THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. WEDNESDAY,! MAT 24.' 1921 10 j - Am iHDKncxaorr nEwsrini V JAVhJXM ... -wi ( f 4aeia. taeortdot, kweaeasfal M4nt ; wtaera as yea esawM saw w oo waio yoa- iMDliiaad eeery tiitilu aaa Snadaw mow t 41 aw Journal muniac. - iiwm at tmt, rwrtsaae. jTtam. a Blued at tba pcateftica at fHtiinl. lni. - fx tnasaasta taa to avuia a nrit - riaaa BMrter. - t&LKPHONS fcii TTTST Ail reached py tM Bnabtr. TIoSIEAnvX2Tln IlVJfr JJealaaaJa aaBtaa Co.. Hnuawiek baiklia, s Iftfta aetnae, Kw U Mailers bwudlnc. t'hWf ksmatia Cau-. ht. Kuaainer ' Jrraacwco; Trtia lomnnct Eatkliag, U i iea; aerwmise PuitgiPl, wim. t i 54; OttkUO-N JUUUAiX. reeertee Lb liihTU reject a4artt(ia copy wase at ctoeaaa objee- . i tiatiaMe. U also wiii act print aay copy that fca any war simulates readta aiattar r that ! taaaot readily be recoaamed aa adrertisias. 1" sUK&ciUKriuM jUtES "T By Urrt Laty and CooaiTS, . DAU.X AMU SOHDAK . 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THE DAY'S EVENTS J JH. DE FREES, president of the chamber of Commerce of the United States, in a recent address to thel chamber, said: IB is only the hopelessly ignorant or the Incurable optimist who can work out vi yj Immediate assurance of comfort and MaWlity Those thing- that we fought . Xor.jj the defeat of militarism and the safety of our own and other free gevern merits, have not yet been attained. How andjwhen we shall aid. we. who are most powerful to aid, in restoring stability in Burepe in our own interest, as well as in theirs, is. I assert, the greatest and most immediate problem before Amer ican) business today. .Sir. Defrees says the most impor tant .problem to American business te-diy is to stabilize Europe and to reopen the trade routes and markets. He says America must helo Hut even while Mr. Defrees was rpeiking, a note was on the- way acress ine ocean irom in is govern ".nieft telling how glad we would be to lelp Russia and to help Europe; how glad we would be to do some thing for the world; how desirous we pvere of rendering aid; how deep ly we regarded all European peoples and? their welfare:- BUT that we could not at this time do anything for them: that, in fact, we couldn't eve meet in conference with them and? discuss international economic problems. - : undoubtedly, about the same time, theprreconcilables were smiling over the stand this country . had , taken and! the isolationists were licking their chops. They, must have gloated over their political victory, ' About the same time, OTer in the - shipping board offices, the officials Trere worrying themselves sick over whit to do with our ships, the cargo less! ships. Congressmen were vin ? auestlonably busy searching for ways and means to get more money out of the people to pay for the rnamtenance of those snips. And about the same time men out en the farm1 were" probably wonder - leg why they couldnH get better-prices . for jthtlr, products; wny the markets hd disappeared, and how they were going to meet ue loan at.tne pana. Probably the manufacturer was thinking ' about that time, too, how he would get his markets back, when he Jvould get the plant, to oing fall blait. and how he-woyld escape the i bankruptcy court if conditions didn't 1 changed ; i - ! Ad perhaps out in the parks some of the unemployed' were questioning theiiselyes. about " where " the next, meal1 would come from,when they would tind a 'Job. and. how long the tl epression would last. And "over , in Europe the creditless people were being burled, -victims of starvation, j because ' they couldn't buyi the products that American producers and manufacturers want ed to sell. - ;. And the irreconcilables chuckled, ' Roseburg produces not only the first of Oregon's famous strawberry crop but the best of it is that the last! berries t the seasoa also come trovn the galley of the lTmpq.ua. 1 JEWELS FOR FOOD rpaERE , is v something that pos- .- Isesses value ? above gems and cold.'- H is food. "An American who ha been traveling in Etfrope - turas with the report. that Russia peaMnts holdnost of the Jewels that were property of the nobility in the 0f f the. csar. Humble shelters house heirlooms that one glittered in royal calaees. '.7.V'.: ' All have gone to satisfy th great urge of hunger . as resistless to the ceatle born as the peasant of th fields .To tret something to eat be comes far more fmportast than to possess FomtsZhlns that adorns. ' The Russian peasant who produces food is the over-lord of deposed aristocracy. He fa more" essential than Lenin or Trotzky., He bears a more significant . relation to the immediate and future credit of Rus sia, than ' bankers. ' , Even the mer chant has become k mere struggling interrnediary.-'j'ri' 'vil ;1 H if';-'" Nothing; like Russia portends In America, bat it is "the emerrency that discloses the foundation of the formal 5 condition.. "Wten. someone says, the American farmer can. take care of himself, that' his- burden of debt and "of jtaxes' is his own con cern, that to make him; sell for a little as possible and ; purvey : his products for as much as possible is evidence of ' true business acumen, remember Russia, and where the jewels went when hurnrer came. , Without any notice to anybody an election of the weather occurred last week. too. " So .far the anti-flood bal lots of the cool weather: forces are InVthe majority and everybody is satUfled. PORTLAND'S QUAKE ABROAD MTARTHQUAKB deals terror In Portland" J is the headline given by the San Pedro News tothe account of our recent, tiny temblor. This informed paper adds: As many as four distinct shocks were felt ia many parts of the city. No serious damage and no . casualties wege . re ported. Crockery was sent crashing in many residences, workers in. high build ings were shaken and nany people were' sent screaming into the streets with terror of the seism io disturbance. ; -' ! The pathetic part of the San Pedro 1 story is the sad experience of those poor people who jwefe Shaken up in the high buildings. ! Theirs was a melancholy fate. And they were sop oungr, so fair and so full of hope. The millions upon millions tip in the high buildings who saw first; their false teeth shaken loose from their moorings byj tbe quake and then saw themselves shaken down by their landlords by raises, in rents', certainly did have an uncheerful run-in" with the quake., . And that flying "crockery which so filled the air and darkened the sun that the lights had to be turned on, and those billions of people who ran "screaming into the : streets in terror" made a hot time in the old town. And when tens of thousands of candidates, many - of whose hopes have since been , blighted, got down on their marrow bones and prayed that they and their boomjets might be spared until primary ' day, the terror of the situation simply beg gared description, except by the San Pedro paper, which failed to get these latter horrible details into (its mar velous stpry of things that never happened. 