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has- cT ft 10. THE OREGON DAILY - JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON TUESDAY. . NOVEMBER 15, " 1821. C JACKSO PnblhWt IS calm, be aaaftUat, W cbmrfal aad ! Htm m y sial kin Ua to Htf l-mMuh- mcr tMtli Sanaa Mraiai . t tin Journal MMls, B mad way Bad Xaav ViUtal at tha paaWftca at Portia ad. Orta. for tnaamaaia throh th Mil aa mill to make investigations on its own account. One of its greatest offenses in the view of bis business was its famous report on the Big Five pack era Another was Its exposure of the profiteering in shoes in which colossal profits were shown to have been made by the trust. Limitation of the commission's .powers would be a direct assault upon the American masses. It would be a direct service to American prof iteera. Thus, in this, as in very FAt-inO COAST Rfcl'HtaOCTATIT . raw, TVIa Uraraaa MUdias. r-tnIHnaii airlMlw YhH OREfeO JOL'SMA a,nttl. t roiart adtarttriB. ePT hi ealarlinfiahU, 11 alae will at too that ta sat waf Slnmlate tar ar that dpi Sns. iana tha riant aieh H Saaaat feat an at aar t'HSCKIFTION RATES Bf farrier, fit Crnintrj. DAILY AND SUNDAY Oaa tt .1 I una month. DAILY I SUNDAY Oaa nt $ .10 ) Oaa week I .1 Oaa mmth 4 I SI hUIU AU. RAT IS PAYABLE Cf ADVAXI Oaa yaar M 00 Sal BM'la. . . . ill KAn.T (Without Bandar) M a . an aMath .... 121 Tana aannth. . 1.7 Vm aixath (0 wtmi.T DAILY IMP SUNDAY S ADVANCE fUJ.i-HL.Nt Utia' 111. Aau-a.ua 0-l. tn apwami rafna Ty mm wnmoatw MATIOMAL ADVKKTIMLNU KFB F-SKN TA 1 TIVK iMMain a Kantaot Co.. Broarvkik ' VaJtdias. tfti vth avaaa. Nv Tort; j country, there are four basio ladus- """" Ti-im. V .. - I .. . . : . . : . . li ir m a ihi mrv. 1. The fuels coal, petroleum and waterpower. I. The struct urals iron ores, tim ber and cement. I. The textiles cotton, wool and hides. 4. Foods cereals and meats. Control of one or any bf these necessaries of life is a tremendous source of profit Powerful Interests seek that control. Secrecy always attends their operations. How to prevent small and power ful groups of men from gaining this control is a problem in every nation. The claim is that, through the federal trade commission, America is suc ceeding better with the problem than is any other nation. That is why there is .effort at Washington, through cunning processes, to trim the commission of its powers Senator Kenyon, Republican, of Iowa, points out the meaning of the proposed change and announces that he will fight It It is probable that he will be supported by the "Farm- he will be supported by the "farm err bloc" and most or tne Demo If congress in any way limits th? powers of the commission or does anything to deprive It of its inde pendence, the last and only barrier against the greed of the profiteer! will be gone and the country will be at their mercy. Thrr month. . Oaa month .... SUNDAY (Onlj) Ona year Kil mnatha. . . . Thraa month i . II 15 $1.00 : l.T 1.00 On rmr 110 lit mnatfca ... . WFEKI.T AND SUNDAY Oaa jaar -0 Thaa rala apnl? only tn Oka Wait Bala V EaaXvrn point fumlhd on ippl Ira ki mltUMH ar Manar omr, t- aram OnW ar Draft. If fnr BmtoffVn U ant manar-ardVr nfftra, 1 ar l-otat lUmpa trUl ha aaiatJtaA Mai all ramitlaaraa parabla tu Tha J annul Pablkhias Oaapaa;. PorUaad. Oran. Aa aanlratla 1 a iot forarar. a atoa aa anlM u laadad aauta. a tartan ha?h rah aarar athaoat aa4 which tlrat aa ar fey yaar a raraaaa ol plaaautahla ao ntf. Ta Kara man? el UMaa la to ba MrttuaU rlrh. Kobart Loan SUTtnaon. TUB riOHT NOT WON has so far failed to show any great results in halting the raids of the robbers. And certainly the warning of a crime wave failed to convince some pepoie that jewelry worn on the street Is likely to be confiscated by holdup men. COSTLT BUSINESS NORTH DAKOTA'S RECALL IF THE DAIRYMEN QUIT I 'ME American people have tri umphed in the firat round of the srmament conference. A bold and satiafactory plan for disarmament has been offered. It was proposed in the open. But the arm, conference Is far from over. In fact It Is hardly be gun. And all thst Is to be accom pli ah ed la yet to be accomplished. There will be aome very strong op poaltlon to the American- plan. Prac tical men who know what they want . . . ... .... ana now to got it will be found IF THE farmers abandon the dairy men's leaarue. thev will set back the dairy Industry In this state 10 years. If they quit, they will play directly into the hands of the organized 'in terests that brought money and men into Oregon to tight and destroy the dairymen's organization. If they quit, the Individual dairy man will go humbly to the condenser or creamery and ask the manage ment the old familiar question, "What do you pay?" It is the same old question the farmer has been asking for a century. It is the same old 'question that has made renters out of nearly half the farmers in America, as the last census will show. And the reply of the management will be, "We pay so much, no more." It will be not the reply of an in dividual buyer, but the reply of buyers operating under a gentle men's agreement, or a close corpora tion, or a tight and fast combine. The price of one will be the price of all, and It will be the same old low price which the farmer has been up against for a century and under r' IS apparently the way govern ment business is handled. But Just what justification, (there is in reason for the United States to con tinue pouring money Into battle ships that may never be completed. as Secretary Denby says we are going to'do, is not altogether clear. Cer talnly any private business conducted in that way would go to the wall overnight. The arms conference is not yet a success. It is not certain that our battleship program is to be aban doned and half-built ships scrapped But certainly there is a possibility that the arms conference will be sue cessful, and if iFls every additional nickel put