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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON
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THE 8ENATES SHAME
7
KJEWBERRT Is seated, with five
f- votes to spare. In his own speech
. t defense he admitted that $111,000
was spent in his behalf In the pri
pary ejection.
i la theory the United States senate
Is an axalted body. At times we ire
"Went to refer to It as the highest
larUlAUve chamber In the world
Our a rat am eantamnlataa It aa the
highest expression of the functions
of self-government. There, all pro-
Hidings would naturally be expected
to reflect the tnterrity and full virtue
" of a sovereign people who look to
their representative bodies for such
sets as will command the decent
' respect of mankind. To the senate
we have a right to look for honor,
and a reasonable observance of such
respect for conscience and moral ob
ligation as will be a public example
to the youth and to the cltlsenry of
lite land, "Increasing their affection
fer their .country and. appealing to
them to cherish clvto righteousness.
To all fthese high Ideals, the U
senators who voted to seat Newberry
bar proven false. .
; The seating of Newberry Is equiva
lent to formal approval by the senate
majority of corruption In a primary
election. It s is public' acknowledg
ment that the expenditure of 1191,
Qe, admitted-and confessed! ta nol
bar toia seat in 'the senate., !
I After this pubtio exhibition ;, of
moral Obliquity by a majority ot the
senators, after this flouting of integ
" rlty and clvlo virtue In our so-called
r highest legislative body, what else
caa be expected than that disregard
of law win be Increased, that general
respeci for our institutions will be
'lessened, that general appraisement
of virtue as a desired asset In public
officials will be lowered and that
criminals everywhere will find in the
precedent .an excuse for their open
disregard ot moral and statute law?
i There was not one scintilla ot ex
cuse for seating Newberry. The party
majority wag not imperiled. Michi
gan is a Republican state with a "Re
publican governor. Newberry could
, have been unseated and his place
i have been filled by a Republican
tenator through appointment within
34 hours after his dismissal. The
senate's action Is. therefore, a vulgar
disregard of all that Is deoent in
politics and a deliberate defiance of
that Integrity In public life upon
which alone caa our free institutions
be perpetuated,
i The excuse ot the majority Is New.
, berry's statement that he did not
- know- that the money was being ex
; ponded. That they dont know . is
the universal ' alibi ot aristocratic
crooks when caught with the goods.
Testimony before the investigating
committee showed that . Newberry j
demanded to know of one member
of his campaign committee bow
much farther the committee was to
go m expenditure) of money.
, The court, the Jury and the Judge
In Michigan decided that Newberry
' did know.- And ho did know.: And
alt the 41 senators who outraged da
I tency and Insulted the country by
eating him know that Newberry
knew.
i
; Senator Stanfield will not resign.
however much rumor to that effect
' Snay be m circulation. The office, as
he uses it. Is a help to him In his
sheep business. It Is also a help to
th packers. - as evidenced by his
UniKKB was 7 a' disastrous ..wreck
JU near . Celllo, December 1 to
which, the casualties were 1 dead
and -73 injured. I i !'.
Conductor J." A. 'Allison and En
gineer .Thomas. Allen.; both yeteran
trainmen of 'high reputation.; were
dismissed. Tbe i Journal ? has 5on
tended all along that the responsi
bility for: the: disaster -did not rest
alono on: the ' two trainmen, - If- ro-
ponsibflity rested on thenr at all.
The report ot the public service com
mission completely ' confirms The
Journal's contention
1 Tha -commission finds that a blun
der. was made ; In routing. JTo, 17
Westbound over the , east r track
against the eastbound ourront of
tsaffta. V v . ' v 'f.1 i'.;."'
Jteferring to -the order by -the
train dispatcher routing No. 17 over
the eastbound track:, the report says:,
The tmUmeny'sbows that althougti this
order was a little irregular as to pbrase-
ology. it was considered a sate order if
placed in the hands or all eastsouna
trainsv Howerer. no showing was made
that a copy of the order was placed in
the bands of the conductor ot ro. iz. in
other words. No. 17 was ordered and di
rected to proceed westbound on an east
bound tfack against the current of traf
fic The only excuse ollerea ior mis
movement was that the route, selected tor
No. 17 by the dispatcher would expedite
the movement ana pernaps save a ww
minutes of time.
That Is to say, to save a few min
utes of time. No. 17 was rooted
against the current of traffic on the
eastbound track Instead of over the
westbound track. Conductor Allison
and Enrineer Allen were not re
sponsible for that blunder; Higher-
up officials Issued that order.
"The crew on No. 12 were oper
ating their train over a new route
directly In charge of a foreign pilot
through unfamiliar territory and
under very unusual and severe
weather conditions and were justly
entitled to all the protection that
could be given them," says the re
port. And it then indirectly con
demns the company tor not having
an operator at Oregon Trunk Junc
tion. It says:
The testimony shows that the necessary
station facilities. Including teiepnone
equipment for an operator, were already
eatabllBbed at oreeon Truna junction.
and all that was necessary was to place
an operator on duty at that point. If
ecch precaution had been lateen, many
lives might have been savea.
It was not Conductor Allison's
fault or Engineer Allen's fault that
no operator was there. . Somebody
hla-her ud was to blame for that.
Probably It was the Wall street own
ers of the line, who demanded such
rigid economy in operation that it
was felt that the company could not
afford an operator at Oregon Trunk
junction. The wreck was the conse
quence.
The commission says that No. 17
should have been, not on the east-
bound track, but on the westbound
track. Here ts the language of the
report: .
The safe method of moving train No.
17 out of Biggs would have been by the
Issuance of orders instructing and direct
Inc train No. IT to proceed on the west
bound track to cross-over track and pro
ceed under flag to Oregon Trunk June
tion. or to proceed on the westbound
track to cross-over about two ana one
halt miles west of Oregon Trunk junc
tion and thence back by way of the
eastbound track to the Junction, and thus
be at all times operating with the cur
rent of traffic. !
