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If yon are t roam man. nature de signed you to "be of good cheer." and should yon find your road io fortune, fame or respectability, or any (other boon to - which your yean heart aspires, a 'little thorny, consider it all fair th best, and that these impediments j are only throws in your way to induce greater efforts . and- . mora patient endurance on . your part., air Arthur Helps. - THE LIGHT THAT FAILED TpHK lights served by one of the 1 A . electric companies went out "Wednesday evening like a weary spirit slowly departing- its earthly tenement, Globes, that had been clear : translucence gathered shad ows ite ther corners of dimly lig'ht" f And ' Instantly, by the - hurrying i humans, who had walked straight in their paths and pursued their gainful enterprises by the help of t the jeletric genii, there was wild scurrying fbr candles and tapers to relieyg the gloom with flickering i gleaji. f It wa, was a moment of enforced N . panser; with opportunity to reflect t now completely we have come . to depend on the mysterious force that i man has harnessed with wires, and , 'without wireat -to serve his needs J and pleasures. j ' Elevators, stopped between floors, I became prisons for their impatient I occupants. Store door were pre I cipitately closed and vault n I trances wef e barred as protection i against thieves wh.o love darkness rather than light, because their deeds are evil. While business, paused in .store and factory, home-going was handl 1 capped. Thousands waited on street corners for cars that had sud j denly ceased their function as pon i derous, certainly-moving carryalls, f to. .become dark? immobile obstruc- Itlons.'- y ' -Even " the light of Justice ..was filmmed. In darkened, fantastically !. shadowed courtrooms prosecutors, plaintiffs and defendants merged, and one was 'as good as another. I Crooks and the virtuous were but darker blots in the gloom, and one j not darker than the other. . , 1 . W grow so - accustomed to the .gaily faith, of the sun that thought .ot it non-return Is inconceivable, i ,In similar- fashion, when day -re-I treats, this modern generation has f come to rely on electric light, and energy; these enter into all affairs l and plans. . I :The reassuring suggestion is that not reduction but increase of elec ? trio service is a"jrobability, In the j basin Of the Columbia) are rapids, i cascades and waterfalls that could . bs translated Into' light, energy and heat "so abundant and so cheaply I served that no fuel.' illuminant or I power C9uld compete " In. . moving i trains and Industries or in serving cities and Aomes. . We" have ' turned only a few of the smaller switches among . the I multitude that could, and some 4 time" wUV connect us with our elec tric resource A , - . ' --' .. Hereafter we will be still more I leery 'of stories such aa the Xeajry ' woman told. , . ' , ;boners- and laws ! TN a. teachers examination, re ; X cently held, answers were asked i to a'- group of questions under jfWhat. or who Is'" ? Among these questions was the world- famed name of Bonar Law. ; -' ' : Some there !are "who-, will be am axed -the ugh they should not be 5 -that a- teacher of mature years should confuse that eminent gentle- man's name-with our recently , en acted tariff law. But that Is what one did. She said Bonar Law "was a part of the tariff law. ; v Now, Bo uar Law,! as ; everybody ought to know, has . commanded front page space in American news papers for upward of a Quarter of a century. ' At 5 times 1 no type In stock has been' Quits' big enough to satisfy the public press, when, on some notable occasion, it wanted to display his name, i specially has this been true during the past few months. As premier of . England. the whole -woridi day---by day. is watching his every act and waiting for his every: wpoken or .written worL - -', . . f - . But yon should not .be astonished at this teacher's answer. Millions of good, patriotic, liard-thinking Americans agree with" her. Their leaders have been screaming it through the press every day for months, that the administration it one may vulgarize a trifle -pulled an awf ulv fboner" when the long- debated and recently enacted tariff; bill was made the law of the land. So why shouldn't the teacher say Bonar Law was part of the tariff law? i u m ' WHY A COMMISSION? vvxIILE the Oregon public service V commission laments that It is without Jurisdiction in car short. ages and defective eanloment the game of running bad-order trains in Oregon goes merrily on. The other day a locomotive pull ing a passenger "train ; ran : with a loose driver tire all, the way from Goble Into . Portland, i What must have been the feelings of the en- b"'i incuiivi auu tuuuuuor on that run; not knowing what minute the loose tire might throw the train Into the ditch? ' f The night after Christmas a loco motive p-alling a passenger train on the North Bank ran all the way from Vancouver. to Pasco without headlight. At the time there were many. . rockslides and land slides,, due -to frozen condi tions followed by warm rains. wnat a precarious chance for a locomotive Dullimr a oasseneer train to plow through the gorge of the uommwa ana along the precipitous cliffs without a headlight! . At La Grande" the other dav 14 freight trains i stood In the Union Pacific yards and could not be moved on account of lack of power. Fifteen cars of lumber, after wait ing about a week for shinment. were still waiting on December 27. The other day a fruit train from Reitfc to La Grande! a distance of 100 miles, was 24 hours in making the trip. Thirteen engine crews WPrp llSAri nn thft ftm . Tn V I v. A rates the shippers of the country will be called upon to pay rf or this costly trip. - is ; ' . ' A. shipment of hogs from Salmon. Idaho, to Portland lay; 48 hours at La Grande, waiting , for a loco motive. On account of the delay the farmer had to feed bis hogs three times. - The