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THE MORNING. OREGOMAN, THURSDAY, APRIL 22, 1920 ESTABLISHED BV HENRY U PITTOCKof Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co, im sixth Street, Fortiana. vjreguu. C. A. MORDEN. IS. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oroeonlan i member of the Asso ciated Prtsa. The Associated fresa exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatcher herein are also reserved. . Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year Daily. Sunday Included, six months . . iJaily, Sunday included, three montha. 3-ntty. Sunday Included, one month .. Dully, without Sunday, one year . . . L'ally, without Sunday, six months ... IMlly. without Sunday, one month Vec-lcly. one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) , Ially. Sunday Included, one year Dally. Sunday included, three montha Daily, Sunday Included, one month ... 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Senator Borah and other senators who express alarm at the large sums of money which are being spent on the presidential primary campaign of Leonard Wood, Governor Lowden and others were brought face to face with a stubborn fact when Senator Moses, manager of Wood's cam paign, said: " Many states In the union now select their presidential candidates by direct vote of the people in primaries. Just as United States senators are now elected by direct vote of the people, and In moat states are nominated by direct primary. Ir-. carrying out the appeal of a candidate, whether for the senate or the presidency, to the whole body of the electorate, money must necesirlly be expended, and I am here to say that money Is necessarily being expended In politics today. So far as my knowledge of the Leon ard Wood compaign is concerned. I wish to say that it is immaculate with regard to Ita expenture. and it has spent no dollar which lai not been made necessary by the . kind of a campaign which now has to be carried, on. If the senator from Idaho could have his way. apparently from what he say In connection with the nomination for the presidency, a man would go out upon his front door steps and shout at the top of his voice. "I am a candidate for this, that or the other office." and the people of the, country would rush there the next morning and give him the nomination. That is not possible nowadays. Money hns to be spent. The senator from Idaho knows it as well as any man in this chamber or in the country. I have no doubt that he, as he' has sought office, has received. If not solicited and prob. ablv expended, money p promoting his randldacy. legitimately and properly and for the good of the country. Those are the facts, and any man who suggests that, because consid erable sums of money are spent. they are therefore obtained and spent corruptly, talks buncombe. The people believed that much money was spent and many favors were promised under the convention system of nomination, and they de creed that the direct primary should take its place. That system requires a direct appeal to every voter that can be reached by every candidate for a nomination in esich one of the forty-eight states. The people want to see and hear the candidate, to read his speeches and what others say in his behalf and to have their votes personally solicited by his agents. Expenditure for travel, printing, postage, committees is in evitable and is legitimate. f The bulk of the money thus ex-, pended must necessarily be sub scribed by the friends and support ers of the candidate. . When such subscriptions are moderate in amount and obtained from the people at large, not from any one particular interest, they ate legitimate, for they imply no undue obligation to any Individual. There is no just cause for suspicion against any can didate in the simple fact that his expenditures are large, provided that no large sums are obtained from single persons and that he Is readj to give publicity to the subscription list and to his expenses. Since the people demand that kind of a cam paign, candidates cannot justly be blamed for giving them what they want. If su,ch expenditures are to be for bidden, primary campaigns may de velop into contests between men who can talk loudest and longest,' men who have the greatest powers of physical endurance. In that eyent the nomination might as fitly go to the strongest-lunged shouter, rather than to the man who could win the confidence of the people by display ing the greatest capacity as a states man. In the former respect the palm may safely be awarded to Sen ator Johnson, though, if all the sal aries of all the California state em ployes who have been working for him were added to his expense ac count, the total might exceed that of Wood. After all, the respective merits of the several men must be judged by their known characters as evidenced by their careers, public and private, not by insinuations carefully timed to reflect on the strongest candidate and to help the weakest candidate on the eve of the primary in an im portant state. Tried by that test, any other seeker after the republi can nomination will compare favor ably with Mr. Johnson. AMTGNDMEX'T BY REFERENDUM. Although Senator Brandegee is considered a conservative among re publicans, he has taken the lead in moving to inject a part of the Ore gon system into national affairs. He has introduced in the senate a con stitutional amendment providing that ' future amendments may be ratified by the electors in three-fourths of the states instead of by the legisla tures, and the judiciary committee lias adopted a favorable report. In a speech to the republican conven tion of Connecticut he gave these reasons for the measure: Under the present provision of the consti tution for its amendment, the legislatures f the states may be called upon to ratify amendments which have never been dis cussed by the people and upon which they have rendered no expression of their opin ion. Organizations interested In securing an amendment to the constitution. It may be easily Imagined, could. If properly fi nanced by weolthv people, interested In hat they consider to be a worthy cause, by skillful advertising and the employment of influential agents, artificially "create t'ie semblance of a wide demand for the ratification of some