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' A OTJESTION ANSWERED MR. t HUGHES has , finally an 8Wr?red those people who have been curious to know what the Republicans have to say who urged ihe people of the country to vote for Mr. Harding If they desired that Jhia republic become a' member of the ; League of Nations. He an-, iwered. ln a letter to Mr. Hamilton Holt, This is his statement: The statement of the 31. of course, ipressed with sincerity the ijoint of i-lew 1 entertained trith others at the time the statement was signed, but the administration was compelled to deal With the actuation as it found it on Coming into power. 'I-.? country has waited long for that statement. With the contin ued failure of this government to how any indication of intention to enter the league, with or without reservations, or even to form the promised association of nations, people. t have naturally wondered what those prominent men who signed the statement have to -say. Kn4 as time - has g$ne on there have been more and. more indica tions that the trover rrrnant nnr nnlv 'Entertained no thought of coopera Jtion with the league, but that In k reality it was treating the league . wit Bu. titter contempt.,: . s Mr. Hughes was one of the prominent 31. He became secre tary of state, the man whose busi ness it is to deal with foreign fairs. Having confidence VlrJ.; his Sincerity and his word, those inter ested have quite naturally looked to Me. Hughes for a -statement as to why the promise of the signers has proven" to be a "myth. And Mr. Hughes answered, and answered Suite candidly. He says that . the signers were, sincere, but that , they didn't quite know what they were talking about. ' i I And it is often thus that cam paign promises, pyrotechnically made, are abjectly abandoned. J What a warning to voters! i wfcen Senator George E. Cham berlain. now a member , of , the United States shipping board, was governor of Oregon, he so . the story goes made fc more or . less official trip to Wallowa county.' He a.nd ?a -ciuen of the : country, learning that Enterprise was only five mile distant, decided to rlk. ,The day was warm. The walk tengtnenea. , finally- they met a farmer. ; "My good friend, began the senator "how far Is It to Enter prise? ; The man replied. ."Just five miles." Thev Went nn an "- enwintr resiaent of Ore. gon's Alps. "How far is it to Enter prise?" again. Queried sr.tA Chamberlain. "An even five miles.- was; the prompt answer: Ch amber -Uin sat down on a wayside rock. He mopped hi brow. , He an liounced. sa.na ut inn . i . ' - v aia- - in for him stopped right there. "Ah. I come on, governor;: pleaded his j companion; "at least you're holding I , your own.". -"., SEATTLE SUCCESS NO BETTER example Is afforded X of the underivinar. " tality of Seattle than the success of .the recent campaign by the citizens ,of Puget Sound's great city, for a ;,wo,uoo ,,notel fund. The drive was carried on with the vigor "and . the general enlistment- of workers that characterized efforts 6f war days. It exhibited. In fact, the fine epirit of pull together and win- td get her, which Is the condition pre cedent to any community, success. Not since the war has Seattle done a big thina. so 'well or eo heartily. It is evidence which can not ,be doubted that ; Portland' neighbor is definitely stepping away from the lean days of depression and moving .forward again. .It was rreally .worth ito Seattle the whole sum just to show for the benefit of the rest of the country' that she had strength for auch taslti-:a ? The t purpose ; fa j to construct Ja modern ,tourist hotel on the Metro politan theatre block leased from the University of Washington. DOWN Br i THE , SEA ONE of f the most 1 attractive beaches in. Oregon is Newport. : Its list of attractions is the long est. .There are trips to sea, deep sea fishing, fishing, sailing, motor boating and rowing on the bay and excellent troutTishing in neighbor ing streams. There are trips to Siletz Indian - reservation. Beaver Creek; Waldport," wTachats, Otter Rock, Seal Rocks, the Devil's Punch Bowl, the lighthouse and up the bay for trolling and " picnics. he al most infinite variety of pastimes is a' feature at the Newport beach. ? A There ia talk that next year the Southern Pacific will acquire privi leges " and run trains , direct to the Newport beach. - The track is al ready": built. Direct . trains would shorten the time and avoid the transfer to the boat f at ; Taqulna. With a shortened schedule, " a big seaside summer business would be developed. V ; ; Some day the shores of Western Lincoln cotinty. will be thickly pop ulated. The producing power : of the soil is enormous. Berries of every kind grow to huge size and delightful flavor. Potatoes, lettuce, celery.-bnions, radishes and other garden ' truck are nowhere 1 sur passed and rarely equaled. Flow ers grown,- In, gardens are marvel ous. This power of the . soH , for production willultimately pe "util ized and there will be hundreds of small " farms where now they are numbered by dozens. , Two. lines of railroad built north and south' during the; war have: their termini on Yaquina bay. Each taps a heavy forest growth, one on the Siletz, where stands soma of the finest timber on the , continent. Most of this timberwlll be cut into lumber products on Yaquina bay and be Shipped to markets alt over the world from that port. Jetty work, long suspended , at Newport, i Is again in progress. There are government; appropria tions for the restoration and exten sion of the Jetties for further deep ening- of the harbor entrance, al ready, greatly improved by past works by the federal, government. ; v Rock is quarried at lk City, near ihe head of .tide on the Ya quina river, and scows carrying 259 tons of it at a load are towed by the tug Robarts to Ihe jetties. The Ya quina Bay port district has bonded itself heavily to