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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1020 8 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I- riTTOCK. Published by The Oreconlan Publlrhini Co.. 135 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. JIOKDEN. B. B. PIPER. Manager. i-ditor. The Orecanlan la a member of the etated Press. The Associated Prese is ex clusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also he local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) pally. Sunday Included, one year $8 .00 Jaily. Sunday Included, six months . . . 4.-3 Xaliy. Sunday Included, three months . Z.2S Taiiy, Sunday Included, one month .7ft Pally, without Sunday, one year J 00 laily, without Sunday, six months .... 8.-3 Paily. without Sunday, one month .... .80 "Weekly, one year - Sunday, one rear d.uu (By Carrier.) 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The charges of Governor Cox may ftot be dismissed as merely the the atrical product ot an Incandescent imagination br the impudent inven tion of a reckless demagogue playing ft desperate game for a great stake the presidency. Whatever one may think of the intrinsic merit of the Accusations, or lack of it, the fact that Mr. Cox is the candidate "of a erreat party, and that he is respon sible 'for his -words and deeds, both to his party and to the country. Elves them an authority, real or fictitious, which cannot be ignored. It must be said that on their face they have not been proved. But they must nevertheless be amount to-be raised in all Oregon! was $25,000. By diligent and sys tematic effort a total of less than $21,000 was secured for Oregon, and was duly forwarded to headquarters. To the . average citizen, familiar with the fact that the legitimate expense of a national campaign is not small, it would seem that $21,000 Is not an excessive contribution for Oregon. It is less than one-half the amount Mr. Cox declared was as signed to Portland, and about one fourth or one-fifth of what would have been the share of Oregon under the Cox creation of a $16,000,000 slush fund. If other states and cit ies gave approximately the same proportion as Oregon and Portland, the total for the natiop would be about $3,000,000 or what Mr. Hays and Mr. Upham say the republicans are trying to raise. The genius of Mr. Cox for making sensations is indubitable. But some thing more a great deal more is required of a candidate for presi dent than readiness and facility for slathering: the opposing party, its management and its candidate yes, he includes Mr. Harding with un deserved odium. The public will require of him a severe and exact accounting:. It will measure him by the truth or falsity of what he says and' the justification for saying it, true or false. In this Instance the public may be confident that it is not true. But it will desire and expect to be' confirmed in its opinion by the showing of the republican officials. whimsical color and fragrance. Nor is life. And the twain are not to be dissevered. As for. the TJntermeyer argument, who would wish upon the world an era of artistry, in the academic sense? Swift and certain would be the plunge to the abyss, were this thing to be. Fortunate it is that the infinite system of checks and bal ances provides useful variety in hu man career and, decreeing toil to the plodder, sends him an occasional courier of inspiration to lighten his task. IN" DEFENSE OF AUGUST. For the benefit of newcomers to Oregon, as well as of those others who praise or condemn in accord ance with their most recent recollec tions, it ought to be explained that. whatever may be said of the faults of the month of August this year, it has a long record of which it has no reason to be ashamed. Nor, we think, will the philosopher complain who has studied the weather map of the country as a whole. Overhot on the Atlantic coast, rainy or muggy throughout the central states, and both of these in the Mississippi valley. met. August weather in 1920 has furnished Chairman Hays says they will be met, and we believe him. But as the country has been promised proof hy Mr. Cox, and has not been given it, so it will also expect proof to the montrary to be furnished by Chairman Hays. As the case stands, it is the word of Mr. Cox supported by certain more or less relevant documents, egainst the word of Chairman Hays, which he promises will be supported by the official records. Mr. Cox takes a great responsibil ity when he declares that a political party through its accredited manage ment is engaged in a vast conspiracy to "buy the presidency." If the presidency is to be bought, it must ho sold; and the seller will be the American people. That Mr. Cox understands full well that it takes two to make a bargain is clearly shown by his astounding talk about the plan to "corrupt the electorate" and his equally astonishing and shocking words that there is a "pow erful combination of interests to buy government control," that "millions have gone into the republican treas ury to buy an underhold," that "mil lions have been contributed to the republican campaign fund with sin lster intent," and that they are raising millions and millions of dol lars in a campaign fund." No un . certainty is left as to what Mr. Cox eays; but there may well be doubt about the evidence he offers. Millions have been raised, and are still neing raised, according to Cox, ana tno donors or tnese millions, or other millions, have the wicked and flaring design of purchasing the pres idency, for the promotion of their own dark ends. Here is an indict ment against the subscribers to the republican fund which constitutes a direct challenge of their motives and therefore goes to the quality of their citizenship. But there is no intimation as to who they are, no suggestion that he knows; only the inierence that because they gave plenty of opportunity for dwellers on the Pacific coast to gloat over the greater discomfort of their fellow citizens in other places. For there is a sound philosophy, and not merely a spirit of mockery, in the optimism that finds comfort in the thought that others are worse off than we are. What if we did