amendment, when, if the matter was submitted to the people. si, that the other side of the Question cculd be heard and the whole matter prop erly discussed and voted upon, the ver dict 'of the people might be overwhelm ingly against the proposal. This change would be decidedly rn the direction of making the con stitution truly express the will of the people. It would retain the initia- tive in the hands of congress, but would give the voters a referendum on what con cress nronosed. A btoud faddists could not have a pro- posal placed on the ballot by hiring l-petition circulators, and its only re course would be to influence con gress.' But all" this work would go for naught unless the group could persuade a majority . of the . people of three-fourths of the states to vote for the proposition. That would re quire the widest publicity and open discussion of its merits. There could be no back-room or star-chamber methods .about such a -verdict. No man could truly say that somebody had by subterfuge "put one over on" the people, hence attempts to re verse the decision would be blocked. The amendment would have all the force which a popular vote could give. The referendum thus safe guarded would add strength to the constitution. BE CALM. . The strength of Hiram. Johnson, we are told. Is being demonstrated before the people. . It is being shown through the agency of the plurality primary, in such states as-Michigan and Nebraska. He has not had yet a majority anywhere. - He may get it in California, where there are only two tickets Hoover and Johnson; but his only hope of carrying Ore gon, for example, lies in the fact that there are five candidates. Here, if there were two candidates John son and one other all the chances would be with the other. Too much significance may there fore be given to the several suc cesses of Johnson. There remains the convention at Chicago. It takes a majority there to nominate. In a convention of a thousand delegates, a majority is more than 500. At the best Johnson will go to Chicago with somewhere from 100 to 150 dele gates. Where will he get the neces sary remainder? Some republicans are getting a little nervous about Johnson. He has the faculty of stimulating the ardor of numerous followers. He has also the faculty of stimulating the ardor of a more numerous opposition. Chicago may be awaited with com parative calmness. M AMINO THE PORT BODY. From the city hall comes the re port that the proposed port devel opment plan finds high favor there, as evidently it does everywhere; but the suggestion is made that the state legislature Is not the proper body to select the port commissioners and that that vital function should.be left to the people. Let us hope that the plan of popu lar nqmination will make no great headway. We are familiar -with the frequent aspersions on the legisla ture and its disposition to play poli tics; but, as the proof of the pudding is in the eating, the test of the leg islature's ability to consider on its merits any question deeply affecting the welfare of a community is past performance. It will not be serious ly said by anyone that the personnel of the present Port of Portland is not of the first order. It is important to remove the con cerns of the port from all consid-1 erations of politics or of personal self-seeking. It is desirable to re cruit from the responsible citizenry men who are capable of originality and carrying forward large policies, and who will respond to a genuine call upon them to perform a public service. It may be doubted if any member of the Port of Portland would willingly submit himself as a candidate for political office; and political office is what it would be under the suggested scheme. Lead ership, initiative, .experience and un selfish public spirit are all needed now in the enterprise of making a great commercial, industrial and maritime center at Portland; and no chance. of faltering or failure should be taken. - Once fairly under way, continuity of policy is indispen sable, and it cannot ' be had if the project shall be subject to the changes and ijiclssitudes of politics. Doubtless the city commission will give the port plan in all Its phases conscientious, intelligent and sensi ble -consideration; and. having thus done its duty, we cannot be in doubt as to its action in the nomination ol port members. PtTBLICITT FOB CRIME. The best answer to Vice-President Marshall's accusation that the news papers give undue publicity to crime is that they do not, so far as the great majority of newspapers and the most widely read among them arc concerned. Exploitation of crime is the specialty of the sensational papers, the "shockers," which are a decided minority. Any person who doubts this statement is invited to examine the pages of The Oregonlan of the day when Mr. Marshall's speech was published, pick out the articles relating to crime, observe their length, their number and the prominence given them in compari son with other classes of news. Each newspaper should be judged by its own policy, not by that of any other, nor should newspapers' in general be judged by the oourse of the few I which offend against public morals cr good taste. There are sound reasons why news of crime should be published. It is news. The newspapers would not perform their function if they ig nored it- Mr. Marshall's suggestion that they should speak of "the fine things of American life" implies that they do not, when in fact they do. News of an exceptional act of hero ism or self-devotion receives at least equal attention with a deed of excep tional brutality. Crime is news be cause it is unusual; the usual, does not interest the people. If John Jones goes downtown, -attends to hit business, goes home to dinner and spends a quiet evening with his wife, that is not worthy of mention; it is what everybody expected him to do: it is what tens of thousands of Joneses do. But if Jones should rob a bank, forge a check, shoot his neighbor or elope with his neighbor's wife, that would be news, of value proportioned to his prominence in the community and the character of his crime. Of equal value as news would be some unusually meritorious act of Jones, such, as establishment of a new enterprise, saving a person from drowning or giving $100,000 to the Red Cross. Objection