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GUILTY AS CHARGED
OME of the railroads are moving
for peace with their shopmen,
e Baltimore & Ohio, one of the
ost important roads in America,
S one. Its president is Daniel
JCVUlard. one of the best and squar
est railroad heads in the country.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
tine ia another.
1 The minority group of roads
panted to settle before. But they
jwer outvoted by the hard-boils.
1 Irt the attitude of the two groups
you have' tbe explanation :of why
there is a railroad strike. T If the
minority group can afford peace on
jthe .proposed plan,, the irreconcil-
Dies could afford it. If it is a good
ace Tor the Baltimore & Ohio,
t . Would be a good peart for the
ar-mad lines that are standing
lit tnr mora ntrlV-A ri n r r.rc
, - .. . ... . M.V. V. WVCh V,
more waste. "VVhat do they care
aout-cost and waste,--since the
public will ultimately be forced to
"ay,- on the principle f a guaran
teed "fair return" on the: invest-
fment.
The fact that the peace group Is
radical lv acccdinr to th tarmm
lot the shopmen is proof that they
lare justifiable terms. The fact that
jthey are breaking away from the
fhard-boils to make peace a very
'difficult thing under the circum
! stances to do shows peace and an
honorable peace could have been
made long but for the uncom
promising attitude of - the hard
bofts. -
r; And here is "the Union Pacific
paying its strikebreakers 2 to 22
cents an hour more than the labor
board fixed. That is another proof
that the demand of the striking
shopmen were perfectly reasonable.
Ifnot, why is the Union Pacific
granting the increase?
Tou have in this strike as the
maneuvers of the railroads go on,
Sv.very good example of how in
fluence and insignia and pedigree
and sometimes even government
functionaries, hasten to the support
of";the powerful against the hum
bler elements in industrial strife.
The y Justice of the cause or the
right and wrong of the. Issue means
nothing to the shoddies who ap
praia respectability by the length
of its purse and determine questions
byrtfc rank or no-rank in the so-
I clat whirl.
(The Increased wages -cover those
offered the striking shopmen by the
I Union Pacific is a plea of guilty.
I Ths j peace: moves by the minority
But laU along, ultra - respectability
and smart sets and the pompous
ahd the pedigreed have sat at the
feet of the hard -boils and licked
the boots of the roads. .
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STILL. UNFITS
'T'HERE has been stron g cri t lei sm
? among veterans' organizations of
) the treatment received by disabled
raeni In the government hospitals.
Various representations have , been
5 r&adte as to the ill-treatment meted
1 out to- ex-service men, and almost
1 as rapidly as the , representations
are (made, new. cases of brutality
, become public' , i r
t There havs been . several such
rases recently. Two attendants
vre" found beating a disabled sol
.1 er in .an Eastern hospital. : The
ytlairaa was found with "a broken
TZ r
wrist anoT Tibs. . fot Ions before,
an attendant was in peril 'of lynch
ing for a. brutal attack on. a help
less .veteran. Tbe episodes seem
to follow onv upon the other.
The war has . been over , for al
most four years. Certainly in that
time, it should have been possible
to build up an organization that
could provide against such bru
tality. Incompetent and unfit at
tendants should have been removed,
and replaced with people profes
sionally and temperamentally fitted
for the work. Other troublesome
conditions should have been reme
died. Very large sums of money are be
ing spent to caryfor the disabled
soldiers. This money should pro
vfte proper care and comfort. If
those who are responsible for the
expenditures and the working of
the organization cannot eliminate
the' attacks and discomforts the
public should know why.
The salmon fishing tourney off
the mouth of the Columbia will
doubtless prove to . be a thrilling
success if the tourists don't get sea
sick. - ' v
OVERLOADING THE WAGON.
IN fighting the proposed censor
ship on ' literature George Creel,
noted writer andhead of the com
mittee on' public Information dur
ing the war, points out that addi
tional .laws have become a passion
in America until the nation threat
ens to be inundated under a flood
of superfluous statutes. He says:
There is no single possible human
offense that is not now blanketed by
a thousand and one statutes and ordi
nances, yet every day sees new thou
sands poured into the busy hoppers
of city councils, state legislatures and.
congress. The hour is counted lost
that does not see the creation of new
laws and new bodiea with new powers.
Control is more and more passing
from the hands of the people into those
of cliques.
There can be no question of the
truth of Mr. Creel's statements.
There can be no question as to the
maze of law that is being built up
to bear down upon the people of the
country and their every act. Few
laws are repealed, but every city
council each year adds scores of
new ordinances, every legislature
turns out its immense product of
laws, and congress year after year
enacts statute after statute for the
regulation of people and people's
lives.
Ignorance of the law is no de
fense. But what layman can pos
sibly keep pace with the mul
tiplication of laws that he is
supposed to "know and respect?
Soon it will be necessary for every
individual to have with him at all
times a criminal lawyer, a civil
lawyer, a corporation lawyer, a pat
ent la-ef, an admiralty lawyer,
and a law library approaching
that "of Blackstone.
Would it not be possible to find
men to send to city councils, state
legislatures,'', congress who could
get along, without introducing 100
new bills 7f Would it not be pos
sible to do away with some of the
old and needless laws; and to create
only such additional regulation as
is acutely essential?
The . Salem incident opens the
door to a great new alibi. Convince
the speed cop that you are his boy
hood friend and you can laugh at
30 miles an hour.
