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THU OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, tPOHTLAND, QIGi 1 1? 4 :i. t a : a 9. JACfcJOS... ........... ,....Pbsh (Be eelm, be confident, be cheerful mud 4a wnto ethers a ro would bar than do unt. ' - ' v ' '' - . . . Jobiubed every weekday aod Sunday nonjinff at IM rm HiHlot. Broadway ess; Xese - ' fc'H- street. ; Portland, Oregon- . -- - . - Intered at th postoffic at Portland, Omen. " - for teo-rabio tbrougb the, auil a eseoad elaxa natter. ! f TELEPHONE Mala TIT. Aatoesatie 60-51. All departments reached br the nnbm. 7 National AOVtK'naiXG . befbeskxta- - TITE -jfefiiaata A tatw Ca, Brunswick -a' .'building. 825 Fifth smoe. New Tor; BOO j Miller baiMinc. Chicago. - Bamawer Ca. Examiner tmiknn. San Fra- etaeo: Title Inunvt tmiidina, Los Angeles; Poat-lmwntrpcfr building. Scam.. TUB OBEGOS JOURNAL rMtrm tb. right ... to reject sdrerttainc copy which H deeme - objectionable. It also will not print any -. aopy tbat any way stum!! readins mat tar or that eanoot readily bo reensnised a . adeertSflng. . - . SCBSCBIPTtON BATES --. "... By Carrier,. City and Country. . - DAILY. AND SLTCDAT On we.....$ .18 On umth. .65 DAILT . 1 H ' , On week... ...I .101 One week. . . , . . t 0 'One moots..... .45 BI MAU AIX BATES PATABTJE Cf ADVANCE PAUil AA 1 SUA VAX -One year. . . , (8.00 Sja months.... 4.2 Tbrao aootha...2.25 On Bontb..... .71 BUN OAT (Only) ' Om yr.....,..$.00 fill Bontba. . . . : 1.75 Tbrao Booths.,. 1.00 DAILT WUhootlaBday) On year. .... .14.00 Su asootba. . . . , S.25 Tlire Bootaa. . 1.75 Oiwr . noatb . . . . .SO th.... .SO I KKBI.T J r Wodaeaday) I r..,,..i00 f itha ... .50 WEEILT - WEEKLY AJTD BUMDAT On year....... 18,50 I Krary ' One year. Bu Bootha The rate arokf only in the Wast Bitea to Eatrir ooists fornikbad on appliea Hon. Mab remitunoea by aloney Order. . Ea pran Order or Drift. If -year pestoffiec u not a asent yordar offko, I or 2-eent ataapa will be accepted.. Make all remittance payable to Th Journal Publishing Company, Portland, Oregon. - . They eat, and drink, and scheme, and plod, , They go to church dn Sunday: t And many are afraid of God And mora of Mrs. Grundy. Frederick Locker. A PRINCIPLE REDISCOVERED I W1 rtTH the-campaign over and the votes, aafely couhted.. and ;rer cordedi certain Portland newspapers among other institutions in the body politic, have rediscovered a principle that Woodrow Wilson three years ago proclaimed;. During the campaign lit tle was said In favor, of American "entanglements" abroad, of our par ticipation, in the reconstruction and rehabilitation of Europe, or of the effect in America of a Europe in eco nomic and financial collapse. ' Butr with 000, 900 idle mep look- I lnar for Jobs, with farmers, nrof it cut to the bone and' mrr wTth the3' the orld in the matter of Jes.3 i" economic and soclaTrstjuctuxeal-dis? imet , and peace May. th4 j jothted, .and a report of "a non , partisan committee of the United j States Chamber of Commerce de claring that America must, to revive her own economic status. , aid in the reconstruction of .. Europe, before them, the partisan organs have dis covered that America must take a hand in European, affaire. .'A' prime ..reason : for the depres-1 ston In America is the collapse of our foreign marXeJs. ,,: Europe cannot buy from; us because Europe cannot get t credit from us, and Europe cannot t get credit '.from us . because, the United States government) has refused j to participate in European recon structlon and thereby Insure the .! safety of credits extended. , The tremendous decline In our ex- ports tells the tale. The figures for i September, H 21, are. far, below the export figures for ' September 1920. .1 The result Is that there ts no market for our surplus products, the supply has exceeded the demand, prices to - producers have slumped and produo vtlon Is decreased, throwing millions t of meft out of employment. With millions out of employment, the buy- ing power of this country has de- creased, causing a still greater de t ellne in the demand and a. further 1 slewing--up of the machinery; of pro- duction and industry. -I When this government takes a . . hand in stabilizing Europe we can safely extend foreign credits and -the tremendous disadvantage in ex. -- change 'wilt be partially overcome. Then Europe can buy from us, our ' surpluses will go across the sea, our producers will speed production, the " wheels of Industry will turn at full speed, Idle manpower will , be ab- v sorbed and : the buying : power, of America will-be increased. ; , ; ' Amerlca la not and never will be . : isolated from Europe economically. ' - 4f we are" not Isolated economically we cannot be isolated politically. - Politicians have temporarily pushed , this country Into a foolish Isolation, Business conditions of the last sev eral months -are the heritage- . They ae certainly- proof - enough of '.the "" heresy the isolation- contention. The sooner the administration ; easts aside , the policy of America standing alopethe better It will be ' for the business and social life ef the United States. Possibly the " arms conference will mark the end of that ill-timed and ill-fated policy and,' it it does, this country will stride rap idly in the Journley back to normal conditions and widespread prosper ity. 4 - ,,'.- '''.,;v;;;;-,:;; DO TOU DIM? 4C I 'WO dead, one seriously injured Af and' two escaped unhurt when ah automobile left the pavement of Jefferson Way, -five miles south of Salem, early this morning and land ed bottom up in Taylor creek, was t Salem dispatch yesterday, It h&p- pened this ttrna to" be aTSalem dis patch. - It comaa avny .day or anry day from somewhere.