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10. TTIE MORNING OREGONIAX, WEDNESDAY, NOVE3IBER 3, 1920 tTABLISIIED BV HENRY I F1TTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. IJi Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. . C A. MORDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Kditor. The Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Freas. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of ail news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local hews published herein. - All rights of publication of special dispatches here In are also reserved. Subscription Kate Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year. . . . . ." 00 Ial1y. Sunday included, six months. . 4.2 Daily, Sunday included, three months 2.2. Daily, Sunday included, one month,. .75 Dally, without Sunday, one year.,,. 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months... 3.25 Dally, without Sunday, one month. ... .60 "Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, oue year ...... ..,,..... 3.00 Bt Carrier.) Dally. 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It is a newly invented word, not found in all the diction aries, and it appears, in its original meaning, to have a special applica tion to geometrical form. The people know little about geometry, but they Understand normalcy. It Is to them both a definition and a promise of moderation, sanity, safety, deliberation and common sense and common honesty in government. They prefer nationalism to interna tionalism, rational progress to a vis ionary idealism, America to Utopia. They want work, and the rewards that accrue to it, and they are through with dreams. Pour years of adventures in strange fields had begun to pall on them. A return to normalcy is going back home. Sir. Harding has been elected, and the indications at this writing are that the 'vote for him la enormous. The result has long been anticipated, for the temper of the people has been unmistakably disclosed in many significant ways. The nation was wearied of Mr. Wilson, and it ac quired a growing distrust of Mr. Cox, which, was greatly aggravated, ifl the closing days of the contest, by the widespread revelation of the shocking indecencies to which the democratic management stooped, either directly or through conniv ance, in the attacks on Mr. Harding, No excuse for them can be made, and it is not likely that any will be attempted. On the other hand, Mr. Harding gained the confidence and admira tion of the country for the uniform dignity of his demeanor, and for his high-minded endeavor to confine all discussion to the paramount issues. Not one word came from him which indicated a departure from the true ethics Of debate and action that be come a presidential candidate. Not one word came from Mr. Cox that bespoke a like appreciation of his position and responsibilities, or any understanding by him of the pro prieties. President Harding is face to race with many great problems, not to be solved by mere palliative meas ures, but only by frank investiga tion and recognition of conditions and by firm, intelligent, construc tive policies to meet them. Mr. Harding id no superman and he knows it. In that modest and even depreciative attitude of the man to ward his Own abilities lies salvation. He will surround himself by strong advisers and competent executives, having na.apprehensioh that he will be either dwarfed or misled by them. The United States government is no one-man Job, not even for one who knows everything and professes to think others know nothing. The public service calls for the counsel of many minds, the work of many hands, and President Harding will ee to it that they are given. '- They are to be four difficult years. But Mr. Harding will go Into office with, the good Will and the sincere trust of a hundred million Ameri cans: and they should be a fruitful and even glorious quadrennium, for America proposes to do not only what Is best for Itself, but to accept a proper 6hare of its accountability for the. welfare of the world. AI OCBAN RACK WORTH" WHILE. For the remnant of the Ameri fcan public that still holds to the traditions of our seafaring days there will be more than one thrill that our fishing schooner, the Espe ranto, has won both legs of the race with the Nova Scotian, Delawanna, Here was a sporting contest worth while, a veritable battle royal of the eea. Nominally the ports of Halifax and Gloucester were represented by the doughty schooners and their crews; actually each represented a nation In a sense that could not be read into the meeting of the toy yachts Resolute and Shamrock IV a few weeks ago. Time allowance, without meaning and without value in a battle for a championsnip, wnen tne mettle of oth designer and sailor are under going test, was neither asked for nor allowed In the race oft Halifax. This much the public is able to un derstand, even to the veriest novice, that the better boat, or the better crew, has won. If not the former, then the credit to the latter is all the greater. The race resolved it self into its primary factors, a re minder of the times when skippers sailed clipper ships and the only condition was that the winner must reach port first. Barring a little preliminary "tuning," Buch as ad justment of a spar here and a back stay there and a looking to the taut ness of all on board, there were no formalities of preparation. The boats sailed as they were; their crews by the terms of the race were men to whom fishing off the banks is a matter of everyday exposure to danger and of speeding home with their eaten. The chance of a better maxkej; for the cargo of the earliest arrival is a powerful motive for good seamanship and fast sailing. Boat designing in one of its high est forms is exhibited in the new fishing fleets. The modern schooner is a triumph of theory and practice Operating in perfect unison. The American fisherman boasts with rea son of the seaworthiness and cargo capacity of his vessel, no less than its speed. Certain provisions for the comfort of sailors have been added since the olden times, but it cannot be said that these have justified the fears of croakers, that sailors would