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HOIDINa U3 BACK THIIE oresent movement is the be finning of a swing back from tho extreme position taken by the Republican party In 1920," Bays Mark Sullivan, well known '-Washington correspondent. In diacusning the growlngentlment for America to be represented atthe Genoa economic conference. Including the demand of the late Agricultural conference that such action be taken. Ife continues: Forces which supported the Republi can position solidly In 1920 are beginning ta.reallse that It la' chiefly lour isolation that stands In the way of the export of "ur crops and other commodities. When Die Harding administration camg into power one of Its first principle and one of It axjleat activities was an attempt to restore foreign trade. Tho war" finance corporation, with an appropriation of half a billion dollars, was set in motion with that specific pur pose and that purpose only. It was in itiated under the most favorable aus pices and with an executive! who would .nave mad tt a success, if any one could. But It was only a few moaths untn Mr. Meyer found the thing was impossible. The foreign consumers' of cotton' and other-American gooda had not the cash to pay even with the American govern ment wtlling and able to finance the transactions. The foreign buyer held off. Ue was unwilling to make commit ment while exchange was subject to vio lent fluctuations, and while all the other political and economic conditions of the international world were so chaotic The 'war ' finance -corporation with drew' from .the efforts tq facilitate ex ports, arid during the hist six months it lias been engaged, with greater success. 1n lending, money to American producers and others, with the purpose of enabling them '.to hold their goods until such a time as , a market should develop. That time dtd not arrive and the farmer and the business man have -come to realize that the Indispensable requisite -of a re stored market for his goods is the eco nomy and. political stabilization of Eu rope. t ... Nations In chaos, political arid eco-nornlo'-and financial, cannot : buy. They have nothing to buy wjth, . . They cannot reorganize their dis organized political, economic and fi nancial resources because they' are bickering with one another over Ger man reparations, military policies n3 many other disturbing influ ences, a. urench government falls today and another is set up tomor row over tho issue of rmaa repa rations. .ineir debts are overwhelming and there la no progress toward pav m en t, because Ipere is economic antf financial chaos. The one nation In which 1I of them have confidence. hd whose leadership could speedily r cftmposo their differences. holds ? aloof with a, timid and fooli-vh re- - lusal to assist Kurope back to sanity . f nd settlement. ; t Wo are paying the prico in a heavy treasure of demoralization at home. Juir markets in; Europe are dead. jVe cannot wU our aurrJusps and swill ntt soil them until European Kovernments and peoples are brought hack to settled policies and mutual understandings. Middle .West farm ers are burning their com as fuel l1o slump to the prices of American farm products is partly due to the fact that' Europe cannot buy. One rauso for tho several million idle Vnen la that our market! for our sur plus manufactured goods In Kurope . la gone. J Wo have followed tho advice of the senate irreconcilables and kcDt rut of Kurope, but we have not kept 3re.,pe out f tho United States. j : A I rUn taiicab driver was rc yrwed because he had charged his fares 200 marks; when tho proper hargo was 90 marks, "If I couldn't overcharge some I wouldn't i be able Jo carry otherrfVt theyregular rates,' ud the driver. This sounds Amerl can. ' In fact, Americana were. In thia Instance, the gouged ones. HER. telFT- HERE Is an incident reported by ono of the Community Chest worker: The first place was a tiny, tumbledown shack,' near, the river. The little woman who opened the door wore a faded, patched calico dress. But I noticed It was spotlessly clean. "Give to the Community Chest? I should say wo wilL It can't be very much, because my husband's wages have been cut three times this winter. But therei are many worse off than we are. I'm glad we're in position to do a little." Shj went to the cupboard and took downj an old cracked teapot. Out came a handful of pennies and nickels (1.23 in alt Tike this," she said, "and God blesa you Sn the good work." It is a beautiful story and a beau tiful j example. Three wage cats for the iusband. still something to give the Chest! If 'only the hand of wealthy Portland could be as open! A sightless man waited at a busy street corner . for some passerby to offer to pilot him across the street One hundred and thirty five persons passed before one stepped out of the moving throng to offer assist ance. And the offer was by a. man in overalls with a Juncheon pail on his arm. Perhaps those who are pinched for means are more generous be cause they know what straitened circumstances mean. They have the contact and "know the cots where poor, men lie and the chores that poor s men do." It Is probably true that those In prosperity and luxury are not con scious of how It fares with many of the humble and are held . back in their gifts to the Chest because. In their own abundance, they have no realization that a few dollars that are a nothing to them are deliver ance and hope, ana almost a pew world to hundreds or even thousands all around them. The little womaji In the humble house knew that her $1.23 Would be a precious thing to somebody. She knew that out In the tiny cot tages here andi there and in the tenements scattered through the city there axe empty cupboards, badly nourished children, beds of sickness and fathers out of work. Hers is testimony that the well-to-do may believe, hers example that it will honor them