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8 THE ' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON WEDNESDAY, . OCTOBER - 3, i-. ... , IT,-"- nfDEPEXDEKT KXWSPAPER ti. B. JACIS03 .:.,PnbUiher Be cahn, be confident, be - ebVerf nl and. do ante others M roe. would have jtbcen. da- mco PubUahed every " week day and Sunday -saoming t The Journal buildir.f. Broadway end Xsnv " hill street. Portland. Oregon. batered at tha postoffice at -JPertland. OreswaT for tnuanaioa through the Bail aa second - claw matter. . - TELKPHONE Main 717a. Automatic 560-il. All d-prtMpti rwcM br thena walxw. iiATlOXAi. AUVKBTWLNQ . BEPBfeSENTA- TIVE Benjamin A. Kentnor Co.. Brantwick . building, 225 Fifth, neenne.-New Xork; SO - Mallet bnildlng. Chicago. - ' .- .-' " PiTlKIO COAST REPKiSENTATIVS W. '' Baranger Co.. Exaaainar building. Ban . Fvnn- rueo: Title Insuranee. buUdana. Ut Hfnry boilding. Seattle. TBS OREGON JOURNai, toin the riant to f reject advertising copy which H deans ob jectionable, It also wlQ . cot print air- copy - that 1b any way emulates reading matter or ' that cannot' readily be recognised a . adver titng. SOBSCBliTIO 'XATKS - -A '. By Carrier. Cityarid Cwntry'-"; ' nAILT ASD i SUNDAY . i. -V Ou weak , I Ai One .wont h ....."t M One week ......t .101 One week . ..4'. .08 One month .... . .451 n BY HXiU A IX RATES PATABI-E IN AI3TASCB VAU.X inu ungual V- . On year . . ... .18.00 Three- Month. -iw, $3.11 US aeon U . . . 4.7 S DAILY (Without Sunday) Ooa vear . . to. 00 una mooin ..... SUNDAY iOahrl One year 88-66 Six swathe ... . 1"5 Three aaoaths. . . 1.00 Six moat ha .... a 251 Thr4 atootha. . . 1.75 Una sasnth ..... .SO WEEKLY WISKLT AKD rs- SUNDAY (Every Wednesday, fine year .... . .11. An Ona year ....... $S.tO Btz aontfa S01 - : Theao rate apply only In the Wat " Batea ta Xaatern oointa furBiahed oa'aODliea- rlon. Itako reaiittanoea by Moaey OrdeavExpreai Order or Draft. V-yoar poetoffice not a saoaev-order off iea 1 ' or 2-nl elxmoa will be aarAited. Make all nmttiaBce-aaablo to The Journal Publiahinf-Compaay, Portland, OneoaJ 1 Justic ia like tha kinrdom of God; tt la not without out fact, it ia within aui great yaarniag, Gaorgs Eliot. NO TAXEDUCTION1 TT IS evident that the 'taxpayer ."of small income need expect no re duction in federal; taxes., for. some time to come. .Three amendments to i the tax bill drawn to relieve the bur den on the man of small Income were defeated In the "'senate ' Mondavi Moreover, discussion- that has urged a lighter burden on the small tax payer was characterized by Senator Watson of Indiana, a member of the majority, as "irrelevant talk" s ; The portents indicate a far greater possibility of increased taxes for the wage-earner, the farmer, the profes ' slonal man and the small business ' man. The increase will be bidderf ift i a tax scheme1 which will attempt to It get the mon,ey without permitting the man of limited income to know thai he is paying taxes, but he will . pay them just the same if the present I congressional program is carried ; through. He will-"pay them ; in the increased cost of shoes, suits,, shirts, food, in higher rents and otherwise ; The taxes on the little , man, are it UKCiy tu- ue greater Decauge it ' la I t : 1 1 . . . . ii 'ii very evident.. that the taxes 6n the ;(.men and corporations of big Income -.are to be decreased, and the govewi- Iment is asking as much money for ItJiext .year as was collected this year, rp-'or the decreased taxes on the big jircomes and big profits a corre1- jsponding increase must e levied on I smaller incomea ,:v, ; - I Congress seems wedded, to that J course because it is necessary to get 3 capital back to work, and it is the 3 policy 6f the government to .get cap. jital into commercial and industrial A enterprises iagalh by encourtfging:,iti . ai uirougn .promises or pigv pronts ana 3 small taxes Instead of forcing It into : 3 useful channels by levying heavier 3 taxes on idle capital than on work' 3 lng capital, and taxes on non-tax- . jj able securities. " , f A farmer Is compelled to work for his, profits or starve. His taxes are S not lightened , to ' get him to . work. starve. His taxes are not. lightened to encourage nun. The professional ! man has to work or "Starve. No tax ! decreases are in sight to-get him to ? work. But it is proposed to bribe capital to go to work by reducing 5 taxes on capital and, eliminating the l Lax on excess nronts. lnsttarl nf mm. pelllng it to work by placing the 1 1 . . . ... t taxes wnere iney wouia lorce lt-io 3 work. Capital is the only "element i iu ' tuo cwnvuiio eiruciura uiai lue congress proposes to aid -in the tax 3 revision. And that is why Individ i uals and families of small mcome T . A -1.. A. ll. 1 ,w., tax bills- When you ".get -started 'on the 2 wrong foot it is hard to change step, 4 says a Californian, speaking with ui- - eifwieu uesiuiHBiH. ai jn r. nara to change step; the difficulty is in real- -ising that you. not the rest of hu- .manity, are out of step. ' . "T ' AN ABSENT MONARCH -THERE. Is someiiltle difference; in ' 55 A kings and the king business" in .. jt .. m w we-w oxm" awa j WVVOJ " W a ( Jing and 'cal't- kep. him out of, ihe flcountrr. Serbia raats' a Wng has a king; and.can't get him home? - When mng .Peter-died, Prince .j Alexander be!am-the, .monarch. of t Serbia. But he Jaa never worn his i,crown fo th very good reasOnthat ;?the crown was. and still is in;Beij I grade and the king; was and still' is ;Iin Paris. . . -js; . Jr. was first announced that Alex- w ander, was- a very.ilikk mart,' Jle supposedly could not return - home because of a severe attack of. ap-! pendicitia, But he has been around and about visiting official of France,' a - thins that sick men do not always do. Prominent officials of the Ser bian government have visited France and .'returned homer but Alexander remained behind-, Serbia' has been faced with serious problems, recently. - Various crises have 'come before the government. But 'Alexander has found the1 feed and sleeping. quarters excellent over in Paris. ' ' " ' Viewing the lot of some ether re cent rulers, perhaps Alexander likes the atmosphere of safety that dis tance lends. . Holding that pupils should be .given a lead and then be allowed to do ' their own thinking, a ' Kansas teacher wrote on the ' blackboard a sentence, with ' Instructions to the" pupils to add to it any thought along the wine line.7.. Here is her sentence: Do not play with matches; remem ber the Chicago fire." A small boy added to it: this sentence: "fo hot spItL remember the flood." ' WRESTLING WITH TRAFFIC "PORTLAND was wrestling with the -a- traffic problem as year ago. Portland is still wrestling - with the problem '4 ahd '.Portland .is going to wrestle with . the problem.' until the city council takes effective measures to solve It. . -There have been various proposals tor solution. Committees have made recommendations; the -police traffic department has made recommends.