THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON
MONDAY, JULY lift.
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THE SUPER-TOLLTAKER
THAT "the Inter-relation of the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company
with the American Telephone & Telegraph company and the rela
tions of that with the Western Electric have much to do with the over
loading of the Pacific engineering staff." was the purport of testimony by
sters bees for a story why not tell
one about your own boyhood or girl
hood? Nothing fascinates children
more.
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i reject advertising copy which it deems ob-
jecaonable. It also will not print any copy
that in any way simulates reading matter or
7 Out cannot readily be recognized as adver
tising.
E SUBSCRIPTION RATES
By Carrier, City and Country
DAILY AND SUN DAT
week. ( .15 I One month....
t jr I m-vnav
seek $ .10 One week
montn to
WT MAIL. AI.L RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
DAII-Y AND SUNDAY
.1 .6
.1 .05
year s.ou
months. .... 4.25
DAILY
(Without Sunday)
year 6.00
months. .... 3.25
area months. . . 1.75
as month 60
vv r.uniji
I (Every Wednesday)
One year tl.00
shx months.. ;.. .50
a These rates apply oniy m tne west.
Rates to Eastern points furnished on applica-
Make remittances by Money Order, jbipre-s
r or Draft- If your postoffice is not a
loner Order office, 1 ot 2 -cent stamps will be
pted. Make all remittances pays Die to toe
at Portland. Oregon.
Three months. .. $2.25
One month 75
8LNDAT
(Only) ,
One year 13.00
Six months..... 1.75
Three months. . . 1.00
WEEKLY AND
SUNDAY
One year 13.50
aOrt
Souj
r-
way, from the pan of Albert Wleeen
danger. the government forest
ranger in charge. It serves as a
renewed reminder that, although in
other spots the "no trespass" signs
of private property owners repulse
touring parties, a welcome is to be
found at Eagle Creek, which is
practically expressed in the form of
camp stoves, free wood, an abundant
water supply and a trail which is al
most without a rival in scenic re
veal men t.
MR. HAYS AFTER
THE SOCK
Postmaster General's Purpose to Make
Postal Savings Bank Something
More Nearly Like What It
Ought to Be Is Warmly
Supported by P;
Defects of System
Possibilities
Pointed
Out.
-Daily Editorial Diffst-
( Consolidated Press Association
It is only a poor sort of happiness that
' could ever come by caring very much about
oar own narrow pleasures. We can only
have the, highest happiness by having wide
UWUSHUi ana m l( a iwunj mi UIJC rr-tL ui
the world as well aa ourselves: and this
sort of happiness often brines so much pain
with it that we can only tell it from pain
by its being what we would choose before
anything else, because our souls see It la
good. George Eliot.
IAS
THE SAFEST CITY.
The Highway Magazine uses an
article on the Eagle Creek camp
Major Babcock, expert telephone engineer, at the telephone hearing at, arounds-of the Columbia river hlgh-
Salem Friday. He contended that it "would be a surprise if great economy
could not be effected in the administration of the Pacific company were
its officials to be freed from the hampering control and red tape of the
American Telephone & Telegraph company and turned loose to make a
success of the Pacific company in Oregon at lowest possible cost to the
public." He testified that the American company has the right to manu
facture a long list of modern phone devices, the patent rights of which It
has long controlled, but that these devices have not been installed or the
subsidiary companies allowed tc use them.
He declared that keeping these labor-saving devices out of use adds to
the cost of service, and testified that installation of the semi-automatic
would give adequate service to 33 to 50 per cent more patrons with the
same plant construction now in use. He said that should the control of
the Pacific company be divorced from the American Telephone & Tele
graph company, and its officials be turned loose with free hand to do those
things which independent and competent men would naturally do, it would
be possible to furnish the Oregon public with a much better service at a
much lower rate.
This is exactly what The Journal has long argued. The super-control
exercised by the American company has much to do with the growing
cost of phone service.
The American company owns or controls the subsidiaries. For ex
ample, it owns 70 per cent of the Pacific company. It appoints the chief
officials of all its subsidiaries or transfers them to other subsidiary com
panies. That alone shows that the parent company is the subsidiary com
pany also, and that, as a matter of fact, it is the parent company with
which the public service commission has to deal.
The subsidiaries are buffers between the parent company and the pub
lic. The parent takes the cream of the business, compels the subsidiaries
to worry along with old and obsolete devices, acquires and holds all patent
rights to keep competitive companies out of the field, and by using Its
subsidiaries in the local communities to do The poverty act before public
service commissions, protects its own huge profits from attack or question.
The -local subsidiary is protected with a cost plus contract. Legislatures
have ordained that the phone and other companies be guaranteed a fair
return on the investment; That means' that rates must be high enough to
pay all expenses of operation of every kind, and pay in addition a fair
profit. This means that, no matter what the expense of operation, rates
will be increased sufficiently to pay the amount and, in addition, to pay a
profit. This in turn means there is no strong incentive for the use of de
vices that would make for efficiency and low cost of operation, no particular
reason for cutting the cost of overhead or any other expenditure. Since the
public must pay everything and a profit in addition, the company figures.
why cut costs, why install labor-saving devices, why use modern equipment.
why do anything to lower the cost?