break an Au trust heat record in 1920? It reminds us only that even in August, which some people would delete from the calendar on the ground that it is fit only to take vacations in, the weather is seldom what you would call hot in Oregon. In the period of fortv years for which there are official records, only twice has the thermom eter in this month ascended higher than ninety degrees on as many as six days in the month. For ten years beginning with 1874 it did not attain that height on a single day. IN or, we suppose, are we warranter! in concluding that the weather la growing worse." That is . aAavs the plaint of those who are impressed oniy Dy the recent or the excep tional. The fact is that the "mean maximum, which is the weather man's way of designating the aver age of all the extremes, for the en tire torty years has been only 77.2 degrees. It is a figure fit to he pasted in one's hat for ready refer ence, it is pertinent to inquire wnere in an otnerwise habitable cor ner oi tne globe the match for it can be found. The mean mini mum is nrty-nve degrees. We have the authority of an eminent Dsvchol ogist tor the statement that these temperatures are conducive to the nighest possible development of civt lization. This by itself will explain a gooa many things. We would not be judged bv ex tremes, however favorable the com parison with, our neighbors. There are certain other factors than mean maximums to be taken into account There is, for illustration, the temper- SETTING FATDIA FREI. Even religion cannot withstand necessity. So it comes to pass that the women of Turkey are gaining freedom from harem slavery. The koran is explicit about the seclusion of wives, but the tidal wave of high prices that swept over the Moslem empire at the close of the world war engulfed the precept. Maintaining the harem in its accustomed state became correspondingly difficult, and many a Turkish husband was forced to yield the point and free his wives. The veil dropped and Fatima went forth to serve as janitor, telephone operator, cashier and street sweeper. One can but hope that she was as fair of face as fancy told us. Civilization cast aside the plural marriage long centuries ago. as an unthinkable violation of natural law and social ethics. Tne orient clung to it with the zeal of the voluptuary and last of its defenders was the Turk. Idleness and vacuity, such as are the portion of cattle, were the portion of the unfortunate women who were its toll. It constituted the disgrace of the age. Though the bars of the harem are broken, it must not be presumed that Turkey will yield easily to an en forced reform that shatters a basic principle of Mohammedanism and strikes for feminine freedom. But the fact that an initial escape has been made, an escape fully as thrilling- as any flight in the Arabian Nights, is almost a guaranty that the women of Turkey will never again rest con tent with divans and sweetmeat and amorous tyranny. Destiny weaves strange fabrics for it was a Serbian pistol-shot and the death of an Aus trian grand duke that freed feminine Turkey. largo sums of money they must have atUr? ln the. hours when most good ' v " i" 0.1 o iu , ueu, nowever pas- .-1 .. 1 . At . . - muuaici) Lue sun may snine, it is always possible to find rest after the aay is done. There are compensa tions lor our lack of corn-rinun had evil intent. But Chairman Hays knows who all the subscribers are, and says he will disclose both their names and the respective amounts. Then will it, be shown, from the per sonnel of the contributors and their records and affiliations, whether the subscribers of a campaign fund are conspirators, or whether they are citizens who have sought to under write the necessary costs of a polit ical campaign for the party in whose success they have a worthy and putural interest. The principal exhibit of Mr. Cox. offered by him In his dual role of detective and prosecuting attorney in the case of Cox against the repub lican party, is a paper containing a list of cities with certain sums as sisnod to them as their respective quotas to the $15,000,000 "slush fund." He does not say where he Kot it and there is only his assertion that it was passed a sound at a meet ing of a certain unnamed republican committee. He then seeks to relate to this prize document various in criminating items from the official bulletin of the republican treasurer, lssuea in tne campaign to raise funds. Without the bulletins there would le only the mysterious quota list, pro duced from the carefully guarded recesses of Mr. Cox's pocket; without precious paper there would be left only the bulletins, freely and ar-aly circulated among the fora- 4i-tmn. canvassers and other agents of the campaign organization and . on their face merely . circulars advertising the progress of the cam paign and stimulating the collectors to more effective service. It was the method used in every Liberty loan campaign, and in many other na tional campaigns for funds; and Mr. Cox brazenly professes to discover in it evidence of nefarious strata gems. It is not. It is an adaptation by a national political organization of the exact plan devised and carried out by the United States government and by many public and semi-public organisations. Its merit is its de tailed completeness, its business-like efficiency. Its open and easy sim plicity. There is no reason why it should not be tried by the republican organization or the democratic or ganization no reason except that a better working plan bo found. It will be noted that the Cox in dictment includes the city of Port land, to which is assigned $80,000 the contribution of sondry repub lican conspirators of Oregon doing their share in the great plot to "buy the presidency." In due time it win be learned who they are, and then doubtless we shall know what to do with such free-handed and abandoned criminals. For the pres ent it is sufficient to know that the etatement that the quota of Portland is $50,000 is a falsehood. There is authentic testimony that there was no quota for Portland, but that the ing weather, and Weather Observer wells has the data that prove it. The average temperature at 1 A. M. for