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THE . OREGON DAILY JOURNAL, PORTLAND, OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER CD. ! a n L - AS ITCT"MDa"!tTI'BWSPAPEIl C. . JACKSON ........,..,.. Pnbllshet . I Be eelm, be eonlutonc. te owma ana m I veto Um aa yoa woaki hee Lhem do an to I I - , ' " - I Fnfeiianed mr7 Mkd aad Sunday aeerniag u I JootmI emlding. uroaaway st-ssm-hrH atreefcfc Portland. Orm. . fealafcd a to Jotoffic at Portland. Oco. ' for ttuumiMioa, through th nail aa Second ctaaa mt'r. ! SATTONAL AJBVES.TloI.XO BEPBESENTA- A, . TIVS Benjamin ..K.cntnor Co.. nrun-,-;wirk handing. K5 ifiA eteeue. See Torts 00 i'a'.ienr bniidin t. Ch k-o. - - i'itr.i .'i flv ' c iri sr a tr. vr- a -r ivss M. 8 Franeieeo: Title iTworaaoe building. Los inr'1; Securities tmfldlae. Seattle. THE fikEiiOX JOCRSAL rmrtw the riant li to reeet adrartisinc eopr which it deema - .KIu.-.kU 1 aIm rfn A MHIC Ft W eopy Utl ti any way ainralataa reeding mat tar or that easaet readily ka recognised u aflrartirtnf. " . ACBSCniPTION RATES -J If1" JB Carrier City and County - t If DAU.T ANI BUMDAT . I VM WOT - . IVa? DOriin, . as eves It DAXUX - . SUSDAX iOne week. . fOoa week......S .OS JOne. month. -..451 'BT HAH BATKS PATABT.K W ADTAXCE ! DAILY AND 8CNDAT "One yaer......38.0Triree moo tha. .. 8 2. 2 5 ths. UiWitBmtii.ri ,7s Hin.T ' Mil:... 1 : Bl ivvi fiul..t I . M f (toils) SOne year.. ..,S".00!One year. ....... 33-00 J8tr months,,.-. t.SS Hu month. . . . . 1.7a f Three ment he.,, M 3 Three months. 40 tOee avmth. .. ,001 . i t WEKILT j .WCKLT AXt f aHary Wadaaaday) s BliNDAT JOaa yaar 1.00(Ona rear. . . . . .3.0 aawHha.. . . . ' ' .'- Thm num apply only in th Wat Baiaa to Saatem poiaU fontiabed o appll--ttioa. : Wka teatittaaaaa by Menay Order. Tiuraai Ordrr or Draft. If your- peatoffica i 'not avr-orler offtea. 1- or 2-cant ataaapa iwill t wifptad. .' Mka aB rrmittajv-aa pT 'bla to Taa Joraal PublUhmc Company, jP orOaad. Oraton. - " I TELEPHONE MAIM 7101. All department 1 M1ii lyr tfaia numben Enow ya that tha Lord be is God: it -is ba that hath mada u. and not a earaelTM: wa ara hia people, and tha ahaep of hia paatnra.. Enter into hia sataa with thaakacirinaT. ahd Into kis ooorta with praiaau ka tha&kfnl, unto him, and feleaa hia aaaaa. For tha' Lord fat rood ; hia Hsercy la rarlaatittc and sis troth endnreth to all cenanuiona. Paalma 100:8-3. ; AN ALTERED COURSE "DEPORTS from Washington indi- p JL cate that President Harding anas read toe story oi tne late elec tion and li planning to change the course of the ship of state. i , vncuuuiy, omy me anip suosiay and annual supply, bills were to be I considered at the snecial -session of congress, now under way.. But it is now reported that, other meas ures are- also to be considered at this time, measures that, have par ticular interest for the farmers and workers Of the West. In this new program are included amendments to the transportation act, removing $ the guarantee '' of returns to the i railroads: amendment to the federal l reserve and farm loan acts, to pro j vide more flexible credits and long H term loans to .the farmers, and elimination of .tax-exempt securi ties. ;, r; ; v. It is the nroner course tar the j administration leaders to take. The if wil of the people .was ' expressed. j There is no question what that will f ? was. It 'waa a mandate 5to nubile i i representatives to do less for Big Business and more for the' farmers J J and the workers of ther ' country. H The first two years of the Harding administration have been, two year! of Big Business legislation, and the j: s s a z; z . a v yuruu. admlnlstraUon was rebuked sternljrt'ing through the , veins soon serve at the polls. . There Is still a -'chance for Mr. Harding to save his party in 1924. S i That rhanra iafVtf. film in a.hlnn 1 1 his fourse along progressive lines, J to get way from the Interests that I have' reaped such rewards"' and td i turn back tp the farmers and the 1 1 workers of the nation. For a time I the leaders of the administration seemed tp forget that. the producers .and tollers have the votes; but the latter took -pains to remind them of the fact on November 7. THE POUND OF FLESH A PORTLAND milling firm has a. waited two weeks for two empty cars in which to ship mill feed and other- wheat products to Southern Oregon.M-.A day or two ago tha order tor empty cars was still unfilled. On another page in this paper "is a picture of T4 bad-order boxcars waiting In the Brooklyn railroad yards to be repaired. If these cars ' ! were repaired ,. large number of J J the orders fop empty ars could be ; filled which cannot bow be filled. ? It would help to .relieve -the car i shortage. On many sidings f in the state ,J there are long lines of bad-order earsi. WhlW they' stand idle hun dreds of exnert thoDmen- ara In t) readineatorgor to work on the li basis of 'the Warfleld-Willard I agreement,, which 1ST American 3 railroads have put into effect. But i ' the companies centering to ; Port h land still refuse to take their shop- men back nany agreement. To this stubborn attitude of the compa nies are largely due the facts that traffic is held up, goods are waiting to be shipped, warehouses are con gested- and the whole course . of trade Is checked and delayed, . " JJ i The failure ; of the . railroads to J?, have their cars put in good order 'land,, eent -.Into use. lessens their revenues. The companies are sacri f Icing the best interests of the roads asd of the rtockholders in order to visit vengeance . llpon their . locked out shopmen. And' the 'public par the hill in higher t rei&rht rates and in cuaran teee of . fair return1 on .the in vestment in railroads. .. r Sac anybody eeen "or heard any tir that; the Oregon public aervice commission has - made toward get' ting these dilapidated and . badly needed carp put anto good, order? Meanwhile, Attorney General Daugherty .epent H,150.0 of pub lio funds to help defeat the shop men in the "recent atrike. 4 fiCIEKCE'S THAKKSjGHVINQ ? THIRTY Tears ago the length of the iferage life was St. i years. Now the- average man lives to be 49; the average .woman to bw 61. 