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8 THE MOEXIXG OKEGONIAX, SATURDAY. AUGUST 16, 1919. ESTABLISH! T BEMT L- PITT OCX-Publish-, br Th Orexonlan Publishing Co, 1U Sixth Strict, romana, urefon. C- A. MOB PEN. E. B. PIPER. liaoaser. bailor. America has felt only tbe ripple ot the outer waves. It is for America to summon the world back to work and to set the example. For the cure for our ills and for those of all nations is more work; that will of itself bring more wages in the only shape that counts more things to eat. wear, Th; c. mnb-r o Jth Ao- I d hear, see and enjoy, sted Press. Th Associated Pre I x- 1 f 'rlnilMl mn t it r li In f h m u tof PUbllC- tion of all dispatch credited to It or not tfe-rwls credited la till paper and also th local ns published hereia. All righc f rputliation of special dispatc- Ber-iu are aiso rwfnefl. SatmerltXioa Bale laTariablr la J Bjr Mall.) TmfTjr. Suadar tnelu-d. ana year .... rai!y, iudy Included, alz month . iJalljr. Funrisy Included, three montha Iail. Sunday Included, eni monta .. rt;yf a itnout Sunday, aoa year .. . . ratlir. without Sunday, sis montha . Zl!y. without S jaaay, u monta . Weekly, Ml year ...... Sunday, ana year SuaOsy ad aeckly ffiv Carrier.) Tafty. Suaday Included, oa year ''?? Zaily. Sunday Included, oaa monin ... Xally. Sunday Included, three muiicba . tally. without Sunday, on year - raily, without Sunday, three montha ? Xaily. without Sunday, on month. .... How ta Kaaait Send poatoUlc monay or- e-r. press or peraonai cnea oh you i bank. Stamp, coin or currency ar at own- era rtslc (.live poetotflca address m lull, in-. THE REMEDY. Tb Immediate and preaalns need of taa country la production, increased and incraaa- las production in all llnea of induatry. Thus President Wilson in his raes sage of, veto for the daylight saving bill. He insists that the farmer must have more daylight in order that 'he may do more work. All other work' era, too, he says (n effect, must work mal. but under the Plumb bill they I Mondell for leader in place of Mann. would be more likely to rise. Relief I They are busy on a series of investiga te the consumer requires that theyjtions which may blow up the war de should fall, for high cost of transpor-1 partment, and on a number of recon tation is an important factor in high I struction bills which are yet to emerge prices. Our chief reliance for future! from committee. prosperity must be on foreign trade, I The president has much lost ground to which high freight rates are a seri- I to make up, but the skill which he ous obstacle Inclination of congress to resent die Those Who Come and Go. Traveling a million miles in 50 years as a shoe drummer and never having an acident is the record of R. J. Prince, who is at the Multnomah. Since he KTnrr-ri n t i H in fginA In 1 flfiO he displayed in 1916 should warn repub- has averaged more than 20,000 miles a ncans against overconiinence tnat ne year, or equivalent almost to a trip More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. . M 4 .6 if.-i 7 mi - an l (hi I more, and the way to get more work Is i ne way to get more worn aone is of course to do more work. More pro duction will follow more work by all workers, of course. But the gratui tous and fictitious gift to farmers who already work from early morn till dewey eve of an hour of daylight in the evening, at the expense of an hour of daylight in the morning, solves ho .7 s .5 7 Ml If eltidln. PM1BIV BUll .Ilia Foataa-a Kal- 1:1 to IS page. 1 cent; 18 farm problems. to u a .u: u i ii fMJJ Nor will any artificial llght-and eanta: 7 to aj Vasa, uota. Fgreisa poet-I dark readjustment lengthen any day ace. aouoi rate. 1 for sundry other bodies or workers, iiSw!ca bd.n."! VoVT: v.rr.: ""st of whom are demanding shorter conkiio. tiiecer bunding. C hicago: Verra I hours and more pay without any rcf rnw:,n -.-- .. 1.. ni. line iMtrolt. sllcu. San Francisco repreantatie K- J. Bldaell. erence to the rising or setting of the sun or the (arbitrary setting forward or setting backward, of the hands of the clock. More work at all suitable hours, and HOIK THE SOVfcUEIOf CI UK. Nothing but good can result from such heart-to-heart talks about the I less leisure and loafing by daylight, is public market as the housewives had I the real remedy for the high cost of ..with City Commissioner Bigelow, Mrs. living. AIcMath and Mr. Kastman. They tend to Keep tne city omciais aeyea up to TIBMXG ON THE LIGHT. pertormance of tneir auiy. iney Evidently Th. Oregonlan prealdential - check the disposition OI tne mari-ei i ptrationa for -ur. wood ' have actually been H-.l.r. to farce Drlrtl UDWard. If I Into a relapse. H.nc. tha present t " , . diicamt of tha "old Guard' mouthpleca, me soueii wuuiu avjciui a, sun i I which cornea out with a column of "feelers" Vigilance Committee to keep Constant I clipped from the republican country pre watch th-v ronM nermanentlv tier- I William Howard Taft appear watch, uiey couia permanently exer-1 M th ppuI cnoic th. quoted else this check and could discover and! editor. n of which win probably convert break UP Combinations. AS it is, the Tha oreconlan to Iha Deiler that, after all w I i,A Inl'aa a aA Kaal " GiLra f v i - I Uiirnel market has done some good in sta bilizing prices aad. broadening supply. but it needs as effective organization on the part of the consumer as on that of tha