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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 28, 1919. 8 !iltammcj(OrmttnH rSTlBLIKBEB ST SE1T L- PITTOCI . Published by Tha Ortfonian Publishing C.-. lii Sixth SintL I'ortland, Oregon. C A. MORPE.V. B- B. PIPE"- Uinwcr. fcditor. The Oregonian la a member of th Asso ciated Pnn Th Awm4 Pre t -." rluMvely entitled to the a."" for puhllra- tlon or all new dispatches rrrdued to It or I not olbmiM credited In thl paper inn i" . tMe lo.al news published herein. All ; of republication ol p:ll dispatch Herein ' am io reserved. Sabecripti.. lut--l?Tarlbl- to Advance. ; inv nan. w iMiir. undr included. n year '".r, r iiy. Sunday included, one month i? r.ilr. without Sunday, on year I.!y. without Sunday. .1 month Iaiiy. without Sunday, one mouth Weekly, one year ' Sunday, one year oUAday and weekly I Hr Carrier.) ra!ly. "onday Included, one year .... Imllv. Sunday included, one month . . ' Ially. Sunday Included, three month la.ly. without Sunday, one year ; Imily. without Sunday, three month iJailr. without Sunday, one month ... . 2.10 .19.00 . "S . I2J . 7.) . l.5 . .SS . How te Remit Send postofflc money or- der. upnu or peraonal check on your local . bank. Stamp, coin or currency are at on- er risk. Give poetofflca addreaa In lull, in deluding county and tate. Poatace Rate 12 to 1 pace. 1 cent: IS to 11 page. - cent: 34 to 40 P". c'nui UI to ftu pane. cent; J to i page. . cenu: IS to J pac. ( cent. Forela" Pt . age. double rate. Ea.trra Rusloe Office Verre Conk lln. Urunswua buildlnit. New York; erre Conklln. SK-ger building. Chicago: verre Conklin. Free Press building. Ijelrolt. Micti. Sao Francisco representative. R. JJJJrtwell. THE SPEEDING CYCLE. It would perhaps be unkind to sug gest that a part of the annual report of the Southern Pacific company was designed to lay the ground work for Robert S. Lovett's advocacy of a sub. 1 stantial increase in railroad rates. Yet whether designed or not to reinforce a ' specific proposal, the report empha sizes figures purporting to srtow that there la an exaggerated public con ception as to the influence of railroad rates upon the costs of labor and ma- tertal in general. This part or tne report Is given' further emphasis by a communication which comes from a " Pittsburg citizen and directs atten- - tion to it: with full acceptance of the ' argument it contains. We quote from the Southern Pa cific's report: In the period from Win to 1!I! the price of dresavd beef originating: In Chicago and transported to New vrk Increased from 22 cent to 40 cent per pound, or. e- - preed in our smallest unit or valu-. 175 'mill, while the freight rate increased 2.4 -mi; or only 1.4 per cent. The price per pound of ham and bacon - transport! between the aame point In creaed mill, whareof the Increa In freight rate ii responsible for Its mill, or on:y W..t per cent. The Increase In the coat of a ult of un derwear transported from Boston to t'hl ; nio in the p-rld 1o to !'! wag mii:a. to which the Increase In freight rate ' contributed 3 mllis. or 0 2 per cent. A pair of shoes, transported from Boston to Chtcaco In the same period. Increased In " price S-'ptw mllis, of which the Increase In freight rat was responsible for s mill. 01 0.1 per cent. No coin Is small enough to represent any of these Increase In cosl. but if the dealer shnu'd d)l one copper cent in each case to the prices to reimnuree mm ir ine in crMird cost of hs commodity, due to in created freight rale, he would grossly over charge the porrhBr in every case. ne wou.d make him pay nearly d-uule th prper amount In Ihe ease of a pair of shoes . and over six time the proper amount In the case of a pound of ham or bacon. It Is often the case that statistics are deceptive. It Is so herein. The proportion of the retail price of a pair of shoes, or of a suit of under wear, or of a ham. or a pound of beef, represented by railroad transportation cost, is wholly Impossible to estimate. The freight rate on the finished com mo.lity. small In ttse-lf. Is but an In flnltesmal part of the freight rate that the consumer actually pays Tountless freight charges ramify b-ick to the door of the producer. A gen eral Increase in freight rates applies to transport to stockyards of the live stock of which the commodities men tioned arc finished products. Kviry 'implement used in care and slaughter of the animal pays Its freight toll. At the tannery the materials used, the machinery, the buildings, represent a transportation cost. At the shoe fac ion cost. At the shoe fac- achinery. the buildings, the . ery other essential to man- tory the mac fuel and ev ufacture have paid another freight toll. Similar charges follow and are piled upon the preparation of meats and manufacture of woolens. Xor in this brief resume ts all the freight charge roughly represented. The original producer has paid freight rates on his barbed wire, his silo, the lumber for his feeding sheds, his windmill, hin pump, his farm machin- ery. Rack of him. to cite one article as illustrative of all. the manufacturer of the farm Implement has paid a freight rate on his raw material, on the material that constitutes his build ings, on his fuel and other Incidentals. And back of the Implement manufac turer is another manufacturer who supplies the machinery with which the implement man manufactures his product. Back of him are countless others reaching to the mines, the milW, the lumber camps, the stone quarries, the brickyards. Kach must employ workmen who In turn are con sumers of beef