4 H : la this not a fundamental cause for thankfulness today ? .. But the mere prolongation of existence is part only of the reason humanity has to observe Thanksgiving in the true : spirit -of tho day.- v y Mankind la .better protected against ' those tiny organisms , that have ' slaughtered, more than guns and poison gas and armies. " f Only the other day announcement came from the terrible-typhus sone of Russia that a woman ' scientist had succeeded In isolating the bacil lus ' which ' causes . this, the worst epidemic- disease of all human his tory. "Hie preparation of a serum that will control the plague becomes now only a matter of scientific mechanics. : Almost at. the same moment good was heralded from a nation' whose militarism has cursed the world. German scientists have discovered the cure for sleeping, sickness, the disease which had become alarm ingly widespread and . which had wiped out wholes rfv:t own in tropical Africa. V I'li The American Sc i gives thanks today becausesciei has Just au thoritatively announced that it has found the means to coMrol knd ulti mately eradicate the hookworm .dis ease, a malady that 'has produced in thousands 'of victims sloth and degeneracy. ' ' Science, has also told humankind during the year that, cancer can be cured and that tuberculosis can be prevented. The'yellow fever germ has become almost as nearly extinct as. the auk or the dodo. 1 To live longer and to live more these are the offerings which pa tient science makes today for the thankfulness of men. - In Michigan it 1 from- Newberry to Couzens, , from convicted cor- ruptionist to a man who has been one of the most progressive and one of the most efficient mayors of the country. The change la the result of the repudiation of . Newberrylsm by the people of Michigan at the polls. The political stench is re moved from the state of Michigan in spite of the effort of the United States senate to perpetuate it. The moral and civic level of the people is far above that of the. senate. If the senate were uncurbed and be yond discipline of the pebple, self- government in America would end in a breakdown. CURBING CARELESSNESS TAKING- careless drivers to the morgue to view the victims of other Incautious motorists holds a doubtful value as absolution of the traffic problem as related to acci dents. There is something fever ishly pathetic about such a spec tacle, but it is more than apt. to prove impermanent. ' Another per son's sorrow seldom creates a last ing impression on the beholder. Pledges and promises may sound touching in the presence of death, but fresh l.air and the open .road and the thrill of joyous blood eenrs- as eradicators. At any rate, a morgue as a vehicle or medium of law enforcement is a strain on the body politic. -,.- There must be a "more effective remedy 'for the tecklees driverl He has been temporized with and his acts extenuated, to 'such an extent that, perhaps, he feels tht pedes trians and more cautious motorists are impositions which he4 need not respect. ' Until this emotion in him is curbed he will continue to maim and kill. Some ; means must be called forth to teach him to realize that pedestrians, using only na ture's means of loeomotlon ; and possessing no power to slay, are en titled to the benefit of every doubt concerning the laws of the road. 'Coroner's Juries and courts have too frequently given this margin of doubt to the reckless man In a ma chine. A driver who, through bad judgment, ; takes : life or destroys limb,- has ' not much more in . his favor than have other drivers whose judgment ;is better, but whose hearts are worse. Both types should be made to pay a penalty of such force that it would act as a cure both for.- deadly speed and for equally fatal carelessness. Scold ings, no matter how severe : fines, no matter; how heavy, - and .mere temporary j suspensions of licenses, no matter how inconvenient--: for five or ;ten days, i have not ; been wholly - effective. : :-:Z These fatile checks and" an ever-growing in crease both in pedestrian and : in automobile traffic have made the problem one of major proportions. It might be wall, perhaps, to take few, reckless drivers, those, for instance, who have not caused any deaths or serious injuries, and .make examples of them. ; Let these few suffer suspension of their licenses under the solemn ; and unyielding warning that second appearance in court for similar offenses will bring permanent v revocation, of their : li censes. -. . Such a policy, If followed with out weakness and without regard to personality, mighty go a long way toward reducing accidents to 'a minimum. . -'.-." - : .The execution of the former heads of the Greek . government was a hideous thing. But the resto ration of Constantino ; by military processes and favoritism by htm to army chiefs, along: with the expul sion of Venlaelos, was hideous,- too. The men who helped drive Teni zelos out of Greece-that Greece which he hai lif ted into "a new and honorable position mv the family of nations paid the price J -of their treachery to the people Of Greece and to the liberties of Greece be fore firing squads. It is a story of government that has been intermin ably' repeated., . . ; . r THE DOWNFALL OF HOOCH" PROHIBITION agents in. Denver are going to' attempt a new wrinkle .in locating stills.: The medium is a highly pedigreed, well trained, police dog,' by name Hooch von Arapahoe. ' ; ' . . Hooch is just a pup, but his course of training for his future profession is Immediately, to be in augurated by expert dog trainers. That profession is locating stills. through his . sense of smell, that prohibition agentsr even with their delicate senses, overlook Other dors 7 save one. are. not to have the pleasure of Hooch's torn pany. . Only the agents with' whom he is to work are to see him, . And his: sole companion is another, highly trained ' and 7 experienced police dog. .From the olden do (he is expected to get little jodds and ends of the - police business that other members of the 'canine' clan are not supposed to- knoW V ,"T Hooch ; is also- to be introduced to and maintained In the company of moonshine mash. One method of training him to locate it is to bury a'Jbone. It: is to be ' covered with mash.