to emulate. Her little gift Is one of the biggest gifts that will drop into the Chest be cause of the world of meaning that it carries. After It, perhaps many of those who live in luxury will double or treble their contributions. An Oregon woman. Dean Milam of the school of home economics at Oregon Agricultural college, is to organize a home economics depart raent In the University of Pekln." We can see where bird's nest soup in the celestial kingdom will have to eive way to modern cookery, a la Oregon. NOT ON THE TAX ROLLS A VISITING speaker recently re- ferred admiringly to Chicago as a city built by the energy, determin ation and faith of far visioned men upon a foundation of bogs and sand dunes. . But, he admitted, the Chicago men who built a world metropolis could not build Mount Hood. in is is a new and striking way of bringing home to Portlanders the valuation of advantages which na ture has bestowed. The thought may be carried farther: Seattle with her striving over mountain passes toward the in terior could not have dug the gorge of the Columbia to provide a water grade route for her trading. New York could Tiot .have .a Co lumbia River highway, and Los Angeles, with her instant capitaliza tion, of every advantage, could not possess Multnonjiah, Wahkeenah or other of the waterfalls that fringe the highway. Kansas City and Omaha, with all the wealth of their agricultural products, could not reproduce the majesty and charm1 of the Cascade range. New Orleans could not pro duce a Hood River apple. In the Orepon country we ' have scores of possessions as freely granted as the air we breathe which billions in wealth could not repro duce elsewhere. In the Columbia basin we have an unused water power exceeding 21,000,000 potential horsepower trlat would solve New England's problem of securing energy for industry. It is a good thing to have the out aider at times remind us of the wealth which does not appear on the tax rolls. Germany still believes "in water ways. A corporation capitalized at nearly a billion and a quarter marks haa been formed to construct th Rhine-Main-Danube canal. The Job calls fori 20 years' employment labor. of A STATESMAN -CENATOR KENTON was too big man and too useful a man to be taken from the senate and buried In a( federal Judgeship. 'The senate needs more men of his type. More Kenyons would have averted the Newberry degradation and saved the senaie from itself. More Kenyons would raise the senate In public confidence and public esteem. The Iowa senator has never been follower, bnt Is always a leader. A big percentage of American presidents have been of much smaller calibre It Is unfortunate for the country to have his power for service limited te the narrow confines of a federal circuit Judgeship. He is a statesman of the purest and rarest type, whose Initiative and courage will have no opportunity to play the honorable and forward part that Kenyon has played ever since he entered the sen ate. His home state conld do no better thing than to call Senator Ken yon- back and, for the honor lie has brought Iowa, conscript him for re newed and even more illustrious service at Washington. The report is Incorrect that Judge Tucker ahowed no mercy In sentenc ing to 10 years in the penitentiary highwaymen who robbed an old man and woman. Stiff sentences are a mercy to other defenseless people. They are a "Stop-Look-Listeh warn ing, likewise, to individuals tempted from the narrow path of honesty. A BILL.' TO PAT, HAD IT not been for his refusal of A million rinllar Amr. leans would probably never have heard of Charles Garland. His action in refusing to. accept that sum as an. inheritance from his father probably created the impres sion that he was a young man of ideals who desired to maintain them rather than to seek publicity. His latest action, however, in accepting the money, abandoning his wife and announcing his intension to Jive un lawfully with another girl he claims to love brands him not only as a publicity seeker rather than an idealist, but a publicity, seeker with no regard for the method by which It is obtained. It is likely that young Garland never proposed to lose the legacy. He had gone for some time without it before it was within his grasp and apparently found himself able to get along. It is doubtful, then, if he discovered so soon after he refused it that it was utterly impossible for him to make his own living. Rather It Is more likely that he discovered that he could do more with it, and the additional purpose he apparently desired to accomplish was to sepa rate himself from' a dutiful wife and drag, another young woman into the mire, accompanied by a etream of nation-wide publicity. He seems to have accomplished his purpose, and it is an illegitimate purpose for which both he and the sweetheart will pay In bills of re morse. SHOWING US UP frPHE youth of America is'endan J- irered." anva a. rpnnrt Our modern way of living is too much for our children. .There is too much Jazz, too much hurry, too much reckless driving, too much contempt for law, too much disregard for mor ality. But is that the whole of the story ? A few evenings ago two little girls stood on a street, corner "waiting," as they explained to a passerby, "for father and mother to come back from the show." They had been sent to a neighbor's while their par ents sought pleasure and, in the neighbor's absence, chose the street corner rather than their home. Two western counties acknowl edge that their divorces exceed their marriages. Throughout the country the divorce idea spreads like epi demic, and at all too many wedding ceremonies a hasty courtship fore shadows early separation. Census reports show that cities are growing seven times faster than the country. The same source of infor mation discloses that, as a nation, we are' 60 per cent renters or drifters and but 40 per cent home owners. The likelihood that parents do not know what their children may be doing is illustrated by the Ftory of tho middle western citizen who was ho busy leading reform campaigns that he did not know what his two sons were doing with their time. Officers fouDd them peddling the loot .of burglarized, stores and homes and etolen automobiles. All these facts are inter - related. Our callousness about home And our carelessness about discipline are di recting our children into the ways of perversity and shadowing our civili zation with demoralization. TO STAY ON HIS JOB "jlTANY people wfll view Mayor -trA "Raker's iletrniirinf inn 1a out his term as chief executive of Portland as a sound decision. Generally speaking, it is not good public policy to seek another office with the term in one office but frac tionally completed. 