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ABOARD' JOR YAKIMA
DRAW ft circle around the coun
.try within 200 miles oftPort-
land. . Of -no part of the country
t thus, enclosed do we know so little
aa of Yakima valley. To the Port
land mind it is as remote as Alaska.
Districts twice the distance in East
ern -Orefron and Washington and
In Idaho we know. doubly well.
: Towns of the Yakima district become-'
cities,: tons become trainloads,
farms pour out products as from
the horn of plenty, projects costing
, millions are successfully consum
mated Portland observes this in
tense activity much as if it were occurring-
In Nairobi or Kamchatka,
f C Yet a direct railroad between
'Yakima city and Portland would be
only 165 miles long-. The shortest
I - present route is 300 miles. A 60-
mlle .extension would link us with
! Priest ' Rapids. A 'new route to
British Columbia, a new route, to
t Spokane and east, would be opened.
-A highway along approximately
I the same route around the base of
' JUount Adams would shorten to a
, few hours the drive between the
two cities. The highway would
vmake splendid resources of scenery
-available. The railroad .on its Vay
would tap large bodies of coal and
Umber. .Potential waterpower is
adjacent for the electrification of a
whole railroad system.
. .Grades would be less than over
the Cascade range from Yakima to
Tacom or Seattle. Engineering
problems would be simple. Trans
portation hazards would be f ew.
And what of the reward ?
. Yakima country has twice the
population of Alaska. Yakima val
ley produces year by year more
a than. Alaska. Yakima city has a
population of 20.000. Yakima coun
ty farms are valued at U2.000.000.
Farm products outbound last year
filled 88.T79 cars. Farm products
In Yakima county were valued at
JJ5.000.000.
Kittitas county, adjacent, has a
.population of 21,000, Ellensburg,
the county seat,. has 6500 people.
Seventy thousand tons of hay are
shipped out each year. Farm prod
ucts are valued at $6,000,000. The
I same valuation is placed on the
farm products of Benton county,
which, has a population of 10,903.
with' 1697 people inProsser, the
county seat. Some 320.000 acres
may be irrigated in Benton county.
. Throughout the Yakima valley
Irrigation has told a golden story.
As Mr. ; Teal has ' so forcefully
pointed feut, . the idea of a direct
railroad connection from Portland
is no .chimera, no forced or un-
- natural project, no fantastic dream.
There is business for a direct "rail
road if wVj enter the Yakima valley
on merely competitive terms with
Tacoma and Seattle. Such a rail
road would be Uke,linking Portland
to an invigorating dynamo of
growth and fortune. .'
- It'is amaxing that the products
of the. Yakima valley should ap
proximate $50,000,000 a year with
out effort for a direct railroad link
with Portland, ' It Is puzzling that
the desire of the Yakima people for
. direct railroad connection has in
the past 'won from Portland no
more; definite response. " Yet ft-'Ja
eot the past but the Immediate
future which must now answer.We
do not share in the rich business of
the Yakima valley because by pres
ent railroad routes Portland is
much more distant than Puget
Sound. The existinr rate differen
inr rae
tial so much favors Seattle and Ta
coma that Portland has scarcely a
look-in. 5 ' . . '
. Yet we speak, not of Alaska or
the wheat plains of 'Alberta, but-of a
country within call just around the
shoulder of Adams.
Mr. Teal has proposed to Port
land an aggressive campaign, for
railroad and highway to Yakima.
It is a challenge. The Portland
Chamber of Commerce has ac
cepted leadership. , It is a Job to
enlist Portland's strength without
rest until done. -
Passenger traffic agents who see
the Columbia river highway will
realize that "the -price of the ticket
to Oregon is only half the value of
the .transportation, they ' sell. ' It is
their business to see that people get
to where they want to go. But with
the memory of Oregon scenic beau
ty and the majesty of the North
west's outlooks they can little less
than make it their business to see
that people want to come this way.
THE WINDROWED DEAD
LYING in windrowsiike grain as
it falls before the reaper, the
stark bodies of the 47 miners were
found.
The annals of their passing were
revealed in the mute notes rudely
scrawled ih their last moments of
life. On the outer bulkhead Wil
liam Fessel. chemist, mines and
father of a family, seared this note:
Three a. m. Gas very bad. We are
going to leave you. ,
WILLIAM FESSEL.
A second note, a penciled scrawl,
was found on, the wet floor of the
drift. It read:
3. Too much gas.
Below was the figure "4." The
writer had endeavored to pencil a
final message at 4 o'clock. But he
was already falling into the sleep
that was to be his last, and the
scrawl was never finished,
v Occasionally we get glimpses of
what the rest of the world is doing.
It usually takes a tragedy to make
us sense the comings and goings of
those outside our own circle.
Here were 47 men, almost a mile
down in the bowels of . the earth,
their escape cut off by a fire that
raged in the single shaft between
them and the surface. They looked
for a mine elevator that -was tire
sole means of exit, to come down.
But it did not come, and then they
knew that they .were trapped.
Then came the gas, the frenzied
building of the bulkhead to protect
them from it, then the effort to
build a second one and then finis.
As we read the mournful story of
these dead, imagine their thoughts
and remember their 'hopes, perhaps
a new sympathy will go out from
us to those who daily do the peril
ous work of the world on sea and
land.
Nor can the- thought escape lis
that, since the Argonaut is de
scribed as the "richest producer in
the West," why was not one of the
two tunnels drilled into the Argo
naut from . the Kennedy built be
fore the tragedy instead of after.
