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Newspaper Page Text- -8 ! TIIE' OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, ' OREGON. WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25, ID22. s A IXOEFEXDEST KEWSFAPE& GL 8. JACKSON .....;-'.. . . . . . . . PabUecer f ite-caJmba confident, M cheerful and so Untu other, a I cm would haTa them do UBbo y.l , : - . - , Published, every weekday -end Sunday morning at The Journal building. Broadway' at xeae- r Bui streets, r-oruana, irregoa. . - - , -. 1 Xntend at the toottoffim. at Portland. Orecoa. NATIONAL ADVERTISING REPRESENTA TIVE . Besrjamia Sc. tKentnog Co.. Brana- f wtek Bunding, 223 Fifth avenac. Mew J or ' 900 Mallcra building. Chicago. PACIFIC COASt bKPBLiSKNTATIVK It : C. U(1oa Co., 3nc, Kxa miner. Buildng, - Kan r'raocisce; Tit! Inetrraacs SHildias. Ui THE OREOOS JOCSXAi. reserves the ' Shi .tor reject ad-rertiiins cony which it eetn - abjeetionab It. also will not print any Copy teat in any. way Simula tea reading nut- T or tnat camlet xeaair- oe recogwzea as ' - adTertUing, J - - " gtBStEIPTIOX RATES . " Bjr Carrier Cfti and County - Daily asd Sunday s On week.'. . . . .ft .lSrOne month. . . . .$ .63 . IAIXX , j SUNUAI ' On week. . ... . .$ .lO'One week, ...... .OS One month. ... . . .46) - ' . - ' BI MAIL, RATES PAYABXK IN ADVAXCX On yaT,..t...00 But months . .... 4.28 DAILY Tars month. . .$2.35 One month . . . ; . .7 SUNDAY. (Without Sunday) (Only) 0a year. . . . le.OOjOne year. .... i . $3.00 Six months , . 3.25iBix month.; . j . 1.75 -Three months. . . 1.7 5 (Three montna. , . l.OO On morittr. . . ... .60) WEEKI.T j - WEEKLY AH - IS Terr Wednesday) f t SUNDAY On iesr.1; . . . .1.00,On -year.. . ..12.80 il month. . . . . .50 '--- i Tawer rate apply oniy ia the Wast. ( Bates to-Eastern point Jfrrrnhhed as anrtt- eatian. Make remittance ' by Ifoaey Order, Kxpresa Order or Draft. - If yea pottofnee u ixrt m money-order office, lr or 2 -cent stamp wfll be sceepted. Make all remittance pay able i ta The -Journal. P-ibliihine Cam Dear. Portland, Oregon, -'; ' , TBLEPHONEVf MAIM 71. All departments reaciteu cry j.am numptr. Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many ' thinga. not eren in knowing them thor oughly; bot in chooaing and in following what conduces the. moat certainly to oat hating happinesa and true glory.-a-XABdor. EXCELLENT iDVICE ERANK A- MtJNSEY gave some veryt excellent advice at ari top portune time t6 voters in general i" wben he told" al group Jot bankers that "the Important thing is for , voters tee enroll with the party that ,,:'Btanda for the thing they stand ;' lor! The, Importance of his state-' . J; ment is o.bvious. - - , It niaices a very great difference to all people as to what kind of ' t government they have. The view l point of the candidate makes a dlf- I Terence. The platform on, which he r. Is running makes a difference. The 'effect of. his election makes a dif : Terence. , Governments play a rarge part in $ th everyday life of individuals, s i Thy make and unmake tax bur " dens. : They make, and unmake ' . markets. They Tnake. and unmake , j economic, financial and social con jlitions. All people are deeply con cerned with those matters. J But there are many people who 4 vote a ticket because their father . or grandfather X0"1 They voje : it, perhaps for some other reason, retardless of the Issues of "the cam paign or the candidates for office, j They often fail to study the issues . i and what they mean to them. ' t .It is a, practice thatj Is tremen- rjqpusly costly to a lotfv of voters.,' - Taey vote for something other than what they want. Natiirally, . they t, stand th-e-consequence. t "Would it not be far better to study measures artd men and, as Mr. Munsey advises, vote as you ' J think and think as you . vote ? 1" , Members ot the Portland mud -aquad are dlsgruntled ' because ' Walter Pierce refuses to permit them; to manage his campaign. ? They ask him questions in attempts vo ; divert him from hil fiht for flowered taxes. " They do not want 4 him" to talk about taxes at all. The-? girled' to get him to talk about the' f school' fundfloan, now 19 years old, . which, former Governor George E. Chamberlain talked about for him. They tried to get hinijto talk -about $ the religious debate said about "Dr. I Pierce's Golden Medlssii Discovery," and' about his suspenders, or any thing else, or ( everything- else, but Jextortjionate taxes. Mr. Pierce is t wise in running his own campaign -and letting the Portland mud squad ..run th'eifa " . HIS CHANGE .TjERLtN pedestrians s.ee many stra'nge sights these days. But f a particularly fashionable thor "i oughfare in the German -capital of ;!er ant unusual 'spectacle. On the 5 corner, selling newspapers, is a dis- tlnguished gentleman, well-read f and . with perfect manners. He i wears horn-riimried spectacles and j, the latest In -drejSs, and would be taken ; for anything ; else save a i" news;. Tender."- ; ' : f But that is hs profession now. rHe as formerly-a professor 'In a Berlin university.. He found,' how- ever," that to escape the continual f deficits that his occupation as in V stractorentkfled'Jie had to find a 'Mir means xt livelihood. - ! t. Selling' papers. ,1he former . prc4 feasor, maxes In .the neighborhood ff '250 marks -a -day ; -,That "-pur-: thasea'his tneals'and leaves .- tbJi8T;-over llislnoortie as a col lar .inetroctor(failed to do.that. 4 TtA- if-tufttlon 4a Jnt'erestiTujn' the results that -It foreshadows. Whftt la- th future of. Germany if those who have Instructed the young are compelled "to enter the business, of selling newspapers? What If the teachers are all forced into Other occupations? What -would be .the economic, political and eoeial status of the country? . - ' , Educatjoa is the basis -Of civiliza tion. Its avkllability wUl decide th fate ' of millions upon , millions , of people in therfttture. vjthat it. conditionsrof 122 would gradually be "supplanted by conditions of the time, of Attiia "and his barbarian hordes, , - . - WHAT IS MUS-1 BE ? WHY Tom Kay is trying to beat Pierce fort governor; was ex plained yesterday in The Journal office, by Henry "Jaquet, a Marlon county farmer living 15 miles east of Salem. 