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THE OREGON DAILY JOU BNAlv PORTLAND, 'OREGON.
THURSDAY. MARCH SO, 1S22.
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& better atmoapnere. . in a Dewer,
I brighter atmosphere they would plan
more courageously, and . accomplish
moreffectlveJy-; :' vff ;;4'.- i
! If Ihese , things ar-true; ! -why do
so many . people! shield Ubemselvea
AV T"TrrTXIWST JSgWeTarTR
.. JAf.tX ..IMblfabrt
I It he eeafMant. b ehwrfal, wl "
r.th t T-Ml wmH hee tnB nl T"-
n mk,ui ti4 homtf Borntac i i oenina, a waii.r;at leiepnwno poic
1 h Jiwirtwl Staid"
.'nt at tl ttuvtoUie at
it UwMiiMfai Urawfc the wlk aa
until the - car for which : they are
waiting comes along t
.Why do they eat heavily when
'. t Y rfi "( 5 7171. " int.
au rt.r.oi.nn v ibriiomWT I they are not hungry? "Why do they
V,f,i late wheo ihey are sleepy?
M Min, 2i rift nw, Hew lorti too why do thejf avoid fresh air as if it
v"AfXffitf&tnt-iLi. w. Poison? Why.do they shun ex
... , in, tuaiwr tmiidins. ercise as if , It .were a t plague? fv ;
''Tr TSK- - because sonany areaslei-
, JTir;C!nroTTIJ." rrr. tU iiM" a and more self-indulgent than in
r-r tiMftMH ttf . ?ltellint? : . -- v, i " ; J.
- unable. Ik ,kw elll ant Pfm any eepy w I
In any aunalatca praams atauar or uai
tu MwiiiJ m Imi UtrlH.
. a is ew jersey congregation was
shocked the other day when It found
t .mi Hs pastor leading a dual life. The
church had "been paying him 324 a
week. ' Although his flock was en
, srascRimoM batts
g Carrirr. Pity anrt Cermtf.
1411,1 Jill
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r,i if aii, r x. hatxs FiTArtt ic l ADvAKCt j tirely ignorant t It a New york, de
oV r......(i m.' Jth....U partment store had been paying him
k.x axntiw..... 4.3ftlOa axntb...... I twice as much as a floor walker and.
' iwkii sL., lOaVfi section manager, i Some of the eld
tt. ......if rMr.....,ts.Meri. have- yet to recover "from the
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.oo I shok- of the discovery.
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A GREAT TEAR
and Washington's prize fruit East.
Growers shipped to the Eastern mar
keta for sale on consignment-- The
glutted markets, promptly; sutaided.
Preliminary losses were large, -. -
Then, by the turn of fate's wheel.
the market recovered. Calif ornla's
orange losses, due to freezing, had
something-to do with the recuper
ated demand, i Doubtless' the call
from England and ' Europe for , our
apples waq a contributing factor.
But grower who had held fruit for
the aimpie reason that they could not
find a j market, s suddenly! fowndthe
skies cleared and smiling Demand
became Intense. Hood Wver -shipped
more apples thah had been credited
as that; district's crop. :The specula
tors were worsted. SW,!4 f - aX;
J One 't the most ancertain of
speculations Is the storage of eggs.
One of the. best market observers in
the forth west! says that re finds it
costs not-Jess than , cents a dozen
to-'carry 'eggs Vln cold "storage. The
longer 1 they .fare. carried too, the
greater; the. proportion of 'Vots' and
"spots'" and breakage- .' This observer
adds that fter Z years he has yet
to see i speculators ! in Atef rigerated
Wnen . 'onions '. are held ? In
FOES OF- BONUS .
ANSWERED
Mollie Prentice's Reaent JtterJn The
Journal Evokes sA Arraignment of
.Those Who Remained to Profit la
. Safety. While Soldwrm Suffered , :
' and Pertehea ands Their.
Womanfotk Anguished ; Case
" si for jne Bonus Arrayed on
v : the FJane Chose . by .""
" 7i. Those Ppposing.,
- -. - -. By Old Timer
To MolUe Prentice : Tour brief let.
ter to The Journal. contained a meaning
ful phrase that should b sharpened and
driven through the thick hides of , the
slacker class that how; rolls the : word
cold
jstoragei' -foir instance. ..the ' demand
. .ik. IA
. th ni ipru mir i W j T0RTUlNrr8 oversea and foreign Mtras;ti4 '.in inverse pttoportioii to
U WtW
.XMrk'. .Bw.itS vessels, of l.Oai.vJO
Jftarntt rvtiltahlne Covpanr. rnnUnd. Ongmu
y "n.iT grTS; seosatat entries in ltO were S 3 the wfppiy.iCln other 'words, if the
w Dmit. if yea, pstoritr ia not vessels of 451,216 tons; In 131, 331 1 nrice'is high and'ontona. are scarce
The oversea the sales will be brisk. "But people
Nbimuo, m (hi, d-rrmni .hm.M . ttt I of 42,T01 . tons; of 1921, 1.94,93Q j op smelt if the price Is lW.
only n ttd of tlw Mptr. ihouUl ant nt4
o onia m jrin ,t4 im nrrM ay im
wrtUf, HMN MM II ASdl
piny tK, uitWMHIm. I
tons. -
Intercoastal service grew even 1
more amazingly with 19 vessels of
105,553 tons in 1920 against 139
vessels of 911. ? tons in 1921.
.The freight handled by the vessels thelr costs plus a, reasonable profit
was in proportion; mere were o,
The legitimate use of 4jold storage
is t'o- provide a " more uniform dis
tribution of perishable foods. People
who engage in refrigeration, whether
growers or: dealers, are : entitled to
462 tons foreign in 1920 and 1.66t
702 tons in 1921; 185.875 tons do
mestic in 1930 and 314,810 tons in
tl:t. -
Refrigeration intended by specu
lators to force people t pay high
prices U both morally wrong and
sometimes : financially , disastrous.
