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AS TO THE? EXPOSITION
THE pessimist frequently plays a
part in public affairs equivalent
to the breeching on harness and the
brakes on motor cars. He is not
equipped to pull ahead, but he does
restrain over-rapid progress.
A little pessimism made its ap
pearance at the meeting: of citizens
called last Wednesday to consider
plans for the 1S25 Atlantic -Pacific
Highways and Electrical exposition
In Portland.
One financial authority, whose
words were greeted with deserved
respect, felt that the times bode ill
for the use of money in any exposi
tion purpose whatsoever."
Others opined that the finance
committee which called the meeting
owed to the citizens gathered a sat
isfactory financing plan as a basis
for definite discussion and action.
But the majority sentiment was
strongly in favor of an exposition
and there was no disturbing lack of
confidence that it can be financed.
The pessimistic element was not
greater proportionately than the es
sential brakes of the motor car.
Oregon can hold an exposition in
1936 which will celebrate the com
pletion of great national " highways,
which will exploit our hydro-electric
resources and which will promote
the cause of peace and concord be
1 tweeh nations. Such an exposition
can be financed. Support for it can
be gained from the Columbia basin,
from the rest of the West, from the
several states of the Union, from the
national government and from for
eign nations.
Cheers and shouting and enthusi
asm will play their part in the ad
vancement of the exposition but it
Is hardheaded wisdom which points
out that the foundation of success
must be a sound financing plan. The
' 35,000,000 capital now proposed
cannot be raised by a waving of
arms. The finance committee of
Portlanders merits the addition of
representative citizens from Oregon
communities and from the leading
cities of the Northwest. It is doubt
. ful If in these moments of opposi
tion to any increase in public bud
gets the exposition fund can be
raised by taxation, but it will be sub
scribed by the very large number
who have no lack! of confidence in
the multiform returns from the ex
position. It is true that the times are un
settled and that money is "tight"
Money is always timid except "when
it leaps to take advantage of what
appears to be a sure thing. "Money
talks" chiefly in whispers. But the
least valuable money is that hid in
stockings and held in inactive ac
counts. Money spent for construc
tive endeavor is quickly translated
into the terms of human necessi
ties food, fuel, clothing, shelter and
recreation. It goes out as wages,
as payment to producers and as com
pensation for ' service and goods.
Prosperity occurs when, money cir
culates among the largest possible
number. Hard times result when
money is stored in a few places and
is controlled by a few hands. Money
is. after all, only a medium of ex
change. When exchange from hand
to hand slackens, production is
checked, industry languishes.' pay
rolls wither, bills remain unpaid.
Food, fuel, shelter and clothing may
be abundant but the condition
THERE is a world of beauty and merit in boyville.
Don't torn up your nose at the lad you pass on the street. Beneath
the cap there may be a genius and under the coat a gentleman superfine.
Portland boyville astounded and delighted a big audience at The
Auditorium Thursday evening. It was a concert by the Whitney Boys
Chorus, and from noentertainment given in Portland have men more
reason to be proud of their sex or people more occasion to have faith
in the race.
Boys of IS and under 115. of them sang in soprano voices with a
sweetness and finish to jnake women singers envious; sang in chorus with
a swing and volume that sent thrills through every listener and through
their various and varied numbers mads the big audience laugh with them,
admire them or listen in aa intensity of silence which professionals cannot
overmatch.
A boy in knee pants thundered at the big pips organ, and another blew
a cornet with the air and finish of a real artist. Others only in the be
ginning of their teens sang solos, duets and sextettes with a grace and
charm and poise that invariably captured the audience and brought one
stormy recall after another. One little chap danced himself into stormy
encores and others played the piano like veterans. Another little lad de
livered an original speech better than many a grown up makes, and still
another did character readings that filled the big room with roars of
laughter.
As a background for it all there was a beautiful picture that lighted
up the program and heightened its power to delight. It was a picture
made first by the boys themselves and made also by the idea back of the
occasion. ' "
When the curtain rose there was revealed 13S young lads in red ties,
white waists, black knee pants and smiling faces. It was a living picture
of boyhood that brought exclamations of delight from all over the house
followed by a thunderous burst of applause. What an object lesson and
what an appeal to the small boy to seek the paths of orderliness and good
conduct if it could have been seen by every boy in Portland.
The other picture in that background was the big idea of the thing
that can be done for many an American boy to withhold him from the
ways that are pulling so many of them downward. It was a picture of
What boys can do if only somebody will get h.old of them and lead them
and show them, and train them and hold up ideals to them.
Some boys may be perverts by birth. Probably they are. But not a
tenth of the boys who go wrong would go wrong If only there were some
Whitney with a boys' chorus or other boy enterprise to throw out anchor
lines to them and by showing them good ways, hold them in safe moor
ing until the final impressions were made and the plastic mind made
secure by having sensed the rewards and triumphs of good conduct.