degenerate into mollycoddles ' be cause their physical welfare has been held in esteem. According to writers who have seen- them, the men who sailed the Esperanto and the Delawanna are as fine types of storm-defying salts as ever sailed out of a north Atlantic port in the period when professional pride in seamanship Was at its height. The utility and' simplicity of blue water sailoring were preserved with out sacrifice of any essential sport ing value. Nor will those who are able to see beyond the ends of their noses miss the element of romance. All things considered, the most re cent race has the edge on the toy boat contests in that respect. ACTl'MN COLORING. Traveling south, In the direction taken by the birds at this time of year, the colors of autumn at .last have overtaken Oregon. The land scape again is rich with its reds and yellows, and with orange and brown. They are doubly fortunate who dwell in view of the mountains on days like these, No artist ever has paint ed, and none ever will paint, a pic ture so completely satisfying to the eye as October's own revelation of the glory of out-of-dbors. It almost, if not quite, atones for the season's shortcomings in other respects. And since it hi so eternally true that there is nothing to be gained by crying over spilt milk, let us all join in forgetting the misbe havior of the weather gods, and in resolving to enjoy our blessings while we may. The one thing that We can always count on, whether it rains or shines, is a colorful vista surpassing, as any patriotic Oregon ian will attest, the beauty of any Other autumn panorama in th world. THE BETTER SPEECH CAMPAIGN. About once a year the school chil dren of the United States are be sought to look more carefully to their speech, and for a week or thereabouts the campaign for "bet ter speech for better Americans" rages. Then, it will be said by cyn ics and pessimists, all relapse Into their former slipshod ways. A week is only the fifty-second part of a year, and the hours in school are pitifully scant by comparison with those during which the pupil is sur rounded by other, and often adverse, influences. Yet we harbor doubts that the pessimists are right. The bettef-speech movement undoubted ly is gaining ground. ; Its advance is observable in a good many unexpect ed Quarters. It has been helped by patriotic propaganda for Americani zation of aliens, and by better under standing of the relationship between unity in speech and singleness of so cial purpose, and by growing desire of individuals to promote their own efficiency. "Good fish live in clear streams," as Dean West of Prince ton has pointed out in a plea for good English as necessary to good thinking, and it ,is Impossible to be rid of the notion that linguistic in exactness, poverty of vocabulary and slovenly enunciation are tokens of the Incompletely functioning mind. The appeal for better speech ad dresses itself to the practical, the ethical and the esthetic in our na tures. Unquestionably, as the author of "The Pronunciation of Standard English In America" has said, on every hand there is evidence that Americans are now generally Con scious of their speech. The propon ents of the better-speech week movement will hardly claim Credit for all that has been accomplished, yet it may be more than a coinci dence that agitation has been syn chronous with visible improvement. The fact is important because of the encouragement it offers to the pio neers. It is something to have "passed one milestone where people considered speech as entirely per sonal property, and another where people required argument as to the need of an elevation of American speech." Broadly, this has been ac complished in half a decade; much remains to be done, hut a definite beginning has been made. When we have aroused the con sciousness of need, it remains to ap ply the remedy. We should not at tach much weight to an Isolated week in an otherwise too brief school term if we believed that the matter were to be permitted to end there. But certain facts may call them selves to attention in even so short a period such as that present methods of teaching English are in adequate, that we have almost de humanized study of the language as such by suffering the implication that It Is wholly a'n issue of gram mar and syntax, of conjugations and declinations, of dull parsing and too formal routine composition. There is growing belief among pedagogues that good English, for illustration, is not a study apart from applied science, or history, or economics. Because it is the one implement that every student utilizes constantly, the tendency increases to accord to -it the greater attention that It deserves. Dean West quotes a professor as saying, in the course of a debate, "1 don't care what they study, but I want them to know English and know it good," and he says with rea son that it does make a good deal of difference after all whether the stu dent "knows English well," or only "knows it good." For "careless Eng lish, failing to watch its step, slips into greater carelessness and finally stumbles into muddled English, the fit receptable for muddled think ing." Yet we mistake the purpose of the entire movement if we do not bear in mind that it has a wider scope than mere elimination of errors in grammar. It is true that the "ain't" and the "his'ns" are mem bers of an objectionable tribe, and it is highly desirable that the stu dent should know- something con cerning agreement of verbs with their subjects, but it is even more important that he should not fall into the ways of those who constant ly employ meaningless stock phrases to express a multitude of vacuities. The crime of the period against our language is not quite so much faulty grammar as the habit of traveling in the rut made by foolish slang. We hold no brief for those who would exclude every verbal new- ' comer, however thought-provoking. on the mere ground of Its novelty, but we know that the youngster to whom every male. In high position or low. is only a "guy," is fairly on the way to losing his sense of dis crimination in other affairs, and that the young woman who cuts every thought to the pattern of "I'll tell the