all the years for which records have been kept has been 61 degrees; at 4 A. M., 67.7 degrees, and at 6 A.M., 56.7 degrees. We are assured of restful sleep, with the covers on, and of our final morning nap. JNOtwithstanding that the world got along well enough without an August before Julius Caesar med dled with the calendar, the defend ant is now entitled to a fair hearing. j-te asKs to oe judged by his whole record, not by a single performance. We are discussing, of course, August as ne demeans himself in Oregon. ivsewnere he may not be so well behaved. But that is for another court and jury to determine. COMMUNICATING WITH MARS. Charles Nordmann. a French sci entist, pokes fun in a 'Paris review at our efforts to communicate with Mars. Rejecting- in toto the theory that certain mysterious disturbances recently encountered by wireless op erators may have been due to efforts on our neighboring planet to get a message through to us, he holds to a notion of his own that electrical waves traveling with the precise ve locity of light are being thrown off by cyclonic disturbances on the sur face of the sun. This he has failed to establish by laboratory methods, but he attributes failure only to the insufficiency of his instruments. He sees, however, only the humor ous side of the experiments of the American professor who at Omaha recently "for seven days vainly held to his ear a perfected receiver at tached to receptive antennae wires thirty-five miles long and covering twenty-five square miles," or of the other who, "to gain something on a distance of 90,000,000 kilometers, went up fifteen kilometers at the risk of breaking his neck and losing his breath." The latter reminds the Frenchman of an anecdote of a cer tain hero. He was a worthy captain, this hero. who in the course of military maneuvers found it necessary to teach his men how to find their direction at night. The scl entist of the command pointed ' out the North star to him. After looking at the minute, winking star away up aloft for a time, he cried out: "That will never do. They will all get stiff .necks looking up at that angle. Let the entire command move back fifty paces." The point sought to be made by the French savant is that we make ourselves ridiculous by failing to ap preciate the vastness of the infinite There is a school of philosophers who take this to be the definition of humor in general. Yet no one has contributed more to our disregard of every obtacle, including infinity, than scientists themselves, and there would not have been much progress, in all probability, if the spirit of in vestigation had always been held in check by awe. .Professor Langley was subjected to precisely the same kind of ridi cule when he built his first flying machine. . So, we imagine, was Co pernicus when he gave his new proofs to the world of the existence of the solar system. It is the lot of pioneers of science to be pilloriedby so-called humorists. One need not commit himself to the Martian hypothesis to sympathize with the American professors who have stirred the risibilities of their colleague across the sea. get satisfaction In this wiy. It is the , satisfaction of getting back at a man who has aggravated him beyond endurance. J have often wondered what a criminal would do in the keeper's place. The article, however, does hot preach the doctrine of revenge. The writer holds no brief for prison abuses. But he reiterates that peo ple who prate of crueJf to the criminal too often forget the .elty of the criminal. He recalls the core of a man in Maine who killed a. girl and her parents simply because the girl would not marry him. Then some sensitive people, thinking of the long years before him, and very little about the enormity of the crime, sent flowers to the "poor fel low." There is, of course, nothing new in this psychology of what the writer calls "parlor uplift," but it remains as difficult of explanation as ever. The writer seems to believe that the upliftey? are even less able to acquire the point of view of those who would protect society than crim inals are to see through the eyes of the law-abiding. But he finds that the reformers are chiefly people who have been protected so long that they have become squeamish about suffering, while their short memories and their incapacity for realizing what criminal character is leads them to transfer their squeamishness from the suffering, for example, of the victim, who Is dead, to that of the living criminal. He has noted that advocates of reforms are usu ally cured by being subjected to experience at the hands of a crim inal "by having their money stolen or a son killed." Tendency to regard the criminal as "just an ordinary man" not only does not conform with the beliefs of conscientious criminologists, but is likely to work harm to society. The writer believes that preachers and sentimentalists are wrong in supposing that "conscience must make such men suffer," He adds: Just eliminate your Idea of conscience and you will have a fair Idea of th criminal's attitude. He simply gives n thought to what is called wrong action There are just three items with which hs reckons: to get what he wants; plan a method of getting It without detection; and to get away, ln safety if possible, but to be prepared for the worst. To the ordinary man it seems wrong to take the property or life of another. Under the provocation which the criminal thinks h has, the stealing or killing Is an im per sonal affair. AU be dreads la the result of detection. - "The criminal is always the ag gressor. This significant sentence will bear emphasis. It contains the secret of public apathy outside of prison and of official hostility within its walls. When a man or woman does not feel safe to walk the streets at night, or to leave doors or win dows unlocked, is it any wonder that the class of ment responsible for this fear are regarded as the personifica tion of cruelty? Evidence of the cruelty of the bad man toward the harmless is found on every hand. All the advantage is on their side. It it not known when or where they are going to strike. police, courts and Jails can I do anything until after the crime is