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idly are faced with similar cases.
j Do authorities . do . everythinff
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Newberry senatorial season proved
to be a flivver anyhow, so Ford might
as well have been seated in the first
piace. . -. -
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Water is gold. says an editorial
title. That is. except when it is milk
or, with- a little color added, . moonshine-
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' 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.
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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.
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,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.
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"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.
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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 - ,
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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.
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County Judge Gardner of Jackson
county and Commissioner Owens are
looking after highway business before
the state highway commission.
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Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Walker - of
Beagle, Jackson county, are combin
ing . business and pleasure in- the
metropolis. ;
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Orin It Patterson, county judge of
Grant county, is in from Canyon City
on official business.
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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.
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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.
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Mr. and Mrs. W. A,, Foster of Red-
mond are visiting la Portland.
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Charles E. Reed of Sutherlin Is
transacting business in Portland. .
H. S. Johnson, a merchant of Fossil.
Is In the metropolis on business.
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An out of town visitor Is G. W. Mar.
vin of Silver Lake. v
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J. A. Howarth of the Klamath In.
diaa agency is visiting in Portland,
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Visitors from Klamath Falls include
Mr, and Mrs. j; T. KimbalL
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T.-! D. Pomeroy;, of -Independence its
transacting business, in Portland. 4
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Burrell Short, county commissioner
of -Klamath - county. Is attending the
meeting of. the state highway commis
sion. . V.; i' :
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T.- s. Cornelius, county judr of
v. lauiup yuuaijr, , anu - vommmumeni
Johnson and Frye are , visiting today
with the state highway commission.
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Rolllo W. Watson, representative
elect from Tillamook county, is a Port
land visitor whose voice is heard where
politicians gather. ;
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C. A: . Parker, i secretary of the
Marsh field Chamber of Commerce, is
a Portland visitor.
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: W. H. Gore, one of Medford's lead
ing banker, is in Portland on business,
ness. ' - i..
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E. R. Derfllnger and Fred Flsk of
Eugene are among visitors from Lane
county. ,
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Mr. and Mrs. H, B.' Clement are
among visitors from east of the Cas
cades. .
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II. H. Rosenberg and family ef Tilla
mook are among late arrivals in the
city. '
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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
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Mf. and Mrs. F. C Rltner of Hos-
kins are visiting friends la Portland.
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L. D. McCarty of powers is among
out-of-town guests. '
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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. ,
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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.-
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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. ', . .
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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.
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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.
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- 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. ;
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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. ;
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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 ,.
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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
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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.
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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. - . .-.
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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.
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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. .:
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