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10; JOURNAL, ir OR i LAxs i), CKKli . FRiDAY, SEP i EMBER 29,: 1922. A2 rTEITB!IKJT KEW8FAFEK C. 8. JACKSON Pblw IB calm, to confidant, ummu auw nnto eUcot as jo would hare the a uta yon-1 " ' Published arery weekday and Sunday moral n- at Tn Journal euuainc. ib" Mil emet. Portland. OnfaB. lettered at tha potoffio st Portland. Oregon, lot- laaiBunw Ujuss tha m0 w second ciaae mm, KATIO.VAL ADVERTISING KEPREUJI-NTA- TIVK Benjamin Keatnor to.. ru,V" k-a bviMiaa. 2S Fifth aeenu. K lock: WO Matter rmiiair.:. vmcaco. fAClKlO CtxASr BEPKitNTATIVK M. J. aiorteaaon IA, war. x.aiuner mmnm. San Fnadsca; TttJ Inlbranca bnildin. Lea .Basel: - WCTTinei ptmuina. qem. THE OREGON JOUSNAIf retinae the right lo reject admrtutac copy wam n uecna Jetioal. It also will not Print an ., copr that In any way simulate readina mat- tr or that cannot nadiiy ba tecccnixad a adTgrtteinc """ SUBSCRIPTION RATES By Carrier City and Country DAILY A!l BLSDAX On week $ .I&iQb montn. . . . . 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JL The tariff bill was signed. The bonus bill provided money For men who .fought the war for this country-' The tariff bill provides money mostly for the big interests of the country. The bonus would have cost 4,- 000,000,000. U is estimated that the tariff bill will cost the people 5,090, 000, 000 a year. Most of the soldiers collected in he neighborhood of $30 a month urine the war and risked their lve in the meantime. They gave p business, many of them, and any relinquished excellent posi- ions which they never got back. But the big interests of the coun- ry were not making a paltry $30 a rionth during the war. They are ot making a paltry $30 a month how. The men who are reaping" fcdded profits out of war fortunes .nd the tariff now, were not, in fnost instances, risking lives or giv ing up business in war time. -ftxaBut one class gets aid from the government, very substantial aid. The other class gets nothing. The bill intended to aid the soldiers was fnade a political football. The bill or the interests was, enacted after series of trades, with the repre- entatives of each state grabbing U they could possibly grab. And it will not be forgotten that h soldiers were practically the nly men .who contributed to win ning the war who were not paid andsomely for their services. One of the police officers is said 1o advocate confining prostitution o a restricted district. Is he also In advocate of confining cancer to ne part of the body? The theory In -either instance would be fine, if ifection didn't spread. THE INDUSTRIAL FEUD IE feud between - Henry Ford and Wall street is reported to iave broken out anew. Such news tannot be altogether unexpected. -ttis'a very natural thing, because , dr. Ford and the captains of Wall ' Street have very different ways of doing business. Before Ford's time working men isaafmA V rt TQ 14 Vti MO V. XT a at idVi a tontrouea arrairs in wail street nd Wall street con trolled many of the? big industries of the country : were inclined to give the public What they "desired to give it and, for a very big profit to themselves. Val street still does business that wayv It is not the consumer that is - Considered -it , is the seller. He is Supposed to get all the' traffic will Mr. Ford does business differ ; tntly. He pays his men. He pro- cheaper an article the more people irili buy, and the better the service the bigger the clientele. He has ; proved that the larger volume of ales, evenTfithless'Trofit "to him- : Self, more than makes up for the -larger profit on fewer sales. J In .the original Ford company.4 though f he; was the inventor of the car. Ford held a minority sto4k. i tit fell out with hia partners Be cause they wanted to do business in the usual way. ' They cared little about what service the ' car would give,- provided it could , be paA&L They cared little about what'riew I parts would cost "or what repairsto a sold car would cost. They claimed (hat was the buyer's business. Ford claimed It was tne manufacturer's business. ' . l ' ' On that rock the company split. Ford refused to be a party 'to ' a. business that cared nothing about the interests of the consumer. Ford withdrew, taking his patents with him, and started a business on his own plan, with the result that he has overturned ail the precedents of industry and upset the plans of all captains of business. "Wall 'street doesn't like to pay working men much money. The men who . direct affairs there be lieve in charging all that can be charged for commodities and serv ice. And when Mr. Ford came along "with his new theory it upset Wall street. The big financiers didn't like to see business done that way. They would not hesitate to break Henry Ford In a minute, if possible. But they are 'finding that to be a difficult job,, because Mr. Ford has not only the workers biut the public with him, as well as a goodly supply of cash. STREWING THE WRECKS HAVE enforcing officers repealed the law requiring drivers to dim their headlights 'when ap proaching other cars?; Take a ride from Salem to Port land after dark any of these State Fair nights and see what you will see. Fewer headlights will be dimmed than will be the number that rush by with a glare that leaves you blinded, confused and shattered in nerve at thought of what might have happened. ; If the enforcing officers have not I-repealed the law, most of the driv ers have. It is a practically unob served law, andyet it is onet of the best laws on the statute books. Day by day and night by night, the highways are strewn ,with wrecks. You vsee at the roadside a car in the ditch with one wheel col lapsed. You see another bottom side up. You see a crowd gathered around two broken cars, withfthe injured being assisted into one of the many passing cars that have stopped to render aid. In a drive to Salem and back Wednesday four wrecks were