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8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON TUESDAY, DECEMBER 27. 1C21. A WDEPESDdT HnWSFAFEB, I L JACKaOjf JUbUakarl a s. ut oUwa M rauur ba tbem in i ; . . - I hr4 every weekday and Bunder seormna- I . at Tfc Jaarnal lwnJdwi. Bnalj end tern-I Vn street. Portland. Oregon. I at th nostotfir at Portland,- Onto. In tnarmf Wa Urauk th T"" a imad elai metier. I TfXKfHONSafaia T171. Ast-au -SO-eE All WT rt ren r rfi a puee mimwa I national aivkti.sing rep R&KTa-i , Tfth auefwW arkTo5 Mallere tmiMinc. Oi !-. FACIFIO COA8T Hti-KlK.NJATIVK W. t Tt Tiua iQHumBc miuatn, us THit OB JOLRXAL ! mil mi Using aoo hub u ewnM bMetiauM It a win sot pnnt may I 1U,j k. ja say a nmnlAtas roalinc I iaiiaf Mwrv iaw ' r 'Br CSaWur. Cit "d Cnan&J. TlillT AMD KCSD1T Oh ark S .It I Om montn . . . . . S OMWMk.. t .10 1 One Nk....t torn BY KAXU ALL KATB8 PAYABLE Cf ADTAKCB . . . IIAII.T AND SUNDAY Ona wp.:.....0 tun Bantoa. ,.2.i On Blh .11 8 oatiM. . . . 4JM DAILT WIUittSdr) On jmr $6.00 Six mantb.,.,. 25 iTbm atonth. . l.f 5 Ob Bxmth 60 On tow. ...... is.ee Six moBtfea. . . . : 1.7 Tnn nviBtn... i-OU I weekly and, (Brer Wadaeadiy) BO UA X I On yaar. .... .11.00 Six month ... .SO Ona Tfir SS.S0 I BT to Kt, cnL h,rrhd .ppiKI nan. M ,, JEZ'l pram, UraT or IKait II yoar poawiiic i noil laaoer -order offkw, i or z-ceot nunp, wui b BMnUcL Nat all MnitUMM payioi u Ha 4mirul Orion. pablUiiicx Com put. PorUaad. Bat tf anr man prorldsth not tot Ma 0m, and especially (or tboaa of his awn kooa. h bath denid tn faith and i won than an iniideL L Timothy 6:8. A SENATOR'S DREAM CENATOR REED waxes eloquent in piling up all the things Amer ica "could have done" had she re gained out of the Pacific Union. J He tells the senate that the United States has the wealth and the popu lation to build the greatest fleet on . AWa - . . Jt A .11 A . V. VwW owu, ,w vumu u& uiucr uauvus ta the race for armaments and to become master of the seven oceans. - Unfortunately, he didn't explain why America should do all those .k. i t rS jtt j i. i t i . Vqiiikh. ao uiuu i cjiiiuu wii; wo eed the greatest fleet on earth nor why we should spend billlona build lag and maintaining that fleet, bases for the fleet, navy yards for the fleet and billions more in operating the fleet, the bases and the navy yards. . He didn't give any reasons why the people of the United States should spend their money in defeating the other countries in a race of arma ments instead of spending it to ln orease their own prosperity and hap- ptness. ; Nor did he explain what America - WVUIU UV LCI DUQ . UQWVUB tUIABf Of the seas. What would we do ? Qo out land sacrifice a few million precious: lives and a few billions in wealth, In order to lick some other country'! and subjugate her people, just to show them that we had won the armaments race and become masters jof the seas? ; Perhaps Mr. Reed would like to see-the American people trained to drink, af couple of quarts of blood before breakfast, eat two pound of raw meat before noon, and go out and shoot up a few hospitals before dinner, just to keep on a war 'basis. New Tork, Chicago and a few " other centers are preparing for what they admit will be a gay New Tear. What they probably mean is that the celebrants will depend, upon sub- Irrigation. - WHEN FRIENDS FALL OUT TT WILL be a mistake for the threatened controversy between Irrifationlsts and power propagan dists ' to . become active. Time will be lost by insisting that power is paramount or that irriga tion must be first and power second. Reclamation and development will both languish if the friends cf Irri gation and of hydroelectric projects become opponents. i From the interior coroes the sug gestion that the water, power board composed of Secretary of the Inter ior . 'Fall. Secretary of Agriculture . Wallace and Secretary of War Weeks should keep the hands of power In terests oil our streams until every drop of .water required for lrrlga. Uon has been reserved exclusively for that purpose. If Its members are far visloaed , thy will do nothing of tho kind. ' Thv Will loin tha reclamation aarv. lee to measuring tho largest service . of stream flow to both power and Irrigation. They will take into ac- eount the possibility of water trans portation oiffevery stream dammed for Irrigation, power or both. i The oblect in nnnlvln water to arid land is to make tho soil fruitful for tho families that will make their homes thereon. A, complete service to modern life Include power for domestic and industrial ue and com- municaUon by transportation, which in its various forms may utilise the energy generated by a hydroelectric energy riant as well as streams that have been canalized by power and irrtga- tn. n,v , uon woras. , , .-, s v UL many mgrinres, we generation PORTLAND AND I xl- Oilier ligm at me specuu bcsbioo owt obiuh bwhj swv X ivU w."m - Imntmnrlil tfcM has Vuven s fMtlnr In tmatals counties that PorUand was not air with the fnit(n mmm vnlrail all n f1rnn& e - ... . ... , W yean USea to near n wuea uej Tt annAiral -rm etnrit lv In eonntv .... .. - ' .. IW roruua VM WWaj reauy . ttm fu ' KiiuiiM nan vaIca It anil it,n. .,.. wW h.nrlt - ... it nas never aisappeareq. , jwrneumu smoiaor-u, prucHi7 ay when the Oregon Development league, for a brief period, rot op the slogan "One for all and all for .ni1 ruUivat-d a nirit of confidence and mutual rood wllL , udi uuDi inai aia-jnora man anjrutiPE vutv u mcji m dying has been the Multnomah delegation in. the legiaUture. excepUoo, there are always lomt good ii v,., v. .k.m wu uey oaa personal axes, to grwo. ixoi Scores of crimes against the state forming of good btlls and the passage uniformity with which they have killed considerable group Is Portland and in ment of a just share of taxation and by that escape pile up undue burdens on real estat. The fruit of their work is a state-wide and