THE OREGON DAILY
'JOURNAL, I OKIhAJSD, OREGON,
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1922.
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CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERN
MENT? TFflTHLN. the last two years there
V has been a great deal of talk
Ih'this-country about constitutional
government. During the campaign
of 1920, spokesmen of the- party
now In power had a very deep rev
erence for the constitution. Since,
the constitution has been repeat
edly referred to -in political
speechea. -
. Mr. Daugherty is a member of
the- present cabinet. He was a di
rector of the campaign. And It was
Mr. Daugherty who. sought and ob
tained the sweeping ' injunotion
against the striking railroad men
Issued by Judge Wllkerson In Chi
cago. Among the things that m
I junction enjoins are".
.Railroad men arguing with any
one who announces he is going to
work- for a railroad.
Parades by railroad men.
Public mass meetings of strikers.
Advising afriend against rail
road employment.
Walking near a railroad right of
way.
Telling .la werker that It is unsafe
to work for the roads.
In Other word, a railroad man
cannot be near a railroad, he can
not tell the public mass meeting
about his cause, nor can he srpeak
to .other men who may anticipate
undertaking railroad employment.
It Is one thing for the govern
ment to protect the property of the
roads, and to keep the trains run
ning. That is a proper sphere and
propter ; course for government.
But to prevent free speech or the
presentation to the public or a part
of the public a cause, is seemingly
getting very near the boundary of
violation) of the constitution.
Railroad men or any other mm
or body of men have a perfect right
to appeal to the public by means of
ipeech. They have a perfecjt right
to hold public meetings. They have
a perfect right to discuss th strike
with any other man. Theyhave a
perfect right to present theflr views
In any way they desire, so long as
they -do not resort to violence nor
Incite riots.
' The attjitude of the administra
tion toward the strikers is not sur
prising. Gut It is a littre difficult
to explain! the campaign talk about
constitutional government under
the direction of Mr. Daugherty and
the abridgement of the right of free
speech at the request of Mr. Daugh
erty. ;
When the elephants bolted, tore
up the lawns, fought in the streets
and sent the timid scurrying for ac
cident Insurance, wasn't that the
day of real sport: It is a -safe bet
thstC the kids are all talking about
It yet;
MOTHER SHIPTON TO DATE
AN AMERICAN aviator has flbwn
across the continent with but
one stop, i A German experimenter
has remained in the aJr,morethan
two laoursj in a glider without mo
tive power to keep him afloat.
Bufr prediction outstrips achieve
ment.":; That wizard of electricity,
Ir 'Charles P. Steinmets, says we
will ' see the day when limitless
power wilt be distributed hy radio
more effectively than speech is
broadcast hy the same medium to-
day;.. virY'i...--.- ' k?
He expects to see the direct heat
energy of the sun in arid areas
transmitted to b gathered and
transmitted to . far-off Industrial
Plants.. - . r ; , r
! 1 He thinks that plants may be
frown which wiU tor up In. a few
days or weeks as much energy, as
trees normally do In 75 years.
I He believes that electric trans
mission will be woven Into a net
work, that the power of Westerr
streams will go far to energise the
nation and that electricity may be
come as cheap as water, -
"When Mother Shipton prophe
sied she wort from her generation
jeers and threats. But Dr. Stein
metz, comparatively, is less daring
than Mother Shipton. The impos
sible of an earlier times is today's
routine. The dreamer has become
the seer. The Inventor is the ar
biter of humanity's destiny..
HIS LANDSLIDE
AMERICAN statesmen, politicians
and parties ought to compre
hend the meaning of the La Fol
lette landslide.
Sortie time they will. Some time
the public course of La Follette in
domestic affairs will be the publie
course of many American leaders.
Some time it will come to be known
that the heavy voting for La Fol
lette is the expression of the Amer
ican people groping for a better and
more equitable order.
The America that La Follette
sees is the America that will some
time be. He sees that in this4 ex
perimental state of self-government
the scientific and accurate ad
justment in human relations has
not been attained. Some have be
come inordinately wealthy and
many exceedingly poor.
- The America that will some time
be will be a land with little or rrb
poverty; a land in which every man
will have a home of his own and be'
able to live in it; a land with no
excessively rich; a land where there
will be more golden rule and less
greedy grab; a land in which In
dustry will no longer be civil war,
and in which civic morality and
high civic standards will be the rule
instead of the exception.
Simmered down to its ultimate,
that is the America that the great
body of the people want. In Wis
consin they see it, but they have no
way to find it except to stick to La
Follette. Barring his miserable
war record, La toilette, in his pub
lic career, has been the expression
of that vision of the republic.
That is why a war record that
would have, discredited almost any
other man is forgotten in the un
bounded enthusiasm with which
the people of his state rally time
and again under the standard of
La Follette.
He has never varied In his public
course in domestic affairs. He has
exposed special privilege. He has
pointed out by day and by night
the secret and subtle advantages
jBhich some men take over the
many men. He has never been
ownedi He has worn the collar of
no master, taken orders from no
favor-huntfng captains of plutoc
racy. He is one of the worst hated
of'men and widely beloved because
of the cause he has given for that
hate.
That public men do not get out
of his career a chart and guide
board to the true aspirations of the
American people is one of the mys
teries of the age. Is It because La
Kollette has -to fight so much alone
and they haven't the courage to en
dure the isolation that is his or bear
the loathing of the social bloc at
Washington ?
Some day the people, as they be
come more ana more skilled in
self-government, will compel all
their public ien to stand out in
the open daylight, like La FoJ
lette, and legislate on conscience
for every man alike.
