THE I. OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, - PORTLAND, - SUNDAY , MORNING, SEPTEMBER 18, -1921V
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The article below comes from the. farm. Mr. Joseph, who wrote it, resides
on his fanra (our miles from Weiser.J
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TV TR. PIERCE. In a frecent article on the subject of "Farm Finance"
t BUBHCRIPTION RATES
. By Carrier, City and Country
' !' , DAILY AND SUNDAY
One wark 1 .1 I On month t .65
DAILY I SUNDAY
One week I .10 i On week $ .08
On month 45
Bt MAIL. ALL RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE
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One yaar ,1 00
Bat Biontna. . . . t.zs
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One yaar I 00
: Stl mooch. . . . . 3.25
i Thro months. . 1.75
On month 60
: I WEEKLY
- (Iry Wednesday)
One yaar 11.00
lu month . . . .so
I Thaao ratea apply only In Om West.
Raiaa to Eastern Domts famished on arolica
Una. Hake remittances by lloney Order, Express
Order or Draft. If roar tieautffice U not a
Money-order office 1 or 2-eent stamps will be
accepted. Make all remittances parable to The
i Journal Publishing Company, Portland. Oregon.
Three month . .
Xna month. . ; .
SUNDAY
(Only)
On year. ... ...$8.00
Big months. . . . : 1.75
Three month. . , 1.00
WEEKLY AND
SUNDAY
One year SSJtO
Jams all the red nieat of the question into a single sentence. . Here
it is: !The farmers of America .' ' as a mass have made no money
except the rise In the price of their real estate. (
The delusion that farming is a highly .profitable business: has always
been a fixed conviction ; among ; city dwellers. It is really a sort of. a
hobby; horse which they. Tide hiinaiy, ana no son 01 an argument. roe
any impression'" on them. As a matter of fact farming, ! on the whole,
has never , paid . actual jnoney-out expenses, without counting interest
on investment. "Xet me quote from an article by Alonao; Taylor In the j
Saturday Evening Post of August 14, 1920: J " j
Land values in the United, States were practically doubled from
1900 to 1910; and. in this increase of value lay practically all the remunera
tion of agriculture for that period. If the land in 1910 had possessed
only the sales value of . the' land in 1900, the operations of agriculture
would have been made at a loss."
In order to get at concrete facts let us examine page 265,"Abstract of
the Thirteenth Census (1910). Farm land values (exclusive of buildingsj
is here given as $1,417,000,00, for 1900. Ten years later it was $28,475,
OOO.oOO, an Increase of $15,058,000,000, or 118 per cent. The increase in
acreage was only 4,2" per cent. I haven't the figures for 1920, but it is
safe to say that land values doubled again in the ten years ending with
1920. Thus the total, increase for 20. years would amount to the In
comprehensible sum'of J45, 000, 000,000. It thus becomes clear that the
farmers might have lost, in the mass. $10,000,000,000 in their farming
operations and still be $35,000,000,000 ahead of the game. And that,
In a general way, is precisely what happened. Therein, Mr. Editor, lies
the whole secret of the farmer's prosperity in the past 0 years, and, inci
dentally, the prosperity of everybody else. Bulk the farmers all together
and take this $45,000,000,000 away from them, and how much would
be left? Would the farm property of the country sell today for $45,000,-
000,000 over and above the farmer's debts? I doubt it.
.Here it is in a nutshell: Legitimate farming has never paid back
actual running expenses; but the farmer's loss in his farming operations
has bfeen made tiPt and many billions beside, by the increase in value of
his land. A year or so ago this increase was suddenly arrested and land
values began to slump. Credit had frozen solid, ciops would hot even
pay the cost of raising, bankers were calling their loans; and the farmer
quit buying simply because he had no money to buy with, Right there
the wholte industrial and mercantile structure went to wreck simply be
cause, in the larger sense, everything depends on the farmer. When
40,000,000 of people are suddenly compelled to cut expenses to the raw
red quick, you hear something resembling a "dull thud," as the story
writers say.
Loaning money to the farmer is only a makeshift. What he needs
is a square deal, not a sop in the form of credit, and there will be no real
relief for the rest of you until he gets it. There will be no more increase
in land values for the industrial world to prosper upon, and farming
must be put upon a basis of legitimate profits. Raising raw material
for food and clothing must be made to pay its own way or the whole
agricultural world will be a wreck within three years. You city people
heard that thud. You've had a taste' of what it means, and paste this
In 'your hat unless something is done about it immediately, our country
is only at the beginning of its troubles. The world can't live by the
swapping game somebody must produce the things to be swapped.
tures. But the saving would now
mean a substantial sum, all your own;
something to add immeasurabiy to
your peace of mind, your independ
ence, your self respect and self con
fidence. "
Isrrt it worth while? Trying to
encourage youth and maturity to get
the habit ofsavingr The Journal Is
conaucung a tnrut campaign, wut
the coupon out of the paper, take it
to the , designated place of deposit,
follow the rules and you will be
credited with $1 in starting a savings
account.
A PARABLE
FOR ALL ;
Downtown Portland has a new
statute of limitations 30 minutes,
two hours or nothing.
YESTERDAY
And One Whose Form and Content Are
Utterly Simple and Who Applica
tion Is Perfectly Obvious, Just as
Human Need Is Always Evident
and "Human Duty Always
Plain. . Needing Only to be
Done The Church as tut
Aid to Doing.
