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seises in having- escaped the devasta
tion of war. During; those five years
Germany will be working- for the
allies in the physical restoration of
the ruined regions, in building- ships
and in paying- money and materials.
All economic interests which Ger-
visualize their difficulties, one will
need to imagine a country virtually
unmapped, presenting natural ob
stacles that few modern travelers
would know how to surmount. The
attitude of present day visitors to
the old scenes, indeed, is often one of
open skepticism. It is hard for them
to believe that the pioneers made
tO-4RDI.VTtt KAIL AND WATER LINES.
'Only second in Importance to the
Question whether the railroads should
be operated by the rovernment or by
tricir present owne-s under an im
proved syatem of government control
is that of the relation which they
ahould bear to inland waterwuys. A
decision oil this question should be
reached in connection with the rail
road legislation to be enacted this
year, for it will vitally affect the later
decision to be made on a permanent
waterway policy. It will also affect
th degree to which people will be
Killing to invest in inland water lines.
In this connection the rivers and
harbors congress is doing- Rood work
by taking- a referendum on several
pertinent questions among its mem
ber?. It is accepted as sound public
policy to Improve waterways and t
foster their use. The volume of traf.
fic has grown beyond the capacity o
the railroads to carry it, it Is still
growing, and improvement and ex
tension of the roads to meet this
growth would cost vastly more than
that of the waterways and construe
tion of water craft. In order that ex
penditure on waterways may be jus.
tified. it is necessary that parallel rail
roads be forbidden to carry traffic a
a loss for the purpose of killing water
competition, then raising rates and
making good the loss. Kither com
pulsory observance of ainimum rates
on such roads or enforcement of th
cost of service rule would remove this
evil. A safe basis for investment in
improvement of waterways and in
water lines would then exist. Water
way points have an equitable right
to the minimum rates which would
be made under this system, even if
water competition is only potential
for the conduct of the roads has been
the chief means of making it so. They
are also entitled by virtue of their Io
cation to a lower rate than inland
points, for the fact that railroads
parallel waterways implies a water
grade and therefore lower cost of
crvice.
The same policy which warrants
waterway improvement and protection
of water lines against destructive com
petition also demands as full inter
change of traffic between rail and
water lines as between any two rail
roads. They should be treated as in
tegral parts of the entire transporta
tion system. We may reasonably ex
pect that capital would then turn as
readily to tug and barge lines as it
now turns to ships, and that river
ports would provido hem with mod
ern facilities.
In the beginning much traffic
would be attracted" from railroads to
water lines, but it would be mainly-
heavy traffic paying low rates, and
the railroads would be able to move
thrlr remaining traffic faster, would
get more service from their equipment
and would escape large investment in
equipment and terminals. Develop
ment of country tributary to water
lines would be so intensified that
enough traffic might soon exist to
keep both rail and water busy, and it
might extend so far into the back
country as to give the railroads a large
Increase where they would be free
from competition.
mans possess in the countries of both their way with heavy equipment over
her enemies and ber former allies j routes that now seem impassable for
will be extinguished, consular rela- lighter vehicles. Those who have tried
tions will be broken except as each j to retrace the old trails know best
ally elects to renew them, and Ger. how to appreciate the indominitablo
many will be an outcast with the persistence of the first settlers of
mark of Cain on it. To have at-1 Oregon.
tempted to exact more would prob
ably have meant indefinite military
occupation after a campaign in which
the allies would have inevitably de
stroyed much property that Germany
must have used in order to pay, and
would have added to their own enor
mous debt. The devastated countries
will have the friendship and the eco
nomic and financial resources of the
whole world behind them, and can
overtake Germany.
The true defense of France Is not
occupation of the Rhine frontier with
great armies. That course would do
the same 'wrong to Germany as we
have condemned Germany for doing
to other nations, and it would per
petuate militarism. France will be
best defended by showing the same
respect for the right of the German
people to national unity and self-gov.
ernment and by a league that is able
and willing to fight for those prin
ciples. Then no special treaty and
no military frontier will be needed.
TOI R1.HT HOTELS XM OKEGOX.
Advice of Director Mather, of the
national parks, that hotels be erected
along the Columbia river highway
and at other points in Oregon which
attract tourists is well worthy of be
ing heeded. In fact it is one of the
main parts of the work of developing
the tourist attractions of Oregon.
The time has gone by when people
who want to see Oregon's wonders
are willing to bump in a stage coach
over rough roads, to camp in tents or
sleep In bunks in a log cabin. That
was all very well when the tourists
were western people, who enjoyed
that kind of "roughing it" as an out
ing. Tourists now come from cities
and highly developed parts of the
country. A great majority of them
never roughed it, often for lack of
opportunity, and do not enjoy that
style of life. They want comfort, have
the money to pay for it and are Will
ie n ro-.r.. , iii. .hoiri A.. " to pay. Men who might enjoy
vote all their resources to the salva
tion of Russia. Their failure to do so
Is the worst blot on their record, and
Is directly chargeable to President
Wilson. They are restoring Poland,
and Germany will never again have
power to partition that country', but
its defense will consist in the power
of thtj league, not in a. so-called "dc-
lensiDie frontier.