-j- tlonsi and various other bodies, or ganized and otherwise, have made -them. Some were adopted. A dele gation of business men came before the. council and irotested and they were -rescinded. A different proposal was then adopted, there was protest, and it was rescinded. It 14 off again, on; again, gone again Finnegan.. - ' i It will be a difficult matter to find a solution of the traffic problem that will suit everybody. There will al ways be protests.' And if every pro-j test is heedojfT there, will always be traffic problem. f Perhaps the, recent regulations were not efficacious. Perhaps they worked hardships, Perhaps , they were discriminatory. Perhaps- they. should have been , removed. But Where is .it all to end, and when is the city council going into the traffic problem wholeheartedly and work out a plan that will permit business to , go on unhampered and vehicles to i roll unimpeded through -. the streets? .When is the council going to find such a plan, establish it, and Stick to it? ' ' - --'v.- r; Portland : has' a traffic .problem that few cities are compelled to face, The thoroughfares . are narrow and the blocks short, , But there Is just so much room on the streets. How is -the space-to be utilized? The first consideration is traffic. It. must be enabled to move freely on every street. If it cannot move people can neither' get to stores, to their homes, nor any place else with-' in a reasonable period. Then, it is the duty of the council ' to provide, frst of all, a sufficient space for traffic to-. move ; through with . dis patch. If that can be done, and part of the streets purposes, let . still, used for storage the parking go -on. Otherwise' there must be restricted parking. The one-way traffic plan has solved the prpblem In other cities. Perhaps it would ; here. . Perhaps some other innovation is needed. But whatever the solution is it is time' for the council to find it, put it ' into effect and keep it in effect. ,"She's nearly inconsclous, isn't she," asked little Tommy Brown, as he 1 watched the nurse singing his baby sister to i sleep. "Yee," nodded the nurse, and continued singing the lullaby. Tommy whispered.tn alarm, 'Then don't sing any more or you'll VUlher."; . i : PORTLAND BUILDING ACTIVITY ITVERY . 200 . men employed .in x-i building Construction v sets to work 500 to 700 men in other basic industries, such as lumber, cement. transportation, mining and manufac turing. . This was a finding made at the recent;, national unemployment conference. j Effort Is now being made through organised country-wide construction to put to work LOOO.000' idle men. and through them the resultant' two or three more millions to follow'tuch building operations." In Portland next Tuesday, evening' a . meeting of contractors is to be heldT-at which a local ; branch of the organization being, formed all over the u country will be. launched. The meeting will be addressed by W. Ov Winston - of Minneapolis, president of the Asso ciation of General Contractors of America r by' W' A. Rogers pf Chi cago, president of the Bates & Rog ers Construction company;- by B. A. Garber, president of the Northwest ern Construction "company of New York city, and by F. L. Cranford nwtrfrl.nt f V t. n T of j Brooklyn ; ir. Y. ; ,. 7 ' All -are ': men ? of national' reputa tion 1 tee construction. Their effort ..Lhere. wtfl-be wto; help carry - out Jtbe encei Their excellent enandymay stimulate the already active work of construction in jrUahdAll ..over ; this city, x houses" "are v in ''ijVocessof vviiairucuoa. .t more ousiness nulla ipgsare in course of irectlon" than at any; time since, the-beginning of the w.r" - ' '. ' vv' --j 'it It, is one reason .why Portland -is ; less harmed bytthe business situation . V . . Cl.il- . u'u mua t ,tue ciuea or iat coun try.- - . -vr ' ' That Ten ts should be.based on the Ian dlord's investment ' and not I upon valvfes treated by profiteering ineth ods Is a recent finding of the New Tork appellate court. That a rea sonable rental "must ; be - predicated. upon the present market value, of the landlord's property . is a recent finding by a similar court In Brook lyn. An appellate court-at one end of Brpoklynxbridgelays down the law as exactly, opposite ta thatlaid :down by .ant appellate court 5 at-the other end--When yon' come to think of it, why should the law ef the land be so vague that Judges.' supposed to be skilled, and learned In -it," may so completely disagree as to what it means? ; . i . .. v. ,, ... .. TO A ST. HELENA' Banished! ; 'v J , Like Napoleon, Karl came back rom. Elba. Like -Napoleon, -he goes to SU Helena. ' Only in this, have the two anything in common. ' .' A Serbian lunatic Bhot a prince of the 'bouse ofr Hapsburg.' That was hot the cause of the great war. It was" made the -pretext. : ; , , The guns in Austria were bristling. The gutiSi in Germany were frown ing: ' The war lords in both chafed. Krupps saw immense demand for arms and munitions just ahead, and J beyond that' a triumphant : Germany with extended borders, holding peo ples in subjection by force with fur ther demand for the output of the great gun works.' y;. ; ' - The two kaisers met . in secret council. Karl was weak and Wil- r'llam strong. There the. ultimatum to Serbia was .'framed.' Karl took it back .to Vienna and proclaimed it. The Serbian madman's crime could have been settled at a court trial. One life c.ould have been the forfeit it could have gone into history as a tiny splash on the big ocean of life. It was a nothing, a cipher, a dead leaf in the vast human scheme. But the kaisers, at least one kaiser, wouldn't let ftf go that wa.y. ' There had been .military - conquest before. The long trail down the history of the world was strewn with the Wrecks and skeletons of -conquest. A conquest : was