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All departments
The lands are lit
With all the autumn blase of goldenrod.
And everywhere the purple asters nod
And bend and wave and flit
Helen Hunt
WAXING FAT
ARGUMENT on the motion of the
telephone company to take its
case out of the Oregon state, courts
and transfer It to the United States
courts is to be heard tomorrow.
It would be bettei: to abandon
"'the proposed transfer altogether.
In the present mood of Pregon
people over telephone rates the
telephone . company and telephone
attorneys ' could do no more ex
asperating thing than to force the
telephone rates into a long period
of litigation. It would be far better
' to reach some adjustment by which
" the rate controversy could be settled
at the earliest possible date.
Meanwhile, the American Tele
phone. & Telegraph company Is In
creasing its capital stock. The com
pany has already built up a hand
some surplus, is paying 9 per cent
dividends and its stock is selling
far above par.
The new issue Is for $115,000,000
and present stockholders are given
the privilege of purchasing one
- share for every five now held. In
-: explaining the reason for the in
creased capitalization, H. B. Thayer,
president of the company, says:
During the past two years of adverse
t business) conditions the demand for tel
ephone service has shown no abate
ment. During that period there have
been a million telephones added to the
- Bell eystem and there are now on file
. unfilled applications for about 200,000
telephones. This continuing expansion
- of the telephone business requires ad
- dltion&l plants and in view of the
- prospects of better general business an
even greater normal growth is ex-
'pected.
By a substantial issue of stock at
this time the gronh of the business
for a considerable period to come will
1 be provided for without further stock
offering to the stockholders. The com
pany is in funds to meet the balance
- now outstanding of its $50,000,000 note
Issue due October 1. 1932, and the funds
from the stock issue will provide for
, - extensions of the national telephone
system.
There Is nothing pesimistic about
that report. The company is not
" starving to death. It is ready now
. to meet obligations not yet due.
Even in adverse times the company
' cannot fill its orders; and. In fact.
business is so good that the capital
stock of the qompany is to be in
creased.
The American Telephone & Tele
graph Co. owns the majority
stock and directs the Pacific Tele
phone & Telegraph Co. The local
company pays certain rentals for
t patents of the big company. It buys
.its materials from the Western
Electric, also owned by the parent
company. But the little company,
owned by the big company. Is starv
ing to death;, according to the little
J company. Mr. Thayer, however.
says the big company cannot care
for all the business, even In times
of stress. ' He says the company is
doing nicely; In fact It ia doing so
-well that those owning stock in
'.the big company have first chance
" at the additional stock to be issued.
" It is in such demand that it cannot
f yet be thrown open to the general
public ".--' " - - ' '
The stockholders of the , big,
' company own the little company.
' the little company is starring; the
. big company cant take care ot the
business and the bills grow bigger.
' So ; far. publie service " comnala-
sloners have not been able to dis-
. cover the nigger In the woodpU'e.
Attorney-generals have been able
tc, find no violation of law, anti
trust or otherwise,- Maybe there is
no law to cover ; or regulate- the
practice of the telephone barons.
In fact, everything may be ail
right. But it would take a silvered
tongue to explain the conflicting
statements of the companies, parent
and child. And It will take a long;
time to ; convince the 1 public ,tbat
there Is not Jugglery In the finance
of the telephone business Jugglery
that starves one company while the
parent waxes fat. , - ,
Under the circumstances it would
be foolish for the phone company
In Oregon to attempt to use federal
power to complicate a rate con
troversy that Is a purely Oregon
issue. ' -
Because she refused to parade
on the Chicago lake beach in a one
piece bathing suit and be arrested.
Cyrena Van Gordon, noted member
of the Chicago Opera company. Is
faced with an attempted cancella
tion of her contract. The walk on
the beach and the arrest in the ab
breviated bathing suit were de
sired by the advertising man of the
company as publicity, along the
lines by which newpapers are
tirelessly . and effectively worked
these day. "That sort of thing
didn't appeal to me at all," she said.
"Greeting arrested in a one-piece
bathing suit may have Its thrills,
but not for me." But theadvertis
ing man in the wide publication of
the above narrative is getting his
publicity just the same.
HEADED FOR DEFEAT
TTEIE case against the municipal
JL paving plant is that it interferes
with private business and destroys
the profits of legitimate Industry.
This is the argument of the
paving contractors as presented
through the Builders' Exchange,
with which they are affiliated.
The defense of the municipal
paving plant is that during the
city's last fiscal year it saved the
property owners of Portland $175,
904, and that during the current
year the savings are in proportion.
Also it appears that the general
fund of the city has been enriched
$30,244, earned by the municipal
paving plant above the cost of its
operation.
The municipal paving plant was
primarily established for paving re
pair. For this work the continued
maintenance of the plant is neces
sary, as anyone who drives over the
city's streets will affirm.
The secondary purpose was to
impose a check on paving contrac
tors, to prevent collusion in bids,
to hold the prices down to a rea
sonable figure and to meet emer
gencies. It has furnished a check;'
There can be little opportunity for
collusion when the municipal plant
is a bidder.
So long as the municipal plant Is
retained it win stand as a means
for badly needed repair work and
as a regulator of prices on new
work. It should be retained for
both purposes.
But in the matter of new work its
bookkeeping should not be such as
to place legitimate business at an
unfair disadvantage. That is to
say. all the costs of publicly-done
paving, including all overhead,
should be charged against the
municipal plant, leaving nothing to
be assessed to general administra
tion.
