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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL. PORTLAND, OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER. 12. 1S21. A rXDlCrKNDEXT HrWSPAFlR C S. JACgSON . PnbHahsT ' (a rata, b confident, bo cheerful sad do anto other u yoa would have them do nto ". 1 Pubiiahed etery week day end Sunday morning t Th Journal boilding. Broadway ami Tem- kall tret. Portland, Oregna, talervd at lha noto(uce at Portland. Oregon" for traatmieaio throngs th sails aa aecuwd eia matter Tki.KriiO.NE Meia"7l7. Automatic 0-si. a 11 oVfiertmenta reached by these numbers. iiATloSAL. AltVEK TlHl.Ntl H ti'HESEXTA-TIVK- Benjasitn & Keatnor Co., Bronawick Imtldlag, 225 f ifth avenue. Sew Tors; HI Mailer balkllng. Chteaant PAIC COAST ULrBESENTATIVE W. ML Barsnge Co., EismlMf buildmg. Sat FTsn- etaro: Title losurane building, Los Angeles; Pnet-Intelligencer building. Seattle. tUt UUU.O.N JOLAXAL. reaervce the riant to reieet d?ertling copy which It deans oo- teetlonabl. It alas win sot print say copy ' that la soy way simulst reading mailer off , that cannot readily be recognised as sdrer- ' k( WufW m SaTM By Carrier, City snd Country . DAILY AMD BUN DAT Owe weak 14 I One month t DAILY AND SUNDAY Owoweek $ .10 I One week '.(JS in moat. ... . BT MAIL. AIX RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE DAII.T AND SUNDAY Three months. . .12.25 One month. .... .79 SCNDAT (Only) One year 18.00 Biz months.... : 1.7 S Three months. . . 1.00 Firestone, ' Julius Fleischmann and! 170 of a" possible 254 days. The other men whose names are pronaS-! stone and : granite cutters have a nent in .banking and .mwiulKturei uui wgner. average, uney wort have named their businesses as I ISO days of a possible 280. beneficiaries of policies for ,1.000.-1 j pointers and! paper hangers ' suav 00 apiece.: ' ; I taintheir prosperity by working, on To repeat, these immense insurance I the average. 182 of a. poossible 264 risks are written that business btiHtl davsJ and the lather by working 190 ered two men to get possession of a Packard automobile. He, too, is awaiting trial for murder. Wo need a nation-wide revival of morals to re generate: us from the low-moraled examples of profiteering and . other crimes of cunning during the war. up by outstanding personalities may not be wrecked or seriously jolted by their withdrawal . from life. , The principle is the same in respect to newly weds and home builders. The importance of softening (the blows of fate is proportionately aa. great.: MEN ATv AUCTION 1 On yrer IS 00 a months 4.2 DAILY (Without Sunday) On year A.OO Sis monthi 8.2 Three montha. . 1.76 On month. ... .60 WEEKLY , (Every Wednesday)' One year 11.00 J Sir - months .10 Thee rates apply only in th West Kate to Kaatsrn pom La furnished oa applies tinn. Mag remittances by Money Order. Kxpresa Order or Draft.' If your poatofflc la not s money-order office 1 or - 2-cent stamps will be Sreepted. Make all remittances payable to The Inurnal, Portland, Oregon. as WEEKLY AND gl'NDAY On year 13.50 of a possible 280 days. The plumber seems to Justify some of the comnenta as to the size of his income, for he i works 200 of a pos sible 270 days, but the tflesetter is only in leas happy position, for his average 'is 200 . of a -possible 282 daysr while the electrician . elevates the average, with 21s days at work DARED above the waist as in the hi1 a Possible 280 a- old slavery days, .unemployed! It is the- laborer, however, who men have been sold on the auctions stands at the top of the list in con block in Boston. , . i j tlnuity of employment Based upon From lack' of food one man col- figures of the recent past rather than lapsed while th auction was In the immediate present, he works 277 progress. Another had been practi- days of a possible zmin a year cally foodless for four days. All j But; the committee finds, the aver were put through evolutions within (age of idle time' in 21 trades is 31 view of the prospective bidders to per cent, or nearly one day in three, show that they were physically fit Looking for Causes the Investiga te do labor, tors find that strikes were responsible It is a near revival of old slavery Vt year for 3.000.000 idle days. In practices. They sold the man's body ciement winter weather is a frequent for life then. .They sell the man's cause of temporary idleness. Volun- services during 'the, unemployment tary lay-offs on the part of the period now. It is a-ditferep.ee in de- worvcr8 are less frequent now than gree, but in principle, the ' two pro-1 dm-ing the time when the demands of cesses are closely akin.- . employment were at the highest it is a startling way or Dringing about country-wide realization of the unemployment 'Situation. It has doubtless left, a strong Impression upon the country. "Perhaps it has caused the head ot many an employ ing establishment to highly resolve that he will go to unusual effort to keep his own workers employed, and, if possible, add to the list In his service. ' Perhaps it has led many in easy WOODEN SHIPS STILL WORRY Controversy Is Revived by the Proposal of the) Shipping Board to Sell Them for a Small Percentage of Their Cost ; Those Opposing the Sale on the Ground That It Is an Un necessary Giving Away; of . T Public Property Are Threat- en ing- to Make It a Subject of Congres sional Investigation. "Dally Editorial Digest- plunge through a elderberry clump They come up standin', all right, and went oa with the picnlo after a while. the telephone company bein" ahead good polei He was complimented by tile ladles on his quick thlnkln', but the i deacon told me it; was nothin of the ort, as he quit thinkin' . when they i left the grade" and didn't start to thlnkln' agin till they landed in the pasture. PooDle seems to quit thinkin' durtn" a COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE j "Oregon first r V see 1 There are too many Ts In some "writers.. . w w At least the end of the war did take (Oonsnlirlitsd Prem Amociataon) The controversy -over wooden ships which at the beginning of the war occa sioned the resignation of General Goe- thals as chairman of the shipping board, is revived in editorial columns by the announcement that the government If negotiating the sale of these "white ele phants" tor a small fraction of their cost. The majority of papers regret that it is necessary to sacrifice the ships at a figure which, as a number of writers put it, is "less than one half of 1 per cent" of their original value, but they feel nevertheless That any price is preferable to their continued upkeep at public expense, and that the great money loss must simply be "charged to the war account" A very vigorous minority however, protests against the proposed deal as an unnecessary giving away of public property, and several papers fol low the lead of the New York World (Dem.) In demanding an investigation of a transaction which they consider rucalpaign and if. only 'tween n" off uT. front" pa.'. ; times that they study even a little blt-j . " o a Letters From the People. t fYwnmunieationa sent to The loaraal for mhllralun in this derjaraasBt should ho written on oniy ona eras ue paper; inooja do sstoeu 800 words is tenets, and must be signed by the writer, whoa mail address la rail mast peny the eontxibntioa. 1 . OUGHT TO LOAN Most of the srjcceeafnl nraleeta for home owning are based upon thrift. see Apartment house dwellers mav be sure fall lias arrived now that the theatres are open. . . Few -of -the men Who are bemoanlnr their fates today are at home doing Monday's wash. Judging from the wsy some of them do Portland, Sept. t. To the Editor of j business, those who occupy market stalls The Journal Tour correspondent J. aa. 1 are properly called staiiers. Reed auta a verv nertinent and imoertl 1 - nent question to your - readers, in your 1 . Gardner's chase has settled down to edition7 of the 7th. in askinsr why the I He nsual formula and he s being seen government should or should not Issue I - mt uut- 'MASnmM. aw eawni wAmw a anv Ant tsmAsfl. I t i m . . A Mothers whose offaDrinr Are AnilnA terest, thereby largely If not wholly I "5" lh..?Id51" er!rcoachinr supplying the needs of the government, " rm . Vhn L,,,. That Aclof. Ioi,c "T a clam, any - . - -1 worse man any otnera Their fame lust thin ahniil1 Ha Anne, nnnn na n itanv asm I . . T . . . J r T . - . gives ah em more ngni to Dig neaaiinea the bankers and money-lenders who " . Uirousrh an annintul anil' ajmcllfled I A lot nf vmilt tnwn nuni. m A method are enabled to get it from the the city to be schooled in the proper government with but little or any rental appreciation of the place they came point ' But chiefly I responsible for in voluntary idleness is the lack of con trol over economic conditions which 1 open to grave doubt permits high tides of over-production and low tides of business depression when demand wanes, buying power is restricted and the eternal circle is completed. In considering wages, It is fair to always take into the account the exaction at all. These beneficiaries are loud and persistent that it is only-safe to function through them, so there shall be no redundancy of issue, for the one sufficient reason that Interest rates can oe Kepi men tor tneir uanueu u van tage and the- money monopoly which controls the government remain .su preme. With what holy horror they contem plate the assumption of too much money from. The shipping board, it is explained. in the Norfolk Ledger Dispatch (Ind. Dem.), "has been instructed by congress to get rid of the fleet by October 1," and it must, therefore, ell them for anything they will bring." In view of all the cir cumstances, the Chicago News (Ind-) feels that "nobody should criticise the circumstances to have things done time lost by trades and crafts whose sale," since , "only one bid" has bwn sub- Im- Period of employment is snorn the I by the character of their work. . i j l - j 1 mlttAl and "thrA wee nA hiiatnafultlro .... . . n.inii nr a rrt ninv m pni is HnnrLRiieu I ' aDoui tneir nomes or to mane im- i . .-f,....-- - -,,.,... tn itJ, The provements that will increase total of the country's work. Perhaps It will create a purpose News accordingly thinks that "the ship-, ping board has done the right filing, at It is only through the morning gat of the beautiful that you can penetrst into -the realm of knowledge. That which w (eel her as boa lit y we shall ons day know s truth. Schiller. The German mark, worth 24 cents SSLBSf. ?-'l??S2Za& in ini: iuiiig ui an wnu uau auui u i oeiore ine war, is now wui ui ,CBO Kansas City Journal (Rep.) says to buy as freely as possible,. for con-I than a cent. Close students of n-1 "seems to meet with general approval sumDtlon demands Production, pro- kanx. hnve U alnner been advising "All the money spent on these .ships. ,.t;nn .m.n. .mninvmont r.t I i i t y the Charleston tw. va.) aaan tino, rtep.i uuv.iuu ......vj w aKdlUSl UUIlUti . LVM. I , , . ,n . . , . ! workers, employment demands hope of"enormous returrjs. They say spent ln eir building and money wasted wages and wages, ln turn, promote it is better to avoid the risk of an in- in their keeping," but the New Bedford consumption. vestment about which so little is (Mass.) Standard (Rep.), while It n.r,, o..!,.,. roan tm in fV, , j . . i. f tt,. afrees enureiy wiui uub stawmeni, ieeu ranks of the unemployed because German mark seems to confirm their blame for this fiasco" and "nothing re- he went away to fight for his country, I advice. mains now but to try to forget the whole episode and to charge off the loss on wwr OWNS THE STREETS these vessels as part 01 tne inevitaDie waste ol wax. GAMBLING AT FAIRS and in his cause and ln the cause of the other workless ones, each, and all of us can do our bit to help meet their needs. LOss of 18500 to the fair asso- slonalres