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THE MORNING OREGOXIAN", MSTAY, ; AUGUST 25, 1919.
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Lelly. without Sunday, three months ... l.t3
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Hew m Remit Send poetofflcs money or;
ney Castle and Shandon church, which
shelters "Shandon Bells." Belfast may
soon have a formidable rival in athe
south of Ireland.
CAMPAIGN TO SATE LITES.
The Council of National Defense
has a highways transport department
which in pursuance of an educational
campaign is now pointing: out the
necessity for measures to reduce the
death rate in traffic, accidents. Its
conclusion that more can be accoui
plished by educational methods than
by relying wholly on compulsion is
based on the experience of New York,
where in 1916 there were 659 deaths
from this cause, in 1916 there were
44. in 191T there were 714 and in
1918 there were 679. The city in 1915
began an educational campaign but
did not persist in it. With the declar
ation of war In 19F7 there were other
preoccupations, and the death rate be
gan to increase. But Washington, D.
C, which had neither an educational
campaign nor a police force as effec-
other nations will hold the long: lead
which they already have and, when
we have another war, we shall have
to begin building from the ground up,
as we did in the war just ended.
Conditions governing aviation re
quire that it be under separate con
trol, and that it be not subordinated
to the army and navy. Production
of aircraft should be no more under
exclusive control of these departments
than should production of food,
merely because, food is consumed by
the fighting forces. The number of
aircraft employed in commerce prom
ises to exceed the number used for
war to the same degree that the ton
nage of the world's merchant ships ex
ceeds that of the world's navies. As
with ships, commercial aircraft will
become an auxiliary and feeder of the
fighting- forces. Hence they need the
supervision and encouragement of a
separate department, like the agricul
tural department and the shipping
board.
Secretary of War Baker's objec
tions to an aircraft department are
those of a bureaucrat reluctant to
tive as that of New York to enforce
er. xpre or pernaicheci, on your local the traffic ordinances, suffered much l"T ..I iT. el, TT i, a
ba.a. stamps, com or currency are at own- I ,-, , , ,: T, . . part with any of his authority, backed
rate Increased from 52 in 1915 to SZ
in 19 IS. Allowing1 for a population of
42.000 in Washington and 6.000,000
in New York, the traffic death rate
should have been 48 in Washington in
1918. instead of 82. to keep it down
to the New York rate.
Excessive though either rate may
be, the Importance of holding the New
York rate as a goal rather than that
ere risk. Give postofflre address la full. In
cluding county and state.
Postage. Kates 13 to Is paces. 1 cent: IS
to S3 Daces. 2 cents: S4 to Dae. S cents
AO to o pases, 4 cents. CJ to T-i pages, ft
cents: 7 H to JO pages, t cents. Foreign post
age, double rates.
f is Baslaess Office Verree A Conk
lln. Brunewlca bulldmg. New York: Verree A
Coaklln. Steger building. Chicago: Verre A
Coaklln, Free Press building. Iietrolt. Alien.
baa Kranclsco representative. R. J. Bldweil.
a r.rvnvr prni ir uirkft
, . , 1 of Washington is shown by the fact
The housewives' committee on the!,,,.,, txt ... '
i "wi ii iuo ii aQuiuKiuu raie were ex-
public maraei is on me ngnt iraca tended throughout the United States,
wnen it considers a scii-pncing sys-i mere would nave been killed in 1918
tern for the public market. If by that 121.221 people, whereas the New York
expression Is meent that prices shall nte similarly extended would indicate
k k. K-t o tHi. n'y 12.50 for the whole country.
. . . ' .. The committee of the Council of Na-I
viauai ouyers ana Kiirrj. .ic. uonal Defense believes that this event-
by the army officer unwilling to ad
mit a new claimant to military honors.
It may be wise to keep military air
men under command of the army, but
they should be treated as a distinct
arm, equal in rank with infantry,
cavalry and artillery and supplied
with machines by a distinct aircraft
department.
Mr. Baker's opinion runs counter
to the policy adopted by Great Britain
in the face of powerful bureaucratic
and military opposition. Under that
policy Britain rose during: the war to
unquestioned air supremacy, proposes
to continue it, has engineered flights
across the Atlant'.c and from Egypt
to India and is preparing to cover tha
world, while the United States Is only
talking- about it.
DR. OPLEB.