aid In the improve ment. The distance from -deep water in the bay to the open sea Is very short, and passage of vessels of rea- sonabie "draft in good weather very safe. There is a good automobile' road ! from the west side Pacific high- j way to Newport. Much of it Is re- i celving a crushed rock surfacing and it will be ah excellent winter road. , The drive from Corvallie by; car ls often made in two and one-i half hours and even less. In an-j other season or two Newport will be accessible , from Tillamook via the Roosevelt highway, when the traveler by automobile will pass through some of - the, ' loveliest beauty- spots on the famous Oregon shores. - f ;:-'. x . T' THE NEED NOW TvTHEN the Oresident naVsH ar. V ernors of coal producing states to cooperate with the federal gov ernment in maintaining order and ending the 1 strike, a few state executives refused to lend their aid. The reasons advanced by some in dicated that political considerations had at. least a part in their deci sions. - i " Strikes are tremendously costly, especially railroad, and coal strikes. The .railroads must! have coal to Operate full blast and the coal has to be moved by the. roads if it Is to be .delivered -to industrial, estabi, Iishments and smaller consumer A tie-up of the coal industry means a, near blockade of theroads, and aj tie 'up of the roads mpans an in sufficient supply . of j coal 5 Tie-up of thetwo industries means millions of dollars cost to the people of the country and millions In economic waste, and an effective tie-up. if it lasts long ' enough, ; would mean widespread suffering, and perhaps worse. - i. .. , i- :. It is not Viow time to talk about the delay in action of the federal government. It is not; the time to fix blame. It is not the time to split, hairs ever whose is the fault or why such and such is not the case.- i It is not the time certainly for political bickering. It . is time now to get the mines producing coal and the railroads distributing, the country's products to the people who depend on the transportation systems to deliver those products. Governments- are instituted for the protection of life and property and to enab'le the vast and intricate system of activities fto function. Examples Have been eUby gov ernors, and presidents In Amer ica in wHich .agreements were reached and strikes ended. These results were'''accornplished by a re sort to -moral suasion' and a sincere- endeavor to reach - impartial decisions. - , i - - , -The settlements of industrial dis putes by auch. methods are more enduring than when they are by force. ; Judgments reached by con sent are more lasting than judg ments arrived at without the as sent of both parties." One example off mutual settlement Is, ia its moral effect upon the principals to industry, worth- a hundred set tlements in which one side wins because strong and the other loses because weak. ' ' i ; The industrial situation of this time is critical. It la trending to ward a mood that is near warfare. There can ' be no ; permanent solu tion on a basis of struggle with the victory to the strong and the defeat tp-the weak. .If ,all men persist in blinding themselves to the fact that industrialism is now bordering on the possibilities of pear civil war it will be a supreme mistake. :j - It is time for ' practical and courageous action by "officials, not only of the federal government, but by officials of other governments. It is time Sot cooperation on all ides; industrial,' social ; and polit ical. l A. :" - " It is imperative, that all agencies bend their efforts toward a resump tion ' of coal mining, and r&ilroad distribution: ,- - ' . " 1 ; . J-, ' " ' Politics is bad enough " at any time, but its injection into the crisis that' is . now faced by, the country is almost a crime., ';Thls is a time for'concerted action to axold very serious conditions -in this nation; and not a time to seek a political victory at tremendous cost to the people of the country. 5 -TIRED OF UFE" SUICIDES at home and abroad among prominent but idle wo men are becoming increasingly fre quent. There have, been no less than four in Paris within the last few weeks. ' And almost Invariably they leave notes saying they are "tired of life But do they know life? r Have they tasted the better things of life? Have they given their time -those who commit suicide to use ful endeavor ? j Have they attempt ed to give happiness to others? Have they vstriven to give . some thing to the Svorld for their pres ence here? . . -7 Or are the suicides frequently those who have spent their time only in search of questionable pleasure for themselves? Are they those who have lived In Idleness? Are they those who have tasted only the empty life the life of jazz pleasures -only to -discover finally and too late how empty a life of idler pleasure is? . Most of the prominent suicides undoubtedly can be attributed to the empty life. It is the emptiness of which they tire. - ,. No building can be' built on wind. No structure can be -reared on . a hollow foundation. And no life can blossom full upon hour filled with empty pleasures. Pennsylvania -ia credited with a higher percentage of ffcome "owners than any other state in the union and Ohio' next. Of 2,200,000 fami lies in Pennsylvania 1430,000 own their homes. Of 25,000,000 fami lies in the United States, 11,400,000 are said to be home owners, which is just about half as many as there ought to be. .. - MORE SHIPS NEEDED ON TUESDAY. Cfficial announced ment ram that rirUntoi .nn. tee from Portland by shipping board vessels would be increased from one to two sailings a month. , ' 5n Saturday it was stated that all space aboard the ships had been taken. Shippers with large ; con signments for Hong Kong and other points were put on the. Indefinite waiting list. " . r s In three' days practically all the cargo space on three steel ships was booked, and