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About Morning Oregonian. (Portland, Or.) 1861-1937 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 28, 1910)
G THE MOHXIXG ORECOXIAX, MONDAY, XOVE3IBEK 28, 1910. &t (Dmnmtmt Eatered at prt:ar.4. Orscsa. peatofSea a tUci4i.ua l.t.s ;nr'aMr la Advance, 1ST MAiL). Pare. anay tne'.adej. en year t'slly. Si:r.der tnci'tdt. ss TO'-r. ths. . . J'-;r. f jn-:i In-lule-i. r monta.. X - J J'St:y. Sur.iey In -in i- j. on mato....-- 'J r: . wf.-, -,t fcinl.y, on -ear J wit..o.it un.:r. monts J ;J E'Sll. wl'-vii ir.'.ar. tiree m.-r.ths... lallr. linoul Sunday, o-e oonlB ? W t year ''!. y.r - J oao aal weekly, oca year. .... DT CAMlIEFO. faEy. 3Bday Included, one year...... -J 1ai.y. lunn lr--uJ. on month..- -T Most to Keanll mm jo.ffrlca mower wrder. ciprfM oru-r or pcrr.ai check your lot.. bank. Munpi. cola or currency r I lb Kcdtfl r:. r',r3f' ad-e In f ill. us.Iudlns eounlT ( KaM 14 to 14 pafes. root: If ta :t J c.nts; n to t cases. cents: eu paea. onto. rri3 (M'M doable, rot. Kjurn NikIomi Off), cs . Ycrrse C" Mo .New lor. :"inik biildiC. Cbl- !. btic tji:; r.g. PORTLiM. MOMIIV, NOT. 1110. roKrLA.M's :! s. The Federal ccr.sis of Portland lor 1910 does rot come up to the ex pectations of some citizens who have v highly pllniL-tic view of the value to at city of nitre numbm; It realizes the estimate of somo c-thrrs. who through many years have observed the substantia! tTOth and st.ady progress cf Portland towards a destiny of real metropolitan achievement and who are content that the world should know what Portland actually has in population. In commerce and In worthy civic ol vanccmcct and real municipal development. The record as It stands U a vi:irv-l. It tell (f the astonishing forward mar h of a growing city In th" sre.it Nnrthnit. In successful "mi.eUii n with o:hr bulling, hustl.r.g 'and hurraing rlaccs. It 1.4 a rivalry that h.is been stimu- latir.g end profitable. It hn ilonc much for IVrtUn 1 in tho cultivation of a spirit of emulation and fnt-r-prlse: It ri r ja d ne as much, or nearly a much. f'r other.-. though they h perhaps If. to shorn for it than has Portland In the way of a healthy ex pansion and a genuine prosperity. There U m t athtn Indeed as goln too fast. It la well f r the army that pii4he forward ! the fishtlnc line tt take treat tare It U'xm not tet ahead of it.4 rommU.ir)'' Ten year, asn the population of Portland v.i.4 90.i:i: now It L ;0T. 114. an In. reae of !.-.: per cent, or 1U.TM. a itrowth In ten nhort year rreater than the entire population of the. city In the fifty-ftve cara of It lilstory up to 100. Seattle' population ! :j:.14: In UOO It to mak ing an Increas" of livi:!. or 194 per rer.t It l an asto.-.Ihlnjr tory for Seattle, a wonderful advertlu-mrr.t of the amazlnir advance of that iininue city. There oticht to be no fcelinc of envy her that the northern neighbor has) don po welt. There 4vlll be con ItratuUtiona ttist the f.mous Seattle plrlt ha rom;M result itratify In and actual. Yet It will rot be taken amis, we hope. If attention In called to the fact that the vat en thusiasm of Seattle over Its own prog ress, and It equally vast admiration of Itself for what It had doae. per mitted th announcement to be made everywhere- that Suf,le had at least 100. 00l people. If the official rensus, which will be and should be everywhere- accepted 4 authentic, shall cause a feellna; of disappointment and chacrln In Seattle, the succestlon may be pardoned that It 1.4 well to do only a fair amount of rainbow cha.MLC In the presence- of the obdurate anil prurniatio census-taker. Hero In Port land our prophecies were modest and their realization 1 itenerally satis factory or somewhere near it. The rTowth of Portland In the first half of the past decade was moder ate: from 1S05 to 1907, following tho historic Lewis and Clark exposition, much faster: and for the three years Just piu-t greater than at any pre vious time. Increas-e of population at the rate of nearly 1000 a month for fn years without adventitious aids I a matchtes record for any city In the 200.000 class. - N'ow Portland knows where It stands. It la a city of 207.: 14 popu lation. If It had been permitted to enumerate mary of the laborers In the Deschutes and on the Tillamook road, and elsewhere, who were re cruited from, Portland, and who may be properly said to belong- here If anywhere. It would not have sufTered from the Inexorable excisions of the prying census bureau. Knowing where we stand, we may cut our garment according to the cloth In all our mu nicipal projects, though we should hare. too. a correct and appreciative view of the needs and requirements of the future, for we are going to have large city here. It would appear to be certain that. If Its progress shall not be Interrupted where Is there on our hor'.xon the faintest cloud of sus picion or doubt that It may be Inter rupted? it will be at the next censua far the greatest city In the FacMc Northwest. the vino maple and other obstinate underbrush remains to be solved. In a very lance proportion of caoos the owner of lvsed-off land finds It less expensive to rid himself of the stump than of the living, tenaclouly-roolcd uiidrrgrow th. If char-pitting proves to be feasible, if men can be taught to do it at the cost estimated by the Government ex pert, of J10 to $i0 an acre, the State of Yt'ashlngion has struck a hue bur gin fur Its Investment of J3000. A striking feuture is that the process involves io outlay but labor. And there is many a claim-owner who would le gl.id to market his own labor on his oan land In slack seasons. It insures profitable employment to thou sands without going away from home. From a financial viewpoint it Is