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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, ' PORTLAND, SUNDAY MORNING. NOVEMBER ' 27, 1921.
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FARM AND TOWN
Hen a lor Capper ts one of the leaders and organizers of the now famous
"farmers' bloc." He introduced the legislation for the regulation of the packers
and for restricting the operations of the Chicago wheat pit. He is pushing a bill
to amend the federal reserve act. extending larger credit to agriculture. Below
he voices the view, many times presented by The Journal, that agriculture must
have a system of credit fitted to its needs. In a letter to The Journal. Senator
Capper says: "When you urge the business men of Portland to cooperate with
the farmer and provide him with credit for handling his grain and help him
to get It to market on a profitable basis, you ere speaking not only in behalf of
the producers, but you are rendering a great service to business in general."
And. to cap the climax, the school
board is permitting this investiga
tion to be conducted under the chair
manship of the" man who is directly
under fire!
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By Honorable Arthur Capper, United States Senator from Kansas.
QNE of the vital problems facing this nation today is the adequate pro
vision of credit for the producers. We read in the newspapers that
the credit stringency has passed. Doubtless this is true in the commercial
world, but it is a question whether this is true with regard to the agri
cultural interests of the nation.
I have recently introduced a bill in the senate, and Congressman Strong
has introduced the same measure in the house, which amends the federal
reserve act so as to permit federal reserve banks to purchase and sell long
time paper secured by shipping documents or warehouse receipts covering
staple' agricultural products or by chattel mortgages on livestock.
A farmer should have twelve months credit to market a crop. When
a crop must be thrown on the market, regardless of conditions, it is cer-
I tain to be marketed at a loss to the producer. The warehouse act makes
an Intermediate system of farm credit possible and the existing machinery
of the federal farm loan system supplies the needed foundation.
A fund can be obtained to start with from the franchise taxes on the
federal reserve banks. The federal farm loan banks should be empowered
to make loans direct to farmers or cattlemen on proper security or through
associations, and also be prepared to rediscount such paper for banks and
cattle companies.
There is nothing especially new in the present farm credit situation;
the after-war crisis has only magnified its weakness. Farmers always are
at a disadvantage in obtaining credit. For this reason, farmers' banks
have long existed in almost every European country.
In the United States we already" have farm loan banks for long-term
farm credits and amortized loans. We also have what is probably the best
commercial credU system in the world providing 60, and 90 days' loans.
What is needed to fill the gap between is a credit system for farmers run
ning from six to twelve months, With loans secured by warehouse receipts
on staple farm products. This is to facilitate the orderly marketing of
crops. Also, there is need of credits running not longer than three years
for the benefil of the livestock farmers.
The objection may be raised that, this is putting the government in
business, if so, it is a most essential business and, as private interests
cannot be expected to undertake it, we shall only be following an example
based on the long and bitter experience of much older countries which has
proved that the salvation of agriculture depends on it. It also must be
admitted that in the farm loan banks the government already is engaged
in this business. The bill merely extends its operation to providing loans
of an intermediary type not wanted by commercial banks and not secured
by mortgages on real estate.
In asking for such a system of credit, farmers are not asking for class'
legislation, but for a chance to exist and do business on an equality and
in a modern way. To efficiently carry on their business our farmers must
have an instrument which will admit them to our great national reservoir
of money and credit. That is the object of my bill.
I "ill hoar what (,ol tho Lord will up aa :
for Ha wtll apraA vw' unto hit panplt, and
la Hi int; but lt Uiim not turn a4ia
to fully. 1'nalmk 5:8
MORE TO KK DONE
morning to put the cat .outdoors be
fore his wife emerged from the
blankets.
THE UNUSUAL THANKSGIVING
"pOUNT your marcies,"
'PHK people of the United States
A expect more from the arms con
ference than a mere reduction in
battleships. That would reduce,
governmental expenne. Hut the peo
ple of the I'nited States expect more
thun h reduction in expense. They
expert something to be done to make
r next to impossible.
Big- buttlCHhlp building programs
IntTeHne national suspicion, promote
llstrunt among the nations, and turn
IhoiiKhts to war. A heavily armed
nation will resort to war when a
nation less prepared will attempt set
tlement of disputes In peace. A re
duction In battleship programs will
add slightly, perhaps, to the security
of the world from war.
A Jtmt ami equitable settlement of
Kar KiiMtern Tuentlon will tempor
arily postpone conflict. If the na
tions rr-Hch un agreement and each
power altl by the agreement, there
will be no immediate war over Far
Eastern itistlons.
Hut battleship are only one
weapon of warfare. In the late car
nage they played a feeble part. Few
were tho lives lost In battles of
ispltal ships. They played only a
small part in offensive warfare or
even tln economic warfare. They
were altiiorit Impotent.
rtnu rar r.asiern questions are
only Immediate problems. Even if
an agreement Is reached there, what
Is to be done If trouble arises in
another quarter. And In time in
ternatlonal scenes will shift. What
then?
