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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON SATURDAY, JUNE 3. 1C21. an m t ' I B cslm. be eonfidrat. b cheerful and do Mto , . . I BWIH rnm ynB wmiw usee tn.m do nntq yog, i tubU.iird erery -week da? and Sunday mariung ft Th Journal buildina, Broadway and Xim- Kill a . . 1 . . . LnUred at tit xLalfi! at forUaod. Orebn. Cor trautmiatioa through the mad as second else wetter. xLi.Ki'UO.VKa Main 71?3, Automatic aoO-al. All . dips rtroentu reached by these immbm, fcATIO.NAU AUVKHHH1.NG KEfKEHKNTA- TIVE Benjamin A Kentaor Co., Bnuwnek fcuildlns, 22S Mftn annua. New "forks 00 Mailers huitdlna;, Chit-age., i-ACJilU COA8X hti'Kiasfc.TATIE--W. R. Banner Co., Examiner bnildinf. Baa Fran- eucoi Tttla loaarence bwiidlna;, Lea ABcclaa; PoH-InVnigencef building. Seattle. "ltttv, rnruing iiiU UHi;o. JULKNAL. nwnti tin ricbt ta reject adeerttains; eepy which H deems ob jectionable? 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Make all remittances payable to The inirnal. Portland. Oregon. i I A perfectly cirilised nan can neeer b I perfectly happy while there is one nnherm ; beinr in the unirena. Bobert G. IneeraoU. . DOWN TO BUSINESS GOVERNMENTAL, leadership is a great and mysterious thing. Sometimes executive leadership is desirable ; at "Washington. Some times It is a high crime. If the whip Is cracked one way, the leader ship is excellent. If the whip is cracked another way, the leadership is abominable. But all in all, the desirability of leadership, in stme - minds, seems to be fixed entirely ,by what man Is dolng the leading 'and Just ho w he does, it. , i . Although six. months ago the leader of his party and his country was crucified for his leadership, was branded as an autocrat, as a super man, and the government was de scribed as a one-man government, and both government and leader were held up as iniquitous, here is a statement from a contemporary that reveled In denunciation: The president is at one end of Penn sylvania avenue andf the capltol t the other ; but there can be. In no actual sense, supreme command of the govern ment at both ends. It must be at-one end, and that Is at the White House. The statement was true eight months ago. And it is true now. "' But again we are told that there are differences in leadership, that , President Wilson demanded and In sisted that his party follow his di rection. That, was all wrong. But President Harding Is advised to wield a leadership by counseling with the party leaders In congress, "and Insist that it shall do its duty and help him to do his duty." That would be right. But that was what President Wilson was condemned for insisting. The wails that were lifted to the Skies about White House autocracy and one-man government were ef fective campaign expedients. With other slogans they won the election. ' But the country is waiting for-j serious business a.t Washington. Congress has drifted, rudderless, for months. There has been no lead ership. , The , nation will commend Presi dent Harding if he assumes the reins and leads his party to an ef fective, efficient and honorable ad ministration just as President Wil son did. - The election is over and -explanations are unnecessary. ' Why not get down to business? . There is one bandit in America who is through with lawyers. He was given an indeterminate sentence in San Quentin. and the prison board a decided that the sentence meant seven and one half years. Not being satisfied; the bandit hired another lawyer, who got him a new trial, which brought him a sentence of 25 years at hard labor. DEFENSE MEASURES THAT PAY -ko: ",!t? rV":- HE reclamation service has ac quired: an Income as well as a budget of expense. Arthur P.. Davis, director of the bureau, testified be fore the senate and house commit tees, which had under consideration the McNary-Smith bill, that its in come this year will ba $6,000,000. He estimated that $2,150,000 would be 'received In public land sales; $1,000,000 in .oil lease royalties;- $2,500,000 in construction re- payments; $100,000 in sales , of power, and $250,000 in miscellaneous returns. ... . . - - : But there are In the United States some 17,000.000 acres of arid land. 80,000,000 acres of .swamp and over flow land land 200,600,000 Acres of logged-off lands for - governmental, state) and private forces to reclaim. Twenty-five irrigation ; x projects constructed by the government have put un4er water, at a cost, of $120,000,000, about 2.000,000 acres of land that have added 1600.000, 000 to the wealth: of the country. The production of j government-reclaimed land a year ago was valued at $90,000,000; in one year the pro duction was 75 per cent of the total inst'Sftation cost. ! Why is congress unable to see that money appropriated for reclamation is as much in behalf of national de fense as the equipping of an army? No other method so quickly increases food production. Food is Vitally es sential to the strength Of the nation, as the next 10'years will show. But where money spent for warships and guns demands more money for maintenance, , the appropriations by the government for reclamation are as sure ot return, with 'interest, as the government is certain to pay its own obligations. 1 MR. THOMAS SEVENTH JUNKET THOUGH in protest against taxes the voters defeated the 3 -mill tax levy at the recent Portland school election, the new board, at its first meeting, authorized Director Thomas to go East on his ! seventh junket. Up to the present Mr. Thcmas, as school director, has made! the fol lowing trips at the expense of the taxpayers: ! 1 . j Nov, 2. 191S, to Pittsburg, Pa. and other cities.... '. ..;....$ 400.00 June 5, 1919, to N. E. A. conven tion, Milwaukee ..,.. 514.00 March 15. 1920, to Washington. D. C. .....i 692.50 May 24, 1920, to Washington, t.C. 806.85 Nov.18. 1920. to Washington, t). C. 852.50 March 3, 1921, to Washington..,. 