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3 THE MORNING OTIEG ONI AN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 16, 1920 .fXmxag (tecrofcro ESTABLISHED B HENRY I. F1TTOCK. "Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOKDEN. K. B. PIPER. I Manager. Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Aaso elated Press. The Aseoclated Press la tluslvely entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and a. so the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatcher here in are also reserved. Subscription Bate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year '8'22 lally, Sunday Included, six months ... 4.-3 lally, Sunday Included, three months - 2.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month .... .TS Daily, without Sunday, one year ...... "-J Daily, without Sunday, one month .... Weekly, one year J-jJJ Sunday, one year ft-uo By Carrier.) 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Ordinarily adoption of an issue -by-one of the political parties means that that party undertakes to elect both a president and a majority of congress committed to that issue. On the league of nations issue, however, the democratic party has undertaken to elect a president who'will insist on ratification of the covenant "as is," and also not merely a majority but a two-thirds majority of the senate. It is an impossible undertaking, but there are some democratic' newspa pers which profess to be hopeful. Thus the Pendleton East Oregonian reasons on the situation: A very large number of republican sen ators are favorable to the treaty and made speeches in support of ratification. Senator McNary was prominent in this group and his speech in the senate a year ago answered every objection raised by the Harding-Lodge coterie. If the people elect 4Cox, the champion of the treaty in this campaign, the position of these re publican senators will be vindicated. They will toe Justly freed from the Dodge Influ ence and with the people's mandate to back, them up they will support the treaty with such clarifying reservations as may be desired. The Cox campaign ia m real ity as much- a fight for liberal republl canlam as It is for the Wilson policies. Men like McNary may be supporting Hard ing for the sake of party regularity but their convictions are more in .line with the Cox programme and. their own speeches show this to be true. The Oregonian cannot speak for Senator McNary. But it remembers that notwithstanding his classifica tion as a mild reservationist, he voted against ratification of the treaty without qualification, and in the pri mary campaign supported Senator Johnson in his ambition to become the republican nominee for presi dent. Senator Johnson and Governor Cox are at opposite pqles on the league question. But let us consider for a moment the opinions of Senator Reed of Missouri. Senator Reed is a demo crat and stands with Johnson in opposition to the league covenant. He is -a keen politician and a prac tical one. On May 10, when the attitude of the democratic national convention on the covenant was under specula tion, he gave an interview to the New York Tribune in which he said One-third of the senate will be re-elected In November of this year, but cannot take office, even if a special session la called. before- March 4, 1K21. Of the thirty-two senators whose terms are expiring, eighteen are democrats. Of the eighteen demo crats, all hut one constituted the most ardent supporters of the president's posi tion. The seats of at least two-thirds of the.se democrats are seriously in jeopardy. .- There is no prospect of increasing the democratic vote In the senate. There Is a serious prospect of its decrease. But. even if It were to be Increased by the re-election of every democrat and the elec tion of additional democrats, no sane men ean expect the democrats to control two-thirds majority. And not a living republican In the senate will accept the league of nations without radical reserva tions and changes. This puts the ratification of the treaty as demanded by President Wilson not only beyond the pale of -probabilities, but also beyond the pale of possibilities. ' But with all his antipathy toward the league of nations in any form and despite the expressed determina tion of Governor Cox to carry on the league policy of President Wilson. Senator Jleed is for Cox. Perhaps, in the language of the East Orego nian, he is doing it "for the sake of party regularity." More likely it is because he knows that Cox's promise of unqualified ratification Of the league is just as possible of fulfill ment as a promise to bring down the moon for a popular plaything. H. G. TOLLS ON CO-EDUCATION. Admitting that H. G. Wells is em inently qualified to write a problem novel that goes down pleasantly, American admirers of the engaging English author cannot be expected to agree with him when he finds fault with our system of coeducational schools. They are ours, we have tried them and found them good, and that which may apply to Eng land does not necessarily apply to this country. But it is well to in form ourselves as to the argument against coeducation from his point of view. It is simple, almost ele mental, for Mr. Wells declares that young folk cannot keep their minds on their studies when they have one another to think about. His concep tion of a coeducational institute is one wherein the gusty sigh arises, and gaze meets gaze insistently, and the scholarly Is routed by the flirtatious. , "I think men and women distract each other," he observes somewhat tritely. "I believe they should spend their holidays together and play to getner, put not go to the same schools. Then, too, a girl at twelve is a social creature, and understands history and even politics. But until a boy is sixteen or eighteen he does not even have an interest in these subjects." Apparently the width of an ocean is not greater than the dissimilarity between Mr. Wells' girls in England and their twelve-year-old cousins in America. Here, too, girls of that age are social creatures, given largely to the society of dolls and the sanc tuary of playhouses, with a flair for motion picture comedy and the penny dreadfuls of the corner con fectionery. But not even their most enthusiastic