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Newspaper Page Text8 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OIIEGON. WEDNESDAY, SEPTESIBEIi 13, : 1Z2Z. i I si II w .'.... .t AH INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER C." -- JACKSON . Publisher B aim. be confident. be cheerful and do rata otiien as 70a would hare then d unto you. .- - " Fabiuhed Tery mkd; uil fcmxiaj Bonum at The Journal bmklirii. Broadway at vm- biB afreet, Portland. Orea-on. KotereJ at the postoffice at Partisnd, Oresoa, 4or Kjansmisskin tacousb the, nulla as second ekw matter. iiATIONAL ADVERTISING JterRESEN'TA TfVJB Benjamin ft Kentrior Co., Brune r tick feufldins. 22 5 Fifth arcane. New York; 'BOO1 Mailers boiklina. Chicago. PACIFIC COAST KEPHESENTATIVK M C. jforgenscn Co.. lac. Examiner btiiWnc. Baa Francisco; Title lnnrenos builduK. Los iiipla; BiynHtics baiMinK, Seattle, IilR OREGON JOCKNAL kkm the right ta reject advertisinc copy which it deema bfejaetionable. It alao will not prtnt any copy that in any way simulate readme mat- . ter or that cannot readily ba recognised aa advertising. TTT SUBSCRIPTION RATES t Br Carrier City and Country Daily and Sunday On week. .,...$ -15Ona month. ... .t .85 DAllY 6CNDAY On week .10;On week t .05 One month 45; BY MAIL. RATES PAYABLE IN ADVANCE DAILY AND SUNDAY Oh year $8.00Three memtha. .. $2.25 Six months 4.25jOna month 75 DAILY i SUNDAY " (Without Sunday) ) (Only) One year. $6.00iOne year. ...... SS.OO "iz months. . . . . 3 25 Sir month..... 1.75 Three month. . . 1.75jThree moctha. . . 1-00 One month 60) WEEKLY I WEEKLY AND flTe'ry Wednesday) ! SUNDAY On year fl.OO-Ona year $S.50 six months BOi Tbwi rates apply only in the West. Rates to Eastern points furnished on sppH eatioa. Make remittances by Money Order. Express Order or Draft. If your postoffice is Be a money -order office, 1- or 2 -cent stamps will be accepted. Make all remittances pay able -to The Journal Publishing Company, Portland. Oregon. TELEPHONE: MAIN 7161. All departments reached by this number. AU you hare really to do is to keep year back as straight as you can, and not think about what is upon it The real and essential meaning of rirtue is that ' straightness of back. John Riukin. THEIR REMARKABLE RECORD ' THE safety record of the Penn sylvania railroad last year was marvelous. r It operated 1,400,000 trains over 11,000 miles of road'without killing a single passenger. On those trains In perfect security 152,000,000 peo ple Journeyed. - There is no' statement as to the number of employes who figured in this marvelous record. How many engineers guided with unerring ac curacy and unexampled fidelity to sarety the locomotives on those trains? A slip by one of them, a Omental lapse such as comes mys .teriously and unavoidably even to the most careful people would in a .single case have meant a safety rec .ord blotted with a day of slaughter. The eye of every one of those en gineers was on the track ahead every day, every hour and every ' minute of the time that each train rushed along-with its precious load Of humanity in the coaches behind. And, so it was with every other trainman, and every switchman and. yardman and maintenance of way man. and train dispatcher and tele graph operator and shopman all of the thousands of them reliable, .steadfast and unerring. ' The list of those-raen is a roll of honor, of sobriety, of unfailing ef ficiency. That so many men in an employ would be so perfectly de pendable In their service is almost , miraculous. Tet the rolls of workers in' the railroad service are . full of ex- : aimples of similar extraordinary in stances of safety. In the hands of any one of them any day and al mdst every hour are the lives of hundreds of passengers whom a single slip by a single worker might huyl Into doom. But it is only at rare intervals that the slip occurs. It -Is doubtful if there is a group i of ' men in the wide world whose . ;work is so sure and service so true. They probably'constitute the most ' remarkable human machine on the planet. t .The great traveling public doesn't realize it, doesn't stop to think about it. but it is to these men that ' the myriad passengers constantly and confidently commit their lives t as -they hurtle over the country at ' great speed and In remarkable safety. ' " - And, apeaking- of the great safety record of the Pennsylvania, it was the Pennsylvania road that defied the; railway labor board. It is one jot the hardest-boiled among the lines 'in fighting its employes. It went Into the courts to break down the labor board's decisions. That Is an example of its gratitude for the service of men who enabled it to carry 152,000.000 passengers on 1.400,000 trains over 11.000 miles of railroad without the loss of a single passenger. What a lot of sensational possi bilities were lost when the missing ballots were found in a drawer? PORTLAND FIRST TORTLANT has won some, eon -L. testa with her neighbor-com-Tetitor, Seattle, but hone that gives hr more gratification than to best the-Paget Sound metropolis in low Infant mortality. 1 Th record telegraphed Dr. Par s' shows not that more babies die ' 1 in Seattle but that fewer die in Portland, "Last year Portland tied with Seattle and the year before took second place. This year the honor is Portland's with a rate of 4 S to the thousand aa compared with 55 two years aero. A pure milk supply and preventive clinics account for Portland's progress. Those who bitterly fought The Journal In its fight for pure milk for Portland know now that they were wrong and The Journal right. Especially must this be true of that state official who declared at a pub lic meeting of dairymen that "of 10 gallons of tuberculous milk, five gallons fed to babies would fatten them and five fed to hogs would kin them." And it must also be true of the dairymen present who shook the building with thunderous applause in approval of the state official's ignorant declaration, but who would not do so today. A -few dairymen who recently met in Portland