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Hit rtnltuncM Money OrtWr. iirea Ordor er Ireft. If ymtr poatofMe ia Bet a money-order offte. J - or 2 -rent stamp .will fc - accepted. Maka aB remltunee abl to Th Journal Pabtianinc Co! icaa par- aapaar. ' for tiara. Oretoa. s Go put your creed into your deed. -; Vor apeak with double tongue, I 1 menon FOUR GUNS AND AN EASTERN judge had just passed sentence of death on a young man convicted of killing a policeman. The judge had tried many such case a, He had. given many such sentences. Be had drawn & conclusion aa to the rea sons -for the crimea And this Is what he says 'should be done to prevent the killings, obviate the necessity of the death sentences, and eliminate the suffering among families and friends: The ca.a just finished emphasises the -views' I have frequently expressed deploring the indiscriminate sale of firearms which can be surreptitiously concealed. . Here we have a man on -whose person were four pistols a .45 caliber army run, a .33 caliber pistol and two .32 caliber pistols. He would not hare had such frightful. Instru ments in his possession were it not for their indiscriminate marketing. The present ; laws attempt a control, but to my mind murder and robbery and violent crime will never be lessened until private manufacture of pistols is stopped. ; No such weapons should be made except " by the government. Their use should be exclusively in the hands' of army officers, sheriffs and fiwtoeal police with such registry as would t, make It possible for the government to know at all times Just where each - weapon can be found, j The Judge had seen Criminal after criminal come before him and pass on-to prison. It is his Judgment ' that' the revolver is the greatest accessory of crime. There, are atjat law prohibiting the itw" f pistols. But in most I .-cases a criminal only needs to step . across-the border line to another state to procure the weapons he t needs in his 'practices. It Is only by national legislation that gun totin&T can be stopped, and even, under the permit system. guns al lowed to responsible people are bound to fall into the hands of criminals, either through theft 'or otherwise. The Eastern judge also urges a strengthening of the law prohibit ing the possession of revolvers. He advises that a minimum penalty jof JO years' imprisonment be im posed. ' He reasons that such a law would pVevent everyone except those with violent .Intent from carrying guns. Certainly there should be a strengthening of the ' concealed .-weapon laws. Many are - the dangerous men convicted of carry ing pistols.; They are given a few days in jail and the gun Is confis cated. In a few days they are; put again, and obtain another gun. k v If .the penalty f or carrying pistols were to be : Increased to several years behind prison bars, the "pres ence of the gun ."would be prima facie evidence of evil Intent and the gun toter would be behind -the bars before: the crime was com mitted, instead of after his victim has been placed In the grave. The present statutes penalise the-man after the crime; Is committed they do not prevent the act- The . Eastern judge makes very splendid suggestions. . They are suggestions on which- there should be , action, and the : only way to compel that action Is 'for, the pub lic to force congress to "disregard the lobbyists of the manufacturers of pistols and enact a law- doing away " with. ' jprtvate . manufacture. Then - Increase the . Imprisonment under state laws for carrying con cealed weapons, and there 'will be a reduction . Irt, killings, hangings, court costs and grief stricken rela tives. ; , The attack on the life of Maxi "tnilian .Harden Is example of the movement, for restoration of the monarchy in Germany. There are always people who' love a throne. They want to" be a part of ' the satellites and trappings of royalty. There are blind moths by the thousand who would. like that order for America; ' That the . strained financial and economic conditions In Germany should make the znon arcblsta .bold Is inevitable. V They love monarchy and are witling to wade through blood to get It. 1 Climbing lines . are to appear on Mount Hood. Now get an ele vator for the short m winded and everybody will reach the. summit. OUTLAWED? rpHE railway labor board cutlawf Jt- . tne striking shopmen s . organi zation! for the latter's . refusal to abide by the board's wage decision. The - action eliminates the : out lawed ; men ; from such protection as the labor board , was created to give them. ' :x But -what about the refusal of numerous roads to abide by the labor board's recommendations and the transportation law? Why is no sentence of outlawry pronounced upon them ? .: What, about the 60 per cent or so of the roads that refused to join in establishing regional boards of adjustment? Why Is no sentence of outlawry pronounced ' upon them? a . r J .. Eighty-eight roads have ignored rules arid decisions of the labor board. They contracted shopwork to private individuals. and Concerns. They arbitrarily . reduced wages contrary to board findings. They refused to reinstate ljen. In viola tlon of the board's orders. - . The board ordered the Pennsylvania to appear before it to show cause why it refused to enter fhto-eon ference with its employes, and that road defiantly refusedJto obey. The labor- board Is a ; part1 of the public authority of the United States. Up to the present all the trouble it has had with defiance of its orders has been with the rail road executives, They have ob structed its policy at. many'points and flouted its ; findings in many particulars, while the men against whom sentence of outlawry is now pronounced have, without excep tion, yielded to its authority until the present strike- was declared. "it Is not a good thing for some of the railroads to be above the law while their employes are sub ject to that law. The men know wherein the roads transgressed, even If the public doesn't. The ef fect on them and on their faith In public authority is very bad. Out lawed themselves for a single dis regard of the labor board's find ings, what must be their conclu sion when there is no outlawry for the roads even in the face of scores of transgressions? .. But the men should hold fast to their faith in their country and its institutions. Recent primary elec tions are in the record, and it is a record of revolt against hard-boiled policies. A lot of citizens are vot ing, against old-guardism. The bal lot is the best weapon of defense ever put into the hands of men. The thing for the outlawed shop men to do is to hold fast to their faith in America and think as they use the ballot. There "Is a great big Jury in the country that in the long run will do ultimate justice. 