1 Why didn't the Chicago physician who arrived in England the other day in order to hear a nightingale sing pause south of the Mason -and Dixon line and actually hear one. IN THE ELECTION RETURNS JJERE are the figures on congress man in laot r naay s rvepuDiican primaries: McArthur 15,449. Korell 14.S11. , Crumpacker 10.464. Macdonald 2214. ToUl 42,438. Mr; McArthur got only. 15,440 Re publican . votes.i. Twenty-six thou sand nine hundred and eighty-nine jKepuoiicans votea against him. Over 63 per cent of the Republicans of h13( district did not want Mr. McArthur.t Nearly two thirds of his Republican' constituents who voted in Friday's primaries think Mr. McArthur's votes and speeches in congress are wholly out of harmony with 'their views and their wishes. This vote on congressman is one of the most impressive phases of the late primaries. The great body of the Republicans of the district realize that Mr. McArthur is more of a representative of New England than of Oregon. - He gets his certifi cate of election in Oregon, but votes with the highly polished and suave gentlemen who are in congress ' to speak and vote for the special things that " the Northeast corner of the United States always wants and al ways gets, at the expense of the, rest of the country. -V . They oppose the farm "bloc. So does Mr. McArthur. H: They fight the bonus. So does Mr. McArthur. ' v '. . They voted to remove a certain share of the taxes from war babies. So did Mr. McArthur. , ) V They voted to put the tax burdens thus taken . off war fortunes, upon average people. So did Mr. Mc Arthur. . .... : This is part of the reason why the Republican members of his ; own party in this district threw an over whelming plurality v against : him in the effort to defeat hjjn. - f . Mr. McArthur Is widely, esteemed for his charming personal qualities. He is admired for his courage in voting his convictions. But his ideas of government are so widely 'at vari ance with the Ideas of his Republican constituents that nearly two thirds of the members of his party voted and worked to retire him.? vr' ' ' It is a very f unusual situation. They do not want "him. but Mr. Mc Arthur compels them to keep him in congress. -;":.;vr . ' " He always "licks" them to fa fraxsle. " " v - . Ki Hentfr B. Walthall and Rodolph Valentino." of the film colony, defend themselves on the ground that the divorce laws of the United States are such that a law-abiding family man In one state may be a -bigamist in another. There Js something in what they say; but tihere la a gTeat deal more in the kind of family life that doesn't rely upon, interstate confusions Xor its exoneration. THE CRASH AND AFTER A ; NEW? YORK brokerage 5 house recently failed with . practically no assets to cover liabilities In the neighborhood of $4,000,000. ' .; j Tho; the firm j for the , preceding year t, amounted ) to $22,000. ' V Among I the administra tive expenses; !aro ; listed $5S 9,000 for, branch offices, $46S,000 for sal aries, $1X5,900 general expenses, and $310,000 drawn by one of the part ners. Included 'in jthose larger ex penses :t:Jwere $35,000 for iunches, $11,000 for travel-and entertainment, stationery $4S,000 . and postage $$M.- M;iW- r '' Vub'H' With a $22,000 income then the managers of the house spent ; ap proximately 93.60v.000. It was the investor's money. The income of the firm would not even pay for post age, would not , half pay for "the firm's -stationery, and was $13,000 less '" than the sum . spent : or "lunchea" But the business went on for a year, more deposits were c eepted and more i Promises made. Meantime the manager of the firm himself drew out more than $300,000 of. other., people's.; money. ;"i "Hi ' J There was no Blue Sky law lis New, Tork to .protect Investors' de posits. They operated on faith In the firm. The $4,000,000" liability . There is much talk in this country about less government in business. There are a lot of investors in New Tork who would like a little more government in business. j " ' Akron, world rubber center, is, according to a dispatch, returning to prosperity, not the silk, shirt but the savings bank kind. AN UNUSUAI PRISONER uriEN the government wanted " plans for the Port of Brest dur ing1 the war they were supplied by D. -C. Willoughby, industrial engi neer. ' !j . , When the Port of New Tork de sired; plans for the development of the port- they, too, were supplied by Mr. Willoughby. s - j When the London tubes were to be built Willoughby was on ; tie ground early and mapped out the course that the tubes were to fol low. ! When the Port of Boston was to be developed it was Willoughby who supplied plans. S i "Not so long ago, when the Duke of Manchester desired to cfuisej lit was Willoughby's yacht that! carried him. ' . '. ; " ' : i j Recently, when a prisoner picked up a bulky brief case filled with plans for immense projects and carried it into the Tombs with him he was identified as Willoughby. ; v He had planned Sports for cities, and . ports for the government; he had laid out the course of a gigan tic underground railway system; he had visioned and prepared plans for some of the great; projects of his age; he had been enormously rich and famed, but in two short years he had been reduced .to a signed a bad check, and pauper, (entered prison, there to work out plans, per haps, for other projects; and 'for his future life. ;" It is not known what became of his riches. It is not known what reduced him from fame and; wealth to bad checks and a prison ' garb. Undoubtedly, it was a mysterious