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TIIE MdRXINO OBEGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 13, 1919. iitffrnwg (9rmttau ESTABLISHED BT HEMtT PITTH'K- Putn.hd hv The Oreponlan publihinj; Co., 135 Sixth Street. ForUand, Oregon. C. A. MORDKN. K. B. PII'KR. Manager. Editor. The "reconian i a mf mhor of trie As.o c!atPJ Press. The Associated Pres is ex clusivelv ?ntit!?d to the use for publica tion of all news dippatrlies credited, to it r not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local new published herein. All risht. of republication ot special di&patch- herein are alio reserved. euhcription Rat Invariably in Advance (By Hall.) Ta!ly, Furiday Included, one year JS.OO 4.25 Daily, Sunday Included, six months Iiaily. Sunday included, three months Iai!y, Sunday included, one month .. Iaily, without Sunday, one year Iaily, without Sunday, six months .. Taily, without Sunday, one month .. . Weekly, one year fiunday. one year bunday and weekly (By Carrier.) Taily, Sunday Included, one year . . . . Iily, Sunday included, one month . . 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There is a granite shaft on the battle field of Lexington, scene of the open ing of the American revolution, erected by Americans to the memory of fallen British soldiers, who still lie there. In the recent war with Spain large num bers of our own dead were brought home, although the Spaniards elected to permit most of theirs to rest in what to them was foreign soil. We may suppose that to the dead them selves, all ground is consecrated, and that to the soldier himself the battle ground is peculiarly sacred to him and his profession. But if there are Ameri cans who will be comforted by the nearer presence of the dust of their loved ones, then it is our melancholy duty to respect their wishes. Doubtless there are many to whom removal of the bodies will be more distressing than to let them lie where they now are: but the circumstances are. fortu nately, such that the desires of all can be met Jected th finished work, saying that the soldier, who 'wins as Instinctive the artist had. failed to duplicate the sympathy among the civil population. Sl'PPLY AND PRICKS OF WHEAT. It is important that in the war on high prices no random blow should he struck. Care should bo taken to hit at the right place. This is to the point in considering the price of bread. There is much talk to the effect that the government should buy wheat at t ;e guaranteed price and sell it at the i irket 'price, paying the difference cut of the treasury. In a statement , iblished in another column Julius t :rnes, the United States wheat di rjjtor, shows that the market price i i at or above the price guaranteed by lie government to the farmer and t lat therefore no relief can be ob tained at present in the manner pro posed. - . . In dealing with prices, it is impos sible to get below the cost of produc tion: the best that can be done is to prjvent excessive costs and profits fr.:rn being added in the course of in: nnfai'ture and distribution. If we attempt to buy below cost of produc ticn either the producer will stop pro ducing or the difference must be made up from the national treasury. We should then add to taxes what we saved on prices and should be no bet ter off in the end. The world wheat situation is still affected by the war as well as by weather. Mr. Barnes shows that North American production has fallen far short of June estimates, that there ha:; been a vast shrinkage in Euro pe n production of wheat and other bi -ad grain and that, so far from lowering the European price, Argen tii e wheat sells in Europe at 50 cents a bushel more than American wheat. 11. o comparison of growers' prices in thi3 country and Europe shows us to be fortunate in being able to buy w'eat as cheaply as we do, for our t'l'owers' price is below that of Eur ope, yet it is so fur above the price . gn.ranteed by the government that of 10 1,000, 000 bushels ot the new crop .iich was sold to July 25 only 15, 100,000 bushels could be bought by Mr. Barnes at tiie guaranteed price. Thus there is no difference for the feovernment to make up and give to tl.3 consumer by buying at the guar anteed and selling at the market price. - But government control has justi fied itself, for it caused a decided fall in the price of both wheat and flour, f. r below other food staples, and has k pt flour steady. It could not bring . , v.. a price of bread down to five cents ' ' ii loaf unless the flour were furnished ' f i ;e. Britain, France and Italy have k.-pt bread at a price below the equiv ;i ent price of wheat, but only by sub sidizing the farmers from the treasury, t'onditions in this country do not war r; nt this expedient, but the control ol grain still proves effective as a sta bilizer. It will continue to do so, as "is proved by the offer of flour at '. low prices where prices are too high. All the facts go to show that sub stantial relief from the high price ot -bread will not be obtained until the immediate effects of war have been '.overcome. When the wasted countries have been supplied with seed and trm implements, when the unfilled acreage is again producing and when the idle men and the fighting men are again at work, the supply will increase ;'.nd the price will fall. Until then the best that can be done is to insure that . prices are not enhanced beyond the ooint which circumstances warrant The profiteers take advantage of gen eral expectation that prices above nor r al must be paid in order to