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A THREAT
'yHERE is a budding" movement to
JL. abanaon the restrictions on lm-
anlratlon to this country. It Is
fostered by bis indastrial estab
lUihmenta in an effort to secure
cheaper labor. '
The purpose which a proposed
change seeks is sufficient reason in
itself to defeat the plan. Unskilled
workers already receive wares that
are Insufficient for the proper sup
port of a family. The standard of
livinir In this nation is low enough.
, The struggle for an existence among
.the unskilled is already desperate
enousrh. It is neither trood for the
individuals nor for the nation for
the standard to be lowered or the
struggle to be made more acute.
T ri One of the reasons that "restrlc
-tions were placed on infmlsratlon
was because the , demands of big
Industry for aheap labor were too
aTt'eat for the capacity of the melt
mg pot. 'I The aliens could not be
absorbed. They were not dis
tributed. They were not selected
They; were not educated. Most
merely- took places In bis estab-
nsnments at cut-tnroat wages.
settled in Jiuddled quarters," and
-slaved.' Others went to, peniten
tiaries or insane asylums. ,
The result was lowered atandarda
f living. UtUe ItaUes, litUe Turkeys,
vllttle Hungaries, and little Russias.
"populated Institutions, and plagues.
Unrestricted immigration brought
disease. It 'brought criminality. It
: hrought ignorance. It brought
peoples with no love for America,
no' understanding of our institu
Uons or ideals, unemployment for
' Americans, and lowered incomes foe
families. .;:v;f
There is plenty of room in Amer
ica for the right type of immi
jrranta The industrious, ambitious,
loyal, " healthful. . andf moral aliens
can find a welcome here They can
find opportunity. "We can absorb
them in limited number. They
-help us and we can help them, but
America cannot afford to accept
any and all aliens Including droves
-of criminals. Umorant and diseased
transients, and those whose hearts
"are always in' Europe, for the mere
-purpose of providing cheap labor
for the - big industrial establish
-ments. - -
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" v': TO" ADMIT THEM
! " rnnERE are thousands of suffer.
v X lag Greeks in. the Near East.
j Many are homeless and penniless,
I their life savings . swept away by
1 j the recent Turkish upheaval. They
J -have no work, no prospect of work,
(no means of a living and no place
: to turn for aid save to friends and
I -atlativea in foreign, lands.. ,
Greeks In America have sent
t r funds to the v sufferers in the
"N'ear East. Relatives here in many
.. -cases are in position to assure their
1 Support and are willing to under
1 ,tak the "obllgaUonwere they to
i scorns to this country,' but because
I .' the quota allowed by the immlgTa-
; ' t ion.; aw to Greftt is ' filled until
x June, 18 J3. the homeless and penni-
uless cannot be- brought here.
I ' A special bm has been lnt,
s duced in congress to permit certain
i of the Kear East refugees to land
in cases where relatives, guarantee
: their, support. : It. is an effort to
, tend the generous hand of Araer-
lea toward a homeless and hapless
people." The bill should bo passed
f or th 'sake of humanity and tor
thoM Greeks whff fought In 'the
American army, and; now ask that
distant relatives, be eared from a
hopeless fate. "r.. ,r " .
BACK TO ASHES
build. : -Ji spark takes hold;
flares up, and it's back to 1
ashea. Then, lika busy antsv we
Build again.. ' ."..A !-'-
"We have been. Solar it that way
since the begirmlng builds burn
and build again. It's s vast process
of wastev. But It's! our way be
cause ft has always been our wait
We think it over sow. because there
is Astoria in ashes.' ? Its , business
world is a world, tliat (wis Its
structures, its stocks of goods, its
plants, almost Its all, in the business
district, are' in ashes. , "!' fj':::f -
The story is. that Astoria . has
been peculiarly free frpm fires. It
seems to have been the calm before
the storm, for Friday's conflagra
tion laid low the l accumulated
property of more than 100 years, in
spite of all that guardianship and
watchfulness and care with which
citizens there have so long wtjt&
the forked tongues of Came.
But why do we build, and then
burn, and then rebuild so Jauntily?
Other nations do not do it in the
earns reckless way that we do. In
the United States we burn every
year half as many buildings as we
erect. If placed side by side, the
buildings we burn in a year would
line both sides of a street ' solidly
from New Tork to Chicago. If the
people crippled and maimed by
fires In a year were stationed along
this death alley there would be one
marred sentinel every 1000 feet
along- the way. If those killed at
fires in a year were placed along
this avenue of death there would
be a blackened and charred body
every three-quarters of a mile.
Berlin is a city about the size of
Chicago. Its fire loss averages
about 1176.000 a year; Chicago's
annual fire loss Is $6,000,000. In
single fire New Tork has had
more property reduced to ashes
than Berlin has had in ten year a
In 1010. 13 of the chief cities of
Germany, with a population of
6,616,022, had a combined fire loss
of fl.067,205. The loss in only five
American cities, with a population
100,000 less, was $14,260,283, or 12
times as large. New York, in the
same year, had a fire loss five limes
as large as Ixuxdon's and nine times
that of Paris.
The. difference is that the older
nations have learned to save. In
Germany the criminally negligent
responsible for. a fire Is sent to jail.
His fire is not accounted a misfor
tune, but a crime. 'If financially re
sponsible, he is required to pay the
loss, even to the cost of bringing
out the fire department.
la the United States. ..the , man
who has a fire grets his insurance
money, puts' more policies xrn tarn
other property, remains criminally
careless, and presently has another
fire.
For our carelessness and indlffer
f-ence regarding fire and fire hazards
the annual per capita cost of our
fires Is $2.39. 'Europe's is 33 cents
and Germany's 19 cents. -
The time to stop a fire is before
1 starts.
