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THE OREGON DAILY . JOU RNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 2, 1S21. a JACKAOX .......... ..Itobnafcc IB aalia, be aonfUWiit. be cbaarfal ul da to otkao as Too. would un Umb 4 a aarr VMtihr and Sandal- aaoraina at Taa Jauml Daiatine, Broadway ana X. tut! trt. PoeUajid. Orarwi. fcurad at Um posUtffice it Portland. Orafon. for traaamuaiea through the: Ball a saoon AaUmatia 60-41, All orpartraaarta by Uflfi.VlL AOViiKtl.-ilMi - ktl-BKAEXTA- TI V B Banlamfn At Xaataar Co.. tmikliac S2S rtftb ifMHy Sit Turk; S00 MaJlm bnlMn. CHrao, A;iriO COAST IHa,RESTATlVE W. B. ; Bafmoaar Cm., EuaUnar bmkUos. Bam Fran- , euro; TJUa Innafl nwuaias. i IMt-IntiatrTT oniMing. HxMH. VB ORKUUN JOCKS.!, r -' the right to trfBt. adfvrtUkic eopy what H iww ototaoUonabta. It alae. wul not print any apy that la any war dmalataa raaaiat V 'tor or that aaadot nadily be rasataiiaa a drarUatac. i ' n BrBbOkuHri tufk i i 8f Cantor, City and Coaatry. ; DAILt AND BtlTDAT . mm '..... . I Ooa nmth.... .3 . DAILT I 8UDAT evaak .19 LP Mk......l . BmtB.... ,4 I 1 ' IKilU AtX RATE PAT ABLE t ADVANCX DAILY AMD uaiA Fniaciaco. It wu rtc against time.' At fiie moment of the unfor tunate accident, the tear Is said to hare been color B mile aa hour in the - darkness, - and - to have en countered a fo bank. , - What, if another machine laden with passengers had been in ; that fog bank instead of an open bridge? What If other people had populated the roadway, the bridge, or other territory over which the racer was compelled to travel? The stricken driver would not only nave forfeited his . life but . he -would 1 unquestion ably have taken others to the crave with him. ' The fatal race is but one among many. Such races are not only too frequent but too haaardous as well. Under ' the circumstances it would not be impertinent to ask by what authority tho road races are per mitted, and who it is that gives per mission for racing- cars to- bound dowa . Oregon roads at 60 miles an hour 7. ' 1 .' 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The Journal will help you start an ac count if you conform to the rules to be seen in the news columns. To morrow will be your last chance to have The Journal's help in starting tjhls account. Start' it today. THE HENDERSON VERDICT ' ' Tbi tra bat two wtyt of paying dabt: IncTMix of industry in raiiins lacoma, incrvaat of thrift in Uylsc out. Car- A SERIOUS HANDICAP tP Mark Sullivan's Information is authentic, the arms conference is o- start on the road to success seri ously handicapped, if not fatally Tippled, The . sessions, the corre- pondent says, are to' be closed to he publlo. Reports of committees are to be rivah publicltyr- That means thQ 'tctuaf work is to be done in the lark .and the result of the delibera- ions announce to the .public. . Com nuntque's ara't be issued. That neans the actual work Is to be done n the dark and the result f 'the de iberations announced tp the public. . final ratification of measures is to ake place in the open. That means hat the actual work la to be done in ecrct and that the actors are to go hrough motions at a staged session or the public ,Jt air means that, the nns conference, like all interna tonal conferences of the past, is1 to a game of eecret diplomacy, with ielegates harterlng behind closed loorS for advantaa-ea. . And it Is need- tss to say that all those conferences pave been failures, ss far as limiting rms and- preventing wars Is con erned. And the publlo never did, toes not now, and never will know rhy they failed The fight to throw off Iniquitous ustoms has always (been long'.. It - ook years for citizens to get a voice their state government. It took sore years to get a voice in national olltlcs if, indeed, they have) It now rlth two conventions nominating wo candidates for the presidency ad presenting them to the people o vote on. And never yet have the op1e been able to throw Off the etopus of secret diplomacy, a gov- rnment of. the world transacted i few menrbehlnd closed doors and i government that wields the power "en of life and death over peoples in heir decisions as to war and peace. With the announcement that-the essions are to be closed, if the an lo'uncement is based on fact; the teople can look forward with some keptlclsm as to what the diplomats till do toward limiting the. burden armaments and aiding In the pre- ention of the next war. They are joing to take up the ditjoussions In ecret .They ' are going to do the lorse ' trading behind closed doors. Ind they are going to deal with and leclde the fates of peoples with the ubllc barred out. . Perhapa the diplomats will become aagnanlmous. Possibly they wQl tally accomplish the purpose for rhlch tlrey are convened. But the sult of their, secret actions in the ' tast Is. to say the least, disconcert eg to those who hold out hope for a duetlon in the tremendous costs of trmaments and an elimination of He ong casualty lists of war TTENDEBSON escapes with a ver- AA diet of manslaughter. He will serve a few years and, with his mur derous tendencies, be turned loose on the- community. Here is Mrs. Henderson's dying statement, made in St. Vincents hos pital: s . f. . "Today I was washing and he came up to the heuse and told me my time had come. He took a revolver but of his pocket and pointed it at me. Then he toek me in the back bedroom and told me to turn around, so he could look at my new suit. Then he hit me on the back of the head, again in the stomach. After white be got me down and choked me and then he took a butcher knife and stabbed me several times." "How many times T' Tour or five." ; There was ' testimony at the trial that, speaking of his wife, Hender son said, f'J, will -. get her." There was other testimony that during the divorce hearing Henderson said: I don't see bow I can lose the case at the law. But If I do lose and have to pay auinony i win get ner. Here Is a newspaper account of other testimony at the trial: PatrolmanlOreen on the witness Btand was yating a conversation which he eays i took (place between himself and the defendant In a hospital after the killing, when Henderson was recovering; rrom a seir-innictea wound. The tes timony was in effect an admission by Henderson that b Jellied his wife .be cause she refused to live with him. He told j me." testified Graon. "that ne wouia nave go her once before, but uei ejpe got away., I asked him if he intenaea to Kill ner and he said Tea.' What Sid you -ro to- her ' father's house forri I asked nlm." said .the wit ness. "'I wanted td t her to coma back with Sne.'