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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
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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
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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. - -'
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"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?
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- 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
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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
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Clyde Robertson of Baker is one of
many out of -town visitors.
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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. . .
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- 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.
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.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,
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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
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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.
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Other visitors from -Baker are J. L.
Dodson, Paul Taggart, Dale Waddell
and R. E. Shepardson. . '
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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. - .
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-. 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.
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. 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 :
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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. .
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The fire department reports a rrati- '
fying response to the recent ordinance
anent mouy roofs. People . all over
the city are cleaning up. . ,
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The thermometer yesterday ranged "
from SO at Portland to 97 at Walla
Walla. ,
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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. ' - ' .
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