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la TTTE MOTJNTXG OREGOXTAX. FRIDAY, XOVEMRER 12, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENBY 1- riTTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co las Sixth Street. Portland. Orcsou. C. A, MORDEN. K. B. FIPER. Manager. Editor. Tne Oregonian la a member of the Asso e ated Press. The Associated Press is -ciusively entitled to the use Tor publication Oi. all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper anu also the local news published herein. All r'n' ot publication of special dispatches nere ln are also reserved. . Subscription Rate Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Pally. Sunday included, one year. . . . . Daily. Sunday Included, six months.. Lally. Sunday Included, three months rf.-o Daily. Sunday Included, one month.. Dally, without Sunday, one year.... ouu Dally, without Sunday, six months... 0.-0 Daiiv. v.. nn month .. .CO Weekly, one year . . .'. unday. oue year .uv By Carrier.) Daily. Sunday included, one yar. ..9 J9 Dally. 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It reached the conclusion from the record that the people are becoming more and more averse, as time passes and as experience grows, to enact ment of any law proposed by the initiative and it likewise discovered that any proposal of the state legis lature submitted to the referendum Is sure to receive considerate atten tion, and is likely to be approved. The situation a decade or more ago was exactly reversed. The ini tiative and referendum was in itself a protest against legislative action or Inaction; but now the almost uniform record shows that law making by the initiative has fallen under the ban of public disfavor. It also discloses that the legislature has grown in the general confidence; and it appears to be a correct interpreta tion of the present public attitude toward the initiative and referendum that its proper use is as a corrective upon and supplement to the legisla ture, and not. except- in extreme cases, as a substitute for it Prior to 1912, forty-nine amend ments and measures were submitted to the people through the initiative and of them twenty-six were carried and twenty-three were beaten. From 1912 down to the present date sixty five amendments and measures were placed on the ballot through the Initiative, and of them seventeen were carried and forty-eight were beaten. Does all this show any thing worth showing? Or does it not? But a different tale is to be told as to the referendum, so far as bills submitted by the legislature to the people are concerned. The first bill thus framed and offered to the referendum was in 1908, and, in cluding that year and up to but not including 1916, twenty-six bills were placed on the ballot by act of the legislature. Of them seven were adopted and nineteen defeated. From 1916 down to the present thirty-two bills have come direct from the legislature to the people through the referendum and of them twenty were adopted' and twelve beaten. I uoea an this show anything worth showing? Or does it not? It may be interesting to submit for casual review a summary of the measures and amendments that came from the legislature to the people. They are: 1908. Increase compensation of legislators from f 120 to $400 per session. Permitting location of state institu tions elsewhere than at state capital. P.eorganizlng Judicial system; increasing supreme court from three to five. Changing date of general election Jon to November. 1910. Providing separate districts for state senators and representatives. - Repealing requirement that all taxes be equal and uniform. Permitting issuance of district bonds to build railroads. New tax classification. Establishing branch Insane asylum tn eastern Oregon. Calling constUutolnal convention. 1912. Creating office of lieutenant-governor. Divorce of local and state taxation. Different tax ratea on orooertv Repeal of county tax option. Majority rule on constitutional amend ments. Double liability of bank stockholders. 1914. Requiring voters to be United States citizens. Identical county and city boundaries. State Indebtedness for irrigation projects Omitting requirement that all taxation e equal and uniform. Reclassification of property for taxation purposes. For merging of cities and towns. - Increasing legislative compensation. Creating lieutenant-governorship. Korjnl school at Ashland. Normal school at Weston. 1916. . Single, Item veto amendment. Snip taxation exemption amendment. Negro and mulatto suffrage amendment 1917 (Special). Port indebtedness for water transpor tation. Limiting legislative bills; Increasing legis lative pay. A t.' a i n m t lmnlled reneal ..... , provisions. i-nirorm tax classification amendment. Identical dates for all elections. , Tax levy for new penitentiary. - State road bond Issue (6.000.000). 1918. Southern Oregon and eastern Oregon normal schools. New home for delinquent and defective children. 1919 (Special). 'Six per cent county road bond limita tion. Reconstruction hospital. . &tate guarantee for irrigation bonds. Reconstruction amendment ($5,000,000). Creating lieutenant-governor. Roosevelt coast military highway. Reconstruction bonding bill. Soldiers' and sailors educational aid. . . 'Market roads tax. . 1920 (Special). &xieuuiu5 ou.uEuh uwum over roaos and ways. Four per cent limitation state road in debtedness. , Restoring capital punishment. Crook and Curry county bonding amend ment. ; , "Successor to governor (president of sen Ate and speaker of house). Higher educational tax. .Soldiers' and sailors' educational tax. State elementary school fund tax. Blind school tax measure. 