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8 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1020 ESTABLISHED B HEN BY 1 FITTOCK. rufolls-hed by The Oregonian PaWlthlni Co, 134 Sixth Street. fortland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. K. B. PIPER. Manager, tailor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Preis. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publlcatiou of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in thia paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. r .. - I Subscription Bates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) DaPy. Sunday Included, one year '8 S? laily, Sunday included, six months . . 4.-5 Laily, Su-nday included, three months . 2.-5 Dally. 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Chicago; Ver ree & Conklin, Free Press building, De troit, Mich. San Francisco representative, I J. Bidwell. a test of their progresslveness, w might better inquire how many of the stalwart democratic states of the south have compensation laws and compare the number -with the total of stalwart republican states in the north which have such laws. Where has the eight-hour law or the custom of collective bargaining been most generally adopted in the republican north or the democratic south? One law of his own state, in which his opponents were half workers, is not sufficient to entitle the democratic candidate for presi dent to an unqualified certificate of progressiveness. LITTLE NATIONS TO TIIE FRONT. The small powers have now re lieved the great powers In restoring peace. Poland with the help of aj few hundred French and British offi cers and of arms and munitions from the allies has beaten back the bol ehevlst wave which threatened to engulf Europe. Greece undertook to dispose of Mustapha Kemal'a rebel lion in Turkey in fifteen days' and drove him to the line of safety in ten days. The same country crushed Jafer Tayar's rebellion in Thrace and captured its leader in five days. Itoumania struck the blow which killed bolshevism in Hungary and held the Russian reds at bay on its eastern frontier. Even Persia, un aided by Britain, has scattered the Moslem reds who had been incited and aided by Russian bolsbevist troops to rebellion In the Caspian energy in reconstruction has been shown 'by Belgium. Its mines are in full operation, its factories are being rebuilt and are steadily ap proaching full . production, and its railroads, canals and ports have been repaired. Within two years after its liberation that country is again a hive of industry. Czecho-Slovakia, which was starving when it threw oft the Hapsburg yoke, has been at work to such good purpose that it produced a surplus of several hun dred thousand tons of sugar, much of which was exported to the United SStates. The little countries have shown creater power of resistance to the delusion of bolshevism than have their greater neighbors. The. social ist party of Belgium is strong, but it finds the Russian reds too deeply tainted with German ideas to be at tractive, and King Albert is so favor able to reasonable reform that it finds no cause for revolution. Czecho Slovakia has a socialist majority in its legislature, but it prefers to effect social revolution by a process of gradual transition instead of .by the red terror. It seems to have tol lowed the counsel given by President Masaryk to a regiment of veteran soldiers that the social revolution was not merely a question of change of ownership, but was a question of how the land would be cultivated, who would cultivate it when it had been distributed, and what means were there for cultivation since the war had destroyed nearly everything they had. The position was the same as to industrial afCairs. He pointed to Russia as a warning, and to Eng land, which for 1&00 years has had "a period of unshaken continuity," as an example, and he said: "We must first have a few years behind us for our foundations to be made ' Btable." The great powers rather than the email have been shaken by bolshe vism. In Italy the workmen, with minds inflamed by the delegation which made a pilgrimage to Mos cow, have seized great industries and put Soviets in control. They are carrying out a revolution, and the government dares not to enforce the rights of the owners. In Britain the coal miners threaten a nation-wide strike for the disguised purpose of forcing the nationalization of mines, all the labor unions threaten a direct action strike in defense of .the Rus sian bolshevists, and labor thus pre sumes to dictate the policy of the government. The contrast between the strength and stability of the small nations and the weakness and disturbed con dition of the great powers, taken in connection with the misery of Ger many and Russia, is a contrast to the theory advanced by Germany in Its might- The pan-Germans argued . that there was no room in modern Europe for small, independent na tions, and that they must be absorbed by great empires, . especially Ger many. Recovered liberty seems al ready to have inspired the little states with a vigor, stability and love for internal order which their big brothers may well envy them. These small states may prove the best as surance of peace in the Europe of the future. is it so, im. cox? As a progressive in government. I know when an event has passed and become a part of yesterday. The reactionary rarely does. The friends of world peace and the friends of progress will win this election, and any attempt to divide them on any question not at issue will be unavailing. So said Mr. Cox at Seattle. Can anyone tell what he was talking about, unless it is explained that it was his answer to a public charge that he was and is the candidate of the liquor interests? The Carroll letter soliciting funds for Cox and the wets in New Jersey directly declared: The organized liquor trade of New Jer sey has set out to do" its part toward the election of James M. Cox as the next president of the United States. Is that so, Mr. Cox? THe president of the Kew Jersey Federation of Liquor Interests (Car roll) also asserted over his signature in the same letter: The nomination of Governor Cox of Ohio for-the presidency