And perhaps, over the discolored
remains of these dead, there will
arise a widespread insistence, for
the sake of the hopes and lives and
homes of those who bore their way
deep into the earth, that there must
hereafter be more than a single
means of escape.
The 47 will not have died in vain
If by their death at Argonaut plan
Is ' crystallized to place a higher
value on life at the -mines and to
protect it better.
THE BONUS VETO
THE nation asked the service men
to go to war. '
They went. They gave up home,
business, position, plans, career and
even life. .
The dead among them have been
counted. The cripples are on
crutches. In their hopelessness,
many of the. shell-shocked and
other nervous, wrecks, chose to go
over the long, long trail by the trag
edy of suicide. Others are wander
ing aimlessly through life without
hope and "without progpect. We
have done What we could to make
some of them comfortable through
various processes of aid. But full
restoration to normality is lmpos4
sible and will never be.
Stocks went tip when the veto
of the bonus bill was announced.
American Woolen the wool trust
went up. Stocks of the ice trust
went up. Baldwin Locomotive
stocks went up. Consolidated Gas
went up. United States steel went
up. Lackawanna steel went up.
It was a bully day for stocks. It
was- a lovely day for the big steel
companies whose, army contracts
yielded over-night fortunes during
the war. From border to border
of the country there are. men wJho
made so much- profit out of the war
that they do not know what to do
with their money. .
We threw up our hats and had
the bands play when i the ! boys
marched away. Our orators orated
and everybody tried to it on the
front seat at the war meetings We
waved the flag and . everybody
marched In the parades and de
clared how glorious itjw-as to be a
soldier boy, . . ; -
In the war, the "American boys
astonished the world.? Such fight
ing was never seen in Europe. Foch
said that the chief difficulty with
the American soldiers was to hold
him back. It is already in history
that the war was lost Until America
arrived. -V : : x -.y'.y:f'X
It is true that there Is no way to
pay with mere "money the service
that the fighters gave.fi It' is true
that any money that the nation can
bestow could not restore the dead,
renew the maimed.' bring back the
lost careers or recompense for the
blighted ' hopes. But this - nation in
its abundant wealth and exhaustless
resources . can afford to ' bestow
enough adjusted compensation to
prove "that republics are not un
grateful. . : -." - ..a -t'
And it ought to do it.' ;
Canada did it. ' "J . ..,X. -
A CRITICIZED BANK
THERE is criticism' in the East of
the Harriman National bank for
lending money to the United Mine
Workers with i which they might
purchase food and tents for their
families " during "the period of . the
strike. ,
That, of course, was a very grave
offense. What right, has a bank to
lend money to an organization in
order that the families of working
men might have food and shelter?
Money was not made. for working
men or their, families?. It was only
made for mine, owners. 7 And, what
right have miners to ask for fair
wages anyway? "What right have
they -to expect a living wage, to say
nothing of a few of the comforts of
life? They. are only"; supposed to
work, and that without money, save
what a few operators may decide to
give them.. , ;
And as for a bank tthat would
lend money to miners -well, there
is not much to eay, for uch an in
stitution. The mere fact that the
miners deposited their funds in the
Harriman bank makes ho differ
ence; the fact that they agreed to
pay a reasonable interest for the
money and that the bank is very
certain of getting its money back
has nothing to do with the ease,
according to some of the. critics.
Fortunately, the officials of the
Harriman bank do business on a
business basis rather than on a
basis of industrial politics. If more
big business organizations followed
a similar course, there would be
less industrial strife, fewer strikes,
less discontent, less . waste, fewer
radicals and a happier people.
TWO KINDS
THERE is tt very great difference
In traffic officers in the various
cities of the country. And as there
is difference in their attitude there
is difference in their, effectiveness
and in the attitude of " the public
toward them.
In many municipalities traffic of
ficers are taught to operate" on the
basis of service and helpfulness to
the public. They approach motor
ists with an air of kindness and aid.
They direct them in friendly tones
and with a smile. The result is that
the motorists respond to their or
ders In the spirit In which the or
ders are given. .
Otherwhere, the air of . service
and helpfulness is lacking." Offi
cers bawl out their orders -with the
roar of the Hon. They assume the
attitude of a king, giving directions
to intolerable subjects. The smile
Is lacking, the tones are harsh, and
the manner of approach that of a
barbarian. In the ultimate, the re
sults are directly the opposite of
those obtained by the other class
of officers.
People resent dictation. Theyj-e-sent
the, domineering display of
authority. They resent the air of
kingship and kingly power. They
refuse to respond to the antagonis
tic direction of ' the czars of the
street corner.-
Traffic officers are much in evi
dence to residents as well as to visi
tors. A smiling, genial, obliging of
ficer is an asset to a commnnity.
He radiates an air - of friendship,
cordiality and kindness. It Is trans
mitted to those with whom he
comes in. contact. They pass him
with a spirit of kindness and a
feeling of friendship for the world,
whereas the officer imbued with
the importance of hia own author
ity and actuated by" a desire to
trample under foot his despicable
subjects, transmits-' to others only
a feeling of resistance.
- Most Portland traffic officers be
long to the better ' group.
WHILE CLEANING HOUSE
AN Oregon court has ordered the
interest-rate bill stricken, from
the November ballot.' It is very
properly banned, because the signa
tures on its petitions reeked with
fraud and forgery. . .
