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t- " THE OREGON 1 DAILY JOURNAL, 10 1 PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY, I1 1 : ,. i - RUY ;i7, 1922. Alf lNUETKKDKKx' KXW8PAFEB C 4 aCKMW..i..l....,.....lHIlhh 1 He cairn. baeanfideat. be clamf ul and da mnllo euwra u yen nM ban tbeaa da uto r I laliu&ed every weekday And. Sunday aoiaf ii J m doarnu fitrtine;. atraaaaray at laaaaiu . . ramc. roruana, altered t tbe uouf tic -t Portland. UmM. lor trutsmiMBOB tbroucb fa aaails M seeosd liXPHON"JE Jejua 717$. AH reeeSea by thia number. ' ' . iaTIONAL AttVliitTJBINU iita-MliJjKNTi-v S'lVK Benjamin Kentnor -Ux. Brnnaanc batfdias, 22 ft mn arena. Mew Xorfci l MaUerabtukttne;, Chicago, I f AOIVIC iLXJAST Kti'Jti.SKNl'ATlVK at & MoiietlOB Co., Inc., Examiner bide-. Ban tTaacaco; Title- Insurance buiMinc. i-oa Att- setea; Btpmtm tmUdinc, Beatue. lii OKiXAJN JOCKN-eL reaerras tbe rich 1jo . . reject adTertlau copy wtuc it deeate obe-t- ttonaoie. It aiao wUi "not print asy copy thjrt . 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If your aoetoffice is not a aaoqey-order office, 1- or 2-eeett stamps will ba aerepted. - Make .all remittancea payable to The Journal tufeusbinc Company, Portland, Oregon. Whan you fe. lag. Jpubert. aire with Joy and smil- WAR TALK I "HE3E are days of war talk among diplomats, statesmen and certain ' congressional representatives. There ar clamors for navy appropriations, army appropriations and other out- " flows for the purposes of war. There is always the talk of war. On that subject Admiral Benson offers pertinent remarks. He says: 'Our country -needs careful guardians. Many elements are at work to dlBrupt this government. There is no danger " from without at this moment. No na tien or- combination of nations would dare attack up-; and if they did. I have no fear of the results. But the dangers within are serious. .There is possibility that, soime enemy may arouse feelings that will break up thM:ountry irrtioj racial groups! and this is what most' be strictly guarded against. ' . ti j ' There are few nations that want toattack America today or tomorrow- The world's wounds from the 'ftietsjt war are not healed. : Nations are " no now in position to carry on an v asiitensh-e nor an expeneive cam paign, j . j " feut jAmerica has dangers within. Miiny f all colors and all creeds are r residents here. They are inclined to five and work and think together. Many of them have larger places in their hearts for the lands from which, thfy came than for their adopted country. - . . - There are groups who oppose the present economic plans of this coun try. -"There are those who ;vlew-our political system with distrust. There are thousands who 'care ' little for America "but" who' have axes fo grind here. "!,.' . r.!:; l '-. " t America, through a rigid-immigration law, and. otherwise, solidifies herself, welds all peoples here into thorough American citizens and strives! to improve her economic and political systems to afford everyone m ? America a full opportunity, there wil be little danger within. She can tiqj much to minimize the dangers ' from without by a constructive and peaceful foreign policy, and such' a fofeigei policy would do, more than all the battleships and all the armies tojHeep peace for this country and the world.' . -, . s "I oppose the disfranchisement of voters i through property qualifica tions, as is proposed in some quar tets, and I oppose repeal of the higher educational millage bill." is the declaration of J. E. Bennett, Re publican candidate for the . legisla tuire. !Too many candiefs tee are try ing to! go to the legislature with res ervations on these points. To repeal tne millage bills would throw edu cation back into politics. ; It would . hi a good thing for voters, before supporting ' them, to question candi dates j on these issues, i It can be done without trouble by telephone. VOTE FOR XV t IVEBT'cttlaea will have a right f tq vote twice for public service commissioner at next, jfridayV pri maries. One vete will be cast for some Recall candidate and ; a" second for one Tthe candidates to succeed Fted. A ; Williams jfublic service commissioner at large whose, regu lar term'etids-Iecfember 31. iThece ; votes will be cast on separ ate ballots, one ton the recall ballot and the :. other, on the regular Re publican nrimary . ballot . There Is n Democratic candidate for & nomi nee ' te be voted tfpon 'at the gen eral election. '. i I . IThere are three Republican, can t idates for the primary nomination. Thomas Campbell ' wasi formerly a F3blic service commlsEsioner and has t h Indorsement of the ,X N. , Day t. called citiaens. ticket ; ' - Ij. R. Thiehoff is a conductor on a T Portland-Astoria passenger train. LET COOL HEADS w HT THIS hullabaloo over religion Political leaders are making these. Issues paramount In this- state. Some newspapers, by agitating these ancient disputes, are helping make them dominant in an election campaign. People are permitting; ' them selves to be' carried away by the debate to be filled with hate, and the hand of neighbor to be turned against neighbor. - f 'fii These are the issues of the Middle Ages."; The people of that time: were debating them TOO years ago. That is to say. -in an Oregon, election the leaders on both sides of the issue arid dragging out moldy theses on which to stage an election campaign In .Ortfoib ' . '. . .' .it-jl ' i . We are trying to get back to normal conditions after a war. We are counting our dead and computing pur debts. We are struggling with the high cost of living. Livestock men to the number of 43 recently j turned their flocks and herds over to their Portland creditors and went out into the world to find a job. .A business depression stalks over the country with men by the million walking the streets in a. vain search for f work. In many a case in the past year the incomes from farms in this i state were not sufficient to pay the taxes. : , ) ,. ;, . H,.jr There has been no time in the whole history of the state when