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10 THE MORXIXG ORECOXIAX, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2S, 1920 m.tBMSilGD BY fl EN'KV I- PITTOTK. rublfshed hy The Oregonian Publishing CO.. 1-.". Bixth Street. 1'ortland, Oregon. C. A. MOHUEX, K. B. PIPER. Manager. Kultor. Tti Oregonian is a member of tbe Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press t ex clusively entitled to the. Use for publication of all newa dispatches credited to it or hot otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispalchea here in are also reserved. . Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (Uy Mall.) Taity, Sunday included, one year . . . . Daily, Sunday included, tlx months. . I-'aily, Sunday included, three months Dally. Sunday included, one month . . Daily, without Sunday, one year . . . . Daily, without Sunday, six months . . Dally, without Sunday, one month. (8.00 s.oo 3.1! 5 .60 1.00 v eeuiy, one year Sunday, one year o.uu (By Carrier.) raily, Sunday Included, one year $0.00 lally. 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True, any municipality will be the better for sound and careful administration in the assessment of taxes and the expenditure of money. It would be senseless to encourage or excuse waste, extravagance, afere lcssness, excess or any of the faults to bo Justly found with easy-come-easy-go methods in public affairs. As the trustee of public funds, the mayor has an even more sacred ob ligation to see that they are wisely and honestly appropriated and dis bursed than if they were his own. He can, if he pleases, throw his money in the river: but it is nothing less than malfeasance to do the same with the people's money. Yet it is not enough that the mayor should be a painstaking ac countant, a judicious and capable administrator of finance. He is in a high sense the voice, the guide, and the leader of all the people in all their common concerns. He is the custodian of the public morals. In him are personified the progress, the aspirations, the ideals, and the prestige of the city. He is there for service, which must be rendered In many difficult and exacting ways. He is not, or he should not be, the mayor for any one group or class, but for all together. At times, it is necessary that he show that he is not to be moved by the demands of this interest, or of that, and must by courageous action, by an intelli gent demonstration of his under standing that the welfare of all is superior to that of the few, rise above criticism, or pressure, or poli tics. A good mayor should not only have the nerve to do in an emergency the right thing, but the will to do it at all other times. If he has the nhilllv in viva In naraitn.lv on1 de fective speech his reasons for what he does, so much the better. This is another way of saying that if the mayor is able to make a fine figure before the public, at home or abroad, the city is the gainer. The mayor of a city, involved as lie always Is in neighborhood mat ters, or the clash of sectional inter ests, runs many risks all the time of achieving a great degree of un popularity. It is well that a mayor be popular if he can be; but he will not b popular long, if popularity is the aim and end of his services.- He may possibly achieve It, if he strives earnestly to give the people what they want, whatever it is. Or he may. If he has the strength and the self-command, appear for the mo ment to lose it by denying to them on occasion what they want, or-think they want, if it is clear to him that it should not or cannot be given. What he loses in applause in the lat ter alternative, he should win in the general respect. Often he does. It is a more secure foundation for last ing approval than anything else. A good mayor will make mistakes, but they will be. and should be, overlooked, if they are not too seri ous and are honestly made. The pub lic knows that there cannot be, for there never was, a perfect mayor, since mayors are but human beings. Yet a good mayor should not be sat isfied to be merely a good mayor. He should strive always to be a bet ter mayor; and the public should help him both by its hearty support and by its timely and fair criticism. A good mayor is a rare treasure. When a city has him, it should keep him on the job if it can. Others, to be sure, may make good mayors; but .tne cnance, or Deiier, that they will Is not a sufficient reason to make the experiment. PROTECT LIVES OF SEAMEN. Steamship owners are endeavor ing. ag3inst opposition from Secre tary of the Treasury Houston, to induce President Wilson to place the coast guard service under jurisdic - tion of the navy department, because as a separate service it is short of men, when the increase of shipping has added to the lives and property in peril. Since 1914 the tonnage within the area protected by the coast guard has grown from 3,000, 000 or 4,000,000 to over 10,000.000. and the number of seamen now . . r, n ,1 r. inn 000. V.., Y. before the tear, and need to be . supplemented by those of the navy. iait-Ific coast shipping needs addi- .mcvuuu nui uuiy uy rein forcement of the coast guard but by full survey and by placine of aids to navigation at points of danger. Hundreds, perhaps thou sands, of lives have been sacrificed. . especially on ine Alaska coast, dur- ins wie msi quarter oi a century to ' lack of protection which is afforded , by every other civilized country. Appropriations for this purpose are . regularly pared down in the name of economy, though it is radically false economy. There is no economy in denying the people useful, in fact necessary, service such as this, iiconomy consists in cutting out useless expense and In doing useful things at the lowest cost consistent with efficiency. . . ....... 1. Vac, V. n n n J . . safeguard human life on land, in '"installation of block signals and elimination of grade crossings on railroads, in placing danger signs on highways and safety devices in factories and in taking precautions against mine explosions, but like precautions to guard seamen on the .