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Newspaper Page Textami AS nrRKPESDENT KEWSPATEH ' " C. . JACKSOX......... ....... Publisher " t ealm. to oocfidrtif, be- hrful and do Bitlt ethers ea y wouii har them da aato ywt. - . - - J-u.ed every weekday asd guarfay wniiii t Toe Journal buiidta, Bnwiwtj at Tam 44 streets. Portland, Qreron- " e lisnsnd at the pas toff ice at Portland. Oreson, e:t matter. daily jgu:::;al, " roniLAiD, c: itself by the maxim ot the Golden Rule as it Is the wont of Jiaman being? in their weakness to put those maxima into effect. -His pars ing will cause many to pause in their, journey, ta drop expressions ox deep regret, i :- V WHAT- 13 LACKING kSir'DXiL ADVERTISING BEPRESENTA- 1 IVE Rniinin A Kantnor Ov. Bnrae- . wi-fc tnttdinc 225 Fifth mix, New Xork; i Jlalicf tmiwm. jmea. ' - hACiFIG COAST- BEPBESEXTATIVE IE v., V UnmuHi d.. Inc. ,. Eusim boildina. f fcea Francisco: Title Insurance bnik&as, Ixa - - !. Kami,... hmlritna XMrtA . .1HS OREGON JOCBNAL. aeaer-rea Um ris'at . te reject adrertatn copy Mei M oeas f b-jejeUonabla. : It also will not . print any cop that in an? way simulates reading aaav- : ter or that cannot readily b recognised aa adTtrtiirtna. SUBSCRIPTION RATES S By Carrie City and Couaiy ' DAILY f - BlAutX .-. fOne week..,.,. .1 f)One wee. , , . . .8 .88 month -481 t .' BX MAIL, RATES PA YABI.J5 tW ADVAXCK f UaH-T AND SCWI One year. ..... $8.00 jThree months,. .42.3$ Six snaths. . . . . 4.25 One month. . . . . .71 - DAILY ? i USDAt (Wtthoot Sunday) I (Only) T Owe year...-. . . .8.00fOno year.. ... ..8 3.00 a Fix months. .... Z. 28 Six month,..., l.TS Three months. . . 1.7 5 Three months. . v 1.00 UM month ' .out I WEEKLY I . nXiCB.Ul Adal f rfErary Wednesday) 1 lDAI -, 0-r.... ..l.flOna year , . .88.60 Snt Wrmths. . . . .(H) - . - V Tbaae rates apply only In the Wat k tnH-Order, Ttitea to Vstern nointa fnrniabed lmm. Make resittaaces b Money f&apMsa.Order or Draft. If 'yoar poatoRfee Is l'ot money-order office. 1 - or 3-cent sumps -S,win 1m aeepted. Make all remlttanoea pay i tbi to" The Journal - Publishin Comfaoy, idly are faced with similar cases. j Do authorities . do . everythinff iAi.LErHosK maiw mi. au aepnme.u ! Pp under the law to protect COMETHINGr Is lacking: in this - state in the way of regulation of public dance ! halls land road--housea. j -Perhaps , th i law- Is not strong: enougrh. Or perhaps there is a breakdown In vigorous enforce ment of ths law. A - Clackamas countr is. havinr dif ficulty In attempting- to "close certain-dance halls. There seems to be little "attempt in Multnomah county to regulate either road houses or public dances. At least it is a fact that every so often a scandal comes out of those insti tutions. - J Perhaps someone dies after a "party,; at a roadhouse. Perhaps someone is killed in an automobile accident. Perhaps there Is an at tempt to drug a young woman. Perhaps a' girt is taken from such places to a "coke party" and there bepd prisoner for Jong period&j Ail, oe tnose tnings nave happened in Mjultnomah county in recent Other counties undoubt- an average of S20 in each S100 to! 2.5 per cent, .. 't ' -r . - Much is also said about the num ber helped.' ; Thousands of grateful beneficiaries are the proof. . . But the argument for prompt. self-sacrificing contributing is with in the Chest. One sees the yearn ing hands. : .One hears the piteous pleas of the helpless, the destitute, the striving, who pin their faith to the Chest. s One sees, the money by the miracle of charity transformed Into teod, clothing and shelter, and, above all, the cordial hand-grip of human brotherhood. , Having seen such returns from giving, it is easy to understand the larger meaning of the phrase, "It Is more blessed to give than to re ceive.". . '5 ; TUESDAY, ; . I0VCr!LHn 21, 1S22: THE COST TO PORTLAND months. reached by this number. - : : r t The f oTernment of man ahonld be the monarchy of reason ; it is too often the democracy of naaalona or the anarchy of . faemora. Benjamin Whicteote. THE CROWNJNa iNFAMf tTlHE resignailon of Newberry is a '! J- conviction of those United v States senators who voted to seat him. . r '.-- - It is an indictment of their pooi- r ftion that they can never ' explain. I It is a humiliation of ait those eon- nected with the miserable farce of J voting him bis seat, atmost beyond fany scandal in the history of the t senate. '" Newberry: "yoluntarily" .: resigns because he knows that otherwise he would be thrown out. He knows the would be thrown out ,". because vthe 'people "of Michigan '.threw out ;Townsend for defending Newberry ton the floor of the senate.. We lament unrest In America. We denounce the crooks. We re sist the reds.' We howl at the crim tinals. We rebuke the immoral ten , denotes of many people. We mourn over, the; growing spirit of resist A PHILADELPHIA woman was a candidate r- for nttlna at tVia recent election.;' Her husband was her; campaign : manager. He also took the stump in her behalf. But the husband was not so clever. politician as his wife. He made some speeches in one sec tion of. the Btate that admittedly hurt the wife's cause. She was beaten by a slender majority. Her defeat was generally attrib uted to the husband's speeches. Now, her suit for divorce is also generally attributed to the hus band's speeches, p. The wife has not lived with him since the fatal speeches were made. Politics has always been known r i lurrun i iif nuiirDTn ineTittAtsi m stah young men and women? Do they dj everything possible to prevent -Eolation of lawt Or is the law too. weak to give officials full au thority? Xtoadhouses of the right type are an asset. They are a comfort and convenience to travelers and to it iaensl Dance halls of the right type and fully regulated are not a menace. They are places for the amusement of hundreds of people that have no other means' of en tertalnment.' But the dance halls and roadhouses of the loose class have ; proven themselves to be a distinct menac0 tc) the morals and well-being of the commuriity, and officials and laws should be pro vided '-. that cart protect the state against such places. TNCLUDING grainhandlers, nearly A. 1 JHNHMU1M WAGE ; DECISION 20 longshoremen are on strike in , Portland. In addiUon. the 275 1 W. W.J members of the Martoe,!5eSs.rtJ;!?: With the Law Invalidated So Fair as the District, of Colombia Court of Appeals Can Do It, Editors Bally, : Mainly, to tho Rescue. Kef erring ' . the Idatter- to the United. States Supreme Court, First, and Then Back to the People. If Necessary - Daily Editorial 4 Digest (Coniolidated Praas ImnrisHoal Coincident with the renewed acti-ri-tles of the. NaticotaJ Woman's party to secure the repeal of all legislative dis crimination a aina t women comes the decision of the court of appeals of the Distriot , of Columbia Invalidating the district minimum' wage law, -.