- Hooch :wlli -be main tained. In a stitus of mUd, hpnger. then turned loose to dig out the bone and the mash. Of course the illicit booze manufacturers are not to be asked to bury a bone with their stills, but it is believed that Hooch, after two months training with mash and mashed bones, will always look for the mash, locate it, and then dig. Instead of a bone he Is expected to uncoveri'a still. - 'Hooch is an aristocrat. He Is to be highly specialized and Very ex clusive. But' isn't he of necessity going to do a lot of associating with liquor, to be a perfectly nice dog? . FARM AND TOWN THERE Is a particular reason why the effort of the Chamber of Commerce to raise a special fund for the promotion of Oregon awak ens Interest. . - -; ; It is the first commitment of the Portland business community to the science of cooperative marketing. Portland has long been charged with indifference to the welfare of outstate Oregon. : ; .. Certain-interests of this city have been accused 'of, fostering .propa ganda against cooperative market ing In the fruit, dairying and other industries ? The method ascribed to these in terests was the.controI of the farm er's market, causing him to hold his commodities until, under the pres sure of loans about to be foreclosed and credit about to be withheld, he was forced to sell at heavy sacri fice. - : 'l .".."-' " . W : . . : , Farm failures have time ' and again been due to such cause. But the' present! move: by the Portland commercial body is an an nouncement that business Portland has considered, perhaps reconsid ered. It Is an encouragement to the producers of fruit, grain and dairy products, of meat, wool and canned fish, to join in their several organi zations for the marketing of prod ucts. It Is an assurance from Port land that instead of being hindered tbey- will be helped. V-,-m. ;,-m.cJ.; ; It is a confirmation that cost of production should enter into . the selling price, of an article, and that price control should rest in the hands of producers and consumers rather than in those of the middle man. " - '" ; - ; . . . -'" tablishes a fund to brtng about-etrfj operative marketing, if the banks; business houses, ' distributors and enlightened middlemen give Sincere routine backing to cooperative marketing. Oregon ' farmers -may take new hope. " If the Chamber of Commerce plan means less than the foregoing it would be best to make the quali fication known before - the appeal: for funds actually goes out. .. THE DAY GRATITUDE is not among the ab stract virtues : It calls for an objective. , Thanksgiving- Is largely a matter of visualization. , . The word -will call into one mind the aavory bird of festal occasions. To another it will mean the faces, glowing with health' and friendship, that assemble around the- board. ; Some will Interpret, thei spirit i of the occasion In termsj-of a I full ppeketbook. Others win . enumer ate the blessings of a year, a month or a day, and be grateful in accord ance with amounts received.: i ty: : But here: and there will be one who gives thanks that he has been allowed to give service without re turn, or has shared: with somebody else something that selfishness sug gested he keep entirely for himself. -' Thanksgiving is, of ' course, ap-J pointed as a day for acknowledg ment of debt to the Creator. ' ? ,Who of all referred to will give thanks most acceptably to the great Giver of Good? THE WORLD BIDS WOMAN JUDGE ; GODSPEED r Miss Florence B. Allen 'of Ohio, Ele vated to State - 8uprrm Beach by People's Vote, Finds Friends in All - Editorial Sanctums Is Expected to Orace the Beach IS'ot-Merely - as a Woman but as Just Plain, -Though Quite Competent, Judge - - N- Tinge of Ancient Sex ' Prejudice Is to Be Found in 1 the Comment of the Press. - . Daily Editorial Digest- f . (0naoKdated Pre Aaweiation) t When a series of extraordinary hap penings left the , UtUe , Scotch, girl in a once popular play keeping guard over the church collection basket, .the whole community was stunned and aghast at the- spectacle of "a woman at, the plate." Now the encroachments of feminism land a woman on the su preme court of an American state, and the American- people not only ' take it calmly but accept the innovation with cordial approval. And while most of the editors who comment cn the elec tion of Judge Florence . E. Allen , to the Ohio supreme court also refer to a lady in a play. It. is PorUa rather than Bunty whom Miss Allen's pio neering brings to their mind. I The election of Judge-Allen to the upreme court bench,- brought about "by a majority of 'the voters fn the fourth largest state In the United States,' is, the Detroit Free Press thinks, "the most- Important political honor yet bestowed upon a woman in this country.' -, ttd although, as one writer sputs it, it may have been "a shock at first," the Columbia Mlssou r ian holds that It ; should not alarm anyone." It is but i"a sign of the time, says the Cincinnati Times Star, "tha sort of thing that Is and-' is to be.;- This new Portia is -more than a woman advocate in the garb of man. She Is la female garb of her own right, and she Is a Judge.? not an ad vocate.. The St. Paul Dispatch agrees that it is significant of the success which feminism has. enjoyed that the old prejudices have been almost com pletely destroyed, and when the voters have a choice , between a man- and a woman for an office, even when the office is so important and hitherto such a stronghold , of tradition as the justiceship of the supreme court, the sole question now is the relative fit ness of the candidate tor the work. There was a time -when questions of propriety would have overshadowed thoso of Judge Allen's qualifications for the office."- Certainly "the dif ference between - the sexes In politics Is - being wiped out," the Savannah News is convinced, and while "those who used to jest about Madam Presi dent may Jest yeU they must feel in their hearts that the jest may become grim." In Miss Allen's case, we learn from an Ohio paper, the- Dayton News, "very few of her fellow-citisens would have ventured to predict sc distinct a triumph, especially whenf it was almost generally conceded - by so-called po litical experts- that she would be a negligible factor in the supreme court face." ' ' - .