costly feedxand the loss of wpie-ht nn hii a part of the price the farmer had to pay for the stubbornness of the company In keeping locked out !the skilled shop mechanics who could quickly put their. motive power and other equipment in good. order: What is a public service commis sion for? Dr, Linville - of the Drohibition enforcement, division says some of the, moonshine surreptitiously ped dled in Oregon Is wrung from wool taken . out of : vile, long-used mat tresses, the wool having been held over- steaming, - vermin-infested mash until it became saturated. People who drink, such stuff must be more thirsty than wise. TWO SIDES OF THE STORY Ttriaus h. Barnes, who during ar m worm war was director Of grain administration and who Is now -president of the- Chamber of Commerce of the United States, has this to say about farmers: Between 1900 and I9J0 the dodu- laUon of the" United States ineresed 40 per cent, but farm population in creased only 4 per cent. In the same Period : wheat nr re duction increased 58 per cent, corn 85 per cent; cotton 47 per cent, cat tle 57 per cent and hogs 68 per cent. :. , ; The number of farms Increased only 12 per cent, but the value of xarm implements increased nearly 400 per cent and the valuation placed on farm property grew '281 per cent, or-from 120,000,000,000 to $?8.00Q,00oT000. Almost 4 per. cent of American farms have telephones. Cream sep arators, plows, mowers, threshers and the sasoline oumr ham itrui take the drudgery out; of farming ana nave also helped increase the investment In farm machinery to 8700,000,000. To a considerable ex tent, because of farmer purchases, we had in 1920 a motor vehicle for every two and one-half families. The dim lantern has given way to electric lights, by which late and early chores on the farm are done. Tne paved road has changed: the farmer's social status. ? He is rep resented In the S730.0OO.000 spent last year for tickets to amusement places. The day Is gone when a team of horses hauled 100 bushels of wheat to town as the total of two dally trips. The motor truck now carries not 60 but 100 bushels of grain at a time and makes six or eight trips a day. ; Prom the basis of these facts, Mr. Barnes argues that the farmer's lot is not so very serious, and that he enjoys a large share of good for tune If he will, but recognise It. But Mr. Barnes' statistics do not go far enough. Why doesnt he show how taxes tin the period he de scribes doubled and doubled again ? Why doesn't-he tell' how the farm mortgage- debt of -the country has grown into multiplied billions of dollars, .' upon which Interest must be paid and upon which foreclos ure must be feared?. Why doesn't he tell how tne farmer, except in comparatively few cooperative mar. keting organizations, is the only in dustrialist who hasn't a word to say about the price for which his product shall be sold? :"," Why doesnt Mr. -Barnes tell how the' farmer, forced by pressure of the times, . has invested in - labor- saving" machinery -which has In creased his' production but at the same time has increased his debt and- enlarged his taxable values? Wley doesn't Mr. Barnes ; explain that the middleman's toll on the products of the farm . has kept, if not increased, its old-time propor tions, - and that speculative manip ulation of "the farmer's crops, so that the price-paid the farmer shall be low and the price paid to specu lators shall be large, is Uttl less active than It used to be? ' It is -only when the complete story : of the farmer's situation is told that" entire understanding of the fanner's ; problem; is gained. Mr Barnes has an uncommon op portunity to . inform . business and industry completely, and in all fair ness he ought to: do it. ' Business and industry will I be the gainers when the American farmer gets a square deal. . , Moreover, our cities will then not continue to grow seven times faster than the country. Tree toads are singing and buds are swelling. "An early spring, pre dicts the village weather prophet. But it's still a long time until February and the groundhog, who finds then, by consulting his shad ow,; whether winter is to retreat or keep his grip for six weeks more. ) WOMAN'S LIBERTY VVTOMEN mav serve rn Im-Ie- W they may own property; they may vote; they may ; smoke; they may- even wear trousers of sorts; but there are still some restrictions upon complete liberty of the eternal feminine. A Judge in New Tork, for in stance, nas . just aeciaed that a woman cannot sue her husband for damages for assault and battery. She cannot sue her - husband for slander. She cannot collect dam ages from her husband if injured while riding with him in an auto mobile. ' ' - In the case In point the woman sued a railroad company and her husband, because,; while driving with the latter, the automobile col lided with a train of the former and she was hurt. " " In dismissing the case the Judge said," "A -husband and . wife living in a state of connubial felicity and enjoying-each other's society In an automobile - pleasure' ride, suggests little In consonance with the wife's desire to transfer money from the pocket of her husband - to her own pocket."" ' - - "- : "-'. In another 'accident of the kind it will probably pay better if the wife, in loyalty, to her husband, ho matter what she says to him In private, insists that the negligence was entirely on the part of the rail road company.. " l f : ; ; Astoria now knows what it is to cast bread upon the waters and see it. return after many days. Thirty three years ago. In 1889. when Se attle Was visited by "disastrous fire, the, people of Astoj-ia, then a town of some 5000 ' people, promptly passed the hat-and sent their suf fering neighbors $500.; The other day the Seattle city council appro priated $10,000 for Astoria. fire re lief, and voluntary contributions brought the Seattle total to about $25,000. APPLES TO SELL SPOKANE has had its Civic club men working as volunteer apple