cnaracxerisxic maaen somewnere ; in Willoughby's own bosom that brought him to' his present status. Fate is indeed ? fickle But . Wil loughby is another j proof that mor tals are not blessed usually with all virtues, and Willoughby's fault or faults as they may have been, have proved unusually expensive both to himself and to the world that he so capably served before : his fall. THET HANG ON TVTEARLY all the property sold for i- flellnauent mnnicirtal , urnnt ments is redeemed,; oy its owners, says City ; Treasurer Adams. I Within the next two months property, aggregating $1,000,000 in value will be sold at auction. Under the law the owner has three years m which to redeem his property, after it is auctioned, by , paying principal, interest and penalties due It is a thorny road! over which he must travel with his burden of debt. But he does it, in many hundreds of instances. The high modern coat of government may! exceed his (re sources. Misfortune may rob ! him of ability to pay bonded assessments. The law may intervene and take from him . the site of hi home or the home itself. But; hf goes doggedly to work trying to redeem mischance. Most of the times he wins. The home instinct is one of the strongest in the" average man. p 1 1, :')' ;, !'" On - past - occasions. Ill-advised or badly platted additions, : such as parts of King's Heights, have fallen under the ' hammer to meet assess ments. - This tims i the property to be sold is' scattered through most of the residential districts. The sit uation correctly reflects the i condi Uon of mottled prosperity which fol lowed the war.-. Some ; were ; up. Some were' down. : I; fvji 'mt-H'.i The city will not, however, permit the brokers who make a, business of gathering; In property j. under such circumstances to ? proceed ; without competition. Half a: million dollars of the properjty offered jwrill be taken up by the city" with Its own, resources and the delinquent owners will have that tnuch better chance to recover their own when the tide of prosperity turns toward them, again, : NO LIMIT ON; SLUSH! FUNDS Eaugherty's Ruling Regarding Sena torial Campaigns Means Lid Is Off Many Editors Demand Candidates .: Respect tne Perfectly Well Known A Popular Witt, i Regardless of . Whether the Lid la Off or On. . . ; ; Daily- Editorial Digest 1 1 ", r (Cseaolidstiid Presa Associstion) ' With NeWberriara so-caUed! al ready, an issue in senatorial campaigns. Attorney '. CJeneral Daugherty has com plicated the ; situation by an - 'opinion which Republican editors frankly recog nize as dangerous. His ruling that the corrupt practices act does not apply te Uie campaign expenditures of senatorial candidates is interpreted by most Demo cratic and numerous-Republican papers as notice that 'the lid is off." and, as the Tsew Tork Tribune (Rep) warns, if it is taken seriously the results mill be -unfortunate." i . i The attorney general "gefs an; awk ward status out of the way" in time to relieve his political . confreres, as -the Chattanooga News (Dem.) sees-it, for by this ruling "the restrictions so patiently worked out have been swept away and the fold order restored." with Mr. Daugherty, the : Philadelphia - Record InL Dem.) says, dreaming of . a re version to the days, of "unlimited1 cam paign funds", with: Which to make the senate a millionaries' i elub? with! huge initiation fees payable from the. dough bag." Certainly the new ruling makes possible, if it does ;not actually invite. the spending of jpney iwithout Stint." the Scranton Times i (Dem.) thinks, i arid it it is applied the Minnesota Star Min neapolis, Ind.) predicts' "a fnerryi' time til is summer for" "the old campaign barrel will be full to) overflowing for the faithful, " and we may expect several campaigns which will make Newberry's In Michigan) look like a piker's." - It is, however, obviously unfair to at tack the attorney (general because of the ruling, the Baltimore Sun (Ind. Dem.) points out. since 4t is merely, an interpretation of a j supreme court de cision, and. In the opinion of the paper, he has "probably done a public service by construing the law as it new stands," for he has thus "forced the issue." That Newberryism" will be an issue "can not be gainsaid," the! Ohio State Journal (Columbus, Rep.) declares: "it cannot be kept out, j it is doubtful if it - cart be even minimised in any single state,1 land doubtless before the campaign makes great progress senators will learn that there - is f ajt more j resentment in j the minds of the voters ! over the Newberry case than they had been willing to admit." i . . j . Inded- the ; "voice ' i of the "people- lhas Already been i heard" on that issue, the Wheeling Register !Dem.) thinks, and its meaning was unmistakable in In diana." The Grand Rapids Herald (Rep.) agrees that ifcasli register poli ticians are not in (Vogue just now," a point which ex-Senator Beveridge made perfectly plain" when he "put his cam paign axjUarely on a basis of ending political money armaments" and won. It has ceased to be politically safe," the Herald continues, "to trademark candidacy for public; office with dollar signs. A too liberal campaign treasury has become a liability instead of : an asset"- j Since this is the? popular attitude at the beginning of rbeacamparisfn it must be recognised, the Detroit News (Ind.) holds, that "the people are Insisting, tnat no office in the land shall be purchased, and Specifically that Newberp-ism be made utterly impossible m ract as it is already in morality .f The New York TribtJne (Ren.) demands that "every candidate for of f ice j high or low. must submit an account of the expenses m-t curred in his behalf during the cam paign. It makes nd difference whether the office sought is that, of president. senator, or what not." If, as -the at torney general's ruling seemrf to bring out, i"th law does! not require this,"; then i . "an amendment to the corrupt practices act ia needed" t But while 'congress may pass a taw to overcome the failure of the federkl corrupt practices UcC such laws, In the opinion of the Wukes-Barre Record (Rep.) "are usually a rarce" ana "can not be relied upon as the sole remedy, because no law can prohibit ingenious evasion." "Senators who have not spent, or for whom has not been