observed, to say noth ing of the broken cars that were hauled off at other hours during the day and evening. This is not intelligence. It is in sanity. It is absurdity. It is near murder. It is drivers .gone mad. If there is to be any repeal of the law that requires headlights to be dimmed, the legislature, not enforc ing officials or drivers, should do it. It is the business of officials to enforce that most excellent law, as well as all other traffic laws. That is what they draw salaries for. If they do not do it, they should be dropped from the payrolls. The extremity of the Merced and the appearance of her"rew all In good health after a restricted diet of biscuits and soup simply prove the story told in Daniel's time. People don't have to eat to capacity in order to enjoy health. THE BUSINESS OF CRIME THERE is a great to do in Port land about bootleggers. Mac- querax have just recently had their snaref or attention. ina moraJ squad is placed upon the defensive by charges- that its members ac cept "hush money" from places of ill resort. But has any investigator learned how bootleggers keep books? Has anyone gotten the poiqt of view of the macqueraux? Is there any local knowledge about the prosti tutes' accounting system? Do judges, officers and civic workers know that these people who operate in cellars and sub cellars make a cold-blooded finan cial business of their affairs? Does official Portland know that they estimate the judge's tempera ment, discount his fines and classify him in accordance with his pen chant for jail sentences? Do law enforcement agencies know that a certain allowance is made for "hush money" as a regular part of the day's routine? Do they know that all these items are listed as the cost of doing bus! ness just a the merchant lists his "overhead" ? That profits are fig ured extra long in order to absorb unusually costly1 hazards? That the whole question- of continuance is whether- the law can be evaded or whether there will be something left when the fines, the "hush money" and the fees of lawyers who cater to the soot-streaked business are paid? And do they know that if officers are honest- and! active and judges impose maximum fines and jail sentences profits are destroyed and incentive! taken avray ? That the way to have a clean town is to enforce the law to the limit? ' PORTLAND'S DUTY T? ASTERN Oregon has not in- creased population for 10 years, is the word brought back by the Portland' business men's-excursion." Portland in 10 years' has grown more than 25 per cent. In the pre ceding census period Portland's population more than doubled. But a citato healthy growth -must in the end result from proportion ate growth In tributary territory. If Eastera Oregon has stood still is . - Portland's growth to be ac counted for by growth of agricul ture and industry in the Willamette valley or advance in Southwestern Washington? : . -' Census reports do not so disclose. - The truth is that Portland has quite as much population as her trade territory present state of development justifies...' For the city to go. on growing at boom rates without corresponding out-ctat cx passion -would result in overbal ance and might lead to retrogres sion, aa "experience which Is as yet stranger to this city. if But this does not mean that he city is to stand still, t waiting for the state to catch up.- In Portland is centered the financial, the in dustrialand the social strength -of the Oregon country. Portland is the distributing center for mer chandise. It represents" s market and assembling point for grain and other agricultural products. It di rects the logging operations of that area in which is located a fifth of the nation's standing timber. The thing for Portland to 'do is (o see that Eastern Oregon begins to grow a grain. There are reclamation projects that ought to be settled on terms fair to the settler. There are power projects that if de veloped would give immense im petus to, growth. There are com munity problems that the strength and influence of Portland could solve. - The Oregon country is, to large extent, a granary, a woodyard and a rruit storenouse.. Its production is vastly in excess of its consuming power. Markets which will take our staples at prices which en courage further production are im perative. 'Producers are discover ing that as individuals they cannot market successfully. Cooperative marketing has solved the California problem. Properly organized it could solve the marketing problem of the Oregon country. But proper organization means that banks and business men will help and not knife cooperative marketing. Isn't this a most excellent time for Portland to place itself on a new, cordial, constructive and help ful relationship to the Oregon coun try, if not for the out-state's ' sake, then for Portland's? A GREAT STATE FAIR THOSE who have failed to see the Oresron State fair make a mis take. It is a great show. It is the great est in Oregon history. In their own language, persons at Salem Wednes day who had seen the California state show said the Oregon fair "has the state fair at Sacramento beaten a mile." Oregon has never brought forth exhibits so abundantly before. The pavilions are a powerful picture of Oregon production. There is corn to delight the eye of a stockman, fruit that beats the world, grains almost without rival and. livestock as good as the world yields. Iota is there. She is the record cow of the world. Her record is 1048 pounds of butterfat in 12 months. The eye of the dairyman or stock fancier lights up with admiration as he looks on her in her stall in the great stock amphitheatre, or as she walks majestically about when the stock judging is on. , She is the biggest of all the figures In the livestock show. Everybody goes to see her. The year that she made hergreat record included a winter of rapidly shifting heat and cold, which comjsicated the problem of making a big butterfat yield. Her owner, Mr. McKce of Polk county, tells you of the trouble he had in keeping the temperature of her barn at the proper figure. And all the other stockmen tell you of the delicate care necessary in feeding her the exact ration required to keep her milk yield at the highest possible point of production.