God's merry is a holy mercy, which knows
how to pardon ain, not to protect it; it is a
sanctuary for the penitent, not for the pre
Dmptaoas. Btahop Reynolds.
THE NEXT WAR
S 64 A NY IDEA that the United States
army experts , will advise the
American delegation to the confer
ence on limitation of armaments to
propose the abolition of poison gases
can be dismissed as out of the ques-
tlon." That is the text of a news
dispatch from Washington, warning
ijp. the American people that the deadly
. gases will be a weapon of the next
war If a next war is to come.
' One of the gases that will be used
Is the poisonous Lewisite, which is a
decided improvement for killing pur
poses, on either the chlorine gas of
the second Ypres or the later mus-
: tard gas. And from the effects of
those gases thousands of allied sol-
dler are in their graves and thou-
' sands of half -lunged American boys
are struggling along in this country
; today, fighting the fight against
: death from pneumonia and tuber
; culosls.
j But chlorine gas could be seen.
The gas mask was a defense against
: it. Mustard gas was deadly if it was
Inhaled and inflicted painful burns
If it touched the skin. But it was
"visible.
T,he deadly Lewisite is invisible. It
la heavier than air and will descend
; into trenches, dugouts and cellars.
And If It merely touches the skin it
Insures almost certain death. And
now there are hints that a gas even
more destructive to life than the
deadly Lewisite is in the course of
preparation in this country. "
Of the next war, the ' plans for
wholesale killing, and the use of the
aeroplane and gas. Captain Bradner,
. chief of research of the chemical
warfare bureau, said before a con
, gresslonal committee:
One plane carrying two tons of tbe
liquid (a gas generating compound)
could cover an area of 100 feet wide
and seven miles long, and could deposit
enough material to kill every man in
that area by action on. his akin. If
Germany had had 4000 tons of this
material and S00 or 400 planes equipped
. for Its distribution, the entire first
, American army would have been annihi
I ! la ted in 10 or 12 hours.
I Here Is. testimony that a fleet ot
planes with 4000 tons of gas could
annihilate an entire arm within
few hours. What, then, is the war
i of the future to be ?
- Major General Swlnton of the Brit
, lsh army says:
' . : It has been rather our tendency u
to the present to look upon warfare from
we reiau point ot view or Killing men
by fifties or hundreds or thousands. But
. when you speak of gas you must re.
member that you are discussing
weapon which must be considered from
the .wholesale point of view and If you
use it and I do not know of any reason
: why you should not you may kill
hundreds of thousands ot men.
Te British, the French, the Ital
. tans and the Japanese are not ob
! livloua to the extraordinary killing
power of gas. Lewisite is an Amer
ican product. The more deadly gas
reported to beln preparation is an
American product. But, as Will Ir--
win points out in i his "Next War,"
' Lewisite was developed during the
war, while the foreign countries were
I our allies, and there should be no be-
lief in this country that European
j and Far Eastern governments are
; not in possession of the formula for
gases at least , as deadly as those
of which this government la in pos
session, i
Going farther Into the methods of
warfare of the future, the Britisher,
General Swinton.'-saysr' !
I Imagine from the progress that has
tosa made lh the paa that la the future,
we wUI not have recourse t gas alone,
but will employ every force of patur
that we can ; and there is a tendency at
present for progress in the development
of the different forms of rays that can
be turned to lethal purposes. 'We have
X-rays, we; have light 1 rayr, we have
heat rays'. We may not be so far from
the development of some kinds of lethal
ray which will shrivel up or paralyse
or poison human beings. The final form
of strife, as I regard It, is germ warfare.
I think it will come to that ; and so far
as I can see there is no reason why it
should not. if you mean to fight. Prepare
now, we must envisage these new forms
of warfare and as far as possible ex
pend energy, time and money in en-
ouraginir our inventors and scientists
to study the waging of war on a whole
sale, scale, Instead of thinking so much
about methods which-will kill a few
Individuals only at a time.
Military experts agree' that gas is
to be a weapon of the next war.
They tell us of its tremendous kill
ing power. They tell of death "rays
that may be employed, and predict
germ warfare.
They advise their countries to pre
pare for killing on a wholesale scale
and to expect mad methods of war
fare the possibilities pi which were
hitherto unknown. j
It is a view of the next war. In
that war, what are to be the chances
for life? And what is the govern
ment of the United States going to
do to prevent that war?
Benlamin Franklin said: 'The
second vice is lying, the first is bor
rowing." He was wiser than 'most
moderns.
REFORMS AND PAROLES
.
rpHE parole system and the reform
a. school have been criticised so
much that it seems 1 useless to add
one word. The statement that recla
matlon is their aim, but failure too
often their fruit, lets them stand
under a pitiable but sufficient indict
ment. Abuse and protest are futile
to present them in more deplorable
aspect. They fail and the youthful
law-violator grows into the mature
evil-doer, and the paroled concocter
of misdemeanors develops into the
cunning criminal. What other cir
cumstances could contribute to i
more miserable reckoning?
An erring girl was arrested. She
had been in a reform school.
learned more evil there than I knew
when I went in," she said. A male
criminal tells a similar story.