- We. rea) It and forget it nod trim on it the cert hews story. . . " .' ' In this case, the. driver of an.ap proacbinsr ear failed to dim his head lights. It would have been an easy task. .Merely a light pressure on a button and the glaring Mght would shave dimmed, and the driver of the death car would have been,, enabled to use his eyeai'TiHr-'ViS"' C- But he didn't j press the button.' Under the "blinding flood of light the other driver was confused, be had to guess how to steer, his car left the pavement for the. .bottom- of Taylor creek and two are dead and the chest of another Is crushed. Can the con science of the driver who didn't dint be clear? . " . v . ' How Jong wiU - disregard of the rules of the road that ends -in killings remain unpenallzed? - ' FOCH. THE presence of Marshal Foch, the brilliant Boldler of .France dur ing the. arms conference is an event of peculiar significance. , - . Had there been no Marshal , Foch there might have been no conference on the limitation of arms. It might have been -a conference at which a peace treaty dictated by German war lords was to be signed. ' Had there been . no Foch. ; the Germans " might have passed the Marne. Had there been no Foch, the Germans might have captured the channel t porta Had there been no Foch, there might have been no- St. Mihlel, no Meuse and no Argonne. , 7 r Again, the presence of Marshal Foch In America brings back Into perspective all the, black days of war, all the long casualty lists, the picture of tremendous guns show ering steel into beautiful , villages, of airplanes- dropping - destructive bombs on defenseless and crowded cities by night, of the poisonous gases sweeping over virgin fields to poison and destroy all life that abounded there. His presence brings back to memory the sightless, the limbless, the lungless and the dead. - As Eoch's fame Is the fame of war, the arms conference may vision, as the grim soldier sits in Washington, all the scenes that tore the hearts from men and the mothers of men in the days between 1914 and 19ltr; - In Focft th conference will see more also, than a mere soldier.' ; They will see even .more than a mere mili tary hero; ',They,wilI see a Christian soldier, a, sapreme . eftlxen, and; a pleader for peace at the bar of the world. - And. perhaps they will see more. .There was a crisis early in 1918, when events of the next few months were to chart the : future course of all peoples. It was a military crisis. At that time nations combined, through the person of Ferdinand Foch, .to attain , success in .. war. There is .- another crisis . nowt: and events wllL again describe .the course presence of Ferdinand F6ch direct the minds of the delegates assem bled in Washington to the way in which success was attained in war- by a combination of nations -and aid them to apply the same-formula for establishing and maintaining a pros perous peace. A Chicago wife is 'suing her husv band for divorce because he put; a mouse in her bed. Kntowing woman's feeling about mice, any husband who would do what he did Is no genu tleman, and a decree of absolute di vorce with alimony is hereby or dered. NO RAILROAD STRIKE HERE Is. the basis on which the strike order was rescinded: . 1 The brotherhoods accept the assur-. an c of the board that no petitions for cuts In wages presented by carriers will re considered until decisions are reached oa rules, and working conditions. This is taken to mean that there will be bo wage cut on the roads for a year.. S Railroad executives have promised not to act arbitrarily in matters of wages ana worKing conditions, but to submit all matters to the railroad labor board. It was to avert further wage cuts that the: strike was ordered. This did not appear in the early discus sion because the workers had to pin their action on the 13 per cent of last July or be accused of strik ing against nothing. But under the surface the employes knew all along that further wage cuts were Intended and when the companies announced that they would petition vforn.n ad ditional 10 per cent cut the strike order was Issued. Beneath the surface, too, was, the knowledge by the employes that fur ther revision of the rules was In the minds ot the executives, among them abolition of one and a half time for overtime. Abolition of time and 1a half for overtime meant near destruction of the eight hour day, for the mefi could, with ; further slight revision ; of rules, be forced Into the old "long hours of service without extra cost to the companies. These various rule revisions, which the public has little or no knowledge Ot "Were among the deadliest oft the assaults on the pay and working, eon ditions of the employes. The settlement Is -a near victory for-the employes. Against the hand! cap of a propaganda widely spread by certain kinds of newspapers, any present reduction of wages Is de feated, revision of .working" rules must go to the labor board and rail road executives; have promised not to act arbitrarily in wage or revision matters. ( - , With newspaper editorials taken almost bodily from printed- propa ganda circulated by the execntlvei and wlth a large part of the public made to falsely fSelieve that the m ployes were fighting - against the government, instead ot against, rail road chiefs, who want to restore the old Industrial autocracy on the lines, the zact.. tbat the employe sot - In the settlement almost all they asked, shows that the executives were In the" Wong and the employes largely o. the.r4ght.vWv;-TH;; The settlement Is practically on the basis proposed by Ben W. Hooper of the labor board three days after the strike order ; was Issued and which The ' Journal contended at the time would' be accepted by the employes just as soon si the executives would listen to .reason. "" Alleging that he was secreting his income of f 4 1,0 0 0' a- year to deprive heir of her alimony a New York di vorcee issuing for a receivership for her. former husband's 'income. . She asks that no income be paid him un til her alimony of 110,000 ayear has been placed In her hands. She also alleges that he' "is trying', to avoid payment "of alimony by v establishing a residence in another state. ' '- BLANTON AND CONGRESS MAN BLANTON had ; the government printing office print .for distribution a speech that he never delivered. All congressmen do that, " J '" , . It is a fake, a humbug, a fiction. It Is deception, duplicity and a fraud as well as a colossal waste of public money. : vv'.",j .' ' '. Blahton in that speech usetl lah guagea ' described by a Democratic congressman as ""indecent, obscene, vulgar and vile." . In doing so, he was treacherous to his privilege and deserved