The objective of the cold storage
Za system of the country should be not
foreign steamship lines last year and . v
seven intercoastal lines. It is noted
that nine steamship lines are giving
regular service between the Atlantic
and Pacific coasts, indicating that we
are getting the attention of most of
them. The steamship lines in for
to see that ; supply meets! demand.
of Vermont that started boss tradin In
Birerside. Californy. 'fore the first lr
riratln' ditch hit that town- and the
folks in San Berdoon called 'em and
ISppers. Pete traded of 1 a "smalt truck-
load of cheap brass jewelry fer them
little . rabbit-breasted - mustangs the
Qreasers brought to- him, fore he come
to a realism sense of the fact that them
critters et more bar in a week n what
they was worth, and he had to turn a
dozen or o of iem loose fer..wagt of a
market. Them mustangs,at four bits a
head, -measured mi the basic -cost, of
that there Jewelry.'; was -mighty costly
livestock, Jlst,;tl-:samewir---t;-':V-i-- . '
COMMENT AND NfeWS IN BRIEF
The Oregon Country
rs Froni the People
l I Carannnic&tvn ami. to Tae . Joamat ' tot
pubii.-tion in thMopartaeaC altooid-be writtra
bonus" under the tongue-and alludes I ctti ZOO words in lencth. and must be sienna
tf. this pittance- as ayltig the ex-service J 1 ithe writer, vixne mU addre in lull mutt I horse thief. That ought to make him a
. ; SMALL CHANGE . .. ,
." Incidentally, this is the season when
life becomes a long, hard row to hoe,
ji-J- . . .V -9i " s ' '
See ' where a fellow named Tatty
Arbockle is being tried in California
courts. ; ; - : . ; i -. .. . ..
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Henry Ford has been Sued for $11,
000,000. The funny part of it, is that he
has, the money. .-. .? ;
tfow. if we could only find a little
time and some respectable weather, we
might .catch some fish.
"Tex" Rlckard. freed by a Jury, says
be will stick to porta." What's that
about birds of a feather I
Man in Southern Oregon is held as a
, V ; : SIDELIGHTS
. aaanaa - '
saiem'a slate aayroll is sue.ooe a
month, se the Statesman boasts. And it
Is Salem tax reducers who contend the
schools are bankrupting the state. Ku-
When It comes ' to a show-down In
Kan
n,an for patriotism." The phrase I re
fer to is this:
NO one knows what the boys arra
their wives (and mothers) went through
excepting they themselvea" ,v
Between these two lines lies the story
of the true bitterness of war. I think
the word "patriotism" should be elimi
nated from controversy. So few know
its meaning,' and it only stirs the pas
sions that lead to war. Surely there i
no place for this word in any discus
sion with the hecklers. Inasmuch as the
commercial class has pushed to the fore
front in opposition to the so-called bonus.
Cfconpany
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the cojitribatioa. 1
curiosity in these days.
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xxyjyjK nniLJiti tiwutt ia i society women are orenarlnr to op-
A liover of Opera Gives Fine Praise to I pose the young ex-butler in his love af-
latr. bui a ouuer ousrnt to loos line ut
Portland. March 28. To the Editor of I society togs ns s useo io em..
ine Journal me joys or the recent President Hardinrs yacht is equipped
opera season were multiplied to me by I with a 350.000 speed boat. Wonder if we
the i newspaper stories of the Dresenta-I can't arranee to let concrress Tide in it
tnrougn tne sea oi penaing legislation?
lions which one could read the day fol
lowing, of the respective performances.!
stay I be permitted to say that of all
the Journalistic comments upon the
operas which appeared in the Portland !
papers (I read them all each day and
emrnT H"y" nuiw i i most enjoyable were those of Mr.
wautn in The Journau
I am not making any comparisons, but
simply speaking of Mr, Wallin's articles.
commercial.
When the draft came, when the uni
form was donned, the roll called and the
bugle sounded, when the grim reality of
this business of war took full form m
the mind of the wife, and mother, what
amount of money would she in that hour
have willingly paid to have stopped that
file of men and disbanded them? Let us
figure It up on that basis. If it Is to be
commercial, then there must be two sides
to it. We have got to consider both
sides, and see how much the owners of
taxable property at home would have
Maybe the throat epidemic is a symp
tom of too much talk and too little ac
tion, since thera seem -to be lew-l-
loused hands. -
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In the case of Mary Garden's cold,
blamed upon a draughty stage in Port
land, the preponderance of evidence
seems to indict San Francisco's tog. t
4a Rriat Fa
any nAtt.
,- v - r-'y . OREGOX ' "v
The American LrrVoa ef North Bend
Is planning a modern dance hail. 100
by 120 feet, and te cost 320.000. "
- The Green Mountain sranc of Buxton.
with about 1O0 members, will celebrate
America, the golden rule stands small its twenty-first birthday April 20.
chance in competition with the big stick.
Aioany jjemocrai
- - m m m
The pararrapher has his little troubles.
hut his last days are not troubled by the
frantic effort to give sway bis ill-gotten
gains.-Meaiora stau Tribune.
Now that the ' famoua ' Kara Seotia
ghost has been . explained, we wander
whether it s some "d Incarnate 1nte:il
Police Judo Leavltt of iriamath Falls
has announced tun intention to be a can
didate for the Republican nomlaatioa
fr circuit Judges .
FJjthty China pheasants from the state .
ram farm have been released this week '
in Wasco county, la ta lot were 11
roosters ana aeaa,
Charles Klnsey. well known former of
tne tseavertea aeuhborhood. draoned
gence" that's making all that trouble incad at noon Monday while loadtnr e
the United
Observer,
States senate. La Grande
wagon with gravel at the old brickyard.
J. R. Luner of the state ttrtuvi'.
off Joe at fcaietn has just received a pack -
age oi pnotoirrapna wnicft were mailed to
him et a Uttle town la Eastern Oregon
10 years ago. . ' ;
Mrs. Mary A. Veutrin. aged 90. is dead
at her home In Grand Ronde. Polk ooun- -
ty. She wss one of the first settlers of
ancouver. Wash- her hunhand belsa- ta
Funny that nobody eas sunrested dur-
ins; recent tax inveatlgstlons that a rood
sized on unk pe added to automMtitea.