very deter mined resistance to Imposition, of further taxes on real estate, as evidenced In the bitter fight on the property tax For 40 years there have been suspicion and mistrust throughout Oregon nf th "Mnltnomn'h rileraHfinn In the work they do are lost ; sight of In the .1 1 uuwurm mcraocio. The storm broke at the special the dictation of some members of the natural opposition to the exposition . . . . . ieua Detween ioruana ana tne rest oi kindled has within it the possibilities long-continued controversy. The prejudices resultant from this out reason. T"aey are more activejaow communities men are in straits. Nor spent enormous sums of money in costly improvements that have provided Oregon with a splendid outlet to the of effective terminals and by bringing here the ships whose services make better and better markets for the products of the region, a service that is of inestimable value every day to Portland people taxed themselves bonds outstanding on which they will be paying interest and principal for a generation to come. It is one of scores of similar services tut exampled. for Instance, in the constant taxing financing the. operations of the Portland docks commission and the Port of Portland commission, activities which, while they are naturally of benefit to Portland, are in their primary usefulness for the permanent service of th back country in facilitating distribution tant markets for all Oregon products. Portland bankers loaned the Cooperative Grain association ondoubtedly had the effect of stiffening the market several cents a bushel to the figures It is vital to the welfare of the state Jet loose again be healed over. A to send only first class men and none 8pecial groups in this town should stop sending their henchmen to Salem to "put something over" on the rest of the state. If tho owners of real property want an income tax, the thing of phoning to some legislative hired man or by some other secret process. If Portland will elect legislators who fare of the state, instead of some of them standing for skulduggery, more wfll be done to end the old feud than can be done in any other way. It is a period in tho growth of Oregon when there should be no feud between the upstate and its principal city. We are behind in population. We "have barren lands to reclaim and make productive. We have enor mous resources that have not yet been ment We cannot go swiftly forward ona another's throats in a bitter controversy. , If the exposition is to feed this will be unfortunate. It would be cheaper fo? Portland to pay the entire cost of the exposition, . of power contributes to irrigation. Power pumps water to higher levels. It helps pay the expense of dams. It operates j farm machinery, It lights hpmes. It energizes towns. It runs trains. Yet hydroelectric plants do not consume water. Such plants take from the water an energy that may be reproduced in the next rapid. Until the friends of Northwest ir rigation districts composed their dif ferences and appealed together, their voice was not heard at Washington, D. C. Until supporters of pending reclamation legislation at tho na tional capital admitted the justice of claims advanced for swamp lands as well as arid areas they had little hope of passing the legislation. Un til friends of progress recognize the essential Interrelation of develop ment for irrigation, power and water transportation, they will find their own energy consumed in squabblea In the Middle West the pot Is calling the kettle black. Chicago says there is quite as much bootleg ging going on in nearby small towns as in the metropolis, and the small towns' answer, "Quite so. Look at tho example we're set." RISE OF AN IDEA TDEAS rule, and Ideals lead the - world. The issue of the war is not less the issue of readjustment. The question is the prevalence of democ racy and the abandonment of vio lence In tho conduct of human af fairs. What I oodrow Wilson pro posed to the, allies is still the great proposition before mankind. There must bo much conference, much striving and much sacrificing before the ideals of peace and concord can be established. . . And in the meantime there must be organization for education in the ideas and the ideals of peace quite as persistently and quite as effective ly as is proponed in connection with international relationships. Such or ganization, attended by reward for distinctive accomplishment, is the genius of the Wood row Wilson Foundation. The proposal comes before Amer tea just now in such a form that no subscriber to the doctrines of Wood row Wilson, regardless of party af M"1000' c fail to Participant and, not escape a. deserter to the leadership that during tho war was acclaimed by all the world. "It Is not a question of raising a million dollars or more," says Hamil- Ho" ct national Woodrow P0 Foundation committee. "It J t the aTancemnt or ,aU f t-nt succes. will b the measure hy which wo may know that our wuwiw accepted tne ,aeais mat Woodrow Wilson preached." He adds: We are setting out on another stage of that long Journey along the road of doubt, suspicion and hatred to tho ldtfe i mate goal of universal peace and broth- THJE UPSTATE rest of the tate. That feeltaf of nraHn?i ura. MB now well aJOuK - ... . were nvmwioujn. - . i- - rpwunatiart It was a general feeling . m - yl nmnuusf ow uq m e v. lnlnini nnlirlirlann fed It Ui CU '4. . i one" and for a time held state-wide Without member in toe oeiegauon. as wnf Uitstnni nften www a -r- -t - jnrrequenuy, vncy wvr m bj have been committed in the chloro- of bad ones. An example is the Income tax bills as a service to a some outside cities who escape pay for the exposition. letrialature. The rood men and the irritating and feud-creating action session, partly in , resentment against Multnomah deJegaUon, partly from and partly as a result.of the old-time . tne siaxe. The flame that has been of becoming a very harmful and - '. .: . , ancient controversy are often with -because In many of the agricultural do they real lie that Portland has sea, and followed it up with provision the entire back country. heavily in this work. 