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8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OMEOON TUESDAY. JULY ft, lttl. AN IMPKPgKDKWT NEWSPAPER d JatiKsoH Puk-tlber Becalm, be confident, b ebeerful and do unto erthert aa row wonM hate them do unto n. ) every weak day and Sunday morning tt Tk Journal building, Broadway and Yam- nia street, roruaiw. wmn. Entered at the i .toffiee at Portland. Oregon for through the wiif as aaoond llirrIOXES---Main T173, Automatic 580 51. All department reached by these number. TTVE henlamin A Kentnor Co.. Brunswick building. 225 Fifth Itcmat, Htm Tort; 900 Mtlkn MMlaf. Chicago PAdiric OoaA't kfcyhiriBS'f A-rtvfc-w. r. Co.. Examiner buildhat. San Fran- Jjaiii; TUIa t nan ratc building, Los Angelee; rcrt-lnUIBgencer bonding. Seattle. TBH OkiXJON JOtKNAL reserte the right to reject adtertising copy which it deems ob jectionable. It also iB not print any copy that in any Way emulates reading matter or that eaaaet readily be recognised aa adter- BUB8CBIPTION RATKS By Carrier, City tail Country . 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HUGHES AND THE CONFERENCE DEPORTS that Secretary Hughes is to head the American delega tion at the disarmament conference are gratifying. Than Mr. Hughes, wBk president could select no more fit representative from his adminis tration. The secretary of state Is the leader in our foreign affairs. He Is in inti mate touch with world conditions. He is prepared to deal with the prob lems that will come before the as semblage. Moreover, Mr. Hughes is a man Of broad gauge. He has so far ably filled his office. He Is not opposed to a just assumption of responsibili ties by this government. He fore sees the necessity of cooperation be tween the nations if disarmament is to be undertaken and if the world Is to live In peace. He is the logical choice of the president for leadership at the con ference, and he is a leader In whom the people of the country will place entire confidence. - -News dispatches also Insist that Elihu Root is almost certain to be another member of the American delegation. He is equally available with Mr. Hughes, and by reason of his part as one of the frame rs of the plan for the international court con nected with the League of Nations, is even in better position from ezperi once than Mr. Hughes to redder sen-ice. ; If both are named, they will, be cause of their superior ability, large ly dominate the American delegation and the conference, unless the wretched blunder be made of nam Ing some Irrational irreconcilable as a delegate. Both Mr. Hughes and Mr. Root were among the 31 distinguished Re publicans who signed the campaign promise to the country that the elec tion of Mr. Harding was the surest way of getting America in an organ isation of nations for world peace The accounts of President Hard ing's ta-the-woods trip fail to state Whether he caught any fish oh the banks of the Maryland mountain stream. Had he done so, there isn't a doubt that the fact would have been duly chronicled and celebrated. But a fish in the brook is no more attracted by a president's lure than a small boy's bait. OUTDOING THE ANCIENTS A 'THOUSAND years hence archae ologists may find more to won der at to the constructive achieve ments of the twentieth century than of times we regard as prehistoric It is the mission of each genera tion, observes Victor Hugo, to build upon the foundation left by the pre ceding generation. Layer upon layer their structures arise from a con stantly widening and expanding base. The pyramids, the Applan way, the great London-Scotland highway are succeeded by buildings of rock and moulded clay that would dwarf th achievements of Cheops, and high ways both of concrete and steel that reduce the ancient roads to the status of lanes. But what has so far been con structed to bridges is dwarfed by a recent plan for the bridging of the Hudson river. No other bridge win compare with it Its cost will exceed $100,000,000. It will be 8330 feet long. Its span above the water will be 3000 feet or nearly the combined spaas of toe Brooklyn and Manhat tan bridges over Seat river. Its towers will be nearly 800 feet high. It will rise 160 feet bove the water and the cables by which it win be suspended will measure 5 feet in dia meter. The lower deck will have room for 10 passenger and freight train tracks, and on the upper deck will be space for 10 lines of vehicles, two trolley tracks and two promen ades. It was considered somewhat of a rash act when the building of the tower of Babel was attempted, but the effrontery of such a bridge plan in one and the same moment takes the breath and brings conviction that modern industrial genius is equal to it. We will soon be a nation of hotels, said delegates to a bonifa.ee conven tion In Chicago. The modern young man. according to the delegates. lacks the money to furnish a home. and the modern girl has been reared with antipathy for dustpan and cookbook. If the prediction comes I true for the reasons assigned we will not only be a nation of hotels hut of hotel bill jumpers. A NEW SEDITION BILL, CONGRESS has brought forward another bill to suppress sedition, this time the Sterling bill to elimi nate disloyal talk in times of peace. It has been favorably reported to the! senate by the judiciary committee. The end for which the senate is striving is admirable. No intelligent person wants sedition in America. A highway. It was a place where bust country filled with seditionists is in- ness was forgotten and good fellow- deed a country in great peril. But it is likely that the congress would u" w iiiuiw "uuccbs m suppress- ing disloyal utterances by employing tt uuiereii i uuurtse. I its year after year by a ring of gam- biers and speculators, he is likely to lose his confidence in his country and become a seditionist. If he loses his nome because he cannot pay taxes, cannot sell his products at a profit, cannot, because of the depre dations of speculators, gain enough through sale of his goods to pay for the cost of raising them, he is very apt to become discontented. If he is rorcea to sen ms pigs at a loss snd then is compelled to pay 10 prices for pork, he Is not likely to feel just right toward society. wnen tne worker gives every ounce of energy to his work, when he spends eight torrid hours in the factory, only to see his wages going down ana living costs going up, a mere law saying that he is not to be a seditionist is not likely to keep him from smoldering to resentment against conditions. When the coal miner faces the hazards of the mines, when he labors under conditions of hardship and peril, and then comes out to find his wages going down and the own ers' profits mounting to millions, he may stop long enough to think that his share in this world is not what it should be, and then say so, regard less of a law passed by congress mak ing It unlawful for him to express his oninion. It is one thing to pass laws '4J?S man ding that persons shall not speak against conditions as they are, and thereby aid the country. It is an other thing to pass laws tending to aid the man who needs aid, and make it unnecessary for him to talk discontentedly. The latter method will gain the better results. "It's warmish," says the Port lander, as he makes the inevitable weather comment. "It's hot," echoes tire plaint from East and Middle West. The Milwaukee Journal, for instance, says that not weather roc- ords were about to be broken a few days ago. But the wind changed and it became cool only 91 to the shade. BUSINESS MEN AND PEACE THERE; is a part for the business a men of the world to play in the disarmament program. They will not sit in the conferences, but they can help create the sentiment which will alone give the conferences con fidence and their decisions weight In his address before the convention of the International Association of Rotary clubs at Edinburgh, Scotland, Estes SnedeoOr, a Portlander, presi dent of the great organization, stated the opportunity forcibly to these Words: We are challenged In these trying days to perform a service which is larger than the community, larger than ertwTwS nZZJZ 72 .A" for sorna'aasociatlon of nations whereby tne nations of the world may come with 1K2 M0KK1.u.!t ment and arbitration We ail beiteve in this principle. It was not Mr. Snedecor s or no tary's idea that it or any other or- ganisation should conduct negotia tions. What business should do he, outltoed thus: However, it is hardly within the prov- ince or international - Rotary to under- burRomrrrw .ShLm sion to perform as a great International organisation. It is ta a position to pro - mot a more mendiy and sympathetic nnaaretaafllna h.l... ta .-.. tiw tniainaaa u.un.i the world and ta magnet mm and fair desllnar In the conduct nf th. commerce of the world. We must re- raember that In these days of economic stresathe destinies snd the peace of the world are largely in the hands of tKa K.i.irw m. ne th. .--u ui,iAm iinu. ,. i ""-UJ n j more than once resulted from th failure of Ideals and fair dealing la the commerce of the world. It will be more difficult for warriors to make war when professional and business men sat themselves against A new motor bus with four en gines in Detroit promises serious competition with streetcars. But a new controller in Philadelphia, which stops the car as soon as the motor man releases his grasp, promises to renew the popularity of the trolley car. Even Invention bows to the law of balance. COLUMBIA GORGE HOTEL C BENSON built Columbia Gorge hotel to practical ise and prove an idea. His thought waa to show by object lesson that hotels- are an es sential part of a scenic highway sys tem and that if. such hotels are built the highway will be popularised and the hotels be patronised. With Co lumbia Gorge hotel opened but a few weeks ago and a full year's work re quired to put the grounds and con- Tnlenc8 te bP6 Provided for in th original plans, and with the place crowded every week-end and a fair business throughout the intervening days, Mr. Benson's contention has been fully proven. Sunday the place had more the ap pearance of a large social club than a hotel. The familiar salutations with which Portlanders greeted one another and introduced guests from other states, the general atmosphere of good humor, spread the universal feeling? that another Dremier feature has been added to that famous $2,- 000,000 playground the Columbia ship in a sort of social club vein put forward as the order of the hour. rnl11mhla flora-, hotel ia hunt fl H e- famous --. a kA.i Aks ,, jtr iiBVu liuin Liici vi tvi iiici a j ao the chef still, but in addition wears the dignity of being "mine host," and he Is as much of a success as head of the Institution as head of the com - missarv and dietary departments. A three story and basement struc ture, 48 rooms and 44 baths; a-seat ing capacity of 000 in the dining room, a garage to house 30 cars, a tennto court to he, ,-ounda to be .riomd with rook wardens of nativ shrubs and flowers from nearby ood. tb bro-d Coiumbia lastly mAvinir wrrt t the foot of iso foot precipice, on the edge of which is the hotel. Though the plan provides event ually for two added L's, no extension of the hotel