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to THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7, 1920 ESTABLISHED BT HEKRI U PITTOCTBu FyblOhed by The Oregrontan Publlnhlns Co., j jo sixtn street, roru&na, urenon. C A. MOKUEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Muor. The OreKonian m m. member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of alt news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana aiso the local news mihlin. hd herein. All rights et republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year $8 00 425 2.2 .73 6.00 8.25 .GO 1.00 6.00 Iaily. Fundky included, six months 4'a.lly, Sunday included, three monthi laily, Sunday included, one month . umiy, without Sunday, one year . . . Daily, without Sunday, six months . Ia!!y, without Sunday, one month Weekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) 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It has been stimulated by success of the fruit-growers asso ciations in California, by the success of Herbert Hoover's volunteer sys tem of food control during the war. and by the spectacle of fruit rotting on the gTOund in some states while other fruit of the same kind sells at exhorbltant prices in the cities. The way is thus prepared for extension of the farmers' co-operative market ing system throughout the country. Yet actual organization does not r;o on. Farmers have not time, or dxperience or business knowledge'to ake it up themselves. If some pri vate individual outside the farming industry undertakes to organize, he finds himself distrusted as an agi tator or promoter, and falls to enlist i large enough proportion of grow ers of any product to insure success. The consequence Is that, though the republican platform and Senator Harding have declared for the plan, actual work of organization lags. All was ready for somebody to step in who had the organizing abil ity, the plan and the perseverance necessary to success. The non-partisan league stepped in with itis so cialist scheme of state banks, grain elevators, flour mills, stores and other paraphernalia. Officered by socialists, it had the advantage of their organizing experience. The psychology of the farmers favored them, for there was profound dis content with the wide discrepancy between the price the farmer re ceives and that which the consumer pays. The league organizer sang a hymn of hate against middlemen, speculators, banks, merchants, mil lers and all who intervene between the farmer and his ultimate cus tomer. , They captured North Da kota, and seem to have rendered a majoritiy of its farmers proof against reason by instilling prejudice against all who try to expose the. 0 fallacies of the league. That organ- zation has Invaded one or the othet of the old parties in other western tates, has put its nominees on their tickets and is in a fair way to extend its conquests. It is too late to fight the league by merely exposing its fallacies. The prevailing sentiment in favor of co operative marketing must be turned nto the right channel by men who an win, and who will deserve and retain the farmers' cdnfidence as men who have neither a political nor a business ax to grind. That is the purpose of the state marketing bill now before the peo ple of Oregon. It does not install a horde of officers at exhorbitant sal aries and with political, not business. ibility to transact the farmers' busi ness. It establishes only two offi- :ers, the market director and his secretary, not to do the farmers' business but to organize them into associations and show them how they can market their products themselves. This is no experiment,' no theory, for the plan has been in operation for several years In Cali fornia and it has made the 'fruit, poultry and alfalfa growers of that state prosperous. It has added hun dreds of millions of dollars to the price obtained for product of the soil. The small fees paid by those who use the services of the market director have made his office self- supporting, so tnat it imposes no charge on the state except the ap propriation to start it, the sum pro posed in the Oregon bill being $50, 000. The tendency to co-operate is so strong that co-operation is bound to come. The choice is between the Xorth Dakota plan, which has trebled taxes, and the California plan, which pays its way in that state and soon would do so In Ore pon. The North Dakota plan inter roses a new set of middlemen be iween larmer ana consumer, men whose minds are on politics and who play politics with farm products. The California plan enables farmers to do their own marketing through their own associations and their own Hired men, whom they are free to "fire." If Oregon does not choose the California plan, it will risk hav ing the lesguc plan forced upon it. L W. W. TO PRISON, REDS AT LARGE Relief and satisfaction will be felt by all except the reds and their first cousins, the pinks, at the decision that w. D. Haywood and 9 3 other I. W. W. conspirators have lost their appeal and are at last to begin serv ing their sentences in the peniten tiary. The cry will doubtless be raised that these men were convicted during the war, that the war is over that they are "political prisoners' and that they should be set free. Though the war with Germany is over, the war of the I. W. W. against the United States began before that war and still continues, though per haps in milder form. It flared up when a gang of I. V. W. thugs murdered four ex-soldiers at Cen tralia. If it is lees in evidence now than formerly, that is from policy o from wholesome fear of the law, not from penitence. The government fchould continue the war relentlessly till the conspiracy is stamped out. It is characteristic of the reds that, uhile their boasted purpose Is to-destroy the constitution, they convert to their own use all the safeguards which it throws around them. They were released on bail pending trial, and ajaln pending appeal, and thus have remained at liberty for two years after their conviction. They have used that time to continue their seditious activity, to form an alliance with their bolshevist brethren in Russia and to provide for continu ance of their organization in