After you have seen that background, seen the living picture of the
boys and the picture of the big idea shown at The Auditorium,
you know that it isn't the boys that" are to blame for all these hangings
of boys of 18 and all these burglaries by boys of 15 and 16 and all these
other works of deviltry and folly that are filling the jails and reformatories
and penitentiaries with children yet in their teens.
It is the communities and the people, and the parents and the citizens.
all falling to sense how boys will react to incentive and leadership, that
are culpable, deeply, profoundly remiss, miserably negligent, short, wofully.
dismally short, in their sense of what they can do with boys that are
scandalizing the nation through the wrecked children and derelict little
chaps in their teens strewn along the sea beaches of human life.
That the great mass of these boys can be saved from downfall is as
certain as death and taxes, and the principle by which it can be done may
be sensed by any and all who will attend a concert by the Whitney Boys'
Chorus, and, sitting there while the boys are In action, study the forces
and psychology at work in the living, pulsating background of the beauti
ful picture.
Mr. Whitney has a big jdea. The parents of the 800 boys In his chorus
have sensed it. Those who have attended the boyville conceits have
caught it.
There are boys in that chorus for whom big careers have already begun.
There is hot a boy in the group who has not had impressions for good
conduct made on his plastic mind that will cling to him through life.
There is no career more useful or more exalted than this work of a man
in his leadership of boyville.
A bad boy at 18, statisticians say, has cost the community $1800 in
cash; and a good boy, they add, is worth 8600 to the community in his
good works.
PRIZEFIGHTS
A MILLION and a half dollars
was paid to see the international
prizefight- . In the final returns, the
figures may be increased. The fight
lasted less than 15 minutes.
From border to border of America
enormous crowds stood around news
paper offices receiving the returns.
Throughout the civilised world, in
deed, cables and telegraphs carried
the news by rounds to waiting
throngs. The widespread Interest
proves that in spite of an advancing
civilization, vast masses 'of people
are still concerned to know which
of two noted fighters is able to put
the other down and out.
Many men of 'intellectuality and
good morals become Interested. They
may hate the process and hate the
results, but the indescribable appeal
that physical exploits have to them
draws them to the ringside, or at
least to a marked concern in the out
come. Other kinds of men are also among
the fans. -Low brows and big Jowls
and thick necks are all there. It is
such company that makes the intel
lectuals and better moral ed men who
go. shrink from the contact.
It is not an elevating perform
ance. We pass laws to prevent
cruelty to animals. But congress
men and senators Join the throng
that pays a million and a half
to see one man beat another into
insensibility.
We not only behold our statesmen
patronising the game, but see the
country worked up to a high pitch
of excitement while waiting for the
blows and blood flow, for the
knockout punch and the man beaten
out of his senses. It is a dignity
and an emphasis that a brutal con
test does not deserve.
The best indication that there is
somewhere a missing link Is that
there is still a lot of the animal in
man. The Romans carried on the
gladiatorial contest where men like
the principals of yesterday were, as
bondsmen, compelled to fight to the
death or until disabled by sword
wounds. The Spaniards and Mexi
cans still have theh bullfights.
which, J.n our alleged superiority, we
disdain.
The story of civilization is a strug
gle between the animal in man and
the spiritual in man. We advance
according as we submerge the ani
mal and accentuate and develop the
mental and spiritual. One school
teacher or one Salvation Army
worker with a good mind Is
more value to the country than a
field full of prizefighters, and as
time goes on the world will find it
out.
wheat that is the greatest staple pro
duced in America, a product upon
which millions of people are depen
dent for a livelihood, a product that
Is the basic factor in the food that
sustains mankind.
The movement of the farmers for
cooperative grain selling In order to
get rid of the "demoralizing curse"
at Chicago is their ringing and in
telligent answer to this parasitism,
and it is a movement that deserves
the sympathy and support of all
American groups.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
precedent to their enjoyment under
modern conditions" the free cir
culation of money.
This is but another way of saying
that to keep heart high, courage
strong and energy employed Is in
finitely preferable to yielding idle
ness. An exposition which will draw
world-wide attention to the basic
sources of wealth which are the
Sure foundation of Columbia basin
optimism will not alone attract
those who by Investment and other
wise will spend many times the cost
of the fair. It will help maintain
our own morale.
THE GREATEST COUP
JUST A STEP
AHEAD
There Is Cheer for Earnest but Sad
dened Souls in the Instance of an
Obscure but Devoted Princess of
a Century Ago and Her Equally
Devoted Daughter Whose In
fluence for Good Gave Name
to a Moral Epoch.
Prom the Chicago Post
A reader of that latest classic in the
field of biography, Lytton Strachey's
'Queen Victoria," cannot but be amaz
ingly impressed with the change of epoch
marked by the coming of the girl-queen
to the throne of England. There 1 a
vast gulf in fundamental quality, though
there was not in elapsed time, between
the morals of the fourth George and
the fourth William and those which we
call In playful reverence "early Victorian."
