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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY BEXSY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oreconian Publishing Co.. Sixth Street, Portion d. Oregon C. A. MOfiDEN', E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian ja a member of the Asso ciated tress. The Associated Press la M elusively entitled to the uae for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights cf republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Bateau Invariably in Advance. (By lialL) Iany, Sunday Included, one year ... . S "?? iJaily, Sunday included, six months ... -2 Xlaily, Sunday included, three montha . Liaily. Sunday Included, one month .... -' liaily, without Sunday, one year ...... 6.00 iJaiiy, without Sunday, six months .... l.aily. without Sunday, one month .... -60 Weekly, one year ...........-........ 1-OQ Eunday. one year -0u (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year 9 ?' 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If the reople are to be well supplied with the first necessaries of life at reasonable cost, the fall of farmers' prices should be In generally the same ratio as that of manufacturers' prices. The'farmer cannot be ex pected to continue producing the same quantity of wheat, corn, cotton and other staples to be sold at re duced prices, if he must continue to pay a higher proportionate price for what he consumes. At this time he is deciding what crops he shall grow for next year's harvest. Unless a true relation Is preserved between the price of staple foods that he pro duces and that of the commodities that he consumes, he will turn to the more costly but less necessary products of the soil or to luxuries. It follows that those people who prevent the decline in prices of manufactures from keeping pace with that of farm products are un consciously conspiring to bring about scarcity of food and higher prices for it next season. Either that or they will cause a decrease in food exports which will seriously affect our foreign trade. Imports are fast increasing and they will surely con tinue to increase. No long time may elapse before the conditions of 1914 will be revived and heavy exports of gold may prove that the actual bal ance, including invisible items, will be against the United States. A fair day's wage for a fair day's work to the farmer as well as to the industrial workman is necessary to the welfare of the latter as well as that of the nation in general. That wage is represented by a price for wheat, for example, which will sup ply the wants of the farmer's family, leave a surplus for recreation and to lay by for a rainy day or old age, and working capital for the next year. If he does not get such a wage, he will strike by refusing to grow the things which do not pay. He is in a better position for a long strike than men in any other occupation. The Russian peasants have proved that, for they have been on strike for three years, and their strike is the chief cause of Russia's miserable rlight. The workmen of the cities ceased to produce the things the peasants wanted to buy, so the peas ants produce no more than they need for themselves. The farmer still eats, but the workman almost starves. This brings home to us the truth which we are too apt to forget that, when a farmer sells a bushel of wheat, he actually exchanges it for its equivalent in shoes, clothes, im ported food and other things. It he is not given that equivalent, he may I grow only enough wheat for his own . family, do less work and take life easy. He can make shift with his old shoes and clothes for a while, but with the shoemaker and gar ment worker yesterday's food is gone for ever and they have less money to buy today's food, for they are idle part of the time through loss of the farmer's trade. In order to get food, they must give more shoes and clothes for the bushel, for the farmer can stay on strike for high wages longer than they can. The cry may be raised that this means reduction of-wages for work ers in shoe and garment factories. If by wages is meant the sum paid per day, it means nothing of the kind. It means that they must pro duce their goods at less cost, which la turn means that they must do more work in the same time. By so doing they will reduce both the labor cost and the overhead cost. " Then they can give more of their goods for a b.nahel of wheat, and the farmer will call off the strike. There is a tendency in this direction in the clothing trade. During the last few years of kite-flying in both prices and wages, garment workers forced a change from piece-work to time-work at greatly advanced wages and promptly output fell off. They railed at high prices, though they helped to cause the rise. They were not specially to blame, for everybody did it. It was in the air psychological, as President Wilson would say. No-v? everybody should stop it, get back to wages for the work that he does, not for the time he puts in. Then, though the farmer may get fewer dollars and cents for his wheat, he can buy more things for the same money and he will grow plenty of wheat. Both parties will be as well off as they were when they got war wages and war prices. In order that farmers' prices may , riot fall faster than those of other in dustries, it is necessary that farmers be organized to eliminate waste in the process of distribution. It Is by organization that other industries have been able to check the down ward tendency of prices, and they are in danger cf overdoing it to the point of forcing the farmers to strike. Organization of farmers for co-operative marketing is as much in the interest of consumers of their prod ucts as of themselves, for It would Insure an adequate supply of farm products at fair prices to both parties. President Wilson professes to think a "plot" is responsible for the great drop In the price the farmer receives for his foodstuffs. The plot was concocted in 1914 in the demo cratic Underwood tariff measure, which, opened the