The Oregon daily journal. (Portland, Or.) 1902-1972, December 21, 1922, Image 10

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Soea off anew - tear a daep im tinton and they often cost a tnan dear. Sir Mattbav Bale. FUTILE ADVICE SENATOR BORAH, irreconcil able extraordinary, say this country should not enter European affairs until Europe puts her own house in order and until land forces are reduced. . v Europe isn't able to pat her own house to ofdst. She has been try ing fof four year and, instead, of Conditions . improYing, : they have been nearer collapse In the last 18 inonths probably than at any re cent time. - Ctiroper r is "nj6fer.oopetiHs; ancev is 1lLsklh1p:fop'jBj5dlfs." 6reai Britain Mtm "ao ttW toyspblls. Neither Witt Italy. ' Gerrriany " is restlteavAnd is ft, bne Of contention ambiif tbe other, nation a ' Russia hovers, ted on.-the irdgaf Europev Thy Turk has advanced With' lack of cooperation, Europe becomes the scene.; of several ' n4tlon tkadln alone, each with ; separate pro- f gram, each with different, asplra-.j Itiona.and . purposes and , aCh t-e-f uslflg 't, ah-s with the plans of I :. anyxother.-jK? -7 Jtjs j?: r" ; 1 1; lCfjr means poluicatTohaoa. Po I Irfical chbs rwhi 1aT Continent is !6pratlns unde k peace treaty with reparations and other matters of dispute to "be settled and enforced, ineam financial and economic chaoa.' If;there can be no agree-ment-between", nations, there can not well be settlemenU or stability. But a poyaerful 'naUon, wielding grreat moral mxiilence and support lnr a Jflst cause, can do much to bribe th otter nations together. It can do much to .sefiure settlements. It.caa. lead, the way to stability, and 'Eutop i "cannot attain stability without; leadership. . That is why America. Is needed in Europe, and why -Europe' is not able to put her owr ..house in order unaided, 5 UA-s. for -Teductlotat of land forces, I ms .Mr.'TBbralfairgests. does he or a nyope else1 -think there will be a further reduction. f forces in Eu- I rope sd long as 'tile Turk is on the march-.;so long- as Russia, maintains I he .ertornous ,army, arld so long as France maintains hers? Land orv any 'other1 forces are not often reduced; very tar, unless they are reduced- by agreement, and it is very: certain that, there will be no agreement to reduce' so long as one gigantic power is outside th pact. ,: It-is -easy to giva Europe advice about cleaning house and reducing fightlDat forces, but such advice is futile so" long aa Europe is leader- lehs and. drifting, and so long as therar attcng armies threaten ing the nations that might prefer to disarm. Agreement is the basis, and th only, basis, on which accomplish ment ia attained ' in International Affair. MISS MaeCONNELL pURISTINA MacCONNELL. was v-i an example of th good a teacher may - do, . When, her death was anaeunced. . fa Portland Wednes day literally, hundreds of this city's business" men,, mothers and. youths paused jto pay to her life th trib ute of affection and gratitude, f 'For 42 of her more than ; four score year ah had been A -teacher in the Portland" pula choc4s .Tho students ef her earlier years passed from under "her care and a -little later their . children came to be taught by the ' instructor of their parents. : She built into th Jives of s fine, ever-growing body of young men and, women high standards of ac curacy,; Industry -and 'deportment. She did not drive; she led. ' She did not coerce; she won. She did what a teacher who understands her op portunity may do. Ehe multiplied her- own energetic usefulness .by thdusands ; who today - call . her blessed. ' As a matter of spelling, there is only a fa difference between im morality and immortality-, - which merely goea to lyroves all the or thographers to the contrary, that the, spelling may be the least im portant part of a word." : THE DAT REPORT DAY'S tax' ' investigating 1 . CO commission declares for aa In come tax. i ' J - ; That is something gained, but it insists upon a. flat income tax. That is a contention that th small means man, -who can scarcely scrape up the money to pay his in come tax, should pay at th same rate as the man who has bo much income that he cannot find .ways to .spend it- all. The United States in framing an income tax didn't use Lhat nlan. The British mvprnment didn't use it. All just And advanced governments graduate their income tax rates on a basis of ability to pay. - . ' j Tour sraal-means man almost universally creates his income by productive labor of some kind. Many a big-mcmey man gets his in come from interest on bonds, notes and mortgages. Many of-these se curities are tax-exempt, and most of the rest escape taxation by being hidden. While your . small-means man is working and producing, many a big-money man is an idler, a non-producer, a parasite, a leech On the toil of those who do produce. Often the' big-money man's in come is an inheritance, handed down from father to son. The millions in securities are thus passed into hands that did not earn them and that neither toil nor spin. To make the working, small means man pay the same rate as is paid by the lucky non-producer whose, bonds, mortgages and notes are unearneds iSs economically un sound. It . is morally wrong.5 tt helps build up class. i It encourages investment In- tax exempts securities. It induces, men to become parasites on the toil of other " men; and . when- our ' nation gets ran overload of , parasite it is headed for 'revolution, because by and by- the undeivman ,wilf be Un able to carry his burden and will be driven to desperation. . . Mr, Bay's investigating commis sion defied the plain mandate - of the Oregon people as expressed in the late election , returns. The People rejected the constitutional amendment for & flat income tax by a voto of two to one. They re pudiated the flat . income - tax,' be cause ;they Want a graduated income tax; ;Th commission's j insistence i on -a fiat tax In 1th face of that vot is extraordinary v The commis- ilon. seems to believe that the peo- i pie do not know what they want. an4 It ' proceeds to tell "them what they oagnt to have.