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s i i i i . AS IXDEPEXDEXT KEWSPaFEB I G 8. JACKSON..-. -PobllshCT I He raim, be confident, b ebeetf ul and tiDto ifci as you wnud hai then do oat I'liblvhed erery weekday, aoi 6 and ay moraine t The J earn el haikiina-. Broadway t Ia- isilT street, foruana. vretm, Eatered at -the poatof fioe at Portland. Oregon, tor tranwniMioai uuooga M aasu class matter.' - atLKPHOXE Main 7161. All departments rrsrhed by this ntrasBer. JJATIONAL ADTEHTISWO HEPRBSENTA TIVE Benjamin aV KsstBST Co-. Bra Ha wick bnildlnav 22S Fifth areroe. Raw tors; 9UO Mailers traliSius. Lmnm. -PACIFIC COAST BXPIlESENTATTVg M. C MorceasoB Co.. lac- Eiaaerner bnUdinc. Baa Franciaeo: Titl Insurant bofldina. Los Angeles ; Beenrtti bmkKn. Seattle.' THE GREGO. JOdtNAL. -eserees h-rWM U )Kt adrcrtixins eopr wluea tt deems ebtctmabl. It sis wOl not print y copy that is any way alnrolataa readine- met- - ter or ine eaaaos naoiv advartwtuc. r.flj,4ilttrtAV..lB 1 T "" ; ......... DajSU A IVi' ws J. . A . rBy Carrier City and Coontiy -PAQ.T AND StTNDAX . On week...... .lOn ssonth.. ; . .1 DAILX 8UXDAT Onamk .1 .lejOse we -08 ST MAIU KVra'PATJtWLI! TW ADTAJTOt .$8.00 - Sue month . . . On month . . . . . Ob year v. . . ..J.MIOm Jr . . . is-" f wiukmu 1 ivw. (Only) Tare swntbev. J.T5I Tore month... 1.00 Uu montn .... . WEE&XT f Beery Wednsdy . AA WaeKT,Y AKD srrsriAT On year ...... SS.BO six vumus ... c-. . .1- ml Tbea ntem apity wnlT tn u Wast. Bates tn Eaatcra- potnta fnrniahed on obH- Exurcsi Ordar or Jft. H ynr poatoffto la - twrt a TOonT-orar nnca. i- or mia viQ k accepted. alak all reaoitnuKM pay. abla to Tb Journal Publiaains Oonrpaoy, Portland. Oreioni - B cheerful; do not brood orer fond hope unrealized, until a chain, link after link, u fuuned on each thought and wonnd aroond the heartSir Arthur Help. ' . TOWARD INDUSTRIAL PEACE rpHE president is maneuvering for A . a' settlement of the coal strike. That he could and should have done around April 1.. But his pur pose in calling the conference be tween employes and employers and endeavoring to effect a settlement, even at 'this date; is a proper use of , the executive authority. The operators refused to meet the miners before,, Now the presi dent compels them to 'meet and promises to use the executive power to force an agreement.' Coal is a public necessity, and those who op erate the mines have a public obli- " gattUtCvTh ey -can be forced to meet - the obligation by the goyernment, and It is high time for the govern ment to employ its power to that end. President Harding is also report ed as ready to insist on respect by the railroads and employes for the rulings of the railroad labor board : . Again the presidential .action is tardy, however. Five roads already hae been adjudged guilty of vio lating the orders of the board in the matter of letting contracts to priT&te firms for railroad work, hereby violating the law and de f eating wage decision of the labor tribunal, and four more are faced with the same charges. No such charges rested on the shopmen up to ihft'time they walked out. The precedent of ignoring the labor board .had been set by the roads long before the men walked out. JVby should the men comply with the, board's orders if the roads themselves refuse to abide there byTT And If neither pays any at tention to its decisions, of what use is the board? There should be action - to , strengthen the authority ot the labor commission. It should be made strong enough to cope, with the altuation, or other means should be takefn to bring" about industrial peace in the railroad world. It a way can .be found to compel the roads to obey regulations it is Tretty certain the employes can be count ed en to do the same.: The public suffers from Indus trial strife, whether it is tn the coal mines or on the railroads. . Both are ; public industries, fundamen tally. Certainly the. government can use its power in behalf of the public that it represents, and It should not wait for bloodshed and suffering before acting. To him that hath shall be added unto, Portland is to have a new steamship line, ' and water rates are n the decline. ' ! - WHEAT TO JAPAN 4 VISITOR from Japan Mateu- J"V r hlro Fujii explained to the heads of Portland's business and civic clubs during their recent har bor inspection tourwhy the demand of Japan for the grain of the Co lumbia basin must increase. - Every available inch of soil 'fit for grain production in Japan is being cultivated, he said. Tet the total production within he Kip ponese "empire . is only a- fraction of the amount needed to feed the topre. : They must buy the-greater rart of their grain, from foreign c ountries. - - , Australian wheat is largely used .n Ja-pan. In fact, the firm f F". Xanertiatsu & Co.. of which Mr. j.hi is director.-has been exelu t-vely engaged in irrnorttng. Aus tralian wheat into Japan and it handled a. third of th grain supply from that country last' year. But Australia is 24 ;to 25 jdays steaming- time from. Japanese pert. The Argentine, which also bids for Japanese business, is .still farther. But the ship which sail from Kobe maybe in the Port of . Portland in IS or 17 days. Here is a saving: of eigrht days on one leg 'ot the jour ney. Modern - steamships cost- a very large .sum for every day of operation. Each day saved sub tracts from the per-bushei cost of wheats .Sincej wheat all over, the world sells at the Liverpool price. less cost of carriage, grain of the Columbia basin has an ' important advantage in Japan deliveries. , . During the past decade the im portations of wheat into Japan have Increased 100 per cent. Dur ing the coming 10 years, says Mr. Fujii, there Is a strong likelihood of equal increase. 