there was more need for sound, sane, constructive public work. But here we are testing out a candidate's eligibility for public service on the ground of whether, he is a Catholic or anti-Catholic, whether he Is a Jew or anti Jew, whether he is foreign-born or anti foreign-born, whether ; he ;is colored or anti-colored. The questionnaires issued to candidate, for gov ernor by a Portland newspaper actually propose such a test. lljv j p i Where do we get to if we make our choice of ptfolic offices on such a test? If we make this foolish Issue the paramount question, divide the state into two great factions on that issue and then decide the election ' by the triumph of one or the other of these factions, what will be the con sequence?. flere is what the consequence' will be: If one side wins we shall; have an anti-Catholic anti-Jew, anti-foreign born, anti-negro administration. If the other side wins we shall have a pro-Catholic, pro-Jew, pro-foreign born, pro-colored administration. That is exactly what such a division as political leaders are now forcing the direct trend of the campaign as it is now staged. That is why it is imperative that poised men in Oregon take' command and call (upon people to thrust into the background over in 1521, and take up the more imperative and more pertinent issues of -how to reduce taxes, how to secure a more equitable distribution of taxes, how to strengthen Oregon in her present momentous .period of transition into a. broader development, - and the jnany other things by which to forward the prosperity, welfare and happiness of Oregon people. The Ku Klux Klan cannot harm the Catholic church, cannot extinguish the Jewish race or limit its number, by one single person, cannot change the status of the foreignrborn, cannot disfranchise the colored citizen. The Ku Klux Klan will have its time upon the stage and presently pais on, as all its predecessors have done. A sixteenth century issue cannot live long in the twentieth century. , ; ; i i The mistake that Catholics, Jews, and the others make is that; they take the Ku Klux Klan too seriously. It feeds and grows strong on their opposition. !. . The Klan, on the' other hand, is attributing to Catholics. Jews, foreign born and colored people designs, purposes and plans that nobody but Klanners take seriously. t K : Yet, because each side becomes over-excited about what the other side can or might do Portland is filled With bad blood, bitterness, feuds and fustian. The welfare of the state and "the needs of the people are lost sight of in a medieval religious 'row with no constructive planning for city, and state development, no commcm-sense endeavor for needed re forms in taxation. If there was ever a time for cool heads to assume leadership it I now. If there was ever a time for citizens to read and re-read the golden rule it is now. 1 and has many friends. His name ap pears on the orange ticket. ' Frank B. Layman Is a lawyer, has made a specialized study of rates and rate-making, is a progressive Republican, and, as a candidate for a semi-Judicial position, has kept his candidacy free from all religious or racial issues. . The situation as to public service commissioners is bewilderingly com plicated. If the recall ' candidates should be elected they would serve only to the end of tKls year. Neither is a candidate for nomination in the election to occur in November. There will be on the ballot in No vember a measure to make the com missioners appointive by the gov ernor. If it. should beadopted it would open the way for the governor- elect who will take office in Janu ary, to name an entirely new com mission, in which, event the com missioners regularly elected In No vember and scheduled to take office in January would -not take office at all unless appointed by the new gov ernor. The Third Oregon district is hav ing' .the fourth term of Representa tive McArthur, which, as did the first, second and third, reveaps a consistent service of 'standpatism. The progressive thought in the Re publican ranks will have an oppor tunity Friday to express Itself in pro test against reactionary representa tion. . TO A HIGHER PLANE THERE is reason to believe that the course of moving picture magnates is going to do 'much to re lieve the need of further regulation. The ban on the Arbuckle pictures was a start. And now decision has been made to prohibit exhibition of films in , which, Peggy Joyce is fea tured. The only claim Miss Joyce has to fame is a string of notorious love affairs. Two or three men have killed themselves: as a result of their acquaintance with her. The-lives of others .have. been broken. The trail of Peggy Joyce ia merely a trail of sorrow, notoriety and suicide. ' The screen's popularity cannot be permanently built on a foundation' of scandal and! unwelcome -notoriety. It cannot be based' on a 'foundation of -life-wreckers. There . must be something more substantial, more wholesome and more admirable for the public to view -than trails of. broken lives and scandals. TURN BACKWARD ? CERTAINLY the federal corrupt practices act should be amended. The supreme court nullified part of it in the Newberry case, and now comes Attorney General Daugherty with an 'opinion that more of : It is Invalid. In effect, the law will amount to nothing if the attorney general's opinion is sound. One of the most important laws on the statute books of. states and nation is the corrupt .practices act. It Is intended to eliminate bribery, graft and kindred abuses In elec tions to limit the Stuns that candi dates can spend, and to provide against the purchase of public office. Irregular use of money in elec tions : and In government might in time wreck the government - It TAKE -COMMAND. and over races? Where jdoes it are going back into medieval 'history upon the people leads , to. , That is this issue that men were quarreling means purchased jobs, purchased contracts, purchased laws, purchased favors of various kinds, all detri mental to the public Interest; It means thatthe man with the money is- the