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From the heart of the - worker riaaa th eeleatial force, bitatked- into him by Almighty God. awkenla j hia' u all noblenaas, to all kxtowtedgcr-Oaxlyla. XIBELINO OREOOK 1 rpsE New Tork Tribune of Xe cember 13 says editorially: What -Ttrould haDpen should th Kn ; Klux Klaa raise itself from a half- j tnyaterioua, half -ridiculous threat into :,a controlling force In a community? 3 Governor Olcott of Oregon gives a partial answer in his interview in the Tribune of yesterday. He records the ; passage of a iw in his stats outlawing aJi schools a&ve only, the public schoola . t After 192 it will be imnncnihlA for an t i Oregon mother i to i' organize even a neighborhood class fOS her small daugh ter. . saucauon can come from the state .alone. , Free choice is barred t , Along with this successful gesture ,of prejudice there came In Oregon per sonal and family feuds comparable to those that, divided America in the ' iwad days of the Civil warv Passion sup- planted reason in the most unrelated ; walks of dally life. On the Ku Klux preaching families were divided. Old t riends ceased speaking to one another. Partnerships were broken up; Whole communities were' divided 'against . themselves. ,-. i .. 1 Oregon presents today the horrible , . xample" of what &il . ultimate exten Kion of Ku Kluxlsm means to aa Amer ican community. We. hose that -Governor Olcott paints his picture in un forgettable colors before the conference of governors at White Sulphur Springs. I If' the above article were not so damaging to Oregon it would be runny. A greater Ubel was never Uttered against sw8iteJ " i f I To begin with, the Ku K3ux Klan did not propose the compulsory fsoheol biU. That bUl was proposed and the principal campaign for U v,-a made by Scottish Rite Masons. As a general thing. .. Scottish Rite " Masons are most excellent citizens. The" Journal ( disagrees with their tchool bill, but that bill does not hiean,tgs ithe Tribune says, that education can come from the state alone," '. ' 1 ' I .The bin requires that six years of ihe child's' school training shall-be id the public schools. Two years at the "beginning of the child's train ing can be in a private sehooL -The Vntire high school and college; life t an be in private, institutions. 1T0 . feay '-that after the compulsory bill goes into effect,; if it ever does. " education can come from the. state 4 alone ,ls gross misrepresentation. I The " campaign br slander; tow leing carried on in the' East "against Oregon through suck articles s 1 the frbover fronx the Triburle;' fa -doing , iitore . damage to i. Oregon than the Ku'Klux Klan could ever do, Ore gon is not, a "Ttorrible- example of anything. The' Tribune's -direful t icture of Oregon as a, ; horrible example" bf .Ku Klozism is fabri- ; ration., .'5; ' ;". I There Was a primary campaign in Oregon "in whlch there was con siderable heat. , But, with great respect " for Governor Olcott; 'and tv-lth a high appreciation of much of his public work. The Journal is compelled .to say. of that heat that It was Injected tnto .that Campaign by - Mr. Olcdtt himself. "He gave undue prominence to the klan by attacks on it from the governor's office which made it an important, if not the leading, Issue In the Re publican primaries.. . - After the primary election Klan- 1 -ni became less conspicuous. It was scarcely discussed in .the gen era election. It la dotibtfur tf In that campaign there was more than fhe usual bitterness incident to elec tions in Oregon, and there was less of it than in many. other states. - Oregon people are ' now . going about their business in orderly and peaceful fashion. Tbeir ar aa busy as the people o other ' states and a buoyant in., planning5 for the future. Ther went, over the-. top first in every liberty,' loan cam paign - during: . " His- war, -and they would do it a?ain if it JbecAme necessary : They tood at the head of the Mat' of states in volunteer enlistments at the: opening of the war. and they Would, do It Over L&ain were the nation threatened. ' Oregon people: are orderly;:and welt behaved, with the best record of school attendance in America. If the '. Tribune wUl. devote more at tention to the horrible sang- battles on the streets, of New "York and to the gang- murders in that city and less space to slandering Oregon- it will better serve its newspaper mis sion. ' - V; i ' -. It will take x good many FranK Branch Rileys to nndo the!: harm done Oregon by the Tribune's libel. DRAGGED FROM THBJ 'HEIQHTS THERE is UtUe need for further proof pf the terrors of the drug habit,. Case after case of pitiful human wrecks has recently come to public attention. But, in some ways, none is more pitiful than the case of Wally Reid, the movie star, He rose from the ranks in his profession. His life was given over to- acting. He - became one of the great popular -stars, riding high on the tide of public popularity, idol ized by movie fans, and well paid by his employers. ' He had a faith ful wife and a happy home'. But the drug peddlers got him. He used a little and then, more, until his health broke, unable longer to stand the onslaughts of the poisonous drugs. He was com pelled to leave his work, and, to seek a cure, his days and nights made miserable by the .terric pangs that follow abandonment of narcotics. He suffered, not alone from the ripping pains, but from the humiliation that was his when the public learned the facts of his plight. - V,:". Other-people in .high place, have undergone the same humiliation. There was the noted English ac tress who was recently; exposed as a pitiful victim of drugs. Evelyn Thaw , was another. Many have been the untold tales of downfall, disgrace and poverty due. to the in sidious narcotics. . . Fortunately, the-public is rapidly visioning the colossal menace of drugs and drug peddlera Rigorous campaigns are under