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ma.y ba seen still in the shock from
the window ofthe dinlnr car wherein
the traveler Is assured by the menu
that bread may be had by payins;
an extra charge. :i,-;v '.- j,:
Bat Instances of this kind are not
f onnd In our neighbor - nation only.
The complaint . from all America-is
that of the farmer who sets little
money for his products and of the
city . man - who gets little in the
wsy of farm products for his money,
The consumer In the. city, it is
slowly dawning upon us, is not the
beneficiary of the condition that
xompels the farmer to trade several
cowhides for one pair of shoes and
that still .demands of him for farm
machinery almost the war price to
cultivate crops that will scarcely sell
at any price.' ' . .
Meantime a conference is to be
held at Washington, D. O, beginning
January 2 a. to consider the farmer
emergency. It might not be a bad
idea for the city consumer to par
tlclpate-in it.
Between the stations of production
and consumption the two interests
might find la the overload- imposed
dt me cost or distribution a part
of the reason why times are slow,
with some people out of work and
hungry when there is abundant food
on the farms for all and enough
necessary work undone to furnish
every unemployed man a Job.
should compel every effof to make
it feel Itself a welcome member of
Oregon's sisterhood of counties.'
This slogan is Indicative of a feel
ing that Lake county and its resi
dents look upon themselves as neg
lected. It is a challenge to friendly
Interest that-should not be 'overlooked.
STAN FIELD RESIGN?
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THE OREGON DAILY . JOURNAW PORTLAKD, OREGON.
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DOING THEIR BIT
8TABBINQ THE REPUBLIC
piIOMA8 8WEENET contenda thst
irrigstsd lands on the Ochoco
project are held by speculators at a
' Prohibitive price. .
Farming Is difficult enough with
ut being further handicapped by
ioosted land value. Every added
dollar put on the price of land in
creases the eot of production on the
farm, and It la Wmu a mi) nt
troduction reaches and even passes
Qts sals price et products that sgrl
Culture Ja in straits.
. The financing of irrigation projects
or late' in EasUrn Oregon has been
on an aTtravaarant Kaata Cnm nin.
eontrscts and low prices for project
bonds have added enormously and
unreasonably to Xhe cost of the landa
It was good bargaining by the finan
ciers but bad for Oregon agriculture.
And whH to the over-coat of 'fi
nancing there is added the 'tithes
that speculators demand, the settler
Is at ones confronted with costs and
overneaa ana v interest psysaents
likely to arorram him 'for ulUmste
bankruptcy. The one great ebdeavor
, in America' on,' which the speculator
, ahould be' prevented from Jawing his
bllghtlas hand U agriculture. " ,
To compensate for the cost-' plus
rontracU and costly flnancingiorthe
Ochoco project' it 1 proposed for
Japanese to be colonised for operat
Ing the landa j, This is a distinct
lowering of American taadarda In
stead of peopling the proJecVwlth
American farrHles whoso living
standards will call for manufactured
goods and other articles of a white
' civilization. It la proposed for farms
to be oceuplediby Japanese families.
living In shaeks, 'subsisting on rice
end consuming little. Instead of
adding to white civilisation it is pro
posed to undermine white drill
Hon with an alien civilisation under
the lower standards of alien civilian
tlnn.
The attitude of theAraerlcn Le
sion land settlement committee In
resisting this sort of thing la abso
CENATOR 8TANFIELD, In a pub
lie statement, says hs will not
resign.
Of course not. He is not the man
to let that blow fall upon the good
people of Oregon. He would be the
last to desert his post and expose
his constituents to the wiles of the
predatory lnteresta
how could our farmers put in
their crops if t the senator were not
In Washington. Chicago and Denver
to get money for them with which
to finance their operations? What
would the War Finance corporation
do without our senator to tell them
what's what and who's who in fi
nanclng Oregon agriculture? Aren
the -pocketbooks and bank accounts
of farmers all over the state bulg
ing with government . bank notes
which the great agricultural senator
has procured for them?
8tanfield resign? Is this a day of
miracles' and blood on the moon?. Is
It right to pull a good man down
with suggestions that he resign at
the very moment of his greatest
usefulness? Didn't he make a great
maiden speech In which he told the
misguided farmers that the meat
packers' organization was the great
est invention for making livestock
men rich since the dawn of time?
And are the livestock men not all so
rich under the benign Influence of
the packers that they do not know
What to do with their money?
" It Mr. Stanfteld should resign wh
wouia Become of our sheep upon a
thousand hills?
. Who. then, would stand up In the
senate and defend too exposed and
Innocent meat packers from mis
chievous and misguided legislation
by the bloodthirsty "farmers' bloc"?
N A Uledgre that if 1200,000 is
t raised . in Oregon an additional
$100,000 will be contributed by the
Presbyterian church of the United
States, Its friends, and alumni are
engaged in an endowment drive for
Albany college. -
A contribution of $5000 hSk already
been made by. one wealthy Presby
terian in Oregon. Organization has
been perfected for the drive. As a
preliminary, a meeting was held at
Albany Wednesday evening, with
delegations of Presbyterians in at
tendance from Portland, Salem, Cor-
vallis, Lebanon and other points. '
It cannot be too often stated or
too I much emphasized that an edu
caiea citizensnip is essential to a
successful self-government. The rich
man's property will be safer if there
is a thinking and steady citizenship
which cannot be carried away by
the; illusions and heresies liable at
any time, especially In . the present'
troubled state of the world, to sweep
Over a nation.