to publication of crimes comes from those to whom crime is so repulsive that they speak without thought of the good to be accom plished by publicity and of the .evil results of suppression. Life is a con tinuous conflict between good and evil, and the first requisite a sue- cessful war on crime is knowledge J payrolls, reduces the morale of labor, that it exists, of its nature and of its eliminates the incentive for the con causes. He who would have news of I tractor to speed up or economize, de evil suppressed is npt interested in . lays the work and increases the combating it, but in sidestepping it-r;ost." Such contracts had been ignoring us existence. All prog- ress has been effected by publicity, which by exposing crime incites peo ple to stamp it out. Thus suppression of news of crime is always favored by those who would shield the crimi nal. -Those who are involved in a crime or scandal are always anxious to "keep it out of the papers," be cause they dread the consequences of publicity. We need only survey rapidly the nations of the world in order to real ize that those which have the most enterprising. Independent. uncen sored newspapers, publishing news of crime as well as of good deeds, axe the most free, the most law abiding, the most civilized, the most humane and the most progressive in every field. One of the principal reasons why they are so Is that knowledge of crime and social evils equips them with the first essential to the cause and cure of whatever is wrong in their laws and institu tions. THE SARTORIAL BADGE OF CO t RAGE. The overalls crusade does not have sound economy as a reinforcement of its effort to beat down the price of clothing. To don overalls means almost invariably that one must go i ta the store and buy. Probably nearly every man now possesses overalls, but he has used them for the purpose for which they were purchased to save other clothing from dirt and stains. The overalls he has on hand are not fit to wear to business. As The Oregonlan has remarked before, in substance, the general adoption of overalls as business clothing would mean that many would purchase overalls who would knot have purchased new ctothing of any kind had there been no overall crusade. Every maker of and dealer in clothing is quite familiar with the ephemeral character of fads. The merchant could take his profits with the satisfied feeling that he had made countless sales that he had never expected to make and that the people would finally return to him for the regular garments he had in stock; the overalls maker could make the most of It and smile while it lasted. A real test of the determination to force a reduction- In clothing prices would be an old-clothes cru sade. It would be less spectacular and require considerable more brav ery. Just now display of the patch or the shiny seam is a badge of courage, provided it is avoidable. Of late we have been giving our old clothing away to aid the needy In other countries. Perhaps many have been more generous than forehanded and thus have disposed of clothes that could have been made to do fof themselves. Good clothes have be come the mode more than ever be fore. The poorer folk have felt the urge to keep up with the Joneses. and demand has doubtless had its customary effect upon prices. While the overalls craze prevails, one may wear denim without feel ing conscious that somebody will buspect that he has exhausted his financial resources. But to don old clothes. Ah, that Is different! It if not the style. Tet if it were made the style it would turn the trick If anything that the consumer can do would do it. . WASTE IX BUILDING ARMY" CAMPS. Democratic congressmen profess to be shocked at the expenditure of about $2,000,000 used in investigat ing the manner in which war funds were expended, though that sum. is less than one-tenth of 1 per cent of the total cost of the war. If-what has been discovered about construc tion of cantonments, added to the revelations as to aircraft production. fairly represents the whole, the cost of the inquiry will be well spent. The people have already learned the truth about aircraft; the facts about cantonments have justJeen laid be fore the house. They were so dam aging that the house by a votof 299 to 4 resolved to refer the teommittee report to the attorney-general with a request for grand Jury Investigation "for the purpose of indicting and prosecuting such persons as are guilty of criminal conduct, and to in stitute civil suits for the recovery of any government funds which have been fraudulently or. illegally paid." , Responsibility, in the first instance was fixed on Secretary of War Baker by 'Representative McCulloch of Ohio, who' told the house what the subcommittee had learned. Mr. Baker Is charged with the duty of providing shelter for the troops. The council of national defense was cre ated for the purpose of "surveying, advising, recommending and assist ing the regularly constituted agen cies of the government," but it "as sumed control." The council then established a subcommittee, called the emergency construction committee, which "kicked the war department out bag and baggage and assumed absolute control. . . with the approval of the secretary of war." : The emergency construction com mittee fostered the impression that the war found the government abso lutely unprepared, with no plans or facilities for construction. In fact, the corps of engineers of the army, trained in construction, was ready to go upon the job and build the struc tures. The committee refused to permit the army engineers to func tion, though "there was in every zone where a cantonment was to be constructed a district office of the eorps of engineers whose officers could have been gotten upon any job in not to exceed one week." General Sharpe notified those in authority that the engineers were ready with complete data as to labor and all necessary information, but they were absolutely ignored. In consequence the committee "took weeks to decide upon the form of a contract, took weeks to select the contractors, took a great deal of time selecting the several engineer organ izations necessary, while an efficient organization of. the government re mained idly by." Two years earlier the quartermaster corps "had pre pared plans and detailed material