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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON SATURDAY, DECEMBER 3, . 1C21. : AX INOFPESDEST MKW8PAPKR ,n B. JACKMPN , -i . . Pnbtt-hCT IBe ealnj, ba eouh.lrtit. be abeerful and da ..anto other ax yon wooid bate Umg de not yo. I , - I Pubiwhed y-rrry weekdat and HuocU .: t Tha Journal bnitdist, Brnedwej sad I - - hiO street, fortlrad, j Ortega ; - . Lnttrad at tb nettuffiw ae Portland. Oreaon. far toaaemaaioa thresh the suik as second cm nnirr. liJ.Ei'HONK Mua 7172. AMomatie 660 1. . All qprtmpt reeHird Try thtw nninbera. KATIOXAL AUVfcBT&tING KEPBESE3TA- ' TIVR Benjamin ft Xentnor Col, Brantwick v .'tmUdioc. 22S Ftftb Mmnw, Me Tork; 00 M.itrr. rnimtc, i.mgtfo WCiriiJ CQA&X RKlIfKSKNTATeVE W. B. , Rtnagrr Co.. EumiKT tmiklin. Baa -Fren-' cimw: Title lsrartoce building, Loa Anxelt; rVwt-Inte Ulteneer bnlldint. Seattle. 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If f otrr noatoffica ia not BwawyHrdar office ti or 8-eent . etas will aereptad. Make all' iremittancea payable to yTha-- Journal PabU-bina . Company, FerUand, ,OrafPon. Diaarmament la tba oily Beana of preacra fate the world (rom backraatcy and ciTilixa- uoa irom rnic uuhopt w. T. Manrunt ' THE DAWNING DAT? JfTOUR Items in the days news have A- - a'' tremendous j bearing on the future economic status of the United States. ; One tells of the comlnff visit Jpt Genjian : representaUyee to this jiountry1' to seek "adHce" from Amer ican financier , Ajiother foreshad fpWs a tisit from Ljoyd-Gcorfe, who is to come with an 'appeal to Amer 'ica to awaVen to the onruahlnff ca- " lamlty in : Europe.f Another Bays that international debts are to be dis ,v roossed at the' arms conference. An lother is a jfrophecyiby a correspond- lent- that America will take a hand in 'aiding Ejixope baatlto"" a -normal 'status, financialljC and economically. V, It all means that jBurope is coming , straight to Amertci. to ask for the assistance that has een withheld h7 jthla country for political reasons. :And, if the correspondent Is 'correct, ' Jlt means that America Is preparing fto lend the assistance that was de Jnied when the isolationists and treaty tstabtters took the stage. If that is 4h case, a brighter day is dawning !for the United Statfs. " J. .This country is allnost as much In 'terested in European political and 'economic conditions, as Europe is. Europe normally absorbs our sur ; pluses. But she caanot absorb them now because we will not give her the .credit with which to buy them, or ;take steps' that will aid ln-th reha bilitation of her Impossible Interna tlonal exchange; The result is that we have to store oar own surpluses. business stagnates, production stag nates and employment Is reduced. ; When the European statesmen approach us they will ask financial - assistance. We can give it if we . Inake surs that wis are protected. The only ( way we j can protect our ' 'credits 'is to do ourf part to see that ; Europe is stabllixejd. To stabilise ; , her and protect , ourselves . we are compelled to take a hand in Euro pean affairs, political, financial and economic, j ' If America grants her belated aid 'a great forward steb will have been taken to bring America back to nor mal. Our goods will go to Europe. That will improve) conditions here. And it Will stimulate activity in Eu rope and hasten return to normal febroad. That will ienablo her to pro duce the wealth with Which' 10 pay what the ...owes us. i If we still insist ion our false "iso- lation it win take ytrs and years for Europe to recover, j That means that ' It would be -years and years before ,'i Europe, can buy hfr; normal supply of out goods.Lyears and years before -she could pay her debts and Tears for ArSerica to get' back to the eco nomic status that should be hers DOW. 5 :;..'j:r . 1 ( Perhaps the da r when common - 'sense is to replace politics Is dawn ing. It cannot come too soon. ' i Men tnay mourn their calamities, worries and. His. j They may fuss about potions, lotions and pills. But does anything give optimism such Slithery chills as he pitiless recur rence of first of the month bills? ' A MOTHER AND TWELVE AS A result of 'The Journal's thrift campaign, a j Portland -mother -started a savings account for each of her iJ children,' ai the Lumbermen bank. : rf fi ; v-.- - If -thaf . mother thus beginning; goes on showing bier 12 the ways of t thrift, who knows jthe very great in fluence she may be instrumental in exerting in her community, if not In a much larger sphere ? Lincoln came out of the stern school of necessary thrift. Up to his maturity. Wood row Wilson knew .. nothing but straitened circumstances. Garfield krieV the stern line of near poverty. The children who are not wasters. the children, -who are taught from the beginning that it is national and humanitarian service, to save,- the 12 in a single family whom thoughtful mother Is .directing to thoughts Of working for something and then laying away for the future some of the rewards of that striv ing- they ara children : that in all human probability will rise to place of leadership In the future com rminlty; for to save is to think, and to think is almost universally , to succeed, v" Poverty is not all the fault of the greed pf mankind. . Much of it Is caused by the profiteers whose or ganized power and. cunning enable them to rob and plunder the weaker. But many a poor soul sinks Into poverty ' because- childhood Is begun In wasting, the habit of wasting be comes confirmed and old age comes On with the luckless, misguided In childhood, sinking deeper and deeper in the mire of hopeless poverty. Stars, your child right by teaching it the price of wasting. Give It a savings account Coupons clipped from The Journal today may be used up to Tuesday. GIVE THEM THEIR DUE , ' THERE can.be no criticism of the $100 fine , and 10 day Jail sen tence imposed upon local gangsters unless it is directed at the leniency of the Judge. Certainly the penalty was not too severe. , " , i..