1920. Compulsory voting and registration. Extending legislative -sessions and in creasing legislative pay. Carried. It will be observed that certain bills relating to taxation (aside from Mingle tax) have come from legisla tive sources. It is a tact, however, ihat tbey were thus submitted at the request of the state , tax com. mission, or other high authority. They were usually beaten, though in the end the measure to eliminate the clause that "all taxation shall be uniform and equal" was carried, doubtless because it was, through systematic education, made -better understood. The legislature con cerned itself at various times with bills to increase the legislative com pensation and they too were beaten; and the people showed -in no un mistakable way that they wanted no lieutenant-governor. But on the whole the referendum measures thus originating in the legislature commended themselves to the public as proper and sound; not so mnch can be said for varie gated assortment of bills produced by the initiative. ONE WAY. Now we hear from democratic sources that the president should again send the treaty to the senate, and let the senate ratify with reservations. What reservations? We have the Lodge brand, the Hitchcock brand, the Taft brand, the "mild" brand and the Cox brand. There was a "great and solemn referendum"; and it was against THE league.. But it was not against the league with reservations not merely clarifying and interpretative reservations, but effective reservations. If it can be determined what reservations are to be adopted, let the president by all means send back the treaty and covenant. An agreement may be reached in "Just one way. Let the president adopt the Harding suggestion and summon the "best minds" of America to the White House. Let the senate com mittee on foreign relations be there also. They will not feel at home, but what of that? If the president and the senate committee, after con ference with the "best minds," can not agree, it will be futile to resub mit the treaty. If they can agree, there will be glory enough for all, and the road to world peace will be well defined, and America's intention to travel it will be made clear. If they cannot agree they will at least have decided to stay out of the present league, with or without reservations. It will also be possible to de termine to everybody's satisfaction whether the president or the senate is to blame. OUTGUESSING A. WOIF. Hunting is more than mere sport when the trained nimrods of the United States department of agri culture set out to bag an animal desperado that for years has defied the ranchers, the sportsmen and the bounty seekers of a western com munity. It is elevated to the dignity of a profession, in which the refine ments of a new psychology may be employed with advantage. Thus science triumphs as ever over em piricism. Even wolf-hunting, as appears from the most recent ex ploit of a federal agent in South Dakota, may give opportunity to organized brains. This is particu larly true where the hunted wolf admittedly is highly superior in craft and cunning. For seven years a certain wolf had ravaged the ranches for a hundred miles in every direction from Cus ter, S. D., and had killed livestock worth at least $25,000. Ranchers whose property was at stake were in despair; sportsmen who had been enlisted in the chase gave up in disgust, and bounty hunters who wanted the money were forced to admit that there were easier ways of earning it. For years there was a standing reward of $100, in addi tion to the bounty regularly offered by the state. The fame of the wolf became nation-wide. Editors on the Atlantic coast began to discuss the technic of getting rid of him. As a problem he became more puzzling than Villa, with whom his enemies were finally forced to compromise. But it was obviously impossible to enter into pour parlers with a wolf. A representative of the biological survey of the federal government. writing to the New York Herald in" defense of his bureau, tells how the department, after the ranchers of South-Dakota had about decided that there was nothing to do but board the wolf for the rest of his natural life, assigned one Williams, of the government's most skillful hunters, 1 to the task. The incomplete story j of Williams quest reads like a romance of the wildest west. It was the toughest case the department had ever had to handle, made so by j unbelievable lupine sagacity. When ' hunters got hot on his trail, the wolf left the country for a time, but he always returned when conditions were comparatively safe. "When Williams got on the job he was mak ing a kill every night, but always in different localities." And there is official authority for the following amazing evidence thafwolves have brains: On the two nights when Williams had to be away from the ranch at which he made his headquarters, the wolf visited it and killed cattle. This is mentioned as an illustration of the brute's sagacity, and not as a coincidence. It la vouched for by reliable men. ... In this case the animal thought worthy of the gov ernment's attention waa more destructive than a hundred of the kind ordinarily killed by bounty hunters and sportsmen. The government Lunters get the desperadoes that have defied the coun tryside. In the same district -a few daya ago a government hunter killed Silver Tip, a desperado bear that had destroyed thousands of dollars' worth of livestock. In relating the highly satisfactory outcome t the affair (the wolf was killed) the government repre sentative leaves too much to the imagination. He tells how the plan, suggested by a tyro, of hunting al ways to windward of the beast, had to be rejected as impracticable, but In telling how Williams won the victory he says only that the latter "outguessed the wolf." A simple explanation of an effective method, evidently, but one that leaves the rancher threatened by future depre dations as poor as ever. . There is not a word as to how the "out guessing" was done. If the gov ernment has a tenable theory of wolf psychology not in possession of hunters such as those who labored in vain for seven years to slay this monster, it is in duty bound to pub lish it. There ought to be no trade secrets in a matter of this kind. , Undoubtedly an Important depart- "ment of the government would not consciously stoop to nature-faking. And any pioneer cattleman knows enough about wild animals to credit almost anything he hears about their nearly superhuman intelligence on occasions. Yet the