man that will direct the course of the government: 1 and, through- the government, the h weal or woe of millions of people. ! I Formerly there w,as . tremendous graft. Big Business paid for offices f6r their henchmen and paid; for public contracts. People could sel dom get a good public official. It meant public funds ravaged, and public interests raped. H ' This is no time for a return to the old system, no time to pjernilt the purchase .of public office! S To prevent such a contingency Hit ' is highly" essential that a legal Iproof corrupt practices act be immedi ately placed on the federal statute books to plug the gap opened by recent legal opinions. "The Agricultural college, v univer sity and- Normal school ought not to be thrown into politics through re peal of the millage bill," declared Charles Hindman, Republican candi date for the legislature, in a recent address. He is right. Education has no business in politics. Politics has no business in education. But the moment the schools must go to the legislature for appropriations, log rolling, bargaining and other polit ical processes begin. There are candidates who are trying to go to the legislature from Multnomah county who have educational ideas exactly contrary Hindman. to those of Mr. AMERICA JOIT POSSESSION JOHN F. DALY, Portland f banker; has received fromE. M. McMillan of Philadelphia a letter, which reads; I am but one of the-crowd of JQtvstent ers who have never appreciated the fact that I could feel any sense of joint own ership in the "Great Northwest." But your man Riley has awakened ia me and in many others a sense of partnership In that wonderful section, until novj having been twice to Europe, with never a wish to go west f Oklahoma. I am beginning to be conscious of failure te appraise, properly, the wonders of our own coun try. If you don't call him home you will have us all rushing West to claim our share in, as he puts it, "The Wonderland of America." - "., : i ! ( It is a fact all too little noted that much of the. West, and of the North w est, is the joint ownership of all the American people. The National parka belong to all of us. One of the most beautiful of the ' parks I is Crater Lake National park;!-one ot the most impressive sights in the world Is the take itself. ' The National forests belong to: all of Us. - Practically the entire ridge of . the Cascade' mountains In : Wash ington and Oregon Is incorporated in national forests. There are riamer ous peaks, like ' Hood and Rainier, ' bonneted with. eternal snow.1,' There are hundreds of lesser summits, hundreds of streams, uncounted val leys, all belonging to the great: play ground of the people. j, , ' Through the advocacy of such men as Frank Branch Riley,, the "East is discovering the Joy and tha inestini able value of such joint ownership. And. perhaps, when ,he gets through with the East he will come back, home to the West .and! lead to the same discovery on the part, of i those closest to our 'great national, possessions. - - - X U U ,k CANDIDATES AND i PLATFORMS Records" of Eight Who Seek Seats in '-r the -Lowers House of the Legtsla-i j i j ture and of Two; Who Would ; ia ': , : ; . i Serve in the Senate. .! - i W. W.! Banks of Portland Is a candi date , for ithe i Republican nomination for the ; state Isenatorshipi from the Four teenth senatorial district, consisting of Clackamas, iCo lurnbia and Mult nomah counties. He is a practicing attorney of Port land and has been active in legal and political circles., for -extended pe riod. He has served for several terms I n the legislature. i&wJ first from Souta- I; iW Wi iBank ern Oregon Drior to his moving to Portland, and then from Multnomah county. He was assistant United States attorney for Oregon dull ing the ihebmbency of John H. HaU.j reL signing that office to engage in private practice, j ie r has represented Multnof malt county in both the house and aenk te. lii Bellinger of Astoria is a ckaij dat4 . f 4r tlie Republican nomination for state senator rrora the i Fifteenth semaf torial district, comt prising Clatsop county. He is a well known citizen of Astoria, having been the editor and publisher of th Astorian for many years. He has long been known as:-an active participant In the political aff fairs of Clatsop county, - and has at been prominent ia i. 8. DelUsger state politics . as welt 1 L. IL MtMahon of Salem is a candi date for the house, of representatives on the Republican ticket ifrom the First i-''-slaJ? district, consisting of i Marion county. He! is a well known citizen of that county and district, having resided there for many years. He Is - an attorney, has prac ticed law in that county for a long . time, and is also interested in farm ing and fruit rais ing, i SIcManoa ' Perry 'Oi Powell of Monmouth seeks the Republican nomination as represen tative -forrthe Eleventh representative district, composed of Polk county.) He is a well known resident of that city and . county, having' lived there for a number) of years.. He was a member of tha 1921 regular" and Spe cial sessions of i the legislature,' and seeks reelection , to thei position he held during those two sessions, c. . 