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TJIE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 24, 1920
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CHOICE OF TWO BAJU ROADS.
It is not questioned in the findings
of the public service commission on
the application of the Portland Rail
way Light & Power company for
authority to increase faxes that the
company suffers a large monthly
deficit in net revenues.
The figures for the deficit in
cluding as they do the fair return
on investment to which the company
is lawfully entitled are, contrary to
more or less popular notions, not
computed on fictitious values or
watered stock. They are compuieo.
on a valuation estimated by a com
mission elected and maintained by
the public and this valuation has to
do with the actual value of the
property.
It follows then that when operat
ing costs, bond interest, taxes and
other charges are paid and a fair
income is allowed on the Investment,
the cost to the company of furnish
ing a car ride is more than 6 cents.
Partly to reduce the cost of the
car ride the public service commie-
sion suggests that the company be
relieved of certain special charges.
They include bridge tolls, franchise
taxes, bridge rentals, car- licenses,
maintenance of paving between rails,
and free fares for city employes.
Relief from these charges would
transfer special taxes amounting to
about $170,000 yearly from the.street
railway company to the general pub
lic Their elimination therefore
would not be a complete saving of
$170,000. These special charges, ex
cept the one item of free transporta
tion for city employes, produce rev
enues for the city treasury and pre
sumably it would be necessary to re
place them with a general tax levy
But there can hardly be sound argu
ment against this transfer of a tax
now of a special order to one of a
general character. Analyzed, the
special taxes assessed against the
company are in reality special taxes
levied against the car riders. There
is no sound or even plausible reason
why car riders should be specially
taxed.
But the relief therein proposed
would by no means meet the com
pany's deficit in net revenues. There
is therefore the further suggestion
that the city purchase and maintain
' the street car tracks. That Is to say,
"all property would be bonded to pur
. chase the rails alone and a contract
-would be entered into with the com.
pany by the terms of which the
company would operate its cars over
the city-owned rails. Lpon the com
pany would devolve the continued
ownership of poles, wires, car barns
and equipment in general.
It is obvious that some drastic
and not wholly desirable remedy
' must be adopted in the car fare sit
uation in the interests not only of
-the company but of the community
itself. Purchase by the city of the
rails is of that class. It cannot logi
cally be offered as an economy in
operation. It is proposed as a -measure
of relief for the company for
which all the people shall pay In
lieu of that other form of relief
an increase in fares for which the
,"car riders alone would pay.
It is a plan that will appear to the
apprehensive as a first step toward
full municipal ownership and opera
tion. It is difficult to understand
. how, even if the plan were not thus
enlarged, if could escape some of the
drawbacks of the latter policy. There
are large residential districts in Port
land which are virtually unserved by
. the street rtilway system. Yet they
would be taxed for the purchase and
maintenance of tracks. These dis
tricts would have a disconcerting ar
gument in behalf of extensions.
. Worthy and unworthy demands
would harass the council artd polit
, ical influence and interference would
- be called into being. How political
interference works in municipal
"ownership has been brought promi
nently to light in Seattle in the re
port of the superintendent of public
utilities. No small part of the large
deficit of the city-owned system Is
charged to official and political in-
terference, which extends even .o
such trivial matters as the placing
of street corner stop signs.
Possibly some of the worst evils
of municipal ownership could be
avoided by a careful preparation of
the measure under which the city
would take over the rails alone, but
it is remotely possible not probable.
So there seems to be here a doubtful
choice between two evils. On the
one hand is acceptance - of munic
ipal ownership in part; on the other
""hand Is acceptance of a 7 or 8-cent
fare. The latter is undesirable. It
falls most heavily upon those least
able to pay. It is an uncertain
. -measure of relief, for an advance
in fares causes many who would
"otherwise ride to walk to their des
tination. The short-haul car rider
is the one who goes afoot. The long
' haul rider cannot escape. Usually he
Is one who lives in a modest subur
' ban home where every cent must be
strictly accounted for and saved if
'possible.
It has been the experience of other
-companies that the number of car
rides diminishes with mounting fares.
.One Increase, having thus failed 'to
give the needed relief, leads to an-
other increase. There is recurring
agitation, ill feeling and lack of un
derstanding. " ,
The seriousness of the situation
...need not be minimized. Six cents
cannot be converted into 7 or 8 cents
by fiat of the people. Somebody must
pay. As already said, the fare increase
may be set aside as not only objec
I tionable but as a - doubtful remedy.
