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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL; PORTLAND, . OREGON
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county's charity fund had been ex
hausted, even after several transfers
to it from other accounts.
The bureau Is also a beneficiary of
the Community Chest. But the Com
munity Chest's allocation to the fam
ily relief agency has likewise been
exhausted in the attempt to meet an
unanticipted Increase in the pleas of
poverty.
Some emergency step will, of
course, be taken either by the county
commission or the Community
Chest. The hand of Portland's lib
erality to the poor is not'likely to be
closed. Portland will not stand by
and see children hunger and, the
aged without shelter.
But let no more potatoes be
(Tumped into the garbage can at the
city jail because they are small. SET
hundred families who have com
mitted no crime save that of invol
untary poverty need them, even if
the county's well-fed prisoners do
not.
A piece of California is a piece of
gold, says Arthur Brisbane, who adds
that 50,000,000 people will find
homes in the State of the Bear. If
the prediction is realized it will take
about 25,1100,000 peoplf on the farms
of Oregon to furnish subsistence for
the new Californians.
IN JAIL
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greater lire trap than s tenement
house, no more dangerous residence
for human beings.
But New York is filled with tene
ments. They, house a great portion
of the population. They are tenanted
because they are cheap. And be
cause they are cheap they are
cheaply built, house many and col
lapse in a fire.
Most of those who lost their lives
were foreigners. They are the ones
who largely inhabit the tenements.
They come here ' to work at low
wage.
Some, perhaps, were imported by
American industrial captains to com
pete against the wages demanded by
American workers. They cannot pay
the high rents. So they are huddled
together in flimsy tenements, there
to burn to death, if Fate so wills, in
the : fire that . ever menaces such
structures.
Portland, unfortunately, was short
sighted in constructing her streets.
She was short-sighted in. other plans
for the city that has been erected
here. But let her by no means be
short-sighted in preparing against
the contingency of her homes being
converted into tinseled tenement
traps, reared to serve, but in reality
to threaten the unfortunate human
beings, foreign or native, who are
lured to inhabit them.
LENIN'S BID FOR
RECOGNITION
the words were abbreviated to "Ded.
LaL" -Ded." easily became corrupted
mte "dead," and hence the singular
phrase for describing the mariner's "de
duced" position on the high seas.
His Offer to Pay Debts of Czar Regime
and Hake a Bargain He Will Carry
Out, in Exchange for Russia's Re
habilitation by Outside Means.
Generates Added Incredulity in
Some Editors' Minds Others
Hopeful and Advise Giving
the Proposal a Trial.
Daily, Editorial Digest-
(Consolidated Press Association) " 1
The offer of the soviet government,
which, as quoted by, the Chicago News
(Ind.), is "to acknowledge the old czar
ist debts contracted before 1914. to make
a binding agreement toward paying
them off within a certain period, and
to negotiate at a conference an eco
nomic accord between soviet Russia and
the powers that are willing and able to
promote the economic rehabilitation of
Russia for their own benefit as well as
for hers," is interpreted in most -American
papers as a frantic effort to secure
a lifeline that will save the Bolshevik,
administration. Not only are the wil
lingness and ability of Russia to pay
these debts seriously questioned, but the
singleness of purpose in making the offer
is a matter of grave doubt, many writers
regarding it as merely a bribe, an ef
fort to 'buy for cash," as the Detroit
Free Press (Ind.) puts it, "a status
among the nations which they are not
willing to grant upon the merits of the
Russian case." A minority opinion,
however, holds that, whatever the do
mestic situation impelling such an offer,
it should be seriously considered by the
powers to which it is made.
Letters From the People
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
Nit man eaa learn patience eicept by
lf( out Into the hurly-burly world and
taking life hut aa It blows. Beecher.
THE BARRED DOORS
THE problems of the arms con
ference are far from solved. The
meet la hardly under way. No defi
nite accomplishment can be cata
logued. A splendid proposal has been made.
It was made brilliantly, frankly, and
In the open. It has been accepted
as a basis for discussion. But, the
discussion la the meat of the confer
ence. Thereby, a final plan will be
evolved. Therein nations will make
known their desires, their aspira
tions, and their attitude toward world
problems. There reservations to the
plan will be proposed. There coun
ter proposals will be offered. There
the vitals of world problems and
world troubles will be laid bare.
From the discussions the public is
to be excluded. They are to take
place In committee. The entire dele
gations of the five great powers have
been converted Into a committee of
the whole, which means that the
representatives of America, Great
Britain. Japan. France and Italy
may7 all be called Into secret session.
Was the initial . stroke of Mr.
Hughes In the open Just a threat
of open sessions? Was it a mere 'dip
lomatic gesture? Was it mere sop
thrown to the people who have
fought for diplomacy in the day
light? Is the remainder of the con
ference to be held behind barred
doors, with staged sessions for the
public?
Dark diplomacy Is a treacherous
institution. It has converted confer
ences all through history into horse-
trades, barter and auctions. It has
defeated the will of peoples and
blasted the hopes of generations, It
has always failed to stop war or even
to limit armaments.
After the splendid opening of the
arms conference it would be a crime
were It rendered impotent. After
the bold, frank and daylight diplo
macy of the first sessions and their
tremendous .promise toward success
bt the conference, it would be a
tragedy were the meet to fall. But
if there is anything under the sun
that Is an accessory to failure of dip
lomatlc parleys it is secret sessions.
