MONDAY, AUGUST (28, 1922.. THE OIIEGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. - 1 IimEffcfllKjr SEWSPAPEB C. 8. JACKSOS. . . - ii . .... . . . . . Publisher - IB cabn. b confident, be cheerful tad do . taste etbaa u you wot-ld here there do ant v yoq-) "' ' - ' :' " ' '" t Published eresT Hkdr sod fcuntUy wnuu at The Journal kuidinc BiMdw At m.sa ' hill itrwt, Portland. Oregon. ' Entered at th Pactoffk St. Portlao. Oregon. ' for transmission through th mii a seeesd . -'glas matter. - " SATIONAi. ADVEBTISlNtt KEPRESEXX. TTV E Benjamin 4e Kentnor Co-. Brnns : wick building. 22$ Fifth aeenne. New Xork; 900 Mailer talWnf, Ohicsirra. pacific coast bspbeskxtativk SL C. Morgensen Co., Inc.. gximiner building. Ben Franeiseo: Title Insurance buikhtg. Ia Angeles: Beenritie buikhng, Seettle, THE OREGON JOURNAL, rssenee the right to reject adrcrtising copy which it deem oJxtJonabl. 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Make all remittances pay v able to Th Journal Publishing Company. Portland. Oregon. - TELEPHONE MAIN 7161. All departments reached by this number. No sincere dear of doing good need make an enemy of a single human being; that philanthropy has sitrely a flaw in it which cannot sympathise with the op pressor equally as with the oppressed. Lowell. INTERPRETING THE LAW I I A MOST interesting construction ' has been placed on the enforce . ment of the prohibition law in New J York if the statements of enforce--, J" ment officials have been 'properly , construed. For ihstance, here is a quotation from an Eastern paper: When he (the prohibition director) and his dry chief associates visited the Broadway cabarets last night and put out an anti-flask warning they did J not mean, the director explained, to - I curtail the pleasures of the respect J ably discreet drinker. Under the table .'.tor behind the door thirst was not the , thorn in the prohibition , department's I side, he said. " J In other words, although prohibi- J tion is. in effect, it is not in effect tf a man sneaks behind the door to j open his bottle. The crime isn't in - having and drinking liquor; it is - where it is and how it is done. The . , violation is not in the act but in the manner in which the act is I formed. per- 'I V That is a singular interpretation t of law. Followed to its logical con t elusion it might be all right to com jnlt murder if properly done. Or a burglar might be permitted to rob a safe so long as he robberl it - the right way. The essence of the f whole matter seems to be that it i is legitimate to possess and consume jjliquor, even though the law says 1 you cannot, as long as you don't J encourage some one else to do the j. same thing or as long as you sneak about it, 'but the drinker must be certain Id. be a sneak as well as a drinker. J Such interpretations, of course, by- enforcing officials encourage respect for law. If another official will come -along now and tell the - robber's 5 fraternity to steal the safe of Mor- gan & Co., but to be quiet about it, the "United States can be prop- erly known, even If not proudly, as the "land of the free." ; With a water rate of tJ4 and a rail rate of $27 to the Atlantic r seaboard. Northwest lumber pro it ducers scarcely know there is a rail 1 strike as the most recent totals on f. shipments demonstrate. This is a ' s time when prophecy is verified as ' to the benefits of the Panama j canal. i THE PRICE 1 TT AN insane person buys a pistol ' -wjnd kills somebody with it where : V does the responsibility , lie? ;h v. On -the craxy, who doesn't know, perhaps, .what he is doing? Or on I the man who sold him the weapon 1 who knows that " he is selling a -deadly pistol tfe somebody that he t doesn't know?' I a'worthy -man is buying a re- - yjlver, he can easily obtain proper I witnesses to vcuch for him. If such , 1.9. recrement had - been imposed. v. being a . strsjiger. in Portland, Re " berio, who in a fit of Insanity on . . the stage killed Price,-could hardly have secured the gun used in the K v killing. He would have been saved from committing a murder and the man who sold It to him would have escaped the heavy responsibility In- cident.to the of the run to a madman.. r' , V . Our civilization has become too I complicated tortus "to do things in i the old lax way. We can't drive automobiles at top speed "because t automobiles and pedestrians are too t numerous along the route. Dealers ABnot be permitted to aell revolv- erg indiscrf minately Cor there are more crazies, more crooks and more Irresponslbles in every community. The true course Is to stop , the manufacture- and sale - of revolvers. The highest authority recommends tliat coarse." We stopped the manu facture and sale of booze. The de structive effect of pistols, taking into account the fact of how they facilitate and , stimulate crime, is probably worse. ? But we shall hare to wait for prohibition of pistols and until then the most scrupulous car is neces sary In regulating their sale. Price is dead. Reberio killed him with the gun ought,of a Portland pawn broker who sold the weapon to him without a license, without a permit and without the slightest concern about f whether the - buyer was fit to carry a concealed and murderous gun. " ' '-!' " . - . . TRY IT TJ7HY not try one-way traffic in VV the congested district? Why not settle the great debate by dem onstration? ! ' Something must be done. Port land's congested district is rapidly becoming . worse congested. The limitations of streets 60 and- 80 feet wide with intersections every ?00 feet are all too frequently evident. As things are going; the endurable is becoming unendurable, the un endurable is becoming impossible. One-way traffic down town may be the solution. It may not be. So far as Portland is concerned nobody knows with" certainty. It hasn't been tried. v Those who' oppose it do so for business reasons. They say the scheme wiil keep trade from them; that one-way traffic will impose injurious complexity and delay. Those who favor the plan say that one-way traffic is the solution of continued successful business in Portland's congested district. As suredly it could not be said that one-way traffic has driven business from the. market blocks of Yamhill street! Give one - way traffic . a trial. Trial will afford proof.