1139.73 Total i . . $430.08 It will be observed that; the last trip of Director Thomas cost the tax payers $1139.76. It jwill also be ob served that, beginning with a fairly modest expense account, each new trip by Director Thomas- Increased in cost. Just what jwill be the cost of the new Junket by Director Thomas which the. board ; has au thorized? The onlyjvelce of protest that was raised at . the board meet ing was that of Director Shull. l will also be observed that Mr. Thomas trips become more numer ous year by year. He made one trip each in 11S and 1919. but made three in. 1920. With 1921 but half gone he is entering ; upon his second Junket this year, j Will 'It be in creased to four by Christmas? If the taxpayers of the district are unwilling- to supply money to provide sufficient and comfortable class rooms for the school children is it likely that they want Director Thomas to take another Eastern junket at a cost of $1000 or so? . The board ought to rescind, this action. What possible end can Di rector Thomas serve the schools of Portland by filling J a place on the program at the N. E. A. convention? Is Mr. Thomas the expert on educa tion that Portland j wishes to send to Des Moines to instruct the teach ers of America how; to conduct their classes?, -' ! , - They say Mr. Thomas wishes to go to Washington to get $25,000 for the Benson Tech. Whom will he get it from ? If he can get it, why can not Oregon's representatives In con gress get It? Haven't they quite as much standing and prestige at Wash ington as Director Thomas? The board contemplates resub mitting the 3 mill levy to the voters. With the new board starting out with'this wasteful and ridiculous ex penditure pt tax money on a junket for Director Thomas, just what en couragement Will I voters have to place about ; $1,000,000 at the dis posal of the board? ' So far "as The Journal was con cerned the one issue in the late school election was to secure a school- board that would hot w,aste public money. It supported candidates who would never have consented to the waste of public money on private junkets and the first act of the new board shows that it had full reason for the choice it made. Wall street, is looking for 13,000, 000 in oil stocks said to be mysteri ously missing. Why bother? The quickest way to get the money back would be to raise the price of gaso line. . ,::-.: - ' 'I HIS CONFISCATED LOT WHEN he bought a certain Port land lot, it .was his plan to build on it a home for himself and Kamily. t - In every human; breast there is a plan to sometime have a home. For lack of means or j for convenience, many live; in. apartments and rented houses, but .practically every family looks forward to a time when there will be a home, a little One or a big one, that shall be the household castle. But the man who bought this cer tain. Portland lot didn't build a home on it. A day or two aeo he walked j over to the -city hall and notified the authorities that they could take the lot for the assessments that had been levied against it. On his in come he found it impossible to sup port his family, to pay the cost of tne improvements; and, in addition. to save enough to build the home of which he had dreamed and for which : he had planned ; w t9 ne me oniy one.. ' Many a proposed" home builder In Portland has been compelled to make the same sacrifice. Many a family that looked forward to a day when they would; have a little fireside all their own with a green lawn and flowers in the dooryard, have seen their hopes swept away by assessments piled up against the lot that had been purchased. , - . - And here is a question: In morals, has ,the municipal corporation the right to pile on assessment after as sessment until they finally amount to practical confiscation ? S - y f Even if it has the moral right and the legal' right, is it sound policy? If the lot is too weak in value to withstand the improvement and if the improvement actually extin guishes .all the value in that lot, should not the owner both in morals and in law have redress, and should not the authority that takes away that value afford the redress? 't : Can any city afford to make the terms of home building's severe' as to make it impossible for some peo ple to own homes? The safest city and ; the soundest republic is that city or that republic in which the largest percentage of people own and live in their own homes. RAILROADS AND REVOLUTION ISTS. WHAT attention can the railroads pay to the action of the, Wash ington board of public works in sus pending application of the new. rates in the Columbia rate case? ; The roads participated in the orig inal hearing. They know what the findings were. They know that j in any conflict of authority between in terstate commerce! commission action and state action the courts have al ways upheld the federal body. Th9 roads know; that the effort to thwart the interstate commerce com mission's rinding Is Bolshevistic and disorderly. - It is an attempt to. use state power to defeat federal power. The attorney general of Washington, the public service commission, the cities of Seattle i and Tacoma, f all fought their case before the inter state commerce ; commission. ; By that act they recognized the national authority." But the finding was against them, and they repudiate" national authority and propose to supersede it with state authority. That is anarchy. That is the spirit of L W. W.