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Newspaper Page TextFRIDAY, BECI2IBER' 8,: 1022. I ran ; cm:Go:r daily Journal, ponTLAin ' Oregon. I Alt IXWCPKJIDENI XEWgPAFErn 3r 8. JACKSON-., , Pnelfrfie Be caJta 1 confident be efaeertai aad 4 mto other Ji;J y-l . Jfabliabcd eery weekday and Sunday meminc ' at ItoJwmtl -tmatrmg, mini J, hilt aUeeta. Portland.. Oresoa. -Aatered at the mtotte at forLUad. H for tfntmiio throach the aiili.M, Si tiaaa matter. ' - - -" - - - ' iiATlOVALr ADVEBTlSINO BEFRESEVTAV k ins Bijimn leaour K. Bran f i wick boSdin. 225 flftfc event. Mew Is; jWWI ataliere WMam, WMffc -VAC-UK; COAST REPRESENTATIVE if r C. VtM Co.. Inc.. EualMr aoildjos - Baa Francisco; Title luearance bsileaaaV Lai rt? Antelea; Securities tn-ikiint. Seattle, iiiiB OREOOX JOCRMAI reaerrea toe risM te reject. aOenielnr am wnek m it ebJeetMeiaele. -.It aim will act print, any ; taer that nr war atmalatee reading aaatr K wr that caaaot readily a reeoaniaed aa 1' adeernams. : - - I? SCBSCRIPTION HATES , Pabl ui Advance - (Bt mail In Oram. Waaaautoai. Idaho tod .Hovthera California.) - '. Srt year. $a.eOThiee maafb,7i.t-3'& iSix months. . . . 4.251 One month .15 ' Without ganda?) tOnU . " MM year. ., . . .,00!n year : . .38.0 .fh. . . etaath- 1.7 rTliree menUu. . 1.75 Taxee nmtbe. . . i. Oaa aienth. ... .00 WEEKLY 1 (Krery Wednecday) ! WEEKLT AS0 fil'NDAT o year. $1.60 ift menths 50 One yeaa.C. i f '. 8.TW All other pouu in the CaiteUfe'tetea :-." -flail uul Hnnriev. 11. OA ne Boat. -'Daily fwkaont Sunday) . 75e per ateota. Sunday, t&Oe per moeth. Week), I.i pet yea, single eopiea, gaiiy, ae; ganger, iw. By Carrier -fty ia CoaaUy- Tina tannta . . . .65 -.week 'f . Ks-SUNPA1 i - . DAIIY fine monta. .45 tee-' w eelh . t .OS rne week. Ho ts remit:. Seat fiqatof f ire money order, iitreae order or Mfsoaariehacav Stamp, rmrm orwiwiir are v.awirrt rif fc fCELEPHONK MA4M- 7t. . Ail drsaiioieaU 1 1 reached, by thi namfrfT. r . v Oire dieia a oomrpt feorAecC lord, aire hem a reaal 1 booae of eammeu, aire vnctuDi cdutv ana iei aw oava oat an aafettered press, and I will 'defy- them to encroach a hairobreadth npoa the 11b ertiea ot England .Bietiard Brimley aheridaa, TAKING OUR PLACE tTTHEI American government has at X- last moved toward, -its proper , jblace in international affaira In structions from Washington to Am lassaddr thild at l&usanne direct '.Aim to say for this country that the Dardanelles, fehoald be' ' per- anently opened as a free passage Lb the ships and commerce of all iatlons under international guar an - Je- And the ambassador was ' . .permitted to go farther. He 'specifically promised American id in guaranteeing the freedom- of tie straits." - " ; if In other words,' ttie American rasa ucKooau wx nava atiMiwi isou v . at lolpate in a conference that is deal- ng with, the! affairs of Europe. He ?as directed to place this' govern r 4nent on record as in favor of free .; iom of Ibis S6at, Arid he was per mitted, to pledge American ajd..in keeping the sea lanes open to the Jrafflc of , the world, such aid to Include naval aid if that be neces- ,ary..- 4 , J It is admission that what have -.fceen described as "European af- Jalrs" are in reality American af-.- . fairs also. We are Interested ia : iree passage of the Dardanelles. V are interested in free passage hrough the Mediterranean. We Interested in free passage r he North sea. We insist that bu hips should be permitted to trav erse all seas. Because we. .are in-. terested we hsfve raised our voiceJ and we have agreed to assume our share ot the responsibility by pledg ing our participation in "interna tional guarantees.' . - The administration is to be com mended, for, assuming a position - that we should have taken two years agi. We are definitely and ' fieeply concerned with world af- fairsi and if we are to protect our Interests we are compelled to take "part in -deliberations that relate to those affairs, and to assume our chare of responsibility in seeing that proper decisions are reached and enforced. - It is to be regretted that Mesopo tamia oil And American railroad and mining interests in the Near Bast may have had considerable - bearing on the alteration in foreign policy of the Harding adm Inlet ra tion -But it is extremely encourag ing to bote the c"hange,even though it be irescpeA wjtn olC railroad and raining .wfcr ; :;v .The Johnsons." Borahs, Lodges, Brandetees'&Bjditheir isolation col- , leagues wllk undoubtedly rave and beat the air. but their dictation of the Harding foreign policy should ,have endedori agd, both for the good of; the- administration and for the good, of the nation. . , ' .- ,'"M 1 "" 11 . .-. WHY WAIT? -J nrTlTHiN. ' yea ."large timber W operators' Ja - th Jforthwest could : be organized " for forest v re production.' The plan indorsed, in i he region where most f the na tion's standing timber Is -found could be extended in th; form ot k-natiosal policy which would as sure to all coTnlng generations their supply of timber. .. . .'..'- This Information comes from " a rnan-Close tk the lumber industry et Orlsoh and WashisstolC ' H be- lie ves thAt in 'tb . I ot nutble aenti merit oflombermen is tne solution of Chief Forester ; Greeley's. appeal tor m. national toret jx)licy.. . f. If ue men -woo nandle uie lor ttintr ani .Mwttini bu&laeas f the Northwe0tf!caa?le tha enlisted, why isn't it' d'one ? 