In presence of a citizenship suf
ficiently consecrated to public in
tegrity and public duty, no senate
of the United States would have
seated a Newberry. The outrage
upon decency committed in that act
was due to a belief by the senate
majority that the average mentality
and moral convictions of the elec
torate are bo low that the senate
could seat a corruptionlst in a bought
seat and by camouflage lead the
electorate to,acc.ept it.
Before a people universally edu
cated to a high regard for civic
standards, no senate on body of sena
tors would have dared to seat a
COMMENT OF THE
- -STATE PRESS - T
Including the Doctrine of Thou
Shalt Not Steal Tips on the Con
ducting of Auto Tourist Camps
The Rainy Day Cl - of The ?
Dalles: A Retrospect A Boost '
..for. the ; Boy ScoutsWhy ;
Any Arnmment, Anywhere? -Smile
and Be an Op-
' ' tlmtert Gas Taxea 1
f Coauaaafcactoa aaat t 9Aa Iotmi
pablicauoa im tfeia dcpaitaknt atonal to wrfttra
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07 IM OBBBIMtlOB.
CoQulUe Valley Sentinel t We bear a
great deal about teaching ''Americanism'
nowadays and .making foreign born can
didates for naturalisation, acquainted
with our language and our Institutions.
Another thing that is needed 'even more
Is the teaching, of the" commandment
which says. Thou BhaHnot steal.. It
seems to us that failure to respect the
rights of property is far -more rgefteral
than ever before. At any rate robberies
of large sums .axe reported so frequently
that it is far within bounds to say that
millions of dollars are stolen by thou
sands of persons every year in the Unit
ed States. Incredible numbers of peo
ple have seemingly become indoctrinated
with the Bolshevist theory that property
itself is robbery In thia respect the
morale of the American people needs a
tonic. And unless teachers and preach-
eis and editors and business and. pro
fessional men all unite in a drive to pro
mote the doctrine of, property rights, -we
tear the next generation wui xace xar
greater troubles than we do. Industry
and thrift are virtues necessary to prog
ress that need teaching, it is true; but
the incentives to these virtues will ais-
appear unless society is able to protect
its members in the enjoyment of what
they earn and save.
HOME RULE FIRST
man whom a federal court had con
victed of Corrupt use of money and
sentenced to the penitentiary.
A Christian citizenship issues from
such institutions as Albany college.
The composite mind from such in
stitutions is shocked by the New
berry insult. A nation made up of
minds so trained would never tolerate
a public and official outrage whose
whole effect is to put a very low
appraisal upon public morals and
public conscience.
A contribution to Albany college
and like Institutions is good national
Insurance. It strengthens the titles
to property. It helps abolish New
berrys, it purifies public thought
It will help minimize the woes of
mankind.
fpiIE papers were full of such head--
lines as "Organized Gang Robs
Many Homes and 8tores" and "Epi
demic of Motor Stealing Hits City."
One night a farmer was called .out
of bod to hitch up his team and pull
from the ditch a fairly large car
whose lights had failed in a bad
place. Two boys were driving it. A
UttU later one of them returned,
saytng they had run the motor off
the highway again and smashed it.
Could they borrow the farmer's car?
He loaned It to them.
' The boys failed to return the ma
chine. But In a few days they were
picked up across the border of a
neighboring state, peddling merchan
dise and knick-knacks.
Officers followed the back trail.
The car they had smashed had been
stolen. Four other stolen cars were
found covered up In straw stacks.
The stuff they had been selling was
the loot of stores and homes.
They were the "organised band"
and the 'epidemic." The oldest was
II. '
The father of the boys was a clti-
Mma woo naa . nn vrv t i.
!HL ' ?Und' Th- flnncln of V " reforms. .He had been so busy
irrigated projoct. and the settllnc organlam the community'o conduct
f those projects should be. ab -u . that he had lacked time to learn
iaa, on a Dam in wnicn a
white population would people the
farina and build churches and school
houses and live along the line to
strengthen rather than weaken
American cltlaenahip.
To turn over American agriculture
to alien races by squeezing American
farmers out of the business is to
trtke at the very heart of the re
public. '
Thero are certain of our stylos
which look forlorn in the midst of
a cold snap, but the prevailing mode
of dressing milady's hair assuredly
renders eannuffs superfluous.
Vrom
BEEF TO BEEFSTEAK
A wwauian farmer fed more
- man tieeo worth of feed to
certain steers. He paid the hired
man. Ho shipped; tho animals to
market In Chicago. When he paid
the freight he had tlSf left to com
ponsato for food. . time, wages and
worry. . -
Thero was a time when beet on
the hoot sold la Canada for 4 cents
a pound. Tho price ranges around
7 rents bow;
But there has hot within memory
ro a time wIm,, a steak , worth
ordering could T had for less than
II on a Canadian dining car on the
very road that depends . upon tho
prosperity of the farmer. ; ' ; -
?nero are wide wheat fields ta
what his own boys were doing.
V at a a.
uw community inereupon as
sumed the responsibility for the boys'
conduct In a reform school.
oanaitry is a symptom. Back of
It are the causes. Society is prone
to take things as a matter of course
and Is not alert In going back to find
the whys of lawlessness .to youth.
In consequence ope. of our . biggest
problems, tho excesses Of boys and
girls In their teens, has no adequate
analysis to ascertain causes and the
character of remedy to apply. The
most wo do Is to establish a Juvenile
court or soma other functionary and
aiiow it to go at that.
Meanwhile, Mors and more boys
ana girls go astray. And when you
study the above case and thousands
of Others that are exactly Uko It you
realise that It U not the boys alone,
but parents, who must shoulder tho
responsibility for tho growing trage
oies or youth.
