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cudg o: daily jcu vjsau foiitland, ? Oregon. TUESDAY.- JULY .11. AN IXDEPEKDEXT NEWSPaPEB- - C. P. JACKSOX. .'Pabltiser t ne rana, b eon&drnt, be cheerful and da " T -o other as yon woald Wh taena mnto .. hctj weekday asd uzidy Boimiil tt lti Journal baiUunc, BroA4w,r At Y.amv " ' trer, Portland, Oregon. -r tr mm lerina tiuooeh tb mail as second ss matter. - - , -ir. PHOX Main 1 1 6 1. ( '-airh-d by this naitt' Ail departaaenta a r.'OVAL ADVEBTTSIN HEPBSSENTA. 'J1VB Rnunln A nlir Co.. BmW bniidis. 22 5 Fifth areas. Sew Xork; v Mailer building, ernes. - -'. Mnrgenao Cfc.. lae.,' Examiner Wildin, fc-aa FraBciaco; Title Ijmiraoee btrfkfaac. Ml A n?les : BM-nrftJee building. Seattle. S-iS OREfiOS JOtTi-NAI. tr th rlsbt to reject adTartiain- -copy which it deem iMicuable. 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Uaka all eenUtaneaa pay. r-ie ' to 'iM eOwMi nouatuoc Coicpaay 'Tha eomnoaptaeaa of ae . or na tion aaake. th poetry . of aaotbar. A NEW HOPE A 1 NEW ray 'of hope has burst , f forth - for a greater reduction of the trnienlou burden of world armaments and. an elimlnaUonof the . constant" threat of war. ( This time it;ome from the League of Nation. . j : The vleagxipr6po"eav. that IS other nations, not signatories to the naval treaty entered Into at Wash ington, be ' included in the,, agree ments .reached . there,, thereby extending-the , scope of the Washing ton decision, and 'proposes, that till greater reductions in sea forees be undertaken.. . f -. - i It further . proposes that ' land armaments, one of the matters the Washington parley failed to act upon, also be -reduced by agree ment among nations and that? aerial units be limited. Furthermore, It proposes that natjopa bo bound, to protect against invasion only, those countries that axe in .the, same hexn isphereV y . ; The, proposals -are obviously an other Invitation to the United states to join fa" measures 'looking 'oward . disarmament and world ; aace.. i, They are" obviously at tempts to bring about the end of the crushing armament burdens and to block . the, approach of an other war. -. ' ' The arms conference was , not a failure. Although its accomplish ments fell short of what was ex pected, it laid the. basis of & plan on . which the present administra tion would enter Into agreements for smaller armaments and less of jvar. Now - it Is .proposed to make the agreements rSeached 'at Wash ington pot only of world scope, but a forerunner of other agreements to go farther in the line of arm ament reduction. ' . " , And the costs of naval armament are not the only war burdens under which the people of the earth are struggling. : Armies cost money. Airplanes cost money. Both are war -weapons, and wars can be fought with them just as they can be fought on the sea. 7 Obviously, the - proposal of the league that nations be called upon to protect the territorial integrity of only those nations -within their own, hemisphere Is a concession to the .Irreconcilable element In the United States. It means that this country would be expected to de fend only the boundaries of Amer ican republics, a responsibility al ready undertaken ' under the 1 Mon roe doctrine. 1 The league - proposals open the way for-the merging of the Pacific alliance with , the League of Na tions. They lead to strengthened agreements among all nations In stead of a few. J They' are another plea from : Europe for this country to enter Into a" program for less of costly armaments and. an aban donment of war. . ' .' ' Can ! this nation again refuse peace? Can we again assume the responsibility for a world struggling to pay for war , weapons .and the rush of another eonfliet?1 e Or are we now to take our place in the world as a nation desiring peace and willing fo assume a lim ited resp'onsibillty la maintaining What about .the drivers, licenses cf the numerous drunken drivers hose capers Sunday were related l : yesterday's Journal ? One Port " -1 Judge lamented that the fine 1 imprisonment allowed under r CHAMBERLAIN'S ADDRESS TT IS the same George E. Chamberlain as shipping hoard member that he was a United. States senator, as governor of Oregon and in all other public capacities. r, : It all stood out in the vigor and members forum at the Portland He is on the Job. 1 There are with the Questions that come up consideration. i " , He senses the Importance of gives reasons for-It. ; He iinows thoee reasons, because,' on the shipping board as in other public positions the bottom of things. ' .r' - A raror nf tntetrrltv and efficfenev Is a JCOOd Career and a full career. ?'lgv!: Those who Jxeard Mr. Chamberlain, yesterday" can perfectly realize that the. great effort 1 establish . an'. American merchant marine 1 attended with trials and vicissitudes from every angle, in which mem bers of the board must do hand-to-hand fikhUng all the time and everywhere. The- complexity of . the , home problems i tremendously complicated by the fact that foreign nations are using every endeavor to obstruct the rise of the United States to a position of strong power upon the sea, . -L ' ? , , ' There, can be no ouestion about this oppesition.- In- 160 years. American Interests hav paid over ing goods to and from the United shipowners. They do not want America t rise In ship power to aiviae that business. ' It iss to their interest to' fight an American merchant marine.'.' . . , This Sum of " more than; 140 billion dollars is almost half the na tional wealth of America, It is an incomprehensible sum. It came out of the pockets of the American people to pay for ocean transportation and went into the' pockets of foreign shipowners," foreign seamen, for eign shipbuilders and ; foreign enterprise and endeavor of every kind. What If a true share of all this colossal sum had been .paid , to American I ship lines' and Ty them had been - disbursed to workers and owners of American industry and American commerce?' It is to prevent 4BW situation so f avorable to America from coming to pass that the present great effort to keep American ships In; operation is fought by foreign interests,; west and east. The shlDPine board has a. tremendous problem. It needs the help and confidence of the American people. It has never had a fair chance It had' a new trail to blase, endeavor to pioneer. : ; It had to construction in war 4Ime when the points changed - Its personnel - was constantly, changed by successive acts of congress. Its chances and opportunities have been 89 hampered and hedged about that it has almost become the burial place of good men's reputation's. 1 It is now blamed because many government ships are Idle in spite of the fact that hundreds of ships in every country are riding at anchor with nothing to If the present board is given rreat endeavors deserve, it will probably find a final solution and keep the American flag proudly flying at shins on all the.oceana. It is already on the road to reduction of the annual deficit.--- ! - The board should be given time to work out its plans an d be given the confidence that men faithfully working with the 'biggest single business In the world are entitled the law were not heavy enough to fit the offense. Then" take away, the driver's license. Indeed, why not take away the driver's license of every person caught driving while drunk, whether in an acci dent or not T That is one protec tlon of the , sober public and sober drivers for which the driver's li cense law was passeo, TWO ADMIRALS ACROSS I the table from each other at the members' forum of the Portland Chamber of Com nrerce yesterday sat two men whose lives hav run. strangely close to gether. As they' touched -palms across the' table in a greeting after several' months of separation, eaoh called, the other by his given name. One was born at rMacon. Ga., and the other at Burlington, Vt, Then ships first touched as boys, when they, met as cadets at Annapolis Naval academy ; 1 That was 56 years ago. - Both graduated, .and. in subsequent sea service were frequently shipmates together. They advanced In rank together, and together ; wound up their careers in the navy ; aa ad mirals. ' One was Admiral Benson and the other. Admiral Mayo. Mayo- was the man who required an apology and a salute of 21 guns to .the American flag of the Mexican com mander for, arresting members of the crew of the American dispatch boat Dolphin- at Tamplco in J J 4. v: Together, they t occupied highly responsible positions - in the , navy during the World war. Mayo was commander in chief of the Atlan tic fleet, the 1 command - including all vessels in American and Euro pean waters, Benson , was chief of naval operations with headquarters at Washington. ...Mayo represented the .' United states at. a naval conference of al lied nations at London in Septem ber, HIT. In lilt, he made an inspection trip to all United States naval activities : in Great Britain. France and Italy. ' Benson was a member of a com mission named by President Wilson ts. confer with the 1 allied powers m Europe in 111 J. He was a mem ber of a special missftn abroad in October, ItiS. was naval represen tative of the United States in draw Inv up "naval terms r of armistice with ' Germany and "the Central powers,; and : was . naval adviser to the American .commission to nego tiate peace. He continued as chief of naval operations until Septem ber 25, lalt, when he was retired by operation of law after 4? years of . naval service. -j " '"-. Admiral Mayo, is now residing in Portland, and Admiral Benson was former chairman andv is now a member of the United States ship ping board. ,r: '., . ' , ' As" men. the" names of the-two boys from widely separated parts of the country are household words toj millions of American homes. : STIIX MANUFACrmRED - F' WAS July Fourth and all the children of the neighborhood were making noise to celebrate the occasion. : Some used firecrackers. Others had other .devices. Some just yelled." One boy had a toy pistol. - - - , , Little Tony Dlrusias and his sis ter Maria didn't have anything with which to join in the din. Tony was 5, laria 7. -They rummaged about the house ' ? versatility of his address before the Chamber of Commerce yesterday.. - no Jdle momenta. He i grappling and giving them earnest and honest , -an American" merchant marine and in which he has served; he goes to :. . . f-MfSi WW ) : '"." He billion dollars to ships for carry States. Most of. it has gone to. foreign ' ' 5 new ground to break, new fields of do a large part of its great work cf world was on edge and all view do. " the confidence and support that: its the masthead of American merchant '!. " to. . ; - to no avail. At last, Tony felt around In a bureau drawer. - His eyes brightened. Out came a .St caliber revolver, with one 1in ex ploded shell. It . looked like the one another boy had. . i Tony -and Maria exulted as they discovered something with which to make noise. Tony pointed the gun at Maria and pulled the. trig ger. The hammer clicked on', an empty .barrel, r ..-;..""". T'Tou can't make noise,' little Maria exclaimed. "Yes I can' came the answer from the brother. And the hammer came down again But this time it made; noise,. --Maria fell to the floor with a bul let through the abdomen.. Tony fell rt a faint. -The mother en tered' to find: both children appar ently dead. : Finally Tony, came to and told what had happened. But his little sister failed to revive. She died two hours later on the operating table. - .- ' - It is Just another story t of the pistoi, a suirering xamuy and a death, v And the . pistol manufac turersy go on manufacturing. In the numerous automobile' ac cidents in Portland last Sunday, some of the drivers seemed to he using gasoline, but many Of them booze. Will somebody rise up and explain why an intoxicated man or woman should be at the wheel of a motor car -on any public high way ? v Will Ut also be explained why any driver caught drunk should not. In addition to the limit of tha law in' fine and jail sentence, have his driver's license confiscated? NOT "POISON" SENATOR McCUMBER'8 defeat was not due, as he says, to mere "poison", circulated Ins his home state against him. f It was tdue to just one thing- the senator's strong affiliation with the Old Guard. Mr. MeCumber. In some ways, was far more progressive than the standpatters with whom he .was associated. ' On some questions he stood with the progressives in the senate. 'But unfortunately for- his political career, Mr. McCumher was too closely identified with the News, the Moseses, the Frelinghuy eens, - the Bran degeea and the Lodges. - He was a member of the group of political thought that has recently i taken over the reins of government In this country, and that ' group h&s failed signally ' to give the ..people of the r United States the government that they ex pected and wanted. v . . The dissatisfaction has not been proved alone in North Dakota: it has been proved in Indiana. in Pennsylvania, and in Iowa as well. in fact everywhere elections have been held save in the confirmed reactionary state of Maine. Political' "poison" was only a de tail in North Dakota. A new move-' ment was started there, .a radical movement, not because of "poison." hut as ' a protest against previous conditions. . .Mr: MeCumber - was one of those that were in the band wagon" while those conditions exist. ed. ' And Mr. MeCumber paid the penalty for his standpat positions and associations in the recent elec tion in his home state. The peo ple want a different brand of gov ernment. . - - HIGH TIME . ' . . S From tha Detroit Kewa A landlord la reported to the no! fee as rnisslns. : If he doesn't ehow up the day the rent is due the police wiU in- : NORTHWESTS OPPORTUNITY SUPBEME -. Plea for a Federal - Investigation of the Umatilla Kapids Project, 8up , ported by a Showing of Its Im . mense ' Potentialities, Absolute ." j ly and Comparatively, with a .. .' Visioning of What the De- -"..! velopment Means to Two - i; '. Great States, and - to--.-' ' Portland aa a Mat- J - j A- ter of Course. -n I FtM the Pendleton East Oreso&Ua News reports from Washington show that; Secretary Fall is favorable to a federal investigation of . the Columbia basin project in Washington. .That is well, for there should be such an in vest) g-ation. By the same token, there should be an official federal invest ration of the Umatilla rapids project. It is presumed euch an investigation may be had without legislation, but if it be necessary for congress - to act. then it would be extremely" appropri ate for the Oreen and Washington delegations to get busy in behalf of our great. Columbia -river project. - If the Columbia basin project is Worthy of attention by .the federal government the Umatilla rapids project is dis tinctly worthy of consideration. Here are a few facts that show why. 1 ' - The Umatilla-rapids, project would reclaim lands in both Oregon and Washington; the Columbia basin proj ect is entirely a Washington affair.: - The Columbia baein project would require something like 1250,000.000 for itgr construction ; the Umatilla, rapids project can be built for S25.000.00O, or one tenth the cost of the Washington project. The per acre cost under the Colum bia basin, project Is 9145. The cost of Irrigation -under the Umatilla rapids project ranges from per acre, up to- 9 80.58 per acre, with one tract of 14,600 acres on which the. estimated per acre cost, is 1109.75- in,, otner woras, me ; mam part or tne ' land under the Umatilla rapids project may be reclaimed - for leas than half the per acre cost, of re clamation under the Columbia basin project,: A total "of 335,400 acres may be r reclaimed by i the Umatilla-: rapids project xnrougn pumping.. , But that is not all of the story. The Umatilla rapids project Involves a very worth while improvement In nav igation on the Columbia and the gen eration j of 125,000 continuous horse power in addition -to tha secondary power needed for Irrigation purposes. The; primary :power would be available for electrifying Jhe W,R. VN. sys tem and the North Bank road and for-: much more.. The power would all be within the transmission radius of our principal Northwest cities, large and email, therefore would be of extreme Importance cin developing the' country. Industrially and socially , The proposed scheme for Using this primary power is reasonable and fair. it is proposed to distribute this power in rough the existing power companies, they selling it at prices fixed by offi cial regulatory bodies. ' In this way tiies power "- companies would secure power they need and It would be had at. a generating cost lower than could be secured by private capital. Instead or being in any way, antagonistic to power companies, the construction of the Umatilla rapids project would be a godsend to such companies. , r The power companies " use 7 per f cent money, while the government can e eure money at half that rate of in terest,- ! A private power 'project" Is subject - to taxation, while a govern ment-owned power plant would not be taxed.. ; Some critics of the Umatilla rapids project raise the point that under - a pumping project the annual mainte nance, coat-of irrigation would be high. But that is a difficulty easily solved. Tee lrrigationlsts would make use of the power plant during a few months of the year only, while those using the primary power would make continuous use of the plant. ' Therefore it would be logical and possible to assess most of the overhead cost of the project against, the primary rower. This could be done, and we would still have a 1 continuous power supply developed at. a cost lower than any present pow er in the .Northwest. By this course the irrigatlonists could be required to meet only the usual maintenance cost and the whole Northwest region would be the gainer by development of the project. f We have no quarrel with the Co lumbia, t basin project, . for all wish success to that project, but the plain facts - are that" those who know the country and know practical irrigation conditions realize, that aa between the two projects the arguments are 10 to One in' favor of . the Umatilla rapids project - -The cost of 1145 "per acre contemplated underj- -the s-ColumbiaM basin "-project is very high and $250.- 000.000 a very large sum for, the fed eral government to expend in any sin gle state. The Umatilla rapids proj ect offers , a scheme of benefit to two states, and the cost as compared to the Columbia "basin project would be negligible. . ?. . : y.;-.v-i T The country has heard much about the Columbia basin project, and but little of the Umatilla rapid, project. The explanation Is that the Columbia basin project enthusiasts have had -a total of $187,000 for exploitation pur poses ana an additional 125,000 with which the Goethals report was secured. On the Umatilla rapids project the total promotion expense thus far 'has been $1400. There hits been no money witn ; wwen to . secure -nigiuy paid promotion experts or famous -jren- erals. But the Umatilla rapids proj ect is rich in merit and a candid In vestigation will so disclose. The Portland Chamber of Commerce Officials - realise, the- situation fully, and theyj are , now sworking ?; whole heartedly with our project association to see that the Umatilla rapids nrolect the Cinderella of Western projects snaii . nave a , place in the sun. , it Is right tnat : Portland - should be buav. for the Umatilla rapid project will be tne. opening sten In utilisation of the Columbia river and 'Portland's destiny is linked with the development of our great river. Not until the Columbia Is harnessed can Portland become the great . City it should be. When our power resources are developed 'the re gion of which Portland Is the me tropolis will become one of the great manufacturing districts of the world. and the possibilities all around are so great as to stagger the imagination. juet the Northwest senators and rep resentatives give ev little thought : to the subject and they will discover that hv supporting the Umatilla rapids nrol ect they will serve both Oregon and Washington, and will be back of an enerprlse that is practical at this time, yet is :Bo wonderful in scope that it would be a crime against nature and against humanity not to give it first class consideration.; - s FORD IN THE COAL MINES - Frr the Ka Fraaefeee Call Though the- coal miners went on strike in other places they didn't cult work in the - Banner '. Fork mines of Kentucky, owned by Henry Ford. " Ford has made a considerable number of serious mistakes, dangerous ones even, but never, In the treatment of the men ahoi worie ior Aim.'.-. (.'The New . Repub lic explains in a paragraph: "The local union was anxious when It licard Henry Ford had bought the mines. What would he do? ; Down eame-a new manager and asked if there were any complainta - Tesi piere was no place to, meet, except in the eompany-ewned i echoolhouse. - t Well, meet in the schoolbouse. Then; other Kentucky mine owners began to cut wages. Would Ford do it?. Ford him self - came down to Banner Fork. crawled - through the - mine, made speech to the men, and told them the wages needed - -readjustment" not downward, however, - Coal digging was harder and more dangerous than assembling Fords at Detroit.--. The-re sult, writes President Keller of jUnited Mine Workers' district 19. is: f "Ban ner Fork mine pay ' 3 more on the da-vr than anv other mine In this dis trict, and Ford sells his coal for 60 cents less on the ton." .- Letters From the People - I Caaaaninicationa east to The- Joweal far pabUcanoB is Una department abonM be nt tee a etuy one aid ol tbe paper, abauld aot axeaeii o0 worda in laaath. and aauat be aicaad by the writer, w boa nail address is luu .sntat aoegaasasy ut cosuumaon. j THE DEATH SONG OF A FELON A Picture of What Occurs In 'Prison - When a Doomed Man Is Hanged. Portland. July -To the Editor of The Journal It U ' a wordless; song. yet.it permeates the atmosphere of a prison and penetrates to the hearts-of tmen and . women.;: The music Jbf the oraut song sweus line tne Dooming or tne universe and beats against the ear drums with the noise of breakers. L who have passed through the little steel door that shuts out the sunlight from men's lives, know the death song as if it were a hymn. My heart ch&nts it as i Bit alone in my cell. 1 When the band does not playtin the yard at San Qu en tin prison, the death song of the felon begina - And' it hums through the consciousness cf ad those incarcerated in the tomb until n Fri day a soul shrieks heaven ward tn ex piation of a crime. I have the jfeelihx of being hurled through space from a great - height. Unreality suffuses my being and deadens my mind, i walk endlessly through the- courtyards How many paces from the headstone! to tha foot of the grave, and how many paces fom the foot to the headstone;?: The days pass. Hours are spun out end- tesaiy, irutuessiy spent, wasted.; uays are aeons. Other women arrive and oui sorrows are intensified by their sufferings. : They are sunk deep- in apathetic misery, these new arrivals. We read, write or crochet. Wht lines of suffering are interwoven into the filet crochet! 'Each pattern is isancti fied by woman's tears. Each design Is a protest, a crying out Of humane- in a cage.;- - A if etv" alone in .bee room after-lockup, sings ad little folksongs in Spanish, i Soft and -low she ; croons themsongs--that ? comfort': her and seem to -deaden, for an instant hs in sistent Doom or the death song , beat ing on our nilnds. Wretehedneaa, per- ereion, nopeiessneas I s. .. It is Thursday. We liBten for the band.- A woman soba If it does not play, a man will hang on the morrow. We sIV silent in the assembly- room. Crochet needle are stflL The Spanish girl ceases to croon. Eyes, are, down cast- The women are sad.,' resentful. oeayv . A? - hundred .' yards r away tnrougn nrick and concrete walls is condemned row. In a stsel-doored cell sits aomeonei who may have to die. Tet he might be- In the same room with us. We are ther death watch as we listen for the blare of a slide trom bone. This is the imessaere that the silence brings to - Death i rln' the morning by Force! It Is a Sinister thing that bars . music from human lives. - ;. -sv He is one of us, this condemned man a numoer. a cipher. ' , r The matron comes ln. s All eves are turned toward her. She shakes her bead , and lowers her eyea The band will not play. A murderess goes mad The booming of the death song fills the jrCom. - The soul, of the condemned man is reaching out to us. He also has been listening for the band to play, '3('r,f In my cell. locked in, I cannot sleep. The death song Ts running through my mind in a- monotone. There are no high notes in this song. , it Is all mono tone. Xdke the - singing of a great eiectnc dynamo that seems to unravel the mysteries of the "universe and translate them into light, so is this death song of the condemned man. It is Inevitable-, ; penetrating, aH-pervad Ing. Wide-eyed. I stare out into the courtyard, , J am praying listening , to death song ana? praying. Throusrh the roaring silence it was as If I could sense the man's agony, could bear his last heartbeats. Shadows seem every where. The" gray" Wings of death en velop ma I am smothering. 4ut still that' song flows on. - , ;: The dawn breaks. We come-out of our cells. Still the- shadows crowd in on us fold us In. fold by fold. Break fast is a sad affair,, like: rites for the dead. In a few our the death song will cease- with the shrieking of -the condemned souL ; , .... ,- . , Seven, eight, nine o'clock I At 1 the man hangs. The- prison Is devoid of hope. The hour of execution is ;-at hand. The booming of the .felon's death song is deafening. Suddenly it ceases. Silence. :- "rr- . A sinister sound penetrates Into the cloister. What ia that rattling a of the bones of the dead? A forger curses and spits on the t floor. - - A negress crumples up on a couch,: whimpering. Do not cry, my friend. That is only the dead wagon rattlms: through the prison yard. The body , is being taken to the little cemetery on the hillalde this cemetery forsaken, forgotten. The chaplain comes into our quar ters. .He is pale, distraught, Christ s words, "Forgive them." " Noa life for a Ufa "Hung by the neck until dead." What had the chaplain seen that pho tographed a lambent horror on his retina? Had the noose sltnoed? Was the man. Still Irving, jerked, strangled, dragged to the platform, again to be shot .through the.' little hole into ob livion? Thirteen steps up to the gallows-platform bad walked this man. his? hand clutching, at the coat of the condemned man, chanting words of sympathy and -prayer. With palpitat ing heart and ' downcast eyes he had stood there,- speaking pioua things while- the turnkey adjusted the black cap, . Nor did he raise his eye -when the . executioner pushed - the prisoner onto the treacherous trapdoor and slipped the noose over his head with the knot on the left side. v ; - When the chaplain looked up there was no one on -the. platform, but the officials. - Down 13 steps from the gal lows platform he had walked alone. The law had not been cheated. The law had been satisfied. - .. Who remembers who this --. man killed? Who remembers why this man is killed by the state? ,' Only, those bound by blood ties.. ' v ' " " . Atonement ! Expiation? Yes, for each and, every one when a hanging takes place. . ! v - - Humans? Ao, no dehumanised, de graded, brutallsed through man's inhu manity to man. ... .:..''.' . . Mothers of men on this side ! Suf fer, until you are dulled, brutalised through pain keen, stabbing pain. Turn the knife in our wounds day. la ajid day out. year in and year out. Suffer, shut in, locked In. : Suffer-you for me, and I for you. in. this House of the Living Dead. - -- r. Marie D. Equi- , RHYMES OF CHILDHOOD . 'rmn tb Mmkcrca (illrfi.J CbTonarle " Now they brew young acorns.- Great soaks from little acorns grow. ... J I. - COMLIENT AND : , SMALL CHANGE Portland's baseball team seems to be again- getting anxious to play on the old cellar door. . ,,,-..,,....-., . A man doesn't have to be unusually nui to permit his acquaintances to see the meanness sticking out, - We'd feel better about It. anyway. If wed had --airplane forest patrol to protect our timber this summer. The difference between 'necessity and desire is what- keep most young fellows pushing' away at the grind stone. " - '.-' ---;--", , , - - v Stranger that some of our own churches hadn't thought of letting the pretty girls in the congregation oass the collection plates. - " - . .There are jobs enough in Oregon for all our people. The trouble seems to be that they don't all provide swivel chairs and shiny desks. . , -Studies In color composition show us that when a man 1 yellow, an ordi nary attack of blues will make him turn green with envy, ExpecUng WUls to whip Dempsey in that talked of pugilistic encounter ap peara about as hopeful a expecting the -Beavers to jump to the leadership of the league. - . MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Charles Whltesldes, who tells people where to go and when, down at the Imperial, has about made up his mind that he had better forsake the positive truth for the superlative, for fear his tourist clients r may pass - the v word around that he is krfoekng the scenic attractions of this Northwest country. He has -discovered, lie says, .that scen ery- seekers' come hack and reproach him, not for having -urged them to go view the Columbia highway and places like - that, but for having failed to start them when they didn't Jump at the suggestion of the trip with avid' Uy. Not long ago, Whiteside relates. a blase and weary journeyman : came to his desk to discover, the best way to see the fabled roses of Portland. He didn't want to see the highway, he