There was the further fact that
it was not proposed In good faith,
but was to be the means for driving
a profitable bargain with financial
interests. The financiers refused
to pay Over several thousand dollars
to keep it off the' ballot, 'and the
only thing for the promoters to do
to save their faces was to file the
petitions and let the measure go
before the people. ' v,
A good end Is served by the fail
ure that has come to this attempt to
use , the initiative for biackmaiL
And now, to set up further barriers,
the next legislature Is under obli
gation to pass a law to send to the
penitentiary anyone who ' attempts
to prostitute the initiative for per
sonal gain, and another law to ade
quately punish fraud In Initiative
petitions. ' v .-;. :( ..
And while we are housecleajiing
is not somebody going to investigate
the signatures on the petitions to
the income tax amendment? It 'is
proposed by certain Portland inter,
ests to head off a graduated Income
tax. : It was conceived in an effort
to prevent the' taxation of millions
worth ot tatangible property that
escapes taxation altogether, v
Are the signatures on Its petitions
all valid? ; Why do not those who
are so humiliated ; by the forgeries
and frauds on the grange petitions
for an Income tax also investigate
petitions for the income tax amendment?
KEMAL'S COUP IS
MORE THAN A
!';COJIE-BACK-.':
Rebonnd ef the Turkish Power a De
velopment Notable Amid a Centu
ry's Events ; Recovery Jue, as of
,i . Yorej to the European Nations'
t Dixunited Mind, and that Iue
; to the Rivalries of Clashing
Ambitions What Has
. Happened " in Four
i , Short Months.- r -
From the - BfeBmosd New Leader
September II and 12) ;
The summary of the situation Sn Asia
Minor, as cabled today from London,
curiously , combines -a note of finality
with one of uncertainty Greek rule
in Smyrna district is at an end. That
Is plain, t But what the consequences
of the Turkish triumph may be, the
rashest hesitate to predict.
Developments of the last two weeks
hsve been much more than a remark
able "come back." They have been the
climax jo f as bold a plan of resistance
as has been undertaken in a century.
Had not the hands of the Turks been
red with the blood of the defenseless,
the work of those hands would have
wrung unwilling admiration from- the
world. For Turkey alone of the central
powers has shaken , off the shackles of
the peace treaty. - She has succeeded
in dividing the allies and in recovering
much of her territory she that was of
all the vanquished the more complete
ly dismembered.
The .armistice found the principal al
lied powers so exhausted in finance
and in man-power and so war-weary
that they were anxious to withdraw
from the distant theatres, the "side
shows" of the great struggle. Germany
and Austria, in order, were the powers
to be "watched i Turkey and Bulgaria
could wait. In , the . spring of 1919,
however, Greece was authorized to oc
cupy Smyrna, which the allies were
willing to turn over to her.
. .
The landing of the Greek troops in
May was the signal for a revival of
nationalism in Turkey. Mustafa
Kemal Paea. who has distinguished
himself in the Gallipoli campaign, real
ized that resistance was useless in
Constantinople, then as now under the
guns of an allied fleet. He retired to
Anatolia and there, on June 19, at
Khavsa, he raised the standard of re
volt against the partition of that part
of Asiatic Turkey left the Porte under
the armistice of Mudros, signed October
30, 1918. Arabia, Mesopotamia, Pales
tine and the Dardanelles, Kemal Pasha
professed a willingness to surrender;
for the rest he exhorted every disciple
of Islam to do battle.
What followed is too long a story to
be repeated here. To every trick in the
box, Kemal Pasha resorted, v He
reached terms with Bolshevist Russia ;
he stirred the - Mohammedans of India
and of Egypt ; he profited by every
mistake the Greeks made after the fall
of Venizelos, who was more than a
match for him ; he achieved what
seemed to be the impossible in coming
separately to terms with France in
October, 1921-; he mysteriously pro
cured arms and ammunition in abun
dance ; and when the, Greeks made the
dismal blunder of concentrating in
European Turkey, as if to mareh on
Constantinople, he struck quickly.
The usual allied inquest now will be
held to determine who was at fault.
The deliberation will be tortuous and
the verdict hesitant. The simple truth,
if ultimately it shall emerge, is that
Greece under Venizelos was supported
and encouraged and that Greece under
Constantino was ditched by France and
neglected by England. The age-old
rivalries of the Aegean have made
honest men fair out. When' that
happens, thieves prosper. , s
The allies apprehension today for the
safety of Constantinople and of the
straits goes back, to their weak-kneed
revision of the treaty of Sevres as
strange a tale as is to be found in all
the queer chronicles of these post-war
years.
The Turkish peace treaty, signed at
Sevres on August 20, 1920. stipulated
that navigation of the Dardanelles and
of the Bosphorus Bhould be free. To
guarantee this, all fortifications with
in 12 miles of the straits or of the Sea
of Marmora were to be destroyed, the
construction of roads or railways suit
able for the rapid transport of mobile
batteries was to be prohibited and the
whole of the "demilitarized area" was
to be placed under control of an inter
allied commission.
Quite obviously this arrangement
would stand no longer than the alliance
did. Even if the alliance held, there
always was the possibility that Turkey
could sweep aside the garrison and re
gain her old positions on the heights.
But such as it was, the plan probably
was the best that could be worked out
at the time.
