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THE OREGON5 DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND. OREGON. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 182L 10 C" . JaCKaoX J-MWhT IB cala. te MMmt be cheerful u4 mnt sabers as m wold hare Uxa da ante 21 , : I'Boiieaeii nrf weekday nd Sunday BWUipf t The Joamel fetummi, Hmedway end n- hill itiX, fnrUand. Or-eon. Ln(rA at Um nnatnf lira, at Portland. Olw , tot tnmWra tbroash the nails as second ekua natter, flXKlllONr Mam tltS. Anuxuue 560-61 A 'I aVparlmenta rea-hei1 hy thm nomhrn. MaTIONAI. A1VMIT1MIU IIEi'tMLMi TlVaV Benlasiln kentnof Co,. Broniwvk twIMIn. 22S fifth innu, Nrw Tort; 00 Walter. rmlMrns, tT'tratn. -A4'l-Ml I'liAaT liKr-kfcMKNTATlVE W. Jtarsnaer C. Riaattarr battdmc. Baa I'ran- rWa; Title Imuranee btttklina. loe Ante lea tnatntelliereer lull Id I ne,. Seattle. XHkS OKKl.tlN iOl K.NAL. re-artee Uw riant la retert adr4Mar eotr wbM-a m ojeei btarUoaabai. aim win wot print any one that in i war atnralatee readme Bit- t at Uuit raaaot readily b recofniaed as ,4 ft king. ; IB!CilrTW)N HAT E.I 4 -ity snri Country. DAJI.T ASiU By I'arHvfi On we 1 Atl.T Owaveefe I 10 fta nneSk ... -4 SI MAIL, Al l. RATE! PAYABLE IS ADVAKCS MXWI Ona snon'h .... SCNDAT Ona week Had year $0 BIB Bwmtha. . . IJ) ItAll.Y (WMbnwt Bands) Oaja year $H 00 Hit nsoath .... 9.3 Three axwitsa. . I ll Owe ainnth .... .(0 w KRK1.T (Etery Wednesday rst Mar tin Sit Baoaiae . . . .40 Three montba. . .12.25 Ona month . : . . . .7 J 81' N HAT (Onlrl Ona yaar H OC His month. . . . : 1.71 Tana mootha. . . 1.00 WFFKI.Y AND MINDAT One year IS. B0 .Tneaa rata, a no I a calls In tha Waat Kale to Kaatern points furnished on appllea Urm. alas a raittaneea by Money Order. Ks Ma Order or lrmft. If otrr pnatofflre la not a caver ord-f offire. 1 or 2 eefit itaapa will Ka eersirted. Make all remittances payable to Ilia Journal pBbUibiiD Company, fort land. ;v , FARM AND TOWN ; ERE is no reason why farmers should not have a system of credits as adequate as the spTendld system available to commerce. Are not the farmers' products as essentia! to human existence? Is it not as neces sary, for the people to have farm products as to have the articles on the merchants' shelves? How long could. mankind set alone without the tntngs that the farmer grows? If the output of the farms is a first essential to the public, why should there not be as adequate a system of credit for farm operations as for any other activity? ' There can be but one true answer. It is as necessary for the farmer to have a financial system to fit his needs as it is for commerce td have a system to fit its needs, or manufacturing industry to have a system to fit its needs. Agriculture can never ba entirely successful until there is such a system. If agriculture must remain handicapped for lacs: or creruis, we shall continue tfr havo ups and downs in other lines of enterprise. The present business depression is rendered very much more acute by the fact that contraction of credit squeezed $5,000,000,000 out of the value of what products the farmers had on hand and thereby reduced their power to buy thin gS' "produced by commercial and industrial lines. . So long as agriculture, through lack of a sound system of credits fitted to. agricultural needs, is forced to dump almost the entire year's output of the farms on the market within a few weeks, thereby breaking down the Ifcwf supply and demand and enabling speculators to break the price . . . . . . 11. and pocksi the profits, farming can never nave an equai cnauce im other lines otactivlty. v City populations do not realize it, but this fundamental fact is of tremendous Importance to them. It is as vital to the cities for agricul ture to be successful as for business in cities to be successful. This is par ticularly true, in Portland, .which is in the heart of a great agricultural belt. It is as important to the bankers and merchants and manufacturers of Portland for the farmer to have an adequate system of credits as it is for these city establishments to have such a system. The two groups, the city group and the agricultural group, so far as their prosperity is concerned, are Interdependent, inter-related and completely mutual. Here is the reason: The farmer buys 60 per cent of the manufactured and commercial output, and vAien he has no money he cannot buy. SINNOTT ON THE SURTAX Oregon Representative Resists Both House Leadership and the. President, Insisting on the Higher Rate of Taxation Upon the Incomes of the Rich - Analyzes to Show -Inequities Challenges a Much Csed Plea of the Advocates of the Lower Rates of Taxation. When the tax reTiaioB bin au before con tra Ketresei!tatiTe N. J Sinnott of the Serond district of Oregon opposed the boose leadership w wa matter or ue- propoaea reduction of tha imtaz rata to 32 oer cent, as BroiMeed in tha house bill, and also opposed President Hardin in his adTocacy of a compromise at 4 per cent as between the house bill's 32 per cent rate and tha aenate biXs 50 per cant rate, -which had been forced in the senate br tha tanners' bloc The subjoined matter is Mr. Sinnott's speech in tea noose, j .Letters From the People ( CoaawmnicatioaB sent ta The JoonaaJ foe pnblieaQon in this depai I nt should be written OB OBlT ona aida af -the naner ..1 ' ana. .. eeed 300 words in kneth, and strt ba sicned by the writer, whose mail address in toB moat accompany tna conlritraoon. J It la a cran utlnc to be tha owner at yourself. It la a (rand thln to pro tect tha Merits i of other. It Is a sub line thing to ba fra and IuhU All wbo stand beneath onr 'banner are free. Oara w the only flar that ha In reality writ ten npnn It. "Uberty. Fraternity, KoiIeK lty." the three raiidat words In all tha kuxuscas of men "Robert U. Insrreoil. of either, or any thought, of rob-1 bery. , Government officials are quoted as believing they were inno cent of Intention to rob. But one was shot down