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Newspaper Page Texti: 4 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON.' SATURDAV, MAY. 13, 1922. ITrOKFEMDKMT KJCWSPAPrR AtH. ........ ;..vu . . . . Hublfciher A SB. 4 AC y. Be call caim. be confident, be- etteetfnl u4 do auto ffm wcnwl bate tbem do unto too. I Ijuoiialied 'iry weekday and boatbr saornina' at t ho iocrati bmidiB. Broadway u XamirUl . etreet, Port tend. Oregon. luiiVrai at the posloffica at FortUnd. Orecon. toe tauaadoa Uvoaca LOo buJi ms second , . ailiEPHO.VE Main 7178. AH dapartmenta reached by this irambw. ' . JtsJ-JofiAL. AUVkUlTISIN jkEPKKSKSTA- M ! Benjamin V. Rentnoa- Co., Bnuwwick QVldins, alftn anww. Kiew Xork; HI til Ur lO COAST iltilifcK.STATlVB M. C Mora-eason Co., Inc. Examiner bide., Kan f f-taneisco: Title liwaranca b-jiKUns. Lam An- (tee; Secwnttee tnukUnc, Seattle. -a-tak' OKEiiO.N JoCHNAL reaerree the- rcatit to ajeet adTertlstng copy which H deema objec .. Sociable. It alio wiil not print any copy tint any ieay aimnlatee reading matter or that eanaot readily be recogmaed aa adrcrtjsina. oL'BSCKU'f ION KATES By earner VtUr and Country. UA1LV AM 8LMM1 On war It . .15 i One month S .05 4 UA1LI tiUXUAI mfk $ tOOne week v$ .05 l-na month .4" I 111' UAXUALly KATEK PAVAHLK 1.1 ADVANCE I llifl V K1AIUV fn year. ..... .1-U(I Thr months. ., Btc months 4. 5 i Una month J OAII.Y SUNDAY . (Without Sunday) Oi4 Ona year. ..... . OO One year. . . i. . . Mix? months 3.23 i Hit month..... Three month 1.78 (Three months. ., . .79 . 93. OO . 1.75 . 1.00 Una month fll WEEKLY I WEEKLY AND (Erery Wednesday) HL'.SDA X On year 1.0 ona year. . 3.B0 AlLli months o These ratee apply only tn the Wet. Hate to Eastern points furnished on appltca tJnrt. Make remittances by Monty Order. Eipreas Order nr Pratt. If your postoffiee is not a moaey-order- office. 1- or :!-r nt stamps will be accepted. Make all remittance payable to The J oqmal Pnfelishtn' I'ompany. Portland. Oregon. i A man who does not learn to lira whila be i (ruins a linng ia a poorer man after his wealth ia won than he waa before. J. U. HoUand. SKELETONS IN THE CLOSET? AMERICA, as Senator Borah -charges, among those nations that ar4 making power the basis of action instead of justice? Are we im perialistic in Haiti and San Domingo fcs the Idaho senator says? Here is part of his statement: We have compelled them (Haiti and . Bail Eomingo) to rewrite: their corustitu- Yio8 ad that men of wealth tnay go in rind buy up for a song their fertile lands and exploit the small holders. We have alrtady destroyed the press and have abolished free speech. We have imprla- nnod and punished those who have? been brave enough to protest. These things 'have done in the face of our solemn promise to do the very opposite. ' It ia unbelievable that America fs doing the things that Senator Borah Cays we are, doing. Jt is unthink able that thia nation has become one i f hh world's imperialists. It has etn secret that we were having rouble in Haiti and San Domingo, bu It! has not been generally known that jlhis country is doing what Jarani has done in Siberia and China, ani -what other imperialistic nations hafe 'done with weaker peoples. o nation has a right to suppress th freedorn of speech in any other eoiintry. No nation has a right to cxlit" the resources of another country without the sanction of the people of that country. Military rule Is jan improper rule. There is no greater seed for war than oppression, ho more frequent maker of conflicts han subjection of a people to the will and greed of a stronger nation. t There was once an attempt to free Kui peoples to permit them to de iertnine their own futures. That lan failed, but it is to be hoped that tonther similar plan may come into .being and effect before another war i)lJbrought on by imperialism. JC'I'his nation is the nation to lead tnj way. But it cannot lead if in its own closet a skeleton is to be found. le Journal again advises its headers of its inability to publish 4nonymous communications, which ajr being received in increased num-ycj-s as the primary campaign ap- - raches its conclusion. The Jour nals letter column is a place wherein The Journal readers are afforded Anfopportunity to express themselves ...briefly on matters of public interest. Ob viously rio heed can be given an expression whose author falls to dis clese his identity. It is further im- possible to give space to communi-! cations about subjects incapable of Settlement by discussion or tainted rih personal abuse. HIS SUCCESSFUL YEAR hllHAT about eight cents a bushel M-l more will be netted for their fcrheat by farmers who were mem bers f the Oregon Grain Growers' '. ... ;iaxion man ; was received by those who were not, is the estimate at the headquarters of the associa tion. V The association - marketed 4,500. 00 bushels of wheat. Through the credit given it by thePortland Clear , iivr House it waa able to avoid dump ! the entire amount on the market wlhin a few weeks after harvest. Instead, the market .was carefully watched and grain, sold when con - ditions were most advantageous. : -iThe later sales caught the 'high prices. ; - A. number of lots brought fas4 high as'$l.0 a bushel,. Portland, j These lots, the association held for jth higher spring: prices because of the' million-dollar credit advanced bvj the Clearing: House association, .y emafl amount of wheat is still un sold, and, has a good price on which go to 4he market, r - ., Z The entire cost of the overhead in END-THE o N MAY 9, Portland longshoremen of mediation: . . 