The industry has almost been killed al
ready by adding freak legislation, but
tne I el low wno can ouy-30-cent s-asoitne
and manipulate a flivver ought to be
1 l. - A . . 1 It .t. T I V.. E
ki- mn. nmm.mi,. pawKum I tD employ of Ir. John McLouarhUa.
News-Review. - Lawrence Stafford, who committed snt-
cide at Astoria Saturday, had recently
Thete are people who blame the news- f"d action In court appealing- from the
papers for publishing: stories about the ruling of the state compensation board
moving- picture scandals. and yet i disallowing: his total disability Claim,
wouldn't these same people be the first The SummervUle Stock association has
U condemn the newspapers If they re- decided to make an assessment of SL3a
rusea to puousn sucn stones? we'll per head on stork rraxtn mi
gamble they would accuse the newspa
pers of suppressing news In the Interest
oi aavertisers. Astoria Buaget.
ss they stood alone. They were terse
but comprehensive, sincere, impartial
and independent. , and showed . a wide
range of musical knowledge and under- j
standing. They also revealed the
shadows of the occasions as well as the
high lights, and yet did so generously.
by implication rather tnan . by direct
statement which setms to me to have
benefited the whole opera season, as an
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
ment land, the funds to be used In im
proving the ranges and for current ex
penses. .....
Pupils of the district schools ef Tilla
mook county, who have conducted at cam
paign recently against gophers and
nave met with murk success. One
aT t: paV 'Ue wifTand "the mo'er ""VtJJZ tlt
and which, therefore, while open to mel-
Wade Siler of Enterprise, who is so
journing in Portland, takes exception to
published statements that : Wallowa
county is in a bad way. On the con
trary, he asserts that optimism is pre
dominant and that Wallowa county is
Just as well off as neighboring counties.
There has been very little loss of stock
Eater, when the boys went across, what I low- criticism, such as given by Mr. j and there is sufficient hay. The snow
Wallln, was not subject to the slightest
comment that might have savored of
I censure.
!I thank you for making the articles
possible. " H. E. Veness.
MR. BAKER ON THE BONUS
the mud and vermin in the trenches or I Writes Again. Assigning Mis Reasons in
was a fair price to pay the wife who
laid her head upon her pillow sightly.
wakeful, wondering if tomorrow's cas
ualty lists would show her a widow? Or
to the mother whose nightly prayer was
that the boy. she had nursed and reared
might not be crouching that night amid
Elbert Bede, editor of the Cottage
Grove Sentinel, has been urged by
his friends to become a candidate for
eign service include the best known th legislature In Lane county, and
W faka Jmb peine to be happy than to
apavaf an. Haaaaleeaauld. .
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M n. lIARblNO . AD JAZZ
names of the marine world.
Portland will rank among the first
four ports of the United States in
grain and flour shipments for the
cereal year of 1921-23. Its grain nd
flour shipments of 1920 were 11,-
171,110 bushels and .2.141,219 bar
rels in 1920 as compared with 37,-
927.219 bushels and 1,803,304 bar
rels in 1921.
The falling off In the lumber mar-
his candidacy is announced. 'A square
shooter, a thoroughly informed citi
zen, a man whom the hangers-on
and politicians at the legislature
could not fool or control, Mr. Bede
is thoroughly equipped for legislative
work. One great trouble with legis
latures is that many of the newly-
elected members do not know what
is going on or what to do until the
session Is mostly over. It would not
be so with Elbert Beds,
.TO PLAT HORSE?
j.V HIS addrssa at the Calvary Bap
tlst church. In Washington, Presl
'tent Harding ably diagnosed many of ket al1 not affect the port as much
the ailments of th United States and M might have been expected, for the
offered, intelligent advice for cures, shipments of 1920, amounting to 222,.
He declared that much Of our trou- K89.000 feet, are not auhstantiallv
Oe comes through' a "moral laxity, greater than the 219,897,000 feet COMB Washington news Is that the
Mfting standards, and weakening .htnned hv water in 1921. oonus dui win soon pass tne sen
,f the, sterner fibros."; ,H! cure U a I -jho growth of the wool ro0ve-lte' Other news is that the present
ronrtr relation botwoen the citizen ment by water Is phenomenal, for lme.? ny'.wut pass jinat oay.
lying wounded and helpless in No Man's
Ldnd? How much would -these women
have paid? Good God, Mollie Prentice
what business have you trying to an
swer the Bakers and their heckling? We
vill go into court with it as a case in I are several :
Detail for His Position.
(Independence. March 28. To the Edi-
j tor of The Journal A few more words.
to make myself clear on the bonus :
The objections to the bonus, as I see,
along the river has gone and the cattle
and sheep are now on grass.
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It. B. Magruder shag come to Portland
from gpie dike lands of Clatskanie on
business. '
' ' -W.
E. Burke, whose postoffice ad
dress is Sherwood, spent Wednesday In
Portland.
The Clam Shell division of the Union
Pacific system Is still maintaining a
molea. b
boy. Ror Haanenkratt. haa Ilk rn hta
credit , . .
With the ilnVIn f tK. T.. r-
lumbia Oil et Oaa company's well to- a
depth of t200 feet the funds have run
R'.VJ10? toczholders are advised that
Among those registered at . the
perial ia L. H. Smith of Corvallis.
Im-
eQUlty. That is an easy place to win it.
have seen people go into civil court
and win alimony or damages 50 times in
excess of a soldier's bonus, merely by
alleging V:ruel andjnhuman treatment,
and proving It to be vmentsi distress".
There is no money to pay it 'with. If
the bonus is voted by congress upon the
I people at the present time it will throw!
new burdens upon the country's finances.
, will" wreck many industries, cause many
It. A. Dixon of Klamath Falls is regis
tered at the Imperial.
.