.he aaswered." Green laid that Henderson told him that he took a gsn to 'scare her, and the knife because lat was the only war." it is popular in .these days for the killer, after the law getaita hands on him, to betjomo suddenly Insane Th YVtAM tk. --.-I aw. crazier. be claims to be. Then the rarce or trying to humbug the jury with the insanity theory is enacted. In carrying out the sham, some dis tant relative la claimed to have been a lunatic, whereat the bloody- banded defendant la deemed to' be crazy at mo time he -got her," shot her or knifed her. Mostly it is miserable hocus pocus which., in many cases; Js so flimsy that even the lawyers do not' believe it. I V i- Henderson's threats . that ' he "would get her" were preliminaries to the murder. They were the pre- meaiiauon. ills tnougbtSv were dwelling on the plan. " His program for the day he 'went to bis. vicitim's home was well laid, He was to frighten her with the revolver. ' But he was to kill her with the knife because it made no noise, The morning-'!, bloody work was the culmination of deliberate , thought by a brute who killed a helpless woman because ' she wouldn't five with him. with the manslaughter verdict now rendered he will regain his Aa. a . a, - . - oanjiy as spaaeniy as ne lost t after bis capture. He will remain; sane until liberated a few years hence. He will continue sane until it bet- comes convenient or expedient to go crazy again. Meanwhile America";- stands hor ribly pre-eminent as a nation of murders. No other civilized country is so, stained with blood. We even surpass the notorious record of Italy. Even before the present crime wave we had a ghastly record of 115 homi cides ! per ,1.000,000 of population, while Italy had 105. Germany It. France II and Great Britain and Ireland 17. . , For. Halloween to be an evening; of; clean merriment .Is wholly proper. Bat for it to degrade Into & night of rowdyism, destruction .' and Juvenile ruthleasness and banditry Is a disas trous etBtoallty. 4:h4,? "f i The casiualties in Portland during the lata Halloween, have not been fully counted. , -' Amonc; others, are. broken bones, damaged automobiles. destroyed windows and demolished household effects.! " . Property In considerable sums was destroyed and life In instances barely spared.' .'.., . : Certainly such an evening; was not wholesome . training; for - juvenile Portland. It was not a . pleasant evening; for the owners of damaged and stolen property. And it could hardly be described as an attractive evening for those in hospitals and out with broken bones or braised bodiea j - If Halloween can be brought back t? aq evening ' devoid ot rowdyism and destruction we jean Intelligently continue to celebrate. If it is to recur with its modern frills, it would better be abolished. Government records show that in three years, 1456 strikes have been won by employers,1757 by employes, while 1895 have been compromised, and In 173 the men have returned to work pending arbitration. ? Strikes in 'It 19, it is estimated, cost the workers more than $800,000,000 and employers more than 11,300,000,000; The railroad shopmen's strike that year cost ' the roads more ' than $800,000,000 in earnings. Like war, lockouts and strikes have become so costly that a way, is likely to be found to avoid them. HOUSING GUESTS AT 1925 FAIR Computation From Data Now Visible Results-ln Prediction of Over 400.000 Visitors Practically .Throughout, the Fair Period Deduction That a Portland 150 Per Cent More Capacious Than Today's Must Be Provided And -After Vm Fair. 'Whatr Is Asked in -Conclusion. THE NORTH DAKOTA DEFEAT . There Is one thing in . favor of tobbed hair. . It j leaves no telltale narks it doesn't . catch on men's Wat buttons or scarf pins. , " V X take the following from a statement published in the Spectator. October 29. 1821. by the chairman of the executive committee and campaign manager of the proposed fair: 'There are 9.000,000 automobiles in America. Last summer 5.000,000 were used in tourist travel, and 1.000,000 were on the road from two to three months. Taking that as 'a minimum, that means that 1,000,000 automobiles will cross the newly completed transcontinental highways to (Portland in 1925 and tarry from one week to three weeks." The same authorities have stated that each automobile will bring to the. city on an average lour persona. a It is rather startling to be told that one-ninth of all the automobiles In America will visit Portland during the proposed fair, but accepting the state ment as accurate it occurred to me that it might prove of interest to analyse the figures and see the result The Lewis and-Clark fair was open 137 days. On this basis 7800 automobiles on long dis tance Journeys would enter and leave Portland every day of the fair. The automobOes referred to arriving and de parting it end to end would make stream 19, miles long running in and out of Portland each day. Each machine would carry four passengers ; so, from this source only, 29.200 visitors would arrive and depart each day. This would mean Sif.000 a month, or 4.000.000 per sons In 137 days, tarrying; in the city rrom one to three weeks. Using the minimum time- suggested, there would be seven days of arrivals before they would begin to depart