LOCKING THE STABLE DOOR.
When Mrs. Freeman eought to procure
ritXtE' BEST DEFENSE.
A letter which is published in an
other column illustrates the persist
ence of ideas long after events have
exploded them. Henry A. Forster of
New York names four amendments
which he thinks should be made to
the French treaty as a condition of
ratification. He begins with the as
sertion that ail reference to the cove
nant of the letguo shbuld be stricken
out because it requires us to sacrifico
our independence. Nothing in the
covenant requires that sacrifice. We
have aaxreed with other nations that
in certain contingencies we will take
certain action, ranging all, the way
from arbitration to war, but decision
as to whether those contingencies
have arisen will still rest with the
authorities established by- our consti
tution. The I'nlted Htates is no ex
ception, in. this respect, for the other
nations have similar processes for ar
riving at a decision on such points.
In the light of recent events, what
Is a defensible permanent frontier?
If war were confined to land and
water, experience has proved that an
armed frontier is equipped for at
tack as well as defense and is a con
slant provocation to war. A further
provocation. If France should be
Kiven the Rhine as a frontier, would
be a large, hostile German population
in the French rear. But the military
chias agree that the next war Vill
be fought In the air. How can a
frontier be defended against aircraft?
Only by a vast fleet of aircraft, which
would patrol the air to the greatest
Utitude possible to reach, and by a
continuous line of anti-aircraft guns
along the entire line. Experience of
the United States and Canada has
rroved that Hie best defense of a
Jrontier is mutual friendship on both
sides and absence of aggressive de
signs. After thorough study of the entire
problem, the peace conference de
cided that payment by Germany of
the entire war debt of the allies was
a financial impossibility. The allies
have taken particular care to exact
from Germany full reparation for all
damage done to their civil population
and its property. They' have placed
Germany under a severe handicap in
commerce for five years, during
L;th tie devastate-.! countries will
Johnaon'a releaea on parole, the offlelale of
San Ileao rounty advised agalnet It. They
characterized the convict aa a man un
worthy or any attention and undeserving of
liberty. news report.
It is thp dream of progressive
criminologists that we shall some day
be able to identify the criminal type,
as distinguished from the temporary I first-class auto stage lines,
primitive conditions, they bring their
families, who are not inured to hard
ship.
We often wonder why -Americans
havj swarmed to Europe when their
own country offers superior attrac
tions in the form of scenic and health
resorts. One important reason is that
Europe has fully exploited what it
has to show with first-class hotels,
roads, guides and every convenience.
If we want tourists to come here in
considerable numbers, we must pro
vide for them in trie same way. By
that means they have been drawn to
California, to the Canadian Rockies,
to Glacier park and to the Alleghen-
ies. By the same means they can be
drawn to Oregon.
Building of good roads, is a good
beginning. It should be followed by-
then by
social offender, and make it possible I building of hotels at several points in
to protect society in advance. There I Oregon s wonderland. The Mazamas
is little or no satisfaction in inflicting might train mountain guides who
punishment after the crime has been I would pilot eastern people among the
committed. I mountains and up the peaks. It pays
The parole system was designed to In other states and in Eurppe, and
extend, opportunities for reform to I would pay herg.
those who have within themselves the
capacity for reformation. Except in
the minds of a few emotionalists.it
was not intended to turn loose upon
the world the defectives and degen
erates who are hopelessly . criminal
first, last and all the time. It hap
pens that men of this type frequently
are endowed with a kind of protective
cunning which enables them to simu
late- repentance and to arouse the
sympathies of warm-hearted people
who feel for the down-trodden.
Johnson's letter to Mr. McLaren, in
which he says of Mrs. Freeman that
'she is my dear mother and I want
to show her that I am just what I
THE CONSPrRACY OF THE REDS.
Most valuable service has been ren
dered to the country by the New York
legislature in bringing to light the con
spiracy to overthrow the governmen
of the United States. It has been
proved that all revolutionary and rad
ical parties have combined the
forces for the common purpose of de
stroying American democracy and set
ting up in its place a communist gov
ernment on the bolshevist plan. Th
center of activity for these conspira
tors Is the soviet bureau established
in New York City by L. C. A. K. Mar
tana cnral1r1 amKaacai1ni nt tha T AHi
represented myself to be." is precisely ,ne governmenU whlch works jn close
the kind of letter which a man of I ift, t,j e
the kind which Johnson has proved
himself to be. even leaving the mur
der charge out of the account, would
write. His kind are frequently model
prisoners, and they always profess re
formation and often turn to religion to
help them escape the law. But they
co-operation with the Rand School of
Social Science, founded by George D,
Herron with funds provided by the
woman for whom he deserted his law
ful wife. Into the combination hav
been drawn the socialists with the ex
ception of those few whose patriotism
was stronger than their party affilta.
ire essentially criminally-minded and (i, ,h T w w H 11 eh.o in.i
me nuerty ui uu 01 inem is not wortn
the sacrifice of the life of a single
good woman.
When we learn to segregate the
criminal defective and to restrain him
without reference to the particular
overt act which he has committed
we shall have made a long step for
ward in protecting the law-abiding.