'Ym ;Kay according to Mr. Jaquet, ia chairman, of financial Committee of three now about to build an apactment house in Salem, which, is to cost $200,000 and to be located -. near the . state house.7 A letter" -io a. possible purchaser of Stock in the apartment house says: "It will pay" n per cent net." Here is Mr. Jaquet's . point. He owns a 200-acre farm 15 miles east Of, Salem in. which, he has" kn invest ment of $2y0OO. His gross income from the ,farm last year, was $2315.88. His expenses for labori taxes and fairra operations were $2351.92. Aside from hisliving. there was an actual loss on the farm of $36.04. The year's labor for Mr, Jaquet and his family was lost. No Interest was received on the $20,00 invest ment. Instead of a profit from in vestment an labor there was an actual loss ' f - 4 Yet, If Mr. Jaquet's $20,000 now invested, In hs far-m were invested in the Kay apartment house his in come woajd jbe $3400 ajyear net, with,all taxes and other costs paid. More to the point, with Mr. JSquet's $20,000 invested In the $200,000 Kay apartment house, Mr. Jaquet and his family would have no work to do, but the $3 400' Would come in every year just the same. , ' ' ) Ot course, Mr. Jaquet is only an incident. But in his case there Is the kernel of the present election campaign. There is more: it pre sents a problem of state policy and Just government. He and the homeowners and other owner of real property are paying, according to official rec ords, , about 75 or 80 per cent of the taxes. They' are asking for ;the collection of taxes from new sources of revenue, and asking that they may be relieved of a part of their tax burden. The experience of Mr. 'Jaquet shows they should , have relief. in all, they probably represent 90 per cent Of the people of the state. But the . pewerful 10 per cent leftj are resisting the-appeals of the 90 per cent or a partial re distribution, of taxes. The 10 per cent, because- of the. character of their investments, piy little or no taxes. They have so manipulated the legislature and other .govern mental agencies that the 90 per cent carry the Joad. The 10 per, cent are powerful. They have gained control of ohe side in the election. That side pooh-poohs all proposals to reduce taxes, A great sum of $25,000 has been contributed to advertise in newspapers and spread propaganda and do other" 'things to convince voters that tax reduction is impos sible Iby a governqr. In their advertisements, speeches and editorials thfcy offer no promise to lower taxes or redistribute or equalize taxes. They say, in effect, that what & jmist ' continue to be. Governor Olcott himself, in public addresses, speaking: of the many levying bodies; says "taxes may go higher." ! , . For the first time in a genera tion the isgue of tax reduction is; squarely presented to the voters. For the first time in a generation the question will be decided either fox taxes' as the are or for reduced, taxes.,- ITpon S the decision -ofthe voters n. Noyember 7- restsithe question of what the state policy on taxes Is to !be f Or four years. " "Mr! .Pierce proposes four distinct sources of new: revenue, .with the guarantee .ttiat j no hew revenue shall be used for hew expenditures but only to; take, a part of the burden off those how paying the taxes. He presents eight distinct and definite proposals for saving public . money, all .Of which have been applied with -excellent results! in other states, j ' ; i The powerful; 10 per jeent raised $25,000, confessedly ' "to beat Pierce." Mr. Jaquet. a Republican farsier, mentioned above, is for Pierce, and he Knows why. And be knows why Mr. -Kay is against Pierce. And hene is a final thought: If the farmers and homeowners are to be kept poor "by grinding' taxa tion, if their buying power is kept reduced by piling more -.than their Just share of taxes upon them, if, like Mrf Jaquet, .their expenses are greater than their gross earnings, how can people in the cities be fully prosperous? ' TWO 'MEN I 'WO business inen met at what ' 4- is, after all, one of the most popular of all meeting places, the street corner. : One of them said: ' Business is rotten. Collection are something terrlMe. - I've reduced" and retrenched, almost -eliminated adverv Using, turned oft Borne of the sales people: in the store and on the road, but at that business seems, to he "go ing from bad to worse The other man listened compla cently. He said:'. r ..' ? 1, -- We '. did 19 per cent more business during September than during Septem ber a year ago. This Js going to be the ' best October "of our history. ' But I'll gjive you. a little goldea secret. , Be fore ithe first of each month arrives we . get out . the accounts of the oor respoadisg month a year ago. We fig' are n the total and we go out to beat it. iWe advertise more and try to fill the space-with better selling ideas. We pe9 tin our sales .force with, cordial support and : bonuses. We rcr after collections With a -smile, bub we stay until we get the money. The scheme works like a charm. All of us get a ipt more ,fun out pf working than glooming. Ana t pays. Sometimes it ' seems - that one man's hard times is-another man's dpportiinity. What one man accepts as defeat is received by another man as a challenge. HIS BIO IDEA- SAilTJEL. LANCASTER has a new idea. it is a, blgr Idea. Ideas bunt civmzationv out m the Co lumbia Gorge, at the point where traditi is the richest, legend the -rarest and story "the most romantic. Mr. Lancaster has pitched the tents of Lancaster camp) Nature has fashioned no spot more alluring. Close by, the Co lumbia.