This would mean there would be 51,100 automobiles from ions; distances In- Portland every day after the seventh day, or about 134 miles of machines If they were in single file, bow and stern touching. It would also mean 204,400 visitors in automobiles only, every day after the seventh day. We assume that it would be reasonable to expect as many passengers by rail and that they would stay as long as the visitors coming by automobile. If this is a fair assumption, then every day after the seventh day there would be 204.400 visitors arriving by rail. This would make a total of 408.800 visitors arriving every seven a ay a, in the man ner stated. Portland has now a - popu lation of aboift 260,000. If these esti mates are correct arrangements will have to be made to. provide for housing more than 1 times the entire popula tion of Portland for about 4H months. How are all these people and. the au tomobiles to be taken care of? Who is to provide the buildings and Invest the money for a period of four and: one-; half months? S What will It cost to build another city larger than Portland, and who is to furnish the money? Are bonds to be issued, or is it to be provided by another tax levy ? J --' a -. a After the fair, what will be the situa tion of the owners of the hotels, apart ments' and other houses who will have the empty, buildings on hand? Indeed, what will be the effect on all property rpHE defeat of the Non-partisan- A League in its home state- probably means the beginning of the end of that movement. The defeat will dampen the ardor of leaders in other states. The in terpretation will be that if the plan failed in North Dakota it cannot suc ceed elsewhere. For more than 50 years American farmers have been groping for relief. Numerous agrarian movements have: been the outcome of their quest for economic 'equality. The grange was launched in Wash ington, D. C, in December, 1867. Within seven years it had a member ship of 1,500,000 farmers. In the late '70s it had established grange stores and farmers warehouses in most of the agricultural districts, in cluding Oregon. Later, with agriculture more and more languishing, came the Farmers Alliance, laiyiched in Texas in 1876. Its objects were the Improvement of agricultural conditions, advancement of social life and the securing of leg islation favorable to agriculture. - In 1889 It merged with th,KnIhlsJ owners, or the city as a whole? On the other hand, assume provision is not made to care for the millions of visitors who, those who are predicting say, will be here? How long will it be before that BT WHAT AUTHORITY? piIE automobile driver killed hear a " Oakland la a race against time reported to have wrecked his own str twice in previous races to pre vent injury to others on the roadway. fhAt wa commendable driving. Un touMedly,Tve was not' only a skilled , ootorcer operator but a man who rould rather Injure- himself than another. - ' !;; 1 Bot the climax of a bad practice ras, reached" near Oakland. : The car ras speeding through Oregon to San Aggregate resources of the 80.815 banks in America declined $8,3 90. 000.000 during; the last fiscal -year, according to the official statement of the controller of the currency... It is not a bad but a good sign. It means that liquidation is proceeding;, that debts arebelng; paid off. and that the late convulsive finances of the country are settling; back toward the normaL ! ! - GOING TO of -Xaborarid formed ihe--National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union, with a platform demanding rn ore greenbacks, free coinage of silver, v national banks, anti-speculation laws and government ownership of all transportation 'lines. The southern branch of the allience or ganization demanded government loans at low rates, and sub-treasuries to buy and sell farm products. In 1890 the party carried the Kansas and Nebraska legislatures and held the balance of power in Minnesota and -South Dakota. It elected nine congressmen, and a senator each from South Carolina, Kansas and South Dakota. In 18$2'it fused with other groups and called itself the, People's party, better known as the Populists. It nominated James B." Weaver for president and he. received over 1,000,000 votes. A number of meas ures advocated by the Populists were written into the statutes, whereat the party disintegrated. . ' ," . Contemporaneous with the defeat of the 'Non-partisan league in North Dakota is the rising; power of the Farm Bureau Federation, with Its farmers: cooperative, organizations for group marketing of farm prod ucts. Last year . these organisations, according to figures given out by the federal department of agriculture, did a business of $375,714,660, against a business of a little more than $60, 000,000 in 1919. .The figures for 1921, the department says, will show an other tremendous gain. But more to the point the federa tion has won more In national legis lation within a few months than ever before in the history of the country. It has secured hew credit concessions from the federal reserve system, has 1 won laws restricting the operations of the Chicago ", wheat v pit. has ob tained pew federal regulation of the packers, has secured from the War Finance corporation a credit of many millions for agricultural export busi ness and has done many other things through exercise of the power that a big, closely knit organisation of farm ers makes "possible. "-;'. ' If the movement persists, it will prove to be more effective in advanc ing agriculture than was possible through the too radical North Da kota' plan. . ?