The account contained in this fasci
nating book of the seven sorts of George
III Is an enumeration of princely repro
bates surrounded by scamps and cour
tesans. British society was In a back
wash of shameless selfishness and re
action. The first blush of liberalism
which the French uprising had inspired
a generation before had died away and
left the world of English culture dis
illusioned aad cynical The loose char
acters and immoralities of the royal
princes, and especially of the eldest.
ueorge iv, gave me tone, or pernaps
we had better say set the pace, far that
London society which was dominated
by a king, a cad and a castaway.
Then entered on the scene the healthy
Lutheran Christianity of a stoical, florid
little woman, Ictoria Mary . Louisa by
name, who had been snatched from an
impoverished widowhood to become the
wife of the least objectionable of George
Ill's sons and to be. it was hoped, the
mother of an heir to the throne. She
heartily Joined the national church, and,
after the birth of her daughter and the
death of the prince, her husband, she
centered 'her energies on bringing up
this possible future sovereign of Great
Britain to be, above all else, a devoted
and true-living Christian. She succeeded ;
and the influence of these two good
women wrought one of the most rapid
and striking religious and moral changes
in' the history of our times.
SMALL CHANGE
The one feature of the dry laws that
isn't violated often is that which pre
vents liquor being given away.
The esteemed news writer is observed
to employ the phrase "abort apace of
time." Boy, peace Mr. 1 ssln
As the Philippine islands are now
heels over bead In debt, it may be said
that they are truly Americanised.
Congress is spending much time these
days oa figuring bow to help business.
Probably it never occurred to the mem
bers that they might try letting tt
alone.
la the oM days the defeated pugilist
was constrained to consort with the
twining woodbine and the mourning
whangdoodle ; but now 8208,000 Carp
should worry.
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"My right hand will make me cham
pion
how. ii nis ngnt nana nan only ti
off to his left hand what it had fig-
urea on aomg :
of the world." said Carnentier
ow. if his right hand had only tipped
SIDELIGHTS
The big noise has subsided a little,
but it is still true that the chief trouble
in this country Is too much talk. Al
bany Democrat.
see
Mr. Stiliman is reported to be worth
l5e.SO0.000. His lawyers, however, are
doing all they can to reduce the preju
dice which exists against the perma
nent po eaaaon of such wealth. Mad
ford Mail Tribune.
We imagine that the most popular
club in America will be the New Tort
Navy club, which has adopted for its
motto. "No member shall be robbed,
educated or uplifted." corvaUis Ga-sette-TimeA
e
People who love to "kill Urn" suf
fer mental and moral decay. It is the
busiest folks who find time to do the
most for the community. The war has
brought many troubles, but it has made
ur people purposeful and achieving.
Baker Democrat.
Tastes differ. In some places they put
editora in la.il. However In Edmnnton.
NOW comes from Washington that Canada., the citizen am nlannlnv Tr nut
the government is coining a larare a stained arias 1b a church as a me-
amount of silver dollars. What's the : morial to a deceased editor. Pray what
matter with slipping a few into circu-I do these Edmonton papers print in their
lation that ws may see what they look news columns, anyway? Albany Demo
like. I crmt
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
PIERE have been coups, coup
d'etats and various other strate
gic successes all down through world
history, but none has been more
completely successful, from the
standpoint of the master mind, than
that of Nlcolai Lenin In Russia.
and none has been more efficiently
camouflaged.
When Lenin and his propagand
ists came to the fore in Russia, the
long submerged people had tasted
one variety of political freedom. The
revolution had afforded them other
than a crushing subjugation. Lenin
and his aids promised more. Their
promises of freedom were more ex
treme than any that had ever been
suggested. The proletariat were to
be masters of the country; every
body was to have political, social and
economic freedom; there Was to be
eternal sunshine and wealth and
contentment were to ooze from the
air.
Lenin's proposals sounded fine.
He won many followers and was
comfortably seated on a military dic
tators throne. The world became
rosy for Lenin.
Now come the following extracts
from a protest sent out by anarchists
In Russia, who ask that it be pub
lished broadcast:
The undersigned anarcho-syndicalist
organisations, after having carefully con
sidered the situation that has developed
lately in connection with the eountrv-
wide persecution of anarchists in Mob-
cow. Petrograd, Kharkov and other cities
oi Kussia and Ukrania including the
forcible suppression of anarchist orsrani.
rations, clubs, publications and so forth
hereby express their decisive and en
ergetic protest against this crushing of
not dbly every agitational propagandis-
uc Hcuviiy, out even of purely cultural
ora oy anarchist organisations.
The protest further tells, and cites
specuic instances, how anarchists
have been imprisoned, exiled and
beaten, and declares that a sys
tematic man-hunt for anarchists has
been inaugurated, and that "the
most merciless war has been carried
on against them. Concluding, the
protest says:
The anarchists at Ttraat -
forced into the condition of a complete
moral hunger strike, for the soviet gov
f "? " Possibility
to carry out these plans and projects
which it itself only recently promised to
aid.