All this is confirmed by Major Babcock's testimony, quoted above. It is
very largely the explanation of why telephone tolls all over America are
high and going higher. The parent company milks the subsidiaries, the
subsidiaries put up the poverty plea, legislatures guarantee the subsidiaries
a fair return on the investment, the whole thing is worked on the infamous
cost plus basis, and the people foot the bills. And the American Telephone
& Telegraph company has a surplus of 3444,000,000, paid an 8 per cent
dividend in 1920 when everybody else was pocketing losses, and in addi
tion laid aside $8,000,000 for contingencies and more than $8,000,000
surplus.
It Is probably the most scientifically organized scheme in the known
world for getting money out of the patient public.
tloas are aim pie and are given aa fol
lows: "One of the nommonest experi
ences of the camper Is that of finding
thavt the tnatchea are so damp that they
will not strike. All this trouble may be
avoided by providing oneself with water
proof matches. These are Mail 7 made
in the following way: Melt a few lumps
of candle-wax in aa old can on the stove.
Allow this to cool a little and then, be
fore it has become set. dip the matches
la It, one at a time. Treat the heads
and about half of the wooden part.
Place the matches on one side to
cool. Matches treated In this simple man
ner have been soaked in water for many
hours, and they have Ignited as readily
ss those which were perfectly dry. The
only difference) is that, ea striking. It Is
needful to do so a trifle more firmly so
as to get through the thin film of wax
surrounding the head. When once the
flame starts, the match burns very read
Uy. owing to the wax which has adhered
to the wood. Any ordinary matches can
be treated in the manner described. "
Letters From the People
Cosaaaanieatlosw seat to The Journal for
publication in this department should b written
on only one sad of the paper: should not exceed
SOO words in Wnfth, and must be lamed by the
wnure. waos snail address in rull moat scenes
pany Use corju-tbuUon 1
POINTS TO RURAL LINES
Asserts These Should Afford Basis' of
City Phone Rates.
Portland. July 20 To the Editor of
The Journal I see the public service
commission does not seem to want to
come to Portland to hold the rehearlns
The. ninn oronoeed hv the oostmaster ! on tePhone raise In rate. Why
merai "to out the atockln savincs because there are too many to pro-
iroi iirrc. auu me tutuiy uari a awi i si
ford to go to Salem to protest? I had a
general
bank out of business by vitalising ana
expanding the postal savings bank sys
tem is warmly supported by the press.
Most editorial writers agree with the
Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.) that, so far.
the postal bank "has not made good,"
but that, they explain. Is due to the low
interest rate and other faults of detail
which Mr. Hays now proposes to cor
rect, not to anything inherently wrong
in the system. With a higher rate of In
terest, and Increased facilities, the press
aa a whole believes the postal savings
bank will go a long way toward releas
ing hoarded money for general use with
out in any way Intruding on private
banking enterprise. Indeed, many writ
ers feel that, properly developed, the
postal savings banks will be of great
beneYtt to private concerns by encourag
ing thrift and in the long run serving as
"feeders" for the large banks. A few
editors point out serious obstacles In the
way of the complete success of the plan,
but the Deseret News (Salt Lake City.
Ind.) expresses the view of the majority
when it says that "if even half the bene
fits expected by the postmaster general
are realised, the revision will be wen
worth while."
A MATHEMATICIAN, Health
Commissioner Copeland of New
9brk is an excellent acrobat. By
Smusual agility in juggling figures he
Sjrrov'es that New Tork is the safest
eity in tne country in tne matter or
itomoblle accidents. The only mis
ts he makes is in placing Portland
IXhe third safest city instead of the
3afest; at least that is the only mis-
Ieke of which Portland is cognizant
. Mr. Copeland computes his death
ate on a basis of 1,000,009 popula
3on. He claims New York is the
Safest city in the country with a fa
3allty rate of 168 per 1,000,000 peo
fflle, Washington second with 169,
Portland third with 176, Boston
fourth with 202, St. Louis fifth with
216, and Los Angeles the most dan
; ggerous with a death rate of 391.
3r On Portland's death rate per 1,
300;000 population, Mr. Copeland
Snakes a discrepancy of 64. During
3he fiscal year of 1920 ending De
cember 1, police records show that
3 people were killed in automobile
accidents in Portland. Portland has
3L population, according to the last
aensus, of 258,000. Portland's death
;rate then, instead of 176 was 112, or
less than in any other city in the
Ifcountry if ,Mr. Qopeland's other flg
rttres are correct..
Portland was not always the saf
3rSt city in the country. She was
jfaced with an increasing death rate
rom automobile accidents until the
Jjkoll reached 42 in 1919. In Novem
ber of that year, realizing what the
9toIl of the future would be with the
tremendous increase in the number
-Of automobiles, an intensive acci
dent prevention campaign was In
augurated by the municipal judge,
sSraffic bureau of the police depart
ment, national safety council and
The Journal, which resulted, after a
Sear'8 work, in a decrease of 33 per
Sent In the number of fatalities in
Hfpite of a 35 per cent increase in the
anumber of automobiles on Portland
Btreets.
r And now, Portland requests Coro-
nl8sioner Copeland to revise his f ig
Sares, and herald Portland to the na-
5 SKsb as its safest city.
I
Responding to an opportunity to
3uy stock with individual payments
iftf $30 a month, the company adding
Hl5 a month, 11.000 of the 13,000
aemployes of the Standard Oil com-
4any of California have become
t Shareholders. The stock purchases
3r employes will, In a five year pe
riod, aggregate $30,000,000. of which
3he company will contribute $10,000.-IttOO.
off their lots is a dead letter, any
how. August Saw a tourist party go by
today. "Just look," said a gushing
sort of woman from California,
"these Portlanders bring the wild
environment of their hills right Into
town. If there weren't so many tin
cans it woud look just like primi
tive nature, wouldn't it?" I tried to
tell her that it was the primitive na
ture of my owner if I have one
that accounts for my appearance, but
she didn't seem to hear. The weeds
and grass are getting entirely too
dry for comfort, however. A man
dropped a cigarette stub pretty close
yesterday evening. If it happens
again I'll have a fire and maybe burn
down that house on the next lot. I'd
hate to do it. though; the kiddies in
that house might be caught
January No sign of any owner
yet. I'm afraid it's going to be a
long winter. I suspect I look as dis
mal as I feel, what with the skele
tons of the burdocks and the leaf
less bushes.
