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FOR DISASTER :- THE fentlemen who are plannin' I X Inroads on the workmen com pensation law in Oregon might just as well Abandon that enterprise. the past is any guide, .they "will 8et nowhere. After the law was pvssed by the legislature the cas ualty . companies -and arabulaqca chasers applied the referendum. The people passed the measure by a vote t of . nearly three to one. Would -- any legislature' dare 1 to tinker with the law except at the request of Us friends, after such an approval by the pepple ? No legislature has done it so far, though the same- hostile Interests have been before almost every ses sion evirisince, In efforts to secure changes that would give the same old gang a chance to prey upon the Injuries and deaths of workingmen. In the; face of the late election re . turns, which were a near-revolution against the unfairness and thimble rigging ef former sessions, it is un ' thinkable' that the present legisla ture can be misled into the vicious legislation that some of the pro posed changes in the workmen's compensation law would be. Experience has proven the worth of the present workmen's compen sation system. It has greatly re duced the cost of courts by elimi nating the litigation that grew out of: industrial accidents. . It has re luce4 the cost of accident insurance by . ellmtakting profits to cas ualty companies anf big fees to ambulance-chasing lawyers. If there were no other benefits, these would be enough for the sys temt to bf held inviolate. This, is thoroughly understood by most people. All of it and more will be mad 7 perfectly clear to the mem bers -of the legislature whan the casualty, and. ambulance-chasing lobby appears at the Oregon state house. . f .:. There - could- be !no more' inop portune time tof this attempt o mutilate and scuttle the compensa tion system' to be made. Nobody can fail to read the meaning of .the Ut election :;retufaa Th 0-odd thousand majority , for Pierce la a revolt against the kind of ' thing that has been ; going on at Salem. There-- never has been -before In Oregon so compact ' a body: of citlsehs .wanting - thimble-rigging stopped, and straightforward legis lation to bo the order at the state capital. . To resist or defy the pur poses, and wishes of this 'vast Jbody of voters, who have thrown party regularity overboard , in order to bring about reform, would end in nothing but?dUaster for those who do it." XEWSB0YS TIIANKSGIVXXG . HOW "oanva boy .whistle, cheer, keep time to orchestra music and never for ,atl Instant interrupt the flow of turkey and cranberry sauce to the place that craves it? . The answer, of course, was fur nished at MrHauser's'dinnep. for newsboys ,at- tho k MuUsoraah "on Thanksgiving day. ' No-matter how. They simply did it the noise as vociferous as -the appetites were keen. , ' ----... A w ay off In the wrwr of tho big s c;,i, which., tfild 1 50 .boys,' but tT terly failed to conflno their noise, k sat ' a. youth of j dusky skin, who . gazed doubtfully upon the generous . segment, of mince pie that Mine Host had caused to b Berved first. In the offing were waiters bringing nearer and nearer the bountifully filled plate. But this little Amer icanised son of Africa' decided "not to wait. : He attacked tho pie with knife and fork, flank and front. But a sibilant whisper from across table halted him. "Dont eat your pi first, kid the whisper admon ished- jf'Tou won't bs able to han dle the turk and atuf flo. j Two- unbroken rows of piano-key teeth flashed in : response; to the advice. "Is that the only reason? Boy. this plo ain't evert coin to catch on a knob. ; That turkey'l! think ei been ; wort s by a ship wrecked sailor,!' , That v wonderful , dinner spread was ome twins' Portland newspaper publishers ought to have looked to on. : They might have been startled, even alarmed.- To thinof the dy namta energy- -they . liavo , eorraled for- circulation- purposes. . fairly takes the breath." . ' "Best lof". all . is ; the historic- tact that no grpup produces more suo cessful men and good citizens than news carriers, 'vj . 1 " ... v ' r -. 1 .. . THE NEW AGE THE killing r of Captain Shaver and ' his brother at a railroad crossing is. one. of the omens. We have those omens with us all the time how. What they signify ; is that we are. ix a new age. Tho past is behind us. A new order has arrived.; .. j-. ; ' . : "- Thousands of . otherwise" Intelli gent people are refusing tq realize that there has been .a' transition from one character" of ' time to another of a widely different char acter. ' Tbey have' not sensed the ominous import of the perfected automobile.. The change has been so gradual and so silent that it has come on with many of us believing that things are all as they used to be. ' . The Shaver killings were not a clash of automobiles. Nor is it likely to have been a case of over hurry by the driver of the Shaver car. Nor Is it proven that the train crew was at all to blame. It hap pened, and in the happening it was one more token that the old-order of transit, has passed and that a new order is here. ..'J.