salesmen. . . Seattle has under way a cam paign to place a box of apples in every., home. '- :ii'r . These measures have been adopt ed to substitute local for distant msx&ets for fruit that would other wise! spoil. - At the same time it Is known that foreign, particularly: British. - de mand for Northwest . apples i is greater , this year than in s any previous' season. Shipments over Portland public 'terminals will exceed .0 0 0, 0 0 0 boxes. As ;t was shown in The . Journal market reports,, foreign ' markets have been willing . not only to 'pay a desirable price for . Northwest ap ples, but to take yellow and green varieties, which are far less popular at home. We like red apples, and color Is a strong selling argument. The - apples - which Seattle and Spokane have adopted emergency measures to sell are chiefly of early varieties, not i expected - to keep through ' the - winter. for which transportation was hot sufficientlyT" delphla Bulletin (Rep.) maintain, "if available - at the time when; they should have been moved.3 There is an accumulation of such apples in Portland as well as in other North west cities. For immediate use no apples are "more wholesome. The selllng"price Is necessarily low. The necessity of thVfruItmen is Port land's opportunity. While it is always true that an apple & day keeps the doctor away. a box of apples every week or so for the average family is still better.' .i . " ' V: " ' - Adam has always been " pre-i sented as the first horrible example. Yet, what was he doing save prac tice the precept. "An apple a day keeps the doctor away ? "BABY SENATORS" THROW A SCARE INTO OLD GUARD Audacity That Once Would Have Been Instantly Squelched Forever, Got by With Bells, and the Ship -. Subsidy BUM the Victim at That Result Makes Subsidy's Friends - Voluble on the Subject of Legis- ; latlon "For the Whole. People " and Not Merely for a Class," Such a iha Xaterect Which . the Farm Bloc: Represent. !, -DsUly Editorial tgest- (Coosobdated Press Associatioo) A filibuster called by any other name would delay legislation Just as long, avnd editors have been unable to draw fine distinctions ae they have watched the race for place ; between ''farmers and ships on Capitol Hill. But, fig uratively speaking, the editorial ob servers from the beginning placed their money on the farmers.' And the fea ture of the contest that has astonished the press has been the ease with which latest entries. Senators Brookhart and Couxene, took the lead of the field. . - e "Both are--"baby senators "says tne Fhuaaeiphia Publie Ledger find.) "new-hatched, wet from the shell, serv ing their first hours , of their first terms.-' Just -the same, they are able to stand the so-called senate majority on its beam-ends and the Republican administration on its bead. All they had to do was to say BooH In a loud Mid-West voice - with a farm bloc twang, and the walls of Jericho began to tumble. Certainly "times have changed beyond recognition," the, New York Post (Ind.) agrees, "when a sen ator can come fresh from Iowa and proceed to act like a legislative traffic officer without being hazed." The- Newark News - find.) Is also awed by the spectacle of senators be ing stood up and counted "by a fledg. ling,' for "time was when such action would have been frowned upon in that august body, and - the newcomer, .un less promoted rafter long service in the lower house, would virtually have been told to-let his elders do the lead ing." When a measure ' upon which the heart of the administration is set is even so much as threatened with ob livion through the instrumentality of a newcomer, the News warns that it "is pretty near time for a recapitulation ox the forces at-work." . . ' Brookbart's program was to be ex pected, it is generally held. but. as the , Philadelphia Evening Ledger (Ind.): says, "Mr. Couzens' swing to" insurgency comes as something of a surprise." "Too surprising for words." agrees the New York World (Dem.), which, explains the astonishment thus Senator Cousens "is said to be worth 30,000,000. Heretofore the Old Guard nave known where to place a man with so much as that, and they believed-they knew where to place this man. if anything ought to run true to form It is $30,000,000." Nevertheless, "senator Couzens is found aharinar leadership with Brookhart" But "Old Guard and Young Guard. progressives and radicals, are bent on an agricultural credits bill, first and foremost," the New York Times (Ind Dem.); reports. "Even the stern and rockbound Mrr Brandegee. who ob jects to most things, is wrapped in silence at this awful hour when regulars and Irregulars are one." For once, -the . Adrian (Mich.) . Telegram (Ind) concludes. the agricultural interests seem to have the inside track." although it is uncertain whether ' or not the farm bloc, in its war on ship subsidy, is reo- resentauve or , rarm sentiment, .r "The resolution of the Michigan grange against the bill reflects the Drevailirur opinion among farmers of this state a view "extensively shared In the other agricultural states of the Mississippi vauey. authough a controversy over a resolution opposing the measure.1 which developed at the. Farm Bureau convention in ! Chicago, proved that opinions vary, even among the farm- era-.. The New York Post regards . the move of the farm bloc as "good, so far as it goes," for "to displace a niece -of legislation that will benefit a very ana ail part of the community at the expense of the rest by a measure that will benefit a considerable part of the community directly and - the whole community indirectly, is statesman like." Further, the New York Times points out, "the commerce is needed before the ships that are to carry it. It would be logical to take up railroad rates as well as rural credits before the ship subsidy bill." e - But granting that "in their demand for further' farm credit legislation' the senators from the Middle - West are performing their, duty in representing their " constituents," the New York Tribune (Rep.) insists that "when they couple with their plea for aid for their communities a denial of aid to an other baste industry, shipping, they expose themselves to a charge of grave Inconsistency and near-sightedness. There are sound economic reasons for comparing farming and shipping. Each is an integral part of that national ma chinery upon the functioning of which the welfare of the - entire nation de pends. : Mr. Harding fights for the whole nation in demanding laws for both. - The farm : bloc - senators will write -themselves down ' as legislators of small and limited horizon if they demand Just laws for the farmer and deny Just laws for the ships of all America. .v A:t .4 w.