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tELEPHONE MAIN 71 SI. All department
reached by tbt number.
A haze on the far horiaon,
The infinite tender ky.
The ripe rirh tint of the cornfields,
An'd the wild crese aaittng hifu.
It And alt over nplanu and lowland
t - - The charm of the guldenrod
jj Some of us call it AUtnmn.
And otheri call it Uod!
Carmth.
i. THE PASSING OF ISOLATION
AWiu "splendid isolation" and "no
entangling alliances." as gov
ernmental policies, collapsing? Is
the" great veil about to be swept
aside jto reveal this nation again
taking its' abandoned place in world
affairs?
. On. September 1, President Hard
ing drove the opening wedge. He
faid, in substance, that, "if called
ipon, America could no longer re
fuse to take part In the adjustment
tf the vital questions affecting
world peace and industrial tran
quillity," and that "at the proper
time the United States will offer
a scientifically practical plan for
he satisfactory settlement of exist
ing difficulties which have so far
prevented industrial, financial and
political peace, in Europe."
i His statement is followed by the
tf'esolution of Representative Brit-
I ton of Illinois. That resolution
falls upon the executive to take
Such action as he deems fit to bring
bout industrial, financial and po
litical peace abroad,
j Mr. Britton was one of the strong
rltics of President WHson. He
Was one of the so-called "splendid
Isolationists." He was one of the
bitter opponents of our participa
tion in world affairs. He was one
pf those gentlemen in Washington
Who wanted to build a Chinese wall
rbout America.
But Mr. Britton has visited Eu
rope. Other men have been there.
All have brought back discouraging
reports or conditions abroad, . Mr.
Britton has watched the -progress
of ''splendid isolation" in this coun
try,. .So. have other men. So have
the leaders of the Republican party.
They-re- conscious of where their
path is leading. They have watched
"the recent events at the ballot box.
They see what "splendid isolation"
is doing to Europe and what the
Kurdfpean debacle is doing to the
United" -States.
J", .'Itis well that they see as clearly
as they do where Isolation leads. It
is -well that they are altering the
attitude of this government, even
ht this late date. And it is not im
possible that they can yet use the
jfwwer of. this , government to bring
about conditions that should have
been present moViths and months
kgo, and thereby save what can be
saved from the wreck, both from
ihe economic, standpoint of the pub
lic and the political standpoint of
the party in power.
f -This Tiernan-Poulin affair must
at least give the Indiana gossips
k wonderful day in court.
WHOSE BUSINESS?
TT7HAT are district attorneys for,
V if not to find oat where laws
lire violated and proceed to prevent
ihem from, being further violated ?
f What is the attorney general for
and what are all the deputies in the
Attorney general's office for, if not
to sustain, the majesty of the law
using the courts when necessary
lo prevent violations of the law?
; What are" the governors of states
for. if not in the course of their
many duties to see that there is a
! proper administration of the laws
I that legislatures and peoples pass?
I Do official oaths mean what they
say and say what they mean when
I the official takes a pledge to sup-
port the constitution and th lava?
There is fraud in the flat income
tax amendment through false tXg
nstures on the peUtioasv and most
of the people in the state know t
" With a lontr array of officials set
up to perform" the functions of gov
ernment in Oregon. Is there to be
enacted the" farce of baring on the
November ballot a measure that
was almost certainly placed there
by fraud and forgery?
"RaIri" (loomed the Portland
branch of the weather bureau,
speaking- in reference to last Sun
day. The sun shone magnificently
all day. Fair tonight and Tuesday"
was its" Monday prediction. The
rain began before dark Monday
and umbrellas were requisitioned
most of Tuesday. But there's an ex
planation. The weather bureau
has. of course, taken to going by
contraries as befits the whimsical
season.
TALL-BEANED CONVENTION
TTTTTH only 70-odd delegates com
W posing cne state convention
there was a great deal of the Re
publican party that was not present.
and talking.
Considering how small was the
number of the delegates it is diffi
cult 'to see what harm could have
been done by admitting the numer
ous Republicans who asked to be'
seated as delegates but were denied
admission on the ground that it
couldn't be done "tinder the rules
laid down at the Eugene and Pen
dleton conferences."
The keynoter? keynoted "party
loyalty" as the main thing at the
convention. But how much "party
loyalty" surges in the bosom of an
old-time Republican who wanted to
get a seat In the convention but
could not get it because the party
chairman handpicked . . somebody
else and limited the number of dele
gates down toa measly 70-odd?
Incidentally, the painful thought
obtrudes itself, why did the "rules
laid down at the Eugene and
Pendleton conferences" by whom
deponent saith not make the con
vention so exclusively exclusive?
Why make a Convention that is as
sembled to speak for the whole
party so pedigreed1 and so select?
Why make the first convention
after the sorrowful years of " no
convention, so limijd in numbers
and so confined to gentlemen of
tall beans?
Possibly, in selecting his high
born delegates and in keeping them
confined to a very limited number,
the youthful state chairman wished
to take no chances on having it
captured by the K. K. K., or the
Federated Societies. Or possibly he
feared some Republicans of low
brow ilk might invade the sacred
Inner circle and be a source of em
barrassment. Above all, however,
there were the "rules laid down at
the Eugene and Pendleton confer
ences." j
Anyway, the convention has been
held. Some call it a "conference"
Just as they called it an "assembly"
in 1910, but I. L. Patterson said It
was a convention." It was dif
ferent in that the old time conven
tion used to be composed of 600
to 1000 delegates preceded by party
primaries instead of 70-odd dele
gates partly h&ndpicked.