Mr. Balfour's acceptance "In
principle" of the American plan wa
.very carefully worded. Mr.- Kahy
address was ridden with safeguards.
Thero has been no complete agree
ment.
To ahroud the real workings of th
conference .with a veil of secrecy is
to hazard Its ultimate success. That
la a tremendous responsibility for
any man or any group of men to
shoulder.
XT IS a tremendous thirfg to- send
mere youths t6 Jail, even for a
nonth. It is a grave responsibility
to direct that youngsters be taken
from school and incarcerated in a
forbidding cell. It is a profound task
to take from parents and place be
hind the bars a child whom they are
attempting to educate and direct in
the course of respectable and useful
living. '
That is what Judge Kanzler did
with two boys from the Benson Poly
technic school. They had contributed
to the delinquency of minor girls.
A paroled sentence might have
sufficed. It might have accomplished
the purpose of reform. The arrest
of the boys, their dismissal from
school, the publicity, and their ex
perience in court might have been
a) warning to other youngsters. But
it is doubtful.
There" are other children in Port
land schools. Their parents, like the
parents of the erring boys at Benson
Polytechnic, are attempting to edu
cate and direct them in the ways of
chastity and honor. Would it have
been fair to the other children of
Portland and their parents to have
released the Benson students with
out punishment? Would that have
been a proper precedent to establish
in a time of unusual vice and crime?
Would It have been better or worse
for the boys themselves?
Everything possible should be
done to aid the delinquent young
men.- Their girl victims are in need
of moral support. And everything
possible must be done to aid the
other children of Portland. It is
for that reason that, with the utmost
sympathy for the youthful errants
and their parents, the average ver
dict will justify Judge Ka'nzler's
action.
That the $80,000,000,000 tied up
In the farming industry is more than
is invested in railroads, manufactur
ing and mines was declared by Wil
liam M. Wood, president of the
American Woolen company, to a
gathering of farmers. The farmers
knew that ' already. His speech
should have been to a gathering of
big businessmen, of whose product
the farmers, buy about 60 per cent.
And to the business magnates he
could truthfully have said that their
prosperity is dependent uii the
farmer's prosperity.
"SCRAPS OF PAPER"?
TDORTLtAND policemen and . ex
policemen have been besmirched
in booze scandals. Local federal of
ficers have been in them. Now
come deputy sheriffs and represent
atives of a law enforcement league.
They were men who took oaths to
enforce the prohibition, among other
laws. It was their sworn duty to
do all in their power to stop the flow
of liquor in this country. They were
drawing salaries to do that work.
But here they are, among the most
flagrant violators of the law they
pledged themselves to enforce.
Where is it all to end? When is
the law violation to be halted? And
when are law enforcement officials
to be employed who enforce instead
of violate? Are officers oaths, too,
to become mere "scraps of paper"?
The largest combination plant for
manufactufe of tin cans, now build
ing In Portland by the American Can
company, will be in full operation
next February. It represents an in
vestment of more than $2,000,000
and employs 800 operatives in each
shift. It has trackage space for load
ing 48 cars simultaneously.
PROSPERITY BY SHOUTS
Los Angeles extended a long arm
to take in San Pedro inlet as her
port. Now she is campaigning for
a 5-mile breakwater extension, which
will add $8,000,000 to an original
$3,500,000 breakwater cost, but will
also create 50 square miles of an
chorage space for ships. Los Ange
les also is proposing to spend $6,900,-
000 for docks during the coming two
years.
WHY SO LONG?
A "fish and game fight" 1 on in
Washington. Oregon knows all about
ruch controversies. Oregon also
knowi their source. It is always
politics.
POTATOES AND THE POOR
WTFLAT -win bring back good times?
W Publicity of a certain type, is
the answer of the New York Rotary
club, which has appropriated $60,000
"to be used immediately in an out
door publicity campaign on 75,000
billboards in 6000 cities and towns.
carrying announcements of. return
ing good times and prosperity."
Doubt as to the value of "Poly
anna billboards" is expressed by toe
independent of the same city. It
says:
What goes on in a time of depres
sion constitutes a vicious circle. Depres
sion creates unemployment and unem
ployment in its turn creates depres
sion ; because people have not the where
withal to buy, production slackens, and
because production slackens people have
not the wherewithal to buy. Ultimately,
through one cause and another, the cir
cle Is broken ; but It does not seem likely
that the time of this consummation can
be brought any nearer by concerted
shouting.
Plans for making good times
mostly overlook fundamentals and
deal merely with symptoms. Printed
slogans on billboards cannot give
work to the unemployed. The cuts
in wages demanded so widely will
not make more employment. They
will merely reduce the buying power
of men now employed and thereby
reduce the sales of the grocer,
butcher, baker and milkman.
The 'way to break the so-called
vicious circle is never to do again
the thing that brought on all this
trouble. The war ruined the busi
ness of the whole earth and plunged
millions into idleness.
If all the nations would agree to
morrow that there should never be
another war, the vicious circle would
be dead.
NOR is Henry Ford's plan to buy
th srrannAii wftrfthinii Imnrap.
tlcable or beyond reason.
It is a dramatic exemplification.of
the waste of the tremendous sums
put into huge armaments. What is
the state of mind of a world that
builds dreadnaughts at $40,000,000
per, which everybody knows will be
Junked in 15 or 20 years and may
become obsolete through new ad
vances in naval construction before
they are even completed.