case they should have to go to prison. They have thus used the protection which the law throws around them to make law a laughing stock and to destroy it. There is but one logical remedy for this state of affairs. Bail is denied to those who take life: it should also be denied to those who conspire to take the life of the na tion. Gratification at the imprisonment of Haywood and his comrades will be tempered by knowledge that Louis F. Post, still rules at the de partment of labor and that he has turned 150 proved revolutionists loose on the country. Mr. Post re duces to nullity all that his colleague, Attorney-General Palmer, has done to end the activity of the reds in this country. His friend and protector. President Wilson, resists all efforts to procure his removal from office. All attempts to withdraw administra tion of the .deportation law from his control have been thwarted in con gress, and there is small hope that in December a dying congress will adopt the plan to transfer that duty to the department of state. Seeing all their efforts to relieve the coun try of its internal foes made futile, subordinate officers of the depart ments of justice and labor no longer exert themselves as they would if their official superiors were true to their trust. The prospect is that the reds will have free rein until lapse of time permits a republican president to drive all the reds and pinks from the government service and fill their places with men whose undivided al- eglance is to the united States. NOT WANTED. Denying that any scheme of co operation among farmers is possible except through the non-partisan league, the Leader, official voice of that upsetting and non-achieving or ganization, makes this astonishing report in Oregon: There Is opportunity to test the sincer ity of this sort of talk by noticing what I happening- in Oregon today. Milk pro. duc.ra have organised the Oreffon Dairy men's Co-operative league In an effort to solve their economic problems and get a fair price for their products. Immediately the large papers and politicians attack this nterpriae. .norts are mace to have the Ity prosecutor of Portland and the fed ral district attorney bring criminal ae on. Individual farmers are urged through the columns of the press to break their contracts with the co-operative league and as this is written the organization is in volved In costly lawsuits. The non-partl- league has not yet entered Oregon to organize that state. In spue or repeated requests from Influential farmers. But the attack that Is being made on the farm- rs co-operative enterprises offers the same opportunity for the farmers to turn to a political organization as & means of protest that the farmers took In North Dakota. Co-operative organizations are safe In league Btates today. Thev can be made ust as safe in Oregon through political action. With the statement that the non partisan league has not yet entered Oregon though it is vigorously dis puted by some investigators we need have no special concern, except insofar as It conveys a threat, that the league is coming. Let it come. We may as well have it out with the latest form 6f political malpractice. But it is well enough to note that the real essence of the above raw ap peal to1 class prejudice is that the large newspapers" of Oregon have attacked the Oregon Dairymen's eague. No newspapers, large or small, have attacked it. On the con trary they have, -with negligible ex ceptions, been entirely favorable to it. Nearly every paper in the state of Oregon favors the market commis sion bill now on the state ballot as a constructive plan for co-operation among producers. There is no need of a non-partisan league here, even f it be granted that it is in honest and competent hands, and that it has real desire to perform a public service. Oregon can take care of Itself without any clumsy importa tion from North Dakota with all its costly impedimenta of socialists. dreamers, schemers, screamers and demagogues. THK COUNTRY SETTLES DOWN The federal census of 1920 Is dis tinguished from its predecessors by absence of figures showing acceler ated growth of states. Except for a few adventitious products of war in dustries, the same is true of the cities as a class. The latter, it is true, continue to gain at the expense of the rural districts, but even here there are indications of retardation. Montana shows a gain of 45.6 per cent, but this is 8.9 per cent lower than the increase of 1910 over 1900. There will be, it is also pre dicted, fewer states showing a loss or an abnormal decline. The New England states are not being de populated: abandoned farms are fewer; the center of population. though practically stationary, moves slightly toward the east. It is true that immigration has fallen off as a result of the war, and that the birth rate has declined for this and other reasons, but these facts do not account for all. The west did not owe its rapid access 'of population to foreign Immigration chiefly, and no one section is con- spicuously derelict in its duty to the race. It would seem either that the spirit of adventure is waning, or that it is finding other vents. The time is well within the memory of the oldest inhabitant when change of dwelling place was regarded as synonymous with enterprise and growth. One of the habits that the founders of our nation cast off when they emigrated from across the ocean was the habit of living and dying In the same place. The west was peopled largely In sheer rest lessness. People who were not sat isfied with the progress they were making were apt to believe that any change would make things better. Less rooted to environment than they are now, they found the change of habitation easiest of all to make. So they set out for new fields. And because they were of the type that regards no task as ever completed, they won the reputation for striving, and for Industry, and for persistence that attaches to the pioneer. It has long been regarded as a truism that It is the man, rather than the particular opportunity, that counts. .The uplifters and the effi ciency experts have been able to show us that the chance to succeed is not a matter of geography. The new may not