FRIDAY, - SEPTEMBER- 2. 1S2U 8 THE" OREGON. DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND,- OREGON -v - C a jACk.bO.-4 PubUtbar - ( Be eaiat, be aoofideat, be ckcanrhd aad do nio other aa M waaid kayo Uufm da ante 1'ubiuhKl erer t day ami Sunday online; t The Journal knildini. Brood? and Ita hill atr-t, pgrtlaad, Orffoa. Ikntered at the BoatofHee t Forfgand. Oawal foe tran-alatiot, Uunifb the ataila a seenod :- rlana mtr. TiXH-HOMt Uaia 717. Automatic 0-l. . A H iHKmimu reached by theae Bombers, bATUtXAl. ADVtRTI.HLN'U BEfBEdSATA TIVE Benjarofa Keataor Co.. Brnnnrick ,: tmibUAf. 223 Jrtla innt, Saw York' 100 ' Millnii Wml. QilwKt ':- - 1 i iriO COAST HKPRESKXTaTIVJC W. B. -. Barencer Cow, Exaainer bnUdjBev Baa Frae- eieeoj lit la loan ranee Mlduic, Loo AAfeloa; I,wt-Intllim-T IMm. Seattle. TiiB ORaViO.V JOLMNAL, reaerra the riant to reiecr edrertklna eacr watch IV deeaae - ieetionabla. It aba win aot print ar eopy mat n aa way omnia ua nanmi auttar or that eaanot . readily b : tomnniieil aa adysr- "1 cms. 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No. 21 fTTHE first cablegram from It nwly estAbUshd London offic was re celred "at "th PortlaiMj offlcs :o( -the Northwest Cooperative: Grain Growers association Wednesday afternoon. vr i I - " The London office was opened & few days ago.- It means that members of the Northwest association are In- direct eoremtmlcatlori with the market where the world's price of wheat' is made. The London office is the European sales agency of the association's rrain. . The fanners are them' selves selling direct to the ultimate buyer Without paying commissions or profits to institutions and men alontf the way. It is aj short cut to the final market, and it would seem, to be a step forwari by the farmers of the Northwest - " -. . ,' I ...At the same time the association, for, it member f aimers, Sells direct J Id Korthweat milla o to others who want . Wheat." It Can suddIt wheat of the required Klutin, or grade or auaiitity, better than can grain dealers. because it has on hand, a huge supply of 2S, 00000 bushels on which it can draw in quantity and grade to suit the purchaser. More to the point, this wheat is located in every part of the Northwest ani can be supplied by short haul to any locality. - ...it-. J" ;-; The associationhandled 1.500,000 bushets lart yew, It li handling 25,000,000 bushels this year. It has contracts with farmers by which its present volume of 25,000,000 will not be less- for the next six years except in case of a shortened crop.? The swift rise Ot the .cooperative train movement arid the success attending Its operations! bo far this year indicate that its volume of business will be heavily inqreased"- in future years.' .- . " i ' The opening of a sales office in London is a movement of very great possibilities. It may be the beginning of a new epoch in the marketing of wheat. It leaves no room for the speculator and grain gambler to break into the wheat business and absorb the cream of the i farmer's profits It will be the orderly selling of wheat In the way that the other com modities in human affairs are marketed. It is the farmer's plan of getting away from the grotesque spectacle of having the price of wheat fixed in the great gambling house known as the Chicago wheat pit Thus, Facetiously, Do Certain Editors Characterize the Effect of His Ap pointment to Sit in the Disarma ment Conference Others, Axaln, Forecast an Exercise of the ..Senator's Well Known Pow-. er and Disposition for Pro digious Mischief. "Daily Editorial Digest : (CooaoiidaUd Fran ABcxnatioo) : Virtual unanimity reigns in the press on the appointment of , Senator - Lodge as, delegate to the disarnuunent confer ence as being the natural and the ex pected thing in the circumstances. But asj the discussion turns to the qualifica tions of the senator for the post, taking into account his previous, utterances, and the importance which some editors at tach (to the conference, the unanimity ends, and the comment becomes divided. to a large extent along party lines, the Democratic press being more; vocal than the Republican. "Perhaps Mr. Harding was compelled by force of circumstances to make the selection," says the Lynchburg News (Dem.), "but the fact remains that tha appointment will be widely regarded as .unfortunate." While not agreeing with this sentiment, the Wilmington (N. C.) Star (Dem.), offers its own explanation. "Knowing something of senatorial cus sedness, the president has undertaken a little disarmament on his own account." The Boston Herald (Ind. Rep.) 1 thinks the president "has acted wisely in mafc In or Iho frltnlai Koq t iha. rak nta a mam. . . . . . . - - - I lUQ MIV MbWms UVUIA VS V, KIVU Bib B lUGtU Tne Journal is in position to state xnat. overtures nut uesn maue ""Iter of the American delezation" but Puget Sound for financing the Northwest Grain Growers' association in adds that "we say this without presum the hope of-diverting its grain movement from Portland.' The overtures ably sharing Mr. Lodge's views on such include very favorable offers in the way of creditor the association in tTx Z choice" existed. moving tnexcrop ana lor carrying sucn or ii as is consistent wnn me a- the Roan,, Times Dem.) declares that sociatlonjs plan of orderly marketing. These offers are. more favorable "the appointment of Senator Lodge, than anvthlnr Portland has oroDoaed. because Portland has proposed while It will hot provoke any enthusi- nothlng beyond the action of a couple of Wiks in carrying certain small asm. Jk:h,atver' wfl1 bc accepted without credits which the Portland office of the association has asked for. The association, as a result of the credit secured! from , the War Finance corporation, and a credit of $500,000 from an Eastern bank, is assured of -the major credit required for its operations this year. This credit, with such other assistance