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Newspaper Page Text0 " THE OREGON DAILY -JOURNAL PORTLAND OREGON ATI tNPEPtXDEST KWSAm & JACXflQX . . . ........ o. .. . .PnMbba IB. taia, to wfidcnl. to etorfal aad bbu ouwfs ye woom wiuta 222LL f uk-Uahed ry Mk day an Seadsy menial at Tha Journal touding , Broadway tod Xa- . hfll -atreet, Portland. .Oregon. - " to tared a lie neatofuc at Portland, Ore for through (be mail a elaee nan !rLiUU'aW Mai TUS. Automatic 640-HT an qeptrtniente teaeneq py m nnaiorr. ATIONAL ADVEaTl-il.NU BJ&E&ENTA- aiw ii i a. - rA ftmMB boUding. i2 FUth arena. Mew "fork; K i Malltra tmlldrna. Chk-,ro. " ' " f AC1FI0 CO AS I RirKESE.NTATIVB W. C ,-. Baringer Co.. Examiner buildta. Sea Fran , eiaco; Titla Inraranr building. Los Aattas; '. Pcrt-Tntelligrrif er "balding, Seattle "tHJI OHiXiON JOUB.MA1. rmnai th rUht t reject adrcrti-dnf copy vbiea It netrai ac V iectiooabl. It slue wlUl Dot Prkit any Copy that is any wy aim ul tea reading matter or that cannot readily to recogaUed aa edrer- - umg. . S . ; v SUBSCBIPTIOS KATES . ... - By Carrier, City and Country ' i DAILY AND BUN DAT On week'. L...S .19 I On month..... .S " - DAJXT I CNDAT On week... ...f .10 I Ooa tdt. M Oai month,.?. .43 I ST MAIL. ALL BATES PAYABLE EC ADVA CI . UA1LX AJIU BUN1AI One year... ... $8 00 Thro BaooLbi. . . S2.23 11 month!..., 4.2 . v v DAILY (Without Sunday) On yr......$S.OO Bis nuoth . . . . S.25 Three month,. 1.75 Oh month 60 WEEKLY : (JCrery Wednesday) Onm year. . .... gl.OO fiix months . . . ' .SO One aaoDth. . . .74 - BUN DAT tOaia) ' One year ..$3.00 Ba month. . . : 1.78 .Tore month... 1-00 WEERXT AXO 8UXDAT On year. ; . . . ..3.6o That rate aooly ool in the WeaL " Bate to Eaatern nomte furniahed o imlka- Hon. Make remittanea ay lleney Order, f nnaaa Order or Draft. If your soatoffic ia oat a money-order office 1 or 2-ernt Mampe will to accepted. , Make aO reaaittanee awyeM to Tto Journal , Pabuabioc Coajpaoy. Paruaad. Orecoa. "Prtwner, tell m who waa H that wrought thia unbreaiabl cbalnf "It waa . I." aaid tbe priaoner, "who forced tfai chain very carefully. I tbouxht my iarincibl power would hold the world eaptire. tearing me in a freedom nndia tnrBed. Thna. night and day, I worked at th .chain with huge Area and crnd, .hard- atrokca, When at hut - the work waa don and th link were com pit and unb reel able, I found that it Laid BM In ita grip." Tagore. KNIFED BY ITS FRIENDS 4pVIDENTLY there is a collapse in a- high places of the extreme tariff -idea. ,i- The present extraordinary, session '-of congress was called for two our- poBes to enact a new revenue piu and pass a permanent tariff bill. : For months, there were tariff hear ings by a house committee. A bill naa uuuiu, yicociiieia, UiBWUBaaterauia Will .uei . M u BW VfW IV LllO UCJLL 1 session. It has been temporarily abandoned in the house of its friends. able against -the principle of the Ford- IV htll ia l.t.at im vnm V a .K . . lishlng houses of the country. Their opposition to tne high duties imposed '. am' am(m WhaI.. i m. J a1 J v.'.. V member of the : Putnam 1 publishing Vi mieiAa 4 Wsa a1M . tiMealtMAite Similar protests have. been made . by many manufacturers, as well as by financial interests. It Is a repudl , ation. of the old time Fordney idea by the very interests who long waxed ; ', .Here is their thought: -The ma- . Jority of. Americans now live In cities. - enormous mat America cannot con- .. tmrws I, oil - 1T1.. . 1 . t loreigrn exportatlons, huge surpluses will pile up and mills cannot be . 'kept busy. " t': ; And their thought continues this t' way: If America erects a Chinese wmi in exr rpm n npnrrriin a v t r mv r! -other countries, there will be retail. 1 ation abroad by ihe lew of ha.wv '.riiitiMa aralnat lm.i4ii.ii n. r. K e . O - AM l.!..!! l.CfcW tured products. The. biggest game in the world today Is the problem " Of selling manufactured products In 1 rliortanf fnfirV.t. Tf nr. . . . , V Va( , ,tom of the world wide war. It is " at the bottom of thev Far Eastern 4 complexiues. It is at the bottom of i the desire, of European countries to io ivicuu uuBKsiiona. . Anriano. v .AaiuiBi iiiuuucea awrce as great a . volume ot manufactured . atooda as she can sell at home, and , must sell abroad or her industrial system : wlll collapse. America is swiftlj passing toward the. same situation - So, many of the manufacturers ot America are telling congressmen that the old doctrine of extreme, protec : Uon is not fitted to modern condi- tions andthat the Fordney bill is a dangerous bilL ; It means that Its friend and ex ; ponents have wisely concluded that an extreme tariff t is not a cure-all for the gaping wounds that a cruel . war left upon a disheveled world. A noted scientist says fibs cause high blood pressure, and, therefore, shorten life.. From now on we shall all know what a person means when , he says another has high blood pres sure. ' ; ' . A PORTENT OF THE FUTURE '"'"" I!. ;',;,5" : -" '' i ' ''iLjA'""' ., THERE was a quiet little gather- tnr over In a Middle Western - community recently. ' To the-world the meeting is unheralded. But, In that quiet affair there Is tremendous significance. It is a portent of what part people will, play in the govern ments of the future.,' .Three hundred people of the com munity gathered , to, discuss govern ment, and particularly taxes. They set iip sjd ortranlzavtlon. " Ttey ur to tody toTernmimta, municipal state and fedrJ; thy -art to arcli for lBionnation - at to why, so much Bpony is spent, where It roa, and what reeralti the people who provide the, monejr obtain jfrom.TtJ expendi ture. They are coins:;- to take an active part In government and edu cate themaelves to vote intelligently and in their own behalf. . . t Mlagovernrhentinx the past, ' has been costly. It has robbed the com mon people of the country of mil lions upon .millions of dollars. It has given irise to the t tremendous tares that are now levied, ?Jia mat hold the producers of - the country under the yoke. But it ha4 impressed upon a few people, and, is impressing upon more as is evidenced by the gatherihg: in the Middle, West' town that the people who give the power to governments