Tet it can be avoided, only at the
sacrifice of more taxes.'. But stay
there is one other sacrifice that
might compose the situation and
without tax cost,- bond Issue or
municipal ownership.. Probably pro
hibftion of all-day parking of auto
mobiles within a wide radius of the
downtown district would do it.
Indirectly the company's mos
formidable competitor would be
thereby almost eliminated- Seat
tle's traction lines, with virtually
the same mileage as Portland's, carry
40 per cent more passengers. A little
larger population and a 6-cent fare
have something to do With this
heavier traffic, but the topography
of the city is probably the most in
fluential factor. Fewer persons ride
back and forth In their own
conveyances. If Portland's number
of street car passengers could be
increased immediately by 40 per cent
the fare problem would be solved.
The pregonian is not offering this
suggestion as a soberly and finally
determined solution, for its. own
part, of the street railway problem
in Portland. ' Rather, it is presented
to emphasize the difficulties of the
situation, to illustrate that there
must be a yielding somewhere if the
traction company is to live and Port
land is to have adequate street car
service.
WHY BLAMK LODC.E?
An attempt is made to hold Sen
ator Lodge responsible for the seat
ing of Truman H. Newberry as a
senator, though he had won the elec
tion by corruption. By what process
of reasoning can Mr. Lodge be held
responsible? He did not send New
berry to the senate; the state of
Michigan sent Newberry. Lodge had
no right to assume in the absence
of trial and conviction that Michigan
had been corrupted.
The case of Victor Bergef is no
parallel. He had been convicted of
a felonious crime before his election
and for that reason was prevented
from taking his seat until the house
had held an inquiry. The same rea
sons which caused his permanent
exclusion after his first election held
good after his second election. No
charges had been made against New
berry prior to his admission as a
member of the present senate. An
attempt had been made to file
charges with the preceding senate,
but they were not received, because
that senate had no authority to judge
of the qualifications of the succeed
ing senate; each senate is sole Judge
of the qualifications of its own mem
bers. '
If a senator" may be deprived of
his seat because charges have been
made against him, it would be easy
to manufacture a majority by mak
ing charges against enough members
of the other party, and retaliation
would surely reduce the practice to
an absurdity.
While election of Ford instead of
Newberry would have made a tie
between the two parties in the sen
ate, there is no reason to believe
that the change would have affected
the final action on the treaty. At
no stage of the proceedings would
the change of a single vote have re
versed an important decision.
A demand is made that the cor
rupt practices act under which New
berry and his accomplices were con
victed be strengthened. When a man
reputed to be worth $50,000,000 and
fifteen of his lieutenants can be con
victed under the law, it sweras fairly
strong. Why tamper with a law
which such a test proves to be good ?
NORTHERN LIGHTS.
Reports of observations made by
physicists and explorers of the
phenomenon called Aurora Borealis, I
of which there was an exceptional
exhibition in these latitudes on Mon
day night, would fill a good-sized
library, but they are characterized
by inconclusiveness. There are allu
sions to mysterious dancing lights in
the ancient literatures and- in so-ne
of the accounts of the travels of early
voyageurs, but serious, scientific ef
fort to determine their cause has
been confined practically to the past
half century. Theories thus far
evolved are conflicting. The enor
mous mass of collected data now
available does not lend itself to gen
eralization. Research .is stimulated
by belief that the secret of the polar
lights may be bound up in the higher
laws governing "magnetism." There
is reason to suppose that if we un
derstood Aurora Borealis we-would
know much more than we now do
concerning wireless communication,
meteorology, the relation of the earth
to the rest of the universe, and to
the pqssibilities of obtaining power
from sources which we now only
dimly apprehend.
Nearly all recent observers regard
the phenomenon Indefinitely as
"some form of electrical discharge."