April I have an owner. But if
it hadn't been for the man next door
I never would have discovered him.
The man next door came out two or
three days ago and mowed off my
weeds. He piled my tin cans and
broken dishes all up together. Then
he spaded me all over, raked the soil
up fine and planted some garden
truck. I heard him say, "I guess no
one will care if I make this lot pro
duce something a little better than
plantain and poison oak." But today
my owner showed up. He said some
thing about having lived here a long
time and that he had held office or
something. He said to the man next
door. "Mine is the great, generous
heart of the pioneer. You can make
a garden on this lot if you will give
me two thirds of the vegetables."
May The man next door is sore,
but I'm glad. I have lost my owner
and found a new one. Just as the
man next door got his garden , to
growing well, my owner sold me.
He regretted that I was going for
only seven times what he paid for me
years ago, but he didn't apologize for
the loss of the garden. Now, I'm
getting a basement excavated in me
and I'm going to carry a house and
have a lawn. I'll look better, any
way. But I thought it was kind of
a mean trick for my former owner
to pull up the onions and slip away
with them. Eating 'em ought to
bring tears to his eyes.
come, the victim of misplaced affec
tion. In an Interview published in Sat
urday's Journal, the Rev. Fred Roy
ston, looking upon life and his recent
jaunt across the Columbia into
Washington, says he cannot under
stand why society holds him more at
fault than the slip of femininity
whose name he blackened.
"The girl tempted me," says the
man who slept in the haystacks while
his wife and child waited at home
and wondered where he could be.
The Rev. Fred Royston may be In
terested in knowing that as society
looks between the bars into his cell
he does not appear a strong, a gener
ous or a particularly chivalric char
acter. People who have read about
the drab Royston episode remember
that after the arrest he was quick to
seize his liberty on ball and leave
the girl in jail. They have pretty
well made up their minds espe
cially the men, who know precisely
what Royston is talking about that
being tempted, he turned tempter
and that the .cement floor of the cell
isn't necessarily the bottom of the
fall, either of himself or of he girl.
upon whose slender shoulders ap
parently he would like to place the
burden of blame.
The Lumber World Review of Chi
cago contains this comment: "De
spite all prophecies the 4L's' re
mains an organization, and that ter
ritory of the United States, in its
lumber sections, is free from
'strikes' and 'lockouts'; while in
other parts of the United States in
lumber sections strikes are in prog
ress, which makes us wonder once
again why it would not be a good
move to transplant the -Loyal Legion
of Loggers and Lumbermen to
sections of the lumber-producing ter
ritory of our country."
11
TELL THEM STORIES
The
I A VACANT LOT'S THOUGHTS
A VACANT lot could talk it
would probably engage in a
Chronological monologue about as
Sallows:
: June I don't believe I have any
"B!Wner. This crop of weeds and
Jtay and brush is getting mighty
'Xsavy. Saw a cop eyeing me today.
Sont think he will do anything
bout it, though. Ill have an owner
J don't know where to find him and
&ow much more would a cop be ex
Sec ted to know ? That ordinance that
requires owners to mow the weeds
THE ORIGINAL ALIBI
TTHE Rev. Fred Royston, having
been trained in theology, will
probably recall that the first In
stance on record of passing the buck
was when Adam weakly sighed. "The
woman gave me the apple and I did
eat"
Since that initial episode no full-
blooded man of mature experience
has been at all misled by Adam's
half truth. He knows, because he
knows himself, that Adam stood
around with hungry eyes and water
ing month and pleading gestures.
He knows that the initiative did not
belong to Eve and that, she became,
as millions of women since have be-
UHPELL me a story, Daddy."
plea may come from tiny Mary
or little Jack. And Daddy or Mother
as the case may be, frequently will
answer, absent - mindedly, "Don
bother me now, dear; I'm busy.
Thrift Magazine, however, said this
very sensible thing about stories for
the kiddies:
Stories" interest children to such an ex
tent that they absorb the entire atten
tion for the time being. Mothers should
learn to tell their children stories of
kindness. Unselfishness, truth and hon
esty, so as to help them distinguish the
gooa ana evil or their actions. Story
telling will also go a great way In de
veloping the imagination, which is an
essential In womanhood and manhood.
A good imagination helps one to re
member and think distinctively. The
public library will help many a mother
in procuring books dealing with chil
dren's stories, games and dances that
will delight any child.
The public library executives think
so much of the value of well told
stories for children that trained
story tellers gather the little folks
around them in the various library
buildings and tell them of legend,
myth, fairy and reality.
Without a cultivated Imagination
life would bo dull and drab for most
people. But it is very much worth
while that the imagination should
hot grow weed fashion.
