10 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, FRIDAY,. NOVEMBER 7, 1919. - ittorningi rmtinn .ESTABLISHED BY HK.XRY I- fI TTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co. 135 Sixth Street, Portland. Oreuou. C. A. MORDE.N, IS. B. PIPER. ,T Manner. Editor. The Orego uian is a member of the Asso " dated Pres. The Associated preps Is ex 1 ciu.-sively entitled to ilie use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or ; riot otherwise credited in this paper and - also the local news published herein. All ; rights of republication of special, dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Ratal Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, "one year fS.tv rally, Sunday included, six months.... 4.2a . r-aily, rl'inday included, three months.. 2.20 ' Iaiiy. bunday included, one month 5 Dally, without Sunday, one year 6.0U Illy, without Sunday, six months.... 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THK ntiCRES 1 THE MINERS' CASE. Since C. F. Keeney of West Vir ginia has submitted to President Wilson figures derived from a report of the United States bureau of labor statistics in defense of the coal miners' strike, it is appropriate again to quote the same authority on the same subject. The bureau Ijas sent out a report containing tables of . earnings and hours of labor for all classes of workers at coal mines, anthracite and bituminous separate ly, based on actual records for 16,209 men in 22 anthracite mines of Pennsylvania and 40,511 men in 201 bituminous mines in eighteen of the most important coal-producing states. They give averages for a half-month payroll period, and should fairly reflect conditions throughout the industry. Only the figures relating to bituminous coal mines will be discussed, as those mines only are involved in the strike. During the half-month the aver age hours of work per week-day for all classes of inside workmen were 6.3 and earnings ranged from $34.54 for trapper boys for the half-month, to $98.45 for machine miners. Among men, the lowest wages were $60.17 for laborers, and the average for all classes, men and boys alike, was $76.36. For outside men average hours per weekday were 5.5 and earnings ranged from $53.22 for la borers to $72.77 for engineers, the average for the half-month being $74.43. The increase in wages is shown- by index numbers based on the ton nage rates paid for hand mining in the Hocking valley district of Ohio, which are used as a basis for the various districts in agreements be tween operators and miners. The rate paid in 1902 is represented by ; the number 100. An increase of 125 had been made in 1913 and to 16S.5 in 1918, the latter rate still prevail ing. Since 1913 there has been an increase of 34.8 per cent. Much has been said about loss-of , time, the miners saying that they are idle so large a portion of the time, owing to the failure of the mines to operate, that their day's wage is no true indication of their earnings, and .' that a high wage is necessary in or der to compensate for the many days ; of enforced idleness. The operators : retort that miners make a practice of laying off two or three days a week when the mines are in operation, and that therefore a large part of the lost time is of their own choice. The facts on this subject for the half month are shown in tables for seven teen states as to hand miners, four teen as to machine miners and six teen states as to loaders. This table shows that for hand miners the mines were in operation from 47.7 per cent of the full time in Utah to 102.3 per cent in Alabama, .tnd indicates that the percentage of possible time that they-were in op oration exceeded 7 5, although no ieneral average is given. It also - Khows that the miners actually work "Trom 62.8 per cent of the hours that - the mine is in operation in Kentucky o 124.7 per cent in Utah, most of he percentages being from 70 to 80. Usually the more nearly a mine operated full time, the lower is the percentage of hours the men work, end vice versa. Thus Alabama was in operation 102.3 or more than full time and the miners worked only 6 7.7 per cent of that time, while 1 tah, operating only 47.7 per cent of full time, shows miners working 124".7, making overtime. For machine miners hours of operation ranged from 49.5 per cent i i Utah to 94.2 per cent in Virginia vnue miners worKea irora 74.4 per :cent of this time in Virginia to 142.8 per cent in Utah. In general the men worKea somewhat over 80 per cent of the time that they could have worked. It has been said that the miners get only about 180 days' work in the year. Taking 300 days as a full ears' work, it appears that they have opportunity to work about 225 days, but actually work only about 75 to SO per cent of that number of (Jays. Twenty-five per cent off 225 would bring them down to 169 days. They can charge about 75 days of l-ist time to lack of orders, lack of tars and freight congestion. They lose the other 56 days of their own choice. 'I he report shows that, as to wages, miners' earnings have not increased during the war in the same propor tion as the earnings of other trades, nor, according to Mr. Keeney, in the same proportion as the price of coal ha risen. On the basis of equity they have a good case for asking lor revision of their contract with the operators. But when outside laborers earn at the rate of $106.44 a month and inside laborers at the rate of $120.34 a month, they are not -uffering such .privations as' wouid justify them in tearing up their co.i- "ract and saying to the operators: "These are our terms; accept them or we will strike and let the Ameri can people freeze." That is in sub r stance what they have said and what - they are trying to--do. If they had , brought the subject before the people ' ' . he right spirit, had nia.de moder ate requests, and had acknowledged ' the binding Torce of their present agreement, they could have enlisted public sympathy on their side. They have spoiled their case by giving heed to the counsels of revolutionists. MORE IMPATIENCE. The state of Oregon is graced by the presence of an eminent purty of women, leaders in the suffrage move ment, to tell the governor of Oregon what to do about ratification of the constitutional amendment and the women of Oregon how to organize as voters to make their influence politically effective. It is a pleasure always to welcome and entertain fiistinguished visitors, and to hear what they have to say. Other such evangelists of women's causes have come and gone, and we are bound to add that rhe course of political and social life goes on in city and state much as heretofore. It would almost seem that the women of Oregon, who have been foremost in social welfare and other good movements, have a clear con ception of effective organization and methods, for they are. able to point with satisfaction to a long record of accomplishment, shown in part by .'i code of laws designed to help and protect women and children and generally conceded to have worked well. We rather think that the representatives of other states may learn something worth while in Ore gon, both as to what has been done and as to how to do it. Doubtless they are here with that laudable object in view. But, so far as instruction to the state government as to what it should do about ratification of the suffrage amendment is concerned, the mission of Mrs. Catt and her party is love's labor lost. The amendment will be duly ratified, of course. The governor of Oregon would doubtless call a special se.s.sion for that purpose if he thought or were to be convinced that the people of Oregon want it; and of the people of Oregon one-half are women. It floes not particularly help the, effort for a special session and early rati fication for Mrs. Catt or anybody to speak as she did the other 'night on the subject. She is reported to have said: When the American delegation nwu to Spain next sprinK to the international meeting of women voters, the first since the war. we shall tell them, shall we, that the state of Oregon has elected such ir responsible legislators that they can't be trusted We shall tell them, shail we. that it costs too ' much to ratify the amendment we have worked for 50 yearn to have adopted; we shall tell them this, and that the women of this state weren't anxious to give other women the vote? We shall tell this to the women, of Ger many and Austria? I would like to ap point the governor of Oregon my proxy at that convention. It is not to be supposed that the American . delegation to Spain, or anywhere, will wish to misrepresent the governor or the women of Ore gon. They will not for that reason adopt either the attitude or the lan guage of the critic of Oregon and its government and voters. No question of trustworthiness of the legislature is involved in Gov ernor Olcott's refusal to invoke a special session. The amendment will be ratified when the legislature next meets, and there is neither legal nor moral compulsion upon Oregon to call it together upon the demand of some one from some other state. It is the business of Oregon and of Ore gon alone. The gift of a vote to women elsewhere does not rest with the women of Oregon, but on the state itself in one-forty-eighth part; and it is not, becoming in the bene ficiaries of the gift to define the time and terms in which the giver shall give it. COMMON SENSE FROM THE FARMERS While the workmen of the cities constantly strike for more wages and less work, the workmen-capitalists of the farms call for an end to strikes and declare against the forty- four-hour week. While the workmen of the cities call for lower prices in the same breath as they demand more wages for less work, the farm ers denounce them as "allies of the profiteers in keeping up the high cost of living,'.' and they say: We know that the forty-four-hour week cannot feed the world, and we proclaim that it cannot clothe it. Those who advocate the short day in industry should not expect the farmer to work "six hours before dinner and six hours alter," with b fore-breakfast and after, supper hours thrown in. That is an extract from the reso lutions adopted by the Farmers' Na tional Congress at Hagerstown, Md which also pledged help to "honest organized labor," opposed strikes. advocated a federal board of arbi tration to give both capital and labor a square deal, but condemned the "treason of false leaders who. for pay and price would scuttle the ship of state and rear the red flag of bol shevism over t,he ranks of an out raged and fallen republic." A similar stand was taken by the International Farm Congress at a convention at Kansas City of a thou sana delegates representing more than twelve states. It justly pointed with pride to the farmers' fine rec crd of war production and pledged them to "continue to produce in such measure as may be required to meet a.ny future emergency." It re newed its pledge of friendship and good will to labor, but viewed "with apprehension and disfavor the tur bulent conditions existing, particu larly in the ranks of organized la- Lor," and dc-plored "the calling- of strikes in rimes like these for any reason other than a grave emer gency." The convention opposed unionization of policemen and others in public service; condemned the growing tendency toward idleness; protested against the wide margin between the price received by the producer and that paid by the con sumer; condemned profiteering, par ticularly in the necessities of life, end opposed further government op eration of railroads. The farmers are the great sta Vilizing force of the nation. They are so close to the primary facts of production that they cannot be de ceived into the belief that they can get more by doing less work. They know that each man can get more only by producing more and that un less each man on the average pro duces his share, all will go short or some will go hungry and prices will be high in proportion to deficient production. Often having to work eight hours before noon and eight hours after noon, the farmer has sympathy with labor, but none with the s;x-hours-a-day, five-days-a-week kind of labor. Being no mere peasant drudge, bound by necessity to a patch of land like the Russian peasant under the czar, but in most cases having a considerable invest ment in land, livestock . and imple ments, he realizes that capital as well as labor must-have its reward, and he dots not favor nationalization of railroads and mines. Having ac quired all that he has under the1 American constitution, he has no at traction toward the soviet form of government which has knocked out the brains of Russia, wrecked its railroads and industries, reduced its workmen to starvation and rules by wholesale murder. Although socialism has gained a stronger hold in Italy than in Amer ica, Italian workmen realize that the one way out of their country's pres ent distress is more work to increase production, and an engineer says that they give two hours a day as a free gift to the state. It is left to American workmen to attempt to in crease wealth by producing less, and they derive their theory from Russia, of all countries on earth, as though Russia could teach America "any thing except what to shun. When the present bolshevist madness is past, those who have been seized by it will be the first to confess that they lost their sanity. - THE TREATY BLOCKS LEGISLATION. Among the many matters of legis lation for which the people look to congress in order to restore normal conditions, the railroad bill is in most imperative demand. Having been introduced in the senate, it must be passed first by that body. but it cannot be taken up till the treaty is out of the way. The presi dent has virtually placed a time lim it on action by announcing that in any event he will return the roads to their owners on January 1. Senator Cummins in reporting his bill ex pressed a desire that it be taken up as soon as the treaty was ratified and over-sanguinely suggested that it could be passed after two weeks' de bate. It includes so many subjects of intense controversy that two months would be a moderate esti mate. That would bring us to Jan uary 1, with the bill waiting action by the house and approval by the presi dent. He read to the senate a letter from Director General Hines calling at tention to the bad effects of the pres ent state of uncertainty. The gov ernment is not warranted in making badly needed improvements, and the railroad companies cannot make plans and provide funds for that purpose until the roads are in their possession or until they know under what law they must operate. Regardless of this imperative duty. the senate gabbles on about the treaty and actually talks of taking a recess early in November. It has forfeited its vacation by wasting time. The impossibility of getting action by the senate has led the house to go at low speed with the great mass of reconstruction legisla tion for which the people looked to it. Bills for irrigation, land reclama tion, soldier settlement, immigra tion, shipping, army reorganization, and foreign trade hang fire, and the only constructive measure of first importance that has passed the house is the budget bill. The results of the extra session are disappointing. and the fault rests with the senate. IXHIENZA STATISTICS. The world is only now beginning to learn the full extent of the influ enza epidemic which swept the coun try a year ago. Early estimates that it might rival the world war as a destructive force appear to be borne out by more complete statistics, and these clearly point to the importance of preventive measures at the first signs of its return. It is now known that . the great mortality was among wage-earners, among persons in young adulthood and among the white race. The tota' number of deaths in the world, due to influenza and pneumonia alone, was probably 15,000,000, or about 1 per cent of the entire population. Thirty-one life insurance companies disbursed more than $120,000,000 for influenza deaths occurring be tween October, 1918, and the end of March, 1919. Including ' disburse ments of the war risk insurance bu-. reau, it is probable that the total loss to American life insurance was not less than $250,000,000. The loss to insurance, however, since it will be made good in due time, was not the most serious ma terial phase. It is impossible to es timate the vast economic loss to the country by the death of so many workers, or indirectly by the orphan ing so many children, many of whom, it is to be feared, will be re tarded in their education and devel opment. Nor do the figures as to influenza and pneumonia tell the whole story. There was, as an im mediate consequence of the epidemic, an increase of 16 per cent in the mortality rate from tuberculosis, of S00 per cent in complications inci dental to childbirth and of 21 per cent in fatal heart diseases. - Its effects will continue to be felt in reduction of the number of ef fective workers in agriculture and other industry, in necessity for car ing for the orphans, and in the smaller number of future births, to an extent which it is also impossible to forecast. There is a silver lining to the cloud. The American Public Health association concludes from a recent examination of health data thai there is not at present any focus of infection in the United States, and that with ordinary care we shall es cape a recurrence of the malady. "Ordinary care" means observance of the common-sense rules of health. These include study of proper nour ishment, especially of the young; avoidance of excesses of eating and drinking; suitable exercise and regu lar habits. Those who observe these simple rules will be best fortified against the onslaught of the disease if, unhappily, it should reappear. FINISHING ARMY REFORMERS. Secretary of War Baker's replies to the several counts in the indict ment of Senator Chamberlain are in fact an admission that he and tha general staff have deliberately perse cuted and ostracized any officer who has ventured to express opinions at variance with" their own, to advo cate a policy with which they did not agree or to criticize any laws or practices which they wished to main tain. Having no mind of his own on military affairs how he could he, being a confirmed pacifist who would scrap the army if he could Mr. Baker takes his opinions from the general staff. The staff is the champion of military bourbonism Not content with its proper function of studying problems of strategy and organization, tactics and armament, it strives to control the line of the army, and it crushes all who op pose it. After General Squiers had failed as organizer of the air service. Colo nel Kenly, with the temporary rank of major-general, brilliantly Suc ceeded, but lie incurred the displeas- ure of the staff by proposing to or ganize the air service as a distinct arm, equal in rank with the cavalry, infantry and artillery. This plan would have given aviation officers an qual claim to the limited num ber of appointments of high rank with the other branches of the army, and would have delayed promotion of officers in the other arms. Thus he fell foul of the staff, where the old guard is strongly entrenched. He was punished- by demotion to his permanent rank of colonel, his plans were rejected, aircraft production was suddenly stopped with disastrous effect to the industry and congress was induced to cut appropriations to the bone. Colonel Kenly has been driven to resign at an age when the army should have had the benefit of bi proved ability and valuable ex perience for at least ten more years. Colonel Ansell had the audacity to begin a campaign for reform of the court-martial system, which is cruel and a travesty on justice, the courts being mere tools of commanding officers. General Crowder and the whole military machine rose up to crush him. He was deprived of his temporary rank of brigadier-generai and driven from the judge-advocate-general's office. He has since been a thorn in the side of the men who would keep Prussianism" alive in America after it has been repudiated in Prussia, men who cling to a mili tary code derived from the Romans which was long ago abandoned by the British. Like treatment was meted out to Adjutant-General McCain when he did not wish to become subject to the general staff. In his attempt to disprove that he had punished Gen eral McCain, Mr. Baker only made a bad matter worse. He had offered the general command of a division in the field, but did not learn till afterward that McCain "had never had anything but office experience." In other words, he was ready to cover his subservience to the staff by risking the lives of soldiers and the success of military operations under an inexperienced commander. The same diligence has been prac ticed in covering failures as in pun ishing men who dared to think and to express their thoughts. Unreadi ness of cantonments was proved, but vociferously denied, and now comes proof of wholesale corruption and waste. The story of aircraft is one continuous narrative of profuse promise and uttef failure to perform, the climax coming in General Per shing's statement that not one American-built fighting plane was at the front when hostilities ceased. The truth about the Brest mudhole was suppressed by delay of the homeward voyage of any soldier who complained. When it finally was published, conditions were remedied in haste and the improved camp was officially praised in terms implying plainly that they had never been otherwise, and that all who talked of the former state of affairs were scandalmongers. The horrors of the prisoners' camp in France could not be denied, but none of the respon sible officers has been brought to justice except "Hardboiled Smith," who is the "goat" for his superiors. All of these things go to show that the war department and the army need a thorough overhauling. Tha incompetents and worse among civi lians need to be cleared out, the ring at the general staff needs to be broken, and the army and the de partment need to be reorganized in the light of the experience gained In the war. There Is no hope of much change for the better under the pres ent administration, for any new leg islation will be blocked in execution by the gang in control. The best that congress can do Is to pass laws changing the system in time for the next administration to put them in effect. This means a stiff fight with the military bourbons, but the ex soldiers should be able to arouse public opinion to the point where it will be irresistible. Who says that old England is not progressive? It is only a few years since the Pankhursts were mobbing ministers and going on hunger strikes. Now a peeress Is running for parliament with the whole na tion hanging on her words. Senator New gave all the care and attention due an illegitimate son, but morals and firmness of character are born in a son, and the sinister off-, spring is handicapped by his inher itance. Really, it pays to go straight. Woman is not fitted to "enjoy" politics like man. Man just snorts at things that rankle, and right away forgets them. Woman is different, in neither forgetting nor ever for giving. The effect of the wet majorities in some few states may be that the fed eral authorities will enforce pro hibition without aid from the state, but that does not mean that thos states will be wet. Cotton growers contemplate hold ing out two million bales to force prices upward. If northern wool growers did that, all the powers of an administration would be invoked. Banks is a town in Washington county in the center of a prosperous dairy and lumber field, and has de cided to Incorporate. The . name itself sounds good for a start- Increased earnings of a Chicago hotel under prohibition Indicate that the less people drink the more they eat and the more liberally they pay for food. The striking alien is playing irW hard luck no beer, no wine, no work. No wonder he wants to go "home," and may joy go with him. Carlton Shorthorns swept all the championships at Spokane. Nothing remarkable. Oregon blood stock of all kinds can do that anywhere. The treaty has run against an other filibuster by La Follette.. The senator tries to stop the advance with a barrage of tallff. Most all auto thieves are called "youthful." They should overcome the disadvantage by growing old gracefully in jail. Results of the elections are ideal All parties except the bolshevista found something to sattsfy them. Seems to have been a election, as everybody is But wait a year. pleasant smiling! The Red Cross never lagged, never does and never will. Suppose all of us watch it; 4 , BY-PRODUCTS OF TH PRESS. Army Sleuths Discover Mark Twain la Popular In Russia. Army sleuths at Gary Ind., raided a "Russian den." They discovered a well-thumbed volume printed In Rus sian. Evidently It was popular. Prob ably It contained the ordained pro cedure in dynamitings. To headquarters at full speed and an Interpreter summoned. "Read It to ue what does it say?" The Interpreter opened 4t at ran dom and began to run over the sen tences translating in fragments: "Then you put the blood on dig a grave and bury It near midnight- burn up the rest" We've got 'em now," exclaimed one. "That s the master book. Read some more." "That helps the blood" went on the interpreter. "Pretty soon off she comes. "That means an explosion," the sleuths chorused. Begin at the beginning." demand ed one. "What's the book called? The interpreter turned to the title page and read: The Adventures of Tom. Sawyer, by Mark Twain." He had been reading from Huckle berry Finn's recipe for warts. Plans to preserve the history of every secies of tree known through out the world are announced by Pro fessor Charles S. Sargent, head of the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard uni versity, which has established the most complete collection of trees and shrubs In America, the finest library In Its special field and a herbarium of 200,000 specimens. Professor Sargent, who has accom panied explorations thuoughout North America and the far east, declares that if the alumni provide the funds necessary to carry on the work the arboretum will purchase more land, make new explorations and bring into the parks of America many more new trees and rare shrubs. The arboretum was founded in 1874, and is considered among- specialists to be the most important institution of its kind In the world. Major George Haven Putnam, com mander of the Loyal Legion in New York, ones his military title to serv ice with the 176th New York Volun teers, and he spent a winter In Libby prison. There, he relates, he and his f.ellows played chess for the first half of the winter with bits of fire wood for men. In the second half of the winter they gave up the game, because, from Insufficient nourish ment, they fainted over the board after a period of intense concentra tion. Mrs. Putnam, by the way. is a grad uate of Bryn Mawr in the class of 1S89. She is the brilliant dean of Barnard college, and has made a name for herself in economic re search and In political education as well as in the field of belles lettres. Sir Rablndranath Tagore, who had asked to be relieved of his knight hood as a protest against the severity of the Indian government in dealing with recent dlsturances in Punjab, is a great believer in the back-to-the- land movement in regard to his own countrymen, says Pearson's Weekly. A little while back, in addressing a meeting of students in Bombay, he said: "Will every member of the audi ence who was raised on a farm please hold up his right hand?" Most of the students raised their hands. " "How many of you still live on your parents' farms during the vaca tions?" was the next question. About half the members did. "And how many of you intend go ing back to your farms for good when you have completed your college course?" This time not a hand went up. "The farms are in great luck!" rasped Sir Rablndranath, and walked from the platform in high, dudgeon. - A "regular" from a western army camp came home the other day -on an extended furlough, says the New York Evening Post. He was enter tained extensively by his former companions and frieifds. One evening he told the boys about the Indian's great love for whisky. "Why. the way them Indians love whisky. . beats anything you ever saw, he remaritca. unetj mci Cheyenne on his pony. "Give me a drink of whisky; I'll give you my bridle for it,' he says. 'No,' says 1. Then he offered his bridle and saddle and pony all in a bunch for one drink." "Well, wouldn't you give it to him for all that?" asked one of the boys. "Well, not much!" said the soldier. emphatically. "1 only had one drink left." In the Ambrosian library at Milan there is a thirteenth century Mi en titled "Fifty Courtesies of tha Table," by one Fra Bonvesin. Here are a few of the 50: "Let the hands be clean, and, above all, do not at table scratch your bc--d. nor. Indeed, any portion of your body." "Do not lick your fingers, which is very ugly and Ill-bred, for fingers which are greasy are not clean, but dirty." "In eating do not put too much upon your spoon at one time, for not only will you thus give much embar rassment to your stomach, but you will, by eating too quickly, offend those sitting near." ' "Wash well your hands and drink good wine." In an English book entitled "The Rules of Civility," published in 1671. there are minute Instructions regu lating the demeanor of the mere man in the presence of a person of qual ity. If the mere man is asked to dine with the person of quality, "it is un civil to wash with him unless you be commanded expressly. Grace be ing said, he is to stand, still till he be placed, or dispose himself at the lower end of the table. "When he is set, he must keep him self uncovered till the rest sit down, and the person of quality has put down his hat." Hats were worn both at table and .in church in those days. Some Delay In TranamlMnlon. Roseburg News. The Binder Bros, report a very un usual occurrence on their farm near Elkton. On October 15 one of their cows save birth to a heifer calf. They were much surprised when on October 21 this same cow presented them with a bull calf. Both calves are doing nicely. . . ThoS3 Who Come and Go. "Haven't been in Portland in 26 years," says E. C. Nast of Cheyenne, Wyo., who is at the Multnomah wtth Mrs. Nast. Mrs. M. M. Reynard and Mrs. Anna b. Carey. "On that other trip T resistered with Mrs. Nast at the St. Charles, which was then Portland's leading hotel, and in those days we thought it some pumpkins. Oil and slock are the principal industries of our locality. The dry. hot summer has caused a shortage of feed for the stock this winter, therefore I. like many others, have been obliged to sell my'stock prior to cold weather. Mrs. Carey. ot' our party, is an aunt of our- aovernor. Robert D. Carey, and. by the way. Governor Carey's father was also .a governor of Wyoming. Families are leaving Cheyenne every cay because it Is impossible to get a hcuse. The increase in school at tendance necessitates the building of thiee new schoolhouses. It seems that every city and town in the Unit ed States and Canada is in the same condition." A genuine Sinn Feiner who had command of -.he Irish republic troops in the uprising of 1916 is Liam Mel lows, who arrived at the Imperial yesterday as advance agent for De V ale ra. president of the republic. Liam. by the way. is the last syllable of William and is said to be Gaelic. Mellows, age- 26, is one of the few men active in the Easter uprising who escaped execution. He has been in the United States a couple of years, and last December was one of the Sinn Feiners elected to parliament. It was an Instance where the office sought the man. as he did not know he was a candidate until he was in formed of his election. Accompanying Mellows is Charles P. Sweeney, a newspaper man of New York, who is handling publicity. . Dreams of central Oregon to see the desert producing foodstuff are materializing accoidmg to Julten A. Hurley of Vale, who is at the Irape rial. Irrigation projects are getting nnuer way in many places, some are approaching completion and others are in the preliminary stage. As member of the state senate, Mr. Hur ley was one of the authors of the bill wnicn enables the state to guarantee the payment of interest for the first five years on irrigation project bonds and this measure has had a stimulat ing effect. Having driven his bier car from Walla Walla. Wash., to Portland. Kred Hofer is endeavoring to get it shipped to California. Mr. Hofer is capitalist farmer. He owns 3800 acres between La Touchet and Prescott, in Washington, acro.i.s the line from Oregon, and his check for his wheat this year was large enough to satis fy the average man and enable him to put up a long fight against tiie nign cost or living, air. Horer goes to California each winter, being part of the tourist crop which California angles for. "People back at Washington don't understand our country and don't un derstand our needs in the way of a mail service." complains Jap McKin non, commissioner of Harney county. "The Portland newspapers come to us two or three days old. We used to have better service than we receive now." Mr. McKinnon expresses him self as highly pleased with the re sults of the highway commission emeting the other day, when many miles of The Dalles-California high way were placed under contract. . Charles X. Faulkner of Burns, mem ber of the commercial club and sent to Portland to confer with the state highway commission, is registered at the Imperial with I. S. Geer, who came here on the same mission. Mr. Geer is a merchant and says that he buys nothing from Portland except such things as cannot be supplied at Boise. The reason assigned is that the freight rate is against Portland, so far as doing business wlth Burns is concerned, and that this will be the rule until a railroad connects Burns with Bend. George W. Simons is In town from Dayton, Ohio, for a few days. Before leaving Portland for the east Mr. Simons was active In many local en terprises, ranging from the Multno mah Athletic club to street railways and .from contracting to manufactur ing. Mr. Simons says there are a world of industries at Dayton and vicinity and he has a bed of coal so rich that he is figuring on buying a shovel and a wheelbarrow and breaking the Btrike. "We've a housing problem In Cor vallis," confessed A. J. Johnson, bank er of that town, "but no one wants to build because of the high prices." Mr. Johnson tyas once upon a time a member of The state senate and in troduced one of the first good roads bills in the Oregon legislature, al though Its possibilities were not tak en advantage of at the time. The freeze which ruined so many apples in the Inland Empire did not catch W. H. Sheehan of Boise, who is at the Hotel Washington. Mr. Shre han had just disposed of the last box he had when the cold spell arrived. With Mrs. Shoehan he is in Portland with the intention of locating here. Mr. Sheehan served for two years with the Canadian forces overseas. If everyone in Astoria boosted for the town as persistently and unfail ingly as B. F. Stone and R. R. Bart lett the town would be booming even more than It Is. These citizens, mem bers of the port of Astoria commis sion, are in the city on official busi ness and are among the arrivals at the Hotel Portland. "Killed two bear, one elk. two mountain goats and got lots of moun tain trout." postcards Beverley James, mall clerk of the Benson, to George underwood, also of the Benson stiff. Miss James is in the Canadian Rockies. J. L. Connett. an arrival at the Perkins from New Zealand, confided to George Thompson, the clerk, that he has heard of Redmond, Or, and wants to locate in that vicinity. Fred A. Williams, member of the public service commission, is at the Hotel Oregon. Commissioner Fred Buchtel, who will have to run for the nomination again in the comi- g pri maries, is at the Seward. W. S. Dinwoodie, formerly a con tractor in Portland but now a resi dent of and operating in San Fran cisco, arrived yesterday at the Benson on a business trip. Colonel John Leader, who managed the training camp at the University of Oregon during the war, has gone into the lumber business and is at the Hotel Portland from Eugene. J. E. Anderson, cashier of the Scan dinavian bank at Astoria, was In the city yesterday, the out-of-town banks being well represented for some rea son. Leon Marquet, formerly chief clerk at the Chandler hotel at Marshfield, has joined the staff of the Washing ton hotel. C. IC Marshall, who has one of the big apple orchards in the Hood River district, is registered at the Perkins. With two cars of cattle shipped from Echo, R. M. Adams is in Port land. He lives at Ktanfield when at home. r i I More Truth Than Poetry. i By Janes J. Hoalasar. 1 I THE NEW. TOGS. In Chicago a club has been formed of men who awear to wear their old clothes and their oid iboei till they fall to piece like the one hoj ahay. New Item. When Harold, the hobo, some seven years back. (When times and conditions were normal Would shyly apply for a sandwich or pie. His dress was a trifle informal. His single suspender, his openwork shoes. His large and Irregular trousers. Indented beneath by the punitive teeth Of Fidos and Rovers and Towsers. Were hardly such clothes as you see in the ads Of "Togs for the college and city" His raiment, in short, often wakened a sort Of emotion that bordered on pity. But now when a person whose shoes are not mates Whose waistcoat is utterly lacking. Whose remnant of shirt appears fres coed with dirt. (Or possibly polished with blacking) Whose coat has two sleeves of two i different hues. And whose collar has started to crumble. You happen to meet as you hurry down street. You don't even give him a tumble. For why should you glance wtth an eye that bespeaks A gentle and kindly compassion. At the up-to-date clothes of a fel low who knows He is dressed in the height of the fashion? No longer a garment of tatters and shreds Will seem to be keenly distressing. No coats will be worn that aren't battered and torn In this thrifty new manner of dress ing. Old cl." men will carol their query in vain No duds are so old you can spare 'em. Nobody will smile at their shape or their style As long as they last, you can wear 'em. And soon. In the street and the park and the shop The public will all be appareled In the synthetic clothes that were worn by the 'boes In the time of our ragged friend Harold. A a a Cure for Kaon!. Members of the A. E. F. who feel homesick for'the old excitement can find plenty of it by serving for the next two months as Maine guides. It Ought to Salt Ilim F.mrtly. If d'Annunzio will come over here he can find congenial employment as a strike leader. The I. W. W. College (oune. "Learn to labor and to hate." tCopyright, 1919, by the Bell Syndicate. Inc). ISIOS LIBOR WILL MARCH ON Majority Has Proved Loyalty and t;ood Citizens Will Control. PORTLAND, Nov. 7. (To the Edi tor.) In reply to W. H. C. Bowen. colonel United States army, com mandant Hill Military academy, will say that long after the colonel has been gathered to his fathers the con servative members of organized labor, among whom are numbered a great majority of good American citizens, who love their country, their homes and families, who are earnestly work ing to better the condition of their fellowman; who believe in majority rule, who do not and never have looked for special privileges to build up their cause: who ask only for an even break; these members of or ganized labor will be in control of the labor unions and under their control the unions will go on. The colonel says the demands of labor are outrageous. They are to some who by accident of birth or other cause have been placed in con trol of millions in wealth, the control of factories, etc. The laboring class haa been unable to assimilate an edu cation at the expense of the govern ment and a life position after the assimilation. Please, colonel, tell us what are the great privileges which have been granted the laborers. What are the statements advanced by the workers' leaders which are untrue? Can you tell of any laborers who have eaten so much cake that a bellyache has followed from the cake eaten? What do you suggest should be done to "bring them down a peg?" Whose sweat brought forth the wealth of those who have "been in the habit of spending all their lives" and where did they get the wealth to enable them thus to spend? Did or ganized labor take the right stand in the late war? To point to a specific Instance, did the members of the In ternational Typographical union take the right stand when over 12 per cent of Its members wore a uniform and the members who remained at home kept these members in good standing; paid their Insurance and in many cases aided their families during t heir absence? Was that the right stand, or was it not? Please answer this one question. You told one truth and that was: "The law should be strained to its limits to crush out those who are trying to ruin our country." But you will have to look outside of the ranks of the working classes for a number of undesirables. Did you ever know of organized labor attempting to have a law pasFed which would give it some special prlvilece to the detri ment of the other citizens? Do you know where the laws regulating child labor came from? From whom did laws reculatlng working condi tions and hours for women come? Was it the army, the churches, as a body, or from your point of view the accursed ranks of organized labor? Long- after you are gone to your reward. Colonel Bowen. organized labor or something better along the same lines will be here and working for the betterment of the working classes. You can no more crush the spirit which Is fostered by organized labor than you can pluck out a man's heart and have him live afterward R. P. COBL'RN. Annual Rainfall In Portland. PENDLETON, Or., Nov. 5. (To the Editor.) An argument has arisen here among several former residents of Portland as to the annual rainfall there and we have made a small wa ger on the subject. Will you please print the rainfall for the past six years. T. J. McGINNIS. Records of the United States wea ther bureau at Portland snow: 1903, 43.75 inches; 1910, 118.65 inches; 1911. 1913, 1915. 1917. 33.28 inches; 36.30 inches; 41.30 inches; 40.50 Inches; 1912, 4.1.47 inches; 1914, 36.67 Inches: 1916. 45.77 inches; 1918. 31.50 inches. When Will Our Hotels Have Hoomaf PORTLAND, Nov. 6. (To the Edi tor.) I notice in The Oregonian that the hotel clerks In New York have been greatly humbled through lack of patronage to fill the hotel rooms, "because of prohibition." When, pray tell me, will prohibition strike Port laud? A. RUMOR. With a Kick in It. r u l u "THE 1HIRDEH OF THE AIXT They have sharpened up their axes In the Portland high school halls. And they're cleaning up "their gram mar. Which for respite vainly calls. And they're slaughtering Slaughtering The poor old AI.VT " MAKE THK AMEKR'.VN KKD CROSS IM PEACE AS IN .K. Campaign sign. We'll say the average American Red is a good deal crosser. Matlna. When morning casts her mantle off .My sinful head is high For Joy to see, o'er turf and tree. The splendor of her sky. And harkaway! and harkawav! The hwunds are belling clear By brook and fell and moor and dell. To rouse the bounding deer. Dear Lord, when morning greets the world. I feel the spur of pride In all that thou, from blade to bough. Hast raised and glorified. Now pity me. a sinful lout. Full penitent and sad For thou it was who gavest me The heart of any lad. FRIAR TUCK. Conspicuous Bravery on Capitol Hill. To the buck privates In France General Pershing was never much more than a general nuisance, whose visits meant polishing equipment and standing in the rain for an hour or I two. But when General John told the congressional committee the army needed de-Prussianizing, the demo-' bilized bucks grinned delightedly and cried: "What did we tell yuh?" Not With l a It Won't. A new model dirigible will replace the touring car with cross - country travelers, according to Major Glidden. It will cost 15.000. The streetcar and the railroad coach will continue to carry us. Major. Appeal to Evelyn. We fain would win You. Evelyn; Wouldst count us In, Sweet Evelyn? We have no tin. Our purse is thin But. oh, our grin! We fain would win You. Evelyn. Wouldst count us in. Dear Evelyn? DICKY. Kxpoaltlon Exposure. Dear L L. D. The livestock men will display many cows at the com ing exposition. May we not suggest that, on ac count of the prevailing styles, the wives and daughters of the stock men will display a good many calves? R. F. W. Revelationa in Equine Anatomy. "The impact threw the horse upon the hood of the car. breaking its windshield and front purt of the top." Our Natural Hiatury. (TheArg.) The Arg is a slnerular biped. With seven small ears on its sly head; It rides in a flivver And sleeps in the river Because it's averse to a dry bed. Our Dictionary of Vna4rtdR;eil Bro mldea. CHARMING HOST A friend In the desert, with a full flagon, two glasses and a happy "Here's how!" PIPE DREAMS Telling the land lord to wait till the 10th inst. STUDY IN SCARLET A red-headed radical reading the Portland Labor News. Thanks! We Wreck Our Own. "We wreck all makes of cars: let us wrei'k yours. CO." Disappointments. By Vraee E. Hall. Wrap them In perfumed rose leaves. Sprinkle them down with tears: Lay them npon the dead sheaves That make up the shock of years: Tie them about with heart-strings Vibrant with hopeless grief. Place on the mound the strength you've found This is the crowning sheaf! Count them in morning sunshine. Number them In the night. Ponder them in the noontime. Measure their shade and lisrht; Think of the truths they brought you. Witness how time relieves; In pain you wrought but lessons were taught These are the crowning sheaves! Ranire them In studied fashion. Placing them row on row. Dreams of your hope and passion Blighted so long ago; Glance o'er the burning stubble Showers shall bring relief Then ganner the grain of strength through pain This is the crowning sheaf! In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Aa-o. From The Oresonian of November 7. 1!4. New York. Returns from the elec tions of Tuesday indicate about this constituency of the "4th congress: Republicans. 169; democrats. 1P5; populists, five. A feature of the coming kirniess will be the 12th century May dance, executed by 12 charming young ladies and an equal number of gentlemen. The Portland Whist club, organized a month ago with 100 charter mem bers, is growing steadily and prom ises to become one of the most stable social organizations in the city. Henry C. Grady, C. W. Johnson and R. W. Mitchell yesterday filed arti cles of incorporation of the Columbia & Eastern railroad, with capital of 1500.600 and projecting a road from near the mouth of the Columbia through the state to a point near Ontario. Game Not Learned at Home. Indianapolis News. The fourth-grade teacher had a great deal of trouble with Fred's at tendance. He was absent so often that she got suspicious and wrote a note to his parents as follows: "1 am afraid that Fred is playing truant and I would like your co-Oiper-ation in securing a better attendance record from him." Back that afternoon came this, an ew e r : "Dere Teacher If Fred is playing truant he didn't learn it at hoam. We air church people and hain't got a au.rd la our house."