FROM THE GRAVE'S EDGE
THERE had been cannibalism and
eating of corpses. The horses
had all been consumed to satisfy
hunger's pangs. Children had been
carried to neighboring towns and
abandoned. All sorts of horrible
things had been used for food.
Then one day there came to the
village of Takooshki in Russia word
that a shipment of American grain
had arrived at Melekes, 15 versts
away. But it was suggested the
people mYakooshki could not be
helped. . There were no horses to
haul the food. The people, starv
ing for months, would be too weak
to walk the distance, much less
carry their allotment.
But the energy of the desperate
was underestimated. Old women
and little children all in the little
village who could move started
to walk to Melekes. When they
arrived the men shouldered amaz
ing loads. The feeble took on burr
dens that strength normally would
grumble Sunder. . The children car
ried bags of flour. The whole allot
ment for Takooshki village was
carried in a day. Then . from the
land of sadness and death, where
American generosity had reintro
duced life and a comparative hap
piness, came this doxology to the
American ' people:
Great land, great people.
Greetings -to you from ths edge of the
.grave;
Only in you we. found our savior.
And at the edge of the grave you saved
Are these grocery store, home
and ballot box rpbberies all being
done by the same gang?
TALLYING THE TOURISTS
LIKE migrating bird that hear
the north's chill-noted warn
ing, motor tourists that all the
summer months through have con
gested Northwest highways and by
ways are turning homeward, i
Thelong procession-on the Pa
cific or the Columbia river high
way shows no break, but the Texas
car will be seen headed southward,
the Ohio car eastward, and- so on
down the long catalogue pt vari-.
colored license lags. '-'
Friendly statisticians whl : now
busy themselves." They will reduce
the number ,of visiting motor
parties to certain hundreds of
thousands. :-.,T1ey.; will, estimate the
millions in. dollars "by : which pre
gon is richer, for. the visitors, hav
ing 'come, including the 'very "con
siderable sum which"' Calif ornlans
received from winter tourists ; and
spent here summer touring.
But statistics cats tell only a part,
perhaps the least important part,
of the story. What a great social
intermingling , and leavening must
inevitably result from" the 'new but
exceedingly general form "of f'tour
ing! . What exchange of Informa
tion and consequent broadening of
viewpoint must. '..follow, roadside
meetings! How 'much provincial
ism, not only of the East but of the
West, must diminish! ; How greatly
must sympatify and understanding
increase among people represent
ing the nation's climatio and geo
graphic divisions as each sees
where, how .and why his fellow
citizens exist! How much more
easily should an all-city, interstate
system of road courtesy and high
way regulation be promoted and
accomplished! "
It is a thought the more assur
ing because based on substantial
fact that by reason of the season's
motor travel vastly increased dis
semination of- information about
Oregon will occur. The return
trail blazed by motorists will be
followed again not only by those
who "first came, Jnt by those to
whom they described opportunities
for "life, liberty and the pursuit of
happiness" in the virile Northwest.
- In 1913, we called a hydroplane
a "flying boat." What will we be
Calling a radiophone in 1934?
IT PAYS
THE Pennsylvania railroad oper
ated 1,400,000 trains over 11,000
miles of road last year without
killing a single passenger. In that
time, 152,000,000 people traveled
on Pennsylvania trains.
It is a remarkable record, attain
able only by the strictest recogni
tion of -eafety rules and personal
caution - among thousands upon
thousands of employes. Pne email
defect in a track. or piece of equip
ment may result in a wreck fatal
to scores of passengers. One viola
tion of a safety rule might take
a big toll of life. One single mo
ment of carelessness on the part .of
one employe could result in a dis
aster. The record means a great deal to
the Pennsylvania railroad. It
saves thousands of dollars in suits
and litigation. It places the road
in an extremely favorable light to
the traveling public. And it sets an
example that ' other roads will
strive to emulate in order to se
cure the patronage of people who
desire to travel in safety.
The record of the road is in
strong contrast with the . tremen
dous toll taken at grade crossings.
Nearly 7000 people were killed and
injured in .crossing accidents dur
ing .1921. " This year he fatalities
promise to mount even higher.
The Perfniylvania road avoided
the tolls on" finance arid life be
cause every precaution "was taken
to eliminate' . accidents, - Motorists
could by the same means greatly
reduce the injuries and s killings at
crossings. It pays. - 'l;f
Moonshine and murder are much
more than -mere-alliteration.
RISK OF THE ROAD
CAMPAIGNS against yellow fever,
. tuberculosis, typhoid fever and
typhus have won ground. But au
tomobile accident campaigns have
not. Twelve thousand lives Will be
the automobile accident death toll
this year at the present rate. . This
is a ihousand more than a year ago.
Property damage due to automobile
accidents is in the 'neighborhood of
a billion dollars a year.
There is a careful crossing cam
paign which pledges motorists to
make a full stop before crossing
any railroad. . ' ,
There is an automobile courtesy
campaign which invites motorists
to abstain from country road rac
ing and to go a little farther than
obey the rules of the road.
There is a uniform hand signal
campaign which has' as its objec
tive universal turning and stopping
signals.
There is an anti-headlight glare
campaign designed to persuade au
tomobile owners to soften the rays
of their headlights.