as can be secured, is 'certain to make the year's business successful. I The question is, What part will Portland take in this matter of financ- aUy tend to degrade tharsenate from ita Ins? The requirements of the association are for sucn creair as may constitutional position of full independ be needed in-ussembllng cargo shipments; that is, in bringing the Wheat ence of executive influence," while the from the farm to the Portland terminal, for Instance, and for such ad- gO, -onrL vaes as must be made member farmers who must have part of the constitution auite clearlv warns anv mlney on their wheat as soon as it is harvested, in order to liquidate debts congressman off the disarmament com- or for other purposes. Money from sale of the wheat is available as soon mission. ' v " t 1 ITV. XTA -Vr TI...1J rA DISARMING MR.5 LODGE standpoint. as - women - do not .. come within the class. ' This was revealed when the Royal Astronomical society of London decided to admit women -as fellows of the council. The plan waa found to be impossible until the society had its charter altered. : Ellgibles for election in .the society's by-laws were described si "persons" and when legal opinion was obtained it was decided that a "person" was strictly of the mascu line sex. The change was made in the charter and the clever women who had distinguished themselves in star gazing were admitted to the society. protest.' As to the constitutional disqualification of-a' senator accepting any post created during his term of office, the Spring field Republican find.) thinks "the wholly subordinate status of a senator while acting as a representative of the president has implications which acta COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF Letters From the People f CoassniBieation ant to The Journal foe PBblisatioa ia thia department ahoald ba writtea oa inly ana aids of tha paper: ahoajd sot exceed S0O words in lenrtb, and moat ba aisnad by tha writeT. wboaa mail addreaa is fall mast accom pany the coo triiiation. J CONCERNING WAGE CUTS A Protest Against the Practice of Cut r ting Lowest First Portland, Aug. 26. To the Editor of The Journal Why Js It that when a cut in wages is due It always starts with the man lowest down or, properly speaking. with the lowest salaried man? Why is the common laboring man and woman expected to get along on such a small amount? as it not reasonable to suppose that the laboring class and the unedu cated have a desire for good things and a hankering 'for plenty instead of living from hand to mouth like the veriest serf? TU say so. . The long suffering public, ' the majority, workers and pro ducers, are robbed, legally, year after year, and the poor simps that try to live honestly and peacefully with their fellow men are dubbed ignorant louts and are spoken of as not amounting to anything, while a merchant or profes sional man or some so-called "smart guy" that knows how to catch the dollars and make "shrewd" deals some way or other, is spoken of as "successful" and "prominent" and "public spiritll" ; fyid so the lower classes, so-called, are fired with the same ambition "to amount to something," to become "successful," and so on, and if they don't succeed one way they will another, so there is an everlast ing strife to get to the top! Ah, me! What a chase, and for what? Take, for instance, the street Weeper. or washwoman, or laundry girl they are SMALL' CHANGE Somethmr seems odd abont com memorating Labor day in absolute rest. . a : A real mother has a lot to do with the course of destiny into which her young ones travel. . ... ... a a a It oar ht to be a hannv fTiwrlrnra tn live in a community so respectable that m jury us is go stale tor want of use. Sad as it is. genius like Marconi's Is apt to have its climax in such miracles as interceotinar wirelawt m.ju?Ma fr-nm Mars. " a ' Those who want to have their faults written On the sands might profit by living where plenty of that stuff is at hand. . Dare say. some of these weirdly at tired women we see on the streets go homo and. laugh at Maggie Jiggs as luuwruus. ' , a a ... Only trouble about being married on a mountain top is the distance down to the common ground of reality where the srucer ana ouicner must De nald. - l Since bootlegging became popular It la possible for one literally to pull himself .... V. . V i . . . . . . up uy uic LHjuusir&y& xinancuuiy speax- ius at iuk Just to prove our overwhelming -"In- terest in the matter, "partisanship" al ways presents a thought of "parsnips' to our humble mind. The Corbett Or., dog that is self-appointed parent to a pair of kittens would be a greater marvel if we knew nothing aDoui uie example set ior its species by wow women wno mower tap aoga. SIDELIGHTS 'i-..V. There are said to be 1000 different ways of maklnr a living, but running a country newspaper Is not .listed in the you. ijiuo Mountain &agia. x - '. : .' . j - -a a It should be remembered that the fool laws that trouble us are not passed by aliens, but by patriots who profaee to love America. Medford Mail-Tribune. - Lodge will sit In on the disarmament confereac. The nresident ought to send for Harvey to help Henry Cabot inter pret the "pint or the American peopie. Astoria Budget. .. t a a a Congressman Pat McArthur Is owner of a prise Jersey herd in Polk county. An instance of a professional politician milking something besides the public treasury. Eugene Guard. " i -. ; -" Eagle Valley is the premier tomato growing section of the world, i Tha crop is now reaching the Baker and outside markets and California will now take a back . seat. Baker Democrat. ; , a a The Akeley party has sailed to study the gorilla in darkest Africa. These gleaners might have put their time to better use by studying the' "monkey shines" In congress. Eugene Register. - a a a No matter what mav be the sersonal views as to the Bolshevik usurpation of