'It lays on the incumbent a surmise of wanting to hog all "the offices It has a tend ency to cause at least part of the public to conclude that most things such an official undertakes are for political purposes, and that -weakens his power of leadership. t. Having put the governorship be hind blrn Mayor Baker can now wield a public Influence that he could not exercise so long as it seemed likely that he was to aban don the mayoralty. There is- mora of an atmosphere of permanency in his proposals and his acts. There is less of surmise about his purpose. He is fmayor and to be mayor of Portland to the end of his four-year term. It gives him a stronger hold upon public confidence in the very things he can do to lead and serve the city. .-There is such a thing sometimes as doing more for the welfare of a community out of office than In of fice.- Most men in office feel them selves tied to party, subject more or less to party manipulators and party generalissimos. As such, they are representatives, not of the whole people but of a group orfly. Their prestige is to that extent weakened and their power for good correspond-, ingly ryirrowed. As .mayor, with . no immediate plans for another public" Job, Mayor Baker is greatly strengthened for his public work. y. THE SOLDIERS' BONUS - ; Newspapers Generally Believe That the ; Present Congress Will See the Pas j. sage of a Bonus BUI. but the Move ment Is Generally Considered Po litical and a Bribe to the Sol- dier Vote The . Sales .Tax Method Has Few Friends. Daily Editorial Digest CoBMhdated Press Assoctxtfce, "This session of congress will" see the passage of a soldier bonus bill," Is the unequivocal statement of. the Philadel phia Public Ledger (Ind.) and it seems to be generally accented by newsnaners that the prediction is correct. "The mer its of the bonus," says the. Pittsburg Sun (Dem.) "seem not to be taken into consideration by the administration." and it expresses the prevailing Demo cratic sentiment when it says further that "the chief desire at Washington seems to be to satisfy the veterans. who as a potential political power are not to be scoffed at, and to delude! the taxpayers generally into thinking Ithait tne bonustis costing them nothing." In fact, the Sioux City Journal (Rep.) finds "the Republicans in congress between the devil and the deep sea on this propo sition, damned if they do and damned if they don't" The New York Times (Ind. Dem.) stigmatizes the nroDosed legislation as a "bribe" to the soldier vote to save Republican congressmen from defeat next fall." bnt granting that the movement may be 'largely po litical," the Lansing State Journal (Ind.) suggests that "inasmuqlv as - numerous popular tests disclose mat the voters are for the bonus in their own states, those who are hoping for reelection this coming fall can hardly . be blamed for taxing the stand they- do. But "the bonus question is loaded," as the Philadelphia Public Ledger goes on to say. President Harding has made it unmistakably clear that he will not ap prove bonus- legislation that does not carry with it a definite means for rais ing the money , appropriated. and the IV ew York Post (Ind.) is sure that "the country will thoroughly approve this de mand that congress snail not shift its responsibility." Although as the Rich mono -limes uispatch (Dem.) puts it, "legislators with morn faith than -ino.- ment have" assured the country that mere would be no difficulty about rais ing the bonus money," there still re mains to be devised a concrete working plan toward that end. Three Dlans. the Spring-field Union (Rep.) tells us, have' neen proposed, each of which, incident ally, "has a few friends and more ene mies." These are: "First, an issue of bonds up to the sum required ; second the use of interest pay ments on the ?11,000,000.000 foreign debt io our government, and third, a snecial tax levy for which there have been two suggestions, a sales tax and a tax on light wines and beer." a a Thus far most of the editorial" discus sion has been upon the second of these proposals and debate was becoming ex uceedingly lively when the president voiced ms disapproval of the scheme in such a manner as to make its adoption unlikely. If, as the Chicago News (Ind.) suggests, the proposal to pay r the bonus uui oi tne jmeresi received rrom foreign ueDiorg was. "in the nature of trial bal loons launched to test the winds of pub lic sentiment," the reaction must have been decisive, for the newspaper friends of thf. proposittion are few indeed. The South Bend Tribune (Ind. Ren.) sees poetic justice" in such an arrangement. for the American soldiers fought " for the cause in behalf of which were contracted " nnH rvtv. tnwr, J were contracted." and "both form part of the contribution this country made toward winning the war" : therefore it is fitting that "the returns from the one should he devoted to manifesting, appre elation of the other." The .Buffalo Ex press (Ind. Rep.) thinks "there will be no objection to such use of navments on the loans once "they beprin to