Ten to IS millions' worth of
property back to ashes in Astoria,
the accumulated wealth of more
than a century gone up in smoke. Is
the proof. f
OF BEEP PUBLIC MOMENT
YOUNG .women have a right to
live moral lives. They are en
titled to sufficient "-food. 4 They are
entitled to warm clothes in winter.
proper living quarters . and some
amusement. It is important to -the
public both from an economic and
social standpoint, as well as to the
young women themselves, that such
conditions are provided, .
'But there is a movement In Cali
fornia to lower the minimum wagel
for. girls from $16 to $12.8?. It is
contended that girls can live prop
erly on the latter sum. It allows
them - 90 cents a day for food.
nothing for Insurance, savings br
incidentals, and practically nothing
for amusement.
Ninety, cents a day perhaps will
barely buy raw foods, that if cooked
by the- girls ' themselves, would
enable them to lire. . It would not
provide any , delicacies. .. There can
be question r if it would provide
enough to satisfy a girl that works
eight or ten 4ours a day.
- All arftrla demaiul imnMmant. - ft
ik only natural that they desire to
he more than mere slaves, going
from work to home: to sleep and
back to work again. ' And what if
they-become ill or were temporarily
out of a position ? How far would
the $12.84 got
Most girls who go wrong do not
go by choice. Economio conditions
are responsible for the fall of more
young women than any other- one
cause. When -they, aret unable to
amuse themselves or unable to get
sufficient food or unable to provide
proper living ; conditions on - their
income, they become economically
and ? socially dependent on men.
That dependence all too often spells
ruin. And $12.14 a week is not suf
ficient to avoid economic and social
dependence. ifi jjuyf
-; It Is a. terrible thing to hear of
the downfall of a young woman, of
her descent into the rhopeless mire
of life's sordid marshes, there to be
bandied about as driftwood by
social wolves. It is st terrible thing
for the girl, and. in the aggregate.
it all -menaces the homes and the
morals of the nation.- -". - '
Proper minimum wages fan save
many a life. They can save much
of unhapplness and much of sor-
row They can r prevent much of
the lurid in life's affairs, and many
of the menaces that beset the social
order. Such wages ought to, be 's
tabllshed and maintained in every
state,' but 912 a week 1st not such a
wage in 1922. ' ' r .
AND ON EARTH
HRISTMAS Is coming; "Choruses
u teven now1 are rehearsing the
anthems ; inspired , by; the Savior's
birth. "Glory to God in th high
eat 'win peal . out from .scores of
Oregon's churches. Like an";cho
wfil come the refrain, "And ; on
earth, peacev - good' will - toward
men. . - - y'
It win all bo very beautiful, with
the deep green of Christmas trees
lit by candies of good cheer. . But
will the churches bo really ready
to celebrate when Christmas comes?
Portland's mayor told a religious
gathering a few days ago "that the
first duty of thp church, is to revive
the spirit of reverence which builds
homes from which children -may be
safely sent forth armored again at
temptation. Have the' churches set
about this task of saving the homes
of America and through the homes
America itself 2.
Here is a 17-year-old boy over in
Kentucky, under sentence of death,
awaiting the day, of his execution.
This boy killed while drunk with
moonshine. Very Incidentally it is
reported of him that never In his
life had he entered a church. What
arc the churches doing to win such
boys into Sunday school and into
environment that would teach them
the mockery of vices which allure
the Ignorant but are detestable to
the properly instructed? :
And here is Colonel ATvin M.
Owsley, national commander of
the American Legion, saying, Tou
may blaspheme in the street, and
the, bystanders Will sot pay much
attention to you, but if you should
get down on your knees and pray
to Almighty God. or if you should
stand bareheaded while a company.
of old soldiers marches by with
flags to the breeze, most people will
think you are showing off." ,
Yet the derelictions of youth and
the tittering of the thoughtless at
the spectacle of frank reverence
are not alL
The world approaches Christmas
embittered by hate. It is really
hate, after all, that holds its iron
shod foot on, Russia's neck, It is
hate t that foments the ceaseless
troubles of Europe. It Is hats that
stirs up class hatred in America
and, with the harsh mutter of dis
cord, delays industrial adjustments.
Jtt is man's inhumanity to man
and man's Inhumanity to himself,
expressed in callousness or careless
ness, that build up the frightful
death and accident list from traffio
and fires.
It is the brutishness of mind cre
ated by hate that causes acts of de
liberate or whimsical cruelty,- It is
hate or its by-product that creates
doubt of sacred things and taunts
the tears of sorrow.
The world needs nothing more
than to be rid of hate. It is hate
that poisons the hater and creates
a menace in every deed. It needs
to reestablish the altars of faith and
to light upon them anew the fires
of hope. Where there is no faith
human hope dies.
These ends cannot possibly be
better accomplished than through
Imbuing people everywhere with
the kind of, Christmas spirit that
churches teach( the spirit that, em
bodies love, that wills against evil,
and that rouses the good in thought
and deed, of all humanity.
TOUR BEST INVESTMENT
I
N Portland and in Salem teams of
men and women are meeting at
noonday, luncheons to report prog
ress on a drive for an educational
endowment. - - .-
We used to have such drives In
war-time. There was a red - glare
in the sky over Europe. The drives
were for money with which to keep
the sky ' aflame with tha lurid
light that flared over battlefields
They were drives in which the pur-
pose was to destroy and burn- and
kill-. r - ' . ,
Today's drive -is different. It is
drive for money with which to
build character, to raise the : level
of national information, to provide
for a more enlightened citizenship,
to prepare the way for a nation to
endure, to give a pledge for the sur
vival of self-government. ,
To contribute to education is to
insure- the title to your ' property.