When the strong resistance of the
Turkish Nationalists led the allies to
revise the treaty of Sevres in March,
1922, they reduced by more than 50
per cent the area on the Asiatic side
of the straits where no fortifications
could be maintained. The undefended
district was. limited to the eandjak of
Chanak. the islands off the Dardanelles
and in the Sea of'Marmora, and the
peninsula of Artaki, which Juts into
the Sea of Marmora from the Asiatic
shore. he erection of military works
on Gallipoli was prohibited, though the
allies agreed to occupy only the south
western district, and not to keep a
larger garrison ' there than was neces
sary "to the entrance to the Dardan
elles." In other words,5 after having fought
some of the bloodiest and most ghastly
campaigns of the war in' order to se
cure the free navigation of the Dar
danelles, the allies have signed, away
their security and now are panic
stricken at their own lack of fore
sight. - .
A Nebraska Tribute to the
Old Oregon Trail
' From the "Lincoln Star
?No more striking chapter has ever
been written in American history than
the story of the pioneers who braved
the hardships and dangers f, a 1500
mile journey In covered wagons
through the western wilderness to take
up homes In -the ipadfio. Northwest,
three-quarters of a century ago. The
path taken by these pioneers, known as
the "Oregon Trail," thus became a
great historic route." and is marked
today by hundreds ',, of ? monuments
erected along it. :- '
Nebraska, then a virgin territory, in
habited by Indian tribes and herds of
buffalo, was traversed by these tens of
thousands ef men and women journey
ing to the westward, and many of them
who succumbed - to disease enroute
found crude graves J in Its soil. The
Old Oregon i highway is consecrated
ground . to Kebraskana. .,. -who realise
how much the present . generation is
Indebted to these who. blazed the" way
for civilization. - , " . -f ;
n Most of us remember the queer spec
tacle, 10 or X2 years ago, of a tall,
lank, grizzled man, withi white hair
who came through Nebraska .driving
an team to a f prairie schooner" of
the ancient type. " This, man was Ezra
Meeker .of Oregon, one of that state's
first settlers, who covered the i whole
length of the Trail" to get there. He
was on,, his way to Washington to in
terest congress and the various states
in the marking of the famous road so
that it might not become wholly ob
literated. - - . .
Now at the advanced age of 92 years.
Ezra Meeker is on his way ' back to
Washington, once more - following the
same route as before. His present ob
jective is to bring about congressional
action for the surveying of the Oregon
trail and opening it again to travel as
a national memorial highway. '
, This project is one which carries a
strong sentimental appeal, Mr. Meeker
is finding strong support for it in. the
communities along the route, and many
organizations have promised their as
sistance. It would seem that congress
might well provide for such a highway
out of the liberal appropriations it is
making for ., road ' improvements
throughout the country. .
. It is good to know that in this 'push
ing commercial ago- the 'pioneers who
gave their energies and their lives to
build up the western empire have not
been wholly forgotten. Success to" you,
Ezra Meeker. .;:'
j Letters From the People j
f Commonicetions cent to The Journal for
publication in this department aboold be writ
ten oa only on aide of the pejjer. shooM not.
exeeea suu word In lenctb. and moat
iitned by the writer, whoa mail addreet ia
tuU must accompany the contribution. 1
IN THE CASE OF HALL
Opinion Offered Relative to His
Status, With Quotation From the
Constitution.
McMinnviUe. Sept. W.-To the Editor
of The Journal Various questions
arise over - the muddle growing
out of the nominations for
governor, and many claim that
Hall cannot run for governor be
cause the governor" Is forbidden to
proclaim his election in case he should
be elected. The impression seems to
be with many that the governor is re
quired to issue a proclamation stating
who is elected governor, etc ; but this
is an error, so far as the office of
governor is concerned. Section 4 of
article- 5 of the state constitution gov
erns this matter, and it provides, inter
alia, that "the returns of every election
for governor shall be sealed up and
transmitted to the secretary of state,
directed to the speaker of the house
of representatives, who shall open and
publish them in the presence of both
houses of the legislative assembly."
The secretary of state does not count
the vote for governor, nor does the
governor proclaim the result.' The con
stitution requires the legislative as
sembly in Joint session to count the
vote and to declare the result, and
section 6 or article 5 of the constitution
vests in the legislative assembly ex
clusive jurisdiction to determine con
tested elections for governor, and no
court has jurisdiction of such' a con
test. If Hall runs and receives a
plurality of the votes cast for gov
ernor, the legislative assembly will
have authority to declare him elected.
I am not a supporter of Mr. Hall,
nor am I in sympathy with the things
that he seems to stand for.
' Jeffersonian.
ABSORBED VALUES
Portland, Sept, 17. To the Editor of
The Journal How will the community
as a whole be. benefited by Bingle tax?
People living In a community, besides
having each his own privately owned
property, have all together some com
munal or collectively owned property.
As Individuals each one is entitled to
exclusive possession of what he earns
or creates. So in man's collective ca
pacity as part of the community he is
part owner of the firm property
streets, schools, fire stations, libraries,
city hall, etc As an individual each
person is entitled to whatever he has
earned or created or had given to him.
The community must have equal right
to ownership in what it has created
or will go on creating. I have enumer
ated the visible property of the com
munity or cpmmon wealth. There are
also, through the mere presence of an
organized community, -constantly in
creasing though invisible values, being
created every day; that must belong
to- it. being created by it collectively.
Thee invisibly created ralae5" attach
lo the land of the community. But the
laws, not being very particular in such
matters, permit Individuals from its
midst or from abroad to rush in ,and
buy up all the vacant lands they can
grab and hold them out of use till the
community has made them valuable.