- coast are sadly lacking. Yet the need is even greater in some respects at sea. When we are trying to attract Americans back to the sea, we should guard their lives against its dangers in every practicable way. STRANGK. BUT TRIE. Over in Idaho, the non-partisan league candidate for United States senator has withdrawn, and will throw his support to the democratic nominee. The result, heretofore ap parently certain for a republican senator, is thus made most dubious. It is a part of the great democratic plan to capture the senate, though the presidency may be lost. The critical situation is thus clearly summarized by Mark Sulli van In his letter printed in The Ore gonian yesterday: In order to win a comfortable majority In the senate the republicans will have need of all the organization and all the resources they can command. If this fight for control of the senate were not overshadowed by the presidential contest, the public would recognize it as a spec tacular fight. . Omitting the southern states. In which a democrat Is sure to be elected, there re main HO states In which there are acute contests for the senate. In all but one of these mates' the republican candidate for senator is sure to run behind the republi can candidate for president. Kentucky is the only state having a senatorial contest In which It is expected that the republican candidate for senator will do as well as the republican candidate for president. There are republicans who are suffering from a poignant anxiety to expel the Wilson administration and who are effusively demonstra tive in their support of Mr. Harding, but who yet are willing to run the risk of hobbling him completely by helping to elect a democratic United States senate. ON A LOW LEVEL. Mr. Cox knows that Mr. Harding is not a brewer. He knows that the public knows it. Yet he says that Mr. Harding is a "brewer who is apologizing" for his interests. On the contrary, Mr. Harding has not sought to dodge or evade or mis state the facts. Twenty-five years ago, during a home-made-product campaign, such as is carried on in every American community, Mr. Harding subscribed to two shares of stock n a local brewery enterprise. The brewery failed, and Mr. Hard ing still holds his worthless stock. Doubtless Mr. Harding should have resisted the appeals of the town-boosters, and refused to lend his voice or money to foster home industry of that kind. But he did not. He is wiser now, having lost his money, and all brewers having lost what standing they had. Yet it Is perfectly clear that he put up his money to benefit the town, and not the brewery business. Mr. Cox is epithetical where he should be courteous, offensive where he should be dignified. Insulting where he should be decent. Being Cox, however, he cannot be any other. What do the democrats think of their candidate? RESTORING PLYMOUTH ROCK. The literal-minded will no doubt rejoice over the news from Boston that Plymouth Rock is to be re stored to its original position on the stern and rockbound coast in which it lay when the Pilgrim fathers not mothers made their first land ing on the American shores. Not even a famous painting, it seems-, has been sufficient to "clinch the idea that In the first boatload sent out from the Mayflower was a cargo of mixed sexes. Naturally, the May flower skipper would not have sent women with a party of exploration, notwithstanding that in 1920, with the nineteenth amendment just de clared a law of the land, it is most fitting that woman should have been first to set a capable foot on the soil of liberty. Mary Chilton was not the avant courier of all the Pilgrims, and John Alden did not chivalrously or otherwise forego the honor of be ing first to land. It is even doubtful that the Pilgrims realized that they were making history. Nor had the fashion been introduced of preserv ing relics of events predestined to become momentous. Otherwise we would have had handed down to us more satisfying data bearing on the authenticity of the legend of the rock itself. Yet, does It after all matter much whether the Plymouth Rock, for tinkering with which an appro priation of $300,000 has just been made, was "the" Plymouth rock, or only one of a million boulders all fully competent to serve as the sym bol of Pilgrim hopes and aspira tions? As a matter of fact, if the descendants of the Mayflower party themselves were to be consulted. they probably would admit that the historians among them have never encouraged worship of the partlcu lar rock as an authentic fetish. Early records are most silent on the sub ject. It was a century and a quarter before any attempt to identify the rock was made, and the present tra dition was built on the testimony of an almost-centenarian not himself a Mayflower descendant. But one symbol being mainly as good as an other in cases of this kind, the rock has been taken up and coddled by succeeding generations until it would be quite a pity even to question the national illusion about it. The cir cumstance that it has been accepted for almost two hundred years atones for any doubts as to its genuineness that may in the beginning have ex isted. Now it is well that we should have our shrines, and that they should be immovable. There is a kind of in appropriateness about hauling Mecca from door to door, as if patriots were too busy with material affairs to make a pligrimage. The cus todians of the Liberty Bell were right in protesting the tendency to put the bell on wheels and exhibit it throughout the country. But the ls sue of the treatment of the "orig- inal" Plymouth Rock runs into the practical, and becomes a problem of engineering. Nature twice had al most taken the matter - out of- the bands of men. Once, nearly a cen tury and a half ago, in a storm, a fragment was broken off and Carried well up into the town. About 1834 the remainder was washed up high and dry by the sea, -having mean while reposed for a time beneath, a wharf built to meet the needs of commerce. Forty years ago the-two portions, or such as had resisted the erosion of time and the elements, were united and a granite canopy was built over them. Thus they have remained until now, when. the work of placing them as nearly as possible in the position first , occu pied by the rock is about to be be- j gun. The