Titles weren't ; worth much4 when
the hoarse howls of ; the French
canaille beat through the streets of
Paris in the bloody revolution. The
Ignorance and illiteracy of the mobJ
that pays no heed to property rights
under every sun Is notorious. A
well educated people never 'ques
tions the covenat. in the deed to
your farm or office building or
business block or industrial plant.
It a the rude and crude mind of the
unlettered canaille in every coun
try; that?: skilled demagogues . can
marshal under the banner of con
fiscation. - , -
. The structural strength of s Self-
government, a government which
the people are . sovereign, is In its
intellectual preparedness. Survival
of free institutions depends upon
the quality, character ; and Intelli
gence of a people. "g- t -
Most of the ilia in every self-gov-
ernment have their source ; in -the
failure of;, large groups to under
stand government, to discriminate
between issues and to separate the
Wheat from the chaff. The reason
that the) people the world lived
for 400 generations tinder ' kings
with scarcely a ehaHengo, in that
long period, of the right of kings
to rule was because education was
liralted. The " mass was ' H'.Iterate.
It was at ther universities .and; col
leges that the first glimmer ,of free
dom was vlsioned. The "riots and
Outbreaks of college students in the
monarchies of . Europe were con
spicuous features in what later be
came a drive for freedom, . .
The drive for an enlarged endow
ment for Willamette university Is
gathering strength. " The " goat , Is
$1,260,000. . No ; Western 'Institu
tion can point to a nobler past. tts
servige as a nursery and preparing
placo for good citizenship has been
Invaluable. Its past is a guarantee
of wb&t'it Is yetto be.
A contribution to the Willamette
endowment fuzrd ls.'npt a gift but
an investment, whose dividends are
net In gold but in Christian charac
ter and a strengthened nation.
THE RED GXtARE,
A . RAVAGING fire is an overpow
XV : eiinar disaster.. Xilke a xi Kan tic
monster, it I eats it "h fiery way
through the-' staunchest buildings,
leaps barriers-and goes on. rapa
ciously consuming all in sight. '
It knows no fear. It offers no
quarter. It grants no clemency.
recognizes nomaster: 4 Without re
gard for man or Jaw, It rushes on
ward, turning wealth to dust, cities
to ashes hope tb despair, u ; (
An us pain, a irve-sxory ouueung
Is like kindling, men are like mice
and , obstructions like babies in a
lion's den. They all fall and wasted;
away before the irresistible'. -onslaught
of the ferocious flames.
At Astoria a flicker appeared in
poolroom. It grew. In a few
minutes the -entire - structure was
engulfed.- Then the red tongues of
destruction leaped to another struc
ture and then another.; Men fought
them. . They gained momentary
control, only to lose again and break
ground before; the mad things that
leaped to and fnC here and there,
as if to wreakf its ( vengeance on its
routed victims. . Soon an " entire
block was seething and wilting un
der the flames, and then another
block," -Completely routed, brave
people ran from the scene with the
few belongings that represented all
materially that was left to them in
this world; conveyances left the
city with refugees; mothers with
babes in -arms scurried away to
save their very lives and. nothing
more. : Others paused to look back
upon the scene as the red demon
lastied and' roared in victory.
Today aid is rushed to the strick
en city. Sympathy and helpfulness
are extended to the city that was.
People's hearts and hands go out to
the victims. But as the ashes are
viewed and the ruins contemplated
there must be 'thousands of thoughts
of how easily a fire is started and
of what an overpowering enemy it
can become. ' -
THE NEW SAMARITAN
TH3S is die story of the Good
4 .Samaritan re-done for the peo
ple of Portland.
A certain family with little chil
dren journeyed in rickety wagons.
drawn by horses gaunt with starva
tion, down the snowy road from
Idaho. '
When they entered within the
city limits of Portland their failing
fiw'maig refused to draw the wag
ons farther. They stopped In an
open space, where the wind and
rain through a dismal night tugged
and blew through the openings of
the frail tenement, .and the chil
dren shivering within were wet and
chilled.
But the Good Samaritan was not
far off. - The generous sympathy of
Portland was expressed through its
relief agencies. -The Public Wel
fare bureau took In charge the
children and. their parents. -
In a little while these strangers.
with no claim on any person in the
city, had food. .'They. had shelter.
They had warmth. .Even the tot
tering horses were led away by the
Humane society to better barns and
more hay and grain than they "had
ever known before;.
But : xeven with this the Good
Samaritan spirit of Portland was
not satisfied. Volunteers, reading
of the dire plight of the family, be
sieged the relief workers with of
fers of assistance." Not one. but
many, families could have : been
supplied with the goods "and the
provisions these sympathetic people
Destowea.'. . '.
The story might end here. But it
has another chapter. The distress
of the strangers was so evident that
none of the . volunteer givers so
much as thought of looking farther
into their record. A trained social
worker did. Then It was" found that
the-family had $1006 in a Canadian
bank. They-had more than $100
In a Washington bank. They could
have fed ' the children and the
horses without an appeal to charity.
In the meantime, there was going
forward bivFortland a, campaign to
fill the Communlty Chest. lhat fam
ilies in poverty might be; cared for.
Appeals were- made for groups of
children and parents identified se
curely as residents .of the city who
had faltered and, reached out plead
ing hands under the weight of mis.
fortune and' sorrow. -. -
. But ' though - sympathy was, . s
ready for the strangers, the Com
nrunity Chest, dedicated to the aid
of the known needy, was only two-
thirds, full. ' , :
. Uoes " the Good Samaritan spirit
of generous ' Portland always ..re
quire that the shrinking forms' of
the genuinely destitute must be pa
raded before It, ' In order to be
awakened? v . . -
: And In tnis instance of over-
giving to a family that had money
in banks. Is there , not proof that
grrlng' should . be with safeguards
such , as the Community Chest
throvs erourii the process?
