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FRIDAY. MARCH 17, 1S22. 10 THE OREGON- DAILY. JOURNAL. PORTLAND. OREGON (So twJm. he eawfiricnt. b rheeetul and do mhmrt as frm wnold heea theea do wnto ye-1 fkMvhwt mn weekday end Sunday ""''"O' t innul hmld.r. Broadway Mi Iemtull 1"T 1 L. .l PnnJ&mi. .Oregon W tnaMiMB throe Um mails M secoed a-lass Milnr. FARM AND TQWN TtqrmrnsTL Uai nt. o-m- fltjrtKAL . AbVfciktl8IN BEPBESESTA TlVg Beatemtn Kefttaor Co., Brwnswvrk . vilnlne;. 2 FVtJh tnmt. New Tort; 900 Mailers buUdhw. t'hi an. FinO t'OAAT RKPBEKNTATIVB VI. C sMoeseiaw '., Inc. r.timttior hoi Id Inc. Han ViwM: THlo lnearanre bulldma. Ixm An- a,., - -,. . knLMinf Aeattlr. JOURNAL rrtnr the right to ree idrertlalnc eorry wnwn n orrm. It alao will print any copy that n any war ilmuUw readins matter " Uet Vaenot r-artrfy ha rmwlil en'adeertlns. "fcl'BRklPTION RATES By rerrter. 'tty end inonuy. 0 IMII.T AI SUNDAY Of Mfk .1!" month. .. OU nrt I .lOOno week .05 il. .k a el III MAIL. Al!l'. RAT KH PATABt.F I" ADTANCK fe rM $a,.noThree months . r eaontha..... 4.21!One mnth ... PAH.T I SI'NPAT IWHHowt Bunds lOnly) year.". .... ,.0rIOn rear w maeUie..... S3!MiT months... Tama unntha. . . L7MTnrra months. r -cr;VKi.T ,0L ma ad 1tm wedneedayl - . 81 NHV ro year l no One year... rrWw rates ar1 "' " l .Hae to Kaetern point furnished nn appsr w.k r.miuaiw-e be Mnr Order. CiprtM )alM mr Iwaft. If our ptofft ia . not B, WMT-erdar offteo 1 or I finl uaipa win o Mat au remiiunco paraoia w ic . I .65 .12 2 . .75 .13 ." . 1 75 . 1.00 .13.50 PorUand: Oregon. Tno Journal for pitbltmtfcM in tkia deoartjnent .hook! be written Jamil rhlihina Company I CaeaaianMatlona .ent to no n iot a mi ana .Ida of the paper, anania not nceea St4 woe is Migtb and Boat be aimed bf the vntee. , oboee ntail addieea in irm powtiibotiow 1 ' full mutt aecom- t ANY city people profess not to understand why farmers aUover America 'are aroused. P;J!' i " - . iT t The farmers know why. Here i one reason: It takes nearly twice as much to pay freight on a bushel of .wheat to market as it did 25 years ago. And it takes two to three timca as many bushels of wheat to pay for farm implements as it did 25 years ago.,! ; , Take cattle: In 1S98 the price of cattle in Portland was 5.2a. now $.50. The freight tlfen per carload from, say La Grande, was ss. .now it is about $120. . In those days, the farmer was paying $80 for a gang plow; now he pays $210. For an iron hafroTf per section he was paying $7. He now pays $21. For a drill then he was paying $100. He now pays $225. 1 That is to say, he now gets- but little, more for his livestock, but pays $50 more per car for shipping it, and pays three times as much for a gang . plow, three times as much for a harrow and two and one-quarter times as much for a drill. In selling cattle to pay for agricultural implements It takes two to three times as much to - pay for his purchases as it did 25 years ago. Is that not some reason for farmers to be aroused? Take wheat: In 1898 the freight on I wheat from, say La Grande, to Portland was 10 cents a bushel. Now it lis 18 cents. The price, then was approximately the price now, perhaps allittle lower. 1 Then the farmer paid $65 for a wagon. Now he pays $225. Then he paid $50 for a mower, now $95. The jprice of harness then was $20, now $75. A saddle cost then $30, now $75.; There have been- similar in cYeape in implements all along the line. It means that besides paying nearly double the freight )to deliver his, iwheat to market it takes nearly three bushels of wheat to buy in farm implements what one bushel would buy v25 years ago. What the farmer wants to know is how much farther is this downward movement in his jfhdustry going to go? No other industry is struggling against such conditions. Look at this: Farm indebtedness has increased 132 per cent in America in the last 10 years. Agriculture now has an indebtedness of $7,000,000,000. Ab things are going what will (hat debt be in another 10 years?, V Remembering that agriculture, if prosperous, buys 50o 60 .per cent of the output of American factories, and remembering that if factories can sell all they can make unemployment is reduced, and remembering that if agriculture is buying heavily the whole country is active, is it not the city man's business to be deeply concerned about how it fares with those out on the farms? A LADY AMONG ; JTHE LORDS Same Being Lady Khondda, Who Has the Place by Privilege and Deserves : It or a Better Place by Merit Proved TTi rough Worth and Works American Editors Dis - -cbss - the - Innovation. - and ; Wonder When , the United States Senate Will Be Similarly "Invaded Daily BUtoiial Digest: : (Consolidated Pnaa Auoeiatioa ! "Thus does the feminist movement carry another stronghold of long-en- trencbed masculine privilege," asserts the Norfolk Virginian Pilot, commenting upon the action of the house of 'lords committee on privileges in- granting Viscountess , Rhondda a seat among the peers, a triumph which, in the opinion of the New York Globe, "is chiefly in teresting as the ultimate achievement of the feminist movement," since the viscountess will. become a "member of one of the most ornamental and least useful legislative bodies in the world." Further discounting the practical ad vantage of Viscountess Rhondda's achievement, the Chicago Journal calls attention to the possibility that "one of these days there won't be any house i of lords for anybody to sit in ; and there is at least an even chance that such a day will come before the gifted daughter or ine rood controller has a successor or companion' of er own sex. At aU most any moment some issue may arise that will range the nation on one side and the peerage on the other, and when that happens, the hereditary legislator! will have to go. The Briton may love a lord, but not enough to stand much in terference from him."