The next time one of the young-
One of the "surprises and disappoint
ments of recent years." says the Indi
anapolis Star (Ind. Rep.), is the extent
to which postal savings banks "have
failed to get the business that should be
their own." The Providence Journal
Ind.) agrees that the system "Is not ful
filling its mission." but the Springfield
Union (Rep.) insists mat "it is entuiea to
fair trial before being condemned aa a
futile experiment," and, in its Judgment,
the postmaster general "is unquestion
ably right" in laying the blame for fail
ure on the 2 rer cent interest rate. How
many persons, particularly of the Irami-
crant claseet," the Rocky Mountain
News (Denver, Ind.) asks, "are keeping
their savings in their stockings" because
postal bank facilities "are not present
and because the rate Is not very attrac
tive?" Mr. Hays' estimate, which the
Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.) states "is
based on that of expert bankers. Is that
at least $1,900,000,000 is being hoarded
idle and unproductive... Yet. the Tran.
script continues : "ThlsSufllion or more or
dollars. If once released and put into
profitable use. will prove the means or
adding materially to the country's pro
ductivity and of distributing to thou
sands and tens of thousands of Amer
ican citisens an increased measure of
prosperity."
That "a better postal savings system
would tend to bring this money out and
put it into the banks" the Charleston
(W. Va) Mall (Ind. Rep.) is "quite cer
tain," and the St. Louis Qlobe-Democrat
(Rep.) feels that the estimated sum is
so great as to De wonn me conces
sions" suggested by the postmaster gen
eral and "the labor of reorganising the
system."
The Fremont (Neb.) TTiDune (rtep.)
accounts for the extent of money hoard
ing by the fact that some people rear to
entrust their savings to the care of
others, and to the unusual number of
recent bank failures, but It adds, "It Is
rare indeed to find a person who does
not have confidence In the safety and
financial Integrity of the United States
eovernment." However, as the Cincin
nati Inauirer (Dem.) expresses it, while
faith in the government's guaranty or
security" may succeed in attracting
money where private banks have failed
to do so. "simple justice." the Chicago
News (Ind.) believes, requires that de
positors "should receive a fair rate or
interest" from the government for the
money brought out of hiding places.
Hoarding, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
(Ind. Dem.) "believes, "is a matter or
general concern," and "If our savings
systems encourage it our savings sys
tems need looking into, and tne Brook
lyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) commends the
"courage with whicn tne postmaster
general "has tackled a real scandal In
the government treatment of depositors
in postal savings banks" through which
It has been able to "profiteer" on the
low interest rate. The New York Mail
(Ind.) also protests against the "ridicul
ously low price" which the government
pays on postal savings deposits, which
the Mail thinks amounts In practice to
"mulcting" the "moat ignorant classes."
Widening the scope of the postoffice
bank and Increasing the interest rate
"would do more than coax wary dollars
from beneath the cellar floor," the Dal
las Journal (Ind. Dem.) believes; "it
would do more than to encourage the
depositing habit it would encourage
saving and stimulate thrift" and that
adds the Evansvllle Journal (Rep.), "is
what every banker wants." On the other
hand, the Chattanooga Times una
Dem.) sees little value th a postal sav
in ars system which is not "In competition
with orlvate Institutions." and It feels
that Mr. Bays assurance that his plan
would furnish "feeders" to established
banks will not make for popularity for
his nroaram. since It is doubtful it
hoarders will be willing to accept S per
cent when they witness men all about
them paying , 7 and 3 per cent"
telephone in my home. I kept on pay
ing the eld rate of $125 a month. The
company took it out. and Is now hound
ing me for the difference between the
old rate and the new rate now charged
I see only one solution ; that Is for the
city to do as It did In the water cas
buy out the city lines; or, If the com
pany refuses to sell at a reasonable
price, to do as it did with our city water
build our lines and operate them for
the people. It cost less to build and
operate the lines than it did to build
and to operate the water service tor our
city. We pay, for a family. $0 cents a
month for water, and about $3 or more
for the use of a telephone, and the water
service costs more than it does to furnish
the telephone service. I say this, as
have had experience ' in the service in
the East. Why pay In the tt millions
the telenhone com nan v is asking the
people to pay It to build more lines and
make more burdens for the people to
pay. when SVi millions will build and
erjuip the lines, new, if there Is no wa
ter put Into the deals? ixok east.
look west of the city ; see rural lines
operated for $1.25 a month at a good
profit. Then why be bled? The public
service commission will never get the
actual costs to build and operate the
lines, as there are so many ways to mis
lead them. The only way Is by compari
son with the rural lines. If It costs $1
In the country to operate a line.. It can
be done per pbone for less in the city,
where they are so numerous.
A N. Searle.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHANGE
Whan armies are abolished Boaston
will become the sees bean market.
Bats, it
at, oat
said, destroy mosquitoes,
out from under my haC
The G. O. P. u tsfailntaii that It was
normalcy" we ware promised, not "dor
mancy.
Motorists who
to the
to beat the train
racing with tne
The man who first out the eon In con
gratulations has not as yet been histor
ically Identified.
m w 9
Local barber shoo advertiaes "Annual
Picnic of the Meat Cutters' Union." Will
the tonsorlal parlors close?
WWW
Disarmament comes slowlv heeauia na
tions are too busy trying merely to dis
arm outer nations suspicions.
w . w m
Surgeon Insists It's madness to at.
tempt to abolish death. Death would be
a sweet release from a lot of cheaD
theorising.
WWW
Little boys of 20 years asm were fre
quently served with "soap sandwiches."
without bread. Wonder if times have
changed, even though youthful vocabu
laries have not?
SIDELIGHTS
Almost anybody can afford to tell how
he earned his first dollar. It Is some
of the later dollars about which It sarins
discreet to keep ejuiet. Med ford Clarion.
