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THE MORNING OREGON! AN", MONDAY, JULY 23, 1910.
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RAlLltOADS OX THE DEFENSIVE.
As the first part of the hearing in
the Columbia river rate case nears an
end with the impending transfer of
proceedings to Seattle, an observer is
apt to bo impressed with one fact.
Portland and the other members of
the great Columbia river basin are
endeavoring to pin the railroads down
to -a general principle of equity which
should govern rate making. The rail
roads have been guided wholly by ex
- pediency which takes into account all
manner of considerations, but rarely
considers equity. Hence we have the
spectacle of railroad attorneys and
traffic men squirming and wriggling
. around, offering explanations of exist-
Ing rates which contradict what they
Jiave said in former cases, or each
-. contradicting the others, but all sadly
. deficient in information on the one
".' just basis of rates cost of service.
' This spectacle would be amusing if it
were not presented In a matter of such
gravity.
The strength of the Columbia basin's
lease consists In the elementary sound-
Hess and simplicity of the principle
upon which it is founded. Few people
"can understand a railroad tariff: in
fact, it seems purposely designed to
confuse and bewilder all except those
who are professionally versed in its
- intricacies. Everybody can understand
4he plain statement that the price of
transportation should be its cost plus
- a. fair profit. All can understand that
; this cost will be proportionate to dis-
tance with due allowance for obstacles,
I Isuch as mountains, which raise cost
I if service above a general average per
I mile. Mr. Newell's testimony proves
J hat a close approximation to cost can
; e made. The railroad witnesses
-lacked such information because it
I lias no relation to their method of rate
I jnaking. Their object has been to
; rmake a profit somehow or other by
J conciliating the strongest interests, the
iiggest communities and the most
' Vigorous "kickers" and to leave the
I Jveak interests, the small communities
' and the easy going, submissive towns
J o take whatever was handed them.
; The present rate situation in the
Columbia river basin is a natural re-
suit of this methodless policy applied
1 -to extinction of competition between
't ggressive communities like those on
Puget sound and a complacent com
vTriunity like Portland, which has been
lamentably deficient in community
-.f epirit. All considerations except im-
mediate expediency of the railroads
j have been ignored. Because Puget
sound and its roads wanted a share
of inlxwid empire traffic, rates were
made equal with those to Portland
regardless of distance and grades. The
O.-W. It. & X. consented to diversion
of a large part of its traffic in order
to avert competition, then went to the
sound to get it back, though that in-
volved. hauling ISO miles farther over
a rival road and building terminals at
Seattle. Spokane demanded rates
which would exclude the coast cities
'' from a certain radius of jobbing terri
Sitory and enforced the demand with a
boycott: immediately the railroads
Came to their knees.
When brought to book for the ob
kyious Injustices of their adjustment of
r'yates, the railroads defend them by
saying that they were necessary in
" 'order to prevent this, that or the other
eTi'ect of the rule of cost of service.
. JVhea they make such a defense they
assume the right to take business from
"ene city and give it to another, to build
.'up one city and tear down another,
as the Northern Pacific actually did
in the case of North Yakima and
Yakima. They act the part of a
Triiedieval king who scattered largesse
anions a sycophant crowd. When their
Micts are tested by the standard of so
"basically sound a principle as has been
"invoked, they are thrown into con
fusion.
The plain, simple truth upon which
.the Columbia basin shippers and ports
Tlrely and which the railroads have
;habitually ignored is that in so limited
-ft field as is nere involved, tne rail
roads have no right to consider the
Effect which application of a sound
Sirinciple would have on any com-
Jnunity or industry. Each community
Jhas its own particular advantages and
xlisadvantages. Portland has some of
cacn, so nas oeattie, so .nas Astoria.
1-et them offset each other, or let each
tity exercise its ingenuity in minimiz
jTlng its drawbacks and making the most
of its advantages, xne railroad nas no
-business to intervene in tne struggle:
-its business is to haul traffic at cost
? a fair profit. When it undertakes
to help one city at the cost of another,
it acts the part of a paternal despot,
and despots are more often maleficent
J than beneficent, whether they be
traffic managers or Hohenzollerns. The
1 jpnly case where an exception to the
general rule is justified on broad
-grounds of national, not railroad,
policy i i-i the case of rates between
' fcioad bets of country, far separated,
J ns DTttrcn the Pacific coast and the
y 'Missouri river. No such exception is
justified in rates between the Pacific
- coust and the inland empire, where
I the average distance is 350 miles and
J where the difference in mileage from
some points to Portland and Seattle
k is often as much ;is one-third of this
distance, while the difference in cost
-f -line haul is as hiph as 75 per cent.
-- - The meekness which has hitherto
.marked the attitude of Portland in
;face of unjust rates which have con
sistently favored other cities and have
with equal consistency worked to the
"iniury of Portland, has had one good
effect. It has tempted the railroads
. to assume that they could do anything
"they pleased against this port without
provoking a protest. The anger of this
port having at last been aroused, the
railroads have been called upon to de
fend what they know to be indefen
sible, and they become ridiculous when
they scurry around in search of justi-
fication for the unjust, illogical ab-
surdities which they dignify with the
impressive name of a rate structure.