-.i,-; The thing to do is for all to take the new order as it is, and prepare to, have an ' understanding of its complications. It is resistance to it when we oppose one-way traffic It is failure to sense it when we resent speed limits) and traffic regulations. There - are 'more trains and more automobiles, and their number will constantly increase. The streets will not wtden. Tjiey are fixed. The . intersections will not be broader. ( They will stand as they are,, and their burden will become constantly more complex. It is the people who must change. They will , have to .read the signs of the times. They will have to accommodate their movements' to a more and more complicated civil ization, fromwhich there is no ap peal except' to go back- to the ox team and. the horse-drawn vehicle- Ten deaths from automobile ac cidents in Portland during Novern ber Is a record. It means ten new graves in the cemeteries. Is no body concerned? Doesn't anybody care ? - ren lives snuffed out, ten homes bereaved, and the slaughter goes on! - And somebody is con stantly" before the council protest ing against efforts by ihat foody to change traffic arrangements from chaos to order. How many dead must-we count "before w "can act? ; ; A TIMBER PLAGUE THE r black currant has become A an : outlaw. "You ijail a thief bik you v J. hang 7-. .4 murderer, someone said at. the Portland con ference ori the eradication of white pine tister. rust. '-" ? - . Laws ray ?t pe sought from Wesf- ern - states prohibiting the cultiva tion f black currants, decreed the conference. The national govern ment will be asked for an addi tional 'appropriation I ot ISB,000, available April 1, next, to carry on official execution of fruit. t But what has the cultivated black currant to do with the menace that threatens the' destruction of timber worth 22S,QOO,ftOO on the stump In Oregon," Idaho; '.Washington, ' Mon tana., and California end worth five or six times the amount named as a source of Income in, the lura bering and manufacturing -process? Briefly, t.he plant . ts the most vicioOs carrier of disease fatal to white pine. This disease, like some of the other Insidious ills from which . the - ( present ' day .i Amer ica ' suffers, was brought ; from Europe. Known .as the white pine blister Tust. the disease girdles - the stems . of young pines and the limbs of mature, trees. Gradually it- chokes : out llfe. A young-tree may be kCled in a sea son. An older, tree,: whose heavy bark protectants -trunk. ' may live 13 or It years. Unrestrained, the infection could spread in a year from ; a given starting point over an area . exceeding' v 100 i miles. Spores of the disease arecarried by the winds, - and infected black cur rants grown in the vicinity of Port landmighteiby stages, become re sponsible for spreaft of the disease in the pine forests : of Southern Oregon. ' " ' The blister has .already ravaged the white pine of -New , England, New York. -Pennsylvania, Wiscon sin ' and Minnesota , Recently it appeared- in. Michigan. ; ! In ' those states a fight to the finish is being carried on against the black cur rant, because it is, "host" to the f-pcrres of the infection in the cycle o furors, sat ion. - Gooseberries may similarly be carriers, and a3so the wild currant, but to no such' rnalJs- nant extent as the black currant. Forestry . experts ' hoped hat quarantine against the -importation of white pinei currants and goose-, berries 'into the United States, and regulations against shipments west of the -Mississippi.-would keen, f he blister -rust fronr- the West, j Bat last year two infected white, pines were found in the Puget Sound dis trlct, and investigation disclosed in fected. currant and gooseberry bushes as far south as the Columbia Nineteen bQtlon feet of white pine . in Idaho . is In immediate danger of infection. ; Five bilUdn feet in Oregon would ' be the ' next to fo, and then the 30,060,000 feet of jCaUforoIa. j All In all, . ITT.OIO, 000.000 feet of white - pine Is threatened outjef 9S.e00.O0O.00O fe remaining in the United States out of an original ; sund of 1,000,000.- 000,000 feet, i 7 . When we reflect that' each 1 03) a feet of. pine represents $H to flfi in supplies and payrolls, the ap prehension expressed here last week may he better' understood. - Luckily, the black currant Is not an important ! fruit in the West. The best thing to do is to begin digging up and burning the' bushes now, - ."j i ' ' " ;f " - NO SBBV1CE, HEAVY COST THE secretary of commerce in his annual report on the railroads for. the . fiscal year, says "trans portation facilities - in the United States have lagged far behind the necessities of the country.; ; f e There is no Question of 'the ;ac curacy of the assertion. The West coast in the last three months has naa ample evidence of the truth of the statement In the , inability of the shippers to. obtain transpor tation faculties." And the- shippers know what the -cost has been f ton them. : - '' ' - 'i k .The report is merely another, in dictment of the railroads and their present operation. '.The cause, , of course, is laid to lack of finances. But the xads have already dis couraged both shipment and travel, by the highest; rates in history. Tho tremendous rates have not only placed a heavy load on the produc ers of the country but they have ad ded appreciably to the cost of living. If, On those rates, they cannot af ford to provide' enough equipment to transport the - products of the nation, and, therefore, stifle: busi ness and industry, what is the fu ture of the ' roads ?jt. -" f :i Transportation - is costing too much. And present facilities can not care for the traffic. It means there is too much cost and too Uttie service. Will that situation con tinue? If so, will the public not turn to water, transportation and motor transportation;.. ,And then what will become of the roads? ; Or can transportalionV' costs be. cut? Can the roads not provide lighter1 i equipment, jit decreased original cost and less maintenance outlay?'. Can they not propel .their trains by cheap water power .turned to electricity instead of by high priced, coal or oil? Can other' such, economies not be practiced to. reduce- cost of operation, and In creased revenue be - obtained by lowering excessive rates? . "- Certainly a change is t coming, or the railroads will have to ac knowledge their breakdown as an agency of transportation.- Too little service at too much cost cannot contirlue. ' . f- v WHAT PRISONS TELL PRISONS tell through census re ports of the effects of post-war frivolity, -" ' ' War loosened. - moral restraints. Here is the effect' on a jail popula tion: At . the end of June. 1917, the yemjt preceding American en trance into the great war,- there were In United States penal insfjitu tiona; 140.188 prisoners: the num ber had Increased to 180,131 at the end of June this year. '.