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10 TUP QUE G ON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 1Z22. ,11 rvDFnr-CDEXT NEWSPArEH C. B. JACKSON. . . .e. ....Publisher ' ( Bw caiiu. be confident, b cheerful ud do nn fiemn aa 7u wouiu save iub a who SPubuahed e'ery weekday and Sunday moraine at Too Journal building, Broadway st lw htH street, Portland. Oregon. - tr. J ... .L . tr: . T 1 .: (or transuussioa throua-n the mail u second eian mailer. NATIONAL ADVERTISING HKPREiiENTA. - TITE Benjamin Keatnor Co., Bruns wick bnlkiins. 325 Fifth aenne.Vew York t00 IdailleT braMina. Chicago. PACIFIC COAST KEPBESENTATrVE it. C. llnmun Co.. Inc... Eiaratnor bn tiding. Han FrMbcuco; ThJo Immraooa boOdins. loa "Anseles: Bentetiet Buikhor, 8eetle. rHR ORECO.V JOURNAL imi liia nsill - to reject edTertisina; copy which it deems objectionable. It also wfl net print any eopy that In any way simulate reading nat ter or. that cannot readily be recognized as adTwrtgina. 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True fortitude I take to be the quiet possession of a man's self, and an un dfctarbed doing of his duty. whalerer eril beset or dancer lies in' the way. ;Locke. FIGHTING FOR THE SPOILS OW comes a movie actor with a suit against his employers, barging: that they failed to pro- e sufficient publicity for him. Tb company answers that sev- ral hundred thousand dollars have teetl expended in providing pub licity for the actor, including: press Bind advertising: notices and maga- sU r ne articles. The actor receives 93000 a week pp $150,000 a year under his con tract. "Several hundred thousand Hollars" : are spent in advertising tiime His contract runs for "three years, -which means in that time fcie will collect .for his services f early half a million dollars. And is not satisfied. In time everything finds its level. All things sooner r later, 'hin, in dustries and practices, have to Stand on their merits. But for the timet, many men and Industries be ome Intoxicated with their own power and success. i Some day the movie business -Will come back to Its proper sphere. Salaries and the fabulous expendi tures of production will go down, p'ust now all are Inflated. But the riation will not continue, especially fcvhen" those within the industry fitself are. tempted to fight over the rich spoils. I . Todd, killed In a boore gun fight ktNew Grand Ronde, was father pf.four children, and Price, another 'dead enforcing officer? was father jof three. Warren, who did the hooting, was the parent of seven. vFwirteen children are thus brought kinder the shadow by booze. It is the toll on the innocents, which it ha laid- for centuries, that is one of the merciless exactions of the . mm HEAVIER AND COSTLIER """kNE of the reasons why the rall tV roads have tnoubie is explained in , the announcement that the Pennsylvania system has placed orders for 115 locomotives of the heaviest type. "They will also draw cars of the heaviest type. "it costs more money to fuel loco-i motives of the heaviest type draw- wa. vus v met ueaviesi type man lighter locomotives drawing lighter equipment. It costs more money w replace tnem. it costs more iwoney to keep raijs and ties under hhem. It costs more money to oper- tate them it costs more money to 'build them Jhe trend is toward lighter and cheaper means of transportation. Many experts are asking th&: ! Would stronger and lighter loco motives drawing stronger but jligbter cars hot be quite as service :able and far more economical than the heavier type? ' Could no$ lighter locomotives drawing lighter equip jment" move the same number of passengers and the same amount of freight as heavier trains -at far less leostT i Would that not, "be of' tre- mendous advantage s both to the roads and t the. public ? l!j ' , j j. Railways are eeting- a stronger competition than ever before. They have automobiles and motor trucks 'and . steamships to compete with. .Soon the alrpjane will be a competi tor. ,- Costa xotNahe; most part i will be .the deciding factor.' " And - the railroads with their heavy equtp , ment and heavy locomotives are auite'aa likely to give way to the Ail department -reached by this nnmher. lighter and more economical means of transportation as the urban rail ways are Co 'w way.t more mod ern equipment- - The day when hundreds of tons of locomotives and equipment are employed ' to move 10 tons of freight and passen gers is rapidly approaching its sun-J set. " ' ' A HAPPY POSTPONEMENT r IS a good thing to- postpone the vote ton . the Portland' charter- rev isioiiJ' " ; ' i .' In fact, " thef e" has been a" rood deal of speculation as to why there is a revision. ' There had been- no general call for such action. There had been no , discussion through 'the usual channels " Of -any particular defects in the Portland charter. Nobody had heard that there was anything so wrotrg Jwith the Instru ment that it could hot be remedied by Bimple amendment offered by the city council in Its wisdom. It can, Indeed, be confidently stated that there was a general expression of surprise when the announcement was made that a commission had been named to revise the Portland charter. - However, some very good men are on the commission. Of course, they largely come from the same group, and of course .there are many interests in the city that are not represented. But if -the com mission can make changes that will simplify and expedite the conduct of public business without modify ing the present 'ery open and very clean plan of government, the electorate will undoubtedly be ready to accept Its recommenda tions. But the public will wanP, to know exactly what H is asked to do. It will want opportunity for a "full discussion of the proposed changes. That it could not have, were the vote to be had at the coming election. The postpone ment will add