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THE OREGON" DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND OREGON.
TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 182U
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all of Oregon ana spend their money
all over Oregon. Many of them will
see the Pendleton Round-Up. see his
toric scenes at Astoria, see the fruit
shows of Southern Oregon, see the
state and county fairs. 'see the re
claimed farm lands of Eastern Ore
gon, see the broad acres of the Wil
lamette valley and see the impres
sive scenery throughout the state.
The exposition. If finally approved,
will In fact cover In exhibits a wider
range and comprise more In publicity
Of resources than any similar event
of the past. The heavy vote in favor
of it in Portland will probably mean
that there will be no organized op
position against it in the state elec
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A PROPER PROMOTION
Ivan Stewart, wt prior to his "o wn
service In the " World -wari made,'
first, remarkable, records tar agricul
tural production from the steep hill
sides of Wheeler -county and, next,
acquitted himself "with equal distinc
tion as a student at Oregon Agricul
tural college. No ex-service man.
wounded or whole, has greater assur
ance of a comfortable living than he
who essays well instructed life on the
land. , ' . .
M. BRIAND DIPLOMAT
THE WORD THAT
WAS UNSPOKEN
Armaments Conference Tested Through
Consideration of -Secretary Hughes'
Mode of Announcing His Plan
Studious Omission of the League
of Nations- Was Studious Omis
sion of a jiKame He Did Not
Care to utter The League
Still the Main Event.
THE promotion of Patrolman Per
singer of the Portland police de
partment for honest and efficient
service is an excellent example of
the proper basis -for promotions of
those In the public employ, and more
especially in the police department.
Perslnger was offered a tempting
bribe by a notorious drug vendor to
aid him in smuggling opiates. In- j
stead of accepting the tainted money
and flaunting hil oath of office, Per
slnger arrested the drug smuggler
and confiscated $100,000 worth of
contraband narcotics. .
Some men would have accepted
the bribe, permitted the poisonous
opiates to go through and be dis
tributed to hapless slaves, and aided
the blood-sucking distributor to ob
tain his tainted profits. But Per
slnger recognized his oath, per
formed his duty, and Tendered a
service to his employers. For it, the
rewards should be his. And other
men in the police department should
be rewarded for similar service, and
no other.
TTNTTL yesterday, France was In
the background at the Wash
ington conference. In the discussion
of land armaments and means to re
duction. the part of France in world
affairs will be largely played. Her
ship of diplomacy will be guided by
a highly skilled and veteran diplo
matic pilot M. Briand, who though
to leave for Paris will be at Wash
ington. He is little less successful as &
negotiator than Lloyd George. He
is a greater orator. He is highly
popular, easily approached, subtle
and intensely resourceful.
Kra In war, moral pnawr ta to phyateal
aa thfaa parta oat of foar. Napolaoa.
FRANCE AND THE WORLD
The shipping board praised the
presentation of argument for the al
location of combination passenger
freight ships to the Columbia river.
Words may compliment, but the ac
tual allocation of ships will be Jus
tice.
THE SEEDS OF WAR
By Bertha Slater Smith .
The world is so inured to postpone
ment of Its expectations that when it
suddenly collides with the fulfillment
of a cherished dream it gasps for breath
ana asks how it happened.
Something like that seems to have
happened when -Secretary Hughes an
nounced to the . armament conference
that America proposed a holiday of 10
years in naval construction. How it
happened in this case is best understood
from what the speaker did not say.
...
When in his noteworthy speech Mr.
Hughes reviewed the development of the
disarmament idea, he excluded all refer
ence to the assembly at Versailles and to
the fact that a disarmament conference
was arranged for in the League of Na
tions covenant. Why did the speaker
omit these important historical facts?
It was expedient to do so. Had he
stated those facts he would have re-
Stone or mouldy log from the glare of
summer days. The eld superstition that
toads are poisonous has vanished before
scientific research. Just like - many
another dismal whim possessed by un
enlightened minds. They cannot live
under water, although their Cve-toea
hind feet are partly webbed.
Letters From the People
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
vealed the true'eauae of the convention's
In his diplomatic thrusts he works ' being would have drawn attention to
ONE of the sanest proposals to the
Washington conference is the
r
N AN eloquent address before the
arms conference yesterday, Pre
mier Briand asked the representa
tives of other powers if, situated in
France's position, they would turn
their barks to danger and Jeopardize
their countries and their lives by
sweeping away the only safeguard
the army.
lie-pointed to the German menace.
a country defeated and prostrated,
jbut not forever conquered, lying dor
)mant, but always ready to spring at
'the throat of France. He pictured
;Rssla with Bolshevism, an army of
1 '10,000,000 men, and arma He sug
Jgested a combination of the two
another charge at France, another
rape of Belgium, and other Meuses,
Marnes and Argonnea Would the
other countries of the world, situated
as France is situated, disarm and
bare their breasts to the enemy? he
questioned. Would they close their
eyes to the peril of annihilation?
Without other means of protection,
certainly not
But is France prepared to ' close
her eyes to the danger of interna
tlonal bankruptcy and wholesale
" paralysation of commerce and Indus
try? Is Japan? Is England. Italy,
or America? Is France prepared to
crush her people under an avalanche
of armament costs incidental to an
other race for military power? Is
Japan? "Is England, Italy or Amer
lea? Is France prepared to brush
I aside the business of production
nd trade, the business of creating
' wealth, and go headlong into the
' business of war? Is Japan? Is Eng
land, Italy or America? And is France
prepared to face effacement in the
. nest war, prepared to die under the
attacks of the most poisonous and
deadly gases ever known, prepared
to face the killing ray and the in-
visible germs, prepared to die under
the fire of great and powerful guns
) and the longer ranged airplanes and
more powerful discharges? Is Japan?