1 This Is a - pre diction: that has high, significance to the - grain.: growers and dealers f this region;. ; . The presence of the Japanese dealer in' Australian wheat is, by the way, an evidenee of the results attending the work of the traffic department jointly maintained by the port and - dock commissions. Fujil himself confessed that his company would not have looked to ward this port had it not been for Insistent efforts of the Port of Portland traffic man in Japan. City Grappler Bradr. says most of the 300 people he has taken from the water drowned were overcome by cramp and that the cramp in nearly every Instance was caused by going into the water too soon after eating. Green fruit and imps In water pair frequently as cause and effect. I WHAT NOBLER ANNALS? HOW did you spend the Fourth? Did you think anything about Paul Revere's ride? Did you let a stray thought go out to the old bellringer and the eager message of the boy, "Ring, ring, ring? Did there pass through your mind the remark of Franklin as the. Declaration of Independence was leigned, "We must all hang to gether or be hanged together?" Did there come to you during the day any thought of Washington or Jefferson or Hamilton or Madi son or the others? As you fished ddwn the canyon in the heart of the Cascades, did any realization come over you of how you happened to be a free man instead of the subject of a monarch who claimed to rule and did rule by so-called divine right? Perhaps you, like so many others, have come to look upon these an nals, of great men and tremendous events ' as a sort of bedtime story. traditional and trifling incidents with which to regale children. Pos sibly you, like so many others, have drifted into jCal thoughihat th beacon firer of liberty lighted by our forbears on the New England hills are a myth, and thai they are not fit thoughts for a big man's mind to dwell on. ; Some peoples 'as we all know, have arrived at the conclusion that this country of ours is a rotten country anyway, that it is no bet ter than the nations that have gone before, . that the system ought to be changed by throwing . the con stitution overboard and that every thing connected with the republic is a false alarm. Now here is a thought: - What else cairnfou expect than that thoughtless and uninformed people will form such an opinion of these United States if you and so many other citizens do not, on the one memorial day for remembering how America came to be, have a thought of Washington and Frank lin and Valley Forge and the glori ous men and women who saw the Revolution through? .If the coun try, as we know it is, Is worth pre serving, are its glorious history, its illustrious men and its 'beautiful annals not worth one day of com memoration out of the 365? v Y ou can. search history through witfiout finding - record of a time and of deeds that shine so brightly in those things that enrich a na tional life. Tou can read books from covr to cover until the li braries have - all been exhausted without rn finding - another such story of devotion, dedication," con secratldn to. the noblest cause for which mankind, in the crimson an nals of . a thousands wars, has struggled. ; - . We need more and. more men in-America thinking more and more of the Fourth of July. We need, not one, but 365 Fourths in every year; r- HIS TaST DIVE 6 A ITER he had made his last ", - dive,, he went under and did not rise again.' I " It Is ; the - final " sentence of story, jot how a lad .-; of 21 .went swimming Sunday evening and did not come back. "Nobody - knows why "he went under and did vnot rlseagain and - probably none ever; - will know. . - Npbody .knows why the sailor, an expert swimmer. raho; fell from? a- boat iduringf the Rose Festival was drowned. That Is a " secret known alone to the waters and they never tell. - In the cases of the: two drowned Monday at Seaside and the man who dived at- Wiademuth' an did not come up there 1$ explanation The undertow of the urf Is mere! less when a human .being is in its grasp, wh-He , the man at Winde- muth was not in condition to. enter the water. - - r - J . ; Swimming too soon1 after a meal is a chief reasob v h y exrerts are drowned. Their: skill makes them bold. It moods them to defy safety rules.' Once they swim in d. rea sonable period alter a meal with no had results. Then they go into the water a little - sooner after eating. And they keep shortening' the pe riod until, f'aftef' the last dive, they go under and do' not rise again. . Hugh Brady, ithe -grappler, : who knows almost eyery "cranny. In the bed of the;WiHamette.at Portland, has been quoted! as saying that in 90 per cent of the cases where he hasrecoveredvVie bodies Of those drowned while r swimming, .death was the .result 1 of eating shortly before going into the water. Often, he says, it is. a case of eating a little f ruIL' - Drunkenness in the water' tempts fate. Not 'infrequently an intoxi cated man divest and never rises to the ' surface.' That happened a couple of: years ago, at Battle ground lake..: In swimming suit. a. drunken maa reeled out V the springboard and! dived. There was IS or 20 feet of water, and he lay motionless on the bottom. Swim mers presently dived for him, and after' six.,or seven : minutes , one of them brought him' up. .;" After tire less efforts respiration was restored and- his Jifa.wa4 saved. .The inci dent was, a' warning to- the hundreds present -not ' to J renture. into the water except' wen sober. The warning vhaa been sounded many a time. When you tell it to good swimmers they often scout it. It is so easy to wim that often all sense of the power of the waters to take life Is lost. I So swimmers dive in when overheated, plunge in too. soon after eatlnjg, venture too far for their strength, go in when drunk, and violate all the other rules of safety, and continue to make headlines for the newspapers. No exercise.! finer. There is a double cushion to every stroke of the swimmer the yielding of the water and . the ; movement of the body forward. It taxes the ab dominal muscles more than almost any other exercise and is a reducer of that region, a highly beneficial result not so i perfectly brought about by any- ordinary exercise. Perhaps the one drowning In the Willamette In fSie Portland zone Sunday, while thousands sought re lief from the sujper-heat by swim