ordered. The chafing war chiefs flew to their posts. The guns were hurried to the front.. The bugle calls, shrieked and snarled throughout a continent Then the crash came, . ; . " Across the border In Holland, one kaiser is a virtual prisoner. , He waits for the shifting tides of human affairs to make the moment for him pto come back from Elba. Some day. like Kaiser Karl, he may make the attempt- Such . things have " been, done many a .time in the past. The coups of history, are a tragic record of the . incompetency of;! the unac customed' Eurojean mass in affairs of state.,, If AVilliam does attempt to regain Ills' throne, perhaps a. council of ambassadors, a super-government of Europe, a state over all attained by the struggle .at arms, will order thina tato banishment, w :. :f & S5s?,4 3 ' -r HCa TlrWh lilt 'Wo tiu nf&fha' ntl n- that was madeUhe pretext, America wiiivu-- was Dupfywu uv un lauiKieu, far away and divorced from Europe, is counting her dead and debts and worrying oyer how to get the money to pay her war bills, ; And,, while we bury the returning bodies of our soldier dead and pinch ourselves to get money to pay our war. taxes.-is it I not likely that it would 'be a good thing for us to enter into agreements with other na tions to limit armaments?; That-every driver drive' as if every other driver were a born' idot; as if all children and : most pedestrians were bent on suicide' beneath his wheels; as if every hill had a chasm at the bottom ; -.as. ; If every curve were a highwayman, a Bengal tiger and a stone wall, is the proposal of the Automobile Association of Hall- fax. The. associatioV also, suggests that the driver examine his car be fore he starts. If he does he will probably, not be called upoasto ex amine it after; an' accident" These are suggestions . that every , motorist ought vto attach - to " hia driver's li cense.. To !do so might .hlp - him retain the license. , - ; H- JUST A-SIX-YEARrOUy ClX-YEAR-OLDk HerberttiColeman ysia toe;trted atehaliigWash next week", for -ehootlngl -year-ldI Lynn Peters. 'a1ayiiicV-."' ! "What we 'need' to rpufa stop to bpy shootings is a state law that win punish parents who encourage or al low their- children.' to play with guns,? said Prosecutor, Herman Al len, In commenting on -the case. . The tragedy, followed a "quarrel at school the other day near Eatons ville. The Peters boy-was 'shot down wlth.ra shotgun Children .of Sor even t do hot grasp the deadly mean ing of a loaded gun, any' more thans until they havehad the experience, people understand what a serious automobile, accident means. .- The mentality of a child does not permit him to sense the' destructive poten tialities of a loaded revolver. ; It would seem that parents would understand this , incapacity of the child to know the danger, but week after week and yearafter; year- the newspapers carry the melancholy act counts of children at play with loaded guns and pistols, shooting - them serves or some other child, .. S The recurring accidents seemnet to impress parents, and np at Che- halls the - little i- 6-year-old" "has the blood of a playmate Ineffaceably on his hands . and faces the r gravest charges of a court; Prosecuting Attorney Allen is ap parently, right. Someone ought to be punished for gunning accidents among - children, v.. The law ...can scarcely;' put a jpenalty' toflirtha'nf fense on .-s. 6-year-old! childj-whose sense f responsibility. is not yet- de veloped. Then why hot have-alaw that ' will punish the J parents who placed -a loaded shotgun within his reac- - w - . , PROFITEERS AND ."THEIR! PROFITS'.' " -Investigator Marshals a TTin Array -of Data- Regarding " the Exactions of . Those Who Grind the Faces" of . Ultimate Consumers Who Have t Also Eaiminated - Sales i Com--."-, petition, and ; Who Have ' .,v .. . -Not a Trace of Sensitive- -t " --.Bess When Bawled, Out. '; . By. Charles ' Mable - v There ' is much said) about profiteera Bat it is muchly .glittering generaUtiea Everybody eems to be afraid to point out,- specify, designate, and soak any of these crittern or corporations orr tiie point of the Jaw. I propoao to-submit a few speeificaUona, You caiK print them or not, ' as you please. The responsibility will at least have passed from my shoul ders as a taxpayer and titizen. And, mind you,: these profiteera are' going to continue- as at present ao long aa they are let alone. They are well organised, each in 'his class, a-" .1 - ; i - : c.Yott can't buy a barrel of flour' from one ;mill cheaper than from' another in Portland. You can't buy JO gallons of gasoline from one oil 'company ' cheaper than, from another,- any. mone than you can; borrow '1100 from any f, Portland clearing house bank for Jess than t. per cent or get more than per cent on your savings.: It ia the same with , bread, milk, -lumber and wood: and also 'with practically everythmg that is' controlled by the. Portland Jobbers association. . Even the fellows who run suburban trucks ever the pavements paid for with the millions that have been sandbagged oat of ' the automobile owners, have doubled rates since the pavements were built, are charging all the traffic, will bear, .regardless of pavement or dis tance. 1 know - trucker : who charged $1.60 a ton hauling 26 miles out of Port- land - on -a macadtm " road a few-years ago, but is now charging $3.75 a ton over a pavement, i Another .trucker, hauling over a cement pavement to Oswego, only seven miles, 5is. touching'em up to the tune of M a ton, , These two cases illus trate the incongruities of the whole truck freighting' game, and the absurdity of paying out millions for paved highways for moving the necessaries of life be tween, producer, manufacturer and con sumer. Tl.is is almost as good as read ing. aJoe Miller Joke Jbook. - . e 'Takej Cor illustration, a few of the basic commodities. I will use the fig' urea from the' Portland daily papers. A few years .ago patent flour was 1.40 from the grocer' to the consumer. , To day, with wheat down to a dollar, the Portland mills are charging $1.75 and the consumer pays the grocer aroun 12.15. Small wonder the Portland mills can float 8 per cent bonds and pay out with a profit. They are today offering the "farmer $23 per ton for whole "oats, but , after the oats are run through- a grinder and the livestock feeder drives up to the mill door he has to ladle out $36 for a ton