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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON FRIDAY, JUNE 1, U-i. ' 0 ! 1 ! iiOffoonionHnil A! lXtKPBXr:-NT KWKPAPER C 8. JAfKi-RJ.V,. 1 .lubtbe f ;rtwn . yng wmW he th-m do tmto yw ) , i.w n, ik eonncnc, M flwms i ana ai anva -ifubJttbed every wee day nd fcunday uufnms i , ft The Journal traiWinc, Broadway And Ym- .Xl'tered l lit jwktuttie. at J'urUod. OtmuO. kt irnrmwlou Mirouttb the mad as Mcena ? iii t.L r:i'Lij. yil.in 1 1 7 a. Automatic 0 1. 1 Flaw mater. J f -ah jehew r th a; I J .NATIONAL ADVfcKTlKING KKPUESKN'TA- TrV'K Benjamin at Kentaor tJa., Ururaiwick Jf ' bmWtne. 22.. tflm arenae. New. Torts SUO i Matters -buiklwa, dtirase. . , .. Baranser Go.. EismJne bufl'liWc, Ban Fran- efcte: Title Insurance building. Lea Angelet ; It tyt-Intetligencer hiiUrlma, Seattle. Oll.ON JOLU.NA1, reserves tbe right to , j jrt . ad ssetinms eopr which tt dees fc . ; acti enable. 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Make -mmittaocca by Money Order, (Ixpraw frtlrr or Kraft. tf your jwtnffice ia aot a ikioory Order office, 1 or 2 cent atanpa 'Will be ai.-eetted. MaAe ,U nmittaoeea payable in Tbt 'Jnumtl, orttond. Ow?nn. - When the treat God let leeca a thinker am thU pleoet, thea all thing are at rwk. There ia not a faeee of aawBce bat it flank anay be turned toaoorrew; there is not any., htrrary rejiutatjon, nr the eo-ealled eternal, names of faaie. that stay nut be rceised d ouniirmned Krarrson. f -j- SACKIFICE THE DOLLARS nTHERE has arisen. In the I East, ii some criticism of the recently enacted law restricting immiera- !tUoiff It is based on a o-clied dt- press ion m trade as rerlected in the . diversion of two steamers from PhH- I arViAa 49 ,rMn.,s iM e;n..A.M I'no desire j to handleap our foreign trada. v '(But the loss realized through 1he ieerease"tn our Immigration and . through the withdrawal from ports j o 4call,f a few pbips, wlT not serj- ouKiy mrcaien me voiuine. ei our foreign commerce. To date there hss been no service suspended be I twen Purope ahd this country. I, gut even If our trade were to I diminish slightly as a result of the i Immigration statute, would It not be better to sacrifice a , little rather than to fill our asylums and penal Institutions to pverflowinir with dei ! fectives? f Would a slight " diminu- tion of ; commerce not bs preferable J to a country congested with such of J those aliens as are un?i and unas J simllable ? j Would a measured loss of trade nt be wholly -compensated for i by the, absence . of physically, morally '-and i. mentally defective foreigners " who are nrone to settle iand propagate? ' Would t compact. patriotic and enlightened" America f?not be more desirable than, a slightly richer America? If laws can be enacted which he nofc ill effects en. any interests in .a .country of cross currents there :will be ho crittcinm. But when -. choice must. be made between a few. dollars 2s nd the-future of th, social orderSt tis de'-strgble that the dollars be ie-f-Vlficed. .' ff - v i ' --"v t w 1 Before a woman judge a youthful Ubandit was .recently convicted by a .-JJury neaoea oy a woman and was (sentenced to the electric chair. His v pal was similarly sentenced, after conviction by a Jury on which th'efe wrvfaur t women, who. unlike' the msle jurors, were from the begin- nlng in favor of the death penalty Iwithout recommendation for mercy. - f "... Women jurors are fooling some men IJrWhb predicted that they , would . be "iover-ienient with criminals. With t women about to become jurors in J' Oregon," the above, incidents may in I terest some youthful bandits in this state. , 1 f ' F , GIBTS FOR PORTLAND t I t C. AINSWORTH, Ira Powers and ; J other prominent Portlanders, as I a. city planning commission.1 are glv l inf of their time and money to help ( Plan the future "growth -of Por-land. i Nobody builds a house nowadays without' consulting an archrtect. Be- fore buyinc a farm in these times, 2most men. con suit experts at the g- f'ricultursl college as to the soils on rthe placev . . , ' as its narrow streets . and con , emeu iraitu; puuw, u tnaro'iD anv- J thing"in these parts that particularly J (needs orderly 4 planning, ii is Pott jiJand. : Chicago 'has been 'spending 1.200,000 a year -on "the problem, of ""merely directing city planning. t If nothing Is dope in solving some rQf " Portland's traffic probjems be - forehand, what win happen here in . 1925, whin 600,000 or a million or more automobiles come her, from I LI JI over America, brfnglat; tourists to , the exposition T This ia merely one phase of ar (3 Umber of cltjr prob lems in Portland with which the city planning commission is grmpvliag. i The city no longer pays the way of the coin mission.; Nor is to be asked io. But the hope is that wealthy PortianderB, fcecuae of the increment that will eotue back to them from a-'be'tter arranged Port 1st n d ' arilh MntrlbiA 'rflonrh to keen . c-, - .jci -'. T - that lhe commission ..jroing.-.For that end $,00 9 W needed. ' ' ' -i . I ,Thv eommiasion is -.- sort of "free afchltect for future city buildin-. Will tbt most inerltorious, causa be helped, or is the . future growfh to go . on haphazard?... : . The cows - that browsed, in the brush pastures and woods of the then frontier, largely laid out, , with their trails, the city of Portland, and our congested traffic is part of the penalty. Shouldn't we grow by plan hereafter? . ' . PROFITS OUT OF LOSSES IF THE Morris Brothers bankrupt cy continues for a considerable period and the fees go on as they have begun where will the creditors get off? i Ten thousand dollars for attorneys' fees in only 40 .days is expensive legal advice. There is no question as to the high order of the eminent attorneys retained, but $10,000 for the service will be difficult for the creditors to accept with glad smiles and a glorious confidence; , . Then there was $9855 for 40 days' service by the receiver J Undoubtedly valuable service was rendered. Un questionably great wisdom and ca pacity were applied. But can the many : creditors whose savings