- If it doesn't work, if it handicaps business, abandon it. If - it works keep it. Could anything be fairer? "Frank M. Goodwin, assistant sec retary of the interior, viewed,, the Columbia basin project and then said, "The land is there, the water is there and there are no engineer ing difficulties of great magnitude.' He joins-with others who have seen the project in declaring that recla mation of the great area will pay in production and in home promo tion. BEHIND THE SCENES WinPHE rail strike today developed -- into a fight to a finish, when the peace negotiations were blown sky high," says a news dispatch. A minority of the railroad presi dents favofed compromise. A ma jority rejected the proposals of the Brotherhood chiefs. The battle is to go on. But it is not the railroad presidents, or the operating man agers and officials of the companies that are responsible. Behind the scenes in the negotiations is the New York bankingownership of the lines. Those great financial interests are directing the railroad strategy, and it is a blood and iron strategy. When.' President Harding tried to settle the strike he sent Secretary Hoover to New York to present his plan. Mr. Hoover is under no illusions. He is a man of affairs.. He did 'not go directly to the railroad presi dents. Where he went was to a secret meeting f New York bankers in the Equitable Trust building. It was to them that he first presented the president's plan. Being a prac tical man he knew that if their consent could be obtained the rail road presidents would quickly settle the strike on the president's terms. But, according to Mr. Hoover's own sr&mlssIonL- the bankers were not for peace. They rejected the presi dent's plan. They told him that they could not "think of coercing the executives Into acceptance of the peace plan." ..:.! " From the Equitable Trust build ing Mr. Hoover; went to the meet ing'ot the railroad presidents, but It was only a perfunctory presenta tion of President , Harding's pan. The issue had already been decided by the real masters of transporta tion. The railroad presidents were mere dummies in the negotiation. carrying out the policies of the great financial interests. The Important thing in this bit of history is not the mere fact that the offer, was . rejected. It is the higher fact that the president .of the United States sought industrial peace for . the welfare , of all the country, that as the, head of the government of the United States he was compelled to send his per sonal representative, not . to the transportation heads ' representing the gfeat common carrier system of America, hut to a group of bankers, whose interest is not in the move ment of goods and products, but in the, bonds and interest and divi dends and coupons of the railroad system as a side line to the bank ing system of Manhattan island. In the. situation, t you : have- the explanation - of - - why there is cb settlement of the rail strike. There will never be peace in the railroad industry so long as railroads are run, not for transportation service but as a profitable annex to New York .banking, it f : It is not .humanly possible for men gorged with enormous profits to look upon the rafiroada as any thing but a means of more profits. There is no common man in their world' for the hig banker to see and know and 'understand aa he is understood by the operating f ficials and manager of the line.? ; They do not even appreciate that they are subjecting pie traveling public to '- the.' perils, of railroad equipment out of repair. ' They have no qualms about the bearing that inefficient equipment" has on the operation of the lines. Theirs is a world of business in which they have little time to think of belated trains, accidents, delays, car short ages. , disabled : locomotives, hot boxes and incompetent shopmen. And so "the railroad strike de veloped into ' a ; fight s to a finish when the peace " negotiations were blown sky high." "When Vancouver makes fiesta to honor the prune she chooses that subject which far surpasses all the orgies of Bacchus on Olympus. The Clarke county prune is delicious, wholesome and yields no sorrow in the cup to distress the day after. THE REAL. CULPRITS I A FEW months ago a theatre in an Eastern city was robbed. It was a spectacular and daring burglary. Tpe bandits escaped in a taxicab. i "Later a taxicab resembling the one which had participated in the robbery was seen moving down another street. Instantly the driver was arrested and charged with com plicity in the crime. He was ar raigned in pojice court and held for bail. Although the driver owned his cab he had no money or other property. He could not raise bail, and, consequently, was remanded to jaiL He was finger-printed and his picture was placed in the rogue's gallery. , After 60 days in jail the man succeeded in obtaining lower bail. He furnished it and was eventually released. When it came time for the trial an assistant district attorney went over the evidence to prepare his case. He quickly discovered that there was no evidence whatever against the taxi driver and the case was dismissed. But the man had spent 60 days in jail. His fingerprints were taken and placed with those of criminals, and his picture appears also' with those of criminals' in the rogue's gallery. It all came about on sus plcion. ' Who is to make amends for what he suffered ? The law. of the state does not contemplate that any citi zen shall be so unjustly , treated. There are constitutional guarantees under which the citizen is entitled to protection. But here is a 60 day period of Incarceration, with