-: It is on the' principle that . common, folks don't ! know enough ' to govern themselves but have t be governed. There is something more power ful than snow plows and more mov ing than imprecations 10degreeJ rise in temperature. A DAD GOES SHOPPING ' DAD hates, to ' go shopping. In - Julv he has a. cam n tat at a.hrinr- rence of the ordeaL When October comes his emotions ha v merely in tensified. But the mere suggestion of shopping in . December of threading-' crowded aisles, of being buffeted, , crowded,; jammed and squeezed is enough, to throw him into a mental spasm, ', Just the same.' Dad went shop ping, and it was -no longer ago than this week. It all cam about with his mild criticism that th lit tle folks of his home seemed to rec ognise the existence of only a ma ternal Saint Nick. Although h had the" keenest impression of anybody that Santa Clans operated exclu sively on Dad's credit, the exclama tion of childish delight was apt to be, "Oh, see what mother brought me for Christmas! It is true that women exorcise 90 per :cent of th buying power of America a most strenuous exer cise at Christmas but the lines of women shoppers are, after all, only power lines. The dynamo is Dad's pocketbook. . 1 " , viV'W'v His dalicat criticism, by which he meant : only to win a place on th gift cards, was Instantly ac cepted as JBhallenge.: Dad might win" his place by the sweat of his face, -or words to that effect, i "The Little. Woman who guides his des tiny guided Dad r. into Christmas decked stores. Ho felt as if he had suddenly walked, into the midst of a cloudburst, a cyclone and a mon soon twisted f into . on. As he watched th Little Woman stem her way sturdily through th tld,' tow ing his hulk ' along, h pegarv to wonder why they reserved th mU als of honor exclusively for: heroes of the war. . As .hc noted her un perturbed ability to find what she originally had in mind, his admira tion. greWj for. the mind that could hold so much, so 'tenaciously.:. But the crowninr touch came when she actually- invited his confused wits into -conference on the selection of a -wagon for th'noy and a black eyed doll for the little gftL -iJ Then the miracle happened. Dad found he was enjoying himself. H insisted on gifts about twice, aa good as mother would have dared buy. A grin . chased away his moodiness. Ho didn't even mind th crowding people. It suddenly occurred jto him, that .you couldn't find In all ..the world any other cause - thai" Christmas . that could bring, so man? people together so closely, so happily and with so wide an aftermath of good cheer. Dad Intends to go shopping again next Christmas. ; Th National Farm Bureau Fed eration has highly and seriously resolved to stay out of politics, i But how , tan it sret into , Washington , D. C, and at the same time stay out? . ' WHAT PORT TWO ''engineers and two firemen were killed In a recent accident on the Great 'Northern railroad at Gold Bar, Washington. , 1 A- report verified by a deputy coroner, declares that the engineer of one of the locomotives reported that the enginewas not, fit to be sent out. -The hub-liners on the pony truck had worn out, he said, allowing two Inches of dangerous play. The engineer, was, however, forced to go on with the locomotive without waiting for repairs. Thel wreck in which the two engineers and two firemen were killed is de clared to flave been caused by the defective pony truck, which threw the two "locomotives into the ditch. The S. P. fc S. road is seiidiner 10 locomotives" to Dallas, Oregon, to be repaired by contract work. That is a Violation of the rules of the labor board. It la also proof that the shop force of the company is not sufficient to keep equipment In re pair. The company is relying n inefficient strikebreakers to do its shop work, while many idle expert shopmen are ready to return to work on an agreement which 141 American reads have pat into af fect. - But th S. P. & S. line is keeping these expert mechanics locked out as punishment for their walkout several months ago. Th company's motive power is in such bad order that two and even three locomotives have been used at times on trains where but One locomotive is reanlred -nrhatn the equipment is in good order. New wheels Were put under a gondola at Vancouver and the car went to Fallbridge without having the journals packed At Fall bridge the strike-breaking inspector old not discover the absence of the packing until his attention was called to it by a switchman. Run at high speed, the unpacked jour nals would probably have caused a wreck. J" . The locomotive on a -vassemfer train fresh from the yards at Port land broke down on the 10-mile trip to Vancouver and had to. be replaced with another locomotive. causing a delay of an hour. The list of similar cases is almost with out end. Because of Inefficient and hot infrequently with smuoh steam.' escaping 'that the track can soarcely be'seen by engineers ' and firemen. t.. :: ' t NO railroad has a right to operate with ; defective equipment , ' The sending Of .its locomotives to Dallas for repair shows that the S. P. &. S. has not a sufficient force of skilled shop mechanica. It is also a yiola- tion Of th rules of the labor board, v In their, mad 'war on -their - a ployes,' hw: !6ng Will4he railroads play with the lives of the traveling public? . , What are public service commis sions and raQway" commissions for? Now just suppose we could in duce old Hr. World -himself to re peat Dr. Coue'a formula: "Day by day, in every way, I m getting better and better." - A ROYAL PREROGATIVE KINGS have had rough" roads to travel in recent yeara Mon archies have gone upon the rocks. Constitutions have been -adopted and republics established.; h Many a former ' king -or . king to come is now spending his time In . neutral country wondering, why cruel peoples change their minds. Divine-right