That is to say, the direct action
ists, the syndicalists and extreme
Reds in America have been idealiz
ing and idolizing the Russian plan,
find Lenin, now that hais thoroughly
entrenched In power, wholly out of
harmony with their scheme of
things. He insists upon authority,
extreme authority, and upon appli
cation of law and by their own testi
mony, upon pursuit and prosecution
of syndicalists and anarchists even
to the extent of making his processes
a man hunt. It means that the wild
illusions extreme American Reds
have had of what government by
their kind should be have not ma
terialized in Russia, that sovietism
after all is no asylum and nursing
ground for anarchy and anarchists.
The anarchists' statement, together
with Lenin's recent interview de
claring that "capitalism Is unavoid
able" even under the soviet regime,
is example that the dream of the
extreme Reds Is exploded and that
there must be law and order under
any system of government.
And as time goes on, and more
and more of the facts as to affairs
come out of Russia, the more and
more it will be shown that the Amer
ican system Is sound to the core, re
gardless of how politicians abuse
and demoralize it.
PREPARING FOR THE
SLAUGHTER.
WHAT OF THE AMERICANS?
AFTER being at liberty on parole
for nearly a year, Franz J. Fein-
ler, a former chaplain In the United
States army, has been pardoned by
President Harding.
Feinler, a native of Germany, en
listed In the army in 1 309. He was
sent overseas as a chaplain early in
the war. He was sent home for
treasonable utterances which indi
cated his German sympathy. Later
he was assigned to duty at Honolulu
He was soon charged with carrying
propaganda favorable to the enemy,
court martial ed, convicted and sen
tenced to IS years In the federal pen
itentiary. He was pardoned, we are
told, on recommendation of Sec re
tary Weeks, who believed Feinler
had been punished sufficiently.
Perhaps a pardon was the proper
thing. Perhaps Feinler had been
punished sufficiently. Perhaps not.
Feinler deliberately talked against
this government in time of war. He
was sent home from France for that
reason. After that he was convicted
of carrying propaganda detrimental
to the cause of America and favor
able to the German cause. "How in
the world can be be pardoned when
youngsters who took up arms for
this country, who went to France,
possibly to sacrifice their lives for
the Stars and Stripes, who were
A SIGN that Chicago wheat gam
blers and manipulators are get
ting ready to mercilessly beat down
the price of the coming crop of
wheat is visible In a Chicago news
dispatch. It says:
Fear of strike complications bowled
into the wheat market today at the same
time as the first big offerings from the
1921 harvest
Wild tumbling of prices followed with
the July delivery of wheat here showing
an extreme loss of 9 cents a bushel, com
pared with yesterday's finish. Simulta
neously cash values for immediate de
livery of wheat in Kansas City were re
ported as having dropped In some cases
fully 22 cents.
Threatenings of a tie-up of all Chicago
grain elevators on account of wage trou
bles had become more ominous over
night They were given greater signlfl
cance because of reports that balloting
on the part of the railroad employes
throughout the country indicated rejec
tion of the wage cut ordered for July 1.
"It certainly is amazing," says a
successful grain dealer who is a
member of the Kansas City Board of
Trade, "that the country has so long
tolerated a gigantic gambling system
which has no more moral merit than
throwing dice, and which Is a
thousand-fold more dangerous to the
welfare of the country because of
its great powers." He referred to
the Chicago wheat pit, where prices
of the farmers' wheat are largely
fixed by a crowd of gamblers in silk
hats.
"The present methods of the Chi
cago Board of Trade are the most
demoralizing curse of the country,"
writes a prominent Chicago lawyer
to Senator Capper of Kansas. He
says:
Every morning and constantly during
the day, these gamblers, who parade ss
"market stabilizers," have their myriads
of clerks telephone their poisoned dope
to employes and employers of nearly
every great business establishment . in
this city and adjacent to Chicago. They
are made to believe that sooner or later
if they keep playing the market they
are bound to strike it rich, and in thou
sands of cases they prove easy suckers
There is always a new sucker for every
one that is bled dry. The gambling com
bine never exposes the losses but spreads
every winning broadcast through every
channel of publicity.
This, he says, brings in new suck
ers and induces the old ones to try
it again. He goes on to say:
I know personally dosens of these
gamblers. Not one of them could earn
$25 a week honestly, but by aid of the
suckers contributions and their own
illegitimate deals they clear from
$60,000 to 1200.000 a year. When their
suckers run out of money they take
diamonds, motor cars or anything they
can turn into cash. Not one of these
market stabilisers but is afraid to live
on the first floor of a building for fear
some of their dupes will take a shot
at them. They know they are always
hi danger.