The private contractor is entitled
to the work when he is content with
a reasonable profit. He has no
right to expec? more. If he. can
not do the work in competition with
the municipal plant on the terms
above set out he ought not to ask
for it.
If the charter revisionists under
take to eliminate the municipal
plant for either repair or new work
they will probably be beaten in the
election.
The dancing masters say the jazz
dances must go and Monsieur
Poiret utters the edict of fate
against the short skirt. Maybe so!
But already Canadian beauties have
formed a league for the preserva
tion of the short skirt. Besides being
popular, and all that, it calls for
aeciaeaiy less material ana any
claim agent will tell you , It has
reduced the accidents getting on
and off eara amazingly.
SHOW US MISSOURIANS
WILLIAM J. BURNS has spent
considerable time recently
telling the publie of the improve
ments he is making in the bureau
of investigation of , the department
of justice. He Is expanding its ac
tivity, he says, and increasing Its
efficiency. Moreover, he has been
excited about the activity of Reds
in this country.
It is well to increase the effi
ciency of the bureau of Investiga
tion. But why go to all that
trouble If there Is to be no work
done? .
It Is the Job of Mr. : Burns de
partment to find the facts in eases
of law violations. It ia the job of
Mr. Datugherty to see that prosecu
tions are instituted based on the
facts that Mr. Burns fin da Both
have been In of fice for a year and
a half, but judging from results,
there has been' precious little done
either in finding facts about or in
stituting suits against the big war
profiteers.
it must be admitted that Mr.
Burns has been much perturbed
about the Reds. Yet. it would seem
better fishing If the bureau of in
vestigation landed a few of the
bigger fish -and did less talking
about the little ones. T. T
And It must also be said 'that
Mr. Daugherty has been busy. He
has been engaged in defending Mm
self against, so many charges that
he has hardly had time to bother
about those who mads tremendous
profits from the bloodshed in
Europe.
It is not too late yet, however,
for the department of Justice, in
cluding the . efficiency bureau of
Mr. Burns, to function In the war
graft cases. And people, generally,
would be more inclined to believe
that the department is operating
efficiently and? in the interests of
all classes after a practical demon
stration of the operations, starting
with the biggest criminals of all, '
It'suno use to cry,, over spilled
milk,: but V broken eggs are a r dif
ferent ! matter, especially when
you've sat on them, as did the can
didates who were victimized by
Vancouver's practical joker.' .
GUILTY AS CHARGED
THOUGH the rail strike was
X caused by a cut in wages, the
Union Pacific is now preparing to
advance the wages of its strike
breakers. -
The increase will be 2 to 22
cents per hour above present wages.
In almost all instances it will be
a higher wage than that paid be
fore the railway labor board made
the cut ' and' caused " the strike.
This higher wage than - was paid
before the cut and the strike is to
go to new employes, many of whom
are without experience and most of
whom are not efficient.
The advance is made to the strike
breakers who have organized a
union of their own, in the forma
tion of whioh they are said to have
been encouraged by the company.
There you have it. If the com
pany can afford to pay the higher
wage to their inefficient new em
ployes they could have more easily
afforded the higher wage to their
old experienced and effective em
ployes, driven into a strike by a
cut in wages.
If the company now voluntarily
pays higher wages than before the
labor board made the cut, then the
labor board was wrong in ordering
the cut, and the shopcrafts right
in resisting the cut.
If the 2 cents to 22 cents an
hour higher wage now to be paid
by the company had been paid the
old and tried employes at the time
the wage cut was ordered, there
would have been no strike. If
anybody deserved the higher wage,
who deserved It more than the men
long in the service, the men who,
by their efficiency and fidelity
have kept -train equipment in per
fect order and enabled the company
to make its splendid record of
safety on the rail ?
'If anybody was worthy of the
higher wage who was more entitled
to it than the men who have grown
gray as well as highly expert in the
company's service?
What else can the company's
wage increase to its strike breakers
be but a plea of guilty to the charge
that the railroads brought on this
strike by a demand for lower wages
when there was no legitimate oc
casion for lower wages?
The coal famine causes the Port
lander to think gratefully of the
immense firewood resources within
stone's throw of the city, but he
will be the reverse of grateful if
the dealers try to take advantage of
his necessities by charging profiteer
prices.
CALLING FOR THE LEAGUE
COLONEL HOUSE is not alone In
declaring that the League of
Nations can do much to settle and
save Europe. There are others.
There, is, er example, the record
made by the league organization in
the service of saving life.
During 1"91 It was found that
sanitary organization had broken
down with other government ad
ministration In Russia and Poland.
The council of the League of Na
tions began In the fore part of 1920
to secure funds from interested
governments. It appointed an epi
demic commission to handle the
situation. It is now shown that
the work of this commission
brought about reduction of typhus
cases from 3,000,000 to 600.000 in
Russia, from 167,000 to 45,000 In
Poland and from 45,555 to 4834 In
Roumanla.
While curative "work was going
on steps were also taken toward
permanent and adequate organiza
tion of health activities In the af
flicted countries. A continuing
preventive work will be done
through the office ' Internationale
of the League of Nations. The
gathering of facts about disease in
Europe Is the first large activity
undertaken and when one realizes
that the plagues of the Middle Ages
were mild Infections compared with
the recent disease devastation in
Russia, the size of the task can be
better understood.