A CHALLENGE
THE GREAT DEBATE
A CHICAGO man Js NBUcd.. for di
i vorce by his wife because he is
so intensely devoted to his business
that he has little time for his home,
as recently, recounted on this page.
He is a slave to. his business, going
early to his office and remaining at
his work until late in the evening.
, Two wives have come to his de
tense. One says: . .
' There are only a few men so devoted
to duty that this man ought to be made
a shining example) by the commendation
t the devorce .court.
The other: ... ;
Had this man been m the front line
trenches Instead of on the firing line of
business in these unquiet times, his over-
Whelming devotion to duty might have
won him the Croix de Guerre or the Dis-
uiiuianea service cross.
More, his wife would have reverenced
him. I But out of uniform, yet not less on
Ore righting line, she puts her pleasure
ahead of necessity. She is unworthy of
ner nussaiHL .
But discussion does not end with
these views, though undeniably they
Possess a certain, convincing quality,
- The soldier who goes' over the top
does so in the name of God, home
and country. Home is looked to as
the backbone of loyalty and an altar
Of reverence. Who permits tho dis
solution of home for any cause aban
dons the bulwark of defense against
dangers more Insidious than those
that threaten the present passing
episode of business.
He commits another offense, pe
culiarly personal. By - "overwhelm
ing devotion to duty" he denies him
self the recreation without which
any business man becomes an inef
ficient He 'loses that compensation
for his effort Which Is paid with the
clasp of a baby's arms and by the
tender touch of a wife's affection.
The man whose devotion to duty
causes him to forget home wins the
same result as tho profligate who
deliberately neglects home. He
ought to change his schedule.
But In a man who works so hard
thero must be qualities such as to
make the divorce court a poorly se
lected remedy for his wife's grievance.
wrpHE county that Oregon forgot."
eucn is uo slogan of tho re
organised Lake County Chamber of
commerce. - - -
Tho pertinence of this query Is de
batable. of course, in other sections
of tho state, but tho significant fact
is that ft should o voiced at an.
rit is a query that Portland .should
exert its every effort to nullify. The
very remoteness of Lake county
Letters From the People
Wouldn't It ba fina now If lit waatfca
WOUld dear un and rmln Ilka fun for m
iew hours f . -. v, .. - .
' Oregon City Banner-Courier : We are
being informed now by an eminent au
thority that mind is hereditary, and that
in the event the parents are dishonest.
their offspring will be dishonest, and if
the i parents are honest, their children
will be honest. If the parents are ig
norantwhy should the children not be
ignorant? It is purely amatter of mind.
If the child can be taught that the world
u not sauare. why cannot the child be
taught that stealing is not square? U
the child can be taught that it will be
punished if It puts its hand in a fire,
why cannot it be taught that it will be
punished if puts its hand in someone
else's pocket? It is all a" matter of
teaching and the enforcement of princi
ples. Nature a laws are never oroiten
without punishment tnere is no way to
avoid the penalty. If society's laws were
always enforced, the result would show
immediately. Action and reaction of the
children of criminals comes more from
training and environment than any
hereditary traits of character, wnen
we come to know what mind really is,
we will know more about how to di
rect it-
Albany Democrat: The automobile
camps of the West remain the marvel
of the Eastern tourist who gives himself
the experience of motoring to the Pa
cific coast and back. The state board
of health of California has published in
one of its bulietins the state code of
regulations for all camps, whether pro
vided by cities, counties, institutions or
individuals, and whether free or with
fees attached. These regulations are
comprehensive and appear to leave no
loonhoM for insanitary conditions or
unsightly confusion. In addition to the
usual health measures relating to purity
of water supply, sewage and garbage dis
posal and fly prevention, the stats code
requires the employment of at least one
caretaker in each camp and adequate
supervision to insure healthfulneaa and
orderliness within the boundaries of the
camping site. Some of the California
canrns have other attractiona There is
a clubhouse and reading room at Marys
vine with shower bath for dusty ana
weary traveler The cooking arrange
ments vary somewhat, from wood-burning-
stoves or . gas plates in open cook
houses up to a screened kitchen in one
camp. Camp tables and benches are
usual and electric lighting is rather
frequent. All of this Is good business
and good advertising. It is also very
good hospitality, as many travelers from
other sections will testify. "When will
Eastern communities follow the fine ex
ample?
FOR FINANCING THE PAIR
Enthusiastic Supporter Outlines a Plan
tor Stock Subscription. - .
Portland. Jan. 18. To the Editor ' of
The Journal Oregon has gone on rec
ord io invite the world to the I92S ex
position, to iie oown now would make
Oregon the laughing stock of the coun
try. Politics made its appearance by
a few men to gain political notoriety by
proclaiming . their interest in the peo
ple, to protect them from over-taxation.
They went bo far and prevented the
resolution being" put on the ballot for
the people to .decide. What right have
taey to say shall not be put to a
statewide vote? Unfortunately, we have
men in politics who would oppose any
thing good, just to show their power In
politics. . ::.
The writer has come in contact with
the men on the exposition committee,
who have worked hard, neglected their
own business ; and spent their own mon
ey, not from a selfish standpoint, but
for the good of this great state of Ore
gon.
If a tax is placed on property there
will be a howl; if on gasoline there
will be a howl. So It is the same with
any method -of taxation. Personally,
believe a property tax is a just plan.
However, since there is bo much oppo
sition to taxation, why not submit
plan .like San Francisco's In 191S-rals
the money by selling bonds? I believe
there Is enough faith in Oregon to buy
this amount ss.000,000. Railroads, busi
ness houses. ,- fraternal organizations.
labor unions and all good citisena would
subscribe, and if a drive were put OA,
with lota of pep, similar to the Com
munity Chest and Red Cross, the
amount could be raised in one week.