It will be a long time, perhaps, before
we are able to distinguish those on
the border line unerringly, but there
are certain well-formed types which
even now the skilled criminologist can
lassify. The parole system was not
intended for such as they and they
ought to be excluded from Its benefits.
lectuals whose sympathy goes instinct
lvely to any who oppose organized
government and resist lawful author
ity.
These various elements have but
one object in common destruction
of the existing form of government,
If they should succeed, their .differ
ences would surely appear. The social
ists believe in the maximum of gov-
ernment, with all industry owned and
operated by the state or nation. The
anarchists believe in no government,
every man and woman free to follow
his will. The syndicalists or I. W. W.
aim to have each unit of each indus
try confiscated and operate! by the
workmen. All talk practically the
same jargon about capitalists, hour
ORtC.ON' TRAILS,
Both sides, or all sides, are likely I geois, proletariat, exploitation of the
to be right in any controversy over I oppressed. The more outspoken make
the location of some early immigrant I no secret of their intention to over
rail. A correspondent, for example, I throw the government by force, and
writing from" Ontario the other day I whenever they fall foul of the law
questioned the accuracy of the state- I the milder rush to their defense and
ment that an old Immigrant trail lay I whitewash the bloodstained destroyers
through the town of Cecil. He pointed of Russia. Many men and women who
o monuments of rocks marking the I became notorious for pro-German
raves of immigrants along- another I sympathy before the Lnited States de-
route some distance away. The fact I clared war, for opposition to the war
that a route through Cecil would at I after that event, and who now con-
certain- seasons have entailed a full demn the peace treaty as harsh and
day's,, travel without water was cited I imperialist are found in the 'ranks of
in support of the claim that lmmi- the bolshevists. Aliens predominate
grants did not travel the Cecil route, (among them, especially Germans and
The correspondent may or may not Russians, but. there is a. liberal pro
be right as to the trail in question, portion of Italians and Spaniards, and
but he would have difficulty in re- gqod American names are numerous,
tracing most of the old trails by any The whole story as brought out by
rule of logic. The fact in those road- I the Lusk legislative committee Is told
less days was that while general by T. Everett Harre in the National
courses were fairly well marked, there Civic Federation Review and reveals
was great variation as to details. It an amazing degree of impudence on
waa in keeping with the spirit of the I tne part ot tne conspirators ana 01
American pioneer that he should be I negligence on the part of the govern
always seeking the better way. Gov-1 ment Most significant is the fact
erncd but in nowise circumscribed by I that the federal authorities left it to
the imperfect route maps of early the legislature of a single state to dis-
times, the pioneer immigrant leaders caver the facta and to the courts of
were law unto themselves. I that state to bring the .offenders to
The famous Naches trail, over I justice and punish them. A gTeat
which in 1S5J passed the first body I mass of evidence was procured by
of settlers to take their way through raids on the soviet bureau of Mar
the mountains north of Mount Hood, I tens and on the Rand school. What
furnishes one Illustration. It would I was found is thus summed up:
puzzle a historian now to retravel it I From the documents and correspondence
and to determine that a certain route, "'' w" v. .."I , "ovlet
magazines, pamphlets, books and lec
tures. Most illuminating are the names
found in "a specially prepared mailing
list" found in Martens' headquarters.
It includes all who have shown opposi
tion to the war or partiality to Ger
many or the bolshevists and is a di
rectory of the reds and parlor radicals.
Some are: Leonard Abbott, a member
of the Ferrer association of an
archists; B. W. Huebsch, pacifist
writer and publisher; Carleton Hayes,
professor at Columbia, who led in
raising a 50,000 fund for defense of
the I. W. W. leaders and until lately
associated with the military intelli
gence division: Morris Hillquit. leader
of the socialist party, advocate of a
separate peace and legal counsel of
the soviet bureau; Paul U. Kellogg, ed
itor of the Survey, opponent of war and
advocate of separate peace: George W.
Kirchwey, director of the United States
employment service; Louis Lochner,
secretary of the Ford peace expedition
and leader of the People's Council;
Rabbi Judah L. Magnes, who boasted
of Jewish revolutionary leadership
and was described by Bernstorff as
"belonging to circles very friendly to
us"; Max Pine, of the United Hebrew
trades; H. Overstreet, professor at
City college; Norman Thomas, agita
tor for conscientious objectors; Wal
ter E. Weyl, associate editor of the
New Republic, who denounced the
Versailles treaty and proposed peace
by compromise; Amos Pinchot, who'
led the agitation against a declaration
of war; Thomas D. Thatcher, Y. M. C.
A. lecturer, who lectured in defense
of the bolshevists; Lillian D. Wald,
pacifist and delegate to the women's
congress at Zurich which attacked the
Versailles treaty; Scott Nearing, dis
missed Columbia professor, whose
prosecution for sedition raised him
from a salary of $200 a month to one
of over $600 as a revolutionary lec
turer; John Reed and Albert Rhys
Williams, publicity agents . of the
Lenine government: Raymond Robins,
apologist for the bolshevists. At th
soviet bureau were found letters or
carbon copies of letters from Evans
Clark, assistant director 0 the com
mercial department of the bureau; to
Fred C. Howe, immigration commis
sloner at New York, defender of the
Germans and leader in a pro-bol
shevist meeting at Madison Square
Garden; to Professor Charles A.
