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10 TII13 CIZIIGON DAILY . JOU UNAL, POIlTLAIiD, OREGON. a. V tut C 0. 1 ACkiUJH . : ... y . . . . ( . 4 . . . Puollener IB calm, be midrnt."b -cheerful end do tmto oUmx a job woald aay Uaeaa do auto .'n) - - - - - i uDuahed eaery weekday and Sunday moraine- Tbe Journal bniidins, Broadway . at Xem- bi!l street. Portland." Orecon. ."' entered at the poatof flee at Portland. Ontrm, for tfaoamiamWB throufa the saailaaa second - " eiass matter.. - . - - Liinosii, adveeti3ino bepresentV TIVK Beaiamin - & Kentnor Co. , wir-k bndin. 225 Fxfti anau. JKew Xock; 9QO Maiirra pniidine, Chicago. -I'ACLFIO COAST REPRESENTATIVE a. - tCi Mortenaon Co., Jot, Examiner tnlMlin, j Sao Fntaciaeo; Title Intra ranee building, Los Anirlfa; SecnHfies bniidinc, Seattle. 5HB OREGON JOURNAIa reeerree the niht la - mieet uircrtisina eow waica ti objectionable. . It alee- will not rrtat-au copy that in any way ajmulatea readme mat ter ar that cannot reaaiiy be edTertisJnc. . IF" SUBSCRIPTION BATES Parable in AdrsDce ? (By mail in Orecoa. Waahinston. Idaho and f Kortbern California.) I ' - , : DALLY ASD STTXDAT One year. . .98-00 (Three moo the. . .92.TS jbx months.... 4.23One nvnith .... -IB r DALLY BCNDAI ' without Sunday) ( (Only) -Ona year. 88. 0One year . . ... . .$3.00 tix aaoeehs..,, 3.25 Slit months..,. . 1.75 Ihra months. 1.75 Threat m oil tin. . . 1.00 4)nm month . . . .60 ' . '-:' ... - WEEKLY r i rTfeEKLY VASD (Every Wednosdayy J r 'US0AT . v- Tina year. ... . . 9J-00! On Je.i - . .M-OV )BiS month . . . . ,S0 ' -, ""'". ''' All' other points in the CnRed 8Utea:v Daily and Sunday. 11.00 per month, Daily without Sanday), 75e per month. Sunday. 0c pet month. Weekly, tl 50 per yeax. . ; Siiule eopiea. daily. Snnday. 10c ' By Canrirr Tify and Country DAILY AND SUNDAY : iu nnnrn .1 .05 One week 9 .18 itl fWithont flnnday) Oeo -month ...... .48 SUNDAY Only) , One week 9 .OS f'ne week, j, . . . . .101 '. How to remit: Sent postoffice money order, ripreaa order or personal eheck. Stamp, rewna or enrreticy are at owner'a risk. 5'ELEPHON E MAIN 7181. All departments r re a ehed by thia nnmber. - fiino, then," not the greatest man, nor the rtchnat. nor the wisest, nor the atronfert man. let him confront the world with whattoeeer -his, right hand may most rtilfully , wield, erer can hope to conauer it -let, -.eTery man giTe thia up aa a rain attempt, and teak instead to win Jhe royal purple in the only way that remains, and that la, not by mastering the world,tmt by masterinB bimseif. Theodore Til ton. ABU JTD ANT MEANS mRESIDEJT HARDING, through .' Colonel Forbes,: again promises ;& 'bonus to ex-service men, "provid ing a feasible means of financing .the burden can be found." ,r It is.the qualifying provision that TromIfe jtrouble. It is the Joker. Jt .wasust suih a provision that eat the bonus before. . And it is 'such a provision that may beat It again., . i There Is plenty of money in the - 5L7nited States. The wealth to pay , many bonuses Is at hand. There V UllllV.Uli.JF 1U 11UU1UB a'raeans of paying adjusted com- eiVfao lst eV Vt . enlli'awi T,, there la trouble because there is no disposition in "Washington to tax Wealth to pay the bonus. Wealth J: doesn't want to pay. Wealth pro ' tests, and the protests are heard at the national capitaL Why not tax excess profits of the . colossal ' corporations and pay the bonus? Why not tax excess profits that are ! being and will - be made under the tariff law? Why not tax hose institutions that are paying fetock dividends of from 100 to i6,t00per cent? . Why not tax wealth where wealth Is? 1 Huge ' profits were xaade . from the, war." While the soldiers were doing, the fighting; a lot of big cor poratlons la this country were mak ing big profits.' Had there been no soldiers to do the fighting, where would the "profits have been? What would .have "happened per il aps, to the Jcorporations ? f - I . With all the profits; and all the & ividends andean the wealth in this country, there should" not he the 4 lightest trouble In finding a means for paying bonus. A trfeana was s found in the form of a tkriff to pay-' '.a bonus to the big .interests ihat ire now declaring enormous :4Svl-i tends. A means can be found; to . pay the soldiers a bonus, and li.-can bQ found without . increAsinar "the' tixes of the poorer classes of the nation. " f ON A qOUNTRT ROAD I T WAS &' heap of tin cans left at the side. of alqpuntry road. T From one person the heap evoked the wish that he. could be nearby w ith a buggjr , whip to pu nishi such Vandal acts. Another 'suggested that it would be; only .common decency for tin 4rt - distributors to' bring their sh o vela along and give "the ref u se Recent interment L "A : third expressed the conven tional hope that ' some- day Tegal penalties might be so severe, that aa one would dare thus, to; deface th landscape!, f But the snow came. ' Too have "en the air castles j ibat -j motion picture wixarory erects among cinema clouds. The tigly, sordid p. le of, tin cans beneath 'the coat ir. & white became a -castle '; tn mmilture.'- There ; were fluted olumn and minaret, portcullis and nsoat. One tan can that had held ni acaront t or, something of an ex- tended so; rose above its fellows in -"the fperfeef-. form of a watch tower. ' : 7""' ' : :r i : .:. - " f Then, came ihe sleet; and for a UUIe while the mimie jstrongheld r t : V" .FAKM AND TOWN, CwHpHAT it Is the opinion of bankers In' those states that the farmers in V-A I'- JJInnesotaT'the ' Oafcotas ."and ; Montana" cannoti: work out their present troubles without the help of congress, was the statement; of John; P. Sinclair, a Minneapolis banker before the senate agricultural committee Thursday, i; -.