George W. Rogers is in town from Iho
men to go wtthout employment and raise county seat of Malheur county.
as-; 1 -m . .... a. I -
A lawyer the other day in court was , prlc" of . niries'K not, on!f
those who get the bonus but to alt the
people. - -
The main argument for the bonus
seems to be that men who joined the
handed 580,000 merely for a few months'
service in settling a dead '. man's . es
tate, and another lawyer' calmly took
Anwn f13AfWWl Im ti Dim. Mii.f frm (h.
same Job. So let's try it in court. By ""ancl' ??Tlllc " "lB
tf.king this course w can meet the heck- f 0 f, ? wh ma?.nn? !,
lers in their own forum, even though it 22 lL.T.ho !??d?. fiPanclai
be somewhat unpleasant with the odor I .,, Am rrw. , . ...
nt int .nii i.i- b,.nd- Th prices of these bonds have
-.".-' I fauen until there is a distinct loss when
f"suvu ' I von ev tn rutin nn thnm T knrmvnl
money at 8 per cent to buy Liberty
bonds and many others did the same
thing.- I had to dispose of mine long
ago. Thousands have suffered finan
cial loss on account .of the war. They
did their best just as truly as did the
Now, why should you. a mere soldier's
wife or mother., feel the way you do
about it, when all you did was to give up
jour .loved one. deprive yourself of ev
erything but the slender hope that he
Mrs. J. M. Fix of Lewlston, Idaho, is
a guest at the Portland. . ,
.
L. O. Taylor of Bend is among out
of town arrivals.
a a
A. W. Stone of Hood River is regis
tered at the Portland.
a a a
. R. H. Bowman of Salem is a Port
land visitor. 1
a a a
C. Macdonald of Salem is transacting
business In Portland.
a
John Ray of Astoria is trsnaactlng
business in Portland.
dally schedu-o of twotraln. per day fi. TWlJiiiu'S
m- - . . . Ywv-ftww nijna
to Captain rd Budd. general manager. a. J. Kyle of Florence has been an-
who is spending a fewdays in Portland, pointed to fill the vacancy on the board
He reports the clam packing season has of directors of the Roosevelt Memorial
opened notwithstanding the delayed h,iA.Vil'lrT Jt?"mtien caused by
. the death of J. W. Bergman, who rep
spring season. raaented Lane county.
Lyman a BJce of Pendleton, of tha . WASHINOTOH " '
World war veterans state aid -coramls- - False teeth valoed at 9B50 were wtoiea
sion. Is in Portland on business con- rom two dental of fipes In Everett a few
nected with the soldiers bonus law. nignis ago..
. June 1 has been set as the date for the
Among 'these attending the spple dj''t.ur ,rom Seattle of Captain Roaid
growers' contention ie Kdward Pierce Amundsen s Araic expedition. - .-
of Opportunity. Wash. cSJJ tVA"'
n . . , . . attle municipal a treat railway deficU
O. T. Bergner of Ashland Is repre- during January. 19JJ, et Il7.vt.
senting Rogue river orchards at the Dr. W. n. Kirknatrick hae re. .
apple growers' convention. . Isppolnted by Governor Hart as trustee
or the Belltafhem state normal school.
His new term will end June 11, im.
A state fair surpassing all previoua
exhibitions la promised this year at
Yakima, September 18 to 23. by F. 1L
Gloyd. asslsunt director of tha depart
ment of agriculture.
Announcement ts made that the North
west Trost and Sayings bank has merged'
Its business with the Marina National
bank, both of which are well known
George IV Wilbur, whose heme ts In
the Hood River valley, la visiting In
Portland.
A R. Ruhl, an apple grower from
Medford, is in Portland attending the
convention of apple growers.
Georen Parklna of Rend uIai man-
seer of the Brooks-Scanlon Uiraber o" tasUtutions of Seattle.
company. Is In Portland on business.
X R. Hammond of Umatilla spent
Wednesday In Portland on business.
- a
O. W. Hunter of Eugene is a recent
visitor in Portland.
Mr. and Mrs. E. M- Cherry of Astoria
are registered at the Benson.
e e
A reeheck ef the demaa-a dona tn Una.
ber tn the Hob and Clearwater shed a in
the Olympic . peninsula by the great
storm of January. 1921. show the loss
to be 9 Jk per cent of the total stand.
The timber oa one section 'of land In
northern Lewis county brought 110. S00
when sealed bids were opened Monday
ey tne state captiot - committee. The
proceeds will go late the capital building
A tract of about 2S.000.000 feet ef tlm-
J. F. Hall and son of Medford are at- ber In the North river district will be
ft
It has passed the house. But
still has the gauntlet othe, senate
and president to run. And it, is in
the senate that trouble is likely to
arise. - i : , H
There are few to commend the bill
as it passed the house. It is more
ana mo law ana we enure, -,- ut amounted to but 545,111 pounds
The' moral jaxltjr' that Is apparent I Jn 1920 and to the very largo total
ltover the country Is serious men- of 23.002. 081 pounds in 1921.
nee to the future of ho United States. The dock commission found that
High school students of both sexes when the order tn the Columbia basin
nre found carrying whiskey flasks, case became effective September 28,
There Is more scandal than ever be- 1921, the grain receipts at this port
f -re. The divorce courts are run. immediately began to grow. But ltlof an aid to the money landers than
:..ng at full swing. There are more also found that lower class rates to the soldiers. And there is no pro
ve triangles and resultant murders, from Portland to the 4500-square- J vision as to how the money shall
iore rrivoious conduct ana lowered I mile zone south of Snake river were! finally be paid
inaaras of morality are apparent helpful to manufacturers and ob
' i the lite of the times, .-. ' - " bers, and likewise that the decision
. Many a nation has fallen heo to have "a most decisive bearing
l-ullt on a foundation of immorality. In determining the location of indus-
rowet and, war always brought U .tries In the Northwest.'" '
n. The sterner' fibres er weak- . These, figures -of the port are the
ned. And finally the nation crum- substance of accomplishment. They
t led. Frivolous people do not make demonstrate anew that the vision, the
i.atlons, 0 " effort and the Investment made by
-Thero Is. however, another thought. "na in port xacuuies pay.