- There were four of them. They were intoxicated. They proposed to endanger all life on the highways by driving a truck. An officer remon strated and he was immediately set upon and beaten. ; There are scores of gangsters in Portland, They are in the down town sections, in the east side sec-, tions and in the outlying districts. They have a flagrant disregard . for law. They hate policemen. - They have no Respect for womanhood, for the rights of others or for anything save force. A young gangster often becomes a petty thief later, then a holdup man,; then a murderer. That is frequently1 the evolution of gang sters. V .-.' Portland cannot afford to tolerate thorn. She i cannot afford to deal leniently with them. he cannot af ford to do anything with them except to offer them the same treatment that they offer to others. The trials of Dan Casey and John L. Burns should "convince any gun toter that a revolver may turn state's evidence. The bullets' in the body of J the murdered man were identified as having come from guns in the possession of the two de fendants.! Revolvers are like type writers. Each has distinctive marks which can be identified by Its product. ) A revolver fired becomes a witness for the prosecution, j PORTI LAND AND THE FUTURE TVEW YORK admits that terminal 1 ' COnffPRtlnn rnt hai hnnrlrarla of millions of dollars each year and affords Boston- and Philadelphia opportunity to compete for trade which, except for cost and hin drance, would gravitate toward the nation's metropolis. Paris now comes forward with a scheme for a trottolr roulant from the Place de la Concorde to the Place de la Bastille, a distance of a little more than two miles. A trot tolr roulant Is merely a moving side' walk. It is the inclined escalator adapted horizontally. The scheme provides for graduated speeds, on various sections of the pavement; so that people may travel swiftly or, slowly as befits their con venience. ' ' : Paris is likewise struggling with underground congestion. Ksr sewer I system, electric, gas and water con duits and; pneumatio mail tubes terfere in every imaginable way, The congestion of New York and Paris is also the congestion of Lon don. Congestion is the experience of all great population centers so far. Sooner of later congestion is self- destructive. In a city like Portland, which Is just beginning to grow, the conges tion of the future may be averted by plans made now. Are such plans being made? It was Napoleon who saved France in the World war. said Marshal Foch at the burial of the unknown soldier In Paris. ' The- strategy of that great genius of war, reemployed not for world conquest but for the preserva tion of liberty., furnished the plan which won success. Foch Is modest It called for a Napoleonic type of man to utilize Napoleon's strategy. i OREGON WRITERS A GOOD end Is served by the or gantxatlon of the Oregon Writers league, launchced the past week by the adoption of working plana and the election of Anne Shannon, Mon roe, as president There can be brains on the Pacific coast j as well as on . the Atlantic. Literary genius, has no geography Talent Is not necessarily a product of the stony hills of New England or the congested districts of the other older states. 1 Oregon literature already has a wealth of that is . the outcome' of isolated, desultory and fragmentary endeavor. I It nas history, traditions, legends and a landscape for the most wonderful; settings of romance and worthy of the writing genius of any age , or dime. " - The new . organisation of writers wCl have a stimulating and Idealizing effect' "It will help turn minds to scenic wonders and the Infinite set tings for verse or prose In "which the Oregon country ia so rich, and go on adding to the structure of Oregon literature already, so well began. ' "''.. THE PLUCKED PUB LI C- BAKE wrecker, ambitious schemer in shipping operations and for mer ' . federal convict, Charles W. Morse is again In the limelight for alleged Illegal dealings in connection with United States shipping board contracts. . " ' ;:,a-"V- Are some of our countrymen cor rect In supposing that a big crook Is more . susceptible . to reform than a little crook T Do education and re fined ways entitle a criminal to es pecial leniency? ; : .Morse was an ambitious steamship operator. For a time he was tre mendously successful. He reached out for a monopoly of ocean ship ping along the northern Atlantic coast. ; He became a bank president. Tes timony at bis trial showed that he used ' bank' funds regardless of whether or not the money was his. The Inevitable crash came, with a conviction and a sentence to the fed eral prison at Atlanta. ' In prison, Morsel-feigned Clness. Strong pressure was brought to bear on the then President Taft A first commission appointed by him re ported that Morse was .In good health. After a time another com mission was appointed. It found to the contrary, and Morse "Was par doned. Soon after his release he bloomed out in robust . health and resumed his former active career. There has never been any doubt that President Taft was Imposed upon. He declared as much In a re cent syndicated article. In terms that left.no doubt as to his reference to the Morse pardon. t That Morse would seize upon the haste, and confusion of war time to profit 'out of governmental necessi ties as is now alleged is not remark able. His former bent would make that a fair supposition. Men of better reputation have been directly charged by the govern ment with profiteering practices, and worse, In shipbuilding activities. The psychology of the time was to grab while the grabbing was good and many took advantage of the nation's stress to do it Morse ought to be made to face the charges against him just as should all others who robbed the government in time of war. A Northwest foreign trade con vention