Russia, all humanity must rejoice tnat the actual feeding of Russlas hungry. children is to begin. Albany Democrat Everybody is happywrhen there is a fight that brings therri a cheap article. Look at the rate war to the beach and notice how the people are flocking thither not to en Joy the beach, out to take advantage of cheap-.' rates. La Ur&nde Observer. i MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations. About Town Thomas E. Powell, deputy clerk of the circuit court Boise. Idaho, Is at the Multnomah hotel on his return from a visit to San Francisco. Wblle in the latter city he reserved accommodations for the representatives of the Boise tem ple at the imperial council of the Shrin ers in 1922. He found rooms at the Stewart hotel. San Francisco Shriners to my mind, doing Just as much for the ( are going to raise an entertainment fund health of the public as, for instance, a of 1,000,000. according to Powell. A nurse or a doctor yea. even Dr. Parrish portion of this will be expended on ex- hlmself, who has such a big income that cursion trips to Yosemite valley and he forgets to draw his salary - Why I other points of interest m the state, should, these officials receive such big I There is a great demand for reaerva- pay in cash, and some others that are tions from outside temples, Powell re- working ior the same cause an reason ports. .Already seven hotels have been receive such a miserable pittance as J3 I booked. Many of the Eastern Shriners "de- Let oarer .day or aJxht nnhailow'd paaa. But atiU rammbr what tha Lord has dona. Shakeapeara. ... B 1 . . Tl.t. , A ... . 1 ! Ml . it Will De sound policy ior ruruaaa to oe aien m i tinancmg uiese . erowinc- tendency In some nifar, wheat operations to the limit. Grain terminals and deep channels to 1 ters to regard the coming conference as the sea cost a lot of money. Millions of dollars were spent on them in If it were to be a competitive exhibition -rfa-.tn i.run cr.mrri.rce throueh Portland. The ueonle voted the Precipitancy ; ana unseiiisnness m me money In the belief' that when terminals and channel were adequai Portland's business world would see to it that the commerce was created, "because Senator Lodge not only sees If through lack of financing, the wheat movement should be diverted these things clearly but has the courage T.lQn o nt tV. rrnr fruita of th Poliimhia irftto rnno would to Utter his convictions plainly." v.. u. ' i., .trnKinr. Pni. ,o J to Mr. Lodge's charges against ue iot. .mo viuy.li oyvuv -" " " u "'"v Japan, the Philadelphia Record (Ind. years and millions in . rearing, is for port authorities, commercial bodies Dem.) does not presume to pass upon and institutions, banking houses, manufacturing establishments, capitalists I their merits, but thinks nevertheless and all other forms of financial interests to create in this city a sentiment "the appointment or Mr. Lodge is --!-- o " . ... . , ... X.1V- l a I mission are governing bodies with anQ a purpose ana piana u, Wn.ii """""' Conference with its enemies." Eng t. : WHY 7 '"HE city commission, the county -a commission, the dock commission. (he port commission, and the tax supervising .and conservation' com shall be looked upon with profound and friendly concern of rumors that he is perverting the department ,of justice and thereby emboldening the forces of radicalism. practically the same Jurisdiction. - They all ' operate In Multnomah .County, and 95 per cent of the popu relation of Multnomah county is with in the city, of Portland t The city of Portland employs an engineer. Multnomah county em- In a speech Wednesday, Attorney ploys an engineer. The dock com- General Daugherty declared his ex mission employs an engineer. The treme disapproval of "disloyal con tort commission employs ai engi-Lduct ;or for hindering the government tieer. The newly crealeJ ,laiom-T ' prosecuUng the war wlUr- OWF- linission comes into the fold ahd also' many." How about the summary re employs an engineer at a salary of moval of Secret Service OperaUve " 225 a day. The commissions are all Bryon, who obtained the evidence in - aervinft th aame nnon1. And each the Woerttdle Case? And how about has a separate engineer. , N, How long are the people of Mult nomah county going to maintain an army of engineers? Why is an army of engineers "necessary- to care for ., the engineering problems of the same AitBATTERED ex - convict was people T . jWhy is an army of at- -V- brought to the police e'mergency torneys ; necessary? Why three sets hospital in Portland a few nights ago. after streets were constructed and paving begun, and since the streets and roads were noi built to with stand the . weight of such vehicles traveling at great speed, is it the thing tq permit the; over-heavy ma- the order postponing the Woerndle case? 'SETTLING HIS OWN AFFAIR of clerks, three police establishments, two health bureaus and two .treas uries T Why a small army of com missioners and commissioner's sten ographers, . commissioner's clerks, commissioner's assistants, and com- fnlslsoner's offices? ,Y Why not a consolidation of govern ments and governing commissions and engineering forces, and attorney forces, and clerk forces, and. health forces and treasury forces,. arid all the .other double shooting, . triple shooting and duplicating forces? Why maintain all the public Jobs, the public salaries and the public costs? . A "shell-shock" school has been unearthed In Berlin. It trains make believes to appear aa if they had been gassed. ' Its g-aduates seek alms and sympathy on the false pretense that they are'victlms of the war. There does, because he is a man of the Jun would seem to bo enough legitimate gle, that he served a term in the victims In Germany to leave no room penitentiary. It is because of his be His head was bruised and cut. His ribs ached from kicks. He was cov ered with blood. He was questioned as to who