producer In order that its full benefits may be obtained But after ail, agitation about the public market and prosecution of prof iteers are but treatment of symptoms; they do not go to the disease. This is that the American people generally work less, therefore produce less of the necessaries than formerly, while they spend more on pleasure and luxury and demand more wages. The only way permanently to reduce the cost of living is to produce more of the necessaries and to indulge In luxuries only when we have pro ided our full share of the necessaries. The fundamental cause of high prices In tha market is the fact that, while the American talks about going back to tha land and growing his own fruit . and vegetables, raising his own chick ens and keeping his own cow, he leaves it to tha Japanese and Chinese, whom he wishes to exclude from the coun try. Tbe plain truth is that, if we re fuse to do the work ourselves, we must let the orientals do it. But we shun work in farm and gar den for ourselves, because it makes us sweat. It is even considered impolite to use that good, old Anglo-Saxon word "sweat" and we substitute the more cultured word of Latin origin. "perspiration." Perhaps the distinc tion is that one sweats for wages, but perspires for pleasure. Yet it would do us a world of good to sweat the lazy fat off our bones and the toxic poisons out of our blood, even if we never raised a potato or turnip In do- "Oid lave are beat. Salem Capital Journal. President Wilson, in his disastrous message to the people last year, laid down the astounding partisan doctrine that the poorest democrat in congress would be better than the best republi cation In regard to railroad legislation will fail. They still have to make the around the world each 12 months. Mr. is an encouraelner sism. The custom I record on which they will claim pop- I Prince has seen the sleeping car de of advocatps of riartlriilar measures. I ular suifcort in 1920. and thev need velop from a crude affair to the palace or of representatives of particular in- to improve on their recent perform- ?' today and he declares there was less '. ,i I ,o a. . ,,. kicking in the old days than now. On i 'mis, 1""- -" "' Spntumhur 3 h will ral.hr. hi. ldn Uons and delegations and to bombard the advantage of the offensive, but ,,lhiift , ,,. .,,.. A individual members with threatening I they must make a good affirmative vitatjons have been issued to 00 trav letters, telegrams and resolutions of I showing of legislation, which must run eling men in the territory to attend organizations has grown to a public I the gauntlet of a vigilant opponent) a banquet to be held at the Multnomah. danger, which is increased by the who knows how to wield the veto pen. I Speaking of shop, Mr. Prince asserts mat quality and prices of snoes now are better than tlinv wera in 1873 and SERGEAXT YORK'S NEW VENTURE. neonle have a arreater varietv of Sergeant Alvin T. York, sometimes) widths; leather is treated so it no called "the greatest hero of them all,") longer has to be greased to keep soft. because he killed and captured an readiness of some members to yield to such intimidation. The number of votes represented Is enormously ex aggerated, fer a pet nostrum Is often commended only by a small clique which has adopted an Imposing name, hired a few clerks and laid in a sup ply of stationery, thus making a great noise like a stage crowd. Even when men speak in the name of a great or. ganization, there is grave doubt MEMORY STREET. Along the street of Memory The little footsteps come and go That wandered so far away from me So long ago. The ringing voices I can hear; I feel again a happy thrill. Although the world for many a year Has seemed so still. Beside tbe street of Memory Where swings the old and broken gate, Beneath the arching maple tree. 1 stand and wait. The street resounds with joyful noise. 'there comes a fluttering rush and- then The laughing girls, the shouting boys Are home again. In Other Days. almost incredible number of boches on the battlefield, has announced his in tention to set out on a lecture tour for the purpose of raising funds for the establishment of a university for the mnunfflln namilii ii f Yiie 1,tn,. whether even the majority of the mem- Tennessee TJle fact )s si&nificant of As to the price of leather it was 40 cents a pound in January and is now 85 cents, so there isn't much hope of getting cheap shoes with demanding leather. bers are of one mind with them. The railroad question is so vitally important to the whole nation, it touches all interests so closely, that it should be considered by a congress nn influenced by clamor by any particu lar interests, and above all free from intimidation by either labor, capital, shipper or consumer. The present congress is fresh from the people, elected by all the people, and should the awakening of interest in education among a dormant people, rather than of tbe wisdom of the particular plan which Bergeant York may have in mind. It will be doubted that the mountaineers' need a "university" in the popular sense of the word as much as they need an efficient system of primary schools. And the thing needed most of all in cases of this kind, as was suggested in Forty-eight years aeo this month John Bentley spent his first night in Portland. He has visited the Rose City once a month since. At first he pat