has been called for Decem ber IS and IS in Tacoma. The pur pose is to "create a foundation for united action in. promoting the sub stantial and permanent upbuilding of overseas commerce. We are not certain what timeliness the delibera tions of the conference can possess, but everyone will agree that , the conference, if itvpresents only an opportunity " to enjoy Tacoma's warm Hearted nospitaiity, is tuliy justified. , BACK TO. ECONOMY GREAT as is the tax burden in Portland, it is greater in Seattle. As Portland seeks means by which governmental cost can be reduced without loss of efficiency, so Seattle's tax reduction council seeks a lighten. ing'of the load. - ' Thus there emerges a proposal for Seattle port manager. Be would draw $12,600 a year in salary, it is true, but it is contended that he would save $150,000 a year to the port. The port commission would be come a board of directors, to which the manager only would report All other department heads would re port to him. He would be a traffic expert In freight movement by both rail ajid water. He would control Tfrt nnrntlnn f mm rtAtri tbo it,f , v .m.. u. i.... lEiKhe use of terminals upon which Se- rn- I vs.. . A o nan unit The scheme even contains the startling proposal that the dock tariffs be based upon the cost of maintaining and operating the struc tures, "instead of following outside suggestions regardless of cost to the port, as has been done in the past." Well, we all know how to pro nounce Foch now like gosh or closh. We' pronounced the name often and proudly Thursday, and not at all with the Inflection given the two words with which his name rhymes. OUR AMBITIOUS CAPITAL ANY western city ambitious for the nom de Dlume "Electric City would do well to hurry. Secretary of the Interior Fall wants to get rid of tht soot In Wash tngtpa, D. C He proposes substl tutlon of electricity for coaL . By HI 5 Oregon's exposition year be believes that four reservoirs and two dams can be constructed on the Po tomac river and power sufficient to electrify streetcar lines, homes, in dustrial plants and public buildings can be derived, therefrom, f He hold out to official Washing: ton. the luring prospect of becoming the most brilliantly lighted city ia the" world. Incidentally, he says that 600,000 tons of coal can be saved annually and : the expense of trucking, soot out of the stores be almost entirely eliminated. . If the coal dealers and building cleaners trusts dont throw a wrench Into the plan Washington may yet become the city that lights the world. There- are IT1 persons to the square mile in Holland, 3 S in the United States and about eight- in Oregon. What iroom for growth? i Wilson coming INTO HIS OWN i A High Editorial Tribute From a Jour nai That Opposes Him Attests in , ItselX, as Well as Asserts In Terms. the Rising Tide of Reverence for a Great Nature and of Recognition of a. Mo- ' mentous Work Borah Quoted In Testimony ' ' to the Principle?' - . i of Wilson. . . Below is reproduced an editorial arti cle from th 8cbnectady CN Y.) Union Star of November 14. commenting on the remarkable demonstration accorded Ex-President Woodrow Wilson on Ar mistice' day during and after the funeral procession in honor of the unknown American eoldler. The article. is almost as remarkable In its way as the Wash ington demonstration, for the Union-Star was a bitter critiic of Wilson and vio lently assailed nearly every political act of his, including his Jart fit the Ver sailles treaty and tie cWnant of the lague of Nations. - - -- This article illustrates the difficulty of obtaining general assessment at their true value,- while in the heat of political maneuvering and partisan debate, of either men or measures, especially meas ures that are epoch-making, and of stu pendous influence in their effect on world history in this new era. Lincoln was abused, ridiculed, vilely caricatured, hated with a hate that finally molded the assassin's bullet that-ended the ca reer of a man now numbered with the immortals. .In many ways Wilson's tenure of the presidency was akin to Lincoln's, and it begins to appear that the American people will accord a due and just tribute to Wood row Wilson, as they finally did to Abraham Lincoln, The Union-Star's editorial, under the title "Our Other Stricken Soldier," fol lows : In its spontaneity the tribute which Washington crowds paid to Woodrow Wilson, the other stricken soldier of the World war, was quite as American as the tremendously impressive formal cer emonies over the coffin of the unknown soldier. The wrecked figure In the simple vic toria drawn by two horses along toward the end of the cortege, with none of the heroio markings' of war, with none of the pomp and circumstance that mark rulers, a plain citizen of the United States with no title or distinction,! seems to have attracted attention second , only to the sllentfigure on the caisson .up ahead. Not only were the plaudits for him subdued, to . be sure, by . the so lemnity of the occasion but there was an onsweep of a crowd to bis residence aft er the ceremonies at Arlington, a dem onstration spontaneous, unorganised, un arranged, which bore all the evidence of having sprung out of the grateful1 hearts of the people, . "It is one of the anomalies of American politics that simple justice is not done to Woodrow Wilson. Justice transcends party. Partisan rancor, which might be excusable in the height of poltical cam paign, nas no place here. We do not re call he has ever bid for sympathy. He has played the game, like a gentleman and a soldier, with jaw set and a smile. History already has begun to place his name among the first friends of man kind. Even so intense a partisan as Senator Borah bore him the honor here the other night of saying that the prin ciples which Woodrow Wilson took to Paris were the principles which must prevail, but that they were strangled a-borning when the doors of diplomacy