The seventieth birthday of Dr. Wil
liam- Osier, which is made the oc
casion of a survey of his work In the
no place In a genuine public market uaiiy wni make an impression upon
for either maximum or minimum municipalities throughout the country,
prices. The only regulator should be And that the ultimate solution will be
supply and demand, absolutely free fo"nd to Adoption of uniform traffic
from restrictions by law or by private
commnauon. I ply wita force to certain laws and Bulletin of the Johns Hopkins Hos-
In practice the public market has I customs cannot be raised as to traf- I pttal, is a reminder of several things
not performed the functions of such I fic laws, particularly as they prescribe I of the progress of medical science, for
an Institution. There Is no excuse for I signals and define their meaning. It 1 one thing; of a certain phrase at
maxlmum prices where trade is unre- ls essential tnat automobilists of the tributed to Osier which was garbled in
. I whole country shall speak a common I the spirit of its re-telling, of a new
u H..CU. A au ai U1.1Q o 0i.M 1.0 auu
at the same time In such demand that
a person must and will pay a fane;
language, especially in time of sudden I word which has found its way into
peril. The common stake of automo- I the language if not into the diction-
bllists themselves in this should make aries, and of the power of a person-
price for it, that is an affair for the I agreement easier. It ls plain, for 11-1 ality to strengthen the influence of a
buyer and seller, and increased supply I lustration, that if a certain gesture 1 great teacher and scientist. Osier did
may be trusted to force down the I means in one city that the driver is I not say, as some will go on declaring
price. But if somebody has produced I about to turn to the right, and in I that he said, that men ought to be
that scarcity by storing or destroying I another that he will turn to the left, chloroformed at sixty, but he did
A large quantity of that article, that I the stranger is not only at a disad-1 point out the importance of availing
person should go to jail just as aoou vantage but is quite likely to inflict oneself of the opportunities of the
as the law can pnt him there. If the I injury on others not immediately in- I vigorous and fruitful years. And that
high price ls the result of agreement I volved. The automobile invites and I he did not himself at sixty cease to
among sellers not to sell cheaper, the stimulates travel, no city can expect I be useful to his f ellowmen is shown
same penalty should be visited on I every visitor to master-suddenly a new I by the esteem in which he is now
them and they should lose heavily by and strange code, and the require- held by his colleagues at Oxford,
their rapacity. Maximum prices have merits of hospitality as well as the die-1 where he went a few years ago, and
in fact been minimum prices, for tates of safety call for conformity with I by. every pupil who has come in con-
growers rarely cut them and if a I common practice wherever possible. I tact with him,
grower who ls not in the combination I The highways transport committee The Bulletin contains a sketch of
asks a marketman to sell some second was appointed to assist in making the the character of Dr. Osier, written by
grade fruit below the maximum price, most effective use of the highways as Dr. W. S. Thayer, successor in the
lie i met with a enrt refusal. I a means of strengthening and in- I position formerly held by Dr. Osier
The trouble with the market has creasing the nation's transportation I at Johns Hopkins. After reviewing:
been restriction of supply by storage I resources. That the problem in war I the achievements of this American
or destruction of produce in order to I time was chiefly one of material does man of science and summing up what
sustain prices, open or secret under- I not detract from the value of the work I they have meant to medical educa
standing among market men not to I now being: done to promote life-sav-1 tion, he says:
sell below the maxtmum, and co-op- I ing. In Addition to the great number
eratlon of the market master with I killed annually .in traffic accidents,
them by fixing a maximum. By this I many thousands are incapacitated for
practice the city defeats the prime productive work. The . problem ls
purpose of having a public market, both humanitarian and economic And
for that ls to let buyer and seller fix It will be worth while to find a solu- I serration or appellation that puts the patient
. . . . . I ., - 1 at his ease or brings a pleased blush to the
prices. If the mArket master were to Won for it. I faM of tn. an apprehension that
grasps In a minute tho kernel of the situ.
ation. snd a memory teeming with Instances
PROMOTION BT SELECTION. I snd examples that throw light on tha ques-
- i . . . I lion: su unusual joer 01 bucuuci biaic-
xuo uiu queauon oi promotion Dyiment and picturesque expression, exercised
Tf Ton can Dractlre consistently all this.
I and then If you can bring into corridor and
ward a light springing step, a jcmaiy glance.
bright word to everyone you see. arm
passed within arm or thrown over the
I shoulder, of the happy student or collegue:
quick, droll, epigrammatic question, oo-
seedllng- of a muen iater period. The?
birds may have carried it there, or
the squirrels, or, more probably,
child may have carelessly thrown an
apple core on the ground, where
without thought from any human be
ing as to its welfare its seeds germi
nated and prospered and in the course
of time grew into a great tree which
bore fruit for an appreciative genera
tion of comparative tenderfeet. This
tree may not have a record antedat
ing 1847 perhaps it is much more
recent than that. It is well to be
meticulously accurate as to matters
of this kind, but the records are
totally inadequate.
To which of our millions of fruit
trees shall we, if we decide to honor
one symbolically, build our monu
ment? Perhaps to the tlackheart
cherry which is said still to be flour
ishing on the David -J. Chambers
estate four miles east of Olympla,
Wash., a tree from the first consign
ment of nursery stock brought to the
Oregon country by Henderson Luel-
ling in 1847. Or perhaps to the wal
nut on the land now owned by Mr.
Lafolett near Wheatland, said by
some to have been planted by a man
named Hewitt, close to seventy-five
years ago. Of apples we have some
scores of great age as ages run in
this new country but none that can
boast the fine old age of 102 years.