must take a deeper interest in and devote greater, study to government 1 lo order to - protect themselves against abuses.1 f". The people of the Mid-West com munity, are to study and then they will act. . People in other parts of the country wW emulate the process. In time the whole electorate - will arise, study, and vote or measures and mien that best serve the interest of the whole electorate. When that day comes government will be better. it win be cheaper, and the voters of America will be "a more 'prosperous and ahappier people. A Spokane statistician figured the other day that 35,868 tourists , in 8967 cars had already passed, that way and' that the number would be increased to 10,000 cars before the season of auto touring actually end ed.' Be also figured that eacK auto mobile's visit fo the Inland. Empire metropolis was worth 912, tv total of $120,000 for the season. And that is only a small segment of the greatest year for tourist travel on record. WHERE THE TAXES HIT THHE city council' is entering the JL final stage ' of budget prepar ation. Members of that ' body - will decide which municipal services must be retained and which can be abandoned, how much money is to be spent and what for. .. On their decision, unless their, budgets are re vised by the newly created tax super vising and conservation commission, will depend the, amount of money that 'will be collected from each in dividual taxpayer, of the city. When budgets are to be prepared or taxes levied there is always talk about the big taxpayer and the little taxpayer. There are always those who can figure how little . a pet scheme will affect the small, tax payer, and how, in reality. the big taxpayer will, bear, most of the cost. Frequently, .'on the ; basis that the big taxpayer will be largely affected, an unnecessary service is created or retained. v.a Solon of Athens talked about , taxes and their effect on the different classes of taxpayers years ago. His r formula fits conditions of the present a ay. xn errecc, ne saia: .' Those at the bottom pay out of their necessities. A little higher up, they pay out of their comforta.- Still higher, they pay out of their luxuries. The pet and unnecessary scheme may cost the big taxpayer several thousand dollars. He win, in most cases, pass the tax on to the, con sumer of food or olothingf or the renter. But even' if he pays the tax himself it means that his net Income or profits are merely reduced at the end of the year, that he win dispense with some luxuries. But the 15 or 910 or 920 that ts collected 'from the small taxpayer means that he is compelled to forego a comfort, or, in many instances, a necessity, and not infrequently he loses his property, as is proven by the 948,000 that the city recently appropriated to maintain its interest, in delinquent property taken over by the sheriff of Multnomah , county. And the small taxpayer is not relieved of the burden when he meets his Individual tax .bill, but he pays the taxes of the so-called big taxpayer that are shifted to him with practically every purchase he makes. ; Money - is at low ebb now : with the little taxpayer. Kvery additional,! nickel collected In taxes means that he is compelled to go without some thing that he would like, something that he needs. It is of that man that the city commissioners should think, when they are considering which services are to be retained and. which abandoned, how much money is to be spent, and what for. ' So quietly thas the fact has been overlooked by "the multitude, the friends and admirers of the ' late Franklin K. Lane have contributed a memorial fund of 9100,000, not for a monument, but as a - source of revenue for the wife and family of the former secretary of the interior.. Lane died leaving no estate. He gave all he had to public service. DOES HE KNOW HIS HARVEST? 'TJAN CASEY, while on trial for the a- alleged murder of Special Agent Phillips, said, under oath, that he had been a persistent bootlegger but not a murderer. Being offended at Mr. Casey's-remark, a bandit might retort' that he had sometimes killed in self-defense but had never been a bootlegger. It tsrnot difficult to picture a highwayman blustering up with wounded pride and asserting that his trade is the more respectable of the two. - But. putting aside these fine dis tinctions, how much truth is In Casey's statement thathe often dis pensed moonshine, but not death. C Within the week a sailor was dis patched in a north end restaurant. The man who sold him this drink Is being held : on a charge of man slaughter, which is but a softer nam for murder. Net long ago the whole! nation was shocked by acore oH more of deaths due to eoncoctioh retailed by a notorious ring ef East ern bootleggers. , Scarcely ' sv daily paper is free from reports of cases wherein men and -women - succumb to the effects of the vile stuff which is sold them in the name of whiskey. And where death does not. mercifully. descend its savage playmates, blind ness and -paralysis, ..." often .take its place through years of suffering and helplessness. ' So it appears that' no matter which role bootlegger or killer- Mr.- Casey may have chosen to enact in the past it is pretty certain that he was closely associated with an agent of the ut most grief and sorrow. At any rate, it 'is. perhaps impossible for him to- know 'what has been his exact harvest as a; bootlegger. On May 20 last. George Lawrence Jr., then president of the Portland Traffic & Transportation association, submitted a report recommending the unification of terminals In this city, - (On June : 9 the report was transmitted to other public bodies, including the 'dock commission, with recommendation , for the appoint ment of a joint Committee that might negotiate with the railroad carriers for unified operation. On September 26 the matter was referred to a com mittee of the dock commission for -attention It is not alone the mills of thel gods that grind slowly. UP THE LADDER TTE WAS a poor boy, Thomas Rus- A. J. sell was. At night he worked for an electric light company, and by day;-on his wage, he attended Northwestern uni versity, back in 1907. One night the fuses blew