are in the assets of the bankrupt insti tution feel happy over the spectacle Of $9 $5 5 of their money 'paid - out for a brief if eventful 40 days' work? If the bankruptcy wears and worries on forja year or two, as it probably will unless the creditors themselves take i the business over, how much of the assets will there be left when the- fees are all paid? Will it turn out that It was for the creditors or for the functionaries In the bankruptcy that the receivership, In point of profits, was declared? The trouble) with the bankrupt laws is that the day a receivership is declared, an order of big fees and extraordinary costs is ushered inThe law permits it and creditors : seem powerless ' to prevent" it. it ought not to be that great gain should come out of misfortune and big profits be gathered out Of losses. Two men on a public street in Chi cago seized a passing young woman, hurried her, into thejr automobile, .and, in spite .of Ipursuit.ljyi citlssep. -papel wth their captlve.; Tfee ln- ciaeni recalls mat, oa.wuu American girls, disappeared mysteriously- last year with no : trace 'of whe.re.'they went. ' This kidnaping case in open daylight on" a public street shows who gets the girls. fcLLIJN J. CHAMBERLIN -po f MISS ELLEN J. CHAMBER- A ! LIN , has J fallen , the - honor of being the first woman to. be the president of the Oregon Pioneers'" association. ; - ? On none could -the choice have more fitly fallen., Miss Chamber lin is out of one of the early pioneer families, and, (through the loss of both parents, became at an early age the t head of the family .household. These responsibilities were faithfully and fully met . while she - was con temporaneously serving as a teacher in Willamette university. Her: work as an Instructor was greatly appreciated by the late Thomas M.: Gatch, and she went jwith him successively to Blue Moun tain university at The Dalles, to trte University of Washington at Seattle and to the State Agrieulturareellese at Corvallls, during his presidency bf those-institutions. After a long and active career In educational service Miss Chamberlin la iivina, ln: tim.nf h pohvh j stQI youthfu, j0 spirit ud accorded w ihnllM, n. rrian, by thousands of friends the acknowt edgment,of responsibilities fully met ap duty" always done. '" " " The pioneers may look forward to their next annual reunion and to the intervening yeawith full faith that their leader Is worthy , arid their i cause faithfully and pre-eminently maintained, i Tho new postoffice building In Chleago . will have a landing stage on the roof for mail carrying air planes. It is the first building in America to be so equipped. It will not be the last. AN OREGON SCHOOL NINETY out of the 99 persons just graduated from the Oregon State Normal school have already accepted positions as teachers in the schools of Oregon. The other nine have been offered places and are consid ering them. Ninety-two members of the graduating . class , are young women and seveh young men. The attendance when the school year closed was 302 women and ti men.- The total enrollment for the year was more than 800. The sum- J mer session, has already opened and similar session lato begin tt once with a member of "the normal fac ulty In charge, at Pendteton. i The Oregon; Normal Is doing a splendid work. It has won a high reputation for t efficiency, ; and the Sredentials of its graduates are everywhere accepted as evidencing thorough preparation of the holder for school work. The institution is working in close cooperation with the agricultural college and the state university, and students get the ben efit of a, very free interchange of credits. In no school is there an air of more serious purpose and sincerity. Those in attendance know what they are there for and are very much in earnest In their , work. A faculty especially rseponeive to their needs, and course of study thoroughly mod ern, give the students extraordinary opportunity for ' perfecting them selves as teachers. The state of Ore gon has no better investment.: The location of the institution is ideal. Monmouth is an orderly and moral town. There are no deadfalls or unwholesome diversions to draw students away frorrr their objective. -' Nature has given the institution a perfect setting. The open fields and meadows, the near-by hills and woodlands, the snow peaks and lofty Cascade range in the distance, the atmo-phere freighted with the per fume of flowersand June clover, the whole rural aspect so pleasing to human senses, provide a near para dise as ; the site for this excellent training school for teachers. The school Is well abreast in the advance of educational progress.' In the 10 years during which he has been the head of the Normal, Presi dent Ackerman has brought it to a high standard of service, j On the campus is the seniors' cot tage, which is the living quarters of 24 v senior girls. It was built from the savings by Mrs. Todd in ! the management of-the girls' dormitory. And by the same process she has ac cumulated a similar sum to be de voted to further needs of. the Insti tution . ! - - l - --V 1 On the front page of The Journal Tuesday appeared an article telling of a revolver battle between police and striking seamen near Linn ton. Result, one man dead, two others thought to be wounded. Another ar ticle on the front page chronicled the success of the entrenched revol ver ' manufacturers s,nd dealers in their attempts to defeat the measure which proposes Suppression of revol versales. What's a death, or . a thousand; what's a murder or a thousand, compared with the profit from a revolver sale ? ! ' . FOB SUPREMACY ; v ' i-- ' f ' " ' ' " 1 -j ..