world" has to all intents and pur poses quit thinking on her'own ac count. The minor lapses of speech are by comparison insignificant; the larger question is how efficiently a better understanding of the genius and purpose of the language can be made to serve in inculcating clearer thought. It is not, for the present, the time for academic discussion of purisms. There is danger that the minor phases of the movement will be too greatly emphasized. It were better to concentrate on essentials; a good deal that is very much worth while would be accomplished if we might make a beginning toward bringing slang Into the contempt that it de serves and creating a wholesome re spect for an unprovincial mother tongue. Parrot-like repetition of slang undoubtedly does paralyze the faculty for fine distinctions in other matters than speech, and when we permit ourselves to drop into dialect we foster provincialism in our men tal attitudes, sympathies and inter ests. Development of national pride in language is definitely a step in the direction of unity in other and even more important things. There is of course a further prac tical value in precise, uniform and meaningful English in material af fairs. Tendency in the past, to which allusion has been made, to divorce study of English from other branches has produced a condition of which others than purists com plain. The number of unnecessary business letters that are written, and the extent of litigation that has arisen out of inability of amanuen ses, and even of their employers, to state simple facts in language free from doubt cannot be set down sta tistically, but they, are exceedingly and unnecessarily large. The illit erate peasant, forced by linguistic indigence to resort to looks, ges tures, kicks, winks and nods" to convey the thoughts he has half formed but cannot half-express, is separated by a gulf that is not as wide as some may assume from the grammar school student who grunts "unhu" and "huhun," or "yah" and "yeh" and "nope," when he ought to be saying "yes" or "no." MOVING CROPS ON A LARGE SCALE. Difficulty lately experienced -by Oregon apple growers in securing refrigerated space on ocean vessels points to the value of co-operative organization. If the apple growers Of the state were combined in one association they would be equipped to develop Atlantic coast and Euro pean markets and to contract for all the refrigerated space on ships to carry their crops. A big association would be able to sell direct to job bers and. eliminate speculators, who are chiefly responsible for pushing up the consumers' price. If large associations were left without control by the state, they might use their power to the injury of the public. The market commis sion bill guards against that danger by placing all associations, both those already existing and those yet to be formed, under supervision of the state market director, and is su perior to the California law in that respect. By making the market director an appointive officer,- the bill imposes on the governor responsibility for Selecting a Capable man, such as seldom cares to run the gauntlet of the primary and the election. Ex perience shows that for offices of this class better men are secured by appointment than by election. THE CAMPAIGN THAT IS CLOSED. The presidential campaign Just closed was remarkable for the fact that, though the league of nations Was kept to the front as the leading, issue, division of opinion on that subject did not follow party lines. Opinion among democrats shaded all the way from strict adherence to the unyielding position of President Wilson to advocacy of the Lodge reservations, leaving out of consid eration the irreconcilable vocal atti tude of Senator Reed, though the democratic reservationists kept si lence for the sake of party harmony. Among republicans opinion ranged all the .way from readiness of men like ex-President Taft to accept the Wilson league or moderate reserva tions to the bitter-end opposition of Senator Johnson and his faction. This situation imposed on both can didates the necessity of satisfying otherwise loyal supporters that their position on the league conformed to the latter's views. Senator Harding was called upon repeatedly to redefine his position, though to one who read his speeches carefully it was clear. He stood on the republican platform, which de clares for an association of nations for the principal ends aimed at by the Wilson league, but he is unalter ably opposed to those features which are the principal objects of Mr. Johnson's aversion, especially Article X. In concert with the senate he is prepared to offer other nations a plan which would include what he and the senate consider good of the Wilson league. Senators Johnson and Borah have Striven to drive him to utter rejection of the Wilson league and have seemed to object to any league, though their acceptance of the platform indicates that they favor some kind of a league, pro vided it is called an association or by some other name. To - gratify them, apparently, Mr. Harding made his Des Moines speech condemning the Wilson league, but he promptly followed it with a statement of his position in favor of A league. In his controversy with Herbert Hoover, Mr. Johnson still insists that Mr. Harding has totally rejected the Wilson league, but the latter's state ments favor Mr. Hoover's view that he proposes A league, rather than Mr. Johnson's inference that he op poses any league. Governor Cox has also been fed by expediency to shift from the per fect accord with Mr. Wilson which, he said, existed after their'White House conference. That implied that, if elected, he would stand as firmly as did Mr. Wilson for presi dential dictation that the Wilson league be accepted substantially un changed. He evidently found such strong sentiment in favor of com promise and such a revolt against Mr. Wilson's autocratic conduct that he talked lately of -clarifying and helpful reservations and of sitting down with the senate to consider them. He left the way open for a conclusion that, if necessary to reach agreement, . he would go much farther in accepting reservations, but he avoided a frank offer, "prob ably