out in the home of Henry J. Patton, brother of the millionaire grain speculator, and young Russell was sent out to repair them. In the moonlight' tt was abeautl- ful home,' with broad lawn and flow ers and green shrubbery; and with hungry eyes the youth gazed on It, yearned to own It and hoped - that some day, with a girl of his choice. he could move into it and call it all his own. That was 14 years ago, and a few days , ago the poor Chicago youth. how Thomas C. Russell, head of an important business corporation, rated as a near millionaire, bought the Pat- ton home and saw fulfillment of his dream in the moonlight. He bought the Patton home for 9100,000. and has moved In. Gradu a ting from Northwestern in 1011 he left college wUh no assets but strong purpose and a million-dollar grin. He bought a small electrical shop and it failed, leaving him but 975 with which to begin anew. The war came on and a new company that he organized so prospered that the big house and fairyland lawn of his dreams became the hdme of its president. " ' ' . ' Success is not born with a silver spoon in its mouth. For- every fa mous man born rich, 100 are rocked in the cradle of near poverty. Lin coin, from a log.cabin to the White House, Edison a train boy. Rockefeller a bookkeeper, Irving Berlin, million aire inventor of rag time, singing for nickels in New York's ' 'Chinatown, are among the high lights In the rise from poverty to power and position. I7o lad need be discouraged ' be cause father is poor and the home humble. It. la the plain, people who five the natiorr Its great men. : : The' world's largest f motorshlp- is the Danish snip. Arrisa. . . sne cieareo from Vladivostok for-Europe a short time ago, routed Vbiy - way of the Panama . canal because . her depth loaded, was too great for the Suez canal. She put . in at' San Francisco bay . for oil, but because she was drawing 33 feet . no . attempt " was made to take Jier oTit through the Golden Gate at night. It would be impracticable, said officials of the operating company, the East Asiatic company. 'Had the Afrlka put into tne Columbia she could have left day or night with a. depth, which la 42 feet at low water and more than 50 feet at high tide! .' ' " ' ' WIVES AND yftVES : TTE IS a brave and patient man AA who will even attempt to cla&s One day reports from ,the divorce courts carry vivld stories Of - the utter - contempt , in .which some hus bands are held by their wives. T They are described'r as. 'dogs, animals, brutes and' little fishes. But on the next day comes a report from some part of the country ofa wife tying the "other girl" to a posi and whip ing her, of the wife throwing acid in her face, or of .other attacks by irate wives on the girl who has so mali ciously, so shamefully, and eov un forgivably chloroformed a husband and led htm out In the evening, or the girl who fiendishly and .per sistently lured him against : his will away from the home fireside, or the girl who some way or other took ad vantage of, the husband and forced him to bestow his time and affec tions' on her. - ; ; " ; - . Of course the husband always went against his wilL Of course he is the white lily, the i rictim of a wretch Cith whom he hatedto associate, but ho simply forced ..her atteBtlons Upon him. : Poor man, he is so popular! .. ; v THE PORTLAND PLA rpiiE first conclusion of the unem-. a- ployment conference at Washing ton D. C,ls the conclusion Portland reached more than a month; ago that tneiimmedlate 'ivlval 'oe ployment , is, practically, a problem of localitiesv: of . couragebusly main tained' payrollsi of optimism and of necessary public work conducted when private employment is least. - It is a pretty safe prediction that the next, war win be:TBe last rAfter it, there will bd liUle left to Cjht'for. SHANTUNG OUT: OF COURT Thus to Settle That Much Vexed Ques tion, to Forestall the Worse Thlrtg of What the Conference of Great -Powers Might Do. Is Held to Be "Japan's Desire in Her Ad vances to China That Pur pose and China's Opposing V Action' Bring. Editors Into the Debate. J ... ' Dally Editorial Digest Japan's ; advances to- China . ia the Shantung .matter are generally Inter preted in American papers, as the De troit Free Press (ina. exresses it., -as an indication -that "the Jeland empire desires to get In out of the wet before the Washington parley begins." , China's re fusal to negotiate is viewed here as a determination on her 'part to balk that purpose and to force a discussion of the whole Shantung question in the Far East conference. There is .considerable divergence of editorial opinion both as to, the merits of Japan's, proposal and the wisdom ot China's course. - There Is no discounting the fact,' the Chattanooga ' News (Dem.) thinks, that Japan' is adxlous to settle the Shantung muddle -in advance of the Washington conference" and thus re move the danger of having to enter it "at a disadvantage"; so with this end in view she has made proposal which. "from this distance,": the News finds 'a much closer approximation to a square i deal if or China than anything heretofore, off ered.11 In . the , present offer, -rhlch i suggests that she is undoubtedly willing "to go to great lengths to remedy the injury : done t China,' " the Prevideace Journal (Ind. detects Japan rbetrsy- ing a consciousness of the fact that the Shantungrdeal has not raised her in the estimation ' of other peopled" To - the Charleston News and Courier Dem.) it. is merely evidence that .she "is prepar ing to make good her promise regarding Shantung;," a move which, if ciTted out. would tn the opinion ex the Bir mingham News (Dem) "go far to quiet all suspicions that Japan had any sv sentlaQy greedy designs in the Orient.M The Kansas City Journal (Rep,) "hopes that . the : proposals '"are ; to4 spired by the desire to establish a status of unimpeachable1 Integrity ; for the diplomatic aspects of the Far Eaetem question," and It admittedly finds them "of a . far more commendable nature" than previous negotiations,, but . from a practical viewpoint it doubts that China would gain much by accepting the of fer, since "Japan has been engaged in building up Shantung