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TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, JULY 10, 1920- ormttjjCDruttinu ESTABLISHED BY HEN BY l FITTOC'K. Published by Th Oregonlan Publishing Co., 135 Sixth Strait. Portland. Oregon. CJ. A. WOKPEN. B. B. P1FER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it o- not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 4.25 .73 6.00 3.2 . 1.00 6.00 Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) railv. Sunday Included, one year Dallv, Sunday included, six months . Dally. Sunday Included, three months Iaily, Sunday included, one month .. Ially, without Sunday, one year . . . rally, without Sunday, six months . . Dally, without Sunday, one month . . Weekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year "I S? Iaily. 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As a demonstration of the species f impartiality between political parties that is practiced by the ex ecutive council of.ttae American Fed eration of Labor, its action with, re gard to the republican and demo cratic platforms is enlightening. At its recent convention at Montreal the federation adopted what it called labor's demands, thus disregarding the vast majority of working people that is outside of its ranks. It presented these demands to the reso lutions committees of both party conventions. .The republican plat form was no sooner adopted than President Gompers recommended and the federation adopted an un qualified condemnation. The com niittee of the federation has taken much time and pains to study the democratic platform and has at last published its conclusions. These are: In summarizing It is but fair to say that the democratic platform marks a measure of progress not found In the plat form of the republican party. In rela tion to labor's proposals the planks wrlt inin the democratic platform more pearly approximate the desired declara- tlons of human rights than do the planks ' found In the republican platform. The men and women of labor of the TJnlted States and her liberty-loving peo ple must JudSf between the declarations of these parses. The Impending ram " palgn and election for president and vice president. United Ptates senators and mem bora of the house of representatives is -upon us and the citizenship of our coun try must determine its own course in elect ing those candidates for these offices who are most friendly disposed toward labor. Justice, freedom, democracy and hnm&nliv. and to defeat those who are leas friendly or more hostile to these prin ciple?. Labor of America Is not partisan to any politics! party: it is partisan to princi ples, the principles of Justice and free dom. It undertakes neither to dictate nor control the choice of the workers or the citizenship generally for which party or candidates tney snouia voie, ui n be a palpable dereliction of duty did we fail in nlace the facts before the voters of our country upon the records of both parties and their respective candidates for pub- , 11c office. Those conclusions are not justified by comparison between the declara tions on labor questions, for there la very little difference between them en material points. The right of wage-earners to or . pKnize trade unions, to select their .' own representatives and to bargain HI HI LM II li ...... i -' J . . . - publican platform and, as it has been exercised almost entirely through the unions, the right to form unions is plainly implied, in fact, is so com monly conceded as not to need re-sssertion. A further specific declaration of ;' the right of voluntary association " was demanded on behalf of labor, to gether with a demand for protection against abuse of injunctions. The democrats grant the former demand with a statement that "labor Is not a commodity; it is human" an axiom upon which the republican party has always acted without so much talk as democrats indulge in. Neither plat ' form refers to injunctions, but the Wilson administration recently went ; farther in resort to them to end the coal strike than has any former ad ministration. Yet the federation committee smooths over that point by saying: Failure of the platform to endorse the Injunctions secured through the efforts f Attorney-General Palmer in the miners' case may fairly be assumed to constitute . repudiation of that action. Legislation to make strikes un '.. lawful or to compel arbitration or mediation of labor disputes was con , demned by the federation, which held that the government should simply "supply information, assist ance and counsel." It did not claim . the right to strike for public em ployes, but said that they "should not be denied the right of organiza tioiv. the right of representation for " rectification of grievances and po litical rights accorded to all other citizens." The democratic platform uses many words to assert the right - cf the people to insist on justice be- ' tween capital and labor, and the duty of labor to recognize its duty to the state and to assist in formulating and to obey' laws "governing the condi tions under which labor is per formed." It pledges the party to de vise methods of composing differ ences of this nature, but opposes compulsory arbitration. It bluntly declares that "the rights of the people are paramount to the right to strike," but promises "instant in quiry" and "speedy regulation" of the pay of government employes. The republican platform says sub stantially the same thing in fewer ; words. It justifies government ini tiative againsl strikes or lockouts be cause they "inflict loss and suffering on the community." It denies the right to strike against the govern ment, but says: The rights and Interests of all govern ment employes must be safeguarded by impartial laws. For public utilities it favors in quiry and rendering of decisions by impartial tribunals, pending which there should be no interruption ol public service, the decisions to be ' morally, but not legally, binding. As to l-rivate industries it says: "We do pot advocate the principle of com pulsory arbitration by impartial , commissions, supplemented by pub licity, all on government Initiative. This plan does not differ materially from that favored by the democrats, but it is more clearly