with the idea of re organization for cooperative mar keting were confronted with dis couragement. "When the dairymen had a statewide cooperative ' mar keting organization and abandoned it rather than repair it The Journal told them the path to reorganiza tion would be long and tedious. But permanent success In the Oregon dairying industry will be won only through cooperation- UNDER THE ROD 1 TOONSHINER, moonshine, guns -LT A and deputies! Yesterday it was at Newberg, a few days before at New Grande Ronde. before that beyond Van couver and before that in Linn county. We bury the dead, minister to the wounded, count the orphans and grieve with the bereaved. We are in the midst of a new and desperate criminality because booze sways the appetites of myriad men who insist on buying and drinking it clandestinely, though that use is banned by the will of the majority. So we go on buying it and the outlaws go on making it and sell ing it secretly with resultant clashes with authority, gun fights and kill ings. . And we go on burying the dead, ministering to the wounded, count- ine the ornhans and frrievine with the bereaved whom we who buy the stuff compel to pass under the rod. compe :entr n Reeentr moonshine murders and moonshiner resistance to arrest have multiplied the hazard of moonshining. As in the Newberg incident, officers are quite apt to Ityeep their guns at the ready. A LESSON IN DRIVING SHE came not so long ago to Port land from England. In Eng land, of course, one may walk as far as one cares to go among the close-clipped hedges and the peas-in-pods lawns. But over here sne became a -candidate for a motor car and the zealous salesman was teaching her how to" operate the affair. "I'm quite fairly acquainted with me chanical matters, don't you know," she remarked reassuringly as she took her seat. "In England when I had long distances to traverse I drove a bicycle." She watched with keenest inter est the quadrangular diagonals of the gear shift. At last she ex claimed, "Oh, now I know perfectly how it goes. When you push the handle to the rear it engages the rear wheels and when you push the handle forward it connects the mo tor with the front wheels. Quite remafkable. don't you think, the compactness of American inven tion!" Then she turned so that she could see the youthful and ruddy face of her instructor. "Tou have a most happy nature," she diagnosed. "It seems to me there is always a smile struggling for liberty just back of your eyes." The salesman felt an almost ir resistible impulse to let the smile escape noisily. But he directed her attention to the instrument board. She followed it with the rapt in terest of one who doesn't under stand a word spoken. Finally she said: "Won't you draw me a pic ture of all this, and when you come back pext time I am sure by study ing it I snail be quite ready-to take the wheel myself." The picture was drawn. But the salesman is still wondering if he has enough accident insurance to warrant going back and watch her engage the motor and the front wheels by pushing the handle for ward. One would judge from the record of the past few days that such a thing, as- a strike of the fuelv pro ducers is unknown to old Sol. WHO'S TO BLAME? DOLICEMEN are under arrest at Iloquiam and Aberdeen for al leged complicity in bootlegging. Two policemen were recently dis missed In Portland on a similar charge. An attempt by a lawyer and newspaper reporter to bribe In spector Klingensmith to issue an order to the Portland moral squad not to molest certain redlight houses in the Portland South End are a present local scandal. runisanum, swirt ana sure. should go to all the guilty every where. Betrayal of duty bv noliee men. paid to prevent crookedness, is highly vicious. Bribery of them is even more vicious. In contrast, the exposure by Inspector Klingen- smith of attempted corruption ai splendid public act that should bring its deserved reward. . But do yon realize that public sentiment is partly responsible for the crookedness in public of flee ? If public opinion Is not marked In condemnation of official miscon duct what can you expect of offi cials? If the shibboleth of a people is not purity and honesty in public office, officials here and there will go wrong. The standard of civic righteous ness received a terrific shock in the seating of Newberry In the senate. Unthinking people reason that if United' States senators are willing to seat a proven corruptionist, cor ruption in elections, is admissible. They reason that if the highest leg islative body in the country admits to its deliberations a man who broke laws and confers on him the right to help'make laws, then why should the private citizen respect laws or be bound by laws? From the beginning of history there has been an incessant conflict between the forces of right and the forces of wrong. At its best, the public conscience is sorely taxed in its effort to enable public honesty to triumph over public dishonesty. The full strength of every right thinking man and woman is need ed every hour to keep up the mor ale of those who strive for decency and cleanliness in public and pri vate affairs. Tour average policeman will be just as good as the average public estimate of right conduct,- and no better. If half the community evades the law, numerous police men will do it too. Anarchy isn't threatened by the professional an archist so much as by the pedigreed and unpedigreed evaders of law and breakers of law, who are the real factors in bringing about lawless ness. Tou can't legislate honesty and ;"high civic standards into a people. If a preponderance of the people will think in terms of civic purity, live in terms of civic honor and spread the gospel of civic honesty, one of the great problems in mod ern human affairs will gravitate to ward a satisfactory solution All this, however, is no excuse for the public crooks, policemen or otherwise. When they are guilty they should be strafed. Two adjacent headlines In one of the editions of The Journal, Tues