spent, more than the law allows' for their nomina tion and election," I the Knickerbocker Press (Albany. Ren. Suspects "are prob ably very rare, so the formal filing; of statements of receipts-and expenditures under the law has been in many cases a mere legal fiction which deceived very few, bet gave the dtetingntshed states man a comfortable alibi." j Admittedly there is "a multitude j of nroblema that must be faced in draft- ing a workable law to prevent - unwar ranted expenditures of large sums to iaf fect the choice of ihe electorate,": the Springfield -(Mass.) Union (Rep.) Bays, but that does ' not ', detract from fhe wisdom and propriety"'; of expressing th nriWfni in lawi While "it is, im possible to lay down any rule as to what ought to he spent on a campaign, mny more than to lay down a rule ae to what a doctor's bill should .be," the Adrian (Mich.) Telegram (Ihd.) concedes that "a maximum, nowever, snoum ue pf scribed by - law and enforced," since "that is necessary m order to prevent abases." but "that maximum should not nnt- on Ia hh to virtually Drohibit, a reasonably effective (ampaign.' i The Buffalo Express (Ind. Rep.) ad vances ; a scheme by j which It believes .i . . . r nr rv hA raised and UITI HV-X3.1W 1 " J . atin meet the demand for unquestioned Integrity. "Tne law, - ;m. says, limit the personal expenses of a ;candi.- .-K.tt,.. ; iflitrtlv or in the form of contributionajbut it should fix the expenditures or a icoramiuee ww sum as may be reasonably used! In an i.. A rraded noeaditure law, requiring that j jail funds be col lected and spent througn organiiw com mittees and that contributions to such r. trullvidua.1 aourcea be limited, would be enforceable and Just. The candidate snouie re reuuirwa, ;u conform with the limit of individual con tributions the same ; as : any other per- con."-; ' if r. - i Party Politics land Justice From the Eugene Guard ilAeeordisar; to ' Marfc 5 Sullivan, Wash ington correspondent for the Oregoaian, President Harding and most : of the Irreconcilables. including Senator Lodge, are edging closer to the ierue ol (Na tions, and will welcome any idea that will lead them to it provided the i Re publican fparty can get the credit .for the noble; piece of work on behalf of the Peace of the world, .it : i ."The feeling ia not confined to ) the League of-Nations advocates," Bays Mr, Sullivan, "but is slmoet general.! lit is rrtrongly ;,,' taken by the Republican leaders ; who put 'the fortunes of the Harding- ' administration ;-above ! every thing In Europe, but who new feel that a too prolonged continuance of the ;'out of Europe policy wilt do serious dam ae to Harding's prestige. - ' "That prestige rests on confidence - in Harding's personal reputation for: good i faith as much as on any other- factor. And if Harding has meant anything by his repeated declarations about an asso ciation i of ., nations .; and about being helpful to -Europe, now Is the time to make good on them." J - , So! we are informed that the welfare of the Harding administration has been placed before principle and the welfare of the world at large. Peace and pros perity for the people who have suffered from years of war are as nothing .com pared to the success of the administra tion. Rut it is pleasing to the - average cithten to knew that the president has at last seen the futility of hi efforts to hang onto a lesderahip when (there was nothing to lead. . It has been clear to the people for some time that until the United States assumed ts share of the world's burdens it could not hope to prosper upon the world's misfortunes; America must take her place among the nations and aid in restoring the eco nomic balance, and this cannot be done without toinina? hands with our friends across the seas and winning; back the respect that is our due. t Let it be an 'association . of nations, a league of nations or anything else, but we should get into ' the game and help; those who need help inn the right way.i V::i'i:-'vii- Letters From the People CoamoBleatfama sent to The Jtnraal for esjb-. Heatieai ia this depart meat akaaU b wriUea se eaty aid of tb paaar, should sot eaeaed S00 words ta lenetk. aa4 mast be aicaed by tlx writer, whose mail address te full anut accosa paar Ua contnbausss.) . , t( . OREGON, 1923 j A Statement of Advantages to .the State Claimed as Sure to Result ' From a Fair. r . ; j ' Portland. May 23.--.To the Editor of The journal Oregon, the "mother state" of the Great Northwest, has a popula tion pf only 783,389 and an area ofajs. 699 square miles, or nearly 8u; acres, for every; man, woman and child. While the valuej of her products has more than doubled in the last 10 years, her popula tion has increased only 16 per cent, hardly more than her natural; increase. It matters not what may be the natural wealth of a country, it takes men! of brain . and muscle to convert it into riches. Our population cannot increase fast enough without immigration. Ore gon, owing to its climate and, diversity of sotl and agricultural products, offers the greatest advantages to immigrants who seek a permanent home. This class of - immigrants "Should be sought, i In Kome sections our farmers are land poor; If tHey! could sell one half ; of their poorly cultivated lands and use the money to improve the remaining half, they would make more money than they do now ! on -the whole. "We have thou sands of acres of wild land capable of supporting a large population. Espe cially are these lands adapted to fruit ranches ' and stockralsing. We need a class ' of homeseeking agricultural Im migrants.; il It is reasonable to suppose hat Ore gon in doubling; her population would double her assessable values.'