rulers have become un popular, j. -They have, in many cases, rushed from their home lands to save their lives. Anything smattering of kings - or . the king business has been the target of popular hatred. But there are some things about kings and their ; prerogatives that are not so. bad; Mayhap peoples have dealt a little . harshly with them. ' At least, there are some re deeming features . about the king business. For instance, the king of Spain has just exercised a bit of. authority, and certainly lit a Worthy cause. He has ordered that those who partake of garlic shall remain out of his presence until ail traces of the sup posed relish have passed from their breath. U '. ' f " : ' ' i That is king business. That la royal - power. That Is . absolutism. But why cant more of us use regal authority when i a knight -J of the onion catches us in close quarters? :if,'as'! stated by a. writer in ; Col liers, there Is one clerk - f e r every thi" farmers along the Jong, long trail-;" l'rora? the farm to the con sumer, you have one-little part of the explanation of . why somebody else getsmore out 3 of agriculture than the farmer and his 'family. With" every .'three farmers support ing a salesman and probably his family, it is time for agriculture to think about -a new and better means of sellicg. . It is.the selling: depart ment of farm operations that does moer to "break ' down American ag rlcultur. - - ? ' COMMENT OF THE ; STATE PEESS Summer Smoke the Tourist Traffic's Deadly Foe The Home of the Fil bert DefiniUly and Permanently Located Aa Ancient Munitions r Factory A Tribute to Methodism of tha La Oranda DUtrict ' Modern IoomoUon and Un- - . .. thrtft--PertlajMl's Uiacovery v " . of the Oregon Farmer. Bend Bulletin: Two years ago. and afrain last summer, .smoke, from forest (ires so filled the air throughout ail or the Northwest that the scenic beauty of the country was entirely obecurad. For those of ua who find daily enjoy- raent in this scenery, the situation was bad enough, but to the tourist it meant almost A total loss f enjoyment of bis trip through the country. We, at least, knew what was behind the smoke; the tourist passed through and went away with nothing more to interest hlin than what be was told lay behind the has. Insofar as he had been attracted to the Northwest by accounts of the wonder ful scenery he was completely disap pointed. The underlying cause of this disappointment was, of course, the for est fires that made the smoke, f And ths forest fire involves a double loss, a loss of timber and a less of revenue from the tourist who cuts his stay short and tells his friends not to go into a country where the trip is spoiled by the smoke-filled atmosphere. f If we want to make the most of Our Umber' and if we' want to increase our tourist travel, we must do- away with the forest fires, -especially the 75 par Cent which are man-caused. We have pointed this out before and are led to renew, the. warning by-. resolutions adopted at the -recent meeting of the Pacific Northwest- Tourist association. In the preamble to the" resolutions it la Said that the destruction of our ceni rasouroes by fir -end 4 the obscuring of our mountain scenery behind a pall of forest; fire smoke constitute a seri ous menace to the continued existence and success of onf tourist Industry." There is no denying the statement As residents in a forest section where there is beautiful scenery on every side, the people of Bend-should and can do a great deal to eliminate forest firea . " v-, ---H,- ... Eugene Register i " Speaking at a luncheon held for advertising repre sentatives of the Kill lines, George A. Dorris of Springfield told Of the oppor tunities for profits i filbert growing in Western Oregon. He speaks with authority, for he is: the pioneer filbert grower of the Pacific Northwest In all the United States, said Mr. Dorris, the filbert can be grown commercially only m the Willamette valley and- a pan of Western Washington.-" This is true because f the mHd,' misty climate that is characteristio cf these lOcAiitiea So -much for the possibilities Of pro auction. Regarding possible markets; Mr. DOrria told that a decacSe apo Im portations of filberts to the United States - were in the neighborhood of 10.000,000 poimds, while now importai tiOhs have grown to 18.000,000 pounds. In other words, American consumption of ' filberts has nearly doubled in 10 years with no particular effOTr-tar pto mote larger consumption. The filbert is a commodity whose use is steadily Increasing-. It can be grown in the United States only In the Willamette valley and a part of Western Washing tort. It would appear, therefore, that there will always be a good domestic market for these nuts. Th filbert is Worth a great deal of attention In th Willamette valley's system of diversi fied agriculture. Corvanis Gazette-Times: Recently In-Wales there was excavated a muni tion factory eOOO years old. The fa. lory covered hundreds of acres and em ployed thousands of men making Sftjn axes. Evidently the enemv had captured the place, for there is one enormous pile of finished axes all broken in two. Perhaps they had a disarmament conference ; anyway, they scrapped-their weapons. But the in teresting, thing is that here, 4000 years B. C, was a. peonl animated bv the same impulses that animate us today, j wjsiory nas not changed. Human na ture has not changed.- What this prim itive war was about we -do not know. Probably there Was' a dispute over trads sones, whist in those days, 'was merely called a dispute over - hunting grounds.' That is what causes our wars today, largely dispute , over hunting grounds, trade hunting.' No doabt rf w had the records we would find that the proprietor of this stone axe factory was a profiteer, that he stayed home and gouged the: public by, inflating the price of axes, i Per haps, too the laborers in the ax fac tories demanded - A- doubling: of I their wages while their fellow-countrymen were at the front fighting their coun try's battles and cooties. ; if " j. .What is the difference -between now and then? Nothing but a few Inven tions which have established what we call civilization. Every - so often that civilisation gets tophekvy; that is, be yond the intelligence of the masse to use it properly and then Bing! over it topples and the cream of the race has disappeared. ":;.