Wrecked banks, ruined careers,
suicides and every form of blight
come to men throughout the coun
try as a result' of the wheat
gambling, yet this crowd as described
by the Chicago lawyer is the group
Cynics will say that "early Victorian"
religion and9 morality lacked vigor and
balance ; that they were "precieuse,"
lacking to vitality. The period did not,
it is tcAe, have as its distinguishing
mark the strenuous, manly striving for
righteousness which makes a crusading
age. But It raised up a higher type or
statesmen, a more consecrated order of
churchmen, a more Christian school of
educators thai, England had known be-
of J fore In many a long day. The sincere
religion, purity ana nonesiy oi me ns&u
of the state, her unfeigned enthusiasm
ior the lofty and her hatred of unclean
ness were a cool breese of redemption
after the fetid sultriness of the de
generating, unholy Georgian daya
Here la the redeeming effect of Chris
tianity applied in, a place of conspicuous
advantage. The opportunity was a rare
one, but the faith to prepare for 1
and meet It was great, nevertheless
At the time when the future queen was
receiving her earl education, a number
of lives and possible lives stood between
her and the throne ; her training at
that time was simply designed to make
her a Christian woman. Even with the
remote chance of rulership, it did not
seem as if that fragile young girl could
exercise any far-reaching moral influ
ence over what was then the richest
and most material of world powers. Tet
the faith of two women held to its
course and finally opened the 'way to
an era of revived hope and idealism.
It is rather an Impressive chapter in
the long story of the step-by -step re
demption of human society through the
Christian faith.
John Cochran, assistant secretary of
state, was In Portland Saturday on of
ficial business. By a peculiar circum
stance his visit coincided with the fight
bulletin
Mr. and Mrs. H. Vollstedt of
Dalles are visiting in Portland.
The
R. E Chapman and B. C. Weaver of
at the same time.
To his qualifications ss banker, i
politician and county commissioner, R Pendleton happened to come to Portland
W. Hoyt has added that of M. D. hon
orary and extraordinary. In token of
his new acquirement he was wearing a
badge Saturday indicating that be was
a delegate to the Tri-state Medical con
vention.
a party rrom Lewlston, Idaho, now
visiting in Portland, Includes Charles
Wahl, Axel Danelson and Harry Lath urn.
a
T. Albert Matson and W. J. Conrad of
Marsh field are in Portland on business.
L R. Bullis and E. B. Fitts of Corval
hs are taking in the sights of Portland.
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Another out of town visitor is H. C.
Pugh of Salem,
The Oregon Country
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred fJockley
(Again Mz. LerxW takes a trip on a Co
lombia rirer boat and talks with the pilot, aa
old-timer, who taOa him about other aid-timers
and old timee on the rivers of Oregon.
If you want to put In a day of real
sightseeing, take a steamer at Astoria
for the trip to Portland. I recently
made the trip on the Georgians. A
June day on the river is a combination
that is pretty hard to beat. Captain
Arthur Riggs, master of the Georgians,
Invited me to come up to the pilot
house. As the Georglana made its way
up the Columbia we fell Into talk about
the early days on the river.
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"What was your first experience on
the river?" I asked. Captain Riggs
smiled reminlscently and said : T can
remember very vividly my first expert
ence on the river. When my mother ! he ran a boat on the TTmiwua rivnr and
manaea Dy captain "Baa Miller. I can
remember Apw disappointed I was at
their not ffTHtlng me along with them,
for even at that early age I was crazy
about boats. In 1913. when running on
the Stickeen river, in Alaska, I saw the
hull of the Beaver at what is called
Beaver bend. The hull seemed to be ss
sound as ever. She ran Into' a rock
and was sunk in the Stickeen river in
the early morning of May 17, 1878. while
commanded by Captain Nat H. Lane Jr.
Captaiin Nat Lane, who was born In
Oregon in 1864. was a son of Captain
Nat H. Lane, an early steamboat man
on the Willamette river. Captain Nat
H. Lane Sr. came from Indians, where
be was born in 1822. As a young man,
he served as pilot on the Ohio and Mis
sissippi rivers. When he came to Oregon
Boxing Champions -
Review of Early Exemplars of
Manly Art in Old England.
the
From the New York Times.
To arr incorrigible world the most Im
portant news In the papers next Sunday
will be the issue of the combat with five
ounce gloves between Mr. Deropsey, the
American, and M. Carpentler, the
Frenchman, in the arena erected by
hustling workmen for that and no other
purpose in Jersey City. Moralists may
deplore the general Interest la the event,
but one fancies that some of them would
like to be present and have a bet on the
winner. So Inconsistent is human nature
at its best. Admiration of the gladiator
triumphant seems to be ineradicable. It
is to the blood, an Inheritance. The lust
for battle is particularly strong in ob
servers. That form of battle known to
the prise ring has always had its thou
sands of spectators, including such near
sighted scholars as William Haalitt,
who traveled all night in great discom
fort to see "The Fight," which he cele
brated so well that the narrative ap
pears In anthologies of English prose.
