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10 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11, 1920 ESTABLISHED BI HENRY X FITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. Ijir Sixth Street. -Portland, Oregon. ' C A. MOEDEN-. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan Is a member of the Aim eiated Press. The Associated Press i ex clusively entitled to the use for publication o all news dispatches credited to it or not . otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All riKhts of publication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year lRlly. Sunday included, six months. . -4.-2 Pally. Sunday included, three months 2.-o JJaily. Sunday included, one month.. .73 Daily, without Sunday, one year.... J0O Iai:y, without Sunday, six months... .- JJaily. without Sunday, one month. .. .60 Weekly, one year J Sunday, one year q.wj (By Carrier.) 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"With what different feeling do Americana celebrate the second an niversary of Armistice day from those with which they received the news that the enemy had accepted defeat and that the war was ended! Then all was Joy that bloodshed was over, that the evil reign of the Ho henzollerns and Hapsburgs was past, that a gToup of republics had risen la Europe, that the world was to enter upon an era of peace, and that the soldiers and sailors would soon return, to be cared for and rewarded for their valor by a grateful country, to be honored by their proud fami lies and neighbors. . Actually we see the old world still torn by smaller wars, shaken by dis cord among and within nations, and still agonized by the sufferings which the great war caused. Germany still tries to evade the obligation to dis arm and to make reparation to 'the nations it has despoiled, still violates the rights of its neighbors, still reaches out for allies to aid in mak ing waste paper of the treaty by which it is bound. Poland has bare ly escaped destruction by the bol shevists, and the defeat of "Wrangel has again postponed hope of redemp tion for Russia. ' The incorrigible Turks, defying their impotent gov ernment. Join hands with the red devils of Russia in stamping out Armenia. At other points decisions of the peace conference are ignored by claimants to disputed territory. These disturbances may be com pared to the swell which, moves the ocean after a storm Disappointment at the course of events in our own country has been no less keen and would have dulled the edge of our interest in foreign affairs, even if events had not in spired distaste for meddling with them. When the soldiers returned, they found no provision mad for them by the government, and the by no means easy transition from military to civil life was made with the aid of states, cities and volun tary organizations. This was en durable for those who were in good health, but intense suffering and hardship were inflicted on the 'sick, wounded and disabled by the callous indifference and the incompetence of the government. Notwithstanding generous provision by" congress, the executive departments remain care less of the nation's duty to these men, who have the strongest moral claim on it. Men suffering from tuberculosis have been turned out of hospitals, some of the disabled have become inmates of poor farms and many have either been denied the compensation that congress voted or have been granted cruelly inadequate amounts after long delay. The primary cause of these fall- tires of the government to perform its highest duty to the nation's de fenders was total unpreparedness for peace. The armistice was no sooner in effect than President Wilson be gan preparation to heal the wounds of the world, paying no attention to those of our own soldiers or to the disturbed and disordered condition of the country, and his subordinates followed his example. Though pub lic opinion has spurred the govern ment into some show of effort, its incompetence for the task is still glaringly apparent. At the same time the troubles of this and other countries have been prolonged by the obdurate insistence of trin nroi. dent that the United States assume international obligations to which the result of the election has shown it to be opposed. From being ab sorbed in foreign affairs, the minds of the people have turned almost to aversion for them by the course of the administration both at home and abroad. Two years have brought us from en extreme of idealism, which raised boD of the imrjosxihl a anri wViifVi prompted attempts at much that was unwise, to a calm realization of what is Immediately necessary and to a prudent regard for what is safe and practicable. That does not im ply abandonment of ideals; it does imply recognition of the limit beyond which they are not now practicable. The disillusionments of those two years are due to efforts of idealists to accomplish more than was nossi- ble. indeed much that was dangerous, while the less spectacular but more urgent duties that lay immediatelv in sight were neglected. - The reac tion marked by the election is not from idealism to gross materialism, as those say who most bitterly be wail the result. It is a reaction from Impractical to what Roosevelt well called "practical idealism." He was the greatest idealist of his time, but die- owed his success to the fact that he was eminently practical. This brings us back to the thought of the veterans who will march in DiAmnrv et rrtA vlrinrimia art a which they brought the war. sffhe most urgent practical duty of the nation is to prove' its gratitude to those who fight f or( it. and it is a poor quality of idealism that neg lects that - duty. All the veterans who are sick or disabled should re ceive the tenderest care from the government, without haggling or red tape and, above all, without delay. Alt who retain their health and strength should be given the most liberal opportunity to earn their liv ing as self-supporting, independent cation, with land or with other means of a new start in life which will repair the break that their ser vice caused ip their careers. They should be followed through, life by a nation solicitous that, if their powers fail, they shall never want necessa ries and reasonable luxuries. That is the pledge which should be re newed