without a word, with out question, and in cold blood. Of ficials explain that the marine shot first and thought afterward. That is apparent And it is a system en tirely out of accord with American Ideals and standards. When men atterr.pt robbery of mall trains the government has the right to order them shot down with out a word. But until they have at tempted crime, or at least provea beyond a reasonable doubt that they propose to attempt it, no govern ment has a right to order them exe cuted. The mere fact that a person is near a mall car, or even on it at- tvnpting to pilfer a ride, is not a hufficient excuse for murder. And THR TAX BILL rpHB makeshift federal tax bill is -s- law. It is ai child that no one cares to claim, i Even its advocates have little rrnpecit for it. It Is a new tax bill. Coagveas passed it, the president signed it, and that is the extent of the favorable comment that ' Is made on it. , It does reduce slightly the revenue to be raised by taxation for federal , purposes. But In that very particu lar its greatest fault is observed. The decrease will be felt almost entirely by the rich. The .excess profits tax will not be collected next year. It is paid by the big corporations of tremendous profits. It Is levied on net profits ' and cannot b shifted to consumers , In its stead aana11 general tax is placed on corporations, a tax that will be made a part of the operating expenses of the big companies, and thereby be shifted on down to con sumers. They will hereafter pay the corpcf atleiv tax instead of the cor porations themselves paying it. The surtax on lncemes has been reduced. U would have been made even lower but for the farmers' bloc. Until .the Income of an individual reaches big figures, the surtax is not levied. The reduction In surtax, then, offers tax relief only to men and businesses of very large income. Bo, the tax bill Is law. The men of small means keep on paying, the burdens of the rich and the big cor porations are reduced and the tax question is temporarily laid asld unsolved. sels carry the freight of Japan, or British vessels get the bulk of car goes from the Straits Settlements. For generations the English have been training their sons in foreign trade. Their ablest men have be come permanent residents of Cal cutta and Singapore. A great inter locking trading system has been de veloped which connects ships and charters, laws and regulations in a common interest. The same thing holds true, in. much less degree, it is true, with the Japanese. Our problem of foreign trade, in other words, is not solved by the possession of expensive and well equipped ships. The extension of American brain power to the far thest ports reached by our ships is even more essential. We shall have to train our young men for foreign trade. We shall have to send them the government of the United States out as our permanent representatives has no right to order plain murder, in ports where we seek to do busi no right to be a party to it, and no ness. tight to do other than vigorously op- This is a long and tedious pro pose It. gram. But it is the only one con taining assurance of success. Mr. Speaker and gentlemen: I have great regard for the president Of the United States. I think he is going down in history as one of the great men, as one of the great presidents of the United States. But I cannot follow him in this matter. I believe that tbe presi dent's friends have given him some, bad advice. , ".- - - I say he is a great man, but we have the authority of the- Book, of Job that great men are not aj ways ise. " The Republican, party has promised the people a reduction in' taxation. How are we going to gjve them that reduction? What do these rates mean? How can anyone in the "next primaries of the next election . Justify this gross dis crimination that is being made between men in different stations in life by the rate of taxation that we are imposing? a- a I have only the figures for 33 per cent, the bouse bill, and 50 per cent, tkf- senate bill Tou can make your own figures as to the 40 per cent (The proposed compromise' urged by the president was '40 per cent) 'What does this surtax rate in -the house bill mean? It meins that the man with an income of $10,000 a year is saved the sum of $50 a year in taxes. The man with an income of $20,000 a year in his surtaxes saves $50. The man with an income of $50,000 a year Is only saved $10. Ndw an effort will be made to persuade the man with an income of $10,000, $20,000. $50,000, or even 75,000, that the modification you propose is going to bring him some sub stantial relief, some surcease, but that is alr'the relief he gets. Ten thousand dollars income, $50:; $50,000 income, and $10 measures the relief. An income of $75,000 toys $170 less surtax. But when you get to a man with an income of" $100,000, his saving is $2730. When you get to the man with earnings of $LOOO,000 a year, he is saving, under this proposition of 32 per cent $274,730. How can you justify such discrimination? OUR BUST SENATOR MAKE IT BRIEF COMMENT ANP NEWS IN BRIEF ' SMALL CHANGE WelL that s over with. Brlnr on vonr Christmas! In Jill the coat of caring for the average family dependent upon the county's charity fund was $187.43. Last . year, - with administration through the public welfare bureau replacing the former r.eglme. 