WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT WEEK
Brief Resume Most Important
Daily News Items.
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Event* o f Noted People, Government*
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Thing* Worth Knowieg.
Receipt* of the Oregon state motor
vehicle department for the period Jan
uary 1 to June 30, 1922, aggregated
32,973,37$.84, according to a report pre
pared by the secretary of state.
Divorce proceedings in Chicago
Tuesday revealed the absence for two
years of Harry, son of Gustav Fleisch-
mann, the yeast manufacturer, after
leaving his bride of a day to seek a
“ love nest.”
Two hundred and twenty-five camp
fire girls were forced to flee for their
lives late Tuesday afternoon before a
forest fire that swept down on their
summer camp on Yashon island, in
Puget sound.
Peace negotiations, halted over the
week end, were resumed by members
of the United States rail labor board
Monday in an effort to bring about an
early settlement of the railway shop
men’s strike.
Final examinations for appointment
as second lieutenant In the regular
army will be held at all army posts
beginning September 4 and open to
all eligible citizens between the ages
of 21 and 30 years.
Grasshoppers are destroying wheat
In many sections of Idaho, according
to reports received by agricultural of
ficials in Iioise. In Power county one
2000-acre field was declared to have
been wholly devastated by the pests.
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Chicago.— The averting of a strike
of approximately 10,000 station agents,
preparation for the formation of new
union of shop workers on 40 eastern
roads and negotiations for a separate
peace on the Baltimore & Ohio, mark
ed the progress Monday of the railway
shopmen’s strike.
The move for new unions to take
the place of the striking shop crafts
was initiated by L. F. Loree, eastern
regional chairman of the Association
of Railway Executives, and was taken
as an indication of the intention of
the roads to hold out against the
strikers’ demand for a return of
seniority rights as a preliminary to
any settlement.
The eastern -roads, according to Mr.
Loree, plan to take advantage of rul
ings by the labor board by organizing
new shop men in such a way that each
system will have its own union and
will be able to negotiate separately
with its men.
Parleys for a separate peace at
Baltimore between representatives of
the striking shop men and the Balti
more & Ohio railroad, attracted con
siderable attention in union circles,
but strike leaders refused to make any
comment.
The efforts of W. L. McMenlmen.
labor member of the rail board, in
a conference with W. J. Noons, head
of tbe station agents' organization,
prevented a further spread of the
strike.
Mr. Noons complained that the
Btatlon agents were being forced to
do the work of the strikers, but Mr.
McMenlmen assured him that any
grievances would be corrected. Mr.
Noons then announced that the sta
tion agents would remain at work
pending a conference with the labor
board.
Comparatively few outbreaks due to
the strike were reported during the
day, but further cancellation of trains,
said to be due- mostly to the shortage
of coal, were reported from a few sec
tions. The Grand Trunk took off two
trains between Chicago and Detroit
and two between Detroit and Harvey.
O f Benefit to Ex-Service Men.
In order that every ex-service man
or woman of Washington, Oregon and
Idaho may have an opportunity to
learn all governmental offers and
regulations relative to war disability
compensation,
vocational
training,
hospitalization, war risk insurance,
Public offering of an issue of 38,702,- every town, village and hamlet is to
300 refunding and improvement mort be thoroughly canvassed by contact
gage S per cent bonds of the Northern representatives of the United States
Pacific railroad was made Wednesday Veterans’ Bureau, according to L. C.
by J. P. Morgan & Co., the First Na Jesseph of Seattle, northwest district
tional bank and the National City manager,
company in New York.
Additional field representatives are
W. W. Culp, ex-Spring Valley, O. being sent out into the rural district
minister, who eloped with Miss Esther to give personal attention to prospec
Hughes, 18, a boarder at the Culp tive compensation cases In the more
home, pleaded guilty to deserting his sparsely settled sections of the Pa
famijy in probate court and was sen cific Northwest district. W. N. Ry-
tenced to one year in the workhouse dalch has been “ put on the Job" in
southern Idaho and is now In the
and to pay a fine of $500.
midst of an itinerary including 90
Reginald Dunn and Joseph O'Sull small towns. C. R. Christie has been
ivan were sentenced to death Tues
assigned to cover small communities In
day for the murder of Field Marshal
Washington and Zach Taylor has
Sir flenry Hughes Wilson, who was j started a country campaign in Oregon
shot it) froi^t of his home at Eaton | to disclose every ex service person
place in London last month. The metJ
disabled because of World War serv
were convicted after trial in the Old ice.