of the. same.. Eleven dol lars a ton for merely grinding the oats.! Yet, I can go out to Sherwood. - where a modest little mill is grinding feed for the farmers, and . X can get my oats ground - for -$3 a ton and the mill is doingjveiy yell at that. it is the- same or worse with barley. Your paper today quotes Portland mill ers offering $23 a ton for .barley. But the man with a few .hPgs-tbTeed has to pay ae ror.a ion at ine mm aoor, wnat would you call tlus---pronteering7 Anybody can "go down to a Front street commission house and buy, a first-class dressed hog from a farmer, any day, at 12 to 14 cents a pound. That hog is ready, to cut up on the block and the, cheapest cut in -the -'hoar '' is a shoutde steak. But when you caff at your near-1 e.rbutcher separates-you from 25 cents a pound for a - steak . off the shoulder, and he will charge you 0 cents for a pound of the sausage that he makes from the scraps. These butchers in the city markets will tell-you it is high rent, high labor, and various other buncombe.-' Then how about the suburban market- in the near by village, where the butcher is his own laborer and his shop is a shack? He is charging just the same prices as above quoted because he can get them. I talked with one of them yesterday. I asked htm what he would pay me for a nice 200-pound" hog. Hei replied, 'tNine cents a pound. a X said,5! You expect me to buy, the brood sow, get her "bred,-raise the pigs, produce ., the,,, feed for growing them out, and get 9 . cents- a pound, de livered to you, and then you get 25 cents a pound for the meatr'Jcj And calmly, holding his jaw as rigid a he could and his eyes fairly steady i. be replied : "Yep." A hog dresses away about 25 per cent, and the loss between ' the ' hoc on - the hoof and the block would be 2 cents a pound. . -. - - . . , .. ' ' ' .f e -. e- w. t . -, There is a large class of livestock men who need alfalfa meal. This is alfalfa hay ground or chopped into bits. Your paper quotes $15 a ton to the farmer for alfalfa hay. : But the fellows who run it through achopper I demand and receive $39 a ton, -according to your market re ports, . : , - I got a.pair of "shoes half-soled "last week- and , paid ' $2.50 ""to "the ' shoemaker wno 'formerly- charged .sr.2o. I asked him why, and he replied. -.It costs more; After1 figuring' with him I found that the increased cost to 'him was 45 cents,, for the actual 'materials. As, -h runs a one- man shorv he. get the rest. I am gatherlngflome homely and farm- made? da ta; on milk. and-hope to offer some , interesting . facts from the . dairy barn; as against the a site -advertisers Who call "themselves milk .diatributors.!' Collusion , As the Only, Ground -for Divorce Anne , Shannon . Monroe in Good '. - Housekeeping. - - The very thing that win positively de feat an attempt to obtain a divorce the agreement of the two that it is the wisest course is the one absolute rea son -why a decree should be granted. TM.-we ' nrst agreed to ; ine : union it wasn't entered into against the will of either and the two should first agree to its being dissolved. .Their reasons should remain their own affair, and the public prints rescued . from- the : details. Antagonism la recognised: as a potent force in chemistry, in the animal king dom, and by psychologtsls in the human race. Two; things antagonistic to each other cannot harmonize; this is. natural law, t which goes back of man law and on which manlaw must be based if it is to be Just and successful, j " Every mother knows that certain of , her chil dren, invariably clash,- while , certain Others : get " along beautifully together, with only, occasional skirmishea Every teacher knows' that some "pupila must be separated from her and sent ta some other teacher, r She feels the antago nism' and merely transfers the child, not in anger, but m understanding. Bad conduct, on which divorce laws are mistakenly based. Is 'another thing altogether. Bad conduct is never final; it s a flurry, a perking up of unpulled weeds. Impudent little imps putting up their heads from hat old original, mire and wagging their i ises at you but the weeds can be polled and "i the imps chased off the premises. ; If you do not believe this, just go- into1 the history of great- reformations and see how loath some' debauchees have turned into godly men.- Look into your own acquaintances and; find the chaneed lives litre and there, aometimee f almost a miraculously changed. Always the worst outlaw be comeaJUte most powerful force for good when he faces about, Sometimes bad conduct isn't so much the man himself as it is his ancestors. He harks iback. It's the call of the wild. . It's the early mire. Sometimes his bad conduct is in spired by his very self-satisfied .wife. A. relation eo intimate as marriage is bound to produce friction at tiroes. 1. Letters1 From the ; People ; "' tCtaaarawafcationa eewt .to The Joareal .far publication tola depertjornt. ahouJd be wrtttea oa only one aid of tha papec;-ebould not riwed S00 ward a-lencth. and aaaat be aiawed by tha wntcr. whaaa mail addreaa la full aaaat aceonv paay tha contribution.) : . - CONSIDERS IT NEAR-ANARCHY Disrespect for Laws Enacted by Great . , Popular Majorities. . f i,-- Portland. Oct 19. To the Editor. of The ' Journal About semi . occasionally E. - A. JLirtBcott enters your : liberal col umns" with a tirade against prohibition, amd whereas I used think him sincere It becomes apparent that he is, wantonly reckless' with his alleged facta X main tain that- anybody who cannot see that the good resulting from; the dry policy tar outweigh its evils is demoralised by tha ""psychology of selfishness' in which his class indulges.. Not denying the deplorable disrespect for: law con science and instinct aa well as all law It is certainly -not conducive to good Aso cial order or democracy, to decry a law enacted by three fourths of the people's representatives as hopelessly unenforce able" and to gloat ,over . the violations of it. If prohibition is;' a ; failure,5 then by the same token our constitution is a failure ; our form of government is a to tal failure; all laws of God or maneare failures.' Any observing mind will have to admit the above indictments are: to an appalling extent true, but not so be cause of too many "people's amend ments," but because 'of I inhumane. Over bearing., rebellious human nature, which! in -spite of our democratic regime, the j most liberal known, fs a featerinar' sora and menace to the peace and safety of us and. our posterity, and, . without re striction, would destroy the race by the eruejest of brutality- and ' vice, Emma Goldman's theory to the contrary? not withstanding. -These remarks also answer G. M. Paulsen' letter, in which he ad voeates anarchy. Wise, unselfish men welcome drastic laws drastically - en forced on an equality for the safe guarding' of the.f- inoffensive, primarily, C. A. Reichen. LET THE PUBLIC BE FAIR And. Get Information as to Railway Em- pioyes at Reliable "Sources. , .. Portland. Oct.. 23. To the .Editor of The Journal The. Wall Street gang is- now very busy .trying t create a massed public sentiment favoring the railways and against the, rights and justifiable claims of the brotherhoods.1 With only a few exceptions the brotherhoods 'have little or no access to the regular media of publicity. They must depend on their own efforts to bring their case before" the public, lust as they have had to depend on their own efforts to wring from their employers even the commonest wages, with working conditions to-: which all men above the slave caste feel entitled. It is a fact beyond dispute that railway men have never received any voluntary increases from the , railroads, regardless of what "the; economic ' conditions may have been, but rather have been forced to protect what they gained by collective bargaining, by the selection of commit tees of their own members, who must be constantly on the alert if they would retain even the commonest advantage written In the schedule of working con ditions. With but few exceptions,' the railways recognize no moral obligations to - their employes, and it is common knowledge that they have openly flouted some laws .made to protect the pubbo The- CTarrsportation- brotherhoods have built their strength not 'upon-a base of W'Vi8 hardest and most grisly succession fcf clrcum stances with which public servants have ever-been amicted.. It is safe to say that if men who have been In the service of railroads fbr years had exerted the same mental and physical efforts In other lines they might have had their names in 'Who's Who" long ago. If the public would be fair it would come, to the brotherhoods and; receive that information which it cannot hope to receive from such organs as the Ore gon ian or Telegram. The public has no right to- judge adversely the. brother. hoods until it has at least weighed the contentions with equal justice to both smes.. - 1 Ru W. IN SPITE OP TAX COST This Writer i Believes 1925 Exposition Would Be an All-Round Winner. - Portland. Oct 21. To the Editor of The Journal Optimism for., the 1925 exposition seems to be rather spotted. The f inancing," romlng1 m .face of high taxes, - makes . for pessimism . among those, who "are afraid. - But it is: my opinion,, and I think the same opinion exists among the majority, that it pays to advertise.. When the Kjolumbia river highway "bond issue -was first spoken of the argument was used that we could not afford to .build a" scenic highway. Now we have the highway, ft is a' won derful asset. This improvement alone is bringing thousands to i, visit us every year, and those strangers are aeugntea with our state.--s Many of them remain or return to Irve'tn Oregon. ' This expo sition will -benefit Oregon in compari son, but 'In greater ratio- than , the 1905 fair did. and surely that was the be ginning of theVprosperity of . the city of Portland, and- the Uteof Oregon. - Th followtne ' verse (not original! answers the arguments 3 of f those . who may-be' against -the coming ; exposition : - rteax cowna are rh bwh 07 men wu, , ' laatr aeeaebody etaa geta ahead; - - ; ' When everyone worka and nobody ahirka, . - Tort can raiaa a town from the dead. i , :i - - ' " ' . , , "And if while yon wtake your peraenal ataka :- -Tour neighbor ean roake-'one too; Your town -will be what you want it to be, v lt'ia't tha town,- it' you." , --. . i . , Thomas' A. Sweeney. C Curious Bits of . Inf orrnatiori . Gleaned From Curious Places rr -The rigln5ef,-the well-known hymn, "God Moves in a Mysterious Way His Wonders to Perform," was a curius in cldent in the life of its author, William Cowper, the English poet : Cowper, deeply - religious man, : was .. subject to attacks of 'the -blackest melancholy. During one of these attacks he deter mined to end his life by throwing himself into the Thames river,-says the People s Home Journal fie hired a cab to take Hilm - to the river,'-but a' dense fog so confused the cabman that after driving about for an hour he, admitted to his passenger- that he waa last, Cowper, alighting from the cab in order to. give the driver more; careful directions for reaching -Ohe bridge, found that ; hfs wanderings had bremght him back" to hia own, -door"" Strongly affected , by what seemed to hint ' almost ; divine interpo- siuon. Cowper dismissed the cab, hurried to his room and wrote hia famous hymn. Uncle Jeff Snow Says Some 'of our best citizens around 7 the corners done a good deal of bard think In', "on what was a-goin to become f the country , here" a ? while back if -it didn't rain ; and now that it's a ralnin they're a-workin' their brains overtime a-wondenn" what the dickerrs'Il happen If it keeps on a-raininli Others of our corrters highbrows 'is' a-worry In over what President Hardingtl-do or' won' do over this and that. Jedge McCracken has figgered. out that President Harding won t gmerly do nnthin' but talk,' and trust in Providence and the United States senate fee doin' things,-- --COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF ! . - SMALP CHANGE Mavbe if TJncIa Sam doesn't take ever the railroads Mr. Ford will. . The acricaltnrml Maa had Ita arirfai: In large part, at the meat block. ; . .. The black cat and .the En Klux Klan. apparently, . are charged , with a lot of evils they would only like to have com mitted. ; - v . , Peonlft wha cmnnlantlv futil eronBtralned) to flay their critics only serve thereby to make us , suspect that they need criticising. .. --. 1 ? . m-r. When we sea a mo: :e-r lookinr aa if his glands make him happy we'll begin to think .-there's something in the theory, ana not tut. then. . Has any statistician. 'figured out how many plowshares the swords of the world win make when they are at last gathered in by the plow trust?