'They have of themselves by Portland people tin and transportation and creating dis Incidentally, tho $1,100,000 that price of wheat and may have added that the growers received. that the bitter feud that has been good way to begin is for Multnomah but honest men to the; legislature, to do is to let them have it, instead or two to kill the bill in committee will all stand for the general wel touched by the hand of develop with sections of the state clutching at feud and perpetuate this iwrangling, it 4ood. Hero and" there along the road of history stand great figures men who in tune oi orisls pointed out the road. More often than not their counsel went unheeded, their words were derided. To us win be given the opportunity to form behind one of those long figures a powerful, solid phalanx of that tremen dous force that men call public opinion. Can anyone road words like these and fail to sense In the Wilson Foun dation personal opportunity for un selfish advancement cf an Ideal which is the very foundation of hu manity's hope for tho future? The ranee of Pudukott&J hag been entreated by the native subjects of her husband, the rajah, to return to them because tho moon and the stars are weeping over her absence. But, alas, the ranee likes a certain jazz center better. Before sbo married her name was Fink. IN THE JURT BOX A PATIENT investigator has dls- covered that- Handsome men do not affect the judgment of women jurors as much as pretty women affect men Jurors. Women jurors are not so preju diced against corporations an are men. Women members of juries almost always agree with one another, but are frequently lined up against their male associates. Women Jurors for nearly all kinds of litigation are more satisfactory than men. But there is one thing the investi gator has not, apparently, discov ered. Women, once granted the right to serve on juries, are no more eager for its low paid duties and no more anxious to sacrifice social and other engagements than men are willing to let jury duty break Into their affairs. Fortunately for the courts, however, there is always i sufficient number insufficiently pro ficient in alibis to fill the panels. , There are a number of ungrate ful people who contend: that at get ting up time, going to school, church and business a 'white Chriatmas" Isn't what It's cracked up to be; that they'd exchange one of their Christ mas neckties for a nice,, gentle man nered Chinook rain. DAN CUPID'3 LATEST LINGO CATS he to her, she blushing pret J tily, "m amas vin, mia vivo. To which she answered well, the ac count doesnt report whether she said out ouL si. yes, or merely put her arms around his neck. ; But, at any rate, a marriage followed soon afterward. What he had said. 1st Esperanto, was "O my life. I lev you." The Esperantistsi had already claimed the language of , universal peace; they now say it likewise pos sesses j the vocabulary ; of interna tional romance. A Tuletide episode a cop copying a copper stuL- H. IS ARTICLE II LIKE ARTICLE X ? : That It Is, Friends of the League of Nations AsKJrt That It Is Not, Foes of the- League Equally Assert Both Thus Work for the Four- ' Power Treaty's Acceptance- : .8pec!mB of Editorial -.. ' .Reasoning ,on tho:: Case. Daily Editorial Digest- (CoooJidtad Praaa Awmistioa) Is Article II of the new four-power treaty substantially- tho same . thing Article X of the covenant of the League I of Nations? in tho opimoa of many papers upholding the league tho negU- giojo ainercnce between the two provi-i fl0a!Lr V"!9?? pro U the conclusive argument in favor of ao 1 .;f s, ff' ,8U,a tf ,f leb4tt utttr similarity in import whatever tho re- semblance in wording, is developed in an effort to secure popular support of the J new pact, so totally divergent view-town, points aeek the sanje objective. r - "After all .the fuss and feathers over the famous Article X of the WUsonian covenant." remarks the Columbia State (Dem.). -we are to ret the substance of that article in another and even more definite treaty," and the Scranton Times (Dem.) holds that because "In a very great measure Article II of the .newUm u has been ascertained whether all tMBl tm irittnttMl in 1. .muia vHtli A m I. - ... T . . A1 treaty is identical in purpose with Ar ticle X," and Includes "practically the heart of what the covenant aimed at," friends of the League of Nations "can win Biwsortty approve me tour-power Pax." It la indeed a "hopeful sign" to the Muskegon Chronicle (Ind.) that the ad-1 ministration "had the courage to do the consistently inconsistent thing" and aaopt tne only ntetnod that promises a way out." Placed side by side in the Chronicle's editorial are the two pro-1 visions, and in its opinion, as well as that of many writers, they form "a dead- ly parallel." Article II of the new treaty provides that If said rights are threat ened by the aggressive action of any other power the high contracting par ties shall communicate with one other fully and frankly In order to rive at an understanding as to the most efficient measures to be taken jointly or separately to meet the exigencies of the particular situation,? "The word- tne of this article." the Hartford Times (Dem) declares, "Is so similar to that of Article X of the league covenant that i, v. i,Qi,; tlatinVIao; adopted the very principle that the Re- publicans in the senate rejected when wooorow wuson presented iu" Arucie .X. is as follows : "The members of the R & N. book of rules prescribes the league undertake to respect and preserve chances we take, and if they are fol as against external aggression the ter- lowed out there is no chance. From all ritorial integrity and existing political I independence of all members of the I league. In case of any such aggression the council shall advise upon the mean by which this obligation shalV be ful filled." . The "difference in principle is nQ,' the Lynchburg News (Dem.) interprets the two clauses, even though there is a material difference is scope, for, the Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.) says. Article II is "simply Article X applied to a narrower field," as the New Tork World .