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TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER. 10, 1920 ... v iltonrinjEH 0tt$mnn ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by Ths Oregonian Publishing-Co.. 13J Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDE.V, B. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use lor publication of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news publls-hed herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (.'- By Mail.) JSally, Sunday Included, one year JS.00 . .-; rily, Sunday Included, six months ... 4.23 Dally, .Sunday included, three months . 2.25 Daily, Sunday included, one month .... .79 ' Dally, without Sunday, one year 6 00 ' Daily, without Sunday, six month .... S.25 . .'. Daily, without Sunday, one month .... .60 ... Weekly, one year 1-UO . . Sunday, one year 6.00 - (By Carrier.) 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A number of years ago, during the ,' ' biennial apportionment of state " road funds by the Washington ., , .C legislature, it was conceived by V some of the members living in and u.'.'.V.' ' about Seattle and Tacoma that im-'ZZ- .'- provement of roads in the south- western Washington counties would '- be so advantageous to Portland that Washington money should not be de T."? voted to that purpose. "They were powerful enough to force that theory ' -' upon the legislature. But times have changed. Since - then, long-distance automobile tour lng has come into vogue. Autoists from eastern states and California journey forth to partake of the va - ried slimmer attractions of the . northwest. They come from the V:.' east over the Columbia' river hlgh way and they come from the south over the Pacific highway. At Fort land most of them halt. The repu- "" tation of the Pacific highway north ';, of Portland is bad enough to dls- : courage ' all except the most in- v - .- trepld. -Now the loss of tourist "'.travel the state might get is one CI'- of the main arguments presented in : Washington why a road-building !'.- measure, known as the Carlyon bill. should be adopted by the people in ' November. The completion of -the . Pacific highway is on of the out standing promises of the bill. ' It is ; highway No. 1. The Carlyon bill is in principle a copy of the plan of road financing that originated in Oregon. It pro poses to capitalize automobile reg istration fees into bonds, and thus make the automobiles pay for the roads. A six-year programme is laid out, and the bond issues au thorized will aggregate $30,000,000. The Pacific highway from the Brit ish Columbia line to the' Columbia river is to be complete: the Sun set highway is to be paved from -Seattle to Spokane; the Empire ' highway, which branches from the Sunset at Ellensburg and run to Walla Walla and thence to Spokane; the Inland Empire highway from j Spokane to Canadian line, the Olym ' pic loop and other highways are in the programme. It is a fact that Washington got the good roads fervor much earlier than Oregon. It created a state highway engineering department fifteen years ago, designated pri mary and secondary state highways and imposed a state-wide highway tax. A large mileage has been grav eled, but the maintenance cost of gravel roads has been growing fast with the increase in automobile ... travel. A system of legislative ap , portlonment and grant of state aid to county road building worked to gether to scatter the funds in widely separated places. Grades were made a . i and left to stand because money was not available to surface them; gravel was put down on heavily traveled highways where deterioration kept ahead of maintenance; some roads once graveled at considerable cost ' are now in process of pavement and unimproved links have been left be . , tween improved sections of road. After fifteen years of effort the state has not a single creditable road across it. But it cannot be fairly said that .". there are no good roads or that there are but few good roads In Washington. The complaint con cerns principally their continuity, If one happens to live in one of the . larger cities, or if one ig a tourist " y and can manage somehow to get to ' the population centers, one can find iJ., good roads to ride over. From Se attle a continuous pavement beck "! I i'. ons OTIe south through Tacoma to Ulympta and thence nearly to Te nino, or one can go north from Se . attle through Everett to a point ten miles or so beyond before running . . on nara surface. There are good stretches of hard surface reaching out or spoKane, Walla Walla. North Yakima, Bellingham and other cities. ; k It is the cross-state traveler or the .- , tourists from other states who en ... counter the dust, mud and bumps. Oregon has been engaged In state . supervision and construction of high- , ,. . ways about three years. Before that ; - Multnomah county built that' por tion of the Columbia highway within . its borders under a county bonding act, and several other caunties had ... exhibited a progressive road-build- --- ing spirit. But the main work has- been recent. The last small gap in i a continuous pavement from Astoria " " to Hood River is now being closed " on the lower Columbia river high- - way. By next year the pavement will - be completed to the sea. Along the - . . . coiumDia river there will be a pave ', .' ment without a break for a distance '" cf 180 to 190 miles and a creditable . ; road beyond Hood River to the state line near Pendleton. -'. From Portland to the California line, the distance via Pacific high ... way is 347 miles. About one-half is now- paved. One hundred miles . - - more of it will be paved in 1921 and ' r' l the remaining gaps closed in 1922. J Today the Pacific highway m Ore gon offers nothing that can be com pared in point of execrable condi- tion with the Pacific highway in southwestern Washington, though the physical obstacles to road build ',' ing are far greater on the Oregon " ' t portion of the highway. " . The progress of road-building in ;) Oregon may be credited to the plan ; ; of financing construction, to the def l ' ' f C- inita adoption of aiain highway routes and to the high character of the highway commission. But on a pay-as-you-go plan, it Is doubtful if a commission of no matter how high degree could have