atl the: ihigrff tles that arrest, confinerrnt and a rogue's gallery can impose, "it is a wrong that is too often commit ted against men, and for which there is no way of recompense. It is the fault of a lax official dom. The man's case should have been reached sooner. The officials who permitted him to lay in jail on a supposition that was not well founded committed an official crime against him. , The effect is that critics of the American system ascribe the fault to our plan of self government, which is not to blame at all. The Reds howl about it. . The bolshev- istSi rave about it. They point to Walter S. Ward, the millionaire's son, who killed a man, and has not been brought .to trial' and then di rect an accusing finger at the case of the taxi man, and say there is one law for the rich and another for the poor. They are wrong., It Is not the law. It is not the system. It is not America. The fault lies with the lazy, incompetent, time-serving, salary drawing officials. The law is one law for all. It is the official crooks who strafe the taxi driver and wink at the offense of the mil lionaire murderer. ' The public crooks are a national peril. -What's in a name? inquires Shakespeare. But that -was be fore an exchange of Kelso . for Longbell or Longview , involved a giant lumber plant, and real estate operation. ., 44 PROFITS FOR THE PUBLIC rrVHEY say that municipal , owner ship of ultiliUes is a rank, stark, staring failure, but the municipally owned car line in San Francisco Is piling up a surplus while at the same time holding down the fares of corporation owned lines in that city. : r i .d1-:-': -Kl And here comes Tacoma's com missioner f lights and water with the announcement that nearly half a million dollars appears on : the credit side of the ledger lit which Is kept the accounts of' that city's municipal light and power plant. July snowea - a prorit or more than $31,000 in spite of the fact that in "excess of $10,000 of ',the month's earnings had been turned into reserves ' for"- redemption of bonds and sinking funds.' ; ; " Yet Tacoma notably offers man ufacturing plants the lowest power rates in the.Northwest, if not on the Pacific coast. - Tacoma household ers are, likewise said to enjoy the lowest lighting rates in the North west, , i -. - '-. - u 4 Does this look like , failure and inefficiency in municipal' feneration of utilities? Do the Tacoma record and the San Francisco record Indi cate that a franchise is something to be offered a corporation on a silver platter and on' bended knee ? GOiMlVIENT OF THE . STATE PRESS V Hot in The Dalles, but There's a Dif ference Liquor the, National Gab Subject Literary Digest Poll Cuts : JOi Ice Pleasure Seekers Are --"i Thoughtless After at1 Years ; :;- Ain't Scientists Wonderful? ; The Dalles Chronicle : ' The temper ature attained a mark of 90 above in Chicago . Wednesday, and they began sending out press dispatches about the heat wave in theptilddle West. Here in The jjauea last June, it uan- negro getting warm until the mercury regis tered SO above and it wasn't long be fore 100 above was considered fairly normal. However, there's -a differ ence. There is heat and beat. . In Chicago you get the damp, sizzling kind, with the air being hot, heavy and moist, while here in The Dalles the heat is dry and the nights are 'coo L The hot blahkefcthat descends over the Middle West in the - summer months does not cool off at night. It just sticks around, oppressive and enervat ing, leaving one as dull and fatigued In the morning as he was the night be fore when he went to bed. Yes. there's a difference all right- We'd rather be roasted than' parboiled. . c. . Blue Mountain Eagle t Just as often as a few men get together they have a little liquor conversation. They first talk about it being hot or cold and then it is wet or dry. It is the national gab subject and the ' facts Ul show that the most of it s gab. The Liter ary Digest is taking a poll of 11,000,000 voters on the subject of wet or dry. And this is all just mere gab and whatever its tabulation might show it will never amount to more than .gab, Prohibition beCame part of the .consti tution. "In order to change it an amendment would have to be ratified by three-fourths of the states. That would take years at best and is an im possibility for all practical ''purposes. There would always be dry states enough to 'defeat any change. - The next chanre would be a modification of the Volstead law. This could be done by electing a wet congress. But are there any, candidates who want to risk their political ambitions on wet platform? "We think not- A few have tried it, and their vote was so slight that It has scared all the politi cians off. Wet candidates for . con gress don't get anywhere. People will gab about prohibition and vote against every candidate who is even suspected of being wet. And why should it be otherwise? ! Coauille Valley 1 Sentinel: Those .Oregon people who are voting for an amendment of the Volstead law to permit the sale of light wines and beer in the hope that it would , loosen up the screws here in Oregon are re minded by a Portland paper that such a change would have no ef fect whatever on the Oregon bone dry law ; that no matter how moist the rest of the country might become there could be no legal sale of S per cent or any other per cent beer here under the law we enacted in 1915 and which no one need imagine will ever be repealed. Oregon will ' still be Sahara no matter what congress may do. And the fact .that .976 voters in this state voted for greater moisture in the Literary Digest poll and 854 for dry enforcement cuts no ice whatever. as will be olalnly apparent if the question is ever submitted here again, Lebanon Express : Moses taught the children" of Israel the art of camp ing out. If he had not, they would never have reached the promised land. But apparently they did not hand down tOj their, descendants the very