Plans have been made for
series of sanitary conventions for
exchange of information and co
ordination of effort by neighboring
countries in order that the spread
of Infection may be: stopped. . The
league will bring together scientific
authority for the standardizing of
serums in much the same way theJL,,, quotea figures te its editorial.
federal hygienic laboratory is doing
in more limited scope at Washing
ton. D. C If the League of Nations
were so , organized that it could
carry on disease prevention work
on world, wide scale it would in this
department alone perform a service
to humankind worth many times Its
entire cost, - f ' ;
But not until the league em
braces all nations, and not until the
United States becomes part of the
movement which she Inspired and
which ia highest sense expresses
her own desires can its .necessary
service be f uily rendered.
WHO VINDICATES
i VINDICATOR? Y
In Coming to the Defense of Senator
Newberry, Secretary of State
- Hughes Revivifies the .Issue
Before the Bar of Public
Opinion He Overlooks
the Moral Phase.
From th New York World,
Commenting on Charles E. Hughes
legalistic vindication of " Trtrpmn H.
Newberry, Senates Famereos of Ohio
iks u pertinent, question, wny
should the secretary of state lend the
prestige of his high office to the de
fense of Attorney Hughes' cuentT"
Nobody has yet found an answer.
There is an ancient maxim that a
lawyer's bias runs with his retainer.
but many months have elapsed since
Mr. Hughes ceased to be Senator New
berry's counsel and the bias ought to
have disappeared by this time. If the
attorney general had written the letter
that the Republican national commit
tee so ostentatiously made public no
body would have been astonished, but
Mr. -Hughes is popularly supposed to
represent a wholly different school ot
politics.
...
The amazing thing about the secre
tary of state's letter is its cynical in
difference to everything that resembles
a moral issue in the Newberry scandal.
To Mr. Hughes the charges against the
senator from Michigan are disposed
of by the fact that the supreme court
found the law under which he was con
victed unconstitutional and disagreed
with some of the rulings of .the. trial
Judge. His indignation is all directed
against what he describee as a most
serious misconstruction of the statute
which exposed Newberry to conviction
"regardless of any moral offense on
his part and no matter how . high
minded he might have been In the
conduct of his campaign." '
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The Republican United States eenate
has formally expressed its own opinion
of the high-mindedness" of the New
berry campaign. In the resolution de
claring that Newberry was entitled to
his seat the senate majority passed a
scathing Judgment on the methods by
which his nomination was obtained:
The expenditure of such excessive
sums in behalf of a candidate,
either with or without his knowl
edge and consent, BEING CON
TRARY TO SOUND PUBLIC
POLICY. HARMFUL TO THE
HONOR AND DIGNITY OF THE"
SENATE AND DANGEROUS TO
THE PERPETUITY OF A FREE
GOVERNMENT, SUCH EXCES
SIVE EXPENDITURES ARE
HEREBY SEVERELY CON
DEMNED AND DISAPPROVED.
There is no corresponding note of
condemnation and disapproval in Mr.
Hughes letter. The reactionary Re
publican members of the senate felt
that in saving Newberry it was neces
sary to "pander to the moral sentiment
of the community, but Mr. Hughes is
not shocked by the money that was
spent in Newberry's behalf or by any
of the methods employed to corrupt
the Michigan primary. He is shocked
only because Newberry was criminally
prosecuted for buying a eenatorsbip.
e
Senator Pomerene also complains
that much testimony was produced
before the senate which did. not appear
in the court record" and that "the rec
ord in the supreme court was not the
record before the United States sen
ate." Mr. Hughes knew this, of course,
when he wrote his defense of New
berry, but clearly understanding the
limitations or nis rormer client's case.
he carefully ignored It. Newberry was
kept out of Jail, therefore stick to the
court record on which Newberry was
kept out of jail. What vindication could
be more complete than that in the
mind of the secretary of state?
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Why Mr. Hughes ever wrote this let
ter will remain a mystery unless he
sees fit .personally to lift the veil. One
explanation In "Washington is that the
Republican leaders thought that a de
fense of Newberry from so respectable
a source as the secretary of state would
eliminate the issue.. It has had exactly
the opposite effect. Mr. Hughes has
succeeded in bringfne the whole issue
of Newberryism before the court of
public opinion again, and that court is
seldom influenced by legalistic techni
calities, Truman H. Newberry is no
better off by reason of anything that
his former distinguished counsel has
said In defense of his title to a senator
ship that was bought, and the secre
tary of state is much the worse for it
a. I. Who will now try to vindicate the
vindicator?
Letters From the People
( Oommanieatlona sent to The Journal for
publication in this department should be writ
ten on only one side of the paper, should sot
exceed 800 words ia lenath, and must be
signed by the writer, whose mail address ia
full most accompany the contribution.
GLASS-HEFLINO CONTROVERSY
A Statement in Reply to an Editorial
In the Oregonian Regarding the
Federal Reserve System.
Portland. Aug. 28. To the Editor of
The Journal Beyond question the
press molds public opinion, and for
that reason it is necessary it should
at all times state facts and endeavor
to be fair. Possibly the Oregonian
wishes to be fair, but evidently it has
been misinformed, or has not given
proper study to facts in connection
with Senator Hefiin's attack on the
members of the federal reserve board,
particularly Governor W.'P. G. Hard
ing. This statement Is in connection
with an editorial in the Oregonian of
August 8, wherein it practically
charges Senator Heflin with falsehood,
basing its charge upon statements
made by Senator Carter Glass of Vir
ginia In bis reply to a speech by Hef
lin. In this editorial the Oregonian
says: "In 1920 the senate adopted
unanimously a resolution demanding to
know what the board had donet or pro
posed to do, toward deflation. Thus
the senate, not' the board, made the
move." - .