stated. The federation committee has this to saj of the democratic plank: The platform provisions here set forth are specific In condemnation of compul sory arbitration in disputes in privately - owned industry. There Is a vagueness In the balance of the first two paragraphs There is uncertainty as to what the plat-"-ro means to convey lu iU reference to the obligation of the workers to the state and the proposal to find a substitute for the right of workers to cease work when cessation of work is said to endanger the lives or health of the people. The federation accepts the demo cratic declaration of the rights of government employes, which the re publican platform do'es not deny, while not affirming them, but it says that the last paragraph "implies methods in the settlement of disputes In government employment which can not be approved as a general statement of government policy." Rights of free speech, press, as semblage and association were as serted by the federation. They are upheld with about equal vehemence by both platforms, but both also deny that they extend to advocacy of resistance to the law or overthrow of the government. "Vigorous enforcement of the sea men's act and the most liberal Inter pretation of its provisions" werede manded by the federation. The dem ocratic platform is silent on the sub ject. The republican platform favors an American merchant m a r 1 n e "manned by American seamen" and "the application of the workmen's compensation acts to the merchant marine." As it stands for enforce ment of all laws, evidently the party considered specific mention of the seamen's act superfluous. It was declared that "we must, put an end to the employment for profit of children under sixteen years of age " The democrats met this by acclaim would his renown be per petuated! The Philadelphia Public Ledger, In a review of Governor Coolidge's book, "Have Faith in Massachusetts," al ludes to that volume as the original mainspring of the nomination, but commits the slovenly discourtesy of not remembering the name of Judge McCamant. "The Oregon lawyer who started the Coolidge boom at Chicago tells how he happened to do it," comments the Ledger, and thereupon relates that this nameless delegate had read the volume with such approval that he knew Coolidge for a patriot and the man of the hour. Both Governor Coolidge and Oregon win fame from the review, but Judge McCamant remains incog nito. Presumably this omission will not worry him In the least, for his is helping of whale steak, another slice J BY-PRODUCTS of finback roast or an additional platter of whale goulash. The United States bureau of fish eries, tirelessly on the trail of Its official hobby, declares that the pro tein content of canned whale meat is 34 per cent, in favorable contrast to 13 or 14 per cent in canned beef, the that haunts the troubled the consciousness of public service well performed. A LEFT-HANDED TRIBUTE TO PORT-LAND. taking credit for the present child labor law and by urging co-operation with the states for protection of child life, prohibition of child labor and by adequate appropriations for the chil dren's and women's bureaus. The republican platform says the party stands for a federal child labor law and for its rigid enforcement" and promises that, "if the present law be found unconstitutional or ineffec tive," it will "seek other means to enable congress to prevent' the evils of chlid labor." Its record proves its sincerity, for, though the child labor law tsf 1916 was passed by a fiemo- cratic congress, it was opposed by only two republicans in the house and two in the senate, while forty- tout democratic representatives and ten democratic senators voted against it. We might go to the end of the chapter to prove the rank partiality of this federation committee which pretended to be impartial. It se'. out to make a case, if it possibly could, in favor of the democratic platform. and therefore has toned down what might arouse opposition among union men. The reason is not far to seek. It has found the democratic party more amenable to pressure when labor unions make demands contrary to the rights of the people. It found in President Wilson "a man who yields," as one of its leaders expressed it. The record of the re publican party proves that it has passed far more laws and more im portant ones to improve the condi tion of labor than the democratic party has passed, and that almost all the states which lag behind are dem ocratic. But the republican party, while doing justice to labor, will not gratify it by doing injustice to the public. Those working men who art fair-minded will recognize this fact, and only the labor politicians will be influenced by a one-sided analysis of the platforms. DUTIES OF THE FOREIGN-BORN. By refusing to naturalize an alien who had lived in the United States for thirty-nine years and who sought citizenship only in order that he might qualify for a license to fish, Judge Gatens gave notice to all aliens residing in this country that they owe an obligation to the nation, which they must assume in order to enjoy the privileges of citizenship. An idea has prevailed among im migrants that it was policy to be come citizens because they thereby acquired the right to vote, to hold of fice, to homestead public land, to file mining claims. These were rights and privileges which they acquired: no thought was given to reciprocal duties which they must perform. Be cause it was not required that a man must be a citizen in order to obtain a license to fish, foreign fishermen flocked in, and few of them were naturalized. When the law was changed to require naturalization, they sought citizenship as a matter of sordid self-interest, not out of loy alty to a country which gives them an opportunity to make a better liv ing than they could make anywhere else on earth. They needed the se vere rebuke Conrad Madsen was given. The war has had one beneficial ef fect in that it has Impressed on the foreign-born that citizenship not only confers rights but Imposes duties It has taught them that this republic needs defense, tljat its citizens must defend it and that it is well worth defending. If any of them have any doubt on that point, let them go back whence they came and