- i-:'":t THERE Is a growing competition between the East and the West. The struggle is not alone in the fields of business, but is extended into the various lines of human activity. It will again b taken up on the athletic field in its most spectacular phases at Multnomah field tomorrow afternoon.' The East will be Repre sented there by its most renowned performers, by men who have estab lished their .supremacy on eastern afcd foreign athletic fields, ; men who were "picked" oVepresent America In European competition, and men who ar$ recognized as. the stajrs in their own particular spheres. ; . The West will not lagN Her sons have traveled eastward and con quered. ; They have emerged Victors on western fields. They have qual ified to contest supremacy with the men of any cUm. Tomorrow the athletic stars of two sides of the continent will contest for the victory of 1921. Perhaps the honors will go east, but if they do, some records will go with them, - The judge who has said that the prodigal son was Daniel and that the expedition Into.'. Egypt and the ad venture In the lion's cage was part ojf the .retributive excitement of theJ trip, must have ; been reading lawjl books rather than the Bible. IN THE MIDDLE WEST a T IS the most beautiful sight I have seen," exclaimed Pere Marquette 24T years ago when he first stood on Starved Rock, in the valley of the Illinois, and looked over the broad aeres; ! -T A "fewr days ago Chicagoans, Jun-ket-boqnd, stood on the same reck and repeated the words of the ex plorer. But the 'untouched country of two and a half centuries gone had been transformed into "fields of corn and wheat, so highly productive as to suggest the Bible imagery of valleys that laugh and sing. f ! , The ; Chicagoans saw, toe, what Pere -Marquette never dreamed of- the: first works of a canal system which will connect the Middle West metropolis with New Orleans and the GuJf of Mexico. j ; i . Tenyears 'hence, or even in Jess time, they expect to ; return to the crag and see fleets of vessels steam ing between the Great Lakes and the Qulf, They expect to see ihe heavy commodities of : commerce carried from the "outer to the inner sea by way of the Mississippi and i the canal system. They expect, , jthus. i to strengthen Chicago's position im measurably m the battle for trade. Throughout the. Mississippi valley there Is evidence of a revived in terest in , water transportation. Barges move with and. against the current of the , Father , of Waters, supplementing railroad - traffic. - At last It Is seen that the population, of the region has increased and Its needs are multiplied to such extent that water carriers must furnish per rnanent relief of rail traffic conges tlon : ; Every ineenseiy developed . area sooner or later demands the trans portation service ef river,, rail-rand roads. Thus it will come to pass in the-Columbia bar'- . TODAY Two SexevTwo Laws- No Super-Americans Yet Professions for Women "3Py Arthur Brisbane "Same lairs and rules for both sexes," say the thoughtful onea But. they don't get same laws, and rules. - The world has just read of the young Canadian trained nurse that killed her self. - :: , -,.-. First, she had made a fool tt herself, poor girl, with the help of some, doctor. The doctor's wife . knew of it, went i to the nurse and begged he ft "Leave my husband alone,, -" The young' nurse promised she would do it, and did, killing herself with poi son. l cannot give that mart up. but I can give myself and life up," she said to the wife. "I have taken the poison h you need not worry any more "about your, husband." The wife took her to a hospital. Now the nurse Is buried, the wife ia back with her husband, and, most delicious Of an. the police say, "We are not giv ing out names, on account of the doctor in the case. It might hurt his practice.' j-. 'V, a e e . . .v -v-, . .. . In the old days' of the cave and the mammoth, the ,wlfe mistress s of . the cave, would have hitthe other young lady on the head with a club. You ob serve ; improvement there. Vlves don't believe the man, because cave instincts are stilt with them.They had to keep the man alive to keep bears from eating their ; children, so they pleaded and fpught with each other. ; - "Harding plans a super-race of Amer icans," says the newspaper heading. The president is too wise to plan that. -But he Is planning to improve this race, which needs improvement in neveral di rections. The president widely has en listed the services of Brigadier General Sawyer, trained scientisc thinker and doctor, one whose studies have not closed his mind to the possibilities of improve ment, , . ;.. - , -. Observing that ona 'thlrd bf the men called to the draft were defective pays icallyv General Sawyer rwlll try to remedy-that, beginning with mothers and their - babies, which is the light begin ning. - . ;, v The idea Is to help mothers before and during childbirth and the scores of thou sands of children that die every year unnecessarily. That .will be a good beginning. - The "super-race" can come later. You won't see it for another 100,000 years. f - e -. - - '. . - A young English girl named ' Snell beat all at the University ef Cambridge in the law examinations. , She ats.nds at the 'head of the law tripoa." Young women do their best work as mothersand tlie mere intelligent they are ; the more important it Is that they should have' as many children as pos sible. - To create' several intelligent .brains is more important than developing your ONE good brain. . ,;' '. - '. - . - But -for- young women -that -will not be content with the only great - female profession, the study of. law and of as troriomy is recommended. In both they can excel. With the temperamental, to use the foolish word, that don't like fireside or books, music, and acting should take the place of law and astronomy. AH women should keepl vuiivi uuDincoa, dui uuiuriuimwiy ,n. cesatty drives them into it and men want them because they are more honest than men. . .... -- .. i. --.... A learned judge, shocked by juvenile crime, urges the revival of the "cat-o'- nlne-tatls." You can easily enough beat criminality, hatred and ignorance into children, but you can't beat crime out of them. If the Judge will investigate his young criminals he; will find that a great many of them were thoroughly beaten, and that, partly explains their criminality. - - . War, which is savagery, brings back savage conditions. When two tribes of Indians had finished fighting, killing and scalping each other they took up barter again. One, closely watching his scheming- neighbor, would -. hold out .a beaver skin or whatever he wanted to trade for the thing he wanted to get. European nations have stopped scalp ing j each other. Germany now offers. in barter for credit. 