It would be interesting- to know where
the oldest apple tree in this region
stands, and something more as to its
producing capacity, and also about the
care which has prolonged its life. For
with a few exceptions, the long life
of a fruit tree is not an accident. The
affectionate attention of someone who
senses the spiritual values of natural
things is implied in nearly every tree
that has attained a ripe age and is
still in fruit-
There is speculation as to whether
the Ohio ' tree may have been the
product of the thoughtful kindness of
Appleseed Johnny," who was going
about the country planting apple
seeds about the time that the tree in
question was born. But this is hardly
tenable, since it is admitted that the
tree is of a named variety, and we
have not yet succeeded in producing
a thoroughbred apple. On the score
of title to the honor of a monument
in Oregon, there will be conflicting
opinions, even after historical doubts
have been resolved. Between individ
uals, "Jimmy" Bruce and Henderson
Luelling will have rival supporters.
Between trees, we are as yet unable to
offer a suggestion. And among vari
eties that have made Oregon famous,
and growers who have put the state
on the map, pomologlcally speaking,
there is wide variety of choice. Some
of the old-fashioned varieties that
Luelling brought with him have re
markably justified the wisdom of the
old nurseryman. New-fangled apples
have come and g:one, and it is worthy
of note that not a few of the kinds
that were good in 1847 are good today.
We are in favor If not of an ex
pensive monument at least of some
formal recognition of the oldest fruit
tree in these parts, and of the man or
woman most instrumental in intro
ducing fruit growing into the Oregon
country. Let the horticultural his
torians get busy, that honor may be
bestowed where it is due.
Those Who Come and Go.
ME.4T PACKERS DEFEND PROFITS
devote his energies to breaking up
unlawful combinations and schemes
to hoard or destroy food, he would
have plenty to keep, him busy, and
prices would take care of themselves.
Official price-fixing is a pernicious,
un-American practice of recent
growth. It was started by the trusts.
whs could do it to their hearts con
tent, since they had no serious com
petition. It spread to certain manu
facturers, who fix the price all along
the line to the consumer, ostensibly to
protect the consumer from extortion
but actually in many cases to capture
a larger share of the aggregate profit
for them selves. When the war pro-
seniority or promotion by selection I quietly, modestly, and wholly without sensa
. . ' tv ' . I tion; If you can bring Into the lecture room
has been brought before congress by
the war department with a recom
mendation of selection by Secretary
Baker. The objections to the senior
ity rule have often been stated by a
succession of secretaries of war, and
President Roosevelt dwelt on "the
gTeat need, from the standpoint of the
an sir of perfect simplicity and directness.
and be-hind it all, have an ever-ready store
of the most apt and sometimes surprising
Interjections that so light up and emphastxe
that which you are setting forth that no one
In the room can forget it: If you can enter
the sick room with a song snd an epigram.
an air of gaiety, an atmosphere that lifts the
Invalid instantly out ot hJs tils, that produces
In the waiting hypochondriac so pleasing
confusion of thought that the written list o
service and the nation. Of refusing to I Questions and complaints, carefully compiled
tn iic, ciucny iinuiii- 1 1( almost invariably forgotten
petents."
If the lov
But the war department ad- lyour visit can make a half a ward forget the
. v. . n n - I symptoms that it fancied were Important.
niiu. uii v pe-r icui oi army oiucers untl, you are gone. ,f you can truIy Iove your
j , fc , v, wifv9CTi i me ooicLUiB Bvaiexu. I ibiiow, niiii nMving sail etu 01 no man. De
duced A demand greater than the po.- I eert-ln, that DrODOrtlorl of tha I loved oy all: If you can select a wife with a
aible supply, the government fixed nin L e -71 .i el? 18 as big s. your own. whose generous
prices for the only purpose for which
the practice is justified to meet
war emergency. The war ls over, but
growers and dealers try to keep up
war prices, and the city helps them
with its maximum prices.
Hoasewrves unconsciously encour
age the jugtrllng tricks which draw
money from their purses. Leaving
aside those with whom the habit of
ordering by telephone is Incurable, if
they go to market they too readily pay
what the dealer Asks. The orthodox
practice in marketing Is to offer less
and finally agree on a price. The
general range of such dealings fixes a
genuine market price, which is a com
posite of the opinions of many buyers
and sellers as to what an article is
worth. Marketmen may rebel against
such an Innovation at first, but it is
up to the women to bring about a
revolution. There is no need for the
market master to Intervene for the
protection of the producer. He is well
Able to take care of himself.
Organisation of the Market Pro-
not in denger of growing into "re
spectable, elderly incompetents."
They object because they fear that
promotion would go by favor, not by
merit. They expect that power of se
lection at discretion would no sooner
be vested In department heads or high
army officers than political influence
and pull would be- used. The war de
partment plan Aims to neutralize fa
voritism by entrusting promotion to
boards of five officers appointed by
the president, which would be limited
to selection among officers recom
mended by their superiors and would
examine them. If this process should
not result in filling the vacancy, it
would be filled by seniority.
That system, fairly administered.
should eliminate favoritism as nearly
as ls humanly possible. In fact there
is good reason to believe that where
selection has been followed, the num
ber of cases where influence out
weighed merit was far smaller than
is popularly supposed- General Leon-
welcome makes your testable a Mecca If you
can do all this, you may begin to be to others
tne teacher tnat "tne chier' is to us.