way for the pres- ent dumping into this country, at prices below actual cost of Ameri can production, of wheat from Canada, meat from South America wool from Australia, eggs from China, butter . from New Zealand, and many others. HATB THEY A BIGHT TO TOTE? The democrats are bitterly re proaching voters of alien birth for their Eupposed Intention to vote against Governor Cox. They have, of course, a right to vote for some body. If they are lost to Cox, it i3 despite the most strenuous efforts of the stentorian candidate. Witness his pitiful effort to hold in line the sympathizers with Irish freedom by promising to lay their case before the league of nations. What was that for? It was a class appeal designed to engage the inter est of a particular group, and noth ing else. From the beginning the adaptable Cox has been trying to find what particular classes wanted, and making a reach for them by promises of special consideration. 'Now he has dropped them all, and is pounding away on the league. What kind of proprietorship do the democrats assume to have over the American citizen who was born in another country? Do they belong in the democratic party? If so, why? If they do, what is the nature of the ties that bind, or bound them there? Anything discreditable about them? If so, what right have the democrats to complain about a similar associa tion of these elements with the re publican party? If not, what right has any party to say that the re publican party may not honorably accept their support? This is a free country, with one free major political party, and one not free the party that depends for existence upon the traditional, deep rooted, and incurable prejudices of the Solid South against on " great class of American citizens the ne groes and upholds the same Solid South in its fixed purpose to with hold from them the right of suf frage, granted and guaranteed them by the constitution of the United States. DAX, THE BAMBOOZLES. Perhaps the public should not take Mr. Dan Kellaher too seriously. It knows him of old. When he says he purposes as mayor to restore the 5-cent street railway fare, by holding the public service commission and all concerned to a strict accountabil ity (including the courts), it Is designed as a mere Kellaherism. A kellaherism i3 a buncombe cam paign pledge, based on a demagogic appeal to public prejudice against the "interests." In this case the offending "inter est" is the street railway corpora tion. It made a contract through its franchise to carry passengers for a nickel. Facing bankruptcy with the rising costs of maintenance and op eration, including wages, the com pany appealed to. the public utilities commission for relief, and obtained first a 6-cent fare and later an 8 cent fare. The power of the com mission to authorize such rates was upheld by the state supreme court. What does Candidate Kellaher propose? Here it is, all in one para graph, in his announcement of his present candidacy: My purpose is, when elected, to hold the company to its contract, the city to its rights, the public service commiwion to a verified statement of the positive and real cost of the company's plant, and the courts to a constitutional interpretation of the validity of contracts, and this contract In particular. I believe there Is a way to reduce the fare to the legal and con tracted sum of 5 cents and I shall seek that way. Quite a job for a mayor, but not too big for Kellaher in his platform. Let it be noted that he proposes first to put back the 5-cent fare, and then to investigate. Why investigate? He demands for the city its pound of flesh from the car company, and he doesn't propose to be deterred, through any mere Shylock timidity, by the fact that In the process he will shed the car company's blood. It is bipod that Dan is after. It is red gasoline to run the motor of his ramshackle political Ford. When Mayor Kellaher turns the public utilities commission right about, and upsets the courts, and Sets a 5-cent fare, what next? What is his process of requiring the com pany to operate on a nickel basis? If there is a deficit as there will be who will pay it? The stockhold ers? Certainly they will not. The public? No doubt. The public is Dan's lemon. What does he care about deficits, so long as he is able to squeeze out of it a paying job? Any way it is considered, there is no way to have a 5-cent fare, if it costs more than 5 cents. Everybody knows it, including Kellaher, the great bamboozler. WHO ARE THE CONS rlRATOltS ? Governor Cox Indicts republican senators for conspiracy to defeat the Wilson plan for a league of nations, and Senator Lodge as the arch-con spirator. But the constitution Imposes on the senate the duty to exercise its untrammeled judgment in deciding whether to ratify treaties, ratifica tion being the "consent" without which they cannot become law. In performance of this duty republican senators proposed reservations to the covenant, and the majority of the senate adopted them. Here was no conspiracy. It was performance o constitutional duty, clearly within the functions of the senate, whether the action taken was wise or unwise. As twenty-one democratic senators voted for the final action favored by the republicans, they also should be included in Mr. Cox's charge of con spiracy. The senate might have gone much farther and still have kept within the powers conferred by the consti tution. Treaties may be negotiated by the president only "by and with the advice and consent of the sen ate." President Wilson began ne gotiating without seeking the advice of the senate either as to the terms or the general policy or as to the delegates who should conduct the negotiations. Mr. Wilson consulted the senate as to the first draft of the league covenant. He was then in formed by thirty-seven senators that they opposed inclusion of the cove nant In the treaty with Germany, therefore he was "advised" that such an arrangement could not be rati fied, but he acted contrary to the advice and followed his own judg ment. At no time between his departure for Paris and his submission of the completed treaty to the senate did he seek advice as to the peace terms with Germany-r Austria or Hungary. The senate was not consulted about the treaty guaranteeing France against aggression. If the senate had been inclined to stickle for its prerogatives, it might have refused even to consider these matters on the grou&a that they had not, bees negotiated as the constitution pro vides. In the Interest of peace the repub lican majority waived the point and endeavored to make the best of the Versailles treaty as presented. It even waived its objection to combin ing the covenant with the peace terms. It attached to the resolution of ratification the reservations which it considered necessary to safeguard American Interests. So moderate were these reservations that they were supported by twenty-one mem bers of the president's own party, notwithstanding- the strong pressure which he exercised on them. Thus they aided and abetted the alleged conspiracy. There was no conspiracy in the senate. If one existed anywhere, it was formed by the president and his close associates, but no republican has charged . them with conspiracy. Mr. Wilson is charged with miscon struction of his own authority and with encroachment on that of the senate, amounting to usurpation of autocratic power. By defending Mr. Wilson's conduct and by abusing the senate for its very temperate resls tence, Mr. Cox informs the people that, if elected president he would act in the same manner as Mr. Wil son. If no other reason existed, that alone would be good cause for his defeat. EIGHT TIMES COUNT THEM. On seven occasions the voters, of Oregon have passed on measures pertaining to single tax. They have considered modified single tax, sugar-coated single tax, disguised single tax and single tax log-rolled with presumably popular measures. The interest in the doctrine has steadily declined, as evidenced by the number of affirmative votes ac corded it. In 19 08 a modified form of single tax was defeated. It was approved by but 27 per cent of the voters who went to the polls. In 1910 single tax In disguise or rather a measure leading up to local consideration of single tax by the several counties, and coupled with a fraudulent poll-tax repeal to give it popularity, was passed. But it re ceived only a fraction over 36 per cent of the total vote, nearly one third of those who went to the polls not voting on the measure. In 1912 the single tax measure adopted in 1910 was repealed by vote of the people. In the same year single tax in graduated form was defeated. About 22 per cent of the voters voted for it. In 1914 a $1500 tax exemption, submitted by single tax advocates, was defeated. It received 25 per cent of the vote cast in the election. In the same year another gradu ated single tax amendment was again defeated, receiving but 22 per cent of the vote. In 1916 single tax was coupled with a loan scheme for the benefit of home builders of moderate means. It also was defeated, receiving but 16 per cent of the vote, the lowest percentage recorded. The sentiment of the people of Oregon as regards single tax has been thoroughly tested. They do not want it in any form. Tet here it is again on the ballot, the simon pure article. Its inspiration is in doubt. The Old Guard of the single taxers are not giving it attention. New man agers are engineering its course, but through lack of force or generalship they are not even making the famil liar justification that repeated offer ings of the doctrine are educational. Nobody is talking about it. But the measure is on the ballot and the intelligent voter will not neglect to vote no. COST OF BEING KErT OCT OF WAR. If the immense sum which the American people paid for war prep aration had actually been expend ed to good purpose In war, they would have carried the burden without a murmur. But prepara tion began so late and was so slow and inefficient that it proved to be expenditure on a war that was never fought. The billions spent on munitions that were never used and on munition factories that did not begin to produce till just before, some of them not till after, the armistice was made, were the cost of being kept out of war. The total cost of American parti cipation in the war was $18,554, 000,000 exclusive of the 39,646,000, 000 lent to the allies, or almost a billion dollars a month for nineteen months of war. In proportion to the length of the period during which we were 'at war and the num ber of men and the quantity of ma terial sent to the front, this Is a far higher proportion than was spent by the allies which were in the war from the beginning, which raised more men and provided al most everything with which they fought. . Against about four and a quarter million men in our army and navy, fed, clothed, trained, pro vided with small arms and ammuni tion of American manufacture, the New York Tribune states that Great Britain, by Increasing its debt 323,- 500,000,000, exclusive of loans to allies, raised more than 7,000,000 men, equipped them with every thing, paid them and fought for fifty-two months. France increased its debt twenty billions, raise 7,- 000,000 men, supplied all their needs and fought for the same period. Italy raised about 5,000,000 men, supplied everything and In creased It3 debt about thirteen bil lions to fight forty-one months.' Yet we spent 74 per cent as much as Great Britain and 93 per cent as much as France. Our military policy having been governed by the determination of the democratic party to keep out of war, on which it won the election of 1916, we had neither munitions nor means of producing them in quan tity sufficient for the army and navy that were necessary to win when congress declared war. The allies offered us designs for all man ner of military implements, laid bare all the secrets they had learned, offered us the benefit of all the experience which they had gained at bitter cost in men and money. ' With the weapons thus of fered, they had stopped the -German rush at the Marne, at Ypres and at Verdun, and the Italians had won the heights of the Alps. Com mon sense dictated that American factories be immediately equipped and put to work to make these weapons. ' Improved weapons could doubtless have been made, but they could have been designed and test ed and tools and machinery could have been made for their manufac ture without delaying production of those weapons which were already available to put into the soldiers' hands. Thus transition could grad ually have beea made to. the mors efficient arms that America could invent without delay to American participation In the war. - National vanity triumphed over common sense. The administra tion undertook to supply the army with arms of American design or with those of foreign design Im proved according to American ideas. It even delayed making the Lewis machine gun, an American Invention which had been used from the outbreak of war by the British army with most deadly ef fect on the Germans, until another American machine gun had been perfected. - American factories were prepared to make great num bers of the British Enfield rifle, but they were" compelled to wait for months till the design had been changed and tested. Here are some of the results of the congressional Investigation: The ordnance bureau undertook to make 20,000 guns and supply them with shell. Only 113 guns and 6000 shells of American make reached the front In time for use. Hand grenades of the allies' de sign were rejected for a new one designed by Americans. On May 9, 1918. just when Quantity produc tion had been .reached, .General Pershing cabled condemning it and he bought British grenades. The allies had airplanes wirtch had carried terror behind the Ger man lines, but the administration caused the liberty motor to be in vented and made, and undertook to adapt allied types of plane to it. It promised to make 22.000 planes by July 1, 1918, but at the armis tice we had no fighting planes at the front, and the only American observation planes in service were 213 of a type which the airmen called "flaming coffins." Many thousand" other planes were made, but they were either for training or were attempted improvements on allied types and were rejected. This was all we had to show for an expenditure of over one billion dollars. Except spruce production. An army was employed for this pur pose In the Pacific northwest at a cost of 330,000,000, but it pro duced only a small proportion of the total amount of spruce for American and allied air forces. The allies had been using gas with good effect, for two years in retaliation for German gas attacks, but the administration undertook to make a new American gas. he re sult was that it spent 3116.000.000 but no American gas reached the front, and the American army used French gas. So with the explosives. We were equipped to produce unlimited quan tities after the war, but none for the war. Three plants were erected to make picric acid and seven to make phenol at a total cost of $35,000,000, but they produced none for the war. Two powder plants were built at a cost of 3160,000,000 and four nitrate plants at a cost of $116,000,000, but none of them produced anything for the war. The war had been declared a motor war. The French proved that by using motor transport to save Verdun. But the government or dered 500.000 sets of double harness and 110,000 sets of single harness. 945,000 saddles for 86,000 cavalry horses, 2,800,000 halters, 1,500,000 horse brushes, 2,000,000 feed bags, 1,000,000 horse covers and 195,000 branding irons about two for each cavalry horse. It bought $21,000,000 worth of ambulance harness though all ambulances were motorized.' When the armistice was signed, the United States had reached quan tity production of all kinds of war material except guns. It prepared to fight in 1919 a war which ended in 1918. If it had begun to prepare in the spring of 1915, when the de mand for preparedness was loud and general, it would have been ready when we entered the war in the spring of 1917. Most of our war ef fort was wasted because it began too late A young fellow was sent to the county jail yesterday for eleven months for his first offense. He brought a married woman from northern California to Klamath Falls. It is said she came willingly, having had family trouble, but she has gone back to her husband and the young fellow goes to jail for nearly a year. Next! Secretary of War Baker has start ed a speaking tour for Cox. The dis patches" don't mention it, but surely he Isn't overlooking the chance to take the pardoned "Hard Boiled" Smith along with him as Exhibit A. Governor-General Harrison of the Philippines is alleged to have "landed" his present father-in-law in a fat job in the islands. There's nothing like keeping a good thing in the family. Among aliens In the asylum sub ject to deportation is said to be one "Irishman." Must be some mistake about that. The Irishman is tem peramental, but never crazy. Shoe workers at Lynn, Mass-, have gone on strike In protest at what they declare is an attempt to cut their wages. They're fighting against half-sole pay, so to speak. Palmer has ordered Investigation of-the "forty barrels." Bluff, pure bluff. They were investigated and discussed long ago and the scent of the trail Is cold. Those rascally affinities, "the tall and the short man," are again In the hold-up business. Arrest under that description ought to be easy unless they scatter. "U. S. hires efficiency expert to better malls," says a headline. The trouble is that no efficiency expert can fire Burleson. - The Portland business delegation had Its first taste of winter in Union county yesterday and all knew snow when they saw it. One of the first things this com ing congress .should do is to provide for a front porch at the White House. Portland entertained an angel un awares Sunday. A daughter of the Rockefellers spent four hours in the city. The big trouble In fighting th Lbolsheviki seems to be that the; never Know wneu uasy re ucaeuu If California wine grapes sell at $400 a ton this fall they are intended for the mocker. The Columbia highway continues to. be afe tor safe drivers. BT - PRODUCTS OF THE ... TIMES Baby Got His Milk Wheal Cowboy Made the Demand. For some time after the opening to regular passenger service, the Central Union Pacific railroad's subordinate departments were rather crude, says an article In the Christian Science Monitor. The sleeping cars were com fortable, but -there were no dining cars, and the facilities at the "res taurant" stations were decidedly primitive. When the eastbound train arrived at Cheyenne one morning, the pas sengers In the sleeper, all but one small group, responded promptly to the summons: Thirty minutes for breakfast!" They passed into the large tent which was equipped as a dining room; long planks on rather high "horses" covered with white do mestic" for tables and single planks on smaller "horses" for benches at the sides. But the food was excellent, varied. bountiful, and admirably cooked, while the flapjacks and maple syrup were delicious. The one group that had not left the sleeper consisted of Colonel Temple ton, his young wife and their six-months-old baby. When all who in tended to take breakfast were seated and had served themselves or been served, the colonel reached over , and took a milk jug, from which he filled the baby's mug and proffered to the proprietor a dollar, the price oT a full meal The proprietor refused, the money and. with needless emphasis, said Tou ken eat all you want, but yer can't take nothing away!" "Birt I've eaten nothing and am taking only a cup of milk, for my baby." While the proprietor was emphaslz Ing his indifference to the baby's needs, there was a commotion on the side of the table toward the exit and presently a typical cowrboy swung timself over and drawing his gun, marched up to the proprietor and, pointing the muzzle of the pistol at his face, said: "Let the baby have his milk!" The proprietor did not hesitate, but said to the colonel: "All right, go on!' Then the colonel extended the dollar bill, whereupon the cowboy swung upon him and shouted: "Are you goin' to give a dollar for a cup of milk? Get outen hers!" The colonel got, nor did the proprietor offer to detain bim. The crowd cheered, while the cowboy returned and ordered a plate of fresh flapjacks. Proof of the extraordinary dexterity of William Kingston, who was born without arms, is given by a medical expert who visited the English farm er and then wrote "Kingston highly entertained us at breakfast by putting his half-naked feet upon the table and carrying his tea and toast between his great and second toe to his mouth with as much facility as if his foot had been a hand and his toes fingers. I then put sheet of paper upon the floor and handed Kingston a pen, which he grasped between the toes of his right foot and wrote three lines as well as most ordinary writers. In fact, as he told me, he writes all his bills and at tends to all his own correspondence. He then showed me how he shaves himself with his razor in his toes and how he can comb his own hair, as well as dressing and undressing himself- wlth the exception of buttoning his clothes. "He Is a farmer by occupation and milks his cow's with his toes, cuts his own hay, binds it up in bundles and carries it about the field for his cat tle. Last winter he constantly sup plied eight heifers with fodder and last summer he made all his own hayricks. He can do all the business connected with a hay field except mowing as fast and as well with his feet as others can with rakes and forks. He goes out and catches his own horse, saddling and bridling him with his teeth and toes and he is so strong In his teeth he can lift ten pecks of beans by them and can throw a sledge hammer as far with his feet as other men can with .their hands. He began with a single hen and her flock of chickens. With the profit on these be bought a ewe. then a colt and a sheep Now he occupie and completely runs a small farm. Ic cream made of goats' milk and flavored with rose leaves is the deli cacy par excellence of Greece and Crete, according to an American Red Cross worker recently returned from abroad. To Americans, whose palates are attuned to the rich, creamy prod uct of the Jersey cow, the goats milk Ice cream doesn't sound very de lectable. But flavored with rose leaves, it Is really delicious, 'tis said. If such epicurean delight can be com pounded from the milk of the goat, why not try adding fresh rose leaves to the American brand of ice cream It might prove as popular as "caramel sundae" or "banana surprise." Goats' milk is whiter than, cows' milk and Ice cream frozen from it has almost the blue tinge of ekiramed milk, unless colored by the petals of the rose. Its flavor Is peculiar, but to the citizens of Mitylene is has no peer. The speaker was energetically orat ing in behalf of a candidate for con gress. "What we want," spoke up a man in the audience, "is a man from the rank and file as our representa tive; a man from the common people, not one of these dudes that don't know anything but how to wear a long-tailed coat." "And that is just exactly what my candidate Is," the speaker came back; "one of the common people'. And by no stretch of the imagination could you call him a 'dude.' Why, his Idea of dressing op Is to button his vest!" . Federal prohibition authorities In Philadelphia say that the square brown whisky bottle formerly filled with the product manufactured by a Baltimore distillery are selling today for $1.50 each, empty. Two years ago a pint bottle filled with that well known brand sold for the same price. - A like condition is true of another familiar bottle of the now historic gin species which two years ago cost for the bottle and its contents what the empty bottle is selling for in the market today. - - An Altoona, Kan., girl, says the Tribune, sent 50 cents to a Chicago advertiser for a recipe to whiten and soften the hands. She received the following formula: "Soak them three times a day in dishwater, while your mother rests." Mrs. Woodrow Wilson Is sitting for her portrait to Seymour Stone. She poses every day in the big north room just before time for a motor ride with the president, . Those Who Come and Go. Tm going to make a protest to the state highway commission against any road contracts being let before next spring," said Thomas B. Kay f Salem, who came to Portland yesterday to attend a meeting of the committee which Is revising the compensation acL, "The price,-' of labor will be low next o'ear and then will be the time to let the contracts. instead of now. The commission can notify contractors ot what work they wish to let In the spring ana tne contractors can familiarize themselves with the Job in the meantime." James S. Stewart of Corvallis, to whom Mr. Kay made the statement. explained that even when contracts are let in the fail it takes all winter for the contractors to get equipment on tha firround and establish camps and that if contracts are not awarded before next spring, there will he no road work accomplished next year, as the season would be wasted in pre paring to start the jobs. Union county wants to- validate its $1,500,000 road bonds, which it voted at a special election. It was calcu lated that this money, with the co operation of the state, would give a paved highway through the county and to all the principal . towns. Recently the supreme court knocked out the bonds in its decision on the Clackamas county "bonds, and the decision Droved a body blow to tne ambitious road programme which bad been outlined for union county. Judge Thomas H. Crawford of La Grande, arrived in Portland yester day on his way to Salem, where he will make an argument Deiore tne supreme court today in the hope of validating the Union county road securities. The argument is inter fering with a scheduled political speech which the judge was to have delivered in eastern Oregon, but A A. Smith of Baker, is being rushed to fill the speaking date. When Miles Lee, a big sheep operator of Baker, neanea tor tioa Angeles two months ago, he decided that it would be excess baggage to carry his overcoat, so he left it in his room at the ImDerial. Yesterday Mr. Lee returned from the south, and noticlner the difference in the tern perature, he bethought nim or nis long-neglected topcoat. A searcu failed to locate it until Harry Ham ilton, major domo. came on watch and found it tucked away with the articles wnicn oxner patronn lauou to take when they checked out. Owing to the present high price of overcoats and the low price of wool, and the intense cold of the eastern Oregon, winters, Mr. Lee was thank ful to recover his covering. J. H. Carter, who Is the publisher ef the Evening Herald, at Everett, Wash., is in Portland for a few days, accompanied by Mrs. Carter. They are at the Multnomah. Recently Mr. Carter was at Cleveland, O- and go ing to the leading hotel applied for accommodations. 1 can give you Pullman." explained the clerk and the Everett newspaperman decided that sleeping in a Pullman for the night would be better than walking the streets, so he said he was agree able. Then the clerk led Mr. Carter to a large sample room in which there were 20 single beds, with sheets sus pended around them. These were the PuHmans. After five years at Leona, Or., sit uated on the Pacific highway, lienry Fisher left there the first of the month and Is now In Portland. Leona is kept alive by the Leona Lumber comDany. All last year, all the motorists using the Pacific highway had to detour through the mill yard of the lumber company, and wobble along by the adjacent pigpen ana throueh the orchard and then ford a creek. The highway through Leona is now rocked and the mill yard de tour is a thing of the past. Cowboy, politician, county official and miner is the record ot A. Lr. fa.ing, who was at the Imperial yesterday. At one time Mr. King was the clerk for Malheur county, and later moved to Kent. Wash., and from there he transferred the scene of his activity to Southern Oregon and at present he is connected with a mining prop erty near Grants Pass. For many years Mr. Tilng was a regular buck aroo and could gives cards and spades to the hair-pants boys of the movies "Farmers are lamenting that the ground is so wet that they cannot dig their potatoes, said It. w. Mars ters of Salem, at the Hotel Oregon "However, the rain isn't without its compensations. The ground has been so thoroughly soaked and the rain has gone so deep that it is an easy matter to pull stumps. I'm clearing 20 acres which I intend planting to spuds next year. It isn't often that the ground is so soft in October that stumps can be yanked out. ' Pendletonians are to be regaled with a simon-pure democratic speech Milton A. Miller, former sage of Leb anon, former state senator and pres ent collector of internal revenue, left Portland last night to tell the wheat growers of Umatilla why they should vote for Governor James Cox of Ohio Umatilla was carried by Presiden Wilson four years ago by nearly 1000 votes. In the Island eity W. S. Allison sells flour and cereals from the mill. The cereals are shipped to Portland, put up in pasteboard boxes and shipped back to La Grande, where they are sold for about twice the price they commanded at the mill, for the con sumers must pay for the carton and the double freight bill. Mr. Allison is registered at the Imperial. Bnilding conditions in the east appear to be good as there is con siderable construction work In prog ress, according to John B. Jones, secretary of the metal trades asso ciation, who is registered at the Hotel Washington. Mr. Jones has been on a visit to relatives in Utica, N. Y. Brigadier-General H. Taylor and his party from Washington, D. C, are at the Multnomah and the general and his associates are in Oregon making an inspection of harbors. They were at Coos Bay last week and held a hearing, but said nothing themselves. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McDonald and daughter Ursula, are in town ,on a shopping trip- They live at St. Paul, one of the oldest settlements in Ore gon, dating from the days of the Hudson Bay company. Mr. McDonald is postmaster there. After driving from Salem to Port land. T. A- Turner was rammed by another car and three ribs in his top were broken and a fender smashed yesterday afternoon. Mr. Turner said he didn't appreciate the Port land welcome. Railroads do not appeal to Ray B. Winber of Astoria, so he drove to Portland yesterday with Mrs. Winber and Mr. and Mra A. J. Dayton. Mr. Winber is in the produce business in the capital of Clatsop county. Two stockmen. J. S. Sigfrit and Isaac Blann of Mitchell, and Ben L Forman, a sheepman of Wapinitia, are at the Perkins. They brought shipments to market. A. Schofield, president of the chnfinlil Lumber comnanv of Tapn. I ma. Is registered at the Multnomah. John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can Yon Answer These Questions! L How can the marsh nawk be dis tinguished? 2. Are water turtles suscicious crea tures? 3. What are the requisites of a suc cessful observer of nature? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. srs Previous. Questional 1. What Is the last egg of summer? There Is a last egg of summer as well as a first egg of spring, but one cannot name either with much con fidence. Both the robin and the chippie sometimes rear a third brood In August; but the birds that delay their nesting till midsummer are the goldfinch and the cedar-bird, the former waiting for the thistle to ripen its seeds, and the latter probably for the appearance of certain insects which it takes on the wing. 2. Does a calf show fear? In the demestic animals fear is much more active In the young than in the old. Nearly every farm boy has seen a calf but a day or two old. which its mother has secreted in the woods or in a remote field, charge upon him furiously with a wild bleat, when first discovered. After this first ebullition of fear, it usually settles down into the tame humdrum of its bovine elders. 3. How does Mammoth cave affect the blind? Some idea of the Impression which Mammoth cave makes upon the senses. irrespective even of sight, may be had from the fact that blind people seem as much impressed by it as those who have their sight. They get some idea of the spaciousness when words are uttered. The voice goes forth in these colossal chambers like a bird. When no word is spoken, the silence is of a kind never experienced on the surface of the earth, it is so pro found and abysmal. (itlghts reserved by Houghton Minim Co.) ROOSEVELT STORY QUESTIONED Outlook Editor Denies Existence ef Article Defending Germany. ROSEBURG. Or.. Oct. 17. (To the Editor.) The story u circulated here that Theodore Roosevelt expressed sympathy for Germany in an article in the Outlook, published after the outbreak of the European war in 1914. Will The Oregonian kindly give the facts in the case, as well as the number and issue of the Outlook. My friend says that If it can be shown him that Mr. Roosevelt ever expressed sympathy for Germany he will be willing to vote for Cox. It Is my impression that Colonel Roosevelt was for intervention at the time the Lusttania was blown up. and expressed his abhorence of the in vasion of Belgium. I have a vague recolectlon that the colonel expressed his appreciation of the sturdy qualities of German char acter, but this ante-dated the war. Whatever he may . have said, the fact that all his sons entered the serv ice, one, losing his life ought to be sufficient evidence where his sym pathies were. Miss democracy Is certainly a bundle of contradictions. A few short months ago nothing was too mean that they could say of him. Now they are using his name for campaign propaganda. It is enough to make the colonel turn In his grave. And as Mark Antony says in his speech over Caesar's dead body, "to make the very stones of Rome rise up and mutinv." AMERICAN The Oregonian has on more than one occasion heard the story the cor respondent Inquiries about. In response to an inquiry as to its truth. The Oregonian has received the following statement from La,wrence F. Abbott, president of the Outlook Publishing company and one of the editors of the Outlook magazine. "Theodore Roosevelt most certain ly, did not in the early days of 1914 express sympathy fnr Germahy in any article in the Outlook On the con trary in an article in the Outlook of September 23, 1914, he condemned the inva-sion of Belgium urged prepared ness to take that part in the struggle which he foresaw we must take and said, referring to President Wilson's plea for neutrality: " "It is a grim comment on the pro fessional pacifist theories as hitherto developed that our duty to preserve the peace for ourselves may neces sarily mean the abandonment of all effective effort to secure peace for other unoffending nations which through no fault of their own are dragged Into the war.' " BIRDS' SERVICES COMMEMORATED Ctsh Has MoBsmest to Same Gnll That Lives on Malheur Lske. PORTLAND. Oct. 18. (To the Edi tor.) 1 noticed an article in The Ore gonian by Addison Bennett concern ing Malheur lake. It seems to me that Mr. Bennett is very strongly representing the interests of the pro moters, who have been trying for several"years to drain Malheur lake. He claims that the gulls that live in great numbers there are of no economic value, but are a liability to the state rather than an asset. Does he not know that this is the T same species of gull that lives in the irrigated sections of Utah, where they are me most vaiuaDie insect eating Dim in tne state.' Many years ago when the crops of the Mormons were being destroyed by locusts, these gulls came in great numbers from Great Salt Lake and gorged them selves on the locust pest, and reallv saved the crops of the Mormons. This is why the gull is almost a sacred bird to the Mormons of Utah. When you are in Salt Lake City you may see a very unique thing, a tall monu ment erected to the gull; I think it is the only monument in the world erected to a