day: "Committee Plans Program for Fire Prevention Week." "Gaso line Explosion Burns Woman, Child." The .program committee would probably attract more than local attention if it induced the burned woman to make a speech on fire prevention and brought the burned child here as an exhibit. NOT THE GRANGE FRAUDULENT signatures are on the Grange petitions for the In come tax bill. Some are forgeries. Some are the signatures of aliens. Some are the signatures of mythical persons. Probably nobody will charge the Grange with responsibility. Nobody can, in the light of Instructions is sued by the Grange committee to petition circulators. Here are those instructions: Every petitioner must sign his or her own name. ITnder no circumstances Is any per son permitted to sign another person's name. Write your name in full as you wrote it when you registered. Every signer must give his or her residence and postoffice and should also enter in the column provided thewt- for the name or precinct number or may verbally authorize the circulator of this petition to write the residence. postoffice address and precinct after the signature. Do not use ditto marks. All who are entitled to register may sign. When the signature is difficult to read, the name should be plainly writ ten with a pencil on the same line. Women should prefix 'Miss" or "Mrs." and sign her own name, not her husband's nor with her husband's initial Mrs. Mary A. Jones, not Mrs. John Jones. It is advisable to use a pen or in delible pencil. Only one canvasser may secure sig natures to any one sheet of the peti tion. The circulator must ewear to each .signature. See form of affidavit at bottom of the sheet. The signers of each sheet must all e from the same county, and sworn o by the person who circulated that sheet. The county clerk of each county in which the petition is signed shall com pare the signatures of the signers with their signatures on .the registration cards and attach his certificate of the genuineness of such signatures. (Sec tion 4098, Oregon Laws). Signatures not certified by the coun ty clerks may be proved as to gen uineness by the official certificate of a notary public of the county in which, the signer resides. (Section 4098, Ore gon Laws). On each petition is a warning. Here it is:' WARNING It is a felony for anyone to sign any initiative or referendum petition with any name other than his or ber own, 6r to knowingly sign his or her name more than once for the measure, or-to sign such petition when he or she is not a legal voter. Neither the Oregon State Grange nor its committee is in the slight est degree responsible for the peti tion frauds. It is such of the cir culators as forged names and re sorted to other crooked work that should be brought to a reckoning. Three dollar fine, for failure to clean weeds, trash and brush off vacant lots are probably about half What It would cost to hire the. work done and may prove to. be good economy provided the officers don't call again. The world is always eager to beat a remarkably broad trail to the place where it gets something good to eat. - . . - WHAT THE TRADE UNION CAN DO It Can -and Should Function as Pow erfully in Peace aalt Does in Strike Crises--An Example of What Is Meant by This Formula Is Given by an Expert Invest!' , gator of Labor's Problems Tos article aiihiolniKt fa a amasaan or aa address by Misa Jlary Van Ktoeck. director lot tha departaeot of industrial stadias of the Knamll Sac foundation, at a aaaa emetine of aiemberi of trade nniona hi the Labor teaapls, Monday reaiias, Septesnbar 11. The interest of the Russell Sage Foundation in the' whole problem of relations between employers and em play es is -due to the fact that the foundation was organized for the pur pose of Improving social and living conditions through studying the facts and informing public opinion. The foundation is, committed to no theories of social reform, but undertakes rather tc study the facts impartially and to make them available as a basis for opinion and action. It is through the Information secured in these studies that I venture to speak of the concrete opportunities and re sponsibilities of the trade unions. The labor movement has to its credit dis tinct achievements in shortening hours, securing workmen's compensation laws and In other ways making life better for the wage-earners. In the present unsettled state of our society, nothing is more vital than that trade unions ehould be ready in leadership, in breadth of view and in the loyalty of their members to assume responsibil ity for defending human rights and building up democracy in industry. : Democracy in industry is a task rather than a privilege. It demands organization Just as political democ racy demands organization, but both will fall to serve the people and the community unless their purposes are unselfish. We have several kinds of economic organizations today. One which is typified in some employers' associations and also in some unions has for its primary purpose the ad vantage of its own members at the ex pense of other groups. Discovering that united they can the better secure the advantage over the other fellow, they use organization as a means of power for selfish ends, leaving the pub lic and other groups in the community to suffer. Still another type of or ganization, which is also represented by employers and by labor groups, has for its purpose propaganda to develop class consciousness and conflict be tween classes. Propaganda has Its place and often results in informing the public, but the majority of the trade unions in this country stand for something different Collective bargaining is their task, and this means the making and enforcing of agreements regarding the conditions of employment. For collective bargaining and for democratic representation of workers in Industry, it Is essential to have the vital Interest and activity of the mem bership, not only In time of strike but also in time of peace. The United Mine Workers compose an