Within the week there has been
one sorry example. A boy was sent
to a reform school at the age of 9
At 16, after seven years, he escaped
to California. A few months later
he was arrested as a highwayman
and sentenced to an indeterminate
term of from six months to life. He
was paroled, violated his parole, en
listed in the navy, deserted the navy
and now. at the age of 18, he is back
on the way to the penitentiary to
finish his old sentence. He .has. had
a change of heart and wants to do
his bit and reform, but he credits
neither the reform school nor the
penitentiary with inspiring the bet
ter impulse. He makes the flat
statement that he learned the way
of the bandit at the reform school.
Furthermore, many convicts will be
quoted for the. declaration that the
penitentiary is the place for the less
experienced criminal to get more ex.
perlence.
Is the state maintaining a gradu
ating scale for the criminally in
clined ? The fact may be pointed out
that state Institutions reclaim many,
but the retort comes that those so
reclaimed, as In the case of the boy
mentioned, perhaps would be re
claimed at any rate, and sooner, in
the course of natural events.
Let a hypothetical citation; drive
home the weakness of our state in
stitutions. ' There are 100. boys in a
reform school and 200 convicts in a
t - t -
penitentiary. Fifty of the boys are
reformed and 50 are turned loose
worse than when they went In. One
hundred of the convicts are cor
rected and the other hundred emerge
more debased than before. In such
a sad balancing of accounts the tax
payers have spent money almost in
vain. If the reform school does not
reform the, incorrigible boy and the
penitentiary does not correct the in
exorable criminal, these institutions
are not doing their constituted duty.
The mere fact that misled boys are
reformed and misled men are cor
rected is small consolation compared
with the tragic failure existing in the
case of those who needed reforma
tion and correction so much the
more.
Your officer of the law has no
faith in the efficacy of reform
schools and penitentiaries. With the
eye of the hawk he watches the boy
or man who has served his term in
one of these. He knows these insti
tutions do not function properly and
he prepares to deal with their former
inmates as the most astute of crimi
nals.
It is not possible hat a sane boy is
irrevocably.bad or that a sane man is
hopelessly criminal. There is a way
to reform the boy and a way to cor
rect the man, and the first step to
ward doing this is to find out why
the reform schools do not reform
and why the penitentiaries do not
correct. These institutions are found
ed on the noble basis of an effort to
save the boy and girl and the man
from the beast thati is in them. So
why should they so often bring out
and accentuate the worst instead of
the best that " is In these unfortu
nates? There ought to be a way of
finding the answer-to this question
and, once the answer is found, our
reform schools and penitentiaries
can be miade to function properly.
It is a national custom on Septem
ber 1 to lay aside summer's straw
hats and don the more sober head
gear of autumn and winter. But in
Pendleton the men put aside the
straw hats in favor of the festive
hats of the rodeo., High crowns,
broad brims and colors ranging from
buckskin to mouse brown appear
surmounting conventional business
suits, white collars and four-in
hands. It is Pendleton's way of ad
vertising that the days of the Round'
Up are at hand and the unanimity
with which it is done is another
evidence of the fervor with which
all Pendleton is given up to Round-
Up preparation.
W7ILLIAM GLADSTONE, an Eng
lishman. said of the American
Constitution: .
It is the greatest piece- of work ever
struck off at one time by the brain and
purpose of man.
William Pitt predicted:
it will be the wonder and admiration
of ail future" generations and the model
of all future constitutions.
After. four weeks of the. first Con
stitutional convention, when not a
line, nor so much as a word, had
been agreed upon, Benjamin Frank
lin told the delegates that God must
guide their efforts. . ,
"If a sparrow cannot fall to the
-rround without His notice," said
Franklin, "is it probable that an em
plre can rise without His aid?"
Even then, people were human
and ' politicians many. George
Washington answered those who said
that the Constitution would not be
adopted without deliberate appeal
to public fancy. He asked solemnly:
. If to please the people we offer wnat
we ourselves disapprove, how can We
afterward defend our work? Let us
raise a Btandard to which the wise ana
honest can repair ; the event Is In the
hand of God.
The Constitution came out of the
throes of a nation's birth. But
it had an even more momegtous
background.
' To write the Constitution, the pen
of liberty was dipped into ink com
pounded of the blood, the tears, the
hope and the faith of humanity's
upward striving centuries.
The inspired framers of the great
document borrowed from the spirit
of Magna Charts.
They were kindled by the flaming
zeal from the bloody murk of the
French revolution.
They breathed into the first wTit
ten plan-of government, the love of
humanity and faith's guarantee of
freedom, which were the essence of
the message of Jesus Christ to men.
The highest reaches of human ex
pression since time's beginning are
in the immortal document.
The Constitution stands against
time and assault. It remains un
changed, save as measures have
been adopted to strengthen it Dan
iel Webster exclaimed:
I mean to stand upon the Constitution.
I need no other platform. The ends
aim at shall be my country, my God'
and truth's.
It has accomplished its purpose.
It has resulted in a more perfect
union; it has established Justice; It
has insured domestic tranquility,
though not without the extremest
test; it has provided for the common
defense; it has promoted the general
welfare; it has secured the blessings
of liberty to Americans and their
posterity.
It has, in the thrilling words of
Lincoln, prevented government of the
people, for the people and by the
people from perishing from the
earth.