4 " The Longshoremen's anion, local No. 388, of Portland. Or., through I Its! duly authorized committee, is ready and willing, and hereby accepts and agrees t sub mit its side of the case to your honorable board,' and will abide by the decision of jrour board cornering the waterfront controrersy. i On the same day, the Waterfront Employers union wrote the state board of mediation as follows: ; i - ! We shall be glad to, ay that we shall conform to' your wishes In the matter of firing you the facts of the case as we understand them, and, further,: that! we shall be Klad to receive your report as board of conciliation bat not aui arbitrators. That is to say, the longshoremen agree to arbitrate. The employers refuse arbitration. They will present their side of the case, hear the find ings of the board and then do. aa they please. If they would agrpe' to accept arbitration the strike would It is 20 days since the strike was extra policemen, hired especially for special guards employed by the port commission are on duty? at jthe public terminals. In all 217 policemen are engaged exclusively In strike service. This city is paying heavily in cash and paying heavily in the unenviable reputation of being the center of industrial warfare because eight stejve- dore companies composing the "Waterfront Employers' union refusej. to arbitrate. . The Waterfront Employers' union strikebreakers to come here and take homes in Portland, of men who have waterfront, and of their sons who In the business. And the longshoremen are ready maintaining offices, staff and other wise is but 2hi cents a bushel. It means that, through membership in the association, the farmer saved commissions, Baved profits that he would otherwise have been com pelled to pay, because through his own selling: office he marketed his own grain. What is more to the point, he held part of His crop until the market, as usual, went up, giving him a better price. The experience of the year has been decidedly in favor of the co operative plan of selling. The pres ence in the field of the cooperative organization is believed to have ex erted an influence in increasing to a small extent the price of grain to members not in the association. The bane of grain marketing has always been the fact that farmers were driven by their necessities to market nearly the whole of their ! cron within 60 or 90 days after har- vest. That gave speculators and wheat gamblers their opportunity.. It meant that there was marketed within, say, 90 days the entire vol ume of wheat that a whole year would be required to, consume. It was that long delay in final con sumption that afforded speculators the chance to gamble on the farm er's wheat and rob him of the cream of his profits. The Dalles will keep open house. May 26, "with wool scouring mill, canning factory, dehydrator plant, flouring mill and other industries open for ' inspection, free coffee at noon in IJnion street park, a histori cal pageant of the West in the aft ernodn and street dancing in the evening. The Dalles is now, by way of the Columbia river highway. Just a comfortable drive from Portland. The invitation will doubtless be ac cepted by many. BROADCASTING AUTO THEFTS ON THE first page of Tuesday's Journal was a description of the police bureau plan to broadcast stolen automobile bulletins by radio telephone. On page 3 was the story of tiie plan by which the Chamber of Commerce hopes to secure a radio outfit for the broadcasting of speeches made at members" forum luncheons. When Artemus Ward ejaculated, "The world do move'" he had no idea of a , device which instanta neously would carry the human voice in every direction and into so many ears. When telephonic or telegraphic police warnings go out, the thief may take a route unwired." But when Captain Lewis sends out his bulletins about stolen automobiles, through the cooperative service of The Journal and Hallock & Watson, the swiftest speeder cannot get away fast enough to escape detection. Usually thieves have been able to outdevlse detecting devices. Is' it possible in the case of the broadcast ing wireless? The golfer who has trouble getting his game down to par may take com fort in the fact that every additional stroke means just that much more exercise. THE FIRST SHOT IT WAS not the battered soixante quinze gun which reposes in the place of honor at West Point today which fired America's first shot in the World war, but the rifle of a marine. Corporal Chockie,' in the harbor of Guam. , The plate on the old French seventy-five gun gives it the credit, but Captain William E. Moore, writ ing in the American Legion Weekly, says the first shot was fired In South Pacific waters. It appears that the German war ship Cormoran had sought refuge in neutral Guam harbor . There she swung idly at anchor on April 6, 1917. the day President Wilson signed the congressional resolution which declared a state of war with Germany. The navy department at Washington sent a coded order by telegraph and cable to seise the Ger man war vessel. Captain Roy C Smith, naval governor of Guam, executed the command. ' But after ' the Germans had hauled down their fTag it went up again. An explosion Tollowed. The Cormoran began to settle: The sail ors jumped into the sea. In the meantime, as Lieutenant Hall with a prize crew stood down the channel from 'Pitt, he neared a cutter from the ' German boat with a commis sioned officer of the Teuton empire in . the stem sheets. The shot that STRIKE wrote as follows to the state Jjoard i ; ! I immediately end. i inaugurated. One hundred and iforty strike service, are on duty, ijhirty . i . I T ! is advertising in other cities jfor the places of men' who have jlittle grown, gray in work on the Portland are working alongside their fathers to arbitrate. ) j brought this craft to and resulted in surrender of the officer was America's first. Few people "Mow that America's active participation in the World war began i in.j Pacific. , !the PAYING ITS WAY ' I 'HE arguments which favored the Interstate bridge ih the begin ning were: That it would form an essential connecting link In an all-Pacific coast highway. . " That it would bring Clarke coujnty and Southwestern Washington ra?4rer Portland for trade arid for business distribution. That it would tend to unify in portant interests of ASancouverj and Portjand. If the bridge accomplished thjese Purpose s its value would far out lls tusl. its supporters. i T. ... j . - : . . t . , . .. uutmau), it was saio. mat tons would defray part, at least; of the building expense. The fact is that the Interstate bridge has proven one of the best investments, public or private, ejver made in the Northwest. The report of the Interstate bridge commission a few days ago showed that the total cost of the main; span across the Columbia was $l,oio.