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THE MAGNIFICENT SCHEMER
few days ago, disclosed the impor
tance of honor and truth in the busi
ness of advertising-. "Header confi
dence" is so valuable an asset that
the advertiser gets far mora value
rNE achievement proposes another from his advertising in a medium
" in the life of cities as well as thar .. nnr. truth hnntv
individuals. Los Angeles solved the
problem of a water supply by build
ing a 200-mile aqueduct which per
mitted the phenomenal city of South
ern California to remain in its sunny
environment and yet enjoy the clear
waters of the mountains.
that insists upon truth and honesty
than In a medium that is less scru
pulous. When people learn that a newspa
peras The Journal doe; investi
gates advertisers and advertisements
in advance and will accept formbfi
cation only statements that it 'believes
Having performed this feat. Los after patient inquiry to he true, their
Angeles discovered that the artificial J readiness to complete the transaction
river it created possessed 250,080 proposed in the advertisement is
horsepower of potential hydro-elec- doubled.
trie energy. With characteristic vigor 'Truthful advertising is the search-
the municipality organised to pro- j light of business.
duce and sell power. Los Angeles is
now vending 72,000 horsepower to ON WHEELS
its industries and enterprises.
Without waiting to perfect the or-l lp1? automobiles park nightly at
e;anization or command the' credit the Pendleton campground, saj a
necessary to the generation of the the East Oregoniaa. It argues that
additional 178,000 horsepower, the the campground and automobile
official administration of Los An- movement is worth more to Pendle
geles has filed power applications on ton, so far as tourist business is con
streams which represent approxi- corned, than two railroads. The auto
mately 1,000,000 horsepower of po- tourists stop overnight; the rail tour
tentlal hydro-electric energy. One ists do not.
of the locations is so far north of Pendleton is a day's travel from
Los Angeles that it is Immediately Spokane and from Portland and is
to the e&at?t San Francisco's famous a-convenient and delightful rest spot,
Hetch-Hetchy project facts, that tend to accentuate local
San Francisco, enwrapped in a tourist business. Aad there is sim
glant campaign for the bridging of iiar testimony from other points, no
San Francisco bay, has yet a large tably Roseburg, Ashland and Med-
amount of anxious attention for the ford
self - government. Whan a good
measure of education becomes uni
versal, when every human atom in
the mass is trained to think, for him
self and vote as he thinks, there will
be in these United States fewer of
the ills of which some complain,
more of justice, a greater equality
and less exercise of power by
crooked politicians.
The growth, of the Chautauqua IS)
a help. It is a clearing house of
ideas. It is a place where people
store up thought and open their
minds to reflection. The increasing
cumber of Chautauquas. springing
up as they are in almost every com
munity, is one of the reassuring signs
of the times. It means that the peo
ple want to learn and know.
ring to 400.000 idle freight ears, tells you
what business conditions are, la ens
year the country's. sports and imports
have been eat dews by tt.ssa.0OS.SwS.
We have stopped doing; business with the
ouuiae world, ana that is ao joke.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
pooka. burxlars ana tomcats." What
a nightmare!
Princess Fatima, here from Afghanis
tan with a valuable Jewel in her neat.
Is angered because Prince Mohammed,
with other long names, also from Af-
rhantatan -.A . e w-- .. . - -
na OOatll t know anvlhln. . knnl K., I . '
Fatima wants Mohammed to
j7.Tf? , hr i T Sams of the soft drink vendors are
, ""ler resi ana tnrougn very hard boiled, the police agree
ii mi unaer oacg. it is generally un-
TODAY
derstood that Alexander' a family was
wipeo out:, inane to rem ate jealousy and
misfortune. But strange things may
have happened in those early dava
store interesting to America than the
rautna lady's genealogy is the hand
some sapphire fastened to s hole In the
side of har nose. That would fill with
disaain many of our Fatimae who would
gladly wear a sapphire in a hole in
each ear.
magnificent scheming of her vigor
ous rival.
"Should the Southern city carry
this big power plan actually into ef
fect," comments the San Francisco
Examiner, " the industrial
supremacy enjoyed by San Francisco
win become a thing of the past."
But the interest which Portland
may feel in the Los Angeles project
is of different sort. If any com
munity of Southern California, dar
ing drouth' and distance, can make
It is doubtful if the extent to
which America is on wheels is fully
realized. At any time on any impor
tant street in Portland you can gen
erally see a touring automobile with
its foreign license tag and quota
of bedding, cooking utensils and
bronzed travelers. All day last Sun
day such cars, each stopping for a
10 Sr 15 minutes' stay, were parked
around the Vista House, on the Co
lumbia highway.
For thousands upon thousands.
OUR FALLING TRADE
THE foreign trade of the United
a States decreased more than W.-
000,000,000 during the fiscal year
ending June SO, in comparison with
the figures for the same period last
year. .That sum would pay all the
expenses of the federal government
for more than half a year. Applied
to government, use it would cut fed
eral taxes a little more than half.
The figures mean that the foreign
markets of the United States are
' dosing. They mean that foreign
consumers have been drained of
funds by war, by battleship building.
by taxes and by high costs. They
mean that, the prohibitive exchange
rates and the exhausted credit of
European countries are rearing a
trade wall between the United States
and foreign countries They mean
that there is minimized outlet for
American surpluses, smaller car
goes for American ships and
American railroads, and a general
stagnated condition of business in
this country.