try living under the government under which they were born as it has been changed by the war. Decision of the shipping board to establish operating headquarters for the north Pacific district at Seattle instead of at Portland is a plain vio lation of the business principles which should govern. The board is concerned only with the volume of business done by its own vessels at the two ports. It has nothing to do with the business carried on foreign and privately owned American ships. The traffic carried on shipping board vessels to and from Porotland ex ceeds that carried on such vessels to and from Seattle. That fact should bo conclusive. Seattle's anxiety to be headquar ters for vessels plying from Portland as well as Puget sound ports is due to realization of the weakness of its position as compared with Portland's, Its ocean traffic Is mainly transcon tinental and its ocean vessels are mostly foreign-owned. Only a small proportion of its traffic across the Pacific .and to Europe originates in its own trade territory and is carried in American bottoms. " By way of contrast, almost all the ships plying to Portland are American, more than half the goods shipped from this port originate in the Columbia basin and more than half the imports are for home consumption. This situation1 gives Portland a strong hand to draw to. Presence of so much domestic freight attracts ships, and the ships attract transcontinental freight to complete cargoes. That situation will naturally incline railroads to de liver more of their export freight at Portland and less at Seattle. Thus Seattle's grip on railroad favor is weakening. It desires to strengthen that grip by having the operating of ficials of the shipping board in its midst and subject to its vigilance and influence. Past relations of the two ports for bid hope that Portland can get a square deal by the proposed arrange ment. Seattle has always shown fear of Portland competition by exagger ation of the difficulties presented by the Columbia river bar and channel, and it has industriously spread all over the world the false belief that Portland was inaccessible to ships. Now that the bar has been obliter ated and the channel deepened to hirty feet at low water, now that the naval board has attested these facts and that many ships have . proved them, while others add to the proof daily by coming and going in safety. now that a preliminary decision fore casts ending of rat-; discrimination in favor of the sound. Seattle finds that its campaign of representation will no longer work. Therefore it falls back more than ever on pfficial favors. This conduct of a competitor is in itself a .tribute to the strength of Portland s natural position. It .has not been coddled by railroads; quite the contrary. It'has not been made the Pacific terminus of foreign steamship lines. I . has had to struggle for years against natural ob structions to navigation, which it has onlv recently overcome. Its natural advantages are still annulled by dis crimination in railroad rates. But as soon as the bar is abolished and the channel deepened and as ships are available, traffic begins to flow here ana snips Degin to come here as though by Instinct, and alarm spreads in ports which depend on artificial conditions for a large part of their traffic The reason is that Portland is me natural outlet for the traffic as it is for the waters, of the Colum bia river basin. Traffic comes here despite the rate barrier that is de signed to divert It to the sound, as soon as the barriers to its continued flow out to sea are removed. It will fellow this course so long as the energy of Portland provides means for handling it. OK. THE TIMES Al- nnlllal PThere is no desire to question the scientific accuracy of this compara tive analysis, but if proteins rioted In the green and golden fibers of that old meadow friend, the skunk-cabbage, 'would they enhance the value of the distasteful dish? Not alto gether fair to the whale is that poser, (or the parallel is somewhat over drawn. But it will serve for the pur pose of illustration. The truth is. while the choicest finback cuts do resemble beef and are free from bone, gristle and fat, bearing no physical resemblance to fish, the analogy ends there. For whale flesh does most indisputably and objec tionably savor of misplaced fish fats ami fluids. The degree may vary but the taste is there. Tastes are strange suzerains. That which' our trained and orthodox ap petites turn from is often the deli cacy, the tid-bit, of other people. There are many who prefer carp to trout. From the roof of a Chinese restaurant, in a Portland fire some years ago, was tossed a bundle of skinned, dried animals. Inspection revealed the carcasses to be those of civet-cats. A queer quirk of the hu man palate? Peculiar to the Chi nese? Not at all. The old pros pector who rambles with his burro through the Oregon hills .will tell you that the flesh of the skunk, when properly prepared, is a delicious din net. Backwoodsmen say that cougar meat is' whiter, more tender and more delicious than veal. The In-dians- practiced .thrift by skinning their muskrats for the furs and then roasting the flesh. The meat of the muskrat is in high esteem in many American communities. To return to our whale, it may be possible that skilled preparation will entice the palate to a second helping. The food value is there and the mighty bulk of the animal looms like an entire carload of Texas steers. His pastures are the sea and the crow's-nest shout of "There she blows!" means that the largest liv ing largess of the ocean is ready for the taking. One may properly wish the chemists and cooks well as they toil at their task of making whale- meat entirely acceptable to the palate. The tendency in circles of higher education to divert the current of foreign students from the larger in etitutions of learning to others of first class but of smaller size shows recognition of the especial mission that, the smaller colleges, usually designated as "freshwater," has to perform. There is growing belief that we have too deep reverence for mere bigness and that this may have blinded us to the merit of modesty, in institutions as well as among men. That a better understanding of American