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8. TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, MOXDAV APRIL 19, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L- P1TTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. 133 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOKUEN. B. B. P1BR. Manager. &dltor. ine uregoniaD is a memoer " 1 - - . elated Press. The Associated Press la!,v. exclusively entitled to the use tor publics.- or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published nerein. rights of republication ot special dispatches herein, are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. By Mail.) Tiallv .ion!, tr I ...1 a.I V ,-CT T .....S8.00 i..iuu,.nii.uini,ui.rfli months ... 4.-5 i lai.y. Monday included, three monins.. luily. Sunday included, one month Jally, without Sunday, one year .... l?ally, without Sunday, six months .. Daily, without Sunday, one month ... Weekly, one year . 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The Oregon citizen who reads the news will observe that in the coun ties of the state of Washington, Sat urday, political conventions . were held and that they were not attend ed by gun-play, waves of crime or anguished protests from a downtrod den people. The political conven tion was abolished in Oregon on the theory that it was pernicious and unnecessary. There is no leadership or formulation of policies. Every candidate makes his own platform. We shall elect delegates to-the na tional conventions by direct vote, but the only Instruction given them will be as to the party's preference for the presidential nomination-. As that instruction is morally in escapable by the delegates we shall choose the personnel of the delega tion according to individual popu larity. He who represents his party in Chicago or San Francisco from this state may join in movements to commit the national party either to rejection or acceptance of the league of nations, or for repeal of prohibition, or for overthrow of any or all traditional party policies with out violating a formulated instruc tion from his constituents. Over in Washington party leaders have foregathered and have adopted resolutions or platforms 'In the sev eral counties and elected delegates to a state convention to be held at Bellingham. The state convention will, if it endorses the candidacy of Senator Poindexter for president as it doubtless will, elect Poindexter men to represent the state at Chicago. In Oregon we may elect personal sup porters of all candidates and yet they will be instructed to work for the nomination of one man. At Bellingham there will be a party pronouncement upon the issues of the day. In Oregon there will be none prior to either convention. The political parties in Oregon refuse to express a voice in the national councils on party . policies, except as this or that delegate may express his individual opinions. Even the expressed preferential vote for pres idential nominee may antagonize ma jority opinion. With several aspir ants on the ballot the plurality choice may be one who would have been overwhelmingly defeated had the election been narrowed to himself and one other. Washington has avoided these in congruities while maintaining the principle of direct nomination of state officers. Yet one hears a note of dissatisfaction from Grays Har bor with any sort of direct primary. The antipathy there has been aroused by an influence that has not yet been felt in Oregon politics. That influ ence is the non-partisan league, . which in Washington goes under the name of "triple allid'nce." It is the policy of the non-partisan league to enter the primaries of one or the other of the major parties. It gath ers together democrats, republicans, socialists, independents and men of no party and encourages them to in vade one party or the other and capture Its name and political ma chinery. This it did In North Ia- kota. This it attempted in Idaho and this it is said to plan in Wash ington. Idaho has refused longer to l. provide legal machinery for prosti tution of political principles and po litical honor.' It has repealed the direct primary law. But what the .. Washington state convention will do ' to safeguard party integrity is not ' now so interesting as its prospective attitude toward presidential candi dates and platform. In the larger counties of King and Pierce, wherein are located Se attle and Tacoma, the county con- ventions seem to have avoided the treaty issue probably in deference to Senator Poindexter. The Grays Harbor convention declared for rati fication with reservations. In the several conventions one" may discern - a drift toward Wood as second choice rather than toward Ixiwden, to whom it had been heretofore thought that Washington would prefer to throw its strength if Poindexter could not be nominated. Composition of a satisfactory plat form will probably be the Belling ham convention's most difficult feat. It can hardjy avoid an expression on the treaty issue. There is no out standing indication that the party leaders approve the Poindexter atti tude on that question. Yet they are seemingly committed to Poindexter's candidacy. If the Bellingham body - can satisfactorily fit a square peg into a round hole it will have said a great deal more than has already been said in behalf of the old-time policy of counseling together over party principles. The March-April number of the Northwest Motorist and Truckman is devoted mainly to a series of articles on Portland and the Oregon country by Sydney B. Vincent of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, all well illus trated with halftones and written in readable, flowing style, full of use ful information, both to the tourist and business man. One article deals with "The Gorge of the Columbia," . another with the romantic history and commercial importance of the port and a third with - Portland as a great financial center. Such publi- cations make known the opportunl- J nes wmcn r-ortiand oners ror pleas-1 ure and business. SIR. DALY 18 DISILLUSIONED. Sad is the disillusionment of Will H. Daly as to the stern purpose of j 1 .