There will be few foreign mar
kets for this country until conditions
become normal in other parts of the
world. There will be no normal con
ditions until the problems growing
out of the war are settled. There
will be no early settlement of those
issues unless the nations reach
common basis of action, come to an
orderly understanding, and, by agree
ment in which each nation assumes
its just responsibilities, underwrite
Hp. future of the world against war
aad for a prosperous peace.
America is the nation that is in
.position to take the lead' toward such
an agreement. President Harding
has moved to that end.
Upon the deliberations in the dls
armament conference largely de
pend the foreign trade and the
material welfare of America. Both
. disarmament conferences at The
Hague failed. It is perfectly pos
Bible for the conference at Wash
tngton to go the way they went
sultless and discouraging.
A great deal will depend upon the
men President Harding may name
tO represent America. Irreconcil
able? like Hiram Johnson would
M wreck it. Statesmen like Hughes
would make it successful, for upon
representatives of the United States
Will rest the tremendous issue of
success or failure,! of hope or dis
couragement One of the most Im
portant things now before mankind
Is the question, What manner of men
Will Mr. Harding name tor the con
ference? May there be fewer irreeoncilsbles
aad more foreign trade, greater
amity between nations and more
wealth for the peoples of the earth!
.power projects scattered over half summer vacations and recreation in
pt that state realize a profit to the America have taken on a new form.
-city and -to industry, what could we, it i a new order of seeina America.
With unlimited power at our doors. m u,, new8 widely heralded
do along the same lines? over tne country that Oregon has
built a great system of good roads.
Therfe is somewhere a doctor who this state has come in for. a heavy
says the business depression is a gooa share of the travel.
thing for the country, irat years, he The automobile, like all great in
says, make of America, a .tit people, ventions. has tremendously affected
luxury loving, inert, oouna on tneir human affairs, it has opened up to
way to the tomb through over-iq- the great mass of people of moder
dulgence. Jn hard times, under his ate means a new and easy way to
plan, cheeks grow thin and bodies gee an(i know America.
slough off their rolls or nesn. Minos It naa done more: i has thrown
grown fatuous and lexy sharpen to mt0 their lives a new and wonderful
f keen edge unner yie struggle to means of enjoyment It has enabled
get along. It's a-roveiy theory, but city families" to get on the wheels
questionable in.jjractice. A good and go out into the country for the
many tnillion .people, in the country delights and refreshments to be
are perpetually ilk the midst pf hard found there, and enabled those in
The Reporter's Duty
10 Hour Work, $3
A Foolish Old Man
Women Are Brave
Lloyd George, Come Over
Sentimental Sometimes
Business Stopped
By Arthur Brisbane
A gentleman of Los Angeles writes
'I have read your writings and thought
you were a Christian ana a goon man.
Now that I know you have been to a
brutal prise fight, 1 have no more use
for you.
The gentleman does not understand
the whole duty of man when engaged
in the newspaper business. It is, to s
everything and describe it accurately.
This reporter has seen Prado and an
other French criminal guillotined, has
seen Carlisle Harris and another Ameri
can doctor electrocuted, reported five
hangings ia the Tombs prison. New
York, the first appearance of Wood row
Wilson addressing congress, national
conventions. Queen Victoria's jubilee in
London, Pope Leo's magnificent Jubilee
in .St. Peter's, BOulanger's trip to the
chamber of deputies across the Seine
when he was elected from several dis
tricts at once in Paris, and various
things.
But all this does not make your re
porter a public executioner, a Boulan-
gist, or anything but a heterogeneous
reporter. To see clearly and describe
simply is the reporter's business. Provi
dence, not the reporter, is responsible
for things seen, from a falling spar
row to a flying comet
e
Here and there we are "getting back
to normal." Some steel mills have re
duced pay for ordinary labor, which
means hardest labor, to SO cents an
hour $3 for 10 hours' hkrd work. Men
work hard when they know Ave millions
are waiting to get their Jobs. Unleae
you have tried to take care of a fam
ily, with rent NOT down to normal, on
$18 a week, there is one problem that
you don t know.
JAPAN" AND THE FAR EAST
timeai' I the country to break dawn the old
isolation by making town, city and
neighbors easily accessible. Say
what you will about the cost, but the
p IS KOT likely that Japan wUl re- mak particularly of the cheaper
a fuse to discuss Far Eastern prob- . . . . 7J!i
lems at the disarmament conference automobile have dons a. great deal
to nil human life with cheer and
happiness, and- dode much to drive
out of former empty lives the
thought that life is drab and Bol
shevism a panacea.
So we have vehicles everywhere.
Wheels interlock on every thoroughfare.
What will It be when all the cars
Somebody has discovered an ever
bearing orange tree in Florida. What
we would like to discover is a never
flattened pocketbook in Oregon.
AT GLADSTONE
as has been suspected as a result of
her failure to specifically mention
them in her answer to the invitation
of the United States.
Why should Japan refuse to go
into Far Eastern affairs at the con
ference? What would be her mo
tive in sweeping aside discussion of
those affairs?
Japan has heavy interests at stake com- to Oregon in 1925?
in the Far East Her foreign affairs
are concerned principally with her
interests there. The Far East is
where her sun rises and sets. Con
ditions there are vital to Japan.