into battleship construc tion, even if the American plan is adopted only in part, is just that much of the people's money thrown at the birds. : It will be contended that battle ship construction will increase the authority of our delegates at the arms conference. But it will be gen erally agreed that America pretty well established her reputation as a fight er, and as a nation willing to fight, several years ago. None of (he dele gates will forget American naval in ventions, American naval efficiency, and American naval aid in the late war. Neither will they forget Chateau-Thierry, Belleau Wood or the Argonne. None will overlook the power of America in war or peace, and the mere clatter of the riveters within earshot of Washington, work ing on battleships, will not increase one whit our prestige at the confer ence table. Such an argument is rot Moreover, it will be argued that battleship construction affords em ployment at a time when employ ment is scarce. Indeed it does. But so do road building, reclamation projects, river and harbor develop ment and various other improve ments that add to the wealth and the happiness of a country. And o road would not be built to be junked. A battleship under construction now may be junked before it is com pleted. But it costs as much money to build two battleships to be junked as it does one permanent road across the United States. , We may use the battleships that are now under construction. More likely we shall not But whether we do or not why build them at great cost when there ia a possibility that they will be sorapped within the next six months? Why throw the peo ple's money into the sea? Foes of the Non-Bartiaan League Exult Over the Defeat et What They Call By the mrrlrni nr Radical -Karnes Friends or Those Ju dicially Inclined Make Note Of Points Overlooked by Those Who Gloat 'Dally Editorial . Digest (Couohdhtes Pnaa Aiamriatioal A touch Of irony, perhaps. Ues in the circumstance by which that sharp in strument of radicalism, the recallT make officers elected by the league is hailed of radicalism Itself. The Non-partisan league of North Dakota, by the success ful recall election just held there, is "hoist by Its own petard." as a number of writers note. This defeat of the state officers elected by the league is held by two papers out of three as a victory of American democratic principles and "common sense" over "Marxism" and "Bolshevism." and as bringing to an end what the Peoria Transcript (Ind.) speaks of as "a disastrous reign of fiatism, socialism and sovietism in the .North west." Most of these writers see in the election results the certain death of the Non-partisan league and an unmistak able repudiation of its policies and program. However, as the Christian Science . Monitor (Boston, Ind.) says, "Eastern comment on the North Dakota recall election is perhaps more eager to hail the result as a complete overthrow of the Non-partisan league and its policy of stateV:ontroUed activities than the facts warrant," for the analytical scru tiny to which a substantial number of editors subject the returns develops quite another interpretation of the actual outcome. Letters From the People fCumniilBa mt tn Tha ptlbiieabcm ta thm eepaJtaaaat ahooMba nrtttaS ob ODlr arm tin ml tha papar ahavld sot as cend 100 onh la humh, ami ma ba aWacd by to writer, won mail a imam aa xau the ooBrrtMirvm-i North Dakota, the Buffalo Express (Ind. Rep.) explains, "has been attempt ing a practical experiment in commun ism not very different, except for the class of people on whom It depended, from Russian bolshevism. About every thing, except the farms, was state- owned." And "whether in Russia after the Lenin idea, or in North Dakota after the Townley idea, this theory in prac tice always, according to the Spring field Union (Rep.) "runs on into failure." defeating itself, the Memphis Commer cial Appeal (Dem.) explains, "through its Inability to make performance meas ure up to promise" ; for, the Philadel phia Record (Dem) adds, "economic laws and human nature assert their dominance in the long run." It was the people of North Dakota, the New York Herald (Ind.') remarks, who went into this "program of socialism, industrial, commercial and financial," and they west in "deliberately, temperately and legally at the polls." Then they "la bored at it diligently and patiently, put their best intelligence into it and made large sacrifices for it" But it failed, and now the people of North Dakota have voted themselves out of it and "as the Non-partisan league was born, so it dies." the New York Times (Ind. Dem.) finds, "of popular discontent" a a a A WORLD MONROE DOCTRINE This Formula Prescribed as Necessary to Universal tsing Peace. Portland. Nov. It To the Editor of The Journal From everywhere in this country, from church, labor and civic organisations and from a great majority of newspapers and msgasinea, goes out the booe that the conference on arma ments may accomplish a lessening of the burdens of "preparedness" and pave the way to peace in the world. The same hone comes from all nations. The expressions given out by delegates from Great Britain. France, Italy, Japan and China show good intentions and a hope for accomplishment The "idealist" is everywhere in evidence. Much fine language and exalted senti ment come from the statesmen of all nations. That these utterances are sin cere we must grant That there is a strong wish and a hope in all the world that something may be done to end war goes without saying. But 'how if shall be done is a practical proposition Love is a most potent element in gov erning the conduct of man; yet fear is still the most potent element And this applies to nations as welt The United States has maintained the Monroe doc trine for a hundred years, and how? Through love that other nations have of Uncle Sam? Not at alt It is because of fear. Nations respected the Monroe doctrine because they feared a violation thereof would excite the fighting blood of Uncle Sam. So that it may be taken as an axiom that in order to stop war and bring about peace the big nations of the world, including the United States, must join In an announcement to the world of a new "Monroe doctrine,' If this Washington conference succeeds it will be through just such an announce ment Then there- will be no need - of armaments, B. F. Wilson. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE Cold anna In tHa Kant t aim aiiiuKlii in the West You know the BsoraL surely. a n Does a forcer, we wonder, hava a fal setto voice just because he utters false notes? nan In the parlance of the collen lads, tha senate should yet find a way to give uio raspoexry. a Sall right little bov. don't m may be a secretary of state as popular Las Mr. Hughes some day. a a There are aotne thtar mm combination of good reading matter, a' warm fire and a comfortable home. j a a Money, desnite its non-expanslvaj phys ical qualities, is one of the best little me diums extant for swelling the heads of men. a a n While we sit back in our easy chairs and prate smartly about the degree of our civiliration, the tenement house re mains to harbor our kind. mm If the tailors really would strike It might aid us in carrying out our threat to make last winter's overcoat do us for the present season. a Municipal expenses In Portland are higher than the average. But look at the nice large mayor and commissioners we get for our money out here. The man who described a fine large evening as "clear as a bell, cold as hell !KliSB5 llki? dn--on,' must have lived in Nebraska or Iowa on Just such a night aa we had in Portland Monday. SIDELIGHTS Who remembers when there were tm detour signs and one road was about as bad as - another Roseburg News-Review. a Ton can buy plenty of expert testl Shony far aa in any ease, and the loos est purse will secure the largest grist oc ii uAisey uterprue, I The fellow who sings and whistles at work may be happy, but he Incites mur der in the hearts of everybody around him. La Grande Observer. a a a The best proof of In tall trance ta when a man admits he Is wrong. Ignorance feels too Insecure to make such sn ad mission. Washington County News Timea a a a This kind of weather and conditions we are having in Haines now make a lot of fellows sorry ihey sold Liberty bonds last year to buy silk shirts. Silk shirts were high then and bonds were low and now conditions and prices have been reversed. Haines Record. . One student the other day was asked to name three of the most prominent features of Eastern Oregon. The an swer was : The Ontario Crane branch of the Oregon Short Line, the Dog Mountain oil wall and BUI Hanley. Crane American. a a There can be no question concerning the improved outlook for gold mining. After many years of depression, due to the depreciation of its value, operations are gradually but surely coming back to normal, with every probability that the industry Is entering an era of sustained prosperity Baker Democrat .The Oregon CoGntry Kactha Baspnimsa in Brial Farm tat Urn DEAD HEROES AND LIVING Severe Arrignment of a Government Portland, Nov. 10. To the Editor of The Journal Having just read In to day's Journal of the honor paid the un known soldier, and on another page that 9000 ex-service men are out of work, I , wonder If the soldier honored today chose to return to this earth what wpuld be his opinion of the consistency of a MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Writing to a friend in Oregon, under date of November 10, from J15 Boyle avenue, St Louis, Mrs. A. J. Montgom ery, whose husband was formerly pas ter of a Presbyterian church in Port land, writes: "When we lived in Ore gon we were satisfied with everything. We knew it had superior fruits, splendid laws, wonderful forests, great rivers, magnificent mountains and lovely flow ers. It seemed to us Oregon had within its boundaries all that was necessary to make life ideally happy. New here Is where the rub comes. AH the above is true Oregonlana know It we know It but it is not known throughout the country. Since living In St Louis and be ing In Chicago and New York, we realise there is no Oregon spirit no oneness of purpose. There- are Hood River apples. not Ore ron apples from Hood River. Re- great nation showing the world her ap preciation of her hero dead while al-' cently there was a full window of Kings lowing 9000 of hla living hero comrades . dehydrated goods. They exploited Kings, among the opposition. Men will jx poee the proposal because they are financially interested In Its fallure.1 whlch he haa Deen drlven lnto a poslr Men win oppose it Decaute tney be lieve there should be no agreement between this country and other coun tries. They will oppose it for other reasons. tlon where he Is fighting with his back to the wall. If the dairymen quit, the ground they have gained will be lost and it will take a long 10 years for It to Tney wtuet up obstacles to adop- i be regained. California dairymen tlon of the plan. They will devise were confronted in the beginning ways to combat It. They will at- with the same troubles, but they Such weather as the people of the Eastern states have been enjoying this fall is enough to make them emi grate to Oregon, where they can have ft Just like that every fall. TOMORROW tempt In various ways to bring about its defeat. Moreover, diplomacy works In de vious ways. There are always a few open sessions even at closed confer ences in which staged scenes are en acted for public consumption. But much of the work Iff done in the dark, especially after the public has been lulled Into lethargy. It is pos sible that the present conference might fall, back to such a status. To offset the pressure of the men who will oppose, the American plan and the diplomats