Physically Haslltt could not have coped
with a well fed errand boy, but he doted
on prizefighters. It may he sussected
that Joy in exhibitions of "the manly
art" when 'a championship is at stake is
one of the immoral bdt delectable emo
tions that came down to as from Old
England when she was half civilised. In
that country the pugilist was never
without boner, and when eminent he was
embalmed in the standard biographies.'
was not looking I managed to get hold
of the big family washtub and took it
down to the river bank. I put my
baby brother into the tub as a passen
ger and shoved it out into the current
He seemed to enjoy the voyage as a
passenger aa much as I did as a spec
tator. Missing the baby, my mother
came down to the river bank where I
was playing and asked me where the
baby was. I pointed down the river,
for by this time the tub had traveled
nearly half a mile, and I told her that
that little speck' down there was my
baby brother In the tub. You can
imagine my mother's excitement. At
her excited calls my father came run
ning, and, securing a rowboat, started
as fast as he could row to overtake the
washtub, which was bobbing merrily
along toward the sea. Meanwhile my
mother started for me, and what she
did to me was plenty.
e
"This first experience on the river
did not discourage me, however. I al
ways loved the river and determined
to be captain of a boat some day. I
was born at Pleasant Hill, not far
from Sherwood. My father came across
the plains to Oregon In 1852. My
mother's people came In the late '40a
Captain Enos Crawford, who la pilot
on the Georglana, has the next trick
at the wheel. When he comes up I will
introduce you. He was the man who
gave me my first Job. I was about 15
years old and small for my age. I
struck Enos Crawford, who at that
time. 1884. was mate of the Isabel, for
a Job He told me to go away and
grow some more before I tried to get
a Job on the river. As I persisted, he
finally told me to truck a lot of sacked
wheat onto the boat. I had to put
three sacks of wheat on the truck and
also operated a steamer at Coos Bay.
Later he came to the Willamette. His
son. Captain Nat H Lane Jr., was pilot
and captain of various boats in Alaska.
He was in command of the Caasiar
which operated on British Columbia
waters for some years. Later he re
turned to Oregon as master of the Occi
dent, which plied on the Willamette.
e e
"Captain E. W. Spencer Is aboard. I
am going to take you down to see htm,
for he can tell you more about the river
than -anyone I know of. He followed
in his father's footsteps, for bis father
was also a steamboat captain. Captain
Spencer has been one of the leading
figures on the "Columbia and Willamette
ever since 1875, when be was on the
City of Salem, plying between Portland
and Salem. He has had enough experi
ences here on the Willamette, on the
Columbia and to Alaskan waters to make
a book, and moreover, in addition to
being one of the most raps hie men on
the river, he is one of the most likable
and interesting men.
e
"There are only a few of the old
timers left. Napoleon Bonaparte Ingalls,
at the Mann Home In Portland, is 80
years old. He started his career on
the river in 1853 as purser on the Eagle,
which ran between Portland and Oregon
City. Captain William P. Gray, who
lives at Pasco and who was born at
Oregon City in 1845, is a son of Dr. W.
H. Gray. He began his career on the
Columbia In 182- Before that he bad
sailed a sloop on the Eraser river. An
other old-timer is Captain Eph Baugh
man, who came to Oregon In 1850 when
he was 15 years old. He was a fireman
on the Lot Whltcomb In 1851. so nis career
on the river covers a period of 70 years.
Ha la llvine nn near IwlstOn. In the
wheel them down the incline aboard , j. ,6A ne operated sail boats between
the boat- He watched me for awhile , th. raaoadea and The Dalles For sev
eral years he was pilot on the Colonel
Wright. The year the Civil war broke
out he became commander of the Okan
ogan. Later he was cataln of the Tenl
no. A few years later he was in charge
of the E. D. Baker, which ran between
OREGON NOTES
Six fire lookouts are now stationed est
the Deschutes national forest.
The Oregon Packing company at 8a
Mm is taking all cherries offered at
cents a pound.
Ira. Nancy Johnson, perhaps the otd
f P in Lane county, died at Dex
ter test Monday; aged 98.
It is rumored at Vale that the Oregon
short line will soon begin construction
of its road from Crane to Bend.
Mrs. Ellen Gear, early pioneer, ta dead
atBurns. aged 78. Mrs.-Gear was the
wife of Cal Geer, to whom she bad been
married 82 years.
The loganberry crop in the Salem
district this season is conservatively es
timated at 0O0 tona The 1920 crop
reached only 2500 tons.
George W. McLato received injuries
at Mount Angel that resulted in his
death when he jumped off a truck and
fell under the wheels.
A full grown beaver, showing tradi
tional signs ox industry, naa been
in the Umatilla river by Pendleton
dents during the past few evenings.
Business men and the Chamber of
Commerce have petitioned the city coun
cil to pass aa ordinance prohibiting
carnival and similar shows in Baker.
At an estimated cost of 882.500, the
first unit of the new Salem hospital will
be commenced at once. The hospital was
organled in 1898, with ssssts less than
81000.
A contract has been awarded by the
school board at Lorane. a village It
miles southwest of Eugene, for the erec
tion of a high school building to cost
810.200.
J. E. Scrimsher. 44. well known Uma
tilla county farmer, dropped dead at his
home in Pendleton a few minutes after
being at the Inland Empire bank on
Grasshoppers are becoming so
nil on Crane organs In Eastern '
that destruction of the range, which ordi
narily carries 17 ou neaa ox oncus,
threatened.
WASHINGTON
The school board at Spokane has pi
sented a budget showing a decrease
levy of 2Vi mills below that of 1920.
Yakima's new Christian
church, to cost 880.000, will be r run plated
to time for occupancy this winter.