She would not likely consider a
move to disarm unless her interests
near home were fully arotected. They rpHREE THOUSAND Clackamas
will be protected either by states- -- county scnooi pupils had part in
men or by fighting forces, and be- the program in the big pavilion at
fore the fighting forces are dispensed Gladstone Chautauqua yesterday
with, Japan will be glad to have her Enough parents and visitors were
representatives meet with represent- present to swell the number to
atives of other countries to effect I great audience of 6000.
permanent agreements' as to the The topic was education, and the
'future of the Far East. pupils gave a program that tllus-
The failure to mention the Far trated what school training means.
'Eastern discussion appears more like There Was a school orchestra
a move for position at the confer- school play, reading and vocal num-
ence. hers, club swinging and a wonderful
reaction on the audience in the way
of enthusiastic applause
Chautauqua is itself school, and
schools in their various forma are
Johnson, 60 years' old, backwoodsman
with rough hands and little know!
edge, stops you as you go through the
news. He was ambushed and'shot down
with a heavy load of buckshot
First in the hospital, he accused his
wife. Llda. 25 years younger than him
self, and Ed Rose, his young hired man
wnen he recovered from the shot John'
son swore he did not know who shot him.
and stuck to it although threatened with
prison ror perjury.
Perhaps he thouaht he owed some
thing to the 23 Years' difference In age
me wue ana mrea man were con
vlcted. much to Old Johnson's grief. The
attitude of this old man compared fa
voraory with one of our conspicuous
young American bankers. It's better to
be "a woman's toy doc. as Einstein
puts it, than to be a woman beater.
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On the front page you read : 'Woman
risks life. Saves two in the surf On
the back page of the same newspaper
wri s world record drop. The front
page lady, all dressed. Jumped off
dock to ave drowning children, and
saved them, a boy and a girl. The lady
mat dropped jumped from a balloon
15.200 feet up and landed safely by
parachute. There you have one useful
and one wasted display of courage. Who
ever aouots that women are as brave
as the bravest men, and braver than the
average, knows little of women.
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President Harding opposes the tariff
on oil. He wants to protect American
industry and labor, not necessarily
monopoly.
Where a product is in the hands of a
monopoly, as in the case of oil, gasoline
and other products of oil, there should
be no tariff protection. Protecting labor
and industry is one thing, protecting
monopoly and the power to tax the
people, as shown in the oil Industry, is
different
a a a
Jokins about burarlara is like whistllna
in the dark.
" be cut; bet It
New prohibition commissioner admits
his Job U a -whale." And If he's net
careful he may be a Jonah.
e e
Headline ears "world Is veer-in from
town Duma" Ever since it became the
rasni oower in tne mimraan s
Letters From the People
(OsasarueaUona east la The Journal for.
oa id thta dpe
oae BtSa of the
in their seeks down. Their area text
prvpiem js. seeping inem up
Things are coming to a pretty pass
when we have to resort to the megaslwes
itne eauors uunx we oo) to read articles
on -i our income ana How to spend It.
SIDELIGHTS
Legislation would proceed faster la
Washington if congress spent more time
uniting for. action and tees divided for
faction. Albany Democrat
We looked at antral of the
magaaines today and decided that most
of the magna no covers should be barred
(rem the malea Pendleton East Ore
gonian.
The payment of the allied debt to this
country is just as Sim pie as this : We
want the aulas to pay us, and the only
way tney oaa pay us la in aooaa, ana
we don t want their goods. La Grande
Observer.
The Oregon Country
OREGON NOTES
Figures for the year IfrO show that
d ersYWdirT PdUCt Wer
Six and one half mites of the JPmclfte
l ween Hateey and Shedd.
The steamer- Pomona has flnxsbed
loading 15.000 barrels of flour at the ASr
torla port terminal for ik i T-ttt v...
"More homes, more prosperity, says
Senator Calder. Tea. for the senators
Tr
"Germans declare war en all waat,
is the messaxe the wires carry. Has the
supply of women and children failed t
m . a.
The greatest advantage in being a
liillatiaare -tm a Itaoer tnoutnr is the
personal satisfaction of havina had the
.seat tne market arTorea
"iLS'.rtJL! JPeiLt?2 L ..L?f? J h any trouble
writer whml 7T, : JiTr.. i f "u " ) -ewpuia- tip wun tne new style of roil
. "Bo I?JI lreaa u full aaaat aeons- 1 n their aarlra dawn Tiir rrut..
imnj Lot caainwoe. j
A CHANCE FOR SOCIALISM
Asked by One Who Quotes Historian on
the Labor Problem.
Ashland, July 10. To the FMitn of
me Journal In an editorial In The 8un-
aay journal or this date you quote Sena
tor n-enyon OI Iowa as saying: "It Is a
fearful indictment of the civilisation of
the world that people are starving in
"T- T-T- "as- larmers Phil Metschan is now a firm believer
".,T. rT'm mvKTa7e rn that old adage that "virtue is its own
YhT. . f . , woul "wWaWsV- He has been elected a member
keep these people from starving." I of the board of trust-, of wm.rru.tte
i. 7r ,. . ,. "iuo" "V lal" university. As a gangling youth Philip
len down is in a faulty distribution of ... 7L- i - ,T..L. I
-...law sUfaawa ' - -" . r, I v ess i.sjioici a Jl SViliC lltun VB
1. 7.. r.7 "r " ,"'lr. M" ituflfiit at that pioneer educational to
-rT. Z 3 "2r 2 opiate stitution. He carried large bundles of
ik. oLr . ... ,5,Twn. x6. Indicative of great diligence, from
-w J7. ,.V- a "if . "V. hu" nrty home in the morning to the
Medieval and Modern History." section i i. i . .w v.!l -
mi a quote. h. .. 1 . , . w .