--. Le Grande Observer: Things which we Jiaje with us all the time are too often treated as a part of the com munity without further consideration. The Methodist cnurch is inclined to steady, aggressive work, and therefore when La Grande stops to think that she Is head of Methodism in this big inland ountry she is somewhat sur prised. tut-it is a fact. Just the same. The Methodists are divided into con ferences and districts.. We are located in the Helena conference, but in the La Grande district. The La Grande dis trict takes in Eastern Oregon and a portion of Southern Idaho. ' Twenty seven ministers and their charges are under-Rev. Ira R. Aldrich, district superintendent of the Methodist church, who resides in La Grande 'and is one of the most effective church builders known in .the Inland Empire. He has put the La Grande district to the high degree of efficiency. It tops the con ference of which :t is a member and is recognized throughout the West as one of the best Methodist districts. As a city La Grande is appreciative of this achievement ; she is appreciative of be ing Methodist headquarters for the dis trict, and ehe is pleased to have Rev. Aldrich, whose: work is becoming so well known, as one of her citizens. - r. ..... . .v. ; . iKoseburr News Review: ; Our errand- fathers would open their eyes if thejJ could come back to earth and see how their descendants spend money. Take the matter of walking and riding, for Instance. The old-timers could give a girl a good-time by taking her to walk to a picnic, but now" she is critical if the' automobile with which you call for her Is net of the right make. Many parents then not merely saved money by going without any means of trans portation other; than - their own feet, but they had. their children walk bare foot, to church to save shoe leather. Today a host of people must have a car to carry them short distances. If they .go on sightseeing trips, they may look; with contempt on a. man who makes aa effort to join .with others in hiring an automobile, aad feel that he should spend his money like a good sport aad engage a machine for his own special use. The country will never return to the old parstmoniotta ' days, but it must make its resources go as far 'as possible, or it will never enjoy permanent prosperity. , - ' , Wood barn I ndependent : Portland has at last grasped -the fact that there are Oregon farmers and upon ' these farmers Portland' mainly depends. An effort is now to be made, not to bring more farmers in but to help those who are now here, making the agricultural situation more- secure and bringing. If possible, an era of prosperity to tJaem. The only way to do this is to nave a better,, market for the farmers. . A brisker Oriental trade would aid in carrying out the program. Portland miKBt have .a potato day or week: said also establish, an Immense etarch fae- ry. i v . i Letters JVom the People : ICoiaaiBjdaaOuaMi at to Tb Joamai fat pnblieatkni ta taio departnMaa eboeld b writ taa obj only oa aid f tba paper, aboold aot xased S00 vorda ia lesrtb, aod taoac fea ncBad by tba vriter. aoa aaad arttaaa sa tail ana atroaapany tb oatoatkia. j . 'FAM AND.1 TX) WN" &. This Writer Advocates - Almost the : - Most Extrsm AppllOaUon of ' the Cooperative Principle. Silvertoh, Dec 15. To the Editor of The Journal The Journal man again bits thbuUsey.. No better criticism, in as few words, was ever before given of the big Interests and their govern ment of the-United States than was thrown on thee screen in Thursday's Journal, entitled "Farm and Town." But, I wish, to put in a word for the poor laborers in our large cities, s They are ground down, in- soma respects worse than the farmers, by special legislation in favor - of corrupt and greedy corporations. Th "Fsrm and Tawn" article states that th cities are growing seven times as fast as the farm population. Now just think what the rapidly ' increasing competition in city labor means to all producers of wealth in our cities, Of course, some Of the boys who move from the country to the city go into business, but this only gives the workers so many more families to support through profits that come out of the wage-earner's one fifth. Competition is said to be the life of, trade, but merchants have learned to cooperate when ft comes to- exploiting the purchaser, and whole sale dealers have learned to protect their' merchant patrons and to-fix and transfix the little devil Who dares to undersell. . We hope the progressives will do something great, . but we re member the People's party, and the Bull Moose patty and the other , poli tical endeavors: yet. w do not de spair, for- these educational movements must some before we J earn the rreafc- est of all lessons the ' lesson I of co operation. The railroads, with i other giant corporations enmeshed with them, own and operate the government, and of .course it operates for them and not for the masses. W. J, Bryan once ad vocated taking over the roads, but th masters object, and so, we must take over the government first then we, the people.' can dd anything we want to do. W can give our self every odd (end every even) section of land, not Only from Missouri to the Pacific ocean, but from the three-mile limit on the At lantic to the Hawalis n islands and then some. When we learn how to run: our government we can run our "own railroads, and learn to work and vote for ourselves. And perhaps, in a pinch, run our own stores and factories. Let's do it! J. E. Hosmer. REPLYING TO MR. BEAVERS An Advocate of Single Tax Essays to Answer Certain Questions. Portland, Deo. 15. To the Editor of Th