by the democrats la a big victory for our interests. Is that so, Mr. Cox? The Carroll letter also has this explicit statement: Governor Cox is a pronounced "wef and can be relied on to approve' aa amendment to the Volstead atu Is that so, Mr. Cox? You know, and everyone knows. Mr. Cox, that the eighteenth amend ment is in the constitution to stay. You know, and everyone knows, and you solemnly declare, that it is there fore an event which "has passed by and become a part of yesterday." You know, and everyone knows, that the liquor Interests have no hope of eliminating or repealing or changing the amendment in any respect what ever by outright attack. You know, and everyone knows, that the whole plan is to secure defeat or modi fication or relaxation of prohibition through the enforcement act, and through it alone. You know, Mr. Cox, and everyone knows, that your nomination was procured at San Francisco through forces which were and are out of harmony with prohibition and which in great part may fairly be described as wet, either avowedly or sympa thetically. You were opposed there by Mr. Bryan, leader of the dry forces, solely because you were re garded as a wet, and he has re fused to support you for election for that reason, and he will of course persist in his declination to help you until you make it clear that there is no alliance or understanding or agreement pn that subject with the men who nominated you. You cannot meet the issue by silence or evasion or generalization, Mr. Cox. All the assumptions that you are wet are against you and they are fair assumptions. You can relieve yourself ofthem only by spe cific and frank denial and by direct statement as to where you stand and by unqualified pledge as to what you will do as president. You protest, Mr. Cox, against In trusion into the campaign of a ques tion not at issue." Not at issue, Mr. Cox? But it is atYssue. It was put at issue by the convention which nominated you. It will not cease to be an issue until you publicly with draw the issue. You can withdraw it only by putting yourself in accord with the elements of law and order which have no "sinister designs' favorite phrase of your own on the Volstead act. You can acquire their confidence only by repudiating the activities of the liquor Interests of Nrw Jersey and every other state and of their political allies through out the country who see in your elec tion, or think they do, a brighter prospect for the liquor traffic, now masquerading as the guileless spon sors of light wines and beer. What have you to say to them, Mr. Cox? What have you to say to the public about them? then been proclaimed by those who I served with Pender in the Philip pines The murder of Mrs. Wehrman and her boy was at one time confessed by John G. H. Siercks, a child in mentality but a man in years and physique. He has since repudiated the confession, but is now in the hospital for the insane, where he is incarcerated because of his known homicidal tendencies. Sierck's par ents lived near the Wehrman cabin, but he was supposed to have been working on a farm in another county at the time of the crime and was thus crossed off the list in the detec tives' process of elimination. the most doubtful element as re gards Pender's guilt is the undeni able fact that the crime was com mitted by a degenerate of the type known as sadist. Degeneracy of that kind is not acquired by an adult in a moment, nor is it immediately cured. An investigation into the past of Pender has failed to disclose the slightest tendency in the direc tion of sadism and he is a normal man, physically and mentally. In the nine years of his incarceration he has exhibited no signs of mental weakness or of any kindjDf deprav ity. Siercks is of the type that is prone to commit sadist crimes. There is now evidence, though perhaps not absolutely conclusive, that he was not on a farm in another county when the murder was committed, but was visiting his home near the Wehr man cabin. The doubt raised by these circum stances, we think, justified a pardon. The case of William Branson, par doned with Pender, has not attracted as widespread interest. The cases are similar only In that Branson was onvicted on circumstantial evidence and that a half-witted degenerate has since his conviction confessed that he killed William Booth, for whose murder Branson had been convicted. If the half-wit Riggln killed Booth it was for revenge. If Branson killed him it was because Booth discovered Branson in a com promising position with Mrs. Booth. The latter was the theory of the prosecution. While the doubt as to Branson's guilt is not so persuasive as that concerning Pender's guilt, it exists. There need be no quarrel with the governor's judgment in the mntlftr ' day speech does Governor Cox find concluding advice of the bureau ac- any suggestion that bayonets should be used to settle labor disputes? The senator talked frankly and said some things which would displease those who would have him serve the inter est of labor without regard to any other interest, but so far was he from hinting at the use of bayonets that he expressly deprecated resort to compulsion. He refused to regard working men differently from others, or in any other light than as American citi zens, pledging his help "along the lines of promoting the good fortunes of all the American people." He may have offended some by his ex hortation to work efficiently and by his condemnation of slacking work men. But he urged resort to joint committees "to promote and main tain, the mutuality of interest and the fullest understanding. He ex pressed his opposition to physical force when he eaid: WHAT IS A PROGRESSIVE? The one evidence on which Gov ernor Cox's supporters base their boast of his progressiveness is the enactment of a Workmen's compen cation law in Ohio. Aside from the fact that a repuublican legislature liad much to do with passage of the law, the best that it proves for Mr, Cox is that he lagged behind maxiy republican governors in other states, and ran a neck-and-neck race with other republican governors. The movement to substitute a gen eral system of compensation for in jury, administered by the state, for the