ronized the St. Charles and then the Esmond. He was one of the first pa trons the Perkins had and he has been repeating there ever since'. The "Jv7o. 1 policeman" of Pendleton in Uncle John Bentley. He has been carrying that star for years, no matter who is chief of police. Uncle John is a sort of of ficer emeritus, for he draws no pay. In the two administrations of President Cleveland Mr. Bentley was a deputy Along the street of Memory see the sunlight s golden glow And happier days come back to me. The days that vanished lone; axo. the world "he days of rapturous delight. JI fairy grots and elfin isles. When life was beautiful and bright With Childres s smiles. be trusted in preference 'to any per- "f, " "" United states marshal and he has also anna who ,t (, niv . f ih. by the .?ockefe,le.r.. treneral been sheriff of Umatilla. Being a limn sons who speak for only a part of the people. It should heed the opinions of all who properly express them, but It should pay no heed to recommenda tions accompanied by open or covert threats, except to reject them. EFFECT OF CHINA'S PROTEST. One of the most remarkable board, is the will to establish their own schools. The genius of our sys tem of public education is public par ticipation in it. Yet it will be surmised, from the fact that Sergeant York is not can vassing among millionaires, but js modestly attempting to raise the neces-I enough to sample each. The commun of the law is sort of second nature t the old-timer. wo one from Ashland neglects to mention something- about Lithia park. it spouts an assortment of mineral waters, with an assortment of flavors, and every visitor to the Dark is earns sary funds for a beginning out of the amples of unarmed, passive resist- I proceeds of his lectures, that he is not ance Is the boycott of Japanese goods laboring under illusions on this score, by China and the appeal to the judg- Money spent In making a beginning mnr .f th ,nifl ,hi.h r-,io moue will be speat from the public ihrntieh nnhiixitir Th. .n a I point of view. Thereafter, for their sion. and each visitor carries his or her of China are so weak as to be unfit tolown eTOod, the mountaineers ought to individual cup, and they vie witB one romnare with those of Taoan hut no look out for themselves, which no another to see how many glasses of .iaP. " doubt thev will do when the way has water they can take without getting l'u" ci i:xu vveituuio uie UMti nniiii- i - ity has spent a fortune in Dioinsr the water to the park and in beautifying the surroundings. Lithla park resem bles a spa of Europe, there being many pecple who go to Ashland to "take the water," that being the accepted expres- I wait there, as the san sinks low Beside the street of Memory. Where little feet tripped to and fro, And-all too soon away from me. And when the twilight gleams its last, I take my way, with silent tread Along the roadway of the past, where they have fled. a a Definition. An optimist is a man who thinks he can get somebody to bet that the kaiser won't be convicted if he is tried. a a a iVothing la Superlative. There is something worse than a bolshevist and that is two I. W. W.'s. a a Rather Tame, la Fact. Pershing recently gave a reception to a bunch of foreign officials, but it didn't compare with the one he arave Ludendorff early in November. (Copyright, 1919, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) The Wish Garden. By Grace E. Hall. Tweaty-Bve Tear Age. From Th Oregonlan of August 1, 1W4. San Francisco. The battleship Ore gon made her first voyage today, run ning from the Union Iron Works to Hunters Point and return. The battle ship will not be fully completed for some months. Alfred Harrington, said to have de frauded estates at St. Louis of immenas sums while an attorney there, wa taken through Portland yesterday fol lowing his arrest in Idaho. The grocers, butchers and bakers closed up shop yesterday and enjoyed a grand picnic near St. Helens. The second day's session of the head camp of the Woodmen of the World was devoted to the introduction of resolutions. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of August 16. 18S9 New York. The war between rail roads on rates to the west continues in greater intensity, with the rate on freight to Chicago now cut to 18 cents per 100 pounds. The Vancouver Register boasts of the fact that two new threshers have been brought into Clarke county this season. Dr. O. P. Plummer, superintendent ot the telegraph line between Portland and Marysville, Cal., is traveling the entire length of tbe line and making thorough repairs. Mr. Meacham, superintendent o? Indian affairs, will start up the Colum bia this morning to Inspect Indian agencies east of the mountains. been pointed out to them. They pos- waterlogged. Lylo,Sams. an Ashlander, If you stood in a garden of roses to night, while the moonbeams)! uia-yea over tne lea. getting I And you thrilled with the rapture of can. The country did not and does tion of the Chinese people to have no not aaree With him. But. If WS do not IHenNno-a with a nntlnn -nrhl)i tnov mistake the present temper of the feel, has wronged them. Japan is sore- lstlcs or self-reliance an a singleness or The Misses Leah and Maxine Sykes i .i i . I .. . , . , . . , I niirnnA nnrt arft mitte likelv to ac- nf Rnphi, r .. tha Tm;l -., ., I ieupit, uiey mo nuw fii'itu iu at- mjt wounaea in commerce ana is neia , : . . r V. 7 . " " CaUSel OI Ull .. - . I . I .n.ltah that wh rh ihov epI nut trt rfiff Slrants ThA hnr-i-o- miast nn in cepi a coronary oi me w uson ior- i tip to the oDloquy of all nations as an I -"-" - j - ..