It wasnt Conductor Allison . or
Engineer Allen that routed No." 17
over the eastbound track against the
current of traffic. They had no au
thority to do that." But they? got the
axe. ,
' The report points out that there
had been such laxness in applying
the . rules that trainmen's organiza
tions had protested to the company
against it as an unsafe practice.
Here is the language of the report:
The record clearly shows that It had
been customary for some time (one wit
ness testifying nine years), for trams to
proceed from Oregon Trunk Junction to
of her' husband was aa ugly revolver.
Thus officers found them, ' When'
she--was able to .talkoherentty, she
disclosed a peasant romance ot tne
old and new woridLlThey had been
sweethearts together on the other
side Of the Atlantic -When; he left
for America she waited until he could
send for i her. They were, liappy
when they met again. - -
; But; moonshine whiskey, she said.!
turned . happiness Into. .horror. He
came ! home crazed with the poison
stuff.; He was trying to stab her,
whenj she grasped the revolver, shut
her eyes and fired. t- .
; This, and four other murders com
mitted under the Influence of moon
shine within an ls-hour j period,
has caused Chicago's coroner to an
nounce: i-
The makers and sellers of moon
shine! whiskey are morally ' respon
Bible,! and I (shall try to have them
held ! criminally guilty of these
crimes.
i In three of the murders the direct
agent of death was a revolver.
i In another city a different phase
was put on a moonshine murder.
The woman in the case shot her hus
band, a wealthy manufacturer. But
when arraigned she pleaded "not
guilty. Moonshine was the mar
derer, she charged. Crazed by its
poison she had killed without know
tog that she had committed crime.
She had shot her husband to death
J without knowing that she had pulled
the trigger. . -
In this instance an Interesting
theory is to be developed. To what
extent can a thing rather than a
human being who uses the thing be
held for crime?
But of this there can be no doubt:
Moonshine is not content with poi
soning. Its victim. It seeks to take
other lives by violence. And its fa
vorite companion l- crime is the re
volver. Meanwhile, the Chicago coroner's
contention that the makers and-vendors
of moonshine booze are morally
responsible is 'sound. There should
be law to hold them legally responsi
ble. If they make and peddle stuff
heavily laden with poison why should
they not be as amenable as the
druggists whom we send to the pen!
tentiary for selling poisons improp
erly labeled ?
PORTLAND ANE)
OREGON j
Comment Collected by an Eastern Ore
gon Newspaper ; to Indicate Upstate
Opposition to a Fair Tax A New
State" Possibility Iscussed--Hydro-1
Electric -Development Von Dls-.
panged Comparative Per capt-.
. tas Other Comment. .Mainly ;
Attacking the Tax Plan, 1
This confidence game stuff has
reached the Infants. The latest is
the expedition of two tots in ad
vance of the milkman, they getting
the nickels and dimes left for him
in the milk bottles. Confidence in
this method of paying milk bills has,
however, considerably diminished on
the route In question.
BOUGHT AND PAH) FOR
Newberry be
Pendleton 'East Oregonlan: Comments
by the state press outside of Portland
show an almost unanimous Indorsement
of the legislature in refusing to swallow
the fair tax meaaara submitted by Port
land. Of the newspapers received by the
East Oregonlan, or from which we have
a clipping service, the only ones censuring-
the legislature are the Portland
Telegram and Oregonian. ; . ;
The Malheur EnUrprie, published at
Vale, believes Portland should finance its
own fair. In its last-, weeic's' issue tne
Vale paper carried a frontpage edi-
torlal-in which it said;
Th bbr -property owners of Portland
and tha large financial interests would
derive an immense amount of benefit
from the exposition and would, pay, under
the gasoline tax. only a few dollars for
passenger consumption. - ' ;
"So much for the gasoline tax.
"An unfortunate situation: has risen In
Oregon over the attempt of some ot the
Multnomah delegation to force something
dowi the throat of the state at large.
The old-time feud between Portland and
the State at large has broken out and
the really big- and Just men of Portland
regret it as much as does the rest' of
the state.
"Portland cannot grow and prosper as
it should without the undivided support
of the state and neither can the state
develop without the help of Portland.
"As aptly expressed In an editorial in
The Oregon Journal, It will be cheaper
for Portland to pay for the exposition
itself than to permit it to widen the
breach between the state and city.'
The Marshfield News has expressed its
position as follows:
"It Is not surprising to find the Pendle
ton East Oreeonian and the DeoDle Of
i Eastern Oregon In : general standing
shoulder to shoulder with the Coast
counties in a fight , for federal money
for roads.
Despite the fact that the larger part
of a great state lies between the two
sections, the rugged Coast counties have)
Ume and again round tnetr strongest
allies in the broad-minded plainsmen of
the eastern part of Oregon.
The Blue Mountain Eagle, published at
Canyon City, -has a genuine ' grouch
against the metropolis as may be seen
by this extract:
"Oregon is the only state in the union
that we know of that has one town of
258,000 and not another town in the state
up to S0.000. Portland is the biggest
jay town on the Coast It is the poorest
town on the Coast to go to finance any
out of Portland enterprise. Last sum
mer fruit packing plants and industries
of all kinds went begging : in Portland
for help. And this has always been the
situation in Portland, and it has some
thing to do with the fact that the state
has but one town of 258,000 and not an
other town of more than 17,000 and only
three towns in the state with 10,000. No
state in the union can show a condition
that compares to this. In the last SO
years- about all Portland has been inter
ested In has been some grab penny show
that would bring their country cousins
to town. The whole road program has
been f and about Portland and the
million- have been Ispent primarily for
people of the entire state at the Novem
ber election. - v ,
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Weston TLeader : Now that -Portland
has been made pretty well aware; that If
she has her fair she will probably have
to pay for it herself since she wfl be
the chief and practically tne omy reai
beneficiary in a direct flnsncial way-
it would perhaps be well to curt tne sec
tional nreiudice ' that the fair . dispute
has developed. Multnomah county has
tried to do pretty; well by the state. Talk
of boycotting and reprisal on either was
of the- Cascades, sows tha seed for the
wrong, kind of an Oregon crop. .