old custom which bred thousands of ambulance-chasing lawyers and Mocked the courts with damage suits lias been general throughout the north, which is predominantly re publican, and it has been generally successful there. It was strongly supported by Presidents Roosevelt and Taft, both republicans, before Mr. Cox was even heard of as gov ernor ofOhio. The fact that Mr. Cox fell in with the procession is small sign of progTessiveness, for a progressive is a leader, not one who merely goes with the crowd. Mr. Cox might as well boast of washing Ills face in the morning as a sign of t r o gresslven ess. If the attitude of the two parties on coDajxnsatioa la to be tken as TWO PARDONS. There will be a general feeling of relief, we think, over the pardon of John Arthur Pender. While it would be an extravagant statement that the public is convinced of his innocence, it is nevertheless true that circumstances have combined to ere ate a reasonable doubt as to his guilt among those who have studied the history of the case. Evidence has been discovered since the trial and conviction which, if it had been sub mitted at the trial of Pender, would In all probability have raised in the minds of the jury the reasonable doubt which makes necessary a ver diet of acquittal. Suspicion seems to have fixed on Pender, following the murder of Mrs. Wehrman and her small son, chiefly through that method familiar to de tectives and officers o the law which is known as the process of elimina tion. Under this method everybody in the neighborhood of a place crime Is the subject of quiet invest! gation. His goings and comings at the time of the commission of the I crime are learned and names are canceled off the list of possibilities as fast as it is determined that the owners of them could not possibly have perpetrated it. So far as opportunity was con cerned it was possible that Pender murdered the woman and her child. So far as known at that time he was the only man who had had that opportunity. There was more or less circumstantial evidence that con spired to injure his defense. In the inflamed state of mind of neighbors little acts were magnified In Impor tance. After his arrest some busy person started a story that Pender had committed peculiarly atrocious acta while a soldier in the Philip pines. The stories enlarged as they spread. They were not presented in evidence and Pender had no oppor tunity to refute them. But they served to turn public feeling against him, Their utter falsity fraa tine VTCTERJS ARE THE BATOXETS ? Where In Senator Harding's Labor too frequently, and by the fable about the farmer and the crayfishes. That the terrapin is of excellent flavor would appear from the testi mony of those who have tried it." The reasons assigned for terrapin popularity,, then, are identical with those which prompt us to seek mush rooms and huckleberries. They do not bring down the high cost of liv ing, but add a zestfu'l variety to the daily fare, and constitute gastro nomic mileposts. Occasionally one sees huge, boxes of turtles in the Portland market. They are sold for twenty-five cents apiece.' Somebody buys them, evidently, some secretive epicure who has been aware of their desirability long before the bureau of fisheries turned its spectacled attention to the elegant terrapin. Yet the sloughs are populous with these armored dandies. To capture the elegant terrapin is simplicity itself, according to the bureau. He and his fellows sun themselves on the fallen logs beneath which lurk crappie and catfish. The first lounger drifts In and lands at the point where the waves lap the end of the log. He is lazy and con tent to rest there. But another arrives, and yet another, and the successive Idlers push the first turtle well toward the upfler reaches of the lounging log. At te first alarm, or when domestic duties call, the turtles choose the shortest course to their element. They dive. If the turtle trapper has stationed half-sunken boxes along the edges of that log, or has spread nets, each foolish mem ber of the clan is captive. Having thus been lured to the de lights of turtle meat, one turns to the recipes advocated by the-bureau of fisheries. Here, indeed, the turtle champions wax poetic and sing of turtle meat so persuasively that the mouth waters and the foot itches to be away to the hunt. Says the recipe a la Creole: Ta-1e is the ancient r eclpe for turtle strap, and it is safe to say that when once eatiea after this delightful way no ether will seem quite so savory. Cut the turtle meat into small pieces. Let It brown In a pot with a little lard, cut up iwwai onions. allce of ham and a little garlic, and siIr and mix with theMurtle meat. Then let the mixture brown weil. Put in some flour and mix, pour a quantity of the soup stock Into the pot, ie-t it cool, and add a kne Joint of veal I-et It simmer for an hour. then put In eome thyme, laureA leaf, pars- lev, shallots ana when everything 19 cooked add more pareiey and a couple of slices of lomoa chopped fine. But that s not all, by any means. There is a peroration, a climax, a final fillip ot epicurianism, in the B V-PIIO niCTS OF" THE TIMES. Doctor Who Experimented Says Plural Harris gea Are "CI villain;. According to Dr. Walter O. Henry, "hero" In an alleged double life drama of Los Angeles and Omaha, In which Hazel Henderson, a petite young nurse figured as a lead and who now. following Dr. Henry's being divorced by his wife, is Mrs. Walter O. Henry No. 2, polgamy is a beneficent, civil izing custom, sanctioned by 'the Bible and conducing to public and private morality. Dr. Henry, following publication of a recent booklet of his authorship, in which the thrilling chapters of his vivid courtship of Miss Henderson, his office employe, are set forth in graphio style, evidently has consid ered himself a "best seller " for he now has issued a challenge to debate the benefits of polygamy with anyone who thinks he has the hardihood or skill to meet him UDon the forensic L platform. Polygamy," says Dr. Henry with challenging stressf ulness, "is the only solution of America's divorce problem, the only solution which conforms with the teachings of the-Bible and also modern medical