! ' Is England, Italy or America? Cer
tinly not
France will disarm. She is men
aced by her neighbors. Without pro
tection she might be wiped from the
earth. She is likewise menaced by
bankruptcy, stagnation, and war if
there is no disarmament Both dan
gers would be removed if the other
nations of the world agreed to pro
tect France in case of invasion. And
- that is the only way France can
t escape both perils and the only way
the world can escape them.
The perversion or thoughtlessness
tn the person who fed tobacco to an
elephant In the Sells-Floto circus
and thereby set the animal Into a
crate that ended In his death is one
f the human handicaps. It has
Its counterpat in the fact that as
the wild stampede of the elephant
suggests, msn Is the only one of all
s tha animals who will use tobacco.
OREGON AND THE EXPOSITION
to
tSoRTLANQ voted 8afuYday
A shoulder two thirds of the cost
of the 1I2S exposition, provided con
tributors make good their pledge to
raise U.000.000 bylsubacrlpUon. Tha
Utter should be dona before the
state la asked to vote.
. Tha Portland vote was 4 to 1. In
a state election. It would probably
be even a larger proportionate ma
jority. , 4 i
Judged by tha vote In Portland,
the etate will probably be less antag
onists than has been supposed. It
should, be favorable, for tha people
who coma to the exposition, travel
ing largely by automobile, will see
modest request of the Chinese dele
gation. Two proposals are made:
(1) That China be allowed to work
out her own destiny in her own way;
(2) that she be freed from the
spheres of Influence placed over her
In the past by other nations.
In public, these proposals have
been accepted "in principle"; in pri
vate, there will be reservations and
attempts at bargaining to defeat If
not destroy the principle. Behind
the scenes, the reservations and bar
gains are already discreetly suggest
ed among the negotiators.
Take the attitude of Japan toward
China. It is exemplified in the de
mands made in 19 IS. In groups,
they are thus classified:
1. Japan to have economic conces
sions in Manchuria. Economic ad
vantages are an innocent proposal
But the hard lines of history have
taught that economic control ulti
mately means political control.
2. Japan to have very important
concessions in Shantung.
3. Japan to have certain advisory
influence with the head of the police
in China.
4. Japan to have 80 per cent of
the iron and steel output of China
and to have a voice in fixing the
price.
5. Japan to have guarantees that
China will never alienate any of the
harbors or islands along her coast
line.
Other nations had made similar
inroads on Chinese national sover
eignty. Japan had the example set
for her. She may have gone a bit
farther than the others because of
her own necessities for raw materials
and through her need of areas on
which her increasing population may
have room to exist
To aid her peaceful penetration
of China, Japan publishes newspa
pers, in various Chinese cities, print
ed in the Chinese language, but edit
ed by Japanese. The movement is
recognized by many Chinese and is
resisted by boycotts against Japanese
goods and in other ways.
The proposal of Admiral Kato of
the Japanese delegation at the con
ference to modify the Hughes naval
program is pretty certain indication
that from his delegation there will
come In secret committee work many
contentions with reference to China.
It. was unfortunate for the confer
ence that Premier Hara was assassin
ated. He was the voice, of the Jap
anese mass. It was by sheer abil
ity that he had won the premier
ship. The huge petitions urging dis
armament with 1,000,000 signatures,
carried to Washington by a Japanese
messenger, is token of what the Jap
anese mass wants at Washington.
But Admiral Kato, who originated
the famous eight - eight naval pro
gram, is out of sympathy with that
voice, and therein the conference has
a problem. Secretary Hughes recog
nised it when he Issued a reply
which is a near ultimatum to Ad
miral Kato and his formulas. -
The Integrity of China is a neces
sary step to peace in the Pacific. If
her territory and her great economic
resources are to remain as potential
booty for nations that want to grab
them, a war in the Pacific will be
Inevitable. The way to avert that
war Is to pcAvlde for the integrity
of China and to do It now in the
Washington conference.
silently, quickly and unseen. He has
power and he employs that power
when power strikes the balance. And
he usually attains his ends.
It was M. Briand and. his oratory
that saved the cabinet, perhaps
France, in a political crisis early in
the war alter all seemed , lost and
after other strong men had failed.
It was M. Briand and his diplomacy
that replaced Joffre In command, of
the armies of France when the "Lion
of Chantilly" was on the crest of his
popularity, without a ripple on the
waters of state.
It was M. Briand and his resources
that retained the power of the civil
government when its authority was
threatened by the military.
It was M. Briand and his skill that
did much to bring Roumania and
Italy into the war on the side of the
allies, that avoided peaceably a
threatened railroad strike at a criti
cal time, that engineered the separa
tion act between church and state
without bloodshed when civil war
I was predicted.
With him the arms conference will
have to reckon. With his aid the
conference could be reduced 'to im
potence. And with his aid it can
be made an event to shine forth in
history as marking the end of the
deadly reign of bloated armaments
and blasting war.
When a tree loses a limb in a silver
freeze It should be able to console
itself. It is much better off than
a man, in similar position. The tree
can grow another limb.