materially to VuMic confidence in what is going on. Bound hand and foot and lashed to the wheel of a motor car the body of a man has been found in the swirling depths of the Missouri river in an 18-foot eddy near Kan sas City. Police say that two to 15 mptor cars are in the same waters, and they expect that other bodies, similarly bound may be found. Some months ago, New York police discovered many cars similarly buried in the waters of the harbor. To what depths of cunning and deviltry twentieth century criminality is descending? GOSSIPS TOLL. FOR two years a young couple had been sweethearts. They were almost constantly together. They lunched together and he invariably-called for her when her day's work was done. They were soon to have been married. Gossips got busy. Among them was an admirer of the girl. ,-She was told that her husband-to-be was undrue to her, that she was being fooled. Several people car ried her tales. One day after work she looked down the fiVe escape to see if the young man was awaiting her. He was not there. She reflected on the stories that she had heard. Suddenly she swallowed a dose of deadly poison and was soon un conscious. - The "girl had hardly taken the drug until the young - man arrived at the top of the stairs. He had been on his way up to get her. He was ready to leave-with her as he had. always been. 3ut the gossips had impressed her, and she had "swallowed the poison and was on her road to .another, world before relief could come. "The young man attempted suicide immediately after. He was saved. But may he not try It again with more success? Two young people were very happy. A few other people were very busy gossiping. One of the happy young people Is now dead. Twenty-one million dollars is a great deal of money, but when ap plied through the national Episco pal organization, with all its human and spiritual force, the offering-is apt to. do a great deal of good. MEN AND BOARDS nHHERE Is a new voice In Indus try There Is a new philosophy. There is a new -rocabulary. The Loyal Lesion of TMrrv. "Lumbermen, for instance, is a body representing Northwest lumber in dustry. War emergency disclosed to both operators and loggers that they had interests in common. The legion was organized. Em B,oyers and employes joined it. rne organization has Itved beyond the war. The first president was General Disque. an army officer who -In private life before the war had made a record as warden of 'the Michigan penitentiary. For his successor the legion broke into a college. It took Nor man F. Coleman away from Reed' college and.made him -president.', "i -How ..could a .. pedagogue allay distrust, remove prejudice andpro-" duce Tlrmonjf 1 Jbetween thel In stinctively contentious elements in the . lumber - Industry ft .Whttj. did he , know, about -the business, any way?' . t- , Answers - by rote to these- .ques tions are net available.. 'But the fact .remains that . the legion; has not ' split and Professor -Coleman stm Tioldsnhet jour. " Moreover, he is getting readere of and believers in this sort of utterance: r There are more kinds of men than there are Of lumber, and their' arradea are more easily raised or lewered. Boards are subject In yard or kiln to influences of beat and moisture. . Men are responsive) - to,t a- score of influ- encee. ; - . ; . - ,- -- If industry is to become more pro ductive it must be through the better ose of men. It will not be enough to gfve better training to their intellects. though this la important. We must realize that men are moved mainly by their emotions, and tbat a man's value to .industry depends largely upon ; his leeungs. Today industry Is demanding, more than anything else, the education of those engaged In ttj education of un derstanding and education, of feelings. JvoUiu-'E lav. can cbeclc. that -etupld waste which affects all our great in dustries and threatens "their, destruction.- In industrial as in International relatione, a race is on between educa tion and catastrophe. , Mr, Coleman is still the school master, hut . one who has left the lecture room to give his adult pupils a course in applied eco nomics where they work and live. Can it not be safely predicted that the result will be in savings, not only in the boards and the money of the lumber industry, but in that greater value so often destroyed by class controversy? Tail's once noted cafe has passed through the exit door of fortune in San Krancisco together with the Poodle Dog, Techau's tavern, Tor tonl's, the Portola-Louvre and Marchand's. Once these places lived prosperously by selling much entertainment, fizzy drinkables and a little food. -Now, says Tait, peo ple eat for nourishment and not for entertainment. Wasn't it pos sible, too, that the entertainment only became attractive after about the third drink? IN FACE OF OPPOSITION r1 IS assumed that there will- be the usual opposition to the pro posal for one-way traffic. If not already here, the time is near when all opposition will have to be brushed aside. The streets cannot be widened. Two bodies cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Two lines of street cars dashing madly forward in each direction and two lines of automobiles doing the same thing, are a monumental example of dis order. ' 1 We can have disorderly traffic or orderly traffic. We can go hap hazard and pell mell or we can go under a harmonious system. The first is expressed by a go-as-you-please traffic, the other by all traf fic on a street moving in the same direction. The only institution that would attempt to do business on the prin ciple of traffic moving in all direc tions, on the same street is a city. No private establishment would at tempt to get anywhere under such a principle. Private brains do not function so unintelligently. One-way traffic where streets are so narrow and so congested is