That Dr. Osier could have found
ttme to do so much aside from the
purely professorial duties of his call
ing has been the wonder of those who
do not understand that the truly busy
man nearly always has time to do one
thing more. It is the idlers who are
always "rushed to death" and are
never getting anything done. The in
fluence of the personality of this
physician and teacher would be diffi
cult to estimate: yet the inspiration
which he has managed to convey to
others is quite Jikely to yield divi
dends long after he is gone. He has
been in particular an ideal teache
and incidentally it will be noted that
he had to go to another country to
obtain the reward which a great
teacher deserves.
A MOXCMINT TO A TREK.
The Indianapolis Star tells of the
arrl Wood was nm mot fir over the dedication In the little town of Proo-
hH. e ,.- .- i, ,. I torville. Ohio, of a monument to the
ducers' association by dealer, m the open,y cnarKed tnat present Roose. first Rome Beauty apple tree in that
""''" "' " " y- " : velt was actuated by personal friend- town, me tree was piamea ii years
to the demand of the jomen for a snip yet Wood ,a ncoeDize botn j ago. We are without information as
,1-iiums si..1. this country and abroad, as one of our to tne cnaracter or, tne monument,
has been their practice, they will fall
foul of the law, and the law officers
of city And state should take action.
There may be some particulars in
which they can "assist the authorities
And Join with the public In creating
proper conditions," but no assistance
Is needed from their Association in
creating- "equitable prices": any com
bination among them Is more likely to
create Inequitable prices. All that is
needed in order to create equitable
prices is open bargaining between
each Individual buyer and seller with
out dictation to the latter by Any as
sociation. There should either be An
open, public mArket. or TAmhill
street should be cleared.
A burst of enterprise has struck the
ancient city of Cork. Ireland, since
Henry Ford decided to build his trac
tor works there, and its chamber of
commerce has published a neatly
bound handbook of its trade and com
merce, perhaps In hope that it will
attract other American manufacturers
to expand the old city into a Cleveland
or A Detroit,. It shows Cork to have
grown into a thriving- port with its
subport, Quetnstowrjf After centuries
of struggle with political unrest and
civil war And with ctupid, restrictive
lews, which stifled Industry as soon as
it sprang up. The old port ls now
prosperous, well frequented by ships
of the British navy and of the Atlantic
lines. Queenstown was the American
naval base In the Anti-submarine cam
paign, and will live in the memory of
many a "gob." The book is well il
lustrated, among the pictures being
those of such famous, scenes as Blar- j
greatest treneralA Similar charcres ana also as to wneiner n was aesigueu
were made when General Pershing Primarily to give voice to the people's
was pushed ahead by Roosevelt, but reverence ror tne Koine . xseauty, or
the tetter's Judgment has been ?bund- for apples in general, or whether the
antly sustained by the general's con- f'rst Rome Beauty was the first apple
duct of the war. Even when a man tree, or the first of all fruit trees to
wins bv favor, there is a f Air chance take root in this congenial soil, me
tnat Via hns murit anri It Is i m nrnhu HI o important point is that a monument
that improper Influence would orevall has been erected in honor of a tree.
in more than a few of the thousands The people of Proctorville are not
of cases which would come before a Prithut the" spirit of the late Joyce
board, unless that board was thor
oughly corrupt or subservient to
politicians. While such influences
might occasionally sway the judgment
of the board, it Is highly Improbable j
that they would succeed as a rule. If
they should, there would be such an
uproar as would soon effect a change.
Kilmer, who fell heroically in France,
and who once sang:
I think that I shall never see
A poem lovely ss a tree.
It would be difficult to overesti
mate the importance of fruit trees to
any community. The time-worn story
of the planting of the first fruit tree
seeds in the Pacific northwest is one
that we like to hear over and over
BUILD CP AIRCRAFT SERVICE. again. Doubtless if any of the origi-
Rapidly growing use of aircraft in I nal stock were still in existence on
commerce and mall service and the I the site of the old Hudson's Bay corn-
concert of opinion among military I pany post at Vffncouver it would be
authorities that the next war will be I the one to deserve the monument, if
won by the power which begins with I any were erected to a tree hereabouts.
supremacy in the air constitute fair Unfortunately, though, there is a dis-
notice to congress that it must act on pute on that point. There is no doubt
the matter this year. That is the only that "Jimmy" Bruce planted some
conclusion to be drawn from the re- apple seeds thereabouts in 1825, and
port of the mission which has been that they grew, but as to another
studyinr the subject in Europe. I apple tree which long survived on the
The wat has left us in possession of I site of the old reservation, but at
a greAt capacity for making Aircraft I some distance from the original
and of large numbers of trained air-1 orchard planted by "Jimmy" Bruce,
men. These ere the foundations on I that is a different matter. David
which commercial, military and naval I McLoughlin, son of the old factor
air fleets must be built. If measures I whom we all delight to remember.
are not taken to set commercial a via- I told Historian Himes, whose bailiwick
tion going under fixed -rules and to I is by no means confined to Oregon,
provide An Adequate air force for the I that the tree i question was not the
army and navy, this foundation will result of the original planting, but
simply crumble away. In that event I more .probably was an adventitious matoes?