It came and went without doing
harm to the public. The only harm
done is to the parts, for real old
Lincoln Republicanism does not be
lieve that an inner circle of the
party should select certain persons
as convention delegates and bar out
others. &
They say that the baby which
cried, ''Mother, mother, mother"
five minutes after birth hasn't
called out since. Probably mother
-Answered.
COSTLT LIABILITY
F$5
COSTS the public more than
300 a year to maintain each
prisoner in Sing Sing prison. That
is over and above what the prison
ers produce by their work while in
confinement. Probably the cost in
other prisons of the country will
approximate the same figures.
What, then, does crime cost the
people of the United States annu
ally? There are thousands of pris
ons and institutions scattered all
over the nation. In them are thou
sands upon thousands of people i
Who are supported by public money!
at the rate of $300 each per year.!
It costs millions upon millions of
dollars to get them into prison. Po
lice expenditures mount high into
the millions. Attorneys' salaries
and fees add another tremendous
total. Court costs and judges sala
ries are enormous. Expenditures
on buildings - mean millions more
spent in the fight against crime.
But the prisons and police and
courts ill alone never halt crime, j
Alone, they will not measurably re
duce criminal activity. " To cut the
costs" there must be measures
adopted to reach back to the why
of crime
There wiU of course, always be
criminals. Many of them are born
outlaws. But a great . many more
are imported. They 4 come here
fronv'Other countries. The number
of such can be tremendously re
duced by immigration restrictions.
Lack. of education. And training
perhaps is responsible for more
criminals than any other one thing.
Many a law violator could have
been saved by an education. Many
a criminal could have been made
into a good citizen by proper train
ing in childhood. Enormous num
bers lacking in knowledge is one of
the expensive liabilities of this re
pabllc . , . i i-
Many a criminal is made by our
economic system. Sometimes it is
the fault of employes themselves.
Often It is the fault of the -system
whereby men and : women " are
driven to hunger and crime by a
low wage scale, combined with
other unfortunate conditions.
Time will rectify most of the de
fects. As people live and learn and
affairs progress, inroads will be
made into the ranks of criminals
and criminal-breeding conditions.
In that fight education will be the
foremost weapon. And it will be
found to be much cheaper than
paying the costs of criminal opera
tions, criminal detection, criminal
prosecution and criminal mainte
nance. -.
Of 22,000 criminals who passed
through one New Tork courts-only
four were college graduates.
The Illinois survey found that 70
per -cent of the cases of immorality
were among girls who had not
passed beyond the eighth grade.
Right in the midst of their cele
bration of "Electrical week" the
telephone . company called upon
Seattleites for higher rates. The
manager must have been listening
in on comments as to the value of
electric current. Seattle, in conse
quence, is now threatened with
telephobia.
SIKI
e '
THET say there is not much
above the magnificent shoul
ders of Siki except the hat rack.
But Siki is the fistic champion of
heavyweight Europe and middle
weight America. He is out of that
part of Africa where the black
never civilizes.
If he is to best American heavy
weights his head must be more than
a resting place for his skypiece.
And the chances are that it will not
be much more than that.
Seemingly, for purely racial rea
sons, the Ethiopian on his native
heath is sharply differentiated
from the other branches of man
kind. His brain functions but fee
bly. "His outstanding quality,"
says Stoddard, "is superabundant
animal vitality." In this he easily
surpasses all. other races. In this
he will have an advantage over
Dempsey, should they ever meet.
This abounding vitality in the
negro shows in many ways, such as
his ability to survive harsh condi
tions of slavery, under which other
races always succumb. He is so
powerful physically that black
blood once entering any other
stock, is never really bred out again.
He survives and thrives in the ex
treme tropics of Africa in which
other races perish. But he does not
use that immensely fertile region to
establish a commerce or create a
civilization. Meredith Townsend
says:
None of the black races have shown
the capacity to develop civilization.
They have never passed the bounda
ries cf their own habitat and never ex
ercised the smallest influence over
peoples not black. They have never
founded a stone city, have never built
a ship, have never produced a litera
ture, have never suggested a creed.
There seems to be no reason for this
except race.
Africa is extremely fertile and
is pierced by navigable rivers.
Blessed with a physique that resists
the sun and defies malaria, the
black man stands by the Nile, the
Congo and the Niger, but he has
never used them to cut forests.
make roads or build cities.
He learned the use of fire,
learned the fact that sown grain
will grow, learned the value of
shelter, learned the use of the ca
noe and the bow and arrow, and
learned the good of clothes, but
there he stopped, unable, until
stimulated by some other race, to
advance another step.
If Siki ever comes out of Senegal
and beats Dempsey he will be a
racial marvel.
If you have an enemy you- want
to get rid of why deal in arsenic
Or ambush? Take him deer hunt
ing. When the plea is "mistaken
for deer" the coroner doesn't al
ways think it necessary to hold an
inquest. Thus it will continue to be
while hunters are permitted to
shoot at anything that moves.
WHO RUNS OREGON?
4fcTE IT resolved by-the council
-D of the city of Portland that
the council hereby expresses its
sympathy and approval of the in
vestigation looking toward a re
adjustment and reduction of tele
phone rates in the state of Ore
gon," and so on and so on.