-which, as one writer expresses it, "gives point to the protests', against this effort of the ultra-feminist group In the ' de cision the court "argues in. effect, to Quote the New ' York Ttpnes. "that ' since women are politically equal with men they must' be treated as physically and economically , equal," - thus, the Philadelphia- Bulletin points oat, denying Justification' for preferential econom ic legislation ' for - women."-. 4 While the studying in Colombia are only . In stances among many. ' " In these regions the Spaniards found Indian races much farther along the road to civilization than elsewhere in these continents. . They had reared great stone structures, they had a knowledge of astronomy and of rode mathematics, they had 5 reached the hieroglyphic stage of writing, taey had organised ? governments, - armies ami courts of Justice. '-' They understood -the working of metals, though they had not yet discovered iron. ,.--. " Nevertheless these people were only American Indians. .As science is fairly well agreed that the Indians came orig inally , from MonsroUan , stock: ' by way of Bering strait. It -is possible that those of the Southern Americas naa been longest in this hemisphere. Hence, being longer settled than the others, under favorable -conditions, they; had gone farther- toward civilisation. -What they had was, however, 'de stroyed by the Spaniards, and though the present Indian inhabitants of those regions are descendants f the Astecs. the Mayas and the Inca races, nothing remains of their ancient civilisation but the early Spanish accounts of the vast ruins, which astonish the traveler through those mountains ana jungiea. COMMENT AND NEWS IN BEIEP ,What's the particular, difference, except in ost, between directly em ploying local engineers to build the bridges and securing outside engi neers whose first act is usually to employ local 'engineer for the actual' Work? AN ELECTION TOLL " But what can you expect when the highest deliberative body in the " country publicly i and uhbltishingly i does the rotten thing that was done when Newberry,-Indicted, convicted and sentenced to the' penitentiary for violations of law,, was given a seat In. the senate? If men eet up I as statesmen to make laws, stoop i to. the miserable transaction "that was involved In Newberryism In the senate, the weaklings, the biased, I the unthinking and the vicious can- not, with the example of the senate before them, be expected to do 1 otherwise .than lapse into acts that n good morals and good citizenship forbid. -t . . , ..; g In seating Newberry the senate condoned his offense while con- f demning it. ; But the people of Michigan did not condone it.. They v rejected their own senator who thelped the senate condone It. Their verdict at the polls is a verdict of conviction of v the senators . who seated Newberry. . The Newberry vote helped Lodge aand the Battalion of Death to or rganise the senate against the League of Nationa .; But, for that H'ote the foreign relations commit- tee of the senate could not haveS been packed by Lodge against the t Versailles treaty. The power of s favorable reports on the treaty and .the , "power f the senate . or ggantaation would have been back fcot the treaty; Instead of against the tltreaty but lor vote' by a man Swhom public -sentiment In Michigan ihas how declared was a bogus sena tor, and who, by his act of resign- ing.f ' Newberry himself tmw con fesses, ,.waa an- Intruder x in the tsenate. ' - - V' v- t ;t t The meaning of all this is that tthe greatest and only plan . ever , brought forward for the 'peace of the world was beaten by one of the most reprehensible . pieces of con tnivance and - trickery ever carried Ion by one of - the coordinated branches of representative govern jment In. any ci-llied country. I Newberry ." resignaUon la the drowning act to one .of the -Ilest I infamies in the history of govern f ment in the United States.- I " General Beebe was an : amiable, ; polished gentleman, a. delightful companion end a citizen in all the 1 phases that the fine word "citisen" i includes. He was one of , those rare persons la whom everybody ground much to admire and nothing to criticise. " Ills was a life . that f probably came as near to squaring - 1 gresswbman Robertson that she la leaving her old home after defeat. Many another -candidate has for sworn j allegiance "-J. to home and friends after the ballots were counted. ! But, hever before has I been publicfly known to be so deli cate as tocost! a man a perfectly good and brilliant wife. However, there Is a warning in the Philadelphia case-be- careful what you gay . about your wife in public. " : ' ' ' Intoxicated drivers are to get Jail sentences and lose their licenses, says Municipal Judge Ekwall. That is the way to ellgiinate intoxicated drivers. .THE MIRACLE WHAT would you do in this case? On the outskirts .of -Portland pneumonia had in its grip a family of seven father, mother and .. five little children. . Hunger and chill shared with disease the conquest of the shack which the unfortunate family called home. The cupboard was bare. - The woodpile was almost exhausted..' The doctor i said death would probably take the whole seven un less: warmth, food, medicine