as the boys march today and which it will fall to the Harding administration to keep. SHOCKING. A herd of cattle will be grazing in the shade aliQ quiet in a pleasant pasture, literally in clover, when suddenly some steer will give a snort and bellow, stick up his tail and dash wildly through a fence with the herd madly following, end ing up breathless miles away in a fallow, barren, shadeless field. Just why the stampede started will always remain a mystery. Certainly nothing was gained by it. They probably wanted s change and they got it. People are not so unlike cattle. Seized by the mass Instinct, they also stampede for a change--following some political steer, just why they don't always know. The recent election Is' a case in point. Salem Capital . Journal. We have fallen, alas! on upsetting times. Here is a staunch champion of the infallible people comparing them to a herd of cattle in a panic. The other day, too, the Portland Journal, in a moment of aberration, credited the overwhelming Cox de feat to the "fickle public." We are too pained' for words, and refer the sad case of the Journal to the Popu lar Government league for investiga tion. It is well remembered that this admirable organization, whose spe cialty is great and solemn referen dums, was founded, and long main tained, on the immortal principle that the people make no mistakes. However, it was very like a stam pede. But they knew where they wanted to go, and they went. Up at Salem ' there may be a newspaper which thinks a field plastered with a $25,000,000,000 war debt, incurred largely by methods of shameful waste, inefficiency, extravagance and even criminality, is clover; but the "fickle" people have a different idea. NO ONE SUFFICIENT TO HIMSELF. President-elect Harding has been modest enough to say that the astounding results of the recent elec tion were "not a personal victory." It is the truth, and it is fine and reassuring that Mr. Harding is led by a real humility, and not by pride or vainglory, to recognize it- He has looked upon himself as Just an every-day American citizen called to a great task. He is no prodigy and he knows it; and the country is pleased to know that he knows it. Being no genius, he will call to coun sel the "best minds" of .America. He does not say he will take their advice always, but he wants the light, guid ance, comfort and confidence that come with good advice. A story is told of Lincoln that, after a cabinet conference on a grave question, he asked' for a vote and announced the result. "Ayes, seven; noes, one," he said.- "The noes have it." Needless to say Lincoln him self was the solitary negative and had his own way, after .considering carefully what others had to say. Whether President Harding will stand out against his own cabinet remains to be seen. A president more recent than Lincoln has done it regularly, but there is a justifiable suspicion that he has called his cabi net together when he does to tell it what to do, and not to learn what to do. Quite likely Mr. Harding will desire to avoid the implication that he will adopt the more recent precedent. No owe la great enough to stand alone. President-elect Harding but conforms to all knowledge and all experience when he says so. Others have said it before him, notably Edmund Burke, great orator, great philosopher, great statesman. On one occasion he said: I do not think it fit for anyone to rely too much on his own understanding, or to be filled with a presumption not be coming a Christian man in his own per sonal stability and rectitude. I hope I am far from that vain confidence which almost always fails in trial. I know my weakness in all respects, as much as least as any enemy I have, and I attempt to take security against it. The only method whichhao ever been found effectual to preserve any man against the corruption of nature and example is a habit of life and .communication of council with the most virtuous and public-spirited men of the age you live in. Such a society can not be kept without advantage or deserted without shame. For this rule of conduct I may be called In reproach a parry man, but I am little affected with such asper sions. In the way which they call party -I worship the constitution of your fathers, and I shall never blush for my political company. - All reverence to honor, all Idea of what it is, will be lost out of the world before it can be imputed as a fault to any man that he ha been closely connected with those incomparable persona, living and dead, with whom I have constantly thought and acted. Where could any man. conscious of his own inability to act alone, and' willing to act as he ought to do, have arranged himself better? If anyone thinks this kind of society to be taken up as the best method of gratifying low personal pride or ambitious interests he is mis taken and knows nothing of the world. The best minds of America, should counsel and control America. It is a happy augury for the next four .years that President Harding will rely on them. NAVAL BASES ON THE PACIFIC. The approaching visit to Portland of the joint congressional committee on naval affairs and the board of naval experts will afford Portland an opportunity to make known the ad vantages and needs of the Columbia river which should not be neglected. Following the report of the Helm commission on Pacific naval bases and consequent location of a sub marine base at Tongue point, and closely preceding the meeting of congress, it will have great influence on action with regard to the navy in the Pacific. All that the Helm commission said of the need both of first class naval bases and of secondary bases just be fore the United States was drawn into the war stands good ' today. Force has been added to it 'by the fact that half of the navy is now sta tioned in the Pacific ocean, that the entire fleet may soon maneuver in that ocean and that Pacific com merce under the American flag has greatly grown and is still growing. Naval authorities of both this coun try and Great Britain have predicted that the Pacific will be the future field of commercial activity and therefore of international rivalry. It is necessary that this coast be equipped with all the building and repair facilities, all the docks and dry docks and all the fuel and supply