problems could be ob tained by a foreigner' at a smaller Institution situated in a rural district than 'at the greater universities is a contention that may arouse the ire of the latter, but the desirability that both classes of institutions should be understood as part of the American system of education is manifest. Nor are the. benefits one-sided, as some suppose. If students them selves are helped by the broadening of their associations, the smaller col leges would seem to be entitled to a share of the good things that are going around. . . AN ENFORCED INCOGNITO. The spectacular spontaneity with which the Coolidge boom burgeoned at. Chicago, bearing immediate fruit in the republican vice-presidential nomination, was the dramatic incl dent of the convention. Judge Wal lace McCamant, not altogether un known on the Pacific coast and else where, was the man from Oregon who launched that impromptu and most happy selection. So much for political history. The essential nov elty of the episode fired the fancy o newspaper men everywhere. It was unheard-of but apropos, it was un conventional but effective in a word it was "western." Comment ran to that effect. Alas, Judge McCamant! Though the thought was remote from his mind, it is but a natural sequence that makers of history shall receive the credit therefor. Yet in this in stance, while the epic tale of the Coolidge nomination is still current in the columns of the eastern press, the identity of its source Is cloaked beneath such vague nomenclature as "an Oregon man," or "an Oregon delegate," or "an Oregon attorney." Somewhere in the shuffle of great events the card index of a just credit has been misplaced. It is pulchri tudmous publicity for Oregon, and the head of the state is high in pride, but Judge McCamant is far removed from the horn-spectacled vision of the eastern paragraphers. Now, had it been a New Yorker, or a Philadelphian, or even a delegate from Portland, Me., whose inspired thought and action had been the nomination of Coolidge, with what CALL THE COOKS TO ACTION Nothing is more praiseworthy these times than any attempt to pop ularize a hitherto scorned or neg lected article of diet that, neverthe less, is both palatable and rich in nutriment. The maw of the world is gaping for food, wider than ever be fore, and even increased speed Id production of the staple articles does not entirely promise to suffice. Here in is no hint of famine but rather a presage that food prices will not de cline as sharply as they have risen The scouts of civilization have been sent on the search for "something just as good" and they have turns to the sea, mother of life. They bring home strange fishes, tossed back to the brine by fishermen of an earlier era, and tell us that these are the equals of the cod and th salmon. To some extent their offer. tug., have attained popularity, but it is not so with their most brobding- nagian haul, the whale. This giant mammal of the deep may some day be so disguised in clever cookery that the normal palate will find his ttcaks acceptable, but for the present jis culinary reign will remain where it has long prevailed, in the scattered igloos of the northland. Such a prediction is without preju dice to the whaling industry, already of considerable magnitude on the Grays Harbor coast of Washington, for the novelty of experimenting with the flesh of the leviathan, when it is offered in the markets, will continue to attract purchasers. General Custer Is said to have professed a fondness, a pronounced appetite, for the flesh of the rattlesnake and was wont to squat by the cooking fire with his Indian scouts when one of them chanced to bag a fat diamond-back. The shudder with which ordinary folks would turn from such a repast is probably but the reflex of an In stinct old as Adam. The diamond back may be as toothsome, as de lectable, as the "chief with the long, yellow hair" maintained It to be. but even Custer, we imagine, would shake his head In negation at a second Discovery , nf Radium Reversed chemists Dnara, The old alchemist didn't worry about the conservation of matter of the law of cause and .effect. He thought he had the ultimate by the horns, and patiently boiled sulphur, mercury, perspiration and toads' legs, confident that sooner or later he would produce the "magic stone" which would transform lead into gold. But he never succeeded, and the sci entists who followed indulged in many a laugh at the alchemist who thought it possible to turn lead Into gold. But in 1896, a writer in the Electri cal Experimenter polntsout, science suffered as thrilling a shock as if a descendant of old Petrus Peregrinus had announced the discovery of the proper bath for changing the basest of all metals into gleaming gold. Up to that time the scientists had been patting themselves on the back, su premely confident that they had diag nosed Mother Nature's case so com pletely that she could never again produce any startling innovations. Yet here was radium, an element thou sands of times as precious as the golden goal of the alchemists, spon taneously changing itself into lead, In performing this startling rever sal of the alchemists' dream, radium revealed a whole world of complex actions going on within the atom it self, which had long been considered the simplest unit of matter. Scientists were thus forced to reconstruct most of their ideas regarding the consti tution of matter. In the light of the new knowledge presented by radium it was apparent that, to a minute creature of a size comparable to that of an atom, every atom of matter would seem as complex a world as the whole universe appears to as. Pure radium Is a silvery metal. but it is usually extracted in the form of radium bromide of chloride, which are white salts. Twenty tons of the richest pitchblende would yield a small thimbleful of radium Radium costs approximately 300 times as much as a diamond. The characteristic and indeed the most wonderful property of radium is Its -ability to emit continuously a spontaneous radiation capable of penetrating solid bodies through which light cannot pass. It w this phenomenon which led to the discovery of radium. These rays are pf two kinds, one being waves In the ether, an invisible