way in man) states of the Union, campaigns in tended to drive venders and their wares from the nation. The cru sades have started none too soon and they cannot well be prosecuted too vigorously. - , JOBS A3 CHRISTMAS GIFTS A3 THE manager of the American .Legion employment office says, Christmas baskets with candies for the. kiddies are fine. No one with a heart would leave a single child ish petition to Santa Claus unan swered. No one-would deny to any barren table its one-day experience with - Christmas cheer. -; But' Christmas "baskets do not pay the rent, do not buy clothes, do not feed the family, " and . do not fuel a home until winter ends. Jobs do. Half of the 600 ex-service men waiting for jobs at the American Legion bureau are heads of families. Work is with them an imperative necessity. But just at the time when jobs should be in creasing the rate at which employ ment is supplied has dropped more than 50 per cent. There ought at least to be Jobs for the men who fought to defend America. They ask no better Christmas gifts. If you own war savings certifi cates falling due January 1, you may even before the first of the year exchange them at the post- office for treasury Bavin ga certlfl-. catea and thus at no cost whatever make yourself a Christmas present of some new, highly-desirable gov ernment securities. The new sav ings certificates bear interest at the rate of 4 per cent compounding semi-annually, which amounts to 4 "A- per cent at maturity.' five years after date of purchase. The ex change Is a good waty to perpetuate your war savings and, besides, it helps Uncle Sam refund a section of the war debt. 1 ' NATURE'S FORESIGHT OPHERE is almost; romance in the A "story of the -discovery of avail able water in the- Fort Rock coun try, Central Oregon, under which irrigation is made . easily possible nd at yeryilow -jcost.: , ;;U-.-' The FOrt Rocki valley is a neaT desert. Sixty thousand acres of it is the bed of what was an ancient lake, and Is rich agricultural land. Once there were 3 Od families .on it, but because of the arid condition they- could ;not make a living on their farms; 'and though many, of them "have (titles "tr their holdings they are elsewhere in .th business of making-ar living, -waiting in the indefinite , expectation that some rUme there will be water available to make blades of grass grow where none grows now. Of the 300 fami Uee fewer.- than. a dozen now.- oc cupy their farms. .There Is now a prospect of an irrigation project under , which water will be available at an. esti mated cost of f z per- acre, j The last 'legislature of v. Oregon . made available ' sum of money for use by - the Oregon bureau of mines to pnake an - investigation of the "Fort Rock , country-to ascertain if arte sian water could 'be found. Three blg wells In typical parts or the basin were sunk to a den th of 200 feet. In each the water rose to within 15 to-30 feet of the surface. ahd the supply ia so abundant that huge pumps bring it to the surface at the rate of 900 gallons a minute. Even" under this heavy - outgiving of water, ' the water j level Is re duced only about two and a half feet, showing that the IsaPPly ' Is limitless. " Either of these wells ts capable of irrigating a farm of . 100 acres for all crop purposes The secret of thi bountiful sup ply of water is that the whole val ley for 75 miles each way is under laid .with, an immense saucer of basalt rock which - sustains and holds the wafer from the winter snows of the near-by j mountains. The discovery of this underground water supply, is one of the achieve ments Of geological science. . ' - - - ' - - " " THE NEW DEAD ' - - YOtT- read In the paper : about the new "dead from automobile ac L '' -i'- cidents.! f-;;":'"- Tou don't think much about It. It doesn't shock you as it used to. It's too common an occurrence. . There was the announcement a day prttwo ago of th passing of twp.of thenew dead. It was arvery brief and very, matter-of-fact story. giving a few of the -bare facts and letting it go at that i. Just two more dead among so many! didn't amount to much to the public - or - to the newspapers. T Yet the two dead are not merely two added bodies out in the ceme tery.' Two funerals, two bereaved families four fatherless children in one two more to be counted in the death list they are not the big thing that' the two new graves mean. The big thing is this! new life periL The big thing is this new spirit In v men who don t' seem to care if they kill.- The big thing is the horrible disregardthis grow ing, epidemical disregard of law, this hideous defiance of moral obli gation, this malevolent debauchery of government by utter And wan ton resistance to authority? and bigger and more terrible than all in this orgy of law-sbreaking is the fact that nobody seems concerned about it; that nobody seems to care whether law is violated or not. 1 There are -men who boast about how fast they speed over the roads. They tell you In what 'short time they make-a ' trip from point to point in the city. They are enthus iastic about the great speed they have got out of their cars. We howl at the I. W, W., and they are wrong. We denounce the Bolshevists, ; ' and they are mis guided. But what about these men, these ultra-respectable gentlemen in their own minds who. boast about how many fines they - have paid for breaking the speed laws? How about the Institutions whose delivery trucks, fully Insured, run over and kill people, which take the right of way and crush other folks' cars? - .. tr : This rising tide of resistance to I laws, this swiftly advancing? spirit of trampling laws under. foot, is worse than Bolshevism. "The new dead lying in rows along the streets and highways are token Sof- the worst spirit of rebellion; and de moralization ' - that eyerBwept through a country, menacing its institutions and .impsrillng Its very existence. "V t T ' ' - How