But "sympathy and approval"
doesn't win fights with a telephone
company. The battery of lawyers
and the wilderness Of statistics that
the company will hurl at the com
mission in the coming hearing will
be ponderous.
The best informed experts and
the keenest lawyers In America are
in the service of the great telephone
octopus known as the American
Telephone & Telegraph company.
The experts can show you that
white 1 is black and that the moon
is made of green cheese, and the
lawyers often make a public service
commission believe it. The "sym
pathy" with which the Portland
city council proposes to do battle
against these forces will get no
where in a hearing and be valuable
only in .case the phone company
wins. ' And in that case the tears
and flowers of the council laid at
the feet of the beaten public will
not compensate - for hard-boiled
phone rates.
- This telephone hearing is to de
termine who runs Oregon the peo
ple of the state or the American
Telephone & Telegraph company.
If the public stands like a weeping
"willow tree at the hearing while the
company does business with stuffed
bookkeeping and powerful mental
batteries the ; sovereignty ; jof ; the
state might v easily I jvass to Wall
Streetr : ' ' ' 1 '
REAL FOOD FOR
BREAKFAST
Decision of 75 Per Cent of America's
Doctors in Favor of the Old-Fash-toned
American Repast .- Matutinal
Is Discussed With Much Relish by
America's Editors. Who Knjoy
Said Discussion Hugely, What
c ever Might Be Their Reaction
to Such Things as Slabs of
Sirloin and Wedges of
- Huckleberry or Other Pie.
Daily Editorial Digest-
i Consolidated Preaa AaaocUtioa)
Some years ago an immigrant gained
entrance to this Land of the Free.
He was an agitator, and so successful
was bis propaganda that in an incred
ibly short time he had an enormous
following, largely among our "best
people." So widely was his influence
Bpread. in fact, so strongly intrenched
his doctrines, that those who stubborn
ly remained outside the cult took on a
tinge of ignominy. Now, however, red
blooded Americanism is rising to pro
test, and it appears that the alien
whose name is Continental Breakfast
is in danger of being deported as
an undesirable. Seventy-three per cent
of the American doctors, appealed to
in the matter by a medical journal,
have declared unequivocally for Amer
ican breakfasts for Americans. . And
their editorial fellow-citizens are sup
porting them almost to a man.
"Do you remember," the Rockford
(111.) Register Gazette inquires, "the
campaign for the breakfastless day?
The theory was that you'd be healthier,
happier and generally more efficient
if you took a mere bite of a crust in
the morning, or, better still, ate noth
ing at all. Now, reports the New
York World, "with the reform effected
and in general observance, we are
asked to undo it and return to the old
substantial meat Expert -medical opin
ion took away the traditional Ameri
can breakfast, and expert medical
opinion now restores It," a satisfying
indication to the New Haven Register
that "the world do move."
- Hereafter, the Philadelphia Bulletin
exults, "when the real autocrat of the
breakfast table tries to justify her
bantamweight meal with a malappro
priate quotation about men putting an
enemy into their mouths to steal away
their brains, the husband can retort
courteously that scientific authority
has established "that the cerebrum
needs calories a-plenty ; in other
words, that brain workers need a good
square meal before tackling the daily
task of solving the world's problems."
This because it is especially for "brain
workers" that the American Medical
Review of Reviews is trying to estab
lish a puncture-proof philosophy in the
matter of breakfast. And because of
the philanthropic efforts of the medi
cal journal the Hartrord Courant re
joices that "at last the man who works
with his brains instead of with his
hands may come into his own, or.
more accurately, his own may come
into him, for medical science has
reached the point where a show of
hands indicates that the brain worker
will be permitted to have actual food
for breakfast." a happy state wtiich,
the parper observes in passing, "has not
occurred before for 40 years.''
The idea of these physicians, as the
Waterbury Republican explains it,
"seems to be that the brain worker
needs to coal up well in the morn
ing," for, the Cleveland Plain Dealer
agrees, "in the morning the human
stomach is empty. The human engine
needs fuel to begin its operations. At
no other hour of the 24 la the human
system so in need of stoking." While
admittedly "the man who starts the
day with a handful of sawdust and a
dish of prunes is not open to argu
ment," there is some consolation in
knowing that he can no longer "look
with contempt on his brothers who eat
a man-size breakfast, even though it
may include a sirloin or a slab of
huckleberry pie." Once more "Amer
ican good sense" has triumphed over
the "wave of effete continentalism"
which has been menacing that good
American institution, the honest-to-
goodness breakfast, and the reason, as
the Brooklyn Eagle sees it, is that
"we Americans are not going to daw
dle through a forenoon. We're going
to work with steam-engine energy. An
empty stomach rarely does much
hustling in a world of economic equiv
alents." And with the doctor's permission we
are going to have pie for breakfast
if we want it. "and live in the pie
belt." "Why not?" the New York Times
askg. "For generations pie for break
fast was the nurse, in the colonies and
the United States, of manly sentiment
and heroic enterprise, the food of pio
neers and Indian fighters, heroes of
the wars against the French and the
Engish, winners of the West, makers
of empire." So, bearing the seal of ap
proval of the medical fraternity, the
Manchester Union, from the heart of
the pie belt, sees "the great Ameri
can pie glowing with the modest pride
of the vindicated."
e
Unfortunately, however, it is again
demonstrated that there are people
in JJiia country who never approve of
anything, and we find that those doc
tors that crabbed -13 per cent, who
declared that the way to start the
day wrong is to eat, hava their coun
terpart in the editors who raise ob
jections to a return to the American,
breakfast. "It is not so much lack
of else as something else that la the
matter with the American breakfast,"
asserts the New York Tribune : rather
is it the fact that it must be had "on
the eat-and-run principle." At least
this is true so far as New Yorkers
are concerned, the New York Globe
(agrees, and while a heavy breakfast
may be an excellent idea for normal
America," it won't work in the cities.