and bacon and shoes and underwear. As each cf the num berlese manufacturers and producers wh. has contributed in the prepara tion somewhere along the line some thing that is used directly or remotely to make the finished product figures the cost of his contribution he neces sarily considers the cost of his equip ; ment and the cost of his materials, of which freight charges are a necessary part. And the ultimate consumer, finding that he has to pay for it all. uses the high cost of his living as an argument why his pay should be ad vanced. The workman's higher wages are again reflected In the cost to him of that which he must consume in order to live, and the cycle keeps on turning without slack or stoppage. The life of the country is dependent upon Its rail transportation. The cost of that transportation enters into the price which the consumer pays for every conceivable article he buys. Kven the truck gardener at the out- skirts of the city who hauls his produce to the public market in his own wagon has. before delivering his onions, his potatoes and his carrots, paid out freight charges which are buried away in the capital represented by his equipment and upon which he must obtain return. It would be hard to conceive of an element more positively reflected in the cost of living than the railroad freight rate. The only thing that could approach it would be an arbi trary Increase in the wages of every ' man who works, for only by increas ing the wages of every one could the cost of everything that man consumes be similarly affected. By virtue of their necessity to the community railroads must live, and In order te live they must be compen sated for the service they render. We gain not an lota by paring them less than the service costs them and meet ing the deficit from the public treas- ury. for the public treasury ts but the , other pocket of the consumer's trous-j ers. Put let ' not deceive ourselves with the idea that railroad rates have little influence on the cost of living. So inescapable in their effect that if they can be maintained without fur ther advance by application of the better economy that accompanies pri vate operation, the battle against mounting cost is more than half won. IS A NICKEL ENOl'GH? The pleasing news comes from Se- Iattie that the experiment of municipal operation of the street railways is a - b, authority of the muniriDal i I director that the system showed a t could know better than he? unless it j ,s ,ne taxpayer who has shouldered ...j' .v.. eicoonnno chase of the system. But the tax payer, through the ingenious and easy method of Issuing bonds, has; so fa not bad to put up a dollar in cash. Only credit. Why should he worry Pay-day is far in the future and a nickel the same nickel of our an cestors in the pre-war days will take him anywhere In the city. That is enough for any Seattle man or woman. Far away in Boston there is a dif ferent story. The traction roads got Into trouble, and the city, under the ready persuanion of the public owner. ship agitators, took them over. The suburban lines are zoned, and the zones are short. On the surface and elevated lines within the city, the fares have been raised successively to S. 7 and 8 cents. There was a con stantly growing deficit and now the 10-cent fare is established. As fares increased, traffic decreased, and the deficit is now about $250,000 a month or $3,000,000 a year and it is expected to reach $4,000,000 per year. The public will pay the deficit in taxes. It may be possible for the tax payer to avoid the 10-cent fare by- walking but the deficit he must carry walking or riding. It is a cheerful outlook for Boston. We marvel at Seattle, the zenith city of prices and wages. A nickel is enough for a ride there now. But the story is In its early chapters. FIRST CLASS AND THIRD CLASS. The people of Oregon will note without envy that Bremerton, on Puget sound, is to become the "home yard" of eighty-four vessels of the new Pacific fleet, while the smaller number of forty-eight vessels Is as signed to the Mare island yard. It is not well known that a "home yard' and a "home station" are not identi cal, for a naval vessel may be assigned to Puget sound, or the Columbia river, or San Francisco, or San Diego, as Its base, but when in need of repairs or when not in active service, it must go to its home yard On the Atlantic coast there are nu merous yards, but on the Pacific only Bremerton and Mare island. Thus it is natural, and even inevitable, that the aggregation of ships at one or the other, or both, be very great. 15-it in the division of vessels at honie stations, no reason exists of course why there should be a pre ponderance of warships at one port over another, provided of course the strategic value of one may not exceed the other's. We have seen no state ment on authority, for example, that Puget sound is 100 per cent in avail ability as a naval base, while the Co lumbia river Is 00.00 per cent. Yet In naval calculation the Columbia river has no high place. There is extant a report, to be sure, that a naval base should be established near ti:e en trance of the Columbia. So it Should be. of course, but it has not been. Yet here is the Pacific fleet one half the floating strength of the I'nited States navy now cruising about the broad waters of the Pacific, under orders to stay permanently. The fleet is engaged in the agreeable busi ness of visiting the various ports. In the assignment of vessels to represent the power and majesty of the great American navy, with Its twelve or more