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A RAILROAD STRIKE?
TN BRIEF, here ia the issue be
A tween ,the railroad managers and
railroad brotherhoods.
'July 1 a 12 per. cent wage cut
by the Railroad Labor Board went
into effect. It takes $400,000,000 a
year out of j.he pockets -of the em
, ployes and puts it into the pockets of
the railroads. , ,
( In addition, by a revision of a part
!. of the working rules, the roads are
given "many millions f dollars"
taken from the wages of the workers,
' according to the statement of Ben
TV, Hooper of tb,u1hlifc5Jffroup of
"the s Railroad Labor Board. 'The
JsBiioiuu ruice iiiit&va iar.(uiai cut
.30 to 40 per cent.-- y, :."
j i " In spite of these wage cuts, th
Ifrailroads made no cut in rail rates.
j (Though the rates were the highest
ever Known, so nign indeed that the
movement of traffic was discouraged,
the railroad managers made no sug
gestion of a rate cut.
; ' Now. with a clamor insistent all
?over me country ior reductions la
rail rates, the railroad managers
have served notice on the brother-
j 'hoods that they will ask for a further
1 jcut of 10 pe cent . in wages, and
! (that if it is granted, they will reduce
"prates.
: Though protesting, the Jbrother
jhoods accepted the 12 per cent cut
jand continued work. They declared
1 'at the time that if they accepted that
demand furfter wage reduction.
Because ' both they and tbW public
expected, that'.the, original 12 per
cent wage cu would be followed by
a cut in rates that would help lower
the cost of living - and . stimulate
business, and because the " railroads
pocketed all the 'profits without re
ducing' rates, the brotherhoods are
now resisting a proposed further cut
of 10 per cent in their wages. This
is the point which has been reached
In the controversy which threatens
to 'tie up the country in a disastrous
strike.
.'The statement of the-public group
in the Railroad Labor Board says if
is the duty of the railroad managers
ttO ShOW CTOOd faith hv rniliiilnr nt
J through which the public! will get
1 1 tna ocnein. oi ue original i z per
jcent wage cut And that Is the exact
view that the country will take. The
S400.000.000 actual caving in wages
and the added"many millions" saved
by revision ofy working rules trans
late into reduced railroad rates
would help rerrfcw the shipment of
lumber! would encourage the ship
ment of agricultural products, would
have a salutary effect upon econom
ic conditions.
' Railroad investment is no better
than agricultural investment.- There
is no reason, when all the rest of the
country is pocketing losses, why the
railroads should be carefully pro
tected from all losses. In no event is
It just to expect that the brunt of
rate reductions be borne by work
ers whose occupation", is hazardous,
whose time of aerdee is-limited, and
on whom the company's; exactions as
to eyesight and other physics,! re
quirements make a job on the roads
always precarious a&d early termi
nated by advancing- age. I. V
' ; The contention " of t the Railroad
Labor Board that the roads should
nat rates to match he original 12
per cent reductidd v, and withdraw
any proposed further cut in wages,
is sound. '1 ' '
An appeal by President Hibben to
Princeton "undergraduates to take a
"firm stand for. disarmament'!, has
I led to the Invitation to 100 -Eastern)
colleges to. snd delegates to a dise
armament conference to be held at
Princeton, October 26. ' There Is one
process by which the American peo
ple . can. require, the. conference ; to
reach agreement on. limitation of
armaments. ' , Princeton"' Is - 'pointing
the., way. . , ' . ' .
THOSE GOOD OLD DATS
THERE 'was' a. time, when police
men were poU5emeiu: whe!C.rob
bers merely ' pushed : revolvers into
the faces of victims before- robbing
them. In those days, before police
men became: politicians, it was. more
or less important that the profes
sional ' crooks - work rapidly. - But
since the era of policemen-clerks,
policemen - Janitors and policemen
politicians, the robbing industry" has
advanced to the ' point .where . the
criminal fraternity deftly chloro
forms the entire family, including
the watch dog, and thereafter works
in peace. .. . -.. . '' ;;,
-That was done in Portland Satur-
day night. After the occupants' of
the house were safely chloroformed, i
everything was easy; the burglars
bundled up what loot they " wanted
and went their way to peace,' Who
knows who will be chloroformed
IuvKaiv vnov Kb tYi rtATf tyir
Rim at any time except, of course.
the police. The robbers apparently
Relieve It is unnecessary to chloro
form them. ,
But then, how can the police be
expected to block the operations of
the . chloroformers? Don't those
desks down at Second and Oak' have
to be manned? Isn't It necessary
that the police building attendants
keep the building as a building
should be kept? Isn't it necessary
that -policemen-clerks do the 'clerk
ing? And how could police politicians
put another police officer in the
hole if they had to spend their time
keeping the public from being chlo
roformed? The big annual conference of the
BOy Scouts of the Nortfiwest begins
sessions in Portland today. The or
ganization is ijerhaps the finest boy
movement ever inaugurated. It is a
character trainer and a manhood
maker. An episode of recent his
tory was a Boy -Scout pleading with
his mother to stop smoking cigar
ettes. If every youngster in Amer
ica passed his boyhood in the Boy
Scout organization, juvenile courts
would have less to do and reform
schools would have fewer inmates.
And citizenship in the next genera
tion would be on a higher standard.
IN OTHER DAYS
PERHAPS some day an improved
American - taste will demand a
revival of comic opera. "Robin
Hood," as given last week at the
Heilig, is a delightful augury of con
ditions to be, if that revival comes.
Song in its purity, chorus in Its rip
pling harmony and ripping changes;
music worth the interest of the mil-1
nons; iun as; ciean as numan mind i
can make It, made an evening free
from, the shoddy and . tinsel with
which so many amusements are of
late loaded down.