- i However, the Ohio State Journal (Co lumbus contends that Miss Allen's sex did not enter into the matter at all. "The people who know her best, as citizen and official, believe in her," hence the gratifying indorsement she received from them. "It is of the high est Importance in the suffrage move-, ment,' the Columbus paper continues, "that women seeking Important plaoes be fitted to serve so well that criticism may be prevented." go far as Judge Alien's fltnesa is concerned, she has. had 'important legal training and ex perience "to .preps re her for the new position five years of busy practice, two ' years of exceptionally Important and 'Successful service as judge of the court of common pleas." and it is the belief of the editor that "Miss Allen will make a. great Judge, not at all be cause she has woman's viewpoint, but because she has other qualities," knowledge of the law, experience, "an inherent sense of justice and an hon est, coarageoous spirit." :. ' , Granting, as does- the Xoulsville Courier J ournal, that "legal minds are not confined to one sex," the Boston Transcript . adds that "the modern woman judge may, after all.- with the Intuitional power of - her sex, be able to put the spirit of the law above its letter": and, the Cincinnati Times Star suggests "perhaps our system of justice has needed a woman's touch.' Shakespeare' had the omniscience- of genius, and he saw through Portia'SM eye tne possibility of woman's inter vention In the hard and fast system of law that man had- devised." Portia's brief for mercy remains "the greatest judicial opinion ever handed down, by woman, and it may be Judge Allen's privilege to sound its "echoes in our modern jurisprudence." v -. . a' . . The Columbus . (Ohio) Dispatch In sists, however, that the supreme court will gain, by-the admission of Judge Allen, "not because she will bring an infusion of peculiarly feminine quali ties, into tt, -but because of her pos session of just , those ouallties which wiU make a good judge, without re gard to sex.' If any class of women are discriminated against In their new. po litical freedom," the paper . contends, "it . will be .those who seek office on the ground of their sex and not of their qualifications for the particular Ci rice sougnv Aomittediy, says the if acksonyille Journal, there are some obs' for which- women are primarily fitted, and to such positions ' women should be selected or elected for the sole reason that they are women," tak ing individual fltnesa for granted, but there are ether fields, "such as the su preme court of a state,' where women should Sit as citizens, not because they are women, but because there .are women Just as capable as men who are fitted to sit, there." And, In the opin ion of the paper, therein lies the tri umph of Judge Allen over tradition. Judge Allen's career "will be 'closely watched, the Jacksonville (Fla.) Times Union says, "especially by members of her own sex, if for no other reason than to prove that a woman can be eminently fair and without - prejudice, even upon the bench of the supreme court of a great state. By others, men. of course, she will be 5 observed as a judge, to see if a woman can do what women claim she can do if 'given . a chance. ; The Petersburg (Va.) Prog ress and Index Appeal looks forward to that test without misgivings. There is o : fundamental reason rwhy ; a woman should not make a good judge," it says; Indeed. w do not know that there, is -any fundamental reason why a woman should not fill practically any office which men are now fniing- The average of efficiency on . the - part of male officeholders has . not been so extraordinarily high as to cause hope lesaness on the part of women of be ing able to measure up to . the male standard. , . BE NOT SO RAD yroca tha Uouisrllia Post ' We 'note the. following Jingle in the columns of our temporarily pessimistic contemporary, the News, of Elizabeth town: r . Tha haad that rocks' the endJa : -i Naw ia aramed with nJcouae. r mm' And tha toot upon tha rocker . ;v,-.v-..i like to atep on tMolioe. Oh, cheer up, neighbor. .The lady steps - on the gasoline, or, in other words, takes out the family car,' prob ably takes the babies along with her, and the babies are better off . la the pure air - than . rocking in . a stuffy cradle. As for the hand stained with nicotine, does not our friend know that the real thing calls for the cigarette bolder ' for. the lady who smokes .a cigarette? And the Post sticks by its guns upon one point, If it ia improper for ladies to smoke, it la improper for men. Do all the men who object-to women smoking refrain from smoking themselves? - " -. - ; - j Letter From the People tOoBsatanteatSoaa wiart to The Joamal -tna pubiioauon in thia dapaitaiant ahoold ha writ tea only one aide ot the paper,, ahoaid not axoeed 00 worda la length, and moat be tisoad Vf the writer, whoee ma.il adtlraaa ia fuU Boat eeoaapaey the contribution. 1 . WARNS LEGISLATORS . That the People WU1 Stand Firm in t- Determination, for Tax Reduction - and Tax Equalisation - .. Echo, Nov. 23. To the Editor of The Journal The Non-partisan league against the field In Oregon in 1924. Judging from the way things political and economic are shaping, themselves now, such is my belief. The voters of Oregon did considerable thinking this fall and voted Intelligently and defi nitely for something specific, namely, Walter Pierce, for governor, on the strength of his promise to positively work for the welfare of the masses, the workers, whether on farm or In the city The instructions of the peo ple to Pierce to work for tax reduction and ta equalisation are clear and emphatic We believe he will honestly do hia part. - What about the , state legislature? Did the people use the same yardstick, in measuring the mem bers of their legislature? Did they give, them detailed Instructions? Did tbey ;let the ; big interests pick their candidates for them In the primaries? I ? believe the 'people do.