and nursing were added to their f or lorn shelter. - j. 1 But death, was defeated.' Care, remedies,' fuel and nourishment were supplied, j Today the children are merry, romping, chubby young sters. The father is at workv The mother is happy, in a more com fortable home. . -The miracle - worker - in. this emergency was : the Community Chest. fThe money placed within the Chest by- Portland generosity wa used by a relief agency tp lift the menace of death and help the suffering little family back to a self-supporting basis. - . v Thus it was really the big-hearted, liberal-handed people of Port- land who saed these lives, because the Community Chest anTl the re lief workers it represents are but the agencies ot the givers. " ' The instance is but one of thou sands. There Is in Portland no such fear of distress and destitution 4aa there ; was before the Chest, when charity was haphazard. I : Much is said about the Chest re ducing the cost of Portland's phi lanthropy. It has. The budget now asked is $200,OG less than it was for 1921, The 'cost- of collecUng relief funds has been, reduced from Transport organisation, whom the Waterfront ;,EmployeTs union used as strikebreakers in the lockout of the "longshoremen last spring, are striking, f I ; v r : : The 5 wheat movement through Portiana,; whrch" ought, to be at its peakc 1 alrriost at standstill, tit is so stagnant; that . the - force of grain : 'inspectors: dlrecte4 by 1 tha Oregon public service ? commission is reduced from about lot to is "or 20, Including r the ? office force. About 100 special policemen, who have already cost the city $10,000 irl the new strike, are n duty. That, because of the strike and the car shortage, grain ships or- aerea originally to Portland htfve been diverted by their owners to other ports, is the statement. The car shortage is partly due to the re fusal or the railroads entering .roruana to taite back their shop. men, tnough 130 American rail roads have done so on the War field-WiHard agreement. That is to say, the Portland grain movement is .stagnant, the eity Is being put to heavy expense, for special police men and other ports ard profiting at Portland expense as a result of labor troubles, mere was an opportunity last June for a settlement of the water front trouble that, would have, been a settlement. .If the Waterfront Employers' union had accepted the entirely fair findings of the state board of conciliation there would now be peace on the waterfront and the movement of commerce in and out of the port would be active. But the Waterfront Employers' union would arbitrate nothing. xney would not conciliate. They were, determined to crush the union. They finally made an agree ment with th longshoremen as a union, with reference to the' neutral ball. But the Waterfront, Employers? union ' has broken that agreement. They require registration of &e men, which means rejection of the union, and dealing with the men as Individuals, which in turn means open shop. . To enforce their rule they "armed every office man and every other employe, at the neutral hall, and had him sworn in as a special deputy. The enforcement or the registration rule and the con version of the neutral hall Into an armed camp made conditions so intolerable that the longshoremen struck, and were followed two days later ty the 275 I. W. W- portiand Is paying a heavy price in money and loss of shipping4 for tne 'high-handed and arbitrary methods of the Waterfront Em ployers union. All of it could have been avoided -if the employers had pursued a course of sanity in the former strike, by submitting the case to fair arbitration and- settling it upon an equitable basis. . ' Nothing is ever settled until it Is settled right. V FOR LACK OP A CURB A TRIO of trucks on WUIamette -tX boulevard Monday .afternoon were trying to pull a badly smashed automobile tip over the steep bank from the place where it had lodged against a clump of trees. The wheels of the wrecked meter were broken, the tires gone. The engine was forced back into the body of the car. The hood was bent and -twisted. The doors were awry and the top literally torn "to pieces. ) The people In the car at the time it went over the bank the nfght before had been taken to a, hos pital. . It was ? difficult to under stand how they escaped death, j ; That was. the third time In about 80 days that automobiles had gone over, the bank from Willamette boulevard. In one accident a young man was killed. ? Why have there been so many ac cidents of the same kind? The briefest Inspection discloses. ! . Willamette boulevard, next the bank,. has no curb. A rotten atrip of wood at the edge fthe Tlack top pavement Is the' nearest ap proach to t curb, and If wouldn't stop a baby carriage. ' While It is true that the . earth lifts : slightly before the almost .vertical descent of hundreds of feet to the muck of Mocks bottom, the' contour offers almost no resistance to a ear out of control. ; w Add . to this the siip periness of the pavement' When at all wet or frosty, and the reason why Willamette boulevard Is a dan gerous street are listed. Willamette toulevard shoold have a curb or a guard rail erected im mediately on . the' side next- the bank. : . : ; ;..Therehas been already enough loss of life and enough damage to classify ...the Improvement, as an emergency, i . f . - tial fairness and Justice of minimum wage Jaws",jt is Its political aspect that receives most attention la editorial- dlscusaoa although the. eco nomio theories put. forth by the court are also attacked and, tn a few papers. supported, ' j i - i. - , ... . "This opinion Jjf ' a federal Jeourt.1 says the JBoston -"-Traveler, "'leounds mere like an .attorney's .brief , for one id of a case than an opinion , of the bench." for, the Pittsburg Leader adds. rhen the higher court of review picks out such ' phrases ; as indiscriminate legislation' and -Judicial Jugglery.' the man oa the curbstone may be pardoned for, absorbing, the Impression that ex alted judges, after alt, are not essen tially different fitm the