1,000,009 kilograms tabout Z,600,00Q pounds) of silver. The real wealth ef Germany is human labor. Intelligence, fertile soil, scientific knowledge. But in Savagery those thing don't count. It is necessary to hold out z.oOO.OOO pounds of silver as "a basis of credit" to start business again, Letters From the People Communication tent to The, Journal for publication in this department ahould be written on only nne side of the rapert thould not eseeed aim worn in lengm, ana tniut be i(neq py tbe writer, whose mail address ia lull mw aecoin PJy tha eontribuUon. ' ! . STANF1ELD ' - : People Held Responsible for Him and i Are Urged to Act. Portland, June 22. To the Editor of The Journal It is hard to fathom the roind that conceives of prosperity to all as emanating from a monopoly notorious in its greed. Tha 'big five" have for many years . proved rsuch notoriety by three phases, which ire; Absolute con trol! of the livestock market enabling them to dictate prices to - stockmen; abuse of Industrial rights of employes by endeavoring to keep wages down .to the 1 mere subsistence level ; extortion from consumers by absolute control of the avenues of profit. There are those who believe that centralisation of wealth by monopolistic control of industry Is necessary to properly regulate both the economic and industrial welfare of the general public. Such a theory is false, in the 'light of true democracy, It means subservience to '-a- power - that -despises moral obligations and respects only that law: that is an outeeme 'pf its policy of dictation to those legislators that are its champions. Until tha great Voting pub lie, which is the real government, under stand the difference between a political henchman of special privilege " and a statesman of constructive ability" whose heart and mind is for all, Just that long will our government be choked by poli ticians of the former class. 1 If the pub lic responsible for the election of Mr, Stanfteldv should use - its inherent and democratic right it would arise in a great majority and repudiate bis reac ionary stand and give him to understand that he is expected to help enact laws for j the good of .all. Ha would then Understand ,- that his constituency was not "made up of a. chamber of- commerce, ati American' plan association--io lower wages, and an open price association The people of Oregon are responsible for him, and it is up to-them to tell him his proper duty If he does not know It, -. Ralph L. Walter. . STANDS1 WITH HARVEY ' -Saya Harding Does Too,' Taking Issue , .With .The Journal, . " Sisters. . June 19. To-y. the- Editor ' ef Tit jAiirnWTn vnur leader rtf JTurie 17 you are at much effort to condemn Am- oassaaor naryey ror ms remara mat ad ctner ; nnuiar . muiuuwio, km un i, went to war because "we were nfraiH I inr the ranks of .' the 'prostitutes, and not to fight," You quote from , Mr. Hughes that we went to war because "we leved the institutions ef liberty and intended to maintain them,' which was equivalent to saying that we feared the Ipsa of liberty, or that an -attack en. lib-4 erty was a peril to eur Institutions. We" saw' the - danger and feared to remain neutral in the face of the menace." This interpretation Is further borne out by your further quotation from Mr. Hughes that we went to war because "we found our fate linked with that of the free peoples who . were . struggling for the preservation of- the essentials Of free dom," which was equivalent to saying that we feared to trust "our fate" to the outcome f - we remained neutral, "Not to figh' was 'to hasard - "our fate. -..:'- --.a.----- ' Then you say that "thea expressions are wholly out of harmony " with the Harvey declaration." They are not out of harmony with it, but in sentiment are identical with it. . The only difference is that Harvey spoke the naked truth and Hughes chose-to clothe it with lingerie and perfume. -, .-"Jj -- ;--:--;-': :.-. There has been ncv insult to the heroes of -the-war. ' -They awthe danger and stepped ' to the front with - undaunted courage. " u, tu Vincent. . THE TRAINED WILD BEAST ' A Protest Against Cruelties Inflicted, a Plea to the Merciful. Portland. June 21. To the Editor of The Journal It is Inconceivable that anyone who comes to know the, cruelties inflicted on wild animals' in order to train them for circuses, shows and the stage can countenance by his presence and applause the wild trained animal oerformance. - A wild animal naturally rebels fiercely against man's subjugation. In-order to intimidate it the trainer must use vio lence. Tigers are lassoed and all but hung to death, and are at the same time prodded with sharp Instruments In order to teach them to sit on chairs for the entertainment of -careless -seekers' of amusement. By means of electrie shocks so strong that the animal . is in pain, lions are made to roar and dance in their cages. The testimony of the the atre hand is to the effect that a trainer for whom he worked used forked. 'sharp ened sticks to ram down the throats of hyenas in order to heckle them into sub mission. This ramming process Is kept up until the blood pours from the mouths of the creatures. The trained elephants or monkeys that perform are. according to ' the testimony of the very trainers themselves, made to shriek with pain from - the torture used to ; intimidate them. No wild animal performs on the stage until after long schooling, . in which hot irons are used upon it, with whips, pronged weapons, electrie shocks, and thet like, to teach it bypain that its trainer is master. ' .-f v We read of the brutality of the. Roman arena and the Spanish bullfight, but w allow. In our eivilised and humanitarian land, a refined and secret viclousness that makes the arena and the bullfight tame in comparison. .