-.. .v. ' MrJ Sinclair rged stabilization of prices by government action. He said" 20 to 40 per cent of the hanks In the rural districts will become seriously- involved unless some action is taken by congress. . Eugene Meyer' testified 3iat there must be legislation to extend tho credit of the" farmer.1 '.," " R. W. Frailer, chairman of the North Dakota Republican state com mittee,! told the omraittee .that- unless the farmers of his state were given enough relief to enable Tthem toopay- their axes there would be a third party movement disagreeable to, the -government. For more than three years The' Journal has been pointing out the plight, Jnto which agriculture has been drifting. lr It has striven to show city people that their own prosperity depends upon the farmer's pros perity, and that city people should cooperate to remove the , blights; to help clear; away the handicaps and toj ref orrri the system that is slowly but surely undermining the agriculture (of "America. At last the bankers Of Minneapolis have gone to the government with the exact thing -The Journal has been so long pointing out: The story that' the bankers of Minnesota tell is the. story of agriculture all over the; country. The Yamhill county bankers In Oregon voiced, in effect, thesame thing; In their- quarterly meeting last week. . ,. "i - When 113 of the best average farms in Oregon had a net income of Only $76& for a-iwbole year and 303 of thajwent for taxes," .the .case. of agriculture was " completely proved . The government, the. so-called statesmen and' politicians '.who legislate and- administer, do not com prehend agri"cinturepr''cOmpreMend"even that' it is aninstitution. They have never understood the relation that a prosperous" agriculture bears to the general prosperity., They are finding it out, now tnat ine Dangers of the country are getting into trouble because- the farmers are in trouble. - Jn the war it was the farmers who had to permit the prices of their wheat to be fixed. No army contractor had his prices fixed. No great manufacturer had his prices fixed. ' . f- . When peace came the administrative heads demanded deflation, and it was the farmers who had to bear the brunt of it. In the process the farmers had to stand a loss of 6 8. per cent in the prices of their products. It was a loss to them of 68 per cent of all their assets except land and money In hand. The shrinkage in the value of thir livestock was $2, 250,000,000. , Their monetary loss on farm products was an additional k n'no (ion. ooo. It was a loss of one-third of the buying power of the country through one single act on credit system of the United States. That tremendous blow is but a and administrative acts have been similarly ruinous. If we did not realize it in any1 other way, we know It from the fact that nearly half the farms in America are operated, not by the owner, but by tenants. with the bankers telling congress collapse, perhaps city people will begin to believe that agriculture can not always be plundered and survive. Oregon people can begin to change transfer from the tanners some oi uueii- ivci-ouo.o i - to persons and corporations that have been paying little or no taxes. changed its walls from alabaster to crystal. Then the rain. But whuemany eave: thanks for-the break n the cold snap, the effect upon the cas tle beneath the whitened feathers of the firs was saddening. Illusion vanished with the melting of the snow. There was left just what had been after the vandal's call a tawdry, rusty, ugly heap of tin cans. THERE 'AND HERE IT HASN'T been long since they Were in, the trenches at Christ mas ana tne worm a neai i weu. out to theim. Then-from the war zone issued the slogan "Out of the trenches by Christmas??' The" ariilstice was signed in No vember, and the world was aeiur- lous with Joy. The yeas have passect,. Memory grows Aivxt Was inferno has lost its heat.; But some of the searing wounds of war are unhealed. Some of the boys who made this a safe Christ mas for America are still in the trenches, fighting the battle against disease. They are in hospitals. They are in rehabilitation schools. They are scattered throughout America. There are many of them in Oregon and in Portland. Is somebody planning a "Merry Christmas" for the boys who suffer because they helped make a merry Christmas for humanity?. In the escape in an automobile of bandits with $200,000 of currency fronv.the Denver mint you have example of the increasing complica tions of our civilization. Every, in vention adds to the complexities, even the automobile,, which has brought so much pleasure and con venience to millions. But how are all these increasing problems to be solved? r In the answer is the de cision of whether or not - this .civil ization is to stand or falL REPAIR THE STREETS . IN A FEW days the Pacific High r way bridge at Oregon City will be'cempleted. -v The traffic of the Pacific high way will be instantly rerouted. In stead of coming into Portland by East Eighty-second street, or the river road along the east bank of the Willamette, it will approach the city on the west side, through Oswego. i, . All conditions are favorable .to expeditious routing of motors un til they reach Portland. But with in the city several of the streets that will receive perhaps a double burden of traffic are said by ob servers to be inadequate to carry the load. There are breaks and holes in certain portions of the pavement. here . are conditions that will retard the movement of vehicles.. -' ; , . ,-T'v ' i: .' h w.-l '...--Why not fix tKe streets now, be fore completion of the pew bridge and the "rerouting of Pacific "high way traffic make manifest the city's -negligence? - , . LUNG POWER FOR CONGRESS - i I '',.. !'.....'. "" TO ONE will deny that the aver ' ago congress lacks I in many things.- Every congress is accused of certain failures. , TJnklnd gentle men have frequently accused con gressmen of lack of -brains. ' It Is not, however, ; easy- to recall, any statement la all time, in which con gressmen! have been described as lacking in lung power - i t.