-!-' Of 49 states, 15 report a decrease In" state prison population, hut in these .states "workhouses where minor offenders are confined show a falling off of 17.5 per cent. 1 .While 'the effect of war i to Increase crime" the effect of prohi bition "is tO decrease" petty crim fnalltyi . Twenty states "had pro hibition prior to 1917. Each -had reported, a - falling off in, plstty crimes ' prior to our - entrance nto the war. " But 10 of the 2 0. found their , prison . population increased 32.3 per cent between 1917 and i22.. - -' Twenty-eight states; that did not have . prohibition prior ' tq the . war found that the ban on liquor had more influence In " abating crim inality than the war had in . in creasing It- They had 8.2 per 'cent fewer prisoners in- 1923 than - in 1917. ' r - : - si The census inquiry does not in dicate "that prohibition - brings - to bear any particular .-.restraint on sinister crime.'. In fact,' a burglar sober is found to be a better burglar than ;a burglar drunks The forger traces a "fraudulent signature -nore deftly with a hand unshaken by liquor: 'Even an automobile thief is more clever sober than intoxi cated, despite1 the number of times mptors are purloined from .Jlieir owners to further contraband if juor running. - . ' ' . ' . Happily, 5 general , population In crease outstrips prison population gains. In 191T 72.4 of each lOf.OCO of our citixens were in state pri&ona, There were 74.5 of each 190,00 In jail in 1922. . 1 ' . $ : ' -Human life cannot be cheapened, social relations cannot be degener ated, moral restraints cannot be loosened, without the prison find ing out about it. - "" , : WHAT IT LIEANS J NATIONAIiLY. Analysis of the Recent Election's Re turns as Affecting- the Harding. Ad ministration, by Great independ ent Newspaper ef tse - Atiantie ; Saboa-d The Verdtet Net ' One of Political Hate, but of Dlspa--- sionate Disapproval The Ad- nUnitraUonrs Outlook in -Its -' Remaining -Two Years. rn tha MalHisara Km INa. S Whatever may be tbe exact figures ot Tuesday's election, one thing stands out clearly, and unmistakably, as to the general result Tho Harding adminis tration may : not face a ; revolution. but races something a great deal more serious than a passing: political riot. : Thr may pot hav been an everwnebning tldat-wave, but there baa been euoegh of an -earthquake -to shake the strongest Republican citadels. The administration has received an extraor dinary warning and rebuke. If It has not bn utterly diacreditee. The peo ple of tJ country hava nerved notica on It that they are displeased eod dla- eauanea wtut tt apd that its pouctes and achievements have not measured up u tie promises or iq ueir expecta tions. . f: i ... ' " - ' - . , - OnlT two -years have elapsed since Mr. Harding was swept into the White House on a mountainous popular wave that surpassed in mighty significance anything in the political history of the country. No such i vote ; of t confidence had ever been given another president tuu canaioaie. Ana new. at the end of 94 months, hte 7.000,000 majority has largely melted away, and he bare ly escapes a vote ot censure. That- this is the chief moral and meaning of. Tuesday's j . ballot will scarcely be dienuted - even bv tha friends of the admlnUtration. The facts and figures speak for themseivea Thev ao not represent an outburst of politi cal , pasaiou. no?- a mere tendency to popular : fickleness, v No such oenso lation , can be read into the - returns. Except to Missouri, the campaign was not characterised by s the fury and bitterness i which have I been the fea tures of many previous centesta - It seemed, in many sections,, indeed, to be lacking in the heat which-is often supposed to denote earnestness and conviction. It ts this very fact that seems to give to Tuesdays verdict its peculiar Implication. - it appears to be a cairn and deliberate appraisement of r- UMfflnr management of national affairs: that carries far more weight than a mere outburst .f . angry 'feel ing. . It hss the chilling" effect of a scienUflo survey and analysis It i is toe pronouncement not of political hate. but of dispassionate disapproval. It is a direct answer to Mr. Hardirurs re cent letter to Representative Fordney In which he . made - an 'elaborate de. tense - of the Republican party's rec ora ana nw own. And the answer should make him stop, look and listen. In New Tork the answer Is stunning. Governor Miner- was - weighted down by the congress which Mr. Hardins has praised so highly and Jy the prea- Kient-s own raiiures and vacillations. Had the adminletraUon at Waahlnrton been as fine and satisfactory as that of the j RepubUean nominee for ' the New .xork governorship, it would have been almost impossible to beat him. But his own achievements could not Offset the defect and handicap of his political overlord at the national capi tal. He had to carrv Ms. Hardin ori bis back and-a state election , became a national election. In Massachusetts Mr. Lodge, the administration pet, the leaoer or tne Kepuuican senatorial Mohawks who led toe Red Indian war party on the track of Mr. Wilson and who nnauy succeeded in scalping the Versailles treaty, -barely escapee with ate political Ufa. Massachusetts em phatic rebuke to Senator Lodge is no less a rebuke to his close friend and sponsor in the White House, In Ohio, tbe president's ' own. state, a Demo cratic governor has been elected and the Republican senatorial nominee has scraped a through toy en alarmingly shrunken vote-as compared with the immense Harding flood of IS 20. When the returns are all in, the indications are that the same eurrestive -marks of popular revolt -will be found in al most every part of the country. - Mr. Harding, of course, wishes to be reelected. But unless he takes Tues day's lesson to heart and turns over a new leaf In the next two years he is likely to find the country colder to him in 1924' than . it is . la 1922. For scaney of . the things fw -which he is now condemned, he may i not be wholly re sponaible. But to -.poUtfcs. as in na ture. -we ' Jud a tree , bv . its fruits. The apples on the boughs of this. ad ministration, except tbe - disarmament conference, are notably few and small, and some of these, Uke . the .Fordney McCumbe'r bill,: have turned to, bitter ashes on The popular lipa' "All that has saved "the dramlstraponfrom a, com plete and- irretrievabie'Tout tiaa been the lack: 'of great XTemocrafX leadership,- the presence of such strong fig ores in - tne cabinet as Secretartes Hughes, Mellon .and Hoover; and such a1- courageoua, and", tmcempromising statesman as Senator Borah. it. If Mr. Harding can readjust his own mind and temperament to the meaning aad mandate conveyed by this, week's lecoen, he may reinstate himself In public eonfidenee.