lest a clash with Mr. Wilson should result. The course of discussion of the league goes to show that it was not the real issue. Mr. Cox kept it to the front in order to keep the people's minds off that which was the real issue and yin order to ex ploit the differences of opinion which prevailed in the republican camp. The real issue was the utter failure of the democratic party to give the people what they want. It had failed to prepare for war, it had won on a false issue in 1916, it had made war wastefully and ineffi ciently, it failed to make peace or to form the kind, of league that the people wanted, and it broke down in the work of demobilization and re construction. That catalogue of fail ures could not be successfully denied and in order to get the people's minds off it Mr. Cox talked about the league or anything elset under the sun. But that one subject was so firmly fixed in their minds that they were ready to go far in com promising their great differences of opinion on the league in order to get rid of democratic inefficiency. They wanted a league, but they believed it or anything else that they wanted was unattainable through demo cratic agency. Mr. Cox tried several expedients to overcome this state of mind. He conjured up a S15.000.000 republican slush fund, which grew in a night by a mere twist of the tongue, into 30.000;000. but revelations fcefore the senate committee caused it to blow up and to serve the cause of the enemy by bringing out the mod erate size of the fund, the very small number of large contributions and the large number of small contribu tions In contrast with the large sums which a few rich men had given to the democrats. He invented a sena torial oligarchy as the means of Mr. Harding's nomination and as the dominant influence of his adminis tration, but he thus drew attention to the alternative continued presi dential autocracy under the guid ance of the bosses' oligarchy which procured his own nomination. He talked occasionally very occasional ly of governmental efficiency, but his hearers were skeptical of effi ciency from a candidate forced on a convention by the predatory bosses and leading a party with the record Of the last eight years. He was put On the defensive as to his wet record and associations, and dodged ques tions with the shiftiness of a pugilist who is quick at footwork, but he always left a trail of alcoholic mois ture. He was aggressive, . abusive, elusive, reckless as to facts, ready of wit and cunning in appeals to the emotions. But the people are not in an emotional frame of mind this year; like the Missourian, they want to be shown. Senator Harding started under the" handicap of being a compromise candidate, for two-thirds of the dele gates at Chicago had wanted some other man, but he steadily grew in favor with his party and with the many voters of loose party affilia tion. In contrast with his opponent, he refrained from attacks on the character of his rival, from sug gestions of evil purpose or influence, from political or social scandal. He confined hie utterances to arraign ment of the democratic party for its conduct of the government, of the president for his one-man rule, and to definition of the policy which he intended to pursue. His, promise to restore constitutional rule by acting in co-operation with. Instead of as the master of, congress, was refresh ing. He insisted on reconstruction of the government with a -view to economy in terms so earnest as to prove his' sincerity. His answer to appeals to class interest was to de clare that he would know no classes-, but would know only citizens, all with equal rights. Froni-this view point he discussed what should be done for the farmers and for labor, and by the progressive character of his policies he disproved that he is a reactionary. The contrast between the methods of the candidates weighed bo heavily in favor of Harding that in the last days of the campaign the democrats in desperation resorted to bold mis representation, false appeals to pas sion and prejudice and finally to whispered slander to a degree un equaled since the Blaine-Cleveland campaign. .Most disreputable of all was the story passed from mouth to mouth that Mr. Harding had negro blood in his veins, which was en couraged by men so close to Mr. Cox that he could not have been ignorant of it. This was a last-hour effort to save the wavering border states for the democratic party. If victory should be won by : such methods, it would bring disgrace on the winners, but repulsion of all de cent people was more apt to make it react against those who made it. Though graver issues have Seldom come before the people for decision. tne campaign has been uncommonly free from disturbance. Flashy ap peals to the senses of sight and sound have been peculiarly absent. Whether true or false, the appeal has been to the reason and senti ments, the. latter to win the women. In days when democracy is rocking on its foundations in its traditional homes In Europe, this is a good augury for its stability in. America. By their conduct during these last few months and on election day the American people have set an example for older nations to follow. Those two burglars are doing pretty good team-work in their ne farious operations, but they will lapse one of these early mornings and a victim will get them. If it Is a police duty to clean up the city, let it be done as to election signboards and placards. Why rub in the agony on the defeated man! The law as to glaring headlights must be enforced. Too many acci dents are happening. A way must be found to catch the offenders. Premier Venizelos of Greece says he'll let the people vote for the king they want. But why should they vote to have any king? A man died while praying in Ta coma and a woman died while mark ing a ballot in Chico. Both were fulfilling moral duties. p Difference in. time gives Pacific coast people an advantage in learn ing how the eastern states voted. Comforting, sometimes. Rain did not affect Oregon . re sults. What is rain to a Webfeet, misnamed a Beaver! Different from four years ago, eh? There are ro sourball states. Now for the livestock'Show. That's the next big thins in Oregon, BY - PRODUCTS OF THE TIM3 v Mysterious Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold Never Solved. It was on Christmas night, 1910, that the world received the first details of the most baffling disappearance which has occurred since the kidnaping of Charlie Ross the vanishing of Dorothy Arnold. Thirteen days pre viously Dorothy Harriet Camilla Ar nold, the daughter of a wealthy per fume importer of New York, left her home at 108 East Seventy-ninth street, apparently for the purpose of making a shopping trip down Fifth avenue. In a store at F'fth avenue and Fifty ninth street she purchased a pound of candy, and two hours later pur chased a book In a store at Fifth avenue and Twehty-slxth stree. At 2:45 a friend stated that she met her on the street and that Miss Arnold announced that she was going for a walk in Central park. This was the Last trace of her ever found. At the time of her disappearance she was preparing to give a luncheon to some 60 of her Bryn Mawr school mates and a search" of her room showed that she .had not taken any valuable jewelry with her, nor had she destroyed any of her letters.. So far as the members of her family could state, the only money she had with her was about $25 or $30, and every sign pointed to the fact that her disappearance was not premeditated. In spite of the great amount of publicity given to the case and the description of the girl and her cloth ing which were spread broadcast over two continents, no trace of her has ever been found and "the case of Dorothy Arnold" - has become a synonym for mystery in detective Headquarters of a score of cities, for, though .hundreds of thousands of dol lars have been spent, and men like William J.' Burns and ISir E. R. Henry of Scotland Tard have been employed, the mystery of the missing girl is as deep and- insoluble today as-- it was a decade- ago. Philadelphia Public Ledger. s ' If you , were asked to name the highest personal taxed person in New fork, whom would you guess? Now. please don't all shout John D. Rocke feller, Cornelius Vanderbilt. Vincent Astor or the Wh'tneys, t'.ie V rburgs or Hetty Green's eon, because you are all wrong. The highest personal taxpayer in New York is a woman. She is Mrs. Isabel W. Tllford, widow of Henry M. Tilford, the oil capitalist. With the publication of the new realty as sessment rolls, the personal tax rolls were made public a few days ago and it was discovered that Mrs. Tilford leads them all. How many country estates, city homes "or motor cars Mrs. Tilford maintains nor how many office build ings She owns could not be summed Up, according to Jacob Cantor, presi dent of the tax board. "All we know is that the entire personal estate is valued at $10,000, 000." said Mr. Cantor. "That must be correct, for as yet Mrs. Tilford has made no personal complaint. Most Of the esfate is in trust to the junior members of the family."New York World. - f In Tibet the Tartars have what is possibly the oldest burglar alarm in the world. It was Invented as a pre caution against the robbing of tombs. When a royal personage died in Tibet he was burled with all his jewels and precious robes. To add a still higher tribute, the most beautiful young women of his court, were Suffocated and embalmed upon the day of the funeral. This conserved their beauty and they were placed in a standing position around the tomb of their master, each holding some trinket used by the royal personage during his lifetime. To protect these treas ures from vandals the Tibetans erect ed an arch of sharply pointed arrows, and whoever passed under this trod on a release, which discharged the arrows in quick succession. This in vention, hidden around the temples and tombs of the rich Tartars, was doubly efficient, as it protected prop erty' as well as executed Justice with out unnepessary trial by. jury. Lon- don Titbits. Senator Thomas J. Walsh of Mon tana and his secretary wers return ing from a late session of the senate one night by Way of the merry-go-round car, that runs through the sub way at the national capitol. This queer, though reputed-to-be luxurious car makes more noise than an air plane, and In the clatter and noise, one usually sits with closed eyes un til whiszed through to the other end. On this particular occasion, however, two deaf mutes, utterly unconscious of the din, sat conversing easily on the front seat. Senator Walsh watched their fin gers fly, fascinated. Leaning over to his secretary he yelled in his good ear: "Miles, they've got it on us after all. - haven't they7" But In a few minutes he followed it up gleefully with: "Say, Miles, where'd they be in the dark, though?" A policeman walking along the side of the canal saw a youngster crying. "What's the matter?" he queried. The youngster pointed to a hat which was bobbing up and down in the middle of the canal. "My brother " he sobbed. In a flash the courageous police man plunged into the water. He came up, but with the hat only. "Can't find him," he gasped. "Where Was he standing when he fell in?" "He didn't fall in," the boy blurted out, "he is over there. I was going to tell you he threw my hat into the water, but you wouldn't let me fin ish." Houston Post. "Free to speak, write and vote for my rights; free to compete with every one, protected .by , both public sentiment and law that I help to make; with education free and re liglon unfettered; freedom's soli be neath me, "freedom's government over me, and the sustaining brotherhood of "freedom around me I love America.' This fifty-word essay by Paul Pat ton Farls was adjudged the best of 6000 submitted in a prize competition conducted by the United Americans, a oatriot'o organization in Chicago, re cently. . A little boy entered the drug store and asked the druggist for an empty bottle. The druggist handed him one. "How much?" asked the boy. The druggist thought to have some fun with the lad and said: "Well, it Is 6 cents without anything in It, but if you want something in it, then it will not cost you a cent." "Then put a eork In it," answered ths boy. New York Globs. . Those Who Come and Go. Rents have not been increased in New Zealand, says Hon. George Fowlds of Auckland, but building is at a standstill as a result. Early in the war a law was passed, he ex plained, prohibiting any rise in rents with a view to stop profiteering. This law haa the effect of putting a stop to any building, and short age of accommodation is now being faced by the people of that country. Mr. Fowlds, who was former min ister of education in New Zealand and a member of parliament, be- lieyes thoro? ghly, however, in the so cial -legislation in which his co- ntry took the lead. He says he is proud that New Zealand was the first Eng lish-speaking country to give the ballot to women. He is staying at the Portland hotel at present with his daughter, Miss Agnes, but will return with her soon to New Zealand. They have been in the United States since August and have Just completed a tour of this country. mi k iam la t.v,n from the forests of Burma. India, by means of .l.n1..n,. Kiit iha aren't flnOUrh Of them left'to do the work, so mechan ical methods will be used to replace the elephants," says J. vjnioerv, us ers of London, England, who Is at the Seward. Mr. Rogers, who Is di rector of forest studies In America to the government of India, is here ar- i- .,. -i-.intncr of 17 British C&ll,,ie v . - - e, engineers, who will go to India in the spring of lam as usewiams American logging engineers there. "We are going to try to introduce American logging metnoas .uiu i forests of India." he states. We n oca a inn Ir we can find a market In Africa or Europe for our hardwood species, in inoia i forests belong to the state and we i j tiifnir nf coiner Into the WUUiU .i.i.--- . c ' - wholesale removal of timber as is done here." Mr. Rogers nas uee.. .... the forest service of India for over 30 years. - i t. Tn ,-. f Marshfieldl lumber man and logger and also dairy farm er, Is coming to Portland soon to ar range for his exhibit in the Pacific International stocit snow. no .nr, rer-entlv made lIlttL OHO VI. " ' - t. v, , otH hrnnrl lumD. The son was leading a Hereford "White Face" bull, when tne duu n. frnnt feet and started to charge, as the boy thought. As soon as he noticed that me duu nau. uiuocu his eyes, Powers says that his son jumped from his standing position about 11 feet to one side. The bull seemed to have been only momentar ily disturbed, Decause no cnurue cv. took nlace. but the boy says he is not sorry he jumped. "Breathitt county, Kentucky, is a naanafiil nlom now. but It Was tne tniiir-hPKt countv in KentuckjT until about ten years ago," said Elmer Hardesty yesterday. Nearly every family- was ensraged in a reua wuu some other family. Killings were a common occurence and the trials were mere travesties. No judge or jury would ever dare sentence a man in Breathitt in the old days. It would be file-nine- his own death sentence. For many years few people ventureu out After dark, especially If tney wer in trouble with some one." Mr. Hard esty is at the. Multnomah. Th election had an effect on the hotel business yesterday, for nearly svervone who could had hurried home the day before to cast his vote in his homa Drecinct. Results of tne eiec tion were the main items or interest among the men about the lobbies yesterday, who followed the returns carefully as they came Over the wire. D. McFarlanft of Pierpont, S. D., is on his way to California with his sis ter. Miss J. McFarlane. to spend the winter in the south. They are regis tered at the Seward as are also Will iam Box of Hankton, S. D., and D. W. Rapalee of Sioux City, Iowa, who are going to California soon. Rochester, Minn., claims to have more hotels for its size than any city In the world, said Mr. and Mrs. George Mann of that city, who are now at the Multnomah. Its thirty or more first class hotels take care of a floating population of more than 7000 strang ers who come from all over the world. One of the men who know what can be done with white pine, yellow pine, ledgepole pine or any other kind of pine, is Carl A Johnson of Bend, who is staying at the Portland with his wife. Mr. Johnson is with the Shev-lin-Hixon Lumber company, one of the largest in the state. C. H. Callender of the Callender Packing company of Astoria, is feel ing fine over the large catch of Chinook salmon the past season. Such companies as his are responsible for the large summer colony of fishing boats at Astoria. Mr. Callender Is at the Portland. . Activity In the midst of what was once a wilderness marks the town of Westport, Or., where smokestacks can now be seen from the trains. M. J. Woodard, lumberman from West port, was at the Portland yesterday. H. S. Royce who is in the automo bile business at Bend, doesn't worry about crushed rock getting Into the tires on the roads in that country. All the roads near Bend are covered" with cinders. Mr. Royce is staying at the ImperiaL - P. W. Campbell, who is connected with the Moody Bible institute. i at the Portland hotel, while arranging some lecture series here. Dr. W. P. White of Seattle is with him. C. L. . Ireland of Moro, editor and publisher of the Sherman County Ob server, was at the Perkins yesterday. The Observer Is a weekly paper, es tablished in 1888. On a tour of the United States. Mrs. Charls Underhill. Mrs. F. C. Friend and (Miss Helen Friend were in Port land yesterday at the Benson. Carl Haberlach, cheeseman of Tilla mook, who has been fighting the state market commission bill, is at the Imperial with Mrs. Haberlach. E. B. Smith of Kansas City, Mo., Is making his first trip to the north west. He is selling a new brand of oatmeal and is staying at the Oregon. Mrs. H. A. Cox of Metzger station, whose husband is a distant relative of James SI. Cox, was at the Seward yesterday. Judge George Stapleton and Mrs. Stapleton came to the Imperial yes terday to be here for the election returns. John W. Cochran, assistant secre tary of state, came to Portland yes terday to look over the election re turns. J. O. Yocum. atockman from Wasco, is registered at the Perkins. J. B. Morrison of Arlington, Or., prominent sheepman, is at the Perkins. Earl Adk'ns of San Antonio, Tex., Is at the Portland for a few days. F. W. Gregory-Allen of Victoria, B. C, is registered at the Multnomah Mrs. Clair Johnson of Pendleton is registered at the Oregon. William H. Barker of Vancouver, B. C is registered at the Multnomah. MOST BELIEVE IN FCTCRK LIFE Memory of God's Revelation Descends to Present Generation. McEWEN, Or.. Nov. 1. (To the Edi tor.) A correspondent recently in an article in The Oregonian under the caption of "The Irreverence of Death," has shown us the somber side of life. After quoting three lines of a well known poem . (said to be Lincoln's favorite), she says: "Thus even so we bid our native land, our native vale a long and last adieu and pass into dust and endless darkness." After admitting the universal prevelance of this fear, she goe on to give rea sons for this state of mind In regard to death. Besides "dread of the un known," which In the opinion of many thoughtful people Is the real reason. She concludes: "Of ex'stence after and done I think it will be found that the deep, underlying cause of all the mixed emotions that the idea of death gives rise to, lies in the love of life." She concludes, "of existence after death we have no absolute proof." After a lifetime's study I agree with her and will go farther and assert that from the nature of this life no physical or mental proof is popsible. Hence if it is ever known, it must of necessity be a matter of revelation pure and simple. And in order to have a revelation, there must be a revealer and this being must be superior to man. On this theory only, can we account for the race-wide be lief In a future life. When God made man he reveaTed this great truth to him and while sin ha made unthink able ravages on our race. It has never been able wholly to eradicate the memory of that revelation from, the human mind. On the other side of the picture, how vastly different the sublime opti mism of Dr. White-of the Moody Bible school In his address In the White Temple in your city Just a few even ings since. Hear his triumphant call to a life beyond death just as cer tain as the "life that now is." hear him: "We believe the Bible is the only infallible guide of faith and conduct. . . . By 'nfallible we mean that the Bible is without mistake . . when we say it is the only rule we mean there is no other. . . To call men back to a belief in the Bible is the most patriotic duty of the hour." After showing the infallibility of the Bible, and that In all human his tory there is nothing that can com mence to take its place as a guide to better life her and eternal life here after he says: "We need a revela tion. We want to know about God. We want to know if God forgives sin. Plato said: 'It may be that the gods can forgive sin, but I cannot tell." The Bible tells." We have here in epitome, the two classes of humanity that people our whole planet. One class rejecting the Bible and spending the whole of our short voyage in uncertainty and doubt, never being certain of any thing beyond the gate we call death, spending a large part of their time and energy trying to get "the rest of us" to reject God's book also. They are constantly telling us of its dis crepancies, impossibilities and absurdi ties, until finally they go where we must all go into eternity without nope. she other fortunatMv fare of the world, much the larger class who believe that the Bible is the inspired, infallible word of God and that if followed it will lead us to the best in this life and to an Infallible eternal life of happiness in the world beyond this. So firmly is ima ucuei esiaDiisned, that its follow ers have filled the world with I ties to carry this Bible to every per- ui ic worm, rnese societies are nnancea Dy people Who look for oiviaenas wholly in the life to come. vicn tnese two courses of life piaimy placed before lis which n. peals to us as the better, not only iui me me to come but for the life "that now It"? L. N. B. ANDERSON. ILLXESS BEYOXD COMMO.V MEANS Physician Protests! Against Increase In ISurse and IIoxpHnl Fees. PORTLAND, Nov. 2. (Tn th FMI tor-) The Trained Nurses' associa tion has raised prices for ordinary medical cases to $7.50 per dav, for iiicuiHi. surgical ana obstetrlo cases to $8.50 per dav. and rioMriaA tin It hours will he a day. Hospitals nave oeen advancing their rates also. r-racticany everything is commercial ized in these latter days, and charges are based on "all the traffic will Dear." w fiat is the answer? As a physician, after many years ol practice ana oDservation, I pro test a'gainst such wages for trained nurses. Outside of a few highly trained and highly efficient surgical nurses I do not believe the average trained nurse is worth or earns J7.50 per day, mucn less 18.50. . Trained nurses expend very little money or time on their education most of them work. In hospitals and earn a small sum and board while in training. There Is nothing In their training or work to warrant such exorbitant charges for a purely per sonal service. Many children s nurses young women who love the kiddies, do more work and more efficient work for measureably less waerPs. What of the hospitals? Prices charged by hospitals for rooms, board and use of surgery have been hoisted beyond reason without a correspond ing increase in overhead or incidental expenses. These charge Increases range from 50 per cent to 100 per cent. Practically all of the nursing in hospitals outside of a fgw head nurses is aone Dy scuaent nurses, who receive their room, board and a snal I pittance. Have the cooks. scullions, house men, scrub women engineers and roustabouts received 25 per cent to 00 per cent Increases In pay? The board of patients amounts to little for obvious rea sons. Surgical cases eat practically nothing except milk, and that is fre quently bought outside at patients own expense because the milk sup plied by the hospitals from tin cans Is too poor In food value. Again, almost all pay hospitals are under the auwpices of churches or religious organisations. Have hos pitals, paying no taxes, except street and special assessments, no obliga tion to suffering humanity? Should hospitals be commercialized? True, the sick poor or those of moderate means can go in a ward, where prices have also been raised out of all rea son. Hospttals are, continually asking for contributions. Do they forget their