-. i ' arfminislratmn In ottar-V wlthmir . . . - ishlng the profiteers and enforcing I fair prices. He finds that he was expected to wear a title and peram bulate the streets in search of evi dence that somebody was charging too much for goods. What need had h p of an office? Ha rrmld rarrv in- formation under his hat or in his .oo i pocket. If he could induce any per 3;jju ! son to assist him, he could give In l.oo ; structions or receive reports on a 8 00 I street corner or in a cigar store or 6 0o ln the corridor of the old post office 2.23 I building, provided he got in nobody's .73 t m, . . . t : i .3 : . . , . . . en Mr. Daly to resign in disgust is a practical confession by the depart- ment of justice that its great cam is a failure. About eight months have passed since it was announced with much solemnity that the administration would 'attack the evil of rising prices, but it has accomplished next to nothing, for prices have not fallen but have continued to rise. It has failed because it fought symptoms. It did not touch causes, for it did not even indicate what they are. It could not remove them, for that is beyond its power.- One cause is a vicious system of taxation which pyramids taxes all along the line of . production and distribution and which congress alone can remove. Another is inflation of the currency, which the federal reserve board ag gravated at the instigation of the secretary of the treasury and which it can relieve. Yet another is 60 per cent efficiency of labor, which can be raised to 100 per cent by no means except a gradual readjustment of labor and by calming the world wide unrest. Almost universal dis organization of industry, shortage ofl production and increase of cost are ether causes beyond the power ot this country alone to relieve. All the efforts of Attorney-General Palmer and all his subordinates are as powerless against all these influ ences as were those of the woman who tried to sweep back the rising lidewith a broom. LEATHER-STOCKING OF TODAY. Statistics gathered by the state game warden and the biological sur vey prove that "he appetite of a grown cougar requires not less than one deer a week, or fifty or more depending 'on the plenitude of game in a year. The annual litter is from two to four kittens. Left un disturbed and unrebuked, a single pair and their offspring would, in two years' time, destroy more than 300 deer in a comparatively re stricted area. The toll of the timber wolf is as cruel. Bob-cats and coyotes, the former cousins, to the big Canadian lynx, are Insatiably de structive of grouse and quail. Coyotes, so the statistics read, con sume $50 worth of mutton per in dividual before they meet death. A very long time ago, nature pre scribed a hard and fast rule since celebrated as "the survival of the fittest." The weaker species have paid toll to it and survived, most of them, only because nature grimly endowed them with superior fecun dity and continually restocked the larder with their kind.. Few of the many sportsmen in Oregon, and scarcely p.ny of the business-busied majority, are aware that the rules of the game have been changed for the convenience of man. right here at home, and that . the state is to retain its quota, of game birds and animals, despite open seasons and settlement, through the elimination of the predatory species which nature endowed with fitness and fangs. The United States biological sur vey, devoting a special department to the removal of predatory animals, has established headquarters in Port land for the sister states of Oregon and Washington. Thirty odd trained hunters and trappers, to whom the ranges and dim trails are structures and avenues as ordinary as the Yeon building and Alder street, are con stantly employed in writing finis to the life chapters of cougar, coyote and bob-cat. The cougar, variously known as mountain Hon or panther. Is a: wraith in the timber. Woods men have passed years ln the haunts of the big carnivora without glimps ing one. But in action the cougar is deadly and expensive. It w;ould seem that the gentlemen of the biological survey, quietly and without press agenting, are render ing a service to Oregon not lightly to be estimated. Their programme is rough on' the predatory animal but he had his way for ages and must join the saber-tooth, who prob ably perished for lack of dentistry. THE OVERALLS CRUSADE. In a way the donning of overalls in protest against the high cost Of clothing is like parading with a printed banner. When the working force of a large institution say fifty in number decide that all shall wear denim, it does not follow that fifty suits of clothes that would oth erwise have been sold will remain on the merchants tables. Forty, of the fifty may not need new clothirlg and may have had no intention ' of buying, yet they do buy overalls in response to the crusade. . They are carrying banners nothing more, and the effect is indirect upon those at whom it is directed. As for the re-; tailer, he perhaps profits "as much from the sale of fifty overalls as he would have profited from the sale of ten suits. The latter, it is true, remain on his hands but he will be doubtless justified in the' thought that the movement is freakish and therefore ephemeral. . But If one sits down and indulges in coldly logical reflections he can readily reach the conclusion that there is no sound reason why there should not be a radical departure from sartorial modes. It is unduly taken for granted that American men must wear as outer garments a coat, vest and trousers made of wool or some good imitation of wool. Other white nations dress in th same manner, and are even more slaves to custom than are Ameri cans. There has followed a demand for wool beyond the capacity of all the sheep in the world to supply, and old wool, as shoddy, has been woven into cloth again or cotton has been mixed with wool in order to keep up the supply. But the cover ing of other animals than the sheep, or conou or mien or omcr vege - table .fibers, can serve as clothing. An Austrian discovered that nettle ' fiber made serviceable cloth nnd the ! struggled along in paper suits. There are probably undevel oped resources which would shrink the Importance of the sheep In hi . v uw" eblimailon. No r is there