dosed,-and secrecy did its dread work. To secret diplomacy are charged the in famy of Shantung and all the rest of the injustices which emanated . from Ver sailles. Some day, when those principles prevail, will be told the story of the tosingv fight against frightful odds. The nrenent feneration has not been exalted to such heights as the mountain top of the great vision to which they were car ried by Woodrow Wilson. The principles of democracy have never been advocated more earnestly, nor so capably a by him. His entire life has been devoted to the advocacy of the common man over against privilege. These things are out side politics they belong to history, 5 "And npw, wrecked and broken, de spoiled of the fruits that justly should kam been credited to him. by the petty Jealousy of a narrow partisan who was soured by his owe absorbed ambition, the mere shadow - of the president we anr intn tba war. ha Kets the unofficial recognition from the people whose rights Avar elaamDionea. T : -Art is long and time is neetmg. jus tice will prevail in the long run. Time Is a great solvent No man neea iemr Tnn, that Via will KSt HIS JUBl OOWria. What do this man's political foe tear? Are they afraid of tne wreca oi man who can hardly walk unaided, who can scarcely speak? What sort of chivalry animate them T DO tney mow ..ui. hut woodrow : Wilson suoueniy tueo when he was stricken with Illness, the world would have accorded him the hon or it gave to the unknown soldier? Or la It this that they rearrv If wo Little Orphan Grizzlies From. Our Dumb Animals "The life story of every bear Is a story of adventure,, says Enos A. Mills In his book entitled The Grizzly." which an boys would do well to read. He tells pitiful tale of two young cubs whose mother, thinking herself and family cor nered In a thicket, charged a hunter and was killed by him. Mr. Mill and the hunter had searched for the cubs and finally caught sight of them peeping from a fine hiding place not so feet away. Then the following took place ; After hesitating for a moment they came out and stood tooaung intenuy toward us and their dead mother. As we did not move, they took a few steps toward : us. After a stare, they stooned. rose u and looked around, and then hastily retreated to the rocks.' Evi dently their mother had trained them t stay wherever she left tnem until she returned, t But they had waited long. For a while they stood and whimpered very muck like hungry, forsaken chil dren. vThey could scent their mother. and see her. too, and they were hungry and lonaaoma. Again they started slowly toward the men. walking closely aids by aide. When very near. they paused, rose on their hind legs and looked In wonder and longing at their lifeless mother. Then they went to her. ; On little cub sniffed In a bewildered, puz zled way ever her cold, still body. He gently stroked her fur with his paw and then sat down and began to whimper andicry. i-i' , ' --l"':.. The ether cub stood looking with awe Into! hi mother's motionless face, but at last ha shook off his fright and smeiled her bloody head ; then, all for-' lorn, he turned to look into the face of the hunter, .who had been watching the little cub .all thia while with tears on his cheek,: After a moment he took a step toward him, rose up and, put ting his f ore paws upon the. man knee, looked confidingly into his face. The saea carried the little orphan to camp, and the hunter raised ; them. Their mother was the last animal that he ever shot WHEN THE CATS. AWAY ' From the EraneriDe Courier - - Thus far Europe is getting along .very weu away from her statesmen. , i Lctters Frorn the People (CeaBTB-anieatiaaa ant ia Tha Journal for mbheatmi ia torn Sanartmect abowM ba writtea on only .on aid tha paper , ahooid Sot ex sad SOS wonts ia taactb, and moat ba swaed by the wrvlar. wboee nail addreea iav toil eauat acnioaipany the aotttribauoa. . a CONCERXINO COMMITMEXTSr Election Result bi. 1920 Not What' ' League's Foe Have Proclaimed It. Portland. Nov. SO, To the Editor of The Journal I have just read in yis terdayV Oreffonlan what Mark Sullivan says under the caption "Move of Hard in Not for League." Ha aaya: Those of us who attribute to ourselves the su periority, of not getting as excited as the partisans on both sides, know fun well that America's commitment not to enter the Leagrua ot Nations ia, on the whole, rather more binding, because it comes from the people, than President Harding's commitment to try to bring about an "association of nations." There are plenty of plain people who "know full well" that . the election ,of 1930 did not constitute a commitment of the American people against the League of Nations. Many voted for Harding not realising how the game of politics was being played. Many prominent public men thought the league idea could be best . promoted under Republican con trol. But the deceiver got in bis work. There is much talk lately about the great power of public opinion. It is ir? resistible, and so on. But we must first ascertain what that opinion is. To find this out ybu would not go to the United States senate, and you would likely fall if you tried to extract the information out of the returns of a general election having as many strong partisan ingredi ents as the last campaign supplied. President Wilson was slain in the name of politics. The progress of civilization was held up by political bandita It is useless for Mr. Harding to say now that he Is not against the League of Nations If it is for Europe only. The League of Nations was not created for one hemisphere only. " The members of the League now agree that there is only one thing that seriously Interferes with its proper functioning, and that Is the refusal of this country to ehter it the refusal of those who first proposed it The way not to settle Issues is to per mit them to be played with by political trimesters. Our system of. government seems, to be short on methods of' find ing out what Is public opinion on any given issue. We ought to quit worship ing5 political parties, which soon fall un der the control, of unpnncipiea men. George Washington understood this dan ger and said more against "party spirit" than he ever said against -entangnng alliances.' , The League of Nations question is not yet settled. When it! is settled by the people it wpl be settled right. 