was his assailant. His only answer was that It was his affair; that he would "later settle the argument himself." The former convict has his own code of ethics. Police and law have no place in-his life. He makes no pretense at settling his differences in a legal way. The question of right and wrong to him is merely a ques tion of might. JIo doesn't subscribe to the conventional life, to law and order, or to the- present civilization': He prefers to settle his own differ ences with his fists, a knife or gun. It is because he believes as . he tor fakirs. A MATTER OF JUSTICE ARDEH8 have Issued from the V United States attorney general at Washington. D. C, to defer Indefi nitely ths. civil action, brought to se cur the annulment of the citizenship of Joseph Woerndle, a naturalized German cltlsen In' Portland, who is charged with obtaining a passport in his own name, but allowing its use to Hans Boehm, a German spy, in leaving .the . country during the World war. By singular coincidence, William llryon, an old and trusted secret service , agent of the government, who. gathered the evidence against Woerndle, has received from the de partment' of justice at Washington liefs that he was brought to the po lice station cut and bleeding. And it is because of them that the police should watch him and other men of his . kind. It is men who do not sub scribe to civilization as it is, and who flout law and order, that are causing the trouble In .the world today and that are endeavoring to take us back to the days of the jungle and the cave. In the jungle"they. "settle their oWn differences," too. land, too, "would as soon see somebody else on the commission as Senator Lodge, who in his writings and speeches has displayed an aversion" to both coun tries, is the opinion of ' the Scranton (Pa.) Times (Dem.) The Lincoln (Neb.) Star (Ind.) takes a more hopeful view of the senators usefulness as a delegate. It . says : Those who fear that the appointment of Senator Lodge may lead to strained chines to go on unrestricted in the use of the highways, a use that we relations between the bitter-enders and know is. hiehlv destructive? Or. on " pro-league cabinet officials forget uie aouny oi uie juasaacnuseiis saumur the other hand, is it the thing to so to reverse his position on any question limit loads and speed as to give roads I without the blinking of an eye.' and streets some chance to withstand the strain? I The Indianapolis News (Ind.), refer- . A good many millions of dollar. trr 1 a d j. .- - I CliAallg CuiCUCf30 VA. IlCna, kMlUM t"V ait imuiYeu m uio wisim, auu uw- In tha Hsrht. Of historv. Was body has any doubt: as to what the 4 rash one," and the Milwaukee Journal true answer is. I (Ind.) takes the view that "there could hardly be a worse appointment than that- nf the mfllitrnant Lod. NobodV A Philadelphia lawyer: defended a j believes in his dlslnterestednesa They forger and won his case. The forger I have seen his - course of shift -and a OT-oattv t-.io inn an a rori I change. They have seen him animated The lawyer's fee was large, and the bJTTI tE forger paid it with) a check. The Uto the pian of a Republican president check turned out to be worthless. The he may be expected to be loyal ; and lawyer Drobably went home and doubtless he will act less hunkerishly swore at his mother-in-law t i . The Oregon Country ' Koxtlraaet-HappenlBja te Srlaf JTom tor tba and $4 a day? In the first place, these officials are, or are supposed toi be, our servants,, and what bos will pay his servant more than he himself can afford? Some time ago I read an article on the edUorial page of The Jownal, too about a cobbler taking a prise) at our rose exhibit The article went on to tell about tills wonderful country where it was O. K. for ?a cobbler to exhibit to gether with a banker's wife, and so on; meaning, I suppose, how pleased the cobbler ought to be to get his plants close by the rosebush ' or plants of the k1 V , ,tellmel you guests at the Imperial. munlty, compared with a cobbler. You hear, of a banker's wife sometimes at pink teas or when making a donation that is most generally mentioned in the public press, or "adorning" the society page, whereas tha cobbler but it takes too long. I could write forever on these things, for I am boiling over on the subject constantly, and must shut myself off forcibly. But I guess the editor of The Journal knows there are plenty more. J. Lonnen. are planning- to come by steamer through the Panama canal. While in SanTran cisco they will live on vessels which, aft er the session is over, will carry them to the Hawaiian islands. a a a The pavement between Aurora and Barlow on the Pacific highway is com pleted, according to Herbert Nunn, state highway engineer. It will be ready for ' travel when the state fair opens. The work is now progressing between Canby and Barlow. a ' Grace Altken of Sisters is among the F. D. Kruse of Marshfield is making a business visit to Portland. ' - C. Leroy Towers of Roseburg is vis iting in Portland. Ray Harper and Frank Mashburn of Grants Pass are among out-of-town arrivals. than he talka" The Fert Worth Star Telegram (Ind. Dem.), while conceding his talents, criticises him in that he "gaye up to party what' was meant for mankind," and the Chattanooga Times 66TT IS perfectly futile to believe (Ind. Dem.) says : "He goes on -the Jklhat thora never Will he arm fed mission wnn a mma emBitierai agouiat WAR FOREVER? Henry Ford shares his profits with his employes. He has no West Vir ginia Industrial wars. WHAT'S YOUR. ANSWER? Conflicts," said President Harding, In an address Wednesday, Is then the dreani of -permanent peace hopeless? Are we fatalists who accept It as final that wars will always be, that interest will always have to be paid oa war bills through collection of war taxes and that mothers must 'always raise boys 'to be shot on the battlefields? .'The most