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TUESDAY. AUGUST 17. 1920.
WHAT IS NEWS?
When Collier's weekly, 10 years
ago, ran a series of articles on the
American newspaper, one number
was devoted to a discussion of the
question. "What Is News?" News
paper editors from all over the coun
try were asked to give their defi
nition and the answers were as va
ried as the sections represented.
Each editor, of course, tried to define
"news" according to his Ideas of
what should go Into his news col
umns. On the major matters all
were In accord, but they found it
difficult. If not Impossible, to get
Into words a complete definition that
would cover all cases, or to state a
rule which, when applied to the mat
ter under consideration, would al
ways and infallibly tell whether It
belonged In the news or the adver
tising columns.
Of late our liitle friend Mickie
has been helping to point out the dis
tinctions, and doing it very well.
Just now, to help out Mickie, there
has come to our notice a new defini
tion or description of "news" that
seems to be about the last word on
the subject. It Is short and simple.
It is easily understood. It comes
about as close as ever seems possible
to being a rule that can be applied
with infallible results. It is as fol
lows: "If the paper wants it worse
than the person hiinding it in.
It's news.
"If the person handing It In
want It published worse thjin
tho newspaper. It's advertising."
In these days of the publicity
agent, who spends all his time trying
to get space about his particular
business into the newspaper without
buying advertising space in the
past we have listed some of these ef
forts this little rule is a very handy
thing to have around.
.TV I! "AOU.ltMAO
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' "" tsars
Superfluities
I am always making payment on the things I
do not need, furbelows and gorgeous raiment, rub
ber tires on which to speed; to the village shops
I'm goin, every day, with eager tread, useful, shin
ing kopecks blowing for all kinds of gingerbread.
And as round the town I'm flivving, throwing
money to the birds, I denounce the cost of living
in excoriating words. Nothing cheap in price will
suit me, costly things I must demand, or I fear my
friends would hoot me, as they prance in garments
grand." For all kinds of gems and rubies they have
blown the minted bones, and they look on folks as
boobies who don't clank with precious stones. We
are all blamed fools together, buying junk whose
price is high, heedless of the rainy weather that
will hit us by and by. And while daily, hourly
giving exhibitions of the kind, I denounce the cost
of living as a graft that's most unkind. When we
all regain our senses and just buy the things we
need, simple duds and picket fences, hay and bread
and nutmeg seed, cutting out the pomp and splen
dor and the streets where "bargains" bloom, salting
down the legal tender H. C. L. will see its doom.
Labor's busy making motors when it should be
making plows; let us soon, oh, men and voters,
brush the cobwebs from our brows.
CASCADE SLOPE
FAVORABLE FOR
LAVA TUNNELS
(Continued from rage 1.)
slope and the relatively new flow of
the east slope as geologically an
cient (Miocene and Pliocene), and
the cones dulling the surface of the
plateau and the flows making a
patchwork of Its surface as geo
logically modern (Quaternary and
Recent).
Many Cones Found.
Within 40 miles south of Bend no
fewer than 150 cones have been
mapped ranging in elevation, a"
proximately, from 300 to 3000 feet
above the surface of the plateau. It
that every volcanic vent
on n profound fracture
is, of course, probable that some of
these cones are rhyollte stcptoes and ' Kantlc Newberry crator, tho
FREIGHT INCREASE
HARD ON INDUSTRY
Prominent Lumbermen Say Tariff
May Prove Disastrous In North
west rp 23 to 83 Per Cent.
(By United Press to The Bend Bulletin)
PORTLAND, Aug. 17. That the
new freight rate tariff will prove
disastrous to the lumber Industry of
the Pacific Northwest is the belief
of prominent lumbermen.
Freight rate increases on lumber
shipments, effective August 26, will
range from 25 to 33 1-3 per cent.
Lumbermen of Western Oregon and
Western Washington point out the
chief competitive territory with
southern pine operators is the Mis
sissippi valley and middle western
States. The present rate on lumber
Shipments from Oregon to Chicago Is
60 cents, and from southern pine ter
ritory to Chicago the rate Is 31 cents.