Journal John Beavers, in The journal of December 14, asks 'many questions ia criticism Of single tax. : I f snail try to set him right on a point or two. He asks why single taxers- do not propose a law prohibiting any cor poration or individual from owning to exceeu su acres ox unaeveiopea lana. That is not in our line: Wby does not Mr. Beavers get a bunch around him and propose such a law? Single taxers of .this- state, to my certain knowledge, for 12 years past have been pleading with the electors to break the iron grip Of landlordism by the only means by which it seems to them possible! to do it. If anybody else has e method by which he thinks - this thing could be better don, it should be his turn now. I think, though, before h got far he would, find that, while anyone may conceive a notion, it takes courage and conviction as well as money to carry th thing through, 1 even it practical. He admits the- state is overrun with land hogs. He ' shOws them exacting $50 ' an acre from the settlers for logged-off . land worth only 95. He Bays something about " going before boards of equalization 'Well, all such procedure is up to citizens who think as : Mr." Beavers' does; but as for us single tax people, we have long: ago learned our lesson, that all such: ges tures ar. love's labor lost. We believe the only practical way to get the land hog off the land is to tax him off, even as we have proposed, , I Would reminl Mr. JBeavers that there is no danger of land evaporating or running away because of any tax proposed to be put Upon it. .. Like Uncle Hiram's prize buggy horse, it will stand alone with out hitching ; no one need holer' iU On the other hand, if you tax improve ments and personal property, especially money, notes or such other liquid as sets, the whole tendency Is to drive them out of existence, into hiding, or out of the state. Therefore, to remove the tax entirely off improvements and liquid wealth, and put it all on naked land values, is to increase the sum to tal of wealth which a. state wilt pos sess within its borders." Untax things that are made, and you have a mag net that will draw such wealth tight to us. - The thousands of parcels of va cant land which Mr. Beavers assumes would be made public property if ; single tax were adopted would then be open to settlement by anyone willing to pay the state the rent therefor, which is single tax. People who owned houses, orchards and other improvements need not ' worry, because their exemptions would equal any increase in the ground taxes upon which , those improvements Were made. The effect of all this would' be to .create the greatest boom this state ever saw. Capital and labor would , flock into the state the real producers, who would do things. . not idle speculators. :. ; H. Denlinger. ' TO AVOID DOUBLE TAX Procedure Suggested in the Case of a i!. Mortgage Given Back on Pur- -: chase With Part Payment , - Waldo. Dec 15. To the Editor of The Journal While there is mo much being said about lowering taxation. I don't see where anyone has said any thing about the unequal taxation.- I consider; the present sytem of taxa tion a very unjust one, placing the heavy burden upon, those who are least able to bear it For example : A buys a ranch of B for $30,000. A pays B $10,000 as first payment and gives B a mortgage on the ranch for 920,000. B then deeds A the reach. Then A is assessed for the full value of the ranch, when be has only an equity of one-third , of the ranch. . Then B is assessed on the mortgage. Which makes a double assessment on As equity in the ranch which is all wrong - and uniust. The remedy : Tax A for the full value of the ranch. Exempt' all mortgages from- taxation, - but make tt lawful for A to deduct from his pay ments made to B the amount el taxes m proportion to B's equity in the ranch. Such a : method rof taxation would equalise that taxation and no mort gage would escape its just tax, for the A's could be depended upon to collect the tax from the B's. A to retain the deduction to com pan ate him for. the tax paid by him on B's equity in the ranch, IE. , M. Albright. COMLIENT AND SMALL CHANGE Seattle has restored the Seent car fare. Here's one ease where. we're willing to copy the Sound city. : !"--. - ..; . - a- - : at-w-: --, - iri';t- Give the out-of-work buddy a steady b at good pay. - What a whale of a hristxnajt Dreaent that would be for nun s .. -. -. , - - v ;- . . - . - State tax commission urges a eut In tax assessment. Now they're shout ing in a language we all can under stand. - When it comes to Christmas baying: In snow, or wind or hail, the female of the specine is more deadly than the male, . .- . .y-s.. - ' Twenty years' ago, the papers say. Portland police were having. troee with gamblers. , Times don't change much, after all. -a ' '," - :-r-r- When the time comes that We can travel to work by radio, avoiding icy streets and chilling fog, we'll pay our full tribute to science- ..' Over In Washington they've held that liquor is personal property. That judge apparently never opened ft . quart In the presence of the gang. MOiraiOR XjESS TPERSONAIi Random ? Observations About Town 'Automobile - travel le temporarily suspended in the vicinity of Heppner, reports R. W. Turner. The cause ot it are the big snowdrifts in the roads. It Vok Turner several hours to come from his place, about six miles from Heppner,: out Butter Creek way, on horseback; There Is considerable snow on the ground and it' is drifted' worse than for years. Among .visitors from out of town are R.-C. Harden of Marshfield, Her bert Bung -wof lMilwaukie and H. Nesbltt ot. Goldendae, Wash. -' .. .. ..- a a, .- - Among out of town guests are the following from La Grande: Cecil W. Parsons, M H. AIlenNend Mrs. W. H. Perry and son. v - ; - :'- .,i- 1. D. Weed - and -H. C Nelson 'of Condon are : transacting Business in Portland. -- 'J " . ' . ---J' . - '. ' a . : . . ' C. B. Carstetis of Banks was among those doing business in Portland Wed nesday. . a George Fitzgerald, who runs a res taurant at The Dalles, is in Portland on business, a -'- -.. Among those registered at the Im perial Is Mrs. C E. Jay of Klamath Falls. Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Townaley Of Pendleton are visiting in the metrop. oils. - .; , Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Bennie were shopping, in .Portland Wednesday. . - a a a -Among recent arrivals in the city is J.W. Price of Albany.' -v i . . . .. R, Roy Booth is in from ToncAlla to take in the sights. Of Portland. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OEtffHE I JOURNAL MAN By Fred nMM'i Am nr- t)i. dan of t&e roUinst atoaa, which aometimea, tru to the iIiih.. ,it?M-Ml no mwa. Bat aosBCtimee t did, Here W B--aapl of, the. latter olaoa. Bead sow the aoneloakia of th bt of the early and adrentoroue ttfe of John ii. Wnsn ol Salem ana twtoi un Btares, thoturn motuy Salan, and et lata years alt- setaac .. , v ?-., - "I- started to business for myself ia Salem in the spring of 1957," said John O. Wright, when I visited him recently at his offlc in the commissary depart ment at the Oregon Stat hospital. "A young man named Dodge and myself started a grocery stor not rar xrom where the Marion hotel now ia I was ambitious to get ahead, and, wanting to put back all the money I could Into the business, I got a job in the nearby hotel as night clerk, receiving; free board '-and lodging for. my services. Presently my partner decided ne would go into, something else, so I bought him out. AJittle later I had a chance to sell at a good profit., so 1 did so. and put the money Into a half ' interest in a bakery and grocery store -owned by Charley McGinn, whose- soa,,, Judga Henry McGinn of Portland, is one of Oregon's ablest jurists. -Charley Mc Ginn was a good old. scout, and we got along fine. He had a big heart, just as his son has. That fall I sold my in teract in the bakery and store to Char ley McGinn's half-brother, Louis Burns, and with the money I bought out the Usaf ovage grocery, as Usaf ovage had been offered a job as purser on the steamer Clinton, After a year on the river, Usafovage got tired of steam boating and paid me a good profit for a half interest to the business. We gradually spread out, investing our money where we saw that every dollar we sent out would come back leading another dollar or maybe more with it, until we were doing more or less of a commission and shipping businesa ' . a. a . .' I saw where I could make some extra money by buying a half Interest In Jasper N. Matheney's wharf, ' so I did so. The high prices being paid for supplies in the newly discovered mines In Boise basin and throughout the In land Empire caused my partner and me to decide to get into the game. I was 24, and an outdoor man ; so we decided he should stay and run the Salem end of the business while I went up to Orofine with a- stock of gooda .After selling out my .stock at Orofino at ; a very satisfactory mArjrin of profit7 1 Ordered a big Stock fo? the winter. . It was delayed, and, finding it Impossible to set roods in to Orefino. I took them to Walla Walla and started a ' store there, That, winter, 1861-62, was - one that old-timers will never forget. It was so cold and the snow waa so heavy that most of the stock in Eastern Oregon and Washington either starved to death or frose. end in the Willam ette- valley it was the year ot the big "News traveled more slowlv i-n- th day of the pack-horse, the ox team and the canoe than it does todav. when it is broadcasted by radio ; so the first I knew ol the biK flood in the Wil lamette valley was when - a miner brought to a copy of Bush's Oregon Statesman from Salem and let me read it Almost the first thing I saw was that Matheney A Wright's dock had been washed away, causine; a loss - of over 110,000. We had a lot of wheat and other stuff stored on the dock, all of which waa lost That of course, was. something of a financial Jolt, but x xigureo mere was lots more gold Is the around, and I . would -et of it to reirrmurse me for the damage the high water had done me : mo, early the next spring, I pulled out for Lewis ton with a stock of goods. I built the Erst frame building in Lewlstont The other store were tents or log cabins. say, tt you want to know what really wide- open town waa. Just talk to some of the old-timers about the early days of Lewiston, with Its sa-: loons running z boars out of every 24. and its shooting scrapes and lynch -inga. - ;. - . - "In the fall Z went back to Salem to winter,- tXhe next spring ' Isaac Ma-j 2SEWS: IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS '."You never 'know - how much pride mere words can express- until yon hear a young business man speak of "my stenographer,' La Grande Observer. , . ,--.; ;-j --V:" . Th junior seed sender from Oregon Is eull misaina; from Waahington. . tX. and wUl evhow up is tima-to vote to adjourn, V it don't conflict with the spring lamoifac Medford Mail-Trib-nn. , . . , - - - -. ?. s . : ' The governors eonventton at Wheel ing wtU talk prohibition. What - the governor of North Carolina once said to the governor of South Carolina be lonrs to e getutration. that knew - uo Voistead. Kugene Guard. . ' "What : America Needs' is for thelAouaal - .m. . . . w w . t. . . r At"ln due regard for th fundamental prin ciples of government and -more than ail revive in their hearts the true spirit of the Gold u Rule. Baker Democrat. Nearly 1500 prisoners et San Quern tin have been restored to youth through the use of goat glands, . Th warden should be more careful about giving this publicity. It sounds like an in vitation to commit crime so as to break Into California's fountain of youth. CorvAllia Gasette-Timee. Jutes Pradel. asltiaan of . Pnnn. ku coma ell the way from the battle scarred fields of the Marne to find a home in Oregon. Ha is a guest of the Multnomah. ' a a - Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Hubbard of WaUa Walla are among Visitors from out of town. --. . . ---"":---' .