Beard, defender of the bolshevists,
lecturer for the Rand school and au
thor of a book denouncing the Amer
lean constitution. Among the lecturers
for the Rand school are Professor
Beard, Oswald Garrison Villard, John
Haynes Holmes, Owen. R. Lovejoy and
Professor Shotwell, a member of
Colonel E. M. House's peace commis
sion.
While vociferous in condemnation of
capitalism, the plotters are by no
means indifferent to money. A cam
paign is under way to raise $100,000
for nation-wide propaganda and to
fight the Ltisk committee, and one
contribution of $2000 was received
A fund of $40,000 for a new school
building was started, anl $25,000 has
ueeu raised, inciuaing one contnou
tion of $5000. Martens made frequent
bank deposits to the credit of the
soviet bureau, always in currency," so
that their source was hidden. Thus
a great vested interest in revolution
has grown up.
At the same time that this move
ment to overturn the government of
the United States, financed and con
ducted by an agent of the Russian
soviet, has been in progress, Presi
dent Wilson urged cessation of" hostil
ities against and' recognition of the
Russian soviet. He sent agents to
Russia to make peace overtures to
Lenine, and he did not cease his ef
forts until the allies flatly refused to
recognize the bolshevists. Among the
conspirators are men who hold office
in his own government. His "eyes ap
pear to have been opened at last, but
the task of crushing treason is made
more arduous by the paltering with it
which has permitted its growth.
Those Who Come and Go.
The season of fairs opens today at
Centralia-Chehalis and Tillamook will
be a good second next week; after
ward the "cattle shows" will come in
plenty. East of the mountains and
beyond the Snake the unusual dry
ness is affecting efforts this way and
a number of counties and communi
ties are not scheduled. Good speed
programmes are promised and the
usual fine exhibits will be gathered,
and the civic obligation of attending
at least one day will be on tho best
and worst citizens and those between,
including their wives and children.
"In the streams of the Olympic pen
insula the rainbow trout are taking the
spinner nowadays, even more than they
were taking flies," said J. C. Jenkins,
theater owner of Xeligh, Neb., at the
Seward yesterday.' ' "We caught all
that we cared to ranging from ten to
20 inches in lengrth. I have never tak
en a cutthroat trout that must wait
for another visit but if he is a finer
I fighter than the rainbow, as they as
sert he is, then I have something com
ing- to me. In the streams we fishe
the rig is a long-biaded flasher spoon
set a foot or more up the leader from
a smaller spinner, with baited hooks.
This quaint device, quite novel to me.
certainly produced the strikes." The
party of which he was a member mo
tored from Seattle to the Olympic high
way and plunged into the wilderness at
just the right noint. fishing- three riv
ers, the Solduc, the Bougeshiel and
the Quiliayuge.
Of New England stock, W. J. Pier
pont, ex-mayor of Savannah, Ga-, mer
its an unusual niche in the hall of fame
as the only northern man who ever
achieved the mayoralty in a sure-
enough southern city of the old south,
suh. After four years of service Mr.
Pierpont has relinquished the keys of
the city and is seeking surcease irom
the cares of civic life. He registered
at the Multnomah several days ago,
went sightseeing, returned tired and
gratified, and yesterday resumed his
trip to Kugene, where he has relatives
whom he will visit. "I was ready to
quit when the war ended," laughed the
former chief executive of Savannah,
'and then along came prohibition, with
its attendant enforcement problems,
Believe me, sir, I wai right glad to
yield up the keys.
Kind friends, let all the unkind worda
about Cow Creek canyon be recanted.
No longer is it the terror of the tire
tourists. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Gale of
Grants Pass, who reached Portland yes
terday and registered at the Imperial,
aver that section of their motoring
trip was the easiest of all. "We have
driven 300 miles." wearily observed
Mr. Gale, "and 295 miles of the trip
has been detour. Some of the detours
were short, some of them were long,
but they, were always with us." The
steelhead run in the Rogue river be
gan a fortnight ago, and has since
slackened down, according to Mr. Gale
who blames the fishing Interests at the
mouth of the southern Oregon fishing
stream for the comparative scarcity
of the fish that made it famous among
sportsmen.
"We had just 60 days' notice," re
minisced Charles B. Hervey, owner of
several southern hotels, "before tha
'dry' law had its arid way with us,
The time was brief, too brief, for fi
nancial convenience, and I have writ
ten down an even 9125.000 to loss. But
no matter." In company with Eric V.
Haus&r, proprietor of the Multnomah,
Mr. Hervey spent yesterday clamber
ing about the flanks of old Mount
Hood, and trudging through the snow
to the summit. When Mr. Hervey en
tered the Multnomah last week he
hailed an old friend, A. J. Lister, desk
clerk, whom he knew in De Soto, La.,
17 years ago. Owner of three hotels
in Mobile, Ala., and one in Pensacola,
Pla., Mr. Hervey is sampling other
hostelries while vacationing through
the Pacific northwest.