. So. at our present rate of taxation, the revenue would double. The cost of administer ing the government would not increase in the same ratio as assessable values. The rate of taxation could be! reduced. There is a universal cry for the-reduction of taxes. Increase the assessable value land decrease the rate per cent. Increase of population will make pos sible a highei and better civilization in large areas. Man is a social being, and for a people to have the benefits of civilization, they must be settled suf ficiently , close ! together to support churches and schools, and make .roads. Easy Icommunications correct bad man ners, ir Difficult ' communications per petuate bad mannera The power of a KtatA idenends on its acgregate physi cal, intellectual and moral fofce. The highest aggregate of. this can! only be "Obtained by enlightenment. Enlighten ment Can come only through schools ana churches, and over good roads. Thickly settled' countries are always (the "most prosperous and intelligent. By the proper steps to secure immigration. " our popu lation; could in a few years be doubled. Just now owing to failure of crops and hard jtimes in the East there is a fie siro among many people cf that section to migrate to a more genial climate ana one where there is not an eternal fight with adverse conditions of nature. They are hardy, industrious, thrifty: people. They isre desirable settlers. How are we going to get them? - Our! fair of 19Z5 airoras me pest pos sible means bf making known !to them, as well as to the whole world, the ad vantage of our climate, b6H fnd vast timber and mineral resources.!' If the fair of 1925 Is what It should 'be these people; can . see what our state - is and what advantages it offers. The result will be invaluable to the state,!" of Ore gon, i ln addition to the educational value, theair will revive patriotism and state pride. " t The fair appeals to tne semsn-inter est as well as to the pride and) patriot ism of every Oregonlan. fi ' ,.. . : i E. S. McDowell. TWO FARES FOR ONE RIDE Linnton,. May 15. To the Editor of The Journal On Sunday, May 4. I was on Russell street, on the east side, and when I came to. take the St- Johns car home I got aboard the front ear which was so crowded that where were ho seats, I saw the rear car had plenty. of seat room left, so, after paying my "fare. $ cents, I told the conductor I would go back on the rear car so I could sit down. After riding three or four blocks I went back to the conductor on the rear car. Then I learned something. He asked me if I got a transfer from the first con ductor. Confessing my ignorance, I told him I had. not, ' for the simple reason I never knew before that one hadi to have a transfer in such a case. ,So I watched my chance and asked the i first ieondue tor for! a transfer, but he failed, to. give me one: perhaps he did not have time. So I was obliged, to pay anotber$-cent fare orj go back to the first car ana stand up. . ' ;'l Now i I hope this will teach someone else to beware of this usage !i of . the company. I ; wonder how many- .more get stung this way. No more for me. Knowing The Journal for fairness, I aafc you to i please print this for other-people's benefit. ; Edward H. White. UNREGISTERED VOTERS ; 1 Election Board Member Complains of the "Negligent and the Needless :' i Trouble They Cause, ij Corbett Or.. May 2. Being a mem ber of the election board of precinct No. SIS, at Corbett. 1 wish to call the attend Uon of the public to the fact that' the majority of voters eorae to the: polling palce to cast their votes on the strength of the I ifact tnat they can be sworn in. as the have neglected to register. Jfow this is a very bad habit. End causes a lot of extra work, and confusion as well : for. while the voters are standing in line waiting! for their ballots, the clerks are kept . busy filling out applications, and aU just because the people never 4ake the trouble I to register, f. This could be remedied ; by refusing to. fix up -their application blanks1 and stop them from voting once. There is so excuse if or not registering, as there is always provided ample time for so doing. Of course, we realise that there are cases where ft is excusable, but we find so many that come to the ' polls with the same story every year; l"I haven't registered. Can I be sworn in? Mrs. Pi Andersen. '. '-:1H -" ' i f i 1 " - SPRINTERS ALL - ;; , From the Mexico City Mezfeaa; Men have become so polite in this city that they i allow women to get on the street car; first when- the women beat them to it- , ' r ; COMMENT AND i ,small;hange -f i ,j . i vi . . ' , Mr. Hotime.' aged T2. has Just been married, ja belated effort to justify his name, we: take It. : ..: . ;.'.;.;; - .x Lady Aetor praises Araerican prohibi tion, v Wonder why she doesn't stay over here a while andkenpy iu With Oregon strawberries on the mar ket already, we can foresee the day when they'll be cheap enough to eat. - ;; l; " Our political strife may be keen and sotnettrnea vitriolicj but it hasn't yet savored of the Newberry variety. :- -, -l ... . - .- . - ..a.!f...-,-;if Jack Pempsey wants $500,000 tor ' a fight with Harry Wills. Just offhand we'd sav -Wills rnahr tr have, sl milllan for th chances he must lake. - ' 4 . it. p . ... r H. The worm will turn, just like that long: !ane;j of the old adage- For -in stance. Axel Johnson asks $2S.A00 heart balm frorq the Woman who jilted Jsimir';- Chief of Police Jenkins was warned in another city about speeding. the cop used t typical Portland police laa guage the chief must have been shocked, . . . . ! We're proud to i have these college newspaper makers use The Journal as a model, for we tare sure,-with our cus tomary modesty, that there is none bet ter. . . I ; ...,..,.. These fimous paintings like Septem ber Morn and June Day are not true to life as we sees it. since on their occa sion most ! of us seem doomed to wear overcoats and galoshes. , , 1 ,:. . . !- !- . 