about the hideous violation by thousands of higher-ups, even public officials In almost every sta tion, of the dry laws V How about the judge who made a speech when he was so drunk that - he could scarcely stand up 7 ,': ' -i " ;. h Every burial service over one of the new dead is a visible sign of the orgy of demoralized law under which we are living and which, with the lack of concern 'about it, is the worst menace that , ever stole its slimy way through a country. " NO QUESTION OF FAITH 1 FIFTT thousand dollars is a con siderable sum to pay for a sin gle strawberry plant. "But that is the price paid recently by a Mich igan grower for what isTcnown as the Rockhill berry. ' : ' ' , - The owner claims the plant pro duces, more and larger berries and berries of higher" quality than any other early summer plant, and that In the fall months Rockhill plants are continually loaded with ' big. bright berries until the. snow fall. He claims that both the spring and fall products have firm texture and are therefore good shippers, and that Rockhills exceed. In produc tiveness and quality, ali other ber ries. :' ,i : ' ; .4V:;v' 1-. . All the things claimed for it -may or may not be true. But, there is no question about-a man's faith when he is willing to Invest $50,000 In a single plant. . . NOW FOR NEW SCHOOLS SCHOOL bond - buyers " should - be doubly reassured. . : They had the strongly voted mandate of Port land people directing that $3,000, 000 be used on their credit for the construction of new schools. , -Whether or not all the ts were dotied or all' the ls crossed,. the vote left no doubt of the, public de termination of Portland. - - Now the Oregon supreme court in Its decision verifies the legality of the procedure. All the forms, the motions and - the rigmarole de manded by mper-technlcal minds were complied with, says the court In its decision of Tuesday. '- This is a- conclusion 'superior to the opinion of distant attorneys. The-people authorized and the su preme court has ratified. .. . The building-of new schools has been delayed long enough. WAS IT WELL TO LIBERATE 5. LLOYD? K ; Clemency Extended to This Noted Agitator and His 'Associates Is Vari ously Viewed by Editors Estimates , Ranging From "Indefensible Par- : don" to fTunely Rebuke ; Those Upholding Governor Small Decry , Danger .... From Mere Words - Though Wild Ones, and Reit erate That "the War la Over. -Dally Editorial Dlgest- XCoaaolklatea rraaa AaaoeUtkw) ' In the disousslon of each clemency as that just extended by the governor of Biinois to William Bros Lloyd and his associates, convicted under the state . anti-syndicalist law, . there 1 are. the i isnwlng State journal points out, "two angles to be considered: the tight of an executive to overrule the courts and la wa and-too wisdom of sending the Peds to Jail. .To this must b add ed, the Peoria' Tranacript thinks, re flection --en -ithe wisdom, of main tam ing upon the statute books of IlltnoU an- -espionage act in time of peace.' Thia. in outline, is the discussion which is carried on- in 'editorial columns fol lowing Governor Small's Thanksgiv- Ing gift of freedom to the Chicago "millionaire Red" and his 1$ confeder ates. Editorial opinion ranges from the denunciation by the Port Huron (Mich.) Times'! Herald of an "indefen sible pardon. to the gratification of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch In discov- ing "one public official who realises that the war is over." " - ' - Pardoning the -convicted commun ists before they have paid any pen alty," the Rockfosd (111.) Star fears, "will be accepted as a flat repudiation of the law, which was passed by the Illinois legislature to protect the state against a special class or conspirators.' And in., this -repudiation involving as it does disregard of -the Icourt ruling upholding the law. XJevernOr Small, the ivaiamaxoo uazette.oeciares, naa set himself up as superior to the laws and tha cotirta. of tila own tCtm "Whan Oovemor, BmalL took his oath to en force the laws of Illinois," the Lin coln (Neb.) Star suggests, "he was not commissioned to interpret what laws he should- enforce." He has. In effect. the cuuahoma City Oklaboman,' be lieves, "overruled the time - honored American system of government, which maras tne executive and judicial de partments distinct and separata He constituted himself the supreme court of the state," a "Billy and autocratic and czar-like attitude for; Governor Small to take." If, as the Duluth News-Tribune sur mises, the governor was -merely mak ing a political play, "the strongest kind of bid for radical support two years hence," he overplayed his hand, in the opinion of the Rock Island Argus, of his own state. He was "playing to the mob," the paper agrees, but "the state of -Lincoln never yet has been ruled by -the mob, and it will never be. and we predict that Len Small will be given forceful evidence of this fact if he -ever again gets-his name on a bal lot where the people will have an op portunity to express an estimate." The governor's action "ought to be an excellent argument for taking away from governors an unrestricted use of the pardoning power. the -Pueblo (Colo.) Star-Journal holds, a position which the Grand Rapids Herald in dorses and amplifies. '"Super-auto cratic control over penal sentences, it declares, "is ridiculous," and "there should be no such thing as 'executive paraon' without the written consent of tne original court in which the intimate details at a crime were passed unon and measured In the scales of Justice. The existing system is a travestv.; Tin. der it we cease to be .a "government of law we become a rovernment of wnims." i ; There is. nevertheless, an lemnt of doubt as to the strict applicability of tne worn criminal" to the convicts communists in the opinion of many pa pers. 