1 IN THE OREGON COUNTRY PORTLAND, it appears. Is not alone in the accelerated build ing of recent date, r Salem's build ing' permits in -June were double those of May. A new warehouse, a mattress factory, a hospital and extensions to. the state! game farm are prospects : which . Interest the people of Eugene. ' Cottage Grove, is to have a new business block with room for five stores. A dehydrating plant in Medford which was destroyed by fire is to' be replaced with an Im proved fireproof structure. Bend has a . number of business build ings and -a theatre, as subjects of Immediate activity. Work is progressing on North Bend's $50, 900 hospital and Astoria is to have a 75,000 theatre. Silverton's In dustrial facilities will be increased by 'a colid storage plant, chiefly for" fruit preservation. Oorvallls plans a new Methodist and Rose burg1 a new Christian Science church. Roseburg also has de termined upon a new public library. Where frame buildings were de stroyed by fire in Dallas the latter part of May work is under way on a new business block of fireproof construction. Silverton is i to have a new telephone building. - These -are a few merely of the most recent building announce ments which, coming from all parts of the state, snow that the Improvement In building operations Is not confined to one locality. "One thousand dollars damage to home Is caused by firecrackers." That isn't anything- compared -with the damage they can do. UPLAND FOR RIVER "BOTTOM rpHTI Port pt Portland has In times A past given away many acres of land. It has pumped" from the fiver bottom, great quantities of earth. It has' deposited the ma terial on adjacent, privately owned lowland. It has created property worth thousands of dollars an acre out of worthless areas. ff.-w --; ' . All this has occurred incident to the.port's dredging operations. The explanation always heretofore given Is that the dredging must be done to maintain a channel, that ,the spoil of dredging must be deposited somewhere and i that the property owner really did the port a favor to allow space for the soil. . , . But a hew principle, one that The Journal? long has contended for. appears in recent port policy. " The port plan the creation of the much, needed west - channel around Swan Island.' The terminal company desired a fill preliminary to the development of an import ant car assembly and distribution yard. - The port sold enough dredged material to the terminal company to meet1' the latter's needs. It was a buslness-iike procedure. ' The port will remove about 12, 000,000 Cubic 'yards more in dredg ing the west ehannel. The complete filling ot. the Guild's Jake district calls for some j 10,000,009 : cubic yards, Negotiations are under way whereby a strip of west side water front 2030 feet jlong and TOO feet deep ' . may become the - property of the port in exchange for the fill. - The j idea is" I excellent. . Public ownership and control of the water front Is a'; condition ; precedent: to successful port Operation, f it Is a matter la which only - the details need be the object f solicitude. The basis of settlement must be on terms that favof the" public inter est. When such terms are arrived at the people of the port will find that In the new,jehannel, the water front secured fpr the public and the industrial area created, they have obtained three great port as sets in one transaction. ' After all it is only trading acres for acres, and ihe" port ; is. getting pay for the spoils of dredging, which It formerly gave away. There is. an example to youth of today In the life of William. Bail lie, which ended In Portland this week. His .83 j years were filled with usefulness; to family, to the Masonic order and to the public. Three score years he and Mrs. Bail lie spent together making a home which admitted I over its threshold only the ideals' of happiness and right living. i. - - HIS AFTERNOON OFF nrtHB world knows little of Char--L ley. White. Be is & modest man of a little more- than middle age, with an establishment' at No. 26 Broadway. New, York. In tn day time Charley is at work serving his customers, and he always tries io serve them well. He has been there for years. His business Is that of blacking- people's boots. It is many a shine that Charley has produced, and he shines', them all alike, the rich and the poor. Many of the nation's millionaires have stepped from Charley's place of business looking much the better for the visit.- And those of humble income as wellrregularly stop for Charley's shine.; The faithful bootblack was absent from his establishment, however, for an afternoon -last week. He didn't hang up a sign saying where he was going or when he would, re turn. He merely closed up shop for the afternoon to attend a sad ceremonial. He had gone to - bo present at the funeral of his friend William Rbckefeller at the In vitation of the ;Rockefeller family. For years Charley had served the Standard Oil magnate. At Char ley's establishment Mr. Rockefeller had rubbed elbows with Gotham's poor and rich alike. He had re ceived the same courtesy and the same shines. ; He had admired Charley at his work and they had become friends.