who may oppose and prefer to work clandestinely, the American public must remain mili tant There can not safely be a slack ening of the public tension. There cannot safely be a lapse in public sentiment To date the people have won their fight. They demanded that the ses sion, be called. It was called. They demanded open sessions. So far the sessions have been open, "piey de manded a comprehensive limitation (armaments. A comprehensive Uml tatlon has been proposed. If It Is to be adopted the people cannot for one moment ea.e their pressure. It is their fight, and, they wil? have to fight And the fight la by no means won. stuck to their organization, and it Is now one of the best managed and most successful farmers' organiza tions among the many highly suc cessful cooperative organizations in that state, coming now to be noted as a paradise for fruit, dairy, poul try add other farmers. Nobody denies that there have been bad management too much over head and possibly extravagant in vestments. But they are things that can be corrected. One thing is cer tain: No dairymen's league was re sponsible for the business depression or the otherwise discouraging condi tions that have stood so much in the way of a profitable dairy or other farming Industry. If the dairymen qui?, nobody will be so happy as the dealers and man ufacturers who have been fighting to destroy the dairymen's league and who have been pocketing the lion's share of the fruits of the dairymen's labor for years. An onion sandwich, composed of two slices of rye bread and a slice of onion, cost a guest 65 rents in a hotel, plus IB vents for a Up to the waiter. Klcha-d Spillane. who tells the story, wan s to know how. at such prices, the farmers can be com plaining of hard times. For the onion In- the SO cent i&ndwtch. the farmer may have received $3 a sack, leas freight, less commUsiona. less Portland has to furnish artificial causes for an earthquake after alt It was merely the deep laid blasts incident to excavation for the base ment of a new furniture factory that shook the homes and aroused the fears of east side residents. But there sre.no complaints. Portland Is always willing to be kept stirred up by progress. AT WORK A YOUNG girl was reported kid naped on Portland streets Sun day night, thrown into an automobile by four gangsters, and driven to an unknown fate. THE great organization which be gins in Portland tomorrow Its annual national sessions was the chief influence in securing the rural free delivery, the parcel post, the department of agriculture with its secretary as a cabinet officer, the in terstate commerce commission, the agricultural experiment stations in connection with land grant colleges, and numerous other measures in be half of the agricultural population of America. It was the national grange that after securing legislation in various states regulating warehouses, car ried a number of cases to the United States supreme court and there ob tained decisions laying down the principle that some institutions high erto regarded as private are of public league' character and therefore subject to public regulation. The early laws for regulation of freight and passen ger fares in many states were the direct results of agitation led by the granges of the country. The great constructive record of the organiza tion and its achievements in behalf of agriculture make Its national meeting in Portland a matter of much moment to this Western country. In other days, "granger" and "Rube" were terms applied by. the thoughtless in cities to the men who lived and moved in the rural dis tricts. There was less realization then than now that the so-called granger" fed the country, grew the raw materials that clothed it and. altogetrteY, made life possible. In the. war, when- the appeals went out from Washington, and those other appeals that came over the sea. for the farmers to produce, produce, produce, it came to some who had never thought of it before, that From a man and his wife, rob sack age, less hired help, less Interest bers collected approximately ISO in on the Investment, less his own cost1 cash and nearly $2000 more in -jew- of living and less a lot of other things. Why ask the farmer why an ta cent onion sandwich? ' THE SCUTTLE RS elry. Another couple lost some cash and a valuable ring to footpads. A lone man was assaulted with a baseball bat and robbed by bandits. Those were the orominent vnt. T WASHINGTON, there Is a plan of the evening's revelry by the crim- deprive me leaerai trade com- inal elements Sunday. The day be ! SJhlshlna.tk.an.awn. . . mission of Us Independent character ; and make it subordinate to the de partment of Justice. If this plan Is carried out. the com mission will merely be an tnvestiga- tion division f the department, a sort of sideshow under direction of Attorney General Daugherty. It is one of several plans that have been broached for hamstringing the commission.- . . - The commission bow baa' authority It is, however, Indicative of the "un settled state of political opinion in the community," the Baltimore Sun (Ind. Dem.) believes, that "the decision has been -determined by a small majority." That the defeat of the league was achieved by so narrow a margin strikes the Johnstown Democrat (Dem.) as "re markable," in view of "the tremendous forces arrayed against them." which were so powerful that the very fact that the league "escaped complete extermina tion is a tribute to its staying powers which may well sober the victors." The Houston Chronicle (Ind.) explains the small majority by "the natural disin clination of all people to reflect on public officers by recalling them." While, as the New Orleans Times Picayune (Ind. Dem.) says, the league "was beaten by a muoh smaller majority than Its oppo nents expected," 'nevertheless, remarks the Boston Transcript (Ind. Rep.), "'tis enough, 'twill serve." a