accomplished a quarter as much in the same time. It has been able to plan ahead on construction work; it has not been forced to let new grades go to pieces or to rely on makeshifts; availlbility of funds has made possible the let ting of large contracts and the fact that large contracts, were in sight has caused contractors to . prepare to handle them and to meet price competition of other contractors. Oregon in-a very brief period has seen what good roads will accom plish in bringing tourists' to this" state and has seen investments fol low their visits and has heard of the good words that the non-investors have spread among their friends. But the future of Oregon is bound up to a large extent with the future of other northwest states. The bigger the inducement, the greater the number that will come to this section. The highway now ap proaches the status of the railroad in that it is a means of communica tion between far-distant as well as neighborhood communities. Oregon would hardly be content nor would it be to its best interests if railroad development were backward north of the Columbia river. How Wash ington shall go about Us road build ing is, of course, Washington's busi ness, but if it wants evidence as ta what a definite, comprehensive, in telligent road-building, programme will do for a state it can find that evidence in Oregon. THE SAD FATE OF GEORGIA. If Tom Watson shall have been nominated for senator in Georgia as is unofficially reported it means that one stalwart democratic unit of the solid south has gone anti- Wilson. Hear the Atlanta Consti tution on Watson: 1 Another (candidate) is Thomas E. Wat son who never Hpoke a good word for the democratic administration in Washington, but who has continuously for ceven years openly and proudly boasted of his op position toward it; and who is 'unalter ably," vehemently and bitterly opposed to the league lof nations, principle. . There is other democratic testi mony as to Watson. Here Is what one opponent, , Governor Dorsey, who ran as a pro-league, pro-Wilson candidate for senator, offered as to his opponent: Thomas E. Watsnn 'advised our boys to resist the draft. He deceived the ignorant and collected 12.000 from poor deluded boys and their parents under the promise that he would save them from the tt. Watson got the money and the boya got In Jail. Watson never bought any liberty bonds during the war, and In hia Jeffersonian (from which the gov ernor read in corroboration of his state ment) he advised against their purchase. Something strange is happening in the solid south. It is bad enough that it should be always democratic. and worse that it should be blindly pro-Wilson. They never let the col ored men vote in Georgia and they sUut; out the women last Wednes day, and Tom Watson is now the white man's hope. Poor, deluded, partisan, benighted, ignorant, way ward Georgia! OFF THE RESERVATION. Mr. Bryan may be sulking in his tent, as blind old Homer says of Achilles in his great epic, or he may be dTowsing lazily outside the democratic baseball park, as , Car toonist Perry pictures, or he may be going fishing, as democratic head quarters dismally reports, or -he may be still boiling within, while Calm without, as the ubiquitous reporter suspects and sees; but whatever It is. the seat high on the democratic bandwagon reserved for him. Is still vacant. The light in the window is burn ing brightly for Bryan, but Dame Democracy might as well resume her knitting. Her wand,ering boy is off the reservation. He has rea sons a-plenty as plentiful as black berries, to use the Falstaffian phrase. Old Jack was never without reasons to do what he wanted to do; nor Old Bill for refusing to do what he doesn t want to do. Yet hope springs eternal in the agitated democratic breast. Bryan may come back. But if he comes. what can he do for Cox? Is it for gotten that just before the demo cratic convention he gave out a statement in which he told what he thought of - Cox, in the following spirited language: Governor Edwards if a joke. A drunk- ard in the last stages of delirium tremens would have sense enough to know that bdwards has no chance of nomination. Senator Hitchcock did not have any chance even before the Nebraska primary, hence he had nothing to lose. Governor Cox is tbelr man and he has fairly won the dls- nonor that tie seeks. After disgracing hia state he aspires to position in which he could disarrace nation. For years the men engaged ' In the liquor business have been the real an archists of the country, far more dansrer- ous than the professional anarchists. Gov ernor Cox has become their candidate. His nomination would .make the demo cratic party the leader of the lawless ele ment of the country and his election, if such a thing were possible, would turn the White House, over to those who defy tempt.. There is no likelihood of his nomination and no chance of his election if nominated, but why should any democrat be willing to support a man whose nomination would insult the conscience of the nation? For the triumph of prohibition la a triumph of the nation s conscience. Mr. Bryan -is still a democrat; but he is not working at it much now adays. Yet we cannot restrain our bursting curiosity to know just what he would say if he should go on tfce stump for Cox, in explanation as to -why any democrat should be willigg to support a man whose nomination would Insult- the con science of a nation." JUNKING HELIGOLAND.' Heligoland the impregnable, be hind whrch the German fleet lurked throughout the war, save for a few forays, is now being dismantled under allied direction. By the terms of peace the island fortress is "never again to be fortified or to serve as a naval base, though Germany retains possession. It was the foremost symbol of German strength, when Prussian pride was at its height. Today oxyhydrogen flames are cut ting its guns and turrets into scrap steel, and high explosives are shatter ing the massive reinforced concrete. Those who work at its destruction are amazed at the formidable nature of its construction and fighting equipment, and liken it to a huge stationary battleship set to guard the mouth of the Elbe, the entrance to the Kiel canal and the Baltic sea. Yet Heligoland did not pay. It gave security to the German fleet, and