done With all the machinery of society, peace able citizens suffer untold wrongs and cruelties at the hands of "bad, unsocial. lawless and sinning .men." Cruelties o' Jail cannot be compared to those visltec upon unoffending people by this class of men. Is it any wonder that public feel lngs thus engendered are manifested ln penal machinery ? Maladministration of the law is a question separate from that which the writer raises in his exposition of the rights of law-abiding citizens as superior to those of criminals. There ought to be general agreement with his proposition that the former, also. are entitled to expect justice. It is refreshing to hear a word spoken in behalf of the "persecuted public and it is pleasant to think that this may be a forerunner of a movement, not fostered by silly sentimentalists, to promote genuine justice which is not to be confounded with the policy of putting criminals on ped estals, or using the pardon and pa role systems ridiculously. ALIGNMENTS CLEARLY DEFIXBB Parties Said to Hold Opposing Views of Lescue of Nations. PORTLAND. Aug. 27. (To the Edi tor.) A few days ago a contributor signing himself "Doubtful Voter" prophesied a new alignment of par ties. In my opinion he is unfortunate in the use of the phrase and disagrees with himself. I agree with his state ment that Mr. Harding stands on a platform that opposes the Versailles treaty and league to prevent war. Furthermore, at the behest of Sena tor Johnson in his acceptance speech he emphasizes his opposition to the treaty and league. I will further agree with the cor respondent that the Versailles treaty and covenant was placed in the fore front in the platform at San Fran cisco and that President Wilson is steadfastly for it and 'that "Candi date Cox" stands four-square upon that plank. Isn't that sufficient alignment ot parties? Does that not shape it for a solemn referendum of the people? There will be a. new alignment of the electorate in this campaign but not of parties. No.' Covenants to prevent war were not exploited much ln Washington's and Jefferson's day. nor have they been placed in political platforrrus. but for a long time advanced thinkers and altruists have had the concept of a world agreement to prevent war ajid the birth of a covenant to es tablish permanent peace. It has been the ideal of sages and philosophers in ages old, but its birth in full frul tion awaited the conference of Ver sallies. Here it was born, nourished and matured in the wisdom of the most enlightened nations of the world represented by their ablest and great est thinkers and statesmen. Towering among them were Lloyd George, Or lando. Clemenceau and our own great president, Woodrow Wilson. Before this greatest of all Magna Chartas we had The Hague agreement, but Ger many refused to sign the agreement, believing ln the principle that might is right. Hence the cataclysm of war of '14 to '18. I am sorry "Doutful Voter" is In his dilemma. Sympathies might go out to him, but he seems more concerned about Senator Chamberlain and some others who got off on the wrong foot regarding the league than he is for himself as they will have to stultify themselves and take a dif ferent course if they support Cox and Roosevelt. I am doubly sorry for him if he Is of democratic faith and would advise him that in the bright lexicon of democracy there are no such words as "non-partisan" or "bi-partisan" or wobbly voting in the house of con gress." Let me warn him that he who tries to follow such winding leadership will surely become doubt ful, dizzy and confused. AN UNDOUBTFUL DEMOCRAT. Those Who Come and Go. AGITATORS MISLEAD FARMERS. Caesar's ghost.!" exclaimed one of the cleric's assistants at the Mult nomah yesterday. "No, Caesar him self." the youth who was registering replied. He was, indeed, none other than Carl Caesar, former autnomy on Lincoln high school basketball teams, dance committees, DaseDan nines and social affairs. More re cently he has become a student at the University of Wisconsin and it is with one of his pals there that he has come west. His companion is C. H. Foster, son of a big manufac turer in Oshkosh and- the two are headed for Alaska. It seems that Caesar once spent a summer there at the fisheries with some high school boys and now wants to give his old haunts the once-over before school begins. Le Roy Jeffers, librarian of the American Alpine club and secretary of the Associated Mountaineering Clubs of North America, knows where to go for the best in scenic photo graphs, consequently his visit to Portland. He has an international reputation as mountaineer, writer and lecturer and his trip west was for the purpose of making large pur chases of Cascade mountain views for the club's collection. He made a trip with Rodney Glisan to Ecola and has spent much time with R. J. Grace of the Trails club while in the city. Mr. Jeffers will return to New York by way of the Canadian Rockies. "They sent me out west to get a grasp on the forest fire situation and I certainly got it," remarked Major E. W. . Kelley, Inspector of operations for the head office of the United States forest service in wash ington. Major Kelley was working over in Idaho when he received in structions to go up on the Wenatchee where the season's biggest conflagra tion in this district was in progress. Winds had scattered the flames over a broad area and they were only ef fectively quenched when it began to rain. Major Kelley returned to Idaho last night. Even if dozens of counties in the United States have gone broke pay Ins: rodent bounties, Harney county is pretty likely to take the risk this year in order to rid itself of the ro dents, according to F. L. Ballard, wno was in the city yesterday. Mr. Bal lard is assistant county agent for eastern Oregon and has his head quarters in La Grande. He is plan ning rabbit campaigns In both Har ney and Lake counties for the com lng season. Republican Party Has Power to Throttle Non-Partisan League. GASTON, Or, Aug. 26. (To the Ed itor.) George K. Aiken, editor of the Ontario Argus, said at the merchants' banquet ln Portland, August 14, that the non-partisan league was the worst menace that confronted