The Constitution includes, beyond
the articles of its original adoption,
the bill of rights, the abolishment of
slavery, the prohibition of liquor and
the recognition of woman's right to
suffrage, -
It contains not only the guarantee
of liberty but the assurance of jus
tice. It supports Inviolate the bal
lot box. Thsough it, not around or
over it, or by breaking it down, the
people of the nation and the peoples
of the world may realize their high
est aspirations for true freedom.
Yesterday was Constitution day.
America, proud of a glorious past,
but looking toward the future sang
with Longfellow:
Sail on, O ship of state!
Sail on, O union strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears.
With all its hopes of future years.
Is hanging breathless on thy fate..
' From the Chicago post
At the moving time last May. in the
yard of a newly acquired house, the ex
ploring owner found what appeared to
be a length of stout but rusty wire. It
lay mired in the soil and almost hidden
by a tangle of neglected vegetation.
With the thought in his mind that he
would clear this spot and make a garden
bed, he stooped and lifted the wire, only
to discover that it was rooted in the
ground. It was a living thing, but peril
ously near to death from the menace of
tramping feet above it and the suffocat
ing cover of the Indifferent weeds.
Stretched to its full length it measured
three feet or more, bare and smooth
from root to tip. It was an unpromis
ing and unsightly thing, but it aroused
its discoverer's curiosity nay, more, his
sympathy.
"This," thought he. "is a vine. It was
meant to climb upward and sunward, not
to lie prostrate In the mud. I will give
it a chance and see what it will do."
So he fastened a string to the roof of
the back porch and brought it down
within reach of the naked stem, fasten
ing it firmly to the ground. Then he
twisted the stem around it. so that It
was able to stand up above the mud and
the weeds In the air and the light. A
neighbor came by while bo engaged and
indulged in friendly raillery over his
efforts. But the man smiled to himself.
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COMMENT -AND NEWS IN BRIEF
r ) SMALL CHANGE
Fbllowinr the advice our friends arlvc
us is our chief vice.
....
Perhaps, in spite of our honea Hiram
Johnson is merely hibernating.
Women hirers) in Ohio have beea triad
and approved because they tried and
convicted. '
. .
"I've been munuoted. Is the favorite
flapdoodle of sapheads who thunder be-
zore taey uuna.
I a a
How do vou make a democracy out of
King Cotton. Merchant Prince, Timber
Baron ana me uxer
.1
Poison gas, sts -naed In warfare. Is one
of the elements that did much to curdle
tne milk or human kindm
The University of Wisconsin president
who says "Bill" Bryan is crexy thinks
no nas uiscoveren someming.
a a .
In the absence of Information to the
contrary- we are privileged to believe
mat tne kaiser still is sawing wood.
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The old theory that what roes no must
come down seems to be In for argument
m view oi me continues, soaring or rood
costs.
a
A WRShineton court has held wine
making to be a violation of law. Afid
of chemical principles, too, in most
casea
a a a
Among the thlncra that do 'not keen us
awake at night are the voluble utter
ances of Mr. Take Jonescu, If you can
una out wno ne is.
. In the morning when he came out and
looked at the rescued etem he fancied
he could see In its relation to the airing
with -which he had twined It a sugges
tion of response. The next day he was
sure of M. In the night a miracle had
happened. From that bare length of
wirelike fiber there had grown at distant
Intervals little tendrils which clung to
the supporting string, and the end of the
stem was freshly green and budding.
From that time on he could almost see
the vine growing as he watched it Cer
tainly he could mark Its growth in inches
for each 24 hours. Upand up it climbed
above the porch to the second story win
dow, and above it toward the roof. New
strings had to be stretched for it. It shot
oat branches in all directions. It be-
came covered with a beautiful foliage.
The man was .greatly pleased. He
called to his neighbor one day and
showed it to him.
"All It wanted was a chance," said
the man ; "something It could lay hold
of so that It might climb."
The parable needs no interpreting, but
there are two applications thereof which
may be suggested.
That mired and weed-smothered vine
is not unlike the spiritual life of some
people. They themselves are barely
conscious it exists. But all It needs is
a chance and something It can lay hold
upon so it may climb. Let it out and
up and it will respond to God, as the
vine responded to the air and light, in an business in Portland.
expression or its stinea power euiu
beauty. It is here that many people
make a serious mistake when they scorn
the ministrations of the church. The
church for multitudes has proved to be
the string, the trellis upon which they
climbed into the life and liberty of the
spirit.
-w SIDELIGHTS
The country will ret back to the pre
war leveUwhen It re la batch its pre-war
level heads. -Med ford M ail-Tri buna.
m m
Marconi Is sure that he has received
wire less slrnals from Mara. The dear
old planet showing; flaahea of Intelligence
as li were. & uranot uoaerver.
Althouah, Borland and Ireland do not
seem to be rettinr anywhere with their
correspondence:, it's better to be wasung
ma u n oiooo- amena 1 1 ss.
Senator CaJder of New York wants a
tax on tntoxseauita. If be propones to
Include bootiear and home-made hootch
no other taxes will be needed. ugene
Keglster.
One of the beat views In Central Ore
gon is on the Bend road Just south of
Redmond. Trier is a silo in stent on
each elda of the road. Prine villa Cen
tral Ore ton lan.