science." Dr. Henry, who had a real reputa tion as a church worker back in Omaha, challenges anyone to prove that the Bible says polygamy Is a sin. challenges anybody clerical, medical or lay, to prove that the world would not be better If under "Bible marri age," meaning polygamy, than It Is now with divorce so customary. The world," asserts Mr. Henry, would Indeed be better off, happier and more hygienic" Those Who Come and Go. cording to the Creole requirements for turtle soup. Attend: Jut before serving add a rlasafnl of Madeira wine. Do they trifle with us, these bu- reaucrats in Washington? IS it a jest, this crafty suggestion about Madeira wine, a fluid as rare as the elixir of youth? But for the lack of that zestful glass how many, many families on houseboats, along the waterfront, in homes upon the heights would quaff turtle soup without further ado! Surely it is most unkind to twit us in this heart less fashion. Our only solace is to conclude that the bureau of fisheries could not omit its scholarly joke, and that the elegant terrapin, as in soup. is almost, if not quite, as elegant when cooked in his native element. We cannot have compulsory arbitration. because all parties must consent to estab lish arbitration and enforce its conclu sions. 1 think we can have and ought to have volitional arbitration. There are no bayonets in those words. He offended the Plumb plan ners by defending the Esch-Cum- mins railroad law, but he again showed his aversion for bayonets by saying: The law does not contain an anti-strike clause. You cannot take away from any man his right to quit his employment: He summed up his labor creed in these words: I believe in unionism, I believe In col lective bargaining, I believe the two have combined to speed labor toward its Just rewards. But I do not believe in labor's domination of business or government any more than I believe that capital shall dom inate. We had our time at that, and we learned the danger and ended it. We do not want to substitute one class for an- other, we want to put an end to classes. The bayonets exist only in Mr. Cox's imagination. The aid which the new administra tion will be able to give in restoring normal level of prices is incalcu lable. It can enormously reduce the total of taxation by reducing its cost of operation and by taking the gov ernment out of business. For ex ample, it can sell or lease the great nitrate plants; it can sell the super fluous army camps and storehouses, and it can fix prices and terms for sale of the emergency fleet at which people will buy. These measures would bring in much money to re duce the national debt, consequently the annual interest, and would reduce the large staff of the shipping board and the number of men employed in administering government? property. It can change the manner in which the reduced total of taxation shall be raised, so that taxes will not be pyramided an,d added to prices; also that money will not be taken in taxes which should be invested in expand ing the country's productive capacity. THE ELEGANT TERRAPIN. Consider the turtle, as he lounges on 'a half -submerged log ana gazes with prehistoric eyes at the expanse of slough. Viewed from distance he is not a lovely object, and closer acquaintance does not serve to com mend him. He is . paleolithic, this saturnine fellow with his strange armor, and where he abides one would not be surprised, however startled, if a full-grown dinosaur should arise champing from the tur bid waters and propose to dine. The old folks at home used to. say that turtle meat was a delicious delicacy, combining the attributes of chicken veal, beef, pork, rabbit and partridge in well-defined strata. Now comes the bureau of fisheries, through its experts, to reiterate this declaration with reservations and inform us that any old sort of turtle is pretty fair diet, and that we are overlook ing a fairly important food supply when we do not plan his capture. Terrapin, according to fact and tradition. Is the food of epicures but the golden glow of preference hovers about one particular species. the diaxnond-back. The bureau of fisheries admits with candor the superior excellence of this turtle, but also introduces for appreciation that pied Beau Brummel of the turtle clan scientifically known as Pseude mys elegans, otherwise the elegant terrapin. Now, indeed, we draw near to home, for the elegant terrapin would appear to be none other than the common turtle of Oregon sloughs. To describe the varied splendor of his lower plates is a stint for an artist, for a word-painter who is qualified to express coloration but all who have seen this turtle will readily understand how he came by his name. There is a prevalent belief that he nips the. toes of small boys in bathing, and refuses to let go, but this is merely traditional slander. The elegant terrapin is timid chap, ready to dodge and dive and disappear at the slightest move ment, and his cardinal crime is that of deftly stealing fish-bait when the crappies are biting. Says the bureau of fisheries con cerning terrapin In -general: "So long as there is a great abundance of other forms of game and fresh food the only reason for resorting to them would be the superior flavor of the flesh, and they would be sought after as luxuries rather than necessities. Their appeal would be to the taste rather than to the satisfaction of hunger. There is, of course, the deep-seated feeling that nothing common can be a luxury. as is Indicated by the old contracts that servanta should not be fed chad Perhaps the owners of Italian In dustries are standing aside while their workmen try their hands at managing the business, finding money to keep it going and finding bflyers for its products. When the workmen find that it is not as simple as it seems, they may be ready to invite the owners to return. The young fellow who was saved from serious wound by coins in pocket when Grocer Hansom shot at him, and who protested his Inno cence of part in the holdup, has confessed his guilt. Local "dicks" are not spectacular In their work. but generally get the right fellows. Seattle and King county have 127, 136 voters registered for what will tomorrow be the