- Intend - that the legislature shall work in thorough, cooperation with Pierce for the masses and not for the 10 per cent, as many signs now point they intend, since election is over. There are enough members of the legislature now on the side of the workers 'to force the hand of the legislature to work faithfully for tax reduction and equalization along with Pierce, on the penalty, that those who refuse will be swept into rrivate life in 1924 by the 'Non-partisan league or similar organization. Like wise, such, misrepresentatives of the people as Newberry-voting , Senator McNary and Representative Hawley will be discarded. ' The forces of the workers of city, and farm have here tofore been impotent, because .of their failure to . pool their voting strength. They have been stampeded into divid ing their vote, through the well or ganised, powerful. Big Business minor ity. -.,. ;-. . - m ,. . ... i. But "them days is gone forever." They now do realise their- power through pooling their vote. Witness their electing such a powerful Non-partlsan-farmer-labor bloc in the sen ate as Ladd Frazier, La Follette. Brookhart, Shlpstead, Howell and Dill, and a score in the house, with many veering that way.. Once realising the fruit of such power, they will not "be quick to relinquish it through -division of votes - .. . f.. :-.--:?; '- Moral, to incoming legislature: Work honestly for the reduction and equalis ation of taxes, and for the general welfare, not for the 10 per cent. Con sider the instruction of the voters to Pierce to be your instructions, or wetch out lest the voters get you in 1924. ; . R. E. Cherrick. " WHY WE EAT TURKEY pilgrim Hunters Who Went Out for ; Meat, in 621 Set -tha Style for rja Portland. Nov. 28. To the Editor of The Journal With 5 hundreds -.of tor keys -displayed ' on the market and the Thanksgiving -dinner enly a fewhours off, how. many could tell right offhand why Mr. Turk is the symbol of Thanks giving? You know "full" well that without turkey , on Thanksgiving the day is a dismal failure to many.' and preparations in the ' humblest homes are often aa-elaborate as in those of .the -more fortunate, and a prime gob bler is honored with -as much eclat. Here's the story : It was in the year 1820 that a little band of : Pilgrims, a deeply religious people, reached the shores of . New England. They 'landed on American soil on November 21. ' They had been nine weeks on their ship, the May flower. :.;S:mHm.:V .M'-1 M " Then came a hard winter for them. The cold was Intense. .There was great suffering, -: And . between . times, like the early pioneers of the great North west, they had ; te fight the Indiana However, spring finally? came. ; They planted their crops. Through the sum mer tne grain grew rant and in the fall yielded well. The governor of the colony, "William Bradford, then Issued an edict setting aside a day ot thanks giving to the Lord. . Several men were sent into the for est to find meat to eat on thia first Thanksgiving day. They found the meat--; They came back out of the woods, laden with turkeys. In a day they had killed enough turkeys . to make a feast for the whole colony for a week. And from that day no Thanksgiving dinner has been considered quite "cor rect" unless a fat turkey graced the heavily laden table. y. - While the citizens of Portland 'may not enjoy the novelty of the Pilgrim hunters ia obtaining one of these birds, a trip, through the market convinces the most skeptical that a finer display never was shown than the Oregon va riety provided for this year's choosing ; providing, of course, that 60 cents a pound- is also attractive. - - -, - C E. Palmer. . ALAS, NO. Prom tha Detroit Kewm.. A news Item says the best Judge of mushrooms in the country lives . in Toledo. The poorest Judge of them doesn't live any place. . WHOSE OX IS GORED? -From Aaeociated Editors. A man's definition of a living wage depends on whether he Is getting it or giving it. , Thy Blessinjis By June MacMillan sOrdway. God bieaa each room, the larca aad nun. . And Ueea each aUvery pan - Thy benuteoQe eBBhcht (Ummera thraufh, -E'er starlight costes asaia. v; ... , r God bias tha warmth, and hleea tha board; Bleae every loved footfall. Blna loa of pease, thy peeee ea earth, - Thy bleuinga opon alL . " Portland. Norembar 122, . r -A Thaiiksgiviiig': JfVhat shall oar thankagiTiae be, .:, ;, We. the toUera of tha earth. -, iloilera vpoa iaad and an . Burden bearers trace oar birth f". Small mayaeeaa our meed of mirth, : Ia the field where Joy la sowar -. . .-' Vet. ia epite ot woe and dearth, Wa have Butch to call or own. t -- . Bpaeioas air and kindly bam. And the still benignant eon: ' All the waleofning doors of home; . liove, what time the day ia done; -- Faith, that we may lean upon; . Hope, that nei-dying flame; And. if riehaa be not aw,' That rare wealth, en honest same I m". ' Tbv the lift i ef simple thing, . ,; 'v. Tbea let oar thaakaejTinc hel . . For tha tender glow that springe -- m In (he heart through ehamy; - -t For tha strengta, that makes ns free -Thnrag'n tha labor some deaptae; . ' - . For the trust Jd troth' we - . ' Bhuung clear la cuiidren'a ayeal ,. , Clinton. SooEarf. COMMENT AND - - SMALL CHANGS For all the joys that life affords to all people we are thankful today. Art isn't what it used to be. Which is one of the reasons why we're old fashioned and glad of it. - ; - .' - - -a , There already were quite a few old grandmas in the senate so that a tew Cousins ought to fit in nicely, V - ' e e -m 'M- ? : Indian' barbarities ' may have had nothing on modern politics, for we read "Moeer is After Eddy's Scalp." . Turks at Peace," says a headline. Yea, and about the same time that became literally true the pigs began to fly. x . . - .a a a - - . -The principal reason for buying a new car or a new suit usually Is the tact that those, who make them want US to, : -m - :-- -: - -- -.:,-. - - , ... - a a - . The basis' for the good opinions some men hold of themselves is too often In their own minds rather than in tha hearts ot their frienda. The "minimum wage that most women earn is a lot of alack jaw from thoughtless husbands when they learn that dinner ia delayed. . , Tomorrow Is the day for that great Indoor sport of tallying the stubs in the check book to see how the light company. Is to fare. MM.,i?, -.. mvm.