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Manv a man will ret out and crank
his head off on a flivver that when his
wife asks him to wheel the baby burgy
around the block be yells likelL Roae-
ourg .News-ltavlew.
a a a
A W lac on ain banker Is charred with
sending a threatening letter. The out
come of it will be watched with Interest
by those who are in the habit of receiv
ing the stereotyped notice. Med ford
Chorion.
mm
If you want to get the most out of
voux lite, make it a practice to see notn
lnr but the rood. Evil exists only aa you
recognise it. or In other words, what
vou- don't know don't hurt you. and so
tar as you are concerned does not exist.
iilua Mountain Kac'e.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
The, Oregon Country
Sorthwast Hapacntnt In BrVrf Farm for ffcn
Busy CatuM.
Miss Henrietta McKaughan who. with , ' Save for the Tillamook road Reliance
a young lady companion, spent the I would be almost inaccessible. It is a
vw.uui, All UJ& UiUUUIAUl, UKtCUHg 1IUIU
place to place as fancy dictated, has
returned to civilisation with an unusual
experience. With a small borr o to
. ,i , .
carry the camp outfit they started in
the high hills at Port Orford in Curry
county and worked their way around
to Ashland over the peaks of the Siski
you mountains. At Ashland they went
to the top of the Cascade mountains
over the Dead Indian road and fol
lowed along the crest of the range past
Crater lake and Diamond lake and
Crescent lake. Considerable time was
spent in the region around Mount Jef
ferson, which Is described by Miss Mc
Kaughan as the most scenic country in
the Oregon mountains, with Its meadows
and flowers, its crevasses and canyons
and its blue and violet lakes. The burro,
which was left at Eagle creek park on
the Columbia river highway, is now
for sale.
lumber town in the heart of the Coast
range of mountains. One ot Its resi
dents, John Anderson, who is visiting
in Portland, says it Is a great country
for blackberries since Umber has been
cut.
Thomas J. Korea of Tmer, Douglas
county, which hopes some day to be on
a mam route to- Crater lake. Is seeing
the sights of Portland.
Among out of state arrivals are Mr.
and Mrs. B. Heathcot of San Francisco
QREOOX . V
Contract has been Vat for aa adsttai
to the Eugene powtoffww to coat 11700.
Residerwws to the value if XXS.K are
now under course of cooslnecOoei at
Ilooeourg.
The St. Helena city counrU St Its last
meeting adopted a resolution IndorsvAr
the mi exposition. . ,
Donald Morrison of Fhaniko. charred
with starting a for fir, pleaded guilty
at Bend and was fined t!.
Enrolled on the oneninc daw of echoot
at Eugene were 13 Cl mipila. whtrhaa 1)1
mnre thaa ever before rcgUiared on th
ursi a ay. - ,
Victor noon, reeident of Totado. a
dead In a Corvall'.s hocpUal as the rerult
of a fractured nkull remved whea a der
rick fell on him.
The hotel at Veneta. a small lumbering
town on the Coos Bay branvh cf to
Southern pacific-, was l'rp yd by fire
Tuesday. The loan Is SK0.
Ernest Smiley. s, a well-to-do farmer
Itvinr near Independence, was InstanOy
killed Thursday by the hurrtinjt o aa
ensilage cutter on which Tie was working,
James A Berry, a graduate of SlWrhl
gan ArricalturnJ eollece. has been ap
pointed Instructor In the Orecon Agri
cultural college department cf bacter
iology. Dr. TL M. Brumfleld la aWpfc In unl
ltary confinement beMnd doublv locked
and chained door as a result t.f the at
tempted Jail break at P.Murg Monday
night.
Although but $15,000 was avail able
from the Methodist Centenary building
fund for the Columbia river confer no,
one third of that amount waa avwarded
to the Bend church.
Benjamin S. Bntterfleld. 0 years eld.
veteran of the Civil war. has just flied
with the Marion county clerk: his dis
charge from the service. Fla received his
discharge in 144 at Savannah, Ga.
The new annex to the Astoria fctea
school, which is now being erected. w-Ul 4
be dedicated on Armistice) day to tbe
memory of the Oetsop county young
men who lost their Uvea la the world
war.
The coroner's Jury at Enger e at the
Inquest over the body of Earl Babert.
killed bv Elmer Yeorraaa. who mistook
him for a deer, rendered a verdict the
both Hebert and Yeoman were c
but beyond that placed no blame.
Kamela, on the summit of the Blue
mountains between La Grande and Pen
dleton, is the home of Mr. and Mrs. B.
B. Collins, who are visiting In Portland.
But there is another application. Go
into any congested section, where there
is poverty and squalor and swarming
life; look at the little, pale-faced, ill
nourished, ragged and dirty urchins, un
lovely, unpromising, and then think of
our parable. Not one of these young
sters but has latent beauty, potential use
fulness. Air they need is a chance, and
something they can lay hold of while
they climb out and up.
What greater satisfaction could a man
know than to have a part in etretching
the strings or making the trellises upon
which these lives may climb? ' What
greater joy than in watching them re
spond? You ce.n see the tendrils reach
jout and grip the new support ; you can
see the buds develop and unfold into
foliage. There are men who have done
this thing and who are watching this
process today. If you are not one of
them, you have a new experience coming
to you. Ask them about IL
Bruce Gray, who has a ranch near
Post in . Crook county, and family, are
spending a few days In Portland.
Will Wursweller, mayor and general
Pooh Bah of Prlnevllle, is transacting
John W. Butler and W. Butler of
Skamania, Wash., are spending the week
end In -Portland.
