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Conservation
Gifford Pinchot, to whom
national conservation, is hailed as a "great statesman" by
the Portland Journal which declares that because of his
efforts "the American people still own a remnant of thoir
forest wealth" and "still possess the coal in Alaska" and he
is acclaimed for "his imperishable achievements as governor
of Pennsylvania," though no one knows what he has accom
plished, He is characterized "as the most useful man in the
Republican party," and we are told that "thousands look to
him to save what is left of the water power for the people.
"Conservation of national resources for the benefit of the
people" has a high and lofty sound, almost as inspiring as
that other panacea that was to cure all of our governmental
ills, the purification of politics through the direct primary.
Indeed so plausible were the arguments advanced by
politicians seeking to ride to power through these beautiful
theories that it took years of experience to convince the
public that both were quack nostrums.
When title is left in the name of the people, it means that
the people pay the taxes, instead of private owners. It means
that the politicians administer at the expense of the people.
It means that statjs and counties are deprived of voice in
and control of and of revenues from large portions of their
taxable wealth and pauperized thereby. It means that
progress and development are thereby thwarted and retarded,
and the only beneficiary of this program of mythical salva
tion is the bureaucracy.
The national forests do not do the people who own them
one bit of good. They are a constant expense and liability.
The people have no say or voice in their control, but are
barred from entry or put under red-tape restrictions by the
administering officialdom. No private owner would dare im
pose the restrictions upon the public that obtains in the
national forests. When the timber is sold, an infinitismal
portion is returned to the counties affected but the bulk
goes into the insatiable maw of the bureaucracy.
"Saving what is left of the water power for the people"
is also inspirational, as is the continued federal possession
of coal in Alaska. Stripped of bunk it means that develop
ment is retarded by being hinged about with numerous
restrictions and that a certain percentage of the earnings of
the project must be turned over to support the bureau over
lords. This expenditure is of course, added to the price the
consumer must pay for light, power or fuel, and the people
must pay higher rates to give the developer the same
percentage of profit in his investment so buroniirrary may
prosper.
The benefits of conservation are revealed in the case of
the Oregon and California railroad land grant. The most
valuable of the land had long passed into private ownership
as originally intended, but the railroad company still held
large tracts of land, much of it isolated and worthless, upon
which it paid state and local taxes in every county in
western Oregon.
To save the unsold grant land to the people became the
battle cry of politicians and through congress, legislature and
courts, the lands were declared forfeited and returned to the
federal government, where they still are, and likely to remain,
too valueless for utilization. Some of the timber, there is
little left, is being sold on a stumpage basis. A small per
centage of land can be utilized by settlers, not as free home
steads, but iion appraised valuations, but most of it is brush
and scrub timber, not even good for grazing.
The lands have been saved as the "heritage of the people,"
the people are paying the job-holders who administer them,
the railroad is saved from paying the taxes on them, and
the consequent deficiency in tax receipts, caused by their
loss, is made up in increased taxation upon property owners.
It has not benefitted the settler, has not stimulated develop
ment, but has taken tax-paying proju'rty permanently off the
tax rolls. That is the way conservation works in actual
practice.
One Wife on Approval
By Violet
A NIW U,Y
Cynthia hud expot-U'd tho worst
of thnt evening. She had thought
that probably film and Madam.1 I.e
laml would nit Cuius one another
for ft drrary hour or two, mlMin
derstn:i IftiK c;uh olhr pcrfei t ly.
It ut a tni'i'l! in ntor for
hfr. At hulf-past einht the door
bell J.mglnl Imp 'tirntly: ft mo
ment later Loiiflla I.clanJ and hrr
husband, Utanloy t k, were an
nounced. C!ithla hn,i mot Sun
lry Chirk only a few lime, and
hardly knew him. I'.nt that rwn
In, as Mm. Inland and ln-r d .uih
tcr retired to the library for a prl
vate conclave, he turned to Oyn
thla with a hylh grin that shr
found delightful.
"First chanre we've had to
talk," he observed, ncatliuc him
self beside her. "iIov do ycu like
our town by this time J IT mi It
seem awfully slow?"
"Oh, not at all!" exclaimed Cyn
thia forvently. "Anything but that."
"I hear that you rather ataiiled
the community this noon by lunch
in with a hnndHome ut ranger who
was Indecently Rind to see you," he
commented; Cynthia would have
been angry with him but bin nmllr
unarmed her. "I don't blame you.
