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I- 6 THE OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. : MONDAY, y SEPTEMBER 25, 1922: i - I I AS tJfDEPESDESt KEWSPAPT.H C. 5 8. JACKSON . . : : . PnbH&br Ba eaim. be confident; be cbecrftu sad do onto other -a w wsulilrlr lira ,d moto - i l'abiiahed-every weekday ua Sunday nonuic at Tlx Journal traUdinc, BtiHdww a Xmmr lull arreet, Portland. Oresoo, I,aiered at th poatotfic at Portland, OmiM, - lor tr&ximiMioii Ui .ugh tUa auJi a second -Jasa matter. .ATION'Al ADVERTISING KtPKESEXTA : .TIVB -Beojaaia Kentaor Co.. Braas- "rick tmfldins. 26 Filth nna, Kew York; t0O Mailer trafidinx. Chics 10. " " VACIFIO COAST KEPKESjEXTATIVE - M. i. Horsanaoa Cot. Inc. Kxamiaer rtiikttna. -Baa Francisco; TiU .lnanraaca boUdiax, Lo 'Aca-elea; Bet-oxitiea bnildinaV Seattle." ' -&& OUECsQS jUl'lUUI. wens th. risht . Ao reject adTcrtisina copy whir-h it ; deems . bb)aetioiabla. It also will net print any copy that in any way shnulatas reading mat : iter dr that cannot readily be reeosxusad at adTartfainc. 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All department ' raaehed by this snmber. Rowefcr mean your Ufa ia, met it and Vf it; do not abun it and call it hard namaa. It ia not so bad as you are. Thoreau. )WHEftE THE COST LANDS TTHO is to pay the cost of the coal ,yf strike? . I pne operator answers that "the ptibllc must bear the cost because there is no one else to get that cpat from." Another operator in Hiking about the costs of the strike aiid the prices thereafter signi ficantly remarks that "folks usu ally make hay' while the sun shines." ; J So long- as the operators can load thv costs of strikes off onto the public and after the strike charge th public any prices they desire, why-should-the owners of mines lose sleep over impending; walk outs Tf" If they win the. strike, the wages of workers are beaten down and the profits of the operators grow. If they lose the strike they raise the price to pay the increased wages. And on top of that, the cost of the strike is added to the iirfce. ' ; I In short, the operators cannot .tse" by industrial strife because they have the ; public at their mercy, but they can win if, they succeed ip reducing " the cost of mining through lowered wages. . I During the strike and the weeks immediately preceding, the attitude Of the owners toward workers, govr ernment and public was one of dis dain. They refused to talk to the miners, they refused government frbita-tlon, and they refused all . Compromise. . . ; ' I "ttt, In "Washington the Borah bill providing for a thorough investiga tion of the" Industry with the ulti mate purpose of protecting the public from strikes and igougers la still languishing in -committee. I Perhaps there are congressmen who believe that the public is so $oile and comfortable as to be willing to , always pay the cost of unnecessary strikes. But those congressmen will one of these days learn that the public is not half so docile as they seem to believe and concurrently will learn that they are no 'longer members of the na tional legislative assembly. I Sportsmanship in st. lotjis t :-;--r , . fTHERB is no more disgraceful ii v event in recent news dispatches han the cowardly act of St. Louis footers In deliberately throwing . bottles at , opposing players during the-.; baseball games between the home team nd the New "fork Americans. ' f The two clubs were fighting for the championship of the American league. New York . was about to Hvin the game. A St.' Louis player drove a fly to the outfield, and .while New York players were pre paring to make the catch & nail of bottles - was burled, in : their direction. One player-was knocked unconscious 'and carried from, the field. ; ;-", . . -' "Americans are known as the best f sportsmen. But do they deserve the name when partisans' so com pletely 'lose their moorings ;aa to ndanger the lives of jnen by iurl ng bottles? onto the playing field ? Are baseball fans desirous of win ning a pennant by killing members of the opposing teams? V ': The fair name Of St. Louis ' Is besmirched by the recent act of a cowardly : follower ? of baseball There could .hardly, haTe been a more disgusting display "of mental irresponsibility and lack of sports manship. 7 ': -. : ' . I . 6 Apparently StT,Ixuis needs more policemen . at . her baseball park, and If they cannot eliminate rowdy ism and criminal action among fans stronger measures - will have to be taken to protect visiting : players from the unseen assaults of skulk ing bottle hurierav I t - - If a "primary puts a premlumi on intnority control. what 'about, an assembly convention,, wnicn it a wagon built by the scheming mi norlty of the minorIfy? ? . 1 TOMORROWS CONVENTION THOSE: .Republicans in Oregon who want to attend the party state convention tomorYow, but have, not been picked as delegates, will have to wait. " " ; j It is stated In the Oregonlan that "a number have requested that they be permitted to attend as delegates, but the secretary has explained that. under the rules laid down au Pendleton and Eugene, they are not eligible. " i : These good . : Republicans who want to be delegates .to the- con vention but are not- permitted to, should remember that everybody is not eligible to sit In the seats of the' mighty. Conventions are con ventions, and everybody isn't a high-brow. Any Republican , can "vote er straight, but to Sit as a .delegate in a select convention is quite another thing. That1 can be done only by Republicans of the lofty bean and classical connections. In a really exclusive" convention such as State Chairman Tloze has created, approved social standing as well as a lofty dome are in good form. It is1 literally no place for barn-yard dirt 6r cow's rnilk on the trousers of the- delegates. It is no atmosphere to be vulgarized by the smell of onions on the breath or odors from the alfalfa field. The whole theory of he convention