- "Badly as they have been dented time and again in the last 15 years or so, the old notions of the peerage of England were given tne worst wrench they ever received" when the viscountess was admitted. thinks the Reno Gazette. to the public -welfare and so wedded to yawp that they habitually fight every thing which they do not themselves originate." ' - The soealled . arguments are trivial. They saytt is an "alliance" obligating us in a -certain contingency ' to use economic or military force. AH parties to yie treaty -deny each an intent and the record shows it. ' If it is such an alliance it is void, for only congress ean declare war or enact economic legis lation, and the supreme court (11 Wail CIS) says that a treaty, like a statute. not in accord with the constitution is void. Moreover, the clause sought to be so construed Ls in contemplation of what cannot possibly wur duringhe 10-year life of the treaty. "It is a treaty of fear," says one ob structionist, who seeks to arouse an tagonism and hate and the will to fight Perhaps it may properly be called i treaty of fear a fear for the main tenance of civilisation and even the per petuity r-the human race. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BRIEF The OrcgbnCountry Letters From the People Communications tent to The Journal tor publication in this department thonkt be written on only one skie ef tbe paper, should not ex ceed 300 words in length, and murt be signed by the writer. whoe mail address in full most accompany tbe contribution. ) south and 222.742 north. In view of the fact that current must be overcome on northbound trips- the discrepancy is not so great as would appear at first blush. No form of land transportation has yet been able to compete with water transportation in economy, if water transportation is economically handled. United States engineers are watching closely the Mississippi river experiment to see if the barges fur nish the method by which our in land waterways may again be made Useful in commerce. ing shoes which allow the muscles of the feet comparatively full sway, yet, salesmen say, and their stocks show, that far too much of the squeezing idea prevails. A tactful word now and then and" displays of shoes that fit the foot might help. The symmetrical human foot is a thing of beauty. A shapely foot, however, may be made a grotesque object by continual wearing of tight shoes. An ugly foot may become by the same process a monstrosity. I prepare tnynelf br the study of hi ' Uny and the practice of writing. 8o doing. ll wkmmy, alwaxa In my oiil the memory af tho beet and moat renowned of men. rnr whenever the enforced associauon of 'daily Ufa a roue wnrthlew, eril and ignoble faoltnga. I am able to repel these feelings .and kMP them at a distance by (iltanaon eaUHy turning my thoughu to ror temp late ttha brighten examples. riutarch. I " " . OTHER IRRECONCILABLES "With reservations" probably would be the mental attitude of cer tain United States senators if called upon to make their, peace with heaven. " AN UNCOLLECTED BILL The effect of this innovation in the house" of lords will be seen in a "far larger representation of women in the upper house of parliament than is ever likely to be had in the commons," proph esies the Richmond News Leader since "as the new theory of succession is extended, it is quite likely that the heiresses of peers in practically all cases will take their fathers' seats, in default of direct male issue." "Only a few years ago nobody could have foreseen that the rules which in exceptional cases allow wonfen to inherit titles would in 1922 give the house of lords a much lareer feminine membershio than anv other of the leading legislative bodies of the world can show." states the New York Herald, assuming that Other peer esses entitled to admission under the BRINGING HOME THE BACON WHAT a lot of "reform," statesmen have come out of the brush in Oregon to run for office. s 'i)wO years ago the owners of the X soft coal mines of Pennsylvania agreed to meet with the miners be fore April 1, 1922, and agree upon a --ei'J'htract for wages and working "hjours to replace the one that ex- .'W4rea on tnat date. April 1 is nearly here. The min ers have announced their willing ness to meet with the owners and tle secretary of labor has pleaded with the operators to enter a confer- ' ence In order to avert a disastrous ' strike.' But the owners, so far, have refused to consult with the miners. They are contenting themselves by vending out statements to the press that wages have to come down, and that if they do not the consumers will have to fight the miners of coal as td who will give way. The ob vious Inference is that the operators re satisfied with their 150 per cent profits; that if the miners want to take a cut In wages the retail, price of coal will be reduced, and that If y the miners refuse a reduction the ' public will have to pay the bU. The , general attitude of the operators!' one of contempt for employes, for th public and for the government. . The coal barons have title to the mines. But the coal beds were not put in the ,earth for the mere pur pose of furnishing profits for mine owners. , The coal is there to pro Vide fuel for the people of the coun try. If the operators take the attt . tude that the public be damned, the government may take a hand and ln-t sure a roal supply to Industry and to the public with enough wbrkvSnd enough wage for Vhe oppressed min ers to live in decency. Ijt would be a demonstration that the government is bigger than the mine owners. - "An ungrateful world." says-the Washington Herald. "As soon as a man dies the relatives -all rush to no roe newspaper and put In a card of thanks." But while the thanks In etude those who aided prior, to the demise, the florist, mortician and minister are never Included. MISSISSIPPI BARGE? The office itch was never before so completely epidemic. Guberna torial timber is lying around so