Reduction sa take urices of cars Is very
Interesting sad it makes as wonder if
tne unfortunate pedestrian does not view
the same as bad news for him Amity
Standard.
Sometimes we think people love the
Willamette valley because they are na
turally laay and the valley atmosphere
condones and even urges laziness Ben
ton County Courier.
There are 10. 000. 000 feeble-minded peo
ple in the United States, according to
Dr. Adier We're glad that none of
them appear to be running country
newspapers Weston Leader.
e
The railroads are getting their equip
ment ready to transport the best crop
of wheat that Eastern Oregon and
Washington havs grown in many years.
Better widen the oar doors; it's a huge
crop. Cordon Globe-Times.
as
If the Filipinos show one half the ca
pacity for self government that they
show in their appeals for independence
the United States would strike 11 by
permitting them to "paddle their own
(political) canoe." Oregon City Banner-Courier.
The Oregon Country
ORBOON
October t. 7 and 1 nix kass flvatS mm
the dates for holding the Banks annual
hog and dairy show.
Itjs expected that more than MOM
Wasco county this year.
Governor Otcott and iWnlart of
State Koswr will join the American Le
gion on a climb of Mount Hood July SI.
When the season is over the various
earner'.ei of Bssiea Will -tve pressed
and packed more than 4000 tons of loganberries.
Upon completion of the Scle Anarora
Goat club. Linn county will have the
first Angora goat club In the stats and
perhaps the first in the United Statsa
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
The report that Senator McNarv was. the Abbey lives on. at. H Abbey, of th
in Oregon, which circulated through the I second generation, is In Portland for a
imperial looby Saturday, brightened up
for a short time the deferred hopes of
those who are expecting federal appoint
ment "I know the report la true,' said
one. "because the senator is booked to
address the Chautauqua at Gladstone
today." Others got busy on the tele
phone and tried to get Torn Ksuhausen,
to find out where Use senator waa They
failed to raise him. and then the opinion
was expressed that he and the senator
had secluded themselves some place to
avoid office-seekers Finally Standfleld
MacDonald drifted in. He soon punc
tured the report by saying that Senator
McXary was still in Washington. "But
when he does come home," MacDonald
added. "I will find htm. even though he
ascends to the highest mountain top or
'loses himself in the continuous woods
where rolls the Oregon and hears no
sound save Its own dashinga' "
The visiting Elks were prepared for all
emergenoies. Among them was 3. V.
Burke, an undertaker from Jersey City,
N. J. After sampling the Pacific coast
climate. Burke admitted that for busi
ness reasons he would rather live In
New Jersey.
a
Ever since Newport has been a sum
mer resort there has been an Abbey
hotel. Generations come and ao. but
LIBERTY AND LICENSE
Soldiers' Home, Orting, Wash., Jnly
21. To the Editor of-The Journal Every
little while some poor victim bobs up
w ho has a tale of wee to tell of how our
liberties, one by one. are being taken
away from aa First that Infamous law,
destroying the glorious liquor business
that gave those liberty loving people the
right to get drunk and beat up wife and
family and starve them and let them
go naked and hungry. We are told.
"They can never enforce the law any
way, and there Is as much liquor used
as before the law was passed." and
then what wonderful things could have
been accomplished with the revenue de
rived from the sale of the stuff. And
now comes another class of kickers who
ask what right on earth the authorities
have to appoint 'censors to say what
kind of moving picture men may scan.
If somebody did not object In 25 years
this old country would be as bad
ancient Rome. We all know men and
women are not msde decent or honest
by law. God provided a better way
than that But in most people's minds
He has "gone on a journey" and we
will go as near the limit as possible.
Notwithstanding all this roar there is
enough salt left to keep this country
from spoiling, even though the names
of those who are this salt are never in
the papers. S. Van Scoysc
DISRESPECTFUL DRIVERS
Portland. July 21. To the Editor of
The Journal I have occaMon to ride in
a funeral- cortege very often, probably
more often than any other minister In
Portland. I note that the sense of court
esy on the part of most drivers seems to
suggest thst they give way to the fu
neral. Some may respond to the de
mand of the law, but there ars far too
many drivers who seem not to know
the law and think they may safely trust
to the generosity of the offended family
minister or funeral director to overlook
their ill manners, for seldom a funeral
roes out of the heart of the city hut
from one to four cases of violated law
by cutting through or otherwise blocking
the funeral occur.
Women drivers are notorious of
fenders. Robin Hood.
As the New Tork Times (Ind. Dem.)
interprets Mr. Hays' proposal, "the
plan is rather to or sat s a demand than
to meet a demand," since the lack of In
terest in the system has resulted in clos
ing many postomee banks, and. it hoias
"the habits ef the people must be
changed before much more than an in
stallment of the good work can be
achieved." The very fact of '"the esti
mated billion ot hoarded and Idle
money" suggests to the Syracuse Herald
(Ind.) that "the cautious owners prefer
no Interest at all te the 2 per cent of
fered by the government's savings
banks,'' and the Herald doubts that they
will be Influenced "by the added induce
ment of 1 per cent"
AT THJC PHONE RATE HEARING
Portland. July 22. To the Editor of
The Journal Will you kindly Inform
few of your subscribers and many of the
subscribers of the telephone company,
why it Is that our distinguished mayor
and city attorney, and particularly the
city attorney, are not In Salem looking
after the Interests of their constituents
in the hearing that is now going on at
Salem.