uni versally recommended by experts. There is no dissenting voice. Under the circumstances. to continue under the present rabble plan Is to block progress and defy all intelli gence. Whatever is best for the city as a whole is best for all the people in it. The whole theory of the social order is that it is the cdmmon good that is the reason for organized society. Under the principle, each must concede something to the gen eral system of organization. This thought and this thought atone should guide those who are charged with and responsible for traffic conditions in Portland. A Swiss doctor now says that he has a serum that will not only cure tuberculosis but enables the patient to live 150 years. But what's the use ? The Philadelphia savant pre dicts that the world will come to an end in a giant earthquake' this fall and. another American profes sor is trying to blow the earth up with an atom. ' HARD ON, THE CROOKS POLICE in two' cities are fussed up over disclosures claimed to have been made by a ouija board. Mrs. Polmateer, a bride, disap peared from Olympia and. no tid. ings have come back. A woman at Auburn says she received from her ouija board the information that Mrs. Polmateer had been kid naped and taken to Mexico by a man with a legal wife in Canada, that she was delivered to a gang of men in Mexico and that she came to her death at their hands In some manner which the ouija board does not explain. A dispatch says that the police in both Olympia and Auburn are much impressed. Of course, the ouija board knows. A piece of plank with some lines on it Is a great storehouse of knowledge. We can all see from this case that ail policemen, all detectives and all federal prohi bition agents should have been provided with ouija boards long ago. It's hard on police and detectives to admit that in solving criminal mysteries a piece Of plank has the real brains, but that is "wfiat this case means. If you have faith in this Olympia Incident and .here after, jomebody v burglarizes j your house or, runs off with your wlfe, don't hire a -detective buy -a. ouija board and - bunt the. rascal .'to,, his lair . J i . If this new. power pf -divination proves to be true,, we - are .certain tq have a boom in the lumber busi ness before spring. Y . The dollar-a-week pass plan has reached Astoria.. Each passnolder rides -the street' cars as much-as-he or "ahe pleases urras-the- -week. Tacoma started the scheme. - Is the idea on a round-about route to Portland? , - A PLAN XO PAY DEBTS OF WAR Proposed to Appoint the United States . fCecetver for Germany and Make i Her a. Cotnar Concern Ctaica j - . - Raw- Materials. ' Colonel Robert M. Thompson, well known both as a' Republican friend of the present administration and as first president of the International Nickel company and chairman of its board, and former president of the TCavy league and of the American Olympic association, puts forward in the Sep tember number of the magazine "Our World" a striking plan for solving this problems of war reparations from Ger many to the allies, revival of German industry and buying ability and of European markets generally, and pay ment, of the allied debts to the United States. - Colonel Thompson declares that Gerj- mauy is practically in the position of a bankrupt industrial enterprise and proposes that the United States should accept what would be tn effect a re ceivershlp for Germany to make her a going concern again. He says : "What is the condition of Europe today? Germany overspeculated in the bad business of war, lost heavily-and cannot pay her debts if pressed for immediate payment. Her assets are a -fertile soil, an industrious popula tion and a record of having for 40 years paid the expense of maintaining 1,0W.(K)0 men while she was teaching them how to destroy other people's property. It will cost no more to mainH tain 1,000,000 men now to produce things, and .their product in 40 years. properly applied, will pay her debts. "France,- too, is heavily in debt and unable to pay. She is burdened' not only by an enormous exterior debt,' but by the necessity of rebuilding cities and towns and reconstructing mines and factories destroyed by the Ger mans. Her assets are her claims oft Germany, partly secured by the pledge or Herman lands in -the Ruhr, and Rhine districts, her army, which en ables her to hold these lands, a fertile soil .capable of supplying enough food to feed her people, and last but no leajt, frugal and industrious popu lation. "England owes money but has morj due her than she owes, without count ing her claims on Germany. She ha disbanded her army but maintains a navy that is comparatively much stronger than it was before the war. She has no destroyed regions to rer build. She has an excess of machin ery and that built during the war $ more productive than the older type, but she cannot produce food enough to feed her people nor raw material enough to keep them employed ; and she must find markets for the products of her factories or she cannot pay fot the food and raw materials that shi must import. j The United States is solvent, owe no exterior debt, can feed her peoplei has large supplies of raw materials and need Import only luxuries thai could he dispensed with, if necessary She holds nearly the entire world's supply of gold, giving her a stable basis for her currency. Our internal debt is very large, but the debt of the European nations to us equals about one half of our total debt. Many workmen are unemployed ; part of the community are spending extravagantly and part are going hungry ; discontent la rife, strikes are frequent and mor are threatened. ' "Let England, France, Italy, Belf gium, Poland ' and the Balkan states ask the United States to Join and in! vite Germany to a. meeting, to arrange a settlement that will' remove the friction between . France