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Wit, bright, rapid and blasting as the
lightning, flashes, striken and vanishes in
an instant; humor, warm and ail -embracing
as the sun June, bathe its object in a
genial and abiding light. Whipple.
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