Now, if the Oregonian wished to be
fair why did it not say this resolution
was introduced In the senate In May,
1920. by Senator McCormick of IlllnQis,
'chairman of the Republican senatorial
campaign committee, and that it waj a
Republican congress who was behind
this resolution.
I am unable at thiaJ
time to say positively that It was not
adopted unanimously, but I am satis
fied that this is not true, as I know
Senator Owens of Oklahoma personally
attacked the resolution, on the floor of
the senate, and predicted what woald
happen. , I am of the opinion that (the
resolution went over under the unani
mous agreement when possibly only a
and states: "The amount of currency
was not eontracted during that period ;
it was expanded $3 28. 4 03.000 J In that
connection X quote from a speech by
Heflin on July ! 25. 1922, .in reply to
a question by McLean of Connecticut:
"Now I am going to read some fig
ures te the senator Which will - be in
the Record, and It is open; to him every
day as long as he is in this body-to
refute them If be can. I charge that
en May 39, 1820, page 748. Federal Re.
serve Bulletin 1920. loans. ' discounts
and bought paper held by all the 12
federal reserve banks ' amounted te
$2,938,031,000: August Jl. 1921. page
124 "Federal Reserve 'Bulletin' 1921,
81JS27.255.eoe : January 25. 1922. $332.-4
82,000.&1It was coming down and down
in a fcjjry, and yet, the senators and
others deny there was deflation. Con
traction of credits by the 12 federal
reserve banks. May 2S, 1(20. to Aug
ust a J, 1921, was $L410.77.0OO. , and
from May 28. 1920, to January 25, 1923.
was $3,005,149,000. Contraction of fed
eral reserve notes in circulation, . I
charge, from May 28, 1920, to August
U. 1921, was 625,555.000. May 2, 1920.
to January 25, 1922. It was $923,020,000.
There is a way to settle this issue. I
challenge the senator from Connecti
cut, the chairman of the banking and
currency committee, to refute the fig
ures I have given.
I presume that if the Oregonlaxi
wishes to be fair it cannot but admit
that figures taken from the Federal
Reserve Bulletin are authentic and as
yet neither Glass nor anyone else has
been able to answer the challenge of
Heflin. I cannot see but what this
proves Hefiin's .case, and I would like
to know on what grounds the Oregon
ian practically charges taim with false
hood when he . proves by the- board's
own figures that the federal reserve
board did contract the currency.
In its article the Oregonian says .in
ability of farmers to obtain credit was
due to Inability of banks that were
not members of the federal reserve
system to grant It, and to the refusal
of some member bwnks to avail them
selves of the rediscount prlvUegs In aid
to farmers. How can it make such
statements, when. 111 venture to say,
every farmer in Oregon can tell of his
own bitter knowledge that he could
not get a dollar from the banks, either
members or non-members of the federal
reserve system, on agricultural paper,
and further. I wish particular note
to be taken of this, he could not borrow
money on United States Liberty bonds
as security. If the federal reserve
banks and the board were so liberal in
aid to farmers, why was it necessary,
in order to save the farmers and live
stock men. for the agricultural bloc in
congress, aided by the Democrats, to
revive the war finance corporation in
order to have a revolving fund avail'
able for loans to livestock and agri
cultural interests?
The Oregonian closes its editorial as
follows : "Men Who attack that system
undermine the very foundations of
national prosperity." I challenge the
Oregonian to quote any word or words
by Heflin, privately or publicly, where
in he criticizes the federal reserve
system. On the other hand I can
quote numerous occasions when Heflin
in the senate has eulogised the system
when his enemies sought to use propa
ganda that he was against it, The
Oregonian seems to be following that
same line when it charges him with
being against the system. He praises
the system, but he criticizes the federal
reserve board for its mismanagement
of that system.
I take great rpleasure in one part
of this last sentence of the Oregonian's
editorial, -as it is acknowledgement that
the federal reserve bystem was a great
achievement. Would it be kind enough
to tell its readers that this was a
Democratic achievement, fostered and
1 put over by the Democratic party.
In conclusion this letter, in exact
substance, was sent to the Oregonian
with the request for publication. No
attention has so far been paid to it or
a letter of inquiry that at a suitable
interval followed it, A. G. Murphy.
FOR THE EDUCATION BILL
"Test of Americanism" Should Be
Made in Private Schools, Asserted.
Portland, Aug. 22. To the Editor of
The Journal Back of the statements
that I want to make lies more than
30 years' experience as a lawyer and
educator. I am a native born Ameri
can of the fifth generation, the son of
a federal soldier and a nephew of five
more men who wore the blue In the
'60s. I am the brother of an officer
under 'the war department who has
seen nearly 20 years of service in
tropical lands. If assayed I would
run high in Americanism. I have
professed faith in Uncle Sam and in
his church the American public school.
I have a Scotch Presbyterian name
that would have been worth a fortune
to me' had I lived even one century
before man became a reasoning ani
mal. I believe in Luther Burbank,
Thomas A Edison and Henry Ford.