and Ger many, and reduce the chance of waf to a mLnumum ; that will make proi vision for the immediate - rebuilding of the ruined cities and towns and the reconstruction of the destroyed mines and factories of France ; for the return to Germany as soon as pos sible of the German territories no held by the allies as securities for Germany's "promise to pay,' and fof their government until they are re turned by some official acceptable to both Franco and Germany. Assuming that the claims on Germany have been reduced to $28,000,000,000, an annual payment of about Jl.000,000,000 will pajf interest at 2 per cent and provide 4 sinking fund that will pay the prin-i cipal in 40 years. The present GermaTf government is not strong enough to impose and collect heavy taxes, so some method must be found to enablf the German people to make not only the reparation payments but also to pay for the food that she must import to feed her people and the raw mate rial to keep them employed. "In other words, an arrangement must be made with Germany anal ogous to a receivership, and a friendly receiver must be named who can find the capital and furnish the manager meru necessary to carry on tha busi ness of the empire and make the neces sary payments. . ; "Such a plan can only be carried on if it meets with the approval ant hearty cooperation of Germany, and the United States Is the only nation; that Germany will cooperate with end the only one that can furnish the food? U ... . 1 i A. .... . . ' carry them while the goods are being produced and sold. The problem foir the receiver will be to secure front Germany goods to the value of a Jit-H i more tnan i,ooo,ooo,ooo a year plus enough more to pay for the food and; raw material that GernlSany must have and to find a market for these goods with the least possible interference with other nations. j "Now what will the United States reteive in return for the- effort - that she must make? Remember that if this plan is carried out and normal consumption follows, we will find in Germany a market for 1.600,000 ,to z,oou,000 bales of cotton. 600,000.00(1 pounds of copper and great quantities! of corn, wheat, bacon and other prod ucts of our farms. Our steamers wll be employed carrying supplies to France and Germany, our bankers will be getting good pay for their credit and our workmen will have steady and, remunerative employment. If this plan is carried out, the United States should receive about 424 per .cent of the claims on Germany. If congress will provide for a tax-free. 3 per cent, 404 year bond, using the German payment for paying the interest and; providing a sinking fund, this German payment will pay the principal and interest and our; taxpayers will be freed from the burden of more than one half of thent debt." ' f ECONOMY IN DELIVERY i Front the Albany Democrat j The Salem system of delivering goods to the customer from the stores and markets of Albany is being advocated aa in the interest of economy- and bol ter service. The plan is to charge each individual for the delivery of goods of any kind. It Is said that merchants and those making their; own delivery oJj goods purchaeed are being infringed on by those who follow the opposite plan To Illustrate, some families make sev- eral purchases during the day and may live on the outskirts of the city, re (quiring aa many, trips as purchases awit avt i it caucose oa voa iner chant. A email purchase of a few cents.; under the. present system; costs the merchant more to deliver the goods than the profits in the transaction. In order to make even the overhead, ex pense of the business necessitates a higher price for the goods, and the individual paying cash and delivering his own goods pays the same price a those buying and having the material delivered. In Salem the plan ha been , adopted by mofet merchants of making a charge for each delivery, with the result that many people who have been careless in burdening the merchant are now more considerate in their demands. ' While the average merchant is in the ' mar ket to serve the public, it is pointed out. that, with the use of the telephone, the housewife buys without considera tion of the service she is demanding of the merchant who is burdened by meet ing the excessive demands in point of service by the customer. Letters From the People f Communication sent to The Journal for pubiKaUoa in this department should be writ ten on only one ride of the paper, should not 00 words in lencth, and mast be JMned by the writer, whose mail address in lull must accompany the contribution. 1 THE DEADLY PISTOL The Journal's Position-as Not Indorsed Portland, Sept. 5. To the Editor of The Journal To me The Journal has always been the defender of the public welfare. It has never forgotten that Its life depends upon the support of the common American citizen. It haa never been narrowed to "paper policy, but has always been square and above board. But we are all liable to make mis takes. There is one 'movement on foot which you are erroneously champion ing, and I, as a subscriber, wish to call it to your attention. The Journal fre quently publishes sentences like this, "Again the deadly pistol has done its work." A great deal of space has been favorably devoted to an organization whose intent is to make the ownership of pistols unlawful. The idea promul gated being, the fewer pistols the fewer murders and suicides, which is so Il logical that it should be' disregarded, but the idea has gained prestige, by aid of the unthinking and credulous throughout the country. Do you re member the Goliat incident. If the implement used was the cause of crime. we would, as H. S. Watson says, have to collect all .stones larger than a pea and throw them into the sea, cut down all trees and shrubs larger than one half inch in diameter, and burn them. A recent murder was