-.',:, ci. "Farm woes are not the only na tional problem,' the Philadelphia Pub lie Ledger (Ind) declares. "The farm issue is, in fact, beginning to be over played, for, after all, while the farmer is a vital part of the' nation, he is not ail of it- Farms' are important and ships are Important, and so are many other '- thinga ! More Important than any is the need that congress shall keep in mind the whole nation, legis late for the whole nation, and regain its individual .- and collective sense of responsibility to that nation." : The Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.) sees "signs that It will be long and tedi ous process to get through congress a legislative code for agricultural relief. Sentiment : is practically : unanimous that the problem is pressing and that relief must be given as promptly as possible, but there is a wide divergence of judgments as to what form relief should take." Nevertheless, the Jhila- the present play" of the farm interests is reslly 'cainstructive la its purpose," and not deliberate ; obstruction, "the needs of the farmer can be served in short : order,, and their senators . can then give favorable consideration to a constructive piece of legislation which affects the-prosperity of Industry and commerce throughout -the' United States." ; SUPERIORITY AS TO WHAT? John Iewey. in the Sew Bepobhc. Superiority and inferiority axe mean ingless words, taken : by - themselves. They refer to some specific outcome. No on should us the words until he has naked himself and is ready to tell others. Superior and inferior in what? Is a student inferior for purpose f reciting lessens, of fitting into a school administration, of influencing compan ions, of "Btudent activities" or what? Is an adult superior in money-making. In music, la chicanery and intrigue, in being a wise parent or good aeghbor, as a homemaker, a chauffeur or a li brarian, a congenial companion, a con. fidenoe man, an investigator of higher mathematics, an expert accountant. tractable . worker w a revolutionist, in writing acceptable' movie scenarios or in research in thelaboratory? ' There are as many modes of super iority and inferiority as there are con sequences to be attained and works to be accomplished. 'And until society be comes static new mod as of activity are continually developing, each of which permits and exacts its own specific tn- f eriorites end superiorities, There doubtless i some : degree of correiaton between traits which promote nuperior- lty .in more than one -direction. But the idea of abetract. , uniyersal su periority and inferiority is aa absurd ity. The current loose ujse of these conceptions suggetMZ overcompensation on the part of those who assume that they belong to a superior class. It ap peatrs like an attempt to escape from the limitations and incapacities which we all know, subconsciously at least. tnat we possess. Letters From- the People ; lOommiinlratrf it to- Thm Jaaimal ttm poblication in this department should be wrla ten os only one side of the paper, should not exceed 400 words In length, and moss bo wsaea oy uo wncer. wsoss sa anilreat ta iuu muss aacocmpaay tn eMrwussaas. 1 INDORSES MR. WOOD'S WORDS And " Calls . for Real 'Enforcement of v 18th Amendment and Vol- -.' -. stead. - Law. '-?- ' ' Newport. Dec 2$. To the Editor ot The Journal To the letter of F. B B'ood.. in The Journal last evening, I wisn to say .-Amen." ; -i quote a few very apt sentences r "The liquor crowd, by their maudlin Indecencies, did more than any . other factor to put prohibi tion over, and, too late, they have discovered their mistake." y And now they are kicking themselves for their criminal stupidity. As Mr. Wood says, "They could not be decent a minute and every one knows it who knows anything about the rank and file of the booze element. As they were in the days of old, they would be again." His words are the very essence of trsth.. But what about today? In the days of old they, were doing 'busi ness under . the protection of - the gov ernment as a partner in it, each claim. mg its share of the swag. Today, by the overwhelming voice of the people. our nation is legally dry, ' politically wet Today we are humiliated and disgraced by a set of criminal boot leggers and blind pigs and law vio lators on every, hand , Today probibt- uon js a oacK numoer ana out or politics- The great political question rela tive to the liquor business is simply the enforcement of the people's law. our buna pigs and criminal law via. lators are results of . non-enforcement and a, wet administration. The only question- then to decided is, "How en force?. There is buV one reasonable way a dry party, a dry -president. A dry congress and administration must go along with the dry law as a body guard to protect the constitution and enforce - the people's : dry law. - Our Volstead law is as perfect as law can be made, but it Is not prohibition and is not worth the paper it is written on, without enforcement. We ask no better illustration, or proof of that fact than that given by Re Presents tive Upshaw in his speech exposing some of our boose congressmen in their wilful violation of the constitu tlon and the Volstead law, together with their pet bootleggers doing