THE GREAT ISSUE
AT meetings held In the farming and
fruit ..growing districts it was fre
quently asserted that' the farmer can
not rent his farm to a tenant for
enough to pay the taxee on the land,
and that if the tax burden becomes
heavier, farming and stock rafslng will
cease to exist in .the state.
The above ia a paragraph from
the report of the Washington tax
commission. It will be surprising
If a' similar statement does not
occur in the report of the Oregon
tax commission.
In both -Northwest states the tax
problem Is paramount. It over
shadows all other issues. "The
power to tax is the power to de
stroy." Farming and stock raising
will cease to exist in Washington
if the tax' burden becomes heavier.
The tax burden in Oregon has al
ready ruinously affected many Ore
gon farmers. Until there Is relief
a permanently prosperous Oregon
is impossible.
The Washington commission
found that people knew they were
paying excessive taxes. But they
had little Idea of what was becom
ing Of the lax dollar. In assess
ment of property the commission
found that inequalities and inaccu
racies ruled. Farm personal prop
erty was much' more "effectively
and accurately assessed than the
personal property of 4 merchants.
manufacturers and large corpora
tions' generally."
Large, areas of land had alto
gether escaped assessment. : Each
county had its own basis of assess
ment. Assessment on domestic ani
mals of the same breed ranged
from IS. 8 8 in San Juan county to
8358 in King county.
Without going into assessments
against telephone companies or
light and power corporations, the
commission discovered - that since
1910 railroad valuation ;in Wash
ington bad been nearly at a stand
still, electric railway valuation had
dwindled and .tae telegraph valua-
tlon, both actual and i equalized,
showedj normal.. Increase.
The aggregate valuation of other
property . had . since , lJl j grown
nearly jetper cent and it was ob
vious tjoai to the general tax load
had been' shifted at least a part of
the burden which the railroad
property should have borne.
At tike same time the investiga
tors brbught to light the fact that
bus lilies holding exclusive! fran
chises for. commercial operation on
roads, built at public; expense, and
partly ipaid for! by the railroads,
were paying $10 a year for each
car having up to eight seats and 0
cents for each additional seat.
The Washington public service
commission had a department cost
ing 8100,000 a year to supervise
commercial use of the highways
and was receiving in flees only 820,
000 to 25,000 a year
The Washington tax Investiga
tion has value to Oregon. It shows
that while economy ih government
is important, there must be a curb
by the people upon the creation of
governmental agencies that multi
ply expense.
The amazing thing; is that while
the whole body of taxpayers are
groaning under their load, there is
a considerable tendenjey to let im
possible, ancient andl bewhiskered
questions divert the public from the
overshadowing and jali-impdrtant
Issue of super taxation.
WHAT THEY SAY
AMERICAN businesp men are re
turning from Europe every day.
Almost without exception: they pre
dict th! collapse of Central Europe
during the winter unless immediate
steps ure taken to. readjust the
world's finances and reestablish
interna :lonal trade.
International bankers concur in
the prediction. Economists who
are In tjouch with conditions abroad
agree. Practically eery man who
has studied the situation urges
hasty action by the pbwers to fore
stall the fall.
If there Is a collapse it can mean
nothing but chaos. It will mean
industr al chaos. It will mean
financial chaos. It witl mean social
chaos s.nd political chaos. It will
mean ujnpaid debts, ldje plants, idle
men. hungry families, crime and
bolshevism rampant, i
It will mean the passing of
American foreign markets. It will
mean relief drives and relief ex
peditions. It will mean idle ships,
idle mm and many Idle factories
here.
Afterward it will make necessary
very strenuous measures to rebuild
Europef "it will be a harder Job then
than now. There is isqmetfilng to
work on at present, j There would
be nothing? to wOrk or. thenJ With
several countries in a j state of non
produdion : and anarjchy, an en
tirely j ew foundation would have
to be l4id. Meantime, there can be
nothing but conflict, Suffering and
sacrifice. " !
President Harding assumes the
attitude that. we will some time
take a hand ,In Eurqpean affairs.
But he says the time ,1s not yet
ripe. - ;
Mr. Harding and his advisers as
sumed the same attitude, however,
when the big strikes were threaten
ing. Tiere was no vigorous -action
at Washington intended to avert
the strikes. The govenmen, after
a few futile conferences, sat back
and pursued -a policy lof hands off.
The result was two 'tremendously
costly strikes. One of them jls still
on. Although the government as
sumed a stronger position! after
weeks of strife, it was too late.
Antagonisms had been cheated.
Strike organizations had become
stubborn. The i fire had gained
headwaSy. The j country is paying
the bill now and! will :his winter as
a result of the tardy action of the
administration. j '
Ther can be similar results in
the international fieid. The col
lapse hi threatened, kf there is to
be prevention, he time to j act is
now. I3ut if thei-e is tj be no action,
if ther is to be more waiting and
drifting, there will be another bill
to pay, and one much larger than
that resulting from the domestic
strikes. ! I
AN
UNWARRANTED BILL
THE
Kellogg bill
introduced into
J- the
senate at the
president's
request
seems not only superfluous
but un
Wise.
The
to file
bill authorizes the president
an injunction in a federal
court
against any person whom the
president
may regard as threaten-
ing to
elgner
jsriolate the rightjs of a for-
in this country. The excuse
for .the
jbill is supposedly the killing
of twoj
Mexicans in the Herrln
murderfe
Why
protect
is it necessary to further
the rights of aliens ?j They
are
already entitled to the; same
protection under the laws of the
states sis an American citizen. They
are protected by law against mur
der, against robbery; and against
encroachment
upon i their I rights
either
criminally or civilly. Is there
any
od
reason why they are en-
titled
to
especial protection?