1 A PROTEST Against the Extreme in Regulation Pro- :- posed by a uoioraua. uouru Newberg, Nov. JO. To the Editor ot The , Journal How many American mothers are Interested in the sad plight of Mrs.! Clyde Coesidents of Colorado? According to the press reports this mother and father . must give up their children to the state or have the wife and mother submit to an operation that shall prevent her from exercising her right and privilege or winging tnw tne world more children, wmcn is an ac knowledged expression of God's law or the law of nature. "Increase and mul tinlv" . la the divine decree. Has thia great ' American republic ignored this divine law, and the. right of man ana wrman? If so. what can be the rea son? The maternity bill provides mil lions for teachers to advise mowers how to - bring Into the world and care for ?. the children. The good old; constitution guarantees the right to - life, ' liberty and the pursuit of haDDineaa. But without the oppor tunity to have a living wage, and the freedom to multiply our species, now can God's law and tha law maoe oy man n sustained? - May the minds of humane and think lng people be so concentrated on the fulfilment of love. Justice and truth that no vicious tribanal or so-called wei fare organisation shall dare transgress against tb demand of an outraged pub lic. ' Is our system a success with I per cent owning 5 per cent of the wealth and only 4,200.000 people producing while over 60,000,000 are non-proauoer in tne eseential thing of lifer The , divorce record is 1X00 per month la one county, while 10 people are driven to the in sane asylum each SO days. Tne cause of this abnormal condition Is the gyeed tor cold . In the one instance, and the unequal struggle for existence In the other. The remedy Is to forever remove gold as our medium of exchange. Ex change useful product for what each one needs, for our present necessary use, and vary soon there will be no incen tive tor unnecessary accumulation . or traffic In children. John A. Chapman. aaeemeaanSMe - X APPEALS FOR DEBS RELEASE McMinn villa, Nov. si To th Editor of The Journal In a recent issue of The Journal there was a statement that the cohgreewwotnan from Oklahoma had presented a petition, representing the American Legion, asking for th con tinued Imprisonment of Eugene V. peba. That is proper. - Any body ef men that can have the law of the land sus pended In thlr favor for three days, as they did at their convention at Kan sas City, naturally would earnestly re quest to have their enemies jailed. We must get used to the "pranks" of our Infant militarism. Anyone daring to criticise ought to ge to jalL Will the congress woman answer this question : Was Von Rentelen loyal to America? Did he stay in Jail? Von Rentelen was loyal 'to the class that Miss Robertson represents. Debs was loyal to labor. That is why the German spy is free and Debs is In prison, Martha N. McCuUoch. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places ' The custom of laying the cornerstone Of a public . building with ceremonies was practiced by the ancients. At the laying of th cornerstone when th capttoi of Rome was rebuilt a proces sion of vestal virgins, robed In white, surrounded the stone and consecrated it with libations ot water. A prayer to the gods followed, and then the magis trates, priests, senators and knights laid hold of the ropes and moved the mighty stone to its proper position. In a hol low cut in the stone were placed ingots of gold, silver and other metals which had not been melted la ' any furnace. With th Jew the cornerstone was con sidered an emblem of power, and they also performed ceremonies at it laying. In medieval times? th rite was taken up by the Order of Free Mason and has by them been brought down to modern days, the- Masonic ceremony of laying a cornerstone being symbolical. Uncle Jeff Snow Says - Some of them city fellers ia Portland kicks about charge far water ta the house, bat Ma don't see how they can kick. But of coarse. Ma and me thinks it's purty easy to turn a faucet and fill a pail right In th kitchen.- We've had to drag It out of a well 110 foot deep and then tot it half a mil in pails. What some ; pioneer women ha went through with to git 'em a home would jostle ail the saints off en their pedestals, .. and most of city women dont know nuthin about it. - COMMENT AND f SMALL CHANGE . Those who preach so many donts should at least set the example in the practice. , . i - a . Having accomplished the manufacture of Scotch whiskey, the next move for the. Japanese 1 the wearing of kilts. - -' a . a '. t i ' ' I" More Japanese. The 'Jap would like to have six months' notice of any decla ration of war.. Some ot us would rather haw . CO rears ntic. . f . a ,: People who live In the Arbuckle sector of movieland shouldn't spatter mud on the reputations of their friends lest they, too. be smeared with It - i ' What marvel might ba accomplished if the energies of all reformers were centered upon providing work for the idle and food for the hungsyl . t " . .a a " ' : Too really mustat blame American girls for their lack of enthusiasm over the statement that Bluebeard Landru of Paris might com to America. 