ming, was a small mortality. Usually there, is one safe place for the swimmer. At the swim ming resorts there are always life guards whose business it is to be alert for emergencies.' The result is that, though thousands swim at such places, -there Is rarely a fatal ity. -- ;. ; . , The . trade of .Columbia river with Japan In lumber, wheat and flour- showed an average Increase in tonnage of 651 per; cent, and in value 555 per cent, for the fiscal year ending June 30 as compared with the receding? fiscal -vear Lumber shinm en ta increased from S44,44C tr iOSCSTiiwheat trptp Jl.311,867 to $1,910,810, and flour from $837,583 to $4,242,132. Our trade with Japan has become one of the large enterprises of the ports of the Columbia. WHAT HAPPENED TO TONT """PONY DE LUCCA was a happy J- chauffeur a few ? months ago. He received his pay regularly and it was quite sufficient to accommo date his modest tastes. Everything went along well, in Tony's life until tne aay ne met Airreaa May, a striking young lady, with whom he immediately fell in love. But Tony coiuldn t provide the girl with the things she desired on his chauffeur's focome. The young lady liked fur coats, diamonds and pretty clothes. She was not satis fled to dwell in cheap apartment or dine at inexpensive places. So Tony had to gei more money. A few days ago a sensational hold-up ot bank messengers took place in an Eastern city. The job had been well ; planned and went through without a . flaw until the escape. I Down the road sped a fast car with four occupants. The alarm of the robbery had been broadcasted. A traffic policeman with drawn re- volver halted the machine. From the driver's seat stepped Tony, chauffeur, lover and later ring leader of bandits. i Alfreda May ;is gone now. She disappeared when Tony was caught. He can't buy pretty things for her any more. : So the decided to look otherwhere for? her finery; the judge will soott decide how long Tony has to spend behind prison bars, and Tony; has probably con cluded that it is lar better to be a free chauffeur than an imprisoned bandit. . ? .' It is a conclusion that other young men can wisely reach before they take the other course. During the World war and after. John Bull, a publication edited by Horatio Bottomley in London scathingly arraigned America and Americans. It 1 declaimed r against the part the United States played in. the war. , The hollow mockery of his assumed virtues and edi torial conclusions is exposed to the world by his conviction and sen tence to seven jyears in prison for converting to his own use nearly $700,000 in funds he collected In behalf of patriotic and war. relief societies. ? There are a lot of that kind of four-flushers in the world While science is discovering im portant uses fo apparently worth less products of nature, why doesn't it discover ; the! reason for poison oak?-. . - tLi " -'- COMMENT OF THE STATE PRESS v Praise for the CooS Work of a'Coun ty Agriculturist in Wasco County Why the Breakdown of the Court- . try's Criminal 'i Law Anti-Ai-cohor Education The New ' Pony Express What High- ways.. Are . Ket F6r.Tn j " -i i'ri Prod, Pretsi tious - . Prune Say "Howdy." The 'Dalles Chronicle: - Farmers of Wasco - county ; will see with regret the " departure of E. L. Jackman. who inecently resigned as county agriculturist to take up exten sion work, witnrthe itat agricultural college J ackman has worked unstint- tngly for .the ranchers' of the county and his efforts have been largely suc cessful. :H Is. held in high regard by everyone and . is respected as an ef ficient agriculturist, and horticulturist. Nor has tie neglected ..livestock -and poultry, so his .interests-'here, have been along hlgHyi diversified lines. More than once .Jackman" has "come to the aid of some' harried farmer who waa find iris; his problem too great. He has helped these .feMowa- out of their difficulties.-and smortK-his "best frtends are the smaJlor farmers.- The' grangers and , members -f r the farmers union swear , by him because - of the assist ance he has lent these organizations In the solution of their problems. Jackman has taken much interest In cooperative work assisting - in the or ganization of both , the growers' asso ciation and the wheat growers league. Although the departments .were sepa rate in very wsy, Jackman has aided W. S.r Nelson, head-of the agricultural and horticultural bureau of the cham ber of commerce. ' He has rendered in valuable aid to the farmers in securing labor for them during the harvesting seasons ' and his services were espe cially appreciated in the seasons just after the war, u hen labor was scarce and its cost . high. He has been . the author of innovations which have been successfully adopted, by Wasco county ranchers. He introduced Grimm alfalfa to looal . growers, supplying the ' seed at cost to many of them, and made the Variety popular. Jackman is a graduate of the school to which he now returns as a special ise Among the high lights of his work (or local ranchers which will long be remembered was the matter of sup plying 40,000 gallons of distillate, dur lag the gasoline shortage in the sum mer of 1J19. HiB work was the sal vation of many ranchers in the 'days when the state was being held up by oik companies to force a break in its strict laW on high test gasoline. ot striking value, too, as many ranchers will attest, was his work in inducing growers to put sulphur on their alfalfa fields, . thereby increas ing the yields from SO to 100 per cent. Such things as these are of the utmost practical Value, and an official who can do them is to be commended. His work has been more appreciated in the country than in the city, for there one came in touch with it at every hand. Salefh Capital! Journal : Colonel John Leader, who commanded the of ficers trainlntr camp at the University of Oregon during the war, after-, hav ing been incapacitated for active serv ice in the battle of Flanders, has writ ten a booklet entitled "Oregon Through Alien Eyes." IniT the portion' devoted to