' Corvallis Gasette-Tlmes:' The Salem
Journal says that the "people have been
vindicated by the refusa of the legu
latiir to naaa tha 1925 exposition bill.
As a matter of fact, the people have had
no chance to be "vindicated," for' the
legislature was so busy playing politics
that it wouldn't even give the people a
chance to say whether they wanted the
fair or not. ( --- '
COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF
v SMALL CHANGE - i'
Indeed, visitors, this- is very ua ureal
weather tor Portland, - j
. a a i. ,
Mexla. under martial law. must have
been trying to imitate some ot the ex
ploits ot atexjoo. ..
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Police draxneta " have woefully large
mesh. Judging from some of the . big
Kama mat escapes.
Incidentally, yon mar have noticed
that MeNary and Stanfield, voted to al
low, dewberry, to take his seat., . ,
Another preacher has been arrested
i a . crook. Now let the "Fatty" Ar-
buckie Jttstlflers strike up their chorus.
Tailors have decreed tha. doom af the
pinch back coat. What joy if they could
now do away with- the pinch-penny
'" SIDELIGHTS ' ? s;
Instead of tiaina-. a beer tax to nay
aa army bonus, way not do It with fines
paid by bootleggers and their enstom-
erm j Aooany temocrat.
There to a rJaaa af neoote whe want
to rua tba government so that at will not
clash with their own oarticular sins. If
we couia an o that, there woaio oe no
guvernmeatBlue Mountain Kagte.
' If the Clay Products company of War
ntoa win lust . acart - inanutacturtag
day Pi pea we mlrfct ba. ante to induce
ear old friend Jlggs to take up his head-
quarters bare. Aatorla Budget.
Gresham Outlook: -The Outlook ven
tures the prediction that the fair plans
will go ahead with perhaps some mod
ification in method of financing. The
nla.n for a. ereneral tax appeared ques
tionable. It was open to- serious ob
jection. Perhaps a better scheme can
be worked out. one that will be more
acceptable to people of the state gener
ally and hence better tor tne lair.
a a a
Keedsport Courier : The educational
value of the exposition so far has not
been estimated. Its worth to Oregon and
tha Northwest Is Inestimable. The op
portunity to hold a world's exposition
comes but once in a iBneruu.
time to advance Oregon a internet.
. . . I
now. The occasion ior concwu m "--"
was never more inviting.
Waidnort Pacific Herald: .The extra
session of the Oregon legislature has
passed. The Portland specuaior wu
m. tii riirtai tha DalicT Of the daily
press got turned down. Wewonderhow
much: if any xne -aieea- wttuw
was enmeshed m tne Dig -ov.
.mi which "died a-bornin .
We all want the fair, but we. want .it fair.
Woodburn . Independent : Oregon has
gone too far not to have a world s fair in
1925.
Two biggest . obstacle In the way of
united . city. ana. county governments
seems to be found in those who are do
ing the governinc;.
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It the church folk succeed In ruling
out school dances wbat will happen to
tne young entnustast who has been made
to dance to the teacher a dictates?
. a
That's all right' little boy. doa't cry.
Tou may some day have as much money
aa Newberry and then you can buy
yourself, a seat in the haila of the ua-
dexued and .purified.
If The reenlta of the soecial
count fbr anvthlna- It- ts hard to discern
just wnere any member- of the leertala-
ture succeeded u amdlng anything to ah
presuge, iau county Ktm miner.
The yell that Is cetnr we about the
S-aaoUaa tax tor tha lili fair as to tha
effect that a rot - of moneyed1 tatereeta
would get off tree. Well, what of - It?
They will anyway. Money Is smarter
than lawmakers. It wUl find a Taoaa ta
any farx-j that any number of people caa
build. Benum County Courier.
The Oregon ' Country
ta Bfaat
TTenr hacksaws were foond hldAaV ta ,
the Lane county Jail recently by Eberttf
rxtraaia aaa us oepuuea. wno were
overhaul Lag the place. t . . . .
A abort course for enmnkerctal -rrnb
secretaries win be offered by the Uni
versity- or oreroa during raster vaea
tion, from March T7 to April L
A move Is on foot to establish the bur -
raav brtatarard In tha atata. aa ilia -mmt
of JackaonviUe. whtch wtU provide ess-
Ptoyntent' tor a large 'number of men,
Beeasae heavily leaded trucks are cat.
tine ep eertala county roada badly, tba
Lae county court has tasued M oroer
bmiUng the weight of loads they carry.
Beaver that have bean daatroytag
fruit trees oa several farms In toe fiver
bottom north of Eugene will be trapped,
according to Ed & Hawker, deputy gam
If the people living la Baker county
bad the making of winter weather to
their taste they could not improve on the
one we are having. . Thus far It has
been Ideal and to go elarwbere to im
prove upon It would moat with dlaap-
polntsacnt. for Dowrhere elao can auch
fine weather conditions be found.
Baker Democrat. ..
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Letters From the People
. mi tn Tha Jooraal for
poblieation in this department ahouM b written
QB QgJIW WISVJ UiAUSj VI nw aA .
eecd 00 word in length, and sua be aisaad
Svkl writ., whcua auil addraM la fall mutt
aceampanr tha eontribnaoa. 1
LANGUAGE MISCONSTRUED
Writer en the CeJOo Wreck Answers
nritlca and Reiterates Statements.