ciUsena- of common, clay, v The '.departure from judicial -calm and poise ? is too pro nounced to be ignored, As editors all point out. minimum wage legislation has -been declared constitutional here tofore in. every case where the Issue naa Dcen raised, and the' Kb Tort Globe- notes that the decision of the district court of appeals "is the first announcement tnat any high Americas court considered the -minimum wage law impossible under the constitution. If this decision is sustained by the United. States supreme eourt, to which tne matter Will new tro. the Boston Transcript points Out that it will "de stroy aM minimum Wage legislation. ana mat on "tne eontenuon that men and "women are now on an equality oeiore tne inw.r . - tne tneory mat "because- women have been accorded equality in politi cal and -commercial fields they no longer need special protection is, the New Ycrk Globe says, " a doctrine preached with equal vehemence by irreconcilable feminists and die-hard tori en." but in the oriinion of the Na-w- ark News, "it la somewhat to be doubt ed whether the entry of women into industry has been carried far enough to aisessociate them from their eld re lationships and changed the more or less casual nature of their employment to such an extent that it can be argued that the welfare of women is ade quately guarded by the fact that they have been given political rights. The Manchester Union regards the decision as being "in the very spirit of eighteenth century individualism, with its insistence unon the nnaualified right of individual contract, and woman is regarded as being on precisely tie same pian economically as man be cause she is on the same plane politi cally." The fallacy of that argument inspires tne Boston Globe to. satire. Perhaps," it says, "the nineteenth amendment rave women 'commercial equality with men In the-District ef Columbia. But in other Important In dustrial and commercial districts of the nation she has not, yet discovered the equality. Her victory In winning the' vote concerns merely her political activities. It it has . overcome these other handicaps supposed . still, among unlearned folk, to confront her in her struggle for ' equality . in commercial life, it is interesting: to- know that fact. ana the court has advanced popular knowledge considerably. , It will be news to most women in business, the professions and industry,' .. -. . - a Quite as remarkable, however,' in the opinion of the New York World. lis the economic dictum on which the whole Judgment is made to turn: No greater calamity could befall the wage- earners of this country than to have the legislative power to fix wages up held. Is it, the World asks, "a prov ince of the courts to set up economic theories of their own and decide cases accordingly? The "calamity of a mini mum wage has fallen upon the women wageearners of a number of states,? the New Tork Times reminds us, "and the eearts have sustained the law with out shuddering," while "as to the con stitutional reservation ef human rights to. the whole people and not to any favored class,' a series of acts for the protection of miners, factory workers. railway workers and so on testified that what can't be done is habitually done : and modern legislation irre sistibly tends toward the bestowal of speclal legal protection. .? j - The government, nevertheless, the Ohio State Journal declares, "has no business to go out of its way to recog nise and set up artificial sex distinc tions. Ai nearly aa Is possible In view of -the physical and functional differ ences between men and women, all citizens should be equal under the law. .The Knickerbocker Press (Al bany) also sees "sound reasoning in the pronouncement ot the court that legislative wage-fixing la a "calamity," for. In its opinion, "free labor will shun any effort to have its earnings regulated by law as it would the plague." Profound and involved as is the "wage problem. the Mobile Regis ter, supporting- - the economic theory of the district court, maintains that "the minimum wage Is not the solu tion. ; i j Letters From the People tCbaraasieatJoat sent to Tne Jooraal tor plication in this department ahooid a vrU- tea oa only one aide ef the papa, exeeed 300 worda -fat-leastA, an, The decision "will arouse many peo ple, who have with the best Intentions sought to ameliorate the conditions of working women and it will be fought as-a menace to the physical and moral well-being of those who Are forced to toUL but. the Washington. Star says. "lamentations and harsh criticisms are Of no avail, for the .final word rests with the supreme court.". But the New Tork Herald does ' not believe that even a confirmatory judgment by the highest tribunal ought to settle the question, or. Indeed, will settle the question, for "if necessary the nation will write into Its fundamental law the principle that employers shall not pay able-bodied workers et a given productive capacity in a given classi fication .less, . than -r a fixed . . amount known as the minimum wage, -because it is not a sound practice and a safe condition to have masses of our popu lation working for- leas money than they ; can live , on decently and 'com fortably, not a Bound practice and a safe condition for labor, for Industry or for the state. The American stand ard ef achievement and the American standard of living are inseparable. . . ." CITIES OP vTHE - PAST v V from tns Saa Pranetseo Chronicle Central America and Western South America are filled with stupendous ruins, ' which r have amazed explorers since the Spaniards first entered the country. Those which the Field Co lumbian museum of Chicago has been BienaA-tii-writae. m, full, awl ayoofapaay the oontnbadoa. CHIDES UCOLLKGg PRESIDENT J Criticising a Dictum. Relating . to the - unskilled (aporer ana fnampura- -i :,u -.-lag His, Rights. " Portland, Nov'18-To the Editor of The- Journal-S'In The Journal of Octo ber 15 President Garfield of Williams desires, to penalize all "unskilled labor. He tells , us. they nave no right to wage that would allow them to marry and raise families. If they did marry in spite -of his edict, he would then force the .woman to go to work to sup. port herself, and if she had say chib dren. I suppose be would have a job all cut and ' dried . for--.