screw them up several notches and blame the war. The part of the consumer is to be informed of the legitimate new level of prices, and he should be backed by all the forces of govern ment in holding the profiteer down to that level. inspiration of the origrnal, but offered an insignificant sum for the picture. The artist In desperation accepted; Mrs. Blakelock indignantly cast the check into the fire. That night Blake lock was taken to the asylum. The Blakelock incident created a stir in ait circles when the movement to obtain his release was under way. The tragedy of it did not, however, result in permanent reform. It remains to be determined whether his death will reawaken interest in a construc tive art policy. Perhaps it will. But there is a good deal to be done. The morale of the soldier, which con sists of the will to fight and win. Is now recognized as a most important factor to guard and cultivate. In these days of universal education and rapid Those Who Come and Go. Writing paper has joined the high costs of hotel expenses and people wishing to write letters must apply to communication, it is open to attack by .ne clerks for material. Ail applicants all the methods of propaganda, which i for Paper are accommodated, a fact have become an effective weapon. 1 w' know" V',,?'"' P"V ?S . , . , , . , , " . hotels have to furnish writing paper to though unknown in-the days of the hundreds of people who are not guests. Romans, or among the British until A hotel man attended a card party in a (11ITK ;kmink. The echoes of The. Oregonian's re cent symposium on the republican presidential candidate continue to re sound through the newspaper sanc tums of Oregon. Here and there some one rises to question the validity of the result: but as a rule it is taken to indicate the actual state of repub lican opinion in Oregon. Let us caution some of the journal istic commentators against their ob vious misunderstanding of the poll. It is not correct to assume that Mr. Taft, or anybody, is now the majority choice of the republicans of Oregon, as dis closed by the canvass; nor has The Oregonian at any time indicated that it intends to support Mr. Taft, Mr. Hughes, Mr. Wood or any other, for nomination in the Oregon presidential primary. The Oregonian had no inkling whatever that a plurality of republican and independent editors would be for any particular candidate;, and it per formed only a journalistic service in publishing the returns and in announc ing the leader in the race. Let it be recalled that some forty five editors made public through The Oregonian their respective preferences, giving their first, second and third choices. Mr. Taft had 15 votes on first choice (a plurality, not a majority), Mr. Hughes 12, and General Wood 11; while Mr. Taft had for his total of three choices the figure 30, but he was pressed close by General Wood with 29 and Mr. Hughes witrt 20. Thus it was evident that, while thirty oditors would be satisfied with Mr. Taft as the nominee, but one less would be content -with General Wood, and twenty would be happy to support Mr. Hughes. The primary disclosure or the poll was, of course, the popularity of Mr. Taft, but its largest significance lay in the fact that to the majority Mr. Taft or General Wood would be accept able, while to nearly- one-half Mr. Hughes was by no means out of it. Xot less meaningful was the general proscription of those possible candi dates who have taken a position of open opposition to the league of na tions. It can scarcely be doubted that, except for their active warfare on the league, the sectional appeal of men like Borah or Johnson or Poindexter would meet with a considerable re sponse in Oregon. The doubters who thought that the presidential poll was not a reflection of journalistic opinion in Oregon will be obliged to revise their ideas if they will nake a canvass of present st.tte press expressions. It is in exact har mony with the revelations of the symposium. NO BENEFIT TO THE CONSIMKR. Profiteering is practiced chiefly by those who handle food n its travels from the p'roducer to the consumer. The Portland public market was estab lished for the professed purpose of reducing the price paid by the con sumer by providing a place where he could buy directly from the producer. What does theproducer save? Reports of those who have bought produce on the public market and have compared the prices with those charged by their local grocer are that there is no difference. On the market a nomi nal rent is charged for stalls, and water and garbage collection are free, while the storekeeper pays normal rent and other expenses. The consumer should get the benefit of these econo mies, but he does not. A regular cus tomer at a store runs a monthly bill and has goods delivered. The market dealer gives neither of these accommo dations. Their value in money should be deducted from his prices, but it is not. Stores in buildings directly front ing on the public market pay all the usual expenses of a retail merchant. but they sell as cheap as the market man. The consumer who buys in the public market pajs cash and pays car fare to carry his purchases home. What benefit does he get when he pays the same price as he would at the corner store ? There have been reports that men who ran market stalls were mere stool- pigeons of commission men or mer chants, placed there to get some of the profits from the "good thing" which the city offers, and to prevent the market from serving its original purpose, but the truth has never been run