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-i THE MORNING OltEGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 14, 192Q 8 tens la. would be almost eaual to that STABl.lsllr l BY HKNRY I- PITTOCK. 0 the Panama canal, t-ubi.shcd by The oren'n?ub"h'"f ("- I The Columbia basin project is but c Vordkv""- t 8 WWH. lone of several that invite interest In Manager. Editor, i Washington and Oregon. In this Ths Oresontan ia & member of the a- slate there have been in a smaller n l fl v entitled to the 11 eiaud Press. The Associaieu . way the same disappointments in at uae i f i .x it, tempts at ary tarming. .tsut nere favorable, a rule to eminent operation. Its cost, based ployers and their employes. That the on ptesent-day cost of labor and ma- strike weapon would have been for ever withheld, or that sympathetic strikes with all their attendant evils would indefinitely have refrained from involving: the teaching1 body, once it were committed to the pro gramme of affiliation, was not re tion of all ne oispatcnes crcu, ...",.. a. or not omerwlie credited In thi papor ana , conditions, a little more aso the local news published hete.n. au have enabled sett!ers at nmti of republication of apecial diapatchas "axe enaoiea settlers as herein are also reserved. .Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mai!.! ' 0fl Pally. Sunday Included, one year .J1"". Pally, Sunday included, six months ... Ijally. Sunday included, three montns. Ijailv. Sunday included, one month .... ; Dally, without Sunday, one year liaily, without Sunday, six montna laily. without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year bunday, one year I By Carrier.!. Dally. Sunday Included, one year .60 1.00 6.00 . .9.0O hang on from year to year. But they are only hanging on. Their one hope of final rescue lies in irrigation. Water there is in abundance, but it must be diverted to the lands and the necessary works are costly. Thought and study must now be turned to plans for financing these projects. It is proposed, in a general way, not to ask the government for direct appropriations, but to invite the government only to lend its iiiiir, funo.i m '-- : .2.1:5 me government only to iena its T)l y Sunday included, three monms. . " " Daily,' Sunday included, one month .... credit that bonds issued against the ijatiy'. without gunday.one year J. districts to be formed may be made I'ally. without Sunday, tnree montna.. i"-' ... Ijaiiv. without Sunday, one montn I saiame, How to Remit. Se"nd postoffice money l Withal, it Is largely a matter Of order, express or personal checa on J""' educating the great public, in regions to propose a flat percentage increase of freight rates for each of three great sections of the country, though the percentage proposed for the west is too great for the roads of the northwest and too small for those of the southwest and would so dis turb industrial, market and traffic garded by any thoughtful student as conditions that it might cause such at all probable. By steering the mid- shrinkage of traffic as to cause an die course, the teachers avoid the I actual shrinkage of net revenue, shoals on both sides of the channel. I One dominant fact is that when It is Important to bear in mind the present emergency arose, the ca piat the report is in no sense hostile pacity of the railroad plant was to labor, or to the principle of col- already far in arrears of the needs lective bargaining, or to the right to of the traffic which its owners tried organize unions. These issues are to carry and that, while the emer- slmply left to the decision of indi- gency continued, it fell still farther viduals, as should be done. Re- behind. Practically what the rall- fnsal to recognize the rights of roads ask is that they be put in a groups as such in the most demo- position to obtain capital enough not cratlc of all our institutions, the pub- only to make good these arrears, but lie schools, is the distinguishing fea ture of the report. A SUIT VTITHOCT AN ISSCE. to effect further expansion neces sary to keep pace with the normal growth of traffic. This is a task of such magnitude that ten years of in neerin of each vear s increase or velop an issue, about which will be traffic would be met by that year's ti jc t,,,, -....i t,ot lid tense activity might not suffice to It is but natural to expect that UU- I ? y,- ,,, . bring the railroad plant where the Kdiiuii ui any bun wiu ai icaai uc L"' b",1- -.amp.V,.c-0,",Xraddr... where irrigation is not essential in full, including county and state. I the necessity not alone of increasing I waged a legal battle of facts, but the enlargement of facilities, roataice Rates. 1 to la pases, l cent; production, but to the need of re- Vihta bouse suit was unique in that Kailroad men view the problem l to 3J pages. i cents; 34 to pae, i , j interest in agriculture in the it im t nrr. v,i oHir,a I from the railroad standpoint alone. ptg'eV 50centsf 82 Sto' 96 'pages, cents, country of that same great public tion. Circuit Judge Tucker, as he It should be viewed from the stand- ioreirn oostaae. coubl rates. I by making lands in small and profit- I rlUmijkod it vufordnv mnria Tei-ti-I point or the man wno aims to ae- . Eastern Bulne.s Office. Verree Conk-I a ble units available to the land hun-I ncnt observation ton the jumbled. I velop all the transportation fadll' llnv.?r.'7;".k-.uJ1lln,,?fwr.lr'!tjy v-r! Urv- In Iowa, Illinois, Missouri in chaotic unsubstantiated nature of ties of the country, present and po vonKiin, Bluer uuuwi.m. n. mcUnl .,ll -i , . I.. . . . l.j.I.l .u. v.:i.t .rnl.nn Th. re A rnnklin. tree rress uiiu.ums. mi wimiooiuui en.tco bo. inp case lor in ruainlltfa nnrl cftnnerl iciuitii, ij me j surance tnat lands were waiting set i this comment with an opinion up-I Inland waterways are comparatively tiers off toward the setting sun holding the authority of the county unused, though their potential car trolt. Mich. San Francisco representative Ti. J. Bidwell LAND HOGER AND THIRSTY LAND. It Is quite likely that in discussing the drift from the farm to the city we have missed some of the psy chology of the movement. The su perior attractions of the city have been recounted until the story has become monotonous. would do much to turn the tide from city back again to country. apostle of a sham independence. Its support of him depends on how We talk in- wcll ne fit3 the platform. But it in cessantly of the bright lights, the so- I sists that he have a fair