Is offered by the head of a Northwest fair as argument for the games of chance and easy-money , schemes so often at state and county fairs. But how much money tajjn away from the unwary and unsophisticated does that $6600 fee represent? Prob ably the receipts of the concession aires on the gambling and other de vlrj Is flve'of ted or 20 times as K&J as the amount paid the as sociation. If It is a good business . why not have the fair' operate the games and take, not only the rental money, but all the money? If it - is a good thing to get the 8650D on gambling games and sharp practice schemes, wouldn't it be a betteV thing to get all the money from' such a source? Many of the concessionaries are birds of passage, who are here today' and away tomorrow. The shekels 1 they gather in at the fairs go with ' them as they pass. If In taking Mnlal W 1 It en. 1 iweSVt I V(A V tllm r I w . management wants to be a -party to their business, why not take over the whole business, run the games and . keep. the money at home? ; . Gambling Is gambling. How can . a 'air board take part of the proceeds of games of chance without Itself being a gamblerJ? If Jt is to gamble In that way why not go the whole length, gather together expert poker players to represent the board and play the fair crowds to a standstill? "Wouldn't It. on the theory of the fair head who argues for the $6500, be good business?. And why not faro games on the side and all the other games .by which the fool and his money are soon parted? The first thing that the boys and girls at the fair are likely to be at tracted by are the questionable con cessions. There Is a glamor and a lure about them that arouses the ' Curiosity anil attention of the in experienced. That this Is true will be admitted by every man who ever attended a fair in his youth. . It is the last thing in the world to set before youth. If the fairs can- not be financed without- accepting the hush money from questionable concessions, they should be aban doned. , 4 ,:'' T, , SiDrXIGHTg , . . Statistics -for the rear will show, no doubt, that West Virginia's principal tan- pong nave oeen reiruoroeroenLa. aa a ford Clarion. - . With the Mice of automobiles droo. ping at the present rate, it will soon be easier to buy swear than to buy Uts gaso line to run it. iOsreo) uoaro. - ... While wa are teachinr Americanlsra to the arriving immigrant, it might be a rood toea to carry ' a utu ot it West Virginia- Eugene Register. . Rnaala is not as bad as aalnted. , She has announced the launching of aa effort to oar tbe united states wnat sne owes. This is more than the rest of the allies have ever done. uedxord Mail-Tribunw. Raker county farmers la ' many Ire- Stances are selling their crops and are nuttlnr the money received wnere it wiu do the moat rood. After all the lot of the farmer could be worse. aaer dem ocrat. An Albany woman has beets arrested for "ulnr profanity to excess." We trust the court ln trVlnr the case will settle the question of how much profan ity It Just enough. CorvalUa Gaaetta- Times. . . Many people who ret mad at what the newspaper says about them should get down on their marrow bones and rive devout thanks for what the news paper knows about them and doesnt print. laquma iay newa. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL The, Oregon Country Kerthwsst Happening fea Brief rrm teg am) Random Observations About Town Henry G. Bryant, prominent Penn sylvania lawyer, scientist and president of the Philadelphia Geographical society. in circulaUon, creating the posslblUty of " JSfw. TiSJ . Z L? ot fv,, Vt ti I Branch RUey s lectures In Philadelphia was sponsored by Mr. Bryant and his organisation before a large audience In Wither spoon hall and Mr. Bryant de- rising values, while at the present time hundreds of articles of merchandise' and food are being sold under out e tnk u w. . I " ' ewn iuui aiiu mt. XY.r.E .r t.rTr Clares hU party is one of a number H?1 P.ibllJ Jf111!.?7..!! ' alluring story told of Portland's r""""" attractlona here ln the city of Portland. I It could be restrained in 50 words of Meyer Liasner of Los Ane-eUa a mem legisiauon. ana maae a penai otiense, ber of the federal shipping board, is in decreeing that the standard of pres- registered at the Multnomah from ent value should only be a percentage Washington, D. C. He la accompanied aoove me average value 01 any arucie I py Sam Napathaly Of LOS Angeles. ot. saie i or live years prcccuuig ajit- giving labor the same treatment It is only because the reason for the formation of this government "the gen eral welfare" has bee"nr and is perverted to be for "the welfare of the general. that the money autocracy now con trols events, and the vaunted "individual initiative" is an unknown quantity ex cept as it exerts itself through monopoly. Of course Uncle Sam ought to loan money to any one with good collateral security. Chas. P. Church C. H. Miller, a Redmond telephone magnate, formerly county commissioner of Deschutes county, was In Portland Saturday attending the Shrine ceremo nial. a Charles A. Johns of the state supreme bench is spending the week-end In Port land ln preparation for his- departure ior jsaantisu In Word Butler, scion of a pioneer family of Independence but now a resident of Corvallis, was transacting business ln Portland Saturday. Great crowds gathered around St. Thomas church in New York re cently. Over the door, the object of PECULIAR psychology has to The Knoxville Journal and Tribune to do with the frequent conflicts (Rep.) ..-however, thinks "there should be and numerous collisions between regrets over mtir ouiiums, ll we naa neeaeu uiem, we wouia nave motorists and pedestrians. I needed 'em badly." Now that we havo An instant change in point of view 1 no use for them the paper finds it "bet their curious scrutiny, was the well Wju he observed in many individuals ter t0 turn loose a hot poker than to try known, emblem of the dollar Under who from machines and Join & three money bags carved along the the crowd of pedestrians on the side- every minute." iront or tne cnoir staus in tne cnan- walks. 