down. There have been rumors that peddlers who never did a day's work on farm or garden were posing as producers in the market. It is time that we got down to the bottom facts, and that none but actual producers were permitted to sell on the public ma rket. When the public market was pro posed the people were led to expect much from it by reading of the great things which such institutions accom plished in Indianapolis, Des Moines and other cities. Tables of prices "before and fter" in those cities were published, and there was a marked difference in favor of the consumer. In Portland "before and after" are just the same. There ought to be a differ ence equal to the difference between the cash-and-carry plan and the eredit-and-delivery plan, plus the saving on rent and other expenses, also plus any middleman's profit which is elimi nated. The market was established to save money for the consumer, not to make an extravagant profit for the producer. The consumer is tired of being the goat. recent times. A system of military justice which fills the soldier with a rankling sense of tyranny and injus tice renders him peculiarly susceptible to the influence of propaganda, and therefore defeats its purpose. One of the great services which the American Legion can render to the country is to use its influence toward modernizing and humanizing the court-martial, and toward making the army of the American ' democracy democratic in fact. private home a few nights ago and was surprised when the host produced a large stack of hotel paper to use as score cards. A woman borrowed paper and envelope at the Hotel Portland yes terday and then asked Manager Childs for a stamp. He didn't happen to have any at the time and apologized, where upon the woman said she would wait until she returned to her own hotel, a small establishment, where she knew the manager would give her a stamp, "We counted 94 cars that we passed while motoring from Crater lake to Medford." reports H. M. ravis of New The importance of the trade-mark i Haven, conn., at the Multnomah. "These problem in the future of our foreign I cars were evidently filled with dele- trade is illustrated by the action of Ktes or the .-sationai tentorial associa- noil. i lie i villi wi tui, up anu tun ui dust. The succession of passing cars "Klore Truth Than Poetry. By JimM J. .Montngiif. In Other Day Germans in Argentina, as reported by the Boletin Oficial of the Argentine republic, in registering there the trade names of many American manufac tured articles. The efforts of the inter national registration bureau at Berne and of the Pan-American Union trade marks office at Washington have been unsuccessful in stopping this form of piracy, in the absence of comprehen sive international agreement on the subject. Registration in a form which is immoral, but not illegal, covers a wide variety of commodities from well known automobiles to established brands of temperance drinks, and its possible effect on future American commerce is heightened by probability that Argentina is only one of the coun tries in Latin-America in which the practice is being followed. Representative McArthur draws at tention to a cause of the high cost of living which is generally overlooked. This is the low cost of money, due to inflation of the currency to meet war needs. Small liberty bonds have the same effect, for many of them have been used to pay current bills. Busi ness is no longer carried on at war pace, and therefore a large amount of the currency issued to finance war work could well be retired. If less money were available, lessrof it would soon buy a bushel" of potatoes and prices would start downward. churned up the dust in clouds until we had to wrap our heads with blankets to strain the dust out of the air we were breathing. Notwithstanding this, the view of the lake was well worth the inconvenience. The pictures I have seen of the lake do not do it justice, and ths deep, blue water which the painters depict is not exaggerated." Mr. David Intimated that he will move out here because of the scenery. The victory of the bolshevists over Kolchak was won jiot so much in Russia as in western Europe and America, where red propaganda fright ened the governments not to help the forces of democracy and civilization against the red terror. Democracy may yet pay dearly for having shirked a war by having- to fight a war equal to that which has just ended. Ben Lawrence, the Indianapolis newspaper man now in Oregon on a visit, is one of the numerous Orego nian "boys" making- good elsewhere. There are graduates of The Oregonian at all three points of the compass doing the same. Good men come out of the west. WHERE SHALL THE BEAD LIE? Determination of the final resting place of the American soldiers and sailors who died in foreign lands will in its last analysis rest with the fathers and mothers of the dead. General Pershing has been quoted as pointing out that provision for their burial in consecrated ground ne;ir the battle fields is adequate and that this meets the sentimental requirements of the soldier, but it is likely that he meant to voice only his own feeling:. Colonel Roosevelt said that he would desire that his son should rest where he fell, but he, too. spoke only for himself and those who agree with him. and not for others who may hold another view. French law is adequate to meet any policy that e may adopt. Under it there are three years within which we may remove the bodies of our dead. Undoubtedly the time would be ex tended if we requested it. The