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George Hilton Jr. of Medford is regis
tered at the Imperial, as is also Jc J.
Veltrun of Bend.
II. J. Eberly and wife of Salem are
registered at the Oregon.
Mrs. B. O. Shuchlng of Salem is a
guest of the Imperial.
and Miss G. Heathcot. While In Port
land they are stopping at the Portland.
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Transacting business In Portland are
Lewis De trick and IL T. Gable of Man.
pin, which had a disastrous conflagra
tion a few days ago.
Ernest Stoddard of Baker is amgpg
the strangers within the gates of Port
land.
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Roberta Fisher. Frances Ford and
Helen Mclntyre of Welser, Idaho, are
visiting in Portland.
J. W. McCook Is registered at the
Portland from Kodiak, Alaska, where
he la interested In oil development.
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Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hilton of La
Grande are registered at the Benson.
.
J. R. Brown of Merlin. Josephine
county, Is. stopping at the Perkins.
a a
L. P. Daggett of Roseburg is week
ending In Portland.
a
O. Kirk and family of Klamath Falls
are making a visit to Portland,
...
II. C. Seymour of CorvaJlls Is trans
acting business in Portland.
O. Wesche of Astoria was among
Saturday's arrivals.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
Letters From the People
A TITANIC PROJECT
YOU CAN DO IT
A
GREAT French banker was
thrift, and he replied, "Compound
interest." i
Just as a constant waste even in
little things may change one's life
from success to failure, so the steady
saving of money will! eventually bring
independence if not actual wealth.
There are very few' people who
cannot, without the slightest incon
venience, lay aside 10 cents a day.
Ten cents a days so saved amounts
in 10 years, at 4 per cent compound
interest, to $446.36. Fifty cents a
day for the , same period yields
$2227.73. A dollar a day for 10
years totals $4455.74.
Look back over your own life. Be
honest with yourself. Could you not,
with very little trouble, have?: saved
10 cents a day, or 50 cents or
even $1?,
HERBERT HOOVER says that
wheat will be carried from the
Middle West to Europe for 10 cents
a bushel less than at the present
time, when ocean traffic is extended
into the Great Lakes through the St.
Lawrence.
Eighty per cent of the world's
merchant fleet can come up the
lakes when the St. Lawrence route
Is open, say proponents of the proj
ect. Three fourths of the vessels which
pass through either the Panama or
thftSuez eanals will, it is said, find
the lake channels adequate.
Charles P. Craig, vice president of
the Great Lakes -. St. Lawrence Tide
water association, told- the Portland
Realty board last week that the esti
mated cost of preparing the way for
ocean going vessels through the
Great Lakes to the ports of Lake
Superior is estimated-at $252,000,000.
Related costs will bring the amount
to $270,000,000.
But. he said, the savings In freight
charges on 1 Middle "vvst - European
commerce and the. stimulus to trade
will more than justify the outlay.
He added that Eastern capital has
offered to make the entire improve
ment and maintain the channel free
of tolls, provided it Is allowed to
develop and market the incidental
electric power. What an ohject les-
t Communications sent to The Joarnal for
publication in this department should be written
on only one side of the paper: should not exceed
300 words in length, and must be siened by the
writer, whose mail address in full must accom
pany tbe contribution. )
AN ERA OK JUSTICE
Have Mercy and Walk Humbly with
Our God in All Ways.
Cherryvllle, Or., Sept. 14.c To the
Editor of The Journal Shake . Mr.
Bonebrake ! You certainly utter the
sentiments of every Just and humane
person in the land when you urge more
consideration fir the poor and strug
gling man now in tne most deplorable
condition ever known. With a hard
winter ahead of us how are the poor
and unfortunate going to survive? It
is written in the scriptures that what
God requires at our hands "is to deal
Justly, love mercy and walk humbly
with our God." . Instead of emphasizing
this plain and explicit command, how
much injustice there is and how little
mercy there Is shown in too many
instances. What makes the memory of
Christ and Lincoln adored was their
God-like attributes of mercy, and instead
we hear long preachments on the virgin
birth. Immersion and blood atonement
by the highest intellects the orthodox
church had produced in 50 years. Prof.
Henry Drummond writes in his essays
"that this position is not impregnable.
Billy Sunday however, casts all our
great Intellects like Longfellow. Emer
son, Whistler, Oliver Wendell Holmes.
Franklin, and William Penn into hell
because they were -not orthodox. I am
not misquoting him, from the fact that
I took notes on him for five weeks for
a newspaper. No truthful, well-informed
person, however, takes him seriously.
So let us- have an era of justice and
humanity and "deal justly, love mercy
and walk humbly with our Gqd."
J. P. AverilL
It might have pinched you now! son this offer of capital Is as to the
and then. It might! have meant the value of electric power! i What a
occasional surrender - of a cigar, aJ bearing It-has on Vie future Colum-
littl candv or other nettv axDcndi-1 bla river! j2 " .
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WHO CAN EXPLAIN
,: Wallula, Wash., Sept. 14. To the
Editor of The Journal There are over
30 cars full of wheat on the Juniper sid
ing, Just over the Washington line into
Oregon, and have been there for several
days. Does this. mean that the 'owners
of this-svheat are trying to evpde the
tax collectors, or Is it to keep from
choking the elevators or to make it seem
that there is a scarcity so as to keep
the price where 14 la? I cannot see why
the grain is not unloaded In the ele
vators and shipped to places where It
is needed. Lots of things people are
doing nowadays : seem strange to a lot
of us common people.