ocjuiiu guoirovtrwy tin rrait DrB (IB n .u. i.i.v. i ii. vi
T T ctTV'' on mvoiving many otners, W0Und stripe by snapping his collarbone
d uiw uwr prvDiam. in is. Diainiy I .r.in.t tv i... .... ,.i ..
lJ2&?VZLmm errwman from the far dls-
-,'" " "w trkst, then heading that Institution, upon
a iwucu 4
The condition of things Is Una
Through the employment of the forces
Of nature and the use of Improved ma
chinery, economic goods that is. prod-
The ex -kaiser refuses to pay taxes rn
Holland, because, he says, he oaune there
garnet Ms will. He forgets to add. how
ever, that there would have been worse
than taxes to pay if he had remained la
Germany. atugeoe Rexnsssr.
Judging from the deposits In the vari
ous banks of this city, there are a great
number of people left in the county and
city who betteve In the old adage. "A
dollar saved IS a dollar earned." which
Is a mighty good slogan even during
vacation time. Baker Democrat.
It is getting to he altogether tao coev
on a practice here ia Astoria for peo
ple to sue the city or seek to collect
money by threatening suit, and there are
always a few attorneys who are net
averse to inspiring such suits under a
plan whereby they get a generous por
tion of w hatever settlement is secured.
Astoria Budget-
MORE OR LB6S PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
the football field. College tradition has
it that student tried to butt professor,
for good cause given, but missed. He
ass a charter member of the A. D. A
O. which, stretched out, stood for After
the institution to attend confidential
meetings of the faculty at which valu
able information and advice were ab
sorbed by him. Classmates of the new
trustee will doubtless be pleased to learn
of the new honor accorded him.
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Earnest D. Bowman, one of the lead
log certified public accountants of Den
ver, is at the Imperial, while he pauses
in Portland for a short time to view the
Columbia highway and other scenic
points In the vicinity of the city. He
was the guest of W. D. Whltcomb, who
-uiii w diwi 1X4 c Daranaj weuaus I rkv A ,.i,,k kl.k
Of men an b produced In almost UP- the faeultv nevwr .torwl F-jiriw re
uiniLra uuaauim. out mis increase in vi - n . n
- - - ' iiim wiuwk wen aa (Kcasigoaur
K " power nas orougnt lhroghout it. he achieved the d latino
or " correaponaing augmentauon tlon of b-,.- lr,vitM. hv - af
w uioici i.i wcuunn iu i lie laDoniii
4ls Owing to some defect in our
industrial system, a few secure a dis
proportionate share of Its benef ita. Great
monopolies or trusts are created and
fabulous fortunes are amassed by a few
fortunate Individuals, while perhaps the
majority of the laborers for wages, with
their toil lightened comparatively little
dr not at all. receive almost nothing be
yond the means of narrow and bare sub
sistence.
The proposed solution which has
awakened moat thouaht and created moat
I . , - . . - - 7 - i wu una (urn Ul tt. . tt 111
debate, is that offered by the Soc allsta arOYe hlm ovr highway.
unv hm vui wee as utci 1111111-9 -aaio, titr a e
or national now own school bouses and John McNarv of Salem, nromlnent taw.
control education, own aad conduct the yer of the Capital City and brother of
posioiiice, municipal water woras ana United States Senator Charles L. Mc-
other public utilities, so would the So- I Nary, was visiting friends and trans-
ciansts nave tne government oy tne ec tin lexai buslneaa in Portland Thurs-
rraauai extension 01 its luncuona come 1 day.
Into possession of the railways, the tele-
graphs, the mines, mills, factories, the I Fred E. Veaese and H. A Baldwin;
land in a wfcrd. of all the means of nro- I prominent sawmill and lumber men of
duetlon of ail those things upon which I Winlock. wV'ash.. are at the Oregon for a
or til connection wun woicn Biuoaa tawr i uriea ( uv roruino oo Duainwa
1. finlil v.lvl .-,-AA In mrAmm In I '
satisfy human wants and to meet human I A. aenimer. pioneer resident and
desires. (To thus function the govern-1 business man or Pendleton, is registered
ment would necessarily have to be an at tne oewara tor a oner visit in tne city.
Industrial one.) (Note: The word and . .
the sentence tn parenthesis are mine.) TaKT? w . weU. known merchant
"The Socialists lay great emphasis on I 1 - -
this, namely, that what they propose is rte w w tj i
in line and tn harmony with the great " -,-.. ,K. rv .
kl.. 1 W -,1 I J ' - - .w.
uioivin. iuv9uiin, a vp.fc,. - I f.w fl.yl
vuntinr betel men. who com Into
Portland from other sections of the
t-, and particularly from the Willam
ette valley aad Southwestern Oreron
pomis. insist that Oregon is beginning
to teei the beneficial effects of the
nual tourist crop" of which so much
been said d urine the few v.r. in.t n.t
Down at the Umpqua, at Roseburg. the
other day. out of a full house and the
umpqua is s si sable hostelryall but 11
or tne guests were automobile tourists.