0-, Powell fc. S?milri of TortIarid. R.euS- lican candidate for representative, Mult nomah ootinty, was born on a farm in" 'Z! Kansas- December U 29,- 188L His edu cation was secured in the count ry schools of - Kansas and in Portsmo'utu school, Portlanjd. He is an electHeHli worker by trade, but since 917 ;has devoted most of his time to writing and speaking on eco nomic, social and industrial subjects. He served in s the Eagene E. Smith lower house in the regular session of 191? and special J session of 1920. He was' a jcapdidatel for congress in the Multnomah district in the 1920 primaries. Hia platf drm says -. "I will fearlessly champion, the civi liberties of the people, the: constitutional! rights , of all: I will not indulge in any log-rolling or trading of. voteai .1 wiHr oppose any proposed legislation not fundamentally sound and American: in principle and will seek proper legislation! to encourage a steady and healthy development of Oregon ; jby the; combined honest efforts of '"business ahdllaboi- in "citjv town and eountr. His slogan) is- "liwlll vote only for laws which.' are necessary and sound." j'j. ! i r h M ! ' i Miss Bees A. . plough of Oanyonyille is a i Republican Candidate for represen iatirehfroiri Toulas county, the Fourth representative dis trict. She. in -tier statement, does! not give her age, though her picture gives some indica tion of it. She vras born in Douglas county and is : the only woman candi date for a place; in the house of repre sentatives, outside of ; M u 1 1 n o man t?ounty. She lives On. a farm, which Bess IX. Cloagh her parents own and which she and her brother operate. She was educated in thet pubtfc and high schools 'of Douglas county and is , a graduate of the Port land business college.; She was for two years : tae fcasnier of a wholesale house In: Portland. 'During the war. while her brother Swas in the service, she took he active tnajnagement of the farm upon herself. In her platform she saysi, ! I will , workj: tOT. A general reduction of taxes i oil rjpai property; for a more edui- table taat qn moter vehicles and will sup port every! measure that makes for true economy At the administration of state affairs.? - . r ! Charles C. Hindman of Portland. Re publican, candidate for representative. Multnomah county, was born at Du Bols, istif - Pennsylvania, July 29, 1885. His eflu cation was secured in the public s c h o ols. BuckneH university and Uni versity of Penn-i s y 1 a n 1 a , ; law SchooL In 191 J he .was appointed:: as sistant Unit e.d States attorney for Oregon ; by. ' John McCourt; . in 194 bj, tea a nnnt nral Cfearies UL Hlaetaiaa deputy- district , at torney for Multnomah counts by Walter H.--Evans 3 in ISIS, he wax appointed as sistant city attorney by Walter P. 1. Roche; in 1?19 he resigned from the city tTrvmaiwal I era t 4 i nam. n Anon tVa -Yiam earshVaa-. eral practice, of la w. He was appointed r ! rv V rtrfti-: St .X.. H. "I - ' 4 j - in 1920 member- of the commissi on of public docks of the city of Portland. In November. 1920. ,h was' elected s repre sentative: of the Eish tee nth district for the term; of 1921-1922. - His slogan Is: "For Re-election; on My Legislative Rec ord. iri hie platform he says: wm give serious consideration to all;! pro posed legislation and will vote for those measurea which I think will benefit the citizens of this state. I believe that the present ; taw licensing motor vehicles i Is unjust and inequitable In that: the amount of the license fee is determined solely ; by! the I weight of the vehicle re gardless of its age or value, i I jam for an amendment to the present law which will provide that both the weight of the vehicle : and i Its value shall determine the amount of the license fee to be paid by the owner.?- - .j- j !i - I 1 t : , i- m ' a - - ti ' b John B. Coffey of Portland, Republi can candidate for - representative from Multnomah county, is a native ; Orego- nian, having i oeen born at Salem in 1867. Ha was edu cated in th public schools there and finished at Willam ette university. He came to: Portland in r886 : and en gaged in the mer cantile : business, from which 'he re tired in 1917 when elected as .county clerk. .He iwas a J Jobs B.Coffey member of the lower branch of the legislature at the l9ojr ses sion, served as state senator in 1909. He was again elected to the legislature in the house in 1919. In the admtnistra- tion of Mayor Simon he was chairman of the police committee of the old ex ecutive board. For the past few years he has been engaged In the insurance and bonding business. . In his platform he says: "My public record in the past Is the platform on which I am again iseek ing election and I stand ready to: give the same attention to the needs of the citizens of Oregon that I always t gave when I occupied a seat at Salem in times past" ii".' ' M- If. Dr. Donnell t. Haens of Portland, Democratic candidate for representative. Multnomah county, was born at Man hattan, Kan.,l:yeb ruary 23. 1894. His education was se cured -in the' public schools of Minne sota and Montana state college, is a graduatej of North racific dental col lege. In his : plat form he says "The reduction of taxa tion within i the state Is, I believe, the paramount is- BonnelliD. Havens sue of the cam paign. If elected, I will oppose 411 bills which, by their provisions, are intended to raise the tax rate either by additional or increased appropriations or; which create further salaried commissions and officials I whose work in the past , has favored corporate interests as- against the interest of the people, or whose work lis unessential or is, largely duplicated in other departments. I further faVor a strict but not crippling -economy ip ap propriations for existing and essential state, departments and institutions. I will support and work for the passage of a graduated state income taxi law, so that a more equitable distribution of taxation may be effected." ii ) i- ' j I George N. Woodley, Republican Candi date for representative,- Multnomah county, has resided . in Portland since 1911. He was edu cated in public echools and - North western university Evanston, 111 j . te a graduate of i Jiorth western university, law school ; j has practiced . law 21 -years in Chicago and Portland. He has never held pub lic office in . Oregon but was city attor ney of Kvanston, Oeorg-e Jf . AVoodley 111., six years; was chairman of the legal advisory board during ;the war. He assures the Voters that he will serve all the people to the best of his ability: promises that he will work for.