Then they "sell the earth" and take the
proceeds away with them. These con
stantly absorbed land values aggre
gate a vast sum every year. It would
pay ail our present taxes and more, if
we had it. But though it is morally
ours we cannot get it. So, when we
want to buy or build any public neces
sity we tax ourselves as Individuals.
There is a steadily growing fund which
the community has made and needs to
pay its expenses with, entirely lost to
us. Land profiteers get it. Then the
community sticks its hands into our
private- pockets to defray its expenses.
First the landlords rob the community,
then the community robs its individ
uals. Not only would the community
be richer if it had its own, but the in
dividual would be richer if he could
keep his own. '
Lona Ingham Robinson.
CLAIMS FOR SINGLE TAX
Portland, Sept. 18. To the Editor
of The Journal Whatever else might
happen by adopting single tax for
Oregon it is certain to drive no wealth
out of the state. The land itself will
remain in just the same area and be
just as fertile, whatever its taxes may
be. Is it outside capital we would in
vite into the state to develop our re
sources? Single tax will dorlt better
than a fair. Single tax means: "Come
on, you who would build our railroads,
our warehouses, our factories and
dwellings, and bring your money, too :
we don't tax you on any of . these."
And it is, "We don't want: you you
who would buy up our water power,
our land and our franchises, to stand
In the way of industry by helding these
things in speculation and out of use,
and well pinch you with taxes if you
try it ; so come with your money and
energy on the side of industry and
we'll tax you not at alL Our purpose
is to sweep away the parasites on the
land, not its users. . It's clear the track
for the doers, the dirt farmers, labor
ers and active capitalists ; it's away
with those who would get in the way
of these ;" it's to . pinch , the land mo
nopolists hard with taxes and make
them nee their holdings .or get out of
the Way for those who win use
them." , : t . ' '
. H. Denltnger. !
- FUNNY - .
From the Eugene Guard "
Funny how the Oregonlan looks upon
the direct primary as a blessings when
its results happen to go its way of
thinking. Poindexter of Washington
and Town send of Michigan were nom
inated by the Republicans In spite of
their Newberry votes, and the Ore
gonian is mightily pleased to think
these ' representatives of , big business
and little politics are. so thoroughly
vindicated by the rank and file of the
party, v It is noticeable, however, that
the Oregonlan does not ca.Il attention
to the fact that both these candidates
are the choice of minorities only be
cause of the opposition to- Newberry?
ism and all it represent., split among
several candidates. .. t Ordinarily the
Portland paper holds such a result up
to the' world aa one of the weaknesses
of the direct primaryand we all know
it has plenty of them but in these
particular cases a mere plurality means
complete . vindUjatlon. ., r, '
- v GRAVITY AGAINST IT . v
" "From th title Obaerrar Oinpatcb :
v .No man- ever 'fell up the ladder of
fame. The fan is generally in the op
posite direction. : v . . . .
COMMENT AND
SMALL CHANGE .
"Second-hand man convicted." Does
that mean he's a grass widower?
. . - -,. r . . v .
Henry Ford is said to be the world's
richest man.: Now for soma merry
tin-tin-nabulations, as it were.
"Beavers drop opening game." That's
the old fight that wins the booby
prize 1 - .
, a ' .. a -
Government faces $650,000,000 deficit.
We're not in such a bad -way, per
sonally, as our creditors had led us to
believe. . -V-- "
- To tell the truth, we've beenf so busy
minding our own. business here lately
that we dent even know who's going
to win the world's series- ; ' .
" ' - ' -
Princess Hermine thinks Kaiser Bill
Is all "fire - a)nd flame." Naturally
would be, baying been in a mental
purgatory for so long.
MORE OR TaESS PERSONAL "
Random Observations About Town
Judge John L. Chllds of Crescent
City, Cal.. is in Portland to form an
interstate association to secure more
good roads in Northern California and
Southwestern Oregon national -foresta
His plan is to form a national forest
protective association comprising the
11 states west of the Rocky mountains,
for the purpose of securing federal
action in congress. The principal ar
gument advanced for the building-of
roads in the forest reserves is fire pro
tection). Motion- pictures' of 'forest
fires will be one of the features of the
campaign. Chllds is also interested In
the completion of the Roosevelt coast
highway to Its Junction with the Red
wood highway at Crescent City.
a a a
Clyde Beaulleu of Bend is among
out of town visitors."
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN :
By Fred
A man of the church, who believe in enan'a
brotherhood and is villi nc to do hi fall ehare
of the brotherin, teUa Mr. Lockley about hia
arhem of thinra. H addresses hunaaU point
HW tn thnae who insist, that tht ia already th
best possible ef economic and Industrial worlds
and that it most be kept so Dy repression.
"If you want" to meet a big man
nhvsicallv. intellectually and spiritu
allydon't fail to interview Bishop
Charles Williams of Detroit," -saia a
friend of mine to me a day or so ago.
As a man thinketh, so is he. Bishop
Williams is a " profound thinker, and
his thinking has resulted in his com
ing to some very definite conclusions.
Before I take up the matter of his
beliefs, let me offer something about
the man himself.
a a
'sntr rtnt rn mn to America in the
seventeenth century," said Bishop Wil
liams. "I was born on a farm in unio
on July 80, 1860. My father, David
Williams, was also born in Ohio. My
mother's maiden name was Eliza Dick
son. I was the only child in a large
family of brothers and sisters. When
ever I take out insurance I have to
make a diagram of that statement so
the insurance -examiner will know
what t mean. Mv father was a wid
ower with nine children when he mar
ried my mother, who was a wiaow wun
six children, I was their only child,
but. was the sixteenth child, counting
their children by their previous mar
riages. e a a
'Father was a strict Methodist.