-in its majestic sweep to ward the sea, lolls on its way and exults in the sun. Not.far away on either, side of ft the towering, rock formations Jthat were ' the shore abutments for the legendary or reaj Bridge of the Gods, as the case was. stand as eternal sentinels and watch the world gd by. i 5 ( But for thirf terrific prehistoric struggle in; which the river cut its way through thei pile of mountain and ripped out the Columbia Gorge, you would, a Lancaster camp, be on the summit of the Cascade range. As it is, you are 300 feet above sea level and within arms length are abrupt peaks stretching 3000 and 4000' feet Into midair. The spot is nature in its wildest, most beautiful expression. Stately trees -and underbrush add' their touches or springtime greenery" to the picture that the Almighty hand painted, with - Infinite care. When the countryside out on the prairies is browned and bared from the summer "Sun, the site of Lancaster camp is still in spring robes of many-hued greens. And over this scene Samuel Lan caster is trying to write .his person ality as 'he expressed it in the fash- toning of the! Columbia highway. Th amp of i72-acres, set in the heart of the mountain range, easily accessible and always; the spot for seeing the 'most beautiful nature' pictures in the gdrgef is to be pre served as nature cast it. The de stroying hand of civilization is not to mar it. The things that man will do are to merely accentuate the deep woods, the majestic river and the towers and minarets of nature. In time, what Mr. Lancaster vis ions In this fastness of the wild will reveal itself tb i.Pdrtlanders and their guests, and it will be a de Ug'htful expression of a big idea. Lancaster camp is not a mere man's dream.) but in due course will be a community's enterprise, un folded and ' led by a ' man with a" super-sense qf beauty and the beau tiful. ' GETTING THE BIRD WHO ever expected, an English man to originate ianything flip pant? Yet, Lord Monntbatten's "Give him the bird" is hailed with - ; 3 joy by the flippers, the flappers' an"d the other serfs of slangdom. Hence forth the phrase will hold; high fa vor along with "d uui'h b ie 1 1," "bonehead," "oil can," "boob," "razz" ;and "jazz." , We have rapidly been develop ing? as distinctive an American slanguage as the argot of Paris gut ters. The English had not a. little' to do with the terms -of our better conversation. This is their contribu tion to the slang by means of which many of our schoolgirls are able to carry on conversations with words they never learned In their studies in rhetoric. " " NO INCREASE THE city of Portland cannot well make a cut of 2U per cent in all city activities. It is not f likely that ."many voters would wish to eliminate' 28 per cent of the police force, ?8 per -cent of the fire depart ment, 28 per cent of the street lights,' 28 percent of the engineer ing department,, 28 per cent of the health bureau and so on down the Ipe. But that is exactly What would happen ' if the 3 mill tax measure' w-ere defeated. No increase in taxation for mu nicipal -purposes "is proposed. The city commission was authorized to levy an 11 mill tax last year and the year before. That is what is asked for next year . through the measure- on the ballot. It is on the ballot because the charter provides thalTthe council can, levy only, 8 mills: unless more Is authorized jby vote of the people, and legal au thorities believe that the additional sum above that permitted by the charter must be re-authorized every 12. months-- : The - ity commissioners insist that municipal expenses are already cut to the bone. The tax supervis-. Ing and conservation commission, the body, that was created to main tain taxs at the lowest possible point, says ' the last t year's levy should not be reduced. And Port land citizens can make their choice as to whether they want to main tain the present city service or re- 'duce .by 28 per cent their protection against crime, fire and disease.' Claus Sprockets, sugar refiner, says the price of sugar, should drop, but it is going up.i If America would repeat Just one week of the war's surar.; rationing tha price would come down. ' 4 ' ' : THE BALLOT MEASURES . .For the Information oT the voter "The Journal will present, from day ; to day until all have been dis cussed, a digest of the various pro , posa la to be submitted to popular vote on election day. Thw ara six of these five proposed amend ments'' to The constitution and one initiative measure. - Two of them were referred to the electorate by the legislative session of 1921 ; four have been put upon the ballet by initiative petition. Each will be considered in the order in which it is to appear- upon the official baDot , , -f. ARTICLE IJ. The third proposal on the official ballot for the consideration and action of the voters of the state oh November 7 is the ubiquitous "Single Tax Amend ment." On four different occasions the single tax idea has been submitted to the .voters in varied form as attempted amendments to the state constitution, and each time has been brushed aside by continually increasing majorities. At the general election of 1920 the pro posal was" defeated by a negative ma jority of 110,143 votes. In ISIS the neg ative majority "was 111,590, in M12 it was 50,481 and in 1908 it was 28,805. In the present proposal, which the- ''Oregon Single Tax league" initiated and for which it stands sponsor, 'From July 19 is, to and until July li 1927, alt revenues necessary for -the maintenance of state, county, municipal and district government shall be raised by' a. lax "on the value of land, ir respective of improvements in or on iU tanathreafter the full rental value of land.: Irrespective of ImprOvetwentsi shall be taken in lieu of all other .taxes for the maintenance . of government. and for such other purposes as the peo ple may direct. All provisions of the constitution and laws of Oregon In con fflict with this section are hereby abro gated and repealed insofar as they may conflict herewith, and' this section is sclf-executinar. a . This !s intended as a'substitute for section 1 of article 9 of. the constitU' tion. which now reads as follows: '"The legislative assembly shall and the people through the intilauve may provide by law uniform rules of as sessment and taxation. All taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws operating uniformly throughout the state. , - The single tax theory has been too much debated to necessitate extended diges-t or . discussion of the . pending amendment. The advocates : of, ,the amendment set out in their ajfjrma-- tive argument for it that 'it would enormously, increase the production: of wealth, by the removal of the burdens that now weigh upon industry and thrift. If we tax houses