committed by use of a hammer, others haw been ac complished by the aid of pokers, hat pins, canes and a Richard of England even used pillows. There are millions of pistols owned privately throughout the country, and immense quantities of ammunition are used yearly, and if these bore any relation to crime Tn the United. States we would have ceased to be in existence today. Bo cause a man or woman insanely kills another, is this sufficient cause to re fuse all sane people the right to own arms? Let us not forjret the Insistence of our forefathers, that it is a neces sary ripht of a free people to bear side arms (Article' 2, amendments to the constitution). To abolish the right to bear side arms removes the power of defense against autocracy, should au tocracy become unbearable and threat en the liberty of the citizen. The causes of crime lie with the monopoly of na tural resources, that is, the abridge ment of equal freedom not with pis tols. There are sinister forces at work in our country today which seek to dorh- inate and dictate. The methods are se cret, cunning and persistent and al ways operating in the dark. Our insti tutions are threatened by and are the unconscious prey of. these forces. Was The Journal unwittingly become the exponent of propaganda launched by ppefiteers and financial masters of the nation to abolish firearms? If Amer leans do not think and act quickly they will wake some morning to find themselves crushed, broken, and in the condition of the British Indian subjects who are beaten -and Jailed for even carrying a cane on the street. Bold and dangerous ambitions lie be hind proposals to abrogate a people's freedom in any way. The time needs strong men, champions of inalienable right, not old worsen, but men, in whose heart throbs the understanding of freedom that our forefathers, the real, honest-to-God Americans, had. Ralph Bowerman. CHIEF IS RESPONSIBLE Portland, Sept. 5. To the Editor of The Journal Your dispassionate and masterly editorial "Outlawed,"- In Sun day's Journal is at hand for reference as I write, after two readings. -I won der if you know just what that edi torial discloses. If you do, you have taken a long step, in the" Interest of the long-suffering, too law-abiding American people. Daugherty is a sub ordinate. He has a chief, the president of the United States. He is in perfect harmony - with his chiefs wishes, or his resignation would have been re quested as soon as that injunction was issued. No such request has been made. Daugherty. is carrying out the wishes of his ehief the president of the United States. At the close - of your editorial you say : But Daugherty-ls not the spirit of this republic. He is temporarily a misfit n the cabinet of the president." On the contrary, he is a perfect fit fn the cabinet of the only president which the republic can boast of at this juncture. It is the entire administra tion which is at -variance with "the spirit of this republic" If the working men had seised the reins of govern ment and were guiding public affairs In their own interest, there would be a great howl from those now at the head of things, that our government had been "overturned." Will you tell your readers how- much longer we must wait to announce that the finan cial oligarchy who, as you state, ared the "banker-owners of . the railroads," have already overturned it In their in terest? If you can, please point to ope single act of ' this administration that has been wholly and disinterestedly in the interest pf all the people of this country. If in the government as in any other, business concern the chief is account able to the owners for the' remissness of his appointees, then President Hard ing should be promptly Impeached and his attorney general relegated to pri vate life. ELF-Baldwin, : MEMORIAL DAT IN JAPAN From the Eat and West News Americans in Yokohama celebrated Memorial day, May 30, as usual, under the auspices of the Arnertcan Associa tion of Japan. An? address was deliv ered by Mr. Roland a. Morris, the American ambassador.' at' the-Gaiety theatre. The national ; anthem was sung. Many citizens of the allied .pow ers - were present. . The new - United States naval monument , was unveiled by Miss Morris, daughter of -the am bassador; and was covered with floral wreathat The monument has been erected by the American rovernment to the memory of United States ma rines and soldiers burled in the naval hospital cemetery. . ; ;:;v t WHERE- THEY'D LOOK BEST - From the Toledo Daily Blado We wish the rail and coal strikes were tn the "Twenty Years Ago Today column, ; ... : .-, ... .- C0M1VIENT AND SMAXI CHANGE i . ' " i - : . f- - ' Right after two weeks off comes two off weeks.- Nashville Tennessean. ; ' - - - - Five Detroit nurses Suspended : for bobbed hair. Maybe the patients didn't want Q get, - welLj Worcester Post. ' ;;" -'; ia--:-. ;' . In extenuation, most of those jokes on- the - Volstead law are so dry you haven't the heart to protest against them. Nashville Banner. ;.r" . Jud Tunkins .'says he sympathises with, actors. Entertaining tired busi ness men must' be the most tiresome business on earth. Washington Star. i By living to the age Of ninety-four a resident of Washington has become a viscount. Another argument for taking care of your health. New York: Post. To reform the marriage ceremony by striking the word "obey" from the bride's lines will be all right but what they should do is write in a small part for the best man. South Bend Tribune, If the tariff bill becomes a law, there will be a high duty on scissors. Which may be congress' revenge on a lot of unkind editors and colyumists.