Portland. Jan. 9. To the Editor of
The Journal I have before me a copy
of a letter to The Journal under date
of January 4 and published in Saturday's
paper wherein I am accused of calling
tha emnloves of the O-W. R. N. de-
Out of town guests at the Imperial In
clude R. M Brock of Hood River. Frank
EL Strauhan of long Beach. William
Aiken of Seavtew, C IL Oram of Salem.
R. J. Still of Astoria. Dr. J. IL Qhorm-
ley of Wasco. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Cor
nell of Grants Pass. R. J. Kitchen of La
Grande, Martin Re id of Heppaer. T. H.
Foley of Bend, W. H. Monarch of Fos
sil and S. H. Anderson of .Baker.
a a-- a
George P. Cheney, who does not wear
an' eagle feather In his scalplock, in spits
of being the big chief on the Record
Chieftain at Enterprise, In Wallowa
county, Is billeted at ' the Oregon, en
route to the gathering of the tribes and
scribes at Eugene.
aaa
Robert A. Sawyer, white-haired, pink-
cheeked, rotund, well nourished, the pas
ture ot peace, progress and prosperity.
was In Portland Thursday on his way
to meet, greet. Instruct and learn of" his
fellow-newsgatherera who are assembled
from all over Oregon at Eugene.
Durins the year lt2l tho eii
ot Pendleton issued building permits of
a total valuation of Itot.ooe. la im
the vain ot new buildings erected aras '
Ult.e.
The new t!iO,09S Maaoale home at
Forest Grove la noartng completion.
Furniture, flit urea, etc.. have bona or
derod and some ot the furnishings have
already arrived.
George C. Mungrr. ft. pioneer rostdawt
Ot Oregon, la dead at The Dallas afler
snort limeua rroro pneumonia. Mn
r was chief of The Dallas Ore de
partment in UIL
Chart Alexander, editor of the Al
bany Sunday Democrat, who has west
coca! aarabaa reoognlUon as a writer of
abort atone a. gained a cover poalUoa la
the February aumber ot the els Book.
The need tor a htncheoa service oa
the O-W. R. a K. trains plying aotwoan
Bond sad The Dallas ts a nauar baUkg
taken up with railroad headquarter in
I'orUand by the Bead CocnjnarciAi lua.
Durma; the month of Dae n bar M
studenta regiatsred in the correepoodeno
study department of the artanatoa divw
I Sloa Of the Unlveraitv of Orran bnnr.
W. J. Contna from the Annie Canltal I ing the total rectatratioaa la tAat danarl.
of the West, la a Portland business via-l1011' to IOR.
ltor and reports everything serene ai I With tha Carey art eon tract rhe atata
Mood River.- 'executed and a definite allotment of
.aaa mom oy in eiaia water board.
M. J. Mortal th. who people founded MJ .1or,la n3p"' ta Deschstes
city of Albany. L. a guest at the "SL W pro -
O. C Henlea of Med ford, who for the
summer season had charge ot the electric
ugnt and-tmmplng plant for Crater Lake
lodge, is registered at the Multnomah
hotel.
in fact no towns in the state have shown
much change, and we base this statement
upon the 1910 and 1920 returns."'.
Other expressions of a similar ' nature.
are available but lack of space: forsids
their use. 'None of the clippings received
show any up-state criticism of the sena
tors who refused to pass the fair tax. .
Tf7 H Y shouldn't
seated? Didn't he buy, his seat X" . ? T iZ? l"1"R""i 1
I "v'"-vv-" w ' otic. I ,U.B ttmtn Ta .torn Hr,mn ha a ihAvn
and pay for it? Isn't a bargain a very little "development In 20 years, and
bargain? what if the price; was big
Whose business is that but New
berry's?,
Some people talk about Newberry
as though they think him unfit to sit
among the senators. Who 1& the best
Judge of that? If the senators reach
out; and take in Newberry, money
bags and all, and welcome him as
their comrade, colleague and fellow
legislator and take him to their
bosom, doesn't that show that they
are satisfied, and shouldn't that settle
it?
Who's the senate, anyway, people
with scruples or senators : without
scruples? i
Some foolish people think that
Newberry is the only man who ever
spent big money in elections. But
the senate vote, for Newberry doesn't
indicate it. That vote shows
brotherly and companionable feeling
for Newberry and his money bags
.and seems to express a hope that no
future senator will ever be disturbed
in the possession of his seat because
of any trivial question of what the
seat cost him.
the
Seward.
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T. R. White and W. Anderson of Salem
are registered at the Multnomah.
Paul Devine of Lexinrton.
county, U In Portland oa busln
Morrow I
IN APOLOGY TO MR. LODGE
TPHIS paper among others was dis-
appointed when the president se
lected Senator Lodge aa a delegate to
the arms conference. Like other
newspapers," The Journal viewed the
Biggs on a verbal clearance and to re- appointment as inconsistent with the
ceive orders at Biggs, and that by reason I purposes to be attained at the parley.
of such Irresgularity. the Order ot Railway
Conductors had Issued and pubusneo Bul
letins protesting against the receiving of
verbal orders by conductors by telephone
on the around that it - was an unsafe
practice. . ..,'!-...'-!