(Dem.) puts it, "an Asiatic Article X." To the Hairisburg Patriot (Ind. Dem.) also, "the two articles are a lit a m tun nAa in a no in nrin. ciple." and "in both instances when lerence and consideration of means ni i mums wo uumauuu, ui mo uhito force of that obligation no less in the - new treaty than m the old. sucn on- ference as there is between them "is I really one of degree in frankness," the I Milwaukee Journal (Ind.) thinks, fori hile the ."guarantee against aggres- sion" is not stated in precise terms in the Panifie treatv as it ia in the povan- ant. action "is intimated in an unmistak able manner.' There are "similarities tho New Tork Tribune (Rep.) readily admits, but "the Chiefly, the Ithaca Journal News (Ind.) points out, "there ia no auper-govern- menf." The new pact, says the Pitts- burg Chronicle Telegraph (Rep.) "re-j lates to matters in which our govern- ment and the others have a direct in terest because of ownership. Article X would have pledged us to interfere in matters that did not concern us in the slightest.' But the distinction that is emphasised most persistently is the one which con cerns the "guarantees" behind the agree ments. A number of papers, among thm the Boston Me raid (Ind. draw attention to two words which they con sider significant. The new treaty, says the Herald,, "requires -the contracting parties to "respect' each others' rlghta," while Article X pledges league mem- bers to "respect" and "preserve" Ur-J ritnriai intMrritv and existing nniitiRai hii.n.niini tiam Ha tho i i rf i., the Portland Oregonian (Ind. Rep.) oh- , - , . . fc, ., cil "deems necessary to "preserve,' " war is clearly a possibility, while "there is absolutely nothing in the Pacific treaty compelling the use of force." "A resort to arms is not contemplated or sug gested,'' the- Birmingham Age-Herald (Ind. Dem) agrees, "the signatory na tions merely pledge themselves to meet and talk things over if misunderstand ings develop which might lead to war,' for In effect "it is a 'gentlemen's agree ment,' nothing more.' The Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.) and the Providence Journal (Ind.) are em- Dhatic In their position that there is in the treaty "no pledge that force shall be used," and tho Kansas City Star (Ind.) presents as "the most convincing proof of this" the fact that the four- nower na nri!v abrogate, the iiit, ii4,n Retain and t. i, , iK, ifh Japan hecause it is Incompatible with an obstacle to its consummation." Those who interpret this attitude as a "distinc tion without, a difference" the Cincinnati Times Star (Rep.) charges with con sidering a contract to use the Ameri can army and navy" the same "as a con tract to use American diplomacy."! To the Times-Star there is symbolism In the designation of the two principle Article OC representing "the cross-pur pose at which Wood row Wilson chose to work"; Article II the paralleling of ideals between the treaty-making pow ers and the people as a whole. Curious Bits of Information - Gleaned From Curious Plaoes f Liberia, i an . African republic. hasl been called "America's only colony." be- cause its settlers came from the United States, althooga it haa bo governmental connection i wiu tnia country. - tr laxmeai as a reparation for the seizure of natives . .i; .v cirlIIlCHl thair nativn I noil tha 4egianinen of U - beria had many contact points with early "Johnny - said the teacher reprov American history. The freedmen's prob-l Ingly. "yon misgpelled most of ' the lean antedated tho Civil war by half al century, and Henry Clay presided over! VaahlnrtAii fat 1111 form eoeiety. far the colonisation of negroes. jiberia which name signifies "Land of tho Free," was founded in 1821 by the Rev. Jehudl Ashman. Within a decade of Ashman's arrival the Ameri can population had risen to 1500. a daily newspaper had been started and a code of laws was in practical operation. .The chemists declared Liberia an independent rtpuMie m 1147. The government or the republic is modeled after that of the United States. , , Letters From the People f Comma&Sea.tioi!m ant b Ra J on rail fa publication in thi departxaeat ahonld b written d soo word is fencth. and' b aisned Li!? w-SLt?ire aogoaftpasy tit eootribouoal ON THE c-p-t tt wreck Entfnee Analyses Testimony and EnHwnt nnnduAtar aiiiaon. Saverton, Dec M.-TO tho Editor of The Journal-! have read all of the news Bp t0 date pertaining to the Celilo wreck rh r.w n a, w wimtinr ti articles of the train dispatcher and your and never have I as yet seen the one main point brought out that covers the j whole cause -of tho wreck. X am an engineer . and have run an engine to years or more. I have before me "Standard Book of Rules", of the R. N., and refer all concerned to ArUclo No. U. which reads : "A train must not leave its initial Station on any division, or subdivision, or a Junction, or pass from double to single track, trains due which are superior or of the same class have arrived or left.' If the train and engine crew had abided by these rules there would have been no Celilo wreck. The crew on No. 17 had no right by train order from, tho train dispatcher, furnished with a clearance card, until they had been furnished a register check of the op- posing "superior trains," for all trains due up to that time were superior to Ho. 17, as mat train, witn tne oraera sh bad to run extra from Biggs to the transfer point, had no right on that track whatever without a register