This phrase or its equivalent runs
uniformly through nearly everything
that has been written on the sub
ject. But there is disagreement as
to whether impulse is derit'ed from
the sun or from the earth, or whether
it Is possibly an uncomprehended
fofce common to the whole planetary
system. There have been noteworthy
coincidences between auroral exhibi
tions and prevalence of widespread
magnetic storms, but scientists real
ize tha't it requires a prolonged series
of observations to establish a true
relationship. Unusual frequency of
occurrence of the lights in the
equinoctial period has been set forth
in elaborate compilations, but these
may constitute no better evidence
than that upon which the exploded
theory of equinoctial storms origin
ally was based. "Swift and brilliant
changes of color," observes one
writer, "are nearly always accom
panied by general storms," but this
would seem to have been confounded
by the most recent manifestation,
which was uncommonly brilliant in
spots and was marked by exceed
ingly rapid motion. The telegraph
companies, however, had occasion to
know that something unusual was
going on. It is not impossible that,
the curious interruptions winch
Signor Marconi has reported in his
wireless experiments are traceable
to the power behind the polar lights.
If this is true it may be profitable
for us to stop trying to communicate
with Mars until we have solved our
own relatively parochial physical
phenomena.
The grandeur of Aurora Borealis
at Its best furnishes one esthetic
compensation for being compelled to
dwell in higher latitudes than those
of Oregon. . There is a region whose
inhabitants have opportunity to ob
serve it 100 times a year on the
average, with favoring skies. A few
hundred miles north of us the most
recent display must have been in
expressibly magnificent. One would
need to penetrate the vast lonesome
ness of the uttermost north, how
ever, to enjoy all of the awe-inspiring
accdmpaniments of this phenomenon.
Captain Dawson, the Arctic explorer,
has given testimony that particular
manifestations have been accom
panied by "sound like the swishing
of a whip or the noise produced by
a sharp squall of wind in the upper
rigging of a ship, and as the aurora
brightened and faded, so did the
sound which accompanied it." If
this was true, the auroras of which
he wrote must have been uncom
monly close. Indians and trappers
of the Hudson's Bay company simi
larly have reported auroras attended
by strange sounds, but without de
tailed descriptions of the mi It is
probably to the Arctic that we shall
be compelled to look for further data
on a brancfi of physical science
which so far has baffled all investi
gators. .
THE $2.3S HEN.
There is an encouraging promise
of fresh eggs for the breakfast table
of the man of ordinary means in the
news dispatch frdnr Roseburg in
which is related the experience of
Mr. Clingenpeel, a fruit grower of
the Looking Glass valley. The es
sence of the promise lies in the ob
servation of Mr. Clingenpeel that he
has "found poultry to be a' rival of
Douglas county prunes." The allu
sion, no doubt, id to the profits ob
tainable therefrom. The excellence
of both the Douglas county prune
and the Douglas county hen are con
ceded. .:
When Mr. Clingenpeel the other
day took' nine fine :hens to the
butcher and received in payment
$21.46, he realized that, even with
feed at the high prices that we hear
so much about, there may be money
in the poultry business. It is per
fectly true, as the- pessimists of
poultrydom remind us, that wheat
is no longer obtainable -at 60 or 60
cents a bushel, as it was once on a
time. But this Douglas county farm
er remembers also, that hens in that
same time brought 25 cents a head,
with nobody takingthe trouble even
to weigh them. It" will be recalled
by most persons then living that
there was little or no complaint that
keeping chickens did not pay. There
was, in fact, at almost all seasons,
a plentiful supply of poultry and
eggs.
At nine for $21.46, Looking Glass
valley hens bring about $2.38 apiece,
between which price and that of a
few years ago there would seem to
be a rather wide margin to take care
of increased cost of feed. The fact
probably is that higher costs are a
minor factor in the decline of the
poultry industry. People who used
to raise poultry have discovered that
one can't conveniently wear a white
collar in a chicken house and that to
be successful -one, must frequently
be on the job more than eight hours
day. Also there are many petty
details that seem trivial to one who
has large ideas about the distribu
tion of wealth and the right way to
run the government. Just the same,
the $2.38 hen is beckoning to some
body to come and make a comfort
able, if not. a luxurious, . living out
of her.
THE INDUSTRIAL CONFERENCE PLAN.