canopy is to be discarded for a more useiui iounaauon. The ingenuity of construction experts is to be concentrated on reproducing as faithfully as may be the situation as it existed in December, 1620. - It is worth. while, or it is not, ac- cording to whether one is gifted with imagination. The thing that is sought is the keening alive of the sin cerity and the high purpose of those pioneers. To some the name Ply mouth Rock is an adequate reminder of that which it stands for. Others require that the visual evidence shall be before them before they thrill with emotion. There are a good many, however, who demand that every circumstance shall be preserved with fidelity in the inter ests of what they term "historical accuracy." They are or the type who frequent waxworks and out of whose predilections showmen reap fortunes. For they ignore the spirit and are defrauded of the letter. It is a curious thing that those who are most insistent on the "restoration" of the rock to Its first position are no surer than the rest of us that It was on this rock that none other than the "ten principal men" of the Mayflower's company landed to spy out the promised land. .FREIGHT CONGESTION HITS NATI. Congestion of freight on eastern railroads continues so serious that It has delayed construction of battle ships at the New York and Norfolk navy yards. Steel has been ready for months at Pennsylvania mills, but there have been no cars to carry it to the coast, and workmen have been laid off in consequence. The California and Maryland are likely to be completed in 1921, but none of the six battle cruisers will be ready till 1923. One scout cruiser will be finished In 1921 and the other nine before the end of 1922. Of sixty-six destroyers under con struction on August 1 four have been completed and twenty will be before January 1. Of forty-nine submarines laid down, fifteen are likely to be delivered before the end of the year. Delay of battleships because ralt- roads are choked " with traffic Is additional cause for a fundamental change of policy in regard to both transportation and power. Water ways are needed, no longer for competition with, but for relief of. railroads. There exists near the Atlantic coast a series of inland waterways which need only to be inked together and Improved in order to make a continuous ship canal all the way from Boston to North Carolina. Hauling of coal is simply waste of cars in hauling power, when hydro-electric power would transport itself on .wires. releasing cars for other traffic and releasing, labor for other use than mining coal and moving trains. Thus the delayed battleships are an unmistakable symptom of eco nomic waste, which consists in non- use of the resources which nature has placed ready to hand. MR. COX'S ANGEL. After Mr. Cox has filled the air with charges that the republicans have collected money from Wall street and big business to a slush fund wherewith to buy the presi dency, it transpires that the most lavish angel of his own campaign is Bernard Baruch, a Wall street man of the most perfect type. As a term n political controversy. Wall street has been stretched from Its original meaning a stock speculator to cover banks, trust companies, in vestment brokers and other perfectly legitimate forms of finance, but Mr. Baruch is a speculator, made his for tune in speculation and on one oc casion "profited enormously by an advance tip on action of the govern ment. With such an angel as his most liberal financial backer, Mr. Cox has the audacity to reflect on the sources of his rival's campaign fund. Nor has the democratic party scrupled to accept large sums of money from big business men or to reward them with-high office. In 1.916 in addition to Mr. Baruch it received sums ranging from $40,000 to $j 00,000 from James W. Gerard, son-in-law of the late Marcus Daly, the copper king, and made him am bassador to Germany; Frederick C. Penfield, who was minister to Aus tria during the war; Charles R. Crane, recently sent as minister to China; Cleveland H. Dodge, who has large mining and smelting Interests in Mexico; Thomas Chadbourne, a New ,Yrk millionaire. No aversion was shown for the money of big business then, though It was assailed' from the stump. Nor Is any aversion shown this year, though the contri butions are smaller, whether In deference to public opinion or from reluctance to bet large sums on a loser everybody is free to guess. Mr. Gerard has given $2000, Edward N. Hurley, who is certainly in big busi ness, gave $5000 and W. G. McAdoo has shown himself a good sport by giving $10,000. Mr. Cox's access of political purity would lead us to expect that his party had discarded all those meth ods of raising money and of reaching the voters at the expense of the gov ernment which have long been in vogue with the party in power, but democracy plays the game in the same old way. Circular letters are sent to all office holders, including subordinates, plainly reminding them of their duty to "put up." Banks which hold government deposits are confronted with drafts which they may consider it lmpludent to dis honor. Millions of copies of demo cratio congressmen's speeches are printed, addressed and enveloped by the government at or below cost and mailed under congressmen's franks. An agent is even sent through the country, summons woman stenog raphers to his hotel and invites' them to contribute a percentage of their salary. When the senatorial committee. appointment of which was initiated by republicans to investigate meth ods of members of their own party inquires into Mr. Cox's charges, it not only fipds them unfounded but it unearths these very damaging facts against his party. But Mr. Cox neither offers new proof nor makes a manly withdrawal. He merely re iterates the original charge more ve hemently. When he is put under fire by the discovery that New Jer sey liquor men have raised an in dependent fund to promote his elec tion because he is wet, he offers he evasive denial that the liquor men have contributed to his campaign fund. vHe continually returns to the charge about a senatorial oligarchy, but neglects to reply to the state ment that his nomination was