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THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. SATURDAY, "SEFfEMBJSK 'if, ivz. A tNDEPSXDEXT XEWSPAPER C 8. JACKSON... . ....i.P'nbilsBe Be calm, be confident, m cheerfad sad do aato etaer m you would ha them da sate yon. Wbihed eenr weekday ud Sunday aaurainc at l oe joqnui ponging, ontan? at. aaaa- mil ecreet. nwrimiro. vniuu. - taUred at thm noatotfice at Portia ad. Oregon, for tnutnuawii throBSb Use mail u second rtana matter. wn street, Portland. Oreeoi. NATIONAL ADVERTISING itEPKESENTA TIVE Benjamin & Krntnor Co., Bruns wick bodklioc. 223 Fifth arenue. Xew York; wop M alien banMinf. t.hteaeo. PACIFIC COAST KEPHKSENTATrVK M. C. Morccaaog Co.. Inc.. Kiaiainer buCding. Saaj Frencueo; Title Insurance baildmg. L-ot Angrirm; Becnritte. bmluin-. Seattle, TUB OUEGON JOURNAL nxnn the nLt to reject adrertisins ecty wiiieh it deems - objectionable. Jt alao will Dot print any copy that is any way annulate readinc mat ter or that cannot reedi!- be reccgniaed aa affTertisinc. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier City and Country , DAILY A.fl BLMIAI Ona week 9 .lSjOne month. $ .65 DAILY SUXDAT Ona week.-. t .lofOn week $ .05 n mcnth 45! : BY MAJL, lUTfS PAYABLE I.X ADVANCE DAILY AM) SUNDAY Ona year 8 OO Three month. . . 12 25 Six month 4.25One Booth -.75 DAILY SUNDAY (Without Sunday) I (Only), Ona year. $6.00iOne year $3.00 fix month..... 8.25 Six month..... 1.75 Three) month. . . 1.75iThree month, . . 1.00 One month 601 WEEKLY j WEEKLY AND fErery Wednesday) ! SUNDAY Ona year $1.00. Ona year '.S3. 50 , 8i month? SO I Thaea rate apply only in the Wet. Rata to. Eastern points furnished on appli ration. Make remittances by Money Order, Ezpraa. Order or Draft. If your poatoffice B aot a money-order office, 1 - or 2-crnt stamps wul ba accepted. Make all remittances pay hie to Tlie Journal Publishing: Company Portland. Oregon. TELEPHONE MAIN 7141. reached by thi numHer. All departments Disappointment U the nurse of dom. Sir Bayle Boebe. THE CHIEF DESTRUCTIONIST? FOLLOWING his nomination for United States senator, Robert M. La Follette ia stigmatized by the Oregonian as the "chief destruc tive radical" and the Republicans f , Wisconsin are referred to, as a "'peculiar popuiation. The Ore gonian also says of the Wisconsin J Republicans who voted for Senator La Follette that they are largely! made up of 'Socialists, pro-Germans, radicals, of all stripes and the wets of his state?" The latest figures on the Wiscon sin Republican primaries give La Follette 335,523 and his opponent 133,879. This is a very heavy vote .for La Follette. and by comparison, very light vote for the rival can didate. i " Such an appraisal as the Oregon Jan makes of La Follette is, of course, a matter of the paper's . viewpoint. It is a view of things in Wisconsln . which any American .citizen or any American newspaper has a perfect right to hold. It Is a ,view- that is held by a very consid erable number of people in Amer ica. Perhaps the ratio of the Re publicans who hold that view to those who hold a different view is "reflected in the Wisconsin vote vWpera 335,000 Republicans voted tor La Follette and but 132,000-for ."3ii opponent. Under the circumstances to say "that La Follette is the "chief de structive radical" and that the pop ulation of Wisconsin is "peculiar" ."is a statement to which the larger body of Republicans will not agree. 'Instead of being the "chief destruc tive radical" a large majority of the K' American people would say that La -Follette always barring his mis erable war record is one of the .chief constructive statesmen 'of his time. As a result 'of La Follette's lead ership, the state of Wisconsin has perhaps the most equitable tax sys tem in America. Public utility laws, modeled and passed through the in fluence of La Follette in Wisconsin, have been used as models for utility legislation In every state In the union. Under La Follette's leader ship,, railroad regulation reached its most practical and most con structive status in Wisconsin, and the same is true of many other measures of public moment in that .state.' '' V La Follette has not been able to make a corresponding headway in the senate because congress has al ways been dominated by the reac- ; tionary minority whenever the Re publican party has been in power. It was that domination that split " the Republican party "in 1912. It was that domination that accounts for the nearly three to one vote for La Follette by the Republicans of his own stslte in what is perhaps ths most wonderful vote of confid ence and1 approval ever given a senatorial-candidate In American history, The "vote tor La Follette is the expression of the great living mass n . "Wisconsin, who, like the great mass In the ither state,' are grop- 'fhg tor that, true America which will sometime come and in which ' there-will- be more of that social Justice for which ;Theodore Roose velt appealed; and in the hop of securing which; he led the Repub lican party; into the great split of The Oregon lan's denunciation of La Folletta. is a true reflection ef the opinion 01 xnai smauer wing of the Republican party which blocks thai way to that better bal anced order toward which La Foll etta ha long striven and for the at tainment of which he has given all within his power. . Nebraska corn and visitors in Southern California are reported to be suffering from the heat, but so far as Oregon Is concerned "there ain't no slch animal." I WAS A FOOL, T WAS a fool." said Mr. Edmond- JL stone In his "letter to the Portland school board. He added: 1 have reason to believe Mr. Thomas to be a good machinist, but in the technical field, and as a builder, his knowledge is Very limited, and his CONTINUAL INTERFERENCE WITH THE EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF MY DEPARTMENT WAS A SERIOUS DETRIMENT TO THE INTERESTS OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, A CON STANT ANNOYANCE! -TO