- To those who disapprove trained wild animal performance there exists a rem edy in the form of the Jack London club, which has for its object elimination of the. wild trained- animal performance from the circus, the show and the stage. It is one of the few clubs to which mem bers cah" be admitted without fees a national organisation with headquarters at 'Boston. -Tho world U not yet civilised. When it has got far enough on the way to civ ilisation the unnecessary suffering now inflicted on the lower animals will be considered a crime and there will be no more circuses, menageries or soological gardens where wild animals are exhib ited, or kept in confinement Elinor Clarke, i rniWFS AflAINST WOMEN Insistence That, White or Black, Cul - prits Be Treated Alike. Portland. June 22. Teethe Editor -of The Journal The papers have been full lately of ..accounts of . fiends attacking womert and children.. A peculiar thing that baa impressed me is the way in which.' the "general public" is affected by them. For instance, in The Journal oftApril 2, appeared two separate para graphs, one which had this heading j "Man. 61, Arrested on Serious Charge.' and very briefly stated that a man 61 years old had committed an attack on a little girl 5 years eld. The other paragraph was brought to notice by this staring headline ; "Ku-Kla Lashes and Brands Negro," and It gave a detailed account of a negro, alleged to have been found in a white woman's room m a hotel In Dallas. Texas. Now,. I believe most people will agree with, me that an attack .by an aged man on a little child is many times worse than an attack orf a woman, even though the attack on the woman was made by a negro. On March 15 another brief paragraph was captioned. "Bend Man Arrested on Statutory Charge ; Is Held to Grand Jury." On Jone 15 a paragraph from Moultrie, Ga., announces : "Race War Looms Following Murder of White Girl, 15 !" Another heading, from Autryville. Oi.: on , June 1. proclaims: "Negro Lynched for Murder of Girl. 12." Yet. on September S, 1920. a white man, 48 years eld, was caught attempting to in jure an 8-year-eld child. He didn't kill her, but if he hadn't been caught in the aet,' he might have done so. Yet, when he was tried In Judge Rossman's court he was sentenced to serve 60 days In jail and then turned loose upen a world of children, -to, no doubt, attempt an other fiendish crime some other place. It seems to me it is time the "general public" was waking up to the fact that a crime is no legs a crime because com mitted by a man with a white skin. If a negro attacks a child, the publle is -UP in arms against him. but a dozen white men can do the same thing and it doesn't occasion the slightest commo tion. If a fiend black skin or white- makes an attempt io Injure a little ehlld. he Is a menace to society and should at least receive a life sentence. Anyone who is so degenerate as to even think of harming a little innocent child Is not fit nor safe to be. trusted at large in the same world with them. The next time a fiend attacks one of our children, let's put him in a place where he'll never have another chance. Don't wait until he murders one. i Mrs. Margaret Knight-Moesch. VICTORY EVEN IN DEFEAT . From -the Aatoria Budart' Dr. Owens-Adalr's bill requiring phys ical and mental examination of applt i,nti . fnr naarriaae - licenses and the sterilisation of persons . of subnormal mentality before marrying was defeat ed by the voters bf the state, but even in defeat the bH has Ttot wholly failed. It has brought the attention of the pub lie to a most Important problem and has caused many people to- consider a subject that' has heretofore been ignored- -1 :' - - . ; -.The bill was not defeated liy enlarge majority. The many affirmative votes "which It received indicate quite plainly that many cltiaens have ; beceme con vinced that some, steps should be taken to prevent degenerates " and . defectives from propagating their kind Jt js un deniably a faot that mnypeepl who opposed the bill wltn tneic- vpies were still rn sympathy withthe- purpose it sought "to accomplish, ." voting negative ly only because they ebelieved the meas ure inadequate to cope with the problem-- . The question opened up by- Dr. Oo.-en-Adair'a bill is one that will com mand " 4nereaslng attention from the public, and sooner or later legislation national In scope will be deviaed to correct a condition which is breeding; rlawn our people. lilting .or powr- j houses, penitentiaries, insane hospitals incidentally, adding to the tax burdens of the whole people. - Tbe survey made by Dr. Chester I Carlisle of the United States public health aervlce here In Oregon showed over . 60.000 socially inadequate indi. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE 'Dam wall sinking," is news, not pro fanity, by the way .' . . - Pretty soon we may start printing Beaver baseball scores on the comics pase- e . ; Somehow thievery and general crime do iiot fit into our conception of Indian character. - , ..- Very often we can determine the qual ity of blonde hair by the color of the eyebrows. . - - . ' a . ... It isn't probable that the clocks of the universe will stop if Dempsey whips Car pentier -especially not the alarm clocks of busy men. , ' ' " Senator Stanfiold may not have had any Swift money, but if he's like a lot of the rest of us he's had some that was mighty swift. a. e Seattle reported Wednesday the low est temperature of any of the larger cities of the land. Let's go up there and enjoy a little-mid-winter recreation. - , . . . e . . "-.'