Some say the cost of selling bonds
would be about 10 per cent. Well, it
would be worth it ; or the banks might
be persuaded to handle it. I would like
to see the newspapers boost this meth
od by asking the public to take a straw
vote and state the amount they would
buy.
The 'bonds could be made payable in
two years. Id monthly or quarterly payments.
In conclusion, I hope the committee will
find some method to finance this great
proposition- that will be satisfactory to
all, and we know it will be a big suc
and a benefit to the state of Ore
gon. Then these pessimists will hang
their' heads in shame or move- out of
Oregon and make room for some good,
live boosters. James B. Rogers.
FRIDAY", JANUARY 20. 1222.
COMMEN7VAND NEWS IN BRIEF
SMALL CHAN 3H
Go to tha ant Ihnn ilumnl t- -a
vice we cansail take by going to the
Befora an A nrinr i v.- ..
German efficiency : ever since,- it has
been the German deficiency. .
a a a
The way Soma folks u wiwia
SOUndS like a Stutterer tnrtnr tn m.lta.
us understand that he's hurt. - - '
- - .-- .
, One of our contemporary sentimental
ists tells us that romance is Just around
the corner. So or was normalcy. -
Detroit has confiscated a lot of saloon
rurniture and doesn't know what to do
with it. .because there Isn't - anybody
that candrink furniture. .
a. -a - a,'--.. ;. .,-
some of these women who get all
dressed UO With no nlaxa tn an miiat faol
terribly silly when they sit down on a
... '
Tou can read any meaning you choose
into tne headline which said: "Skipper
of boose boat faces flock of grave
vraw cnarges la right I
a - a ...a i
niniusauur ueorge narvey waa
reuaerea gpeecniess for over an hour in
tnat automobile accident And to think
?k a, things George must bays
"i""" uu vouioo t say emi -,
. ::; .- ; - sidelights " :
. Birth control Is doomed. The poor
dont believe in It, and the rich need the
income tax exemption. Medf or Mali-Tribune.-
" ' , .
- ' - " a " a " a "
They used to aav'it was the'lneeraoll
watch that made the dollar famous. 11
u naa been content with that, the Inger
seli company might have kept out of
bankruptcy. Hood River News.
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'The income tax nermtta iia ta dadiMt
What We Civa tai tha Innt If It vmiM
also permit one to deduct what he pays
uia utro me revenue from ue income
tax wouio oe mi. Polk County Itemiser.
- - a a a ..'-.'
Perhaps' the ' source of Nca-kam'i
Strength in the United States senate.
wnicn has resulted in his success at
last, lies m the knowledge of other Re
publican senators that their seats are
tarred with the same stick. Athena
Press.
Of SO the Iniquitous vocations in the
world,-that of dope peddler Is the worst.
Compared to him, the bootlegger almost
takes on a virtuous hue. unless, per
chance, he be one of those bootleggers
who pass out deadly poison for liquor.
Astoria Hudget.
.
The ' agricultural bloc 'in congress is
being condemned as though It were near
criminal for a group of national law
makers to stand up for the farmer.
What about the Wall street bloc, the
tariff bloc the packer bloc and ti Kn.
berry bloc? Pendleton East Oregonian.
Kona
t The Oregon Country i
be a
TSapantan ta Brtaf fa
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
ON KEEPING YOUNG
Keep young by associating with
! ! .young things,
' Tho newspapers are the youngest
.bora every, day.
SUCH la tho message of John H.
Patterson, veteran founder of tho
National Cash Register company, to
tho IMM workers of tho organiza
tion in all parts of tha world, on his
seventy-ninth birthday anniversary.
After 10 days at a Michigan resort
and a' visit to Washington, where ho
attended tho open sessions of the
arms limitation conference, afr. Pat
terson returned to Dayton, on tho eve
of bis birthday. . . ... .
; This re maskable man retains youth
and vigor by maintaining a lively In
teres, in. tho affairs of .tho world, and
in his message te his, burin ess col
leagues offers such interest as - j
maxim for success. . ; ..
! Tour newspaper brings, the world
to your door every day. Cultivate It,
The Dalles Chronicle: Glancing
through the files of the Chronicle of the
year 1897, Just 25 years ago, In one of
the April issues we found that the Rainy
Day club had bolstered up courage to
make its first appearance en masse upon
the streets, dressed according, to the club
objective. In "short" skirts. The -item
mentioned that the skirts of the daring
members were not less than five inches,
nor. more than six -inches, . above the.
ground, the one inch difference having
been allowed probably as a concession to
the varying degrees of courage Of the
club's personnel.
What a difference today! Twenty
five years ago the altitude of ..the hem
wa based upon the 'depth of the mud
puddles, while today the unit of measure
ment is based upon the distance Of the
ncneecap from the sidewalk.
La Grande Observer: There was a Boy.
Scout play In La Grande a few nights
ago, and there is a great sight if one will
only go to school and see the youngsters
there. In other words, take an invoice of
La Grande children. The Scouts are
tine and the school kids ara of the
best. They are the men and women of
tomorrow and they will gradually take
their places in La Grande's affairs. That
bunch of Boy Scouts are almost well
enough seasoned to run things very Well
now, but the next few years will5 add
the finish which will mean responsi
bility, fearlessness and right thinking.
We wonder if the parents of La Grande
ever visit the schools : if they ask Scout
master Pryke how the boys are getting
along? Or have we reached a point
where we think we pay out taxes, and
money Should do it all? If that is the
idea, it is a wrong Idea. Money win
only do so much. It will only provide
for the expenses.