hearing and cial advantages, the amusements, the I that the action of the convention be wtor r,n,,r.s of labor and the like not distorted. Governor Cox, as a to eriv.t th Rtnir-tTiro ryinff capacity is enormous. Their The Vista house is bevond aues-1 development would give as reil re tion a public buildlnar for the use of lief to the railroads as would a con the county." declared the court. siderable advance in " rates. The There was apparent in the suit to troubles of the railroads are due as Governor Cox." burbles that eminent obtain Judment gainst the commis- te .an J'" Moiiera etna contractors a niOQen . l v - BY-PROOCCTS Olf THE -T1ME! Farmers of Babylonia Found Temple Grange Very Helpful That the farmers of Babylonia found the temple grange helpful 1000 ytars before the Christian era is re vealed by a tablet in the Tale univer !ty collection of Babylonian tablets. On the tablet is a carefully drawn Those Who Come and Go. the Tort Orford cedar for bathrooms and bathtubs be cause of the pleasant odor. The wood Is not treated, but is constantly pm lehcd. and this preserves the scent." said John C. Daviea of Coos Bay, where he is with the Oregon Export lease of farming and grazing lands nbr company. Mncern In Orfnrrl rerlar. "There is an immense that I mn,-.rt frr ihla cedar for battery rented out by Belshazzar. Other but more mutilated bricks attest what Belshazzar had been doing was I boxes," continued Mr. Davies. at the done by other ruler, foe mora than Benson. -The wood withstands all innn w - . . i the tests ce'ter than any otner tnat th ,..u h been discovered, and we can eell ' . .Ill that we can run through the mill. HOW PRESS VIEWS NOMINATIONS Repnbllean and Democratic Papers Commest on Democratic Choice Aberdeen (Wash.) World. Governor Cox was nominated be cause he has wet inclinations and be cause he is expected to work with the bosses who made his nomination possible. They were for him from the very outset of the democratic convention for those two reasons. In Other Days. Tvrenty-ftve Years Affo. From The Orearonian ef Ju:y 14. 1S0S. In the greatest bicycle race ever seen here. M. J. "Eli" Lee won by an inch from Browne, the Spokane crack, in the open mile yesjerday. The time was 2:21 1-5, a new record. We also sell the cadar in as large was to be yearly 5000 measures of barley and 8000 bundles of straw. I pieces a possible for others to work The grange officers arranged that up. some of the manufacturers using the farmer need never be embarrassed knives instead of saws, for the wood for lack of money. He could eithea- l'yz Th lr"e ?' pay or buy in wool. oil. cattle, flour. cypress ror !t ls reany a cypress i.ro, vegeiaDies or grain, iney lent rather than a cedar. Our supply him money with or without interest comes from Tarheel, below Empire City, on Coos bay, where we have 125,000.000 feet of timber, about 50 per cent of which is Fort ortora cedar. This oedar is probably the hirh.cf.nriorl 1 1 - rr hoi" ln Amr-rlr-a IO ot. uther records show that Croats I Huv .n ih nnlv niarc It srrows is in were rented to the farmers at breed-I Coos and Curry counties in Oregon." ins time. The temple goats, which and loaned him seeds at planting time. or lr he was prosperous seed was given to him ln exchange for produce brought to the temple to be disposed were considered the best breed of the country, were marked with a cross and were returned to the temple at the end of the season. HIS RECORD SPEARS. "The Journal holds no brief for that prevail in the city but give no thought to the fact that the relative attractions of town and country are ' not much different today than they were a half century ago. Hours labor in city and town have been dis proportionate as long as the elder generation can remember. iThe city worker always got more pay than his brother on the farm. When the lights of the city were less dim and the amusements less elaborate, so also the farm did not have avail able the advantages that it may have with moderate effort today. It knew not the phonograph, the tele phone, the electric light, the piped water, the automobile or the good highway, t Relatively the situation has not changed in many particulars. Bur it has changed in one. In an other day when the youth finished school and went out to the farm to earn his first dollar, there was often developed within him a love of the soil, a desire to own a farm (of his own. And there was a chance to turn his ambition into reality. Land was cheap. A few years' savings would er.t.blish him for life. Or, the west ern states beckoned him onward to great areas of free government land. Today farm land is dear and the government domain has been vir tually appropriated. Karm labor has become more of a casual employ rnenl, a filling-in until one can get .into something that will lead to something better. In the city there are a thousand occupations which offer advancement to the ambitious youth. On the farm there is no t promotion for the penniless be cirner. One must have his stake, or matter of fact, is a drier man than Senator Harding." Emulating the famous example of a certain l'ortland justice of the cf I peace, the Journal will take the case under advisement ana in a tew days will decide for the democratic nomi nee. The Journal knows today what It will do. Everybody knows everybody who has the faintest in terest in the course of that paper. It is fooling nobody when it say3 it will wait and see. The time has long paseed when the Journal can fool anybody but itself on any subject. Senator Harding's record on pro hibitlon i3 that he supported sub mission of the constitutional amend ment, voted for the Volstead act and voted to carry the Volstead act over the presidential veto. hand, for the twelve taxnavera who trt-ffic. Owing to the attempt to instituted action were hazy as to the carry traffic beyond the capacity of merits of the case or its origin, and their plant, especially in tne east ana made no explanation of their delin- middle west, cars move slowly, stand quency in not attacking the project 'die in yards for weeks and many at the time of its proposal, when the men are employed to clear blockades bids were advertised and when the who should be moving trains. ine local press was engaged in comment, essence of transportation is motion. To substantiate their charge of ex- but freight cars move an average of travagance they brought to court I only 30 to 40 miles a day. In gen mere statements of prejudice and eral a mile of track