Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 30, 1920)
G THE MORNING-. OltEGONIAN, MONDAY, AUGUST 30,-1920 V ESTABLISHED BX REfBT I- PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publiehing Co.. 135 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. ilORDEN. K. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Pre. The Associated Free is ex clusively entitled to the use lor publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise Credited in this" paper and a-.so lhelocal news published herein. All rignts of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) rially. Sunday Included, one year S.OO Daily. Sunday Included, six months ... J. 25 Daily, Sunday included, three months . 2.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month .... Jj Iailv, without Sunday, one year J,, Daily, wrthout Sunday, six months .... 8.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month .... -W Weekly, one year J-J Sunday, one year o OU (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 29 Dally, Sunday Included, three months. . 2.2-ft Daily. Sunday included, one month .... -73 Daily, without Sunday, one year 11 Daily, without Sunday, three months.. . 1.93 Daily, without Sunday, one month K How to Remit Send postofflce money order, express or personal check on your Nical bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owners risk. Give postofflce address lo full, including county and state. Potitage Rate 1 to IS pages. 1 cent: IS to 32 pages. 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 8 eants; 50 to (14 pages. 4 cents; 6ft to 80 puu, 5 cents; 82 to 98 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage dpuble rates. Kactern Husinees Office Verree & Conlt lin. Orunswick building. New York; Verree A Conklin. Steger building. Chicago; ler roe & Conklln, Free Press building, De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bldweil. . WOMEN AND THT5 TIATIONAIi PA1GN. CAM- Just how and where the smiles of euffras'e will be distributed, now that the voting1 strength of the nation Is doubled, affords basis for an analyt ical article by. Mark Sullivan, whose opinion on matters of g-eneral Im portance Is always valuable. In this instance Mr. Sullivan may scarcely be said to have arrived at that goal of opinion, a definite conclusion, but with characteristic absence of parti sanship prefers to leave prediction to those who read. Substantially his only affirmed opinion is that the en franchised women of America hold their victory to be due to their own conquest, and to neither of the major political parties. But he does dis cuss, and in the discussion yields light upon the problematical attitude of suffrage, those political topics that are inclined to capture the interest of the feminine voter. In this, their first national house cleaning, the women of America will be impelled to the polls by no sense of indebtedness or gratitude to either party, says Sullivan, but by keen moral concern in two issues a league of nations and prohibition, both of which they approve. Their wishes in this respect do not run counter to those of a majority of male Americans, or so we believe, and the preservation or rather the actuality of world peace is in an insular sense scarcely more impor tant than the permanent banishment of liquor. It is acknowledged that the league, or a league, forms one of the controversial centers of the campaign, but even granting this it must also be admitted that local issues have ever save in actual war overshadowed those of inter national aspect. While women vot ers are essentially disposed to ap prove any feasible plan that will render peace permanent, it is no wild hazard to predict that first in Im mediate importance they will place the liquor issue. The democrats, press and politi clans, have but faintly denied the existence of such an issue for the proof of the Cox nomination was overwhelmingly against any other construction. It may be taken for granted tnat women who have sons who might be taken in war are quite as set against yielding them to the saloon, and that American women are watching with intense interest the dreaded possibility of a return to liquor. Mr. Sullivan has never been accused of partisanship, and his political observations have been valued for their untinctured authen ticity. It is worth noting and re membering that. In his discussion of the present situation, he declares Cox to be widely known as the noml nee of the liquor Interests. This verdict of public opinion is common i in the west and northwest, where prohibition constitutes an actual campaign issue, he asserts, and is certain to find solid footing in the east long before the ballots are cast. So prevalent and well founded is this assumption, regarding , the wetness of Cox, that the democratic nominee must make haste to "separate him self from those interests which were chiefly instrumental in nominating him," according to Mr. Sullivan, if he hopes to escape a public verdict of disapproval. One reads in this no augury of bright skies for the democratic party. Rather it is a sign of stormy weather. Granting that women vot ers will overwhelmingly approve of continued and. unmodified prohibi tion, it cannot be that their opinion ot the Cox candidacy differs mate rially from that of their fellow voters, the men. If one suffrage certainty is more certain than any other, it is that this feminine opinion on a real campaign issue is going to be extremely difficult for the demo crats to dislodge. A great many men iiiosi. oi inem, in iact will un hesitatingly testify to the difficulties - that beset the Cox propagandists. ,-wr. - eunivan nnas that women -voters are not inclined to give credit to either party for their political freedom. They point to the splendid company of women, leaders in the suffrage movement, and ask if it is not true that these crusaders bat tered down the gates of tradition ana prejudice. Ana no man says 'them" nay. Bat it is" scarcely con- ceivaDle tnat women voters will not have some degree of opinion upon incir relative inaeoteaness to tne po- curiously coincident with prepara tions for the present campaign, whereas, the record of republican approval is of long standing as at tested by states that adopted suf frage measures. He presents the significant fact that of the eight states that defeated the suffrage amendment when it was presented to them in national urgency, seven are south