'he cost pet average family had been reduced to $153.24. and this year the coat for the first nine months was $71.01. But In the meantime , the number of families under care has grown from 100 in 1911. to 449 In 1130 and 7SS In 1121. Does this look like the "extreme liberality" of which County Commissioner Rudeen com plains, or does It look like a fairly, well administered attempt to carry the burden Imposed by de . pressed' c6nomlc conditions? COME evil-minded persons find J fault with Senator Stanfield be- rpHE announcement is -made that cause he spends far more time in -- Governor Olcott will call a spe Chicago and Denver and Idaho than cial session of the legislature to sub- In the senate. It's the habit of the mit a proposal for an exposition tax world to try to pull a good man to a vote of the people. After the down. Doesn't the senator explain overwhelming vote in favor of the to us that he is working hard in the exposition in Multnomah county interest of the farmers? there was no other alternative. That Wasn't he In the senate when that vote was equivalent to a request' body was passing a bill to regulate by one third of the voters of Farmer Swift and Farmer Armour the state for the state machinery and the other big five farmers, and to be put in motion as a means cf didn't he make, a speech defending getting a verdict from the remainde - them? of the people concerning the fair What do the critics want? There's proposal. The call will place a Farmer Newberry. A foolish fed- heavy responsibility on the legisla eral court out in Michigan ordered ture. The present body made a good that good agriculturist into the peni- record at the late regular session, tentiary for two years on a charge and by that token it may be hoped of corrupt use of money in, an elec- that It will similarly acquit itself at tlon. How can "the interests of an the coming special session. Its re- old farmer friend like Newberry be sponsibility is the fact that if the looked after . by our senator if the I proceedings are wise and timely the Utter spends his valuable time sit- exposition proposal will be . started ting in his seat in the senate?- ' .1 off under favorable circumstances. Of course our busy) senator has If, on the otherahand, there is repe- been very much absent from the tition of the foolishness and follies of senate. But what of it when you the 1920 special session, when many know that he is looking after the matters of legislation were attempted, welfare of the farmers? ' Didn't the effect will be to handicap the ex farmer stanrieia get zau,uvu in position measure. me executive one hunk of War Finance corpora- officers of the legislature can '.do tlon money for his sheep business much tb avoid such a denouement in Southern Idaho? And after he So can the Multnomah delegation, got the money, didn't he have - to So can the promoters of the exposi- come out from Washington and buy tlon. These influences, together sheep with it? How can a farmer with the high purposes of the mern- with1 $250,000 of government money bers of the legislature; can do much in his Jeans do scientific farming in to confine the session to the business the sheep line if he alts' idly in a that will be recommended by the senate seat 3000 miles away? governor in his call. These critics are so unjust that There Is a strong prejudice in Ore- they are enough to drive a senator gon against special sessions, and not crazy. Didn't Farmers Swift and without reason. Most of the special company get $1,130,000 of govern- sessions of the past have been a ment money frtrm the War Finance blemish on the record of representa- corporatlon for their cattle loan tlve government. business in Portland? How could The coming session can do much our senator look after big transac- to wipe out that record by making its tlons like that if he sat continuously work brief, and worthy of the por- ln the senate chamber ? These fool-1 pose for which the session will be ish critics expect too much. How I convened. can a statesman be in the senate and in the great packing centers at one and the same, moment? Tou cannot do it on the hustings, you cannot do it in the next primaries. nor can you do it in the coming Novem ter. It is not justifiable. Your con stituents will not unhold you in this dis crimination. When the $10,000 man or the $20,000 man and the mih with an income of $50,000 or even $75,000 compares the gross discrimination with which you have treated him and the favoritism with which you have treated the men with incomes of $1,000,000 a year and over, they will rise up in their indigna tion and crush you. REBUKES CERTAIN NEWSPAPERS For Decrying Soviet System, Which the Present Critic Defends. Portland, Nov." 22. To the Editor of The Journal In The Journal's Daily Editorial Digest" of November 17 the opinions of .the editors quoted are to the effect that the soviet government of Rus sia Is due to collapse unless it can come to some agreement with outside states. In order to prevent Tfais, we axe told. Kussia Is willing to pay the debts con tracted by the czar prior to the war. in return for the good wta of bourgeois governments, and so forth, and so on. Suppose we switch the light from the soviet government of Russia onto some of these metropolitan Journals, whose opinions as regards Russia are sheer propaganda, and see why it is that these great dailies are so anxious about the form of government which the Russian people have chosen for themselves. One of the papers mentioned is the New York Evening Poet. It is owned by Thomas W. Lamont partner and associate of J. P. Morgan. Its opinion of the govern ment of Russia is the opinion of J. P Morgan & Co., who see in the success of the soviet government their own down fall. The Chicago Tribune, "the world's greatest newspaper." is an6ther journal whose opinions about Russia should be taken with a pinch of salt The Tribune is the property of the McCormick family, of Harvester corr.jine fame, who are In termarried Tith the Rockefellers. For good and sufficient reasons It Is op posed 'to any form of government that will not uphold the sacredness . of wealth, no matter how such wealth may have been acquired. Its religion is to do others with the help of .government and the soviet government being op posed to that kind of robbery, has the enmity of the Tribune. Take the New Orleans Times-Picayune. That paper, in the state In which it is published, be lieves that a black man or woman has no rights intellectually, morally or po litically that the government of a small white caste has any need to respeot A newspaper that lives In a section of the country where men are taken away from law officers and burned alive be cause of fancied wrong is not in a posi tion to cast stones at a government that is doing its best to stop the exploitation of one human being by another. The United States today is in that position in which it has a surfeit of money and a surfeit of goods,, while large numbers of people are hungry and broke. In North Dakota the farmers are burning corn for fuel, which is only 12 cents a bushel, while coal ts iu ton. In Argentina they are using corn to fire locomotives and In Russia and other countries people are literally starv ing tn rlpath. Such are the conditions whtrh a. tonsv-turw civilization has broucht to pass. And what is the rem edy for this state of things? Statesmen hark at Washington are talking of alii- . .1 T.