1 -. , . i . , a . : i Salem clubmen - welcomed - a recent visitor of note . as "one wh ha per formed the greatest service the world ha ever known. - In th face ef the works of the Nazarene, here is hero worship gone Its limit j Just by way of being In a class with Jules Verne, we may as well predict that some day - we'll have automobiles that travel as at present on smooth road ways, fly over the rough places and the roadless ways, while they paddle across streams, sans bridges, as boats. , MORE OR LESS PERSONAL . I I I 1 I I ! , , I I' I. I I ' ' Random Observations About. Town Glen Bushee of Pendleton is a guest of the Hotel Imperial. He is a native son of Umatilla county,' having spent hi boyhood at Heppner. which town Is now to Morrow county, however. There his .father. J. P. Bushee. ran a hotel. Thia was in the day when John Hattey waa th trananortation king of the In land Empire and ran stages to Heppel ner. "Jenks Taylor and w tner ox us had Intended to come down to the execu tion of Rathle at Salem on the train that was wrecked, but w received a wire that the execution had been stayed, so we did not take the train, fortunataley for us," said Mr. Bushee. a. a- a Mr and Mrs. Seymour Jones are regis tered at the Seward. Mr. Jones Is la Portland to look after his gubernatorial boom, say his friends. a -a a 1 Mr. and Mrs. H. Gauley and Mrs.. D. C Benton of the Capital City are Portland visitors. a a - a Miss Merle Hathaway of San Fran cisco is visiting at the noma oi ner sister, Mrs.. Josephine Dickey. a a a mari.. Alexander. Sunday editor ot the' Albany Democrat Is visiting his fel low scribes and others in roruano. a a a Banks residents taking In the sights of the metropolis include Gene Cotton and Helen Bom liana. Earl L Fisher of Salem is a guest of tha Imperial., Mra J. G. Han of the Capital City is at the Imperial. -a e a W. BV Darby of Salem is a guest of the Seward. m m m A. R. Nichols of CorvaUis is ft guest of the . Seward. a a W." W. Smith of Albany is at th Seward. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Showalter of Al bany are gnests Of th Seward. - ,. i H. D. Shelton of Eugen I a business visitor in Portland. , Mra T. OT Brown of Pendleton ia at th Seward. . ! TV- . a . a - Mra H, E. Gibson of Myrtle Point 1 ia -Portland to spend soms weeks. . . , .,. a . ! G. A. Martin of Marshfield I a busi. ness visitor In Portland. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred n. ..t Aaath of fnk T. Laaa of Lake laa family te America from wale tna vrenw Kanch tod-ewied. Ta ef aetiw sad able Sm bttroatad -With lars nvanv p. Lane met death In his auto mobile at "Death bridge, la Lake coun ty, a few day ago. H we one of the best known and bt liked stockmen of Central Oregon, whre he spent most of his life." He was a member of the well, known Lane family that has furnished so many men of high character to me puo t nfnoaa at flraron. including Joseph, Lane, first territorial governor of Ore gon, and Dr. Harry Lane, umwi oiib- eenator from Oregon. " ; j " j :r . - a - a a - '; : When Sir Walter Raleigh, that briUtant oldier of fortune, adventurer, author. navigator and coloniser, sauea irom Plymouth In 1(15 on of hi passengers was Sir Ralph Lane, a dashing cavalier, the founder of th Lane clan in America. Th first colonial governor ppoima from among th residents ex America was Captain Raipn Lane, son or. sir Ralph Lane. The Reanok colony was broken up by th Indian but some of th members of the colony salted to the Carolina and founded th Carolina branch of th Lane family.' Sir Ralph sailed from America for a visit to friends in Ireland, where he died ia WM. -;ap win John Smith and hi associate founded a colony at Jamestown in 107. and 11 years later Joseph Lane cam from England as a member of th col ony, ettling In America two year he- fore the coming oc. ta rugruns -on u Mayflower in li2.' x - . . Joaenh Lena's son. JoMOb Lane Jr4 bad a numerous progeny, whose descend ants fought In the colonial war, in me Revolutionary war, in tn Mexican war, the Civil war. th i SpanUh-Americaa war, and th Indian wars on th frontier. -v-, . ' a, . The name Joseph paased dwn from gfceration to generation. Joseph Lane who was born in 1710 married Patience McKinn. a Scotch girt whoso father owned extanalv land holding in the Caledonian country ta th South. They bad three sons, Joel, Jeeae and Joseph. With their little one they moved from Halifax on th Roanoke to th wilder ness, settling on land where Raleigh, N. C now stand. 'Th Lane were "go- ret tars" and doers for. even In those dara they were civil and military lead' era, Colonel Joel Lan became a lieu tenant colonel ta 1772. was a presiding jartioe. served a swnator for 14 years, and was a member of the first provincial congress, which met at HiUsborough, N. Ci August ZL! 1T7S. ; Th memoer oi this assembly were branded as rrefaels and traitor to the king. These "rebels and traitors met at th hem ef Colonel Joel Lan and elected Thomas Burke sovernor of the s tat. Colonel Lane donated a tract of 1000 acre of his plantation for th establishing of the sUt capital at Raleigh aadstOO acre s a sit for the University of North Carolina, .? Joseph Lan. brother of Col onel Joel Lan. was a member of the tribunal of the first court of North Carolina, first held on June 4. 177 L He wooed and won Fere be Hunter, and their NEWS IN BRIEF ... SIDELIGHTS I danced a lot with Miss Blake." tes tified Arbuckle. Perhaps that accounts for the fact that she testified against him. CorvaUis GazeUe-Timea, . . ' 'a. a e i.s-fC' ... - ,- That SO per cent income tax Is aim! ideal.- It jueasea the poor, who wont pay It and doesn't bother th rich, who won't pay It, either. Albany Democrat . '. , a . a ... ' - -..i-;. The lawyer have got the situation so wen -mixed up that the average cltisea doesn't kjeow whether Fntooe Arbuckto is being tried tor manslaughter) or Vir ginia ftappe for defamation pf char acter. Medford Mail-Tribune. a . a a ..,...