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ARE FARMERS FAIRLY FINANCED? 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.
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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.
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A real mother has a lot to do with the
course of destiny into which her young
ones travel.
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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. "
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' 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. ' ,
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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. -
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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
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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 - '.
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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
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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. ; ,
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Grace Altken of Sisters is among the
F. D. Kruse of Marshfield is making
a business visit to Portland. '
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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-
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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
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