- ... SrJIJ om which 1?J to any democrat. If that is so, and we nouncements thafjapan Intends soon x orlt nans ts one ot tne most tpicaiiy iists TraveI oveT the Pacific highway think It Is, it should make no Hitter-I to band to China all sovereign power I " W'B j is so heavy that the botels cannot ac- enre to anv renublican who is nom- nvor Khnntimc hni that rin nni t- Percentage ot illiteracy is nign. imsicommodate all the motorists, and. any- inated for president provided he con- isfy the Chinese. Japanese would still is due to lts P8 isolation and its way. many prefer to rough It. For the cern himself only about election of a hold the concession at Kiao-chow Pver?y OI 'e' '' 4Uii u. 1 I i. j .i- ii . 1 T AVitltno a?I fflllmnlnc x " ci m n ormi n fi w it n I trip republican and defeat of a democrat, which is the one great port of north Our Salem neighbor has made the ern China that was not already occu- illuminating discovery that The Ore- pied by foreigners when Germany gonian was for Wood and is now for took it. and would also hold the rail- Taft. This discovery, through discern- road and coal mines. This would Ing Salem eyes, is quite as interesting I mean economic control of the prov to The Oregonlan as we hope it is to ince, which experience has proved the public, including Mr. Taft and equivalent to political control in General Wood. We rather think the China. That country's sovereignty Capital Journal will have occasion to would be as shadowy as that of Tur make new revelations as to The Ore- key over Egypt after Mehemet Ali be gonian before the presidential primary I came supreme. of 1920. It may be helpful to an in- Some Americans familiar with the quisitive contemporary to provide a I orient urge that Japan, as the most key to'the great secret, and here it is: I civilized, progressive and efficient na- The Oregonian is not for any repub- I tion of Asia, should be given a free lican against any democrat for presl- I hand to lead China forward, as the dent. But, as it sees the prospect latter is very backward, without unity now, it will be for any republican of language or ideals, a nation only in likely to be nominated for president name and hopelessly corrupt. That against any democrat likely to be nom- I is the argument of efficiency which inated. I Germany put forward in claiming only do the limited vocabularies of equipping a camp ground with electric the mountain folk contain many now obsolete words which were current in the time of Chaucer, but their mode of living is nearly as archaic. They have not kept up with the procession of j civilization, although the fault has not been wholly their own. Now the war has awakened in them new aspirations. Their young men who served in the army have returned utterly dissatisfied with the old ways. lights to make it safe at night; in stalling a water system; tables, chairs, and, in short, everything to make mo tor tourists have a good impression and a kind word for Roseburg. That stalwart of Lakeview, Bernard Daly, is at the Hotel Portland. Some people call him doctor and others call him judge, for he is a physician and has sat on the bench. Also, he has been largely instrumental in the de velopment of Lake county ever since It is the discontent of enlightenment Heck was a pup. Every time Mr. Daly and it ought not to be repressed, comes to Portland he begs A. L. Mills Many of them will not stay in the mountains, but -will join the rush to the cities, as many other country boys have done. But it is everlastingly to the credit of Sergeant York that he has elected to remain with his people, to fight their battles for them, to awaken further the desire for educa- world power. China evidently . lu ""i""" ' " not want Japan for a guardian, and to visit Lake county to see the land and the cattle, and the president of the First National always promises, and never goes. There is scarcely an angler in Port land who doesn't know about Batter- son, on the Tillamook railroad. When fishing is good there are always sports men dropping off the train there. At first they slept in the big barn, but so springtime delight that you knew as you strolled there with ma. Could each rose hold a wish In tha depths of its heart, a wish that for once could come true. Which one would you wear in the dusk ot your hair? I would I might pluck it for you! Oh, linger a while ere a choice you make there is much in the heart of each rose: Peer closely tonight, for the blossoms you take shall wither or grow, as lime Kuea: There is charm that but fades with the season's decline, like petals that drift on the breeze. But the charms that remain forever the same grow in the same gar den wun tnese. vision the pioture of blossom and glow, the roses all nodding with glee, And the wishes all peeping at you as you go, each wondering which wish yours will be: Alas! but one longing springs up in your neart you are one with aJ women, in truth For you pin on your breast, ignorins the rest, the wish-rose that brings back your youth! a halt to iiimii,aiio.. I VI . 