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THE FATE OF TWO BILLS
rpHE bonus bill was vetoed.
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. - .
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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.
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This is an age . of triumph for the
pessimists, who always expected the
worst. They've got 4t at last. Salem
Capital Journal. .
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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." . - - -
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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.
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"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. ' -
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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.
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' Duck hunters who were out yester
day report the fowls numerous along
the sloughs." Teals "and Mallards are
in the majority. ; - ' .
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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.---;;.,'
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All Portland., "took to the woods"
yesterday, enjoying: the beautiful Sunt
day. The equinoctial storm being past, .
it was the first day of autumn.