-ism. Will the railroads, recognizing the action of the Wash ington board of public works, be come parties to a move that they know is revolutionary, ' Impossible and disorderly? ?.;! The railroads know full well where their duty lies apply the rates In accordance with the findings of the interstate commission ' and let the Washington revolutionists o to the courts. ... A Portland policeman is under suspension charged with graft. The charges were made by men . who accuse the officer of permitting a gambling game to continue after col lecting money from! them. Police men all over the country have been dismissed recently under graft charges. The men who are conduct ing the Portland police department might well Investigate conditions in the local bureau. ! SHARPERS AND THEIR PREX THAT pawnbrokers and other money lenders in Portland are "approaching , ex-service men with tenders of ready money in exchange for an assignment of their, bonus claims" under the new war veterans' state aid act. Is a statement made by Henry Boyd, president of .Post 1 Of the American Legion. ? Mr. Boyd relates one instance in which an ex-8ervice man has already assigned, his claim to a Portland pawnbroker in exchange! for . but 50 per cent of its value. It was In an effort to prevent sharpers from preying upon ex-service men that Mr. Boyd laid the facta before Gov ernor Olcott and Secretary' of State Kozer Thursday, and urged them, as members of the state aid board, to promulgate a rule whereby the com mission would refuse to- recognize any assignments of bonus claims. Here is confirmation of the con tention of The Journal that members of the American . Legion would be steadfast in insisting " that the ' law should be administered in a way to uphold the integrity of the act and in a manner to uphold the honor of the Legion. President Boyd is lead ing the way, and it will be found that his hand will be upheld by the mass of Legion membership. Meanwhile, public sentiment J will give short shrift to" cormorants who seek to prey upon the service men or to debauch, and demoralize a law that was passed in a sacred cause and under motives of the highest patriotism. Service men and others should make public the proposals of these birds of prey, and nip in the bud all the practices for a cunning and parasitical abuse cf the bonus law. ' v;.4;; ;i; IS:'! The bonus act is the personifica tion of a people's gratitude. Society has no parasites more degraded than those men who would make mer chandise and coin disgusting divi dends out of a people's honorable ef fort to recognize the young men who suffered and sacrificed. RESCUED! EVERYTHING I quiet again in Chicago. The beleagured but defenseless men have been rescued from a horrible fate. Late report Indicate that conditions have re turned to normal. Here was the cause of the trouble: f Following hundreds of complaints from wives and sweethearts. Police Captain McCarthy Investigated and found 'that girls from the Sheridan road district, many of them of -education and refine ment, had been; lining . up at corners every morning, 0 ostensibly waiting for automobile -busses. ; but really Bmiling their way into the tormea.ua of business men's .cars.;; -';;';"-:-:'1 ;;";,; .-':f .A . Those poor men. There they were, doing their best to get to town with out being bothered, but; just forced to give in . and drive the comely young ladies to work. : It was a ter rible fate- beings compelled to sit next to an amiable girl all the j way downtown. Undoubtedly the Wives and sweethearts who were so kind to protect them against the "wolves" shed large and salty tears as the Lotharios unfolded the tales of the horrors they were compelled to un dergo in the morning ride. ; But the men have been rescued. They have been saved from the fero cious creatures.; A lot of big police men went right out Into the district and boldly told those girhthat they simply must leave the helpless men alone. ; And Chicago rests in peace. TODAY Suzette's Baby- Dead More Thought? What Kind? Unhulled Sweet Clover New Champion Cow To Live 1,000 Years? No. By Arthur Brisbane 1 ; Suzette has lost her baby too much civilization. ; Suzette, a lady chimpanzee, was born in captivity. .Her baby, sec ond generation removed from the Jun gle, " will be neatly stuffed tomorrow it's dead. Thought for us all in that H. G. Wells ought to write about it. When the baby was born, Suzette did not know what to do with it. She had been in vaudeville, where they shaved and powdered her arms to make her look "humait" She bad worn low neck dresses, corsets, even- high . heel shoes, to entertain foolish humans. She had no idea how to take care of a baby chim panzee. She held it pressed, close to her heart, using the hand of one hind leg i to hold it, would let no one take it, and it died. If Suzette had been in the Jungle, in stead of being in vaudeville, her baby would be alive. Some fashionable moth ers can sympathize with Suzette and she with them. . . Mr. Lowell, president of ' Harvard, says this country-needs "more thought." On what shall the thought be based? To tell the average man or woman to think is like telling that person to fly. without the machine. - Thought is based on experience, read ing, travel, discussion with Intelligent minds. How is the ordinary person to think? If poor, his experiences are lim ited to work, sleep and foolish wishing. If rich, in this country, the thought of youth is apt to concentrate on a nicely painted automobile in the morning-, and a nicely painted dancing: partner in the evening. Nothing much more there to start real thought. 1 ; Thinking is a new accomplishment for the human race. Here ' and .there individual men think. Nine . hundred and ninety-nina out of thousand die without ever having thought, in the real sense of the word. , Eugenic gentlemen, feeling that our race can be improved by breeding as we breed horses, hope to breed thought. You may do that later. After men shall have , thought as long as horses have RUN say a million years think ing power may become hereditary. , . . . Man-o'-War, the greatest race horse. has a full brother that sold the other day for $115,000, largely because he was Man-o' -War's full brother. How much,' in a commercial sense, would you give for the full brother of a great man? Not 10 cents. Thinkers In our period are accidents, like - white blackbirds. We ace a long way off from breeding them regularly, as (we breed thoroughbred horses, bulldogs, shorthomed cattle and "800-egg" hens. as However, every mind has some slight capacity for thinking, and ought to use it. I ;. "S ' V- "1 More than 20 ships have suddenly dis appeared from the face of the ocean. One was found with the crew gone. A letter said they had been kidnaped by pirates. Others navel vanished com pletely, and they are of many nations America, England, Japan,- Italy, Spain, Russia, Norway, Denmark, France, Bra zil. Someone suggests Bolshevik sub marines, seising and sinking ships for the cargoes. Lenin and Trotsky, how ever, are not maniacs. There's prob ably nothing in the suggestion. But the world has turned everything upside down, made killing fashionable, international piracy and looting a mat ter of course. It is f conceivable that some swift f ightingf ship, sold, not missed in the shuffle.jbas been playing the game of pirate, robber and murderer on the high seas. 