Oregon in peace time, he says that the greatest of Oreeon vices is our sentimentality in the administration of justice. He declares : - - - " "Oregon in considering punlahrrent of a criminal, considers first what would be best for the criminal they entirely overtook the point of what would be best for the common people. Admittedly a criminal Is genera'ly subnormal but subnormal people; are much better un der restraint .i It is not open to con tradicuon that every crime that is con doned or paroled or -punishment de layed, bears just a hundredfold and even If it should be bad luck on the person incarcerated, the public welfare calls for that incarceration." The author contrasts British admln- ttuuu oi jusuce, wiin its reienuess impartiality, and effective speed, with the dilateriness and partiality of pun ishment in Oregon, and declares that as a direct result there are more hold ups every winter -in the city of Port land than in the entire British empire. oecause m tne latter there is prompt and impartial punishment to fit the crime. The sentimental breakdown of jus tice is not so much an Oregon char acteristic as a national characteristic and Is a product of the American legal system, which is devised to enrich law yers rather than to punish crime. The lawyers know well enough what the matter is, as such distinguished mem bers of the bar as Chief Justice Taft have repeatedly called attention to it. and with lawyers in a majority In all legislative bodies It would be easy to remedy the breakdown if , lawyers really desired to But there is noth ing to indicate that they do. The de sire for reform 4s only academic, as lar as the profession is concerned. Astoria Budget: When the American Magaslne said that "drinking has not stopped, but education about drink has," it said, in current slang;. mouthful." What has stopped is the constant propaganda which used, to be put out by churches. Schools and tern pe ranee societies as to the dangers of alcohol. The present-day -drinker of booties boose or home brow thinks he is perfectly safe if only he Is getting some of "the good old stuff." But he isn't. The results of the bad new staff are quicker. They bring blindness or paralysis or death in shorter order than the liquors of older days. But the old ones brought them just' the same. Blindness, Bright's disease, fail lng minds, abused wives, frightened children, weakened will, inefficiency. poverty these were the toll exacted by a I con oi before the war and the Vol stead act as well as after. The dis gust of decent people for the present shameless violation of the Jaw, as also for the present shameless violations of decency and good manners. IS increas ing to the point where it Is no longer silent. . The-resumption of alcoholic education Is one of the mildest forms it is beginning to .take. - . i Dufur Dispatch : - The promoters of the pony express race between The Dalles -.and Canyon City builded bet ter than Uhey, ksewi Many .times as much interest was- taken in the event as had been anticipated. Already plans are on foot to make it ant annual event ; offering- prizes that will attract many entries. The event can become -one of national note, linking as It does the past with the present and bringing into action, the best feats .of, horsemanship. ana endurance and skill that rival any thing which has been attempted. The far-famed Pendleton Round-Up has nothing to compare with. it r From a sportsmanship standpoint it has no equal. ' Pendleton East Oregonian : There are some people who have the idea that Oregon taxpayers built our -highways so ' as ; to give .m. few ' light-thinking sports) an opportunity'1 to visit road houses, get drunk and then race along the roads with dteath generally -on the trail. t The situation down on the lower Columbia has been particularly serious because that region is Oregon's summer playground. , However, the iaw-abidtng people of such towns -as. Astoria-and Warrenton hotly resent these escapades and are going to stop thero- They are entitled to support from Us hole state, for the - reason tnat Ort?gon"e name is at stake. tlnuhnrr Cw fiWMW ThS 'fellOW who is lucky, enough to own a' prune ranch in Douglas county stands, a good . c.tnif-irln, th Invitation of old age to spend bis declining years at the poor farm, rrooi oi wus awci tion is the fact that a good prune ranch nf inn kMiwhl t Yim handsome sum of 370.000 in this county the other day. Hurrah for the prune d- it is in.a ciua by itself and no longer the object of the jokester. ,- - tni,. Mnnnfaitc tr.mtrttm- Tourists are now traversing the .county eai day. And this will continue till snow fllea It you have any desire to make your county, your town or your community feet like home to the fstrangej in -the, rcTAwv tn Mm. . Donit be afraid to pass the courtesy of he day. Tell him that it is not, or coioior kw or something and he jwill like It, - Tell him what you call f the magnificent mountain in the- distance aa what streams he has passed or wut pass. Tell him that you have a goodcounty and a fine town or a first class com munity. "The stranger In the car is a human being and he will appreciate K.ti .niisn luk will remember j our county and t be will tell' others about it ana tny wu winw-;; him where -the fishing ia swodjand where the camping is eaawt.?These things not. only pay good ; dividends but they will niake "you i feet etter, make theH"stranger la the-car'- feel . nvtu.li' a-case of , i. -. casting bread -upon tlte watera to re turn unto you. . ws ie-" Letters From the People ICnnKinnlntlon aaat o Th Journal for pabheatioa in this department should b wnt taD on only, on 4e of th paper. , ahouid sot r.il ao arards in lencta, and arast aiened- by th writer, whoa mail addraaa in full mast scceaassny tk contribanon.J - UNDER BOSS RULE ' An Insider's Testimony As to Methods - in a Convention system "state. Portland, July S. To the, Editor of The Journal For the benefit of those who oppose the direct primary but do not know of the way nominations were brought about under