WATER'S WONDERS
A PATCH of sagebrush 25 years
ago is now the "Apple Capital
of the, World."
Thus, in a sentence, the recent
history of the Wenatchee district is
related.
It was a barren and unproductive
area until men brought water to it
Then the land became fit for the
plow, the soil became fit for pro
duction and the area became fit for
homes.
This year the production of the
Wenatchee district was 11,000,000
boxes. Three - hundred and twenty
trains of 50 cars each would have
been required to haul this great crop
to market It Is estimated that 30,-
000 families could live for a year on
the proceeds of Wenatchee's apple
yield.
Twenty-five years ago Wenatchee
district's best product was sage
brush. This yeafa third of the fancy
boxed apples produced in the United
States came from Wenatchee. The
value of Wenatchee's apple crop
alone is estimated at 325,000,000.
It has not been so many years
since the Yakima district was also a
sagebrush desert. Yakima's apple
the power that virtually projected him
upon the scene of action.
To have presented that information
would haje been to take cognizance of
the existence and the attainment of one,
(he mention of whose name would have
brought forth a demonstration rivaling
that evoked by the thrilling disclosure of
the proposed naval holiday, and would
have disturbed the carefully considered
psychological situation.
.
Everyone knows, however, that the
Washington idea was conceived as an
offset to the meeting proposed by the
League. Everyone in that noted assem
bly and every intelligent onlooker knows
iiat the whole proceeding was and is a
political strategem compelled by the
fateful utterances and momentous
achievements of our great war president
Woodrow Wilson.
Mr. Hughes' omission is glaring ; his
silence is eloquent
When America's man of destiny made
war upon war in the name of democracy,
when he said, "The people of the world
want peace, and they want It now, not
merely by conquest of arms but by
agreement of mind" ; when he asserted
and reasserted that America would not
disappoint the "high hopes of the world,"
be was spokesman for the world's better
self and the accents of his voice have
not died away.
...
But Mr. Hughes made no allusion to
this. When Mr. Wilson so fused the
sentiment of the world and focused its
thought that he drew practically all the
c.vilized nations into a covenant guar
anteeing peace and providing for a con
ference upon limitation of arms, in which
all of the 40 or more contracting parties
to the covenant Should participate, he
accomplished a feat the scope and mag
nitude of which are unparalleled in the
annals of statesmanship.
But Mr. Hughes did not mention this.
Furthermore, when the fierce passions
engendered by war and political strife
vented themselves upon Mr. Wilson him
self, the, unswerving rectitude, the pa
tience and forbearance exhibited by him,
the fidelity with which he kept the cov
enant he had made, proved him to be
possessed, in himself, of the virtue he
sought to confirm among nations, there
by enhancing his achievements with a
moral force which appeals powerfully to
the hearts of men.
Mr. Hughes was too well aware of this
fact -to risk the mentioning of that
name in his speech at the opening Of
the conference. He did mention the
name of Elihu Root however, and re
ferred to an official communication re
garding disarmament which Root made
tc the czar of Russia. That name and
that fact, to the discriminating mind
of Mr- Hughes, are more important than
are the name and the facts he suppressed.
f CommoirieatioBa aent ta Tba Journal far
pablicaaoa is thfc departaaaat ahoold ba vrittva
aa aaly ana tida at tha paper, ahonld not ax
eaad 80S worda ia teacth, and ant ba Dcacd
ky tha writer, whoa b3 ad&raat is fall matt
ascaeagany Um contribution. 1
THE WAY OF A CHILD
That Way Has Been the Way of the
World's Leaders, Says This Writer.
Portland. Nov. 18. To the Editor of
The Journal I wish you would tell those
peace conference delegates in Washing
ton what they deserve Accepts, "in
spirit and in principle.' These words
of Mr. Balfour; in answering to the
Hughes plan for .limiting of navies, are
hiding an old diplomatic secret, and also
revealing a great suspicion which pre
vails between the hearts of all the mem
bers of the Washington peace confer
ence. They sound also, like If there
would come the God Almighty to guar'
an tee them ail their safety . from the
aggression of their own hearts, there
could be then a complete disarmament
of all the world. But from the point of
view of my own belief this will never
happen, because I believe that the God
Almighty doesn't owe anything to the
humanity. For the reason, the God has
provided us with a conscience and a
thinking power through which we must
work out our own ways towards the
perfection, and bring ourselves again in
closer relation of the righteousness and
back to the highness from which per
haps our first ancestor has fallen when
he became desirous to be free from di
rect governing of his creator, or we
shall suffer forever.
The Washington peace conference
shows that the civilization, after so many
thousands of years, is yet like a little
child which once deserted its own sweet
home with a thought of finding the bet
ter place and more liberty by doing its
own ways ; and after the long suffer
ing became to realize that there is no
place like home, but still its selfishness
doesn't allow it to concede to the con
science and choose once the right road,
but on its way back to .beg parental for
giveness, planning a false story how
the Sam, John, Francis, Joe, and so on,
should be blamed for its desertion.
Ain't it a funny way to show an honest
heart with such an explanation? The
outcome of the Washington peace con
ference will show that I am not entirely
wrong. Just watch it
M. Kovacevich.
SIDELIGHTS
Tha mall trains wfU bereafter
guarded by marines, and If the bandits
rtmember what happened to the Ger
mans at Chateau-Thierry they'll lie low
and take no chances. Eugene Register.