'i ; -. -: ; ; Here's a suggestion) for farmers: Try sowing UNHULLED sweet cover seed on your pasture next . January. In the Genessee valley - a farmer raised sweet clover for seed, had a lot left over, not passed through the hulling machine. The unhulled seed wasthrown on a wornout pasture. r The next spring the sweet clover was knee high. Many farmers in the valley are now sowing unhulled sweet clover in the late fall. Country weeklies, please tell farmers about this experiment It means labor saving, the best , kind of v fodder, and soil enriched by nitrogen that sweet clover takes out of the' air. Be sure to- sow the seed NOT HULLED. Hulled seed thrown on the ground would be killed by frost ' '-' ' Two Other farm items: In one Maine county farmers dumped 45.000 barrels of potatoes, to be plowed under as fertilizer no market ' ' 1 Bella Pontiac, champion cow of the world, owned by B. A Barron of Brant ford. Ont. In $he past 12 months has produced 27.107 pounds of milk, which yielded 1.537.75 pounds of butter. Think of producing more than your own weight in milk every Xi days. Breeding pays. I George Bernard Shaw writes a book, "Back to Methuselah.'. He thinks that by the year 3192 men will live 1000 years. But they will not, luckily. . Shaw says modern men never live long enough to do any good. That's a mistake. They live as long' as their brains are ready for new impressions and able to create new ideas. About the time they ,thlnk , tbey know every thing, nature isely gets rid of . them. Think of a million men. each 1000 years old, as well satisfied with themselves as Bernard Shaw. Could anything be more horrible? Eventually men will live from , 140 to 160 years, for . each mammal should live 10 times as long ea it takes to reach the reproductive age. When we live longer, we shall probably think longer. , -;e- : . v - The convict ship Success is again ex hibited in New York. You may see her dungeon cells, without ventilations or light, her whipping ' posts, punishment balls, man racks and straightjackets. When those things were used there were 145 capital crimes on the English law books. And all that seemed perfectly clzht at that tifteu There are things that, "seem perfectly right" to us that in a few years will be hard to believe. For instance: Twenty-five thousand mothers die in this country ; every year In childbirth, tens Of thousands of children in their first year and a lady's anti-suffrage association opposes the suggestion that government should spend money to save those mothers and their children. That's worse than any convict ship. Letters From the People J Communications sent to The Journal for publication in this department Boa Id be written on only one side of the twoer: should not eseeed S00 words in length, and aaust be signed by the writer, wno mail address in lull must accom pany the contribution. i TWO OPPOSING ISMS ' Capitalism and Socialism as Compared By an Advocate of the Latter. " White Salmon, Wash., June IS. To the Editor of The Journal In a recent editorial entitled "He Fought for Amer ica" The Journal deplores present eco nomic and political defects and corrup tion but expresses a hopeless attitude by Inferring that these defects come because of self-government Economic defects exist in a country where the majority is supposed to rule, not because the majority so desires but only because the majority has not learned as yet to recognise the simple remedy which lies at hand. And the reason is that the minority, which prof its from economic defects, controls also the sources of public information. This minority is the money power. So long as the majority is unaware of the means of 'preventing the minority from corner ing the wealth of the earth, corruption will run loose. ; Corruption in ' govern ment makes lawful the cornering of wealth by a few, and unlawful the re sistance of the many. Does this create a cycle in perpetual motion? No. Seirishness is its own hangman.: Capitalism has made certain its own end. ; it topples, and great will ba the crash thereof. But out of dark ness" will dawn a new day. - .The difference between capitalism and socialism is that capitalism rewards each according to the cunning. of bis greed; it punishes honesty with poverty . and want Socialism awards each according to his usefulness, ; punishing . greed. Under capitalism the useless have almost all, while the most useful have ' barely anything. Each grabs from his fellow men by any means which corrupt gov ernment has not made unlawful. And the result is a minority In possession of most of production, all of the surplus? and a mortgage on the future. Under socialism there, can be no ac cumulation of unearned wealth. When each gets what he earns and no more all will be encouraged to be more useful so as to earn more.. Wealth is the ac cumulation of surplus production, noth ing else. When each is .guaranteed all he produces (and every useful one is a producer in that he aids production) the surplus will stay in the hands of the use ful ones for their benefit The parasites will become producers : themselves, or starve. Then, I shall be unable to hand down to my