the convention system, allow me to relate a conversa tion I had with a friend in "Kansas some vears before the adoption of the primary. This man Is a prominent Republican. He filled a diplomatic position under President Harrison and Is how representing a Kansas district in congress. He said, "Let me teu you lust how things are ran In this state X meaning Kansas). We will just, sup pose I am elected a delegate to tne state convention to be held at Topeka. A few days before the meeting I will receive a round trip pass . rrom tne railroad company. I go down the -day before -the convention meets ana reg ister at a hotel. In a short , time a party will call on me at my room, give me the "glad hand," tell me where to find headquarters, where there is all kinds of entertainment, and after some desultory talk Will present a -paper. saying, 'Here Is a lUt we propose to put through.' The list includes can didates ' for governor, United -States senator and-, possibly congressman, as well as convention officials! : Now it was well known among the faithful at that- time that no man 1 could be nominated , and elected governor or United States senator In that state who was not acceptable to the officials of " the Santa F railroad. And the whole- thing - Was put' through just . as cooked uo there in TopeKa. The ti. U. P.; papers published and supported the ticket as the choice of the convention of delegate elected , by the voters . of the states The primary is not penect, hut-who. kno-wing these facts and ,ap-' pi-eclating them, wants , to . go - back to such a system : as -xne, con vmuoa wr tem - - . jP-- rus, . ; ' - ' EARWIGS - .s,1 ' .Hi Portland, July.4To tke' Editor of The journal Please inform' ', through your paper' of so mi- remedy to destroy earwigs, of which 1 have dis covered hundreds around the founda tion of our house. C, R. Anderson, The earwig problem i em that seems far from solution. Portions of Portland Car had th peat for aeTerai years, and no spe cific remedy haa yet been, fonnd. HoweTer, th city authorities are at work on tn prob lem, aa M the O resort AarienltanU eoUec. A reader . at Th Jcmrnal aupplie formula that may be read ia this eoluroa today, which might Be helpfol. Meanwhile, it has been proposed that eity, atat and federal sorern ments unit in an effort to find means to exterminate th pests; all who are interested will da- wU to watch th columns of Th Journal for reports of progress in this cam paign. AN EARWIG REMEDY Portland. July 4. To the Editor of The Journal In devising ways and means of circumventing the earwigs, I have made up a mixture which lias proved to be entirely successful In pre venting earwigs and all other crawling Insects from climbing trees and doing their destructive nocturnal work. The formula and application instructions follow : j . "One pound common 'resin i 8 ounces castor oil. Melt together over a slow fire and stir until thoroughly mixed. While still hot, paint a ring about two Inches wide clear around trunk of tree with this 'mixture. Jt will retain its stickiness for a month or more. Mixture can be kept in a can and re heated whenever another application is needed." -I4rust-tbis will prove of value to jour readers. D.Chambers. IDOLATRY Portland, July 4- 1"o - tUe Editor of The Journal The word "idolatry" seemingly finds little or no expression nowadays ,and consequently has gone out of use, when idolatry is rampant as never before, instead of worship ing graven images, as the ancients did, people are prone to bow down to the almighty materialism in general. Instead Of Jupiter, it la money. Instead of Venus it is the powder-puff and the lip-stick.- Instead of Mercury it is the automobile. After these things man simply has gone daffy. He Is focus ing all his God-given faculties upon them. He is investing all of his time and energy for the material. All this and more is modern idolatry. Paul Brinkman Jr. ; A WAVE FROM ASIA Europe's Condition! Diagnosed -As An Infection From "the Unchanging East." . -'.. ' Vancouver, Wash., June 30WTo th Editor of The Journal The soul In ertia now prevailing in Europe is not bolshewism" J in fact, bolshevism was devised "as a preventive against ft. The affliction ia of Asiatic origin. A 11 plague epidemics, mental or physical, by which the world has been" scourged have originated east of Sues. 'Europe is now suffering from one. of these Oriental curses this i time a psychic visitation. Nor Is the visitant a de cided stranger; time and again .has it gone abroad, "but never, before has it ventured so far afield. ; Asia is; the land of fanatic fatalists a land .of fate and a fatal land. Its philosophy is "What is to be shall be, otherwise it could not have beea"j "Eat, drink and be, merry; for - tomorrow you. die" ; Ti it not fated that sight, succeeds day. that winter sacceeds summer and that death succeeds life? If so.' then, so likewise are all things else fated- Such is the - fatalistic philosophy of Asia, and time cannot kill it. Look into the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and you are gasing into the very soul of Asia. - . ''".."." The Orientals have chosen a highly opportune tirne to spread their fatal- ' COLIIMENT AND - - . jSHAUL CHANGE . That old line about "Money makes the mare go," Is equally ' true about the motor.. - - - -' In nome decrees of heat even the; one-piece bathing suit is something of aa imposition. - When the tide of the weather turns we may expect some surcease Irom the heat waves.- The day Is coming. -sure as shoot ing, when we can take breakfast in Koruand and dinner - in xvew . York city. - - - The only . safe, sane and sure way to find out the condition of the road you would like to axnlore is to travel it yourself. , .