SMALL CHANGE
Gratitude is gratia, but It's generally
as hard to collect as a bad bilL
a a a
That Country ii In a furnmnl aan m.
heavy editorial. And most of it is ille
gal, too : ijia;anvul) Courier.
The - automobile isn't as sure of its
footing on asphalt aa the old famllv
steed was oa a muddy road.
WWW
Having obeyed the suggestion that
folks who live in glass houses should not
throw atoned some hiva found that thav
cu iwi din wim impunity.
the same sudden ferocity aithe storms L'", ""d
or me. in eitner case it is well to ba - r V
There are 24.420 acraa of uaapproprl
ated and unreserved land la Bentoi
county, according to the United States
tana omce. ro occasion ror anyoooy
being without a home hare. CorvalUs
Gazetts-Ttmes.
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If the parole and pardon were taken
away from Judges, governors and presi
dents there would be more of an even
shake up of big and tittle criminals and
The Oregon Country
Xartaa
OREGON
Two and a half mlUtavne la the
valsstlon of West LI so and a I mill
tax is proposed ta the budget for swat
year.
The Yamhill County PubUe Health aa
aoctallon u orrinliml at MrlalnnviUa
Bentoa ;last week.. Mrs. Jan ale D. afUler of New.
forewarned and forearmed.
A little cloudbifrst a couple of floods
and a silver thaw, to say nothing of a
vicious wind and a dropping thermometer
what are these when there's a dance on
the program?
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The president proclaims Thanksgiving
a day for devotion and thanksgiving, but
far too many will make it a day for de
vouring everything in sight, with rarely
m niuuftj t VI giving or VI T Tlf r f s
We might better buy food and rai
ment for the free use of our neonle than
to give it to them in the form of wages
paid for their work in building imple
ments with which to kill their fellows
It really Is a shame that the 'laying on
of hands" , has to be omitted as a cor
rective scheme when a boy approaches
man's estate. A little "strap oil" now
and then would do a heap of good for a
lot of full-grown offenders.
Well, if we don't build any new bat
tleships for 10 years we might afford to
cancel thoee foreign loans. And if those
foreign nations quit building battleships
they can well afford to pay us what they
owe so the question would still be un
settled. tugene Guard.
If those who are criticising the officers
for lack of moonshine prosecutions would
do their part and tell what they know
the officers would be better able to en
force the law. The trouble Is there are
too many goody-goody people counte
nancing lam breakers and obstructing the
process of the law. Baker JJemocrat
Father was a boy not so long ago. Son
will be a man in a few brief years. Hare
is rare ground for sympathy and under
standing and for companionship to begin
early and last long. One week of such
intimacy is better than nothing at all.
but one week In itself amounts to little.
It is the permanency of its ideals that
counts. Albany Pemocrat
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About T.own
by
However, a reflecting public mind will
in the end arrive at the truth. The
arms convention and .the secretary's con
spicuous part therein are indeed a re
sponse to the call of distressed hu
manity, but it should be noted that the
cry of humanity is inarticulate, and it
may be inaudible to the ear of official
government until an individual human
voice articulates its plea and speaks at
close range. Woodrow Wilson spoke ;
and that is how it happened.
And what will be the outcome? The
Washington conferenca will not be fu
tile, for the reason that the Versailles
conference was not futile, Mr. Wells toJ
the contrary notwithstanding. Those
who kept the UniteTl States out of the
League of Nations are not only
staging a political play but are endeavor
ing to discharge an obligation. They
Intend more than a mere gesture ; they
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
A Comparison of Taxes Paid
Either Class on a Sales Basis.
Portland, Nov. 21. The Editor of
The Journal Because the Oregonlan re
fuses to print unfavorable comment on
its misleading editorials I ask your favor
to print this analysis of its editorial In
its issue of November 20 entitled "Re
volt on the Tax Bill," wherein it says
of bolting Republican senators support
ing the 50 per cent income tax as against
Harding's recommended 32 per cent that
they did so because of the "folks at
home," whom it calls "ignorant" constituents.
This insult to the whole Democratic
party, and to the intelligent part of the
Republican party, whose intelligence is
marred only by their connection with
the Republican party, should not go un
challenged. I therefore offer this brief
analysis for general consideration.
In that editorial is an analysis of the
proportionate taxpaying of two men.
One is rich. He spends 31,000.000 and
on a 1 per cent sales tax basis pays
$1000 in taxes, while the poor man who
spends but 1 1000 pays but $10 in sales
tax.
Sure ! How wise and obliging is the
Oregonian. To every rich man with
ability to spend $1,000,000 there are some
100,000 worklngmen whose spending abil
ity limits them to the $10 tax. making
their proportionate aggregate taxes paid
31,000,000 to the rich man's $1000. The
percentage paid by the workingman is
1000 to 1 of this tax bill. And the
Oregonian has the assurance to call this
man ignorant who opposes a sales tax.
C. W. Barzee.
D. C. Browneli of Umatilla is still a
risitor in Portland. He 6tarted home
Saturday night but when he got as far
as the station he had a chanrs of heart
and decided that Phil Metschan's hos
pitality beat being stalled on a train
somewhere en route to Eastern Oregon.
Mrs. M. S. Taylor, who has been con
fined by illness for some weeks in a
Portland hospital, has returned to her
home in Newberg.