any compelling rea son why men should cling to their present three outer garments. The vest, or waistcoat as it was originally called, is a comparatively modern invention. Pepys says it was first worn at the French court and that King Charles II introduced it into Kngland. Thence it came to Amer ica. Before that time men wore a shirt arid doublet, and they might go back to that costume, with the coat as a substitute for the doublet, without injury to their health. The fact that men seldom button their coats except outdoors in cold weath er goes to show the vest to be su perfluous so far as warmth is con cerned. The extremely light under wear worn by some points the same way. and heavier underwear might supplant the vest. This, however, is a mere illustration to show that the high price of clothing of the present modev may logically cause men to reconsider the whole question of what they should wear. But man is not always a logical animal. What is true of clothes is true of food also. The high price of pota toes has caused a boycott of that edible to spread over the country. If any so-called potato kings have stored away large quantities in order to bull the market, they would bet ter beware, for potatoes rot and after the. new ones come in nothing is so unsalable as last year's crop. Nor are we as dependent on potatoes for food as we are on the three tradi tional garments for clothing. Few white men tasted this vegetable be fore the seventeenth century, and it did not become a'common article of food till the end of the eighteenth century. Since then rapid transpor tation and research have brought within our reach many foods of which we formerly knew nothing. Our forefathers got along without the potato: why cannot we? HINT FOR INVENTORS. There never was a time when there- was a wider opening for in ventors In the fields of primary pro duction than there is now. There seems to be an excess of devices for "filling, wrapping and labeling the box," and a paucity of potato diggers that can distinguish between spuds and stones, while fruit and berry harvesting is still done In the old fashioned way and there has not yet been discovered a machine than can supplant the vanishing farmer's boy in the doing of a thousand ' chores." The farm tractor, the reaper and the gang plow have multiplied the productivity of farm labor to a cer tain point,-but there It seems to have stalled. The solution of the problem may be bound up in this, for it is inherent in human nature to seek the easier task and the city man has more of his work lightened by ma chinery than his country brother sees any prospect of having. There ought to be money in an automatic buck saw, while a ma chine that would pitch down hay to the horses, water and feed the cows and start the fire in the kitchen stove should, make a fortune for the in ventor of it. . MINI 8 ONE LEO. There is a note of hope for the physically handicapped in the letter written by a New Kngland farmer to the American Land Service, which is recruiting farm workers in New York for service in the eastern states. The farmer asks that a man be sent I him, but restricts the applicant to one leg. iNo other, he says, will be considered. His . idea is that there may be a wounded soldier who answers the description. The chief reason for the limitation he places on the candidate appears in a letter in which he says. I am wel! aware what a one-legged man anie to oo. i lave been minus a leg for fifty years and I have alwavs made good. I shall not ask a man to do what I cannot do or have not done. The principle of education of the handicapped under, the direction of men who have labored under sim ilar disadvantages has been widely recognized by institutions for voca tional rehabilitation throughout the world, particularly since the close of the world war. The inspiration of example is constantly present as a force for good, but the sympathy of those who have suffered is particu larly effective. The callousness of the fortunate In their attitude toward the afflicted has in . all time constituted a grave indictment of mankind. Kven so grave a disability as blindness has been recognized in a large way only a little, more than a century, and or ganized provision for the care and education of the sightktss is due most largely to the efforts of men who themselves were blind. David Miller, who is regarded as the "father" of the movement for the care of blind persons, was blind; Dr. Klein, who extended the movement to the continent, was blind, and Val entine Hauy. the pioneer in France, was moved to action by the misfor tune of a dear friend. These men and others wjio have followed them, however,, have not only made the lot of the sightless more endurable, but ' have awakened society to a sense of -its obligation toward all un fortunates. . - i - Benevolence ha3 greatly developed in a century, but the leadership of those who 'have met obstacles and surmounted them is still needed. Those who have all of their faculties and all their limbs are too prone to forget. their fellow men: 4 TILE KLAMATH LAKE DRAINAGE - PROPOSAL. Sentiment and utility are bitter foemen. Beauty gives - way to the practical. The old issue again is raised in the controversy concern ing the drainage projects of the Klamath Lake region, in lower Ore gon and upper California. Citizens of that district must determine, un less a crusade of nature lovers is raised and waged with success, whether they -prefer broad acres of undulating grain, pregnant with prosperity, to the rush-broidered lakes and tules which now con stitute one of the largest " natural bird reserves in America, partic ularly of water fowl. In congress awaiting action Is a measure proposed by Representative Raker of California, providing for the drainage and reclamation of the lower Klamath lake region. The bill i proposes that the farmlands ihm r won from swamp and blue water jsnali De opened for settlement under the homestead laws, and that prefer- ential rights be offered to veterans of h wnrM war shnnlH this mvas. ure pass, and the giant shovels dig and gouge the system of canals that will drain the area, countless thou sands of ducks and geese, pelican and 1 grebe, bittern