Consider the prospectus, even as the
tourist sees it with enraptured eyes.
The mountains are tall and craggy, ma
jestic, the streams are clear and swift,
turbulent, the ozone is a meal in itself
though to inhale it brings on an avid
relapse td bacon and eggs, two orders,
please. "The scenery is just about what
we expected, and the entire trip has
been in harmony with the literature
we have read of Oregon and the north
west," was the unfrilled tribute of Miss
Rauch, who came all the way from
Mississippi to be shown. With Miss
Rauch, of Edwards, Miss., are Mr. and
Mrs. J. L. Redfield and Wilson Price,
also of Edwards, and Mr. and Mrs. C.
D. Halsmith, of Bolton, Miss. They are
tourists registered at the Portland.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Ucatsgae.
' THE OLD ONES.
I relish these problem plays keenly
enough, .
Though I never know what they're
about.
But I miss the old drama that used to
get rough
And whose finish was never in doubt.
I loved to see heroines, facing big odds
Being dragged from their screaming
mammas,
In dramas with seventy - seven "My
Gods!"
And seventeen hundres "Ahas!"
I like to sea Virtue beat over the head,
For three long and terrible acts.
While villains walk round with a rub
ber-heeled tread
Hiding whisky in temperance tracts
I like to watch scenes where the dear
little child
Is about to be drowned in the dam
While the torrent is raging, and logs
running wild,
Are piled in a hideous jam.
I like to see heroes fed Into a saw,
Which appears to be toothful and
keen,
As a big bunch of bystanders looks on
with awe, .
And no one dares stop the machine
I like to hear rifles ring out in the
night '
When redskins are out on a bust,
And know that a number of savages
bite
To quote old Bill Cody the dust.
In Other Days.
Those- dramas perhaps were a trifle un
couth;
. They got a bit crude now and then,
But they brightened the nights of my
vigorous youth,
And I fain would behold them again.
I love to remember those glorious days.
When a sack of red gum drops rd
munch.
And weep or npplaud at the soul-stir
ring plays.
That had a full measure of punch!
e e
Immune.
England is going to give Sir Douglas
Halg- half a million dollars, so neither
he nor the other half of the firm need
worry if the country goes dry.
a a
Harry It Alone
Now Von Tirpitz joins Ludendorff on
blaming the kaiser. If they don't hold
the trial pretty soon there. won't be a
sensation in it.
The Only Way Ont.
Sooner or later we belle-e either Mr.
Wilson or the senate will ask for an
armistice.
Through the Window.
By Crace E. Hall.
Twenty-five Veara Ago.
Prom The Oreaonlan. August 18. 1SW.
New York Ex-President Harrison. In
an interview, said that while he was
keeping well informed as to what is
going on he absolutely would not com
ment on developments.
Portland Is as well supplied with
prospective grain tonnage as ever be
fore, with a total of 28 listed ships list
ed for this port.
Business men of Portland are buty
figuring just how the new tariff, now
before the president for his signature,
will affect them.
The Paciffe Paving company filed
articles of incorporation with, the coun
ty clerk yesterday.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian. August is. 1S6.
Washington Persons arriving from
Virginia report that unless there is re
lief from the extreme drouth the corn
and tobacco crops will be destroyed.
Work on the East Side railroad is
being pushed forward with consider
able vigor from Oregon City up along
the river.
This city was visited yesterday by a
splendid shower of rain enough to lay
the dust and settle the smoke.
Captain West informs us that he has
nearly completed the task of dredginK
at the mouth of the Willamette.
PRODVCE MORE AD SPEND LESS
Too much, weight should not be
gtven to the protestations of the op
posing forces in the league of nations
controversy. They are just the kind
of "stalling" which usually precedo.3 a
compromise. Both parties have heard
from the country a verdict that both
are to blame and would better get to
gether and settle affairs without wast-
ng more time. The people want to
settle with Germany and get 'right
own to work.
Rioting at Londonderry is nothing
nusual, for since the siege by King
James' army three centuries ago,
rioting has been a large part of the
pice of life. But the riot of Friday
seems to have been denatured, for
scarcely anybody was hurt.
"Many schools will close for lack of
teachers," says a news dispatch, and
the tragedy of it is that the gap thus
created in a lot of young lives can
never be filled, even if the schools
resume after a while.
The southern Oregon pear is of size
and succulence sufficient to recommend
it without apology to the most finicky
fruit fancier. It is large, juicy, laden
with sugar and the soul of summer
Funshine. It is some pear. it. C. V.
stbury, now at the Portland, is reput
ed to grow such pears on his orchard
near Med ford. Several years ago Mr.
As! t'Ury was a Portland young man. a
einfc.er of tho Arlington club and a
gladsome golfer. He yet lik-?s to pound
the pill across tho greensward, and
with the pear crop filling out nicely
is inclined to return once in a while
for a round at Waverley.