Dailey.
‘
Announcement was made that an
Exploding steam pipes on the battle average o f 500 claims are being made
ship New' York, division flag ship of by war veterans in the district every
t h e ’ W frlflc fleet, scalded one man. month despite the fart that the war
rendered’ 12 others unconscious and ended nearly four years ago.
Mr.
nearly paused a collision between the Jesseph urged that veterans secure
flagship and the destroyer McUermut certificates of injuries from the Vet
as the fleet was returning to Port erans' Bureau before August 9 to pro
Angeles, Wash., port from maneuvers tect possible claims for compensation
Tuesday afternoon.
after the five years from discharge
Dates will be set within a short time limit for compensation claim filing
for hearings on the question of what The American leg io n and other ex-
to do with the Cantral Pacific rail service men's organizations and the
road, which the supreme court recent Red Cross are urged to co-operate with
ly held should be separated from the: the bureau In a general campaign io
Southern Pacific, Commissioner Hill ' see that the war veterans are advised
o f the Interstate commerce commls- I of this ruling.
Private Harry Qulgg. headquarters
company, Fifth brigade, at Camp
Lewis, was shot and seriously wound
ed Sunday night while attempting to
escape from military policemen, it was
revealed by Colonel J. D. Leitch, chief
o f staff.
slon said Tuesday. One of these hear
Ings, he said, will be held at Portland j
STATE N E W S
IN BRIEF
10,000 Station Men Refuse to Perform
General Pershing
Gives
Data
to Secretary Weeks.
Eugene. — Between 1100 and 1200
carloads of pear* will be shipped out
of the Rogue river valley this season,
according to the first estimates of the j
experts of the Southern Pacific com
pany as announced at the district
freight and passenger offices here.
Salem.—Jersey breeders of Mar> <n
county have completed arrangements
for their annual jubilee, to be held this
week. Frank B. Astroth, field agent
of the American Jersey Cattle club,
Present Forres Declared Enough to will be the guest of honor, and will
accompany the breeders on their trip
Make Nation Safe Against
to different parts of the county.
Any Combination.
Salem.— The case brought by Hale
Gould of Portland to determine wheth
er the world war veterans state com
Washington, D. C.— Steps to estab mission can be compelled to award a
lish a “ national position in readiness loan to an ex-service man after he
for the army as a development of has made application and had been
the national military policy” are issued a voucher for a cash bonus, was
dismissed in the circuit court here
forecast In a memorandum recent
Saturday.
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ly submitted by General Pershing to
Eugene.— The farmers of Lane coun
Secretary Weeks and made public
ty are cutting their wheat and one
Sunday at the war department.
thresher has begun near Irving. They
Details of such plans as may have report that the yield will be lower
been already prepared by General than usual, owing to the extremely
Pershing were not disclosed.
The dry weather. Spring-sown grain es
pecially will be short. Some of the
general nature of the project, how
fields will not be cut because the
ever, contemplates assignment of na grain is not high enough.
tional guard divisions to specific de
Fossil.— The city council has pur
fense positions on coasts and borders chased a 500-gallon water sprinkler
to which they would be rushed in the from the city of Portland and has put
Marshal Laird in charge. The streets
event of war.
“ Under this plan,” General Per will be wet down twice daily for the
present. If the use of city water in
shing said, “ with our territory pro
the sprinkler is found to decrease the
tected against landings In force at water supply for other uses, the
the start, and with the machinery sprinkler will be filled from the creek.
for further military expansion fully
Marshfield.— Fire which caused a
organized, our fleet will be free to loss estimated at 3200,000 swept both
deal with the hostile naval forces with sides of the blocks along Front street
out concern as to possible invasion.” Sunday morning, burning 28 buildings.