liveliest election of record. Portland and Multnomah county should be able to beat that number. It seems to be some of the "swell1 residential districts that require the services Of the city prisoners to cut the weeds and brush. "Poor" folks fear the law and attend to these things. General Obregon's newly revived respect for Americans is Inspired by the prospect that he will have to deal with a republican president who does not practice watchful waiting. In five years the number ot restau rants In New Tork city has tripled. There are now 12.000. exclusive of hotels.school lunchrooms, and factory and dock stands. The greatest in crease came In 1918. and again prohibition prodded the rising record when saloons became restaurants. Various explanations are' given. Some see It a a barometer of indus trial prosperity. Others point to the tiansient population, particularly in cities, and the- ecDaration of families in war service. Then there is- the dearth of cooks. Restaurant owners trace the popularity of the arm-lunch to the quality of the food. The passing of the lunch box and the dinner pall," seems to be the pre vailing comment. For years the dinner pail an Amer ican product has served as a symbol of something big in our life. With it came associations of home cooking,' of family ties, of children on their way to the mill with daddy's lunch, and of hard work. How many women remember the pleasure with which they tucked in some little delicacy as a surprise. A lunch box can be packed chock-full of affection. If the younger generation Is ashamed of the lunch box. so much the worse for it- When a people loses Its taste for the dinner pail it Is a signal for the doctor. Boston Globe. A young woman passenger 'on a street car was the center of interest of all male passengers. There was something unusual about her that compelled a second glance, and then some more, after the first casual no tice one takes of a fresh, smiling face. says the Kansas City Times. It was not the smile so much; the young woman had no powder on her face, there was no rouge on "her cheeks and her lips showed their na tural color. About her there stood In coquettish folds an evidently home made dress. "In one hand she carried small ivory fan, and attached to that was a fine silver chain, ending In a clasp holding a hankerchlef that matched the color of the dress. Old fashioned? A woman might have called her that, but the men did not. They took another fllmpse and noticed embroidered half-gloves, such as their mothers had worn. And when a married man left the car he passed her so close that he could see Just enough of her petti coat to make out that it was hand embroidered and that her dress was made of some Inexpensive material. Her pretty ears were not covered by abominable muffs. The radiant young man sitting next to the remarkable woman was un doubtedly her husband. A monograph in the London Finan cial Times on the history of the old Citizens' bank of Louisiana, at New Orleans, reveals the origin of the name "Dixie Land" the term applied now to all the Southern states and preserved in the famous southern war song. "Dixie." Prior to the Civil War the Citizens' bank having the power to issue paper notes. Issued several millions of bills in denominations of $10 and 20. but mostly $10. The $10 bills were engraved in- French with the French word "Dlx" featured on their backs. The bills became known as "Dixie," and this money, becoming popular, Louisiana was referred to as the "Land of Dixies." or "Dixie Land." Eventually the term was so broadened as to apply to all the southern states. This seems a very acceptable explanation of the origin of the term, which has been the sub ject of so much discussion. The man who wrote the secretary of state a 275-page memorandum telling him Just why the treaty be tween the United States and the al lies and Hungary was null and void, from the standpoint of International law iB staying at the Multnomah. He is B. Singer of Chicago, consul gen eral for Spain, Guatemala and Costa Rica, professor of international law at Chicago law school and De Paw university and president of the Pan American association. Incidentally. Mrs. Singer is wrth him and was with him while he passed his vacation in San Francisco and Los Angeles. The Singer grandson Is also along. Mr. Singer has been Spanish consul at Chicago ever since the war with his native land. When he has a few snare minutes away from his other pressing duties he has found time to write a volumn on his pet study, in ternational law, which Is now being used as a text book for the army and navy. Everv year Edsrar Summers of Mil ton. Pa., and hia brother, C. A Sum- mere of New York, plan a hunting ex pedition, to some obscure spot where the deer are gamey and the bears are bie. Last season the New 1 orKcr, who Is a member of the sportsmen'B organization, went to the Maine woods, and when he came away there were 30 deer missing from that r glon. This summer the brothers went to Alaska, taking with them Mrs. Ld gar Summere, for two months' gun ning after the brown bear. It rained nearly all the time and all they man aged to bag was a nine-footer, jne party are on their way home, after a stormy boat passage to Seattle, and are at the Portland. Edgar bummers Is clerk of the courts of Northumber land county, one of the biggest coun ties of Pennsylvania. He is prepared to regale his eastern friends with stories of the monster salmon catch In Alaska. At one place the party evaw a fish trap with 75.000. which could not be taken out. One cannery han dled 986.000 salmon. James M. (Big Jim) Kyle, mayor of Stanfield, Is st the Imperial making preparations for the meeting of the executive board of the Oregon Irri gation congress, of which he is pres ident. The session is Tuesday. Al thouzh it doesn't seem credible. Kyle's friends claim he has lot weight from hard labor this summer. As mayor of the metropolis made fa mous by the senatorial candidate, he has charge of the street cleaning de partment, and as head of the street cleaning department he has charge of the crew, the crew, it being rumored, consisting of himself. Kyle gave the United Overall company an order last spring for two