- So Charley's other friends had to wait that afternoon while the bootblack went to the funeral. i One man was rich and the other poor, but there was a friendship. a true friendship that was not for gotten,, even In death. Than that kind of friendship there Is nothing greater in life--to a millionaire or to a bootblack.: . j With the strike on, now ; we'll learn If. there ts any truth ; in the reports that the cars aren't re paired anyhowJ.; IN THE DAY'S NEWS EIXENSBURG. July 4. Two persons were killed and another injured, probably fatally, when a westbound Chicago, Milwaukee & St. ' Paul passenger train struck an automobile at a crossing three and one half miles west of here late this afternoon-' ' , Saratoga Springs. July 4.' A man and- woman' were killed and 13 others Injured j late today when a Hudson Valley; train crashed Into a ... truck filled with holiday ; pic nickers near Ballston Spa.. And so the record runs. v Where railroad and h.ighway meet there is a growing peril. The toll of the crossings in 1921 la- America was 1791 killed and 6tl , Injured, i Of the Injured 119 died later, , j ' - And ilere tsi the worst phase of the peril: , Death and injury are increasing at a rapid rate. In 30 years In America the popu lation increased but 68 - per cent, while killings at crossings Increased 345 per cent and the injuries rose 652 per cent- J v That Is to say, as railroads multi ply and population increases death and Injury at railroad crossings in crease at an alarmingly accelerated ratlo.s:;-:: JfejKt , ' ' And the only, way to combat It la by spreading the alarm through educative propaganda, for It would cost more thmjrt 3 12, 000,000, 0v to eUmiiiat the crossings by over head tracks, a plan that Is physi cally and financially Impossible." Some men' work and save, others shirk and rave. , ABNORMAL -NORMALCY Administration Here Advised That It Has Misread the So-Called Man - date of 1920 ; Also, That Today's , Insurgency Is No New Thing, . - as It ; Has Fondly Supposed. But Is of the Same Old Sort ,v the People Have Used. . ' Since They Got Behind Jefferson With. It . - - i In 1900. From -tha New York . WoiM ' The rumble ol insurgency has been growing louder and louder in the -last six months. -The weatherwise have known 'that a storm was coming for an even longer .time jiave known it since the: farmers' markets collapsed and the farm bloc came Into being. But Eastern politicians would not for a long time take it seriously. Thea.it thundered mildly in Indiana, more loud ly m Pennsylvania. There was a bang in lows. , But the storm, has -only be gun.: 'Senator X Follette's attack : on the supreme court,. Senator Ladd's bit terSattack onthe bankers, are a taste of what the real thing is going to be like. ; The feeling r against ""money" and privilege", and "the Interests" is once more becoming Intense. i ' It would be a great mistake to think of this discontent as -jradicaHsm, if W that much abused and much mis understood word is meant a belief in Socialism imported to this country from Europe. The insurgency now growing in the West and South is an American perennial seeded and grown on the American . land, it has appeared un der' many different names. It swept Jefferson into power in 1800 and sup plied the substance of the present Re publican party In 1S56. Since the Civil war it has reappeared again and again, as the Greenback .movement,; as. Pop ulism, as Bryanism, as Ia Folletteism, as theSull Moose, as theNon-Partisan league. 1 knows no party lines, for it is an economic conflict tnat ever so often overflows into politics. It repre sents- the protest, sometimes intelligent and idealistic frequently misinformed and demagogic of the farmer who is a consumer of manufactures and a borrower of credit.- against the" industrialists- and the, lenders of credit. When farm prices are low, manufacturers' prices are hlsrh and money is tight, the conditions exist for a rebirth of this old insurgency. These conditions . have existed for ever a year, and such speeches as Laoo and Xa Foilette are . delivering follow from, these conditions as night after day. It is idle for Mr. Harding's friends In the senate merely to deplore such speeches and view them with alarm. Those speeches have strong backing, and. short of a miraculous boom of prosperity within the next two years botlf political parties will be rent by the spirit back of these' speeches, This discontent has had. present nei ther leaders nor program. It has spokesmen and catchwords. The auc tion for the leaders of both parties to consider ia whether they will resist it foolishly- or turn It by sympathy and leadership to constructive ends. If they are to do that they will have to rid themselves of the delusion, pro duced by the 1920 election, that the American voter in the mass is reac tionary. That delusion has been fatal to Mr. Harding and fatal to the pres ent congress. Except under the most abnormal circumstances, such as ex isted in 1920, the decisive political sen timent of this country is against the standpatter in ideas and is liberal in tone. Mr. Harding and the Republican machine thought otherwise and actu ally went so far as to christen their opinions normalcy. What they want may be normalcy, but what a control ling majority of American voters want and always in the end insist upon is not stand pat normalcy, but normal pro gressivism. They sound a little alike, bat they are, as the Republicans are about to discover, quite different. Letters From the People l Ccmmunioaticna sent to Tba Journal for XAiDJaeatJon in uus aeperuucui buuumi u writ ten an only one aide of th paper, should not vxee S00 words in tensth. and moat a signed fey the writer, whose mavl addrea In full must acoovuaany the contribution.) r DECRIES PROHIBITION Complains of Reform Laws, Alleging That Needed Reforms Are - f Overlooked. " e Ell, Wash., July 3. To the Editor of The Journal For advocating' a new economic system I am classed as a radical dangerous te society and good government. There are two kinds of radicals. There are those who advocate the overthrow of the government by