Moreover, the effect ( of the en?
actment of the Kellogg bill I would
be to nullify state lawa wherever
the president desired to , nullify
them." j It would meanf that) there
could bp no state, regulation evern in
land lajws. if the president desired
no regulation. It could, if so ad
ministered as law, provide aliens
with grjeatea- liberty In this country
than nativei Americans. I L j . .
Snch j a law Is not only unneces
sary, but unwarranted. 1
'I-'
If
tice
people
in health matters prac-
before 30 what they preaeh
after
40 more would live tp be SO.
DIRECT! PRIMARY
; WILL NOT FAIL
IF USED !
Every Generation Must Fight! to
Maintain Its ; Political Liberty-
- Eternal Vigilance ,1s the Price
That Must ! Be . Paid in:
Never-Ceaslng Contest.
By Robert ! MJ La Follette. j
.Tha renominating of t Senator XFollette is
the primaries last Tneadar Indicate than Wis
consin voters needed hist appeal. ': i
, . " : : f I I -
; Our forefathers soeght to found a
government based on the will ' of the
people. Hence it was that the1 jvery
first words of the constitution began
"We, the people, of hte United States,
etc" The divine right of krngS was
to be no more. Autocray was never
more to control. "We. the People" iff ere
to govern In order "to establish justice,
insure domestic ; tranquility, provide
for the common defense, , promoter the
general weiiare ana secure xnei Bless
ings of liberty to ourselves, and! our
posterity." "it
i t
It was a new experiment in govern
ment. The cast that bad basked in
the sunlight of the favor of kings were
not reconciled to the new order. They
were the Tories : of that day. ' Imme
diately they began to intrigue fori ad
vantage and to retain their privileges
of caste and class. Then it was that
Daniel Webster uttered that profound
truth as a warning to us, the people:
"Eternal Vigilance is the Price of Lib
erty." . t j " : -
In the new experiment of a people's
government, .suffrage was limited to
praperty holders; This was the- first
wedge that wealth drove between the
paople and privilege, r But the i people
began the age-long fight to make this
a "government f the people. !by I the
people and for the people." aad suf
frage was gradually extended until by
the 19th amendment to the constitution
women s surrrage was granted , cur
ing this age of progress there have
been many barriers erected between
the people atnd their government: by
the Tories of . this country. Slavery
was one. It was wiped out with j the
blood cf the patriots of 18E1 to 1865.
The open ballot permitted employers
. . . 1 . . , . . :. . . .
to tu weir employes to me pons ana
vote them ; as chattels. That system
was wiped out by the Australian secret
ballot. Then the new .device of i the
caucus and convention was used to
control nominations, and through party
nominations elections, were controlled
by corruption and coercion. j
It was this perversion of the will of
the people that called for the "primary
election." with the secret ballot jfor
the people to choose without coercion
their candidates for office. Now where
the primary election system prevails,
"We, the People" may nominate whom
we choose free from boss control.; Anv
man may run for office and submit
his- claims direct to ' the people, i Of
course, corruption may creep in : as It
did in Michigan, where by the exces
sive use of money and a corrupt prpss,
Newberry- was elected to tlse senate,
and the people were betrayed. But ithe.
scandal raised by the Newberry ejec
tion will not soon die down, and ithe
people will be awake to the dangers In
the future. , .
Corruption of i the whole electorate
cannot long succeed if the people prize
their liberty enough to fight for j it
Under the primary if the people are
eternally vigilant, they may gain and
hold the control of their government.
This is recognised by the magnates
of the East. ; New York, under ; their
influence, has repealed its primary j A
schemers on foot to jepeathe primary
laws everywhere. President Harding
and his .millionaire secretary of the
treasury have endorsed the scheme to
take this safeguard away frori the
people. Here in Wisconsin a "conven
tion" has endorsed candidates onj a
platform promising amendment j to the
primary, which means the beginning
of the end of-the primary law If tljey
succeed. But if the people are eter
nally vigilant, they cannot succeed. If
"We, the. People" will take timepffjto
defend our liberties on primary' elec
tion day, septemper .-,; 19ZZ, we will rbe
safe.
To the women I specially appeal.! I
have favored their suffrage all my
life. I have believed that women's
influence -in politics would be for the
general welfare just as her influence
In the home ts for the common good.
But of what use will suffrage! be,' if
it be not used? If the modest, hard
workiiifr women of the home -do 'not jro
to the polls and vote, women's sef
frage will not on!y be a failure it will
be a tragedy.
V a
To the farmers and workingmen. I
suggest that you will have but half a
vote If you do not take your wives to
th polls.
And finally, if you men and women
do not use the primary ballot Septem
ber 6. you will not! only neglect a
privilege, but you will neglect a duty
you owe yourselves, 'your state and
your posterity. . !
Letters From the People
1 'ommun'eatiotM sent r The Jiumal tor
publication in this department should be writ
ten on only one side of viae paper, should not
exrved 300 words in lenstl). and must fbe
rfsroed by the writer, whose mail address ln
full must accompany the contribution.
THAT ALL F MAT KNOW ;
A Biographical Sketch of Walter Jl.