- - . 'Wh-y "husbands leave, home: Inndnn Timea personaL "Richard, come back. iteiurn 10 your wire and ramiiy. The phonograph has been sold. -x 1 , Proof of our . Inherant . demMramr, liea in the fact that it. ia exceedingly trying on a normal American to be one c f those eiectea to sit upon a niatlorm- while tnouano oi nis equals gase at mm. Paragraphers are uo arainstlt. If sairta ; stay snort, they have already written about them everything they can think' of. If they tet lone, thev will have to think of something else to write MORE OR LESS PERSONAL- Random Observations v About Town Maria A. Campbell Smith,, who was ' born in Salem, Or on October 2i, 1841, and who has been a guest of the Rama po hotel for the past 10 or 12 years, cele brated her eightieth birthday on October" 25. am younger than I was 20 years ago." said Mra Smith, "for I cultivate the' habit of feeling young and maintain ing my interest- hi current events , .- . Charles R. Sowder of Bourne, in Eabt- ern Oregon, is registered at the Benson. Bourne is named for ex-United Stales Senator Jonathan Bourne. Mr. and Mra C. M. Sims of Heppner have moved to Portland. Mr. Sims was recently appointed state bank examiner. Mra J. Schmidt of Baker and , her sister-in-law, . Mrs. Winnie Chandler of Spokane, are visiting in Portland Mr. and Mra Claude Mannheimer of Redmond, Ort, are registered at the Multnomah. Bend visitors in Portland include Mr! and Mra E. P.. Mahaffey, Mra Vernon Mann and Archie Whisnant. - - Mr. and Mrs, H. A. Williams of Mil ton are taking in the sights of the me tropolis. " Mr. and Mra W. T. Campbell of Hepp ner are at the Cornelius. - Mr. and Mra Eugene Slocum of Hepp ner are planning to move to Portland. Mr. and Mra Davis Wilcox of Haines will spend the winterin Portland. E. R, Keefe of Astoria is at the Ben son. -'..:. . ' ' -e e .- -- i ' .. ' . Mr, and Mra F. Hildebrand of As toria' are guests -of the Benson. ' Mr. and -Mrs. J. F. Cosset te of Eu gene are gueststpf the Cornelius. Mr. and Mra E. D.' Hunt of Kerry are registered at the Cornelius. . OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred IPaat the four-sears mark is tha pioneer of whom Mr. Ioekley here write and whoee remi niscences will be continued ia two auceeeding m atallmenta. This venerable nun has an illis trioa kinsman,- bat doubtless Journal: readers will find him vastly interesting on his owa ao count and Quit independently of this ctrcam- atanee-K - , .i. '- . A few nights ago at Albany I met F. M. French on the street and - asked Mm where I could f tad J. H.' Miller, brother of Joaquin Miller, the poet "I know him well by sight,'-' said Mr. French. "He is tall, slender and has long hair ana a Ions; beard, but I don't know where hei Uvea. He ' used to live in a little shack i down by the river bank, back of - the ; foundry, r We' will-hunt up one or me ight watchmen,- who will amdoubtedly be. able to tell you." A moment or so later Mr. . French introduced me to J. Q. Jtodgera one of the night watchmen. "Sure I'll help you locate Ixmg-Halred Miller.. said-Mr. Rodgefa.'aam an Oregon pioneer and . I enjoy reading about the old pioneers.. I got to be a pio neer by the skin of ,ray teeth, as l waa born. here in 1859, and, ' as you know, anyone who- came to Oregon later than 1859 isnot considered a; pioneer. ' . " 1- ,-' e, . . ' We went down toward the bank of the Willamette, up at dark alley, and after rapping on- several doors, finally found someone who directed us-to where Mr. Miller Uvea It was half past 8 o'clock when we climbed -the stairway to tils room, and 1 the house was ' dark. - Mr. Rodgers knocked on the door,- A mo ment later someone asked, -"Who le there, and what 'do you want?" -; Mr. Rodgers answered. "Open your door, Fred Lock ley of The Journal has come to inter view you.'. I was somewhat abashed by Mr. Rodgers Introduction, but it was effective', for a moment later Mr.. Miller came to the door and invited me in. Lighting a small lamp, he put- it by the aids of the bed. and said,. "If you will excuse me, Ta go. back to bed,? and he pulled the gunnysacks which served as blankets back into place. "I lost all my oedciotnes ana otner possessions wnen the place I was 1n burned up not, long ago," said Mr. Miller.. "Lots of people have been after me for an interview, bnt I "have turned- them all 'down. ' "I don't know - why; I : tm" going vte make awl ex ception inyourI,case,i.but-r am ; but I want you to be sure to quote - me , cor rectly 'and not get the thing all mixed up as a , reporter did who interviewed me some ..years, ago. ' f. . -. - V - t .- " , i "My name Is James Henry, Blair Milr ler. I Was born 'near; Liberty, in -Union county, Indiana,. November 9; 184 Q, I know that data because when my.patrents came across the plains ln1852,my, mother tore the family records out of the old family Bible - and -.brought them along, and . I taw - them . after :: v waa - grown. Through some xvexslght the birth, of my brother ,-Cincinnatus Hlner.r who -later took 'the name of Joaquin, war not set down, but mother said be was about 20 months older than L John was the- first boy, vlhen carne-'. Cinclnnatus j iiintr. Mother's pet name t or him was Cincy ' while father always called him 'Hlner. Then Lwas born, then," seven years later, my sister Ella, and . after, we ' came "to Oregon, :my younger brother, - George Melvia Miller, who new Uvea at Eugene, waa born oq. our farm 'near Coburg. - , v--,4. '-: , i as.f. ;,i.v",.- '".v -'.t:- Do I, .remember our trip "across the plains in 1852? I should say I do, I waa 12 years old. I could go back over the old Oregon trail and - pick out every camp and tell, you the Incidents that nappenea at eaca one, yur trip across the plains is one, of my most vivid mem ortea "Mv f-atiax. Halves - Miller.-was a SIDELIGHTS : A livestock rancher -who twelve years ago paid his taxes with one. carload of cattle now has to sell six carloads to pay taxes on the same lana. Blue Mountain v. ; -' ' Congress evidently intends to do some thing about the Ku Klux Klan. Action is cauieu ror and tt would -be it He wise or public moment if the Ku Klux Klan could do- something about congress. W estop teder'. , ...... ; -' Some ten times as many people are out of employment in the United States as in . Germany. Looks aa though Ger maiiv loat nothing but a war and her oppponents won nothing' but a victory. Athena rress. ;: -.:..'"