1 m i MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town -The snow at Crater lake's rim waa.lt fast deep and at Anna Springs seven feet deep. on. the 10th of this month, aays Alex Sparrow, superintendent of Crater "Lake National park.! But in spite of all reports about greater snowfall this year than for many years past, 'Us not so at Crater lake; he insists. "The. snow was fully jjas deep this time last year,- says Sparrow, fand (the opening date of the park WiU be July 1 as per usual." Sparrow came to the ' Multnomah, Tues day afternoon,, with Manager Richard Price of Medford, leaving behind his newly acquired bride, because "she didn't hav time to get ready." ; i The George Terger family had Its sec ond mishap Tueacay, following the long slumber of Mra Verger from mistaking sleeping powders for aspirin tablets. This time it was George himself. Father Yerger, who works at the Benson hotel while his wife works at the Multnomah, complained: fori three days of rheuma tism In hid shoulder. All three days hS worked. Qn the third day Mrs. Yerger xinoing tier rneumauc llnaments un availing on her husband's shoulder. called in a physician, who discovered an extremely badly broken bone. Yerger is now " done :up in' A" plaster cast at St. Vincents hospital. ;i , . Dr. J. Vj'Hofmann, director of Wind River experiment station of the United States forest I service. , near Stabler. Wash., is in the City conferring with J. v. Kumram, m charge of planting of the forest service. George B-. Marsden ot-Canyon City is registered at the Imperial. ' I : . ', 1 OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS 1 OF THE JOURNAL MAN i . . - r - By Fred Lockley , -) .. . . , , ' ( In this, the aeoood and eeeeladiac Instill ntent of the Barratire af Haaell Hennsnn. there is told the story of a colony that went Into the wilds of Coos county more than three score yean seo. It ia a! tsle of absorbias interest and of historical rsioe. 1 ' . . .. : ; ;- ' . . Manell Hermann is 77 years old. He has .lived in Coos county for the past 63 years. In 18S8 bis father. Dr. Henry Hermann, and John Ousterhous . came from Baltimore to seek a location for a colony. At iSan Francisco they arranged to take a boat for Portland. When they reached the wharf the boat had sailed and they were told there vould not be another foij two weeks. They bought horses and started overland for the Wil lamette valley. At Roseburg they met John Yoakam and J. J. Hill, who had taken claims on the'Coquille and -who told them of the Coquille country. They accepted Ydakam's and; Hill's Invitation and went with, them to inspect the Co quille river district. They were charmed with the country; On the open prairies were hundreds of elk. while "innumerable deer were to be seen on the grass cov ered hillsides t ' . V ' - ij 2.':ph : ....: ::'i-. - Dr. - Hermann rerarned to Baltimore and on April 7. 185V. what is called the Baltimore ' polony started for Oregon. From Baltimore they went to New York city and took the Vanderbilt line steamer Northern Light for Aspinwatt. At Pan ama they boarded the Uncle Sam for San Francisco. The party consisted of Dr. and' Mra H. Hermann and their children Binger, Manell, Washington, Cass, Thrusenelda and Franklni ; Mr, and Mrs. Henryl Schroeder. with their chU dren Henry. ; Augustus. " Fred." Louisa. George andjCharles; Mr, and Mra Wil liam Volkman and their son. Carl ; Mr. and Mra August Bender and their son, Edward ; Mr. and : Mra David Holland. Herman Leeke. John A.; Bo the, Charles Liinderman. Gustave and Julius Pohl. Sara Holland, and her three children and Mrs. Edward Pagles and her three cnii 1 dren. "We had to wait 10 days st San Fran cisco for ai boat," said Mr: - Hermann. "While we irere awaiting the sailing of the steamed Columbia,;- August Bender went ' to Santa ,Crus to visit Andrew Trust, a former-resident of Baltimore, who - had come to , California in- 1849. They persuaded him to locate at Santa Crux, ,. He was to have been the mer chant of the colony and had brought along a stock of goods. When he de cided not to go on to Coos county, my father and several of the other colonists bought, a stock of goods in San Fran cisco, which they shipped : on r-; the schooner Cydopa t The" Cyclops '-'was wrecked coming in over the bar and the goods were ilost. Our party landed at Port Orford.i where we met Louis Knapp, who ran a hotel there, of which he was thef proprietor for more than SO yeara He ; retired ontr , : a , few years ago. My father went on horseback to the Coquille valley to hire a pack train to take our gooda Meanwhile. Charley Hillborn. with his ox team, took us to the mouth of the CoquIUe. i ; .1 -il "Here we? met ray father, who had secured canoes to , take us up the Co quille. While going up the river, George Schroeder. who was 10 years old, fell out of the 'boat' and was drowned. My brother Binger jumper in to rescue him. but - George fwas carried, away by . the swift current and disappeared. , Some of the men stopped at Port Or ford to help bring on our, goods with the pack train, -"I presume there never was a j more inexperienced party than owa, None of us knew, anything about roughing it. All of us were city men. My father was a physician, Volkman was a tinsmith, Wilde ' and' : Leeke were - ctgarmakers, Schroeder -was a cobbler. Holland -was a coal miner. "Payles was a locksmith and Pohl a music teacher. ' The others were eablMtmskwa' pianomakers. car penters and jlaborera Empire was the only town in; Coos county and its popu lation wss only 30. "We started to build leg cabins on our claims.- Mr. Wild took up a place on NEWS IN BRIE1?' SIDELIGHTS The worst' of It ts that tt will all have to; be done ever again in the fait,- Eu gene ; Register, v j . i ,i tka we glance through history, we are surprised to: discover that nothing good Was vVer accomplished without f irt of- renatng the majority. jdearoro . Aiau- The deiiartraent of arrieulture has de cided to eake a pig-" census, and it ts to; oe son utrougn tne rural man car riers.! We hop they won't overlook those road ; hoga Rose burg News-Review. ,-r . -;; i ;-,,.(; V' " :: A famous I Berlin surgeon Is reported to hav perfected an , operation, which will reduce ifat' ankles and fat waists. Ifi his operation will work successfully on fat heads, he ought -to -have plenty' of! business. Astoria Budget. , - ; .-. .; . - f--:-.. .--, T..V-.M-" .-v.-j.-.- Men who have no more regard for the public right and safety than to attempt to i drive a high-powered engine of de struction tike the automobile when their faculties are befuddled by alcohol are en titled to no ! leniency or patience. Pen dleton East Oregonian. : i ! :'-L""';' "' ' H"-- "'! . :j . To be a eitisen of a communitymeans SOmethins besides the ntvnwnt nrtav-M Some people i are citizens of a city while uwra just- xnere. lewr l.ome city is ! worth yoor very best ef fortA. I Tou should boost; for it. Be proud of it: and bv so doing; make it a better city in wmch to Mvej and make a living.