force and the destruc tion of life and property. Those are the radicals that can pot be tolerated In America. Then we have. the con servative radicals,, those who advocate radical political measures by peaceful methods. These are the . radicals we need today. ' The main trouble ' seems to be we make radical laws that we don't need, and never turn a hand to make those we do heed. We don't ' need national prohibition. The whole thing is : a detriment to the progress and welfare of America. It has not built up nor equalized anything) but has left noth ing but destruction ia Its path. : - We were told this law would cure our economic ills and bring happiness to poor families. Instead it has cre ated misery, malice, strife and hatred. Should one advocate such a radical change in dur social system as nation al prohibition Is, he would be locked up. " Should one advocate a new eco nomic system that didn't work any better than prohibition has, he ought to be locked up. Still, this law is up--held by the God-loving people. I am. not an Infidel, but I believe some of the words Robert Ingersoll wrote are true. He said. "We are one vast insane asylum without a keeper. Wa break our necks to get some crazy law, and. absolutely Ignore the ad vocacy of good, righteous laws." Some t Bay God helps those who help them selves, but when we. help ourselves to the devil's broth we are minus God's help. When we make laws that pro tect and strengthen His creation,' then He always stands ready to help us. When we labor' under-a system that makes .the rich richer and the poor poorer one doesn't have to' be a stu dent of economics to know It Isn't right. Neither- should a remedy for this be classed as dangerous radical ism. ; " . s : Because ' 1 - advocate " a new social system I; am not criticising nor con demning i men who-" ; have - become wealthy by being prudent and saving and, exercising keen business judgment and financial Instinct. bu I am con demning the . system that favors this class. - We should have a system under which when the profits exceed a cer tain : amount wages will have to be raised or the prices : of products cut. In either ease, the masses- would set the benefit. The -government should have the power to do this. We are on the eve of the overthrew of our eco nomic system. - The : next generation will look back and! . ace what infernal fools we are- to live under a system that makes .. multi-millionaires from the products of honest toil. - , E. A, Unseott ' . A PROTESTED PROTEST Salem, .July 3. To the Editor of The Journal With reference to the letter of T- T. McClure under tadays date, en tided "A Protest and a Plea,T allow me the space to Inquire, Why the pro test' what for the plea?. Why so much ado, so copious tears, for the wild flow ers aye, and the weeds and the rub bish of the vacant lots? eThe cold atones wouldn't have cried out at all, even though he kept as still as a eat after a mouse, nor; would the 1 village kyoodlea yew! their grief at his silence on the subject. But - Portland has plenty ef charms and beauties left. among her natural gifts, -enough to ravish the hearts of the citisens as well as the , tourists who come and go. Now, next year and after whenf we axe out of "lacy trees, wild flowers ana things, what about the trim, bobbed haired squabs, " those merry flappers, arid the chicks of Washington f street? Are they: to be overlooked,, eh, man? Poetry is not all in the woods j- ,- Dan SuHtvaiv UNFALTERING FAITH , Insisted on by a Devout Man Who Warns Against False "Ugnta ! Vancouver. Wash., Julv 3. rTo the Editor of The Journal These are the days of trouble, bloodshed and t. dissen sion that the Lord perhaps referred to when he told bis disciples to watch and pray, for - th time would come wnen ,vn the war it alaw would be deceived except they watch and pray continual ly. False leadings and false lights abound on everV hand, and much of these are impregnatinr editorial pages or oauy papers as wen as many maa- sinM rh,r e tsar-hlna elssseS who read them all over the great -school of the world. Teachers a ear common sH-kAnla have nnlv atducational orobleme In the classics to deal with, but editors are directing with thought trend, such high power and far reachlnr the ories that the whole world is affected hr them, and their r rasses are made ttP of millions, while-common school class es contain only half a dofen - to a score. .The Christian religion has for its object an , Idealism or ntgner ana nobler planes of life yet to be reached, which In time will become materialized, according to nature's laws,. m Jh- the a nf . in other forms starts from the tiniest form of idealism ,and steadily grows on and on untur tne highest form of its existence has ma terialized. This is a law- ot; nature. sknA nnlesfl ums ethstacle la nlaced in the way it win be fulfilled. In the springtime we plant our gardens after the ground has been made ready then, if we keen the weeds out, the seeds sprout and grow' and in due time they reach their highest object, which Is fruition, that their species may be continued. . ' . In the matter of the continuation ef human existence in the life that is to come, our religious faith-Is the all-im portant I actor to pe consioerea. any thing that tends to detract from Its sacred importance is an object nlaced in the way of Its fulfillment. To the believers in the Bible s.nd its teach ings It is a matter of wonderment that no much material written by doubting Thnrnaaea ia riven snaCe for publica tion. Surely editors of papers real ize that- their every utterance is scanned and assimilated by thousands of willing pupils. As your raitn is, so shall it e unto you. X. R; Whitney QUESTIONS SINGLET AXERS ' Slpk Sherwood Returns to the Charge, in Defense of the Homesteader. Nyssa. July 1.: To the Editor ot The Journal As the single, tax exponents are so .good at explaining things (to their own satisfaction) Td like to ask a question or two-. Why is it neces Sary to do away with taxes on all other property