champions have discov ered the trace of an interest In his tory and politics. They are natural young animals and erudition waits upon their later 'teens. We like them that way. If an American girl of twelve became unduly excited about history or politics, with the true enthusiasm of the student, we would regard, her much as the duck regarded the cygnet an incompre hensible being and assign her to the class of prodigies. But the discussion drifts wide of its. mark. What we wish to say is that an unaffected companionship of the sexes, in school and out, is nat ural and desirable and is the basis of American belief in coeducation. The reverse may be true in England. We strive to lessen the cost of education, and to make it available to all who seek. The coeducational system per mits this but departure fromv it would necessarily impose a double burden and react against educational progress. You. see, we have rather a quaint educational theory. At the outset we acknowledge that not all young women have the means to attend exclusive finishing schools for their sex, and that not all young men possess similar advantages. Yet we are determined that democracy shall include equal education, to save its own face, and the coeduca tional school solves our problem. Which is really more practical than to permit educational defeat through sage and elderly anxiety over pos sible flirtation. FINDING OUT COX. Three months ago the democracy of Oregon did not know Mr. Cox. He got no votes from Oregon at San Francisco until the band-wagon came along on the final ballot, in the early hours of a cold gray dawn, and then the entire degelation made a grand leap to get aboard. We shudder to think of their awful disappointment if they had missed- The fact of his nomination proved to every Oregon delegate that ha was wrong about Cox and the majority was right. The democracy of Oregon, however, has been wrong so many times and on so many subjects that it has become expert in its effort to be right afterward. But it knows Cox now. Or it says it does. Listen to the song of the leading democratic newspaper voice of Oregon: There is no cleaner-cut, clearer-thinking statesman in America Ithan Coxj. He has the deep Insight and profound analyzing power of an Elihu Root. He has the pro gressive convictions and dynamic force of a Theodore Roosevelt. He has the ideal ism, and humanient of a Wood row -Wilson. He lias the Christian conceptions and high sense of Justice of an Abraham Lincoln. Root plus Roosevelt plus Wilson plus Lincoln equals Cox. Another superman! Good Lord! Haven't we had enough? Yet possibly the 'democratic eulo gist is mistaken. There . are even some democrats who think so. The Oregonian has a letter today from a distinguished Oregon democrat, for whose high character and good rec ord in his party it vouches. He says he will vote for Harding, and tells why. His announcement appears else where. In a private note to The Oregonian this eminent democrat gives his estimate of Cox: Cox may be a shrewd politician in Ohio. but he is about the smallest man that has been nominated for president by eif-her of the principal parties in the history of our country. How these democrats love one an other! Let us leave the case for and against their candidate with them. AFTER ONE YEAR. A year ago yesterday, September 15, President Wilson made a speech to the citizens of Portland pleading for ratification of the treaty of Ver sailles with the league covenant sub stantially unchanged. He was elo quent, and he deeply moved those who heard him. He foretold the evils which have actually followed failure to ratify, and he displayed the mastery of language for which he is noted in voicing the yearning of nations for an instrumentality which should prevent war. His plea has been ineffective through Mr. Wilson's own action. The people realized intuitively that behind his desire for a league lay his passion that it should be his league, unchanged by any other hand; that he not only sought Its approval but approval of the manner in which he had brought it about: They saw in his arbitrary assumption of sole power over foreign relations and in his desire that the senate should have no part in shaping the league a determination to secure popular Indorsement of his course from the date when he first sailed for Paris to the date when he set his face groins nv ht in(.rf i reservations. They wanted a league they want one still but they did not believe that It must necessarily be precisely as he and his associates at Paris had framed it, and they were determined that no one man should arrogate to himself sole con trol over foreign relations; they were determined that, especially in a mat ter of such moment, decision should be the joint work of the executive and the senate as a representative body. .They were not prepared to sacrifice American democracy to the cause of humanity, for they were convinced that humanity would be the loser. " This popular determination to tol erate no autocracy Inclined the peo ple to give heed not t only to the covenant's critics but to its irrecon cilable enemies. It inspired distrust. When he rejected all overtures for compromise in October and again in February and March, this attitude .of the "people became confirmed and had its effect in the reinforcement of the reservationists by those sen ators who had worked for compro mise only to be repelled, and by almost half of the democratic sen ators. Still he persisted, drove his party to call for a solemn referen dum on his league, and forced the democratic nominee to accept that as the paramount issue. The people have begun giving their answer. Maine has answered by a vote which cannot be misconstrued. The verdict is not against A league but is against the Wilson league as he insists that it be accepted. More than all, It Is against the attempt to pervert the generous sympathy of the American people and the un shaken purpose to do their part In redemption of the I world from war for introduction of autocracy In the United States. For those reasons the appeal to the people which Mr. Wil son made a year ago has failed, and their verdict in , the election has already begun to go heavily against him. OLD-FASHIONED VIRTL-ES. If someone really wants to start a worth-while reform, and is content to take the jeers and bruises that attend the task, let him advocate a renaissance of old-fashioned virtues. The first of these were simplicity and thrift. Both were taught in the home. And they are so distinctly antipathetic to the gaudy creeds of today, so disposed to concentrate money in the home, that their return would be fought. Because she was not taught them, a pretty little Se attle matron issued many worthless checks, and when captured touched the hard hearts of the rough detec tives witn this plaint: "I did it because I wanted pretty clothes." Indeed, that was but natural, a feminine wish as old as the race but it was the standards of modern vogue that placed such raiment be yond the reach of her husband's weekly .pay-check of $40. Nor is her case one to grow maudlin over. We do not progress when we become, as the English say, rather sloppy. She is but one of the more plainly apparent symptoms of the times. Vanity and profit the former led by the latter have established decrees of dress that are no prettier, and far less sensible, than those of mother's day, but vastly more expensive. And it has come to be a shameful thing, through the whisper of a truly mod ern false pride, to dress simply. Where is the girl whose mother taught her a knack with the needle, and who entered the vision like a lovely June morning? Alack, we are fain to believe that her memory is in lavender, beside the recollection of the boy who aspired to home tailored trousers from his father's suit- There are such girls praise be for we but pretended that the species was extinct. But they are rare far more rare than white blackbirds and spiderweb silks. The shame of it is that the virtues of simplicity and thrift, when practiced today, are made to feel conspicuous and to wish for secrecy. COX ANT THE COTTONTAIL HTTNT. That the republican campaign plan did not call for an exorbitant fund has been conclusively proved to the satisfaction of all fair-minded men a classification which excludes Gov ernor Cox. Yet when the democratic candidate raised this issue of straw and slander and surmise not even its opponents, the republicans, were bold enough to declare that .It was no issue. Instead they set about to prove the falsity of the governor's statements and figures, and the fact that they were successful did not lessen the opportunity for unremit tent blatancy on the part of Cox and his cohorts. The time was propitious for so'meone to stand forth and de clare: "True or false, this charge does not constitute an Issue it is a decoy to distract attention from the genuine quarry of the campaign." The words waited for utterance and at length they have been spoken. The public champion who uttered them is Aaron S. Watkins, prohibi tion candidate for president. He nurtures no hope of election and his presence in the field is designed merely to Berve notice upon the liquor interests that the prohibition party is vigilant and untricked. We may assume that he is partisan only for prohibition, and that he spoke with conviction and candor when he said "The country at large will not care thirty cents to find out the exact figures, or even the approximate figures, of any campaign fund. The real questions of this year are the league of nations, the labor problem and the extinction of the liquor traffic." Obviously Mr. Watkins is a man of parts, . wholly aside from his commendable enterprise in doing the family wash. Yet at the same hour in which he made these pertinent observations the democratic nominee was informing a Spokane audience that "it .is time, in order to put a stop to corruption, to send somebody to the penitentiary." Is it. not also timely to remark, parenthetically, that the Coxian charges of corrup tion are fiat on their dirty little backs, with their muddy little paws all flaccid and chill? It 1st The democratic nominee has a mania for melodrama tics. Last week he ranted of bayonets. It was Mark Sullivan, we believe, who said that when Governor Cox came west where prohibition is popular he must declare himself on the liquor issue or suffer the conse quences attendant upon public doubt. Yet the governor is still in full hue and cry after the nebulous repub lican campaign fund, tickling the fancy with his remarkable resem blance to a beagle chasing cotton talis. BARBED AND OTHERWISE. Finesse Is the desirable thing in I sport. It is super-skill. It lends zest to the thrill of capture. Yet it is not that sort of thing which eastern sporting clubs speak for when they advocate the use of the barbless hook in angling. It is true that such departure from custom would recognize, with renewed force, the disparity between the poor fish- and he artful fisherman, and would afford the former superior advan tages for escape while reserving for the latter a double measure of satis faction If he concluded the episode by skillful capture. There may be a deal of merit In the barbless hook, but Pacific coast waters have not yet reached that state of depletion and shall not where anglers must seri ously discuss its adoption as a meas ure for conservation. The point that advocates of the barbless hook lay stress upon is the injury wrought to Bmall fish, of less than legal size, by the barbed hook An eastern paper, discussing this ptiase of the matter, gravely informs ts readers that even large trout and salmon are frequently fatally injured by the use of barbed hooks, and in escaping race away to lingering death. That this is occasionally true and always regrettable, any fisher man will concede but he will smile as he considers the practicability of salmon fishing without barbs. In strong current these mighty fish leaping and rushing as they feel the hook wound and the restraint of th line, would send the 'champions of the barbless hook homeward with the poor consolation of. "fisherman luck." An Instant's slack in the line, a foot of leeway, and the leap that tossed the flashing big fellow high above the current would also shak the hook free. "He got away. would become the shibboleth of the reformers. For the smaller, fish, even fairly large trout, the barbless hook might serve to give a day's sport, and len to itthe spice of more exacting skill, A taut line at all times, made pos sible only by an intuitive judgment of the captive's rushes; would avail to bring an occasional fish to creel And those that were lightly hooked would Invariably escape without dan gerous Injury. The reform would tend toward a refinement of sport. but it would not commend itself to the angler who wishes to catch fish and who is somewhat averse to spoil ing his day by tribute to ultra finesse. No, so long as fish swim an men seek them, the -cruel barb will of necessity remain on the hook. If those who speak for the barb less hook are sincere in their desire to avoid injury of the smaller fish and to give a more than sportin chance to the larger, they should turn to the origin of angling and employ the gorge. No fish can pos sibly be harmed by this clumsy but effective device of the stone age, which consisted merely of a short stone bar, notched in the center for the line tie, and completely covered by bait. When the anglers of an tiquity felt a strike, they permitted the fish to swallow, or gorge, the bait- They struck at the moment they believed the bait to be in the fish's gullet. It turned crosswise and the crude gorge held him very ef fectually. Or the friends of freedom for fish might take a lesson from the 'Piute Indians and equip themselves with cactus thorns, as affording -an even superior advantage for escape. For the hooks ' of the Piute fishermen we're thorns and must have given rise to many an aboriginal malediction. The California Indians, before the days of the Spaniards, used fishhooks of shell. These, too, would be suffi ciently disappointing to recomnaend their use by those who talk of barb- less hooks. We make these sugges tions without desire to cast ridicule pon -tile motive or the movement. but to offer practical suggestions for its furtherance. After the stone gorge came fish hooks of bone and- bronze, but all of them were barbed, signifying one of the most Important steps ever taken in any sport or industry. For we have kept the barb, though we have rejected the old straight shafts of metal or bone on which the first crude barbs were filed. A multitude f anglers, of every hue and age. have commended its use. Nor do they plead guilty to lack of feeling for the fish that have been victim to it. There is such a thing as too much finesse, and the use of the barbless hook, to-all save thosewho make their own choice, will have no more appeal than would a suggestion of paper pellets to the duck hunter. Oregon anglers already have taken cognizance of the fatal injury to thousands of small trout, under the legal size, wnen the little fellows seize the hook and are cast back. It Is probable that, at some not distant ay, they will ask for legislation de fining the minimum size of hook that may be used say a No. 6. The use f a larger hook would prevent in jury to the fish that are too small to swallow it and would make for clearer, m6re humane sport. But they have not heard of the new re form that seeks to eliminate the barb nor are their fishing streams in such condition that they care to discuss it. Speaking of rats, as the Pied Piper would preface his proposition, were ou aware that it costs every person in America about one cent a day o feed them? Such is the estin.a e made by the public health service the better to point a moral. Yes, sir. the annual board bill of our little friends is almost $400,000,000, or approximately the Interest on $10,- 000,000,000 of government bonds which is half the national war debt. It is plain to be seen that rats are an important factor in keeping the country poor.. It costs more to keep those rats, the rascals, than it does to keep chickens. They repay our kindness by spreading plague, and kindling fires by nibbling matches. and fouling vast quantities of food and gnawing holes in grandfather's beaver hat. We cannot show them the door too quickly. You say that this is all very interesting, but what agitates you mostly is where on earth did the piper get pied? Alas, we cannot tell you. The main fact in the killing of Hedderley, alleged bootlegger, is that the man who did it does not know the bullet went from his gun. It, is matter for congratulation that an innocent bystander was not hit. The whole bunch might be given ten days for disorderly conduct. The original Plymouth Rock upon which the Pilgrims hopped ashore, having worked Inland during three centuries, is to be restored and re set in the water. That will give the three thousand or more lineal de scendants a bit of realism when they assemble in December. A Seattle woman described in news dispatches as "proprietress of brickyard" is suing a man for (30,000 for breach of promise. Prob ably what made the poor fellow balk was the thought of all those con venient brickbats. President Deschanel of France is U-eported to be about to resign be cause of failing health. He shouldn't do that. If he'll only hang on till after March 4 he can have Admiral Grayson as long as he wants him. Rural carriers are out for legisla tion granting $600 annually for maintenance of equipment. That means two dollars a day for oats and axle greese not much money, con sidering all things. Sounds like old times to read of fighting and shooting in the Chicago primaries. One incident was the shooting Up of a saloon. Chicago has a hangover on all things bad. "Don't bother me about prohibi tion," says Governor Cox, In effect. It's a dead issue." And the Maine vote indicates that the women in tend to bavs it rest in peace. Wilson Itches to get into the cam paign, it is said 'from Washington, but awaits an Invitation from Cox. Cox, no doubt, waits for somebody to tell him what to do. That was larceny extraordinary, the theft of five truckloads of broken rock from the county bunkers at Linnton. Stealing a hot stove is not in that class. ' - Now Governor Cox doubles his "slush fund" estimate and makes it J25.000.000 to $30,000,000. Wonder what that specialist gave him for his throat? Alabama lynched a white man Monday for talking about a white woman. A negro could not have got ten worse. Alabama is consistent. Governor Holcomb is a nice old codger, wedded to his ways, but he cannot stay progress of the amend ment. ' Certain proposed, reforms in the city's civil service code seem calcu lated to make it an uncivil service. Somebody catch those Salem Cher rians while they are passing and show them off to the metropolis. The women of Maine are depend able. . Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. This from a Utica. N. Y paper probably refers to a former Baker leading man, Al McGovern: "The Park players opened at the Park Monday in "Civilian Clothes." The company is headed by Kitty Brown, leading woman, AlmaGovern, leading man." s Florence Holmes isn't exactly a star or.starmaker. but she is a stargazer this month in London. She tells en tertainingly of seeing the 1900th per formance of "Chu Chin Chow," which has been running for four years at His Majesty's theater In Haymarket. Recently Mies Holmes had luncheon with Peggy O'Neill, who Is at the Savoy theater in London, starring in "Paddy the Next Best Thing." Flor ence Holmes is the daughter of Mrs. Edith .Knight Hill, and . has been abroad all summer. e m Charles J. Vion, who married one of George Cohan's pretty cousins, one of the Rhoads girls, is in Portland ahead' of "The Acquittal," which is to be the, Heilig attraction next week. Mrs. Vion's sister Is Lila Rhoads, famous for her dancing. She took the place of the late Josephine Cohan in "The Yankee Prince," when the entire Cohan family appeared here a dozen years ago and Miss Cohan was ill. The show Mr. Vion brings is one of George Cohan's pro ductions of last season, and its prin cipal player is Harold Vermilye, who was here in "A Tailor-Made Man' last year. Speaking of Charley King, he is playing at the Colonial and Palace theaters in New York in "Love Letters." and none other than Ona Munson (Owena Wolcott) is featured In the company The manager of the production has combined beauty and utility In clever blotters which he has mailed to Miss- Munson's friends. They bear a photo graph of the young Portland girl, which is an excellent likeness, and a simple equation which says that Mary Pickford's beauty and person ality plus Ann Pennington's dancing ability, plus Frances White's song charm plus her own splendid voice equals Ona Munson. Miss Munson's mother, Mrs. O. Wol cott, is constantly with her daughter, a a Betty Baxnicoat Is playing in Adolph Klaubers' new production, "Scrambled Wives." , Juliette Day has the leading role. Mr. Klauber. by the way, is Jane Cowl's husband. My dear Miss Baer: I understand that until recently Miss Ollvotti was playing leads with the Royal English Opera company. Having had so much pleasure out of her fine work with, the Alcazar com pany last winter, I would appreciate it if you would print any of her plans for this season's work which you may know or overhear, in "Stars and Star makers." It won't matter which issue; I always see it. . . Very truly yours. B. Answer I have no information concerning the talented Miss Olivottl and am sorry not to be able to tell you something about her plans for this season. Someone to whom she writes may supply the Information for me, in which case i shall gladly PKint it. - - see Kernan Cripps, who played stock for several seasons in California, is coming to the Heilig next week in Rita Weiman's play "The Acquittal." Valeska Suratt has returned to New York after a summer at Larch mont and goes this .week into re hearsal of her vehicle of last season, "Scarlet," by Jack La it. It is being routed- now and will open September 27. She comes to Portland this year. Max Hoffman, husband, manager and director for Gertrude Hoffman, is now the orchestra leader at the George M. Cohan theater and will con duct the vaudeville concerts at the. New Amsterdam. Miss Hoffman is studying some new dances and will not work for some time. The Shubert Theatrical company Is named defendant in a J25-.000 damage suit by Rita Frederick, a "Passing Show of 1918" chorus girl, for injur ies alleged sustained .when a curtain dropped on her. Laura Ordway, just completing a Pantages tour, was brought into Chi cago from Kansas City, having met With a seriouB railroad accident. Miss Ordway waa taken from the train and brought to the American Theatrical hospital, where Dr. Thorek found her spine had been injured. Laura Ordway is one of the likable 'comediennes who visit Portland by way of Pantages. The revived dancing act of the Four Fords started rehearsals this week, directed by the Ford sisters (Mabel and Dora), who will present the turn in the billing. The members of the new act are Max and Eddie Ford, Mayme Gehue and Lottie Ford, -wife of Eddie. Johnny Ford,, one of the original four, is again going out with the "Melody Maids," his own act. Fay Cuslck, Oregonian, is again ap pearing with May Robson. The lat ter's new play is "Nobody's Fool " by Alan Dale. George Damerel and Myrtle Vail (Mrs. Damerel) and company are pre paring a three-act, "The Sixth Reel,' in which Miss Vail will step forth as an actress in three different charac ters. Called to the stand by Judge Ben B. Lindsey in Denver, Colo., Fanchon Flfer, aged 7, recited the prayer, "Now I Lay Me Down to Sleep," and so proved to the court that her religious training had not been neglected by her grandmother, Mrs. Josephine Mil ton, who lives in Denver. The chiH is the niece of Frank Milton and the Long sisters, vaudeville performers. Action had been brought by L B. Fifer, the child's father, to recover possession. He is a buyer for Mar shall Field in Chicago. Formerly he was in vaudeville with the child's mother, who died two years ago. He declared he no longer cared to sup port the baby girl if he could not have her with him. After the prayer recital Judge Lindsey ruled the child should remalc with its grandmother. Those Who Come and Go. He nerved in six navies and two arm len durine- four years of the late tilt with Bill Hohenzollern et al.. and as though that wasn't enough to last anybody through one Hie. ne s m Portland now seriously thinking of signing up as a first-class p-tato peeler or "bull" cook or something on some vessel leaving the local port for far-off lands. HU name is Leo McKinnon and he comes from Helena, Mont. Before the war he'd never been nearer the water than to sail a raft or two down Prickly Pear creek in Last Chance gulch, but he took to the seven seas like an Italian to grape juiqj?. and he's ready for more. He is visiting in Portland trying to make up his mind whether or not Oregon's balmy weather holds a greater appeal than the wanderlust. Hotel business in the orient is booming, says Arthur L. Frazier. The inns across the Pacific are as crowd ed as they are in the United States, for since the armistice there has been an ' exceptionally heavy travel flow ing across the ocean. The travel con sists in a large part of representa tives of commercial houses on a hunt for business, but there is also a good nerc&ntaire of pleasure seekers, who prefer a trip to the orient Instead of attempting to visit Europe in its present unsettled condition. Mr. Fra zier. who was at the Multnomah yes terday, has been connected with ho tels in the orient for the past four years at the Straits Settlements. Nagasaki and Kobe. Japan. He is on his way to the eastern states. "There is a big run of Chinook in the Alsea bay." says Ed Clanten. state fish expert. "This is the direct result of our hatchery sat Tidewater, on Alsea river, and particularly our feeding pond system. The Alsea has never been much of a Chinook stream, but under the pond system of feeding there is a likelihood of it being par ticularly good." Mr. Clanton began his pond feeding idea about ten years ago in Oregon, and leading fish ex perts of the country who have studied salmon agree that it is the correct method. The young fish are held and fed Instead of being turned out when too young to battle for food. This year has been a good one for salmon in almost all of the Oregon streams. Americans who have the wherewith are making a hangout at the bar in the Hotel Seville in Havana, accord ing to C. D. Moore of Camagury, Cuba Mr. Moore, who arrived at the Mult nomah hotel yesterday, says that "Cuba Libre" means , more to the thirsty citizens of the United States today, than it did when they shouted it -back 'in 1898. Entire shiploads of liquid refreshments were sent to Cuba when the United States began Its bone-dry career and the Americans who can afford It are following the cocktail to Its present habitat. More telegrams are being received by K. Kaws.se at the Multnomah than by all of the other patrons combined. The wires keep coming in every few minutes. At first some of the clerks thought someone was playing a joke on the Japanese, but they discovered that every message was one of bust ness. Mr. Kawase Is here looking after business for a steamer and he came to Portland from Seattle for the purpose. Loaded with a speech to be deliv ered at the Irrigation and develop ment conference in Seattle, A. A Smith of Baker arrived at the Benson yesterday. Mr. Smith, who has been representing Baker county in the leg islature, will speak for the Smith bill at the conference, the Smith bill, by the way, not being his own. The Smith bill, the Oregon delegates to the conference claim, is just what this state wants in the way of legislation. P. O. Powell, candidate for repre sentative from Polk county and presi dent of the "Polk County Fair assocl abion, was in the city yesterday to attend the board meeting of the Ore gon Dairy council and arrange for tome exhibits at the county fair over which he will preside. He registers from Monmouth, but lives on a ranch. and waa at the Seward for the day. Just why P. J. Gallagher should want to cary. a Palm beach suit to the development conference In Seattle is not known, but he had such an outfit i his suitcase when passing through Portland. One explanation s that the weather In his home town of Ontario is still so warm and sunny that the P. B. clothes are still season able In that edge of Oregwn. "A bit of all right" Is the way D. A. L. Dale of London, England, re ferred to the Portland weather when he sisrned the Benson book yesterday, And as soon thereafter as possible he engaged a motor to convey him over the Columbia highway. Mr. Dale is on a tour of the states, having crossed the continent through . the provinces- No matter how crowded the Hote Portland may be when he arrives. the desk force invariably finds room and bath for Harry L. Day Wallace- The reason is simplicity itself Mr. Day Is one of the owners of the hotel and drops in occasionally when, the mining business palls on him in the Coeur d Alene district. Medicine Hat. Alta., which is blamed for so many of the severe storms in the middle west, is one citizen lass today, for James C. Fleming of Medl cine Hat is at the Perkins. Mr. Fleming contends, that the town isn responsible for the weather disturb ances. Since M. B. Olds bought the little railroad In Jackson county he is frequent visitor to Portland, but thu far he has not revealed any plans h may have regarding the road. He ar rived again at the Benson yesterday, registering from Cheboygan, Mich Walter B. Hinkle of Echo dodged through Portland yesterday on.hl way to the development conference on Puget sound. Mr. Hinkle is th chief engineer on the Teel irrigation project in Umatilla county. Addison T. Smith, representative In congress from Idaho, arrived in Port land on No. 16 from the east yester day afternoon and left last night for Puget sound with Jim Kyle of Stan field. Norman L. Rogers of Minneapolis, Minn., is registered at the Nortonia. Mr. Rogers is president of a bond and securities house and is in Portland on business. C. W. Shurte. who is In the ma chinery business at Heppner, is at the Perkins. Heppner recently acquired a new hotel, but it has not been opened. Fred A Williams, one of the three public service commissioners. Is among the arrivals at the Hotel Ore gon from Salem. E. A. Skahill and F. M. Crill are In town from Long Island City, N. Y., where they are connected with the Moto-Meter company. J. J. Geary, who is In the contract ing business down Clatskanie way, is registered at the Perkins while vis iting Portland. t E. A. Coleman is at the Benson from Washington, D. C, on business for the shipping board. Dr. W. D. Curtis of Astoria, with Mrs. Curtis, Is at the Benson for a few days. John E. Daly, merchant at Gate way. Or., is at the Imperial with his family. WHY HE CANNOT SIPPOBT COX j Prominent Democrat Ssys He Will Vote for Harding;. McMI NNVILLE, Or Sept. 14. (To the Editor.) The election will soon be t hand and it behooves each man and woman who expects to vote for president to decide very soon for whom he or she will vote. Many democrats