I -houlrf think you'd have been:
S lad to see anyone you d known
before you landed here. )h, I know
what thla town can do! I came
here to represent my firm Jmrt
few month before I wa married,
and for awhile I thought 11 was the
Jumping off place. Then after 1
Editor and Publisher
countien, one month 50 cents, 3
year $1.U0. Elsewhere 50 cents a
to it or not otherwise credited in
christian endeavor means
Dare
met I.uuclla and wo bora mo en
sanotl, 1 thought It wan worse you
can't draw a Ion breath without
having somebody run ami tell some
one else about It."
Cynthia amiled, wondering
whether Madame l.eland bad been
fible t manaire this son-in-law as
he dul her own children. Iio
loused to jk Sl.inby, but foil that
It would somehow bit dlslov.il.
"You'll like It here u hen you
know t.ie ieip)e, he went on, tak
iiiK n ck-ar out of bis case, am
then apparently reconsidering and
putting It back acaln. "Hut It a a
Kossippy town, there'! no question
of that. Tell me. when Jim cum
ins bat k ?'
"In a eek or ao, I think," she
antmcrcd. "He said that when ha
went west he might look Into those
Investments of Madame Lelnnd's.
the ones she made while he wan
away with me, on our honeymoon."
Stanley raised his eyebrows
sharply, but Madame Iceland and
Iouella returnrd to the room Jutt
then, and nothing further was
said.
Cynthia went home the next
morning. Riving the excuse that
she wanted a book she had been
reading a few days before. In real
Ity shfi wanted to sea how her kit
ten, Mark, was getting along, and
to warn the maids not to feed him
t jo much.
Rhe walked along slowly, plan
ning to ruakd her outing last as
long as possible, ladauie Leland
had said that when she returned
they would go chopping together,
and Cynthia wu not looking for
ward to the trip with any pleasure
Her mother-lnHaw waa always ex
tremely unpleasant to the shop
girls, speaking curtly to them, In
sisting on being waited on at once,
no matter how many people were
ahead of her, and frequently Insist
ing on being shown a number of
articles and then not buying any.
"I was J ast looking," she would
say haughtily to the disgusted shop
girl, and aaunter away, and on tho
one expedition of the sort that she
and Cynthia had gone on together.
Cynthia had returned latir and
bought something of each girl who
had been so treated.
She was wondering as she ap
preached her own hono whether
she could possibly take Mark back
to Madame Leland'a with h'.-r. He
would be such company, to.nehow
But of course it was out of the
question. Madame Leland wouldn't
have an animal of any kind In the
house.
Nearlng the house, she noticed a
number of children playing on the
lawn; she know that two of them
lived next door, and it was only
when she saw that they were chas-
ng her kitten that she felt at all
dU-turbed. Then ehe began to hur-
y.
"They mustn't do that; he's such
a little thing and he Isn't used to
children; they'll frighten him," she
thought, as she ran along.
Just before ehe reached the
house one of the children nearly
caught the kitten, who, apparently
much frightened, darted toward
the street blindly. Cynthia ran for
ward, calling, "Mark, Mark."
But he did not see her. In an In
stant he had gone dashing Into the
street, just as a high-powered road
ster swung round the corner. Cyn-,
thla screamed, and ran forward,
but she was too late. The driver of,
the car slowed down and swung to
one side, to stop, but Cynthia's gay!
little black kitten lay lifeless at the!
.side of the street.
Tomorrow A New Friend.
BRINGING UP FATHER
A.W-JObT TE1UI- -(OUR.
TAtvE. HER. ON v,CTlO
"tLl- oc -3 1 Uli&cran LIKE MUWOMEM AM-
.vomt let -rouco-then she'll co auons
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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
V
Members of Pioneer
Jones Family Hold
Reunion Near Brooks
(By C. V. Ashbaugh.)
Uroohe, Or., July 7. In trc
hady oak rove of the "Nosfc
Farm," the obi home place of S.
V. K. Jones, which lies just eaj.
of the pioneer church between
Urooks and Gervais, there gath
ered July 4th, 125 people, just
half of the living descendants ot
this pioneer.
They came from California,
Washington and distant places
within our own gtat for the ftrst
auuual reunion, coming back to
the spot wnero this great family
began ite Ufa in the new country;
back to renew old bonds and to
meet, some tf the younger ones &t
least, for the first time. Although
the distance traveled by some was
far and the vay rather weary, as
Ralph Jones aptly Btated in his
response to the welcome, the mod
ern motor car, when compared to
the ox-drawn wagon and the pavod
highway to the long rocky trail,
makes one ashamed to refuse the
call to meet in honor of a man who
risked all and underwent untold
hardship to transplant his stock to
this soil.