Is at present contem plated, reports to the contrary not withstanding. Hood River two miles away and Portland OS, and on a site 20 miles beyond the Cascade range proper and zoned with Eastern Oregon to climate and sunshine, such is Co lumbia Gorge hotel and its environ ment. In two years, if the program is carried out, a good macadam road will extend from Hood River 66 miles around Mount Hood to Gov ernment Camp, which is 65 miles from Portland. Men who have made the trip around the mountain say the route will be an extension of the In- of the trip along the river. The stage is un doubtedly set for Portland and Ore gon to have the greatest playground in the world. The forest patrol pilot who de scended 2000 feet below the rim of Crater lake and landed on rocky Wizard Island is, to say the least, some bird of an aviator. But it Is to be hoped that he doesn't have to do it again. IN A PORTLAND PARK rpwo Portland youngsters in the JL neighborhood of 16 years were rivals for the favor of a girl. They I were ardent suitors and neither wel corned the other's attentions to the cherished young lady. The three met to a park last week. Hostilities threatened until on of the youngsters whipped out a re volver and, under its frowning bar rel, escorted his rival from the park. The episode would be humorous were it not for tne possession ana ready use of a pistol by a 16 -year-old boy. Whose gun was he wielding? Where and how did he get it? And what if he had chosen to use it ss he might easily have done? There is a strong indictment of somebody for permitting the young ster to obtain the pistol, and a strong indictment of society for permitting revolvers to be sold promiscuously and to fall into the hands of lire spotmibles. daredevils, and maraud- ing criminals The open bridge draw still fur nishes the best of alibis for those who oversleep THE TORTOISE ARRIVES FIRST k TOURIST who finished a 60,000- I mile trip to New York a few days ago says that moat of the coun- try's accidents happen on good rosea. Mud and bump, surp all th. traf I fte officers combined to promoting 1 caution. Thus he sums up his ex- . .-l... 1 PeriOnCe. I've seen mare than 200 wrecked cars beside the road. I've seen th ruins of 10 times aa many at garages the T over. Not one but came to an an- timely end because of carelessness of "ome kind. And t times out of 10 the carelessness was becaase the driver was roinr too fast on s road he didn't know 1 Yeo.11 find at th bottosn of saapse in is. WM.M. w kaaatlfal rT' nftd aUdd ed oa dust, on clay that looked solid, on sand that was rolter bos lings, or on a long peeted-teg guitar oss. Don t drive over any Strang road at mors than SO miles aa hour. Go slow! Let the other fallow go by; you'll get there first, anyhow. The textbooks of childhood contain the story of the tortoise and the hare. The tortoise dtdnt hurry. But he won the race. The motorist who goes farthest with least expense and trouble on the roads of summer is the one who takes best care of his car and who refuses to drive with that sense of strained hurry which characterises half the motorists one meets. Wars and famine and plagues don't amount to much as life destroyers compared with car el JAPAN AND THE CONFERENCE ill the World Much Concerned About What the Japanese Are Going to De About It. But American Editors View Without Great Alarm Situation Seems Hopeful, as They Regard It, Dally Editorial Direst (Consolidated Press AsmcUUos. ) Reported objection on th part of Japan to agreeing to loin in the disarms merit conference unless dtacuaaion of Far Eastern affair is excluded from the agenda are not taken very seriously by the American press as a whole, although some newspapers feel that by Including subjects other than that of reduction of armies and navies. President Harding has made a mistake. Some writers make It a point to explain the Japanese view and show the difficulties which her statesmen face. There is, however, considerable assur ance that, as the Washington Post (Ind.) puts it. "when the Japanese gov ernment and people are enabled to con sider fully the proposal of the United States and to study the purpose of Pres ident Harding. It Is not to be doubted that Japan will Join unreservedly" ta the disarmament conference. "She must agree to meet with the other nations In the end," says the Charleston (S. C.) News and Courier (Dem.) for "if she should refuse" the rest of the world would suspect her Intention "to enhance her power by force of arms," and. adda the San Francisco Chronicle (Ind.), "abandoning for the moment all human itarian thought nothing else will pay the people of Japan so well ta actual yen as forthright advocacy of peace and commercial equality." Hence the Chronl cle expects the "enthusiastic support of Japan." The Pittsburg Gazette Times (Rep) believes that the mikado's states men "will be brought to see the truth" that "justice for the Far Eastern na tions" will not deprive Japan of anything to which she rightfully can lay claim. The Cleveland Plain Dealer (Ind. Dem.) considers it "highly probable that the Japanese objections will be met to the full satisfaction of the Toklo govern ment," and the New York Post (Ind.) points out that since her powerful ally England, baa already accepted the Hard ing invitation, even "If It la really Jap an's intention to keep the Far East out of the conference, she has already been outmaneuvered." The Philadelphia Pub lic Ledger (Ind.) also considers that the Japanese objectors have been check mated, for there "are Intimations that those powers represented st th confer ence will have something to say about