-.; A'- ' Ffhally surrendering- to her con science, ' a Pittsburg woman Jour neyed aJI the way to West Virginia to pay; a bill of $1.49 contracted 49 years ago. What a. wonderful world this -fould be it that llttla ' thing we call conscience, which tugged away at this woman 49 years and finally t won,' could only become strong enough to be the constant guide of all! - -" C V. . K: - O'V ' .in . i i it fact will be known, and what will be the result on fair, city and state? Hungry, tired and sleepy people are not kindly critics. Cooperative Marketing Aids Both Producer and Consumer From the Oregon Grower TJARMLES3 pranks are one i thing. "A" Vandalism is another and en tirely different thing. - t , . ; For children to derive pleasure through n innocent evening set aside fpr play is possible through stunts that will not harm ; anyone. The consumer benefits greatly from cooperation. Every once in a while someone comes out and tries to show that if the producer benefits the con sumer must pay the MIL The big state wide cooperative bodies of California and the Northwest are not taking the attitude that their function is to hold up the consumer; They feel that by standardising their product by getting wide distribution, by avoiding gluts in the market at one time and unreasonable scarcity at others, they can protect the consumer. The cooperative bodies are actuated by a fair and kindly spirit to aU con cerned. They realize that the retailer, the wholesaler and the consumer are their friends and customers and that they must be treated fairly. We must meet certain market conditions as they arise, but ws do insist that the producer is always entitled to a fair profit whenever the market will allow such a profit, end that the growers' Interests must be protected against speculators and manipulators. For example, last season while prunes were selling at a very low price and the producer was selling his small sised prunes at a loss, and while the Jobber ana wnoiesaier were content with small margin, the average retailer, es pecially in the East was not but was asking exorbitant prices. Here was an example where the producer was selling at a loss, yet the retailer was demanding an exonmant pront. Fortunately, this condition is being rapmiy corrected, wnat we as produc ers object to is that speculators and market manipulators get hold of our products, allow us to have no say In marketing them,-and speculate in such a way that they injure .both the pro- aucer and the consumer. The nation Is awakening to the fact that .collective bargaining alone will correct our mar keting conditions. - We are eliminating speculation by riving wider distribution. cy stanaar ailing- me product' and thus protecting both the producer and the consumer. site oa which the building was originally erected. ; . At the time the valley was settled, a commodious school building- was erect ed, sufficienuy large to taxe care ox 50 or more pupfla I counted Just seven children attending that school at . the time I was passing through this valley JU1 this ' exodus has been occasioned. not because the land was not fertile or for lack of demand for the products, feet for the sole reason that water was not to be had for irrigation purposes, and crops would not grow without It. This could be easily obtained by drilling deep wells or by storing- the flood waters which coma down in torrents from the western slope of Steens mountains, : which form the eastern boundary of the valley. This, however, is far too large a- project to be undertaken by an indi vidual or a collection of inaMviduau such as would make their homes in this valley. It would seem that it could and should be taken -up by the United States reclamation service, possibly witn the aid of the state. It certainly seams too bad that this great area of level, fertile land, roughly estimated at 175. 000 acres, should be permitted to go back, not to its native state, for the native bunch grass has now been de stroyed by the plow, but to a wilderness of weeds. Just for the want of a little water which would make Catlow valley, like Tadmor of the olden days, an oasis in the desert that would blossom as the rose. la not the reclamation of this valley worthy of the earnest consideration of our representatives la congress? Ernest P. Rands. SHALL WB HAVE THE FAIR?" Advocate of Single Tax Approves, Plus a Measure on the Ballot Portland, Oct 29. To the Editor of The Journal The unemployment con ference and the threatened railroad strike are vanishing into dim history, but "the poor ye have always with; you." Bursting Into publio view are the dis armament conference and. what , is of more immediate importance to Portland. Shall we have the fair? All of these. events have for a central setting an ap peal to a demand to settle the labor problem. Whether or not there is any connection between the fair project and the solution of that all-absorbing soeial tragedy, it seems popular to make: that a pretense for publio attention. Expositions are grand and noble dreams: They widen human sympathies. deepen knowledge and become great so cial events. Each marks a period in the trend of human affairs. The one pro posed for Portland should be the latest expression in advanced civillzatioa, and I see no crime in raising taxes for just such enterprises, for the single tax meas ure provides that the people may use public funds for government or for any other purpose they may see fit 1 1 see no crime in the object of expenditure, but. of course, at present the benefits will aU accrue to just one class of our citizens those who own Oregon, unless, of course. the single tax is carried at the next elec tion. What a splendid sunburst it would be if the 1925 fair would symbolise two lights to the world the physical light of which the. fair is the symbol, and the single tax, twhlch would distribute the oenenis or tne fair to every man. woman and child in Oregon, and, like the tablets written on Mount Sinai, illumine the pathway of moral and spiritual progress aown tnrough tne ages, it would set light on a hill that would be a ray of nope to a etaa-gertna- and dark world. and would herald the achievement of the masses as weU as the few business men and the mechanical skill that assembled the inventions of the age. For, long after these- inventions have crumbled U ashes, this star of justice will not grow dim with distance, but will hold its radi ance, though the feeble mechanical achievements may chanre and nasa to be superceded by Inventions that to the future will look like child's play. Have tne masses advanced that far? 3. R. 