-- Ex-meat salesman is male in a- a flrht for - the throno of Monaco. If he is true to type he ought to rule with a heavy hand. ' Political unrest mav hit dun tn thai increasing difficulty politicians find in fethering their nests with comfort through politics. Just about the tim we thin-- wmt getting- our heads above water, fi nancially speaking, some rrferchant. ad vertises an lrresisuDie bargain sale for the. womenfolk. - . ' :":i-'- ' . ... '.;;.::. ;-: ,; ' fiv Upon learning that 25,000 persons spent the Fourth at our favorite beach resort we resolved to be glad that we'd remained In th back' yard with a hose full of Bull Run for our ocean. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Randon Observations About Town James Farley and.J. Kilkenny Jr. of Heppner were among residents of Mor row county who came to town to par ticipate in the Morrow -county reunion at Laurelhurst park Tuesday, an an nual event. - , , ' - . Among those who spent the Fourth in Portland was F. CJ Shafer of Pen dleton. - -- - - j. E. Hilary of La Grande is a Port land visitor. ' ' r In Portland on a business mission is Sam McCaU ot Ashland. ' Among out of town visitors Is Nel son H. Jones of Weston. . . W. H.- Smith of Goble was In Port land orv, th Fourth on a business er rand. .-- W. A. Massingill of Lakeview js transacting . business in Portland. - ' ' " - J. M. Gambill of . Springfield ; is among recent arrivals. e e H. H. Penner and A. B. Dilley, Vf Dallas are among out of town visitors. . L. R. Frink of Chapman is in Port land transacting" -some business. - -? . - t .. "Hi V. Chrlsman of Moro is seeking a cool spot In Portland.- Among out of town visitors is Walter 61. Fierce of La Grande. , s" W. T. Bond and J. W. Lyon are two visitors from Bend. ere . .'- ' Mr. and Mrs. J. L.. Johnson of. Her-miston- are visiting Portland. - - OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL .MAN , By Fred At on ot Oreson's historio lit' towns Wr. oosley lntenwa ' representatiTss tof . histone Oreron families. On of .these;: desosnded frofa) a pioneer line extendlns.- entirely raeroas the eon tinent, tells of her people's journey to- Qre ea and their srly atracgies,-- and ot th s- -semblins - of ' the firat leaislstur of Oregon. Her atory wUl t oaetaoea in i recwamii installment. - -Canemah Is on the east bank of the Willamette river. Just above the falls, and: about 'a - mile ; south of Oregon City: -In the old days, when transpor tation in the Oregon country was by canoe, bateau, packhorse and ox team, Canemalr -which, by the - way. means "boat landing" was an important and well known point. , ' : Recently I Spent an . afternoon . in Canemah visiting some of the pioneer residents of that historic old" settle ment It was my good fortune, at the home of Mrs. Sylvia F. Van Emon, to meet Mrs. Jane Bingham, Mrs. Mary Virginia Howell and Mrs. Clara S trick ier Fields, all of whom have lived in or near ' Canemah -more , than three score and" ten ; years. I talked first with Mrs. Bingham, though when a familiar name or .incident was men tioned all three of these pioneer women discussed it with me, so I se cured - an intimate picture of Cane mah in the days before the Civil war. - w Mjr father's name," said Mrs. Bing ham, "was Hiram A. Straight. He was born in New York" state, March 7, 1814. His father, Ellsha Straight, waa also born there.' Our family originally set tled in Massachusetts. Ellsha Straight, my grandfather, married Lydla Fan ning. They had 12 children. My father was their second child. In 1888 my father moved from New York to the iNorthwest territory, locating not far from Burlington, Iowa. There he met and married a young woman named Susan LassweU from Ohio. They started for Oregon tn the spring of 1843. Their first child. Cyrus, was 5 years old when they started .across the plalna - "In the Winter of 1842 everybody was talking about the Oregon country until it became to some of the settlers a sort of promised land. Many of them. - Hke my father, had already started westward from the Atlantic coast, and this had bred in them a love of adventure and travel, so the green snd fertile valley of the Willamette, with Its mountain streams, its wooded hills, its- abundant fish and game and its free land, made an irresistible appeal to them. Late m the fall of 1843 a meeting was held and resolutions were passed urging that Oregon be occu pied by American . settlers. - A few months later, at Springf ie!d.ll, an other meeting wras held ,nd the. set tlers were urged to people the country. My fathers Jesse -Applegate nd; some of his neighbors assembled at Inde pendence, Mo., to wait until the grass was strong enough to sustain the oxen. Along about the middle of Mayc 1843, the emigrants met at Fitshugb, MUl and organised for crossing the plains. You' have talked witb many of the pioneers who came across-tn 1843, so you know, .that in I that : party .were Peter Burnett, the. Fords. Hbe Hem breea, John Minto, the Hills, A. L. Lovejov. General - McCarver. J. W. Nesmltb the! Looneys, the Keysers, Overton, Johnson, the Waldos and a lot of other "well known people. Istic doctrines In Europe. At present Europe's soul isv stolid, inert, and apathetic la fact, dead. Some eight wears ago a maniac flourished a brand and.it ignited and consumed European civilisation. -Today Europe's philoso phy is "No Use. Why try? - The "game is not worth the candle. Why toil and suffer In order to live a living death? Laisses faire."" - - -.. " :. - Such philosophy is as deplorable, de- NEWS IN BRIEF ., SIDELIGHTS - , ' If the Turks really want e exter minate the Armenians and Creeks, why not make - them all smoke . Turkish cigarettes ? Albany Democrat- . - . -. The senate Is blocking the passage of the be nts measure. . If it were after the Nov. iiitww elections It would prob ably, kill the asure. Woodburn In dependent, . . - ' , Government in -- the United - States costs 7 cants an hour for every in habitant. With thoughts of Russia in mind, we'll say that, it's - worth . itu Athena Press. , - r The court house pet robin is. dead and his demise is ascribed to eating too many cherries." Owners of trees will have no jtrouble in believing that verdict. Eugene Register. : - t . ' - a " We cant say much about - the dis orders occur! rig in foreign countries, as lone as our newsnarjers are rilled -with reports of strike riots and bodtleg Datties wun real war-inn casualty Usta rEugene Guard. 