Pierce. : j
La Grande, Or Sept. . To the Ed
itor of The Journal Who is Senator
Walter M. Pierce? I i
He is the Democratic candidate for
governor of the state of Oregon. He
is a native born citizen of the tUnitpd
States, direct descendant from nine
generations in America and at farmer
and 8tockraiser of Union county. Ore
gen. He is a graduate of the llterafy
and law departments of an Xtastef-n
university. : When ' he first came to
Oregon In 1883, he went to work asta
common laborer on the farm Of Na
than Pierce in Umatilla county, i He
afterwards taught in the public schools
of that county. He was then (elected
and served two terms as county j echobl.
superintendent of Umatilla courjty. He
was then elected and served a, number
of years as senator Of Union and i-Tr-Uila
counties. Religiously he! is !a
Protestant. His wife belongs to the
Methodist church. . He is a thorough
believer in, and a firm supporter of
the free public school system lof the
state of Oregon. He has educated his
children in the public primary! grade
and high schools of the state. His
only son and two of his daughters are
graduates of O. A- C . Another) of his
daughters is a graduate of Reed col
lege. Another of his daughters is j
student fn j the state . University None
of his children have ever attended
any privet or sectarian chooi.j t Fra
ternally be la ar member of th. Ma
sonic, Knights ef Pythias, Elk and
Odd Fellows orders, and the; jtTaited
Artisans, , the Woodmen of the) j World
and is state j lecturer for the Modern
Woodmen of America. -He 'beilons
to all branches of the Masonic frater
nity frond the Blue Lodge up to and
including ; the Shrine. His only -soa en
listed in the navy and saw i service
overseas la' the late war and is a mem
ber of the American Legion, j j He Is
the author of the seldiers' aitd sailors
educational! bill of the state ef Oregon,
the first law enacted in any state of
the Uruon, for the relief of our sailors
' j-: t ... - I- - -r. ' -"' i i- ' '" -- v i ' i :j- '
and soldiers of the "World" war. He
la also th author of the market road
law of the state of Oregon. I
Senator
elected governor.
will give
sane, business
administration
the affairs; of the
state and
all in his power to
reduce taxation
relieve the people
of their growing
tax burden. He lsi
making his campaign .on this issue
alone. j - i'
The eleetoraie of the state i have a
right to know Jthe above facts An de
termining In thfeir own minds his qual
ifications I for the office of governor
of the state if Oregon. I
I have know Walter M. Pierce for
89 years. i .-
The above statement is in answer to
many inquiries imade to the undersign
ed concerning Senator Walter M.
Pierc. T. H. Crawford, -
Campaign Manager.
PAROCHIAL SCHOOLS
Defended by One Who Teaches in
Them.
. Portland, Sept. 6. To the Editor of
The Journal la your paper of August
29 E. W EaAtman, ; discussing and
supporting the proposed school meas
ure, puts the following question : "Why
do these wople) want private schools?"
and later endeavors to answer his own
question as follows: "The parent is
too lazy to instill in the mind of his
child by precept and example the relig
ion that he thjlnka is proper- for it;
so he delegates this parental duty to
some religious (school." He then con
tinues "I am a Christian" etc : It cer
tainly Is not -ymhin the province of
your paper to decide what is Christian
and what not! but no person who
thinks of: the (sacrifices the patrons
of the parochial schools must 1 bring
to have their children reared; in the
nurture and admonition of the Lord
(Ephesians 6) would deem it Christian
to accuse them of being "too lazy,
etc. Not because they are "too lazy,"
etc., do these! people want private
schools, but because they believe as
Dr. Richard C. jCabot of Harvard Med
ical ' school, quoted in The Journal of
last night: "Knowledge doesn't keep
people straight" It is of vital im
portance to note that The Journal en
deavors to give) one a true understand
ing of these words of the eminent au
thority when it adds: i "Dr Cabot
was deploring the teaching of sex hy
giene In the public schools when he
made this statement." ;
Mr. Eastman at various places in his
letter states w&at he deems to be his
religious duty j over against his own
children and npbody wants to; dictate
to him what he must do In this matter,
but we object jwhen he endeavors to
prescribe to others what their i relig
Ioub duty is. The opponents ; of the
proposed compulsory i education bill
clearly state, time and again, that all
they ask is tojbe allowed to exercise
their inalienable right guaranteed
them by th constitution of our coun
try and our Mate, namely, The free
exercise of th4ir religion. The pro
posed school measure i falls under the
condemnation jof President Harding
when he says :! "In my experience of
a year in the White House there has
come to me no other Such unwelcome
impression as the manifest religious
Intolerance whijeh exists' among many
of our citizens. I hbld it to be a
menace to the !very liberties we boast
and cherish."
The parochial) schools I am acquaint
ed with not onir endeavor to teach the
child "how to read ;and write and
know the history of his country and
know the general laws of hearth," but
also to apply this knowledge: In the
fear of God to the benefit of. all his
fellow men and to the glory of God.
The very highest Ideal of citizenship
is taught fn our parochial schools, for
these words of God are Impressed upon
our children; j ' Wherefore ye must
needs be subject, not only for wrath,
but -also for conscience" sake. Yes,
Romans 13 :1-7j Is instilled in them,
and any good citizen will readily con
cede that no better class cf citizens
can be found than such as conform
to these wordaj Read them and you
certainly will i not antagonize, but
prize, such parochial schools, and
vote against the proposed school meas
ure. As to laws of health, let mi atsta
that of the thousands of young1 men
who had attended our parochial
schools and enliisted or were drafted In
the late war, not one was affected with
social disease. SDo you honest and sin
cere Americans! intend to abolish such
an Institution By voting for the mis
named compulsory education bill?
Most certainly not. P. J. Hillmann.
American Parofchlal School Teacher.
flog Jthe brutes
Portland, Sept. 5. To the Editor of
The Journal Is it not just that the
brutes who. have "been attacking
women and chpldren should he pun
ished bya good' flopging?
The pain and terror inflicted
them is unspeakable.
by
Little childrejn, who have suffered
tortures through them, have been in
the hospitals rained for life. This Is
not an exaggeration for as matron of
a hospital two leases came under my
observations. . jprlson is too good for
such reprobates and they should suf
fer too. v j
Flogging put! a stop to garrotlng
in England whn it was so prevalent,
and elekly sentimentality must go in
the discard. . j
m Let our wonjen's clubs raise ; their
voices and put jthis before the legisla
ture. The Ver4 memory of the pain
and suffering 1 1 have seen in the past
even now slckehs me, and If woman
hood is callous; to the pitiful 'cry "of
their outraged sisters they are not de
serving; of the lively name: pofetr and
prose writers have lavished on them;
' A Wisteria Club Woman.
ABOLISH GAME LAWS "
Independence, Or., Sept- 1. To The
Editor of The Journal--"Shorten the
deer season," why? ! "
No sir, you ane all wrong. It; should
be open season for all! kinds of game
and all kinds of fish. Uncle Sam will
protect the ealhion 365 days ; in the
year. Who beiefits by these! laws?
Only a few and the tax eaters, iWho
ever sees or benefits by a deer? l Only
a very few, indeed. What If they are
all killed off and caught? Toj whom
will it be any loss? Only the same
few. Then why saddle these tax eat
ing laws on the verburdened taxpayer,
I pray? Last vtinter some poor hunt
ers living In thejmountatns were) out Of
meat They killed a deerJ The had
no money. The guns! for which - no
doubt they bad labored hard : were
confiscated. Thjey were sent to prison
for five monthfc or more- A man's
liberty Is worth more than all the game
in Oregon. Kindly help abolish these
tax eating, prison confining class laws,
for in the lastf analysis they simply
are class legislation, j j E. S. Piper.
SHE SAILED INLAND SEA
From the Rest and Wrat Sews.!
Tatsti Imamizo. a young woman aged
twenty, who 'lijves at Kawajirimura.
Kamogun, Hiroshima prefecture, has
secured a license as ship captain, aa
unusoaj achievement in Japan, l Her
father ia owner! and captain of a col
lier and the daughter has sailed! with
him in the Inland Sea. i She applied to
the authorities jfor a captain's i license
examination. At first the authorities
Were astonished, but as there Is no
discriminating provision between Isexes
in the examination, regulations, her ap
plication has been accepted. She will
be the first woknan captain in Japan
in; case of her success,! and the pio
neer applicant in the new field, of ac
tivity, even m jcase of her failure ia
the examination. i s i "
Fieree. u
the state
of
witt do
oj and
; COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE
Patience is a virtue,; but there are
otnera. jjuiuux Herald.; V
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' .va ..in 15 HW UMUHS llnvi
and, gas bills. Wichita Eagle, j N.
Lima Bean says the 13 greatest1 liv
ing Americans are deed. Tolado Blade.
We presume the fair co-eds are also
in favor ef that rule of a Western col
lege that all instructors must, be single
men. Syracuse Herald. I
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This newly invented lie-detecting
machine should also alwavs be referred
to aa 'she." Greenviil PiedmonUj
In this age of 'slogans it la surprising
that no one has come forward . with
"He Kept Us Out of CoaL" Detroit
News. i
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Organization has progressed so; far
that we now have si supreme authority
to run almost everything except the
country. Baltimore Sun.
We learn as the years pass. Air has
always been free, but we couldn't ap
preciate It until tires were invented.
Roanoke World News. j
Henry Ford's example to household
ers is a simple one. . if you run short
of coal this winter just close up your
house. Philadelphia North American.
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The first radiophone fatality oc
curred the other day that is, if you do
not count those who have been bored
to death by it. Peterson Press Guard
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
A party arriving from Boise. Idaho,
to attend the Episcopal convention is
composed of Benjamin Walker, assist
ant cashier of the Boise City National
bank ; Dean Roberts : and Miss
Sonne.
;
A. J. Martlneau, who keeps a hotel
at Grants Pass, is an out-of-town
visitor.
' Among out-of-town visitors is S.
Hutchinson of Union. :
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J. R. Keller of Pullman, Wash
among recent arrivals in Portland.
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M. F. Hanley of Medford' is transact
ing business in Portland. I
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George Gerllnger of DaUas is one of
many out-of-town guests.
W. H. Martin of NashviUe, OrM is
among out-of-town visitors.
An out-of-town visitor is R. M
Toung of Sheridan.
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T. O. Black well of Hermlston is
among out-of-town visitors.
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Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hoech of Shanlko
are vieittng in Portland. i ,
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R. L. Haines of Burns ts transacting
business In Portland. : !
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Mr. and Mrs. 'v'olney Dixon of Med
ford are guests of the Imperial, j
eve
James Duncan of Athena Is among
out-of-town visitors.
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Mr. and Mrs. John Drtseoll of Red
mond are visiting Portland friends. :
'
. Visiting in Portland are Mr. and
Mrs. S. W. Arney of Joseph. j
Ed I. Hudson of Albany was among
the arrivals of Wednesday.
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Among out-of-town visitors is Alfred
L. Adams of Sllverton. 'I
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G. W. Phillips of Kalama, Washl, ts
registered at one of the leading hotels.
