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10 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1921. I A1 rNDKrCVDEIT SEWIPAPEB 1 ' 1 JlCCiUM PnhlUwK - I He eaias. ae roaftdrnt. ba ihearfnl ud da ma uari ae row wovu bars Um do Bate fwi J1ifcUiM4 eaer aeetdaj and Sunday morning at Tta Jouml Wuiklinf. hreadwe aad Xaaa- pin u. rnrmnn, irregnn. gsaara a the Daatoffue at rutiand. Orel on. 2 m Inwlnlw taroag & th nsii second -Mais TJJ1. InloMiu 560-sT. ftATMNAl. Al'VKUTlHl.Nt fckKfcSKNTA- TIVS fijialn Kentaor Hruwr t baiMlng. tVth ivraiM, Mni'Iortj WOO Waller hnilrllni, CHnrn - ? U lO COAST KJdf KKHKXTAT1VK W. K. - hiut" Co.. Eiuiiwr bnttdinc, (taa ' " rtane; TKto laniuct MMiai, Loe " pn tntdtwfwoT BaiMttit. Seattle. 4 f discovery tu that the river steamer ; had an exceptional opportunity in moving apples for oversea shipment to docks at Portland. Then, when the blizzard closed the gorge of the Columbia and encased in - ice the trains caught there, it waa the river steamer that took the storm-marooned passengers off their helpless vehicle and brought them to shelter. The experience should .bring new realization to the railroads that wa- iter transportation Is an auxiliary to be encouraged and not a competitor to be throttled. fHK OHKliO.M JOl K.NAL. itnw th nht in reiert adeTtiain copy which it 4rms t Hwtimubk It W aail ant print say ' enpa thai ia sny way atmnlatea r-ilmt mjit Z Ur et that eaneot readily b recognixed u e4aertilng. BIBSCKIPTION KATES 2 By Carrw, (fi and tVmatry- UAii'X ni.iuii WHAT IS THEIR COURSE? 0m 1J DAILY On twk I .10 One ainath 4 3 fi aUIL, AIX RATE I .65 S .08 PAYABLE T ADVANCE On snth . . . . 81'XDAY On weak Aa laar. aionik. .1 00 4.29 KAII.T ; (Without Saaday) On r 100 Si stoat .... I 21 T" aaantha.. IS Pa atnnth SO W KHKI.Y (Ctery Wednesday) .1 00 DAILY AND HO DAY .12 51 . .71 Thraa moata. . Ona aumih . . . . SODAY (Only) Ona year IS. 04 Six aaonth. . : 1.7 Thraa maadti . . . 1.00 WEEKLY AND SIN DAY Oaa year ft. 10 fna nmr Six awmtae ... .SO - Thaw ralai apply bnlr In th. Wart. . Hates to Katem point tnrilMm appttm. Jlna. slake malttanees ay Usnay OnUjM Rx ri Order ar I watt. If yoor pnatoffirr la not. a jaoojf oMf office. 1 or 2-eent etamvs will Va err-pOd Make all traiilUnrai payable to Th Journal PnblWilnf Company, Portland. I OrnfKI. crop. The handwriting la on- the wall for Southern pine. It will disappear- in a few years along with Minnesota's timber. , As the Min nesota operators came West so will come the Southern pine operators. The Long-Bell interests have already obtained Western foothold. Others will follow. Here there is room for them all. THE STORM T0 THOSE authorities whose duty it is to enforce the law in and near Portland sincerely desire to clean up road hbuses where the law Is flagrantly violated? Or do they permit the orgies to continue -unnoticed? Are they fooled about what takes place, or do they make an earnest effort to find out? Are they unable to obtain evidence suf ficient to j. close the establishments, or 'do they refuse to obtain it? There are several places in and near Portland, ostensibly reputable road houses, that are little more than headquarters for booze parties. They are girl-traps. There is practically .no effort made to see that patrons stay within the law. An Arbuckle case has not come to light in Portland as yet. No death has so far been reported in a road house orgy. But a girl is in a Port land hospital, where she was taken following a booze party at a promi nent establishment that is repre sented as a highway restaurant She went to the roadhouse at midnight. She narrowly escaped death. How many more girls have? When will one fail to escape? And how many will lose their greatest treasure After being tricked to one of Port land's resorts and plied with liquor, pure and otherwise? What are the authorities going to do? Are they going to those places, obtain evidence, and close them up? Or are they going to sit languidly in .public office, pocket their salaries and permit the roadhouse riots to go on? DEMOCRACY'S NEW CHIEF Expectation Entertained by Fditcrs of Both Parties That Recent Reorgan isation Will Effect the Stirring Up of a Torpid Congress Through an Access of Solidarity in the Minority Various Views of the New Chairman. Daily Editorial Digesf , Lt ua (It Uianka to God upon Tlianka tlln day. Natura la baauUful and ftllow mn ara drar, and duty la clone baaida ua, and (iod la oirt ua and In ua. Wa want to trut lllro with a fullar truat. and ao at kwt to eoma to that htih Ufa whar we ahall "b artful for nothing, but In tvtryUitnf. by prayar ami atippllaatloa, with thankaairtnt', lt aar rqut ba mada known unto God"; for that, and tint alone, la lac. I'hillipa BruokK. TODAY Thanksgiving day is a good time to square up accounts with the needy. Many Portlanders made sub scriptions to the Community Chest. Many have kept their promises to the poor. Some have not. Whether they do or not may make all the dif ference between comfort and desti tution. This is the time when gen erosity counts. THERE is never a time when man appears either , so puny or so powerful as when he is beset by the fury of nature. His trains that on the open track counted 40 miles an hour moderate going, slow to a crawl and stop paralyzed by congealed drops of water in the gorge of the Columbia. The steamer which sails proudly and indifferently when the weather is clear is buffeted and made sport of by the winds and can make landing in order to gather up passengers from helpless trains only at risk of wreck. Th electric flash which places the intelligences of the Xtlantic and the Pacific only a minute apart is lost in the breath of the storm. Its wires and its poles are buried beneath flakes whose fairy patterns are so small that only the microscope may trace them. The trout stream of the summer that a fisherman might wade is en trusted with the weight of water that only a series of mountains can pro vide and its volume sweeps away houses and bridges and holds respect for no life. Before all these drops multiplied into tons and torrents, man bends. But he does not break. There is an imperishability about humanity that amazes. The trains are dug out and go on their way. The poles of the telephone and tele graph go up again; communication resumes. A village or even a city may be swept away in flood but it is rebuilt with the same rapidity that communities razed by war have been lifted again. By the time the storm, even if it amounts to catastrophe, has with drawn, people are ready to take up their routine, humdrum, casual, gossipy lives as though death's finger had not beckoned. The storm has merely delayed; it did not paralyze. It challenges man's recuperative power. By his use of that power he gives a symbol of 'the eternal character of human life. was prydnoed direct from the ore by blowing air through the furnace contain ing Iron ore a ad charcoal. It is prob able that these early producers of iron had some knowledge of the hardening effect of carbon On iron, though it is un likely that they knew it as such. The more probable explanation, is. that one c the melters discovered that' if the sam ple waa left for a long time in the red hot furnace surrounded by charcoal, a material capable of producing better re sults was produced. fpiIANKFlL? i- Why not? Isn't it a privilege to have life? , And isn't life a wonderful adven ture? ?" T not Eskimos, living in filthy snow huts, subsisting on blub bar. We are not South Sea island- r. uncivilized, unkempt and untu tored. We are not as are Armenians, civilised but raviahod, ravaged and 1 murdered by unspeakable neighbors, bur life Is not in the Balkan states. where races are constantly fighting rach other to the death and where Ihe war drums are never stilled. r Our place In the world is the best place in the world. The German mark, worth but half a cent instead it 24, is the telltale story of German bankruptcy, and afranc, worlh but J cents, Is the sorry symbol of im poverishment In France, j We owe war debts, but we owe htm to ourselves. Europe owes us billions, on which she cannot pay (he Interest and will not be able to bay the principal In a generation. Beaded sweat from the brow of labor nd the tears of childhood will be on every dollar ground out of nature through toll and sacrifice to pay Eu rope's debts to us. In their debts Europeans are sentenced to genera tions of national poverty and Indi vidual struggle. : If we have problems in America, what of Europe's? What of be nighted and 'superstitious Asia's? Every European nation lives in deadly fear of its neighbors. Read Premier Hrland's speech at the arms , toriferenee. There you have the fearful anxiety under which other peoples live. There Is no like psy chology In our untrammeted and un t.hreatened country. England never has a food supply of more than seven weeks. America always hua a surplus. England has but two great' raw materials. Japan baa none. America haa them all. America can live within herself in definitely and abundantly. Isn't it something to be thankful for? . True, we have our 'distress, our strife and our poverty. We have our weak, our sick and our poor. But therein la the reason for the fortu nate, out of the abundance with which they are blessed and out of the superior conditions in our land . In contrast with the sorrows of luck Use Uads, to strengthen these weak, minister to these sic and work to lift these poor out of their poverty. It U selfish not to appreciate and acknowledge these United Statee and the bestowals that have' come to us In America. It Is ungenerous not to find life a beautiful trusteeship, a grand committal from on high. . through which to find delight In the comradeships and fellowships and nartnarahiM and relationships of life. I : Back of it all U this: Today may have Us things to tinge the horixon Wlln glOOm. DUl lunmirvw, n " c try. can be filled with sunshine and symphony. , ' When the Columbia, between Portland and The Dalles, was aban doned by steamers a few months ago there . was a persistent campaign, which reader will remember as twine; been voiced through this " Mwspaper. to relnaugurate the serv- , fee. The J. N. Teal waa restored to . - ' jte Dalles-Portland run. The first CLEMENCY FOR SOLDIERS PRESIDENT HARDING is making no mistake in including impris oned service men among those to be granted executive- clemency. They could well have been released long ago. In government prisons are boys who went to the aid of their country when the German menace was black. They offered their lives in defense of humanity. They were young Tl-ey made mistakes. Perhaps they went to sleep on duty. Perhaps they Violated some other rule of military ethics. There were plenty of mill tary rules easily violated without premeditation and without fore thought. But they received military punish ment. They received sentences wholly out of accord with the magni tude of the offenses. They received sentences far exceeding any ever im posed under civil law. Their punishment far exceeded that of men who did not go to the defense of their country. It ex ceeded that of those who openly in dorsed the cause of Germany. It exceeded that of iy other class of war offenders. They are the first that should be released. ' And President Harding is to be commended on his announced Intention of extending executive clemency to them. THE FIGHT IS ON REFERRING to the spirit of the disarmament conference aa a STILL BUILDING SENATOR KING endeavored to get a resolution through congress demanding that work be halted on the battleships now under construc tion pending the adjournment of the arms conference. But the present congress is a matter of history and the King resolution is.ln a committee of that congress. Io there no man or no body of men in Washington who will call a halt to construction of battleships that In all probability will be scrapped? Is there no desire among the powers at Washington to save expense to the taxpayers, to save wealth to the country, and to avoid waste? Do all the powers agree that It is good policy to pour millions Into ships that will be scrapped un doubtedly before they are com pleted? The ships will probably be sold for junk. They will be constructed cp parently at great cost and turned over to secondhand men for a song. Why nbt put the money that Is going into the ships into reclama tion, into river and harbor develop ment, into highways, Into any project that serves to develop the country? That would avoid unemployment re sulting from cancelled contracts. And the money Would be spent where It would do the people of the coun try some good instead of being spent on battleships to be scrapped. And certainly it wouldadd to the feeling of sincerity on the part of the United States in th arms conference. Rumor is flying that the Long-Bell lumber interests have bought out the Hammond Lumber company at As toria. Rumor is not always vera cious. - But In this Instance even the speculation haa meaning. Tb Long Bell Interests long have been Iden tified with the Southern pine timber I "sloppy sentimental fever of broth erly love," one Washington corre spondent says: "Anybody who thinks that the hundred thousand years of war can be wiped out by a little talk in this particular year of grace has good imagination." He also writes: Goveror Morgan of West Virginia protests against the scrapping of the dreadnaught named for his state. Vir ginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Tennessee are expected to protest against scrapping other magnificent battleships. Well they may. What are we, hysterical children? At one moment seized with the fear of war we spend millions. Then, with a sloppy, sentimental fever of brotherly love, we propose scrapping hundreds of millions. There should be in congress power and common sense to prevent breaking up the nation's dearly bought defense, as Bpoiled children break their toys. a Here is a fight against the manl- I fest desire of the American people for limitation of armaments, and it will probably turn out to be. an or ganized fight. It Is an unfortunate note of discord in the almost uni versal voice of approval with which the Hughes proposal for a naval holiday waa greeted throughout America. Along with this protest against the purpose of the conference, there is brought forward the argument of the constitutional provision that "congress shall have power to pro vide and maintain a navy." as deny ing to the conference the power to limit the size of the navy. In due time other objections will undoubtedly be brought out to di "vide thjs now united public mind and imperil the purposes of the con ference It is a warning to the peo ple that if they want the conference to succeed, they should stand solidly behind Mr. Hughes in his splendid purpose and by continued expression ci their desires strengthen his hands and those of the other members of j the delegation. If this Is not done the cause of limitation of armaments may be assassinated, just as many another great movement has been stayed by blows in the dark. The attacks on the purposes of the conference are an Insistence that nations cannot by agreement main tain a given status in armaments. They are made within a few hun dred miles of the border line be tween Canada and America, where the pledges of two nations as to arm aments have stood unshaken for nearly 104 years. The Rush-Bagot treaty provided that on Lake Ontario each government could maintain but one vessel of not to exceed 100 tons armed with one 18-pound cannon; that on the upper lakes each might maintain two vessefs of like size and armament, and that on Lake Cham plain but one vessel of the same kind and that all other war vessels on such lakes should be forthwith dis mantled and disarmed. This treaty has stood unviolated for more than a century. That it has kept warships off the great lakes and left 5000 miles of frontier un fortified for more than . three gen orations, ia visible proof to the dele gates at Washington and to the world that limitation of armaments by agreements among nations is 1 pos sible and that the 'Hughes proposal is not Ma sloppy sentimental fever of brotherly love." - (Consolidated Press Association) The recent reorganisation of the Dem ocratic party is expected to bring about "more effective opposition in congress and may stir the sluggish wheels of the national legislature into greater activ ity, in the opinion of editorial writers of both parties. 11 any interesting con clusions are drawn from the meeting of the Democratic national committee at St. Louis, and the election Of Cor dell Hull of Tennessee as chairman of the committee. From the party point of view the choice of Judge Hulr for the chairman ship "augurs a united and militant par ty," the Raleigh News and Observer (Dem.) believes, because, while admit tedly a compromise, ."the disadvantages of naming any man prominently identi fied with either the Cox wing er the McAdoo wing are obvious," since "it is essential that past differences be for gotten." In relation to these differences Mr. Hull is "neutral and inconspicuous," as the Philadelphia Public Ledger (Irid.) puts it, and the compromise, the Nor folk Virginian Pilot (Ind. Dem.) thinks, "augurs well for party harmony." On the other hand, the Brooklyn Eagle (Ind. Detn.) feels that an acknowledged compromise is "unfortunate, even ''omi nous," for "factions based on rival am bitions should not have the power to force a compromise on a neutrality at a time when the Demcratic opposition in congress is undergoing the test of ad versity and seems to be leaderless as well as hopeless." However, the At lanta Constitution (Dem.) is sure that such action "can result only in the strengthening of the party organization and enable it to prepare for the forth coming campaign with a singleness of purpose free from the impediments of internal jealousies and factionalism." . . In any event, the Springfield Republi can (Ind.) regards the "inside politics" as "of less importance than the char acter of the mun himself." And from this point of view approval is unquali fied. "If ever the Democratic party has needed leadership and intelligent direction it is now," the Memphis News Scimitar (Ind.) declares, and "Judge Hull in a large measure will supply the deficiency," while the party "will re ceive a new inspiration from his leader ship." It will "require a prodigious faith," the Baltimore News (Ind.) re marks, "to move the mountain which so gently but firmly slid down upon Democracy a year ago," and. according to the Grand Rapids Herald (Rep.), those who know Judge Hull "testify that he is just the man to lead the shovel ing," for "he comes to his new responsi bilities with a particularly tender and intimate appreciation of what happened to his party in the late unpleasantness," having lost his own seat in congress to the "first Republican to carry the Fourth Tennessee district since 'the Civil war." Because of that fact, the Knox ville Journal and Tribune (Rep.), be sides feeling local pride in Mr. Hull's selection, tfiinks "the choice was a wise i ii ' V. etnnA TA.. showed such unmistakable Republican loaning in the last election. The Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Ind.), how ever, considers the choice of a South erner as head of the organization "a tac tical blunder,!' because "the party is not in jeopardy in the South. The battle ground is in the North." Nevertheless, the Providence Tribune (Ind. Rep.) takes occasion to warn the Republican party that it may be necessary for it "to be more careful in preparing for the campaign next year than might have been the case had the Democratic na tional committee not made the wise choice that it did in the election of a new chairman. Political parties seldom have as well qualified men at the head of their national committees as Judge Hull is." Letters From the People Communication cast to The Journal for publication ia this departatant ahoold ba writtaa on only one aids of the paprr. ahoaid not ex ceed 300wotda h teta, and must be uaoed by th writer, whose mail address in fall must accompany th contribution- FOR THE NEEDY. AT HOME An Exhortation to Relieve Them Equally With Those Far Away. Portland. Nov. 20. To the Editor of The Journal The Community Chest is empty. The county is without fundsjto further supply the needy. The Journal states that unless something can be done there will be many hungry children. Will generous Portland stand idly by and see people starving in her midst little children cold and hungryand not make an effort to relieve the situation at once? When far off Armenia calls, what do we do? When Hoover said the children in Germany were starving, what was done? And how was it when the call came from China? Thousands and thou sands were collected in this city to re lieve those situations. But now it is here right here where all that money went from, that our own children are hungry. And yet the coun ty commissioners and city relief bu reaus are wondering what can be done. Why cannot the people of Portland raise money here for the hungry just as well as for some foreign country? My idea has always been that charity begins at home. This is the time of year when we give thanks for the blessings that have been bestowed upon us. But we must not forget the many, this year, who can not count many blessings. Let society people turn their time to charity affairs, and let the city ask for help as it has for the other countries. Resident. QVLAU(?B)CEPQArT Comes now the end of harvest, And so we thank Thee, Lord. The apples have been gathered, A red and golflen hoard. For swollen fields of barley, For laden vine and tree, For garnered stores of wheat and corn, We offer thanks to Thee. Yet are there deeper reasons For our true gratitude: Our homes are safe and cozy, Each with its little brood. Wetthank Thee that peace blesses A world too long in pain ; And that the dead beyond the sea Did not depart in vain. We thank Thee that, untainted. Old Glory waves on high ; That hopes our fathers cherished Through decades do not die ; That freedom is our motto; That justice is our right; That fear of God is fn our hearts ; His truth our Star of Light. . The Oregon Country Nana -la Brief r OREGOM HUlabora reidrnla kart voted a 19- mtll special lax for the maintenance of the schools for th ensuing j ear. A nw stage line Is ttoar being oper ated betwa Aahland and Medford, U cars giving a a-minuu service each way. Gerald EbU. 15. of La Grande, brake man on th O-W. R a N.. aa Ui4 last Sunday ben he slipped and as bit by an engine near Durkee. Horac Yokum 1 opening- op an eight foot vein of splendid coaT on his place on Willow creek, near Heppaer. Just how extensive th vein is has not yet been proven. Blanche Turner and Mr. Jai Eck wall are held at. Klamath FaUs under targea of robbing Harry Traynor. 3 year old. of SJ10 whale th three war taking a joy ride. The Union high school at Malln la bankrupt and may hav to doe. Only $41Q was received this year to run tb district and th bank at Malta refuse to carry more warrants. The repot of the United States land office shows that there are 114. aM acre of unappropriated land in Grant county. Harney has 1.7(8. Ida acres. Lake Z.t3( 457. Klamath 1.10I.S9. and Malheur 4.- COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF SMALL CHANGE No one will expect "amazing . prodi gies of performance" from the new chairman, but the Rochester Herald (Ind.) thinks there is "one thing that may reasonably be -within hispowers." That is "to help to bring the minority in the two houses of congress into the position of a united and effective op position." At present, the Herald ob serves, the nation is being governed, in so far as it is being governed at all, "by a leaderless. heterogeneous major ity, confronted, though not opposed, by a purposeless and fickle minority," less disorganized than the Republicans "only because there are fewer of them," says the New York Evening World (Dem.). Hull has the opportunity, the Evening World continues, "to lay on the party whip from the bottom up," and by drag ging party opinion "out of the present unorganized every-man-for-himself tan gle" and "fashioning it into a definite and concrete working program," he can make the minority "a real fighting force for better government. "Grass is grow ing under everybody's feet," says the New York Morning World (Dem.), and "cer tainly the administration and the coun try would both benefit by increased energy and initiative in the councils of the opposition," for, as the Asheville Times (Irid.) sees it, "as a militant minority" the Democratic party "can contribute in large measure to the shap ing of the policies that will finally pre vail at Washington." The choice of the former Tennessee representative bears out the theory, the Manchester Union (Ind. Rep.) believes, "that in the effort to capture seats in congress the Democrats will try to stress the issue of taxation," because his financial experience in congress will be regarded as "of value in directing the campaign," since, as the Winston-Salem (N. C.) Journal (Dem.) informs us, "he was the author of the Income and fed eral inheritance tax laws and other im portant similar legislation." The New ark News (Ind.) agrees that "things are shaping up" in a way to suggest that tax reform will be "the major is sue," although it feels that "the hypoc risy of crying down the party in control for failing to cut taxes when the Demo crats have done everything they could to retain them would move the gods on Olympus to roars of laughter." REPLYING TO MR. WOODWARD Mr. Zeigler Defends Publicity as a Deterrent of Moral Disorders. Portland, Nov. 22. To the Editor of The Journal William F. Woodward In a published letter takes UtG newspapers to task for identifying the Benson Poly technic with the crime disclosures con cerning some of' its students. He asks: "Why not the church they attended or the section' of the city from which they came?" and. by implication from his argument the families from which they sprang. The obvious answer seems to have escaped Mr. Woodward, namely, that it is only with the Benson Poly technic that all the boys are connected. They came from different families. places and churches. Are not the news papers justified in implying an infected nucleus which demands the attention of the public authorities? Some years ago indignant remon strance was more or less quietly filed against a similar disclosure of a similar social infection involving another public Institution, of similar high standing. De nunciations of ..the bolder members of the press in this case were bitter and fierce. Suppression of the facts and protection of our public institutions from the capi tal scorn of ; the public conscience was demanded. Yet the result was that a bit of social surgery removed the source of the infection and improvement re sulted. , y Against the argument of Mr. Wood ward and the newspaper which publishes his letter that these moral defections among the young are usually the result of delinquency on the part of the par ents, I desire to earnestly protest. Sometimes, yes ; as a rule, by all means, no ! The claim is a temerarious asser tion made by the sophisticated advocates of institutions which are sometimes com mercial, and often inefficient and bu reaucratic. It is only necessary to ap peal to the traditional conscience of the people, and invoke the reputation of the several institutions. Despite all the lat ter-day attacks of weird cults upon the home, does any institution stand higher or carry its responsibility better in the care of infancy childhood youth than the home? Are babies children youth safer or better provided for in a public than a private home? Is It not upon the physical and spiritual regeneration of the individual in the home, alone. that permanence and advancement of the race depends? Whence comes the reverence attending the very name or home and mother (leaving dad out of the case)? On what does our material social structure rest so much as upon the necessary properties surrounding the home nest? Is it, after all, not an oasis in a world of dishonor and deceit, to which the tired and wounded wanderer vpr rpturns with a longing a "home sickness" that attaches to no other In stitution or nlace? It is only because its loyalty endureth all things, and that it is the one etauncn ana never-iauine institution Hmoner mankind, tnat u can be selected to ' bear the burdens and darts and flings of all the self-defending egoists and instituUons in the world. Thanks ! Than the fact that we and all our food friends are alive and happy we can ind nothing for which to return greater personal thanks. . All these storm pictures and stories in the paper will, sooner or later, lead us to believe we've been having some bad weather. . Telephones crippled by loads of ice seemed to withstand the burden of icy tones from impatient patrons well enough. . We'll lavish our thanVa ii nnn Ana rthlng and another today, but patiently " " ie nuirai oi nriBimas lor the giving" part of the program. President and Mrs. Harding are in deed fortunate. They're invited out for Thanksgiving dinner ajid won t have to care a rap about high turkey prices. When prices and values meet on com mon grounI that is, when what we buy costs what It is worth we'll get reck less and buy a whole turkey on some bright holiday. SIDELIGHTS Johnny Bull, Uncle Sam and the Jap cannot begin their scrapping (a la Hughes) tflty too soon to suit ua. Athena Press. Plenty of rain for everybody. But we are thankful that the deluge Is not ac companied by cold weather. Just com pare the Willamette valley with Eastern states today. Albany Democrat. The management of the Portland ball team is having difficulty picking out a manager, but from the showing they made last year, they better be lookinr for some ballplayers. Medford Mail Tribune. a a a We have an idea that the fair tax will be voted by an overwhelming ma jority. In this regard we are even more optimistic than the campaign officials, who from information they have received fear the tax may possibly be defeated. Coquille Valley Sentinel. Prunea raised In the Walla Walla sec tion this year brought growers $S0 per ton and the same fruit was retailed to consumers In the East on a basis ef $250 per ton. Looks as though too many greedy hands grabbed off too many chunks of the profit before this delect aMe fruit reach the boarding house landlady. Weston" Leader. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mrs. Clell Hayden of Salem . Prlneville residents visiting In Port are guests of the Seward. Clell is a land include Dr. P C Long; O F members of the Spanish War Veterans. , Euston Mrs. Sam Stein. Mrs.' p' m' Fuller. Mrs. Stanley and Mrs. J. II. having served, with his brother Will, in the Philippines. His father. Ben Hayden, was an Indian war veteran and also one of the shrewdest lawyers in the West in early days. Whoever re tained Ben Hayden first was considered to have won his case. He was one of the most eloquent and convincing ora tors that ever addressed a Jury. Mrs. Earl Blinn and daughter Gladys of Prairie City have moved to Portland for the winter. E. H. ward. Biehn of Salem is at the Se- C. A. Edwards of Ashland is a Port land business visitor. Harold S. Tuttle of Forest Grove at the Seward. is Upton. a a a Meredith Hatchens of Klamath Falls is a Portland visitor, having come to eat his Thanksgiving dinner with his grandjarenu, Mr. and Mrs. L. O. Mere dith. Constance Fisher of Klamath Falls la here to spend the Thanksgiving holidays. Idama Brown of Klamath visiting friends in PorUand. Falls is Mrs. Guy Harris of Salem is visiting her mother in Portland. a Mrs. H. S. Brownton of La Grande is visiting friends in PorUand. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley I Tersely told is the tale that Mr. Lock ley to day unfolds. It ii a tale of toil and trial, sad of tragedy in many phaea, told by s dauahtar of an emigrant of 1K4. The atory wiU ba concluded in two succeeding inataUmenta. Curious Bits of Information Cleaned From Curious Places Steel was in use in. Egypt as early as S0O0 B. C, and in Great Britain samples have been found proving the existence of an iron-producing industry during the Roman occupation. The Delhi and Dhar pillars ia India consist Of wrought iron, and are made up of numerous small pieces welded together. Both were probably erected about the year 200 A. D. - The Delhi column is still in a per fect state of preservation. The latest evidence goes to show that much of the work on the masses of masonry In ex istence . in Egypt, vras performed with THE DAIRYMAN'S DUTY From the Astoria Budget Regardless of whether they vote to dissolve the Oregon Dairymen s cooper ative league, the farmers of this sec tion should never forget tnat tne insu tution of coonerative marketing is their hope and salvation. The faults and mis takes of the -league are the faults and mistakes of the management and not of the sfstem. The cooperative plan oi marketine farm products is a sound theory of proven practicality and the only plan yet devised that has saved the farmers from exploitation Dy tne miame men and profiteering dealers. The Bud get regrets the series of -vents and cir cumstances which seemingly spell the doom of the state league and believes that the dissolution ' and HquidaUon of the league will be a serious setback to the dairvine industry and will give aia and comfort to the foes of coopcraUve marketing. SHE DID From the Washington Post A New York woman recluse who saw only a grocer during the last six years of her life has died worth $190,000. She must have seen him first i Kate Pringle Miller lives at Creswell. 1 dropped off the Southern Pacific train there a few days ago to take a "look see." Crossing the Southern Pacific track, I stopped at a blacksmith shop and asked the blacksmith where I could fii.d Mrs. Kate Pringle Miller. He had a horse's hind leg between his knees and was rasping its hoof. Without Stop ping his work, he said. "She is my mother. She passed the shop a few minutes ago on her way to the dry goods store." I went to the drygoods store, where I found her buying some cloth for an apron. When sne bad com pleted her shopping we walked togetner to her home, half a mile down the high way. No sooner was she seated than a big cat jumped into her lap and stretched out luxuriously with an air of possession and contentment. Uncle Jeff Snow Says "Yea, I am a native Oregonian, but not a native daughter of Lane county." said Mrs. Miller. "I was born in the Pringle neighborhood. Just south of Salem, September 20, 1852. My father, and to ask Dr. and Mrs. Whitman to take care of them. After she was burled, by the side of the road, a young physi cian. Dr. Dagen. who had attended mother when her baby was born and also while she was sick with the moun tain fever, drove the ox team and teok care of the children all but the baby, which was taken by Mrs. Eads. They reached Whitman station about the middle of October. Dr. Whitman and his wife adopted all seven of the orphan children. My mother and the other chil dren lived with the Whitmans Ull their foster parents and many of th other residents of the mission, including the two Sager boys, John and Frank, were killed. November 2. 1847, by the Indiana. The girls were sent tv the Willamette valley. My mother. Catherine Sager, was taken by Rev. William Roberta at Salem and it was in Salem she met and married my father. My aunt. Matilda Jane Sager Delaney, one of the surviv ors of the Whitman massacre, live In Eugene with her daughter. Mrs. E. P. Donia Another aunt, Mrs. Eisabeth Sager Helm, lives In Portland. The Sager girls were brought from the Whit- Clark 8. Pringle, was born in Missouri j mn mission, after Peter Skene Ogden in 1830 and came to Oregon in 1S46 by . had bought them from the Indiana, by Some folks don't know what taxes Is, even when they pay 'em. Down to Port land Rupert Schlagmeier has been a-payln' taxes of so many differnt kinds and at so many differnt places he can't hardly count 'em up on bis fingers but 'cause some of 'em's called street as sessments and some of 'em sewer- assess ments, while others is called gas. 'lectrlc light and water bills, he falls fer 'em ajl and in addition pays taxes that's party hefty by their selves. They Jumped him one time fer more of a street assess ment'n what he'd paid fer the lots, and I told him It waa a tax levy of 1200 mills on the dollar, but 'cause he borried the money and tuck 10 year to pay It off, he come back at me with the plum true argufyment that there wasn't that many prairie schooner express,' as they used to call it. He was IS years old when he crossed the plains with his parents. His father. Virgil K. Pringle. and his mother, Phern T. Pringle. lived in War ren county be tore coming to Oregon. My father's' sister. Vlrgilia E. Pringle. who was born in Missouri, June 7. 1828. married FabritusR. Smith at Salem, September 1, 1847. My mother's name was Catherine Sager. Her father was Henry Sager. He was a Vlrgtnlan. From Virginia he moved to Ohio, thence to Indiana, and on westward to Missouri. Henry Sager, my grandfather, married Naomi Carney.' They started across the plains in the spring of 144 with their six children. The baby arrived while they were crossing the plains. "William Shaw was captain of the emigrant train. My mother's father. Henry Sager, died of mountain fever at Green river. Before be died he called Captain Shaw to his bedside in the wagon and asked him to take care of his wife and children as far as Whit man station. Less than a month later the mother called her children around her and told the boys to stay with the girls and see that no harm came to them. She asked Captain Shaw to take iron and- steel tqpte. .The ancient Iron mills In a dollar nohdw.- her seven children to Whitma station the Rev. H. H. Spalding, the associate of Dr. Whitman. His daughter, Martha Spalding Welgle, now lives with her daughter. Mrs. MUliron, In ugen. Dr. Dagen. who took care of the orphaned children, came on to the Willamette val ley after the children had been left at the Whitman mission. He took up a place near Toncalla. where he lived for many years. a a a "My mother. Mrs. Catherine Sager Pringle, died In 1910. The Pringles came to Oregon by the southern route. Levi j Scott acted as their guide and they had a trip full of hardship. Creewell is located on Levi Scott a old donaUon land cfaim. Orris Brown, mj grand mother's brother, adviaed them not to leave the main party and go by the southern route. When they were so de layed and nan out of provisions he came with a number of others from Forest Grove with food and met them t about where Eugene Is now located. Eugene Skinner had built a location cabin' on the claim at Eugene but was not living in it. It had ne doors and no windows. The men of the Pringle family spent the winter In Eugene Skinner's cabin, because the cattle were' too -weak to make the trip down the Willamette valley.", Corporal Roy Thomaaon and Private Tom Fitch, United State marine from Mar Island, hav arrived at Salem to protect the malls acairat robbery. Two marine have also been sent to Eugene for the same purpose. Father Felix Bucher, pastor of th Catholic church at Grand Ronde. near ly loat hut life Sunday momirif while at tempting to drive hi automobile through high water over the highway near V. il lamina. Thercar was washed away by the strong current. WASHINGTON Kennewick w ill hold a special election December 17 to vote upon the question of Issuing $700 bends to buy fire ap paratus. To furnish employment for Idle men. the city of Walla Walla will ruh work on public utilities (his winter instead of walUng until spring. Philip Ogg. II. is In an EUensburg hospital with a fractured skull as the result of an automobile accident. Tber is no hop of his reecovery. William Mattls. 80 years old. a mill f caw ma n. was recently burned to death In a fir which destroyed hi home at Clifton, eight miles from Bremerton. For the first time In many years cougars have com to th settled por tion of the territory near Wenatchee and are reported to be killing sheep and cattle. Because of an epidemic of rabies, the, state board ef health has ordered that all dogs In the territory north of the Yakima river in Benton county shall wear tnuzal. Third place among all Jerwey cows in the United States for her age was won for the year ended in October by Cow slip's Coquette, owned by Phil A Dun ford of Cle Elum. According to Sheriff Chase of Port Townsend. who recenUy captured a car and two men with 14 cases of liquor. British Columbia liquor is finding its way to PorUand by way of the Olympic peninsula To aid in building needed home, a building and loan association has been organized by S5 business men of Wen atchee with t2.OU0.0od authorised capital, of which more than $j0.CKn) ba been subscribed. C. H. Perkins. 54. has pleaded guilty at Tacoma to robbery' of the bank at Kov, when $4200 in cash was taken. R L Tucker, 2, Is held at Tacoma and J. W. Wheeler. JO. is under arrest at Stanley, N. D., charged with being im plicated in the robbery. IDAHO Figures recently compiled show that the total of dellnouent taxes In Latah county for all years i only ti!l. a Of S2i Boise school children exam ined In October by Miss N spina Han ley. school nurse, only IS! were found defec tive. Sheriff Pearman at Grandvlew found Frank Pesju wljh fiv deer In hi pos session. The deer were confiscated and Pesju fined $500. Th Nx Perce Trading company st Nei Perce has made an assignment to Its creditors. Its assets are reported at 141.000 and liabilities at $44,000. Members of the reclamation district bond commission have approved a bond issue of HSO.OoO of the Pot Kalis irri gation district In northern Idaho. It is stated that Glenns Kerry has done more building during 1921 in pro portion of Its size than any other town in the state. A community hall and parish house are now being planned. Stewart and Jess Fuller, eons of a pioneer Wallace hotel man. have just been committed to the Insan asy lum at Orofino. Both are powerful men and Jess recently became violent and seri ously Injured bl mother. I What I Like Best In The Journal F. L. HARFORD. 7145 Forty-third avenue southeast The Journal has been an almost constant visitor in our home through all the years of its history. We ad mire its courage, unbiased by prejudice or policy or parti sanlsTn, and the habit of mind that turns to right as unerr ingly as the magnetic needle turns to the north. F. D. CARSON. Florence. Or. The Journal Is the most up-to-date paper on the coast. Everything published in It is true. It is "all wool and a yard wide." Some of Ike ar ticles on the disarmament conference are sure good! B. F. BONNET. Mutlno. Or. The general ners. It Is very reliable. But I must say that I find Fred Lockley's ob servations of "the greatest in terest. He speaks of a great many pioneers who came from California with my father in 1846. among them Felix Scoot, Eugene Skinner, and Bristow Dodson. I am IS years old and have lived In Oregon 75 years. MRS. G. PASSDARE. 102 Eleventh street Its stand on disarmament, the social feat ures and the market page. Its straightforwardness. R. L. WILLIAMS. 114 East Ninth street Its correctness and the freshness of both for eign and domestic news: its public spirit and Its Interest In the welfare of plain peo ple; its "Letter From the People," Fred Lockley's In teresting articles and the market page. We have taken The Journal since first is sue. The comments above go far to make those concerned in the pub lication of The Journal share the appreciative spirit of Thangsk.lv ing day. Have you prepared your opinion? When you write be sure to include name and address. t r