Premier IlrUnd has departed from
the United States. He has departed
U Is reported, in. the assurance that
land armaments will be touched on
only slightly, and that there will be
but small, if any. reductions in land
forces, and but few, if any, restric
tions on land warfare. Land arma
ments are a part of the agenda for
the conference, a subject for discus
sion. But what does discussion mean
among diplomats in secret sessions.
Ind armaments can be discussed
but that doesn't mean that action
will be taken.
The greatest killing force In the
next war will be poison gas. Air
planes and submarines will be Im
portant factors. The land forces did
the' damage in the world war. The
weapons for land warfare have been
so enlarged since thai conflict that
the next war will see wholesale killing-
overnight on land. Unless steps
are taken to avoid that factor in
the future of theworld, unless there
"!a an attempt to make war on land
fund on sea impossible. If that can
j be. the arms conference will merely
have Junked. If that Is done, a single
arm of the fighting forces that may
or may not be obsolete anyway,
and will, perhaps, hare settled a
problem that is temporarily troubling
the nations.
A reduction in expenses will have
been accomplished. That Is a tri
kumph. But little would have been
done to prevent war. That would
be a terrible failure.
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tier nusoana rerusea to get up
to be at his". work by the time the
whistle blew. ' He Ignored the alarm
..elock. He ; ignored her calls.
'Finally she adopted the practice of
(throwing the cat on his face at mo
t ments when tabby was not in the
I best of humofj) It was not long until
'between his jtrwv -recollection ot the
I pain and thegibes of fellow work
t men at the scratches. Ire . was per
'tuaded to g.tup early enough la the
ad vised 1
Aunt Dinah. She voiced the
spirit of Thanksgiving.
The day introduces itself once a
year into the life of America in order
that people may remember other
than their complaints.
Passing by the conventional idea
that appreciation for good health is
best shown by overheating, the ques
tion of thankfulness divides:
For what?
To whom?
The proclamations of the presi
dent and of governors of states refer
to bountiful crops, which inspired
the first Thanksgiving day ordained
by the Pilgrim Fathers, and to the
wealth of temporal and spiritual
blessings which Americans may en
Joy if they will. ,
But the greatest cause of Amerl
can thanksgiving this year is for re
newed opportunity. -
The world war heard beleagured
Europe's shout. ''The Americans
have come." Immediately a de
spalring scene was; transformed into
the essence of rejoicing. American-
engendered confidence went over the
top with our allies and helped Amer
lean bayonets quell militarism.
condition of mind was created in
Europe concerning America that was
without precedent in human experi
ence.
At that moment from America
came the League of Nations propo
sal. It created a new day of Thanks
giving. Grateful nations placed
America at the head of the move
ment for world peace.
Petty politics at home laid dis
respectful hands on progress.
America suspended her leadership.
She forfeited to a degree the con
fidence that the masses had in her
ability to lead.
The League of Nations was the
beginning: the arms limitation con
ference is Immediate opportunity to
show the way toward amity.
The original Thanksgiving day was
set. aside not for a feast but for a
prayer meeting. There are still di
vine services on Thanksgiving day
as reminder that gratitude for com
forts, material and spiritual, and
for hope, is properly addressed to
the Creator.
Men with difficulty learn the
vocabulary of the language God
speaks through tempest and war.
They best find their own predictions
for the future by turning to the
past. Thus they discover that to
the drum beat of the ages the feet
of the generations have been keep
ing step. The pealing trumpet
sounds again. The God of the na
tions is with us yet. May we not
again forget.
and cards are usually a bore to him
even when he has no conscientious
scruples against them.
But the missionary establishes his
home among the Chinese people. He
fills his house with the necessaries
and conveniences of American manu
facture. He creates a little America
within the four walls of his fragile
Oriental dwelling. The native's curi
osity as to these foreign articles is
intense. He learns what America
uses and wears as he learns the
American missionary's gospel. He
learns the first lessons about Amer
ican business under the "best of
auspices, for his confidence is won
at the same time.
It is only necessary thereafter for
the American business man to deal
with the Chinese people in ways that
rise to their own ideals" of honesty
and in a manner that they have
been taught to expect through their
contact with the missionaries.
In other words, these men who go
out for puny wage, leaving home and
comfort and the sense of security
for the sake of saving souls, are in
reality worth millions of dollars in
the advancement of American trade.
The ministers' home in Florida is
established for servants of the Lord
who were "worthy of theif hire" but
who were not paid in the coin of
the realm. It may be the last
earthly refuge of some of the in
direct trade pioneers in foreign coun
tries. They will go to the home be
cause "they did not earn enough dur
ing their productive years to provide
for old age.
At least nine-tenths of the mln
isters of the gospel would need insti
tutional care in their old age were
it not for support by children or
relatives.
Can the churches which they hold
together or the business to which
they are worth so much contend that
they get a square deal?
A SPECTACLE
TN A CITY of homes and schools
A are school employes on time paid
THEIR UNPAID HIRE
CHINA and Florida are rather far
apart.
But they may be connected with
a thought. !
A few days ago the head of the
China-American bank, J. A. Thomas,
appeared with a statement extolling
the value to American business of
our missionaries in China.