1 The Louisville Post (Ind.) maintains . . ; , , ,.. that "the government should sell these A motorist was observed driving 8hipjJ for wat tney wm Mag an4 mark along Broadway a few days ago. the ios8 0fj M war expense" because it At the. steering wheel it was obvious is a "mistake" to continue their support that he believes all pedestrians are which, the boutn Bend lTmune una. . i I Daw. r.A(nta Mt Sirsiimi ha nain Trtf nV nel were the initials, "J.,P. M." USE OF THE ELEVATOR T OCAL rrain dealers have nro- -L tested the mid-season modlfica- criminally tlon of rates at the municipal grain elevator, which the dock commission has adopted. 'Their position is well taken that grain handling rates should be es tablished at the beginning of the season when arrangements for fa cilities are being made. - - ' They claim, with Justice, that as agencies which have built up the grain business of the port, as large taxpayers, and as interests whose investments are here, they are en titled to consideration. , Their charge that they were at the beginning of the season denied rate concessions which the dock com mission is now pleased to grant, in volves both a question Of veracity and a technical discussion which cannot be decided here. But on the other hand, the fact remains that the bulk grain elevator has remained unused. ' Out of use it represents a public investment upon which no returns are being received and an overhead expense without compensating income. There has, indeed, been a very apparent local doubt as to the ex pediency of attempting - extensive grain shipments in bulk, but the en trance of a new concern that pro poses bulk shipments chiefly has gone far to remove tra doubt. As a principle the plan ot giving lowejr rates to those exporters who exceed a certain limit of volume Is Open to serious question. The claim is that a lower rate to an exporter wno snips t.uuo.ouo Dusneis or careless of their own Rep.) points out, "must be paid, for by i th neon!" and whlla the contract Price safety. He moved along steadily, offered is very low It presents "a way his face. Impassive, only disturbed j out of the costly difficulty which should by his irritation when some passerby be welcomed.- Tne p n ngiie m ep un failed to jump at his warning honk. iSXt SUXVS UUtsiae tne coogesieu uub " I for getting rid" of the wooaen wnue parked hi machine. He walked to- elephants," and while sale at the tridic- a v,Jo., At rriA ulouslv low" fizure "amounts to giving WO.IU kUC oui, v-v.... I - , .. , .v.. c, T V, M very first intersection he scowled at es 'e goVTrn'- the sound of j an automobile horn. ment gave money" since "the ex- H . deliberately retarded his steps. I Dense of keeoingsthem Ot is conslder- tt . a onathomn iinrW I able." And the Elmlra Star Gasette . . . . . - find.) feels that "if those 205 ships can vide lobs for a fewcountv officers, old his breath, tie actea precisely a u. fce fco work M j.,., of goods an(i ia the game of Btealine by iaw Xo he thought every motorist must be a st jmuiat0rs of trade" the government J this day, the majority of the people of reckless speed fiend. His manner "will be forgiven the sale oi urem ior uenver do not know there is a county ot uenver. But its orncers draw pay just I the same and the county is supposed to function. Can you beat it? f- J. R. Herman. CITY AND COUNTY Consolidation as It Was Kffected Colorado Referred To. Portland, Sept 8. To the Editor of The Journal I notice" that there ' is an agitation to make a campaign issue out of the consolidation of the city of Port land and county of Multnomah. This situation is parallel to that of Denver 15 years ago. Denver was located in Arapa hoe county; The couny extended east to the state line. A constitutional amend ment was carried making two new coun ties. Arapahoe was cut into Adams and Denver counties. The city of Denver and the county of Denver were con- ing around" In Portland solidated. Dear reader, if you want to know what sort of a cyclone that sim- W. H. Platzoeder of Enterprise pie move which eliminated a few public I among the guests of the Imperial. pie hunters meant you should have been present to hear the vultures scream. It was necessary for the governor to ap point officers for the new county .and to provide pie for the old gang. and such a bedlam. You would have thought the Bolshevik! were about to invade Cork. The upshot of it all was .the supreme court the last citadel of priv ilege, was resorted to to declare the amendment ' unconstitutional that con solidated Denver city with Denver coun ty. Notwithstanding the language of the amendment read, "The county and city of Denver are hereby made one." the supreme court found it was two and set aside the verdict of the people on a constitutional amendment Just to pro A party from Bend at the Imperial consists of V. E. Studebaker, A. J. Velt rum and J. H. Roddat . Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Wright of La Grande are in Portland for business and pleasure. ' . Charles W. Hunlock and F. M. Bock of Salem were among those present at the Shrine reunion. Floyd F. Pinkerton of Athena Is 'look- is Frank Sagaberd of Gardiner Is mak ing a visit to Portland. Of the 150 tourists rooted by way of Portland from Scranton. Pa., over 90 per cent visited the Columbia highway, ac cording to M L Smith, division passen ger agent of the Delaware. Lackawanna ft Western Railroad company, who with nia family la registered at the Multnomah. I have been 15 years with the rail road, but this Is my first trip west of Ohio." stated Mr. Smith, "so w are out for a month, Scranton la the largamt city on the Delaware a Lackawanna and our sales or tickets amount to $!50.000 a month. Shrlners In the East are already planning their l;t trip to Cali fornia, and my tempfa, irem temple, will be routed so Portland will be included In the Itinerary. e .D. C. Woodard of Castle Rock, WaaK. s among lata arrivals. see C. P. Carter of La Grande Is enjoying life in the metropolis for" a brief period. Joseph Liasner of Tidewater Is taking in the sights of the metropolis. e n. M. Robbing of Mitchell Is in Port' land on business. see J. N. Galloway of Eugene Is registered at the Benson. e Ernest Westberg of Astoria Is in Port land on a business visit e e George A. Schulta of Astoria was mingling with the Shriners Saturday.. e e George C. Walker .of Forest Grove registered at the Imperial Saturday. e e Frank Miller Jr. of Albany Is in Port land on business. M. H. Abbey of Newport Is visiting In Portland for a few days. see ' Guy Block of Roseburg Is registered at the Oregon. O. A Hedlund of Prinevllle was among Saturday's visitors. OREGON . . .. A total of 400 rueala rer 1st ered at Crater Laka lodge during July and Au gust. .... The annua) reunion of the Hood River Pioooer asmociaUoQ will too mead Satur day, September 17. The Farm Products DistrfbuUnr com- oany at Bend has Increased Its canitaj stock from $15,000 to $10.004 Kancy Arrasmiui. an Indian woman more than 100 years of are, ts ia a Mod- ford hospital suixenng from a broaea arm. - The Shortdart grange has decided f boycott th Sheridan Telephone company unless a general is cent rats is granted lis members. - The fVuit acreage near Sherwood has Increased to five or six limes lis original site as the result of the cannery started tnere last year. - Word Is noervwd at Medford that a rich platlnam ledge havs been at roc at a shallow depth frvo or sax mi.ee Anderson creek. About 75 women and girls are rn Peoywd by the Graves Canning company at Short dan at aa average wrage of $Xi for an eight hour day. Because of the low price of grain a4 hay crops. Josephine county (armors at a meeting ln Grants Pan organised to bring In a carload of dairy cattle W. R. Scott of the PuyaBap a Porm ner cannery, has resigned as presudert of the Albany Chamber, of Com merest because of press of private boalnewa. J. E. MoCUntock of Rooeburg has born appointed to the position of cashier and auoitor at tne state fair. - i rua is mo- Cllntock's fifth una la this office. Althoarh the garage activities have wept the ststa during recent years, Sherwood Mill maintains U.oe tiers. shoeing establishments, and all are busy. Charles North run. aa employ of The Dalles city auditorium, la dead of injur ies received Friday whoa struck by a falling derrick used ia hoisting saaunals. wa a declaration that the intersec- what seems like a small sum. ja : .i...l..At 4-m. Vitt UOn oeiongea jexciunive.y . Milwaukee Journal (Ind.) is But, as a matter of fact, the inter- t convmce(J at an effort was made section belonged to him no more to e.t more for these vessels" than the i t tv, nrmrnachlne 2inn hid. and it suspects that the low A. SIMPLE REMEDY UliUl ifc 'Ve"" " ' " l - . , . I T T- it- T 1- TT -. A-tot Tk' etiiriont of traffic law Price IS tne outcome oi ine ireicm " tui urn rcuiw iu vvaae up ana motorist. The. student of tramc law, . may be had for a mere do It xhemselvea. especially pleaders in personal in- nothlng .. Sucn -government salesman- Athena, Or.. Sept 6 To the Fdltor of iurv cases, will testify that the law nlD New York Evening World The Journal. As in the days of, Solon . . r . .. . . ... . .. 1 . i n T 1 J . L , , hi balances tne rigntS I ( Dem.) UllnKS. is enougn i k ' iuuo m du . . . .. ji wo shudder down the spine of every Ameri- was monopolized by the few and the OI motorists aim iicucuia.. I ,tu r !h.,oinea wn in his Vast maioritv worked the lanrl for n- is expected tos be considerate of the omD08iti0n because, granting that sixth of the produce. And they even these vessels were built in somemmg i rnorieragea inemseives ior security ana akin to a panic, that does not excuse oiten Decause oi tneir iearrui nnanciai their beintr "sold In a panic." nanatcap pecame slaves, we are not RAfnr this transaction goes any fur- I mucn oeuer- iney aon t exact five ther the Buffalo Express (Ind. Rep.) sixths toll ln rents yet but it amounts tmmtitM that "it would be well to in- to more - man that in the end. They who deliberately stays his steps in quire whether there was some bidders ume 11 au. it mere is any airrerence ie.i.w -tomobile traffic. combine which has clubbed off legitimate between a peon and a slave the slave U1UCI fcv v,sj rights of the other. The onus is on those who fail in consideration. It will often be noticed that the motorist who ts most dlsregardful of nedestrians is also the pedestrian OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley" Newopspers. like individnals. most character to be sueeemfuL Their dabea are to reflect life without perverting facta They are in th nature of s public institattoa in which ail shapes of opinion have a right to exproauao- WASIITNOTON There are eight applicants for th poatmasteo-shlp at RiUviiie, toe ot thorn being woman. A balance of $lLtM10.V for the period ending August II Is at own la the report of the slate treasurer. Ten cases of prunes wore recently shipped from Walla Walla to Fort Smith, AIul. CO mlleg north of Edmonton, The bod ret fixed by the OrrmDla cfty council indicates a tax levy of Zi y mills. The levy last year was 2i milla. Reductions aggregating S mi Us wrfQ bo made In the Hit SpoAaae tax levy, ac cording lo the com pie ted budget earu ma lea , The postal savings department of the Spokane poalofflce thorn s a gain of Zl depositors tn August and $o0i In do poaita. . Centrslia's water department for the month of July ohows a net profit of $21U.CS and h Ught plant, a Bet profit ot IlltO.ta. ' Since resuming business May 1 the Spokane federal land bank hao received 1417 applications from farmers for loans amounting to tii.iii.vw. B. T. and 8. S. Fluhart are under ar