'Could anything be ; tewewora whlj Would any other moVemsnt coatrtbote more to tb stabtflxed proverity of Oregon? TlMunxber! Industry now brings into Oregon $0.OO,OGO a i year. It ; awpporur a ;$7,000,000' payroll It entloy 4S.06S people. It could. withoutr,feartor the future. ; be maaa.w printr to ne mate double fbe ' wealthand ? employ, twlce the number ot People if trees' were kept ..'TEiere re two" necessary" steps in Gt tefypradrUtoafiXhti first ia propar slashiaa; iiiid burning so bat the land Bhall be cleared be fore seeds., oredin? the, ground germIaatcJlljeeeco'nd protec tld msainti: Hre.? i,Th 5 -f vftttc fire ,-. Why, should barrea. iogged-off land be Howedo,tfea4l its area when these step may 1 be taken? r ''Ih his vtrfjeeetr before the Ian sanne conference, "Observer'? Child, speaking -on . tastructionC from the Arnerican.. state department, said, America la. ready to use onr nary to back -the pJan of an open Darda rtelleis.' et'S see- Ettdn't somebody say'Itwovld never do to, subscribe to Articie'.X 4est the'Uaited States should have to send ships and men to 4a.fp?jnt projects -in Europe? DtdhsiomebodySsay" it would be making war without th consent of eengrese? What a fareicai thing some public men make of great puBiiia. enterprisest1' ORlXAriTS J'AIX-DOWN ltJfHNG November a year ago Seattle received carloads of grain from the" interior. The past ; November, Seattle received 4211 carloads of grain' from the same points of origin, a gain of 84' per cent- . . x "Jfacoma'sl grain receipts in No vember," 121, Were 02 carlOSMs, and in November last, 682 carloads, a gain of 13.3 per cent. Portland's grain receipts in No vember a year ago were 1927 car loads; in November j of this year 1768 carloads, a decrease ot 8.3 per cent. ; , ' Portland still leads the North west in grain receipts,, but last year it j was our boast that we exceeded our two Puget Sound competitors by one and One half times. This year the sum of he Puget Sound Lreceipts exceeds our own. The facts might be blinked at or camouflaged, but-the figures would not thereby be changed. A shortage of cars' Is htd partly to blame, and baek'ofc the car short age is a strike, whose distresses are yet unadjusted, a strike whdse re pairs have yet to be made. 2 There (a, too, a labor disturbance in .the -poTt,' which, it cannot be denied, hag .handicapped the normal movement ot grain. 'Unusual amount of smut in the wheat and. the consequent division of the movement !n order that cleaning may be done by all the machinery available in .the several ports, is also offered as an explana tion. 5 " " . Bnt there is! another' cause which cannot beignore,dvjTh Interstate commerce commission greeted that the- rate sheuiAbeie 'per" cent less to Portland from a great grain zone south of Snake river that to Puget Sound, Thi order was made to benefit interior producers. 'But it is reported that Portland export ers are' absorbing this differential and benefiting exciusively from the order. In the statement is the as sertion that -Seat Ue. and Portland exporters bid Vn eQUkl terms and at equal buying .prices-in the grain belt. That Is to say, tfie growers do not receive frpm: Portland J a price oased on tne rdirrerenoe-m the freight rate. Is this report true? If so, is a big. public act to be diverted to private': benefit ? v; Is-the Portland dumber f Com merce not interested-? . HlS PUBUtC ltDGB , 46TT WILIj b inyt purpose when 1 elected to help; the legislature to the fullest extent in enacting needed legislation to relieve and re distribute; the burden of taxation and to aTiveverner Pf. every honorable assistance in carrj'ing out his pledge to the i people of Oregon. ( , . These are the words of Senator Upton. ,It is with this pledge on his lips that Senator Upton makes his appeal for election to the presf- dencyr Of the Oregon senate. It Ss on this covenant..solemnly spoken. sealed and signed, to the people-of Oregon tjiat he makes his bid for a. pivotal .. position . in the public affair of the commonwealth. There is no way - to repeal a pledge. It may be .broken. Many public pledges have been 'broken. But, once In the record': as la this solemn promise" of Senator Upton, no pledge can be erased.: obscured or forgotten. k" ti is -on wen a. con tract that; -as matters now stand. Senator Upton seems in fair way to be the president of" the senate. The "Covenant .- of Senator Upton ought to : express the , attitude of every legislator at the coming sea- cion.. If there: ia not to be reduc Uon and redistributionj of .-taxes by this legislature then representative gervernnterft does not represent, air. Pierce " made : his campaign solely bn the issue of 'reduction and redistribution of taxes." ;He dis fiussed liotning- eigei ? That it could riot be done was the. main allega tion of his opponent. To prevent hlfir from'belag fut in "'poEition- to do it, a great campaign fond, was raised Ty : naen' who1 want nq re distribution of taxes. d The people chose Mr. Pierce. By an enormous, majority, the greatest ever given a candidate for governor in Oregon,-the voters decided for reduction . . and 'redistribution ' of taxes. - - JThey , commissioned Mr. Pierce to 4ne" the leader .in that great work. . . -a- There can , be i -no s " representa tive government , except l by ma jority. If the majority cannot rule, it is chaos. - If the " majority senti ment expressed at an orderly elec tion lm obstructed, it is a breakdown of representative government. 1 If that should be done, with the people of Oregon in their present mood, those who do it will f ace a. reckon ing. ; :- Kl Fer the present, the Oregon state house is not the place nor is this the time for. thimblerigging politi cians to run counter to the ex pressed will, of the people. , PA AND MA npHE business of alienating affec- jl none became precarious yes terday when a jury in Vermont awarded $465,000 to a young worn an on the ground that the parents of her husband had -broken up their happy home. , The plaintiff was Dorrit Stevens, a poor girl. The defendants were Mr. and Mrs. Lorenzo Woodhouse, wealthy and prominent Vermont people. The son courted and ved ded Miss Stevens " over the opposi tion of his parents.' After a month of wedded life young Woodhouse returned to the family roof, and thereafter lived apart from 1 his bride. She brought suit' for 006,000, .alleging alienation of her husband's affections by the parents as grounds for the proceedings, -The case "attracted attention throughout Vermont. It was -discussed at pink teas, in the drawing rooms of the mighty and in the cot tages of poor folks: ' The gossip spread even to the-far confines of New England. ' f Apparently, the girl