'It was not proved," the Deca tur m:) Herald points out, "that these men had committed a single act of vio lence, violent as their opinions were. In this country mere opinions, how ever much mistaken they may be, are not an evidence of criminality.' JThe law under which the men were con victed and sentenced, the Herald re minds us, "was the sedition law com monly known as the 'overthrow act," which "the Illinois legislature took upon itself the task of framing and passing to protect the United States," unaer tne urge or - war psychology" While the Decatur paper goes on - to say: that "the government is in as much - danger of overthrow by Llovd and hie band as it is from an uprising of drunken reservation " Indians," i the feona Transcript nevertheless sees a problem ; of "greater Importance than the pardoning of the Chicago commun ists" in the question, "Shall citizens or aliens he permitted to advocate over throw of government by force?" Mani festly. It argues, "the government has the right to protect itself, but the prac tical question is whether mere advo cacy of force shall be inhibited as" an overt act" - The, Xecatur Review also sees a problem In the -proper handling of radical views of ran ' extreme na ture. "We. are 'told in a general way," fft says, ."that public discussion will take care of them. But there is al ways much .discussion along this line. and at times it Is difficult to see. thatJ it makes promising' . headway.' t However,' "for holding and urging opinions unfavorable i to an existing form of society men cannot with good results -be "punished, ; the Lincoln- (Neb.) State Journal replies.'- "The thing has been tried since the begin ning of time. It has always, in .the long rah, failed-"" Men's minds cannot be changed' by laws and courts. The effort so to change -them merely scat ters the fire which It is sought to ex tinguish." William Bross Lloyd, free, "may still- have his dream of persuad ing us to communism, but he will have no conceivable chance for success,"" is the assurance given by the New Tork Globe, and "the older and wiser Ameri can practice is to. accept" his type of crank "with tolerance -and humor," as one of "the burdens Of any genuine democracy. -That the Ullnoln gover nor's .action "marks a further return" to this "older and wider practice" of which the Globe speaks, is the view of the Sioux City Tribune, for "whatever excuse for hysteria may have existed during the febrile war days, exists no longer," and free speech remains "the only effective remedy for7 a political discontent in a democracy-." An anti syndicalist law such as was Invoked In the Illinois prosecution "can have no object in peace times except the perse cution of persons for their opinions," declares the St Louis Post-Diepatch, "and that is precisely how such laws are employed,: - lu Email's pardon, therefore, the paper sees "more than a gracious holiday gesture : it was , a timely rebuke to prosecutors and courts who persist in employing war-time leg islation in hounding persons holding radically different political and - eco nomic vierwa".-'- Possibly, the Rockford (111.) Regis ter Gazette suggests. Governor Small had In mind that philosophy "left to the world" by another Illinolsan ; "Mal ice toward none, charity for aOL" : A; . THE TACTICAL ISADORA : t - From tna Little Rock Gazette . Isadora Duncan's orchestra leader's name is Modest.' A concession to the censors. Letters From the People IQoaiBiaBtoarf.aa. at to The Jmnai fo wabUoaaaa ia Uue departmcst ihn id be writ tea om only on aide ot tae paper, ahoaid not exeeed (00 word in tragta, and am b aignad Tay the writer, whoa aaail adiliaaa ia in annaa ecco-npaity u ooautaaooavi STATEMENT BT JUDGE MORROW Regarding His Reasons for - Writing Letter Kecoinmending Release of La Rose. . " Portland, Dec. 18. To the Editor of The Journal I have read with interest your recent editorial urging caution In the release of prisoners from the peni tentiary, suggested by the case of La Rose. . . It may, - perhaps, interest you and your readers to know a little of the reasons why my letter of recommenda tion was made. - lt me say. in the first place, that the requirement of the governor for a letter of "recommendation" from the district attorney and the ' presiding judge is, in my judgment, without any reasonable . foundation, for neither the judge nor., the district attorney can know anything more about the case, or more about the , reasons for - release. man tne officials who nave been di rectly in charge of the man for years. In this case I had to rely on Mr. Ira Martin, the chairman of the parole board; on Mr. Varney, the parole offi cer of the state on John F, Logan, the special "prosecutor, and I also knew of the letter that Captain Circle Of the police force bad written. - Mr. Martin and Mr. Varney went Over with me in detail La Rose's earlv life, bis poverty, his, ignorance, his neavy nabtts of drink, and I recalled the truth of much that they said. Par ticularly that these crimes were com mitted by a man heated with Uauor: and you will recall that even while the omcers were searching for him he was sleeping off a drunken stupor In the ponce tana. This Incident of the drink ing recalled to our minds that the temptation of liquor has now disap peared from the scene, and w dis cussed that subject, too, in, connection with the possibility . of La Rose's change of mind and his ability to get along outside the walls of the peni tentiary. The state officers assured me that the- man was changed in his attitude toward society and In his views of life. I went over the ground very carefully' and in detail, for I re membered La' Rose's crime quite dis tinctly. Every person connected with tne case, who spoke to me about It. urged me strongly to write-the letter. pointing out that unless I did do so his release, would be impossible, and that eacn one of them believed that he ought to do, reieasea, unless he was to be re tained in a spirit of vindictive, luatirw. which, as we all know, is contrary to every enlightened view, and contrary to wx3 wxiauiuLioa or our state. - ? Robert G. Morrow. UNCLE SAM KIDNAPED This; Writer Sees Him Wrested Front 'tne Feople and Enchained by Big Business. Ashland. tjum lSTn t -cvit.. 7 r - . - MtnjkAt.jt vm. The Journal Continuing my criticism . r popular, nign-soundlng worun ana parages in my recent letters I Contribute th f.Mlnwlno- Tfca lar phrase, often quoted from Lincoln's jeii.yourg speecn, "Government of the people, by the ceonle uxl tnr n. nle." u now 1, nnlt. msia-i - -- .w .a.a.cwAlu, III that it implies or states that which was put is not, namely, that our national government; Uncle Sam, ts a child of the people. When the 13 mnfariaratA states ai&soived and the federal con stitution was adontprt Tlnio Sim reoorn, or oorn anew, and began to function Anril 20.. 