- 825.84, that the tolls received upj to May 1 aggregated $1,265,230.68; that in return for its investment of $66, 390.82 in the main span, Multnomah county has received, above all ex penses, $759,011; and that in retiirn for'its investment of $404,435.02 in the main span, Clarke county has received, net, $506,219.68. j j Multnomah courty was -put to! an additional expense of a little less than $628,000 for the Union avenue and Derby street approaches,;, i.nd the bridges over Oregon and Co lumbia,, sloughs, all a charge jex clusively against thia- county.j, i?ut it is evident that this amount at the present rate will be entirely paid by 1925, or shortly thereafter. Clarke county's entire investment, i includ ing a few thousand dollars spent jfor an approach, has been much jmore than paid. i In other words, If the Interstate bridge is to be continued as a toll span, even during the life of he bonds issued to finance it, the struc ture will soon help pay for high;w.ys and othec public works. Its profits will reduce the tax burden of jbbth Multnomah and Clarke counties.! If the bridge should be declared toll free after it has paid, for itself it would still represent a continuous economic profit to this districjt be cause of the value of the traffic over it. ! Hood River's Blossom Festival is i postponed a week because Jack Frost- is up to some unseasonable pranks. But it will be a show worth waiting for. THE PASSING OF THE SHIPS THE shipping board has announced that 10 more vessels now plying various trade routes are to be with drawn for lack of cargoes. And why the lack of cargo? haps Henry Cabot Lodge Per Can answer that question. Perhaps Senator Moses from New Hampshire will tell why. Perhaps Senator Reed will tell or some of the other Sena tors that ripped the League, of Na tions and the Versailles1 treaty I to pieces and expounded the theory of an isolated America. Any of those gentlemen should know wherei 6ur markets have gone. And there arav- gentlemen in the present admin istration who refuse to override the irreconcilables, take our part I in world affairs, and reclaim mr foreign markets, who can answer. American produces one third more than she consumes. To hold; u ? the demand for the things; we grow and manufacture, there must be foreign trade and foreign markets.. Europe wants to buy from America but she cannot buy because the exc r ange rate and lack of credits, prohibitj pur chases. This government sould easily,have overcome those obstacles by affording credits and protecting those credits by takirig part to world' affairs. But we refused to do that, and, therefore, had to refuse credits. In the same process : we hroke down our foreign markets and the price of raw and manufactured prod ucts. Farmers have roa out of business; Industries are s closed; workers are idle: buying power has decreased; ships have . bo cargoes. That is all a result of the theory; of ; an isolated America. If It wasn't for ' the strike the primary might attract sm whole lot more attention, i .' i CANDIDATES AND PLATFORMS Additional List of Otixens Who Seek : to Serve in the Lower House of the Legislature of Oregon. Pr. J, Perry: Cohder of Heppner, Re publican candidate for joint representa tive. Morrow and Umatilla counties,. was born at Novelty, Mo.. June 14, 1875. His education was secured in the pub lic schools, teach ers' college and other schools at KirksY ille. Mo.. Chicago,: tlL, and Bethany, W. Va. He has been a prac ticing ! physician at Heppper for the past i3 years, owns and operates the J. Perry Coader I Heppner Sanitarium hospital. He formerly lived at Portland for a year and a half, at Salem a year and a half, Spokane, Los Angeles, Im perial City and Tucson. He has had charge of actual construction of irriga tion projects and jrailway construction but has never been a candidate for po litical office. Is at present serving as president of Butter Creek highway asso ciation and alao chairman of the special committee of the farm bureau to look after the interests of the five different communities concerned in the building of the Irrlgon-BoaHlman-Lexington mar ket road, both roails now building, and j has been a consistent booster for market roaas to ream the arm ing commumuea. He says : "I do ncit wish to make any promises or attach myself to or serve any special interes having in mind that over-zealousness usbally rules the action of the Uninformed and knowing that it will take the very best brains that the state affords in the working out of the proper solution of ! the problems before tin. I think the thing most needed is a baptism of sanity and open-minded-ness.' " L. Hi. Mann of Pendleton, Republican candidate for representative, Umatilla county, was born at Zena, Or., June 1, 1865. His educa - 1 tion was secured at Zena and Independ ence, Or., in the public schools and a business course in Willamette uni versity. He is a farmer. He served as representative from Umatilla county in 1909, 1911 and 1913. In his platform he says: "I will ehdeavor to prevent the confis cation of. property by high taxation ; to prevent the extravagant expenditure of public funds ; to prevent the establish ment of unnecessary commissions and to put-the administration of public at fairs on a sound business basis. I will not be governed 'pr controlled5 by any clique. or organization and to the best of my ability will give a square deal to ail." His slogan is : "A square deal to all." Hurlie L. Moore of Woodburn. Re publican candidate for representative, Marion county. First district, was born at Wellman. Iowa, December 10, 1878. His education was secured in the Woodburn public schools. He has been for 29 years in the drug business, nine years as clerk and 20 years as pro