there is reason to believe that this sense' of safety wrought havoc with the morale of the kaiser's sailors. When the Germans slipped out from behind Heligoland to the North sea and the battle of Jutland, they were in no spiritual sense ready for the hammering of the British guns. Though England that day lost more ships than Germany, it was the ships of Wilhelm that doubled on their tracks and dashed back, to the safety of Heligoland. Captain Per sius, the German naval critic, early In the war declared that the contest at sea must result in defeat, because the sailors of Germany were not heartened by such naval traditions as those of England. Another fiasco under the guardian ship of Heligoland was the failure of German plans' for a desperate naval coup, planned but never executed. The German fleet was to dash forth, according to a definite strategic plan, and attack the allied fleet in open battle. But the sailors of the father land mutinied when their ' orders came, and the revolution that swept over Germany and dethroned the war lord found its origin behind the fortress of Heligoland. It is esti mated that the value of the steel salvage now being blasted and slashed from the island will run into millions. At the last that is the practical value of one of the mighti est military projects of all time. F.SCH BEATEN". BUT SO WAS SIMS. Defeat of Representative John J. Esch, one of the authors of the Esch-Cummins railroad bill, for re nomination on the republican ticket in Wisconsin may be attributed to the combined Influence of Senator La Follette and the American Fed eration of Labor. Any better result was hardly to be expected in so radical a state as Wisconsin, but the nation will lose. Mr. Esch is a gen uine progressive, though not of the La Follette brand, and has taken the lead In legislation for control of railroads since the beginning of the Roosevelt administration. An offset to Mr. Esch's defeat is that of Representative Sims of Ten nessee, for he .was the champion of the Plumb plan in the .house and never rested from fulminating against private ownership of rail roads and against any measures to prevent tying up railroads by strikes. Other radicals have met the same fate, and the balance is against ex tremists this year. Dire consequences of revolution in other countries have had a sobering influence on the American people. SALESMANSHIP IN COFFINS. The undertakers have spent the week in Portland, assembled for discussion of their mutual affairs In which all of -us have some eventual concern and it was but natural that they should talk' shop. Such was their privilege, their right; and presumably the studious co operation of these aides to Charon will facilitate many a sailing for the shores celestial. Nor was it in cuAbent (on? us to listen, to eaves drop, as it .were, while matter-of-fact materialists chatted about the disposal of our mortality. Such was our concern, however, that we did lend ear for a moment the exact moment that this pronouncement floated into the. ether: Always show your suit or dresa before you do a caaket. They have got to buy a casket, so don't get In oo gpeat a hurry to -find out what our profit is to be on that. Price your suits and dresses reason ably. Suits and dresses are the only things your customers buy from you the price of hich Is famliliar to them. If you give them good value in this they axe more than apt to think your prices on every thing else you show them are equally fair. Such is the aspect of modern salesmanship in the undertaking business, as advised by a purveyor of grave-clothes, and printed and circulated at the Portland conven tion. What does he mean, anyhow? We are not modem in this phe nomena of death. It is the ancient of ancients, and when it Is mixed with modern commercialism we stand in dismayed perplexity. Can it be- that this accomplished sales man urges a seeming fairness in the price of grave garments, the better to sustain casket profits? How grim and yet how casual is that significant sentence "They have got to buy a casket"! There, indeed, they have us by the heels. We must. It serves us right for lis tening. Only a comforting session with Lodge and Doyle will rob this starkly significant truism of Its ter rors. B-r-r-r-r-r! Perhaps this capitalization of our dread emergency does not reflect the best thought of the undertaking profession. Let it be hoped that it does not. But there is one boon that we crave. If it does, then . by the revered names of ten thousand ancestors, let them keep it to them selves and whisper it only in secret council. For Keats' owl on Stl Agnes' eve was no more a-cold than we when it is uttered. HARDING'S AGRICULTURAL POLICY. It Is refreshing to turn from Gov ernor Cox's mendacious appeals to class prejudice to Senator Harding's statesmanlike elaboration of a na tional policy for agriculture which shall treat it not as a distinct, self ish, clashing interest, to be served at the expense of other interests, but as the basis of the prosperity of the whole nation, to be fostered on the principle of "all for one and one for all." The spirit in which Cox appeals for votes is expressed in this char acterization of his rival as: The reactionary candidate of the sena torial oligarchy and of big business Inter ests trying to buy the presidency. The spirit which animates Hard ing Is expressed in these words of his speech at Minneapolis: - I very much deplore the present-day ten dency to appeal to the particular in Amer ican activities. It has become a very common practice to make one address to those who constitute the ranks of hibor, another to those who make up -the great farming community and still another to the manufacturing world and its assocl ates In commerce, and to other groups of less Importance. There is a very natural and a very genuine Interest in each and every one, but the utterance of a political party nominee ought in every Instance to be inspired by a purpose to serve our common country. In this spirit the senator did not deign to answer directly the slanders of his opponent, except to brand as false the slander that he had ad vocated dollar wheat for war.