I have read the American Magazine,
joined the American Red Cross and
been Hooverized. I am not a Mason,
or a follower of the pope. I am just
an American educator.
I am for the compulsory education
bill. I am with all who consistently
vote for "Better Americanism." Now
don't just simply "cross yourself," but
cross your ballot where it should be
crossed. The man who says the bill
is unconstitutional does not know,
and the fellow who says it Is un-
American is. himself, I consider, un-
American. Every American boy ' or
girl should pass an examination at
least once every three months before
some intelligent officer otherwise
known as a state accredited American
school teacher.
. The compulsory education bill does
not demand that all children be taught
in the public schools, but it does de
mand, and justly, that once every
three months every student in private
or parochial schools give examination
proofs to the state of Oregon that he
is being taught properly and effi
ciently. This is the heart, soul and
core of the compulsory education bill.
Vote for it.
The stock Inspection' laws are not a
stroke at the dairy business, but mere
ly a state pure milk guarantee. From
an American viewpoint the compulsory
education bill is no stroke at anything
but ignorance and illiteracy. If church
teachers are as good as state teachers,
let this fact be proved to the state in
quarterly installments during all the
life of juvenile Americans pursuing
any and all subjects taught in ele
ments, ray public schools. Private or
parochial schools for eleraentaray edu
cation are un-American protests
against the American public school
system. Vote for the bill, all ye con
sistent Americans, and after 1S28 any
and every private and parochial school
will have ample chance to prove its
old, unfounded claim that it does bet
ter work than the American state
school. Calvin Rutherford.
ON THE STATE HIGHWAY
HUlaborc Or.. Aug. 28. To the Edi
tor of The Journal As an Oregon tax
payer end a strong advocate of good
roads. I have taken a great deal of
inetrest in the concrete pavement laid
by the state between 1 Portland and
HUisboro.- - This so-called "permanent
concrete pavement was laid less man
three years ago at a great expense
to the taxpayer, and - it has . been
steadily going to pieces ever since. At
the present, time this pavement is unea
on one side from one end to the other,
with hundreds pf barricades and pieces
of broken concrete to keep traffic off
the new patches, while the ether side
ef the -road. . which has already been
patched, is again going to pieces- The
patching of this road is costing the
state thousands of dollars and the re
sults at best are only temporary.
Would it not be a better investment
for the state .to utilise the present base
and cover this with about three Inches
of hot stuff . which would give us a
durable pavement? In this way the
original investment could be saved and
the public relieved of a heavy -burden
end continual Inconvenience.
' O. Hansen. .
s ACID BEFORE BREAKFAST
Issue Taken with Diet. Expert . from
"' "Los Angeles. vy-.- 'r--v? -Portland,
Aug. 29. To the Editor Of
The Journal Assuming that : your
news report of the recently delivered
lecture of the Los Angeles "food and
- COMIVIENT 'AND
- SMALL CHANGE
lm l Vaw ttteuui wnft In fret
ns can't see the faults others criticize
us for?... ;
True love seems to flourish best, you
maw haw noticed, within smelling dis
tance ot the kitchen. .
art urintlcV liia Taeen-offered
a million to appear in the movies. So
unit woat au uw auu u
about! i-
. . . . ...
J. 11 Um.U.1 V . " "
singing boys you won't find Newberg
permitting Tacoma ta get away with
any nonors. ...
Knowledge may not keep people
straight, so that visiting doctor says,
huf ntrtain knowledge helps a lot of
folks to go crooked.
. - -
We are strong for freedom of speech,
of course but sometimes we wish
heartily for laws to restrain those who
inflict their cheap conversation upon
us. i ' "
The trouble with these "million dol
lar" 4 hotels we're building is that it
takes the whole construction cost over
again to live In one of 'em for a few
days, .
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Mr-, and Mrs. Roland Agee of Rose
burg are just completing the last lap of
a three weeks' motor trip through the
Northwest, making a brief stay in
Portland.
...
Malheur county has a wonderful crop
of potatoes but there is no present mar
ket for them. Some growers are' cal
culating on leaving the tubers in the
ground for a while until the market
gets better to save a possible loss of
expense of digging. P. J. Gallagher
of Ontario is In Portland looking for
some business tor a client.
. . - .
The air around Burns is full of hope
since the United States forest service
has -called for bids on nearly a billion
feet of yellow pine at the head of Sll
vies river. It Is understood that a
minimum price of $2.75 has been fixed.
To handle the proposition will call for
an lnvestmtnt of about two million dol
lars as it will be necessary to erect a
mill and build about 60 miles of rail
road from Crane. Incidental to the
lumbering Industry te be built up is a
corresponding development of the agri
cultural resources of the county. C. E.
McPhllters of Burns is among out-of-town
visitors.
...
The shortage of yellow pine in tht
southern states is being reflected la the
Increasing demand for Pacific coast fir
lumber, says A. J. Magladry of Eugene,
one of Lane county's lumbermen, who
is visiting in Fortland-
Mr. and Mrs. Casper. Woodard of
Pendleton are guests at the Imperial.
J. B. Medley of Ridgeficld. Wash.,
is transacting business in Portland.
.
Mr. and Mrs. C. M Howard of Baker
are among out of town visitors.
...
W. C. Carnahan of Grants Pass is an
out of town guest-
...