There was a golden day when light
opera had its triumphs and its as
cendency. Those were days of fewer
crimes and hangings and murders
and less flouted law and human hate.
Perhaps in the shifting currents and
movements of life there will again
come a taste for the gentler and love
lier stage productions, from which
purer inspiration may be drawn and
through which men and women may
be soothed by song and sound Into
the genuine harmonies of existence.
Not in a long time has "Robin
Hood" meant so much in its beauty.
and never so much in the quality of
its presentation.
Wanderlust led "Biddy,"-' a Texas
hen, to perch on the trucks of a Pull
man sleeper .and journey 600 miles
to Sedalia,' Missouri. Whenever the
train r stopped en ' route "Biddy"
hopped off the trueks to stretch her
self and pick up a bit of food and
hopped on again when it started. At
Sedalia a brakeman killed her and
there perished with her; the secret of
what clime or country she sought to
visit She deserved a better fate.
QUITTING THE CABINET?
T3UMORS that Secretary Mellon. Is
to resign are not surprising.' "
The treasury head came to Wash
ington schooled to manage big busi
nesses in a bueiness way. He had
been the active head of several co
lossal enterprises. He had reported
to his various boards of directors and
been aided and sustained in his proj
ects. - -. ":.--. V::. 'S
But the mind does hot recall any
Instance where he has been - sus
tained by congress. He has gone be
fore committees and reported on the
status of finances. He has asked for
authority to fund . debts. He has
made recommendations and asked
cooperation.
. Congress has sent him back for
further reports. He has been refused
authority to act recommenda
tions have been cast aside like chaff.
He has been given nothing he H
quested. Treated like the office boy
ofi congress, the man who is suppos
edly the financier of the administra
tion has been gracefully but rapidly
pushed into a position of impotency.
And on top of congress treatment
oi me treasury head, President
Harding himself has finally deserted
him in the matter of foreign loans
Dy cowing to the demands of the leg-
wiaave committee.
a Of course, Mr.. Mellon has made
some proposals that, translated into
taw, would be a load for the party to
carry in the next election. He Is a
little awkward as a politician. His
training was . not obtained in that
school.
Perhaps the secretary will stay-at
his post. But his resignation would
occasion neither' surprise nor criti
cism of the secretary of the" treasury.
A GREAT VISION
AMERICA-is' face to face , with a
7 tremendous business .'depresadon.
The; arms conference is iii the offings
We have shlpplne? problems. .We
havef pem ployment? J., We are" about
to experience a general strike among
railway, employeij are
in trouble. European markets are
in; a bad' way. Taiea are tremen
dous.; We can't collect European
tlebts. :People ar$ starvfng In vyarl
ous countries, ; No way has been
evolved to stop war. , - -
vj: Never was there a time when' there
was such a. demand for statesmanship
at the national capital. Never was
there a time when great deeds were
more In demand from a government.
Never was there a time when presi
dents, cabinet officers, congressmen
and , senators could render greater
service td ; their country and the
world. Never was there a time when
there was more .opportunity for bif,
wholesome and beneficial service by
men In Washington.' Never was the
world' in more pressing need of big
men and big thoughts. "1 f
But, i the face of all the work to
be done, all; the tremendous tasks
and problems with which the gov
ernment ia faced, and all the demand
for statesmanship, here comes Sen
ator Elkins of West Virginia, spend
ing his time and the time of pothers
at Washington, demanding that all
Democrats be, speedily ejected from
government Jobs and 'Republicans re
place them. vvThat;is indeed a ' lefty
vision of what -is needed to put a
crippled world back on its feet. tf
It is no wonder that a prominent
government official, when he learned
that Senator Elkins was to accom
pany the president on a trip to Flor
ida,, remarked: N :?
"The president apparently desires
mental relaxation."
All Portland churches are reported
crowded as a . result of the iGo-toi
Church movement for last Sunday.
While the spell Is on, it would be a
good thing to make every Sunday
a go-to-church day.
BRINGING BACK YOUTH
AI'AIRYLAND of science Is opened
by the properties of radium, ac
cording to an address before the Con
vention of Therapeutics by Dr. E?
Stillman Bailey of Chicago. -j'
That it will prolong human life if
taken internally is one of his clalmi
The renewed youth of men working
in the uranium mines of Colorado at
tracted attention and led to inVestiga
tions. "During the "flu" epidemic; it
was noticed that these workers were
Immune, according to "tr. Bailey.
Rheumatism, gout and neuritis were
unknown. It was concluded after In
vestigatlon that the results among
the mine operatives were to "Be t-
tributed to the drinking : of wateH
charged with radium.- ' -
"Nothing short dt marvelous" was
Dr. Bailey's description of the re
sults among people who took inter
nally tablets made by radium 'rays
caught in sugar and milk. - These
tablets prevent the hardening of
arteries, and acute pains are made
to disappear as if by magic. Jaded
appetites become keen again and red
corpuscles increase 250,000 within 48
hours after the treatment
The possibilities of radium as a
blood remedy, tonic and for other
uses, Dr. Bailey Insisted, are still un
dreamed of. Announcements of cur
atives are of ten. premature and the
arleged discovery frequently falls to
materialize. The claims of this
scientist are almost beyond belief, but
they are from one of the foremost
authorities on radium and were
made before a highly reputable body
of medical' raen.
People generally,' and especially
farmers, are. compelled to agree with
an eastern philosopher who has
enunciated the doctrine that in these
days the only pig that is profitable
is the blind pig.
ACCOUNTING FOR CHARITY
rpHERE was a time when the cost
of collecting funds for charity in
this city ranged from $16 to $35 of
every $100 given for the benefit of
the needy.' The Community Chest
report shows that the cost7 of secur
ing the fund for 36 beneficiaries in
a single drive was $4 of every $100
or 4 per cent
The subsequent cost of .adminis
tering the chest, L e.. presiding -over
and supervising the disbursement f of
funds, is ' 90 cents of each $100 col
lected. , 'i I
The total cost of the Community
Chest to Portland's fund for charity
is .less than one-third of what was
once considered a minimum charge
for collection only. ; t
i An , even more valuable contribu
tion to. the convenience of the citj Is
the fact that since the advent of Ihe
Community Chest the dally and
weekly drives for promiscuous pur
posea have been abandoned la favor
of the concerted, united : mthod-'f
securing-. funds. ' Tag days, oncsa
frequent irritant have become little
more than a memory. : Hard, headed
business men have accepted responsi
bility for financing and keeping tlfe
cash book of this city's benevolences.
-From ain the beneficiary -prganf
ixations In return have ome testi
mony that they have been well and
satisfactorily served. Of $5 9.34,
net,, in pledges, 1314,737 has been
collected, $288,434 has been paid; to
beneficiaries, $7.61 is the balance
in bank and $14,(56 is the amovnt
yet to- be collected. . ; 4 t
. Portland never . had.- before . such
accounting or such accountability in
connection with its contributions! to
charity. The Community- Chest is
I Justifying itself. -,7. ?
PAINFUL SURPRISE
TOR MR:: HAKDING
Having; Converted the 1 Disarmament
. Conference Into Something V Vastly
- Different . From 'Its Qrienal Pur- -'
; pose, He .Finds the People De-
j i mending Results Just the Same v '
-Original 3 Proposal pimple
s and ; Practical, in Contrast
With Harding . Program, -
-. From the New York World.
To a Brooklyn 'woman who wrote" to
Mr. Harding asking him what he" meant
by-"reasonable limitation on armament"
the president replies that, "by reasonable
limitation I mean ' something practical
that there.. s a chance, to accompUah.",;
But, what doea the. president mean: by
"something practical that ..there is - a
chance to accomplish"? We agree With
him that ."universal disarmament would
be beyond the hope of realisation,!; but
he must have a definite plan or pro
gram or formula in mind; -and -it was
that which his Brooklyn correspondent
was' undoubtedly i seeking "ia ascertain.
Mr. Harding's letter leaves her aa com
pletely in the. dark aa she was before.
.The administration's disarmament ef
forts at present seem to : be directed
mainly to warning the country against
expecting too much from the conference
that Mr. Harding has called. The state
department scolds the correspondents
for referring to Jt as a' disarmament con
ference and tells, them to call it a con
ference for the limitation of arma
ments. The White .House3 beseeches
them, not to let the - American people
think the conference wilL fulfill their
hopes and informs them thai such hopes
are highly reprehensible anyway. Sen
ators who stand high in the councils of
the administration are as cynical as
German junkers in regard to '.every Spe
cific proposal to end competitive arma
ment From time to time one of the
administration's inspired press agents
takes his typewriter in hand and permits
the populace to know that the president
is discouraging public1 expectations only
in order to provide a -fuller measure of
national gratification when the work
of the conference is finished.
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In the meantime nobody has ever been
able to find out ' the administration's
own views on the limitation of arma
ment or to ascertain what the president
has in mind when he talks, about "some
thing practical." What is practical to
one man may seem wholly unpractical
to another, and the administration never
ventures to say what the country has
a right to expect from the conference. .'-
Presumably Mr. Harding himself does-
not know what the country ought to
eXpect or what he ought to expect. Hav
ing made the issue of armament subor
dinate to the questions of the Pacific
and the Far East, all expectations must
necessarily be vague. They might have
been very definite and specific, how
ever, if the president had adhered to
the Borah resolution. Here was some
thing wholly "practical," something that
there was "a chance to accomDliah."
Instead of taking it, Mr. Harding fought
it until he saw that he .was "beaten and.
then proposed a wholly different kind
of conference." '
It would not have been difficult to
bring the United States. Great Britain
and . Japan into an agreement to.- sus
pend their riaval building programs for
a period-; of five years. .' In those iye
years much, could .have been settled in
regard to the Pacific and the Far East
and it is. safe to predict that at the end
Of five years none of the peoples con
cerned would have permitted its gov
ernment to resume tne race for sea
supremacy. Competitive armament would
have been dead in respect to navies,
and something very practical would have
been accomplished.' -
Had Mr. -Harding' adopted -the Borah
plan the country's expectations would
have been limited to the possibilities of
the Borah plan.. Having dragged every
thing into the conference that could be
dragged in, including his mythical as
sociation of nations, the . president is
now astonished to find that people have
been taking himtserioualy. aqd are-dis
posed to hold him to a strict responsi
bility. : ; - :- ..
Gctpber
From the Spokane Spokesman Review
October is a-fine month, almost any
where, but residents of. the Inland Em
pire ot.tne jr-acinc ivoruiwest nave more
uian a mu jiuuncsuon ior Believing
that the beauties of Indian summer, its
special qualities oi Bereneness ana mel
lowness, are somewhat more generously
given here -than in other regionsr It is a
splendidly even-tempered season, sum
ming up" in a few weeks all the virtues
of a climate that habitually does' things
in moderation.
- The fineness of our autumns we owe
largely to the startling richness of their
color effects. Lacking though we do the
flaming glory that the fall brings to
countries where the maple and the oak
predominate, there is still a warmth of
color that harmonizes exactly with the
warmth of the sunny days. The fields
and hillsides appear a rich golden
bronxe, made, doubly rich by contrast
With the somber verdancy of the ever
greens. The sunshine of this time of
year has a strangely intensifying effect
on the natural color scheme,., softening
it and bringing out admirably the deeper
tones. -
But our October stimulates more than
the vision. The air we breathe is Vintage
stuff. It is dry and tingling, with an
inimitable bouquet. It makes outdoor
living a positive necessity, long walks
a perpetual temptation, restful sleep a
matter of course. Doubtless nature
might have provided a more exhilarating
atmosphere, - but doubtless nature never
did. - ' '
Neither Is our autumn at its best a
brief and niggardly season. It comes
and. it stays for weeks of golden com
fort between; the heat, of summer and
the dampness and chill of winter. These
are days to be slowly savored, to be enjoyed-deliberately,'
letting no morsel of
their delight. escape.
, Uncle, Jeff Snow Says,
Down to Gresham a few bench whit-
kici m tuiu mxij MuuiSTsu.wucu lie wauyd
sown were touier uay mat mey a git in
and. boost like all creation if It wasn't
that they're, dead sure if can't be done,
the hitcbin' .of Gresham on one aide of
the .1923 fair and Portland on t'other.
Eiry told 'em that tin early days him
and Cap. Jim Kelley, now-of Monta villa,
went a-bear hun tin along about 52, and
Ezry thought he couldn't climb a tree
if a bear ever got after, him ; but when
a bear did roller 'en tollable lively be
shinned - up a- tree like -a chipmunk.
Ezry orated to v bunch of the Gresham
woe prophets till he got so all-fired dry
he struck ont fer.a glass of cider and
come home a-singin" -Glory - Hallelu
yer !" about .midnight, to the . mortifyin
of all his trran children. ;- -, .-: ' i
. CANT GET. BY ALWAYS
Frost the-Terra Haute Stay.'., v;.,
' The Infant may function as a tax ex
emption for a number of years, but 'the
government will take.it out of him when
he grows up ( - ..."
Letters From the People
immoiuin m uur wiriiwri i iifc- i . mm wrswa
ea only dm aid of the paper; should ant exceed
0- words ia kwctk, aad moat be named by thA
i ; "BE, IT REPKXLEO.1'
Toe Much Law,: Too Little Free Human
- - Will.' la Asserted. .- t e-i
Wilder, Idaho, Octao. To The Edi
tor of The Journal, As I read your
comment on the ' statement ' of Judge
Grant -of the probate court of Boston on
the drift of the increase of divorces, the
applicants for which are mostly women.
I could not but think that the increased
earnings of women cause the desire for
independence and maybe an aversion to
home life and its cares and dutiea Bat
wha shall we do about this? ; Surety
not to ask for more prohibition, the ab
rogation of divorcev I am one of those
unfortunates ' who sued for a divorce.
Whom did I wrong in obtaining ' a legal
separation from the woman who did not
want me, and left me? What could the
law do in a case like tkis, where the
better half -was dissatisfied with home
and surroundings aad with the man?
Call . the sheriff and bring her back?
Handcuff her or hobble her to keep- her
from going away? . Have her" arrested
for desertion? -' Sue for alimony? Non
sense t' What is the tie that binds?.' Is
it . Use marriage license or thav wedding
ceremony?- I hold that the only tie is
love. When this is -lacking the result
can only.be disastrous and end in a
separation, regardless of all law or cere
mony. And why should I . hesitate to
give 'the freedom which the wife wanted,
seeing that I could not 'win her love?
Whom ,. did If harm? Whom did sbrl
narm 7 is one but L " - And should I-let
her drift around until she found some
one to urge her to make up a cruelty
charge ' and sue for -divorce and ali
mony? - Why cause Strife and bitter
ness? X gave her what she desired, and
t am taking ray . medicine.
I can not account for this wave of in
tolerance this -"verboten" mania. What
good can such waves do? We can-not
make the lasy Industrious, the cruel
kind, or the intemperate temperate, by
law. 'These 'desires come from within.
No ' prohibition -; law : can make ' people
temperate. Law - can only punish, in
terfere, destroyj It can create nothing
except legalised monopolies.
The courses is "about-face." "Be it
repealed that 4s' the road to freedom
and equality. The equal right to life.
liberty and the pursuit of happiness
that is the golden rule. Let's have our
laws square up with this. Remove the
legal restraints on the freedom: to trade,
to swap, -to produce, -to make and to
own all that one produces. Give all
mankind an equal' right to the use of
the earth, as God. intended not a pur
chaseable - right. Unnecessary legisla
tion is unjust legislation.
,"Be . it repealed" , should be our aim
until we have that freedom, the right to
do as I please provided" I interfere not
with your right to do as you please,
which is' so clearly expressed in our.
Declaration of dependence. Let us fol
low that, and not ba led off into a wil-r
derness. of legal barriers, ; restrictions
and obstructions. G. M. Paulsen. .
AGREES AS TO NEWBERRY
But Disagrees With The Journal as to
. Another Historic Matter.
Susanvine,"Oct 10. To . the Editor of
The Journal 1 hereby tender sincere
thanks for the editorials on Truman H.
Newberry and those who are dlUgently
smearing him with whitewash. You
have led several much-needed i reforms
to successful issues, land ' I . hope you
will succeed in making -congress a re
spectable body of legislators; at pres
ent it is not. X ,few individual members
may retain their self-respect. , but it is
hard to believe even that much! -f 'Show
me the company you keep and: I'll tll
you who you are,", haa been -trust cf the
human race since time began, and will
continue to be true 'as long as time
lasts. And when senators and congress
men not only- associate with convicted
criminals, but whitewash them, we may
put all of them in the criminal class..