"The light breakfast." the Globe says,
"has been the New Yorker's lifeline.
Lingering for the marginal five min
utes of slumber, he munches briefly,
drinks briefly and is gone. A hearty
breakfast would demand short sleep,
rising in the dark. Impossible bolting
of food and sprinting across the dewy
pavements of the big city or of
suburbs."
Worse still, the Philadelphia Public
Ledger comes along with this unpleas
ant thought: "It is the observation
of most of us that tne person in seden
tary,; occupation . is more concerned
with how he and particularly she)
may lose a pound, not gain one. Often
this has been accomplished only, as the
result of heroic effort to stifle the in
stinct of a lifetime. And now come
these doctors and advise him to eat a
heavy breakfast, the one . meal on
which he 'had found the least diffi
culty in economising P; V
S '-7' ' ' ' ' V
But with a not too implicit faith in
medical edicts, the Philadelphia Rec
ord observes that "nothing any, doctor
can tell you can be of as much value
to you as the message the breakfast
itself is f likely to telephone to you
later la the day.- ,
!f':" -
A: NAMELESS IMPERIAL FAMILY
-"at. Koraata. in the Japan Adreraser -;.
Xn the peaceful and Isolated com
munity it is probable that at first no
family -bad any special line of occu
pation r to follow. It- was when the
community had made - some -progress
that division of labor was fotroduced
It is r clear from - many - .myths
that family names in Japan were
taken front the occupations followed.
When manjr - families came to follow
the same occupations,- then the neces
sity arose for giving distinctive names
to the different families. Of the rul
ing famiiy, however, there was onfy
one, and as it had no occupation as
other families did, it had bo name.
Nor was there any occasion for giving
it a distinctive name ; it sufficed to
call it by an honorific name. It was
and is only when a member of the
imperial family sets up a branch fam
ily that a distinctive name is given. '
Japan furnishes the. solitary Instance
where, the ruling family has no fax-oily
nirme. In England. Italy. Holland a.nd
other countries those who already
had family names acquired influence
and ascended to the throne. That the
Japanese ruling family has no name is
a . clear proof of the contention that
Japan has been ruled by one and the
same family from the beginning. Had
there been any revolution at any time
in the history of Japan that is to say,
had the first ruling family been sup
planted toy another the present im
perial house would have a name of
its own.
Letters From the People
Communication., rent to The Journal fot
publication is this Oapartmejit abould be Writ
ten on only one side of the paper, abouM sat
exeeed 300 word tn lencth, and moat be
i lined by the writei, whose mail addrea in
fail most accompany the coatributioa- i
A PRODIGAL SON'S STORY
One Who Has Neither Part Nor Lot in
the Fatted Calf and Doesn't
Want Any.
Portland, Sept. 2. To the Editor of
The Journal. I am a Republican for
the cheap reason that my father was
a Republican. There is this differ
ence, however, between my father's
method of voting the Republican , tick
et and my own: Father always voted
a straight ticket and in consequence
voted for many crooked people. I
scratch my ticket like the turkey in
the straw, and vote "yes" on all com
pulsory education bills. Father, in
the second place, was an orthodox
politician a "convention Republican."
He was always a delegate, because he
was an "old soldier" while yet a young
man, and could read the eye of the
political boss with unerring accuracy,
and obeyed his will as readily. Father
never coveted public office, never
failed to subscribe liberally to cam
paign funds, never showed a political
boss that there was no ring in his
nose, never failed to support the other
fellow if his own candidate was not
nnominated ; therefore, he was a "cho
sen" and "accredited" delegate to more
political conventions than any other
man I ever knew in my native state.
He always did the big things for po
litical bosses and they were more
than glad to eat chicken at our house
and do any other little thing like that.
I somehow always enjoyed seeing my
father make and unmake public offi
cers, but I somehow resented, even as
a boy, the idea that Judge Allen in
variably told my dad what he ought to
think and do politically. I have ob
served Republican conventions in many
states, and whether these conventions
were big or little, I have always
found from three to seven "Judge
Alleng" haT the fish all. fried and
the pie all cut before the "leaders" ar
rived. My dad was a "leader," I want
you to know that. The people in our
county always thought he "led" like
a brave general who consults no mind
but his own. But I was on the inside.
and, just between you and me, he
"led'l like a Jersey cow. He never
seemed to resent the invisible rope
that connected with the hand of his
political master. My dad was one of
the most conventional Republicans I
ever saw. He could pull wires that
were so hot that few men dared to
touch them ; therefore, the majority
press always praised him, while the
minority press howled.
Now, no man 6hall say my father
was not a great, good and wise man.
His friends evidently thought I was
a chip off the old block for they tried
to put me into the state legislature
before I ever owned a razor or took
a fall out of a "Judge Allen." After
I began to carry on and showed an
unruly political disposition and began
to advise people to scratch tickers,
my enviable political pedigree never
amounted, to a darn.