Listen, if this nation breaks down -
and God forbid any such ending of this
great republic it will be. due wholly to
the breaking down of the American
home.' That's something to think about.
Benton County s Courier " Now ' that
there is such a movement Or foot as
the limitation of naval armament, why
will it not be possible to carry good
idea a little farther and place a similar
limitation en , the land forces of the
world. When one only thinks : of. the
BO-sorae-odd cents of every dollar going
for payments of wars already fought
and in preparation for other wars still
to come, and then remembers the amount
of tax assessed against him. be surely
must hope for these limitations and wish
them godspeed.
a. a . . .
Blue Mountain7 Eaglet This Is the
land of promise and opportunity. Let's
keep a smile on our face and our. eyes
to the rising sun.; we live in a good
country and among good people with
lots of opportunity. Our progress win be
in the nature: of development; it will be
forward, and let's keep ia step and not
entertain the Idea that because things
are not Bke they used to be they are all
wrong. . -
s Wheeler Reporter: If the tax on gas
and automobiles Is Increased much more
the road question will solve itself, as
only a few would, have enough money
after pay leg taxes to operate a car.
DOCTOR AND PATIENT
A Sort of Parable Concluding With a
Recommendation Financial.
Oakland. Jan. 13. To the Editor of
The Journal The world of industry was
sick; bo I will characterise it as "the
patient" Dr. Reform was called and
he proceeded to diagnose the case as
follows: Tou are sunering irom ios
of blood. I will prescribe a dose of or
ganization. The right arm Is tha larm
r. He must organize against the rail
roads, wageworkers, merchants and
mills. Tour left arm is the railroads.
The must orzanise against the farmer,
labor, merchants and mills. Tour right
leg is labor. Labor must -organize
against the farmer, merchants, rail
roads and mills. Tour left leg is
the milling Industry, ana it must or
ganise against the other Industriea
Every other part of the body is made up
of different enterprises that must or
ganize against the other industries of
the land."
The patient did not recover, so Dr.
Reform, was called again. He laid
"The medicine did not work." The rail
roads had a deficiency. The farmer
needed money" to pay interest and ex
penses. The wageworkers were Jobless
and' their families starving and the mills
were closed for want of Ordera The
doctor turned the patient over and found
a number of leeches fastened on his
back. He examined the leeches and said :
-These are the leeches that have been
tucking the Hfeblood of Industry' for
thousands of yeara They have never
produced anything yet, but live by blood
sucking. They are called "high interest
money." The only way to remove this
pest is to vote for a president and con
gress that will take the circulating me
dium (money) out of the hands of pri
vate corporations and put it in circu
lation, keeping it in circulation at the
same unchangeable ratio and at a very
low rate of Interest In other words, you
can scrape the leeches from your back
bv the use of the ballot Then you can
throw away the organization medicine
and every article of trade will seU ac
cording to the law . of supply . and de
mand. Every industry will thrive ac
cording to its merits and the people who
produce will be rewarded for their Jabor
and the leech family wiu die out
W. B. Ewittg.
"Mike" Reagan, editor and publisher
of the Albany Herald, ia in Portland
shaking hands with his newspaper
friends. He started life as a Texas
cowboy, graduated into a Job as a
school teacher, became circulation man,
advertising man. reporter and eventually
editor. He has been very active in civic
affairs. Some folks don't like him, and
there is a reason, for he is on the
warpath all the time against waste and
extravagance in city and county affairs.
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Colonel Carle Abrams, business man
ager of the Statesman Publishing com
pany of Salem, Is in Portland on busi
ness. Colonel Abrams spent his boy
hood at Lincoln, in Polk county, where
his father had a mill. He enlisted in the
Spanish-American war and worked nn to
lieutenant colonel, serving through the
wona war in that capacity. He waa
stationed at Winchester. England, where
rookies were licked into shape for serv
ice in the battle sone.
George Putnam, editor and . publisher
of the Capital Journal, former owner of
the Medford Tribune, and prior to that
a member of the editorial staff of The
Oregon Journal, Is In Portland, wearing
his fighting togs, and Is camped on
the trail of the high cost of living, lav
ing and loving, particularly as regards
tne cost ox print paper, of which he is
using an Increasingly large amount as
the circulation of his paper increases.
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VTt P. Kenney, vice president and
director of traffic of the Great Northern
railway, and JA. J. Costello, Western
traffio manager, are at the Multnomah
notel en route to Ban Francisco.
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Mrs. I. A. Bootn and her children of
The Dalles are registered at the Im
perial.
--Daring the past few days tha big mill
of the WiUanaette Lumber company at
Dallas has sent to Portland several car
loads of huge "Japanese squares" for
shipment t Japan, . v -
' Modal hen houses, designed Is' be used
In suburban districts where a limited
amount of ground is available, ara being .
constructed by disabled soldiers at Ore
gon Agricultural college.
. " A depth of SOla faet has bn reached
by the drill tn the Lower Columbia Oil
ana use company's well near Astoria, -shdwing
a formation of hard browa
shale, carrying streaks of lime.
The. city of ' Albany Is Dirmrinr to
float bonds to pay money which is due '
on 11 projects In the city for paving.
graaing ana outer inuigs war. WUI not
be paid in immediately by the taxpayers.
' When the 1921 legislature passed S
law providing that women shall alt on
Juries, it also Placed on Marlon county .
the necessity of remodeling the Interior
of the courthouse at a cost estimated at '
U.000. . . r : . . ....... ''
Sheriff WarfteM-of Benton county a
few. days ago found a still, 100 gallons
of mash and a ' lot of corn meal and
prunes near the P. & D. Lumber corn
pany's mill, but the owner had dlsap
peared, - ; ' r
Senator J.v W. Cuslck Is president.
Charles H. Cbsk-k vice president, Harry
R. Cuslck cashier, and E: D. Cuslck.
Charles 1L Cueick and Harry B. Cuslck
directors of the bank of J. W. Cusick A
Co. of Albany.
Alex Sparrow, superintendent' of the :
Crater lake national park, reports four -feet
OP snow uLAnna Sorinc ramn and
a foot and a half more five miles above
the lake rim. three feet less than at this
time Last year.
Two new high-pressure boilers are
being installed in the Stoddard Lumber
company mill at Baker, and the mill
which has been closed for some time
will be ready to resume operations la
about a month.
Robert H. Coker. until recently paster
of the First Christian church at La
Grande, has been named bv President
will be $3000 a. year.
' Presentation of the Cordley cup, eon
testa races, a parade and comedy fea
tures, in addition to agricultural ex
hibits, wilt feature the annual agricul
tural fair at Oregon Agricultural college
February and 4.
Certificates of achievement are being
sent out from the office of R C Sey
mour, state club leader, to boys' and
girls' clubs In Oregon which have fin
ished the year with a 100 per cent rec
ord. There are 2&4 such certificates. .
Nine residents of the Camas 'vsller
vicinity have appealed to the circuit
court from the schedule of damages aU
lowed by tha county court in confiscating
land for right of way on the Roaeburg
Coos Bay road, which has been adopted
as a state project
Mra A B. MUlican of Prineville is
registered at the Imperial. Her husband
was a pioneer stockman of Crook county
MUlican, in Eastern Oregon. Is named
for him. Mra MUlican was for many
years a teacher at various Indian agen
ciea Some years ago she went to Eu
gene to study short story writing, ex
plaining that as she had had no op-
80-
H A Winston of Roseburg is
Journing at the Imperial.
a a a
w. L. Webb is down from La Grande
on business.
a a a
F. W. Herres of Ashland is a truest
St the Imperial.
a a a
R. A Booth Is down from Eurene and
Is at the Imperial.
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Earl A Williams of Pendleton is a
Portland business visitor.
a a .
3. E. Purdy of Bend is a truest at tha
Cornelius.
a a
A. E. Toung of Eugene Is a ruest it
the Corneliua
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Mr. and Mrs. H Welgle o'f Astoria
are Portland visitors.
a i a
E. B. Brvson of Rii
at the Cornelius.
a a a
E. J. Nyman of Astoria is transacting
business in Portland.
a a a "
Mr. and Mra R. W. Kellogg of Oak
land are registered at the Imperial.
BIG JOB FOR THE EX-MOSTE3T
HVrm tha Pmtidenee Jaamal -
The ex-kalser says: "There can be no
talk of Germany's war guilt" How is
he going to atop itt
Curious Bits of Information
Gleaned From Curious Places
"Ned BunUlne," whose real name, was
E. Z. C Judson, had a remarkable ca
reer. He ran away from his home when
11 years old, in 1834, became a sailor and
then a midshipman. At 15 he fought
a duel with seven, midshipmen who had
declined to mess with him. When 1?
years Old Judson served with distinction
in the Seminole war. He became a
hunter in the Everglades, then hurried
Off to the Rockies In the employ of the
Northwest Fur company; turned back to
the Southwest where he married, and
fought more duels, Judson became a
mainstay of the Knickerbocker Maga-
sine in its best years, and was so violent
a begetter of sensational romances that
he once wrote a book or 10 pages in S2
hours. He turned into a patriot with
the Know Nothings, and on account of
his share in the Astof Place riot was
sent to the penitentiary for a year. He
then took himself to the Adirondacks,
which he helped make' classic ground for
sportsmen. He served In the Mexican
Sad- Civil wars. "BunUlne" brought
"Buffalo but" en the stage tn a play he
wrote one w eanesaay arternoon, re
hearsed over the week end and produced
the following Monday. He came to the
end of his career in lSSS. only after he
had written more than 200 volumes of
tumultuous blood-and-thunder.
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Some fellers gits up mighty high In
the world by follertn' one Idee or - one
schema, but chuck 'em off into a new
field and they hain't got the brains to
outfit A cottontail rabbit There waa a
feller come dow to the Big Sandy in
Texas one .time that wrote books about
bugs fer a college -In - Boston, and us
pore simps down-there thought be was
bugs hisself, or feeble-minded, 'cause he
ast sO many fool Questions and couldn't
be trusted to herd sheep. That feller
d rawed down a salary of about $3000 a
year, and sold books he wrote to help
piece out i a Mvin. . He couldn't -. ride
nuthm but a sawhoss, he oouldn't dance
he couldn't shoot and.be couldn't even
pick cotton. But that feller, got to be
president . of one of ythem colleges up
North and could argufy with the presi
dent ox uo united suites Kisself.
she would do so now that she had the
uviwnunuy. Some years ago she was
quite prominent in club work.
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Among the out of town guests at the
Imperial are IL A. White of Wasco,
C. E. Woodson of Heppner. C. C. Grun
nlng of Oakridge, D. A. Clanton of
Bonneville. F. H. Shepajd of Corvallia,
R, A Stites, Tom Taylor and L. L.
Swift of The Dalles, A R. Shumway of
Milton and S. A. Bundy of Newberg.