K ON THE GIVING
A Sermon With GrenfeQ of laabrador
as Text His Notion of SaorUioe Xs
That It Is Not Che Relinquishing of
. the Things One Thinks One Warns,.
but Rather the Choosing ef the
Things One Really, Wants : Be- '
f cause ' of Their Real, aUltlmate,
Permanent Value' to" Oneself. .
From tb Cbictw JStmiag Fes
This -editorial Is suggested '' by - aa-
artlcle we read recently , from the pen
of ,Dr. QrenfelJ. the 'man -who has 4
voted his. lif to the servloe of the
fisher ; foQc dweinng -imm the Aretlo
fringe of - the Labrador - coast - and
Northern Newfoundland. - , . ?A
aw. Grenzeu ouant to imow some
thing of what ; giving no things means
something of sacrifice. For long
years he has separated himself from
au the oomtorts and delights waica a
cultured man ' can find in tie waa-
equipped, pleasantly; peopled realm of
proaperouB aoclerr. h nas eaaurea
cold of polar Intensity, he has suffered
hunger, be has gone for months with
out the companionship of his own kind.
He has faced danger In its most ter-
rlble xorzns: ne has met alscourage-
roent; he has known the. utter slonell-
nesa of the vast silence. ' All of this
for the privilege so- he:. calls it of
being physician for body . and. mind
and soul" to aa isolated, primitive peo
ple who had no claim upon- him ex
cept the claim of human Unship. '
The man who lives is a modern home.
with all its conveniences sad luxur
ies : who - enjoys the faculties which
organised society affords aim ; who has
bis city club and his oountry cTOB ; who
can have .. whatever- companionship he
pleases: who can listen to good music,
or look-f sti good pictures, or
hear interesting speakers, or find
rest for his - mind at an entertaining
show, may well wonder why Genfll
anould prefer actually prefer tha
hardships of Ufa on the liabrmdor coast
to the uze tev former. leads.
It : is . not: because Grenfea cannot
appreciate every thing that , he finds
enjoyable. If you - know . the man. you
know that he is in enrery fibre of his
being a red-hlooded ..human. Tbr is
not a decently pleasurable Item In the
program of a -man of culture and. priv
ilege which Grenfell would pot delight
iu, and -which, ; with hU ability, ha
might not have, had if such had, been
his choicer. . . - . . . .. .
Grenfell does not- ask you to think
him a hero; nor yet to sympathise with
him. He would laugh if you did either.
We have" a .suspicion that there are
times when he Is ouite as sorry for the
reuowa living m ciTiuiea comion u
he is for - tha " frost-bitten, hunger-
p-nched. soul-starved lives to which be
ministers onva- bleak frontier of the
world. K ;- v '
He has his own definition of sacri
fice, and it was" that -which set us
thinking and Impelled " the (writing
dewa of our thoughts. We d not
quote his words the article is not be
fore us but In substance this is what
ho says: . t
"-People Chink of saenftoe as- a pain
ful baby hugged to the breast of some
suffering saint. It is - nothing of' tb
kind. Sacrifice Is a - true sense . of
values, and a choice of ,tho best;"
. . .
Turn that over In your mind. -Sao-
r fice is a giving up of me lesser good
ror the greater. Urenreu talis us ne
has found t work which-" makes - Bfa
worth while; there Is romance In It;
there is adventure; there Is the splen
did satisfaction of seeing, broken, un
promising, despairing human beings
mended, developed and transformed,
until the hidden image of God ta re
vealed again la ..their lives,. Grenfeu
is a knight companion vx tha .cluvai:
rous Chriat, fj eh ting under his banner
agamst au max is ugiy ana soroia ana
aefmng- He ! esUbllshlng a frontier
outpost tor3oL ;;jaxty him," u you
will i honor fcmv as you must ; but eom-
passlonats hlxnJt Jo.
Give the thought another turn In
your mind. or urerueu sacrifice
means : giving up ' good things for
things better. But for some of us
'what does it mean? We cling to the
comforts, the conveniences, the agr
able fellowships, the fond pleasures.
We labor hard In order that we may
cling to them. But do we think of
what constitutes our sacrmcer May
we not be losing what Grenfell has
found? V What joy In our Inventory Is
worth the joyof making over a crip
pled life ? ' What pleasure ef the year's
round is eouai to tnat or oenotamg
me light of faith and hope kindling
in. eves where despair had brooded?
What fellowship can match the sense
of being comrade with canst, co
worker with God? - - V; t ?
-' . ' .
One need not go to Labrador to make
the discovery which ; orenreii naa
made that sacrifice. may be the sur
est means of enrichlBg lire. Be wouio
teU us so. We can test the truth of
that discovery, ana it wouia toe weu
for all , of us if we asked ourselves
whether we may not be making the
mistake of giving up" the. things ror
which, . if we are ever, to oe reauy
happy, we should be wuiwg to give
up 'everything: else. ;
Letters From the People
f t-iMatnnnlcattaaw eeat to 3mH foe
tmbUcatioa ia thi department aBaeld be Wria
tae -oa only an (id of th paper, thoali not
aiamad by
. tu - wntar, wnee aui . aooxeae - ca
ocoaapaay th ooaHihatriro, i .
Juji. meat
"PROGRESS OR DIE"
The Clutch of the Super-Hand Must
Be Broken, Declares one WHO
T -. Notes- Modern ; XneauiUes. - -r--Silverton.