For the obliteration of dirt on the
habiliments of the genus homo, a new
leaning preparation based on the
chemical formula of a certain famous
fire extinguisher with ads every
where is soon to be placed on the
market, testifies George S. Meddis of
San Francisco, representative of the
extinguisher company, now a visitor
at the Multnomah. "It'll snatch a
smudge off your white collar without
removing the starch gloss," asserted
Mr. Meddis. "G'wan, you're kidding
us," reported Ray Clark, desk clerk at
the hostelry. "Anyhow, I haven't a
smudge on my collar."
and that route only, was the authentic
one. The crossing of the river at
Wallula. the passage through the
mountains and a few other points
stand out. But between main points,
routes varied according to seasons
and other conditions. Not even a
tragic misadventure like that on the
Meek cut-off in Oregon could dampen
for long the ardor of men unaccus
tomed to ajoverning their conduct by
arbitrary rule.
There were frequent and impelling
reasons for changing routes. Heavy
toll taken by cholera in the great im
migration of 1852 was one of them.
Varying character of the means of
transportation was another. The ox
trains were likely to be influenced by
other considerations than those which
gove-.-ned the lighter columns. The
wagons sought favorable grades and
fords, the herds required good graz
ing, and from time to time were im
pelled to -hunt new pastures. The ex
perience of one party was not always
a reliable guide for those who fol
lowed. Men learned to trust chiefly
their own judgment and to accept the
consequences of it.
Multiplicity of trails, leading to a
common goal, was symbolical of the
independent spirit of the pioneers. To
merciul, spent no money whatever for com
mercial purposes: that the cfaiiy credit bank
balance of tha bureau varied from S.000 to
$9000: that deposits were made in cash by
Martens: that "large aums" of money had
been received for propaganda purposes from
Russia, and that tho soviet organization
maintained a bureau for the defense of men
charged with crimes against the government
of tha United States. It waa shown that
tha Hand school of social science was a
hotbed of seditious activities and a clearing
house for the dissemination of bolshevist
revolutionary propaganda urging the taking
over of tha state and tho establishment of
a dictatorship of the proletariat by rhass
action. It was shown that the Rand school
booked as lecturers men who had been con
victed and sentenced for crimes against the
government of tha United States.
The revolutionary purpose of the
Rand school is shown by these words
in a form letter sent out by its director,
David P. Berenberg, to labor unions:
There is only one thing to do: Take over
the state. Are the members of your local
prepared to take over and conduct- wisely
and well the affairs of your town snd coun
try? Are you ready to meet, the militia
when the powers of the state and tha courts
are. against you ? .
Among Martens' papers was a letter
from Nicholas Lenine advocating
"overthrow of the bourgeoisie and the
annihilation of bourgeois parliaments
. . . soviet rule and proletarian dic
tatorship." This soviet bureau and
the socialists co-operate in a country
wide propaganda through newspapers,
The individual cost in renumbering
homes as proposed in the plan - to
riot Portland geographically will be
trifling and need not be considered.
The wear and tear on the individual
"brainery" will be immense.
C. D. Minton has been re-elected
secretary of the State Horticultural
society. This Is fitting. "Charley'
Minton is one of the handy fellows of
Oregon when it comes to handling
fairs and affairs.
Every man of suspicious aspect in
southern Oregon is due for examina
tion until the two convicts are cap
tured. Men with' a few days' growth
of beard will be specialties.
Mexico, having ordered the sole
British representative to leave, will be
doing business with a British warship
first it knows.
Sales of apples now by growers at
$2.50 do not forecast cheap fruit this
fall and winter.
The food administration enjoys the
distinction of bringing its own rascals
to justice.
New York church-goers, such of
them as have the habit, walked yesterday.
"Motorists are being constantly held
up on the way to Hood River," said
J. A. Hermann of the Hotel Portland.
"Bandits? Not a bid of it. Road re
pairs. Between Mitchell Point and
Hood River a new stretch of highway
is being hard-surfaced, and permission
to pass is given only at specified times.
Many cars, whose drivers are unac
quainted with this fact, spin along that
far and are compelled to halt for long
periods. The highway is open for traf
fic before 7 o'clock in the morning,
between 12 and 1 o'clock at noon and
after 5 o'clock in the evening."
Part of the heavy overhead is under
foot, at least in a modern hotel. And
that's why Manager A. B. Campbell of
the Multnomah, has bought 2000 yards
which is more than a mile, mates
of choice axminster carpet for the pedal
pleasure of patrons of that hotel. Tho
new carpets, in three color tone3, will
be laid during the coming week. Re
cently the Multnomah wa3 repainted
in cream tint, with green window
sashes and white flag staffs.
. "No, it's not hot today, nor was it so
yesterday, nor the day before," was the
negative response of the man from
Nebraska, as he checked out at the
Seward. "Just pleasant, I call it, just
pleasant. ' You people in Oregon, huh,
don't know what hot weather is."
Mr. and Mrs; E. A. Lucey of Philadel
phia, where Mr. Lucey is assistant
manager of the department of cancella
tion of the United states snipping
board, are at the Multnomah while mid
way of their vacation trip to this eoast.
- r
C. A. Watson of San Francisco, who
supervises Standard Oil's building op
erations on the Pacific coast, registered
at the Imperial yesterday. The com
pany is installing a new service unit
at Astoria.
Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Elliott of Seattle
are registered at the Multnomah. Mr.
Elliott is president of the Elliott Bros.'