exist right under our noses, but there docs exist the op portunity to devise something new. After all. says Mr. Stay-at-home, why should I venture Into a wilder-, ness to grub stumps out of a field when the old home town needs fix ing as it does? So he stays by the village and grows up with it and works off his surplus initiative and energy in making two factories grow where there was only one before. We shall not say that the spirit of the pioneer has flagged, but only that it adventures in new enterprises, rather than different climes. We are settling down. There Is less shifting of population every where. Maine shows a- decreased "rate of growth," and so does Ore gon. Illinois registers a decline of percentage as compared with pre vious decades, and Louisiana the smallest relative growth since 18 70 half a century back. The west no longer asks the classic question, "What was your name back in the states?" It is beginning to have old families of its own. And presently. we suppose, it will begin to take an interest In genealogy, as people do when they have ceased to roam. But the people are not static Nothing has occurred to rob them of their dynamic energy since the census of 1910 was taken. They only take their adventures nowadays in other ways than by traveling to new lands. HARD FACTS AMI POLITICIANS. Dan Kellaher in his latest pursuit of the elusive mayoralty holds out to the tax-burdened and price-loaded citizen the alluring bait of a five cent street railway fare. He doesn't know how he will get it; nobody knows. It Is quite certain that the time never will come when the peo ple of Portland will get an eight cent ride for five cents unless some body pays the difference. It can- Lnot be done under private ownership without a tremendous reduction of all charges, of maintenance and op eration, including wages perhaps not even then: and it cannot be done under municipal ownership unless the city itself underwrites the whole scheme and meets the deficit cer tain to be huge out of general tax ation. Yet all these insuperable difficul ties are nothing In the way of a can didacy which ventures little just now but promises. Mr. Kellaher would hold the street railway company to its contract. Fine business to talk about. But It involves an entire re versal of the record for the past sev eral years, made inevitable by the difficult circumstances of the times, by official, action of the public utili ties commission, and by court deci sions. Even if it be assumed that the master mind of the resourceful Kel laher shall find the way to begin his economic revolution, and the master hand of the same supreme genius shall start In operation the machin ery for the five-cent fare, the one great problem yet to be solved will be to reorganize the entire scheme of municipal transportation so that it can be done without bankruptcy. One may somehow follow the great Kellaher idea up to a certain point reversing the supreme court and the public utilities commission- but no farther. For several years a nickel has refused to do the work of eight cents. Seattle has tried It and failed. There, for several years, they have had municipal ownership in - re sponse to the incessant agitation of demagogues who had nothing to lose. Now the city has a white ele phant on its hands. It paid $15, 000,000 for the property, and al ready It is confronted by the ques tion of how it is tomeet so great an obligation. For a long time, by bogus balances and padded state ments, it was made to appear that the project was an asset and not a crushing liability. Now the cash fare has been raised to ten cents, or four tickets for a quarter (64 cents). Yet the deficit grows, and there Is no relief. "The experiment has been disastrous in Seattle. Why should Portland travel the same dan gerous road ? The hard facts are that it costs more than five cents to carry a pas senger in Portland. It is idle to talk about requiring the company to carry out' any five-cent contract. How? AGAINST CLASS DOMINATION. -One of the qualities which draw people to Senator Harding and which inspire confidence in him is his scorn for evasion. He frankly f declares what policy he favors and he as frankly says that he opposes other policies, though in so doing he may repel many voters. This Is not ably the case with what he has said about the labor question- An ex ample is found in his reply to a let ter from E. J. Miller, secretary of the B. & O. local federation, of New ark, O. He was asked five questions: 1. Why did you vote in favor of the Cummins railroad bill? 2. Why did you support the antl-strik. clause In the same bill? 3. Do you think tbla will prevent I itrlkes? 4. What Is your attitude - toward or ganized labor? 5. Do you expect organised labor to support you .' Mr. Harding refused to make a di rect reply to the'fifth question and said : T wish the support of all citizens, organ ized or unorganized, who believe me to b a trustworthy public servant. He thus refused to appeal for the. support of any class or interest by an offer, to promote its special claims and purposes. He asked for the support of all men and women, as citizens, not as members of a class, who believe that he will faith fully serve all. He goes on to say that "question 4 ought to require no answer In Ohio" and he pointed to his record 2i9 an employer as an answer. He is "an employer of Organized labor," has "never known a controversy," and he "believes most cordially In rational unionism' He continues: Organization and collective bargaining, under wise leadership, have done more to advance the cause of labor than alt other agencies combined, and any one who thinks to destroy sane unionism, by legislation or otherwise. U blind to conditions firmly established, and is Insensible to a public sentiment which is deliberate and abid ing. But the advancement of unionism Is one thing and the domination of organized labor Is quite another. I subscribe to the first and eppos the latter. I do not be lieve in any class domination, and the long fight to remove the domination of capital, now farirly won, is lort If labor domination is substituted in fts stead. Here is a clear distinction between "advancement of unionism" and "domination of organized labor" with approval of the one and con demnation of the other. Domination of labor is opposed, not because of hostility to labor but because it is "class domination." Mr. Harding opposes this, no matter which class may seek to exercise it, for he re joices that "the rong fight to remove the domination of capital" is "fairly won. Lvldently in the senator view organized labor must approach the government, not as an organized class but as a body of citizens. The reason is in the foundation of Amer ican institutions. Any action of the government in the interest or at the demand of any particular class is peculiar to countries where the peo ples are sharply divided into classes. It Is repugnant to this country, where all are equal before the law citizens. Mr. Harding went on to Justify his vote for the Cummins bill and its anti-strike clause. He considered the bill "the best measure for the restor ation of the railway lines to their owners." He favors the anti-strike clause "because it applies to a pub lic service under government regu lation," in which congress limits the return on capital, fixes rates and "provides a tribunal for adjustment of all labor grievances, so that no in terruption in transportation need be apprehended." He justifies this law by saying transportation "has be come a prime necessity," "is a public service," "is not competitive," "is limited in profit and the Investment comes under governmental restric tions." He therefore holds it "not only consistent but a distinct ad vance in behalf of the public and the workmen alike" that the govern ment "should prohibit the paralysis of the public service, so long as it provides a competent tribunal to ad just all labor grievances and awards to railway employes every Just con sideration." Advocates of class domination condemn Mr. Harding's opposition, especially the application of his pol icy to the railroads as reactionary. Reactionary from what? From the policy of drift toward class domina tion w'hlch has been pursued by the Wilson administration, and the logi cal completion of which is that dic tatorship of the proletariat that the soviet pretends to have established in Russia. Because he and the re publican party oppose this policy they are condemned by its advocates as "enemies of labor" and "tools of capital." In fact they would react from the kind of progress that has been made by class domination In Russia, leading to terrorism, famine, plague and conscription . of labor, and in Italy, leading to paralysis of industry and to anarchy. - Mr. Harding's frankness In ex pressing his opposition to domina tion of labor, thus arraying against himself the loudest and most influ ential spokesmen of labor, is a guar anty of his sincerity in opposing domination of capital or any other class. His declaration Is- an appeal from labor leaders who look at poli tics from the viewpoint of their class to the main body of working men who form their opinions as American citizens and who regard impartial government in the Interest of all as the best security for the rights of labor as of every other In terest. THE CAMPAIGN ISSUES. , The letter from Herbert Hoover, which is published in another col umn, merits perusal by every citizen, for it sweeps away the mass of mis representation that has been made by the democratic party as to what the-people will decide by their votes in November. Party government has proved nec essary to good government under our constitution, and party responsibility is the result of party government Then the election will not be a sol emn referendum on the Wilson league, nor on Mr. Wilson himself, nor' on any other single act of the administration or any particular is sue before the people. It will be a solemn referendum on the conduct of the government by the democratic party. That party has not made peace, lti has hot made the United States a member of a league of nations and it has not carried out urgent work of reconstruction. It has failed. It has demonstrated its incapacity. The voters will be guided by that con clusion, and will not trouble their minds with explanations or attempts to blame somebody else who was not In control of the government. Big league ball does not need get back to the way "ball is played on the sandlots.- It can be honest inside a fence. Blacklisting crooked players will help, but what about the "finan ciers" who put the temptation before them? Are they Immune? The fates might be kind to the Gresham fair, which has survived several rainy weeks In as many years, and put over some sunshine. Still, it is a Portland show this week, and Portland people are good sports. It must have been a Joker who suggested bringing arson convicts to Portland for a parade. That would indeed, be cruel and inhuman pun ishment. Somebody was getting the governor's "goat." M. Bombskl Is the chief Polish en voy at the Russo-Polish peace con ference. We anxiously await news that the bolsheviki have retaliated by sending M. Bombskl to represent them. Portland has yon Its long fight to e transferred from the Seattle to the San Francisco shipping board district. No doubt Seattle will retal iate by trying to annex San Fran cisco. Despite the many prisoners he is reported to have captured, there seems to be little hope for General Wrangel. He hasn't learned the fine art of breaking onto the front page. ' Time was when a shipment of $10,000,000 In gold to this country would be an extraordinary event in finance, but now it Is mere matter of bookkeeping. That rara avis, a runaway horse, banged Into an auto yesterday and did some damage. These equine mon sters must be guarded against in the day's traffic. A negro has been arrested here for alleged violation of the Mann white slave act. How quickly the colored race takes up the ways of civiliza tion! Mr. Kellaher overlooks the nickel cigar and the twenty-dollar suit, likewise the loaf of bread and all-you-can-eat-for-a-quarter. The anti-suffragists are dying hard. Obsequies will be held In the supreme court when that august body is ready. The real remedy for bootlegging has not been tried. They ought to make the bootleggers drink their own stuff. Harding does not need to