might some time return? All that you soldiers who went to the front, and yet
did was to exist for two years, perhaps j i i have not heard of anybody asking
on crumbs, as best you could, and wait,! for a bonus or adjusted compensation
feel now as you do about, it. when your A 1 great mani 'who stayed at home
man merely left his investment or his were , salaried i employes, pllke myself,
place in the world of business and in- whose pay advanced very little or none
dustry. a place to which he perhaps had during the war. Yet -while the salary
struggled in the waiting line of promo- did not increase , the prices of the neces-
tion or advancement; when be merely sSries of life' did. -or the purchasing
cave his place here to another and went power of the - money decreased, which-
across, leaving you uncared for, your fu- ever you call it., It amounted to an this eamnaissinc in Minoati asd cuawhera. Tha
ture unprovided for ; when he knew .that setual loss. Thousands who stayed at I ae eompiated is a noccctdin InaulV
xr nfl aio nor rriirn veur first wnitin jm i uomc xiku, 'uzib eiDcmnce. i
tendlnc th apple trowtrf conTaUon.
OBSERVATIONS AND BIPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockiey
A Ciril r vetcraa whaae aoenton acrrefl
their esnntry In ia earUart eenflieta ia ban
Quoted by air. loeklay. Ha leeouata hi wandT
Ingi aa aa arzonaut out Pika'i Peak way aM
Undoubtedly, the war Is largely re
S'onsfble for the present conditions.
Wars create disrespect for law.
But is this the game: for the house
to pass a bill that it knows will be
held up in the senate, and in the
meantime get the soldier vote in the
approaching, elections, t!i bill then
to die in the senate chamber? There
are indications that such is the plan.
It is generally understood in Wash
ington mat .certain senators, at a
private dinner party recently, dis
cussed the bonus and, it is said, they
Panned to put it in the background
M a cau w( bzvm Wl ' iaCillCU UJ el
whether the law of the .t t a e t,a Kansas newspaper. It continues: "I
moral Jaw. O B ,v" .ena, i oo wU, f avor POrhaps. but
.President Harding, whon ho took .T "IS J , hot tho present eSure.M The presl
crrico, Inherited the results of the wrB' y- I V . TV wilt oep hands off: fTho house
war. He cannot recall that war. But "I J1 J I B the senate will wrangle, and the
He can do much to avoid another
war, and thereby- avert another
r"riod. of disrespect of the laws of
ftate and the church.
-The. conditions of the present but a darned ,lnt better."
rerioa oi jess musi ce met as pest
they can. In his advice. President
Harding has taken a stand for what
is good and wholesome in the world.
And ho can do far mort to avoid
wages. , any man wno Knows a k..n. m -niMte't hk..
I . - , , a . - I ey v 1 f eeW,
7 I . w i7. : really to provide tho ooldiers jrlth
one ef poverty and sadness?
According to the views 'of the sapient
Jorgensens and the heckling Baker
trsse considerations are mere whim
sies. The business of war, the miseries
that follow in its wake, and the penal
ties that must fall upon those who sur
vive it. 'should, in the view of the class
that has stayed at home and taken care
of the money matters, become now pure
ly sentimental and patriotic, to be set
tled on the basis that they cannot "pay
a man for patriotism." But they csn
without batting an; eyelash issue 340.
000,000 of road bonds to enable the tour
ist ana the - drummer to ride more
smoothly.
Now, about the young man who had
educated himself for a business, let us
say the livestock business for I recall
a particular case in point. He had bor
rcwed 83000 and invested it in a. start.
just a year before toe war. The draft
came. He had to leave his business in
untrained hands. After two years in
French and Belgian campaigns he re-
The fourth and last that I shall men
tion is an argument put forth to the ef
fect tnat tne soidier lost the opportunity
to share in the high wages, while he was
at the front. In reply to this let roe
remind those who make this argument
tnat tne nigh wages were during 1920.
Most of the men were In France in
Rodolph Crandall lives in HUlaboro.
He celebrated bis ninetieth birthday last
month.- When I visited him at bis home
recently, he said:
"I was born in Lewis county. N- T.,
February 19, 1832. My father's name
was Joseph Crandall and my mother's
1919.; The majority were returned home I maiden name was Mary Clark. " My
In 1919. Tet. if statistics are right. I grandfather on my mother's side was
wages were , higher., in' .1919 than at any Asa Clark, and my grandfather on my
other time. The great? increase in I father's side was Joseph Crandall, Both
wages came after the soldiers had left! served In the Revolutionary war, while
tne army. Taking the eountry over. 1 mv father served in the War of 1112
.1. . t. ; V. -... ... . . 1 .
uK:pu;n 9 ware psiu alter uic coming from stock like that, it is no
war.; not during it. I wonder that, with six of mv brothers.
fBome may say. "uet tne future pay it." I t r-i.-n Tv.ni.
W. a. . . a , . V . - - I Wl ivu a.aa -e w as a AvMitiBf
fyiZii w"r nve " ""eldest brother, served in the First Mln.
pay wivnuui navmg mis xo pay 7 Wnlie OUndd terie. end anent
tne bonus may be of benefit to a few. 1 , 7 "T.v. u.
I think it will do each one of us and I "nJ,T ' .u. Vl''
our eountrv an em Ann f nf ihmin I v we wm sin
It wm not recover from for eeverai e- afterward he made applicaUon for
vouchers. An officer of the company
said. I have a man in this company.
named Crandall, who can sling Ink to
the queen's taste.' So X was appointed
quartermaster's clerk.
"The officer bought enough horses to
e rations.
R. W. Baker.
A HOUSE OWNER DISSENTS
Insists Rental Return Is Insufficient to
Cover Taxes.
pension, but every time he wrote about
it the pension department would write
back and tell him he was dead, until
finally he had 82400 back pay coming
to him. Finally they got sick and tired
m. w.me mo joo. ah agree not tha tf.d1ustaa efrmncnutlaa to whloH
to treat him Uke onej of the family Uy ar entitled, or Is it going to
play horse with them?