71 .ei- emieration President Wilson' condemnation ol ! Jlas " slVB p."1 "l ".. .iih th- , they are rather than incite them to I many fishermen go to whip the stream Sergeant York is fired in that vicinity that the primitive ac- they have been a principal means of ihich used as a reason for handing over the I country to the tutelage of Japan, hrpnls nnri unHitA insistancA nn i.. . ik... .h .!- i.- -...i k- lnipi. nf a .inel- rlnw." was needed cnuna ana particularly in -orea is . ' , .. j,,,--., .- .K..-H- LnH ho..M h. t.ic.r. to b-art hv all evidence to the contrary. . tmA -n.,A !-. .h ----- who c-rnw imnationr at the evils which ouuuiu ., suuu u, mt !, nA ,hil, w-,,1.1 -i.n iinnvnMhlv mark tha rhunni from icaguo 111 ttcii-6 siiumo niijr break any price, that anybody tried to war to peace. War has disposed peo- renunciation of power in Shantung by maintain artificially. pie generally to resort to the short cut " tbB '"tura, (f that province There are about 8 0,000 automobiles of violence in. order to right their . . . , " " . in Oregon, and probably three-fourths wrongs. The results are seen In the ,T,. C7rr.k., of them are used solely or chiefly for hideous condition to which Russia -asr-. . 6 " -.laaaiiM rint- a-a. o r V. n i-a m a - n-n era 1 I hssan raHllfoH In trtA . I Tri t I T T -tfhifh their homes to buy cars, and they pro- have disturbed almost every nation Promoting that disunion test when they find that their incomes of central and western Europe, not do not suffice to pay for both gasoline excepting supposedly order-loving old and foods at present prices. They de- I Eneland. mand a shorter work day in order I The same disposition has been dis played in a less degree in this country. General strikes have been declared for the unconcealed purpose of in timidating whole cities, not to settle Ian industrial quarrel, but to overturn and gasoline. Not that it is not a good the government and set up a new one. thins to o.i a car The Oregunun iThe purpose has been proclaimed to but to the information imparted by hoes to see the day when every fain- I place all other classes in subjection to I Chairman Cummings of the demo lly will have one but no man has a I the so-called working class. Leaders I cratic national' committee, after a tour I of the railroad brotherhoods boast of I of the west. Common report is that the six million men at their back and few men tell the president unpleasant talk of revolt and revolution if the truths, but Mr. Cummings is believed Plumb railroad bill is not passed. I to be one of these few. I Their excuse is the evil of profiteer-1 The president may have been de Questions In Aviation. PORTLAND, Aug. 15 (To tha Krti- tor.J tllWhen did Wilbur Wrihi mane nis urst successtul aeroplane flight? (2) Was there on exhibition at the Lewis and Clark fair a heavier thnn nir manhino? Te j '.if foTthe'trust: uTZnt in " JST with" the spirit of the missionary, and "daUons have been improved and lt d i7io -h-i. -n a 0-,iin-i in r i. will find his highest destiny in laoor ; .-"...r .r". " CONSTANT R amona-the oeoole he knows so well. "te :-"""' """"f""' : " . Details of the system proposed by , .... . m isuj, him o- r,tmnr,rtant hv rnmnarisnn nignt lasting 53 seconds, and in 190 with the fundamental fact that the Bee culture is in its infancy, for there thy mde 45 flights, in the longest of mountaineers are becoming aware of Is a steadily increasing demand for which they remained in the air for half their own shortcomings. They will honey, so says J. Belshaw of Everett, an hour and covered a distance of 24 not require much outside help once they have made their start. There are creat possibilities in this American giant, just awakening from his slum ber in the southern hills. that they may have more time to burn up more gasoline and tires, when the way out of their difficulty is to do more work and produce more neces saries with which to pay for their car I moral right to one until he has earned it; it can be earned only by work, and the majority of car owners have not done the work. All our social customs tend toward WILSON HKABS COLD TBl'TH. Since his return from Paris Presi I dent Wilson has evinced deep inter est in domestic affairs, his address on I the cost of living being the latest evi dence. This may be ascribed not only to the demands of the railroad men less work and mure luxury. Married ling as though they were the only suf-lceived into believing that the people people for this reason shirk having children, or bring forth one or two spoiled pets and rear them to shun work which makes them sweat. Old- fashioned families of six or eight would go far to solve the cot-of-liv lng problem. The mother would have to buy carefully, tbe father to work regularly and to raise much of the food in bis home garden, and the chil dren would help as they grew up. They would sweat more and perspire less, hence mould have fewer doctor bills. Tbe number of customers for the Japanese and Chinese gardeners would be so reduced that these gch try could not dictate prices. The new generation would not grow up with such an ignorance of and aversion for honest, healthy work that it would tarn with disgust from contact with the soil. Joyrides would be fewer. but they would be the mora enjoyed because they were earned. If every family which has the op portunity were to do its part in pro ducing the necessaries of life, and it very man in general were to do full day's work, whether in agricul ture, gardeuing