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Charles Kirk of Albany is taking in
the sights of the metropolis.
Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Dayes of i La
Grande are among out-of-town visitors.
OBSERVATIONS! AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE -JOURNAL MAN
By Fryd
Tba story told Itr. Locklsy by Mrs. 8rah
Gray Abernethr 1 here completed. An essen
tial episode is that ot tba long migration of
band of sheep In whose long sustained good
fortune th reader ts likely to derelop a tens
interest and whose, final doom he cannot but
deplore. This, howerer, is bnt Incidental to
the main narrsUTe, which concerns the Gray
and tba A be me thy families. j
Recently I visited Mrs. Sarah Gray
Abernethy at, her home In. Forest
Grove. She married the only sort of'
Oregon's first provincial governor. Her
father. Dr. W. H. Gray, authoij of
Gray's History of Oregon." came; to
Oregon with Dr. and Mrs. Marcus
Whitman and Rev. and Mrs. H.i H
Spalding In 1838. Mrs. Abernethy, who
was born near Salem in 1843, in speak
ing of he? father, said : j
"My father resigned from. the mis
sionary service In 184S. A few years
later we moved to Clatsop. Plains,
where father ran a dairy in connec
tion with! his medical ; practice. !We
made butter and furnished, it to As
toria and Portland. - In 1883 father 'de
cided to bring a herd of sheep to Ore
gon.: He .mortgaged his ranch for all
he could get and went: to San Fran
cisco, whence he sailed by way of the
Isthmus Of Panama for New York
city. At i Washington he stopped to
visit General Joseph Lane, Oregon's
territorial: delegate. He visited at
Washington, D. C and New Tork
city and then- went, to Cincinnati and
thence to St. Louis. j ,
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"The next spring he bought nearly
400 sheep and a twoborse wagon and
a team of , horses. As' soon as the grass
would furnish paturagefo the sheep
he started; across the plains. He hired
three men to drive the sheep and also
bought a good shepherd dog. He drove
his sheep to Independence, Ma, thence
up the Kansas "river and across to
South Platte and on to Fort Laramie,
the Sweetwater and South pass. From
there he followed the regular Oregon
trail:, to Fort Hall, from which point
he went to the Whitman mission. He
averaged 10 miles a day. He reached
The i Dalles safely, where he purchased
a scow 18x60 feet, on which he put his
360 sheep, j He made the trip down the
river safety to the mouth of the Wil
lamette. From there to Astoria he
was j towed by one . of the Portland- As
toria steamboats. Putting up a sail at
Astoria 1 he sailed' across Youngs bay
and ' reached the shore, the end of his
Journey., While fastening a line from
tha scow to the shore a.; sudden squall
sprang up. - which carried them out
into the bay.'. A M moment or two
later and ' the lines would have been
fast and they would hive been safe.
Instead of this, they I were ! carried
across the Columbia! river to Chinook
point, .where the waves - dashed over
the scow and sank it. drowning every
one of th 8(0 sheep, 'instead of mak
ing a fortune, as he would have -done
if he kadi been abl to get the sheep
ashore, father, through the loss of his
sheep, was unable ; to j pay . off ; the
mortgagiand lost his farm. ;
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. "He west to Astoria, where he ran
a. butcher ahop -for some time. That
same - yeaf - my grandmother and . my
Aunt Camelia Dlx returned East by
way of the Isthmus- of Panama in
company with Dr. DuimlRf, my moth-
NEWS fiT BRIEF j
SIDELIGHTS
T ; " i
Never critidite a man's clothes, TH
may be supporting
an i auto. Harris
vurg rairioi. i t - i ,
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After getting acquainted you usually
find the average person is abov .the
average. Albany Democrat. i,
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A moratorium is Just the highbrow
of admitting that there doesn't seem to
be any blood In the turnip. Medford
Mali-TribuneTj - 9 ; j
Two Iwomen said to be the oldest of
their sex in America have been discov
ered in a poorhoose, smoking corncob
pipes, lit this be vital statistics, make
the most of it. La Grand Observer.
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Should the railway vlabor board ever
emerge from Ithe mystifying maze of
th problem, "what is a living wage?"
they might tackle the equally -intricate
poser of "Tjow old is' Ann?" Eugene
Register. .7
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Senator Swanson complains that the
newspapers give many times as much
space to sports aa they do to congress.
It might bis different if congress would
make more hits and not do so much
fanning out at bat. Rpseburg News
Review., - ' i -
If there- is any ; virtue In the iSrot'er
straight" theory r the country should
be in wonderful shape now. ' Tho peo
ple did that two years ago in this coun
ty and elsewhere but a lot of those who
did so have been kicking themselves
ever since. Pendleton East Oregonian.
Among the prominent lay delegates
to the General Convention of the Epis
copal church who -arrived Wednesday
were W. H. Crocker of San Francisco
and Edmund Baylies of New York.
Among the transient guests of Port
land is Dr. J. H. Rosenberg of Prine
ville, on his way to the Elks' conven
tion at Seaside.
L. . E. Beatty and Fred Beatty of
Washougal are attending to some per
sonal business in Portland.
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Visiting Portland from Eugene are
Mr.- and Mrs. P.- C. Crockett, M. A.
Rasch and R. Franklin. ,
Colonel E. R. Budd of Ilwaco Is mak
ing one of his infrequent visits to
Portland. "
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Mr. and Mrs. William Ross of Gari
baldi are spending a few days in Port
land.