The Lincoln County Livestock sorts
tion Is planning a livestock show and
sale at Harrington, October 4, i aad 8.
Governor Hart has appointed Dr. Jo
seph Roane or Vancouver to i
the state examining board of
physicians.
Demobilization of the Fifty -
enaat artillery, far many months a nota
tion of the Twenty-first brigade at Camp
Lewis, is announced in oroers r.
Washington.
Word Is received at Pressor sf
arrival- of a 20.000-oound car of C
ries in New York in 92 hours after leav
ing Pro cr. Another car reached New
York in 98 hours.
Marguerite. 12-year-old daughter of
Thomas Hodge of Seattle, was drowned
at Little Goose lake, near Okanogan,
Friday afternoon. She was rowing em
the lake In a leaky boat,
Out of 24 charges, where conviction
carries prison sentences, only one con
viction has been obtained at Aberdeen,
the police department complaining that
the Juries are packed with bootleggers.
The Franklin County Farm Bureau
News at Pasco has been changed to the
"Franklin County Farmer," the reason
being that the paper is Intended to bene
fit all farmers whether members of the
bureau or not.
On a charge of use of the malls with
intent to defraud, Edward H. Behafer,
president and manager of the Oregon
Washington Lumbering and Manufactur
ing company, has been indicted by a
federal grand Jury at Seattle.
In spite of the 25 per cent increase
granted the railroads by the department
of public works, the Northern Pacific
submits statistics showing that during
the year 1920 it had operated logging
carriers at a loss of 8500,000.
IDAHO
Five carloads of cherries were handled
last week by Lewiston orchards.
Out of 8853.000 levied for 1920 taxes to
Shoshone county, less than $1500 is de
linquent. H. F. Allen, president of the Allen Oil
company, suffered fatal injuries at Twin
Falls when the car be was driving over
turned, ringing him underneath.
Mrs. Ida Swanson of Mullan, who lost
both legs when she threw herself in front
of a train with suicidal intent, has de
veloped a case of violent Insanity.
Logan Wester. 80, was killed aad three
others seriously Injured as the result of
the explosion of a box of dynamite caps
at the Green dairy, south of Pocatello.
Five hundred Presbyterian Indians of
the Nes Perce reservation are attending
a camp meeting at Craigmont A fea
ture of the meeting Is a choir of 40
voices.
An attempt was made early Saturday
morning to burn the large Hawks a
Rush warehouse at PocateKs). Fire had
been started in several places but quick
work of the fire department saved the
building from destruction.
and finally said: 'All right, son; you're
hired. I didn't think you could do it.'
That Was my first Job.
"Captain Crawford' a father. George
Crawford, was a marine engineer. He
came up rrom rm wneans aooui is,. Cascades. In the late
going on the Willamette river run. H ruM,a T. ..ir..
died about a year ago at the age of 98.
When he was 80 years of age he could
play poker all night and be on duty all
next day ; so you see be was a pretty
husky chap, in spite of his four-score
years.
60s and the early '70s he was operating
on Paget sound and on the Eraser river.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
"It seems a shame that with Oregon's
liquid highways to the sea we use them
so little. I hope to see the day come
when the citisens of the metropolis of
"The year that the Oregon City locks Oregon win sssssj m wmm news,
were completed. 1872. saw the launch- pull and a puu au , Jl" '
ing of several steamers on the Columbia Port in Portland, and see that
and Willamette. The Beaver was the terminus of lines of sbssmers to
i t a .w . I? tviaa rtiffernt world ports, wnen tm
Portland. ' day comes we shall make greater use or
the Willamette ana trie tmuiuui.
in
"When I was five years old my mother ' bringing the products of the Willamette
and sister made a trip to Portland on 1 valley and of the Columbia river basin
the Beaver, which at that time we com- ' to Portland for shipment overseas.
fighting for our cause instead of) that manipulates the price of the
Of James Flgg. the first boxing cham
pion, who died as long ago as 1724, Cap
tain John Godfrey wrote in a fine
frenzy : "There was a majesty shone In
his countenance and biased In all his ac
tions beyond all I ever saw." Flgg was
a proper man with the small sword, the
Jk back sword and the cudgel, ss well as
with his fists. He "established an am
phitheatre or academy of arms' in Ox
ford Road. Marylebone Fields, and there
he taught his accomplishments to "a
large number of gentlemen." The Tat
ler sang his praises. When he held an
exhibition the doors were open three
hours before the first contest wss pat
on. In Dodsiey's Collectios of Poems
may he found some verses by the poet
aster Byrom to the "sole monarch
acknowledged of Marylebone plains."
which Thackeray turned Into prose for
"The Virglnlane," Thomas Moore
thought the respect shows for John
Jackson, known as "Gentleman Jack
son." was "highly comical." When
Jackson, who became a champion, fought
Fewterei of Birmingham St Smithlan
Bottom. June 9. 1788, the Prisce of Wales
was a spectator. A hundred and thirty
one years later another Prince of Wales
witnessed the "knockout" of Beckett by
the Frenchman who performed In Jersey
City Saturday. It is the sasas England.