- i'.1 VMS-!,:: ' a.;VrjvM ,i-fM: What process of reasoning does an otherwise : self-respecting man go through when he eats garlic and then goes to the opera to weave his breath around our necks? MORR OR LESS , PERSONAL Random Observations About Town Mr. and Mm E. C. Wettlngill of Cin cinnati, who came out to the coast to attend the bankers' convention at San Francisco and subsequently made a trip to the Hawaiian islands, stopped off in Portland Wednesday to take in the Columbia river highway; A ?j .m: ,:;-m- 'e a a . - m-m-; " H. S. Hew, a Chinese drummer .who makes .his " headquarters at Honolulu and sells goods in the - Orient,; is a guest of the Multnomah. He has come to the mainland to study the source of his goods 't ' -- - a -a e Mr. and Mrs. s Thomas Mattock, of Heppner are in Portland to eat Thanks giving dinner - with their son-in-law. Otto Metschan. "v - v ' " . Visitors from Hood River county In clude J. A Porteous and Alex Porteous of Parkdala. - f. i;.M-?-:r v---: - ' p --.:---.," . Waiter J.. Gray, formerly -of Boise but now a resident ot Mansfield.- Ohio, is visiting in Portland. m ,. a s a. a '-..: Among 'out of town visitors is J. J. Pierson of Medford. , . a J. A. Bennett of St Joseph Is among recently arrived visitors. . j-4, - C Ross of Dufur is among out of town visitors, - , An out of town visitor is W. IC Tay lor of Corvallls : , .... .a a ... a - J. D. Wells ot Eugene is among out of town visitors 'W. L. Tooze Sr., of Salem, is Regis tered at the Imperial. . . , Charles Gregory of Dallas is a recent arrival -in the metropolis. -, - John A." Carroll of Tillamook is trans actixg iusiners;.i Portland. ... , -IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Good thoughts, great thoughts, with sonaS eat, moat pertinent and moat practical admo Ution, Mr. Locklry here offera for Thanka. giring day. In these lines of hia there is to be found abundance of stitBBlas for. the need lessly dtoccaeoUte as well a for the wilfully graeelaaa, A sublime eons by one of tha world'a roaster barda. snnc la trlnmph orer a srea miaf ortune, forma a fitting finale. The first " official . Thanksgiving proclamation Issued by a chief ex ecutive of the state of Oregon wasthat of Governor John Whiteaker. Oregon became a state February 14, 1859. For 10 years Oregon had been a territory, and during much ef that time the resi dents had been working to have Oregon- Territory become a. state. Now that their long deferred hopes were at last realized the people felt ia thank ful mood : so'it was suggested to Gov ernor -Whiteaker f that he issue a Thanksgiving proclamation that would give additional zest and flavor , to the Thanksgiving turkey,: deer meat and other dainties of our annual feast day. Here is the proclamation that Governor Whiteaker issued, which I have always regarded as a most ' singularly . non committal one: I; ."Be it known that- in conformity with the wishes of many citizens of Oregon I appoint and set apart Thurs day, the 29th, as a day to be kept for public thanksgiving to-be observed throughout the state in such manner as the good .' people thereof may deem most appropriate." To say the least, it was a most un usual document. One day--Mike' Dowllng. the well known educational authority"-of Min nesota, was. walking on Market street ta -San Francisco, when -he was ac costed by . a- one-armed beggar who, shambling. up to him, said; "Can you give me a quarter to get something to eat?" Dowllng sized him up, and said: "You are a big, husky guy. Why dont you earn your own eats, instead of panhandling them from other people?" The bum snarled, "It's all right for fellows like you to talk like that. Walt till you lose an arm, like I have, and you will sing a different song." Dow llng said, "Feel this arm." And he extended his neatly gloved hand to ward the hobo. x .Now feel thia one. Now feel Tny knees, both of them. I lost my arms and legs In a Minnesota blizzard-, when X was..ll years old. When they had cut both arms and both legs off they wanted te send me to the poorhouse to be supported by the public X told them as long . as my head was left they wouldn't have te worry about me : so I became a teach er. Come on Into this restaurant. I'll buy. you a meal, but you should have too much pride to capitalize a mis fortune. You . should be ' thankful you have lost but one arm." , - .--: t .a,., e e . .. t.V ' How about it? Are you a Mike Dowllng or a crippled beggar? Do you allow life's vicissitudes to defeat you, or do you constrain them to strengthen you? ."What have I to be thankful for?" you ask. . The other day, a man um to me and, with a longr' face and an air of gloom, said; My wife con' t get along with my relatives. She hates the-ground they walk on. The man was full of - trouble, and " he couldn't see any brightness in the world.- His domestic infelicity was a fog , that had hidden the. sun, and he was dwelling In darkness. He couldn't see her side of it. She had married him. not his whole family.. He thought he had nothing to be thankful for; yet he had good health, a good job,, and all of his legs and arms ; he could ee and hear ; his wife was true to him, even if she did throw mental rolllngplcs at him. In working to mafce the lot of others easier he could he forgotten bis own minor troubles.' y ,. . NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS - ' Near Centervliie. III., a $40,009 mine payroll was stolen but the bandits didn't . get any oaL Albany Democrat.-. . - ... . v x - - m - '-: "UTien we get the Umatilla rapids project built we won't worry much about the price of coaL Pendleton East Oregonlan. 1 . ' a a a " Two speeders were fined In Salem Tuesday. Nothing tickles Salem like getUng a crack at Portland money. Corvallls Gasette-Timee. . , 'Mr1. M---;,MM:-. :'.Mj r--' -MM .-r:-, If some enterprising promoter could just get Clemencean and Borah in the ring for a three-round debate s the question : of America's position with reference to uropean affairs, man ! what a verbal prisefigfat that would be Astoria Budget. - - Clemenceau, the former French min ister of war, at the age of 87 -years is in the United - States talking to large audiences on the European sit uation. Dr. Osier is having hie theory of age exploded by the virility of the old f renchman. Hillsboro Argus. M- mm'-m .M - a a ' ; A Chicago minister declares that parents shonld no longer tell their children tha "stork myth and ther mythological - bombast The first thing- we know some dum fool will eome along and tell us there ain't no Santa Claua Ashland .Tidings. . . -,.: : .:-MM.