- And you can see from the glances at her that everybody else in Oregon loves her for the fame she has brought to the state. Among the other premier cows produced in Oregon was one owned by Frank Lynn," brother-in-law and neighbor of the owner of Iota. With her first calf born before she was two years old she made a rec ord of 829 pounds. It was a rec ord that for her class has -never been beaten, and that is still about 10O pounds ahead of any cow of her age. But she did . not live, to show what she would have done in maturity, a fact widely, .regretted among Oregon lovers of 1fancy-livestock. The prevalent idea that rain' puts the state fair out of business is a myth. All 6f the great show is under roof except the races, and after all. the races are only a side show. You can see the exhibits In perfect fOmfort with a cyclone raging outside, and the exhibits are the noble commonwealth of Oregon in miniature, so far as production is concerned. When you go to the fair you are forced to place a new and higher value on your state. NO MOURNING r' IS announced that men and of ficers of the army need not sa lute except on military reservations or when they, Speak, in uniform. Unfortunately, the news doesn't say whp deserves the credit for the change. There has been, and still is, a lot of absurd ceremony In military reg ulations. Much of it is a relic of the past, a hand-me-down ' from kingship. ' .Jj. The passing of the unnecessary salutes is a sign of progress, and another sign would be the abolition of many of he unnecessary gun sa lutes that ae offered to officials high and low. Those salutes are not necessary; they are merely a ceremony, and they are costly, i There must be discipline in mili tary life. But many are the abuses that slip into the system under that heading. Silly ceremony is one. Autocracy 'Is another. It is good news that part of it is to be abandoned. e C0M1VIENT OF THl3 STATE PRESS ON CTHE 1925 FAIR Medford Mail Tribunes Travel Is splendid education. Julius Meier has returned from his, trip around the world, a less exuberant, but a much wiser man. In an interview given out at New York the head of the Portland 1925 exposition declares neither the wide. Wide world, nor the eastern por tion off the United States is interested fir a world's fair- in Portland or any where else,, and Mr. Meier is very skeptical concerning; the entire propo sition.! Mr. Meier's conversion merely confirms the view that a vast major ity oi" the sober-minded citixens of this state have held since the exposi tion Idea was first broached. If such an exposition can not be financed by popular subscription, if it can't be held without increasing the already exces sive tax burden, then no fair should be held, and the entire project should be abandoned until conditions in this state, country and the world at large, are more favorable. Salem Capital Journal : If the peo ple of Portland really want a fair they should prove it by putting up their own money first, instead of wait ing untjl they find out whether the taxpayers can be soaked. The legisla ture is not soingr to vote a large ap propriation' for the fair without just as hard a fight as failed to produce the coin a year ago. There is noth ing to Indicate that the people of Portland want the fair except the lit tle bunch of boosters who are spend ing the sack raised for fair promotion. There is even less to indicate that the people of Oregon want a fair. The principal backer of the exposition has decided that it is not a phychologicai time for such an effort and the total absence of enthusiasm everywhere con firms his judgment. . . Corvallis Gazette-Times : Portland asks the privilege of putting on this exposition asks the people of this state to vote to let Portland bond itself for a large sum of money to get the exposition under way and well on its feet. - It is -reasonably certain, how ever, that somewhere in the progress to the exposition's greater glory the promoters will find it desirable to ask the state ,of Oregon for cooperation. Probably this will take the form of a request for money for a state build ing, and an adequate Oregon display. That Jwould be proper, and it would seem incredible that Oregon should vote against Portland s proposal at this Qme 'simply because of this pos sible request. Instead, the .state would probably feel ashamed it- Portland should have an exposition ofeany mag nitude and the state as a whole were not properly represented at whatever cost. So It finally simmers down to whether the Portland exposition as now suggested offers the possibility of being of sufficient magnitude.' How ever, no exposition that Portland could put on in 1925 could have less worth while foreign participation than did the Panama-Pacific exposition at San Francisco, but even bo, that big show was one of our most beautiful and highly successful expositions. The whole question now is whether Port land Itself will come through with the preliminary subscription calculated to inspire confidence. If it will, then Oregon will certainly vote for the ex position, for there are few good rea sons against it, and many of the best reasons for having such an exposition. Gold Beach Reporter: A great many voters are going to say "yes" to the initiative measure which would permit the people of Portland to bond themselves for $3,000,000 for a 1925 ex position. The idea is that if the peo ple of that city want to be so idiotic as to run in debt to that amount for a big show three years hence "we should worry." But just Imagine that we people outside of Portland give that calf