thick you can't get anywhere with out crawling over it. Taking advantage of the very, proper anti-tax agitation, every little statesman proposes to pull down some existing institution or depart ment. Each thinks the popular clamor his call from on high to ride into public office. To attack something that has been built up b long and tedious work, while of fering no constructive proposal, is the average candidate's favorite program. What a wonderful thing it is to have a state full of little Moseses. We couldn't go wrong with all this pious phalanx of saviors and deliver ers offering their lives and their sacred honor as hostage for our fu ture welfare, comfort and happiness. How can, we fail to have a happy and prosperous future in Oregon with all these politicians ballooning their little boomlets on their promises to cut the heart out of taxes? It's a great and glorious perform' ance. It is so consoling, as you re fleet on your sorrows as a tax payer, to look out over the state and behold the devoted souls who are willing to sacrifice their all in fight ing the tax. demon if you will only put them into office. Tou cannot but wreathe yourself in smiles of gladness through your tears as you see the valiant soldiers of reform pledging themselves to do a war dance over the prostrate ruins of all forms of free education in Oregon. If you will merely favor them with a certificate of election .to any old office from governor down to con stable. ... . In the hope that the one that yells the loudest will bring home the bacon, the gallant little, army of re form is giving us a mighty chorus. If their lungs hold out. Mary Gar den's grand opera season next week will meet with a fearful competition". But meanwhile, wouldn't the pub lic like to hear of some candidate who has something ' constructive to say and means what he says in be half of lowered and equalized taxa tion in this state? THE famous separate peace with Germany is beginning to bear fruit. Germany paid the allies several millions recently to pay the expenses of the armies of occupation. The allies split the funds. The United States asked for a share of the money to pay for its army -of occupation. But, politely, the allies indicated to the United States government that it might collect its own money under the terms of the separate peace. The United States was entitled to a part of the money. This country had the largest claim. But since we chose to make our peace in our own way the allies, with some basis, told us we might collect our money also in our own way. To date we haven't collected it. We may yet. And we may not for some time to come. Unfortunately, when the time came for making a peace the United States faced a political contest. There were politicians who chose to put the best interests of the country in the back ground for the sake of political ex pediency. They needed certain for eign votes. They got them. But now they have to reap their reward.. The present administration is mak ing a sincere effort to save funds. There can be no question that it is the purpose of Mr. Harding -and his aids to cut expenses of the gov ernment to the bone. But Mr. Hard ing has a tremendous task before him.; He has to give heed to his po litical sponsors and he is attempting to keep government expenses down to the minimum. But it tests the resourcefulness of stronger men than Mr.. Harding to make a separate peace, keep ex penses down and still require -the people of the United States to pay the expenses; of their army of occu pation without return, when other governments are collecting jnoney from the German government to pay the expenses of their armies. A PLEA FOR RAIL WORKERS Railway Managements Charged with Machinations Against Them, and the General Public Interest as Well. Portland. March 11. To the Editor of The; Journal Did the public ever stop to tnink or how we were beaten out of mil lions of dollars by the ralroads under government administration, as we are wont to call it? On the Santa Fe at La Junta, Colo., were six tracks which would hold at least 40 cars each, and in 1919 these six tracks were full of "bad order" cars; and repair men were sitting down on repair tracks waiting for the foreman to order the cars in to be repaired. The toreman . must nave had orders irom higher ups to leave those 240 or more cars out there, and his men drawing pay and , not doing anything. At Topeka, Kan., take a look at the shops we built for the rialroad at a cost of $1,500,000; also one at Soldier Summit. Utah. On j the Rio Grande we own just lots of rail way . property and are paying the roads to let us give it to them, and iri turn they want to rob us when we want to ride a few measly -miles and then starve their employes back into the 1890 dayst when one was almost afraid to talk of better times even to himself. At Kansas City every road running in there had the same condition that existed on the Santa Fe at La Junta. At Salt Lake City the Western Pacific and the Denver & Rio Grande, and at Ogden, Utah, the Union Pacific and the Oregon Short Line, were in the same boat All had skilled mech anics sitting around, and cars and en gines in a bad state of collapse, which SMALL CHANGE I The' rilnrinar vine of former years is row more noticeable for her. clinging gown. ' When we want a mountain moved w might harness a tot of the Idle words that are floating round about. ' If we knew Just where we were going and how we were going to get there, there wouldn't be much kick la life. a Anyway, so long as congress squabbles the president Has, a good alibi for the lemargy oi aorainistratton macbtnery. We could say -Erin go bragh." today if it were not for the-fact that so many oth ers will have the same idea at the same time. o Our idea of "class" isn't exemplified by the girl with brown shoes, blua hose. red dress, black coat and orange head gear. a ' There is one thine all then rnnrwu sicnal