of the Mason and Dixon line, in territory that is and has been solidly democratic throughout the long parade of politics. Mr. Sullivan leaves the reader to his own deductions. . On the one hand he presents the factors which brought the vote to women. Aside from the determined crusade of the women themselves these. factors are largely and Indisputably republican In character. On the other hand he displays the declaration of suffrage leaders that they owe no allegiance to either party. The facts and claim are at variance. Nor is It possible that women voters do not perceive this, and in that perception feel a natural gratitude. Here is no claim for gratitude, as such for the ac knowledgment of suffrage was at best over-late but merely a state ment of the facts. If the facts be speak approving feminine ballots no amount of specious campaign litera ture and oratory can Influence that approval, either way. In considering some feminine political leaders, relative to the possibilities of active and beneficial participation by women In party administration, Mr. Sullivan finds that they have been "storm centers of bickering and Ill-feeling," and Is plainly dubious of the value of the sex In -council. unnecessarily so. perhaps, for the cause of suffrage a forlorn hope, if ever there was. one summoned to leadership women who by temperament would be in clined to constant battle. These phases of woman's aid in politics are for the future to identify and may safely be left to time. What is more important, and immediately so, is the advent into American govern ment of a force that is certain to be corrective. cussed with regard td the location of free camping sites on each of the main arteries of travel leading Into the city. Trees, water and electricity are ready to hand. A modicum of genuinely determined energy would bring about the needed results and would cause many a car to halt for several days, its occupants pleased with the hospitality and ntirely willing to linger and become ac quainted. Cities are not permitted to forget that outlanders do not view' their self-satisfactory arrangements with the complacency of residents. They have to be converted and con version Is through hospitality. WEEDS. All good men and true, with their wive3 and kiddies and sundry rela tions, will wish the city well in its resolve to cut the weeds from vacant lots. There Is a harvest. Indeed, that has waited far too long. A most villainous herbage covers acres of suburban real estate, and even en croaches on the downtown district. It is the domain of the burdock and the thistle, and the refuge of rats both human and rodential. In sheer fecundity the weeds shame the prim and proper gardens and It wouldn't be so bad if that were all. But they breed seeds that frisk about the neighborhood ' and make suburban gardening an unre mittent sentence to the hoe. They say that property owners cannot be compelled to pay for the cutting of the weeds. Legislation, civic or state, against harboring noxious weeds ought to take care of the careless. Unsightly, fire- hazardous, uncleanly and wholly offensive, the weed gardens of vacant real estate should be trimmed and kept trimmed. THE HOLIER PARTY. There is a similarity between the arrogant assumption of Mr. Wilson, in his appeal for a democratic con gress, that all genuine patriotism is confined to the democratic party, and Mr. Cox s implication that election honesty is to be found only in the party of which he is the candidate, We have it on the word of Mr. Cox that republicans have conspired to buy the presidency. As before pointed out in these columns there must be a seller as well as a buyer in every commercial transaction The implication is quite plain that not only are republican leaders will ing to corrupt the electorate but that there is a large portion of the elec torate willing to be corrupted that republicans in general cannot be counted on to remain regular unless they are paid for doing it. The charges of Candidate Cox question the honesty and decency of about one-half of the electorate. Mr. Cox's "issue" Is a deep de scent' from the dignity which thoughtful voters believe ought to attend a campaign for the presidency of the United States. The "issue," stripped of exaggeration and sense less charges of attempted corruption, is: Which party has the most money to expend for literature, traveling expenses of speakers, office rent, ad vertising and other legitimate costs of a nation-wide campaign? Stories of an attempt to buy the presidency are preposterous on the face of them. But were it possible and were it done, it would be only less reprehensible to win the presidency by deception and cunning misrepre-sentaticm. FEES DOVE ANT GROCERIES. There was once, and quite re cently, a happy couple of young folks down in southern California who had resolved to live outside the conven tions. Their heads were echoing with bolshevistic new thought and the soul flutterings of youth were interpreted as Inspiration to revolt. First among their theories, borrowed from long-haired, slightly smelly. foreign heralds of a new era, was that of free love. They dwelt, to the scandal of the community, in a cottage with geraniums at the win dows but never a . sign of the marriage certificate. The Informal bridegroom was a student' at the University of California- It Is too bad. Indeed, that, this narrative of these free young spirits must necessarily be told In the past tense. But, to proceed, he was a university student until the president of that finicky Institute of higher learning Informed him that his views on the marital relation were too casual for the general morale, not to say morality. The martyrdom, of dismissal was embraced gladly,' . if press accounts are authentic and one feels shame at the unworthy sus picion that this youthful hero of individualism may have had an eye for the news columns. No matter he quit the college. - The young woman's father ah. there was a villain for you! Did he take a shotgun, or the battle-end of a billiard cue, or the broad ex panse of his brogans, to interrupt with wholly unwarranted rudeness and uncomprehending provincialism the course of true love In the little cottage for two? Our informants are silent. Suffice It to say that he prevailed upon his errant daughter and the youth to set aside their scruples for the space it takes a min ister to perform a marriage. One' would have thought the heartless