organization, which unfortunately, is known to the public only In time of strike. As a matter of fact, through years of growth, the United Mine Workers have developed not only an organization which can strike -In de fense of a wage scale, but also they have a machinery of conference and negotiation, first In the state and then In a wider district, whereby agree ments on wages, hours and conditions of employment are reached and em bodied In contracts. This Is by no means the end of it. The United Mine Workers also provide for the applica tion of the standards of these agree ments in the individual mines. Their pit committees, representing the men. can take up the grievances of the miner with his foreman and superin tendent. If they fall, other committees are provided, representing both opera tors and miners, for the day to day ad justment of difficulties. What this means to the coal miner can only; be fully understood if it is realized that, as the miner digs the coal from day to day and advances into the mine, he encounters hour after hour different conditions and he needs a method of protecting his interests In these chang ing conditions. Similarly, the clothing workers have developed a series of representative committees, whereby standards and principles are estab lished and difficulties adjusted which in the old days might have caused a strike. Not only is machinery needed for the protection of Interests of the workers but good leadership for the unions and -good management in industry. Knowledge of the problems of manage ment and of the possibilities of im provement will put the unions into a position greatly to advance their cause. Perhaps most Important of all: Is public support, since without it In dustrial unrest la bound to continue. The unsympathetic attitude of the pub lic is often due to misunderstanding and a lack of Information. Also, it is due to certain outstanding mistakes and faults in the unions. Consider, for instance, recent revelations of the building trades. These are trades which vitally affect the homes of the people. Tet in several' cities we have had revelations of corruption and of combinations which were described by the president's conference on unem ployment last year in Washington as "malignant." It is no secret In the labor movement that the building trades deparament of the American Federation of Labor has great diffi culty in bringing the members of .the building trades organization into line in eliminating jurisdictional disputes. For these disputes the American Fed eration of Labor has provided a defi nite machinery in its building trades department, and it is of great import ance if the labor movement is to nave public support, that the stoppage qf work through jurisdictional disputes and the other unsocial practices which have, been revealed in' dependable in vestigations should not be continued. Despite these difficulties, however, it l rlr that the labor movement -has resulted in higher standards of employ ment, which have been very necessary for the protection of family life. 1 i , If. however, the labor movement Is to be equal to its responsibilitiest it must also recognize Its stake m tne community. The election of good, pup- lic administrators Is vital to the wage earners. Public office must be j re garded not as a reward for service to a Tjartv or to a labor union, but as an onnortunitT for skilled service. La bor's real Interest is to secure compe- tence and efficiency in poltlcal and m-at- duKtrial life. This can only re tained if oreanization is regarded as a means to an end and if that end be de fined as the best interest of the work ers as part of the community. HOW TO GET RICH From the Saa Fraoeiaco Call Andrew Jackson, famous general and twice president, was a follower of the doctrine which exalts the value of at tending to one s own business. On lone occasion James Buchanan, later him self president, diplomat, scholar land somewhat of a ladies' man. although he lived and died unmarried, brought an Englishwoman of . high degree to call upon" General' Jackson. Leaving the lady In the reception room below and . going upstairs to the president's private quarters, . Buchanan found Jackson unshorn and onkemnt in t ing arown and Slippers befora a biasing log fire, smoking his cob pipe. Wben he was told about the beautiful-Englishwoman he replied that ha would be delighted to meet her, and asked Bu chanan to go back and tell her that the president would bo down immedi ately. Buchanan was terribly afraid that Jackson would not change his clothes before he made his appearance in the drawing room, and he ventured to suggest to him, the propriety of his doing so. "Buchanan,- said, the old warrior, rising and knocking the ashes out of his pipe, "I will tell you something that will do you good, as it doeth the upright in heart, and that Is that . I once knew a man down in Tennessee who made a fortune by attending to his own business." Letters From the People ( Commnnications sent to The Journal far publication in this department ahottld be writ ten on only one side of the paper, should not exceed S00 words in lencth, and must be aisned by the writer, whose mail address in full moat accompany the contribution. MUNICIPAL PAVING PLANT Portland. Or.,' Sept. 8. To the Edi tor ef The Journal In all the discus sions over the operations of the mu nicipal paving plant, it seems to me there has been a failure to approach the subject from purely a business standpoint. We have been told that the municipal paving plant fails to consider all ' its overhead expenses, that it takes no account of taxes, that its pavements are not equal to those laid by private contractors, that private contractors are subject to various ex penses which are not borne by the municipal paving plant, etc., etc. The discussion has ranged around these and similar points of detail instead of getting down to the main question, which is, as I see It: Would any business concern situated as is the city of Portland, do its own paving, or