Industry until It is virtually coatroled by the islanders, and Japanese conducted industry means c Japanese commercial preference. The Mobile Register (Dem;) further analyses he practical features of the offer to restore "the entire province with the exception ef the port and the harbor." Since such an arrangement would leave the entire control of "the commerce and production of. the province" in Japan's hands, the Register Suggests that "it Is a good deal as If Japan would re nounce all claim to the rest of the bot tle provided the mouth ts left in her possession," therefore "China has much to gain and nothing to lose by declining the offer' . ; '- e "For Chin to agree to these de mands, the Minneapolis Journal (Ind. Rent) declares. would, mean giving Shantung to Japan,' and -China knows It, -nce "Japanese diplomacy appar ently gives away that which it gets in the giving,' and In giving Shantung beck io China it is getting the province.' China's refusal to entertain the offer "ia advance of the Washington, confer ence Is altogether wise and reasonable,' the Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.) be lieves. Tbe Baltimore American (Rep.) Is at a loss to understand the move, which tt believes Is receiving encourage ment from the United States, "to settle the Shantung matter out Of court," es peclally ."when China is evidencing her unwillingness to do so, and Japan is the nation which is urging it" If such is our purpose it appears to the paper that "we have abandoned our position In support of China, and moreover, that w are ourselves acting to make, the Washington conference meaningless. Pointing to what It considers en ob vious "Inconsistency in our "support of China" in the Shantung matter, the Des Moines Register (Ind. Rep.) asks why "we are so much aroused over Japanese holding of this German property when we had for so long a time acquiesced in the original theft from China" and "accented the German occupation ot Shantung- as one of the accomplished facts." To this the Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.) replies that "it doe not follow that the original Injustice is to be con tinued and the 'mikado is to reap the profits planned for the kaiser." As this paper views it, "there. Is no other stana rtor the Chinese to take" save repudi ation of Japanese interest In the prov ince, and the Christian Science Monitor (Boston, Ind.) sees nothing "in the pres ent Japanese, note to Justify China in forsaking this attitude." . i a- i- '"-- --', t r But by a meticulous refusaT. to jo capt . the province at the, hands !ef Japan because that country "has no legitimate title. the Elmira Star Ga sette (Ind.), thinks China Is putting her self In an ' unfortunate position, since "the obvious thing to do is to swallow her nride and make the best of the situation, merely driving the best bar gain she can In the negotiations lead? Ing : to Shantung's restoration, but. China,- the PbllMeiphia r Kecora lino, Dem.) declare, wm not accept a resto ration In that manner. ."I'asslonately anxious" as she is "to get back the port leased to - Germany for H ; years, she insists that "the rest of tbe world must take it from" Japan and present it" to her n a tray." - In adopting this highly legalistic: attitude" t the. ex tent of refusing to negotiate, "China has barred to herself ." the New Tork World (Dem.) thinks, "the only means by which she can recover Shantung. So long as China on no terms wiX consider receiving " it at Japan's hands, ' Japan stays where she legend China : Is the poorer, with no proapect of beUertng her situation. She is turaing a contro versy that leads nowhere, least of ail to the recovery of Shantung." ; -- ' In tadna's reluctance to deal with Japan," however, the - New York Globe (Ind.) suggests, there enters the- ele ment of the "enforcement" of whatever agreement is reached, and It Is foe this reason that China wants - the support of the conference, But the Globe con siders tt SrNernaOcal"( that . Chin would get more by that means than Japan has already offered," since "the decision of the government to exclude China as a participant and to admit Chinese only- as consultants signifies that Japan has won the fight to speak for the Orient." -,.'..v. - Curious-Bits of Infortnation Gleaned From Curiou Places. " , Tbe great majority of birds which in habit our Eelds and orchard are highly peneflciaL ' Thus 93 per cent ot the food et the phoebe conslats of iBseeta. chiefly of injurious species. Of the food ot the meadow lark 7 per cent consists of m ecta. The native apavrrow that is, all species, with toe exception of that im ported pest, the Bouse sparrow is very valuable not only : by reason or us Insect-eating proclivities, but 1 also . be cause it .destroys an immense amount Of weed Beed. The American 'goldfinch consumes great quantities of thistle seed. Tbe swallows are ceaselessly active from daylight till dark, gathering in flying In sects of various species, including many species "which - are serious pests. The vtreos and the warblers' search each leaf and twig for the minute hoe and the eggs of other kinds of insect. The nuthatches and the brown-creepers ex plore the crevices in the bark and ex-r trat hibernating insects and their egga The .chickadee is also a diligent seeker after email Jnsecta and egg and one chickadee has been found to eat: 1028 eggs of the -casket-worm In one day. yLetleis From the People C Coenmaakationi aent ' to Th Joonal fori naoueanoa ia tu aepanaaenx anoan a wroaan ea only on abW of tto paper; aaonld not rtwad S wwrda in iaogth. and mm to aigna hy tto wracr, wdo aaau aooraai, ia nui most aew paay the contribution, i " i. IN REPLY TO MR. WILSON Statements concerning National City Bank Are Contradicted. Portland, Sept. SO. To the Editor ef Tit Journal I a The Journal or Septem ber 37 Is a letter' written by B. SVWfli son regarding - the. excess profits . tax. To strengthen his argument in favor of the retention of that tax - he cites the National City bank of New York, with a capitalisation of 825,000,000, having a net profit of 155,000,000, .quoting from the World Almanac ot 1810. giving those uninformed the impression that this rep rebents.the profits for one year, and that, the excess profits tax should re main in force . to apply to abnormal profits, as this would appear. The fact Is th National City bank of New. York was established in 1812, over 100 years ago, and the surplus and profits have been allowed to accumulate during that length of time. The sur plus has been added to the working can- ItaJ. thereby increasing the security ef the depositors - as weU as the beak's strength, and enlarging ita scope in aid- tna ivimm.w. anri Inrinort-ew , Innumerable statements are made pub licly that are misleading because of a misunderstanding of all of the facts per taining to them and, going unchallenged, are considered as being, correct,,. Al though these statements are not made with the intention of creating and in creasing unrest,' they still have the same effect , The-Bankers Encyclopedia. September. 