“ With 18 divisions and appropriate The razed section was in the old
part of the city, and the heavy losses
auxiliaries of the national guard, sup
will be felt more because the fire
plemented by the regular army pre hazards prevented the business men
pared for necessary expansion, and and real estate men from carrying
with certain special units formed in insurance.
the organized reserve," he continued,
Prineville.— Construction on Prlne-
"w e shall be able to cover our coasts
ville’s new hotel will begin on or be
and land frontiers against serious in fore August 1, is the announcement
vasion at the start.
from the architect, John V. Bennes of
“ Such a military organization causes
Portland. The plans are nearly com
no menace to any other nation, but pleted and will be submitted to con
assures the impregnability of the con
tractors at once. The block where
tinental United States in the event of the old hotel stood has been deeded
attack by any possible combination."
to the new corporation by Mrs. C. E.
“ The character of our military re
McDowell, former proprietor of the
sources, as well as our attitude to
hotel.
ward other nations, Imposes upon us
Prineville.— Crook county’s wool clip
an Initial strategic defense,” General
Pershing said, “ But this does not in will exceed a quarter of a million
volve renouncing a subsequent of pounds when the clip of Kerns Broth
ers of Izee, is completed and the 1922
fensive."
The memorandum pointed out that wool season comes to a close. This
the defensive machinery planned is clip, aggregating more than 35,000
dependent upon “ the large number of pounds, formerly was shipped from
war trained officers available,” and Prairie City, but improvements in
also upon the “ more adequate source Crook county roads and more favor
of military equipment and material,” able shipping conditions at Prineville
as well as upon the specific sanction have induced them to truck their wool
to this direction.
given the national defense act.
D E F E N S E S O L E OBJECT
General Pershing laid stress, how
ever, on the assertion “ that the sys-
stem of training young men” ultimate
ly to replace the present war trained
officers, perpetuating the supply of
necessary officer personnel, was a
vital factor in the whole project.
Eugene. — Tw o sections of timber
land west of Walker station and 20
miles south of Eugene have been sold
by the First National bank of Eugene
and the First National bank of Cot
tage Grove to the Ajax Lumber com
pany of Portland. The tract contains
50,000,000 feet.
The new owners an
Giant Log To Be Cut.
nounce that three small mills will be
Hoquiam, Wash.—The Grays Har built on the tract and operation will
bor Lumber company expects to cut begin at once. Some of the machinery
up what Is believed to be the biggest has already arrived.
log ever to be sent through a Grays
Bend.— Fire, believed to have start
Under normal condi ed from a short circuit in an auto
tions. a log with 119 Inches at the mobile. caused 38000 damage Satur
day night at the Bend garage and
butt, or just one Inch less than 10
threatened a loss of more than 3100,-
feet across, would be put aside as too 000. The blaze was extinguished in
large to handle In the rush of mill an hour’s time by the Bend volunteer
operation. But since the present log fire department, five lines of hose be
shortage struck the harbor time Is ing used in combatting the flames.
given to handle even the biggest tim Water pressure in the mains was in
ber. The huge log, which is 28 feet creased 80 pounds by use of pumps at
long, will produce 12,000 feet of lum the Brooks-Scanlon mill.
Harbor mill.
ber, it was estimated.
A special crew was put to work
trimming the big log for use in the
mill prior to sending it through on the
carriage. It was found necessary to
remove certain timbers to make room
I on (he carriage.
Salem. — The Portland Railway.
Light & Power company Saturday was
Tacoma, Wash. Narcotics are not
authorized by the Oregon public serv
Mis* Miriam Defahl, pretty school
ice commission to establish a rate
teacher bf Ran Jose. Cal., and an In j “ legal tender for all debts, private and
of 2 4 cents a 100 pounds on rough
nocent victim of tine of the most sen public,’’ as Louis Burns of Hoqulam
lumber in carload iota from all sta
aational automobile chases in this learned to his sorrow Monday from
tions on its line to Cameron Spur,
c-unti. filed s o t here for fJ • - ..... the lips of Judge Cushman of the
damages against Philip Valentine, United States district court. Burns
when transported for milling and dres
Hearst Entry Forecast.
sing. This concession was necessary,
said to be the son of the late presb explained to the court that five
dent of the Wells Fargo company, the I bundles of opium on his person when
New Y o rk —W. J. Connors. Buffalo the order said, to keep in operation
CameronHogg
planing
mill,
one reapoaMMi fnr the Injuries which he was arrested had been received newspaper publisher. Sunday issued a the
have made Mws Defald a cripple for sI ; I> I”. t i-f .1 di-ht *He i!i>t :( >« :>r statement In which he predicted that j which otherwise would be put out of
and a day in Leavenworth federal I William Randolph Hearst would be | commission because of a lack of work
life.