-itrfct and businesslike economy In publiq expenditures, lower real estate taxes, ariid a more equitable plan of tax ation, based on the principle that every form of property should bear its Just proportion of taxes. m He states that he ia a firm believer In liberal support of the state educational institutions. He Is decidedly opposed to any tampering with the millage tax. He recognizes the vital importance of protecting and encour aging business development, neW Indus tries and use of the highways for i com mercial hauling, and believes thatj par ticular care should be taken inpt to hamper) ibusjness with unnecessary or Impractical regulations.. He l favors re adjustment of automobile licenses j on a basis wiich ! will be fair to i the ("poor man's" car. 'He is opposed to land i own ership by aliens ineligible to citizen ship or who have, not taken steps to be vome naturalized. ' ; 5 i Letters From the People i (Commtuiiratioii sent to The Journal for pub lication ins this department ahoull be written oa only one aide of the paper, ahoald net exceed 100 worda to tenetb. and mnat ba aisnad by tbe writer, wboae nail addreas ia full must accom pany the coatribotian. ) i STATEMENT-BY F. B. LA I'M AN . Affirms I Freedom ' rrom Allf Creed ClalinS. as Candidate, and rrom aji Warping Affiliations, as In i j cumbent, If Elected. M Portland. May is. To jhe Editor of The Jburnat When I entered the cam paign for! public 'service commissioner I hoped - 'the nomination would te pasea entirely 1 upon the qualifications of the candidates. I now find, however, that religious'; differences and reactionary ma chine politics have been injected Into the campaign. One of my opponents, ;Thie hbff. is being backed by the Ku fKhix Klaiyi-oi the theorj. presumably that h.ja is ' iri 1 sympathy with iui aims and methods! ' My other opponent, Campbell, is now indorsed by the old. ! reactionary machine j element In Oregon politics, which has seised upon an 'lopportunjity to focusl anU-Klan sentiment a: an op portunity to fool right thinking people into nominating one of its candidates for a verjr importa.nt office, j ' !I am a Protestant (trustee in :a Pres byterian! church) but I am not Inj sym pathy With the doctrines and practices of the Ku Klux Klan. On the contrary. It believe that, under our constitution, all cttisens, regardless of race, religion or color.! are'enti tied to all the privileges oi clthtehshtp. For thte reasonj I have not joined the Klan or soughtt or re ceived Its Indorsement of my candidacy. On the other hand, I equally i deplore the fact that the old line politicians are trying t get .control of the public ser vice ; commission. - The ; relation I of -this commission j to : the' everyday . llfd ;and welfare 'tot the people is too important and viil to permit any consideration other than . ability and fitness for the dnties tot the commission .to "-control vthe nomination of its rnembers. : The office demands, honesty with ability and ability with honesty. Either alone Is not suffi cient Religious and political -question should -have : no place in the selection, of EMWtttaaaaaamiWwwj "9 - - X k '4. - I ) A JT i tJ- r v J '4 COMMENT! AND SMALL CHANGE , ii With : Invitation to the peace confer ence, Genoa, and The Hague,! the United States j is in considerable social demand. . I ' -' W ' A lot of wen known hats ' that have been thrown intoi the ring wiU never be the same old hats again aft ; Friday. Margot goes : home and i knocks- says America's trouble:: is - too much money. Well. M argot did her best Jo cure the maiauj, "Button, button, who's got the button, ia a favorite roornlne oaatlme for the : chap who insists upon wearing: collars I Congress, says a headline,: is wearing out its gabfest. W always did believe the millennium would come if we waited long enough. m '!,,,. The highwayman, at best, can only expect to get a hair net. a powder puff and a few chocolate bon bona in holding up a College woman. :j: J', , ! Germany, It 4s said, will be bankrupt in. six! months. Having had to pay in person! for the substitutes fori the Christ mas dinner it did not eat i In Paris, the nation: Is in financial straits. ! 'Ii- Ii ' "Woman atUcked by erased cow" Is a story that gets a big headline. By the same estimate what would we do with ui yarn about the man auacaea Dy a era sea cnicKen T JVI0RE (jR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Not jto be outdone by Baker, with its celebration of the Old Oregon trail, or by Caayon City, with its .refival of the old mining days, the city of Sacramento, Cat, is preparing to reproduce the "days ' of ," accordtnr to Willard Wafner, a laundryman of that place, who has ; been attending the laundry owners1' convention at The ?alles. . As a preliminary, the male population of Sacramento is letting beards : grow and the female element is wearing hoop skirts land bustles. A man! i appearing withoujt any indication of hirsute growth is fined $&. Stores are being? given false fronts j resembling log capiijjs and the town ii taking on the look 4 the typical mining camp, with its male workers dressed in red flannel shlrtf j and over alls and broad-rimmed felt hats. W. Grant Ward of Caldwell. Idaho, is transacting business in Portland, j - i j J. PI Doyle of Grants Pass is regis tered it the Portland. f Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Brand 4 Coos-Bay are guests of the Portland, i J I I- f C. d Clark, former mayoif of Arling ton, is transacting business In Portland. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN j ii By Fred i 1 1 In the installment that conclude the atorr of J A. Baker of Salem there ia contained matter of ratae regarding - the "BeaTer" cinaaa of the early daya. Mr. Locale? also quotes Mr. Baker nn a tihaM of eaxW maaical derelopmeDt at Salem. III j J. Ai.: Baker is the oldest living stu dent of Willamette university'. When I visited him recently at Salenj he said: "In j the - faU of 1849 wej : moved to SalemJ i Father bought frvm a man named Matlock a squatter's ight to 400 acres pn the Garden road a mile aSd a half east of alem. Father lived there until 1858, when he sold put and moved to California, settling at Petaluma.