parent would go away and mind his own business, after that. But he didn't. Not he. That's why this pathetic chronicle Is neces sarily in the past tense- Do you know what he did? He stopped the allowance which he had been send ing his daughter the perfectly prac tical and Indispensable allowance that ushered groceries and peaches and cream and theater tickets Into the geranium bungalow where the young revolutionist dwelt with his bride. And the dear little parrakeet of unconventional romance peeped but feebly as it went to the ash-can. For the life of us we can't see how to draw a moral from this nar rative. The episode seems to have been not precisely immoral, either, but rather wholly unmoral And silly. Funny that lack of groceries, plain corner-store groceries, should inter rupt the higher idealism, isn't it? The cottage is to let. The bride has gone to work. The young icono clast Is going to Europe if he can borrow the fare. Europe is the place, he says, where a free spirit finds sympathy and art and education. That lets the cat out of the bag. We knew somehow that he never pat terned his marriage beliefs after the Ideals, the art, the education or the conscience of America. libraries, now so numerous. It Is become a great thins itself and continually increas ing. These libraries have Jmpreved the general conversation of Americana made the common tradesmen and farmers as Intelligent as most gentlemen from other countries. . and contributed . in soma degree to the. stand so - generally made throughout the colonies in 'de fense of their privileges. This was, a century ago, the only library in a public sense In Phila delphia and one of only eleven or twelve in the entire United States. It served also as the library ot con gress from 1774 until the occupa tion of the city by the British forces and again from the return of the patriot government . to that city In 1791 until the removal of congress to Washington In 1800. The comment of a current historian that "the selection of new books has been kept unusually free from the masses of novels and other ephem eral publications which overload most of our popular libraries" gives us a glimpse of the contrast between early conception of a public library's function and that of the present. Sq, also, does a clause of the will of the philanthropist. Dr. Benjamin Rush, who only half a century ago made a gift to ; the library of property valued at more than a million dol lars, with this Injunction: Deft the library not keep cushioned! seats' ror ttme-wasring- and lountglng readers, nor places for every-d&y novels, mind-tainting reviews, controversial politics, scrlbblings of poetry and prose. biographies' of un known names, nor for those teachers of dis jointed -thlnkine, the daisy newspapers. The progressive free library, how ever, belongs to the second half of the nineteenth century, and real modernism dates from ahout 1876, when the American Library associa tion was formed. Many users of free libraries can remember the time when access to books was sur rounded with restrictions that seri ously . impaired Its usefulness. The open shelf system is comparatively new. Public support is still a dis- ; menace to life and & dangerously im- BY.PRODCCTS OK THE TIMES. Almost Torgotten Word and Business Recalled by Recent Sale. An almost forgotten word and a business long ago abandoned in America are brought to mind by the sale of the Tontine building reported in the real estate transactions In New York elty the other day. It stands at the intersection of Wall and Water streets, a substantial 12-story struc ture that some two decade ago re placed the original Tontine building, built about 1794,' which for genera tions was a center of the commercial and shipping life of the city. In a period when life insurance was a good deal of a gamble, tontine was Immensely popular, and corres pondingly profitable" for the com panies that sold It. A policy had no "surrender value." The gain accru ing from lapsed policies was supposed to be passed to the credit of the f her Insured persons and lapsed p Holes were the rule rather than the excep tion. The arrangement was adapted from the original tontine scheme practiced even by governments in the finance of the Middle Ages, in which several persons agreed to contribute to a pool, the last survivor taking all. ; The "deferred dividend" plan fol lowed the, tontine method of Insur ance, but as came out in the Hughes Investigation, this proved to be gamble hardly more advantageous to the average policyholder than tha old form In the course of the revela tions It Was characterized "as a "sol emn fraud." Providence Journal. Most everything and everybody finds a defender In time. Now, for instance, here Is the motor car. After being vilified for two decades, as a wrhn th inereased railway pas senger rates have not yet affected the tourist traffic through the local ho tels, due to the fact that most of the ourlsts now passing through tne city had booked their tours before the rates became effective, local man agers believe that there will be an ppreclable . falling orr auring tne ext few days. Traveling men report that observation-car accommodations the through trains show only about one-half the traffic of two weeks ago. R. W. Chuds. manager f the Portland hotel, was or tne Dlnton that the Increased rates would have the effect of cutting down on the number of families who are taking sight-seeing tours during the remainder of the season. An un usually large number of tourists with their families have been registered this season-, he said, but higher trav eling expenses would force many par ents to leave the children at home. F. S. Bramwell, vice-president of the Oregon state chamber of com merce, president of the Grants Pass chamber and one of the most con sistent believerr in the future of the Grants Pass country, arrived in Port land yesterday to meet his son Frank, who is returning from a business trip in the east ana is registered at the Oregon. Mr. Bramwell says that an irrigation project Is under way in the Grants Pass district, which in cludes the two old districts on both sides of the Rogue river, that wlli provide water for upward of 13.000 acres of land which is practically worthless at present. The census re port published recently shows that the city of Grants Pass has suffered a slight loss during the past decade, but Mr. Bramwell says that the un warranted boom of ten years ago is responsible for the poor showing, and that the city is now on a more sub stantlal basis. tlnctly American feature, but rrot the only evidence of American Ingenuity in devising new means of education for a democracy. Co-operation with schools exists in only a refatlvely moderate degree In other countries, but Is practically universal here. Work with and for children has es tablished the American library as an essential factor In public education. Branch and traveling libraries, still more recent features of the system. have been developed to an extent that Franklin could hardly have dreamed of. This found expression in a still more novel form in the library work of the American Li brary association with the army and navy during the war, and is to be expanded further if an ambitious plan of interchanging book loans be tween cities for the convenience of travelers if fulfilled. The spirit 6f carrying the book to the people and of creating Interest in reading for its own sake is. peculiarly American. WHY THE MOTOR TOURIST ox. DRIVES One of the most notable records attained by the city, in continued delay and excusal, is its failure to provide camping sites for the thou sands of motoring tourists we have invited to call. Time and again this project has arisen for disposal, but always it retreats to the files while civic organizations of various sorts are selecting new style of hatband or resolving to send a 100 per cent delegation to some eastern conven tion. There Is no dearth of "pep," as the civic clubmen term it, but apparently there is none therewith to spice the camping site project. Essentially, of course, this lack of accommodations for the motoring tourist is the fault of the entire city -the net result of a disposition to let George do it. But certain organ izations which are in the field to litical parties, notwithstanding their serve Portland, and their own busi staunch denial of unworthy grati- I ness prosperity, might well turn their tude. The rival claims of the repub lican and democratic parties have drawn feminine attention to the sources of suffrage, and undoubtedly will to some extent influence the vote. Those leaders who speak for the enfranchised women of America do so without any particular author ity and largely because they are self- elected to lead. They have striven valiantly and to renowned success, but their opinions now that the vote is attained are only individual or coterie opinions. The mere coincidence that Ten nessee, last of the thirty-six states to ratify the nineteenth amendment. Is democratic will not weigh heavily with women who realize that twenty. nine of the necessary endorsements were those of solidly republican states. The average woman voter, despite the fantastic furore with which the democratic press claimed party credit for the attainment of equal suffrage, is fully aware of the facts. Mr. Sullivan also points out that democratic Interest in suffrage was attention toward some plan whereby the chain of tomorrows will be broken by the advent of a today and the camping site become an accomplished fact. The city in an official sense, real estate interests, automotive organizations, the Cham ber of Commerce, and all civic or ganizations are inferentially indicted by further delay. A current report of the Boise auto tourists' park should be sufficient to inspire Portland to cease procrasti nation, and to emulate the hospitable measures that have been adopted by other western cities. It seems that at Boise, when the motorist and his family have settled comfortably down for a day or two, the merchants and business men find a new energy ap parent in their respective affairs. Unexpected sales of property often result and new citizens are enlisted for the community. Similar reports are of record in any city that has opened a tourists' camping ground and asked its gasoline guests to feel at home. The Portland jlaa has been dis- THE BOOK AND THE FEOFXE. A convention of librarians such as that which is to assemble in Portland this week suggests to the user of public libraries whose memory runs back more than a generation the comparatively recent enlargement of the public-library idea. For as good many historians and bibliolo- gists have taken pains to point out. mere collections of books are as old as recorded history itself. A pleasing thought is conveyed by the inscrip tlon said to have been borne by the ccllection of Rameses I, dating, back 3400 years: Dispensary of the Soul, Thus early were books regarded as remedial agents of great force and virtue- It will bo borne In mind, however, that this was only the ear liest "recorded" collection of books, and that it doubtless was not the first collection that existed. The library has ail the sentimental ad vantages of honorable antiquity, to gether with the accretions of mod ern progresss. It is as old as civili zatlon and the appetite for knowl edge, and as new as the ingenuity of men and organization can make it. we are not now concerned so much with the history of libraries in general as with that of the public library movement in particular, since it is through the method of making books available that education of the kind denoted by books has been so greatly advanced. In the respect that the library has become a public servant, and that it has conceived of its duties as extending to the entire community, Instead of being limited to those who voluntarily entered Its doors, it is relatively a new thing. The first library opened to public use was far from being a public library in the sense In which we now regard it. There were restrictions surrounding it which are not now easy to under stand. It especially: lacked the mis sionary spirit that is characteristic of its modern descendant. The idea that a distributor of books might have certain analogies to a distrib utor In trade is hardly half a cen tury old. As the latter does not sit down and wait for customers, the former tries to create a demand for his goods where it does not exist. The world owes something to Amer ice for Us new conceptions of the duty of tradesmen and it owes to Americans also the most of that which has been accomplished in mak ing education popular through the medium of the library. It is this broader aspect of library develop ment. Its proselyting character, that will concern practical librarians more deeply than the minutiae of academic bibliography. Benjamin