and curlew and yel low-legs, red-winged blackbird wild Cowl ad infinitum will be evicted and homeless. There is tragedy in every drainage project, but the course of progress is strewn with it, say the proponents of the plan. Lower Klamath lake's drainage may become a cause celebre. The water fowl lack not for champions. Naturalistseverywhere are impatient and critical when confronted with what they term "the commercial stupidity" of community enthusiasts who would destroy one of the natural heritages of Oregon to gain some thousands of acres of tillable land. Foremost among those who have opened a propaganda barrage for the preservation of the ' lakes in their natural state is the public informa tion committee of the 'American Museum of Natural History, while Dr. K. W. Nelson, chief of the bureau of biological survey, is equally enlisted. These contend that the land to be reclaimed, once the water-has loosed its hold, will be found to be so alka line that crops cannot be grown. In stead of lush, comely fields, declare the opponents of drainage, the pros pect would stretch away in the ghastly, unproductive sterility of alkali flats. It is contended that the reports of the department of agri culture bear out this statement, and that the investigations of the bio logical survey also confirm the worthlessness of the area for aught save its present purpose, that of for age growing. The champions of the birds add that the government re clamation service undertook to drain a large segment of. the district, and abandoned the plan as impracticable, after expending more than a quarter million dollars. If reclamation has its way, argues the committee of the American Mu seum of Natural Klstory, Oregon and California will trade one of the most remarkable sanctuaries of migratory wild fowl a haven that will insure the perpetuation of many threatened species for a barren waste that will never return interest on the cost of lifting .its poisoned acres from the water. The Klamath lake area, it in asserted, is one of the last great natural refugees and breeding grounds for our feathered migrants. Its loss would be irreparable, how ever great the seeming material gain. But there are two sides to the coin of argument, as might be an ticipated. Proponents of the proposal to drain the Klamath lake and tule lands have stifled sentiment for their cousin bipeds, the birds, and' reply that ranching in the vicinity of an ornithological paradise has its de cided disadvantages. The indescrib ably liquid lilt of the redwing black bird, "Ok-a-lee." loses its lure for the granger who has seen an oat crop destroyed by these musical neighbors. The redwing makes his home ln the swaying rushes along the shore and in the Klamath country, so they say, he is censured by the myriad. His fondness for oats has served to make that crop proscribed in the district, it is charged. Reclamation ists deny that the land Is not fruitful when drained. Some of the finest land in Klamath county, they assert, has been reclaimed in the vicinity of the lakes by private enterprise the same soil that ex perts pronounced to be too alkaline for cultivation, and they point to the reclaimed swamp lands of the Sacra mento river, pronounced in soil sur veys to be alkaline and worthless, that are now in a high state of pros perous productivity. The naturalists charge that pre vious efforts to reclaim the lower Klamath region, by "unenlightened promoters," have left "a barren desert of dust .and sand," and call the faithful to fight the Raker bill. The two opinions clash so hopelessly. the evidence is so discrepant, and the cause of such Idealistic and ac tual importance, that one hopes the matter will not be finally adjusted until it has been subjected to the most careful scrutiny of an impartial and capable committee, authorized to make Inquiry and return an. unin fluenced report. Men who took up donation land claims of 320 acres and like quantity for the wife sixty or seventy years ago ln the Valley never dreamed their descendants would be selling at more than ,400 an acre, but such is the fact. It needs a good man to culti vate land of that value. These are the days for the old folks, indeed. A Wapato man of 80 married a Seattle widow of 69 Fri day. Unlucky day, does some one say? Methuselah was over 180 when he ventured and Noah over BOO, and see. what they did! Some Oregon cities with well paved streets ought to pay more at tention to signs on the corfters. In that way visitors and a few of the oldest inhabitants can find a few localities. The green east is the robber's best field, not the wild' west. A holdup next door to a police station in New York yielded $10,000. Nobody could do that here. John Reed is in jail in Finland and Kapp, the revolter, is in one in Sweden. The "foreigners" seem to know how to place their disturbers. Fair-Price Commissioner Daly has learned that that work is much "bunk" and more red tape. He knows when he has had enough. An Omaha judge put on bread and water a man who failed to support his family, but it is a safe guess the wife will beg him off that diet. A blizzard in the eastern slope to the prairies in the middle of April is an unusual hangover of winter. When a fellow in denim calls on his girl, it's a chance the maid will send him to the back door. After the wave of overalls has passed, there should be something doing in pink knickers. Wouldn't it be horrible if those Nevada people made Dr. Brougher particeps crimlnis? Mr. Wells gets encouraging sup port by long distance for weather this week. Of THE TIMES Modest and Lowly Peasat Crop Val or Last Year at aSO.000.000. Meager is the bag of peanuts that one gets nowadays for 5 cents. The value of the peanut crop has out- soared that of the citrus fruits of Cali fornia. The farmers of the United States are credited with having ob tained $80,000,000 last year for this underground bean, which probably means that the general public paid $160,000,000 for the produce as it was delivered to it in the form of butter or dipped in chocolate or salted. Some people consider themselves too su perior to eat peanuts, but the majority of Americans can get away with a considerable number of bags during each