pairs of coverallo, but. owing to the extreme magnitude of the garments called for. the company has been unable to make delivery up to the present date. Some of the finest grass-fed rattle that come to Portland stockyards are raised on Stanton Black's big ranch at Ashwood in Oook county. Mr. Black landed at the Imperial yester day in company with R. H. Booton, George Tackman. Abe Hackleman and I. M. Blevins of Prineville. after hav ing safely piloted 13 carloads of stock to the market. Black has been living in Crook county 20 years and .hia ranch Is so big that he never has to turn his cattle out on the range. Two other stock men from east of th mountains who were also here over the week-end were B. F. Gill of Pilot Rock and H. F. Kelly of Prairie City. One of the principal landmarks In Tumalo is Fred N. Wallace, who has hopes of some day being only a sec ondary attraction, some day when the Tumalo Irrigation district has grown from 8000 to 20,000 acres. He is at the Imperial making preliminary ar rangements for taking storage water from the Deschutes river for the proj ect and plans to stay over for meet ing of the Oregon Irrigation congress executive board. Mr. Wallace says there is a heavy demand for more land at Tumalo, but water for It has not been available. Now that the wheat harvest is in, Claude Hampton, Pendleton rancher, regards himself as a free man and is setting forth on a two months outing in company with a camera and Edison Marshall of Medford, one of Oregon's best-known writers. Hamp ton was at the Imperial before going on to Seattle to meet his companion, who Is likewise an old pal from the University of Oregon. They are go ing Into Canada to shoot grizzlies and moose both with gun and lens. Mar shall plans to write a series of mag azine stories as the result of the trip. The monarch of all that Is to be surveyed on the Cox special car tour ing the country and the court of last resort on the same conveyance is C E. Wlnteringer, who Is with the party at the Multnomah. Mr. Win terlnger. while not a presidential can didate, takes precedence so far as this particular section of the democratic party is concerned. He is one of the general agents for the Pennsylvania railroad at Columbus, O- and has been put In charge of the tour by the company. When he was In Salem high school Elvin Lantls used to manage about every student activity in sight. He saw that the glee club cashed in at the door and that the gate re ceipts from the class play were duly banked and that the basketball game announcements got in the local news papers and performed- various other useful duties. Now he has graduated from all these arduous labors and Is In college. He registered at the Seward over the week-end. WHAT IS SOLEMN REFEBESDCJIf Writer Errs la Assuming; It Does Hot Concern Senatorial Elections. PENDLETON. Or.. Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) Referring to the edi torial in The Oregonian Sept. 9. "Cox Killing the League." leads one to observe the difficulties of the sit uation confronting the orthodox re publican papers at this time, when it appears to be essential to be "reg ular" rather than right. If Cox la killing the league, he certainly will have the unqualified support of Johnson, Borah, l'olndex ter and the rest, but the latest and most authentic information at hand seems to indicate that they are in fact supporting Senator Harding. The theory enunciated in this ed itorial Is the strongest indictment of representative government in this country that we have noticed em anating from any source whatever in many years. Openly to assert that notwithstanding the solemn refer endum on the Bubject, the coterie ot obstructionists in the senate will ut terly defy the mandate of the peo ple on this great subject is a declar ation that representative govern ment is a fraud and a failure. This intimation has come in times past from some of the radical and revolutionary forces in this country, but not so boldly as it was pro mulgated in your editorial, in which you say that notwithstanding Cox Is elected upon this great issue, the stand-pat senators will refuse to be bound to carry out the public will. I beg to ask, if that follows, what have you to say of the perpetuation of representative government in this country? Vox populi, vox del, the voice of the people is the voice of God in this country, and it will be a sad day tor this rcpubllo when men elected to represent us in govern mental affairs refuse to heed the will of the people expreBsd in a sol emn referendum. A. IL COX. If the correspondent has never read anything similar to The Oregonlan's speculation on the possibility of electing a senate In sympathy with democratic president. It is his own fault. He should have been more diligent in his newspaper reading. We can recall no presidential elec tion in which newspapers, big and Little, of both parties, speakers, pol iticians and statesmen did not In dulge in similar speculations and predictions. Nobody ever seriously suggested In the past that if & republican pres ident were elected all the democrats la congress ought to voto for pro tection; or that if a democratic pres ident were elected' all the republican senators and representatives ought to support a tariff for revenue only. Nobody ever expected or suggested that If Bryan were elected in 1896 all the republicans elected to congress in the same election and all the re publican holdover senators would promptly vote for free silver. A solemn national referendum can not be had on election of president alone. The representative qualities of this government are lodged equally In congress. When a party adopts an Issue it undertakes to elect both an executive and a congress committed to that issue. More Truth Than Poetry. j By James J. Moatarne, SO HOPE. When grandma's minister decreed The minuet a revel, Which, if persisted in. would lead Directly to the devil. Although she hastened to obey. Her feet she didn't fetter; She knew that waltzing would display Her ankles better. When mother's parson aired the view That hugging and embracing. Which those who waltz are prone to do. Is utterly debasing. She vowed that she would dance no more A measure so besotting: And. her decorum to restore. She took to trotting. When dominies of yesterday. In phrases tense and torrid. Denounced the trot as too risque And trotting folks no horrid. And solemn resolutions drew. With horrified whereasing. Girls saw that trotting wouldn't do. And fell to jazzing. And though the Jazz may be a crime (As moral persons view it). We know until the end of time 1he modern maid will do it. For while we look on her askance. We know no way t stop 'er. Because we cannot find a dance That's more improper. Ltston to It Already. If money talks, this la going to be a garrulous campaign. As Lenlne XI as Discovered. Poland appears to be a buffer state In a rebuffer state. Prond Achievement. Our merchant marine is developing. It can now carry about a quarter of our own freight tonnage. (Copyrleht. 