Import ant lesson of how to clean up every camp when you are fixing to leave it. More than one landowner around Lebanon can testify to this, when he visits the scene of a recent camp and finds waste paper, pieces of meat that have drawn an army of flies, dis carded boxes and more or less filth scattered about. Too frequently shrubbery and trees have not received as careful attention as they should have had. The average camper does not v mean to be destructive, and he doesn't mean to ruin another man's Property. He is just thoughtless, that's ail. And yet. it would seem that if he wanted to do the right thing and make it more pleasant for the next camper who 'comes along he would treat property around him Just- as he would want his Own treated and he would clean up his camp before -he moved on down the road. - Roseburg News-Review X Here is an Item that appeared in tJus paper 31 years ago: "Judge Riddle has had the courthouse yard . broken and set out to ornamental trees. . He has made a varied selection, including the Amer ican horse chestnut, beech, soft and hard shelled almond, white and Eng lish elm, Russian mulberry,' two vari eties of birch, mountain ash, blue ash, sugar made, red bud or Judas and yellow poplar. In a few years the square will present a handsome ap pearance." Now if we get another start like the Judge inaugurated in pioneer days wonder what the result would be 31 -years in the future? We hope nothing like the present condi tion of our courthouse yard would result. It would be interesting, if Mr. Riddle could remember, of what dis DoslUon was made of his efforts to beautify the courthouse grounds. Pres ent day natives have a recollection of a number. of tail poplar trees oniy protected by -an iron fence and the pasture-like appearance of the grounds as uaey appear lousy-. . ":' '' - ! 1 I iSCorvallls Gazette-Times A bugol ogist at the Smithsonian Institute says that ants are away ahead of man kind in civilization ; that theyv have had a division of labor agreement that settled the strike question thou sands' of years . ago ; that they had woman suffrage centuries and cen turies before ? mankind developed' out of the cave-man age. The Bible, it seems, will , have to . rewritten to read, "Go to the 'ant, thou political seie. list. ., consider her ways - and be wise. Ain't scientists wonderful? ; ' - . -, ' . Astoria Budget; It is a good move on the part of Astoria .business men to plan for an excursion,, trip Into the Nehalem valley. V There . are' a good many merchants of ther city, and other residents who have never visited that valley. ? All they know of it has come through the channels of hearsay. A junket ( trip - would be - the means Df securing -first hand, evidence of the resources Of that fertile valley ' It would acquaint those who go with the geography ..and -topography - - of the! country so that the problems of road building and agricultural development lean be - mora easily understood.. It would bring city cWellers. in personal contact f with the farmers of a ' rich tributary of the city. "And, incidentally but quite pertinently, it would - pro vide a great day of pleaf-;j". for the Nehaier has a beauty a taa charm all its own. arid It is worth .visiting quite without any commercial purpose. Eugene ' Guard : Ford's - Dearborn Independent says: "Except for 100 miles there is now a paved highway from Los Angeles-to Portland, Oregon, a distance of 1200 miles. In less than three years the Pacific Wghway will be complete from the Canadian line to the Mexican border. And It might have added, that Oregon is far ahead of either California or Washington In Pacific highway paving but it didn't Oregon actually has the best roads and California generally gets . credit for having thenV ; Letters From the People f Communications sent to Th Journal for publication in this department anon Id be writ ten on only on aid of th paper, should sot exceed - S00 words in length, and Bras be aianad Tmf the wr-itar. whoea mail addraaa is foil most accompany th contribution. 1 .. IDAHO SCHOOL LAW ! Private Schools 'Are Not Prohibited Portland. Aug. 23. To The Editor of The Journal A letter in The Journal. Aug. 21, states that the Idaho educa tional laws ' do not prohibit- private schools. That is right but the public schools are so eminently satisfactory the. private schools are few and far between. "- :: The Adventists have established a private school recently at Caldwell and it is fairly well patronised by max sect. The tendency of their teaching Seems to be more for sectarian advan cement than public welfare. They claim, if I can understand their litera ture, that only a remnant of the human family is to be saved in the hereafter, and they are the remnant, the balance are to be annihilated. And all those who do not keep Saturday as a day of rest have the "mark of the beast men tioned in Revelations. If I read his tory aright, the tendency of sectarian ism is to breed strife among peoples and nations, and when a sect becomes numerically powerful it becomes dicta torial and narrow-minded. The Koran does not teach a bad sys tem of theology and morals, but the Mohammedans. becoming powerful. h.vA Tnreri the "TJnsoeaKaDia TUTS. The history of Christianity reveais similar results, hence the Lutheran re formation and its frightful turmoils of lijron. fh fatherhood of God and brother hood of Man" is a long time in comma. hut it will come. The Catholics nave a. trood private school in Boise, but thovO not meddling with the state Rchools. Not yet. They have a virile rival in the Mormoh church. a 9ir of narocnlal scnoois can hardly be considered an unprejudiced critic, his personal interests don t lean that way. The proposed law for Oregon does not prohibit the existence of pri vate schools, neither aoes me 'a u Idaho. It is only a provision for a broader and better system of training for young people in the elementary grades, and in this respect supplants