- This is an exceed ingly difficult. thin'? for a man of Mr. Harding's personality, to do. . But if he can do it, the last two years of his term may counterbalance the amia bly ineffective and disappointing-rec ord that - has Just : beek r so sharply censured. . , , THE ' REVERSAL OF " 1923 ' ; 7:'. .yroaa the Aztona Bedsat -The sweeping reverses1 met by Re publican candidates all over the na tion just two years after a record- breaking landslide , of : Republican success -.will be food . for . pecula tion for some time to come. Political experts will be kept busy Interpreting and : analysing. - The t rlns " naturally bear the brunt of the attack and are placed upon the defensive,- but . that doesn't account entirely for the Demo cratic victories in such states as New Yorev MassachBeetta, Ohio.: Michigan, Indiana, West Virstoia, Nevada, Wash ington and Oregon. Such a wholesale change of attitude by the people indi cates a widespread dissatisfaction, un rest and discontent. An v af termaih of w, someone eaya. aad. inasmuch ss it la popular to blame the war. for all our woes,-we may as well accept such an explanation aaany. It is un deniable that the Harding sd ministra tion has not won .general favors with the public. . The hlb-handed action of Attorney- General Daugherty, the seat ing - of Senator . Newberry, the presi dent's atiitude toward ex-eervice men's bonus legislation, his advocacy of the sales : tax. - have- all contributed more er less -to the reversal of sentiment. It is quite apparent thst the Repub lican label en a candidate did net carry with It the prestige that it. does in normal years. . ,::.;.. , VOTB TER STRAIGHT? --'j-vTsetht A(dfe4 MaU-Trftwre - - - ; n Who said something about voting the ticket straight? 1 , If we recall -eorrcctly, that stlrrinsr slogan was the keynote ef delightful banqaot recently at the Hotel Medford. What -a horde of nanarbtj:, Republi- car.s ' ir.iabit tJ's beautiful state of (j-, p 1 sll 1 .6 JftlTTO'! ""3 CfliT4- try. t:.;s fiioorj- day of 'ovember. What are. the 1 political comriardrs geing to do about it? lt all .these party traitors go uapuniahed? We can't believe it. ; There must be some thing drastic dene, or what will become or party discipline.' , . ; r - Only two years ago there were 40, 000 more Republicans - In Oregon than Democrats. - But today, according to toe returns, there are abou 35,000 more Democrats than Republicans. - In '.Ne; Tork state two years ago there were a million more Republi cans than Democrats, and today there are more Democrats by the hundreds of thousands. - And so to Indiana.- and to a greater er leas extent to. Massachusetts end everywhere else.7 The Republicans of America are. apparently voting the ticket about as straight as the B. & O ; Some people think .we have just had a political election. It wasn't an elec tion. It was a political . revelation, and no one can understand the , results in Oregon without taking this factor m to account. - , . jLetteig From the People - COnniniiinTi eiT. Mrt to k earaaX ' rea pnMfatatiffn ia' tisi. dmrt-Mt .h-tU w writ. ia ) eel ana aid ot the paper, akovld do exeacd S00 word ia lactAr and must be wrned r tbe writer, eaoae suil addrew Is tail CBi iK-ooaapacy th eoBinbutjocj TKST OF THE SCHOOL LAW Opponent Says the Thing to Do Is to Expedite Xgal Procedure A -. Voice From the East t Portland, Nov. JO To the Editor of The Journal W. H. Eblen wrote to a . . w . . ...... e .iiiia vi goa is suffering In the East oo account . .i i , . . . o imtm Bteotivo, ai can oe seen irom newspapers from Easter cities." Who would have thought the school "i bill would disgrace our state In the eyes of people' of other states to the extent Indicated by the foUowlng paragraph? It is copied from an editorial of the . i . , . . . . jtMutuoore aim or xsovemoer : - - ProhlblUon Of liquor has unloosed a flOOd ef evils nmn th Minntmr K.ifr prohibition of parochial, and private schools, if aa attempt were made to appljr the Oregon madness to the na tion at large, , would turn the country Into a series of armed camps. Fortu nately, there IS no dura ef aurh a. Iragedyt Oregon Ku KJuxlem will' be rebuked as It deserves. . But tt is a re proach to tnie country that '-a single state irr the American Union should have f yielded ' to this degrading and shameful spirit of tagotry.' These words were not written by 'a partisan, but : by an outsider looking at the metier' feeim an -) 4l 1-1 1 Sn4 American standpoint, and written days 4.r cuecuon ana not on tne spur of the moment in election excitement, and are therefore well worth consider ing on ourv part as loyal Oregenians. What shall we do?" .This bill was passed by the people of the sUte and not by the - legislature : therefore, it wouia not be proper to ask the legisla ture to tamper with this law in any way whatsoever. ; Something must be done," and since the opponents of the bill are willing te shoulder the heavy burden of litigation, besides their large expenses during toe campaign. I bold all citisens of Oregon should suppress their rancor and hostility and expedite the proper legal