I shall thank you for any Information
you may be able to give.
One Of the Overburdened Subscribers
to the Telephone Compsny.
(The rdty is niai Kilted at Saless by rtavmt?
Pity Attoraay TeeaHrrvw. an able lawyer who
has made a ansrtal stvady ot the I ail tnrMved.
and fey several able engineers who have taefcntcal
nowlede ot tne lubjert. !
THE SUNS HEAT
Vancouver. Wash.. July 21. To the
Editor of The Journal Regarding "The
Sun's Heat" you today present a par
ticularly instructive editorial article
The pity Is that such contributions are
not more frequent As I write I have be
fore me the "Transactions of the Inter
national Union for Solar Research"
(19nS). edited by R A. Sampson. M. A..
D. C. S.. F. R. S.. Astronomer Royal for
Scotland. This authority freely admits
that the sun Is fed from meteoric dust
but holds that the dust supply Is In
sufficient to maintain solar energy In
definitely. Thus we fall back on the
nebular hypothesis and say to the sun.
"Dust thou art and unto dust thou Shalt
return." Verily, that Inexorable fist
"Even this shall pass away." applies
to all. J. Harold.
few daya
E. V. Ward and J. H. Meisfer of Bend
are In Portland on business, The state
editorial association met at Bend last
weak end a good time Is reported. One
of the features of the session was a trip
to Elk lake.
G. N. Ear ton and party of Oakland.
Cat. were taken out on the Columbia
river highway Saturday by C W. Cor
neliua. dining at the Columbia Gorge
hotel.
H. B. Otis. W. B. Otis and R C. Otis
of Oahkosh. Wia. are three stragglers
from -the band of Elks which passed
through Portland last week
a e
William O'Donnell. a shoe manufac
turer of St Paul, who Is touring the
Northwest is registered at the Mult
nomah.
Eva Milam, dean of the school of do
mestic science at Oregon Agricultural
college, was a week end visitor.
Mr. and Mrs W. S Sufert and J. H
Wilson of The Dalles week-ended in
Portland.
-Bitr
town.
Henley of Harney county. Is in
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
What it meant in a anas
atfieuy ortaodox and vet aniasssnats
in relation to dirt as (race, is ben well
told bj a ana f Scotia whosa Mr. Locale? quotes.
l"1 him former aa be narrates aa syisuoi ot
the wild and woolly West with which, aaaal Mr.
VoUUad bad aoUUof whaUvar to do
"My folks were Scotch." said George
Turner, well known resident of Albany,
to me recently. "Like moat of the Scotch.
they were Presbyterians. My mother
made me go to church and Sunday
school. I was fed on the shorter cate
chism when I was stboy. We had a
Scotch preacher whose usual theme was
the worm that dieth not and the fire that
is not quenched. He certainly was aa
artist at describing hell. I used to wake
up at night covered with gooseflesh. I
was so sure I was going to hell. I
"Thought I could stand It to be burned up.
but what rot me waa to think of burninr
In hell forever and ever. This preacher
1 one of the most obstinate men I
ever saw. He also had a violent temper,
and he utterly lacked all sense of humor.
I was very tenderhearted when I was a
boy and loved horses and dogs devotedly.
This preacher bad a gentle little white
pony that be drove to a cart on bis visits
about the country. One day when on
my way to school I came across this
hell-fire and damnation preacher beat
ing his pony unmercifully with a stay
chain. The pony was frantic with pain
and fear. The preacher would say aa
he hit the pony. 'I'll teach you not to re
sist the hand of constituted authority.
I'll put the fear of God Into you. ril
show you the evil of your ways-' I
looked on In horror, expecting to see God
strike hem dead for his cruelty. After
waiting several moments for God to at
tend to his case, without result I de
cided to act for Him, so. picking up a
nice round rock about the sine of a wal
nut. I threw It with all my might at the
preacher. It caught him In front of the
ear. He dropped like a struck bullock.
I waited for him to get up. but be lay
where he fell. I struck off down the
road like a deer pursued by a pack of
hounds. All day I literally felt my flesh
alna-a from the unquenchable fires of
risui nranarad from the beginning of
eternitv for murderera It takes a whole
lot to make a boy miss a meal, but I had
n svneatite for lunch that day. After
school I sneaked home past the preach
er's bouse expecting to see crape on his
door. Instead. I "saw htm walking back
and forth on the path In front of his
house, with his hands behind him as
thoueh in deeo thought I was so re
lieved and delighted that I turned 1
hs.ndsorinr. for which I got a disapprov
ing look from him for my levity. He
never beat that horse again. He ex
plained that while punishing his horse
for its contumacy he lost nis temper ana
ihat God minlshed him by sensing
stroke of some kind, through which he
had fallen unconscious by the roadside
Ha took It as a mark or divine avspiea
ure at his belaboring his faithful animal.
"Tea, we are a mixed race, but our
oredomlnstlng strain la from Great Brit-
am." said my Albany friend. "There's
a good bit of Scotch In me. Ton needn't
mile." ha added sadly. "There isn't so
much Scotch In me as there used to be
before the country went dry. Scotch or
anvthin else In the form of liquid re
freshment is too hard to set these days
to have much Scotch in anyone.
"When I was a young man I used to
sell threshing machines In North Da
hat earlier day to , kota. In those daya I used to mix un In
politics a good bit. McKensle and the
Noyea boys were active In politics then.