-'5 S. B. Harrison and O. EL Dorsey are down from La Grande .to attend to Some -business. a L . C. Constance of -Medford was tiansactihg business in Portland Wed nesday, - . - - , : . Among out of town visitors is Wil liam G. Kreitser of- Marshfield. . a -j . ' John M. Brady of Ashland was among arrivals in the city Wednesday, a a a J. H. Meeks ot Junction City is a guest of the Imperial, . - a . . IV O. Rooney of Coos Bay is a recent arrival in .the city. - a Alex Slgurdson of Warren ton' Is making a brief visit to Portland. . a - a . . L. A. Duncan .. of Th Dalles If among out ' of town visitors. . a . -a. . Among recent arrivals In the metrop olis is R. M. smith ot Bend. W, B. Ramsay of Kelso, Wash., is transacting business in Portland.: , ,. a . C. A. Hayden of Bend Is a recent arrival in th metropolis. a a a ; . . , .' .. W. W. Poland of Shedd is among out of town visitors.' - a ' a . W. W. Dickey of Monument is mak ing a short visit In Portland, Lockley ' thanV and 1 bAuarbt ra rlr tnln mir x. stock of goods and started for Boise -JB.B1U. we star tea very eariy, Dexore ihe weather was settled, so that we 9nt Ca.llp-it in th, tnnw IX. Tt1A mountains. I led the' bell mare through me snow ana sleet dear from The Dalles to Bote Basin. No, it was no Pleaaura trin. bnt w nM to l. ah th ground early ; sows: wasted no time seating sorry xor ourselves, but camped iu ;the mud and snow,-with wet blan- iceta and ornfr h,M 1m sized up Boisa to see if that would maae a gooa business point,.-but, de- ctoea mere wouia never, o a town there- sa Wa ar,ni nn tA nni,. -K. When we were at Boise there was only a run-down fort there and no indica tion that one of the finest inland cities m tne wesr would later rise there. a a .... -' : -"Lata that fall arm -wt .V. Salem to winter there. & The next spring I boUsrht th intern, ne mv u Jasper Matheny, In th steamboat dock. aura oecam agent tor mo peoples Transportation company, organised by the McCullys of Harrisburg. . I turned over the dock work to my partner, Usafavage, while I ran the store. When Ben Holladay built his railroad from East Portland to Saiam and the valley to Albany it put a crimp In over vraxxio , so we Oia out - th dock and dissolved partnership. Usa fovage started a boot and shoe store, while -I took over the grocery business, the name thereafter being th John G. Wright Grocery company. v - - a a . - - '- . big flood of 1961-2 our only heavy loss? a snouia say. not' in 186S ear place was burned.' . Thle was on April 17. The fire started in Plamondon's saloon and burned . everything between Hol man's brick block, on Ferry sjtreet, and Griswold's block, at the corner of But and Commercial strewta. - Iab tmnn without a cent of insurance. ., ' Tel. lit ! salatri: liu li.l - -v.-- of : fire and flood. - .Tha rimut n ru. comber, 189L was so high that It would wun a norae near-ine courthouse. Tee, Salem was a city e.tf the time of the 018? flood: Tt wa (n aTrVnal4aaj4 aV.AlM after Oregon became a state. The first election, held on the first Monday in voceraDer resulted in Luclen Heath beincr elected KiUm'. e..t mayor. , In the spring of 1861 Salem had a Are that nearly wiped the busi ness section ' off the map.. It started in Bvraas aalnnn , Tt ,i Ualpn houUand a lot of stores. In juty, leoa, -mey laid the cornerstone of Willamette university. It was on June 20, and three dan 1ati- i.- big - fire that started in the Mansion xxouse. at.-. i-Joerty. ana - state streets, snd burned the whole block. Naturally I Was - interested In rs-a e t organised the Salem fire - department w was cmex engineer, of the depart ment at the time of the Intense rivalry between the Canltata an ,.-. ri-. Along about I860 end 1970 it looked as ir xne xown was going to build away from where our property .was : so we Orsanized A nmnnnv a m, ,.m ' f. hotel at Commercial and Ferry streets. was one or the directora We bunt a fine brick hotej, 100 feet frontage on Commercial street and 165 feet deep ny. n cost us 925.000. We named tt the Chetneketa hoteL . C. A. Cutting was the first , manager;' but he Was anon .annvadMl K, niwkw IT... hart- I loot 97000 on ny hotel stock, w - nipeo tna town, so - I .was satisfied v In September, 1970, Reed's fine brick amra twwiov -iam tini.vuu and that gave Salem a big boost 5-v--. . a . . . ' .. . 'T hav seen wonderful changes-in Salem during the; nearly -70 years I have . lived her . Ra.lr i V- 'CA. ,lf anyone had told, me I should live to . ea Salem ortwt I. v). -, i. A -is I should have thought he had been onnamg, ana. jet it go at that - I have seen the railroad come, the tele phone and telegraph, the bicycle and the aatomobile, the wireless, the radio, the electric light, the airplane and hydroplane, and a score of other things undreamed of when X settled here in 1SSJ. - , The Oregon ; Country North et Bappeniaci In Brief Form for the Busy Header. f OREGON - A recent test 'of the 703 cows sap-. Plying Ashland with milk showed only tour that , had any .signs ot tuber cuIosIbv :.' ij'irtt,.,;:-, Ae an indication of the growth - Ot ; Beedsport - tt .