flourishing business almost next door to the White Houses Such, with 500 blind pigs in the city of Washington and other thousands scattered all over the land, is a fair illustration of how matters will continue under wet party administrations. - just as our Georgia dry champion- was preparing ; to - go home i for Christmas, , word reached him that he would be "called upon to produce proof of his charge that, offi cials violate "the Volstead law. -What was his answer? "I dare any man to call my nana concerning drinking In officialdom. Then he added : "We have simply come to the point where action is demanded. -1 wQl be " back in. the house shortly after Christmas. Let these who are said to be preparing to call my hand be ready then." We are now looking for the final wind- up " of this, congressional boose - Tight. E. W. Durkee. ADMONITORY ' To Mothers Counsel is Tendered ' Looking to, the Safeguarding i a ... of Their Children. i ' Rainier, Dec. 25. To the Editof of The Journal- Two children passed my window Just now two little girls with their new Christmas dolls. No. live human baby was ever carried more tenderly than were these dolls. One of the , doll-motherg carefully replaced the blanket which had fallen I away and exposed her child's face to . the chill air. As T look on these happy childish faces, I am compelled to ask myself. WTiat , do they face in life? Are they, through ignorance of the true meaning of love and of the origin of . life, to become the prey of some beast's passion? Are they to marry. blindly, recklessly, to become more disillusioned divorcees? It depends upon their training. What is the average - mother teaching her daugh ter? . Is .she teaching - her the - things she ought to know? Is she teaching her the origin of life in a clean, beau tiful way? The vast numbers of young girls going astray and the number of wrecks- of families reported every day. force-, the conclusion that she, is not safeguarding her child against these- evils. The future of the; race depends upon its mothers. ' The mothers of today are responsible for the mothers of tomorrow. They must forget prudery, false , modesty and every other sham which bolsters up policy of laisses ', faire. There is no prudery, modesty, ! real or false. consideration of his prey's Innocence of mind, or even of fair play, in the mind -of the man who takes it on him self, to teach her his ; version - of sex life. Mothers must make confidantes of their daughters. They must; sympathize.-not censure them, I say to the mothers : -Remember your own girlhood, youxi hopes, your aspirations. your - loves, - your . fears. Remember your - secret - admirations -' and . bow a true confidante and sympathizer would have been welcomed, and do your best to become that friend to your daugh ter. . - . C F. Denslinger. - : PEDESTRIANS ' RIGHTS Complaint of One Aggrieved by the At titude of Drivers at Street Crossings. Portland. Dec 27. To the Editor of The : Journal---Your editorial in The Sunday Journal ;of ; December 14 on divine rights of automobiles deaia with problem that I have thought for some tone of asking The journal to take up In behalf of the pedestrian. My point regards the automobilist who will bring his car. to a stop exactly ross a crossing. I believe I am fully correct when I say that when the traffic, is halted to permit pedes trians : to cross a street. In almost every;;case there is a car parked either wholly or f partly across the pedestrians' right of - way. ; : Are not traffic men Instructed to ore vent thin? If not, isnt it about time thev are so Instructed? What can one da but jaywalk when drivers Invariably take the last inch - with' the apparent atti tude. "I must not be delayed"? There is no doubt that pedestrians are to be blamed for some of the accidents that happen.; but n fair man can sav the drivers are wholly blameless. Yet one would think so, from the verdicts ren dered by the juries. . Close - Observer. " I COMMENT AND SMALL . CHANGE . If the Christmae buying rush doesn't get you, the clearance sales must. We ought to put the story about the runaway team of horses under the .head "Them days is gone forever." - Princess Anastasia may be a per fectly wonderful woman, but that name sure sounds like bad medicine to us. ' "Russ Congress Is Controlled . by a Few .Leaders." Headline. Well, is there any news in that for those who know our United States congress? . T - -v We discovered another beauty about the beautiful Willamette this morning when - the draw opened three times after we first sighted it before our Lizzie puffed to safety on the other side. . v Dr. Cone of France has given " the United States some of bis auto-suggestion treatment. Wish to goodness he'd apply a little of , his suggestion to our v auto about the time it starts to balk. i. - . . - ., ,; .v ,:, - MORE OR LESS PERSONAL Random Observations About Town In former days C F. Martin of Seat tle, as a -guest of the Portland, often found his. mail, etc, was being deliv ered to another C F. Martin, causing much annoyance. He now registers as "C F. Martin, Contractor." e D. R. Mcintosh .of the Skamokawa, Wash., schools is spending his -vacation at home in Portland. J. S. Magladry,. state senator of Lane county, is visiting In the me tropolis. - - - ' Frank Loggan ' of Burns is trans acting business In Portland. ;-''' I - An out of town visitor is R. R. Tur ner of DallaaV Mr. anfls Mra . K. Reitmann of lone are among out of town visitors. - i . -' , e e . ..... ..r B. IT. George of Jefferson spent Wednesday in Portland. Fred Chess of Eugene Is spending a few days in Poetland. ' Mr. and Mra Lee Gilbert of Salem are guests of the Imperial. 'i - '.'-. ' Among out of town visitors Is T. D. Williams of Galena. i -. " - ' r - ' W. ! A. Bailey of Lyle, Wash.. Is transacting business in Portland. , i-- .- - .