-Kansas City Star. 9 t It is better to leave your kid an in heritance consisting of a good consti tution, a good head, an honest con viction and 17 cents In money than to die and leave him a million dollars. But if you have that much money, you will not be able to comprehend it Houston Post, MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Among late arrivals to the Episcopal oeneral Convention are Mr. and Mrs. William Reed of Orange, N. J. Mr. Reed, who Is a Cripple, has an unbroken record for attendance of conventions of the church. Among delegates attending the Epis copal uenerai convention is ST. F. John son, president of the Boise City Na tiqnal bank. -. a. camunds of Tillamook was transacting business in Portland Thurs day. e S. T. Gage of Newberg was among arrivals of Thursday. Mrs. W. R. Willis of Roseburg Is a guest of the Portland. Among out-of-town visitors 1 H. L koss or Baker. FItn?'i5al8 Torett. Episcopal bishop of Idaho, is registered from Boise. V. M. Heckaft of Corvallis is out-of-town visitors. among John Brogan of Antelope Is a guest of the Imperial. F. S. Gardner of The Dalles is among business visitors tothe metropolis. Among out-of-town visitors is Jf J Broughton of La Grande.- ' .' R. T. Kinzey of Prairie. Grant coun ty, is among out-of-town guests. Roscoe Hurd of Florence is taking in the sights of the metropolis. J.E. Stewart of Prineville is among out-of-town guests.- Among out-of-town guests Is J H. Lindley of Enterprise. R. L. Haines of Burns is in Portland on business. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred S. Walker of Eu gene are among out-of-town visitors. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred The first installment of the recollections of Mrs. George Flarel, octogenarian resident of Astoria. Just across the street from the court house at Astoria is a large white house of the period of the middle Beventlea It is the home of Mrs. George Flavel and her daughter Nellie. The daugh ter of the house answered my knock and invited me to wait in the parlor while she summoned her mother. The room was very large. The ceilings were 12. feet high a type of ceiling we no longer indulge in since the . pier ' glass has gone out. Above the fireplace was an ornate mantel shelf with vases, and other ornaments. Above the mantel piece hung an oil painting of a ship under full sail, the moonlight gleam ing on its widespread canvas and gllntlnr on tba waves. - Big leather chairs, bookcases full of books, a li brary table with magazines, made the room seem what it is a living room. In a moment or so Mrs. Flavel came In, shook hands and, in. answer to my questions, told me of her girlhood in Astoria. ' "My maiden name was Mary Chris tiana Lydia Boelhng," said Mrs, Flavel. "I was' born in Cincinnati, May 19, 1839, so you see I' was 83 years old on my last birthday. I was married here In Clatsop county when I was 14 years -old. My father, Conrad Boelllng, was born in Hesse-Cassell, Germany. My mother, whose maiden name was Phlliplna Veith, was born in 'Rheinphalx, Bavaria. She came to America in 1831. when she was 13 years old. My parents' were married In Cincinnati when mother was 16 years old. I was still a baby when my people -moved to St. Louis. From there they moved to Peoria, 111., from which place they started for Oregon. Wllamina was first of their 11 chil dren, then came Phlliplna, then myself, then Conrad, Louise, Elisabeth. Sophia, Louis. Elism, Thomas and Voelmaton. Father started from Peoria with two prairie schooners. ach one pulled by two yoke of .oxen. In these wagons he had null irpas and provisions. The family wagon was. fixed with two spring beds and was pulled by a team of horses. When the horses played out we hitched our two milk cows in their places. .Yes, we had milk and butter clear across the plains. We came across the plains in 1847 when I i s years old, so I remember very clearly the Incidents of the trip. ' e "One time a party of Pawnees who were on the warpath against the Sioux Indians held us up. They -were dressed In paint And feathers and not much else. They said we had no right to come into their country and scare the -buffalo away. We gave - them bread and ' flour and - other provisions, so they let' us go on. My mother, whose health had -been poor, got well and strong while crossing the plains. We -stopped for a while at Bozarths, not tar from Vancouver, while father went to look for a claim. The winter of 1847 was a very mUd and open win ter, -so in February, i lt49. w "came down the river on flat boats to the vicinity of Clatsksnie, Father took up a donation land claim or f 40 acres just below Youngs river.. That faU. when the people of Oregon got word about gold feeing discovered In California, father went to the newly, discovered diggings. 4 He came - back early -- in 1849 with about" $1500 worth of gold dust and we moved to Astoria, living at first In the Shawfe house, on what is now called Clatsop Crest, Father NEWS TN BRIEF - ; SIDELIGHTS , Baker county farmers are stacking an abundance of bay--and harvesting a grain-yield that promises good finan cial returns. Baker Democrat. s. : . . ... As matters now. stand. It looks' to us like MHt Miller is the "grand old Dem ocrat" ef Oregon,-if he should care -.to wear such a, tille.--La Grande Ob- .server.,. . , . ..; - A new logging Company and a-new shinglet mill for Astoria as actualities are worth more than a dozen million dollar factories : in -prospect. Astoria. Budget.