1920A shows the capital of the National City bank of New York to be 825.000.000 and the surplus to be 958,835,000, an increase from the time referred to by Mr. Wilson' of 93,835,000, earned, not on a capital or iZ5.ooo.ooo alone, but on the capital and surplus, or 980,000,000, No - doubt - -dividends - satisfactory - to the stockholders of this institution have been paid during its existence, but not on the capital and surplus, but -on the capital alone. -Excessive dividends ould not have been -paid, as they would rot have met with the approval of the comp troller of the currency. ; There is no "cutting a melon" possible unaer the national banking act f .Max Kramer. ATTACKS BUDGET ITEMS Alleging Maintenance of "The Cedars" Illegal and Uncalled For. Portland, Sept. 29 To the Editor of The Journal The city budget for the coming , year contains the following items : For the detention home (The Ce dars), 934.370.62 : bureau qf health, 9137, 090.52. The Cedars was established as a war measure for the ostensible pro tection of our soldiers from lewd women and the necessity for its existence has long since passed. Every woman ar rested for any .cause is "held for the health -department," in direct violation of law. Women found with active or inactive venereal diseases are sent there- and compelled to submit to allo pathic medical treatment of neosalvar san and mercury, which not only falls to cure them but drives the disease in and it is liable to reappear at any time If the treatment cured them there might be some excuse for its existence, but as it does not there is no need for the place, and the mulcting of tax payers nearly 835,000 In the interest of a clique ot political doctors is an out rage during these times of depression. ' Again, this compulsory treatment a violation of the constitutional rights of these women and of section 151 of chapter 264 of the laws of Oregon. which says : "Nothing In this act shall be .construed to empower or authorise the city, board of health or (Its representatives to interfere in .any manner with the individual s right to select the physician or mode ot treat ment of his choice." . . Tbe railroading and forcible treatment df these women ia a violation of law and the person guilty of it. should be enjoined and punished. The appropria tion for the bureau of health furnishes Jobs for a lot of doctors and nurses of one class only, and If not abolished entirely should at least be cut in half. Small salaries do not attract competent doctors and those who cannot compete In the bedside test should not be allowed- to have sway over the public health. The. Health Defense League of Oregon, vBy W, A. Turner, Secretary. " GOOD ADVICE TO OARDNTt Ashland, Sept 29. To the Editor of The Journal I have been reading with much interest what is being said -through the columns of The Journal restarting Roy Gardner, and with a good deal of human sympathy for him. And yet, w. knew that human sympathy Is not al ways the besr, thing to Offer. I am glad that his good Wife had the moral courage to advise him to give himself up and not watt unurte 1 taken back. That is what win prove ''t at he wants to be a man again. There is an old hook that most of i us 'are somewhat familiar with that says, "He that tcllmbeth up some other way, the same Is thief; and a robber." I -see that some man in California Is trying to secure Gardner's pardon, walls he is trying to evade the law. I believe that every reader of The Jour nal would he disappointed if President Harding should sign Gardner's pardon while he is hiding away from Justice. t am sure I should like to see him back with his family, and he win find all the sympathy - he . needs when he Is willing to make a clean breast of this thing. r-"is-" Samuel F. Starr. -STREET WORK AT NIGHT Portland. Sept. 23. To the. Editor of The Journal Everybody agrees with you that the work on the bridges should be done at night. What about Third street? There Is no street illuminated as this street is, and yet at about 5 o'clock every night you will see red lights placed along th open trench. . which : fat notice that work will not be done during1 the very hours when the traffic Is the lightest With a large number ot men out of work, tt is not possible for-the ordinary citiaen to understand why sufficient crews are not put to work by day and night to get the street in use. It looks as though the city authorities ought to have sufficient control of the streets to prevent - such a condition of things, , - R. M. Tuttle. '' THE ALIEN" FAVORED : This the Complaint Of a -Native -Citizen r Who Is Denied EmolOTment.. ' . Seaside, - Sept. 2&rTo th-Editor 1H The Journal As a subscribe and con- COMMENT, AND 'M 'SIAALL' CHANGE . " . il ail in a ii - :.' The Indian prince with alx wives la more to .be pitied than oensured,, , . It 'seems tn he rtaln thnf thara Isn't any boner in the bonus law. , -V, ..- . ' An easy way' to solve the tanemnloy- ment problem would be to give everyone Some time we're roinr to find tn the paper one of those stories the newsies cry out about - Monev 'makes the mar era. run enough, but one first has to -have the mare and the money. v e e- e A notect. vis it or- Is amnnlnar fnr ' t. crvpis. r.T,ryona Knowing just wnc mat ia. will-volunteer hospitably to help him. Let's nip some of these rich rum' run ner with the teeth or the law iujrt to give the lower lubber aa Idea ow it's A. lessaon in thrift j ; Portland Ttnttt. office ' receipts will be . 