bill introduced in the national house of representatives to appropriate as much of $50,000,000 as may be necessary to bring home the bodies of our liead renews interest in the ques tion. The issue here presented is not one of uarrow policy, for it is unneces sary to run counter to the wishes of any one, where those wishes are ex pressed. General Pershing's assurance of the permanency of the American cemetery in France and our own knowledge of our relations with the French are not needed to guide us in our attitude toward the pending bill. All that we need to ascertain is the wishes of those who have the right to have their wishes consulted in each Instance. The matter is not to be deter mined by any cold procss of logic or by poring over precedents. There are the sacred feelings of those who gave A TRAOKIY OF GENIUS. Ralph A. Blakelock, ' who died the other day in his retreat in the Adiron- dacks, had been an inmate of an asylum for the insane fourteen years before, a few years ago, lie was elected an associate member of the National Academy of Design. This belated affirmation of the genius of a great American painter came only after one of his paintings for which he had received a trifling sum had been sold for $13,000. The Toledo Museum of Fine Arts later paid $20.- 000 for his "Moonlight." At an exhibit of his works conducted in 191 S to ob tain funds to restore him to surround ings favorable to development of his artistic temperament forty-three paint ings were shown, and at the same time a sale of a smaller number of his works was conducted, the private 1 exhibitor in this instance having agreed to make a gift of his entire profits to the benefit fund. Too late for his clouded mind to grasp the .significance of it all, Blakelock had "arrived." The career cf Blakelock is an Im pressive commentary on the spirit of commercialism in art which is said to possess Americans, and it perhaps goes fax to explain why art has not been developed in America. The French have a better way, their law providing that from every sale of an artist's work there shall be set aside a certain, though small, percentage of the ven dor's profit for the benefit of artists or their estates, and that in the event that there are no heirs the tax shall be paid into a fund for all needy artists. Such a provision in American law, invoked in time, might have saved the artistic genius of Blakelock. The charge is not made that the artist was cruelly treated during his detention; but there is reason to believe that his early financial misfortunes cost him his mental poise. Professional art dealers were not the only offenders against justice in Biake lock's case. At a time when its ro mantic aspects were prominently be fore the public, it was. brought out that two of his paintings 6f merit had been bought for $17.50 each by a col lector who had made gifts to the public of $300,000 worth of pictures, and that another well-known collector had gloated over possession of a "Blake lock for which I paid only $12." He was proud of his bargain," although otherwise noted for his benefactions. Meanwhile Blakelock. mildly insane. was immured in a hospital for th,e mentally ill at Middletown, in sur- rounaings wnicn made creation impos sible for him. "Art," he said. is emo tion, not industry." This perhaps fur nishes the keynote of his work. His genius was that of the poet rather than the craftsman: the remarkable quality which at last won him open recognition wa due to an unusual mingling of the two faculties. Blakelock emerged from his asylum at 70, after detention of seventeen years, to be cared for privately, for he had not been cured. The strain under which he gave way was de scribed at the time the movement to obtain his transfer to. other surround ings was begun, a little more than three years ago. On the eve of the birth of his ninth child he had received a commission to repaint for $200 a work which a collector of small pic tures had refused as being too large for his collection. The collector re- REAtHOXAKV MILITARY LAW. No better work could be undertaken by the American Legion than promo tion of reform in administration of justice in the army. Recent discussion of the flagrant injustice committed by court-martial has brought to light the fact that they are undemocratic in the source of their authority, in their methods trnd in their results. They are a relic of the days of absolute royal power, when soldiers were mere serfs of a king. Such military law flatly contradicts the principles of democracy, which treat the army as an instrument for execution of the will of the people and as at all times subject to the civil power. Under that theory the army is democracy under arms, and it is inconsistent with that theory that when democracy takes up arms it should become subject to despotic rule. The contrast between the two views of military justice is well set forth in an address delivered by Colonel S. T. Anscll before the Pennsylvania Bar association and published by order of the senate. He shows it by making this quotation from the ordinances of King Richard II of England: The army Is the army of the kinir. to ba fl .::! pilned ny lum and lila commanders un der his ordinances and at his pleasure. He defines the contrary view by making this quotation from the con stitution of the United States: Congress shall have (the exclusive) power raise and support armies: congresn phail have (the exclusive! power to make rule! for the regulation and government of the land and naval forces. The former is the reactionary, mili tarist, monarchical view, which re gards the soldier as "a serf, a personal retainer of the king or of a subordinate commander"; the latter regards him as "a citizen serving the state in the highest capacity of citizenship." It will be a shock to most Americans to learn that the essential principles of the American military code are those of the reactionary view, and that they are derived from the iron code of the Roman army which conquered the world and established and maintained the empire. Yet John Adams, one of the signers of the constitution, is au thority for that fact. He is quoted as saying: There was extant one system of articles of war which had carried two empires to the head of mankind, the Roman and the British, for the Hrttih articles of war are only a literal translation of the Roman. Those words were written in re lating the adoption by the continental congress of 1775 of the British articles of war as revised in 1774. Of the code then adopted the executive com mittee of the American Bar associa tion said in February, 1919: Our military code Is the British code of 1771 praciicaily unchanged: it has long since outlived lis time and whatever usefulness it may have had: it is archaic and cruel; it is not worth) of the name either, of law or justice. Judge Advocate-General Crowder is quoted as saying that the American code as it existed in 1912 "was sub stantially the code of 1806," which was "systematically the code of 1774, and the revision of 1916 is shown to have been a mere codifying and mod ernizing of language with not one single fundamental change." But Gen eral Crowder said that "meanwhile the British code has been revised al most out of recognition." Our army is thus ruled by a system of justice which has been derived from the Romans and which has been aban. doned by the British without impair ing their ability to win victory, as they have lately proved. Applied to the army of democracy, in which all men of military- age are incorporated, it is destructive of discipline, for it pro vokes instinctive revolt In the mind of When we read of $1031 an acre for loganberries we begin to get a sense of the possibilities of industry in a great industry. But those who are looking for an easy way would better keep out of loganberry growing. It is safe to say that Salem man worked hard for his money. The bakers score in taking the peo- pie into their confidence in the matter of the 1-cent increase in the price of the loaf. One cent may keep many crusts from the garbage can. In that event the rise will be a disguised blessing. The best of them weaken sooner or later. Hamby, who bragged that he wanted to be executed, and "the sooner the better," has decided to permit his lawyers to appeal. A few weeks in the death cell knock a lot of the ro mance out of the outlaw business. Well pleased with the progress being made on paving the Columbia highway between Astoria and Portland, J. S. JDellinger of Astoria was in the city yesterday. There are five paving plants on the work between Rainier and the city by the sea and the "hot stuff" is being spread and rolled as fast as theJ crews can hal.dle it. At trie present rate of progress, most of the distance be tween the two points will be finished before the rains arrive. "What's your name?- inquired the Imperial clerk. "Gesa," answered the stranger. "Haven't time to guess," an swered the clerk. "We have to check out about 250 people a day and checR In about as mapy more, so we've no time for guessing. "What is your name?" "Oess," reiterated the new arrival. "Smith, Brown or Jones?" sighed the clerk, trying to be patient. "So." said the visitor, "Gess." "I'm tired of guess ing." confessed -the clerk. "My name Is (iess W. H. (Jess of Nampa, Idaho." Eighty-two-year-old Mrs. H. A. Knox motored over the Pacific highway from her home at Sacramento. Cal., and ar rived yesterday afternoon at the Mult nomah. It is not the softest trip in the world at present, owing to road construction work being in progress almost the entire distance in Oregon, but when Mrs. Knox stepped out of the car she was as spry as a "chicken" would be. Brighton is all fussed-up over the prospect of seeing the coast highway avoid that point by going along the Miami river. Under the law, the high way should pass through Brighton, but the highway commissioners hava de cided not to make a definite location for the time being. Charles Painter of Brighton arrived at the Hotel Oregon yesterday. ( J. H. Hall of Helena. Mont., who came to Portland with his wife to benefit his health, died yesterday of heart dis ease. He was a past grand commander of the Knights of Pythias for Montana. As the couple had come, to the Imperial, Phil Metschan Jr., arranged details so the grief-stricken widow could start for home last night. H. C. Edwards of Jamieson is at the Imperial. This is a town of 10i peo ple in the northeast corner of Mal heur county and is located on Willow craek there are Willow creeks In half a dozen Oregon counties. Jamieson hopes some day to see a flock of oil gushers in that vicinity, as the lay of the land has always appealed to oil experts. "During the influenza we had a touh time trying to get enough flow ers, observed A. B. Chebney, florist at La Grande. "One day a woman handed me $100 and said she wanted $100 worth of flowers to ship out with a body. I rummaged the greenhouse and all I could find was $25 worth." Mr. Chebney is at the Benson. MY 1VKALTI1Y NKIGHBORS. When, nose to the grindstone, 1 must sit. Engaged upon my