- - ; , , , -, A representative government is one that elects six men in favor of a thing and sis against it and wonders why something isn't done. Medford Mail Tribune. . The recent murder trials" of J X Burch and Mrs. Madalynne Obenchaln cost the taxpayers, of Los Angeles county close to $100,000. Evidently the murderer isn't the only one who pays. Albany Democrat. The June bridegroom Is just begin ning dimly to realize that buying lft or 12 tons of coal at prevailing prions if you can get it) was one of the things he forgot to remember. Roseburg News-Review. Whether people like Henrv Ford or not. it must be admitted that, as a manufacturer, he has been a huge suc cess. He is one of the nation's big gest industrial captains arm when it comes to factory managementhe is an authority worth listening to. Pendle ton East Oregonlan. . William Pennington of Corvallis Is among late arrivals in the metropolis. Transacting business In Portland Thursday was L. L. Noonchester of Bend. ' Everything in Tillamook county is progressing according to Webster Holmes, who is in Portland on legal business. Registered at the Multnomah are Mr. and Mrs. N. N. Blumenraadt of Rai nier. ' . e John Kolkenny, one of Morrow coun ty's leading sheepmen, is visiting in Portland. " A. N. Pierce and L. -A. Westacott of Salem are attending the Episcopal General Convention. , . Among visitors of Thursday were R. M. Wood and Warren Merphey of North Bend. Among out-of-town visitors is George H. McMorran, a leading mer chant of Eugene. mm John L. Childs of Crescent, Cal., is visiting in Portland. . A. J. Davis of North Bend is trans acting business In Portland. Robert J. Conroy, M. D.. of Medford lr registered at the Imperial. J. G. Day Jr. of Roseburg is among recent arrivals. - J. F. Spray of Cottage Grove is . one of many out-of-tows visiters. - Em 11 T. Raddon of Logsden Is trans acting business in Portland. G. W. Noble and family of Prlne ville are visiting in "Portland. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Reynolds of Ban don are among out-of-town visitors. - Mrs. Tina. KHdee of Union is a guest of the.lmperial. - : . . Lockley built a house in the spring of 1849, in which they ran a boarding house. The miners returning from California were starved -out for home cooking and were willing to pay good prices for meals. Sometimes there would be nearly' a hundrSn passengers at once swoop in on us. so we all worked. My mother's mother was with us and she was a good hand at working. The men who boarded with us would leave big buck skin sacks of gold dust with father for safekeeping. He had no 'safe, so he aeu 10 Keep inem under the bed. A man named Aiken boarded with us. He was a sawmill man. I had "never gon to an .English school. Back in x-wurisv-i went ror a little while to 1 private school kept by a Lutheran min ister.. it taught us in German. I did not talk hardly any English till I was 8 years old. When I asked Mr. Aiken 11 ts neeaea more -wmegar he said, t M 1- ' noit, uurauna, you must learn to talk correctly. What you mean is vinegar, not wmegar.' Every night he taught me to spell and pronounce words in a . spelling book and a geog- . , 1 10 went away ror quite a while. When he came "back he said: I suppose you have forgotten all I taught you. Get your spelling book. Instead I brought Ufa copy of one Of Shakespeare's plays and read to aim irom xnat, to his great astonish mem ana to my great pride. I had studied all the time he had been gone. When I was 13 years old I went to fortiana ana attended ih r-i Female Seminary, which was run by !SI- Vint,. a . . - - . auu his wire, wnen 1 returned to our hotel I found that one of our boarders. Captain George Flavel had decided that I was not to continue my studies but Instead take up the duties of a homemaker. In .those days It was the custom to charavart newly married couples, so in place Of being married at the home of my parents we went to the home of my sister. Mrs. Aioses Rogers, on Lewis ' and Clark "er. wnere we were married by Rev. Farrtsworth. I was married on March 5VCard Flavel, my ,.Yt i S. ; t "orn on January IL 1855. Nelhe. who lives with me, was the next child, then came Katie. Katie has passed on. Georcre and .T-ui 1 live here in Astoria. r,nr-. riea and is a grandfather, which means that, his three grand children .t- ZT- m-r-m . .. " . 6'mtHUBrai. wee. nere I me marriage notice." - . -e '" t ,- . ...... " When I had read i. xr m sa d, "Read the marriage notice Just below mine. It-was a triple wedding, and seethe odd" bit of poetry that old man Dryer wrote about it" a,Her,s th wddIT notice to which Mra Flavel referred r -a. 1 denee o Captain William E. Moltrop, Wapato, Washington , county, Oregon Territory, March 29, 1854, by Rev. Dr. ciarlT Trm'ty church. Portland, R. P. Meade of New York to Lucy M. Moltrop, Benjamin Stark of Portland. O. T. to Elizabeth Moltrop. John C. Assna of San , Francisco to Lydia Moltrop." X4ke an ewed Whlcs our faith has been 1 ne soona 010 eoctitno 'Home Protection." And wave a tsnnu nbbhetina To sly outsiders poppinc in ' - . .' . a no popping; to oar jjrle the onestioa. Filching away ?w hope) two food Whig - . - - atother -. .. And thereby treats eteppotnUnc others Who mirht nave duly- propagated v - The faith and aoadry other thine not stated. However UuRew that mast be n .. - And with onr Mews we duly trust That erery Meade mar be a meadow .. And f the 'quartet of a detsea . - -t, Tows fetonionaiy won or stoic .- Xhat Luuiat totark won't be a widow. ' The Oregon Country Northwest Happenings M Brief form for the t .. Busy. Beadcr. , f OREGON s Fees and ' fines collected by the city of- Eugene during the month of August " amounted to $795.85. r Riddle, one- of the Vrogresslve tom-ns of Douglas county. Is installing a water system and electee light plant- ,EIghly-hine men and 19 women were placed in employment last. Week by ths" Eugene office of the United States em ployment bureau - i r , i s LjrnL oil well now being , drilled at jEwthertm has reached a depth of S0O feet ana. a good . showing of oil has been encountered. ; . . - .. -. .