-time. He gave a masterly review of the changes which have come over agri culture In the United States with the settlement of the west and the de velopment of manufactures. He thus revealed familiarity with the farmers' problems gained in practi cal work at the plow and in the harvest field and through study of the widest scope. He sees farming not as a disgruntled interest to be pacified with quack nostrums, but as the fundamental industry which must thrive jn order that the nation may prosper. He refuses to excite the class consciousness which forms the stock in trade of the demagogue and revolutionist. He reminds farmers that they are part of one body, which is the American nation, and that their well being is bound up with that of all other interests, bound up so closely that they can not have an interest apart from, much less antagonistic to, that of the rest of the nation. This man, who la miscalled re actionary, puts forward a policy for the benefit of agriculture which is both practical and progressive. It is statesmanlike, for it treats agri culture in Its true relation to other interests and is linked with the. past in contrast with those radical schemes which would break sharply with all that has gone before. He derives the principle on which his policy is founded, not from the eco nomic theories of German and Rus sian socialists, which improve on an old campaign slogan by rejecting the old flag, but demanding an appro priation, but from the American constitution, which teaches self-h.elp free from paternalism. He would build soundly on the foundations already laid by doing for the farm-, ers that which the government would do for any of its citizens, that which would benefit all, and by providing means for the farmers to work out their own salvation. His plan is not "government paternalism," which would make us "a nation of de pendent incompetents." but to give the farmer "a fair chance and such just consideration as we ought to give to a basic industry." The seven points of his agricul tural policy are well calculated to make us a "self-sustaining. Inde pendent, self-reliant nation, agri culturally, industrially and politic ally." He would reclaim all waste land, arid, " swamp or denuded of timber, and would plant on it farm ers who own the land. This would go far to make us independent of Imports for food and to redress the balance between urban and rural population. He would give agri culture "representation in larger government affairs," which has been denied to it in the last seven years. He would grant farmers the right to form co-operative associations for marketing, by which they, may shorten the route between them selves and the consumers and eman cipate themselves from speculators a right which might well extend to buying also. He would' spread among farmers information about world prices and production costs, for this knowledge, and the farmer's lack, of it, is the speculator's stock in trade. If it were widely dissem inated, the speculator's field would be narrowed and prices would be come stable. He would abolish fixing of prices, which was justifiable orHy in war and which aggravates the evfl it is designed to cure, for it checks pro duction of commodities that are scarce or . stimulates production to the point of superabundance. He would so administer the farm loan act as to convert tenants into own ers, and would encourage co-6pera-tlve loan associations as an aid to intensive cultivation of land. He would improve the transportation system so that it would carry farm products promptly, surely and eco nomically to market. He would give agriculture the same measure of tariff protection as is given to other industries, in pursuance of the principle: Buy from America first. That policy is adorned by no catch phrases about "dirt farmers," but it evidently emanates from the mind of a man who is a'farmer from the ground up. ' It offers no state banks, stores or other- panacea such as has brought North Dakota to the verge of bankruptcy. Having learned the first principles -from the soil, Mr. Harding: has broadened his knowledge to embrace the whole rieid or this and other continents. Unlike the apostles of destruction. he proposes to build up agriculture without tearing down any other in terest. This is the essence of con structive statesmanship. One of the anomalies of the out break of bolshevism in Italy is that it ionows closely on a visit of a dele gation of Italian socialists to Russia. They saw what bolshevism has done to Russia, .but went with minds made up to see only what was favorable to the soviet and doubtless were feasted and fllld with lies. Hence they persuaded their fellow-country men io try bolshevistic ideas on themselves. For such cases homeop athy is the only cure. All these fellows who aspire to run the universe could accomplish more by trying things practicable, such as making hens lay every day, or making the cow yield twice as much milk, or running the car forty miles on a gallon. All they gain is a little, notoriety, and one can get that by kicking a hole in a window. : The Dalles speed "cop" for whom a warrant had been issued on the charge of running away with a city machine had a perfect alibi. He chased a speeder this way until he broke down. He deserves- a rise in pay. The French loan of $100, 000,000 was oversubscribed in an hour yes terday. France can have anything she wants in the United States. One republic, with a memory that runs back 140 years, is not ungrateful. Judge Rossman did his best when he gave a reckless driver six months in jail for killing a pedestrian. The law is at fault, not the judge. A grand jury, by the way,' might try speeding in a legitimate manner. Joe Mielke, whose name leads all the rest, is In again. Most of Joe's offenses are chargeable to liquor. Sleuths' who draw pay for uncover ing whisky might get a line on some thing by following Joe. Young Colonel Roosevelt had three narrow escapes in an aeroplane in one day. Characteristic of the Teddy family, after each escape he took another ride. Governor Cox appeared in a bath robe to make a speech at Poplar, Mont. Wonder if that's his delicate way of-letting the boys know that he's a wet? A fellow was found guilty yester day of attacking a 7-year-old girl. He has a penitentiary record now. Inadequacy of the law is de plo rable. The survivors of the Italian 'earth quakes ought to emigrate to Los Angeles, where the quakes