are more or less in doubt as to the person for whom they should vote. This campaign differs from all preceding ones - as to the questions at issue." Many lifelong democrats are now, for the first time. In doubt as to how they should- cast j their Daiiots. Heretofore it nas oeen , a question whether a voter preferred democratic or republican policies; but now the democratic candidate, by surrendering to President Wilson, has made the league of nations the dom inant question, and he favors the rat ification of the league of nations as Wilson brought it home from France, without any reservations whatever that will materially change its mean ing. If we ratify this league as it Is, its adoption will entail upon this country a very large expense in money without our receiving any substantial benefit in return there for, and very likely we shall be called upon to send to Europe from time to time an army to be used in carrying out the mandates of this league, and in trying to attend to matters in which we are really not concerned. It has been our policy heretofore to attend to our own business and let Europe attend to her own affairs. By the Monroe doctrine we warn for eign nations not to interfere in Amer ican affairs, and I submit that, while we adhere to this policy, to be con sistent we should keep out of Euro pean affairs that do not immediately concern us. We declared war against Germany because she sunk our ships and murdered our citizens, and for no other cause, and our action, in so doing, was right and it was not a departure from our traditional policy. In his farewell address. President Washington, about 124 years ago, said among other things: Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties In the ordinary combinations and colli sions of her friendships or enmities. This was the advice of the one who was "first In war, first in peace and first In the hearts of his country men," but he had not been inoculated with the virus of Wilsonism. Thomas Jefferson, the founder and great apostle of the democratic party. in his Inaugural address as president. In setting for the principles that he thought we should stand for, de clared for "peace, commerce and hon est friendship with all nations, en tangling alliances with none." Thus we have the ad . ce of the father ol our country and the declaration of the founder of the democratic party that diametrically oppose the policy of our going into the league of na tions as Wilson brought It from France. Governor' Cox says that we should go Into It, without any material changes, but Senator Harding is op posed to our going into it. at least without very material reservations. and the policy advocated by Harding is in accord with the principles of Washington and Jefferson, and it seems to me that every lover of his country should follow Washington and Jefferson, and vote for Senator Harding, and not vote for Cox, who stands in the shoes of Wilson and for Wilsonism. To go into the league of nations in any form is a leap In the nark, but it is certain to entail large expense ana trouble, without any certainty of benefiting us or the world. As Governor Cox stands for going into the league of nations without material reservations, and as Sena tor Chamberlain stands against go ing in without substantial reserva tions, how can any democrat who pretends to be guided by principle. in voting, vote for both of them? A voter cannot support both of them without stultifying himself. There Is another important matter. that many dry democrats have been and are thinking about very serious ly, and that is the attitude of Gov ernor Cox toward the prohibition question. What Governor Cox may- think as to the rightfulness or wrongfulness of prohibition would be immaterial, if he could be trusted to enforce the constitutional prohi bition amendment and the Volstead act that was passed to carry out the amendment. But can he be so trusted? The constitution of the United States, in defining the duties of the president, declares that "he shall take care that the laws be faithfully exe cuted." Many have tried in vain to obtain from Governor Cox a straightforward declaration that, if elected, he would enforce the prohibition amendment and the Volstead act, but he refuses to make any such promise. In his acceptance speech, where he should have made a declaration that he would, if elected, enforce the amend ment and the act of congress referred to, he- dodged, and he did not explic itly promise that he would enforce any law, and what he said in rela tion to enforcement of laws was evasive and full of sneers. He had been urged to speak explicitly on this subject. In a speech at Seattle he said that the prohibition question was not an Issue, and again dodged the question or its enforcement. WhHe Governor Cox is dodging this question and refusing to say that he will enforce the prohibition law. if elected, his wet followers in New Jersey and other places are asserting that he is one of them, and that he will, as their Moses, lead them out of the dry wilderness and enable them to have light wines and beer. If elected. Senator Harding is, probably not a prohibitionist, but he voted to sub mit' the prohibition amendment to the sta os for adoption, and after it had bttn ratified he voted for the Volstead act for its enforcement, and after Wilson, whose mantle and shoes Cox has put on, had vetoed this act. Harding voted to pass it over the presidents veto, and in his ac ceptance speech Harding said ex plicitly that, if elected, he would en force the amendment and the Vol stead act, and hence I consider Harding's record good. He may not be a prohibitionist, but if elected he will do his duty and enforce the amendment and the Volstead act. Every dry democrat should con sider these matters, and I respectful ly submit -that no person who desires to follow the advice of Washington and Jerrerson In regard to "entan gling alliances with foreign nations' or who wants the prohibition laws enforced, can afford to vote for Gov ernor Cox. A DRY DEMOCRAT. The Oregonian vouches for the gen uineness of the foregoing and for the prominence of the democrat who wrote It. Soldiers Dislike Barmaids. London Star. About 2000 former service men in Liverpool, England, are protesting against the employment of barmaids in the city's hotels and public houses. When a deputation waited on the committee of the Liverpool Brewers' j apd Spirit Merchants' association. one or tne men said tnat if the bar maids did not give place to service men action would be taken that would force the women out. About 2000 barmaids are employed In Liverpool. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. OVER AND OVER. O'er the fence the brancehes bended; On the lowest limb Hard green apples hung suspended. And along came Jim. His temptation was the great one. Eve had long before. So he promptly picked and ate one Stem and skin and core. Jim that evening ate no supper. Not a single crumb; There was trouble in the upper Section of his turn. He did not go out to frolic With the boys that night; Writhed and floundered with the colic. Faint, and scared, and white. Mother in a dreadful worry Viewed her joy and pride Doctor came, and in a hurry Remedies applied. Jim felt easier toward morning. Pains grew less severe. Mother whispered. "That's a warning For the little dear." Next year came, the branches bended Over little Jim. Hard green apples hung suspended Greatly tempting; him. Did he eat another apple Like a foolish kid. And again with colic grapple? Betcher life he did! m m m Fifty-Fifty. The railroad men complain that the) rate advance was late in arriving. But then, so are the trains. There's m Reason. Mexico has behaved herself since the threat of annexation. She doesn't want any eighteenth amendment wished on her. Cant Wear 'Em to Work. We suspect that a good many work ing men strike in order to get a chance to wear their silk shirts. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago, From The Oregonian of September 1. 1805. San Francisco. California officials are seriously considering establish ment of quarantine stations at the state borders as a means of prevent ing spread of the cholera. X The Oreron annual conference of the Methodist Episcopal church will convene at the Taylor-street Methodist church September 2o. Yesterday's rain brought additional sadness to the hearts of the bop grow ers in the Willamette valley and other hop-growing sections. The public schools will open today and some 10,000 boys and girls will report to get their book lists. Fifty Years Aero. From The Orejronlan of September 16. 1870. Berlin. The provisional govern ment of Paris would have been ac cepted by the Prussian government had exactions with reference to por tions of Alsace and Lorraine and the elk mantling of forts on the German frontier been accepted. Rabbi H. Z. Sneersohn of Jerusalem has arrived in Portland to deliver lec tures on the Holy Land. Thirteen of the Park lots were sold at auction yesterday at prices rang ing from $1475 to $1520. The Oregon vessel captured at Alatka by United States officers for illicit traffic has arrived In the Co lumbia and will reach Portland today. POET'S STATEMENT STILL, TRIE "Americans Not Tfcrlfty bot Spend- thrlfty," Said Lonsrfellow. PORTLAND, Sept. 15. (To the Edi tor.) In the dim past, when in a con templative state of mind, Longfellow wrote pithily, and none the less im pressively, words that ought to carry conviction home to every tnougnttui and patriotic American citizen. What Loi.gfellow said was just this: "The Americans are not thrifty, but spendthrif ty." At no time in the history of our country has there been occasion when the public press was justified in anim adverting upon the ungracious situa tion of national affairs. Profiteers of various shades and sizes are a set of offenders by them selves and ought, on conviction of wrongdoing, be unmercifully dealt with, but apart from this, it is a lamentable fact that in almost every avenue of life the average American, as the fact significantly avers, is a spendthrift, and no one more highly appreciates the fact than the Parisian or London hotelkeeper, whose stand ing order is, whenever pressed for room, to accommodate the traveling public. "Whatever you do, never neglect the generous-hearted American. He is our best customer and as such must al ways be taken care of." Could not The Oregonian, with its customary skill, lay bare a situation that calls for immediate rectification J .. , na In Ka SAnniKlA ' handling of our monetary affairs; whether they be Individual or na tional? Both France and Belgium tell us that they can make themselves positively rich upon what we "waste and throw away." Let us. as a nation, remove this stigma, and at once. H. G. GIIrfMORE. JAZZ HARMS GOOD CITIZENSHIP Worse Than Yellow Newspapers Men tioned by Other Contributor. KLAMATH FALLS. Sept. 12. To the Editor: In The Oregonian, Sep tember 10 Mr. Reed defines and de fends jazz. He says it means a "cer tain. rythmic style of music." I don't believe him. I think it means a very uncertain unrythmic style "of noise. He says "the public hasn't the time to study music." Correct. But it takes no more time to dance to real music than to wobble around to rat-tle-te-bangs. He refers to jazz tunes as "simple melodies and natural harmonies." Will he- please look up the definition of "harmonies and melodies" in any of the world's language or music dic tionaries and explain how he harmon izes jazz with these definitions? He says there is no more reason to con demn jazz music than to condemn newspapers because some deal chiefly in scandal and whose editorials tend to anything but better citizenship and government. I am convinced that all "jazz mu sic," so called, tends exactly as all such newspapers, do, to anything but better citizenship and government; and respectfully urge the gentleman drop "jazz" and encourage all dancing to be done to real "rythm. harmony and melodies." He says, "these dances are clean and wholesome, and are danced by the people solely for the joy of dancing." . I don't believe it. But grant that he is right, gen eral observation and discussion plain ly disclose that the habitual accom paniments of the jazz dance are l'ber ties which are best written in Mr- Reed's "proverbial Greek" or in short- vJ hand, which none but the writer and perhaps he could not read out loud, and are doing more to destroy good citizenship than any other custom in America, the scandal mongering newspapers not excepted. EARNEST WHILE. 1 N