At almost the same time an an
nouncement appeared that a' home
for retired ministers had been es
tablished by the Methodists at Eustis,
Fla.
The banker said that American
missionaries in China have blazed the
way for American trade.
Not because there is much, soci
ally, in common between the mis
sionaries and our trade scouts in the
Orient.
The missionary, says Mr. Thomas,
cannot enjoy a high bill, and dancing
for by the taxpayers to be used in
lining up voters to reelect a school
director ?
Testimony at the school properties
investigation shows that on time
paid for by the Portland school dis
trict, and in automobiles paid for by
the school district, school employes
went from school to school lining up
other employes to vote for Director
Thomas. It shows that a typewrit
ten slip carrying the signature of
Director Thomas named certain em
ployes, working on school time at the
expense of the district, to function
as follows: "I hereby constitute
and appoint to represent
me and to safeguard my interests in
precinct " at the polls in the
school election. Behold the political
boss restored school employes, on
school time and school pay, "to rep
resent me and to safeguard my in
terests" at the polls, and all in the
name of a school directorship:
What can a school system be into
which such practices are introduced?
How long would it take by such po
litical thimblerigging to convert the
entire school system into a rotten
political machine?
There is already testimony that
Director Thomas rebuked a school
principal because the latter did not
support him for reelection.
If he attacked that man for not
supporting him, how many other
teachers were subjected to the
Thomas political influence, but for
reasons of discretion are remaining
silent? What of the schools, when
the most active member of the
school board is thus striking at the
very heart of the school system by
trying to convert it into an organiza
tion of ward heelers and political
workers, with himself at the head?
way building go into the cost of a
battleship.
A modern dreadnaught costs $40,
000,000. The naval program of the
United States, unless interrupted by
the arms reduction conference, con
templates, in addition to present
naval resources, 10 such vessels, not
to mention six battle cruisers, 10
light cruisers, 30 destroyers and 66
submarines.
Translate the cost of only one
battleship into education.
It would pay for more than 12
Oregon agricultural colleges, build
ings and land. Thirty-five hundred
students have registered this year
for campus instruction at Oregon
Agricultural college.
It would pay for 26 Universities
of Oregon, buildings and land. More
than 2000 students are registered for
campus work at -the university this
year.
It would replace the investment
in Reed college buildings 50 times.
It would multiply the $2,000,000 en
dowment of Reed college 20 Umes.
It would pay this year's $120,000
operating cost of Reed college for
333 years.
One battleship would replace the
entire "Investment for higher educa
tion in the Northwest, if not in the
West as a whole.
Translate the cost of a $40,000,
000 battleshsip into reclamation.
The Yakima project cost $10,000,
000; the Umatilla, $2,400,000; the
Okanogan, $1,100,000; the West
Okanogan valley, $690000; the Boise,
$12,000,000; the Minidoka, $5,800,
000 and the Orlando, Cal., $965,000.
These are all famous and successful
projects. But their total cost to
the government and private inves
tors is $32,955,000. . In other words
the cost of a single battleship would
cover the cost of seven great West
ern reclamation projects, which pro-
Vide homes for thousands of the
people, and doubtless leave enough
for a large part of the cost of the
Wenatchee project.
The official estimates from gov
ernment sources of the average value
of crops from the Beven projects
named in 1920 shows a total of $29,
200,000. But it is said that the crops
of Yakima district alone this year
represent a value of $50,000,000, and
that the apples t Wenatchee alone
are worth $25,000,000 from the last
harvest.
Translate the cost of a battleship
into highways. Oregon has, a road
program which has iven us a na
tional leadership. Yet the bill for
one modern dreadnaught would
cover the $30,000,000 already spent
by the state for our great industrial
and scenic highways and leave $10,-
000,000 to cover highway construc
tion authorized beyond that which
has been completed.
Translate the cost of a battleship.
simply, into the terms of power. An
immediate illustration is available.
The Umatilla project would develop
enough electric energy to operate
all the railroad trains of Oregon
plus nearly all of the railroad trains
of Washington. Yet the most ex
travagant estimates of its cost fall
below $30,000,000.
The cost of a single battleship
would pay for a year's education of
80,000 students at $500 each. It
would pay a year's tuition of 400,000
students at $100 each. It would
pay for a year's rehabilitation and
vocational training work of 40,000
disabled ex-service men at $1000
each.
Back of education, back of recla
mation, back of highways and back
of power are homes and families op
pressed by the cost 'of battleships
or to be aided in reaching security
and prosperity by diverting the cost
of battleships. Back of battleships
to be built or abandoned are sons to
be trained either to fight the con
structive battles of peace or the de
structive battles of war. Back of
battleships built is human woe; back
of battleships translated is human
welfare.
Is it not apparent that to utilize
the cost of 10 battleships for the
benefit of education, reclamation
and highway building would almost
create a new America?
Is it not equally apparent that to
utilize the cost of all naval programs,
even in part, would almost create
a new world?