Franklin had this idea when in 1731 he pioneered the way to establishment of what unques tionably was the first proprietary library in America. In his auto biography he says: And now I set on foot my first project of a public nature, that for a subscription library. I drew up the proposals, got them put Into form by our great scrivener. Brockden, and by the help of my friends in the Junto procured fifty subscribers at forty shillings each to begin with, and ten shillings a year for fifty years, the term our company was to continue. We afterward obtained a charter, the com pany being Increased to lOO; this was the mother of ail North American subscription AN EARLY ROAD MAP. The automobile was not, as some have supposed, the stimulus for the making of the original road guide. In a collection of American incunab ula there has recently been found an interesting work by Christopher Colles, an Irish engineer, who came to this country in pre-revolutionary days, which in all probability is the prototype of all road guides now in use. Colles himself was famous for other achievements. He was a pio neer waterways engineer and an authority in his time on pneumatics and gunnery. He was first to pro pose that Lake Ontario and the Hud son river be connected by canal and one of the first steam engines made in this country was designed by him. Yet even this master mind could not foresee the trend of transporta tion In the future. In his guide, which he called "A Survey of the Roads of the United States of Amer ica," and which was published in 1789, he deals with the narrow fringe along the Atlantic coast which then constituted what was practically all of the new republic. The data that he regarded as 1m portant to travelers are interesting because of their contrasts with pres ent conditions. He designated the sites of aI Episcopalian and Presby terian churches with a cross and all jails with a gibbet. Blacksmith shops were indicated for the benefit of the wayfarer, so that in case oi accident "he will, by the bare Inspec tion of the draft, be able to tell whether he must go forward or backward." Other information In cluded the names of leading farmers and planters, and of taverns. Men tion is made of road conditions, but Judged by present standards they must have been all bad. Those Who Come and Go. Now comes ex-premier Paderew skl with a most militant statement in behalf of the Poles. What makes us wonder is how he ever built up that reputation as an expert on the soft pedal. Wayne county, Michigan, and Los Angeles county, California, both show big population Increases. It's significant that both are nationally famous for their good roads. An illicit still was seized Saturday on the farm of a man named Still man Andrews east of the city. The name may have put the "booze hounds" on the scent. The negro charged with attempted attack, at The Dalles and captured at Hood River can thank his stars he was In a state where the law abides. William K. Vanderbilt left his butler $150,000. Very delicate way of giving tne Dutier a cnaracter" as worth his weight In gold. It would be Interesting to know how many of those who hoped to proiit Dy ponzi s smartness were down on the profiteers. Sugar at 20 cents seems almost too good to be true; yet It seems but a short" while since it was twenty pounds for a dollar. 1 The weed-cutting .campaign is commendable, but weed seeds won't wait long enough for much red tape to be cut. . Tulsa dropped the colored line Saturday in lynching a white man accused of murdering a taxi cab driver. Possibly the biggest benefit of the late rain was in letting the gasoline supply catch up. "Occasional showers" are predict ed for Oregon and Washington this week. Do tell! moral factor in society, it has found a valiant detender who declares it to be the greatest moral influence in America next to the church. This unexpected line of defense Is undertaken by E. C. Stokes, a banker and an ex-governor of New Jersey. His reason for declaring the mo-tor car to be a great moral force, apart from its industrial importance which no one wants to deny. Is that It unites the interests of a family. Where for merly the father would have one sor of recreation, -the mother another, and the children yet others, with motor car they all take their pleasure together; and the shady, flower be decked roadsides are crowded with charming family picnic parties. Mr. Stokes says, if every family in the land possessed a motor car family ties would be closer and many of the problems of social unrest would b happily solved. Ohio State Journal. It has been figured up that there are about 12,000 small towns In th United States, half of them with popu lations of 600 or - less. It is these small towns that the rural people are intimately associated with. They sell their produce there, buy the things they need; in fact, these are a part of the rural community. Some o these small towns will become cities but a very large percent of them will remain as they. are. It is no disgrace to live in a small town, but the rul is that these people are waiting until next year, or some future year to Ira prove their schools, put In sidewalks, a water system, or a sewer system to safeguard the health of the people, or before taking any steps to improve the social and living conditions of the children. Thrift Magazine. mm You who are interested in motion pictures and who have wondered from time to time just whether you were ! abnormal in your desire to see good films, even to the extent of wading through mud, leaving the babies with the neighbor, and letting husband's dinner go an hour or two, to see them, did you know that: Fifteen thousand regular theaters are showing motion pictures? Twelve thousand legitimate thea ters are showing motion pictures? Twenty-five hundred of them change two or three times each week? Dally attendance at picture thea ters is 13,000,000? Total Income of motion picture the aters In 1919 was 8750.000.000? There are 890 different chains of motion picture theaters In this coun try? Well, it's true. New York Tribune. The Antaimoro, one of the oldest tribes of Madagascar, possesses the secret of making from the pulp of a native shrub a very beautiful and en during kind of paper resembling parchment. Each family possesses a few sheets of this paper, on which Its chronicles and traditions are recorded, and the same paper is used for transcribing the laws of Mohammedanism. The