inquiries go to the bottom of. and that's the common-plug taxpayer's pocket. . e e It was St Patrick who chased the snakes out of Ireland, but why should he be put above Mr. Volstead, who did the same thing in America? ) . . t SIDELIGHTS , One thing is certain at least the war taught the -world how to pay -taxes. trana American. - harttiwaat aUppxratga a- Rne( rrm far ta Baay Reads. What with tariffs and treaties, con ferences and congresses we're having a terrible time trying to satisfy our ap petites these days for murders and scandals. ion affecting Vssondda X&JZZ2 " government operation and fleece the peo ple out of good money. Today we read will avail themselves of the privilege The Boston Transcript thinks that, al though the new member of the lords is ne representative ana presumably a protagonist of the privileges of birth," her presence "will certainly, add a new and picturesque touch to the proceed ings of that body, especially if she is followed by other ladies who are simi larly eligible." That "the Tory con-j servatism of the house of lords is in for a shaking up. probably with even more aggressiveness than marked the entrance of Lady Astor into the lower house of parliament," is the belief of the Wilkes Barre Record. "With the crippling of its powers, the house of lords has lost much of its prestige," says the Pitts burg Chronicle elegraph, "but with women members' who are in sympathy with progressive legislation, it may ob tain a new lease of life. The opening of its doors to women is certainly in line with the spirit of the times." Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Boise Jr. of Salem j are guests of the Portland. The father of R. P. Boise Jr. was one of Oregon's best known jurists in the days when Oregon, was a territory, and later for rnanyyears was on the supreme bench. Ella McBroom and Grace A. Gilliam of the Round-Up city are Bojourning at the Imperial. a a Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Dallevo of Mill City are taking in the sights of the me i Emma N. Drain of Eugene Is regis tered at the Portland. R. H. Merrill of Hood River is sojourn ing at the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. William Cartwright of Medford are guests of the Imperial. a Ray Powers of Corvallis is at the Im perial. a a a T. H. Moore of Ontario is transacting business in Portland. OREOOX " ' ." DeD snow ! tntorferfnr with the co- erattoa of the lorrinr eajnna in the hilia Thank roodnes. we are far enough I of-Clataon countv.. away from the shore that the crime Pmrtl. arrtvtng at Astoria frem the wave does not reach us. Drewsey Pto-1 Nrh! valley rerort aesrlr two feet ncer sun. I ae a-nnm- tn i k. a . w .,..! . -. Washington, reports the nubile debt! The Oregon City Odd Fellows lodge grew $0.000.000 last month ; bat what's I Is advertimtng for bids for tbe exca a few millions when we can't mr them? I vatioo of the basement for the proposed Pendleton East Oregonian. I temple at Seventh and Waahlngtoa a a a isu-eeia. . , It Is decidedly peculiar, the opinion "Uncle Joe" Garoutte. piotieer ef Ore some people have of their ability when gon since 18C2, ia dead at his home ia they begin to groom themselves for the Cottage Grove from paralysis. He and political arena. Roseburg News-Review, his wife settled near Cottage Grove el years ago. LraLs & ,Mwisssa vsrun area vs-s5; : Mail Trlbune. ... about $15,000. 1 We have been told off and on that The Pendieton Rotary club's stunt wfB - conditions in Astoria are pretty tough 1 oe tne neaaitner for the riunt program but, by golly, we didn't know they are l the twenty-eecond dlntrtct coovenUota so bad that people have to wear masks of Rotary to be held at Vancouver. B C when they make contributions to a April 3 and 4. church. Astoria .Budget. Al Graham, under arrewt at Knter- rt.-. ni. nkiii, , .. . prise charged with complicity in the JMlrZhiie robbery and burning of the store and L i. 7,f"! wt1,'n postoffice at Paradise, has been given never read any of the platform prom- his liberty under IliOO hnnta ises of gubernatorial candidates In Ore- ; -T. . . . gon. "Economy" and "Retrenchment" ,,H Hendry x. .editor of the Raker, have been the keynotes of pre-election "'raid, a"4 L R- Haxeltine. district promises and "Extravagance" and me warden, left Raker Saturday tor "Higlaer Taxes" the result of post- Murderers creek in Grant county to get election realities ever since we pulled on moving pictures of deer in their native our first long pants. Malheur Enter haunts. pr"- . Rabies, which has been prevalent aft winter In Nevada has spread over into Harney county and la reaching alarming proportions, according to Stanley O. Jewitt, head of the predatory animal division. A drive of more than 1100 cords ef wood, floated down Ames creek from a Salemites at the Imperial ini,i. ti t I point near Sweet Home, has been re- Curtis, J. H. Moore, Mr. aid Mrs. MUton SiT.v 15. p,PeM",nm1i" "i Lnon i Meyers. F. s. Ward. H. Cam pbell.1 X" VV. C. B. McCullough and Mr. and Mra b:!00: ... . yj, oCnUCaUng. I i'i tne .' . . Iir.ai containea many vaiuaoie recura and that for the past eight years has defied all effort of einerts to ftsen it. lineman to manager of the Pacific States I w" opened last Friday by Mayer ueorge ttartman. The farm home of Ralph Ohling, two miles south of Sanderson's bridge in Linn county, was detrred by fire Monday. Only a few articles ef fur niture were saved. Ohlinr had retired from the hardware business at Albany. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town "Curiously enough," observes the New York World, "it is all "the doing of the ! daughter of a hard-headed old Welsh mine owner, raised to the peerage dur ing the war, who had backed David Lloyd George in his early days when he made his first political appearance as a champion of Welsh nationalism. Lady Khondda promises to he neitner a chronic absentee nor a do-nothing, like most of the peers who make up its numerous membership." "If she proves as capable in the lords as she has been in-business management, this first wom an peer in modern times should be a decided gain to the ancient house, whose mending or ending is again a campaign topic in Great Britain," in the opinion of the Pittsburg Dispatch. She is a woman of uncommon energy, and loves hard work. She has not only attended to the great business in coal, ships and steel inherited from her father, but has found time to head the Women's In dustrial league, to edit a magazine and to take a hand in welfare movements, especially those relating to women work ers. She is a good speaker and she does not mince her words. The house of lords will be aware that Lady Rhondda is present," thinks the New York Tribune. All of which sets some papers to mus ing upon the first woman senator. How long will it take the United States senate to emulate this inspiring example of the house of lords? a statement of a high railroad official who "says equipment is run down, and in case of a business revival the companies won't have power and cars to handle t, on account of havfng to pay high prices for labor. They can only fix what they have to for present use. They did not seem to think of this last year, when they paid some pretty big dividends. No,' they want to make the workers pay the bill the same as they made the public pay twice for the same thing under government control. When the public begins to see the same as the railroad men do. that we are being fleeced by a bunch of grafters,, they are going to say, "Leave wages alone and give use cheaper rates, for. even though we are employed by a railway company, we have to live, just the same as Mayor Baker or anyone else does, and we are part of the public, who helped pay these added costs of skilled and unskilled men to sit around." So why not the railway public and society public all go together and fight for justice lower rail rates and still a living wage for the other public No, the i society public seems to listen only to the paid advertisements of the rail ways, who get their news on the front page and a big flowing headline. Not so with the worker unless he threatens to go on strike; then he gets. his name on the .front page as being a menace to society and the public, in which he is a mighty big factor. But the rest of the public has to protect him ; so some kind editor puts his name down on the front page and tells the rest of us what a menace we are to ourselves. I ;hope the public will look Into both sides of the coming controversy be tween railways and . their employes. Gordon C. Harvey. J. T. Dixon of Klamath Falls is reg istered at the Imperial. W. B. Thompson of Medford is doml ciled at the Imperial. A. Luckerman and family of Mexico City are registered at the Benson. e E. Nixon of Bend is a guest of the Benson. e J. E. Hinton of Shaniko is a guest of the Benson. e George H. Walker of Lebanon is domi ciled at the Multnomah. a W. J. Jordan of Lewiston is registered at the Multnomah. C. A. Smim is up from Astoria and is at the Benson. Telephone at Telegraph company at Sa- 1 em ..,1.1. h A .. w - i i . bu.ve.u . l uiq imperial. see C. R Long of Corvallis is In Portland on ousmess and is resrinterxl at h Benson. a D. H. Upjohn, former newspaper man. now secretary to the- governor, is regls- terea at tne Benson. a a e A. B. Cockburn of Ontario is stopping at the Benson. a Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Knight of Pendle ton are at the Multnomah. S. A. Phillips of Roseburg is visiting Portland friends. Mrs.' S. L. Douglas of Dufur is visiting relatives in Portland. a v Ira L. Judd of The Dalles la transact ing business in Portland. WASH1NOTOX Fire loase in Tacoma durinc 1I1 were only $175.1(1.11. the low eat since 11 i. Yerra entered the office of the Hotel Morton at Morton Saturday niht and robbed the eafe of tSS.50. An unprecedented bean pack will be put up by Whatcom county cannerleai this aeaaon. Hundreds of acres are be ing contracted. Miss Marie Wise is in a Centralla hos pital with serious Injuries, the reault of being hit by an automobile on the 1 a ciflc highway near Forest. At the Fred Sinna sale of Berkshire hogs at Proiwer Saturday, the bred aow and gilts averaged 165. most of the ani mals going to Oregon buyers. Mary K. Leslie of Pendleton ia a guest of the Benson. , tf. V. Rayburn of Hood River guest of the Imperial. is a Percy Purvis of Vale ia sojourning at the Imperial. a a a W. J. GHmore of Corvallis is a busi ness visitor in Portland. Ed Snow of Monroe Is here ness. on, busl- L. G. Rice of Pendleton Is transacting ! Ernest Bales, a former federal dry hu,!,.. i. p.mi..j -'agent, was arresiea i we i is- I t VI ( leak Uy VI t wa r e v v F. C. Veal, chair manufacturer of Al bany, is a guest of the Oregon. t A. B. Myers of Gates ia a Portland business visitor. F. D. MacPherson of Prlnevllle ia so journing at the Perkins. aVj. Proebstei. chem'at. aaaayer and miner, is taking in the sights of Port land. F. P. Miller of Roseburg la registered at the Perkins i I C. L. Winter of White Salmon la a guest of the Perkins. R. S. Dixon of Fort Klamath is tak ing in the sights of Portland. J. B. perial. Sparks of Bend ia at the Im- D. J. Dawson is down Round-Up city on business. from the M. A. Webster is here from Alpine on a brief business trip. V. D. Miller of Newberg Imperial. is at the Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ferguson of Hood River are Portland business visitora Hugh Cole and Ted Mays of Joseph are registered at the Imperial. a N. J. Judah. former newspaper man of Salem, but now in the government employ, is at the Imperial. a a George Doll is here from Coos Bay. a a C A. Harth of The Dalles Is trans acting business in Portland. them selves In hia hotel room and who said ther saw him sell jiquor. The Tacoma eohool board baa rescind ed its vacation order, so many people opposing it that the board concluded the schools were not able to ttand the ex pense of enforcing it When the 5.1 milea of paving now un der construction on the Inland Kmplre highway east of Waitsburr are com pleted, road funds will be exhausted and road building will cease. The eeven and a half mile of concrete paving on the Trent road out of Spo kane has been awarded lo C. M. Payne on hia bid of S192.3C1. Work will start at one with about 60 men. Mrs. 