Mr. Ford says it was a crime to
sink the captured German waships,
That is what most people thought at
the time it was done.
under extreme flirncuities men
work in the bowels of the earth to
bring out ores from which iron and
steel are extracted. At extreme
cost these elements are carried
through perfecting processes, and at
further great outlay of money and
toil they are fashioned into war
ships that are soon junked. What
a waste of human energy!
How unreasonable that in a boasCBd F
civilized state, men accept thSSe
costly processes and this wanton
waste as necessary!
All the metal put Into every ship
is metal taken from the arts of
peace. In agricultural implements
and the various fields of production
. The "appeal is momentous," the Chi
cago Tribune (Ind. Rep.) thinks, not
because of "any basis it offers for new
relations with Russia," but because of
"the evidence it gives tha the Bol
shevik tyranny is nearing its end."
Without recognition by the other na
tions of the world Bolshevism is "doom
ed to perish," the Washington Post
(Ind.) declares ; "it cannot maintain it
self at home if it cannot create and hold
a place among governments," and be
cause of the belief of the Red leaders
that "all governments are moved by
greed," they now appear "with a bribe"
with which to secure that necessary
place : in short, as the Pittsburg Gazette-Times
(Rep.) has it, "the Soviets
will be honest if honesty can be made
to pay." But the proposal, as the Provi
dence Journal (Ind.) sees it, is merely
"a scheme on the part of Lenin and
Trotzky to strengthen their tottering
structure of despotism," and the Boston
iranscript una. Kcp.) aaas, "to pre
vent its utter collapse."
The factTthat this latest move "cre
ates little enthusiasm abroad," the New
Orleans Times-Picayune (Ind. Dem.)
belves, is due to the feeling that
"soviet recognition of Russia's debt
would be only a gesture at best," and
moreover, it suggests to the Harrisburg
Telegraph (Rep.) a proposal "to pay
50 per cent" of a debt "in return for .a
receipt in full." "Recognition", of the
czarist debt is indeed "a shadowy con
cession," the rsew York Evening Post
(Ind.) agrees, which Moscow "generously
offers" for the "substance" of recogni
tion of the Bolshevist government. "Ac-J
ceptance or responsibility for the pay
ment of the debt" scarcely goes far
enough to meet the situation, the Spring
field (Mo.) Leader (Dem.) points out,
and it is quite likely that the nations
addressed wjll require "guarantees" of a
more substantial nature, and, the Sioux
City Journal (Rep.) adds, the entire dif
ficulty "lies in trusting them." Responsi-.
ble nations are asked to give something
immediate, tangible and of great value,"
the Mobile Register (Dem.) says, "and
to receive in return nothing more sub
stantial than the promise of a govern
ment that in the recent past repudiated
all idea of being under obligation to
anybody for anything."
However, the Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch
(Ind.) thinks "it is not necessary to im
peach Lenin's intentions" in order to
show that "Russia's outside debt will
never be paid by a regime which has
made of her internal affairs the most
stupendous ruin in the world's financial
history." "What are they going to pay
with?" asks the Elmira Star Gazette
(Ind.). 'What nation is going to take
soviet paper rubles in payment of this
debt?"
Cotnmunicationt tent to Tha Journal for
publication, in thia department aboold be written
on only one aide of the paper, ahooid not ex
ceed 300 word in kneth, and most be fined
by the writer, whose mail addraaa in fall moat
accompany thia contribution.
DISARMAMENT A CENTURY AGO
An Experiment on a Grand Scale That
Has Worked Perfectly.
Pacific Grove. CaL, Nov. 41. To the
Editor of the Journal If the late war
proved nothing else it indelibly restamped
s an eternal failure the European sys
tem of militarism, with its motto: "If
you want peace prepare for war." Pre
pared "to the last buckle," Germany lost
territory, lost trade, lost lives and treas
ure incaculable, lost even that evasive.
elusive will o the wisp called glory.
Moreover, left in present world-command
are the new generals General Distress,
General Bankruptcy, General Unemploy
ment. Our customers killed, starved or
ruined ; our commerce curtailed : our pro
ducers poverty-stricken ! So much for
the European system !
Against this put the century's success
of the American system proclaimed by
Monroe April 28, 1818. After the war of
1812-14, foUowed by the treaty of Ghent,
British newspapers announced their gov
ernment's intention to increase their
navy, the course clamored for by cer
tain yellow journalists today. Monroe
deplored and deprecated such mischiev
ous action. He proposed a new Ameri
can system disarmament. Britain de
murred, until Adams, our minister,
deemed the case hopeless. Monroe, how
ever, insisted and persisted so effect-'
ually that finally Richard Rush, repre
senting this country, and Mr. Bagot for
Great Britain, agreed not only to de
sist from putting any more warships on
the great lakes but to dismantle any al
ready there and to convert any in course
of building to other uses! By a further
"tacit understanding" no additional
forts or garrisons were in future to be
placed on the 3000-mile border-line
stretching westward to the Pacific!
A century's success has proved the
wisdom of Monroe and his policy of dis
armament! What reason is there to
doubt that the same wise policy would
be universally successful? Europe's sys
tem has resulted in ever-widening dis
aster ; let the American system noW hold
sway ! "America, dreamer of dreams, be
destiny's leader!" Edward Berwick.