come to Oregon, but Oregon would be mighty glad to see and hear him. Make a guess at the population of the United States this morning and see how you tally. Boys are believed responsible for numerous petty burglaries of late. Find the Fagin. The sick man In the White House must think he Is running again. Happy is the household not di- tvided on politic' Stars and Starmakers. Br Leone Cass Baer. BY LEONE CASS BAER. Dorothy Jardon retired from the cast of George Lemalre'a "Broadway Brevities" late last week, following the announcement the review would open at the Winter Garden next Tues day. Miss Jardoa refused to continue with the piece If it played the Garden, because she was afraid. It Vs said, that the smoking permitted there would ruin her voice- Eddie Cantor was engaged to fill her place. Adele Blood Is playing In a new comedy called "Able the Agent." made from the cartoons. Reviews say the piece is a mess and probably will not last long. Eugene Walter will soon produce his new play. -The Toy Girl," In con junction with Harry Frazee. Re hearsals are- In progress. mm Grace George, who used to be a splendid comedienne, but who has not done anything of consequence for the past ten years, returned last week from a visit to Europe. Ghe spent two months In Paris and Lon don making arrangements for pro ductions by her husband. William A. Brady. She engaged the east that will appear here In The Young Visitor" and completed arrangements for Galsworthy's "The Skin Game." In which she will appear In New York. The Selwyna have bought a year's option on "The Poppy God," by Thomas Grant -Springer, Leon Gor don and Roy Clements. It was tried out in Baltimore last summer with signal success, running four weeks in stock. The theme Is Chinese. It 'is said that the Chinese govern ment desires to decorate Mr. Springer for his fidelity to Chinese customs. m m Miss Murray has left "Jim Jam Jems," the John Cort piece, after the expiration of the two weeks notice. In explanation Miss Murray says she gave the notice when finding her role was being cut down and when "Frank Fay started to rewrite the show." Mr. Fay is principal In It . Katherlne Mlley has replaced Miss Murray in "Jems." Frank Fay was Frances White's husband for about a week. e Owen Moore may be seen upon the spoken stage soon. Just at present the picture star is negotiating for a vehicle In which he can co-star with a woman star. It has been at least eight years since Mr. Moore stepped behind the lights In a legitimate production. He was Mary Plckford's husband. e Bertha Mann has been engaged as leading woman with the Oliver Morosqo Stock company In Los An geles. During her engagement she will create the chief roles In a gum ber of new plays which Morosco plans to present almost Immediately. The productions will be made under hid personal direction, as he, too, Intends to leave for the west after the open ing of "Marry the Poor Girl." his newest production. Arrangements have been made with Antonio Scotti in San Francisco for a competition to be held while his com pany Is there. The object will be to select the best colorature soprano, contralto, lyric soprano, dramatic soprano, contralto, tenor, baritone and basso, the prize fpr each to he the opportunity to appear In the Scotti Grand Opera company during lt& engagement there. jiacomo opaaoni, assistant con ductor of the company. Is to be the judge. Stan Stanley is ill in Chicago. Spe cialists say they have found an ulcer on one of his lungs and he is too ill to be moved. In the meantime his wife will take up his vaudeville en gagement- She will be billed as Mrs. Stan Stanley. In Oklahoma City last week Max (-.ruber, who brings his animal act to Pantag&s once a season, was forced to disband his act because the trained elephant Minnie turned tem peramental. Minnie usually Is a calm as an old shoe and the act makes a great hit with the young sters. The Gruber act has been con sidered one of the best standard turns In vaudeville. "Minnie," horse, pony and dog comprised the turn in addition to the Gruber. "Min nie's" pet stunt was lifting the ponj and carrying him about the stage The elephant was a big one and was generally well behaved. It became unmanageable last week refusing to board a baggage car. Minnie wasn't a complete loss, how ever, for (Mr. Gruber sold her to : Mexican show. i Anotner t-antages visitor, "Senator Francis Murphy," vaudeville mono logist. Is being cued under his right name of Samuel Letraunik, as de fendant in a separation action bv his wife, Kitty Letraunik. The plain tiff charges cruelty and la asking for alimony and counsel fees. The "senator? has Interposed a counter action, generally denying the allegations. Fred Belasco, brother to David, has organized a "Daddies" company, which he will send on a tour of thie coast. This last week it played Ban Jose. Reports say that the com pany is good. George M. Cohan announces the engagement of Adele Rowland for his forthcoming "George' M. Cohan Revue." Miss Rowland was seen late last season in "Irene." She has Juet returned from I.ondon. Oliver Morosco will start rehearsals of Owen Davis new farce. "Marry the Poor Girl." This p'ece Is to be the first production of the season to be presented here under his banner, and will open about October 1, if present plans gang nicht aft agile. Warner Baxter and Winifred Bry son, last Been here in "Lombard!, Ltd.," will have Important roles In the new show. Miss BryBon used to be a Baker leading woman. "The Bird of Paradise" is off again. It started out on its tenth coast-to-coast flight last night In Akron. O., and the bookings will keep the show going until next June. Florence Rockwell is again playing the role of Luana, while most of the players of previous seasons appeared in Jieir usual roles. Richard Walton Tully, author and producer of the play, was on hand to lead the cheering. Those Who Come and Go. Charles Hazelrigg Is in town today, but he doesn't register from Medford. For" years Mr. Hazelrigg was one of the most enthusiastic of Medford boosters. He was interested In the horticultural pursuits of the Rogue river valley and he was also manager of the op'ry house. Mr. Hazelrigg first saw Medford when he was with an opera company. The show stranded and Mr. Hazelrigg and other members of the organization cast their lot with Medford. Leasing the opera house, he began booking at tractions and although the show peo ple used to poke fun at the Medford opera house, until it was known In theatrical circles on Broadway, New York, as well as any theater In the country, the shows always made money. Eventually the old opera house was destroyed Tpy tire and a new theater was built, which was of fered to Mr. Hazelrigg, but he de clined to assume the responsibility. Mr. Hazelrigg comes today as musical director for a traveling company. Poetry and cigars appear to go well together In the person of Thomas Murray Spencer, who Is registered at the Hotel Portland. It isn t every versifier who can spin a score of lines and see them sweep across a continent in the columns of the press. yet that was the experience of Mr. Spencer. When Roosevelt was a can didate for president and the cam paign committee was soliciting Jl contributions, Mr. Spencer wrote some verse telling bow . little boy broke Into his tin bank, took $1 and sent it to the committee "because he was a good republican." Mr. Spencer's verse was mailed to a New York paper and was copied within the week by all the leading republican papers of the United States. The author is known as the Montana poet and he likes to reel off verse when not taking orders for cigars, which is his regular Job. Scio was a strong democratic sec tion when the Jobns boys were young, so they left their birthplace as quickly as possible In order to find republicans to as'ociate with. They went to eastern Oregon. One of the boys is now Judge Johns of the Ore gon supreme court. and Cato, his brother, roamed eastern Oregon for 30 years. Cato Johns, who was In Portland yesterday. Is now with a flour mill at Albany, which is not far from his starting point at Sclo. Albany, states Mr. Johns, is doing very well these days, the town being especially prosperous. The rains. however, have damaged some of the clover crop in that vicinity and, in fact, throughout the valley. It makes Jay Uptbn sign as he stands in the Benson lobby and looks out at the falling rain. He hears people In Portland beginning to com plain that the raina are continuing longer than they Ishould. Mr. Upton lives in Prineville. where rains ot the current Portland variety would be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars If they could get them. As a substitute for rain. Prineville pro ducers are interested in Irrigation, and that is a subject on which Mr. Upton is willing to talk for hours. Fishing has been more than good In Alsea bay, on the shore ot which Waldport fjpreads its few houses and stores for a quarter of a mile. There were more salmon than the local packers could take care of. and the price dropped. These salmon were propagated at the "hatchery at Tide water, on Alsea river. B. F. Sanborn of Waldport was among the arrivals t the Perkins yesterday. At Wald port the people are wondering when the road between their village and Corvallis will be improved by the state highway commission. Twelve times John Clark Burgard has been operated on as a result of the war. During the fighting In France Mr. Burgard was thoroughly shot up and his recovery was consid ered remarkable. Since returning to the United States he has had to go under the knife repeatedly and only recently he was operated on for the twelfth time. Mr. Burgard. who is a son of John H. Burgard. member of the commission on public docks, ar rived in Portland from Seattle yes terday. Going up and down the big by-ways of business takes "some brass," ac cording to the testimony of the men with sample cases who line up before the registries of Portland hotels. This is doubly attested by James Blair Castle, who is registered at the Hotel Portland from San Francisco. On many ot his trips to Portland in re cent years, he has been"- displaying samples of brass ship fittings to builders in local yards. Appearances are sometimes decep tive. A former resident of Portland, now residing in a small town in Ore gon, arrived In town late Monday night and before he had finished reg istering the clerk demanded t in ad vance for a room. The visitor, who U wealthy, was until recently heavily interested rn the hotel property. "Good night and good-bye." said the arrival, and he walked over to an other hotel. Professional treasurer In Bend Is Clyde McKay, who was a Portland visitor yesterday. He is the county treasurer and usually holds that posi tion when committees are formed or when an organization wants a re sponsible man. He can hold more of fices than the average man in a small town, but his regular business is managing an abstract office. He is also connected with the newspaper business. Thomas L. Nathan lost his railroad ticket to New York yesterday and was In great mental anguish when he returned to the Multnomah after a fruitless search In ticket offices. Meanwhile George Tremblay, assist ant manager of the Multnomah picked up the transportation from the lobby floor. '"There is a 125-day race meet at New Orleans, so I intend shipping niy stable there," said L. Galbraith of In dependence, who is at the Perkins. Mr. Galbraith has some good racers and had a number of them at the state fair at Salem. This week he has some of his speeders at the Mult nomah county fair at Gresham. For five years Bertha 6. Newlands has worked in the state house at Boise, Idaho. She arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday and regis tered as "republican national com mittee." In this campaign she Is Identified with that directing or ganization. In the next issue of the Old Colony Club magazine, Portland and its re sources will be written up by H. N. Pratt, publicity man for the club, who arrived at the Multnomah yes terday from the south. One of the big industrial concerns at Everett, Wash., is the Sumner iron works. T. B. Sumner Is registered at the Benson while here for a con ference with business associates. G. A. Carlson, who belongs to the colony of railroad contractors in Spo kane. Wrsh.. Us an arrival at the Multnomah for a few days while here on a business proposition. Mary Isabelle Bover. Instructor in the department of physical education for women at the Oregon Agricultural college, i3 at the Seward. - C. W. McDonald of Medford is at the Imperial. Mr. McDonald is presi dent of the Jacksun County bank. HOOTER DEFINES V nil POSITION RepiAIicaaa Will Enlist Best Minds of Nation to Solve Problems. Herbert Hoover has wiltten from New York the following letter to Mrs. Robert A. Burdette of Mountain View, replying to her request for a statement of his reasons why the re publican candidate should be elected: "My dear Mrs. Burdette: I have pleasure In replying to your letter of September 12 and to recount my views why the election of the republican presidential candidate should be sup ported. "There Is, I believe. In 'this election an Issue that dominates all other Is sues, and In which even the league of nations Is but one part. The ma jor Issue today, upon which I believe ' this election should turn, is that of! party responsibility- Ours is a gov ernment based upon the expression of the will of the majority through the ballot. We have found by practical experience over our entire national life that we can only give expression to Its will through party organiza tion. Ours, therefore, must be a gov ernment based on parties. If we are to sustain party government, however, our parties when In power must carry out their promises, must succeed In efficient government, must find so lution for national difficulties, must march In progress with the times. In other words, they must discharge their responsibility to the country. When a party falls in these responsi bilities. It should and must be re placed In office." This is the rea.1 Issue and Is much more deeply seated than superficial partisanship. "Since the armistice the present ad ministration has made a failure by all the tests that we can apply. It has obstinately held up the peace ot the world for 13 months, with a fear ful cost to ourselves and to the world. It has woefully neglected and failed upon great reconstruction and admin istrative measures that are critically necessary as the aftermath of the war. No man sould be so narrow as to condemn one-naif of his country men, nor all the acts of the leaders of a great political party in govern ment. Nor Is this a question of indi viduals, for whom I hold great per sonal esteem. But responsibility must rest upon the whole If we are to maintain and sustain party govern ment If we are to hold through it our means of expression to the will of the majority, and any party that fails 6hould and must be retired from office as a party. We cannot trifle with the inexorable insistence on the successful conduct of public welfare. "I have no doubt our democratic friends will argue that they are martyrs to adherence to a great principle in the unmodified covenant of the league of nations. They are seeking martyrdom upon a false premise. The questions involved in the league of nations concern one grea principle and numbers of al ternative methods f its accomplish ment. The only principle involved is the preservation of peace by organ ized association of nations. The re publican party and Senator Harding have repeatedly expressed their great est devotion to this principle. Ar ticle X and other articles of the treaty that have been objected to by the re publican party are but part of the methods of reaching this great ob ject, of which thero are many other alternatives. These particular arti cles adhered to by the democratic party are methods that are today re garded by the majority of our people as dangerous, not only to our own country but to the success of the league itself. Even if these partic ular articles in the league contributed all the good to the league that favor able view of their text permits, they are so remote in usefulness in its whole conception that they furnish no warranty in good statesmanship for this delay In peace and reconstruct tlon. "Furthermore, on methods of ac complishing these great thines men's minds must divide, and good states manslp will compromise. It Is a fundamental failure of statesmanship not to recognize that compromise on method is essential in order to spread the foundations of public confidence in a great principle. The most im portant thing underlying the method of this great world aspiration is to have the good Will of the vast ma jority of our people, for without gen eral confidence and good will any league will fall. "My personal view Is that some, articles of the present treaty should be abandoned and others modified. But other parts of the treaty are so Intertwined with the stability of Europe and so necessary In order to secure the co-operation of many other nations who have joined it. that prac tical republican statesmanship will, in order to use all in it that is good for the development of the great prin ciple to which the party has pledged itself, build up-n the foundations of the existing treaty, and also include the great step in organization of the court of International Justice recent ly advanced in Europe by Senator Root. "Thefe are great domestic issues, delayed by or accumulating out of the war. that have been insistently demanding solution ever since the armistice. It wae the business of the democratic party to have assembled the best brains of the United States before each of those problems, to have prevented the advancing cost of liv ing, to have found solution for the difficulties of our agricultural in dustry, to have Inaugurated construct ive methods of resettlement of the land, ttie development of our Indus trial employment relationship, the protection of child life, the solution of our deficient housing, reorganiza tion of the business administration of the federal government, and a host o.f other domestic questions. Nearly two years -have passed since the ar mistice. None of these things have been accomplished. we have only promises. The failure In these do mestic necessities has already im posed a terrible cost in our daily liv i Ing and will yet impose vast- unem ployment on great numbers of our countrymen. The responsibilities of government should now, therefore, be transferred. I ehould like to have seen the repub lican party take a more advanced po sition on many things, but the party has the skill, constructive ability and spirit to meet the Issues in front of us. If It fails to provide peace on terms that preserve the great principle to which It has pledged itself; if it fails to attain it by -methods that will se cure the good will of the entire world; if it fails to provide these great meas ures of internal progress and recon struction that we so urgently require, it deserves no more consideration four years hence than the present party deserves today. It do not believe it will fail. Senator H.