EASTERN OREGON
PROTESTS '
Self-interest Charged .Against Those
Alio, in Portland Champion . 'the
Wallula Cutoff to the Detriment
of Highway Links Located " In
Populous and Productive Sec
tions Charge That Wallula
Proponents Have, Land and
Contract Schemes in View.
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
By Roy W. Rltner, President Oregon
Senate.
Herewith 1 am .'submitting some of
the reasons w hy the. people of Pendle
ton and its tributary region think the
Wailula-Umatilla cutoff should not be
built until the road program for Eastern
Oregon tow provided for is completed.
It has been the policy of the highway
commission to allot the funds at its dis
posal to the different sections of the
state in as nearly equitable a manner
as possible, always having in sight the
interests of the state as a whole.
The Pacific highway is by common
consent considered the roost important
road in the state, with the Columbia
highway and its extension, the Old Ore
gon Trail, as a close second. These
two roads are considered the primary
roads of the state. Next in importance
to these are the John Day highway. The
Dalles - California highway and the
Roosevelt highway. The two primary
roads are the only ones which are any
way nearly completed and they will re
quire many thousands of dollars before
they are completed. Work on the sec
ondary roads is in many cases just beginning?
SMALL CHANGE
"Wait tiU the sun shines, Nellie, by
and by !"
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For all we know. Frederio WinCim
Hohenzollero may still be sawing wood.
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Yoshihito was and Hirohlto is (not
oft drinks nor new names for milady's
silks) ruler ot Japan.
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The success of marriage ia akin tn the
taste of castor .oil, in that it all depends
upon un way you taae it.
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We'll have to be oat lent with The nliv
er pianos and phonographs, to say noth
ing oi me Ukuleles in the neighborhood
tor mis is music week.
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Manhattan, which used to be known
chiefly as a cocktail, seems still a thriv
ing center of population in spite of the
Volstead law.
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You can't always tell. Maybe the ma
rines will transpose the old police de
partment chorus and make it : The ma
rines are investigating."
- SIDELIGHTS
Scrapping battleships to the amount of
$O0.0O0,0O seems like an awfufc waste.
If women had the job they'd make them
over Into something useful Benton
County Courier.
Th Oregon Country
tct Uaspeaaasi tn Knaf Fara tot tka
ftasr Raadcu
ORFGOX
J. M Parker. f7 years Id. a pioneer
of Oregon since 1SU. U dead at his
home at Dexter.
The annual school budret of McMinn-
. Judging from latest dope. Hood River . vllle is $t&.4S, about $:00O less than
County is aoout u oniy one in uie
state that does not cherish the idea
.that it will provide the neat governor.
Hood River .New.
It is really startling the way wrecks
occur In Portland. Just think! in the
first la days of this month there were
575 wrecks. It is enough to make a
pedestrian long for wings so that h
could fly over the danger tones. Amity
Standard. .
There ts a notion prevalent that towns,
counties, states and individuals can bor
row themselves rich. It can not be done.
Every cent borrowed must be paid back
with Interest. Borrowed money, whether
It is In the shape of bonds, warrants,
mortgages, notes or Just jawbone. Is de
ferred grtef. Blue Mountain Eagle.
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
State Senator O. M. Thomas of Med- , J. i. Calloway of Mountatnhome. Ida
ford is in Portland to get a line on what ho. is registered at the Portland.
. .. i - at .a i 1 . I at a
uie coming session 01 me ickibibiuic .
..-ill n. -. annnmnlieh
T ail Li w uunJiiuu-
Pitts Elmore of Corvallis is stopping at
the Imperial.
A. P. Starr and family of Dallas
while visiting in Portland are domiciled
at the Imperial.
The people of Kastern Oregon feel
very strongly that before any new roads
are designated in this section the roads
now provided for in the road program
should be completed or at least placed
n such condition that they can be used
all the year round.
If funds at this time are diverted to
build the Wailula-Umatilla cutoff. Just
that much money will be deducted from
other roads, which afe of great im
portance to Eastern Oregon. The Old
Oregon trail, the direct route connecting
the Columbia highway with the Lincoln
highway, is yet far from complete. This
road is of equal importance with the
Oregon-Washington highway, which con
nects the Columbia highway with the
Yellowstone trail by the way of the
Inland Empire highway to Spokane. The
latter connection so far as Oregon is
concerned is pompleted, there being a
fine road from Peidleton to Walla
Walla, which is open all the year round.
The John Day highway, which
traverses a country which has no rail
connections for many miles and opens
up a territory with wonderful- unde
veloped resources, should be completed
as soon as possible ' so as to give the
people of Grant county a means of
communicating with the outside world.
At present they are bottled up in the
winter time, and even in the summer
time it is a difficult, trip with an auto
on account of the rough condition of
the roads.
The Dalles-California highway, when
completed, will serve a portion of the
state which has no rail connections for
miles. The La Grande-Joseph highway
will tap one of the richest valleys in
the state and give the tourist a view
of one of the most beautiful lakes in
America. The Grant county road con
necting the Oregon-Washington highway
at Pilot Rock with the John Day high
way will open up a rich stock country
in Northern Grant -county which Is In
accessible at present six -months of thgJ
year.