year, co that it has become -a paying industry to raise them. Uncle Sam has realized this and has taken the lowly nut,- or whatever It Is. under his care. Grading and stand ardization of the peanut is one of the newest lines of work of the depart ment of agriculture and it is expected at Washington that conditions of handling, distributing and marketing the crop will be considerably im proved. So far southern California has not gone In very largely for the rais ing of peanuts, as it has considered that other crops are more valuable, but some growers who have experi mented have had success. As the average price last winter was about double that of a few years ago. It may pay to give more consideration to this humble crop. And it's really not so humble, for it has attained the -dignity of becoming an important article of world trade. Los Angeles Times. Julian Huxley's account of experi ments by himself and others with the thyroid gland, which appeared in the London Dally Mail, is far more won derful than .the romantic perversions of the matter which had found cur rency. It has been known for 20 years or more that this little gland in the neck regulates growth, and that it Is deficient ln imbeciles. Mr. Huxley has found that thyroid extract. if administered to the lower animals, stimulates their development In an astonishing way. Thus the small tad pole transforms itself prematurely into a frog, whereas, if its thyroid is removed, it remains a tadpole. Thy roxin, a substance which has been iso lated from the thyroid, and which has also this is a remarkable fact been made by synthesis from inorganic chemicals, exerts "a most powerful effect" on men. Thus a dose of a milli gram causes a man to work, chemi cally speaking, two per cent more quickly than before. The ulterior ef fects of such a dose remain to be studied. Mr. Huxley's article con firms the belief, suggested by Pro fessor Arthur Keith's recent paper on the interstitial and other glands. that the biologist and chemist work ing on these minute and obscure por tions of the body may be on the eve of epoch-making discoveries as to the nature of life. London Spectator. W 9 That the slang and idioms of today will be correct English tomorrow la the opinion of Professor H. Gllcksman of the English department. University of Wisconsin. "Our language is made up of what was once slang, idiom, colloquialism and jargon." he said lately, and warned that the only deplorable fea ture about slang was its tendency to produce mental slovenliness. Pr6fessor Gllckman then referred to the word "mob" as clang of 200 years ago and as such denounced ln the Spectator by Addison. "It Is an abbreviation of the word 'mobile.' Even so the word 'pep' Is vital and virile and will survive with the word 'snappy.' But to gain recog nition slang must be free from vul garity and cheapness," said Professor Glicksman. An Ottawa. Kan., man may be en titled to great credit for not bringing suit for divorce. While digging flower beds for his wife the other day, he saved, all the good-looking angle worms for a certain purpose you may be able to guess, and put them in an old lard can. By the time the garden was finished, the lard can held a rich treasure. A few days later, the fever came upon him, and taking . certain rods and lines peculiar to his hobby he sought the lard can. and It was gone. His wife presently recalled that she had needed the can for some thing and "And you threw those worms away!" he shouted ln a rage. "Oh, no, I didn't," she rejoined tri umphantly, "I saved them for you, and put them in that old basket in the shed." "In a basket! Good night." said the ' husband, in effect, and he didn't even go look at the basket. He knew. Kansas City Star. Many of the better grades of waste paper are used as pure substitutes for ground wood pulp and are used In making all kinds of book, bonV. ledger and writing papers. If this kind of waste was not used to some extent, there would exist an even greater shortage of wood pulp from which most of our printing papers and news print paper is made. The waste paper used ln the above list consists of old magazines, periodicals, books and all kinds of printed matter ln general. Every pound of this waste that is saved and marketed prevents the use of original wood pulp made direct from our trees. The largest tonnage of waste paper is called "common mixed," and con sists of any and every sort of scrap of paper, such -as newspapers, waste from the offices, stores, public build ings and the homes. The chief use of this kind of waste Is for paper boxes, roofing and building boards,1 paper shipping containers (which carry up to 100 pounds of freight or express) and wrapping paper. More than 2,000,000 tons of ordinary waste paper are used for boxes and shipping con tainers alone. The public is so ac customed to having its goods in paper boxes that it would be dumfounded to find their use seriously curtailed and this is what will, happen if 'we do not look more toward the utilisa tion of waste. The use of waste papers for this purpose prevents the con sumption of over 1,000,000,000 feet of lumber annually and Is Increasing daily. The utilizaiton of waste must keep pace with this to prevent a di rect use of our trees for the wood pulp. At the present time there is very little original wood pulp used for paperboard boxes. In most towns and cities there are dealers ln waste paper and other sal vageable material such as rags, rub ber, metals, etc, who will pay a fair price for what otherwise would be thrown away or burned. BV-PRODltTS Those Who Ccme and Go. "Thv u that some of us are pret ty radical over in our part of the . state, but I don't believe the- Non- 1 Partisan league can ever gain a foot hold." predicted Walter M. Pierce, state senator from Union county, who signed the register at the Imperial yesterday while here to exchange views and gossip with other demo cratic politicians. Senator Pierce said the extreme cold weather in eastern Oregon for the past six months had been a serious blow to stock growers, and he was compelled to spend more than 11.000 for feed In order to save his herds of bald-faced calves and cattle from starvation. Although he announced