-: a But new conies a proposal that the halls of congress be equipped with, -amplifiers. ; Naturally '-. like the part of those administering the part or tne story, umer iegiamvo that agriculture is on tne point o this order by legislation that will anything else, lungs may wear a bit under constant strain. And of course, there have been congress men who found that voters didn't always hear their appeals for sup port. There have been times when men went to sleep in. their chairs during floods of oratory. Amplifiers may or may not help the situation. But if there is even the remotest chance of improve ment of congress and congressional ways by the installation of ampli fiers, ; by all means let them be lnr stalled. Certainly, they can do little harm. And while at the Job, why not invent some kind t of device that will be an amplifier of brain ca pacity,' as" a badly needed help "for the present; national legislative body? - 7 v . Chief Justice Taftpuggests that the president, alded,' by the civil service board, make all the patron age appointments." Evidently re membering his own experience as president, Taft wants to4take away all the fun of being-a senator or congressman. ? - IN JAIL A 15 -YEAR-OLD boy is in the city jail of Portland, charged with burglary. ' He has. confessed three robberies in a period of three days. ' . . A 17-year-old boy is in jail at Rjllsboro charged with murder. He has confessed that he killed a man. Other boys of similar ages are in other Oregon Jails on charges-of similar nature. The list of young men in. crime has been measurably lengthened in the last two years. Every few days a robbery or series Of robberies is solved by the arrest of a youngster in his 'teens. Why all the Juvenile crime? Why are' so many youngsters found lead ing lives outside the law? Why do they turn criminal? ' One reason is1 the lack ,of pa rental guidance. ' Sometimes the parents are dead. Sometimes they are divorced Sometimes there is lack of Interest In the son and his welfare. Usually the boy is per mitted to become a street corner boy, spending' his time in fdleness and " with Improper ' associates. Often there is no attempt to keep him at home or to interest him in the things that tend to make his life useful and fulh . . WU- not make the son a pal,'t know whVre he .lsvjand with whom rhe js associating ? 1 Why not make him desire to be at home at night rather., than on a street corner? Why not make the home his place of interest? Why not make It the place where he would rather" be? Why , not make Jiis ! parent his chosen companions, their . amuse ments his amusements? Another reason for .juvenile crime Is lack of education. : The schoolroom tends to build charac ter ;!and establish ideals, r It fits a youngster for a future. It w gives him the knowledge, Tiecessary for a successful life and the knowledge of the things that are harmful. The schoolroom ! is an atmosphere of usefulness, ' purpose and honesty, the antitheses of crime.' All boys cannot be saved. .Some are j weak. . Some have ." natural criminal instincts. Some cannot be guided.-' But a very great pro portion of .those, who now go wrong can be saved, and the. rapidity with which they are finding, their way into the jath of crime and into jails ris -, ocnclusive evidence ? that greater .efforts toward . saving the coming generation are immediate ly Imperative. . The place to begin is at home.' - . -. wars and;;. RUMORS" V! Amid .Disappointed Hopes, and With the Spectacle SUU Pesented of a World Mostly at War in Spirit If Not in Actual Fact, There Yet Re- t mains the Ancient Formula for ; "Banishing Au Manner of Strife 1 and Violence, a Formula Which. !,n4 Which Alone. Witt " ' r Bring f "Peace?, oaT Earth., ;'' . " '" : Tmm the Bpeetator J-''-. '''" -v At this season of "Peace on earth, and good will to men, the signs of a muversaUy merry Christmaa arej not so heartening as they should be. and as they could be. ; There are indications that the war that was fought to make future 'wars impossible," was not j won by the right side, or' that it was fought ln. va.in. iTrin nf na who in the ! war did . our bit according' to our ability t find in the results of the peace without victory so little of victory or peaee to give no encouragement to the hope of soon seeing swords; beaten Into plow shares or the "spears5 become pruning hooks: '' Even the .usually optimistic Journal tails to find, any evidence that the -Christmas season of 1922 f has brought peace on earth, for it tells us: "We-iave seen threats of more war. We :have4heard Prance talking of in- vatung uermany; we have seen ranee and England snarling. We have seen the Turks come back after an ignoble defeat, to threaten the world's peace. We have even sent our warships over there and threaten again to use them to insure the freedom of the seas. And now we hear of. a German-Russlan-Turkish alliance against Western ; Eu rope." . - - 0 What The- Journal sees and hears is sad and distressing enough ; the Spec tator would not, add a line to the i dis turbing picture. ' It may be said, how ever, that from the miseries and hor rors that Western Europe would suf fer through a German-RuBalan-Turk-ish alliance, the United States would not enjoy immunity.' The United States no longer lives for- itself alone. AS we enjoy the blessings of the world's peace, we. muet-, endure the horrors of the world's wars. j It is quite true, as The Journal says, that "we have even sent our warships over" to the Dardanelles, and "threaten again to use them to insure the free dom of the seas." If there were jany danger that oar warships could not ac compli h their purpose, they wouldf be followed - by transports, bearing sol diers and machine .guns, and artillery, and bombing- planes, and all the other, equipment and accoutrement of war. Then' the end we -sought would! be achieved through bloodshed and a great waste of treasure in money and lives. . Probably another peace without vic tory or what Is similarly disastrous, victory without peace would be gained f and at another Chrietmastide The Journal would tell us of more wars and rumors of warof whose horrors the world can never rid itself by the sword, through which perish those who take it up. - i . Surely In the bloodstained history of the war-smitten centuries we must have learned how futile is war to win peace. Surely, by this time we- should know. that the sword can be put away, ana that nations can be" saved without it Two thousand years ago. - there Was pointed out a course of conduct i by. which we should regulate our relations with our neighbors. It has beenaover looked ; mayhap, it seemed too simple and noble for use by statesmen and" princes. Anyway, it has never been generally tried aa a means of pre ventiar