John Brosnan. one of Morrow eoun
ty's cattle raisers, is in Portland on
business. " ;
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B. A. Johnson, representing the West
ern Colonization : company at 'Prlne
ville. is visiting In the metropolis.
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Frank Haner and Ralph Haner of
Bend are among Deschutes county
vlstors. i
otner visitors from L,a Grande are
Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Rohan. , !
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W. R. Southard of Baker is in Port.
land on a business errand.
Among out-of-town visitors is C. S.
McNaught of Hermlston.
G.'E. Lehman of Eugene visited Port'
land Wednesday. -
G. S. Smith of Arlington is among
out-of-town visitors. !
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Pat Reilly of I Ash wood, Jefferson
county, 4s among Episcopal convention
visitors. j
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Logan Herbert ! Roots of Hankow,
China, is a guest of the Hotel Portland.
see .
E. D. Ressler of Corvallls arrived in
Portland Wednesday.
& .
Lockley
ers uncle. From Astoria we moved to
Fort Hope, on the Fraser river. Here
father built a sloop, which he ran be
tween Fort Hope and Yale, carrying,
freight. Two years later we moved to
Okanogan, where father built a sloop
and, though everyone said It was im
possible to go down the river, ho suc
ceeded . with his1 sloop, which . was
caulked with wild flax and with pitch
from the trees growing along the river
bank. With this sloop he transported
freight from Celtlo up the Columbia
and up the Snake as far as Lewlston.
He did not have money enough to .in
stall machinery, so he operated his
sloop with sail and oars.
"Mother and we children came: to
Portland. I went to Portland - acad
emy and later to The Dalles. On June
t, 1863. I was married to William
Abernethy, eon of Oregon's first and
only provisional ( governor. Besides
my husband, his parents hsd but One
child, a daughter named Anna. $he
married General Henry Clay Hodges,
at that time an army officer at Van
couver. He later ; became a brigadier
general. ; j
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"I was married ; at Th Dallea pr.
Condon, the noted geologist and well
loved minister 'arid college professor,
performed the marriage ceremony. We
were married at 4 o'clock In the morn
ing on St. Johns day. We had our
wedding breakfast on board the boat,
en route to Portland. -We went j to
Clootches, now called Seaside, wheri
we spent our two weeks', honeymoori '
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My husband was born in New York
city. He came to Oregon with, his
parents' aboard the Lausanne in the
spring of 1840. He was ah assayer.
We lived at Fort j Dalles many years.
Ten of our 13 children are still liv
ing. For many years I lived with Say
husband's parents.; and. after the death
of Governor Abernethy my mother-in-law,
Mrs. Abernethy, lived it our
home, and I want to . say right nw
that I never metj more, charming lor
agreeable people than my husband's
parents, and if you know anything
about daughters-in-law: living with
their husband's people, you will knew
that this is rather unusuaU 1
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'From The I Defies we moved to
Portland, where we lived at what Is
known as Abernethy Heights, five
miles out of Portland. L My husband
.carried on a packing and commission
business In Portland, HJs place of
business was burned and v had- no
insurance. We sold our V163-acre pl&ce
at Abernethy Heights" for 880,000 and
moved to Coos county, about half way
between Roseburg and the coast: -. !
"In 1898. when X; was driving, a spir- ;
ited team ran away with me and I
had my skull fractured, ray hi disk
cated and my knee broken. S aye
had to stay In a chair ever.sinee.
"My "husband was 85 when he died.
We j moved fromjour;!Coos . county
homestead to Forest Grove to educate
the ! children.- ( expecting to be here
only a few years. but: the children
hav grown up. all seven of my girls;
and; twf of my boys are; married. 'and ;
we are still here; , tin fact, we like' the :
WiHamete valley so well it would be
hard to; get usto move away. ; . -f
The Orefeon Counter
Northwest Happening la Itriet Form for tha
Baser Reader. , -. v. .
, 0 OREGON !
Corvallls is in the midst of a drive'
to raise 33500 for a community am
bulance. :j i
"Law offenders In Salem daring th
month of August contributed ISS3 to
the city treasury. - 4- - '. ' ,t '-f :l - -:"
There are now six ' candidate for
sheriff of Linn county to succeed the
late Sheriff C. Kendall. ; r
Government fish commissioners last
week distributed 750.000 young trout in
the stream of Tillamook county. .
in Eugene building permits for the
nonth of August reached a total of
392,525. exceeding tho July figures by
approximately. 812,000, ,r
Flour shipped from Astoria during
August Included 21,000 sacks 'to Eu
rope. 1900 to South America .and 7600
to the Hawaiian Islands. ;
Lieutenant Virtor RtratM
m an ding officer of headquarters com
pany, urst Datianon, itn infantry, at
Eugene, has resigned .his commission.
The fan fishing season on th Co-
lumDta win open next Sunday at noon,
but tha price to be paid for : fall chl
nooks and ailversides has pot. been
announced. - . ;
Dr. E. L. House, formerly' a Port
land riaatrtr lMture.r1 An rel rfnn, m A
psychological subjects, has arrived at
Hood River to spend five weeks en his
orchard place. v ' y i . -
iwn i uc. soq or Air. sin xiars, x .
Blue of Ashland, and 1921 graduate of
the University of Oregon, has oeen
engaged -as instructor in history at th
University of California.
Captain William. A. Bevan.1 formerly
a member of the O. A. C. faculty, who
.uijcso uunng sue wax, ia now.
stationed at Honolulu as chief en
gineer of air park No. 10, Luke field.