explained, because he was fed up on scenery like that, from the Alps to the Cape of -- Good Hope. Whltesldes ex plained that this was different, and a voluble New Yorker who had Just made the trip, seconded . the v motion. The . globetrotter went, reluctantly, it seemed, and when ' he came back he marched right up to Whltesldes. - "Why the devil." be demanded testi ly, "didn't you tell me the truth- about that - highway trip?" . : ' i " ' '; "Why. Whltesldes said defensively. T did.T" - '--i-Af :;iv- - -- TNo you' didn't, the tourist contra dicted, "not -half- of' It. When' you've got a show place like 1 that, If the truth -won't' get the dumbbells - who come to town headed out to It, lie to am. Tney-u thank you tor it when they come back." , Arthur M. Applegate. manager -of the Harrington 'Milling company of Harrington, Wash., is in Portland on business In connection with his' mill and is visiting relatives and old-time friends J here.. Time- was, before he got Jto 'be a -flour, mm magnate, that he used to be i generally known as Mac, or " Mike, r whichever you - chose to call him, and was one of the hard hitting amateur boxers and all-round athletes of Salem, swapping amateur and genial wallop with John. Farrav, now postmaster: Harryr. Albert, now one of t the federal reserve system's examiners, jantJU - other, of the . well knowniunoId-tSmerstfef the Capital city. While he eull retains his sym metrical - and . sinuous form, he - ha cloaked it about with, the dignity of the prosperous business man, and uses his mitts to sign checks with rather than k. o. s, - , a :. .-'.v.-.: . -i. ! . -:: Julius P. Wolf of Ashland ii In the city on a business visit, staying at the Benson.-!, .. '. - : OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIOlSTlS . OF THE JOURNAL SLAN . - By -Fred It ia ia the auin a storr of filial derotioa that Mr. Locklay tella today. - Incidental to the chief tname are renUnlaceacea raUMM PX two pioneer of HarTisbers. , - Not alt the heroes are Awarded dis tinguished conduct medals, f Many a man, many a woman, 'unknown 'and unmarked by associates, has done braver things than charge an enemy's; machine gun nest. I met such a one at Harrieburg a day or so-ago. This Is Miss Emma Love. Notice that pre fix? It is "Miss," not Mrs.'" She ts bright, witty "and ' attractive., A - long time friend of hers' said.' "Emma Love certainly had a '-way with her. Jphe Was pretty as a picture. Many is the twain who came courting 50 years age. Why' didn't she marry? Because she felt It her duty to -take care of 4her mother. She knew she could not 01- vide her allegiance between her mother and a home of her own.- She sacrificed her own future to care for her mother Whether, a - mother has a right to make her child give up - a home and children is another matter.- You, will never hear Emma Love utter a word of complaint or repining. X decided to pay Emma Love a visit "Come right' In,1 she said, when I had told her who I waa "They say that all things come to those who wait have been hoping . to: see you for many a year. Where and when was I bom? , Myl Jut you ask leading ques tions. 1. .was.: born January -H.-I85S. on tne donation land claim taken- up by toy father, John D.. Love, a mile east f here. To qualify - a ? an Oregon pioneer you must have come to Oregon prior to December el, 1859, so you see can qualify. I have epent my life here or hereabout.'. - "My father was born at Jackson, Ten nessee.- in 1324. My - mother, whose maiden name was Mary Jane McCully. was also born in 1324. : Ohio- was her native state.- They met and were mar ried in 1852,' and the following spring they started for Oregon by ox team. Their first child. Mary Louisa, mar ried Edward Maxson. I was the next child. -John D. came next, born on December 4, 1857. Alice J. arrived December 29, 1859. and if she had de layed her eomtng-by three ; days she would net have qualified aa an Oregon pioneer, jy. Douglas was ; born ; February 0. 188L, and Carrie Gertrude, the last of the- children, July 26. 1814. "Wben my father took up his dona tion claim a mile east of this place La1 the fall of 1853. there was only one store here. It was not called Harris burg then. It was Thwrston. and had been named for -8. K. Thurston, Ore gon's delegate in congresa They found there was another settlement here in the valley .called Thurston, so they decided to name it. after Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, When I was a girl 1 went to school where. the Metheist church now stands. My uncles, -Asa and David McCully, with Wesley W. Brigg and -John Waters, built a grist mill here.' The boats wouldn't deliver their freight here, -so my uncles got.-peeved, and - NEWS LN BRIEF , fclDEUGUTS - The flappers of Burns may not be familiar with historical dates, but they are certainly accurate in remembering their date with the boys Harney county xsewa ! A few cows a' band of chickens, sev eral hogs and Intelligent selection and production of crops will make this the most desirable section of the North west. Mainour Enterprise. -1. About tills tiane of year the city folks come out to the country to try farminarr fully fitted out with pleas ure "cars, hammocks -and ' reclining porch chairs. Banks Herald. ' Perhans the reason so manv fisher men "go wrong", in describing their catches - is because they permit the fish they catch to weigh themselves on their own . scale. Jacksonville Post. That Immortal remark of the gov ernor of North , Carolina to the gov ernor of South Carolina anent the "long time between drinks' seems to have v become . nearly obsolete these days.-Condon Globe-Times, . We understand thereil now be a United States of China patterned after the - United States of America. Be fore the Chinese take our congress as a model, w hasten to warn them that it isn't a model congress. w oston Leader. Mr. and Mrs. C R. Shom of Wash- ingtonviile, N. Y are at the Multno mah while visiting Portland and the varied points of Interest nearby. Mr, anon is an apple buyer and is mak ing an investigation into the promise of the coming apple crop of Oregon and Washington, not only on his own account but for other New York apple Duyers as well. :--:.. - a . - - - A. A. Smith of t Baker, formerly member of the house from that country, where he, though a Democrat, was one of the leading figures of the sessions through which he served. Is transact ing legal business hi Portland for a short time. - He is registered : at the isenson. . . -.-r ;.- '-,. : - .".'?- ',iAr 'A',:'-; . Mr. and Mrs. B. R. Patterson, Mr. and Mrs. C. t Sweek,;: and ' Harry Duncan, all of Hepnner. are at the Multnomah while en route home from a motor trip to Victoria, Vancouver and other Canadian and Washington points of interests : J. D. Cheatham, superintendent of the Western Union at Nashville. Tenn is -a Portland guest.' . staying - at the Multnomah. . He came c to the North west to view Its scenic wonders and 1 departing full of enthusiastic praise for what he has seen. .-:- . .-vv '.,:...,.-,. .- . a -.;V.-;,' George Kohlhagen, one of the prom inent business men of Rdseburg and stockmen of the Southern 7 Oregon country, is registered at the Oregon for a few days while transacting busi ness la the city.., .:.',. .- -- t y -Ti' - " : ' '.i: "-" I -'-.- . f T. M. Rlggin, now of Seattle but formerly a business man of Portland, is at the Perkins for a short visit-. In the -city, transacting business and re newing old friendships. ; t - v . - . -, , ..-... e , - -. B. D. Plnneo, manager of the Port of. Astoria, ia at the Multnomah, -in Portland to attend the hearings , be ing conducted, by the shipping board oommittee at the old - postof fice. 1? , W, BC -Thompson ' of Nenalem, ' a Well known tlmberman "of - that sec tion of jthe state, is registered at the Perkins 1 while in the city on a busi ness visit. ...... J. Fred Larsen. former well known resident of Portland but - now located at Astoria, is at the Multnomah - for a short business visit .in the city. Mr. and Mra Earl T. Hones of Wasco are visiting in the city for . a short time, making their headquarters at tne jduitnomaa. a. Lockley organized th People's Transportation company. They ran the other boats clear off the run. They employed my father. For years he served either as purser or as captain on th Echo, the neiiance or tne Alice. ' The Alice was named for Alice McCully, my Uncle Asa s eldest daughter, , Her name is Alice Crane now, and she lives in Port land. The . McCullys my mother and my uncles Ham, Asa and David were Scotch-Irish. They didn't let anyone run over them. Uncle Asa was a strong Kepuoucan. When the Civil war broke out he put up a flag over his home. A neighbor ' whose sympathies were with the South tore the flag down during the night and then bragged about it. Uncle Asa hunted him up and made him buy a new flag and climb up and put the flag on the flagpole. He knew If he didn't the South would be short one sympathiser. - for Uncle Asa was In deadly earnest. "My . grandmother, Mary' Capp Mc Cully, was born, at Eastport, - Maine. She was Scotch. My grandfather, John McCully, was born in New Brunswick. His parents were J bora - in Ireland. David and Asa McCully moved to Salem in 1863 to manage the People's Transportation company; for they soon built or - bought a big fleet of . river boats. , j.-pi;-',:,,r-j-.,: .. . - "My mother asked m ;t- promise her: I would stay with her as-long a she lived. She also asked me to prom ise her that X would not get married until- after her death. I made and kept both of these promise. She lived until J 902. I was nearly 50 years old when she died. , ' "Yes, when I was .'a girl X met the man X loved, but X had given my word, and I couldn't break it." , ; . ' -... e ;- '- . .-A -. Francis Marion Hyde.J pioneer, of Harrieburg, is speaking; "That's right,", he says. "J am the oldest settler' hi Harrisburg. - 2 came here in-1851, and that's over. 78 years ago. 'My .mother Eliza Tyler, married my father. Perry Hyde, at Ash Grove. Mo, in 1849. 1:M born April If, ; 1850.- They started across the plains for Oregon when I was a year old. My father took up his claim adjoining Asa McCuily's, and Harrisburg is built partly on Asa's claim and partly on my father's 317-ecr claim.;- - j ."Yes, X am all alone, -1 lost both of my, wives and all my children. When my father died he was running six farms. : Some time before h died he turned his ranches and r alt his stock over to me. He never bad a sick day until ha was years old. Then he had a stroke of paralysis that killed him. r There were three boys sad three girls tn our family. The rest went to school, but X stayed on the farm and helped with the work, so I didn't get much education. Father and X used to drive cattle to a ranch he had . in th Applegate country in Jackson coun ty. We sold beef to the mlnera I have two sisters living here in Harris burg and a brother in Canyon City, and one in California, - ' "No, Z don't work any more. I stick around the pool- hall to swap yarns and discuss the new. '. I sild my property and the interest keeps me." The Oregon Country KortAwea Ilappenlncs tn Brief gorat fos tit Ifwy Batdar. ; - . OREGON -. ' Five cars of esttle went from Prine ville to-North Portland over the City of Prineville and the Oregon Trunk I In spite of the long dry spell, now In its seventh week, with but one slight rain. Clatsop bounty will produce a normal crop this year.,, - Walt Demaris of Prineville loat four head ef hi beet horses recently wnea hi hired man fed them oats that had been poisoned for sage rata The hew Beaver feed mill at Eu gene is now running two shifts of eight hours each and producing 25.000 pounds of prepared stock feed dally. Beating the train time by an hour and a half. A. K. Parker recently drove from Portland to Enterprise. Wallowa county, a distance of 360 miles, in 17 hours. ):. !sv;....-v .,.;.:.-.....,(, .v-, Beys playing with matches at Bend caused a fire at the borne of L W. Leverett that destroyed a ' woodshed and a fine automobile Leverett had recently purchased. . ;V The Oregon's: Western Colonisation company is opening up a tract of 11, 000 acres In one body In Harney coun ty, near Burna It is cut-over land and plenty of? water. Is available, - Th. etf.e t?,at.ra KiaTieA .... - . " . 11 ... ... v v . , is covered in the Willamette river was found Thursday by F. W. Beard, a workman In the Crown - Willamette Paper roilL, The frog measured 14 by 6 inches. - - ; - - .. -v.. Much interest has been shown in th tuberculin test of cattle in the Silver ton district and l4 farmers have signed, representing 1053 cattle. The test will be under th direction of a federal - inspector, . The teat of the hole of the Lower' Columbia Oil, as Ona company's well having failed to show sands of pro ductive - nature, decision. ha been k. .v..a w . . 1 uy vne aireciors anq super intendent to put the drill back and go down to lower Ievels.-5j; rh v-;...,-; .-Vn WASHINGTON ;.:". "Only 40 per cent of those liable In Walla Walla county have paid their poll tax this year. With harvest Just at hand, farmers of the Waila Walla valley are facing a labor shortage that la the most seri ous, in. years.. .-? v.- -.- -. v-: .- - - , Delwyn stiles, 82, son of Dr. and Mrs. Martin Stiles of Walla Walla,, was drowned July 4 while bathing In the Columbia river near Wallula. Because of long illness. Edwin J; McCracken. T8 years old, took a large dose of strychnine at his home near Olympia, Thursday, and died almost instantly. - -- -. . , , .. ' A Ijoran R. Gilmore, former employ of the Spokesman-Review, waa drowned Thursday while bathing In Newman ak- near Spokane. The body ank in .30 feet of, water.-v..--., - When the front wheel of his bicycle caught In a switch at a railroad cross ing in Pasoo, Angelo James waa run own and killed by an automobile driven by Andy Tustla. . i Commissioners! of Cowl Its county are considering . the sal of the county farm, two miles west of Kelso.- The place includes 109 acres and is well improved with buildlnga . . - Rev. Charles H. Davis, 75. died at Elleneburg last Friday, the third vic ilm S' i crossing accident In which Mrsr A. C. Davis and Mrs Curtis Gage of Yakima were instantly killed. : - Tb most eerlou fir of the season has- been burning for several days In nauieanaae eanvan. ai-r m u - Husum. The flame have swept through more than 100 acres of virgin timber. Loggers- throughout Western Wash- Inerton are - eeneraJlv nttmulh, , Governor Hart's appeal for suspension of logging operations unUl the present serious; danger from forest fires has passed. . . Despondent over the recent death of nrJ?H?.band.M. R- Dodds, mocr Of Fabian H.-- Drwlrta immi...' e kane- attorney attempted suicide by ap.2?1tion at her home In that City last Thursday..-. . IDAHO. Effective JulV 1. the nrte. nf mlTt tm.' Idaho Falls was' reduced from 12 cents to 10 cent a quart.-.':: - .Yhe.-Colllster rural school district voted Friday, 1 to 10, to become a part of the Boise Independent school district.-.-' x .-: ,Fre of an unknown origin Monday night destroyed the pump house and machinery of the Talache mine near Sandpoint. :;,t-.-.;. ,. . t George Bennett of Boise was instant ly killed July- 4 when hi automobile :?ftJthe road near Grime Pas on the Payette river .and fell down a steep embankment, . . . - With the canceling of the Tegular Mexican consulate and the transfer of the consul to Kansas City. 1 Mexican government plana to open an honorary -consulate in Boise. . - , , f. Committed to' the state industrial School f St Anthony for incorrlgl blUty, ina May Cal lender, 17 years f 5' attempted suicide at Caldwell by drinking aqua ammonia, - IdAho hM delved a check for 33000 from the federal gov ernment, being 5 per cent of the pro ceeds of the sale of public lands from July L 1920. to June 80. 1921UT Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of July .11, 1102, -'Johnstown; Fa. At dawn today the bodies. of 40. victims of the Cambria mine explosion were brought up., The rescue party -counted - 40 mora but could not reach them on account of the deadly gaa It is safe to say the loss of Ute will pass 150 and may reach 200. . , - . - '-":.-.--...; ; -:r.e.: - --: Goverhor-elect George E Chamber lain has . declared against the City park as a place for .the exposiUon. - Seven crtlsens from Oregon City, two from Sellwood and two from Mil-' .waukie have - been in cenf erenc th greater -part, of the day with repre senutivesi of the F. C. A O. company considering fomt plan by which the etrike can be settled. - - . ,' ' "' v. " ' - - ;rT; - ? A' petition ' 1 belnar nnnir.4 , v . number- of women of tha .- .m- ' and will be in circulation in a few un ma nqr council to take atep in th matter of cleaning th sidewalks on Burnalde street between owwnu ana Tntru streets of loafers. , ThlS morninsr. th Natlnnal Amm. atlon 1 of Food and i-nairv r-r,4-- sloners left on the steamer Potter for 1 Astoria, where thev win k .nt.rt.tn. y-the aurens club.,- . A number of bovs haa -t. for violating the ordinance re-ni. ri . suits to be worn br swimmer tn th. river, . The ordinance provides for a bathing suit which will cover the body from. the shoulders to the knees. - 'V " ' ... -.-..-.-.-,...-. :iThe trustees f Portland academy have purchased from the W, s. Ladd estate the Multnomah clubhouse, ,eitu ated at Tenth and Yamhill street it will b moved to Harrison and Thir teenth street and converted Into a gymnasium forthe use of the school. A .movement Is' on foot among th farmers Jn the vicinity of Independence to establish a cooperative trading company.'' -. ., ..... -;.:-,-,-., .. . ' . ... - .t : f J - The young peopl of Woodstock are becoming quite interested In amateur theatricals and It '.is expected t hat a new play will be staged every alternate Thursday during the summer. A little over $68,00O ha been paid Into the LawIs and Clark fair fund, and about 323,000 remains to be rtii