- :': a S e . '. :, . Opportunity may knock once at every man's door, but the-only way you can account for a lasy man's grasping It ia that opportunity broke down ; the door, went into ' his bed room, woke him" up and dragged him out. Roeeburg' News-Review. Martin Anderson of Cottage Orove passed through -Portland Wednesday on his way to Seattle to see the foot ball game between the University of Oregon and the University, of Wash ington, - iM ' . .-4 - . . . ?. .. .. . , , -w::;Ei; .,:7,vFM:K: Alex Sparrow, superintendent of Cra ter Lake naUonai park, has left his winter quarters at Medford and come to the metropolis for a business visit. . ."-'i --..';..--.'.--- a ' ;: m: - A- : T m. . Commlasloners Bramweli and Sims of the Washington state fish commission are in Portland to inspect the flshway at Oregon City. a a : Visitors from Ashland are tkv B. Campbell and Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Hartman. J. A Churchill, state superintendent of publio instruction, came to Portland Wednesday on official business W. J. Gray of Jdarsh?leld has come to Portland to tuansact some business. 1 ' M' i a . a. , ' Fred C Rltner.of Hoskins is spend ing a few days in the metropolis e . a .. .... , Alex Gilbert of Seaside was among the visitors of Wednesday. ... a .. J. W. Mayo of Stayton is . among out ox town guests . .:. a . . -a e ' -m. : -,, : .. Among out of town visitors is D, H. Stegman of Centerville, Wash. i a Ray- Butter field of Sllets is among recent arrivals in the city. , - a Dr. L. S. Roach of Kalama, Wash, is transacting business in Portland. a . a .. t Erie H. Gordon of Prlnevllle is among Crook county visitors . .-. a . a . W. A. Barrett of Albany Is among out of, town visitors v-- Lockley : During the past, week or so I have been visiting the state institutions; If you feel yon have nothing to be thank ful for on this Thanksgiving, just go to the School 'for the Blind and see how cheerful the sightless are in their great affliction. Go to the feeble minded institution or to the state hos pital and see the poor shells and dregs of humanity dragging out a mere ex istence i . then, fall on your knees and thank, the iGiver wf All Good that you have your .God-given faculties and that the world with all Its opportu nity for service and usefulness is yours. a " , You say that death has eome Into your home. Ah, hut you - have your blessed memories The sting of death Is remorse regret for needless misun derstandings, for 'harsh words that made wounds that bled inwardly, for neglected opportunities of making life brighter and happier for your loved ones. Soon oh, so soon you, too, wiU join your loved ones. Death Is but the gateway to a larger lite. It is only "the disrobing room' where we Jay of f the garments of mortality and earth." Call it not death, but the day of birth for a spirit freed from earth's handi caps and burdens, 4 , . v " .' M;.rMM ,s . .; ' . ;? -v . - ,m -m . . .- Forget ; yourself. Think of others. Think of your. many biasings and ben efits, . and give thanks. Homer was blind. - He could not take part in wars and adventures: yet the heroes who warred went down to dusty death and' would never have been heard of had not blind Homer made them Immortal In his verse. Milton was blind. Yet he could be thankful. Read this poem of his, and then resolve to cease to be a dispenser of gloom, but to preach and practice the gospel of good cheer: 1 em eld and blind I , --, Ken point at me aa smitten by God's frown. Afflicted and deserted of. my kind; . Yet Z am net cast down. . , I am weak, yet strong: ; -; -; - X marmnr not that I no longer sees Poor, eld and helpleaa, I the mora belong. Father Supreme,, to Thee. .-. , v - O merciful One! When men are farthest, than thee art auat When friends pass hjr.SM. sad air weakness r a. shan. Thy chanot J hear, ' Thy sioTiona face - ' " -Is leaning toward me, and its Holy light - fihinee in npoa my lonely dwelling place - An4 there is no aoore aigbt. . . On my bended knee ' .. I raeognise thy pnrpoae clearly ahownf .v. Ify viaion Thosi hast disa'd. that I - aaa Thyself thyself atoea" T. T I ha ra nsaaet to fear: - " " : The darkneaa is the shadow of thy viae; Beneath it I am. almost aaerad; here . Can eome no evil thing. . Oi l seem to. stand 11 . . Tmnbhng. where foot ef mortal ne'er hath - bean, " ... .- : Wrapped in The radiance of thy sinless lead - Which, ere .haXh nerar seen. " ,; -Visions eeme and gor Shapes of reapirndeat beanty round me throng. From aural, lipa I seem to hear the flow ; Of soft and holy song, - , ..- r; r It is aothing new, . ..-r , - : " .. ' When hearea opening ea my sighUem eyes When aim from Paradise refresh my brow The earth jp darkness lies. - In a purer elime My being fills 'with rsptirre wares of thought Boil in apea my saint atrams sublime -Break oer ae unsougbt. . Gira me now my lyret ' .'. I feel the stinringa of a sift diins; . . Within my, bosom glows unearthly tm" - Lat by no skill of min The Oregon Country Merthwest Uappninf in Brief For for the A camp of Fpanish AVer Veterans is to be organised in SUverton. Seven teen members have signed the roll. .-- - Except for those districts which have building projects, all Clatsop county school district .will have smaller tax levte. this: year." ... m m.m- . ; -.-. Valuations f publio utilities In linn County tor ,1932 have been cut from f3.287.18S, - th 1921 valuation, to 3, 291.824, a reduction of $95,361. m During the Jast year Silver ton has completed 17.771 square yards ot Street paving.- er- approximately one and a quarter miles of roadwaj-. ? ' John Gaisenderfer, one ot the oldest residents ' ef Linn county,' celebrated his 96th birthday last week at the home of his daughter at Knox Butts .Notwithstanding the low price cf po-' tatoea. J. F. Conn of Melrose, in Dour las county, reports a profit ot 8300 from three-quarters of an acre of land. - The Eugene Fruit Growers associa tion this season has packed 144.000 eases of canned goods, dried 1,700,000 pounds of fruit And paid out In wages $189,000. m. - m ' . At the dose of last week growers ef Hood River valley had delivered to the Apple Growers' association 1.172.894 boxes of apples. - Only about half have been Shipped. : .