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Ivan Stewart former O. A. C. aturiant
now in charge of the agricultural re
habilitation work of the veterai s taking
vocational training, is here from SeatUe
to meet his father, J. S. Mew art now of
Corvallls but formerly editor of the Fos
sil Journal.
a a a . .
ueorge McKay, old-time Wheeler
county stockman but for several years
past a resident at the Perkins, has Just
left for San Diego to spend the winter.
a. a a
B. L. Kidwell of Prinevile Is trans
acting business in Portland and greet
ing former Crook county residents.
a
W. Roberts of Bend Is a guest of the
imperial.
a a a
G. E. Stanfield of Ontario Is regis
terea at the Imperial.
a a a
F. L. Meyers of La Grande is a Port
land visitor.
a a a
George Adams of Astoria is at the
Oregon.
W. A. MoCord of Oakland is regis
tered at tne Oregon.
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W. A Black is here, from Ashland and
is sojourning at the Oregon.
a a a '
Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Jones jot Pendleton
are guests at the Oregon.
a a - a
Emma Wade of La Grande is at the
Perkins. . .
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hart of Houl-
ton are guests at the Perkins
a a a
William Hage of Marshfleld is regis
tered at the Multnomah.
a a a
Mr. and Mra E. G. Romke of Cres
cent are guests of the Imperial
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Robert W. Earl of Eugene is In Port
land on business;
J. G. Gore of Medford is taking in the
I eights or Portland.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
Ia this artirJa Judea Sana a IfrUinirctlla
eonnnua hU reeual oi the chief tiU of hi
er. A mater of tboaa admiUad to tha bar ia
tha earlier yean. of Oregon is rin and is rv
taarkmsla for the hstorioal interest it oarries.
Judge William- M. Ramsey has been
practicing law more than 50 -rears in
'Oregon. I visited him recently at his law
orrice in McMinnville and he told me
of some of the attorneys' he had known
in the '80s. The first attorneys admitted
to tne bar in- Oregon were admitted at
the December, 1&5L terra, of the Oregon
territorial supreme court They were
the following i . W. W. Chapman, Colum
bia Lancaster, A E. Walt Jesse Quin
Thornton, J. B. Chapman, Cyrus Olney,
v. a. Brenan. Simon B. Marye. W. T.
Mattock, Alexander Campbell, J. B.
Preston and Edward Hamilton." At the
next term there were admitted, among
others, . the following men who helped
make history in Oregon: Reufien P.
Boise. Joseph G. .Wilson. J. K. Kelly,
David Logan. Mathew P. Deady. A C
Gibbs and A L. Lovejoy. In 1851 two
were admitted at the June term : P. Q.
Marquam and Benjamin Stark. At the
December term Lafayette G rover, B. F.
Harding, Riley Stratton and Ell M.
Bamum were admitted. Among other
attorneys admitted in Oregon's terri
torial days were Stephen - F. Chad wick,
Delaxon 8mith,'Sylvester Pennoyer, B.
F. Bdfihani, A. -'J. '-Thayer.'" Lansing
Stofit George .H-WIIliams. Chester N.
fTerryy George' Bi Corry: and John Mo-
Brtdew'- , r
- ' - a - a .
To look through 'the roll of the lawyers
admitted during the first 10 years of
Oregon's statehood, from 1830 on, is like
calling the roll of Oregon's distinguished
cittaena Among the. well known at
torneys admitted during that period are
sucn, men as ueorge L. woods, E. D.
Shattuok. J. IL Mitchell. 'William LaJr
Hilt O. N. Denny. William Waldo. Rufus
atauory. Joseph Easton, JessO A Apple
fate, Th & Knight. -a BV BeDlnger. J.
N. Dolph. Richard' Williams, H. W. Scott,
George P: Holman. J. H. Slater. T. H.
Brents,- Blnger Hermann. ' C; A Dolph,
W;JP.-.lard,:-W. O. -rvault, -W, M.
Ramsey and many v other. Well known
lawyerai.":- -' :.. . ,; - :
:. v'v. ,.aa "a. .".-. 'W..., .
"When I was a stadent at McM ion villa
eoUege f n the ,S0s, a schoolmate of T.
A McBrlde and George H. Burnett
both ' of whom 5 are now on the state
suprera beach, thero used to be a man
named William Toney -running a hotal
here." said -Judge Ramsey, "He Is still
a resident of McMinn-mie, though up ia
bis nineties. Why dont you see hlmt
He can tell you a lot about the old-time
students of the college : here. ; I . was
admitted to the bar 52 Tears tro.
todk my law - library under .my arm
and went to "Lafayette and ' KSng out
my abiaele. X had just come of age.
I-was anxious to get ahead bo I could
Set married, so I accepted the nomina
tion for county Judge on the Democratic
ticket when it was offered ma ' Running
for office on the Democratic Ucket wae
not a profitable pastime in those dara
iur not a .Democrat had been elected
in Yamhill county since the close of the
Civil war. I broke the spell, and although-
I was only 23 years old' I won
out and became epunjf Judge. Jest
prior io my election I was married to
atlas Mahala A. Harris.. I served four
years as county Judge.
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'Ta lt7i I moved to Salem and became
a partner of B. F. Bonn am, the firm
being Booham & Ramsey. His son Rafe
is in charge of .the Immigration depart
ment with . headquarters at Portland.
fare married one of Attornev w u
Holmes' daughters, while Bert Hanev
married his ' other daughter. When
rresldent Cleveland appointed B. F.
tsonnam consul general at Calcutta.
became a 'partner of G.. O. Bingham
who had - married my wife's . sister.
While in Salem I became the first dean
or toe Willamette university law school.
I also served as mayor of the Capital
ity i or two yeara
a a a
nn 1888 I moved to Pendleton. John
BenUey was sheriff. William Martin was
county Judge and Walter M. Pierce
county clerk at that time. J. P. Wager.
a brilliant writer, an. eloquent - orator
and a man with a good knowledge of
law, was editor of the East Oreeoniaa.