McKenaie waa a wonderful orcaniser
and manipulator. He got his pay for
his political work from the railroads in
St. Paul. Later he and Judse Noyes
came to grief trying to manipulate the
mining claims at Noma Alaska. I guess
you have read about their coarse work
in Rex Beach's book The S Dollars,'
While I was handling threshing machines
in Wyoming near Laramie a bunch of
ua decided to have a stag dinner Thanks
giving day. Some of us went out into the
wheat fields and killed some wild geese,
and we chipped in a dollar or so apiece
for whiskey. By the middle of the after
noon we were pretty mellow. Some of
the crowd were making speeches sod
others were singing. In the midst of
our festivities we heard a knock at the
door. One of the most sober of the gang
opened the door. There stood a Jewish
peddler smiling Ingratiatingly as he
slipped the pack from his back and asked
If we wanted to bay any suspenders.
socks or jewelry. 'Bring him In.' sang
out a young attorney who latter made
his mark in the political history of Mon
tana during the days when Clark and
Daly were fighting for political suprem
acy In the Treasure State. The Jew
brought in. It was some relatives
of yours that put Joseph down in the
well and sold him to the camel drivers
bound for Egypt.' said the lawyer. Take
htm out boys, and put him down the
well till we can decide en adequate and
appropriate punishment for that ancient
and unpunished crime." They took him
out and dropped him down the well,
which waa about 25 feet deep We went
on with our revelry for several hours.
Everyone had forgotten all about the
Jewish peddler down the well. I bad a
cloudy recollection about it. Finally it
came to me and I said. 'Boys, what are
we going to do with the Jew down the
welir There ware several lawyers in
the crowd. They decided to have a mock
trial. 'Bring him In.' said a lawyer who
hailed from the Emerald Isle. W Will
try him on the charge of being accessory
to the crucifixion of Christ.- ws nauiea
him out of the weJL He located his pack
and slipped the straps over his should
er?. Tou never heard such oratory. The
trial lasted for two hours and the law
yers fairly outdid themselvss. The Irish
lawyer acted as prosecuting attorney.
A man who had studied for the ministry.
a sort of reformed preacher, defended
him. The Irish lawyer wound up bis
speech with an Impassioned plea that
the Jew be hsnged at Once. The chap
that defended him asked that the sen
tence be commuted and that his client
be shot instead ef being hanged. Too
could have knocked that peddler's eyes
off with a stick. He kept licking his
lipa and his forehead was covered with
cold sweat. While the Impromptu Jury
were wrangling over the form of their
verdict the vender of shoestrings and
suspenders took to his heels. The last
. . . . , ,,, I T
we saw Ot mm ne was sun running. a
remember weeping on someone's neck,
who mingled bis tears of laughter with
mine. The rest of that stag dinner is s
blank In my memory, but there la one
thing I am willing to make a solemn
affadavlt to. and that la that It was a
real Thanksgiving day for the peddler,
be was so thankful to get away. After
the trial we were going to give him a
good dinner and send him on his way
rejoicing, but be was no mina
and took the thing seriously."
The Hotel Hoeklns. a three
wooden building at Be he, burned to the
ground Isst Friday. The furnish tags
and the belongings of the patrons were
saved
One solid Hoe-acre field ef wheat
averaging J7 bushels to the aere baa
just been Harvested on the Gilliam eeun
ty ranch of Smyilte brothers of Pendleton.
Major W. F. W Intern, inspector st
limp Bragg. N C. for the last year,
has arrived at Corvallla to take charge
of the field unit of Oregon Agricultural
college.
I'ountr Rumrlntendenl By. and states
that th on m Die (a corns of teachers has
been employed for every school in Clat
sop county, excepting two which employ
one teacher each.
Director A. P. Davis ef the United
States reclamation service arrived at
Bend Saturday to spend several days on
Irrigation Investigation connected with
the Deschutes project
Oregon fruit growers ere speeding
plsns for the formation of a committee
to make final anangetnenta for water
transportation la the statewide battle
for the reduction ef freight rates
W W. Green, county superintendent
ef Umatilla county, la being urged by
fellow educators over the state as a
desirable successor to the late President
Ackermaa ef the state normal school.
The Cabbage Hill Dead mans Pass
road, a distance of. It t miles between
Pendlatsn and La Grande, haa been
completed and thrown opan to traffic.
Total cost of this thoroughfare was
M01.000.
WASHINGTON
Yakima's pelt tax collections te date
are $M.0S from 1M12 persona. About
7000 are still delinquent
Bids hsve been asked for the new
postal building to be erected st the state
school for the deaf at Vancouver.
Discharges ef enlisted men at Camp
Lewis have been suspended following re
ceipt of orders from the war department.
The corn erst one ef a Knights of jOe
lumbus building end community center,
to cost tiM.000. waa laid at Everett
Sunday.
Odd Fellows of Wsnatchee have let a
contract for the erection of a new S26.0O0
lodge building. It will be or brick, two
stories high.
Refusal of John L Lewis, president
ef the United Mine Workers, to sanction
a wage reduction In Washington leaves
200 men out of work.
More than $10,000 has been assessed In
bootlegging and "moonshtnlng" cases
brought before the superior court at
Vancouver since January 1.
Four hundred and twenty-nine young
men ere now enrolled In the ettlsen's
military training camp at Camp Lewis.
Four states are represented.
Dashing through a wall of flame In
a futile attempt to save his automobile
from a burning building.' D. D. Hamilton
waa fatally burned at Seattle.
About 38 carloads of prunes are ex
pected from M acres near Yakima be
longing to Andrew Otsea. Olsen ex
pects to realise 160.006 on his crop.