MYSELF AND MY EMPLOYES AND BROKE DOWN THE MORALE OF THE FORCE. The "Mr. Thomas" referred to is Director Thomas of the Portland school board. Mr. Edmondstone was until recently superintendent of properties of the school district. Some months ago charges were filed against the properties depart ment and a committee was named by the board to investigate. The head of that committee was Direc tor Thomas. At the time. The Jour nal pointed out to the school board and to the public that it was a case of Director Thomas investigating Director JThomas. On the written statement of Mr. Edmondstone, quoted above," we now know that Director Thomas was "continually interfering with the executive functions of my department," that it is a sure assumption that as a di rector and the employer of Mr. Ed mondstone, Director Thomas actu ally dominated the properties de partment, and that when Director Thomas sat . as chairman and di rected the proceedings of the in vestigating committee, Director Thomas was, in fact, investigating Director Thomas. Few such spectacles occur. For such a farce to be enacted in the livery of the public schools is a travesty on the public school sys tem. Director Thomas and his commit tee made recommendations which whitewashed the properties depart ment and consequently whitewash ed Director Thomas. Except for the dissenting vote of Mr. Shull, the school board adopted those .rec ommendations and whitewashed Director Thomas. In his own state ment, Mr. Edmondstone practically adnirts that the things charged against the properties department were true, and In his remarks to the board, after the reading of the Ed monstone letter. Director Thomas makes practically the same admis sion. It Is to be hoped that no such blunder will ever be" repeated by a Portland school board. ' It is highly probable that in his administration of the properties de partment, Mr. Edmondstone was more sinned against than sinning. Thomas A. Edison says, "If I were to hazard a guess as to what young people should do to avoid temptation it would be to get a job and work at it so hard that tempta tion would not exist for them." Edison's formula he has tested. There is no reform measure that can compare with hard work, whether for boys and girls or men and women. There would be fewer sentences to hard labor if hard work were premitted to keep people free of trouble IN REAL LIFE DO YOU remember Victor Hugo's little mother? How she cov ered her three children against at tack with her body, was shot and left for dead, and her children taken away as mascots by the sol diers? How she struggled back to life and then, existing on grass, stems and an occasional crust, she was able to beg, wandered league after league looking for her ba bies? How it seemed that among all humanity there .was only cold, hard, grasping cruelty How at last she found her children in a biasing tower, their baby faces, un conscious of danger, smiling among the flames? How suddenly the arch enemy became the savior of her little ones and by incredible bravery got the tots to the ground and safety, but at the cost of the erematioir of, his own living body? Real life occasionally furnishes a parallel to such romanticism. The cold, hard, gfeed of white bootleg gers allied with them an Indian. The savagery of the aborigine was released in its cruelest form by the potions he drank and which he had for sale. With one shot from his rifte he murdered the official rep resentative of the United States government, widowed a frail little woman In an installment home on the outskirts of Portland and or phaned three helpless babies. As if this blow were not enough, a creditor sought out the sobbing mother and made summary demand for payment of a' bill. A merchant demanded knowledge as to where the money would come from before he would supply food. ' Would it have been surprising i to the wi dow all the -world should seem un reeling? .. ;. But behold" the transformation worked wlthia a .few hours after newspapers had carried the report of the tragedy to their readers. The associates of the murdered prohi bition agent dug down into their pockets. His former comrades in national defense took charge of the fatherless family's financial con cerns. Clubs met and suspended rules in-order "to. permit, contribu tions by their members. Individa- als poured In their gifts. A bene fit performance was planned. The clouds of shock' and grief were pierced by the cordial rays of hu man sympathy. T Kindness resides in the majority of hearts. It is only the greedy few that at times misrepresent hu manity. BOOZE DESPERADOES THAT if the sheriff of Polk county had - been called into the case by Dr. Linville, state pro hibition officer, the tragedy at New Grande Ronde would have been averted, is directly charged by the Dallas Itemizer in an article on this page; The article also resents the implication that lawlessness is ram pant In Polk county, and Quotes a signed statement by Dallas clergy men commending the effective law enforcement activities of Sheriff Orr. In view of the statement of the ministers and the Itemizer. it Is very certain that the state prohibi tion officer should have asked for the, assistance and cooperation of Sheriff Orr. The bootlegger was an Indian. Most of the traits of the race still remain in spite of the white man's civilization. The ex perienced sleuth, familiar with In dian character, is most likely to be successful in dealing with cases like that at New Grande Ronde. There is another thing about it: Experience in these latter days has shown that there is no desperado more dangerous than the booze des perado. Almost every day, there are newspaper accounts of desper ate resistance to dry agents, nearly always with attendant killings. The dry agents should be experi enced, well trained and highly skilled men. Less blood will be shed and fewer children be or phaned If only officers thoroughly experienced in the strategy of the game be sent after