- "Thre were four children In our fam ily. It -was the eldest: The-j next child.. Elizabeth, died- on the plains. They carried her to Fort Bridger, where there was aj graveyard and where they buried hr. rrittina- a nil of stones over ! her grave jso ' the wolves -would not dig up her body. She was six years old. M.y brother William, the next Child, spent his life fn California. George E..J the youngfest, or Emory, as wejcalled him, was bfarn on our farm neari Salem and lives in California. 1 : f , 1 1 i "Wrien I started to the Oregon insti tute m the fall of 1849, Khody Ann Chapraan used to walk to fcchool with me. I carried her books. Later she married George A. Eades. g Among: the schoolmates whom I remember best were John arfd Lafayette Lane. Addle Locey. Leroy . Dunham arid Lucy jee. Among my teichers whom I remember best were Nehemlah Doane and Mrs J Samuel R. Thursion. I attended tbe Oregon Insti tute ffpm 1849 to 1856. j i ) - j j "In 1S56 I started to learn tllie harness making trade with J. A. Jhns, whose harness shop w,as located whWre the Ho tel Mflr'cn now stands. Wright & Usa fovage'were running a stori two doors from the harness shop, and j by the! by, John G. Wright, one of the lotdesf resi dents of Salem, is still living- here and Is still; working. His partner went to Taconia and became wealtnyi "In 1 1859 I resumed my I studies; at Willamette university andf continued them two years more. - 1 a "One of the Interestln emories of my cMiahood was of going, to 1S49, into a building at Oregon tJlty fhere work men were putting long, narriW strips of gold through rollers and pushing them out to make 6-dollar and I0(lotlar Bea ver gold pieces. - Before th9 j corning of gold b-Oregon City beaveri skins were legal itender. The Oregon 1 (City mer chants: w-ould allow only $11 an ounce for gld dust, so some of the cltlsens got together and decided to establish a mint, as the gold was really: worth: $16 to 118 an ounce. .The Hudson's Bay company bought up all the gold dust it could iget at $10 an ounce- j (The provi- sional legislature passed a Ill authorii- ing the establishment of a Mnt at Ore- gon City for the coining of ifdollar iand 10-dollar gold pieces. 1 Si . "When .Governor Joe Lane came he said the provisional government had no authority to operate a miat, as this was the exclusive privilege of the United States; I government : so th men who were anxious to secure . a higher price for their gold dust organized ia company called p the Oregon Exchange.. If you will lobk at one of these- old Beaver coins you will see on one side the1 initials of the men of the company, I They were : W. H I Rector, with two ofiwhose sons I weit to 1 school; W. Ki KUboume, wbosejl daughter, Maggie, i was a play mate lot Edwin MarkJam;i:TheophHuB Magr-iider, George Abernethy, James Taylot;. Noyea Smith. W. H. "WHlson and J. G. j Campbell. Mr. Rector was not only the coiner, but he made the stamps and the dies. Campbell did ithe engrav ing. They coined about $55,000 worth of S-dtillar and 10-dollar gold: pieces,: but these were soon melted up. as they Were 4- i -' . iii ; H members of the commlsslbfi i or la the determination of tha various rat.e cases going before It, On the contrary,' those cases should I decided ii aixjording to recognixed principles of laiwij and equity running-through hundreds efjdecistons of the Interstate commerce commission and of f th i other tatf ' commlesiona ! My practice has given me a fair; knowledge of those principles and 1 ira offering myself' as- a candidate who ijls prepared to apply those principles : tot the prob lems of this state, during a momentous transition period, in a manner that win protect: the -nubile v from-, nafalr utility NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS Some neoDla think France la stubborn 3 they -were- likewise stubborn at Verdun and the world can be thankful they were. Pendleton East Oregonlan. i :--:-' -".--,.:'.--vi' a :- .- '. ''.(--! i There are too many "thou Shalt nota" In business," says Mr. Hays of the movies. And if he looked em up. he'd I find that moat; of 'em ame out: of thai find that most; of 'em came out: of the Bible. La Grande : Observer. ;:.:.: :!'. .."hp -l :.'.. - 'i It might simplify matters if Frahce and Germany would go ahead and finish the' war, except that there-wouldn't be much left of either of them, and the world needs both in its ' business. Al bany Democrat, - f i The residential building boom In Port land is .more- or less credited to the anUdpated holding of a 1925 fair. All over the city new homes are soing up and there ia a prosperity manifest that is good to look upon. Baker Democrat. - '!' "j I :!:'-. i . ; Attorney General Daugherty has ruled that candidates for United States sena tor may spend i un" I mi ted amounts i on their campaigna The Newberrys i all over the country Will rise up to call Daugherty friend. Astoria Budget, j - -. j- r ' Germany complains that further !ef forts to enforce the Versailles - treaty will produce an- Iron shortage in the fatherland. There wouldn't be any iron shortage if so much of it hadn't been used to make 1 1 Iron crosses. CorvalUs Gasette-Timeai i i "The good die young," is the explana tion for his many years given by H. Roemer of Milwaukee. Wis-, a guest of the Multnomah, who has been coming to Portland ioff and on since 1904 while "travetlngj around the country." j During all this time he has been interested in watching the development of the Colum bia river highway, which, 1 he is ipleased to see, js paved nearly to ! The Dalles. ::!"' - t . E. C.T Kirkpatrlck, former miyor of Dallas and former Polk county judge. Is in Portland to "get the latest political dope." He says, "It is beginning: to look to me like thef ins are about to: become the outs." - E 1 M w J, R. Linn of Salem has also tome to Portland to try to get some Inside in formation on the probable result of the primaries. ' II - j i Mr. and Mrs. C. Ross of Dufur ..are registered at the Imperial. j George Whaley of CorvalUs Is1 among out-of-town visiters. ! - , I " 1 : Mr.and Mrs. G. C. Flavel of Astoria are rusticating in Portland. ...... :;:, ii F. W. Powers, a Coos Bay logger. Is In Portland on business, j: " Lockleyj ' worth more than their face value. They are now so fare that to secure: one In good condition! you have : to pay from $150 to $200. I also remember, as a boy; seeing a large j number of what they called. In those days, slugs. They were 50-dollar coins : Issued from the mint in San Francisco : iand were octagonal in shape. - M j , j "In 1861 1 went to work for D.! M. O'Connor, making harness, collars," sal -dies and pack i saddles. In 1$6$ and 1864. I worked for J. B. Congle, a bar nessmaker, at Portland. I then returned to Salem, where,, I started a shop of my own.