earns interest disapproval and presented these I on its cost only while a loaded tram without zeal or spirit. No public is passing over it, a car only while work was ever undertaken or com- It is moving loaded. Actually tne pleted without drawing the fire of earnings of both track and car are dissenters, but an Incompatibility of limited by the rate, at which cars opinion is not evidence. can go through terminals, load and There are secret elements ln the unload, without delay. If the traf- Vista house litigation that do notific of the congested roads were re- rise to the surface, save fleetingly. duced to that point. Increased serv- But in those glimpses they have the 1 ico from each car would enaoie mem characteristic appearance of spite. to dispense with many of the new cars that they propose to Duy ana net income might be materially in creased by reduction in cost of op eration. The roads would then be in a position gradually to enlarge their terminals and equipment to tha carrying capacity of their track free from the harrowing thought of arrears to be made up, If half of the traffic of the con- DEMOCRACY'S MISPLACED ANGER. One sin of the republican congress on which the democratic convention Credit for the great discovery that worked itself up into a fit of indig- Governor Cox is dry, or partly dry. lnetion is its neglect to revise the sys- belongs in Portland. It is said and tern of taxation. The San Francisco believed nowhere else. The reason platform says that the present sys- is that it is not true. It is not, and tem was "devised under pressure of (foubtless will not be, denied by Cox imperative necessity for war pur- sted roads were away and . v. v. . . 1 ; v. - i Innqoc" flnd thai It, rAnHnn.nAA uf, D that he favors light wines and beer. I poses ' and that Its continuance "is It is not denied that he was and is 1 Indefensible and can only result in at war with the anti-saloon league I lasting injury to the people." That in Ohio. His record in congress and severe language for a democratic in Ohio is a wet record. The wet convention to use about the work of leopard will not change his spots. a democratic congress. The democratic platform says noth- The difficulty is that the demo- 'Speakingr of potatoes." said George Burt, partner of George Shinia, the Japanese potato kins: of California. there are between 33,000 ana aa.uuu acres ln California tnis year as The temple grange bought and re- against 26,000 acres last year. The the . - i same) a msi va i , wuin: in i.,, - lor the surplus in the years in which 1 ton there is ibout a 20 per cent in- tne yield of the land was especially I crease In acreage and Canada will heavy. The tablets also show that I have an increase of about 25 percent." Iron hoes were used at this period Although spuds form the bread and that a supply of the implements i'chet r lr' "e "mn in he was stored in the temple. The hotel -iobby yesterday of catching grange also furnished legal advice to trout "as bisr as that" business of its members, as ls shown by records 1 extending arni3 full width in Odell rr. Frank Gunsaulus of Chicago ' They selected him because he comes i was the big attraction yesterday at me uwuamne cnauiauqua. Jack Pempsey. the most popular of all the prizefighters, returned from the east yesterday to his home in Portland. He is ia poor health. The Multnomah baseball team yes terday defeated the Seattle Athletic club. 10 to 9, in an 11-inning game at Seattle. from Ohio, a pivotal state and the home state of the republican nom inee, and because they believe the populous states of tfie east are wet inclined. They propose to make their fight in those states, and they think the wet desire ls so strong that it will send Mr. Cox to the White Houiso. - ..w BiaugD uougdl ana o- - - - sold the products of the farmers, in- thl ear however, is not : heav; ru. , i , . . . . In Oregon tne acreage ls about tr uritis them a fair price, and cared same J Ust ypar whUe , Washinp Booze Triumphant. Oregon City Knterpriso. The convention was controlled by an eastern coterie of politicians who refused to be teconciled to the na tional prohibition iimendment. They went to Sin Francisco from New York, from Ohio and other large states of th3 reactionary east with a secret determination to nominate a man who wou'd stand for a modifica tion of the Iry law to the extent that the sale of be r and light wines miht be permitted. They permitted the delegates to yell themselves hoarse over a picture or Woodrow Wilson, tlicy al'owe 1 the McAdoo sentiment to spend itsel and when the conven tion found t'.iat McAdoo could not secure the necessary two-thirds, the Palmer delegates flocked to Cox and booze was triumphant, so far as the convention is concerned. of deeds and other transactions. a a Alfred Vanderbilt was one of the passengers who died through the sinking of the Lusitania by a German submarine and his life was insured against accident ln the sum of U50.000. But the supreme court of New Tork has decided that it was not acci dent, the German government hav. lng ordered the sinking. And as the insurance company had exempted it self from "extra hazards of the war" It does not have to pay. After this it may be well for civilians taking out Insurance against llart of Harvard. Professor Hart accident to see that In the policy acts of public enemies be not lumped ln with acts of God" as among things for which the insurers are not respon sible. Sacramento Bee. lake a few days ago. He caught them with a flv "as fast as I could take 'em out." Mr. Burt made the trip from California by auto, going in via Klamath Falls. Crescent. Bend and on to the Columbia highway. Then he drove to Seattle and declares the road between Seattle and Portland is in frightful rendition, and about ,5 miles of the Trip are over detours Place Japanese laborers in Amer ica and American laborers in Japan on the same footing; that is. permit no American laborers to enter Japan and permit no Japanese laborers to land in the United States. This Is the solution to the race question pro posed by Prifeseor Altert Bushnell who Is at the Multnomah, is one of the governors of Moose Heart, the or phan home of the Loyal Order of Moose, and h addressed the local Moose lolee last night and spoke at the Rotary club luncheon yesterday noon. Profe.sor Hart has been study- lrg the Japinese question for years and his plan ot dealing with Japan ese labor he submitted in addresses to large audiences in Japan a dozen years ago. Japan, declares this noted htstoilun and author, will not tolerate having its poonle considered as less desirable immigrants than the people Fifty Tears Ago. From The Oretronian of Julv 11. 