moonshiners and bootleggers. The business is no child's play, as gun fights and killings all over the country are abundantly proving. TO HAVE AND TO HOLD SINCE July 1 Seattle acknowledges the receipt of 824 cars of wheat, Tacoma of 1130 and Portland 2829, or 865 cars more than both the Puget sound ports combined. It should also be noted that Portland's surplus over both cities is greater than Seattle's total re ceipts. Yet the season of wheat shipments is only beginning. Does the average Portland citi zen understand what these figures mean? Does he remember the in terstate commerce commission's de cision of the Columbia basin rate case? Does he recall the 10 per cent rate differential granted by the federal body for the benefit of Portland, Vancouver and the zone south of Snake river, which among other commodities produces up to 15,000,000 bushels of wheat annu ally? Does he reflect that it was the long contest initiated by this news paper which resulted first in long deferred recognition of the Colum bia water grade and second, as was predicted, in a new Portland su premacy in wheat receipts, flour milling and wheat and flour ex ports? But Portland's justly awarded advantage is not to be held uncon tested. Seattle plans absorption of the differential in her wharfage charges. A preliminary move in this direction already has been made. The seaboard cities of the Northwest live largely by the com merce originated in the Interior and the golden tide of grain means wealth to the cities that get the business. Seattle understands this clearly. If by any effort she can overcome the handicap Imposed by her high, encircling mountain wall she will do it. If Portland would continue the permanent benefit of her hard won justice she will show quite as much aggressiveness in every re lated phase of the commerce in wheat and flour as Seattle does and she will not hesitate to make the producers of the interior partners in profits. UNDER THE BIG TOP HAVE you noted the latest In circus publicity? Once the astute press agent pictured the trapezist in the length of her leaps and the height of her swings. He presented the bareback rider in the terms of daring equestrian feats. It was all very much like measuring the value of a man by the amount of money that by hook or crook he has amassed. But "them days is gone forever." We meet the lady of the oscillating bar in her itinerant boudoir. We explore the depths of the trunk which contains" all the wardrobe and half the home of the fair equestrienne. We - are Introduced at second hand tb the chaperon of circus girls and, thus, learn some thing of the social activities which, out of public gaze but with perfect propriety, go on beneath the shel ter of the big top. Animals, too! One we looked upon roadside lithographs showing tangled aggregations of beasts that never were" seen to. Just such form, color, and immensity outside a fusel oil-hasheesh dream. Now wa meet in the publicity., the Individ uals of the circus menagerie, ; Wa leant their names.. : their likes and dis likes, their traits and, manner lam a -.5" Even tha clowns merge ' from their chalky masks and answer roll call by name and character. Thus when we go to the circus we have the sense of greeting: old friends. When they leap or ride or growl or flap paddle feet we hail the achieve- ments of what almost seem to be home folk. j , Reassured by accounts of person ally wholesome riving the whple circus atmosphere takes on s new attractiveness. ; ; I It is altogether the most forward, step in show publicity since pie days ;of Barnum. But one csjn't help surmising that the. bright idea was born in reaction to the affairs at Hollywood. CLOSE CHURCHEjS AND SEE WHAT WOULD HAPPEN It Would Not Be Long Until the Peo ple Would Reppcn Them It Is the Only Organised Expressions of Faith That Man Is Some- f thing More Than the Physically Perishing. From the Chicaeo Ermine Post I Bernard Shaw recently expressed (the opinion that it would be a good thing to close up all the churches, "fhis Shavian view, put barely, will occasion small surprise, pernaps. Not a few people are talking today as if they thought churches had outlived tljieir useiuuiess ana migut as well be closed Many are acting as though they had been that is to say they are ignoring the open door to worship ; the xhiirch plays no conscious part in thsir lives. But Bernard Shaw did not leave his statement of opinion without elabora tion, and the significance of it lie; in the reason he gave for it. j . - t If all the churches were to be cloied, he said, in substance, it would noti be long until the people felt the need Jfor them so intensely that they would de mand their reopening. This is string testimony from an impartial observer to the essential importance of religiion for the individual and society. It is strong testimony to the need for some uigauieu emDouuneni ox me spiritual impulses and aspirations of men; scjme visible and audible reminder of dod. The remedy which Shaw proposes ifor indifference to tna church, and, Inci dentally, for the failure of the church to get at the cause of the indifference, and to adjust Itself effectively for its removal, is too drastic for adoption. But it would be a wholesome thjing for many people who now omit ithe church from the ordering of the week ly program, ana who think it has1 no value for their lives, if they would take a few minutes to reflect upon what the complete elimination of jthe church would mean to their com munity. How long would they care to live in a neighborhood where there was no voice raised for God? !' ' It would be not merely a matter! of losing the organised activities of wor ship and benevolence, the stimulated interest in things that make for de cency, security and .welfare this loss would be serious and soonest felt. But there would be a greater loss, less ob vious at first, but In . the long run tragic the loss of an influence upon life, even upon the life of the., nftn churchgoing and