America and that it was a child of adversity. I say it Is a child of disappointment, and although I am a loyal republican and ilwivi have been. I say If the republican party will do its duty by I the American farmer, the non-partisan I The cat Is curled upon the floor More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. SILENCE. There's utter quiet on the stair. The footsteps, as light as rain That lately used to patter there. We listen for ln vmin. There is no sound of falling toys Out yonder in the hall. In fact there isn't any nols About the house at all. TRUE TEST OF GOOD CITIZENSHIP He TJNTERJUYER THE CTOPIAN. "When Hilda Conkling chose the pastime of versifying, rather than run-sheep-run, it was inevitable that the innocent excellence of her poems should set the tongues of theory to wagging. The strange - little girl, with her gift for rhyming the dreams of childhood, was to become the theme for more or less exact specu lation on why and how two queries that have little pertinency when ap plied to poetry. Louis Untermeyer, himself a poet, should have had better taste than to ioin the contro versial crew. But Untermeyer would add hl3 bit to babel, and In the case of Hilda Conkling he affects to perceive that the world might be populous with artists were we to feed the creative hunger in early childhood. It is not of record that the mother of Hilda fed such an impulse, which is far more deep than artificial culture and finds its source in the secret springs or tne soul. And we know little or nothing about the mysteries of the soul. Some souls are misshapen and ucly, others are ordinary every-day fabrics, and others glow with mar vel.. Untermeyer professes to be lieve that all might be marvelous, and sneers at materialistic achieve ment. The intricate, insensate certi tude of a giant industrial mechanism is anathema O Untermeyer. Ah ."sreil, evert poets must be fed and clothed and it is the cold ma chines that mintoter to these human needs. They yield leisure to artists, poets and all other spiritual agents, without which the rhyme would never flow from tho pen nor the canvas color with Inspiration. Some poets and their eminence will not suffer from comparison with that of Untermeyer have found poetry In steel cogs and factory smoke, and stinking forecastles and the black pit of the mine. Poetry is not all elegance and - standardized- -beauty, American ports crowded with for eign shipping, and scarcely a mer chant vessel of our own to keep them company, foreign ports bright with flags of all nations, and only an occasional glimpse of the Ameri can emblem, present a glimpse of the more recent past that is distaste ful to our national pride and to which we do not wish to revert. The impetus of war restored our mer chant marine to the high seas, and definite and progressive policy de crees that it is to remain there the symbol of a nation that is not in sularized, but that assumes her roper place in the commerce of the world. It is this policy that has caused the Japanese, fearful of their shipping dominance on the Pacific, to attack the rise of the new Ameri can merchant marine. One of the more jingoistic Japanese papers is redited with this Intolerant editorial comment: If America does not realize the impropriety of her pol Icy, there will surely be a life and It Is) What Man Is, Not Where Waa Born, Comments Writer. PORTLAND, Aug. 27. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian's . editorial, One Swedish Immigrant of Ours," commemorating John Ericsson, the Swedish Inventor, was very refresh ing. .it is many moons since I saw a word of kindness or recognition ln a newspaper along that line. Because it happened that a few very few slackers were of Swedish origin, it seems to nave been fashionable to hold up that portion of our citizenry wno are ot 'Swedish ancestry to con tempt and ridicule. Tour editorial promises a better day as far as The Oregonian is concerned. John Morton, one of the signers of the declaration of Independence boasted that he had Swedish blood in his veins. Jenny Lind came to our shores in 1850 and sang as onlv the Nightingale of the North" could sing. When our union was trembling in the Daiance tne darkest hour of the civil war John Erlckson came to the rescue. Men and women of Swedish extraction have graced our legisla tive halls and governors' mansions They have taken a leading part in raising Minnesota, Wisconsin and Iowa to the high level occuDied bv these states. Lindsburg a small town in Kansas has been called the Beiruth of America. Every year the musical Swedes have a festival that attracts musicians from all parts of the country. xne lime nas come when we as good Americans should ask what a man really is. not where he happens to have been born. If every Euro pean country had contributed lmml grants as has Sweden our troubles would have been smaller today. M. A. CHRISTENSEN. . Just to show how glad they were to see John M. Willy of Chicago group of local hotel men gathered vesterday at the Multnomah at lunch in his honor. Mr. - Willy Is not content with being editor of eastern hotel monthly, but dabbles ln hotel BUDDlies on the side. When he isn't busy collecting information on new managers and eloping clerks and superior chefs, he Is extolling the virtues of room racks he sells or accounting systems. "I'll be jiggered," murmured Mrs Cecilia Paine of Corvallis, as she gazed upon the register at the Sew ard. "There's my sister," she ex plained, pointtng to the name of Miss Leila Hay. "I didn t know sne was here." Mrs. Paine was with Miss Elba Corley of Enterprise while Miss Hay had accompanied Miss ueorgia McFarland of Caldwell, Idaho, to Portland. league will vanish .like the morning mist before a hot sun. I The farmer has been dissatisfied with the great margin between his price and the ultimate price paid by the consumer, and a socialist agita tor has taken advantage of the posi- ion and led the poor farmer astray by holding out a promise that they cannot fill. The struggle has been kept up by the farmer- for 50 years. and all the co-operation or co-opera tive marketing that has been done. has been made necessary by reason of unjust