procedure aa much an possible. "Iit the world know that our principles or government are American and that if we should have missed the mark, we are American enough to cor rect our errors. P- J. Hlllman. j. WET AND DRY AljGNMENT Proposition of a Wet OrganisaUon Gets O. K. of a Party Prohibitionist.. Newport, Novr28. To the Editor of The Jourrm.1 Wr w s- n m n notice-that the chairman of the Asso ciation Opposed to the Prohlbitlou Amendment declared In "St. - Xuls a few dan (! lutK h o.H...ii. . and Democratic parties will be made to oecwre uiemseives on prohibition, so uw tout nuy .M in no doubt Bow to Cast his Vote, no mrri n whut. - , . v.. .. .... HUU. he stands. Now X wish to say -that for onos at least, all oppoeers of prohi bition and thj VolatMlV - mm. tr. perfect accord with all true party pro hibitkvaista That Is the very identical position that tbe Prohibition party has ever taken that all parties should de Clare themselves on thi emu, -.. vital question. 'W the- voter might be to no doubt how to cast his vote, no matter on which side he stood." But in the nast the- - - - -"aeW e -w sju VMVrt WU have fought us en the ground that it wo av party, question, and that It was non-nolltlcaL ind mon. voters whq were in favoir of prohibition "gsw on.Denine. yelping the cry of the weta and vnttne tH.. i.,k. ,A t.... But the Anti-Saloon league and all non-partisan ory voters will ask, "Isn't It overwhelmlne-'w Ar-v ' " ' ae W. "-.f VW fUlVU SV the people?". Tea. legally dry, but polit. wet, but It ie-wlthto the grip of the nastiest of all criminal wetness, and all so-called nan-BartlTt"rt-nhrhtiAn- ists have helped to make tt sol Aren't yotr asnamea ox ltr i am proud of the Prohlhfrlnn. nnrt T k. v,. i and. leader of tha prohibition, movement w iwaiiy culminated m the ista . . . ivtewei, - 4a i Thank the Lord for art rniirh hnt -or win not stop there!" We have finally. forced the wets ' and the Association Opposed to Prohibition to admit that it is a party measure and to insist that,! - ril RjrVrT.tlasiaa. ' Sin ,4 rVemJkyMMi 1 --- - - s-esa ewiuvrvt s,taa pwun nran oeciare tnemselves on pro- wuiuaiv no wm ejo an m our power to aasiat nvnitim. i- f...in- . ... .m , evui declaration, "so that the voter may be , um irow ju casrJiis vote, no matter on which , i4. h - m -w. standa. yea. h-v ill num, . m chance te vote, on the question as a naitwin issue, sna py party declara tiona that hv n.h if mw, .,tu the whole matter now and forever : w' urkee, : LONGSHOREMEN AND OTHERS Portland Vv. 9a TV. im. .a - "- .... . w .... Th JaiirnaL-. tn wmmA . e . . - n " - V V.. V ' .Ml front strike. , I wiU say there are over XOOO striking longshoremen : and their families who sure are thankful they ere living. While- the employers.; our dear mayor and our kind police will MllflV a fat rjelr HIhiim tluiu people are glad to. have a J dry piece -- Kwia 4 - 1 fesr. wtnst eaaa at leak-- ockJ kind corporatftMi offlclAisi fmel kAnnv tA hrlM sut muh e" poor wklnr people. : Who taows Imt tpc xumey wia oe on xne poor jtstops'c t0l next year? Til q& ayitiff. ,The Aitav.hat lsiersl 1st aa- TeneUe W mmt aves-ar ej: -awn. aaas) -. -S -E- S-rajaa f Taeaaw, j come true. It is sad enough to seethel eiaers aiuxer, out tae poor Denies eux fer most. A great many of these men have - large families sad have served vatrtro&t. ThT ---re u moolt entltlect to ft decent Hrinff ft re th mployerft . L "-V A T ah eaSApeww aa se -TaTIa. eTB, kvaeaaaauisxas. vuiatu ap. if sse - The Christmas Seal ! By; Walter Greenough (Written for to Indiana Tubereekaia - He, Little Seal, will your asaaaaf ef ajM, flans a a life-iem'a rov. s Seek yam tit nalaea end aeek yoa tha abtd fiott little pillow for feaffarine' b! Ha. Tittle' 8!. "He year awsnase ef ehaes. liriht . little baaeoa ef area that je ! Ho. little Seal, with year ateaaaaa te awn. 1 Utxat them baek . te lite Insnroad acaia. r-. w v., m Kwe Fldtriiis ia eeetly te Jual them la! . , QUITE SO From f!w dreeeiille. .-riedH!t Kvery rn U the erchitect'of hi own air cast.os. - AND - SJIAXIa CHANGE - -.- --- -- - - ,f t --.i-- - r - Can't r get away from this holiday idea, so : A bird roasted on the plat ter is worm two on me outcner s raca. leil The Tijrer of France is declinlns: with some show ef force to let some of our chrome politicians make -a monkey out of him. w f4, ' r". Foothall enjoyed a: thrilling climax Thursday. Next thing you know the crowds will be fighting for bleacher seats to the sun. ;. . . . . - - - rv It - is small'' wonder that the com positor made nj. 8. Forms fits Turkish Policy" , read "turkey holicy" von Thajiksgiyin.: day,-. ; (y lj It oertainiv' must be a horribly long way te Tlpperary. for some who hava been sineine- on that Journey for five years UU are at it ' '... The. man who has to have a hot water bottle at his feet And a. mid. niffht lunch In hU tummyl crabs like a gooa reiiow Decease tn inaby wants a little liaht In the room to retire by. T- COIMLIENTi MORE OR LESS PERSONAL: Random: Qbservatibns - About Town L, M- Hesse, who lives out -Scholia ferry way and wlt Is a representatlve slect from . Wasbinginn county, made a business visit to Portland Friday While he hag no special legislation to get through, he said he thought the pay of the Washington county commis sioners and - county judge! should be . ' V . - J Among recent arrivals to the city ere Mr. and Mrs. jr. W. Asplund of Marsh field. 1 - - : .V- ..- - - -,v..;V ; . - K George Fournler of Coos Bay Is combining-business and pleasure in Portland.-,-: -s- j'-..;.-. v.-Ai i - -.i'--, ::.