-I.-J O . n , n H ances. Alliances ior tne uiuwu with bankrupt nations of Europe would be like a woman who married a man to reform him. but would find to ner sor row that instead of lifting him up to ner level, he would drag her down to nis. Other things than bandits and runs can "hold up" mail trains, the storm re ports indicate. The automobile caravan mav-h ban Just been getting a taste of some of the things the original caravans had to put up wiuu , Wonder if an ajre limit for marriasre wouldn't avoid the dangerous channels into which so many unguided young lives are drifting? The fellow who tried to eat oeas with a knife in a strange dinlnr room couldn't appreciate tne ieeungs ox me napless chap who spilled cranberry sauce on the nosiestr ocai tame cover. . Where do they get this silver "thaw" stuff when everything in sight is frozen tight as a drum and the only semblance of thawing ts the melting of our gold supply into repair bills? a a The chap who created that old line about "a meal Tit for a king" was SIDELIGHTS Women are more efficient really. A woman can drive slow and nick about as mtnT Mdesrtriaiia as a man can ret at 60 miles aua hour. Uedford MaU-Tribuna. a Pardon our mentioning the weather. but we're beginnioar to feel like the first dove Old laaj Noah Bent out w. hen It la-yrxi to linn a cry spot Benton wounty courier. a a a Despite the) adnUaiatratioa'a antago nism to a league, fate Is forcinr It Into the leajrufl so often rejected, but Instead of entering boldly by the front door, it is sneaking in through the back door. Salem Capital j ourn ai. A Paris Judge has awarded a woman a verdict of $1000 for a near inflicted on her Doaoxn. on tne ground tnat aneco man t wear low neck dresses, which made it harder to catch a husband. We hadn't any idea a husband was worth $1000. Corvailis uasette-Timea a a Parental slavery has fastened Itself over tne una ana it is worse tnan l. W. W.-lam. for that slavery not .only enslaves the parents In their desire to make It easy for the boy and girl as thinking of 50-cent -turke- stuffed with . well but it is very liable to ruin the ti.au oysters ana smeared witn zs-cent cranberries and served on $300 china. The' festive dinner in one home was spoiled because the cook put too much salt in the salad. And in scores of oth ers the feast, for want of. its cost didn't get as far as a salad course. But that's the way it is in this funny world. child. La Grande Observer. a a a Roy Gardner, the famous robber, was The Oregon Country Karlks Hanpeefe ba Braaf ratal la tna a visitor In the city mat month, and thf fact was overlooked by the cope and the society editor. Mr. Gardner was highly pleased with the progressiveness of Medford, and spoke a good word for the auto camp grounds. Medford Sun. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Oh, they tell us, this surplus money, these earnings 'of the man with an in come of $1,000,000, is being poured into non-taxable securities. Did you ever try to find out from the treasury de partment in the last six months what has been the Increase over prior years in the purchase of non-taxable securities by men with an ineome' of $60,000' and over? f If you have, you have had no answer. They have had six , months to produce these statistics, six 'months to go over 12,000 returns. There is a presumption of law I do not wish to invoke it here that he who suppresses evidence sup presses it because it is against him. Senators and representatives have writ. ten to the treasury department for this information, and it has not been forth coming. 'Mr. Garner of Texas There is a pro vision ft- this bill inserted by the senate requiring the taxpayer to gfVe the in formation that the gentleman desires to the treasury department but it will not be in the law when it comes to the president These gentlemen (waving his hand toward the Republican leader's table) will cut it out They do not propose to give you this information, .now or henceforth.- Mr. Sinnott It should be written in the law so that we may have the necessary information hereafter, so that members of the house and senate may, be able to intelligently discuss an important measure of this kind. to SOMEWHAT SATIRICAL Public Held to Need Education in the Art of Voting. Portland. Nov. 22. To the Editor of The Journal Mr. North Is partly right when he states in his letter of Novem ber 5 that the so-called non-taxpayer is the real taxpayer. I say partly right because he has forgotten to mention the small home owner and owner of non income bearing property. They are the real goats. They have no means passing the buck, and consequently get it coming and going. Now that we have taken It upon our selves to educate the public how eat how to drink, how to dress, how to wash Its teeth and how to live and die it might be well to also teach it how to vote ; that lss If It Is capable of being so taught I have my doubts of It and firmly believe that if a proposition; to build a second Tower of Baoel were sud- mltted to-a public vote it would carry by a large majority. If the public