Mrs. Pearl Clark.
The art of being happy is explained ia the j
philosophy of Charlotte Tower, who triea to be
of aarrioa to others.
Her name is Charlotte Tower. She
works at the Coffee Cup on Park street.
I have never really been able to make up
my mind whether I drop in for lunch
there for the sake of the good eats or
because she has such a genuine smile of
welcome for me. We have 'nodded to
each other and passed the time of day
for several months but It was not till a
day or s4 ago that we learned each oth
er's names. I was late for lunch. She
was takintr the. place of the regular
cashier. When I had taken my lunch to
one of the tables she came over and.
sitting across the table from me. said:
Is your name Fred Lockley ana are
vou the one who writes In The Journal T'
I nodded and she said: "My name is
Charlotte Tower. I have been reading
your articles a lone time and I want
to ask you if you are not a student or
applied psychology? My son Lawrence
the hijrhbrow of our family, l toia
her. "I am too busy studying the folks
I meet to have time to study psychology.
I have been studying you for several
months and I have wondered how it waa
that even at the end of a hard day you
always seem serene and untroubled. Tou
have a smile for everyone. Do you go
home at night and scowl Just to rest
your fae?" She smiled and said. "No.
I don't have to rest my face at night. I
smile because I feel friendly toward peo
ple. I have noticed that smiling is con
tagioua. If a person cornea In who has
a troubled or worried look his face lights
up when I give him a smile and a
friendly greeting.
"Before I came here I taught school.
I have always been interested In psy
chology. I used to be buried- so deep
in gloom that it was hard work digging
out. Some people are typhoid carriers,
others are rloom carriers. I don't know
which is the worst. The latter is more
common. What is the basic creed of
my philosophy? First, this is .a pretty
rood old world after alL Second, no
one can help yoj but yourself. Third.
you get no real nor permanent pleasure
or satisfaction from anything that
for your own pleasure only. You must
share your pleasures to enjoy them
Fourth, the only money you really save
hK money you have spent In helping
others, i Fifth, the surest way to forget
your own troubles Is to think of others
and try to be of service to them" She
told me that the real' success of the
Coffee Cup was based on the princlpl
of cooperation and being of service to
othera !
Their burdens may be heary sad they sot
strong;
And yoar own sky wfll lighten.
If other akies m brirhu n
By fast bsing happy with a heart foil of Bone-'
A POOR RECOMMENDATION
From the Milwaukta Sentinel.
One thing that ;worriee us about the
Idea of revising and amending the 'peace
treaty is the hearty approval it la re
ceiving . front Count Bernstorff. -
As she talked of her philosophy of
srood cheer and helpfulness, I couldn
help thinking of that verse by Ripley D.
Saunders that says:
"Ju-t betae- hap ia a fine thing to do :
Looking ra the bright side rather thaa the bloe
Bad or sunny musing
Is taraerv h the eraming. -
And Just being happy brsre work and true.
Jwt being hap helps other souls along;
' i rnrcr:TrTf 1 1
Rank oVr nedta a Davacxnort
creased S6C677 stnoe tbe June SO eaU.
More thaa II 4.000 dally Is comma;
the town of Toppeulsh through ahipmcaoX I
of wheat, hay and produce. i
H. & Brown, a fi utUiower at Gszt- j
too, received IU.oO for the p rtwav
growir on a throo-yeax-old Ehorta peacta
tree this sea sen. ,
Approximately 6WI.0OO rrshels of j
wheat were sold In Walla Walla darrfngr
the last week at prices ranging xrom
7 cents to IL
Walla Walla county most raise $172-, :
VtC n . ,,., m 4 K mmlM m.
tlU9 k. ,i .ill ' I
roads and bridges.
Service over the Prorpect HetgSrts
portion of the Walla Walla V alley rail
way line, abandoned more than year
ago, was resumed last weak.
Residents of Dixie, a small town elgbt
miles northeast of Walla Walla, reported
eight distinct eartnquake anodes ta ere
between 1 and 6 o'clock Tuesday morn
ing.
Robber backed an atrtornobDe trade
up to the rear of tha J. C. Penney com
pany store at Ellenaburr and carried
off more than $1000 worth of merchan
dise. Bank deposits at Yakima ha t de
creased from nearly f 14.000.000 two
years ago to about half that amount,
but show an Increase of $U2,04 stDoe
June.
Punds are belnr raised In Clarke
county for Use buiidirur of a new Brans.)
hall In the place of the Minnehaha
grange building, which burned down a
year ago. .
Oil waa struck last week In a well
being drilled between Clarkston and
Asotin, about six miles from Lewtafn.
Thla la the first oil ever atruck In the
Inland Empire.
The Columbia Khlnrle company's mt'l
sX Kalama Is to be sold at itienrr
September 21. The mill cost mrean.a.
$100,000 and there are claims against it
aggregating jts.ni.
Rev. C B. Latimer of P.ajionl
Wash, has accepted tbe patorat- ?
the Prebwtrian church at White -
lake. Minn., and ne ana m lamuy
make the trip by automobile.
