Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1916-08-12
Editorial Association Wis
its Southern Oregon and
Comes. Home Surfeited

Cascades and shimipering deep plue
waters winding through deep canyons.
The Gates of Hell
The people of Medford and Jackson
county deserve supreme credit for the
fight they have made to throw this
world wonder open to the world by
building a motor-road to Crater Lake.
The county built good half, the state
convicts about a quarter and the fed
eral government the rest Of the way.
The drive takes six hours going up and
five hours coming down. There are
waterfalls as high and some as beauti-
full as those along the Columbia. There
is the natural bridge of lava, where
the Rogue river makes descent to
what Sam Simpson would have called
THE gorge of Ayernus-in plain English
the gates of hell You walk around on
top of the river roaring under your
feet. Soon the snowbanks appear and
to the right and to the left of you lies
the beautiful by the thousands of tons.
+ As our Willamette valley rains are
dry mists. so this snow is not cold
snow. It is purely ornamental, for the
flowers bloom on 1ts eugts.
Had A Lady in Tow
At the lake itself is the Crater Lake
Inn. with Salem papers on file, 1t is
modern hotel, with great fireplaces,
built on the edge of precipice
thousand feet deep, hanging right over
the lake, with every window command
ing the wonderful scenery. At mid
day. the lake six miles across is a
great cup filled with ultramarine blue
You wonder at this depth of color
when the skies above may be light blue
or even gray. Always the lake is the
same deep, deep blue. The wonder
ceases as you try to 60 down to the
lake and find yourself engaged in
| hand to nand or rather foot by foo,
struggle to climb down wall thous
and feet deep. For such are the walls
of Crater Lake-precipitous cliffs from
one to two thousand feet Highland
you look up out of it as You would II
YOU were down in a well n Thousand
feet deep and of course you see a sky
as blue as on clear starry night ant
sometimes at midday you can see tht
stars. | did not see any stars for
was manhandling a Portland lady OF
some size at the end of pole she was
hanging onto and letting out an oe
casional shrek when her feet woult
slip and she thought she was going t
Nake the slide of her life when
should have let go the pole.
What the Sun Did
The visitors pulled off a program "a
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roaring fire, in which Colonel Steel, tn
man who has made it the hobby o
his life to make Crater Lake known t.
the world, gave all the scientific in
l formation, and great men among tn
ieditors did justice to the eighth won
der of the world. We were all dea
tired and were to be up at four-thirt.
to see the sunrise on the lake. The en-
tire party was up and the sight wa
equal to the expectations of the mos
exacting. We saw perfect sunset an
perfect sunrise, had perfect weathe
going and coming. Southern Orego
was on her good behaviour and there
no part of the globe can act prettie
and keep it up longer than right abou
;; Jackson county. To see the great blu
lake gradually smile itself away int
, rainbow tints and lose its soul in
: maddening blush of wine color, an
then sink into the arms of night as sh
draws her curtains over the grande:
PANORAMIC ever painted by old Dam
: Nature-well it is only surpassed b
the sunrise and that is of delieat
? beauty not to be described. Ther
: were some of the most beautiful wome
i from every section of the state in tn
party and the ravishing beauty of this
sunrise made them all pale into insi!
nifieance.
e The Business End
: A word about the editorial program
7 and discussions: They were cramme
0 with the practical. The officers hit a
!, the high places in the problems OF tn
profession that its members meet U
+ with day by day. The patent inside
I the unjust libel laws. the price-cutter
tire various deadbeats who practice Q
the profession, the practical value
d the school of journalism, the. offene,
G of yellow journalism and all the cranl
i and crooks Of the profession-7and VIII;
s profession has not its weaknesses an
a troubles-were aired. fumigated al
y every attending editor whose ca
e were open and whose mind was not i
e toxicated with the ,dissipations of Il
g over.hospitable people of southern Or
e gop. came away with his money
It worth tucked under his belt. The tr
r cost the average editor who attendt
e fifty dollars a head and that besid
d all that was handed him free made Il
t. show for three or four days well wor
II a hundred dollars per man, woman al
It child who attended. The conventi'
e broke all previous records and wou
d not soon again be equalled were 1t n
It that the same officers continue on the
e Jobs and there is no telling what th
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