J SMALL CHANGE
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Martial law mav rule. Colorado leni
ty, but marital law still will be the most
powerful Influence.
Breshears and his kind should think
of the wife and children before they open
prison doors by their rash deeds.
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Portland, a vtsitinir artist reports, is
recognized as a grand opera city. And
it's a grand city in scads of other ways.
Anyhow, the business of the "house for
rent" hunters has been lessened by the
advent of unsettled business conditions.
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Admittedly all men have equal rights,
but not all "of them have eaual vocal
power to make the world understand it.
If our sense of humor made us all
laugh at the same things we'd only need
one funny paper anyway, and that would
never do.
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Without the men who compose the
grange and its kindred organizations
what in the world would we do for our
banquets?
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Thirteen -year-old girl kissed by Foch
won t wash the pot on her check, she
says. Wait until she gets a sweetheart
who's strong for sanitation !
Roy Gardner might have had the sym
pathy of a very great number of very
fine people if he bad proved himself man
enough to tell his particular Satan where
to head in.
SIDELIGHTS
There's one good thing to be said for
the fall toga The sunshine afterward
is so surpassingly beautiful. Eugen
Register.
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Aviators say that the barking of a
dog can be beard four miles high. They
can be heard farther than that on land
when one ts trying to sleep in the una'
hours. CorvaUia Gazette-Times.
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Heavy snows in the East and Central
states and zero weather there during the
past week makes ua glad we live in the
Walker . basin, where sunshine and
warmth prevail. La Pine Inter-Mountain.
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A 6-year-old boy is on trial at Che-
halis. Wash., for shooting a chap of
about the same age. There ought to be
a law against notches in a man's re
volver handle, until he ia 10 years old
Modford Mail Tribune.
The Democrat believes that Oregon
sentiment is In favor of the 1925 fair
and Oregon votera see in such an expo
sition the one big step toward increas
ing wealth and population, things need
ed II uregon is ever to reacn me goal oi
its ambition. Baker Democrat.
It might be in order for Mexico to
look into conditions in this country be
fore going further with negotiations for
resuming diplomatic relations. Now
armed soldiers are guarding our mail
trains much aa they used to In Mexico
during the revolution. Eugene Guard.
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The Oregon Country J j'
Kanhweet Happeniasa ta Rnaf I'mrm for taw
Baay Reader.
A FEW days ago potatoes were
dumped into th garbage pall at
the county Jail that had been sent
from the county farm. At least one
observer who saw the potatoes await
ing the garbage man commented that
though not. In the opinion of the
county Jail chef. large enough for
. prisoners, they were quite as good
aa had been bought for use in an
Irvtngton homo.
This, howover. is beside the point.
On Wednesday the public welfare bu
reau suspended ita relief glvigg to
oomo 100 needy families. , It was
forced to do so. The bureau is agent
f tha county board of relief. The
Now we are told that food de
velops color in the eye. That's noth
ing. Everybody has seen drink that
developed a beautiful vermilion on
the nose.
NOT HERE
"PLEVEN lives were lost in a New
iork fire Monday. Thirty peo
ple were burned or injured. So
rapidly did the flames spread that
several sleeping victims did not even
move from their beds.
The fire was in a tenement house.
It was crowded. And it was little
mora than tinder. There is no
MONEY-GETTERS CONSIDERED
Portland, Nov. 14. To the Editor of
The Journal In a recent issue of The
Journal A. Henry Dubb is commenting
on the ability of Brumfield and Gard
ner to earn money. I should like to see
how they "earned" so much. Lots of
people nave a KnacK or making money,
going after it and getting it, but as to
earning it! But the gods of silver and
gold have a prominent place in the
world, and the guy that can corral the
most ducats is recognized as a power
in the community," "ambitious" and
"successful." A poor man who can get
next to a "sharp deal" or "sell at a neat
profit" is in fair way to "success." The
merchant who can show the biggest
profits is the most "successful," and so
on.
But th laboring man, or even the
skilled tradesman, who makes only a
fair living bah! he is nobody. He is
not "ambitious," not "successful" in any
way, simply 'grubbing away. Take the
trainmen, for instance are they not
earning twice as much as they are
getting? And the miners let some of
our "successful business . men" take
their places and see how they would .like
it. But, no ; they prefer their business
and their profit,. Mrs. John Smith.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
George M. Steelhammer of Sllverton Is
at the Imperial. Silverton is observing
"Homer Davenport week," to raise
money to erect a monument to the
town's best known citizen.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Elliott of Perry
dale, in Polk county, are registered at
the Oregon.
Chester Hester of Grant Pass is in
Portland.
Alonzo Q. Reid of Heppner is a guest
at the Oregon.
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Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Kloepping of
Salem are registered at the Oregon.
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L. W. Glaser of the City of Destiny
at the mouth of the Columbia is in Port
land on business.
Thomas W. Gilbert of Pendleton is
taking in the sights of Portland.
Dr. J. A. Best, former mayor of Pen
dleton, is down from the Round-Up City.
H. S. Royer of Klamath Falls is so
journing at the Imperial.
E. L. Campbell of Eugene is a Port
land visitor.
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W. H. Canon of Medford Is at the Im
perial. Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Miller of Pendle
ton are spending a few days in Portland.
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Fred Ingram of Pendleton is at the
Imperial.