The Oregon-Washington highway has
many miles yet uncompleted between
Pilot Rock and Heppner and its con
nection with the Columbia River high-
Way. The Sherman county highway.
whert built, will tap one of the richest
wheat districts in the state. The Cen
tral Oregon highway through Malheur
and Harney counties will serve a por
tion of the great stock country which
is now very poorly served with rail
roads. The road connecting Bend with
Lakeview is another which is very much
needed to develop a country which is
only awaiting an outlet.
A. S. Hammond of Coos Bay has come
to Portland on business.
M. J. Woodard of Silverton la In Tort
land on business.
Mr. and Mrs. H. F. White of North
Powder are among out of town guests.
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G. E. Graham of Bandon was trans
acting business in Portland Saturday.
Among out-of-town visitors is V. R
McDongle of Eugene.
Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Forbes ef Salem are
guests of the Portland.
H. Guff of Marshfield is spending the
week-end In Portland.
M. A. Holman of Salem was among
Saturday's arrivals.
A. H. Dillard of Eugene is transacting
business In Portland,.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lock ley
I "All for each and each for all" i Mr. Ick
ley'a eloean aa ha afjpeaJm for a broad spirit in
dealing with tourists who come into the a;rrat
Northwest that they anajr be KrTed rcenk-allj
He il.uatrate what he mean by reproducing what
he ooce wrote for a Canadian periodical about
one of Canada 'i choicest eccnic cems.
that of last year.
Lime deposits, thought to be In pay
ing quantities., have been discovered on
the farm of Edgar Russell ncavr Sweet
Home.
Lane county's expenses for ZZ wltl
be tCOC.lS?. according to estlmstes juat
comrlete by the cjunty budget com
mit lee.
Lane countv expended 4.IS 4 os
different road projects during the first
10 months of 1921. according to a report
mada by the county surveyor.
After shooting holes in his houee 'and
frightening all his neighbors, William
Hudson of turene. io years old. wax
committed to the Insane aaylum by the
county court.
J. B. M alone v. a travelinr ulianin
for a phonograph company, was nrrealeH
at Dunsmuir. CaL. avnd brought back tn
Eugene to answer a charge of rjsirr
a bogus check on the Osburn hotel.
The Lumbermen's Trust company of
Portland hax paid over to School dis
trict No. 10 at Seaside the aum ef
11.000. the amount of the bonds rxentl
voted for erection of a new school build
ing. The school hudeet at Monmouth jro
viding over $10,000 for the suport of
the high school snd the normal traimi c
school was approved by the voters. ho
rejected a wooden gymnasium to cwi
I60O0.
The new grade on the Crow-Hadle)-vllle
road In Lane county ts t-o oft and
muddy that county road crews have had
to pi&nk a large portion or It to allow
the mall carrier and other traffic n
get through.
Paving operations north f (irsni
Pasa have been discontinued for the
winter, with the exception of TM fe-t
of base to be covered with top materia!
which will be completed as soon a the
weather Is settled.
The drill In the Lower Columbia Oil .
Gas company's well near Astoria han
reached a depth of ZiOO feet snd the
gss pressure has Increased to such an
extent that drillinr orw-rationa are nrrv-
l rresslnr with difficult-.
WASHINGTON
Two independent tickets and a people'
ticket are in the field for the Klma city
so that I mieht row awav from all
sign or sound of man and be alone with .election Hevember 3.
nature. How shall 1 describe It? I can
not describe Lake Ixiutse ; all I can hope
to do is from a multitude of Impressions
to pick out. here and there, one that
ITS IRRESPONSIBILITY
A WASHINGTON dispatch says:
Leaders in congress, Democrats as
well as Republicans, were reported today
to be giving consideration to plans for
avoiding introduction of measures in con
gress and floor discussion which might
hamper the arms conference.
With the possibility that the conference
might continue through December, the
suggestion has been made to President
Harding that it might be well for con
gress to take a recess when it assembles
December 5 for the new session until
after the holidays.
Such is the depth of distrust to
which congress has descended! It
is here hinted, perhaps for the first
time in any government in the world.
that congress is so irresponsible that
it is unsafe to have that body in ses
sion when a conference of nations is
in progress at the capital.
The rotten action of the senate
when the Paris conference was still
in session has left its everlasting impression.
After being fined $100 for drinking
bootleg moonshine boose, an Illi
nois man fainted in the courtroom,
struck his head on the concrete floor,
fractured his skull and, in the hos
pital later, died. If all .the victims
of moonshine, direct and indirect,
could be laid in a row they would
present a ghastly spectacle.
It is not very strange that the people
of Eastern Oregon protest very vigor
ously when they learn the Chamber of
Commerce of Portland is advocating
the expenditure of funds which right
fully, should be spent on roads directly
benefiting this section, especially when
the money is to be spent upon a road
which will not give service but hurt in
a financial way the part of the state
against which It is charged.