JDec a To the Editor of
The Journal--In politics as la religion.
"not every one - that saith unto roe,
Lord, Lord, shall enter into the kingdom
of heaven." , There are - progressives
and progressives. Poli-acaUy . we may
be classified las radical conservatives,
conservatives, . progressives.., radical
progressives and criminally Insane.
The . radical conservative on the one
hand and the criminally tnoane n-the
other are a" bad product of . a wrong
system, while all progress comes from
the progressives and the radical pro
gressives, ' -
, Your most excellent editorisl in ye-
terdays Journal entitled "One Super-
Hand,?, brings out most emphatically
that we need not expect anything great
from Mr. Harding and his following
of radical conservatives and criminally
insane. ; However, bis wonderful loy
alty to his Nwberry-like friends may
furnish the spur to arouse the progres
sives into a campaign to establish
more perfect union. ;
Nearly all pubUc utilities . are now
controlled by radical-conservative prof
iteering capitalists, i -In order to live.
the people must work for fuel, shelter,
clothing and food, for their masters;
and i they now -give these powerful
money barons about five times as much
work or Its representative) as it costs
in labor to produce the necessaries of
life, while the farmer is obliged to. take
any old price that- th big interests
mow so weu now to rrx.
What U the ultimate solution? We
must stop making paupers. and-crimi
nals, by stopping the production of
miiitonaires. But how? -- .
.The skeletons of quadrillions of the
slaves of history arise with their mas
ters to warn us to Change our sys
tem from this one or selfish exploita
tion to one ef cooperation and equality
of opportunities.
If we do not make the change,- we
COMLIENT AND
SMALL CHAKGII '
Be this Is OregocI ; . ,
Tha stdrlt ta smfldl and to rebuild,
that's Oregoal
- e -..-.
Well have to revise our war ry sow
to "Swat the. firebug!"
UnusuaL of 'course, but there are
too many fires, Just .tho. same,
irsv a 'stranre .wmd.lthat doesn't
carry a. tew. colds aaa. sore throats
taese-oays., .- - ' ' .
Msrket headline eaysV FUh High
est, bat Sua Lowest-" Tou'U have to
figure that one outran jrorvr m aaats. , .
Now. we have rumors that ChaHIe
Chaplin !
too
The
our Inability to oonviace
the .world
mat it actuauy ooee owe
a uving.
Senator-elect DDI ef Washinarton has
been called a progressive. New Dill is
in a. pretty pi
sta-adpatters.
, so to opssK, wwb toe
"Did Von ever entertain -vour butehera
assurance that the beef you bought was
tenaerr jjiogenes- aioa i evea siew up
at that man's shop,-, - - .- - - -; .
After " enr onthTOlffid' tilt ' -wtth the
Tbanksgrrinsx bird, arent sure w
have the- gau to pick a fight, with one
of the Christmas, variety. .. ,
It would .be pleasant to believe that
lv of us held a place la the scheme
of things that couldn't be filled, - But,
sorrowful ry enough, .-taint yo,asd. U
never will oe. ; -..."'"-? ..' : -
is about to marry again, in
girl's husband wU let her.
: ' . - - - - 4 -.
whole trouble seems to be te
M0REiOE?3ESS PERSONAL
Random iObservatioii
Among - recent arrivals ia - the dry
are C X. Qabrielaea and C V -Johnson
of Salem.
. ...'...- - .car" e . '. "- -i :
I. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Uphoff of. SB
verton are spending the week-end la
Portland,
.... - , e. - p
. James . Hendarson. postmaster ' at
Cascade Xocks, was in the, city Sat
urday.
-,.- . . ,. . . i w -t ' . v.:'-:'
: Mr. and Mrs, J. A. Itankta of Astoria
have sought refuge in Portland front
tts great flra "
BV N. Jacobsoa of Weetport Is -visiting
in Portland.- ' -
-. e
C W. Ehrnob of Harrtshurg . Is
among guests of the Portland,
- A,- EL- Resmes. a Medford , lawyer.
Is transacting business to PorUand.
. v . .: .. , . ..
'. .R."Baln of Eugene Is among week-
end vlaitors In the metropous, r
I. B. Edger of Fossil Ts' a guest ef
Portland for the. week-end.
J. 3, Graff of Eugeno spent Saturday-
la Portland. ;
. - Among out of towa visiters Is Ik Van
Marter of Heppner.
? .-
'-Lee Johnson of Rainier Is spending
the week-end In. Portland.
IMPRESSIONS AND : OBSERVATIONS
. OF CHEljOURNAI MAN
By Fred
' -X dlaooexe on' oiuatMbip and the eelt
CiOmm that ce with it Ux. LnoUey her de
Uran, ' la this be- taaaa em cheetahing to
Ideal of Aiio nehmrnmtm not, otily, - but
be that th tbos -nhto-- eiUsea. set eoay
and ' keep- buay in Behalf M maXiot saeb eirie
rtshteaurnaai etwtasCow' or at least perraaive
whether the ctrically nmrlehtooq &k ttrox
'The head waiter held up his hand to
catch my attention and Indicated a seat
at a small table near a larger table at
which there seemed to be a family
party. The waitress took-my order and
started kitchenward. With no inten
tion of "listening la" to the folks at
the adjoining table, here Is what X
lward-.-.. v"'-;'. - : -V."
- "We are going to Salem to spend 40
days in the wilderness.- said the young
woman with the dark oome-bither eyes,
long t lashes and dimpled chin. "My
husband was elected to the legislature.'