the unanimous vote of cen sure with which the house'penalized him. He lacked, indeed, but eight votes of, expulsion. . Still Blanton didn't use Brother John's check book in getting his seat. He was not convicted in a court of corrupt use of money in his election, and was not sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. Will the senate Te with Newberry half as conscientious as the house was with Blanton? Are senate seats for sale? . . . The popular thebry that the law yers will get all of Arbuckle's money seems to have been premature. When he refused to pay his chief counsel $50,000 and the latter got too busy to continue In the case the bootleggers' hopes rose. - PORTLAND'S JUST CLAIM' TIHERB Is a monotonous rtgularliy A 'about 'the " coincidences and' the Inadvertences which somehow al ways seem to make Vthe shipping board fall short of the recognition due this port. ' V..A The call for the hearing to be held in the offices of the board on the morning of November .14 la of a piece with past experience, . Representatives of . Paclflo porta are asked to present their views re garding the allocation 4nd utiliza tion of seven "502' type combination "passenger and freight Ihrpsnd 1 ' 635" type combination "shipping board vessels. All this seems conventional and regular, but the reader, turning to the second page of the notice for the hearing, finds the Innocent look ing proposal of 'fiyepshlpSvOf the 636, type to be employed from a -United States North Pacific port on the Japan-China-Manila run." The executives ot the shipping board know that Portland wants al location ot the ."eOJ type boats. These are boats that carry only about SO first class passengers but have a capacity for some 12,000 tons of freight and providing freight is the forte of this port. The "535" boats have room for 260 first class passengers. They have less room for freight. Whoever gets them must be ready to drum up a big passenger business or shoulder a loss onto the government; Seattle wants the "535" craft The number suggested for a North Paclflo port is precisely the number Seattle's shipping interests want and. which their representative in Washington has been, instructed to get. ' " Portland has a right to considera tion from the shipping board which transcends arguments of sectional ism, prejudice and bluster. This port is furnishing the freight. It is one of a possible four ports ot the country which is going forward. A Chicago professor says 90 per cent of the women of the United States are "homely." Was he talk ing for the benefit' of h!s wife? If not, he should consult an .oculist, f ' THE DRESS WAR fTHE jiext'war is closer than any A body thought. It may almost be said to have arrived. And it is a feminine war. x. Paris says that dresses must he longer, including trains that save brooms but horrify germ specialista. America replies In protest that short skirts are the most" popular ever worn. vnd that our women sim ply will not be bombarded from their fealty to them. , ' ' . , ' . .. . Most wars employ the resources of science, but the dress strife falls back on history. Women began with ab breviated appareLA When one donned a garland' another acquired a scarf. The first pace-setters were emulated then as now by devoted followers. By the time the women reached the day of. hoop ' skirts and powdered wigsv they ; were carrying about as much apparel as either they or their husbands could support. ,- Then began what might be called the parallel to disarmament.. - The short skirt represented -the ne plus ultra of abbreviation., , , Now American women want to know why; they should be aaked-to go back to. crinolines, puffed sleeves and ger m-catchingr .tralna " -- Why, Indeed.'-. . - . thf. WHAT SITE FOR .. THE FAIR? Comparative Merita of Waterfront an of Inland .Locations Discussed, With , Recapitulation - Covering Previous - Expositions Precedent Held to . Indicate Clearly 1 the- Water - front Recommendation for : Boss Island, With State ment of Points in Favor. B?. M, Gaps of Battle, Coemiltma Enginear. . Member ot America Sociaty of CinJ Enav neenv - -. - I have read: with Interest aryclee on the site for the Electrical exposition tc be held at Portland in 1925, and particu larly an article In condemnation of any waterfront site and in favor. I take it of an upland or mountain location, nup- poseoiy ocsy Butte, which is men tioned In the article. The plan sug gested in one-of the articles as neces sary to , Improves any of the ' water- rront locations mentioned, by building a concrete wall : around them from bed rock to an elevation - five feet above flood height. Is indeed novel and one not foUowed by modern Jiydraulio eagineera To one unacquainted with the reclama tion projects of Puget , Sound, where large areas of tide lands have been re claimed near 'the large cities; where 22 ieet oi.iui has been made over large areas of soft bottom without anything more than a brush breakhead, an where lesser fills "from-five to. 10 feet high have benmade behind shovel dikes Or riffle berms, of course the" reclama tion of waterfront areas such as Hayden island. Mocks bottom or Ross Island, where the crest of the flood waters rises from a few inches to 10 feet above the land, may seem an impossibility and cause him to-prefer the mountain loca tion. To correct - any erroneous impression the former article may have occasioned, I desire to state that the reclamation o any one of these waterfront locationf above mentioned to a height safe above flood waters does not offer any diffi cult problem and means only the dredg ing of so many, million cubic yards o. material at so much a yard.