-1 . - i- ..... H. Omer Bennett and family of Leb anon are guests ot the Imperial. IMPRESSIONS AND OBSERVATIONS OF THE JOURNAL MAN, . By Fred Here is more interestin matter reeardina men in the Oreeon - state prison and the thouchts they think and the work thev do. Mr. Lockley carries into this article a sort of aeqaei to : his story ; of Jack la Boss, pub- uabea in tlua apace Thursday and XTUtay, "During the nearly 14 years I have been here I have had time - to arrive at some very definite conclusions,1 said Jack La Rose when I visited him recently at the Oregon state peniten tiary. : . "I . have . had . time to think things through, i One of my conclu sions is that no man has a right to marry until he . is in position to sup port a family, and by that I mean give his children an education. To have children and to cast them adrift is unfair to . the . children as - well as to society. A man must make provi sion so that in case of his death his children shall -not become a burden on. society. ,. If the time comes when l. am released 1. want to -be my own boas. I don't want to work for some one else all my life. Life in a peni tentiary at best is' an abnormal and unnatural life. The normal man is the. man who works for his living, who has a wife and a home, who has children, and who takes his part in maintaining society and civilization. "I have been here under many re gimes. When I came here prison disci pline required silence. I hold no brief for Jim Lewis, our present" warden. We wha'are here have no voice as to who shall rule over us. But If ever there was ' a square man it is Jim Lewis.: The men here know that they will be treated with Justice, and they snap Into their work willingly and try to do it well. The old methods of torture and punishment are no longer practiced . in v Oregon. Oregon has taken an advanced step and is trying to make the men who come here better, not worse, for their stay 'within the prison walls. ... I m "Many of the men here are more sinned against than sinning. . What do I mean by that? I mean that society exacts the utmost penalty for trans gressing the established laws but gave the lawbreaker no help when he was a child to make himself a good citi zen.. He is the victim of circumstances No man : is so lost that he does not ave some code to which he maybe true. He may have - a warped view of life. His code may differ from yours because you . have had greater opportunity of learning - what is. right er wrong. - My code has always been to be true to a trust and' never be tray a man who trusts me. Governor West believed in the honor . system and X would have been torn to pieces rather than betray him. When Oswald West was governor nothing could have tempted me to try to escape. ' .- - . - - '. "When West went out there was a change of viewpoint, and it was con sidered unsaie to allow a red-handed criminal,' like ; myself, V outside . the walla without a guard i eo I felt that I was not betraying a trust to escape, and I did so. On March 6, 1819, I got away. I had $3.20 in my pocket at the time. I made my way to Okla homa. I secured work and did welL leased, a hotel with 157 rooms and began to snake money. I planned to : bay it. get some money ahead, come back to Oregon and. with proofs 1 that : X had .made good and was. a self-sup porting, citizen, ask for a pardon. I met a woman who promised to marry me.1-1 thought it only fair to her to tell her of my paat ; so X did so. She said. It is what you are, not what you were, that counts.' ; So "she mar ried me. We got along nicely until a matter came up in which we could not agree.; She thought we were In position t spend money, more freely , than I felt we could, ae I wanted to get ahead and become independent. She wanted money. One day an - officer from Oregon stepped into my hotel and said, "Well. Jack, we have located yoe at last, v You will have to com back to Oregon. I asked nim bow he had located me. He said. "Your wife thought there was a big reward out for you, so she wrote and asked us how much we would pay if she turned you over to the authorities. Oh, no. I don t blame her much. She thought she . could get several thousand dollars for betraying me. Greed and self- interest are at the bottom of much of the trouble in this world. - She wanted money so badly that it warped her sense of right and jastice, I tell - you this : only to show yoti that, from a hobo and - vagabond, myi-oii training in the prison here in Salem had made me a self-supporting, self- reliant man one who could make his own way without having to go back to NEWS IN BRIEF SIDELIGHTS s ' . - Clemenceau says "gold is the menace of the world." Quit right, O genial French statesman, . but a lot of us individually are not badly menaced. La Grand Observer. , ...' f ' A New Yorker : says the ' United States is the most wasteful nation on earth. One wonders if be includes in the total the time we waste on listening .to", talk like that. Eugene Register. -.- r?:. v:;'- .---" News reports say Turkey promises protection for the Christians; but the Turks' idea - of how to - "protect" a Christian consists in relieving him ot all earthly worries - by sending him across the Styx. Pendleton East Ore- After reading of die details' of the Herrin mine massacre we are begin ning to think that Darwin Is right We descended from monkeys, all right, but the question is. how much farther are we going- to descend? Roseburg News-Review. i - A party of Klamath county teach ers registered at the Imperial is com posed of Twyla Ferguson. Gveiyn R. Applegate, Clifford Hogue, - Harry Peltz. Delos Mills and Eenneth Maier. Among the delegates to the state teachers convention is Alice M. Bacon of Grants Pass, superintendent ot Jo sephine . county schools. - While attending the state teachers convention Pearl Hall, superintendent of. Lake county schools, is a guest of the Imperial. - . . . ,: Mr. and Mra M. S. Taylor of Marshfield are among out of town guests. .,' s ...... '-..;...,..'-.., Carl G. Washburn, a merchant of Eugene, is spending the holiday sea son in Portland. - - e., ' !