17o that, barring the colored folk and some wiuiea, k was germane to speaic of the government as a government of the Deonle. . for th nsArLck, anl hv ha people. However, tvhen Chief Justice "ifn 1 . .... jhmwuui, ut xoiD, renaerea ma xamous decision in the Dartmouth college case low Kuvarnment waa nmnnui -f van. Important powers, and private corpora- uons, tnrougn their increasing, indus trial .and .commercial fnfl throuarh eanrt.mai1ii law. anj n, . of pliant and corrupt legislatures? have w iH-us oouii auu ne is iio longer a child (government! of the people, by the DeODle and for thif wnnl, Thn. we see that, by court action, what' was m not rynat is is that politico-Big Business, having adopted Uncle Sam (the) rovarnmentt. ha Hnmwvu, ter father of him that was" the child 1 government) of the psople,and it is misleading- to wak f him ' T-V)k yavvr eminent, as being of the people, by the people and for the people. It would not no roisieaojng to assert that the United ' Stftrpo n n nbram.nf w and for.rjnlftifw -Tttir nminu, "iini. Sam, the federal, government, does what 111a iwier zatner teus nun to 00. iJltto the. 4 state governments. Many ex- anrnlea of rt1a ahni1,fon a l- tnmtm father can be given. As the above is so patent, I refrain; I could easily do m. 1 . . - . , bw u nssa e. xnus ws see now uncie Sam. ' the Amsrican ' fdral m-nwn. ment, which Lincoln loved, has not pcruiwa r mm tae carta, cut nas oy adoption -become a foster child of the politician and his -spouse Big Busi ness. Is my criticism sustained? Am x wrong in my conclusions? p. M. Brewer. THE CASE OF JACK LA ROSE . Portland. Dec IS. To the Editor of The Journal Your r editorial In The Journal of last Saturday regarding the paraon - or jacK La Rosa most em phatically expresses my sentiments and, I believe, those of hundreds of others. . The manner in which this man went about committing his crimes would show conclusively to any per son with a semblance of . character- reading ability that he was born with a ferocious instinct and should b kent where' fie could never . be tempted In the least to commit a similar crime. I do not believe in the death penalty, but I do, most certainly believe that. when an honest jury brings In a verdict of life for such a class ot criminals as Jack La Rose it should mean life im prisonment and not four to eight years in the penitentiary. I do not believe there is a criminal today that believes a life sentence means over 10 years at the most, and the most shocking thing about it la, he is right. Now X would Just like to ask 'Judge Morrow, why this farce? Why do the Judges no sooner try and convict a man of a crime against society, than they, some times inside of SO days, use their in fluence to liberate ti ls same criminal? It is beyond my comprehension, and although . my comprehension may be very limited. X do know there are hun dreds of others Just tike roc v' - i , Inquisitive. FROM GRATEFUL STUDENTS Portland. Dec lffc To the Editor of The Journal In behalf of the Wash ington .high 'school- student body.- I wish to thank you sincerely for your ready cooperation In helping us re place our books. Since the book stores naa on band only a limited supply of hooka, 'it would have been -very diffi cult to obtain the proper text books tf we had not had assistance, ' ' . - , : i.v HelenMirier, Secretary. GOVERNOR OLCOTT'S SPEECH Portland. Dec 1?. To the Editor of .The - Journal I wish to express many thanks for your editorial on Gov ernor Olcott's address to the governors in the iast- It shows the narrow- mindedness of the governor as - it has In the past since he has been our gov ernor, - The people of Oregon should be- C0JVI3MENT AND j SMALL- CHANGE Now just- watch our undaunted neighbors put the : "store" - back in Astoria. The place is all mussed up with the shattered idols who were-movie favor use. . ; Wont that gob wbo-Inherited $200. 000 be a popular cuss when the boys get -shore, leave? - - "- -i .- .-'-'.' T--iV- .i; Of j course, you're powerfully glad you ! did your Christmas shopping early, and have the trials done with, , ! : Whalebone corsets are coming back Into style. Does that mean that the women folk are losing their normal backbones?,.'.,'. Never saw' a confirmed bachelor who wouldn't be glad enough of the op portunity to exchange his estate for wedded bliss. - . - .:.. . ' ' M- m Bird narcotic carrier. News- iljem. Several- Portland birds have s- been caged for this offense, and the peni tentiary doors jawn jtor the ethers. s How can we prate about women having come Into their own, when we contemplate, the position Sarah Bern hardt has v ao long occupied' with credit? :. - v. - - .v There was. a time whenit didn't re quire much inducement to win our participation in- winter sports, but that was before our favorite winter pastime was reading at home before the fire place. , . - t . .