Similar reports come drifting In from
other cities and towns. But one thing
mat uca.es the fellows Is that Oregon
now is selling coals to Newcastle.
While automobile license plates from
every state in the Union are to be found
in UM unending procession now upon
the roads and highways of the state
the majority of them wear the tags of
our sister stats of California and are
bearing the d tisane of that fax famed
resort center away from its torridity to
tne sheltering glades and cool at re
of Oregon. The camping places around
Crater Lake. Klamath county, and
through that country generally, are filled
with caaxernlans who have oome to
Oregon to enjoy a real summer climate
e a a
atari B. Hughes, well known but prob
aoiy, rrom the nature of mortal man
not wall remembered funeral director of
Astoria, does not believe In lettinr any
body beat the undertaker to it not on
the road, at sny rate. The other after
noon he departed from his home town in
his trusty gas buggy at ( p. m. and
reached the corner of Broadway and
Stark at 11 15. He grabbed a ham sand
wlch, or something like that, stretched
his pedal extremities while he ate
then "stepped on "Sr," headed for Cor
vallis. He attended to some bust
there during the dsy. drove back to Port
land the same afternoon, and left that
night for Astoria and a short rest, this
being the healthful season of summer.
and vacation time
OmatlUa county's wheat acreaure tXtSa
year is estimated at 2M.0M, or about
the same as last year. There la very
little spring wheat. " Try
Work on the Columbia highway be
ween Five MDe and Ceifio A-i.-l
for, several weeks on account of high
water, will be resumed at once.
Nearly 200 tons of. Rov.i ini.
ries have been shipped to Eastern
tnis season rrom Salem hv th. t
Growers' Cooperative association.
A part of the 1100.000 water honrra re
cently voted by the city of Co-veins have
wan solo, ana tne worx or improving
the system will be started at ones,
Richard Lombard. 28 year-old Port.
land man. Is under arrest at Aatneta
charged with passing $200 worth of
worthless checks on merchants in that
iry.
The little dauahter of Mr. and Mr-
Char lea Milter of Brownsville was badly
burned when an exploding firecracker
ignited ner doming ana enveloped her
tn nan a.
A new business Is soon to be onened In
Stayton. C E. Brown and K. W. Swal
low having formed a partnership for the
manufacture of wool mattresses and
wool beta
The city of Pendleton used 1 011 OSS
gallons of water for street flushing pur-
poaca uurins me montn 01 June ana
labor to the amount of 15&S hours was
put on the streets.
Not only does Umatilla count v rank
first in Oregon in the production of
wneat, out 11 ranks first also In the
section of honey, according to H.
scuuen. vi. a. u. bee apeouuast.
Following a visit of an I. W. W.
walking delegate to a construction
camp on the state highway in Lake
(jreen vauey. laborers laid down their
toots ana waikea out in a body.
H. W. Collins. Pendleton rrain man.
the Pacific Grain Elevator company and
the Farmers' Grain Elevator company
wui rwouna .1 once tneir wsrenotl
recently destroyed at Myrick by fire.
With the reentry of the Hunt Brothers
cannery Into the loganberry market.
there are now at least rive concerns ia
Salem actively buying berries, at
ranging irom 2K io i cents a
On a big ranch in Oklahoma 100
new harnesses were required. The
owners, disgusted with the low price
received for hides from their cattle I one of the chief supporting pillars
as contrasted with the high price of the nation. We underestimate
exacted for all leather products, did the strength ' they give ua If We
this: They Installed a small tannery,! realized all they are to ua the fed
eral government would not be spend
ing around 90 cents of every dollar
on wars past and to come, while
spending less than one, cent on
'The emptiness of campaign flap
doodle is shown in the following:
.Estimates by the Democratic heads
of? departments for federal expen
ditures for the fiscal year ending last
month were $5,064,350,793. This
was hailed as "wild" extravagance"
by the Republicans, and the Repub
lican congress cut the appropriations
to ft.T17.484. This, the New York
Herald says, was "proclaimed as
heroic economising." But Secretary
of the Treasury Mellon now makes
it known that the actual sum spent
has been $5,602,024,881, not counting
poetoffice outlay. With the postof
f ice item added, the expenditure ex-
hired a few harness makers and con
verted their own hides into their own
harness. The cost of the harness
complete was, the owners say in a
public statement, about one fourth I schools.
the usual price. The Profits Of the Than an statistic, from wnlcn wa
leather trust must be fabulous. know positively what education does
in putting men to the front. Here,
THE SEARCHLIGHT OF BUSINESS for instance, is the fact that less than
itna nor cent nf the men of America.