- T sold my shop after a year or two and went to work for Dick Dear born, who owned a harness shop here at that time. I had not worked for him long when I "was -appointed policeman, John Hamilton .and I composed the po lice force, of Salem. In addition to hav ing to arrest the drunks in the saloons and keep peace in the city, we also had to fill the street lamps, light them at night and blow! them out In the morn ing, so the job was no sinecure: Later I became city'imarshal and still; later I was elected sheriff, serving from 1876 to 1880. "'j ; i - I a a. ' "In the early days. J. G. Wilson, who was clerk of the supreme court and also supreme judge, helped organise i a band here in Salem. i He was the band leaden I joined the; band and played the E flat tuba. I guess I am the only sur vivor of our old Salem band. Our band leader was elected to. congress. A, J, Rellly took his' place as leader of the band. ' Hla widow married K. e. Small: Mrs. Small -Is ! a i pioneer resident of Salem. ij 1861 we organized an orches tra. Here is ' an olL daguerreotype of our orchestra.1 The figure with the cello is myself. Next ; is. J. C. Brown, then John Zebra, a brother of Mrs. Asahl Bush. The Others are H. M. Thatcher, J. W. Fisher, j Henry Rickey and J.j H. Haas. During I the : Civil war the people Of ; Salem 1 were : very enthusiastic sup porters of the. band : concerts glvet to aid the United States sanitary commis sion.' We charged $1 admission, and they would cheerfully pay it even It they had only; standing room. Not long before the. war started,' Oregon United States senator, i Colonel K. I. Baker, made an address here. He was a wont derful orator. The concerts were" held In the grove fn those daya There wag, an oak grove where R. M. Wade's hardware store now stands. Among the. small boys who used to1 play around on the outskirts of tho crowd was George: H. Burnett, now. a member of the supreme court of Oregon. We played at the meeting where Colonel Baker spoke. We also played at a reception given Schuy ler Colfax and his party when they made a trip west immediately after the CivU war. We also played at the reception given to Secretary ! Seward. , : He had just arranged to pay Russia $700,000 for what they called 'Seward's Folly In those days but which Is now known as Alaska. There -were 1 members o( the band and we used to travel all over the valley, playing at Union rallies, j :.:,: , . i : "On November 2, J865. I married Emma Lamb, daughter of Richard R. Lambv We baye, had : three , children Claire. Frankie and Ed. My' wife was born at Londonj Can.j January 15. l$4. She came toi Oregon lit 1862. We met at a dance on 1 North Commercial street. ! j I "I bought an interest In the; R.I M. Wade Co. store, which I rah for nine yean. .Later I was with the firm, of Gilbert A Baker for some yearac ! i . . " -it I u . .: i-i e . . , . j .-I ..' i )' "If you want to get a good story about the early days of Salem, why don't you go around and! see Andy Gilbert, Mrs. E. C, Smalt Mrs. W. L. Wade. Ed Croi. an. JV Ci Hawley. Nick Bier. J. A. Sell wood or Mrs. David Pugh. She came here when she iwas 9 years -oldJ' i That was aoout ji yeaora ago.-- ; .(.. -f- rates and at the same "time give Sde quate security: to all capital properly in vested, in public utilities. ;.-1 t t ' I Ia addition jto the fact" that I am! the only law-trained candidate for this semi judicial office, I would like te have it ciearly understood that 1 am absolutely free from obligation ' to any j church, clan.; sect; society, - railroad orj public Utility and that pqr candidacy Is prompt ed by a deslr to render a; real con struct! ve service to the people of this state. ivM1 lS;fef':!-i -Ki'' E B.f Layman. ... Additional "Letters" on Page ) :v;'-i:v',-; .;.,;, ,'.,--.'--v - The Oregon Country Kortbwea llapiwninse ta Brief r ana, tor j 't :- ouaj meaner. j- 1 U"l I ' i '' ':" OREGON Charged with robbing a store at Ry Valley., Charles Justice was arresteit at Baker and bound over to the grand jury in the isum of iooo. , . ,; ' ; : j jack Humnhreva: war' Veteran - and iaJt week a tSa iSTtae niTii . nlr l"!,lee " &aiem hospital after an member lof the Salem Apollo club, died Ul- ness ofr several weeks. AtJ a! j recent meeting f thT North Powder, wchool board it was- decided to cut the wages of the grade teachers 20 per) centt from $ 12a to $100 pfr month. -J.T J Progressive Business i club off Pilot Rock baa adopted resolutions op posing the addition of the ; Diamond lake area. to the Crater Lake national, Fire list Friday morning completely destroyed the home of George i Kearne at Falls Cty A daughter was overcome by smoWe and was carried out ' uncon scious, j . , Wtliiam I Poggl. prominent hotel ! man of Beaverton, disappeared last Krlday night, and as he had 500 In currency on bis person, friends fear h has met with foul play. j -j , - The Salem Red Cross during March and April spent $670 for hospitalisation and care : of disabled . ex-service men. besides loaning $462 to needy ex-eoldtera or, thel families;. . . . , - A meeting of the state bond commis sion has! been called for Monday, May 22, to s invest approximately $46,000 of etate industrial "accident funds in school district) or other bonds. j I Albany has just sold an issue of per Iceht I Improvement bonds j at th highest! price paid for a similar Issue of Oregon: bonds since 1914, the $33,800 issue bringing; a premium of 1&.19 per $100. An audit of the books of tha Farmera Graia levator company at Athena dis closes : a Shortage