system peculiarly forbids the ad mission as delegates of gentlemen of low beans. J ' Oiie thing about the coming con vention is that great care has been exercised 'in picking the delegates. A great and solemn work pf state is to be -performed, and the chair man has .taken no chances on dele gates of low birth. Most of them are gentlemen of pedigree Quite a number trace their ancestry back to the royal purple. There; is blood in the veins of. men who will be on the floor of tomorrow's conven tion that is as blue as the deep blue sea. That Is one great reason why those plebeian Republicans - who want in but cant get in must be kept out. And besides all this, if Chairman Tooze admitted a lot of unselected delegates, think of the vain and foolish things the low brows might do. All that 'flames -on the hillside may not be vine maple. Poison oak Is equally vivid- If you do not know the difference before you gather the leaves, you will, very soon after. SAME OF THE OPEN SEA A GLINT of sun on choppy waves. A firleam of ullver shot thrnnrh blue water. A singing I reel. A straining rod. A wildly; excited angler. A hand and wrist weary keeping the tension jus( so. A splatter of foam from a leaping body.. A fighting approach to a poised gaff. A practiced thrust, a lift -and there hre is in the bottom of the boat, still fighting for free dom, but with thrashing tail taking no hope from unyielding boards. Who knows? Perhaps this salmon 1s a prize winner. If not this one hen perhaps the next. Overside goes une ana lure again, j.ne aay is still young. The sport j is at its height. And it's a royal sport. .. Light tackle fishing, for Chinook salmon has long been the early spring pastime below the falls at Oregon City. ' Sportsmen' have traveled often across the continent to enjoy the thrilling game, in which the big fighting fish is .often as not the victor when light tackle is used. Someone discovered that ' salmon would strike a spinner farther down in the quieter river at Milwaukie. Later, catches were made between the bridges in the heart of Port land. Then curious passengers on foreign craft were -giveirt oppor tunity to see anglers successfully trolling in the vicinity of terminal No. 4. Someone else discovered that at certain times fishing i in Willamette slough could not be ex celled. 1 But at last, beyond the waters where "- the gillnetters - dkft their boats, the sportsmen of Astoria have discovered that the salmon of the open sea, with vigor-and sheen undimmed, will Join in a fight The recent tournament may be the be ginning of a new sport to compare with the tarpon fishing In the Gulf of Mexico and the tuna trolling at Santa Catallna. It may well prove as attractive to lovers of clean sport the world around. i i .4M Clear autumn days furnish fine opportunity " to ' ger the) winter's wood sujjply stored while jt is yet dry where it is dry..'-.."-'.-?-'. fta GO ON. MR. COMPTROLLER TT IS a curious thin g lag- now mis- -a taken people can be when everybody was. mlnp ainnr listening o talei about tronbhj lik Europe, about lack of credits and unstabilixed finances and exchange rates, and about how 'Europe . is unable to buy the products she wants from .this i country, along comes another great discovery. Thatdiscovery Is that finances are stable throughout the - world and that - the United States brought about that stabilization. " And here are the facts reported in a news dispatch; - , f- That the United States hs partici pated on a gigantic scale in sustaining and stabilizing the .finances of the world and that full aopreciation of this -tact has been withheld, both in thia country and abroad, was -the -burden of a speech delivered before the. In diana Bankers association here today, by DR. Crissinger, comptroller of the treasury.-- .......... . ...v--: ,-'---. Indeed, the people of this country are glad to hear that they were mis taken. :They are 'glad to hear of the miraculous r performances of stabilization consummated by the administration. ". They are glad to hear that we are doing something to preserve our foreign markets and get the world back on its feet again. But what was all this flurry re cently about the rapid decline of German marks? What are they worth now ? What are 'Austrian kronen worth? How about rubles? How did the recerSfall of French and Belgian francs and Italian lire take place? Was that part of the process of stabilization? And if " world finances are in such excellent shape, why are the surpluses of this country still in this country and why is our export trade less than half what it was two years ago? Certainly we. are willing to sell the k surpluses. Cer tainly we have idle ships enough to carry them idle ships for which a subsidy is being asked. Certainly the people who' are scrambling for food in . Europe would gladly pur chase our exports. Why- is,all that ? Perhaps Mr. Crissinger cah explain. General Pershing knows no more about retiring than retreating. Al though his period of service per mits him ;at 62 to withdraw" from active service on pay, his own pref erence is to continue until 64, the time of compulsory retirement, or longer, if they-will make an excep tion in his favor. PortlariBers will remember that rhen General Per shing was here' he looked good for 20 more active years in the service of his country. WHOSE BUSINESS? IS THE flat jncome tax amend ment to go on the- November ballot by default? Is the solemn process of an election to be con taminated by the presence on the people's ballot of a measure that everybody knows must reek with fraud? . Of the signatures on the petitions for the measure to go on the ballot 7064 were certified by the notaries who certified the forgeries and frauds that caused the grange meas ure to be . ordered off the ballot. They certified but 4231 on the grange petitions and 70S4 on the flat tax measure.. :f In spite of this, officials are going ahead to put the flat tax bill on the ballot and