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Mr. and Mrs. Edward Pompe of
Frohmai Station, in Linn county, are
Portland visitors.
J. A. Jensen of Tillamook is a Port
land visitor. He has recently leased
the Alderman mill at Garibaldi.
....
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Brigham of Eu
gene were over-Sunday visitors in Port
land. ...
Mrs. A. M. Tillson of Grass Valley Is
a guest of the Cornelius.
c. w.
visitor.
Thomas of Salem is a Portland
Noma Fultz of Bend is registered at
the Cornelius.
...
G. C. Drewett of Corvallis Is at the
Seward.
...
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Brown of Astoria
are guests of the Seward.
...
Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Green of Astoria
are domiciled at the Seward.
...
Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Douglass of Myrtle
Point are Portland visitors.
...
J. R Ladd of Corvallis Is transacting
business in Portland.
...
MraE. J. Wilson of Prineville is a
guest of the Seward.
...
C F. Barela. registering from London,
is at the Portland.
...
A. C. Dixon, lumber magnate of Eu
gene, is a guest of the Portland.
...
Roland and Enoch Miller of Eugene
are guests of the Portland.
...
C. W. Iddings of Eugene is at the
Seward.
Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Colt of Cleveland
and elsewhere in the East are spending
a week or 10 days in Portland. Mr.
Coit is president of the Colt Lyceum
bureau and of the Coit-AIber Chautau
qua company. From Portland they will
go for a brief visit In Los Angeles.
...
Miss Margaret DeYoe has returned
from a trip through Eastern Oregon
that included brief visits at Pendleton
and other points In Umatilla county.
...
Mrs. F M. Shutt whose husband was
formerly a law enforcing sheriff of Mor
row county, with L. G. Shutt is a guest
of the Cornelius.
...
Among Condon people visiting in Port
land are E. H Kendall. Jack Sturgis
and Mrs. C. 1L Nellon.
...
Albany people, visitors la Portland, in
clude Tom Powers, C. R Edgar. Miss
Lucile Chesman and Walter Worrell.
...
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Devine of Lexing
ton, Morrow county, are registered at
the Cornelius.
...
John snd Elizabeth Baker and G. G.
Emery Of Hood River are registered at
the Seward.
...
E. L Campbell of Eugene Is at the Im
perial.
...
J. A. Churchill of Salem is a Portland
business visitor.
a . a
MT. and Mrs. A. L. Baker of Mill City
are at the Imperial.
...
Mr. and Mrs. Nelson P. Howell of
Roeeburg are guests of the Imperial.
...
H. M. Browneli of Eugene Is a bus!
ness visitor to the metropolis.
...
H. C Atwell of Forest Grove is at the
Imperial.
a a
Frank J. Ward of Salem is a business
visitor In Portland.
...
Mrs. N. A." Lockard of Astoria is so
journing at the Seward.
....
Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Griffin of Astoria
are Portland visitors.
...
Mrs. W. T. Carrolf and Miss Lucille
Carroll of Eugene are at the Seward.
berg is preanteat
A big gold strike is reported on Soda
creek near Huntington, free gold being
found sticking out oC the quarts ledge ta
nuggets and threads.
Arrangement a have been com pleted for
the erection of an annex to the bar of
Battery A at Clackamas for the horses
of that organisation.
Invading the alfalfa fields of raarhers
tn the Dachutee aectioo 18 miles from
Bend, deer were seen erasing an org
the cattle on several ranches last woes.
A paror-l poa delivery a rvlco in the
boalneM district haa been launched tn
Hood River. A clerk has been assigned
four hours daily to the delivery of par
cels. Hanrey Bice, a Lane county man ac
ruaed of the theft of cattle valued at
$SO0 at Eugene a year ago. has been
located atpakalla prison farm. Barnaby.
B. C 9
Noi one case of tuberculosis was found
among 1100 head of dairy rows teatad In
Western Lena county bv Federal Tester
Loder. This is regarded as a remarkable
record.
The board of managers of Pacific col
lege at Newberg haa added to the fac
ulty of the college Miss Mary H Pen
nington, who will serve as assistant In
English.
Mrs. A. C. Marsters of Roeeburg haa
been alerted president of tha Women's
Foreign Missionary society of the South
ern Oregon conference. Methodist Epis
copal church.
Rav Prultt. a Medford vnuna man
I iting In Oklahoma, writes that he, his
wife and two children ware Injured In a
train wrern near uutnnc Dkla,. Novem
ber 10. Mrs. Prultt waa badly hurt
H. Cato, Deschutes county's oldest vet
eran of the World war. has received word
from London that ha Is heir to a tio.oco
estate left by a sister. He will start on
his twelfth trip across the Atlantic In
the next few weeks.
WASHINGTON
At an auction sale near Winona last
week a bunch of unbroken horses was
sold at the rate of $11 s dosen.
Frank Meldon. agsd IS. is under arrest
st Prosser. charged with a statutory
offense against a 7-year-old girt.
Paving of the state hlrhwav link nnrfi
of Colfax was finished last week and
the road has been opened for travel.
Frank King. IS Tears old. an ex .
soldier, is in a Tacotna hospital suffering
irom a nroxen neck received nearly a
month ago. '
Plana have been completed for tha
erection of a corrugated Iron warehouse
at Aberdeen on the site of the old
Icehouse in F Street
The financial condition of Mason
county is excellent s recent report show
ing total assets or J ls. 744.17 and liabili
ties of only I78.50 II.