Oh, the colossal effrontery, utter shame,
and unmitigated disgrace of It!
The -election In New Mexico simply
shows that the- tide of demoralization is
sUU rising... But that is an indorse
ment of the Harding administration.
But as. I have told yon before, I do
not Ijke your editorials when they deal
with history You-write according to
the light; you have, doubtless, but that
light -is derived from the bitterly sec
tional stuff that has been taught in the
schools of . the -United States for more
than half a century. I inclose an ex
cerpt from an editorial in The Journal
of October 7 and quote some recorded
facta, that .'show, the Confederate war
was not fought to free the negroes.
Lincoln said ( "If 1 could preserve the
Union without freeing any slaves, I
would 'do it; if I could preserve the
Union by .freeing all the slaves, I would
do it Whatever Ido about the colored
race, I do because I think it helps to save
the Union." On September 22, 1862.
Lincoln issued an emancipation procla
mation, to take effect January 1, 1863,
"unless the Confederate states should
return to the Union by that date." i
- Now refer to the records, and , find the
above and many other things of like
Import are spread thereon. ,
Betty Smyer.-
TJNEMPLOYMENT CONSIDERED
With Remarks " Concerning Shipping
Board Ships and Military Burdens.
Portland, Oct. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal The unemployment com
mittee has surely made .seme brilliant
suggestions, among which is that labor
value and material value should be re
duced. . That means the landlord gets
more and is thus -enabled to, shut - out
more labor by idle-land speculation. But
the next suggestion is like unto the
above : namely : . "Suggestion of the
breaking up of the ahlpping -board's
wooden ships, aa a means of providing
work." An American magazine recently
contained the following : V"An Associat
ed Press dispatch-- dated Washington,
which : appeared in, the daily papers of
Monday, August 22r carried the following
information : Bids . of 82100 each for
the 205 wooden ships, submitted .by the
Ship Construction and Trading Corpora
tion of New York, have been accepted
by the shipping board. -.Under its (con
tract) terms the board will receive-15
per cent .of the total, sale price of
$430,600 in cash, and a pro rata portion
of the balance on delivery of each vesseL
The vessels cost the board from $300,000
to $800,000 each." . - C it r
In. another reliable American fraaga
slne appears the following item : Today
this enforced disarmament is seen to be
the salvation of the German people.' The
load of militarism that had deformed a
nation in body aad soul through the long
years has been transferred to the backs
of - America and the allies. Of all the
great- powers, only Germany is permit
ted to concentrate her energies, and re
sources on - productive activities' '- '.'
The American people do not generally
know that the shipping board haa been
making ships since - tb armistice - was
signed and is stilL making them- and
junking ' them i and that ' our- pohcy of
preparedness costs us now more by half
than the - war indemnity" Germany ' is
paying .the allies. . And: still we fill 'up
on "bootleg" and step on the gaa and
run over more children every year than
there were American- soldiers killed in
the late war; .Who wen the warT .
. J. B, Hermann. -
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ALL THAT GOES UP STAYS UP -
- Tram the WaahinaiBBL rtmt S X
1- No new homes have gone np because
gasoune cid
COMMENT AND
'l l SMALL CHANGE ' : ;
Poverty is absolute when there's not
enough money in sight to buy gaa for .
the final VicW-off. - y ,
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The rr isv after all. a beautiful thing,
for it usually indicates a royal brand of
sunshine to follow. -, , . , - i -
-Among the many good works of the
BibltT its service hi laying out a burglar
probably will be unique... - , - .
Now that the tourist season is over
the only Inconvenience of a rail strike
will be the possibility of starvation. -: i.
? If Mr. i Crow - Is given .a seat In the
senate newspaper .-paragraphers will
have fresh food, for a thousand lines. ; t.
- It la' nalff : that '-' Tinfhin. U ' all
the world so sweet as love's vounr
dream except thdream of love that
is aged. and gray...;r j r ,.;v. .
- Charlie Chaplin proclaims' the French
girls he met overseas aa -"more obvious."
Yes. wed dlscovereithat in following
MORE OR LESS PERSCfNAL
Random Observations About Town
1 "Dm" Holton tf Warren, Idaho, ia a
guest of the Pexaina. . "I am in j the
mining game." said Mr. Holton. "I
like to get back to Oregon, for It. is my
birthplace. My father Dr. D. 8 Holton.
came to Oregon In H52. He went from
Portland to the Jacksonville mines In
1853. In 1855 and 1S56 he served as a
surgeon in-the Rogue River , war. V He
also served in the Civil war as a sur
geon and was stationed at Boise in 1863. '1
I was born in Kerbyvflle, October 6
I860. - I lived in Portland 20. years. I:
used to have charge of the Perkins hotel
barroom. Later I ran the Pantheon and
still later the Lumberman's Bank cafe.
The old time saloonkeepers have become
restaurant keepers, hotelmen. farmers
and mining men. We wouldn't have had
the nerve to try to sell what the boot-J
leggers t.are palming off as liquor in
these ; eighteenth amendment - days. A
man is a fool . tot take a chance .with
the. home, brew, moonshine and other
decoctions they are selling nowadays.
Fusel oil, wood alcohol and all sorts of
dangerous ingredients go to the making
of the present bootleg liquor."
Webster Holmes, well knewn attorney
of Tillamook but formerly a resident of
the CaplUI City, is in Portland on busi
ness,;
' J. H. Walker. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Mc
Neil and Mr. and : Mra A W. Stone of
Astoria are guests of the Multnomah.
Dr.; A "" C . McCowan ' of. Union is in
Portland to meet lus fellow practition
ers.. i . -
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S. B. Crouch of Roseburg is registered
at the Portland.
F. F. Williams of Eugene is registered
at the Seward.
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D. K. Nebergall of Albany is transact
ing business in Portland.
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'.Mr;' and Mrs. W. P. Fell of Eugene are
Portland visitors.
4 Gladys McCourt of Albany is a guest
of the Hotel Portland.
W. G. Smith of Medford is a Portland
visitor,
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A J. Derb-of Hood River is transact
ing business in Portland.
e '
G. C. Burke of The Dalles is at the
Seward. , .,
.OBSERVATIONS - ANDTIMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
( Mr. LocUey quotes tbauch. f roune, not with
approral the narritiTe of a man who has lived
by hii wits, thoosh lie himself admit that
"eaSy way',' Are not ao-euy in the long run. J
A. Turtledove lives at Vancouver. He
and his son Dave own the Detrick fur
niture store. A day or so ago while I
was passing the time of day with -Mr.
Turtledove I noticed a man with a poker
face sitting beside the stove. I watched
him out of the corner of my eye while
Mr. Turtledove was showing me a letter,
from the late Dr. Tilser in which he had!
enclosed a check for $50 lor the noma
for orphaned Jewish children. ''Yes,
sir." said Mr. Turtledove; "Dr. Tilser
didn't always tell his light hand when
his left hand gave to the needy. - Too
bad you did nt write an article about
him. My boy Dave can give you a good
story, r When hewasln France he made
a collection of coins. , He met soldiers
from all over the world and he got hold
of some valuable coina" - ,
Turning to the man with" the poker
face he -said, "Meet my friend-Fred
Lockley. He will put you in the paper.'
Sitting down beside my new acquaint
ance I said, '"I didn't catch your name."
He smiled a quizzical - smile and : said,
' If you. are going to put me in the pa
per, I reckon it's just as well you didn't
catch my name." "What doyou do for
yonr living?" I asked. 1 Mostly I do
everybody. I use my head and live by
my wits. Very . few- people really , think.
They just think they think. They go
through the motions of thinking; and un
less they meet me or someone like me
they manage to gety."
"Tell me all about yourself," I said.
"Ill leave your name out of the story
if you prefer. , Where were - you born?
From your drawl ' and . the . way you
pronounce your Vtf I Judge you were
brought up on corn pone." T was born
at sea about 10 hours out of Dublin,"
he replied. "My- father had gone over
there to take the thirty-third degree in
Masonry. : No, I am not a Mason, though
I would, give my right arm If I could
be; but-1 took something I can't give
back, and -that bars me. ' Mother, with
one child,' went .with father to Ireland.
Father, who was Irish, wanted to take
the thirty-third degree in his -home coun
try. He had to .'return to America,
while mother went to Scotland to visit
her people. He sent her, transportation
on a sailing vesseL She wanted to wait
till r was born, but there was no other
vessel sailing ior a Southern port for
some time, so she took-passage on the
American sailing vessel on which father
had 'secured passage and I was bora
under the American 'flag June 2. 172,
10 hours after we set sail from Dublin.
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T lived on our ranbh near Paris.
Texas,- till I ' was 10 years old. My
older brother and I had a fight and I
thought he took advantage ef his posi
tion as-older brother to bully me, to I
pulled my freight on a freight to West
ern Texas, where I. landed a job work
ing for my board on a cattle ranch.
After two years there X got restless and
Jumped a freight and went to New Or
leans. I slept in a park for a few days,
and while I .'didn't really miss any
meals I postponed them until several
uneaten meals had - accumulated. - A
Frenchman gave me a job wiping beer
glasses ia the SL Charles hotel at $2.50
a week and board. -
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- The St Charles in. those days was
the hangout for old seadogs from, the
seven seas.. . One of these old sea cap
tains, m German, Invited me to take 'a
trip 'with -him.: -I went to Berlin and
stayed there aa his guest several months.
In fact, X learned to speak German al
most a well as' I spoke English. ' X came
NEWS IN BRIEF
j" . y SIDELIGHTS' -
A man who Is hen-necked tries to con
ceal it, but a vonu who is rooster-
pecaeo (eua tna world. itoseourg jvewt-Review.-
. ..-v-v'..:'---' v---f
Seattle haa a' new daily paper with
$1M.OOO capital; It will take. much more
than that to make a new daily succeed.
Pendleton East Oregonian. ,
School affairs seem to have reached
a stage 'in which there should be atlll
another demonstration, that is, one out
In the woodshed with father a' ' the
demonstrator. tsena uuuetin.
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A learned Eui jpean professor has lust
discovered a race of people, In Sumatra
who can' neither lie nor -steal. Naturally,
they have hitherto remained in almost
prehistoric -obscurity among modern na
tions. Sherman "County Observer, . .
In. Klamath : Falls when the kingpin
bootlegger gets in Jail some kind friend
saws the bars and lets him out But
Klamath '- Falls has not been charged
with being over its old 'wild west days
verjr iong. The Dalles Chronicle.
; J n aeelre -tor summer nomea - la so
great at ; Yakima, - Wash..; that the
United States forest service cannot sur
vey sites on the Nachcs river fast
enough to supply the. demand, says F,
H. Cleator. forest - examiner." Cleator
assisted by Ranger William Lessinger
and Forest Examiner A. A. Griffen,
00m er me Rainier national forest has
just fcomnteted thai
home sites on the N aches, applications
for which had been received previous to
the "survey. CI sa tor and Ranger Blen
kinahip also made plans for ' summer
home colonies on Lakes Ketchilus and
Kaches on the Sunset highway leading
wui oi seauie. -
; .... . . .
It, LCDDla. Who haa been kpenins- rtiiev
by the growth of Seaside, is at the Ore
gon. Mr. Lennla haa a nlumhine- utsh.
lishment in the summer resort capital of
me uregon country. .
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Among the medical men registered at
the Benson Are Dr. C. P. Higgins and
if. t. u. Oordon of Baker, and Dr.
and' Airs. C. D. Donohue of Eugene.
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Robert Johnson, former foot racer, but
now, prune king of Benton county, is
down from Corvallls.
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Mr. and Mrs. G. C, Stokes of Nye.
Umatilla county, are guests of the Mult
nomah. '
-
Mr. and Mrs. Duerden of Toledo,
county seat .Of Lincoln county, are at
the Perkins.
L. F. Seitz of Dallas is here on bust
nesa e e
Ethel SL. Wakeman of" Newport is a
guest at the Seward. . .
Mra F. M. Carter of Eugene is visit
ing friends in Portland. -
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L L. Stewart of Fossil is a. Portland
visitor. -
L A Royce of Seaside is-a Portland
visitor. ' ..
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V. L. Strong of Grants Pass is spend
ing a few' days in Portland.
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D.''E. Hunter of Bend Is a guest of
the Benson. .
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Harriet "Eckersley of Salem is regis
tered at the Benson.
r
Lockley
" " 1 - 1
back to the St Charles, where I workotd
xor me next seven years. While I was
working there I took up the study of
cnemistry ana learned to make and age
whiskey. . I could produce 10-year-old
wntskey in so days.
see
"When they built the Kansas City,
Pittsburg tt Gulf - road I hovered along
the Arkansas , and Indian Territory line,
making whiskey, from sugar and corn
at. a cost of. not. to exceed 12 cents a
gallon and selling it to the railroad sec
tion crews and railroad gangs at 12
cents a glass. There are 128 glasses of
whiskey, on an average, to a gallon, so
you can see I made big money. I made
my headquarters at Beaver Mills or
Silver Hill, and when the revenue offi
cers got too nosey I would buy a barrel
of cider, add a peck of white corn, and
80 days later I would have 100-proof
whiskey, t
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"Later I went to Oklahoma-City and
went iato the; bootlegging business in a
wholesale way. I built up a force of
19 selected men to do my bootlegging
all through that country. ' They finally
landed me and took me to Washington,
D, C, for selling liquor to Indians, manu
facturing, it without alicense and a lot
Of other charges. The charge they ex
pected to get me on was counterfeiting
a government label. I proved that the
label was not a counterfeit as it was
printed from a government die which I
bad spent a pile of money to have stolen
for my use. That charge fell through.
I made a pint of whiskey in the court
room to sustain my contention that it
was properly distHied. To make a long
story short, before I " finally got clear
it cost me all I had made, so I quit the
business n disgust and went to Mexico,
where they didn't poke into people's pri
vate affairs as they did ori this side of
the line. "-.;.:.--' --- - -
"Before long I had acquired a good
ranch, -s Oddly enough, one of my best
men was Pancho . Villa, who later cost
the United States, many millions of dol
lars trying to , catch him. - He was a
likable -chap. - His hobby was retting
Mexico for the Mexicans. He wanted to
break up the big holdings that had been
stolen, by rich American and Mexican
thieves jf rom the people, and restore the
land to the peons. I raised cattle for a
while. Then I got hold of a high grade
sliver mine. In fact I still -own a lot
of valuable property in Chihuahua and
when things settle, down I am going
back there. ' - .
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"Feel my shoulder, or at least where
my ahoulder used to be." 1 felt,' but
there was avleep indentation into which
I could put my -fist:-.: That was one of
the best surgical Jobs 1 ever saw," said
the man who had 'just been telling me
that be lived by his wits. "A man be
came annoyed at me oyer a difference of
opinion, during a dog fight and let me
have both barrels of a sawed off atiotgun
loaded.; with . buckshot ;, I managed to
draw my gun from my hip pocket after
I fell and got him through the heart as
be stood over, me. The doctor .fixed me
pp with .some silver plates and. silver
wires, and unless I attract a person's
attention to.it it is never noticed." .
He roSed up his sleeve and showed me
where 'bnr arm bad -nearly been eevered.
Across his left hand was a white ridge
from wrist .to forefinger. "I got that
grabbing a -knife that was aimed for
my heart and here was a nasty knife
wound,'' he said, as he showed me an
other-long, ugly scar. I have been shot
a good many times and cut up in lots 1
of scrimmages, but I have been lucky
In that I have never been shot or "cut in
the lace." ' 1
.The Oregon ! Gauntry , !
Northwest Uappent&m In Brief Fora tat the
' Buay aU)edea"':t-.r-;.,..-r'.'.'-. -;-.
, OREGON ; ; ' -'..
It costs ' 8154.0S as year for4 each" stu
dent in the Hubbard, high hoot
1 X nnniinemawfnl frnm .ll'aek :- e Smiles
of the -appointment, of Peter. Cook as
poatmaster at Kickrealt. ; ... ,
Land countv ttrmt rf tn
8 ion has sUrjed plana for an Armistice ;
wworauoq at jugene. -,,
A 53-pound watermelon,' grown by W.i
W. Stafford on his Mill Creek ranch, is
on exhibition at The Danes. : :
According ? to reports from Umatilla
county, coyotes are doing more damage
i oiicp ims tan man tney nave ior .
many years. ; i -.;
Ben Weathers Is . the only candidate
for the position of postmaster at tin-"
terprise. . Lebanon has seven candidates
and Newberg six. -
Three-shift production-at the Brooks
Seanlon mill at Bend, suspended a year
ago as the result of market depression,
has been resumed. ' v
CapiUed at $250,000, the Imperial
Petroleum company of Klamath Falls
has filed articles of incorporation with
the state, department.. -
The circulation of University or Ore-'
gon library books for the first six7
months of this year was 100.30;!. The
library now has a total of 10,700- vol
umes. Tnomas M. Miller of Oregon City, who
has just celebrated his eighty-second
birthday, has served as bailiff of the
Clackamas county circuit court tor II
years.