a big thing to put land under the plow without adding so much to the cost of it that It forever after must yield In terest on an xorbitar.t s'ira or be an economic failure. The extraordinary ti-d !nestmeiit in vcr high-priced lands Is coming to be more and more a factor In the cost of IHing. rheaply i cleared slump land meatus Immediate relief. It takes no unusual perception to see a great many millions of dollars added to the wealth of tho state if the Federal Government and the states make out the case for char-pitting. It is to be hoped, too, that every owner of uncleared land who can af ford to do so may attend the domon strations to ho given at Yacolt. Wash., and perhaps elsewhere. As has been said, theory does not always fit prac tice, but It i:i be worth great deal of effort to master the process If It will do what is claimed for It. daily when we consider that unless the people prosper the railroads can not prosper, and that what is good for one is good for the other. Cn.TltL I'KIVILKr.Esi TO HKKYCKRIrX. Powers of attorney, w hich huve been conveyed by 115 saloon-keepers of Portland to local breweries, give the breweries a control thoy should not have over the retail liquor trade of the city. Since a limitation has been placed on the number of saloons In Portland, saloon men holding licenses are given the preference by the city authorities when the licenses for a coming year are granted. Thus the man who hold a retail liquor license has a monopoly over it so long as the Council does not choose to oust him for cause. With the power of attorney, how ever, a brewery may force a saloon keeper out of business and present the license to any other mnn so long as the Council cannot, or does not, lind cause to object to the new holder of the license. In presenting their views and inter ests to the Council, the breweries have l.KBINO nxAXCIAr. ATMOSrilERH. Tho New York bank statement for the week ending I:ist Saturday Is the most satisfactory that has appeared since e:iriy in September, when Colonel Roosevelt was circulating Hryan theoriis In the U'cst and causing cold tiilvers to run up and down the pin of capital. The loan expansion of marly I13.00O.0u0 was the largest In crease reported since iast Spring, and an increaso of more than $17,000,000 in deposits enabled the reserve ac count to show a gain of nearly Ja.000, 000. bringing the total up to more than tS15.000.000. The reserve over and above the requirements of tho 15 per cent rule was J 1 S.I 70.000. the highest figure recorded slneo last Sep- , tcmoor. This Improvement in the financial situation is Rlso reflected in easier rates for money. Now that the November elections have clarified the commercial air somewhat and now that there will soon set In a back flow of crop-moving money from the country to the city, it la reasonable to expect a re sumption of the activity that was checked last Summer by unwarranted fears over the result of the November electlous. Prices for farm products are lower than they were last year, but the crops are larger, and large sums that were sent into the Interior for crop-moving purposes will be re leased and avallablo for other uses. The situation In Portland Is re flected In bank clearings for the week of S9. 632. 373. an Increaso of 12.512. 4 50 over the same week last year. Unfortunately for the Northwest as a whole some of this gain was offset by a decrease of more than 12.000.000 In the Seattle clearings for the same period. come; Dr. McLoughlia waa holding sway over the whole Western Coast in the Interest of the British; many American statesmen regarded the Pacific Coast too far away ever to be of use or benefit to the American people; transcontinental railroads were not dreamed of; west of the Rocky Mountains the region was a vast wilderness and as was also most of the rcnion between tho Rockv Mountains and the Mississippi; the only Americans who had followed Captain Gray, und Lewis and Clark hither were occasional fur hunters. Tho canal Idea was not new with Goethe, but his consciousness of tho ultimate power of the American re public iw ill stand as one of the notable things In literature and history. A strait between the two oceans through America, it will be remembered, was sought by navigators nearly three hundred years before Goethe's tlm and a canal cut through the Panama Isthmus wan thought of at an early day. In looO a Portuguese, navigator, Antonio Calvao, proposed a canal t tho King of Spain. In 17S0 Nelson HARVEY W. SCOTT AS LIBBAHIAX Interest Shown la Visitor Is Followed rtronosnn n ennl of V ra (.i i a 1 n ."" V'"1 . e I"""""1 1S04 Humboldt proposed one of five have been Issued to them in exchange for financial backing given saloon keepers, and that without them a saloon-keeper might become delinquent and forfeit his license, leaving the breweries in the lurch. Thus tho breweries have been permitted to transfer licenses at will, the Council, however, reserving tho right to Inter pose Its objections, which it has never done. If all men are to he equal before the I;iw, tho liquor law ns well as gen eral laws, then the powers of attorneys to breweries are wrong. It Is not the business of tho city to servo as a medium between saloon-keepers and breweries In financial deals. There Is no Just reason why the brewerfes should deal In city conces sions which are limited to a designat ed number. As the saloon business is under tho police power of the city, the Council can govern the licenses. If It so chooses, regardless of the powers of attorney held by anybody, and an effort should be made to s-e that busi ness favoritism should not enter Into the matter of awarding these special privileges. different routes for such a waterway. The Panama Canal Is an inevitable product and stimulant of the growing greatness of the American nation That growth made tho canal a neces sity In the thought of a great German intellect very soon after the nation be gan Its career and when its people occupied but one-third their present territory- In this retrospect, the spread of the American people has been natural, lnevitablo. Irresistible, and. moreover, in pursuance of a great design, unconscious though the Ameri can people have been of It during most of the process. CHEAT LAND CLEAKIXS. If the expert of the Department of Agriculture assigned to demonstrate the practicability of a new method of ridding logged-off land of Its stumps accrla In proving y:o his assertion that his way Is cheap and capable of belcg adopted by men of ordinary skill, he will confer an industrial boon on Western Oregon and Washington. The trouble with most of the methods heretofore exploited has been that they worked well In theory but failed in practice to accomplish In the hands of common men what experts had been able to show for them. "Stump-plttlng.- or char-pitting." re terms used to designate the pro cess of destruction which the Federal Iepartmenl of Agriculture. In con Junction w 1th the State of Washington, will spend tlO.OOO to place In the hands of people who own stump land. On paper, there ought to be no diffi culty. One needs only, the Instruc tions say. to lay a t:re around the stump, to cover It properly and watch i encountered In It as one would an ordinary charcoal pit. and lo! the thine Is done cost $1 to ISO an acre, the latter figure being only for extreme cases. That much for the theory. Hut the process Is not altogether new. and one reason why It has not been put Into use uni versally Is that men have not learned how to deal with less favorable con dition than the demonstrator picks to show his work. Fir stumps, half rotted, soggy with the water of many Winters, yet good for twenty-five j ears as obstructions to the plow, present a problem of their own. and It Is of such that a great logffed-off area consists. And the problem of CIVS TICK K.UIJIOAM A RT. Portland, Oregon, and the Puciflc Northwest have few If any better friends or more enthusiastic boosters among railroad men than Howard F.lllott, president of tho Northern Pa- clllc. Always optimistic, and pos se&scd of abiding faith in the futuro of this country. Mr. Elliott has never overlooked the fact that prosperity and adversity In this region are and always will be mutual for the rail roads and the people they serve. In saying that "the greatest present need of the Northwest Is more peo' pie." Mr. Elliott calls attention to an economic condition that appears in Its worst light whenever we send money out of the Northwest for com modities which should be produced here. We need more people because there is an Insulliclent number to pro duce what is actually needed for those already here, and also because there are better opportunities for both capi tal and labor than can be found In any other part of the world. To get the people here and to dis tribute them over the millions of acres of Idle land we need the heart iest co-operation of the railroads. This assistance, we have been receiv ing on a large and grqwlng scale since the beginning of the present somewhat aggressive competition be- tween the Hill and Harrlman interests in the Pacific Northwest. Now that the railroads have mapped out a broad and comprehensive plan for supplying this Immense region with necessary transportation facill ties and that it is a foregone conclu ston that all of the rest of us will share In the prosperity bound to fol low this development. It may bo well seriously to consider Mr. Elliott's com plaint regarding adverse legislation. Money has already been provided for a number of the big projects which both the Hill and the Harrlman sys tems are earning forward In the Pa cific Northwest, but much more will be needed. With too much legisla tion and vexation, railroad securities as an Investment do not appeal to capitalists who can And less hazardous and more profitable opportunities for utilizing their money. Mr. Elliott quite truthfully says that "the railroad owner desires to ob serve every law that is passed, but no law can be passed by a legislative body or order given by a commission that can force a man to Invest his money. So long as the adverse senti ment exists further Investment will be retarded." In the older settled locali ties in the Vnlted States, where both traffic and facilities for handling It have reached near enough to the maximum to be on a stable, perma nent basis, less difficulty would be n over-abundance of regulations. In a new country, how. ever, where In many cases the traffic does not exist and will not exist until a railroad Is built, the element of chance Is greater and tapltal. uncer tain as to Just what the returns may be. will surely be reluctant, especially when the whole world is oTrrlng op portunities for Investment in schemes that are not hampered by too much legislation. So fsr as Oregon Is concerned, her greatest need at this time is not more railroad legislation, but more rail roads. When we get all the roads we need no great difficulty will be en countered la regulating them, espe- ntiiO THE I.LM1TS. Sidid. substantial, conservative and compact, Portland Uvea up to her ref utation even tit the census returns. Since its inception, Portland has never shown a disposition to stretch its lim its until they cracked. When demands by business, or by increasing popula tion, required two stores or two dwellings whero only one of each ex isted, the additional buildings were put up alongside or in the immediate vicinity of those already built. As a result of this policy no didiculty was ever encountered til determining where tho city ended and the country began Portland has pushed its suburbs ahead of it as the city has grown,' and there have never been any long stretches of vacant land between different "ad ditions" that have necessarily been made to the city. As a concrete illustration of this prominent characteristic of Portland growth, the census figures are inter esting. We note, for instance, that the average, population per square mile within the city limlu of Portland Is 4229, while the average within the limits of Seattle is but 2S93. Port land, Itistead of sprawling over miles of territory not yet needed for city purposes, finds ample room in 4 8 square miles, while Seattle Is trying to give a metropolitan appearance to 82 square miles of territory. If the area within the city limits of Seattle were so densely populated as that within the limits of Portland the cen sus figure would have shown a popu lation of 346.778, or something less than the 1920 figures will show for Portland. THE CANAL OF A CJRK T AND CROW' l.NG 1'COri.E. Ships may pass through the Pana ma Canal two years hence, thinks President Taft. Final completion of the waterway, he says, will be effected on New Year's day four years and one month hence. Dreams of 400 years will then be realized. The United States will have a most valuable artery between the two oceans. Its continental divisions will be brought together more closely than ever before. Its commercial range and Its defensive and offensive power will be greatly enhanced in tho American hemisphere and in the world at large. The canal Is Indis pensable to maintenance of the Mon roe doctrine, to support of a strong navy and to growth of a great peo ple. It la interesting to note that the German poet Goethe foresaw this consummation by the United States nearly a century ago. Goethe's breadth of foresight in various direc tions was remarkablo. In 1827 he dis cussed the travels of Humboldt who spent the years 1797-1804 in the American hemisphere, most of the time In South and Central America. Goethe's words (translated) are of new Interest, now that the canal is so soon to be finished: This much Is certain: If by a crosscut of ihn Kind it could be accompllihed that iomIi with sll sort of rargoei and of ovsrr lxo cotild n throuch ouch a canal from tba Quit of Xltxlco to tho Pacific Ocoan qulto inoajculan) raoults would fol low for the antlra civillsad and uncivilised human race. I, noaever. would be sur prised If the United States would mla the chanca to t such a work Into her hamis. it la to bo foraoseen that this young- stale, with Its decMed tender.. toward the West. 1,1. In SO to 40 years have also taken possession and will hava populated lbs nrf ar-aa or lano on tna otner sloe or the Rocky Mountains. It Is furthermora to bo foreseen that In th:a enure t'oast or the Pacific ocean. wherein nature has already created the most roomy and safest harbors. In rourtje of time very Importsnt commercial towns will carrr on a larser traffic between blna and the East indies with th Trnlted Stat.s. n such a u It would lint only be drslr- Me. but also necessary that merchant as i ell as war vessels suould bo able to hava quicker connection with too western and eastern coasts of America. I therefor repeat that 11 Is entirely Indis pensable for the United States to make a assaae irora lue uuii 01 Mfiico 10 ine at if 10 O-ean nd I am certain that aha will accomplish it. Of chief Interest In this prophecy is the remarkably correct estimate of the future growth and needs of the United States. At that time, the American people had not occupied the Pacific le of the continent. The California possessions were not acquired from Mexico until nearly a score of years later. The Oregon country was a wilderness and the governments of neither Great Britain nor the United States, regarded Oregon worth con tending for. Nor did the American people rea lize that they had an Interest here. Immigration to Oregon had not be gun; the missionaries had not yet That large and influential circle of pessimists which tightened its hold on its purse strings in the Autumn of 1905 ami awaited the coming of the "slump" that was to follow the Fair has been nursing a similar delusion for the past few months and has ex perienced similar results. ' It is tor tunute for Portland that in tho clos mg day or llo, as in 190a, every train is bringing into the city and state about a hundred optimists whose pres ence enables us to mako an admira ble offset for tho influence of the pes simists. It was tho abundance of nat ural resources and excellent facilities for turning them Into money that mado Portland a great city, and as these resources have been hardly touched, the city will continue to grow more rapidly than ever. No surprise need be felt that the executive committee of tho Grange repudiates any suggestion or intima tion that it is responsible for the odious county (singlet tax scheme, successfully engineered through the initiative by Mr. U'Ren and other lead ing lights of radical and revolutionary .theories and vagaries. Does the Grange, remember the sad fate of Old Dog Tray? Bad company In legisla tive projects has got the Grange Into a similar plight. But no doubt the Grange will retrieve its error, and get busy now devising and promoting a plan to extricate tho farmers and the rest of the responsible citizenship of Oregon from the clutches of the sin gle taxers. - by Llre-i.onK Friendship. W. J. Dean, in Ashland Tidings. Late In the Fall of "64 I found my self marooned for several days in the city of Portland. Oregon rained in. I was Just down from thei John Day mines and was heading for some educa tional Institution, not yet fully decided upon, but with the University of Seattle strongly in the lead. The next day aft er arriving, as I was strolling leisurely slong the streets dodging the big rain drops to the best of my ability, a sign In a stairway attracted my attention. It was, "Portland Library Booms." Below the conspicuous heading there was some reading matter In small let tering which, had I taken the trouble to examine, would no doubt have played havoc with tho foundation of this sketch. Be that as- 't may my aimless strolling came to an end then and there. In a Jiffy I bolted up those stairs into the library room and was soon cozlly seated poring over an interesting book and not curing a rap whether the downpour outside let up or not. 1 put in full time until noon and was back promptly at 1 o'clock. Next day ditto; but near the close of the day I noticed that the librarian passed near me several times looking rather ln .qulsitlvely In my direction. Finally he came and sat down by me, asked my name, business, where from, where bound, etc. In few words I gave the de sired Information and he was Intensely Interested at once. "If you wish to en ter a good school," he said, "you can do no better than go to the Paclflo Univer sity, at Forest Grove. I have recently graduated from that Institution and can heartily recommend it." He gener ously offered to loan me an "armful of books" If I could make use of them. He talked rapidly and very earnestly for some time outlining the good points of that university and eloquently di lating upon the advantage to me, or any other young man, of a thorough course of study. When the time came for closing th library and I was about to retire, h Incidentally called my attention to th fet that of course I had not not! that the library was not free to th public, that certain monthly dues were required, etc. Tuis was an. em bar as sing revelation, and I hastened to apolo gize, but he cut me short, said he took In the situation exactly and almost com manded me to come to tho library when ever I pleased and make myself at home also to count on him as e. friend that h would gladly assist me in any way he could. Then he gave me his name Harvey W Scott, adding that while acting as li brarian he was putting In spare time reading luw eaid doing some writing for Tho Oregonian. Needless to say. I took his advice an was soon enrolled as a pupil at Paciti University. During the school year tha followed, whenever I had occasion to go to Portland; Mr. Scott would Insist on my calling on him "for a chat." This was glad to do, for he was one of the most entertaining conversationalists ever knew. He could make any subject Interesting. While but littla humor seemed to flow from his pen. In private conversation he showed a keen appre ciation of tho ridiculous and was a n.ns ter hand in bringing out the ubsurd. lu dicrous or grotesque in any subject-mat ter in hand. Ho was intensely in earnest and seldom hesitated, from motives of policy. In giving vigorous- expression to his opinions. For many years it was my good fortune to keep In close touch with this valuable friend. Hl letters to me were replete with cheering words and wholesome coun sel. So it may be inferred that the writer will ever hold In trateful remem brance the name of Harvey . Scott. This Nation-wide crusade against the Chinese laundry is a llttlo late in getting under way, for the competi tion of the steam laundry has been so keen that, except In a small way, the Chinese laundrymen are in the pota tion of Othello so far as their original occupation is concerned. Another potent factor in eliminating the Chi nese laundry from our list of Indus tries is tho scarcity of Chinese help in other callings. Chinese labor is not the best in the world, but since the ex clusion laws became ver' strict, the supply has fallen so far short of the demand that almost any kind of an In telllgent Chinaman can find more re munerative employment than is possi ble in competition with a steam laun dry. A bill imposing Jail penalty on any surgeon who carves out an appendix not in a diseased condition is the lat est thing in freak legislation proposed and will be presented to the next Colo rado Legislature. Its possible adoption calls up visions of long rows of bottled fragments of anatomy preserved by careful surgeons for exhibits in threatened damage suits, and of efforts by the busy paraphrasers along some thing like this line: Pctnr Piper pickled a peck of picked ap pendixes. While the expediency of annexing suburbs is always a debatable ques tion, no one can deny that annexa tion is an Important factor in census returns. For particulars on the af firmative side, see New York, Pitts burg. Cleveland, Los Angeles and Seattle. On the negative side, see Portland. t Half an hour's time may be well spent today making a list or a partial list of gifts to be bought for Christ mas. Don't let holiday shopping drive you; better drive it, and start tomorrow. In the interests of saleswomen whose vital energy Is cruelly taxed during the two weeks preceding Christmas, The Oregonlan appeals to this community to begin its holiday shopping in earnest early this week. All the apple publicity that Oregon gets at thin season of the year from London to Vladivostok, to say nothing of the United States, will figure in the fourteenth Federal census. Cottage Grove has a fine hard-surfaced business street, if it did fail to become a county seat. This item may be a bigger inducement to investors than that lost. Down in Florida Saturday a negro was "quietly" lynched, with the usual bombardment of rifle balLs. Justice seems to be Improving in the black belt. The Tennessee Supreme Court up holds the state law against the manu facturers of whisky, but the distance is short to the Kentucky border. When Connie Mack visited the Pope, perhaps the first question His Holiness asked was not about the score. EM.LISH CLERGY MADE ERROR, Now No "Bishop of Washington" on Pacific Coast. Washington Herald. Over in England all the bishops are "my lord." Here it's different. About this Bishop Paret. of Maryland, had an entertaining experience. Everywhere, said the bishop, "when I was on my first visit to the Pan-Anylican confer ence, I saw In London large posters on churches and elsewhere to this effect: 'The Lord Bishop of Washington will preach In this church next Sunday morning.' " That was before there was a diocese of Washington, when the City of Washington was a part of the dio cese of Maryland, and when, therefore, if there was a Lord Bishop of Wash ington at all, Bishop Paret was that bishop. Yet he was not the preacher of the posters! Away off on the Paclflo Slope there was a Bishop of Washington, and it was this bishop the English clergy were Inviting to their pulpits under the idoa that he was the bishop of the Capital City of the United States of America. Since then, intentionally or other wise, there has been no "Bishop of Washington" on the Pacific Coast. He is called the Bishop of Spokane or the Bishop of Olympia. Apple Advertisement SuftKested. PORTLAND, Nov. 22. (To the Ed itor.) I notice that the trade in the East knows most of the apples that come from Oregon, irrespective of lo cality, as "Hood River apples." I do not consider this fair to the other sections of the state that produce such fine apples. In order to advertise the apples of whole Oregon per mit me to make a suggestion. Have a day set aeide at the public schools in Chicago, Pittsburg, Phila delphia or Now York City and let it be known as Oregon apple day, and give to each pupil an apple wrapped in paper on which is printed some ap propriate advertising matter. In this way Oregon apples would reach every house in the city, and to me it appeals as a very desirable direct form of ad vertising. By appealing to the Board of Education the names of pupils could be ascertained and thus the fruitgrow ers would know approximately the ex pense attached to such a scheme. J. E. C. Yes, the plan would put Oregon apples into every home all right, but recognizable to the parents only through youthful smiles Induced by pleasant sensations of the palate. TOWS BIGGER THVX LEGISLATURE Sujrgesjtlon Made That Local Option la Farce Vuder Home Hule. PORTLAND, Or.. Nov. 34. (To the Ed itor.) An editorial In your Issue of 22nd notices "Home P.uls in the Country"; "proper and desirable limitations on the home rule act the home rule unit should not apply to villages or country places." That weakness in the home rule bill was pointed out in the very valuable digest of the measures to be voted on by The Oregonlan the day pre ceding the election, yet the constitutional amendment was enacted fast and hard, granting to every incorporated munici pality in Oregon, no matter how small, "exclusive power to license, regulate or control" saloons within" its borders Now how Is the Home Rule Associa tion going to prevent or Interfere with home rule in the Incorporated country town? We have said to the Legislature, "This little hamlet Is bigger than you are." Every farmer, every stockman every man In Oregon living outside the pale of corporation. Is by this act dis franchised so far as pertains to temper anoe leplslntion. The smallest harlot may place a saloon beside his school house door and he has no voice In the matter. He will be taxed to pay for whatever of criminal prosecution, poverty or oflljer expense is thrust upon his county by its existence and may be called upon to suffer for its demoralizing effects, but In any way or manner to use the ballot in the premises he is an alien. With this act the local option law becomes a farce and a humbug all towns had the right to exclude saloons before our local option law waa heard of, and with the exception of a few well ap pointed roadhouses near the metropolis, where Joy riders "go and sometimes live to return to the city, saloons are not located out on the farm. A FARMER. One safeguam available. In some in stances, against the conditions ug gested is the adoption by the Legislature of an act prohibiting tho Incorporation under the - Initiative of any town not having 500 or more inhabitants. It is understood such a measure will be ad vorated by the Greater Oregon Home Rule Association. Thts law would pre vent the colonizing by the saloons of new towns adjacent to "dry" towns or cities, but obviously would not deprive tho small towns now Incorporated of any powers or privileges granted under the home rule amendment. LIFE'S SUNNY SIDE MEX WHO PAY NEED PROTECTION Measure Suggested to Curb Rating Powers of Non-Taxpayers. OREGON CITY. Or., Xov. 25. (To the Editor.) In The Daily Oregonlan of November 23 there is an editorial en titled "A Dangerous Tax Law." In this article you show the injustice and ab surdity of the amendment approved by the people at the late election, all of which is undoubtedly true, and in the latter part of said article you say: "This new amendment is a menace to property and to the fiscal system of the state. It puts as large a city as Portland is at the mercy of the non taxpaylnir element," etc. This is true, and it applies to the country as well as cities where there are large numbers of voters who are not taxpayers. Now if the people are going to legislate for themselves, they can certainly do a better Job than that. Let us propose an amendment some tiling like this: Every legal voter shall be required to register, as at present; it shall also be ascertained at that time it he is a taxpayer or not, and the registration book that goes to the polls shall so state: all matters to be voted on at state, county or municipal elections car rying appropriations and all matters relating to taxation shall be so ar ranged on the official ballot as to be easily detached. When a voter gives his name to the election board, the reg ister will show if he is a taxpayer or not. If he is, he will be entitled to cast the whole ballot; if not, the chairman will detach the small purt (containing appropriations and tax measures) from the ballot, and then he cannot vote for something for the other fellow to pay for. If he has failed to register and has to be sworn on election day, he would not get the full ballot, as there would be no way of knowing If he was a tax payer or not. I am aware this sounds severe, and some will declare their rights are being taken away, but I do not believe any one should be given the right to vote for some expensive measure unless he is prepared to help pay for it. OEOKGii C. -A-KAlSTiiONQ. One of the magistratle axioms is that all test'mony Is founded on fact, and when any witness is slow with precise information this same law may be invoked with telling effect. Which, to the analytical mind, will explain what nearly happened to the street peddler who failed to obtain a license and was taken around to call on Mag istrate O'Connor. "Call the next case." said the court. The pedler appeared before him. "What's your name?" "I. Wontell." "What's that?" shouted the astound ed court, with the Judicial ear bent forward like a monoplane on a curve. "I. Wontell." "Oh. you won't," said the court. In something not far removed from biting sarcasm. "Do you think you can Joke with the law in this way?" "If your honor please," said the pris oner's counsel, stepping forward. "I know his name Isaac Wontell." "Oh, yes, Isaac will," replied the magistrate, with a tone of conviction. "This is contempt in its worst form and I'm going to hold him in" here the magistrate paused and tried to think of the biggest sum of money he had ever heard of. The frightened lawyer stutterlngly explained that h's client had no inten tion of giving offense; that his name was Isaac Wontell, and whatever he had done he would never repeat. The prisoner caught the drift of tha pro ceedings and broke forth In a torrent of connected sounds that no American phonograph would record. "See there," said the lawyer. This proves it." The court was somewhat mollified. "Why didn't he give his full name at first?" the magHstrate asked. "I've a good notion to give him the limit of the law." The case was compromised finally by Wontell paying SI for his failure to ob tain a license. New York Herald, ess A negro servant had been discharged bs" her mistress because of various fail ings, and a few days afterward called with a request for a recommendation. Her former employer, with the best heart of the world, decided to assist her In obtaining a new situation, and wrote a letter which dilated upon all the colored girl's good qualities and made no mention of her shortcomings. Dinah read the letter through with glowing eyes, her black face shining more with every word. When she had finished she turned to the lady and eaid: Laws, missus, but yo' cert'ly did say dat nice. Now, missus, with er strong recommen like dat ter back me, don't yo' think yo' could hire me fo' dat Job ergln?" Housekeeper. sea George von L. Meyer, the Secretary of the Navy, praised at a naval dinner In Washington the old sea dog. "One of these typical old sea dogs, he ended, "was persuaded one day in Philadelphia to attend a tea. I met him a short time afterward, and said: 'Well, Marlinsplke. I hear you've been doing tea parties in Philadel phia?' res, sir, the old salt replied, I did go to one tea party, sir.' 'And how did you feel there among all those ladies?' I asked. 'I felt like a sperm whale doing crochet work," he replied." Detroit Free Press. 'But don't Judge a man by appear ances," said Mayor u. S. Marshall at a banquet in Columbia- Jackson Wentworth, after an ab sence of 30 years, returned to the home of his youth. Jackson had a sligiit affection of the skin which made his nose very red. Hence, when he called at the parsonage the old minister remarked: Jackson, Jackson, my man, I'm afraid you've become a hard drinker.' " 'Don't Judge by appearances. Dr. Steenthly,' said Jackson Wentworth. 'I hardly consume two glasses of beer a week.' 'Well, then.' snla the minister, in a soothing voice, 'I guess your face, Jackson, Is like my gas meter. It reg isters more than it consumes.'" St. Louis Globe-Democrat. NOT FIRST FINGER-PRINT CASE. California Lawyer Cites Conviction Antedating Recent One In Chicago. MODESTO, Cal., Nov. 23. (To the Editor) Several newspapers recently published a news item from Chicago tating that a Jury had convicted negro on the evidence offered by three finger marks. It was asserted that the conviction was the first one secured n such evidence. The Oregonian In its Issue of November 12 commented on the fact. The writer believes that this conviction is not the first of its kind in the United States. In May, 1910, the writer was connect ed with the defense of a man named P. Tevls, accused of the crime of CAMELS GIVE WAY TO RAILROAD Holy Carpet Goea to Mecca This Year by steam Caravan. New. York Sun. The pilgrimage to Mecca, which is soon to be undertaken throughout the Moslem world, will be marked this year by another concession to modern ity. The holy carpet, the covering which Is annually taken from Cairo to Mecca for the Kaaba, the most sacred part of the holy shrine, will travel by railway. Usually the caravan to which the holy offering is Intrusted has em barked at Suez for Jeddah and thence overland to Mecca. But the latter part of the Journey is through a hotll'S country, and the pilgrims have often been compelled to resort to trany de vices to fulfill their mission This year the ceremony of the holy carpet at Cairo was held a week earlier than formerly. The caravan embarked from Port Said for Malfa.; thence It will proceed by the new Hedjaz Rail- hiirplHrv Tho .esse ArrtSA fn Oslcrlale anri wils tried In the citv of Modesto, in way to Medina and from there over tha the Superior Court of Stanislaus Coun- old route to Mecca This change is said tv. Tho evidence was circumstantial, to nave Decn one or tne results oi me The state proved the presence of the pilgrimage last year of the Khedive, lefendsnt near the nlaee where tho who recommenaea tne use or me ran- rime was committed, before and after way on account of the dangers which he commission. But his presence at he had seen menaced tne old route. An answer to the question "Do fig ures lie?" needs another: Female or Seattle? No one is barred from guessing Portland's population In 1920, First Birds of Peradlae Arrive. New York World. The Zoological Park, In the Bronx, has acquired three birds of paradise. They are believed to be the first that have ever reached this country alive. Birds of paradise are not good to eat. They cost too much, now that he price of beef is reported to be ikely to go down. These three weigh about one pound and a half each, and are said to be worth $400 a pound. The principal value lies in the tall feath ers. James E. Piatt, who brought the three from the Aru Islands, near New Guinea, says he caught them by dress- ng himself up as an Imitation tree and making noises like the whispering winds. In that way he managed to get near enough to stun them with blunt arrows. He killed six before he learned how to hit them gently enough. Living by His Pen. Baltimore American. "I hear that author friend of yours is making a tine living by his pen." "Yes. He's stopped writing and gone to raising pigs." Beatinar Pino; Bodle'a Record. T Washington Herald. Now Connie Mack must make a home run every evening. t the place at the hour of commission could not be proved. The only testi mony was that of an accomplice, which, ncorroborated, could not have secured his conviction. The missing link in the chain of evidence was supplied by three finger prints on a cigar box which the defendant had used to hide the candle. The finger prints were de veloped by Frank Dupuo, a finger print expert in the employ of the state. After comparing them with finger prints of defendant, Mr. Dupue testi fied that he was convinced of their Identity. The Jury convicted the de fendant on May 20, 1910. The convic tion was the first of Its kind secured in California.. The date indicated that It was prior to the conviction in Chi cago, and if the press dispatches are true then the Tevis conviction must be the first finger-print conviction in the United States. Owing to Its novelty the case was fully reported In all San Francisco newspapers of that date I may state that without the aid of the finger prints one of the boldest safecrackers on the Coast would have escaped punishment. Yours truly. LEON YANCKWICH. Choice of a Girl. Chicago News, am acquainted very well With divers maidens fair: They seem to weave a wondrous spell No man could fall to care For each of them if he but knew How 'twould his heart rejoice! I like them all of course I do But still, I have my choice: Cordelia's written, so they say. "Best sellers two or three. And Mabel signs herself "B. A.," And Phyllis slsrns "M. D." ; Fnir Kate the path of suffrage walks. While Sylvia studies germs. And I'm enmeshed when Doris talks In scientific terras. I Ilka them all, these itirl.i I know, Their deeds and titles, too. I find the lot congenial, though Each has her mission ' true. Cordelia, Phyllis and the rest Quite set my brain awhlrl: But simple Settle suits me best .Because ane s just a girii Apostles Held First Direct Primary. Scriptural origin of the direct pri mary has been discovered by Rev. J. W. Graves, pastor of Calvary Baptist Church in Des Moines, Iowa, "The apostles in selecting a suc cessor to Judas named two candidates, Joseph and Matthias, and then they cast lots and the latter was chosen," said Mr. Graves, in announcing that he would select candidates for church of ficer by the primary method. "The last four verses in chapter one of the Acts is my proof that the mod ern primary had its origin in the Bible. "That was as truly a primary ns could be. The eleven first chose two candidates and then elected one. "I will follow this plan at my church primary. Two ballots will be cast by each member for every office, and those receiving the highest number will be declared the candidates. At the January election officers will be elected from these." Anti-Mail Order Magazine started. Indianapolis Star. The organization of a corporation for the publication of a magazine to be called the Monitor, a farm and house hold magazine, is provided for in arti cles filed with the Secretary of State by the Monitor Magazine Company. The incorporators are Charles A. Morey, Fred T. Loftln and Thomas P. Lovett. Others are interested as stock holders, it is understood. The princi pal purposes of the publication will be to increase the sales of merchants in the regular lines of business and curtail mail-order patronage by the education of consumers. A Modern Miss Muffet. Chicago Record-Herald. Little Miss Muffet Sat on a tuffet. Eating some curds and whey; Although shs was sprightly She was hobbled so tightly That she simply could not get awa