children a mortgage upon your children's production (a bond). And your children will not exist in squalor, robbed; of the 'greater part of what they produce, that my children may sit unproductive, in more luxury than they can use. Capitalists, perceiv ing the dawn of socialism, are crying out that they see "the end of our civili zation." But Socialists would civilize our barbarities. Paul McKercher. DOCTORS Aged Veteran Doubts "if Modern Pre scriptions Will Work. : Soldiers' Home, Orting, Wash., June 22. To the Editor of The Journal Old back numbers, like the4 writer of this ar ticle, have but little part in the affairs of this nation now, and have ceased to worry about who shall have the honor of bringing order out of chaos. There seem to be plenty of doctors -attending the patient and if ail the remedies are tried that are suggested Uncle Sam and his 48 children ought to be a pretty healthy family. Bleeding was the rem edy in our day for What ailed him. Uncle Sam lived but the 'doctor bill is , not settled yet Besides, he has had two sick spells since and the doctor bills are something fierce. . And now the doctors are afraid he is going to ba sick again, and want to lay in much medicine to ward off the next attack. But there is still hope for Uncle Sam The words of pagan Robert Ingersoll are no longer ap plicable that he used about the dam nable doctrine of the survival of the fit test to live. We now have two hew schools of doctors. One would kill off all defectivea The other says, "Think right and do right, and science and evolution will do the rest Scrap all the past and start from the present" Well, I do not claim to have any cure-all, but for the last 60 years I have been aware that a great many people's thinkers needed some repairs, and "then I remember God told the old prophet that his people per ished for lack of knowledge, or sense, as Americans would call it, aUd I think that statement is true. But where are you going to draw the line, and who shall do the judging? If it is sufficient merely to save only those who can succeed in making money and raise perfect chil dren, physically and morally, then the people who were destroyed by the flood ought to have been -lefu-as they were physically stronger than any people since that time. Andlf people as mean as many people are nowadays could live as long as people did then it would need another flood. I think, as no one, evolu tionist or scientist has yet penetrated to the realm where all power and science originated. - It would be well to leave the tares and wheat alone and let God do the judging, or at least wait until we find judges who can reform themselves before they decide who are the only people who are entitled to remain on earth. 3. Van Scoyac. A LIFE . FOR A LIFE Scripture Quoted to Sustain the Capital .f Punishment Code. Portland, June 24. To the Editor of The journal In The Journal of June 21, under the caption --A Failure," you ask. "Has anyone recorded" the great saving of life that was to have followed the reehactment of the capital punishment law?" You then state that two murders and One near murder in Portland were committed iasfr week. Portland has practically averaged a murder a month since January. From other parts ot the state comes frequent word of murder and attempted murder. - And then you add. "As a preventive of murder, capital pun ishment law is a distinct failure." And you further say, '.The death penalty does not deter. But the assurance that every man who commits murder will receive a penalty would deter." You failed to state the penalty needed and the mode of infliction. .-; ' The fact is there is no law, human or divine, that prohibits. The best is only in part deterrent and that part in large measure depends upon strict and speedy enforcement and efficient service. Capi tal punishment has been a penalty for wilful murder in all generations, by all peoples, civilized and uncivilized. In the civilized age it is left to two classes to decry capital punishment : First H criminals, from the wilful murderer down to the sneakthlef ; second, the super-sympathetic, with constricted vis ions of justice under the Imperative law, human and divine, "Thou sbalt not kiil." They hold that under the "new dispensa tion" voiced by Christ on earth is the gospel of mercy and forgiveness. ' They overlook the fact that Christ said, after citing the glories of the Beatitudes, COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Fellow out our way is a fiend for realism. - Saw him scratching his toupe the ether evening. .. . . a .e. ' These Doukhobors up in British Co lumbia must be about as sensible as their name, which Isn't at all. . e .... 'Students searching for prehistoric mounds should Investigate some of the treasure stores of local capitalists. e e e . - See where Nicky Arnstetn has been "given" a f 10,000 fine and sent to jail. Who wouldn't go to jail for such a gift? . -,. e . . r ' - Secretary Denby, in reprimanding Ad miral Sims has set a good precedent for Secretary Hughes in the case of George Harvey. e e . If all American boys could learn to hit the bull's eye. speaking figuratively rather than martially, much . of the world's ' woe would be undone. - ... . e e a..., ; " By the time loan sharks, attorneys, appraisers, commissioners and the inter est rate get through with it, what will the war veteran get out of the soldiers' bonus? ;. Twenty-six hundred churches' in the United States have 'installed motion picture equipment Meanwhile sermons on the worldliness of the theatre are very much in order. ....... e . a - e Chicago nipped in the bud a plot to restore life to a pair of executed mur derers. Properly foiled In the case of criminals, but let's apply the secret to bring back the Progressive party. MORE OR s LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Dr. Edward H. Zettfuchs, who has been visiting his mother In Portland, re cently returned from the East ''here he had spent some time at the Massa chusetts Institute of Technology and at Clark university. Dry Zettfuchs, Who was formerly a resident of Portland and employed in Portland schools, is now employed in research work and chemical engineering with the Standard Oil com pany of California at Richmond, Cat " e a e Eighteen members of the New York Athletic club are registered at the Im perial, pat MacDonald, the big hammer thrower, is among them. "A pretty husky lot of guys," said Bill Crofton.1 "Yes," answered Judge Dutton, "but they don't compare with the young fel lows we used to raise up at Heppner." . e - e - : J. D. Irvine has returned from a visit to Brownsville, the old home town, bring ing with him a summer cold. I never had such a cold before." he said. "I have been laid up in bed with It for two days and I am on my way home now to bed again' e a ;.';-'.:..."