'Amanda Wyman. the oldewt woman in Olympla. celebrated her one hundredth birthday anniversary Sunday She haa been a member of the Kastem Star since it was organised In IKi. The amount of wheat on farms In Washington March 1 was about 4.7e.hee huahela or R ner cent of the 1911 TW. as compared with &.4U.OA0 buahela or It per cent of the 1130 crop, new one year ago. Charging that A. H. Rivard turned his horses out into the snow, damaged hi alfalfa field, put his bam on r-ktda and removed It, David Crair. living near Ttarrwh In Yakima county. has filed t suit against Rivard for $1200 damages. LONGSHORE LABOR FniENDS of water transportation find some encouragement in Colonel Ashburn's . report of -three years' .operation of the federal barge line on the Mississippi river between . Now Orleans and Memphis. Liurlng lilt the line handled I 1M.70 tons, in 1920 160. 703. tons and. In 1111 443.27 tons, This was an Increase of 423 per eent during ' the period reported on. Tho freight revenue In 191$ was tS7i.j9l.fi. in 191$ SC9S.1S8.76 and in 1921 S1.779.0&4.44. The net loss In operating the service during the , first year was $59.1$J.S8. Including depreciation; It was $717,919.15. in cluding depreciatioa, the second year and SSSS.SOO the third. At the same rate of Increase the r federal barge lino on tho Mississippi ' will. In a comparatively short time. I pay returns on tho Investment. The Increase In business leaves ' little doubt, that the service represents an economic advantage to shippers, - especially In southbound movement . to tho Tort of New Orleans. ' Of 70S.7SS tons moved, during.the three years. 415.99$ tons were ' carried Time to learn how to pronounce Joffre. According to the French consul it is simply j-o-f, long "o." MAKING MONSTROSITIES LOOK at a shoe store window full of children's shoes. What kinri of shoes do you see? Broad, square- toed ones. Look at shoes for grown ups in another window. ' You'll see narrow shoes with pointed toes. What amazing reasoning is this, one might ask, that conceives foot wear which allows children's feet to grow as broad as they are Intended then, later on. after growth is reached, tries to jam the same feet into canoe shaped encasement? The answer is, of course, no rea soning. Whoever heard of. anyone trying to reason with Dame Fashion ? No shoe that Is not of sufficient width and size should be put on a child's foot. .But why stop" with the children? - " Shoe manufacturers could do much to' help the unenlightened break away from tho shoe-pinching custom. now already much dislodged. More and more men and Women are weax- The Four-Power Treaty From the San Francisco Chronicle. HARVEY of the Oregon- Pacific company testified at the hearing called by the Port of Port land commission that at the dinner hour one evening, when 15 minutes' more work would have finished load ing a ship, the men went to their meal and returned later, when a bit of accommodation on their part would have expedited the sailing of the vessel and enhanced the credit of the port. . Mr. Crichton of the United States hipping board stated that when great pressure was being brought to arbear for the dispatch of a cargo and but a few carloads remained to be loaded, the longshoremen quit for their meal and instead of, waiting to pay them overtime he ordered the hatches battened and the vessel out of port, leaving on the dock tbe re mainder of the cargo. As the hearing progressed numer ous witnesses charged that local long shoremen do less work per man than those in competitive ports, that there is much deliberate delay looking to ward overtime, and that the mental attitude of the average longshore men is a real handicap to the oper ation of the port- No longshoremen were In attend ance to present their side of the case. It is duo them that they be given a hearing in which to either deny or admit the specifications put forth by tho other side, , : The way to make more work and more ; wages for cargo handlers in the port Is to get efficiency and speed in loading and unloading vessels. If that efficiency and speed are not ob- tainable, the port will lose business and tho loss will fall more' heavily on the longshoremen than on any- It is a national scandal that the soealled four-power treaty has not al ready been ratified by the senate. While the senate has a duty in respect -to treaties, and Is bound to act with de liberation, this particular treaty is very brief, its meaning clear and the text has been a long time in the possession of senators. In this case the duty of promptness is paramount, because the greatest benefit to be expected from the treaty is1 as an expression oi interna tional arood will and a fixed determina tion in all the signatories to hereafter respect the sovereignty and rights of other nations, a mutual assumption of good faith on the part of all. and a firm resolution to settle disagreements hv mnaultation and not by arms. We did not get all that we hoped for from the Washington conference, but we sot all that President Harding, Secre tary Hughes, Elihu Root and Senators Lodze and Underwood could induce the ' representatives of other nations to ac cept We have no wiser, aDier, more pursuasive and effective men m Amer ica than those whom we sent to mis conference. Other, nations were repre sented bv delegates of like character. All were more or less constramea py uninformed opinion at home. Great things were accomplished. All other nations