all the rope he asks, on the theory that if he wants to hang him self It's no funeral of ours. Just pass that bill and let Portland issue those bands and see what will follow. The fair boosters will descend on the legislature in January and insist that the state put up a million more to help the enterprise along, at least for a state exhibit if nothing more. Then any county will be called a piker that won't shell out for a county building on the grounds and we shall soon see where we get off. Baker Democrat: Portland and the state should be one in this big coast wise movement. The proposed expo sition has been undertaken to build up. The inducement of capital to develop Oregon's vast resources is the one ob ject and to succeed will require unit ed support from all citizens -of the state. The responsibility of financing the fair will be borne by Portland. All Portland asks is the cooperation of out side localities in giving the fair their moral support. This is certainly little enough and every county in Oregon Is duty bound to rally in support of the project. Union Republican : Julius Meier of Portland, -recently returned from a tour of foreign countries that are expected to participate in the 1925 fair in Oregon, counsels moderation in the matter of holding the fair. jHe says the plans should be modified to har monize -With conditions in foreign countries, many of which are in no condition to take part in the big Oregon fair. .And his counsel may well be heeded. Mr. Meier speaks from actual investigation and firsthand in formation. His advice to Oregon is to go slow as far as the foreign coun tries are concerned. - Bend Bulletin: So far the 1925 ad vocates have said that the state was not to be asked to tax itself , for the fair. All they ask from the voters outside of Portland, they say, is sup port for the measure permitting Port land to tax itself for the- purpose. From the state at large only volun tary subscriptions are to be asked. Senator Upton now says that mem bers of the legislature understand that they are to be asked for a state ap propriation. If this is the case the people must consider the request for the authority to tax Portland from an other angle. If the request Is grant ed, will the fair people urge that by implication the people favor a state appropriation? We do not know, of course, but until we do know we say that the -people should be making up their minds to vote against the Port land measure. Baker Herald : The Herald took the stand a year ago that the up-state should not be asked to take on , the burden of taxes for the fain 'and fought the tax as proposed through the special cession of the legislature. We still hold that the state cannot afford to take on the burden of additional taxes. "But this is not the question new. The question Is: Will Portland vote to taVherself $3,000,000 if the amendment is carried? Are the fair backers of Portland sufficiently organ ized to carry the tax measure? We have heard reports indicating it Is doubtful if the people of Portland would vote the tax. - . . v "- -X Medford Clarion: In epite of some newspaper opposition the idea of hold ing an electrical exposition at Port land in 19:5 is gaining ground. Port land's willingness to raise the neces- mi-w eviTiAa vv tiTnilnn la a. fair prop osition to the rest ot the state. The authority is asked in a dm suomit ted to the voters of the state at large and It is probably one of the few meas ures that will . carry. ; It cannot be successfully argued, that an. enabling mnntT to tax itself to accomplish some desirable or need ful purpose which the people of that county deem essential and Important snouia not m legauzea oy m mi the state. The electrical fair will ben efit the entire Northwest and advance ) ivinnnwnt lit Portland and the entire state a hundredfold. Letters From the People ( Communication nt to The Journal fot publication in thia dtaartment should b writ; tea oa only on aide of the paper. anouM not exceed 300 word to length, and mt be) tigned by the writ, wnoae mail addraa ia lull most accsmpaaa' the contribution-1 AN INQUIRY j Relating to the Measures That Have , Been Judicially Taken Off the Ballot. Portland. Sept. 26. To the Editor ot?he Journal. I note that there are aboat 300,000 voters in the state, and that 75,000 of this number are in aiuit nomah county. How -is it. -then, that when the greater proportion of these voters exercise their constitutional right of. signing a petition -assenting to a measure's being submitted on the bal-, lot for the people's approval or rejec tion, a mere handful of individuals can eliminate it off the'slate? The last couple of days such action has taken place. Why do they decide to keep the fish and Income tax measures off the official ballot and permit the; sin gle tax measure to go before the ''peo ple, far less to attempt to answer the affirmative argument? It does look as If the initiative was made for the special interests' benefit, and a most convenient chopping block for thee big business bodies. Incorporated as ' the latter are under the titles of Chamber of Commerce, Kiwanis club, Portland Ad club. Press club. Rotary club and East Side Business Men's club, no wonder the 6 per cent interest meas ure is meeting a Waterloer"long before it has a chance of being represented on the ballot. With such a horde of wolves as the aforementioned it seems strange that iU was even permitted to take its place along with the other measures printed in the official pamphlet. About five weeks remains between now and election, so before the elec torate have an opportunity to commit themselves at the polls their ideals and hopes are frustrated by a few judges and lawyers, Now. the govern or horns in and scalps the notaries by depriving them of their commissions, and, to cap the whole affair, a grand jury Investigation is promised. Pop ular government is very fine In theory, but in 