discrimination against the American farmer and cotton grower. The sugar growers being under pro tection made millions during the world war, but the farmer has not been able to hold his own, only in a few specific instances. The grange, fanners union, Ameri can society of equity and all other farmer organizations have failed and the secret of success lies in the re publican party. -Our noble Abraham Lincoln said, no country could prop erly exist half free and half slave; neither can any country properly function half proctected and half un protected. The protected part will gradually absorb all the wealth of the other. That Is what has happened already in the United States of Am erica. The city of New Tork has an equal assessed value to the seven western states of Washington, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah, California and Oregon land values in New York city are seven times as high as in the city of London, and thousands of farms ln the state of New York can be bought for less than half of what the build ings cost. I think from what our late beloved Theodore Roosevelt told me when last ln Portland, he Intended to use ins wonaeriui, aggressive power to correct that condition. I feel Am erica has lost a man she very much neeaea. 1 nave hope in our nominee. He has said he would listen, and he nas proiessea to want the heart o God ln the administration of the af- tairs or tnis great nation. It Is to do nopea the platform of the republi can party win tie so revised as to sweep the non-partisan league out oi existence. .THOMAS WITHTCOMBE. ORIGIN OF NAME LS MISSTATED ln unmolested ease. The pup is calmly searching f A squad of lively flea. And as he twists and turns a BTnt He gives a questing bark. But no one answers with a s'aout That summons him to lark. No fingers press the window pane. No little eager eyes Look out upon the falling rain As twilight slowly dies. Upstairs and down and everywhere One cannot hear a sound; It racks the stoutest nerve to bear A silence so profound. Then mother lays aside her book. Marks carefully her place. And with an apprehensive look Upon her gentle face She says, "My goodness gracious me! How quiet baby.'s been! Run, Willie, right upstairs and 8e What mischief he is in!" Twisted. The bond thieves evidently thought that what Greely said was "Go south. young man. go south: No wonder county judge, say, covers a county, tie for shipment Henry D. Keyes is for his ranch, they good section of the 3 in Oregon arranging of a large number of Which Is Something. Well, in November we'll know who Ohio's favorite son is, anyway. (Copyright. 1020. by the Bell Syndicate, inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-Five Tears Ago. From The Oregonian, August 2S, 1835. A. C. Parkinson of Madison, Wis., reading clerk of the United States senate, is a guest at the Imperial hotel, being here on private business. Bandon A Messenger who has Just arrived here, brings word that the British steamer Bawnmore is ashore ten miles south of this place. Henry Rustln has resigned his place as assistant superintendent of the Portland Consolidated Street Railway company and will become general superintendent of the car system of Hazelton, Pa, Major J. C. Post, United States en gineers, left last night to inspect the new lighthouse being erected at Co-quille. death struggle between her and the by the census, who reside within cer- THE rRUBLEM OT THIS CRIMINAL. The injustice done to the public as well as to prison officials by the emotional outpourings of so-called reformers is set out refreshingly in an article in the Atlantic, written by a man who has satisfied the editors that he speaks from the fullness of experience as a representative of the criminal class. He is now trying to make atonement for the past, and it will seem to the unprejudiced reader that he has largely accomplished his own regeneration by arriving at an understanding of the point of view of society in its treatment of those who violate its safety. He takes direct issue with the often-made charge that prison keepers are cruel for the sake of being cruel, and after alluding to the undesirable surround ings in which the prisoner of neces sity is likely to find himself, points out that "if the criminals don't like the debasing company of each other. there is plenty of time to make change to more elevating condi tions. In other words, those who do not like the way that prisons are run still have the alternative of keeping out of prison. The writer, who confesses to both a prison rec ord and a criminal mind." thinks that convicts invite the discipline which they call cruelty, and that they get no more than their just desserts. It is indeed dangerous, as this writer points out, "to picture the criminal as deserving at the hand of the public a careful and benevo lent consideration which few ordi nary citizens obtain." Those who do so act as if the public, which is the injured one, had no rights. No should "prison cruelty" be discusse apart from its associations, lest we get an idea tnat tne prisoner is the only one imposed on. For example. the writer from the depth of his own experience has arrived at this con elusion: - Let me lay down this as a first princl pie: prisoners themselves are the one who Invite and keep cruelty alive. Pe wardens, much less the public. Intend Impose upon -men just for the fun of it. In most cases where ths keeper- seems countries wnose mercantile marine interests are so seriously menaced." It is not of record that Japan was especially active, other than in sell ing war munitions, when the Ameri can navy aiding in enforcing the freedom of the seas. If an asser tion of her own commercial impor tance, too long forgotten, is impro priety then should America continue to break the selfish code of interna tional manners with just such a mer chant marine as she contemplates? Population of London. PORTLAND. Aug. 27. (To the Edi tor.) I see New York frequently re terred to as the world s largest city. At the same time, the last official census of IjOndon appears to be over 7,000.000. I believe the official 1920 census of Greater New York was con siderably less than that. Have you