19:0, hr ths Ben Syndicate, lnc In Other Days. Twenty-five Tears Aaro. From The Oregonian of September 13. 18S&. Louisville. It Is estimated that 50.000 men were In line in the parade which was the feature of the twenty ninth annual encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic It I not considered likely that the members of the Multnomah Bar asso ciation will take action at their meet ing today in recommending a suc cessor to the late District Judge Hur ley. Ex-Congressman W. J. Bryan, th free-silver democrat and orator, of Nebraska, is at the Imperial with Mrs. Bryan and their son on a vacation trip. Having the Daly fund to educate their children. Lake county people should now follow the Roosevelt doctrine and raise large families to use the money. The first deer-hunting fatality hap pens in Jackson county. It 'Should be the last of the year, for there Is little excuse for these accidents. Nobody knows whose bullet killed Hedderley, alleged bootlegger, and nobody ever will. Even the officer who fired it cannot be certain. The Montenegrin poet laureate who cultivates onions must compose rather lachrymose verse. Some people who have trouble in voting election day will be sorry they neglected registering. . If prohibition is a, dead issue, why did the wets strive so hard for Cox's nomination? Progressive Astoria! '. It had the equinoctial storm ten days ahead of 1 scheduLp. If the tipsy hens at Yakima are laying, their eggs will be th real "berrleSi" , Price guarantees, or rather, guar antees against declines in prices, will be an Important subject before the federal trade commission this autumn. Last December the commission is sued a questionnaire asking a discus sion of the questions involved. At the beginning of August the commis sion published a pamphlet in which it summarized the replies it had re celved. Manufacturers and dealers In more than thirty different brands of merchandise have recorded their points of view, pro and cbn. On October 5 the commission will ask representatives of the different Industries and dealers to meet at Washington, discuss the merits of the question and express to the commls slon their collective point of view whether guarantees against decline in price are fair or unfair. The Nation's Business. - A suggested itinerary for Mr. Vol stead going the rounds of the press includes the following shopping places: Rye, New York. Boos Station, Illinois. ( Rumfort, Rhode Island. Stillwell, Georgia. Bourbon, Illinois. Glndale, Texas. Bar Jiarbor, Maine. Ratn couldn't dampen the e-plrits of a party of motorists who drove up to the Seward Saturday night from The Dalles and out again yesterday morn ing for Seaside. The two cars carried Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Marshall of The Dalles, Mr. and Mrs. C L Dunlap, Mr. and Mrs. Clark Dunlap and Wright Ellis, all of Wasco. One of Oregon's first newspaper women is Mrs. Ada B. Mlliican of Prineville, who is spending a few days at the Imperial. She has lived over In Crook county for many years and has interested herself in the Indians 1 of the state. She owns a valuable collection of their relics. Ira Hutchlnrs, general manager of the Brownsville Canning company, Corvallis, is at the Multnomah. Mr. Hutchings says that his company cans everything that grows in the Wil lamette valley and the canneries this year will work overtime till Novem ber. The run is very heavy on Bart lett pears and blackberries this sea son. C. Kenneth Smullen. one of the managers of the Ingersoll Mining Ma chinery company of Juneau, Alaska, Is at the Multnomah. He is here on a business trip, buying machinery parts and factory equipment. Chief Justice T. A. McBrlde of the Oregon supreme court forsook the quietude of Sunday at Salem and passed the day in Portland. He was registered at the Imperial. J. A. Burns, vice-president of the United Cigar Stores company, of New York, arrived at the Multnomah Sun day. He Is on a tour of Inspection of all the stores on the Pacific coast. Henry Wurkhelm, George N. Frank lin and Homer Adler of San Francisco eompoee a motor party at the Oregon. They have been to Seattle and are s now -on the way home, CAMPAIGN FTTXDS NOT THE ISSUE Whole Matter Strikes Democratic New York Times aa Insincere. Under the title "Wearying the Country," the democratic New York Times, and supporter of Governor Cox, again decries the attempt to make campaign funds the issue. It says: "From democratic Florida comes an opinion of the shindy about cam paign expenses that is probably shared by the majority of the voters of both parties. The Jacksonville Times-Union says: ""We resret very mnch that fhe irsl dential campaign has degenerated 1ntx the worst mud-slinging contest on record. io matter who la reisponsi-ble for it, nobody wild sain by it and the people will be em bittered and disgusted. "The republican Washington Star looks at this interchange of charges and amenities in the same way: 'Tlte fuss about which side hu the more money, and whether that side has been perfectly frank about its riche?. is weari some in its present sta?e. which promises to remain the permanent stage through the discussion. "The public knows that both par ties need large funds, take all they can get and that each side is accus tomed to charge Its opponent with corruption. The whole matter strikes most people as insincere. If viola tions of the