TWO-INCH ad appeared in a a coHee education. Yet out
wajsiorn newspaper advertising, of that one. per cent have come 5 5
"pure silk socks for 55 cents a pair" per cent ot American presidents, 31
at a small store. A woman who read par cent of American congressmen,
the advertisement bought two pairs 47 ber' cent of speakers of the house
of the socks and found they .were of representatives, 68 per cent of our
wood fiber, without a thread of silk. sVice presidents, 8S per cent of our
She and her husband threw the secretaries of stats and 9 per cant
hose aside, but next they read an of the Justices of the federal supreme
aaverusement of a 7 per cent secur- court
uy ror sate oy a nona house. They Or, putting it another way. we have
were aooui to put tneir savings into this: Without school training of any
the investment when they noted that kind, but one man in 150,000 attains
the ad appeared tn the same. paper prominence. With grammar school
inai naa accepted the spurious sock training the number in 150.000 men
advertising. They decided that any who gain distinction Is four. Oa high
other advertisement the publication school training the number of men
Biigm accept woum te equally open m 150.008 who rise to leadership is
to suspicion. A legitimate advertiser 87. while among college graduates,
lost business because the newspaper the number who gain distinction Is
naa accepted tne business of one who j 800
misrovreseniea. I But u n there is the still
The incident, as related by the larger fact of what a well schooled
counsellor of the San Francisco Bet- aad well informed mass means to
Intelligent directors of the great
National City bank of New York are pub
lishing statements concerning banking
that every businessman should read.
The latest entitled "The Power of the
Many," is an excellent sermon on de
mocracy and the importance of the lit
tle man whose dollars ro throuah the
savings bank Into the big enterprises
ana make these enterprises possible.
xne shore of the ocean, very big, is
made up of small grains of sand ; so is
the nation. Some of our able men oc
casionally need to be reminded of iL
They are apt to overlook the separate
numan grains, looking at the national
snore,
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With deference to Lord Northcliffe.
who objects, this country would like to
see David Lloyd George, and hopes be
will come here for the disarmament con
ference.
There were two big men on the Eng
lish side In the war. One Northcliffe,
who had courage to tell the truth to
his countrymen, although they burned
him and his newspapers in effigy be
cause he did tell the truth. The 'other
was Lloyd George, outstanding- demo
cratic giant of the country, who had the
intelligence to accept and act on the
truth. He first found the MONET for
England, then MADE the munitions, then
LSt.u tne munitions, and was boss of
the whole business. We should like to
see him.
W. R. Scott, a weU known resident of
Albany, is at the Multnomah for a short
Portland visit.
a a
J. B. Sparks of Bend teat the Imperial
for a few days stay in Portland.
...
C. E Taylor of Stayton Is stopping at
the Imperial for a short time
a a
Mrs. W. T, Phy of Hot Lake. Union
They maintain that the democrattaation
of wealth It should be carefully noted
that democracy tn wealth does not mean
communism, which denies individual
rights in property, any more than reli
gion means atheism, or democracy in
politics means anarchy is the logical
Issue of the democr-itixation of knowl
edge, of religion and of government by
the Renaissance, the Reformation ana
the political revolution, For them the
ai i.uui AVATutlnn I. th. aaa -t
and necea-ar? phase of (he progressive U a gueSt at the Multnomah.
course of civilisation.
Senator Kenyon and his fellow-soutl-
cians have had their fling and have mis
erably failed. Would it not be germane
for society to say to all politicians to
step aside and give the Socialists a try?
D. M. Brower
RICKKNB ACKER'S RECORD '
Portland. July 11. To the -Miter of
The Journal For the information of my
elf and others who are Interested, kindly
state the number of enemy planes Cap
tain Ricken backer is officially credit!
with. W. G. Schneider.
(He is offiekUh- credited with 80
Piaaea
At
WASHINGTON
meeting of poultry-men
It,
Jose oh K Garland, president, and E
8L Morton, general manager, of the Farm
ers' Life Insurance company of Farmer
vilte. Vs., are at the Multnomah, They
bead a party of tourists making an ex
tended vacation trip through the princi
pal cities of the United States, having
arrived from the south by way of San
Francisco. After a view of Portland and
vicinity they will go on to Puget Sound
points and from there East. Included in
the party are Ruth Garland, Mrs. J. T.
Wolfe Eugenia Walker. J. L. Wells. J.
V. Lewis. W. D. Averett and R. E Oar
land, all from Farmervllte or vicinity.
John Tait. who used to do his share
toward keeping the linen of Portland
white but who is now in the laundry
business at Astoria, Is a Portland visi
tor, at the Multnomah.
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Charles Johnston, automobile dealer
of The Dallas, is a Portland visitor, reg
istered st the Imperial
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
' By Fred Lockiey
t la this article Mr. Looklej tela the atory of
Baaa wno had a DcrfeeU coed tut set for a
teat owe lacked a place ta plar h.
feni-l the nlac Ia an '-"
will tea whet ha dal after that
rta-Ily ha
U follow ha
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
National prohibition gave a wonderful
boost to the candymakera When men
could' ao longer put foot on the brass
ran may began patronising tne caaay
stores. Henry R. Hoefter of Astoria
built a beautiful home on the heights
overlooking the mouth of the Columbia.
bought a business block on one of the
best earners in Astoria, and built a big
factory, all because of your sweet tooth
twee-1 and mine
press
The phrase "tweedledum and
dledee" was originally coined to expr
contempt for musical controversy, in I -Jgy father was a candymaxer before
1710 the Royal Acaaemy oi music Drougni me." said Mr. Hoefter. when I visited
to London a distinguished Italian com- him recently in Astoria. -In the old
poser and conductor. Giovanni Bonon- country they work it differently. Here,
olnl. and the Incident was regarded as a hov channea from one lob to another.
a deliberate attempt to assail the pres-1 depending upon which pays him the
tigs of Handel, who had for some years J more money. In the old country you
been established In the ravor or ueorge l have to oar for the orivtleee of work
and his court. The great Marlborough lng for s man. My father's father paid
family was then at odds with the house $500 to a confectioner to let my father
of Hanover, and ana-German feeling work for him three years sod learn the
Mr. Sydney and a young lady. Miss
LaPointe, needed a goat for a vaudeville
"turn." The lady arrested the gentle
man, who used her 966 to buy himself a
blue serge suit and a derby hat instead
of baying the goat, to delight audiences
with its cries when wheeled oa the stage
in a baby carriage. That's one picture
of American life. The young lady, when
the man was convicted, said, "Judge, I
don't want to see this boy go to Jail
for only $55." So. the young man was
set tree under suspended sentence.