In order to tax idle land? Certainly idle land should be taxed, and would be if our officers would do their duty. If a man homesteads a piece of sagebrush and doesn't starve to death before he proves up, the assess or at once puts his' property on the tax roll, and often he has to pay taxes on a valuation in excess of what he could sell? for; at' the same time the big speculator gets by with a small valuation placed on his property Again, why 3s -the. stock .grown on public land private property, while land for which we have a deed from the government still belongs to the public? I did not say that your could not place a valuation en unimproved land, but I did say thab it has no value, at least in this country, all ef the stats of California to the contrary notwith standing. It ts the labor that makes it valuable. Why tax the results of the farmer's labor and let the rest go free? H. ' R- Sherwood. A POINT IN HISTORY Raised In Connection With Miss Ran kin's Vote on the War Measure in 1917, Portland. ' July 6. To the Editor of The Journal The Fourth of July is a hard day to refrain from political dis cussion,, and therefore the Loyal Le gion can be excused, because they are privileged on that day anyway. But when the same general tone, of boosting the administration and preparedness was taken up by that old-school bour bon Democrat, Opie Read, In the eve ning - at Gladstone Park, we became suspicious that there was method In the program. Especially when Reed spoke of Harding as always sound, and then followed by boosting preparedness, 1 began to think the patrons of the Chautauqua had- paid just to be edu cated along specific Jines..; If that' was the - purpose, then .the . promoters learned something;, for when : Hard ing's name was . mentioned there was just a weak clapping ' of hands by a few;, but later, when Wilson's name was mentioned, the ap plause was strong? and general. Tt seems that even the educators who make the people pay for their own edu cation do not seem to be able to con trol the people. ? - ir Opie Read is always interesting and entertaining and, for his age, remark ably clear. But there is one remark he made in his analysis of character that Is a false bit of history and a re flection on- women and needs, correct ing. rand -that is the oft-heralded state meat - that f. Jeanette. Rankin, first woman .member- of the national house of representatives, gave way to a 'fit of emotion when the rollcall was taken in the house to decide the entrance of the United, States Into the European war. Strange that it should be used against women, even if It were true, for tt. would- be no reflection on her If she did break down. But the facts are that Miss Rankin did not create a scene, as was reported, but was one of the strong members of the house" in that trying hour. I get my information from H. Martin Williams, reading clerk, who polled . the vote. H. -Martin is now nearly 90 years old. He has been a personal friend of mine for 30 years. When in a conversation with him in Washington v during the war I asked bim about this statement, which was then . being talked about. He stated that there was not a word of truth in it. - He said, ef course, everyone pres ent was tense with feeling. Strong men did break down and sob, -as they had boys that must enter the war, -B,ut Miss Rankin remained firm.- The house was so-silent when the vote was taken that you could hear the clatter of foot-stepe- on. the street- below, and when the call reached Miss Rankin she stated In clear tones, "I love my country, and vote No', , : ; --Anyone wishing specific Information may write the ; former reading clerk. I believe "Washington, D- C," will reach him. t ; . J. R. Herman, i MAKING NEWBERRY. THE TEST . Kirms Bsssssj 'm Tnteiaatinnal Vacaaxw Thox who reLd 4thse words are scat tered from California to Maine, from Dakota . to Louisiana. -All can have one test in common. If yon live In Wis consin on have, In La Foilette a burn In e issue,,; There are plenty of matters en which L follett and the writer of these lines do not agree. But La Fol- r COMMENT AND SMALL. CHANGE : r Beware - the soft-voiced man ' who whistles, every S". r - c . j . ;--.)?;-: -v"fe ,:- : ; Mr. Heller appears in the news col umns, but there Is no indication -of, his kinship to Mr, JDeville. . ,j i We-don't know whether to be glad er otherwise because It seems Impos sible to believe all we read. .i Market editor- reports weak under tone in hog alleys. : Something in the nature of .a-rooter'a grunt? City 5 will "rush work on high school street, the paper says. A matter of paving the way Jto a. good education 1 . The-most unpleasant part about the Fourth of July holiday is the necessity for returning to work after it's1 all over; One great difficulty "about satisfying- ihe masses with highway develop ment is the fact that they can't all be Improved at the same time. . i- - , Approximately 40 persona were killed in the nation's safe and sane July 4 celebration. . Still we wail about the death Jist of aeronautics. , .. . , . . With made - In Gern5ny 'on one side and "made ia Japan - on the other it is becoming a serious problem to be strictly American in our pur chases. : The railroad brakie. famous for! the fiames he gives, approaching stations, has nothing en the office central of the telephone company. Under her deft vocal toiefc "one minute please" becomes Tuh-rcsa-see. ... MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations Abput Town -The wheat harvest will be on- in full blasv in Umatilla county By- July ,20, reports Hugh ji.Bell of Pendleton, in the Athena district a good crop, seems assured. Bell is - accompanied by his family and ;by John .Bell and family of . Athena.