An increase of 33 J -3 per cent on
these rates would mean an advance
of 20 cents on shipments from the
Pacific coast and 10 1-3 cents on
shipments from the South to Chi
cago. Lumbermen contend the applica
tion of the new rate would destroy
competitive relationships between
the southern and Pacific coast pro
ducing districts. There Is little hope
of delaying the application of the
pew rate, but the West Coast Lum-
bemen's association officials are
making urgent appeals to the heads
of the railroads to modify the pro
visions of the new tariff.
Class by Themselves.
Stnnley is one of a large family.
Resides numerous sisters ami lrul ti
ers, there nrc minis nml uncles (in In re
nnd ninny cousins. The only young
people, however, are IhoRe lii his Im
mediate neighborhood. At Thanksgiv
ing dinner Stnnley gazed solf nitily
nrotind the table for c while and then
Announced oracularly: "My mother
and the cat seem to he the only people
In fhlg whole family that have any
children."
hence older than the surrounding
basalt plateau, but a large majority,
surely, are of basaltic composition
either cinder cones or aggregates of
cinders, dust and lapilli, and newer
than the plateau on which they
Is located
traversing
the entire thickness of tho great Co
lumbia basalt and many thousnnds of
feet In thickness of the subjacent
formations, we may well feci grate
ful that the broad synclinal axial
zone between the eastward-dipping
older basalt on the west and tho
westward-dipping newer basalt on tho
east does not appear to be broken
by either the eastern or the western
fissures.
Fissures Not Lint's of Weakness.
Another way of regarding the mat
ter Is to suppose, that the fissures of
the western basalt do not extend as
far east as the river, nor thoso of
the eastern basalt as far west as the
river. The western slope presents a
continuous, wide zone of vents and,
we must suppose, correlating fis
sures, but all the vents and related
fissures of the eastern slope must.
apaprently.be correlated with the gl-
sphere
cover an uroa,of at louat 10 iiiunro
mllos to a depth of SO to 100 '"'
inoro foot. Thu coui'ho of tho lavn
flood was first north woHtorly about
two lulUm, with n breadth of one
nillo, to ami across tho Dosclitllos
rlvor, and tlion nortliorly, down tho
valloy for four miles, with u breadth
of two to tliroo miles. Tho aurfnee
and sloop margins of this flood of
lava nro Indescribably rough nnd
traveling across It Is norossarlly alow
and painful.
Tho eruption apptMirs to havo boon
accompanied by but tilth' wind. hIiioh
tho siirfiico of tint flow is practk'itlly
free from dust and honro, also from
vegetation, with tho nxcnnlltiii of an
occasional plno Iroo -ono to several
to a square nillo. Tho dusty slopes
of the rone are, naturally, more hos
pitable to vegetation than tho bare
surface of tho flow, and tho north
easterly aspect supports a scattering
growth of pluoa.
The lava Is throughout ho black,
hard and shining, so fresh nnd so
freo from visible weathering or alter
ation of any kind that the first Im
pression Ib ono of great recency of
eruption, and few aro disposed to es
timate tho ago of Iho eruption at
moro than a century or two. and
many would place tho time of tho ex
trusion of tho lava at less than a
century In tho past, but for the fact
that we have no human record and
the testimony of man Is wholly want
lug.
lllver Tells Country's Age.
rerhaps tho most cogent argument
for tho connldurnblo anthiuity of
Lavn butto and Its lavu is afforded
by tho fuel that tho lava, having
crowded tho rlvor out of Its bed nnd
over the rhyollte rldgo, the river has
since cut a gorge approximately B0
deep In the niasslvo rhyollte. As
suming 20 feet of weathered nnd
more or less decayed and easily erod
ed rhyollto, wo must recognize that
cutting a notch 30 feet deep In the
solid, unwenthercd rhyollto was a
largo task for a rlvor of clear water
entirely unarmed by sand or gravel
or other culling material. Of this
condition wo aro assured by tho fact
that the river Is deep and Its current
sluggish for a considerable dlstnnco
ubove the falls. Deyond a doubt, the
time slnco the lava turned tho river
over the rhyollte ridge and brought
Ilenham fulls Into existence must be
reckoned In thousands of yeurs, and
000 yenrs docs not appear an ex
treme or unreasonable estimate.