BASEBALL AND AVIATION.
The spectacle of Tommy O'Mara, a
former league baseball player of this
country, flying 120 miles from Colum-bey-les-Belles
to Treves to umpire a
ball game between two teams of the
United States army of occupation war
rants the veteran John McGraw in his
prediction that the national game of
the future will be revolutionized by
developments in air navigation.
In the first place the business of
arranging schedules will be simplified
beyond computation. It is necessary
now to consider the running time ol
trains. Not infrequently a "good base
ball town" is omitted from a. prospec
tive league because train connections
do not favor its aspirations. Other
and less worthy villages are included
because they serve to break a journey
and help to pay railroad fares. But
with the perfection of airplanes cap
able of carrying a whole baseball team.
which we are confident is not far off,
it will be possible for the visiting team
to embark in its private flyer, speed
away at the close of a series and be
ready for a game the next day in a
town a thousand or more miles away.
The speed of 120 miles an hour, al
ready not uncommon, brings the good
baseball towns closer together than
they could ever hope to bo under the
present form of transportation.
We shall not, perhaps, a decade
hence, be compelled to travel to Chi
cago or New York to see a game of
big-league ball. The flying machine
will bring it to our doors. McGraw
predicts that the time will soon come
when San Antonio will play in Con
necticut or Hartford in the Texas
eague. "National league" will mean
something. We shall have the north
and the south, the east and the west,
all in one great organization. Sectional
rivalries will be stirred, but in a new
way. It Is said that one of the im
portant factors in our political homo
geneity is our common interest in the
grat game. How much more potent
an influence will it become when the
airplane puts the final crimp in dis
tance that now makes the various
regions comparative strangers to one
another!
WHY PORTLAND STAYED OUT.
One of the best points brought out
by the evidence at the rate hearing
was the reason for Portland's failure
to intervene in the suit of Astoria for
equal rates with Puget sound ports,
as stated by Secretary Dodson of the
Chamber of Commerce. The reason
is that Portland had no cause to ex
pect, from the course of the parties to
the case or from the previous action
of the interstate commerce commis
sion, that its interests would be in
jured. That suit was directed by Astoria
against Puget sound, not against Port
land, and the Astoria attorneys and
witnesses denied any desire to measure
their rates by those to Portland. In
the first Astoria case the rates from
the inland empire to Astoria had been
fixed higher than those to Portland,
and this decision was not attacked or
even questioned In the suit for parity
with the sound. Hence Portland rightly
assumed that, if the commission should
put Astoria on a parity with the sound,
it would as a matter of course reduce
the Portland rate proportionately, in
order that the relation which has Just
been established by it might be pre
served. This expectation was justified, for
in former cases where interests of
those who were not parties to the suit
were affected, their representatives
had been called in, and there was no
reason to expect that it would do
otherwise in the Astoria case. The
fact that it ruled on Portland rates.
when they were not directly involved
without calling on Portland to defend
its interests was as much a surprise
to Astoria as to Portland. That sur
prise contrfbuted as much as any other
cause to arouse the people of Portland
to attack the entire existing system of
parity of rates among all North Pacific
ports.
WHEN HELICil 19 MADE CHEAPER.
The promise that helium, the new
gas first isolated by Sir William Ram
say scarcely a quarter of a century
ago, would take from ballooning one
of its chief perils, that of fire and
explosion, was not made good in time
to prevent the dramatic tragedy which
cost ten lives and resulted in injury
to twenty-five other persons at Chi
cago on Monday. But for helium we
might suppose that this branch of
aeronautics would suffer a decided
setback. But people, accustomed to
take scientists at their word, will look
to the new discovery with confidence,
and when the horror of the accident
has become a more or less faded
memory will go on navigating the air
in craft filled with a somewhat dif
ferent buoyant agency as if nothin
had ever happened.
Helium has been made available in
commercial quantities as ono of the
immediate results of the war. Prior
to 1915 it had been made only' in
experimental quantities, probably not
more than 100 cubic feet having been
produced, at a cost of $1700 a cubic
foot. Since a large dirigible would
have required from one to two million
cubic feet, the cost of the quantity
required would have been prohibitive,
even to a rich government. But with
the beginning of the war, scientists
were set to work to discover new
processes of production, with such
success that cost had been reduced
by either of two processes to 10 cents
a cubic foot, and a third was being
perfected which promised even greater
economy.
Helium derives its name from the
circumstance of its discovery in the
chromosphere of the sun. This was
made by Sir Joseph Lockyer twenty
seven years before Sir William Ram
say's success in isolating it from an
earthly substance. It was produced
experimentally from natural gas in
Texas in 1917, the year of our entry
into the war, but a more promising
field was discovered in Kansas, and
just prior to the signing of the armis
tice the first shipment of, 150, 000 feet
had been compressed into steel tanks
and started for Europe. Dr. G. Sher
burne Rogers, in a communication to
the National Geographic society, sum
marizing these facts, says that, al
though quantity production was
achieved too late to be of value in
actual hostilities, it was one of the
great accomplishments of the war
period.