other officials are stand ing by, unblushing an '1 uncon cerned. . -' r-'i' ' -' Are these almost certain frauds no official's business ? Is it not the governor's business to see that the laws are properly administered? Are there not many precedents in Oregon n which .the governor of the state" has stepped in to see that the laws are enforced? The Journal ventures to Suggest that the very great certainty that there are frauds on the flat Income tax petitions is full warrant for the governor of Oregon to instruct the attorney general to take action. If a precedent is sought, there are the Jackson county cases against the members of the K. K. K., which were pressed by the gov ernor and In whicha deputy in the attorney general's office was sent to Jacksoi county to push the prosecution. Wile the railroads are cutting fares to Willamette valley points, wouldn't-it be a good idea for them toiafcftept the $1 -a week plan of the street car tines in Tacoma and As toria? They could let a passenger j-ide as often as he pleased during. say, a rnontn for" a 'flat rate. It costs a railroad little-more to run with seats full than empty and bus lines couldn't compete with them there. --ir - MOTOR HOSPITALITY "PORTLAND : will live In the A memory of f at least 10.000 people who "have 'visited here this summer as a city whose citizens are remarkably free with their automobiles. L- 31 - '.,-" Upwards of -J0CO ; highway and about town trips were conducted by the . automobile committee of the Bpiscopal Gene r a 1 ( Convention through the medium of borrowed machines and driversjyj ; Railway passenger , agents who are scarcely allowed to issue com plimentary transportation lac these regulated days saw the city and ex clalmed over, the . Columbia river highway from the comfortable seats' of . limousines tand touring cars owned and driven by Portland busi ness men. , . - - -' " - Ban kers, ffraternaV delegates, home econemics-v ex"perts, conven tion attendants." tourists from 1 al mostevery -American state and a good many, foreign countries have mingled r their appreciation ; of scenery wtth gratitude for rides that cost them nothing. - . r ." Portland is perhapf the pnly city In the country, they say, where such persistent division of the use of motor cars is to be found. Similar comments were ; ' aroused when business men, garbed in the white' uniform of the Rosarlans, gave the General Convention evidence that the ' most solid and staid of our - commercial . ' . leaders - care enough for beauty, to enshrine the rose. . - x-" . .... , " In ' dark corners .one" may occa sionally hear a question" , of the policy, particularly on, the part of committees that have labored over hard to- assemble the cars and by business' men called upon: over often., '. '. , ... i But the i hospitality, ' while V it would have cost probably, $150,000 had the machines been paid for by the day, hasn't Jroken anybedy. Every visiter thus served becomes an Immensely valuable advertiser for PorUand and he could not have been : enthused by a courtesy less costly, '". Now is a -good time to pay the last half of your taxes, to clean up your Community. Chest subscription and the grocery bill, so that you will know how much you may rea sonably expect .to have . left for Christmas. COMMENT OF THE STATE, PRESS Tourist Increase in 1922 The Urge to "Can All You Can" Denunciation of the Bootlegger Who Sells to Chil dren The "Irresponsible" Boot- . logger The Bible Serial Pros perity in Douglas The ' Filmed Bible. Baker Herald : There have be more visitors to the Pacific Northwest this summer, both by rail and automo bile, than In any previous year, accord ing to information issued by the Paci fic Northwest Tourist association. The benefit of this tourist travel has been felt in .every .community. In some sections, as in Eastern Oregon, the number -of tourists has not been -so great as. in other localities. Our roads have been the drawback, causing many to' take other highways across the country. Construction work, however, is under way on the main tour ia t artery 4the Old Oregon trail through Baker, Union and Umatilla counties. This' is nearing completion, and next year will see a great increase in the riumber of tourists routing through Baker and Eastern Oregon, pur tour ist camp ground is meeting' with the approval of motorists. They are find ing the grounds orderly, clean, and comfort of the campers well cared for. Since the first of June, when the pay system went Into effect, more than 1300 automobiles have registered at the camp grounds. They represent an average of four persons to the car, or a total of 5200 people who have spent one or more nights in the grounds. In addition to hese, many hundreds of tourists have been guests of Baker hotels during the summer. . . Medford Mail Tribune : The present situation In Jackson county shows the great need of more or larger canneries cn one hand, and increased cold stor age facilities on the other. Tons and tons of excellent fruit of all kinds are going to waste because the local can neries have all they can,, handle with their present facilities and the short age of labor, and unless there is an Improvement in the refrigerator car shortage, more will go to waste, be cause of the limited cold storage. The value of irrigation has been strongly demonstrated by the tremendous in crease in fruit and produce-production. But such ap Increase is -valueless un less the produce can find a market Fruit and produce going to waste now, if put in cans, could be turned into good money, some time in the future, and with Increased cold storage, late pears could be held until the market Is ready to receive them. Here are two pressing practical problems, which the people of Southern Oregon might welliunlte Upon for their proper solu tion. Meanwhile, the suggestion that all residents of Medford and Jackson county proceed to take advantage of the low price of fruit and produce