war, and bringing about peace; on earth and good will to men." This was the course that Jesus pointed put as the. way to peace : i "All things whatsoever ye would tat men should do to you, do ye even so to them." 5 T When Individuals and nations follow that course, we shall have no more wars. And we shall have wars until that time. Letters From the People iOommtrnleatTona eeat to Tbe Journal fox publication m this department should be -written ob only one side of. tbe paper, should not zoeed 800 words in length, and mosai be ticned by the writer, whose aaail address la foil most accompany the contribution. r SEES PROHIBITION VICTORIOUS Third Party Man Bases Hope on ran Expectation of a Dry National-; Administration - - Newport,, Dec. 17. To the Editor; of The Journal In Lincoln's first inau gural he said to the enemies of our government : "In your hands, my dis satisfied 'fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, ' is the momentous issue i of civil war. ' The government -Will not assail you. You can have" no conflict without being yourselves the aggres sors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it." Lincoln was a nationalist, a federalist, a - constitutionalist, a prohibitionist, and, last but not least, he was progres sive. He faced and finished a colos sal job. The nation was saved from its enemies with no amendment to the constitution, but his progressive prin ciples would not allow him to stop there. Just prior to his assassination he said: "After reconstruction, the next great question will be the over throw and . suppression of the - liquor traffic-"My bead and my heart, -my hand and my purse, will go Inte the con test for victory. Our cause must be en trusted 'to and conducted by its un doubted friends, those whose hands are free,; whose hearts are in' the work and who do care for-the result.. iA wet party, you see, wouldn't do, -because it could not be trusted. Lin coin knew that a dry party administra tion ' was the only undoubted friend that could be depended -on to overthrow and suppress the liquor traffic So, in accord with the principles of Lin coln a few patriots came together in Chicago and organized the Prohibition party and held its first nominating convention in 1872, just about the time the Republican party surrendered i to the demand of the brewers and took the government into partnership with boose. Since then the Prohibition party has made a brave and honest fight against all opposition. iForTrears this j party . grew "to numbers and in fluence, with a. fair prospect of suc cess, until? the so-called Anti-Saloon league was organized. The league's chief argument was, "Don't support the Prohibition- party; all we need is the law !" The . argument, was a fallacy, but it led the church and many good people away from the Prohibition party and to -a continued support of liquor parties, t In proof of this. I cite the mooshyiers and bootleggers and the thousands of . criminal , law . violators the children of the false teachings and influence under its high-sounding name have' been -such that J we - have been compelled to, fight not only the traf fic with its bums, but we have had the great majority of the-church on our backs." - Nevertheless, our cause was steadily taking root, and the . senti ment of prohibition resulted at last In the ? eighteenth; amendment and .the Volstead act.:. The law ts as perfect as law can be made, but I ask: Does fit fill the bill T Is it all we need? Let the failure -of our non-partisan law and the - diegr tsfal crimes of moon Fhtners- and boUeggers answer. The A ou -is a loon ' ltSue and - even - the church helped to" get Us into this dis graceful and shameful situation. But in spite of all, we see a light shining through. The late demands of the wets and the returns of the late elections have : awakened v: the president. ; He issues a- message to congress a tgood one, too and we see in it a complete victory for the drys. There is no hint of wetness in it. He seems to want the Republican party - to stand four square on the prohibition Issue, believ ing public sentiment to be on that side. He has finally learned, taught by the Prohibition party. ; that the law can never be enforced with a wet party ad-; ministration. , He is beginning to team that a dry party, a dry president,, and a dry congress must : go along with the dry law. When that is accom plished, it will be the end and final settlement of the political fight for prohibition.-. - E. W. Durkee. AS3AULS MILLAGE TAX Arguing That It Is Largely Paid at - a Corresponding Cost to-Rural j " Schools.- . Forest Grove. Dec. 12. To the Edi tor of The Journal Our country schools should be helped by the state in preference to the state university and Oregon Agricultural college. Many of these country school districts have to vote from S to 10 mills in addition to the county tax tn order to maintain an 8-months term of school each year as required by law in this state. This is a grievous hardship to the struggling farmers in these districts. And it is unjust that in additlfen to this extra tax they should be surtaxed to support the state university and the. agricul tural college, whose students mostly come from the wealthy people of Port land and other large towns in the state. The millage law, which taxes the people for the support of these in stitutions, ought to be abolished. They are thus given a special privilege over other institutions equally worthy of state aid, by a special law, invidious to the country and private schools. Like other institutions seeking state aid, they should have to go to the leg islature for appropriations and show why they need them. The millage plan is objectionable, anyway, because it- leads to unneces sary or extravagant expenditure. Be sides, these Institutions have outgrown the resources of the state and have become a burden to the people. The agricultural college is reputed to be the best equipped school of its class, save one, in the United States. These institutions turn out a class of citizens that are. usually too ambitious or too proud or too lazy to work at labor that will soil their clothes, many of them to become parasites on the social