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C. O. Smith, hailing from Kerry, Is a
Business visitor in Portland.
But here another element enters. So
viet leaders "have gone a long way of
late in abandoning their Bolshevik
vagaries." the Newark News (Ind.)
notes, "and it now looks as if they were
ready to go a good deal farther," par
ticularly if, as the New York World
(Dem.) believes, their latest move can
be interpreted as "another step in the
gradual transformation of the govern
ment from its communistic theories to
a "bourgeoise state'." Doubtless Rus
sia is "as poor as a church mouse at
this time," the Birmingham News (Dem.)
concedes, "but her very economic ex
tremity seems to have brought her to
the rule of reason," and in the opinion
of the paper it will perhaps be well
worth while, for the sake of the resump
tion of world trade, that the soviet gov
ernment be heard at least in some inter
national conclave," for "if the Bolshevist
powers are willing to advance an inch
toward a feeling of responsibility for
the debt incurred by the government it
succeeded, they may be induced to come
an ell." The Chicago News (Ind.) also
feels that "the conference proposed by
the soviet government should be held."
'Any kind of settlement of the Rus
sian nrnddle would .be welcome" to the
Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Dem.). and the
Rochester Times Union (Ind.) believes
that this offer "supplies the opportunity"
to work toward a settlement, and the
paper "hopes that it will be accepted."
for, it continues : "The soviet govern
ment' has now been four years in the
John Hoskins. a resident of the one
time metropolis of Southern Oregon, is
here from Jacksonville and is a guest
of tha Imperial.
a
Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Garrison of the
turkey metropolis of Southern Oregon
arc here from Oakland and are guests of
the Seward.
e a e
Mrs. O. E. Farnsworth and Mary H.
Farnsworth of Heppner are registered
at the Seward.
e
S. M. Douglass of Hood River is down
from the apple metropolis of the West
on a brief business visit.
a a e
Miss Nora Dobbs. mail clerk at the
Imperial, has Just returned from a visit
to her girlhood home at PrlneviUe.
-
R. R. Gordon of Klamath Falls Is a
guest of the Imperial.
A. F. Howes of Hood River la a P-. t-
land business visitor.
R. Baraett and family of Grants Pass
are at the Seward.
.
Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Powell of Eugene
ar visitors in Portland.
a
Pauline Myrlck of Forest Grove Is a
guest of the Portland.
H. T. Holden of Eugene Is at the
Portland.
a
H E. Maxine of London la registered
at the Hotel Portland.
e
Mrs. C. W. Hein of Terre Bonne Is a
guest of the Cornelius.
OREGON
County Superintendent Byland ts ap
portioning $4.874.3 among tha achooia
of Clatsop county.
Paving operationa between The Dalles
and Rowena on the Columbia highway
were completed this week.
Ruamiana and Germans predominate
among the foreign population of Polk
county, there being igc Russians an
169 Germans.
A unanimous vote was cast in Gardi-
ner Saturday to raise a special 6-mtll
h nr.ey to be apent on th
Roosevelt highway.
Because of the Urge number of hw
boes now traveling through the county,
the Albany police fore has been en
larged by the city council.
The Union Oil company has started
construction of it new plant in Tha
Dalles on property bought several
months ago from the city.
The Bandon recall Kchool election laM
Ja!?k 1-lf4- L. Zentner and J on
NUson defeating the proposed new di
rectors by a vote of Vt to l4.
A. B. Robinson, county judge, and ,
Mrs. Xlorence Hinkle of Independence,
have sold their. ii hop crop, consist- ,
ing of 427 bales, at 27 cents a pound.
Alcoholism is given by the coroner aa '
the cause of the death of John Grinolda.
whJ? w,a discovered dead in a room in
a Baker lodging house Friday.
At the Bonanza mine in Baker county
Manager Dodson is Installing a boiler,
engine and five-stamp mill at the mouth
or the long tunnel recently completed.
A fire in Vale last Wednesday de
stroyed the residence of Robert Hann.
together with all the household furni
ture and effects. The total loss was
$3000.
During the past season 66 miles or
new telephone line has been constructed
in the Ochoco national forest, the work
being done entirely by the regular
ranger force.
Work of constructing the new high
way bridge across Bulley creek, on Ihn
Central Oregon highway one mile from
Vale, was begun this week by the Unite
States Bridge company of Boise.
Mlsa Emma Bunge. public health
nurse for Morrow county, has arrived
at Heppner from Seattle. She will trm
the county for an indefinite period undtr
direction of the state board of health.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By. Fred Lock ley
THE FLAG
This Writer Would Have It Made the
Symbol Exclusively of Peaceful Things.
Portland, Nov. 10. To the Editor, of
The Journal I read with interest the
article in a recent issue of The Journal
on "Rules Given for Flying Old Glory."