- '-, - . "Mr. and Mrs. Ii. Williamson of Xa Grande were among arrivals in the city on Friday. ... . s B. T. George of Jefferson came down to Portland Friday to trinsact some business. - ! Robert Reed and Bill Grooch ef Cor vallis are taking in the sights ot the metropolis. - , , f- :';:...;'- i- ! W." E. Wilkes of Bend and Stephen A. Hutchtns of Union are recent ar rivals in the city. E. E. Rorapaugh of Eugene is trans acting business In the metropolla -.. - . l : ' i -r. . George A. Wllhelm of Junction City is a recent arrival in the city. - - t . ... -' - Mr. and Mrs. W. K- Henry of Med ford are among out of town, guests. - . , $ . - . Among out of town visitors is S.vHar rreaves of Cottage Grove. . . . Visitors from Ia Grande include W Ia Douglass. ' 1 ' Among out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. C E. Penland ot . Pendleton. .v or" e C H. Hedrlck of Heppner is among out of town vlsltora IMPRESSIONS AND .OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN1-V V; s. ' ' "- t r- ,By Fred Lockley . ' ., j-'f.tf s ' .-- Hare ia concluded Via. Martuv'a atory - 4h- i. 1 1 lhl enffaiinna ah and a few eteen aurrirad. wKil aa route to Oregon, orerlaad ia 1840, after bains robbed by Indian maneaert and lett in to eeaert, bo iooc see WW Otote. . . b ', -. . . . 'Mrs W. W. Marttn, one of LSalems pioneer residents and one of toe most popular and best loved pioneers of the Capital City, - recently told me of the horrors suffered by the emigrants of a party of which she was a merob while crossing the piajns to Oregon in i860. ..-.s.-.i r- " After abandoning our wagons." said Mrs. Martin, "we walked about 70 miles, traveling .by night and hiding by day. Finally' the men became ma weak from hunger they could no longer carry the smalt children, so we made our v final camp under - the high bank of the Owyhee river where the willows hid us from sight of the Indiana We were so - weak from hunger- tnat we could hardly stand. One day .father saw a - weak old cow, abandoned , by some emigrant train, travellnf east ward to - go . back to Missouri. : or wherever she had come from. - He called the oow, and when she,, had come . i . . , . . r to wnere we were nn auieu . . s. it soon had a fire going and were eat-ins- tbe touch and stringy flesh. When the cow was all eaten, the men caught some salmon, . but they were - able te catch only a few not enough to keep the children from crying from hunger. One day a Snake Indian came upon us and xave us some salmon in exchange for mother's earrings. He returned later with several other Indians ana tney traded salmon for all the clothing we could poaslbly spare. When the men refused te exchange toe blankets and firearms, the Indians took lhemv .v . ; "When ' we had first hidden there. Volunteers had been asked for to try to make their way to the settlements and secure heir An eld man named Civilian Or. Munson -and a bey of 11, Christopher Trimble,' offered to - go. They got as far as Burnt river, where they overtook Jake and Joe Reith and Chaffey, one ef tbe deserters from the dragoons at Fort Hall. Munson said he would go ahead to secure help, and he told Christopher, who was a year older than I. to make his way back to u and tell uar help would surely coma Christopher Tftached usi and ; helped catch' frogs, so we shouldn't starve, la busting around for frogs or Usards or anything to eat be came upon a camp of Indiana who fed him and treated him well. They came to our camp and brought food to ua One of ' the mesH told the- Indiana that we had seat for the : soldiers te . eomi . That ' alarmed the Indians, so they . red.. , taking ' the Trimble boy with them- We never learned -whether he was killed by wild animals or whether the Indians killed him. but he was never heard of again.. . t, Mi i-. .- ; " -- - . , - "When tbe Indians bad -taken our blankets Alexis Vanorman feared they would return and kill us, so he de cided to try to make his way to Walla Walls, With his wife and five chil. eren, and with Samuel Gleason and Charley and Henry Utter; he started westward. , The relief party found the bodies of all of th- on Buret river. The Indiana had scalped Mrs. Vanor man and 'mutilated the othera ".The bodies of the four children were not there, so it was thought the , Indians had taken- them as prisorrers. Eagle of-the-Lirbt, a friendly Nes Perce In dian, later saw the four children and went to the Indian agent, Mr. . Cain, and -told him about the children being with the. Snake Indtanev ; i . -- - - . ' J"- "After Vanorman and his party had left us Mr. Chase found a salmon, which we ate. Mr. Chase ate the most ef it. and he died frem. it- Father dug a Shallow grave and buried him. by the Owyhee river. Ie a few days Klixa. beth Trimble died from lack of food, and ,7a day er ... so- later her sister Susan died. - My mother remonstrated with Mrs. Chase for eating and riot giving the food to her children. Mr. Chase said, "I don't eel that I can kill my children, but I want them to die, tor fear I should die first and tbey misrht fall iato the hands cf the In NEWS IN BRIEF r : , . SIDELIGHTS . ' Winter brings - back the man ' who takes a cold bath daily and lies about Other things also. Albany Democrat. - Miracles never cease, they say, but we had never been convinced till re cently. Salem has voted bonds. Cor valiia Gasette-Tunes, .. - a.e--- It appears! that Germany Is of the belief that peace isn't worth the price they have promised to pay for IU Salem Capital journal- ; - v - , England ? ean : elect a ' parliament easier than Oretros's state senate can elect a president .But ; England does not have the fun, out of the game of politics thst Oregon has, so there - is a compensatory feature. L Grande Observer. , V -There' "is -a -i heated v fight' 'eeet the presidency of . the senate, but we will live through It eomehow. s The one thing people would not forgive or for est would be a - legislative , hold-ap of tax adjustment ? irt8Uttoq.Wencue ion iaav-uresonian-. - Condon Bean ef Seattle ia e pending tne 'AnanKsgiving season to - Portland with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. a sean,---.' ..y?H.r v-v - . riVi;. " - ..... f e'.'