The Wailula-Umatilla cutoff is not an
asset to Eastern Oregon. If traffic
coming from the Yellowstone trail and
Spokane on the north should be diverted
to this proposed road the tourist would
see nothing of the agricultural resources
of the region east of the Cascades until
reaching The Dalles. There would be
a monotonous stretch of sand and sage
brush for 135 miles, which, while hav
ing considerable scenic beauty in its
rugrgedness. would become tiresome for
such a long stretch. How much bet
ter it would be to bring the tourist into
Oregon from Walla Wajla so that he
could see Jhe rich fruit country around
Freewater and Milton. Then, passing
on through the most wonderful wheat
lands in the world, arbund Weston.
Athena, Adams and Pendleton, he would
also get a view of the wonderfully pro
ductive lands of the Umatilla Indian
reservation.- This is a fine paved road
all the way from Pendleton to Walla
Walla and is an all winter road? with
no grade over 5 per cent. The Blue
mountains are in view from this road
for miles. After leaving Pendleton on
the Columbia highway the road winds
down the Umatilla river, whose rugged
bluffs for 10 miles line the north side
of the river. After reaching Echo and
passing through Stanfield and Hermis-
ton he would get a fine vjew of the
alfalfa fields of the irrigated lands of
the Furnish and government reclama
tion projects. This is a fine graveled
road from Pendleton to Umatilla and
has no grades over 2 per cent, and can
be traveled every day in the year. The
attempt of Mr. Ottenheimer of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce to label the
Pendleton-Walla Walla road as a moun
tainous road which could- not be trav
eled all the year around is a fair sample
of his misinformation. The Portland
Chamber of Commerce has evidently
been imposed upon by those who have
a selfish interest in having this road
built. If this organixation desires to
do the right thing on this road question
it will send a delegation of -fair minded
representatives, who will make a trip
over the two routes and get their in
formation first-handed instead of from
people who have real estate to sell or
axes to grind.
It is a well known fact that one of
the chief boosters of this so-called cut
off has sold land along the Columbia
river with the promise of building a
road. A firm in Walla Wala owns a
gravel pit near Umatilla which would
be benefited by the road and they are
doing the chief boosting from the Walla
Walla end.
Service, not selfishness ; teamwork,
not petty jealousy. Is Ihe solution of
the tourist problem. From San Diego
to Sitka we have a coast line ot in
comparable beauty. Let's tell the tour
ist about it not just about Oregon's
scenic charm, but about the beauty of
Southern California and of the Canadian
Rockies and Selklrks. If we do so,
our neighbors on the north and on the
south will do the same for us, and the
tourist will take in the whole coast
line and go home to urge his friends
to make the trip.
Some years ago I visited Lake Louise
in the Canadian Rockies. Here ia the
impression it made on me. as I recorded
it in the Canadian Magazine:
"Midway between Revelstoke and Cal
gary on the Canadian Pacific railway
there is a little station called Laggan.
Laggan is the nearest railway point to
one of the most exquisite gems of nature
to be found on the western continent
Lake Louise. It Is situated In one of
the most picturesque regions in Canada,
being in the immediate vicinity of Para
dise valley, the Valley of Ten Peaks
and the Lakes in the Clouds. Its sur
face lies more than a mile above the
lave! of the sea.
"I started from Laggan at daybreak,
bo as to witness sunrise on the lake.
The road leads over the impetuous and
picturesque Bow river, by a bridge near
the village, and winds in many a sinu
ous curve, steadily upward. You hear
the noise of dashing waters, which grows
louder as you advance till of a sudden
you see through the trees to your left
a ribbon of silver. Soon the road, as
though unable to resist the charm of its
alluring fceauty, winds down to the bank
of the ice-cold glacial waters of Louise
river and follows the stream to its
source. Iouise. river descends over TOO
feet in less than three miles. As a
consequence, it is a succession of cas
cades ar.d falls hyphenated at rare In
tervals by stretches of a few yards
of green water.
After a residence of nearly 40 yuri In
Spokane, William Mulherin. 7. died l
his home near that city Tuesday.
Appointment of K. Morrow as po'-
stands out from the warp and woof of j Vb7en"conflr b, 'Ok' UnUed
senate.
the fabric of my memory as the scarlet
thread does from the woven strands of
gray.
"Picture a lake wi.ose colors are like
a green-blue opal only more transient
and fleeting. The colors come and go
over ita face as quickly and as idly as
a maraen's dreams and fancies or the
throngrng thoughts of youth. Green
with all Its varying shades and values.
blue and purple with all the merging or four inches of snow
narmonies ot tneir oienaing.
Survived by hi wife, with whom he
had lived over TO yeara. Marion Philip
Pesreon died lat Fridsy night at Pom
eroy. ' Mayor Ben Hill osttmates that 400 men
are out of work In Walla Walla, and Ir lit
rot thought the conditions will Improve
before spring.
