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THD OREGON DAILY. JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER ' 28; 1022. . a- 8 2 3- i 1; i C 8. JACKSON.... ki.;.. ..; ..,be' J IBs eaim. be confidant, be coearfnl MHt o m at ot&cn as you wbj4 I 4 '- - ... 1 .J .... .J - . . ri I n at T)x JgotuI baikilKC Breaawaj- 1 bill aareeta, Portuna. ui-nioa. "festered a the poatoffWit Tfrtia4, Om lor trrtrwa-uwioa taimiah th swoJa a mcob4 fl Clew BHU; .KATION'AI ADTEKTlSINJIi" HiP RESENT A ... TTVE Benjamin Jc Keataor Co.. Brun . wick baidinc X2i fifth awaoe. Mew Torx; "0 MaUere onutunc tmcMQ. rACIFK COASf BEPKE6ESTATITE M. f! Unmuar TnlK. lLBaHR aBUans. Baa I'nnoiMo: fit) InmnK iwuldi, fees anfelee-. Btenrrtw sanding, .seema. THE OliKGON JOURXALi aeeerae th ruiht to reject aovaftiainc copy wtuca tv itikirvk. It aJe will ao mint cpy that in say was ainmlatae laadias mat '"-; ter on that eaaao (MdOy ba lWJtT'1t, adTwtunng, - : - J' By Carrier. City and Coaaty ' , Om met.. . v..16tOna moat. . : . $ . UAIX I - eUNDAT On wek.,,..S .lofchiajweea..,.,., ,9 fine inout h 4&Y - . fJet UAIK RATES PATABI.B I ADTAKC Ob year. . . . . . t-.0-Trea monike. , . $X. I Six aiaLh. ...... .2SJOa; moat . . . .-. r- .If iAILT ' I . rwu . . .CS.00IOM Mr. . . ..S3. Six mofiUM. . .- S-Xft :x- aaoMtka, . ...!-? Ttaraa awmtlw. . . 1.7ftlTbrea Jaonrha. . , : l.t0 4MM wnt. . . . . 'i-; WEEKLY I WETEaTt-T AJO . linn WahixllTV' I SCiUAT Thaaav: ratcw ixy onii : Rataa to Butem tiointa luraahati anH- eatlon. Uak - remittaaea BT llow Older: ' Kipraaa (Mer w Draft, If ysan- vaatefHea la mm a aaooegrooracT lia 1- oc Z-etnt atampa will- b .aaval afaJKa aa irmittaama pa ' aMa " t Th Joauoal PuJljbB Coajyaaj MAM, 7t-t.' AH apTttaoa ararlMd fry rma taamw. O if wa aonat taar ac4 thw ii ad.M lrttf for aa aour wfcaA it aicnifW ta aw ; taoul la tbw gowr of aa andirw Ma waaA a rwralation it woetfet. aa.i"Hnra-a 2ub- ' ISOLATED? A MERICA. -w are toad, 1 iso- late4. We are t harwnothing to-do wttrV Eiicop. SW are xtot t mlnl In' Europeaa' affairs. Here is a news dispatch: Amsrieav aT Graat Britain. i"ra.uc and Italy a bard joit when tier epoKea man, Richard Washburn Child, declared that the United States troYwrnment has the support of the American people in Its opposition to alt secret treatiea and agreement, particalarly those deeicned ear create 'seaea or economio ana com mercial cinfhieitccv nch ' a the San BUmo tripartite - arreeeMnt of 1920, . which apportiened the Keaopotamlaa ell fieIV, amooaT the three bl- pevera. " And Mr. Child did ; not atop there. He also told the represent atives of the Eiiropean ; countries that America believed in the "open door policy" in Turkey and the Kear East. . u -4- -) But; what difference does It mike to usj what happens in 4 Europe, since we claim to be so beautifully Isolated? We; won't make any agreements with Europe-1 in " fact, won't enter European conferences yet we are s:olng to Insist ; that Europe have a agreements, either, especially secret, and especially if .they isolate American interests.. But supposedly we have no inter; ests over there. It isolated, ' ' 4-1 " Why not admit'that the isolation xaiK ana policy is dudk; wny hdi frankly confess that it was all po litica-eiaptrap, designed to- win in election?, Why . not come out Jn the open, admit therais, no such . thine : as isolation, and take . our proper position in world affairs? . Obviously. America has interests in . Europe. : We want European . markets. - We want to set into the - Mesopotamiaa oil fields. We want to have a share in the world's trade How en earth, then, can this court- iry be isolated t ' And if isolated, why protest about what Europe is doing- in Europe?. i " ." v We protest because we feeoemise that , We have ah "Interest in - what "Europe is doinr financially, eoo r nomicaHy and. politically. We know that we want our ahare of. world ; trade7; We-know that a?twarj in Europe has involved '. America, and that another ' one wilL : ..We ; know that the condition of European fi - nances has a deep bearing- upon American prosperity. , i Then why do we not take our place- in world ' councils, protect our own . Interests and do what we can for world cob dltions. which so vitally concern -us? ' - . As an : art . gallery, of Oregon sceaid delight in pocket size, as a response to much repeated appeal that hostelries and business houses do their; part in advertising Ore gon, and as a collection of views one would want to 'keep, the booklet entitled Beauty-Spots of Oregon,' which the Multnomah hotel" has just Issued, Is to be; highly- com mended. '"It Is om of the - hest things of the kind dona by private or public agency and it; will help manfully In tha" Oregon ' tourist campaign.-. ' PHONE HATE CHAOS TV 1SSTJING the temporary in jane 1 tion arainst the order of ' the Oregon public servico commission cutting telephone rates. Judge Bean fifth federal court ears: ' It Is alleged In the bill and support ing affidavits that the order sought to be enjoined will. If enforced, reduce the net revenue Of the piaimirr to less tnan 2 per cent annually. This is . - -. FARM AND TOWN TVTC MOVEMENT ever undertaken in Portland ia - mora intelligent than , the plan, of the Portland Chamber of Commerce to hflp bet ter conditions on Oregon farm. ; X is a plan for the tews to cooperate with the farm. There Is much that can be done. A better system Towns hava always stood in the A law to- aid eeoperaUve markeUng was recently beaten ' in Oregon, chiefly through the opposition of Portland. It was a blunder that Port land is .now proposioc to correct. ., v That the principal farm product the combined list of al commodities 181J,! is the statement in a bulletin by the National City bank of New Torkj. It la m, statement that because of its. origin, should have IwelfM with the Portland business 'worlds rfrom -the October buUetln pfvtte partment f riculture at 'Washington, fas follows: ; ;fi" rr:- -Z' ' - :-"r:' . ' '0'$'. Tha farmer ia about In thfc position of in five feet of water, and nowHeea. it beginning to rain. When deflation over took the country in 1I3, agriculture fell first hardest and farthest. It seemed to recover a. tittle last spring as prices ef cotton, hogs and wool unproved. But now the' disparity is again so widening" between prices of farni products and nanufstctared products that- it is becoming something- for the eommunity to take account or. .., The-bulletin a-oes on to say that of big crops.n?tThls he f armer; way ot tfying to5 pull himself out of the hole of deb tt saSrs the bulletin. -It eontlnues: k f : V The farmer does not strike. His stake aacea He worfca. rot atl -OiS nam wori, nowcyer, uio mrmtr q worm eat pf joint. His purchasing power has lately dropped to -about the lowest point since the war the ajuantity of farm products that would buy J100 worth of Other tntngs in wul now ouy Ml time wages. .Freight rates are Wgt the Euro oean market; is a drae- ononis that farm products stay low, DUS jnapuiacturea gooos nave wm eiaj-xeo, onward. - -i -.i . .:. - ... -:'..