'This is a great day-for organisa tion. .Any pretext is sufficient to amalgamate use many wno nave a common cause, and so upon this theory It haa been nussted to organise all those-- who have had their appendix removed. tsius Mountain jgiev . . Grants Pass has started the season of open air concerts in the park; Pret ty near time for us to-start something in that line. We've got a- good band and a band stand. . That's enough - to start' with, wherever, the finish. Ash land Tiding . : When the thermometer reached 110 at The Dalles Monday O. B. -itobertson cranked up his Ford snd drove into i-ortiand to spend the Fourth. - '"" ' ' . -' : George H.- McMorran, a prominent merchant of Eugene, and Mrs. Mc- Aiorran. motored to Portland Tuesday tor a visit. - - - e . ' ' Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Scott are among residents of Morrow county escaping irom,me heat of the Interior, country. : . .. -. .. . .- W. S. Holt of Pendleton and "V. EL Holt of Payette were among Fourth of -r..t . Juiy visitors. - . - ' Mr. and Mrs. I. Pipes of Cochran are visiting friends In Portland. , . . . . C; XI. Johnson of Mohler is in Port land on a business trip. ' v i '" - a m Hugh Aspinwall was1' among visitors Mr. and Ms, George Short of Wyethj are visiuag m j-oruarto, - c - - S' ' ' "; Of numerous out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs.T. W. Alley of Moro. Transacting business In Portland Monday was J. L. Cass of Pendleton. - e . , S.' Ferguson and Ed Carlson of Cllf ton are among out of town 'visitors. .. . J. H. Laki of The Dalles Ic registered at the Multnomah. Charles Fehlen - of Fourth of July caller. Salem was . Chester Haven of Stayton Is one of many visitors from- the interior, Lockley "My etster Mary was born near Fort HsU. --There. -were about" 120. wagons In the!'tratr.-:.At first? Peter Burnett was, cap -tin, but later William Martin wee elected captain. The train was uivi-iea into two companies, captain Martin had charge of the one that went ahead, and Jesse Apnlesate was captain of the second company, or what was called , the .cow . column. . t At j-ort Hail they were told-: they could not take their wagons on. Dr. Marcus Whitman had joined the wagon -train at the crossing of the Platte and urged them not to abandon their wagons,' as he said they could be taken as far as his mission and probably still far mer. JJr. Whitman had to leave them when they got to the Grand. Ronde valley, to take , care of Mra -H. H. Spalding at Lapwai. who was sick, but he picked out an Indian named Sticcas, who brought -them to Fort Walla Walla, on the bank of the Columbia river. - The name of this place,, was utter cnanged to Wallula. "Father and mother had . six chil dren. Cyrus, their first -child, came across the plains with them. Mary was Dora sear ort Han on their Jour ney to Oregon. She married John Jason. After his death she married Henry Lucas. Her third husband was John George I was the next child. Then came Hiram, though we always called him 'Doc" Julia, the next child, married Isaac Frost and lives at Cane mah. John is now 69 years old and lives at Park Place. . , "Samuel Lovejoy Stevens was "a bookkeeper for the People's Transpor tation company and was stationed at Canemah. The first time I saw him was here 1n Canemah. where I have spent my life. - We were -married Au gust 7, 1863. , Rev. George H. Atkinson performed our marriage ceremony." ' . - - , : . ' "My father. Hiram - Straight, had dark hair and dark eyebrows. His eyes were as blue as the summer sky. When my . father first came here he had a hard time to get along. He could not afford to buy shoes, nor could he spare the-money to buy cloth ing, so he : dressed In buckskin and either wore -buckskin moccasins or went barefoot. The, Indians ; had . a name for him that ; meant something like "dressed in skins or "skin of the West," My father was in the provis ional legislature and many years later my brother Hiram served in the legis lature. .. . " :. .- The first legislature of the Oregon provisional .government assembled at Oregon City.- In that legislature were: Hiram Straight. W. H. Gray and H. A. G. Lee, representing' Clackamas coun ty Robert NeWelL Benton Lee, ;M. J. Foisy snd J. M. Garrison, represent ing Champoeg county ; General M. M. McCarver, David vHill-"and. Isaac 'W. Smith. represenitives from 4 Tualatin county Jesse Applegate and: Abijah Hendricks, 'representing Tamhlll coun ty : and John Mcdure,. sole represent ative -of ..Clatsop county., These pio neer legislators metat the home of John E. Long at Oregon City on June 14, 1845. but later decided to meet in the room of the Multnomah circulating library General McCarver was elected speaker. - , " -, . v '- - -. - - grading and deadly as the venom of the Asiatic cobra or the asp.' , Its trend is ' backward toward the primitive in truth, toward the dark sgea Now let us remember that we "are referring to a condition rather than a -theory, and a- perniciously insidious condition at that. - And eo sure -as no adequate efr fort is made to combat this condition, history wilt repeat itself in the saddest of chapters.' " . " 'Reader. The Oreg-on Country Sortwst Uappeninas ia Brief Form tor ta iv . y. -US- Kdsf. . . i . - OREGON TKsb lSVtni-41T. 1 T4 1 1 wan Ss1 I "v ... aJtv-auai-iall- VIWU i 111 t league now has a membership of close to .300 ' persona-,' :.:.-'... f Timber fires reported near Bachelor mountain and in the LaPlne section of vn.iHitzs. tvunur sre . now unoer con trol. . - - - . AODrOval KM ,ivn VVMav V ti senate ' postof flee committee to the nomination of Wallace Smead to be rjostmamer at Heppner. . , UMore than. IDA MT - Trf TnAP Kill t ' ' construction was put under y at cMu-sm aunnj tn montn or jun than vol f-vi wu uuruig jun ot laan: year. TISI Bftl r--t lTS-ilw- ewmn n . V . " --O-w-a . a ui V 4 JCaVlt w lm -ui chased the bankrupt" Albany cannery. -- .