cnecK "JT .l.X X have been impossible for No. 17 or any other train to leave Biggs except on the conductor's nerve, or by a flag by walking, ahead of his train a suf ficient distance to insure ruu protection. This dispatcher also states that it is common talk among raliroad men that the dispatcher on duty objected to run ntng No. 1 against the current of traffic. but that he was overruled by a suooroi nata official. That is erroneous. There 13 n railroad official, subordinate or president, that can force anyone to die- StSS? U 2hZ we f' Jon Sj raifroal but wa take 8afe side and assume no chanoe of risk when we do. The O-W. the testimony brought out I do not see where the crew of No. 17 even complied with the rules as set forth. I will now cite the position -pf No. 1. A train is superior to another train by right, class and direction. No. 12 was a superior train and had right over all other trains, as it was moving with the current of traffic as specified by stand ard double track rules. No one else had any right whatsoever to that track in the opposite direction, even the Al mighty himself, had the rules been com plied with. "How could the rights of No. 12 have been reversed?" you will ask. Only one way by train order only, and then only after No. 12 had been omclally notified by a train order, ISO. 31, with the signa t-""uu'iL"r e-.sm lT had be atooSed bv order to No. 12 act you will ask. Had jj0. jj got gjj order that No. 17, we will would ran Ttm from Bie? to Celilo and there were 10 stations between Biggs and Celilo No. 12 would have to stay at Celilo until No. 17 arrived, as No. 17 was without a schedule or jtime card rights and no time at any station against the current Of traffic. It would act the same as a holding order, and the only way No. 12 could get out of Celilo, even after No. 17 had arrived, would be on an order reading thus Upon receipt of this order, No. 12 may go. Neither Conductor Allison nor any one else connected with the movement of that train. No. 12, is responsible. The only ones responsible are the ones that moved No. 17. without respect to lives or property, against No. 12, without first knowing positively that No. 12 had been held. I, for One, would be pleased to see Mr. AUieon exonerated from all blame whatsoever and the blame put where It should be with the crew of No. 17, who went against No. 12 without a right to do so, as I have deduced from the evidence. I have never heard of a register check, and if they had had that they never could have left Bigga Why could they not, except on their nerve? A register check from train dispatcher at a point like Biggs weuld read : "All opposing trains have arrived and left except No. 12." That I would have held him at Biges indefr nitely, as No. 12 was then past due. and u any inferior tram is given a preference 1 right order the dispatcher must get the superior train first. " J"- '"" """" I any railroad man can see who is to blame in this case. L. A. VanderworL Uncle Jeff Snow Says Some farmers is a-fallin' fer the yen that taxes is too high on real estate. They're too high on things men makes and builds and tends to that's on the land, but the idle land in the: state of Oregon ain't payin' enough yit; to make the epeclators quit holdin it Outer use. It takes a purty smart farmer these days to separate in his mind the things on his farm from the bare land under It. A farm ain't Jist a section of land. If s I everthing on the land, and any good farmer has more on his land, dollar fer I oouar, twtcet ovei-u wnat tne lane aiongsiae tne same size neia ty a spec- """ ? J?'""1,,,1 Z " worth. Mebbe well help the idle land I graftf r out a little bit more with a tax I on gas and incomes, or mebby put back i. rT' fnrl,i,nr. WHAT MOTHER EARNS Vron the Wact Point (Neb.) Republican. She never earned any money. She lives on an Ohio farm, but she lives on al most every other farm. She Is some body's mother, maybe your own. She has earned nothing. No, but during her ,30 working years she has served 432,982 meals; she has made 331.223 garments, 32.009. loaves of bread, 5390 cakes. , 7932 pies. 1500 gallons of lard. She has grown 1423 bushels of vegetables and has raised 76Q chickens; churned 5430 pounds of butter: put up 3625 jars of preserves; scrubbed 177,725 articles of laundry, and she has put in 33,589 hours of sweeping and washing and'1 scrubbing. At ac cepted prices for this work- it is worth 115,4Sa, She can't retire on her sav- logs he has to keep on. Not earning!'! I No. How do "you define tho ordinary woman's contributions to her family's wealth? -r LEARNING THE "TRADE l Tm fb Waanincto Star words In your composition." "Tes'm; rm going to be a dialect tmannv. - " COMMENT AND SMALL ? CHANGE . J Arts her! What a grand and glori ous day was Monday, about 9 a. in for the poor working man. - , Jt Isn't half so hard, by the way. to make and to keep water wagon resolu tions as it used to nek i - - It wu a great beiidav. but did not add materially to the live of some of the toys in me nanus or urchins. Husbands who atav away from borne and the Christmas celebration aren't the right sort of husbands. Tou never can tell the little boy when he's had too much turkey, but be re mains a chip off the old block. - - - What a wendroua daw thla wenll Ka if we could aet aside thought ct the deluge of debits that will arrive as the new year dawns. . - - - e An expert who saya colors are Hfe- ruides and that purple is ideal, probably nu in uuira me royaj purpis ana we general desire to wear it w m Just when a fellow gets to feeling oest witn tne group arouna tne Christ mas tree, motner discovers candlewax dripped into her -parlor rug. - V From Washington coma two storiea. One ays "Big Increase Shown by Census m rarn v aiues. i other says, "Farmers Hard Hit la 1921 Which makes it possible for one to believe any. tnmg one luces. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Dellinger of Astoria are visiting at the home of Mrs. N. J. Stanley. Mra Dellinger's mother. They are also visiting Mra Dellinger's sister, Mrs. E. Lv Cable. Mr. Dellinger has lived at Astoria for the past !Q years. He Is the publisher of the Astorian. He is president of the Cranberry Growers' association of the state and has a pro ductive and well cared for cranberry bog. H has succeeded in keeping the price of Oregon grown cranberries much lower than the Eastern cranberry. If he would only invent a turkey bog to go with the cranberry bogs, he would be a public benefactor.. "The best city in the state, outside of Astoria," said Mr. Dellinger, "is Oakland, In Southern Ore gon, for that is the-turkey capital of the West and its main product creates a demand for our cranberries. Some day you must look up the history of the Astorian. We have trained some distinguished joumaii&ta John R. Ra thorn, editor of the Providence Jour nal, was editor of the Astorian. John Barrett, later minister to Siam, was our city editor about 30 years ago. Paul DeLaaey, author and movie writer, was a reporter on the Astorian. John Flem ing Wilson, Saturday Evening Post writer, got the material foe his sea yarns in Astoria. When did I break into the newspaper game? When I was It years old, at Arlington, Neb., my cap ital at the time being 112." Mr. and Mrs. j. O. Thompson of Al bany were recent guests of the Hotel Oregon." William Martin Jr. of Forest Grove was an over-Sunday guest of the Seward. a Mr. and Mrs. R. Foreman of Hood River are guests of the Hotel Oregon. H. W. Card of Madras ia registered St the Oregon. . Dr. R. Logan of Umatilla Is stop ping at the Hotel Oregon for a few daya , , Mary Elizabeth Cody- of Bend Is so journing in Portland during the holiday. Carl Ciooley of Pendleton is an over Christmas guest at the Benson. W. L. Paul, registering frorn Juneau, ia a guest of the Hotel ' Portland. peorge ti. trey of Hood River Is a guest of the Portland. A J. visitor. Fee of Astoria is a Portland Mrs. L. P. Leonard of Albany Is visit ing Portland friends. a Mr. and Mrs. F. M Parrish of Dallas are guests of the Imperial. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred a nbwMM. "fetlla Ifr I.nckWT of his auly life in Oregon and of (be Uariwethar Lwia family incorporation, which hold tminal re unions and which was boat to bias last Jolr Ba then renews th history of the Lewis and Clark expedition. E. C. Roberts has lived in Linn county for the past 60 years. "My father, James B. Roberts, came to Oregon in 1850," bald Mr. Roberts. "He was born at In dependence, Mo., in 1S30. Independence, St Joe and Westport were the three points from which most of the Oregon emigrant made their start across the plains. My mother, whose maiden name was Martha Huston, was born in Illi nois, though her people: came from the South. Her father, Joei B- Huston, was born la Kentucky. My mother came as a girl with her parents across the plains in 1853. They settled on a donation land claim next to the Roberts' claim My father was 20 years old when he came across the plains with his people. They settled at Portland. ; Father got work for the government hauling supplies around the Cascades. In 1852 he went with his- parents to Linn county. ' . . i I was born Augustsi6, 1861. Wheal wae S yeara old my mother died at Walulla. We children went to live with her mother, Mra Huston. Ip 1870 we moved to Albany to live with father's mother. Grandmother Roberta. I went to Albany college four yeara- Judge H. It Hewitt, at ill a resident of Albany, was president of. the college in 1878, the year I entered He was succeeded by Rev. Jet N. Condit. Mra Frederick Eg gert, now of Portland, was one of my teachers. E-i L. Thompson of the St Johns Woolen mills was, one of my classmates. In 1887 I was. married to Velma E. Marks of Lebanon, the daugh ter of a pioneer Linn county family. Our son, R. K. Roberts, is a-member of the faculty of the University of Wiscon sin. He Is engaged in research work along: horticultural lines. "Now If I have given you sufficient information for you to use roe as a peg to hang your story on, I want to tell you about an interesting experience I had a few months sgo. My business took me to Virginia. While there I heard of a meeting that was to be held, of the Meriwether Lewie clan. Having been bora in Oregon X have always been tre mendously interested in anything per taining to the Lewis and Clark expedi tion to the mouth of the Columbia river. X learned that tho meeting of the Xjewis dfscendants w to be held at Ivy Sta tion, Vs, . on the old Meriwether Lewis homestead. 1 got In touch with the officials of the family gathering and when they learned 1 was from Oregon they invited me to .come out and spend the week with them." Each year they j spend a week in early July en tho old Meriwether Lewis homestead, x spent July 4, sad C with them, and ta all NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS The cost of living was lower ia No vember, the bureau of labor saya It onght to be. to offset the cost of giv ing n December iiuren Register. ' When mlnlatera Of the rosraVI tnawa tn take out burglar insurance to protect their homes, it is a sad commentary upon the ethics of modern-day thieves. Astoria Budget Portland papers seem .to boast about police catching a man with whiskey. They ought to be able to catch even a porch climber with bait like that Cor- vaius uaxcue-'t'unea That Ad eluh nlaw- was a fine ihnw Why not have more such entertainment? lav Granee wui enjoy good old rash loned things for, after all, they are so much better, it ia like the hand-made article -against the machine made La Grande Observer. . .' Baker Is on the map as one of the best in the Northwest and that la why men with capital see an opportunity here to make good. Many arrivals are noted daily, persons who have made a pretty eareful investigation la where. Baker