come m, ana the EI Paso Times (Dem.) while granting that this way of financing the oonua may not be the best method,' feels none the less that "if such a meas ure wer. passed it would be formal and definite notification to those countries that we intend to get our money eventually. But most of the opinion coincides more closely with the declaration of the New York World (Dem.) that "a more vicious. a more mischievous proposal has never oeen made.' By promising ?to devote the interest of the allied -debt! to a bo nus, the World asserts, the majority party hopes "to placate business while at me same time quieting the service ivii "nni miut unouier congress is chopen." since "the Republican leaders are well aware that thy cannot pay a ooiins ny means or taxation, because iney nuxinrss elements that support the nepuoMcan party will not stand a gen eral increase in taxes." Even if the money received from for eign nations is applied to the soldiers' bonus instead cf the" Liberty bond ac count as required bv Liberty tAon w. islation, who, asks the Grand Rapids Press (Ind.). "will have to retire the LUDerty bonds?" The obvious answer which it. gives, is. "the American neonle oy taxes.- Whatever machinery is adopted, it must still be borne in mind, as many writers In accord with the innanapons .News (Ind.) insist that the money will come from the Ameri can people. Including the soldiers them selves, ior "directly or indirectly It win nave to come, out of taxes." If members of congress i'feel that they muse ote ior Bonus legislation in order to secure their return to the house or senate." the Spokane Spokesman-Review (ina. Kep.) holds that "thev should he made to face their constituents frankly in the coming campaign and be com pelled to admit to the voters that the immediate tax burden Js going to be heavier by reason of the bonus," for "nothing can change .the fact" the wneeung Intelligencer (Ren.) adds. "that it , will be heavy additional taxa tion. The sales tax method hasn't many editorial mends either. The Philadel mua Duneira una. Kep.) supports it out aesires mat it be made "general in sieaa 01 selective as proposed. By ims means tne bonus will be raised, me wicmu tagle (Ind.) remarks, "by iing a gooa portion of it away from tne rormer soldier, and the rest of U from his neighbors" "farmers, wage earners, housewives," the Omaha World Herald (Ind adds, "who have already suffered sevely from the calamity of war, and whose sufferings are growing Curious Bits of Inlormati ion Gleaned From Curious Places Sadler's WeUa theatre in Lnrulnr. rives Its name from an ancient well that once existed on the site of the present building. This well, long famous for its wonderful cures, was stoDDed nn at h time Of the Reformation, 1517, but was accidentally rediscovered in' 1683 Dy a man named Sadler, while digging gravel in bis garden. Wishing to profit by his discovery. Sadler converted his residence into a place of amusement known as fead.le.rs Musick House, and there entertained his patrons with ex hibitions of tight-rope dancing, gymnas tics, conjuring and other mild diversions. always accompanied with music The property passed into : other hands CO years later; and was converted into a theatre, although the original name was retained.. The present structure dates from 1879. - - Letters From the People IComraanieationa tent te Tha Journal tot poblkUoa is thia department should ba writtsa oa osly ooa aida of the paper, ahoald Bat -eacd SOO worda ia length, and asnst ba aicsad b tha writer, wheaa mail adilrrai te toll mast rrranpany taa conrnnwnoa . SCORNS COURTS AND LAWYERS Asserts Golden Rule and Declaration of Independence Disregarded.' 1 Ashland. Jan. 31. To the Editor of The Journal Your editorial of last Sun day entitled "Sermon in a Sentence" sounded well ;' yet, although the Golden Rule, like the Declaration of Independ ence, Is fine in sentiment, it has no in fluence in law when it comes to apply ing it in j our courts, and the same is true of the Declaration of Independence. If a lawyer, pleading a case in court, should have the temerity to quote from either of these the only effect would be to provoke a smile from the judge and perhaps a giggle from the opposing at torney. None of our officials is sworn to uphold the Golden Rule or the Decla ration Of Independence. Neither is our Judiciary sworn to ao justly" or "love mercy," and they are in no wise obligated to anything except to be gov erned in their judicial conduct by con stitutional law and municipal law in harmony, therewith. Even the jurors are sworn only to - decide the case before them by the law and the testimony. Neither Justice nor mercy-is mentioned in the swearing in of jurors or any .of fleer of city, state or nation., Perhaps the spirit of 'Him who gave us the Golden Rule has reduced the Beverity practiced in the administration and exe cution of , law and perhaps the spirit of the signers of' the Declaration of In dependence has made for Independence and democracy, but the courts are in fluenced but little if any by either of them. The courts upon inquiry into con stitutional law as now existing, discern that organized society is a body-politic because exploitation, "selfish utilization,' is legal. In others, a man or set of men may legally live of another man or Set of men ; that is, they may reap where they hav not sown and can gather where they have not strown. The vio lation of the Golden Rule is unques tlonabl;, legalized. Can a body politic be moral? No wonder all kinds of im morality and crime are rampant. If the Golden Rule were written in the constitution the courts would upon their inquiry into the constitution discern that organized society was a body Christian or social because the legal right of the exploiter, like the legal right of the king and the priest, would be a thing of the dark past Any law that would permit