The present congress is in danger of
going to extremes in the reaction from
its predecessor's prodigality. It cut
from ,20,000.000 to $7,000,000 the ap
propriation for salvage of $500,000,
000 worth of plant, buildings, fixtures,
manufacturing equipment ot the
ordnance bureau of the war depart
ment, the total of such property and
material stored in the buildings and
yards and left over from the war
being $3,000,000,000. The smaller
sum allowed for salvage is said by the
Army and Navy Journal to be utterly
insufficient. All manner of costly
material, such as guns, is exposed to
the weather, sergeants have been put
in charge of depots worth many mil
lions, and the newly organized techni
cal school for ordnance officers will
soon be dissolved. The people want
expenses cut, but not with an ax.
Sometimes a traveling salesman is
Inclined to long for something besides
a suitcase to live in on the roaa, ana
such Is the case with W. J. Camp
bell of Salt Lake City, who is at the
Oregon. At present Mr. Campbell
wishes he had made his last trip with
a safety deposit vault for a companion
en route, for he is Just now bemoaning
the loss of a valuable diamond pin.
When he stopped at a hotel just be
fore coming to Portland his bedroom
was entered at night and the gem re
moved from his tie while he slept. The
jewel happened to have belonged to
him a number of years and he was
much attached to it.
About a year ago Salem had a big
celebration when the Marion-Polk
county bridge over the Willamette was
opened and the town chose Frank T.
Wrifehtman to manage the affair. It
was one of those open purse, open
heart stunts and all the proceeds went
to the Red Cross. It wasn't any small
sum that the organization cleared
the day and the man to whom is du
much of the credit for it is stopping at
the Seward. Mr. Wrightman has a farm
near Salem, but recently he has been
connected with the C. K. Spaulding
Lumber company.
Next spring there ought to be plenty
of hens in the United States, despit
the scarcity this year, according to A.
P. Watterson. who has a poultry farm
at The Dalles. He is at the Perkins
few days while having an eye treated.
Mr. Watterson- lays the present high
price of eggs to the cost of feed and
the shortage of hens throughout th
country. "The price Isn't any higher
than it should be when you consider
the supply and demand." he declared
The poultry raiser came to Oregon
three years ago from Spokane, rre
vious to that time he was advertising
man on a newspaper down in Nashville,
Tenn.
Roads down the valley are thickly
coated in dust, according to V. Selig,
who drove in from Falls City yester
day with his wife and two children.
Grading has already been begun for
the hard-surfacing to be put in be
tween Salem and Dallas. Mr. Selig runs
a store in the lumber town, while his
son, Maurice, who came to Portland
with him, attends the University of
Oregon. Maurice is just back from a
vacation at Newport. The family will
pass several days at the Oregon hotel-
While the Perkins hotel is getting a
coat of paint all over the Interior and
s blossoming forth in new carpets, its
clerks are also getting rejuvenated on
vacation jaunts. Eugene Farmer, who
has been clerk at the hotel for eight
years, has just returned from Seattle,
where he passed a week. He was no
sooner back at the desk than George
I. Thompson, another of the greeters.
departed for Roseburg for his vaca
tion. Mr. Thompson puts it all over
on his fellow clerk, for he has been
employed at the Perkins 20 years.
Low Rate Declared Key te Lew Prices
to Public
(The following communication was
commented on editorially in Sunday's
Oregonian, August 24. but was unad
vertently omitted from that paper.)
CHICAGO, Aug. 14. (To the Editor.)
We have read with a great deal of
interest an editorial in The Oregonian
of July 12. This article, printed under
the heading "The Food Combination,"
criticises meat-packing organizations
in the light of reports submitted by
the federal trade commission.
The Oregonian accepts as conclusive j Athletic club.
packers by the federal trade commis- new Phase of the famous Terwilll-
Elnn Th a la nil,,,, huii irnvpm. 6" v.111 wiau, I II V U 1 V 1 II IT an eSTAtei Vfl
ment agencies are supposed to be dis.- uej at more than $500,000, came before
interested and unbiased. But in this Ju?se ' Northup in the action of Clar-
instance the commission conducted this lnaa u. amitn, et al.
ill v oaiiKnuuu, iivi wuu liio mta J I .
ascertaining and making public all of ,r,a"c.appllcants.ror th lb
the facts, but rather with the idea of "n,uninspector include Willis
suppressing- all evidence which by mis- " "" wope ana jonn .
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Yesu-a Age.
Tnm The Oregonian, August 25, 1S84.
Seattle An explosion and fire in the
mines at Franklin caused the death of
37 miners by suffocation. The bodies
have been recovered.
Wheelmen from all over the state
and many from Washington have been
arriving the past two days for the big
racing tournament to- be stasred thia
afternoon by the Multnomah Amateur
Hotel employes at the Multnomah are
congratulating Scott Wheeler of Rose
burg on his recent venture into mat
rimony. He registered at the hotel
Saturday with his bride of a. few hours
and will spend his honeymoon there.
Mr. Scott is just out of the army and is
assistant manager of the Umpqua ho
tel. The hostelry has just opened up
a coffee shop for the accommodation of
tourists coming in at almost any hour
of the day or night.