Mother was an Episcopalian, but she
attended the Methodist church. When
I was 11 I decided I preferred the
Episcopal church, so I changed ; my
allegiance- to that church. When I
changed I had no thought of entering
the ministry. As a matter of fact. I
wanted to be a locomotive engineer.
I remember with a great deal of pleas
ure listening to the stories of my ma
ternal grandfather about his experi
ences as a soldier in the war of liz
He lived to be 90 years old. He used
to tell me how when he was a. little
chap he used to visit his grandfather,
and how he would cower with fear in
the darkest corner of the cabin when
the Indians used also to come visiting
his grandfather.
"How does it come "that I left the
Methodist church to become an Epis
copalian? That's easy. The" Episco
pal church is the post-graduate course
for the other churchea If you will
take the roll of the bishops you. will
find most of them come from families
of Methodists, Presbyterians, Baptists
or some other branch of the Protestant
church. The .Episcopal church has in
its fold members who have come from
almost every other - denomination and
who have brought with- them many
of the beliefs of other churches, Im
bibed with their mothers milk. .Per
sonally, I can't see sny reason why
we should not have union- of the vari
ous branches of the Protestant church.
; ' a a a .
: "As a boy I attended the public
school. . Then I attended and gradu
ated from Kenyon college, an Episco
pal institution founded about 100 years
ago. This old college, located at Gam
bler. Ohio, is a cultural college, and
believes in scholarship. I attended
and graduated from the seminary
there. My first parish was In a suburb
of Cincinnati. After four years I
went to Steubenville,- Ohio, where I
stayed five years.- I spent the next
13 years as dean of Trinity cathedral
at Cleveland. For the past 17 years
I have been bishop of Michigan. I
married Lucy Benedict, a native of
Georgia and the daughter of a. Cincin
nati clergyman. We have nine chil
dren. My oldest boy enlisted the first
week of the war and was assigned to
naval aviation. He soon became a
lieutenant and Instructor. Yes, he en
Joys flying, ; but until the time comes
for me to leave this old earth it is
plenty good enough for ine, and I
don't care to soar to realms above
except in the duly appointed heavenly
chariot. .:.- ;
a .
"In my formative" period I had the
privilege of meeting Henry George
and being converted by him to bis
gospel. I also knw Louis Henry Post
and Tom Johnson. Henry George was
one of. the most charming and attrac
tive men I ever met. He had a mild
voice and a mild manner. He was mod
est to a degree. ' He had no conception
that he was a great man. He did not
think that single 'tax was his discov
ery.; He felt ihat he had merely stated
an obvious fact In writing his book,
"Progress and Poverty. Do you know
that no man is more responsible for
the progress or the labor movement
in England than Henry George? There
he Is looked up to as one of the
world's f great, reformers. ; Bertrand
Russell, the great English publicist
and one of England's clearest thinkers.
In speaking of our , present Illogical
and v, indefensible 4 capitalistic - system,
said The English business man Is
aware that be ; Is confronted by a
changing order, but he hopes the pres
ent system may last through his day,
while the typical American business
man believes he lives in an unchang
ing and unchangeable order, and that
the present system is divine and is as
eternal as the solar system. v
: "No. Russell - does not have a- high
NEWS IN BRIEF
..SIDELIGHTS..
Every man has a right to his opin
ions, but they should coincide with our
own. Grant County Journal . :
.'.. a a
"Chicago sweltered through another
day of terrific heat," says the news re
port. . It is hard to realise that while
trying to k'eep warm without your coat
so aa to show off your Round-Up shirt.
Pendleton East . Oregonlan.
; . a a r . "
. A congressman complains that men
are disposed to walk out on the slight
est pretext. Still, it's just as, well to
have somebody -In the country who Is
willing to walk. Medford Mail-Tribune.,:;
.,..-.;. '.v.- .,: :-::-
. - . . -s?v - - v a a ' '-' - - '
- Among the dangerous nuisances of
the road might be mentioned the guy
who carries two spotlights . on his car
and keeps them directed straight ahead
into the eyes of the .driver he is meet
inc. Astoria Budget. . .
As the Episcopal General Convention
draws to a close the exodus of bishops
is beginning. Among those who have
returned' to their dioceses is Bishop
Keator or oiympia. wash. -
a a a
Webstej Holmes of Tillamook was
transacting some legal business in
Portland. Tuesday.
a a a
Charles Marks and I W. Wilson of
Joseph are among Wallowa county vis
itors. r a a a
Visitors from Monroe are James
Poole. R. V. Woodcock. Harold Larkln
and William Poole. . ......
- a
Inscribed on the register of the Im
perial is the name of Joseph Cunha Jr.
of Echo. .
Lockley
opinion Of Our banlnra nnt Vl- k.
new-men, for he says that With the
exception of a few tribes in the in
terior of Afrloa
-wa. kia xD 1UU11U
so densely ignorant as the typical
Ai'icrivan ousmess man.
"Great Britain is muddling through
by a process of evolution and educa
tion. Here we seem to believe in a
policy of repression that is likely to
cause an exDlosion. nruuthiw r
icy of v repression will sooner bring
wuugs to a neao and result in the
overthrow of the invisible government,
which is dominated by the commer
cial conscience, j The arrest, conviction
and imprisonment, through war hys
teria, of Dr. Marie Equi could not
have occurred jn Great Britain and
should not have occurred here in our
country, though there - were thousands
of cases of Imprisonment
tation equally wjlthout justification. It
is a aangerousi thing to forbid free
speech and public 'discussion or criti
cism. a
"Every time go to England I am
more and more impressed with the
way England is handling her prob
lems of social welfare. , Great Britain
today has more real democracy, more
liberty, more frlsedom, than any other
country on the face of the earth.