- them to supporti themselves, er proDaDiy no wouiu xoroe the children to raise themselves, grow like young calve or colts until such time as they were ready for the "slave market, or they i would jgrow in the knowledge of . the streets to pecome varying degrees of sneak thieves, sec ond-story men. safeblowers and the like callings that require expert and skilled men. I know nothing of Dr. Garfield as an educator, but surely no man ever handled a subject with less knowledge or understanding of that subject than he. Does he not know that all lines of endeavor do not call for skill so much as for stamina and application ; but, whether skilled or un skilled, all are absolutely necessary to keep the machinery of the common wealth running? I suppose he would make it imperative for a street cleaner to serve an apprenticeship of three years at the usual rate of 1 a day, so that at the end ot the apprenticeship he might draw the munificent sum of $3 a day if there was a Job for him. He may have an academic, education, but theory and practice are wide apart. He has been doing a Rip Van Winkle. He went to Bleep during the feudal age. We are now in the 20th century and we left serfdom behind some hundreds of years ago. Michael Kellow. , .SMALL CHANGE Apparently "the only real reason for linking the bonus and beer bills is for the sake of alliteration. y . - Newberry and the cranberry, it ap pears. get -what's com in 5 to them at about-the same season of the year. a ,- Newberry senatorial season proved to be a flivver anyhow, so Ford might as well have been seated in the first piace. . -. - a i . Water is gold. says an editorial title. That is. except when it is milk or, with- a little color added, . moonshine- 'v ' ' The man with a Russian pompadour IS said, to have been among the first to find fault with women for bobbing their hair. - The necessity for starting a frigid motor car on a cold morning is said to have resulted in extensive additions to the vocabulary- of drivers. . . - -, :C a V - - Just for the fun we'd have, we'd like to know - what would happen in the case of profiteering merchants if the rolden rule should be made mandatory Modern cabinet makers- apparently haven't the material to work with that they used to- have, what with England, Italy, Germany and China raced with resignations, and reorganizations. ; SIDELIGHTS ; Many foolish persons add to the bur den of tomorrow b tore they are called upon to bear it. We can all Increase our worries ; it is as simple and surely better to lessen thetn.--Powers Patriot. - - ' - . e aj'..... f - ,On thing seems clear, now that the eiccuon is over ana we can - get ute correct perspective. The Pierce -Olcott campaign - must have convinced , the voters that somebody raised taxes en xnem.- ine valley Herald. a a ' "Nature suppllea an abundance of everything, declares a sale professor, Not of wisdom. tileranc or imaelfish. nesa Nature goes. too ranch to voice and appetite and not enough to justice and reason. . Sherman County Ob server. . Three Judges are at work hearing the telephone rate case, which has been re-fopened. This reminds us, what good is the public service commission, and a tot more commissions, when the tlnai showdown has to come before the courts anyway T La Grand Observer. , , e .. We are always satisfied with elec tion returns. . Election returns are the voice of the PeoDle and that la the vox Del. The people rule by divine right, while kings rule by human might. It ia well that the rove mod sneak the final word. They, and they alone, are re warded or punished by the wisdom dis played with their vote Blue Mountain isagie. The Oreg-on . Country Konhweat Bappaaiagt ia Brief Form for the '- - i iuy Haadrr. ; : . I - OREGON.. . .... .f The aanual; meeting' of the- Linn county farm bureau will be held at XI. AN ADDRESS OF THANKS Expression of Appreciation "From the Oregon State Medical Association. Portland, Nov. 16. To the Editor of The Journal At a meeting of the board of councilors of the Oregon State Medical association a resolution was passed Instructing the secretary u to write to' the editors of the Portland papers as follows : -whereas, that during and following tne recent health show in Portland there appeared in the editorial pages of the" Portland newspapers such edi torials as to put the medical profess slon ia .its true position before the nubile; - "The editorial did Include those state ments ; of fact concerning the great number of heretofore pestilential dis eases which have been mastered through the efforts Of the physicians; . "You. Mr. Editor, did so ethically present tne known tacts of the achiev ments of the medical profession that we owe you an everlasting debt of gratitude. The board of councillors of the Ore gon State Medical association, consist ing ot ors. C.J. Smith, Paul Rockey, Roy Stearns,- Roy McDaniels. C. La Booth, Alvin Baird. M. B. Mareellus, E. B. Mc Dan lei a and S. M. Strohecker. au or Portland, and lira. H. J. Clement, feaiem ; jee a. Mowry, La Grande ; E. B. PickeL Med ford, and Dr. Bartle, isugene, therefore thank you. Dr. W. L. Bishop, Secretary. WOULD BANISH THE ROD Holding That Corporal Punishment in Schools Is a Relic of Barbarism. Portland. Nov. 20.TO the Editor ofH The Journal J. H. Thomas; an advo cate of corporal punishment In our public schools, has been interviewing a number of teachers on the "noticeable results of the conviction of Principal Morgan," Mr. Thomas and Mr. Morgan are behind the age. The lash is relic of barbarism, and he who makes a plea for its use is whetting the knife of hate. Mr. Thomas and Mr. Morgan us the same argument that was used when civilization, asked' for a law against wife-whipping. Men who whipped -their wives said it was the only way to make them mind, and it was not so long ago that wife-whipping was allowed. In 