . Aberdeen and Hoqulam will celebrate the completion of the inter-city highway on or about July L John D. Woodson, who crossed the . plains in 1850. and fought In all the early Indian wars, is dead at Grand view, aged 83 years. Painters of Spokane, who have, been on a strike since June 1. have returned to work at a reduction of 10 cents an hour in wages, C. F. Downingof Wapato has been appointed hay inspector for Kastern Washington, including all the stats east of the Cascades. Shipments of peaches were made from White Bluff in Benton, county Satur day, two days later than shipments were started last season. Growers of hay and dealers In the Yakima country are about $3 apart on the price and ranchers have determined to hold out for $15 a ton. - Yakima county dairymen are unani mous in favor of a complete organiza tion and will build a plant of their own -for the manufacture of milk products. It is estimated that 75 per cent of the mills of Washington are now oper ating, compared with 40 to 60 per cent during the first few months of the year. Governor Harf has appointed Frank Cooper of Seattle. W. F. Martin of Sno homish and A. K. Millay of Medical Lake as. members of the state board of edu cation. Practically the entire cherry crop of the Prosser . district, amounting to an estimated yield of 75 to 80 tona, has been contracted by the growers at 10 to 11 cents. . , - Evidently a suicide, the body of Hans C. Forland was found on the mud flats near Hoqulam last Friday. He was 50 years old and had cut the arteries of his wrist with a razor. . ' Vancouver is,-said to have more gaso line service stations than any city of its size in the Northwest, and the Stand ard Oil company is building another one that will take in a quarter block. During the period between January,. 1911. and June. 1921, local Improvements and condemnation rolls aggregating $26,348,294.70 were turned over to thr' city treasurer by the city controller of Seattle. IDAHO - ! The town of Bliss has just sold $ 24. 007 6 per cent bonds, the money to be used to take up outstanding warrants. About $400 will be spent for fireworks and $1000 given away in sports prizes at the Buhl -Fpurth of July celebration. Members of the First Idaho National Guard are now enjoying their aummer encampment at' Camp Brady, near Boise. " Work has been begun on the new open air natatorium at Lava Hot springs, for which the last legislature appropri ated $18,000. Two carloads of gas well machinery have arrived at Payette and work will be begun soon on the first gas well In that district The state of Idaho has just received a patent from the United Statas govern ment for 1276.04 acres of land in the Halley district Despite the continued hot weather. ? water In the Boise river continues to fall, showing that the larger -portion of snow in the hills has melted. , The United States Grain growers, a I non-stock, non-profit organization, com-; posed entirely of farmers, has filed ar ticles with the secretary of state. Th safety box vault of the Bank of Aberdeen, Idaho, was blown open lat week by yeggmen. Eighteen boxes were robbed, but the amount of loot Is un known. KNOWYOUR PORTLAND A signboard of warning against municipal extravagance is being erected by the city of Seattle. . A table published In the Seattle Post Intelligencer froml official fig ures shows a per capita, cost of $35.10 to run the city government.- . It is more -than twice the amount paid per capita in any other Wash ington city. Seattle ts . In serious financial straits. Her export and Import com merce last month wss less thanhalf that of May, 1920. Her loss in com merce, the two months compared, was $31,695,983. Portland Is In no such debt and it la believed will utilise Seattle's disas trous experience as a warning point ing toward rigid economy. There is being collectedjn taxes ex clusively for Portland municipal pur poses this year tha sum of $4,127,630, according to the county tax collection department Based upon the census population of 258,288, this makes a per capita tax for exclusively munic ipal purposes of approximately $16. - Baaed upon the total tax for all purposes city, state, school, etc of $14,312,000 which is being col lected in Portland this year, the total per capita tsx is $57.64. These fig ures are furnished by City Auditor Funk. '. Portland's revenues from licenses vand other sources will aggregate this year about $675,000, says the city au ditor,' This amount may be deducted from the total shown above, bringing the per capita all-purpose tax down to approximately $54.