Neither Conductor Allison nor En
gineer Allen could make it the prac
tice to move trains on "verbal or
ders." Nobody could do that but of
ficials above them. Allison and Allen
were only trainmen, . and trainmen
do not determine on ; what kind of
orders trains shall be moved. Train
men, like "buck privates" In the
But The Journal is free to confess
its mistake. The president was
quite correct. Mr. Lodge was an
able selection, i . :-
Who better than that veteran of
many battles, senator Lodge, could
tell the American senate- and the
American people of the grave results
to this country if we failed to ratify
the four-power pact? TEbo; better
than the able gentleman from
Massachusetts can depict the dangers
of an Isolated America? "Who better
than Mr. Lodge can orate on an
The Dalles Chronicle : So serious is the
antagonism in Eastern Oregon becoming
to the continued aggressions of Portland
against the country east of the Cascades,
ana especially over the matter of the
proposed state-wide tax for the 1925 ex
position, that talk of secession and the
formation of a new state, in the east is
becoming rampant. In half a dosen
instances recently, it has come to light
that 'oldtimera' of this and that com
munity, now residents of Portland, have
written tetters in fulsome praise for the
exposition tax scheme, telling how much
tnese communities would be benefited by
the fair. ' A striking example of such
communications was recently nnblishad
in the Baker Herald over the signature
ot ueorge li. weaver oi Portland, a
former Baker county man. It was the
usual booster type of letter, in which
the praises of power development for
every community along the line of the
O-W. R. & N. down to and including
The Dalles, were sung. The exposition,
was to bring all of these things, Mr.
Cleaver insisted.
If there was any remote possibility
that a Portland exposition would induce
hydro-electric development for Eastern
Oregon, this section .would be quick "lo
seize upon tne toes, just how it was
to have this effect, however, the writer
did not make clear, nor is there any
clear conception in our minds about how
such a miracle can take place. Eastern
Oregon does not want to finance its
electrical development through any such
ceancy scheme as an exposition In Port
land. If this section is to pay a large
portion' of $3,000,000 for electrical de
velopment, it wants that money directly
applied to the business of harnessing
streams and erecting power plants and
lines.
T. F. Kelter, sheriff, with headquar
ters at Price, Utah. Is at the Oregon.
Sheriff Kelter la here to take back to
Utah a prisoner who, seeing his chance.
generates, so far as the rules are con-1 went helter-skelter from the Jurisdlo-
cerned, in my letter oi .uecemoer to, ut uon or air. feiier.
an agent of the O-W. K. N.
A careful reading oi my tetter wiu Leon Cohen, pioneer merchant of Pen-
convince him of his error. I said the dleton. is vlsltlnr nld-tlm frtenda in
rules had been allowed to degenerate, i portund. He Is on hia way to San Fran-
I will aiso as a queauuu. clsco to visit boyhood friends and tell
it. now .- tpem about the charms of tha Round-Up
ftiiu eiiwui ofinucM. ... 1 f-irv
s,r x w .h.f if io I "-'ty.
cinline la not enxorcea ana ruiea uui "w Mn, r . kia-u .- v-
up to. all of us. sooner or later. i m Oregonian of Pendleton; is greeting fel
an easy-going rut and take the easler J low-members of his crkft nTorUand
Way OUt I TTa a on hlir'wav in ITiiaro.. n ,H.il
& N. has placA the same misconstrue- j the Oregon newspapermen's conference,
tion upon my letter as has the agent I J ; Aft ,Mlri T-,t,,.
wiah to say that no such meaning was . looking ""dcon.
, r1""3": --.vw- whether has decided to open an office of the
,t tL nimr wrk Richards Lumber company of Spokane.
JLT1LK mZt I Mr. Richards is registered at the Mult-
muddled when it comes to reading plain nomft nolel-
print, and for his benefit I will say thaj Newell, formerly With the food
i ramnuiruMi oi "f administration under W. B.. Ayer but
wUl show .that my articles have been mmtr alive officer with the
corroborated by & locomotive e", I University of Oregon, U a guest of the
employed by the O-W. R. & N. and by n , p.,,,..,
train rules expert.
As to sismlnK my name to my articles I J. A TTamnhin of 'RnaeTnnrr tha at raw
I wish to -state, also for the benefit of berry capital of Southern Oregon, ts a
tne agent, urn uiey w oisucu, i nest oi tne imperial,
with a reservation that 'A Dispatcher" aaa
be used in publication, not through cow-1 D. B. Snyder of Pendleton Is spending
ardice but through a dislike of notoriety. I a few days in Portland and is registered
I am an employe myself, and naturauy i at tne Multnomah.
would resent any aspersions being cast
upon their intelligence, and I also take
exception to having what I said miscon
strued by haphazard reading.
I might also add that I have not only
beerr employed by the O-W. R. & N. as
telegrapher and train dispatcher, but
have been employed at different times
by other parts of the Harriman lines.
namely, the Southern Pacific the Union
Pacific and the Oregon Short Line, and
I am not one of those who kotow to tho
rn aster's voice in distinguishing right
from wrong. Allison should not be made
the goat. A Dispatcher.
WASHINOTOH
Seeking a fourth election as mayor mt
Tacoma, A. V. Fa worn ha filed his can
didacy for tha office.
The federal land bank of Bpekaa com
pleted during Mil !e.07 mortgage loaas
amounting to 1U.U4JS.
Ola Knntaon Fall and. ewe of the ear.
llest settlers of Washington, died Thurs
day at Newport, aged 11.
Wbil eoastlng down bm ta a small
WAgon at Monroe, Duaae Crowley, aged
J. F. Klnny. the kingpin of Heppner. lL fLnT-1 w
The Aberdeen dry eotrnef! baa author,
lxed construction ot a I140.0M annarr
trunk sewer system between DlvUuoa
street and the Hoquiam city limit.
Representative Johnson f Washlrvrtoa
hs been appointed regent of the Smith
sonian memo uon te succe ed the lat
Tb-gu Ekagga Is her from Blodgett
In Lincoln county, en business.
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E W. and L G. Brldgebrok of lone
are Portland business visitor.
la at the Imperial.
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H. W. Anderson Is down fro:
e a
O. E. Woodson, hail in r from Cottan
Grove, Is at the Imperial.