-' .: W. C. Sturgill of La Grande is seeing the sights of Portland. e Another visitor Is Dr. R. G. Gale of Hermlston. t a a W. D. BUgh of Salem is among out qf town arrivals. OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred I Hera Is concluded, for ths present tha -re cital ot the Tentnree and adeentnres of John Rarrach, all-round pioneer and arzonaut ot the '60e and 'AOs. Thai installment Uluatiatea the ease and rapidity with which fortune were won and tost ta "the days of cola."! John Barrach. though SO years of age, is hale and hearty and still able to do a full day's work. Sixty years ago he was a resident of Portland. Later he lived at The Dalles. Cascade Locks and other points in Oregon. - "In the spring of 1864." said Mr. Bar rach. "I collected a considerable sum of money from Z. F. Moody of The Dalles for shingles I had furnished htm. and. buying, eight horses and loading them with nails. I started for Idaho City. Just before we reached Idaho City the mining camp had been swept oft the map by a fire. and. while they could secure plenty of lum ber, they were very short of nails, so I received $40 a keg for my nails. I invested this -money in a claim on Van Winkle bar. I worked all summer and had preity good success. That fall I weighed up my dust and found that I had over , $7000. "Just as I was ready to go back to Galena. III., my Old home, I ran across Jim Campbell, a fellow Scotchman, and after talking the matter over we decided to build a flume on Granite creek in Boise basin. We put In some hard work on this flume. We" had got our ditches .dug and had IS feet of our flume up when on June 11. 1863, a big wind storm hit Boise basin and leveled every flume in the district' We had spent $21,000 on our water system, and new we were both flat broke. We had purchased two miles xl ground on Granite creek. Campbell gave me his share in the enterprise and pulled out - "I hated to quit; so. hitching my bulls to the wagon, I struck out for Umatilla Landing, where I left my outfit and took a boat down to Port land. At PorUand I made, arrange ments with Van Tyne & Isler to give me credit for enough iron pipe -.to- put in my flume. 1 was going to Use the inverted siphon process. I shipped my pipe to Umatilla Landing, hauled it to Boise basin and eventually got It in stalled. I had a heavy head of water. a,id when I turned the water into the pipe the force of the water ripped my pipe open aS if it had been made of tissue paper, and once more I was flat broke and in debt lnk not that I am come to destroy the law, or the propheta: X am not come to destroy but' to fulfill. For verily I say unto you. Till heaven and earth pass, one JOt or tittle shall in no wise pass from the law till all be fulfilled." In the same discourse He said, "Ye have heard that it was said'by them of old time. Thou shalt not kill; and whoso ever shall kill shall be in danger of the Judgment But I say unto yo"- whosoever is angry -with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother. Baca, shall be in danger of the cejmcil :. but whosoever shall say. Thou fool, shall be in danger Jf hell fire." Again, Jesus said to Peter, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that lake the sword -hall per ish with the sword.". The final : ulti matum was souded from the lsle of Patmos (Revelation. 18 :10) : "He. that leadeth Into captivity shall go into cap tivity. He that killeth with the sword must be killed with the aword."- Na un certain sound, no inference direct .Or in direct indicating a purpose to annul the civil law inflicting capital punlah- ""llaxlty and inefficiency are dominant features in the administration f law in all departments of civil government and that in regard to capital punishment is in a large measure due to the pseudo philosophy of the opponents of enforce ment W. H. Odell. , THE NIGGER IN '.THE WOODPILE the Saarae C'apital Journal The Ethiopian In the emergency tar iff woodpile has been uncovered by Senatot King of Utah, who has moved for an Inquiry into the circumstances NEWS IN BRIEF a SIDELIGHTS Unless they hurry up, the railroads will not have reduced freight rates on fruit until all the cherries are gone. Eugene Guard. I a e e Not many a wife can question her husband's truth and veracity: when he comes home late and says he had a blow out Roseburg News-Kevlw. The more the community does for the pupil," the greater. slackens the parents become by shirking ' responsibilities, be longing to the family.