The exceedingly - slender, . pale-faced
young man with flaxes hair parted
primly In the middle and with large
tortoise shell eyeglasses that made him
look like a hoot owl said i Was your
husband elected to the house, or the
senate? X must plead ignorance when
it comes to political matters." "He
said be was to work with both
branches, responded the - beautiful
moron. The flaxen-haired youth raised
bis eyebrows languidly and said: "How
can he be in both branches? He must
have been elected to one or the other,
don't you know.- The beautiful moron
assumed an air of deep thought and,
leaning her well-shaped, dimpled, chin
on her thumb and forefinger, . said.
"Coroe to think ef IV be said be was
"selected,' not -elected. His office will
be in the lobby between the two house
That's it I -remember now. He said
be had secured ava appointment as lob
byist. He said: if he had good luck
we can buy a new car. I asked htm
if the men who were elected to the
lobby got as good pay as the senators,
and he said the lobbyists get the real
money 2 so I guess I can stand it to
stay la Salem 40 days. Isnt this cold
weather the limit? It sure gets my
goat. I am afraid TO get the autonia
Llf It don't change to rain." Just about
then - the - waitress brought - their, or
ders; and the pleasingly plump dimple
chinned moron devoted her undivided
attention to her corned beef and cab
bage: se X didn't learn any further
details of her husband's "work" at
Salem during:-the legislature.' -
When It came to securing favors from
the; legisUtureav Jay Gould was the
busy boy that brought home the bacon.
On one occasion he appeared befone the
transportation committee of the New
Tork legislature to secure special priv
ileges for the Erie railroad. He urged
it on the grounds that he aad bis rail
road-favored the Democratic party,
and that every wen known Democratic
leader carried an annual pass on th
Erie road. One of the holdover mem
bers of the committee, a : Republican.
$aid, "rwhy. Mr. Gould, two years ago.
when we granted your request for spe
cial consideration, we did it because of
your s-fatement that you were , a Re
publican and had helped secure a Re
publican legislature. Wereyou a Re-
pubucaa thear -T-ertalnry, . v was
said Gould. "Are you not very ehange-
aoneT" mqmrea u notaovcr men per.
-?ot at aU. said Gould. . -X am the
most consistent man la the room. Too
WW observe that on poth ef these oc
castoos I was for Jay Gould."
shall go dewa aa andent ttations went
down when a few- men owned nearly
an toe wealth, we afford to let
the rich -radical conservatives hold us
back unta the werkera have become
erlminally fnaane to s-och a degree as
to destroy civlllsationT
- The editor of The Journal Is right-
"then the republic win fan. - -
J. - EL ' HoemeT. -
1
GIVING THE BOSS A HINT
-. grosji the Weater Chriati Adeeeat v
Roy Simpson. v negro laborer, was
putting in his first day with a con.
strucUon "gang , w hose foreman -was
NEWS IN BRIEF
. - SIDELIGHTS "
" Things are getting so badly rolxeo
up that -the aaM'Wwidac pelitieiaa
doesn't know whether to be dry or web
Banks Herald. - .
-..;-:.,t -. . -:
It Is Jolly well comprehended la dlp
lomatic circles that when only . such
ships aa oaaaot -scrap- arev scrapped.
Blups that can scrap are left for scrap
pUvgWeston Leader. -
Cnele Joe Willis has broken the 1923
winter record by bringing, in the first
rsapberries of the, season.- Just think,
raspberries .la Oregon when te rest
of the northern countries, are fighting,
the frigid cold of n-Od-wijiter. CarUoit
aentlrtel. - ; - - . .'-r--
. . . - - -. -r -
5 Portland Is showing a splendid spirit
in starting a campaign -to raise S30O,
000 for the purpose of developing Ore
gon, Such work If intelligently guided
will be highly beneficial to the state
and to our me tropoua. Pendleton East
Oregoalaa.
In Wlseoasla the grocerymen ever
tlae three pounds of dried prunes for a
quarter. ' Here ia Oregon the grecerr
man buys them at wholesale at 11
cents a pound. Is this aa Inducement
for people locating In Oregon ? ionta
vula Times, w-
. , -. . -. e '
' '-From coast to coast there Is a gen
eral dissatisfaction with the way trie
nation's business Is being - run. - --The
cost' is the one feature upon which
the people are united.' It is too great.
Those who have the Job of paying the
costs- are qiaaaTisnee. ana the am is
here, new .when .- ther
r bell In r
against its exceeatveo
nton
couaty courier. -
- Visiters from -Tillamook Include F.
P. BeaUs.B.1 Beals Jr Mr. and Mrs.
J M. WUsoa and Mrs. O. L. Bnbbard.
Mr. and-Mra -Rr W. Reed of Clats
kame were among arrivals of Satur
day. .".. ,
? -5 ' -
. Kred v "Botnmaa of . Forest Grow
was tranaacting business In Portland
saMwvaj - 3 i, - - - i
-.'Among the, guests of the Imperlali
Ada M. Swank of AumsvlUe, - . ;
"T. D. Barclay of Pendleton tsfamong
recent arrivals in me city. -
-' Among refugees' from Astoria ia the
metropolis Is Pete Paulsen. '
..a--.
C W Hunlock of Seaside Is a late
Among out of town. -visitors Is R. J.
Cordlner of Ontario. .
Among out of' town visitors Is John
Carter of ldavule..v t
. . . .-..- - - -. . -
,- Martha Hanlsy .of ' Burns is reg
istered at the PerUand.
EL H. Dewey of Nam pa, Idaho, . is
among out of town vlaitors.
Mr. and- Mra? "R. W. Lane of Rose-
burg are among Portland visitors.