indifferent, which radiates from any group of men and women who believe sincerely in spirit ual values ; In those values which, jfor faith, arSttmmed up In God, and whichr experience has proved, can be conserved only as God retains soime hold upon human hearts. Remove !lhe center and source of this influence from a community and inevitably there will be a loosening of restraints, crumbling of standards, demoraliza tion of conduct. The sense of social responsibility will disappear. Unbridled selfishness will rule. Not long Will it be a happy or a safe community for anyone to live it. i And the church is the center and source of this influence. The man who passes Its open door on a Sunday, pff with the family tor an all-day outing in the car, or swinging light-heartedly toward the golf links for his 18 holes. Is the beneficiary of this influence. He and his family profit by it in scores of ways. The very building. which he may never enter, reminds htm of Interests and obligations whlfh. m nis heart, ne knows to te vital i to his happiness and peace. It Is rather dishonest to accept all that the influence of the church means in the community's life and give 'no service to it. ! It is stupid to r indifferent to ;its message when your soul tells you-f-if youf let It speak that you need the great fact with which it is supremely concerned. Granted that the church speaks haltingly and imperfectly ! of God ; granted that"1 its adherents have failed too often ato relate their faith In God to life : still it remains true that. with all shortcomings, the church main tains in the community tne only or ganized expression of faith that man is something more than the physically perishing, and that life is something bigger than the senses can measure. From that faith has come the best j of our inheritance In this America we love. It is the Imperishable essence J of every ideal and Institution of liberty and justice we possess. j Polk County Is Not Lawless i Moonshine Tragedy Could Have Been Averted If County Authorities f Had Been Advised. From Polk County Itemizer. t "Statements emanating mainly frim the office of Federal Prohibition Of ficer Linville and given publicity through the Portland and Salem news papers as a result of the tragedy at Grand Ronde Sunday morning, do Pplk county a rank injustice. One unfa miliar with the true situation would be led to believe this county was fh dampest and most lawless in the whple state. Quite the contrary Is true. Peo ple in a position to observe conditions here and elsewhere know that Polk county Is one of the cleanest. If not the cleanest county 1h the state in the mat ter of law violation of all kinds, ajnd particularly as regards the state and federal liquor laws. Without exception there is no sheriff in Oregon who has been more energetic or conscientious in enforcing the prohibition laws than John Orr. Moonshiners and bootleggers themselves will testify to that effect. Up to the present instance Polk coun ty has not had a murder case to try la more than eight years. Few crim inal cases of any kind are ever 'on tae circuit court docket and many terms of court go by without the grand Jury being called. The county jail; is eft en vacant for months at a time.! It is not to bm denied, however, that some moonshining and bootlegging; Is carried on in this county, but whenever Information sufficient to warrant ac tion is placed in the hands of the offi cers they act promptly and without hesitation. The courts of the county invariably cooperate with the officers and impose stiff sentences on convicied Tiolatora , No class of people are quicker, gen erally, to criticise the officers of a city or muntr for laxity ta lav eni forcemeat than what is known aa the "church element," Criticism of Sheriff Orr or the other ofifcers of, this county ?, for c not doing their duty Is - seldom.nard - from ; any f of these people. ; To' the contrary, the. fol lowing statement from the ministers of this city showa the .esteem in which Polk county's sheriff is held by them: We,, the undersigned pastors of the erangeUcal churches of Dallas, resent the recently published .statements that reflect upon law enforcement In pollc county. We consider Sheriff John W. Orr and his deputies efficient officers and conscientious in their efforts tc keep moonshining, bootleggings, gambling and other forms of vice at e minimum In Polk county. -(Signed) REVA. L. LONSBERRY. Pastor Evangelical Church. C. F. TRIMBLE Minister Christian Church. JOffK E. YOUEL. Pastor Presbyterian Church. FRANK JAMES. Pastor Methodist Church. In connection with the alleged vio lations of the liquor laws In the vicinity of Grand Ronde. it should be remem bered that that town lies close to the Polk-Yamhill county line. In fact, old Grand Ronde is in Yamhill and new Grand Ronde Is In Polk. Had Dr. LinvilW and hia officers seen fit to consult with Sheriff Orr and had Invited his cooperation In cleaning up the "awful conditions' al leged -4t have existed In this county. Instead of trying to take all the glory to themselves there would have been no fatal ahootlns at Grand Ronde. Officers dealine with Indians should know Indians and thei local conditions that mirrrmrul them. Letters From the People Commun'cations sent to The Journal tor publication in this department should, be writ ten on only one aida of the paper, should not exceed S00 words in lencth. and must be aicned by the writer, whose mail addreaa in full must accompany the contribution. HOLLADAT SCHOOL Director Woodward Argues for a Two Story Building. Portland, Sept. 7. -To the Editor of The Journal Editorial statements in a morning paper say : "One story school buildings are cheaper, they look better, they' are more up to date in every a-espect and there is far ieiss danger to Ithe children if fire should preait cut." Is this true? With the sime number of rooms, same material, lt;is manifest a one story building requires twice the area, twice the roof space