Real Estate company of the Puget
sound metropolis.
J. S. Flint, stockman of Junction City,
Or., is at the Oregon following a week
end visit to Portland, where he has
disposed of a carload of choice stock.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Barton of Hood
River arrived at the Seward yester
day for a brief visit to the city.
The curtain was drawn and I peeped a
I passed,
Twas a scene that I cannot forget:
A lad on the rug with his blocks, build
ing fast
A towering castle, and yet
Though knowing 'twould fall and his
labor be vain.
He smiled as he followed his whim.
And his eyes were a-gleam as he
worked on his scheme,
'Til the blocks toppled over on him.
At a desk near the light was his father,
engrossed
At a task that I judged to be books.
He was figuring, too, with' his eye
brows askew.
And his brain in a knot, from his
looks;
He could see coffers fill as he visioned
the till
That his efforts were meant to en
rich.
And I studied the pair as they labored
in there,
And I asked of myself, "Which is
which?"
The lad knew his scheme was a vanish
ing dream
That could never endure overnight.
While likewise the man, in spite of his
plan.
Knew the battles he still had to fight;
But each one in his way must fill up
the day,
Must aspire and accomplish and dare,
Although time must deface and even
erase
The plans they were making with
- care.
So I went on my way, but the scenes I
recall.
Like a story read long, long ago,
And it fits in, sometimes, like stray bits
of rhymes,
With their odd touch of rapture or
woe;
Oh, black the assassin who scarifies
dreams.
And the happiness castle destroys;
Leave the lad with his blocks, and the
dad with his stocks
Each plays with his own set of toys.
TRUST IS IN ARMED FRONTIERS
Line of Rhine Advocated for France!
Defenses for Russia.
NEW YORK, Aug. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) The French treaty should not be
ratified without four vital amendments.
1. AU references to the covenan
should be stricken out, because it, the
covenant, indirectly requires us to
make what its advocates may describe
as the "supreme sacrifice"; that is, to
surrender our independence.
2. France should be given a defensi
ble permanent frontier. Foch says the
Rhine and all its bridgeheads. This has
not yet been done.
3. Either reconstruct Russia, includ
ing Poland, or else give Poland Danzig
and a defensible frontier against Rus
sla. Germany and Austria. These for
mer autocracies three times before par
titioned Poland. Germany and Austria
at least threaten to do it again.
4. Make Pan-Germany pay or work
off every dollar of allied and associated
war debt, war costs and war pensions,
and punish every Pan-German war
criminal. Otherwise Pan-Germany will
be financially stronger than the nations
it invaded.
Suppose we guarantee France while
leaving her with a defenseless ' fron
tier. After Germany's partial compli
ance- with the treaty, when the Rhine
bridgeheads now temporarily held are
evacuated,' the only way we may keep
our guarantee good will be to perma
nently keep not less than three-quarters
of a million regular troops in Eu
rope on the French frontier after the
Rhine bridgeheads have been yielded to
Germany. Otherwise our guarantee
will be only another scrap of paper.
... .' HENRY A. FORSTER.
Only Way to Overcome I pwnrd Ten
dency of Coat of I.lvlns-.
PORTLAND, Aug. 16. (To ths Edi
tor.) Referring to profiteers and prof
iteering-, we should admit that nearly
all of us have Deeii guilty of profiteer-'
ing for the last four or five yeari".
Where is the sincerity in condemning.
as exaggerated, say. profits of 20 per
cent or 30 per cent per year of eome
business or investment, when sharp ad
vances or profits of over 100 per cent
have been made by the producer him
self at the place of productioneven
before the large rai&e of wages on
wheat, corn, oats, burley and other
grains, also on cuttle, poultry, eggs,
buy, milu, fish, cotton, wool, elo.?
Let us not forget that, in matter of
products of soil, whether meat, grain
or others, nature does the l.nraest share
of the work, while in products of in-
c'ustries. man bus to do all of the work.
So the latter should be proportiouatf !y
tier with higher wages than tno for
mer. In the same manner. w-agc3 had
begun to go up even before tho Tim:
of commodities in value, and have since
reached 100 per cent or better on pre
vious prices in most cases. Capital,
which has received the most criticism,
is not the only one guilty, if anyone
guilty.
Looking up and down the line, it
seems that nearly everybody (as there
are some unlucky exceptions) lias
iaimed his phare in the rise of prices.
wages or profits for the last five year?.
owing, to the fact (hat tho world waa
short of necessities or commodities, and
America arid- Japan, being the only
countries able to supply, have therefore
taken advantage of these conditions.
"Humanum est."
.Without mentioning papfits In real
estate made by residents of cities for
the last 20 years, what about tiie rise
!n value of farming lands from $8 or
$10 an acre, which price was common
some 15 years apro fer grain and hay
lands of the grentest part of the coun
try, to $100 and $160 an acre at this
time. Nobody contests that this profit,
of 1000 or more per cent belongs legit
imately to the farmer. Then why grow
so indignant about the rise in value of
some industrial stocks in the lato
years?