body. The common people should not be taxed to educate lawyers, doctors and snobs, and to train athletes tnd pugilists. There is too much physical training in these schools, and too little hygienicand moral teaching and train- ing. The money taxed out of the peo ple ror tneir- upkeep should be put to better service in aiding the country schools ; and then these tax-eating in stitutions would learn by necessity to be more economical and cut out a lot or frills and flunrmerv. The Cnnntrv schools are compelled to employ teachers wno are in many cases less than fully efficient. These' schools-also lack the proper equipment for'effective teaching and studying, becauseof hard struggle under hard' conditions of the patrons. Many of them have rude benches for seats, and home-made desks, arid have poor playgrounds no movies or means of diversion fOrithe chMdren. And in many cases the pupils have to travel over muddy roads or brushy trails two or three miles--afioot; to ."school. I beg consideration for the neglected country schools.- . - , H B. Luce. THE LONELY ONES Rogue River. Dec 11. To the Editor of The Journal I have read in The J ournal the letters . of 7. those people who signed themselves. "Lonesome." But why be lonesome? , It is only a, by-product of civilization whose veneer can he wined not Tvw 9(1 -mnnn crista . 1 Lonesomeness is the abyss that uraios tne snam ana hypocrisy of a strange people, living In enmity and jealousy. There Is no lonesomeness in nature. The sonar of the Karth Mnthsr will gladden every heart that is true. xxie goou tnougnt, wora ana deed at tunes the soul to the harmony that lit rnan'ft trun nata.fa in ttif lifA rw in the life to come. George Di Toung. Portland, Dec 13. To the Editor of The Journal Having read the letters qj' the lonely ones, I thought' I too would write one and make a few sug gestions. My heart goes out to them at this time of the year. I think, we who are single mind it more : at least, I find it so. I was wondering if the Y. W. C. A and Y. M. C A. could not make arrangements for a getting to gether of the lonely'- single middle-aged people. Then we might f orm a club and, once in two weeks, say, have lunch together and have a social time afterward. . One of the Lonely Ones.., TAXES ON CERTAIN ACRES Mr. McLemore Resents Comparisons Made by an Opponent of Single Tax. ' Portland, Dec, 15. To the Editor of The Journal John .Beavers' discussion of Mr.. Hermann's quotation from a Sydney, Australia, publication . regard ing that municipality's' adoption of the Henry George system of raising, pub lic revenues from publicly created values, ground rent, seems to show, that Mr. Beavers has made but ' a very superficial ertudy of the subjects He takes the figures quoted and - arrays them into the meaning that an acre, of grain land several miles from the city would contribute the same as an" acre at the heart of the city. We have eome circumstances right -here at home that will serve to illustrate both his error and that of "C. W. M." ' Our recent federal census shows the average-' size of an Oregon farm to be 269.7 acres, but for practical illustra tion let us use 270. Our agricultural college tells us, as quoted by The Jourr al. that the present (or 1921) tax on certain .average farms involving an in vestment of 120,000 is $303. One tract of land of less than half an acre in the heart of Portland returns the title- holder an annual net ground, rent of 972,000. : This would pay the tax of 9303 on a little over 237 average Ore gon farms, or that part of the 9303 borne by improvements, equipment and livestock-on 480 of these farms, leav ing the farmer nothing to pay on but the value of the land under the farm in its wild state.. Again referring to "C. W. M": He seem to assume that just because he is not informed, of all the rural and urban localities where the principle has in varying degrees been the vogue for some time, it is to be taken for granted that they do not exist. Ho expects us lo impose on the generosity of the newspaper forums to convey this information to him. I have repeatedly offered through The Jour nal to send "C W. M." a supply of evidence, but he does not respond. The circumstance reminds me of the skepti cal elderly lady when she first saw a steam locomotive. It was standing when she came within sight of it. "Pooh."'- she exclaimed;' -"they can never make -that thing j go." ? Finally, when it did start and was under way, she was determined to have another try ' at predicting, ; and exclaimed. "Well, they will never be able to stop It. '- The .latter is true of single tax; it bas started, and can't be stopped. . C. A ' McLemore. ' -KEY TO; THE COAL PROBLEM From . tbe Chicago Daily fiewa One important, branch of the Inquiry tQ.be made by tbe federal coal' commis sion which seeks to get all the facts about the coloseally . mismanaged in- COMMENT. AND - SMALL.' CHANGE ' ,. The sweetest -- words - of tongue - or pen today are : Clty escapes' clutches of ice storm." 1 . At least, we very . seldom object, while prices are rising-, when the tem perature goes up. - - - - - " In decided contrast to the usual com plaint, we now find the market editor talking about "egrg ; weakness." The cheerful optimist-' is the man who can spend his rainy day. Barings in the midst of a snowstorm for a new automobile. No wondef we' grinned when the water pipes in the home of -the plumber who charged us ataeu sum for fixing ours froze up. . --.. - e e - Anyway, the new dial phones wm have one advantage in that they can- uul lavius uo our time ana patience peddiing- SL'iC lot oft slack jaw. "Turkey i to have berth : In league," says a headline.. We should worry, so long as one gets a comfortable plat ter on our Christmas dinner table. e . ' The most terrifying hour of the! whole year is that one. on Christmas eve, when we discover, most of the relatives have bought .mother the same kind of , present we did. - - The tribe of Joykillers gets particu larly pernicious about Christmas time. Read where 36,000,000 income tax blanks-s re ready for distribution Just after the holiday bills are paid. MORE Olf LESS PERSONAL Random Observations lbout Town Chariest A, Brand, a Douglas county fruit grower, was in Portland Monday to attend a meeting of the state tax in vestigating committee, of which he is a member. Acting Governor Ritner came down from Salem Monday to consult with other members of the " legislature on Astoria relief. e - AmoruS recent arrivals in the city are Elmer Schmidt and Herman Zahler of Hillsboro.