Lockley-
-'. Wo are fond of talking about purify
ing pontics, but just so long as we
"let George do it and shirk our own
responsi bill ties, . smooth tongued and
plausible lobbyists wul buy new ears
ror their beautifully dressed. dimDie-
cmnned morons. I ran across a long
article on the responsibility of oitlzen-
ship la the Christian Statesman a -day
or ao ago. It Is too long to quote in
Its entirety, but here are one or two
worth-while i psassgegtio :-'?:i
' One of the most evident Inferences Is
that voting Is only one among many
functions. Whatever may be said
about the power of - the ballot, there
are other agencies whereby citizen
may assert himself and help to sway
the -forces of the nation. The act of
voting - is performed- once.- twice, or
maybe thrice a, year. We are cm
sens S6S days In the year.- There are
rights and duties of citizenship per
taining to each one of these days. It
is of vastly mors importance to strive
for the moral elevation of all classes,
especially of those to whom the priv
ileges of the ballot have been -entrusted,
than It Is to vote, v ' -t-'s--The
most Important duty of citizen
ship today la to bring about a moral
revolution In the political realm ; to
introduce a new, a righteous, concep
tion of . politics, and to persuade all
citizens to conduct all their political
actions on that basis. In other words,
the Christian principles of civil gov
ernment should be Introduced Into the
heart and live of citlsens, as well as
into the national constitution. It is not
enough to cherish the Ideals of Justice,
but we must make a collective effort
to make justice -prevail. -; This means
that we must understand the rights
of every life and must define end safe
guard those rights and must stay that
every person born Into the world has
a right to a, lifetime here. We must
say that every person has a right to be
wen Dorn. weu n art urea, weu pro
tected. We roust eay that the earth,
being a heritage of the people, should
not be raonopolised ' by the few to the
disadvantage of the many. We must
say that every person born Into the na
tion has an equity - in the national
heritage and should receive the equiv
alent of bis equity in education, op-
pwrrnnity aula aavsnuges.
This means that -men with the Ideal
of justice must Eaforth to testify
against- all ' injustice, to withstand
every wrong wherever -they find it, to
expose every raisenooa without fear
or favor, to seek to insure to each man
bis due. ' This demands that the men
of good will make s. collective effort
to establish 'Justice as the daily ' prac
tice of the commercial world and 'to
build up. in the earth a just and Chris
tian industrial order, That is. they
must seek to secure for each person the
conditions of a fair end human life in
society ; they must see that rains 're
ceived and privileges enjoyed bear some
proportion to service -rendered ana oo
llgatlons fulfilled i they must put; their
faith aad conscience-in pledge in be
half of a Just and Christian social or
der: and they must strive toe-ether to
establish Justice as the supreme law
and the daily practice of all men In all
tne relations ox -weir uvea
The practice of Christian citizen
ship requires . a continuous warfare
against evil. : In the world - there are
many evils, and many of these cannot
be cured by state action. .But none
the less, tne state can do much to de
stroy i"vtl and - maintain luatice. We
often bear it said that '-you cannot
make men good by law. Of all the
cant phrases In a world ef cast that ta
the most canting. By a good law welt
enforced we can make vice and dls-
nonesty oangerous and - unprofitable.
and thereby we can create a stroma;
moral presumption against them. But
ia -so doing we have created- a strong
moral presumption to favor of virtue
am iwueaigr. ,
known fer getting - the " maximum
amount of . labor . out of his men,
Simpson was helping. In the task
of moving th right of way, and all
day long;- he carried heavy ' timbers
and ties until at the close of the day
he was completely tired out. - Came
quitting time. Before he .went he
approacnea ut poss ana said :
, "Mistuh, you sho you, got me down
on oe payrour- t '
The foreman looked over the list of
names he held. "Tea,- be said, finally,
here you are Simpson Roy Simpson.
inars ngnt. larrt jtT
" ? aas, sun. oosn, saia the negro,
rdass :: ri?t. I thourht ijiebb you
l me aawn as tarassn.
Tha Oreson Country
Kerthwaet BappenJnsa la Brief Form for tb
i - - . 8r Bder.
v OREGON
George Griffith ' has been - elected
president of the Ealem post f the
American Legion.
HeaW snows fa ' Clatsoo and Co
lumbia counties have caused many of
y .wm fn " " ,
Statistics gathered at the Orezon
penitenUary-ehow -that - there are 4S
prteoners betweea the ages of la and ,
is. and 101 between It and 4 years
old. s. - j - ' ; -
At the meetlnr ef the iM-IsIat-ure in
January, the state hortlcuitural board
will endeavor to-obtaln- legislation for
state control of the quarantine on hay
la Baker county. - ..-
James Collier will erect. a Eft-room '
hotel at Powers, with, steam heat, hot
ana cota water aaa many omer con
veniences, to replace the one recently
destroyed by fire. . ,
It is stated In Salem that X M. Gil
bert. - former - suDerlntendent of - the
state training school, la an applicant:
to Governor-elect Pierce for, reappoint- :
mav- v ww rwHu. , j... ,
T1a mrrrtv1j,. eftiinr Ann m -
"Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Williams of Sheri
dan, was rouna aeaa in oea weanes-
dar marnliie. She- -retired
morning.
to good
health the Bight before.
i - ' - -
George Griffith, who lr-rea on Slalsi
street to Oregon City, nut a magnolia
of an abundant yield of - full bloom
flowers for the Christmas hoUdaya.
tTmatilla f county favors BU B. Al-.
drich. editor, of . the East Oregonian,
for appoinuneat to the place on the
highway oomacussioa left .vacant by
thai- resignation of : W. B. Barrett.