the exploiter to live off others would be unconstitutional, hence void. What a big bunch of empty laws would clutter our statute books! Organized society, being a social or Christian body when functioning, would bring forth socialism or Christianity. The Encyclopedia Britannica says the ethics of socialism and Christianity are nearly if not quite Identical. Some readers may pull their hair or throw a fit when they read. this, but why should I worry" D. M. Brower. DEFLATED FARMERS Is Here Argued That Price Guar It antees Are Now Their Due. Union, Jan. 28. To the Editor of The Journal The agricultural classes of the United States were "deflated" out of theebts-ftSTooO.OOO.OOO, according to Secretary r-ro-i ti,u Wallace in a recent' report. This was done deliberately. While it may not have been tire-intention of those who initiated the movement to hit- the agricultural classes so hard, yet the movement had that result The deflation was started by the federal reserve board in the early spring of 1920. In September, 1920, Ihe European commission created for the purpose of buying foodstuffs from America came to the United" States and commenced buying wheat . The money for financing these purchases was fur nished by the money brokers of New York. The money brokers were thus put in the position of aiding their debt ors. of Europe in two ways, namely, in aiding the process of deflation by bear ing down the price of foodstuffs, thus cheapening the foodstuffs their debtors were buying and putting these debtors in better position to repay principal and interest of their debt. Without doubt the bis; moneyed interests of New York city aided and abetted the bears of the Chicago wheat market to bring about the continuous drop in the prices o wheat and other farm products to their present level, through which the farm ers ,of the country lost this JS.OOO.OOO.OOO: That the big banking interests of the country, with the assistance of the fed era! reserve board, brought this situation about there can be no question. And by reason of the farmer's situation, so brought about there Is a hueand cry organization, cooperation, marketing schemes, tariff legislation, money loan ing schemes, farmers blocs, and finally a Washington conference And still the farmer is on the tobog gan. The big gamblers of the Chicago wneat exchange and the Wall street money gamblers have been permitted by tne government to swindle the agricul tural- classes out of J8, 000, 000, 000. and the government of the United States should get this money back into the fanners pockets by guaranteed prices ior ineir products. is. . Wilson. SINNERS JUNIOR AND SENIOR From the Los Aaceles TimM A Pasadena justice says he is jgoing to punish parents who permit their chil dren to smoke cigarettes. Exactly how he Is, going to accomplish this' .Is not fully indicated. Possibly he has a little enactment and a supreme court of his own. But the idea is not bad. It is time that parents were beginnine to be held responsible for some of the frailties of their offspring. " The sins ' of the fathers may visit upon the children, but it would not be amiss if the sins of the children were checked up a little ugnter against the old man. CAN'T FOOLj HOOVER From the Brooklyn Eacla Herbert Hoover wins a new claim to the appreciation of -taxpayers, as weU as Humanitarians, hy dealing severely with the shipowners plan to mulct the Rus sian relief fund for heavy transportation charges. The grain will' be carried at cost and by the shipping Tfteard's vessels. Mr. Hoover is as shrewd as he is un selfish. Uncle ;Jeff Snow Says There's two kinds of charity in" this world. One's the love fer God and man that works fer jestice and right, and t'other's the passin out a few -dollars to keep the pore from startin a riot The richer men and women gits the less they pass out fer charity of any kind. It's cheaper to hire police and detectives and lobbyists in congress'n to really help out the pore. Jesus didn't say. "The pore'ye have alius with you" in the way of say In' poverty and? iajestice must alius be on top ; but be was a-talkin' to Judas. -who was alius moutbiirand whimperin' about the pore, and most likely swipin' the half he collected for 'em in overhead expenses. It seems to me that what Jesus said : was : . "You're alius talks n about the pore, but you don't never, do miwH fer Vm . . , u . ; COMMENT AND SMALL,: CHANGE ; If the ex-crown prince really wants to point out one of th big mistakes of the war hell use a looking glass. a . A Dlan to hold a community sing in three tongues will provide the original "babble of voices. no doubt If flies still rather on the honey jar then St Louis business men should flock to tho lectures of Frank Branch Riley. : . The one ad vantage in the fact that some people don't think much of us is the fact that we don t think much ol them. . a ' The auto show is gone, sure enough. but it will be some time yet before we are through talking about to par we wanted. -. - If the world shared in the good opin ion some little men have of themsives there would be no trouble at all in find ing material for the presidency. a The government claims to have simpli fied the forms of income tax returns. but it will never simplify the manner of getting-Ohe cash .to pay-the but. a Mr. Hines sees danger In sweeping rail rate reductions. The danger being, no doubt .that a few of us might have a chance to cut down the cost of living by a few pennies. a Investigation shows that prohibition gets more newspaper space than any other . tonic. Tne ract is stated nere only that we may not be charged with deriliction of duty in: an important matter. MORE. OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Several Portland speakers will leave j shortly for the Y. M. C. A. convention to be held at Boise February 3-5. This is a meeting of the Oregon and laano Interstate