1887 the great . state of New Tork had a law that read something like this: "It shall be un lawful for any man to punish his wife with a rod larger than his small finger" showing that it was all right to beat the wife and mother if the rod was not too big. This law was repealed in 1887, but the practice of wife-whipping had gone out long be fore. ' . In 1860 I was started to school, at Salem, and I remember how my teach er, a man, whipped a poor German boy because he could, not pronounce the word "wolf He told him to spell it, and he got all the letters double, after the' first. " Again end again he tried,- and they came double every time. Then the teacher got mad. Out came one of his many switches and he whipped the frightened boy three times, when .the largest girl in the room, a young lady. - protested and made him stay the lash. (Bless the memory of Louise Bannister!) .... Teachers should respect the children intrusted to them for a few hours each school day, and not try to rule them by the fear of the rod, as the rod brings out the bad and not the good,! ana we want the teacher to bring out the good. "That Is what they are paid fen -and not te punish. May the Lord deliver the little child from the teacher that thinks of her "authority instead of her duty and responsibility as a teacher and a helper, employed for the sole purpose of helping the child in its character building. . It is high time corporal punishment were . banished from -our. schoolsvy f . , . ; "'-"I heard, all the testimony at : the Morgan trial, and I want to commend Judge Ekwall; for standing np like a real man against a court room crowded with 1 teachers, ?v s - , - . v - " a - H. D. Wagnon. HER QUALIFICATIONS "- J . . From Life . "I hear Enid is going oa the stage. "Why. she can't act; she doeent even know bow to behave." .- . MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Edgar Marvin, county judge of Wal lowa county, is among visitors from out of town. - Accompanying him are Commissioner McCully of Joseph .and Commissioner Johnson of Wallowa. V- a ' a a County Judge Gardner of Jackson county and Commissioner Owens are looking after highway business before the state highway commission. .- -r- . a a - Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Walker - of Beagle, Jackson county, are combin ing . business and pleasure in- the metropolis. ; a Orin It Patterson, county judge of Grant county, is in from Canyon City on official business. a a . . Among out of town visitors are E, J. Korton pf Junction City and J. C. liorton of llprton. II- II. Belt of Dallas, a member of the circuit court bench, was among the arrivals Monday at the Imperial. a a William Nesmith of Blue River, Lane county, was among the promi nent people in Portland Monday. F. R. Keen of Klamath Falls among recent arrivals In tho city. ia Joe Morris, a Mapleton merchant, is transacting business In Portland. a . Mr. and Mrs. W. A,, Foster of Red- mond are visiting la Portland. a a a Charles E. Reed of Sutherlin Is transacting business in Portland. . H. S. Johnson, a merchant of Fossil. Is In the metropolis on business. . a An out of town visitor Is G. W. Mar. vin of Silver Lake. v - . .. v .a -" a - -. J. A. Howarth of the Klamath In. diaa agency is visiting in Portland, m a a , Visitors from Klamath Falls include Mr, and Mrs. j; T. KimbalL - r e . T.-! D. Pomeroy;, of -Independence its transacting business, in Portland. 4 r ft . - m -l ( m , S; ' Burrell Short, county commissioner of -Klamath - county. Is attending the meeting of. the state highway commis sion. . V.; i' : ' a a ' a . - - T.- s. Cornelius, county judr of v. lauiup yuuaijr, , anu - vommmumeni Johnson and Frye are , visiting today with the state highway commission. "t " a a .-'a .'. J Rolllo W. Watson, representative elect from Tillamook county, is a Port land visitor whose voice is heard where politicians gather. ; ..".i. ' a C. A: . Parker, i secretary of the Marsh field Chamber of Commerce, is a Portland visitor. . , a a a ' : W. H. Gore, one of Medford's lead ing banker, is in Portland on business, ness. ' - i.. a e : E. R. Derfllnger and Fred Flsk of Eugene are among visitors from Lane county. , a a a Mr. and Mrs. H, B.' Clement are among visitors from east of the Cas cades. . 'a. v a a ' 5 II. H. Rosenberg and family ef Tilla mook are among late arrivals in the city. ' e a a V. M. Saunders of Richfield was transacting business tn Portland Mon day. - a a - a . , A. W. Lewis of Helix is among vis- j :tors from Umatilla county. 5 eaa' Mf. and Mrs. F. C Rltner of Hos- kins are visiting friends la Portland. - - a a a . . , L. D. McCarty of powers is among out-of-town guests. ' -'.--,-, R. V. Dunham of North Bend is a guest of the city, from Coos county. A.r R. Squire of Florence has come to Portland to attend to some business. , - - a . Among visitors from Astoria are A. W. Norblad and J. E. Wicks. W a Hall of SUets Is transacting business in Portland. - - - IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Lcckley county rarm burei bany December . i wild' rose are again In bloom around Cottage Grove, due to the mild November climate. : , - Approximately fCOOO has been raised i?-?-0!1" 0rOT eo far toward the 81J50.0OO fund for Willamette university.- . .; -. - ,' . . , Radio signals Snm Annapolis, Md.. 71 heard last Friday night by Gor don Hall, who hae constructed .a, re ceiving set at Bend. M . L. .wt and telephone lines were blown down and much other damage r.ollJr3 vere wind storm that via-" lted Bend last Friday night. An association ef former University of Oregon students and graduates in Linn county was organised last Tues day night at a banquet in Albany. - --"fh Moon Lumber company of Hilt, Cal.. has opened a' lumber ramp on the Green Bprincs mountain road near Ashland., Forty men will be employed. Drilling has been resumed at the Lower. Columbia Oil and Gas com pany s well. work, having been tempor arily . suspended owing to beoken cable. ...,.' Construction work ha a lv.ii mtmftA on the beach elubhoua which a group of some 30 Portland school teachers Ictinv on., tPct recently pur chased at Seaside. r Approximated HT.OfWt -walnuts and 3000 pounds of filberts nave been received this year at the warehouses of the Oregon Growers' Cooperative association. - Oolf mar Ka awlaotaii o- .u.i, . I5lch o( hletic. at the, University Si rf?nJ T!?e Ram H b?nB taught by M. O. Newberg, who has registered as a student at the. university. The Oregon-Southern Idaho Farm, era union will open a three days' ses- . i" noon jecernber 7. This Is the twelfth annual meeting of . the union and .300 or more delegates are expected. :) - . , . . . Hri iy Bllyeu. 