I rented an office in the East Oregonian
building. I soon met C. S. Jackson, Lot
Livermore, Lee Moorhouse and other
old-timers, as well as J. J. Belleray,
Doug Bailey. Henry 3. Bean and
Charley Carter, attorneys . then prac
ticing at Pendleton. A. D. Stlllman was
a taw student in the office of IX W,
Bailey. After three years ia Pendleton
I moved to La Grande, where I lived
nine yeara,-moving from there to Mo
Mtnnville. I served as supreme Judge
from June L IMS, to June 1. UH.
Returning to McMlnnville, I served as
mayor twice. ...
. '" .. .. a 'a a .. .
- 3 have five children, four by my
first wife. My . daughter Nellie is In
Salem. My next child. Fred, is a
colonel in the United - States marine
corps. He has been tn the service for
SO years and at present is assisting in
administering the government of Kan
Domingo. . - Fred saw service In the
Spanish war and -also In the World war.
My. next boy,- Horace, is a doctor of
divinity and is a member of the faculty
of the Seabary Divinity school at Fari
bault Minn. - Soma yeara-. after the'
death of my first wife l married Julia
A. . Snyder. ... We have one child. Mar-,
garet who is a teacher .ia McMlnnvlllp
college.. , -.-.,-.... .
WASHINGTON
At Taklma durins- 1S21 there vara t8
births, 120 deaths. ST1 marriages and 2
divorces.
Mra. J. W. German, born In tha Tflttitas
valley 51 years ago. died at her home
near Ellensburg last week after a brief
liinesa.
Ollle R. Bass. 27. a mamber af ttaa
Camp Lewis military police, has con-
lessea to oeir.g one or two men who
held up eight poker players at Tacoma
and robbed them of between S700 sad
8CO.
The charred bones found In tha iiim
of the John Rutherford home at Tacoma
nave been sent to -tha University of
Washington for positive identification as
human bone a Rutherford has disap
John Hawkes. a wealthv man llvtns
near Kalama, has been taken Into cus- -
tody on a grand larceny charre. Ha ia
said te have made regular monthly trips
to PorUnd In a covered wagon to dispose
of his loot i
After defying 25 armed offlctala re
ceiving a wound-In the arm and no long
er able to bold the rifle with which be
had held off the posse, John Corwln sur
rendered at BelUngham. lie is believed
to oe insane.
Prune shippers of Walla Walla eountv
have agreed to form a non-profit coop
erative association under the laws of the
state of Oregon, the association to be
known as the Walla Walla Valley Prune
uistriDutors.
At a meeting of agricultural agents
and stockmen in Spokane Friday steps
were taken to inaugurate a state-aide
campaign to eliminate scrub stock and
establish higher standards in the live
stock industry.
Thirty-five boys and girls. 12 to 18
?rears old, invaded a Pentecostal meet
ng at Spokane, broke the windows with
bricks, threw red pepper and rubber on
tne stove ana caused tne congregation
to leave in a state of panic.
Purchase of 14,000 acres of cutover
lands In Northern Spokane and South
ern Pend Oreille counties by the Milam
Farms Development company is an
nounced. The land will be divided into
40-acre tracts and sold to settlers.
?
IDAHO
Gem county won the silver trophy
given for first premium on Turkey Red
wheat at the Idaho State Seed show.
Governor Davis has called a meeting
of the county assessors at Boise Janu
ary is, 20 and 21, to consider the matter
of assessments in 1922.
A petition bearing 700 signatures has
been filed at Twin Falls railing for a
special election within 83 days to vote
on the adoption of a commission form
of government.
Southern Idaho will ship direct to Con
stantinople as soon as shipping orders
can be made out a car of Idaho con
densed milk to be used for the starving
children of the Near East
Out of a total of about $1,800,000 as
sessed against Twin Falls county prop- .
erty as taxes for 1421. approximately
$800,000 was paid before ei piratical of
the last day for payment -of the first In
stallment The office of secretary of state has
netted the general fund of the state et
Idaho in the past year 881,774.02, ae
cording to the records of the auditor's
office. . Receipts of the office were
$103,625.05.
SENATOR NEWBERRY'S PLEA
Proa the Xv York Ercainc Poet
In his speech of defense before the
senate yesterday Senator Newberry re
peatedly declared that he had nothing
to add to what the country already
kxows of the way by which he won his -seat
That statement is evidently cor- .
rect He said nothing to. mitigate the -popular
.condemnation which has been .
meted out to him. If there was anything .
which could have been urged in Justifi
cation of his course, he or his advisers ,
must know what it la His speech, ,
therefore, constitutes the final piece of
evidence against him. The one blight '
spot in it is his declaration that when
h beard that $195,000 had been spent for ;
him in the primary campaign he "was
at once filled with astonishment and re- -gret"
But he was not too much astoa- .
ished or too regretful to go on into the
campaign for election or to take the oath .'
to the - seat to which he had waded
through a flood of funds.- He fails to
give the slightest Indication of thinking
that anything was required of him ba-..
yond astonishment and regret It "was ,
not an ordinary campaign and that was . .
all there was to It
Even now. Mr. Newberry does not ssy '
that too much -was spent . All he ad
mits is that more was spent "than ought
to be necessary to expend in any ordinary
campaign.' The implication of this asser
tion is that ba would not vote te limit
campaign expenditure or would he
limit thero for "ordinary" campaigns? :
His position is that if a candidate or a
candidate's friends think that a given
contest is not aa ordinary campaign, any
expenditure. which they can compass lis
Justified... No man with such a view of
political methods belongs la cxrRgrese.