prietor also runs Moore - Dunn music store at Salem. He served two years as councilman of Moore Woodburn a n d is now member of Woodburn school board. His slogan is "Lower taxes within rea son, and sane legislation." C. H. Taylor of Turner, Repub lican candidate for; representative from Marion county, was born at Jollytown, His education was secured in the pub lic schools of Penn sylvania and West Virginia. He has been a farmer and stockraiser and fruit grower all his life. He is a member of the school board, director in telephone company. Oregon Grow era associa te H.Taylor i tion. His platform 'says : "Efficiency jin state affairs and a great saving t the taxpayers. I mean by that, we all want efficiency nothing less but make everyone pay his or her share of the taxes. Don't make the farmer pay more than he can stand ; neither the man with a good income. We have got to get together on this matter. We must have good roads the people demand that:; we must have good schools an absolute necessity ; ; a state cannot make progress when its people are burdened with ! too heavy an over head expense. A Contented and happy, people are a prosperous people1 H. C. Wheeler of Pleasant Hill. Re publican candidate for state representa tive, Lane county was born at Eugene, June 8, 1864. His education was se cured in the public schools of Lane I county. He is a j farmer ; started as i tenant, but now ; owns his farm. He ; served as a repre : sentative in legisla tive sessions of 1919 and 1920. His plat form says: "If nom inated and ; elected. ImmJ&mjLeiJ wlu faithfully per H. CM heeler form the duties thereof. ' Have always stood and will stand ,. for economy and efficiency, in proef 4pf which I invite investigation of my legislative record, sessions 1919-1920." Slogaar.-? I stand for efficiency, econ orriyaTrd taxi reduction i I, - . i M . Ft L. Chambers of Eugene, lepubli can candidate for representative. Third clstrlct. Lsne county, was born INoyem- ucr a, low, ;i.-vto gon. Mo. i removed to Quincy. Ohio, In 1865; returned to Missouri in 1874; came to Dallas. Or., 1884. and to Eugene. 1887. He is presi dent of the Cham bers Hardware company,- organised in 1887 ; director of the First National bank of Eugene since 1896. Was president hmmmm a caasMera or uugene , Cham ber of Commerce in 1920; was director and one of the orgh,iser of the original fruit cannery, now the iJugene Fruit Growers association ; was a member of committee of Twelfth federal rreserve district . in war loan organisation. ' He has always been Interested in good roads and has put in much time and money with committees - on special! roads in county. He was ' president - and one of the organisers in. building the . JSugene L. L. Mann Hurlie Ii Mi,Mi Jvl ... 3 ! IW'f ;S:;if S theatre and was mm or fleer An 'the Ore gon National Guard for 25 years. Otto ' 3. Wilson of, Salem, Republican candidate for representative, i Marion county, was bom near -Salem on a farm. September Z9, 1SSS. 'His education was secured in 4he Sa . lom public- schools and in Willamette university.! After 'finishing school he . clerked in : a bank 'for six years. lie : has owned and op i era ted ,a farm three miles east of Salem ; for the past 25 years and has been an automobile Otte J. Wilson i dealer at Salem for 20 years. He 'served as a member of the Salem city council, 1917-1918: as mayor of Salem, 1919-1920. His platform and slogan says : "1 favor; fewer and better laws, I am short on promises but .long on performance. If elected I will" perform the duties incumbent upon me with dispatch and efficiency and will give my best efforts to be your real rep resentative. His slogan is : "Tax Re duction." Letters From the People Communications sent to The Journal for pub lication in thia department should be written on only one side of the paper, ahoold not exceed SOO words in leneth, and must be aicned by the writer, whose mail address in full must accom pany the contributua. ARTHUR MOULTON S PLEDGE Take Court of Domestic Relations Out of Politics and Augment Its So cial Service Capacities. Portland, May 12v To the Editor of The Journal As the primary election draws near, the contest for the Repub lican, nomination for circuit judge, de partment No. 7, Is attracting consider able attention.; particularly among the lawyers. Arthur I. Moulton is making a campaign for the nomination, pledg ing himself, if elected, to urge the leg islature to complete the coordination o'f social service work by adding the ad ministration of the widow's pension law to the work of the court of domestic relations and to so expedite the busi ness of department . No. 7 as to handle in that court a large share of the work of the circuit court. It, is recalled that the court of domes tic relations was organized partly by reason of dissatisfaction among social service workers with Judge Tazwell's administration of the juvenile court and partly to relieve department No. 7 ot business, so that it might be devoted to circuit court business. Judge Tazwell's political organization blocked efforts to put the administration of the widow's pension law into the court of domestic relations, where It properly belonged. It was freely charged at the time that Judge Tazwell's desire to retain control of the patronage of that bureau was principally responsible for this course; Moulton now points out that the court of domestic relations has the machinery with which to administer this law, and that the taxpayers are obliged to sus tain an extra burden, with no good rea son, other than to provide Judge Taz well's appointees with jobs. Complaint is also made that depart ment No. 7, although the juvenile court work, and the work of acting as chair man of the board of county commission ers, has been taken from it, is not as sisting with the congested dockets in the circuit court. The result is that the taxpayers are being burdened with the extra expense of maintaining the court of domestic relations, and with the sal ary of the chairman of the board of commissioners, with no