One night while I was overseas I was
trying to escort John Kendriek Bangs
to a newly established camp -of dough
boys. The French chauffeur did not
know where It was, so we halted a
French peasant to ask directlona I
tried him in English which, failing to
elicit anything of value, caused me to try
my limited French on him. He looked
troubled and puzsled. Mr. Bangs said :
"Maybe he will like my brand of French
betteV than your Choctaw." so he tried
to make himself understood. The French
man merely shook his head apologeti
cally. Mr. Bangs said: "You know. In
many ways I like the French, but I must
say I would like them better If they
could understand their own language.
However, let's be on our way ; we are
bound to stumble on it, or at least find
someone In these Innumerable little
French villages who can speak the same
kind of French I do." As a matter of
fact, we ran slam barg Into it at the
next turn of the road. Bangs Is an
optimist if there ever wss one. Here
is proof of it in his bit of vorse entitled.
"Today" :
Think not on f oateidsy. nor t able borrow.
1m what may be in store Tor ma Tomorrow.
But let Todiy be your inoew wnt care
The pat is put. Tomorrow's in the air.
Who fires Today ths beat that in him lias
Will find the road that leada to clearer efciae.
see
I am a believer In the doctrine that
when the outlook Is not pleasant it pays
to try the uplook. Most of us worry
about things that are never going to
happen. Thinking of your blessings will
help you to forget your misfortune ot
handicaps. Whenever I am inclined to
look on the dark side of things I think
of Robert Louis Stevenson, who in spite
of pain and III health could tay :
. If I hare faltered more or laea .
In my great ta-k of happiness:
If I bar roored among bit rare
And shown Be rUmow morning fare;
If beams from hap human eyes
Hmtb moied ma no ; if mo-ninc ssim.
Rank, and my frod. and minnm rain.
Knocked oo my sullen heart n
Lord, Thy moat poa4 plraror take
And stab my spirit beoad awake;
t. Lord, if too obdurate I.
Choose Than, befor that rprrit die.
A piercing lain, a killing fin.
And to my dead heart run ttxm in."
You think your troubles are hard, to
bear. If with the crushing; weight of
sorrow on his shoulders Abraham Lin
coln could smile through his tear. d"n't
you think that after all you had better
turn a smiling face to fate. Here Is a
bit of advice from Lincoln that Is worth
practicing. He said: "Do not worry:
eat three square meals a day ; say your
prayers ; be courteous to your creditors,
keep your digestion good, exercise, go
slow and easy. Maybe there are other
things that your special case requires
to make you happy, but my friend, these
I reckon will give you a good lift."
IDAHO
Arr ordir.r to the last censug. illiterai
in Idaho has decreased 7 per cent ia in
years.
New equipment and supplies coet-r.e
$6500 have arrived tor tne xjoic nign
school.
The heat prune crop in the hlsiory ot
tbe state is now being harvorted in
Idaho, and the production will be at leaat
l.i uo cara
Idaho apples have been disposed of
this season at from 4i to ITS a ton in
bulk. Grower claim that they can make
a profit at :0 a ton.
Amplication has been filed with the
Idaho public utilities commission by the
Spokane at Eastern railway to put Into
eifect a rale on tbe shipment of arpkeet'
In bulk.
Completion and acceptance by the
state and federal government and coun
ties of federal aid road projects in Wash
ington arid Pnvette counurs were an
nounced Saturday. A total of $402,000
was ex r, -ended.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
About the maddest man In the Corners
is Bud Helklxer. who traded his flivver
off In Oregon City last week, and when
he got ! the new one home he found It
was the ume engine number as the
flivver I be traded off in Portland last
year and give boot fer tbe one he traded
off last week la Oregon City. Bud give
nigh $100 boot altogether and got hire a
nicecoat of paint worth 17.5b. Xpowa In
the Oxarks after the war there was con
aid' able hoes and mule tradln and
Riprap Johnson traded a roan boss fer
a Confederate mule one month and the
mule fefa bay boss the next, givta ti
In U. 8. money to boot both times. It
rained the first Sunday they went to
church and that bay washed out to a
roan - while the sermon was bein'
preached, and Riprap understood why
that boss had seemed to know the barn
first thing, when b led nlra up to IL
What 1 Like Best
In The Journal
MRS. J. D. GIHORN. Stl
Amherst street The Journal
is the beat daily I have ever
read, especially the editorial
page; "Ma and Pa" are fine
so true to life.
W. F. WILSON. 258 East
Seventy-ninth street north
The editorials.
A. S-' BRIGGS, 1025. East
Thirtieth street north The
Journal is reliable and fair
towards capital and labor.
IL M. OSTIN. 11$ East
Morgan street I have a high
esteem for the sound position
The Journal takes on all fi
nancial, commercial and in
dustrial question a It is be
coming one of the foremost
papers on the coast.
F. C. STR1EGH. 2o' Lib
erty street I like The Jour-
nal for Its editorials, fairnens
and honesty. I am very much
impressed with the advertise
ments, particularly with the
absence of faVe advertUe
raents. C.EOROE RANDELL. 1444
Mallory street General and
telegraphic nrw.-i. The Jour-
' nal seems to hare a fuller
and more complete report of
the happenings of the day
than other rapers.
MRS. J. A- DRAPER, Qn-
- tario The editorials snd the
news In general -
Some . of :The Jo real's readers
like the comics, some tne eauor
ials, some tbe market reports and
some the porting' page. What
do you like" brsl? Include nam
and address with your anrwer.
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