- ' N. O. Anderson of Skamania, Wash., is a recent arrival in the metropolis. Among out of town visitors is James A. Peed of Hermiston. . a John A. Knight of Bend is spending a few days in Portland. Among those transacting business In Portland Is A. W. Walker of Medford. - a a Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Webster of Terre bonne are visiting in Portland. J. W. Howe of lone - is ' transacting business In the metropolis. - a Mr. and Mrs. Charles Kirk of Albany are among out of town visitors. e Mr. and Mrs. Roswell Roberts of The Dalies are among out' of town visitors. - s-.. ; - . James Clifford of Prairie City was doing business in Portland Monday. - - .... An out of toWn- guest .is Grant Mur phy :of Stayton. '-. . : . : i ' ' J- IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OE THE JOURNAL MAN By Fred Followin2 un ,. his article on the Tarions translations and editions of the. Bible. Mr. Lockley today pys- -h& respects to those literal ista wbo are afenolv extreme pains to defend the self -defending- Scriptures. He notes a con siderable number af the 12O.O0O c flanges from the Kins Jaraefc Tersion made by the transla tors who prepared the revised -version of the Bible. . ... Look up the list of best sellers 6ome day, and you will be surprised to learn that the very 'best seller, is not Mary Roberts Rinehart, Harold, Bell Wright, HZ O. Wells or Booth Tarkington. It is the Bible, of which over 6,000,000 copies are printed and sold every year. In my article' of yesterday I spoke of the professed friends of the Bible who say that every word and syllable- is just as it was written by the inspired authors, and that if you' change it by as much as a comma you are destroy ing the Bible, and hence are headed for hell by the shortest route. The less education a man has, the more sure he Is that what he believes is the only truth and tbatjall questions have but two sides his side and; the wrong side. : I . - "-- One day, I -ran across a man who wouldn't let -Ids children go to school, because their teacher told . them the world was round. He said she was itindermining their belief, in the Bible, for the Bible said the world was square. I asked him how ne got mat way. He said, "Did you ever read in Revelation where the four living creatures are present at the opening of the seals and where it says. After this I saw our angels " standing at the four corners of the earth, holding the four winda of the earth, that . no wind should blow upon the earth, or on the sea, or upon any tree.' How doil"get that way? I get that way by beUeylhg every word in the Bible, and when the Bible tells me that the four angels are standing on the four cor ners of the earth I have enoughs-sense to -know that'if the world were round It -icouidn'tr! hitve four" corners. .The trouble wjth you is that you pick out the parts of the Bible you want to be lieve, and let .tre rest slide. God has prepared a; place to you, .and-when the last ; trump 5 sounds J. will -look down from Gldry andV,see:.you sizzling in your own grease because .of your unbelief'. ."u f What arefyeu-' going to do with a man like that? I toldjum I would go to "Glory" with 'him, and we would play "Pussy wants a .-corner" on the four corn era. X left hint reviling me for a heretic and saying he" could smell the odor of sulphur on my garments, , - ! - " a a The trouble is not with the Bible nor with its divine author, but with us, who pay no heed to Us teachlnga If we all would follow the teaching of the Sermon on the Mount we should have no need of superdreadnaughts, liquid flame and poison- gas. We would replace mutual jealousies, mis understandings' and hatred with. love, charity and tolerance.' , What a won derful old place .this .world would be if we couM wipe out mutual distrust and hatred! When we realize that the men who made the revised version of the Bible that we now use made over 128,000 changes fromt the text of the King James version, we see how ridic ulous is the claim that no word can be changed in the text without destroy ing, the authenticity 4 and sanetity of the Bible The revisorsZ found the King James ; version, full " of errors, many, of course, being errors that in no way affected tbe sense. In Mark we read the story of Salome dancing before, the king: - He has been drink ing and . is in a complaisant TBOod. Sa lome's ; inother- is . tired , of "the r? preaches of John "the3 Baptist' for her immoraV mode of j life . and vwhen the long' says -to Salome 4 "Ask what thou wilt and I-wUl -givOit-theeeven-'to the half of my kingdom" "her answer, In the King James Version, is !Give me by and bjr in a charger .the head of' John the Baptist.". The translation from tbe Greek . has lost, its punch. dustry. is the matter f mining coal by machinery. Here is, after all, the real NEWS IN BRIEF - - V . SIDELIGHTS Just one prediction may fee safely hazarded regarding the Irish ' Free State that it will make Its new gov ernor general earn his salary. Weston Leader. . - - 1 - . With the soil In condition to receive moisture, no one cares how often or how much it snows. Let'er come. The owners of the growing wheat crop are "sitting on fine." Athena ITesa. One reason why many farmers ob ject to a county agent,; perhaps "the principal one, is the insinuation that somebody Is needed to tell them how to conduct their business. Fine Valley Herald, i -...,'. .-.. . . 1 ' - ' ' . -.