association. Dr. W. J. Kerr, president of Oregon Agricultural col lege, and also president of the Interstate Young Men's Christian association, win be there, and will make an address, as will also Harry Stone, general secretary of the Portland association, and W. W. Dillon, secretary of the Interstate as sociation. D. W. Davis, governor of. Idaho, is to give one of the principal addresses of the convention. George A. Warburton, who spoke in Portland a week or so ago, will be there. He is general secretary of the Toronto associ ation. The speaker list will also in clude George McDill of California, Rev. Paul Robert? of Boise, Frank vv. Fear sail, a rormer railroad "Y" secretary; now of New York; A. E. Roberts and Gale Seaman, one of the most popular speakers in the "Y" service. . Mrs. R. H. Dearborne and daughter Katherine of Corvallis are guests of the Hotel Portland. Her husband. Pro fessor Dearborne; is a member of the Oregon Agricultural college faculty and Is also one of the most expert golf players in the college city. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. McCord of Kodi- ak, Alaska, are guests of the Hotel Portland. Mr. . McCord Is an old time Sourdough, and is interested in mining and oil properties in Alaska. I. L. Patterson of Eola Is at the Im perial to try to persuade his fellow citi zens tq, change his residence to Salern. " - - j E B. Gabriel of Eugene is transacting business in Portland. v , W. W. Doran is here from Corvallis on business. J. A Reed of Boise is n fiiest af th Imperial.--'' . . r M. F. Davis of Union IS at .the Im perial. , 1 E P. Lewis is here from Marshfield and is registered at the Imperial. R. C. Brown is down from Dufur and is at the Imperial. J. C French of Dufur is at the Im perial. a a George Cummlngs of Astoria is a guest of the Hotel Imperial. M. F. Hardesty of Seaside is a Port land business visitor. a Sheldon Brumbaugh is here from Cor vallis on business. T i , W. A Hudelson of North Powder is registered at the Imperial. a a V. E. Dodd of Hermiston is here on business. " OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred 4- r A Tjionarr whose father and rntadfathar eama into tha Oregon conntry under tha tmX ronace of tha Hudson's Bay company, tell of a colonization Trol-t about which little la popa- larly known; but which is well worthy of not. Tiua mibstantui uregnman gaelcnes nu own ana hia family' history. The itorjr will be concluded in this gpace tomorrow. Jacob S. Buxton lives at Forest Grove. A few nights ago I spent the evenipg at his home there and he told me of vearly day events on Tualatin Plains and at the Grove. "I was born just west of Forest Grove on my father's donation land claim on August 20, 1862," said Mr. Bux ton. "My father's name was Henry Buxton. He iwas born in Manitoba, October 8. 1823. His father's name was also Henry and he was a native of Derbyshire, England, where he was born in 1792. My grandfather went to Canada when he was 29 years old to take a po sition with the Hudson's Bay Fur com pany. In Canada he married Frances Thomas, daughter of the Hudson's Bay factor, for whom he was a clerk. My grandfather and grandmother .joined the Red River colony. The Red River col ony was formed by residents of the Red River country which had been given in 1811 by the Hudson's Bay company to Lord Selkirk. A number of settlers from the Orkney islands and from the mainland of Scotland, as well as some native Canadians, had taken up lands there. Many of the young men had married Crees or Swamp Crces. "In 1841 the Hudson's Bay company, wanting to hold what is now the state of Washington, organized the Red River colony, to settle on Puget Sound. To each family who would settle in. the Puget Sound district, or On Nlsrjually Plains, the Hudson's Bay company prom ised the increase of 15 head offcowa and of 15 ewes as well as the use of suf ficient work oxen r horses to cultivate 'their ' farms. My father was one of 2S families that accepted the' promise, and on June 15. 1811. under command and leadership of James Sinclair of the Hud son's Bay company, they started from Red river for Puget Sound. The men rode horseback. The women and chil dren rode In Red River carts. In ad dition to the carts most of the families 'took along all the loose stock they owned, including not only their horses and cattle but their dogs, so when they were strung out on the march they made quite a cavalcade. Several cildren were bom while, they were en route to Puget Sound. " . They followed the south brant h of the Saskatchewan, now called Bow river. NEWS IN BRIEF . , "SIDELIGHTS This Is Oretron Industry week. There ts too much Industry." and not enough work in Oregon, as the virgin forest and the silent desert eloquently testify. Med- iord Alall-Tribune, Speaking of English tyranny, we notice that England has. -been governed tor some years by a Welshman, and .now Ireland is ruled by a man named Grif fith. Albany Democrat 'The Southern Pacific company will sell stock to its employes. But what would the employe do when the union voted to demand higher wages and his board of directors presented a demand for a cut In pay? Eugene Guard. St Augustine, Florida, has a postofflce building that was erected about 1600. If thev would search through it carefully they might find some of the "letters that never came." Polk County Item Izer. The seating of Newberry was neither good morals nor good politics, tt would tave been better for the Republican party to nave cleaned nouse wnue a good occasion was at hand. It would have been better for the nation, because, after all, politics is only skin deep, as a general thing, and good Americanism should have precedence over everything. -Pendleton East Oregonian. a a iThe agitation against the dance, flour ishing in many spots, including our own rose-speckled metropolis, is proper, but muddled by professional reformers. The