ar ranged by a bosses' oligarchy com posed of such choice spirits as Murphy, Taggart, Nugent and Bren nan assembled at French. Lick. The net result of Mr. Cox's mud slinging has been to expose him thickly spattered with, his own mud, and to show that the republicans have successfully broken away from any obligation to Wall street or big business by collecting funds in small sums not exceeding $1000 from the body of the party Early in the campaign, before this plari had been adopted, 38 subscriptions exceeding that maximum, of which the largest was $9000 and of which some were in fulfilment of early promises, were received, but as to the mass of the republican fund, the limit has been strictly observed. If Mr. Cox' has found In his official experience that a public official can be influenced by a campaign gift of $1000 or even $9000, he must have associated po litically with very cheap men. The fact stands out the more promi nently in consequence of Mr. Cox's slanders that the republican party has proved its freedom from any malign influence by the fact that it obtains funds from the members at large. Even if all gave the maxi mum, their number would be an in surance against corrupt influence of any one of them. Proper retribution has come to Mr. Cox in the failure of his false alarm to cause any popular uprising In his fivor. All the facts were be fore the voters of Maine when that state went republican by the largest majority in its history. The impres sion made when the Blush fund was proved a myth was that the man who would tell such a story was not the kind of stuff that presidents are made of. In the height of the season of corn-on-the-cob it is worth while to reflect that it is only by being an American that one can enjoy this chief of autumn delicacies. Men and women of other countries profess not to understand our fondness for it, and even mock our primitive manner of eating it, which is the only method possible if the excel lence of the sweet kernel is not ut terly to be destroyed. The overnice, who daintily strip the cob of its ker nels with their knives and eat the resultant mess with fork or "spoon, might as well order canned corn and be done with it, for they have none of the sense of appreciation of the real thing that makes the man who knows how to seize the ear with both hands an epicure for life. "Green" corn on the cob is worthy of having a poem written about it: and its standing will be further enhanced by the discovery of an expert. Just an nounced, that it contains vitamines not found in the matured maize. A commission, off icially appointed has made an exhaustive investiga tion of the claims of the contractor who built the municipal auditorium and of his bondsmen, for compensa tion in addition to the contract price for the structure. The work of the commission has without doubt been fair and painstaking. It has deter mined, in effect, that $65,493 went into the building in the form of ex tras, or changes that were more costly than the original specifica tions or in matters in which the con tractor was injured by acts of the city. The suggested award, it plainly appears, is not in the nature of a relief to a contractor who has under estimated a Job but is money due him, morally If not legally, for ser vices rendered. The city seems to have a definite obligation in the matter to meet as promptly as may be. "Vagrancy law proposed," says a headline over a dispatch telling of a bill passed by the Argentine chamber of deputies governing the succession in case of a vacancy in the presidential office. Those South Americans do have a custom of making-vagrants of their presidents. Seattle is premier even in rob beries, as witness the young man who held up a man and 'wife at 2 in the morning and because he got only a few dollars wanted to kiss the woman. From what film do you suppose he learned that trick? Street railway employes on Se attle's municipally owned system get two weeks' vacation with pay. and they are about the only card men in the land who get that favor. The cost to the city is about $110,000. Success of fumigation for the tuber moth would better be thor oughly established before California potatoes are brought freely y into Ore-J ore "bugs" gon. This state now has m than are welcome. To read about it, picking cranber ries seems delightful occupation: -et the person who gets $7 a day earns the money. Like anything that means money, picking the red berry means work. May be the sun does not shine as bright as on "the old Kentucky home" as in Colorado on those 364 days, but It has the old-time Oregon shine after the rains and that is good enough. The University of California is holding classes for the Instruction of yell Jeaders. The plan has merit. Think of the advantage a trained yell leader would have in congress. The joy Is taken out of some lives to learn the town is thousands of miles distant where the waterworks were washed out and all they have to drink is beer and wine. It takes your uncle- Milt Miller to make a political speech with no poli tics in it. The erstwhile Sage of Lebanon knows how to "whip the devil around the stump." . The actors ought to make John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants, an honorary member of their profession. He seems to qualify With the prefix "bad." Federal authorities say California potatoes roust be fumigated before they can be imported into Oregon. Cookjng them lyonnaise "ought to give the same effect. Liquor saved a Condon man from serious injury the other day The bottle in his" hip pocket stopped a bullet. Thus were bullets and booze wasted. The ghost of Marie Antoinette is said . to be wigwagging Parisiennes and "perhaps she is trying to ask them to wear more clothes. The only thing unfavorable to homesteadtng in Alaska is excess of moisture. That ought to catch the native Oregonian. But somehow the drop In Fords and cotton goods doesn't compensate for the latest advance in apartment house rents. What mission do you suppose Bar ney Baruch figures on at an expense of $110,000? Barney is no piker. Now if Henry Ford wuld onlv buy up a few apartment houses. BY - PRODUCTS . OF THE TIMES School for