AN EXAMPLE
The photographs that! took ten
sinotner war ana another such period I big crowds moved at The Audi-
than ho has so far done. torlum during the.rrand onera week
there was-illustration of what ena
Mgures of meat prices in the I way traffic will do.
: rreckels market as-stated by a re-1 -At one of the entrances as high, as
' irnlng Portlander Tuesdky are chal-1224 automobiles were loaded and sent
' -nged by meat dealers In Portland, away within IS minutes, At no on-
A rter' wiring . San " Francisco ., they trance was there the slightest con
note the following: Sirloin SO cents, fusion, either In arrivals or depar-
: p round SO, porterhouse 85, leg of turgs, at any time during the week,
mb IS. leg .of Veal 23, breast of It was a high example of efficiency
veal 18, short ribs of beef 10. The very creditable to the traffla depart?
rices quoted by the returning Port-1 ment, and the real secret of it was
years to go 'from Eastern j Oregon to
arrivals and departures of the saiem were n a perfect state of pres-
TN THE ease and speed, with which yw" T
arrivals and denartures of theSalom
ervatlon. That is more than can be
said of some photographs which
reach uO tqn hours after mailing.
HIS GIFT
WHAT a plagsing thing life would
- be if ' all people held to the
Penumbra Kelly standards In civic
and .moral duty! t :J
'A- gold watch presented to Mr,
Kelly yesterday was testimonial to
hint of tho! estimate plgcod on his
nder wre coplsd from Ma not-1 that at each entrance all traffic went I virtues by his friends. Four terra
iok when given The Journal.
V
r REACH ER AND PUGILIST
PREACHER and a prise fighter
may occasionally -agrto. James
'. Corbett tells Portland that a roan
- f 67, may loob like a man of SO If
h drinks five glasses Of hot water,
ith a pinch of salt In the first glass,
oth before breakfast and dinner.
He advisee light calisthenics and
ts of walking., There are a few
W . . . . a, - ..... .1 .kA,,i V . , V. n. .till allv.
eand therdiF W
- r - - - -. - - - -- - - i mi.. f.At. lit .1. .i.ti i mta nil nenaien rnaeir . rouia eeeive
rank norma 1p nlnw - f Inlnhawi ) i - - r -.- J
mi V. ': v.," " I when be says that rents in apartment I he died, so the fellows back in Wash
were. in th7 X.Tv. he.'w ' IS houses, office buildings and m every Ington decided they had been right all
has before him many years of debtor
slavery. What do these so-called bonuses
look luce to him? Xg&a 30 cents worth
of dog meat And I guess, Mollis Pren
tice, that is about what they look like
to your roan, ir he will be right honest
and ssy it. A neighbor of this farmer
soldier was a .physically ' perfect young
nanaer wno naa a pun ana-got exemp
tion from the draft He told me he made
enough money the. second year of the
war to enable him to live five years
without work.
building of every kind in Portland are
fixed by the landlord in an Ideal way.
That ideal way is to figure cost of build
ing, what repairs and insurance would
cost what deterioration will amount to,
what taxes are, a fair Interest on his
investment and then, after summarising
all these figures, fix the rent Speaking
from experience, I differ. The rents in
The Journal building are not fixed that
way. The manager of that building, if
he follows the system of all other first-class-
buildings in town, learns what is
the going figure per square foot a year
the time about his being dead and they
would not send the check. Finally, how
ever, they did send 8200 te pay- his
funeral expenses. - ' 2
-. e a .-.
"My brothers William ' and Nelson
were in the Second Minnesota. Nelson
was killed at the battle of Chickamaaca.
My brothers Harrison and Marion served
with the Minnesota rangers and later
enlisted in . the : 11th Minnesota. , My
other brother, Arthur, served in . the
Fourth Minnesota. All - six of my
in the same direction. " i w : legislature ana , tnree times
It la example of. what could be sheriff are always teste C the raral
done by applying one-way traffic in j strength of; a man, ana IMr. Kelly
other congested districts. came out or tne crucible unscarred.
All lives have their troublous seas.
The most sensational news Item -of I The inhumanity of man to man. the
the year comes out of Toledo, Ohio, I nM nd furies of those who are
The , Ice company them made a ift packing m tne gentler ways oi living
per eent cut In the price of ice. ,-'-; J and the sordid trait in so many
human beings make it difficult xor
ABUSES OF. COLD STORAGE! I life to, run ; through jreen pastures
and beside still waters. The triangle
"EXPERIENCES f the past year! todays -the f suicide; tomorrow the
.U 7 V v no roy" roM'W-rtne for those not happen if all minds and all heart
I.. But I ho gut of his who would speculate In cold storage I pulsated with the rhythm that Is
Seration. He doesn't foods. . " . . - ; I woven Into the lives of the Penumbra
mm I a jSJ at tfve T e tf. ...'.
S-i have demonstrated that iltiM tMH! fli :ftM: miM
Mmlnetlons from the .diet which he no royal road to fortune for those not happen if all minds and aU heart
nine uruuii,. ,ui
unset Is moderation
w "",r . Last season government report in- Kelly.
,'"vui7"" vt f euouiu aicated a considerable shortage In There Is still In the state a lot of
i cirntii w excess., v '.;;: -t I potatoes. Thus assured, speculators I pioneer Oregon stock, the strain of
George ? Wood Anderson, the I paid aa much as 12 a bushel. In I men stern and true but gentle, tnen
ingellst of Methodism, has like-1 stead of ristag, the market broke, j who caught from the wilds of their
.e told Portland that a good deal I Their holders were happy to sell 1 time none of the savage spirit so
America's depression is physical. I some of the high priced potatoes for j familiar and so In evidence among
thinks people would be healthier las much as Si a busheL Losses in some in these latter days.) They and
they ate less and exercised more. I certain instance were immense. ; their deeds epd their lives are sober
TfOpie were healthier they would K The apple crop of last year is ling and stimuIaUng annals out of
y more opilmistic. If they were I another case In point Dealers I which to inspire a higher-idealism
re cptioQlstio they would create) hurried their carloads . of Oregon's land nobler faith.