stations, and with all the minor bases that are needed at least for the Pa cific fleet. Though there is no present danger, nor any in early prospect, we cannot tell how soon it may arise, and recent experience warns that when it comes it will come suddenly. There may be urgent need of the en tire Helm plan before It could be completed. Growth of the commerce of the Columbia river In the last two years is the measure of its importance 1n naval war. This should be properly impressed on the committee, with due emphasis on the advisability of a station midway of the long stretch of coast between, Puget sound and San, Francisco bay. The plans should not stop at a submarine base, but should extend to provision for larger ves sels, even to occasional repair of a battleship, and to an aviation base. Opportunity should be taken to call attention to the need of well armed forts at the mouth of the river, with ample accommodation not only for the coast artillery but for a support ing infantry force. Attention will doubtless be called to elimination of the Columbia river bar as an obstruction to navigation and to the deep ship channel which is maintained to Portland. The re port of the committee will no doubt convey this information to those of ficials at Washington to whom it has not yet penetrated. That should re move objection to having transports come to Portland and Vancouver to land or embark troops, or to having the larger ships of the navy and the training ships come to Portland. All the requisites of a port of the first class are here; it remains only to show them and to insist on corre sponding action by congress, the navy department and other officials at Washington. A TKIIMPH OF ROAT-Btm,DtNO. Completion of the paved highway from Portland to Astoria or from Astoria to Portland, if you prefer passes without special ceremony, probably because the road has in fact been open to travel for a year or two. Yet it is the actual consum mation of a' great enterprise. Men have long dreamed of a high way the entire length of the Colum bia river in the state of Oregon, but until the recent general movement for good roads throughout the coun try it was only a dream. About seven years ago, energetic and far-seeing citizens started in earnest the cam paign for a highway through the Columbia gorge; and about the same time an equally active group in Clat sop county joined hands with others in Portland to build along the Co lumbia between the two cities. Clat sop was indeed a pioneer in better road building in Oregon, and it un dertook the Columbia project with much enthusiasm.- There were diffi culties both engineering and finan cial, but they have been overcome, and now one of the finest roads in America a boulevard of fine con struction traversing scenes of rare beauty and a highway of commerce and industry spans the one hundred miles between Portland and Astoria. An automobile can go the distance easily in four hours, or even less, if one is willing to take a chance with the speed regulations. It took six or seven years to build the Lower Columbia highway, but It will be there for all time. A BEWILDERED P.1BENT WRITES. British newspapers are engaged in discussion of the precocity of mod ern youth, comparing it with the timid suppression of a generation ago. Already the reader of these lines will have guessed that the general tenor of comment is that the youngster of today is in a bad way. It is the Calamity Janes of the world who usually start these controversies. Probably it has been so since the earth was young. Putting grand father's generation on a .pedestal Is an ancient indoor sport. The argument now .raging seems to have been started by a writer sign ing himself "Bewildered Parent," who tells the public through ' the London Morning Post that parents are facing the probability of a soviet of youth, that their sons and daugh ters have awakened from their dreams and become loafers and cynics, that there is no hope for parental authority in the future, and that the young have made up their minds to run the world, taking little heed of the direction in which they are headed. He complains that this sad state of affairs has not even spared the nursery- His exhibit A in the chamber of horrors is a little miss, scarcely able to toddle, who ad dresses her father, a most learned man, as "Old Bean." Then there Is the relatively lesser offense Vf a son. who went home one day and care lessly announced his marriage, as to which he had consulted neither father nor mother. Young women are charged with being "determined to have a good time, whatever the price," and all youth is accused of "being ruthless and of a calculated egotism." Cynical and measured worldliness is seen on every hand. Yet it is pleasing to note that this bewildered p a r e n t evidently & father has evoked a number of re plies that on the whole are an anti dote for the gloom that his letter en-" genders. There is a tendency to agree with . him as to the precocity of the modern youngster, although it is not conceded that this is a bad sign. A noblewoman feels that "the present generation is in essentials an improvement on our generation." Why, she wants to know, should we insist, on the "illusions of youth," as if there were something peculiarly sacred about illusions? She believes that the truth is more wonderful and I beautiful than any illusion can be, and she scores rather heavily with the reminder that age alone does not always mean wisdom. A young soldier explains that life has been robbed of much of its mys tery by close acquaintance with death. Gilbert K. Chesterton, as we would expect him to be, is vastly en tertained by the tale of the young lady who is so little in awe of her male parent that she calls him "Old Bean," which he regards as' nothing more serious than "a vague move ment of the mind loosely described as a desire for liberty." He is in clined to minimize the danger of government by juvenile soviet and bids the bewildered parent be calm. The danger that he sees in such a controversy as that now raging is that those who stand out for tradi tion may fail to make it clear that they also stand for reason. A few take sides with the bewil dered one. They also are persuaded that neither in veneration for their elders, nor in sundry other sound virtues