94 years of age, ISS H?' rr,k at her home east of X -"veu c roe sea the plains to ilr?ror..69 if" - walking 'nearly the entire distance behind a covered wagon drawn by oxen. WASHINGTON , i.Th Spokane-Shelby Oil company has -riled articles of IncorporationatOlyin Pia. The capital stock is 8200,000. The second annual MrnnM nr Pacific Northwest Foreign Trad coun cii will l held at Tacoma December it ana after a yiait to Astoria. Mr. Lockley is happy to report the crest protrreaa that is snpsrent oa aery hand at that busy and rap idly STOTrins port st use tJolumbla s month. Bast of all. he finds the community apiiit rapidly beeomins all that that most potent ele ment snouia te. While at Astoria a few days ago it was my good fortune to be the guest of Professor A, C Strange, superln tendent of school of .Astoria, at i luncheon of the board of governor of the Kiwanis club. . At the table were W. T. EakJn, M. D. Khutsen, Dr. E. N. Neulen, Dr. M. H. Smith, I Fred S. Batest Henry P. Filer, C T. Diamond, Judge Olaf Anderson, Harold Rasmus sen, O. C Norvested. C A. Nyqulst, Captain J. A. Buchanon. Professor A. C Strange and myself. I wonder if we ever stop to think of the value ot organizations of this kind to a com- rmunlty. It may be that some men go Into them, for selfish motives, thinking It may widen their circle ef friendship and thus Increase their- business, but by insensible degrees they take part in work for the-public good, and almost before they know it they are devoting their time and money to the better. ment of the community, and in doing altruistic work have lost sight of self ish motives. They also develop team work. ', . . , ... : a :- - A prominent Astorian once said to me: I doubt if you will rind any where a city where the individual composing the body politic are more charming and better people than here In Astoria. I also doubt, too, if you will find a city where there is less team work than here. There is as much value to a community in -being good follower as in being a good leader, but - here in Astoria it seems w all want to be leaders, and if we can't lead we refuse to follow. The result is that many a .plan for civic betterment lands on a lee shore and is wrecked because we all want to do the steering, and none of us wants to handle the ropes or do the equally -useful but less spectacular work. - Just as an instance, one of our well known manufacturers, becoming peeved be cause ' he could not dominate business and political lines, sold his Interests her aad went to a sister state. "We have not yet, learned that the team that is kicking Is not pulling, and most of us have developed along the Una of high-class kickers. This might work fine if we were on a football team, but in moat of the affairs of Ufa pulling is a more useful quality than kicking." As I listened to the discussion about the table I could not help thinking that the era of the kicker was on the wane, and that here was -a group of men who were willing to pull, shoul der, te shoulder, for the upbuilding of their home town. Go to a meeting of the Ad club, of the City club, of the Radiators, or' ef any of the oher civic organisation, and you will find . th same thing holds true. - ... - a a a Astoria will soon have a, new hotel, one of thai best in the state, through this policy of community team work and cooperation. The beauty of th whole thing 1 that while the members Of these various organizations are giv ing their time and money to-advancing the interests of all the people they are helping make a more prosperous com munity, and their own i prosperity-Is thereby enhanced. . a a - . - They say the way. to judge a com munity is by the Way the people pat ronize the local ' papers. - Judged by this standard. Astoria measure up well. -Both the Astorian and th Bud- M ' ' get are live, newsy, readable and up to date papers, with good circulations and generous- advertising natronasre. The Budget has- recently moved into its new ouiraing, wnich is one or the best planned - and most convenient newspaper plants I havs visited in many a day. a way DacK in 1851. when I was a small boy, our family stopped a day or so in Astoria on th way from Port land to San Francisco. I was 10 years old. and . my bumo of inaulaltiveneaa was targe. A Z wandered along the main street of the city, which was of plank. I could see the water sloshing below me. for at that time Astoria, like Venice, was on stilts. I stopped to watch a boy of my own age who was fishing through a crack in th board walk, and after watching htm pull up several toracods I decided- that Astoria was the town I had-always been look ing for, so I at once mnounced to my folks that her was the place I wanted to Choose for a home. - I thought anv town where you could catch fish from your front doorstep was an Ideal place for a boy to live in.. My people, unfor tunately, did not agree with me, so As toria lost a prospective citizen. ; a a No longer can you catch fiah fmm the front doors of the leadinr husineaa establishments, for Astoria has filled In the low lands and is on solid ground. The -old frame store buildings have been replaced- with substantial struc tures of concrete or brick. -The oldest community in the .