Some of the rules seem silly and far
fetched, but for the most part they are
splendid and ought to be observed. One
of the rules admonishes us that Old
Glory ought not to be fastened to the
side of a building. I would add that.
after 1800 years of Christ and the
progress of science, especially in materia
medica, it ought not to float over an
old brewery that manufactures slop for
medicine for the citizens of the great
est and most intelligent nation under the
skies. Also it ought not to float over
any machine whose sole object and pur
pose is the killing of men and the de
struction of property. The rules say that
the flag "should not be raised before
sunrise and ought to be lowered before
sunset." I would add that its sacred
folds should never be allowed to float
above the darkness and blackness and
the din and clash of battlefields, where
men and nations meet to kill one an
other. While In the past Old Glory has
stood for the best things, we cannot
forget that It also has stood for and
protected Institutions that were a curse
to the nation and humanity, such in
stitutions as human slavery and the
legalized saloon and others of the pres
ent time I might mention.- Let us hope
and pray that in the great and hopeful
future before us Old Glory may stand
for the higher patriotism ; not or that
patriotism that is inspired by drum
beats, but that loftier patriotism that
catches its inspiration from the heart
beats of humanity. F. L. Harford.
' cililla T , Viae t?i.r--i'.rl t)io HonvAK rf
by machinery and implements, it j int(,rnal dissension and the menace of
would add to the comforts of life
In warships and guns and the other
implements of war it is dedicated to
slaughter of life and destruction of
property. The waste goes on at an
accelerated pace now when every
civilized nation is grinding its people
with the collection of money to pay
armament and war bills, and with
most of those nations in actual bank
ruptcy. The naval programs of the
nations now are $19,000,000,000
against $3,000,000,000 in the naval
programs before 1914, when all na
tions were still solvent.
The most beautiful and most per
fect machinery in the world is deep
down in the holds of warships. The
shining metals and the swift, noise
less movements of the -various parts
are a wonderful sight to see. And
there all the marvelous enginery ia,,
with the arts of peace robbed of
billions of value and tons upon tons
of human energy in order to make
wax more terrible. Granted, for
argument's sake, that a police navy
be necessary, when you think of what
Ford would do with the Junked ships
and recall that the League of Nations
In Europe and the disarmament con
ference in America are working for
limitation of armaments, you wonder
why nations continued so long in
the madness.
external war. It has. in practice at any
rate, abandoned its theories, proved by
experience to be unworkable, and is
moving along the lines of a policy not
widely divergent from that of other
European nations. The time has come to
recognize these facts; The time has
come to readmit Russia to the ranks of
the peoples."
And in the opinion of the Wheeling
Register (Dem.), Russia has taken the
most likely step to bring about -the de
sired end, for "money is a most pow
erful agency in smoothing out existing
difficulties a curealL.in fact"; and the
proposal which the soviet government
has now made "will bring to bear a
stronger" influence for recognition and
economic peace for Russia than any
other 'argument' that might be sub
mitted to the world."
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
YOU CAN'T CHANGE THE LEOPARD
From the Medford Mail Tribune.
Ambassador Harvey is running true
to form. When he was named, we pointed
out the dangers, and those dangers are
now being realized. With rare consist
ency he never opens his mouth without
putting his foot in it,
He celebrated his arrival in London
by telling why America entered the war.
and the public condemnation of the
American Legion is merely the culmina
tion of a long series of rebuffs which
his unfortunate utterance received.
Last Thursday he made another speech
and proceeded to depart from his pre
pared address and commit another blun
der. He announced that America would
never consider an alliance with Great
Britain, and took occasion to reprimand
Lord Derby for making such a sugges
tion, j.-
, Whether Ambassador Harvey was
right or wrong, makes little difference.
As a matter of fact he was probably
right But Jt is not the American am
bassador's province to outline American
policy. It is not for him to say what
America 'will or win not do in the fu
ture. He is merely President Harding's
representative, and should scrupulously
confine himself to pronouncements which
are- authorized at Washington.
There is a peculiar interest in tracing
the origin of the term "dead reckon
ing," which has always been regarded
as one of the most puzzling terms to
trace. The general impression, saydr
the Detroit News, is that the prefix
dead is merely the mariner's way of ex
pressing himself noting similar terms,
as "dead-eyes," "dead-lights," "dead
wood," "dead-door, "dead-Oaf The
origin of "dead reckoning" is traced
to the old-fashioned method of keeping
the ship's log, the method being to use
small, loose sheets of paper, ruled into
several columns. The latitude column
being too. narrow to admit the words
WHERE NATURE BLUNDERED
From the Rochester Timea Union
There is a fortune awaiting the man
who will invent a permanent shave.
WELL NAMED
From the Green rille (8. C) Piedmont
The bootlegger's other name is legion.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Wiley Hotten wants the county to
gravel the Wayeast road up to his place
or top of the hill,. but the rest of it he
ain't a mite interested in, bein's he
never goes thataway 'cent to a funeral
or a farm auction. There's a whole lot
of us mora like Wilev'n what we're
, ueuuceu jautuae in xuu at uo head, willin to own up ta
From a pioneer of 1850 Mr. Lockley obtain!
a t-tory that inclndea the Oieriand trail,
ranchinc in Eaatern Oreon in it wiidernea
day, and diapensinf liquid refreahmenta in
the pre-Volateadian era. Mr. Lockley appenda.
incidentally to a aopplementary taetcb. a re
markable poem of the dayi of the WeHern ar
gonaut. William M. Renshaw Is night clerk at
the Smeed hotel in Eugene. "A lot of
Oregonians stopped in Missouri just
long enough to be born, and I am one
of them," he said to me a day or so ago.
"I was born at Springfield. Mo., No
vember 7, 1850. and I started for Ore
gon the following spring, bringing my
parents with' me across the plains. My
father, William D. Renshaw, was born
in Tennessee. My mother, whose maid
en name was Mary Jane Walker, was
born In Georgia. They were married
at Atlanta. There were eight of us
children, three girls and five boys. My
brother Theodore, who is 74 years old.
is the eldest He is In Eugene visiting
his boyhood friends. I was the next
child. Then came Hugh. Julia, Robert.