not satisfactorily catalogued, are the children of today worthy of- comparison with those of another time ourselves when we were young. for example. Yet it will be noted by those who have been able to pre serve the open mind while growing older that not many of the offenses charged against the most recently young are novel. There is by way of illustration of the antiquity of ir reverence a story that never grows old, and that .Bewildered .Parent will find by. turning to the twenty- third verse of the' second chapter of second Kings: And he went op from thence unto Bethel; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city. and mocked him, anil said-, unto him. Go up, thou bald- headt; go up, thou bald head. There is a good deal of thoughtless disregard of history in the complain ing of every generation that its sue ceaaora are not what they ought to be. For the bears of Elisha's" time may be substituted, if the emergency is thought sufficiently grave, the modern spanking, though parents with a sense of humor are hardly likely to resort to even that. The accusation of over-worldliness is not as serious on reflection as at first blush, and it will taka a "good deal of sophistry to make plausible the contention that evil is done by sub stituting truth for a lie even one euphemistically tagged "illusion" of youth. Much is summed up in the suggestion of one of the controver sialists, that "what is respectable will always be respected," in the present generation, as in those to come. INDIAN SUMMER. Indian summer, brief, glorious and widely prevailing at about this time of year, was not always a season of Joy, as a citizen with a taste for re search has taken pains to discover. It is well in the interest of historical accuracy to set the encyclopedias right on that important point. Pop ular belief that the term originated in weather predictions made by In dians in conversation with the first white settlers of America finds no archival confirmation, and the notion that it is of aboriginal origin is ex ploded by the fact that neither it nor anything closely corresponding to it is found in the languages of Ameri can Indians. It is pretty well estab lished, however, that it was intro duced into England from this coun try. Other theories are refuted by recent inquiry. There was a long-existing impression among the pioneers that the season took its name from the fact that Indians at about this 'time were accustomed to set fire to the undergrowth of forests, thus fill ing the air with smoke, creating a peculiar "Indian summer" haze. , The phrase was on the tongues of the earliest pioneers of America, though it has been shown that it does not occur in books or manu scripts printed prior to 1794. The secret seems to be revealed' in "Dod dridge's Notes," recently unearthed in the Congressional library at Wash ington. This volume, written by a pioneer born on the extreme western frontier of Pennsvlvmia in ' 1783. shows that the Indian sifmnyr of our forefathers was the reverse'-of the season of good feeling 'that it is toaay. unaouDtedly it originated In the circumstance that "during the long-continued Indian wars, sus tained by the first settlers they en- Joyed no peace excepting in the win ter season, when the Indians were unable to make their incursions into the settlements." The onset of win ter, therefore, as Doddridge points out, was a time of comparative joy. But it sometimes happened that the apparent advent of winter was fol lowed by a season of warm, pleasant weather. This was the "Indian sum mer" because it gave the savages an other opportunity to reap a harvest in the settlements. "The melting of the snows," says Doddridge, "sad dened every heart and the genial warmth of the sun chilled every heart with horror." It is worth while to recall the true meaning of the term because it is a reminder of the sacrifices by which the present generation has been en abled to enjoy Indian summers pos sessing a far pleasanter significance. h ar less eloquent is the name given the season in central Europe, where it is called old woman's summer," or in Britain, where the American description is varied with "All Hal lows summer," or "St. Martin's summer, according to the month in which it occurs. In the further in terest of precision it is also necessary to remind those who employ the ap pellation indiscriminately that it does not properly designate the first days of autumn. The prerequisite of true Indian summer is that it shall be a recurrence of pleasant weather after winter apparently has set in. To moderns this brings only joy; to the pioneers, as Doddridge has shown, it was fraught with tragedy. When firemen responded to an alarm in South Portland the other night, they found three barrels of corn mash in the basement of a burning house. Looks as if this par ticular moonshiner had the recipe for a stout brand of firewater. The "big baked petato" of Hazen J. Titus has been restored to the Northern Pacific and the Great Northern -will specialize on the Red mond potato. The traveling appetite must be spurred with the best to be had. A young woman with a case diag nosed as smallpox has broken quar antine and is loose. This will not cause every man to sidestep when he sees a young woman approaching, but such action may save his face. Average families are small nowa days and one loaf a day may suffice. Reduction of a cent a loaf is not much, but will run to over $3.50 a year, which is the way to figure household expense. Anyway, this tarpon fishing epi sode" will-give President-elect Hard ing some good experience against the time when he throws the harpoon into Burleson, Baker, Colby, Gray son, et al. The chief orders the men to bring in the burglars and citizens can help by keeping off the streets at night. That will give officers free range for target practice. "Wanton" waste hardly expresses the exuberant extravagance of the administration's shipping board. It was typical of democracy, drunk with power. Philadelphia, the real Portland of the east, wants a million and, a half to stop hold-ups and burglars. Here a simple admonition is enough. There should be a graded curfew for septuagenariee, octagenaries and other "young fellers" whose habits cannot be broken. There may be some connection between thai; " supposed