It is a matter of logic and common
sense that cost of living should rise. "
correspondingly with the increase in
the cost of pro-lucts, waares and with
shorter hours of labor, and that it will
remain so as long us the same condi
tions will continue, in spite of Investi
gations, excitement and regrettable ap
peals to passion, which will result
probably only in the sacrifice of some
large corporations or individuals as -
political goats. In order to appease the
popular clamor and to pacify the voter,
apart . of some eases of really guilty
ones to be foumi as well down as up,
if impartiality is exercised.
The only remedy Is to produce more
and spend less. Even the revolution
with which we are threatened by some
of the radical element, if it does occuaj.
shall not change these facts, and will
finally make matters rnly worse for
all. even tho revo li t ionaries them
selves, considering mainly tiiat before
Ion? we will have to stand much
sharper competition for our products
with the balance of the world.
N. E. I.
MARKET AS PRICE STABILIZER
What Would Grocers Charge If It Were
Not for Competition!
OSWEGO, Or, Aug. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) I see in The Oregonlan n ar
ticle on "'No Benefit to the Consumer."
You go on to say that we pay a nominal
rent for stalls. You did not take into
consideration the freshness of the prod
ucts. Take beans: We pack them the
night before and sell them the next
day. Another point: If it were not for
the public market the stores would be
higher still in their prices and as we
have got to pay the high prices for
shoes and everything else, why should
we not have high prices for our goods?
If we hire help we have got to pay
4 a day. SMALL FARMER.
STATE AND COINTY PAIR DATES.
Oregon.
Oregon State Salem, fc'ept. 2-1'".
Tillamook Tillamook, Aus. 7-o0.
Malhear Ontario, Sept. il-12.
Morrow Heppner. Sv-pt. 11-1.1.
Multnomah Gresham, sv-pt.
l.ane Eugene, Sept. IG-1'J.
Lincoln Toledo. Sept. 10-1S.
Linn Sclo, Sept. 18-JS.
Juvenile Fair Astoria, Fcpt. 1T-18.
Columbia St. Helens, Sept. lT-lfl.
I'ooa-Curry Myrtle Point. Sept. 17-20.
-Washington county school fair Hlllsboro.
Sept. 18-19.
Rcund-up Pendleton. Sept. lS-2n.
Hood Rlvei- Hood River, Sept. 19-20.
Grant Canyon City, Sept. 24-27.
Southern Wasco Tyuh Valley, Sept. 24-27.
Wheeler Fossil. Kept. 2,-.-:R. :
Clackamas Canny. Oct. 1-4. 1
Interstate Prinevllle. Oct. 1-4.
Wasco county The Dalles. Ot-t. 13-ls.
Hog and dairy show Hermiston. Oct. -2-24.
Umatilla Hermiston. Oct. L'-'-lM.
Benton county corn show Corvallis, Nov.
21-22.
DougJna County Community Fairs.
Myrtle Creek, Aug. lti: Greens. Aug. 27;
Looking Glass. Aug. Glide, Aug. 29; Cam
as Valley, Aug. ."0; Dixonville, Sept. 1: Wil
bur, Sept. 2; Suthcrlin, Sept. 3; Yoncalla,
Sept. 4: Curtin, Sept. C; Klkton, Sept. 6;
Smith River, Sept. 8: Glendale, Sept. 13.
Washington. .
Washington statf; Va kima. tSept. l.--20.
Southwest Washington ' Chehalls-Cen-tralia,
Aug. IS.
Grays Harbor Klma, Aug. 27-21.
Interstate Spokane, Sept. 1-fl.
Walla Walla Walla Walla, Sept. S-13.
Frontier and stock fair Walla Walla,
Sept. 10-13.
Cowlita Woodland. Sept. 24-27.
Western Washington Puyallup, Sept 30-
Oct. 3.
Klickitat Goldendala. Oct. 8-11.
Idnho.
Idaho state Boise. Sept. 22-2T.
Harvest festival Xampa. Sept. 1S-19.
I.ewiston-CIarkston Lewlston, Sept. 23-211.
Harvest carnival and round-up Weiser,
Sept. 25-27.
Twin Falls Twin Kails. Sept. 2-oct. 3.
Montana.
Montana state Helena. Sept. 8-13.
Midland Empire Billings, Sept. 15-20.
IHarf.
Utah state Salt Lake, Oct. 6-11. .
Cache Logan, Sept. 23-2.1.
British Columbia.
Dominion Vancouver. Sept. 8-13.
Livestock Expositions.
Western Royal Spokane. Nov. 3-7.
Northwest Lewiaton, Nov. 0-14.
Pacific International Portland. Nov. 17-22.
Landlord's Profits Exaggerated.
PORTLAND, Aug. 16. (To the Edi
tor.) "Renter" says that "owners of
apartment houses are making from J 0"
to 800 per cent on their investments.''
If this is the case they should be called
down. But sorely this is not the case,
as no one is building, neither are any
of the own-your-own-home commit
tee nutting any money in buildings. I
have been a landlord for nearly half a
century and am satisfied with 8, 10 or
12 per cent. People must understand
that landlord business is the same as
any other. We must at the end of tho
year have a reasonable return for tho
investment, including income, state,
countv and city taxes. Oh, yes, we have
to pay taxes. LANDLORD.
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