But 30 lives a day is the penalty
which fate imposes upon automo
bilists as penalty for their sins
against safety, according to the rec
ords of the National Safety council.
America fights disease and wins.
Oregon solves problems of govern
ment. Portland. .Wins;1 reforms in
public interest. But nation, state
and city stand appalled, apparently
hopeless, in the presence of the red
trail of motor accidents.
WlmfcJs to be done about it?
Curb the heedless? Punish the
reckless? Impose fines? Deprive
old offenders of their right to
drive? Yes, all this and more.
There is a class of drivers who
heighten the hazard of every motor
Jaunt. . .They crowd cars off the
right of way. They speed where
the road is narrow . and traffic
dense. They strike down pedes
trians and rush on their way with
out giving aid.' They Jest at law.
They rob automobiling of its Joy:
They tend to transform! motor trav
eling into a; grim' gamble.
Of such drivers the president of
the American Automobile associa
tion says, "Jail sentences are the
only argument this class listens to."
Why not, then, start a nation
wide jail sentence campaign ?
"' OR EVEN FRESHMEN'S t
From - the Chattanocra Xewa
The people would rejoice if they were
conceded even Juniority rights.
SO HE TAKES BOTH
Frora the .NarfSTille Tenneaeeeaji
T:A Toad hog, cea'tjdecide which "half
of the road he wants to use.- -,
COMMENT OF THE
STATE PRESS :
Highway Officials Told That Oregon
Needs Permanent Settlers as Well
as Tourists-i The Passing of He
roes sad Heroines The Novem
ber Election and the 1925 Fair
. . Wonderful Resources of
the Umpqua Valley.
Pendleton East Oregonlan : There
are many angles to the tourist busi
ness sad some' features are being over
loelced.by enthusiasts who would run
wttdfeyer the idea of concentrating
all funds upon main tourist roads to
the nnglect of connecting roads and
regional roads of extreme importance
to farmers and businessmen.
The tourist who merely jazzes
through the state at 40 miles an hour,
bumping others off the road and stayk
ing overnight at a Portland hotel, is
of no great value to Oregon. He is
not worth : a E7 million dollar invest
ment. , What, Oregon needs and what
the Northwest needs is more people,
more development and more money.
We must adapt our tourist road policy
to such ends if we are to secure the
results wanted. j
At this time the state is building an
expensive east and west highway
through Central Oregor the John Day
highway and it has built an expen
sive cast and' west highway through
this region. But there is no north and
south road connecting the jtwo high
ways ? At a result, people who enter
Oregon via the Oregon prkXX or the
OregoYi-Washington highway find the
interior closed to them. 1 Those who
traverse Central Oregon oA the John
Day highway route f ind Jthemselves
shut off from our section. That causes
inconvenience and loss. . While that
situation continues much of our high
way investment will be wasted. It is
certain we will not get the results to
which we are entitled.
If our state highway officials are
wise -they will study the situation more
deeply than they have been doing.
They will give at least a little consider
ation to: our home people and they
will look to making the tourist policy
build up the state through settlement.
They will not serve merely the tourist
who gets into the state and out again
as quickly as he can. If our highway
policy does not build up the state's
permanent population and does not
improve our basic industry, which ia
agriculture, ft will fail and sooner or
later there will be a house cleaning. ;
Baker Herald : The frequency with
which newspapers are called upon to
announce the passing of some aged
veteran of the Civil War or the death
of a pioneer who crossed to the Oregon
country In a prairie schooner over the
Old Oregon Trail Impresses us with
the thought of the rapid passing of
time : the rolling by of the years which
means the time is not far distant
when these people who have done so
much in the making of the history of
our nation and the upbuilding and de
velopment of our own immediate com
munity will have passed from among
us, having gone to their final reward, i
The history of the community is the
record of the work of these early pio
neers, as is the permanency of our
nation the monument to the heroism
of men who fought in the Civil war.
Thousands of these veterans following
the war eniigrated to the West and
took up with the other pioneers the
worit of building the West- Their work
for their country has been double.
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Bakerr Democrat : The paradoxical
situation" is presented the people of
Oregon of Portland heada and mem
bers of civic associations preparing
to tour the state to boost the 1925 fair
and at the same time being confronted
by an Initiative measure on the Novem
ber ballot that offers an obstruction, if
carried at the noils, that will make the
attempt to hold a 1925 fair ridiculous in
the extreme.
If the so-called leading citizens of
Portland really would have the fair: a
success they must first assure the
country that Oregon is against in
iquitous laws being placed on its stat
ute books and assurances given capi
tal that it will be safeguarded in its
Investments in this state.
It is silly to talk about a fair under
the present conditions confronting the
people of Oregon, thousands of whom
will pull tip stakes and go elsewhere
if radical, racial and religious laws
are to control its destiny.
The eyes of the nation, too, are upon
Oregon and the result of the Novem
ber election will be watched with in
terest. If Oregon comes out of the
dirty political mess in which she has
plunged, with clean hands, it will be a
glorious victory for progress. Otherwise-
the state will be shunned by all
right-thinking people, for they will
have nothing to do with a state that
offers no safeguard to legitimate in
vestment or to the peace of mind of
taw-abiding citizens,
Roseburg News-Review: One of
these days when Umpqua Valley people
arouse to the point of thorough ap
preciation of the wonderful climate
and boundless resources here, and the
facts are heralded to the world, there
will be an influx -of Easterners that
will rival the annual exodus from sec
tions, east of the Missouri river to the
Golden State. In addition to climatic
assets this county has big game
hunting, fishing, mountain, coast and
river resorts, scenic attractions that
rival a world field, and a class of
people who are mostly American born,
and In whose hearts lies a real wel
come, and not merely a greed for the
gold the traveler may bring-with him.
Nature has lavished her blessings in
the Umpqua valley, and these good
things the people now here will gladly
share with others who may come, i
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Polk County Itemizer: The state
bonus board h found from a pre
liminary examination of veterans'
bonus applications that the great ma
jority of men and women who enlisted
from ' this state for war , service re
turned to their old homes after being
discharged. Complete figures are hot
available, hut the comparison between
places of .enlistment .and present place
of abode, as shown by the records, will
prove- that Oregonlahs are convinced,
after seeing a great deal of the world,
that this is apretty geed state. It is
e video t that some of- those who went
from farming sections have gone into
the cities but even these cases are not
as numerous as expected. . The Wil
lamette valley especially seems to hold
its young men and women exceedingly
well: However, nearly every country
on. the ; globs : now is represented i on
the list of Oregon hoys to whom sol
diers bonuses have, been paid. Cor
respondence shows many, restless per
sons stiU are wandering,;.
' f. ' " ' t " u
Enterprise "' Record-Chieftain : Let
nobody. be discouraged;-" the dsyf of
Wallowa -county's best growth and 'de
velopment is almost at hand. This
is the day of small things, the day of
intensive labor and - production, j of
thrift, of work-every-day, of save-w&at-you
have and waste nothing, the day
of general and substantial prosperity.
Behind us lie the dreams of easy
money,: of bonanza farming and stock
raising, of . wwkiag iajix months Sand
loafing six months on grain farms, of
getting rich by epecsjation er by easy
profits of dicker and - trade. Behind
. us also - lie the disappointments - and
the failures which were "the offspring
of these unhealthy dreams. .
Think of it, Wallowa county, an ag
ricultural region, ships in hay and grain
in the spring to feed stock; ships-in
potatoes to feed its population ; ships
In fruit and vegetables the year around.
How can an agricultural . community
prosper under such conditions? It can
not buck such a game and Vget away
with if for any length of time, and it
has been making a poor attempt at
it long enough.
Imnaha produces fruit as fine as
that grown at LewUton. but has hard
ly any to sell to the uplands and towns.
Lost Pfairie raises vegetables and fruit
of most excellent quality and can get
them to market over almost level roads.
Many kinds of fruit and .vegetables can
be raised in the uplands, but nobody
has had time nor patience to - grow
them for a dozen years past. Pro
ducers in other counties gather in
the Wallowa county dollars for these
foods while the local people complain
that they are bard up and can get
no cash. J . f
A community, like an individual, has
its fortune in its own 'hands. No mat
ter how trite and old the '-saying, it
still is true . that intelligent industry
and . thrift will make' any man or
county prosperous.
La Grande Observer : One of the
best Indications of lumber prosperity
Is the little sawmill, which has been
dead so many years, now taking on
life. In the vicinity of La Grande
there are many such little chaps
which When lumber is good disburse a
lot of money for no one can run a
sawmill without handling lots of
money and these small 'concerns have
fire under their boilers and the scream
of the saw Is heard through the can
yons. All of this is fine, for every mill that
starts reflects its part of prosperity
on, the community. .
Letters From the- People
Communications sent to The Journal tor
publication in this department abould be writ
ten on only one side 'of tbe paper, aboold not
exceed 30O words in length, and must be
igned by the writer, whose mail address in
fall mnst accompany the contribution.
WHAT SINGLE TAX IS
Distinction Between Taxing Land and
Taxing Land Values. ,
Portland. Sept 5. To the Editor of
The Journal Our good neighbor C W.
M., who writes from Oregn City mak
ing inquiries regarding the proposed
single tax, is unwarrantedly alarmed
by a misapprehension of what the
taking of ground rent for public pur
poses really Is. If he has read the
many letters from advocates of the
principle he has apparently not yet
noticed the distinction between taxing
land and taking land values. He is
under the Impression that .those who
are not title holders to land pay no
taxes. There is not a human being
on the whole earth who has the least
social connection with his neighbor but
pays his share of taxes in some
form or other, and over 80 per cent of
us pay more than our share. Besides
keeping up the state through taxes on
the things we consume, we are paying
to landlords, anyway, what the advo
cates of single tax propose to take into
the public treasury. His reference to
the city folk who have good positions
seems to convey the idea that he views
that part of the salaried man's income
above what he pays for foodstuffs and
clothing produced by the farmer as
pure velvet. He seems to forget that
by the time much of the farmer's prod
ucts reach the maioritv of
it has received a good padding of taxesJ
ann mac no man can escape his need of
land, even though he be not a title
holder to a portion of it. He pays
more to the land speculators for the
privilege of remaining on the earth
than what the normal ground rent
would be to the state, besides the shove,
mentioned .taxes on things heV con-!
Bumesv - -xms doable taxation only re
duces the buying power of those who
are not locked out of employment by
the present system, so that the farm
er's products beg for would-be buyers
who cannot buy because too much of
their income is thus absorbed, and
others cannot buy because of enforced
idleness. Xt the same time we see
many idle acres and city industrial
sites held for speculation that would
give employment to the idle army.
The incentive for holding land idle for
speculation is the state's negligence in
exercising its right and duty to take
ground rent for public purposes. Both
Blackstone, the great legal light, and
Justice Miller of the U. S. supreme
court. 1887, teach this. If Brother C.
W. M or any others who are not clear
on the subject, wish it and will address
me at 816 Stock Exchange building,
Portland. Oregon, I will see that there
is mailed to them some facts of public
record regarding the land values in the
city of Portland, and why the owners
of the big city buildings gladly Join the
uninformed farmers and workers in
opposing the abolition of taxes on these
buildings. It Is money in their pockets
for the voters to only see the buildings
and not the value of the land they
stand on. C. a. McLemore-
DOES NOT UNDERSTAND
Portland, Sept. 6. To the Editor of
The Journal In The Oregon Journal
of September 5 appears a letter by a
person signed "C. W. M" This per
son ' admits he is a farmer, owning
his farm. He does Jiot understand the
purpose of single tax and writes in
a doubtful and critical way about these
wonderfully constructive measures
If C. W. M will take the trouble to
read the text of these single tax meas
ures we are to vote on next Novem
ber, he will learn that single tax is
intended to appropriate by taxation
all the rental value of the lands in
the state. If he has no copy of these
measures, let him apply to the sec
retary of state at Salem, who will
giaaiy mail him one, as he did to-l
sji or us.
If C. W. M. will also drop in at the
library nearest to where he lives, he
can doubtless obtain a copy of that
monumental work entitled "Progress
and Poverty." written by the original
discoverer of the great idea. He will
find in that book the same thing or
worse. In bis desire to criticize. C.
W. M. misses the beauty of the scheme.
Cannot he understand that when single
tax is put into effect he will be re
lieved of all further worries about
his land and its taxation? When the
state takes the full rental value. of his
farm it will after a time be borne
in upon him that, there is no use in
any further concern about the prop
erty. Even, If they should afterwards
attempt . to further Increase the tax
rate, he will be indifferent When a
fellow la on the ground he can't fall
any further. In that happy position
C W. M. will be in company with
all his fellow farmers, owners" of city
lots and other plutocrats. One of the
chief merits of the single tax scheme
is that It is expected to "T-elieve the
minds of such as C W. M. of unneces
sary worries, so that they can de
vote themselves to cultivating the soil
. - E. G. Hopson.
-'. . PRIVATE SCHOOLS
Why Many Parents Support and
Patronize Them.
Portland. Sept. . To the Editor of
The Journal I am a reader- of The
Journal, an American-born citizen and
a Catholic I wish to make a few re
marks in regard to our private schools,
la answer to C T.' Christian's letter
of -August SL. " -
.' Why do so many parents send their
children-to -private schools?
, .We send our children to private
schools to have imparted to thenv side-
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE ,
What a good old world this would be
Jlf no one lived in it,
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Fortunately no prises are Offered
for the lovelies njenv
If nations did trust one another it
would be more surrrising.
- The great family question now Is;
"Can he make the football team?"
Old age condemns the flapper, but
the flapper will get over it. Old age
will not-
The man who thinks he likes to work
Is probably misjudging his other mo
tives also.
. ?xt holiday will be Thanksgiv
ing Jf the railway strike is settled be
fore that time.
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. The real cause of divorce seems to
be that the two parties cannot stand
each other any Jongert
The man who talks much about how
poor he once was is merely calling
attention to how poor he now isn't.
The second chapter in Mr. Daugh
erty's thrilling industrial romance ends
with the "finding of the mysterious
JewelL"
MORE OR LESS PERSONAL
Random Observations About Town
Motoring down, from Boise Saturday
was a party composed of Mr. and Mrs.
J. L. Niday. Kathleen Niday,' Margaret
Klday and Elclse Brooklns. '
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Visitors from Spray are C. W. Walls
and family, L. H. Wilkes and Ruby
Steiwer. -
Dr. F.. W. Kellogg of Newport
among out of town visitors.
is
E. L. Olsen of Pendleton is visiting
in the metropolis.
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- Among out of town guests is C. "A.
McDermott of Grants Pass.
Mr." and Mrs. Madison Cooper of
Wasco are visiting in Portland.
W. C. Bolton of La Grande is among
those transacting business in Portland.
F. M. Painter of Coos Bay is among
out of town visitors.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred Lockley
"We were dreamers, dreaming gently, in the
man-stifled town.
We yearned beyond the skyline where the
strange roads go down.
Came the Whisper, came the Vision, came the
Power with the Need,
Till the Soul that ia not man's aoul was lent
u to lead."
Recently I, read an article about
vagabonds that set my feet to itching
for the feel of the road. Frederick
O'Brien, vagabond, soldier of fortune
and author of "Mystic Isles"' and of
"While Shadows in the South Seas," 'in
a recent article in the Mentor says:
"In the heart of man there is an in
stinctive urge to seek the unknown and
mysterious lands beyond the horizon.
Man's greatest and most enduring leg-
ends, songs and stories have been
about heroes who went beyond the
confines of the known, and brought
back tales of marvels they had seen
or dancers they had Survived. The
blind Homer chanting his wondrous
epic of the wanderings of Ulysses,
Virgil's inscribing on tablets the ex
alted narrative of Aeneas' hazards
were epochs in the development of the
intellect of man. by making his noblest
an most "secret thoughts available to
the many. A thousand years ago the
mystic East conjured Slnbad the Sail
or to express for the people of Araby
the same spirit that animated Ulysses
and Aeneas, t The Wandering Jew for
six hundred years has been the sym
bol of wandering and suffering. The
knitted fabric of Europe, accustomed
to printed fable and grown used to
novels, called for real men to go out
into the distant lands and upon the
uncharted seas, and bring back aston
ishing stories of strange peoples. And
eager humanity demanded more as it
became more sophisticated. It wanted
wanderers who were not the scribes of
orderly research, naturalists, mission
aries, and diplomats, but chance hap
peners upon the exotic, the sensational ;
vagrants for the sheer love of vag
rancy, and. generous sharers of their
treasure-trove for the very joy of re
cital. Thus the vagabond came Into
his own ; the vagabond who could give
to the stay-at-home the color, taste,
and feel of the awe and delight he had
himself . had ; the vagabond who
crossed mountain and ocean with no
mere determination to set down on
paper, for gain, the attraction of dis
tant zones, but to whom the horizon
was a magnet ever drawing him toward
it, without rhyme or reason."
He tells of the wonderful wanderings
of Marco Polo who more than six cen
turies ago started out to see the world
when all of his friends -warned him
that if he persisted in his foolhardy
endeavor he would come to the edge of
the world and fall off into space. He
visited Cathay, Persia, Palestine,
Tibet and a score of other little known
lands. His little jaunt to see the geog
raphy of the world at first hand took
25 years and he came back laden with
honors and treasures and by telling
what he had seen gained the reputai
tlon of being the most . monumental
liar that Venice had ever seen. Today
we know that he did not tell half of
the wonders he must have seen. . If
fyou want to know what a real wan
derer and vagabond is read the diaries
of Giovanni Jacopo Casanova do Sein
galt and learn of hie duels, love affairs,
narrow escapes, honors, kingly friends
and hobo acquaintances as he by
turns was soldier, spy, abbe, courtier,
preacher, diplomat and director of the
French gambling concessions.
Sir Richard Burton. Lafcadio Hearn.
Bayard Taylor, Charles G. Leland
George Borrow. Paul Verlaine, Jean
Arthur Rimbaud, world wanderers all
vagabonds par excellence what
sights they saw, what adventures they
took part in; how often they have
looked cool-eyed into the eyes of death
and successfully defied him. Take
Rimbaud as ' an - example a brilliant
poet -and author, soldier in Sunda
Isies and Java, a servant to Cyprus,
by side with their secular studies, that
branch of education which our public
schools cannot give religion. We be
lieve that knowledge of God and his
precepts as revealed to man are neces
sary to true "living "and Useful citizen
ship. We believe- -far out- public schools
and pcove It by our loyal support. We
do not believe in a .religious test for
teachers of our public school as our
old friend from Milton would have. He
deplores the fact that our school boards
are broad-minded enough to employ
men and women in our public' schools
for their- qualifications as teachers,
rather than submit them to a religious
test. I wonder if he would be as will
ing to exempt from taxation for the
support of our public schools those
same persons be is so willing to de
prive of eheir right to teach in the
same, if so qualified. AU honor to our
school-boards and honor to the gray
hairs, of our Milton octogenarian, but
may he live to be double his age if
needs' be that the' spirit of -rue Amer
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
They have nominated ' a " oountry
newspaper publisher for governor of
California. Here in- Oregon none f
the boys want the Job. Eugene Guard.
Wonder what has- fceeome of old man
Normalcy who has been reported "com
ing! back" ever since the . war closed?
Reckon he's now marooned by the rait.
way traffic trouble. Polk Courityj
Itemizer.
Now and then an old-ttmer longs
for the return of the old-fashioned
girl. But if she-would corns back- .nd
take a stroll down the street, wouldn't
we all laugh at her ? Washington
County News-Times. , , - v-
The big town men too often think
they are the .big idea builders. That
is their big mistake. It is the small
towns that both make and rave the
big towns. It is the small towns and
the farmers of the land who put across
the big ideas. Condon Globe-Times.
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The German crown prince has ex
pressed a desire to visit America, and
somebody hastens to assure him that
he'd have "a perfectly rotten time."
Oh, we don't know! Many a royal
remnant just as rotten as he is has had
a perfectly lovely time in this demo
cratic land. La Grande Observer.
' R. V. Jordan of Prineville is regis
tered at the Imperial while transacting
some business in Portland.
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A visitor from The Dalles la E. K.
Walton.
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A. W. Oliver of Corvallis Is among
out of town guests.
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Registering from Corvallis is Guy
H. Booker.
see
Mr, and Mrs. A. R. Baker of .Hood
River were among the week end guests.
Among out of town visitors Is H. E.
Peterson of Junction City.
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W. C. Bellows . of St. Helens was a
recent business visitor to Portland..
Among out of town visitors are Mr.
and Mrs. Delbert Beats of Riddle.
H. B. Chess of Lebanon is among reyt234.000 last year. - ' -
cent arrivals.
a trader in gold, incense and ivory In
Abyssinia, a chieftain in Africa and
one of the organizers of the Kingdom
of Ethiopia, dying at the head of his
army of native savages when he was
37.
.
You don't have to seek the pages of
romance or fiction to run across men
who have felt the urge to seek the un
known. Scarcely a day goes by that
you do not brush elbows on the streets
of Portland with men who have heard
and answered the lure-of the far hori
zons. A day or so ago when I paid
my fare on the Georgiana from As
toria to Portland I . began swapping
experiences with the purser, L. W.
PownalL He is reserved, fond of
f children and flowers, hot the type of
man you would nick' out as a e-iohe
trotter, yet before the evening was
over he bad told me things that I have
never read in books, about -the an
cient roads in the Andes and about
the customs of the natives near the
headwaters of the Peronne river, pne
of the tributaries of the Amazon.
"Where do you hail from and when?"
I Inquired. "I am a Buckeye, 1883
model" he answered. "When I- was
23 I was .working at Eureka. Califor
nia, and decided to see something of
the world. -I shipped on a lumber
barkentine for Australia. We received
telegraphic orders as we were about
to get under way to go instead to
Callao, Peru. It took us 74 days to
make the trip. When f was paid off
I decided to use my roll in seeing some
thing of Peru. Drifting inland. I landed
a Job as foreman of the smelter owned
by the Hagen-Hearst-Morgan inter
ests. I had 300 peon laborers under
me, so I lost no time in acquiring
Spanish. Later I wandered by trail
on a mule pretty well over the coun
try to see what I could see. In fact
I spent seven years there. Americans
go to Europe to see the Alps when the
Andes are almost ' at our door. The
railroad from Callao to Ticllo rises
16,000 feet in a distance of less than
one hundred miles. The smelter where
I worked Is located at an altitude of
ieet nicn is a coupie or thou
sand feet higher than the summit of
Mt- Hood. Cerro de Pasco, a town as
large as Astoria is located at an alti
tude of over 14,000 feet. Lima is the
size of Portland. I wandered" through
an old church down there that was
built in 1538 ; so it is no new country.
"I made a trip into the back of the
beyond once where the natives have
so little to do with the rest of the
country they still use the old Indian
dialect and do not understand Spanish.
In place of modern firearms they use
a six foot blowgun in which they use
poisoned darts, tiny things tipped with
feather by which, with their breath vig
orously expelled, they can do execution
at a couple of hundred feet.' In their
country they still use swinging bridge?
made of vine and fiber.' Their roads
were hewed- out of solid rock by the
Aztecs., They 'have tunnels through
the cliffs like Mitchell Point on the
Columbia Highway. Yes, I ate what
was set before me roast monkeys,
giant lizards, wonderful fruits and
luscious vegetables. They are good
cooks down there. They have unlimit
ed country on which one can' raise
ongar cane? . The mountains are rich
In copper, silver and gold. It la Ameri
ca's opportunity, but we shall never get
their friendship or trade so long as
we think we can hustle them into buy
ing and unload our poor stuff on
them. The French, British, Belgians
and Germans pack their goods well.
I - have seen Columbia river salmon
come there with the cases gone and
the labels missing. It had to be un
loaded by shovels into coffee bars.
Stoves shipped to South America for
shipment Into the interior " resemble
scrap iron and have to be sold to the
Junk dealers. No. I cannot tell you in
an hour what 1 saw In my seven yea.-
there.
muK go ana see for your-
self.
icanism may enter into his heart.
Yours for both public and. private
schools. ; Mrs. M. Reisenauer.
BETTER THAN THE ECHO
From London Paaaing Show '
Guide: Sir," there .-la sn extraordin
ary echo to be heard, at this spot. For
instance, suppose you shout "Two mags
of beer"" as loud as you can and listen.
- Simple Tourist : Two mugs pf beer
(Pause.) I can't hear the echo.
Guide: No, ir? Well, anyhow, here
comes the beer. . '
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.'. Trosa- thm St, Louis Globe-Democrat . i rjf
In emulation of the California ship
builders who named, their first - con
crete vessel ''Faith.' the first "Missis
sippi river barge that is to begin the
renewal of river traffic should be called
"Faith." In Rudyard Kipling! phrase,
""Faith,- we ahan need it."
The Oregon Country
KorUrwaat Hastening la Brief Form for the
Jtoay Bssdas.
' , OREGON. .
Charles 'Magiiire. son" of 3. F. : Ma.
guire of Klamath Falls, has received
an , appointment to the military
academy at West Point. .
Prune picking' will begin in Marlon
county in about 10 days. The crop is
said - to be , the . heaviest for several
years. '
A ponderous tooth of some prehistorlo
inut, iuiiim near r:ia oy reier , i
ley, has been sent to the Smithsonian
institution for classification. .
A. telegram received at Salem States
that Harry iBaileyc S3, a former resi
dent of that city, wss accidentally
killed in Los Angeles Wednesday.
Thirteen carloads of livestock were
shipped this week over the City of
Prineville railway, all -but .four of
which were consigned to Portlands
' The annual meeting of the Oregon
Purbebred Livestock association will
be held at Salem on the night of Sep
tember 27. when officers foe the year
will he elected.
" - Bids on 9.200,000 board feet'of timber
on the Siusiaw national forest will be
opened September- 26, according to Fred
E Ames, assistant forester In charge
of timber sales. -
Formation of the South Unit Im
provement district was' decided upon
at a special election in Prineville Tues
days The district includes approxi
mately 80,000 acrea '
Although there were several fires
In Tillamook county forests during the
past summer; little valuable timber
was destroyed, according to Frank A.
Elliott, state forester.
After severs! .weeks of , efforts to
secure a lower freight rate on grapes,
the Grants Pass chamber of commerce
is notified that a reduction of 22 per
cent has been granted on shipments to
Portland. .
The captal stock of The Dalles Na
tional Farm Loan association has been
Increased fsora $10,000 to $20,000. About
$300000 is now .loaned out by the as
sociation under the federal farm loan
plan of amortization. - . -.
a meeting at Salem Thursday - night
and adopted a resolution demanding a
minimum price of 6 cents a pound tor
their berries next year. This ,,year's
average was 4 cents.
WASHINGTON.
The Aberdeen school budget this year
totals 121 4.881.81.. as compared with
n,sumatea on tne oasis or. tne num
ber of telephones in service, Seattle la
claiming a population, of 339,434.
C. F. Schwald, lumberman of Sno
qualmie Falls, was held up and robbed
of $1170 in cash id Seattle Wednesday
night by two masked bandits.
Railroads this year have granted ex
cursion rates - of one and a - third
fares to the Yakima state fair instead
of the one and a half fares heretofore
given.-
The first day's registration of Seat-'
tie's schools showed a total enrollment
of . 43450, an Increase of 448 in the
high schools ad a decrease of 38 in
the grades.,
A class of more than 75 candidates
will be received . Into the Aberdeen
Moose lodge at a special meeting Sep
tember 1$.
John Rellly and O. Blttrasn. each 19
years old, students of an eastern col
lege, are in jail at -Everett charged
with stealing tools from the Great
Northern shops.
Olympla commandery No. 24 was
instituted at Olympia Thursday night
by Wesley C. Stone, of Spokane, grand
commander of the Knights Templar of
Washington.
Grand larceny charges against King
county's three . commissioners were
dismissed in superior court at Seattle
Thursday shortly - after, having been
City and county health authorities
at Seattle have declared that further
diversion of sewage Into Lakes Wash
ington and Union must be prohibited as
a public health measure.
Pleading to the Illegal transportation
of whiskey. Jack Best has been fined
$500 and sentenced-to- SO days in the
county Jail at Bellingham. Best, was
a deputy under Sheriff Callahan. .
Seventy-five hotel- proprietors. amon
whom was Phil Metschan of Portland,
were tendered a banquet Thursday
night by the National Park company
at Paradise Inn. in Rainier national
park.
A fire at Pasco Thursday night that
did some damage was caused by B. H.
Cady, proprietor of the United States
laundryt who lighted a match to see
if he had sufficient gasoline in the
tank of his automobile.
IDAHO.
The University of Idaho has Tost re
cently a score or more of valuable
sheep by the ravages of sheep-killing
John Stuart, 75, one of the earliest
pioneers of Idaho, died at his home In
Sandpoint Thursday from cancer of
the throat.- y .
Fourth class postmasters 'appointed
this week include Joseph B. Irvine of
Clearwater and Mrs. Lilian Coon of
Steele. Idaho. . - - .
After doing business In a tent since
the destructive fire of last June, the
Moscow Union Warehouse company has
moved into its new building, erected at
a cost of $30,000.
Camas county win recover from four
bonding companies more than $40,000
county funds deposited - in -the First
National bank of Fairfield when it
closed its doors June 19, 1920. .
TJharles M. Johnston, 76, veteran of
the Civil war, died suddenly at Wal
lace Thursday of heart trouble. He
was formerly a resident of Portland
and went to the Coeur d'Alenes during
the mining rush of 1886.
Twenty Years Ago
From. The Journal of Sept. I!,! 1902
Second street looks - like a Castle
Garden in Hongkong today. Several
hundred Chinamen who have been at
work In the canneries British Colum
bia have returned and are filling the
air with their Jiboeringa
No little discussion is to be heard
among the business men of the city on
tha conditiora of Portland's streets. A
very strong feeling is observable that
.the time has come for paving them, ia
view of the Lewis-and Clark fair.
The streets of Portland present a re
markable appearance at the' present
time, they being covered: by a coat of
fine white ashes, caused by the fires
now raging north and south of Port
land. Such a state of affairs has not
been seen in Portland since 1894. -
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Corvallis wyL.ln all probability, put
in a new waterworks- system in - the
near future. . , -..-'-.
Grand Master W.' Fv Mutcher.of the
grand lodge of Masons of Oregon is la
from. Baker .City-. He has been insti
tuting a , lodge at Moro, Sherman
5-'; -'J .
The Civic Improvement association ia
going, after . the. firms who have signs
andotber. obstructions along the streets
and sidewalks. - ' :
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The oldest Mason on the Pacific
coast has moved to Portland. Thomas
LD- Elliott, who claims that honor, has
removed from Katnarum. Idaho, ana
is now a resident of Portland.
Sixty carloads of packed salmory are
at the Ainsworth dock ready for ship
ment to the Eastern states. The prod
uct represents this ' season's Alaska
catch., j '
The state encampmnt- of the Spanish-American
War Veteran's has elect
ed the following officers : Department
ct mmander. General C. U. Gantenbein ;
senior vice commander. Major . C. E.
McDonell ; " Junior vice commands,
Richard Delch. r- . v