-- iirw4 vi m i year, and will begin operations within a few days. - ' The .Cottage Grove cannery began operations this week, starting ot cher ries and.-, loganberries.- Cherries will bring from 4 to 6 cents and loganber ries, 4 cents. :- MraJ2rk Ctirl f Lyle; Wash.', was , baillyinjured Friday evening when a truck in which she and four others ruiig- ran on. an emotnkmeat near Rowans, ,, grees have ten th rule at Beaverton , L 1 1 wefK. acK or rain-, is being felt and the hay crop is mak- V-jrv! -BU1U VV 1X1 (t - Behd'a A . . a-avia ssusjiiicij ICU 5? tent of $4000 a month by tha Jctend 'Hriolr s-mi-tn--- rsiK -... . ration July 1. Production will con- Y""" tm.iv in ins xaiU - 1 A forest fire which had been smoul dering for two weeks was fanned into flames by the high wind Friday and ?SVJl&JlH'ln' : lZy ' w uiug company ai LTfeihtPnonlx- 'onging to the Sari born -Cutting company of Astoria, has been chartered by the state of Ore gon to assist the launch Governor Ol- cotc In nat,nltin V. , .1..- . ---- --- . ... ..it, ,uu (.-vui . against purse seinera - . -' -WASHINGTON Tt" ! aattm4! V.V eas mma XIJZ.Z111 "PP-4 trm Stevens county this . year, J The VValla Walla Commercial club has obtained an indefinite lease of a tract of land near the city for use as an aviation field. . i Th. W..hinl . 1- censes last Thursday issued certifl- ' t.a , a 04 t ... . . 1..0 tiurwpraciors to practice their profession In that state. ! Mrs. Louisa Klbler. who crossed the Va,,n" team in 1864. died near Walla last week. Mrs. Klbler had lived on the same farm for 49 years.-. .. U- j After - 78 days ' of "searching Snd waiting relatives of Henry W. Koeller. well-to-do Presser farmer, who din appeared about that time, have given him up as dead. ! The report comes from Yakima that the old buildings at Fort Stmcoe, "p'ch were formerly used for a school, will- be used fora yocaUonal school for former soldijsVa , . , j.TJ. government employment office ait; Yakima has sent out a call for 1!00 laborers for the Yakima valley, in cluding about: 100 for government rec lamation work at Rlmrock dam, v.. J While' operating a cable from a don. , key engine near Hoquiam Friday." iohn Ulakovtch, , 85. got his hand caught on the cable and was drawn , beneath the cable and drum and crush ed to death. .. . .., J More dwelling ! house and general building construction is going on In Prosser this year than in any season ' since 1917. 'Fourteen dwellings, two business buildings afrtd one church, are- ' under construction. ;, ,;, : The Jamber mills of the Western Fine Manufacturers association, the ; JBi Empire organisation, shipped 160,809,000 fet of lumber during May, ' or more than-was ever shipped before during any one month. (Mrs. Richard Townsend 'of fVades; who went to Log Angeles a short time ago to nurse '.a daughter who was ill, was stricken with a nervous break down and died soon after the death ' of her daughter. The bodies of both have been returned to Vador. 1 IDAHO - w vumn.ia ,xviii grain dealers, railway men and farmers, the immediate , prospect - Is a 60 per cent" wheat crop in Idaho. -. - i Farmers of Latah county are com-' plaining that groundhogs are destroy-K ing theTr crops. Efforts are being made to j poison them with strychnine. .. Dan Littledyck, 8o. of Smithfleld; -Utah, was killed at Pocatelto -Friday morning when he attempted to jump from an express train before , it had come to a stop. . .,. " - - ! Thieves entered the borne of H. C. r Stringer at Weiser Saturday . night while the occupants Were out -riding ' and took wearing apparel and other articles valued at 800. , v : . i Idaho's death rate is said to be eight per 100 population, about the same as Oregon,. Washington and Mon tana, and these four states together haw the lowest rate of any in the -United States. . ;.. ' I No trace has been found of Alyse Lester, 19-year-old Boise girl who disappeared more than a week ago following a -scolding from her mother, and relatives fear she has drowned herself in the river, . j Twenty Years Ago iFrora The Journal of July 6, 1902. Tracy was seen this morning travel-. Jak toward . the j Squak Slough cabin, where - his provisions are. It is re. ported that Tracy has shot and killed his companion, Merrill, j , While endeavoring to jgnlte powder during the celebration yesterday near Irvington, D. S. Bellinger war badly injured by a premature explosion. A number of minor accidents are - re ported. - -. , --: r; "i - ' r- v '; . ;.::.-.: : ':.:' . : The rains in the North Pacific states have practically -ceased, but; a few showers - occurred , last night In the Willamette valley and Eastern Ore. gon. ' .:.i.., -. . ..--.; v ; . .. ".(' 7. ' ' - i'V.- ; ' '. . '"-. :. i THe eity engineer's department had a number of men employed yesterday patching the - elevated roadway , on . Union avenue. between East Stark and East Oak streets. The roadway is in such- a dilapidated condition that re pairs -have to be made nearly every day. ', - - - - Several hundred cords -of slabwood . are being thrown away dally as a re sult of the fuel teamsters' strike, It has. accumulated at, the mills so rap idly thatr the limited number ot teams are unable to haul it away. V j:f !.r--,'"C '"'"'' e-,' : -'.-.'-.'-..''"' -ifj .'. - t-4 Amear tha :-1atestt additions to the Portland postofftce Is a letter stamp- , lng ' machine,' operated by electricity. It has a capacity of 20,000 letters per hour. ' ;'--i''i-i.:-'"viV"---'j;'ij "'-;.-e--';'--'";"-''-:-'"'.--.r''!': : !.3-'-' iThe " hopgrowers of French Prairie are somewhat encouraged, as the pros pects for a - good crop and a good price are favorable. - - , '1": ',.'.r:-:. p - - . ,f ; Salem celebrated the Fourth of July as , It .ha not been 'Observed in many year and the population of the Cap). tal1 City is highly pleased with, the re sult. 1 ' r - , (,-, j , -. w . 4 ' . I j .Since "the advent of , tbe rainy weather the - Portland free swimming baths at the foot ' of Belmont, street have been closed. ' Whenever the baths are open to the public a large flag will be displayed, from the flagstaff. if