-irding has shown a fine aspiration and ability to secure co-operation of the entire govern ment and the nation in these solu tions. I, therefore, whole-heartedly support the republican candidates Yours faithfully. "HERBERT HOuViif. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Uontagne, HOW TO WRITE. Young man. If you yearn to look on. with a smile While the magazine editors fight To blazon your name on the tablets of fame Ty printing whatever yon write. Don't emulate Lard tier, or Barrle or Cobb, . They are out of the running, poor souls ; They can't plant a' punch on another man's lunch Or wallop the pill for four goals. Just look at Jack Denrpsey; -though Shakespeare and Keats Have never wiim Into hi. This punch-packing bird gets a dollar a word For all of the fruits of his pen. He pulis the "I eeens" and "1 dones" right along. But Gosh! how his literchure eells! And in sparring for fame la the authorship game. He always is there with the bellst Consld-r Babe Ruth; on concluding a clout He calls for his paper and pad And writes of the plays that he made la the days When he was an 8-year-old lad. And how. as a man. he became such a bear a' .KW,nns ti9 '"iVoTT and asS And though critics may hammer Ms eyntar and grammar, ne sells 'em for bushels of cash! So why should one worry or wear oat his brains With silly grammatical rules? Neither Dempsey nor Ruth ever waited their votrtb. By studying English in schools. Though all that these popular flcUon ists had Was located under the ears. The gift they displayed for the authorship trade Has won them successful careers . Just as the Tree la Bent. Wbat can you einpet e - have been taught from early youth wini. sweating Daises is honorable? perfectly A Cinch. The future money king is the man who gets the concession for chewing gum machines in the election booths Nobody Else Wore Em. All the overall movement did was to put up the cost of clothing to the honest working man (Copyright. 1020. by Ben Pyndlcate, Tne.) John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Oan Ion Acsvrer These Questions 1. "Why are robins so abundant" - Are dry. hard fields helpful to a fox in elutllng a hound? 3. Should apples be pared Answers In tomorrow's nature notes AnKwem to rrevlon. Question. 1. Which Is the anions: the finches? finest songster The purple finch is our finest sone ster among the finches. Its strain H so soft and melodious, and touched n7a.MUCh a chll''ke gayety and plalntlveness, that I think it might sound well even In a cace insidl a w.T'J' th6 bIr'1 wou! -in with the same Joyous abandonment, which, of course, it would not do. ?. Ts the raccoon a good fighter? antl Jf Wery tenoua of life and. like the badger, will always whip a dog of their own size and weight. A woodchuck can bite severely, having , , . -UL ' Ke cniseis. hut a coon dsjmy ana power of limb well. 83 Jt. What similarity is there between fall and spring? In the fall the trees attract a'l eyes as in May. The birds come forth from theirummer privacy and parody their spring reunions and rivalries some of them sing a little after a silence of months. The robins, blue birds, meadowlarks, sparrows, crows all sport, and call, and behave In a manner suggestive of spring . K.rnts reserved by Houghton Mifflin r ) la Other Days. Tvrenty-flTe Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of October 7. The harvest from Oregon's yards has been gathered and is mated at 80,000 bales. 1 s .". hop oeti- Delfgates from tne colleges form ing the Oregon Intercollegiate Foot ball associ.-itlon met at S.-ilem Satur day and adopted a football schedule. The university. Oregon Agricultural college. Pacific university and Wil lamette university wero represented. When a Chinese pheasant flew through a window of the Sherlock buildincr shattering the glass with great forci. the occupants of the of fice thought the object a bomb. This week is to be a livelv- one in Elks' circlf-s. as the order is to en tertain its popular pajit exalted ruler, Edwin B. Hay, of W ashington, . C. Fifty Yearn Ago. From The Orrconian of Octnter 7, 1!70. New York. Two French gunboats are lyln off the hattery here, block ading the Hamburg and Bremen steamers. Salem. Charles M. Fershbaker, state senator from Douglas. Coos and Curry counties, died here yesterday morn ing. The old French brig, which for 29 rears has been lying at the bottom of the Willnmette near Couch & Flanders' wharf, will be raised this year to mike a channel for the ap proach of the. railrnad company's ferryboat to Holladay's wharf. More than lM" head of sheep hae been sent to Washington territory by boat of the O. S. N. company in the past two weeks. tmaimoDO lor Harding and CooiMge. ORCHARDS. Wash, Oct. 5. (To the Editor.) A straw vote was taken on last Friday at the meeting of Lew Wallace post and corps. G. A. R., at Orchards and all present voted. Every vote cast was for Harding and Cocl i.lge. Kvery W. R. C. lady expressed her views as being for the party that stood for America first, last and for ever. It is needless to sav every vet eran was for Harding. They remem ber 1S01-1S65. J. A. KEATON. Nationality of Ror Wefellcr. PORTLAND. Oct. 5. (To the Edi tor.) In order to settle a controversy, please state what the nationality of John D. Rockefeller is. S. J. FASCHING. John D. Rockefeller was born In Richford, N. Y.. and is therefore a natural-born American citizen. Straw Vote on Ferry. AMITT, Or.. Oct. 4. (To the Edi tor.) T took a straw vote on the Wheatland fen y of people going to and from the fair. These people were mostly from rural districts. Harding got 343 votes and Cox 19.1. C IX. LA FOW.KTT.