- - As a sausage-maker we'd say" that A R Merchant was mighty hard to beat, and when the neighbors who butcher remember us with a choice lit tle treat, too, we think we're mighty lucky "boa" Carlton Sentinel. Clara ! Phillips, the only murderer California has succeeded in convict ing in a long, series of trials, has escaped j from jalL If they can't get Off in one way down there, they man age it in another. Eugene Register. - - ... Boost but never - knock. If you can't think of anything, good to say about your home town, don't knock, but for heaven's sake get out and try, to find some place that will suit you. The world is big. and there is no law to compel people to stay where they don't want to. Jacksonville Post, B. F. Jones of Lincoln county is In Portland, along with other members of the state legislature .who are consider ing relief measures for Astorteu Thomas C Watts of Reuben, who represents -Columbia county on the Re publican state central committee, spent Monday in Portland. - Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Ballantyhe of Dallas were visiting In Portland Mon day. - e Mary M. Davis, proprietress of the Ritter Hot Springs, is in Portland on business. a Edward Coles, a prominent stockrals er of Haines, is in Portland on busi ness. Walter M. Pierce of Union county, governor-elect, was a guest of the Im perial Monday. Among put of town visitors is H. H. Trowbridge a well known stockman of Grant county. a Among recent arrivals in the city Is W. I. Dishman of Prineville. a A. K. Downs of Prineville is a late arrival in the metropolis. a S. A Hutchinson of Union was trans acting business in Portland, Monday. - H. E.: Bowser- of Eugene is among out of town visitors. a a H.-B. Weigar of Coquille is among out of town visitors.- . . Lockley W1 t ahfi 1-A9llv DOM Va Mlnt, rt " - - "... . . f vu.x., ai L V. ywillfccu one of the platters on the banqueting "i was, uive me rortnwitn on a dish the" head of John the Baptist." 1 1n the King Jamea version we read Paul's' statement, r Aieiander; the cop persmith did me much evil; the Lord c rv n u mm accoroingxo; nis works. " The revised version gives it an en, rely different meaning -by saying; "Alexander the coppersmith . did - much evil. The Lord will reward him ac cording to his works. -The King James version speaks of the Book of 'Jasher; the revised version refers to it as the Book of the Upright, for that is the meaning or the term. . -In. Jeremiah, chapter 39, in the King James version, we read, of two men named Rab-saris and Rab-mag. There are no such men. The names signify the title of office. In Ezekiel the King James version speaks of a country called -"Pannag." As a matter of fact, "pannag" Is a con fection, not a country. In the King James version we constantly read r of the-groves where idols were worshiped! The true '-translation ot the Hebrew word Is .'"upright pillars," not groves. In Second Kings- we are informed in the King James version s-that Huldah dwelt in a "college." The correct translation is that Huldah lived "in the second ward. Hosea speaks of "flag ons of wine."-' The revised version, giv ing the actual meaning, makes it "cakes of pressed grapes." In Isaiah there is a sentence reading, "All that make sluices and ponds for fish." The revised version has it,' "All that work for hire are sad at heart." In the old version we read that the children of Israel "borrowed" from the Egyptians certain things and then vamoosed with the borrowed goods. The revised ver sion gives the real meaning, that the children of Israel "asked for and re ceived gifts" from the Egyptians. In Nahum 2 -Ji we read of "fir treea" The real meaning is "lances made of cy press."' The old version speaks of Jo seph's coat as "a coat of many colors." The new,version, following the real meaning of the Hebrew, refers to it as "a -long tunic with sleeves." . In the old version we ."read of Ruth carrying the grain she . had garnered In her "veil." -. The revised : version has her carry it in her "mantle." In Genesis the old version translates a word as "mules." The new version makes it "warm springs" in place of mules. In Numbers we read of the unicorn. The real meaning is "the wild; ox." and where the : King-James version refers in Isaiah to "owls, satyrs, wild beasts of the island, and dragons", the new version gives the truer meaning by referring to them as "ostriches, goats, wolves, and jackals." In Job the old version In referring to the hippopota mus says. "He that ; made, him can make his sword approach to him' The new version has it that his tusK is his sword, and says, "His maker gives him his sword tusk." In Matthew 6 :12 we have' always read, "Forgive ps our debts as we forgive our debtors.8" The real reading should be, "Forgive ms our debts as we also have forgiven our debtors." In other. words, we have no right to ask to be forgiven our debts until we have already forgiven those who are in debt to us. The transla tors of the King James version deemed to use ;"gehenna," "hades" and "hell" indifferently, thereby causing po end of confusion and acrimonious discus sion. . They also made "eternal" and "everlasting" very ambiguous. 'la the old version we have Christ saying to Bartuneus. -"Thy faith hath made thee whole." The new version reads, "Thy faith-hath saved thee.""; These are but aVfewxfZ;the "120.000 changes made in the revised version ; so that the, next time a man insults your intelligence by saying -that you are headed for hell if you change a commas-just knock hell out of hlnV and try to hammer a little common senee into him, for; that is the only: cure ;Jfor euch plnheaded hell raisersKwlth apologies to "Billyh-Sun day- fsr infringing on his line of talk). way to cheapen tbe product and make tbe supply .plentiful and -certain. - The Oregon ' Country Narihwest ILvr-per.lngs la Brief Form for tbe Busy Beader. . " , - ' OREGON Silverton has an epidemid of diph theria and it is feared the city school may be compelled to close.:, - .. , w ti ' A banquet was held Saturday night at the Hotel Os born in -celebration of the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Eugene Loan & Savings bank. The First National bank of .Eugtne celebrated the 39th anniversary of its founding at . a 'banquet in that .city Saturday night. . . . .- . 'As result of the snowstorm the plant of the Oregon Lumber company at Deo bas closed down for the season; All loggtne: crews have come in for the winter. - . .. . . , . v Fellowfnir a deal made last week. J. R. Nunamaker of Hood River - Is' now the orchard king of the mid-Columbia, having under his control 500 acres of bearing trees..;.;. .''v,;1 ; The Coe A McKenna syndicate of Portland has- entered into a contract - wtiii itw- vurrauis V I to. Ill LH- r ot Cm merce to raise 9200.000 to build a new hotel In that city. - "" " -William zNlzely. 