is incapable of being taught how to vote. then the only remedy would be to limit the voting power tt actual taxpayers when a question of the expenditure or public funds is involved. Of course some will say that such a limitation would interfere with personal liberty, but we ought to be well used to having that interfered with in these days. One of the Goats. Random Observations About Town When Jo Meek was asked how long he had known Mount Hood he replied. Ever since it was a hole in the ground. Jack Snead has not known Mount Hood quite so long; In fact It was a pretty falr-sised hill when he nrst saw it. oui one thing Is sure no one else has made more trips to the base or this lar-ramea and peerless snow peak than Jack Snead. For many years, through sunsnine ana through mud puddles, he has been tak ing passengers on the Keliance-aaouni Hood stage line to Rhododendron and the other resorts thereabout He has just returned from an inspection trip through California, where he made a study of the auto stage business. "I went to California with H. S. uane ana family of Long Beach. Wash.," he Bald. They are well known cranoerry gro ers there and they have a winter home at Pasadena. I Visited the auto stage stations at Sacramento, btockton. Fresno, Bakersfield and Los Angeles. It is wonderful what strides tha auto stages have made In Southern Califor nia. In their stations they have pas senger directors Just as we have In the regular stations here. I rode by auto stage from Los Angeles to San Fran cisco in one day. When you remember that I covered 455 miles by stage that day you will see that the stages move right along. The fare was $14.03. The fares run a little lees than on the rail road trains. The trip along the coast by stage is a revelation of the beauty of the country and of the excellence of the roads. Our stage depot at the corner of West Park and Yamhill will be ready for occupancy by December lo. The building pretty well covers the site. which Is 100 by 100. The building will cost when completed $20,000. A Jaloff is president of the company, F. Parkin son Is Vice president F. Jacobsen it treasurer and I am secretary. Harvey Wells, with the four officers named, completes the board of directors. This will be a wonderful Improvement, as stage passengers will not have to hunt all over town nor stand on the sidewalks while waviUBs for the stages.". Out of town guests at the Cornelius include J. A Hoyer of Astoria. B. J. Moe of Cottage Grove. Helen E. Carlln or Kagle Creek. Charles W. Hall of Eagle Point W. Anderson of Reedsport and Mrs. M. H. Moore of Marshfleld. a a a Mr. and Mrs. Fred Buchtel of Salem are registered at the Seward. Mr. Buchtel's father. Joseph Buchtel, was a pioneer baseball player and a photo grapher when Portland was a village. j - OREGON . - TeJ Inntirnrleei la tna lte Urn county tax totju about a per cent of the tax of i.li,0i. More than 100 hoboes were turned away from Albany Monday night ba caoM jhm Jail su faU. In all 11C3 carloads of Dears and ap ples have been shipped to the Eastern market from. Medford so tar this season. Seven raajSMila will load lumber at W eat port this week for Eastern and for eign rsmrkets. One will load at Wanna. Ashland .residents have subscribed more Lhan riaif the bono a of 11Q.OO0 re quired for the new JliO.OvO hotel at that place. The grading of the Coquilie-Roeeburg highway will be completed by next June, according to State Highway Eruftntter Nunn. It la estimated that auto tourists slopping at the .Eugene automobile grounds this season spent more than $250,000 up to November L The Angora club of Astoria complains to the slate forester that a mile of trail k-adinr to Saddle mountain has beam completely destroyed by logging opera tions. The second test well sunk by the state to tap' the artesian flow underlying the rort Rock valrey'haa been completed and a demonstration Is to be held in the near future. The state society of horticulture will meet in Forest Grove December V. ! and 3. and an excellent program Is promised by those who are making the arrangements. Slipninr in the snow and falUnr in front of an automobile while on his way to school. Edwin. 7-year-old son of L. P. Peterson of Wallowa, was run over and killed Thursday. L C Loveland. who has been em ployed on a ranch near Jefferson for several months, is under arrest on tele rraphic instructions from Fort Benton, Monu. charged with grand larceny. Several deer killed by sportsmen in Grant county showed symptoms of "lumpy Jaw," an aliment peculiar to cat tle, according to Stanley G. Jewett of the United States biological survey, who states that the meat is unfit for food. Mrs. J. Galvin. who was visiting rela tives in Chicago two months, has re turned last night to her home In Port land. a a a, Mr. and Mrs. Harold Clifford, ranch ers from the vicinity of Prairie City, are visiting friends in Portland. a a a W. J. Daken of Goldendale Is a guest of the Seward. a a a Mrs. R. L. Medley and Mrs. Ella Daley of Coqullle are Portland visitors. G. W. Culver of Roseburg Is of the Imperial. a guest S. L. Eschen of Leona is a guest of the .Multnomah. Radio Broadcasting From the Scientific American MURDER TO WIN FOREIGN TRADE The out-state, attitude toward the exposition will h, "How will it help us sell the products of farms, dairTes, orchards and forests' ? It should .do so in two ways -by sending far afield TR AFFIC MANAGER HUDSON of the message of Oregon's products and resources, arid by attracting thousands of consumers. . - the port and dock commissions J has pointed the attention of W. M. Reiyea, new' district director of rTWICE within a-week men have! American merchant marine opera L been shot down by United States marines guarding the malls. In neither Instance was there any evi dence whatsoever that the men shot proposed to loot the train. , In. Vie first Instance, the victim was not even on the train. He is described as acting "suspiciously" near