Brides Started by Woman Believing in Honsenifrry. A "school, for brides" has recently been started by a woman who believes that, amid all the activities demanded of modern- women, the great art of housewifery is being forgotten. She fears that the young women of the 0th century are too apt to delegate the real work of housekeeping to cooks and maids and have little real knowledge of the workings of a hpuse. Granted the lady's premise, her "school for brides' should be a most valuable Institution, and in any event it can do no possibleharm. But Is there any real reason for thinking that the young women of the present daycare any less efficient in housekeeping thtm their grand mothers were at the same age? True, they" cannot spin, or weave, or churn, and probably would have some diffi culty in. cooking over the fireplace. But there is no reason why they should do such things; for, to tell the truth, the housekeepers of today be gin where grandmother left off. Their houses are daintier and cleaner with their hardwood floors and rugs than ever grandmother's were with her heavy carpets; tlTelr furnishings are in infinitely better taste and more sanitary and their food is simpler, better served and far more whole some. Nor, with all the cooking schools now in the land, need we fear for a moment that grandmother is still ahead with the tasty eats. Those who think so are probably dwelling upon fond imaginings, that would soon disappear if they were obliged to subsist on grandmother's salt-ri ing bread, greasy doughnuts and fried steak. Ohio State Journal. Picture the agony of the poet who just as he is approaching the com pletion of a lyric which is to be a thing of beauty and a joy forever, finds himself suddenly brought up against a word that won't rhyme. The great poets are not so easily baffled. For them difficulties exist merely that they may b overcome. He would be a very confident per son who would say that there is any word In the English language that is absolutely unrhymable, and It may even be (I know not) that "silver" has found its rhymemate. "Babe" was once held to be a word for which no rhyme existed, but when Swinburne wrote: "Love alone, with yearning Heart for astrolabe. Takes the sun's height, burning O'er the babe," it was deprived of that somewhat chill distinction. . .' I Probably the most resourceful rhymster in the whole, wide range of English poetry was Robert Browning. The man who could write; "You trample our beds of ranunculus, And you Tommy - make - room - for-your-uncle-us," was, we may be sure, not easily daunt ed by any obstacle of whatever mag nitude. John O'London's Weekly. More than a century ago a thrifty Scot, David Hirtton by name, saw a pet mouse driving the wheel In Its cage round and round. Of course, ex cept for the fun the mouse got out of it. nothing resulted from its effort. "And why 'should 1J?" most people would say.- But not so did the canny David reason something was beinK wasted, a half-ounce of power; and if you multiplied that by the number of mice in the United Kingdom, the sum total of the energy that thus ran to waste every day was truly appalling. So, Mr. Hutton decided to try to harness this wasted power and make it do something useful. But what? By experiments he found that a mouse would run about 10V4 miles a day; and a half-penny worth of oatmeal would feed the little animal for 35 days, during which he would run 362 mllea. He hit on the idea that, as the mouse turned the wheel It should twist and reel sewing cotton, and he set about constructing a tiny thread mill. Sure enough, every day the mouse twisted and reeled from 100 to 120 threads, each 25 inches long, all the time believing that he was simply keeping himself fit oy taking a proper amount of exercise. He was not only earn in tr his own living, however, but making 9 pence for his master every six weeks, leaving a yearly profit of over 6 shillings for the ingenious Scotchman. St. Nicholas. Washington, D. C, was the first city to have a commission form of government, June 11. 1S78. In this case, the commission form grew out of th peculiar conditions at Wash incrton. a city- without votes and wholly under the control of congress. It was not Intended to be a model for other cities. The next city to set the example was Galveston, Tex., in 1901. DIbbins was dining with some peo ple who were proud of tbe recent elevation of a member of the family to the house of lords. "This," said the hostess, "makes the second ot my husband's family In the peerage. Have you any relation In the house of lords?" "No," said DIbbins, "but Tve two maiden aunts in the kingdom of heav en." Judge. One of the largest bits of floor space on Thirty-fourth street in New York city, has been given over to a concern that calls itself' "The Home Beverage Shop." It advertises bottle cappers, etc., etc. But the most con spicuous sign is In electric lights reading: "Malts and Hops." A cursory glance at the place gives the impres sion that something is going to be Brewing ill over jsew lonc tms laiL The members or tne Choir were practicing the anthem, "As the Hart Pants After the Water Brooks." - The rendering of the- open stages was apparently not quite to the sat isfaction of the gentleman who wield ed the baton. He considered It necessary, there fore, to tender some advice to tle tenors, and caused great constern tion and not a little embarrassment among his flock by the following an nouncement: "Gentlemen, your expression is sim ply, splendid, but the time is very poor really, your pants are far too long." London Ideas. Teacher "What Is it fine feathers make, Tommie?" Tommy I don't know, ma'am. "Oh, yes you do. Now think. Fine feathers make fine "I really don't know, ma'am." "Yes, you do, Tommie. It begins with the letter 'b.' " j M c ciark, one of the prominent ."Oh, yes; beds, ma'am." Yonkers I merchants of Condon, is at the Sew Etatesman. i ard. He Is here to order goods. Those Who Come and Go. "We'd like." said County Judpe Hare at the Hotel Portland, "to have a road built from Neskowin, in Tilla mook county, to Otis, in Lincoln county. We have $12,500 to put on the road, and I understand that Lin coln county has about the same amount. The road would be about ten miles in length and seven miles will run through the forest reserve. If we can get the state and the fed eral government interested in the proposition It will be of great assist- ance. The judee says mat ne woum i like to see the new grade, which Tilla- mook county has built through anu bevond Ftav Citv pavea, DUl riiui.perueni. i ne lormer ciuss wuum con street, where the grade is, is a street. Fourth street is a county roan, so uie Judge would like to have the town of Bay City swap Fifth street lor lourm. Chief of Police Jenkins returned re gretfully from Seaside the other day. He had been spending the week-end at the beaches, but it wasn't the sparkle of blue water that inclined him to linger at the coast. "All along the road," said the chief, "wherever a creek went ramhlins down to the ocean there were fellows fishing lor salmon trout. And th.1 remarkable fact is that all of them had full creels. They say there never has been, in recent years, a heavier run of sea trout and it was all I could do to keep the car on the road. There were dozens of places where the im pulse to get out and borrow a rod was almost too much for human en durance. And when we crossed the Necanlcum two fishermen had just hooked a big salmon apiece. Talk about withstanding temptation!" "Don't expect oriental rug prices to drop for the next 30 years," said a salesman of those luxuries at the Benson. "It will take 30 years to replace the people who make rugs who were lost in the war and it will take the same length of time to make up for the raw material lost In the war. However, in New York there are a few firms who are selling ori ental ,-iic-m r-henner than thev can !' bought in Constantinople. The reus is that the banks are not atlvaiu them loans, and the firms know lii.. the trade must be kept moving.' "Rugs, huh," sniffed another sales man draped across the desk. 1 litnK about diamonds. The prices never have come down n history, but nave steadily gone up. Now what s going o happen to diamonds.' .iercnants ire not buying. Yes. I'm in the ewelry business," he added. E. T. Abbott of Chicago, general manager of Poole Bros., one of the largest printing plants devoted to railroad work, spent yesterday In Portland calling on friends in local offices. He was a guest of William McMurray, general passenger agent of the O.-W. R. & N. Co., and R. H. Crozler, assistant general passenger agent of the Spokane, Portland & Seattle railroad, at luncheon at the University club. Nine times out of ten. when you pick up a rail road folder or buy a ticket to Scappoose or Sauk center jou are Durrhas ne ttlontl with tne riue a printed product of Mr. Abbott's com pany. He has paid annual visits to Oregon and Washington for several years past, and he is tne owner ui u larsre apple orchard at Wenatchec, Wash. After traveling to Crater Lake. Kd E. Kiddle of Island City. Or., auin t see it, but the fault was not that of Mr. Kiddle. The journey to the lake was madi mithout trouble, but before Mr. Kiddle could get a. squint at the indiKO-bluo water a snow storm started and all the Island t Ity man could see was snowflakes. l ne water is so far below the rim of the eraser that Mr. Kiddle's vision failed to pen etrate the snow for more than 100 feet. Mr. Kiddle arrived in 1'ortland yesterday to sit as a member or tne state highway commission this morn ing. One of the real institutions of Frankfort. Ky.. is the Old Crow Dis tilling company, but the celebrated product no longer gives the consumer winss because of the embargo on liquor. G. F. Berry, head of the dis tilling concern, was at the Multnomah vesterdav on his way from Canada (where they still have it) to Califor nia (where they don't) and during the few hours he was in Portland Mr. Berry played golf. At home he is known as one ef the founders and a present director of the Lexington (Ky.) Golf club. Returning from a tour of central and eastern Oregon, a party ot promi nent lSugene people registered at the Imperial and after resting started south over the Pacific highway. In the party were L. 15. Bean, J. B. Bell. Georjre Honeyman, G. W. Griffin and DeMolte McMorran. One of the ob jects of the swing around the state was to gain first-hand information as to the needs of railroad development In the Interior. In Portland he Is Judge E. H. Test, but in Malheur he is just Ed Test. Well, the judge Is In town to have a little talk with the state highway commission today. The county of Malheur will pay about half of the cost of a new bridge across Malheur river, near Vale, and when the bids are opened this morning Judge Test wants to be on the job. He reports that the recent rains extended even into his county and will prove very beneficial to the stockmen. R. A. Leonard, returning to Till amook from attending a convention of life insurance agents at Sara toga Springs, N. Y., says that Hard ing will carry the country. Straw votes were takn at the convention, representing every state. Of more than 800 votes received. 261 were for Cox. Some of the delegates from the southern states predicted that it would be a 50-50 break between Harding and Cox in their part of the country. Calvin Walker, of Allentown, Pa., who is in the leather business, was at the Multnomah yesterday on his route to Canada. Mr. Walker lived In Johnstown at the time of the flood. The disaster swept away sev eral of his relatives and Mr. Walker himself had a narrow escape. Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Thompson of Vader. Wash., are at the Perkins. Vader' isn't much younger than Port land, but the latter has grown faster. Vader is in Lewis county. Wash., and was settled early in 1876. There are large deposits of coal, iron and fire clay in that vicinity. T. J. Butler of Albany, arrived on the scene yesterday. He is a commis sioner of Linn County and wants the highway commission to make a sur vey between Halsey and Harris-burg- Virgil V. Parr, with the anlrrjal husbandry of the bureau of animal industry, at Washington, D. C, is registered at the Seward. Fred Hollister of North Bend, who is interested in law, banking and a few other things, is an arrival at the Imperial. County Judge Marvin arrived in town last night to ask the highway commission to extend a road from Wallowa toward Joseph. 