- : .-.. , . . ' That town industry has pushed the cornmunity is enjoying itf abuhdapce once, s more very largely at the. farmer's expense, ponunuea the evidence indicatea that in trying to agriculture has mamtaiBed Ita paoo egpenso of, tf living standards and drains, fences and soil fertility. v"Farmers are looking out now from; their' harvit SitHs, aays Ihe bulletin, "and wondering when readjust ment la liklyVo become more than- A Btoty of now some of the farmers get along in spite of low prices lsiol4j't a letter from a bank in Northwestern National bank of " October bulletin of the National City bank of New Tork. The letter 'wa hinDit customer who. ait la oa. anrea of eroo and has practically harvested it alone. Moonlight nights he would work all night shocking is a Kuasian,. unmarried. ; Another Instance, an American who has a wife and two boys, one possibly U er 15 years of age and the other a ooupie of years younger, with the help ot his farnjly has cased for 800 sheep and a lamb crop of about 700 head, has put, In 500 acres of crop, and has harvested it without outside hired help. He was unable even to hire a aheepherder to help him oat. This is banking authority. It is world shoute he ready. to. accept as tioned - have "their duplicates on thousand of Oregon rarma as a result of the deflation it big flocks of sheep on Oregon stock farms were, turned over within a period of held :mortgages on themve stockmen losing their all in the transfer Tey had. to start life over, anew. Portland is the center ef a great agricultural and livestock belt. It is the clearing house and principal to farming ahd atockraising. If out in this district Is-prosperous, it prosperity Out there will be reflected What could be more intelligent cooperation, by synapathetla endeavor and by aid in establishing bet ter markets, to help agriculturo get. on its feet? f iIqw could PortUhftco moreto . c i i ii "- ..I'M' - ' ' not ' denied, and, therefore,, must' be taken as tree for?theTiurpoees,-f, this hearing.. - . rV." r-";.fS'i:.f; If the public service oommlsslon could deny It, why. did it hot do it ? If it could not deny it,why, did the publio arvlcet Oomjrniaalon issue an order reducing the net revenue to less than a per cent? k Do those wbo presented the case of the commission understand the telephone company labyrlnthlart system of bookkeeping? Do they understand the enormous rental charges which -tha American, Tele phone & Telegraph - company, as the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company, paya to itself on, devices and instruments - which the Amer ican Telephone & Telegraph com nany reta but will not, sett to It child, the Pacific "Telephone ' Si Telegraph company. ,' which onor rhdua rental charge help . reduce the net earlngs of tha child to less than 2 per cent? v- ' " . ;. A matters now stand, ntw far isH public , regulation i of - utilities in Oreln fror4 a complete failure ? How, can : a .commission have -the power to raise rates, huf not have the power to lower rates?' 1 Do the' people of Portland re member the day when there was a competing phone company here. and . remember that election ; ' in which -they voted down the bill to compel the two companies to inter change service? Do they'remem ber -how : all the public", bodies In Portlan d urged them - tor beat the bill, while The Journal waa urging there to pass It? .Dohey remem ber how they beat- jthei and how, subsequently; the present com pany bought- the competing sys tem and at onco Wgan ihe inter change of jrvlcei whlcb.the public bodies -"solemnlyleclaredy was im practicable and imposeible ?;.'' fe . Do heyi tiaito that, if jat thAt Uma theyliad .passed tha inter-change-of -service hVi,'- they would now have ' eonipeting company, with no suchphone rateaas now exacted?' V' vvvi .''-v '. W are now getting whafCsoma of US TOted for. f ' s. Even a presideo4 is. antitled to his eccentricities. ; Mr, ! ,1T. Gamaliel Harding, in the face of seductive- syrup butter,: honey-. Jellyiand the other sweets, will, it ia said, have nothing for his flapjacks, but just plain, old-fashioned , gravy. WOMEN AND THE CHEST TTNX.ES3 the Community - Chest w - awakens; the mother heart Mf Portland, though It -be .filled with money It: will overflow, with, mock ery. - .. On MoftdAyftheCestw third ' f ult $i It was expected to be full after a;wek of appeals. That tho-i wo'men f of . Portland are re sponding' inadequately was said to be part cause of the, situation. t . r Jtt was said that certain - women have pulled blinds down when they thought Community Chest so licitors were coming; that they have failed to answer the telephone when they - thought .Community - Chest representatives ' might be calling, that in 0 Portland precinct peo ple: ready to subscribe are unvisit- - ' - -1 I ' r ef marketing can be established - way of a better plan of marketing. new have a ''purchasing; valua in of 64 as compared with 100: in a sfx-foat man whe has been staading . , - t , "this is .the third successive year ia the eountry outweighs his grlev- wonn. inousirmi iuwt aouvHu wa.r- Taxes are a burden. The weakness of wheat, cotton and pork. It is net alone up Its prices so far out of line that statement. It ados tnat au ine catch up with its deflation