dreadnaughts. and its mighty nrray of (jrst.cIaiS fjr;h,infr ves,e ,,ortl!ln(, ls to be permitted to feilst . f;ratlfied vi!lion on two thlrd.ca of first-class fighting vessels. its gratified vision on two third-class cruisers and six torpedo boats. Portland will of course give the third-class vessels a first-class recep tion. LET ALL HAVE DAYLIGHT. Those who feel that they have been cheated of an extra hour of day light by corgress" insistence on repeal of the daylight saving bill have the comfort of knowing that they can re gain part of their loss by individual initiative. The advantage of clock deception, an undoubted advantage in its way. will be lost, it is true, but we still have had the benefit of a demon stration of what may be gained by go ing to work an hour earlier in the morning and quitting an hour earlier at night. Perhaps not to the same ex tent as formerly, but nevertheless In considerable degree, the citizen can accomplish the same result next sum mer by setting the alarm, if not the clock, an hour ahead. The early bird will catch the worm in this instance the symbol of better health and the freedom of a longer twilight for him self. The farmer had. or thought he had. a grievance against the system which got him out an hour earlier than usual when he already was getting up be fore the dew was off the grass, and which made the hired man want to quit just at the hour when working conditions were at their best. This and the extra trouble entailed in catching milk trains and the like con stituted the chief arguments against daylight saving from the farmers' point of view. But it will be conceded. even by farmers, that setting the clock ahead was a great convenience to per haps 70 per cent of the population, or about TOrOOO.000 people. The ques tion now arises whether city people cannot save their daylight at the be- inning of the dsy, and let the farmer go on taking his hour toward the close of the day. If he would rather have It so. In other words, city and country are not In every minute particular de pendent upon one another. While in his ordinary day's work the farmer is goirg his own way. there is no reason why the city man should not also have his way. too. On the occasions when the farmer has to come to town to buy goods or to put money in the bank, there, is already sufficient leeway in business hours. And the city man may well enjoy his golf, or his home garden, or his automobile ride while the farmer, tf he prefers it that way, is working to the later hour. There ftre Indeed few points of possible con flict. Perhaps some municipal regulation will be. required to bring all the city interests into a harmony of hours. But probably these would not need always to take the form of laws. Business men's organizations have considerable power In the way of changing customs by more or less Informal agreement. Their hours for opening and closing are now quite generally the product of asTeements of this kind. The rail roads could help the city man a good deal without injuring the farmer by making here and there a change of time table. There were no complaints, indeed, when they adopted "standard time" on their own motion. In Can ada, where the cities are strongly in favor of daylight saving and the farm ing districts hold opinions similar to those of the I'nited States, both meth ods have been tried. In some towns daylight saving is made by ordinance, in other's by business men's agree ments. According to accounts, both seem to work fairly well. There will not be much resentment over repeal of daylight saving. The issue is hardly Important enough to call for hard feelings. Nor need there be any spirit of reprisal in any urban action to preserve the benefits of the law which we all conceded while it was in operation. It is still possible. with only a little getting together, for the cities to have that which they want, while the farmer also goes con tentedly on his way saving daylight at either or both ends of the day, as the case may be. srrrLY And demand law beaten. Some instructive facts bearing on the relation between cold storage and prices were cited by Senator McKellar in support of his bill for regulation of cold storage houses. They were to the general effect that prices of the principal food articles have risen at the sane time that the quantity of those articles In cold storage very ma terially increased. Food merchants are at great pains to explain that cold storage is designed to hold food over from the season of plenty to the sea- son of scarcity, hence is generally beneficial and is particularly adapted to such commodities as eggs, butter, poultry and meat. From that viewpoint we viewed with satisfaction the storage of a cer tain quantity of each kind of perish able food a year ago, for that was a year of scarcity and we seemed to have another year of war ahead, dur ing which Europe would produce less than in peace and would make un usual demands on this country. But this is a year of plenty in America, Europe has stopped waste and has in creased production, and it should suf fice to carry over to next winter the same quantities as were carried over to last winter. But Mr. McKellar found that on June 1 the quantity of eggs was 10 per cent more, the quan tity of poultry three times as great, as reported by the agricultural depart ment. The federal trade commission found on Aug. 7 these increases in the quantities of leading foodstuffs in storage: Butter, 89 per cent; creamery butter. 