In the lobby of the Oregon yesterday
was to be found a real war hero in
the person of C. W. Morris, of Calgary,
Alta. He was accompanied by W. W.
Evans, of the same place, who is travel
ing with him. Mr. Morris has not yet
been given his discharge from the Ca
nadian army, as he is Btill receiving
treatment for a wound in his right leg.
He saw four years' service.
Hotel managers, who devote their
working hours to making it pleasant
for tourists who travel for pleasure,
and other folks who travel for reasons
of business necessity; are necessarily
walking bureaus of travel informa
tion. John F. Shea combines in his
personality atll of the talents that con
stitute the superlative in the greeter
and that is why he is secretary of the
Northern California Hotel association.
He is at the Multnomah and claims San
Francisco as his home.
No matter what the senate may
say, the fact remains that Japan is in
possession of Shantung and Is not
likely to withdraw solely in deferenco
to the opinion of the senate. Unless
the senate Is prepared to follow up
the logic qf its action, China will be
no better off, but some very serious
consequences may occur to the United
States.
The membership of Germany's pro-
posed league reads like a roll of the
international cave Adullam club. It
Includes - all the defeated, outcast,
sorehead nations.
Portland can handle the biggest of
the warships. She has entertained
cruisers in plenty since the Baltimore
and Charleston dropped in nearly
thirty years ago.
If there is no "undue, elaborate os
tentation" about the prince of Wales'
special train, what sort of a train
would answer that description?
Tes, the soldiers of the 'first di
vision love France next to America,
but they are in a desperate hurry to
get back to their first love.
It would be just the Seattle way to
make the reception of the fleet bigger
than San Francisco's. It would be an
outbrurst of the "spirit."
A person can so easily be hit by an
automobile on a crossing the wonder
is not at the number of accidents but
that they are so few.
If that prospect near McMinnville
should develop into an oil well. It will
be only another feather in the hat of
old Yamhill.
More than ever you need to keep
your eye on Pasco since they have
begun to find two-headed snakes up
there.
The Tillamook fair opens tomorrow
and in these automobile times every
day ought to be a Portland day.
This probably is the best time to
buy furs and furnaces in this con
trariwise old world. .
Has the hot trail already cooled.
that the troops are to return from
Mexico so soon?
The forecast -for this week is "nor
mal" weather. Get your ice into the
cellar early.
This is the weather that brings out
the pentatomidae to ruffle the atmosphere.
Another war! A Vermont man has
picked up a new comet.
Have you got your government to-
Four weary stock men from Heppner
were almost out of luck yesterday
morning when they pulled into town at
3 o'clock on a cattle train, tired an
sleepy. They went over to the Im
perial and found every room was taken.
Rather than hunt other berths, the
camped on cots in one of the parlors
the remainder of the night. The men
were Joe Hayes, Charles Vaughn, Les
ter Doolittle and Rolfe van Bibber.
They say Leroy Alexander, of Pen
dleton, tries to imitate his father, but
it's too much for him, he simply can i
do it. The elder Alexander, whose
whose first name is Reuben, is one o
the most widely-acquainted men in the
state and runs a big general merchan
dise store up where they "let er buck.
Young Alexander is registered at the
Imperial.
Miss Ruth Hoerr, of Lebanon, was at
the Portland yesterday before leaving
for the middle west, where she will at
tend normal school this fall. She was
accompanied as far as Portland by her
sister, Miss Arline Hoerr, who will re
turn home Wednesday. The latter is a
student at the University of Oregon
Their father is engaged in the lumber
business at Lebanon.
First glance at the Imperial register
would almost convince you that some
one had got his poets mixed up. The
reason is simple. Before the town of
Hiawatha you will find the name of
Robert Burns. Hiawatha, apparently
doesn't refer to Longfellow's hero, for
it has after it the word, Kansas.
Most people would have to look on
the map to find out where Dunevin,
New Zealand, is located, but Mr. and
Mrs. H. R. Spence and Miss Spence, who
are at the Imperial, could tell you in a
minute. The reason is that it s the
place they make their home.
Before getting ready to face the rush
on the opening day of school when he
has to supply most of the youngsters of
Eutrene with text books, Morris
Schwarschild ls passing a day or so in
town, enjoying life at the Oregon. Mr.
Schwarzschild has a large stationery
store in the university town.
Corvallls couldn't have had much of
the Cooper family left in it yesterday,
for a good share of it drove up to the
Imperial Saturday night. In the party
were Mr. and Mrs. Thomas H. Cooper
and Mr. and Mrs. G. E. Cooper.
With his three daughters, the Misses
Sybil, Elsie and Lena Jones, E. R. Jones
of Shreveport, La-, ls touring tne west,
stopping yesterday at the Multnomahv
They are accompanied by Miss Leslie of
Plaquemine, La.
From Alaska to sunny Tennessee Is
a long jump, so Dr. Arthur G. Jacobs
is taking his time about it and stopped
at the Benson yesterday -on his way
home to Memphis, lie Is accompanied
by his family.
Three young women from Saskatoon,
Sask way UP in the middle of Canada,
are taking a long vacation trip. They
stopped at the Portland yesterday, reg
istering as the Misses J. Little, L. B.