--. George H..Copplnger of Echo has ar rived tn Portland to visit a few days. L. W. Motley of Yaquina is, a recent arrival in the metropolis. : : .. . see . . .' Among out of town guests are D. H. Warren and H. Ellis of Grants Pass. e Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Sprague are in from Valsetz for a few days' visit, . ,.... v . .. . R. Hess of Bend is a business vis itor. - . George Dolph of Roseburg is regis tered at the Portland. Lockley 'criminal ways. Last summer X did trucking between here and Aums 'Vllle. . The men love to' work. Idle ness is a curse that is hard to endure. What Oregon Tuts done in installing a woodworking plant here is -a wonder ful step forward. , Ask Jim Lewis. E. C. Halley. Roy Kendall. J. 8. Murray or any of the rest of the officials about - it- The public, who know so "two - aoout this institution. . should know what an asset thej have in the cKiaouanmeni or tnls Industry here I decided to act on Jack's advice, so I went not only through the woodwork ing plant but obtained from J. 8. Mur ray, the chief clerk, some interesting figures about, the plant. Roy Kendall moz me wrougn the furniture factory. "At the last session of the legislature $30,000 . was appropriated for .estab lishing this plant," he said, . as we stood in the sawmill and looked at the mg togs that had . been brought in from ' the pond, ready to be sawed. "It will make the penitentiary self supporting In time, for labor is the ,big element in the cost of the making of furniture, and we ' have all the labor we .need here. Best of all. the men. are learning a u trade that thev can always get work at when they go ouunae to make their way. The reason to many men become thieves or holdup men is .that they have ho trade. They can t iana. a job at common labor, and rather than starve they steal and land nere, arter causing heavy expense to the taxpayers in court costs." . We went to the drying kilns. to the sbeds where the : green lumber ' is stored, to the building where oak, n. a. pie, asB ana aider . are stacked ready ror manufacture ' into chairs, kitchen cabinets and tables, and then into the factory, where men were working at handsaws and lathes,-with glue pot and paint brush, manufactur ing tne furniture. 'We have a man who travels all over the valley buying trees 'from the farmera We pay around $1 a thou sand on the stumo for oak and other tisrawood - trees,, said Mr. Kendall. "We semd trusties out to fell them. saw them up and get them ready to oe nauiea nere.- xne lumber costs us very little, and w have a constant supply of labor on hand to work up tne lumrjer into furniture. - We have recently completed our contract with H. C. Porter, near Aumsville, to clear his land We cut and hauled - over 8000 cords of wood from his place. We used the labor of the inmates. not only to cut . the trees and -work them up into cord wood, but also tn trucking the wood here to the penitentiary, so that we saved the taxpayers a : very targe sum - xor rue v as we use nearly 2000 cords of wood a year." From - the factory where the men were making breakfast tables, maple chairs, kitchen cabinets and other fur niture, which is sold to Jobbers and shipped, for the most' part, out of the state, we went to the flax plant, where the inmates were working up the flax straw. The men are paid for their work in the - various departmen ts and the money-Is used in the support of their familiea One of the flax work ers gave roe a bundle of flax straw and showed - me how ' to - break the woody fibef from . the staple against the revolving knife; but--, I mad a poor fist at it.'. X stopped to chat with - a colored man named Williams, wno seemed quite expert at the Job. He said, "Yea, sir; ifs quite a knack, doing it right. I make about $1.60 a day and get my pork chops regular, so I have no kick coming.". As w walked away, Roy Kendall -said, "Williams Is a mighty likeable and amusing chap. He kept worrying me about a parole, sn when Earl Smith. Multnomah coun ty's coroner, '- was up : here one day I sent for. Williams and said, 1 think I can get you paroled to this gentle man. The work isn't hard.' Williams showed every tooth in his head, and said,' 'What aU does this gentleman do? What all does he want me to do?" I said, 'lie is the coroner tn Portland. He had a colored boy hired to guard the stiffs the people who were mur dered and the suicides in the morgue but , the colored boy disappeared one night and they have never been able to find bide nor hair of him since. He wants you to . take his place and act as guard In the morgue at night.' Williams turned ae pal ae be - could, and said," Thank you both kindly, but I don't want no parole. I only have eight years more to serve and I would serve the : whole eight years standing my head rather than - have that Job. No one can make me take a parole if I don't want it. can they r He - went back to his flax breaking, perfectly satisfied." .-. ' The Oregon Country Kerthwsst HaMMciinc in Brief sens for the Bear Heads. . . ' ' OREGON Linn 'county's total assessed valua tion has fallen off $224,978. causing a raise in the tax levy this year of one tenth of a mill. . "' At Albany - early Tuesday morning thieves broke into a Southern Pacific: boxcar and stole a large coMigaTnent of overalls and shoes. . - Julian McFadden and Johnson Porter will donate a valuable lot to the Coi vallls Klks providing the lodge will erect a temple to coat not leas than $60,000. v. -''' ' ' In the face ef a : reduction ln as sessed valuation of about $4,0u0.0o0. Umatilla county's tax levy next year will be only A8 mills, as against lJis this year. ,. - .,.; v It wiu require a special act of the legislature to free Astoria from the ' payment pf Its part of the state tax, according to J. H. Van .Winkle, attor ney general. : ..;-''-'.''.......-'' , Mrs. Lucinda Henderson, 78. and Mra Josephine Jones. 