craftiest wolf may well despair when science takes the trail. That is being proved over and over again. In the high interest of food conservation it is to be hoped that all the details of Williams' technic will-be imparted in an early government bulletin. That the Pacific International Livestock Exposition at Portland, which opens next Saturday, is an event of special interest to the whole Pacific northwest is demonstrated by the fact that the Seattle Post-Intelligencer made it the leading fea . ture in its special Sunday supplement entitled "Northwest Farming." It jhas articles by B. N. Hutchinson, jO. M. Plummer and others, a double page of illustrations and several other pictures. . There could hardly be a stronger sign of the position that Portland has won as a livestock market and center of the packing industry. NO LONGER A VOTE-GETTER. Unfortunately, or perhaps for tunately, we shall not learn the com plete wonders of the scheme Mr. Kellaher had in mind for giving Portland car riders a 5-cent fare. Mr. Kellaher's insignificant showing in the election ooes not indicate that the people like the 8-cent fare, but it is apparent that a better un derstanding of the impossibility of getting 8 cents' worth of service for 5 cents has come about. There are but a few cities in which the 5-cent fare still prevails. San Francisco is one. There the tax payers foot the losses of the munic ipal line. Because of provision of the New York constitution the courts have held that the public service commission may not raise rates fixed by franchise in Brooklyn without consent of local authorities. Five cents is still the price for a ride in Brooklyn but the traction system is in the hands of a receiver and opera tions have been wholly suspended on numerous lines. In Philadelphia there was a promise made by the head-of the traction company that the 5-cent fare would be maintained. His was a plan of co-operation by employes and of improvements in service, establishment of the skip-stop sys tem, and other supposed economies. Admiration for his executive ability got him much favorable notice and an appreciative article in one of the national magazines. But even in the "city of brotherly love" it could not be worked. The company faced disaster and now the public service commission has ad vanced the fares to 7 cents, while those who transfer to another line, except In the down-town district, pay an additional 3 cents. Every hopeful scheme has been tried somewhere for keeping street car fares at 6 cents. It has always failed or somebody has nairl lar losses. As a vote-getter it ought- now to do laid away for good. It will be brought back, when condi tions warrant it, by the body consti tuted by the public as its formal agent in the matter. THE VITALITY OF ESPERANTO. Advocates of Esperanto, which less than a generation ago succeeded in driving that other candidate for universal honors', VoIap.uk. from the field, present a strong array of facts in support of their contention that the victory is in sight at last. If it is so, the point is illustrated again that in a language contest between the average man and the philologist the latter is almost certain to be vanquished. Esperanto is admitted to have drawn the fire of the scholars of many lands, but it is get ting commerce on its side, and the bolshevik! are turning to it as a re lief from the burden of their tongue, and in these" and other ways it is making substantial gains. ' ' The name , "Esperanto" is itself an'examre'of the impossibility of governing a living language ky hard and fast rules. When Zamen hof first proposed It in the early SOs, he named it "la lingvo inter nacio, but wrote In its support over the pseudonym "of "Esperanto " which survived because it was ob viously more convenient. But its popularity was hampered by rivalries that were almost immediately en gendered. Volapuk and a modified successor for some years claimed serious attention, and other schools f.anf UP- "Kosmos," "Spelin." Mondolingue," "Novolatiln," "My rana," "Ldo" and "Universala" were jrnong those Jaying claim to scholar ly indorsement but making little headway in popular esteem. Esper anto, which presents the advantage of being relatively easy for those who know some Latin and French to read, alone has attained the respectability that attends on num bers. It is probably true that it is being seriously studied by more people than have ever taken up an artificial tongue. The importance of the recent ac tion of the government of Brazil in putting Esperanto on an equal basis with Portuguese in fixing its cable tolls can hardly be overestimated, for it gives the moral force of gov ernment indorsement which its predecessors have always lacked The value of support by the soviet government of Russia is undeter mined, but the language is serving a good purpose as a linguistic bridge spanning an undoubted chasm It is too early to predict that Esperanto has come to stay, but it has at least reached a stage where its progress will be observed with unusual In terest. PUBLIC RELATION TO UTILITIES. Modified views of the relation between the public and the owners of " - . ""Hues are not taken by them alone: thov -rfnr. i . - - vu Aiau to in vestment bankers who provide the tajju-ii lor construction of street railway, light, power, gas, telephone and other rtuhlir- cj,-i.i governors of the Investment Bankers' nooutwuun oi America have passed a resolution declaring that there is need of expansion in all these lines and that therefore: i There should be co-operation between the investment bankers and the owners and operators of utilities and the rejru? lating officials in laying before the public full information respecting the vital im portance of prompt and continuing ex pansion of all kinds ef utility service, and in encouraging such utility regulatio- aa will provide sound credit as the basis for financing, to the end that the lnvestinc public may provide the necessary fund" by investment in sound public utilltv se curities. 8" Public regulation is thus admitted to be a factor In establishing sound credit for utility companies. Good credit is reflected in low interest and in ability to secure capital for con struction and expansion. Under public regulation, the lower the rate of interest paid by a company, the lower are the rates for service paid by the public, and the more readily capital is obtained the better will be the service and the more prompt ly . plants will be enlarged as the demand grows. Proper regulation keeps water out of capital, prevents speculative construction and opera tion, and thereby improves the se curity for the bond-buyer, thus facilitating the investment bankers' business. This security is not complete un less public regulation, permits rates which will pay enough profit on the investment to attract capital. Rate regulation should work both wcys, both to protect the public Against excessive rate" and to secure for the company - rates adequate for that purpose. In both ways it works in favor of the public, for the assurance of adequate rates acts as a check on the interest rate, consequently on the service rates. Understanding of the workings of regulation by the public service com mission is necessary to correct judg ment of schemes for public owner ship or to compel utility companies to render-service at rates which no longer pay interest on the capital invested. These companies are in effect simply agents employed to render -service to the public for a certain net percentage of their in vestment, fixed by the commission and corresponding closely to a commission- paid to a man for any other kind of service. Experience has proved that they furnish this serv ice more cheaply and more efficient ly than is possible under public operation. When this is understood the desire for public ownership will pass away. THE RED CROSS IN PEACE. Home town projects, a new health service, constructive effort for dis ease prevention, disaster prepared ness and a programme designed to reach the heretofore neglected rural districts constitute a part of the claim of the American Red Cross to continued loyal support. It is per tinent in connection with the fourth annual roll call, recently begun, that 2521 chapters in the United States are still performing duties under taken at the outset of the war In be half of service men and their families. The field covered by these is exceedingly wide. "Completion of some form of the war Job," the phrase employed in a recent sum mary jf Red Cross work, means ministering to men in the army, navy and public health service, aid ing disabled men who are receiving vocational training, and continuing the home work begun during the war and it means a good deal more besides. The statistical showing is elo quence itself. There are still 3659 Red Cross chapters, of which 3502 are in the United States, and the re mainder in American territory or in foreign countries. No state is with out representation ,by active work ers. Definite aid to families be reaved by the war, and to those in which the bread winner has been incapacitated, is being systematically extended by 629 chapters, and 273 others have applied for authority to continue on a peace-time basis. The health service, a new project, has already established health centers in 126 chapters and various other forms of community health work are being looked after in 429 others. Instruc tion in first aid, classes in life saving, education in general sanitation and supplying of public health nurses is being conducted in a large number of others. These are constructive projects growing out of or suggested by the war. Organization of disaster pre paredness committees in '86 chap ters will make', immediate relief possible to their respective com munities in the event of the happen ing of the unforeseen. It is sug gestive of the increasing breadth of the movement that the rural Red Cross organizations have adopted especial measures or -Jceeping them selves alive" In part the problem of developing community co-operation in the more sparsely settled regions will be met through this agency. Incidentally, Junior Red Cross activities are being continued in nearly 60,000 schools throughout the country and are daily reaching mil lions of American children. Need for the Red Cross did not cease with the signing of the armi stice. There is, too, an important distinction between the annual roll call now in progress and a conven tional "drive" for funds. In the present Instance It is sought to in crease membership, in the view that the active co-operation of millions of Americans Is more valuable than money itself. The hope of those who are loyal to the organization, that millions of citizens may be per suaded to continue in peace" the excellent work begun in war time, will be shared by all who under stand the value of preparedness in all things. Both in repairing the scars of war and in guarding against civic disaster, there is plenty of work yet to be done. Fallen leaves are a nuisance on walks or in gutter and street. The problem of disposition is up to the householder. Spread on the bit of garden land, they add humus to the soil. " Marriage licenses in large number were issued here and in Vancouver for Armistice day and it is. to be hoped the happy couples never need one. The Los Angeler 150-pounder who married a 725-pound bride will have to expect his wife's views to carry some weight in the family circle. A drop is announced in the price of golf balls. This confirms the be lief a good many persons have held right along that the world is safe. Carpentier and Dempsey, It is said, will divide $500,000. Small wonder the American boy would rather be a prize fighter than president. The latest ruling of the supreme court on whisky does not affect the ordinary man, who' has no stock In warehouse or at home. Sanity In buying, in this country is reflected in the order to stop production of silk in Japan for three months. Lucky for that Utah family that named the babies Harding and Cool idge that they stopped with twins. A New York man leaves $850,000 to a girl . who Jilted him a tribute to good judgment, possibly. TVi e. nranp-p marljAt la tin a nlla. Why eat oranges with Oregon apples in prolusion i Democrats have no need of the dictionary to get the meaning 'of Vox Populi. Thank goodness, Mr. Burleson soon will be only a canceled postage stamp. - Two weeks to Thanksgiving day, and how's that turkey? Babe Ruth's favorite song: "There Is no base like home," Ba -PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES. Shakespeare's Villain Made Vehicle ot Characterisation of Perfect Woman. ; Some one has been collecting defini--tions of the perfect woman, writes Kat3 Milner Rabb in the Indianapol' Sun, only to discover that Into the mouth 'of the villain, Iago. was put the most acceptable characterization in spite of its 'lame and impotent con clusion,' which one strongly suspects Shakespeare of appending at the last moment Just to keep Iago in char acter: She that is ever fair, and never proud. Hath tongue at will, and yet is never loud. Never lacks gold, and yet goes never gay Flees from her wish, and yet aays: "Now I may," She that being angered, her revenge being r.lgh. Bids her wrong stay, and her displeasure y , after this, someway, the "perfect woman nobly planned" of Wordsworth seems namby pamby, and the "celes tial light" surrounding her not at all convincing. And speaking of Shakespeare quo tations, some one asked r.cen ly why so many of the women who speak in public use that "sweet low voice," he so highly commended as a most ex cellent thing .in woman. Lear, of course, never dreamed of their taking to the hustings. Speaking . of the struggles some European nations are putting up for an existence, Philip H. Gadsden of Philadelphia, tells this story: i One night a hapless citizen going home, was set upon by two thugs and badly beaten. When he fell, uncon scious, after a terrific fight, to the sidewalk, the thugs went through his clothes and found, to their utter dis may, only 15 cents. One of the rob bers, disgusted, kicked the prostrate citizen a couple of times and made off down the street. But the second thug stayed behind to investigate the case tnore fully. A second search of the victim's clothes, however, failed to reveal more than the 15 cents, so the thug sat down to await the awakening of his victim When1 he returned to consciousness, the thief said: "Is this 15 cents all the money that you have?" "Yes. it is,'" weakly replied the victim. "Well, I believe you," the thug con tinued, "but please tell me why in thunder you put up such an awful scrap when you had nothing but the 15 cents on you." "Thunderation, man," the victim re sponded, "I was trying to protect my credit!" Somebody gave a former Main-street bartender a Bible and when he opened It at the book of Ruth he remarked that Babe could break into anything, but he never knew that part of the Bible was named after the home-run hero, says the Los Angeles Times. The book of Ruth is indeed rather convincing. In the second chapter Ruth remarks to Naomi: "Let me now go to the field." There is no deny ing that Babe Is a fine fielder as well as a mighty swatsman. In the very next verse the book says Ruth gleaned in the field. Babe can glean 'em in the field or any old place. In . an other verse Boaz tells Ruth: "Let thine eyes be on the field." The retired bartender thinks that Boaz must have been the manager of the team and he was telling Babe where to lay one down or else -to keep his glims peeled for the next man up. Then there's another verse that tells how Ruth cleaned up the field and beat it out. That's Babe, all right. The reformed bartender says that Babe may not have written the Bible, but he was apparently among those present. "Blackmore Socar. Did you ever hear of -that placer Warner Bar tholomew, county clerk of Wabash, Ind.. asked Elmer Vrooman, sheriff, as he glanced up from a woman voter's registsation curd he was holding. Sheriff Vrooman took the card, learned that It was made up by the wife of a. man who was born in Aus tria, and sad that he did kno "It Is in Austria that's where she was born," he said. "I don't think it is," the clerk amid. "Sounds more German to me." Then they got out the atlas and went through it. Other reference books were pulled from the shelves, but Socar remained as much of a mystery as ever. Republicans and democrats assembled and assisted in the search for information. "You say a woman made out that card?" asked a bachelor. "My view of the new voters has not been blurred by having them too close to me. Let me see that thing." He took the card and announced that the woman had used Socar as an abbreviation for South Carolina. He was right. - Raymond F. Yates, author of "Boys' Book of Model Boats." when asked about himself rose to the occasion and remarked: "I was born 25 years ago in a place where they have frogs 20 years old that don't know how to swim Lock port, N. T . My father was a tinsmith. I didn't like this so I thought I would be a barber. Cruel fate would not have it so, and here I am today only a poor editor. I started to write when 1 was 15 years old. When my first article was accepted I was showered with wealth literally buried under three dollars. I immediately became chesty and sent a longer ' article to the Scientific American. When I came out of the ewoon caused by the receipt of a $30 check I thought I had the world by the nape of the neck. Having an imagination like an un tamed bronco and being unable to lasso it, I had to confine my writings to scientific matters. . a For the first time In the history of the Elysee palace, the president of the French republic is able to bathe in a real bath tub. President MHlerand Insisted that the French White House keep pace with progress by the in stallation of a comfortable porcelain tub, with hot and cold water, instead of the shallow metal tubs, wherein valets poured the water for the bath from, antique pitchers. New York Herald. - The most exclusive and highest priced photographer in yew York has his studio in a ramshackle building on Fifty-seventh street, writes O. O. Mc Intyre. There is no elevator and the place Is musty and creaking with loose boards. Doors swing on broken hinges and the whole atmosphere of the place is depressing. But the answer is he makes the best pictures. So they ; ooibs) to la Ira. Those Who Come and Go. "We've redeemed Jackson county and it Is now in the republican col umn," says S. S. Smith of Medford. j member of the ..ipublican executive I committee, who Is registered at the j Benson. "In 1916 Jackson county gave Chamberlain a majority of 2740, i and this year Stanfleld carried It I against Chamberlain by 250. Of the Chamberlain majority six years agoj 1015 was contributed by Medford and j this year Stanfleld's lead in the town j was 125. so the county has been saved. Four years ago Wilson carried Jack- ! son by 1349 and Harding has carried; It by 1918 The best we hoped to do! was to hold down the democratic' majority to about 500, so we more! than exceeded our expectations.- Wei advertised to the voters, saying that , wnen tney got in tne oaiioi uux. n might be their own vote which would elect Chamberlain and give the demo crats control of the United States sen ate. The argument appears to have been effecti-e." "Speaking f the Indian relics beli.g uncovered near Big Eddv. east of The Dalles," observed N. J. Slnnotf, rep resentative of the second congres sional district, "one of the strangest objects was found in my back yard on Fourt street The Dalles. The Smithsonian Institution, at Washing ton, D. C, borrowed it and made an exact duplicate and it is part of th collection at Washington. 'he insti tution does marvels with its reproduc tions and an imitation looks so much like the genuine article tia't it s almost Impossible to tell one from tue other. But Indian relics are common in and around The Dalles. Any oay after the wind has been blowing the sand it is a simple matter to find arrow heads, spear heads and, occa sionally, stone articles." Millions of dollars' worth of meat contracts are still In existence be tween the government and concerns. No one knew how long the war was going to last, so the government signed contracts for a long period for meat and other supplies. It is the Job of R. T. Aguirre of the United States surplus property division to sell mirnliiK meats in nine states. This is the mission which has brought him to the Multnomah. Mr. Aguirre ex plains that the government is trying to get rid of the meat being delivered on the contracts as rapidly as possible and the stock is being disposed of at almost cost. Sherman Miles, the only democrat elected to the house in a contest, wa-s in Portland from St. Helena yes terday. Representative R A. Hunter or Union was re-elected, but the re publicans decided not to nominate anyone against him. Mr. Miles, how ever, went out and defeated District Attorney Metsker of Columbia county for representative, Metsker being the only republican running for the lower house of the legislature who failed to win in a walk. Mr. Miles was formerly chief deputy in the office o.f collector of internal revenue and had charge of the income tax. He is now in the banking business in Columbia county. "No one likes ' an east wind." growled We Caviness of Vale at the Hotel Oregon. "What is there about an east wind that makes a person grouchy and sore and feel generally disagreeable? It acts that way on the people in Portland and it acts the same way on the residents east of the Cascades. There's something in an east wind that no other wind possesses and whatever that some thing la it s a mighty bad element. Wlllamin-. in the edge of the Grand Ronde Indian reservation, is where Dr. Andrew Kershaw is in the mercantile business For many years Dr. Kershaw was Indian agent at the reservation and he knows that .section of the country thoroughly. Besides having a store he owns sev eral farms. He is registered at the Imperial. To participate In the horse show next week, Mr. and Mrs. McCleave of Victoria, B. C, have arrived at the Multnomah. They are accompanied by their daughter. Dorris, who was the bright particular star of the horse show a year ago. The young girl is considered the equal of any rider eeen in the west. Most of the office staffs In the hotels in Portland are composed of former service men, bnt non of them went In the parade yesterday, because they had to work. However, they put in odd minutes proving how their respective outfits won tlij war. . George Tremblay, assistant man ager of the Multnomah, wanted a day off yesterday. Business waa brisk and all hands were needed on deck, but Mr. Tremblay presented an ex cuse for a day off that was I resist ible he wanted to get married, and did. Among the out-of-town people who have come to attend the livestock ex hibition Is L. L. Rogers of Pendleton, who has arrived at the Benson with his wife and two daughters. Mr. Rogers is a rancher as well as a stockman in Umatilla county. One of the owners of the Big Pines Lumber company of Jackson county is Bert Thlerolf. who is registered at the Hotr1 Portland. The company has some extensive . holdings in the Butte Falls district, in southern Ore gon. Attracted by the fancy stock to be displayed next, week, H. La. Soare, who is deeply concerned in the Jivestock business himself, is at the Hotel Port land. Mr. Soare's operations are In the vicinity of Hope, Idaho, Jack Crowe is a gentleman o: lei sure in Portland and is ornamenting Ihe lobby of the Imperial. Mr. Crow has sold his hotel in Condon and hasn't anything to worry about for the time being. Thomas H. Tongue Jr. took a day off, came to Portland from Hillsboro and preceeded to wind up the affairs of the republican state central com mittee, of which he is chairman. Dr. K. L. B. Gleyse, a resident of The Hague, was registered at the Benson yesterday while passing through Portland on a business trip along the Pacific coast. E. Mason, who has a stock farm near Medford. Or., and who owns a string of fancy horses, is registered at the Imperial. He is here to attend the livestock exposition next week. One of the prosperous wheat raisers of Wasco is Thomas E. Sink, who ar rived at the Imperial yesterday with Mrs. Sink to watch the celebration of Armistice day Accompanied by his ramily, H. H. Tainer is at the Perkins from Deer Lodge. Mont., where he is in thetock industry. He is in Portland to view the stock show. Ellii" F. Hale and John P. Murphy of Walt:e. Idaho, where they are connected with the Hercules mine, are arrivals at the Hotel Portland. To have a change of climate for the winter, D. H. Welch of Astoria . is registered at tne ferkins and has (sent for his family. I Warden Compton of the state pen i itentiary has an elaborately furnished cell at the Bensoa. i John Burroughs' Nature Kotes. Can Yon Answer These Uncut Ions f 1. Does the woodcock have a song? 2. Do animals commit suicide? 3. How are cultivated plants handi capped over wild plants? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous questions. 1. How does the California quail differ from the eastern Bob White? The more local an animal is, the j more its color assimilates with its surroundings; or perhaps I should say, the more uniform its habitat, the i more assimilative its coloring. The ' valley quail of California frequents trees- and roosts in trees, hence its coloring is not copied from the ground, it is darker and bluer than the eastern Bob White. 2. Does a dog show anger against inanimate objects? The dog is often quick to resent a kick, be it from man or beast, but I have never known him to show anger at the door that slammed to and hit him. Probably, if the door neld him by his tail or his limb, it would quickly receive the imprint of his teeth. 3. What seemingly gentle forces of nature can crush rocks? The rain's gentle fall, the air's vel vet touch, and the sun's noiseless rays, the frost's exquisite crystals, these combined are the agents that crush the rocks and pulverize the mountains and transform continents of sterile granite into a. world of fertile soils. . 1. Which is- the most adaptive, the goose or the duck? A duck seems of a more intense na ture than a goose, more active, more venturesome: it takes to the bypaths, as it were, while the goose keeps to a few great open highways; its range is wider, its food supply is probably more various, and hence it has greater adaptiveness and variability. 2. How should a threatening dog be met? Self-confidence, self-control, an au thoritative manner count for Just as much In our dealing with the animals as with men. A bold, unhesitating manner will carry you through a pack of threatening dogs, while timidity or parleying endangers your calves. Act as though ycu were the ightful mas ter of the place and had come to give orders, and the most threatening watchdog gives way. 3. Is the world approaching bank ruptcy? Our civilization is terribly expensive to all its natural resources; 100 years of modern life doubtless exhausts its stores more than a millennium of the life of antiquity. Its coal and oil will be about used up, all Its mineral wealth greatly depleted, its wild game will be nearly extinct, its primitive forests gone, and soon how nearly bankrupt the planet will be! (Rights reserved by Houghton-Mifflin Co.) INDIAN STORIES OF 'WHITING Inland Sen Once Ejflated Above Cclllo nnd Natives Wrote Laws on Cliffs. PORTLAND. Nov. 11. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian was an arti cle regarding prehistoric characters found chiseled in the cliffs near Roosevelt, Wash. It is my desire, if you will permit, to give some addi tional information on this interesting subject. I was born and raised in Klickitat county. 'Washington, and as a boy used to play among the cliffs about Columbus and Tumwater (the pres ent Falls bridge) The existence of these signs of a former race was com mon knowledge with all us boys. The best example of these, to my recollection is In a small cave or crevice facing on the river but a few miles down stream from Columbus. In most cases these figures, consist ing of sun. moon, stars, men and animals, were well up on the face of the cliffs where they could not be reached, and more often than not the more distinct ones were found on the low cliffs at the river's edge. One old Indian told us they were the writings of the "socli tyee" (God) and were placed above the reach of man. Another, more practical, told us that they were made by his an cestors ages before the first white man came when the river above Ce lilo Falls was a lake and came much higher up the cliffs so that they were able to go along in their canoes and put their signs and laws on the rocks. I also have the Indian fable of how this lake was drained, but that is another story. In another article of the past few days was mention of ornaments, made from opposition, having been fourd in recent excavations near The Dalles, with the assertion that none of this rock Is to bo found this side of Cali fornia. I wish to state that if inter ested persons care to investigate they will find a quantity of this rock on old Hay Stack mountain near Celilo Falls on the Washington side. More may be found on Gray Back mountain near Mount Adams and on the Rattle snake mountains of the Columbia basin. It is also known that much of this rock was carried in by the Shoshone and Bannock Indians, from the Yellowstone district, where there are clffs of it, on their annual pilgrimages to the Celilo fishing grounds. A queer sort of shell was also men tioned. I have no idea what sort of shell these may be but volunteer the Information that on the very top of some of the flat-domed mountains on the Washington side may be found large beds of shellfish fossils Some advance the theory that these have been dropped here by crows. If so, why does the crow not keep up the good work? The old Indian claimed that these mountain tops once formed the shoals of a great Inland sea and that the shells grew where we find them. C. O. BUNNELL. HIGHER WAGE IS WELL EARNED Former Hospital Patient Sore Narses Are Entitled to Better Par. KELSO, Wash.. Nov. 10. (To the Editor.) In regard to The Oregonian, which said nurses should not have an increase in salary. I say that they should. I have had six operations and have never had a special nurse. But I have never met more