its scope," and this fact "cut the ground from under the feet of Toklo and fore shadows (he final and complete accept ance of the invitation as it was Issued by the state department,'' as Japan, says the Pittsburg Dispatch Una.), can hardly expect to hold out alone against the world." Another "weighty" argument against Japanese hesitation, remarks the New ark News (Ind.), is the "taxation that has all but broken the strong backs oi the militarists in the Toklo government." Indeed, should Japan place - obstacles in the path of an adjustment" and thus "halt this movement for the security of peace" she will stand a pariah among nations. Thus a number of writers feel that the criticism, as the Richmond Times Dispatch (Dem) calls it. that the ad ministration by including the discussion of far Eastern politics In the confer ence has undertaken too much, is un just, for Mr. Harding "made no mistake in laying the basis for unrestricted dis cussion of questions having to do with the future of that part of the world." Both the Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.) and the Albany Times Union (Ind.) take this view. On the other hand there are those m-hn withhold full support from th plan. To the Norfolk Virginian Pilot "Janan's conditional acceptance fa foretaste of the immensity of the task to which President Harding has committed himself with -Nippon, as tne Peoria Transcript (Ind.) puts it "the real fly in the butter." The Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.) considers that "Japan i merelv following the example of the UnitetLStates In holding aloof from the PMral uau settlement.", ana tne -ew York World (Dem.) explains: "This country might be equally suspicious if Jaoan had invited it to participate in a lurmameat conference which was to take up the California land question, the oil question in Mesopotamia, ana wo il lation of Euro peon governments to the Monroe doctrine. Quoting this sentiment as reuse una its own' opinion, the Lynchburg (va) News (Dem.) adds that sar. naroin6 did not exemplify acute statesmanship" when he caused "a multiplication of the Issues" This action seems inconsistent tn th. TTtlna Observer wm. , wnicn remarks that It U "rather remarkable that leaders who objected to the docu ment that Included th treaty and the League of Nations together should now mix s disarmament scheme with a group of diplomatic difficulties." thus making the conference, as th Spring field News (Dem.) puts It, "Include too wide a range. of subject.' e Japanese "reservations" appear a a 'hitch ta the proceedings' to th New York Call ( Soc). which makes the fol lowing characteristic comment: 'We surmise that Japan feels that she Is be ing dragged Into a conference by her rival Imperialists, with a view of in ducing her to agree to share a large part of the plunder of the Par East with them. She feels that the United States haa i a i is th western hemisphere aa her main field of plunder Great Britain acquired large booty ss the re sult of th war. and Franc la not only wwaa of KuroD but has been awarded some nice loot oversea. Why should nt the Far East be left to Japan the field for her exploitation? This ia the question of the Japanese." Without implying motives or imperialism in me other powers, the wicnita tagie imb.; ggiagg with the Call's analysis of the fananass attitude, sad that. It conclude. "doesn't help the disarmament prose! tton very materially." Taking fell cog nisance of these facts, the Sprlngfleld Republican (Ind.). however, re timiaik-L declaring that "It Is nr auin to aggiiii that any real ob stacle to the aueoass of the undertaking Interposed A NATURAL QUERY This is to be a for bsi belnrs. What's th matter. going to he married? Letters From the People IQmnnteatioa east to Th Jswraal tor peSSaaMiia ia tas Smartas t aeaH he wtttsta oa aaty ea etas of th paper: should sat ewe we word ta length, sad most be clawed by th writer, whose mail address ia fan wast aeeaav THE -BARKNT" COM PA NT Widespread Evil. Notorious In the Case of the Phone Company. Portland. July 23. To th Editor of The Journal Your editorial supporting Charles E. Spence. master of the state arrange. In regard to the telephone rates. Is commendable Indeed. Mr raised a point that must certainty be considered by the commission In fact, in your editorial you went far ther than Mr. Spence did and dealt s blow to a condition that has cost the American people many millions of dol lars, not only through the telephone com paay. but through many other corpora tlona This evil Is the eVU of the "parent corporation." When the "parent corpor ation" allowed to charge any price It sees fit for supplies furnlahed to a sub sidiary company, the result Is. aa In the case of the telephone company, that the public is balked. The state commission certainly should be granted the power by some manner of means to examine the books of the parent telephone company to see what that company is making by heavy charges to the phone company In Oregon. As things stand now, we wit ness the apeotacle of a corporation taking money out of on pocket and putting it Into the other, end then settling up a howl for the people to refill the pocket thus robbed This same thing is being done every day ta the business world under one guise or another. The parent company gets all It can out of th subsidiary com pany, and then the subsidiary company uve i.aei vuu aawfeawjaw. , wws w . l stockholders to hold -the sack, and the through bankruptcy, leaving the parent company to aisiriDuie tne proms. Our legislators could remedy these conditions, and should, at. the earliest possible