and where land -is expensive the increased cost on this ecore becomes a heavy item, which six members of the school board have In mind for the sake of the children as well as the taxpayers. There is no fire hazard as to the pro posed Holladay school. The heating plant is apart from the building and construction will be of the slow burn ing type. The writer shares with other members of the school board a Wish for completely fireproof buildings. This, however, in view of the present state of our finances, W'H have t be laid aside for a type absolutely safe in a two-story building. A morning pa per alleges bad faith on the part of the school board. To place a cheap shaek. building in a residential neigh borhood would be the . height of bad fafth to taxpayeis and parents alike. To spread a one-story building over valuable ground rather than condense into a two-story structure would be another obvious blunder. Director Shull in an interview' has stated that Holla day is a decadent district. This is not so. The Holladay school had last year some 500 children and the district is steadily growing. The committee of which Mr. Shull was chairman last year recommended a 15-room build ing, inadequate to properly house the children In that section. The board will not construct a building which will be jammed from . the day that it is opened. A group seeking to prevent the erection of a new building is acting unfairly in this matter and proposing impossible substitutes. One, that the present Holladay park site shall be used, as though the city would. If it legally could, give up the one park in this district for school purposes or convert it into a playground. The school board, without a dissenting vote, Is committed to the creation of a suit able site for the Holladay school, in volving the vacation of two intersect ing streets, giving an area of approx imately five acres. The constructive plan of the board has now been held up, parents "are exasperated and the children of that section suffering by reason of selfishness of those who are seeking to block the board. The "pro gram set out by the school board in its pamphlet of May makes clear that changes from time 'to time will no doubt be necessary and every member of the school board knows tins. William F. Woodward, Director. PUBLIC SAFETY ENDANGERED Portland, Or., Sept. 7. To The Edi tor of The Journal There Is a dan gerous condition existing in some of the office buildings of tne city, where there are courts or open spaces sur rounded by railing far loo low for pub lic safety. In one building, for ex ample, a low railing reaching but little above "the average man's knees Is all that prevents a person falling eight stories straight down to certain death. In Chicago some years ago the Ma conic Temple, which was built on the same plan with an open court in the centre and nothing but a low railing around it, proved to be so attractive to suicides that ail buildings of that kind were forced to place strong metal nets across the court at intervals ot every few floors so that any one fall ing or clirrjping over the railing which surrounded the court would not be killed, in many buildings the shafts around which tne stairways are built are open and unprotected for a dozen or mure stories. It is a well known tact that persons looking down from a great height are mors or less affected oy dizziness and liable to lose their balance. It seems to be the custom to lock the stable door after the horse is stolen, if it all ; and perhaps after someone falls down one of these un protected shafts and is killed, the public will wake up to the danger and demand an ordinance forcing building owners to enclose such shafts or courts with high fences and railing and other safety precautions. These are just as dangerous as elevator shafts. Recent ly three boys were drowned when a car backed off the St, Johns ferry because some employes were apparently too lazy to close the safety gates. I use the Sellwood ferry frequently and 1 see that those gates are still left open. They cost money and would serve a good purpose if closed while the boat is in motion, at least. Must we wait for another drowning before the city employes will at least make use of what safety appliances they are fur nished with? It would cost no more to shut the safety gates than to leave them unused. J. E. -Harvey. DISGRACEFUL MARKET ROAD Portland, Sept, 8. To the Editor of The Journal Could you be Interested and helpful in obtaining a three-inch paved road where all the produce is brought to the city? We,; the r truck drivers, are not allowed to use the.Ter willlger boulevard, but must take the Slavin road, which the county patches up occasionally tb keep us guessing. It is. a disgrace, to the city."' We pay taxes and they as us to vote for the tanr. I hope that not an owner of s truck, nor a driver . will vote, for the fair until that road is promised to be caved. All summer we were blinded jarith dust., animals are bruised, milk churned, wood shaken off, and the next man left to pick it up-end this is the main truck road in the elty lim its. A fine county road! Will you please give "it your attention, "The past county coromlosion was useless to approach. Help the laborer and food giver with a good road. - H. Summers". ' COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE What a peaceful old world this would be if-it wasn't inhabited. St. Joseph News Press. m a Ford av lie ts not "bluffing." Henry will have to shut down -or shut up. Co lumbia, S. C, State. And now it seems a receivership is "The Only Way" for the Chicago & Alton. Philadelphia Record. . Italy has hired ' an American rain maker who may turn out to be only an American money-maker. Ann Arbor Times News. The meek may Inherit the earth, but the rent they now pay would indicate that they are buying it on the Install ment plan. Indianapolis Star. "Sympathy Blamed for Crime In crease." And charity Is the cause of poverty. Can you name the other Feven desdly virtues? St, Paul Dispatch. A Canadian committed suicide by cutting his throat, shooting and bang ing himself. There's a hint for the die hards. Little Rock Arkansas Gazette. Girls in Montreal have formed a No-Longer-Skirt league.' Does this mean that skirts will be no longer, or that skirts will no longer be? Worcester Gazette. a . Manufacturers announce many new creations in synthetic fur, but the pub lic is conserving its enthusiasm for the appearance of the first synthetic glowing ember. Detroit News. A Wichita woman, sued for . divorce, lost her husband but retained custody of the family radio set. Looks lik tough luck for tho husband to lose all his broadcasting appliances at one blow. Kansas City Star. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL m - Random Observations About Town Among recent arrivals from east of the Cascades are Mr. and Mrs. J- F Johnson of Pendleton. Harry K. Frltschman, a real estate and bond broker of Boise, Idaho, la among the guests of the Multnomah. John Tail, the laundryman of As toria, la transacting business in Port land. ... Thomas B. Kay ot Salem was a Portland visitor Friday. Denton G. Burdick of Redmond Is among out of town visitors. ... Among out of town visitors is W. G. Hedln of Wapinitia.. . Charles Snyder of North Bend is transacting business in Portland. ... Dr. A. M. Knapp of Grants Pass Is visiting in Portland..- A. S. Hunt of Vale is among out of town visitors. W. E. Willns of Condon it the sights of the metropolis. taking in Another Portland visitor from Con don is Ralph Bennett. i Transacting business In Portland is H. Shelley of Bend. . . Mrs. Joseph Carty and daughters of Heppner are guests of the Imperial. -... Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Douglas of La Grande are visiting in Portland. Transacting business in Portland is H. E. Boesch of Forest Grove. Mr. and Mrs. 3. A. Rankin of As toria are among put of town visitors. L. V. Rex of Eugene was among the arrivals of Friday.. G. W. Perry of Condon is among visitors from Gilliam county. Among visitors in Portland is W. J. Kerr of Corvallis. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Mrs. Flarel continues the atory of her hus band. Captain Ueoree Flarel. who played a prominent jrt in the upbuilding of Astoria and navigation at the month of the Columbia.' Captain George Flax'el was a man who could master fate. Other men had equal -opportunities but he made the most of his and bent conditions to his profit. The making of money is no test of good citizenship, very often it is the exact reverse. In spite of 'the fact that Captain Flavel left an estate valued very conservatively . at $1,S00, 000, you will always hear him spoken of aa a straight hard-fighting, hard- iworking man. -1 visited xurs. i? lavei rfecently at her horn in Astoria and she told me of her husband and of his part in the upbuilding of Astoria. It is a rather stranga fact that the very men who clamored the loudest about Captain Flavel being like a medieval baron who exacted tribute of everyone who came up the river were the ones who wanted htm tb resume his service on the bar after he had retired. . . - Captain Flavel was born in Norfolk, Va. When he was still a very young man he came to the Pacific coast inl command of the Petty, anchoring In the stream off the little village of Portland where he disposed of his cargo and sailed for San Francisco. After try ing his luck In the mines, he returned to San Francisco and was given com mand of the Gollah and ran between San Francisco and Sacramento. In 1850 he signed on as mate and pilot of the famous old Goldhunter: Lot Whltcomb of Milwaukie had launched the Lot Whitcombi on Christmas day. 1850. She was owned by Lot Whltcomb, Berryman Jennings and -S- S. Whrte,J.iumDiai river bar wa that he was. not J. C. Ainsworth was her captain and Jacob Kamm her engineer. The. Lot Whitcomb refuse to recognize Port land, going by with a derisive toot, so the proprietors of the townslte of Port land bought the Goldhunter so that the town of Milwaukie would not outstrip Portland. Stephen Coffin-, Lownsdale and Chapman, with others in Portland, put up the money for the purchase of the Goldhunter, which plied between Portland and San Francisco. Later the Goldhunter was taken over by the government and renamed the Active and used In surveying Shoalwater Bay and Grays Harbor- She was also used to land troops- on San Juan Island when Captain Pickett of the United States army was defying the British to land. Later she was purchased by Ben Holladay. She was .wrecked in a fog on June 5, 1S?, on a rock south of Cape Mendocino. The first American steamer to come ia over the Columbia bar was the Caroline, which came la over the bar In June, 1850, -and was followed a few weeks later by the Goldhunter. While Captain Flavel was mate and pilot of; the Goldhunter he was given a branch license by the Ter ritory of Oregon the first pilot's license issued by the Territory of Ore gon to a. Columbia- river, pilot. In 1851 Captain Flavel made several tripe on the -Goldhunter between Port A REFORMER ' From the WaahinaTtim Man "Are you in favor of civil service re form r ; "1 am." replied Senator Sorghum. "IA want it reformed In a manner that won't make it so difficult to get good situations for, some, of rnjr. worthy frlendv ... ,'.- NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS A Portland woman cbraplaifts that her husband , s a human iceberg. Strange that so many couples reach that glacial period of matrimony. Eu gene Register. Taxpayers remind us of game fish. They put up an excellent fight.--but they start it after swallowing the hook. Medford Mail-Tribune. j. a If somebody could only figure' out a way by which that" bonus would be paid by the war profiteers, there wouldn't be any trouble about It. Al bany Democrat. ; Again Stefansson strikes' a blow at Arctic romance. He says the -age Of exploration is over in those parts, and the age of commercial development at hand. Where can a poor explorer go from here? L Grande Observer. . This Is the month of state and coun ty fairs, roundups and various other amusements for the populace.