formidable barriers against permanent peace 4re the pre conceived notions of those who in sist that wars ,.must ! be because we have always had wars. That thought is the. inspiration and stimulus of European balance - of - power diplo macy.. It assumes that there can be ho progress toward a civilization In which reason and right .will have mastery. Nine tenths. If not of the people of the cWillied nations hate war and want international agreements to drive war . Off the earth. Is all this human sentiment and human, desire to be "perfectly futile." Will the he tenth or the one one-hundredth always compel all the other millions to live armed and taxed and drafted ? j 99 hundredths, TIHAT the tracks left by a heavily loaded truck and trailer On the recently paved Newberg highway D. C. a telegram dismissing him were ugly and deep is the statement from service. ' of a Portlands who watched the The evidence against W oerndie l outfit go by. J consists m part. Of sworn statements Some of th big trucks operating arid of undisputed - ' photographic I on Portland i root. i- - - I , j".. .aavwuv - JOI I - - . . M . . . (. . . . J . 1 . ... 1 . . copies oi page iron ma utnuuui i nouses nail a block to block away diary, in which the transaction witn I When you feel the vibrations within Boehm is set forth in-detail. la house so shaken vou knn infui. - Why -should Woerndle not be Uvely what is1 going on irrth foun- hroughl to trfat r- Why should Bryon datiofts of the pavement over which not he retained in the government al the ponderous; truck is nasalnr. service, at least, until he has given I : This thing must be known tn alt hia testimony? . i . . If .Woerndle is innocent, none should be more" desirous than he of clearing, away . a blot against his name. It' Is incredible that the attorney That inventionj has developed a- pow erf ul motor vehicle capable of carry ing loads not dreamed of when streets were paved and paving of roads was begun. . ' " . , . .. ' Along with ithat realization there general oi tne unite a taies snouia i must come this query: Since these bduwliuejr t vejnrnu the conUnuance ponderous loads came Into action The sneakthief who robbed the state employment institution tor the blind Of phonograph records donated for the pleasure of the inmates, lives a life more darkened than the lives of his victims, no matter how well he can see. . j. . - COSTLY CARELESSNESS kTTIFTEEN thousand misdirected let A ters pass daily through the Phila delphia post of f ice The cost of sorting out unaccounted for mail is more than 1 100,000 a yeerJ The Portland postoffice handles, Sys , Postmaster Jones, 10,000 : misdirected letters dally. r" Eleven clerks. ; whose sala rles range from 11400 to f 1800 i year, are engaged exclusively' in cor rectlng ; addresses and : supplying missing streets and numbers. Thus is the extravagance of carelessness reduced to brass tackaV a large Doay oi tne American people who are Just as vitally and directly In terested as he or those like minded with himself whom be will represent He is inconsistent variable, and In no judicial frame of mind for considering so vital Issues as the conference may present a a "Mr Lodare'a talents, aa the country Is .aware, are superlatively preventive. He is an obstructionist without a peer. If it were the purpose of the parley to do nothing. Mr. Lodge would be preemi nently the man of the hour," is the. sum ming Up given by the St Louts Post Dispatch (Ind.). and in the same vein the Utica Observer (Dem.) thinks "this Is a time for building, and Lodge is not builder." "He is, rather, brilliantly and cynically destructive of other men's work." Is the conclusion of the Rich mond (Va.) Times-Dispatch (Dem) after stating that he is not a "construct ive builder in either domestic or inter national affairs." The Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.), however, in line with a number of news papers who heartily approve of the se lection, dwells upon Mr. Lodge's per sonar qualifications: "The designation of Senator Lodge means more than a recognition Of the senate as the presi dents treaty making partner; more than the recognition of the senator's official position as chairman of the great committee under whose leadership the senate saved the nation In a great crisis. The designation recognizes Mr. Lodge's preeminent personal qualifica tions for service of large and permanent value to the nation and the world as a member of an Interactional conference whose successful deliberations '. wm doubtless result in the' calling of - the third international conference .at The Hague, where the restoration of the reign of law among the nations must be brought about The Roclpr VMonntln News (Denver) (Ind.) sees in the appointment tne presi dent's "willihgness to call blgr men to master arreat problems," while the Pitts burg Gasette Tunes (Rep.) thinks "no member of the senate knows better than he the. senatorial conceptions of what should not be dcrne In developing foreign relations on sound American principles. The Portland ,.Oregonlan Ind-i Rep.) says that by appointing; Mr. Lodge (he president has given Mr. Hughes an sociate whose . qualities will dovetail well. with he, latter." j " DEFENDS THE 4-D Replies to Criticism of It Presented by Various Wrltera Lebanon, Aug. '29150 the' Editor of Portland The Journal I have read in your col umns several letters denouncing the 4-L. Many say it la made up mostly of em ployers and that they run things to suit themselves. They don't run things in the 4-L to suit themselves any more than they do out of them. Under the 4-L system labor has the same right to take the floor and present grievances as the employer has and the employer has a right to accept or reject labor's demands the same as it has outside of the 4-L. It Is merely an organisation to bring capi tal and labor closer together. What more can the timberworkers' union