3(T, an emplbyeof Oto Hunsiker, was found dead in--a cabin 30 : miles east of Eugene- last Thursday, j -No signs of violence wera reported- ',- ..,1. .-. The plant of the Rainbow Paint com pany, i0 miles south of Prineville, will be running full blast by the first .of the year according to a statement of Roy Rannells. general manager. -- . i Fruit trees of the mid-Columbia see-"' tlon, according to horticultural experts, were in a perfect dormant condition when the' frees broke over the district and the low temperatures have caused -no damage. . . C L. Winsor, representative of the adjustment bureau of the Portland Credit Men's association, was stricken with apoplexy at Prineville last week and passed away without regaining consciousness. Judge Kelly of the Marion county circuit court has ruled that the state highway commission has authority to condemn lands for right-of-way pur poses within the boundaries of in corporated towns and cities. The Western Lumber & Export com pany at Cottage Grove has added new automatic equipment that increases the production of the mill about 25 per cent and reduces the number of men em-' ployed nearly one-third. : WASHINGTON R W. Mize, Montesano farmer, has1 been elected master of the Pomona grange, with which all the Whatcom county granges are affiliated. . A fire at Bellingham recently badly dafnaged the steamer WUlie Higgins Itnrl fliictrn nna Vil eu a 4 aM of more than 1,000,000 feet of lumber. Mrs. Sidney Moore Heath, wife of a prominent attorney of Hoquiam, was badly injured when a Northern Pacffia train hit the automobile in which she was riding near Grand Mound. Falling against a stove when stricken with illness at her home in Seattle, Mrs. Martha Graybeal, 38 years old; Buffered burns that resulted In her death shortly afterward. At Seattle, Thursday, a boy, seem ingly about 14 years old, snatched the piu-se of Miss Elizabeth Dolphin, daughter of a police captain, contain ing 924, and got away with It. ' - Fred, 4-year-old son of Mrs. Iva Burke of Spokane, ate a dozen strych nine tablets Thursday afternoon. His life was. saved by the prompt arrival ui - jpuysreiaui wiui el etomaca pump. Edward L. Sickler, 23 years old, an escaped convict from the Montana state penitentiary, was arrested in Seattle Saturday night in possession of a loaded revolver. - - A 60-year franchise has been granted the Northern Pacific to construct a branch line three and one third miles long from College Place through fruit and garden land south of Walla Walla. Mrs. Aaron Kuhn. wife of1 the Spo kane banker; Joe Cohn, former man, ager of the Spokane Baseball club, aim his wife had a thrilling experi ence . at Omaha last Saturday night when" they were locked in a clothes closet and robbed of 98000. Plans are under consideration by the trustees of the Washington Congrega tional conference for' a survey of Se- .. CAtrnnA .1 n .1 rV rt . n .1 ..... a. mine in which city a modern Congre gational church, thoroughly equipped, will be erected. IDAHO - Caldwell has gone over the top In its campaign to raise 91250 toward ..the fund for the Sunnyside road. . ,.'' ' The famous "banana belt of sunny Southern Idaho is under several Inches Ui R1IUW, CiiUW IH31UOXU XtXSlO - III . LXliVi. section. Fire of unknown oriein orie-inatlnc- in the drying room of the Denney com pany's apple drier at Weiser, complete ly destroyed" the frame structure, caus ing damage estimated at 925,000. The home of E. C. Stewart, five miles west of Boise, was raided recently by Sheriff Agnew, who .confiscated -i 520 gallons of mash; 30 gallons of whis key, two stills and quantities of wine and hard cider. . -. - Mrs. Minnie-' W. Miller, owner e1 Tit Thousand Springs farm at Wendell, was ; . elected vice president of the Hampshire Association of America at its annual meeting in Chicago last week. Her flock of sheep won many prizes.- . - ' . - Michael . J. - Hurt, who served - 16 months as a war worker overseas, died at Coeur d'Alene Friday, aged 69. The Knights2 of Columbusxfurnished pall- -bearers and the American Legion the) firing, squad. .... . w ,, - Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of Dec. 19, 1902 Washington. Secretary ' Shaw has asked congress ' to appropriate 925,009 for - temporary offices for government officials at Portland : during the en largement of the postoffice building." . ' Another robbery has been added to the long list, of those reported to the Portland police and in which cases no action has been taken,- - : a ' ' ' Eastern Oregon- politicians' are seriW ously considering the holding up of the Lewis and Clark fair appropriation and - the new charter for the city of Fort--land, unless their demands for " the formation of a new Judicial district are acquiesced in by -the Multnomah, county delegation, - . The grade "of fuel oil "being used by river steamers here does not come tip to the requirements of tbe law, and the owners may be compelled to substitute a different quality or go back to wood. z-- zz; i.. ' :- . i . ''' Within 'a comparatively , short time the immense Iron smelting plant of tho Oregon Iron and Steel company at Os- -wego may be placed in operation. ' The receipt of "a few crates of live turkeys was enough to cauee a scramble among the retail dealers to- oay .i to secure a supply, ; wuoiauona were a trifle higher: Live, 19 to 18. cents .per -. pound; --dressed, . ZOoents. Eggs are slightly higher at to 3 cents' per dozen. . . ...t n .- Herschel Stump, bell boy at the Im perial hotel, died this morning from in juries he received by falling downthe elevator shaft of the hotel. . j TO devise suitable- laws-for theTjre- vention of forest fires and to place the same before the Oregon state legisl-, turt at its next regular session is Abe object of a meeting which ts being held today - at the eftice o H. ' Benson, a leading logger.' - ..... '. The Portland Chamber 'of Commerce is in favor of telegraphic communica--tion between ' Tillamook rock and the' mainland. - -