-- All are-on. their way to the seashore to find cooler weather conditlona - - -. : - ' ' - - -' '-. ' .' - ' W. B. Potter has been eleeted presi dent of the Morrow County sssociation of Portland, tn accord with the usual practice of passing the honor on every year. . - : -' , Fred Balch and E. R. Budd, promi nent residents Of Ilwaco, Wash., are transacting business in Portland. ..,. , Ed McGreer and family of Antelope are passing through Portland on the way to the ocean beach. J. D. Edwards of Bay City is spend ing the heated term in Portland. ' j. A; George of Skamania is one of many out of town visitors.- E. B. Stewart of Roseburg Is a guest of Portland. f Among out of town visitors is George Neuner Jr. of Roseburg. , , Albert JCaseberg of Wasco was amng recent arrivals from the interior. - a . . Transacting business In Portland is R. R. Butler of The Dallea . , C F. Bui finch of Weston is an out of town visitor. ..- a ' Anson B. Moody of Yakima,. Wash., is an out of town, visitor. . . H. H. Owen of Oakland was doing business in Portland Wednesday. i - i An out of town visitor Is W. E. Moore of Heppnen - W. W, Underwood ot Puyman, Wish.; is 'visiting In Portland. . OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN V By Fred Tha atery ot Mis. Jane Strzizht Blnxynaa of Canemah la here aonelnded. - To this ear. . . .. , i.i - . rMm that eelft- bratea a certain stern and deciilr facte?. U to ma oi uib viu .m "When. I asked Mra' Jane Straight Tinmn m. rimmsh hnw her father. Hiram Straight. -reached the having left his cattle at Fort Walla Walla in 18, she said they cut down - , orhinaftweH -. thsm into lumber. and wade rafts on which they went down the Columb lo-the ascanes. They then portaged their goods sround the Cascades and nirea waiana the boats through. "Father unloaded his stuff at the mouth of the Willamette, where he . n.n t m ou ni of months - looking .....a " aha said.- "H fm, a . ,i. nn rlaf creek, in Clack amas county. .The family moved into an. unflnishea cabin, wnere uier- apvuv ,k yu r that, winter, while father worked at Oregon City. He came home every Saturday night. A, I. Love Joy and F. W. Pettygrove had " taken a claim a mile and a half down the Wil lamette, above .Oregon City However they wanted to give this up and devata their energies to a town they were go ing to start midway between Oregon City and Vancouver." They did not hu sii.tvise a tai! their new town Boston or Portland, but finally decided on Portland. . yatner oougnt uwr acre claim a mile and a half north of rMM ru-7 sersalna tn nav for it as he could earn the money. He finally sold off about half of it for enough to pay for the whole place : so having over OA dot- I,? fne riinuutlf he built a log cabin at what Is now' Park , Plane, though in those - days it was caiiieo fiab-am and it was in that lear cabin I was bornr February 13, 1846. , "My father ' was a great-hand to go to mines.. Late in the fall of 1849 and in the spring of .1849 almost every able-bodied i man of Oregon City left for the eold mines of California. Later my- father went to the gold, mines of Southern Oregon, and a till later to the Fraser river mines and to - those near n. J e, .... In T4ahn M 1 rioreuca auu viviiuu, . ... t e -. - . v - The first news of the discovery of gold in California came to the Willam ette valley when Captain Newell, mas ter of the steamer Honolulu, entered the Columbia river. July 11, 1848.- He began to buy bacon and other supplies, to the surprise of the storekeepers. ' He bought all the shovels, picks and milk pans he could secure, ' then. Informed the storekeepers that J. W. Marshall had discovered gold in . Sutter's mill race. ' The news , was taken with -a grain of salt, but a few 'days later, on August 9. the bark Henry, from Ban Francisco, came in and her master cvn--firmed the news of the discovery of rich placer gold in California. Ex Governor Boggs eC Missouri sent - a letter to some friends in the Willamette valley telling of the gold discovery. A pack train was hastily organized, and a little later, in September, 150 settlers from Oregon City arid ether points in the ' Willamette - valley -organized . a lette thinks and darea His unchained mind broods over the railroads, overi Imperialism, ever the products by which we are warmed .and fed. Ha is one of the handful -Who give reality to a senate : mainly, composed - of stuffed shirts under the leadership of Lodge. Let us repeat one safe principle about senstorships: Make each candidate pledge himself on Newberry. Lorlmer kpt his seat on one-vote and lost it on the next. - There Is no better way "NEWS IN BRIEF - SIDELIGHTS Caeital and lvbor mirht ret along better . if they weald turn all their weapons over to the public . to bold. crane American. . - ... :': '..'i-'iV.S-?1':? .''i1, Work Is the greatest panacea on earth. The crawl is the real pace that kills ' Degeneration cornea more from the things - left - undone, rather- than from the doing. Ashland Tidings: ; "S -V:..ir-- - ,iiV-- "I The state highway commission : has renewed Its war on the advertising sign along the state highway and the average citizen will aay. "Amenj and go to iCAstoria BudgeU c; ::jji v? - ' '':-.-- -r.i;v i T-f 'j-K- Tha lunior aeedsender ot this fcom- monwealth has not been t in Washing ton, D. C. ; for three months, ana a majority of his constituents have hopes hm win aiav a-wrav, the remaining! five years of his term, Medprd Mail-Trib une. -; -5; ' ; :. ... , :- y: Eirht New York" bovs were sentenced to go to church eight Sundays for at tempting to run. cnurcnes must oe different In New York. Out here In the country, that's about the best place in the world to meet a nice- girU Corval lis Gasette-Tlrnea. , - e - a a , , 'S ... Alt this talk about the gold coins ef old Croesus recently v discovered - vat Sardis merely shows what "a piker Croesus was. Secretary . Mellon would have cleaned out Croesus" whole treas ury several times a month to nay .rou tine appropriation bllla La Grande Observer, a"-y ..i-re j ---.v - i Highway Commissioners, Booth, Bar rett and Yeon left today on a general tour over, the highways of the state. Their, first objective is Crescent .City, CaL, where a meeting of the Roosevelt Coast- Highway association of Oregon and the Redwoods Highway association of Northern California will be held July 10 for the purpose of promoting the (early construction 1 . of . an , Interstate highway along the Oregon and . Cali fornia coast.. ? :".