are less deadly. ' The mere fact that the navy has gone bone dry doesn't mean there will be more navigating by moon shine. une cneapest liDerty bond was quoted yesterday at 84.70. That's the price of the safest Investment. With alcohol to be taken from the flavoring extracts, nothing is left to the boozer but hair oil. , The scarey -fellows who "pack" umbrellas are the rain-producers. BY-PRODUCTS OF" TUB TIMES Gas Man Turned Off Lights, So Edison- Sought Revenge, According to a friend, Thomas A. Edison is of the .opinion that it was anger that first turned him toward inventing the incandescent light. How it happened is related by a friend In the New York Tribune. That was. of course. In the early days, and Mr. Edison was then quite the inventor that one reads of poor, enthusiastic, never sleeping. He lived in a small house, innocent of any thing approaching a laboratory; scientific devices were in every room. and all the money went for experi ments. Then one day came the crisis in the guise of the collector for the gas company. He had been to the house often, but Edison, hardly heed ing his calls, had waved him away, saying, "Don't bother me." On this last call the collector's in struction's were peremptory. He must turn off the gas. 'But, man," protested Edison, T can't Btdp this experiment tonight. I'll pay the bill, of course. I didn't know about it. I must finish this work without interruption." But this appeal had no effect upon the collector, and the lights went out. Tht nig-ht as I eat helpless in the darkness." says the inventor, VI swore that I would put the gas com pany out of business. I haven't quite done that, but I did the best I could. Since Terence MacSwinery lord may or of Cork-, has been on a hunger strike in Brixton prison, there have been various spellings of his name in the stories coming from Cork and London and' those written in the United States. A majority of these stories spell the lord mayor's name with an "e" insteaa of an "i," which latter Is correct, according to the hunger gtriker's brother, Peter Mac Swlney. Peter MacSwiney has always spelled his name with the "i" and asserts that his younger brother Terence always has and Still does spell his name MacSwiney. And ltg Terence with, one "r." The reason for the misspelling of the name of Cork's former lord mayor was probably originally- due to a mistake in transmitting the name by cable from Ireland. Once having been spelled with an "e" it was con tinued that way. The result has been that every paper from Maine to California has been twisting up the name of the man who may prove to be the world's most famous hun ger striker. ' How the dollar invested works for the individual himself has been best Illustrated by that first great Amer ican teacher of thrift, Benjamin Franklin. In 1791, he bequeathed 1000 to the commonwealth of Mass acbusetts and to the city of Boston as a mark of his appreciation for having appointed him as agent in England at the "handsome" salary of 2000. and to make his bequest really valuable with his great fore sight. Franklin provided in his will that this 1000 should be put out at five per cent interest for 100 years; that at the end of that time 31-131 of the fund accumulated should again be put out at interest for another hundred years and then the fund be divided one-fourth to Boston and three-fourths to the state. - Let us show how well that 1000 of Franklin's has worked. At the end of the first hundred, years it had grown to $131,383.62. It was then divided in accordance with the will; $329,300.48 was aet aside for "public work" and $102,085.15 was started on its course of earning interest for another hundred years. That was in 1891. On January 1, 1918, this sum had grown to S267, 805.15 and at this rate of increase the fund should amount to at least 16,000,000 when the second period Is completed, and may be con siderably more. World's Work. - Leipzig possesses a monument which rises only a few Inches short of three hundred feet. The "Battle of the Nations" monument stands in the middle of the plain where Blucher routed Napoleon's army. More than one million cubic yards of earth were displaced to make room for its base. It is surrounded by an inclosure a quarter of a mile wide and nearly half a mile long. Next to the Pyramids it is the highest in the world, but it is by no means the costliest. This distinc tion belongs to the national mem orial to Victor Emanuel II, erected on the Capltoline bill in Rome at a cost of 820,000,000. It took 31 years to complete this huge pile of marble steps, covered with statues, bas-re liefs and mosaics. Sacconi, the ar chitect who designed it, died long before the work was finished, but he left models complete In every de tail, and his original plans were never tampered with. V In a survey of family incomes in nearly 100 cities of the United States, the department of labor found that in Johnstown, N. Y., three-quarters of the wives earn money. The Labor Review explains that this remarkable condition prevails in Johnstown because glove making is the principal industry there and fur nishes work which women can do at home. This appeals to them, be cause they are able to earn good wages without leaving their house hold. In almost one-sixth of the New York City homes visited women con tributed earnings toward the support of the home. In Boston, one wife out of ten works; In Buffalo one in twenty-eight; in Cleveland and Cin cinnati one in seven, and in Pittsburg- only one in fifty. It is interest ing to note that investigators found that a surprisingly large percentage of town dwellers derive some income from gardens and poultry. 