I am sorry I was a political prodigal
from the house of my father, else to
day I, might be "toosey" with Toose
and a "chosen delegate," even a mem
ber of the "sub-committee." I know
the political game so well that if I
had inherited that old nose ring and
rope that belonged to my father (or
to his boss) I could place it In the hand
of Toose and could so L ;have that four
years from now I could ask for and
get that sheepman's place in the'United
States senate. But it never can be,
for I am cursed with a backbone that
makes the whole chiropractic profes
sion chase me around. They are as
anxious to "adjust" me as are the
old-line politicians. No. I can never
hope to get even a piece of liver out
of the fatted calf. For the Democratic
bosses hate me as they hated my
father before me, and the "Judge
Allen" type of Republican boss has no
love for me. Calvin Rutherford.
APPEALS TO THE FATHERS
Principles of the Constitution Held to
Warrant Denouncing toe Compul
sory Education Bill.
Portland, Sept. 26. To the Editor of
The Journal Is America going back
ward instead of forward? Do the
American people no longer believe in
democracy and its doctrine as set forth
in our constitution? Surely this can
not be. ' The American people have tes
tified many, times that they dearly
cherish the ideals of this great docu
ment. In contrast to this noble feeling
there has arisen a movement to under
mine a mighty pillar in the constitu
tional structure. This erroneous move
ment is being fostered by citizens who
consider themselves' rendering a pub
lic service. Oar forefathers could not
tolerate religious persecution in other
lands, and sought out this wilderness
as it was then, to make it their home.
When our government was established.
reugious UDerty was - made an out
standing feature of our constitution.
America is referred to as "the land of
the free," meaning, as well, freedom of
religion.
1 Religious liberty in Oregon will cease
If the erroneously termed compulsory
education bill goes into effect. The
Puritans, Pilgrims and Quakers, wbo
were among the first to settle in this
country, believed in the principle of re
ligious freedom- They advocated that
church and state should not be united
but should remain separate, each fuse
tioning u its peculiar way. From for
mer experience it 4s clear that this doc
trine u correct. Therefore Oregon' will
fall short in its duty under the consti
tution if it enacts this bill, prusatan-
ism is not considered civilised. -Then
why try to force this principle " epon
the Oregon public? Surely the citizens
of Oregon, are peace-loving, law-abid
ing people and do not desire to be
blindfolded in such an important mat
ter. ;- . - -. ".. j -'. - ' .. - ..;-.
It is my opinion that all proposed
legislation should be logically defined
as to actual principle, and no attempt
to camounage tne real meaning of a
proposed measure should be tolerated.
:Trr' A Student.
i REASON FOR DELAT,' I -U
Tram Ufe LoniarUle Coariee-Jeqmaj ' ,
f "What's the hitch . about Grace's
wedding- lo.: the duke?" "I believe
they re saving nia -xiu searched. -
Yl lYTKl
ST AND'
SMALL. CHANGS '
Seems to us that Turkey ts getting
allf ired pernicious with Thanksgiving
remands so near.
I .
: To the jaxs hound home becomes
nothing more than a handy place td
keep a clean shirt and his shoe polish.
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Fashion is a fickle Jade! Here the
edict for long skirts has caught a
bunch of nice young things with their
hair bobbed.
Cries of- personal liberty and the
like notwithstanding, it is true that
many folks are good because they can't
be otherwise.
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It's ' strong . phone pole indeed
that will withstand the assaults of
some of these new model porch
climbing automobiles. .
German royalty may make Mexico
a haven of refuge. . Well, you know
that old line about jumping from the
frjrtng pan into the fire !
Every time it happens that we just
have to have a new suit oi clothes" it
also happens that the clothing market
shows, as the business editor puts it,
an "upward trend."
do:
MORE OR J-ESS PERSONAL
Random Observations AlSout Town
-y.i i.i.m.1 In TVtilirlAJI OOlintV
X ue vtvi .t.. ... - w -
now in highway development is to se
cure federal cooperation in theim-
- -Ka wo. A rlnirn the aJRlD
yrUVCIUCil V Vi VAv va.v .w-. '
qua to Reedsport, says George Neuner
jr., aisinct. nuic - .
When this road is finished the next
road in importance is one up the North
URipqua to uiamonu itt&c.
n tm t ci.in,, nf Salem was
among recent arrivals in the metrop
olis, .i
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C. P. Crandail of Vale was among
iku uhn narticiDated In the Re
publican convention.
T'lllI- -Vnan nf TCll0-n WhOSS
hobby is climbing' mountains, is visit
ing friends in Fortiana.
Amone visitors from Roseburg is
J. W. Thorne.
Visitors from Roseburg include Mr.
and Mrs. F. C Frear, Nora N. Freer
and Carmen Robertson.
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V. R. Van Slyke of Free water is
transacting some business in Port
land. e e a
R. M. Mayberry of Pendleton is
among out-of-town visitors.
OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS
OF THE JOURNAL MAN
By Fred
. - . , i. Ur Lock-
w.B r'ntVibit'Sr whSSi wpeninee. ia
ley a nreaeni . ,h.-K two sue-
that lino wui um -
Deeding InKaiuaenia.