Democrat . ' Whenever. Marshal Foch wishes to re tire from military life he can start a menagerie, open a curio shop,- rent- out diplomas for use on office walls,, go in for lockami thing with the freely be stowed keys of iciUea, or turn back to the simple life) among the American Indiana Pendleton Tribune. Out of town guests registered at the Multnomah Include A D. Cameron, Mr. and Mra M. G. Baker, J. M. Baker, M A Lunge, John KaUsaker, Alex McLean, Enoch Mathison. William Anderson, Victor Benick and Mr. and Mra Layselle, an of Astoria ; Mr. and Mra George Hauser of La Grande. F. D. s or ague of Castle Rock, J. Jackson of Roseburg, K. b. Brown of Prineville. EL Euwer of Hood River. & H. Burleigh' and V. D. Fudge of Eugene and William McQueen of MeMinnville. Charles Oliver, lifelong Democrat and for 14 years a resident of Lake county, where he served as county school super intendent, ia up from Waldport in Lin coln county, where he is teaching. , Mr. - and Mrs. George P. Larsen of Bay Horse are sojourning at the Im perial. a a Dr. and Mrs. H. S. Mceexie of Pen dleton are at the Imperial over Christ- E. J, Baylls of Fossil ia at the Im perial. a J. K. Ford of Hot Lake Is a Portland visitor. ' J. E. Myers and S. W. Babcock ef Prineville are registered at the Imperial. H. L. Royce of Klamath Falls Is at the Imperial. a E. Bailey of Elgin is stopping at the Imperial. Roy : Ri trier's signature adorns the register at the Imperial. a " Ben Burton of John Day Is at the Imperial. a - a N. H- Strsyer of Baker is at the Im perial. a L Marion Crawford of Pendleton is the Imperial. T. J. Wllkins of Anchorage, Alaska, la sojourning at the Imperial, A D. Goddard pf Pendleton is spend ing Christmas in Portland. -. F. L. Holt and family of Willamlna are domiciled at the Oregon. J. B, Rees andj Bon of Klamath Falls are guests of the Portland. P. M. Fischer of The Dalles is regis tered at the Portland. Mra W. O. King of Grants Pass Is an over-Christmas guest of the Port land, i a a ,' W. D. Owens of Silverton is at (he Portland. Lbckley my life I never received such a cordial reception. . I was the first person from Oregon they had ever happened to have at tneir annual gatnenag. ana you can imagine the innumerable questions they asked mi about the Columbia and the Oregon country. There were about 158 in attendance. Stanford B. Lewis of Philadelphia is chairman of the execu tive board of the family. The other members of the board are J. Werner Lew is or ciirtoa rorge. va i Howell C. Lewis of Ivy, Vs. ; Fielding M. Lewis at cnerrydale, Va., and Meriwether Lewis of Anderson, Va. The president of the xamuy association is the lie v. David It Lewis-of South Boston, Vs. The first vice preseident is P. C Rucker of Greens boro, N. C The second vice president is fielding Lewis of Danville, Va.. and the secretary and treasurer of the asso ciation is Mra Stanford B. IAwis of "Meriwether Lewis, as you probably know, was born August 18, 1774, near Charlottesville, Va. When he was 29 -years old he served with the Virginia troops who took part in subduing the whiskey Insurrection in Pennsylvania. Later he received a commission in the regular United States army and served under General Anthony Wayne against the Indiana He became a captair In the United States army in 1797. Presi dent Thomas Jefferson appointed him his private secretary and he served with President Jefferson from 1801 to 1803. President Jefferson- felt so strongly about the opportunities of trading with the Indians in the Missouri valley that he asked congress' to send an exploring party into this part ef the Spanish ter ritory. Although the country was owned by Spain and France, congress adopted the president's suggestion and Jeffer son's private secretary. Captain Meri wether Lewis, with "Lieutenant William Clark, was selected to conduct the ex ploring expedition. -- "Late in th fall of 1803, with tt men from the army. Lewis and Clark- went into winter quarters near St Louis. The next spring additional recruits were en listed for the trip and they went intoi what is now North Dakota, spending the following winter with the Mandan Indiana; They reached the mouth of the Columbia river on November If after a voyage of over 4000 miles, ia the lat ter part of March, llOt, they started on their return trip, reaching St Louis late In September. The remarkable thing about the whole trip, to my mind, is that in SDite of traveling over 80OS mile and undergoing all aorta of hardships, only one member of the party died and only one deserted. Captain Meriwether Lewis was given 1500 acres of land as a reward for his services, and shortly ' after his .return was made governor of the north ern part of the recently esquired Loulsl ana territory. His tragic death on Oo- tober It, 1309, is one of history's unex plained tnystariea"' :- The Oregon Country , Nona want Harpanian in Brief Am far th j Boar ;Bartar. , OREGON : ; A stock train of SS cars made vp from point cast of Baker left that city Sat urday for Portland and Seattle marketa J. F. McDonald, who died recently at Paisley, was a native soa of Linn pwity. having been bora at Lebanon Bend has a community skating rink, , a half block of vacant lota ia the heart of the city having been flooded for that purpose by the tire department - Charles Albert Cole, well known eon tractor of Pendleton, is dead in that city loiiowing a stroke of paralysis. He had been a resident of Pendleton for 40 yeara Edward A. Rhone of Eugene, for IT years a member of the Oregon National Guard and a World war veteran, ' died '"vie government hospital at Tacoma last Wednesday night Chief of Police Palmer of Bakr re ceived an anonymous letter Pridav : threatening him and other members Of tne tore wttn bombing unless they A successor to Thomas' J. Butler, who resigned recently as county commis sioner ef Linn county, will be chosen at the January term of county court. wnrcn