'Hermann. . DISCUSSES LABOR ISSUES Appreciates The Journal's Stand for the Rights of Workers. Portland. Oct 22. To the Kdltnr nt The Journal There Is a big movement on loot ana well under way to abolish ursiuiizea moor, just as soon aa Hiu-d- ing went into office the plans which had oeen carefully laid were put into effect to reauce wages and brine about th - caiiea American nlan of "on chon. Harding and his army of-heloern are sro- lng to fight organized labor and I have utue sympathy for the laboring man, for it was largely en his part that the present administration was put in of- uce. joeing a union man. I was in a position to know how the majority of mem in my ideal voted and it was for Harding. Most of them were sore at Wilson, the man who did more for labor than any other president has done since tne JJeci a ration of Independence. I would not be surprised to see the Adam son eight-hour law repealed and the good oia KepuDiican lZ-hour shift put back into effect with wages around $3.60 a day for skilled labor. I have already heard some of the Harding voters squawking and it does me good to hear I see the railroadmen have been denied the right to quit work. This richt should have been, denied them, and aU other crafts, during the war, but the war has been won and this Is the only defense tne laDoring men have against the indus trial hogs, and where this right is de nied them In time of peace, it is an in sult to , the constitution of Ahe United States. - . - It is a blessing that the laboring class has a few papers left in the; country like The Journal, that will use their in fluence to try to bring about Justice to all, and X am sure The Journal Will with stand the Oregonian's criticism for its upholding of the laboring man. If it were a Democratic administration now instead of a Republican, I fear the Ore gon' an wouia nave to side, in with the railroad men. A Reader. COMMENT AND 'NEWS IN BRIEF . . SMALL CHANGE Wonder if pumpkin flour is what the pumpkinheads eat ' i All the "blocs, the days news proves, are not mounted fin shoulders. - The delirht of "ancaVina in- at ta circus or football game is in direct ratio to age. ., - - . ... "Can we eomnlaln?" Th aditm-tal nir. asks. Mister, you ought to hear as when we're warmed up! . t ;... ...,m. ' What becomes, in after vearW. of the football scores that were the undergrad uates' chlefeat worrianf . . e . a ... a ' . .- j Japan not to get out. of Sakhalin, sav press reports. But by her refusal aha may be getting into aJpttagriet. t Only 6o persons have been found who are nayinr taxes en - liownn aheva f 1.000.000, but there? are more than 100,- , oinera wno wouia nice ta--:--s -i We're arlad to wlynt Pmfiinr an A Foch, but we hope they don't start an- nw utue mess uxe tne one tney haa when Pershing went to France in 1917. Thank heaven. h ani-M H11 haa a few housewives who are more concerned about 'mealy potatoes than about fashion's dictates in the matter of hose ana snoes. i . In these days when the hAnaaw'f knows so comrjarativelv litrla about bread making, the bakers have us ever a i-our parrei, so to speaks 3ArshaJ ..Fo ais Araerfcan so jours' by prohibition. He" is a teetotaler, which la going further than numerous' alleged, so called very vocal- prohibitionists, who preach drouth on the streets and ex pect George to practice all the self-denial. Letters From the. People ; . SIDELIGHTS The weather Is getting mora Oregon Ish each week. Coquille Valley Sentinel. . . . . ., ... . .'. . m : , .. .. - In September retail prices dropped 1.1 per cent Of course you observed the d Iff exence.--Med ford Clarion. Grants Pass does not mean any pro fanity when It announces it will hold ,a "Dam - Celebration" in November. La Grands Observer. ;-- s ?'-.-,.-. v- -. A Medford woman reports seeing a snake with two heada That's the trouble with this home brew stuff the women acquire . the habit, too. Eugene Guard. The Germans claim to have a new gun which will shoot 2000 shots a minute. Two tnoosand anamrv eraru- ments for- disarmament right there. Albany. Democrat. . .- , . - a - Peruvian trade is faUing off, accord inr to dispatches from South America That being the case, we ' presume the well known Peruvian bark will change to a Peruvian growi. Eurene Register. Now it Is up to the railroads to reduce passenger fares and freight rates. Pub lic sentiment was against the railroad strike and was a great factor in preventing- it That same sentiment .demands that the railways get down to earth. Baker Democrat We heard a" problem In high finance and higher mathematics the other day. If bay land iav worth SI SO an acre, hay 16 a ton and ergs SO cents a dosen in other words, 12 dosen eggs equal one ton of hay how much le a good hen worth? PrineviUe 'Central Oregonian. The Oregon Country KarUtVMt atanp-ninsa in Rriet Torm far the BaayBaadat. - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town A group of nationally known contract ors arelguests of the Multnomah. They are here to look over the unemployment situation and eeeif a remedy can be found. In the party are Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Winston of Minneapolis. R. A. Schaffner of St Paul, Mr. and Mrs. Bwent to Tillamook, where he doctored S. Miller of Seattle, Mr. and Mrs. D. A Garber and Mr. and Mra F. L. Crans- ford of New York city, E. J. Harding and Karl B. Parks of Washington, D. C, and I. G. Anderson of Spokane. Mr. Winston did much of the work of build ing the Chicago, Milwaukee A St Paul railroad and Mr. Cranford is president of the . Association of General Contract ors. They spent Tuesday afternoon on the Columbia