there Will be fewer and poorer houses; if we tax machinery, there, will be i less ma chinery : if we tax trade there will be less trade : if we tax eanital there will be less savings. All the taxes, there fore, that we would abolish are those that repress industry and lessen wealth. But, if we" tax land values, there will be no less land." It is to be noted that, under th pro posed amendment, "the full rental yatue" of the land would be the measure of the tax. a system that would make the state the supreme land lord Of the commonwealth, and the. in habitants renters of that landlord. But there is another point -lso ijforv thy of notice. After 1926, under-tbe terms of the amendment, all" the Cost" of government state, municipal, coun ty and district is to be raised from and supported by the land rentals. Un der the amendment, there could be no income tax, no gross earnings tax upon public utility or other corpora tions, no severance tax upon natural resources removed from public lands by private capital for private gain. The door leading to sources of revenue now untouched ceuld not be opened. Deeds to' land, under the amendment. would become in effect lease running from the state extending from year to year subject to cancellation for non payment of rent. Those who desire to vote for the amendment should mark tr.eif ballots 304 X Yes." Those who desire to see It defeated should mark their ballots "305 X No." Letters From the People rfiMnmiiTtiMtiMu Kpr. t ia The Journal for. publication in this department ahooid be writ., ten- on. only one aide ot the paper, should not exceed 300 words in length, and T moat be signed by the writer, whose mail ddrea In full mu.it accompany the contribution. THE GOVERNOR'S POWERS ' Has Great Power Already, and This Citizen Points Out How It Could and Should Be Used. Union. Oct. 2.-To the Editor of The Journal By -this time the policy of Governor Olcstt on the traestlori of taxation must be clearly understood. His speeches are devoted to an expla nation of how necessary it is to continue the present high expenditures,. and he. makes no promises and states no pro-;' gram of reduction of taxes. The voters of Oregon,; who are now'tax burdened. can expect .no relief from Air, jjicort. weary -souls who are fighting- to save homes arid farms from confiscation. He comiSacently tells the people : "You have brought this situation :on your selves, and I can offer, you no relief." He does not offer to sacrifice any por tion of the 400-odd. automobiles owned and operated by the state. He does not offer to sacrifice any of the ,70-odd commissions with their tax-eating ap pendages. He does not seem to think anything can be cut down or off any where: He -is pot responsible for the large expenditures of ?the people's money, and he sees no way of getting outfrom under. His speeches indicate' that he Is as impotent as a child. From the steam and fire-that he put into his proclamation against the K. K. K. just before the primary, he seemst to have lapsed back. Into a state of, "innocuous desuetude. That,- oftf course, was politics. He had. to do It to be nominated. Now, it serves his purpose politically to take no position on anything, except that present condi-j Uons cannot be -changed. , . TheKgovemor has a veto power. . The; governor, has the prerogative of ad-; dressing the legislature by message. The acts i of the governor are given. publicity through the press. .Through" this publicity sentiment Is formed. -Backed r by public sentiment the gov ernor can; become and ought to be a potent ! force in shaping legislation tftv the interest of ta taxpayer. When and where has Governor Olcott used his veto power and other prerogatives in the interest of the taxpayer?- And, according to the ioeric of his speeches, he will not do It lf- i-eelnrtnl. Vmiv years of"impotency in , the governor's omce nasi orougnt tne taxpayer to the Verge of bankruptcy. What would four years more no to him? - ' . j ' : ;-. .B. F, Wilson. THE" GOVERNOR ' QUESTIONED Ast te Tax Reduction lleaaute" and , AToposaie, ana . ss to the ; . Education Bill. ' Ontario., Oct. 21. To the Editor of The Journal The Pierce for Governor club of Ontario would like to have Mr. Olcetf", answer the"" following queries, as thus far fit his published speeches he has not given the information required to answer these questions : . ! 2. At the special isession ot the leg islature called by you this year to con sider the ao-called 1925 Portland ex position, the statement was made that $1,008,009 a year could be saved by the elimination of unnecessary officials and other Unnecessary ' pen se. This statement was never; refuted in the press, r Can - you explain' why this JL 000. 000 per year Is not eliminated? 2. Just . what concrete proposal- have. you to place before the voters upon the question of tax reduction? f 3. Why did you veto a bill which passed the legislature providing that all penalties and interest on delinquent irrigation district assessments should go to the. irrigation district instead of the county? - "f t ' 4. ' Do you favor an Income f tax, franchise tax, or severance tax- to lessen the present heavy tax oh land? 5. What is your position with refer ence to the compulsory education bill, and how do you intend to vote on this question? W. F. Homan, Chairman. A CATECHISM Questions Relating to Mr, McArthurr otners to. tne ,"post or juiving ax- State Institutions and Elsewhere. Portland. Oct. 24. To the; Editor ot The Journal I wonder how much bet ter the rooms used for Pierce at the Benson are than those used by Republi can headquarters at the Imperial hotel. It is to be noted that Mc Arthur at St. Johns made much of his votes, on the soldier bonus and,; threw bouquets at himself and Harding on the veto and his support of it. And the Oregonian report raid this was cheered. But note: Pat will vote to give the shtpeH w i in snip owners ma an un known amount in .bonus to them. Bonus is different when for the rich. They are usted to it and can't get along Without it. But soldiers are used to being hard up. so can stand it- Pat will soon be bragging about taking' the excess profits tax off Standard Oil of California, New York and New .Jer sey so they paid 100 to 300 per cent dividends. . Why does it take nearly $40 a month to keep a prisoner in a state institu Hon, where things are bought at re duced . prices and where - the inmates should do nearly all their own work, when whole families' procery bills are no more? Ask the Oregonian. Aay one knows a family does not spend $40 each month per person, under ordinary circumstances.