Isbister and A. B. Shaw:
T. H. Austin and family of Anaheim,
CaL, motored to the Multnomah on their
way to Vancouver, B. C. They live near
the Mexican border and are making
their entire trip by automobile.
A. S. Frieze is a Fossil stock man
at the Perkins over the week-end. j
representation or insinuation could not
be used against the packers, as though
it were a prosecuting attorney seek
ing to convict, rather than a govern
ment agency charged by the president
with the task of making a thorough
survey of the meat industry from pro
ducer to consumer. These are serious
charges to make against an accredited
government agency, but bwilt & Co.
has published an analysis of the com
mission's report which supports our ar-
Bristow.
Fifty Years Ago.
Prom The Oregonian, August SS, 1S40.
Halifax Price Arthur arrived todav
and was welcome by Governor-General
loung and Lieutenant-Governor Doyle.
Gettysburg Governor Geary and oth
er participants in the war have arrived
here for the observance tomorrow. Gan-
ral t.c. v..- ., .
gumerits and exposes the methods used Wa,ker Harrison, a confederate, is here.
No fair-minded
person will accept tne commission s
report as final until he has studied bosh
sides of the case and reached an
dependent conclusion. We shall be glad
to send copies of this pamphlet free of
charge to any person requesting them, ington guard will be held this even-
Ac is or course lmpossioie in tne i ing m their hall on Stark street.
space ox tnis letter to answer an. 01
the commission's charges quoted
this editorial, but we do wish to reply
to the most serious misstatements.
"The brick work on Captain Ankanv's
building on Front street has been com
pleted.
The anniversary ball of the Wash-
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
This paragraph in particular has ar
rested our attention: I THE ACTOR'S STRIKE?.
The packers frequently tell what a modest Two gray haired parents sit in tears
r."i tr."'" amid the gathering gloam:
m is only proii- ou turnover. i ncy nm; i . ki.-i.... - , , . . , , . - ,..
turn over their capital 10 or It times a year, whiskered sheriff knocked without-
multlplymg their published protit 1U or L I a -"" iw im iiicir noma.
times. Nor do they tell of the profit on the I rle holds A mortgage in hla hand.
many other commodities besides meat prod- which, back in '17
ucts In which they deal. By telling only Tha rnn.nl. nlH nr.. ,. i
part of the truth they arouse suspicion as i Hmr.,ioi '
to the nature of the part which is . untold.
Complete facts as to profits made by
packers are officially recorded in gov
ernment documents and they may be
checked up at any time. The United
States Food administration, in its re
port for the year 1918, says: "The
profits on the controlled products of
the packers subject for this control
during the first year of such regula-
limousine.
And now the crop of hay has failed,
the price of gas is high.
And there is nothing left for them but
Kiss tne place good-bye.
But hold! the wayward son walks in
ne s Just about to cough
The money that is requisite to nar
the mortgage off-
Alas! the finish of the play must Btlll
ce lett in doubt
tion from November 1, 1917. to Novem- U walking delegate appears and calls
ber 1, 1918, as shown by audited ac
counts were $40,934,935 on an invest
ment average for the year of $714,187,
204, a net profit on the total invest
ment for one year under the rules of
the food administration of 5.6 per cent
or considerably less than the man
mum allowed by those rules.
the hero out!
A flaxen-headed little child ls playing
in the lane,. '
The villian. whom her fond ma mm ah
once spurned with deep disdain.
To reap his devilish revenge, abducts
the tiny maid
Figures which have been subject to I And ties her to tha railroad track. Will
audit by the federal trade commission Bo one come to aid?
prove that the average profit of the Yes! yes! We hear the train approach
packer on every dollar of sales has
been about 2 cents.
On each pound of meat sold the
packer's profit is a fraction of a cent.
This means that if the packer sold
eat without making any money at all,
the price for each pound would be
practically the same. There would pe
no material benefit to the consumer
but with a pruning knife
A farmer comes to cut the rope and
save the baby's life.
Will there be time? Our hearts stand
till ; the engine throbs and hums.
The ten-' heeled messenger of death
each second nearer comes
But ah! we never shall know what the
denoument was like
even if the packer continued without a For Just before the train appears the
profit for a long period.
Few successful businesses can show
so small a margin oi pront. -ine
packers' volume of sales alone makes
t possible. The man who suggests
breaking up the packing industry so
as to divide profits among more peo
ple is suggesting a change which would
inevitably lead to a higher rate oi
profit and increased prices.
baby joins the strike!
The hat check girl, when tempted by
the rich and aged rake
Says rags are royal raiment when
they're worn for virtue's sake.
But when he buys the restaurant and
throws her from her Job,
And she has starved for three long
weeks she murmurs with a sob;
It may seem surprising that the I "Ah me! forever must I face privation
packers have been losing money on and despair,
heir beef operations, after crediting I'm going to the river side and drown
sales of hides and all by-products as myself! So there!"
well as sales of meat. Yet this is the And does she carry out her threat?
fact. I Does not yon gentleman
Who hears her threat show up In time
Atrain. The Oregonian says ."The food to thwart ber awful plan?
of the nation, above all things, should Who knows? The hapless maiden's
free from absolute control bv any ena must always De uncertain
small group of men. The people can- She Joins the Actor's Equity before the
ot be exDected to view with equanim- iinai curtain:
ity the extension of this control from
meats to poultry, then to vegetables
and fruit, and even to ice, packing ma
erials, refrigerator cars and ships.