1ST0. San Francisco. Coinage at the ranch mint here for the past year was: Double eagles, J19.235.000; other gold coin. $31.051 ; half dollars. $557,- uuu; dimes, etc.. 537.500. The Dalles. Tlecord hot weather is being experienced here, the tempera ture reaching 10S in the shade on hrce or four days. It is expected that the St. Charles hotel. Morrison and Front streets, which is undergoing alterations, will be opened for guests in eight or 10 days. Cheers Without Sincerity. Beaverton Times. It seems to have teen a compro mise all the way through. bryan was the most popular man at the convention, yet ail that his favorite dry plank got was applause. The bosses were turned down on practi cally everything they proposed, yet they finally dictated the nomination of Ccx. although he was no the man they would have picked at first. President Wilson was given an ova tion at almost every mention of his name, yet none of his favorite meas -s were given any consideration and of the various candidates sup porting the administration measures. only Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Palmer were able to rally enough support to secure consideration and neither of these could attract enough support to secure the nomination. ing about prohibition or the Vol stead act. An ideal fit of candidate to a platform which is silent on pro hibition would of course be for dumbness and numbness by the can didate. Well, let the candidate say nothing. His record says it all. cratic administration still keeps ex penses on a war scale. Hence reve nue must be raised on the war scale. The democratic congress passed tax laws in a hurry and those laws "can only result in lasting injury to the people." The republican con gress refuses to legislate ln a hurry lest it also do lasting injury. PtT MEN WHO KNOW ON THE BOARD, To ignorance of the shipping busi- a definite prospect of one, when he ness Sumner Myrick ascribes the mis takes up farming as an occupation. I tekes of congress in legislating on But the land hunger Of the people! Fhips and of the shipping board in 13 not dead. Recently we saw it il- I managing them and we have abun lustrated in Oregon when a portion I dant facts to support his opinion. The of the railroad land grant was thrown first shipping board had a lawyer for lated yast sums impr0peHv and tax t" cwt.j. n,lula A cu6iiii .1..U wealth nnrl ot trio com timo were given an nm, pretere.iu tor manager ot construction avoid confiscating the legitimate transferred to waterways, those roads might net more revenue than they can earn by trying to do it all. even after rates have been raised. It is the function of the interstate commerce commission not merely to adjust rates, but adapt them to the transportation policy which congress has marked out and to suggest plans for giving those policies effect. If congress were to enter now upon sjstematic development of water ways and their ports and were to give such security to capital as would induce investment in modern craft, it would relieve the railroads H I. Phillips gives in the New Tork Globe the following census figures for New York: Increase ln chorus girls who are daughters of full - blooded Indian chiefs, 23,577. Ditto who are society erlrls drafted from Smith college. Vassar and Bryn of BnV other nation. Professor Hart - 7tcii I arrived in Portland Sunday with Mrs. ir'L o. v , . I Hart, but proceeded . immediately to Virgins of Stamboul. etc. who ed Astorla returning yesterday to keep to snow ousiness to escape aegraaa- his speaking engagements. tion in narems and lunchrooms. 56,876. Man Cioodt Hackers Bad. Astoria Budget. The Budtret is frank to say that it thinks more of Cox than it does of the forces that figured most prom inently in his nomination and that it thinks more of the platform than it c'oes cf either. We do not believe that his selection represents the pop ular. rank and file of his party. A least it does not in the west. McAdoo was undoubtedly the choice of th majority of democrats in the western states and we have a feelins; that he would have nade a stronger candi date in spite of the prejurliee-brred ng crown prince propaganda which would have been ued agains him. Some democrats have been hungry of Cong-e8tion ,n haIf the Ume that for taxes on profiteers, but Repre sentative Mondell aptly replied that it "would all be very lovely if one could invent some machinery where by you could pick out the real profi teers, the men who have accumu- - right to file, journeyed across the they wasted months at the begin- earnings of a very great many good nlng of the war in quarreling. They r.eople Republicans prefer to en- country, upon a mere hint of home- making possibilities on the land were succeeded by two manufac- dure the iUs we have untu expenses They came ln numbers, without turers, who brought business ability .-. rHrf r,tii v,a ,,. money and without the Information I to the job, but neither of whom was that most of the desirable tracts had a shipping man. Then came another are reduced, until they have made thorough inquiry into sources and methods of taxation and until they been settled on more than seven lawyer, to be succeeded by an ad- haye g.ained controi of tne gOVern' j ears ago and that these settlers had I nural. There is only one practical a prior right to the claims. shipping man on the board, though A still greater tragedy has been the law required that men should be enacted in central Washington, selected for their knowledge of the Ther lies there in one body a tract business. of land almost equal in area to that! As the construction stage has of the state of Connecticut and con- passed, the operating stage has come taining more land susceptible of cul- and the selling stage is opening in tivation, but for lack of water, than the government's connection with is now farmed in either New Hamp- 1 shipping, the president should be shire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode guided accordingly in his selection Island, Connecticut, Delaware, Wy- of men for the new board. It should cming. New Mexico, Utah or Nevada. Include men familiar with operation. More than 1,700,000 acres there are, with buying and selling of ships and free of scab, easy to clear of sage- I with foreign and coastwise trade, in brush, as fertile