-.m '.m-;m Woodburn, in the heart of the great est berry -growing section in the world, has seen selected as the appropriate place te hold a berry growers conven tion December 18 and 18. - The open winter predicted for East-' era Oregon this year may prove-disastrous to the Umatilla irrigation project aa difficulty will be experienced In get ting a water supply to fill the reser voir. , - .. ' - . ... .. .. - O. A Kidd and A. Harris of Port land were arrested at Albany charged with. breaking into. and stealing from the forest ranger atorehouse at Fish lake. In "the Cascades Work en the Mount Hood Loop high way has ceased - for the winter, and a foot of snow covers . the highland area in . the Oregon national forest, where crews ' last summer cut about eight, miles of new grade. - . ' One of the largest cement plants on the coast Is now. under construction at the lime deposits en the W. E. Baker farm in Baker county. A force f 150 laborers and mechanics is employed and 8600,000 will be, spent In its erec tion. ' A '" '-..-.-... Elmer Beaman, well known resident, of Heppner and for a number ot years actively engaged in business there, was found dead In 'his room in - the Fair building, having - shot himself through the head. He had been ill and despondent. . - - - ' - ,. WASHDGTQN During the last few days more than 10,000pounds of turkeya were shipped from Toppeniah to the Seattle markets, ' Up to the beginning of this month the state of Washington had collected in automobile licenses the sum of 83,219, 216. ,-,:.. m- M:-,;,'. ,:m..;. Fire caused by ' the explosion of a gasoline stove destroyed a butcher shop and store building at Ralston last Sat urday. ' . - - ' :.-.. -.' - . ; -, . - . - Richard LeMay, 7 years-old. Suffered fatal Injuries In Seattle Saturday when run down by a delivery car driven by Fred Rogers--..t- ;vVM--tMM-m .-- Up to November ,1 of this year there were 1S8 deaths In Washington from automobile accidents with 183 in the same period, last year, m . ' Despondent over illness.' Charles H. Merrin. 36 years old, an interior deco ra tor. living t Eeahurst Park, took his life Friday by drinking poison. - Government experiment stations at Honolulu have purchased from- Fred Starkey of Prose er 2000 4 -months-old White Leghorn pullets. -.. Organisation of the Mason County Savings and Loan association was com pleteci at Shelton last . week with a charur list of 826,000. - "Lawrence "B. Shaw, Aberdeen high schoel eenlor, has passed an kamma tion in Hoquiam for admission to West Point Military academy. . . v . The Hoquiam post of the American Legion will direct the campaign to raise $2872 for- the operating expenses of the Salvation Army. in Hoquiam.. Believed to be the directing head of a ring of . automobile thieves operating extensively throughout the Northwest, Fred Dyson., i7, years old, is held In jail at Seattle.-;-V;M,.:;r ' S.-:.A; American ' Legion hotables from all parts of the state gathered at Tacoma Saturday -to consider establishing a semi-monthly publication to represent the state Legion posts. - ' Robbers' entered the office of 'the Motorcar Wrecking company in Seattle Saturday, night and - carried away a 400-pound safe. This Is the second safe' stolen in Seattle within two weeks , A M. Lee of Morton, who s few days ago obtained a license to marry ZHpha Standifer, was pursued and shot at by three men in an automobile and forced to hide 84 hours in the woods. . . Alarmed at his - continual non appearance, neighbors broke -into . the home of Thomas Hennebery, a former railroad man, at Seattle, and found him dead from a self-inflicted' bullet . WOUnd. , 'y- A new world's record cow has been found - in . Edna of Mountain -View. " owned, toy Wallace A Fordyce -of Sunnyside. In the past year she has proaueea sst.tia pounds oz Dutieriat, equivalent to 1144.81 pounds of butter, - . IDAHO Mrs W. B. George of Coeur d'Alene ; has been electedpresident of the Idaho Federation ot Women's Clubs.. . . 1 The city of Llwiaton will attempt to supply the people with artesian water at a probable expense of $400,000, - Organisation f night classes, in i cooking, - sewing, radio and auto me- i chanics lias been effected at the Boise high school. , . - . it sThe-Jerome independent school dis trict has Just sold $37,000 worth of Hi . per cent bonds to a Denver firm at a . premium ot $16.41 per $1000. Due to a serious typhoid epidemic, the water supply at the North Idaho sanitarium at Orofino has been con- i demned , and a new supply is being , sought. - The season's record for sugar beet i production in the Twin Falls district i goes to George A. Bender of Bickel, who obtained a yield of 29 tons per acre on six seres of .land, t . m Mrs - C- E Pennington of1 Caldwell suffered a fractured skull Saturday.' when an automobile in which she was riding, left- the road near. Greenleaf. overturned and lodged -on a fence. ' : Once Overs Do You Really Deserve s Raise or Advancement? When you get to. thinking that yon have been a long time on the payroll without an increase of wages or sal ary, you are apt to twist the thought to mean a "raw deal" for yourself. But second .thought ought-to make' you-realize' whether you have given evidence, ever, .. that, you are able to fill the job higher up. " You make a big mistake that you are not more aggressive in the Job you now hold.-- - M,,n '-:-. mm- . - If you fall to leave your Impress in the present Job, could you do any better in a better position? m . On the whole, perhaps you are lucky to be able to keep what you have. It is either lack of experience or In dustry and thought, or lack of oppor tunity, which finds a man in. the same old place, year after year. m Instead -of blaming, your superiors for not promoting you. analyze your self and be fair and. unbiased about it. If, after a study ef -your case, ss if you were "the leutstser. you think you ought to have the better place instead of the man who Is trying to fill It, then It is up to you to convince the powers 1 that be. (Copyright. 19??. by TnUrn-ctl Feature ...... Sernee, Inc. t