a a Although both the Topeka Capital (Rep.) and the Fort Worth Star Tele gram (Ind. Dem.) state that on the fac of the returns a majority of the farmers voted for the league, the St Paul Pio neer Press (Ind.) finds that "North Dakota farmers have decided that so cialism is not the means of redress for their just grievances." It was given "every conceivable opportunity to prove Itself," the Saginaw News Courier (Ind.) Is convinced, but "it failed so dismally that the same voters who authorised it have found themselves obliged to repu diate it, and this they have done un mistakably." The result of the election indicates "quite clearly" to the Okla homa City Oklahoman (Dem.) "that the voters of North Dakota have tired of the chimerical schemes and the disas trous policies of the Non-partisan ; in short as the Wheeling In telligencer (Rep.) expresses it the state has "legally desocialized itself." a a a Howevf r,- any rejoicing over the col lapse of league policies takes on some thing of the nature of "a premature wake," as the New York Globe (Ind.) puts it because "the assumption that this is the' end of North Dakota's ex periment is probably not justified." since, the Ithaca Journal News (Ind.) points out "the principles which underie that experiment have not yet been repu diated." It was "a 50-50 victory," says the Sioux City Tribune (Ind.), and "in stead of being the intended wrecking of the Non-partisan league, the election is merely a rebuke to certain leaders of the league." resulting, as the Spring field Republican (Ind.) expresses it. In "a housecleanlng of personnel rather than of economic theories or practical measures." Because of the defeat of propositions to abolish the league's, in dustrial program, coincident to the re call of its officeholders, "the new ad ministration." the Rjttsburg Gazette (Rep.) informs us, "will be bound by we same set of laws under which the old ones acted." In effect, what hap pened, as, interpreted by the Minnesota Star, an independent paper of Minne apolis sympathetic to the league. Is that the people of North Dakota, while retir- to endure enforced Idleness because this great nation stubbornly refuses to ap propriate every dollar of excess profits gained by war, thereby securing a sum sufficient to properly care for the maimed and helpless, and by inaugurat ing public works give employment to every able-bodied ex-soldier. Perhaps he would be accompanied by the soldier who a short time ago in a fit of de spondency, caused by ill health and lack of work, bo conducted himself as to lead the officials to show the public appre ciation of live heroes by locking him In Jail, where he committed suicide. As the two dead heroes saw the 'Pecksniffs' place flowers on the casket that con tained the nothingness that was once the body of a soldier they would doubt less decide this nation thought It less costly to honor one hero dead than show her sincerity by providing a means of livelihood for thousands of live heroes. and as they turned in disgust they would have recalled the fact tkat by their works ye shall know them. T. E. M. BRAIN STATISTICS Vancouver. Wash.. Nov. 14. To the Editor of The Journal In the Literary Digest for November 5. page 17, ap pears the following: "Thirteen years is the average intellectual age of Ameri cans fit for military service. So the psy chologist said after examining 1,700,000 army recruits. Of our 100,000,000 people it is reckoned that less than one third are above this average and only 4Vh per cent are of superior intellect" This conclusion is put forth by Dr. Goddard in his Princeton lectures and analyzed by Dr. Paul Poponoe in the Journal of Heredity. Can you conceive this calamity? The intellectual status of some 70,000,000 of our people is no ihigher than that-of a normal child of 13 years. The brain of an additional 30. 000,000 is of better, but not good, qual ity, and but 4.500,000 of our people are of "superior Intellect" Election returns prove that Dr. Goddard's figures are conservative. J. Harold. but pot Oregon. ' Just 'From Oregon, U. S. A' In fair sized type. , uniformly printed on each advertisement would add the needed state pride. 'Mlstland' Is attractive to us,' but not distinctive. Before the ls5 fair, get the good old state together. I wish every leader in business could live east long enough to pet 'California Products rubbed into his eyes, and to be asked : Is Port land In California? Is there no way to ge good old Oregon, U. 8. A, Into the minds of the people There la: let busi ness say (in every ad. from Ladd Til- ton's bank In our magazines to the very least ad) "From Oregon. U. S. A. m m m Rose McGrew of the department of music at the state university Is visiting m Portland. a a Miss Julia Cook of Pendleton is num bered among Portland visitors. a - Arthur Collins of Goldendale, Wash ington, is among out of town visitors. a a a L. L. Thomas, who has a mnsio store at MarshOeld. is a Portland visitor. A. C. Dixon, well known resident of Eugene, is in Portland on business. www Peter B. Flynn of Eogene ia visiting Arthur Curry in Portland. A W. Smith is here from Wolf Creek on a business visit A CORRECTION Sumpter. Nfyv. 11. To the Editor of The Journal I notice in The Journal of November 9 an account of Captain West and it states his services at the front with the 162d infantry. Please get the number correct The 162d did not get to the front at all, though most of the old Third Oregon did. I have noticed the same statement in our paper before, so take the liberty to correct same. Frank C. McTavish, M Company, Third Oregon. everv nation owes its existence to the man out on the land, that cities " "if fPmr of"cni; "T ML would vanish and nations topple but fore, they operated with considerable success. It was not different the day before that And it will not likelg oe different this week. There was much talk and.' sup