-, iM0lvl5ipRLESS PERSONAL Raridom - Observations About Town Arrivals- from Eastern Oregon In clude O. D. Teel of Echo, S. H. Board man of Boardman, L. P. Shongle of MUton .and Mr. and Mrs. George Mc leod ot Condon, -. :-t: -:..' - Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Anderson - of Astoria are among recent arrivals-In the-' city- - '- v-i ' , . . .',;'. J. C Johnston of Dufur and M W. Johnston of Corvallis are among Out of "town visitors.' '--:- ,y:- f . ,- - ; . " ' - Mr. and Mrs. E. R. Logan of Ash land are visiting in Portland. f B. H. Claghorn of Astoria was trans acting business in Portland Tuesday. . : - " . . Visitors from Pendleton are F. G. Case, H. D. Percey and Li' F. Bryant. - C. Li Dunham of Eugene was in Portland Tuesday. 1 4 Among out of town visitors Is J. R. Brown of Reeds port. -...j. . : -r .' ' ' - George A.' Barton of Albany Is among recent arrivals in the metropolis. J. H. Kbke of Eugene is transacting business- In Portland. ' ' E. 'Barney of Scappoose was .visiting. In Portland Tuesday. - S. J. Bransoom of Kelso. Wash, is, among business visitors. mm. Among out of town guests is F. E. Wilson of Coos Bay. - - V . M. J. Devery of North Bend Is among out of town guests.. D. Van Gilder of Wasco was a Port land visitor Tuesday. 1 . R.'J. McCann of Bend has come to Portland on a business trip.- . Among out of town visitors are Mr. and Mrs. A-,S. Nelson of TamhllL IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS ; x OFTHE .IOURNAL.MAN By Fred A nioneer iot alam telia Mr. LockIey of that caVa -erohitton and of his pan ia that procen. Hia atory begins with hia- boyhood tn niinoia -and ia carried orer the Old. Oregon Trail and thronsh Tariona Ticlaaitadev inclnriaig aorrice ia the Indian vara of the '50a. It wfll be concluded in a ancceeding InataUment, Tnhn n Wriirhr hu livd in Salem nearly 70 years. "There are only three nAAniA-'nnw living hrA who were here when I came to Salem 'in 1853 " said Mr. Wright. . "These are Mrs. Lincoln TXTca vhhu fa t Vic tTQ. ATI arlV dAV gunsmith here ; Mrs. E. C. Srhau, whose maiden name was cirange, ana - am. Dave pugn. "I was born near Clinton. 111., May 4, 1837. My father -died when I was 3 years old and my brother Willie a year old. Will is-' now 83, If he is alive. The last time I heard from him Was in 1863. At that time he was mining In Mexico. He was never much of a writer, so he may still be down there. .. ! "Mother died not long after father's death. My mother's mother. Grand mother Watt, took me to raise. Father's brother. Huston Wright, took Willie, y I had not long been at the home of my grandparents when my grandfather died, so grandmother sold the farm and went to live with one of her children, who had no room for me, so ' I went to live with my father's brother. Garrison Wright, at Randolph. ' ''-. .: "In 1853, when I was 16," my brother sent word -to me that he was going to Oregon with Uncle Huston. I did n't suppose I "should ever see him again, for Oregon : seemed : a long' way of f. After bidding them goodbye I stuck around until the next day, getting more and more' lonesome, so I struck out and overtook them at Bloomington; 111. That was. on St- Patrick's day in 1853. I made arrangements to drive - the loose cattle across the plains, in ex change for three meals a day and the use of a blanket. Uncle Huston's wife died on the Green river desert and was buried at the side of, the road. I shall never forget how desolate we felt as we hitched up the oxen and pulled out, leaving the freshly broken earth by the side of the Old Oregon trail as the only visible sign that one of our number bad finished the journey, while we must still travel on. v ' . . ' - .: . . ' ; .'" : . There were four families of us-that stopped to bury my aunt in a blanket m a shallow grave. ' with a few feet of. earth and -the wide- sky over her. One of these, the Harris family, settled in Polk county, not far from the Wal lace farm. -Pleasant Hill and hia fam ily took up a ; claim on the Salem- Eola-Dallas : road just - beyond Tom Brunk's place, ' and Monti pool Fiske. who married one of Uncle Huston Wright's daughters, also settled in Polk county. Uncle Huston's children were my double cousins, for father and his brother, Huston married sisters, -.Uncle Huston went to work. not long, after he got here, for Thomas Cross, Salem's leading butcher in the days before the Civil war. He was Cross' cattle huvee and traveled all over the valley. ; T landed s job with a Mr. Dorbtn on bis farm north of Salem. . In the spring of 1834 I rustled a bucksaw and a saw buck and put tn a few months sawing wood for Salem's leading citizens, men like A. - Bosh . and other well known thankful that we have elected a big man in his place. For his address regarding our state. we ought to denounce him as cur gov ernor, t May the Chamber of Commerce of our.- city and newspapers point out to htm- how he is knockine our state. NEWS IN BRIEF 11 - - SIDELIGHTS ' '- Man has a new substitute for tea and coffee, ; but restaurants have been using one for years and years. Albany Democrat.-; .... Don't be envious.'' The success and prosperity -of a competitor cannot harm you. -But his failure weakens the whole business structure, Condon Globe-Times. - ...... , .. -,v a :-'..-'.'.rv.T'.v '-";.,' Wouldn't it give a little spice to the reading of an auto accident if it would also include along with the- trip to the hospital some being sent to jail? Am ity Standard. -r e . . - - r-.V:--.-" - iff . ,v . Brownsville has discovered that scor pions are native to the Willamette valley. Unless the brand of the moon shine consumed here lav changed we expect sea .serpent to be discovered in the Molalla valley. Molalla Pioneer. ' " ' .' - The Hill roads will spend a million dollars in the next four year boast ing the Northwest- On account of a needed recount ot old and telling of new features and the appealing side of the berry Industry, Woodburn should issue up-to-date literature Woodburn Independent. m ' . -. ; ... , : If each legislator of Oregon will cut a rick of taxes a. day, with Cut-Them-ln-the-Mlddle Pierce in charge of the gang, they should make a big showing in so days. But we tear that many of them are not familiar with tax-cutting machinery and will not be able to earn their a day at the Job. Pine Valley Herald. . Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Parsons of Wheeler are spending a. few days in Portland. ..' Visitors from Douglas county are Mr. and Mrs. C L. Beckley of Rose burg. 1 mm W. J. Winslow of Caldwell. Idaho, Is among business visitors ' to Port land. w ' --' - T. H. Woodcock of Wamio Is a guest at one of the leading hotels of the city. , James A: Smith of Marshfleld Is among recent arrivals in the dty. '. " - tf E. Bingham of Corvallis is mak ing a brief visit to Fortland. - F. W. Herri n of Ashland Is tranv acting business in Portland. - - m m m R. M. Smith of - Klamath Falls Is visiting in-Port and for a few days. . - . . . " Mr. and Mrs. H. A. Woods of Dallas are among Portland visitors. Mr. '.and Mrs. F. J. Haynes of As toria are late arrivals -in Portland. ' W. M. Shoor of Hermiston ia trans acting business In Portland. " ; . .' , , : W. R. Birgers of Lyle, Wash., Is among recent arrivals in the city. George Campbell ot Condon is among out of town visitors. . , Roes W. Finley of Klamath Falls is visiting in' Portland. : -' ...... e ' F. M. Compton of Suthcrlin is among out of town guests. , Among out of town visitors is G. M. Stark of Prinevllle. .... ' M. L. Brown of Corvallis Is in Port land on business and pleasure, v Local ey - Salemites. That summer my cousin. John Storey, and I and a couple of other young fellows struck out for the Puget Sound country. There was noth ing at Fort SteiUcoom buta handful of soldiers, so we went on to Olympia, a sleepy little village at that time. We lanaea a Job with a blacksmith- there, burning a coalpit and furnishing" h'im tne charcoal for his forge. That fall we returned, to 'Winter at Salem." I landed a Job driving a team. I hauled rreignt from Champoeg to Salem, Scio and Lebanon. When the river got high and the roads heavy 1 quit freighting and landed a Job in a hotel run by a man named Uubois. It stood where ,the paper mill Is now located. r v " ,-. ".,'!.:' '-' v-"-v .: '-"V". "Ours Was the leading hotel, so dur ing the winter I met most of the lead ing men of Oregon such men as Gen eral Joe Lane. Judge M. P. Dead v. Colonel. Nesmith, George H. Williams, irientenant i. ti. eneridan from Fort Yamhill, Lieutenant U. tx Grant from Vancouver, Captain Russell and scores of other men whose names you will see in history. , - . ' "In the spring of 1855 Z struck out for the mines and landed a job as cook at the Indian Creek hotel at "Vreka, CaL That fall X come back to Salem to winter, X landed a job helping shoe horses in Jim Chambers blacksmith shop, but before I had been there long Kamlaken started on the rampage and the Yakima Indian war was on. ; On October 11, 1855, Governor Curry is sued a call for eight companies of vol unteers to go up toward Walla Walla and lick the Indians ; so I threw up my blacksmithing Job and enlisted in. Cap tain Charles Bennett's company. Colo nel J. W. Nesmith was In command of our regiment, I was elected first cor poral. .We went up to Eastern Oregon, where Major Chlnn built a fort. - -He named it Fort Henrietta, for Henrietta Haller. wife of Major Haller. It is called Echo now, and is about 25 miles this side of Pendleton. -We started with Lieutenant Colonel Kelly from Fort Henrietta for Walla Walla ft De cember 3L ' We had a nuxup with- the Indians on the Touchet. - Some of, the troops, meeting stiff, resistance from the Indians, sent for reinforcements. Captain Wilson of Company A and Captain Bennett of Company F four company) responded. -Captain Bennett, while leading his men .against a party of Indians tn a log . house, was killed. Dr. Belt, one of Salem's leading physi cians, was In charge of the hospital at The Dalles and he asked that I be de tailed as cook at the : hospital. After Captain Bennett's death I was trans ferred to Captain A. J. Hembree's com pany. Colonel Nesmith resigned- and was . succeeded by Colonel T. R. Cor uelius. Not long ' after-1 was trans ferred to Captain Hembree's company he was killed. I served 10 months ahd wag mustered out, ; T then landed a job aa government packer.1 X carried ammunition and sup plies ; from The Dalles up into the Yakima country, . When this job : was finished X went back : to Salem and landed a job as clerk in Westacotf s store, where I put in the winter. .The next spring, -tltar of 1857, X startod a store of my own.. X was 20 years old, and X figured it was time I quit work ing, for other people and became my own boss." , As you stated, after spending the sum that our state has paid out to adver tise, then a beaten candidate has to go to a convention to knock bis state. I am not m Ka Klux. and f urthermore voted against the school bill, . . - ' - " W; J. Young. The Oregon, Country Kartkwcst HajsMoinga 4a Brief form tot tbs - - . Btuiy Jtaader. - , OREGON 'Irfii'tlx There are 528 pupils enrolled In the.. i Woodburn schools, according .. la the ' December 1 report. i Fines collected at Albany during the ' past month for traffio violations amounted-to 1113.50. , - The berry pack tn the Woodburn dis- -1 trict in -1922 amounted to .3,988,694 " pounds, valued at 3201.284.84. Six new tracks are' neaiing com pletion at the Southern- Pacific round- ... house at Ashland at an estimated ex- . pense of $35,000. - Ashland lodge, A. F. and' A M-has I Surchased for $10,000 a lot erfTEast fnln MtrmM - ititrtn wkui. I. 4 1 1 - m. new Mason io temple. - .Smith Brothers mill at Grisaly, near -Prineville, recently destroyed by fire,'- ' tm uciui ivuuut ana win oe reaay lor operation about March TL -, .. The school census of Wasco county- ' shows 3934 children of school age this ' year, com pnred with 4053 last year, a " ? decrease of 118. - , ' On TWmW t la4 tK.u - 129 books In the Salem public library, 1 wwnung w a. report oy miss lora M. Case, the librarian. - M'k. r kttfVAM ...... . .. . .J 1 . , . 