in a measure, the private schools. Even Archbishop Christie In his pastoral let ter recognizes the tendency. The prog ress of the age In which we live re quires better civil service than was in vogue when the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock. Appearing in The Journal yesterday la an article signed by a certain com mittee asserting that I stated that the laws of Idaho do not permit children to attend private schools. I am glad said committee (wrote to the-eommtssioner of education of Idaho for the facts. His reply stating the requirements of the law corroborates every statement of mine and leaves the committee, suspended as it were "be tween the devil and the deep sea. .. It Is. a faet worthy of note 4that the Jaw as stated by the commissioner requires that the private schools be brought up to the standard of the public schools and maintained there. -1 ' ' As to the constitutionality of the proposed law, I will leave that to the lawyers, only adding that the courts have usually decided that where pri vate interests and public welfare con flict, public welfare prevails, "The will of the people is the law of the land." J. B. Wright. TRUST TO THE PEOPLE Public Would Settle Railway Strike Quickly and Justly. Hot Lake. Aug. 24. To The Editor of The Journal Anent the present crisis: "The locked horns of the rail way executives and labor." Being a re tired veteran of a railway, with years in a position of trust, I can view both angles of the present strike impartial ly and with honest regard for the "rights" of employers and employes. Due to experience of the past, I see but one speedy solution of the grave problem : A complete surrender of one of the battlers with an acknowledg ment of error." Then, as does the man Who chastizes a friend for a fault, the warm hand of good-will should be ex tended to lift the - beaten one to his feet and a comradeship established that would be lasting. Labor cannot exist, today, without capital. Capital cannot proceed with out labor's assistance. The twin elements of our great civi lization. i The annals of the past strikes, rec cord "a whipping of the opponent." a momentary defeat that but strengthens the resolve of the vanquished for re venge, and the spirit of retaliation makes haste in building greater guns for a new conflict. Should the railways concede seniority and accept returns of all the old em ployes, never again can they expect 10 obtain men to take the positions made vacant by strikers. . Should the striking shop crafts yield and return to their labors, agreeing to accept the conditions imposed, it means the present force which may be 60 per cent in : number, ' with the same per cent of old empldyes out of a Job. But, considering the question a; a draw, both sides could lay down their arms tmd trust to the decision of our great court of appeals: "The will of the people." A board , consisting of citizens neither influenced by capital nor labor: men taken from walks of life far removed from railways, would settle the question quickly and with justice toward all.! " Neither the lone hand of the govern ment nor the mailed fist of the gov erned should rule the situation. " Veteran..' HUGHES ON j NEWBERRY 1 No Need of Elections. Says" Corree - j. i pondeat. . . . - . Portland. Aug. 22. To The Editor Of The Journals Now that our Hon. Sec retary Hughes has come out in bold support of Senator Newberry, and the method by which he obtained a seat in the U. S. senate, does Mr. Hughes think that the voters of this "country are- ready to swallow the Newberry pill, either with or without sugar? If Mr. Hughes believes the people are satisfied and have forgotten the disgrace and scandal of the electing and seating- of Newberry j -he has' an other guess coming. .. . - U Mr Newberry , is allowed to re tain his seat in the senate, it" may be the first step in a new system ef select ing men for the U. S. senate. The states could then 'advertise: for candi dates to fill the vacant seats and for spot cash sell seats to the highest bidders.- The money would help out som by adding it to the general fund. : The much mooted convention system would at once be settled, and the ex- ;C0M1IENT AND 1 SMALL CHANGE ' .' The gun manufacturers helped again to reduce the population by one Sat urday night. To be known to manhood only as "the son of famous (rambler. isn't much in the way of f am. j . . - Anyhow.- summer won't turn : the stage over to winter's show without a protest fromacreat many people, r TJ- S. army cut nearly in two," Prob ably retired the rest of the wartime second lieutenants., V Socialist, chief says "congress needs a . left wins;." And a . riant one. too. aa. well as a couple offeet toi stand on. J --"Russia : assumes independent- air, says the paper. And after -the other nations have been' trying for so long to give her the air., - Germany's getting a 'lot of sympathy because it fears - the cold of winter. But sympathy should remain at home, at least until our coal bin is filled. Hiram Johnson is standing for re election in California, We can't an swer for California's whims, but it's a good thing Hi doesn't Jive in Oregon. There must be a wealth of good and beauty in this sad eld world so long as it harbors such- stalwart souls as that of Hazel Hall, the Portland poet. . . -).." While we're figuring on ways and means for making our prisons self supporting, we recall the promises of reformers who promised us there would be no more need for prisons when we adopted their reforms. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observation About Town G. F. Poggt, special agent of the Atlantic. Gulf & Pacific Steamship company, has left by auto bus for San Francisco en route to Baltimore and Washington - on business. Transacting business in Portland is A. G. Belsheim of Guler, -Wash. L. A. TJUfer of Astoria is among re cent arrivals in the metropolis.'' Mr. and Mra 8. Patterson of Ash land are guests of the Imperial. ' .. Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Lewis of Albany are registered at the Multnomah. . Among guests of the Multnomah are C. F. Hyde and L. L. Baker, D. D. S. Called tq Portland by business is A. Voliver of Yakima, Wash. a,-- Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Collins of Al bany are week end visitors. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley , This articl H largely the biography of a pioneer to whom fate was unkind, but who, despite hi own failure to reap hi well-earned reward, contributed as substantially as on man may to the upbuilding of two states. George Thomas Burnett lives at 152 East 33rd street in Portland. He has been a resident of Oregon since 1857. He is a nephew of Peter H. Burnett, who came to Oregon in 1843 and who became the first American governor of California, Supreme Judge George H. Burnett is his Cousin. "I was born near -Platte City, Mis souri. April 3, 1850," said Mr. Burnett. "Father started across the plains when I was less than a month old. He went ty".the' southern' route, going through New Mexico and on into California. In 1857 my mother, Tom Burnett and I went to California by way of the Isth mus of Panama. My mother's maiden name was Sarah Jane Turner. She was born In Howard county, Missouri. My father's -name was James White Burnett. They were married Septem ber 88. 1847J at Platte City, Missouri My father was one of eight children whose names were Constantia Dudley, Pater Hardman, Glen Owen, George William, Elizabeth Anne, James White, Mary H. and Thomas S. My Aunt Con stantia died at Liberty, Missouri, in 1846. Aunt Mary, wtjo married Dr. Benjamin S. Long, died in Clay county, Missouri, in 1843. Aunt Elizabeth, like Aunt Constantia, was twice married, and died irr California, leaving 10 chil dren. Uncle Peter came to Oregon in 1843 and, with Dr. M. M. McCarver, founded the town of Llnnton. Later he went to the gold mines of Califor nia and became the first American gov ernor there. Uncle Glen and Uncle Thomas also lived in California some years. Uncle William came to Oregon In- 1846 and remained here until his death on Christmas eve, 1877. Father and Uncle Glen were members of the Christian church. Aunt Elizabeth was a Baptist, Uncle Thomas was a preach er in the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, and Uncle Peter became a Catholic My Uncle Glen, and Uncle Peter married sisters,' the daughters of Peter Rodgers. "When mother and the family joined father in California he was running a livery barn and doing freighting near Stockton. Father broke up in the livery and freighting business because the Mexican teamsters he hired would start out with a team and keep going. If they were caught they" would claim the team had been stolen and that they were afraid to return. After quitting the livery stable father took up mining In Mariposa county. When one of the workmen- was drilling" out an un exploded blast it went . off. . injuring father so badly that he lost one eye. Father then bought some cows and peddled milk to the miners. . A little later he and a man named Captain Emerson, an old-time sea- captain, be came partners In a limekiln. - The cap tain wanted to buy my father out. so he gave him his note for $1000 at 8 per cent a month. Father received the Interest for a few months,, when the captain went broke and the note was never paid. My father was a" good hand to make money, but he was a very poor hand to keep it- He was generous to a fault. We always 'had our house full ef free guests, -for- whom mother had to cook. ; - - I ' "In 1857 we moved to Portland. Uncle .Glen came up from California with us. The Panama, the boat on which we -were passengers, grounded at the month-' of the Willamette river, and we. with - the other passengers, were brought up to Portland In small boats. "Che day after reaching Port pense of buying votes stopped. Party feeling would die out. and the cost of elections would "ae.nix." , - v ' How would! this plan take with Mr. Hughes? Figuring from the standpoint that the best men that we have in the country are those that have the most mone-c, Mr. Hughes is quite right! ::v- .. ., . -. JV- G ProebsteL K THJJ. WOMAN. SMOKER ' Gaston. Aug. 24. To . the' Editor of The Journal. I saw - in the Sunday Journal the news of Mary Helm, age 15, being fined $500 and given S months' In Jail at Kansas City, Kan, en the charge of vagrancy whDe Hrjoking a 'cigarette in a ' park, and upon- her pleading for leniency the judge said. "But women should not smoke in pub- NEWS IN BRIEF . . .SIDELIGHTS . If the "valley was Africa,, si hunter would be shot for a hippopotamus every falL Bedford Mail-Tribune. . - . ' One ef the worst things about these strikes is that they give th profiteers an excuse for ralauig prices on almost everything. Eugene Guard. ii Listen, girls! If you hitch your wagon to a movie star the chances are ten to one that you'll travel pretty fast along the bumpy road, to the divorce mill. Astoria Budget . The senators who voted tor New berry as a matter of party expediency may discover that the voters do not find the same expediency in supporting them for reelection. Wsldport Pacific Herald. - - - . . - ' ' For the "love of Mike take down that sign over the lithia fountains at the deoot announcing ' that- we are going to have a - celebration on ' the. je ourtn or juiyi we prouaoiy wui in 192-Aahland Tidings, v News dispatches briefly chronicle the faet of an earthquake that broke the huge aqueduct carrying water to Lbs Angeles. Such frequent occurences are part of the "climate" the city of Los Angeles fails to mention at length. Roseburg News-Review. . ------ The most recent activity of Henry Ford is an innovation ; as a mine owner he has set a .new pace, xne men are given a living wage, good homes and safe places in which to work. This might be held up as aa example to stop trouble between miners 'and mine operators everywhere.-"Coos Bay Harbor. . , . -. ' While transacting business in Port land George Stevens of Pendleton is domiciled at the Imperial. 1 . Ray M. Rogers of Rockaway among out-of-town visitors. C H. Stewart of Carson Is a late ar rival at the Imperial. ' Geary M. Clevenger of Burns is visit ing in the metropolis. Max E. Dixon of .Prairie City li among out-of-town visitors. ).. . Among out-of-town visitors is W. J Meade of Bend. - W. F. McGregor and son .ofAstoria are among recent arrivals. Mr. and Mra F. L. Matson of Marsh- field are registered at the Imperial. , Among out-of-town visitors is C L. Pollock of Tillamook. land we went to Wheatland and from there to Bethel, in Polk county, by ox team. Father farmed there two years. In June. 1859, we hitched the oxeij to yio wagon ana started hack for Cali fornia. Father settled on the Sacra mento river and became a iitnr!rra.-ar In those days we had no fences, and so although I was but 9 years old, I was in the saddle all day, riding after the cattle. Father had not been in the cattle business long until Califor nia experienced a severe drouth. jNo feed had been put up, water became scarce, and the cattle all through that country died by thousands.' That was in IBM. jratner finally sold hfs hrand. ing iron, with what cattle he had left, for $100. The following year cattle were very high and those who had been able to feed and water their stock through the drouth made lots of money. "After losing his cattle father started back for Oregon. We came overland, driving our ox team, reaching McMinn ville in the summer of 1864. Father rented a place of Bob Kinney in Che halem valley, which we farmed three years. In 188T father rented a place in the Bethel hills,, which he farmed three years. From there we went to Dallas where father did teaming. From Dallas we went to McCoy where father died in 1884. "The first school I attended in Ore gon was Bethel institute, from 1857 to 1859. WiUiam Galloway, later a cir cuit judge, was one of my schoolmates. Whenj I was a young man I worked as a cowboy and farm hand for different ranches. -1 worked for several years for Sam Buret near RIckrealL "On February 27, 187. I was mar ried at Dallas to Emma Waymlre. . We were married by Dr. T. V. B. Embree, a minister of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South. We have had, three children. Minnie married J. T. Wiley. She lives here In town. , George is run ning a ' truck between here and Tilla mook. : Our other child died. i . -.;. "In 1879-1 started to work for the railroad and-pretty soon I became a section foreman. For some years after that I was On work trains on the Corr vail is 4: Eastern, worjrtng between Cor vallls and YaqUlna and, also between Corvallls and Detroit, at the foot of the Cascades. For eight or nine years I worked for the Oregon Electric. For some years I had charge of a section gang out of Beaverton. "After that I worked on legging roads." "You are finding out all about my husband." said Mra Burnett "I am going to tell you something about my folks.1 My .father's name was John Waymlre. He came to Oregon in 1845. My mother's name,, was Clarissa Thankful Albro. My people came to Oregon by way of Meek's cutoff, and if you know anything about Oregon his tory ybu know what a hard time they had, wandering, around on the desert without food or water until a great many of them starved to death and died of privation. I was one of 12 children. Fred Waymlre was my uncle. He was one of Oregon's well-known legislators In the early days. He lived is Polk county. , He and Aunt Fanny had 2l. children. -That seems'' like' a lot ef children for one couple, -but a good many of . the children came In sets. I don't remember how many pairs of twins they had, but quite a few. My father worked on the first wharf built in Portland. :-: If ou 'will look up the histories - of the Burnett family and the Waymlre. family yott will find they had a. good dea.1 to do' with the making of history in the early days of Oregon." ( . -.- - " . r1 Kow.if a woman Is a citizen ef the United States and has right Of fran chise as well as to life-and ' pursuit of happiness, why should ; not . eh : be permitted by the state to pollute and poison God's pure, free air in the park, just as the "men are? The poisonous fumes from the men's cigars and pipes are nk less hurtful and injurious to the public than from the cigarettes of the women. They are worse, because the men make more of the deadly fumes. . , , -S. H. Carnehan. - - ' A PITTSBURG AMENDMENT ' Frost th Plttsbrrrg CxettThns ' ' ' The list of- "dont's" issued by New York's polios commissioner as a means of avoiding being- robbed might have been condensed into one. "Don't ge to New York. The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings in Bnet yens tor the ."" ".- t' - Busy eada :t- v - ';- OREGON- '; -v ,r Stanley Adams la the first Command er of the Albany post of the American WEiua..rcnuy Mi-uie(i. - There will Ka l ,) Talnr "w me3m B oration a t Kalnbir untl.r tha aiinnlcea of Rainier post. American Legion. Bldar are beinsr called for fnr . the erection of n. now slormltorv at th it Chemawa Indian school to cost $50,000. A great dnll nf Intarost la Kelnar fi!i is Ken in u Tillamook county tair. a, which is to be held September 12 to 15. L Ground Thaa HMn Thralram in TTttlsHAm L. w.a uw now juiDiist cnurcn. wnirn is to be of the stucco type, with modern equipment clothing of Mra W. A. Flowers, living near ttanway. caught lire . and she was rataiiy burned. . fc A new ordlnanca at North Band nor. mils the moonlight dance, but requires iinung so mat tne cancers can be seen from the sidelines. ,. The State hlrhwsv. dunartnuint tha begun a condemnation suit- la Marion county to condemn land ih'J the city of Jefferson for highway use. With one of the hottest and dryest seasons on record. Pine Valley, in Baker COUntV- has had nUntv a water for irrigation, making excellent crops. HODDickinar In Linn countv Is Mtttn? well under way. Early hope were light, owing to the dry season The late cropwill be exceptionally heavy. The forward movement for Willam ette university, to be commenced next month, is to seek $1000,000 additional endowment ana sz&o.ooD ror a new gymnasium, An effort is being made at La Grande to Induce barbers to lower their prices during the Dokie convention next month. The present rates are Haircut 65 cents, shave 85 cents. Rev. Harry Tucker of Tillamook will succeed the late Rev. Roy Healey. who was murdered with Sheriff Kendall while making a moonshine raid on the West farm in Llan county. Work has started on the construc tion of the new road on Shea hill, a section of the Foeten-Cascadia road, which is being jointly improved - toy Linn county and the United States forest service. WASHINGTON Walla Walla, as given out by the oun iy ooara 01 assessors, are m per cent lower than last year, " So far this year more than 204,000 automobiles have been licensed in the state of "Washington. . Automobiles and auto trucks in Walla Walla county have an assessed valuation of Il.s89.856. . -.-T Only 50 per cent of the taxpayers in Walla Walla county have paid their poll tax for the present year. - ; Poplar street in Walla Walla, from Fifth to Ninth, will be paved this fall. Assessed valuations for the city ef Gerald, 9-year-old son of C. D. Wat- -son of Seattle, was killed Thursday when a truck driven by Jacob Karasin struck a bicycle the lad was riding. Since January 1 last the Walla Walla state penitentiary has made $10,350 oa its hog farm. About 230 have been butchered since the first of the year. Walla Walla county has 9259 horses, of which 7783 are work horses. They are assessed at an average of $841.67 for stallions, as compared to $69.41" for work horses. A dangerous grade crossing at Rich mond Beach, just north of Seattle, will be eliminated by an overhead crass-, ing, the county and railroad company having reached an agreement on the division of cost, v , While attempting to walk the boom at the mouth of the race above the Seattle waterworks Thursday, "James, 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mra J. V. Slmonds, slipped from the floating tim bers and was drowned. The Washington State Elks associa tion adopted a resolution asking con gress to grant to national agencies full power to bring about and control the resumption of freight and passenger rates on - railways on terms just to employes and fair to invested capital. ,' ' . IDAHO A civil service examination " will be held at Grangeville September 9 for applicants for 'the postmastershlp of, Kposkia, which pays $1600 a year. J. H. Nash, Idaho state land com missioner, has tendered his resigna tion to Governor Davis.. He has been connected with the office for 10 years, A. L. Gordon. 65, a cabinet worker. Was fatally burned at Lewistcm Thurs day night when the loft of his small shop was Ignited, possibly from var nish rags stored there. . . , . ; - So rapidly has the registration giown at the University of Idaho, says Pro-' feasor Dale,, head of the department of political science, that next year's additions to the faculty can scaroaly take care of the existing teaching load. Hope that an emergency rate for Southern Idaho potatos shipped to Middle Western markets will be grant ed is expressed by George B. Graff, secretary of the Boise Chamber of Commerce. Suit to recover $428 . damages has been started at Lewlston by the In land Meat company against A. and,. Louise (Walters, it being alleged that the defendants sold the company 24 hogs infected with hog cholera. The company claims the hogs died. Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of August 28, 1903 Secretary Moore of the Board of Trade has succeeded in raising part of the subsidy requested by C. M. Ward of Evanston, Wyo.. for the establishing of a $350,000 meat packing plant here. The drydock of the Port of Portland J f will be built at Vancouver. Wash. This) 5 site for the building of the drydock - i was decided upon by the commissioners ! at their last meeting, subject to a legal f opinion that it can be built outside of ' Oregon. 1 -1 r 1 Despite all that has been said and written about it, Portland will be con nected with Alaska this fall. The Port-j land and Alaska Steamship "company has chartered the steamer Indiana from -the Empire Steamship company ) of Seattle. Mayor Williams has received a re- . quest .from President . Mohler . of the O, R. . - N. company for better fire . protection in the company's Lower Al bina yards. - - . - I. - The success of the river steamer. Iralda, which last Monday started using oil as a fuel, has been so marked that several other boats are making preparations to Install oil burners. - . . - - . -.-.. - i y v, . City Physician Zaa is maintaining a quarantine against Woodland. Wash. "All assertions to - the contrary" he said, "there Is a lot of smallpox in the Woodland district" - , , - - ' i " '." - . '. ' An effort will shortly be made to drain-the slough underneath the East Morrison street roadway at Union e-penue. The stench arising from the stagnant water of the slough has been the cause of much sickness in. the i neighborhood. . v I t . . . ' " ' i j I The city officials of La Grande" are' f waging war on the gambling bouses of - ; that city. V t - j A shoe mounted on a pedestal in front of -a Third street 'Shoe store is " attracting the attention M passers by. The." shoe - has a cols -made - up of - rubber between two pieces ef leather. . . t- - - .. . Dr. IL 8. Allen of the Tkum block had the front wheel from his bicycle ' stolen last night : Dr. langworthy of the Goodnpcgh building reported a similar lose several days ago. ' The "shipping, business at Portland as welt as at all other points 'along the Pacific coast, is in a complete state of - inactivity. Charter- rates are a what is believed to be the lowest ehh the average being about 2Ss 3d. v 1 I