there . was offering enough in unbooked freight to fill other-ships! Does not this fact bear out; the contention that Portland. ' during the approaching peak of the grain and flour export season could give profitable patronage to even more frequent sailings of shipping board boats ? - - - t "Plenty of prosperity, for! every body who. will go out and find It." Samuel M. Vauclaln." In other words, all the : early birds find worms, -:Vv-"' WHY- NOT THE ROSfi ? REPRESENTATIVE KISSEL, who proposed the daisy as the American national ; flower's is now being asked what- daisy He meant. The "Paris daisy,' once pride of the House of Orleans and badge of royalty ? " . -s - . Th Black-eyed .Susan, native of ihe prairies, that traveled " east with the building of. transconti nental railroads? . ' The i bellis perennis, v wee flow ered, that Burns made famous, v N The field daisy, scientifically de nominated V chrysanthemum - leu canthemum, which- came Over in the hay intended for the Hessians' horses, and is an even more effec tive strangler of clover, red top and timothy than bracken fern ? - America has many native flow ers, but t unfortunately there are f ewr that will grow under any Amer ican climatic condition. . But there is one, not native,' yet more beloved because of its adoption; which na ture and art combine - to - make bloom out or Indoors the year around. Why not choose- the rose the Portland? rose? - - i Strange how we studied the clouds last spring for threats and now in summer for promises of rain. . . LET DYE FACTS BE KNOWN , Demand Comes From , the ITeaa of America That the Grand Jury In-; vestigation Shall Be One of the ; Kind That Really Investigates,' . 0. in the Case of the Chemical . k Foundation,; Whose Al- -;i . truistle Professions Fail - to Impress. -T"a.Uy Editorial Digest- 'Coaaotidatad ' Preaa XaaoeiatioB) , President Harding's action ia order ing a grand' jury Investigation of the entire transaction ; which resulted in the turning over to the Chemical: Foun dation of the German ' dye patents, seised by the alien property custodian during the war. Is Indorsed by" news papers generally, without regard to po litical affiliations. They - insist 'that there ia a cloud oa the title that must be removed and that questions of poli tics cannot be permitted to- enter into the case in any way , w hatever. , If the transaction was. all right, the papers cay, then 'ae harm can come from an investigation, while If It was improper those responsible should b held ac countable and the rights of the Ameri can people should be protected. "Undoubtedly there was logics and honest logic, in the contention that the deTelopment of a great American dye industry s was. in effect, the develop ment , of a . new and vital arm .of , ma tional defense,- says the Baltimore Sun (Dem.), "for chemical warfare may be the decisive .weapon of the f u ture. But for private Interests to justi fy an indefensible economic proposition on the score of national defense always means the raising of eyebrows oft the part of the cynics -Now that the Harding administration has placed the Chemical Foundation on- the defensive the entire dye issue probably-r will he placed before the public without the smoke screen of propaganda that has hitherto obscured it," One result is that "a beautiful row may -be brew ing. the Wichita Eagle (Ind.) believes, as "there 'is politics in it, but there may bo geputne scandal in it, too. One hopes that Mr. Harding and his as sociates may have the courage to go through f with this, no matter how powerful the Interests that may try to stop f the ' procedure." The Knoxville Sentinel (Ind. Dem.) unqualifiedly in dorses this thought,, stating that "we know; nothing of this particular ease, but if Mr. Garvan and his associates, or if the persons to whom they "con veyed the public property in the patent rights concerned, were guilty of graft and corruption, they should be exposed and punished and restitution made of the public property if it is possible to do so. !- The fact that any or' all of them are Democrats has nothing to do with the matter. When It cornea to dealing with criminals there is no euca thing as politics in the eyes" of right minded people. ; t . ( ;.;:.: After all, yie question Is jthe protec tion of the American people, in the view of the Mobile Register CDem.), which sets forth that "the real ques tion is whether the owners of the pat ents came to them honestly. If they did not, . they should ' be made to turn them back and pay full value. If they did. It is now necessary to establish that fact also." - It should also be un derstood, as the Isewark News (Ind.) points out, that "most of these patents were taken out by the Germans, not to develop them here but J to keep Americans from getting patents on the same chemical processes and competing here with the German chemjcal and dye industry. Our own patent law was thus used against us to keep the Ger mans supreme in the field. Morally, If not legally, thev should be revo cable, because thfe rights granted by this government nave been- abused. f The American .tsconorrust (Rep.), asserts that "few realize how Washington has been surrounded and honeycombed by insidious influences of the dyestuff embargo group. .'We feared that Its representatives were eettins- too strong for congress and too strong for the ad ministration, but this action of Presi dent Harding will give us the test, and we shall have another test in the" vote in the 'United States senate during the next few daya" . 