posedly, some preparation against "a raid by the robbers this winter. But hero is a report of a girl kidnaped from the street and large losses In holdups at hand. And winter Is not yet hero, - - v Tha most recent police experiment for the fanner. : The national grange was organised tn December, 117, by O. EL Kelly and six others. For the first four years, the growth was slow. In 1871, the movement began to gain head way and within a year it had over 10,000 subordinate granges. In 1S75. Ijts membership had grown to 1,500, 000, distributed through every state in the Union. Its early activities were directed against railroad rates and discrimination, trusts, transac tions in grain futures, oleomargarine and other things la antagonism with farm life. j For more than' half a century, the grange has been a useful and -grow tog social and industrial influence. Residents of the Cspital City visiting In Portland Include Mrs. Joseph H. Al bert. Mrs. J. C. Griffith. Mrs. John Rob erts. Miss Alta Jones and Mr. and Mrs. T. Llvealey. m m m Fred W. Wilson of The Dalles is a Portland visitor, registered at the Hotel Portland. a a a Lawrence T. Hofer, son of Ernst Hofer, former newspaper man of Salem, is registered at the Portland. a a a Albany residents in Portland Inolnde P. A, Young. Mr. and Mrs. Mack Moa teith and Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Fish. a a Faun Hegler. who handles the key for the Western Union at North Bend, is spending a few days in Portland. a Mrs, E. P. Hawkins and Mrs. D. L. Moore of Astoria were recent visitors u Portland. Among those registered at the Im perial are A -W. Sharp and Archie Campbell of Silverton. i a a a R. M. Coaley of Brookings' Is at the Imperial. a a a F. C Blgelow of Medford is a Port land visitor. a a a Mr. and- Mrs. W. D. Hoe te tier of The Dalles are Portland visitors. a a Mr. and Mrs. H. R. Knight of Eugene are at the Imperial. a a a H. J. Larsen of Salem is transacting business in Portland. a a a Mrs. D. t Wilson of the Capital City Is visiting friends In Portland. a a M. B. Burnett of Heppner is a Port land visitor. a a a F. T. Byrd of Pilot Rock is a guest of the Oregon. James E. Lynch of CorvsJlis is regis tered at the Imperial. a a Frank Barrett of Albany is at the Im perial. a a Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Koser of Ante lope are guests of the Imperial. OREGON t Among pensions granted at Washing ton last wk is one for Sarah C Craw--ford of McMinnvUle for $10. The Ttgard Community club has re organised and elected officers for tho coming year. E B, Neddry is presi- oeat. Albany's Citv eounrdl nt its matln last week voted an official Indorsement or medusa exposition to be held at Portland. For the year 13 the total amount of state market road funds Available to the venous counties will be approximately i.,s.ua. Three sawmills, three ahlnrla mm ajkd five logging camps are runnlrur at full capacity In the Flora no district of western Lane county. Members of the Irving Improvement club of Karen have oootrsj Lhir Inter ests and purchased S&00 prun trees for planting this fall and spring. By a, majority of over &00 the people 0 county defeated the measure c...ng for a special (70.000 levy for the purpose of improving the roads. Ninety-two students have been sus pended from the University of Oregon for non-payment of laboratory fees. Sev eral honor students are among the num ber. The city of Reed port is making ar rangements to issue refunding bonds, the prooeeda of which will be used to take up outstanding warrant and Indebted ness of the city. The commercial crop of pears for the Medford district of th Rogue river val-" ley has been shipped to the Eastern markets. These shipments numbered If 0 cars as against 7tl cars last year. So great is the demand for Yellow Newtown apples in England that th London Graphic has written to th Hood River Commercial club for data and photographs, also particulars about Hood Klver valley. For the first time since 1)17 all rail roads tn Oregon have granted apeciai reduced rates to alumni and former stu dents of the University of Oregon wbo will journey to Uugene, November lt-ZO, for the annual homecoming. Th only radium in Oregon oataid of th city of Portland was used last week by Dr. E. E. Fisher, Salem physician. in treating a cancerous growth on a roman patient from Oregon City. Th amount held in tour tiny namdies, cost $1000. WASHINGTON Nominations bav been mad for a mayor, two councilmen and a treasurer of th city of Washougai, the election to be neid December . At White Salmon -last Thursday fir destroyed th Laurel box factory and the enure contents or the ad)oitung warehouse, causing a loss of $Ia,0O0. With legal business Increasing at th rat of IfuOO a year. Yakima attorney a ar urging th county commissioners to allow the sheriffs office more help. Surveys are being mad tn the. He it - man annex, Hoqulam. for the sewer sys tem which has been a matter of discus sion in the city council for several year. Th supreme court of tha TJnlted Bute has upheld tha right of th city of Saatue to oust jitney busses from competition with th municipal street railway. A voluntary petition in bankruptcy has been filed by Warren N. Sine, pro prietor of the sawmill at Goldendale. Liabilities are listed at 11S.71HS and assets at $3450. Cecil M. Carahangh of Kansas City died In a hospital i Seattle Friday as the result of an automobile accident in which C. A. Barbe. also of Kinmi City, was Instantly killed. Ella Woodland of Ritrvitle has been awarded a verdict of $00 damages against George N. McCollom. sheriff of Adams county, for alleged illegal seis- uro ana sale or personal property. Two markers ax being placed on th historic Mullan military road in the eastern part of the state, on on th Palouse highway and th other on th Apple highway running out of Spokane. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley (Aa expert ia diamond ia iaterrirnwl by Mr. LocUey- He tell him about mathoda of mining- in Sooth Africa.' about diamond Prioaj at different period and about U point that a food diamond poawisea KNOWING THE BUSINESS From the Benton County Conner "I have to do other people's thinking all day long and I'm dead tired at night." said a woman clerk in one of the Corvallis department stores. She sells materials for dresses, coats, cur tains, etc. "Will it fade, or shrink, or wear well?" are among the numerous queries. Customers expect her to know the what why and how of the goods she sella Often it is new material and the clerk says she knows no more about it than the customer. Undoubtedly many foolish questions are asked in the process of buying, but Henry M. Weiss, salesman at Aron son's, was married. In Portland 21 years ago to Miss Sadie Asher, a well known soprano. 'We left .Portland not long after we were married and came back three veara aro." said Mr. Weiss. "My two children are in high school here tn Portland. About the time the Boer war started I came to New York city from the Klmberly diamond mines. I trav eled all over the United States, dealing in diamonds. A good many people bf the classes whose fortunes are subject to great fluctuations pawn their diamonds and are unable to redeem them. I would visit all the pawnshops in the city, pick up at a bargain old jewelry and diamonds, and either sell the,m to dealers or dispose of them privately. I bought a pigeon blood, ruby once for 25 pounds and later sold it to Colonel Andrews of the Diamond Palace In San Francisco. I happened to be passing his place. He was stand ing in the doorway and saw the ruby on my shirt front He stopped me and said. If that pigeon blood ruby you are wearing is as good as it looks, I'll give you $1000 for it' It weighed SH karats and it cost me $125, so I took the thou sand. I bought a very fine diamond once for $1250. I sold It later to Harry Miner of Miner's theatre in New York city for $5500. This was at the time man people themselves ar industrious and goodhearted people. a a a "Lots of fine gems are coming In now from Russia and elsewhere across the waters. Many of them ar smuggled in by emigrants through Ellis island. At the time your father and mother were engaged diamonds could be bought at $126 to $150 a karat Today they are worth $500 or more, while a real canary diamond brings as high ss $1000 a karat A yellow diamond does not sell for as much as a pure whit one, but real canary diamonds are rare. Another dia mond that is very valuable is the one that Is the color of ocean water a deli cate Jolue. Nine-tenths of the diamonds if the clerk can't be depended upon to know about the goods, who can? The wnen Terry McGovern fought Dixon. t It Is remarkablo that in the city where the world's greatest ; states men hava assembled to. make war ta war, brains are tha only weapons. , the new ones, in the clearest possible words: We want the Non-partisan in dustrial program to continue. We t rpect you to. take it over, ind we shall judge you by what yon do with if." What was the reasoning behind this peculiar verdict? the Newark News (Ind.) asks. Probably, it argues, "that the state-owned institutions were not In themselves bad. but - have been badly managed, and that At men who claimed to have business ability superior to that of the Non-partisan league leaders should be put in charge." The Kansas City Star (Ind.) agrees that the situa tion" demanded "more effective leader ship." and' to that end the personnel was altered. .In brief, the Mobile Regis ter (Dem.) adds, "the proposition is to give the league idea a new lease of life, but to eliminate politics, speculation. waste and extravagance," while the "ex periments" go on. So "Governor Fraxiesr and his Non partisan league cohorts" go to join all the "grim old cranks who were ahead of their day and generation, who ...ed tot having received the promise;" but, the Emporia Gazette (Ind.) assures ua, "the promises come, nevertheless, even though the reaper is a different man from tho sower." customers Include people from all walks oi uie. iney are ousy wiui uieir vari ous jobs. They may not have had the time or opportunity to learn even the simplest things about materials. They like to 4end on another's knowledge and the clerk,, being irl the business, is supposed to know.' Instead of feeling disgusted by th ignorance of the shop per, why not feel elated with th trust and faith placed in the clerk? It is a wonderful thing to fill the expectations of those about you. Whatever the busi ness, those connected " with it "will do well to know everything possible about it BUT SHE ALWAYS WAS QUEER fYaaa th Altaams Gaxatta Miss Patterson, the Pine Bluff teacher who woaj the St Louis Globe Democrat's beauty "contest refused to sign movie contracts and returned ta the classroom. It's a pity that a girl with brains enough to make a decision like that can't be induced to go into, the movies. : Miner had won a lot of money on the fight and was feeling jubilant He saw this diamond, which weighed t karats. In tay shirt front and he offered' me $5500 for It which -1 accepted. - " T dont care far Germany. I there many years, before the war. stepped up. to an army officer one day on the street and asked, him to direct me to a certain number and street He drew himself up and said, 1 am an army officer. Ask the policeman.' I said. 'In my country, the United States. If we ask a civil question of anyone we get a civil answer.' It made him very angry. H shook his fist in my face and said. "But you are not tn the United States : you are in Germany.' Bat guess tha World war changed the atti tude of the German officers. The Oer- A, Pleading guilty to holding up 14 har vesters returning to Seattle In a box car recently. William Gaddy. II. and Earl Meyers. 