- And it will not be long before some fellow will start the buy early propaganda for Christmas. Roseburg News-Review. Figures from the department of com merce show : that Oregon ranks fifth among all the states in length of life ; in the words of Governor Withycombe. "Oregon is a great state." The people not only live long but they usually live comfortably and that is one reason for longevity. Pendleton East Oregonian. e They are trying" to have a gasoline tax of 1 cent a gallon declared uncon stitutional up in Washington. Down here in Oregon a & cent tax is never Questioned, because we've trot so inured to being taxed .from every angle that It is accepted as a matter of course. Eugene Guard. Dr. and, Mrs. F. E. Boyden of Pendle ton are among the guests of the Port land. Among out of town visitors are Dr. M. O. Reeves and family of Walla Walla. Astoria, citizens spending Friday In Portland Included B. F. Stone and R. D. Pinneo. ... Herbert P. Welch of Lakeview is among out of town visitors. ( Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Perkins of Baker are among recent arrivals in Portland. Sanford Adler of Baker Is registered at the Imperial. S. Jacobs of Klamath Falls trans acting some business in Portland." " 1 Among out of town visitors is H. G. Euders of Ashland. Fred C. Peil of Corvallis is among recent arrivals from the "country. . , Among out of town visitors is J. E. Nelson of Hillsboro. R. C. Magareil of Tillamook is trans acting business in Portland. Coming to Portland on business' Fri day was E. Large of Eugene. Mr. and Mrs. H. R, Kirkpatrick of Lebanon are visiting in Portland. Among out of- town visitors are O. C. Henkle and family of Bend. - f R. Neal of Dufur is registered at one of the leading hotels. ' James E. Smith of Bend is among out of town visitors.- . Mr. and Mrs C. E. Clifford of Al bany are visiting In Portland. - e Alfred C. Schmitt of Albany is a Portland visitor. a S. S. Snodgrass of La Grande is vis iting In Portland. Lockley land and San-Francisco shortly before she was sold at Tehuantepec and taken off the Portland run. "When 1 first saw Captain Flavel he was In command of the Goliah," said Mrs. Flavel "He boarded at our hotel and boarding house here In As toria. I married him when I was 14 years old that was SS years ago. After the Goldhunter wa's sold he bought the schooner California which was lying In the Golden Gate and brought her to Astoria for use as a pilot boat. He was a good organizer and soon had a monopoly of the bar pilotage. He and Mr.wA.iken built, a sawmill but if proved an unprofitable venture so my hus band went down to San Francisco and secured the Halcyon which made him lots of money. He bought an Inter est In the Jane A FalkenbeFg and for two years was her captain. The pilot boat California was a good money maker. One after another w;ho started in opposition to my husband as bar pilots either sold out to him or aban doned the field as did, Paul Corno with his tug, the Rabboni. "In 1869 my hus band built the tug Astoria in accept ance of -the offer by the state to give a bonus of $30,000 to anyone who would maintain and operate a steam tug on the ar for a period of five years. For the next 20 year after building the Astoria my husband did almost' all the towing and piloting at the mouth of the Columbia. In 1887 my husband took In A. M. Simpson and to an extent retired from active participation on the water. '""- , "One ef the reasons why my husband mad a. success as a pilot on the Co. omy an aoia. navigator but he was .fearless and was willing to put ;out in any . sortof weather to assist vessels in need of help. Let me show you-what I mean.' Mrs. Flavel left the roam, re turning in a moment or so with a flat leather case which she handed me, say ing as she did so j "Open it and you will see what jC- mean." j opened the case and inside was a large' gold medal on which was engraved j, 'Presented by the citizens jpf Portland to Captain George Flavel -for hie praiseworthy exertion in rendering assistance "to the passengers and crew of the steamship General Warren, wrecked at the mouth of the Columbia on the 31st of January, 1852." On the reverse side of the medal was the picture of a whaleboat leav ing a sinking vessel with the words, "If I live I will return." "My husband, in addition to his tugs and his pilotage business, had a wharf and bought -coal from the ships that bad brought coal as ballast from Aus tralia and elsewhere.' This Coal busi ness proved quite profitable. With the profit- arising 'from his pilotage and towage business he invested in property here in Astoria which as the population of Astoria increased, became quite valu able. My husband died on July 3, 1833. Old time friends came from as far aa San Francisco to attend his funeral. THE NEWBERRY TYPE ' Frost the Waehiagtoa Star . . "Did you ever buy a vote?" "Jjever," replied ' Senator Sorghum. "But of course I am not In a position to cross-question my political friends as o--what they shall - do with their money." The . Oregon .Country Northwest Happens a w Uriel Form for the l Bsr fieader. . j" ' . OREGON - - The "tug" Sea Lion" left Astoria Tues- : day with the third Benson ocean-going log raft. Its destination is San Diego . A unit bf "Lbs Sodete 48 Hommrt et t Cheveaux," the American Legion playground, was organized at Marsh-. field last Saturday. ? ; , Half an inch of rain fell In the upper Willamette valley Monday, ben efiting the apple crop, but causing some damage to prunes. Expenditures in excess -of 110.000. ' will be made this fall in the improve- ment of the Santia-m toll road over ti Cascades from White City to Sister The Oregon supreme court now Is practically a year behind la the con- i sideration of appealed cases, according f to announcement made