- Inexpen sive bulkheads,, protected along the live side or ntver side by riprap, may rx necessary at certain places, but these involve no complicated constructions and are easily and cheaply erected. - The suggested concrete wall plan o reclamation, of course, would be so expensive as to be, prohibitive and might so prejudice taxpayers and others unac quainted with modern methods or recla mation that they might prove kicker: instead of boosters for a waterfront lo. cation, and be Induced to bring pressure to bear, against any waterfront location, and especially against any such water front location -as might be used by the public for park purposes after the close of the exposition. The fact that sol links and other recreational attraction; could be contained in such a park, wher the prince and the peasant could fin suitable and congenial recreation, seenu not to matter. i. , , 'A Important expositions heretofore held, have had waterfront setunga Let us enumerate some of them : - The Centenial exposition at Philadel phia in 1S7S was held On the' banks oi the Schuylkill river- The White fair at Chicago In 1893 was held along the shorebf Lake Michigan The Pan-Amertcah exposition at Buf falo was held along- the shore of Ltk Erie in 190L, The Portland Lewis and Clark fair of 1905 was held about Guild's lake and the bank of the Willamette river since commercialised). The Alaska Yukon-Pacific exposition was held on the unimproved grounds of Washington university along the shores of Lake Union and Lake Washington, where the improvements then made are now and have been since 1909 enjoyed as a recreational park by the public and the students of the University of Wash ington. - ' The San Francisco - Panama-Pacific exposition of 1915 was held along the beautiful Golden Gate entrance to San Francisco harbor and partly on grounds known as the Presidio, a military res ervation occupied by the defenses of San Francisco bay. - In all the above there is q precedent of an important exposition having been held along inland or mountain locations in preference to waterfront locations. The verdict has been unanimous for the waterfront locations. Now that a world's exposition greater than any here tofore held, treating with, the most mod ern agency of the world's physical devel opment, is to be held at Portland, shall there be any exception to former ver dicts and go inland? especially since water Is largely responsible for an eco nomical development of this physical phenomenon, electricity. . No civil or mechanical engineer would from choice recommend an inland loca tion in preference, to a waterfront set ting, and any landscape engineer would choose a waterfront location as a set ting offering so many ways of making the - exposition beautiful and attractive, and It Is sincerely hoped the good citi zens ot Portland win Insist that Its ex position be located along the. banks of one of its nearby rivers. , - - y ; '-; " " . To the minds et those who win wrestle with the traffic problems, and to those who are charged with the financial suc cess of the enterprise, the great factor would be ' a . location where there Is rapid, easy and unconfused transporta tion : where the street cars and passen ger trains running - north, south, east and west can reach it within the short est time and thus insure the sale of the STeatest number of season tickets ana the sroine often;' of other patrons who buy single r entrance tickets ; in other words, to make Hit so access! Die tnat home oeoDle, thetr guests and the stran ger within their gates will want to go again and again . Tr the taxsaver of the city it should be made attractive. o that 'by expend ing this money In beautifying an exposi tion aits there will be a salvage value greater than the amount It cost; and the-J salvage should be m.tne nature m a beautiful park where tne ncn man wouia be proud to take friends,, and where the well to do man and the poor man would be flad to take their families for a Sunday or holiday outing;' and located near enough to a central city point thatH it can fee-reacnecl wttnoat spenamg nsui the day to reach It, and the other halt to get home. - It seems to me the poor man's and the small home owner's con venience should be considered in the selection of -the site. . - - I am In favor of a waterfront location that ta easily accessible to the center ef population of the city, to the commer cial center oi the city ; one that can be pointed out from the windows and tow era of tall buildings, which In itself la a tremendous advertisement for attend ance; one that can be converted Into a park that all the people, citizens and strangers alike, can enjoy for all time. -- . ' .. . . . . ', X am not In favor of the taxpayers ot Oregon (and I have been such a tax payer .for - about SO -years) providing money to SH in or beautify the lands ot rich corporations or rich men, and then turning over to thenv without cost, a property they can sell In town lots or business locations.- I am in favor of im proving as little, private property as -caa be, and to this end I believe the taxpay ers will vote as one man that the city of Portland bay a site Hi tho rough, to - be Improved at the expense of .the state . nRP-onTJ DATT.Y TOURHAL. PORTLAND, OREGON and the general public, and- that,' sur roaadlaar thia site, there abonia b an are of -suitable privately owned- laad that will provide sufficient area for ex position purposes and that the whole wUl; fully and completely satisfy the ideal condition, that tha committee ? on sites demands. ..- It seems to me that the best Interests of all the people of Portland would, be subserved In planning as follows: The city of Portland to acquire the 400-acre tract known as Boss island. - The city obtain from the state aU the tide and shore lands surrounding IT. . Choose this site as the exposition site. Condemn for the duration of the ex position, or tease -. ft that period,' all lands adjacent to the Willamette ' river oa both aides from the Northwestern dry docks south to a point a mile south of Rocky Point, including the present amusement park known as the Oaks. Construct a. drawbridge, from a point north of the center of Ross island la a northwesterly direction to the west side. Construct a fixed , bridge south from Ross Island to The Oaks on the south east side toward Seuwood. : : ; i. construct -a nxea briage nortneast from Ross Island toward East Portland. The construction of these three bridges provides communication to the park and communication with the exposition " , - -::'-. .i , ; -What would be more picturesque than this exposition setting; on one side the Willamette river and the big island raised to an elevation above hlgbTwater In the center, accessible by streetcar. railway trains and passenger steam boats a place whence, without confusion. the patrons ot .the fair could return to toe it homes or taetr noteis -m-tne snort- est time along the most direct lines. To my notion,' there is but one Iocs Uon Ross Island and its adjacent lands. Letters From the People f Communication eant to The Journal for Dubbcation in thia department should be writtea en onty one viae ot we paper, sooaia pai ex ceed suv worus is isncui, r sua maw oa ssoea by the writer, whose mail address in full must accompany tb contribution. 