,
penitentiary.
the only candidate when the demo ing material.
The text of the foreign office state
cratic convention meets in Syracuse
ment In Tokio Monday announcing
Lakeview.— The Goose Lake Valley
•
Strike Pinches Chicago.
next September to pick a nominee for
Japan’s purpose to withdraw her !
Irrigation
company is constructing a
troops from the mainland portion of , Chicago. — Rati and real strikes! governor o f New York. Mr. Connors |
dam
and
reservoir 12 miles north
the province of Saghailetl, Siberia, j brought a touch of war-time privation | indicated that the five-cent fare
throughout
the
state
and
the
milk
to
Chicago
Monday,
when
one
of
the
I
Shows that, coupled with previous an
west of la k eview on Cottonwood
noumcments on the intended with city's largest chain grocery stores an- j queation would be the chief issues of creek to store the waters from the
drawal by October from the Vladh o nounced a strict limit on purchase* of the campaign.
Cottonwood watershed. The dam will
stok region. It la Japan's purpose to sugar. A temporary limitation of ten
be 610 feet long and 40 feet high
Ship Deficit 12.783.2• 6.
hold only the northern or Russian end ! pounds to each customer was blam
and will furnlah water for irrigating
of the Island of Saghailen pelldlbg ad * ed on the slowness of the railroads
Washington. D. C. — Operation of the lands in the north Goose lake
The an shipping board veasels covering all valley. This w ill add to the plant
Just men t with some Russian govern In gottlnif cars through.
ment of Japanese claims arising out nouncement followed Increases of trade route* during tbe month of June constructed some seven years ago
o f the massacre of Japanese troop* at from |5 25 to 315.25 a ton in the price coet 97.793.21C In excess of Income, when a dam o f 65.00« acre feet was
of coal.
Nikolievtk.
Chairman Lasker announced.
built on Drews creek
Drug Not Legal Tender.
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SMILE
When you meet a brother smile;
(¡rasp his hand walk double tile.
Smile and say "Hello, old ciium;
Cheer up ; don’t tie sad and glum I"
Smile and every time you do
It pays «Interest to you.
Waste of time salt tenrs to shed—
Smile and keep on straight ahead.
In the crowded market place—
Keep a glad smile on your face.
Frown, and you give birth to doubt—
Next tiling you'll lie down and out.
Smile and say, “ Tilings coming tine—
Only carload lots in inluei”
Waste of time to sigli and soli-----
Smile, and stick tight to tbe Job.
(C o p y r ig h t.)
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JOHN BLAKE
TH E
T X 7 H K N you think life's not worth
V V while
Sit straight up nnd force a smile.
Smile and shake your head at fate—
Hit the line; don’t hesltnte.
Smile nnd say “ World, howd'y do;
Here's »-looking straight at you!"
Shake yourself and force a smile—
You’ll see clear sky after while.
Util
Uncommon
Sense
M AN
T F A MAN would tie happy lie must
A be a Man.
Try as one may, real enjoyment
cannot be gotten out of life if one
follows a wrong pathway.
I f a man would lie satisfied with
himself, he must have the proper
viewpoint o f what he should be. Ad
mitting this, let us consider the opin
ion of 1>. J. Burrell as to what makes
a man a Man.
“ Not what a man has or what hap.
pens to him; not wealth, nor noble
blood, nor crowns.“ says Burrell, "hut
the things that are In him nnd shin
ing through him— his thoughts, mo
tives, springs of action; those consti
tute the man.”
