THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON
SATURDAY, JUNE 3. 1C21.
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. 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
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; 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. ,
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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.
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' These Doukhobors up in British Co
lumbia must be about as sensible as
their name, which Isn't at all.
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'Students searching for prehistoric
mounds should Investigate some of the
treasure stores of local capitalists.
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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? .
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Secretary Denby, in reprimanding Ad
miral Sims has set a good precedent for
Secretary Hughes in the case of George
Harvey.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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'
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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
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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
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. 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. . -" -
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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