do than present its demands to the employers? Isn't it a fact that the mills outside of the 4-L are paying less wages than the 4-L mills? Show me one ruling the 4-L has made against labor. One writer says it did not make the eight- hour day. It makes no difference whether it made it of not It Is main taining It One woman wrote that if her husband should Join the '4-L she would get a divorce. It would be much better Mrs. Lyle Miller, wife of Paulina's leading merchant Is visiting in Port land. , a' a" e ' ' : Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haynes of Kent, Sherman county, are Visiting friends in a a a Among out-of-town visitors are E. Stewart of Medford and George Adams of Astoria. Among the guests at the Multnomah is A. N. H. Vaughn, a retired; foundry man of Norwich, Conn., who is making a tour of the Pacific coast Conditions in the West are much better than in the East he says. In Norwich the woolen, cotton and paper mills are running on half time and wages have been cut 20 per cent There Is much unemployment. a a a George A. Dorr is of Springfield, an asparagus and filbert grower, passed through Portland Thursday, on a tour of the nut orchards of the valley. -a General TJ. G. Mc Alexander, ; common ly known as "the Rock of .the Mame," and Mra - McAlexander . are registered at the Multnomah. r ' a a a H. P. Fletcher, formerly manager of the Cornelius hotel, is now room clerk at the Imperial hotel, relieving Robert Himes, resigned. W. Harvey Cyrus ' of Prlneville is spending a few days in Portland. He is accompanied by Mrs. Cyrus. ' a a a LeRoy Ledger wood and Ralph Ledg- erwoo ' of Stay ton are taking in the sights of the metropolis. Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Woodardtand Mrs. S. P. Ireland of Silverton are -stopping at the Portland. . -.. a. a a... i Gilbert H. Temple and MUt ;WUHam son of Pendleton are registered at tha Imperial. ; a a a ; " " : Mr. and Mrs. D. M. John of Corvailis are visiting in Portland. a Rolland CulbertaoB cf ClaUkanie is in Portland on business. . a a a . S. D, Jones of Salem, is registered at the, Benson, . , a 'a ' a W. Bollons of La -Grande Is Stopping at the Oregon. a a - Laurence Woodfin of Ketchikan. Alaska, Is registered at the Portland. a . B, C. J. Astbury of Medford is In, town. ' ,' OREGON v V r A lew of 97M0O for school , expenses ' this year has been approved - by the Pendleton" school board. Last year's levy . was 1104.250, , - ; . ; A 'rich a-otH rrfk haa been reported on the head of Lightning gulch oa the headwaters OI Canyon creea i. niies -west of Klrby.. , ' : :. . . ' Artnal mrmtrnetlon work has started or the new X26.0O0 depot which the Spo- . Kane, joruana at statue) roaa is mtwav Lag at St Helens. . , .' ... Building aetmty - is at high tide In Scappooee. Seven residences are under construction and many- farmers are . building new homes. ' -The prune crop In that Mflt6n-Free- water district is the largest in the dila tory of the valley. More than w car- loads have been shipped to date Special train service from all points In Oregon and Washington will be In 4 effect during- the coming Round-Up at ; Pendleton, September 23 to 24. ;- ; - - Charles B- Cobb, the last survivor of s the party that struck gold oa Canyon.. rar n 1ICS. died a few dava tn at his . home in John . Day, at the age of M years. . - -- ? Douglas D. Clarke, noted .airplane pilot and known all over the coast aa a daring acrobat; Is dead at The Dalles from a disease resembling infantiiw paralysis, v. - .- ' Farmers In the vicinity - ot, Bead are asking that government trappers he sent In to wage .war on the coyotes, which are killing whole flocks Of sheep . and chlckena - . 1 Frank J. Norton has leased the Rose-",: burg cannery from the Oregon Canning .' company and will begin operations .Octo ber L. The owners had given up all idea of running this aeason. , , . Fourteen thousand ' acres of Medford lands willabave water running over them within the next 10 months, the $1,250.-. 000 irrigation system to be completed In time for next year's crop. , -. t - At Love creek. 20 miles east of Baker, development of coal Is going on by local people. The shaft has now reached a depth. of 125 feet, showing a body, ef ligniu coal four and a half test In width. The bls-mst liauor haul la Coos county since the state went dry was made a -few days ago, when the sheriff seised 21S quarts and 16 pint of real whiskey in the Southern Paclfio depot at Marsh- field. . ' - Resident of Cascade ' Locks report that a crew of engineers is engaged on both sides of the Columbia making pre liminary surveys for tne propoeea bridge near the site of the mythical Bridge of the Gods. - Miss Marie Fletcher, aged Is, 1s m a Pendleton hospital suffering from -- a crushed shoulder and other serious in juries .received when an automooue driven " by her father, R. W. Fletcher, went ever an embankment near Barn OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THJ5 JOURNAL MAN . By Fred Lockley Curious Bits of Information , Gleaned From Curious Places. "Person" in the dictionaries is de scribed aa "an individual human being," But it is not so n England from a legal IBeminiscances of pionaer -Ufa at and BaT TancouTer when it vaa chiefly a mere military out on .the farthest frontier are related by atra. Mary E." Biles in the second, installment of her ttorj, which Mr. Look 17 has recorded for Jour nal readers,.. Mr Bilas naA mbre to say of C. S. Grant And of her lather, whose military career was renewed when tha Civil waAbroks sat. 1 For three score years and nine, Mrs. Mary E. Biles,, whose maiden . name was Mary Elisabeth Kelly, has-been a resi dent of the Oregon country. Her father, William Kelly, a soldier, came with; hia family to Fort. Vancouver in 1852. 