'IS HINT FOR OARDKN SINCliRlir! Writer Snsperts Scientists of Trylnjt to llolstrr Side of Hlble Doubter. McKWEN, Or.. Sept. 26. (To the Editor.) The Oregonlan's editorial a few days ago under the caption "Seek in the Lost Garden," is very interest ing to thoughtful persons, as a'.l dis cussions concerning the future life must ever be until human nature is completely revolutionized. At the present time the professed Christian world is divided into two camps. Those who believe that the Bible is the. revealed word of God coin- prising about ninety per cent oi tne w r.oie, anu uiosc wno cnnc-ce Bible - until nothing worth while re- mains comprising the remaining ten sider it the greatest calamity that could befall the people of the world. If it should be proved that the book is false and full of error, and of no authority, while the latter would "re joice and be exceeding glad" if it were Demonstrated that it was all a bundle ot myths and legends that the world j would speedily outgrow. These peo- j pie would not only rejoice at its over- ! threw, but ar working day and night to accomplish that very thing. Now as to these "garden seekers." I have a strong suspicion that they are 'of the latter class. In the first place if we reject the inspiration of thy Bible, there was no such a place. Hence they depart knowing that they will not succeed in their quest, and then not succeeding there will be an additional reason (if one were needed for them) that the Bible is not to be believed. Believing in the inspiration of the book, and taking into the ac ccunt that there was a flood, long after the garden was deserted, that nor only destroyed the human family, "except eight souls," but also may have made such chances in the con tinents, and oceans, it would be en tirely possible for the location of the garden to be now under the Pacific ocean. Even if It were known that the garden was on the continent of Asia, and presuming that the gardiyi contained 500 acres, and now after a lapse of untold millenniums for this museum to send out an expedition to search for this particular spot, in the Mttrest continent the earth contains, irtfludes the possibility of a sane liar, believing they are acting in good Iiiltll. The "milk of the cocoanut," how ever, may be gleaned from the follow-int- quotation from the editorial: It is here, however, that anthropology an-1 ' scripture part company, if we insist upon ' drsmatic translation of the hook of Cone- i sis. For AdRm stood erect In tlod's own I imajre. first of uli men. perfect in physique, i And Kvo was fashioned to the perK-c'.ion 1 of womanhood. ... If the quest of lie s&vama is successful they will prove that the Darwinian theory is correct. There is perhaps no theory of "the origin of man" that needs "provlns" quite as much as this same Iiarwlnian theory. Dr.. David James Burrell, in a late magazine article says: The British Association of Science, on the fiftieth anniersary of that great discov ery levolutlonl, listened to the son oT Charles Darwin In advocacy cf his father's theory. He found hlmseif confronted lv a most formidable array of opponents, who coiuenaed that there ould he no possible change in sptcles without a change In the orlsii.al cell. If that contention ha ouf-t-ineri it means the collapse of the Dar winian theory. . . . have no reason to b,. Ileve that Adam and Kvo ever walked on fcur feet. The fact is that Darwin's theory breaks down at so many vital places, and is utterly Impossible at as many more, that its value as a ivorkine theory is becoming more nd more abandoned even by the ten per cent camp. The other camp never did In dorse it. If the expedition under dis cussion can find anything to bolster up. even for a brief breathing spell, evolution, until some othr theory in' opposition to the Inspiration of the Pible can be put forward, the scien tific society sending out these savants wili be amply repaid for its outlay. U. N. B. ANDKltSON. oi-'kici:r-h rkmarks misstvtkii I.ieutelt.int-t'nlnnel Rohlnxon Did Not . Rucsjtfon RuHNian l.oyalt'j-. VANCOUVER BARRACKS. Wash.. Sept. 27. (To the-Kditor.) In simple justice to the thousands of brave Rus sian officers who gave their lives to the allied cause during the world war 1 woUirt appreciate your publishing a correction to Ihe report of my tall: to the Kiwanis club published Wednes day. September 23. The statement attributed to me. that. "We found Russian officers as a whole in sympathy with the German side of the war" is not correct and is very unjust to the Russian. 1 am sure that no people" gave their lives more freely or fouerht mote bravely than did the Russian army officer class. I talked of business possibili ties and told of the German method of doinfr business in Russia, their or ganization, etc. I also spoke of the German language being, outside of Russian itself, the business language of Russia and that before the war Germany led the world in Russian business, that there were many, many German sympathizers in Russia and that unless our business men took the necessary steps to prevent it there is danger that Germany will et the upper hand in business there. In this connection I told of one Russian of ficer of high rank who had said that Russia had made a mistake in not going in with Germany In 1914. This statement was made to show that Russians are thinking and considering political strategy. I did- not make and certainly did not mean to imply the statement attributed to me. Two other small points. I am quoted as saying. "We left there in October. 1919, nearly a year since when the Kolchak government had fallen, be cause it attempted to be imperialistic" 1 said that I left there at that time and that since then the Kolchak gov ernment had fallen, that one of the reasons given for the failure of this government was that it was alleged that Kolchak was a reactionary and that he had surrounded 'himself with a class of reactionary officers. The other point was with reference to the mayor of Moscow. I called attention to the fact that the mayor of Moscow had been in the United States and I understood that he had been in trou ble here. O. P. ROBINSON.