-is noted -that the poet office receipts In 191$ were 114.28. This year they are estimated at 94520. A traimoad of cattle sold by W, A. Gover to a Los Angeles buyer left Eagle VaTtey Saturday. Twenty car load, consisting ot S00 head, made up -the train. -. " - , The Eugene Fruit Growers assoela- : tlos - hi planning the enlargement of the -Mnction City cannery and the erec tion of a new concrete and. tU ware- -Prominent business men of Ashland have organized the Community Hotel corporation, . the object of Which is to build a 9300,000 tourist hotel In that city. ' ' .... - 3. S.,Fiatland of th State bank at Drain has sold his Interest in the Mill City State bank to W. W. Allen and p. B. Hill, -who will conduct the bank ' in future. : , Walter Toose Sr.. who has been rkd ing clerk of the state senate for many years, will be elected again ia Jen wary, as there is no opposition to his candidacy, -.. . ; During ' the year Just closlha the ' Winchester Bay Lumber company at Reeds port has turned out 100,000 board feet of lumber daily, with S3 to 70 men employed.. ' - . ; -.The annual Christmas luncheon of the Salem Chamber of Commerce was held Monday, with Fred Williams, ex member of the publier service commis sion, as th principal speaker. Ernest FDlcfc Bend man. who dis appeared last week from a Portland hospital, has been located' at a hotel In Hood River, where he has been suf fering from a nervous breakdown. Th Sitverton Pig club, which has a ; membership- of-15 boys and girls be tween th ages of 11 end 18, has won this year four championships, 10 first prices and U second prizes hnd ha . mad a profit from hogs of 149 1.91. Union boasts of one of th oldest women in the Grand Ronde valley fn.! iP? in Oregon, Mrs. Eliza beth Godfrey, who will be 104 years of age in April. She is hale and hearty and worked all fall at picking apples. -'' WASHINGTON : " Charles Wlfiiams, Under arrest at Seattle, has confessed the robbery of 11 stores and poolrooms. : . Fire SrUttAd thA mnnnfoMnrin 1 - n . of the Washington Wood Products com- lacoma, ounoay nignt, caus ing a loss estimated at 997,000. ,N.W5 13 received "from Washington that Wesley Vandercock has been an- iviiBi.er. lur xjonayview. tne new lumber town in Cowlitz county. 'aTV r - x I - at A .. .a. . A . ix. xiasungs. ei, was xataiiy in jured at Seattle Saturday night When he was struck by an automobile drlVen by W. W. Phllllpa A silver fox farm for the PUyallup of Sumner.who has purchased five wub uwB nuuam . xtamoo.ot Bpo- Th Utah-Idaho Sugar1 company has paid Yakima growers for - beets this season more than ,i70,000.; Besides this, another 990,000 was paid out by the factory for labor. -. : John Wachel. 24 years old. died in, a Seattle hospital Saturday night from Injuries received earlier in the day" when he fell from the roof of pier 1, which he was painting, , i - The 9(0.000 Henry Ford grade school, just completed at Kenton,. Waa thrown open Friday night for inspection. It has It classrooms and an auditorium 1 capable of seating too. r W. B. Hudson , of the Highlands, northeast of Kelso, has' given a plot of ground 50 by 126 feet as a site for a community house which will be erected in the spring by the Mothers' club. City detectives and the coroner are investigating th death of Mrs. Ethel Brew, 60 years old, who r was found Friday in her apartments at- Seattle With' two bullet wounds in her body. The parents of George Melntlre, an employe of the Eastern .Railway aad Lumber company, killed. July 17. are entitled to compensation for the. death ot their son. according to ther Lewis county superior oourt.-.-v-fe"T-5!,,5'".' Spencer Con row, assistant manager of the Bank of California, who disap peared from Tacoma August 9, is ac cused Of embezzling 96000 of the bank's funds, and a reward Of 500 is of fered for his apprehension. . . ? Held up by two masked men at' Ev erett. Alex It- Orsland was shot in the arm and severely beaten-when he showed fight and attempted to Wrest a pistol from one of them. ' The ban dits fled without robbing him, . v - Cittrvrtm' V ftvelatlanann n, VllW,., county, sole representative of the wi,n, av luirijr- ,ii next rvaLsmna;- . ten itltn aansta.-mill' n.ln uv committee assignment he wants, ae- at w o jS . wrum5 w jieuuvn&nc vjovernor uoyie Becau of th voluim ot traffic and the crippled motive power of the rail- aAa t- will .JTa.MiBvl a , veus, at,. v in JTJ UiUUDolUiq VI WVCI come the shorte.ffe of cafe within the MAvt CaA JVaauaa Jk : AV. -, 1 j-v "UAfc 7V UaTa.ayaS. OJl Uli() V"a Vs C&ltAerheatl, rate expert of the itata - ...1.11. .u.t- UtCpftl VJLUCaXb UaV fUUll; WV7otaS ;. , " ' IDAHO To prevent the snread of what im thought to be cholera, four hog herds in the vicinity of Nampa have been placed under quarantine by th state veterinarian. . - - , . - - . , v Captain L. L. Montromerr ofGald- well received word Friday evening of the electrocution at Pittsburg, Cat,' of his brother. Georsra W. Mnntsromerv. and the latter's wife. The Idaho Cannlnar rwtmnaev nt ' Payette last week shipped a carload of canned corn to Seattle.5 The corn is of an excellent grade and the de mand is greater than the supply. A car eontainlns : 60.000 sounds of butter was shipped Friday to Loa An geles by tho Farmers Cooperative Creamery company of Payette. Tn price received was El cents a pound. Blinded br the licrht of an aDTiroarrh ing car, J. W.. Handy drove his auto mobile into the biar canal at Jerome. Saturday evening. His daughter, grand-. daughter and tumseii were thrown into the water, out an managea to .escape. While going from Gooding to Boise recently, J. M. Gooding of Gooding, son of Senator Frank R. Good in r. was badly Injured-when his autmobile col lided with a oumry. ne euiiered a broken collar . bone ana mtsmal in juries. -. K Once Overs Are You Drifting Off Your Course? Perhaps yoa have awakened to the fact that you are drifting In a direction-you should not go, year by year getting-farther away from the thing for which you know you should steer. Just what is to be your destination. at this rate? - There is a point of reckoning for very man... It is a long, weary way back from the -point " where you are now, to say nothing Tot Jiow- far it is back .to where you. started off t'e track. You have been doing little dishonest acts, which are accumulating end are getting yott in deeper and deeper. - Perhaps it is spending money fool ishly which you ought to save Perhaps you- are engaging in an ap parently .harmless flirtation. - Perhaps you are neglecting your health, or not giving attention to some ailment which yearly gets v stronger bold on your system. - iWhv isn't It -better to want to be rfeht;;to want to follow, the- right track, to want to have a clear coo-. science each night before vyou aleep? And the day of reckoning la cure. Change your course. .! tCoprrtsnt, r Xntaraational atarrk,'2aai. . , I-