Elmer, Sarah and Hattle. My brother
Elmer lives here in'Eugene, and so does
my sister Sarah, now Mrs. Maybew.
"The donation land act was passed
September 27, 1850, Just about the time
we hit Oregon. Captain McMurray was
captain of the emigrant train In which
we crossed the plains In 1851. Our fam
ily spent the winter of 1851 at Salem,
where father worked at carpentering. The
next spring he came to Lane county
and took up a donation land claim in
the Camas Swale neighborhood, about
three miles from the Land of Goshen
district and six miles soVith of Eugene.
I worked on the farm until I was nearly
of age. In 1870 I got a job on a sur
veying crew and went up to the Ochoco
and Crooked river country, near where
Prineville is now located. I put in
five years surveying, working for the
most part in Lake and Harney counties.
It doesn't seem possible that less than
50 years have gone by and there Is
hardly an antelope in that country
today, when there used to be thou
sands upon thousands of them when I
was carrying the chain down there. I
didn't suppose they would ever be able
to kill them off. There were large num
bers of mule deer there then, too, and
there was wonderful trout fishing.
"On July 25. 1878, I married Elanor
Thome and we moved to Grant county.
Our ranch was 50 miles from Canyon
City. We got our mail and did our
trading at Prineville, 60 miles dis
tant because the road to Prineville
was better than the one to Canyon City.
Our nearest neighbor waa six miles
distant and the next one 12 miles.
After a few years there we came
back to Eugene, where I started a butch
er shop. I soon sold the shop and
bought a saloon. I stayed in the saloon
business for the next 20 years.
Yes, I made lots of money, but I didn't
keep it The saloon business was rec
ognized as not exactly a legitimate
business, so everyone felt that he could
make us dig up. We had to keep our
hands in our pockets most of the time.
Politicians, churches, Fourth of July
committees and everyone else felt that
as we were making so much easy money,
we were legitimate prey and they
had a right to some of the easy money.
If they didn't get their share, they
would put up a holler and make trou
ble for us, so we had to dig up, whether
we liked it or not About all we did was
to soak the old soaks for what they
had and hand it over to someone else to
keep them quiet No, sir; I wouldn't
go back to the saloon business for any
money, if there were such a business
One was looked down on by the very
people who patronized him. He was
preached at and hald up aa a horrible
example. The kind of people you had
to truckle to and associate with would
turn a man's gorge. I doubt if very
many of the old-time saloonmen would
be willing to go back to their old bus!
ness. if they could. On October S. ISO;
J I started the Smeed hotel and ran it for
uw aica.. ill wa, auu uuw a eua Bau
in the old stand, -ejerving as night clerk
of the hotel I started."
While at Forest Grove recently I
visited Mrs. Samuel Walker, a pioneer
Oregonian and the wife of a native son
born at the Grove in 1852, the son of
parents who came Went on horseback in
the '30s as associates of Dr. Marcus
Whitman and Mrs. Whitman. Mrs.
Walker's grandfather, John Carey, set
tled in Dayton, where he served as Jus
tice of the peace for many years.
Our talk of the early days drifted to
the time when gold was discovered In
California and the settlements in the
Willamette valley were almost deserted
as the one-time staid farmers became
eager treasure seekers In the neighbor
ing state. Going to an old-fashioned
leather container. Mrs. Walker brought
forth a number of old letters and poems
written half a century or more ago.
Handing me one of the hand-written
man user pits, she said : "Here is a poem
written by my grandfather about the
rush to the California gold diggings. It
was published in the Spectator of Ore
gon City in 1848. It shows how the dis
covery of gold affected Oregon." Here
is the poem :
Come hither, mow. and ten the newi.
Nor be thoo a amrrUrr.
But ainc in plain poetic atrain
The preaent "yeilow teier."
Not lone ato I laid m down
To ret in quiet ahimbera.
And whilat I alept I dnramed a dream
And coined tt into numbera.
I thought I aaw on every Land
A mighty congregation
A betrrogenona mam of meei
Of e-rry name and nation
And each pursued with keen delight
Soma honest occupation.
Whilat rosy health, the la borer" i wealth.
Killed eTrry situation
And then I looked, and lo! I aaw
A herald bright advancing!
A .being from ome other clime.
On gnlden pinions dancing.
And aa it neared the mighty crowd.
He loade thia proclamation.
In tones so clear, distinct and loud
It startled half the nation:
"Why do. yon labor here?" ha cried.
"For merely bfe and pleasure.
When hist beyond that mountain gray
Laea wealth beyond all measure!
The road is plain, tha way is smooth,
"Tia neither rough nor thorny;
Come, leave thia ruaxed glebe and go
With me to California!
There is choice land on erery band
And each may be partaker)
Where fifty tone of finest gold
Are dug from every acre!!!"
At aound of gold both young and old
Forsook their occupaUon.
And wild conflation seemed to rule
In Yvery situation.
An old eordwainer beard the news
And. though not much elated.
He left his pile of boots and shoes
And just evaporated.
The cooper left his tuba and pails.
His buckets and bis plggins;
The sailor left hia yards and sails
And started for the "diggin'a."