- -Henry Stout. THE BRIDGE QUESTION Portland Is Here Exhorted to "Spread Out the Bridges." Particularly to St. Johns and Ross Island. Portland. Oct. 24. j-Tb the Editor of The Journal Spread out oar bridges, and we spread ' out our city.; Five bridges downtown! We don't need one at Burnside street. Tear it down and use the material at Ross islapd. All our taxes now are spent for the benefit of the -downtown merchant, in a limited area. Save that $3,000,000. Why, the interest on that much would start Portland Up in the light and power business. ' Reduction in taxes applies to us the same as to the farmer. A bridge at Rosrisland and one at St. Johns in the near future will do more good for Portland thana hrloge every two or three blocks apartHn tne down town section. There is robnj ou. the peninsula for a million population. A hlfi-h hridsa at Sl Johns. toeetherWith the public Ownership- of electric light and power, will add 100,000 to 200,000 to the size of Portland. - Let everybody "think" as the Portland Railway, Light & Power- company advises, "and it wQl be for our interest, not theirs. Do these things, and building will go ahead.- our new clUsena will have work, and we shall not have to vote another 33,000; 000 fair bonds-to top it out. The west side ' has the money and some .brains. . .The east side .has the population and some brains also. Now which will prevail tn our vote? We should build up the broad', level penin sula, a proper , place for a big city. first; the west side is built up no more room. It -ias five bridges and tour daily ' newspapers. , East side people, ; think. G. E- Taylor. 1 ITS COXITCJTIONAi.ITX ;. Compulsory Education "13H1 Here Dis cussed on That Basis, With Ref- , erenc'6 to Religious Lib- ' erty- and. to -Property. Portland, ' Oct. 23. To the Editor of The Journal In connection with other members of the Oregon bar I have re ceived -aa opinion signed ;by some'.-lS members-of the ba stating that m their opinion the proposed compulsory school bill is unconstitutional, with the request that 1 also sign the same and return. In the .arguments submitted with, the form is a lit of references and decisions none or wmcn seems, to have much bearing cn the subject, f6r the contention seems to be that the law would be a violation of vested property rights, such as destroying the use of property and denying the right of certain teachers to the following of their usual vocation, . ; , All of this is a very long way from the point, lor the proposed law is not a question mentioning or navtng a legal bearing upon the use of property. The property argument looks like an attempt to make a long circuit-to be wilder the mind of the layman, for anyone can use his uroperty at any time only in a legal manner. Hundreds of people have had to change the use Of their property on account of legal enactments. As far as the teachers are concerned, if they are not qualified to teach in the public" school they are in the wrong -place -in private schools. We therefore can dismiss the sproperty contention as frivolous. 5 As' to the proposed law . infringing the religious liberty of the people. no one has yet pointed out where there IS as much as mention made of such a thing. The. law actually isvone 01 the first and most effective measures ever proposed to destroy (that very thing. It is the true expression of the. spirit in which the constitutional measures were placed In the fundamental law of our democracy. Our supreme court would be compelled to sustain the law for that very reason. .Its very cbject Is. in opposition to the estabiishment of re ligion." and that Is where the shoe pinches. , Arthur K. Mickey. FOR STATE -FAIR ATTENDANCE An Indorsement, of !The Journal's Rec ommendation Regarding School;. ' . Children. -5.1' Portland. Oct. 11 j To the Editor of The Journal It approve heartily the view expressed in your editorial of October 9, .that hereafter a day ..should be set apart in earh public echoOi of the city of Portland for letting: the pupils "go toTSaliem t to attend the Ore gon State fair. But; why not go far ther and urge that all of the educa tional Institutions of the "Willamette valley. ' Including ,'1 especially . Oregon Agricultural college, the University of Oregon and Pacific; university, adopt a policy which recognise' the desirability of their students aad Instructors being arrowed an opportunity -of doing like wise? W; F. BurrelL 1- , . NO PLACE LIKE IT 1 From the Rochester Times Uniem ' - ' Home : . A place where some woman works It hours a day. . ;, BULLSEYE VERSUS BELLOW. -' From Fortneex klaaanno t , ' ' . The gun that makes moeU noise doe&a't always shoot besL" - p '' v , COMIMENT ANBIEIWS IN BRIEF t , SMALL CHANGE f 1 American marines are en duty at Vladivostok. Will Trotsky new -tell it to the marines? - .,:'' v .i- There's lots of free thought, free Jove and the like, but that's about mt far as the gratis stuff geta. nowadays. ' ' - , - It seems fitting, now that his own country has tried to-save huh from knickerbockers,-? .that.. Geerge , -Harvey should seek - to save others Souls from sin. , ' " Father smiles' happily at .the man nish appearance "of . his soa after the first haircut, but mother Is quietly sobbing out her grief at the loss of her by- r. v.: -j. If he's married; you can't tell whether he smokes a pipe because he is aa out-door man' or is - an outdoor man because he smokes a pipe.- Another proof ot the equality ; of women is found in the fact that Billy Sunday can, with bold face,- forego chivalry and turn, his "batteries on Isa dora Duncan." .' f Gasoline having been; reduced, we rise to remark that when the. cost of motor cars to use it In gets down to about the same price aa a gallon of fuel, we'll Join tHe motoring throng. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations' About Towri ; A party from McMinnville regiater ing at the Portland Tuesday consisted of Mrs. Jack 'Spence, Mrs. Ray Wlse carver. Pearl Campbell," Mrs. Jesse Irvine and Mrs. J. a. Weisner. - -' .''-(-Other visitors from the MYamhill county seat were Mrs. wmiara,. Lilte quiet and Mrs. Edgar Linden. . ,,: - - - i. -. Henry Smith, of McMinpville while transacting bJAsiness in the metropolis is registered at he Oregon, , , 1 r- .. e . . ' J. Paulas of Prairie City is among recent arrivals ta' the city. i i ' Among oat of! town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. Ji.-t3.HawkIns of .Pendleton. George Binups of Waitsburg, Wa4h-. is among out of town visitors. t Mr. and Mrs H. L. Fen ten of DsJla are visiting' friends in Portland. I -..-" I Among visitors from Dallas are R. H.-Walker andD. W. Brock. C L. Mullen of Astoria is among Out Of town, visitors. .-,',. C- F. Oiese of Salem was .among recent arrivals in Portland.. '. , C. T. Sanders-of Astoria is out of town visitors. among J. B." White oflCoadonr is transacting business In the metropolis. - - il a "4 ; . Gould Creasy of Pendleton is among out of town yleK&re. ' . . ! ' , ; a e H. L. JWhlto. ef Winaraina was a guest of the Imperial, Tuesday. . - Another visitor from Coos county Is R. M. Net?! of Nofth Bend. , IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS ; OF THE JOURNAL MAN ; By Fred Alt Catem OreeSn vionaer who wa alad Colorado pioneer .and argonant In the daya of Pikaa i'eak er Runt.- tu Mr Tackle of hi egperiencet at Den tar io that far-. and when men whir 'afterward became famoue were .taking minera' fotlilck:. arid not much of that. A aucceedins feiataucaent . will comulete wie awry. Sir Francis Bacon once remarked -that knowledge is power, and we have Deen quotmg ma wise saying ever since. He also said, "A ' little phi losophy Inclineth a man's mind to athe ism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's ralnda to religion." In speaking of reading, and writing, he said, "Reading maketh a full man. confer ence a ready mart and writing" an exact man. Histories make men . wise ; poets, wittyj mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep, and logic and rhetoric able to contend." ; If history makes a man wise I should be as wise as a treeful of owls, for'-I have "been studying history at first-hand and getting the facts of his tory from original sources for .a score or more of years. I- enjoy rescuing the sidelights of history from oblivion by interviewing .the pioneers, path makers and empire builders ahd ret ting their stories before they take 'the one-way - trail, t Recently I spent an Medical Springs, la Eastern Oregon. TheT first time-1 met him was at the- Ceve,; in Union county, 20 jfears jft more ago. , Dunham -Wright celebrated the eightieth anniversary of his birth on March 13, last, . . ,i e I was bom near Burlington. Iowa'. March 13, 1842." said Mr. Wright, "My father, John D. Wright, was a Vermont er, born ia Chittenden county, Febru ary 8, 1807. My mother's maiden name was Celia Hanks. She was bora in Kentucky. Her father was a brother of Nancy Hanks, mother of Abraham Lincoln. My father sat in the first council, or legislature, as we would call it. in Iowa Territory. Colonel1 W. W. Chapman, " later a pioneer resident of Portland, was the first delegate from Iowa in congress. Joseph Jeffers. later a pioneer or Astoria, was also one Of the early residents of Burlington and had the best house In the town. : Gen-r eral M. Jfc! McCarver, who, with Peter 11. Burnett, triea to found a town af what is, now Linnton and, who later founded the town of Tacoma, was also one of. the pioneers of Burlington. My father was a civil engineer. When I was 12 years old he "moved to Union, cotahty, Iowa, where he ; made big money locating homesteaders on government land. He followed ' a Pittsburg- needle for 60 years. He- Was paid $5 a quarter section for .locating the section and range lines Some times he took in as high as $30 a day for locating corners for the settlers' At that time one could purchase 'land' at $1.25 an acre, and It was not -long until an the government ' land there about was taken up and the' 'virgin' prairie sod'turned over by the plow. " "In 18orwhen 1 was IS, I struck out for Pike- Peak, where the new ' gold diggings had been discovered. . Wb bought, a prairie schooner, painted Pike's Peak, or Bust en the canvas cover, and 40' days from the time we started we were at Denver, the new mining camp. ; It sounds easy, but U was not so easy as It sounds, for when it came to crosstnr the Platte we had to wait until others ' came up to help us cross. We hitched 16 yoke of cattle to. eaek-wagon, and with men on horse back, to ; keep the oxen on -the go we crossed without getting caught in the quicksand., v We : saw j thousands upon thousands of buffalo- between Council Bluffs and Denver; .- . . -. a . ;-; .. . "lehad never,. sen; a mining "camp before. .- I was only 18. and certainty saw all there was to be seen. Denver was a city of tents, "with a few cabins made of balm logs.; , Denver was on the east side ef Cherry creek,' Aurora wss on' the -t west side,- and Highland was acroea the river. f. There were SIDELIGHTS i . Some men. are bom well advertised. sofiie- cheve isdvertUnng; aid ; some have a senate Investigating committee make - them tamous. Salem ' Capital Journal. .- i w. . - ; t Grape prices ihave slurnpert in Cali fornia, and thel dissatjfaction attend ant thereupon Will not be exhibited by those who "make thlr Own." KAigene register. . A .telegraphic! dispatch ' from- Wash ington says thel president'has promised to aid the -farmers of the natioax It begins to look as if they might need it. Eugene Guard. ' ,jr, x Even if thel Industrial Injunction proves unconstitutional, Mr. Ford can always threaten - to shut i down and bring the country, to- its senses. Med ford Mail-Tribune. ; t- .... H ' .An ex-minister of Dayton. Ohio, has 40 wives, to his credit in. S3 years. Most oTus fellows are perfecUy satisfied trying to handle one ta the same num ber of years. Roseburg NvwaReview. Aboot the time another . epidemic born of unsanitary conditions In Europe or Asia; strikes America this nation will come to the conclusion that isola tion means notatnx to the young life of a disease .germ. . Corvallbj Gasette Times. i . , , Daniel H. Boyd bf Wallowa county In general and Enterprise in particular Is transacting I business in Portland. In a political way, things are quiet in hil section. While - most of the fall gram has been; sown, the ground Is too dry for germiiatton. Road work on the Minam gifide ia proceeding: very slowly. .