paper is said to have been invented in the middle of the ninth century by a Mohammedan shipwrecked on the coast, who desired to transcribe his torn and water-eoaked copy of the Koran in an enduring form. The An taimoro will only make the paper for sale when some pressing necessity arises. Prof. Dink Baeson says if it Were as easy to do as to criti cise what someone elee has done Wouldn't it be a grand old world And the libraries are full of Books that win tell you of the Flaws in the paintings of Mlch Ael Angelo or Albert Durer, but The writers fall to tell us how To produce something better, and Men will reduce Shakespeare or Dante or Hugo to mere nothlng Ness, and yet provide not a four Line verse to take their vacant Place in our lives, and histor ians will show, where Abe Lincoln Was dead wrong in his decisions. Or Washington or Grant should Have acted differently, and ev- En the loungers in the park can Point out mistakes of Wilson or Lloyd George or Moses, but from The time the first of the tribe ' Chiseled out his knock in cun- Elform down to Senators Johnson And Reed they've always been as Short on "do" as they were Long on "tell." THRELFALL in Los Angeles Times. Guy Sacre of Monmouth has been saving money for the next school term at the University of Oregon by working in the harvest fields near Wasco. He arrived in Portland yes terday from Wasro and reports that bumper crops were harvested in that section this season. Sacre has worked in that secttn in other harvest sea sons, but says that it is still aston ishing to him how the farmers of that locality can raise crops on such steep hills. He says that the leveling device on the combined harvesters Is built to accommodate a 45 per cent grade, but even at that many hills were encountered where the leveler was "out of luck." But the steepness of the hills did not affect the yield of wheat. increased railway rates have no effect on the shipment of cattle from eastern and central Oregon points, apparently. L M. "Ike" Mills, well- known cattleman of Prineville, Or., arrived in Portland yesterday with several carloads of high-priced beef cattle. He is registered at the Im perial, but spent most of the day yes terday at the etockyards. Mills b lleves that there is -no section of the northwest that can compare to the country In and around Prineville and the business men of that town believe the same. Judging by the enormous sign displayed at Prineville Junction which tells of this wonder land of the west. Word was received In Portland yes terday that Roy Carrauthera, for merly manager of the Palace hotel in San Francisco, and one of the beet known of the Pacific coast hotel fra ternity. has been appointed manag ing director of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York. A telegram re celved by relatives In this city yes lernay stated tnat ne will take up nis new duties September 1. Carrau thers was also manager of the Penn sylvania hotel in New York after re signing the managership of the Palace. j.nree rair tourists, who are see ing the Pacific coast first" are Mrs. T. J. Bridges, Mrs. G. E. Lawrence and Mrs. H. L" Kruae, all of Oakland, ur., who are registered at the Im perial. Other out-of-town Oregonl- ans at the Imperial yesterday were Mr. and Mrs. W. R Webber of The Dalles, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Stephens of Salem, Mr. and Mrs. W. H Spence of enterprise, and Mr and lira. M. Simon of Astoria- Mr. and Mrs. S. R. Thompson and daughter of Pendleton are registered t the Benson. Mr. Thompson Is one of those well-known Pendleton jvheat farmers who are coining money dur ing tnese days of the high cost of living. Mrs. Thompson and her daughter came down to Portland last week on a shopping expedition and yesterday Mr. Thompson came down to join them and accompany them home. The lumber industry In eastern Ore gon will be seriously affected by the Increased rail rates, In the opinion of josepn stodciard of the Stoddard Brothers Lumber company of Baker, who is registered at the Imperial. Outside of the damaging results of the Increased rates, he reports that the lumber Industry jn Baker is pros perous at present. t-orvuiu win soon coast or a new 1350,000 hotel, according to F. S. Ad pieman, Oregon electric agent from Corvallls, who is registered at the Multnomah. Mr. Appleman is accom panied by Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Ander son, Oregon electric company doctor oi corvauis. W. A Kerns, manager of the Seattle branch of the H. W. Collins grain company, arrived in Portland vester day and is registered at the Benson. P. C Blair of Enterprise. H. P. Blgelow of Medford and Charles Rob inson of The Dalles are registered at tne Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Power of Leb anon and C L. Mullen of Olney are registered at tne imperial. John F. Mitchell and Henry D. Keyes of Fossil are registered at the Benson. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Lemon of Olean. New Yok, are registered at the New Perkins. I. E. McCormlck of McCormlck, Washington, is registered at the Ben son. F. W. Nolan of The Dalles is regis tered at tne Oregon. EFFORTS ARE WHOLLY PEACEFUL Filipino Not Talking; v Revolt to Gain Independence. WASHINGTON, D. C, Aug. 20. (To the Editor.) The following let ter comes to us from a young Fili pino woman In this country and should suffice to answer the article In. The Oregonian, July 29, written by Mr. Frazler Hunt, entitled: "President of Senate, Leads Move for War; Brit ish and Japanese Interests Believed Involved." . Brothers: Haive yon read the statement of Mr. Frazler Hunt about the British and Japanese stirring Filipinos against Amer ica? That is not true! Further on he states that the Filipino leaders are arousing our people againet the United States and that Quezon is actually heading a movement for war on this coun try. That is another untruth. Our lead ers know better! No people- are more loyal to the United States than we are. Xot all Americans know this and those who do not are liable to believe Hunt. Hunt is one of the most sensational writ ers of the day. Brothers, do something- In answer you can do ltl (Signed) "SIS. We add that the representations In Mr. Hunt's article are untrue and they arouse the resentment of every Filipino. The Filipinos are protest lug peacefully against a law passed by the United States congress which they deem Inimical to their interests. Force