What makes me say that? I went to
Hyde park the last time I was in
LondOn. TO -a nillnh,I- rf err. n .ma
meetings where, the speakers 'urged
4 VtA nira.Ai. . ,
-M-..-. u.. v.. uiq guvernmvni ana
denounced Lloyd George -as a tool of
the capitalistic class. Here we would
have thrown them all into the hoose
gow for sedition. There, the Brijish
policemen were; on hand to see that
they had their say without being in
terrupted or , -disturbed. . .You remem
ber, of course, how In an English city
a bunch of radicals seised the town
hall and declared a soviet government.
The mayor sent a platoon of police,
not to arrest j them but t protect
them from ,violence, and their, soviet
government soon petered out.
' a a a
"I was one of a party of 30 Ameri
cans who wen to England to study
industrial conditions and the. labor
movement. It j was a wonderful ex
perience. We asked questions of lead
ing employers and labor leaders, and
they returned the compliment. I asked
them if there would be a revolution
there to overthrow capitalism. They
said. There is j no need of a revolu
tion. Capitalism is a temporary sys
tem, like feudalism,- and it Is break
ing down. It is illogical, and stands
in the way of the world's process ; so
it cannot survive. - Nothing is settled
till it is settled right, and capitalism
is not the answer to the world's need
of brotherhood and world peace and
progress. '
a a
"When Seebohn Rountree, the head
of the chocolate industry Of . Great
Britain, was in Detroit I invited him
to meet some of the big business men
of Detroit. They asked him question
and were scandalised by. his answers.
He said, "Here in America you are
75 years behind Great Britain in your
social progress. In the bid. days l we
tried, as you are trying, to crush labor
and to regard it as a commodity. As
long as you fight labor you. will have
the ethics of , warfare, and labor will
put forward its fighting leaders Its
Dempseys and its Jack Johnsons. We
ceased to work' against labor and be
gan to work with It- We began to
negotiate In place of fighting ; so labor
put forward Its statesmen and diplo
mats as leaders, and the fighting-men
were thrown into the discard. We
can't understand- your violence -and
murder In your strikes, i The -railroad,
steel mill or coal mine owners in our
country" would not be allowed to arm
their'Tmen. ? The keeping of : order in
our country Is a function of the gov
ernment In Great Britain the. trades
unions know exactly" what are - their
rights. Here in the United States the
rights of labor depend upon the ar
bitrary . declalone of the judges who
issue the injunctions. Tour system is
one that can result in nothing but con
fusion, mutual ill will and conflict.
We want all our employes to belong
to the trade unions, so we can meet
their authorized leaders In questions
at issue.'
t .,. !; y...;. i;tt-7i V.:-""' .,N
"The government is England is more
responsive and amenable to the will
of the people than .is; the case here
in oar country; Here -the voter regis
ters his will in the election of a con
gressman or senator, k Congress wran
gles; over a : question interminably ;
then the senate takes a hand and final
ly a law is -passed, and then the su
preme court decides it is unconstitu
tional. " We have ; too- many barriers
and blocks between the will of the
people "and ; the passage of remedial
legislation. We need a mors respon
sible and more responsive government
to our J cosntry. " ; We ' do not want .
soviet of . bankers and big" " business
men to mn our country forsus. ' We
want a national government, controlled
by the expressed will of a great peo
ple through ; use ballot box. we ao
not want a government run by espion
age. And we want a higher conscience
to guide us not the commercial con
science.- If. we are. sons, of God, - then
we are brothers, and we should be so
In fact as well as in name." -. . ;
-The. Oregon Country
North wee Happenins la Brief rm toe h
- . Boay Keener. .
OREGON '
Chinook salmon fin sterlings to the
number of 1.500.000 were released from
fhav k'la.lr.ni. -I..... v.t-k.M e.n.
day
The army airplane that was wrecked
at Roseburg- Friday was burned Satur
dyjf hen the aviation field at that city
caught fire. , , -
More than 200 has been raised at
isew Grand Ronde for the widow of
Glenn H. Price, federal officer who
WSUI ahflt an1 kmi . , ,
USt 27 .tvi mi iue.1 piavw au(-
omm.e.rCiaI club is planning the or
5"l!??a ? building anf loan as-
PVtlwlt etJll, . . '.- 1
S,?iri0fi,nop !n Marion county Is
r.!.1-y completed and the yield
K.i.. t . at .approximately 5,000
coVntrac?edJUt h,f ? Which h" bn
g& 000ach. have been awarded to
tJ, " ,"" 4-'iV "no James A. Uavies.
clamor mi. stori.a hih 8cwi tn
While fishing Saturday, Tee Rimon.
12k ? r58,,dinV ; Soarta, fell down a
100-foot cliff 'near Mormon Batn and
received injuries tuat resulied in his
death two hours Uler. ' , j
..T Seaside grade school opened
Monday with a large attendance in its
new $.0,000 building. The structure
contains l class rooms and an as
sembly hall seating 1300 persona
Leslie, 14-year-otd son of- John
Fletcher of Cor vail is. lost one eye and
may lose the other as the result of the
explosion of a can of powder with
which he was playing with another lad.