at the last legislative ses sion that he would retire from public and political life. Senator Pierce was prevailed upon to file his candidacy on the final day. The senator believes that the educational millage tax win win out in Union county, although there is opposition to it among many farmers who are now decrying what they believe to be excessive taxes. You people in Portland are Just beKinninar to take a tumble to your selves." offered George Eakln. well- known stock grower of French Prai rie, who was at the Oregon yester day, en route home after taking a carload of fancy cattle to an eastern market. "Now I've been a member of the overall brigade for the last 40 years, and to my way of thinking I am about $4000 better off. and the clothing makers that much poorer be cause of it. I would rather put 100 bucks into a good heifer any day than into a suit of clothes. The heifer will double your money in two or three years and the suit of clothes will keep you broke trying to keep It cleaned and pressed. I'm anxious to get my teeth into a piece of Mary's pie after three weeks of city cook ing," he concluded, as he maae reaay to board a train for home. 'Farming conditions in Oregon at the present time are better than ever before and the farmers are all a pros perous and satisfied lot of people." says William Grant, land appraiser for the federal farm loan Dana at oan Francisco, who is In Oregon to ap praise lands for which loans are now pending before the farm loan Dans. Mr. Grant, who has been a federal ap praiser since the farm loan system came into existence, says that fewer loans are now being made than at any time since the banks were estab lished. This Is due. he says, to ine unprecedented conditions of prosperi ty brought about by the war and con sequent higher prices for farm prod ucts. Mr. Grant has been in tne Bourn- em part of the state fixing land val ues for the past two weeks, ana alter resting up for a couple of days in Portland will go into the Tillamook country. He is stopping at the Mult nomah hotel. Hotel clerks are wondering if the "Overalls club" will become nation wide, and if, in the course of the next few weeks or months they, too. will become full-fledged members of this now overtaxed corporation which proposes to swat the impossible cost of living. Clerks In all the hotels are eagerly awaiting the appearance of the first traveler or tourist , who will brave the railroads and hotels by appearing in blue or khaki denim. Thus far. the overalls hotel brigade is confined to the baggage rustlers and' roustabouts, but the clerks are wagering among each other that their particular hotel will be the first to quarter an honest-to-goodness wearer of blue jeans and Jumpers. "Hello, doctor." "Hello, Walter." "I'm just going in to eat; will you join me?" "It Is Just about lunch time, isn't it?" "I mean breakfast." "I'm in the habit of eating break fast at breakfast time." And then, side by side. Dr. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agricultural college, and Walter M. Pierce, state senator and grower of bald-faced calves, walked into the dining room, the former for a late Sunday break fast, and the latter for his second Sunday meal. It may be that the democrats of Oregon held a secret caucus or con ference yesterday at the Imperial, or if not a caucus, they were at least met together for the purpose of mix ing copious quantities of political medicine. Nine out of every 10 men at the Imperial lobby yesterday could be picked out as democratic politicians or near-politicians and the gathering of the clans resulted in many wnis pered conversations. Milt Miller, collector of internal revenue. Will Moore, collector of customs. John Mann, chief deputy United States marshal, and others were among the local "unterrified" to meet the visit ing politicians upon their arrival here. W. J. Kerr, president of the Oregon Agricultural college. Is at the Impe rial while in Portland in the interests of the educational millage tax cam paign. Dr. Kerr believes the people of Oregon will vote this extra tax for the higher educational institu tions of the state, as he has found sentiment favorable to it in nearly every part of the state that he has visited. E. F. Carleton. who helps J. A. Churchlll direct the educational work among the public schools of the state, is at the Portland on a brief business trip to the city. Mr.' Carleton is chief assistant to the state superintendent of public instruction. His home Is at Salem. Miss Catherine Carson, assistant private secretary to the late Governor Withycombe. and a daughter of a pioneer family of the Willamette val ley, is registered at the Portland from her home in Salem. George L. Burtt of San Francisco, who is heavily Interested In farm lands' near Redmond in Deschutes county, is at the Imperial on a busi ness trip north. Denton G. Burdick. banker, lawyer and legislator. Is a Redmond visitor at the same hotel. Judge James Hamilton of Rose burg, who has been at the Imperial hoteC leaves tonight for Klamath Falls, where he will hold court in the city hall while deciding wh'ch court house he will sit In in the t Jture; for Klamath Falls has two courthouses, neither finished, and Judge Hamilton has the position of deciding the liti gation which has arsen over them. W. E. Griggs, an official of the Willys-Overland company, is at the Multnomah from his headquarters at Toledo. O.. while in Portland .on busi ness connected with the automobile trade. V r. and Mrs. Charles W. Thompson of Seattle r guests at the Multno mah. Mr. Thompson Is secretary of the- Washington Machinery & Equip ment company at Seattle. Mr. and Mrs. Tom A. Williams are registered at the Multnomah from San Francisco. Mr. Williams is an official of the Pacific Mill & Supply company of San Francisco. . Mrs. F. G. Stlckels, whose husband Is the sheriff of Lane county, is a guest at the Portland while here on a shopping trip from her home at Eugene. Harry Foley, who operates a saw mill and otherwise deals in' timber and lumber. Is at the Oregon from his home ln Banks. SHOALING OF CHANN'EL FEARED Eaa-lnrer Approves Greater Port Vlnm Bat Would Chance Some Details. PORTLAND, April 17. (To the Edi tor.) The proposed plan to make a great harbor in the Willamette is the biggest thing ever conceived for put ting Portland on the map of the world. No true citizen of Portland can do ought else than enthuse over the very mention of the subject. Those who have conceived the Idea and put it Into shape to place it before the peo ple deserve the highest encomiums. 