rest at Port Angeles charred with Sell ing more than 1000 ln slock tor a cor poration that does not exist ' The Spokane county board of equali sation has added l00.000 to the agntmg valuation of - property In that county. making a total of about iiu.eW.wa. Albert Britlon. It. advertising man ager of an Kverett department store. died from injuries received when be tell down the elevator shaft to the basemeat floor. Geraldine McLaughlin, aged 1C was drowned at Seattle while taking a mooo light plunge In 1-ake Washington. The gifl had learned lo swim only three days oeicre. Mr., and Mrs IL E. Bowermaa. who lived On a ranch near bnoquaJmie Kaiie, were killed when an automobile .akadded and turned over near a bridge over to Snoqualmle river. Because of Increased county receipts and a balance of $Z6.wO which will be carried over from this year, there will be a reduction of X mills tn the tax levy propriety that U banishing personal abuse I ot Thurston county. During the past few weeks The Oregon Journal has been asking its readers the question "What do you like best in The Journal and why?" It has received' many gratifying responses. Sometimes the public overlooks the fact that a paer, like a person, must possess character to be useful and successful. A man who writes constantly for the paper cannot conceal his own character. As a man thinketh so is he. You can take his measure by what he writes. In a hun dred ways all unknown to. himself be indicates the fact as to whether he Is a lifter or a leaner. . He repels or at tracts. He Is influencing his readers for better or for worse. He can not escape nor excuse himself if he is undermining the public morals. The world Is either better or worse for what be is writing day by day. I buvers in the Interest of junk specula- has the best of It And what are we tors." and the New York World (Dem.) going to do about it? The power of TT.,nirr1a df barties Similar to .ska If the shipping board- has oeen "g- mouey rw r tiwuiraj ana aiciaies thnt at which! "Fatty" Arbuckle was noting much higher bids for the ships our laws. And he who opposes the that at wnicn for the sake of being able to turn them process Is sent to prison, and thus we host are no doubt staged every nignt. w Yo fc at a price have the beautiful situation right now Most OI tnemj uu u...iwe "" hardly equal to tne worm oi mir num " """"'j m wii- main of mere shame to enter B- vindlinr wood." The World gives gress. WeU there is a remedy, and it is the land of tragedy, but some of them further details of the transaction thus : simple. U . J do. Whose booze party wiii oe mw gh, construction and Trading generally wake up when it is too late, and next to cut do;wn the average of the I cornpariy during the war contracted tot when there is no bread, in the house. build the hulls ot two woouen vessels i w inter is looming us in tne race, millions ; Was it Roy Gardner who wrote, VStone walls do not a prison make nor Iron bars a cage?" THE BLOWS OF FATE more is not a preferential rate, does ore3 without; a death list? not seem Jto be sound. It Is a pref erential rate for a big dealer as against a small Richard Spillane TWO EXPOSITION CITIES 1 iZZ" C. "T I ' . . .. . TVrRITING iri the Philadelphia fUD- uiuuKin ay many mat mis puDiiciy- V jic Xiedger, ""uluUBn. sn,ouia De Pen 10 characteristically says: . all shippers on equal terms. In this phnadciphia has in nilnd the greatest case, where it was proposed to in- fair in the world for 1926 to mark the augurate bulk handling when there 150th anniversary -of the signing of the was no bulk handling In a big ele- pecla ration of .dence, vator built for the purpose, the end nt ib FmlZlv may Justify the means. is not. " - Above all, the elevator was not -ccm mmnr vindlv ret the Sesqui- built for any other purpose than to Centennial project out ot old storage? " rTVOTHING ln life is so uncerUin . 1 ' as life itself. This is a truth ' which applies with as inevitable finality to men around whose per ' sonalitleo great businesses are built .as to modest bread winners upon ' whom the happiness and, comtoort Of families depend. ' r But in the? big businesses it is a growing custom to attempt to soften the blows of fate. Their firms take but insurance which will help liqui date accounts should death render , In the Wamamaker house, for in stance, Rodman Wanamaker is in sured at $4,509,000 and John Wana maker at i $3,000,000. The sum of tt.SOO.OOOihas been written on the ife of J. f P. Morgan. Percy A. Rockefeller's business policy is for $:,000.000; that of James C Colgate. $1,500,000 and ot William Wrigley Jr,-$1,100,000. , .. - . . - , , , Frank A. Vanderlip, Harvey 8. facilitate grain movement through th aontt wl Vhreat t . v 6 to ret a Uve man to head vthe great x rua...u. anu, oy tne superior la- undertaklng ori a live body of. cltisens ciaUes provided at public expense back of it to give the largest prices possible to the grower and keep the spread be tween him and the consumer at the minimum point. - In this last and" largest aspect, those in charge of the' elevator can find sound guidance' in: fixing rates and rules. . - The situation has both its agree able and disagreeable features. But such is the way of business. They constitute the growing pains of Portland's remarkable expansion as a grain exporting port since the Co lumbia basin rate decision; - " . ; - . INDUSTRY'S WASTE DAYS A COMMITTEE from the: Engineer. Ing Societies of America finds that the average iron worker rf this country is on the job only ISO days of a, poasibla',.s7.vr';-;vr;V-F'--tf'? The average plasterer works only Only a few dollars have been sub scribed. Everything ebe has been talk.. Although their names begin with the I same letter, there is obviously a great difference as well aa a great distance between Portland and Phila delphia. - Portland, produces, . Philadelphia projects. Splllane's rpicayune" is eliminated from,' the