-Baker xierara. Miss Ava B.. Milam, head of the home economics department at .Oregon Agri- .uiurju coiiege, registered at the Mult- Ionian, Tuesday afternoon. She has gone again, takine-. with her Mra Anna Steese Richardson. -associatie editor of Woman's Home Companion, who ! has oeen spending several days in Portland lining up the political situation as re gards women.,' Mrs. Richardson will be snown through every department of nome economics instruction at Corvaills. I ' "- i -. e -;. ; ; -.- Roy S.t I Hubbell. manager ! of Hotel commodore, one of the largest hostelries or -Ts'ew York t-.:y. is a guest at the Mult nemah while ion-a trip over the Pacific Ccast. Hubbell is being entertained by Eric Hauseri while here, j Tuesday he was taken fof a drive over! the Columbia highway and In the evening was the guest of Hauser at dinner. i 1 : :l .!. : j. H. Cathey. .a former resdeint of Portland, who Is now in the oil business at Dallas, Texas, is visiting his' old friend. John, S. Real, and other . ac quaintances. ! Cathey says oil is the beet business in: Texas, but the state expects a pumper crop m tne rail, also. Rain is also plentiful. Cathey is staying at the Multnomah. , ,Mli Iss Mary E. Higginbotham of Kan sas City and Miss Meda E. Bahnerman of Winnipeg are among the tourists reg istered at the Portland. 1 i , t j " j . . y :r- Will E. Purdy, one of the nine ty-and-nine defeated! candidates, is spending a few days at the Imperial. Catching creek. In going; through the heavy brush a twig caught the hammer of his; mussle loading shotgun, and it was wisvusrsra. Dfowuir Mr. wtms'a OffJ Father bad ahinrsMt hi Hhnnr ' Surgical - inatrtimanta anrT ia o.,r.r. e drugs at Baltimore on a t clipper ship tna' was bound for San Francisco by wsy f the Horn. It took six months to make the trinL Others of th iurt. txmri, also-sent goods -oy this ship, including a iwuvpiei sawmui, a grand square piano, a "violib, engine, gristmill burrs and other heavy-articles. These had to be portaged between the headwaters of Isthmus slough and Beaver slough, a distance of two milea I remember there was a heavy stove. Two Indians tried to carry it., but it waa heavy and awk ward, and VU tWI much for thm n finally one of them called his squaw and wim Wa or purring and grunUng they loaded it on her back and sk nrrl.rf it the two milaJ f JNT- ir . r i -"Our s. people wnowing nothing about OaCkinff erOOdsi hsul KMnni14ha,ir v-imAm in big square boes that were difficult to handle on s! pack horse or 4n a canoe. and: they caused lots of grief and need less: trouble, j . i .1 . . -i : : "Father, secured a scow ito transport his library, his, surgical instruments and his drugs. ... Ini the swift current of the river it foundered when within a mile of the landing. The medicines, espe cially the powders and such things as Epsom salts, melted away and were losti Many o the books were ruined. Some of the instruments be did not re cover until the (following summer. -. ;; ; ' ' ' i , " ' i l ' .: "So many addttlonai v expenses'1: bad been Incurred and so wild was the coun try, with its bears and cougars and its loneliness; that soma of. the city bred people could not stand it, so Mr. Pagle and Mr. Ousterhaus, with their families, and! Mr. Finkeldie, went to Santa Crux, while Mrs. Wilde, whose husband had been killed," ent to San Francisco, as dia Mr. Leeke. Coleman and Mackey went back to Baltimore. The rest -of us stayed and soon learned to row a canoe, kill elk and' Cut down the trees and clear the land. . Father was, the only doctor in this part of the country and went on horseback or by canoe all over the coast, his district including the coun try as far island as. Roseburg and as far South as Port'Orfbrd. 4 "Si ML Dement, whose son is now pres ident of the bank, here in Myrtle Point, had come from Jacksonville, in Southern Oregon, to this district four (years be fore. He was a fine hunter. AHe took us out; and showed us how to shoot elk and deer and bear. He took: my brother Binger out and posted him on an elk trail and- said,: Wheni I drive the . elk down the: trail,' pick out a big one and shoot it just back of the foreleg. The elk came ' along, but" they 'were all big Ones and my brother got buck fever and fired at the herd. ' Mr. " Dement soon earns down the trail and said. Where is the elk -you shotr ' Binger said, 1 didnt get any. Mr. Dement said, Did you pick out a big one and aim just back of its forelegr Binger said. No, I fired; st random. That's no place to fire at. You ought to have aimed where I told you,' said Mr, Dement. 'Dont ever ? shoot an elk In its random, if you are but after camp-meat. - .- 3 -' I ;"; :. :v :. v Mrs. B. B. Lockhart taught the -first school in the wninty, t Empire City. My brother Binger was the - second teacher. He taught in i860 and 1K1, In IMS I went to the Eastern Oregon mines and got a lot of-experience. My slater, o Thrusenelda. . married - Edward Bender in 187C4 He was the first poet master of Myrtle Point and held the office if or .more than 20 yeara Her eldest " son, - August, - is assistant : post' master at Coquille. Her next son Em- est. lives at Broadbent, and her-youngest son. Dr. Charles Bender, is an op tician in Portland. - Of my nine children, seven are yet living." - t Th Orcconr Country i Narta wt Happen, ta "Sriat fire tot the . ;. - . - . , Bmy Beadec. . ;, . , , OREGON Owing to the ..lalivw-nnmher -of orders on hand, jih North Bend Mill and Lum- oer company has j been rorcea to acta a night Shift. 1 ...,.-t.; i,U i "V ., " ,J i High waters hava covered the lowland 3 pasture lands, in Hood Rivar county and ! .; Instead of cattle, i carp are feeding f on me grass. j -.,-.t y-rr - ,,.--.-r - Five bretham ami s mniia ef Miss Clara Gray. Albany young woman who died last! week, were pallbearers at fcer tunerat .sunaay. r ; , , . . . ; The new Kuna hnsniial t ba erct. ed this -i spring adjoining the city hall. Is to be thre- stories high and will ac commodate. 