lists" for cantonments, so that all preliminaries for building any sized camp "could be prepared in the course of a day." . v The first action of the committee was to decide on the cost plus'form of contract, which according to sev eral high, practical authorities. "opens the door for fraud and great extravagance, "for the padding . of made by the navy department, but they 'contained "essential safeguards" against these evils which the com mittee omitted. Some of the conse quences described by Mr. McCulloch were the astounding waste, padded payrolls and wholesale loafing on the jobs. They gxe given more in detail in another column. If the Goethals plan of employing the army engineers had been fol lowed and if orders had been Issued the day after war was declared, they would have been on the job a week later, about April 1 5. Under the committee with its cost plus system construction did not begin till June 22, 1917, and was not completed tilt the first part of December. The Goe thals plan could .have finished it by August 10. ' Careful estimates by a contractor show that the IS national army can tonments should have been built for $128,101,399. They cost $206,632, 920. a loss to the taxpayers of $78, 531,521. The committee believes $50,000,000 can be recovered. Winter weather set in early In 1917, and soldiers in the hospitals suffered intensely from cold, one witness saying that they were "ac tually pinched blue; theirlips blue: their fingernails blue," and that doc tors were clad in sheepskin-lined overcoats and nurses in furs, because the heating plant was not finished. At that time steam-fitters were kill ing time, playing cards and billiards. Some of the soldiers died of pri vations due to the criminal neglect of the contractors. No prosecution can bring them back to life, but the government should omit no effort to recover from the dishonest contrac tors every dollar that has been stolen or wasted. THAT ORIENTAL JCNKET. Representative Randall, the lone prohibitionist in the house, who has been left without an occupation by adoption of national prohibition, sadly misjudges the spirit of the times when he proposes a congres sional excursion to the orient in or der that members may "Inform their judgment" about our insular posses sions. Nor will the proposal that the transport Vernon be used for the ex cursion in order that all the con gressmen and their families may have first-class cabins receive popu lar approval. The Vernon is well employed. in taking to their homes the Czech troops which have been fighting for two years against bol- shevist barbarisms, and these vet erans have earned a far better title to the luxuries of travel after en during the rigors of a Siberian win ter than have the congressmen who live in comfort at Washington. If the congressmen must go. some of them might profitably inform their judgment by traveling second or tnira class. They would gain useful information as to how the rfTany travel by sea, and they could apply it profitably In making laws for shipping. At present the demand is for in creased production and higher effl ciency. Congressmen would meet that demand if they were to leave their families at home and were to spend the regulation eight hours every day in studying the needs f our insular possessions and the gen eral oriental , situation. If they merely take a junket at the publi expense, their constituents may elect them to stay at home or to travel at their own expense. The death yesterday of Robinson Locke, who inherited the Toledo Blade, recalls his famous father. David R. Locke, who as "Petroleum V. Nasby, P. M.," developed a line Of humor during and after! the civil war that was spontaneous and home ly. Nowadays wit is scientifically Tnade. The younger Locke and his paper were not much heard of out side their immediate field, perhaps because genius is not a heritage. The Dalles has been obliged to install concrete traffic markers at street crossings because motorists ran over the old ones of light iron. Heretofore the concrete work seems to have been done by the drivers. More than 3000 gallons of con fiscated "booze" went into the river here yesterday and if there is a carp down St. Helens' way able to work this morning he will be a pis catoriaj wonder. About 70,000 republicans have registered in Multnomah county, and if only 60,000 of them come out pri mary day there will be some excel lent nominations. Isn't it great the way this land "goes flooey" and subsides? First of late was the potato profiteering, then the overalls episode. What next, one wonders? The Astoria steamers are reviving old times on the river when the Bailey Gatzert vied with the Tele phone for the broom. One thing, we may depend upon it, that congress will not do Is to raise funds for the bonus by taxing candidates for office. The state collected $11,975 in fil ing fees from 343 candidates for of fice. We begin to see some benefit in elections. Huirt, the 25-pIy bigamist, says he can. explain. If he means his modus operandi, he should put It in 1 U I ,11. A month or two ago this paper predicted $10 potatoes. How did we know? Prescience! Hit us with a spud! Germany wants to double its au thorized army and has a plausible reason, but the allies know better. The great desire Just now is for less rain and more wind. Cherries axe blooming. Outlaw strikers in Chicago hissed the flag yesterday, and that's their size. Government must help the tornado victims and de it with a rush. If It should be deferred until Sun day, the fences will "bust." It 111 becomes Rn Oregonlan to decry the rain. Bu Stars and Starmakers. By Leo ae- Cass Baer. When Marie Lloyd was in Portland some half dozen or so years ago she married Ben Dillon, an English jockey, by request of the United States Immigration authorities. Benny had made the trip across from Eng land with Marie and had gone into Canada and across the continent, when Uncle Sam decided that if Eng land s "own "Maury," as they call their idol of the music halls, wanted to carry our money out of the coun try she might as well conform to a few of our laws. Bluntlv the law put it up to England's idol, and protestingiy she obeyed and married the funny looking little Mr. Dillon one day, right here in Portland, dur ing her vaudeville stay here. All this is