129 per cent; lamb and mut ton, 91 per cent; pork, 20 per cent. On every item quoted, although the supply was greater, the price was higher than a year ago. This is a flat contradiction of the law of supply and demand, which decrees that prices fall as supply increases in proportion to demand. The explanation is that cold storage Is being used to defeat this law. Cold storage was originally de signed to extend the supply available for consumption into the season of scarcity. It appears now to be used for the purpose of withdrawing from supply a large quantity of food and of hereby maintaining an artificial level of prices. In that connection Mr. McKellar re called that -when the pure food bill wns before congress nine years ago. and when a committee of the senate was holding hearings on cold storage. officials of the big packing companies howed a peculiar lack of interest In the unhealthfulness of cold storage food. It now develops that & little more than half of the cold storage space in this country is owned by the five big packing companies. That fact s another evidence of the dictatorial power which they possess over the food supply of the country and over he prices which the people must pay. If supply becomes too large to sustain prices, they can simply withdraw the excess, put it in cold storage and it becomes to all intents and purposes non-existent.- If it should rot, there is mple compensation in the higher price obtained for what was sold. HOW TO GET JAPAN OCT. Those republican senators who voted in committee against transfer of German rights in Shantung to Japan and in favor of handing them over to China profess that they are the ones who would drive out Japan and rein state China in Shantung. They as sume that the effect of the treaty clauses would be to leave Japan In permanent possession with a title uaranteed by all the allies. These are not the alternatives be fore the senate and before the allies. " 'I The choice lies between two means of getting Japan out of Shantung. The question to be considered is which will cause less delay and less friction and which will more surely accom plish the desired result. Under the treaty all the- German rights would be transferred to Japan These include leases of property at Tsingtao on Kiaochow bay, a railroad from that port to Tsinanfu through Shantung and coal mines in Shantung. with sovereign powers over the area covered by port, railroad and mines. President Wilson informed the sena tors at the recent White House con ference that Japan had agreed with the supreme allied conference to with draw "as soon as possible," which the president construed to mean, begin ning as soon as the treaty had been signed. That assurance was given to the United States. Great Britain, France and Italy. Its terms are thus described by Professor Toyoltichi Iyenaga, of Chicago university: The Shantung programme announced by Japan's peace envoys und now elaborated by her foreign minister is to restore Kiaochow in pursuance of the assurance given at the peace conference and in fulfilment of the p'edKe she gave to China in llllo: to operate the Tsingtao-Tsinanfu railroad as a joint Chlno-Japanese enterprise without any dis crimination in treatment against other na tions. Chinese policing the road; to estab lish In Ting:ao a general foreign settlement instead of an exclusive Japanese settlement, as waa at first contemplated: to compietely wlthuraw the Japanese troops now guard ing the territory upon the completion of these arrangements with China. The great powers in particular, all the signatories of the' treaty . in gen eral, would be bound to see that Japan kept these promises. Upon comple tion of the process. Shantung would have the same status as any other Chinese province, and Japan would remain simply as the owner or lessee of certain property. Some opponents of the Shantung clause, having in mind the history of Japan's action in, Manchuria and Corea, insist that it should give up its property rights concessions; also, but, as the presi dent said in reply to Senator McCum ber. Great Britain, France and other countries have Just such concessions. Japan cannot fairly be asked to give up its concessions unless other coun- tries give up theirs. The general f question of foreign concessions in ! China has nothing to do with the I peace with Germany; it is a question to be dealt with separately, and can be handled best by the league of na tions. Then if the treaty should remain unchanged and if the United States should ratify it, Japan would restore all sovereign power to China as soon as the treaty became effective. The United, States would share with the three other great powers the right to insist on fulfilment of this promise, and would have their support in hold ing Japan to its promise. Failure to keep that promise would be a matter cf concern to the league, of which the entire moral influence could be brought to bear, to be followed by economic pressure and, as a last re sort if the league council so advised and the nations so decided, by war. The United States would also be in a position to bring before the league the entire question of foreign concessions in China with a view to eliminating Japanese interests from Shantung en tirely as a part of a general policy ap plying to all nations. This would be a peaceful, friendly proceeding to set China free. If the senate should insist on its amendment providing that Germany hand over Shantung to China, Japan would not consent and Britain and France would not, in view of their treaty obligation to Japan. It would remain for the other powers to con