.'' . - New York, the story writers make us believe, is a fast ourg. Just how fast we may know when the New York Ath letic club meets the Multnomah club speedsters tomorrow. - - ... e -- From California comes the informa tion that all . teachers Intend to marry -dome day. Wc don't wish them any bad luck, but wa bope some of the teachers who used to pester us with their inqui sitions suffer their intentions to be made Into paving material. , MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Laura Oeron. Rose Kavanaugb and Flossie Jewett are three Seattle girls who are hiking to Los Angelea. - They left Seattle June 20. and registered at the Portland j. Wednesday. , Passing motor ists gave them a lift on the way be tween Seattle and ' Portland - and they did not do much walking. They are carrying a . letter to the mayor of Los Angeles from the mayor of Seattle, who has made a wager with them that they will not reach San Francisco In six weeks, e e e H. H. Phelps, 'a Tacoma manufacturer and golf devotee, came to Portland on business. He transacted his business in an hour and then hurried out to the golf grounda, where he spent several hours watching the Smith-Wilhelm match. "It waa the prettiest play." he ever witnessed and he got" "an awful kick out of it." - - W. H. M. Woodward, mineral exam iner of the forest service, left Thursday to examine mineral claims in district 1 at Missoula, Mont. Woodward will be gone two months and wil inspect claims in the various national forests of the district. - - ' - . - ' - e . e : , Glen Metsker. an attorney of St Hal ens, is in Portland on legal business. According to his story, a man drove a truck into an automobile belonging to one- ef his clients and has the. nferve to want, his client to pay the- damages. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred f A "lost mine" episode is incorporated by Mr, Lorklay in Sia narration of tbe farther adventure of John Barrack, the versatile pioneer, who alao a charter member ef the I Could Hare Got It elub, whoaa Bsamberahip now number aaany thousand. - ' . John Barrsch, ; pioneer resident of Portland but now a resident of Alaaka, taught school at jackaonviUe SO years ot more ago. From, there he went, to tha John Day. mines, where he worked for Andy Davidson, who owned a ranclvnear Jacksonville.' He owned one'et the best claims on Oarretfc&reek, a tributary of the 'John Pay. r r "William H, Pack wood. who ' had served in the constitut-ional convention at Salem Jn 1857. had a store at John Day. He hfl a big crate that crockery had been shipped in, which he let me have." said Mr. Barraeh. "It was about 7 feet high and about 4 feet deep and 4 feet wide. I stood it on end, put a floor In it and a roof -over" it, and started an auction stand. . Within tha next four weeks I had made over $1000 auctioning the outfits of miners who had got cold feet and wanted to go back to-the Wil lamette valley. I would give a miner $50 for hia whole outfit, and often auc tion it off at more than $100. , - e I ran across two men there, Mose and Eben Brown, who had crossed the plains in 1851. They said that on a creek which flowed into Snake river., they had seen nuggeta big enough to use for sinkers on a fish line. That sounded good, so we made up a party of 12 and started out to mine on Sinker, creek. At Miller's stage stationnow called Hunt ington. Milierf the proprietor, told us to look out for Indians, as they were wip ing out. small parties of prospectors. Each day we asked our guide how far it waa to - Sinker creek. We kept this up day after day until we passed Ross fork and got to Fort Hall. Just as we got to the forks of the road leading to Taylor's bridge, now called Idaho Falls, a party of 40 or 60 Shoshone Indiana at tacked us. We went to a nearby ridge, where we could put up a better defense. Within an hour they had killed 10 of our horses, and nine out of our party of 12 were wounded. We used the dead horses and our packs as breastworks. One of our party, a man named Foster, from Yreka. Cat., wan a wonderful shot. He had a Henry rifle. - After, watching me shoot for a little while, he said i 'Don't waste your ammunition, boy-; let me do the shooting. He killed seven of the Indians. They would circle around us. leaning far over and hiding behind their horses necks. He would shoot the horse through the neck, and down it would go: then he would get its rider. He died many years later at Meacham. in the Blue mountains. , "One' of our party, John Brubaker. yiduala In the atata. Special atudiea with adult criminals showed; M ' Pr rest mentally dull or defective, while 23 per cent of these sdult criminals have the mind of a child of 12 years or less. The same element of mental defect holds true for juvenile delinquents, and of 451 dependent inmates of poor farms 175 showed mental defect , We are spending large sums of money and have staffs of ecientlfle men employed to breed up better dairy herds, better pigs - and 4ter iultry, but we have been sitting idly by with out even protesting against the praettces which mean tha , deterioration of men and woman,--; v Dr. Owens-Adalr's bill as drawn may not be the answer but tt has started the way - to the finding of an answer. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places v The eeven days preceding and the seven daya following the winter solstice, which falls on December 21 or 22, were tha halcyon daya Of the old work In modern dictionaries halcyon has come to be a synonym for Idyllic, peaceful or happy," but among the ancients it was the name of a bird now called the king fisher, and tha 14 days nearest tha win ter solsti&e were called halcyon, day a be NEWS IN IBRIEF SIDELIGHTS It fan getting to be so difficult to pro cure the remedy that it Is hardly worth while any more to.get sick. -Pendleton Tribune, ! The emergency tariff falls even to keep up the price of sugar. It has now reached the lowest point in years. Eugene Guard, - - . e . e e - . r . - Strange to say. ' the Chicago wheat market is often affected by farming con ditions never beardiiof by the farmers.- La Grande Observer. - ! The United .