Baker is urgingWUliam Pollman. -
George B. ; Dickinson, :: George BL'
Wilcox and G, K. Portwood have been
elected -cornmlssionera to manage ue
affairs of Newsort under the new
commission form of government. The
commissi onars ' wm ..appoint, a city
manager. . -
. WASHINGTON'
due of ail kinds were shipped out of
saauna,
A Jury at ColvlUe has awarded Mrs.
daraages against Dr. W. ii. Cartwright
tor avuegea nuuyrcMw.
Lee Sellards, accldentany shot two
mmri, wrViH. ImntlnV Atl IVdneS-
day morning at 6unnslde following
the amputation ei en arm. i. - -
Since November 26 there have been.
In Seattle, 12 street holdups, three vlo-.
c . aWa, -n. m.b lHrina.rMMl u v nan-
dits and no bandits arrested.
J. O. Stewart, a neighbor and friend
Of Abraham Lincoln at Springfield, UU
in toe early '60s, died at his home In
Hamilton. BkagU-county, Monday, aged
S6 years. m--..v, ; -
N. X. Coffman of Chehalle was elect-
. w..h nrtne KtiLte
Chamber of .Commerce, which closed
a two days' session at Tacoma Wednes
day nignt.
The plurality of C C Dill over Sen
ator Miles Polndexter In the November
election was S9S7 votes, eooordtng to
the official figures - of Secretary or
State Hlnkle. - -
Report that an . outbreak of rabies
had occurred In Lincoln -county and
that rabid dogs had been seeanear
Davenport - has caused , th board of
health to declare a dog quarantine.
" i George 1 W." Brahara was, ; elected
mayor of Olympia over Seymour. W1V
liams In Tuesday's election by a vote
of more than to lu A proposition te
beautify the city was defeated 6- to 1.
' One hundred pelts from coyotes,
bobcats andK bears, taken during Octo
ix. arti Nnmmlvir. were sold Monday
by the federal predatory animal in
spector to a ; Seattle, fur house, for
- In" compliance witn nie promise y
XIV. r-.tj xm, -
Lieutenant Governor Coyle announces
that Alios ftetia -num. .. senator-eicuf.
from Spokane, will be given seven com
rnlttee appointments. -' i ;
' . ' n . '.4-4mw r .Vs.
late Colonel W, M. Rid path, ta report
ed dangerously ill at Spokane. Colonel
Rldpath waa one of the prominent
early citlsens ef Spokane and amassed ,
a fortune from th LeRoy and War
eagle inuma. . , ,
l'J ' ' IDAHO
v To data. 276 ars of sheen have been
brought to the Jerome district for win
ter feeding. ,..)--t
r TrnwAiTW wras elected ttresidenc
of the Buhl Commorclal dub at . its -annual
meeting Wednesday nigKU .
A - third dividend -r of 10 ner cent.
amounting-to $86,910.02, wsa paid last
wees to creaicors oi me ueiunci over
land. National bank of Boise..
Wriest A . Grenfell died Tuesday
night in a hospital at Pocateilo as tlte
result of an automobile, accident on the
highway In which he suffered internal
ruptures.-' - -
Worlr started last week a s winter
skating rink which, ia to be -operated
near the high school. A pavilion will
be erected and the rink Ulumlnatca
with eJectrio UehtSj t,
. RlafA landi . aare?re!ratin? " 140.000
acres .were exchanged Wednesday for.
forest service lands or tne same acre
age, when th Idaho state board of
land Commissioners approved the trans
fer by a vote of 4 to L - - .
Miss Pearl Cordrav. 18 yeafa old. of
KlmbalL a student in Gooding college.
Is to a hospital suffering from a puiiet
wound In the left thigh, received In
the accidental discharge- of a gun while
returning with a party of friends from
a hunting excursion.'.
Twenty . Years Ago I
From The Journal of Dec, 10, .1902
The Board of Trade received a "letter
this morning from a resident ef Great
Falls, Mont, stating that several farai-
UeS wish .to -settle In Oregon.
' The eighth annual exhibition of the
Oregon State Poultry s -association
opened , Its doors to the publto this
morning at the Merrill Cycle ry- Many -varieties
of birds are on exhrbition.
from Oregon, ; WasMnrton and Cali
fornia. .... ' . '
Although there was . some friction
among the members of the -Woodstock
band over the: election of officers, ail
is peaceful : in cartTra now. The band
to composed of 16 playera k;
They were the, British shin County of
Roxburgh and ' the British bark Lo-
dore. The former carried 117.941 bush
els oi wneai.ana me iuer vi.wz, ,
John 'M. Gearin gave a .banquet at
the Hotel Portland last "evening In
was a "classmate of the eminent edu
cator in the class of 1871 at Notre
rtflm. nntv.Milf, -r ' ,. . ,- - .1 - '
i .. - j. a -; '.
The various unions allied with the
Building Trades eooocU are booroing
C. Bomberger, a member of the Car
penters" union, for labor com ml s3 loner,
although they are not a unit In sup
porting him. . , . -.
,. ZT ., ;,.;- ' 7 : '- - :i -. "'
Washington The Stat ' department
today received a telegram from Min
ister Bowen stating that German and
British marines and sailors had land
ed and seised the Venezuelan custom
house at La - Goayra. ' It Is evident
the foreign : fleet is determined to
bring Castro and his" government to
terms at once. Bowen has demanded
the immediate release of all subjects
of Germany and Great Britain who are
EtHl Imprisoned at Caracas.
The four Portland lodges of the Tn
dc pendent Order ;B-nai B'rith held a
joint meeting last night- in honor of
the official visit of Second Grand Vice
President S. Julius Maver. flra-id P.w-
retaryX J. Aschhelm. Grand Orator M.
8. Levy and Past CranJ Orator Jacob
Voorsanger. - "