or any other occupa tion, the high cost of living would soon ' settle itself. Actual earnings, measured in commodities produced Instead of in Inflated dollars, would fiacrease and prices would fall in pro portion, so that all would be better off with fewer dollars in their pockets, simply because those dollar would buy mora. - - There is. no danger of overproduc tion, for there is a great deficiency to be made good in Kurope. Herbert Hoover tells us that with 450,000,000 people, that continent is producing only enough to feed 350,000,000. and it looks to America and other new countries to make up the difference. Europe too has carried the demand for better conditions to the extreme where less work is expected to yield more food and clothing. Both for its own sake and for that ot the world at large. It is for America to take the lead in coming gack to Its senses. Kurope has been almost shaken loose from Its moorings, moral, intellectual, economic and of every other kind, by tbe terrible convulsions through which it has passed. Comparatively, forers and as though they had a right are behind him in general because to force their remedy on congress they are behind him on the league of without consideration of the wishes of I nations. If Mr. Cummings told the the rest of the population. I truth, he removed this delusion. The These methods are utterly undemo- I president was defeated last November cratic. and the president did well to I because he had Insisted in conducting call a halt to their use. They are J the war as a party, not as a national, Justified only against a despot or I enterprise, because he kept incompe against such a gang of monsters as tent men like Baker, and domineering rules Russia, All the people of the 1 men like Burleson in his cabinet and I'nited States have a part in electing because his party leaders in congress congress, and that body should consld- I were out of sympathy with the war er the wishes and opinions of all. It and sadly marred war legislation. Dur hould resent the dictation and threats I ing his absence popular discontent of any part of the people as firmly as with his party has been Intensified It resented the dictation of tbe kaiser by revelations of tenderness with when it declared war on him. slackers, brutality to soldiers, court Congress Is now at work on a bill martial abuses, war risk blundering, for the future government of the rail- waste everywhere, failure to get air roads, and it may be trusted better to craft and guns to the front, cruel neg guard the rights and interests of all lect of demobilized soldiers, bad rail- elements of the nation than can Mr. I road service and more Burlesonisms. Plumb or any other man who acts I With ample power to punish hoarders only for a single element. Mr. Plumb's and profiteers, he has permitted talk about financial manipulation of I profiteering to go unchecked. All these the railroads ;s out of date, for the evils come so close home to the peo- Interstate commerce commission is I pie that they will not be forgiven now valuing tbe railroads to deter-1 solely because the league meets with mine their actual worth, and this work general approval. will be completed next year. The peo- Mr. Wilson has been striving to re ple as a whole have as great an inter- I cover lost ground. He scored on the est in the proper management of the I republicans by his rebuke for their railroads as have the employes. The I failure to provide enough money for interests of the latter have certainly f reconstruction of wounded soldiers, not been neglected in the last three l.that being a case of economy in the years. If the employes should be per-I wrong place. He forced them tq cut mated to control, iney wouia Decome i aayngm saving apart from tne agri a privileged class with power to exact cultural bill after they had failed to any sum they please in payment for pass the latter over his veto. He put railroad service, and to render service them in a bad light by calling con- of any quality they please, good or cress to work on anti-profiteering bills bad. There is Tactically no opposi- I after it had resolved to take a vaca tion to the principle of profit-sharing, tion. But he still carries Baker and for both Senator Cummins, who is I Burleson on his .back, as Sinbad car drawing the bill, and Director-General ried the old man of the sea. and his liines have declared in favor of it, but announcement that he would exercise that does not involve handing over the the power granted by the food control roads to the management of the em- law two years go was an open con- ployes. fession of neglect during that period. The rights of the public must be The president may reap some po- conaidered as well as those of the own- litical profit from tbe blunders of his crs and employes. The public is en-1 opponents. The republican senators titled to good service at a reasonable have put themselves in an unenviable cost. There is no cause to expect, light by letting their resentment get from experience of other countries, them Into a position of opposition to that under the so-called tripartita public opinion from which Taft and system service would, be good or cost Hughes are trying to extricate them, reasonable. Rates should fall as gen- In the house they do not seem to have era! business conditions return to nor-I intended matters much by choosing If Seattle women go without butter, eggs, milk and meat, they punish themselves and their families as much as th profiteers. They should study who can talk the bee business from to izzard. When the war brought re striction of sugar people turned to honev as a substitute, and this caused many people to g'o into the bee culture as a regular business. The denfand created by the war is constantly in creasing. Mr. Belshaw is at the Mult nomah, e miles. 