Most interest attaches to that part
of the final .report of the national
industrial conference dealing with ,
settlement of disputes. The plan no-
here provides for compulsory arbi
tration and prohibition of strikes. It
provides for adjustment of disputes
by a system of regional adjustment
conferences composed of equal num.
bers of employers and employes in
the industry concerned, with a chair
man who has no. vote. Resort to
this agency is to be voluntary, but
involves an agreement to continue
work and to abide by a unanimous
decision. In case of disagreement by
the conference, the dispute is to be
referred to a national industrial
board, to be appointed by the presi
dent. If it reaches a upanimous con
clusion, this is to be binding. If it
fails to agree, majority and minority
reports are to be published and the
public Is to be the final judge In
cases where the v parties refuse to
submit a dispute to a regional con
ference, a regional board of inquiry,
composed also of equal numbers of
employers and workers.in the indus
try concerned with a disinterested
chairman, will act and will publish
its. report or its majority and minori
ty reports, "in order that the public
may know the facts material to the
dispute and the points of difference
between the parties to it."
It is expressly stated that this ma
chinery is only to be provided and
used for disputes "which cannot be
settled by existing machinery," yet
President Gompers of the American
Federation of Labor argues that it
is unnecessary, because "tried and
tested machinery exists wherever
employes are organized" and be
cause "this machinery functions per
fectly wherever employers forsake
the spirit of dominance and the
spirit of autocracy." He also denies
the ability of machinery of any kind,
whether supervised by governmental
agencies or otherwise, to produce in
dustrial 'justice in Industries where
the employes are not organized.
The plan of the industrial confer
ence Is Intended only as a supple
ment to those existing agencies to
which Mr. Gompers refers. It is de
signed for those cases where his
agencies either do not function at all
or do not function perfectly. Such
are the numerous great strikes which
plagued the country during the last
year, many of which were declared
by organized trades in violation of
collective bargains. The most glar
ing case of that kind was the coal
strike, in which "tried and tested"
agencies failed to prevent an attempt
to freeze the country into conceding
demands which included the. revolu
tionary nationalization of mines.
Mr. Gompers' objection to the
single shop unit Ignores the plan of
the industrial conference to deal
with entire industries when they are
involved in a common -dispute. His
real objection is evidently to repre-t
sentation of unorganized as well as
organized workmen on' shop com
mittees and in formation, of adjust
ment conferences, also to the appli
cation of the conference plan to in
dustries which are not yet organized,
for he insists that "trade unions af
ford to the workers the only bona
lide and effective system of repre-
sentation." He does not wish the
conference's plan to watch over the
rights of the non-union man in the
open shop or in the unorganized in
dustry, for then it would fill a place
-which the union hopes to fill and it
would weaken the inducement to
Join the union.
The position of Mr. Gompers is
quite natural from the union view
point, for he wishes to gather, all
workmen into the unions and to
make them the sole agency through
which workmen shall deal with em
ployers and with the government.
But the duty of the industrial con
ference was to act in the interest of
the whole people, including all work
men, not solely of those who belong
to unions, who "are only a part of the
employes. Its duty is to find means
of securing industrial peace and con
tinuous production, not only for th
good of employers and workmen, but
for the good of the nation at large.
If it had taken the unions as the
sole representatives of the workmen,
the effect would have been moral
pressure to join the itnions and to de
prive of the right to work any men
whom the unions refuse to admit to
membership. It would have left un
covered that large part of the field
that it was appointed to cover which
is occupied by unorganized men and
in which some of the worst strikes
have occurred.
The time has gone by when either
party to labor controversies can safe
ly accuse the other of "the spirit of
dominance and the attitude of autoc
racy," for union labor has in many
instances proved a good match fo
the most domineering employer in
that respect. Judge Gary seemed to
be guilty of these vices when he re
fused to confer with the union on
the steel strike, but he was justified
when the revolutionary purpose of
the strike became apparent. There
have not recently been worse ex
amples of the "spirit of dominance'
than the coal strike or the threat of
a general railroad strike unless the
Plumb plan was adopted by congress.
The conference plan of adjustment
provides for only voluntary recourse
to its machinery when other agen
cies have fajled. It proposes neither
compulsory arbitration nor prohibi
tion of strikes. The only element of
compulsion about it is the provision
for a board of inquiry and for a re
port to the public when an adjust
ment-conference disagrees or when a
dispute is not referred to it. Public
opinion is then to render the final
verdict The public has a right to
dominate, for it ultimately pays the
loss by strikes.