-States- treasury expected yesterday to collect 1575,000,000. but on v.a .. .. kiiu .,.u ; nnn nun came due. Uncle Sam is evidently Just an average sort, of ciHaen. luugene Register, 7- , . I ; - ----- ' . --. It seems that the young men are not enrolling very rapidly for the civilian training camps. Probably they figure mere military training will never fit them for the rigors of a life of peace. Albany JJemocrat. f The Dalles is sited with dnvea It has Just been one drive after another, month upon month. The drivae for money have comet at mea . when men were out of work! and conditions have been bard. The JJaues cnronicie. Mra Aree Is Indicted charged with Ruttlnar her husband's throat with a rasor. Another Portland man lies In i.n.nl ta 1 nnrilviMl becauae hia wifa shot him. Verily the life of a married man in these day's of women's rights is one of precarious speculation. Corval- 11s Gaaette-Timea Town O. M. Piper ofj the Wagner Manu- facturing company of Cedar Fa 11a, Iowa, is registered at the Multnomah. He is very enthusiastic bver the Currey dis play of roses in the hotel lobby. . didn't know it was!posstble to grow such roses out of doors. I never saw any thing like - It before," he commented. Piper is interested In the manufacture of sliding doors. A door weighing 1600 pounds la opened with a two and a half pound pull. When. It is figured that tha average elevator operator slides his doors back 400 times during, the day the great amount of energy conserved can ba realized. . - e Dean Coovert of Alfalfa, which la in Deschutes countyj Just south of the Crook county boundary. Is Jn Portland on business. "We lare Just finishing eur first cutting of alfalfa." he said. "The crop is good, but II can't say as much for the price outlook." . --. . e D.-E Hunter and H. E. Allen of Bend are stopping attjhe Portland. The Pacific Coast Paper Box aasoela tion is holding a session at the Imperial. M. V. Bishop is registered at the Perkins from Deeri Island. a ' A. C. Dixon of Eugene is making one of his periodical visits to Portland Simon Benson motored down Thursday from Hoed River. t Lockley who was a blacksmith, had $12,000 In gold dust. He dug a hole and cached the gold-dust,, telling us where It was. so that If he was killed, we could get it Pretty soon Brubaker was shot through the lungs, we dug a shallow grave and put htm in where he wouldn't get hit again. He was bleeding so frorrr his wound that we figured he wouldn't last long. . He fooled us, though, because he got well, recovered his gold dust, and lived for many years. .. ., . . r J e e ' - "Nea,l ' Howie, Chunky Johnson, and BUIle Jack, who later became a wealthy and .prominent hardware - dealer at Butte, Mont., heard the firing and earns to pur " help,- .:Thiy .secured reinforre meiTta "from a wagon train that was coming down the read a mile or ao away, and drove the Indians off.-'I had a rifle ball in my knee. : A8 I told you, nine of our party of 12 were wounded. Some of the men went to Salt Lake, but I decided to come back to Oregon. I went to Fort Vancouver, where j a military Burgeon toek the bullet out of my knee. As soon as I was able to work I came to Port land, stopping at the Temperance hotel here. e e "In those days I man named Kelly was operating a fprry across the Wil lamette, He owjied 160 aerea In what In now East .Portland, not far .from the river. Fred Fester and I were partners Ha offered us 10 acres, of this land If we would clear 10 aeres. After working aix weeks, chopping treats and burning brush, Fred said to me one day, 'When we get our 10 acrea. what, shall we do with It? We Bhall have to pay taxes on it and there neve will he much settlement on this side of the rivir. It takes too long to ferry back and iforth over tha river. Maybe our grandchildren might get some good out of this" acrea We decided that we -would work for ourselves and net for our grandchildren, so we threw up the Job and went to cutting cord wood for ..the steamboats at six bits a cprd. We were paid in greenbacks, which were worth only 60 cents on the dollar. "After a few weeks' T dropped into a bit of luck. I got ja Job as a carpenter for the Oregon Steam Navigation com pany. My' Job was squaring and boring timbers to be use' on the bridges for The Dalles railroad. I got $ dy 1 worked at this Job until the fall of 186S. Then, I went to the upper Cfcaeads and started a shingle -samp. 55. F. Moody, later governor of Oregon, was at that time a merchant at The Dalles.. He paid me $6.75 a thousand for my shingles. 1 old over 2.000.000 shinties to Moody, and the money I received from him enabled me to buy elSht heSrnea to start a pack train to operate between Umatilla Land ing and the mines in Idaho." ; " cause It was at tha: period that tha bird deposited her eggs on the rocks by ne. margin of the sa, ojr in a floating nest in the midst of the witers. Out of consid eration far the halyon bird, which was supposed to be favored by the gods, it waa expected that the sea would remain calm, that the eggs! might not suffer In jury. Tbe auperatltion persisted In splU of the storms that often prevailed at that period, some of the ancient writers attributing t the Kingfisher the power of arresting the violence of the waves. , Uncle Jeff Snow Says A travelin' man n a automooue was a-tellin' us at the Corners, t'other night that the railroads 14 a-goin busted tryln' to buck tbe truck end tha autobus., , He had the flggare fer it, all right enough. Fact la, however, some people thinks the quicker they go bust the better. Their high rates and don't-glve-a-damn way of runnln' buslneaa in the years back has busted many a farmer and business man, and ia a-bustln' ef "em yet Uncle Sam could take the railroads over and make money fer everbody -a-runnin' of 'em at a loss, and I reckon, that's what he's bound to do 'fore long. ' A' VAIN HOPE You can't expect your wife to be an angel and work like time. ' t .the devil all the The .Oregon Country Northwest Bappenlnc in Brief Form for tt Busy Header OREGON NOTES ' . Construction haa bearun rtn fne. first wnicn ia to cost $76,000. Charles Gilbert, seed 77. fell exhaust. d as he was entering Bend after walk' ing rom me uranta raas poor larm. Thomas Dickey, a farmer, 38 years old, is dead at Wlllamina from an at tack of aleeninar Kt. Uneu whl.