STRAWBERRIES ARE
NOW IM3N1) PRODUCT
L, C. Roberts- of tho Arnold
trlnt cnat of Hond exhibited in the
Central Oregon bank this morning n
Jar of Btruwborrlos wlileh compare
favorably with thoso raised In Other
parts of tho Northwest which are
known as strawlierryralslim ills-
t riots, Mr. Robert has three rows
of Ever-bearing striiwlierrleit, 10 rods
long, planted four years ago, They
havo been bearing for Hires weeks.
ny. Mr. Roberts nnd should con
tinue until October, Yesterday 31
ijiiart were liilien from thu three,
rows, 18 two days before, nml ho ex
pects to tin I'vimi HO tiuiirlN moi'u to
morrow. Tho plants born Ihn second year
after they were set nut.
Gas and Acid Stomach
Kflloved ia Two Minutes
liy tuslng a linnnlna
teanpoelillll ul .lulu
In it glu of hut
water, AlMiiltitnly
hii mi leas. Hulil by
All Unmul.t..
Rnwiuutuuiiniiiniuiinuiunuuiiiiiiuunuuiiuniu
i Demanding of merchants their
highest pricea wares, whether you
can afford them or not, is fuel for
the profiteer. Even with present
prices, proper judgment can be ex
ercised in buying and money saved. ,
High prices is no excuse for ex
travagance. The Shevlin-Hixon Company.
of Influence" of which extends out
ward for 10 to 15 miles In all direc
tions. Taking It for granted that the
vents have their origin in profound
fissures does not, however, mean that
stand. The flows, representing the these fissures must still bo regarded
more pasty and fluid part of the
ejected material, appear to have been
much less completely mapped than
the cones, and are shown. In many or
a majority of Instances, without as
sociated cones. Adding tho headless
flows to -the list of cones would in
crease the number of vents at least
to 160. On the western slopo..::.e
vents are distributed somewhat uni
formly, averaging one to even- ten
square miles, while on the easLern
slope there are very few vents north
as lines of weakness, nor, necessar
ily, as a menace to the tightness of
tho reservoir should they travcrso Its
floor, for we are warranted In sup
posing that fissures sufficiently pro
found to develop volcanic vents
would bo filled with tho molten lava
and converted, by slow cooling. Into
water-tight dikes. Of course the
case would be radically different if
dynamic cracking and rifting should
follow the formation of the dikes and
the freezing of the lava In the
of the Newberry crater, and they are ground.
thickly grouped over a wide rnno
south and southeast of the crater, the
two slopes thus averaging nearly
equal, area for area.
It seems Impossible, on either
slope, to discover any sort of regu
larity or order in the distribution of
the vents. It might be supposed
that from the great fissure of the
Cascade crest springs a series of par
allel oblique fissures on which the
vents are located. That Is, no doubt,
the principle or keynote of the dis
tribution, but minus the main part
of the regularity. One very striking
feature of the distribution of the
vents is their fewness In the vicinity,
of the river, especially if we keep to ,
the main line of the rlver.which is
the East Deschutes, or so-called Lit
tle river. The West Deschutes is
called, also , the Big river, simply be
cause It drains the humid Cascade
slope and, hence excels In volume of
water, though not In length, breadth
or depth of valley. Following.then,
thiB more direct and ample drainage
line, we find not one basaltic vent
within two mile's of the river and,
within 50 miles south of Bend, only
five vents within four miles of the
river, these five Including Pilot
butte and Lava butte, the latter in
the latitude of Benham falls. Within
40 miles south of Benham falls,
vents, although within two to four
miles on the west, are much more
distant on the east, especially south
of Bates butte, where the area prac
tically free from vents expands rap
Idly from a breadth of six miles to
26 miles. What part, if any, the
river may have played in the deter
mination of this broad expanse free
from volcanic vents we can only con
jecture. But It Is certainly an Inter
esting and significant fact that the
proposed reservoir lies wholly within
this area. Assuming, as we must,
Ijuvu Butte Cone and Flow.
The relations of this most recent
of all the volcanic eruptions of the
region to the proposed Benham falls
dam and reservoir are so close and
vital as to demand its separate de
scription and discussion. From the
western base of a normal cone of cin
ders and lapilli about 500 feet high.
with a summit crater about 150 feet
deep, there has flowed away a volume
of liquid and pasty lava sufficient to
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