alliteration; so far las Portland, ia concerned . The worjd, how"ever. seems to have a good deal to aa wi,in exposiuon giiairs in Philadelphia, j " - for 1300.000 each. The government wat of men out of employment labor compelled to take over the yards and struggles starting in with bloodshed, and complete the two ships. In connection I a man at the helm of things who looks with their construction it paia out wiio wan street ior an mi inspiration. the Ship Construction and iraaing com-1 wno wouia just now autnorixe half a pany. or for Its account $1,335,000. The billion Of the peoples money as a bonus company, however" put in a claim for to the poor downtrodden and fearfully i 052 230.84. so tnat ll stui naa penums i aousea railways uie magnanimous, tne claim of- over 619,Z3U against uir patriotic, ine enicient ana deserving shipping board. Assuming mat ine railways wno so grandly came to tne oinim let allowed, it will get the fleet of aid of the country when our flag was in 205 wooden ships without the payment I danger. But what did our helmsman say of a single dollar, ana jtne snipping iwnen tnose seizisn and self-seeking men board mill still owe it a balance of over I who carried the good old rag across the (iM (too " i sea menuonea mat iney naa not seen The "naked relation" of these facts I any money worth while when they were -anneal so profoundly to the public's on the Job, and very little since? Why, una of atmasement" that in the view I he said it would ruin the country, wait of the Lynchburg News (Dem) "only by Yes, things look bad, and for that rea- an exhaustive ana rainy conaucieu in- son uicy iou oetier. jr . r. nora, quiry will suspicion be allayed," and the Baltimore Sun (Ind. Dem.) holds that m Aitaii Kw ha wnrui rni.KmTi il Tv? " " of The JournaL I read with interest ah Obligatory on orflel. wetter, hv Mr. XT T V T neath the surface of tnese iranaaciioru" , ---- - ' . . ' 7 n . . . - ThAr. ia ..nr- gratuUte her for the stand she takes in r.v. XZX: rVivftai fRen.Sena- regards to the Ku Klux Klan of fifty- MJMKW i "I 2... ' . . I KiV VHN1H1 TW MtrA K hlt. Srt! JSIm " tk t. 1 In ar OCT WO tJUIiaio fltw. TH iwml. had no rlefena. ,v 1.r T that if the deal falls tnrougn u wiu oe i , ' . . ' J ,, . 1 .5. -T.' 7i kq, k-. tn nh. I know by experience of what I write. necause mo bii.... -- 2-Z The old Klan was all O. TC . hut like a. r t kAh rile wan-i va7irTi ma gna i " ire " , --r,ad-thaf "T other things rude boys took ad Uon when announcement was made that tm . A H-year-pld ': Pennsylvania boy with . a pass! op, toxsmtishhxg Jthings confesses that he wrecked the Lack awanna Limited. His supreme ambi tion was to wreck a train and see things go smash. Now he is await ing trail, for murder ' A 20-year-old Chicago boy confesses Uial'lve tnUf KU KLUX ENDORSED Jennings Lodge. Sept 8. To the. Editor and petty controversy from the editorial column, but rather the striking and un deniable success reached by newspapers tnat freed their columns from all such matter. The newspaper and the public have reacted on "each other. ' Each ad vance In knowledge or taste or morals Is sure and safe. Newspapers will be better tomorrow than they are today. The reader doesn't want lies. He buys a newspaper and learns the facta. People depend on a new spa per for information and they rely on the news papers to be fair and accurate and un derstandable. These, then, are the read er's demands and they should come first Newspaper style must be shaped to these ends, and It Is being so shaped day by day, year In and year out Newspapers are better, written and better edited. But they would be still better written idah The Parma postoffioc has lust been ad vanced to the second c laws- Federal statistics Indicate that the total car lot shipment of prunes out of Idaho this year wiu reacn 100. Thaw Gooding school board has an nounced a tax levy of IS mills for the coming year. This is 2 mil is leas than last year. Extraordinary wheat yields of 51 to 74 bushels to the acre are reported from various sections of the Salmon agricul tural district The United Mines company, capitalised at 50. 000 has Just been Inoorporared by Portland captiausis to operate m tne H alley region. . It ia estimated that 204 ears of prone will be shipped from the Kmmelt awe lion and growers will receive aa average and still better edited lfeyery new-spa- I of $40 a ton for their crop Several years ago I visited Manchester Being a newspaper man I naturally looked over the local papers with more than ordinary interest I liked the Guardian, for It seemed to possess char acter. Not lpng ago this paper cele brated its Jiundreth anniversary, C P Scott its editor, in making an address upon the occasion, said some worth while things. He said "I have always felt that a newspaper has certain duties and ob ligations to the public which It endeavors to serve. Looking back on the 60 yean of my newspaper life, I task myself what Is It for which a paper stands? What are its duties and what are its 1 unc tions? "Well, the first function, it seems lo me. 01 a newspaper, is mat wnicn 11s name Implies, to give the news and give the whole news. It must not select It must not ' pervert ; It must not color. Facts are sacred and to use Its com mand of statement and of publication as a means of propaganda that is the ac cursed thing. Its second duty is to reflect life, life in all its phases and In au It multitudinous aspects art. literature, science, commerce, society, pastimes, re ligion, everything and to do this aa fully and as fairly at It knows how. And not merely to represent but to critic! r ; that is to say. to present these great departments of thought and activity as fairly and completely . as it knows how. "A newspaper, particularly a news paper which has Its root In a great com munity, is and ought to be something In the nature of a public Institution. The public has rights tn It Just as much, even more. than those who own It Every side has a right to be heard. Every side has a right to be reported. Of course, it has its own political opinions it would be a poor thing if It hadn't and the more frankly they are expressed and the more forcibly the better for U and for everybody. Nobody has over com plained of that But It should be more than a . political Instrument ! It should endeavor to serve the whole community." they were to be let go for $2100 each, a price that would hardly pay for the life boats one of them carries. Uncle Jeff Snow Says vantage of their uniform to do some stunts for fun. I knew some Civil war men that belonged to it They ' were honorable men and 100 per cent Amer ican.' I bope the new Klan will be aa true to justice as the old. I wish the writer would sign her name. Z would Deacon Rufus Scroggs tnck a load of 1 write to her my approval. W. C T. sU ladie to the river last week to picnic, and loaded 'em into his 1509 busser. 1 He left .the grade all - of sudden . when the nigh . brake : block busted the off carbureter, or ometbin' like that, and had to choose 'tween hit- tin a ' telephone pole and . chancin : a Mary J. TUlman. - A NEW -DEFINITION ' - - . Panes the Buffalo Enquirer . Love la what makes a. woman' worker marry, a, man with . smaller pay . than her own. - -.. . . . . per man bad his eye conscToualy on the goal of serving hi readers by striving tb help them to get the truth In under standable form. - "A great editor said : "The "American people want something ter, forcible picturesque, striking, something that will arrest their attention, enlist their sym pathy, arouse their Indignation, stimnlat their Imagination, convince their reason. awaken their conscience. I must see that my reader get the truth ; but that la not enough. I must put It before them briefly so that they will read It clearly so that they will understand it forcibly so that they will appreciate It ptcter- esquely so that they will remember It and above all. accurately, so that they may be wisely guided by its light e e "The dictionary contains more than 100,000 worda The average educated individual use about 2000 worda Mil ton's vocabulary numbered 1000 words and Shakespeare's 15.000. With such a store of words available' the writer who uses th wrong word must charge his error to laziness or lack of words from which to select "Writers generally use too many worda Long and Involved sentence introduce so many Idea that, reading Is a continual struggle to follow the Idea through the tangle of word. Too many worda clutter up and obscure what hi said. It has been 'said that language can be used to conceal thought It could be said wllh equal truth that language Is often Used Instead of thought. "When there I excess baggage in the sentence the train of thought labors on a steep grade. "A French writer said that good style is like a clear pane of glass through which one lok at objects on th other side, unconscious that the glass is ther. "The whole problem of new spaper style was summed up by Arthur Brisbane when be wrote: To teach Journalism you must teach men to see things clearly and describe them simply. This ts very difficult for some cannot see, others can see but cannot tell w hat thy see. There fore good newspaper men are not nu merous.' Fred L. Williams of Boise, former county agent leader of the University of Idaho extension oervtee, naa oen ap pointed agricultural agent for Gem county. Robert W. Jones, a teacher In the de partment of journalism of the University of Washington, In a recent Issue of the Editor and Publisher, ln discussing the relations of a newspaper to the public. said: - "There are still a few newspaper men who. affect not to see that th news paper business 1 heavily charged with a public Interest. They are firm in th conviction that the owner of a news paper need consult nobody' Interest but hi own tn considering what shall go into the paper and what shall go Into th waste basket. .- ..... "It Is not the editor's inborn sense of "But it Is hard to know what is the right thing to do" I heard someone ssy recently. Thl verse I ran across th other dy will help to antva. th ques tion of what la the right thing to do; "Just do your best, it says When worse seem earieat T War the 01 Of daily f sk waoeat oneertalinea Nor wsata yowr life raooonuag them. To mis Of kepefwl thras wwea smet rs th sir. T eeant yowr btesongi eftra.. giving thanka. And to seeapt yowr oiiuw sues try Nor wweatioa why yow ewfler. To The whole of Ml ss on gwrlwrted 1 A ad nauwi each event sa pan ml M. Te work, sad love year work, to treat gad pray For larger sstnineas an eieanrr aigix X live scfcsa. as troubled, resslnu What I Like Best In The Journal R. HARRIDAN. $40 Vi Fre mont street I like the Louis Bryant and Norman I lap good articles, but I like The Jour nal best for the liberal ex pression of Its editorial page. F. A BLANCHARD. 4 $4 East Thirteenth street Ring Lardner. HENRY SAXRUD. $25 H Everett street Fraternal news and Ring Lardner. The editorial page is The Jour 'nal's best feature. J. LAG RAND, 22$ Arthur street The magazine section and sporting pages ln The Sunday Journal. a IL SATTERLEE. 27 Ivanhoe street north Tb editorial. "As the heart panteth for the water brook," so I thirst for th reading of The Journal every day?" MRS. H. JOHNSTON. 717 Amherst street Th edi torials are cone la and full of - noble character, which in spires confidence. MRS. WILLIAM MORRIS. 494 Yamhill street The edi torial. MRS. M. SHONE. 414 Yamhill street The news Item a G. PLASS. 5$4 Rex ave nue Th market reports. OTTO A R BUCKLE. 1 2 Rex avenue Fred Lock ley's article. I have Ukea The Journal since it started. 9 ' G. WOLFE. 411 Maiden avenue The sporting new. MRS. KREBLES. 44 Rex avenue I find the advertise ment worth first reading. When sending your opinion. please write plainly. This ia es pecially important ln respect to names and addresses, - . ' :' -h;