32,000.000 this year. Ana xnost JDZ at a .OUSineSS in Z cent stamps. -,- Oreron hens ar sold In TTawali mvw the market editor. Which reminds us tnai we ve seen a lew Hawaiian chick' ens over here, too. We like to see liauor iarmwtrXtvrw caught, not so much from prohl senti ment as Decause utey uunx they are so eternally smart. The church Sewing circle that found bottle- Of hooch In It materiiala will have some thing now to talk about h. Sides the neighbors, t- . MORE OR . LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town A. H, McLeod has gone back to his native Scotland. He Is an old time Oregon sheep man, : He lived in Malheur county from 1)08 to 1915. Since- leaving Oregon ne has traveled widely but ne Oregon sheepman. He lived in Malheur friends by- having- The Oregon Journal follow him wherever he has gone In a recent letter, dated: Glasgow, Scot land, Septamber, 5, he writes : T am writing the First National bank at On tario, Or to send you money for one year's subscription to The Journal After leaving Beulah, in Malheur county, I went to Central America. From there I went to Patagonia; where I ran sheep for six years. Two years ago my horse went over backwards with me, breaking three ribs and ray collar hone, splitting the shoulder blade and dislocating my arm. I am being treated here at the Western Infirmary to try to recover the use of my arm. I belong to , Gate City lodge, L O. O. F. 214. at Nyssa, Or and to the. A F. and A. M here in Glas gow. I often think with., pleasure of my old Oregon home and of my Oregon friends." " , :- v Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Pridemore. pro prietors of Government Camp hotel, are spending a belated vacation in visiting other, resort hotels in the Northwest, in cluding those at Rainier national park and at Crater Lake. The folk from Government Camp ordinarily spend the winter season "snowed in" under the OBSERVATIONS -vr OF THE JOURNAL MAN By . Fred tin thia. -thi aeoond. ire tall merit of Mi aketch of Albert. tughridce. Civil war veteran, Air. i Leckley reeorda arther exploit ef th moat thrilling character. The remarkable Incident of a mutual surprise attack by night ia related, with an me an but forgotten incidenta of "bbwkWrdins." whieh waa th pre-CirU war eqttjTalent ef moaa Ihining:. Aontlegginf and rua-ranniag. - - "They used to. call Roosevelt's Rough Riders Wood's Wesry Walkers' when they had been dismounted and were fighting as foot soldiers," said Albert Loughridge, " commander of Sedgwick post, G. A. R at Salem, when -1 visited him recently at his home in Salem. "I was supposed to be a cavalryman, but when we were ordered from the southern border of Indian Territory, after chasing the scattered remnants of Price's army, to report aa Rolla, Mo. 400 miles dls- i tant I walked every foot of 'the way. leading my horse, for it was all he could do to hobble along after me. ' - "Wilson, the great cavalry commander, under whom served, with his cavalry was sent west ta relieve the army ef the menace of General Forrest and his cavalrymen. We took Selma, . Ala which was strongly fortified, capturing 6000 soldiers and 31 pieces of artillery. How we ever crossed the ditch, swarmed over the wall and captured Selma I do not yet understand, but we did it We captured 2300 of Forrest's crack cavalry men there, though General Forrest him self escaped. We had gone south very short of mounts. Flften hundred of ourJ cavalrymen who had been afoot secured good mounts by using horses, of Cap tured Confederate cavalrymen. 'There were 500 additional horses and moles there which we could not use. ' We were afraid they would fall into the hands of the Confederates, so we shot them and threw them Into the' river. ' We found 70 siege guns in the big arsenal at Selma. We broke the trunnions With sledgehammers, to put them out ef buai nesa. We buil big V-shaped wooden troughs leading from the arsenal to the river. We put all the colored men we could get hold of hundreds of them rolling shell down- these troughs into the river. . "On April 12, 1865, -we captured Mont gomery, burning millions of dollars' worth of cotton and also burning all of the steamboats tiedt the - wharves. From there we went, through . Tuskegee and on to ColumDus. ..When we were crossing a covered bridge at night there the Confederates decided to cross the bridge and attack us In the darkness, at exactly the same time we had decided to surprise them. The result was the two forces met, m pitchy darkness. In the middle of the bridge. The Confederates supposed we were part of their ' own force and we, of course, supposed they were Union men. The bridge was a broad, old-fashioned . covered bridge. stent reader ot your paper, and believing In your principles and fairness to alt, I wish to make a statement, In regard to actual conditions here, : I am - a native-born American citizen, live here on a farm near the work, and have tried for the last year to get on the road either with or without my team, but with no success. At the same time, they have, kept a man steadily at work with team at 88 or 3 day -who is not a' citizen of the United States and has been heard to say that he did not intend to be. And this is on the pro posed - Roosevelt highway, . being built to commemorate the name of a true American, -I ' wish to ask the " road officials and readers of -your paper if they thins: this is a fair deal - : I Need Work. THE NEW AESOB , -From the ,Waahingto 'Star ; . "Those grapes I vaiftly endeavored to reach are probably sour, anyhow," re marked the fox:.-.., ':--.. - .