Wheat growers near Colville have been
compelled to plant their fall wheat In the
snow, many farmers plowing under three
Against the curtain of the sky, glacier
clad, snow-crowned, rises In stately dig
nity Mount Temple, a delicately cut
cameo against a background of cloudless
blue. At this distance you get no hint of
yawning crevices or blue-green ice
walls ; it seems to wear a spotless robe
of ermine ; the trees that clothe its
base look soft as plush ; the green
velvet of the trees merges into the
rugged cliffs which in turn blend im
perceptibly with the snow fields and
the glacial ice on Mount Temple's mas
sive forefront. You look down at the
milk-white stream below, whose sub
stance is ever changing, but whose form
remains unchanged : you look up to the
spotless purity of the snow-clad moun
tain, and. even as you look, nature in
her laboratory is preparing a wondrous
change. She has dipped her brush into
"Sunrise has not yet come to the
lake. It lies hushed, tranquil, serene.
Take in your oars. It seems a profana
tion of some mysterious Holy of Holies
to disturb the unruffled waters. The
stroke of your oar in the water makes
the Eky-reflecting lake look like a
broken looking glass as the disturbed
waters flow shoreward, setting the re
flections of mountain and sky to dancing
and trembling. Nature Is holding her
breath. Peace ineffable seems to brood
over valley, mountain and lake. You
feel the narrowness, the selfishness, the
lowness slipping from your soul's
shoulders, and now your soul can stand
erect as God meant It to stand.
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"As you look around it seems as
though the world had Just emerged from
the hand of the Creator. It la perfect,
untarnished, undeflled, and primeval
silence broods over all. Look up at the
beetling cliffs, red and brown and gray,
at the dark green' tot the treedad
slopes of the mountain, at the un
dimmed glory of the snow-fields and.
high though the ragged peaks'are, look
higher to the blue sky above. Now look
below in the lake : Here the same scene,
unchanged, color for color, outline for
outline, is reflected. It is hard to tell
whether you are afloat In the blue of
the lake or adrift in the blue of the
sky ; It is hasd even to tell which ia
the shadow snd which the substance.
To your left rises Mount Falrvlew. his
feet laved In the ice-cold waters of the
lake, his massive bulk clothed half way
to the summit with trees. Here and
there above the timber line a tree more
hardy than his brethren clings pre
cariously to the weather-worn, wind
eroded, glacial-cleft bluffs. To the left
of Victoria glacier rises a line of peaks,
seven in all. carved fantastically as
though nature had shaped them for
titanic gargoyles naked, grim, gaunt,
savage in their Jagged outline, they up
rear their forbidding heads. Their rough
ragged, saw-like edges stand out against
the blue background of the sky. the
very antipodes of Lake Louise with her
alluring charm, her tenderness, her
beauty, the sheen of her ever-changeful
colors, her depth, her constancy.
"Clustered about the lower end of the
lake, as though guarding her vestal ; f
purilv from sacrilege, or as though j
guarding a rare and coctly gem from
John W. Hobson. Washington Pioneer
and a resident of Grand Mound for 4"
years. Is dead at his home in that city
He was 84 years old.
A carload of Walla Walla apple
shipped to Toledo. lows, was sold In
three days at !.!A and $1 a box- Freight
on the fruit was a7 IT.
Durinr his 10-hour stay Ih Srokarr
November !9. Marshal Foth of Fri no
will be entertained hy the Amcnon1!-
glon and the Chamber of Commerce. .
r- After half a century's sctlvity a a
pioneer of business snd politics in ha
tle. Frank Hsnford. 61 years old. died at
Stretch Island, near Olympia, last Sun
day. The Ellis-Miller company, thst has
done a general merchandising business at
Harrington for many years, nas maae an
assignment for the benefit of its cred
itors. About 160 tons of the ;.ooo tans of sugar
beets raised tn Walla Walla valley this
year are under snow in the field. All
the rest have been gathered and shlpi-d
to the factory at Toppenish.
Mrs. Florence Ieltoy was awarded
Judgment of Klli 50 against Mary Har
mon tn superior court at Walla Walla.
Mrs. LeRoy had sued for 115. 0O0. slic
ing that Marv Harmon had alienated h r
husband's affections.
IDAHO
Nearly li.'KM) tourists took advatitak-e
of the camping facilities at th Bols.
tourist park In the 1SI1 neaon.
Plasis have been perfected at B:e f .r
the opening of a municipal woodyard t
furnish employment for thoe out of
work.
Twin Falls has raised JJTi.Oon of u
1500 000 bonus necessary to r-ure t re
building of the Idaho Central railroad to
that city.
About 40 recruits have been sirned up
in the Caldwell Infantry unit, recently
authorised by Colonel V- V. Patch, adju
tant general of Idaho.
P. F. Banks, state treasurer, has an
nounced a warrant call against the
highway fund of 171Z.S54.1S. Thia 111
put that fund on a cash basis
The total number of insane snd feeble
minded persons under csre of the stale
of Idaho is now 821. There sre 11. at
Blackfoot. 281 at Orofino and 21t at
N a m pa.