The four living children of SUis
W. R. Jones are M. L. Jones, Will!
known rancher of this district and!
also the only one of the children
living who crossed the plains with
his father; Mi's. Emma Simmons
of Woodburn, Mrx Sarah Clarke of i
Portland and Scott Jones of Oer
vals. After the dinner which was
served from a 'able that stretched
its length through the grove and
contained almost everything that
a famished person could wish and
an epicure demand, a program, in
WIFE. VOO'O like TO
T6 THE MOOSSTAINfcJ
Speeding
I t- THAT THE GRAMtl NA, 00 still HAM THel peAcHes IMTHU v!?,,1 . L M
TH LARGciV FLAT-TOP M LARGGVC J toujw'. XJuiV FlNftTN ft&- HAft. c J I L I
1 ki.n.XA,, ... FLATHSA1N O SM TWO f WE'LL) HAP-'.! ) 0 I MlBK.-.lJ
cluding both elders and children,
was given.
"America," was sung by all, fal
lowed by the "I ford's Prayer." Tne
welcome was given by Mrs. Clarke,
and the respond by M. R. Jon-is
of Oakland, Cal "One Happy
Day," writtan by Grace Austin,
was read by her daughter, Julia
Bell Austin; "Th-. Old Haymow,"
y Betty Jones; "Mehitable Bird,
by Veda Harris, and "Ma and t.
Auto,' by Veiraj, May.
Many interesting things were
told by M. L. Jones in his remin
iscences. Althot'gh he was on'y
past four years old when he-started
on this lone, long trip, he sayo
that certain of the events stand
out clearly ia his memory, he
got the title of "the old man" from
the amount of advice that he gave
during the journey and he claims
to have retained that title to th
present day. There were five
wagons In the train four drawn
by four-ox teams and one drawn
by a four-horse team, in trie l-t-
ter the family rode. One wagon
was loaded wtih crackers. This
was to serve as bread, for without
suitable means ot- baking, to fur
nish loaves enough for a family cf
ten hungry chilaiti, to say noth
ing of the help that was taken tJ
care for the stock en route, wotitu
be most discouraging for a coo1:,
however able.
In bidding her many friends
and relatives farewell, Mrs. Jones
visited, with one of her younger
children, a neighbor whose chil
dren had measles unbeknown to
either. The disease did not break
out until they were well on their
way. and although It added much
Not the Answer
A Condescending
OiilWMpW"
I I I MACj.e -' 1 I f wf i i m I 1 Ftt-tI . . . . I
THetltWAlNi) fZZTT Ml IVL PACK. OCR. SpP ICO-T" W ' ' M
Up They Visit Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and Grand Junction in One Day.
to the trials and discomforts, did
little harm.
At the Ia:t post, Mrs. Jon
bought herself a black silk dresa.
probably knowing that It would
be years before any bargains of
the kind couid bo found In the new
countrv. He told ot the wagon
upsetting and how quickly it waa
righted and on its way, but that
the "polio" containing some $5000
was lost. When quite a waye
from the scene o the accident ite
loss was discovered and Mr. Jones
rode back and ln-.d no trouble find
ing it with its contents entire;
how the wat-:h dog. Lion, kept the
maraudering lutiiuns away from
the stock. One? when the men
were away the entire band of 100
cattle was run o . oy some young
bucks. His father and the others
scattered to :ind the missing herd
While riding alone, upon totj
;i!ng a rise, he jaw on the oppose
slope the Indians ana caiue.
War in? his hat he shouted across
i"or them to Vrinfv the stock bick
at once. Evidently they under
stood for they nuekly complied.
Their only wash boiler bounded
out of the wagon at the rough
crossing at Green river, uyomiu
and although unable to swim hit-
father plunged t'-s horse alter u
Lion, the das, got sore feet during
the long journey and although
coaxed to shave the wagon, would
ride no place hut under the bed on
the rounds cf the running gear
Hills were often encountered, dau
gerously steep. In going down,
trees were cut and tied behind as
drags. He told of his brother,
Joseph's attempt to train as a
guard, using the old pepper dox
pistol and how, during the process,
it left him with one finger on his
left hand, short.