of $17J2.72. and C. F. Smith; I manager for the company, is charged f with misappropriating that amounc.:) ' , j . : Operators who are boring for oil on Jim Smith's farm near Wood burn are now down more than 400 feet and nat ural .gas and traces of oil have been found, j Drillers are confident of getting a good flow at BOO feet. i h C. Rl Carder, ued 53. who leaves a wife an 4 daughter at Med ford, is dead at a hospital In Marysvtlle fron injuries received last Thursday when he fell 100 feet into the shaft of the Good Hope mine at j MaryBVllle. Cal. j In opening the camps this summer the Baker White Pine Lumber cotnpanv mar I I I - lw ' f ka 'I A fl m ti, . . wm build 10 miles of main line railroal connecting . with the Sumpter l Vallev railroad near McEwen.i Bridges w ill re quire: 900,000 feet of timber, ii li.lri' WASHINGTON ' Contract fpr putting tn a water sys tem at Mukliteo, southwest of Kvertt, has been let by the water commission ers for j55.897.60. Albert) Stickman, 60 years old. wan arrestedlat Seattle for.begging and when searched-at the police station was found to have $418.60 on his person. A movement has been launched at Walla Walla for the construction of a concretej-mausoleum to cost $250,000. Af the Irrigation jubilee at Ephrata last Friday 6000 persons partook of a barbecue, and listened to speeches by Governor Hart and other notables. Fire ft-om an overheated "dry ! kiln at the shingle plant of Bateiey Brothers at Ballard, f Friday, caused a loss of $600o to contents of the kiln and $100 to the kiln, .T Reports on the effect of the cold wavn In the trult districts of North j Central Washington are that pears and apples are not (injured to any appreciable ex- lent-P -i i -1- ! : :.. Mysteriously missing for more than-a year, 221 applications for the state bonus to veterans have turned up In tha mail at Olympia even more mysteriously thai, they ; disappeared. - Good bar Jones of Xberdeen has been appointed custodian of the new Aber deen: artnory i which will be dedicated July 4, when General McAlexander and Governor Hart will be present. ; Whataom county has pled god itself to payjone third of the cost: of the Mount Baker : highway extension to be built ty the! federal government this, summer The road will cost (165,000. ' Kenneth Pease, 19, and Oscar- Butlor, 25, are: near death In an Klma hospitt-l as a result of a log striking them in the back at ithe White Star works near that town, Butler la completely "paralysed. The jpacltlc Coast Paving company has been awarded the contract :to build the Donahue , road from -Prescott to Eureka1 iforr$93,81 9. The road Is about 15 miles long and will be macadamiied. Despl tie heavy damage reported to early vegetables, a car of rhubarb, asparagus)- and i spinach was loaded at Walla Walla Saturday for Canadian marketsi Frost, damage j was i not so great as feared. , Gold6i-Spingola, with manyLaliase. . under atrrest at Seattle, lias confessed to having been implicated in the robbery at Los lAngelea of J. Li Webb, assistant treasurer of the Standard Oil ompany. of $83,000 in cash and Checks: Febru- ary 27 1DAHO The Murray; Gold Syndicate of Wal lace has filed articles of. incjrporallon. with a capital of $100,000. Nearly 100 imen are employed on the new $5(1(0,000 hotel at Lewi Ht on and it ii thought! the building will be completed in record time. - I . Among the! 57 advances fori agricul tural and livestock purVoaes, announced recently! by the war finance corporation, $12,000 goes to Idaho. : , , . . Federal officials visited' the ranch of Joseph Edwards, four miies from Kath drum. and found a still and. '320 gallons of mash underra tent in a barn on his property. jj' i -. ii Frank Seidt.'alleged to Have shot Jack Moesmtr near! Huetter; April 23. -In an altercation over a fence, iwas acquitted Saturday at Cotur d'Alene. He pleaded elf defense. :'! -- f defective flue destroyed the Fire starting from a Sunday ;aimost completely itaymona nouse, pioneer Lrfwiston ho tel! and one of the oldest hostelrles in the Northwestj j j , : , j- . Bids : Ire-asked for grading, dralnlna- and construction of pavement from the city limits of: Payette te the Payette river bridge, thus linking up Payette W i"e Biawo iiiwa,jr..;; i , . ' Mrs. I Alice Connors, wife of John rs. ConnorsI well known all over Idaho, died suaaeniy last weeg or reart trouble. She wa born at : Silver City 48 years ago and lad lived In Idaho all her fife. -rr ! - Once Overs Why Ttot Get In. Line for the TopT Therefare many -persons who Ithlnk that if iliey have a graduation certifi cate, that i means no , more of study. Graduation In any subject means a certain ferlod lof instruction U over and anoppoftunityi Is now given fori putting Into practice the knowledge acquired. The sotoner young folk get the thought of graduation ! as a finishing of school, or j a finishing of studyj out of , their ' heads tit sooner they Will corao to a practical under sUnd ing. of what gradu ation means. r .. t I r - :' .The fbiiahlng' of an-thing means no more progress; along'-that line. Tbe proper student spirit is a spirit which should actuate alii through i on'f life, thei "on - the way to the top. al ways" spirit (Although no one-! reaches! the ; top fof anything worth ! while, one : can' keep climbing. ;-' . j .. 1 - . j i ,. The higher i one goes in j the uphill route .to reaJ. knowledge, t le easier it be- " comes td go forward. , i'i Get oSt of the habit f thinking of graduatibn -aaj "finishing. " , , .j ... Cboosef the . sort of Instruction which puts yoii in line for the top, then go M far as jj'ou can,, doing, each , step po thor. oughly'that it needs not to be don over again. but forms a, stepping 4tone to future Igrowth : ' ' -i-- i;. :: V- '. Make this a rule of life, whether It be ,in ibookst music or In manual labor, and results wtlv shine out for a big ' success asiyow apply your knowledge..; I : : I Coryrlrbt, 1922,' UUraaUooU XeataWe ', f ' ' i Berrtoe. lot.- , k , . I ii f -f -' ...: i :'.:.,. :-.--! , : h I t ! b :-i t i. : VMi 4 i t :i: "A A,A