'practice, it is thwarted and twisted. Everyday Citizen. FAIR, OR NO FAIR? An Ardent Advocate Answers in the Affirmative ; Predicts a Greatest Portland Portland, Sept. 25. To the Editor of The Journal To be or not to be, is the question of the hour in Portland today. Of course, I mean as to wheth er or not there shall be a fair in 1925. Not only will there be a fair in 1925, but it will be the largest and best fair ever held in the world. Remember Portland our Portland is the gem city of the nation, and Is three times stronger now than It was In 1904 ; therefore it can put a three times big ger fair over now than then. The Lewis and Clark fair made Portland what she is today. Then by the same rule, the fair of 1925 will make Portland, by 1930, a city of 500,000 population. Now, figure out the immense amount of work, business' and bank clearings that have gone on in Portland since the last fair, and also consider the amount cf these similar affairs that will tajie 1-lace during the next 10 years ortsj. Need I say any more? I know all the coast cities like a book! ' Drive around this city, at night or day. See its Mfe and business. Then sea Seattle, and you will' see a world of difference in favor of Portland. San Francisco and Los Angeles not so much so, ut still some. Someone asked me the other'' riay what sort of summers Seattle had. I said I was there only the first 10 months of the year, and I could not tell. ' About the high taxation taxes are high all over the world. We can pay them. Ihe Europeans cannot pay their taxes. As one banker said to me, 'The taxes ere so high now, we will never notice another mill or two." Never heed Julius Meier's story about poverty in Europe. Europe is much better off than many people this side are aware. They still have land, and they ought to be thankful .for that. Europe recuperated rapidly after the battle of Waterloo, and had Napoleon won that battle, the world today would be 500 years ahead, in progress. He was uprooting thrones. Wellington put thrones back on their job. The great storm on the eve1 of Waterloo defeated Napoleon. , Napoleon was greater than Foch. Wellington, Persh ing and Haig rolled into one. This is 1922. In 1924 Europe will be prosperous. In 1924 I shall be in Eu rope. I apeak seven languages besides my ownevery one fluently but my own and I will bring tood news back, and warm feet. The 1925 fair is gojng through in epite of all. t see great, enormous, successful fair. I see a very successful iRftermath of the fair. I see in the near future the greatest city on the Coast Port land, made so by the 1925 fair. E. Teesdale. THE RECALL All Officials Take Office Knowing It is the Law ; Then why Protest Against It, Inquired. Portland; Sept, 22- To the Editor of The Journal In granting the motion of the telephonecompany to transfer the rate case to the federal court, Judge Stapleton expressed fear that our liberties would disappear If the recall law is applied to judges. Then why did not the framers of the constitution exclude judges from the operation of the recall provision? As a matter of fact, did not the fram ers of the law believe the recall law would prove a check on biased and partial judges? Is it not a fact that galling decisions and arbitrary dicta from the bench did more to bring the recall law into being than all other abuses of power? If eo, then why de plore and view with alarm every at tempt to invoke the law against judges who give evidence of partiality toward predatory interests? The recall pro vision is a part of the. organic law. All state, district, county and pre cinct officials- accept office subject to recall. No one. is exempt from recall. All take oath AO uphold the recall law. Each and every citlsen is authorized to Invoke the law- when In his judgment an official has become odious or has failed to administer the laws impar tially. It is then up to the people to pass upon the acts of the official at the polls. It is an appeal to the su preme authority, to the lawmaking power, the people. How then can it be said that the recall of a Judge threat ens the liberties of the people who made the law for that purpose? Robert G. Duncan, YOUR ATTENTION, HENRY . ma tha Charleston New and Courier Henry Ford Is still talking about his currency scheme. - What we want, Mr. Ford, is a dollar which resembles your weU know. flivver in that it will go a long way, but won't go very fast. COMJifEOT: ige ' Now is the time to registersnot after your candidate has been defeated. Another headline in the paper talks about a "dry navy." That must be something like the famous. "horse ma rines." . . ' The man who gussles moonshine would be among the first to protest at the slightest impurity in hia water supply. . .. With free textbooks or the other kind, school boys will find it just as difficult to stay in school on the first warm day of. spring. , Author of a hew volume of fiction has named his heroine Miss Cowes. Fat chance that book has of ever being a best seller. , . "Three bandits killed." That's a mighty, severe system, but there's no doubt about its effectiveness in stop ping banditry. . N Two important bits of sport news : "Siki knocks Carpentier for a goal in vciutjocj VUIM IMJ1 igf visiting France. MORELOR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Bes C. Sheldon has withdrawn from politics, but it bo happened that he had some busihess in Portland when the Republican convention met. The os tensible purpose of his visit, he says, is to get the Portland Chamber of Commerce interested in a nrooositlon pto secure the proposed home for orphan children that., the Brotherhood of American Yeomen Is figuring en estab lishing on the Pacific coast. , - F. E. Dye of Marshfield- is trans acting business in the metropolis.' D. E. Fletcher of Independence is a guest of the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. K. K. Briggs of Eugene are registered at the Imperial. W. A, Mardin'of'Roseburg is trans acting business in Portland. 