represented have ratified or will ratify with enthusiasm. And yet every other nation represented had to make and did make sacrifices, while we gained In everything and sacrificed absolutely nothing. That this nation, of au nations, should hesitate is a scandal in the face of the world. It is setting the minds of man kind against us. It is creating contempt for our idealistic professions. And neither this nor" any other nation is strong enough to defy the public opinion of mankind.' ' . That we appear to hesitate is due solely to a minority of the senate, com posed of two separate elements. One is composed of a few senators se utterly contemptible as to be willing to. forfeit COMPLAINS OF AUTO TAX Portland, March 12. To the Eidtor of The Journal I noticedan article in The Journal some time ago 'coming from the auto tax bureau stating that the full amount of the tax would be collected this year even though the car stands In the garage jacked up for three or six months as the case may be. Now In 1921 xhe same law was in existence and if you had no use for your car for three months . you got a reduction of one- fourth of the total tax. What can be the difference if it was a law to collect the full tax in 1922? Why should it not he the same in 1921? Or Is it the same with the auto tax department as with some of the other departments of state which are supposed to look after the Interests of the taxpayer, or are they trying to rub it into us still harder? The present auto tax is an injustice to the common auto owner and I hope when our next legislature meets we can be able to show some of our representa tives that unjust taxation must stop. Rose. body else. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley in three installment Mr. loekley has pre- j the family I want to tell you something pared the story told him by a pioneer, who is almost a nonagenarian and who testifies to the superior charms of Oregrw when ha extols the delectable land from which hia family came in 1846. Curious Bits of Information Gleaned From Curious Places Many cases of supposed centenarian-. ism, perhaps most such cases, remarks the New York World, are dubious. There used to be many old negroes about who 'had seed Mas'r Washington" 100 years earlier. Probably they believed it. as George IV of England believed he had been at Waterloo. But where such proof of the date of birth as is accepted in a court of law can be offered, living 100 years may be as well established as any other fact. The age of animals varies roughly with their bulk. Mon keys, who are most like man. Jive from eight to 30 years, according to site. The United States life tables give the ex pectation of human life at age 99-100 at 1.95 years. With modern methods of fighting and preventing disease and the diffusion of hygienic knowledge, there is no reason why in a population of more than 100,000,000 people, instances of peo ple living past 100 years need not be fairly numerous. "Uncle" Frank Collins lives at Dallas. Or. "When I was 12 years old we started with our ox teams and prairie schoon ers for Oregon." said Mr. . Collins. "I was born In Warren county, Missouri. November 19, 1834. so that I was coming 14 when we started across the plains "My father's name was Smith Col lins. He was born In Orange county, Virginia, December 13. 1804. In 1827 he went to Warren county, Missouri. Two years later he married Eliza Emily Wyatt. who was born in Kentucky. My father's people came from England to Virginia In the colonial Cays. My mother's people, the Wyatts and Camp bells, came from England and Scotland There were 12 Of us children. My oldest sister. Jane Eliza, married Matthew Nealy. The next child was a boy. They christened him James Layton Collins He was bora May 9, 1831. My brother Jim had the choice of the whole Wll lamette valley, but he never took up a donation land claim. He was a book worm, and became a lawyer. He read law with B. F. Harding and Governor L. F. Grover. On September 27. 1881 Jim married Miss Mary Whlteaker, whose father, Benjamin Whiteaker. came to Oregon in 1847. His first -wife died, leaving a baby girl named. Ellen. My brother then married Miss Mary E. Kimes. Uncle Jeff Snow Says I see this here Emp'ror Charlie of Aus tria's jist about busted and ever time he tries to ring the time c!ock in Vienna the foreman kicks him outer the back door. With a wife and seven kids, he's most like a atrikin' coal miner after three months' idleness and the mine flooded. However, if Chatiie'Il give them ally guards the slip, us fool Americans'd swarm out. by the millions to see him drive six elephants in a circus parade and Par a extrv four bits to see him Was vi-a.l LuuV eaaaa- .w aw rr . ayw . - - . the resoect of the World and imperil 'its ! crowned in a sideshow tent. I reckon peace for the sole purpose of embarrass ing political opponents. The other ele ment is composed of a few men like Reed. Borah and others, who are so con sumed with, vanity. So hateful in spirit, so oblivions to decency, so Indifferent come of our new millionaires'd pay him as much as $109,000 apiece to be made barons' and' Jukes, and mebby a cool $IJOOO,000 to be ; made a prince ef the realm. Charlie's sure of ea tin", anyhow. "I was the third chijd in our family, and was christened Francis Marion Col lins. The next child, Eliza Melvina Col lins, was born October 22. 1S3S. She married Thomas Berry. After Eliza came Douglas Wyatt Collins, who was born November 6, 1138, and who ' married Sarah Wheeler. My brother. George Smith Collins, was born January 23. 1841. He was killed while we were crone lag the plains, three miles from 8oda Springs. He fell out of the wagon and the wheel ran over him. killing him In stantly. William Wallace, the next boy, was born March 2. 184$. He married Letitia Fuqua. The next child named David Crockett Collins. 'He was born February 17. 