and "can all they can" is an excellent one. Concerted effort In this direction will not only., mean - money for the fruit producer, but money for the fruit con sumer. Here Is a bit of community service which the housewives can put over, if they will only take prompt and united action. . a La Grande Observer : Shocking as It may . seem, the fact remains that moonshine whiskey has been peddled to children in La Grande. Little boys under 17 years of age have-been sold poison tjat puts men's eyes out by a chap who is now safely in- Jail and whb will very likely be prosecuted when through with this term under an old statute. Judge Williams put on the Jail sentence and likely If the man comes before him again his sen tence will be heavier. Such a crime it beyond human reasoning. If for a few paltry dollars the boys and girls of this community are to be served with moonshine, it is time for a mass meeting and time for people to form in solid columns behind the officers making a thorough cleanup of every town in the county. La Grande's repu tation has been slipping for some time. Child delinquency has been Increasing, but now the people have the facta we cannot believe they will sit by longer and : not act No punishment is too severe for a dirty cur who will attempt to undermine the young of the land, lift's Join in and have a housecleaning tftat will put an end to the nefarious business of ruining the minora The "Dalles Chronicle : Enforcement of the-, prohibition law has come to such a pass that officials are warning the public against "irresponsible" boot leggers. From an item sent oat of New. York yesterday, one would be led to assume that the other kind of boot leggers are all tight As 'a matter of fact. avnroiw knowa -that anv boot- Tlegger Is - irresponsible, for they are playing a clandestine game, one of strike, and get away quickly, and fel lows of that type- arent building- up reputations. In -connection with the same story, Lewis II. Harris, field sec retary of the national committee for the prevention, of blindness, was , re ported to have seized upon the occa sion of three deaths from wood alcohol poisoning ! to "advise the - country against patronising bootleggera This prompts another query to arise tn the minds of the curious ' ones. "Whom would he have, the , tipplers patronize, in this Volsteadian age? - Coquille - . Valley Sentinel ; After printing a weekly serial from the Bible for i three - monthsr ; the Topeka ' State Journal finds this to be the most suc cessful feature thev paper ever . pub lished. Inquiries and comment . con cerning it have come to the editors from every state in the: Union and from numerous foreign countries. 5 Fol lowing the lead of the Journal, several other Kansas papers are also publish ing; the Bible. Publication of the Bible by the Journal was. undertaken at - the suggestion of Pr. - Charles M. Sheldon, author of "In His Steps." Each - installment ' consists of about 3000 words, the Weymouth text ef the New Testament "being used.-:. C - :. - . ." 1 1 - " -X '- Roseburg - News-Review r ' Taking it from the News-Review. . Rbseburg is enjoying a substantial business -era, despite strike conditions and labor un rest. : A big prune crop Just . about to be harvested. -1 and - plenty of farm prodoets that are bringing fair prices, are an Incentive to brisk trading. Mer chants are all reporting plenty to do. while, hundreds -of automobiles crowd ing the business section every day and UurongB on the streets Indicate that the people are prosperous.- .... - - , a,-- .; v..-... - L X- " Woodburn i Independent : . Biblical stories are being filmed and . will - be presented to the public. If the movie houses are not careful they will have some - interesting competition. Film producers' have . learned that . subjects from the Bible cannot be excelled, not only from a religious but from a. dra matis point f view. It may be ex pected that in time the motion picture bouses will give religious films on Sundays, yet this will not discourage churches from Installing- machines. Letters From the People I Comnwmicatfanw cent tn Tba Journal tot pobUcatiao ia thi dapartiiMnt ahonld a wrhv tan on only n aid of th pa par, ahould mot axeeed 800 words la bugth. and must ba aisnad by th writer, whoa mail addraojia fnli atnat accorcfiany tha contribution. J J MR. HOPSON TO MR. HERMANN. In Which He Charges Him With In consistency in Hie Argument - , for Single Tax. Portland, Sept .23. To' the Editor of The . Journal In your issue of Sep tember 17 J. R. Hermann, manager of the Oregon Single Tax league, under takes to tear up by the roots all our cherished ideals of single tax. Shades of Henry George I Here we have all been believing that single tax means the appropriation by the state, through taxation, of the - rental value of the land, and Mr. Hermann comes declar ing rental value does not mean rental value, but something else. I declare I am all confused. In despair. I have Just- referred to that handsomely printed pamphlet sent me - every so often by Secretary Sam A. Koxer, and find on page 8 a constitutional amend ment 'over the signatures of Mr. Her mann and others, which distinctly says, "The full rental value of the land, ir respective of improvements, shall be taken, in lieu of all other. taxes, for the maintenance of government." Mr. 'Hermann now says single" tax will not take the rent of a farm ; Henry George says it will. Mr. Her mann himself says It will in. his con stitutional amendment. We are not talking about improvements, but about the land, which, in. a. farm, constitutes the great bulk of the ' property value. I fear 'Mr. Hermann must have got a little mixed himself, in that letter of September 17. Let us appeal from Hermann drunk to Hermann sober. I am going to keep believing that full rental value means just that, and nothing more. Take a case like that of "C. W. M." Suppose" he owns a farm of 80 acres, of which the land is worth J100 per acre, or $8000 in all, and the improvements, house, barn, fencing and other incidentals; are "worth ,$4000. His total property "C. W M." probably values at $12,000. He is right. He can sell it today, under our present nefarious social conditions, for that sum. It is a good farm and produces well. "C. W. M." knows it is well worth $12,000? or even more, of anyone's money. He himself actually put that amount into it In his hard earned' savings. Year by year "C. W. M.'