Gus Carlson of Prairie City." road
contractor on the John Pay highway,
received fatal injuries Saturday when
he was caught in the belt of a rock
crusher and thrown into the fly wheel.
- The 12th annual Hood" River county
school fair, held at Hood River Sat-ury-
drew an attendance aRtlmated
at 3500. Pupils exhibited poultry, live
stock, vegetables, flowers and cookery.
Colonel and Mrs. J. G. Day. parents
f N- Day of Portland and Dr J O.
D"T of Roseburg. celebrated their th
wedding anniversary at Rosebur Sat
urday Colonel Day completed the
Cascade locks in 1896. V,
As an Indication of the rapid growth
'H? development of the Klamath coun-
SHfi.Ji ". notd tat the American
National bank at Klamath Falls has
erOWn in 91 mnn)).. I .I.... . .
... j . , . " ""'""' v n uintlLU I loll ,
r,-nftUI; resources of more than
fi,VUtVW. .
WASHINGTON '
During last' week 450 carloads of
peaches and SuO of pears were shipped
from Yakima. ; .
About $30,0.00 wa3 spent this vear
fighting s the fires threatening Pend
Oreille .county forests, -
Robbers blew the safe "of the Lewis
and Clark high school at Spokane one
efj weck and escaped with
f Owfi -
Fire on the Yakima reservation last
week destroyed the hop house of P.
N. Campbell, near Wapato, causing a
loss of 110,000.
- As a result of stripping all super
ficial expenditures from the budget.
Walla Walla's school levy this year
will be lowered from JO mills' to 8
mills. , , . ' ' jv '
W. G. Riste. a '-Kansas educator
Who moved to Seattle a year ago and
organized the Northwest Teachers'
association, died in that city last
week. :
Fred ' L. Wolff of Newport. Pend
Oreille cohnty, was elected president
of the Washington Good Roads asso
ciation at its annual meeting in El
lensburg Saturday.
W. B. Webb, one of the oldest of
Washington pioneers, died at Cheney
last week, aged H8 years. He had
been identified with the civic life of
Cheney for 40 yerr.
- Eleven cows valued at $2000, part
of a herd belonging to Van Worden
ft Galbraith, a mile north of Du
wamish. were, killed Outright Satur
day by a passing train; ,
Four firsts, five seconds and tight
other- prizes -were won by Harry W
Bateman ,-. of Bellingham in the
Guernsey section of the New West
minster exposition last week.
The 18 months old son of Walter E.
Bushnell. a farmer living near Deer
Park, was attacked by seven' hogs
Friday , and so badly injured before
being rescued by his father that he
may. die.
Petitions are being circulated In
v ader for the calling of another spe
cial election - to authorize " a special
tax levy of 10 mills for school pur
poses. A similar election held in Au
gust failed.
The Central hoUl at Loon lake, a
landmark since stagecoach days, ' now
used as a summer resort, was badly
damaged by fire Saturday night. Fire
fighters found - mattresses soaked
with kerosene.,
Caught between two logs, Norman,
J McLean, 25, an employe In a Jog
ging camp In the Maple Falls district,
was fatally injured Saturday and
died ' before a Rllino-hm t.K.T.U!.
could reach him. ; .
Shipments of lumber -in carload
lots from, Puget , sound to foreign
ports, California and the Atlantic
coast during August totaled 62.618,000
feet, an Increase of . 12,719.000 feet
over August of last yeai.
' ' 'V IDAHO '.
The Boise high school opened Mon
day with an enrollment of 1250 stu
dents. . '-.t.."
Threshing is completed in the .Mos
cow district and about half the crop
of -wheat has bean sol3'al prices av
eraging 90 cents. '
The city of Coeur d'AIene will
spend $22,799 this fall In paving Park
drive, Military drive and Sherman
and Garden avenues.
. Prune packing began in Emmett
this week, the Gem Union fruit house
having more than 100 packers at
work. About 80 carloads will be
shipped from Emmett.
j Sheriff James D. Agnew. who is In
Minnesota, has been granted extradi
tion papers to return to Idaho, Floyd
Landers and Lester Whitson, two
youths wanted at Boise for stealing an
automobile. t v .
Ed Thyfault. a farmer of Genesee,
Idaho, was killed at Lewiston Sun
day morning when his automobile
was. struck by a car , driven by Clar
ence C. Henry. . Henry .is under arrest
charged with manslaughter. . -,,
Twenty; Years Ago
Did You -Get--, a' Shock on the
Visit Home?
Do not be surprised when-you find
that old friends of former years, whom
youi have not seen in a long time, have
drifted away from you. and that others
seem to have taken your place with
them, - -
Perhaps you visited your former
home this summer and. it surprised you
that elosest friends of bygone .years
had important engagements with other
persons, which they did not care to
break in your favor. y -.;. -
. The shock was a severe one to you.
But have your not formed new friends
ln your present location or residence
who have, to a large extent, taken the
places the old friends back home r ted
to occupy,; before you were separated
from them for these many years?. -
In the old - home town- you got a
hearty greeting, , but you found yoi
were no longer a part of the town.
Neither its society nor its r-: cat life
looked to you for support. .
The people were getting c t vith-
eut you bless them '. and you learned
that you were no longer important
citizen. But why should you expect it?
In Tact, you did -not expect it, and you
were -very', happy to be remembered a
little by some and more by -others.
tCapyrlsht 1922.-by International T-aalar
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