I am older than you. Mollis Pretice:
foi many, many years 1 nave observed
human nature. As a child, I saw the
worn, weary men who came back from
Moody fields and prison -sens -of the
Civil war. Some of them were dear to
me. I watched these men when they
had to organize and fight again to wrest
from the smug money-grubbers a few
paltry dollars to eke out with toe eftprts
of crippled limbs -Of diseased bodies a
poor living for the rest of their , days.
Later, when that war became a glory
vision through the base of year. 'these
men became heroes to a newer generation
that did not sneer at payiag for patriot
ism" nor begrudge them far more liberal
treatment than ; they bad been able to
get from their stay-at-home contempo-
rarlea The good soldier, like the pho-
phet Is too often without honor in his
own generation.
War.' ancient .or modern, is hell, and
the man who has'gone through it in de
fense of other men s families and other
men's property can never thereafter be
placed by his -country quite back on
the level with the man who-didn't go
however ungrateful that country may be.
This is the thought f all women, who
"know" and of all men who think four
sonars. Millie Prentice ; so dont you be
troubling your dear soul with efforts to
answer the hecklers, That the wife or
mother of a soidier boy who fought in
France should come to feel that-she now
Is on the defensive it is sickening te any
decent Americas mind.
for huiidinea of hia dui snd simitar I orotners serves m annnesota organise
locatian. rmrine- eood times he endeav. I tions, and 1 intended to, but J became
or to get rent enough to tide over the member of the Fifth Iowa volunteer
poor times, which certainly have come te ! cavalry. It came about this way : As
and 1915 if he had informed his tenants I state. About 1848 our family moved to
that he must get the prices which rule I Illinois. In 1858 we moved to Wisconsin.
today because he needed that much to I Four years later we moved te Hinne
pay: taxes, upkeep, -interest on bonds, 1 sota. In 1859 a party of six of
etc. they would have laughed ' at him I started for the Pike's Peak gold mines.
and, told him they could get offices tn I We had two wagons, each drawn by
oiner ouuoujgs ior mucn less, itentais four yoke of oxen. When I struck Den
on; all classes of rental property are Ver it was a city of tenu and shacks.
fixed, not as you suggest but on the w. spt,nl tha whiter f 1860 in New
baste of what the market- will . stand. I M.-rirn Tn the ri .nrlr, i tsi
et.irv.r?.n tack to Pike's Peak. On July 4,
Wtf3 a ? 1L y brother Marion and I started
7J7JZTiZZ.7lJZL;. rZZ with our outCU back to MbmesoU to
Uncle Jeff Snow Says
Andy Scroggins, our garage man, has
him leven wrecks h'straded good, f5iv-
vers fer, and can't sell "em at no price.
He's moEt as tad elf. aa Pete Hamlin
orged immediately by b. v. johneon.
who has purchased It from the Hobi
Losging company, whicb is retiring from
business. r -
With the premoBitien that be had but
a few days more te live. Fred W. Miller,
wall-to-do cabinetmaker of HUyard.
last week purchased hia coffla. paid
cash for all. his funeral expeases, and.
died Friday..
A aiaa giving the name of Bin Joaes
and supposed to be one of the men wbe
master -came to Omaha to buy cavalry
norses. While living In Minnesota I had
gone to Iowa and hid taucht penman-1 robbed the State bank at Seeutm last
nip for a time. In those days we had I eek or izz.000. was enet near ruyauup
the Spencerian system of writing. That I Monday by Frank Cbadwlck. a motor-
was before the days of typewriters, so v t-
It was considered a business asset to I T""m"i.!'' "5" V1'",".'"-
b. able to wrtte welt The ouarterme.ter r' ru'n"ted f o, 1 MWrZ
who was there buying horses wanted a I Sits. The pests have appeared tn Corn
el ark to take down the names of the I bers In the Paloune district this winter
owners of the horse and make out I tor the first time.
As the result ef a guerre! ever the
quality of food furnished by the Simp
son Legging company near fsheltoa. -James
Brooks, 80, is dead at the libel ton
hospital and John Campbell, id, ts held
In toe cousty Jail charged with shooting
him.
After tracing bis wife to Seattle after
outfit two companies, snd was also able I the had deserted him in New York. John
te buy enough riding bridles to supply Aionge. a insurance aojuaier. urea
two companies, hut the market was com- IZTZi .rJTwinY wTT rT Baker
pieuiy bare of saddlsa. The officers aB(! th. other EitUng Frank W. npksr.
asked us if we were willing to ride tela patrolman.
St Louis bareback. We were se anxious
to get Into action we would have
walked ; so of course we consented t
ride bareback. We kad not been out
more than a week or 10 days when
every men In both companies was sup
plied with a saddle. We laybawked
them as we went along. We figured
that the .stay-at-homes could afford te I project.
IDAHO
Nampa' sarins' program this year
ealls for the expenditure of 8189.098.
Bonds must be voted for only -t.fr00. -
At a meeting Is the Chamber ef Com
merce rooms at Buhl. Saturday, farto-
arn end Wualneaa aeea. bv a vets Of f
te L favored the Ajaerlcaa falls water
contribute a saddle to their eountrye
services so we confiscated all the loose
saddles w earns across. . When we get
to bt. Louts our .stolen saddles were
taken away from us and we were fur
nished government saddles.
T enlisted at Omaha. August 29. 114L
I was mustered in September 14 as a
private in company A. The men la our
regiment were from Nebraska, Missouri
and Iowa. In October.. 1881. two com-
O. ML Casbniw was erebably fataDy
barned a few days age by an explosion
ef gas which had eellected la the fur
nace of the Odd Vellews bwDaing at
Buhl. ,. v
Clyde Owens.' colored, who has ferved
one terns ia the penitentiary fer killing
a Mtxtran named Rami res at alias, shot
and seriously wounded another negro .
at Foceteue last Friday.