light' similar-to X-rays, while the other consists o minute particles of matter actually shot off by the radium. The atoms o radium are continually exploding, and every second a thimbleful of the sub stance shoots out more bullets than there were dollars in the liberty loan. yet the particles are so small that th thimbleful can continue to do this fo 2000 years and there will still be half a thimbleful left. To meet his father, BUly Sunday, evangelist extraordinary. Billy Sun day Jr. arrived in Portland yesterday from the Hood River farm. Young Billv is studvinsr law at the Indiana Law school of Indianapolis and says e has no inclination to follow in the footsteps of his illustrious parent. Ac cording to the son, the evangelist will stay a few more days on the farm and then will go to Winona Lake, lna.. where he will visit the colony of evan gelists established at that place. ."Yes, we ve a pretty nice farm in tne vai ley," said Billy Junior yesterday. "We raise hogs and chickens and JJaa lines nothing better than to be working here. However, he round it neces sary to speak at the Chautauqua at Corvallis and I expect to meet him In Portland. We will drive out to the farm in the auto." Fame of the city which lies at the mouth of the Willamette has spread and even those who reside in England have heard whispers of the beauty of the Oregon country and of the spirit of its citizens. H. Wickman. prom inent business man of Manchester, England, passed through Portland esterday. registering at the Perkins. Mr. Wickman left his home city two months ago. landed at Montreal, jour nered through Canada and was en route to San Francisco, where he is to Join his wife. According to the visitor. Portland is amazing to one whose every-day view has been re stricted to smoke and blackened build ings. "Do you know," said Mr. Wick man, "it really is a pleasure to gaze upon white buildings, clean streets and a clear sky. It must be remem bered that Manchester is the greatest manufacturing city of England and to erect a white building in that city is folly. The building is as black as coal within a few weeks. Perhaps figures lie occasionally. especially census figures, though a man's estimate of his home town always is optimistic. Five hundred people appear twice that to him. Sta tistics on Oregon towns are not satis fying, but they stand. The housewife is likely to get all the cherries she wants this week at an old-time price. Sugar is high, of course, but the tendency is to use a syrup too heavy, and the jarred stuff will taste better next winter for the less. Those Who Come and Go. At last the east is hearing of the natural advantages of the coast and particularly of the city of Portland, and it is all brought about by the royal treatment of the city's visitors during Shrine week, according to C. W. Myers, member of the Medlnah temple of Chicago, who remained in the city yesterday at the Portland to break the journey from his home to California. "Believe me ' asserted the noble. "the east has heard of the wonderful greeting we received here, because every noble who attended the con vention is telling his friends of it. The visitors were delighted at the splendid reception given them and noted the fact that they were not held up at the restaurants, hotels or theaters. The value of this to tne city in advertising cannot be estimated." FARM PROBLEMS MUST BE SOLVED Tillers of Soil Demand More This Vaarne Political Promises. FOREST GROVE. Or.. July 17. (To the Editor.) The most vito.l thing in . nation's life Is food, that the lnsur- nce against revolutions forever is a sufficiently large fraction of our pop ulation engaged in agriculture and contented, owning their land, con serving the soil, assured of a fair re turn for their labor. It is squarely up to the American voter to speak in no uncertain terms for the farmer. Self-interest demands it. Idealism demands It- Unless something is done to stop the Inroads being made upon the welfare of American agriculture, upon your three meals a day, then we shall have in years to come a class herding of American farmers who will have been driven to the wall, and an other example of the damage done to American institutions by agitators who, finding a class grievance, raise a class conflict with all its exagger ated bitterness tearing at our fabric of mutual Interest to separate it into shreds of self-interest. That is why you are interested in barging on the door of both political parties. You demand that one or the other of them shall meet our agricul tural future face to face, and hall deal with It by keeping pledges made in Chicago by the republican party or in San Francisco by the democratic party. We shall not be satisfied by glib platform promises. If either party is going to play jackstraws with our agricultural question, the fact of that deceit will stand up like a water tower on a treeless hilL The biggest Industry In America is not to be chucked under the chin by soft finger tips. Economically, it is the basic in dustry. It furnishes the foundation for life, and not only for life, but for trade. Socially. It is the backbone of the country; it keeps available the only supply of human resources that will remain strong and virile, that win iorever furnish the social stabil ity and the leadership of humanity the supply which comes from contact witn Aioiner r.arth. If either of the great parties want? o go on playing with the agricultural uture or the United States it has plenty of opportunity. It can be vague and general and cive forth pleasant sounds; and it can declare ror petty measures such as wiping out tne government free-seed nuisance that has long amused and irritated tne farmers, and it can declare for raising the pay of the exnerts of the department of agriculture. These are good measures, but they and their kind do not touch the vitals of our basic industry. W. J. R. BEACH. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Hontacae. No If The campaign to make the mini mum wage of the federal employe three dollars cannot bear fruit be fore next year. The high-up demo crat Is not much concerned with the wage of his lowest-paid help.. The bank president in Oakland. Cal., who kept $20,000 In cash and valuables in a vault in his residence and lost all to a robber and dyna mite may not be now so much in favot of distributing the risk. When a wife goes away with- an other man she is starting communion with death. Instances daily show llil. The "pirate" is too low down in the scale to protect her in trouble. What fools such women be! Cashier Zintheo of the Starbuck bank, locked in the vault, expected that treatment and kept a screw driver at hand. That was better than a gun, which might have hurt some body. Mr. Gompers is preparing to take the stump against congressional can didates he alleges are unfriendly to labor. Mr. Gompers will be filling the role of a good democrat. There Is no. fun for the small boy swimming if he must wear a suit and he should be given the run or the pool.' a few days a week as nature intends he should swim. Perhaps that dog guarding the Adamless Eden of the Reed college girls' camp got disgusted and quit her job. A dog needs a man around for boss. There is nothing in .any ''Hints on Taking a Vacation" that we have ever read that says & word about neglecting the home garden. . British sailors in Bermuda, who offer insult to the American flag p'ck their time when there are no "leathernecks" around. The more displeased the Germans are with the nominations for presi dent, the more pleased the American people will be. If this milk problem gets much bigger, a fellow must take a day off to digest it. The tower of Babel was not com pleted at Chicago, either. The time honored gold miner's term for gold ore, or auriferous gravel i placer diggings,' is "pay dirt." Thl, desirable material Is found not onl in the golden west, but knowing jew elry manufacturers "strike it rich in the city. Maiden Lane, New York city, district gold mining prospect are in jewelry factory floors, whic yield platinum, gold and. silver. These metals are also extracted from dentists" refuse and from th sweepings of gold beaters, bookbind ers, pottery decorators, picture fram and mirror manufacturers. Few manufacturing firms melt their own sweeps. In the '70s none of the manufacturers thought of cover ing their shop floors with either tar felting or linoleum and the floors were of pine wood, with open cracks between the boards. When a manu facturer moved he requisitioned a re finer to superintend the ripping up of the floors, and these sometimes yield ed many thousands of dollars. Julius Wodiska, a jewel expert, re lates an experience of his own. From 1879 to 1885 he had a factory over the store of an exterminator of rats and other vermin, who owned the build ing. In the summer of 1884 a shrewd gold refiner, who knew the large mount of precious metals handled in Mr. Wodiska's place, told the landlord that any time the jeweler moved he. the refiner, would pay the rat catch ing landlord $300 for the privilege of taking up and relaying the floor of the Jewelry factory. The landlord no tified Wodiska that on the first of the coming May his rent would be doub led. Wodiska refused to pay and said he would move. The landlord was more than pleased. But Mr. Wodiska moved on April 1 and during that month he had the floor carefully torn up and every square Inch of It and of the space below It scraped. In vain the landlord protested and threatened lawsuit. Before his lease expired Mr. Wodiska had replaced the old floor and he was quite astonished at the large amount of gold his refiner re turned to him after the scrapings and dirt had been put through a furnace. Frank Klague, a federal employe of Valparaiso, Ind-. owns three hietori cal documents for which he has just refused an offer by an eastern hlsto rical society of $1500. The documents are reports made by Thomas Jeffer son to George Washington, while the latter was president, and dealt with the middle west territory, which was then an unsettled region. One of the reports deals with the northwest territory and one with the navigation on the Mississippi river. Jefferson made a survey of this ter ritory, which afterward became a part of the country through the Louisiana Purchase. The documents are of a bulgy char acter, in Jefferson's own handwriting, and are legible, although the ink has eaten into the paper In some places. Mr. Klague's wife obtained the pa pers through her grandfather, a New York city publisher, who had obtained the reports for publication, and they had never been returned, coming down through the generations of the family. Indianapolis Star. To Kipling an American once wrote, according to the Boston Transcript, "Hearing that you are retailing liter ature at $1 a word, I enclose. $1 for a sample." Mr. Kipling complied with "Thanks" and kept the dollar. Two weeks later the American wrote, "Sold the "Thanks" anecdote for $2. Enclosed please find 46 cents In stamps, being half the profits on the transaction, less the postage." "A bumper wheat crop Is expected by farmers of the Grand Ronde valley this year," said C. R. Harding, assist ant cashier of the United, States Na tional bank of La Grande, yesterday Mr. Harding is en route to Salem where he will attend the state con vention of Elks to be held at the cap ital city this week. "As far as the celebrated wind storms of the valley are concerned," asserted Mr. Harding, "we have failed to experience theirl this year and very little wheat was lost because of the wind. In fact. 1 may say that the outlook for a bum per crop is excellent and wheat grow ers of the section hope to secure a larger yield this year than any of the five or six preceding years." Mr. Harding is at the Multnomah. National parks are this year at tracting a greater number of tourists than ever before, and it is said that tv ) education of the sightseer is not complete unless he has viewed the glories of the Yellowstone and the beauties of the Glacier National parks. A party consisting of Miss R Marts. Mrs. M. P. Griffith Mrs. Mil dred Grec and Miss Sadie Arnold, al from Los Angeles, rested yesterday, at the Benson preparatory to their visit to Glacier park. While in the city the Californians viewed the highway d were pleased. Members of the party departed from Los Angeles one day prior to the earthquake and are congratulating tnemseives on xneir decision to leave at precisely the time they did. . When the heat of the summer sun