1 e N. C. Jarman of Yakima. In am one out of town visitors. Among out of town visitors is H. W. Klages of Boardman. OBSERVATIONS AND IMPRESSIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Her Fred MriUnn complete hia cross section ot circna lit in the olden days. A feature is hi account of a hunt, for wild camels in Arizona; and he tell how th camels happened to ha there. Some men are natural wanderers. They have a touch of the gypsy in their make up. Such a man is Fred C. McMann, chef of the river 6teamer Georgians. If he should put clown in black and white some of his experi ences he would have a book as thick as the unabridged dictionary. For more, than three decades he was with a circus, serving in many capacities, from tight rope walker and clown to publicity man, and animal buyer. "Animals are like gold. You never can tell where you are going to find them," said Mr. McMann. "Right here in Portland I have picked up some of my best bargains in wild animals. When you come to think of it, the City of Roses is the last place under the sun that one would expect to find wild animals, yet, I bought two camels In Portland from Newman Clark for $125 each that were easily worth $500 apiece. i uiiqk iook mem on an i attachment from a man who had come I down from the Streets of Cairo at the Alaska-Yukon exposition at Seattle. I bought a lot of trained sea lions from a side show at- San Francisco that had gone broke. - On my way south with my sea lions I heard of a man in' Southern California who had start ed an ostrich ranch and was anxious to unload ; so I dropped off and took his ostriches off his hands at $50 each. The Barnum & Bailey, show was in Texas, so I headed for it with my sea lions and ostriches. I picked up the 10 sea lions at $10 each, so I had only $20 tied up In ' them I picked up the 10 ostriches -nt $50 apiece, and listen to whatx I got for them : I swapped them Barnum & Bailey for one medium good elephant, three fair to middling lions and a lot of extra assorted animals. "I did so well on that . deal that I took a contract to furnish a man named Noon some wild camels. I happened to know that in No Man's Land, near Gila Bend, in Arizona, there were some wild' camels. In- 1882 Sells Brothers had captured 22 wild camels in Arizona and shipped them to their winter quarteCSawat' Topeka, Kas., so I figured I could make a little easy money by capturing some of the same herd. J talked with a desert rat who knew where the camels roamed. He was part Indian and part Mexican. He told me hunting Camels was dangerous, for when you roped them, unless jrou got youf -rope around a camel's heck pretty high up you couldn't choke it down. If your rope happened to settle around the neck low down, like a collar on a horse, it was all off with you fend your horse. Las the camel would kick or bite the daylights out. of you If he couldn't drag you to death with your own rope. However, I was willing to take a chance, eo I went etrt into the des ert after the camels. Catching wild camels is like chasing shadows. Oh, sure ; we saw some at the water holes, where they came to drink, but catch ing them is something else again. Catching a flea is easy -compared with catching a wild camel. About the only way we could have caught our cam els would have been te build a stock ade and hire a lot of Indians or cow boys to drive them into the inclosure. "What's that? How did we happen to have wild camels in the desert in the Southwest? , Say, you want to read up in American history. In 1857, when Jefferson Davis was secretary of war, he bought a lot of Arabian camels and had them shipped to the United States for the use of the -army transport service in Texas, 1 Arizona and New Mexico. As you know, an Arabian camel can readily carry twice, as heavy a load as a mule. -In. fact, back in their own country they often put a load of 1000 pounds on a . cameL It can go for a week or 10 days without a- drink. It picks up its own living, and will keep fat where a mule would starve to death. General Beale had charge of the camel corps. - The cam els were all right, but when It came to getting a muleekinner or a bull whacker to handle the ugly, ungainly, ungrateful and unintelligent brutes the government was up against it. A camel would reach over and bite a chunk out of ite ! driver, and neither money nor threats could persuade that- par ticular leatherneck to have anything more to do with camels. The . looks and the smell of ; the camels would stampede every mule team : or pack outfit thatf met them. j-r" ; Atongme-the Civil war,-and the United States government had more important things to do than to rustle chaperoaes for , its camels. It .was IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - r -No one has' yet suggested the word "tolerato" as a substitute for "obey" in the wedding ceremony, Pendleton East Oregoaian. m " ' This is an age . of triumph for the pessimists, who always expected the worst. They've got 4t at last. Salem Capital Journal. . . " -i If President Harding has the ap pointment of five members of the su preme court let us hope he will not consider elevating Mr. Daughterly to one of the posts. La Grande Observer. s r. -A. tooth from a . Drehiatorta shirk was found . recently in Linn county. They were here ages ago when thfs tana was-a see, and are here yet for that matter, but those here now have not lost any of their teeth. Wood burn Independent. . The sooner cheap and popular jazz u.co uui aim mis imer stun or trie musicians attains its perfect form, the happier a wearied public will be. Many crimes have been committed In the name of jazz, it is welcome news that there is something better to come. Baker Democrat. About every two years Norman Clark Neill of London. England, comes all the way to Oregon to fish for steemeads" in the Rogue river. He is a Drotner