as any land in the which the merchant fleet must en- Mississippi valley, and served with gage. Men are available who are numerous lines of railroad. ment. Then they can legislate in an effort to catch the profiteer and let the honest man go free. The republican platform tells the would be consumed if the railroads were to undertake the task alone, and the development stimulated by assurance of adequate transportation would yield ample traffic to employ both railroads and waterways. The time is opportune, for construction of navigation dams will accompany development of water power, and navigation will be relieved of much of the cost. So long as the nation relies almost solely on rail-oads to do its carrying, it resembles a man who works with one arm while the other hangs idle.. The nation should use both arms. Bum actors who got names ln paper j by registering at hotels with lions,, tigers, etc, 32,416. Visiting sports who came to New Tork, bet on the horses and haven't been able to leave town, 75,888. Ouija board experts, spiritualists, Spanish and English authors, royal Three hundred miles, from Canvon City to Portland, is the one-day trip which Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Matks made, with P. K. Chandier as ballast. The party set sail from Canyon City at 4:30 A. M., and the first 150 miles, which brought tntra to Antelope, was ever pretty rough road. The only trouble was gasoline shortage. There was plenty of gas In the interior, so high , commissions, crown princes, lr.etead of keeping the tank filled at Jack Johnson, pugilist, knocking at one of the back doors of the people the unpalatable truth that, I country for admission and willing to "while the character of the taxes can I stand . trial on the charges against end should be changed, an early re-j him, will excite little sympathy, but duction of the amount of revenue to I he will serve as another warning be raided is not to be." That cannot to those who think that there is be until the floating debt is paid off any comfort in being a fugitive in a nor until the government depart-1 foreign land. The terms of sur ments are reconstructed as the re publicans propose. render that Johnson offers are im material and the officials of the government need not be in haste to accept them. Sooner or later he will come back and face the music, for whatever it is, it will be better than exile. Johnson's desire to return CSE BOTH ARMS. The work before the interstate A dozen I familiar with those branches of the! commerce commission is expansion years or more ago, a few adven- business, who have proved executive of the transportation plant of the ha been shared by more than one turous souls, possessed of land bun- ability and whose integrity would United States to the point where it absconder and the number of those ,C, t...lHl,Ltll 1 1 ,.1 1 .IT. LIIC1CUU ttllU I 1JKJ.CC IUCI4I OUUYO Cri V 11. t- IO Special Win 1 J. U1C UlCJ.Cca.3eU. HHlllC III wl,.. Vtav. .lltMn1.i.l ,V,-rl.- , . T . I '1 n , , wl wheat "Phot t-. - .. I I n 4 , ,. Ac a Tl,i. .1, ...I J tha 11 Yl t r-ir .Trio rt . I .'LUtJ, U ,, lu ....uum ... .11. 1 v 1 i - 1 111 -i-i i-.i i-. a . i v.. 1 1 CAICl leu CO OUUUtU f ." v. v. j . i f i J UJDU o-U tailVQ eral inches of rain fell in June and be the guide to the permanent policy in rates is a means to that end. Its they harvested a crop of 35 bushels I of congress in shipping legislation. I purpose is to increase the income of to the acre. Their success attracted The American merchant marine is the railroads to the point where more thousands of others. The next year in its formative stage and its future I capital will be invested in the expan- a little smaller amount of rain fell will be decided by the policy pur- sion of their facilities and in the ex- in June, but all the new settlers sued during the next few years. We tension of their tracks. Their reve made money. Now for more than a have ships but our greatest compet- nue has become Inadequate through decade throughout most ot the area j itor, Great Britain, has experience j no fault of their own, but through a drouth has prevailed during the and in coping with it we need to general advance in price of every- growing season. There are some fa- make the most use of the relatively 1 thing that they use and In wages of vcred spots where showers occasion- few experienced men we have. If every man whom they employ. Some ally fall, or where because of higher we undertake to buy experience with I staple commodities that they use altitude the winte moisture is heav- mistakes by putting green men on I have risen in price two and a half lor and remains longer in the sou, the job, it may prove too dearly times the prices of 1915, and the but in general., as a dry farming bought, for it may condemn us to an- total of wages has more than doubled cotfntry this-great area has been a other period of maritime insignifi-1 in five years. The total increase in I cance like that which preceded the I rates during that period has been French actresses, Kansas City ropy readers, Hollywood, Cal., moving-pic ture celebrities, European boxers and others here now, here recently or on their way, 56.789. Burglars, safe crackers, hold-up men, bank robbers, assassins, bomb hurlers and Liberty bond collectors who know a good field when they see It, 78.000. Strangers from Ithaca, Philadelphia, Fall River and points west who have heard it is easy to get a drink here. 100,000. Shaniko. Grass Valley and other points, the party kept moving on. only to discover that they could get no gas at Wasco and none at The Dalles. At Hood River they talked a man out of a gallon and hoped to get more at Troutdale. but the pumps there were, empty. So far as known this Is the first time that snyone has ever driven from Canyon City to Port land In a single day. "The rain has done an immense amount of good In the Willamette valley." announced Henry Pape. a hotel man of Albany, who arrived ln Portland yesterday. "Of course, there Runaway girls after Jobs In movies. I is some hay cut, but if there were 17 86,229. Husbands from the provinces with "important business" here four days a week, 254.377. Wives trying to locate said hus bands and said business, ditto. Henry Watterson was the death of John Quincy Adams ln weeks of sunshine in the Willamette valley and then rain cama there would still b3 hay out ready to be threatened with ruin, because, that seems to be the way of the Willam etta valley farmer. However, the