1 un an advocate of the scheme, and strong for it. But great care should be taken, nevertheless, not to let our enthusiasm run away with our judg ment. Now is the time for council and advice and experience to be ap plied to the problem, rather than after a foolish waste of money has taught the w-hole city what should have been known at the beginning. I have two friendly criticisms to make on the plan as presented oy a map In The Oregonian a few Sunday ago. This plan, I understand, was prepared by the committee of 15, or under their direction. I understand that it -has been approved and adopted as the plan which it is proposed to use In the construction. If it is car ried out in detail as shown, the extra width for the river at Swan island will slow up the current at that point and the slowing up of the current will cause the sediment or slit, which is brought down by the river to settle to the bottom, and in time, fill up the river. In other words the widening of the river makes this point the dumping ground for all the mud that comes down the Willamette river. Still worse, the oiers which It Is proposed to place at right angles to the stream, at their stream ends, will create a slight eddy, each of them, causing the mud and silt of the river to swirl around their ends into the water between the piers and settle there, closing up the docking basin between the piers. These two faults, viz: too wide a channel of , the flowing river, and stream, if the plan is carried out will cost many millions of dollars In main tenance, principally In dredging, dur ing the coming years which can be saved by simply profiting by the ex perience of practically all the great river ports of the world and make our river channel no wider than it is at the steel bridge, from 800 to 1000 feet, and in placing all our piers so as to open in to docking and turning basins placed east of Swan island and west of the river to toward Guilds lake. The one proposed between Swan island and extending into Mocks bot tom can have piers on both sides of the basin and provide for 150 ships, and be from 1200 to 1600 feet between the pier heads, giving ample room for 600-foot ships to turn around in. An equally large basin can be con structed on the west side of the river with opening to it headed down stream, so that the water filling the basin shall back in from the main river. I can name no examples of success ful river ports having the pier system on the channel, but can point to New Orleans' great basin as a fine example ot the docking basin plan, and sub stantially all the British and Euro pean ports. If It is desired to use the main channel also for docking, then we must use the mole scheme all dock lines parallel to the river. Let's go; and let's go right. Use nature's laws, not buck them. If we would succeed! J. H. ABBOTT, 944 Borthwick street. LAND GRANT TAX LOSS IS LARGE Chamberlain Promise of Homes for Thousand.. Not Made Good. MEDFORD. Or., April 17. (To the Editor.) Mr. Chamberlain is asking the people to return him to the United States senate. If the popular mind was analytical it would hesitate be fore being again led astray by glit tering generalities. Six years ago Mr. Chamberlain and his firends used as a paramount argument for his re election the fact that he had fought the Oregon & California land grant to a finish, and by its repeal turned back to the United States government over 2.000.000 acres of land which when opened up to settlement would furnish "homes to thousands of our citizens and become an attribute of wealth to our state." The results of that famous Chamberlain bill may now be estimated and Its effects known. The year HIS was the last year for which the counties of western Oregon were paid taxes on the grant lands, as follows: County Benton ......... Acres. 1015 Tax. ....... 54.411 oo io.srH.ii iin.inn.74 ai.tiiij.iis lti.u37.fto l.4K:;li 12.-..H4H.OO 41. 1)44. HO ll.HK.VOO -J.4H7.H4 44.37t 7 All. loose 447. lftO.oo HH.IM13 70 1HW.1.1H1H) 35.'S..V1 43. Ill l.OO 1J.07 77 30i.7H7.oo S4.1.VJ.22 l.VVHtl.oo 2.IM2 3-J C2.IM1.48 11.7110.18 33.0H5.00 H,44!l 37 9.KH7.O0 S.4HK&7 37.323.00 14. Mi:'. 211.7H1.O0 2.HH4 ." 1 20.734. IN 4..'i3ll HT c'lackamas Columbia ....... Coos ............ urry Douglas ........ Jackson ........ Josephine Klamath Lane Incoln l.lnn Marion Multnomah Folk Tillamook Washington Yamhill r. Clarke (Wash.). 30,425.42 4.t.H5 41)2.50 4J1.94 Total 3.175.305.08 f465.923.84 At the same rate of taxation these counties would have received during the"ffour subsequent years $1,863. 293.52. This amount would have been worth more to the counties than all the value of Mr. Chamberlain's serv ices. Very few homes can be located on any portion of that railroad grant. In the half million acres of grant land In Jackson county there are not a half-dozen quarters upon which any man could make a living. However, the people like to be hum bugged, and "our George" may be able to fool them again. Is he an anset or a liability? WM. M. COLV1U. IX DIFFERENCE TO DEATH IS BAD Ulorlricatlon of Future State Tends to Harden Mortal Hearts. PORTLAND. Or.. April 17. (To the Editor.) I read the editorial about L.odge and the dead with much In terest and also the words of our noted Sir Oliver in The Oregonian and can not help but express my feelings in regard to some of the statements made, for I believe Sir Oliver Is as sincere in what he believes as many other people are In other lines of thought about the dead. Too much publicity in our daily papers will tend to weaken minds on religion when it is not quoted from the word of God. for many's opinion of the next world only leads weak minds to do things they would not do otherwise. Sir Oliver's statement. "Death need to have no. horrors for mortals," for it will only Issue-them into a "more splendid state." will have a ten dency to make more crime, as people will not fear death and their hearts will become more hardened to. the sufferings of the millions that are now starving. We have enough sorrow in the world today from the war we have Just passed through without causing those that are grieving to want to be with those that have died, for accord ing to oir ujiver s woras it is more blessed to be dead than alive, for "we shall be with those with whom we have sympathy." Let us center our thoughts on the living and help those that have been grieving over lost ones to see the beauty of this world we are in and help them to realise that we can be more useful here than we can floating around tn space, of which we know so Uttla. . J. B. ANDERSON. 