Among visitors from the upper Wil
lamette valley Is W. A. Kuykenda.ll of
Eugene.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OP THE JOURNAL MAN
1 i :
- , By Fred Lockley
1 (.. .Vi. MlMmi the horse mora hiehly
than the automobile tella why and iocs on into
reminiscence ardin a certain old swimmine.
bole and those who. as boys with him, churned
up tt water, la the good old days of more
than tnree-aeore years aco.
A few days ago I stopped at Park
place to chat with Mrs. J. T. Apperson.
I was particularly fortunate, for Mrs.
Apperson was entertaining two old
pioneers her sister, Mrs. J. A. White,
who lives at the Wheeldon Annex, in
Portland, and John A Noblltt. While
the talk was general. I am going to
save the stories of Mrs. White and Mrs.
Apperson for another occasion, and
confine myself to the story told me by
Mr. NobUtt. "
...
I live at ' Molalla," said Mr. Nob
Utt "I am still driving on the same
old road that I used to travel 70 years
ago. I have been a horseman all my
life and I prefer something alive to a
car. I can see points of beauty and
excellence-In a horse, but when I look
at a shiny automobile it doesn't seem
to have any responsiveness. I can't
get out of the idea that it's nothing
but a piece of machinery : X have seen
men that would look at a new thresh
ing machine, all painted red. and they
would go Into raptures over it, but all
I could see In that new threshing ma
chine was scarred knuckles, sweat and
hard work. Now a horse Is different.
A horse has as much sense as the
driver. In fact, most horses have more
sense than their drivers. Yes, I sup
pose the coming of the automobile Is
responsible for rood, roads, but some
how or other, when X drive along the
old road, and pass the old swimming
hole, It makes me .feel lonesome. I
drove past It yesterday and If I could
have rustled up any of the old crowd,
I surely would have gone in swimming.
e e . e
"When I was a boy I used to go in
swimming with J. B. Dimlck. He was
a boy then, and now his boy. Grant B.
Dlmick. is a judge, and is no spring
chicken. John and Robert Elliott,
brothers of Mra Ji T; Apperson, and
Mrs. White here, ' used -to dive off
the old springboard into the old
swiming hole. Another chap that used
to go swimming with us was Ben Dun
lway. Abigail Scott Dunlway's hus
band was his half-brother. I pulled up
my horse and looked at our old swim
ming bole in Pudding river and It al
most seemed as If I could see once
more George. Tom and Bent Killlan.
Sam and Julius Moreiand, Jim and
Charlie and Bill McCowan. Tom
Brents, E. L. Boynton, who used to
come to the swimming hole with his
dad ; old Charlie Boynton, and aU the
diet expert" accurately summarizes
what the lecturer said, he needs to
revise his dietetic lore a bit For his
argument that the grape fruit, and
by implication all acid fruits, should
not be taken before breakfast, but
should follow eonstunptlon of starchy
foods so that at normal chemical' re
action may ' take i place., has neither
the warrant of custom nor the backing
of science. "An orange is gold In the
morning, silver at vnoon and lead at
night," says the old - adage. And
whether this is, or, is not entirely true
and that would depend to a great
extent upon what was eaten with the
orange there are sound physiological
grounds for the eating of acid fruits
before breakfasts. They cleanse and
sweeten the mouth, stimulate the
stomach te empty itself . of any food
residues from the meal of the night
before " and ? their beneficial effects
upon the liver and - Intestines seeta
to be most pronounced When they are
eaten before, the . day's, supply of
heavier, foods is taken ja. . Indeed,
NEWS IN, BRIEF
!- , SIDELIGHTS
The bolshevists of Russia and the big
captains of industry In this country
seem to be in perfect accord on one
point. They all want Samuel Compere'
scalp. Eugene Guard. .
A new seaplane has been developed
that Is "almost capable" of flying with
but a pilot, and If it crashed, the pas
sengers would be almost as dead as in
the old 'kind. Eugene Register.
, - ":
An Albany man boasts of a cucumber
that weighs a pound and a half and Is
eight inches in circumference. .Albany
is where we would expect the largest
cucumber to he raised. Corvallis Gazette-Times.
' a.
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These highway murder mysteries
carry warning that it is well to know
who- you are traveling with and who
you associate with, particularly if you
persist in the foolish habit of carrying
very mucn money wiia you. renaietoa
East Oregonian.
Andy Gump, well known hero of the
comic strips. Is slated to be a candidate
for congress. We hereby nominate our
old friend Jlmrs to run against him.
We think Maggie would make more of
a Btar, in w asnington society man
would Min. Astoria Budget.
Bishop Shaylor of Omaha has arrived
to attend the General Convention of
the Episcopal church. He is not un
familiar with the coast, having, been
formerly stationed at Seattle. lie is
registered at the Imperial.
. .
C. W. Gildersleeve, of Astoria Is
among out of town visitors, t
Day Bradsha ,of Payette, Idaho, Is
transacting Business in roruanu.
...
Fred J. Hampton of Canby was
transacting business In Portland
Wednesday.
...
A party from New Meadows, Idaho,
visiting in Portland is composed of
Gus Davis, E, I. Nichols and H- R.
Ackley.
e . e
B. W. Scott of Heppner Is among
out-of-town visitors.
...
Among out of town visitors Is H. E.
watkins of La Grande.
a
R. C Dunham is a visitor from the
metropolis of Coos county.
- .
R. Kuhn of Lebanon is among late
arrivals in the city.
Mr. and Mrs. Irving E. Kesterson
are visiting Portland friends.