clude peace with Germany as accepted by that country, with the Shantung provision unchanged. The only course open to the United States would then be to make a separate treaty of peace, by which Germany would agree to hand over Shantung to China after having agreed with the allies to cede its rights to Japan. That inconsistency might not worry Germany, but it would embarrass the United States. Japan would be in possession. The only power the United States, which had shown anxiety that it get out and to conciliate which it had promised to get out would not be a party to the treaty under which that promise was given. Since that power would have affronted Japan by treating its pledge as worthless and as the other powers are so indifferent that they might readily release Japan from the pledge Japan might decide to hold on. We should have morally bound ourselves to put China in possession. Would the senators have the United States go to war with Japan for that pur pose? Japan might have quietly pro ceeded to withdraw its troops and might have handed the province over to China without paying attention to American action. When our army ar rived, it might find the Chinese in pos session. The senate will benefit China far more by letting the Shantung clauses stand than by changing them. If it changes them, it is likely to accom plish nothing for China and to make the United States the laughing-stock of the world. When the American people realize that, the popularity of the senators Woo have suddenly cul tivated such a warm friendship for China is not likely to grow. With railroads completed from Con stantinople and Cairo to Bagdad, no serious gap would need to be filled in order to make a through route through southern Asia parallel with the Siberian road. The British have a road from India half way across Baluchistan, which might soon con nect the Bagdad road with India. But before that is done, the airplane will put the railroad in the background. A Grover Cleveland could settle all this railroad disturbance, for the original was practical. His one reply to theorists was not as profane as it sounds. It was: "Go to hell!" While they did not, they went elsewhere and Cleveland settled it his way. The estimate Is made of 300.000 people out on strike in this country. At the low average of $5 a day, that means an economic loss of a million and a half dollars a day in wages alone, money that will be needed if ever the burst comes. When a wife alleges in her com plaint for divorce that her husband bought her too few clothes, all other wives simply sniff or say it served her right, and, come to think of It, a worn an who cannot do better than that is a weak sister. The majority of the senate foreign relations committee acts as though it were the whole peace conference and as though all that President Wilson and the other delegates had to do was to write their "okeys." Lenroot's plan of one big railway with a board of eleven directors might 1. . V. n . . V. 1- n. . . 1 .1 1.0J a a tsarft- "" - vary Ol railways eventually, wiiiuii, ic- membering Burleson. this country will not want. Mexico -will not recognize. a Peru vian government installed by a coup d'etat. Carranza has reason, perhaps, for watching his precedents rather closely nowadays. The forest fire draft law has teeth after all, and needs no conscientious objector clause, for any man who will not fight forest fires is either lazy or a coward. Telephone rates can be jumped up in a day, but reduction means "stall ing" for a month or more. Meanwhile the customer pays his bill as rendered. Democracy of the American Legion is shown in the mingling of officers and men in the list of delegates to the coming convention Autoists -can avoid accidents to pedestrians if they will. As the Se attle Argus aptly says, they never run into a cow. What does it matter if California railroads are tied up; the state has good roads and plenty of automobiles. Government may. be biting off more than it can chew in opening mail order stores in all the big centers. All restrictions on beer having been removed in Great Britain, 54 cents is not too much for Oregon hops. In raising their rates, the lawyers cannot be accused of profiteering. "Lawing" is all profit any way. The Liberty temple might be placed on a park block, out of the way, yet handy. The spruce war has come lagging along almost a year after the real war. Portland should not need be admon ished to avoid waste of water. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Cass Baer. BY "LEONE CASS BAER. ALEXANDER, over at the Heilig. predicts that if this agitation over who has the most beautiful er-limbs, American or French women, is left to a jury, as has been suggested, there will not be so many men scheming to dodge the jury. See where an old actress, aged 97, is reported dead. The record is not com plete. It does not say whether she owed her long life to observing prohi bltion always, or not observing prohi bition always. a Los Angeles newspapers of last week carried attractive pictures and interest ing accounts of the vacational activi ties of Geraldine Dare of Portland's theatrical colony. Miss Dare Is the guest of friends in the motion picture field in Los Angeles and at the Can fnrnia beach resorts. She was a dinner guest on several occasions at festivities attendant on the arrival of the fleet. a . An excerpt from a letter of recent date written to Mrs. A. W. Nicholson by Dr. Esther Lovejoy, who is chairman of the executive board of the American Women's hospitals with headquarters in