-:. "Their sourness," eoirrmented Aesop, "wouldn't prevent you. from making a tateretrtlng use of . them U you have a good, recipe,' 5 NEWS IN BRIEF - " SIDELIGHTS . " -,- .. -'j, Thai lin kn Vuutiitlfut tt aMffll a shame they are so short. MedXord Mail Trlbuse. , . . ' The winter run on the Stlttman ease will open on October II. A good season Is predicted Medford Clarion, . . -- ' The eld home town paper reflects the Imperfections of the old home town peo ple as perfectly as It chronicles their ad ranoernecLa-wCoodon Globe-Tunes, i e ' It would be a fin thing if the genius who is engaged in making a tougher tire flarrau would firur out soma way to produce more mileage from apair of boy's ahoea Corvai lis Gaiette-Tunes.. . - e . ... .. . Tn CraBa whira ararumantation I an acltnowl edged pastime,, we have noticed that. the " more they argue the less chance there is for an argument Crane amerfcan. - i, i ! A vounr Eastern murderer Pleads for prompt execution In order to rejoin the sweetheart he murdered. To grant his wish would hardly be fair to the girl if. he doesn't treat her better ia th outer world. Eugene ouaro. Grant county seems to be complaining mora' a' th financial stress than Other counties throughout the state. - Thia la Ana, M-atanmahlv tn th fajt that the bot tom has dropped out of the stock bust- aess. Blue Mountain Eagle With preliminary work under way and its completion certain the Powder River irrigation, project will be tbe magnet that wiU draw new settlers to the county and cause a general advance movement in every line of industry in the county. Baiter JJemocrat. , 1 r - shadow ef the mountain, and. after they complete their present trip they may be hired back to the "vtew of the snow- fields. It Is rumored that Pridemore is getting, a hatful of ideas in antlcl nation of the construction of a new tourist hotel at the base of the old mountain. E. E. Brodie, president of the National Editorial association and editor of the Oregon City Enterprise, wOi Join forces with Elbert Bode, president of th state association, and will make a motor trip about the state, visiting newspaper men and newspaper plants. Brodie has given up plans for a voyage to Honolulu, where he had purposed to attend the world press conference. - . '.-..' ' ' ' . William E. Schunpft of Astoria, sales manager of the Pacific Cranberry Ex change, and himself a cranberry grower on a large scale, has returned from Spokane, where he has negotiated liber al sales of berries. Picking is well un der way in Washington and about com plated . in Oregon. Yield and quality, Schimpff reports, are about as ex pected. Wallace S. Wharton, member of The Journal staff,- Who was operated upon for appendicitis at Good Samaritan hos pltal last week, has been removed to his home, where It was said his con dition is extremely satisfactory and that he is making a rapid 'recovery. AND IMPRESSIONS Lockley When we had finally , forced our way acre, I saw a Confederate captain try ing to rally his men. ., It so happened that this Confederate . captain was in the midst of a big bunch of Union sol diers. Leaning ever his horse he said tc a big Yankee sergeant. What's the matter, - sergeant? Can't you get your men together T What's the cause of aU the confusion T The : sergeant - said, You better give me your sword, cap tain. . The' captain, thinking he was a Confederate sergeant, was almost too Indignant to . speak, He said, Why should I give you my a word r The ser geant responded, 'Because I'll blow your d d head off if you don't, and he poked his Sharp's carbine In tbe offi cer's face and said, Who do you think you are giving 'orders to? This is tbe Fourth Iowa cavalry.' ' . "We went on from victory to victory, fighting hard and meeting stiff resist ance, and neither ourselves nor the Confederates knew that Lee had sur rendered more than a Week before and that the war was ever. At Columbus, Ga., we took 1500 prisoners, SO pieces of artillery and the arsenal with alt Its supplies. We destroyed 125.000 bales of cotton, worth 3500 a bale, as well , as burning large quantities of clothing and ether military stores. "I think the last ma to be killed to this battle was Colonel Lamar, a rela tive of L. Q. C. Lamar.' Our organiza tion fought the last battle ot the war, and I believe Colonel Lamar ; was the last man to be killed. He was shot while Ordering the Confederate gunners to fire a cannon and sweep the bridge on which th . Union soldi rs were ad vancing;. . . I saw him lying by th gua and asked who he waa, The officer to whom I addressed my question said, He Is Colonel Lamar. I waa struck at the time, and I have often, thought of it since, that Colonel Lamar, who in 1858, Just, a few years before the Civil war. had imported between 800 and 400 slaves aboard the Wanderer, shipping them from Brunswick, Ga., to various points in the South, should-be the last man to be killed in the Civil war. On January 11 1859, President James Buchanan, in a message to the senate, spoke of the landing ot ! the bark Wanderer on the coast of Georgia with its cargo of slaves. In his third annual message, on December 19, 1859, President Bu chanan again discussed the importation of. these slaves and tbe whole slave question at length. The Importation of African slaves into the United States had been strictly forbidden by ; the act of congress of March. 1807,. and for nearly 60 year's there - was very little "blackbird in done to th United States. Aouga slaves were " imported -to - Cuba Bt large nambera," .. -.; -p; ff ''.-? . . Uncle Jeff Snow Says; 1 If this bunch of world statesmen and highbrows that's a-goln' le git together at Washington to talk over how alow to go at rejucin armies and navies doea their eonfabulatin behind, closed doors they'll git through that much quicker, 'cause if they've got to hold secret ses sion on th sly to decide .what, to de cide in open sessions .fer, the reporters to report, why, then, it's a-gotn to take double time. The idee that them fel lers is a-goin to confess their tans right out in open meetln. like folk done at the old-time revivals, Is too fur off the track to ever git back to normal. t A5 WISE GIRL - ' . ',-Tim j imla4ra-n Agc-Harald, ; ' Well. my dear," said the brisk trav eling 'man, "are you dreaming of being a motion picture star some dayT" 1 "NoV replied the fair waitress. "And you needn't try to pun that old gag about being a motion picture scout . It wont get you. your ham. and eggs minute sooner." ' " ' , ; The, Oregon ICountry Sorts west Taayeaaa is Brief, germ tot the , Baay Bead - j ; i - OREGON ,.ti - , Ninety-six'' students from Clackamas . county are enroled at Oregon Agricul- tural college . - -5, , ? An annls exhihltlnn tfiat- wt1 In all the Rerun river vaii win H bald ; at Mcdford some time this month. . Harold Shortrlrl mat- Ma rtaatS ef- -V Marshfield Tuesday when" he was run , over by a truck, his Skull being oruahed. The tonnage of walnuts in' Oregon to Increasing each year. This year 60Q tone ? wiU be produced in the Willamette vai- ley, iy''---?:'r - : .i" .,s .