River highway. W. 8. Beekman of Puyallup is at the Portland. Puyallup is built on Esra Meeker's old land claim. I Russell Hawkins, registering from Kilchea Point in Tillamook county. Is at the Hotel Portland I Mr. and Mra W. E. Pruyn of Heppner are visiting friends in Portland, David H. Smith of Portland was In Hills boro on official business Monday, j . W. B. Clark of Reeds port is rusticat ing in the metropolis. a G. A. Edwards of Tillamook county is a Portland visitor. V " Bessie T. Huntley, of Pendleton Is, guest of the Hotel Portland. . I Mrs. P. F. Tucker of Hood River is registered at the Portland. W. L. Forsythe of Marshfield is at the Benson. a ' ' R. McBride of, Astoria is a guest of the Benson. , t- : . jiMrav Ss T,.' Kees;of Toneana is regis ter ea at tne imperial. . a J. Norton of Sutherlin is a guest of the Imperial. Mrs. M. B. Gilmore of Eugene is reg istered at the Imperial, i- J. A. Buckley of Astoria is a Portland Visitor. ' - h . 'a . a ; W. G. Hecks of Baker is at the Bed son.' Dr. C E. Linton, after a more or less adventurous voyage from Hilo, is back tn Oregon on his way home to Wald port Dr. Linton first saw the light at Toledo. Iowa. June It 1865. He came to Portland 84 years ago. From here he everybody that needed it from Nehalem to the Grande Ronde agency, including JJOipn. woods. Ore town and Slabcreek. In 1900 he went to Nome aboard the Nome City, which, with the George W. Elder, left Portland for Nome. ' He la an author and a book lover. He lost his collection of books about Oreeon and the Northwest when his bungalow was burned, destroying more than 409 vol umes of Oregonlana. He attended the World's Press congress held recently at Honolulu and was asked to speak for Oregon, though ,110 was not a regular aeiegate. nc went to tiawau w secure local color for his, forthcoming book. "The People of the Stars." . Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Morrisay, from Ketchikan', Alaska, are spending a few days in Portland and are guests of the Multnomah. a Q. P. Coshow, attorney of Roseburg, Is in i Portland to attend a meeting of the board of directors of he Masonic home at Forest Grove. a a a Joe Caswell of Pendleton is down from the Round-Up City for a brief visit in the metropolis. a a. a Morris Bien of Washington, D. C is registered at the Benson, as is also Will V. King. Mr. and Mra J. C Booth of the Hub City of the valley, Albany, are regis tered at the Multnomah Mr. and "Mra C. F. Douglas are up from Myrtle Point for a brief visit to the metropolis. a Mr. and Mrs. Milton M. Meyers, long time and well known citisens of Salem, are guests of the Multnomah. ' ... a a O. W. Kringle, no relation of Kris Kringle, Is down from Prinevllle for a few days' visit . a a . Mr. and Mrs. F. H. Harradan of As toria are- registered at the Benson. - . a t George T. Cochrane of La Grande is a Portland business visitor. . . "- OREGON , i- . . J. M. Cook, well known Junction City resident passed away at his home in.: that ctr on Wednesday. John Cosma, 22-year-old mill halid. was accidentally shot and killed - near Bandon, Sunday, by bis cousin,. Manuel Camra. A double shift is being employed at' the anUI of the CoJumbia County Lum ber company. A total of 110 men are, employed. ;- i - Scappoose wUl sell 930.000 worth of bond authorised, in August by vote of taxpayers for the construction of a new city waterworks. ; , t George H. Daavett of Medford. a thirty-third degree Mason, died in Min nesota - last - Wednesday, according to word received at his home.- . , . Fire of undetermined oricrin did dam age estimated at 150,000 last Saturday night at Baker. The principal loser was the Tri-State Terminal company, which lost 10,0) bushels Of wheat and a box car. -, . On Tuesday. November 8 a snecial election will be held in. Polk county for the purpose of voting on a proposition submitted by the county court to levy special tax or. i to.uuo lor road pur- - posea .. .. The Johnson sawmills : and the John-- aon-Anderson Logging camp that hava oeen ciosea aown in tne teeasport ais trict were due to resume operations on November V A three-weeks-old baby boy was aban doned at the Mercy hospital at Eugene last week by an unidentified couple who drove to the institution, handed the tot to a nurse and disappeared. Twenty-five thousand dollars worth of Fort Vanney irrigation district bonds have been sold to farmers within the district, whieh lies on the Rogue river three miles or so from Grants Pass. The forest service haa Just sold to John Steear of Mapleton 200,000 feet of aar timber on sweet creeks a tributary the Siuslaw river. at il ia a thou. sand feet for the manufacture of shin gles at Florence. - . Within the last fortnight 178.000 rain bow trout have been distributed from Uhe Union fish hatchery, according to I the statement of Superintendent Bunny. This distribution doses the active sea son for the hatchery. , WASHINGTON Walla Wana.si T. W. C A. eamnalrn for 110400 has ended with only 17202 suDScnDOtt, Major John Goefhala engineer officer , for. the Alswkan railroad commission, . left Seattle last week for bis bead quarters at Juneau, Three carloads of Whiter NeUla pears from the Stumyslde valley have been shipped to London on consignment that guarantees II a box net to the ship pers. Bandits robbed a freight train near Renton, Saturday. Ten men Tiding in the boxcars en rotrta, to Seattle from Eastern Washingtonfiarvest fields were victims of the robbers. Flood waters Sunday carried out the mam line logging railroad bridge of the Shafer Brothers company over the 8at sop river about six miles above its con fluence with the Chebalis, The accident average in Washington industry has mounted to 77 a day within the last two weeks, a statement by Di rector Crawford of the department of labor and industries shows.