- "What's wheat land worth with wheat at six bits a busbeir ia a debatable question and many are debating it. If land value are te be regulated by the assessed valuation for taxation purposes it Is still very high. La Grand Ob- erw- . - : The person looking for sunshine in the winter time should com to Baker. It is dispensed not only In weather conditions but in the disposition of its lababitanta The habit Is catching and la easily ac quired under th Influence of a happy and contented people Baker Democrat There' no unemployment situation in The Dalles today. Everyone has a job who wants on. ' There Is a man in this town, though, noted for th fact that be never works, said this morning that he was looking for a job a a hay hand next summer. And next summer he will probably be lining up a job shoveling snow.-The Dalles Chronicle. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Calder of Montreal are guests of the Portland. Mr. Calder is assistant to the president of the Canadian Pacific railroad and came down to act as toastmaster at th St. Andrews day banquet held Wednesday night at the Hotel Portland. . a a ' a Mr. and Mra H. L Fenton ot Dallas are guests ot the Imperial. Mr. Fen ton used to be an Angora goat raiser but no pun Intended he found he did not get the kick out of goat raising he expected, so he ha gone Into th hop business. ' a a a' Mrs. C Sam Smith of Prlneville Is at th Imperial. In th old day C Sam Smith was on of th largest cattlemen in Crook county and also served a sher iff. - . -a a a .- Stephen- X Miller Jr. of the Univer sity of Washington is In Portland to do a little talking, a littl visiting and a little sightseeing. a a a - M. H. Abbey, mining man. capitalist steamboat operator and long-time resi dent of Newport, is a business visitor In Portland. a a L. D. Leahy ef Nome, Alaska, Is spend ing some time in Portland, a guest at the Hotel Oregon. ' a ! a a . Mia Vivian Mac Kay of Sutherlin has moved to Portland. - .a a a F. A. Sikes of Corvallls is at the Im perial.' . a.:-. Judge and Mrs. T. J. Stuart of Rose burg are guest at the Oregon. .-- a e e - Dr. and Mrs. K. B. Stuart of Roseburg are Portland visitors. a a a S M. & Hendrickson if Silverton is reg istered at the Oregon. . a a aa C K. Hudson of North Bend is reg istered: at the Benson, j ; , . .. a a ; ..el- , ' Mr." and Mra Frank Q. Owen Of Med ford are guests at the Hotel Benson. Mrand Mra 6. A. Pro of The Dalles are guests at the Oregon. Mrs. S. E. RockhUl of Riddle U regis tered at the Oregon. -. a a - ' Clarence "Hlggtos of Roseburg Is at th Imperial. t j ; v; "' . . L. M. For Of Bend la In Poftiand. Lockley descendants are scattered all over Vir ginia, Maryland and the CaxoUnaa. - -, .. ' - ,, a a- Jesse Lane married Winnlfred Hycook and had 15 children. He was a member of the Third North Carolina Continentals and with his sons fought at Guilford Court House, the Cowpens and at Kings Mountain. Th battle of Kings Moun tain ha a peculiar significance to Ore gon ians, for Jesse Lan had among hi sons In thi fight John, father of Joseph Lane, Oregon's first territorial governor. Gtsneral Ferguson, in charge of th Brit ish forces, seeing th North Carolina troop.' clad in homespun, carrying flint lock squirrel guns,' without bayonets or other military equipment told his offi cer they Would have no difficulty In repulsing this "motley horde." but the motley horde poured in such an accurate fir from these "squirrel guns" that the British lost 150 killed and over 900 pris oners, while, but SO of th North Caro lina men were WUed. : - , ; Numbered among th grandson of Jeeso Lane, who with hi son did such valiant service at j Kings Mountain, are General- Joseph Lane, hero of the Mexi can war, first governor of Oregon Terri tory, United 8tte senator from Oregon and Indian fighter in the Rogue River war. Governor Henry 8. Lane of Indiana, General Alfred Lj Colquitt of Georgia, Lieutenant Governor Robertson of North Carolina, . Governor David Swain of Georgia and George W. Lane, district judge of the United 8tates for Alabama. , I -a a'. a Jess Lane moved to Georgia in 178 and later moved to Missouri, where he died In 180. Jess Lane, grandfather of General Joseph Lane of Oregon, enlist ed. March JL 1777i for three years, and was a member ot Captain. Jacob Turner's company. His son Jotm3who fought so well at Kings Mountain, was bis eigntn child and was the fourth son. H was born in 175. When he, waa SO years old he married Betsy Street, daughter of Colonel James Street, -first sheriff of Buncombe county. North Carolina. In U04 John Lane and his family moved to Kentucky. They had five eon and three daughters Rev. Jesse Lane. Gen eral Joseph Lanej who became a briga dier general In the Mexican war ; Mary Lane, Lorlna. Floyd, wtnnirred, Jonn and Simon. Winnlfred Lane, one of the win daughters ot! Rev. Jess Lane, with hot sister Kate cam to Oregon with Gen eral Joseph Lanes when he returned to this state . from Washington. D. C 0 year ago. .In 186 Winnlfred married E. H. Whit of Jackson county, Oregon. It would take ! a llbrayt list the descendants of these hardy and west ward looking pathmakers and empire builders; the Lane. All old-time Ore- gonians know bow, when Abraham Lin er In declined appointment ...as governor of Orea-on Territory, the place was or fared . and accepted by General Lane. They know,r too, of hi hazardous .trip with Jo Meek to Oregon and ef his serv ices to the state and country and how he died' at the age of to at Roseburg in th spring of - l&SL . The Lan family car. truly say of the history of Oregon that they saw it in the making and helped to make It - - The Oregon Country Kortan ta BrW Vara for tea Baxy Eaadaz. ; OREGON . Three feet of snow fell st Promise, tn Jaiou county, in on day last week. There are IS people at the Coos county poor farm, ail of them men. Th oldest Is 8 year- of age and five of. them , are over 80." - .-..,. v. The Farm Bureau membership of Coo county, a a result of tha fall drive, now amount to- SOO, and three sections yet remain to be canvassed. - Thirty thousand ? dollar worth f special bonds wre sold by Val last , week, th money to be used la making Improvements to the . water system. 