-Lieutenant-colonel of infantry. the fawns. Little children of nature, your mother is dead. For the hunter has found her his aim; And long will you I'e on your moss covered bed And wait for her coming in vain. The cougar will scream in the dead of the night. When the wind Is a wail in the pine. Then trmblin;j you'll call for your mother in fright. You'll call, but po answer Is thine. Ah, long in the hush of your leaf circled home You will wait .for your mother's return. While hunger will feed on your deli cate flanks. And thirst will your tender lips burn. When the moon Is as pale as the face of the dead. And ths hoot of the owl is a moan, ! The many green paths where so often she led You wjll timidly follow alone. Sweet children of nature, so helpless, so mild. Little friends of the shadow and glen Oh, had I the power to give what I took, I'd return yoi. your mother asrain. GUY FITCH PHELPS. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jnmea J. Montague. CHIX CTRTAIX. Though scurrile vauivi!.lian jest?-s Can move an audience to erins By imitating the sou'vesirrs That hum through lieuhtn's lumbre quins. Though we are stir.-od to ribald laughter W hen sots of grogans we espy, Thy will not rouse our mirth here after We all will wear 'cm by and by. When jimsons flash across our vision We wiil not chuckle with delight. Nor voice expressions of tivris:...-. When Jim H;lra Uewis heaves in sight Nor will we jape about the luster The beaming summer sun has thrown On some one else's feather durter For we ll be thinking of our own. For science, which for years has banned 'em As being only made for show. Has lately found that nature planned 'em To wear as long as they will grow. They give protection to -he thor.-.x. They shield the larynx like a screen. And, daily washed with sosp and borax. They're antiseptlcally clean. So in the future it is certain That at the scientist's behest A fluffy, shining, silken curtain Will sweep across each manly cheat And though the breeze may through them carom. And thoiiEh aloft they :gh!!y soar When everybody has to wca,r 'em They won t he funny any more! Natural. Klephant Goes Crazy in Kansas Headline. Probably unduly excited over the result in Maine. Shielded From Temptation. George Washington never told a lie. But he never had a golf score to keep. Patriotic Stuff. America originated most labor-sav-inc devices, including the greatest of Vnt the strike. Duality. Mr tiraee ii. MalU 'Tis strange that we forever zealously Keep in the foreground of our daily lives Another self to guard most jealously our honest thoughts; a self that ever strives To make the keen observer quite be lieve That we are something else! I won der why? We would not calmly, knowingly de ceive Yet. holding truth in leash, we acl a lie. I've wondered at the dual mind ol each. My own no less than others, I con fess: The thoughts that are real truth kept out of reach Within my brain, that no one else can guess; My lips move in the chatter of the time. My eyes meanwhile appraise and estimate. The words I say are quoted they are mine. But what I really thought none can relate. Man ever argues separately and well Two sets of views in matters of his own, Two voices speak emphatic stories tell. Eich making points in no uncertain tone: And Nature this strange oddity has wroueht A mind that its deductions quite conceals; We hear but words, and really have scant thouftht Of what another truly thinks or feels. In Other Days. Twenty-five Yearn Abo. Kre.ni The OreBonlan of September -JS. lvio. Salem. At least 2001) persons at tended the third day of the; fair. Kx liapreseiitat i ve Bryan, with his talk on "Bimetalistn," was the main draw ing card. The Oretron road club has obtained 500 charter members and the charter has been closed. At a special mcctiHK yesterday members of the Chamber of Commerce considered various proposals for han dling the debt of about $665,000 on the chamber's property. ' Persons who burn wood have been able to lay in their winter's supply this tall at $.50 a cord. Coal, which was t$ a ton last year, is now $7.50. Fifty Yenrst Abo. Krom The Oresronlan of September 28. 1870. London. Bismarck says the ques tion of peace is that of possession of Metz and Stra.sbourp. and ho will treat on no other terms. The firm of Estes & Stimson In the past thirty days has cut 460.000 feet of lumber at its north mill. General McCarver, to whom right fully belongs the credit for building the first house in Sacramento, Cal.. arrived here last night from Tacoma. We hear of a party who is willing to erect a public market to accommo date at least 20 stalls, provided the citv council will make the proper reg ulations to govern a public market. RECORD HELD BY SISTER SHIP KnKinrrr's Yeoman Oreat .Vorlhera t laims Speed Record for Vesstl. PORTLAND, Ser 27. (To the Ed itor.) Referring 'to the dispatch on the first page of The Oregonian which refers to the steamships Great North ern and Northern Pacific and to their records as army transports during the war. I wish to state that the rec ords credited in this article to the Northern Pacific belong to the Great Northern. In the 3300-mile race mentioned the Great Northern came into New York harbor four hours ahead of the North ern Pacific and six hours .ahead of the Leviathan. The first record made during the war was by the Great Northern when she completed a round trip from New York to Brest, France, in 14 days 4 hours, including 27 hours lay time in the harbor of Brest, leaving the actual runnins time of this trip 13 days 1 'i hours. Later the Great Northern broke her own record. I was er.tr! neer's yeoman or the Great Northern at that time. A great many of the crew .of the Great Northern were Oregon men. and at least 40 of them are hereln Port land at this time. We who helped make these records on the Great Northern are loathe to have the credit placed where it does not belong, therefore this correct dope sheet. We are proud of our records made on the old Great Northern. Ijhe is a good ship, and 'we don't care who knows it. LELAN'JJ T. biilTIL