..- '.:. 1 , -,. t , The fact that the Japanese have or dered " a battleship to be built in an American shipyard is an indication that they do not expect to start a war with this country for a year or so, anyway. More Obeerver.; ) Profeaaor Horner has recently visited Central Oraaron, we believe, for the first time. - It -la to be hoped that his visit here, has shown him -enough of this sec tion to - suggest that the next' edition nf hia hoolc -will not be complete without some treatment of itm history with that of the rest of the -state. uena suueun. i Th' nronosed 1925 fair is for the nur pose of attracting settlers to Oregon aui develonlne the country. Irrigation ia the one bit? thing - needed the one thing that ' will do more for the state than anything else. Are we to have it incorporated In the name and especially em p nasi sen in ijr seems reasonaoie doesn't it? Prlneville Central Oregon- ian,.; - t' ---f:'.. '. :" - : - - .' Albany residents "visiting in Portland include Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Ralston. Mra William Rodgers,-Mra F. M. Dillon, Mr. and Mrs. H.- W. Stratton, X H. Scott, Mra G. E. Riggs, Mr. and Mra C W, Stenberg, C C Cathey and E.; M. Rea gan, editor of the Albany Herald. R A- Puttier,- general traveling agent for the Rocky Mountain national park, Yellowstone national park and Yosemite national park, is registered at the Mult nomah,: According to Mr. Putxler auto touring has '-increased ' in the .national parka . . - . Mra L C. Scharpf of Pendleton and her brother.E. T. Fanning of Pilot Rock, are visiting their parents in Portland. e Mra John Secor of Pendleton is visit ing her daughter, Mra C. R. McFadden, sin Portland.' G. B. Kelly of Maupin Is down from Eastern Oregon for a few days' visit in Portland. . Mra Dan P. Smythe ' of Pendleton is visiting her mother, Mra L. E. Kern of Portland. v Mr. and Mra" E. C Joseph of Corvalfls are visiting at the home of Dr. J. PeUt in Portland. " - Mr. and Mra W. H. Hogan of Albany have, come 'to PorUand to spend the winter, ' Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Kent of Oakland, the turkey center of the West, are guests of the-Oregon. e . Mr. and Mra Robert Boyer of Reeds- port are Portland visitora J. B. Swaney of Pendleton is registered at the Oregon " , e a - - Mr. and 'Mra H. M. Grant of Hood River are at the Oregon. . , - , Mr. and Mra E. D. McKee' of Wasca are registered , at . the Oregon, r Lockley teacher in district schools. Before com ing to Oregon he took up ISO acres of lknd 80 acres cleared and 80 acres in timber. Times were hard, and while father. was teaching 1 school we three older .sons worked on the farm. When he started for Oregon, we passed .near where the battle . of Tippecanoe was fought. - I remember that well, because I tried to dig out a bullet that had been shot " into , a tree and was overgrown with wood and bark. ; At Peoria, III., father shipped 'the wagons with mother and my sister to St Louis, by boat while we went overland. At St. Louis father ran across a French 'doctor who said he had been Napoleon's "physician. 'This doctor - told rus that cholera Would be bad on the ' plains and we had better take along some -cholera medicine. Hundreds of people died of 'cholera white coming across the plains that year.. Sev eral - of our family-, took it, - but this cholera medicine pulled us through; and I am. convinced that it saved the lives of- a' great many others with whom. we shared ,.'-. ' ' .; -v. .- "They used to put more, responsibili ties on boys in -those times than they do nowadays. 1 1 remember I 'drove a' team through the Blue' mountains, and it takes a good man to handle an ox team when you have to control them entirely by your, voiceand- a- goad.- We wintered the j,first white: 1852-5 at Santlam City, not- far from where 'Jefferson is now located. My father wasn't satis fied there. , One of his former pupils, who "had been a very diligent and trust Worthy student, - had come to Oregon, had done well here and had written , to father to settle somewhere in Umpaua county, as that was the best part of the state. -This old student i of father'a whose name was Joe Lane, bad served with distinction in the Mexican war, and when' Lincoln' had turned down 'the ap pointment - as , governor of 'Oregon Joe Lane-had been appointed Oregon's-first territorial -governor. ., r - ;1,'-..--'" ... ..',-1. - ., ' Ini the spring of 1853 we started by wagon for Joe Lane's place, near Rose- burg. While passing through Lane county, near Cobarg, father ran, across two men who had adjoining claims, each of .Whom was trying to -hold -down-a full section. ' Realising that they, could not do this, each offered father, .for . $100, to relinquish 320 acres, as a man and his wife could take up a f ulr section In those ' daya - Father "- accepted V heir proposition, paid them their money and settled there. " , .- - ...... .-.-. t e e "I remember: in 1860, when I was 20 years old, father made a bawel of .very fine grape-wine. He was going to sell it, but . before : he could do - so mother knocked the plug out. of the barrel and let - the wine run out. In explaining her 'reason' for doing, so," mbther said. We don't j want our boys to become drunkards, and I am hot going to have you sell liquor to make somebody else's boys drunkarda' Father ' said, A 'Well, maybe you're right "That settles ' the wine businesa We -; wont make ay more, And he. didn't When. I was a little chap my mother used to call me in and have me repeat after her, 'Honesty- is the best J policy. Then she woukf say. Why is It the best policyr Then she would: have .me an swer. 'Because it - Is right, and right wengs no. one.' During the past 75 years I have thought -of ' that thousands- of times, and; time after time when I was going to do something and -I believed I might be wronging someone, I refrained from doing It, because my mother had impressed this on my miad ao deeply when I was a oh . . - The Oregon' Country Kenkweat Uaspeninga la Brief Form lot tha . . - Buay Reader. , . ,,, AV ? OREGON" ':r'-f-V' More than SO men and women attended a meeting In Medford last Thursday .for we purpose oi organizing a golf duo. - Thomas M. Miller, a red tl., haa lust . begun his fiftv-Mcond vear aa bailiff of the Clackamas county circuit cburtv A 20-Piece hand has been organised hv - the Odd Fellows of Eugena .The band will play? for Odd Fellows functions only. . . . . , v ..