lu Who was, to decide as to whether or not he was acting sus piciously? And even were he act ing differently from other men, he ' had neither attempted te commit crime, committed It nor proven that he proposed to commit it. But he ws shot down without a word, with out question, and in'cold bloodi In the second instance, two men were on the rear end of tha mail car. A door opened and a rifle shot rang oat. One man fell from the train. probably mortally wounded. Tha other Jumped and was later cap tured. i Cm The prisoner claimed that the two were hoboes, bound for Detroit He disclaimed any Intention on the part tion, to an obvious truth. Until our merchant marine vessels can meet foreign competition they IN THE DAY'S NEWS PROFITS from a small store left by her husband's death were a will cafry little freight from, foreign meager support, and the widow and ports ana tosses win pue up. I her four small children sold the Rigid operating conditions, and in- J store for $1400 and, with the cash flexible rates render it child's play in a bag. started from the New Jer for foreign, competitors, the British j sey village for New York city to ana Japanese particularly, to take rent a house and sublet the rooms. away nusiness rrom under tb veryl As the widow alighted from a bus nose of the shipping board. I m tna shO discovered , that the American shippers are -not less bay "with !! he worldly possessions patriotic than, the shippers of other was gene. Her grief enlisted the sym naUons, but ho patriotism has ever pathy of bystanders. ?rhi searched tempted shippers into the 'business -in Tain, for, the, lost money. . As her folly of paying carrying .charges so plight berime- known, a kindly man much higher than those of their and his wife took the UtUe family competitor mat commercial demise 1 hom for the night. a . ta ts . . . 1 . woum await onry me exnaustion of I An- advertisement in a New York capital. i paper a day or two later, announced American shippers are not, how- that H. B. Hepper, an:4Mrthor, had ever, exempted from a certain co- found a little green bag Containing a operation with their government to sum of money.Mnd the widow there- build up a grear merchant carrying I by again cama into possfeasion..of, her traae unaer ue American Cay. : j lost fortune. " ", , i ner is a reason. In addition to After all,. this Isn't soplt a bad sort ravoralf - rates, wby Japanese res-1 of world, ' - Nigbtly, this American' ether of. ours is filled with all manner of conversa tions, reports, bulletins,; sermons, and music. Already in many an American family the evening's diversions depend a great deal on the activities of the broadcastinr stations. With a loud Speaking telephone on the livlngroom table and with a simple receiving Bet the members of the family can receive au tne news tnat is wortny of wide spread attention, followed by a musical program. But what of the future? Truly, there is no eid to this radio telephone thing.-! The transmission of radio telephone con versation is still a somewhat expensive and elaborate task, especially if any real distance is to be spanned, although for ' short distances the equipment is quite simple and inexpensive. But in the broadcasting feature, we have -only begun. Perhaps it may be that a etime may come when special broadcasting stations will be operated for the Bole benefit of certain subscribers, who will pay , a ' monthly or yearly fee for the service. How the broadcasting stations win prevent non-subscribers from secur ing the full benefit of the service is a problem, to be 'sure; but we anticipate that a quite satisfactory and simple manner will be found to protect such service against unlicensed receiving seta Perhaps the means may be an arrange ment oi constantly snirung wave .engine for the transmitter, with the same shift- Ung Wave lengths at the receiving end. i.- . . , . . . tne commutators or otner devices per forming this function being carefully synchronised. At any rate, if such a service should be' found profitable and Bet up quite distinctly from -the present gratuitous services, w may look to the day when the American family, Ty a slight adjustment of its radio receiving set designed like a cabinet phonograpn, may turn from heavy Wagnerian opera to light American musical comedy, and from a French song to a Slav march. Not plain phonograph music at present, mind you. but real music from the lead ing theaters and concert halls of the nation. A worth-while by-product for the theater and concert ball and for the church, when we come to think it over. ' A, retrospective survey is just as astounding aa this look ahead. So why may ' we - not reasonably ; expect these various things to corns to pass? ' DISOWNS NEWBERRY Citiaen of Michigan Proclaims His State Not Responsible for Him. Portland. Nov. 18. To the Editor of The Journal I certainly appreciate the way you rub It Into the person who signs himself "Senator" Newberry but out of consideration for natives or aiicni gan who may be, as I am, visiting in you? state I respectfully request and suggest that you either bmit the name of the state of Michigan or refer to him as "the convict senator from Michigan" ; lor you know the state has ceased to bel responsible for his election ana sentencea him to the pen as a criminal. Many of us Mlchlganders are weary of explaining that we did not "personally" vote for "Senator" Newberry. James R. Mlllen. Eastern Oregon guests of the Imperial Include Mr. and Mrs. H, A. Spurgeon and F. R Mohr of Cascade Locks, F. O. Ladd of The Dalles, L. E. McDaniel of Wallowa, and L. A Stoop of La Grande, who, to reach Portland, went by way of Pasco, Yakima, Ellensburg and Tacoma, the trip taking 48 hour. a a a Eugene residents visiting In Portland include Charles A Hardy, attorney, and Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Magladry and Mr. and Mrs. H C. Jackson. Mr. Magladry owns a lumber mill at Dorena. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are visiting relatives in Portland. a a a Miss Clara Munson. one time mayor of Warren ton and daughter of a sur vivor of the Whitman massacre. Is a Portland visitor. a a a Mrs. A E. Matthews and Mrs. N. S. McMorris of Roseburg are guests of the Imperial. a a a Mrs. F. A Speacer of Myrtle Point is a guest of the Seward. a a a Mr. and Mrs. F. C. Kent of Corvallis are registered at the Seward. Clarence Ingram of Lebanon is so journing at' the Multnomah. a a a F. A Rcwe of Wheeler Is a business visitor In Portland. a e a D. W. Stonehouse of Roseburg is reg istered at the Multnomah. a . D. L. Moore of Astoria Is a guest of the Multnomah. a a a B. F. Hyland of Roseburg Is a guest of the Benson. a a a Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Galbraith of Cor vallis are registered at the Benson. a a Mrs. G. W. Byers of Pendleton Is a guest of the Benson. a Joe Weller of Corvallis is transacting business In Portland. a a F. J. Miller of Albany Is transacting business In Portland. a a a J. A Garner of Medford Is at the Oregon. e e a C. F. Dement of Walla Walla Is reg istered at the Oregon. a a a L N. and I. R. Smith of Salem are guests of the Hotel Oregon. a a a R F. Cole of Marshfleld Is sojourning at the Oregon. a a a Charles Painter of Brighton is a Port land business visitor. a a a L. C. Mahoney of Gervaia Is at the Oregon. WASHINGTON Total receipts of the state of Wash ington from the liquid fuel tax for October ere approximately $71,000. For driving a truck licensed for five tons and carrying a load of 19.S04 pounds, R H. Kirkendoll waa arrested and fined at Olyrnpan. Robbera visited the ranch of E. K Starkey. five miles northeast of Proeaer, a few nights ago. and took &O0 pure bred White Leghorn hens valued at $1000. Application haa been filed with post office officials fer a new parcel post car for Walla Walla. The Increase In Incoming traffic has been 400 per cent in four years. The Adam Brown Packing company. Incorporated a few months ago at 8po kane. will berln work early In the spring on a three atory fireproof packing bouse to cost $100,000. In attempting to start a gasoline pump by warming the engine with a blow tcrch. Samuel McCauley. aged 10. was burned to death at Spokane by the ex plosion of the gas tank. Ranks and bond bouses of Spokane and Seattle have taken the 1 8&0.0O0 block of Spokane county bonds for 1922 road work at a differential of only $9700 on the entire $(30,000 issue. Total .wheat receipts from Washing ton and North Idaho members received at the Spokane office of the Northwest Wheat Growers. Associated, were .1S. (49 bushels, according to ngurea an nounord Saturday. Building operation In Aberdeen are fOiowine; a slump, buUdinjr permits for the first half of November railing for an expenditure of only $1985 against 15584 for the corresponding period in October. ' Confessions of four men bald 'In the King county Jail resulted ta the recovery of an automobile and more than $6000 worth of loot allesed to have been ob tained from robberies of six stores In that county. Maurice Law son, graduate? of Willam ette university In the class of 1911. waa fatally scalded in an automobile acci dent near Arlington a few daya ago. His car. propelled by steam power, over turned and he was caught beneath It Mrs. C N. Clark of Hood River Is a Portland visitor. W. Parks of Condon is a Portland business visitor. a a a ,C IL Gram of Salem is at the Im perial a a H. B. Chess of Lebanon Is a guest of the Imperial. a a a E. O. Thomas and N. 'W. Choate of Roseburg are registered at the Imperial. see David M. Graham of Eugene Is a guest of the Imperial. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places r el - A Japanese contributor to the Japan Advertiser has the following note on the forgotten arts of his country: "All the polite arts and accomplishments are in a bad way. How many middle school boys of today know how to drink tea in the forms of the tea ceremony? Flower arrangement is being fast forgotten. Versification, which once was one of the commonest acqulrenaentar-vof yoath. is a hopeless mystery to the people of Taisho. The word politeness is not to be 'found In their lexicon. When at home they read cheap-story' magazines. and when going oat they put them selves at the tender mercies of jammed tramcara.3- So they wax ever more dwarfed and penguin-footed, both phys ically and mentally. And the love of nature, of "art and poetry, which was such a distinguished characteristic xt the Yamato race, is being quickly re placed by the love of money and accu mulation." OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN. ' er - ' " I3yFredLockiey fA eroes-aectloo of the trafy life of a pioneer family In Oregon is afforded in the mmtni of Hit. Kate Pringla Killer, which Mr. Loekley today continues. Mrs. Miller tells ineiaeniaiiy of the impression made upon ber by the crowd that assembled at Salem in 1865 to sea two noted murderers Hanf eO. j Uncle Jeff Snow Says Perfessor Wash De Mote, our high salaried college gink that teaches School at the Corners, has flggered out that ac- cordin' to the best authorities S3 per cent of our men in these United States is below the average sense of a lJ-yexr- old schoolboy In the fourth grade. All of this be in' ao uid there's plenty or evi dence. De Mote says, to prove It Jedge McCraeken figgers further that fully 82 per cent of the women bain t got tne sense of a t-year-old schoolgirl of the third grade. And the perfessor refused to argue the matter, 'cause there ain't no .high-brow -. authority that's -got - stay thing to' say about women along that liner - "My grandmother. Mrs. Pherne Prln- ele. was a daughter of Tabltha Brown, whose maiden name was Tabltha Mof fat" said Mrs. Kate Pringla Miller when ( visited her recently at her home at , CreswelL "My Great-grandmother Brown was born in Massachusetts. She married the Rev. Clark Brown of Connecticut After his death she