.--.and his wife saved and scrimped, denying themselves all kinds of luxur ies to pay fori this land, and now it is theirs, fully paid for, after all those years of Sacrifice. It Js Just such people as "C. W. M." and his wife that single tax is going to wake up. What right have they to scheme and save and hold In their possession $8000 worth of fine land that anyone else would like for himself. Grasping, selfish ownership of a natural resource like land is what single tax aims to destroy. I don't care what Mr. Hermann now says, it is the purpose of single tax to tax "C. W. M.e" $8000 worth of land until we have the full rental value. We are then willing that "C. W. M." rmay keep the empty title. We, the state I mean, It Is the same thing will have the real substance, and use' it for the benefit of the elect. After single tax is in will "C W. M." be able to sell his farm for $12, 000? Certainly not. What will It be worth then? Exactly $4000. How do you get that sum? Four thousand dollars is the value of the improve ments, which are untaxed ; the balance, $8000, is the value of the land, which we will take. There you have it in a nutshell. Simple, isn't it? Today C W. M." thinks he has a farm ; tomor row he has only buildings anTfencea We have the rest. Can you beat it? It is wonderfully ingenious. Mr. Hermann refers to something he calls "naked land." What does he mean by this? It sounds almost Inde cent. I never saw any naked land in my life. Certainly such land should be fenced off from observation. Can he mean the kind of land the govern ment offers to homesteaders to settle on? Such land is generally pasture, sagebrush or timber, but its Vkedness is always decently covered by nature in some way. Raw, unsettled land, such as Oregon was 100 years ago, has no value. A thousand dollars would have bought all the Northwest at some date, just as the site of New York city was once traded for a few bottles of whiskey. The only value in land consists In Its adaptability to humffn requirements, whatever these are. We have to raise some $14,000,000 in Ore gon in taxes. If all this sum IS to come from single tax we must assess the land -something more than the raw land value, or even the "naked" land value, whatever that may be. We could not raise $14 if we only assessed. our land at these nominal values. No, Mr. Hermann is off. We must assess the full present day rental value against the land if we are to come through .with the single tax scheme. Why shrink from It? It is what all true single taxers j intend and expect. There must be. no weakening. That is what I resent in Mr. Hermann's letter. He is trying to carry water on both shoulders, He cant please both sides. He talks about the "fellow that lives in town and tries to farm the farmer." He cant get by That is Just what many of us admirers of single tax are. We intend to take the land and make the farmer a tenant farmer, the state being the owner. All other land owners, both in country and city will be treated the same way. If it is not this, what is it? If Mr. Hermann does not quit such nonsense some of. us will be voting against him and his amendment. We want the goods and nothing else. -E. G. Hopsoa., FOR DIRECT TAXATION Proposed As Means of Raising the Large .Sums for Public 1m- - - - provementa,- " " Silverton, Sept 22. TS the Editor of The Journal I have- read several letters in The Journal, lately on taxa tion, but so far have -seen no dinCua aion of the mertts of raising maeey for public : improvements by direct taxa tion Instead of through .the sale' of I bonds. There are those who- say that as these improvements ' will benefit future generations it is proper i that future generations should help to pay for them. X wish to say, however, that the cost of building roads, bridges; public buildings, ' . including : school houses, etc, is paid not in future years, but during the time - of " construction. Those who furnish labor and material for public improvements . do not wait to collect from future generations. So, then, the question to. be decided is, shall the money be borrowed to pay the. bill as when bonda are . sold, or shall the money be raised by taxation direct and collected as fast as "the bills for construction come dse? The in terest on the bonds, say for 20 years or so, will amount to at least as' much .' .- -V . -: . .-. .,. - COMMENT .AND : : SMALL CHANGE i j, aaaaaaa Sorrfe of the stenogs who growl at Us over the telephone havenjt any bite to conform te their bark. - - "People of the old world are looking to America for guidance." Now to practice what we preach in "Let thy light so shine ." . , 1 r m m a ' . Did ja ever have that weak front tire blow out in a nice shady spot on a pretty, dustless road near a nice old orchard, or something? f " .. : a a The "rough writers' who have been visiting Oregon have discovered that a range cayuse can give "em as merry a toss out of the saddle as can Pegasua. Indian arrested for shooting deer oot of season. That's all right but it re vives memories of that day when Lo himself was running the show In this neck o' the woods. . a a If the West were as picturesque as it used to be Portland would change the name of Broadway to Waukeena, Oneonta or some one of the many legend-freighted names available. Political reports find that President Harding- has now his first chance for e lay-off. But, Warren, old boy. there'll tain day in a certain November. a a . m ere aa