It is not true that the packers are
constantly extending their business by
UULilllllllg HI llmtj v..tj ...
tide of food consumption. The large
packers do not control any single food
Tirnriim.r. Rnnh items as thev handle.
whether closely related to meats or not, coming of the prince of Wales,
are ohtained in the onen market in
comnetition with other buyers, and are But the Government Has Unit.
handled in a legal manner and along There is merit in the contention of
lines that are open to everyone. the railway brotherhood that they
The rjacker eells articles other than couldn't possibly run tne lines worse
those produced by the single operation than tne government aia.
of slaughtering. Just as the grocer, tne
A Bonansa.
The man who paid $26,000 for a race
horse will make a lot of money that
is if he cuts up the horse for the beef
steaks that are in him.
e e
Of Course.
At Newport they are already putting
vintage nut sundaes on ice against the
druggist, and the hardware dealer sell
hundreds of things aside from gro
ceries, drugs and hardware. All ar
ticles handled by the packers have been
added to utilize more fully existing
equipment and raw materials. We be
lieve we have effected material sav
ings for the consumer in this way.
Only one motive prompted the pack
ers to invest in refrigerator cars; to
obtain efficient service for fresh meat.
The railroads refused to construct
enough cars, and the packing firms
The Chasm.
By Grace E. Hall.
They speak a different, language.
though their thought
Is dressed in words learned from the
self-same book;
One quotes the meaning that to him ls
brought.
Although it has to others not that look;
But as his mind responds to visual
were actually forced to provide their l- ..',,.,. snited to his need.
own facilities. v-. -. knnws. so limited his reach.
These cars have often been operated , tw r-i.rf. tk.r. ntt ...
at a loss and they have never been an mains a breach,
attractive investment. tit, crossed forever, through
Every transportation service, which
the big packers have, is open to every
body else. The packers' cars move on
the same trains and are treated in the
same way as the cars of competitors.
Packers became interested in stock-
the era-
passe
That comes when naught ls grasped of
what we say.
They speak a different
though they aim
language.
yards because this was the best way to That othere. ehall consider It the same;
obtain efficient administration. Pro- As each has iiVed. has learned, endured
ducer, packer and consumer profit , by, an(j striven,
economy in management, and its re- So words to best express that life are
suiting benefit to the market. - In the I
given;
case of at least the Fort Worth and St. Tnoge having dwelt' In narrow stilted
Joseph Stockyards, the livestock in- sphere
terest, including producers association, o,,it fail to crrasn tha crux of what
actively solicited the packers to inter- they hear;
est themselves in the development of They struggle tor amalgamate, but
less yaras. naught
The low rate of profit, we believe, is v. rA,,iv changed in life's aueer melt-
the most convincing evidence that the I ing-pot;
market is governed by competition and Each through his speech makes vsry
that there is no domination of any sort
In concluding. The Oregonian re
marks, "We need to learn the whole
truth about the food combination and
to apply the rational remedy without
further resort to declamation, and sug
olaln the facts
Of what he's struggled for, acqulred-
, or lacks.
Organisation of Telephone Company.
PORTLAND. Aug. 24. (To the Edit-
whole problem by such a man as Charles J J ZtPZV'LJ?
K. Wuirhes. f-"ji - - - . --
The packers would welcome such an
investigation covering all phases of the
industry from producer to consumer,
and have repeatedly recommended this
course. This association pledges its
wholehearted co-operation as well as
that of its individual members in any
comprehensive survey such as sug
gested by The Oregonian.
In the interest or lairness we be
lieve that the readers of The Orego
nian will wish to know the facts on
both sides of the case. We are anxious
to meet squarely all questions that may
arise, because the packers justify them
selves on actual conditions and on
services rendered, and not at all on
general denial. W. W. WOODS,
Associate Director Bureau of Public
Relations, American Meat Packers
Association.
Dampening Worlc of Beer.
Passing Show.
We learn without surprise that beer
was successfully used, the other day.
in nutting out a Lambeth fire. Being
unable to distinguish it from the fluid
usually employed, the flames promptly
subsided.
companies in a financial sense? (2)
Are the earnings of the light and pow
er department of the street oar com
pany separate from the earnings of the
cars? (3) If they are losing money all
the time, why don't they go into the
hands of a receiver or give the city a
chance to buy them out?
SUBSCRIBER.
(1) It Is a separate company opera-
ting only on the Pacific coast but a
majority of its stock ls owned by the
American Telephone & Telegraph com
pany, popularly known as the Bell sys
tem. (2) Yes.
(3) If there are In fact losses the
stockholders have the privilege of ab
sorbing them.
Secretaries ef State,
BAY CITY, Or., Aug. 23. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me the name of
the secretaries of state in Washington
and Idaho MRS. C. R.
Idaho, William T. Dougherty, Boise;
Washington, I M. Howell, Olympla, .