is not thought of. They know that there are legitimate channels through which to accomplish their end. They have a right to protest against any law passed by the United States against their will and without their consent. The Philippine clause of the merchant marine law of 1920 was thus passed against the will and over the protest of the Filipino people. They believe that that law does not give them a square dea which they feel they have a right to expect from the United States. They believe that American legislators con sider the Philippines as a colony which should not hope for better treatment than that accorded to other colonies. They believe, further, that this law curtails the power of the Philippine legislature, contrary to the avowed purpose of the American peo ple to give more autonomous govern ment to the Philippine people and to withdraw their sovereignty from tha Philippines as soon as they have a stable government established there. They believe, lastly, that this Is In direct taxation smacking of Spanish colonialism, and depriving them of the opportunity to Improve their economic life through their own re sources. They submit that It would react eventually against the United States and the interests of the American ocean-carrying trade should this law go into effect. So far as Mr. Hunt's article con tinues "British and Japanese Inter ests Believed Involved." we refer you to the statement by the Second British Consul, Mr. Harrington, at Manila, under date of July 24, In which he emphatically declared that the Brit ish are not meddling In American in ternal aftairs and that the British companies are in the islands for busi ness only, the same as American in terests are in British territory. He added that British interests have no idea of trying to run American affairs. The Filipinos are conducting a peaceful propaganda for independ ence: there Is no thought of revolt or of ingratitude toward this country. But they are human and the strike of the Manila pressmen against the publication of just such stories as Mr. Hunt's, Indicate their wholesome objection to being maligned. The Philippines do not ask Britain or Japan to inspire their request for self-government; their own national pride and dignity have led them to seek this place among the nations. PHILIPPINE PRESS BUREAU, J. F. MELENCIO. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Hoatsgne, Wransrel. Yon often will hear of a name sou couldn't foreret if vou tried to. Which clinches forever the fame Of the gentleman whom it's applied to. But you'll find that the striklngest name of the lot. When examined from every angle. Is the name a belligerent Russian has got We axe speaking of General Wran-geL A sibilant something there Is, v bleb Dleaeantlv falls on the ears. In the title of Abdul Assiz, A sultan who bosses Aleiers. Ping Bodie's crude name will remain in your mind When vanished is Abdul Assiz's. But General Wrangel's you're certain to una Is far more enduring than his Is. Though Gatti-Cazzaza can claim (With absolute Justice, at that) ' That anyone hearing his name Will carry it under his hat. Long after the present-day leaders are dead. And solved is the bolshevik tangle. You still will be toting around In your head The moniker. General Wrangel. We still recall General Legg. Who figured while in the news. We can't forget Field Marshal Halg, For his name Is suggestive of booze. But Wrangel's a word that means nothing but fight; He may not be valiant or clever. But we'll watch for his deeds with a thrill of delight And his name we'll remember for ever! - It's tn the Record. There won't be any controversy over who won the Olympic games. Poor Judgement. If we were Lenine. Instead of get ting advice of those German generals, we'd consult some of the winners, That's What's the Matter. There Is underproduction of lots of things chiefly labor. Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndicate. Ino. In Other Days. Tweniy-fhe Yean AffO. From The Oregonian of August S0..1S9S.i K. M. Blgelow. director of the de-' partment of public works of the city of Pittsburg. Pa., is In Portland with Mrs. Bigelow enjoying a recreation tour. Three Pacific northwest records were broken last night in trial heats of the bicycle races at Multnomah field. The smoke cloud that hung over the c'ty yesterday was so dense that it made the eyes of citizens out of doors smart. It has been 20 years since the smoke of forest fires has been so dense here. Messrs. Day, contractors on the Cas cade locks, say that the canal and locks will be completed about Janu ary 1. "Watch Tacoma Grow." Four babies have been abandoned there recently. The "tumble" in sugar is like Christmas quite a while away, The town clock of Beverly is not quite suited to the three pigeons who recently perched on the hour hand, or else the birds did not like the day light saving idea. However, they perched in their "timely" position lnr enough to set tne ciocn. oaca ! one-half hour.: Boston Post, PARK CONCERTS DELIGHT MANY Portland Residents Especially Favored of God stud Man. PORTLAND, Aug. 29. (To the Ed ltor.j -ino. city council makes no mistake in providing music for the enjoyment of the people during the summer months. Any one who ob serves the faces of young and old that attend the concerts will say so. What with a chance to eat the evening meal under the trees of Laurelhurst, Mount Tabor and other parks, then to listen to a carefully prepared musicyal programme, exe cuted under theN direction of Con ductor Ettlnger, of selections de signed to meet the tastes of all, surely the citizens of this fair city are favored of God and man. I believe I echo the sentiments of many another in expressing my ap preciation of the good work of the band under its competent leader. The thanks of the people are due to the city commissioners for mak ing this provision for their pleasure. JAMES L. BOWLBY, 12 S East Fifty-third Street- ' BUZZARDS HAtXT CITY STREETS Insnlts to Women Going Home From Night Work Common Occurrence. PORTLAND. Or.. Aug. 29. (To the Editor.) Several mornings ago there Appeared one of the best - cartoons that has come under my notice in many days. I refer to the one "While we are cleaning up other things, why not clean up the sidewalks, too?" Probably these things come under my notice quicker than the average woman, having been In the probation work in a southern city for many years. I am now a- resident