-h ImkImI several weeks. The Transfer A Llverv eomnanv. re. cently awarded tha contract, haa begun inn sraaing or Z4 blocks of business streets In Hood River. A $35,000 breach nf nrnmlu unit haa been filed by Mrs. Lucille Chrlatensen against J. B. Knight, a prominent busi ness man of Pendleton. Estimates at Salem nlace the rherrr crop for this season at about 3.000.000 pounds, for which the growers will re ceive SV4 to 4 cents a pound. Figures compiled by the onnty super intendent show that 347 nuiilln rru dil ated from the pmmmur schools this spring, of whom 1 ti 1 were boys and 116 Kins. Of the 2S0 students graduated this year from the University of Oregon, $0 per cent have earned more than a third of their own way during four years of study. Hanry T. Ralnev. representative in congress from Illinois for 18 years, will he tha leading speaker at t lie annual Chautauqua to be held at Hood River, juiy s-iu. An. effort will be made by the Oregon Cooperative Grain Growers' ansoolation to raise $3,000,000 during the nest sev eral weeks for the purpoHe of financing the marketing of the 1921 wheat crop. During the recent election salary In creases voted by the late legislature were before the people for consideration In six counties and in every Instance they were defeated "by decisive majori ties.. ... J. B. Hansen and It. S. Tavne, mem bers of . an Ohio company during the Civil war, mat at the U. A. It' reunion in Pendleton for the first time since they were mustered out together, t6 years ago. '; WASHINGTON . 4 The' sum of fil.BOO ta already pledged toward the building of a $20,000 home for the American Legion at Olympta. A flotilla of destroyers will add a pa triotic touoh to the three daya' celebra tion . at Anacortes, beginning July 1. - Seven hundred eight of the 1793 women students at the University of Washing ton are wholly or partly self-supporting. Mrs. Mary Klnkela. 26, committed sui cide at Taebma by saturating her cloth ing and bed with kerosene and applying a match, j Crop conditions in Douglas eounrr are the best in 17 yeara- 1-xcellent yields of both fall and spring wheat are promised. . - William Greenwood of' Olympla, f) years old, was slugged and robbed of all his money by a stranger ha took into his home and fed. The three Chehalia banks hsve been awarded $68,000 bonds of Chehalia school district, interest at 6 per cent, the pro ceeds to be used on a new school build ing. Gilbert M. Blunt, 15 years old, has re ceived hia diploma from the Whatcom high school, being the youngest hla.li school graduate in tha history of tha city. Boat service to Deep River and Grays River haa been discontinued on Sunday., Thia Is the first time in 20 years that tha north chore has been without a Sun day boat aervlce. Lack ef business is tha reason. Formation of a defense league to pre fect Tacoma'i Interests against Seattle publicity assaults) was rnade at a meet, Ing of Tacoma business men and clvio organizations Friday night. Marvin Chase, state nunervisor nf hv. draullcs, has been named bv Governor Hart to cooperate with federal engineers In a survey of the upper CoJurnMn, to determine power and Irrigation develop ment possibilities. Articles of Incorporation for tha "Pei- Fle's hospital," with capital stock of 100.000. non-aasesaable. have been filed at Spokane. The incorporators are druer leaa phyajciana who nave been barred from regular hospitals. - ; IDAHO As a result of the recent flood Mafkay la without light and power. Jlrldrei have been washed out and Jaighwaya damaged. . Nearly $17,000 will be the budget for the running of the affairs of the Idaho State Reclamation association for tha next year. Senators Gooding and Borah have recommended William Kent of Jtonners Vmrry for collector of customs for the Idaho-Montana district. - 1 Miss Camilla Allen, 17, daughter of R. F. Allen of Spokane, was drowned In Newman lake, Idaho, when a crne In which Bhe was ridrng with her brother overturned. , -' Ten men of the marine detachment sta tioned at the I'uget sound navy yard acted as a firing squad at the military funeral of Waiter Vernon Brown, a Boise hoy, June 16. 'The four-mile bridge between ITalley and Galena has been rendered Impassa ble by the high water. Many other bridges on Wood river have either been weakened or carried out Representatives of farming Interests from all parts of Southern Idaho met at Caldwell last Wednesday and puased resolutions asking for an . emergency rate or a 40 per cent reduction of present rates on potatoes and fruit ivsnow youa PORTLAND 1 Continued From Tt"rd. The John Day irrigation project wilt cover, according to present plans, 800,000 acres,, It Ilea along the Co lumbia river, and the cost of recla mation, according to the state engi neer, will range from $40,000,000 to $60,000,000. . The Lower Powder Valley project, Jn Baker county, covers about 70,000 acres. The state engineer "saya of thr project: "it is rather attractive from the standpoint of soldier' set tlements, or any federal settlement, on account of the large area of va cant land that Is Included." The Owyhee project, covering 24, 000 acres in tha lower SnAke river valley, is regarded as highly pre ductive, especially of alfalfa. The water supply on 13.000 acres Is now under nearly complete control tu Harney county. Part of the land Is Irrigated by flood, and the attempt la being made to Impound the'watera In reservoirs and hold back the sup ply for the season when it will bo moat beneficial. Irrigation projects in Ihe Talent, Gold Hill and Uranta Pass dlntrfcts result from tha belief that Irrigation will Increase production, althouRh rain may be epcted during nine month of the year. The preelpitatlorr-mS4he Willamette Valley averages 40 Inches a yetir, but, nevertheless, Irrigation Is being more and mora practiced, because' It Is thus made possible to supply motsture Just' when vegetables nd field cropa most need It -.-.. ' Oregon's Irrigation laws are con sidered the best In the United States. The organisation of Irrigation dis tricts by the people on the land Is en couraged by , force of favoring atatutes. A state committee may cer tify Irrigation aecurltles as lesal In vestment for truat funds. A consti tutional amendment provides that tha atata may pay the interest on Irrigation bonds during the first five years, or during the years when production is incre-wing to a degree necessary to retire Indebtedness.