official figures covering both cities, showing the year in which the census was taken? Z. K. C. It is impracticable to make a com parison unless what is meant by "London" is definitely stated. The population of Greater New York is the number of persons, as ascertained sheep and Mrs. Keyes is accompany- Ins:-him on the trip. Tho rain iooks good to the Judge, for Fossil has been a warm place this summer. In September down on the Long Beach peninsula there come groups of Indians ana vacationers ana swrto of other folk anxious to join In the annual harvest of Pacific county's cranberry crop. This fruit is dis tributed largely through the growers' exchange at llwaco and Henry S. Gane is manager of It. Mr. Gane was at the Portland yesterday. Barrels, pickle vats and all sorts of contrivances made of staves come from the three plants of the Califor nia Barrel company, of which C. L. Koster Is president. Mr. Koster- id hero from San Francisco to visit the Vancouver and MilwauKie orancnes and is making the Peruana nis neaa-quarters. 'Tillamook cheese" appears on the register at the sewara Desiae ine names of Mr. and Mrs.- J. A. Carroll. who desDite the fact -tney live in a coast county, have just been at Sea side. They drove in late Thursday after an excellent trip from the beach. Although A. W. Reed Is ln business down the Oregon coast ne persists In living up in South Bend, wash. Thus it happens that he Is at the Portland, where he stopped on his wv to Reedsoort, Or., where he is in the canning brother. Writer Object to Error In Sign Per tnining to Town of Burnside. SEASIDE. Or., Aug. 26. (To th Editor.) Alon'g with many other mo tonsts l have enjoyed the concis and usually correct pieces of loca history displayed on the attractive signs of the United States Tire com pany, seen in so many places on the highways. A notable exception" to the rule is one located at Burnside on the lower Columbia highway, a few miles east of Tongue Point. This states that the vilage derived its name from General Ambrose E. Burnside of civil war fame. The village is located on the land claim of David Burnside, an Oregon pioneer of 1S47 and one of the early settlers of Clatsop county. I assume this to be the true source from which the name is derived. A the sign is a very prominent one and will be read by many trav elers, it is to be hoped, in justice to a worthy pioneer name, that proper correction will be made. E. G. CAUFIELD. EARTH'S SAVORING Before my window, in the twilight soft. I see from out the dusky afterglow The phatom feet of all the ages go Into the shadows. Faintly breezes waft The fitful music of thoir going. Oft What change! Old men who sought the truth to know. Inspired martyrs, pilgrims stern, and. lo. True knights and brave who flung the cross aloft Among the blessed cavalcade of those Who furthered with their lives, the master's light. Why come this common throng, si lent as night? did no shining deed at life's dark close. mount to heaven's heights on martyrs' wings! thtse are they who did the business with his tain legally defined boundaries. Lon don's boundaries are indefinite. ' The ncient city of London hat an inde pendent government. Around it are a large number of burroughs, each with a mayor, aldermen and common council, with central authority lodged In the London county council. The jurisdiction of London county, how ever, does not extend over an outer fringe -of urban communities, which are sometimes counted as a part of London. The largest figures given as Dr. A. P. Henry of Big Timber, Mont., breezed in at the Perkins yes terday after having motored clear in Portland. His- motner came to Oregon with him. Mrs. S. R. Thompson and daughter have come from Pendleton to pass the week-end at the Benson. Mr. Thnmnson. who has a large rancn in iTmntiila. county, will join incm today. The vounc wlfA whn hnrlv w. M-onaon s population are lor wnat is found in the woods near New York known as the metropolitan police dis- worked in a department store in the trlct, plus tne population or ancient metropolis, though the husband ap- I London. This district includes sud pears to have a good job. If she had urbs outside of the numerous bur- been working at home and raising roughs, but the metropolitan police POINT FOR MR. COX TO EXPLAIN How Conld Senate Secrrtrly Grt "Open Covenant Openly Arrived At I" PORTLAND, Aug. 26. (To the Edi tor.) In his address at Evansville. Ind., August 25, in speaking of the league of nations, Governor Cox says we and Germany, Russia, Turkey. Mexico and Henry Cabot Lodge only are standing outside. I was under the impression that China is still out side, if so. this may be another of the governor's wierd stories. One of the fundamentals of our good president's 14 points was "Open cove nants openly arrived at." Governor Cox asks: "How did the senatorial oligarchy come into possession of the peace treaty?" He says they obtained it from the hands of a German in Paris. With cable and telegraph lines in control of the government, will Oov- ernor Cox kindly explain why it was necessary to go to Paris to obtain a copy of an "open covenant openly ar rived at" from the hands ot a tier man? E. C. M. They To Nay- little things! I,. BAPFORD. Winners of Essay PrUea. PORTLAND, Aug. 27. (To the Ed itor.) Will you please state who were the winners in the essay contest "What are the benefits of an enlist ment in the United States Army," held February 22? I watched the pa pers but never saw who got to go to Washington, D. C. X. Y. Z. The winners of the essay contest were: .Donald L. Campbell, Clinton. O.: Marjory Sheets, Chillicothe. Mo., and Bettie Bowen Eason, Olive Branch, Miss. Ucllcf of tiovernor Cox. PORTLAND, Aug. 27. (To the Edi tor.) Will you please publish the religious affiliation of Governor Cox. SU B.SC R I B ERS. He is an Episcotia 1 in n. a baby or two she would be alive today. words. There's the sermon in a few Another Corvallis hen has broken a record. That man Dryden," who "runs" poultry at O. A. C, has been doing great work for years and the results are showing. Prospecting for oil and gas in Malheur continues. One of the days to come may see a blow-off in that region that will make the world sit up. A romance had a happy ending vditfrdav when two Vvalla walla folk came in to the Oregon and Went out and got married a few minutes later. The couple are Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Clarke. A frequent visitor at the Imperial E. L. McKern of Albany, who is . . j - - .1 1 . 