Many a man has gone to Jail for steal
ing lees than half as much when his chil
dren were hungry. That's another pic
ture of American life We are a senti
mental people where a vaudeville turn, I
inciwoang s goat, bb concemea.
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B. C Forbes, able writer on finance
and business, addresses a letter to the
bank&J He reminds them that they
would deeply reseat -ft if business men
organised a "run" on banks. He asks
how they think business men like th
hammering that bankers have been giv
ing them, compelling them to liquidate
stocks at any price and pay up with
violent suddenness.
line ia Mort' article.
prevailed among the old Jacobite fam
Hies. These factions speedily took the
Italian newcomer under their wings and
the result was that, for the first and
Only time in British history, rivalry be
tween two musicians assumed a polltl
sal aspect" The feud was embittered by
the real success of Bonondnl's opera
"Griselda," It was while this contro
versy was, at its height that the follow
ing satirical lines appeared and were re
cited throughout London :
Soaae ear. aiaaieiafl to Sunnaaial
That Myasetr Hsadal't bet a atear;
Other saw that he te Haaaal
la ac-reely fit te hold a aaaatte.
Btmase that aaoh ttffetenoe
-rwurt
basin
This, of course, was a long
ago.
Uncle Jeff Snow Say
Grant Melhavea has some up from a
tower of CaJiforny In bis 9176 tin Usale
aad tells the Corners Community club
that Oregon suits him best, taken all ta
all In Leg Angeles, so he told on, they
charge s penny ter a little chaser of
water In a slot m selling that hangs oa
the street corners like a mall boa He
estimates that at the same price the
runnin' fountains of water in Portiaad'd
pay eft the naUonai debt la four year.
Aad Doc Melts sat him if he didn't
think Lea Angatea'd agree to pay It off
if there was any way of trad in' la Ball
Run to her.
AND ACTS WORSE
the Uieat rasa (Meet.)
may not be a saedteine.
fwxtag of the liseitmset e
of the home brew tastes like It
"When my father was M years old he
came to America, settling at Syracuse.
N. Y. I went to Work In my father's
candy store whoa I was 14. At that
time most work of that nature was done
In basements. I worked Uil I was 1(.
when I struck out for myself, going to
Colorado Springe. I landed a Job there
SS car.dymaker, staying a year. Then
tk-l wanderlust caught me again and I
struck out for the coast I worked1 at
anything that turned up cook, . waiter,
candymaker. any Job I could get. First
I worked In Ban Francisco, from there 1
went te Los Angeles, aad finally drifted
oa southward to San Diego in th
days Baa Diego was a small place It
was QDhasttsS with the outer world by
two ships a week the Santa Rosa and
the Orisaba, Ship days were red tetter
ears, huaose the mail aad pape
areught la by these ships. Thirty-five
years ago. when I came to Port-sad, I
Mr. Swot land tor a Joe. hs
as dowB. so I got a Job In a little
t n4nr the river front
Pertland I wear back to Colorado and
tore to Montana. I ah
hare oa west Park street la
Butte. Candy was about the lest thing
the people of Butte wanted, for in those
dash it was wide open and the
the most regular msutroee is town. I
farted, mere thiueah lack of capital aad
for late at patronage Uaen from leek mt
effort. From Butte I went to Oreat
rails, where my brother Alfred Joined
We made good. ft
"After a year I sold my Interest to my
brother and went to Alaska. I was sn
the first northbound trip of the -George
. Elder. That was in 1897. The first
Job I landed was that of cook in a hastily
built shack of rough lumber at Skagway.
I had not been there long when "Soapy
Smith came in and organised his gang
of hold-up artiste. Not long before his
coming I "had gone into the res estate
business with Phil Abrams of Astoria
We opened the first real estate office la
Skagway. I sold Soapy' Smith the
house he lived in. Phil was a notary
public We bought and sold real estate,
We also bought and sold miners' outfits
and loaned money. We charged 10 te
25 per cent a month Interest, taking dia
monds, fur coats or anything else of
value aa collateral.
We formed a chamber of commerce
St Skagway and I became the first sec
retary. When 'Soapy smith's
got to running things with what we
sidered too high a hand, a little
of us met in my house and organised a
vigilance committee. Soapy' had no real
idea of the value of money. It came too
easily. It was simply a matter of ex
tracting It from the tenderfoot by hook
or crook. If he couldn't get It with
marked cards some of his assistants
would knock the victim over the head
and take it swsy from him. One thing
that mad It bad was that a deputy
United States marshal protected Smith
and took orders from him. for a per
centage of what the gang could win or
at
Takima it was decided to establish ia
that city an egg and poultry assem
bling plant.
Five Walla Walla banks on Jails M
showed deposits of fg.70S.MS 98. a alight
falling off as compared with the deposits
on April 28.
The Lytle Logging company's camp
at Elk river, near Hoquiam. resumed
operations this week, giving employ
ment to 80 men.
Dr. E. E Peavey of Takima, with Ms
family, has lust completed s 2100 mile
tour to the Mexican border without a
mishap of any kind.
M. O. Detlefaon. labor leader and can
didate for city councilman at the last
election, is under arrest st Aberdeen
charajed with robbery and impersonating
an officer.
An automobile stolen from Hugo
Nlemi st Aberdeen May 10 Was found
In the river one mile west of Melbourne.
Saturday. No trace of the occupants
was found.
The Patterson-McDonald Shlobulldine-
eompary of Seattle has been awarded
$1.028.158 In ship construction claims
against the Australian government by a
board of arbitrators.
Captain Reed's new ferry dock st Ka
lama te n ring completion and Is ex
pected to be a great convenience to auto
mobile tourists crossing the Columbia
between Ooble and Kalxtnx
H. B. Strong of Aberdeen, 85 years
old. on board the real estate men's special
eastbound, was prostrated with the heat
at Nam pa. Idaho, where the thermometer
registered 100 in the shade.
A destroyer will be sent to Aberdeen
to take the naval reservists of Aberdeen
and Hoquiam for a cruise to California
ports, providing 75 recruits can be se
cured In the two cities by July 17.
For the sixteenth time Mrs. Helen
Elizabeth Taylor. 88-year-old member of
the Ladles of the Grand Army of the
Rpeublic. has been reelected color bear
er for the organisation in Washington
While attempting to rescue Thomas
Herrin. 17, from the waters of Green
river, near Black Diamond, Frank Pe
llto was dragged Into s whirlpool and
drowned. Six men hsva been drowned
during the last few years in the same
bole
IDAHO
Five hundred acres in the vicinity
of Salmon have been planted to potatoes
this season.
The new Warm river dugway above
Ashton has been completed, and is one
of the finest pieces of road la rtaiaaal
county.
A company with 85.000 capital has
boon organised to make additions and
improvements to Campbell hot springs,
near Weiser.
Fifty or more of the forestry students
of the University of Idaho are employed
hi forestry work or with lumber com
panies this summer.
During the past two weeks nearly
half a million trout have been planted
tn the streams of Nes Perce, Clearwater,
Lewis. Latah and Idaho counties.
The bodies of Byron H. Preseott Of
A u pert and T. H. Firth ot Firth, two
soldiers killed In France, have been
shipped to Idaho for burial.
Julia, nine-year-old daughter of Mr.
and Mrs. Nlckolayson of Kuna. was acci
dentally shot to death Saturday by her
brother white toying with a rills ta the
house.
Farmers in the Caldwell section de
clare that unless they receive mors than
5 cents a hundred on early potatoes they
win not dig. Marxet prices s year
were $1.00.
The Talmana-e Rawhide Mlf
-i- .-. n. iiaMau k Mua
articles of Incorporation with the secre
tary of state. The principal office of
the company is at Nam pa.
a e a
"O. .W. Dunbar earns to Skagway with
press and some type aad paper, but he
of money. I losnse aim enough
ta gins hiss a start
W a e
"Selling out at fikagaray. I went to
California wtth a few thousand dollars.
Alter a few asonths, I headed north
again, mutes the few thousand. I
dropped off at Portland te see If there
eras anything doing. I met Oscar Dan
bar on the street He recognised me in
stantly and told me he was up frees
Astoria, where he was riiawag a paper.
He asked me what I was going. I sett.
'I am not doing anything: I am looking
for a Job.' He took me to lunch, aad
white wo were at lunch, he said. 'Billy
Whipple and I have just bought a candy
and cigar store at Astoria for fits. A
his wue partes company ana x
up their, store at a bargain.' He
that I come down to Astoria
it. He told me I cold have ail
I wanted to pay for rt This
no. because I waa broke aad
out of employment. Being a confectioner
by trade, I wanted to get a store of my
own aad be say own hose, so 1 bought
the eaady store oa credit"
know younj
.PORTLAND
rraaa f aeteeakx)
ia plannini tor a Sew Uaaas
railroad 1 1 n urn tarsateaL Baifctt Ia
apertor at a PhaSS-lt rensatlr riettad the
terser emaa of the eaeatry and awssaat that
imiain tarateaals that rvrttead sateht have
the lisafh af the hast leaae la see else
where. These ataUaaanta frees dar ta day
are takes frost he report aad will together
lusiHteis the eosaptete report. 1
"The Union station of Columbus,
Ohio, provides quite good facilities for
the traveling public. The ststloa was
built la 187 and. considering the time
that It was built it Is a very good
station. This station is used by seven
railroads with TO trains ia sad 7S
trains out a day. The cost of the sta
tion was M.OOS.SOS. la this station
the trains ran through. The aocees
from the station to the tracks is by
means of stairs leading down from
sn overhead concourse. There are
eight tracks. The number of ears
that can he placed tn the station at
the same time Is approximately SO.
This station has a large t re hashed
ever the tracks and pJ at farm. The
length of the shed Is 7S0 feet
T-he Columbus station te subject to
all of the criticism that oaa he made
of the trainshed type of at s than, ow
ing to n- i aad dirt awrtdeat eadri
to. The population of Columbus is
iii.ssa "
(To Be Continued)