'ij o , . : : " " .. ' ' ':;.. r".l' The initial transaction may have been perfectly dear, the New Orleans Item (Ind.) suggests, but "we are on able to conceive how such a transac tion - could possibly be as desirable, from a1 public, point of view, as its of ficial undertakers describe it In their natural enthusiasm. .Its private possi bilities, on the other hand, are obvious enough. Just why they should be sold to anybody by the government for a quarter of a million dollars seems un-1 intelligible to us, unless the purchaser were a pure and approvedlphilanthro pist manufacturing for the American people at cost. This degree of philan thropy, we regret to observe, does not manifest, itself among the American dye interests. We recall, a heavy sched ule of tariffs in the pending bllTfor the protection of American dyemakers against foreign competition. The-ad ministration, moreover, gives what ap pears to be a sound reason for its stand, aside from that furnished by the values Involved." The best interests of the United States also, demand .that this transaction be reviewed by the courts. the New York World (Dem.) says, because while 1for the German chemical trust .-- the " American ' public has no affection, what Americans do care about is that their War record should be squared with toe law -of na tions. In this instance the record has not been, squared. And Mri Garvan's apparent desire not to clear hie-titles In. an .American court only .makes it doubly certain that the government's proceedings are necessary." Elaborat ing . this viewpoint s the Muncle Stare (Ind. Rep.) recalls that "Mr. Garvas, when before the senate committee, sub-, rnltted a statement' tending to' show that the Foundation Is organised large ly in the interests of science: ' The cor porate ateck consists of ,400,000 ia 6 per cent cumulative ? preferred" and f 100,000 of common with dividends lim ited to fi per cent. li Art; profits above that figure, ; he explained,, are to , be used: in education and research in the dye and chemical .industry. , While not questioning the altruism of these Democratic patriots, the present ad ministration eeeins - disposed to insist on -further light oa the entire, under taking." . ; ..- ; - - . . -. . - . Because of the. charges and counter charges that have been made the New York -Globe (Ind.) asserts that "the government has obviously done its duty in starting a grand Jury investi gation. This should provide an inquiry which 'will settle - a number of much mooted points, and if Mr. Garvan is conscious of complete rectitude. ' lie should recognize it as likely to' make tim the chief benefactor. Certainly he cannot desire that his ' organization should remain suspended between pub lie confidence and public execration." The demand of the president has the complete Indorsement of the. Lynch--burB News (Dem.). which reviews the manner in which the Foundation was organized ana gives credit to : Repre- ! tentative Frear'ifor defeating the dye: embargo last August.; "But the Chem ical Foundation etill holds." the News concludes, "the ill-gotten patents and trade marks and it is tiaese that, the president has demanded shall be re turned to ' the government. It is to be. hoped the attorney general meant It when he said that the president's or der would be carried out "with all dis patch.' VThere are those who believed, the Chattanooga News (Dem.) points out, "that the sale of these German patents to the Chemical Foundation -placed the country at the mercy of the dye In dustry. t The Foundation is apparently seeking legislation to clinch its hold. American chemistry ought not to con fess it servitude to Germany.. And the Decatur Herald (Rep.) insists that "if it appears that these patents were knocked down at a price only a frac tion of what they were worth. Presi dent Harding does well to call for: a thorough investigation. ' -, - s Letters From the People t Communications aeat to The Jonmal for pabiKratioej ia thia deportment ahould Be writ ten oq only one cade of the paper, ahould not exceed 800 word ia leosth, and nart 1 aimed by the writer, whose mail addraat. ia . J, .-. 1 SEALS, SEA LIONS, SALMON Further Discussion of the Case. Based i on a Recent Article In The Journal. . Cushman. July 3. To the. Editor .of The Journal The article in The Sun day" Journal." attacking the policy of he fisii commission in . regard .to the killing Ot sea lions, has aroused me to make, a statement in their defense. The facts of the case, as I-see them, are : Sea lions do not live on salmon ; . in fact, they catch and eat very few, if any. A sea lion j has about as much business trying to catch a salmon as. a man' would have trying to catch a deer. Fellows with whom I have talked, and who made sea lion - hunting for v the bounty for the hides, oil, , whiskers. galls,, livers, etc,3 their business, state. and will swear, that in their expert ence of a year's hunting they found very t few if . any sea lions; which haid salmon in their stomachs. Usually they found' seaweed ' or grasses, and skate, young devil: fish, flounders and such fish as are slow and live around the rocks where . the i sea lions are usually found. ; I have, the statements of jnany outside fishermen troller in particular -who Bay that when fishing they locate a school of salmon off the coast, and they, do not remember ever seeing - sea - lions or seals among , or near the salmon. ' The sea lions are always to be found along the coast, where they feed along the rocks, a place that salmon are not to be found. . . . , Seals? which? are very - scarce and which come into the mouths of the streams, no doubt do catch a few sal mon in the breakers on the bar, as the salmon get sand In their gills at times and become more or less helpless, and seals do run the fishermen's nets some times and pick out a fish or two; so, seals found in the rivers may be found to contain 'salmon, r as often they be come quite tame- and stay near the canneries wpne xney are running, and feed on the salmon heads and the waste tnrown away. In cutting the seal ooen anyone would find several heads -land other" parts, possibly whole salmon which have been thrown away.' : Seals, which come into the rivers and do the only damage, are left