moment. J. E. Bennett THE LEGISLATURE CENSURED St Paul. July 22. To the - Editor of The Journal In Th Journal of July It Scott Oeodall of North Powder com plains that the legislature of 10S1 passe 67 emergency bills. It passed 413 bills In all. This is only a small matter. During "Je Bion ' .1l,0.our 'orlstattwo P" D". oi wnicn zz were necessary tor the immediate preservation of the peace. health and safety of our people. There is nothing more dangerous to th "peace, health and safety or our people" than our state legislature. Our state Is now $107,400,693.84 in debt and expenses piling up at a fearful rate. I Let th taxpayers of this state drop all politics ta state matters and clean out the bunch that is dangerous to our homes I am pleased to see men like Mr. Scott expose the outrageous conditions of our I stat government. Let everyone look Into affairs as 1 do and kick when he finds something grossly wrong;. John T. Theo B. Brentano. TIT HMTX '1T.-HS Cherryville, Jury 22. To the Editor of The Journal I read ta The Journal the amazing statement that stock dividends were declared nontaxable, by a ruling of the supreme court. This was declared by Senator Smoot, Republican, to be very unjust. By this ruling $4,000,000,000 escaped taxation. Wbo Is so able to pay taxes a those owning Immense holdings of stock? Added to this la the abolition of th excess profits tax, by which some more of the rich escape. If anyone expects the rich to pay their Just proportion of the taxes be will have to forget it The main trouble In this matter is that we send too many corporation lawyers to congress, who are all adherents Of big business. The federation of labor and the grange must get into politics and become conscious if they want to set laws to protect their Interest. J. p. Averts. REBUKES GOVERNOR OLCOTT Portland, July 22. To the Editor of The Journal I think Governor Olcott eventually will regret the ' letter he la reported to have written the Denver university wherein be refuses "to pur- chase a diploma " of that Institution. Mr. Olcott surely knows that coll frequently confer honorary degrees on persons who have become more or tees ismous, sucn as uenerai reraning, jan mi ral Sima. etc, and a much better Im pression would have been made had he noiitelv- declined th honor, rather then made this -small town" effusion. It is from news stories such ss these that eaZt. t--. th.t th. Par Easterners get their ides that the Far West Is a primitive frontier country, while in reality wo stand well to the front ta education as compered with Eastern states A Republican Voter . CRAMP Proea the New lorfc World Cramp has few dangers for non-swim mers and practically none for the ex pert. It need never kill even a poor swimmer If. when It attacks him. he can remember that it Is not the cramp which is dangerous out ineirignt wnicn it induces The expert swimmer con - ----- - . . . . . i j quers cramp by turning on bis back and floating untu ne can nctcx it out. If non-swimmers will avoid foolhardl- ness snd If swimmers will remember that sodden panic kills many more peo ple in deep water than cramp and ex haustion combined, th season may with fewer fa tall Uea Uncle Jeff Snow Says Ma claims that the women, who most- ly altogether runs things in the Neigh- bora of Woodcraft, gits their business done and 'tended to at their pan oir- M fnilv 100 tier rent, and then some. over grand lodges and institutions run - . . r- entirely by men. on nas seen women in acuun i ui.u havln discovered tnat mev an i smoke, put their feet up on the other feller's chair or tell amutty atones, she thinks they'd orter be give s chance to jme me Masons, me uaa rV." . m u . Knights or r-ytnias ana couia ao oner n th legislature or me state in paasan laws and regl tiona fnr other folks to touer. ( Curious Bits of Information Olaanad From Curious Emory university st Atlanta. Ga. has a mummy which baa not only bean dead for considerably more than 200 years, but wa a aueen of la I HI when among the living, and not only s queen, but, nnics history and tradition belle her. also a woman wbo would be considered thoroughly up-to-date today. Queen Ti. whose mammy has-been brought w Emory university by Dr. A. ashettaav nro feasor of Semitic lanaruaaraa alerts with many other precious relics of h nviu ,,. ia aalrl to have ma da a tnaa Iavi mkfrh arwi rw ma a niawa tha m .et. f -ai trtia saw aia. rr jrZZSrZZZZ to a new boo, in nuer m am ouscr as wu as or tn uaiverse, mm esta aaan- ing th ksea aaris uoa. w course, Queen Ti was coasrafl a weans n of rare beauty, as an herein Of inmsaoi should be. and th quantity of pom ado tare and other toilet leejutafta found with her Indicate she was net behind kaace her beauty. COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE to sweJter la aa office than suf fer from poison ivy. Bridgeport Post. Removed From a Woman's Stomach. Headline- Tea but of what? Baltimore Another time ah Is rawing beauty as when the drug store delivers her ptexlon next door. Chronicle the sirl who draws "The Cheerful Cherub" produced all that stuff last winter. Oklahoma City Oklaho- When the Irresistible reformer meets the immovable sinner, the result Is gen erally a parade down Broadway. Kan ass City Star. s Put son but American on guard. But do not look to their name as the gauge of their Americanism, Ban Francisco Chronicle. Those reform preachers who de signed the moral gown- for women did s gooa job. mow to assign a woman who win w wear It Houston Chronicle. Roger Baboon says It won't be Ions till flivver will be made out of cotton snd the "missus'' is already worrying for fear It