2 There was not. OLD TRAIL IS NORTH Or CECIL. Ontario Historian Remeaiberi Monu ments Along Old Immigrant Route. ONTARIO, Or., Aug. 13. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian' of Aucust IS an item under "Those Who Come and Go" states that "the old Immigrant road runs through the town" of Cecil. This is an error that I often think should be corrected. The old immigrant roaa crossed willow Creek in Morrow county, about three miles below and north of Cecil. Thirty-six years ago and later I knew of monuments rudely made of rocks indicating burials made by immigrants on ground now owned by Mr. A. Henriksen, below and north of Cecil. During summer and fall Willow creek is dry, excepting that springs of perpetual flow begin at the point men tioned on the Henriksen farm and con tinue issuing and running 12 miles to the Columbia river. After a long half-day drive from Wells Springs, immigrants camped at these springs. Had they crossed at the placa where Cecil is they would have traveled more than a day without, water. I have, myself, picked up behind tha plow and the harrow, at the Willow creek springs, rusted oxen shoes, irons, indicating the old-time lynch-pin wac on, and various other relics of thote old days of westward wandering. Historians of Oregon have an oppor tunity here to correct an error respect ing an interesting epoch of the settle ment and growth of Oregon. SUBSCRIBER. Jason Not With Fleet. KELSO, Wash.. Aue: 10. fTn th- vat. tor-) Kindly state whether or not the U. S. S. Jason is coming to the Pacific with the Atlantic fleet. MRS. C. M. K. While most sheepmen are worrying ahmit short ranire. Robert Keves some more to find a punishment that slipped a band of possibly 1500 sheep I roster of the fleet. to Dasture near Clatskanie. For 40 1 1 years or more Mr. Keyes has been in the Wheeler county country. His sheep camp is located on Shoo Fly creek, which isn't far from Hardscrabble creek and Cougar creek. They've got some great names for creeks up that way. Mr. Keyes was in town yester day. The Jason is not included in the Naturalization of Soldiers. HUSUM, Wash., Aug 14. (To the Editor.) Some time, I think, during the month of June, 1918, a group uf foreign-born soldiers from Vancouver Barracks were taken before a United States attorney at the armory in Port land, where they signed papers grant ing them full United States citizenship. Kindly advise me the name of tlie above attorney, where .he can bo lo cated at present, and also the exact date this procedure was held. J. N. P. The naturalization event to which you refer was held June 21, 1918. Ex aminer John Speed Smith of Seattle was here for the examinations, which were held before Federal Judge Wol- verton. Matters pertaining to natu lalization may be taken up in this tate by addressing the naturalization service, Postoffice building, Portland. Profiteering In Rents. PORTLAND, Aug. 15. (To the Ed itor.) My landlord has raised the rent twice in three months and I have been told it is unlawful to raise rent oftener than six months apart. Kindly advice me if there is in existence any such law or ruling. RENTER. fits the crime. Wherever the Elks go they find something to do for the general good of the order, which with them means all mankind, whether it be raising a Salvation Army fund or fighting a fire. There is no such law. There is a serious discrepancy be tween the value of Henry lord's for tune and his good name, but if he gets right to work he may reduce it by several million dollars before he dies. The airplane has already proved Its usefulness in forest lire patrol so con clusively that the government should send more of them and provide land ing fields and repair shops. By murdering the Greek Boy Scouts the Turks take the right course to harden the hearts of the peace con ference against them. The British should have finished the job. The would-be reformers of the democratic party in Texas would bet ter begin by reforming their leaders, ex-Senator Bailey and ex-Governor Ferguson. Advice of a deputy city attorney that the pre-wartime phone rate is egal does not help the man whose check Is returned by an obdurate company. If that missing car contained army beer rather than tomatoes, there would be 1001 tracers at work; but there ain't no such thing" as army beer. If Portland were hungry for toma toes it might be grieving over the nan arrival of a car load of army stuff that seems more or less mytnicai. With its pure milk, pure water and cool nights, Portland is the babies' paradise, except that their number does not fit the population. This is the weather to ripen tha po tatoes and rains later will start them into growing those vexatious knobs. Tha big fire at Klamath Falls was not part of the Elks' programme, but was an immense filler. Those hot winds from eastern Ore gon yesterday pretty near dehydrated some of the fat fellows. The race of the "Reds" and ' ill beat anything in fiction. 