1 u. . - . c-i in registered at w. ui. an automobile dealer. Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Skallerud of Astoria, are at the portiana wnue Includes that of Westchester and the the former purchases stock for his New Jersey suburbs as to say that I clothing store in the Clatsop county the population of London is that of I city. th u mntrnnnlllstn nnlir.A district. I Our latest figures are for 1911, as Dean E. v. Koessier oi vicBu.i rnlinwa- Pniintv of London. 4.522.961:1 Agricultural college comes to tne city of London, 19,657; Parliamentary I Seward often, but this time he hasn't hiirrntiirhs. Including city oi London, an orainary tjorvams ciiiiu are a general British force, controlled by the home office of the British gov ernment. It would be as reasonable to say that New York's population 4.542.61S: metropolitan and city of London police districts, 7,252,963. New York's population, according to tne 1S20 census, is 5,621,151. Paraphrasing Colonel N. Bona- I parte, every carrier has a postmas- tershlp in his letter sack. ' As the Beavers stepped into a stride the rain fell. Hard luck, to I ness be sure. What to do with the goats after they are scrapped is the main ques tion. Cox is aiming at a louse on his eyebrow, metaphorically speaking. Ooat glands ware scheme of creation. not in the It's a sharp thief who can pick the best cellar. , . More From Swift. PORTLAND. -Aug. 27. (To the Ed itor.) I was attracted by the inter esting quotation from Swift in the editorial in Tne Oregonian on the late James Wilson, upon real great- in producing two blades oi grass or two ears oi corn iwueau where one grew before." The following recondite message is from the same source. Uuiilvers trav els: "That the rich man enjoyed the fruit of the poor man's labor, and the latter were a thousand to one in pro portion to the former." "That the Vinlk of our people were forced to live miserably by" laboring every day for I campaign. small wages, to make a tew live plen tifully." Swift also said, "that money was the life blood of the nation." It would look. then, that it was essential for all the people. M. A. B., Linden sun burn, but a genuine tan acquireu while he Bummered at Seaside. From -far away England have come Mr. and Mrs. E. A. tjniias. wno are at the Multnomah. They registered from London. -W. W. Gage. Coquille attorney, was ,mn the visitors from southern Oregon at the Perkins yesterday. Charles Steinhauser is a Hood River apple grower to be found at the Ben son yesterday. 1840 Campaign Button Preserved. LA GRANDE. Or., Aug. 26. (To the Editor.) Noticing Dr. Webster's letter in the issue of August 23 giv ing ome of the songs of the 1840 CallS lO ITllTlO. lllttL X lltt a hutton of the -Tippecanoe ana Tyler, Too." campaign. It Is similar to other metal buttons, appears to be gold plated and has a tiny log cabin, with the cider barrel outside. MRS. W. F. GEKELER. Immigrant Fish Thrive in Oregon Waters Never was a time, since rivers ran, that Oregon -was without an abundant dower of salmon and their freckled cousins, trout. But there was a dearth of such fish as the east knew of the white meated favorites that never failed Tom Sawyer and his friends. So the west sent to the east, and borrowed all that the east had to loan worth the taking and that is why today the Columbia sloughs are thronged with bass, crappies and catfish. De Witt Harry found out all about how these fish came here, and when, and the story of their adoption is in the big Sunday issue. American Girls Who Swam at Antwerp The seventh Olympiad has progressed with renewed glory for American athletics, but a story of the lassies who represented this country in the classic swim ming and diving contests is still timely. Such an account, discussing the "mermaids who won honors in the Olympic games, has been written for The Oregonian by Betty Grimes, one of the nation's high diving champions, and appears in the Sunday issue. Illustrated with photographs of swimming stars. Insanity Was the Hohenzollern Curse Just what all of us knew all the time, from the invasion of Belgium to the wood chopping retirement of the "all highest." But it remained for some authorita tive information to clinch the belief, and now we have it. In the Sunday magazine section, illustrated, Princess Catherine Radziw'ill has written of the Hohenzollerns and their madness. It is an inter esting story, if not a lovely one. And the princess knows. This exiled daughter of Russian royalty is in her own field when she chattily discloses the once guarded secrets of the German crown. Madmen all. Woman Who Couldn't Hide Light Under Basket Frances Park inson Keyes, of New Hampshire, was the wife of a rising statesman. Time came when he burst into effulgence as a United States senator. But Mrs. Keyes was brilliant on her own account and stood in no need of reflected glory. She was accounted a successful author and when she reaches Washington it's easy enough to see wno will be the leading literary light of the capital. Maud McDougall has written a friendly little narrative interview, featuring this New Hampshire novelist, for The Sunday Oregonian. What Will Lady Diana Do Now? Goodness only knows! as folk used to pay of the naughty Briar Rose. She is a duke's daughter, this most renowned beauty, but did that fact prevent her from seeking the footlights against parental decree. We trow not! It took Queen Mary herself to halt the rebel. Frank Dallam chats of this enchanting British peeress in the Sunday issue. Whiz! Speed and Novelty of 1920 Travel Traveling to keep pace with the times the mechanical arts havo produced some speedy space annihilators. In the Sunday magazine section there is an interesting illustrated article describing man's latest slaves of the lamp. All the News of All the World THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN