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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 24. 1921.
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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.
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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.
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