main trouble- with the dance is that a large percentage of the younger set make it their life work, and don't do anything else. Parents should insist on some waltzing around a washtub. and a two-step several months a year be hind a plow Medford Sun. , Miss Sally Joyce, who for the past five years has been bookkeeper at the Hazelwood restaurant on Broadway, will leave Monday for Tucson to enter the University of Arizona, Her sister, Alice Joyce, is state leader in the extension work of the university. Miss Sally Joyce expects to put in four years, there, taking hterary and musi cal courses. Miss Alice Joyce is now in Portland and will accompany her sister to Tucson. a a R. R. Lewis of Echo la a guest of the Portland. He went to Echo 23 years age as a mill hand for J. H. Koonta. Then he railroaded for a while, later returning to Echo, where he bought a general store and also acquired 860 acres of wheat land which in the last few years has enabled him to flivver a good bit over the landscape of the West a - a, Thomas Thompson, for the past 40 years one of the war horses and wheel horses of the Republican party in Uma tilla county, Is down from Pendleton. a Mrs. Dolph C. Southard and Mr. and Mrs, M. Stewart are registered at the Seward. Eugene people visiting in Portland in clude W. N. Purdy, Sophia Feeder and Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Holt a a a Eric W. Allen, dean of the school of journalism at Eugene, was a recent guest of the Hotel Portland. a a a Robert Boetticher of the Albany Herald is visiting friends in Portland. a a Marie Fox of Bend is a guest of the Portland. . a W. D. Love of Eugene is a Portland business visitor. a a a S. B. Crouch of Roscburg is registered at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Seufort of The Dalles are .at the Imperial. W. S. Slough of Klamath Falls U in Portland on business. a a " a Mr Harold Baldwin of Prineville is at the Ingerial. a O. M. Kelly is dpwn from Parkdale and is a guest at the Seward. a G. W. Stayton of Prineville is a guest of the Cornelius Mrs. Lulu Johnson of visiting Portland friends. Heppner is Mr. and Mrs. H. E Cooper of o- quille are sojourning at the Seward. R, J. Ginn of Moro is a business visit or in Portland. a a a C Fuller is down from Bend. Lockley and crossed the Ttockies near where one of the main' branches of the Columbia has its origin. The pass they crossed was over 8000 feet filgh. They had to leave their carts at Mountain Home, on the east side of the Rockies, as there was wio road over the pass in those days. 1 hey crossed the summit of the Rockies on August 5 and on October 4 they reached Fort Walla Walla, now called Walulla. One of the party went back to Fort Edmonton. Several families de cided to go to California instead of Pu get Sound. Some stayed at Cowlitz farm, but 13 out of the 23 families that had started continued on to Puget Sound and Nisqually Plains, my grandfather and his family among them. They reached there November 8. SWhen you remem ber that the whole party from Mountain Home on had ridden on horseback and that they had been on the way after leaving their carts for more than three months, you can. see they had some horseback ride, especially the women who had babies born oh the way. ; "The Cowlitz farm was owned 'by the Hudson's Bay company and in 1841 they raised 9000 bushels of wheat and 4000 bushels of oats, besides lots of potatoes and stock. The Nisqually farm was de voted to stock breeding. Cattle, sheep and pigs were raised there. These farms were turned over to the Puget Sound Agricultural company, a company' op- crated by the Hudson's Bay company, - ' "My grandmother was badly injured when her horse fell in .crossing a ford and she idled shortly after they -reached Puget Sound and was one of the. first white women buried near the- present city of Taeoroa. My grandfather was not satisfied with the Puget Sound coun try, so in the spring of 1842 he moved to Tualatin Plains. My father was 13 years old at that time. Among his neighbors whom I remember were Jo Meek. William Gelger. Rev. J. S. Grif fin. Alvin T. Smith. C. Walker, G. W. Ebbert .nd some others. Father used to talk also of Dr. Robert NewelL Rv. Harvey dark, Joseph Gale, Caleb WUk Ins and other old-time settlers on Tual atin Plains who were here when they moved nere in istz. My grandfather took up a claim of (40 acres near West Union, six miles from here. - , . a ' ' . v "When father was . 21 that was in 1851 my grandfather moved ; to Forest Grove and took a place a quarter of a mile from the city limits and - father took the adjoining claim. Father called his place Spring Brook farm. My grand father died la XS70,". -.. .. t Tftc Oregon Country KoruT lappcnmss la Itrtaf Com to taa host Kesoer. ; : OREGON . - With four Inches of snow In the upper Hood River valley thia week, the total snowfaU ifor he season has reached 10.33 feet ' Salem has now 827 students In Its high, school, more than twice as- many as any other city in the state with .the excep tion of Portland . . - According to figures prepared v the county assessor, taxes in Yamhill county -this year will be eight-tenths of a mill less than last year. ' William Frlngle, who resides In the Nehalena country, pleaded guilty at St. Helens to having a deer skin in his pos session and was fined J7a. B. A Johnsolr-ef Portland was at Cor vallis during the week interesting the citizens in the organization .of a Ktt Klux Klan. He is said to have met with success. ' . Fatalities from automobile accidents in Oregon in 1921 aggregated 92, ac cording to reports from county coroners. jiuiuiomaa led wita 3S, while , 14 coun ties had none. All the bridge nn tfi a-nct oiA V. of the Southern Pacific railway between Corvallis and Eugene are to be rein- iorcwa at onge, according to announce--ment of railway men. The Lane County OrorHt aawlntinn has appointed a