New York, says: "Last night I went to the most won derful show that has ever been given. The benefit performance of the strik ing actors. The final scene was adapted from Mark Anthony's oration over tne body of Caesar, and applied to the quarrel between the Equity Actors as sociation which is a branch of the Federation of Labor and the managers. They staged a wonderful scene, with the stage so crowded with actors that not another one could get on. It was a perfectly wonderful roaring mob and a tableau never to be forgotten. When the speaker called for the men to take off their coats, roll up their sleeves and hold up their right arms in a pledge to fight to a finish it was worth seeing. The audtence was called upon a mo- ent after and rose in a wild applause and pledged its support Things are moving here and this was a picturesque expression of the spirit of the times. vjIebrated actresses were serving as ushers and selling candy. The place was packed. There is much matter for thought in such a performance." a a Mrs. Jack Methot has returned to Portland following a sojourn in south ern California and with her young daughter. Mayo Methot, has taken apartments at Haddon hall. Mr. Methot, who Is an officer on a ship plying in Alaskan waters. Joins his family every three months for a brief stay. Mayo will be with the Baker stock this sea son. From the New York Morning Tele graph the following is taken, which as sumes particular interest Inasmuch as Mrs. Schirmer was Ann Swinburne Ditchburn a Portland girl. The ac count says: "Even the knowledge of approaching death could not destroy the love which Rudolph Edward Schirmer, president and treasurer of the music house of G. Schirmer, Inc.. had for music. Mr. Schirmer had been ill for a long time and when he was informed by the at tending physician that the end was only a matter of moments and asked him if he had any last request to make, Mr. Schirmer motioned for the doctor to bend over him. ''Tell Ann to sing me that selection from Beethoven,' he whispered. 'She knows the one I mean. I have always loved it.' "Mr. Schirmer's wife was formerly Ann Swinburne, light opera star, and has a marvelous voice. Ever since his marriage to her Mr. Schirmer's chief delight had been to listen to her sing. ."The song which he had asked for was a two-part vocal selection. So R. B. Gring, a close friend of the music publisher, was summoned and arrived In the house a few minutes later. The dying man was still conscious. "Thereupon Mrs. Schirmer began to sing under circumstances which were the hardest that had ever confronted her. By a great effort she mastered her sobbing and sweetly the limpid notes rang out In the silent room. Mr. Gring's voice joined in. But in the middle of the song the physician inter rupted: ' 'The song ls ended,' he said. 'It's useless to go on. Mr. Schirmer is dead.' " "Mr. Schirmer was born in New York City 60 years ago. He received his elementary education in that city and in Weimar, Germany. He married Miss Swinburn March 28, 1916, and was a resident of Santa Barbara when he died." a a a Lor a Roger's friends in Portland will learn with interest of her engagement as second woman and in character roles with the Woodward Stock company in Spokane. Miss Rogers ls even now planning on spending hr first free week in Portland, where she has a host of personal friends made during her two-year stay at the Baker Stock the ater. Hazel Whitmore Is leading woman with the Spokane company and none other than Albert McGovern Is the leading man. Another former Baker Player, Walter Zelgfrted, is in the company. The company opens on iien Saturday night in iilax Marcin's farce, "Here Comes the Bride." with Miss Rogers playing the veiled bride, a role she made especially keen in comedy values last season when the Baker company gav-e this play. Corinne Barker, former Portland girl. was planning a rush across the con tinent visit of two days at the Pen dleton Round-up, as the guest 01 friends, but has had to postpone the idea since she is having probably the busiest time of her youthful career, trying to please two directors at the same time. "Ordinarily," says Miss Barker, "it is a task to please one." She is finishing the last scenes in "The Climbers" for Tom Terriss, and works every other day at the studio in Pelham. The next day she works on a Vitagraph picture under John Noble's direction. a Rita Gould returned from France this week after having served as an entertainer for the A. E. F. for eight months. Florence Oakley, leading woman at the Majestic in Los Angeles, has sued her husband, Percy Church Pryor, son of Judge Pryor of Pasadena for divorce. They were married ten years ago when Miss Oakley, was playing leads at the Belasco. Since January. 