-. i : - . .'. . . ' e . - ' Mr. and Mrs! J. T. Ogle and Mrs. C. C, Dorr 'pf Adams, Umatilla county, are visiting for a few days In Port land. -. K. A. GHiis," a lumber merchant of Bend, IS registered at the Benson while transacting business In Portland. ' ''. la -'-. ; .- E. S. Robinson of St. (Helens n was transacting ' business In . Portland, x uesuay.' , Among those -Visitinc In Portlan1 from Umatilla; county la M. K. Lang ui -enaietoit " C. C. Weems of Lebanon is acUng business In Portland. trans- v isiiors irom iviyrue Point are cnaries II. Giles and John Bledsoe.- s - ak ,-' Mr. and Mrs. S. V. Smith of Marsh- neid are visiting la Portland for a few days. f - r e. e i L. O. Grew j of Gardiner is one of many recent arrivals In the city. m ,Ator Seaborg of Lewiston. Idaho, ia transacung business In Portland. ' George "F. Osborne of Cloverdale jte among out of town nutate W -Among the guests of the Imperial is mm. naroia "Baldwin of Prlneville. Lockley more saloons. Ithah anything else, and ; .-"-"v nuai wan lermea t aos lightning. It Sras made from Mexican sod corn and -Was a very, potent con cqctipn. Scores bf new. arrivals were appearing daily.; A group, of Texans would ride lm with their Vi-rahr.ra ; BWlnging free and easy.. They would ui..UUut, tnrow zo-uollar gold pieces upon the bar sand refuse to take any change. I . tea, "I soon strti'ck a job working for George Pullman, who later made a fortune by inventing the palace car that bearshls nam. At that time he was a partner of a man named Lyons. They were operating a log quarts mill at Central Cityvi not far from Denver. Pullman was out of tar. He needed It to grease the I machinery, so he asked me u i would get Out some tar for A ,t- nunxe u man from North Carolina-who knew how tiKget turpen tine from old? pitchy roots. TVa went up into the hfla and dug out aKlot of such roots, and got 15 gallons i oistar, w hich j I delivered to i Mr.i Pull man and- for fwhlcn ' w,,iin Then he put me to work on! a windlass on the Gregory ledge haujngt up ore. Pullman was a .fine man To- Work for. He was easy CO get along withj wanted1 to do -, the sqsare thing, and was an optimistic chap, and sunny-tempered. After that I landed a Job wlth( a con tractor named Talbot, who waa build ing a bakery.i After making one trip a day from the hiUs with a load of logs he allowed mje tp use the oxen, so I did hauling, and averaged $15. a day on the aide, t ' ; . '. -' , ' f "While I wa driving cattle for Tal bot I saw two men being carried Into a cabin hear mine. I asked wfcat was the trouble, fend was told they had been blown up by a premature blast and were badly hurt. A day or so later, in passing another eabita, 1 saw two men lying in the bunks. I stopped and asked theni if they had been in an accident., : The cabin was dirty," they were lying ia bunks made of rough slats, and everything-. wa In a Jitter. One ot the men said. We have moun tain fever. Dr. Denny,, our physician, had urf moved into this cabin, as It is so.-much bettter than where we. were. The other sick roan waa tossing from side to side ir his blankets, and fi nally said. The doctor tells us e must eat to - get our strength back, out I kcan't stomach the grub they; bfing CSV They boil - the tea In a tin -Call and serve it In a dirty tin cup,, and it takes away my appetite, if I could only get a cup of! green tea like my wife used to make I could drink it.., I asked them their names. One answered 'My name is Harley B. Morse. By the way, he was later attorney general of Colorado. The other said. 'My name Is Henry M.' Teller. I hail -from Illinois.' I said, I know a Yankee woman, Mrs. Johnson, who can make real lea. I'll have her make you some.' Teller shook his head and said, 'Don't bother, f We ar broke, and haven't- a cenll'to pay for it. I said, 'Don't let that bother you. As long as ; I have a pinch of dust left 111; see that you get some thing fit for sick men to eat' f il went to Mrs. Johnson. She had a chest she had brought from Yermosf. She opened It, took out two china cups and saucers, some tea and r two linen nap kins.; She drew the tea, putt cream' and sugar iato it and buttered some toast. Covering the tray with a' nap-; kin, she'tolol me to hurry to (the sick men before the tea got cold.-.; I sat on their bunks and fed them. They nearly cried at seeing' the china - cups and saucers and the spotless linen napkin. For two weeks I took them their meals three times a day." I settled the bill, for I .liked j them. .- and figured that someone-, might"- do the . same for me some day. (At the end of that time Mrs. Johnson took. Mr. Morse; in as a boarder, on Credit, and I found a fam ily named Merchant who- agreed to take Teller as a boarder until he was strong : enough to go to world.; feller was later a United ! States ' senator from Colorado."'' -.- i, u : ; The Ore-joa , Country Northwaat Bappeilngi i Brief; Form tor Beau. . , , OREGON Out of a total tax ef $756,763 in Co lnmbla county this year,- the sheriff re ports a delinquency of $112,693. (The 1923 budget for the city of (Sa lem will be 3al3t,669.58. an Increase lot J12.78i.7S over this, year's budget. I Leopold- Lampa.' 19-year-old son let Joseph Lamps, was drowned Satur aay wnue wotxlag on log boom at Helena. ' . - -: . , . f .- t .. . The campaign! ' in Lane county last summer aaainat rodents resuitee in the Doisonine of lae.oou era v dlseer squirrels.