corresponding benefit- The plan! of putting the pro bate work into the circuit court and making the county judge a circuit judge, was put; into effect to assist the work of the circuit court, but, as it is being .administered by Judge Tazwell, it is doing nothing but adding salaries to the burden of the taxpayers and furnishing jobs for Judge Tazwell's friends. Mr. Moulton is an abie and experi enced lawyer, and large numbers of voters are urging that he be nominated so that this department of the circuit court may be taken out of politics. William P. Lord. A STATEMENT BY MR. WELLS Discussing the Public Service Commis sion and the Telephone Situation. Portland, May 12. To the Editor of The Journal There are in Oregon up wards of 100 locally owned telephone companies operating as public utilities, tanging from investments of $1000 or $2000 to $250,000, serving 40,000 patrons and with aggregate capital of nearly $2,000,000. These are financed by Ore gon money and managed by Oregon men. Their owners and managers are in close touch with affairs of their localities and sorvice is at rates considerably below tnose of the iarger companies.; These facts should entitle them to friendly con sideration. That they have this when the public takes time to consider, there can be no doubt, but this the public does not always do. When a "ruction" starts, bricks shied at the big guy fre quently miss him and bounce upon the small chap in the line of fire. I hold no brief for the public service commission or the Bell company. I ex pressly disclaim any authority to speak for either, and no person connected with either has any ; prior knowledge of this article. I speak only in the interest of fairness and for the best interest of local companies and the public. As a telephone man of 27 years' experience in the inde pendent field in several states, ; and by reason of connection with state and na tional associations of independents and a& president of the Oregon association for eight years, I have at least had op portunity to learn something of the tele phone situation. As fundamentals I sub mit : 1. That the Bell company is invulner able, from a financial or competitive standpoint, either in Portland, Oregon or the nation. 2. Its rates can be controlled only by state or national authority. 3. No commission, no matter what pre election promises may be, will be able to reduce Bell company rates below a remunerative figure; because the con stitution and the courts will prevent the confiscation bf .their; property. These statements are not made with any intent 6f praising the Bell company. They are bald facts, and might as well be faced Let anyone who doubts the first statement secure a rough engineer's estimate of the cost' of duplicating the plant in Portland and the state, and then start out to raise the money. j .While I .aq not know whether) present rates of the Pacific company in Portland will pay an excessive return on invest ment, I do believe a careful comparison of present rates with the present level o; prices ot all commodities and labor will show rates no higher now than in 1915. Carefully - consider the. following: From 1915' to 1920 the index number of all commodities increased 140 per cent. When the government returned the tele phone and telegraph lines to their owners at the close of .1919- the postmaster gen eral had : made I soma increases In rates to partially meet the cllxnblng costs of operation. Our public service commis sion promptly abrogated these increases ob the ground ;that they had iipt been properly authorized: by the state Costs of labor; materials .and all operating costs had then more than doubled, while net increase of telephone rates! in the state was less tthan It per cent; Food for thought there (for: the man who f claims regulation a failure. Manufavc turexs la ether lines doubled and; trebled una mmmmamamM 1 1 .1 ia V 11 1111 m COMMENT AND ; '' SMALL CHANGS ' - The pen may. be mightier than the sword, but has it got anything. oS the well known eyebrow pencil? ; i Cantaloupes have made their appear ance on the market., but modesty forbids quoting the price. .,,.--' - - The first kind word the weather man has said tn weeks is his prediction for a fair and warmer Sunday. L ; How many of our physical, moral, so cial and political ills we can charge di rectly to selfishness, the great crime, of civilisation ! . . ; j Some automobile drivers seem to have an idea of gas like that which big army men have of: armies that the only way to stop a car ia to give it more gas. - Moses is the author of an eight-hour billJ He ought to bet an authority on time, knowing so much about when and where the light went fon. Maybe it would be wise tn contemplate the cost of shoes, stockings and the fixin's before undertaking to rear a large family of healthy youngsters. . . "The fact that the I car contained no passengers prevented many fatalities' News item. Why don't all the speed sters adopt this simple preventive meas ure? s Whatsoever a man isoweth that shall he also reap, If the cold weather hasn't killed the need and if he cultivates it and everything after it does come up- if it ever does. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town It was a fortunate j thing for Oregon livestock raisers that j there was a two years" supply of hay ton hand, last fall, reports W. H. Lytle, State veterinarian, who has returned from a trip through Central and Southern; Oregon counties. As it was, the loss on sheep was about 20 per cent and on cattle 6 per cent, ac cordipg to his estimate. As a rsult of the long winter the stock of hay was exhausted. -;! A. J. Graff of Hood River is an cut of town visitor. i - Mr. and Mrs.' Fred Jenkins of Eugene are registered at the Portland. ; Among arrivals from the outside coun ties is R. T. Oliver of Grants Pass. P. Hessong of Clatskanle is making a business visit to Portlind. i-. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Ryan of Astoria are guests of the Portland. Guy M. Smith of Marcola is trans acting business in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. F. S. Lampert of Salem are visiting in Portland. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Helgersen of Dallas are spending a vacation in Port land. 5 Mrs. Grant Mays, of The Dalles is a guest at the Multnomah. i . , Dr. B. C dinger of The Dalles is enjoying a brief stx.y sn Portland. H. Hogen and John Rast of Bend are taking in the sights of the metropolis. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN -o : 1 . 1 " . By Fred Lockley j - Here Peter Locate concludes his story of the progress of those interests in the Cooa Bay country with which he and his associates hare been identified. He predicts the rise of a sreat city on Coos bay and, though ha ia now 78 years of ace, be expect to lire to see thia pre dicted metropolis well upon its way. Peter Loggie is a good booster for the Coos Bay district Jle told me recently of making a trip to Washington and of how he interviewed and interested Joe Cannon and other congressmen in the Coos Bay harbor improvements. In speaking of the early days of North Bend he said: "In the early days Captain Simpson bought a sawmill in California and shipped it here on a schooner. The schooner was wrecked. Captain Simp son's brother was drowned, and the ma chinery was lost. A cousin of Captain Simpson's, Robert Simpson, is still here. He came nearly 60 years ago. a "One of the things hat did a great deal to help put North JBend on the map was the coming of the milk condensary here. We gave them a site for the con densary which they later sold for $27,000. "Louis J. Simpson put up a big pa vilion for the public use and also made a - ball park. ! ' ' "Coos and Curry counties came into notice away back in 1853, when the black sand mines were discovered on the coast- This sand was rich in gold, and before long the town of Randolph had sprung up. During the mining ex citement it made a rapid but not a per manent growth. In -the old days there used to be a city across the bay from Marshfield, called Bay City. Dr. Mc Key had a store there. Eastport was located on Coalbank slough. Coal used to be mined here in considerable quanti ties. Newport was j another embryo city. Flannigan and iann owned the coal mines there. Heftryville was still another town of the early '70s. It was founded in the spring) of 1874 oy ur. Henry. Utter City. Whose proprietors were Utter & Ojeda, was located at the Isthmus coal mines. Sumner, an other city of early days, was located at the head of Catching slough. Coaledo. at the head of Beaver Islough. and Coos City, "on the east bank of Isthmus slough, were all growing towns. "Empire was the first town built on the bay. It was the county seat of Coos county, and the courthouse and jail were located there. H. H. Loose ran a saw mill there in the early daya Empire was the port of entry for this district prices of products during that period Living costs of telephone employes in creased with others. I Wages followed, perforce. t Local telephone companies of Oregon today pay just double the wages and double for many materials that they paid In 1915. Dig up your od family expense account for a month and compare with today's. Telephone rates cannot follow fluctuations of merchandise, but must reflect price levels for! a term of yeara I told one of our patrons the other day wr would be compelled to ask the com mission "for an Increase. "Whaizat." he said. "Increase telephone rates when everything else Is coming down? And the price of his product Is 200 per cent of 1915 figures, and has been 1 for three cr four years ; our rates have ! increased less than 12 "per - cent! Had ; telephone rates -been increased as other prices In creased, the necessity would have been more ! apparent But deferring adjust ment until some other i commodities had begun to decrease distorted the propor tions and made the increase ; seem ; ex cessive, ' rjjjj. -;:- ;.); ;." , ;': U : !"' ; We may well ask 'what the; situation .would be In i the absence of regulation: since 1915. f Would the Bell people, hav inar nr. itamtirtltion worth that Dim, hsn refrained from putting up rates along with; wages and commodities? And -yet. some ; would . abolish, , cripple or destroy NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS I VThe worst-wreck by an auto Is. when a limousine runs against a flivver bank accouut. Albany Democrat. -:'- 'i - - l m. m . ' ' . : J ; - ' A great many people are not1 worrying about the burglars, as there is" -nothing to steal but the mortgage, Harney County Newai - ( ; -.- , . '. i ' . .1.;.! Many jl man would be too cotatrarv to take his foot off the- gas even if he was sure ihe would hit a telephone pole. Crane American. . j. r - : a -. j - . ! ; : . When' Americans cease placing- trade embargoes in i the shape. of tariffs.-stop trying to sell wooden nutmegs, and learn to keep thetri word, our foreign trade will bold .its 1 own. Until then, neither ship subsidies nor reciprocal tariff will overcome! the handicaps of broken faith and, tariff walla. Salem . Capital Journal. . ..j. . -: , '! .:' - I V . If Argentina were: a dry country like the United States, npbody ever - would have taken that plesoisaurus bunt very seriously. : Yob never can tell what- sort of prehistoric monster will be Seen in a dry country under the stlmuru of bootleg boozej La Grande Observer. .' I !',... If we mustTkieep addirg birthdays of famous men to our holiday , calendar, why overlook James Monroe, whose doc trine put an end to foreign intrigue on American isoilj? . He was president dur ing what history "terms the -"era of jgood feeling" in - Ainerlcan politics, and. that of itself I isi worth commemoration. James Monroe was born April 28. i 1758. Eugene Guard. Daniel Waldo Bass -of Seattlo. . who has been ' revisiting boyhood scenes in Oregon, has returned home. 1 lie took with him an Old lantern, of pioneer' :days which he found while rummaging '; over the oJd Wsildd home, in the Waldo liills. Lakeview. county teat of Lake county, on the California -border, is represented among recent arrivals by Charles St. Dennis. ' Among business visitors' is F. R. Pendleton, a .timber dealer of Everett, Wash. C. A. Hayden. connected with, one of Bend's sawmills, is in Portland on a business mission. i '-! ' e . M. J. WhitsOn, a New York contractor, is visiting Rujpert- Hauser at the Mult nomah. ' i! ' i Mr. and Mrs. Guy W. Martin of Sil ver Lake, in Lake county, are guests of the Imperial. S . i m A. W. Sharp of Silverton Is transact ing business in Portland. . . ' t " WT Ballonsfcf La Grande Is among out of town visitors. i ' i . W. . E.' Bellows of Baker is paying a business visit in Portland. e. . Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Collins of Coquiile are registered at the Imperial.; i . l; W. A. Johnson of Mpllala is In Port land transacting business. Visiting in Portland are Mr. and Mrs. Joe Inman of! Kelso, Wash.. and the collector of customs- was sta tioned there, j Some of the i principal merchants fn ihe early '708' were H. II. Loose, D. Morse and George Cammon, who ran stores there. Tower Watson had a drug store. Mrs. E. M. Lockhart, Mrs. Jacksoff j and John "Campbell ran hotels. John -Easterbrook and E. N. Goodel operated restaurants. We were well supplied with lawyers. AJ A. Skin ner, J. M.' Siglin, T. D. Winchester. S. H. Hazzard and D L. Watson handled the legal affairs of the country. C. W. Tower was the doctor. . O. E. Smith was the dentist M. H. Mooney : was the tailor. Oscar j Gruenert was a' barber. John C. Wing was the dairyman. ; F- E. w incnester was the photographer.; , Sig lin & Bennett; were the proprietors of the Coos Bay j News. L. W.'Crain was tne watchmaker. -Whitney & Co. ran a barber shop, jrhe principal business In dustry in those flays was the saloons. J. and J. H. Flannigan had a Wholesale liquor house, and the following! men ran saloons: Barnett & Zigler, Knowles t Floyd, Joe Clssna, William Reichert and Jim Kiley. -. - i ! "I was. a member of the first -legally established board of - commissioners and for eight years I have been its - vice president Last year. I was elected for another four-year term. I was also re elected mayor. J. made a trip not slong ago to Washington to secure 30 feet of water in the channel, but before that it had been necessary to secure a dredge, and although everybody thought it could not be- done,, we were successful. - "I shall be 56 years old In June. I was married when ' I was 24. . I hope to live to see the time when Marshfield and North Bend will be one city. They have almost grown together now. ! Just as Portland arid East Portland used to be rivals, so have Marshfield and North Bend long been rivals, but the time is coming when tihe two will Interlap, and I hope they wll call the combined ; city Empire. I don't believe the combined city should bei called by either Of, the present&iamesjbut some new name' fcuch as Empire, or Bay. City, or Coos: City, would undoubtedly prove satisfactory to the citizens of both towns. This fine, big. new hotel; that has just been built shows that this district is j forging steadily to the front With ourj wonder ful raw materials here or timber.' our coal, our fish! and eur manufacturing possibilities ana our accessibility to; the market, there lis no escaping the fact that there will be a large city here in the not far distant future." ! i the r iblic service commission iand the utility law. 3 i ; While the local telephone ebmpanies comprise an industry of considerable ex tent, their plants are scattered; j they are not Contiguous os connected by j their own lines, and must depend upon the; long lines of the Bell company for inter-; connection. Without a state body having! powers of control' and regulation, "the; Bell company could. If It saw fit, t drive out any. local 'company. . I -bellevV the stronger and bigger the personnel . and organization of the commission -the greater gooditi can accomplish, for both people' and utility companies." Big men will not serve on a body when the public chooses to. badger, ballyrag and ' de nounce them as criminals and grafters, instead of following the orderly, provi sion of law- and, appeal to courts.; The commission has sifted facts and evidence. Would it not be fairer to leam ; what the courts think of "the same evidence before denouncing the commissioners as crooks? , Charles E. . Wells, -President 'Oregon - Local Telephone - Association! ' SHE WAS i THE THIRTEENTH Indiamtimlia Star! . it is significant -that hi aU that list of 13 'women given as the wives of Isaiah Moore- he was able : to fool only ; one widow. ; The Oregon Country horthwest Happenings in Brief Ic'ona tor the 1 'Busy Reader, y -:',-, .'( - ;' t OREGON l'"-''.! ',.---..;,:--: Mr. E, V. Everett, a native of Baker county; died in Baker last Saturday fol lowing injuries received in an automobile accident m Weiser, i - ! i pians are under way for ! the estab- . lishment of a cannery at ! Canby by parties; who are engaged in the same business In Portland. . . i! i . - McAllister began this weafk cutting 300 cords of white fir pulp wood for tk Salem i pulp mills, i The wood . will be shipped tq; Salem by rail, jr VAlexi Sparrow, i superintendent " of Crater Lake national parte, was married Tuesday at Medford to Mrs. Ruth W. Clements of Klrtland farm. . ' Lumber shipments of thelst Helens mills, of the McCormick -company dur ing the month of April totaled 12,080,280 feet by water and 1.990,000-feet by Tail, , Sixty'-five ships L loaded! with lumber cleared from Coos bay during the month of April, the destination being Callfor -tsia. New York, the ,Orien"t! and England. Mrs. C Roy Loom Is, president of the Eugene council of ParntTeacher asso ciations, has been indorsed by the council for school- director i of the Eugene dis trtet. - ... v ,r y V ',;.