The farmer left his plow and steers.
The merchant left Us measures: '
The tailor dropped hia goose and shears
And went to gather treasures.
A pedagogue, attired incog.
Gave ear to what was stated.
Forsook hit school, bestrode a mala.
And the absquatulated '.
A boatman, toav forsook hia crew.
Let fall his oar Ifd paddie.
And (tola his ueigiur's iroa gr7.
Bat went witaoafa saddle.
The Joiner dropped hia eqaare and lack.
Tha carpenter baa chieel;
The peddler laid aside his pack.
And all prepared to "mixsle."
The worxtssrln dropped hia trusty axe;
The tanner left hia leather;
The miller left his pile of sacks.
And an went off together.
The doctor cocked bis eye askance.
The promised wealth descrying.
Then wheeled his hen and off ha pranced
And left hia patients dying.
The preacher dropped tha Hoey Book
And grasped the mad illusion ;
The herdsman left hia flock and crook
Amid the wild confnaion.
The hslge eonaigTMd to eoid neglect
The great Jodieial ermine:
But lost which way hia honor went
I could not well determine.
And then I aaw. far ia tha rear.
A prosperous attorney -Co
Bert hia last retaining fee
And atart upon hw toorncy.
And when each brain in that vast ina
Waa perfectly inverted.
My ahamber broke and 1 awoke
And foand the piaoe dranrtil
WASHINGTON
Skamokawa State bank celebrated tt
first birthday anniversary Monday . by
paying a dividend of 2 per cent to stook-
holdera
Dr. H H. Smith. Yakima county health
officer, has condemned the wells of the
town of Sol ah. following an examination
and discovery of colon bacilli.
James N. Glover, founder of the citv
of Spokane, is critically ill at his home
in that city. Glover moved with his'
parents from Missouri to Salem, Or., In
1849.
A railroad rate of a fare and a half
has been granted delegates to the Farm
ers' Union and Northwest Wheat Grow .
era' association convention at Spokana
December 12.
Twenty-four marines from the Puget
Sound navy yard are guarding the.
United States mail in the Seattle poai
office. while 31 are scheduled to report
for duty at Spokane.
The November 1 estimate of the Wash
ington potato crop ahows a decrease, of
41.000 bushels, aa compared with October
1, while apple production increased mora
than 2.000.000 bushels.
A "home rule" bill, taking all power
over public utilities in cities of the first
class in Washington away from the
state department of public works, will
be presented to the next legislature.
Jesse Peterson. 22. was killed and Earl
MeGilvrey. 32. badly Injured In an auto
mobile wreck near Eatonville, Monday
night The overturned car waa found
near a creek with the body of Peterson
pinned underneath.
Mra Charlotte Walker, Northwest pio
neer, died a few days ago at Friday
Harbor. Mrs. Walker waa 12 veara old
and crossed the plains to Oregon tn 181 J.
walking most or trie way, and at one
time being kidnaped by the Indiana.
Because Mrs, Dai ley Sell t re passed
on the A r Land farm near Montessno.
picking wild evergreen blackberries from
which to make jelly and jam for her two
little children, she was arrested and
fined 81 and costs or to serve four days
in the county jail.
A piece of ivy gathered from the bat
tlefield of Argonne In France, by Mra.
Frank anderlip of New York has been
sent to Mrs. C. V. Ieach of Olympia.
M ra Vanderlip is sending little sprigs
of this ivy plant to kld Star mothers
throughout the country.
IDAHO
All previous records for apple crop
In Idaho are broken by this year's esti
mated yield of mora than 4.000.000
buahela
Beer and light wines cannot ba lanld
In Idaho, notwithstanding tha receait
ruling by the treasury department ac
cording to Roy L Black, attorney gen
eral. The election at Nampa to authoriz
an issue of 1175.000 street improvement
bonds to care for the unemployed this
winter, lost by 2( votes. All street work
will now cease.
There were 47 predatory animals
killed m Idaho during October by 17 "
hunters, soma working for the govern
ment and some working on a bounty
basis for the state.
Mrs. Jane Baker, who twioa crossed
the Western plains In an ox cart and
who was the first white woman to live
In Denver. Colo., is dead at her doom
in Twin r alls, aged 94 years.
What I Like Best
In The Journal
E. J. KRAFT. 611 East
Eighth street Its broad
views on the labor question,
Fred Lockley's articles, and
Its market page, which excels
that of any other paper In
Portland.
C. GAEBAEO, 92 Hull
avenue All ita features, from
cover to cover. We have
been reading The Journal for
18 years and have yet to tire
of IL
O. A. ANDERSON. 48$
Beacon street The editorials
for their position on tha dis
armaraent conference, on
world peace and the labor
question.
M. 4SPAHN, 805 East Tenth
street The market page, for
its convenient arrangement. '
The purity of thought and tha
noble sentiment of The Jour
nal generally and particularly
on the labor question.
JAMES C. LEITH. Eugene
The Journal is the fairest
daily I have ever read. It
does not dodge issues and it
stands for the common peo
ple. The editorial page, in
cluding editorials, the articles
of Fred Lockley and the edi
torial letters, has tha moat
Interest for me. The articles
of Norman Hapgood are ap
preciated. . What in The Journal has most
interest for you? Tour opinion
must be accompanied by nam 4
and address in order to b pub
lisbed.