secret committee to In vestigate alleged fraudulent assessments made during the annual assessment of property in that county. Shipments of gold bullion are bein made from Grants Pass, now that min ing is again becoming active. Th Sis krpn property owners recently shipped a gold brick valued at $2000. Of a fund of $15,000,000 for national forest road work, appropriated under tha federal highway act last fall. Oregon will receive l,875.6tfi. according to word received from Washington. C The trustees of the Evangelical church of Monmouth have purchased the Meador property, one block south of the normal campus, upon which they will erect a new church building. The formation of a game preserve in . that section of the Cascade mountains between the South SantiarA and the Mc Kenzie rivers has been proposed by the Santiam Fish and Game association. Renewed efforts for the recall of the Oregon public service commission were advocated at a meeting of the- Grand Prairie grange, held at the hail of that, organization near Albany last week.' At a meeting of the farm bureau in St Helens last weektt was shown that there are at least IS varietith of potatoes grown in that county.. Plans were pre sented for standardizing the varieties. WASHINGTON Adams county this year must return $1,475,000 in taxes, 40 per cent of which goes to education and 39 per cent to roads t-oiice or Seattle are asked to assist in locating Mrs. Myrtle Killgour, who left her home a few days ago to do some shopping and failed to return. She had 3300 in cash on her person. The Western Washington hospital at Steilacoom will ship 22 registered Hol stein cattle to the penitentiary at Walla TlTaHo t f . . 1. l . . , . herd at the latter institution. Andrew Fisher, a carpenter of Pros ser, aged 0, swallowed two tablespoon fuls of Paris green with suicidal intent but the dose was so large as to consti tute an emetic and his life was saved. A division of child hygiene will be' formed as part of the state health de partment if Governor Hart accepts - the $10.000 , appropriation under the super vision of the Sheppard-Towner mater nity bill. . Members of the First Congregational church at Walla Walla have $20,000 to- -ia.iu uieir Ki or u.i,uuu needed ror a new church building and a finance enm- mittee'has been appointed to obtain the remainder. The $100,000 loot of tha four rohhr who. confessed recently -to the theft of the safe of A. J. Littlelohn ia still un discovered. Police went to the alleged cache of the robbers, but. the securities had vanished. . ; Miss MilllA WoVa artA TTi-n14 txr Stewart, 25, were both badjy injured at ! Tacoma when they were knocked down by a car driven by W. 3. Riddle, who swerved his machine to avoid a collision tin ui i u tin i ai . The presidential "banouet RnecJal " which will carry a "produced-in-Wash-l lngton" dinner to President Harding and to leading business men of the East, wriU leave Seattle April 5 and will arrive in Washington April 9. , William J. Manners, 54, a heating en gineer, was taken with a hemorrhag and died suddenly Sunday night in- the Gospel tabernacle at Spokane while at tending healing services held by the Rev. Warren Couins. The Port of Seattle commission and the Seattle Chamber of Commerce are protesting vigorously against abandon ment of the United State army quar termaster depot there, caBed for in an order of December 3L IDAHO Peter Pence, pioneer of Idaho and one of the - founders of the town of Payette, died in that city Sunday, aged 84. " Formation of the Dry Lake irrigation ' district in Canyon county is rapidly' nearing completion. The project will ir rigate 30,000 acres. Mrs. Olive May Frederickson, who registered at a- Pocatello hotel from Boise, attempted to commit suicide bv swallowing four tablets of bichloride of mercury. Mrs. Sarah Shoemaker : Welch, who crossed the plains to the Willamette val ley in 18R2. died Sunday at the home of her eon James at Blackfpot, Idaho. The body of Thomas J Williamson, who committed ' suicide at Boise by shooting himself, has been shipped to Portland for burial. Deapnndertcy over unemployment is said to , have caused the act i Troop C 116th cavalry ' stationed at Grace, has received $1412120 from the government to pay its men for the last six months of 1921. The service troop stationed at Pocatello has received $1487.16. The Idaho supreme court has decided that the . state auditor cannot legally draw a warrant -to pay a claim against the state, even though it ha een al lowed by the state board of examiners, unless the legislature has made an ap propriation to rover It ' ' Facta About the Income Tax Z PERSONAL EXEMPTION The purpose of this series is to answer questions about the Income tax." Taxpayers are advised to pre serve the articles as they appear, in order that when they begin prepar ation of their income tax returns for the year 1921 they maiy have be fore, them a comprehensive summary of the requirements of the) new reve nue act. I To the person of moderate ir.eorna, probably the most important' change Is in the exemptions, or credits. Un der the revenue act of 1921 a married person or head of a family whose net income for 1921 was $5004 or lees is allowed a personal exemption of $2500. If the net income Uiroore than $5000, the personal exemption Is $2000. The exemption allowed a mar ried person or head of a family under the revenue act of 1918 was $2000, re gardless of the amount of netincome. Exemptions? for dependents." also, are increased from $200 to $400. Thus, a married - man with three -children, whose net income for (1321 was $4000, will' pay this year ian income tax of $12. On the same Income tor 1920 he paid a tax of $56.! Husband and wife living together receive but one personal f exemption ($2500 or $2000 as the case may be). If they make separate returns, the exemption may be taken' by either or divided between them. I