proved i her case to the satisfaction of the Jwry. The excursion of the young hus band into the domain of i wedded life cost Pa and Ma Woodhouse the tidy sum of $466,000, and leaves him and them to ponder -over - the question of whether it was worth it. It a higher court does not change the situation, perhaps the old folks, when they make out the check to meet the sum appraised by the Jury as the damages, to the young wife, will wonder if. they got; then money's worth in the separation of a son whose nuptial pledges were so. jauntily made and so promptly broken. There was a falling oti of more than 8 per cent in grain receipts at Portland for the tnontl of NovemJ ber as compared with November a year ago. lN)r the same mohth, Seattle's grain receipts gained' 84 per cent and Tacoma's' more ' than 13 per cent. Portland has water front troubles, Puget Sound hasn't. The figures verify Bthe reports of vessels being diverted frottr Port land to Puget Sound ports on j ac count of theA uncompromising atti tude of the Portland Waterfront Employers .union. V: i ' HE DREW NO S ALA RX THE late James J. Hill nisver took a dollar of saharv from, tha Great Northern railroads 'or anV other line under his direction He cast his lot with the stockholtjs and relied on the earnings af the institution honorably distributed In preportioi' tothldtngs,,.torhis com pensatioyif T ;j: -Whais more, he threw intolthe commotf pperty;yaluabie iron ore. hidings that he could have with held for,' his personal benefit', ahd which, most menin "his position would ..have kept r for themselves. His idea, was, noY great wealth for himself, . not to make himself an aristocrat of gold,' but to build up a. " great railroad property, eon stantly'- strengthened, continuously broadened and increasingly dedi cated to effective service - Above allL there was never a scandal of stock Juggling on any line directed by Mf . Hill. iHe never. wrecked a railroad to enrich him self. - He. never robbed one. railroad to build jnp another, " . 5 v ; In the archives of the Canadian Pacific: at Montreal there is -a document. " It is the report- ot a reconnaissance made by James J. Hill, then a young man, of the pose aibillties of agriculture along . the fight of way, describing how fa West wheat raising could be suc eessfully carried on. The report fixed a limit within 20 milesvof where grain growing has since been inaugurated, t 'V The career of Mr. Hill was a re markable career ot its kind. , and it was a good kind, t He was a farm boy. ,- He became a. freight clerk. His first business venture was in flatboating on -the MlasissippL From the first his bent - was for transportation. His first rail road venture s the' purchase. Ui rough the assistance ef -capitalists In Qrl many, of a short line of railroad extending from St. Paul ank Min neapolis, to St. Cloud. Minn..4 Ttfe success he made of it was the be ginning ofsthe construction and ac quisition v of a. .railroad'; systeto which,' Including the Great Norfh ern , and . allied lines, threads' th tnlted states with mora than 27, 909 mfles of trackage. .y i ' " in the life and work ef -this nn usual man there is proof -to youth and matdrttr- that carf xhat runs along'' the broad, path of in tegrity and." straight thinking "has sure and-enduring: rev':?r?. - ; WHY: VINCENZO. COLOMBO ' IS S: EXCLUDED - Case ot the Man Woo Failed in a Re cent Naturalisation Test Is Reviewed in Detail by aa Official Cognisant -wf tbe Minutiae tha Hecord Reaeonablenes and Pertinence of . the Questionnaire Defended, in , Answer to a Critic Who Has . - Questioned rt in "Connoctioa .1 With the - Case of Cotombo. ' Br Vernon 'W. Tbmlinson. abtaminer s,- In iCharga, United States Ka- .' - turaiization Service". . : -Thursday' morning, "November! 16; one Vlnecnao Colombo, native of Italy, ap peared ibafore Judge Wolverton. aeek ing adrnlavton to citizenahlp. - Colombo waa aaaad- ta read a tew words in Bngllsh taken from the Declaration of Independence. He could not read tha : material aaaded hrm ao that it could be understood. "When aaked who Unclft Sam is. b did not know; but on. suggestion stated that "Uncle Sam" was an undo -of ' George Washington. Coiombtwae igftorant of everything relating to- the history of 7 this i coun try; the i character of Its -government or its rtatutkins, -atJ his peUtlon was denied by tbr court. - " r,-- - ; , Colombo's fltnesa for eitizenahip was rriado tha "subject of a prominently placed editorial in your Issue of Sun day, November 19. In your issue ef Thursday, November . it, you gave space to a letter signed by G. E. Miller of Corvaiiis, touching the same subject. Mr. Miller, in closing.. requests: "WW The Journal please tell us more of Co lombo, his work and hi family? It would be interesting to know what sort oi man has lost out through the lottery of examination questions." a e e 4 It is for the purpose of giving Mr. Miller, the Information which he had asked from The Journal tUat Jl have taken the liberty to address you. n his petition for naturalisation, filed May 10. 122, Colombo states oa oath that he has been a continuous resident of Oregon since May 3, 1902, and that his occupation la "laborer." He also swears that he has never before applied for citizenship, and that be has a wife. Guiseppa, born in Italy, and five chil dren; two of whom were born in Italy and three in the United States. Co lombo's statement under oath that he had paver before applied for citiaen ship is false, and is in itself perjury. True, be is ignorant.. He does not un derstand the nature of .an oath and should . be forgiven ; particularly, an oath' ef allegiance, which should be condoned. - On , August 29. Ulv his same Colombo filed petition for natur alisation No. 183 in the circuit court for Multnomah county. He was also a "laborer" then. Decern ber 19. 