ancient history perhaps, but it Is revived in the news that has just come from Enaland to the effect that Mr. Dillon is out of jail on bail of 20 awaiting trial for beat ing Miss Llovd's 7ft-vpar-nlH fafhr John Wood. The assault on the aared man -occurred at Miss Lloyd's home during her absence, and servants called the police. Following the af fair Miss Lloyd put an Item in a London paper to the effect that she upheld Dillon, that It was a "family matter" and no one should Interfere. The entire Lloyd family other than Mrs. Wood, the mother, took the op posite view, however, and they are behind the prosecution of. Dillon. While Mrs. Wood does not appear to uphold her husband's assailant, she stands behind her daughter Marie. the oldest in her family. Further accounts of" the Lloyd- Dillon affair Bay that Dillon received much unpleasant notoriety for hla unpatriotic attitude during the war In all of which Miss Lloyd's name was associated. He was sent far away In the English service, but came back. Following the armistice Dillon- Lloyd family matters received more attention from their acquaintances through Dillon's actions, leading up to the beating of John Wood, father of the Lloyd family. Quite like a bit of fiction Is the story that has come to light in the suit instituted by Lila Lee. the "Cuddles" of the theater. ' against Gus Edwards and Mrs. Edwards, in which "Cuddles" asks that Mrs. Ed wards be removed as guardian for the 15-year-old picture star, and her mother, Mrs. Carl Appel, wife of a Chicago ex-saloonkeeper, take her place. The bill states that Mrs. 'Edwards has not made an accounting and is using the funds jof the child star. Gussle Appel (Lila Lee), who did not even know what her salary was, the full amount being mailed weekly to Mrs. Edwards. Lila Lee ia one of the best known individuals in the American show realms, having been before the pub lie for ten, of her 15 years, always remarkable for her beauty and pre cocious talents. Edwards found her playing in an alley in Union Hill. New Jersey, when he was produc ing a revue, and put her on as she was. dirty-faced and ragged, to fill the ensemble. She was a sensation and he took her with him to New Tork, paying her parents, who were respectively cook and bartender In a German free lunch saloon, $50 week for her. At Hammersteln's she repeated her success and be came famous over night in a bitter suit brought by the S. P. C. A. to bar her from the stage. Edwards won and toured the child for years In his acts, developing her until she and her partner, Georgie Price, were standard featured performers. mm Two years ago "Cuddles" was in Portland on the Orpheum In one of the Edwards revues, and when the act played Los Angeles Edwards ne gotiated a picture deal .with Jesse Lasky, who made the child a star immediatelv. without nrelimi narlea. ' and her releases went over at once, Edwards says the salary figure is sliding one from. $250 a week, to start, to $750 m week; that the girl Uvea expensively and) maintains serv ants and an automobile, and has practically eaten up all her earn ings, but that she received a month ly balance from Mrs. Edwards, who was legally made her guardian the time of the picture contract in order to be' able to sign the con tract and make it binding. Recently Miss Lee telegraphed for her mother, who. with her father, had moved to Chicago, where he manages North Side Turner hall, and the mother Induced her to bring the action. i Mrs. Edwards has retained counsel and says she will defend the suit only in order to get vindication o these allegations on record, aa he contract with Cuddles' parents no time permitted her to make any profit and that she never contem plated any; that she has been send ing monthly accountings and for warding all balances left after pay ing the girls expenses in Los An geles; that the mother is not tern peramentally fitted to guide the des tlniea ef a star and that the pre clpitate action Is the last and th most ringing Instance of lngratitud which she and her husband have suffered from the children N they picked up and took to stardom and other high professional careers. Gus Edwards' comment on the suit is expressive. He says: "Between the law, the duties of nurse-teacher-faiher. and the- final kick-back of ungratefulness, I have had all I want of child manage ment. An application for a separation from her husband, Harry W. Allen, has been filed In New Tork by Susann Westford, sister of Lillian Russell. They have been married about seve years. Mr. Allen appeared with "Th wetter uie in the fort land engage men.. Evelyn Nesbit Is being sued for dl vorce by Jack Clifford, and Blossom Seeley is asking for a separation for ever from Rube Marquard and th custody of Rube Jr., aged 5. - Jane -Cowl is to make a summer tour to the coast. Starting on July 11. she will work westward to th Pacific "Smllln' Through" is to re main at the Broadhurst until almos time for the western trip. Ann Marble will be In advance. Anna I a sister of Mary Mable, at the Or pheum this week. Those Who Ccme and Go. All lone Is looking forward to the all game next Sunday at Arlington. The lone team beat the Arlington contingent 3 to 1 last Sunday and the rlington players are furious, for last season they lost only one game. The one team has a pitcher who has something besides a prayer on the all and the Arlington players can t It him. A booster for the lone team H. A. Edwards, who Is registered the Perkins. The Arlington team as such a good pitcher that after he received a contract for $150 a month, or thereabouts, the Tacoma earn tried to eteal him from the bush league. The Arlington people almost had to give up having a ball team his year because the Columbia high way was located within a few feet f the home place, and influence was brought to bear to shift the highway. for there isn't another level spot in the town big - enough to play ball on. And so the highway was shifted and the ball grounds were saved. 