The non-combustibility of helium
and the property it possesses of ren
dering hydrogen gas safe even when
a considerable quantity of the latter
Is used, will make it an invaluable
agency in future ballooning. Details
of its extraction from certain natural
Erases, Dr. Rogers explains, are highly
technical, but the general scheme is
easily understood. All of the main
constituents of the natural gas be-
come liquified at about 328 degrees
'below zero Fahrenheit, only the helium
remaining a gas at this exceedingly
low temperature and being thus easiiy
separated. The principle by which
these low temperatures are attained
will be understood by motorists who
pump their own tires. Air compressed
in a tire becomes hot; if it is allowed
to cool and the valve is opened, the
escaping air becomes cool. The prin
ciple of the automobile tire Is applied
to the making of helium. The natural
gas is put under high pressure, is
refrigerated and then allowed to ex
pand. All the constituents except
helium become liquified and the task
is done.
At 10 cents a cubic foot it would
have cost 10,000 to inflate the balloon
which fell in Chicago the other day
and about $100,000 to prepare the
R-34 for its voyage across the Atlantic.
But this could have been reduced by
use of hydrogen gas to the limit of
safety, and it will be further cut down
by new processes for recovery of
helium. It can be predicted with con
fidence that the item of cost will not
much longer restrain aeronauts in
making their calling as safe as most
other modes of navigation.
TILE CLOSED MIND.
The fact that stands out in connec
tion with the examination of Henry
Ford on matters pertaining to his edu
cation is not that he thought that
Benedict Arnold was a writer, or that
a man to be an anarchist must be a
bomb thrower, or that the great war
was largely due to the influence of
wine and beer, and so on, but that he
is prone to regard the things as to
which he is ill informed or not in
formed at all as "bunk." This is Mr.
Ford's own word for the matters
which he does not understand.
Wo do not expect in this highly
specialized age that all men shall be
equally informed on every topic. It is
true that most of us believe that every
good citizen ought to know certain
facts about the history and govern
ment of his country. There are, how
ever, certain offsets in the case of Mr.
Ford which if he did not decry knowl
edge in other persons would redound
greatly to his credit. He knows every
bolt and nut, it Is said, in a great fac
tory; many a professor of history
would be as ignorant of their functions
as Mr. Ford is of the causes of the
American revolution. But the differ
ence is that the professor of history
probably would not because of his
ignorance of nuts and bolts hold that
automobiles are "all bunk."
The sun," said Brother Jasper, "do
move. Am t the shadder on this side
of the house in the mornin' and on the
other side of the house at night. Of
course the sun moves." And no one
ever was able to get Brother Jasper's
mind off the shadow and back to the
sun. It is this closed mmdeaness that
marks the difference between our
Brother Jaspers and our astronomers.
Because Mr. Ford happens to be up
on shadows, he need not assert tne
mobility of the sun.
Mr. Ford In his early youth attended
a district school at Greentleld, -Mien.
Wo would liko to wager that the
teacher of that district school was a
chap who put emphasis where it does
not belong in education. He failed
utterly to cultivate In his pupil the
tolerant, the inquiring, mind. This
would have been worta far more to
him than any possible collection of
facts and near facts which he may
have acquired in the course of his
short stay. Somebody killed the nat
ural instincts of learning in the great
automobile, mechanic. We shall not
be too hasty in condemning Mr. Ford
himself. Perhaps his teacher was
largely, or wholly, to blame.
TWO PILLARS OF THE LEACl'E.
It is a fact of no small import that
the London Times, the greatest news
paper In the British empire, honored
Independence day by Issuing a special
American number. The occasion of its
doing so adds to the significance of
the act. for the Times says:
Out of the war has rrown a new relation
ship between the United States and the
British empire: a relationship based on tne
new responsibility which has been laid upon
us. That responsibility Is nothing- less thsn
the preservation of the peace of the world
With or without the league of nations, thera
Is no ignoring that It is upon the co-opera-
ation of the English-speaking peoples al
ways strengthened by the association of
France that the maintenance of that peace
chiefly rests. . . Whoever or whatever
force works to create dissension between the
peoples is working to serve the ends of our
enemies, and the enemies of the world's
peace, and Is evil. Whatever serves to bring
us mora intimately together is good.
With this object in view the Times
publishes articles from leading men of
both nations on British-American un
derstanding, from active participants
in every phase of America's participa
tion in the war on its valuable contri
bution to victory, and from several
correspondents on the financial, eco
nomic and especially shipping and
food-supplying efforts of the United
States. -In words which bear no taint
of flattery such men as Marshal Haig
and Admiral Beatty bear witness to
the high character of American service
in France and at sea. and the part of
American troops with Australians in
the capture of Hamel on July 4, 1918
Is described as marking an epoch in
the lives of the two nations.