daily labors, I cannot help but sigh a bit. In envy of my wealthy neighbors. They live up yonder by the hill Until October never later. For when the autumn breeze, blows chill They're off to follow the Equator. They never have a thing to do But gad about with lordly leisure. The whole delightful summer through. Their life is just one round of pleas ure. I see them often in the lane That winds along the vale below us And want to speak but 1 refrain. For they don't seem to care to know us. They'd not, receive me should I call. Their maniers are extremely airy. And this I can't explain at all. For they're so full of life and merry. All day I watch them hurry by. .Among the fields and trees ar.d flow-ej-s. And when the sunset paints the sky They'll often sit and sing for hours. I envy them their happy lot. I'm sometimes filled with base re sentment That these exclusive folks have got So much that makes for sweet con tentment. But when a tomcat happens by ; And home the frightened father hur ries. No longer do I sit and sigh. For even robins have their worries! Twenty-five Years Atn From The Orejrnntan of Aunut; IS. 1594. Vancouver. K. A. Wtswall. j'tiiJSiS of the superior court of this district! was drowned at Clatsop beach while in bathing there today. Kdward Teesdale. moving: spirit i the rei-;nt strike in this city which re suited so disaMrously to the Rromoters. has left Portland and gone to Wall Walla. M. Odagiri. chancellor of the Im perial consulate of Japan at San Fran cisco, is in J'oi-lan nd announces that a Japanese consul may be sta tioned here. The Portland Federated Trades as sembly, meeting in the headquarters of the Musicians' I-rot,;;c-Uve union, asifl that all unions of the city affiliate in the central body. If the Senate Inn't Careful. The first thing we know a lot of us are going to have to find out where Shantung is. Lettine 'Km Off Light. Fining a bartender $10 for selling a bottle of whisky is really only taking his profit on the sale. Or to Anybody Klne. There doesn't seem to be much hope of an effective union among telephone girls. They'kl never listen to the lead ers long enouph. (Copyright, litlil, by Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Fifty Yean Ajro. From The Oresonlan of AUKUst 14. llc.n. New York. Robbers last nij-ri-.t ran sacked an- express car on the Cent.'.l railroad near West Allvtny and are re ported to have taken $140,000. London.- seashore at health. Ola It; one has gone to the "N:Umr to recruit his William II. Seward has been formally invited to Portland by the city and is expected to come here before long. At a meeting of the Portland Yacht club last night it was decided to hold the last race of the season August 2S, when several new' boats will participate. The Outcast. 11 y Ornce K. Hall. The whole nation is united against the high cost of living except those who make it high, sjid each of them wants to make all the others come down. The human stomach has only one party. The genius of the movement to get more salary for college professors is that they want to be puUon a parity with unskilled labor in opportunity to get hold of the necessaries of life. These are the days when the small taxpayer begins to have a sense of what it would seem like to be a real capitalist when payments are due at the collector's office. The bolshevists, having reduced the population of Petrograd from 2,000,000 to less than 800,000, are making no bid for the support of the population clubs. Congress may permit the "home brew," but it will have to go some to make folks drink, most of the home brew that has found its way into con sumption so far. President Wilson's vote on the Shan tung affair counted for more than those of all four of his peace delegates. Though he does not say "The state, it is I, like Louis XIV, he acts it. There's melodrama in the suit for half a million damages against the striking actors in New York by the showmen. The actors think it comedy. and now is the better time to laugh. The day was bitter cold, the wind a lash that left, each blow, a keen and burning sting. The snowflake, turned to pellet hard and bold, no longer fell like dainty, feathered thing; The field was. bare save where, against the sky, there stood a hill of straw built wide and high. v hue black rocks rose in smaller roughened mound to break the else smooth surface of the ground Rocks formed of frozen clods the sun should broil again to softened earth and steaming soil. 'Twas there I saw him. outcast lone. neglected, bis haunches towards the storm, his head dejected. Burrowed as best he coujii into the straw, which was the only food for empty maw: His ribs showed through his black coat. each a rope that lashed his empty framework to his hope. For, though ignored, he turned his wistful eyes towards distant barn his old-time paradise. And as the day drew down the shades of night, he saw the farmhouse shed. its beacon light. And leaning hard againsfthe yielding stack, he sent a plaintive, plead ing whuiney back! O God! that man could ever turn adrift the horse that served him loyally in spring. That spent its strength each heavy load to lift, 'til broken, aged, a half blind, worthless thing. Robbed of itn giant power pathetic sight It stands, a monument of outraged might. Denied the shelter that it helped to buy mute outcast, left alone to starve and die: Dead in the snow he lay when morning came, and all my soul rebelled and cried "For shame!" LITTI.K OHOt'ER. IS HARD HIT rrlcea riled to Iterate Charge That He la a Profiteer. PORTLAND, Aug. 