'I've always got to explain the ame of that town." sighed W. J. Royce. Speaking of Sedro-Woolley. where he has a veneer factory. "A man named Sedro laid out a smalt ownship and later the Woolleys came nd built a town on the hill. Then came a flood and Sedro was wiped out and ever since there has been a row ver the name of the town, some wantintr to call it Sedro and the Woolley family wanted Sedro dropped. Most of the natives now combinethe wo names.? Mr. Royce. in addition to the plant at. Sedro-Woolley. has factory at Eugene, the mayor of Eugene being hie partner In the en terprise. Thirty years ago Mr. Koyce, Milt A. Miller and Charles Younger were the three democrats In Linn ounty and Mr. Royce and Mr. Miller shared the special car William J Bryan used when he visited Lebanon, Or., and rode to Portland. In those ays Mr. Miller was a druggist and Mr. Royce was a paper manufacturer. While I've lived in Springfield. Mass., for 14 years. I don't know the own or the people, for I get home only for the week end and spend my Ime in the club of the traveling men. There are 6000 traveling men who live in Springfield the way I do." aid J. G. Spear, who Is at the Hotel Portland with Mrs. Spear. For 2 ears Mr. Spear had been on the road. but never west of the Mississippi. Last autumn the firm told him to ake a long vacation at the expense of the house, so he headed for the real west. Speaking of things political. Mr. Spear says that Governor Coolldge isn't considered seriously as a presi dential possibility In his home state and he also says that there' is consid erable dissatisfaction with Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, senior senator from that state, for his fight against the league of nations. If Hamlet, according to Polonius, was "still harping on my daughter." so Is Mayor Donnelly of Arlington still harping on why the John Day highway should connect with the Co lumbia river highway at his town. 'A lot of Improvements are pending on this decision. according to me mayor. Today there will be a council meeting at Arlington, when plans for new municipal sewer system will be considered and bids will probably be called for. The town wants the sewer laid before the Columbia high way is hard-surfaced through the main street. The money for the sew er was voted at an election some time ago and is waiting for some con tractor to come along and take it. Prices are four times higher than they were before the war, but not withstanding the expense, the travel lanes are crowded, the hotels are con gested, accommodations are fought for, getting service or wanted arti cles Is a problem, according to the tale Drought dick Dy ur. aiae tjara- well, G. L. Harrington and Mrs. B. O. Church, who are at the Hotel Wash ington. The party has been on a three months trip to Japan and can give enough instance of profiteering by the little brown brother to make the common or garden variety of American profiteer turn green with envy. The maddest man In Portland was J. C. Boo, an attorney from Chicago. who was held up by three policemen nd searched for concealed liquor when he stepped off the train at the union depot. When Mr. Boos arrived at the Hotel Portland his indignation knew no bounds and he voiced his sentiments regarding the mm hunters who gather at the depot to molest and annoy strangers. Incidentally, Mr. Boos confessed that there wasn t any in his suitcase. Somewhat disappointed was the Woodburn contingent when it landed In Portland yesterday to learn that the weather was too bad fop the open- ng ball game. In the. group were John Hunt, who for years . without number has been an attache of the tate senate: I H. Shorey. Blaine Mc- Cord and H.- M. Austin. Rather than have the trrp a total loss, they re mained over""to watch the events staged at Mllwaukie. Postmaster Frarfk Little of Mikkalo. Or., arrived at the Perkins yesterday with his daughter and Mrs. W. T Silvester, and when these three lef! Mikkalo the town was just about de- serted. for the population is around a dosen. The first thing Postmaster Little inquired about of Clerk Farmer when he registered was whether the opening game would be played, for the postmaster is an optimist. Having spent a few months bask Ing in the lazy atmosphere of the Hawaiian islands, W. S. Farr, former ly of Condon, is at the Hotel Wash ington. Mr. Farr was in the meat business in Condon far years and ac cumulated enough material treasure to take things easy for the rest of hla life. Mr. and Mrs. John W. Dunne are at the Nortonia. It doesn't sound par ticularly thrilling, written like that, but to give a touch of Interest, be it known that Mrs Dunne is Mary Mar ble, vaudeville headliner. who first came to Portland, it is alleged, as Innocent Kid in Hoyt's "A Parlor Match." "There's a foot and a half of snow on the summit of the Coast range," reported Harry L Clark, when he ar rived at the Perkins from Tillamook. The snowfall is interfering somewhat with the logging operations In the various camp along the line of the Tillamook railroad. The Astoria Marine Iron Works moved Into the Hotel Portland yes terday with the arrival of C. W. Fleck, Thomas Blllyeu and W. A. Vlggera. They were in town Just a few days ago and had to come back. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Orth of Mount Angel, Or., are at the Multno mah, while Mr. Orth. who Is in tlfe mercantile business, is distributing a stock of orders to the wholesale houses. Mrs. L. F. McClure of "The Eyrie." which nestles on the cliffs overhang ing the Columbia river near White Salmon. Wash., Is at the Multnomah. George Kohlhagen. who Is one of the best-known meat dealers in Rose burg, is In Portland on business and is at the Hotel Oregon. Leven worth Kershaw, secretary of the? Tacoma Dredging company. Is at whe Multnomah. HOW WAR KINDS WEBB WASTE House Committee Discovers Vast Squander la Camp Construction. Charges of astounding waste of ma terials, of greater padded payrolls and of wholesale loafing by workers under the cost-plus system of award ing contracts for construction of army cantonments during the war, are made by Representative McCulloch of Ohio. Mr. McCulloch, as spokesman for a congressional sub-committee of in vestigation, reported to the house that: "More materials were ordered than needed. There seemed to be abso lutely no check system nor method followed In the ordering of materials. Carload after carload of lumber, of hardware, of cement and building ma terials generally were dumped indis criminately on the ground where the camps were to be constructed. "There seemed to be an effort made on the part of nearly everybody to