. - i. hf nf the steam-
Portland, ana -i
hangs a tale, or to be
exact a hundred tales. Some time
when be has a spire hour v between
meals.' drop into 'alley o.tba
Georgiana and say. "Hey. Rube, to
him. and then listen to tales of the
"big top" and the sawdust ring that
wilf make your pulses Wr. JldU.
knows the roads of the United States,
of CanadI and of Old Mexico asyou
know the streets between your office
and your home.
e
"You want me to start at the be
ginning." he said, when we sat down
togetner rect:ii"j - - ,,,
of the Oeorgiana. "Wen. that wiU
take us bacK au yearn Y t "
to my birthplace in Jowa and to W
natal day. January 7. 1872. While I
was still a tiny toddler my pec .pie
moved to Topeka. Kansas The first
job I landed was as a counter bo for
A A. Sells. He owned a restaurant
opposite the Rock Island depot. He
had a hotel called the Hotel Chester
field He named it for his son s fam
ous riding horse. You probably re
member William Sells and his won
derful horse. Chesterfield. In his day
William Sells was the greatest rider
that ever rode around a sawdust ring.
"I had heard of William, but I had
never seen him. One night a pros
perous looking chap dropped Into the
restaurant and ordered pretty much
of everything on the bill of fare. He
finished his supper and started out.
I stopped him and told him he had
overlooked paying his bill He said.
'What of It? Forget it. Who is going
to make me pay?" When I said that I
was, he just looked amused and
brushed me aside as ir I had been a
mosquito. I was 17 years old. I
reached under the counter and got a
revolver I kept there, and said, You
will never beat another restaurant
out of a meal. Cough up for that
meal or I'll put a chunk of lead where
you put tBat sirloin steak.' He pulled
out a bill and said. "It you can t take
a joke, take your pay out of ;tht bul.
My name is William Sells, and my
father pays you your wages.'
"I didn't know whether I would be
fired -or not. Instead, it made a big
hit with William. He moved into the
room , next to the restaurant and
brought his six wardrobe-trunks with
him. He invited me into see his cos
tumes and later hired me to take care
of his clothes. The next spring he
hired me as his valet, to go along
with him and take care of his costumes.
His father bought a show at St Joe,
show. It" was called the Andrews
ehow. He and his son William went
to St. : Joe to get it and bring it to
Topeka. They found that someone
had spirited-away the elephant, which
was worth about J6000. Yoa wouldn't
think anyone could get away with as
bulky a thing as an elephant, but
somebody had, and what' is more, the
Sells never did locate their stolen ele-
phant. . . - ' - , -
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"That winter the show was reor
ganised while in winter quarters, and
the. next spring this" was in the spring
of 1890 we toured Kansas and the
Middle Western states as - the Sells
and jsanda. show. While we, were at
Columbus, Ohio, Mr. Sands, my boss
got married. ' We ran into bad. weather
and bad luck and at Pawnee,. Nebra-;
ka, decided to call it a season and take
the back track for home. The end of
the seasqn found the shew en the red
ink side of the ledger. That winter
J. N. Rengfrew .came to Topeka and
while showing at Crawford's opera
house met. Ad Sell, who practically
gave him a half interest in the show
so that his sen would have a capable
and experienced partner for the com
ing season. The Reft spring, that of
1891. the show started out as the Sells
A Rengfrew show. We made money
wherever we showed. , We wound up
at Mena, Arkansas,- with a good
sized bank balance. I was general util
ity man during the season, serving as
valet to Mr. Sells and also going on
as a clown and doing-tight rope work.
We toured the West the next season
and broke all traditions by - reducing
the. price of admission .from $1 to 0
cents, thereby doing an immensely
profitable business
;"Tne next season . I was promoted
to the Job of route rider. My Job was
to check up the work of our advance
NEWS IN BRIEF
SIDELIGHTS
Every once in a white. events shape
themselves to prove that - neither the
police nor the echootma'ams function
properly as parents. -Medford Mail
Tribune. , i . . -
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In the war between moonshiners and
officers In Oregon' the score now
stands five to two killings in favor
Of the moonshiners, - Kentucky please
note. Albany Democrat.
Fourteen youngsters born under the
August sua in Grande Ronde valley
is not such a bad showing. There may
be those who think race suicide pre
vails, but they are mistaken about
this valley. La Grande Observer.
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The president has vetoed the soldier
bonus bill, and ail the administration
organs . will indorse his stand. Had
he signed it they would have praised
htm just as unstintedly- Eugene
Guard.
The miner's wage, as a rule, is high,
but one is ready to admit that the
man who continually faces, such dan
gers as that which overtook the
trapped crew at the Argonaut mine de
serves a high wage. Eugene- Register.
Among the delegates to 'the Repub
lican convention who took a prominent
part in the proceedings was Dr. 3. W.
Donnelly, now 'of The Dalles, but for
merly of Arlington, whose chief hobby
outside of politics is golf. .
Darwin Yoran. a merchant of Eu
gene, one of the candidates for the
postoffice, attended the . convention
Tuesday. . - . .
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Senator I. L. Patterson of Polk
county was among the speakers.at the
Republican conference. He insisted on
calling it a convention.
Alex La Follett and Sam Brown. Re
publican nominees for state senator
from Marion county, were among those
present at the Republican convention.
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Roy Smith of - Hood River was
among delegates to the Republican
convention.
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Among out-of-town visitors is Thom
as Watt, merchant of Reuben, Colum
bia county.
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R. R Butler of The Dalles is trans
acting legal business in Portland.
F. J. Miller of Albany is among
out-of-town visitors.