of C. M. C. Neill of Qrants Pass, who met him in Portland Wednesday. . W. H. Doolittle, mayor of Ontario,' Is in Portland, promoting the interests of his municipality in particular and Eastern Oregon in general. County Judge Walface ,of Crook county is transacting business in Port land. Dave Murphy of Rainier was among those who arrived in Portland Wednes day. Mr. and Mrs. H. E Allen of Bend are guests at the Portland. r J. Alton Thompson of Bend is among the out of town visitors. - l. u. tiemnger oi uoenran was a business visitor Wednesday. Lockley more" interested In handling Jefferson Davis than his caprels. So it turned tnem loose in ths(esert and aid good r4ff nc to rubbish, and that set tlgyjjitted States camel trans port corps. About the only good they accomplished was to cause a few hard boiled prospectors to swear off drink ing. When they woke up In the night by some desert water hole and saw in the moonlight a bunch of camels pussyfooting by, they thought they were seeing things and resolved to quit before they began seeing snakes. "Well, anyway, I chased camels and rumors of camels until I was sick of me job and threw up my contract. . "I have worked for the Sells circus ever since it was called the Andrews show. Then it became tha Sells & feanas show ; then the Sells & Reng frew show then the Hummell, Hamil ton & Sells show. By that time I. had become manager of advertising car No. 1. Two years later it was called the Great Syndicate show, and after ag year or so it became the Sella & LKwns show, in 1898 Mr. Sells sold his interest in the' show to his partner and became general agent for the Walter L. Main show of Geneva, Ohto, while I was put In charge of 'the main advertising .car. We toured Canada from Montreal to Victoria, B. C AVe closed a 30 weeks' season at Albuquer que, N. M. We stayed with this show a couple of years, and then. Mr. Sells started another shafw of his own, called the Sells & Gray snow. Three years later Mr. Sells went In with Otto Floto of the Denver Post and they organized the Sells-Floto show. Otto Floto had been running a dog and pony show, and the combination. made a strong show. - "I would like to tell you about the strong-arm games in the old days, when the ticket sellers used to pay $1.15 apiece for all the dollar bills they could get hold of and then pass them off as $10 bills when they short-, changed the yokels in the small towns. The old days are gone now, and the circus no longer carries with it a choice collection pf pickpockets and strongarm ' men. "No ' longer do . they" have to fix the town marshal so they can get away with anything; but mur der. "Oh, yes ; I have seen : plenty of shooting in my day, when the cry of 'Hey, Rube!' echoed over the lot as a signal for every clrcua man to grab a picket stake and rally against an assault. I happened to , be mixed up In a fight where the hardholled town guys came after us In force, and when the smoke had cleared away they had beat it and I helped to lay out nine men some of them. -our own men who would never rally to the cry of 'Hey, Rube !' again. At the inquest it was proved that the town toughs were "the aggressors, so we were cleared and allowed to go one our way after burying our dead in the town cemetery. "Mr. Sells was a great believer -in advertising; He believed no business could make ' "a worth-while success without the liberal use of printer's ink. He was a good spender, and he sure got results. We ran nine days at San Francisco once. He had - me fix up a big arch at the corner of Ninth and Market streets with this motto : "The Key of Success IS the Press.' It was during this 'engage? ment that ' he gave a big dinner to his friends, including the newspaper boys. He told me when the dinner .wag about over to - come in wild-eyed and scared to death and shout, 'Mr. Sells, the tigers are loose V We doped up nine of -our tigers and turned them loose in the big tent. You never can tell what a big cat will do. ; They have a poor sense of humor, and don't know how to take a joke; so we had a rather exciting finale of the ban quet. We finally got all nine of the big-cats back into their cages without any serious- accidents. The 'careless' animal keeper was properly cussed out and fired, and the next morning the papers were full of the tiger story. Another time - we ' had an elephant 'es cape' from its quarters, ; and we man aged to corner him and capture . him in froEt. of the Call building. r You can imagine what a crowd we had to "help ua catch the elephant. Elephants are smart. They - can enter into the humor of a joke and help put one over on the newspapers., 4 "Yes. the old days are gone. -1 have a collection of over 150 passes at my rooms- In ' Portland, but . they; won't get me a mile these days, when you have to dig up your fare if you waent to ride on the cushions. However, they are- Interesting souvenirs- - In 1917 I quit the 'big -top' and went to work on the river, : arid . have been here ever - since." . - - - , . ,, ... . .... -. "j, .... ; V - . The OreirorTCountry Northwest Happenings in Brief Form for the ; ' . .-Basy'Ra3er. . '."" ' ". : OREGON . : v.. - The Bank of Prinevtile, recently or-: ganized. was -admitted this week to the federal reserve system. -. r -The attendance at the Medford schools at the dose 'of-the second week . was iii. ine niga acnooi attendance, numbers 412. - . i - Due o recent legislation by congress. ' the state of Oregon -wlil receive tor the years 1923-24-25 federal road aid to the amount ot $2,995,892. ; 4 ; . - Gophers are menacing the Irrigation districts 4ft Deschutes county.' C. E. Johnson reports having trapped. 2500 -on bis 20-acre ranch, i During ise period of January l, 1920, ' .w a iimri uaui.e taxes l(J l-icr ,- amount of $638,367.82 were collected by the Oregon state treasurer., .