Albert C Hujrhea, prominent Pioneer
merchant and lumberman of Eastern
Washington, died at Almlra last week,
following a short Illness.
The Puget Sound navy yard has issued
a call for mechanics, stevedores, ap
prentices and laborers at Bremerton snd
at the Keyport torpedo station.
The first oil lease In Chelan county
has Just been -placed on file, Indicating a
prospective campaign for OIL The lease
covers about 1000 acres west of. We
natchee. The Yakima County Community feder
ation, cornpoaed of commercial bodies
Of Yakima, Benton and Kittitas counties,
was organised at Grandvtew last Tues
day night
Notwithstanding the slump In wheat
prices, bank deposits in Spokane have
passed the S4S.000.000 mark. At the time
of the September call they stood at
$44,780,177.
A board of appeals to review griev
ances of disabled war veterans relative
to their government compensation
ewarda or vocational training privileges
has been organised at SeatUc.
Reports that elk are being casghtered
In the Olympics for their teeth alone,
have caused Frank C. Terk of the Port
Angeles commercial club to start a cam
paign to discourage the wearing of elk
teeth charms snd pins.
production this year reached 14,000 j wish to play their role as grandly and
carloads, not to mention 1S0O cars
Of pears, 12015 cars; of peaches, 150
cars of cherries, 450 cars of plums,
prunes and berries, and 400 cars of
melons and cantaloupes.
These are but two brief chapters
In the great story of reclamation.
In spite of them, reclamation has
doubters and even opponents. Some-
of them are in congress, where they
throw up obstacles in the way of the
McNary reclamation bill, me of the
most constructive measures ever pro
posed In the congress of the United
States.
The United States veterans bu
reau. In charge of training .disabled
ex-service men In the Northwest, haa
a division devoted to placing wound
ed veterans on the land and to se
curing their Instruction in agriculture
on their own little farms. The di
vision is headed by aa Oregon boy.
BAD EYESIGHT IN ACCIDENTS
'T'HAT there is defective eyesight
-a- in 25, 000,000 01 the 42,000,000
men and women employed in indus
try In America is the astonishing es
timate of the committee of Federated
American Engineering Societies, ap
pointed by Herbert Hoover to con
sider the elimination of waste in in
The committee holds that defec
tive vision is a prolific cause of in
dustrial waste, . It places the amount
of this waste as equal in extent to
that due to faulty management, idle
ness of .plant and equipment, ill
health or accident
It Is perfectly feasible, to remedy
ordinary defects of eyesight and, in
view of its tremendous cost to pro
ductive Industry, the committee
urges employer and employe to co
operate in making all possible corrections.-
The report of the committee, dis
closing so widespread a prevalence
of impaired vision, raises the query
of how many traffic accidents come
from the same cause.
And with accidents increasing in
an ascending ratio with Increases in
the number of automobiles in use,
may a time not come, and may it not
be here now, when some test of eye
sight may be necessary in granting
licenses to automobile drivers :
beneficently as their self-imposed res
ervations and limitations will allow.
They are determined, however, that their
art, so studiously arranged in every
particular, may appear to he a main
eent instead of what it reallyVis. an
episode in the unfolding of a great
drama of world democracy, in which
Woodrow Wilson is the great protago
nist The arms conference will succeed be
cause America wishjes it to succeed.
America has not forgotten the conse
cration of her sacrificial moments ; has
not forgotten the vision glimpsed
through the eyes of her great leader,
of a fair city whose alabaster walls and
gleaming palaces should be the abode
of all nations and in whose midst should
be a temple of concord. America, the
free, the young, will not dwell In the
habitation of the old. She would build
the new.
THE "POOR" RAILROADS
A Correspondent Compares Freight
Bills With Values of Articles.
Stayton, Nov. 18. To the Kditor of
The Journal The poor railroads seem to
have a good friend in President Hard
ing. I should think if our president can
find a way to raise $500,000,000 for the
poor railroads he could find a way to
raise a mite for the boys that fought in
the World war. I often wonder where
they get that stuff, namely, the. "poor"
railroads. I recently had a minimum
carload of machinery shipped from the
East The poor railroads charged
$791.04. About three weeks ago I had a
machine weighing about 1000 pounds
shipped from the East The cost of the
machine was $150. The freight bill was
$154.40. Can you beat it? The company
we bought the machine from thought the
freight would be about $40. A carload
of lumber shipped from a small town in
this state sold for something over $300.
The freight cost almost $500.
A Subscriber.
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
(Tha romantic story of Sacajawea i here
once mora told. Mr. Lockley hiring obtained
frcm tha moat reliable aoorce a document that
prorides nnmeroua detail of tha brea of tha
"Bird Woman," her husband and her children.
Stella M. Drumm Is librarian of the
Missouri Historical society. She lives in
tho historic old city of St Louis. We
have had considerable correspondence
about historical matters, as the history
of Oregon is closely interwoven with
that of Missouri. Most of the emigrant
trains for Oregon started from St Jo
seph, Independence or Westport. Men
from Kentucky. Virginia. Tennessee,
Ohio and Indiana moved westward, set
tling in the "Platte" purchase, or at other
points in Missouri, and from that van- "' "T ,
tag Point formed the vanguard of U salary ' SB
The Harmless, Useful Toad
Lillian Trott in Our - Dumb Animals.