rain hasn't hurt thw hay yet. but has only washed it. Fruit, vegetables and ber- present at rleB are al1 'ng wen under tne rain and a man came into the hotel Mon ri m v ntirht waarfnv i v,c.,.r , o a A i.uc uu.iCu "i"i. said that if it would only rain all night biography he tells of it: he would throw away his hat. which "I was fond of going to the capltollgoes to show how the precipitation and of playing amateur page in the was welcomed by some people." house, of which my father had been a memrjer ana wnere ne had many friends, though I was never officially a page. There was in particular a little old bald-headed gentleman who was good to me and would put his "This gasoline shortaee is killing the resort business," declares Phil Metschan. "Seaside looks desolate. I drove from Seaside to Portland, some 120 miles, and in the entire distance met only 24 -ars, an average of one car to every five miles, and some of arm about me and stroll with me the cars were apparently local. Peo acrosn the rotunda to the library of I pie are afraid to start on a long trip it could be compiled, would be shown to be very large. One reason for high price of milk ls duplication of delivery service. Big milkmen and small milkmen du plicate each other's delivery invest ment and seven or eight milkmen deliver milk ln the same block. No wonder prices are high. They will continue to be high until the milk men voluntarily, or in response to awakened public demand, devise some plan for a central distributing agency. . tragic failure. Today it Is an area of abandoned farms and virtually abandoned villages. The wreckage of plans and hopes is visible in win- , dowless dwellings, overturned build ings, dying orchards, mustard-grown . fields, fallen fences and all the other outward evidences of a blighted com . munlty. Man went there because he was land hungry. The land failed to res-pend because it was water hun gry. Now there ls an ambitious plan on - foot to remake, to rebuild, the Co lumbia basin. Far off to the north east the Pend Oreille river flows . brimming with life-giving fluid to join the Columbia and wend its way ;-to the sea. It is feasible to turn the waters of the Pend Oreille upon the thirsty lands of the Columbia basin. The entire 1,700.000 acres can be - watered. Soil experts say that once water is delivered to the land it can be made to produce as no other land. whether Irrigated or dependent upon 6isonal rains, ever produced before. There is only the immensity of the undertaking that stands in the way NOT TEACHERS OF A CLASS. The report of the commission on the emergency in education, made! to its parent body, the National Kdu- cation association, contains a para graph that goes to the root of the issue of organization among teachers. It distinguishes between professional organization, which it favors, and af filiation with a bodjr utilizing the strike as one of its chief weapons, which it views as dangerous. The important part of its declaration on this topic is the following: We know of no surer way to destroy confidence in the American public achool system ajad in our profesHlon than for our great body of teachers to organize them selves ln affiliation with any church, party or group whose aims and purposes are peculiar to the members of the group Whatever may be our Judgment with re- gara io i legmmacy 01 me programme of organized labor, teachers aa a unit cannot federate with labor for a realiza tion of their aims and at the same time nope. to keep the confidence of the whole people. A protest has been made to Gov ernor Olcott against that provision of the new automobile driver's license law that prohibits persons under 16 from driving. This is one of the best provisions in the law. Too many hard-boiled kids just 'out of short pants are making life uncertain for pedestrians as they drive around in papa's big car when they should be at work. The statement embodies the theory of prompt reclamation of this area, j that a teacher is a public and not a The largest single reclamation proj-1 private servant and that the duty 'of est heretofore undertaken by the I a teacher, like that of every other government is onlj one-fifth as large. There are here to be re claimed lands about equal to the en tire area now under crop in all the thiily irrigation projects under gov- public official, is to find other means of enforcing demands than the strike or boycott, however defensible these may be held to be in the adjustment of differences between private em- n about 4 0 per cent, while rates in the other principal countries have been raised enormously. The percentage of these advances has been: France 140; Belgium 100; Italy 40 to 100 Great Britain 47 to 96; Greece SO; Portugal 57; Holland 70 to 140; Sweden 200; Norway 160; Spain 50; Germany 100 in May besides large prior advances; Austria 390; Hun gary 30P; Canada 40 and further in creases of 30 to 40 per cent pro posed. The result has been a de crease in net operating income of all American railroads of about 75 per cent in 1919 as compared with 1916. As production cannot in the ag gregate exceed the capacity of the transportation plant to carry what the country produces, enlargement of that plant is as much in the interest of those who use'it as of those who own it. In asking for an aggregate addition to their revenue which will yield 6 per cent on the value of the property, taking the costs and vol ume of business for the year 1919 as a basis, the railroads take some of the risks off the shipper. The question is how this increase shall be made. Railroad executives pro pose that it shall be obtained by in creasing freight rates alone, thoueh almost all other countries have! The rain may hurt the cherries a raised passenger rates also, some of little bit, but very little. And. it will them more than freight rates. They douse all the forest fires. congress and get me books to read. I was not so young as not to know that he was an ex-president of the United States and to realize the meaning of lt He had been the oldest member of the house when my father was the youngest. He was John Quincy Adams. By chance I was on the floor of the house when he fell ln his place and followed the excited and tearful thtong when they bore him into, the speaker's room, kneeling by the side of the sofa with an improvised fan and crying as if my heart would break". Chauncey M. Depew in the repub lican convention of 188S was the plat form star. Just as he was 32 years later in