destroy and waste as much material as possible. As an instance, loads of finishing lumber were dumped into mudholes for the purpose of repairing roads. It was a common thing to have trucks run over piles of lumber and destroy it. "Hundreds of kegs of nails were left out in the open and in the rain to rust and ruin. Carloads of cement were left out in the open to be de stroyed by the elements. "During the process of construction it was a common thing to saw a foot or two off a board and throw the bal ance Into the scrap heap. After a building was completed all the mate rial that remained, often including bundles of flooring unopened, build ing paper, kegs of nails, and every thing that was in the building were thrown into a scrap pile and hauled to a dump heap where they were aft erwards burned, without any sys tematic effort made to salvage or save. "The workmen were encouraged to destroy good material, and the idea seemed to permeate their minds that the greater the waste the better the contractor would be pleased, for the more money he would get out of the Job by way of percentage. "A careful analysis of the testimony will disclose that from the beginning to' the end there was a loss In mate rials of at least 25 to 50 per cent. It was a riot of waste at all camps. "At Camp Sherman lumber was burned in such quantities that the men who burned It were compelled to lay off frequently for the reason that the fires got so hot they were afraid of burning down the cantonment. Of 50,000.000 feet of lumber used at Camp Sherman, at least 12,500.000 feet were wasted. Finishing lumber in bundles that were never untied were hauled away and burned. At Camp Meade an entire regiment of 3000 men was employed for a week in carrying the waste lumber off the drill ground. "Roofing material was piled up like cordwood out In the sun and two thirds became absolutely useless, for the reason that It could not be un rolled. Unbroken rolls of roofing were hauled away and burned. Tons of nails were hauled to the river and canal and thrown away. "Automobiles w:m hired by the day. Invoiced at less than $400. for which the government paid more than $800 each as rental. One and one-half-ton trucks were rated as three tone and fbve-tons trucks were rated aa seven tons. "At Camp Sherman they had no use at all for 250 of the teams. These teams were kept on the payroll, but were hidden away In the gravel pit, or ordered to drive around the camp to make it appear that they were be ing used. When work started upon these camps there was an effort made to get just as many people upon the payrolls as possible. Wages were fixed without regard to the work men's experience or ability. It soon became apparent that efficiency was not expected nor desired. Btoys were employed as journeymen carpenters and paid journeymen's wages who had never worked at the carpenter trade an hour. It was testified that out of gangs of 25 to 30 men drawing wages as Journeymen carpenters there would not be to exceed three or four who had ever worked at the carpenter trade. It was a common thing for gangs of men to be ordered to "get Into the clear." to hide In the cornfields, or behind the hills, or in empty buildings, or any covenient place. Just so they could keep on the payroll. Everywhere the idea pre vailed that the longer it took to com plete the job and the more idleness that prevailed the more the contractor would get out of the job under the cost-plus system. "From 30 to 50 per cent of the labor was wasted: hundreds of men were engaged In gambling In the wheat fields, the cornfields, and In nearly every building on the grounds: the idlers on every Job were so many that they were In the way of those sup posed to be working that there were so many men on the roofing Job that at least one building actually col lapsed by their weight. Witnesses testified that a continuous crap game was going on In one barrack build ing." BLACK LIST FOB. SOnE TENANTS Curb on I.nndlonla Ssonld Hears Mali-iont Renters a ad Dead Bests, PORTLAND. April 21. (To the Edi tor.) It is proposed that the city in vestlgate charges of profiteering in rentals against landlords. This In aulry may be Justified because of the greed of certain landlords, and if found guilty they should be held up to public censure. But I suggest tnat tenants who willfully deface and damage houses which they occupy, or who evade payment of proper rentals should also be investigated. Owners are often put to large ex pense by careless or malicious tenants who scratch and mar woodwork, drive nails into plastering and leave bouses cluttered with old cans, bottles, rags and filth. Other tenants avoid pay ment of rents under one pretext or another, and sometimes jump them without warning. It seems to me that if profiteering landlords are to be blacklisted, vicious and dishonest tenants should get similar treat ment. Profiteering In rents. like profi teering In anything else, is indefensi ble, but I believe that tenants them selves have contributed to it. For some time previous to about a couple of years ago, when houses were plen tiful, tenants hammered rentals down to absurdly low figures, citing the law of supply and demand. Now ten ants are facing the working of the law in the opposite direction and they complain loudly. It may be that some owners of apartments, flats and houses are charging rentals which put them in the profiteer class, but I belteve the majority of owners are asking and receiving what will yield only Just and fair returns on their investments. Greedy landlords should be brought to book, but so should dishonest tenanta W. C. D. Crown Prinee Is Rebukes'. Indianapolis News. "The German crown prince," says former Ambassador Gerard. "was much coddled by women in the past, but I once heard an American girl In Berlin hand him, as the slang phrase goes, a good one. She was a breezy western girl, a millionaire's daughter, and the crown prince was much tak en with her dashing beauty. 'I can trace my ancestry back twenty-seven generations,' he said to her. She looked him over, and her lip curled. 'What else can you do? she said." In Other Days. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From The Oretronlan of April -2. 