-r-. x - R. W Cook ! a flew TtanA ma . .: oe nouned that his application for a - wan unaer we v ona war veteran, aid bUl ha been accepted. - . Announcement Is made that that hnm. offices of the California-Oregon Power, company will be moved at an early date iiu oauxraaoBco to Aaeaxoru.-,. "There are about TOO ei -service men In Wasco county. About 60 have already -, filed their application for honu IS of these aaking for the cash bonus. , itxty-tnre carloads of car material and 1,000.000 feet of lumber have been piacea aooara the steamer Montague at the Astoria docks for ehipment to China. A depth Of I47S feet has been raarthd by the drUl In the Lower Columbia Oil Gas company'8well near Astoria, the ' showing of gas becoming stronger each day. , -. -. Crook county dairvmen whn rwnirt PUTchaaed two carloads of Jersey cattle in Linn county were so well pleased that they are seeking four additional car- ' The Farmers " Elevator- rrwrmen-r at Condon has begun sacking the 95,000 pusneis or. wneai aumpea on tne ground, recently by the collapse of the ware house. , . Mr. and Mrs. George B, Seeley have Just celebrated their fiftieth wedding an niversary at WilsonvUle. where they were marnea. jaore taan zug relatives were present WASHINGTON C V. Sprague, formerly of Eugene, Or., was killed Saturday in a motorcy cle crash near Tacome, The consolidated tax levy at Spokane for the comma; year will be t.? miila, aa against 6 mills this year. Of the 3100,000 needed for oonstruction of the addition to the state armory at Spokane, only 911,500 remains to be raised. . , .. ' , The nit Waahinrten lerlalarrrr. wffl be called upon for an additional 91,600, 000 to meet all bonus claims of ex service men. - Reese B. Brown of the Yakima res ervation has sold his 120-acre ranch to the Pacific Northwest Investment so ciety for 398.000. . . Because coclrroeche were found In the V dining room and kitchen, the proprietor of the Palace Ranches hotel at Prosser was fined 999 and costs, Enlisted men of Vancouver barracks ' will receive money instead of having their clothing issued in the future, each man being given 930.60 quarterly. 1 moves tnrew a stone tnrougn ue dis play window of Syman s Jewelry store -at Tecoma and escaped with several thousand dollars' worth ot 'watches. The election whleh decided whether' there should be a high school In Vader . next year resulted in a vol of 81 to 30 in favor of an additional 10-mUl tax. - Of the 6,000.000 bushels ot wheat raised this year in Walla Walla county 8,000.000 have been sold, the remainder being held In warehouses awaiting a 31 net mar ket Fire which broke out at the Naehes high school at Yakima did several thou sand dollars damage and forced many of the teachers -and pupils to Jump from the upper rooms. The orphans home ef the Norwegian Lutheran church is to be removed from its present location at Periand in Pierce county to th Columbia- college build- lnga at-ttveru. .- . -.(,..-. m : While ta- the r act of prayer in -the Nasarene church at Garfield, Mrs.- Wil liam Dulling, (4 years old. dropped dead in the arms of her mother, 83, who was praying beside her. - IDAHO A drive is on in the state of "Idaho to increase the membership of tbe Farm Bureau federation to 20.000. . Seven carloads ot prunes from e 10 acre orchard is the record claimed by P. N. Quest, a Caldwell merchant Attendance at the Idaho state fair last week exceeded by 100 per cent the at tendance at any former exhibition. ' Funeral services were held Friday at" Soda Springs for Albert V. Van Fleet, who was killed la the Argonne forest October 12. 1118. Since July 1. ZZ39 oars or potatoes. zis Cars of prunes, 636 cars of apples and 10 ears each of butter and cheese have been shipped from the Nampa section. ; Idaho has won the huge silver cup offered by the National Tuberculosis as sociation to the state which excels in health crusade work among school chil dren, , . The receiver of the defunct Grange vUle Savings A Trust bank has issued a statement showing 810.829 cash on hand after paying depositors 80 per cent. All trust funds have been paid.-, 1 The body of 'Private Richard Boyen ger, overseas soldier, 84 year old, was buried et Bote Sunday. Boyenger wa in th service only three month when be received his death wound at tbe Ar gonne offensive. Louis Kuhn. a resident of the Coeor d'Alenes since 188. and nia orotner, Charles. Kuhn, connected with the Field Museum or. .natural misiotj i aitagw, met at Wallace last week for the first time In 47 years. What Like Best V In The Journal WILLIAM FARRE. Burns. Or. The Journal brings the ' news to Burns 24 hours soon- f er than any other metropoli tan daily and it is reliable. MRS. CLARA VELIAj ", Burns, Or.1 The fairness of general news, markets and r the editorials. , MRS. J. M. X ALTON, ; - Burns, Or. News and edl ' torials.," t:: ETTA GILBERT, Burn Or. Editorials are fine. News is bandied fairly; ,. - MRS. R. E. YOUNT. 28 ' Cleveland avenue It clean ness. I turn first to Fred Lockley's articles, . E,!L. MILLS. 211 East Eleventh etreet-r-Th general news and advertisements. W. O. MYERS, ,175 East Sixty-second t streeCf have been a readerof The' Journal for 16 years and have not tired, !y of it yet- like The Journal . -' for it strong personality. X -find special -interest in the . general ttewavp 'kX ' MRS. 0, SEICH, tier Sacra . mento street- In 16 years of ', reading The Journal X have - . found It straightforward, t never wavering. ' Th general - ' news is. always reliable. The comments on "What I Like Best in The Journal are like small personal chats between the newspaper and Us readers, In prder to publish opinions it Is necessary to include - name and address. .