21. both of Seattle, were sen tenced to serve three years In the Mon roe reformatory. Petition for permission to reduce rates on electricity for cooking purposes sup plied to Washington points by the North west Electric company of Portland has been filed with th department of publio works at Olympla. Armistice day at Tacoma centered about the last rites for Corporal Leon ard A. Hitter, a Tacoma boy who fell at Blanc Mont. France, October 5, 11 . More than 1000 veterans, representing 1$ organisations, took part in the mili tary funeral. IDAHO A drive has been started by the Idaho Farm Bureau federation for 25,000 new members. Approximately tOO taxpayers have registered at Nampa to vota on the pro posed 10-yeax street Improvement bond issue. Word is received at Boise that west bound freight on several commodities used liberally In Idaho will be lowered within SO or 40 days. ,mva awa,. .uv-amuuiB V KM O U1SI I IV I Hi I y jmt . a. . . South African diamond fields, which are owned and operated by the DeBeers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. They refuse to let the markat be flooded. a a "The cost of production of diamonds has been increasing steadily. When the mines in South Afrtea were first oper ated the diamonds were picked up on the the surface. Today many of the mine shafts range from 2000 to 2000 feat in depth,- The diamonds are found In blue j clay, a soft rock The clay is allowed i to weather till It disintegrates, when the aiamonos are recovered by washing the i crumbling clay in huge machin which I retain the gravel and diamonds. The gravel and rough diamonds are spread on tables over which water flows. Ex pert sorters pick out the diamonds from the gravel. There ar more than 25.000 Kaffirs at work In th diamond mines. a a a "There Is a waste of about $0 per cent in cutting diamonds. In other Words, a diamond la the rough. ' weighing 2H karats, whea cut makes a 1 -karat dia mond. Probably the first requisite of a diamond Is brilliancy, which means light refraction through the 51 facet of the properly cut diamond. The next requisite is color. A colorless diamond Is the diamond of commerc. Th black diamonds ar used In drilling. Th blue whit diamonds ar probably th moat expensive. Many diamonds called per fect have slight flaws that can be de tected only w ith a powerful glass. The moat common flaws that detract from a diamond's value are fissures, bubbles, clouds, carbon feathers and slight twists ta the grain. The two things that s purchaser should secure are brilliancy and color." Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places Tibetans, who are perhaps the most primitive and unchanged branch of the China race, and adhere closest to the ancient customs, make tea with batter and salt ta place of milk, and sugar. The butter, according to ' F. Klngdon Ward in the Wide World magazine. Is apt to be hairy, owing to the playful method of 'manufacture. which consists in kicking around a. yak skin of milk, tho hairy side of the skin being turned In. The drink, ne says, is Pleasant enough, though to really appracJaUe itj one wants to look upon ft as soup and not ad tea. The beverage, which ia a frothing, chocolate-colored fluid. Is on of the staples of Tibetan fare, and no Tibeianr'Vver travels without his wooden box of butter, his brick of tea and ltttl bag of gtitty salt Oregon By 1. J. W. There is strencth ia Ox Orvraad with ataraal Thar hy k tai ha ha warn tha rtpplm flaw. . fan fa Bf a hi th- An) to ah th Daaias ft: Tbara ia naaatv far ail ia th rrnitfal Ug. And th run 9ns .is awes, - JrorUaad. ' Oetabar SO. Uncle Jeff Snow Says It looks ilk an th highbrow states men has been a-tookin' fer a chance or a excuse.' or a order, to quit buildin' warship. They're like Colonel Judson King down ia Texas fore Bryan was heard of. He toted two sixshooters around summer and winter fer It year 'cause his mortal coemy. TolUver Me Crue, carried the same. The Ualtod States marshal ketched 'em a-ahootin at one another one day in San An tone and disarmed both of 'era at oncet They agreed then and there to quit Th mar shal pinted out to m that their guns was outer date, anyhow, and , one or two funerals ia their ressectiv faml Ueafd oost a heap. So they bothahack basat aad tuck a mint Jules) " Gage of St Maries was sentenced to on to it years at hard labor in the peni tentiary. Most of the farmers of Northern Idaho are still holding their wheat in the hop of better prices or reduced freight rates, snd financial conditions ar said to b exceptionally poor. The Murtaurh irrigation district has filed application for state water for power development purposes and speci fications and plans show that It 00 horsepower will be generated. Purchasers of state lands are un able in many Instances to meet their obligations and the state commissioner Is granted authority, to recommend ex tension of 121 payment Th land board will decide. each individual case. I What I Like Best In The Journal D. B. FROM AN, 45 Insley street The general news for accuracy, the editorials tor their attitude toward laboring men and Fred Lockley's arti cles for their information. IX C SHAW, 1042 East Seventeenth street The edi torials and all the features. I regard The Journal as the leading paper of Portland. . a J. PARKER. 112 East Sixteenth street Its demo cratic principles, its position on the reduction of arma ment and of taxation, tho ac curacy of the general sews aad th carrier service. MRS. V. A. BUNTZEL, If S East Eightieth street north An. The general news bast. The Journal ta accurals) aad can be depended upon. MR8. .R. J. MORELOCK, 1(7 East ' Eightieth street north t hava taken Tha Journal far years and like it better than any other paper I have tried. MISS A. M. ATL8WORTH. lit - East f Eightieth street north Front page sews and ' tiioTUiM.',, , ; - " ; . Hava yon f orwarded your opin ion? Include name and addreaa. i i! 1 "I i I 5' 4 i 'i