1 ,.v ' WHY GRIND THE WORKER? This a Railway Man's Wife Asks of Era- ployers Living Luxuriously.' Portland. Oct. .26. To the Editor of The Journal I have been reading the letters about the railroad strike and feel I should like to state a few facts, as the public seems familiar with but one side of the question. My husband is a swltchman'snd works from 11:59 p. m. until .7 :59 a. m. Before the 12, per cent cut of July 1 he was paid $6.48 for eight hours work, or 81 cents an hour, and is now paid 73 cents' an hour. Can you imagine a man who has railroaded for 15 years and knows the work thorough ly, working in the dark and cold rain for any less than 73 cents an - hour? Such work is not only a menace to health but to life. How long will he be able to continue it? ..Also.- such work calls for certain wearing apparel. My husband recently paid f 40 for a rain repeUant suit, slicker coat, woolen un derwear, hip rubber boots, etc.. Hbw many thousands of men at Washington and in our state capital offices are paid many' times -double that .amount for a few hours pretense at work, but noth ing is ever said about their being trai tors, i The railroad employes do not want a strike, nor do their families, but how are we to live if they continue to re duce wages and living costs do not re duce also? I am sure no. one could economize any more than L I do all of my. own baking, sewing and other work, 1 I can much fruit, vegetables and even meat for winter use, and ren der my own lard. We are making pay ments on a little home' and '.trying , to put aside ' a small amount tor future needs, and by the strictest economy we manage to -do thia But if we spend a dollar for a show or any other luxury, we feel almost as If we had etolen it Why should working men be held down thus, while their employers waste in countless ways that wealth which their work makes possible? Why not share part of the expense of their luxurious uving with their men instead ot trying to reduce them to less than a living wage? Think how hazardous their work ts. and how they must always be wide awake and on the alert for one little mistake means not only perhaps big financial loss, but the snuffing out ot many Uvea How many people think of these things when traveling, I wonder? And yet, the railroad employes are "traitors" to their country because they are trying -to protect themselves and their families. A Railroad Man's Wife. SOLDIERS' BONUS . Portland. Oct 27. To the Editor of The JournalKindly inform me where I can get all information concerning the soldiers' bonus, that I may send It to a (soldier who is coming home. E. H. titnoTBanen concerning w nnwr dub can be obtained at Asaericaa Ictea beadqaart ers. Sixth - and . Fine streets, Portland, or by addreasmg lieutenant Harry C Brumbaugh, secretary ef the World War Veterans Stat Aid eomnussiacv Salem. Or. - ,2 - . THE FLAG AT HALF-MAST Portland, Oct. i 17. To the Editor of The Journal For the last few days I have noticed the American flag on both the courthouse and The Journal building has been at half-mast Could. you tell me the reason for this? O. G. L. ' ICpon the arrival la Portland of soldiers' bodies front eearesea. the flat on The journal building and oa other buildings la displayed at half-mast. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places First authentic mention of coffee ''by a European was that made by a German physician and traveler oa return from a tour1: through Syria la 1573. It was brought to Venice by a physician In 159L Coffee Is also referred to in 1621 by Burton In his "Anatomy of Melancholy," as follows k "The Turks have a drink called coffee,' so named from a berry black as soot and as bitter, which they sip hot because they find, by experience that that kind of drink, so used, helpeth digestion and promoteth alacrity." The ordinary coffee plant la a native ot Abyssinia, arid, as such, was used , as a beverage from time Immemorial. - It vu carried into Arabia about the beginnina; of the Fifteenth century, and from there taken to all parts of the Mohammedan world by the Mecca pilgrims, who found in it a happy substitute for the alcoholic beverages forbidden by the Koran. Lon don's first coffee house was established in J6S2, while the beverage was not heard of In France until 1658, becoming fash ionable in Paris in 1669. , - Uncle Jeff Snow Says j This here big railroad strike beln called off makes me think of a row at a dance oncet en the Big Sandy ta Texas when it was more faah'nabie fer ever body to wear cap-and-baU sixshootera'i Jewelry. Coleman Eeavis and Clay Mai vera arst to flourishia their weeponr right in the middle of four sets of square dancers and ; noratln how uwy v was a-goln to wipe one another often tht face of the earth. Jist then- Sheriff Toothacre stepped id and told them twe that he'd kill all survlrurs after they'd done any shooun. It tuck till he counted three fer both of them there young fel- ters to give him their - k- COMMENT AND ;. SMALL - CHANGE ' Expensive automobile! not only dis turb morale, but sometimes morals,, also. : -. - -. -v There's someming hollow about the modern -version of Halloween oomroam oration, it seems. ' . "' ',: : It is fitting to explain that the rob ber who held up 20 women picked upon them, one at a time. - ..a. . - - .. :, ..-.; . If forbidden to Joke about prohibition, the vaudeville people cam Joke about the order forbidding the jokes. ' e , r ; Famous" as he is, George Bernard Shaw is quite as apt to prove silly as witty in his ceaseless effort to' be hu morous, ; - - . tv - ' -" ".