wui Degia January . - Grasins conservation during the echo ing season will be carried out on the- Deschutes, Fremont and Ochooe national forests by forcing sheepmen to adopt the "bedding out" system. John Consaiman. living near Sher wood, was held up a few days ago and robbed ef 12 in cash and 00 In Liberty bends. He will not lose the bonds, how ever, as they were registered. Breaking his leg while aiding women board a train, Otto Michel, formerly a night watchman at Cottage Grove, has filed suit against the Southern Pacifio railroad for I2766.M damagea WASHINGTON A bear weighing 200 Dounds and a larva wildcat were bagged Friday by J. A, Pa vis near Aberdeen. Cole's warehouse at Oprxtrtunitv. near Spokane, has been destroyed bv fire. , causing a loss of 320,000. Several shingle mills in the victnltv of Everett are closed on account of inabil ity to get cedar loga Possibly 400 men ace affected. The nrice of fresh milk has adwaneed 8 cents a quart in Aberdeen and Hoquiam, louowing tne ena or a mux war wntoa . . has lasted four months. J. A. Slier of Ravmond was eanettt Friday in a conveyo shaft at the Siler mill and killed instantly, hi head being crushed and both anna broken. Northwest fruit growers ranraawntad 4a - the Pacific Northwest Fruit expoeiUoo . recently held in Seattle are aaked to make good a deficit of about 37000. Sliver ore. said to rnn 2800 tn the tna has been discovered on the C N. Smith homestead, north of Ool villa. The lad?. - h feet wide, vh found at a depth of feet t , Orders for over 14.060 bah nhfek haw been received bv one Monteaann -iehhino- company from Grays Harbor poultrymen, i who .seek to prove that district aveecond Petaluma, Mrs. Manriee McMlrlran a nuvrnha nt the pioneer McMlcken family which set tled in OlvmDia in the earfv tarrltniHal days died suddenly at Seattle Friday ef : heart disease. Cher.ka mmrinr a ttal tint A tn a ; comprising the second 10 per cent divi- uena oi ui oeiunct Scandinavian-Amer ican nana or Tacoma, were mailed to de positor last week. - A number of bootleggers in tatl at Van. couver are walling away their time these UT" "."a;"1 eaauuiui isle or Some where," Christmas carols and other songs usually sung around the holiday season Donald Hall, arrested a week ago at Walla-Walla, charged with burglary, has been taken to the penitentiary to serve his sentence, he having been out on pa role. Since his arrest no burglaries have ' been reported. IDAHO George N. If ft Pocatello newspaper man, has been appointed captain of the service troop, 116th cavalry, stationed at Pocatello. A large barn and Ita contents, belong ing to L J. Felsted. near Blackfoot was destroyed by fire Thursday morning, en tailing a loss of 13000. . ' Governor Davis has received a resolu tion adopted by the Blaine county tax payers, requesting htm to call a special session of the legislature to pass tax re lief measures. Lavilla Bird Is dead at Paris, Idaho, as the result of a scratch on the finger received while opening a box in the store of David Mineon, for whom she was working. A report filed Saturday In the bureau of public accounts shows .that Clear water county has no outstanding debt is 9n,B2M60.6re Va,UUa 0t tb The state board of education will make no move toward carrying out the plans of the 1921 legislature for moving the Albion state normal school to Burley until the injunction proceedings are en tirely oettlfcd. The Burley school board has cut the salaries of teachers 25 per cent, closing of the two local banks and the failure of property -owiiefs to pay their taxes mak ing necessary a reduction in the operat ing costs of the schooU. Be Friends From Capper's Weekly. "Basines Is business." bat men are man. leasing ana work ins, drauun; Tafliai with penail or spaa or pa Briatarina piaaniu. arjirmint. "BtubiM ia bocimas" bat he's a foal Wooas bnrinsiis has frown to ameUtar Bis fait ia sua and the Golden Bala, His 1ot for a friend and brother., "Bnnlnatw is btwinew" but Uf is hfs; Thoojh we're aU in th (in to wis it Let rnt aomeUme from th beat and atrtta And try to be friend a minute. Iet'e seek to B comrade now and than And slip from our cotdra tether: Busnaas i btuineas." but men am And we re ail tood pels bi father I BURIED TREASURE From th Sen Franctoo Chronicla' For a center shot in human gullibility you can't beat a story of buried treasure or a tale of a fortune left by a miser an cestor m tne oia country a century or ' two back. In the hands of a clawa operator either of these can be handled at a profit even much more easily than the Ferry building can be sold to a bumpkin. Improbability matters not at all; in fact, the more Improbable the more the yarn appeals to the victim's human-desire to get something for noth ing. Around the old missions hopeful beings still blister their hands digging '' for the padres' buried cartloads of coin, though it is well enough known that in the mission days coin of any kind was almost on-existent In California.' . Here is a woman with a map, which . no doubt coat her a pretty penny, dig ging feverishly near an Italian city for a treasure which her documents say consists of $6,000,800,000 worth of gold money. Reference to any good book of statistics shows that the total stock of gold coin and bullion In the world is less than 1 10.600,000,000. The tale of a for tune lying unclaimed In the Bank of England or the Bank of France or a vault In Spain and now ready for the fortunately i discovered American de scendant is one of the oldest confidence games known to thla country, but it still continue) to- extract the savings of the gullible. The plain fact is that most European countries bar alien heirs and escheat unclaimed - . properties to the state. But we note that the San Fran ciscan who has been told of such a hoard refuses to 4get excited over it He is wise, and so, if by any chance he does get something, he will be doubly lucky. - ..; . 1