of Port land and a working woman, and my hours necessitate my going to my hotel between 11 P. M. and midnight. Girls getting off at that hour etart out almost on a run to keep the buzzards- in the shape of men from insulting them on your streets. For while I roomed at that splendid In stitution In your city the Joan of Arc and -there was not a night passed that I was not followed home by some "buzzard" or approached on the street, and thus brought Into close touch with the reality that "Portland needs her sidewalks cleaned." If the economical situation of the country Is such that young girls and women must work, then the country should at loast provide a way to pro tect them from the carrion crows who lay in wait for them. You have in your police department in Portland one of the best organized forces of women in the country. I refer to your women's protective de partment. If this department will select good, strong, substantial work ing women and girls (as we did in Atlanta. Ga., for a while) and u-ive them-atars, giving them the right to make arrests or such men as this. ride tnese men down to the police station ana give them 30 days on the rocic pile, witn no chance of paying a line, mere win De less or this O. D. C. CAMP IN THE SAWTOOTH. The moon came drifting o'er the pines On sails as white as snow. Her magic glory touched the hills. And Boise's crystal flow: The nlghtbirds mourned like broken hearts. The wind was soft and low. Each bearded face, each rugged form was mellowed and subdued. For fellowship on all had placed A kind and manly mood. Wnoe er has tramped by pass and trail Will own the fusing spell. That campflres are a bond of faith And a confessional. Gray drifters from the ends of earth, And young men in their prime. Like bubbles on a mountain flood. Swept on by chance and time. Were not ashamed of tears that night. Nor love and things sublime. One told the story of a face Deep graven In his breast. And understanding kind as uod Lay clean on all the rest. Forgotten were the deeds of sin. The sordid loss and gain. Each dropped, as autumn sheds Its leaves. Some haunting crimson stain. And with the spot each one forgot His own unwritten pain. Ah, oft since then the moon has rolled O'er mountain and o'er stream. And each bent face comes back as things Which waver through a dream. For long ago that campfire burned To ashes, gray and lone. And mountain winds sigh 'round that camp With melancholy tone; Yet memory keeps the tender light Which on each forehead lay Oh! every man's a lover-tarn, If love could have his wav GUY FITCH PHELPS. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian or August SO, 1870. London Austria has concurred In the declaration of neutrality proposed by England and accepted by Italy, and a treaty to guarantee the same for Belgium is now being exchanged. The Oregon & California' Railroad company now has five first-class lo comotives, the J. B. Stephens. Port land, Oregon, Clackamas and Albany, the last Just having arrived by steamer. The cornerstone of the new Con gregational church at the corner of Jefferson and Second streets will be laid today. TRADING ON GREAT MASTS FAME Reminder Needed That Franklin L la Not Close Relative of T. 1U CORVALLIS, Or.. Aug. 2S. To the Editor.) Confusion in the minds of some voters has been manifested by persons who believe that Franklin D. Roosevelt, democratic nominee for vice-president, is of the immediate family of our honored Theodore. Let all the republican press pro claim constantly that such is not the fact and that the fact that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a distant relative of Theodore Roosevelt probably has been used for the purpose of Influ encing In favor of the democratlo vice-presidential nominee some por tion of the late president's recent following and calculated by the dis credited democratic administration's convention delegates as a subterfuge In order to confuse, cloud and befog the minds of uninformed voters, men as well as women. Let the press speak of the demo cratic vice-presldentlal nominee as "Franklin D.," or simply as the dem ocratic nominee for vice-president," and let it go at that. REPUBLICAN. e-. STATE AND COUNTY FAIR DATES. Oregon Salem, Sept. 27-Oct. 2. California Sacramento, Sept. 4-12. Montana Helena, Sept. 13-18. Washington Yakima, fe.pt. 20-23. Idaho Boise, Sept. 27-Oct. 2. Utah Salt Lk-e. Oct. 4-0. County and District. Round Up Lakeview, Sept. 4-6. Fan-'Em-All llitehell, Sept. 9-H. Industrial Shedd. Sept. 10. Coos-Curry Myrtle Point. Sept. 13-18. Stampede Antelope. Sept. 1-18. Hood River Hood River, Se.pt. 17-18. Clackamas Canby, Sept. 20-22. Une Bufene, Sept. 20-23. Lincoln Toledo, Se-pt. 21-23. Mal'he-ui Ontario, Sept. 21-24. Columbia St. Helens. Sept. 22-24. Round U-p Perwileton, Sept. 23-20S. Grant John Day. Sept. 29-Oct. 2. Harney Burns, Sept. 80-Oot. 2. Wasco Dalles City, Oct. 4-7. Iinn Albany. Oct. 4-8. Multnomah Gmhsm, Oct. 4-9. Oregon Interstate Hrlnewin, Oct. Clatsop Awtorla. Oot. 7-9. Dairy and Hog Show Hermlston, Oct. 8-4. Sherman More Oct. 11-16. Washington. Grays Harbor Elma, Aug. SO-Sept. 4. Inrerstate -Spokane, Sept. 6-11. Klickitat GoldetKiale. Sept. 14-1S. Walla Walla -Walla Willi, Sept. 16-18. Whitman Colfax, Sept. 22-24. Cowlitz Woodland, Sept. 23-23. Whatcom Lynden. Sept. 29-Oct. 2. Western Washington iPuyallup, Oct. 6-la Idaho. Homo-Coming Sandpoint. Sept, 2-4. Minidoka Rirpert, Sept. 9-11, Twin Falls Filer, Sept. 14-47. Power- American Fal-is, SepC 15-1T. Lincoln Shoshone, S'ept. 18. Fremont St. Anthony, Sept. 20-21. Jerome Jerome. Sept. 21-23. Harvest Festival Nampa, Sept. 21-23. Blngnam Black-foot. Sept. 21-24. Cassia Burley, Sept. 22-24. Bonneville Idaho Falls, Sept. 23-15. Idaho Woodland. Sept. 25. Lewlston-Clarkston- Lewiston, Sept. 27 Oct. 2. Oneida Malad, Sept. SO-Oct. 2. Latah Troy, Oct. 6-8. Bonner Clarka Fork, Oct. 8-9. Farm Bureau Neperce, Oct. R-0. Kootenai Coeur d'Alene, Oct- 12-13. CM. Cache -Logan. Sept, Montana. Midland Empire Billings, Sept. 21-24. British Columbia. Vancou-ver Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 13-18. Victoria Victoria, Sept. 2tt-2o. New Westminster New Westminster, Sopt. 97-Tirt- 2. Sti-vens County Colvllle, Wash., Sept. 29 Oct. I. Livestcx-k Show Los Angeles, Oct. 4-l. Southern California Riverside, Oct. 13-19. Western Royal Spokane, November 1-5. Northwest Lewiston. Nov. 7-12. Patfltlo International Portland, Nov. 15-20. i