- ,, Fifty thousand baby chick have' bee a shipped so far this, season by the Ore-gen-Corvallis hatchery, said to be one of the largest plants of. the kind in the Northwest, ;;-' . j . ,i';. The. Oregon Tourist Information bur eau. which is financed by a state appropriation-of $12,000, has established a branch bureau in Medford with the in tention: of maintaining it the year round. The St. Helens Creosoting company is crowding its large plant to capacity on the treatment of an 8,000,000 feet order of 7x10x8 ties for the Southern Pacific railroad. The ties will be shipped to San Diego. J ' -7 j .- ;. Loganberry production Jlhis year will probably be "very-s I materially reduced from that of last year owing to winter Injury. It is thought by growers in Marion! county that; some j yards will be a total loss. V .- . ; j The Knights of Pythias bf 1 Eugene have purchased the old Central school grounds ss a site for a 1 large - modern Pythian temple. The old building was used-for school purposes for more than half a century. - V, . ) i. . X party comprising S8 women, sll members of the Women's Progressive league : of Portland., arrived at Astoria Tuesday morning' on the steamer Undine and spnt the day sua - guests of the Women's Civic club of that city. " WASHINGTON , , ) Five country schools in! Fierce county hav&j been closed because; special levies failed to carry at the recent election. . - The ocean beach of Pacific county is crowded with clam diggers, some of whom are making as high as $15 a day. r Six hundred thirteen students of the -. University of Washington will receive diplomas at the end of the school year in June, j- : i j- ; . :.,.....; '-.'' Robbers forced their way into the post;,, office at Llsabuela, Vashon island, Sat urday night and escaped with $40 in cash and $100 in stamps.; i jj. f Between 430,000 and $40,000! will be" ex pended within the next few weeks for . improvements on the summer, resorts .In the vicinity of Batonville. . jj .Henry Keller, well known -: Prosser farmer, disappeared from his home more than a month ago and friends fear he . has met with some. misfortune. . -j Dredging by the Port of 'Grays Harbor dredge during the month of April amounted to 92,000 cubio yards at a cost of approximately 28 cents a yard. - By a vote of 215 to 125. the electors ot schooldistrict No. 69 at Pullman author ized art additional 7 mill levy for main-' tenance and repairs on the school build ings. j ; - At a meeting of school directors in . Pomeroy; representing 13 school districts, a resolution was passed recommending a 25 per cent reduction in the salaries of teachers. ""'! ..!. :. . Meyer M. Peyser, city detective, a na tive ofLRoeeburg and a former resident of Portland, died at Seattle Tuesday, fol lowing an operation for appendicitis. . He was 43 years old. . .., ; ..' - ' il ; '' Caught In the machinery! of the axeani shlp Northwestern, ; in port i at Seattle, v Bert McCormiek, 16, an employe of the Alaska Steamship company, received in juries from which he died. ;" Eight, Aberdeen soft drink dealers who pleaded guilty to selling grape Juice con- -taining too much alcohol were fined $100 and costs each and received, suspended terms of 30 days each ia JalU i ...... Arrangements have been made by the Washington Water Power company for lighting the towns of Grant county. This will require 14 additional I miles f dis tribution lines from Stratford to Marlin. For the building up and development of the state of -Washington and the Pa cific Northwest, an intercity council, composed of representatives i from Spo- -kane, Seattle and Tacoma. will be organ ized next week at Tacoma Aryur M. Belyea, for five. years assist; ant cashier of tne (Security state ban ?f2BS' a-yesed to have! embezzled $n.400!from the bank., returned from Mexico-last Saturday and surrendered to the sheriff of Whitman county. IDAHO ! r Bids will be received up to May 3t for carrying tne mails between Newsome and Golden, twice a week. On a four year contract. Jj . : Heavy frosts in Idaho this week have done considerable damage j to I fruits and early vegetables, the mercury in differ ?nt P0.,' of -the-state -ranging from 19 to 28 degrees. . 11 ,PlSnS 'Koenlg. 26"; Fred 1 Carpenter, ljjjseil Mclntyre, 68. and Philip Reill v. 22, have confessed to the robbery- of the ' Long & Son store at Keidrlck. Idaho, three weeks ago., :., . T i . Authority for holding the-'l-daho ' Nai tional Guard encampment at Boise this year from June S to 19 inclusive has been received at-the office of the state adjutant general. j ,1 7 j . Salaries of county officers; in Blaine county will remain the aahie Ss Sow ex; isting. with the exception ojSthat of pro l?jenlch haj oeenauced from w i.w a year. Applications for farm halids and conv mors laoorera are piling up In the munici- wu tmiuoyraeni on Ice atF Boise. Pay Ct.yJ- ratea at 840 a month 12 d 'w oFinraon laeorj the pay. is Breaking from the Silve iVy nft" -.,Ter -.iiy. i-jh. ZSSSi f?r k"Ilnf 4 Grind View " ' vvm-iiuii ui ninraAf in Waa. and i'i isii, mi not -----. iwitus nun. j Once Oven i - Are You Helping the i disguided . Brother? .- In practically an scr. bddies. it is obligation In said, each member takes an Which he. Dromlses. ; to An I what he can to change the course of a f fellow member jumjwb iq d aoiiig wrong " ' The chances are. Mr. rJ 0411 Xf it U.4 you know of certain things which your brother lodge member is doing-that be A word from you might mean refor mstion. . - ' .-..!- I t- . Often those who are engiged In some thing that is in onnositiort tn th. of society feel that tlwv n !..-t,. cover tncix misdeeds and none - need 1, J Such 1 persons would immediately abandon such a, course if lthy believed someone knew of. their violations. Sometimes you make an enemy of the man you approach, but wduld it not h better to do so than to have rfim go ahead in bis wrongdoing until he brings disgrace; upon himself and his family? If you were sincere wljeni you took your lodge vows you feel if your duty to try to save your; fellow - lodge member from downfall, when youl know he - Is traveling forbidden paths. - ; - ; Would : you not want him if to try to sae you, if you , were on! the road to ruin? tCopyriaiit. 1SS2." Internatjenal Faataae . ; ' - - . Berrice, loo.) i , ; ,- .