losses these three years only at. we, of Its productive plajits buildings,; figure of speech North Dakota made publio by the Minneapolis and published in the; single-handed, with very little hired help, has his grain after cutting it. This man testimony that the Portland business true. . Th eases of farmers men a few months to the companies that market "of a great district devoted the livestock and farming industry is basio and fundamental that the in Portland man for Portland, by legislation, by hJP herself? ed because. It has been impossible so far to enlist, women for solicita tion .duty. ' ;- Many women are bearini a splen did part W the work of' filling the Chest Many are donating gener ously,. But there must be a rousing of woman tenderness in .? order to confront the spectacle of distress and " misfortune which the Chest presents. . If Portland women think of the Community Chest as a thing of boards arid nails the apathy of some Is understandable. But if they think of it as Its as a homeless baby's wailina; cry.as a homeless old mother's distress, as an unfor tunate child's hunger, as a white haired, shelterless man's suffering, as the moaning of the sick, as the striving of handicapped youth after opportunity, and all these appeal ing; there will be no trouble to fill the chest with the money and the sympathy which, together but hot apart, -constitute : true charity. ;. The Portland police -bureau has taken a still and changed it into a reservoir for the stuff they use to. paint-on the streets straight lines for pedestrians to . follow. It cer tainly is a converted still that puts people on the straight and narrow trackv : r SEARCHING BUTLER'S PAST fT IS neither "unfair nor unseemly A for members of the progressive group of senators to look closely into the past record of Mr. Butler, new appointee to . the supreme court. ' - - - . Mr. Butler is .not kwell known. His past connections and acts are Closed pages to the public, even ar- Lparently t to ;roany senators. ; His only claim to distinction -Is a repu tation in Minnesota as a corpora tion lawyer.. That, In Itself, Is suf ficient .to cause some, scrutiny of his record When, members of the senate are to pass upon him a an associate - justice in the highest court. of the land, ' - . ( "Law Is largely a matter of Inter pretation, if The Viewpoint of ; the men who interprets it makes a dif ference. It has an important bear ing on the practices and the lives of the people of the country. The viewpoint of a lawyer who has served years as a corporation attorney Is very apt to be biased. It Is likely to have the notions and opinions favorable to corporate or ganization and .corporate conten tions. 1 The mind of a man who has been arguing' the corporation . side of ithlngs for -years cannot imme diately ehake off Its bent and take on the brod view that should abe the guide bra justice in the highest court tn the republic; - r - .? 0f icouTse many a corporation lawyer 4s scrupulously honest. But honesty .cannot completely sub merge- the deductions and conclu sions and impressions of years of service in the corporation field. I , "In order that the American peo ple may Jiave the highest confi dence in the federal fstrpreme courfr; that great tribunal with its weighty responsibilities should never ; be come the roosting place of a roup of corporation lawyers. - NATURALIZATION . OF JAPANESE Supreme Court Decision Reviewed by America's Editor in Relation to the Lodgment of Power as Well a "Possible Japanese Reaction There- . to No General Alarm Felt. While Soma Hop tha Decision. ' Will Even Assist in Clearing - International Skies Congress , Retains the Selective Power-, a to Citisenshtp, and that Is Proaeuneed . Important . -Daily Editorial Digest- (CoooiiUte4 Pma AnociaUon) While there is a distinct difference of opinion editorially- expressed con cerning the merits of the supreme court decision that Japanese cannot be na turalised, it fa agreed that this estab lishing, of the; right of congress to de termine who -ehali and wbo shall not enjoy such privilege ia most Important fxutors also are omoed whether the decision will result in strained rela tions between the two countries, but the majority anticipate that - it will not. While the Japanese "iingoes", will storm, in the opinion of the Minna. apoUs Tribune, "there I reason to be lieve the people of both countries take a more reasonable and leas provocative attitude than formerly: toward the whole question of Japanese privilege In this country. It is now more fully recognised that sharp divergencee In moral, social and Indue trial standards do not necessarily signify auoerlority or inferiority on either side, , The i iiiuuiTOg t unes aiso zeeis certain that "the decision cannot and will not involve any issue ef diplomacy or create any strained relations with Japan.- And. inasmuch as "the Japan. est are not white men." the Wheeline Register says, "if our laws exclude them from citisenahip they will abide Dy toe decision without recourse to threats." There is an excellent rea son for this opinion, in the view of the Providence Journal, - and that is "so far as the limitation of naturalization to white persons is concerned, that has been the rule-almost from, the begin ning of the government The exception In favor of the blacks waa Introduced following the Civil war," 1 . The decision suczests to th Tolado Blade that "a system of penalising non- voiers would do away completely with the carrying of elections by minori ties, 'inasmuch as this case showed how much the JaDanese netitioners valued their right of citizenship. The non-voter, the Blade continues, "is re sponsible for an Immeasurable amount of evil which has been visited upon this nation. Whv shouldn't a k re quired to- pay for it?" But the Lafay- journal Courier argues that the decision must be regarded entirely on us merits, pecauee "we have one al most hopeless race problem. We can not afford another. Exclusion is in the Interest of the Japanese in the long run, as wen as ours." it also clarifies the problem, the Chicago Neva as serts, inasmuch as "It. Is within the power or congress to revise the natur