"GentJemaa Jackson" had a boxing
academy, and his pupils Included the
nobility and gentry
be was landlord of the Sun and Punch
bowl, Holborn. He sleeps In Bromptdn
cemetery, under a "colossal monument"
paid for by public subscriptions.
"Gentleman Jackson" was once victor
over Daniel Mendosa in the presence of
the duke of Hamilton and Lord Delavel
and "a vast concourse of spectators."
The lords of England have always
dearly loved a boxer. Mendosa retired
to the Admiral Nelson tavern. He was
the author of a small duodecimo, "The
Art of Boxing" (1789). and be left a book
of memoirs. Dying in Horseshoe Alley.
Petticoat Lane, he left a widow aad 11
children. But greater In many ways was
the Immortal Gully. In his first battle,
with Henry Pearce. the "Game Chicken."
be might have seen at the ringside the
duke of Clarence, who was afterward
William IV. Gully succumbed after 04
rounds of stubborn fighting with the
bare hands under the old savage London
ring rules. He early relinquished fame
hi the P. R for laurels in other fields.
As a turfman be won the Derby three
times. It was said that Lord Rosebery
had three ambitions to be premier and
Aunt Mlria of Rancho) down in Gon- ,
sales county, west of San An tone a day's
ride on a mustang, had a kid with a
dish face. A Yankee drummer was
mighty curious about how the kid got
thataway, and Aunt Mlria explained to
him that the kid was wiser" n most kids
of his age 'cause of the dish face, beln's
he got it tickling the heels of a mule
tied in front of the courthouse ; and fur
thermore, that tt wasn't a misfortune,
under the circumstances. Some of the
gents that's advisin' the legislature to
put back the poll tax and lift the auto
and flivver tax another notch or so Is
goto to have dish faces first thing they
know.
r
His most famous battle was with Tom
Cannon, for 500 a side, on July 19.
1825, "in very hot weather, in the pres
ence of 12.000 persons. Including an
unusual number of the upper classes"
wearing high hats, of course, as wast
the mode Jem Ward became champion
of "England and for a while kept the Sir
John Falstaff tavern In London. Sud
denly he abandoned his "pub," moved to
Liverpool and. strange to say. turned
artist in oils, producing "numerous land
scapes and other pieces of unquestion
able merit." His pictures at exhibitions
were much praised. So proud were his
townsmen of his accomplishment that
they gave him a service of plate at a
dinner of Liverpool's representative men.
e
Tom Cribb should not be omitted from
sny list of deserving pugilists, for not
only was be champion of England for
10 years, retiring for want of challeng
ers, but he had as good a name for prob
ity and sportsmanship as the Idolized
Bayers, and was honored with the title
of champion emeritus
A review of pedestaled English boxers
to win the Derby and to marry the rich- j 0f times, when brute courage was
est neireas in wigiauu mu i
Gully was never premier, but he did rep
resent Pontefract in parliament. Riches
beyond the dreams of avarice came to
him as an ownei of collieries. He had
married two wives shd had 24 children.
Great was Gully.
An English pugilist hardly less re
markable was J era Ward who, like many
In his retirement j of his tribe, lived 8s a green old age. end kill the sport
more essential than science, is neces
sary to an understanding of the rapture
for championship contests that excites
the Anglo-Saxon, and to part the Latin,
world today. It is an emotion that has
never been allowed to die out. Xrf late
years in this so San try It has been artifi
cially fanned by commerci Horn . and it is
osnertlrnes a question whether high prices
and division of the spoils will not In the
PORTLAND
Forest road construction by the
government In the state' of Wash
ington is being planned with refer
ence to the 1925 exposition in Port
land, a
The following forest roads ta
Washington are under federal con
struction and will be ready by
1925:
Length.
Miles. Cost.
Blewett Pass 12.6 9 88.000
Inland Empire 5.7 87,000
Lake Crescent 10.8 289.200
MeClellan Pass, west. 10. 4 182.000
Quir.au It Lake, south. 2.5 89.800
Quinault Lake. N. W. 5 S 170.200
Repsblic-Wauconda .. 8.4 20,000
Cooks-Coll ins 4.7 13S.8O0
Little White Salmon.. .8 4.500
Mount Baker 8.0 208.900
Totals 84.4 81.518.900
The Little White Salmon, the
Quinault (south) and the Mount
Baker projects are the only proj
ects which are not on the (Wash
ington) state road system. The
Quinault (south) branches off the
Olympic highway and follows the
south shore of the lake, developing
this for summer resorte. The Mount
Baker Is the first section of the
proposed Mount Baker loop.
Agreements have been signed up
wntcn win complete an these proj
ects by 1925. and surfacing win be
placed on the greater part of it.
At the end of this season, the Lau-
rier section, the Inland Empire htgk-
way. the MeClellan Pass project.
the Lake Crescent project, Quinault
(ssath) and Cooks-Collins win have
been surfaced with either gravel or