- - Max Otte Damerow was killed Satur day at a logging camp near Wickershaw when he was struck by a falling tree. He was 33 years old ana a member: or the Elks lodge chapter at Seattle. Hoboes broke into the domestic science department of the high school? at Toppenish Sunday, built a fire in the big range and prepared a meal, leaving the unwashed dishes scattered about the place. . . Three masked1 men In overalls and overcoats robbed the Sullivan nc.Greiner packing plant in Nahahum canyon Fri day night and lined p the 26 employes. from whom more than S30Q in currency, was stolen. Curious Bits of lnformiition Gleaned From Curious Places . OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley - .-. tTk. AM ft a. rirl ftM wMla Stilt yar young qualified n expert in pne of the Ore- pm coast leading industries is nsro snani v, Mr.! Lockley, who will ponne the subject tarUu-r In two sioeeedinc insUllmenta. The taenX el the story u, of eouise, teas (sndsanatal knawi dga of a craft ia not only a prereoniaiio of access but that that knowlcdcs is aaichty bkaly to be rawardad wfth recocnition and amaliitnant-j ICommaniraUoea asat to The Josroal for pubBeaUoB in this depaitmrat should ba written oa eolj on aids ef the paper, shonld mat z- eaaa soe waU as ianctn. and nv by Oa writar, aaa ntaa mil ia ioB ua maotmmom,t NO LONGERHAPPr VALLET But Might Be Mads Happier Than Ever. With Proper , Effort -. Oregon City, Oct 2L To the Editor of The Journal I have but recently re turned from a trip through Catlow. val ley, in the southern part ef Harney county, Oregon. This valley Is the scene of Anne Shannon Monroe's book, "Happy Valley, published a few years ago. The busy scenes sc vividly portrayed by the author at that time have undergone a sad change. .No. longer is the home steader to " be seen busily engaged ia clearing th land ef sagebrush, plowing and putting In his crop. Alt this has passed.-- Now nearly all of the ranches are vacant and given over to wejds, roving coyotes and jaclcrabbtts. In places the hclldings have been torn dowa and removed. I was informed by a party ia the little town of Blitsea that he had purchased three of these home stead cab ns for $100. This would not have been sufficient to pay the east of hauling the lurtber from the mills ia the northern paiVof the county to the The eagle is commonly spoken of as the largest of the birds of prey. This is wrong. The largest is the condor, a South American vulture. The Condor' is a native erf the great mountain chain of the Andes, especially in Peru and Chile. It lives In a region of perpetual snow, from 9900 to 1,000 feet above sea leveV The length of the male condor is about 43 Inches, and the span of winga, when extended, is t to 10 feet The plumage of the male Is glossy black, with gray on the wings and white on the mar' gins of the wing coverts. ., - Uncle Jeff Snow Says Andy Scroggins, our Corners garage man, was explain in' to the Corners Tour, in club f other night that when the new antos drape off f 309 ia a single year from their price it knocks 'that much off ever second-hand flivver in the coun try. - Whereupon Jed McCracken de murred, 'cause he Calklated that he'd have to pay $25 fer somebody to take his flivver away from him, bein'she paid 3275 fer it last summer, and he vowed he wouldn't do no sich a thing, never. Andy advised him to do it however, and beta's Andy has doctored the flivver fer heaves, paralysis of the carbureter, can cer of the radiator and fracture of the differential, he shore had art to know. ANATOMICAL POLYGLOT Fran tM PStebarr flulli Tinas ' Both French and English will be of ficial languages at the arms conference. Thus both mouths and hands will be utilised. , , in the days when our mothers were young, Bewlng, nursing, taking in wash ing and being a hired girl were about the only Jobs open to women. But there began an era of peaceful penetra tion by the fair and so-called f frail sex. and before the lords of creation knew it women were teachers, business sec retaries, physicians, advertising agents, editors, policewomen, attorneys and ministers, and if we don't watch out we shall be in the position of the men of Burma, where the women do not claim to be as efficient as the men but as sert they are much more so. - i a . - Not so long ago certain advanced women, such as Abigail Scott. Duniway, Dr. Owens-Adair and others of that type., were working- to secure equality of jopportunity- for the sexea Some of these days we shall have some advanced leader amomr the men working for equal opportunity for poor, downtrodden man, so ! that he can secure legislation to protect himself from ; the-Insidious . in roads of his better half. '. v-, Whoever spoke otf the female of the species as being more deadly than the male probably spoke from sad and bitter experience. But Joking aside, women have made more progress along com mercial lines in the past half century than in any other period of history. Tou will find them in the most unexpectea occupations, and. what is more, making good against the competition of Mnere man, Do you remember the little boy who, upon being ; reproached by his father for being beaten in his classes by a "mera girt "V saia, -uut lamer, he isn't so mere as yen think.' Not long ago whUe I was traveling through Coos county X met an. attract ive yownr woman on the train. I aiseo her! up as a social butterfly, but I hadn't talked to her long neiore l aiscovereo sha used her head for mora purposes than the wearing of aa attractive hat i spoke of the cheese industry of Coos county, for 1 had Just gone through a cheese factory at Coquille. She- began telling ma in a highly technical way of the cheese industry. As she described the making and the marketing of cheese I discovered I didn't know anything about it -"Ask any. of the cheeeemak- ers In Coos or' Curry county if they know of Hazel Manwarlng," aha said. They will tell vou I am. or rather was. aa expert cheeeemaker, for I am mar ried now and have given bp the nusi- nees. Nevertheless, if my husband, who is a railroad