alization laws and extend or reduce the fne referred to in the court's decision. in ouier words, political and diplomatic questions are reserved, as they should be, to congress and the - people. The judiciary may not legislate under the pretense of construing and applying provisions of orranic or statutnrv law" Furthermore, the Memphis Commercial Appeal suggests that if the govern- ron can reiuse citizenship' on the grounds of race and color it can also refuse citizenship for many other rea sons. And it' would be a good thing for the future status' of the country If we should look more elosely Into the siate or mind and possibilities for ef. ciency and loyalty of future immigrants w uivs country. , J Dangers must be faced as a result or tne decision, the Binghamton Press argues, because "It needs no great Knowledge or, History or of human na ture to teach us that a nation -which contains a large body "of people who cannot become citizens is in the same aanger as a enurcn wnicn contains a large body of people who do not pre tend to adhere to its ethical principles. As an act of self-protection the na tion can keep out people who are not eligible for citizenship, but if we admit people -who - cannot be naturalized, or if we persist in denying citisenshlp rights to those already here, we begin to mark off the population into fixed classes. And the moment We do that we deny the democratic principle on which this nation was founded." "This tightening in antitAsiatic pol icy will doubtless inflame that section of Japanese feeling which is already bitter toward Amerfcans. - says the Baltimore Sun, "but the. fact remains that our . course in this matter is closely paralleled by the attitude of me. Japanese government toward the wnite race." In addition, tha Phlla, delphla Publio Ledger feels that "this r inai , decision Is m - line and in bar- mony .with the whole sweep of our enactment and decisions, and it does renect the American wish and deter minauon." The New Tork Times points out- that "nothing ; is really changed by the opinion of the supreme court, which simply interprets the true intent ef congress in enacting the nat uralization law." while the New Tork World explains that "it lies within the discretion of congress to raise the bars against an but Caucasians and Afri can Si for reasons good or bad, but ex pressed In the form of law. It Is thus entirely a matter of policy." a ,. ' The Japanese- have, a riant to - sent this discrimination," in the opin ion ei me urooaiyn Eagle, and the aecision -pieces the burden for this discrimination sauarelv trnon tha ahnui. dera of the nation, where hitherto fit has rested rather unfairly . upon the Western states." The opinion shows, the Pittsburg- Leader sava that "it i not -a question of human superiority In the final analysis, but of color of sain, -ipe coat does not make the man,- may be our democratic boast dui ine eoior or to skin does. Two generations hence the people of the United States may be asking one an other why the people of 1982 did not have common sense and foresight enough to have included the Japanese among the races fit to become citl sens of our country, since thv ti,r. become oltlzens by birth," which is equai jo naturalisation In the long run.": While "Janantuaa hffu'hMi. i. likely to take a wise view of the de cision the Baltimore American suggests that it also is forced in these days i" aipiomaueauy with the grow ing: democratic rampantlsm in Japan." ' Carefully reviewing the entire dec! slon" and the reasons of . the nanrt tha-Newark News shows that "no af front to Japan is indicated, and "Ja pan naa no cause to reel aggrieved. "The United States has a rirht. mm hu Japan, to decide for herself the quali fications for citizenship. America has officially recognized Japan as among the great nations of the world. On international questions, affecting both nations, - we ' have admitted ; Japan's greatness and her right to be consulted. On-internal affair we hold, and hold properly, that tto one has' the .right to interfere with our decisions."' The belief- likewise ; is expressed by . the Utlca-' Observer Dispatch that "the American- stock and the yellow, races can never peaceably mingle. They are entirely distinct and separate peoples and should be kept fo. They can tol erate each other in buslnesSj and that is a far as they should go. The law that the United States' supreme court has sustained in the present decision ie entirely just and reasonable." It also desire to maintain our racial purity that ha impelled tha- United States to deny American citisenahip to the a tlonals of Japan; Iwetters From the .People t CBmaunleattacr sent t Tha Joamal fee ppbliratioo ia this department aaould be writ tea on only one aid of Ue paper, tbould aot exeeed SOtf words in tenfUV sad taaat be aitned vy the writes, waoaa snil aoVtraa, ia PIERCE AND THE LEGISLATURE People's ' Mandate Invoked to - Impel Members to Carry Out Pierce s f. Program Regardless of Pol- i ? ; - - j- itlcs or Party. -. zZ-i'-'l Union, Nov. ZS To the Editor of. The JournalComment is being - made by some newspapers and, individual as to the organliation of the senate.? Some of this comment is to the point, but much of it is not. Some go so far, as to say that the legislature ought to be' organised' without any reference to Governor-elect Pierce or to what-be stood for in the campaign. In truth, the legislature ought to be organized with direct reference to the governor elect and - what , he stood for in, the campaign economy, tax reduction and redistribution of 'the tax load. 1 That Issue elected Pieree' governor, and by such an overwhelming majority;' as fully to-prove such assertion. Every honest and conscientious man elected to the legislature in either branch must take that vote and majority as his in structions, ; The legislature should be so organized as to facilitate the put ting through of . the -"Pierce program." The need of the farmer, laborer, home owner and ordinary business fhan for tax reduction and redistribution of the burdens ot taxation is growing greater every day. With the people who sup ported and voted for Pierce it was not a matter of simply putting him into of fice. It -was a proposition of putting his program into effect And by vir tue of the amazing . majority given Pierce there should be no doubt with any legislator that quick and decided action should be taken at the earliest possible time. The agricultural inter ests of the state must have relief, and the incoming legislature must take the course of affording that relief. Any set of men who shall undertake to ob struct, delay or defeat a program which will tend to relieve these classes 'are traitors to the state. The incoming legislature will have a very grave serv ice to perform. -In that performance it will be watched more closely and by more people than any legislative body has ever been watched, before. The people have gone to the poles and voted for business, not : for -politica' They have made their demands upon the legislature, and woe betide the leg islator who fails to heed those demands. B. F. Wilson. A TALK ON TAXES The Farmer's Case Considered and Suggestions Offered as , to New Sources of Revenue. Silverton, Nov. 24. -To the Editor of The Journal I .was very much inter ested in an editorial entitled "The Graduated Income Tax." In the arti cle it was said that the flai income tax measure met with an overwhelm ing defeat at the general election and that it was the purpose of those pro posing the flat income tax to prevent the passage of any Income tax meas ure at all. I have very often made the state ment that the people of Oregon are either very Ignorant or dishonest when it comes to taxation. -. In the last 18 years the taxes on-our farms around Victor Point, IS miles east of Salem, nave increased about suo per cent. Why? Because the people have voted more bonds and taxes without provid ing new sources of revenue. Now the farmers are demanding a gradu ated income tax to ease some of their burdens. There is a certain class of people who are telling - us we want tax reduction, not additional taxation" which will mulct industry and scare away investment. How many Indus tries have we in Oregon of which the farmer is not the backbone, outside of the lumber business? I have some shares intone of the most important industries in Oregon, which bring me ? per cent on my-Investment and the laborers in that industry, are getting $4 to $10 a day. Where is the farmer who is getting f 4 a day and 7 per cent on his investment? - A graduated in come tax will, not hurt that industry very much. - " In 1921 the farmers Of Marlon coun tw were assessed about $4,800,000 for personal property, such as machinery, cows, sheep; hogs and horses, which is about 60 per cent of the real valua tion. A few days ago I went to a certain bank and asked the cashier if my guess of $7,000,000 in the banks of Marion county was correct. He said it was over $10,000,000. He wanted to know my idea. I told him it was very unjust to tax the farmers on $4,800,000 and not tax the $10,000,000 in the banks 1 cent There was the same old story : "Oh, you can't tax that money ; it would ruin our business" the same old story as the graduated income tax story. Is -it honest to tax the farmer on hie cattle, cheep, boars and horses. and not .tax the' $10,000,000 in the Marion county banks, or about $250,- 000.000 in the state's banks? Now let us see how. we .could reduce the taxes on the, farmers and small home owner. The-federal income tax has been raising about- $15,000,000 a year in Oregon. - We could well raise about $7,000,000 from the same source. The farmer is paying about 3 per cent taxes on his personal property. If we would tax, at t per cent $125,000,000, which is one-half of the money Jhat is in the banks ot the state, it would bring $3,750,000. which with $7,000,000 income tax." would make over $10,000,- 000. All taxes in Oregon are about $49,000,000. . wm.that not reduce . the taxes on the farmers 25 per cent? . . " .' . Henry Jaquet OPPOSES WHIPPING Df SCHOOL Sublimity, Nov. 24. To the Editor of The Journal I am heartily in favor of what H. D. Wagnon said. If a teacher caa't make children behave without the rod he or she had better quit A good.7 teacher the ; children will love and respect but there are lots of teachers that don't respect themselves. A teacher once beat one of my boys with her hand.," .in this faea,"-rOo the blood' ran. out of his nose and his face was swollen. - I am sorry there was no way to give her some of the same medicine. We have these school supervisors running around. All they do is to make some more work for .the directors. But the teachers can do as they please.. Most of these people 'who want j to whip children haven't any themselves. I don't be lieve, because Mr. Morgan is a princi pal, that he has any more common sense than any man who has no edu cation. I have never seen a good boy yet that rot a tot of whippings, snd X thank Judge Ekwall for standing up for a poor boy who could not help himself. William Van Handel. - PARTING OF THE PARTS . From Life. Tou never realise how many parts a auto has . until it hits a telegraph pole. POLITICS AND THE FURNACE -From tba Watiunstca Poet. One slate we'd like to see scratched this fall is that which comes with a ton of coal. . COMMENT AND SMALL CHANGE It 's fortunate that most people who are mentally blind are not hearties at tne same umt, Prosoeeta f a eilver - thaw didn't frighten us at all. but we're glad the wmq cnangeq, anyaow.- , . What the over-haremed ex-sultan needs more than anything else la a few hundred ex-wives. - - . a . a .. - When the old cow s went dry- we named . her Portland. ' New ' that the poor critter's dead, shouldn't we call her Seattle? - - , There wouldn't be any gun accidents In our fields ana forests if every man applied the "live and let live rule to ail nature. . . . . v " Having- read about a Professor See in California, it just .occurred to us that, in those happy college days, we were never able to make the professor see. ,. " - a : :. ' The chap who just knows he can never aet anvthlncr for nothlna-. lota of time gets a big setback when his leiiowe express their tree opinions of him. ' v i The cops are always eager to garner an automobile with a load Ofliquor, but didja ever hear ef "era taking one because it had a couple of missing cylinder or a ruined bearing! : If the thought is father to the deed we ought to be restrained before we do what we'd like to do to the guy who sells us little oranges from be hind a pa of ale, big ones. - - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About "Town IT O. Baker of Urban a. 111., is reg istered at the Multnomah while pass ing through Portland on his way to Astoria to visit friends. Mr. Baker has for 4$ year been a member ot the - faculty - of the Rlfhois state university, at the head. of the civil engineering department, and for the past four years 'has been professor emeritus. He is the author of several standard work on civil engineering. ' ' 'j v.-.1' a j . : 1 -Vlsltora from - i Harney country are Ralph Mssterson of Juntura and Charles R. Peterson of Crane. a a K. W, Walther of . The Dalles has come to the metropolis on a little business..;?- ' - : " ; - - - ; -,T' a .-.; - ' While; transacting business to Port land,' O. Bi Grayof PrinevUls is put ting up At.th Imperial,: .... . ""A recent arrival In the city- Is A. L. Dernaris of Milton. - '" a ; James A. Peed of Hermlston - is among .the guests at the Imperial. ' ,VVl- , : George L. Jett of Baker Is among visitors from Eastern Oregon. j,. '1 -it--- a ..... ' ' F. . C. Homer of Ashland was trans acting business in Portland Monday. - a mm'-' " C. W. Paulus is in from Pilot Rock for a few days. . ,. ? -4 - ' '' -'-A visitor to -.the metropolis Is Al Hendrick of Clifton, -- -V - - '''- a a -a "AmOhsfout of town visltors'are Mr. and Mrs. Hoy F. Paula of Umatilla. ,a F. C Schult of Reedsport Is trans acting business in Portland. - a . Ed Abbey and George Hawkins are visitors from Newport a a : -- 4 , W- T- Myers of Condon is taking In the-Sights of the metropolis. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN .' - 1. a ir - - - - - " - By Fred Lrckley f . " A pioneer who was alao- k ptonr h mi noia. ia interriawed by Mr. Lock ley. Sba tells him of ar aarly aaasciate. and many ef tba names aba calls are those of characters na tionally noted.- This interriew will be con cluded in a aucceedins Installment. Virginia Watson Applegate is a long time resident of Oregon's capital city. When I visited Tier- recently at her home on East State street in Salem, she said : "I think I can call myself an Ore go nian, inasmuch as I have lived here since 1849. That means I came here 73 years ago. ' ' Tes, I remember about the trip across the plains, -but first I am going to tell you of my childhood in Illinois. I wish I could paint for you a word picture of our old home as it looked to my childish eyes. Our farm, was ose mile from Springfield. Our lawn was sown to- bluegrass, the reason for which you will soon realize when I tell you that both of my parents were born, In the Blue Grass country of Ken tucky. Our farm was a bit of Eden when our pear trees were in bloom and when our bees, whose old-fashioned hives were near our house, were coming and going all day long laden with honey from tba clover, the wild flowers and the blue and yellow wild plum thicket near Our meadow.- Each of the trees had a beauty all its own, but I' best remember the crabapple trees in bloom, the delicate pink of the apple blossoms, the pear trees, like June brides dressed In green, wearing white veils, and the graceful weeping willow that almost hid with Its droop ing branches the graves in our family burying ground. X learned the alpha bet when I was 4 years old by picking the letters out on the tall tombstones at my grandparents' graves. For years 1 regarded the weeping willow tree In the same way as the Bible something sacred and to be spoken of with low ered voice-;;.: . . . - .-;:.- - .-su-v- ; ;- "As a little tot of 4 or 8, I used to cross' the - Springf ield-Peoria stage Iroad. which passed through our farm. and. going into our wood lot I would swing on the-wild grapevines, whose purple fruit .was so delicious at About the time of the first sail frosts. .; ;; , .i . mm. ' "When i wa 4 Uncle James Watson went to Chicago and brought hack two cookstoves, one; for bis wife and one' for my mother. - Our two families were the only Ones in that neighborhood to oteSt stoves. All our neighbors, who cooked In Dutch Ovens or over the fire in the fireplace, came In to admire and to exclaim over them. Not long before my birth my mother father. Grand father Elder, died. -His wife, my moth er's mother, with her daughter Cecelia and the baby. Matt with- four other children she was raising, came to our house to live. These four extra chil dren were my mother's nephew and nieceSj, left with .their grandmother to be raiSedf following- the death of their mother. When I was born I. cam to a houseful ef children. - aa -' -, "My Aunt Cecelia soon married Thomas Baker, a brother of Colonel E. D. Baker, who was later a United States eenator from - Oregon and was killed in 1861 at the battle of Balls Bluff. My mother's eldest brother had been killed by the British at the battle of Raisin River, so when Cecelia an nounced that she was going to marry Thomas Baker my grandmother, who had. no love for the" British, did all she could to break up the -match. r She had no use for Thomas Baker or for his brother. Colonel E. D. Bkr, both of a horn were of Enj'i birth. Ce- -NEWS IN BRIEF . SIDELIGHTS : i Never be too critical ot a friend's clothes, lie may be supporting an automobile, or at least taking car of one. Salem Capital Journal. . a ' a - . - Edison Is reported to have eald that college students are afraid of the kind ef work where they get their clothes dirty. Shucks! He ought to see an Oregon football game. ugene iiei.- "TV..;- 7- ' - The president demand a" ship sub sidy even if it does mean political sui cide ; possibly he has become recon ciled to the benefits of one term ia the White H0u9e.-Pendla.ton East Ore- gOBlan. .' -.-': .- .-' .v- :. i v : i'.izr--:- .---'.e-.-; ': . . : - ':: ;: . The farce of swearing In Mrs. W. H Felton aa United States senator for one day was gone through with, pronto, in spite of the precedents. It wouldn't have . been done for a mere man. Corvallis Gaze tie -Time a. " . m . - - A plnhead politician is one of those fellows who cannot get the Idea into his iiaad that the publio looks upon him as a public servant nothing more, nothing lets. And servants are usual ly required to make good. lioseburg News-Review. . ; . v . Senator Newberry won his election through the power ot money. He es caped the penalty when indicted. through a court rung. He was seat ed in the senate through -the power of a political organization, but ulti mately the people passed upon hiacasc, and their verdict is final Atri-iia image 1- - , , - - 4 ; Southern Idaho sympathises with the Union Paetfla In ita mttnr i iv- the Central Padfio: from the Southern i-aoiic. say Judge JS, A. Walters of Twin Kails,- who is a guest at, the Multnomah. It is . hniwH tha th Union Pacific will be enabled to build a line from : Rogersba to Wells. Nev- ul ui separation takes place, - a .;-', 1 1 Amone ont of town vlaltnra a George E. Fitzgerald of The Dalles, emu . fcaaaant ox Logsaen ana Mr. and Mrs. R, A. Arnold of Toledo. , a a . m v State Senator Colon R. Eberhard of 1 Qrande was among recent arrivals in the city. a - a A. A. Llghtfoot and L C Uchtfoot of Perth, Australia, are registered, at me imperial. -a a Mr. and Mrs. Frank Jenkins of Eu gene are among the guest of the Port- a Calvin Cobb, publisher of the Boise Statesman, Is visiting in Portland for a few days, ' ' - L. A. Stoop of La Grande is amohg out of town visitors. . a Mr. and Mrs. J. W, Jackson of Kelso, waia., are visiting Portland mend. ' a m 1 Among out of town visitors are Mr, and, Mrs. H. R. Rice of The Dalles. . . '.. -a, a J. W. Brooks of Walla Walla la among out ot town visitors. " - . Colonel Ed Budd of Ilwaco is - in Portland on railroad business. . . W. A. Murray of Enterprise is among visitors from cast of the mountains. R. L. Friend of Ash wood is among guests from Jefferson county. William Pent of Nyssa is transact ing business in th metropolis, .celia married. Mr, Baker in spite of her- mother e opposition. - and . before very long grandmother grew very fond of her son-in-law. The Bakers were not only intelligent and forceful, but they had a charm of manner that was hard'to resist;""wr' - ;.- ; "Among . the - grown-ups who were frequent visitors at our home were Dr. Jsyne, Dr. Todd and Dr. Henry, ; Dr. Jayne and Dr. Todd used snuff,,, and I used to delight -in looking at their fine snuffboxes. Dr. Todd had a large nose,, that seemed built to take snuff. Dr. Todd's niece- married Abraham Lincoln, , Among the children who used to play at our home were Llna Baker and her sister. They were daughters of Colonel E. D. Baker. Then ; there were Mary and Puss and Jane Logan, daughters of Judge Logan. Father, like most Kentuckiana of that -period, was very proud of blooded horsea The girls I have mentioned, ; as well as others, used to like to play at our nome, as rather let them ride bareback on the gentle horsea. Walt a moment I -win show you something." In a moment or so Mrs. Applegate seturned from the dining room with a pair of silver sugar tonga -i She handed then to me with the request that X read the inscription. Her father's ini tials, with the da te . "1837," were en graved on the tonga C' ;S; - -"Father won those silver sugar tongs at the Sangamon courw fair at Spring- xieid as the rirst - prize, witn one of his Kentucky fillies," said Mrs. Apple gate. a , ' My father was born January 28. 1801, nesr Maysville. Ky. His father served in the war of 1S12. My mother was born May 24, 1808, at . Lexington. Ky. My - mother and Mrs. Abraham Lincoln's sister were classmates at Lexington, The Todds were very fond of talking of their social preeminence. Miss Todd, my mother's classmate, al ways told all the new girls in school that she -had attended ber first party at the home of Henry Clay. - My mother's brother. . Dr. Elder, lived at Jacksonville. lit We often drove there to visit my uncle and aunt I, remember there was a substantial brick house bv the aide of . ih mad. Mother iold me Rev. Peter Cartwrlght uvea there. He was one of the old time Circuit riders and fighting minis ters of that day. When I; was S X started to school. X stayed in town with i my - Aunt ' Madeline. She had wonderful red hair, the color of flame. When she let her hair down It touched the floor. : I started with MeGuffy's nrst reader, Webster blueback spell ing book, a slate and a" alqrte pencil. My school chum Was Helen Edwarda She was a daughter of Niniaft Ed wards. Mrs. Edwards and. Mrs.; Lin coln twere sisters, -i Helen lived In " a house on the crest of a small rise just across the stream from my aunt's house. - - . , - , "One of the vtvld memories of my childhood Is of seeing soldiers for the first time. Colonel: EL D. Baker in vited us to come out where, his sol diers were camped. X was greatly im pressed - with . the martial music and the uniforms and the way they all stepped together when they marched. My next memory of soldiers is of at tending a military funeral. Major Harding of Jacksonville was-killed in the Mexican war And theysent his body home to be ; buried. : X can see yet his riderlesis gray horse, saddled and bridled, being led In the funeral procession," . . - The Oregxin Country North west Bappeninct la Brief rone tor the - - Box? fteadea - - : ' OREGON " -A Klwanla club -was erranized at Klamath Falls last week, -v Dr, A. A. Soule is president. . Pendleton's Tnunlcioal sentlo tank and sewage' disposal plant ia nearing. ompleUon. The plant will cost ap- proximately $88,000, - . , . . . At a special electiotr In Beaverton last week the taxpayers voted a bond issue of $8000 for the purpose of erect Ing another school building. . Harry C. ' Lloyd, for many' years a resident of Astoria and oaa of the bt knowu jnarine engineers on the Padfio coast, oied -last week, aged 67 yeara The Upper Valley communtty In Hood River county, has obtained plans for the- eonstruetien of a community house, which will cost about $10,000. Citizens of "Cottage Grove have been notified " to boii all water used for drinking or cooking until connection of the city main ia made with the new in take on Layng creek. - " The entire stock ef cocaine and mor phine was stolen from the McNair drug store la Aihland Friday night ' the burglar gain nr entrance by boring a hole throughthe rear door. J The steamer wis Luckenbau has arrived at Astorfa te load two cases of salmon for New Tork. -The West Coyote is due .soon to load 25,000 bar rels of flour for the Orient . G. M. Cornett of PrinevUIe has let a contract for a concrete building, 30x 64 feet, which 'Will be used for post off ioe pur poses. .He has a five-year oouci wua toe government. -t Record-breaking cattle fattened on the range at the head of Butte creek were sold In Mad ford last week by Mrs. Julia Doubleday. The cows averaged 1170 pounds and the steers 1270. , Coming all the way from - Butte. Mont., in a Ford car, the Thompson family, consisting of 10 people, ar rived in Eugene last week and leased a farm, ' where they will reside in the future. -: --ii - Representatives from the Women's club, churches, lodges and societies in Seaside are perfecting plane or a com munity program and Christmas tree in the new Central school auditorium Christmas eve. . WASHINGTON The dreadnought Pennsylvania will arrive at thf Puget Sound nav- yard December 18 for a general overhauling. Struck by a speeding automobile that did not itopj Colin Blaln, 85 years old. is in a Seattle hospital with a broken back. s-- . Mrs. T. J. . O'Brien wa seriously burned at Seattle Saturday, when she received as electric shock while con necting an eiectrlo iron. Out- nf Jt annlljant!a wTHm ,nftlr fKai examination held for certified publio I accountanta 1 Rnnkana itii lilvnnl, 5 accountants In Spokane and Olympla recently, only fi-e passed in all suo- : Dr.'O. A. Thomle. Everett physician and. Snohomish county health offlcea. was badly injured last Friday when his automobile collided with a machine driven by Frank Carlson Of Seattle. .. - Miss Muriel En man, 25. was found dead in bed Thursday morning at the teachers cottage at the Willis school,' northwest of Ritsville. Miss Knman and her sister were teaching at the school. . .. George Jovlck, who pleaded guilty to second degree murder In shooting and killing George Perkins Ust June, has been sentenced at Okanogan to from 20 to 40 years in the state peni tentiary. - - - - - .: -;: s Langley, the first municipality In Washington to elect an all-around woman administration, evidently likes it for at a caucus held in the town hall last, week all the officials were indorsed, for reelection, . 2, v "' J.S. Helsey of Tacoma Is chairman of a committee of 10 which has as its object the completion of Tacoma'a quota Of $00 ia subscriptions for the promotion f the . Columbia,, basin irri gation, project , . Abraham Davidson, 86 " years " old, who had lived In Seattle for 36 years, was found dead Saturday in the back yard of a neighbor. He had been ill. and it Is - thought he dropped dead while going; to his neighbor's house. After having been guarded for at least three davs by bis dog, the body of Sam Terry'vae found Thursday In hi cabin 20 miles northwest of Yak ima. Difficulty--was experienced in getting the dog away from his. dead u-aster-. ' ' , IDAHO .The Oregon Short Line railroad has a crew -of men at work building a new set of stockyards at Mackay. A. V. Scott, business man of Idaho Falls, has been made receiver for the . Beet Growers Sugar company at RIgby and ' has taken active charge of the business. . ( Several thousand dollaas' worth- of United States treasury checks have been received by. the Idaho state ad jutant general to pay the officers and men of the various national guard com panies in the state. - Henry Tracy West' believed to have been tie oldest" Odd-Fellow in the world, . having -joined in 1848. died at Caldwell last week aged 98 yeara He was a Civil war veteran and , thirty second degree Mason. Return of a One-sixteenth interest In the Hercules mine to her late hus-' band's estate, or $1,000,000 damages In case of failure. Is asked in a suit filed at Wallace by Mrs. Agnes Day. widow of Eugene R. D v against tne executors of the Day estate. , Twenty .Years Ago From The Journal of Nov. 28, 1902. s Mayor William today vetoed the ordinance creating . a fuel oil district in East Portland.' In his opinion, no tank for the storage Of oil should bo allowed within tha city. The council will, it Is thought, sustain the veto. -:::":; ..:: :: . : a ' ' '.- ' '.. ;';- . ; A landslide on the Tamhlll division of the Southern Pacific, about five miles out of this city has cut off the Inhabitants of Oswego from communi cation with Portland for the. present The Multnomah club eleven at their grounds yesterday defeated - the Uni versity of Oregon team by the score of 16 to 0. - ; ;,-. -. -i . . . . a H, L. Fenton, secretary of the Folic County Mohair; association, is In Port land arranging for the annual exhibit of the association, which is held 4ns January. - .. ' ,-- - - ' - ' a:-- ' ; i Manna For the first time in th his tory of Manila all the people observed Thanksgiving yesterday. ; Catholic, and Protestant alike feasted and returned thanka. .'a, - . . . ;:; "1f:"a a - ' The advent of the wintry season does not seem to have affected the erection of new structures on the east side. Every day sew dwellings and business houses are being started. : . -.' ,, . . . 4 As 'a result of the heavy winds of last evening and tods many east side residents who walk across th various bridges have been put . to the expense of purchasing additional headgear. The wind was so strong on the bridges to day .that It was practically unsafe to -cross on foot - , , y.- -.---). "''5;'; Notwlthstanding th city has made repairs of - the - elevaSed -roadway on East Morrison 'street between Water street and Union avenue, there are still many places that vehicles are constant ly running into. The city did hot make any' repairs ot the cross streets. ; 1 - . " - - -- - . . - -; The British bark Sussex, which was lying. Irf the stream "near the A I bin ferry, this morning drarged her anchor durin the slrong gale and drifted nlmost across the. river before she be came fah Heveral times she nearly turr.e 1 for Ha, - 1 i f