-'..-:. JJ 'i. - Phil ' Metschan .: has returned front Seaside, where he served as one of the Judges of the bathing girls' contest en the Fourth. t :- ri. " V - a ':: ;?- 'h -f Mr. and Mrs. Ray Berdeaux of Ber deaux, Wash., are among Portland vis itors. . ' .! . i ' " ' 1 - - '!: '--"-' 4 F. E. Stewart of Monroe was trans acting business In Portland Wednes day .- .! .1 "J. 'c;;L Mr. and Mrs. Hugh W. Xirkpa trick of Ibanon are among guests of the Imperial. ; , . j ' . ' -. ? .- 4 Among out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. Olney B. Funk of Walla Walla. , ' William Esterbrook of Stevenson. Wash., is in Portland on a .business mission. '.:- .' ' .: e " -i ' "j Clayton IV Long and F.t H. Shep herd of Corvallls are among visitors from abroad, j - e e : -"! c;; ; John Haglund is in Portland en a business visit. ' - ; - ! :.e. i . J, -:. -j- Marlon G. Allen and Efsie L. Allen of Jefferson are visiting Portland. . j e.., , t . . Charles B. O'Malley of Skamania, Wash,, ts amng out of town visltora i ... W, E. Nosboh of Oregon City spent Wednesday in Portland. Lockley train of 50 wagons and started for California. Peter -Burnett was elected captain of the goldseekers train, and Thomas McKey pilot.- Among the Oregon ians who left for the mines were A. L. Lovejoy, F. W. Pettygrove, Joel Palmer, James McBride, W. L. Adams, Wilbur Monteith, A. A. Spencer, M. M. McCarver, George Gay, N. Everman, W. H. Gray, Stephen Staats, J. W, rvesmitn, John M. Shlvely, .William Shaw, Benjamin Burcn. Ralph Wilcox. W. H. Rector, Robert Newell and scores of others equally wen known, r : - - ." . i . ,k .' 'My husband. Samuel Lovejoy Stev ens, died after we had been married about 12 years." said Mrs. Btngman. "I then married James K. Blngman, : a carpenter. I had four children by my first husband, Jlattie. .my first child, died. Henry, my next child, lives at 8ellwood. Sylvia now Mra W.iHe.Vaa Emon, lives here at Canemab. - Samuel lives at Oregon City. " : - "One of the most vivid recoUetions of my childhood is of seeing; the In dians who had murdered Dr. Whitman and his party banging with the black caps over-their, heads on the gallows at Oregon City. They were banged by the sheriff, Joe Meek. - In those days people did not have grand opera, or even the movies, so they -came from all over the country to witness the hanging of these Indians. . ; - , T'' .. - i---; "Among the old timers that I re member best were Dr. John McLough lin. Dr. Barclay, our family physician ; General . McCarver, A- -la Lovejoy and W. O.-TVault, editor of the first news, paper,, the Spectator, published fin Ore- '; .-'.;:Kf - Here is a bit of verse by C. B.l Clark Jr. that I like. It is enUUed, tGood- bye, end Forty-Five" : . v - The trails arc safe: eld foe fMcot: We' shook th law ofun and dirt. - j Th West has turned front hlood to sweat Sw'i And pot her flchtia atrmata te. work; And now. with outlaw, brae and scout, Vi : Old 1'orty-FlT. you r soia'-eut. . -., . s - - J;. : Is el, eld time, when thta were , ; ; ion yeipeo tn nappy man aeitsat; , i ., Ton spoke tba thunder of th law; . . 1 You howled nd Bonier thitnah the eileTit For soed or bad, for eotirt or diea, , i son siaa year worn, ofclfi-orty-!. - r j But when jam praccad a good man's vast ' 1 -reckon vow were tost misled--. - I think aboat m at yonr bast, - '-'"!' Tot way 1 woakt a pare that's Sead, -Thoosh tneaa aw aettlerm snort aad float : lour rirtuea, bo yoy'r torn' est. .. . - Bemeatberia' that wild old land, : ' r: - e -, ' Tba Kw, Ion aicbtaj th awefea ea end i When feelin yoa beneath say hand . Waa uk th hand-srip a a fnend, -f With all year atna I kaint enntri J Te cos yoa, seed ead forty-rtTa! ; , ' Wee satgTnwrt limpla shootln" fray, . , TK still the fiarbun' apirit aervea; r Oar battles spill less Mood thee days, r-- -Bnt strain some harder en the aras. : - t Th Wax still calls tor hearts that'a stoat, Taoask yea eld boy, arc sola' .est. - -, .. f Is onr"nsw fitrhta yoa Aala't bslonc Tfat lea as what are learnt f rest yea r The head that'a steady, swift and atroBs. 1 ; i Th ra thafs qaick and keen sad true, Ta help aa loos th forward dn. . - .... Coad-oy. old pard. eld Forty-Flea. if he will not pledge himself against Newberry, don't' let him Into what should be sacred, the walls- of that chamber where our rights are supposed to be. protectsdV "- .:-:'it.'' : . , A senator can honestly vote to seat Newberry Jbut he cannot vote to seat dewberry and have the kind of mind that is suitable for leadership at a time when - one "of our subtlest needs is io purify public, life and release it - from the rower of gold. . . - - - - "(:-." ..The Oregroa Country Kertkweat aUapanin. ia Brief, feral fa tie 1 ita Baedar,. : -'.l . OREGON' i" r " .X '- t The Oregon Eleetrie railway is con i tructing a steel span at Dairy creek, i a mile west of HUlsboro. ' The home of Dan Richardson at St. Helens was burned 'Sunday afternoon with a loss of about 94000. , Berry pickers are so scarce In Ma- ' non county that appeals have been sent to the state hospital Jor patients to do the work. . . ' WillUm R. Smith, a well-known resi dent ef Roseburg. -as found dead -m-his room a few mornings ago. He had not been iU previously. - . , . I t While playing about the yard, the 2- year-old child f Mr. and Wra W. J.' Smith ef North Bend fell into a trough of water and was drowned. 'J- Adjutant General ( White "has In formed 2 thoeeu interested that a com pany of Orexon National Guard will be formed ia Tillamook u, few days. ! ,1 The; petition recently sent out from Tumalo askinar rural free delivery eerv- ' ice aix days a week Instead of three has been allowed by the postofflce de- . j Reedsport has been one of the busiest towns In Oregon this summer. It has a payroll of more than 12000 a day, the largest in the United States In propor tion to 'population.