The toad must catch his own meals.
He scorns dead food. Ha must see it
move to be sure it has not slipped the
bonds of life and begun to spoil. In
a day and a night he captures enough
to stuff his stomach full four times, al
though If he had to he could exist with
out eating longer than any other crea
ture. He eats caterpillars, moths, wee
vils, snails, bugs, worms, spiders,
beetles, grasshoppers, crickets, many
kinds of winged insects, even wasps,
and . innumerable other noxious pests,
and in six months he will pwt 20,000
of them where they can harm no man's
garden. Reckoning on every oae of
these working a mill's worth of harm to
somebody's crop, one toad prevents $20
worth of injury, and we know that one
mill is a low value to set upon such
individual damage. In some countries
toads sell to gardeners up to $15 a head,
and are shielded from prowling scaven
gers the same as any domestic stock.
A toad that adopts you and your gar
den and makes his home in your door
yard has claim on your protection. His
homing instinct is strong, and you may
count oa his clinging to life and your
premie oa at least for a decade unless
he is stoned to death, and the chances
are he will outlive you, for a generation
as we reckon human life, or even 40
years, is not beyond the possibilities of
a contented toad. And he asks no favors.
not even shelter when wintry storms
sweep the fields bare of the vegetation
that affords him provender. He will
The bird world, like the human,, has
its criminals, and no better example
could be given, says a writer in the
New York Evening Post than the kea
or mountain parrot of New Zealand.
This bird's epicurean tastes proved its
undoing and launched it on its career
of crime. Disdaining coarser foods, it
has a penchant for the kidney fat bf
sheep. It alights on the back of a sheep
or a Iamb and with its curved, cruel
beak tears through wool and flesh until
it reaches the kidneys, while the un
happy animal, after staggering weakly
around for a time, collapses and dies.
The ea is supposed to have first formed
this curious taste through hovering about
slaughter yards where sheep were killed.
Once having tasted kidney fat it .became
as voracious in its pursuit as the drug
addict seeking dope. Finally it began
to do murder in order to satisfy its de
sires. Its carnivorous tastes have re
sulted in a bounty being placed on its
head and it is being rapidly shot out
that vast slow-moving fleet or praine
schooners which made their way from
the frontier of civilization ever west
ward to the borders of the western sea.
A day or so sgo I received from Miss
Drumm a book of intense interest to
Oregon. enUtled "Journal of a Fur Trad
ing Expedition on the Upper Missouri in
1K12-1S." It is the "log." or dally record,
of J. C. Luttig, the clerk of the Missouri
Fur company. The journal has been
eolted by Miss Drumm and It gives a
graphic picture of the' incidents and ac
cidents, the hardships and adventures.
cf those early day traders and travelers
to and through the Indian country. The
frontispiece is a picture of Sakakawea
(the spelling Is hers, not mine). Fascin
ating as is the Journal. I am going to
confine this article to but one subject
and that Is the discussion in the volume
of Sacajawea, her owner, Toussalnt
Charbonneau, and her son, Toussalnt
example, Charbonneau decided to settle
dewn and enjoy life In the settlements.
ana bought land In St Ferdinand town
ship, on the Missouri river. Tiring of
civiiisauon. he sold this land for $100 to
William Clark, March 2. 1811. Three
days prior to this sale ha had purchased
60 pounds of "hard blsault" of Aususte
Chouteau. On the deed filed in St Louis
to the land sold to William Clark the
name of Francois Rubldou appears. On
August 2L 18I. Charbonneau. at that
time 80 years old. arrived at St Louis.
without a dollar, to apply to Joshua
Piicher, commissioner of Indian affairs,
for tha payment of his quarterly salary
as government interpreter to the Man-
dans. He bad traveled 1600 miles to
a quarter, so
Uncle Jeff "Snow Says
When Old Billy MacGregor managed
to make a fortune spec la tin' in cotton
and mules right after the Civil war
down on the Red river in Arkansaw he
sent his boy, Washington Pitt to a
hlfalutin college up north and lowed
him $200 a month fer expenses and re
sponded generous to the 'rush telegrams
and sight drafts that Wash fired in
extry. Then all of a sudden the old man
died snd the lawyers couldnt find enough
of the estate fer to pay the debts, let
alone helpin' Wash on his oollege ex
penses. A old farmer uncle hvMlxsotrry
seen him through, howsumever. to the
tune of $400 a year, and no more. Wash
had to cot out the etceteries and git
down to business, If the people of Ore
gon wants to git taxes rejuced they'd
better cut off all our legislatures and
councils to list so much a year, no mat
ter Sow they holler they can't make it.
sad thereby make 'em cut out the
etceteries and frills.
THE REWARD
Praam Ufa
Our statesmen- declared that we fotight
provide himself with a winter barrow 1 ta get nothing out of the war : and then
just as easily as he hides under a damp j made a present of it to the soldiers.
Major Piicher paid him" $100 for six
months' services and informed him his
services would no longer be required.
Smallpox had wiped, out the Mandan
tribe, so the government no longer
needed an interpreter there.
"Sakajawea" Is a Shoshoni word
meaning "boat-launcher." while "Saka
kawea" means. In their tongue. "Bird
Woman," so probably this Is the correct
form of spelling for the Indian girl
whose statue stands in the City park In
Portland. LutUg in his journal speaks
of the Bird Woman as being "the best
woman at the fort" Bracke&rldge. who
made a trip up the Missouri in 1811. also
met her and says the wife of the
Frenchman who, with his squaw, ac
companied Lewis and Clark. "Is a good
creature, of a mild and genUs disposi
tion, greatly attached to the whites."