Assets and liabilities of the Union Cen
tral bank at May. Idaho, which closed its
doors Augurt 24. hsve been taken over by
the Cltixens' National bank at hslrnn.
and all depositors wui oe paio in iun
her paint box and from her seven-fold i the despoiler. rise Castle Crag and
arch she has taken, not a color, but
a mere tint, an Illusive suggestion of
color. Plmy. diaphanous. As your en
raptured eye dwells upon the scene, lo '.
the miracle takes place, the white loses
its intensity, a faint tinge of gold
mingles with the molten silver, a sus
picion of pink flits across Mount Tem
ple's Icy brow. Again it comes, it
lingers for a moment ; gradually the
shade becomes fixed, a rosy glow, a
pink touched with gold. Indescribably
delicate like the waning Alpenglu on
the highest Alps.
"I passed Lake Louise chalet, its oc
cupants' still wTapped in slumber, and
walked down to the shore of the lake.
to the" wondrous beauty of the scene, j thousand miles to see?"
Aberdeen, massive Victoria with its
glacier, here white and glistening, there
with its vast Ice walls gleaming in
green and blue, clasped in its gigantic
embrace. Lefroy. Whyte. Niblork.
Pope's Peal,, the Beehive and St Piron
stand on guard a noble group. Fair
view's shoulder has become radiant,
dazzling, transfigured.
"Now nature's alchemy gives to the
lake a score of transient gleams of
beauty as the sunlight chases away the
shadows. As you look Into its emersld
depths Imperceptibly the green Is
transmuted to blue, and it has become
a turquoise.
"You have se-n sunrise on Iike
trying to close my eyes and senses Louise. Is it not worth coming a
The main traveled road from Sp
kane is not the . Central Washing! of.
highway through Ritxville and Pascal
but the Inland Empire highway through
Colfax. Dayton and Walla Walla. The
former road leads through the lighter
wheat lands and sand, while the latter
is through a much more thickly set
tled country which is rich In agricul
tural resources. Pendleton and Walla
Walla afford good hotels ar.d are the
logical places in which to stop over
night tin going from Spokane to Port
land. The argument that Portland would
draw trade over the proposed cutoff
from the Yakima country is absurd, as
Yakima is 117 miles west of Wallula
and It would necessitate the traveling
of 234 extra miles to get to Portland.
The logical thing for the Portland busi
ness men to do to get the Yakima trade
is to boost for the proposed highway
runnlng south from Yakima connecting
with the North Bank highway on the
Columbia river.
The federal government, under the
newly enacted Town send bill, will have
over 12,000.000 to spend In Oregon. Why
Lspend any portion of this money, to
gether with state money, on a roaa
"which will parallel one which is com
pleted for 91 miles and of which 42
miles are paved? Is It not much better
to spend the money on roads which will
open up Ike- inaccesrfibl portions of
Eastern Oreson? It Is surprising that
the Portland Chamber of Commerce
would advocate the designstlon of a
road as a connecting link of an Inter
state system which would keep the tour
ist from seeing one of the best agri
cultural districts of the state and which
would keep him opt of the state of Ore
gon and in the state of Washington
until he reaches that point where it is
to the selfish interests of Portland . to
have him enter the state. The motto
of those Portland people who advocate
the Wailula-Umatilla cutoff seems to be.
"To Hell With Eastern Oregon." It
should be the duty of organisations hav
ing the Interests of the whole state at
large at heart to endeavor to have as
much of the interstate connecting sys
tem designated In Oregon as possible In
stead of In a sister state.
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Uncle Jeff Snow Says j
Mrs. Jolmutter Is kinder near-sighted
and so she has patched Absolum's new
overcoat front and back with two big
diamond-shape designs in red braid.
Folks thinks it's a French detonation he
got when he was a-tryin to kick the
kaiser, but she can find him in church,
and 'specially at the movies. Some peo
ple Is that restless that they ain't satis
fied with be in' on no Job. no matter how
good it Is; like Mayor Baker of Port
land, f'r Instance, who's reported to be
a-harborln' of all sorts of aspirin's.
What I Like Beat
In The Journal
MRS. A. M. ANDERSON.
446 East Market street Its
policy always on the side of
right; the social calendar;
Its position on the disarma
ment question; Its outspoken
utterances on the labor ques
tion; its funny section; Ralph
Watson's and Fred Lockley"
articles. We could not get
along without The Journal.
MRS. F. J PERKINS. 41S
Twelfth Mreet The maga
zine section.
H LARSEN. 10: East
Tenth street north Shipping
news, editorials, comics. The
reader can depend on what
The Journal prints.
E. R- ROSA. HO Four
teenth street The editorials.
MRS. A. GAFFNEY. 150
Eleventh street Fred Lock
ley's articles.
M. O GODFREY. 44
Union avenue Its straight
forward championship of
principle. The editorial sym
pathy with the common peo
ple. We always read Ring
Lardner's articles with inter
est, also Ralph Watson's.
The market page has features
of value. We appreciate the
delivery service.
C. W. BLODGET. J87 East
Washington street The edi
torials. .How true is the say
ing. "Ideas are the great
warriors Of the world." The
Journal is the best paper on
the coast.
When you send your opinion be
careful to write, or print, the nam
clearly. A name clearly written U
rarely' misspelled la publication.
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