It is characteristic of the Times to
attack boldly the knottiest problems.
Hence it devotes much space to the
Iriph question, solution of which it has
declared to be necessary to removal
of the most serious source of friction
between the United States and Great
Britain. The Times has for some time
been pointing to dominion home rule
as the only practicable solution, and
its plan has received a surprising
amount of support among Irishmen
who have hitherto held more moderate
views. It has become almost an axiom
that what the Times says today Eng
land will think tomorrow, hence we
may look for a determined movement
in the direction indicated before much
time passes.
Events have crowded upon each
other so fast during the last year that
already the memory grows dim of the
days when we watched with tense feel
ings the stubborn resistance which the
worn British divisions offered to the
German hosts on the Somme and the
Eys. the ceaseless hammer-blows with
which they Ftruck back, and the com
radeship which grew from their asso
ciation with our men in smashing the
Hindenburg line and in Flanders.
Those memories should keep before
our minds the one outstanding fact of
the present situation that the British
and American nations are tho two
strongest bulwarks of freedom and
peace, and that the league of nation
would be but a weak, puny thing with
out them. Their common language
and literature, the common, origin of
their institutions, their common devo
tion to belf-restrained democracy fit
them for a partnership in which they
can best serve themselves by serving
all free nations. When any influence
is exerted to create such friction as
will hinder or prevent this co-operation,
we may reasonably assume that
to be the purpose. One nation above
all others has a motive for driving and
keeping the American and British na
tions apart, and that nation is Ger
many. If it could by secretly sowing
discord cause the United States to
stand aloof, it would inspire with dis
trust of the league all those nations
which put their faith in this country.
It would have removed the worst
obstacle to its plan to prepare Europe
for an easy future conquest with the
destructive solvent of bolshevism. Such
a viotory would go far to compensate
for the losses of the war.
Americans need to keep ever In mind
that Germany did not stop fighting
wnen tne armistice was signed, nor
even when peace was signed. It simply-
exchanged the military weapon for
that of propaganda. When an appeal
is made to our passions or prejudices
in order to lead us into a certain
course, we need to pause and ask who
will profit by it. If it becomes evident
that Germany will profit, then we
should suspect that Germany pulls the
strings and we should take the oppo
site course. The German militarists
are still tho power behind the German
government. That which they most
wisn to prevent Is .formation of a
strong league of nations of which the
American and British nations would
be the chief pillars and from which
Germany would be excluded until it
had been completely demilitarized, for
then all hope of developing the power
and forming the combinations for a
next war" would vanish. Germany's
desire to thrust and keep apart the
two strongest democratic nations Is the
best possible reason why they should
stand together and pull together.
FIGHTING TYPHOID.
Surgeons of the United States army
fighting typhus again in Serbia, where
four years ago our physicians and
nurses were giving their lives in the
same cause, aro fighting not only the
battles of the distressed peoples of
central Europe, but also of those at
home. The military principle of fight-
ng a defensive war by carrying the
offensive to the enemy's country is
here adapted to the fight on plague.
The war on typhus has all the perils
and none of the romance and rewards
of that in the front-line trenches. The
mortality rate is high, ranging from 5
per cent among tho very young to 48
per cent of patients over 60.
We are fighting typhus in Europe
partly because so long as it exists any
where in the world it is a menace to
all civilized countries. It Is among the
most contagious ot diseases and its
eradication requires the highest pos-
ible degree of social co-operation.
Every unclean individual becomes a
potential carrier of typhus, which is
communicated by means of vermin.
The thoroughness with which return-
ng soldiers and the ships that carry
them are being subjected to precau
tionary sanitary measures Is due to the
recognized importance of preventing
the entrance into this country of. a
single typhus germ. The battle is be-
ng fought on two fields, in the coun
tries where typhus is prevalent, and
at the ports of entry into the United
States.
That men and women in sufficient
numbers are being found to undertake
the difficult and unostentatious task is
proof that sense of obligation has not
been impaired by the return of peace.
The new task is almost if not quite as
mportant as that in which our fight
ing men were engaged. Nor is it likely
to be a brief one. The plague will
continue to be a menace so long as
dense ignorance of the rules of sanita
tion exists. We shall be called upon
not to minister to the sick of central
Europe, but to educate the survivors.
These need to be taught that it is their
duty to the rest of the world, as well
as in the interest of their own safety, to
maintain community conditions In
which the typhus germ will not spread
People in the past have been slow to
learn, as ,the old accounts of the
destructive effects of "jail fever," "ship
fever" and "camp fever" have shown.
But the plague area has been slowly
restricted, and its final delimitation
now depends upon the people of Serbia
and Poland and a few other dark spots
themselves.
Southern Idaho has had no rain for
more than one hundred days and the
dry farmer is ruined. This may be
expected any year. Southern Idaho is
In the arid belt, and its salvation lies
in the irrigation canal. There are
many, but the need is to conserve all
the water and use it.
Now they are getting married by
wireless, but it is dollars to doughnuts
that no new-fangled marriage device
will stave off divorce any more sue
cessfully than the old fashion of get
ting well acquainted before going
through the ceremony.
Bill Haywood will be released today
under a bond Of $46,000. and it's a
good guess Bill will behave. A brief
sojourn in Leavenworth has taught
him something.
There is a bumper peach crop in
sight, but the heap-big-war-in-Europe
excuse for high prices probably will
operate this season Just as it has done
for two years.
Very likely we soon will be shipping
coal to Italy, who needs it very much
and that will be enough excuse to add
a dollar to the price of a ton. Better
buy it early.
The farms-for-soldiers bill has been
reported out of committee in the house,
and perhaps it will be passed in time
for the soldiers to acquire farms for
their heirs..
That new hotel at Seaside will be
the "swellest tent" along the coast,
but nobody is going to forget Dan
Moore, who "held the fort" for many
years.
Hoquiam plans a city hall as a monu
ment to all veterans, and that is much
like a fellow giving his wife a new
range for a Christmas present.
Are you giving proper attention to
something special In the garden for
entry at the county fair? This is the
time to use the hoes and hose.
Singularly enough, cases of snake
bite become less numerous in propor
tion to decline in the supply of the
supposed sovereign cure.
The man whoso wife goes with him
on a fishing trip is the fellow to be
envied, for if she isn't the right sort
she will not go.
Almost anything in crime can be
"stuck" on a wife deserter.
Those Who Come and Go.
Dan Cupid has peculiar ways. You
never can tell Just where his piercing
shafts will light. If you don't bellove
it, just ask J. B. McLaughlin and bride,
who are honeymooning at the Oregon.
Last winter Mr. McLaughlin, who is an
O.-W. R. & N. dispatcher at La Grande,
fell a victim of a virulent "flu" germ.
But Dan Cupid was on the Job. Miss
Charlotte Beuslng, daughter of a well
known La Grande family, nursed him
through his critical illness. "Twas then
the romance started. Their marriage
at La Grande a few days ago was the
culmination. And now they are start
ing to live happily ever after.
When baseball time rolled round at
Salem this spring the crowd of offi
cials and employes at the state capitol
figured they would organize a ball
team. They did. Chauncey Butler,
head of the automobile department in
the secretary of state's office, was ap
pointed manager, captain, treasurer and
star player. His team played one game
with Joe Keller's convicts and won.
They then quit with a clear record.
Mr. Butler is slopping at the Imperial
on a short business trip from Salem.
Another of tho statehouse ball team
was C W. Knickerbocker, head book
keeper In the office of State Treasurer
Hoff. Nick" is registered at the Ore
gon.
Josiah L. Parish came to the fertile
Willamette valley about three Jumps
behind the Indians. It was back In the
clays when Portland was a villaite. He
helped to found Willamette university
at Salem. Registered at the Imperial
yesterday was Jack Parrish of Canyon
City, u great-grandson ot Josiah Par
rish. Jack is a native Oregonian and
comes regularly to Portland with cat
tlo shipments front cast of the moun
tains. W. H. Officer, another shipper
of cattle, who lives at John Day, Or.,
also in at the Imperial. His great
grandfather, V. H. Officer, was one
of the original settlers of the Mollala
country.
It keeps one man busy at Salem In
terpreting the Taw for tho Industrial
accident commission. So many cases
come to the commission containing so
many legal angles that there is always
doubt as to tho legal status of any
case. J. A. Hunjainlii, assistant attor
ney-general, probably knows more
about tho workmen's compensation
law than any other man In Oregon, for
he's the mail who tells the accident
commissioners what's what. He is
stopping at tho Multnomah.
Back In tho early days of tho recent
war Clarence I Iteames was a terror
of alien enemies and others who tried
to bite tho hand that was feeding
them. At that time he was United
tates district attorney In Portland.
Then he quit that post to become a
special prosecutor for the department
ot Justice, and once more he began to
ferret out and Imprison all dangerous
malcontents, lie la now a practicing at
torney at Seattle. With Mrs. Reames
he Is registered at tho Multnomah.
"Whoop-e-o ! Let "er buck!"
With that scrawled across the Im
perial register it was a certainty that
sane live-wire Roundup booster was
u the city from Pendleton. He was,
nd la. It Is Ray Alexander, a Pendle
ton merchant, who never loses an op
portunity to speak a few words for
the biggest little city in the world.
J. E. Baker is a native son of
native son, and he's proud of it. That
means thut he's from the sunny San
joaquin. His grandfather founded
Bakcrsfield, Cal. With his wife and
sister. Mrs. R. R. Brewer, and Mrs.
Brewer's two children, ho Is motoring
up the coaat. They were guests at the
Cornellirs during their stay in Port
land. They left yesterday for Golden-
dale, Wash., where they will visit with
friends and relatives.
Anybody who lives around Hood
River can attest to the 100 per cent
Americanism displayed by U. S. French
during the recent conflict. He was
always ready to do his best for every
patriotic endeavor. But hovr could he
help it with a set of allied initials and
name like that? Mr. French Is stop
ping at the Multnomah.
A few years ago Dan W. Twohy took
hold of Olds National bank at Spokane
as president. At that time the lnstl
tution had about $700,000 in assets. To
day it has assets of lls.OUO.000 and Is
said to be larger than any other two
banks in Spokane. Mr. Twohy is reg
istered at the Multnomah.
It Isn't generally known that Douglas
county was the original sheep country
of Oregon. W. B. Ewing, who raises
Bheep and other stock near Oakland. Is
registered at the Imperial. He for
merly was a grain grower in Morrow
county.
Along some time next fall guests at
the Multnomah may be lucky enough to
procure choice bits or venison sind
pheasants if they get on good terms
with Manager A. P. Campbell. Mr. and
Mrs. Campbell will return this week
from Lake Washington, where they
have been for the purpose of purchas
ing a deer and pheasant farm.
"Watch Tacoma grow" has been the
watchword from the City of Destiny
for many years. George Scofleld. who
Is registered at the Multnomah, says
he hasn't time to watch it grow. He's
too busy in the general contracting
business helping Tacoma grow.
Among the eastern automobile tour
ists stopping in Portland yesterday
were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Vaughn and
family of Philadelphia. They are guests
at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Henrlksen are at the
Oregon from their Morrow county cat
tle ranch. Mr. Henrlksen brought a
carload of stock to the Portland mar
ket. Mr. and Mrs. C. Alschul and daugh
ter and maid are guests at the Benson
from New York City.
Listing of Casuals.
RAINIER, Or., July 27. (To the Ed
itor.) Plense answer the following
question: Do the 2f2,007 names In tho
casualty list Include thosa killed or
who died of disease In the spruce di
vision and those who died of disease
in the training camps in the United
States? What Is meant bv casual in
the military sense? J. H. B ROUGH.
Tho lists of casualties which tho
war department has been announcing
and to which you refer contains only
the names of men In tho American ex
peditionary forces In Europe, being
taken from General Pershing's reports.
In the primary military sense a casual
was & man killed; wounded or In
valided from his regular unit. It has
also come to be applied merely to
"stray" service men being sent home
as no part of a particular unit.
Wearing a ntarsiarse ( kerrsa.
CHINOOK. Wash.. July 17. (To the
Editor Is a regular army man fur-
louKhe.1. to the r.(ular army reserve
compelled to wear tho red dlsel-arce
chevrrn. or is he uppoed to wait un
til he Is dl'harsed after seven years?
ONE OK THE 65TH. C. A. C
The man Is supposed to wear the dis
charge chevron to indicate termination
of active service In the army but there
is no compulsion about tho matter.
More Truth Thrn Poetry.
Br Janra J. Slesitasrsiv.
WISETOW..
When Bertram the Burglar's career In
the west
Perforce must determine and cease
Wo rightly conclude that hia work Is
so crude
That ho cannot evade the police.
But we know that in time he will come
to New York
And (though bum that he is at his
game)
He will soar to success in a fortnight
or less
And gain himself fortune and fame.
When Cuthbert the Con-Man awakes
to the fact
That out where the timber Is tall
The indigenous hicks aro not buying
gold bricks.
And won't fall for oil stock at all.
He packs up his outfit and comes to
New York,
Proceeds. vith small effort, to thrive.
And soon he has got a Rolls Royce and
a yacht.
And a mansion on Riverside Drive.
When Gordon the Gangster finds busi
ness 1 bad
III cltl-s like Chi and St. Lor.,
He doesn't declare with a wail of des
pair He must find something honest to do.
Ho hops the next rattler en route for
New York.
Embarks in tho blackmailing trade.
And has nothing to do for the next
year or two
But deposit the money he's made.
This "pitiless city," this "town with
out soul.
Whose people are
"harder than
steel." .
Doesn't worry the chaps with the crim
inal maps
And the equally criminal zeal.
They know, when tho rasbcrry s all
that they get.
In Wolfville or Rattlesnake Fork.
That they needn't to car.e. they can al
ways get square
By working tho folks in New York!
Ithosit Jess Barlejeors to Applaud.
Tho after dinner speaker who makes
hit nowaday has got to have some
thing to say.
.
K.vea More latrreaflna.
In war time the air over Wasl.inB-
lon was rilled with airplanes. .-., n
is filled witn razors.
ishipsr riiea:
Germany can send us her exports
now all but the most important one.
According to Will.
11 y brace K. Hall.
Hear what yois wish! Tho discord is
for those
Whose Jangling nerves set up their own
complaint;
In nature's scheme there ever calmly
flows
A melody, though sometimes soft and
faint:
But through tho will, a door can close
the ear
Until this Inner harmony you hear.
Till sounds that wrench the nervea
fado quite away.
And you in peace malabcr day by day.