. - ...
L. A. Duncan and family of The
Dalles are registered at the Imperial.
...
C B. RosS of Pocatello, Idaho, Is oa
a business trip to Portland and regis
tered at the Imperial. He is head of the
Idaho state farm bureau and also at
the head of the Fort Hall Irrigation
project which takes In American Falls.
Among arrivals at the Portland is D.
E. Hunter of Bend. H
1
Apple growers In the Chehalem : val
ley are -worrying about the railroad
strike, says John U. Smith, a pioneer
of that district, who Is transacting
some business In Portland. The ques
tion Is whether to arrange to pick or
not.
rest of my boyhood gang of three score
years ago. Sixty-five or 70 years ago,
when I passed that old swimming hole
on the road X would be driving Nig
and Lion and Mike and Berry. Nig
and Lion were our wheel oxen. Mike
and Berry the leaders. They brought
us across the plains. We brought Old
Rose and White Face, as well as
Sprightly, our speckled cow. We also
brought across the plains a little riding
horse called Puss. Father traded Puss,
with some cash boot, for a farm. A
' . e
"I was born In Ray county. Missouri,
June 2$, 1848. My father. Charles W.
Noblitt, was born in Virginia. My
mother, Catherine Sconce Noblitt, was
born In Kentucky. They, were mar
ried In Missouri. My father and
mother, myself and my . sister Mary
Anne who was two and a half years
old, started to cross the plains In 1852.
We buried Mary Anne on the plains.; In
1853 we settled at Needy. There were
.three boys and four girls in our fam
ily. I live at Molalla, my brother
Charlie Is on the old home place, Wal
ter lives In California. My sister Mary
Jane, who married William Moreiand.
lives In Portland. My sister Minnie,
who married J. B. Fender, lives at
Long Beach. X have raised horses and
handled cattle all my life. A lot of
these people that think they are 'some
pumpkins because they own an auto
don't seem to know that the Belgian
stallion X am now driving cost $3200,
and that I could sell him for enough to
buy three or four of the flivvers I
usually meet on the road."
Here Is a poem by Lewis Morris
that is thought-evoking : . '
Oh, ano-ae so pant oh, peaks so fcisb.1
I lift to yon a hopeless eye.
I see year Icy ramparts draws
Between the sleeper- and th dawn.
I see yoa, whea the ana has set.
Flush with . the dyine dayisht yet
I see yon, pasaionleea and pore,
Abore the fisntain ataad secure;
Bat may net elimb, for new the hours
Are senna's, and earth a maze ef flowers.
And sa
X stay
r, 'aid semaser dtsrt and beat,
ay steps, for childish feet.
And sow, whea antnma stows, I fear
To lose the harreet of the year.
Now whiter frnwea, tad life ran slew.
Even os th plain I tread throuzh aaow.
Only reToal what audit haee been;
And where high liope woald rmce sapir .
Broods a rait storm -clood dealing fire.
Oh mows se pare! eh. peaks
I shall not reach yon tU I die.
so bight-
we would do far better to eat more
acid-fruits before breakfast and then
postpone the balance of the meal until
luncheon. Far from Its being desirable
to eat acid fruits after a meal of
wtarche, that is ' Just the very worst
time to eat , them, though ' they may
ordinarily be eaten with benefit along
with a meal of proteins (.meats, fish,
eggs). provided the meal contains bet
little starch. Acid foods and starches
should never be eaten at the same
raeaV and that for very good physio
logical reasons which can be found In
Howeirs or any other standard text
book of physiology. ' '
I . ' . , - Virgil MacMickle.
" EXF1VA1NED ,
- ?t i-'v Proa ranch. -..The
Youth But, dearest, why need
we wait till, October I '
The Movie. Star Well, old thing, I'm
rather keen on October. . You see. I've
never been married in the autumn
before : -
1!
The Oregon Country .
1
Northwest Happening, ia Brief lena tot the j
JBuey Header. - tJ
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1 if't OREGON '
" Douglas county is going to reduce if
school expenses about $1200 a year b
dispensing with the services of one c
its school supervisors. v vf . 1
. Lane county will produce the largei
crop of Jonathan apples In Its histon
U being estimated that more than I
carloads will tie shipped..' . (
The oil well that is being drilled nee
ft- Paul In Marion county is now doW
881 feet and the promoters believe the
are entering a flow of OIL -
' Evergreen blackberries are abundar
in the Harrlsbura: section. Pickers ar
able to fill their pails rapidly and som
are making more than $3 a day.
Helix Is planning the constmctlo
of a f.oO.000 union high school buUdint
bonds for that purpose having bee
recently authorised by the voters, .
.A big time ia expected at Mour
Angel September 14 when the com pit
Uon of the Mount Angel-Woodbur
paved highway wUl be celebrated. -
The Imperial mine In Cable Covi
Baker county, has about 200 tons e
concentrates readv for ahinment ta th
smelter. The mine is operated by C I
juun Arzenp.
Joint work of Hood River county an
the United States forest service ac
havinsr scent 14000 nn a. acttnn nf th
Lost Lake highway, has been com
tuetea ior tne year.
A large law library and furnltur
owned by F. H. E. Scott were destroys
when the barn in which thev wr
stored was burned at Milton Saturday
the tire having been caused by a cigar
?VW MUD, ,
Patrons of the Wyeth school ,dis
trict, whose school house on the Col
umbla river hirhway hum., iwuil.
have unanimously voted to replace th
structure with a fully equipped moden
.The Cunningham Sheep company o
Pendleton has shipped a consignmen
of 105 bucks to Salt Lake City wher.
the rams will be offered for sale in th
seventh annual ram sale of the sheej
men's organisation. -
A ledge of material of agate of chal
cedonic character has been discover
along the Umatilla river In the Thorn
hollow district. Clarence Rosa is th
aiscoverer or tn ledge, which is sale
to be four or five feet In width. ' ,
As Loo Ling, janitor of the First Na
rfinttl hanlr ltk.. ... - .
out the lobby of the building, he four
a packet which contained $1100 worti
of victory bonds He recognized theln
vaiue una turaea mem over 10 U'j
Dana oinciais the next morning. .
WASHINGTON
- More than 100 horses have "been en
tered for the racina- events of the
Walla Walla county fair, September,
13-18. j
When registration closed. In Walls?
Walla last week there were nearly 650q
voters on the books, about 600 lessl
than last year. - - I
The clam pack on the coast thie
year is estimated at 133.437 cases, ex
ceeding that of any other year by
more than 50,000 cases.
Notice has bees, served by the
Spragrue city council on all property
owners to replace wooden walks In
front of their residences with cement
walks.
Despite a decrease in the total num
ber of. passengers carried, the Seattle
municipal railway showed Increased'
earnings for 1921 of 18.13 per cent oven
those of 1920. ,c j
Money, papers and other valuables'
worth. $800 were stolen from tents of
live lammes 01 rruit - picaers tn the
outskirts of Donald, Yakima county, a
few nights ago.
Nearly doubling the 1921 production
and far in excess Of the record pro
duction, the Spokane district this sea
son will produce 3120 carloads of ship.
pin graue .ppies.
With a crop-valued at $2,081,300 lt
year, the United States reclamation
project in Okanogan - county earned a
return of $581,146 more than the esti
mated cost of the project,- ; "
Farmers in the vicinity of Fairfield
have 1it fintariAi hirauMn V1.I.
1922 crop of seed peas. Ten thousand!
acres were planted and the crop was r
only about 60 per cent of normal. 4
Mrs. Thomas Saltman. aged 30. was
killed by a traTn as she was crossing i
a railroad trestle with two of her ehll- E
dren at her home in Concrete. Skagit;
county. The children escaped unhurt.
Richard. 5-year-old eon of Mr. and t
Mrs. Lawrence B. Ben of Seattle, was f
killed Sunday when he fell over the I
falls of the Green river cor re and!
struck on the jagged rocks $5 feet f
oeiow. ,
A new ferryboat costing $6000 arid
equipped with two 25-horsepower gss
engines, has been put in service oa
the Columbia river between Lyle
Wash., and Rowena on the Oregon
shore.' " ,
Seven-year-old June King, daughter
of H. R. King of Issaquah. died Sun
day night of Injuries received earLY
In the afternoon when she was run
down by an automobile driven by A
J. Baer of Seattle.
Left sleeping In his crib on the seo
ond floor of his home In Spokane
Owen. 2-year-old son of O. J. Casey,
clambered to an open' window Sunday
oiicriiouu ana leu 10 ine porcn oeiow, t.
receiving Injuries from which he died
that night. I
IDAHO
Red clover seed, being hulled by
growers on the Boise project. Is bring- t
Ing between $12 and $13 a hundred !
pounds. !
Joseph 8. Shaw, stationary engtneer f
in the railroad yards at Glenn s Ferry,
was run over and killed last Thursday
by a yard engine. I
. "The Idaho Potato will be the em- !
blem of the Idaho delegation attending 1
the American Legion national conven- !
tion at New Orleans, In October. ;
Apple buyers In the Emmett and I
Payette districts of Idaho are paying I
$80 per ton to the growers for the early j
varieties and $50 for the later apples.
The Idaho notato mui ti' 1. t
the largest in the history of the state
but growers complain that the prices
received will not pay the expenses of
raising them. .
Near Council in the northern part of
Washington county. Idaho. Is one of
the largest apple and peach orchards In
the world. It covers an area of 1800
acres, is owned by the Mesa Orchard
company, and last year shipped 860
carload of appws and peachea
Once Overs
What Does a Vacation Do to You?
After your vacation is ever, settle
right down to work. 7
Don t get 10 minaing, wnn nair pity
for -yourself, what a hard time, you
have of it, with only a few play days ?
in a year. W ' ';
You wish you coukj do -up late .ana
sleep late and loaf half the time and
you allow yourself to envy what you
call the "snap" some others yeu know
seem to have.
You have chosen a certain line or
work, and it is up to you to deliver
the goods, early hours or late Just so ;
long as you are engaged in your pres
ent occupation. -
There are unpleasant pnases to any
sort ot 'work. ;. iA - X ' ', '
You cannot ezpect to-man a living
at a Job which will afford leisure time
any time you happen te want It
Yeu cannot expect to avoid What
ever- Is displeasing to yeu.
Before you can cut and : choose ia
regard to your daily work, you must
have laid up a sizable nest egg. enough
so you won't have to work.
Another thing, your working time is
net the time to talk shout what you
saw and heard during your vacation. '
You are. paid to work, not to enter.
tain your fellow workers. ,; :f-'y".:-.
(Copyright 1922. by International restate
Seme. Inc. ) .