Lockley
crew to see if their work had been
done properly. In addition I was'bom
missloned to buy all the animals I
could pick up at a" bargain. I bought
a lot of monkeys, at various city parks
and zoos, including a lot of assorted
".oriKeys rrom the zoo at the Golden
Gate Park, in Ran Fmnl t i j
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a that had a young tiger at
. .: ' v-alI1rnia. i round when I
got. there that some grateful friend in
the orient had shipped him a six-
rnontns-oid tiger as a present. He
had no more use for a tiger than a
deep-water sailor has for a bucking
broncho, so I mm) hin 3
for life by taking his tiger off his
w.v.o ana giving nun 125 for it. That
winter my partner. James McElroy.
!er.a bareback rider, trained
r'T nor8e- was the
v- '"'--riaing tiger ever shown,
and lt made a big hit. Later Mr.
Sells sold this trick tiger to Ringltng
?k f?.?n evn7 thousand, and
they figured they had bought him dirt
cheap. We gave our first performance
or the tiger on horseback at San Fran
cisco and got columns of front page
publicity on it William Sells quit
the ring as a rider, and as a testi
monial of his appreciation to Jimmy
McElroy for training the tiger to
r ds a horse he gave him all of his
VJ"JF ,cttumes- wn,cta had cost him
several thousand dollars.
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the time. Mr. Sell came to depend
more and more on me as the years
went by. I think it was in 1895 that
the big railroad strike took place.
Practically every raUroad man in the
country quit work at the same time.
PrlhU5.rao8t f th rallrJ'" of the
Lnlted States. Our show was stranded
w.1! fm Si,ver Bo Montana.
We broke the train into sections and
by harnessing our elephants anCusine-
I,,?? r Bow' Mr- Se and I went to
? if a"d inferred with the officials
? ,i .1 etnkln8r ra)lad workers. We
told them we would give a benefit per
formance for their brotherhoods if
they would steal an engine and fur
nish an engineer, fireman and con
ductor to get our train to Butte. They
f flTn .' "? wt turr,ed over more than
rifrefcfrra th" lormanc.
The reason why we were so anxious
vLtK Butto; that Jim SSH
road, the Great Northern; was still
hto men hot having gone out
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One of our advertising cars was tied
ftp in Utah and another in Montana,
so we abandoned our route and went
wiia. We worked the towns between
Butte and Seattle, where -we chartered
the steamer City of Kingston and
were independent of the raQroads.-We
went to Victoria, B. C, and other coast
towns, including New Whatcom (now
Belllngham), Tacoma and Other water
front citlea When the strike was set
tled we toured Oregon and California,
making a clean-up. Mr. Sells sold out
to his partner. Mr. Rengfrew, who
went East and ran into such hard luck
that his show was attached and sold
for debt.
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"Mr.- Sells organized a new show
and made me manager of advertising
car No. s L As my mind - reverts to
those old days a thousand Incidents
flash- back as vividly as thoogh they
had happened yesterday; .lcan see
myself helping to round : up escaped
Hons and tiger or a scared youngster
crawline- under the nri,n. v
the hard boiled town 'toughs were try-
ng io snoot up tne snow. - pas night
at BlloxL Mississippi, as I was Walk
ing; through the railroad yards to my
advertising car on the sidetrack, a
tough guy stepped from behind a box
ear and said. 'Hands up' Up went
my props, as I said,. 'Don't shoot. You
are welcome to what L have.1 He
went through me and,, took my money
and my watch. As he was frisking me
I said, "See here, partner; some crook
wltt' bur that watch' tram
few dollars. I will pay yon more for
lt than r you can get from anyone
else. If you want to sell it I will give
you 29 for if He said. It's yours
for-a. twenty. - I said ."Come to the
pay car with me and I will get the
money for you. He kept his gun on
me and we started for my car. I had
a gun in the cash drawer and I felt
sure J could move a shade-quicker
than he could.- When we got almost to
the ear-he got cold- feet- and said.
'Maybe you are on. the square, but I
have met so many crooks I am get
ting suspicious of dealing with stran
gers. I guess I'll leave well enough
alone.' And he faded from the scene
between a couple of empty, box cars."
The Orsron Country
Northwest Happeniasa ta Brief gone toe i
Baay Baade ,
' OREGON
Tlfc tn G.I.imI.w .IVaeA .a
r- - wui u.j jiijlu& vara m
pears had been shipped out of Medford
for .the Eastern markets, i r
, wm hundred tons or prunes are be
ing received daily, at the plant of the
Eugene . Fruit Growers' association, -Miss
Mahl r? ifotA. c.otti.-
accepted the position of executive sec
retary of the Jackson' county Red
trosav s --:?. i
TwearvilT .f i-... .
ass of Albany; hJn school have ob-
ia o?legeT irady 'nronetl
'-. - .wcuapun nave uw-
to iScember; 7"?- some time
Mam thin a'nnArtA '.Jr. 51 '
----.-. --v jvuim u-out nave
!LbfrA,ld 'n ,lha Putea river
rwl eJCT j 1 s icaery during
-mfa. - -; ; - . .. r .
- T .A rPA CM n-a aim. t . .
night combating forest rirea in Mor
row county, one of which, on Mailory
creek, is about leUO acres in extent
Th TTnttH Stat .,.-.. ..,,
roads is starting a crew of men clear
mar on the, ii w..,-. . i
project The graoang contract will be
et early next spring. . V
During a stroll about Silverton a
few days ago the editor of the Appeal
found it houses that have been com
pleted within the last two or three
months or are now under construc
tion. :',-VL, .."'-..--.-.,.-
The" Buehner Lumber company, of
North Bend is preparing to build a
logging road to Its timber holdings be
tween Clear Lake and Schofield river,
where . the company owns tour biiUou
leet of Umber, ;:
The Yamhill Electric company has
Improved its plant at Willamina by
the erection or a new flume and the.
installation of a large new dynamo.