All fret is of your making; you are
keen
To note the things about they catch
your eye;
You hasten to observe a painful scene.
Or speculate when crowds go rush
ing by:
Tou give each day of nerve-force many
pnirnds
That other needs require Is It not
true?
You leave your mind unleashed with
out due bounds.
Till, worn and weak, it fails to answer
you.
You magnify by adding to events
The fabric of your fancy; thread by
thread
You weave, until at last the fact pre
sents A most deceptive form, that soon will
tread
L pon tno nrtu ui msii " .
maiyuu n .
your ouor.
Tou need not hear tho clamor of each
voice ' '
That sends Its maddening shriek; se
lect the best.
And when of sotmds you've mado a
happy choice.
Close mental ears and send away the
rest!
S. A. T. C. MAX MAV CET MEDAL.
Fine Chance For Real Servlee
Siberia. Retorts Ordnance Man.
PORTLAND. Or., July 26. (To the
Editor.) The S. A- T. C. student who
furnished The Oregonian with an ar
ticle July 10, and who signed u. li
nes brought much discredit to the
organization of which he was a part.
He would have the public believe that
tho war department is classing mem
bers of the students army training
corps with conscientious objectors and
men dishonorably discharged irom me
military service. He condemns .thou
sands of brave American lads who
served In the medical and quartermas
ter departments.
When the war department neciaea
that members of the S. A. T. C. were
not entitled to the victory badge, they
did so after careful study, with the ex
perience of past wars as a hasis for
giving medals. Their decision was one
to protect those boys who In reality
gave services as real eoldlers and not
boys who were getting the benefits of
schooling and preparation as future
officers. No doubt these students are
brave boys, but In the opinion of the
war department they did not do enough
In the world war to entitle them to
become owners of tho victory button.
D. H. and his fellow students have
no reason to be disappointed because
they can not be classed with the thou
sands of boys who did arduous duty as
real soldiers: they should be happy to
be classed as men who did a little
In the great world war. His reflection
on the medical and quartermaster de
partments showed vague familiarity
with the military service and the im
portance of these two departments. I
don't suppose D. II. knows'that both of
these departments lost many brave
officers and men In the world war and
that the parts played by the medical
and quartermaster departments were
two of tho biggest factors in the Amer
ican army, or any other army, as far
as thai is concerned. it u. t. is so
anxious to wear the medals of real
soldiers, let him look; up the nearest
recruiting office and en. 1st hia serv -
Ices. Siberia needs many men today
and It Is a place where brave and
daring men can win both honora and
medals.
ORDNANCE MAN.
A rat T Com Ins Home Soon.
PENDLETON, Or., July 23. (To the
Editor.) Can you give me ary Infor
mation regarding my son? He is in
Coblens in tho army of occupation. P.
O. 74. When will he come home? 1
am old and have a place with my
younger son. hut he has bought himself
a stock ranch In the John Day and
must go there as soon as possible. I
would like to know what to do. ko my
soldier son will not find his home gone
when he returns. Lul'l.S ML'LLEK.
The aru-.y authorities have promised
to send home sll the present forces In
Europe soon, so far as possible in the
order In which they went over. It Is-
hoped.
that this will be
ttmber.
iccoinpiithed by Sep-
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
From The Oresontan of July iS. ISM
ShanghaLWhlle there has been no
actual declaration of war between
hina and Japan hostilities began last
ednesday when the Japanese sank
the Kow shing off Corca. killing ap
proximately loco Ctthese.
The steamboat season on the Snake
began yesterday, when tho Almota.
which lias been tied up at Celllo. de
parted for Lewiston.
A census of Oregon is to be taken
next year under the legislative act or
dering enumeration of the population
of tho state every 10 yeara following
lDO.
John Kellcher of Grants Pass is now
under treatment for rattlesnake bite at
the Good Samaritan hospital. Kelleher
was bitten on tho thumb while work
ing as a section hand.
""T Yeara A so.
From The OreKonlan of July :s. Issn
Washington. A chair broke under
Postmaster-Ceneral Cresswell yester
day at his home in Maryland and ill
the fall he dislocated an arm.
New York. Generals Sherman and
blierldan have gone to Long Branch
to attend the ball in honor of tho presi-
s. J. McCormick has for several
months heen engaged in compiling a
Chlneso dictionary which he expects
to have published next month.
A fiiin of Chinamen are grading for
a temporary track from the temporarv
dock to be built near -Mr. Stephens
place in preparation for work on the
east side tailroad.
MORK MSII ANU FEWER OFFICIALS
Much of Coat mt Waraeaa Might Well
He Speat for Props gat lots.
PORTLAXn. Or.. Julv 7. (To the
Editor.) Kelatlve to tho enforcement
of the nshmsr laws of the state the
following incident deserves mention:
Recently two Port landers with their
families went, on an outing to Tilla
mook county, one afternoon while at
the coast, the party went trolling for
salmon at tho mouth of a small river.