begins to melt the asphalt streets and when the tide of tourist travel is at Is heicrht then it Is that the hotel clerk hies him to the hills and streams, there to spend his time lolling in the shade of some friendly tree while nis lazy line, whirling in the rapids, lures the voracious trout. "Johnny O Brlen room clerk at the Portland, yesterday cranked his new four-cylinder auto mobile and Journeyed to parts un known. Friends watching his de parture noted the fact that the auto was hitting on five cylinders as it drew away from the hotel but here is the Dossible supposition that tne rirtn cylinder was nothing more or less than a knock in the engine,. Southern California is noted all over the world for the beauty of its natural scenery and the smiling ef fulirence of its omnipresent sun. and yet according to the local hote clerks numbers of tourists from the golden state have come to Port land to SDend the summer months en joying Oregon's scenery. Mrs. A. Clif ford Towers and Mrs. Charles W. Wil helm, prominent matrons of Pasadena, registered yesterday at the fortiana coming to the city to visit rrienas. Out-of-town residents are taking ad vantage of the splendid summe months to visit Portland . and one more craze UDon the Columbia high wav. Mrs. C. C. Cathey and Mrs. W K. Jamleson, both of Albany, arrived in the city yesterday and are at the Oregon. Mrs. Cathey Is wife of the southern representative of the Irwin Hodson company or fontanel. Touring the Pacific coast states un der the auspices of the Raymon Whitcomb travel bureau, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Parrish, Henry Parrish 2d Miss Marie Parrish and Edward C. Parrish Jr., all of New York, arrive in the city yesterday and are at th Benson. Their western trip will in elude California. E. W. Farmer, clerk at the Perkins. left yesterday for Oregon City on tw weeks vacation. It is Mr. Farmer intention to make that place his head quarters for his onslaughts upon th trout streams of the vicinity. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Hunter, well known residents of Albany, were In the city yesterday and registered at the Oregon. Heat and earthquakes apparently caused the departure from Pasadena of J. H. Henry and J. B. Henry. The duo arrived In the city yesterday and registered at the Portland. Jabez Smith and wife of Newark Valley, N. Y., touring the coast, were In the city yesterday. They are guests of the Multnomah. GREED MAY BE ITS OWN UNDOl.NG Profiteers Reject Selfish Prudence In Opening; Russian Door. PORTLAND. July 17. (To the Ed itor.) It is often and truthfully said by social economists that the 'profit system carries within itself the germs of its own destruction. Your edito rial. -Danger in Trade With the So viet," so forcibly verifies this fact that it prompts the writing uf this letter. The abnormal human areed. not manifest in any other of the animal creations, has so malformed our hu man relations that even prudence in safety from undesired changes by the profiteers is swept aside for the making of profits. Each nationality, anticipatins; the rivalry of other nationalities in the mad race for profits, is planning to resume commercial relations with soviet Russia, hoping to escape the consequences, yet full well knowing tne. impossibility of such escape. Profiteers in England. Italy. Belgium and the United States and reaction ary of all reactionaries France, de mand of their governments, through their invisible governments the money power the breaking down of the undeclared but surely existing blockade of Russia. The individual greed-rivalry existing among all men under the profit system manifests itself even more forcibly among na tions. I am reminded of an incident illus trative of this profit-system-destroy ing germ that occurred several years ago in an argument on "free moral agency with a friend. My argument supporting this question was made by taking a stick and offering my friend to suggest whether I break It or lay It down (inbroken. I insisted could do either. Some time afterward I met the friend again and, says he. Your argument was not sound. Sup pose you see a twenty-dollar gold piece lying in .the road. Will you go by It or pick It up?" The fc.eat profit possibilities of trade with soviet Rus sia open wide the gate to the next economic evolution of the world. It is inevitable. The unheard-of abnor mality of profit taking now ram pant wherever the governments fail to supervise and regulate by actual agreement, points the way to the next world epoch. C. W. BARZEE. THE OLD AND THE KW. 5 longer our dear little Johnny Is thrilled tr hi. Inr.. By those tales of the west in whi.-h virtue distressed Was wholly surrounded by gore. no more are his morals imperiled By the chapters of hideous crime V here villains saw red and shot nice people dead In the novels that sold for a dime. Forgot is the dreadful dime novel We read vhen our dads were not by. Forgot are the tales of the wild west ern trails Where heroes looked death in the eye; A dime will not buy the same fiction As it did in the dear long ago. But you'll find the same crooks, and their crimes in the books That cost you two dollars a throw. i Xo ore does the blood-curdling drama view, twenty and thirty a seat) Rouse youth to a pitch of excitedncsa which Caused Dulses in fi,,r,- i I . No more does One Thfntinr u- Put seventeen crimes in one plav. ror the hard-working horde who could never afford To go to the shows on Broadway. Ten. twenty and thirty cent thrillers Are things of the long faded past; No longer the crowd shrieks its hor ror aloud lt 'ooks at these dramas aghast, you're looking for dramatized bloodshed. With hideous murders replete. You only can go to a nice high-class show At a cost of five fish for a seat! mm He Mourns Alone. Ball players will have no sympathy ror the- umpire who was robbed at the polo grounds in New York. They say it is poetic justice that he was the victim of a crook at the very scene of so many of his own crimes. . He Better Be Watrhed. Bryan says his heart is In the grave but politically he has several times had one foot there and he seems to have left his hat in the well-known ring. tCopyrisht. 