earthquake and Mayor Baker's shakeup of the police force. If they ever catch 'em, those east side burglars should be 'severely dis ciplined for working after "hours. Keep those winds "easterly," Mr. Forcaster, for 10 days more, when the stock show ends. But what's one escaped tarpon to Senator Harding after he has landed the presidency? .Well, thank goodness, Article X is no longer in the list of the six best sellers. BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES Extermination of Rats by TJ. 9. Coats 38 Cents Each. Every little while one reads in the papers an earnest bit of propaganda urging the extermination of all rats, writes F. H. Collins in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Some painstaking person has found out exactly how many rats there are in' the country, and the number in the statistics seldom varies. For your own edification you may essay a similar enumeration by simply setting down a numeral and add fig ure naughts as long as you can hold your breath. On studying the figures, you see that it will take a long time to ex terminate them, for they multiply on the face of the earth almost as fast as you can on a sheet of paper with a lead pencil. Nor Is that the worst of the proposed massacre. Do you know that it costs 28 cents to exterminate a rat? We are speak ing from a scientific , and wholesale standpoint. It .has been tried at some of our southern ports, where the rat is more cordially abhorred than any where else. Port Arthur, Texas, found that each rat removed from this life set back Uncle Sam's public health service, which did the work. Just 3& cents. When some 9000 had been annihilated it was found that that was the least that it could be done for. . Where oil deposits are, there states men of a commercial type gather to day to get possession of the "key" fuel of the hour and of tomorrow. But all phases of oil distribution are not as grim as the processes of its ac quisition. We have long known of the uses to which the Chinese peas antry and urban dwellers have put the tin cans that the Standard Oil company's agents have sent through out the empire with petroleum for the illumination of the house and shops of the people. Many of these substitutions have been comical; but we have not heard before of the dis ciples of Confucius using the tin cans for roofing of their temples. In Sa lonica, however, the Mohammedans have been using the "containers" to replate the surface of their rotting moscfue minarets. Now when the call to prayer goes forth, it not only Sum mons the faithful to think of Allah, but also to remember the generosity of the managers of the Red Cross garages. Advocate of Peace. A well-known packing firm is ad vertising a number of brands of canned meats, among them hamburger steak .and onions. It is noted that, complying with the pure food law, the cans containing the hamburger carry the legend: "With cereal added." Just why it should be neces sary to add oatmeal to hamburger is one of the mysteries of the age. We can forgive a butcher for putting it in sausage; it is so much cheaper than pork and quite as filling, if not so tasty, but in hamburger! Stars and garters! When we figure out what hamburger is made of, we mar vel that expensive oatmeal should be added. C. M. Jackson in San Fran cisco Bulletin. , Surgeon-General Cumming of the United States public health service has just issued a fresh warning against the use of horse-hair shaving brushes, to which not a .few cases of anthrax have been traced. He says: "The public health service has made every effort possible under existing laws and regulations to pre vent the occurrence of anthrax due to Infected shaving brushes, but in spite of its efforts anthrax cases occur and will continue to occur unless the pub lie ceases to buy and use horse-hair brushes for shaving. Xt is the consensus of expert opinion that shaving-brush anthrax Is contracted only when the shaving brush is made of horse hair; and con gress at the next session will be asked to prohibit the use of horse hair for that purpose. It is doubtful, how ever, if any effective measures can be taken by health officials to curtail the use of , the horse-hair shaving brushes now in trade channels, some of which are presumably infected, ex cept a direct warning to the public not to buy or use such brushes." Dr. Cumming strongly urges the issue of such an appeal by state health officials and its widest pub licity, as the only way. pending add I tional legislation, to obviate their po tential danger. . a A New Yorker, one of the native- born type,- who rarely leaves the con fines of the greater city, took a vaca tion this summer and went with one of the New York ball clubs on its trip west. He saw many strange sights. On the return trip the club stopped off at Buffalo and, never having seen Niagara falls, as is the case with most New Yorkers, the players per suaded , their fellow traveler not to miss the opportunity. He looked the falls over very care fully and returned to his hotel. "Well, what do you think of it for a wonderful sight?" asked one of the ballplayers. "I'll say," said the New Yorker without undue enthusiasm, "that she certainly throws a mean leap." Sat urday Evening Post. The path of love was not lined! with rose leaves for Reginald, and he was getting tired of it. He felt it was time to give his imitation of the worm that turned when the maiden asked) for the thou sandth time: "Are you sure you love me, dear?" Reginald drew a deep breath. "Do I . Look here, my darling!" he gasped. "I've missed my last train home for the third time this week; you've been sitting on my knees for three hours til I've got a cramp; your little brother has torn the brim off my straw bat; your father made me smoke one of his cheap cigars this evening; I've spent my last dollar on thoe chocolates you've just eaten, and I've never grumbled once. Do you think I hate your Houston Post. The bald-headed hotel clerk handed out his register for one of the first teachers arriving at his place for the teachers'' convention. She was not exactly young, but decidedly full of pep and very much up to date in ap pearance and manner. "So it's teach ers week again," he said Jokingly. "I do hope there'll be a lot of young ones this. year. New faces are always