- The Damascus farm bureau will'hold . an all-day harvest festival in that town' Friday,. September IS. Community v products ill he exhibited. s . . Jackson county is installing a big roca. crusher on Applegate. below Ruch. for use in crushing rock for the road down that river, which is being ma cadamized. , . . O. p. Ebyv Oregon City's city attor ney, is suffering from an infection of , the right leg. caused from a fall August 27, while on a pleasure triD to Ka.ama. . :- s. ... ; Elmer Jennlson has made, a rich strike on the Little Applegate, 10 miles south of Jacksonville. Amv, Hn.., ' about $250 of platinum and $8 of gold to th Inn The Fossil-Dayville mail stage has been in operation only two months, during which time it has carried more -than 100.000 pounda of mail between the two points. After a suspension of two years, the Sutherlin Sun reappeared last week, filled with good local and general news and with a. fair advertising patronage. tin J. Hayner is owner and editor. Except two mi)n in lh ril.iwil. bottoms; a half mile north of Shedd, and another. mile at Driver's crossing, the paving on the Pacifie highway be- tween Albany and Halsey is completed. . Earl Shepherd of Waterloo, em ploye of the forest service, was shot : accidentally while working n a gov-" ernment trail near Cascadia. The ball entered the arm, shattering the bone. WASHINGTON The Olympic is the name selected for" Seattle's new $2,700,000 tourist and community hotel. , . s .. - - The loss of a large portion of What com county's unusually large bean crop ' is threatened through lack of pickers. - Building activity In Rellingbam has been exceptionally brisk during' the -last month. In August 142 permits were issued.-- v ?' Private Carl C. Lebo of the Tenth field artillery is dead at Camp Lewis rmm ItiI.iIam r.n.l...4 ...I. v. ; l slipped and fell with. him. ; Trollers working off the Washington coast during the closed season are re ported making fair, catches of from 200 to 300 pounds to the boat- Against the bid of $270,000 for the plant of the PuykUup & Sumner Fruit Growers' Canninsr enmmnv arm. elilmi i aggregating in excess of $2,000,000. While John Besel and his son Henry were plowing near' Waterville Friday, lightning struck the outfit, killing three horses and badly injuring the two. men. Degrees were conferred Satu'rda'v on In -Seattle of more than 2090 Odd Fel lows from Washington and British Columbia-cities. : ' C. Dell Guyett.-43, was arrested in Seattle Friday night charged with be ingkne of two bandits who shot down Joseph Brenning, t ' Minneapolis butcher, January 29, 1918. Mrs." Viola Drydeh, a widow living at Tonnenish. swallowed a la rare doa of strychnine last Friday morning, dying shortly afterward. It Is thought Jthe drug was taken by mistake. The body of William A. Clark.' 19-year-old Anacortes . boy, was found Saturday floating near a pier in San Pedro harbor. The boy had dived off the stern of a tanker while swimming. The body of Dewey Olson, soi of Mr. -and Mrs. Charles Olson, who dirap-. peared from Port Townsend about four -weeks ago, was found in the bay Sat- urday by Monroe Wyckoff.' who was ' . operating a tow-boat. ' v . IDAHO - I; ! - ' Thunderstorms accompanied by heavy rains during the past week have again postponed harvesting at Grahge ville. t The public school at Plummer opened Monday with the largest at tendance in its history and a staff of 10 teachers. . John W. Cartmill. 90-year-old vet eran of the Civil war and Idaho plo--neer, died last week at the Soldiers home at Boise. j Star J. Maxwellof Culdesao Is seek ing $2542 damages from - the Culdesao State bank for the alleged seizure of : 1542 bushels of grain at- his farm. The Cascade, Investment company of Portland has filed articles in the seere- . tary of state's office increasing its capital stock from $2500 to $50. 000. Davenport's city budget ' for 1921 calls for $12,280, or an 18-mlll levy on an assessed valuation of $692,845, an increase of three mills over the levy for this year. St, Maries was visited by a cloud burst Monday. . The -street were flooded with water and lightning struck the home of John Kersey, which was destroyed by fire. , 1 ' Governor Davis has refused ' to ac cept the resignation of L H. Nash, state land - commissioner, and -has granted him two-months' leave of absence to carry on the work of the political campaign. . .-. Twenty Years Ago From The Journal September S, 1903 The -steamer Albany tied up this morning at the Washington Street dock, and perhaps for. an Indefinite time, .Her action Is probably a fore- . runner of what; win occur : with the other river boats about the middle of the week, unless some action is taken to avert the impending strike. .; " Klamath county has followed the lead of several others in the state and stopped paying, bounty on coyotes. The Lewis and Clarke fair site at the foot of Willamette Heights was visited by crowds of Portland people yesterday, alt of whom agreed that it was an' ideal site, and that.no better selection could have been made., . . ... e e ' : - Several good strings of salmon trout were brought in last evening by local anglers. In about a week it la thought that the fish will be running 'in great . numbers. The city was full of strangers yes terday. In tha absence of a carnival performance they, put their time In sightseeing at the various parks, on the sereet ears and along the water- s front, . ;., ' .-.-. .last week's :r largest real estate transaction was ths sale by Mrs. R. W. Baxter and Mrs.. F. Q. Downing to S. Morton Cohen, of . the southwest quarter block. at 10th and Washington, consideration $50,000. -- . . The 21st annual convention ef the Oregon -r Women's ' Christian Temper-' -ance Union will be held In Roseburg this week, from Tuesday to Friday, Inclusive. Ex-Governor Z. F. Moodv is in Port land, from his ranch on the Deschutes. marketing hia fruit, which, in peaches. will amount to 1000 boxes. , ? Mrs. Jacob Ktmrn, one of " the tAo neer residents- of the city, met with an accident today while stepping from a . car on Fifth and 'Morrison streets. She was thrown -violently, to the pav--menta but was not seriously Injored. . . t vV