J. C. McKern, manager for the tele
phone company at Yamhill, suffered a
broken nose and other painful injuries
when a spike pole slipped and struck
him across the face.
Despondent because he was afflicted
with gangrene appendicitis, Fred Weber,
45, a prosperous dairyman of Tillamook
county, committed suicide by cutting his
throat with a piece of glass.
Mrs. Mary A. Pratt died at Beaver
ton last week, aged 89. Mrs. Pratt
crossed, the plains in 1852, riding a lit
tle mule and helping to drive, the loose
stock that followed the caravan. -
Forty-four members of" last June's
graduating class of the University of
Oregon are now teaching in Oregon, the
w-omen mostly in the high schools, and
many of the men as principals and su
perintendents. - Sealed bids will be received by the
state treasurer December 1 for $124,$2
of Oregon district interest bonds.
A a Has hiar tt Km. u-Amnn's antrll I
-- a'"-''-- "- vas w viliail KM axUAlllall J
of the Loyal Legion of Loggers and
Lumbermen has been organised at Sil
verton. . '
WASHINGTON
The total tax for Chelan county next
year will be $397,834, a reduction of
$64,000 from U21. , "
Fifty tons Of hay belonging to Wal
lace Blake on his farm near Benton
City were destroyed, by fire Monday.
Spokane county certified seed potato
growers have decided to market none of
their first-class seed for less than $120
a ton. -
. The Pasco Chamber of Commerce has
subscribed $50 to assist in the prelimi
nary survey of the proposed Umatilla
irrigation project,
H. B. Brlggs, graduate of the Univer
sity of Wisconsin, has been added to the
faculty of the" Washington State college
as an instructor in physics.
A total of S5.771 visitors, among
whom were-6985 persona living east of
the Mississippi, visited the Rainier na
tional park in the 1921 season.
The Oasis tavern, a bungalow resort
near the river east of Yakima, was de
stroyed by fire of unknown Origin a few
days ago. The loss Is $15,000.
Nile temple of the Mystic Shrine has
united with other Masonic bodies in
Seattle in indorsing the move to erect a
$1,000,000 Masonic temple In that city.
Marvin J. Dickinson. Northwest pio
neer, is dead at his home in Thornton.
Dickinson lived in Salem in the early
davabut had been a resident of Thorn- '
I ton for 51 years. ; .
Harvesting machines may again be
made in Walla Walla, the Iron works
announcing that at least 20 of the Co
burn harvesters may be made in the
company's shops this winter.
Mrs. F. G. Sutherlki of Spokane was
elected president of the Washington
division of the United Daughters of the
Confederacy at its thirteenth annual
session in Spokane last week.
Up to the close of the last blennlum
the federal government had spent $2,658,
000 on 263.4 miles of highway in the
state of Washington. This is much more
than had been given to any other state
in the union.
In an attempt to save her 3-year-old
son from being run over by a train,
Mrs. C. H. Thiemens, wife of the post
master at - Espanola, was instantly
killed when struck by a Great Northern
fast mail train.
- IDAHO ..- ,
Boise schools .have an enrollment of
300 more pupils than at this time last
year.
Farmers of the Gooding section are
threshing wheat and harvesting their
apples and potatoes. The yield this
year was far above the average. . -
Alex Lewis and Dick Jordan are under
arrest at Gooding, a large amount of
stolen -property having been found in
their possession. ;
The Gooding school board has Just
sold $60,000 of refunding bonds to take
up the outstanding warrants and indebt
edness of the district .
The Buhl high school has been placed
on the accredited list of schools by the
Northwestern association of the second
ary and higher schools.
The body of a hunter found shot to
death last Friday near Conlirr has been
identified as that of Bud Trimblln of
Sand point. Officers are searching for
two missing companions.
Early last spring . X G. Bleak was
murdered on his doorstep near Wendell.
An adopted son, Theodore,' aged 9 years,
is in the state Industrial school at St.
Anthony, having confessed that - he did -the
shooting. .
WhatllAkeBe
In the Journal
MRS. F. W. TANA, 1 8 $ 7
East Everett street The edi--i
torial page. . 4
MRS..S. W. COLLUM, Lew-
iston, Idaho The editorials.
. R. L. COLEMAN. Clarks
'' ton, Washv The editorials.
: J. A. AIKENSf La Grande ;
We - sure like the editor- ;
; ials. We would not exchange ' -The
Journal for any other .
. paper. . . - - ' :
MRS. CHARLES DE FOR
EST, -La Grand' I always"
. turn to the editorial page -.
first It is full of snap and
truth. ' : :
i - M. . J. 1IDERMOTT, Stan
,. field The sporting page. , .
; HORACE WALKER, SUn
.. field The market re porta 1-"
' H. M. BARNETT, Garden "
Home The Journal Is "there"
, - with everrthjrlet The agita-
t$bn about prices particular- x
iy Interests roe.' I have read
The .Journal, from its begin- ,'
--":ning."'.;"" S .. " -.
?:t GUT Hi , JACKSON, Kerry,-!
Or. '- The entire editorial l
v Jage, the comic stuff, the ,
general news and" oh, what's
iithe use? all of it I . -
, - -. Your opinion will be ' val
-'. ued. - Include jpame and aui ;v
. dress, when, youC wriU.-"-