Chicago. But when Mr. Depew ln his brilliant address before the convention in Chi cago, as the dean of republican leaders, presented reminiscences of the past, he neglected to point out one notable feature and failure. On his return to New York from the convention of 1888 he started for tovn yesterday with Mrs. Weather "Turks are beginning to realize the serious situation created by the ad vance of the Greeks," says a Con stantinople dispatch. The Turks are so used to being saved by the last mcment intervention of providence that they must be fairly stunned by anything that looks like genuine retribution. A White Star liner is held in quar antine at New York because mem bers of the crew refuse to be washed. Must have expected America to be really bone dry. for fear that they will be stalled on the road without fuel. Ordinarily on a ride between Portland and Seaside a person will be constantly meeting cars, but now the road is almost de serted and looks lonesome. Robert G. Tucker, of the Indian apolis Star, who was covering the democratic convention, is in the city for a couple of days and is at the Multnomah with Mrs. Tucker. Where Mr. Tucker sat ln the press gallery or tne convention hall there was arait ana . ne surrered the conse quences. Mr. Tucker declares that the people of San Francisco did not attempt to take advantage of the convention crowd the way the clti- cenry of Chicago did. Wearing the natty uniform of sn Anzac, G. C. Lisbon registered at the Imperial yesterday afternoon from Victoria. Australia. Uniformed men sre now eo scarce that a soldier in foreign service attracts almost as much attention now as one did before the war. J. Iv. w eatherford. who is Dreti- dent of the boird of regents of the Oregon Agricultural college, was in Eugene V. Debs says he will con duct his campaign for president right from his prison cell. He'll find the pen mightier than the nomination. Europe and did not Teturn until early In September. He then took the stump fo Harrison and Morton. Before leaving for Europe, however, he expressly declared his intention of quitting politics for good at the close of the campaign. In his brilliant way, and the pass. ing years have robbed him of nonej of his old-time vigor oi expression he said: ' 1 "I rise to remark that the experi ence of the preliminary canvass and of the convention at Chicago has convinced me that the only business worth prosecuting in this country is that of railroading. "Railroading and politics will not mix without damage to one or the other. I intend to accept the politi cal disabilities of my business and hereafter give it my individual and exclusive attention." Yet a generation after, and at an age that runs well up into the eighties, Chauncey M. Depew is still in the game, the youngest old man in his party. Philadelphia Evening Ledger. 3tronarrst Man Named. Athena Press. That Cox is the strongest man wh could have been chosen to head th Icket is a matter of individual opin on. At all events he was the choic of an untrameled convention afte many weary hours of balloting. In evitably there were party bosses a Pan Francisco, as at Chicago. Hu they could only boss certain deleisa tions not the convention. Th White House "dictator"' did no di tating, although he now asserts his entire approval of the nominee. The assertion that Cox is a "wet" candi date falls flat. In view of his opposi tion to a wet plank ln the platform. Wets Trnat Him. South Bend (Wash.) Journal. The wets have all along known that the candidacy of Edwards of New Jersey was a joke, as he was too radical in his pro-liquor utterances. Cox was more politic, but is Just rjs satisfactory to the liquor men. There was nothing In his power that he did not resort to as governor to block the efforts of the prohibitionists to put Ohio dry. So completely has he the confidence of the liquor men that he can now make all the assertions he wants to about being strong for law nforcement and even for prohibition and they will know that he doesn't mean it. Administration t Heeded. Pendleton Tribune. Cox was nominated at San Fran cisco despite the wishes of Wilson and administration wheel horses, de spite the earnest efforts of federal officeholders. McAdoo drew most of his support from this fa.ction and from the hand-picked delegates who clung to the fringe of the adminis tration cloak: he was not the choice of the democratic electorate and his failure t: breeze home a winner ii the early ballots with the psycho logical aivantajca secured by his coup proved the point and gave the Cox delegates added hope. CANDIDATE AS BE WAS IX 1901 Mr. Geer Recalls Visit to Marlon. O and Impression Made by Nominee. PORTLAND, July 13. (To the Edi tor.) In the late summer of 1901 I received an invitation from United States Senator Charles T. Dick of Ohio to take part in the fall cam paign In that state. Governor Nash. whom I had met in San Francisco in May of that year at the launching of the battleship Ohio, was a candidate for re-election, but on account of the assast-ination of President MeKlnley. tno .opening of the campaign was postponed through the agrement of bcth parties. Acroinpsnt?!! by my wife I arrived in Columbus in time to participate in an afternoon meeting at Waverly. in the southern oart of the state, with Senator Mark Hanna. and my itiner ary was arranged for a meeting at Marion threa days later. I had never before heard of the town of Marion. Ohio, but we arrived there at 6 o'clock on the evening appointed. ice usual crowd found at the aver age depot on the arrival of a train was there and I said to my wife that of course there would be somebody there to meet ua. and upon descend ing the steps I saw a man who ap parently was looking for somebody as I was and he approached me and asked ma if I was the man he was sent to meet, and added that he was Warren U. Harding, representing the local committee. He took us to a hot-l and said be had prepared a lit tle banauet in horor of the Oregon visitors and would call ln a half hour to escort us to the dining room, which he did. We found that a special menu card haa been prepared on which was printed the nature oT the gathering and in whose honor it was a little souvenir which is a treasured keep ke in our family "archives" today. There were a half dozen prominent citiz.-ns of Marion, with their wives at the f.rlvata table prepared, and Mr. Harding and his wife were tha hosts. ' It was a deliahtful little affair and the entirj informality of it, together with the go.