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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 , - . '
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.. 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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Among out of town visitors Is T. D.
Williams of Galena. i -. "
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' W. ! A. Bailey of Lyle, Wash.. Is
transacting business in Portland.
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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.
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"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.
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"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. ,
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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.
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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.
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Mr. and Mra M. S. Taylor of
Marshfield are among out of town
guests. .,' s
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Carl G. Washburn, a merchant of
Eugene, is spending the holiday sea
son in Portland. - -
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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,
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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."':" -' '
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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. , - - .
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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. ' - "
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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.. .