at Salem Wed- i nesday. Sponteneous ignition of celluloid goods in a show case caused a fire at ' Bend which destroyed the stocks of the Woman's Exchange and of the -Riverside florists. , Esther, -12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. Collamer, was seriously injured at flood River when a dyna mite cartridge with which she was playing exploded in her hand. The ExiRlewood White Cedar comm. ny mill at Englewood, in Coos county, a new concern, started sawing spruce Tuesday, the Initial order being luti.wx) feet for customers on the Atlantic coast. The last strip of land was procured for the Pacific highway right of way into Harrisburg Wednesday wheft the city council purchased for $1500 a pleca about 1000 feet long through the Sher-. Ill tract. I William F. Eberhard of McMinnville was elected president of the Oregon Rural Letter Carriers association - at a state convention held let Salem Mon day. The-1923 convention will be held In Portland. The Ocean Lumber company, of -San Francisco and Seattle, fcxtensive lum ber exporters, has selected the Astoria municipal termtnabas the assembly point for its lumocr cargoes on the Pacific coast. WASHINGTON Six violent deaths were reported to the coroner at Seattle during the 24 hour period ending Monday morning. The 1921 assessed valuation of Walla Walla county was $39,219,954. This has been reduced this year to $36,173,-' 16. Total value of the crop on the Sun r.yside irrigation project last year was $i,7S7.000, an average value per acre of $96.65. More than 400 carloads of "prunes have been shipped from the .Walla Walla district since the opening of the prune shipping season. , ' Two hundred and fifty men and 138 teams on the Spokane county bonded highways have complete- road work amounting to $109,415 during the last month. Judge C. G. Austin, Civil war vet eran, and a resident of the state of Washington Tor morrf than 45 years, is a candidate for justice of the peace at Seattle. The $750,000 block of Spokane county road bonds were sold at par last week to the Vermont Loan Sc. Trust company and the Seattle National'bank on a bid of 4.65 per cent interest. Arthur W. Dodwell, the only candi date for the office of county assessor, died at South Bend last week, and Miles H. Leach,- chief deputy in the office, will run as a "sticker" candi date. ' A boat with a $10,000 cargo of Cana dian liquor was captured at- Ilwaco recently by Pacific county, officers and two men were arrested -after a spectacular fight on the deck of the boat. . Trial of J. E. Chilbenr. former presi dent of the Scandinavian-American bank of Seattle,-on the charge of bor rowing funds without authority from the dlrectors,-Is set for September 18 in the King county court. - . IDAHO The budget adopted by the directors of the Caldwell schools this year is $12,000 under that of last year. v The Payette Valley Pioneer associa tion held lt annual picnic at Emmett Sunday, with 200 present," none of whom had lived in Idaho less than 3a years." " . Movement of potatoes from 1 Idaho has practically ceased, farmers claim ing that the cost of taking them out of the ground is more than they can get for them. Inspection of Idaho's fruit crop for this year-;tarted Tuesday, when the first car of prunes to be picked from the Payette-Weiser section received the approval of a state inspector. Carl Edward Johnso, driving. In a buggy with his two children, 3 -and 6 years of age, was killed by lightning Saturday evening . at Indian Cove. . about 25 miles from Mountain Home. Neither of the children was harmed. Twenty Years Ago ... From The "Journal of Sept. , 1902. At the Elks' carnival tonight there win be a . double wedding ceremony performed In the presence of the queen. The throne will -be gorgeeusly decor ated and many people will be present to witness the . event- Dallas and Falls City have succeeded in their efforts for a railroad, for which negotiations have for some time been conducted with Mr. L. Gerllnger ofthis city. The line will be 13 miles la length, from Dallas to Falls City and extending to the timber east of the Siletz Indian reservation- A. L. Belding, triple murderer, is on trial for his . life in the criminal' department of the state circuit court. Eight JurOrs have been obtained out of 19 examined. - v a a Mayor Williams la received a letter from Herman Terwadow In which he claims that in driving over the bridge near the Eastern Lumber company s mill his 'horse fell through and was injured to the extent of $75. Extensive alterations have been.com- : pleted ' to the Meunt Tabor school building on West avenue and the Base Line road. The building has been-. en tirely -renovated and put in shape for the coming term, opening Monday, t So far $80,149.25 of the first Install ment of the Lewis and Clark fair stock has been paid in. This leaves a bal ance of $8841.25, which is coming in very slowly. - - Ira F. Powea-s, the prominent furni ture manufacturer of this ctty. died . yesterday at his home on Second street ': from valvular heart trouble, from ' which he has suffered for tht past six months.. ' - -- - . A Southern Paeiflo railroad official. . , recently returned from Astoria, says that they -are. shipping" salmon from : that place at the rate of 25 carloads per day. f--;: . . - . a a a" . - j-.-'rf 1ST. and Mrs. Leon Cohen of Pendle- - -ton are at the' Hotel Portland, r after -several days spent at Tacoma. "They will probably remain here for the bal ance of the week. - 4- , r..:" - " Dry and pleasant- weather has . pre vailed throughout the state during the past week. "-nireshliTg is now practical- it comcietea in ail nut a law n"-itnn Grain yields tn the western' part of the . i i-e .v - a va a v w a oa va osav c v J tuh IU the eastern portion it is "believed the yield will be uo to th Herare. Han ' ntnlrfnar will awwin r, - rn.in r-.- - potatoes, gardens, .pastures and field onions are badly in need of rain. Late fruit is making, satisfactory advance ment. -'- .