congenial people than all my nurses. In fact, one nurse I had at the Good Samari tan hospital cried when-she was taken away from my case and put on spe cial duty. They work longer hours and are on their feet longer than any women should be. They have to put up with crabby doctors and patients, and still have a smile. And I have never seen the time that a nurse couldn't smile at her patient at 6:30 in the morning after being up all night. Words cannot express the feeling I have for those wonderful girls. ONE WHO OUGHT TO KNOW. In L'mntilla County. CASCADE LOCKS, Or.. Nov. 9. (To tho Editor.) To settle an election bet please state who won the United States senatorial race in Umatilla county, giving total vote cast for each. H. B. LINCOLN. The county official canvass gives Chamberlain 3977. Stanfield 3969. The returns are subject to canvass by the secretary of state. Better await the state's official figures. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jninea J. Montague. the: hat. He never has had access to The ample page of knowledge; His parents never put him through A brain constructing college: He has no pull he has no friends Yet furtively and slyly He almost always gains. his ends And lives the life of Reilly. H's tribe somehow contrives to eat. Destroy or ruin nearly Ten million dollars' worth of wheat And oats and barley yearly . Despite the fact that every one Throughout an angry nation Is bent, with poison, trap and gun Un their annihilation. They come and go where'er they please; They go on wild carouses Or sit about In idle ease In most exclusive houses. They toil not. neither do they spin, They scorn all useful labors. Subsisting with a cheerful grin Upon their human neighbors. We swell our chests and brag and spout And fancy we are clever In fact that we are just about The greatest being ever Yet when we grid at Mr. Rat And bitterly abuse him, I often have reflected that ' We really must amuse him. Castles Come IllKh. Judging by curent rent rates the landlords are evidently of the opin- ' ion that a man's house is h's castle. One Jlnnt Be Practical. In the forthcoming quarrel our sympathy is with Carpentier, but our money in on Dempsey. They Get About Hat' of It. . We are going to have a bumper wheat crop, which will be good new for the rats. (Copyright, 1S20. by the Bell Syn dicate, Inc.) - Reason. By Grace E. Hall. I've heard strange tales, and listening I have Known How far the truth waa carried in each word; They've used their flattering wiles. and every tone Was weighed by me and labeled as 'twas heard; They did not even guess that Truth and I Were old-time friend. nor that we fully knew How oft the glib tongue speeds the sweetened lie To put some far more cogent rea son through, Nor yet that Truth and I knew what was true. To reason well is God's best gift In life: -i Ability to face unlovely facts Yet follow one straight thread when in the strife There seems but chaos. 'Mid all other lacks This Is perhaps the worst: to have a mind That clutters up its thought a tangled skein. With never clear analysis to find A logical conclusion swift and plain. And keep an even balance through the pain. The greatest gift, I claim, is Just to know The truth of things, regardless of their trend: Sometimes the gift brings peace, but often woe. Sometimes it thrills but oftener chills, a friend; Without this reasoning, no written line. Nor printed page were worthy of a name. No verse nor sonnet evermore divine. Without the reason first had been a-flame. For Intellect, not words, births lasting fame. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of November 12, 183 Huntington The most serious fire this city has experienced last night destroyed eight business buildings, en tailing a loss of $20,000. Residents of Albany make the claim that A. C. Chrlstensen of that place is almost as strong as Sandow. They say he can lift 1100 pounds with one hand and can shoulder a railroad iron weighing 1800 pounds. At a meeting of the school board Professor Jarvis was named to have charge of the night schooL Mrs. Mary E. Barrett, mother of Mrs. Xarifa Faling and one of the oldest residents in the city, died at her home, 269 Market street, yesterday. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of November 12, 1870. Phlladelph.a Residents of this city are not satisfied with the census fig ures of the United States marshal, giving the city a population of 657, 159. Eggs are very scarce and have gone up to 49 cents a dozen. The dredger, under charge of Cap tain West, is still at work on the Swan Island bar and will continue work while the low water prevails. Population of California Cities. WALDPORT. Or.. Nov. 10. (To the Editor.) 1. Please tell me what the populations of San Francisco and Los Angeles are. 2. What were the high est a-id lowest temperatures for Los Angeles the past year? 3. What is the address of one of the leading papers of Los Angeles? A READER. 1. Population of San Francisco, ac cording to the last census, is 508,410. and of Los Angeles S76.7S3. 2. The highest temperature for Los A-geles in the year 1919 occurred on June 3, when the the-mometer regis tered 96 degrees. The lowest tem perature was 36 degrees, according to the local weather bureau. 3. The leading papers of Los Ange les are the Examiner, Herald, Times and Tribune. When Woman Weds Allen. PORTLAND, Nov. 11. (To the,Ed-itor.)- Please let us know if the 19th amendment to the constituiton gives the women equal rights with men. As I understand it, it does not. For In stance, if an American marries a for eign woman, he is still an American and can vote, but If an American wo mar. marries a foreigner she loses her right to vote and bee mes a foreigner. Is that correct? JOHN ROSS. You have stated the situation cor rectly. Who Boys Stamps. PORTLAND, Nov. 11. (To the Edi tor.) Please publish who has to pay for the revenue stamps on a deed, the buyer or. seller? I bought some property and they say I must put the stamps on It. I thought the seller should. MRS F. The seller of property should pay ,r the revenue stamp on a deed.