11S, be appeared with two witnesses, who wore that for five years previous Co lombo had led a blameless life, and particularly, that ha had never been arrested. Colombo also maintained he had never been arrested, but had been. as Mr. Miller intimates, an honest, ig norant, hard-working man. The nat uralization examiner at that time, howeVer, produced records of the mu nicipal court showing that Colombo was not a "laborer," unless a saloon keeper can be classed as such. That record also showed that Colombo had lh fact been arrested and fined S250 rpr trre unlawful and disorderly man lier, in which he conducted his saloon. ; Circuit Judge John S. Coke, by whom the case was heard, denied the petition for five years, not alone because of the frrtst,. but , the. falsa testimony given as well., ' : -r ' ' Crdornbo owns fafs home. His wife -appeared- .with, tout; at the natural- on office. They speak Italian at ome'.tbev faave "fat.' for' tha wife ran. fv t, speak, read. or write English; the CAiWrert must peak Italian to' "the bother.? -Twenty years of America-has meant little change in that home, It Still -is and will continue! to be an Ital ian'' noma. It is the kind of home whtah jtiakes up so-called "foreign col onics" ef our cities ; the little Italy, little Turkeys, little Finland, littls Russias, etc. , .e e Mr.- Miller seems to' take tha exam inations for- citiaenship to : task. Ha avers; that arty dozen native-born. eitU tens picked at random and riven Citisenshlp examination would show, an appaUins' Ignorance.: Perhaps so. -Three of - Colombo's children . are native-born. Withtharbome surroundings they have, the -whl! nrnbabur grow ' uo Into the kind: 4 ; nat.rTebot-n', eitisen he de scrtbetfc.' The wzo census shows that 18.31 : per cent of the voting population Portland, ' L4 over 21 years of age. are either- lorelsm-Oorn or of fore ism Mrentage On at least on stde. The seme census shows that between f and 19 years of age there were over 73,000 young people in Oregon either foreign. born or of foreign parentage on at least one side. How many of those come from homes of the Colombo type? Neither was Colombo alone in his failure; 12 other applicants at that heating were denied cltisenship far the same reasons, namely, ignorance and Illiteracy, and the hearings each month take their toll for like reasons. tit ia lntju AftKti1t fnr Mtirte anit examiners to reach a set basis of ad mission and exclusion. Mr. Miller seems to think we err in not. admitting the ignorant and illiterate, but admits that, some test is desirable. What, than, would he have? Coxcomb Hill From the Astoria Budget ' What would not many cities give to have a Coxcomb hill . and the view which opens up from its crest? In California they would capitalise such a scenic asset until it would be a truly golden attraction for the tourists. And here in Astoria the hQl has been air ways, and yet there are hundreds of residents who have never climbed the trail to its top to delight In the pano rama, of sea and rivers and mountains that' encircles it. The park commis sion has. with the limited funds at US command, sought to open up-tbi van tage point to the public and many pri vate citiaaria faave shown their , public spirit by volunteer service in biasing a traaup its steep sides. Now ths councii -las taken steps to build a per rsJtnent yoadway to the timber tepped crest, the grade for' which has already been-established. Property owners, upon whom the major part of the ex- sense wyi fall, have petitioned for this uhprewuoent. and It is difficult to un derstand why anyone should object to a project, that will prove such an In o uomm-Mr( gene her Skinners Butte, The Dalies her rocky bluffs.'" Pendleton her Cabbage- hill and many other cities have heights from Which a view of the coun trysifie and cHy may be had and to which the visitor is always takes, but hone Of them has anything ' that ap-4 preaches Coxcomb hill as a scenic high spot.' and it is doubtful whether there is any- combined marine and mountain view that can excel that which' unfolds itself from - Astoria's guardian peak. Let' have the road way to its top by all means before another summer rolls around. Once the crest ts made easily accessible Coxcomb hill will advertise Itself, for It wm be one of the most popular of the seeaie spots of tM lower Columbia. :. . . , And it will not be amiss to follow the NfrNtion n-.xda at tha Chair: bar of Corarrrcs meeting that ttis wirtfii? roadway be enrfirtenee Cblrwood. Trail tn honor of the memory of John Chit wood. yhe for many year advoeatad the utilisation of this resource -at our back door and who gave generously ot bis time and money to bring the com inanity to a realisation ef "its value. i Letters From the People ' I Cneamaateatrnwa' a a taa JmiraaT Urn vablieatMa la ibie department saoold sw wrH- tea oa only oma aa at taa paper, an earn ana aneael SOS aaada ia Wnctk. . aad aiaat be aisaed by the ' writer, waoae saad siliuaas ia tea aaaac aoeoaapaay uta eaatiiaanoa. - - STNGUSS TAX IN AUSTBALiA Statement Quoted by an Oregon Pro- poneat From a Sydney Publication. Portland. Dee. 7. To the Editor of The Journal Inquiry has been made as to where the single tax is in opera tion. 1 The City club declared recently that it is a mere theory and has never oeen tried. The .following ia aa au thoritative report, published by the Standard, of Sydney.. Australia t. . Tne local government section of the Statistical Register recently to hand shows for the first time that the popu lation of Sydney's- metropolitan area Is over 1,000,000. . The government of Sydney covers 448,177 acres. Its popu lation is 1,000,382. Its land values ag gregate f.89,472,200. The rates levied for purposes of taxation equal 1.704. 