. e Visitors from Myrtle Point stoDoinc at .the Imperial include Edna John, sen, Helen Whi takerf and, iT,iV John-f on. ing after bustaess aff first in PorUand rtaayv-i-f4t,3:v k-j-H ; M. X. Smith add Donald EL Kirk of St, Paul are amengwUltors- from Ma rwn county. ' . T - - Among visitors from east of the mountains are Mr and Mrs. J. C. Dut ton ef Wasco. . Ross Small and Clayton I Long are among arrivals from corvania. An out of town guest Is J, D. Bird ef Marsuneid. .. .-.r . . -.--... f C G. Braeher of Pilot Rock is among out or town visitor a - " vt.i- Among recent arrivals in the city are R. B. Gould and Carl Johnson of Bend. Joe Pardee came down from Corval lis Friday on a short business trip. - E. E. Anderson of -la Grande was visiting in Portland Friday. - - - a . .. ...-. . Among out of town guests is Henry Terrell of CorvaUls. -Charles M. Atwater-of ' Monmouth is a post-Thanksgiving guest. , ; v a ... a . n. E. Rlggs'of Stay ton is 'registered at the Imperial. . a a E. Knutsson of Copenhagen is among guests of the Portland. ' - . Floyd 'T. Tox of Silvetton is among out of town visitors. -,' ' . . diana" In a day or two more - her boys, Daniel and Albert, died of star vation. . For several days after their death we Ud not have a mouthful of food. . - "Of . the 54 people In . our party there were finally left alive only our ramily, Mrs Chase, UttteTelary. her baby, and Miss Trimble Just when we; bad finally yielded to utter despair, we heard the sound- of horses running. Mother said,' They, have come.. They have corne. Father thought the Indians were- coming, but It was the soldiers We had waited 45 days for them-Lieu tenant Anderson, with his Soldiers, dis covered ua : We an began- crying for rood. , The soldiers jumped If their horses and with tears streaming, down their faces began getting us hardtack and bacon. Lieutenant Ander m made them shut their saddlebags and would not let them give, us a bite. - He said. 'It will kiil them if we let them over eat' He made some, coffee and some soup, and every two hours he let-us eat a little. Lieutenant Anderson's men had been with us a little while when Captain Dent and his men rode up Captain Dent's brother-in-law, U. & Grant, had been a captain at Fort Van couver but he bad resigned. , and was living at Galena, III., then. captain Deut and Lieutenant Anderson talked It ever and decided we - could hot be moved without vehicles; so they sent an Indian runner te Fort, Walla Wails to nave them send an ambulance for us, The troops went out and got Mun son and. Cbaffey, so there were 11 of us saved by the soldiera - -.: - V - i.'- --'--: -(t,l Vr father's brotherv Michael Myeta owned a ai'eceiy store at Salem.. He had heard of our -plight and bad Come up to Walla walla. When -we reached Walla Walla a great many women who came to see ue ef fared to adopt us. but mother couldn't decide which of the children she could spare, so she didn't give any of us away. Mrs. Chase gave little Mary to one. of the w. men. and she married one ot the soldiers who had rescued a My Uncle took us to Portland with hlnu We went to -a hotel, where Governor Gibbe came te us. ue took my sister ataggie and me home with him to dinner end we told him all about our experiencea Senator vVesmtth hired my father' te corns out to his farm Polk county and prune hl orchard, '.'7-;?U-i.&!;.t .-, , i - -.: --r m j ni -' :, Mr" unele's 'store' was next to Dr Belt's' drur-etore ,hv Salem. My tmc4 rented a little bouse for us pear where me uatn teeater now tat The house was on the bick of the lot.? There was a small house on the front of the lot, I where O. N. Denny and C B. Bellinger. Students at Willamette university, were baching. Both ot these boys later bev cam judges, 4 Peter D'Arcy's people later moved late this house and Peter lived there nearly 60 years. Father and the rest of our family went out on a reach ; on Mission bottom, while X stayed at mr, uncle's borne; - For two years X was a student at Willamette university. Dr. M. Oatch was presi dent of the university. My teacher was Lacy, Lee. : daughter ' of Jason Lee. Among the students at -that time were the Robb sisters, Sylvester and 43am L. Simpson. - Addie . Loc, whose sister Suean married Peter Hatch ef Salem ; Emily Belt. John B. Waldo. :Neuie stlpp, the two Orubbs boys. TomCraw! ford and others. y?r-.t --'- i. f.-.-'P-.- "My mother, who was 90 years eld July 14 last, lives with my sister, Mra Ira Erb, here tn Salem.,, v j . , - . , e. "The first time I met my husband was at Galena,, 111, where U. 8- Grant was then living. That was to the spring of i860. We were passing through" in our prairie schooners -on our way to Oregon., WiU wss a clerk In a store, and he brought out a bag of candy for children. The Martins moved, to Salem -and lived la- the old Jordan house. - -; I - met , Will there. .... We were married Deeemt-er 1.-1863. My; hus band and. N. O, :ParrIah were part ners in a jewelry store at that time. have been a-widow eiarht years. I have lived to Salem more than 60 yes re. aiid you will find no city where the people are more firiendiy and bettet peci-Ia tian rlr.t here la a.;e:a." . The Ores-on Country orthwaat Rappeninsa ta Brief farm tor th - , Boay Keader. - ,l ' 'OREGON . - lone school will next year ecet the district 817.4U8, according to the cur rent budget. . . , Three carloads ef Christmas tree Out In Lane county, left Eugene Mon day for, Los Angelea John Manson Miller, one of the old est pioneers of the Willamette -valley, died at Aurora a few days ago at the age of yeara x Mnskrats are so plentiful In Marsh reld that they are boneyoomblng the dike and letting, the tide inundate the southern part of the city. ; , . 4-nnversiae fishing on Coos bay Is said to be better than at any time for 10 y"-rs-. The heavy run has tent the price down to. cents a pound. Ui?.L:00S"t'. rky growere In vaded the Kan Francisco markets this yr- . More than 80.000 pounds was shipped from Eugene by one ftrra. : C. W. .BotUeher. superintendent of the -Albany public schools, has been e4eiea pre; icnt or the Lion county , "lncl PSO Teachers - eo- Ciauon.. --'-ii,,- -x-. -. -- v f. .-,.. .a3Rurin,h lnienths from June 1. 