'Hy father, at the expiration of" his if she had said if she caught her hus- enlistment too It up a farm four and a band working in mills outside of the 4-L for 12.60 a day she would get a di vorce. haif-mtles trom Vanootrver' said Mra Biles. "Although it was but four and a half miles to our place as the crow flies. It seems Impossible to make a labor ht was 10 miles by road. Lieutenant Grant union that will please all classes of la- and some of the officers often usea to bor. One labor union is always try- ride over to our place. We had several Ing to upset another. Labor will never I good cows and mother used to give them succeed until it cornea under one head I big bowls of milk with homemade breaa. m one great industrial union. Capital of which they, all were fond. When my is .united while labor is divided. Isn't mother spoke of how far it was by road it a fact that the Federation of Labor from Fort Vancouver, Grant had some took the places of striking switchmen? I of the soldiers cut a road through the Can anyone point out one case .where I military reservation to our place. They capital helped labor win a strike? cut the trees down and maae a gooa Divided labor will never triumph over I road, reducing the distance by road from united capital. If one labor union bucks our place to the tort to aoout live mnes. another we may as well have no labor When Grant was stationed at Fort Van unions at all. The reason I favor the couver in 1853, with several other of- 4-1. is becail.oA it hrins- dmnlnvro whom fleers, he OCCUDietl his snare time In we must deal with, close to us. E. A Llascott farming. Grant bought a team of horses from'an immigrant and did the plowing himself while his fellow oiricers pat in potatoes. I don't think they made much of a financial success at it I know my father didn't "I remember vividly my first impres- passed through Chelan returning, after 1 slon of Fort Vancouver. We -came up the a three weeks' outing in the Wenatchee I Columbia river on a small steamer. We and Chelan forests of Washington. A J cast anchor In front of the old Hudson s gratifying and commendable xharac I Bay salmon house. This was where they teristle of the &(niAtalnara rink la I cured their salmon. Around this old neat and sanitary wav the ramrw. warn house were a numoer oi BmauwiiM CAREFUL CAMPERS High Praise for the System of the Mountaineers and the Mazamas. Chelan, Wash., Aug. 31. The Moun taineers club of Tacoma and Seattle kept A woman' visitor to Lake Chelan who had just finished a tour of one of our national playgrounds said, 'It Is a pity that the trait of civilised man in the mountains is marked by tin cans and fire-scarred forests." But this is not true of the Mountaineers. One may visit their camps at any time and not and huts occupied by the Sandwich islanders who were employed ' by the company. They called It Kanaka -village. We entered the Columbia- September Jt, 1 982. an landed at Vancouver the fol lowing day. My baby brother was only a month old. They named him Jamea Golden Kelly. Mother named him Gold en after our ship, the Golden Gate, on i , . . . - :t . - i en atter rma a tin can m sight - AU cans, gar- which he was born. I remember very bags and dther Waste are confined to distinctly that we were considered tre- pits dug at convenient places and each mencjously stylish because we had glass time these pita are used a little dirt is windows in our loe house on the farm. used to keep the flies A ay. This is I Moat of the cabins had oil paper for win easily done and is a mighty good sua-I flows. The schoolhouse where I went to gestion to campers j. wherever they (school had greased paper;, in lieu of win- may be.. , ! . ' . '. i. Idow glass. Another thins- that was nntlrwaHla au 1 the absence of individual firea For this "After a year or two on the farm, party of 80-odd people offly one camp fire tatherfttially gave it up. He was ap was used. One man Vas responsible pointed postmaster at Vancouver. The ior ms lire miu , as appomiea tO loos I iwwi"-" -" ftr it. intad nf Biiowin'a. i i and had a big stockade around Ifc Speah- bnrn out at- night it was put out en tog of the Catholic- church reminds me tlrelw- It is possible for careful carnn- I ... . . ... ers to Jlye in the forest without sUrtnig ot practical for all of us to belong to WASHINGTON "... Ralnh Moore, aged 22, was killed near Dayton when a car In . which he was riding went over an embankment,. Loss of a bolt from tee steering gear cauaaa the accident .-- wtm for frait nlckera In tha Spo kane valley have been reduced from , 40 and SO cents an hour last year to 10 . cents this year and lor packers irom cents to 5 cents a box. Juds-e Smith of Seattle has signed an order temporarily restraining the Unit ed Mine Workers from picketing or oth erwise interfering with property of the Pacific Coast Coal company at iN aw cas us. Miaa Malba NaceL 2S .rears Old. was found dead a few days ago in the dental office of Dr. T. R. McNeartney at Ta coma. Bhe naa oeen empiovea aa an as- -sistant and had apparently committed suicide. r Tha body of Thomas Graham .Jackson. the first man to respond to -the selective drafnn-Garfleld- ountjr ahd ..the first Garfield county soldier to lose hia. life ' in action, has arrived at Pomeroy from France. ..... A nine-mile flume, - which will carry legs from Willard to Hood, is now being constructed by. the Drano Flume tc Lum ber-company in tne wntte faaimon re gion and wui maae avauaoie eou.vuu.ove feet of fir. -v.