242. The whole of tbeae rates or local taxes are Imposed on the value of land only. - An improvements are exempt- Facts such as the above are taken as a matter of course in . New South Wales. They will, however, be of spe cial interest to our readers in other states and countries. Sydney is now one of the great cities ef the world. . In one great and important respect it differs from them all. It has fully adopted the Henry George plan of raising local revenue. That may be regarded as one cf the monuments to that great man, whose visit to Sydney gave our movement a life which has made us an example to the whole world. We are working with a view to extending the success already attained. In country municipalities and shires. councils have the power, subject in most cases to a poll of the ratepayers, to rate purely on improved values that Is. the value of the land Plus the value of the improvements. The. pro portion of rates levied on improved values since 1904 has been small and is steadily declining. It Is not possible to give the exact proportion of the rates usually Imposed on improvements. "In the country municipalities the amount imposed on improvements prob ably did not exceed 30,000. So that out of the, total imposed in rates by all councils in New South Wales of 3,- 123,201 only 30,2o0 was imposed upon improvements," The amount of single tax as here re ported is tha same in Sydney as the recently defeated constitutional amend ment in Oregon called for. It will be Observed that they also Intend to go farther, just as our measure proposed, after the first four years. Oregon has a long, hard straggle ahead before she reaches the lofty heights of enlightened Sydney. J. K. Hermann. THE TRAFFIC PROBLEM Discussed with Reference to Mayor Baker's Warning to the West Side Portland. Dec 6. To the Editor of The. Journal In the traffic conference Mayor Baker warns the west side that business . will spread to ' the east aids if the west side doesn't sumbit to one way traffic. Why warn tnemz is it such a, terrible thing, if the east side should sret "some ', of the -business? Is Mr. Baker maySr of the jwest side, or does his territory Include the efyt Side? Business traffic ';ta"vjpeen: One-way Binee my 18 years 4a jporWand-tO ; the west side. ' What Ave call a street tail- rway - system, end ' supposedly abllLf: rvfceHUtHity, is just a, priyatteai - ry - 1 line that tries to dump a pepiila-1 ser all tion of 275.000.lnto the doors of V few big business'' houses, clustered in an area about equal to that wlilcn. a town of 15.000. '.r. 20,00r usually uses for business .purposes.; The representatives of these lines advise us to go slow with street car regulation. - Yes. . and ' go slow when you want to get anywhere. The' proper name for the condition we calf a "problem-is "hogging business." To continue the -proeess and make the people stand for congestion and delays I 1 . ...... . b. .. .. V, T . arrr 2 rrin t Mr'G n of Echo is transacting resembles a man growing too big for. - his trousers. How is he going to keep .Wearing the small trousers, . and keep en- getting fat? If be bought a larger pair" his- worry would be over, which, eventually he will be forced to do any way. In less than )3 .minutes''"walk" from thearea of "terrific problems' cows are being pastured, -and you can see China pheasants roaming, and they dent seem to feel any congestion, either. ' Here is. a fact. If you board a carry-all on the west aide and ask the conductor to- transfer you- so you can stop on the .east side, do your shopping and go home, yon -immediately have an argument?, - It can't be done, you - are toio. Ana. we nave an casi aiue jsubi ness Men's dab, too, It ought to swing it. Beside all that, when you get aboard these carry-alls you are "treat ed" like a sardine. H. D. Northrop. SEES AN ERA OF TROUBLE Echoes the Voices of Ancient Prophets In Warning to the Heedless of Today HUlsboro. Dec 6. To the Editor of The Journal The patriotism that you are teaching in yeur editorials Is of the right kind, emphasising as it does that "righteousness exalteth a na tion" and that "sin is ' a reproach to any people. In your editorials advocating the spread of knowledge and education It should be recognized that man's wisdom and knowledge have perverted him. SO, in spite of all this world's learning, it will come to naue-ht-i "Canine events cast their shadows before them." The shadows abound today. . Many are the signs that the things of this old world will soon pass away. The heavens also , shall pass away with a great noise not the starry .skies above us, but the earthly pleasures of the un godly.: their heaven here below. By coming as an s angel of light, Satan has made Christianity the babel that we find it today. The time is now here, for this babel of confusion to be overthrown and the truth of God's word to be established. There fore, as the Scripture says, Jthe ' -wisdom of your, wise men shall perish, and the understanding of the. mighty be brought to naught, The troublous times which : the . world ia fast coming bate, the fulfilling of Revelation 18, wCl have two effects. TO those who love the world and its way it . irfO mean destruction,' but to those who shall.be able to follow Jesus in the regeneration those troubles will drive them to seek the only help that can keep "them through all tribiilationa For those it Is not written In vain, "Come out of her, my people, that-ye be not partakers of her sins and that ye receive not of her plaraeej." - v . - " Charles Strlkwerda. . INIOLD CLACKAMAS . Lebaaon." Dee". To the Editor of The Journal I am a OVA, R. cotnradai I came here October 14. 1907. I have been taking yonr valuable dally paper ever since. I read that during the months front Jane 1 121. to June. 1. 1922, there were 711 marriages in Clack amas county, while th divorces during the same period numbered 90. Now If the divorced were not allowed to re marry it seems to may that Clackamas cour.ty would , soon . run out of mar riageable timber.' X am wondering what the trouble is with old Clackamas county. n. J. Etccps.. COIMIMENT AND , SMALL CHANGE Out this way. we dost realise what a blessing our sunshine is until it melts the snow, v " .