- r: x: ; kThere'd be a- chance for a 'few real motherly women to gain fame if we had fewer Peggy Joyces and Evelyn NesblU to attract our attention. . A man who has been a member ot the German relchstag 44 years has never, it ably the poor jteOow doesn't even get "leave to print" : e - Probably the sleigh bells of old have been mixed with the swords of war and will be melted into plowshares when the proper time comesor they may have been relegated . to the Umbo of sleigh beUes. .. ... -rT.- MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town i BUI Hanley is down from Burns for a few daya "Yes, sir; we are preparing for good times up our way," said Colonel Hanleyi "They are fixing up the rail roads in Harney county so you would think they were main line roads instead of . branchea The prices for stock are not so tmd. We had a couple of flrouthy years the summit of the high price era, so we did not get the benefit many ether people ' received. . Our Harney county stockman borrowed money when credit was easy and time were good, and now, when the Inflation has gone out of beef and hay prices, they are sweating blood to pay up their . loans. We jphall weather through and soon be as good as ever, for you can't beat Harney county." ' D: C. Brownell, after being in Port land several months, has .returned to his home at Umatilla. Some years ago he picked up, at prices ranging from $1.25 an acre VP to $25, two sections of land near Umatilla. . ; He traded part of It a year or so ago for a $150,000 apart ment house In Portland. He stlU owns about 600 acres, which he expects to put in' alfalfa. 7 .... v Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Frost have re turned to Corvallis after visiting friends in the metropolis. t A. J. Vance of Medford Is sojourning at the Imperial. .see. Thomas Murray of Enterprise is a Portland visitor. ... A. J. Xcwis is down from Goldendale, Wash., and is domiciled at the Imperial. ... . . Mr. and Mrs. C. A. McDermott of Grants Pass are visiting in Portland. Mrs. C A. Fitzpatrick of Pendleton was a recent guest 'of the Imperial. '. .... .... Mr and xMra C. V. Ausplund of Coos Bay tare Portland visitors. - , . - ..... Henry Lang of Ontario is taking in the sights of the Metropolis, e- P. C Blair of LA Grande is, transact ing business in Portland. Captain G. Senclair of Scotland is a guest of the Multnomah. . . J. N. Birchfleld of Hood River was a recent Portland visitor. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS' OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred r A nhriMan and anrceon who his aeea much amy aerriee ak etches tor Mr. Lockley hia career in thia and other eapaeniee.1 Mr, Lockley fit tingly eloaea hia article with ametrieal quotation, a fine tribute to those Americana who fell in France in the cause of liberty. Dr. M. H. Ellis has occupied the same office in Albany 37 year. As I sat across the dinner table from him a few nights ago at Albany -he told me of nis early life. "I was born on a homestead in Ontario, Canada, March 19. 1858," said he, "Not long after my otrtn my people moved to Lindsay, a small town ha Ontario, where my father kept a store. When I was four years old my father moved to Rochester. N. T. where he rtn a hotel for the next four yeara My father was of Irish ancestry, as was my mother, whose maiden, name was Eliza Dean. There were 11 children of us. When I was I rears old my people moved to Port Hope, Ontario, where I spent .my boyhood. I was me "first young man In Port Hope to take up the study of medicine. My people oeiore me had been farmers, merchants and hotalkeepera I was the first .of our tntia take an a nrnfeasion. ; after I started the study of medicine a large number of the boys in Port Hope de cided to be doctors. ' ' . t 1 .. -. -. . ' . . n was graduated from the medical department of the University of Michi gan, From 1879 to 1888 I practiced medi cine at Clinton, Ohio. From there I went to Minneapolis, where I stayed till 4884. -More and more I had a feeling that the West was the place for me, so in 1884 I came to Portland to look for a location. After taking a look at the- various Willamette valley -cities X went to Tacoma and Seattle, but some how or other I couldn't get over the im pression that Albany was the city of my choice, so X came .back : to"" Albany and opened an office here. 5 t 1 - ";'. -- ' ;- . ' T had not been long in Oregon when I Joined the Oregon National Guard and was commissioned captain and surgeon of the Second regiment O. N. G. .. I re member very Well indeed attending aa encampment of the guard at Salem. Colonel & p. Lovell then commanded the regiment -1 remember our stay In Salem particularly because Phil Metscfaan, who was state treasurer at that time, in vited a group of officers to dinner at his home, and he served us an amazing ly good dinner. ' . "1 served as Captain from 1897 to 1898, when I was promoted to major and chief surgeon of the Second regiment and sailed With it to the Philippine. There' were four surgeons attached to the; regiment Dr. Cardwell, Dr. Bro eious. Dr. WhiUng and myself. Al though the Second regiment took part in 40 engagements, we lost bat 64 men, most of whom died from typhoid and tropical diseases. One ef the cases that stands out very vividly is the death ot Hal Hibbard, a Willamette university' student who lived In the Waldo Hills. Hal made a brave fight to live. We had him moed from his quarters to the room next to General Summers, where I was stationed, and where X could give him constant attention, we thought we were going to pull him through, but he died from an Internal hemorrhage. .. He was not only a good soldier but was a most likablajad and popular with aU I put in a year in the Spanish-American war and the Filipino insurrection and was mustered out at San Francisco. NEWS IN v BRIEF - ," " SIDELIGHTS. . Rogue River valley against the world for big. Juicy pears, big babies and good looking wcwciu Jacksonville Post, v- a '-.