93 per cent of those visited irt Cleveland, had a garden or chickens. "Mamma." asked 7-year-old Charles, who was studying his. bible lesson, "What is the difference between high church and low church?" "I know," exclaimed his .little 5-year-old sister, their mother. "Well, what's the difference?" asked ' "One says 'Awmen' and the other says 'Amen'," she replied Detroit News. A. Philadelphia lawyer was show ing up very poorly on the links and he remarked to Mrs. R. H. Barlow, the golf player, who was standing by, "Do you know, it seeme to -me the more I play the worse I play." "You've played a good deal, then, haven't you?" said Mr8. Barrow. Boston Transcript, Those Who Come and Go. Five thousand sheep and several thousand acres of land comprise the Dam Ranch, in Wheeler county. Eu gene Spray, who with Ed Templeton, owns the ranch. Is in Portland to dis pose of his half interest to Charles Martin, of Olex. Mr. Martin had hold ings, on Rock creek for many years. Dam Ranch is considered one of the best irrigation ranches in Wheeler county. It gets its name from the dam across the John Day river. The first dam. built long ago. went out, and a second one was put in. Wil liam B. Potter and associates built the dam and gave the ranch its name. Mr. Potter was formerly a member of the Oregon legislature. Dam Ranch raised 800 tons of hay this year and it has raised as high as 1000 tons. Mr. Templeton and Martin are not likely to sell any of their hay until they are sure of getting their stock through the winter. The Dam Ranch is said to be worth about $160,000. Visitors from Vancouver, B. C, at the Multnomah are Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Malkin and W. L. Grundy and Mrs. Grundy. Vancouver people are agitating against the system of traf fic which prevails there. As in Eng land, traffic in Vancouver goes to the left instead of the right, the rules being the reverse of those in the United States. The main obstacle to making the change is the local street car company, which complains that it would have to spend about 8300,000 to change cross-over switches and the platform gates on the cars. Vancouver is also enjoying double time; the regular time and city time. the latter being one hour ahead o! standard. The local time is a relic of daylight-saving days. There is a rule in the Multnomah that patrons must not -use electric irons in the rooms, because the irons consume juice which the hotel must pay for and which cannot very well be collected from the guest. It is a rather difficult task to discover when an electrio iron is being used, but sometimes offenders are caught. A letter was received from a young women In Washington yesterday ask ing that an electric iron cord, which she left in her room, be forwarded. The hotel people consider this as confession that the woman was steal ing current. In the bustle of leav ing hotels, many guests forget some thing, and the men forget razor strops as a rule. Walter Francis Goodrich, twice mayor of Watford, England, which is few miles outside of Lcndon, passing through Portland on his way to Australia and India. Mr. Good rich, while here, is visiting his cousin, Professor Frederick W. Goodrich. King George recently made Mr. Good rich a member of the Order of Great Britain. Mr. Goodrich Is a mechanical engineer and author of a number of works on the disposal of city refuse and coal conservation. As a special ist on these subjects he has been called into consultation in every country in Europe and it is to dis cuss disposal of refuse and conserva tion of coal that he is on his way to Australia and the land of the rajahs. Old-time Portlanders had a sort of grude against Tatoosh island, but the population of the Rose City is now so big that the newcomers probably never heard it. Tatoosh island is hardy protuberance off the northwest coast. It used to be that whenever a severe storm struck Portland the reports would show that it was com ing this way from Tatoosh Island, so the old-timers held the island re sponsible, just as Medicine Hat is the weather scapegoat in the middle west B. F Sales of Tatoosh island, arrived at the Imperial yesterday. The baby lodge of Elks In Oregon is at Bend, but what it lacks in years and numbers it makes up in pep. The territory of Bend lodge spreads over the desert. Bend lodge has a new temple and the members have sent Mrs. J. H. Haher to Portland to select the furnishings of the rooms. Mrs. Haner is registered at the Perkins. It is Bend lodge which is back of the proposition to have the order estab lish a hunting lodge in the Deschutes and the promoters figure that it can be financed if every Elk contributes the price of one cigar. According to R. W. Marsters, form erly oounty judge of Douglas, but now a resident of Salem, Ralph E. Williams, of Portland, has the finest hopyard in Oregon and the crop this year will be most bounteous. Judge Marsters recently bought an interest in a 200-acre farm adjoining the hop yard of Mr Williams, and that is how he knows about the hops. Pickers are now in the fields and some of them, according to the judge, are making $7 and $8 a day. Judge Marsters, who was registered at the Hotel Oregon, left for Salem last night. J. K. Willy left the Multnomah yes terday for his Chicago home to re turn to school. J. K. is the son of John Willy, who has been editor" of the Hotel Monthly for the past 40 years. The younger Willy devoted the summer vacation to working in a Spokane hotel studying the meth ods of the establishment. Next sum mer he will take employment In the culinary department of some eastern hotel to investigate the system in that end of the house. Hugh O'Kane of Bend, who is reg istered at the Hotel Portland and was one of the few who were suc cessful in securing a room there yes terday. says he lsn t feeling well. Mr. O'Kane was formerly proprietor of a hotel at Bend, but now owns I large commercial building. Consid ered by weight, he Is the biggest man in Bend. Redmond or any other place in Deschutes county. Dr. Franklin H. Martin of Chicago, Dr. William D. Haggard of Nash ville, Tenn.. and John G. Bowman, former president of Iowa university are registered at the Multnomah. They are here to appear on the programme of the clinical congress of the Amer ican College of Surgeons today. Bunkhouses are being erected and the work has started on a new power plant of the Bend Water & L'ght company. It is on business in con nection with this development that T. H. Foley of Bend, who is manager of the company. Is In Portland. The largest paper' mill In the world is said to be the one at Ocean Falls, B. C. It is a company town of 3500 and everyone there is said to be em ployed by the mill. B. R. Lewthwaite registered at the Multnomah yester day from the mill town. One of Los Angeles' bankers is M. B. Hazeltine, who has arrived at the Multnomah with his family. About as soon as he registered he inquired about Portland's resources for golf enthusiasts, but he preferred a club to the municipal links. A. M. Scott or Scotts Mills is at the Hotel Oregon. Scotts Mills was put on the map when the original Scott established a flour mill at that place. It is about seven miles from Mount Angel, in Marion county, and has a population of about 200. Carl G. Doney, president, of Willam ette university, is in town from Salem. Lausanne hall, the new dormitory for girls, is Hearing completion and will be a welcome addition to the institution. . ...... . JAZZ IS PLEASURE OF MASSES In Bfaalc or Dancing; It Kills Want of ATerage Person. PORTLAND. Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Of late I've noticed several articles in The Oregonian dealing with Jazz music and "animal" dances and that a campaign is to be waged against both and even suggesting that some sort of legislation he en acted against them. Let us try to define the little word jazz," which after all is only a slang expression, and arrive at the true meaning of it. Originally, the word- was used to designate a certain rhythmatic style of rnusie that was suitable for dancing, but that mean ing has been enlarged upon to include a great number of tnings. We desig nate color arrangements with it now, apply it to wearing apparel and most anything we ve a mind to. To tane the word in its larger meaning, we can truthfully say that the sporting page of The Oregonian or any daily is written almost entirely in "Jazz style. If some of our old English masters such as Longfellow, Shakes peare or Milton were to read the events chronicled on that page, the accounts would convey less meaning to them than if written in the pro verbial Greek. In painting we find the same conditions. Harrison Fieher's works, which are as a rule a riot of "jazz" colors, mig-ht not earn a nook In the art museums, but the great public mass have gazed upon his numerous magazine covers and de rived pleasure therefrom though the technique may not be that of a Rembrandt. It's the same with music. The public hadn't the time to devote to the study of music and just as It re quires a student of literature thor oughly to understand the writings of a Milton, a student of painting to appreciate the marvelous technique of a Rembrandt, so does it require a student of music to appreciate the music of a Tschalkawsky symphony with Its countless melodies, counter melodies. Intricate harmonies and musical progressions. Thus we find the reason for the great outlay of popular "jazz"' tunes, as they are of simple melodies and natural har monies that are easy for the untrained musical ear to grasp. As for "jazz" bands, we have good ones and other wise. Because there are some that npecialize in discordant "blues" to the accompaniment of tin pans and coffee pots is no more reason to con demn "jazz" music than to condemn the newspapers because there are some printed that deal chiefly in scandal and whose editorial policies tend to anything but better citizen shin and government. We find the same conditions ex istinar in the terpsichorean art. To the dancing masters. It Is possible to see art in scantily clothed women prancing around a stage or on a velvety lawn, but. to the lay mind, the scantier the clothes the snore artistic (?1 the dance. Each year the dancing masters formulate new dances and stera and for those that have both the time and money it Is with out doubt interesting and enjoyable to study and learn these, t'he great mass of the dancing public, however, are not In a position to do this and they pattern their dance step on a few simple ones4that they learn from their friends or other dancers 'and these are the "jazz" dances of today. As a whole, these dances are clean and wholMome and danced by the people solely for the Joy of dancing. Portland enjoys the cleanest public dance floors of any city on the coast. This is due entirely to a very efficient and capable dancing- inspector, who with her able assistants long asro put the ban on the "camel walk," "shimmy" and all "animal" dances. GERALD W. REED. VNDERSTAXDr?SG HELPS HARDING Knowledge of Lea am e Covenant Makea Republican Votes. PORTLAND. Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) A Kentucky democratic propa gandist, writing to the Portland dem ocratic paper, says "there are a whole lot of people here and all over the United States who do not know what the league of nations really means." This is literally so, no doubt, other wise Cox's support would amount to nothing. There were "lots of people all over the United States" in 1916 who were sure that "he kept us out of war," who now have sons sleeping under the sod "over there." and who "didn't raise their boys to be soldiers, either." If this same class of people have learned the deceptive nature of dem ocratic propaganda by this false lead ership in 1918. they will understand that our alliance with foreign na tions to keep the peace of Europe which is always in a broil, and which can be suppressed only by force means more boys overseas, and will have none of it. Lloyd Georfre said only a few days ago. published in all the papers, that England and France can do nothing in the distressing situation now pre vailing in central Europe because they "have'nt the men to send." Of course, the United States has the men, and the question to be decided this fall is whether we want to put ourselves in a position where we would be in at least a moral sense obliged to send them. Harding's support from now until November will increase in exact pro portion as "lots of people" learn what the one-man league of nations "really means." T. T. GEER. WHERE ARK PROGNOSTICATORS t Writer Annoyed by Silence of Indian Chiefs and Hoar Disorders. PORTLAND, Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) That remintla us: Isn't it about time some of these weather-wise folk were coming forward with some defi nite Information, concerning the char acter of the approaching winter? No doubt there is an old chief somewhere who only waits an opportunity to en lighten us: or that chap over in Wash ington. who Judged the weather ac cording to the Internal arrangements of his hogs, might be induced to take one of them apart early and let us know the worst. It is unkind and unbusinesslike to keep us In the dark, so to speak, until all the weather the weatherman can think of has landed on us: if we knew positively we were billed for a hard winter, we d put another patch on our "wullens" or maybe vote the republican ticket or something. On second thought the latter seems the warmest proposition, and we'll probably do it whether we hear fa vorably from the gentleman with the peculiarly constructed hogs or not we are not going to be left out in the cold if we know it. JOHN HENRY PATTON. 