Their only fuel on the broad
prairies was buffalo chips and as
soon as a stop w:u made for camp,
it was the younger ones duty to
gather a good pile of them. Fran
cis Elizabeth, six months old and
a pretty blond baby, attract:d
much attention from the Indians.
Many bargained for her, one chief
mfenng seven ponies, but for som
Barney Expected
T-LL' OCll. o? AND Tpum
VTLt (Sl'Je N A GREAT
eUANC To CRAH IN ANBfj
'.'.?UNSrtiwS. Squirt
' A UTTtS OP LILA4
PERFUMS tN W NEW
SU1AU.OUJ Tail. COAT
Snob
on, hfc litilL Hwtbs
SJl . I . S' A I v ' . - . JM fi - - -- .-j
I
reason her parents did not care to!
sell.
Old Lion stayed with the family
for some ten years after their ai
rival and proved to be a flue block
dog, but although hla pupmoe
were kept with ino expectation
that they would prove even bettar
than their father, they were al
ways disappointing the way of
the mongrel. Mr. Jones proved by,
this, with an including wave of
his hand over his listeners, tint;
"blood will tell." j
Lion was never allowed to enter
the house imd never seemed to
tare to, but one evening after he;
was a very old dog. while iho
family were sitting in tho big liv
ing room, he walked boldly in ai-.il,
to each member he of ft red lu
paw as was his want in groetins-j
A ft or Suing ibe rounds lie maru-j
cd quietly tut of t lie door atul
was never st-en rgain.
A much we.v:ured U-t'or, thv
property of Mrs. Emma Sininirms.
which was written by her falmr
ridding his hi t hers and sitQ.ai
good-bye just nric. ?o his start for
the wiids of Oregon, was read. H
bore the dut? of January 2, lSn:t.
In it this old pioneer told of Un
intended journey and his Teas in
for taking it, tho amount of sto.?';
and other moveables he intendcl to
transport. He expressed a parting
wish that some means might later
come that would enable his d ?..!'
ones to visit him, nut that he nev
er expected to fcoe them ngiin.
Time proved that he was mistaken
as he. himself got to return .o
the old home town of Kokomo,
Indip.na, where he spent the re
maining years of wis life. He was
97 when he wen, to his rest.
Scott Jones then read a paper
containing statistics and accom
plishments of the family sinco ;is
transplanting. Practically a;l
trades and professions are repre
sented. When the call came fi.r
volunteers. 18 responded from 'his
family to fisbt in the World war.
In the earlier day5 thoir ocntiu
tions were various freiglit ?:
sheepherders, tuvJ::r men. miller.
MM vou.ms kit tv );
get a dime, "n: ;:,;!
out op W PoRse, , !;!
HTftlVr HIM UWtlA sl
4 M
fUESDAY, JULY 7, 1923.
aimers and developers of laud "
8. W. R. Jones wub of the rug.
ged type, about C feet 7 inohH8 jn
height. He waa 39 years old wlun
lie loft Indiana and wasfx montnt
in crossing, arriving in Septetnbi
uf 1853.
The ten children who came win
hfin were Jamas Thomas, Josi-nh
P., Rachol, Wlliiam II., Susan e,
Silaa A., Jesao H., Madison L.,
.Samuel AV. f.nd Frances Eliza
beth.
M. L. Jones wm made president
of tho organization with M:a.
draco Austin, secretary. A com
mittee was formed to assist the
president composed of Mrs. Sarah.
Clarke, Mrs. II. L. Jones and Mrs.
Graro Austin. ThP day Tor the
annual mooting was set for His
fourth day uf July, tentatively,
subject to change at the pleu ra
of the committee.
OREGON FLAG GIVEN
POSTAL DEPARTMENT
Washington, July 7 (API
Oregon and Mississippi state fhina
were accopted by Iu.st master Gen
eral New today for tho postoffice
department's collection .which now
lacks only tho flaya of Kansas, Ne
vada, New Mexico, North Dakota
and Wyoming to make It complete-.
The Oregon flag, the gift of
Portland postoffice employes wna
presented by Senator Stanfield'a
secretary, Mrs. William G. Burk
head, Jr.
New Corporations
Capital City Loan association,
S.Oem.
Spence Investment company,
Sa'om.
Contract Purchasing company.
Port .and.
Clcnhave Rost Home, Portland.
American Toll Bridge company,
Portland, to sell stock in tho sum
if. 100.000. myth-Witter & com
pany. Portland, tii eell bonds In
tht fum of MOn.000.
Bv George MrManus
By Billy de Beck
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By Hud Flslior
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