Importation ef dairy eoers Into the
Jerome section has Increased the sale
of dairy products more than ao per cent..
panics from our regiment were assigned! The Jerome cream station le paying out
more uaa saw a mmj iw ui,
8Ute Treasurer Banks has Just re
ceived a Check for H 644 II from the
federal government for Idaho's share of
the 1921 grasing fees received front the
national forests within the state.
to service with Fremont ' I was la one
ef 'these companiesv We became known
as "Fremont's . Husasrs' ' General Fre
mont was the commander ef the depart
ment ef Missouri, but friction arising,
he - was superseded tn November by
General Haileuk. - . ' - , -
.Xa .Peoember 20, 188L- a regiment of
cavalry wa organised that wa -called
'Curtis' Horse,'. Our two eorapanies were
incorporated la this organisation. Gen
eral Samuel R. Curtis bad about 12,000
troops Under him, which were gathered
at Rolls. Missouri. He pursued Price
who was later joined by Qenerai MoCuJ
loch." CurUs followed them to
The Old Oregon lYafl
No. 2.
tOrganisaUoa by Astor of Eipeditio
by Land ana Be te Kstaeusa
Peats for the Fur Trade.
houses to live In Is because the owner
enlist tn a Minnesota regiment We
The average occupant of a rented house. 2OB officers, or even - lieutenants,
taking one year, with another, does not I When we got to Omaha everybody
pay nearly enough to take care or ail 1 """t" "
the items vou enumerate, and that means I we could get back to Minnesota. So we
he? leaves the owner to pay the taxes. I sold our oxen and wagons and I enlisted
at Omaha. The company I enlisted in
was full and the officers had already
been selected, but they said , they would
take me aa a private. ?
A tew days after I enlisted-a quarter- eion, under- Rosecrans
John Jacob Aster's idea was to estab
lish a Use of trading poets from the
Missouri river to the Columbia ad have
China aa the great mart for the fur
Pea obtained. He Interested with htm Alcx-
Rldre. Arkansas, in the Oxark mountains. I snder McKay, Duncan McDougal. Do
Tbe Confederates bad enlisted about 4000 I aid McKensle wad WUson Pries Hunt.
Indians, mostly Cherokees, but our artll-1 June St. 1810. the raeifie Fur company
lery was too much tor the Indians. They I was formed, with the above named man
preferred head to band fighting, frith I as partners of Mr, Aster. t i s
knives and tomahawks: so they didn't I Twe expetitttene were devised and set
do much good. Our title was eventually I foet. ene by sea and one by land, to
changed from 'Curtis' Horse' te Fifth I reach the mouth ef the Columbia and
Iowa volunteer cavalry. Three eons-1 establish a trading post The ship Ton-
pan les la this regiment were from Ne-1 quin. under eemmaad of Captain Jona-
vaoa. tnree rrom Minnesota, two irvm 1 than Thorn, was fitted out for the sea
I si -v"-:-;R.. M. TuttlaV-
CRIMINALS AND CRIMINALS W
One Who Denounces Rapacity Traces
1 Low crime to Hign urime.
Freewater, March 28. To the Editor
tk.r. .miMMil n MTitevinl nr. i Plains the whole thing. In the first ef
tide under the title "Beck to Piracy." I these articles 1 note the criminals that
based on raids of a band of bootleggers I made by the criminals described In
nam shins carrying liouor. with - intent I tne secroa- we, too common poopie.
iaiW tlum if-thM twumMimmi'" nnrlkml n,iw -jw" vcitt v vw xcvvuvu
n thir nrm.1 immeHLnteiv foiiinl from the WaU Street, criminals lawful
this article was one under the tlUe v."rel crimes.- but no remedy -has appeared.
lSmln). Wall Street - This referred to I We must suffer what they: want to deal
a proposed' cleaning up of Wall Street lout to ua The Wall Street criminals
hv account of recent ?vicious nractioes I are turning out fearless criminals from
nt MMtrea f flrwin- amiltr at fake trans-(among our working classes. -. There is no
actions and fraudulent operaOona. ; I remedy for that except Justice. They tried
' You, as editor of a -paper, tnarvel4stj armies in.the days of Tlome. .They tried It
the -'piracy' conditions, when .Tight in i out in Russia And they faUed. Tou can
tho -Bame column' another editorial "ex- j shoot' men "down. Tou can so. 1 them
Miseourt and the rest from Iowa, We
put In the first year of the war. at or
around Fort Henry. Tennessee. Oa
March S. IISS, we were transferred to I
Fort Do nelson, where we. stayed - until
Jene S, erbeq -we tnarched to Morfrees
boro. Tennessee, and became a part otl
(the First brigade.- Second cavalry, dirt- niry. He was greatly harassed tn his
sion. under- Roeecrana. . - t .a.i,i.- k- uih ks-
paay, which did not relish the thought
te' orison. Too can bang them. But se I ef a rival company coming , into the
long as this power of Injustice rules su-1 field. But by persevering Hunt finally
voyage, ana the lane ex pea man
placed under the eemmaad of Mr. Hunt.
Mr. Hunt proceeded to St Louts, which .
was then the outpost of civilisation, to
fit himself out with a company te under
take the toilsome and perilous trip over
land through a savage and unknown
pretne we shall have criminals of the gathered together, com pen y ef boat
"pirate" claas. I beg ef you to be dill- men and hunters with which to make'
gent In your sphere, for there never wss the Jowrwey. Included io his company
a time in history when the troth, and were such men as. Donald McKensle.
nothing but the truth,-was needed as It Joseph Miller. 'Robert ' McLeRea. John
is today. Jesus said, -"Beware when all Day, lUnsay Crooks. Pierre Derios, ln
men shall speak well ef you." Stand up terpreter; John Bra bury, scientist: Me.'
for Justice, for the sake of Uod end Natalt scientist sod John Reed, clerk,
tumanity. Upon such men as you there In October. 1810. the party left tt.
ia a great responsibility, -for you deal Louis snd proceeded up the Missouri
dslly with the masses. And so does the river ht boals, where a winter excrp was
minister of the word ef God. May Go made.
help us alL - fl.-E.Cex.- - J .--fT be eearUauedJ
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