bird. Both state and federal laws protect birds of Malheur lake for economic reasons. Why should the great bird colonies of Harney county be de stroyed? W. S. RAKER. Another Resrnlatioa Needed. PORTLAND, Oct. 18. (To the Edi tor.) As a daily user of the Burnside bridge I cannot refrain from wonder ing why John Lyle Harrington did not include in his suggested traffic regulations outlined in The Oregonian a discontinuance of the practice of the bridge tenders in receiving their dole of fire wood always at the peak of the morning rush 8 to 8:15 A. M. and blocking the entire center of the draw span for 15 to 20 minutes? It would seem as if the fact that the draw opens twice during this period, frequently backing up west bound traffic as far as East Tenth street, should be Biome argument In favor of a change In their fuel receiving hours. A thousand other motorists will in dorse a change. E. F. NICHELSON. Magazine No Ordered. PORTLAND, Oct. 18. (To the Edi tor.) Please inform me if one is obliged to pay for a magazine which continues to come after the subscrip tion is run out. MRS. B. M J. Payment cannot legally be col- I lected. More Truth Than Poetry By James J. Blontmsraafc TO A. PESSIMIST. When the sun Isn't warm and the sky isn't bright. And nothing seems happy, or kindly or right. When all of the world Is bereft of de light. And life seems a snare and a folly. When you cannot find pleasure In plays or books. When most of your fellows appear to be crooks. Cheer up! it's not nearly as bad as It looks Tour liver's Just off of Its tro'lley. When you don't want to work, and you oon t want to play But sit around and hate yourself day arter hit. While sins you've committed In horrid array Athwart of your vision come flock in tr: When in through your window a bn- nous moon beams. And the minute you sleen you are haunted with dreams. Don't worry! Its not half as bad as it seems. It's merely your liver that's knock ing. When the friends that you love, with a com. icy eye Reproachfully stare as they're pass ing you by. When you think it were better, far r Detter to die. And wistfully look at the river. Reflecting that you would be happier mere. Away from the heartbreak and bitter despair Of burdens you never were destined to bear It's merely a grind In your liver. Don't kill yourself yet. do not even go rouna Reflecting how happy you'll be when you re drowned: Don't try to Imagine the low gurgling sound When your head from your torso you sever. The world may seem dismal and friendless and chill. But It Isn't at all. and you're not even ui: Just go to your doctor hell give you a pill And then you'll be happy as ever, see Exception. The race Isn't always to the swift. Pennant races are sometimes to the crooked. ass More Frecioaa Than Rubles. Why doesn't Germany dig a oonple of hundred tons of coal and turn It in to the allies for her indemnity. He Means Conversation. When you read that some states man thinks he can save the country by conservation you know it's a typo graphical error. Copyright 1920 by The Bell Syndicate. Ine. The Better Way. By Grace K. Hall. Life must have brought you sunshine once Speak up! Tell others of the joys that live; No cup Has ever been so full of gall Within ' That sweetness did not some time touch the rim. Pass on the brightness that you knew! The gloom Falls on us all most drearily. The bloom Is pleasanter to dwell upon Each day, Although there waits for everyone Decay. What is the gain In dreary speech? The weight Falls heavily upon a heart That fate Mayhap has tuned to somber lays Of woe, . And sadder still the mournful thought Shall grow. Speak up in cheer! The world needs song, Kot dirge; ' Speak loud of hope that all may hear; Give urge To better thoughts, that evil ones May flee. Strive but to add true notes unto Life's harmony. Twrntj'-Five Years Ago. ' From The Orefronian, October 15. lWflt Venezuela. Venezuela Is reported to be arming herself to resist anticipated trouble with Great Britain. Members of the Oregon Road club met in their clubhouse at Thirteenth and Morrison streets last night and completed organization of a bioycle section. Portland is not mirch behind Paris in the matter of horseless carriages, for a local inventor yesterday tested out a gasoline engine- for propelling vehicles. Judge Charles B. Bellinger was elected president of the Oregon Bar association yesterday, and Judge Charles H. Carey was retained as sec retary. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian, October 19. 1870. ReDresentative Cornelius pressnteH a petition of the citizens of Tillamook to have that county attacnea to xam hill for "legislative and judicial" pur poses. Tours. The Prussians and French are etill concentrating large forces near Orleans preparatory to a great battle. It Is reported that Estes & Stlnson have sold their mill below the gas works to the Oregon & California Railway company and the North Pa cific Transportation company for $90, 000. Salem. Two petitions from citizens of Portland asking for an amendment to the city charter allowing the city to guarantee aid to a railroad on the west side of the Willamette river were presented in the senate yester day. r Intricate Mathematical Problem. PORTLAND, Oct. 18.(To the Edi tor.) I am not very apt in figures and thought perhaps you might get me right on the question. I have in mind, and I do not w4sh to put this as a political Question, but purely as a mathematical proposition. If it takes 40 barrels of bonded whisky to nominate Mr. Cox In San Francisco, how many barrels will it take to elect him? I hope some of your readers will put me right on this problem. a. c Mcdonald. Cent as Ltgil Tenser. WASCO. Or.. Oct. 16. (To the Edi tor.) 1. Can a person making a pur chase tender BOO pennies in payment of a bill? 2. Is the storekeeper obliged to ac cept the pennies In payment? 3. What is the limit, if any. upon the number of pennies that one la obliged .to accept in payment of a bill? F. P. SMITH. 1. It Is not a legal tender. 2. No. $.' Twenty-five. In Other Days.