- . Mrs. Fair McCaUieter of. Lower Crooked river in Crook county, was injured recently when a large barn door fell upon her, breaking her back. W. P. Walters- of Corvallis suffered serious injuries Monday when an au tomobile in which he was riding over turned in a ditch a ehort distance from Salem. - . . , . - The estimated prune crop in Oregon for this year is pfcfced " at 57,000.000 pounds. Marion is the banner prune county In the state.. with. Douglaa Sec ond and Polk third. . While trying to mount -'a horse that had no bridle. Emit WalatrOm, a , Standard Oil employe at .Prlnevills, fell on a thermos bottle he was carry ing and suffered several broken ribs. , Mrs. Josephine Taylor, past 81 years of age, appears at a Salem packing plant each morning at 0 :30 o'clock and cans fruit until S o'clock in tha even--' ins. This is her ninth year in ttte piant. Cows belonging to James Wood, rancher near Madras, became Intoxi cated when they devoured mash from which moonshine had been made and which someone had dumped in Wood's pasture. . . Evergreen blackberries, which , grow wild in great profusion in most parts . prime and hundreds of persona are en gaged in picking them both for sale and tnr rinmjuaMs. iim . - ' ' A Salem-Eugene stage was almost entirely destroyed by fire- at Corvallis Tuesday when one of the passengers, who had offered hia services when the car developed engine trouble, scratch- -ed a match on me carburetor. WASHINGTON Albert Aaron, 19, an O-W. employe at Page, Wash- was drowned Monday In the Snake river west of Walla Walla. - pleading guilty-to being an habitual criminal, Al G. Graham, convicted of passing a forged check for $15 in a Seattle durg store, has been sentenced to 'the penitentiary for life. While' playing on-a foot bridge span ning an irrigation ditch near Moxee in' the Yakima valley, the ?-year-old . daughter of Mr. and Mrs: An tone Ska han fell Into the water and was drowned. - - - , Thieves removed the two front wheels from a car standing In front of the Matlsen hotel at Wilbur and stole 50 volumes of Bibia commentaries, an . overcoat and. other articles to the--value of $100. " . With - employment of three crews to taling 140 men, the Washington Wa ter Power company is speeding work, on its new power line tothe Palouse. More than 20 of the 90 miles - has been eompleted. Td"present before the interstate com -merce commission the car r shortage . condition on the West coat, O. O. Calderhead, traffic expert of the Wash ington department of public works, has left Olympia for Washington. D. C. Majto- Elmer Ellsworth Heg former resident of "the . Washington state board of health and who served as medical officer in both" the Spanish American and World wars, died Mon day at the home of hia son at Stan wood. -. ; : . A Charge of manslaughter' has beam' filed In the Skagit county superior--court against C. A.-Barrett, traveling' salesman, of Seattle, who is .charged with administer! ering arugs to Kuby Kin sey, 20 years old. who died af-Sedro- Wooiiey after two . days' Illness. IDAHO Boise schools have' an enrollment of 4334 students. 1301 in the high school and the remainder divided among the 10 grade schools. : - Henry Clay Sage, early pioneer of Idaho and a member of the Masonic lodge for 81 years, died at Orofino a few days ago, aged 90 years. The total output of the Coeui d'Alene fish hatchery this year was 1,900,000. the young trout being distributed - in "Kootenai, Benewah ? and Shoshone counties. John Cramer of Halley, -a senior in the University of Idaho college of law, has been elected cHief justice of the Bencn and Bar Association of Law " Students. " The Oregon Short Line Is being sued for $2999 damages for . the. death of Mrs. Nancy Conley who was thrown from a bridge by. a train near Cald well June 25. '.' Aaron Parker of GrahgevlHe. ; pio neer - newspaper ' man and ' - Indian fighter, was. elected president of the Northern Idaho Pioneer's society,, or- ganized last week in Lewiston. - . Work begin soon on the new $100,000 dormitory for women at the University of Idaho, erection of which is made possible by the floating of bonds iby Moscow business men. ' Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of -September .;'. 29, 1902. - Shamokln Five ' . hundred armed strikers held up a miners accommo dation train near Green Ridge today and would -not allow the trainmen to take 20 non-unionists to work.- Shots were' fired at the strikers and the latter fired back and also threw clubs .and stones. - "Residents of the Peninsula are anx iously awaiting news from the postal department .In relation to the proposed free delivery of their raa.iL - x - Paris Emile Zola, the author, died this morning.- Death wae the result of -asphyxiation, in his room, by gas from a gas stove. ' - ' i, - i The occupation tax 1aW is valid. So decided Presiding Judge Sears of the, circuit court this morning. ; A . Wood burn . hopgrower has con- tracted to furnish T. A. Livesley 4V Co., . Salem, 20.000 pounds of hops each year ' for the next five years at 9ft cents a rwMmd. ' ... :r 'a ' :-. . -i r. . ' Fruit growers in Polk county say the prune crop will not only be light this year but that brown rot has attacked the Italian prunes in some sections and this willsUll further decrease the yield. . -. .. .... ' Duck hunters who were out yester day report the fowls numerous along the sloughs." Teals "and Mallards are in the majority. ; - ' . . . There is quite a different of opinion among the property owners along 23d street as to the- most suitable pave- - ment to be used m the improvement of that street. - . Wheat is coming into Portlmnd In a steady stream over tbe'O. R. St N. For the past week -three or four., trains, each made up of about 45 cars, have been coming to dally from the wheat belts of KasternvOregoa Vr"1 Eastern - Washington.---;;.,' . ' -- ,- . - All Portland., "took to the woods" yesterday, enjoying: the beautiful Sunt day. The equinoctial storm being past, . it was the first day of autumn.