awt, uiwjc uiHC iUf rBat &Elcr s C6r ' An rmtimlattr nhiliwnnh.. n ..n ht. one can hold you,' down but yourself" He'd be surprised, though, to know what a strenuous influence a few quilts and blankets can be for holding a fel low down in the morning. MORE OR TaESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town - Among those registered at the Port-, land are Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Fink of Salem. ' . - . ., a . a A. Martinson and A. N: Townsend of Eugene are- among visitors from Lane county. a a 1 Among thoce registering at the Mult nomah is Mrs. Asa P. Craig of Enter prise. " H. Hugglns of Coos Bay is among out. o town visitors. a a a R. B. Moore of Dallas is a broiness visitor. H. E. Frye of Astoria -is among the most recent arrivals in the city. Ambnsr out of town guests is J. E. Moonch of Albany. , W. J. Kerr and son of Corvallis are guests of the Multnomah. 'in Portland for '- the week end was M. J. Fassett of Astoria. If. P. Lewis of La Grande is among out of town visitors. " - -, a . s . , C. Halfcrd of Stayton la visiting In Portland. a A visitor from Lincoln county fs J. G. Smart of Otis. v - C. A. Howard of Coos Bay is a guest of the Portland. - Fred Parker of Yakima is among out of town guests. . 9 . ' . G. B. Tucker of Tillamook 'e a guest of the Imperial. y- OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN v By. Fred In thia aacond and eoaelwUns Installment of 1th narratire of Bey. T. Ja. loan, the hardship cf an itinerant minister - and' hia family i4 pioneer days are reeoonted ; but Is User" ia mentioned the bippines that auch faithful terra-Ota of tha Lord enjoyed withaL How would your like to : work for $180 a year and take -your pay in horsefeed and blacksmi thing? How would you. buy shoes for your wife and babies, or meat? Where would your rent money come from? Wouldn't you begin to look around for a' better job? Wouldn't you be likely to seek a new employer? Fifteen dollars a month salary means that your wife and little ones must do? without many a thing that the wives and children of your neighbors can have. It means that 'what are necessaries to others are luxuries for your loved ones. Rev. T. U. Jones, who lives at East 44th and Lincoln streets, worked for many years at a salary of" $180 a. year and didn't always succeed in collecting all his salary, either. a a a " "How did we get along T said Mr. Jones, in answer to my question. "Oh, we had occasional windfalls. Once the presiding elder visited us, and when he left he decided that his boots were getting a little to disrepu table for further use ; so he left them. With a little patching they did fine for my 'wife. The first five years we were married we never spent a cent for meat I was always a-good shot with a rifle, and I saw to it that there Was always a "deer. or a bear hanging in our smokehouse. We dried the deer hams and my wife tried out the bear fat for lard. We also made bacon of tha bear meat, and it makes surprisingly good . bacon If you can't get pork." r a a a . "Once my husband shot a young bear that was rolling with fat" said Mrs. Jones. "I gave away half of the bear, and from the half I kept I tried, out three 10-pound pails of lard.- It Is the finest thing to fry doughnuts in I ever saw.- It Is better for cook ing than lard or bacon grease. When my -husband was off preaching on his circuit I used to get chances to dig potatoes on 'shares and pick : oerries and 'do other little things like .that When he had an opportunity-he would cut cordwood an sell it to get a little needed cash. We used to vary our diet of deer or bear meat and potatoes at times with grouse, pheasants, rab bits or quails, and in winter time my husband Would . shoot wild geese or ducks ; so we managed to - get along. No. we didnt feel bad about; doing without, for the people we served were Just as poor as we were. ; They -were settlers getting a start in the country and they had nothing but what , they could wrest :xrom the solt". ':: '..---'- V.; i " "We were married January 13. 1868. by Rev. Samuel Matthews," resumed Rev. Jones, ve Joined the Methodlsd church 10 days after we were married. I had been mining seven years, :ao I kept on with'this work, at which t was fairly successful. But the mere mak ing of money seemed an awful waste of one's life. The more we thought it over, the mots we were both convinced that real success consisted in sacrifice and service . rather " than. fnvserving oneself -i I had r been reared in the Disciples church, but there i was , no church of that denomination : in our neighborhood -in : Southern Oregon ; hence we had joined - the Methodist church. We bad preaching once - a month, and . my - wife and X .walked six miles to prayer meetings. X had never prayed In public, and when Rev. T- F. Royal pointed me out at one of as the principal, and that is the chief reason ' why the federal government 'ind various states and cities are so heavily in debt today. , . I realize that such a policy as X sug NEWS IN BRIEF . SIDELIGHTS , - - Strange how quickly congress can dispose of . the most vexed national questions when the next one to be con sidered is reelection. Albany Demo crat , - -.- ... ' ' a a - With the canning season over," sugar prices are on the down grade. It was always that way, probably always will be, as long as a trust controls the suppiy. Eugene Guard. - , . - -- - :-: -" .. -. Ford's anti-boose edict, if generally adopted in other plants, will do more than tons of dry literature to discour age the thirst for bootleg liquor among the workingmen Weston . Leader. ..-, - - - 4. - -- , . -.;. t -.