1845. He waa killed by his horse in his early "20a while ford ing a stream. The rirst or the rhlkjren born in Oregon waa Alexander. October 15. 1847. He married Sarah Wells. The next child to arrive was Emily Arathuaa She married Dick Wells, a brother of Alexander's wife. Anory Samuel Col lins was born January 27. 1852. He tied Mary Statta. whose brother was tbe Justice of the peace who married my wife and roe. The youngest child in our family was Mary Isadora Cotllna, She married Elvln Carter. of my boyhood back in Missouri. We crossed the plains in 184$, so I was about 12 years old when we left Missouri. - A boy's recollections are very vivid and I can remember very distinctly how good tne papaws, the persimmons, the fox grapes and the wild blackberries and wHd strawberries tasted back in Mis souri. A small stream called the Sharat river ran through my fathers place. There was timber along this stream. All through that country there were black walnut and hickory trees My hands used to be as brown as a gypsy's from gathering the black walnuts - and hulling them. In the woods along the river were quail and wild turkeys, and any quantity of gray and red squirrels. Out In the prairies there were plenty ef prairie ehickena All a person needed was a stout pole, a few yards of fish line, a hook (or. In the absence of a hook, a bent pin) and a can of angle worms, to get all the catfish he wanted. I remem ber yet how good the squirrel pies tasted that mother used to bake. Orrus Brown had crossed the plains to Oregon In 1844. He came back the following year to get his family, his mother and other relatives. He told, my I father about Oregon. Father -got the Oregon fever. Thafi bow we happened to come to Oregon In 184. Orrus I Brown's brother-in-law. Virgil Pringle, also decided to come. In fact they made up a good sized party of emigrants in our neighborhood. My father rented his farm and bought three new wagons with two yoke of oxen for each wagon. We left home about the middle of April. We bad been out only a few days when we were Joined by a number of wagons from Georgia. These people had started from their home early in March. We passed Grand Prairie and Boon's Lake over pretty good roads. We pai through Huntersvine, county seat of Randolph county, also throagh Keytea- ville, and came to Braiwnrick, em the Missouri river, near the junction of Grand river, IDAHO -Alvln Halverson. 11. a Sandpoint sol dier, died last Wednesday aa the result of being-gassed In the World war. Patrick H. Quirk, one of the first set tlers of Idaho, died at his home In Boise a few days sgo. aged years. A. B. Aim. A drank a quantity of car bolic acid in his room at a Granreville hotel In an attempted suicide. He may recover. The Idaho Bean Growers' association this seaaon marketed ISO.OOO pounds of beans and distributed $40,000 to the . growers. According to a report Just received from the Interior department, Idaho has S.C06.101 acres of land unappropriated and subject to entry. Shoshone county's valuation Increased more than $2,500,000 In 1921 over that re ported for the previous year. Total taxes assessed amount to $m.49.e:.. and the county haa no bonded indebtedness. Fred A. Leahy, freight brakeman n the Oregon Short Line, waa killed in the yards at Dubois when he was knocked from the rear of a switch engine by a snow bank at the side of the track,. The Peace of Saint Patrick By Linton L. Dairies "Bedad. as ErhVa proad UV day." Kara GaDacner to k'w "Behka tbe omld sod. Ihiblm way. Shows ap i "Now that I have called tho roll of wagon train." "Toward the latter part .of April we had frequent thunderstorms and ' heavy showers, which made muddy roads and heavy pulling. Many of the emigrants stacked up with bacon hi Jackson county, paying 8 cents a pound for. it. They pat In enough to last them tor the trip act oss" the plalna We stopped to pur chase flour at . Brae Millet, famous la those day for a high grade of flour, Blue. Mil la waa not far from ' Independ ence, where, wo arrived May 7.. 1944. After pa lag Independence it was de cided that there were too many wagons In wr train, ee they were divided Into two trains. William Keithly waa elected captain of our train, -with Orroa Browne as guide for both trains. ''Captain Rob- tnsoa was cnesea captain ef Use ether "Sore. Tare 'a harp faff tV wall. An' stnkrn' notes that wteaa Pare hareaooy for one aa' alt" "Ta epake trwth." answered laat "Belike UV land, with freedom area, - Will eeUJe down, errwae. Aa' majhe no asora rtm' dwta." "Ah. rueer Uial." ears Keaae. AN OLD BLESSING REVIVED rroea the 1-m ;rano Ohtir. Sometimes we do not recognise a choice blessing when it comes our way. Listen to this: For several years psst rural life In the Grande Ronde valley has been more or less selfish. People did not. know their neighbors. The old-time neighborhood party gave way to the trip to town and visiting town s com-, mercial amusements. i This condition grew upon people weitil the real Joy of community life waa al-." most squeezed. But of late, since times have tight- ened up. the Observer la pleased to state that Grande Ronde valley aortal life haa reinstated Itself. Farmers are holding neighborhood parties. The worn, en bake eakea and In the evening- m.. i whole neighborhood will meet and have t a dance. The next week they win con- t gregate at another neighbors house - and have a fine time, xne pieaemr. of social Fife has come back. V At a recent part' oot la the valley where 40 citizens were present, this very sabject-waa brought up and die- , -euaeed and everyone preeeat agreed that , the - hard times had brought people eisaer tor ether, and that they are' ew- Joying life better than they have for - I several rearm. v V .-No one wests bard' time. No cm wants the burden of facing the preweat piechmg' eoasdltkma. But aometlmn , hi tea lags coase ia a veiled form. Ia It ' possible that such Is tbe . case rlgat" if 4 I reckon,' though,- x r - - - ' f' f