--- It is charged that 'Congress is merely shifting federal taxes. Instead of reduce ing them. . Chorus of - eager citisens-: "That's all right, as long as congress shifts them to somebody else." Albany Democrat. . ' . . An Illinois girl offered to marry any man who would give her $3000 to pay for an education, and found a rich one who fell In love with her at first sight. Now what does she want with the edu cation? EugeneReUter. . , ' - Naw that the -bunding of the Powder river irrigation project is assured,- Baker county will start oft the coming year with great industrial improvement gen erally, for advancement in all fines shows most hopeful signs. Baker Demo crat, ; . ;. i.: A cow was" grazing peacefully tn a field last Thursday, according to the Albany Democrat, when a hunter came along and shot Bossy for a pheasant. One of these days this Nknrod is going to shoot his foot for a coyote, Medfonl Mail-Tribune. ( . . x . '. The Empress Zita is said to be re sponsible for-Charles' attempt to regain the Austrian throne. We are glad to hear that So often we are told of women "making" thelrf husbands, that we are Slad to learn of one-who has unmade era Corvallis Gasette-Timea -' W. B. Smith, old-time resident of SU- verton and long-time stockman, is a guest of the Seward. ; George Cusiter of Sltverton is a Port' land visitor, . In the old days he was manager of the Oregon Muling com pany's flour mill at SUverton. Now he is a merchant- there. - "When Homer Davenport was about 15 years old," said Mr. Cusiter, ."! hired him to clean our bins, which were badly infested with weevil. I had hired several different ones to do the job, but Homer was. the only one to stay till the work was done. and wen- done. ,.v If you have read his book about his boyhood you will re member how he had to choose between the belie of Silverton and his game chick. ens, ana- regretfully choose the chlckena The name of his lady love was Nellie Riddinga She Is , now Mrs. Cusiter. Silverton Is now . going to put tip a monument over Homer's grave. Gov ernor West. ex-Governor Geer and some others some years ago headed a list to erect a suitable stone. Ohey will turn over the $467 they have on hand and we wiU complete the fund and put up a stone." . r ,.'.'.-. Jim Kyle, ex-mayor of Stan field. Is In Portland on . a flying visit. To size up the ex-mayor -one would think he would be more apt to use a dreadnought than an airplane. Some people have to stand twice to make a shadow. Jim has to stand only once to make two shadows and his friends hope his shadow may never grow leaa - e Visitors to .Portland from Bend In clude W. A. Leet, H. Peterson, B. P. Royce, A, Whisnant and Laura Ziegler. ... Mrs. J. E. Hlggtns of Astoria Is visit ing Major and Mrs. R. Park of Port' land. v - - e e John Buchanan cf Corvallis is visit ing his brother Andrew in Portland. ... . ,? . O. Brandikson of Silver Lake is a Portland visitor. . Fred Medlar of Wasco Is registered at the Hotel Oregon. . ... 5 ... E. N. Nelson of. Burns is transacting business in peruana. . . -. e Mr. and Mrs. H. A, Wood of Dallas are Portland visitors. Lockley "Returning to Albany I became a ma jor ' regimental surgeon of the Third regiment under Colonel Yoran. Later I was promoted to-be colonel, and surgeon- general of the Oregon troops. I held this position tor five years, when 1 resigned. "The nearest I ever came to getting into an engagement and killing my fel low man instead of trying to save him was right here in Albany. It was while Colonel R. Edgerton Hogg was building the Corvallia A Eastern railroad. When the construction was stopped two or three months' pay was doe the railroad men and. construction gangs. Several hundred ot them mobbed the bank. I got Out a revolver, determined to use it if any attempt at lynching the bank of ficials or railroad officials was made, However, It was unnecessary, for an at torney addressed the mob and explained that the money was oa hand and that they would all be paid. ; 1 . . . ' "Returning again, for a moment to Hny; service id the Philippines, my hos piiat oraeny, a young man namea mar cellus, who later took up the study of medicine, became a doctor and In the World war held the same position that I had held in the Third Oregon regiment major and surgeon. A large number of our hospital orderlies upon being mus tered out took up the study of medicine. and quite a number of them served as surgeons during the World war. - If you will look up the history of Ore gon you will find there have been a very large number of distinruiahed men who call Albany their home such men as Sam Simpson the poet Judge R, S. strahan. Judge C. E. Wolverton, Governor George U Chamberlain and othera" ' ' -' . see - As Dr. Ellis told, me shout the death of Hal Hibbard X could not but see again the merry twinkle in Hal's eyes as he told Helen Matthews, Mark Savage or some of our . other classmates at Wil lamette university some dnon story. And as I thought of him there came to my mind John H. Finleys poem entitled "The White . Acres In - Prance." , ; For. whether our dear dead rest in the far-off Philippines or beneath the poppy strewn fields of France, they have made the ground where they rest a , part' . of the land they; loved and fought for. Here Is Finley"s poem. It was published originally, I beMeve, In the New York Times - - , Bow many eye have searches, (gad . tears) , i through To find the Barnes upon the map ef Trance Of these now silent fields where lie their dead -Their whoaa tbo golden stars cannot requitos ' - praid mother ey her lonely lamp; -- A schoolgirl erer her geogrspby; i A gray old father proud of bia brsre loai A wife tbat was; a wife tbat wa to be. ' T' How aaaayi And bow Suss thaoeand 11m -' Hare learned - ta apeak and lore tbca once auange Bamea: --jc: i.y--. -.r , -Jtomtm. ""Surssnes'" and "Benean TTMi". And ''Seny ever is the Flanders fHdsj And an the vahant reeti beteme aa dear As was tb. name of tbaa vast tviralne Of AUens' scad to ser. ..nw.-...,- And oaf ewa Oetdt They are oar ctaad of witDeaMs" la rnmce. Whose great .White shadow 11 upon, these fail. These vale, ia su and eloaa. by Aa and aueht. And wbereaee'er tbew wbite-croa shadow fall. There are- war "field of Honor"; for where'er nenn orsw war ayint soldiers to herself (Soidier enlisted In Esrth's muu f r(Viit'. Bat gsre the trouadtbey toes bed to then- ova White acsaa added" to America. The Oregon CoUntry Northwest Bappeninga is Brief form for the . , . . Bear Beader. Oregon ; r - Ernest Myers of Sherwood was killed last week in a logging camp near Silver- ton. . The city wr, irw mtttiOtUTery, heginning ie cember 1. . . . - -v .. .. At the Sherwood fair John Ttedeman.. received first prises on corn, squashes, - , pigs and chickens. One squash weighed 66 pounds. " . . 