18J0. the Bell Syndicate. loo.) A LOVE SONG. I have looked for a love, A great white love. Out from your eves so true. A love that would transplant me Body and soul. Into a life with vou. Into a realm of unsDeakable Mis Whore the dreams of the soul come true; Where though we sat silent speaking no word, Jly soul could converse with you. Your eyes, like the beams of th morning sun That brighten and transform the dew. Would gleam and shine as thpv looked in mine Beholding my love for vou. Would gleam and shine like the rarest gem Transmitting a rainbow hue. So in this realm of the soul's great D1ISS, Tn this land of unspeakable jny. We two shall bo one both body "and soul With nothing to mar or allov. And a trust like the trust of God in man Will spring up that -none 'can destroy. So come while I wait in this great nope. For nothing shall more annoy. Come, singing the song of spring in your heart. And make full ni v- soul's great joy. AMY ELIZABETH CARSON. First Transcontinental Road. PORTLAND, July 17. (To the Edl toro.) Kindly inform me in what year and by what system was the first railroad built Into Portland from the east, and in what year did the Northern Pacific enter Portland. J. J. JOHNSON. Portland's first transcontinental railroad service was attained in 18S3 through completion of the Northern Pacific to a connection with the Ore gon Railway & Navigation company and affiliaticn of the two lines. WHY TALK, ABOUT 'SCPERIORITY't Men and Women Are Jos; Different, Kot Bieceaaarlly Unequal. FOREST GROVE. Or.. July 17. (To the Editor.) I have always been Interested in the letters of the peo pie as pr'nted on the editorial page of The Oregonlan. but lt seems to me rather absurd that men and worn en of this age of civilization should be quarreling about which is ahead intellectually. It reminds me of two small toys quarreling. The firs said: "I am bigger than you are and I can lick you. Women are equal to men Intellec tually. The education of the age is trying to make them equal. Ever since the barbarian age, when physi cal strength was the only thing tha counted, men have been trying to bring women up to their side as part ners in the story of life. Is it no natural that a man should ask the advice of his partner before he en ters some large business undertak ing? But are all the wives as in terested as they should be? One sex is not ahead of the other. No! And never will be. I don't care how smart you are. there is always someone who knows more than you do about a certain subject. Man. for the simple reason that he is a man. looks at things from a masculine point of view. In other word-,, they are, as a general rule, more aggressive more apt to be the leaders. I don't mean that they are any better or know any more than women, but they are men. It is more natural for a woman to be interested in the home, in flowers, etc. Of course, you have all heard of the masculine woman and the feminine man. If a woman is interested In busi ness thero Is no reason why she should nc take up business, just as well as a man.' Women are making just as large a success in business as men, but they are not so numer ous, because It is not so natural for a woman to like the th!ngs that men like. MILTON SIMON. THE NEW ARISTOCRACY. 'Tou're not of noble blood," 1 said. "'Your relatives are poor. You don't hobnob with hichbrows yet There's class before your door. I see a line of limousines Landaus, and smart coupes. I'm not a prying person, but It fills me with amaze." "Oh, that's all right," my neighbor said. A sad smile lit his face. ""That .grand array you see belongs To workers on my place. That Packard is the carpenter's It's classy, you'll admit. That Hudson with the glimmer there. The plumber came in it. The window washer's runabout Is just across the street. With orchids in the vases and The fine upholstered seat." "They're sure a classy lot" I said. "Except that ancient ruin. That car, I'd say. you get for mibs Without a lot of jewin". The one backed in the alley there. With droop like dying cat, I fancy Noah scorched in it When he hit Arrarat. The one who owns that car," I said, "Has pride of low degree" My neighbor wanly smiled and said "That thing belongs to me." WILLIAM VAN GROOS. John D. Rockefeller Sr Still Living. SCAPPOOSE, Or., July 17. (To the Editor.) A says John D. Rockefeller Sr. is dead and has been for several years. B says he is still living. Which is right? J. M. K. - John D. Rockefeller Sr. was born in 1S39. He Is still alive and well. He celebrated his 81st birthday retently on the same day that his son was a visitor In Portland. He lives at Po cantlco Hills. Tarrytown, N. Y. Rlgbta of Proptrty. GRESHAM, Or July 17. (To the Editor.) Can a man owning a farm created by him and his former wife now dead and leaving no will, sell sime without the consent of the chil dren, of which there are four, all of legal age? What legal steps could these children take to recover their mother's half of this property, the father now being married again? Can the party that bought this property get a good warrantee deed for same without the signature of these four children? If so, in what way? SUBSCRIBER. If Oregon property and held ex- clussively in the name of the father, the children acquired no rights there in by the death of the mother. If the deed was to husband and wife, a sim ilar condition exists. If the mother held by deed an undivided one-half interest or If all the property was in htr name, that which she owned de scends to the children, subject to the father's life interest in the Income from one-half of her estate. Drawing of Will. PORTLAND, July 17. (To the Edi tor.) Please let me know whether lt la necessary to engage a lawyer in making out a will. 2. If not, how many witnesses are required? Also do they have to know the contents of the will? SCBSCPJBEiR. 1. It Is not a legal requirement that a lawyer be employed, but It is ad visable. 2. Two persons must witness the signature of the will by the testator and must sign in his presence and in the presence of each oiisr. x'r j need not know the contents of tha will. Sport of Kings. PORTLAND. July 17. (To the Edi tor.) What is known as tlve "tfporl of kings"? A claims that it is horsi racing; B says yacht racing. LOUIS M. DILLON. We have always heard avplitd to horse-racing. the term