1 West ia being developed near Hunting- " ton ruf wrlll Ha tv iAn,ti.H - o - 500.000 plant to be erected In the spring. - Charles Harding Turner, prominent Mason and member of the Sons of the A J. I . J - . . , ....... iwui ncTuiuuun, uieu m nut nome. in Eugene last Friday, aged 72 years. - bonds amounting to 12500 were ordered retired and interest totaling $1025 paid by the city of Albany at a recent meet ing of the council. - -. Frank Brobst, a farmer living near Perrydale. was in Dallas last Friday ' exhibiting, the carcass of a red fox which he had killed that morning on his place. The pelt is said to be worth Regular freight service four times a week on the S. P. s. railway be- . "1JJ. allridge and Bend h been established. Heretofore service has -been - irregular, depending on the amount ot freight on hand. ' WASHINGTON rules that there is no law providing for appeal from Juvenile court cases. ZMnbas, 12-year-otd son of . Nick Zambas, was fatally Injured . Biymond: ' 7 . "u ,n. . Pleading gunty to a moonshlnlng char8re at Okanogan, Frank Bartell TiB? af, flna 500 nd given six months in JaiL Mrs. Margaretha Westerlund, Oregon pioneer and mother of Carl A. Wester lund or Portland 1--. -..w ?- attle. aged 74 years. James Percy Nevins, for 15 years secretary of the Western Washington fair and a business man of PuyaXlun. died last aveek in Tacoma. Ann! . fitttrina lm.. 1 .v at Moose, died Saturday in a Raymond uvoimuu nuonj no naa oeen tasen alter being struck by an engine. - . " -o " U18U 111 DpDKUie since December 5 from a quick acting " -j vm. Biceving Bicancss, ana several others are reported In a critical " condition. , , ' I- R Black, whose ear ran down and killed Raymond Heathman, aged . . 5, two weeks ago, has been found not -guilty of manslaughter by a jury at ' Wenatchee. , Benjamin R. Ostrander, a member Of the first legislature from Whitman Mn.m.w tl.Jt EUJ . . a 1 .. . vuuvjr, uicu, mi r riujr at epoaane after living . in Eastern Washington -for. 40 years.:-.-,-; t-.;-: - As a basis for rate making purposes, a valuation of $1,950,000 has been placed on the plant of the Puget Sound Telephone company-at Everett by the department of public works. - -. Relatives have identified the body of the man found December 4 In an Ever ett hotel as William F. DeLong. a prosperous farmer of" Elmwood, Wla No reason for the suicide is known. - Robbers -who visited three Seattle homes Saturday night made away with ' loot valued by the owners at mote than ' $5000. The heaviest loser was Georgo F. Thompson, who lost -$4000' In cash, clothing and Jewelry. ?- 1 The ranch home- of 'John Viebrock, . five miles southwest of Watervtlle, a. landmark of the Big . Bend . country, was burned' -last week. The loss is about $4500. The residence was built by . Piatt Carbaley in 1882. . The $500 cash bond posted at Ellens- " burg by Robert" Oreer on his convic tion of moonshlnlng has been given to Mrs. Greer, widowed when Greer was shot by Mrs. Nichols at Summit ; Stage station in Klamath county. "-" ' " U " , IDAHO . k -' . " Ray Thompson, a painter of Moscow. -died in that city Friday from drinking perfume as a beverage. David Grattan of Pocatello, for 12 years master mechanic of the Oregon ,; Short Line, has announced hia resig- , . nation. . .. , . ; Mrs. Laura Buts. suserintendent of the Kellogg schools for several years. . . has accepted the position of assistant ' state superintendent of schools. . About one-third of the business sec- ' tion of Fern wood, in Benewah county, . burned last week, causing a -loss esti mated at between $35,000 and $40,000. , Tea loads of turkeys raised by the convicts in the Idaho state penitentiary. were snippea last weea to tne eastern markets. They will bring to the state Admitting ' that statements he made - to the Idaho supreme court to secure admission to th Idaho bar were false. H. J. E. Ahrens of Boise has been din- . Darrea oy - oraer oi tne court, Plymouth, : was found Friday uncon scious at his home and died shortly afterward from symptoms Indicating mat n was suffering from ratnes. . Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of Dec 20, 1902. The Lewis and Clark fair board of; directors will ask the legislature for a , flat appropriation of $500,000. Washington The funeral of the late dent Grant, was held this morning. - . Pendleton The " proposition to pro- ' vide an up-to-date sewerage system for this city, on which the citizens voted - yesterday, carried by a - vote, of . 183 to 65 - - ' . . . - . . An assessment of V mills will be-' -- levied on property within the limits ot the Port of Portlands which embraces nearly the whole of Multnomah county, ,- . for the benefit of the Port of Portland. - : At present there are very few cases of smallpox In the pe'sthousenany ? -less than aj; this time last yean - , -r . -..,. ... . , The past week In the produce market -has been more lively than for the same '-" period during the last year. -Business on all lines has been extra heavy and quotations have made more advances than for many years. " - N - .' . r ' - . ' With over 700 people present, the as- sembly hall of thenew Sumxyslde school Was crowded last evening. The . occasion was an entertainment by the pupils of the school for the benefit of . the piano fund. ' The past week tn the real estate : market has witnessed a remarkable -tendency toward the purchasing f . -property in St. Johns. ; - ; ' Furniture manufacturers In this city are making preparations to ' advance ' the prices on their products after the i first of the year owing to the increased -cost of material and labor. -: -. - . - - : The coming of the holiday vacation V was celebrated yesterday in nearly all V of the city schools.- - ?