She died December 20. 1812. leaving her
son Touiaaiant and a baby girl, Llxzette
Charbonneau Jr. As the references to! "fj-fc L V..,1: b.rouht
On August It 1811, Luttig spplied to
these three historic characters that mean
so much . to the student of Oregon his
tory are too long to reproduce I will in
my own language give a brief account
of them from the many authorities
quoted.
When, Sacajawea was 10 years old she
was captured by the Gros Ventre In
diana Charbonneau bought her from
her Indian owners and she became his
slave and the mother of his children.
Charbonneau, the purchaser of the
"Bird Woman," was born In Canada In
1759. In 1792-94 he was in the employ
of the Northwest company at Pine Fort,
on the Assinlboine. Two years later he
was the trader for this same company at
Metaharta, on Knife river", with the Slln
nctarees. The year before the coming
of . Lewis and Clark he was with Alex-,
ander Henry, In charge of Fort Pem
bina. When the Lewis and Clark party
reached the central village of the Minne
tarees on Knife river. In tha winter of
1464-05, they found Charbonneau. Cap
tain Lewis employed him as an interpre
ter at $23 a month. In speaking of him
he sayS: "Charbonneau, though a man
ot no peculiar merit; was useful as an
interpreter only, in which capacity he
discharged his duties with good faith."
Charbonneau lived among the Mandan
Irdians more than Is years aud during
this time he was frequently employed by
Indian traders, hunters and others, and
seemed to. give satisfaction.
From the old records in 8t Louis much
light Is thrown upon Charbonneau. For
IDAHO
Firerom defecUve wiring a few days
sgo completely destroyed the cattle
bams at the Vnlversity of Idaho, caus
ing a loss of $16,000.
Dr. William Knapp. veteran of the
Civil war and a practicing phyaielan at
Hope for many years. Is dead In that
city after a brief illness.
Frank Dlsno and Oscar Grow II have
been placed under srret In connection
with tie shooting of J. Orito. a Japanese,
at Glenns Ferry oo the night of Novem
ber t
The Gooding Cattle Grazing associa
tion has brought bark approximately
1000 head of cattle which have been on
the semmer range in the Sawtooth na
tional reserve.
Minidoka county farmers have formed
an, organization to take advantage of
the opportunities o flared by the war
finance corporation toward the purchase
of dairy cows.
Contract has been let for surfacing
with crushed rock 8.7 miles of highway
known as tha Oreer hlU in the Clear
water highway district nr Lewis Km.
Cost of the work la $14.9:4.
The reclamation bond commission has
spjwoved s $150,000 bond issue of the
Poat Falls Irrigation district In Kootenai
county. The area embraces 8SM acres,
water to be taken from Harden lake.
the orphans court st St Louis for ap
pointment aa guardian of Toussalnt
Charbonneau Jr., a boy 10 years old.
and Liszette, a girl about oae year old.
Toussalnt Charbonneau Jr however,
was only t years old at this time. The
court appointed William Clark guardian
of the wo children of Clark's guide, the
Bird Woman. Sacajawea was 26 years
eld at tha Urns of her death. Toussalnt
per son, was educated by the Rev. P.
Nell, a Catholic priest in St Louis. In
listing the expenses of his guardianship
Captain William Clark mentions the
purchase of ' one Roman history, one
dictionary, Scott's Lessons, paper, quills,
slate and pencils.
The son of the Bird Woman was
in Idaho In 1830 and was with
Bridger at Fort Bridger tn the sum
mer of 1832. In 1842 be was em
ployed by Bent and Vrain. Sage In his
book. "Rocky Moentaln Life. published
in 1857, says Toussalnt Charbonneau
"proved to be a gentleman bf superior
information,'" and he further says that
tn addition to several Indian tongue he
could converse in English. Spanish.
French and 'German, and that bis mind
was wsll stored with choice reading.
On April 22. 1842, st W eat port Mo., there
was baptised Vlctotra VerUfeullle,
daughter of Joseph VerUfeullle and
Elizabeth Charbonneau. who. as a baby,
bad been caHsd Lizxette by her young
mother, the Bird Woman, the lover of
the white race, the slave of Charbon
neaa and the guide of Lewis and Clark.
....
What I Like Best
In The Journal
L M. ED ELM AN. Blind
Slough, Orj We like every
thing In The Journal, but best
of all the way it expresses tha
people's opinions. We have
read The Journal for XI years.
We particularly approve it
stand on disarmament.
MRS. H TUCKER, 151
Third street The adverti se
gments. L. R. - LANG, 106S East
Twenty-first street north
Editorials. "Bed Time Sto
ries, markets and comics.
if. B. GREEN. 810 Smith
avenue Its independent and
unhesitating courage in re
spect to the labor question,
the recent railroad strike and
the disarmament conference.
O. C. BELIEN. $60 Clinton
street The market page, the
funnies, and the honest edito
rial appeals to gentle nature
and finer instincts.
E. G. LaFOLLETTE, 111
East Ninety-third atreet Its
many good features, its-Interest
in education. Its kindness
toward the common people,
and the general news for
quickness of report, correct
. ness and variety.
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2914 Sixteenth street north
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