1916, they have been living apart. She charges him with desertion. Pryor is a well-known society and club man of Los Angeles, Those Who Come and Go. Back in 1916 William Lensch of Se attle, with 50 and a five-room shanty.'i conceived the idea of establishing a club for boys between the ages of 14 and 19 years, a club run on honor with all the better elements of home life From this small beginning the enter prise has grown in membership until It now occupies two residences with room for 60 boys. Mr. Lensch, the dad dy of this club, is at the Multnomah with four of his boys. They drove from Seattle in a car and are enjoying a va cation around Portland. Recently the Elks have taken a great interest in the club, which is a practical applica tion of the big brother movement. The boys who live at the place are all em ployed. C. B. Clancy, the man who designed the Cherrlan float, which won first prize in one of the Rose Festival pa rades, is at the Seward. Mr. Clancy has a florist shop ' in Salem and in cidentally has charge of the floral ex hibits at the state fair. He is an active commercial club member and every time a committee is wanted to accomplish some difficult undertaking, the "chances are pretty strong that someone will nominate the flower fancier as chair .man. v Among the folk around the Portland who are back from vacations at the beach are Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Wilson, who have been enjoying life in their cottage at Long Beach. They had as their guests Mr. and Mrs. Richard Childs. Others who will be in today are Mr. and Mrs. Frank R. Coffin, Mrs. F. W. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Clinton of Boise, who have been pass ing the summer at Tokeland, Wash. They will stay at the Portland on their way home. People out west have yet some things to find out about the cost of living, is the declaration of A. A. Mendes at the Multnomah. Mr. Mendes, who sells candy for a Los Angeles firm and reg isters from Seattle, has Just been east. He had heard so much talk about high prices he conducted a little investiga tion all his own and found out that the eastern working girl doesn't think much of paying $125 for a suit or $20 for a pair of shoes. If the road between Portland and Seaside is no worse than that between Chehalis and Portland H. A. Schoen feld of Seattle says he Isn't afraid to drive to the coast. He arrived at the Benson yesterday with a party made up of his wife and family, O. C. Glad den of Seattle and Lee Strauss of Spo kane. They aren't enthusiastic over the condition of the highway to Seattle. The Brooks-Scanlon mill in Bend would have a hard time getting along for many days without J. P. Keyes, its manager, who registered yesterday at the Benson. The lumber company he is with is one of the two that made Bend grow over night when the railroad was put through. The pine output has been steadily on the increase and so has the size of the mills. Fine chickens, stock and gardens are hobby of E. A. Rhoten, who is so interested in farming that he edits a paper all about it up in Salem. He is editor and manager of the Pacific Homestead, and is also connected with the Northwest Poultry Journal. Mr. Rhoten travels all around this section of the country in an automobile and takes in every big farming event in Western Oregon. Both the fruit and grain crops around Walla Walla are going to be bumper ones, according to Otto Ra budde, who registered at the Washing ton yesterday on his way home from Newport with a party. Recent hot winds up in that section of Washington have not had a very harmful effect, he says. Mr. Rabudde is accompanied by his wife. Mrs. Anna Luckindall and Mrs. W. H. Drucker. P. J. McDonald, owner of the Waldorf Court apartments of this city, and Dan iel Whetstone, editor of the Pioneer Press at Cut Bank, Mont.,, have gone to Tillamook to look after timber inter ests there. While on the coast they are attending the Tillamook fair, which is exhibiting a big array of fancy dairy stock, dairy products and other similar things from that section. Three Reed college graduates, John Dunback, Arthur Hoffman and Leon A. Goldsmith, left the city Wednesday morning by automobile for New York and Boston, where they will attend school this winter. Mr. Dunback will go to Columbia university law school, while Mr. Hoffman is to be in the Harvard medical college. They will make their trip over a northern route. When next Portlanders hear of Bert Lister, one of the greeters at the Mult nomah, he expects to have a hotel In his own name in Vancouver. B. C. He will leave today for the north to take over a hostelry for himself. Mr. Lis ter will be succeeded at the Multnomah desk by "Patsy" Clark, already known to many of its patrons. While her husband goes to Seattle to look over the Puget sound branch of H. Liebes & Co., Mrs. Ben A. Goldsmith of San Francisco is planning to remain at the Benson in this city. Mr. Gold smith left yesterday for the north after paying a business visit to the Portland store owned by his firm. After W. R. Hewitt of San Francis co finished selling art order of ship supplies to H. F. McCormick. who has shipyards at St. Helens, the latter drove him to Portland yesterday. Mrs. Mc Cormick also made the automobile trip, and with her husband is stopping at the Benson. Several years ago R. S. Hamilton was teaching law in Eugene as a member of the faculty of the University of Ore gon. Now he is in Bend, where busi ness looks so good to him he is con vinced he is there to stay. The at torney was in the city last night, stay ing at the Benson Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Butler and their small son passed the night at the Imperial before returning to their home in Salem after a trip to Seaside. Mr. Butler used to be in the newspaper business but foraook that to take a position in one of the departments at the state capital. Mrs. G. V. Pettigrew of San" Francisco is registered at the Benson. Mrs. Pet tigrew is prominent in society and her husband is a well-known polo player in the south. She will return to the bay as soon as the railroad strike Is over. Among the grain men who have been at the Multnomah the last few days is E. J. Eisinmayer. a large operator from Los Angeles. Mrs. Eisinmayer and their small child accompanied him on the trip. Criminals, take warning. P. K. Ahern of Seattle, manager of the Pinkerton detective agency for the entire Pacific coast, will be at the Portland today. Aloha is without its storekeeper while J F. Buck is at the Multnomah. Mr. Buck, who owns a general mer chandise establishment, is accompanied by his wife. - While her husband at Bickleton, Wash., is busy with ljis duties as one of the town's physicians, Mrs. A. F. Brockman Is at the Perking on a shop ping trip. Mr. and Mrs. August Hilderbrand, Frank and Arthur Hilderbrand. of As- 1 foriai are at the Multnomah for a few days. Mr. Hilderbrand owns a large 'furniture store. In Other Days. Twenty-five Year Ago. From the Morning Oregonian. Aug. 28. 