untouched by-theJ big hunters, - as they hunt Out along the coast and. kill sea lions in stead or seals. Being interested in the salmon inrina. tryhere on the. Siualaw and dealing wish me nsnerroen, ,a nave heard the question discussed from ail angles. A good many fishermen believe seals and sea lions destroy great quantities of saimon, while some argue that they eaten ana eat saimon when they can, but that they succeed In catching very few. - s In handling .salmon here at our plant in Cushroan, we sometimes find salmon eilversides usually that ' are scarred along the body. These ecars no doubt were caused by wounds from seals' claws. But while wle have thou- sanas or sea lions and some seals along the coast at this point, as the cele- oratea sea ; lion caves and breeding grounds are only seven miles north of us river, yet we find only an aver age of one out of about 60 or 70 salmon scarred. Old residents claim that a few years ago there were many more seaT lions and seals than now; and yet there were a hundred salmon then -to one now. It is human to place' blame upon anyone but ourselves, and when for various reasons fish are scarce, and fishermen catch few, j they naturally feel put ouC and usually blame for the scarcity the seals. Sea-lions, seines, trollers purse seiners, trap nets, fish wheels, or anything but themselves, when in jeality the thousands of nets, dozens of seines, traps, wheels, eje Which are combing the streams and the coast month after month of each year are the real cause of the shortage of salmon, .Most of ithe natural spawning grounds are things of the past, Civil ization and Its industries are driving natural resources from existence. The money used to pay the seal and sea lion hunters for killing might Be used to at least as good advantage if spent enlarging and building hatcheries, im proving feeding ponds for young sal mon, and for. hatching more salmon, pur master fish warden and the com mission are, no doubt, working to the best of their judgment. It is impossi ble to please all. We even hear the halibut fishermen complaining- They say sea Hons are getting scarce, and that there are not enough to eat up the sVates f and' trash, nsh of the coast, which are getting so plentiful they no longer; can catch halibut, as the trash fish eat bait off hooks faster than they can bait hooks and let them down. . In soch important matters there is but one i way through make-a scien tific study of the case, be sure of be ing right, and k then go ahead. ' - Grant Hbsford. . LABOR AS THE ONE BASIS - v7,T. V2L' WMh" July 22. To the SfI o' The Journal When it Is ad mitted - that v labor, and labor alone, can pay anything," the prime basis of economics has t been, reached. This leaves "labor, and labor alone, rather than earth. air ire or water as the prob'em of discussion. ; Then why not dea rwith labor directly, rather than around cape Horn. No manner of quack nostrum can mitigate our eco nomic Wis while labor suffer from de Hriuin tremenaViiOur labor waste each day . would pay. our taxes for a month. C "T 7; A Mere Moseback. ra.,1EjTERATKS A PROPHECr . Which aajin 1930. That the Repubil - r. can Party Would Soon Exprre? Portland. July 23.-TO the 1 Iter of It1- of the Lte president la! election I Predicted The !,eCo 01LbIicand. In thJ? dtlr. "Withstanding an that, the G.. . O, p , was in It death throes. 1 1 brieve TtTJm'0"', Wr rightly, drawn, try who sway and control the G. O. P. contributed to a fund to bunk the peo ple. They ehose Woodrow Wilson for their high water mark. I've often Won dered why It was that people who had read and were familiar with the Wil son Ideals could for a fact digest that propaganda directed against him. On election day the "majority" walked up to-the polls and pulled down the whole structure that this country had spent months In building. . Today as we view the situation the faet that the World war Is over hasn't settled anything. To- COMMENT AND , SMALL CHANGE When Will Hays arrived at Holly wood the old village dropped , one "V from its name. r "Ain't - nature wonderful ! We've been reading this morning about "oil burning donkeys." - v - .v 1 The male element never gets so old that it isnt attract (A by the clang of the Xireman'S bjl'.Ji - : One authority believes chickens need shade. . Present styles certainly do provide a minimum of that. - -' " :-:'V ;';-r3i?-;: - -. ': :;::"tP:fffrb "Fast" dye in' this fine1 day and age seems to refer to the one -that makes the greatest -speed in running. jf5! '.--"-ft;-y: e . Another headline ssys, Lumbermen May Adopt Hoover. Idea. Whaddaya mean, war bread and no sugar? . a - This itr-a great'life. sure enoughs' If you -can get up early enough in- the morning of your own free wilt to enjoy lt JuUy- . 7 "New York, police arrested a woman because sne smoked - cigarettes' and wore knickers. . Still ixew - York Is called, a metropolis. r . -,,"'...---. t- If we spent -as much time training our children as we do petting our motor cars into; running humeri what a wonderful race we would be. -; '. v, . There Is such a thing as personal lib erty, sure enough, but we should very properly object to any law that would countenance personal : - liberty behind steel doors In Oriental dens. v wore MORE OR LESSCEERSONAL Random Observations About Town- - H. V Alley of Nehalem, one of. tlie members of .'-the .Tillamook county court, while in Portland Tuesday ex tracted a promise from the state high. I way commission to advertise fox cor.-a tract three miles of grading of the coast highway north of Mohler. ,c ' Herman , K.: Allen of Prlneville ? is visiting in Portland. . The metropolis of Crook county is recovering from its disastrous fire and rebuilding haa al ready'begun. ,- 1.