law, if promises of of fice or political action In considera tion of subscriptions are proved pre sumptively, the offenders should be prosecuted, and If guilty punished. A senate committee of democrats and republicans may be trusted to hunt evidence sedulously. The people know perfectly well that the abso lutely necessary expenses of a po litical campaign in 48 states must amount to a big sum. and that a 1920 dollar is not more than half a dollar m 1916. "Both sides, and particularly the democrats, whose campaign chest is usually lean compared with the re publican, may find it hard to raise money if the size of the campaign fund Is to be regarded as the great question of the election. That, of course, it cannot be. The treaty of Versailles and the league of nations, the reform and reduction of taxation, national economy, the cost of living, the necessity- of Increasing produc tion, of efficient labor, of better re lations between capital and labor cardinal policies, national and inter national are In the minds of the people. They are capital questions of general and vital import to every citizen. Upon them wise candidates and campaign speakers will insist and enlarge constantly." Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of September 13, 1870. There are now in process of con struction at the East Portland car shops six new passenger coaches, to be used on the Oregon and California line. Yesterday morning the locomotive Portland and new express, mail and baggage car and one passenger car were thrown from the trestle work in East Portland and badly wrecked. Four persons on the train at the time escaped serious injury. The Good Templars of the county held a convention yesterday at the hall of the East Portland lodge. Production, of Liberty Engines. SALEM. Or, Sept. 11. (To the Edi tor.) Who Invented and built the first liberty motor? How many were installed In American airplanes sent to France, and what factories built them? J. K. The liberty motor was developed by several of the leading automotive engineers of America working to gether. The first of the type was built by the Packard company, and that company, the Ford works, the Lincoln Motor company (Lelands), and Nordyke & Harmon participated in quantity production. The liberty motor was a service engine and was shipped over seas for installation there. To the date of the armistice 4435 had been sent to the American expeditionary forces and 1025 de livered to the British, French and Italian air forces. WARNING IS AGAINST BOOMERS Horse Heaven Irrigation Too Far Off to Justify Speculation. PHOSSEK, Wash., Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) Our attention has been called to an article in The Oregonian concerning the price for which lands are selling in the Horse Heaven irri gation district, and also the prospects for irrigation of the district lands. We wish to correct these state ments. There are no lands selling in the Horse Heaven country for any such figures. There is no prospect for irrigation in the Horse Heaven country this fall, and if it should happen that we begin construction in the spring, we have no assurance of that at this time. Any person buying lands In the Horse Heaven irrigation district at these prices or with the understand ing that we expect to irrigate these lands at once, will make a great mis take. We are making every possi ble effort to get the affairs of the irrigation district into shape to en able us to finance the project. But success Is. too far off for anyone to use the hope of irrigation as an inducement for others to buy lands. The reports referred to are not from responsible sources, and we ad vise the public to pay no attention to such reports. It is not the first time that the public has been fleeced into buying Horse Heaven lands on the strength of Irrigation, promised by ill-advised land boomers. HORSE HEAVEN DEVELOP MENT COMPANY. By CHARLES B. HALL, Vice-Pres. ONLY HIGHER EFFICIENCY SHOWN Investigation Reveals Republicans Have Best Organizing Qualities. BAKER. Or.. Sept. 11. (To the Ed itor.) What are the democrats howl ing about? Whose administration for the last four years has been mostly bull and H. C of L? Procrastina tion is the thief of time and it would take only a little more time with such profiteering and make-believe investigations and promises as we have had the last two years to put the country on a basis with Russia. What if the republicans do raise $15,000,000? Who gives a continental if they will only give the people a clean, open administration and re store confidence as it should be, and no doubt will be, with such men at the head of the government as Hard ing and Coolidge? I for one citizen and voter am tickled to death that the republican party can raise that amount if they have to. I feel very grateful to the managers of the campaign for such efficient work and generalship as they have shown in organizing this wonderful support. From a sane point of view, it seems to me, that that is exactly what we need to run our government perfect organiza tion and harmony such as the repub licans seem to possess. What's the use? Who doesn't want a change of administration? J. P. DARN ALL. Modern Slogan Needed. In the McKinley period the slogan of the G. O. P. was a full dinner pail for the wage earner. What's bother ing the wage earner now is that neither party has adopted the slogan: A full gasoline tank for the work- ins man. Louisrilia Courier Jouroal. Right to Possession of Intoxicants. SKAMOKAWA, Wash., Sept. 11. (To the Editor.) Kindly publish the latest information on the liquor laws, in the states of Oregon and Washing ton. Has any individual the right to make intoxicating liquors for homo use, or have in his possession for private use without the revenue of ficers bothering him ' SUBSCRIBER. Manufacture of intoxicating bev erages for home use is prohibited by federal law and also by the state laws of both Oregon and Washington. Possession of intoxicants for bever age purposes in a private dwelling, when solely for the use of te house holder and his family, is not pro hibited provided the liquors were ob tained lawfully that is to say, ob tained before prohibition went into effect.