will be up to her to keep but tons sewed on th thing Arkansas ua- aetie. Resorts that one of the railroads has cut the waares of Its freight clerks show p Cat what extremities our saturnalia of extravagance has carried ua Fancy s freight clerk getting enough salary to stand a reduction ! New Orleans Item MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Raodom Observations About Town J. M. Keeney has returned from an auto tour of Yellowstone park. "We had a fin time." be said. "The roads were fairly good all the way. The most dis agreeable feature we encountered was a holdup of about 10 minutes between Hosier and Hood River while the pav ing crew ' ate lunch. In quitting work for the noon hour the paving crew had left a roller and a truck In the roadway, completely blocking traffic. A large number of cars east bound and west- -.g were topped jB the sun and had to remain there until the men sitting In mt roadside cleared out tfir lmlch baskets. It ta such Incidents as this that make touring In Oregon a aaawean" The roads through Mon ,a m,v- aomrdtn to Keeney. who went the northern route and returned the southern. The only road construction he came across was between the top of the Blue mountains and Huntington. Yellowstone park Is full of visitors, he said. County "Judge Wait of Columbia , of " .'' di rected against his county in the mat ter of traffic arrests on the lower Co lumbia river highway, asserts that the purpose of the county court Is to make the highway safe for travel. He de- o'?" there is an ulterior purpose of raising money for th county's treas ury to put Into county roads. C. N. Rett, who Is Interested in con crete roads, has arrived 4n Portland on bis way to Seattle from California by auto. He Is escorting his family, consisting of his wife and two children and his wife's mother. All are stopping at the Imperial A Servi tour of 20 persons and a ; a 7 l " T me , ff-ff 7T-ZSZ West. e H H. Hendricks, s lawyer of Fossil. Is spending a few days In Portland. visiting his son. He reports quiet at Fossil. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lock ley IHwi JO?, LJrl jiwai5wt lT w4U law a f s of K r. last sttak rownd awhile- They hare aim oat ttery page tit s es their bUI of (as esapt illiairy. a JjyJ the wU knows ais parte of apawen la March sf a Sit ua folks. Dinner Is ready. Tour best, the people of the MarabuU race. woo live , MSawhs mm m ? and about two weeks' march this side of the Albert Nyansi district, have pre pared a regular banquet Here are more slug than you can eat ; plenty of ants and caterpillar; some extra fine rats and lizards, to aay nothing of maggots, snakes and a miscellaneous collection of bugs and worms, with aM dishes of bamboo roots, sprouts of swamp grass sad berries galore. What's the matter with your appetite T Are you en a diet? No, I wouldn t accept their invitation to spend the night with them If I were you. The laaniooaDie toik oi mis trio .., 1t w not wearing any clothes, 1 m-A t1l,v v.... nn had clothe they I u ni-.ht an, sheep In a snow- ftomu the strong clawing their way to th center of the pile for warmth, white omen and children and the oldet and weaker men have to shiver on th top or the edges of th heap www One advantage these people nave over us ia that thy are not worries By pay ing Installments to any building and lean company nor are they worried for . - , h, ,ni nnl 111 laa their rant . , , , ,v. a. .v,. B hi. " - - ' .- '- - - ,.., is - ie a, to b,id tDe f4 ny domicile. I - . . ' i now wiiu uia urn w amw u uhi Me- I wara some grass or broad 1 1ot back and forth for a roof, pulla I a little rraaa for a mat. snd the newly . ... j r knuw.ni.. sh. ta . mu uaa than four feet high, and a mM u ,nch either war e. .,.. . k.i.ki nrv,. th.v 1 a a wi awwi avaa aag, aa ww gwaaw mm talk It sounds as though thy were 8w1 i y0dters in full cry. Too can't tell whether they are making love or calling other name, for you can't aay anything harsh In a language that haa neither consonants nor guttursla Like the Hawaiian tongue, their language is to be all vowels. saw See what I've sons and done. Here I Am rambling oa about the good eat tn Central Africa, and I have teto tally forgotten to Introduce the man who ia I tailing me ail this. Dr. Vancten Bergh. allow m to tntroaoc the person wno ta new reading the words He ta an old friend of mine. Readers of Toe Journal, meet i near, i. vaaoaa Bergh. Holland the- day after St, fwep eay ra iwi i, author, missionary. i gam nuntr. expawrer, pnitoiogtsi. - """ltr "7 ? lu" I avow wu -W wa u I wa aiaa aajiwa a, W""iW BMBW vww dlgnlttes. a simple, unaffected, charm snd worms. pobty I had better tell this world- I , n r-. nt to know ail about said with a amlte. In answer to my q I tten. "AH right I ems hem ta Hot land. That mo has me a Dutcbsesn. I have been en the go mt i M t . ahat gmattfy as th j DiUhman.' I waa bom March M, 1I7L day. tar I have MR and owdaamted at NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS fewer, hut there the kind of lawyer who tl Judge sad all jurors are deaf. Roeeburg irg pn ewe-Rev lew. Lowell of or Id needs President Harvard what right now is t O on. lll ua what to aoou ith Palls What would the price of seats st the emsawy-Careentiar flab have been If the newspaper had not given before the event? 1 A pubflo official should do his duty as well as a private employe and be held to even a higher degree of ee coun lability because the trust and eon- tabtllty the trust and con- tee Clarion. Th yarn Bureau Fadaw-alLoni taken up the cudgel for the aid of Invalid soldiers and sailors. The Farm Bureau is going to be a factor in eminent channels before It is M cent organised, Hllisboro Argus. The American Railway Fiutaaa has cut the wages of practically all Its em ployes cents an now, ui i reouong their operating ixpooooa is.ooo.ooo -annually, but the company says nothing about reducing express rate. Coquille Valley Sentinel Washington coal mines have been closed throughout th mnT beeauM of fw V ril!l Jh!" JlJtton that because of a shortage in production i the price must remain high. The poor old Innocent bystander always pays the bill. Eugene Register. A L Clark, who presides over the 1 office of justice of the peace at Ral- nler. speaking of the agitation over the conduct of the traffic officers in that county. says be has been criticixed for too much leniency In the matter of levy- tag fines "The peed law ought to be aShTaaJeVa not be allowed a margin of five miles. The law says the limit is 10 miles. If you let them go 15 miles they will edge up another mile or so and soon they wui I be going 40." Owing to his leniency ta assessing fines business with him has been slack. The offenders are taken to St, Helena or ClatskanU for trial. John Waugh of Edinburgh. Scotland. Is spending a few days at th Multno mah hotel. Business In the old coun- try la a little upset, he said, and until thlnra set normal he la spending the time traveling through the United States, visiting the national parks. He expects to take in Crater Lake. It ha been 10 years since he was In the Unit States and be notes many changes. specially the great automobile traffic 'With ua gasoline Is worth 00 cents a gallon and consequently when we motor about there is a good reason for it," he Id. L L Paget of Seaaide came to Port- land Monday to attend the conference at the Chamber f Commerce between the officials of Columbia county and r , i.i t. l fermity in the administration of the traffic laws on the Columbia river high war. J. L Pride more, who runs the hotel at Government Camp at the base of Mount Hood. Is in Portland distributing watch fob medals and certificates to all who have really ascended to the summit of Mount Hood. HO first confirms s man's claim to the distinction and then Issues him s certificate to show to bis friends. e e Agents of the Banker's Life Insur ance company In Oregon will have s conference at the Multnomah hotel Thursday. least s dosen churches on that day. After my kindergarten school I went to the public school and later to the symassium. Holland Is a small coun try. We fiad that people will not tears our language, so. bcaua wa need to trade with the other nation, we aay. Very well. If the mountain will not come to Mahomet It U up to Mahomet io go to the mountain.' So we learn their losgruage. A student in Holland ca.nn.oi enter, tne university without be- tag able to road, writ and converse fluently In Dutch. Knrllsh wenoh and German as well as betes able to read Latin and Greek, If a atudent has net th mental capacity to become prdflctent ta these languages then th unlversltv is no place for htm and higher teaming win Na - ..ti w. rv .. i .T aim liar regulation for entrance to roar oollegea and universities her ta Amer- lea? "In addition to these languages I speak, as fluently as the native them selves the Klganda. Kiswslhlll and th KAveronde tongues. The Bantu lan guag Is a much more logical language than ia the English. I was the first to make a vocabulary of It. I wrote out and classified over 2000 words Th ban. guage Is based upon elghr classes of nouns, which are distinguished by pw ttxs that denote the singular and the plural. The conjugation of verbs and th declension of pronouns are governed by their preflxsa You can get a very good Idea of the accuracy of the lan guage when I tell you there are It times 16 different relative poaeesstvs pro nouns plus the 1 original pronouns and th II prefixes. So simple and regular la th formation of the !anguge that. once you' fix firmly In your gated the rules, there Is no excuse for "g a mistake. With these 14 relative poos eive pronoun as s basts you seen s quire a good working knowledge of the language. a I wont to school and college till I was 24 years old. That was Just 23 yeam ago. A few weak after grad uating- from the theological ewitege I started as a missionary to Africa. W at art ad November 6. Is, for our eta months' trip to th interior of the dark continent. It waa May 11. 1157. before ve reached our destination, in German Last Africa. It took us thro months snd seven days to march from Bogamoya to M warns, where we had to wait on th river bank for seven weeks to send for boats to cross from th southern ahoro of Victoria Nyansa to Uganda. We had 25 porters to carry our staff. We paid them tit each sad their eats tor the trip. We kilted gam, ss their board cost very tittle Them were vast herd of all aorta of seer, tsisaaali of sebrs, and nuroroua hen, leopards. elephants and other forms of large along the way. "Ne man can gwecaod as a missionary who doss not possess to a high flagrao th spirit of adventure as wen as of it goes without saying, mind dying no ewjeet to but you t to you ea the ah sued ar. for tt I ta diverted from your Job by a to now going to die you heart and salad into learning the as ta otter lively wis to Chrssnaalty. yen mast not baateafty gwatww4 a gtv a though tap tag. ss The Oregon Country I . OREGON Ground has been broken for 1100.000 theatre st Corvallts. The Woodburn flouring mill la running 11 hours a day filling Targe orders out of town. For the first time In several years K Is reported that cattle in Union county are sgatn being poisoned by larkspur. Several men are at work remodeling the smelter st Sumptar. which will be ready tar operating i sheet flopt amber 1- The city of McMinnvtlle has sent to the state, trie oar ii 10,000, Its share In th 10.000 Armory to be erected there soon. Work has been started on the Benham Falls reservoir In Dos chutes county un der direction of C C Fisher, government engineer. James. 