- ,. rT KThere Is an unusually hea vy crort of English walnuts this year in the Sllver- it-n TieiBiiuornoon, wrt-n prices to Tne grower- around 0Tent ' - - The rtvw hlh school building-. ! t iumovuie, Marion. county, was dedicaited last Saturday wlKht- with; a apevial nroararn and mtisif. . The Ufree-daysV annuel ItvKtltute - of Wheeler county was held at Fossil last week with everiT teacher in -the -pou-ty present for th entire three daya 1 One; of the lAreest carroe aver taken ot orxn orna was sent to ace, week when thn- Went Catahaca. a. snipping eoard vessel, Jett with ,po,- wv ieet os lumoer. ; -r , . A civil service examination will held at Maupin. November Iflitr fill the position of rural candiout p MaupinarntTVaieancJjeaern later oCSer-Bn rural routes. i : The, Woodburn Community' club bia reached a membership of 100. Muith intereet is being manifested in the or ganization, whkh promises to do muth tur the welfare of Woodburn.! j 'J The -Hammond Lumber company at Mill City, ia preparing to build four miles of .railroad to tap the Breltenbuah tract ef timber recently purchaaed by the company from the government. ; I VVoters of the Powell Bufta irrira tion district laat week unanimously ap proved the Issuance of bonds fif $1,050,000 for the atoraare of water at Crane Prairie and the extension of the water oiicnea, , .? Some unknown person fired a. bullet. on the McKehaie highway Monday that crashed through the glass of a coupe driven by J. E: She I ton. a Euiim newapaper "publisher, ThQ paasengana were showered! with glass but no one was nu i ,. i I i j,. - . i i r , i t . WASHINGTON Washington gasoline tax returns for September . totaled $96,322.53, or $10f 074.69 more than for the same month in "21. - - - -,-'' ' I i '. -I:,, Walla Walla county thia year ralaed 3,000,000 bushels of wheat, nearly two thirds of which has "been aold and shipped. ; .i;. ji i The Cariboo ; Mining Jk Develppmenlt company of Wenatchee, with ajcapttal ee, with ajcapttal a, filed artfclesi. at sioca or aawu.uuo, ruts, iiiea articles i- Dedication of the Memorl a' club will! be S arch bv the Mothers' leaiure or tne ArmlsUce day celebran tion at Bellingham. j After being1 closed down for several months, the Whatcom Falla Mill earn pany's cedar plant will reaume opera-. Uons November 1, with 200 men -. The Wenatchee reclamation diatrlc , wUl spend S5,000 thia winter in replac ing wooden' flumes with cone re tn ditches and other improvementa. j Taooma'a water denartmenfa earn- lnga for September were $47,479.65 and the operating expenses $26,295.52, leav ing $41,274.1 of operating profit. C. W. Clausen, who has held the poslf tion of atate auditor for 18 years, and Mr a. Clausen celebrated the 50th 'an niversary of their marriage at Olympiad Seattle was chosen the convention cfty for the 1923 annual meeting of the? American Railway Bridge and Bulldf era' association, which closed its ses4 sions in Cincinnati last week. Professor Edmond 8., Me any of the department Of history,' University of Washington,, has been reelected presi4 dent of the Mountalneera club of ' Washington for the fifteenth time. I ' Judge Holdefi-atYakima'has granted the petition of the Yakima-Uunnyalda Oil company authorizing It to proceed " .. - , w -. mwKm , u in scriptions from some 400 atockholderal ; Slsty per cent greater ahipmente oi cargo lumber were . made from Pugei Sound, Grays! Harbor and Wlllapa nrr uunng oepiemoer tnia year than during the tame month last yaari rTW A e 1 -aeki, eeake Mir . 1 "imuu was A5,is,Btti xeeu ' .IDAHO. ;' j-;- ueonjt x,t aeea, eo,; a realdent of Boise for many veara. ellerl nrii.niu at Twin Falls, last week ot heart dla4 I-.'' i ' i '-i J .Cl over-inhalation of ChlArnfnrm oa lieve an abdominal, dtatrHa r- nt death at Lewiston-aturday of M. Ti Hartnett, I yeara Id. . ; i 1 . John ; Andereont 35, la dead at Twin Falls: from ebOCk and hemnrrhnr. r aulting from the loss of hla left arm Mra. Hannah Folden, f6und guilfyi at -aandpoint of having liquor in her! possession. ,- waa sentenced by Judge: mu.ausuiuu A iwo yean in tne -penH tenti,ary,SvfV ; ;t ...-. -j 1 " Leei," the1 yerMld son of Mr." and iHwie was Kijlea by an automobile av Fruitland. Saturdayj wnue uivrwuia, xnexnignway near hu home.'...- -'-;;- 'V s: ,;;.;., ). Henry Balzburn. ofllepeUwho waa " found guilty In Justice court laat aum raer of leaving a camp fire burning, lost his appeal in district court and was unea ou ana 73 cosu. ; v .- Vlih the object of promoting better scholarship In the economics and do-i litir-el u-.in4l, Amm mt 1 . . monamln frtt.rnlfv link, -ci.; Veraity of Idaha " VT" Twerity -Years Aero From The Journal of October 25, 190$ . London The Royal Drorreas throue-hl the atreets of London, one of the great pcciacuicr.ieaturea or tne coronation ceremonies,! which was postponed on account of the illness of the kins, took place today.. It proved' to be the most DTiuiant street pageant Londonera b seen since xne AJiamona Jubilee. San - Francisco Frank Norrla. the weu Known, author, died today, aa the result of lan operation for appendicitis. An Important meetinr of the 'wa-ra and means committee of the Lew In and Glark fair corpocaUon was held vea- terday. The question of a apeclal ses sion of the legislature for the purpose of appropriating 3500,000 waa . dis cussed, president Corbett said if the legislature would not appropriate 3500.. 000 for the -fair there was no uae to go Present conditions of the TTmatitt, pr riVer i are' unprecedented, the stream beng almost completely dried up on account of use for irrigation. i An advance of about 1 cent a. huehei on wheat took effect thia morning. Millers are so busy that they have t run night and day shifts, and are still unable to keep up with the demand for flour... --;.,.; ':-. , . .,, .- --, .-' - Hi I -"' -n-'- ,! vi'.-! Thefbusy1 season of the river boa la haa begun In earnest, and ail the llnea are new working to their full capacit. Thia 1 due; to. the fact that the new crops are now moving to -market. . Two carloads of homeseekera 'came through Portland yesterday ; via the goutrterai Pacific. : ; James Stonecheat of Troy. MontJ snipped te tnai pomt this week from Monmouth 200 head ot thoroughbred goats to stock a farm he has there. 3-' - - " I- '-.-,! . e . . I ; , .1 Prinpetoni. N, J. Dr. Wood row WM. son was formally Installed aa president oj Princeton university ., today. Among! the principal . speakera waa ; rover Cleveland, ex-president of the United St4ti .--- -.-;.' . - . . ' . - - i