-J heer which prevailed, made the Oregonians feel that they were anions; a gathering of old-time irienns ln Marlon county. Oreeon. In stead of Marion county. Ohio. Mr. MartJing presH.irl at the meeting aft erward and made a 20-mlnute Intro ductory speech, being a fluent and interesting speaker, even that long ago. The nex mornlni we returned o Columbus to get further instruc tions from the state chairman, and were accompanied bv Mr. anrl Mrs. Harding to that citv. he havlncr somo business of a political nature. Since the hatpenirtr of this Urtle Incident 1 have quite naturally fol lowed the alvancement of Mr. Hard ing in Ohio and national public life with much interest and by occasional ccrretpond.n.M have kept our ac quaintancoshlo dive. We found Mr. and Mrs. Harding typical American folks, part of Ihe real "proletariat. " and of those we delight to call the common people." His wife is a cha.rming woman and has been a gen uine 'helpmate" In his upward strug gle in public life. He U a level headed, safa and sane man. untainted Dy the temperament that produces freakish agitators or suggested de parture from the old-time American ism of our fathers. Because hi will make an eminently safe presidsnt and will select his counsellors from the real big men of the nation. hU nomination at Chicago was the-discharge of a very responsi ble duty resting on that great arath- ering. T. T. GEER. Another Scheme to Fool Womn. Malheur Enterprise. Vale. The nomination tf Cox is a slap in the face of the women whom they have so courteously invited into the affairs of their convention, the rep resentative women of the land, who made man ee the error of his ways In all matters pertaining to John Barleycorn. The democrats fooled nearly every woman in the United States about the war. and now they have the temerity to assume that they can go on doing so .even after they have been discovered. Daugh ters of Eve, do your duty. ford. He is a lifelong democrat, o-wr.s a few farms end still has time to look after his legal practice. Albany Is nis oome town. Jouett biiouse, assistant secretary ot tne treasury, inttea through Port land on his way from San Francisco, wnere ne was at tne convention. Mr niouro registered at the Benson, dashed out over the highway, came back and caught his train "for the north. Back from a trip to Kansas City and Washington, D. C. comes C. H. Bidwell and wife. The Bidwells are returning to Island City. Union ounty. where Mr. Bidwell looks after tne iiour end or tno Kiddle mill. Mr. snd Mrs. Bidwell are registered at the Imperial. Beer was served at the Perkins yesterday by the clerk and the bell boy. Fred C. Beer registered from Vancouver. Wash. Clerk Thompson assigned him to a room and the bell boy showed .lim up. W. H. Bair. former mayor of Canby, Or., was in Portland yesterday. Mr. Bair is interested in a bank at horns and in another bank, in this city. Return of the Old nard. Lebanon Criterion. Governor Cox is not a strong sup porter, Of the Wilson administration and the men who placed him in nom ination are neither supporters of the administration nor of the Bryan fac tion of the party, but are more to be considered as l epresentatives of the old-line democrats who for years dominated the party conventions and were only driven from its leadership by the fadvent of William J. Bryan whom they now have deposed end again assumed the master's place. The Bourbons Supreme. Albany Herald. There were four groups of interests in the democratic national conven tion. The Bourbons, composed ot the Tammanys, the Tagarts, the Brennans. and the representatives of all the special interests: the Wilson office-holders behind McAdoo; the Brvan forces who were making their fight for a dry platform and a dry candidate; and the Palmer support. Ibe Bourbons won, when the conven tion f. 'tninated Cox and Roosevelt. Fiasco In Sight. Carlton Sentinel. Governor Cox' march to Washing ton will be about as successful, we expect, as was that of his near-namesake, Coxie, a number of years ago. Sense and Nonsense. London Punch. HubDy No man with any sense would allow you to carry on the way Lyou do. Wiley now ao ou Know wnat a man with any sensa would do? LET EACH ONE RECLAIM AN ACRBi Suggestion Offered for Close-by Back. I to-Land Movement. PORTLAND. Or., July 13: (To tha Editor.) The "Back to the land" slo gan has pased through various staees of intensity from that of an ideal con dition of living, a remunerative voca tion, a means of saving the young from the peri's of city life, a competi tor with the high cost of living, to the present terror-stricken cry that failure to go back to the land means starvation. When real suffering or the certainty of its nearness is very evident a cry for help is seldom un heeded in this country. Advice that the other fellow should do this thing has failed of results. We are not yet starving but necessity for some action is very apparent. When occasions arise men give freely and gladly to hospitals, children's homes, educa tional institutions, religious organi zations and many other relief mea sures. If relieving suffering gives the intense satisfaction which It certainly does, so also should the knowledge that one has prevented suffering. There are thousands of acres around Portland and in the state of Oregon from which the timber has been cut and which is going back to a condi tion of wilderness, growing up to a tangle of underhrush and scrubby trees that will nver be of any value and that make the clearing of the land an ever increasingly difficult matter. There are many persons so situated that without giving up their present business or home life they could take over a few acres or even an 'acre of such land or other land now made little use of and by bring ing it to a state of productivity they would serve posterity Just as truly as they could through the more familiar forms of charity or philanthropy. Suc cess and satisfaction would come ln proportion to the person's ability to put from his mind all thoughts of ma terial profits and find joy in doing this thing because it is a good thing to do. Individual efforts would be a com paratively small gain but if It should become popular the aggregate results might become an important factor in future food supply. GEORGE B. COUPER. Amateur Mariners Criticise. Galveston (Tex.) News. Mr Langley Ah. they have Jsst dropped their anchor. Mrs. Langley Dear me! I was afraid they would; it's been damjlinsr outside for some time. A