man. should be Killed on his I train, or If for any other reason I should have to earn my living, I , have a vocation mat t coma always tan back. ' upon and- one In which 1 could always make good money, j a a.. ..... - - : My father was aa cheesemaker. When I was 10 years old he bought a cheese factory near Spring Green. Wia I used to like to help him in - the factory. Z soon became so cful that he had me corns in each day after school and help him. : I also put in my summer vacations as his helper. In 1903 rather sold his factory and we came on out to Oregon. He secured a position as cheesemaker in the O. K. creamery, near Coquille. county seat of Coos county. I became his helper. When I applied to the proprietor for a position as helper he was very dubious about employing a girl to do- a man's work. He said : The trouble with girls is that they wont stay with a Job. As soon as the new wears off they- get tired - of the job and either loaf or quit However, I am willing to try you out I Will give you 330 a month as helper.' .The owner of the cheese factory came , in frequently. I noticed he was watching my work. Z had been there not over two weeks when he said, 1 dont mind telling you that you are making good i X never had anyone do the work better. I am going to put you on the payroll at 345 a month instead of 330. I doubt if any girl ever was prouder than I, for it was a great satisfaction ;to prove to him that girls could do as good work a men. ix not better. a "After working tw years at Coquille, we secured positions at better salaries at Myrtle Point where we spent two years.,. Then we were offered better places at Langlols in a cooperative cheese factory built by the farmers of Curry county. Langlois is a little dot on the map in the extreme southwestern part of Oregon. There are no railroads la the county, but In time to come, when they have transportation, it will be rec ognised as one of the leading dairy sec tions of the state. We started to work at Langlois in the spring of 1314. It a ; delight to work there. Everything was brand new and clean, and strictly modern. Father received $100 a month and ; received 3(5 a month as his helper -: j- a - a ' ... ' "That summer father became seriously ill. He had to stop work, and the farm ers were in quandary as to where to get an expert cheesemaker to take his place. Tou see. In mid-season sll of the best Cheesemakers have already been employed and it is very difficult to find a capable man to take up the work. While they were looking for a cheese maker , I went right ahead with tne work. - The board Of - directors held , a meeting to decide on what course to pur sue. I applied for the position as su perintendent and cheesemaker. Their principal objections were that I was a girl, ond that X was only 20 years of age, and that it was a position of great responsibility and that It was a man's Job. ; The selection of a capable person was most Important t them, for many people had prophesied the juew factory would not prove a success and they were anxious to make good. We were-receiv-ing between 11.000 and 12.000 pounds of milk daily, from which we were waking about 1150 pounds - of cheese each . day. Finally one of the directors said, 'She may be young, and she 'may be a girt but she's the only cheesemaker we can get hold of, and rm in favor of giving ber the place. Their oppostiion stimu lated my desire to make good. I deter mined to show them that in spite of being a girt, and in spite of being young, X could make Just as good cheese and Just as much cheese as anyone eisa,' IDAHO A total of 1750' cars from various ' parts of the country visited Caldwell tourist auto camp this season, it is reported. Assurance of the greater Fort Gall irrigation project depends upon accep tance or rejection by congress of the engineer's report- Fear that her husband has. thrown himself into the Snake river is ex pressed to authorities by Mrs. Lydla Carver of Bliss. Surfacing of 13 miles of the Twelfth navenue road out of Nam pa has been started. The work takes t the road to within a mile of Melba, About Z0 teams are employed. A double opinion of the supreme court clears for K ester T. Soule title to three mining claims in Lemhi county alleged to have been fraudulently relocated by A. F. Johnson and others. Financial difficulties connected with. construction of the bridge over the Payette river at- Emmett nave been solved and advertisements for bids will be published about December L Fish will be transplanted from canals where water has been shut off along the Boise irrigation project into the Deer Flat reservoir and sloughs west of Caldwell. The Caldwell Commercial club is in charge of the work. What I Like Best In The Journal J. BOND, 1715. Clarendon street- Its forceful advocacy of true principle; Fred Lock- ley's articles, I would not be . without, The Journal E. E. BUFFINGTON, 182 J FIsk'o street Its views on - good government and better citizenship; the market page. T. J.. SMITH, 61 East Elev- enth street north Its hon esty, fairness and patriotic sentiments. I sometimes read -Fred Lockley's articles the , second time. I prefer The"1 : Journal to any other paper in Portland. f MRS, V. .1 PLUMMER, . ; 228 ; East - Forty-first street north I read It all, andJike , it alL v ' . MRS. ROBERT KRIMS, ' 427 East Forty-fifth street t I like it all, but enjoy the editorials most. MRS. W. S. SPINNING, 383 East Forty - fifth, street north Tha general news. t J. a CORMACK. 424 East Fortieth street north The" front page, the local news and Fred Lockley's articles. , MRS. T. KITSON. 429 Main ; street Fred Lockley's arti- ' cles. v , ' - MRS. O. V. CHESNET, 305 East. Fpiiy sixth", street, I . always find what I am look tag for- In The Journal. ' MRS. .GEORGE WEBER, 415 East Forty-fifth street , - 'north I - like the general i news; my husband the want ads.; ; The Journal has been in the family ever since' it ' first appeared. -