opened a school in Maryland to support herself and her three children. She taOght eight years. In 1821 she moved with her children to Missouri. Her oldest son. Orris Brown, who was born In 1800, crossed the plains to Oregon in 1843. He returned to get his wife, bis children and his .mother in 1845. coming back across the plains with Dr. Elijah White. The next spring, with his mother, who was 56 years Old at that time, he started for Oregon. Orris Brown, my grandmother's bnpther. had 12 children, lie, witn nis lamuy and also his mother, settled at Forest Grove, and Mrs. Tabltha Brown started the' boarding school there that became Pacific university. a "Grandfather Prlngle ran a shoe shop and mended shoes at Salem during the winter of 1S4S-47. The next spring he took -a place In the Waldo hllla. Wait a moment X will show you the old stem winding silver watch he traded his place in the Waldo hills for." a a a As I looked at the old fashioned silver watch Mrs. Miller said: "He got some money, some stock and this old watch for his place.; He went from the Waldo hllla, east of Salem, to what was later called the Prlngle neighborhood, south of Salem, and took a- donation land claim. My father. Clark Spencer Prln gle, and his brother Octavlua also took claim, there. The Prlngle schoolhouse was built on a corner of my father's place. ; I was a little girt when it waa built I remember playing in the shav ings and using them for curls whila my Undo Albert was building it . " - - "There were'-sljf children laQur fam ily. I was r the eldest and was born in 1852 on the home place in the Prlngle neighborhood. Just south of Salem Then came Frank. Marcus, Or vlQe, Sanford. Annie, who married Mr. Bentley. and Lucia, wbo married Mr. Collins. My father was a Methodist minister. When I waa years old We moved to Butteville, as he had been as signed t preach on the Butteville cir cuit The next year he was assigned a local preacher to the vicinity of Lebanon. Father bought a farm three miles from Lebanon. For a while I lived with my grandmother and went to school at the Prlngle echoolhouse, but later returned ' to our farm near Lebanon and went to school at the Hamilton Creek schoolhouse. a a a "when I was 12 years old this was in 18(4 I went to Salem For the next two years I lived with my aunt Mrs. Fabrltus Smith. I went to the academy of the Willamette university. I hap pened to be visiting my grandmother on their place south of Salem , early In January, 18(3, . It was about a week or 10 days after New Year's day when word came to ua that Daniel Delaney a lone man 70 years old, who owned a farm near grandmother a, had been killed for his money. He bad come act the plains In 1848. ' A young man named George P. Beale, with a man named Baker, had gone to- his place at night Beale knocked on the door, which was locked. When Delaney recognised Beale voice he opened the door and Baker and Beale killed him. Some months later, while X waa rUIl staying with my aunt, Mrs. Smith. I was on my way to Willamette university one morning, accompanied by some girl friends. Some men were putting up a platform while a crowd stood around watching. We eroaead the footbridge across Mill creek and -saw that a tall frame had been erected. - X asked (M of the then what It waa He said Is waa the gallows on which ther were rolnx to hang Baker and BeaJs'for murdering Delaney. It cave - ms th severs. . We horrWd on to school as fast as we could go. Hang togs were public In those days and peo ple drove la from ZO miles around te see Beale ? and . Baker banged. They were ' executed May 17. IMS. I saw the crowd assembled oa Mill creek. " It was -as big a crowd as a cireas would have - brougW-c rat.- 4mly they' were quieterV ; '.. IDAHO Eighteen carloads of sheep have been shipped Into Gooding durinar the past two weeks for winter feeding. Mayor Sherman of Boise haa ap pointed a committee of 10 on unem ployment to advise In case any crisis arises. V. O. McWorter. a sheep man of Wel ser, has bought a Rambouillet ram from the Butterfield Livestock company for $1000 and 60 head of ewes at $40 each. Contracts have Just been awarded by the state for the improvement by gravel surfacing of 17 miles of the Bolse Mountalnhome road In "Ada county at a coat of $17,058.20. More than 120 depositors of the re cently failed Bellevue Bank Trust company met in Bellevue Sunday and formed a permanent organlratlon. Steps are being taken to liquidate the bank. Though viewed by more than 100 Boise clttsens. the akeleton believed to be that of Harry Gordon, a secondhand dealer of Boise, who mysteriously dis appeared three months ago, remains un identified. Mrs. Manraret Crossley. who shot ! Mra Effle Patten during a backyard quarrel at Caldwell. November l. naa been bound over to tne oiavnct wn on a charse of assault with intent to commit murder. What I Like Best In The Journal MRS. A. A. SMITH. 415 Going street The editorials are fine: Ring Lardner is very clever; the market re ports are absolutely reliable. MRS. F. M. PACE, 112 East Ninety-first street north The front page for general -news; the editorials, and the comics. MRS. L. W. OSBORN. 22 2 East Ninety-first street north ,. AIL- The editorial page especially. MRS. C. E. ST RINGER. -22 C East Ninety-first street , norths The Journal gives more local newt than ether Portland papers. ' ' MRS. M. ROBERTS. 47 Harrison street Ralph Wat son's T. Piter"; Fred Lock ley's articles; the editorials for their educational value The Journal's fairness oa all public issues. P. FOSTER, 4$ Stephens street General news for quickness of report, accuracy and variety. All Journal fa- tures are exceptionally good. Our carrier Is giving as good service. . " " J. GABETTL 999 East ' Morrison street Its straight forward championship of the rights of the gentral publics- its honest conrictiona. The. Journal Is Portland's best ee stef paper. - What is your opinion? tnd tt. Including name and address. "