-HSalem Capital Journal. ... The deputy United ' States marshals who let Roy Gardner escape have more nerve than the picturesque bandit They have filed their bills for fees and ex penses on the trip. Medfard Maii-Trlb- -. The 50 gallons of booze poured Into the Columbia Saturday by the police wasn't exactly bread cftst upon the waters but there ought to -be a return In the shape of pickled salmon. Astoria Budget ..... Many a man whose hair Is grizzling about the ears, even though he owns a high-powered motor car vould prefer a little of the Jingle of the old sleighbells to the rattle of the motor chains. Al bany Democrat . , Bishop Fellows of the Methodist church says short skirts are a blefslng. that women are not growing Immoral and that the world is betting better every day. .Three cheers for this bishop 1 Pendleton East Oref oniajn. . Commenting on the great number of women who are traveling; an old hotel clerk says: "I can't explain it unless it is a reflection of the ne freedom for wemen. A few years .ago jit-was a rare occurrence for a woman to be traveling around alone. What few there were appeared on the register as 'and wife. Nowadays about 50 per cent of our reg istration Is 'Mrs.' or 'Miss) So-and-So. I suppose in a few years it will read in nine cases out of 10 'Mrs. Blank and husband.' i ''- . One of the most famous streams :ln Oregon is the Metolius f river, which bursts out of the grounl full fledged and flows into the Deschutes. It Is much frequented by fishermen. H. M. Slethoff' ot Metolius Is visiting in Port land.; - t A party motoring down' from Waits burg, Wash., is composed of Mrs. K. E Wiseman, Clyde Wiseman, B. Wiseman and Mrs. 'J. Mitchell. W. Heyward, University of Oregon coach, came down to see the exhibition put up by the New York Athletic club team. . -" - - e e W. D. McNary, superintendent of ths Eastern Oregon state hospital. Is a Port land visitor registering from Pendleton. j . ' '- W. S. Wiley of Klamath Falls-is in Portland on legal business. AND IMPRESSIONS Lockley "I decided I knew j when I had enough, so I sold what was left of my pipe to a former soldier, " Sergeant Smith, and a man from 'Hoggum." I turned over my pipe to them and they assumed my debt to Van Tyne & Isler. I sold the two miles of claims I owned along Granite creek to two negroes for $500. They cut the ground into 200 foot sections, making over 50 claims. They sold these claims to Chinamen at $200 a claim, cleaning up over $10,000 on their $500 Investment The China men could rock out $5 or $8 a day, which satisfied them. see '.;.;--' T took a contract to haul ore from one of the Boise basin claims. I was paid $1 a ton. I stayed with this until I had money enough to nay every cent of ' my Indebtedness. : 'Big Nose' Tay lor sold me eight yoke of oxen at $150 a yoke. Dutch Thomas, who hailed from Ashland, in Southern Oregon, had taken a contract to haul a quartz mill from Boise basin to Rocky Bar. In the South basin. He wanted- to get fromtunder the contract, so I took it off his hands at 20 cents a pound. 'Big Nose' Taylor wanted the money for his oxen, but I didn't have a cent I told him he could send one of his men along with me, and as soon as I was paid for, delivering the quartz mill I would give bis man the money. He sent one of his drivers. Bill Perkins. It took me 40 days to move the machinery of the quartz (mill to' Rocky Bar. I was paid $3200 for the job. I paid for my oxen and had more than half the money left Hay was $100 a ton'up there, so I decided to pull out to where I could get cheaper feed for my cattle.. ' j ': -". - - '- . 'I - ' : -"On the way out we camped near a double cabin on a creek. !We turned our cattle out- to graze on the dry bunch grass and went into the jcabin. It was just about dusk. We saw something that looked like a man j hanging from the ridge pole of the cabiii. Upon inves tigation I found it was a (man. He had a paper pinned to his back on which was written, 'Horsethtef hung, by the vigilance committee.' . My two partners were prejudiced against dead men, but I wasn't so they camped under the wagon and I slept In there that night with the dead man. He had been hanged only a few hours before and he was a pretty good-looking chap. I never found out who he was." j i under which this first "constructive" measure of the Harding jadmlntstralion was enacted. The senator charges," and backs the accusation up with an array of facts and figures, that the real bene ficiary of the tariff was not the farm er, but the monopoly controlling chem icals and dyestuf fs headed by the Du Ponts, which i substantially and ma terially benefited thereby in return for making up the deficiency) in Republican campaign funds. . Senator King's charges are backed up by Senator"! Moses of New , Hampshire, who de clares that the chemical and dye fea tures were Incorporated In the emer gency tariff bill under circumstances that Justified complete jcensure. The resolution sets forth the charge that "the dye Industry Is. controlled by a combination of corporations which is. In fact, a monopoly, and) has employed agents, attorneys and lobbyists to in fluence congress in behalf " of -special legislation in the Interest of such mo nopoly." ;'- - ' ';.:' - - Uncle' Jeff Spow Says Ma's hoppin' mad over the flntn' of Mrs. Blrddog, or whatever her name is, that helped her millionaire slacker cow ard son to git away to Germany. The $7000 they made her pay don't cost her nuthln. since she gits it all from Ameri can workln" people anyway, and better women "n her has been sent to Jail for less. A one-armed vet that come back from France told. Ma t'other day he could count on the fingers of his left hand all the millionaire i slackers that had been sent to jail, and it tuck Ma 10 minutes to tumble to it that his left sleeve was tucked up out of the way with a safety pin. ; The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for th U Tl J . OREGON NOTES . J. R. Boyd, who settled In Lane coun ty in 1852, died a few days ago at Goble, agea J. ' Between lr.o and 200 tourists are reg istered daily at the Salem automobile camp grounds. Contract. has been awarded for paving the stretch of the Salem-Dallas highway within the corporate limits of Dallas. The Oregon state penitentiary, with a total of 880 prisoners, now has the ml1 nrollmeBt o nr tlm s'nee Miss Mary Fake, Red Cross nurse, has located 60 ez-ervice men in Coos county who are entitled to government help of some kind. v Teams and men are busy breaking a roadway through the snows leading to Crater Lake, and the resort will soon bo opened to