1S93. New York. Thomas A. Edison in an interview here stated that he may take up the question of long-distance communication between ships. Owners of sailing craft in Portland are about to form a club to be known as the Portland Sailing club. The Florence, Or., women elected aa the town councfl failed to qualify and nominations of male citizens for the positions have become necessary. Dr. J. B. Stoner. United States ma rine hospital surgeon, who has been stationed here for over two years. leaves today for Philadelphia. Mftjr Year. Ago. From The Oresonian of April si', ISTtt. Washington. The amount of gold needed to pay the interest on bonds falling due May 1 is $25,500,000. Washington. The house rejected, by a vote of 68 to 3 2, the proposed amendment to the constitution en abling women to vote. William Depenning, while employed in a shaft on a block occupied by the brick yard of T. M. Richardson & Co.. was killed by the caving in of the shaft walls. Beache's band and the steamer Car rie took a large delegation over to ancouver yesterday to attend the re publican territorial convention. MANY SERVICE MEN UE-ENLIST Large Percentage Among Recruits la dlcates Absence or Dissatisfaction. PORTLAND, April 21. (To the Ed itor.) In reference to the editorial in The Morning Oregonian, March 30. entitled "Of fering Bait to the Rookie." permit me to say that there has un doubtedly been dissatisfaction and ci'.use for complaint by individuals in connection with their experiences in the world war. Have our people for gotten the Spanish-American war conditions and all those of tbe revo lution, the civil war and have they contrasted what has been attempted during the world war In the way of carlnsr for and providing In so many ways for the soljiers? Have our peo ple remembered the wars of the world and what men had to go through in these wars and compared the efforts made by our government in the world war in the way of care for its men? Let us take the specific points com plained of. Instead of there being dire need of men and total Inability to secure them, thj army has during the last year since the resumption of voluntary enlistments secured in round numbers 185. 0O0 men about five times as many as were ever se cured in a like period In peace time. We need men, but we are getting them and will eventually fill the army to whatever srength congress sees fit to authorize. As to the chance for the army to win the good will of 4.000.000 men during the war Mid the assumed fail ure to do so, attention is invited to the fact that 60 per cent of the 185.- "00 enlistments above mentioned were by men who served In the world war but were satisfied to re-cnlUt. There is no question hat there are still man dissatisfied ex-service men. It is Inevitable that there should be many among 4.000,000 men suddenly taken from their homos and thrust into a strange environment under war conditions who would leave the serv ice dissaatif led. That this sentiment is not held by the majority is proved by the attitude of the American Le gion and Veterans of Foreign Wars with relation to the army toOay. Comparing conditions in the Spanish-American war. the Improvement should entitle the army to praise rather than blame An army of 100. 000 was expanded to 4.000.000 in little over a year. The wmplaints regard ing insurance, allotments and postal service were the result of an effort to do more for tin soldier than ever before. Were failures in these mat ters failure on the vrt of the army itself? Were the failures not those of other government agencies which broke down under the strain? The army today is in many respects different from what it has been be fore. It is earnestly trying to make life more attractive and more profit able to the enlisted man In physical, educational and vocational training without sacrificing militaiv effi ciency. It has not yet fully realized its ideal, but is approaching that con dition where troops are stationed. We must have un army. Can the fault-finders provide a better scheme and plan than that nowbeing fol lowed? Can the faul-finders pro vide us an efficient and patriotic army? Have they the scheme ready to organize and place before an effi ficlently trained and equipped enemy an armv for defense of their country? G. W. S. STEVENS. Lieut-Colonel, U. S. A. Memorial Talilet for Miss IsOn. TORTLAND. April 21. (To the Edi tor.) The writer knew Mry Frances Isom almost from the day she came among us. hence feels Justified In venturing to suggest a tribute to her. It is the placing of a tablet in the central libriry by means of sub scriptions not exceeding 10 cents, in order that every child who respected her may have a share. It is hoped the directors will arrange for this soon. Without ostentation, she devoted her life unceasing!y -for tho welfare of others. A memorial might well fittingly represenc this. It should have a gentle simplicity of manner to make it stand out In sharp relief, as she did among workers. With this In mind, the following inscription is suggested: MART FRANCES ISOM. April 15. in:o. LIBRARIAN TWENTY TEARS. Reader: Behold her monument: Tier unselfish and faithful work ever re mains a lovins memory In the hearts of Ihoae whoso lives she helped to make hap pier and better. ROBERT C. WRIGHT. No Indictments In Other foontr. PORTLAND, April 21. (To the Edi tor.) Only one side of the falsehoods, persecutions and slanders heaped upon Ham Kautaman. editor of the Columbia Herald, has ever reached the public through the Portland press, save in only one Instance and that only partially, but the whole truth must and will come out in time, and fear of that Is in my opinion the rea son certain vicious, conspiring in dividuals do not want me to resume business again in St. Helens. Sundey morning The Oregonian's Salem correspondent, speaking of my pardon, says "indictments are hang ing over him in Washington county." I have never been in that county but twice and the statement is untrue. Will you kindly publish this letter and oblige? HAM KAUTZMAN. Government of District of Colombia. BEND. Or, April 20. (To the Edi tor.) Why cannot the people in Washington. D. C. vote? Has the suffrage amendment anything to do with it? RKATHA PAYNE. The District f Columbia has not a state government and therefore has no representation in congress or in the electoral college. Tho suffrage amendment has no bearing on the case-