The plant will furnish power to Willa
mina and Sheridan. .
.WSU? fHhng his gasoline tank by
the light of a lantern, Ralph Jacksott,
a young larmer of Morrow county.
. . IUMU
.. ovaye - wnen me gas
ignited. His automoelle, granary ami
a lot -of wheat and barley were de
stroyed. . ...
A Jl Armstrong, circulation mana
ger of the Eugene Register, died Sun
day at hlM hnniA iii a An
formerly was a minister of the Meth
odist icaurch and during the World
war was connected with the -army at
Fort Stevens. .
WASHINGTON. '
Plans have been announced for re
building the Everett theatre at aa ap
proximate cost of f 100,000.
T,R,suLar Passenger service between
Bellingham and Seattle on the North
ern Pacific road will be restored Octo
ber 1.
October 24 has been set as the date
for the examination of candidates for
ppstmaster-at Seattle, Wenatchee and
Vancouver. x
David Burgess of Tacoma-has filed
at Olympia his -nomination as candi
date tor United States senator on the
Socialist Labor party ticket.
Three hundred apple growers met at
jiakima Saturday night and decided to
form .a pooL Seventy thousand boxes
were pledged at the session.
Dr K. H. Putney.' one of White
Salmon's big game hunters, killed a
black bear at Oag Ridge last week that
tipped the scales at 400 oounda.
Struck by a Great Northern passen.
ger train while crossing the track near
Richmond Beach, Mrs. 8. E. Herrlck.
56 years old, was instantly killed Sat
urday morning, -."
Grace Wenlif daughter" of Mr. and
Mra. H. Stevens of Bellingham and
a bride of ayear, died at Colville Fri
day as the result of a gasoline explo
sion in her home. .
Falling four feet from the steps of
the Concord school in Seattle .Friday,'-7-year-old
Joseph Desimon, 4 son of
Marco Desimon. was instantly kHied.V s
The Bloedei-Donovan . Lumber Com
pany will operate daily a special log.
ging train between Sylvana and Bel
lingham. The train will carry 25 cars
of Jogs or 200,000 feet of timber- v.
At a meeting of 1400 students of the
North Central high school In Spokane,
it was voted to put a ban on the wear
in&r of .exnenmv i1nthini, tv.ni.tt -
heeled shoes, silks, heavy jewelry and
ear rings. .
Attorney General Thompson left
Olympia Monday for Washington, D.
C, to argue before . the supreme court
of the Lnited States the question of
the right of Japanese to be admitted to
citizenship. r . .
Residents of Everett will vote upon
the issuance of a $360,000 bond issue
for the erection of a water storage
reservoir of approximately 20.000.ooO
gallons. Three contracts, involving
more than $1,000,000, will be awarded
by the state highway committee Octo
ber 3.
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Eugene Cox of Lewiston has been
elected president Of the western divis
ion of he Roosevelt -Highway associ
ation. - -
The University of Idaho school "of
agriculture is conducting a packing,
school at the Dalton Gardens packing
house near Coeur d'Alene.
.Thirty-two acres of DIcklow wheat
averaging 74 bushels to the acre is the
record of a crop raised by Gus Land
holm on bis ranch near PeaVey, Idaho.
Madge, 12-year-old daughter of X J.
Thomas, died in a Boise hospital Sun
day from injuries received three weeks
ago while on an outing with her family-
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; Twin Falls county's first carload of
bead lettuce grown as a commercial
crop was shipped last week by the
Idaho Lettuce company to the Chicago
market : f.-;-.--z-i. s: - :
One of the features of the women's
state federation meeting at Burley
October IS will be the dedication of a
monument erected to the memory of
the Old Oregon Trail pioneers.
Twenty Years Ago
From .The Journal , of September
i7 -1962.
vvorainen avrw engagea in preparing
the foot of Spokane avenue, Seltwood,
for the hew East Side Mill company's
sawmill. ," i ' f M
. Kansas City The World today eays
that from statements made by W. J.
Bryan to close ' friends It is not out
of the question for-hlrrt to. be a candi
date J-ot the - presidential , nomination
again. ; . .
Residents of" Sunnyside are com
plaining on account of the lack, of
steam wood saws and crimen to carry
In their winter's wood.- 1 '
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Blackleg has appeared among' the
cattle -of Couse creek residents, seven
miles northeast of Weston. ,
" The state fair has-been a financial
as well as aa industrial success this
year. -All ltsvdebts have- been said.
leaving a cleat balance of 70. -, j
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At the meeting of the' street Com
mittee of - the city: council- yesterday
.the O-W. p. Jfc R. company asked per
mission to run its cars over the Burn
side bridge, v . , :;
An? unusually "heavy rain " fell last
eight apparently the "clean top" of the
lowering weather of the past few days.
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Salem Governor Geer is to make a
fight for7 the United- States senate on
the basis of the vote cast in the Jane
election, which it Is claimed - makes
him the legal and .logical condldatQ
under the Mays law :
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The - Multnomah club football - team
arm be captained tMs year by Roy
R. KlrklyT The Portland - Academy
team will be handled, by Coach Blanch
ard. i Frank Swope is , captain, of the
high school team. Hill Military has
secured R. C Montague as coach.