-..,,.... ,-i ,i " Discussing a new Episcopal bishop for Eastern Oregon, a church prelate in advocatinar a certain man for the Job, said that while he would not do for most districts he would, be all right for Eastern Oregon. Is that a compli ment or a slam :--Pendleton East Ore gonian. . . a a . a Appreciation of the efforts of Baker to make the stay of auto tourists in the city comfortable was' shown ia a letter published today. . Through Uiese efforts we will find, the fame of Baker will grow and tourists will plan their trips to stop over in Baker. Baker Herald. a a a-- Even though , cartoonists and humor ists are wont to picture each school year as just so many months in jail for the kid., - they far from express their true sentiments. It is safe to wager jthat the majority of students would not make similar statements, and those "funny fellows" need a les son or two -themselves Baker Demo crat Guests of the Multnomah from As toria ?nclude Hazel Olson and Elisa beth Moore. a , .monff th?e transacting business In toriu1 rP lB H" ?onShan of As- ' ' Mr. and Mrs. "C. A. Burden of Eu gene came to the metropolis to spend the weekvend. a a Among out of town guests are Mr. and Mrs. J. G. Gardner of Potlatch. Idaho. . Among out of town visitors Is A. W. Sharp of Silverton. ; ' '"'", W. E Wadsworth of Harrlsburg la transacting "business in Portland. - D. Pike of Reedsport is one of many out of town visitors. a ' R. M. Benson of Moro spent the week end In Portland. . a ' A. B. Palmer of St Helens was among late arrivals in the metropolis. ' a - Mr. and Mrs. Fred Minard of Marsh-, field are registered at the Imperial. . . . . Among late arrivals from Coos Bay Is Charles Hall. - . . a . ' Mr. and Mrs. Fred Myers -of Jeffer son are visiting in Portland. a Among out of town guests IsM. J. Hanigsn of Payette, Idaho. . a ' G. R. Duvall of Mosier Is among out or town visitors. Lockley. nur meetings and said. We will be led by Brother Jones ia prayer.' I was panic-stricken . I would irather -have fought a grizzly barehanded. I prayed possibly a minute and. sat down all ,1 1 detmed that if I was ever called upon again I would be able to I teetlny: so I read the Book of Discipline, read th Mtrinfar kvm. book through, studied the . Bible, and Kjcepiea an appointment as - class tcauer. x was instrumental in hav ing revival meetings held in the school house we used for our meetings, and x wao appointed exhorter. I kept on with my placer mining, but I talked in schoolhouses and to miners' meet 4ngs whenever and wherever I could. a "We could mine only during the tinier, wnen mere was lots of water for our sluice boxes, so in the summer I worked In the harvest fields of freighted. In the summer' of 1871 I hauled freight on the railroad that was being built between Albany and Eugene, and. made good money. That fall I took a contract to deliver 1000 pounds of mountain balm, which grew on the slopes of the mountains near Grants Pass. It was to be delivered at Albany. While I was In: this work a quarterly conference was held, which I attended. The presiding elder de cided to send our pastor. -Rev.-J. -W. Kuykendall, elsewhere ; so he had to appoint some other minister foru that circuit; He,, said, 'Brother Jones. I am going to appoint you- to this cir cuit I told him I had never- mVached. nut he said It was time T did j so on iseptemner 3, 18.1. I received my li cense to preach and was given a cir cuit 95 miles long, and 70 miles wide with 16 preachjng places. They turned over to me all the church property in the district a church record and two class books. -' -. .-' " .-' i "The first text I preached from was. i Wherefore, come out from -among; them, and- be ye separate, saith the Lord , and I will receive you and will be a Father unto you, and ye shall be my sons - and daughters.' I preacnea u minutes, but during that time I repeated parts of the sermon several times. It was the hardest 12 minutes work I ever did. My first circuit v was the KerbyvIUe circuit They wanted me to stay two years more, so they changed the name of the circuit to the Grants Pass circuit and appointed me to this" newly or ganized circuit, so I was able to work four years there. From there; I was sent to the Clean Creek circuit, near where Estacada how la :LatetvI had the Sheridan-Wil Lamina-Bellevue cir cuit When X preached at. Dayton one of my. most loyal church members was General JoeT Palmer, whose son: Wil liam still lives there. I preached at Oregon t"3ty. for a while, and later was assigned to Grants Pass. ' where we built a fine church. For some years I was In evangelistic work. I served lf " presiding elder, my dis- trict being Southern and South Central Oregon. v. ' .. :.. .- . a-(r a. . . -- p- .!.. , nve years ago I .'lost my sight We have had four children. Ebble, our eldest child. is in California,: He is married and has two children. Nellie married Rev.; F C. Thompson,; a mem ber of the f Puget Sound conference! Will Is a railroad engineer and. lives at '.precoma. . , Jesse lives near ns. He has two daughters. ' He has i worked in the Portland postoff ice for the vpast 1 yeara - " , . ... - - :C-aV"'- . . f; ;s ? v':':: """Yea, I am 89 years old. - but I can look back with pleasure -on the -work that through (he grace -of God X have been able to do in the upbuilding cf His kingdom here on earth." - gest would be . very unusual in this or any other country, but the time is surely -not far distant when some very unusual things will have . to be done in an economic way. C R. Kennedy. The Ore-sfon Ckuntry North wast Happening In Brief form tot to "- .Busy Baadar. '- : ,.: -A OREGON' .. ' - . the entire grade of the Mount Hood Jxop highway will . be completed late this fan. '-. :: ..---''., - - .. .... ... -.. . - ---- 19 lu lull uiaai 10 Vila .. Forest Grove section with a crop esti mated at nearly 4.000,000 pounds of dried fruit ;;. Bank deposits in the three banks of Fr.Ta,n SeIte,1BlP i totaled l oVX ii61, an lnase of , about $292,000 since Jane SO. ... - TwItS? ,or ,rfh,"lng a chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in Bend have been made by Miss Anne M. Lang, state regent . Wesley Gilmaa. 35, driving a motor Sa-'-T". "5ht . fey Southern Pacific train Thursday morning at . accident " " ' ..Twr School Atrnftnrm V.iml. V.. a..