12. To the Edi tor) I have seen a report in your pa per that they are going to investigate the high cost of 'iving. especially as to the poor grocer. I think that is the tail-end of it. I run a little grocery and I would like to give you an ex ample cf the way prices run. Flour costs me $11.40. and I sell it fir $12. a profit of 60 cents. Sugar, for which we pay $9.55. we sell for $9.TT, a profit of 20 cents on $.T5. Bacon we pay 47 cents for and sell it for 55 cents in 10, 15 and 20. cent pieces nt a time. Cheese we pay 4S cents ror ana sell for 5a cent In small lots. Sruds cost us $2.75 a sack and we sell eight pounds for 25 cents. Butter costs us 60 cents and we sell it for 65 rents. Canned tomatoes we pay $1.50 a dozen, ar.d we sell as little as one can at a time for 15 cents a can or $1.80 a dozen. Soaps that we pay $6.25 to $6.40 per 100 for we sell for 6 cents, or two for 15 c?;its. And so on with 100 or more dif ferent articles. This says nothing of wrapping and so forth. We pay &5 cents fo- peaches today and sell them for 93 cents, after hauling them from the warehouse to North Seventeenth street. Tomatoes, green or rire. may be $2 50 a box of 32 or 33 pounds, and we sell them for 10 cents a pound, to say nothing of the paper hairs. If u grocery store keeper takes in $"'0 to $70 a day and makes $7 to $5 clear he Is doing very well. Then he must take outrent, water and l;i.ht. aad if he comes out even at the end of the year he is doing fine. If anv one can show me a better way ihj!i this. I would like to hear from him. H. J. BELLARTS. The Hiram Johnson campaign must not get so warm it will work against the man who may beat him. The re publican party had its fill of California spite three years ago. Mild national prohibition enforce ment laws will bring small comfort to the wets in states that are dry under their own acts. They will remain as dry as they ever were. An alligator has been caught by a Connecticut fisherman, with prohibi tion less than two months in force in that state. When policemen declare the "shim my" dance is too awful, it must be so, for a policeman is supposed to be case-hardened. Wouldn't you like to be an Elk in Klamath Falls just now? Wouldn't you ? Calling these Vdog days" is highly complimentary to the canine species. The profiteer in bad fruit should be tried before a jury of women. "Man and Wife" is the way a chap registered at the Multnomah. "Patsy" Clark, who was on the desk, -explained that the identification was insufficient. The visitor explained that he had never been at a hotel before and that some one had told him that he must reg- ster as man and wife. Cecil, on Willow creek, in Morrow county, is the place from which J. J. McEntire registered at the Imperial. Cecil hasn't hardly enough population to count, but it has a graded school and is in the heart of a wheat-raising and livestock country. The old Emi grant road runs through the town. L. L. Scott of Airlie, Polk county, is at the Hotel Oregon. They built a branch of the Southern Pacific that far and then quit cold. Being in the midst of a vast timber and agricultural re gion, Airlio originates more freight than most places in Oregon of five score population. Labor leaders from the east who are in Portland on business connected with their "international" are Frank A. Whaley of Kansas City and Walter Nash of El Paso, Tex. They are mak ing their headquarters at the Perkins while in the city. Everyone around the Bend country knows Alex L. Mrlntosh, who is at the Perkins. Mr. Mcintosh, in addition to having interests in Deschutes county, has an immense sheep ranch in Alaska. Having taken in the sights at Rainier park. Mrs. W. K. du Pont and party from Wilmington. Del., returned to the Benson yesterday and will leave for the south. They spent a week in the Rose City before going to Rainier park. Returning from a trip to Puget sound, R. A. Booth of Eugene was in Portland yesterday. Mr. Booth used to be in the lumber business, but for the past year he has devoted his time exclusively to state highway work as one of the commissioners. The Misses Bertha and Marie Green of Zig Zagr are at the Multnomah. This is a point on the bas of Mount Hood where tne government expects to soon have work under way on the proposed loop leading to Hood River county. Mrs. C. A. Smith of Astoria is at the Benson. With her husband, Mrs. Smith conducts two department stores in As toria, having purchased the econd one recently. There is plenty of grazing land available," reports Will C. Barnes, as sistant forester, branch of grazing. United State3 forest service, who is an arrival at the Imperial. Representing a syndicate of 33 stores in the middle west, for which he "is the buyer, George E. Kibler of Columbus, O., is at the Multnomah on business. Captain Leo Peronl of Portland, who was a member of the old 3d Oregon, has returned from overseas service and registered at the Imperial. OLD DICSIRE FOR LAND WAXES When It Returns Living; Problem, Will lie Solved. Sayi. Writer. VANCOUVER. Wash.. Aug. 11. (To the Editor.) During most of my life, which began at Oregon City 67 years ago, and was lived within 60 miles of the starting point, people have been striving to obtain possession of land. Those who had no means to buy with took up or bought at small cost, on time, wild land nnri cleared it by their own labor, feeling assured that the home obtained would repay the labor expended. Some years ago that move ment practically stopped. When it begins again the crest of "the high cost of living" will