The Klamath county fair, scheduled
to be held October 4, f and , is al
ready taking definite form. 1 Ground
has been purchased andwork started
in platUng th land . for building,
corrals and race track.; S 7
Confronted with four gallons of
moonshine and 1200 pounds: of corn
meal seised on his premises. Deputy
Sheriff W. C Gibbs of Baker county
pleaded guilty to violation of the liauor
iw ana was rinea auo. j
Medford is to hav a 210-room tour
ist hotel, work having bagun this week
by a 32,000.000 Sacramento corporation
that expects to build a chain of hotels
to Los Angeles on th south..
WASHINGTON I
,P,ud8-f,t-"0mat8 tw Seattle for
1923 call for a total of 38,883414 to be
raised by taxation, requiring a 26-mill
levy. r S "j ; -I -
Fire near Wilbur I last week de
stroyed a barn, shed, two wagon and
15 tons of hay on the Charles Priest
farm. . ,
While eating his breakfast; at Yak
ima Saturday, Martin A. Feltar, 63,
was attacked, with heart trouble and
died instantly, j . x
Msvap Tr rt Davie a,tliitu.li.t
. . -V w w.mavov- u.m.
the cost of the government of Yakima
in 1923 will be lower than this year
by at least $5100; . j - .
Seventeen Chinese stowaways were
found on the shipping board steamship
President Grant, which arrived at Se
attle last week from the orient.
' J. W. Kinney, " state supervisor ef
game fish, announces that a state fish
hatchery will be constructed on Sulli
van creek, about two miles from Metal
lne Falls. . i - ,
. Fire near St. John last Saturday de
stroyed nearly 100 . acres mf what
standing on the Dallas Marcus ranch.
The' fire started at night from an un
known cause. i . 5
One of the old landmarks of old Spo
kane, the home of John Kreinbuhl.
built more than 40 years ago, is being
demolished to give place to a Standard
Oil filling station. ; .
A petition has been filed In! superior
court asking that tits' Tacoraa speed
way be dismantled. The liabilities of
the association are estimated Dy the
receiver at 3100.000.
Charging : conspiracy and 'fraud on
the part of the Farmers Stat bank of
Sprague, the Spokane State ban)t. ha
started suit against the Sprague bank
to recover J450O damages. ;
A tract of 20,000 ' acres of forest,
grazing and agricultural land in the
Col ville' Indian reservation has been
opened for filing. . Former service men
are given preference on the land.
The new town of Longvlew,' which is
to be added to the "present city of
Kelso, has been laid out and . archi
tects are preparing plans for the build
ings to be constructed by the Long
Bell Lumber comnanv. ; i
E. H. Hutchinson, early pioneer ef
Spokane, died Friday afternoon of
heart trouble while In an automobile
en route from Walla 'Walla: to Spo
kane.. He was 62 years old and a
member of th staff of th Spokesman
Review, j
Amendment of the Washington work
men's compensation law.- providing for
higher awards for the maintenance of
Injured workmen, has been placed at
the top of the list of legislative' meas
ures sought by the labor vote of the
state of Washington.
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Onranizers of th Ka Klux KTIan are
reported to be operating in Caldwell
and Nampa.
Canyon county taxes will be raised
this year on a total assessed valuation
of 826.390,975. ,
The University of Idaho ha on ex
hibition at the Spokan interstate fair
eight head of Fercheron horses and
K A C:.... . V. .... . CfKM.V.A HbmmIiI..
CUVSAUV,
and Ramboulllet sheep.
One large lumber mill at St, MarUs.
Idaho, and the planing department of
another have been closed down be
cause of a car shortage., throwing 150
men out of employment, -
Accord ins to a telearram from Sena
tor Gooding, potato growers of Idaho
may be allowed a reduction of 14 cents
a hundred instead of the 20 asked for
cn Missouri river and j Eastern points.
On battered roller states bolted to
travel-worn, shoes, - Mr. and Mrs. B
Carson have arrived tin Bofse from
Philadelphia on a roller skating trip
that is to take them to the Cbast and
then back across the continent.
George W. Meitzler, 1 former? cashier
of the Union Central bank of May,
Idaho, who. committed suicide a few
months ago, is said to have been 85000
short m his accounts and suit has been
started against the surety company to
recover the amount. !.
Once Ovears
Are You Firm With Children
Before Company T
Do not be backward about correct
ing your children when gusts are
present. . - ; '- v:'l : -K-.
Iany parents wonder why the kid
dies are so uncontrollable when friends
are around. ! U
They think that making their chll-
aren ooey oy xorcioje . metnoos in the
presence i guests ia a certain way to
make the guests get a poors opinion
of their offspring.; M - - if
You have such : ideas yourself and
are too lenient, so the children, with
intent, take : advantage; of -your disin-
cimatinn . to" trunish wrlth mmnanv.
around, and they get: what they want,
whether you want it of not. t 1. 1
And that is where you are very -fool- '
ish. - . " . i I .
When Sonny or Sister asks for money
for amusement and something, good to
eat. ordinarttr fm-biddeas- Itiat' Kwsnu -
vou hava aruests. : or era ' TTttnrommA
rt to the point of Chastisement if teas
ing Is attempted. !;,; .. j-
You won't have , to do it more than
isttls VI . WIW, w UCU - S1W jIUUli WU1 re-
anz you ar nrm and will cease to
i v im iur men u-icKie rrem en
cniraren i unwise on i your part and.
onngs a Harvest or trouble.' , : - r r
'. CoTrri2ht 16?s. v, Thiiu.r
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