While tho men rowed the children at
tended tho lines. No salmon were
cauKht hut seven small fish were taken
from the three-pronged hooks im
meshed in seaweed and dead. These
were thrown into a can. Later on a
family party in a motor boat drew
near. A ni;ii innuired as In th.ir l..r-t.-
and in a friend lv wav th.v .ihii,ii.j
the contents of tho can. The man then
exhibited a badge, and stating that he
was it fish warden, proceeded to meas
ure the Iish. He found one of them to
'e seven inches and the othera so close
t-i six inches that he measured them
MX or seven times, and finally deciding
.... r;e. toc.K away their fishing
licenses. I-ater on he appeared at their
homo in Portland with warrants for
their arrest and jitve them their op
tion of pleading Kuilty and paying a
fine and costs totaling $;s each or of
being taken tj Tillamook to stand
trial.
'n being told that the children
caucht the fish he stated that he might,
.-.rrcst the children and release the
fathers. Keating their predicament,
one of them paid his lino and the other
is contesting it.
-Now it seems to me that the circum
stances atletidinr this caso cry out
for justice. In the first place the law
itself is open to strong criticism. No
person intentionally catches a amai;
fish. He would much rather catch a
ten-inch fish than a five-inch one. Also
little children catch and keep the small
fish and are thereby classed as law
breakers and criminals. I well remem
ber as a boy how enthusiastically I
used to come hmi with my string of
sma.ll fish and how eagerlv I watched
my mother cook them and how we used
to enjoy eating them together. Since
the enactment of this law. tho small
boy realizes that he is a criminal. It
makes him furtive and secretive, and
cannot fail to demoralize his character.
If the intent is to conserve tho fish,
far better to enact a law limiting an
eaten to a certain number, in-
icmjinji i-otli little and big fish
nd
liiTOiisii tne present odious law.
Purthermore. I have nmlr.H th.i
tho eastern Mates tho small streams
everywhere abound In edible fish, while
here in the vast level reaches of our
valley but few fish can be caught after
tho first of May. The streams near
town would discourage tho most pa
tient angler. If one would catch fish
he must go far away into tho hills,
rur better to use tho money which
is paid out in salaries to deputies for
harassing people for catching small fish
in stocking our quiet fishless streams
with f:sh wl.ich thrive in quiet waters
in a state witn so limited
popula -
lion it ought to be
an easy matter to
maintain fish for everybody If a polic
of more fish and fewer officials were
carried out. instead of more fines and
more officials.
Shame to a law which makes crim
inals of children, and mora shame to
""d wouia enforce Ir t
the
letter.
E. H. COLLIS.
PLIGHT OF DEMOCRATIC PARTY
With Men of Irish Descent Its Back
bone What's to Happen r
PORTLAND. July 27. (To the Edi
tor.) I must appeal to The Oregonian
for an opportunity to give vent to mv
overflowing, not to say ebullient, sym
pathy for the democratic party in this
cri.-is of its existence. We all know
or should know that the IrUh race
Is the very backbone of the democratic
party. What democratic mayor in this
fair country does not have a "Mt''
affixed to his: name?
1 am reminded of a story that 1
once heard of an eminent democratic
lawyer and his son who landed in
1'emhlna. Dakota territory In tho earlv
days with a fixed purpose of locating
there. A republican convention hap
pened to be in session as they ar
rived. They 1-cked In at the proceed
ings, and wandered along the river
bank. Soon, the father said to his
boy: "Son: do you see that Red river
of tho north? It rans the wrong way.
It runs north, whereas all well inten
tioned rivers run south towards the
warm waters of the ocean, and from
the snow fields of tho north, where
the streams oriirlr.Iale. Do you see
that the chairman of that republican
convention is ore Patrick McCarthy?
This Is no place for us, where tho
rivers rjn the wrong way. and where
Irishmen preside over republican con
ventions. Let us go:' And they went.
i Two nrs aso. few Irishmen were
there In the Cnited States that did not
. m ei.r by Woodrow. But not only has
I ), of late f.iiled properly to twist the
Krltish lion s tail, he has dined with
i King tSeorge, an 1 bowed down to tho
other Geotpe, premier of Great Britain,
and still tiremier also of Ireland.
If the resolutions committee of the
rext democratic national convention is
properly made up of a due number .
ccscei.dant of the Emerald Ule. liat
will they i.ay about the leaicue of na
j ' '!
i
tions and It. prophet and prolagcntat.
oodrow Wilson? ir in this scarred
world there is nothing els worth Ilv-iii-
for. it will cerialnly be worth
whlie to tiny and read those resolu
tion ?
1 hore thn! my sympathies are duly
hare.l bv -ch elaunch republicans of
irisli proc'ivitie. as my good friend
T- ndrow C. t-rnltri and t'olonol
Dunne. It- M. TCTTLE.
1 nlversltr of Minnesota.
AURORA. Or.. Juiy 27. (To ti e LJi-
Where IS the state V :il vers it y VI
i I. LL C AO.
J Vinn
eaj.o.n.