-' f .-J-The Bend Brick Uompanyi which SSn04 operatloos Monday, has added 94000 a, month to the cfty'a payroll. Manufacture will be oontlnued until . freezing weather sets In. h . TTHenry- and J T.; Moore have been placed under arrest at Sunset Beach in ClatsoD county, following the discovery of a still and a quantity of liquor under a garage they had rented. . j ; - t Contract for grading and surfacing rniles f the Prairie-Austin aection e' the John Day highway was awarded Saturday to Selms A Carlson of Spo kane, their bid being ?53,280, -j The central, labor council of Pendle ton In cooperation with six" local cigar stores has worked out a piss whereby Jobs may be secured for men wanting them without any fee being charged, i Three- brothers named Maxwell, own ing adjoining farms near Irving. In i Lane county, were arrested Saturday and each paid a fine of flE for al- I Jw'nff the Canada thistle to grow on ' then farma ..-,'-..' . . .. , - ".XvTilla 'i .. ; , ----- 1 " r svmw nurmvw near . v niineyin Haxer county, a contractor named .Waters was bttten'by one of them, the horse's teeth tearing a piece fro his neck about four inches long .a wires mcnes wiae. waters is in a serious condition -. t -" : WASHINGTON I v:.;:-" '-J i Taklma.Is to have two new spart ment houses, to be built by Mra W. I Besancon, one to cost $75,000 and the other $32,000. . . . , . ; ,,,-: . The road through Paradise valley to Rainier National park is now' open to automobile travel and tourists msy easily reach the lodge, Injuries which he received when struck by falUng tree proved fatal to Ole fcrdvig. Edmonds rancher, who died Saturday in a Seattle hospital. ' George F. Stone, T9. retired Seattle attorney, died suddenly a few days ago In the County-City building in that city when stricken with heart disease. . Joseph Taylor, 85 years old. foreman of the bridge crew at the North Seat tie car barn, dropped dead Friday morning while at work in the barn. Contract for the J paving ef West Marginal Way in Seattle was awarded last week by the board of publlo works ii T5hn, Mattaon, . contractor. - for $273.211.25. , . , ,t '" . A wall of fire six miles long and a mile in width is reported from New, halem, site of the hydco-electrhj plsnt of the city ,of Statue, on the upper Skagit river. . . . ;i; ' BeU Ingham lumber mills during the first six months of 1922 shipped by water 64,000.000 feet of lumber, nearly twice as much as during the same period ef 1921. , ' .iLTh5 sreain the Cispus watershed 'in the Rainier national forest in eastern Lewis county has been closed to camp firea - arithmrt-Inarnriir - 7nh,..i September 10.:, a ... At en estimated cost of 945.000, the Raymond Veneer -. company -. has in stalled machinery, that will feed two loga at one- time and will cut aider logs to supply furniture manufacturers. From 80tto. 99 per cent Of Seattle grade teachers and about 60 per cent of high school teachers have turned In their contracts for next year, not withstanding, the reduction In aal arias. "Mother Robinson. 88 years of are. a well known figure In many an early mining camp. of the West, was killed by. treet car at Tacoma Saturday whiu crossing a busy thoroughfare to sell papers.--'-. . The body of Angelo Logozzo of TaU Ima. drowned, June 2 in the Cle Elum river, was found Saturday evening two miles east of the Cle Elum river bridge. Four were (drowned when a flatbost overturned, and two bodies are stilP mlSSlng. ; - . , . With his ' jugular vein severed by broken glass when an automobile In which he was riding collided with an other machine, J. F. Owens of Mabton, 7? !!. wss almost instantly killed Sunday on the highway . pear Sunnyside. . i . - ..... IDAHO ' -f:-.r" :'-.': Camas county, is expecting to have a county high school ready for opera tion by September 1,: 1922. c , The first car to make the drive this season to Thompson falls over the Idaho-Montana summit east ef Burke, made the trip Sunday. . . An Intensive campaign against grasa hopwera is" being made by farmers In Camas county. The pest Is more nu merous than ever, before. The Idaho public utilities commission has fixed the value of the Grangeville F.'SFtr,.I'l1,t Power company at $462,883.24. a-reducUon of $125,000. Dale Gaskell. aged 15, son of Frank Gaskeil, a farmer, and Ten Martin, a woodman, were 'both Instantly kiiled Saturday near SW Maries by. a faUing Joseph Robinson, son of Mra W. A. Robinson of : Pedes, lost a band and suffered serious injuries to . the face wh.n' f hptfun shell he was pUying with exploded. .. - - . .f-.. .. , The Varsity Players. v dramatio students, left Moscow Monday on a iw iwwu tour ... or tne Northwest. Tiistr eiffe-rlnw thfai va 4 any. , . Once Overs Do You Take Yourself Too Seriously? Someone has told you that "you take yourself too seriously," and you are peevea.- ... - v- - - i ., ..' , ... ,- ; .But why khould you allow a state ment of this aort' to upset your poise? Certainly, the fact that you are- dis concerted by such a remark shows hat you - have lost a certain .- balance one way or another, - whether It be on the question of , opinion - Involved, which your kind friend Is trying to indicate, or something else. : -" It should not worry yen" that you "take yourself too seriously."; - - No one has1 accomplished anything worth while in the world who has not been in earnest and capable Of con centration, v ' .. No one has accomplished anything worth while in the world who hae not been serious about It, if the truth were known. - . " r. "--: ' - .' - Perhaps your critical friend -wants to' tail you that yo are trying to. con Vert the world to your opinion by main force of character. And if It be true, that Is where you are wrong; The- most potent forces In the world shine they do not depend upon their hammering qualities to mak a suc cess, but upon their illuminating clear- nesa',.r'V-'.." :r,' V-:'t '. ""-' If you can make yourself Uluminat Ingly clear, then your duty is done. (CopyrlzhC 1 32. tnteryuoaal yeature . (jimct, Inc.j