379 Chapman SL Yard Hefase Is Garbacce Problem. PORTLAND. Sept. 9.- (To the EdI tor.) Now while the removal of gar bage Is being discussed it would be a wise thing to think pf other unsightly refuse to be disposed of clippings from grass, trees and vines. The garbage men simply refuse to do any thing witn it regardless of any amount you offer them. On many beautiful premises tucked away in the back yard are those piles of grass and yard refuse. It is against the law to put them on vacant lots to die through the summer till time comes to burn, so we have to main tain them at our back door a blot on our otherwise beautiful surround ings. , .... A SUBSCRIBER. "A Woman." By Grace E. HaU. "A Woman." That was all the name she wrote On that last page wherein, her mes sage lay A wondrous message, too. In. that kind note. Rich-laden were the words she had to say; And from a heart that life has touched and taught There came the swift white messen ger to bring Acknowledgment most tender of the thought That in my little eongs I've tried to sing. "A Woman." Ah! Those word's are deep and strong; How many pictures flash before one's eyes. Woman the inspiration of life's song; Woman the sweet whit etruth, or life's worst lie! Where battles rage, or by the snowy bed Wherein the man-to-be so sweetly sleeps Tis woman leads, and o'er the fields of red Or dreamland's sunny slopes, the watcn sne keeps. "A Woman!" To he only that, less fame. May seem to some a meager harvest field: But. oh, if ahe but represent the name In very truth what golden sheaves 'twill yield! And so I'll lay this letter with the rest. Its message on my pen ehall leave, its touch: I know the name she signed waa really best. Because to be "A Woman" means so much. Stars and Starmakers. By Lrone Caaa Baer. LIFE. You bet on an election Delighted if you win. Forgetting the dejection The other chap is in. You make a thousand dollars When stocks are running strong Nor hear the fellow holler Who plays the market wrong. The girl you take to dinner 1 Consents to share your fate, But while you're glad to win 'er Some suitor gets the gate. You valiantly aspire To gain the mountain's crown. But while you're going higher Somebody's going down. You clean up on the races Nor notice the despair Depicted on the faces The busted bookies wear. As through the world we amble. We ought to get the blues To think it's all a gamble And some one has to lose. Yet wkile your sun is shining, xou do not give a rap That some one is repining It's Just the other chap. That's how the fates arrange it Somebody must get his. We cannot mend or change it It's just the way things is. Bat Something Always Happens. A get-rlch-quick scheme is a spec facular success as long as it is all coming in and nothing going out. All the Embellishments. Architecturally there Is little choice between the candidates. Both of. them have front porches, and both of them have bay windows. Onward and Upward. - The cost of living is like mountain climbing. We think we are at the peak when we are really only over the first of the foothills. (Copyright. lOiO. by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Tfeara Aaro. From Ths Oregonian of September 10. 1895. Louisville. The 29th annual en campment of the Grand Army of the Republic opened this morning with a big parade in honor of Commander- in-Chief Lawler. In the 23d annual report of the city's schools. Superintendent Piatt shows the total number of pupils of school age to be 19,471, embracing 9442 boys and 10,029 girls. The second trial of W. E. Ellsworth for the murder. of his wife, Edlty, by administering strychnine poison, was begun yesterday in Judge Stephens' court- Captain T. W. Symons, corps of United States engineers, has ben or dered to Buffalo, N. T., after spending six years in Portland. Fifty Years Asxet. Prom The Oreg-onian of September 10. 1878. Paris. Several hundred German prisoners have been released rrom prisons here and are leaving on passes of the American minister. The Washington territory fair will bo held at Walla Walla, commencing September 21 and continuing four days. A local firm has chartered the Norwegian bark Loveid and will load wheat for Liverpool. Portland academy already has more than 100 pupils on its Tolls, reports Professor Rogers. STEPHEN A. DOUGLAS ON SENATE Earlier Democrat Strong Defender of Ita Constltntional Prerogatives. PORTLAND, Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) October 15, ISoS, in the la-st joint debate between Abraham Lin con and Stephen A. Douglas at Alton. 111., near my home, Judge Douglas used the following language, which may, coming from a staunch demo crat, be of interest to our friends who would cram down the throat of the country the arbitrary course of Pres ident Wilson, "I hold." said Senator Douglas, complaining of treatment he had re ceived at the hands of President Buchanan, because of something he (Douglas) had done in the senate, "that an attempt to control the sen ate on the part of the executive is subversive of the principles of our constitution. The senate is independ ent of the president: in appointments and treaties the senate has a veto on the president. "Whenever you recognize the right of the executive to say to the senate, do this or that, you convert thie gov ernment from a republic into a des potism. I resist this invasion of the constitutional rights of the senate and I intend to resist it as long as I have a voice to speak, or a vote to give." Which was the better American, Stephen A. Douglas, or Woodrow Wilson? C E. CLINE. No "National" Holiday. TWIN ROCKS, Or., Sept. 7. (To the Editor.) Kindly let me know if there Is such a day as a national holiday and if so on what date it is. A. F. No holiday has been fixed by act of congress. Some holidays are observed in all states, but by in dividual enactment in each of them.