-. awarded a contract for the construe- "w rt T,PW concrete high school hniMfnir vKlk v.- . n ... v mui wr occupancy, by January 1. ,Tn? new "'Kb school building at Day villein Grant county was burned to the , V "- uviiiuia Willi 1A I " J. Fellows, - PorUand con tractor, has arrived at Wendling with 10 teams fs.V" xuv Jvu 01 exienaing me Booth-Kelly mill pond there so as to ' accommodate another 2,000.000 feet of loga The Butte Creek orchard of 250 : acres near Eagle, -Point formerly owned and operated by Austin Corbin, haa hn anlrf n a r . - . i 7 . w. W . TlWilWWU UL Los Angeles, who will personally'oper- . To fill the large number of orders on hand, the two lumber mills at North Bend have put on night shifts and have also nrlrljwi n hn, - -. A .1.... operation, paying the men time, and a . half for the hour. V Ona nf tha ,lk,G n.i.n 1,1.1, In the state has Just been authorized . E.y IAnn county boundary board. The district la a c, tt T i, combined valuation is $3,694,870. Twelve . :.'"'"''.'. Washington': '-V President Harding Friday nominated ',' Frank a n.m ,n Olympla, Wash. ' . . . - , The federal ; power commtssfonNhas denied the city of Everett's application for a power project on the Sultan river, . Despondent over continued illness. J. Wing. 60 years old. committed suicide at Seattle Wednesday by jumping 7i feet from a bridge on Lander street David I. DeMoss, 2. suffered a stroke of apoplexy Saturday while working on his farm near Deer Park . and died without regaining consciousness: Four hundred and thirty-five stu dents are enrolled at the Cheney state normal school, an Increase of II per cent over the enrollment last year. ' " While his-mother was in another -room, the small son of Charles Hal back of Seattle fell into a tub of water used to scrub the floor and was drowned. - ..... Twenty men are working continu ously in two shifts in an endeavor to complete in snother month the 13 miles of , road between Wilbur and ' Nespelem. eAt Bremerton Wednesday George H. "' , 1 a inert, 02. fired a bullet through his right temple, dying instantly, when his divorced wife slammed the ' door ef . ' her home in his face. : Petitions are being circulated , at Everett ; for the recall of Charles 'Ai Turner, commissioner of public safety.. This will be the second attempt to re- call the commissioner. . While walking down the state high- wav rnannl tlt - a t. aon a MAntMinA Kav i. . . , . i . . leg by some unknown person. A bone Plans for.-'. a Yakima valley apple Pff J"" completeed. contemplate placing the entire crop of the valley in ' . the hands of ;a sale committee to be ' sold at the best available pricea , ' " .Fine Sooteh whiskey- and French r wines valued, at $5000 were confiscated Wednesday in the woods near Sumas bay between Seattle and Tacoma by federal agents. The owners have not been found. - IDAHO Net prices to Idaho potato growers on"H mad the P8t week are from 63 to 5 cents a hundred. ; One hundred and thirty refrigerator ears were placed for loading at Nampa" last week. 117 of which are for prunes. Continued hot weather Is ruining the '"wee crop jn Eastern Idaho and is affecting a few fields In the Boise valley. . , The Coeur d'Alene Syndicate Min- -I ng company, with an authorized cap. ital of $T700.000, has filed articles Incorporation at Boise. Harry Orchard, serving a life .sen tence in the Idaho penitentiary, having confessed to the murder of 14 persons, nail mirkHahajV. nitl t-1 - i . . apply for a pardon. Hrvey A. Eagleson. a graduate -of , the Boise high school and Reed college orship in the English department of the ann uiuicrniy at Austin. ltur0 i tha ottb anniversary of , the Nampa Baptist church last Sun- (lay , m-u a th ...mnn t-. a n, - Gowen. the same' sermon he delivered at the dedication of the church 80 years ago. r..-. , North SUr mine at Mineral, Idaho. Is making a shipment of a car- i. iu V " "ni ameiter in Utah Mra O. J. Burnham. man- if rnL.ihf mln, haa Just completed a 400-foot tunnel, - . Twenty Years Ago From The Journal ot, September 25. ' -'.-' r.:- 1902. , ' . , It Is hlffb.lv nrnhihu that t i will have a good roads convention October 14. It all depends on whether wreat nonnern railroad can send the Good " Roadi train w-, -. . v. -. time, -o ' . ' .- - . r: ,.: - a The price of wheat in Walla Walla is , 62 cents for club and 64 and 65 cents for bluestem. .": at -" " - Pendleton. Cattle shipping to. the Puget Sound markets is beginning now. In .earnest Last night two cars went out billed to Puysllup and tonight two more, cars will go to Seattle. - .. i: -." - .- ' :- .. ... . . ' -' A large force Is at work at Third and Oak streets tearing the rail way . track and replacing It with a solid roadbed and heavier raila 1 ----....-.:., - ...' ' Cordwood ' dealers who reside In the suburbs of the city. . are working . late and early, to fill contracts before the rainy weather sets in and the roads become muddy. ' ' - . " k : , . . - , . - ,- -.- ; '- :.. : "The British ship . John Cooke ' has arrived In port and Is tied up at the Mersey dock. ' She comes from Liver pool with a cargo f general merchan dise. . - , .---- -V - :-: .wj-.. ' , ' Ernie GTaker of Racine. Wis., representing a manufacturing concern of that city, la. in Portland to investi gate Oregon spruce lumber.- He wants a timber especially suited for broom handles and wheelbarrow boxing. - ...j y'. : a m . . , ' ,:.' .: "The wheel of a loaded wagon was mashed on Morrison street this morn ing by dropping" into one pf the holes ia the pavement . The - farmer who owned the wagoA said some , things in reference to- the streets of 1 Portland and the . people responsible for them that sounded harsh. ' , - ... a , - , "The owner of the home at the north east corner of Thirteenth end Salmon streets is complained of by the people, of that neighborhood for constructing a bay window that hangs out over the sidewalk..- !- - n