1SP4. Washington The McKInley tariff law died at midnight last night when the new democratic tariff bill passed by the 63d congress became a law with out the signature of President Cleve land. The electric cars of the Vancouver line of the Portland Consolidated Rail way company now run across the Burn-side-street bridge to connect with the Second-street line on Second and Burn side streets. Washington By a new treaty nego tiated between Great Britain and Japan, England abandons all claims of extra territorial jurisdiction. Coney Island McAuliffe. lightweight champion, was given the decision here over Griffo, the Australian boxer, in a 10-round match, witnessed by 6500 spec tators. Baled hay Is quoted at Ellensburg, Wash., at from $8 to $9 per ton on the cars. Fifty Tear Ago, From the Morning Oregonian, Aug. 28. 1869. New York The Erie company has made arrangements with the Lake Shore road by which the Erie will lay a third rail from Buffalo to New York, making the road narrow gauge. New York Another cable between the United States and Prussia Is pro jected. Terms of the concession from Prussia provide that the work must be gin by September and be completed within two years. A large installment of Celestials came by the Andreas from China. Yesterday V. B. DeLashmut, who sells groceries, vegetables, etc., at the cor ner of First and Taylor streets, brought into this office a whole load of melons, pears, plumbs, cakes, cider, etc., for all of which he has the thanks of all the boys herein. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague, WHAT'S THE TL'SEF (Hungaria has gone back to the reign of Grand Duke Joseph.) When Mittel-Europa was swept by the war The people forthwith ceased to cower. To the Bashi-Bazouks and assorted grand dukes Who had ruled with tyrannical power. "No kaisers nor monarchs shall rule over us," Said they, "a free people don't need 'em. We'll run our own game in the glorious name Of great and Illustrious Freedom." And over the world all humanity's friends Waxed swiftly and wildly estatie, "Hip! hip! hip! hurray for the war," shouted they. For Europe has gone democratic. No longer shall kings grasp the serf by the throat. At last the millenium's started. They have set up the bar against Sul tans and Czars The autocrats' day has departed! I And then, while the shouting was still ringing out They rescued a duke from the cooler. Put a crown on his brow and he's reign ing right now. As the royal Hungarian ruler. Which shows that some people, no mat ter how free Humanity's prophets may set 'em, Will cling to a king and crawl under his wing As soon as conditions will let 'em! a Where la the Costomary Enterprise Isn't it about time that some Gotham newspaper was wiring up to Canada to ask the Prince of Wales how he likes New York? Too Lively. The trouble with the cost of living Is that it will not stand still long enough, to be Investigated. No Such Luck, We have about abandoned hope that the ticket speculators would strike la sympathy with the actors. Mere Words. By Grace E. Hall. We change our language dally, like our clothes, Adapting to the circumstance and place. We grasp the parlance from the stream that flows Along, and add our bit with tact and grace; We talk in town of stocks and bonds and rent. Of butter, clothing, matinees and meat; High prices, politics, the cash we spent. The traffic and the sights upon the street; The coming styles, the colors, cut and shape. The sprinkling of lawns, the auto cops. We stand alert with eyes and mouths agape, Looking for subjects language never stops! Down on the beach 'tis files and "skates" and fish, Reels, boats and baths; the surf, the sand, the tides. The hikes, the clams, the rocks; and then the wish To do each day a million things be sides; The sunsets, mist and fog, the winds, the ships. The appetites, the bathing nymphs, the spray. The weed upon the sand our fancy slips New words upon our tongue without delay. Then to the farm! and once again we choose - The language of the place, the folks, the sphere. Discuss the subjects that their minds may use To entertain and please things they hold dear; We talk of wheat and oats and hay and swine. Of cream, the fruit yield, garden stuff and such, Flinging our words around and doing fine. But if the truth were told not say ing much. Change of War Rink Insnranre, ASTORIA. Aug. 25. (To the Editor.) Please explain what steps are neces sary to change the war risk Insurance policies to an endowment. I have a son who has just received his discharge and he Is anxious to find out. CONSTANT READER. Write to the bureau of war risk In surance, Washington, D. C. Wife's Signature Needed. PORTLAND, Aug. 26. (To the Edi tor.) Can a married man deed or eell property acquired before marriage without his wife's signature? CONSTANT READER. In Oregon the wife's signature would be required to convey an. acceptable title.