13-year-old son of W. H. Willis, Is dead st Dallas from tetanus, follow ing a broken arm sustilnod when be fell from a cherry tree. Forty thousand sheep have been signed In 10 Western Oregon counties by the recently organised Wool and Mohair Growers' association. About $00,000 has been expended In de veloping the Gees mine st BusanvlDa. and it Tsaaald something like $300,000 of ore Is Mocked out for milling. Edmond Mathey, 33 years an employe of the Oregon Nursery company at Sa lem and Orenco. committed auto Id by slashing Ms throat with a razor John Rlckmro; wbo MUled on a dona- UoB cUUB " ton county in 1343, I g- at B18 home near Corval lis after . lllnn u. rears old. three days' illness He was OS years old. Following the filing of recall petitions. Warren P. Reed has resigned as commis sioner of th Port of umpqua. 3. R Browne and Joseph Butler have also been asked to resign. Reports are current at Salem that E. S. Evenden. head of the department of ed ucation of Columbia university, will be nffaiail th, neMtlaiMi nf tk, .t.i. mal school at Monmouth word la received at Dallas that Jo- seph Dennis, son of O. E Dennis, who Is serving- la th American army of oc- cupation In Germany, was cited recently tor bravery for preventing an explosion, Flooding guilty to violating the prohi- seSSeVto gfe tn jn. His father and brother pleaded not guilty and were bound over to the grand jury. Rainh K. Williams has ahl innael ta Urn warren u. naming, wire of the presi dent, a box of Pol oounty'a choicest prune. Jara WIU Kays snd Mrs Harry . wire oi senator . also remembered. WASHINGTON There are more harvest workers In wail walla county than can be sup- P'eo wun jobs. Wallhla Attalla. Two Rivara ana Bur- bank in Walla Walla county have voted for a union hOgb school for the four dis trict. A sneciaJ tax and bonds far the erec tion of a high school building were voted by the Nanette district at South Bend by a large majority. Major Noah Shake peara of Everett has been elected commander of the Unit- ea Spanish War Veterans, department of vvaahlnggon and Alaska Governor Hart, at a meeting of the stats tax survey commission In Seattle, reoomroendeil a sales tax as one math- 06 of reducing taxation. A Path News staff ha bMn In ZK TJtS SSS movie of harvesting operations, which win oe pictureo throughout th nation. A public reception and welcome horn were extended by Taooma to Hugh C Wallace, ex-ambassador, upon his arriv al In that city Sunday night from Parla The federal prohibition enforcement department ha announced Its Intention to transfer the office of that department .In Washington to the complete control of the state prohibition director. The government haa set aide s reser vation of several acres on Indian Break, in the C a anodes SO miles from Yakima aa a permanent camping ground Tor th Bey Scouts of the Yakima valtey. Four men charged with the sal and poaaassion of narcotics have been Jaued in Taeoma since the Inauguration of a concerted drive by police, federal and military authorities against the drug habit. Bridging of the Bast Hoqulam river above its confluence with th mate Hoqulam river win be started by Grays Harbor county commissioners just ss soon as the war department pease on tne pn Charged with stealing a horse, pretty Lilian Westlake. 15 year old. Is sought 01 authorities of two counties. The hired a horse from a liveryman asv ral days ago and since then ha not been seen. No grounds for rumors of ill treat mt disabled war veterans under t cars or public health service officer tn the Western hospital st Fort StUacoom I could be found by the Investigating I muiee woicn visiiea tne noapitai. I IDAHO I To reduce the budget and bring about tewer rate In taxes, wage of Boise I cJtJr employes are to be cut 10 per cent. c L Lsngley of Twin Fails has I rwaoramgndaei by Senators Borah 1 a,n5J. XT 10 ch ' S-LTj . wa outlet of Pavette lake baa A aaaap wiiiK'Cuuu va es ass mar; siengmr tiiw aa overcome the susty condition or tn road from LarSe I to the Payette Lake Inn- Over 17,008 ounces of strychnine have in a rooent eampai tan 102.(22 acres of Idaho land started university extension division last AprU T. C. Humptoo field r iraair tatlve ?f th International Klwanlo cruba, has transferred from Minneapolis to nis ne to resresenuns uraaron. Washington Idaho. Montana and Watt. em Canada. Completing a year's test, during which time ah produced over 10.060 pounds of milk, a J -year-old Jersey cow belong ing to C. H Sargent of Fruitland haa been swarded, a silver medal by th American Jersey Cattle club of New RTLAND It is In teres ting to notice that among the eta tea covered by the sta tistical abstract of th United State. Oregon Is credited wtth th lowest Infant. mortality, wtth one except!, the state of Washington, where the rate ia th same. Tbeae figure are as follows: ' Deaths of in fant under 1 year of age. Per let Area Total. Birth. Callfomia t.tsS Tt Cotxdeetieut 2.t2t N Ptet of Columbia ss as UtadaLaJaVaOaaV 4.W&4 Tar --. 2.S2T ? ee. a Sal 1.44 tl Maryland t.Ul let gbaaarwusetts 7,7t tt gohisaa 7 At a Minnesota ,47 it New Hampshire tl7 t Sfe::::;:::" ie-rui csauna' Utah tt vjrgteta ..v.'.v.v.v.v:: uS Total UMQ ff state that esV purity of water and milk rate, net only tn Oregon but la rortiaaa, to 4