have been passed. For a long time the boys and girls have been leaving the farms to work in town, and a great many of the fathers have gone along, their sound common sense teaching them that the wages paid in town, mill or logging camp justified their leaving the farm. On every road leading into Portland or Vancouver many auto loads of men can be seen coming in to the shipyards in the morning and returning in the evening. Many of these men tried to make a living on the land but found it did not pay. Even now, with prices as they are. It takes a considerable Investment to return an income that will support a family on a farm. There is small de mand for the "acre tract" unless it is highly developed and offered at a sac rifice, and there are no buyers for un cleared land. Living is high, but it is a question whether it requires more work to live now than in the past. It is easier to formulate a theory or lay down a rule than to make a plan that will work. Two rules would. I think, set the world on the road to peace and prosperity. Everyone should be paid all that he earns, and every one ue ui . - ..... all he gets. Ilnnira for Old People. WINTHROP. Cal.. Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) Please give me the addresses of a'.l old ladies' and invalids' homes in Oregon. CLARK GREEN. There are six homes for old people in Portland, which are as follows: Patton home, 975 Michigan avenue; Old People s home. Thirty-third and Sandy boule vard; Woodmere Old People's home, 7511 Sixty-fourth avenue southeast, Altenheim. 2001 Division; Mount St. Jo seph's home for the aged. Thirtieth and East Stark streets; Oddfellows' home. Thirty-second and Holgate streets. Al tenheim is for Germans exclusively and the Oddfellows is for members of the lodge only. Mount St. Joseph's is con ducted by the Sisters of Mercy, a Catho lic order. The Patton home receives slate aid and anyone over 65 may enter for life on payment of $1500. The regu lar monthly charge for room, board, laundry and medical attention is $35. The Old People's home has a life charge of $2000 for anyone over 65. The monthly charge is $45. To enter for life one must have lived in the state five years, but the rules are less strin gent for shorter periods. Judge Woodward Man of Parts. PORTLAND. Aug. 11. (To the Ed itor.) 1 wish to deposit a sprig of myrtle in memory of Judge John H. Woodward, who passed away August 1. 1 have know n Judge Woodward for more than 25 years, having officed in the same building with him for many years. He was a lawyer of the oft quoted old school. He served his coun try in the sectional war with honor to himself and credit to the cause. Being very democratic and possessing a splendid dignity a poise unrestrained he was easy of approach. During his career he served this community as probate judge, also United States com missioner. He was able and just. He won the esteem of the laity and bar. Peace to his ashes. CHARLES J. SCHNABEL. Marriage Net Le&ral. TROUTDALE. Aug. S. (To the Edi tor.) What is the nearest state to Ore gon where a person can be married immediately after securing a divorce in Oregon. OLD SUBSCRIBER. The Oregon law cannot be evaded by going elsewhere to be married. The marriage so entered into would not be recognized in Oregon. E. T. HATCH. ROT 0LY WOMAN TO PBESIOE L'tah and Colorado Have Candidates for Parliamentary Dlatlnotlon. S LT LAKE CITY'. Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) In a recent issue of your paper I notice that Mrs. Alexander Thompson is reported to be "the only woman in the United States who has ever presided over a legislative body. That is a mistake which should be corrected. ,. Dr Martha Hughes Cannon, the first woman senator in the. world, who served two terms in the Utah legisla ture, was the first woman to wield the gavel over a law-making body. Since that time here in Utah there have been several women legislators jwho have had that distinction the last ones being Mrs. Elizabeth Hay wardj senator, and Dr. Grace Stratton Airey. representative in the legislature of this year. Years ago Mrs. Ring-Robinson of Colorado presided over the senate of the Colorado legislature. I am sure that it was a lack of knowledge of these facts that prompted Mrs. Thompson to accept the gavel without a -protest and thus unwittingly give the error her sup port, rather than with deliberate in tention of misleading the public, and that is why I am writing to correct the mistake. ELSIE ADA FAUST. M. D. Sweet Thing Dora Her Best. London Tit-Bits. "Y'es. grandma." said the fair young thing. "1 am to be married during the bright and gladsome month of July." "But. my dear," said the old lady, earnestly, "you are very young. Do von feel that you are fitted for mar ried life?" "I am being fitted now, grandma," explained the prospective bride, sweet ly. Seventeen gowns and three costumes." LIFE AFTER DEATH. Do the dead communicate with J the living? The war and the influenza i brought this question to the fore. Has it been answered? t Beginning next Sunday. August t 17, The Sunday Oregonian will present to its readers the first' J of a series of articles on this sub- 4 ject, all by noted writers. Here are the writers: T Y'es Sir Conan Doyle. Sir Oli- T ver Lodge, Dr. James H. Hyslop. J No Rupert Hughes, Sinclair 4 Lewis. t Perhaps Booth Tarkington, Harvey J. O'Higgins, Olla Toph. The first article is by Sir Conan t Doyle. J Another big feature: J The Oregonian also will begin 4 publication next Sunday of Rob- i ert W. .Chambers' novel, "The Dark Star." J