Heppner.
Mr. and Mr. Ira F. Boyce of Jobs
Day are regitered at the Imperial.
aaa
A. L. Brown, whose home la at As
toria, is at the Portland..
aaa
A. L. Edwards, from the Capital City,
Is registered at the Hotel Portland.
Representative Pat one of CaUfomia.
Plans have been adopted by Brewster
and Patero whereby aa Irrigation sys
tem for th two towns and vvdnitv caa
be furnished water at a cost ot lit aa
acre.
Michael Cavanaugh, aa employe of th
Seattle city lirht denartment. vu few
v r .f v i. . -...i .ristantly allied Tburaday whan aa alaw
the Portland. hilf k 00 bictt h vaa working
a e orb.
Mr. and Mra R. C Kinney of Astoria .vVS,pItvJnii; m4uU Seattle that th
sregueU of the Portland. a'of 'rlTSnZZZ
li W. Coles 1 down from Halnea In ''"erlortn. comd.'or
Baker county, on business. their officers. ol
J. M. Devers U her from Salem on a . , ""Jl, C.,LWjI4. .M
buneastrlp. . ' neV tTST.r.'
W. M. Perry U here from Heppner ?X brwtrato
for a brief business visit. Langdon, Kan.
W. H. Stephens of Roseburg U a guest l"rrt. flTof.Th?n
of th Perkins. I inmor, a verdict of All, one ,k- -.i.
u. tt- ov-. , c. m. i. . f cfc'iT'? r rnother-tn-law Mr.
V - mm mm . K.B1 KOOinaOB. Kan lUUlttl Ik. t
oc uau uspanai.
Ernest Hofer. former newspaper man
ef Salem, is taking in the sights of the
metropolis.
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Rufus S. Moore of Klamath Falls Is
registered at the Portland.
aaa
S. L. Baer of Baker Is stopping at the
Portland.
aaa
R. E. Turner of Hood River ts at the
Perkins.
C T. Terror Is down from Bend on
feet tone of the plainUfr husband, Nat
Robinson, a high school student.
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Frank . GOliam ot Heppner is
Seward.
at the
NEWBERRT
Portland, Jan. t. To the Editor of
The Journal Referring to Senator New
berry the Oregonian says: "The Ore
gonian would like to see Senator New
berry vindicated. To be sure. - Why
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
The founder ef tha fuepemua n irwaUi
city of Mewbenr telb Mr. Laekiar - ef UM
nntt Ttnn't le th alafnent nf naetlaan. I oriaia af that aiuaienalit and af eartala ef
IDAHO
Field representatives ef th United
States Veterans' bureau report nearly
100 claims in Idaho because af war dia.
A. Flynn of Salem la a guest at the I l1''' '
Duif-im mj ir,L, wim rwa-uiuziaj
commitment to the Ada oounty Jail, are
incorporated la th December report of
the Ada county sheriff.
WhO driving a laundry oali vary
wagon on a street in Buhl Thursday eve
ning. Fred Parson was held up by tw
bandits and forced to hand over IM.
Twelve hundred volume were added
to th Idaho free traveling library ta
1S21 and th total Dumber of volume
now available for loan and drculaUoa
ts more than 17.000.
The body of W. A. McDonald, ml an
head, arm and lega. was found Mon
day morning near the railroad track at
Saadpoint. Nearby uraa th body of Mo
Lonaid's dog. aiso tnsngVad.
CornmlAwioner ef Finance FraUek has
filed a petition asking parraiaaioa to sell
any or ail of th oaraonai prasorty of
th BoIWvu Bank and Treat company,
which dosed it doors October 1.
Seward.
aaa
R. G. Balder is here from Dallas and
is registered at the Seward.
aaa
T. a EDlottt of Milton U domiciled
at the Oregon.
aaa
C A. Price is here from AshlAnd on
business.
aaa
C L. Carey la her from Halsey.
ship enter th matter. O Boy I Of
course the Oregonlan never has, , nor
could It now, play to partisanship. It
would take something else besides a
civil engineer to standardise the editorial
page of the Oregonian. An Old Timer.
Ha flourWiine iattaaona. air. LecHr? apeue
tha uarrativ with BwutJoa ef a pUJaathroD
that will draw upon a rawuroa ef tba Cbikilaai
nlley.
Along the tranquil reaches ot the
produced only II bushels of wheat to the
acre. I decided It would make more
money for me a a townslte than as a
wheat ranch, I wa strengthened In
this conviction when I discovered that
th farmer had to go so far to do their
trading. -Portland wa 14 mile distant.
PROBABLY A CORRIDOR PATROL
From tha ladianapolia Star.
A wolf, was killed within, the city
limt's of Los Angeles, but it waa not In
front of any hotel or boarding house
I keeper's door.
army, "do not reason why; theirs but I America shut-off from, the world?
to do and die. They merely ipi- who better than he can tell of the
Eugene Guard: The Dalles Chronicle
discusses the difference between the pro
posed Philadelphia exposition and that
conceived by the Portland boomers in
impevi. to aaaing state aid. it calls
attention to the population of Pennsyl
vania, 8,720,159, as shown by the 1920
census, and the population of Oree-nn
which numbered but 7S3.389 at that time,
and Cites the fact that it is nlanned to
ask of the state of Pennsylvania only
$2,500,000. while proponents of the J.925
exposition would have Oregonians pay
$3,000,000, Now, figuring on a per capita
oasis, just ior illustration, because taxes
Curious Bits of Information'
Gleaned From Curious Places
lowed the custom, and It was they j benefits to be derived by this country I never work out even for everyone.