---;; .e 1 It may be selfish lb give and feel good about it, but., be that as it may. it is human. ' - : .' Seema like the taxpayer ia expected to Increase the wax: ma of almost any one but himself. : Man married eight timet is bank rupt. " Well. . what's strange about that? We've only been married once I After all. it doesn't matter so much what you're 'doing nor how you do it, so long aa it is honest work and. you nappy. - ---i. Is it true that the world is getting so busy that its people can't pause long enough'' in the mad rush to establish friendships Ilka there used to bet . . . Why is it. in this perverse universe, that tha demands of Christmas and the cold weather's toil, on our fuel ' pile come at the same time? 1 Daugherty urges reorganisation of his department.- We'd like to suggest to the president where the reorganiza tion might profitably start, A scoop for civilisation : Public Wel fare workers find an old maa. two elderly , women, 10 ragged children andH nvw oony norses on uie verge or starvation in a city where the fat of the land is bountiful. MORE OR LESS PERSONAL ; Random Observations About Town George D. Beaumont. United States marshal of Alaska, who reecntly brought down two insane Indians and a number ot Indian boys and girls to be placed in government schools, has delivered his charges and is in Port land en route home. e - e " e J. B. Sandefer and family and Ted Hill of Medford arrived ia Portland early Thursday morning, having mo tored down at night. They report tha roads in good condition and traveling at night easy. e Cy Bingham, sheriff ef Grant coun ty, and H. L. Kuhl, a Canyon City druggist, are in Portland after having successfully delivered a prisoner at the state penitentiary. - ' Recent arrivals from Coos Bay In clude C. W. Endleott and Dr. C L. Brown of Marshfield and T. F, Mont gomery of North Bend. . . W. A. Toye, a leading dentist of Marshfield, is enjoying a brief vaca tion .in Portland. 1 - " : e Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Conrad of Marsh field are looking oVer the exhibits of Christmas goods in the metropolis. . Mr." and Mrs. L. Petelle of Wal lowa are .visiting in Portland for a few days. - R. Littlejohns of transacting business Corvaiiis was in Portland Wednesday. Bruce Cox of Wallowa is registered at the Multnomah. : e Visitors from Marshfield "are W. W. Payne and H. Vaughaa. W. O. Barnard of Dayton is among out of town visitors.. ' ' H. T. Clark of Wlllamina is on a business visit to Portland. A. H. Swartley.Y'a-dtalnlng engineer, is in from Baker for a few days. p' John,, Adair of Warrenton is among recent arrival in the city. . )- e "EL F,. Collins of Newport Is a arrival in Portland. late Among out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Borg of Fossilr '- " '- '. S. N. Prescbtt of Pendleton is among visitors from Umattilla county. . : . -f - ., F. K, Mills of Tillamook' is one of many: visitors from' out of town '.',-' e business in the-metropolis. - r -. .' Among, recent arri-als in the city is Price Reoob of "gendleton. Washington" county -visitors include Frank. Barr and Reck Hall of Gaston. .i "-- '" -- F. W. Mattern of Newberg is an out of: town irneitu S:- ,'- .-..,'.-.. '. - IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE J OURNAL MAN By Fred Here ts story showias the ropreme aa rantAe there ia la ttoroushly tMliarlnx n the thins, -13AteTer is K that ana wiaaea b put-aenwa- it alio abows how inraaaity oeruea end. audacity undertake - new aaetaods whea ordinary metboda of setting t Palc Uaod ap sate failed. : ' ' ..,,., "After 10 years of railroading.' said J. W. Crossley ofS PorUand. "I had not advanced beyond a clerkship In the employ of the St. ""Louis Tc Iron Mountain railway. I had been promised- a raise in wages at the end of the fiscal year that was in 1891 but in stead of a raise I found my salary bad been cut. I decided to go to St, Louis and thresh the matter out at head quarters. I boarded the Pullman at Little Rock and found - that my seat mate was a pleasant-faced but very businesslike looking individual. "I was mad mad clear through. Taking my Plug of tobacco from my hip pocket, I savagely bit off a piece and. offered a chew to my'seatmate. He said What kind of tobacco is it? It's Star plug,' I answered. He shook bis heart, and said. That's a new on to me. Must be a rather inferior grade or I would have heard of It.' I was already mad, and this unnecessary in sult mad me boil over. I said, 'If you had sense enough to know anything about tobacco you would know that it is one of the best tobaccoes on the market. It's th biggest value for a dime of any plug tobacco on the mar ket today. You may know a lot along your own line, but you, certainly don't know much a bom. tobacco. He smiled and said, "Don't get excited. My name IS C B Morey. - Pm division repre sentative of the Liggett k Myers To bacco r company, "vwhicb - manufactures the brand of tobacco you have Just been bragging ahout-' , , . , "He asked m what , my business waa and how much money I was get ting. I said. Tm a railroad man. I started railroading at Atchison, Kan., in 1878 and now, after more than 10 year of faithful work. X am facing cut in my salary Instead of a raise, 1 am on the warpath, and I am going to SU.Louia to get more money or hand in - my , resignation. He said. 'Any mad that 1 as enthusiastic about our tobacco as yon are would maker a good salesman. I have been looking for a food man tb put Inte the Texas field, I believe fna are the man X hare been looking Jot. What experience have you had as a salesman T "None at all, t answered. but that doesn't mean I wouldn't make a good salesman. - : i- . e . - . . -W ate breakfast together the next morning and he took me . up to the sajes manager, who, on his recom NEWS IN r BRIEF SIDELIGHTS .