76, were struck and severely injured at CorvalUs Mon day nikht by a taxlcab driven by Lloyd Edwards. ; t Roy Rltner," acting governor, has Is sued requisition papers tor the return to Oregon from California of J. A. Songer, who is wanted tn - Marshfield on a charge of larceny by bailee. Rev. C-C. Polling of Johnstown. Pa., has arrived at Salem to assume the pastorate Of i the Evangelical church in that city. Dr. Pcliing was the pastor of a church in Oregon 40 years ago... -J-'.s-,',;v. -'.:.'. v - :.- .:- .-,'-.- Snow, varying in depth from two to four feet, baa forced suspension ot the Pelican Bay Lumber company's logging operations -near Kirk. . Two camps employing 280 men have closed for the winter. .-'. j. . Mayors of towns of Umatilla county were guests Tuesday of the Pendleton Exchange club. Pledges of coopera tion between . communities of the coun ty were made by the mayors and other representatives, v. : During the recent cold weather Fred Phillips, Olex rancher, was thrown from a horse he was ridingj striking on his heed.' He was unoonscioue for several hours, but finally reached home' with hands and feet badly frosea. ' Incorporations of the Reservation Lumber k Construction company, with a capital of $10,000, is announced at Klamath Falls. The company already has a lumber yard at Chuoquin and will establish, a planing mill in the near future. .. 4 . WASHINGTON f 1" Many belated requests for the sol diers bonus voted by the state to vet erans of the World war are reaching State Auditor Clausen's office. At Napavine last ' Saturday night burglars entered the postoff ice by pry ing off the back door. The safe was opened and some stamps sad money taken. ' ' - , . -. Money, bonds, stocks and negotiable , papers taken by robbers who -- bored Into1 the vault of the Granite Falls State bank last week are now esti mated to be worth from $5000 to (6000. . The state of Washington will select its first reforestation plant about the first of the-year. The timber area -which is being considered most favor- -ably Is located in Paclfio and Mason COUntlea, -. :. c , ' M. E Heath, a rural paper carrier near Vancouver, was badliy burned last ' Sunday night when his clothing, ignited ' while he was saving his bouse from catching fire from an. exploding gaso line -lamp. To absorb a Hut of ancles in East ern Washington created toy insufficient '; cars to ship the crop, a campaign led by the Seattle Chamber of Commerce is now under way. "Buy a box of ap plea," is the slogan. - A- new 'tariff -covering all ' common . carrier rail rate intrastate in Wash 'ngton was filed Tuesday with the de- ' partmont of p:bllc works by 8. J. Henry, a.rnt ih tariff to be effective February f. unleas suspended, . William - Hltt. -agnt. for the puget Sound freight ''nes,- has filed a new tariff providing for a leductlon of "10 -per cent in- frefght rates between Seat tle and Taooma and Aberdeen, Hevqul am and way points. , via boat to Olym- , pia. ' - 4 . , . , , . - The Washington state department has a new pest to contend with, here tofore found only In European coun tries. It is called the graclalaria ayr ingella fabriclua, and is destroying li lae bushes and . ash and : laburnum treea . t : - 'J-'- , IDAHO V r Dairying on a targe scale will be on- . dertaken at Caldwell by D. J. Westcott. county-commissioner. He Is building, a large barn on a 40-acre tract and will have, a herd of 100 cows. . ; . The Tamarack and Custer dated Mining company at Wallace has ' im-reased its capital stock from $2,000,- " 000 to $5,000,000, and voted a quarterly ' dividend payable December 29. The ' Intermountaln Inntltnt . at Welser claims the chamsion oow. a 2. year-old Holstein-Freslan, that has a ' recora or iu.oss pounas or mi IK and 111 pounds of butterfat In' 305 days. From Welser comes the renart ' that the flouring mill at Cambridge, better known as the Salubria Valley mill, has burned to the ground, together with a warehouse containing several hundred bushels of wheat. . - Two hold-tin nun at Trvr11n on day night forced Clyde Watson . to --.: open, his cash register and turn over $36. Watson immediately notified the police and within three hours Roy An derson and Herb Gilmore were in Jali. Twenty Years Ago From The Journal of Xec. SO, 10$. Charles A. Dunlap. camp boss for the Columbia River at Northern rail. road, now building from Lyle" to Oold endale, says the line is building as fast as it is possible for the aradsrs tat work."':" -' ' . - - .-... i o .. , , The Sugar ' Pine Door ' A Lumber company has decided to pay the em ployes or ' the factory and miTls at - Grants " Pass a 10-hour wage for s 9-hour day. , - - . .... j. ' m - . , . The crowded condition of the vsrinna schools on the east side will be talked over at a meeting of the ' taxnavera of the- Biooklyndistrlct Monday night. The new structure ; being built bv SC Davids Episcopal church at the corner of East. 12th ; and Belmont streets will be formally dedicated Sun day. . - , . - In about two months SeUwoot wHii" have an - additional - manofidnrine plant in operation. The East Side Lumber company has about completed . the foundation vfor its new, sawmill near the foot of Spokane avenue. . m m e . . Slow progress- is belnsr mad In T grading for the new Gresham-Spring-water- Jjranch of the Oregon .Water Power' V Railway company throuri Sellwood, on account of the large num ber of hills and gulches. - According- to data rsoalvrtl br rnnf- Clerk Fields 'from five of the ' county school districts. Multnomah cnuntw schools "are in a flourishing condition ana many improvements are being made. v The . grain market shows . material Weakness today. In - svrnoathv with the dullness ta the Eastern markets. The flour market Is steady, with change in prices. ' - " . . .- - -. For the purpose "-of insoectlnsr th Third regiment., O. Nra., for the last time a his official capacity. Governor Geer came to Portland this , morning. New. Year's week will witness several entertainments, to be given, fey Port land labor unions.. .