who had to stand up ior in reckon- y jotatog-with other nktion to prolog-
I I vent war. armament costs, and heavy
Speaking of the disregard of rules taxes? Who better can be on two'
for safety In operating trains, the tdes of one fence in one; year than
report says: j ' j the senior gentleman from Massachu-
Rules that are not Intended to be en-1 -m. - i
forced have no proper place s in a rail-1 i " ' . .
road company's code ot regulations and J baa had some experience In
when the operating officials of such rail-1 being on two sides or ona fence. He
road allow regulations, which have been I thought the $25,000,000 America
Owed to Colombia was blackmail in
Issued to secure safety, to b violated
MMiHniMiulv. thev Mnnol raaaonahlv v
pact to escape th consequences of sueni wuruw nimrai auounistrauon.
violation. t i I I But he thought It was a legitimate
By day and by nUht the train j debt a few months ago. He thought
whistle ring -out from Sullivan's I America should be Isolated in Wood-
gulch. 8om of those whistles used row Wilson's administration, but he
to be from th train with Engineer j thinks now it would be ai crime. Be
Allen in th cab and Conductor iAl-1 thought tree tolls were t one .thing
Ttison In the coaches. But! it. la not I once and another thing another time.
o now. - I ' I; It cu be said to hia crtdit, how-
They were dismissed for Ui p-l ever, that, given time, he arrives at
cembr disaster. They were made la 'sound conclusion spcialry If
th goats for th wreck.
MOONSHINE'S PARTNER I
i there baa been a cbangei of admin
istrations in the interims
Pennsylvania.: 1 represented to
CHE lay crumpled up lnj a corner 1 the United States senate by Senators
, f th room, her fac burled in I Crow and Pepper, names reminiscent
an alden snoech In th senate in which I her arms, sobbing. Between her-1 of a certain congenial nopularitv In
be vigorously and eloquently de-1 self and th blood stained body Ian earlier day.
Pennsylvanians, per head, will be asked
to pay at a rate of 28 cents, while
Oregonian 8, on the same basis, were
ua.e io pay mx a rate or 12.81 per
capita.
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Coqullle Valley Sentinel: The people
of this county certainly ought to appre
ciate the fight made by their represen
tatives in the legislature. 'against the
proposition to add another 180.000 to our
back-breaking taxes to pay. for a Port
land show, e a xhe whole tangle
may be unwound some time, but nothing
is ciear as -yet except that the legislat
ors who opposed taxing the entire state
for a fair at Portland fought a good
fight. A great many of us
never comprehended the height or "the
deptn. the length or the breadth of the
Portland real estate boomers' gall until
w read tnat tney proposed to bold a fair
to get Eastern 'people out there and ask
all of us out around, the edge of the
state not to chip in but to vote to tax
oursva to nay the buia .
' RosebargA News-Review : Portland's
1925 fair still has its head above water
and seem to be gradually wiggBng out
Of tne drubbing given, the subject by the
recent special session. of th Oregon leg
islature. The fair would probably have
been a winner if the governor had been
disposed to ignore the special - session
and - let the . project take . its regular
cours by way,oleins referred to .the
. Fire without matches may be pro
duced with a handful of dry grass sad
two pieces of wood, one Called the Un
derwood, and the other a piece of very
hard or very soft wood that Is called
the drill or spindle. A handful of dry
grass is placed on a solid rock or board,
and a notch Is cut In the Underwood.
The Underwood Is then placed on the
dry grass and the spindle Is Inserted In
the notch in the Underwood. The spindle
is made to spin at a last rate between
the palms of the hands until a coal Is
produced. Then the dry grass Is taken
up in the hands and blown on to make
blase. It is then dropped on the
ground and. dry twig and other grass
piled on. A much quicker method than
using the palms of the hands ia to have
a bow with' a leather thong stretched qn
it me spina le is nxeu wttn one turn
around it and made to revolve very fast
In the notch of the Underwood.
THE HOMICIDAL MAX1A
In a quarrel over some stray horse
a Montana rancher killed another near
It uraa A n TTMlahom ,r ntAA-w I BUllnra. Buadav. THa mrl 1 1 mm'm mm f mm.A
Volga and up In the Valdai hills little j an lt times almost bottomless roads. J 8-year-old son witaeaned th tragedy. On
Russian children are eating bread made I Dayton waa eight miles away and Wood- be same day. la California, a Mrk
Of leaves and straw. Tneir xatners may Kurn ig. g. p-ni wfelrli waa but seven I ectool boy conf eased that be had kiUad
be isnorant peasant or Bolsheviks, but I .iu. dlatant. waa on th ooooalta aidaia man for the trivial oftemae of caHlnc
the lltOe children are paying the price. I ot tyit river. In 1882 I hired J. Chin asmos and ordering him away from
and hundreds of thousands of tnem win i coooer to survey a townslte. I BU rmnr. on the aame day cnt-
di before the aan rises In the' aspens I t. ti xx?rA.-.rA ..it t M lea so man killed his wife la th
and birches that line the Volga next Indiana toe:ether and lived In th earn I OI " U-year-oid aarnter, tfc atro
spring. What ha the Volga to do with 1 house st Dayton th first winter we I c4ou' crime being coram It led In dte
VlrgU Hinshaw? Wbat connection l I came. He founded the Newberg Graphic I pat CTT mom tr,n'n dotntlc differ-
there between Newberg and isisani-.-ov-rorod.
or between the rolling hills of the
Chehalem valley and the trembling
marshes of Astrskhan? Virgil Hinshaw
lives at Newberg. He belongs to the
Society of Friends. He is chairman of
ence.
and published lt until a year or so ara
a i im spokeman-Kvkrw nas nevor tiai a
'Jess Hobson wa one of th first 1 1 accord urith critics who ar forevwr
settlers to come. Dr. Ellss Jaasup vu I finding fault with our educational ye-
another. Where a few member of th I tern. It has often wondored. however.