'Giants' Davie Guelph oses today. is with the "blue F. Schafer. the new manager of the San Francisco & Portland Steamship company, wnrcn, oespite its long name, has a fleet of only one boat, is at the Imperial. The company during the war sacrificed the rest of its ships to defeat the Huns. However, the company is now making superhuman efforts to get more tonnage, which, in marine par lance, means more boats and not more freight tonnage, as the landlubber might suspect. Youngsters, as a rule, think teacher knows eevrything, and teacher is en vied for not having to go to school. Professor C. C. Tornason of the James John high school registered at the Hotel Washington yesterday with his wife. The professor has been attend ing the summer school at Berkeley, CaL Over the rolling road from Los An geles, which boasts of having a larger population than San Francisco, a very fair grade of climate and a river that has to be irrigated, come Dr. and Mrs. E. G. Howard and daughter and Miss Whitcomb. They, have visited Crater lake and are making all the scenic points via the gasoline route. Getting a hotel in Portland is about as difficult as finding a house to rent. F. T. Mittauer, having sold the Geiser Grand at Baker, came to Portland to enter the hotel business here, but he hasn't made much progress thus far. Mr. Mittauer is at the Imperial. One of the first men to go overseas was C. C. Ijames of headquarters com pany, 148th artillery. Beiore malting the world safe for democracy Mr. Ijames was at the Imperial. He en listed yesterday as day manager of the Hotel Washington. A bold bank robber, a boy in years. was the motive for Sheriff Anderson of Baker passing through Portland. Tbe sheriff had in custody the youth who undertook to stick up the bank at Haines and made a fizzle of the job r the boy did. Y. Shiota and his family, consisting of wife, children and maid, were met on their arrival at the Benson yester day by representatives of Mitsui and taken out on the highway. O. H. Laastamoincu of Kuopio, Fin land, and Hutti Kankomcio of tine same place are at the Benson with Clemens Nienis of Chicago. Governor-general of tha fedsral reserve bank at San Francisco is John W. Calkins, who arrived at the Benson yesterday accompanied by his daughter, j Life After Death? "Yes," Says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle When the breath deserts the body, when the heart falters and ceases in its rythm, when the phenomenon called death transpires, does the spirit smile at mortality and step forth to freedom ? Do we live after death? "Yes,' says Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, one of the foremost of English 'novelists, whose conversion to spiritualism left him wholly without scepticism. The first of a series of articles pn spiritualism and psychic manifestations, alleged proofs that death is but the door to another life, appears in the Sunday issue, presenting Conan Doyle's own views and the narration of those experiences which brought belief. "THE DARK STAR" The guaranty of keen interest, tense situations, and a dramatic plot well worthy of the following, accompanies each story that bears the signature of Robert W. Chambers, decidedly one of the most popular of American novelists. The Sunday Ore gonian announces the publication of a new serial by Chambers, "The Dark Star," the first installment of which appears in to morrow's issue. THE TRANSFORMATION WHICH WROUGHT PENINSULA PARK -: Wild days and wilder nights were once the vogue in that locality, now a bower of beauty, where Portland children play and picnic parties convene 'most any summer day Peninsula park. Once' the site of a notorious roadhouse, operated by "Liverpool Liz," the sordid and ugly and evil were obliterated and the prettiest park in Portland placed in their stead. In the Sunday issue, with illus trations, is the story of the Peninsula park playground, told by James D. Olson. DIAGNOSING THE INDUSTRIAL EFFECT OF WORLD WAR An other of the illuminating series of industrial'articles, by Frank A. Vanderlip, noted American business man and financier, appears in the big Sunday paper. Social unrest, labor problems, the ugliness of bolshevism, and the remedies that must be applied to bring the world again to the path of sanity and progress, are ably presented by Mr. Vanderlip. The citizen owes it to his citizenship to be con versant with yiews so important and clearly detailed as are these. WHY BEAUTIFUL FAYNE MOORE COMES BACK TO AMERICA Daughter of an Oregon chief justice, wife of "the diamond king," and one-time principal figure in a notorious "badger game," Mrs. Fayne Strahan Moore Lewis, toasted of yore as "the sweetest girl in Dixie," crosses the sea each year, from English estates, to visit her aged mother in Atlanta, Ga. There's a story in the Sunday issue of Fayne Moore one that cannot but compel your interest. It isn't often that the book of real life reads like the creation of a highly imaginative novelist. AND OTHER FEATURES GALORE The Sunday issue specializes in a trinity of attractionsnews, entertainment and illustration. ''Three Men, Their Monuments and Their Romances," or the divert ing "Story of Alcohol." These are but a few of the many features pfferel for every reader's information and delectation. All the News of All the World THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN