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10 TITE aiORXIXG OREGOXlAX, TUESDAY, XOVE3IBER 4, 1910. Jttormuci 3temumt ESTABLISHED BY HEXRY I- FITTOCK. Published by The OreKonian Publishing Co. 13i Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. HORDES'. K. B. PIPER, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Pre.-a. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication oi all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All riKhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. (subscription Bates Invariably in Advance. I (By Mail.) Daily, Sunday Included, one year $8.00 Iaily, Sunday included, six months.... 4.25 I-aily, Sunday included, three months.. 2.25 iJaily. 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Steger building, Chicago; Ver ree & Conklin, Free Press building, De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. TODAY'S ELECT IONS THEIR I NO. MEAN- Four states New Jersey, (Massa tchusetts, Maryland and Kentucky will elect governors today, and one congressional district of Oklahoma ;will elect a representative to succeed a democrat -who died. Results are likely to be taken as straws indicat ing; the trend of public opinion to ward parties and toward the league of nations, but this is -an off-year, governors are state officers who have no hand in deciding national policies, and state issues have so much weight in all four of the states named that no clear decision between parties or between the champions and critics of the league can be found in the out come. In Massachusetts the league Issue lias been-confused by the stand taken by the parties iri their platforms. The democrats declared for ratification of the treaty with amendments, while the republicans favor ratifica tion without amendments but with unequivocal and effective reserva tions. The Massachusetts election, where national issues are subordinated, hinges nevertheless on questions of vital moment to every citizen in the United States. It is the first popular referendum on law enforcement, the first verdict to be rendered di rectly on the methods of strikers who would by coercion subvert to their ends both the public necessi ties and the machinery of govern ment. The police at Boston by their sudden withdrawal from the public service, in plain violation of their duty and oaths as public servants, sought to throw all constituted forms of order in confusion, and put the people at their mercy and thus se cure re-employment on their own terms. They were resisted by Gov ernor Coolidge, who displayed great firmness and courage in meeting a critical situation, and the policemen lost. Now their effort is to defeat the governor for re-election. If they win. the message will be given to the nations that an unlawful strike has the sanction of a great state, and radicalism everywhere will receive immense encouragement. It will weaken the arm of authority throughout the United States, and will put in the hands of the striking coal miners and the steel workers and many others a weapon which will be formidable, and perhaps oeadly. If they lose, the forces of order will be strengthened, and a great step toward industrial peace will have been taken. A republican victory and a democratic defeat In Massachusetts, therefore, have a spe cial significance, entirely aside from their bearing in support of, or oppo sition to, the national administration. New Jersey is more interested in beer than in the league, for Edward 1. Edwards, the democratic candi date, is running on a platform pledg ing him "to oppose, by all lawful means, the ratification or enforce ment of the so-called prohibition amendment," though how he can lawfully oppose enforcement of the law is not easy to explain. Newton A. K. Bugbee, his republican oppon ent, after trying to straddle, has fi rally, declared for enforcement of prohibition, ignoring appeals from Chairman Hays, of the republican national committee, to remember the importance of the election to the na tional campaign of next year. New Jersey has swung to the republicans since 1916, and any reversal will be due to beer rather than the league As goes Baltimore, so goes Mary land, usually, and Baltimore elected a republican mayor for the first time in a generation, and the tendency is republican, but again local issues are in the forefront. Kentucky is the state where na tional issues bulk largest. Senator Stanley and almost all the demo cratic representatives, trying to make the league a party issue, have stumped the state in support of Pres ident Wilson to elect James D. Black, who, however, is busy defending him eelf from attacks on his course as governor. Stanley, whom he sue ceeded when the former was elected senator, won by only 471 over Ed win H. Morrow, who Is again run ning on the republican ticket. In fluenced by the election of Kin Swope to congress from a tradition ally democratic district. Morrow is accused of hitting the league in th country districts, though denyin that he makes it an issue. The Oklahoma congessional elec tion is being fought on straight pro Wilson and pro-league lines in a dis trict which is strongly democratic, While these contests do not prom Sse any clear indication of public opinion on the political questions now occupying the public mind, or as between parties, the general drift o sentiment warrants expectation republican victory. There would be grave danger to the republican party if it should misconstrue this verdict. The people have lost faith in Presi dent Wilson, but they do not, because the league is his work, condemn it. On the contrary, they are pro-leagu though anti-Wilson, chiefly because of the manner in which he did h work. Nor is their disapproval of the manner in which Mr. Wilson ha: done his part in framing the leagu to be taken as approval of the atti tude of those senators who would tear the covenant in pieces. Th people favor such reservations as will cde'tuaicly uard American right and interests, and therefore resent Mr. Wilson's edict that the treaty must be ratified without amendment or reservation, but they oppose such reservations as would in effect be amendments and as would, therefore, reopen the entire covenant and per haps the entire treaty to discussion. They are not disposed to interfere in all the quarrels of the world, but they realize that their highest inter ests will be served by world peace and that peace can best be preserved if America joins the old world in an effort to settle its quarrels without war. Divisions of opinion on this subject cut across party lines, there tore a victory for the republican party will not warrant any republi can senators in assuming that their party approves radical reservations or amendments. Republican success, so far as it is concerned with national affairs, will in fact be a vote of want of confi dence in President Wilson. No pres ident has made greater profession of being actuated by high ideals, and none has fallen so far short of them in practice. No president has more frequently laid claim to the support of all citizens without respect to party, none has received such sup port in larger measure during a great emergency, yet none has been more narrowly partisan in his administra tion. None has been more eloquent in condemnation of one-man rule and of decision of great questions by secret, back-room committees, yet rone has in the same degree concen trated in his own person all execu tive and even legislative power, or taken counsel with confidential egents to the exclusion of his law fully established cabinet of advisers. The only possible justification of his cne-man rule would have been suc cess, but it has been marked by uh preparedness for war, by delays, waste and extravagance in making war, by haste in stopping the war be fore the enemy acknowledged him self beaten, by neglect of pressing domestic duties in order that he per sonally might make peace, by con tempt for the constitutional powers of the senate and by the insult to its J members when Its aid was essential to completion or the treaty, by sur- render to the dictation of the rail- road unions, by a series of make shifts with Mexico when vigorous, decisive action would alone exact re spect for American rights. The people have been extremely patient in giving him opportunity to realize his ideals, they have shown unwonted , faith in his devotion to tnose ideals, but they have seen what he set out to do wrecked on the I rocks of egotism and partisanship, They are disillusioned, for perform- ance has lanen far short or promise, J. ney are seeking a man whose deeds re a pledge of the sincerity of his rotessions and or his ability and purpose to put them in practice. WHERE DO THEY STAND? The Portland dregonian . . . as sumes, that if Mr. Poindexter should be leeted he would take steps at once to with- law this nation from the league of na- ions and inquires whether the people of the state of Washington desire such a course. Of course, that is pure assump tion. Neither is it a question that can be nswered. It would depend upon the conduct of the league. If The Oregonian means that without cause, Bimply by rea son of antipathy to the league project, Mr. Poindexter would seek to bring about lthdrawal should he enter the White House, it can be answered that neither the people of this state nor of the nation ill permit withdrawal until the league as had a trial, and that no president can ring about withdrawal except for good nd sufficient cause. Aberdeen World. Senator Poindexter is classified witn tne small group in congress ho are against the proposed league of nations, with or without reserva- ions. It is the common expectation hat he will vote against ratification. But whether, in the . end he votes gainst the treaty or not, what is to be made of his platform for presi dent? Mr. Poindexter would strip the peace treaty of "extraneous incum-i ranees" (the league covenant, of course) and. he demands the imriie- ate withdrawal of every American soldier in Europe and Asia, except those in diplomatic or other peaceful service. v nat is to ue maue or. ills constant harping on "foreign en tanglements" and "international meddling" and his proposal that the United States be left entirely free to determine for themselves in their own generation" the extent and man ner in w-hich they shall intervene in European affairs? Such things and others like them are the essence of the Poindexter pronouncement. They are in substance and in fact a declar ?.ti0n ?,f W" l?,-6 leagu!' whether If Senator Poindexter shall be nominated for president, we shall be justified in accepting his nomination as his warrant to upset the league by an immediate withdrawal or by re fusing to do any act whatsoever for consummation of full membership. If he shall be elected the verdict of America to the world will be that it reads itself out of the league. Is that where the republicans of! Washington desire the nation to know that they stand ? it is where they will stand if they declare for Poindexter. THE WOOD SHIP ONCE MORE. Revival of discussion about the de- merits of the wood shin nntnralK- no-p-of tne onestirn- Tf ho rrnni ship is as bad as represented, why all this fuss about it? The natural answer is that somebody Is afraid of it and wishes to kill it, or at least to create prejudice against it. The wood ship under discussion is not that of commerce as It was con- ducted before the war, but that of the Emergency Fleet Corporation built for use in war. It was not designed by men who have con- stantly designed wood ships, but bv designers of steel shins who knew riBthing of the vessels or the timber of the Pacific coast. It was built in a hurry, often by workmen who were green at the job. Even at that, it served well its immediate purpose, very few were lost, and one of these was abandoned by an incompetent crew and proved to be sound when it went ashore. The reason why the finished wood ships built by the fleet corporation are a drug on the market is that they are not adapted to lumber-car- rying, for which such, vessels are most used on this coast. When the shipping board gets its sales organ ization in working order, it should be able to dispose of those hulls in which it is possible to place the ma- chinery astern instead of amidships, When this country is able to arrange credits for the nations of the Medi- terranean and uaitic seas, it should be able to sen wood nuns there, for their merchant marine has suffered much in the war, and wood ships are suited for short voyages. When affairs settle down again, and Pacific coast shipyards are able to resume normal business under something like normal conditions, building of wood ships is likely to be resumed, but that does not apply to Ferris or Hough ships with steam engines or with engines amidships, We may expect a return to the time- tried Pacific coast types, enlarged, improved and strengthened and equipped with Diesel motors ships of 3000 to 4500 tons deadweight, These vessels would use small space for machinery and fuel, would re- quire small crews and could run to ports which large ships cannot enter, But the wood ship men are not trying to run steel ships off the sea, as might be supposed by the hulla-1 balloo that is raised about them They are quite modest in their pre tentions and simply assert that they fill a modest place in ocean carrying. A SIGN OF KETCRX1XC SANITY. After being on strike for two months, the building trades of Se-1 attle have returned to work at the employers' terms the same wages as they received when they struck, five and a half days' work a week in stead of five days, and the open shop. The union tries to cover its defeat by saying that the members have agreed lo return to work under "such conditions as the federal me diator imposes," but the master builders say that after the mediator had failed to obtain any concessions from them, the union called off the strike, and that this "ieaves nothing to mediate." This is a good example qf the vicious circle broken and radicalism defeated by a determined stand on the part of the employers and of the exercise of moderation after they have won. The workmen were al ready receiving liberal wages and had won. the five-day week last May, but they demanded still higher wages and continuance of the five-day week throughout the year, though Liie result wuuiu sureiy nave ueen a further rise in prices and aggravated scarcity of houses. The need is to stop the rise in prices bv adding no further to cost of production, and to stop the rise in rents bv working more hours to build more houses. But the radicals want to make bad conditions worse in order to hasten their hoped-for revolution, and they played upon the workmen's desire for more money for less work. All such strikes as that at Seattle are part of the red programme. Defeat of this causeless strike is an example of what employers can ac- complish by a determined stand against unreasonable demands and by themselves being reasonable in victory. It is also an exampie of the revulsion In public sentiment in Se- altle toward strikes. It was only ast February that alien reds under- took to tie up the city and take charge of its government. Thanks to Mayor Hanson, that scheme failed, but Seattle still was regarded a a hotbed of labor radicalism. Success ful resistance to extravagant de- mands, and the changed public sen- timent without which It could not have succeeded, go to show that Se attle Is such no longer. The red tinge of Its labor unionism is fading, and sanity is returning. PERSHING'S MILITARY POLICY. General Pershing's advice to con gress on army re-organization shows! a sharp conflict of opinion to exist between him and the general staff on several important points. He favors a regular army of not more than 300,000 men as against the general staff's plan for more than bOO.OOO. He favors six months' com pulsory training as against the staff's three months. lie would have a small staff, whilo th.it hndv seeks to be enlarged, and he would prevent the staff from invading the prov ince of the line and of the war de partment bureaus. He would organ-1 ize a separate aviation department. such as the staff and the administra tion have persistently opposed. General Pershing's views accord with the desire of the people for a zation. An unaggressive people such as we are needs a standing army only large enough to preserve internal or aer, to repel sudden attack on a small scale and to send small ex peditions abroad. Hi3 plan to en roll all men who served in the war in- reserve units and to train all young men would quickly provide ample force to oppose a great in vasion or to carry on a great war ahrAaH Ti r ftnmhiniTir' militnri' train ing with education and Americaniza- tion, he would make incidental bene fits of the system well worth its cost. His high opinion of the national guard and his giving that organiza tion a place in his scheme shows him to have little of that prejudice against it which generally prevails among West Pointers. The disposition of the general staff Kppmn tn h to form a militnrv triii? chine not unlike that of Germany. There the staff was supreme, ex- tended its oower to the line and dominated the civilian organization of the war department. Such would be the effect of the encroachments to which Pershing calls attention and which he condemns, of a swollen staff from which appointments were made to upper ranks of the line to the neglect of men who had seen sptrlrp in hnttle. and which extended I its activity into the bureaus. The I general staff has already shown its influence by inducing congress to make Us chief a general of the army in rivalry to Pershing. Of equal importance with all the other points on which Pershing and 1 March disagree is the future organi- I zation of air service. Few who have I given any thought to the subject doubt that aircraft will be the de - I cisive arm in future wars, both on land and sea. and will plav a lead- Ing part in commerce. Each use I of aircraft military, haval and com mercial must be co-ordinated with I the others, and this can only be done I by a single department. It has been 1 done by Britain, which won as strong a lead in air war as in sea war and is now organizing round-the-world air routes of travel and commerce. I It must be done in this country if we are to be on a par with other I great nations in war and commerce. I We were so slow in building up our I force that Pershing says we had hdi I a single American-made fighting air- - 1 plane at the front when fighting stopped, and the armistice was no sooner signed than the war depart I ment began to scrap the whole in- dustry, as though it had been needed enly for the war with Germany, and congress has fallen in line by refus ing a beggardly ?15, 000,000 where several impoverished European na tions are spending more than $200, 000,000 a year each. This is to re I peat the rankest folly of unprepared- ness. General Pershing's recommenda tions are in close harmony with the views of the chairmen of the two military committees of congress, Senator Chamberlain and Represen- tative Kahn. They will have such weight as to improve greatly the prospects that this congress will adopt a sound military policy. Hav- ing no opinion of his own on mili- tary matters. Secretary Baker seems to be wobbling between the Persh- ing and March policies, but his views have little weight. Congress should be guided by the opinion of the man who has commanded an army in war, not by that of the chief of staff or by that of the pacifist see- retary of war. A BUDGET SYSTEM AT LAST. Government finance is generally considered dry and uninteresting, yet it takes money out of all our pockets. If another man were to take money out of our pockets, we should be deeply interested and should try to hand him over to the police. When the government takes it, we should be at least sufficiently interested to ask how much, for what purpose, whether it is necessary, whether it is well spent or wasted. Those are the questions to which the house of rep resentatives aims to supply an an swer by passing the budget bill. The bill establishes a budget bu reau independent of all the depart ments, which Is to take the estimates of all departments, check them up. !cut out duplications and put them in the shape of a balanced budget with an estimate of revenue under the di rection of the president. He is to submit-it to congress with his recom mendations as to any additional rev enue that may be needed to meet the estimated expenditure. The rules of the house are to be so changed that the entire budget will be considered by one committee instead oT half a dozen committees as at present, that all appropriations will be reported By- that committee and tnat the senate's lnvasion of the house s exclusive control over the public money will be stopped. A public controller is to be appointed and will assume the functions of the auditors of the sev eral departments. He is to watch expenditures, to see that money is spent for the purpose for which it was appropriated, and that no more Is spent than the house has author ized. This official will be appointed by the president and confirmed by the senate, but can be removed only for cause by concurrent resolution of house and senate. Such a resolution does not require approval by the president, so the controller will be independent of the executive. Adoption of some such system has become imperative since expendi tures of the government have be come so enormous that in the pres ent fiscal year, when the war is ended and the army has been de mobilized they are expected to total $10,000,000,000 with a revenue of only $7,500,000,000 to meet them. Customs may yield $250,000,000, to bacco taxes considerably more, but there win be no more liquor revenue. and the main reliance must be on income, excess prorit and stamp taxes and on such luxuries as ice cream, soft drinks, movies, theaters, ball games and dances. Congress is digging into reserve sources of reve nue, and the taxpayer will watch it more closely. Congress realizes that the "flush times' are passed, and that it must be careful. Just when congress is adopting a budget system, that which has been in vogue in Britain is attacked on the ground that it has broken down as a check on extravagance. The system cf having a government the life of which depended on the majority in parliament has worked out so tha,t any budget submitted by the govern- ment is approved, curing trie war noney was voted blindly and often without being voted money was spent in confidence that anything "for the war" would be approved. . Parlia ment has lost control of expenses, and waste has continued unchecked until public protest caused Llojd George to call a halt. The outcome is that demand has arisen for reform ir that very system which has been held up to Americans as a model. Our method of handling government funds has been bad enough, but other nations are far from perfec tion. The government has been accused of conducting propaganda to bear down the price of food products, for which it could make a very satis factory defense even If it were shown that the price oi iooq pruuuca uiu gone down. The Immensity of the coal strike I seems to have scared most of the little strikes out of business and men iare returning to work. Again it may be stated the strike that does not win in thirty-six hours is a case of struck lout, Since the coal strike came on the stage, the steel strike seems to have retired behind the scenes. Is it pos- sible that a strike fostered by the reds cannot flourish without the full glare of publicity? The joke is on the burglars who stole ten gallons of elder, a lot of "perfumery" and some soda water from a garage. Environment is de- nendable sometimes, DUl not. in ail garages. I If a few sharpshooters from 1 Pershing's army were to be employed las. floorwalkers in Portland stores. there would be one or two shootings land then a sudden cessation of rob- beries. 1 One of the screen women says the 1 ideal man must be well educated I well groomed, tall and dark. She neglects to state another, that Kind I of a fellow must have a rich father. I If the international labor bodies I paid their executive, "big" money and got men of that caliber there would I be less of the troubles fostered by I the "cheap skates. I It is easier for Rockefeller to give I $10,000,000 than for some men to j get on the Roosevelt memorial list- I it is well to suggest to the local labor council that this is mighty Simp weather for fireworks. That list of thirty-eight presiden tial possibilities is incomplete. Where is Oregon? The man who does nothing trf de- I serve punishinent has no fear of in junctions. All these straggling strikes empha size the efficiency of arbitration. Happy Newfoundland! Only one - ' election in six yearsj ECONOMIC UTOPIA IS BUT DREAM Persistent Effort to Attain It Threat ens to Precipitate Panic. PORTLAND, Or.. Nov. 3. (To the j Editor.) To those who think and think in the right direction, who are not prejudiced by what they have read or what they may have heard at mass meetings, Dut have used their own brains in forming a fair and un biased opinion of what is to happen in the near future as a result of the '"new freedom" the outlook Is any thing but promising. The social, political and industrial condition of this country is undergo ing a struggle of confusion such as has never yet heretofore been experi enced, and is having a wonderfully deteriorating effect upon the general prosperity of the people, both rich and poor. I would warn the radicals, the ex tremists, and the agitators to beware lest they tear clown the vital fabrics of the foundations of this new free dom for which our nation has re cently given 50.000 of our brave boys, as well as sacrificed in every other way. The average worklngman has been paid higher waes during the last year than were ever paid before in the annals of this or any other coun try; to offset these wages the prices of foodstuffs and wearing apparel as well as all other necessities have taken a gradual and steady rise until the condition is no better than it was before. There must be an end to this seesawing game and it must come soon and can only come from the ex ecutive branch of the government with the concurrence of public opin ion. If there Is not something done and done soon in a constructive way to alter the unsettled condition the re suit is that a panic will be precipl tated upon us of gigantic and as tounding magnitude. Then let us learn, let capital and labor and the commonweal all harken and discern before it is too late and cease soaring aloft in the empyrean blue on the -wings of the exhausted American eagle while dreaming through the feathery cirrus clouds of a Ltopia where the laborer can live in a land of milk and honey with out toil, or where the manufacturer can reap 400 per cent profit on his investment. M. C. ARMSTRONG. FIVE GALLONS FOR EACH FAMILY Dlxtlllrra to AkIc Government to Din tribute Their Stock. Free. LOUISVILLE. Ky Oct. 29. (To the Editor.) The lifting of the wartime prohibition ban seems so remote that the holders of the 60,000.000 of gallons of fine bourbon and rye whiskies re mainlng in bond are now considering the introduction of a bill In congress under which these whiskies could be freed from tax, the distiller's bonds canceled and the holders be per mitted to remove them into five gal Ion Jugs and give them to the people to be used for medicinal purposes. The idea is to give one jug to each family in the country not already sup plied with liquors for the future and the government would be asked to make the distribution through the postoffice department. Distillers believe that whisky is Influenza's greatest foe, and if con gressmen decide that their constitu ents want the whisky there is little doubt that the bill will be passed. T. M. GILllORK, President National Model License Leasu e. Growth In Police Deportment. PORTLAND, Nov. 3. (To the Edi tor.) I have before me a slip pur porting to give the reasons why our city commissioners are calling a spe cial election to raise more revenue. One of the principal reasons is the loss of the liquor revenue, which no doubt is correct, but were we not told by the prohibitionists that our taxes would be less under prohibition that we would net need the same number of police under Jry regime? Right here I would like to know how many policemen the city has dispensed with since the city and state went dry. I also notice in the statement that receipts In the municipal court In 1918 were something over !0,t00 more than in 1911 the banner year of liquor license receipts which shows that crime is on the 1 -.rease. I would also like Information why our commissioners are spending sev eral thousand dollars on a city plan ning commission when in such dire need of funds. Would it be wise busi ness judgment lor a man to employ an architect to plan a new and greater home when th j one he is living In Is heavily mortgaged? SUBSCRIBE- AND TAXPAYER. Records at the police buteau show that there were 225 policemen for th year 191j, the last year under the wet regime, compared to 268 police men at the present time. The Cham ber of Commerce gives the popula tion of Portland for 1915 at 282,735 and at the present time at 330,000. Arrests for the first nine months o 1915 numbered 14,742; for the firs nine months of 1919 arrests num bered 11,955. Arrests and fines fo traffic violations have greatly In creased In four years due to th greater number of m tor vehicles I use. It Is not the function of th planning commission to design a new city or to remodel the present Port land generally, but to offer Byste m'atic plans for growth and develop ment already in prospect. Zoning e the city into residence. Industrial an business districts and other activitie are in progress. Notice to Vacate. . PORTLAND, Nov. 3. (To the Ed tor.) (1) Please Inform me how many days legal notice nave to be civet vacate house, rent being paid month ly? Can notice be given at any time? (2) II renter is unable to move out in time but willing to pay, would the law allow some extension of time? A. E. S. 1. Notice must be given for a period of 20 days prior to the expiration of a month for which rent has been "paid. 2. No. Combnt Plnnen on Front. NEHALEM, Or.. Nov. 1. (To the Editor.) To settle a dispute kindly let "me know how many American combat planes there were in France during the war. JULIUS W. TOHL. There were no American-made combat planes at the front In the war. There were 860 fighting planes at the front built for the United States in France or Britain of Amer ican material. Another Social Triumph. Birmingham. Ala., Age-Herald. "You say the Bounderbys are social climbers?" "Yes, and Mrs. Bounderby has just negotiated, another round of the social ladder." "How so?" "She has made the transition from a dress maker to a modiste." l'oo Much Auto. Houston I'ost. "What was be pinched for?" "His father let him use the auto for an hour." "Well?" "He tried to ride an hour in 15 minutes." Those Who Come and Go. 'We've got the greatest unde- eloped possibilities of any section the United States," declares I. S. eer of Burns, "we have billions oi i feet of the finest timber that can found in the world and we have ssurances that a sawmill will soon tart which will turn out 300,000 feet day on two eight-hour shifts. When the mill becomes a reality, it is a foregone conclusion that the railroad t Crane will be extended to Burns, for any railroad company would build to get that amount of business. And urns, with a railroad, will be the est cattle shipping point in the est, as it will be where range and ay meet. Then we have the land. lots of it, and with our irrigation possibilities developed! Harney county ill be one of the most prosperous In Oregon. Burns has been slow of evelopment, but things are begin- ing to move forward at last. 'There's just one logical route for he John Day highway," asserts C. C. Clark, former member of the legis lature, "and that is to bring it to he Columbia river highway at Arlington. Look in the '.aw and you will see that it calls for paving the Columbia highway to Arlington. This was done because it was realized hat the John Day highway would. aturally, have to come out at or near Arlington. The other outlet which Is being advocated means building the ohn Day- highway over a mountain 900 feet, then dropping It to 500 feet nd then making it climb again, and hat route would carry It through 22 miles of country where it would erve no one. If the John Day is built where It should be, it will take he easy grade and connect at Arling- on. ' Mr. Clark, It may be inferred. is a resident of Arlington, lie is at the Imperial. There is a paving project on in Klamath Falls." says State Senator George T. Baldwin, "and the town is spending about $250,000 for. the work. I m interested to the extent of about $4000 in some property that I bought once upon a time for $1800. The peo ple like the paving so well that they are already talking of having more done next year.. Klamath Falls Is prosperous and the people are de termined to make improvements. Yes, came to Portland via California. but some day when the road between Klamath Falls and Medford Is finished we can come up here direct. The Medford-Klamath Falls road now has 20 per cent grade, but this will be reduced to 6 per cent, which isn't bad for a machine. Part of thi road Is now under contract and I suppose in year or two it will be a great artery of traffic." 'We intend trying to keep the mall lines open from Bend to Silver Lake and Klamath Falls and Lakevlew this winter, announced W. D. Barnes. county Judge of Deschutes county. yesterday. "The highest point to be dealt With is the lava butte. south of Bend. It will not be very difficult to maintain these mail lines in the winter If each county helps, and that Is the present intention." Judge Barnes says work on the government project from Sisters toward Blue River is progressing. There Is a 14- mile unit under contract and the workmen are now approaching the lava beds. A blast was set off a few days ago which blew out Windy point, which was one of the worst obstacles on this route from Bend to Eugene via the McKenzie pass. Southern Idaho.- has become a lender instead of a. borrower." says W. L. Thompson, who returned yes terday from a tour of Idaho and eastern Washington with Elliott Cor- bett. "Every section we visited re ports unprecedented. - prosperity. In the Payette section, where a prune is raised that Is shipped . green, the growers are receiving $110 a ton. There have been big crops and big prices In the fruit-growing districts. Apples around Spokane, however, have been hit by the frost and it Is estimated that about 20 per cent of the crop was lost." W. E. Hampton, who has been coming to Portland . about twice a year for the past 20 years, has ar rived at the Multnomah. He was de voting considerable attention to the government affairs during the war, in aiding in building Camp Kearney, Rockwell aviation field. Fort McAr- thur and Ream aviation field. He started the Pacific Tank & Pipe com pany In Kenton, and now has plants in Tacoma and Seattle. A. L. Long, anager of the Tacoma plant. Is with Mr. Hampton. County Judge J. T. Adklsson of Wasco county, declared yesterday that what the highway commission should do Is to build the Columbia highway on the upper bench beyond The Dalles, where Mr. Moody has had a survey made. The Judge says that the Columbia highway beyond Seu ferts "doesn't do Wasco county any good," but if the Moody suggestion were adopted the county could tie in three roads and at the same time give the finest scenery, the same being a bird's eye view of Celilo falls. I Looking for an engine which will pull five or six plows, W. H. Gore, banker of Medford. arrived in Port land yesterday. Mr. Gore says he once had an engine which pulled 10 plows' and he could plow 30 acres a day with the outfit, but the engine was too heavy for" the soil in wet weather. With a lighter engine and five or six plows he figures he can plow about 18 acres a day and one man can do it all. Astoria was well represented at the Benson yesterday. W. P. O'Brien, manager of the Astoria Box company, came up to serve on the federal Jury and was excused for a month; Frank Creasey, a hardware dealer, who sup plied the plumbing for the Benson, and Mr. and Mrs. F. Barker, were on the register. Mr. Barker is manager of the Columbia River Packers' as sociation. 'Tt was 13 years ago next Christ mas eve that we blew into this city." observed J. W. Pearson, who with Mrs. Pearson is registered at the Multnomah. "Some years ago we went to New York and this is the first time I have seen Portland since." ilr. Pearson Is vice-president of Browner & Woggoman, a large ad vertising concern. George Washington Allen, who has been speaker of the "third house" ot the Washington legislature, is at the Benson. Mr. Allen is a bond dealer. W. W. Conner, who was a speaker of the Washington legislature, lower house, is also at the Benson. The town of La Conner, Wash., was named after his father. M. O. Bennett, highway engineer for the district east of the Cascade mountains, arrived at the Imperial yesterday to attend a meeting of county officials of his district who are in the city to consider road mat ters ' to be laid before the highway commission at the meeting today. Carl J. Holm of the lighthouse tender Manzanita. Is registered at the Hotel Oregon. The Manzanita has the job of seeing that the mortals housed on Tillamook Rock are sufficiently provided -with food for themselves and with oil tor their lamp. Clarence B. Johnson, a stockman from Pendleton, is replstered at the Perkins, having escorted a shipment to the local yards. ARBITRATION COURTS PROPOSED Federal Tribunalx, With Appeal Body, SuggFMtrd for Labor Diputen. Uiaputes. PORTLAND. Nov. 3. (To the Edi tor.) The time has arrived for ali 100 per cent Americans to volunteer for service in a new war of social unrest and abnormal thoughts and conditions. We call our beloved coun try the United States of America, let us prove to the satisfaction of the world that the people are united as well as the states. We all know that a large percentage of our population is foreign born, 11,000.000 to be exact, and a large percentage of them can not speak English; nevertheless. I believe they desire to be Americans in every true sense of the word. Show them how, teach them and they will follow. Deserters, many of them in fluenced by alien radical leaders, we shall find and when discovered, deal with them accordingly. I further be lieve that the men and women of our wonderful country are Just as pa triotic today as they were when con gress declared war and are just as concerned about its peace and happi ness, through a solution of the great industrial problems now facing us. During the past few days I have presented a proposition to several workers, all members of labor or ganizations, to satisfy myself as to their desire to welcome and accept a Dossible solution of the industrial problem confronting tho nation to day. The union men I talked to were of one accord in their opinion that my proposition was feasible and ex pressed the hope for its early adop tion or something 'similar. I suggest the establishment of one or more federal arbitration courts at the capital of each state, composed of six men, appointed for life, two rep resenting labor, two represenains capital and two representing the pub lic. Whenever- differences arise be tween employers and employes which cannot be adjusted between them selves, their differences are then pre sented by representation oi eacu siue to the federal arbitration court. All controversies between employ ers and employes shall be settled by the federal courts of arbitration, and at no time can a strike be called, thus doing away with strikes and picket ing. , A decision rendered by this court is not final, and its findings can be ap pealed to a United States supreme ar bitration court of six or 12 men sit ting in Washington. The decision of this court is f i; al and backed by the United States government after the arbitraticn act is made a law. A suf ficient number of stale and supreme courts should be maintained so that the business coming up can be man aged expeditiously, the expense of maintaining these courts to be paid in fees by the employers and em- PlyeS- JAMES A. BECKETT. IMtKST OIK TO EVIL. SOMPVTS Occult Comniunlcntlon From Demon! Who Imperitonate Dead. MAPLETOX. Iowa, Oct. 28. (To the Wimr 1 r note in "The Gregorian" th.it vour corresD-ndent, Mr. v'ord. scouts the idea of supernatural visi tations, giving as his reason certain subconsciousness working out in vi- .inn mid dreams. Perhaps your letter can explain Sir Conan Doyle's spirit nhotoirranh nublished in tne neraiu- Examiner, Chicago, ana eistwnejr. whii not agreeing that this-com- mi.n ii-ai ion is from heaven, we must concede according to logic that it is at least supernatural. .Moreover, i ,, ,n j are lieine consulted toda all over -he land wten in need .if iininnt information. Alas! No ex planation has been given which ac counts for all this post-mortem plic ti nni mion. r.rmit me to cite the real solution bv invoking the divine oracle, tne is'ible. We read in 2 Pet. 2:4 how the fallen angels were cast down to "hell" at the flood. However, this word is misrendered from the (Irerk root "tartarus" and refers to earth's atmosphere instead of some infi-rno. There, therefore, is where these min ions work their magic and person ate the dead. Hence, instead of Conan Doyle talking with his son. he is communicating with one of these fallen spirits who personate him. Suffice to say in conclusion, that much of the lawlessness, race riots, labor troubles, etc.. is attributed to this occult influence now being let loose because of a Godless condition. Evidently . the purpose of these de mons is to wreck our social order. JOSEPH UUEIO. LMOXS NEUD UAWS RKGILATIOX Conrrnct Olmervance and Allen Mem bership Should lie. Controlled, PASCO, Wash., Nov. 1. (To the Kditor.l Today set by the soft coal miners for a strike and general tie-up ot the Industries of the nation marks an epoch in unionism. It will either fail pitifully and discredit the effort for organization of labor necessary to compete with th combinations 01 capital or succeed and arrogantiy flaunt the idea or class rule. We have laws and commissions con trolling commerce and capital. Why not a commission controlling labor unions? Compel them to respect con tracts and forbid them to accept as members any alien who cannot speak ana read the English language. Capitalists are forbidden to import Ignorant foreign labor, so why should labor unions fill their ranks with the dregs of Europe or Asia? The American laborers are as patriotic as any class of citizens. W. P. GRAY. I ntrhnrnrd Trees Invite- Hold-ups. PORTLAND. Nov. 2. (To the Edi tor.) After the hold-up of my wife at East Sixteenth and Thompson streets last evening, the disgraceful condition of the shade trees in that Irvington district should attract the attention of our city authorities. The trees overhang the sidewalks so a pedestrian cannot hold up an umbrella. The denseness of those streets make an ideal condition foi hold-up men. , In all well-regulated citss trees are trimmed up to a uniform height of 15 feet from the pavement, and cleared of limbs and leaves by the owners or occupants of the abutting premises. In all sections of this city you can find the same conditions above mentioned. And In this city we need more lights, and more policii protection. These matters are essen tial to a progressive city. AUGUST DIPPEL. 595 East Broadway. sue ot IJrlve Wheels. SHERWOOD, Or., Nov. 3. (To the Editor.) Can more pulling power be got out of small drive wheeds than from large ones on a steam locomo tive, speed to make no difference? A READER. Of two engines of equal weight and steam and cylinder capacity, the one having smaller drive wheels will have the greater pulling power. As a necessary corollary It will have the lesser speed. Head of Teachers Federation. CORVALLIS, Or., Nov. 2. (To the Editor.) I would like to have the address of Charles B. Stillman, presi dent of the. American Federation of Teachers, who spoke in Portland last Saturday. j. 0. Mclaughlin. The address Wilmette, 111. is 1620 Lake avenue. More Truth Than Poetry. By Junta J. Montague. MOST IXKIXI1KST STFIKK OK ALL It gave us a jolt when the milkmen Went out in a blustering bunch. Thus leaving us shy of our lacteal supply For breakfast and dinner and lunch. When the barbers no father would function And our hair and our whiskers grew long. We fancied we'd struck the rock bottom of rucK But ah! wo were terribly wrong! The strike of the grocery clerks left us Both troubled and hungry and sad. When the butchers went out we thought without doubt. That we soon would be quite to the bad. When the laundrymen quit with the grievance That they long had been misunder stood. As good laundrymen ought, why we all of us thought . That it couldn't be worse, BUT IT COULD! For now the boy scouts use the golf nnKs When they take their matitunal hike. The sharps cry of "Fore" thrills the stroller no more. For the caddies are out on a strike! No brassies tear holes in the bunkers. No putters rip rent in the green. From sand trap to tee there is nothing to see But an emptv and desolate scene. A si-ene without niblicks or mashies t-ans impact of wallop and swat. And devoid of the words that ill tempered old birds Employed when they foozled a shot. We writhe 'neath the feet of the to stand up to the kid. And deny him more pelf, while we caddied ourself. For it wouldn't be golf if we did! Making It Good. Rev. Mr. Maynard is the genuine sky pilot. ' Jealousy. first e can understand whv a tug- boat should ram the N C 4. Tugs, after all, are only human. Take Your Choice. Gompers blames the lawyers for the failure of the labor conference and the lawyers blarre Gompers. and the chances are that both are right. (Copyright, 1H19, by the bell Syndicate; lnc ) Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Aeo. From The Oregonian of Nnvprnh-r 4 1904 Cleveland. O. Governor McKinley closed the campaign in this city to night, and spoke with all his well known vigor and eloquence. San Francisco Stanford university was defeated yesterday in a hard played game of football by the Re liance club, with a score of 14 to 6. St. Petersburg At Livadia yester day Princess Alex was anointed in accordance with the ritual of the orthodox Greek church, receiving the name of Alexandria Feodorovina, with the title of grand duchess and imperial highness. New Tork Andrew Carnegie ar rived today on the American line steamer Paris. He predicted the death of the czar would re-open the eastern question and plunge Europe into war. Fifty Tears Ago. From Tho Orrzonfan of Novemher -1 1 T Oiympia, W. T. Both houses of the legislature met in joint session yes terday and elected territorial officers. A new schedule of telegraph rates makes the San Francisco rate on 10 words $2, and" an additional charge of 75 cents for each five additional words. This compares with the pre vius rate of $3 and $1.25 respect ively. The bark Falkenburg went to East Portland yesterday to unload rail road iron. Postal Agent Underwood has rec ommended that the mail route from Portland via Moialla. and Silverton to Aumsville, in Marion county, shall be changed to terminate at S.-tlem, Aumsville to be supplied by the route to Brownsville. The earth is crossed by a million trails That lead in a million ways. From the highest heights to the low est vales, Man-made through the endless days; The paths criss-cross and the lines are plain Where the tracks of the millions be. But unnumbered steps, made oft in pain. Are there that we do not eee. They're indentures deep In the soil of home Where the mothers daily tread. The trackless steps in life's rich loam That start at the cradle-bed And lead through a maze of dally tasks That no one can ever know,' For she makes the trails and never asks That we note where she must go. 'Tis easy to follow the work of man There's a mark for each step they take A definite form to their every plan. Like trails in the snow we make; But the mother's steps leave never a track Though she makes them oft in pain; But you'll see them there when she can't come back For then they are deep and plain! THAT GOOD SHIP HOPE. Upon the good ship Hope you Toward the "land of heart's light" nd mav those watching bid sail de- you "hail;" And may you reach your port aright. And may no storms belay your way Nor roc' s obstruct your good ship's flight; For in that land 'tis always May; Sweet land of promise "heart's delight." M. A. TOTHERS. Age l.lmlt on 4'hlld Employment. PORTLAND. Nov. 3. (To the Edi tor.) A Portland department store has In its employ children under 15 years of age. Will you be so kind as to reprint the passage or our Oregon law which make this a legitimate practice? HELEN H. WOOD. Children not under the age of 14 years may be employed In rnercJi?itlle ee:tblis!;metits upon isu;M-.c-i of an age and schcolirig certificate. The law rets forth regulations ai:.I I3 ton voluminous for publication la this column. Trackless Steps. ny Grace K. Hall.