13. Ktcholle, aged 94; Joe Morris Sr, ; 82, and C. Bushnell, 83, are members of the adult Bible class in lhe Ma pie ton Sunday school. ; - All of the ItMcleMrt mill. m W In rv. full operaUon by the first of November. f( wim Humcient contracts to keep uem at work all winter. Bert Friday; an old resident of Banks.' was seriously injured Saturday when a shotgun In the hands of hia son was ao- ciaenuuiy aiscnargea. : r , ; ;- -j Clahwp'countye assessed valuation la I fixed at $37,876,473 en the 1931 roll, a do. dine for the year of nearly $1,000,000.- $ due to the loss of timber. , 1 s Cash premiums amounting ' to more I than $700 will be distributed by the i management of the Milton fruit expo- P sitioa to" be held at Milton November XL f Colonel William A. Alrd. anranlur nf f the American farm bureau federation, is -In McMinnvillo perfecting plans for the organization of a Yamhill county -federation, - . t. . . ..: V r :- , Salmon fishermen at Florence are making good hauls. During one night this week H. Beagle caught a total of 2500 pounds, for which he received three cents pound. According to reports received fcv the. state tax commission, valuations of as- a will be from $18,000,000 to $20,000,000 less than the valuaUoa last year. t. , After developing a ledge In the Green-" 'horn mountains to where the pay strealc was firm and pronounced, a company of La Grande men made a sale of the same Saturday, the price being $30,000. Mrs. Adams, wife of Rev. A. Jack Adams of the Presbyterian church in Sutherlin, died quite suddenly -in that city this week. The family has lived at . Sutherlin tor many yeara The special tax levy of 44 cents an acre, in addition to the legal levy of $1.06 an acre, which was submitted to the landowners of the Warmspring irriga tion district at a special election last week, was defeated by a large majority. WASHINGTON Diphtheria quarantines In Walls, Walla have been reduced to 17. none of them being dangerous. - v Killed In action In France, the body of Jewett L. Barnes, son of J. F. Barneav has arrived at Spokane for burial. Spokane and Seattle employment Of fices have, been notified that no more help ta, needed in the Wenatchee dis trict. - vpcrauvno vil toe vouax- Rosalia portion of the Inland Empire highway will be completed about No vember 20P, . - . Howard Heath,' 14. was thrown to the pavement by the fender of a car driven -by L. J. Dlehl ot Toppenish and suf fered a fractured skull. -4 -Thomas P. Bevelle of Seattle 'is now United States district attorney for the Western district of Washington, having been sworn in last Saturday,, - Frank Burrow's ot Aberdeen will be chief deputy in the office of United States Marshal E. B. Benn ' when Mr. Benn takes office December J, The body of Emerid C. Cofl. who was s killed In acUon overseas, arrived at Re public this week and was buried with full military honors by his former com-radea--- U. C Jones of Clayton, driver of en auto stage, was instantly killed near Deer Park when his Car struck a wagon and team. - Three passengers escaped unhurt - . - l '- - .Michael -Carey- age ' 72, convicted at flwDon..s cruelly . oeating nis wife, has been sentenced to not less than 5 nor more than' 10 years in the peni tentiary.. , f - - Harvesting the 1921 apple crop In Eastern Washington Is - now on the wane and it la estimated that fully 83 per oem oi me truit is on uu trees ana under cover. .The body of Horace J. Woodworth, 88, Civil war veteran and pioneer farmer of the Touchet valley, was buried at Waltsburg this week by members of the G. A. R. IDAHO Idaho's share of the 1921 fire protect ive work in the state was $36,016.03.. From the first of September to October 16, 2783 ears of apples and 2703 cars Of potatoes were shipped from Idaho. Idaho will send exhibits of grain and hay to the International Grain and Hay show to be held at Chicago, November 26 to December 3. J. A. WaTlinborg of the Green Creek section, near Winona, has purchased from Joseph A. Schultx, Lapwai banker, 630 acres for $100 an acre. ' Sandpoint has been designated for a brigade headquarters and one battery of light artillery, national guard troops bythe advisory board of Lbs 104th divi sion. . - After falling to agree with the union as to wages and conditions, the Coast, Lumber company, which operates a mill 1 and lumber yard at Boise, baa declaredi an open shop, . . t The - public utilities commission has granted the application of the Richfield u5,i'iL.SrvIc co.mPnJr tor permission, to discontinue water service at Dietrich, revenue not being sufficient to keep up What I Like Best i In The Journal jr.- J: SCHURTs, 8ia Syra cuse street ?The edUorials; they are in the interest of the unemployed and good govern- -' ment. . ." ' s :. W. B. MASON, 720 Mon hawk street I read the rent ' t ; era! news first; the editorials . ' are of .the best; all that the ' paper contains is good.. G. PAYNE. 1031 Jersey s t reat. The editorials, for . their philanthropic sentiment, -t iheir position on great issues : of the day and the position taken In reference to the pro ' posedrailroad strike In -. .championing the men who do -' . the work. . O. B. CLUCK. 1034 Syra- " cuse street. -Its - Independ ence. I look forward every - evenlnf for the cominf of The Journal. ' ..- C. C. HOODtBY, 0 ; -Princeton street The edi- f : torials, for their extraordin- ' ,. ary power In Influencing peo- ' pie to attain higher stand- : rds. ' . x Mcdonald, 174 TWr-'" . teenth street The magazine " section.' ;;. Lw. WILLIAMS, EOS . Charleston 'street. Fred . Lockleys articles, the ' ship- -. ping news ' and the . general " - news. - , 1 . . - , ' 1-.. JX'E. NOURSE, 112 Ivan. . hoe street. The editorial t ' policy In behalf of the com- -- mon people and disarmament V- Has your opinion been among those published? - It is invited. . ,1 ot 1 e 4