State Senator R. A. Hutchinson. Wash
ington pioneer and Indian fighter.' Is
dead at his borne In Spokane.1 He re
cently underwent an operation at Port
land.
Calvin M. Graves, aged 7, of Yakima,
is being sued for divorce by his 17-year-old
deaf and dumb bride, who accuses
him of nagging her. The couple were
married at Yakima Jury 4.
Hope of settlement of the strike in the
Washington coal mines eras abandoned
Friday when the operators ear fed notice
on the strikers thst they must vacate the
company houses before August SI.
IDAHO
From 414 acres .if land in Kootenai
county J. E. Helneman baled 24 tons
of wheat hay and has 160 bound bundles
of wheat
For a new dormitory and for enlarg
ing the campus, five acres have bean
purchased by the Lew is ton Normal
school for $7350.
A. W. Service, cashier of the First
National bank, and J. Jensen were held
up and robbed on the streets of Poca
tello Saturday night.
The new highway between Boise and.
Lewlston is said to be in excellent shape
and hundreds of cars have made the
trip In the last few weeks.
Ross K Parker, a rancher near Idaho
Falls, was killed by lightning when It
struck a shovel he was carrying over his
shoulder and passed through tils body.
A. B. Addington of Lewlston. while
returning from a 2000-mile tour of Col
orado, went over the grade near Pom
eroy. breaking his Jaw and receiving
other painful injuries.
Owing to the small number of bids
received on the sale ef the $400,000 road
and bridge bonds of Nex Perce county.
the period of receiving bids will be con
tinued until August 15
Application for release on bail of
Mrs. Lyda Southard, the Twin Kails
woman accused of being responsible for
tne death or rour Husbands, has
dented by District Judge Babcock.
Curious Bits of Information
Oleened From Curious
S. Leonard Bag tin offering some
"Hints for Campers" in St Nicholas, tells,
sag other useful bits of liifinnsnia.
now to waterproof matches His dlrec-
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Cleve Niphopper has glorified snd
dolled vp bis speedster tin llsste till
she's a regTar chicken trap and when he
rolls up In front of the Corners depart
ment store he ketches the chickens, all
right Jedge McCracken told him it' had
arter be agin the law to rig out a auto
in nine dlffmt colors. If and When
Cleve gits ketched speedln' I don't reckon
the jedge'n fine him leas' n $100. far the
way Usees short an lift, ahsoke swarms
in to Clove's outfit riles more fellers' n the
Jedge
HOW ARK TUX MIGHTY FALLEN
Press the stsaabaat.r Cawidaaa.
Many officers of W rangers disinte
grating army are drifting into the city,
says a Constantinople dispatch, where
they pocket their pride and tackle the
problem of getting s living. Generals snd
admirals have sold their decorations st
a little dally auction in the court yard
ef the aVOaqus Aghadjaml in Stamboul.
where women of court circles dispose of
furs, jewels and their last bits sat
finery. Admiral Dlckert. decorated with
the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor,
was glad to get a place as hall porter for
the French hospital Prince Goubitsen.
once rich and powerful in the govern
ment of Orel, la selling sausages In s
store in the Pera quarter. A son of
form! Premier Stunner Is a bootblack.
Four Russian generals are making their
living by catching and selling fish.
Dosens of aviators and officers are
waiters One Russian officer chauf
feur for the ajBOrVen mWutry
here. Others are dock laborers and
stablemen. Many UUed Russian women
are selling flowers and newspapers.
Pi in cose Galltadn. Princess Shahofskol
and dozens ef others are waitresses
THE FIRST CHAMP
Frasa Ufa
Goliath (Just before his scrap with
David) Tea kin put me down as say in'
I never was In better shape In all me
life, an' they ain't a particle o' doubt aa
to the outcome.
A GUSTATORY HINT
Frets the Citiasi ewe.
The sword swallower should tackle s
saw occasionally ; it would be more
toothsome.
FORTUNATELY
Frasa the B rasa Herald
There's one thing about poetry, music
to tnoy
Rkow
a
RTLAND
Portland's bank clearings are run
ning from $25,000,000 to $30,000,000 a
week.
PorUand's building permits run
from $250,000 to $300,000 a week.
Portland's exports range around
$5,000,000 a month, as compared with
some $3,500,000 a month a year sgo.
Portland's exports for 11 months of
the fiscal year totaled $ei. $48,709. as
compared with $37,107,439 for an equal
period last year and $21,571. J4 for
a corresponding 11 months of Use 1919
fiscal year.
, Portland's export commerce during
May exceeded that of Seattle, al
though to the commerce of Seattle
proper must be added that of cities la
the Seattle district such as T acorn a,
Belllngham. Everett and Grays Har
bor. Portland still continues to be the
one pert of the United States which
shows aa increase in commerce as
compared with last year. The Seat
tle port warden's report for June
showed a loes, roundly, of $15,000,
004 In export snd Import commerce
as compared with a year ago. This
loes. a pes ess d In percentages, was
M per cent of the commerce for June
of this year aad 33 1-3 per cent of
the commerce of June last year.
It waa recenUy shown that the
channel at the harbor entrance had
deepened under combined Jetty and.
( rormer) dredging action to 43 feet
at low water A depth of Ml- feet
obtains except for a comparatively
short Interval, which te constantly
lessening. Portland's and Astoria's
harbor entrance at the mouth of the
Columbia excels those of New York.
San Francisco, Philadelphia. Boston.
New Orleans and many other na
Uoaal porta It is not 111 Hied by
any port.
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