100 patienta Soaring ..bevant ! JI iuwlniis o-rmcr-ta- tions. th cherrv marke at Saletm- has risen from the opening price of -5 cents to 7 cents for Royal Annea. . Active Work will becin within that ivrt few days on the Tvavlnjr of the Pacific highway Southward from Albany to the Linn county line at Harrisburg.. - . John T. McNeill died; a few dsA a-a at his heme in Halsey. He was born in 1853 on ; his father's donation land claim six: sniles'wert of Haleey. Livestock and atrricultiiral loann war made in Oregin to tne extent of 1860.000 from Msy 15 to May 1". accordlnr ie a recent report of the War Finance cor poration, t - ; i . ! . Oil drfllintr.oDCrationf will berin with- i in a short time in the vicinity of Sweet i Home. There are nlaces where oil see ps i. out- of the ground! and residents are en- 1 tnusiastto over the prospects. t The otfly ! box factory operating be- i tween Salem and Sheridan is located in Dal! as, and through its operation- a eon- -siderable i amount i ef money has been added to: the city a industrial payroll. George ! Terry, arrested a few days ago when; a still was found in his home at faigene. pleaded sruiltv to unlawful possession of liquor and was fined $"00 ana sentenced to six months in the county jail. ; The Hood River-White Salmon Ferrv company,: owned by Homer G. Van Allen ana J. M. .ronnson. plans to cut into commission on Memorial day a new pow er cr it target enougn to carry n au tomobiles.: . .(. 'u-i- The Wobdbiirn cannery figures on can ning 70 carloads of fruit this season, divided equally among loganberries, rasp berries and prunes, and a carload each of cherries and gooseberries. The com pany will give employment to 300 men and women. WASHINGTON W. Tt. Ctose.: horticultural; Inspector, estimated the 1S22 fruit crop of Yakima and Kittitas counties as H.tTi carloads. Two deaths from diphtheria have oc curred in Bellingham in the last week and several cases of a malignant type are reported. 5 ij f .;: -r 5 A B. Llewellyn.! 72 years old. pioneer real estate and "newspaper man of Se attle, died Saturday afte a residence of i years in tnat city. Dry squad . officers Friday night "ar rested E. B. Hicklin In his home at Se- attle and seised a still. seven gallons of moonshine and 100 gallons -of mash. Fred Rogers was shot through the right leg last Friday at Davenport while trying to escape after officers had found alleged stolen property! in his house, - Perry Niles, for many: years prominent in state Republican politics and formerly deputy state land commissioner, is dead at his home in Everett, aged 60 years. Harry O. Bingham, pioneer undertaker of Northwest Washington. : was found dead in his bed at Bellingham Friday. He had been suffering from heart dis ease, i j Fifty tons of ore valued "st H0.0OO was shipped last ; week from the Do minion Silver ia Mining company's mine near ' Colville to the -Bunker Hill smelter. , ' i . The - sawmill of the Forbes-Wilson Lumber company near I Bellingham - was burned last Saturday,! together, with 500,000 feet of lumber. The loss is placed at 160.000. i . h A. Mahler, said by the police to be an International narcotic I smuggler, was arrested in Seattle Sunday with three tobacco cans containing heroin valued at $15,000 on his person. ' ; - James Salisbury, ?5. has disappeared from his home at EUensberg and friends fear he was drowned j in the Yakima river, officers having , traced his steps to the bank of , the stream. A big bear wandered in on the George Baker farm not far from Long Beach last week and killed a calf and severely wounded . a cow. He was 'chased up a tree-by dogs and shot by Baker. Setting fire to hi home, presumably" while playing with matches. Herman Medema, 8-year-old son of Peter Me dema. was burned to death at Arlington: last Friday. The house was completely destroyed. . .... j ... "A county may' be held for damages " for Injuries resulting from an accident caused by a highway being rutted and the ruts filled with water, according to a decision of the Washington state su preme court. .'''? IDAHO Floods have covered the Yellowstone trail. In the vicinity of Coeur d'Aiene and all traffic over the road is halted. George Smith and R. V. Shaw, wanted at Seattle on. a. charge f. dealing in narcotics, were arrested last Friday st Lewiston and are held pending investi gation, i (. , . , rM , . . . The Sandpoint chamber or- commerce, at its meeting last week, decided to hold a big celebration on the Fourth of July with a fine, display of fireworks in the evening. , . -. t Le8iie Roth, former ssstsUnt cashier of the Kamiah State bank. - pleaded guilty to a technical violation ef - the state banking laws, and was fined. 1500 at Nes Perce Friday. , ) George Walker, a machinist of Barley, left his home the night of May 4. pro? sumably to help a stranded autoist, and has not been heard of since, it is feared he has met with foul play. - Suit has been atSrted at Coeur d'Aiene to remove from office R. ; C Youngs a commiasionerof theJOoeur d'Aiene val ley highway district- information charg ing malfeasance and neglect; f duty. Max Welton, 19-year-old eon of Mr and Mrs. A. W Welton, highly respected ranchers, has . pleaded guilty to the charge of having murdered George Lane April 1 in his hardware store at Sho shone. Lane had questioned a check the boy presented in payment for some gooda . ,-i Once Overs Csn You Work Successfully st Home? Some wives cannot understand why their husbands remain at thrir .offices to .do work which Ahe wives thlnlc might just as well be done at home, v . Such wives cannoti understand why the fact ; that . they j are in s the .room with their husbands, asking questions now and then, j rattling papers or changiRg things about the room, should in any wsy i annoy or interfere with, said hus band, who is trying to conoantrst his thought On the subject requiring all the brain power he'haa j4! ".:, "" ., s Some husbands 'are not so easily an noyed ; others csnnot do const ruetrvs thinking unless they are alone; .way from disturbing influences, i no - matter how well meant - : But the ones who are disturbed easily must do one of two things do the work at the office or have quiet and alienee at home whro theyi work there: ether wise they, do not give their full brain : power the play it should hsva -sWhen a man cannot work because his family , interferes he is I bound for the rocks of misfortune, and jthe family must' share in the downfall for which they are largely responsible. ! . ; . '.;.'. t.. Mrs. Married - Woman, r'-Jf you i want your husband, to succeed in a material way. you must give Mm a chance to use his head under conditions most favor able to him. ' , -1 , - (Copyricht 1932, latrrmttioetsj lsSrss r Sernce, Ost.). ,