Society of Friends go and do well they If the di treating fact that w are
the committee that Is raising funds to soon gather others around them. Two homicidal nation may not b traceable
purchase a carload of flour from the t years after I had the townslte surveyed
rrhehaiem Valley mills to be sent to I we started Pacific academy. Dr. H. 1.
famine stricken peasants living in the I Jdinutorne, now Of Newport, Or was I canon, ime men ana wotnavi vm raw
I to some defect ta the odncatlo of
I young poopl. Somewhere along the edu-
mlt crime ot violeac have picked oa
false conception of rights and ameni
ties. Too many young men. in particu
lar. Kara been made ta believe, or hav
mad themselves belnsve. that they are
Valdai hill district in Russia. Women I th first principal, and hi wife wa his
and children to whom America la but I assistant Dr. M in thorn soon had Tad
name will treasure the memory of I and Bert Hoover and their sister com
Newberg and will wonder about th Che- I here. They attended 'school her for
vaiMM ..,n w m tK. 1 1 fm . anatalnlna- I awn. mm Tm. A w. m m nrlnt.v mwmA
flour wiu bear on each sack th legend. I secured an Interest in tne Newberg I w " 1 T 'Z7
TT. 1. m .mUMln mmsmmm, miA I "IM wr awUT mw I ia vu. PW uuiw
lives In California. Bert ha traveled
all over the world and la now a member
of President Harding's cabinet.
"Chehalem Valley Mills. Newberg. Ore
gon, U. 8. A."
Uncle Jeff Snow Says H
Now that it's settled, that. $200,000
ain't too much to pay fer a seat in the
U. S. senate, pervided yoa git your
brother-in-law to. advance the cash.
there's a lot of people that'll be barred
out from, runnln', even with -all their
relatives a-chippin' in. It absolutely
put Into the discard anybody whatso
ever from' the Corners, betn's all of us
put -together and all our back East
klnfolks hain't got slch an amount of
credit at the banks. . The next thlngd
rter be a new amendment to the eon
stdtution of . the United State 'pervid-
in' fer th sal of seat to- th highest
bidder fer spot cash. so' lo rejuce tax
ation and cut out the temptln'f the
common herd to "ten their votea." TJncJe
Sam might git him a ex try billion or
so in the court of ten year or slch
matter with a reform alone that,' line.
I spent a day at Newberg last week
and visited many of th old-time rest-
dent there. I spent aa hour or so
with Jesse Edwards, founder of the
town of Newberg. He told me of its
day of beginnings. "I cam to Oregon
In 1880." said Mr. Kdwsrda. i spent
th winter of 1880-81 at Dayton.- The
next spring I bought from Peter Hagey
the farm on which the City ot Newberg
Is now located. My first porch aa was
184 acres, for which I paid 825 aa acre.
The main street ot Newberg ts located
Tn 1888 I went to Philadelphia to
raise money for our school and whOe
there I Interested others of our denomi
nation to com ' to Newberg.' Shortly
after starting the. aula of lot In our
new townslte, Mr. Hobson and I started
a store under th firm nam of, Hobson
a- Edwarda We took-over the poet of
fice, changing th nam from Neberg
te Newberg. -.W received owr man from
Portland on boneback. Marion George
on part of this tract, and the business I was the mall carrier. Among our early
lots are valued at $100 a front foot. I customers were Sebastian Brutarher,
which is some change from $2S aa acre I David Ramsey. Richard Everest. L F
A little later I purchased 50 acre more, I Hall. B. Heater. Mra Sarah Deakin and
a few othera We built oar first build
ing for th academy in '1884.
.
"X wa married May It, 1870. to Mary
Kemp. Our eldest son, C J. Edward.
Uvea at Tillamook. Our next son, W. F.
Edwarda. live at Vancouver and Is
rotary ef th Port of Vancouver. O. K.
Edwarda our next aou. ta a farmer and
George Ramsey,- brother of judge I has a ranch near Pvrryxu. Our daugb-
Ramsey. lived here, aa well as R. I ter. Mabel. I now Mrs. M. M. Tork.
Everest- When I bought my farm II -"Tea, I hav lived- three eoore year
found that it had been farmed r long I and ten and hay seen th town I
without rotation of crops or without I founded grow from a store and poet-
building up th depleted son that It efSc to a prosperous tad growing city.'
and still later I bought 124 acre.
e a . .
; "When.! cam here thar was a store
with postoffic half a mil away.- Th
postofflc was called Neberg. There
was a gristmill on the stream here,
owned by David Ramsey, whose son.
Judge W. S. Ramsey, now live at Mo-
Mtnnvule. wberw. h practice law.
violenoe r daadly weapon torn trifling
Injury or affront to their vanity. They
mistake weakness for strength ana
strength for wee knees They engage la
quarrels over nonessentials and m
bitter feelings of anger wbm
of correct education, using that
In its broader meaning, dismiss such
trifle from serious consideration and
laugh off trifling affront that throw
wrong-minded persons Into a aurdrrou '
awua -
Probably t per cent ot the crime of .
this or any other country. If traced to -
It origin, would be found to oe tn
erf ecu of fale educatioa. Of course,
the murderous and criminal ideas ar
i.ot Udght in th public schools, but
they find lodgment to youthful mmd
as weed sd find Ignat In fertile
soil. It may well be asked if our edu
cational -ryrtara ha not lost sight of
th need of th weeding proesa.
It I sometime said that this country's
high statistics of homicide ar attrtbt
abl to Its large foreign popoUooa. but
that I refuted by th fact that th
cotmtriea from which thaaa foreign la
ment ar drawn hav few homicide.
Th evil sums mdlgrneua, not axotl.
PARADOXICALLT STATED '
Our Idea of a do friend ts
who vQ loosen up occaaionaSTa