Too few have this honest estimate
in mind when they measure their own
right to a, place under the sun and
their own right to comfort nnd hap
piness.
Unfortunately humans are
inclined to spend much more time
thinking of what they would tike to
have, than in thinking what they are
or what they would like to be.
“ Self preservation Is the first lawr
of Nature," it is true. But too often
we find evidence that men and women
place selfishness ahead of everything
else. They do not understand that
there is a wide difference between
self-pVcservation and s«>lflshness. If
they do understand, they ignore the
fact, for constantly, though earnestly
seeking happy lives, we find them
seeking worldly possessions, wordly
pleasures— most of w hieh are of the
shallowest sort.
When one faces a hard-boiled bur
glar in the darkness of the night, he
rightly protects himself by whatever
means he finds at Ids disposal. That's
a case o f self-preservation, for the
second-story men are usually ready to
kill rather than he caught. But in the
regular pathways of life no one can
justify any action which is unfair to
Ids fellow-men In order to gain »one.
thing for himself. When a man stoops
to underhand, dishonest methods,
whether they he In buying or selling,
either labor or goods.* he is certain
s«voner or later t«> loeo res;>ect for
himself.
No man can he happy In his own
position, however exalted. If he knows
that his thoughts, his actions and his
heart sre centered on what he hopes
to get. rather than on what he hopes
to do.
(C»M1|M )
B A Ii
START
/T 'I I E average mnn is so constituted
A that a certain amount o f discour
agement Is necessary to progress.
That is why nobody should worry
about a bad start.
Get a good one if you can, of
course. It will help. But remember
If your start was had, that so was tlie
start of almost every other man who
ever attained a place of any impor
tance In the world.
General Grant got a had start in Ids
studies at West Point, and did so poor
ly in the army that he resigned.
At the outbreak of the war between
tlie states In America, he hnd settled
down to the business of running a
yard and tannery in an obscure Illi
nois town.
His biographer says that he was ut
terly discouraged. But lie wasn’t. He
knew that somewhere in him was a
very grout ability. And when lie got
into the war, as all young Americans
on both sides did, ambition awoke in
him.
Everybody knows the rest o f the
story.
Lloyd George Is one of the few con
spicuous figures in the world today
who proceeded from success to suc
cess after he once got his start.
The start itself was extremely bad.
It would have discouraged most men.
However, determination triumphed
over poverty und lack of opportunity.
The world knows the rest of that
story, too.
It stands to reason that if you never
have to use your muscles you will al
ways be a weakling. And you can
only use your muscles in overcoming
something, whether it is a Job, or your
own natural inertia.
Neither can you develop your men
tal possibilities without overcoming
obstacles, nnd to the poor in spirit all
obstacles are discouragements.
Don’t feel blue about a had start. It
ought to make you determined to
atone for it. and In atoning for it you
will gain strength and character.
(C o p y r ig h t.)
W H Y
DO BIRDS SING
X 1 7 H A T we call the “ song'' of the
* * bird— the
melodious
sound*
which it makes with its throat— is
really the courtship or love-making of
the male bird which seeks in this man
ner to attract his mate and to make
himself more pleasing in her eyes.
This love-making goes on from early
in the spring until after the eggs of
the mother-bird have been hatched,
but. in the great majority of cases, it
ceases as soon as the young birds have
pecked their way out of the shell.
In the case of the nightingale— re
nowned as the greatest of singers—
the male charms his mate with the
sound of his voice all during the
period when he is courting her. during
the t i j e the nest is being built ind
even after the eggs have been laid. As
is th^llt:
from their shells, the song of the fa
ther changes to a hoarse guttural
croak, as if he were anxioa« and
alarmed over the safety o f his off
spring. But—and here is the proof
of the fact that the song o f the bird
is synonymous with courtship— if the
neat and the little nightingales de-
stroyed, the father once more com
mences to sing, as gloriously as be
fore. nnd continues this until a new
family is bora. The process of sing
ing Is, of course, the same as with a
human being. The vocal muscles are
expanded and contracted and tho
waves of air passing over the deli
cate membranes produce the har
mony. But. unlike human beings, the
great majority of hints do n d have to
be taught to sing.
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