guesta Assets of the .Coqullle Lumber mills, recently placed In the hands of a re ceiver, are placod at $00,000 and the lia bilities at $140,000. V The loganberry crop, experts estimate, will approximate 6300 tons In Marlon county this-year, and there wlU be about 1600 tons of cherries. While wading in Willow creek near his home, Eugene, 10-yvar-old son of Ever ett J. Buggs of Vale, stepped into a deep hole and was , drowned. Farmers along the road have takpn up all the bonds for the Brownsville Plalnvlew highway and the road will be completed this summer. Mrs. James Foster, early Oregon pio neer, who had made her home in Lake county for more than 50 years, is dead at Lakeview, aged 89 years. C. T. Groce, head sawyer at the mill of the Coast Range Lumber company at Mabel, lost his left arm when thrown against the saw by a falling timber. No less than 1271 students attending O. A. C. the past year received sums from the state aid funds for ex-service men, these receiving a total or $ 2o,U7Z. The body of Private Edwin Cecil, son of Mrs, V. G. Tyler of Coburg, who fell In the battle of Belleau wood July 1, 1918, has arrived at Eugene for burial. Members of the Lakeview school board have definitely decided upon the con struction of a modern gymnasium on the ki.u .... H&fr will ,a,t rutn people. WASHINGTON. Contract for the new $70,000 Hartllne high schodl building has been let to a Spokane firm. E. L. French, state director of agricul lure, has fixed the hay Inspection fee Uiis year at 30 cents a ton. The .Underwood fruit district will bar vest Its record crop of apples this year.. The crop is estimated at 300 carloads. Bank deposits In Prosaer have fallen back to where they were in 1919. the two banks showing a total of $739,763.82. , Bond subscriptions for the $400,000 re quired to build the Benton-Franklin in tercounty bridge are still short $20,000. Yakima county commisloners have an nounced a cut of 50 cents a day In wages of county road workers, effective July L The present scale is $4. The Yakima . school board has pur chased for $10,000 a five acre tract on South Eighth avenue, upon which will be erected a new school building. Awards totaling $36,002 have been al lowed 67 Mason county farmers for dam ages by reason of the proposed construc tion ofHhe Lake Cushman power project Slopping payment of $16,786 of illegal county warrants at the Instance of the state bureau of taxation and examina tion has precipitated a legal tangle in Benton county. Falling in a faint while at the wheel of his automobile. C. H. Shultz of Puyal lup suffered serious Injuries when his machine crashed Into a guard rail near Camp Lewis on the Pacific highway. Pierce county commissioners have an nounced .that they will abandon the ferry operating between that city and Gig Harbor and will call for bids to care for the traffic by private contract Announcement Is made that a' 10 per cent dividend will be paid to depositors of the defunct Scandinavian-American bank of Tacoma July 1. Mora than 10,800 depositors have filed claims total ing $5,031,225. The Buffelin Lumber and Manufactur ing company of Tacoma has entered on an extensive building propram which In cludes construction of a $160,000 veneer factory, a $150,000 power house and. a $50,000 planing mill. Yakima's picturesque "drummer boy," Rev. John T. Roberts, retired Methodist minister, who has played in the Civil war veterans' fife and drum corps for many years, was found dead by his wife one morning last week. IDAHO Alfalfa weevil Is doirrg great damage in many bay fields between Jackson and Declo. v - - B. F. Chadwrck has purchased the New Plymouth Sentinel and is now sole owner and editor. Reports have' reached Rupert that Raft river is overflowing ths bottom lands and that several bridges have gone out - i Capital Invested In Idaho hs In creased since 1909 from t48.892.S88 to $71,093,748, and the value of mine prod ucts frorrfr $8,649,342 to $11,840.S01. A. C." DeMary, who ha been United States commissioner at Rupert for 15 years, has resigned and John S. Martin has been appointed to fill the vacancy. Extension of time for one year fron July 1 has been granted by the puhllo utilities commission to the Idaho js company for building its plant at Idaho Falls.. Efforts to get a 40 per cent reduction In freight rates on shipments of potatoes from Idaho to Missouri river points are being made by the stats public utilities commission. kSNfOW YOUR 0ORTLAN D in reclamation projects of Wash ington may be classed s an asset to Portland equally with the projects which lie within the boundaries of Oregon. Nearly all are in the trad ing and tributary territory of this city.- Washington has irrigated 646.000 acres. Projects under construction or ready for water cover 30.000 acres. The additional area susceptible of Ir rigation aggregates about 2,650,000 acrs.':.-;;;-.j Marvin Chase, state hydraulic engi neer of Washington, says the Kittltaa valley, the upper portion of the Yak ima, has tinder Irrigation by private enterprise 72.000 acres, with an ad ditional 70,000 acres to come under the "high line" now going forward with state and federal assistance and a total of 83,000 acres yet to be irri gated. In the Yakima valley proper about 300,000 acres are under irrigation. Mr. Chase Is authority for the Ktaia ment that the Yakima valley, once a sagebrush desert now produces mora wealth annually than any other val ley In the west A total of about 208,000 acres are yet to be reclaimed in the Yakima valley by the 'Indian service, the federal reclamation serv ice and the stats of Washington. The units to be Irrigated In the Yakima valley are : Roza, 68.000 acres : Selah. Moxee, 85.000 ; the Reservation. 70,000 and the Kennewick. 36,000. Toward the southern line of Wash ington a number of projects total some 10,000 acres. About 60,000" acres in the vicinity of Walla Walla are to be watered through storing the flow of Touchet river in Lamar coulee. (To Be Continued) 4