4 j Among those) who lost their homes . and everything else la the recent Suet -flood were J. "J. Derby, George M. ' Fucht Paul Keuhl and Jesse Wheeler. -I Work on th oil derrick being erected hear Oakland by the Oakland Ga & Oil company is progreeslng rapidly, and actual . drilling operation will start within th next four weeks. : . r: I Bilaa Harris, residing hear, Parker's ' Mill, in Morrow county, has reported to officials thai he was recently robbed . of hi entire savings of $690, which be had concealed In a cellar at his home. , Because of fraud practiced In Salem through, promotion of so-called chari table activities, business and . prof ee sional men have organised what will be known as a charity service organisation. , Th membershln of th Oregon Wool and Mohair Growers' Cooperative asso ciation passed th. 1800 mark during the week of November 13-fl. Th asocia tlon handled about 1,000,000 pound ef ' product thia season. r Th new mill at Silets. recently cos-. tructed at a cost of $l.O00, was totally destroyed last week, even the machinery being swept away by the flood. The river went It feet over the highest mark ever before known. Elrin will seek the aid of th Com mercial clubs of Walla Walla. Milton. , Free water, Weston and Athena ia an effort to obtain 150,000 of the federal annronriation for forest road to be spent on the Elgin tollgata road. Henrv Eller waa completely exoner ated by a coroner' Jury of the shoot ing oi tjoui I, toney at aimwi ihi week. Toney had the reputation of be ing a bad man. Ladva Silken Glow, a Jersey cow owned by Plckard Brothers of Marion county, ha -been proclaimed th third highest animal of this breed. In the world in buttertat production, having produced during th past year i.J : pounds of milk and lOSS.SS pounds Of butterfat WASHINGTON - , Gideon HOwelL for. nearly half a cen tury a resident of Spokane, iea in that city Tuesday at m age ex x years Mrs. Frank Beaulleu of EatonvtU was. killed Monday when an automobile driven by her husband ran Off th road and dropped over a bank. with tiou.ooo In srold bullion and heavy shipments of furs, ivory and cop per ore In her hold, the steamer Victoria has arrived at Seattle from Alaska, Mpdlclna containing alcohol or Other Intoxicating liquor must be kept out of ' sight under lock and key. according to a mandate of Washington prohibition officials. Internal revenue officers took posses sion of the drug stor of Walter Ander son at Seattle and sold it contents at auction for 8475 on a warrant of dis traint for $2800 taxes.. W. B. Gunnoe of of Yakima, deputy county game warden, suffered a broken leg and many bruises when his automo bile skidded off a grade and turned over a number of times. - Due to 111 health,- Sheriff Fred Fein has harmed in his resignation to the county commissioners of Kitsap county and John Stanioch waa appointed to fill Fein's unexpired term. , Marshall Stoat : 10 years old. died suddenly in an empty bathtub in the home of his mother at Seattle. He had, gone upstairs to take a bath but Oiea, before he turned on the water. - r-wu. ee war la. ana ahitt . six time at Harrington when he at tempted to resist arrest by citizens depu tised -by the town marshal. . He was suspected of having liquor ia an auto mobile. . j -. . , . Seven young men are being held in the county Jail at Wertatehee, following the shooting of Jacob Weber, 78, last Satur day nierht durinr a holduD. Officers claim to have secured a confession from at least five. v - Because' 89 bottles of llauor had dis appeared from a cell ta the police sta tion, the city council of Olympla has voted to dismiss Chief James .i-ndlcott and Patrolmen Forbes and Hansen, ' charging them with incompetency, . ''. - IDAHO From 1000 acres of orchard, fruitr row ers of the Council section have already taken in half a million dollara, an aver age or zzsg an acre. UTha average cost to the state of maln ining each of th Inmate , of Idaho' Insane asylum up to tn end of October waa $1,005 a day, i For September the cost -was M cents. -. - Attorney General Black ha ruled that !1 children under IS year of age In Idaho are liable under the compulsory education law of th Stat if they, re fuse to attend school. I A loss of $10,000 was sustained by Milton Dilworth last Thursday night whan the Phippin dance hall at Carey , was burned. Two piano and a motion picture machine were consumed, - I Tb Oregon packing company, which has just closed its season st Lewis lon, ha handled 1S50 tons of apples. An average of 195 people were employed at an expense of $38,000 and $100,000 waa paid for fruit ' South Idaho fanners are the first among growers of the whole Northwest to forward gifts of wheat in answer to Armenia's cry lor loon, a carload -or 1800 bushel having lust been sbiDDed out of Idaho Falls. What I Like Best ; In The Journal MRS. A. KINNE. 1 2 $ S East Main street Tho editorials and Fred Lockleys articles. . I have takerp' The Journal more than 17 year. - -J. B. STEWART, 1275 Bel mont street The Journal's editorials appeal to me most. They are broadmlnded and exceedingly' well, written. The "sporting page is very good. f: J. H.' ALLEN,- i S 5 Johnson street Editorials, "Letters --..From ; tho . People," F r d . Lockley, markets. . MRS. OEORG& E, ' TOWN8END. 488 Union ave- v sue It good result from advertising, and our good car rier service. j ' " ;. F. B. BLISS. 82 Central ; avenue Its promptness In I general news report; the Just editorials; its cleanliness la ! : - thought and utterance. We 1 ! appreciate good delivery serv- ?. ice. All Journal features-are ' " superior to those of ; other. Portland papers. ; . :. MRS. MARY SMITH, Sll l Fargo street-rlt plain prints : Its truthfulness. I have taken i Tho Journal for 10. years. ; ; .-.When ;ybu send, your "opinion ! bo -very careful - to i writs name ! and addr clearly. Mistakes in spelling of names occur most often because of careless writing. 3 : - r -