would it depend on private contrac tors? We are told that private contrac tors have a large overhead expense In the form of advertising, solicitors. certified checks, bonds, etc., from which the paving plant is exempt. The paving plant was established for the very purpose of relieving the property owners of the city from these ex penses. It was known that private contractors had to meet these a& other legitimate overhead expenses, which were of no benefit to the prop erty owners or taxpayers of the city, and to relieve themselves of this un necessary waste, the paving plant was established. In its operations to November 30, 1921, It has earned for the taxpayers of the city the sum of $28,015.17. This is In lieu of interest and taxes on an investment of apprbximately $93,000. The actual cash savings to property owners by a comparison of the charges of the municipal paving plant with the bids of private contractors for the same period have toeen the very con siderable sum of $211,805.96. It is ad mltted that there has been a further very large saving, though unknown In amount, through the reduction of prices charged by private contractors. An indication of this saving is shown by the statement of the government ! bureau of roads that the average cost : of asphaltlc concrete top throughout the country is $2.50 per square yard and the average cost of. cement con crete six Inches thick la $2.57 per square yard. In Portland 4he corresponding con tractors' bids are for asphaltlc con crete top $1.38, and for cement con crete $1.60 per. square yard. The mu nicipal paving plant's charge for last year for asphaltlc concrete top was $1.06. It is much lower this year. Now we are faced with a proposal to abolish the municipal paving plant as a bidder on new construction. Would any business corporation, in view of this showing, close down a similar branch of its activities? Citizen. THE DEADLY PISTOL Portland. Sept. 6.-To the Editor of The Journal Repeatedly during re cent years Journal readers have read good editorials and bad news articles pertaining to pistols and their criminal tecord, but so far no remedy has been suggested other than to stop the manu facture of pistols. There are enough pistols in America at the present time to perpetuate such crimes for a cen tury, and foreign makes are being imported, advertised and sold here. I would suggest and do predict that some day I hope ere long some one of our many congressmen will make a favor able hit with the civil element of our population by having, or trying to have. a federal law enacted to provide that all firearms of less than thiee feet In length shall be called in and destroyed, except the quality and a quantity suffi cient to supply federal, state, county and city peace officers and such other persons as the federal authorities may deem eligible to and worthy of a per mit to possess a pistol, all pistols to be owned by the federal government and registered to bonded individuals authorized to possess same. To own or have possession of any firearm of less than three feet in length without federal permit and au thority should be deemed a felony under federal law. And the federal government should post a permanent liberal reward for secret or other infor mation leading to the arrest and con viction of violators of the pistol law. A shtogun serves far better than a pis tol as a home protector, and the bank robbers, train robbers, stage robbers. burglars, hold-up toughs,' sneak thieves and others, of the criminal class will find it rather inconvenient to carry a three-foot gun when out looking for "easy money," which oftentimes leads to murder. Many of the young men in American prisons are there, and others will be there, as a result of pistols, hope every newspaper In America will write editorials upon this subject and that voters throughout the country will dip the articles and send them to members of congress until some proper action is taken in this matter. Ed Word. Apathy- Hazel Hall in the New Republic One by one yon follow After the manner of sheep. Follow the way that leads jou into a place called sieep Drowsily, drowsily follow. Men and women Use sheep. Oh. yon who leelly follow. Have yon nerer climbed a height? Does someone not remember A weepinc in the night! Then for the clitterinc saka of ft. If erer yml sorrowed or sinned- For the sska of one who is Ustemnc. Turn, and follow the wind! FRANKLY SHAMELESS From the rv T-ork World Let it be said for the senate makers of the tariff bill that they have not been wanting in the impudent courage commonly associated with a cause which has become consciously . des perate. The bill as it came from the house many months ago was considered at the time to be aa extreme a measure of reactionary protectionism as its advo cates dared to think of. But the minor ity of ths senate finance committee re wrote the bill in no other apparent pur pose than to make it worse all along the line. The majority of the senate as In committee of the, whole have since largely rewritten it again to make it still worse. -t Scorts of amend meats havs hei i adnntarti aunt- nrsetU COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE Most folks are back at work, recov ering from the effects of their vaca tions. - - - . - No matter what we' think of the law. bootleggers are lawbreakers and usu ally deserve much more than they get. Some men can. never strike a happy medium between1 turnine the other cheek and exacting an eye for an eye. Bcldum. the onoressed. la dswanif. tng parroant of debt from Berlin. Which is just anotner proof that 'the worm will turn."- As small towns get themselves into the scandal columns they also unwit tingly assume metropolitan qualities of civilization. a Men who doffed their straw hats on September 5, according to custom, will be the first to argue vehemently that men are not slaves of fashion. If all the forces of good would fight the devil with printer's ink as visiting churchmen suggest, they might make a pretty black character of tiatan. The mother who wants to go to the dance but has to stay home and care for the baby must have a pretty good idea of what "social unrest" means. Pola Negri, the Polish film star, has been divorced only once. How -dare she expect to compete with American stars who have already forgotten the first time? MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town A story, at least interesting, Is brougln in by G. C. Berkeley of Hay Creek, who is a guest of the Imperial. While riding along the road hear Mad ras a few days ago a resident of Jef ferson county came across a black bear. The man. on the horse was carrying- a double-bareled shotgun. He concluded after thinking the matter over that he would get the bear. He raised the gun to his shoulder and pulled the trigger. The- horse was not gun-broke and at the report of the discharge he bucked his rider off. The rider alighted on the bear's back, to the great surprise of man and bear. The man yelled and the bear growled. The man started to run and the bear took after him and chased him quite a distance but was not fast enough to catch him. It turned out afterward that the bear had been seriously wounded by the shot, his lower jaw having been broken. F. C. Collins of Grants Pass Is among those doing business in Port land. . While visiting in Portland W. C. Ged des of Baker is attending to some per sonal business. Kermit J. Nutt of Hollywood, CaL, is among tourists passing through Port land. Arthur Chapman of North Bend an out of town visitor. Is Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Lawson of The Dalles are among out of town visitors. ... Le Roy Penland and family of He lix are visiting in Portland. Among out of town visitors are E. J. Sevier and family of Monmouth. ... L. S. Brown of Lebanon is among recent arrivals in the city. ... Visitors from Arlington are W. C. Sturgill and C, C. Clark. L. H. Welker of Fossil is transacting business in Portland. . . E. H. Bush of Ashland Is sn out of town visitor. George O. Knowles of Cottage Grove is among out of town visitors. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lockley The second installment of Mr. I,ocx"ley' article relating to the Looney family well illustrates the perplexities of the rery early emigrants as they neared the promised land of Oregon. It also illustrates, for the thou sandth time, the extraordinary character of Dr. 3ohn McToghlin, sQiiarest of square men. Hudson's Bay factor, but American emigrant's friend. When Jesse Looney, Peter Burnett. Hiram Straight. Jesse Applegate and the rest of the emigration of 1843 reached Fort Walla Walla, on the banks of the Columbia, they were In 1 grave doubt as to whether they could drive with their cattle to the Wil lamette valley. Peter H. Burnett and William Beagle went by boat down the Columbia to Fort Vancouver. Some of the emigrants decided to stay that winter at the Whitman mission, oth ers to drive as far as The Dalles, while still others thought they could, cross the mountains and reach the valley. The question with those who decided to go down the Columbia by boat was as to what ehould be done with their oxen. Rev. A. B. Littlejqhn was In charge of the Whitman mission during the absence of Dr. Whitman. He offered to buy the cattle from the emigrants at $12.50 a head. Archibald McKlnley. principal trader of the Hudson's Bay company, had charge at Fort Walla Walla. He told Burnett, Applegate and the other emigrants that he doubted .whether they would be able to cross the John Day and Deschutes rivers, as their banks were very rough and precipitous and the only travel westward was done In boats. On October 12, 1843. Burnett wrote Mr. McKlnley a letter in which he said : "I wish tq consider the boat en gaged to us. I mentioned to Mr. Bea gle your kind offer to take our cattle here and give us cattle at Vancouver, to which he would assent but for the fact that his cattle are of a particular kind to which he Is very partial and with which he would not wtUlngly part. I would myself exchange mine with you. but I may settle at The Dalles. - If I do so, the cattle at Van couver would be more Inconvenient for me to secure than from this point. I saw Captain Applegate, to whom I mentioned the fact that you wished to purchase or exchange for some American mares. I also recommended him to see you about exchanging his cattle, as he has a large stock of a good breed. I nope you will be able to procure from him as much stock as you desire." . On account of the difficulty of tak ing the animals to the ; Willamette valley a good many of the settlers decided to leave them at Fort Walla Walla, with the Hudson's Bay agent. cally all to boost the rates from one extreme to another. The old secrecy ana hypocrisy In manipulating the schedules were aban doned weeks ago.. Senators admitted openly in cases that the interests to be favored were dictating what was being done. Senators in cases ad mitted without . appearance ef shame that they personally would be bene ficiaries of their own votes. There, yotf have it. and what are you going to do about it? To the people at large who are thus s)lei ea4 h ' Wa -swa toilrw . aaanators NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS. Of course men ara Intelligent. Dont they always show signs of reason after an Industrial controversy has cost them millions ? Medf ord . Mall Tribune. - e The tariff bill is to take precedence over the bonus bill, The veterans will certainly need the bonus after the other bio passes, and no mistake about that Eugene QuardV - The coal situation would Indicate that, around the first of the year, those geologists who contend that the earth is growing colder are apt to have practical verification of their theory. Aahland Tidings. Don't be astonished if you find the Happy Canyon show much improved this year. The organization has "new blood" and the boys are doing a lot of hard work -and are using their heads. Pendleton East pregonian. : Returned missionaries' say that the Eskimos use a great deal of soap, in spite of the reports explorers have brought back about their unsanitary condition. No doubt, but perhaps they prefer It to the Eskimo pie sold in this country. Corvallis Gazette Times. We suppose it won't be 'long until the local hunters are calling at thts sanctum and exhibiting six and eight point deer horns but we wish to as sure them in advance that hams and shoulders are mucn more . pleasing to our eye and stomach Roseburg News .tie view. Motoring over the Old Oregon Trail from Boise enroute to Rainier national park and stoppmg a brief time in Port land are Mr. and Mrs. B. E Stout- Meyer of Boise, Paul Stoutmeyer of ban fcrancisco and Miss A. Stoutmeyer of St. Louis. B. E Stoutmeyer is at torney for the United States reclama tion service With headquarters at Boise. H. K. Brooks, manager of one of the big sawmills at Bend, is in Portland on business. Another visitor- from Bend is H. A. Millery who retails the lumber sawed by the Bend mills. s ee Dr. George E Dix of Marshfield, who has been attending the Northwest con vention of surgeons at Tacoma. is in Portland on his way borne. Ernest L. Graves of ' the Salvation Army, stationed at Klamath . Falls, is among out of town visitors. - W. A. Kuykendall and A C Dixon of Eugene are among arrivals from the Lane county metropolis. . . Among out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Gilpin of The Dalles. . . . A. G. Smith of Astoria is visiting In Portland. Among recent arrivals in the city Is A. H. Weatherspoon of Elgin. 'An out of town Visitor is Leonard Richardson of Blrkenfeld. - - Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Murphy of Penl dleton are guests of the Imperial. Among arrivals Tuesday was V. N Freeman of Moro. ... A C. Allen of Medford is transact ing business in the metropolis. . Among out of town visitors, is C- II. Kelly of Mill City. e John Hampshire, a highway contrac tor, is a guest of the Portland. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Walker of Eu gene are among out Of town visitors. Among out of town visitors is J. C. Devin of lone. A recent arrival in Portland is Glif- (ford Van Metre of Grass Valley. taking his order for the same number of cattle to be delivered to them at Fort Vancouver. McKinley drew up the following order, which he gave the settlers and which was addressed to John McLoughlin at Fort Vancou ver. It reads as follows : '"Three days after sight, please pay to Applegate & Co. two hundred sev enteen head of cattle, the sex. and age as invoice given in the following list." Then he gave a Hst of 76 cows. '127 oxen and 14 bulls, which were left with him by Hiram Straight, Miles Cary, Jesse, Charles and Lindsey Applegate, Thomas Nay lor. Elijah Milligan and jonn jtsaker. xne order continued: "In consideration of the superior condition and quality' of the stock left with him I have stipulated that the above order shall be filled out of the stock of the Fort, and to include many broken-in cattle as you can-conveniently furnish, and in case the above order Is not accepted by you, that their former stocks be returned to them on their .demand next spring, they paying a charge for herding at $1 a head- "I am sir, your obedient servant.1 Archibald McKinley. Fort Walla Walla, October 27. 1S43." On presenting this order to Dr. Mc Laughlin he Indorsed it. and wrote: ' "The conditions of exchange con tained In this covenant not being ac ceptable, Mr. McKinley will please to return the cattle received from Mr. Applegate and party on his demand !,'.1J1"a Walla. John McLoughlin, Chief Factor. Fort Vancouver. Novem ber 11. 1843." -r . Dr. McLoughlin wrote to McKinley as follows: T have returned all cattle the emi grants left with you and for whatyou gave them orders on me, as I do not wish to take advantage of the situa tion those persons are placed in. - I hope, therefore; that you have disposed of none .of these animals and that it will be .convenient for you to return all you purchased on vour wn count ; for - which you 'gave orders on tne store, ana though they have been paid, they will be taken off your ac counts " These men, without their teams to work and their cows to sup ply uieoiBeives ana ineir families with mflk; can do nothing. In fact, without their cattle they are ruined." The cattle were ept. for the emi grants all winter at a 1 eost, of si head, i Dr. McLoughlin did not feel It wouia d ngnt to exchange the almost wild, long-horned Spanish cattle for the well-broken oxen of the , settlers, so that here, as in every "case, he showed not -only the Integrity of his character, but his constant kindness to the setuera there Will, of course, come a great resentment, to find expression later on. But meantime, who can withhold a degree of admiration for the-brutal frankness of .purpose in -which -the lat est and worst of tariffs Is being pushed ttuugb. congress? ;v . . "'- PERSONALITIES J . From the little. Hock (Ark.) Denaoaat A newspaper publishes a -marriage report as follows : 1 "Average ages of females .marrying,-" 25. . Average ages of mules, 28."" Don't get so personal, brother.-. . " . . .T. - -k . The dregon Country Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for the Busy Beader. . - OREGON : The Cottars Grave cannerv ba nuC . on a night crew in an effort to handle the avalanche of, produce coming into ' the plane i Twelve automobile drivers were fined . sums asrsrrearaf inrr luft- at Klamath Jfallf Friday foe violating the laws by "rmnf o irons i or a school, a Owing to the! breakinr of a large . concrete pipe at the fish hatchery at ; union a few days ago. the hatchery lost about 80.000 young fry trout. ialem has spent this year approxi mately $80,000 In the improvement of streeta. A crew of about 70 men has been at work since early last spring. Approximately 100 fires have oc curred this year In the Ochoco forest with a total of 1850 acres burned over. About 15 per- cent of the fires were caused by lightning. .... , - Cottage Grove's citv council hu 1t a contract for 14000 feet of concrete pipe to be used In extension of the pipe line to the new city water intake. " The price was t.ai per loot. The walnut eron in the, viriniiv- 'n Sheridan, according to reports from growers, is the largest In the history of the county. Trees are overloaded witn large nuts! of good quality. Mrs. A. B. Conley of La Grande has attained the distinction of becoming a great-great-granamotner. d the oirtn of an Infant daughter, to 3dr. and Mrs. turnest uray or. cove. Judging teams of-.the boys and girls industrial 'clubs -in the various coun ties of Oregon have been, instructed to report In Salem Monday morning, Sep-' tember 25, to participate in the stats fair. : : V The Hills creek trail. IS miles In length and extending from Kitson Springs to the head of HUis creek, has -been completed according to announce ment by the Cascade national forest. officials. . . : ... Thomas Johnson of La Grande har-,: rowly escaped death Friday when an infuriated bull! attacked him.' tossing him into the air several times. - He is in the hospital i with a broken leg and severe bruises, j A' reorganization of the - Sheridan State bank has been announced, where by Herman Leese, formerly- connected with the Bank of Corvallis' and the ' Bank of Newport, becomes -successor to D. B. Hill as cashier. . WASHINGTON The Faultless Pneumatic Tire com pany of Seattle, with a capital stock of $2,000,000. has filed articles of incor poration at Olympia. The sum of $10,000 was eliminated fmm thA SnnltanA riiv hnriE'At when the commissioners decided that the city, hall could get along without a fast elevator. ; . ' .1 . A traffic census taken one dayilast week on the Inland Empire highway west or Walla Waila showed that 19.'4 vehicles of all kinds passed over the road in 24 hours. - -Tr. I I : . - (iiuuan uutiLj vutiiuii&etuucrs nave Included in the budget for the coming rear $1500 for a county nurse and 2900 for a county agent, both of Which were dropped last year. Pullman officials are protesting the curtailment of train service to that city, claiming it is a great detriment to the hundreds of students attending Washington State college. A crew Is engaged ta distributing 85-pound steel rails between - Daven port and Hartline on the Central Wash ington railroad, preparatory to replac ing: the present. 56-pound rails. Patients at the United States Veter ans' hospital at Walla Walla -are not allowed to use' books from the public library and a drive has been -started to obtain books for a library at; the hospital. . 5 - The home of Domirriek Osso. who works in the railway, shops at Hillyard, was wrecked by a dynamite explosion Friday night and he and his wife were thrown from their beds. Osso blames personal enemies. Excavation is being made for an ad dition to the Othello Btate bank build ing, the addition to be occupied by the postoffice. . . ' . ' '. J. C. Helm, aged 74. one of Pasco's' earliest pioneers, died suddenly in that city Friday from a stroke of paralysis.. " IDAHO ' " The old Congregational church build ing at Kelloeg is being torn down to make room for -a new $30,000 'edifice. One hundred fifty-three of the 238 arrests made during the month of Aug ust by the Boise police were for traffic violations. William G. McAdoo, former secretary of the treasury, arrived at Rigby. Idaho, last week "on a 10-days hunting and fishing trip.. Frank Bavha was probably fatally Injured near Wallace last wees when his car left the grade and- plunged down the side of a mountain 100 feet before it stonned. Despondent because of ill health. Frank A. Koch. 6, honor student at clde Friday by shooting himself in the room of a lodsimr housa at Twin Pali. Payette lake has been selected by the government biological survey a'3 the finest climate In the state for fox raising The Idaho Silver Fox ranch is located about a mile from the Ehore. Andrew Sorenson, assistant foreman of a bridge gang, was found uncon scious at Pocatello with a badlv frac tured skull and other injuries. He had been attacked bv mhhara smt i.ft e dead. ' - Twenty Years Ago From the Journal of September -13, 1902. Forest fires are bringing death and desolation. Gresham is beinir throat. ened and the town is being protected by m vigorous wont or citizens. The Oregon City people have a harii crh to keep the flames from making further fiuiew. sn uine, .uougias and Ma rlon counties vast areas of valuble tim ber are going up m sipoke. The steam er Columbia is on a' bar at Tongue's Point owing to her loss of bearing In the dense smoke. Teletihnrn an tele graph poles are dowp in many placet Dwellings, fences and bridges have been burned in great numbers in every section. " H. W. Cbrbett today definitely an nounced that he would not be a can didate for United States senator. The Guilds lake tract, at Willamette Heights, will be the site for the 1905 fair if proper arraneements can he made with the owners of the tract v - The dense columns of smoke, coming from the forest fires, banging over the Columbia for the east .few days have interfered very seriously with shipping. . . ' ' e ' Owing to an epidemic' of bovine smallpox at Woodland, Wash., a quar antine ha's been declared - against all food and dairy products shipped from that point. , , - - Wv .. ' V A bill is being prepared for presen tation at the coming session of the leg islature for the bunding - of a new bridge over the .Willamette at' Morri son street. The new structure will be entirely of stel. - ii , Dog poisoners are getting jn their deadly work, in the ' quiet suburb of Monta villa. Several valuable dog have been poisoned during the past week. It seems strange 'to daily yisilors to public buildings to be met with closed doors which are . amen nearly , all the year- around. ThUr Is on - account of the smoke and ashes from forest fires surrounding Portland. . ., .- . . . ' -.- -. -j Secretary Moore of the Board of Trade has accumulated valuable infor mation about timber, government and railroad lands, which he is willing to share with all nersons deairinrf it.