welcomes to us hotel men." She looked at him a minute' and I then retorted. "So are they .'to us teacher women." Indianapolis News. Those Who Come and Go. "Portland is going right ahead, but something has happenedto Seattle. I don't know what it is, but there is something wrong with Seattle and there isn't any second Klondike to bring it back. San Francisco Is also slipping. Los Angeles is growing fast." says Seneca Curtis Beach, now of Los Angeles, but formerly a- rep resentative and state senator from Multnomah in the Oregon legislature. Mr. Beach came to Oregon, to make a visit to Astoria and is on his way home. He declares that Los Angeles U the greatest industrial center in the cvest; has 34 steamship lines and is now building a concrete highway for ruck transDortation between San Pedro and Los Aneeles. It will be a 10-inch concrete road, 24 feet in-j width. Mr. Beach is a printer audi learned his trade in Nebraska. Years ago he came to Oregon and settled in Lakeview, ran a paper there, and subsequently shifted to Portland. For years ne was one oi tne musi republicans in the state, but since going to California his politics have been academic. The fact that he owns a buried city where a prehistoric race lived- doesn't excite Frank Seufert, of The Dalles, a particle. Mr. Seufert owns the land where the highway construction crews have been digging up graves ana skeletons and implements of war and the chase. "It is just an old burying ground of the Indians," explained Mr. Seufert yesterday. "It was used be fore the white man came, possibly used several centuries ago, but what of it? We've been plowing up dead Indians for many years. Our peach orchard was once an Indian grave yard. The Indians knew a good place when they saw it, so they selected the ground near the Big Eddy. When I went into that country years ago, I followed the example of the Indians and located there, too. So far as these relics are concerned, the high water of 1894 washed out many graves, such as are now being uncovered, and we picked up stone cups, with squirrels carved for handles, and things of that sort, but they didn't make very good jobs at carving." To buy furniture to equip the new hotel building at Heppner, Pat Foley is in town and is registered at the Imperial. Mr. Foley is running a hotel at The Dalles, "but decided that he had some time to spare, so he leased the new re-enforced concrete hotel build ing in Heppner and will have James Hart, formerly of the Imperial, as resident manager. It was in Heppner that Phil Metschan, of the Imperial, made his start as a hotel man. He used to give a man all he could eat for two bits, but the patrons had such healthy, open-air appetites that Phil lost meney every time he served a meal. For 18 years James McKinney of Aledo, 111., held public office. He served eight years in congress, and was there when James Cox, late demo cratic nominee for president, was in the house, and for 10 years Mr. Mc Kinney was a railroad and warehouse commissioner. Mr. McKinney, who is registered at the Multnomah, puts in his winters in California and is headed for the golf links of Pasadena now. For 15 years' Mr.- McKinney was a member of the republican state com mittee of Illinois. Sheepmen are not feeling skookum in eastern Oregon, Idaho and Wash ington, judging from the reports brought back by James Keeney, who has returned from a tour of inspec tion. Having been long in the sheep game, with headquarters at Pilot Rock, Mr. Keeney is interested in noting conditions of the industry in adjacent states and hops a train every now and then to see how things are going. He says that the sheepmen cannot be blamed for having their wool on their hands, as they didn't have a chance to sell. D. D. Coulson, one of the city fathers of Newberg, Or., was at the Hotel Portland yesterday. Aside from being a councilman, he is also a real estater and an insurance man, and he has a friend who has promised to sell him all the Newberg-grown wal nuts that he wants for 28 cents -a pound, which is one of the advantages of being a member of the council. The candy business has increased 1000 per cent since the prohibition amendment became effective, accord ing to A A. Mendes of Seattle, who is at the Multnomah. A few years ago, candy making was a side issue on the Pacific coast but now it is developing into an Important industry. The in crease in the consumption of sweets is attributed to the elimination of al cohol. To try out the new pavement on the lower Columbia river highway, Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Stewart and Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Erwin-of Knappa drove to the Hotel Portland yesterday. Also testing out the completed road was D. A. Stokes of Astoria and C. H. Watzek of Wauna. The completed nignway has not placed Portland in the backyard for every hamlet be tween Linnton and Svenson. She diidn't look nor act like a small town girl, but' she gave herself away at the Hotel Portland yesterday after noon when she inquired of the clerk: "What's on at the opera house to night?" She was informed that the attraction was a boxing tournament. Only in the small places is la theater still known as "the op'ry house." Eminently satisfied with the result of the national election last week is Bertha S. Newlands of BoiS"?, Idaho. Miss Newlands, who is at the Hotel Portland, was an agent of the re publican national committee and her specialty during the recent campaign was to stir up republican sentiment among women voters. G-eorge E. Chamberlain. United States senator, accompanied by Mrs. Chamberlain, left last night 'for San Francisco, where they will visit their daughter, Mrs. R. Gaither. . The sen ator will go to Washington from San Francisco and will remain there until his term expires on March 4. Although holding court in Van couver, Wash., Judge B. Blake of Spo kane, is registered at the Multnomah. He is an old friend of Manager A. B. Campbell, as they were together 10 years- ago when Mr. Campbell was chief auditor for a smelting company. "We're experiencing summer weath er at Redmond," reports Denton Bur dick of Deschutes county. "The com mon people still prevail," he trium phantly commented on the recent election, in which he -was once more elected to the legislature. Sentor W. T. Vinton Is getting his affairs in shape so that be can sit at Salem for 40 days. He confessed that he voted to extend the session to 60 days, but is just as well satisfied that the measure was defeated. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. McKay drove from Seaside and are at the Nortonia. They report that Seaside was crowded with visitors last Sun day, people who motored over the newlycompleted highway. C. A Brantlrng of Riverton, -Wyo.. is at the Perkins and is talking about the wonderful future of Wyoming as an oil producing section. A. E. Stewart, a timber operator of Silver ton. Or, is registered at. the Perkins. OUR DUTl TO WAR WOCXDED Rehabilitation Is for All, Not Official Agencies Alone. PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Ed itor.) The news item in The Ore gonlan of November 9. headed, "Poor Farm Houses U. S. War Wounded," ought to be a trumpet call awaken ing us to a communal sense of shame at the inhumanity shown our war wounded. To those of our fighting men who somehow weathered war's inferno to return crippled of body aye, and of soul, too!- to the supposedly tenderer usages of peace, we owe whatever there is in us of gratitude and devo tion. Not charity, though banal word but the service of helpfulness toward rehabilitation of each injured soldier in his natural armor of sturdy self-respect. Certainly this end can not be arrived) at by the incarceration of these now defenseless heroes in side the cheerless walls of the alms house, nor yet within the soul-sapping atmosphere of the tubercular hos pital. They are not merely "cases" to come under the impersonal eye of even the-most expert medical science; not "sheaves of paper" as Mr. Gal braith has so aptly said to be casu ally pigeonholed by incompetent gov ernment bureaus. They are souls to be set right again -by normal con tact with the warm loving heart of humanity that same sane and lov ing heart wh'ch so willingly endeav ored to back them "over there" through the ministration of the Red Cross and kindred agencies. Perhaps this can best be made to function throirgh the efforts of the American Legion and the govern ment working together single-minded-ly for the winning back to personal independence of each and every in jured soldier. But we must not leave the work to these agencies alone. It is the heart of America that is functioning toward her wounded sons, and we are that heart. In the name of justice and decency let us keep the subject before the public eye and win through to a fair solution of it in time to avert irrep arable wrong to these heroic men. All honor to them now and for everl ANN LAZENBT. PARALLEL STREET FOR AUTOS Woman Suggests Simple Way of Re lieving; Congestion on Hawthorne. PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi tor.) I think it is about time that someone solved the traffic problem on Hawthorneavenue. Every carline should have a street parallel to it for automobiles, as Bel mont is to East Morrison. East Clay street is almost a nuisance, for the motorist scarcely gets on it than he needs jnust turn back to Hawthorne avenue. Further, it ia obvious that East Clay can never be extended be yond Twelfth street. Has no one yet thought of using East Madison street? If the city fathers would only pave the two blocks between First and Third streets on East Madison that would solve the whole-problem of the dangerous congestion on Hawthorne from Grand avenue down and do away with "dead man's crossing" at Seventh street, and the temptation of the motormen to race with autoists. East Madison is paved to Twentieth street and is cut through to Thirtieth street. I strongly urge the paving of these two blocks on lower East Madison street. The money paid out in dam age suits would more than cover the cost; then, too, it would speed up schedules; there would be fewer de lays, and consequently better service. LUCIA STAMPER. HIGH WAGES WILL BAR StRSES Mother In Nerd of One Predicts They Will Lose in I.oiifC Hun. PORTLAND. Nov. 10. (To the Edi tor.) I think the new rates and hours for nursing are outrageous. Nurse No. 1 says 10 years of service is the limit. Yet one of the first graduates of Good Samaritan is still nursing. And as for practical nurses overcharging In San Francisco, dur ing the "flu" epidemic the registered nurse demanded and received $20 a day. At the present time I would be glad to have a nurse could I afford it. I have a sick child, not seriously ill, but sick enough to require very care ful nursing, which together with housework is a very great strain. But even at the present rates I must struggle along without. Nurses for get that doctors in very many cases most at present, when salaries are low in comparison to living costs have to wait long for their money and have many unpaid bills. ' A nurse gets hers surely, though, and she gets her food too, and at present with a shortage of nurses the nation over, need not talk of unemployment. I for one am resolved to do without as long as possible and I think the nurses will find in the long run, as business is doing now, that when the dear public Is exasperated beyond a certain point, confidence will be hard to restore. ONE EXASPERATED MOTHER. Examination for Public Accountant. PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi tor.) Where is the examination for certified public accountant held, and what are the requirements? Is there a school in Portland giving aid in preparation? What other course may be followed satisfactorily? CONSTANT READER. 1. The next certified public ac countants" examination in Oregon will be held November 16 and 17 at the central library. Application for the examination should be filed 30 days before, with the secretary of the state board of accounting, Arthur Berrldge, Worcester building, Portland. 2. The Y. M. C. A. and the Univer sity of Oregon extension division give training. 3. Detailed information can be ob tained from Mr. Berridge. Law -Questions Answered. CENTRALIA, Wash., Nov. 8. (To the Editor.) Please answer the fol lowing: 1. To contest a will, must action be taken before probate is begun? Would the judge who presided at final settlement have power to set aside a provision of the w'll that -an heir could not sell or encumber land, providing he could show it was to his and his family's best interest to do so? 3. When are bills outlawed? 4. What is the smallest r-m for which a person may sue? Is it not $5? OLD SUBSCRIBER. 1. No. 2. It depends on circumstances in individual cases. 3. Six years. 4. Any sum can be sued for. Paper Mill In Alaska. SALEM, Or., Nov. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Can you give me' any informa tion about the paper mill, or mills, in Alaska? And what the names of the companies are. if there are any, making news print? S. H. The Alaska Pulp & Paper company, a San Francisco firm, has started construction of a large pulp and paper mill, which will make news print paper. The mill is still in process of construction and wiLJ not bo com pleted for a year. For further infor mation, write to John D. Guthrie, United, States forest service, Portland. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. THE TRAGEDY. When Phyllis left this morning To drive to town for tea. The radiance adorning Her face was fine to eee. Her hat and costume, blending In soft harmonious tune. Assured the maid of spending A perfect afternoon. But Phyllis, on returning Went straight up to her room; Her cheeks were hot and burning She radiated gloom I served no whit to cheer her To praise her clothes and hat. In fact if we came near her She bristled like a cat. For after what befell her This afternoon at tea. In vain it was to tell her " That no one else could be fao modish and so trim in Her autumn frock and funs. She'd seen two other women Who had on hats like hers. m They're Iron. In one particular we envy the horse. His shoes are good for a couple of months, anyway. . Cherries Kot Jirnlrd for Corlrtnlls. Maybe Washington cut down that cherry tree because he had a premo nition that prohibition was coming. Nothing; On tin. Italian reds who seized a railroad and tried to run it have given it back, in which respects they imitated the United States of America. (Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) John Burroughs' Nature ' h'otes. Can Yon Answer These Questions f 1. Which is the most adaptive, th goose or the duck? 2. How should a threatening dog be met? 3. Is the world approaching bank ruptcy? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Has the domestication of fowls reduced their instinct of fear? The instinct 6f fear of some enemy in the air above has apparently not oecn diminished in the barnyard fowls by countless generations of domesti cation. Let a boy shy a rusty pie-tin or his .old straw hat across the hen yard, and behold what a screaming and a rushing to cover there is! 2. When is an animal trainer in most danger? The pre-eminent danger of the ani mal trainer comes when he stumbles or falls. In such a case, the lion or tisrer is verv ant tn ,nr!i. wi Those beasts seem to know that a man is less formidable when down than when standing; when prone upon the ground, his power has departed They also often seize the opportunity for an attack upon him when his back is turned. 3 How are abnormalities on trees formed? An insect stings a leaf or a stem, and instantly all the forces and fluids that were building the. leaf turn to building a home for the young of the infect; the leaf is forgotten, and only the needs of the insect remembered, and we thus have the oak gall and the hickory gall and other like abnor malities. (Rights reserved by Houghton Mlffllp Co.) In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Ago. rrAm J"e 0r?R?nlan ot November 11. 1S!5 Andrew F. Burleigh, receiver of the Northern Pacific Railroad company arrived here by special train over the O.-W K. & N. last night. Tom Parrott, who is with the Cin cinnati National league team, and Jiggs Parrott, with Chicago, have returned here. These brothers were raised, in Portland. The Oregon State Poultry associa tion will hold Its annual poultry and pet stock exhibition January 13-18 General John H. Dickinson, in earlv days a resident here, now a promi nent lawyer in San Francisco, is in the city on a visit. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of November 11 1870 Governor L. F. Grover has issued' a proclamation for the observance of Thanksgiving day on Thursday, No vember 24. Hen Hayden. speaker of the house, Is here on a visit from Polk county. Rev. E. C. Anderson, pastor of the First Baptist church and superin tendent of schools in Multnomah county, will arrive here from his eastern trip by the next boat. The Washington guard and Emmett guard will both have a muster and inspection this evening under direc tion of Brigadier-General O. F. Bell of the Oregon militia. Prices of Airplanes. ASTORIA, Or.', Nov. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Where are the aviation schools located? Must one be a graduate from one of these schools before receiving a license to operate a "for hir-e" ma chine In Alaska? About what is the price of a machine and how much time is required to take a course? V. E. GRAY. 1. There are three aviation schools located at Portland, the Dudrey school of aeronautics conducted on the Broomfield flying field, the Oregon, Washington and Idaho school on the Guild Lake field and the Adcox school. 2. So far as known here there are no regulations in Alaska governing the operation of a "for hire" air plane in Alaska. 3. The price of machines range from $750 for the smallest type, a 250-pound machine for carrying one man, to several thousand dollars, de pending on the size and type of craft. If President-Elect Should Die. PORTLAND, Nov. 10. (To the Edi tor.) If the president-elect should die before March 4, would the vice-president-elect become president? INQUIRER. If the death occurred before ths meeting of the electoral college, either the electors would choose a president or fail to cast a majority vote for any one person. In the latter event the house of representatives would choose, as president, one df the three persons having the greatest number of electoral votes. If the president-elect died after the electoral vote had been certified the vice-president would become president. Pronunciation of Author's Name. RAINIER. Or, Nov. 9. (To the Editor.) Kindly give the correct pronunciation of the name of the author of the book, "Fifty-Four Forty or Fight," Emerson Houirh. FRED W. HERMAN. Pronounce it as if it wcre spelled 'Huff,"