-Oregon country shows no sign of its age. On the con trary, it is one of the fastest grow ing and most progressiva of Oregon's communities. This, of course. Is not to be wondered at. when vou nHfr that Astoria is not only a freshwater harbor but is one of the best harbors that ships visit. With her back coun try, of almost inexhaustible fertility whose possibilities have as yet scarce ly been realized, it is no wonder that Astoria is . bound to grew. : Salmon, timber, dairying, hay on her diked lands, stockraising, truck gardening, cranberry growing, the entertaining of tourists, her scenic and -historic as sets all add their share to the wealth and prosperity of the "City ef Destiny by the mouth of the Co lumbia. ; v.. -i. ..a-."-,"',, -v.,r-. ?--;... Many years ago in July, 1905, to be exact Mark Sullivan, in speaking of Astoria, said (and what he said then I equally true today): "A glance t the map of the Northwest a n., it The low nrlea Kat l- v,i for DOtatoea in retaulrli. in - pf the Yakima county crop being left! in the ground. The Pacific Telenhen A Talaa-ranK eompany has begun improvements in s ZmtilTo0"1 count,r th" Seattle ' Elks, alreadv nvniAe mt,A occupying a 8300.000 temple, are about to Improve the adjoining, property by. the erection of a bufidina rni itViu .o. cost fi.ioo.ooo. " " :T; James R. Marshall of Kiuvi convicted at Uverett of eecond deaTee murder for killing hi wife at their h?m cU)b'r ? Marshall claims the aiuis, was acciuenuu Of this year's total f inn ,.-. eggs shipped out of the atate of Wa-.li-Ington. 10 are credited to Whatcom, county, bringing 8760.000 to the poul trymeh of that region, lovers of Spokane have pro vided a burial rraunil tn ha i,., cjuslvely for remains of departed pete. i " . j cl l77 acre in extent, la, located three miles north of the city. .JZ., e MT' yr n In spector of paving in the city, engineer's of fice, .leaped to his death .Thursday ZrOm tne second tnrr wln.w ,e , attle hospital when his nurse left the room for a few minutes. Articlea tit lneAeiM,.tU, t.,... i. - filed at Olympia for "The Cosmopoll iaJ.Vn,v,r"lt''' ?pitallsed- at 825,- 000.000 and With a niirnr.er.rf un.l.ln. mm nl.. . , a AAA 1... . ... "-' i iivw,uw. - j ne inautuuon U to be locaud at Seattle. ., Twenty-one "members of the Consti tutional Defense league of Tacoma are made defendants in a 840,000 damage suit filed by Prosecuting Attorney Sei dell. The action grows out of the bitter political fight made against Sei dell during th campaign. IDAHO Th Name Chamber or r-o mm i negotiating with an Eastern firm for the installation of a starch factory in mat tlLjr iu os ffV.VUU. ,, Southern ! Idaho editors , hi .. completed a. tour of .InspecUon of the : property of the Idaho Power company, the com Dan r navlne- all Tnn.., e . vT, trip. 1 ' A&ZP'?' Branatetter. 85 years old, died suddenly at Boise a few days ago fA:r a residenc of 68 years in that city. He is survived by on slsUrt Mrs. Addi Hunt of Portland. wolei7, Nathan Fields, alias Jade rrimn was arrested naae wiu. i. on the charge ef being Implicated In. a bank robbery at Okanogan, Waah last The Idaho state highway commission has let a contract foe a ai oyer the Porui-uf river, two miles west of Pocatello. The cost will be 828,815, 'Aoush the atata's , estimate was 4t,vuu. - . j..-.;. , . liniu i nr.ii c2Tder ft .Salmon, died suddenly in his office Saturday afternoon from heart trouble. Melvin formerlv -nn.. papera at Shoshone and Twin Fails and """'iiw uwwn tnrougnout ldabo. Twenty Years Ago From The Journal pf Nov. 21. 1902. Leading business men comment un favorably on a statement attributed to President Mellen pf the Northern Pa cific that the Lewis and Clark fair will not be held. - : i ,. - - . a . a a The board of engineers on the ac. quisltlon by the United States govern ment of the canal and locks at Wil lamette falls are examining the canal and locks this afternoon. , -,.-f i i !'.';;...,' Mayor Williams has vetoed th or dinance allowing Portland Heights to b Included In the cement sidewalk dis- -trict. He ' consider the ordinance' faulty because it - reoeal none of the , old laws, which allow any kind - of walks to be built. ': . i, -. a - - .. The city ' engineer Is fencing up East Oak street, from Grand avenue . to East Sixth street on account of th dangerous condition of the roadway. Millmen report a great scarcity of logs, and it seems a though th log- , King camp have not been able to keep up with the unprecedented demand for ' 1iimh.p Tha ,,.,.,. mtni ..... w .v,m tk tZk il M wisaom nss road it difficult to work the .ohnTafOD Ator to ctlng his , logging craws, trading station near the mouth of th j a Columbia river, and it was a well de-t ' Prof essor James Wlthyeombe of Ore served compliment to this venturesome con Agricultural college ia a guest at pioneer to name it for him. The As- , the Imperial. toria - or Astors day , is not the As toria of today except as to site, which then was. still is, and always will be, the commercial center of a vast . gion of prosperous territory. ! It Is the productive possibilities of the territory tributary to a business center that in sures trade and . Industrial growth. In mia s . panicnur . Astoria - 1 richly blessed. The three leading- industries s a ' r A "corner" cf the supply of Chinese pheasants was effected today by two retailer of the city-and no birds can be bought except at their prices. Those who enjoy a -mess of pheasant will have to pay 82.25 a pair for .that en joyment. - . .-. - a - a a An effort 1 being mad in Sunny- side - to ' organize a volunteer street rifKlriftIlUer' 'umb,r .na 1 e'eanhjg department, Belmont street SSSSiSSi. leaned for months and : - w. ; .uiimin mr9 to be won In the far-stretching region of the Columbia river watershed. They await the industry; the enterprise and the business sagacity of man to come and claim them. Socially.- commer cially and Industrially Astoria - is a most delightful and desirable citv in which to live." - -- . . ., - presents a very muddy appearance. - . ........ -. There is' beard some complaint against parties who Import young trees from the East, a there Is no necessity for this. Th importing of these trees causes much trouble for orcherdiKt because new-pests thus com in at th sam time. .: ft Mi I