1921. -to June 1. 1922, there were 711 niarrtages in Clackamas county, while the voreesdurlng , the same 'period- e a a W .ffdtXei , '--.;-;- - . i--,.. a ' There Is no longer a detourheces eary between Pleasant Valley and Sexton mountain to Josephine county. uuDusn iwo-anu a naix mues of this Section' vet mmilni tn Ka n The Bay Horse mlne In Baker coun- ,.v w, uuppeo tne etn car or crude ore to the Bunker Hill-Sullivan smelter at Kellogg. Idaho. The groes value of the shinmenta ia more than 1100,000."-,-,-,, ;, tl.,V - - ; : i, vyonu war veterans state aid commission, at a meeting held In Sa-leJn.-vYednday ordered the payment of 0 loans aggregating 3118,000. Cash benusea amounting to 12800 were paid to. 17 men. ,.....:.-v. . . . . - ... .. Lahe ' -county teachers ' have sub-' scribed $275 toward the rebuilding of the . home ot Jasper N. MiUer that ' bu",d rew days aeo in' Ku gene. Miller is 83 years old and has taught school to Oregon for more than 60 yeara- . . - . : ' " WAfiHIKCITOM . .uvu, vi,wvrmn at Aioion Satur day - named a "taxpayers' ticket" In opposition to the citisens' ticket for-the city election December .' - Davenport's city council' has voted to reorganise the fire department to consist of 10 mn and to pay them $1 an hour for services st a fire - - - "The fiurpr' r mine at Republic, a gold property .i the Day brothers, be gaa operaUons this week and will ship the ore to the smelter st Trail, . The Lake Bosworth Timber compa ny, representing an immediate invest- . ment of $20,000, has started construc tion work , in the Granite Falls . dia- U4ct,r -S.y -J;-,.-rV, yVV ' - '. --,'-.i- :.:?.i..;-,:::(: ,,' - . ' DlU!s ' Burgess Ward, " who crossed the plains with his parents in isr8 antt- setUed at Salem, died at Seattle Monday.. He had been a resident of Seattle for S3 yeara , -- While supervising the ;' loadlns; of logs on 'fla tears at the camp of the Snohomish LogglQg company nesr Cathcart Monday, Alfred Romnee. 27, was crushed ; to death. .. . William D. O'Connor. - employed by the Selleck Logging company near1 Enumclaw. was hit on the head by a cable Monday and died on the way to the Enumclaw hospital. , Joe- M. Brown of Satsop and Lands Clark of Montesano were badly in jured last' Monday night when their automobile went off the Wynoche road and overturned on the Wlke hill. State lands ' and timber to be of fered in the quhrterlyi land sale to be. held Januahy I at Olympta, have been appraised at $271,659. AnDllcationa show an increase, of 51 per cent over the-last ale.',,..i-'.-'r-'.'-rij, ,. ;.,-.-?-, For obtaiiiinir the highest scholastic . aversre. durm-t h'a freahman year -at Washington- State eollege. R. Philip FTeedland of Tacoma has been award ed a silver medal, by Sigma Tau. hon- prary engineering society. - A burned automobile bearing a li cense number showing that It belonged to ju. j. ivuenner oi. cnenaus, was found Wednesday by Salmon Creek residents on the Pacific highway. It Is thought it had been stolen. .. '. ' Idaho'. ' The Clearwater river at Lewlston is said to-be at a lower stare -now than at any time- to November for the ' past SO years. The Idaho-state board of, nardona concluded its regular quarterly meet ing Tuesday after granting pardons to 21 prisonera. . . Upon the recommendation of five engineers, - Lewlston's water supply is ' to be improved by the installation of n new filtration., system that will cost $350,000. . . .. "Democrats of Jerome county havi started a contest against a Progressive who was elected to the office of coun ty auditor, and a recount of -the vole m n r, tra in r.nnn.i a mwaa i --.w v-mv... . w- . During the neat two months the nelta of 405 coyotes ; and 45 bobcats have been brought to. the eheriff's office st Jerome. - The state pays $2.50 each for their death and the trappers get $t to 88 for the. pelta . . -- While haullnar a load ef nnlut. near Waiser, E. E. McOlnnis, forest ranger. taintea ana ten on tne tongue ox the wagon,, the horses plodding along for half a mile, .when h tiMMtm -rn- eckusr spoketo then) and they stopped. ' Twenty' Years Ago ?, From, The 'Journal of Dec. 3. 1903. Washington Capital. labor and the tariff are dealt with to detail by President Roosevelt ia his annual men- ' sage to congress. VUnna The Evening Post : today prints further details of the terrible atrocities practiced upon Macedonian Christians by tha Turka - '. J a , 'The license committee of the common Council will recommend that the license fee of billposters be raised from 8100 to- $100 .a. year, tv-'-:..-;'':'v; R. A. Stuart of Seattle is'at the Im- ' nertaL - Mr. Stuart ia establlahlnar a condensed milk ... factory at:. Forest Grove. -.- . -y t . -.-,-"Whether PorUand can set the Com Bay -and coast trade was the subject onaer discussion at, a meeting of the true tees of the. Chamber of Commerce yesterday.- - - ..- .- - ..- - ' . Had it not been for the vlcllance of the watchman . at the Alnsworth dock Sunday night - that structure would have been a charred mass of ruins today. - ., '-. i. . ' . ; ..''irri.i--,i--5.' t v. "' . y. . f. - j -v.,.-;. J Senator Wehrung arrived from Hills boro this morning and states that that town is bustling with excitement and w v ar wwea an. a aaaanvvsea 1L the farmers congress, which will con vene the middle of this month. iy -.;..: : i-,.,"',;.,,-. ' - Receipts in. the gg market are llsht for the strictly fresh grades, and quo tations ara climbing upward. - , v v. j.- i -: 1, OF ear .en, v A -heavy truck loaded with grain crashed through the elevated roadway on East Stark street between Uratid avenue and East Sixth street this . morning. - - . ,-,--.- - . .- , ,.--'.- -,. . --.- . - Pressure -will soon be brought, to eear on tne (Jttyss suburban company by prominent. Meunt Tabor residents, Who do not take-.kindly to the com- mut'c eitanln, Ann mmm .n that 1 . . , all. winter. ,Iirlnf? the blsr rain ani wind storm of Sunday a largre nuni. r" of psfFenrers-. were drepc'.sd to- l;i-