-. ... ... e r -.. . '- .. Ernest F Johnson,-of Wallowa and F. D. McCully of Joseph' are in Port land on highway business. ' J . . - Clyde Robertson of Baker is one of many out of -town visitors. ... e ... . ... H. R. Hunter of Island City Is visit ing friends in Portland. e . . . H. H. Derdlng and Walter Derding of Coqullle are among out ofjtwo visi tors, Il J. Schmits .is a Portland visitor registering from Coos Bay. C F. Rhodes, of Medford is among the guests at the Imperial. . . . e - W. K. McCornack. stockman. Is reg istered from Deschutes. William . Fairs of Burns is among visitors from the interior of the state. . I. S. Geer ot Burns is among visitors in the city. . ' , OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN . By Fred '. Judea ColTie'a itory la here eoncluded. A feature ia his account of his eareer as writer of local historfea in Eastern atatee and how he became aueh the tint place. Ilia later career, after hia return to Oregon, ia traced ia detail. ,. - . , . -,-t. ,., . -Judge William -Colvlg of Medford came to Oregon by ox-team in 1851. "After putting In three years In the army, said Judge Colvig, "I was dis charged at Vancouver in I860. I had saved over (00, and so X decided to. see something of the world. - I went : to San Francisco, "where I took passage aboard the steamer Moses Taylor for Nicaragua. .From there I went to New York city. When I counted my money a few days out from New York -city I found I had $480. Just before arriv ing at Neay Yonc city I looked again and 'found my $480 had, been stolen. My total capital was $1.75, so my plana for taking in the sights of the metropo lis went; glimmering. As a matter ot fact, ! I didn't have enough money .to get a room at a hotel. .... .. - e . - -'i - . ... .Taklng my revolver and some of my Other possessions, I pawned them and raised $40, I went to Wheeling, W. Va., in search of work, Not succeeding In getting a job, I went to Ohio, where I struck a job drilling an oil well14 miles from Zaneeville. We struck lu bricating oil at a depth of $00 feet. From ' there I went to Burning Springs, W. Va., and helped drill the Louis Wetzel well. We struck oil at a depth of 1760 feet. - That became one of the famous producers of that dis trict. I landed a job as an expressman. later worked on a - steamboat, and in the winter' of 1867 I got a job on Gen eral Joe Shelbys plantation in - Mis souri. He had 1200 -acres in hemp. Most of his - workers were negroes. After a while he made me foreman. "I eaved my wages there until I had a fewv hundred dollars. I decided I would get an. education. i At Fremont, Tazwell county,- Illinois. I found a little college called the Fremont Collegiate institute. X went to school there, and when my - money ran k out Colonel AqulUa Davis, - a relative -of Harvey Scott, gave me a job as school teacher. Every, one In that -country called me Oregon Bill, because J talked so much about the beauties of Oregon. When I was there Abigail Scott Dun! way" came there and gave a lecture in the Presby terian church. Because we Were both from Oregon, I was asked to introduce her.. I taught there until 1872. That was the year. Greeley was running for president, and politics was -very warm, .' v . . .... . . : f :Tn the spring of 1875. . after mv school was out, I went to Bloomington, III-, to land a job for the summer. The job failed to materialize. It Is strange what a little incident win often change one's whole life. I have always ' been very. fond of Shakespeare. As I passed down th street, after supper I saw a sign in froht of the theatre to the effect, that; Edwin Booth -and his wife, Agnes Booth, were to appear that night In Hamlet. -1 took in the play that night and greatly enjoyed it. The next day, I went to Peoria in search of work. , CThat night as I walked down the street I saw that the Booths were appearing there In 'Hamlet.' so I .de cided to - invest another: quarter and take it in. The man at the ticket office told me a!f of the seats were gone and all he hadieft was a box at $10. Natu rally, I did not feel like investing $10. As I stood there a prosperous look In e- man stepped up to th window and asked for a ticket. , He also was told that all seats were gone and that there was nothing left but a box at $10. , day In this city I can't -find ' a single individual,- of any .party, holding any brief, for the Harding administration, unless lt Is two certain newspaper edi tors in our city ; . and."fef 'course, one couldn't expect anything else of them. The poor, deluded masses let them take their medicine. , -' - NEWS IN BRIEF SIDEUGHTS Sugar is going up every day now. Hurrah for the tariff ! Eugene Guard. v When two fishermen meet, the re cording ngel writes . shorthands Al bany Democrat The pall of smoke hanging' ever the Northwest tells of more sacrifices the publio makes to carelessness. Astoria Budget. .-: . ; . , People ' who deface "road signs con fess by that action that they belong in the home for the feeble minded. Pendleton East Oregonian. ' "All that the traffla 1ir bare.", an- .peara to be the guiding slogan of the manuiacturers or. ladies' ready-to-wear garments. Ashland Tidings. The war has left Europe Indifferent to religion, say the - correspondents. They still remember a. part of the Lord's - prayer, however, '"Forgive us our debts." Corvallis Gasette-Tunea , . ..'.',. ...-.. George 3. - . Chamberlain, former United States senator from Oregon, is back on a visit, Though out of the job, he- ia a better ' senator - than the eeed-sending . incumbent, who doesn't even rattle around in the position. Medford Mail-Tribune. v. i . , ; These are the days of automobile accidents, drownings, hangings, sui cides, divorces, weddings, . births, and a few other miner happenings to keep up the nervous tension necessary for goodhealth of the average American citizen. We're on some speedway with a loose brake. Roseburg News Review. ' R. W. Sawyer, publisher of the Bend Bulletin and county judge of Deschutes county, is passing through Portland en hli return from Victoria, B. C where he visited his family, who are passing the summer on Vancouver island. B..-F. Jones, father of the Roosevelt Memorial coast highway is sojourning forVa few days in Portland. He says he is well satisfied with the progress being made by the state highway com mission on the road. . . - J. T. Adklsson of The Dalles Is In Portland. He is down tor-the purpose of getting the highway commission to Improve the Dufur-Tygh Valley section of The Dalles-California highway. ' -. - . ...... . a- . Other visitors from -Baker are J. L. Dodson, Paul Taggart, Dale Waddell and R. E. Shepardson. . ' . a N. G. Wallace, county judge of Crook county, is - visiting .Portland on ' offi cial businesa -h. ; . D. C Thorns of Scio is transacting business in .Portland. - . . . . ...... . a . j -. An out of town visitor Is R. B. Clan ton of Bonneville. - ' O. J. Cope of Hood River rpent "Tues day m PortUnd. J. C. McLeod of Salem Is among out of town visitors. .C X. Tengald.of Medford Is regis tered at the ImperiaL - , Lockley Pulling out a roll of bills, he peeled off a iu-oouar bin and said : AU right ; I'll taae a box.'. Turning to me. he said, "I'll have lots of room in ay , box ; uun i you want to occupy a eat with meT;- I accepted Cwlth alacrity. .He said: My name Is 2ptain A. T. Andreas. I am Dresfdent of tho TjVo. side Publishing company of Chicago. What is your name, and where do you hail from? I told him my name was William Colvig, i that I was a teacher, and was looking' for a job during the summer. He said : 'How would vim iiv. to write up the history of the old pio- m gsitmg out. a state his tory.' I told him that was the Very job I would like. He hired me on the opoi, at a very satisfactorysalary. , . . . . . .. . . i -., . . ai Mairsueia.' who, ; - I ran across Judge Brinkerboff, who had a wonder ful memory of the early days and who nao iues or tne early papers. I camped right at his place and secured the data I needed. I have always written a good hand, eo I wrote out the "early history of the county and. sent It In- to Cap tain Andreas. He was delighted with my work and persuaded me not to, go back to teaching. He made m adver tising manager for the state histories he was getting out of the states of ow ana ynnesota. s I worked with him for: the next vear or tim. profit, to myself as well as to him. He sent me to San Francisco as manager of the - Pacific T Publishing -company. After staying at San Francisco a while I came north to Jackson county to visit my people, j That was in. th fail jo i a ,,, in tne spring or 1870 I visited all the old pioneers of Santa Clara and Sonoma" counties, in: California, and sui wui. cuuui njstones. : "That summer I came' back to Ore gon ana campaigned for Tilden. All of my people are republicans. I was the only Democrat in our family. in 1878 K ? tor th Oregon . legislature on the Dernocratio ticket. There were two wings of, the Democracy that year the Pintos and the Bourbons. I was de feated by nine votes. On June 8. 1879 I married Addle Birdseye; My - wife as oom in a stockade, at Fort Birds eye. 21 miles west of Medford. In t8S I was elected school superintendent of Jackson county, and served two terms. I wa s then elected district attorney ana- servea tnree terms. :x My .district embraced Lake, Klamath, Jackson and Josephine counties. When I was elect ed district attorney I knew very little about the law. At. that- time" iL-was not. necessary to be a lawyer to be elected to the office. ' While serving as district attorney , I studied law and was admitted to the bar. Some time later I vat the author of a bill which provided that unless one had been ad mitted to the bar he could not be elect ed district attorney or, judge. After having Served my three terms a dis trict attorney, I practiced law at Jack sonville. Clarence Reamca,- who mar ried my daughter, was my partner In the law, businesa Some years ago W. D. Fenton, the Southern Pacific attor ney At Portland.' offered me the ponl tloo of right of way agent- for th Southern Pacific I stayed with them five years. - - .. ! .r r. . "I haveTseven children. My daughter Helen - Mar- Gal keep- house for me. Mjr daughter Mary married William J. Weaver, who is postmaster at Med ford. My son Donald Lynga Is a lum ber operator at Weed, Cat. Another son, Vance IV Bar. is a newspaper illus trator. , He signs his Work by th nick name . we have always . called him. "Pinto". He syndicates his work and lt la published in a number of newspa pers." - J ' Any time an individual casts his vote for a Socialist. Prohibitionist or work tngmnn's candidate he is simply adding to the prestige of the G. O. P. : I wonder what - the damphoole will do ati the next election elect Senator Newberry president? - - . - Oneof th Throng. The Oregon Country Voftawest Happenin.- K Brief Font for tit Busy Reader. t . OREGON ' - . ' . September IS to It inclusive have been fixed as the dates for the Jackson county fair,, During the past week 890 automo biles filled with , tourists passed. -through Pendleton. . Two lots have: been purchased in Medford for J7000 and work will start in September on the new 5,000 ar mory. , ..S. . ' A large crew of men is now work ing on the McKenzle pass road, which crosses the lava: fields near the Three Sisters. The cherry erpp In Lane -county this -year was enly about id per .cent nor mal, but loganberries and prunes will yield an abundant crop. Out of three carloads : of potatoes , shipped to Eugene from California last week,, two of - them contained tuber moth and. w era not allowed to be un- . loaded. . . . . Two carloads of canned goods were ' shipped Friday by th Eugene Fruit Growers association, one from the Eu- gene plant and another from the Junc tion City cannery. - -- -The beet crop in Lane county is ex- pected to greatly exceed that of last; year, -when more than a-half million, pounds were canned by the Eugene- : Fruit Growers association, , Sixty carloads Is a conservative estimate of the amount of honey pro duced each year in the state, accord ing to H. A. Scullen, specialist In hee culture at Oregon-Agricultural college. ' Dell Grlggsby, SS , years old, com mitted suicide last Monday at the home of1 Harold House ifi Polk county , by shooting himself through the head. ' Failing health had caused desponds ency. The gasboat B. A W.. which went ashore near Fort Canby In the Co- ; lumbia river last March with a cargo of liquor aboard, has been ordered sold and the - proceeds turned, over to the government-; - fc , Engineer M. S. Stokes 7 received a , broken hip and Fireman Moore suf fered serious bodily injuries when a locomotive turned over on - the Port- land. Astoria & Pacific railway near Manning recently. WASHINGTON ! - Damage by fire 1ft excess of $100,0t) was done .Friday to tne riouay-jsaaso: Hardware company at Spokane. . The first carload of new potatoes : left Kennewick last week. Growers are receiving $40 a ton f. o. b. Kenne wick. .' ; - . . - . The railroad str lk is putting the Tacoma municipal carlin in debt $&0 to $60 a day, due to reduced passengert--trafflc ,. "" ; H, Stanley Coffin has been elected" president of the -West Side National' bank at Yakima, which will open its doors for business August SO, - Alice Longbottom, aged , wka badly Injured at .Yakima when struck by an automobile driven by -H, M. Taylor, former judge of the. state . supreme court. - -A':,-- ' :v:-,-'-"-' Contracts for buildings and a half- -mile race course were let at Pasco . last week, and the first Franklin county-fair will be held at ConneU in Sep tember. . ' . . The EHensburg river road, contract for which will be let September 6. will, cost $700,000 and. will shorten the dis tance from Yakima to EUensburg by 11 miles. . .., ; Growers of Elbert a peaches in Yak ima county met at Union Gap recently to the number of 150 and decided not to contract to sell peaches for less than 75 cents a box. .--v . j Three harvest fires have already been reported in Walla Walla county with the conaequent loss of a? large- amount of gram. Two of them were caused-, by smut explosions. j: Petitions are ' being circulated in Tenino for the organization of a law and order-league, the object of which is to suppress drunkenness and the selling of intoxicants. At the grand encampment In YakiraM last week FredhW, Tempes of Van couver was elected commander of he -department of Washington and Alaska, , United Spanish War- Veterans. ; .- ! Tom Harny. World' war veteran,' sf-" rived at Camp Lewis Thursday after havihg walked r across the contlnenb from Worcester, Mass, to attend the national convention of the Veterans of Foreign j Wars. : ' . :-. . -. . - The city ' of Toppenlsh has entered suit in superior court for judgment on numerous paving - assessments in that" city. - Twelve - property owners are named and the assessments amount to more than $2600. ' t , . , . . .5 A' census of 1 pioneer Washington homesteads, to include land which has been settled for 50 years or more and which is still in possession Of the fam-. Ily of the, original owners, will be con ducted by the Washington State 'His torical society. 1 .-- IDAHO - Idaho's 1922 crop is said to be In serious danger unless the strike- of railway shopmen is soon -settled. Clarence Kerr was killed by a run away team -Friday at the Wallace Garrett ranch, on Snake river near Whitebird. . . Ki, ' Cecil. ' 10-year-old - son. of Mr. an " Mrs Alex Post, died at Welser 1 last , week from blood poisoning caused by stepping on a nail. - . Enough mash for 200 gallona of whiskey and a distilling outfit costing Its owner 1100 were confiscated in a raid Friday at Rupert. For the alleged killing of a deer out of season, Oren Paulsen was ar rested at Cascade. Idaho, and fined $100 -and sentenced to serve 30 days in jalL An unusually short' hay crop Is pre dicted in Idaho, Sheepmen are paying from $10 to $18 per ton in the stack and growers are unwilling to sell at that price. .- - ,.. . K . A rich strike has been made at the Neversweat mine on War Eagle mountain-near Silver City, Idaho, Assays . have been returned which un $14,000 to the ton. - - . . - Moses Alexander; ' ex-governor of ' Idaho and head of the Alexander chaJn ' of clothing stores, is prominently men- tioned. as a nominee of -the Democrats for governor at the approaching elee-v tlOn. , : . .!. . ., .... ... .. Twenty Years Ago From The .Journal of July 6, 1902 San Franciseo Aftr rm :"nf ha ' fiercest battles ever seen in the prize rinar Rob Fitzaimman wan lrnnlra,T ". out last night in th,e -eighth" round by James Jeffries, the champion . heavy- weignt or tne woria. : - T. .-. v - ---e-a- at.. The contract for the construction of - the drydock was let today to Robert Wakefield, at $162,000. - . r : ' v. - - - Residents in the xiclnlty of Union " " avenue and East Stark street are clam- -oring for the building of a sewer on that street. ' .. . . James E. Anient has been chosen president of the Weston Normal school - by the executive committee of the In- - stitution. . , ; - a , . .. -K - .. ... The fire department reports a rrati- ' fying response to the recent ordinance anent mouy roofs. People . all over the city are cleaning up. . , - The thermometer yesterday ranged " from SO at Portland to 97 at Walla Walla. , . - . - - - a, . a . . ... . ... The promoters of the incorporation 7 movement - at St. Johns are about to give up' their project on account" of -the indifference, of the. residents and are now talking of having a bill in., troduced in the next legislature for-' the purpose of bringing the suburbs of St. Johns inside the corporate limits" of Portland. , - ' - Nine 'vessels are now In port for lumber cargoes, the fleet being added -to yesterday by the Robert Dollar and the Aberdeen. ' - ' . 7 - 5 I I ' I - i t 'I f