obligations . to humanity? Noblesse oblige. What is the answer? People of moderate means cannot afford to raise families, go to hos pitals or be sick, as any of these things means a tragedy in their lives. Their only refuge Is the city hos pital, and, thank fortune, they re ceive fine attention and treatment there. In this crisis physicians are show ing consideration to those of mod erate means as always. Why should not nurses and hospitals do the same. Instead of always and under all cir cumstances demanding and receiving their pound of flesh? Right now there is a fine opportunity for women who can do practical nursing. If they are willing to be told and will carry out instructions and will work for a good wage, but not -expect to hold up the sick, the field is ready. Personally. I have a fine staff of practical nurses and they are re liable, well Informed, learn rapidly and are all making good and mak ing friends every day. A PHVSICIAN. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Hostagne. THE AWAKENING. If It happens that you cherish the de lusion That your education's rather up to date. If you think you'vo gathered knowl edge in profusion On all weighty modern subjects only wait; For your utter lack of learning will confound you; You will find, in fact, you do not know a thing When your little children one moro gather round you On returning home from college in the spring. You've been banking quite a bit on Herbert Spencer; You've been quoting him with fond complacent pride. Cut him out you cannot get Wm past tne censor Who is polishing his golf clubs by your side. You were strong for Lindley Murray's iorra of grammar. You've employed it in your finest business Drose. But you'll find he gives an awful Katzenjanvmer To a maiden who is powdering her nose. You were proud that Pvanhoe you'vo not lorgotten. Though the tale of course Is some what overlone. But on learning that the yarn is slm- piy rotten You'll admit if you're a father that you're wrong. You thought Hawthorne was a writer of romances Which possessed a large degree of grace and charm, But you'll find that these were only foolish fancies When you're told that he was Just a false alarm All the names on which you always placed reliance Whi'Ah you thought would keep their fame while learning lives. Master minds in every realm of thoug'ht and science You'll discover are recorded now as flivs. You'll be told that you belong with Julius Caesar And his brand of low-brow Romans back in Gaul; You will think that you're an out-of-date old geezer; That, in brief, you don't know any thing at all. Cracklnir Indrr the Strain. Prices may not be coming down, but they are not taking the hills on high gear the way they used to. Yon tnt rleasc T3m. Four-fifths of the population isn't in school and wishes it was. The other fifth' is in school and wishes It wasn't. (Copyright. IKO. the Bell Syndicate. Ine.) John Burroughs Nature k'otea. Can You Answer These Questions? 1- Will a brood of owls keep to gether? 2. How does a moth first acquire the use of its wings? 3. How does the mind affect what we see? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Will a phoebe bird pick rasp berries? I once saw a phoebe bird swoop down upon a raspberry bush and carry a berry to a rail on a nearby fence, but I did not therefore jump to the conclusion that the phoebe was a berry eater. What It wanted was the worm in the berry. How do I know? Because I saw It extract something from the berry and fly away. 2. How is the snow nature's news paper? I recently met a business man who regularly goes camping to the Maine woods every winter from the delight he has in various signs of wild life written upon the snow. His morn ing paper, he says, is the sheet of snow which he reads in his walk. Every event Is chronicled, every new arrival registers his name. If you have eyes to read it. 3. How do squirrels act when jumping from heights? During their descent upon such occasions the squirrels' legs are widely extended, their bodies are broadened and flattened, the tail stiffened and slightly curved, and a curious tremulous motion runs through all. It Is very obvious that a deliberate attempt is made to pre sent the broadest surface possible to the air, and I think a red squirrel might leap from almost any height to the ground without serious Injury. (Rights reserved, Houghton-Mifflin company.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian, November 3, 1S93. Andy Gross of Calapooia has his distillery complete now and will start the manufacture of apple brandy at once. The Willamette river was so low at Independence last week that It was forded on horseback, the water coming only a little above the saddle girths. The steamer Signal is expected to arrive in Portland next Monday, bringing about 20 Chinese, who will claim the right to land here. Multnomah not only failed to score in yesterday's game of football, but so greatly were they outclassed by the visitors that they were unable to keep the Reliance team from making touchdown after touchdown, until the score stood 40 to 0. Fifty Year Ago. From The Oregonian, November 3, 1870. New York. A refrigerator car loaded with beef arrived today, the contents being in a fine slate of preservation. The Victoria Standard of October 26 chronicles the death of Peter Og den, a chief trader of the Hudson's Bay company, at Stewarts lake Octo ber 9. He formerly held a position under the company as chief trader at Vancouver. The Jacksonville News has been sold at sheriff's sale. It was bought by Judge Shipley. Lea-al Tangle In Road Fund. SHERH'OOU Or.. Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) A certain county in this state voted bonds for road paving. The different districts of the county in order to secure benefit from these bonds were to prepare the roads for pavrng. Several of the districts levied a special tax to be used for this purpose on certain specified roads. The bonds having been proved in valid, does the county court of said county have any authority to use the special tax money on any other roads than those specified In their respective districts? A READER. The county court does not have) the authority mentioned.