- A J. Swanaon and Frank Burgee, who escaped from the Walla Walla peni tentiary while cutting corn on the prison farm, were recaptured a few days ago on Dry creek, a short distance from the scene of their escape. of the fact that the first six sisters to come out west came with us on board the Ohio and on the Golden Gate, In 1852. w a . At the breaking out of the Civil war, Hiram J. Cochran, who married my sis ter, succeeded my father as postmaster. Father wrote to the war department and asked for a commission. He referred the department to Captain Grant , with whom he had served. Father received a commission aa captain of Company of the Oregon cavalry. He was dls appointed, because he had hoped to be ordered to the East where the big bat ties were to be fought The war depart' ment issued Sr commission to Thomas R. Cornelius as colonel of the Oregon regi ment and authorized him to raise 10 com panies of cavalry. My father raised his company at Vancouver. In the Spring of 1863 Lieutenant Colonel Drew of .the First Oregon cavalry sent my father with his company to establish a cam son at Fort Klamath. They built the fort there and my father was the first to command at Fort Klamath. My father was a very strict disciplinarian. On night he went out to see if the sentries were patrolling their beats properly. private named Fry, seeing my father coming and thinking it was -the other sentry, said r 'Come on here- where-1 em. under the lumber. It's a nice, varm, dry place and we'll be perfectly, safe here. My father accepted his Invitation. He said that when the sentry saw who he was it was laughable to see how tongue tied and embarrassed he became. "While my father was at Fort Klam ath, he made a trip to Crater: lake. 'It was his description of this wonderful lake that was read by W. G. Steel when he was a bqy and which determined him to come to Oregon to see this lake of silence and mystery. It was Will Steel who, after many years of work, was in strumental in making Crater J laka a National park. a - a a . "Shortly after the close of the Civil war my father was ordered from Fort Klamath to Camp Harney to Join Lieu tenant Colonel George Crook; of the Twenty-third infantry. My father took part in the battle Of Steen'a Mountain. He was breveted a major for the part he took in this battle. My father was a captain in the Eighth cavalry, In which Henry C Hodges .was also - a, captain. After my father's departure 'from Fort Klamath Major Rheinhart of the First Oregon Infantry commanded there. ' a a. a "My father died December 24 1I7L at Denver, while on his ' way home from New Mexico, where . he haa been en gaged in fighting Indians:. I forgot to tell you that my father served as county treasurer, as well as county clerk. -of Clarke county when we lived at .Vancou ver, and served two terms in the legisla ture when Washington was a territory." IDAHO "District Judge Babeock has "sustained the charges of alleged misconduct of the district's affairs 'and has ordered the removal of W, W. Parish, O. F. Clark and G. W. Dice,- Twin Falls school di rectors. , For the first time In the history of the state a canoe ' trip' has been made from the headwaters of the middle fork Of the Boise river at Atlanta to Boise, three men having, recently paddled down tn five days. ; Guy Ballinger, aged 12. and his 10-year-old sister, have confessed to setting fire tp the barn of William H. Elstona, near Dudley, in which the barn; 12 tons of hay. wagons and all farm implements were destroyed. , Els tone had whipped the'boy. . - ,. ' - - After deliberately driving an auto mobile. In which he was a prisoner, into the Snake river near Caldwell, John McGee, ex-convict from Utah state penitentiary, escaped from Sheriff Kin ney. William Carter, also an ex-convict was drowned. forest fires and without leaving a trail of tin cans, a 4. , ? . , . '1 ; . It Is to be regretted that more of our forest, visitors cannot have the' advan tage of, the teachings and good felldw ahip of such, organizations as tba Moun taineers, th Mazamas and Others Of their kind. It would mean thousands of such clubs we can .at: least be Moun taineers In theory and can be "Careful Campers." Y -j " G. E. Mitchell. Uncle Jeff Snow1 Says One cat with klttens'll show more grit n 10 cats 'thout no kittens. And a feller dollars to tbe United. States treasury be- I with a homo and a fam'ly'U make a bet- cause it would reduce the cam fires to i ter-hustler on the avriage, ana a better almost the minimum. " But "since it "is I CiUicea, too, n 10 fellers that hain't got no home and no famly and don't Want none. But we jump all over the feller that builds a home and behaves hisself like a good citizen, while we seem to have a heap of sympathy fer the feller that holds lots and farms outer use and Jlst don't do nuthin' but' block everybody out and off so fur as he can. This is a queer world,, and the longer I live u it the more queer things I see, find and hear tell of. The queerest howaumever, ia . this here critter tha "we re - told is "the reaeonin' animal I ' - What I LUte Best i in The Journal j P. O. POWELL, secretary j Oregon Farm bureau I have .been, especially interested in your editorials, on the financ- inar of the farmer, and also in the Bryant articles 'on ' Russia.. ' MRS. FRANCIS E. MORSS, f Carlisle, Wash: -I like The . Journal because it is "fair, ; square and liberal." I turn to the editorial page expecting to - read something worth while, and am not disappointed. J. D. HOPKINS. 106 East . Seventy-eighth street north I like The -Journal editorial -' page.lest, for its fairness. F. E. JONES. 622 East Davis streef. "Observations and Impressions of The Journal Man, by Fred Lock ley, are the most interesting , articles' in The 'Journal or In any; other, Portland paper. E: C. RUGGLES, 325 Nineteenth 'street south The -sporting page it explains And " , aims to gve the best results - In all lines of sport. pHILIP G, NISSIORIS, 285 . Grand avenue Because it is the voice of the people mor-- : - ally, politically and intellectu ally. ... ' MRS. VERNON W. DAT. 2064 East Burnride street . 1 The marine news, -If the correspondent who speaks of having voted as a Republican for 30 years will supply his name and address Tbe Journal will be glad to print hi comment .Al ways be sure to furnish name and address when telling "What I like best in The Journal." v . t J 4 - fciJaJ :rJ-H&- Jry-aWaaftqa, el