-', .- ' - Oranarea and - nthur hnn.. nrnain. tlons are urging the Oregon Agricultural college to make a' soil survey, of Lane ' county;:-. , A new industry fn Oreron li t nor- frhum mill being operated by- H. Chesem n , the Spencer Creek district - of Lane county, - , , ( . It is stated that the Roth-klHr -mtlla at Springfield and Wendltng will not re open until the Impending railroad, strike. Is settled. . -s - , - More than 150 mti nf annlia luva Im shipped by the Apple Valley 'Packing plant at Nyssa, Because of car short age, most of them were shipped in bulk, - Accordina; to the. O. A. C. extension' service, about! 99 per cent: of the more iran iu.uwj catue so tar treated, tn Ore- . gon for tuberculosis . are free of that disease, c. . . . ..-.- . -. The Ins rut nn'tli, P Tl a v ,,nv. between Hlllsboro and Wheeler is now tne greatest In history, and the average Of car lota thrnuarh uuiahnrn Mirh 70 dally., - . .-. , ".f . ; William' F. Bain, chief engineer at the Medford hotel for many - years, was stricken with paralysis while at work mra ay morning and died two hours r afterward. , : . What is regarded as the largest deer -ever killed In Oregon was brought- into ? Haines recently by Winn-Warren. The i animal was of the "mule" variety and weighed. 00 pounds. Because of lack of support on the part of the public, it Is probable that the Lane county, fair may be discontinued. The last exhibition, it is said, resulted In a deficit of $2000. The Fort Klamath Meadows company has made application for a permit for the development of a 1300 horsepower water power site on Anna creek in the Crater Lake national forest , v v News is received at Hlllsboro that the body of Charles L. Walker, son of A. W. Walker, had been buried with military honors at -Arlington cemetery. He was killed In the Argonne October 18,. 1918. W. R. Scott of the Puyallup A" Sumner -Fruit Growers' Canning company is in the Umpqua valley purchasing 10 car loads of apples to be shipped to the Albany cannery, which is operated by that company. ; v J WASHINGTON- " '";' A, campaign is in progress at Walla Walla to raise $10,000 for the benefit of the Young Men's Christian associa( tion. . . . . . ... . 5 . Extravagance is charged against - Ad jutant General Thompson's department in a report filed with the attorney gen eral by U D. McArdle, state director of efficiency: Mrs. Fj-B. Kinsey. age 55, died tat Walla Walla Saturday Rb the result of being struck by an automobile, driven by C. S. Smith, . . ' Adjutant General Thompson-has -admitted at Seattle that he was making preparations to mobilise the entire na tional guard in case that a nation-wide strike is called. , Nicholas Tarabocha,, aged". If . I-while dragging his gun over a log on a hunt ing trip near Riverton, was accidentally shot and died m a Seattle hospital two hburs afterward. ". The first "cranberry fair" ever, "held on the coast was recently pulled off at Long Beach. The present season is said to have been the most Successful ever known in the cranberry industry. Under -plans outlined at Spokane; the city council will collect-50 -cents admis sion charge next season from cars- en tering the municipal camn arrounda. Tha 50 cents, will permit a three-days' stay. Cantaln K. B. Wise, at " Vaneouvee barracks, has announced a list of-array entrres In- the -night' horse show at the Pacific International Livestock show to i be held early in November- In Portland. In compliance with . a death-bed ; re quest, the ashes of C- F. Homsby, age it, a larmer residing, near Kennewk-k. were , cast from the Northern Pacific -bridge so as to fall upon the waters of the Columbia river. After delivering relief supplies to fam ilies of needy miners at Newcastle. - a caravan of trucks returning to Tacoma was attacked by a crowd of striking miners at Renton. Three men were se verely hurt and more than a score suf fered slight -injuries. ' F. A. Haseltlne, editor of the South Bend Journal, will take up his duties November 1 as national Inspector of ( prohibition" enforcers. Hazeltine was a regent of the University of Washington for 16 years and at one time president of the Washington State Press associa tion. . - ' t IDAHO Durlne' September three ' nersona were killed by lightning In Idaho, nine were arownea ana rour were euiciaes. Births In Idaho during September ex ceeded deaths ignore than 3- to 1, and. boys led gl rig among the new arrivals by 23 . Headgate work to the amount of $12, 000 was done this past summer by the state reclamation department in Cassia county. - v ; Governor Davis "informs Secretary Hoover that Idaho can put 3500 men to work on the roads within SO days if congress passes the road bilL 4 ' Idaho is eloping one of the most boun tiful harvests in Its history.-' The apple crop Is estimated at 3,933,000 bushels, the potato crop 9,198,000 bushels and -the wheat crop 24,518,000 bushela With only finger prints as clues;-Elmore county officials are working on the case of J. P. Boyle, 70-year-old post-,-master at Regena, who was found mur dered in bis little store - Tuesday morn ing. His pockets had been rifled' and the store robbed. - i - WhatU Like Best g In The Journal u: PARKS,; Elgin. Or. I ' like fcThe Journal because it speaks its honest convictions, because of the general news it . - furnishes the public, because , of ' its: encouragement1 of ; in dustry tni Oregon; and i Lalso i like i-Bringing .Up .Fathe , and the old mule. "MAudeS . " JE.; M. LERCHER, Elgin I . Its, trt;si,Atejine.w seryice' its i f honest opinions ' and1' The V Journal itself all' aroua d. c it . ' S. C. GOFF, Minam, Or. 1 The editorials and market ref: - ported The Journal's fairness ' -, and its reliable news. W., I. CRABTREE, 652 yj Thurman "street The, . sport- 3 ..ing page. - ". : X 4 . WILLIAM HYDEi, 581 H East Twenty-ninth', street?- '' ' The marine , and- shipping - f news; the- paper in general.- MRS. L WRIGHT,. M9 Kearney i-street--The : magaf. zine section. : : , : O. A. NYHOLN, 546. Tayror.V i "- street The edltorlala i They , r . advocate t,be faithful enforce' ' - mehf of liwil Tred -iockley'tJ articlea - -''CV X'yi y .C Do yao think there are features in The - Journal ' which f deserve comment; i -trnf tave : not ; received It? "When''you send your opinion Include name and address. - .'- ,