-, Somehow we don't enjoy hearing a man cuts the country unless he ' has been here long enough to outgrew his foreign accent. La Grande Observer. - e - Soma people favor strict an forcemeat ot the Volstead act on the ground that if the nation only gets dry enoygh it will turn wet, Baker Herald. . v . e e . - There wasn't ao much talk ef high costs in the old days when they -used flour sacks to make underwear for the chijdren. Medford MaU-Ttibune. - a a Radium has dropped 350,000. a gram. We always felt that W. G. Harding and Will Hays meant It when they promised to reduce the high coat of living Eugene Guard, y s -if t -. ; w . f ' iThe bfg day is ever, but that' ia no reason why we should not make every day f the year one of which to be thankful for the many things for which we owe nr gratitude, Astoria Budget. - A Corvallfs man found a large piece of ivory ia his woodpile the other day. And a lot of other men, it might be added, could find the same thing under their bats If they would take a good look. Eugene Register. , - f H ' vi. : ' Jawn D.'s income is 323 a minute. In other words, Jawn bas made enough since you started to read this colm to buy you out but he hasn't had as good a time as you have. Corvaiiis ' Gazette-Times. Mr. and Mrs. James E. Grieve . of Prot-pect, on the road to Crater Lake from Medford, are combining business and pleasure in Portland. Among out. of town visitors is W.J. Townley, who raises livestock near Hot Lake, Union county, and was formerly county commissioner, - ' . . . " A. B. (Gus) Schrocder of Silver Lake arrived in Portland Thursday morning to transact some business. - ,.' Mr. and Mrs. J. A Harper of Cor vaiiis are among the guests of the Imperial. e e - e3 . B. W. Johnson is in town, coming di rect from his fruit orchard near Mon roe. - E. Reed of Redmond Is among visi tors from Central Oregon. - - Among out of town visitors Is- C. Clifford Barlow of Warrenton. . e G. W. Waterbury of Newportts tak ing in metropolitan sights. - - e' T George V. Blomgren ef Weston is among srrlvals from Eastern Oregon. e Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Newell of Pendle ton are visiting in Portland. - Mr. and Mrs. A. S. 'Essen of The Dalles are among out ot town visitors," J. G. Dunn of CrawfordsvUle Is among recent arrivals in the city. .a.- Visitors from Mosler are FB- Proc tor and A. II. Hodges. Charles A. Watts was ' a business visitor Thursday. e e C. A. Hayden of Bend is among out of town visitors. ' -e.ee D. G. Burdlck of Redmond, a mem ber-elect of the next legislature, Is Visiting In Portland. Ma and Mrs. "U--C. Root are among out of town visitors registered at the Portland.' ' -r -y L- a W. Starmer, sheriff of Douglas county, is in Portland on official' busi ness. .. ' Dr. O. C. Olson of Salem was among recent arrivals in the city, . e e .- e. .' , , ,- J. Merrill Smith of -Tillamook lis among out of town visitors, : " J. B. Clay of GOldendale. Wash, is transacting business in Portland. . Among out of town guests is I. M. Johnston of Moro. - e C. J. Ken of Cottage Grove is among recent arrivals in the city. e ; Visitors from Astoria are Dr. J. Par pala and Dr. L. B, Andrews. e e Rvfsell Keeney of Cnlver was trans acting business in Portland Thursday. Lockley mendation', put me to work on ths same salary I had been getting, plus a liberal expense account. -They sent a salesman out with me for a couple of days to show me the ropes, and then I , waa turned loose to shift for myself. My first stop was at Beau mont, Texas, now a great oil center, but at that time a small lumber camp. ll visited 84 dealers in my territory th first Week and succeeded in selling only three 12-pound boxes of tobacco, We handle Climax; Horseshoe and Jolly Tar, said one dealer, because they are the brands asked for. Whan you create a demand for Star plug we , will stock it. but a ' successful merchant , adopt the lines of least resistance, when It comes to selling goods. . Advertise your brand, create a demand for it, and then come and see me again. With variations, this was about the story I bad from all of the other dealers.,. X sat down, in my room in the little frame hotel that evening, in1 a" small lumber' camp, to think ths thing through. It seemed evi dent I was not a -tobacco salesman. I knew I could go back to railroading, but X had a family to support. After looking at the matter from every sld. X decided not to be a quitter. ; e . v. . ..'-...'. "I finally sat , down and wrote . a long letter to the., company in- which I explained the situation and in which X said. 'If you will furnish roe sam ples and not expect any order for the next two or three months I will make Star plug tobacco the leading seller In this territory I am going to Join th Woodmen of th World, the Mod era Woodmen and the A, O. V. W. X will put the initiation fees and lodge dues in my expense "account, -1 will attend : meetings of these lodges aU , over this part of Texas and . In Louisiana,: and wh"en remarks . are called for under ;- good of the order I will tall about th merit of our plug tobacco and urge my fellow-members not to accept substitutes when they call for Star-plug. I will also hand but sample' to my fellow-lodge-men,' I will visit the lumber camps throughout my territory, the railroad crr.fcfmctlo J cunps, t.ie longshoremen at Galveston and all ' of the small communities, -and distribute samples and urg every man 1 give on to to demand our brand the next time be bays tobacco.' The company rws game, and told me it would try out my plan for three months. I banded out -thousands and thousands ef sample-plugs,- Before the three months were up our cmopany was deluge dwith orders- from the small dealers ia Southern Texas and Louis iana.' . : ' -'- -. - The Oregon Country Kortfaweat Btppenfiits fa Brief form for tae , . - Bsay Baadeci'i . - ' . , OREGON . " Retail ' merchants of Coouille have organised a local chapter ef the Ore gon Retau .Merchants association. The population of tha atats home for the feeble-minded at Salem has in creased in: the past, year from 431 to 707..- st v. 1 A-sf -:. '- ,' -- : ., several, cases or 'smallpox nave ap- neared in - Wallowa hue. ir ta .af a mild form and rxmfined mostly to school children. - ;- : y Word ia reoalvad' that Charlea Krfwin Merritt, only son of C; O. Merrltt ot Corvaiiis, was drowned, in Salt river, near Miami. Arta,, while duck hunt- : lug. ; , . :'.: : ,,--.-,':,,:., :,,-- -. :. The- Bend Bulletin's new home 4s '. Rearing eompletlon and will soon be ready . for tie installation of a new press which hee been ordered by the paper. ........ . - Chapter 8 of the Linfleld College Alumni association was organised re cently at .isaaer. .-hnrr i is at McMfnnville and Chapter 3 at Roches ter. N., Y.fu,. ,"y- .-, Acoordinr to the census, rolls lust r. schools of Marion county 14.944 pu- t nils. This is an Increase over last year of 483. ' , " Maintaining that the salmon supply ia beina denleted. ' the Bandon Com- Coqulile river closed to the use of either nets or seines. ' - : A raid conducted by Sheriff Houser a few miles west of Pendleton recent- iiy netted two big stills. 100 gallons l maen auia lour gallons ot wniEaey. two men were arrested. Daniel Schlunegger, B6, was found dead Tuesday cat his home on Jeffer son way. 12 miles south of Salem. Schlunegger was a bachelor and was troubled with heart disease. . A telegraphic order for 31000 worth . of tow was turned down last . week by the Willamette Valley -ilemp and having sold its entire 1922 crop. ' 1 Swlmminar down the Necanlcum river near the Twelfth avenue bridea, at Sea- i . . . . . i . . . . - bjuc, revenue av maca near cuo, aoosi six months old, was captured after art exciting srtuggla by Leo and Percy Coffman. -- . : - Sheriff Slusher has left AstoVla for San Francisco with an order for the return to this state of Owen A. Mer rick, former Astoria newspaper man, wanted on a charge of larceny of an automobile. . - , , . WASHINGTON ' William Reese, former superintend ent or tne Hiawatna mine, near tnum--claw, has been appointed state mine inspector. -..-. - While working In - the woods -.near :, Selleck, William O'Connor was struck on the head by a tailing tree, causing instant death. , , Heirs of Edward Wilcox, 78 years vator in the eounty-city building, are suing the city of Seattle for l0,4i8 damages. John Do tin. 22 years old. waa killed Sunday when an automobile' ia which he was riding plunged down a 15-foot embankment off the Navy Yard .high way near Hood Canal. . Alexander Anderson, pioneer 'resi dent of Seattle, dropped dead Monday at his home near Bellevue, oa the east side of Lake .Washington. . He had been troubled with heart disease. The Mannlng-Wyman Overall com- , pany of Butte. Mont, has purchased 900 lots at Birmingham as a site for an overall factory which it intends to ' nave in operation by January is. "Mrs. Margaret A . Hojpkins, 80 ' years ' old. was found dead Monday In her home at Seattle. The aged woman, who was living alone, is sard to have . had more than 31000 In a Seattle bank. ' The. supreme court, has affirmed tha conviction of James Redmond and Robert Lynch, found guilty of holding up C Lei and Hlgbeeyrbank -messenger, In a Seattl street and taking a grip ' IDAHO A "junior college,' to bridge 'the gap between, high school and th university,' is being' planned for Boise. . ; - There are reported to be 6000 'acres"of potatoes la Twin Falls county that will not be harvested for want of a market. f t Amendments to the present forestry laws, aiming to preserve tne Torests and provide for reforestation, are be ing sponsored by prominent Idaho lum bermen. While inflating an automobile tire at Boise, B. B. Scrlvner suffered a broken jaw and a long gash on the sido of his head when a rim lock blew off and struck him in the face. . v? -. Tabulations In the office eff 4he sec retary of state show that Idaho's legis lature, which convenes in January, will be composed of 64 Republicans, 38 Democrats and 10 Progressives. Bids were received this week by the state bureau of highways for the con struction of a reinforced concrete bridge over the Biacxfoot canal in Bingham county. , The structure - will . cost 84630.35. Th conviction of Charles McKelvey and others in the United States court for Idaho, Involving the question - ot federal Jurisdiction over publlo lands, has been sustained by the United States supreme court, h ' , Twenty Years fA.go From Th-Journal of Deo I, 1902. Washington Thomas B. Reed, for mer speaker of th house ot represent atives, la. dead.-. ri .- .. v ; -; - - o ,. ,-e .. e , Portland must aid Saa Francisco in Its fightl with the government to re- -advertise for bids for th transporta tion of men and supplies to and from th Philippines, say those who know. This Is the only practical-chance Port land now has to get any part of the government transport ; service and thereby the trade of th Orient. The Southern Pacific engine which recently-took a tumble , Into.' the river from tha end of Jefferson street was raised - today. ' The , tender is still In about 12 feet Of water. .e e e .: -; ' . Th owners of th abutting property on 19th and ; 24th street- are very greatly opposed to th granting of th use of these streets for railway pur poses and will protest against includ ing them in th proposed blanket fran chis asked tor by th City Sc. Suburban Railway company. A Out of 32 manufacturing establish ments in Portland, 30 are preparing exhibit to b installed In the Oregon section of the Japanese national exposition.-" The only reason th other; two are not exhibiting la that their ware are not alable In Japan.. . '.-:-..;" i e e. .-' -: .- - The subscription of 3&0.000 ' to th Lewis and Clark fair is the result of a recent conference ot th heads of th Harrtman system, with tb Northern pacific and Great Northern railroads. .-.- ' v. . . a -r e , -. . Another clothing factory will soon be. established ia this city. A few days ago a company waa organised, with Charles Coo pey, a well known tailor of this city, as prune mover. . Its ob ject will be the manufacture ot cloth ing out of Oregon-grown wool. e .- e . r. - Th- Sellwood board of ' trad has changed It mind about a ferry in that locality. Instead of a ferry th board has gone on record tn favor of a sus pension bridge, from which street ear will be excluded. ?V ,J , . - e ..-v.. . 'i r v Dr. William Deveny, secretary of the Montavill board of trade, says the annexation spirit is still alive, and he predicts that MentaviUa will come into the city of Portland under the n;w charter : .