60 First street. More Truth Than Po-ir. By J ante a J. Mtinm. WORK. The Hun Is a desperate slave to th brew; To the "whuskey" the Scot Is a prey; The Frenchman would part with his uttermost sou For a liter of absinthe frappe. The Yen-hok enmeshes the heathen Chinee: The hookah debases the Turk; But the acme of awful addictions to me. Is the hideous habit called work. It snatches a roan from his family and wife. Unheeding their heart-rending sobs. And brutally binds him the rest of his life To low occupations called jobs. Its victim, once caught in Its terrible grasp. He goes to his rest In the grave. Though often, like birds of the air, I aspire To fly from the wearisome town. And haste to the goal of a lofty de- - sire. Base work's sodden hand bears me down. I fain would be wading some mur muring brook Afar from all trouble and care. Where troutlets will greedily snap at my hook. But work keeps me chained to my chair. Beware of this monster's insidious wiles. Be warned, gentle reader, by me; Resist the temptations by which it beguiles A man from his right to be free. It will nip you in bud It will wilt you in flower. Your manhood and strength over come; You will never be safe from its hor rible power. Till the nations suppress it like rum. Nobody Heard Him. Mr. Hoover should have spoken louder when he said he wasn't a democrat. . Gettina: 'Em fomlnar and Going. If the democrats want to be sure of winning, let 'em nominate Edwards and Bryan. . Real Sports. The Turks have just raided an American orphanage, which is about their idfa of an equal combat. n-opyngnt. 1K20. by Bell Syndicate. Inr In Other Days. Twenty-five lean Ago. From The Oregonian of April 19. 1S9S. Articles of organization for the new manufacturers' association were framed at a meeting held yesterday. Omaha. Ex-Cbnsrressman Brvan. through the Omaha paper of which he is editor, yesterday made public an open letter to President Cleveland in which he asks the president a lot of questions about money. Colonel O. O. Summers, havinsr re ceived his commission, has taken for mal charge of the First reciment Or egon National Guards. At a special meeting or the mem bers of the First Presbyterian church last night Rev. Edgar P. Hill of Free port. 111., was chosen as pastor, to suc ceed Dr. A. J. Brown. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of April 19. 1S70. A dispatch from Washington savs Major - General Canby has been assigned to command the department of the Columbia, with headquarters in Portland. me plans of the new three-story brick building to be put up this sea son by 11. W. Corbett on First street are now in the hands ot the builders. About 100 Chinamen left early yes terday morning for the mines east of Oregon City, near the foot of the Cas cades. The large frame building nearing completion on Mill street, at the crossing of Fifth, is being constructed by the sisters ot the M.ost Holy Name as an orphanage for boys and girls. O.N PEDESTAL OF OWN MAKING Leftlon Men Who Oppose Bonus Ar cunrd of PharUaiMm. PRESCOTT. Wash.. April 16. (To the Editor.) It seems to me that Mr. Osborne of Glide. Or., has gone a step too far when he insinuates that those ex-service men who desire a cash bonus are putting their services on a cash basis. Did Mr. Osborne take the $60 bonds that was handed him when discharged? Or did he say. "No. Mr. Paymaster, I cannot aeccpt the bonus: my services are not on a cash basis"? I wonder. The majority of the American Lf gion members and. I believe, a ma jority of the ex-service men through out, the country are in favor of a bonus. It does seem a shame that this vast group of men should lower themselves to expect or demand just treatment while the painful minority hoist themselves upon self-made pedestals and shout "My services are not on a cash basis." As for Mr. Barrows, he should re sign as head of the California depart ment of the American Legion, as a news item stales he intends doing. His resignation should not bear di rectly on his personal views, buL should come from the fact that he has failed to cupport the views of the majority of his comrades. As an offi cer of the legion his duties are to lay aside personal opinions and follow the dictates of the majority of the mem bers. If he cannot do that then his resignation is in proper order and should be accepted. T. II. BARKER. Lives Lost In War. SOUTH BEND. Wash.. April 17. (To the Editor.) 1. What was the loss of life in the American army in the late war? 2. In action? 3. From disease? 4. Other causes? 5. In what engagements did the -Rainbow divi sion take part? 6. What was the first engagement the Americans were in? 7. About how many Americans enlist ed with the Canadian armies? 8. What armies engaged in Vimy Ridge? MRS. W. B. MURDOCH- 1. Lives lost In army, including ma rines attached to it. but not includ ing navy, numbered 112.422 to May 1. 1919. 2. Deaths In battle. 48.909. 3. Deaths from disease. 56.991. 4. Deaths from otlier causes. 6.522. 6. Champagne - Marne, July 1918; St. Mihlel. September. 1918; Mcuse Argonne. September 20-November 11, 1918. 6. The first major operation In which American troops were engaged was in the Cambrai battle at the end of the campaign of 1917. They con sisted of scattering medical and engi neering detachments serving with the British. The first combat division entered an active sector on the Pi cardy front April 25. 1918. 7. About 40,000. . 8. Vimy Ridge was a British-Canadian operation, the Canadians doing the brunt of the work.