The sale in London the other day
of the American thoroughbred,
Tracery, said to have been bought
for the account of Argentine sports
men, is a reminder that although
the race horse may have been thrust
into the background in the United
States by the automobile, there are
still regions In which he may find
a friend. The price paid for Tracery,
53,000 pounds sterling, is compli
cated somewhat by the rate of ex
change, butxit nearly, if not quite,
represents a record price for horse
flesh on the basis of any estimate,
Argentine breeders in the past dec
ade have quite displaced British and
French as buyers of noteworthy
American stock, the nature of their
purchases indicating that they are
moved quite as much by love of
sport as by desire to improve the
breed of their own animals for utili
tarian purposes. Meanwhile the
pendulum in America seems to be
swinging toward the heavier breeds
and horse enthusiasts predict a re
vlval of interest in draught animals
for use in situations in which motor
vehicles are unlikely for a long time
to supplant them
They are talking now of catching
the beavers that are cutting down a
few trees in Benson park, near Wah
keena falls, on the Columbia river
highway, and putting them In the
city park zoo to curb their destruc
tiveness. Leave the beavers where
they are. One live beaver in his
native wilds is worth a dozen poor
animals cooped up miserably In a
zoo. The few trees they cut down
will never be missed.
Another of the Vanderbilt women,
married foreign, is said to be in line
for a divorce. It would seem to peo
ple who balance their funds with
nothing on either side of the deci
mal point that one could be happy
under any condition with unlimited
money, but it does not work out
that way. ,'
Congratulations to Phil Metschan
that is old Phil and the adjective
is used in the ' affectionate sense
who today rounds out 80 years,
most of them in Oregon, which he
has seen grow into a small empire
on which he has made his mark.
Announcement is made that Great
Britain will give the island of Yap
to Japan. What a delicate compli
ment it'would have been if she had
presented the island to the United
States senate!
The Tulare country, in California,
that never had snow, had a "mulli
gan" of weather Monday that in
cluded hail, rain, snow, thunder and
lightning. They needed a quake for
dessert.
The big thing In labor disputes
these days seems to be getting the
jump on the other fellow in calling
him un-American and bolshevik.
We grieve to remark at this
apathy of the public in the face of
prolonged absence of news from the
Honorable Frank Stott Myers.
The world certainly must be get
ting better. They are teaching boys
in the public schools how to cook,
and the boys stand for it.
There may be a decline in shoe
prices, but not in the kinds worn by
the fellow getting around ten dollars
a day.
Looks like rain, feels like rain,
and maybe It is rain. Remember
there is a deficiency around ten
inches.
Constantine wants to go back to
Greece, but he would better first get
a divorce from the ex-kaiser's sister.
The conviction Is forced upon us
that the more victorious a war is,
the harder it is to get rid of it.
It used to be "bleeding" Kansas,
but with three dust storms in ,a
week, it is something worse.
BY T PRODUCTS op THE TIMES,
G. B. Shaw Wanders Into Reminis
cence df Zeppelin Raid London.
In an interview with a correspond
ent of the New York Evening Post
on why he would not visit America,
George Bernard Shaw wandered far
from the subject. Once he and his
interviewer found themselves back in
the war with a Zeppelin hovering
over the very room in which they sat.
"I was reading- one night when 1
heard the warning signals," he said.
"First the maroons "Boom! Boom!
Boom!' Twenty minutes, later came
heavier reports the anti-aircraft
guns. I was horribly frightened.
Every sensible person went down into
underground shelters. But I am also
exceedingly lazy, 'and I soon argued
myself into thinking, that I was as
safe there as anywhere. Then came a
hideous crash. A bomb had dropped
right out there " He pointed out
of the window to Cleopatra's Needle,
no more than a hundred yards away.
"It chipped the base of it. A second
bomb fell about the eame distance
away, onto the Little theater. Then
to complete the triangle with me in
the center a third bomb ripped things
open across the court from the Savoy
hotel, no further away than the Little
theater or the Neodle. Mrs. Patrick
Campboll was staying at the Savoy
at that time. She told mo she was
at her window when the bomb fell.
Suddenly the whole front of the house
at which she was looking was shorn
away. She had an absolute impres
sion for a few moments' of being- at
the front with her son and under fire.
He'd been killed, you know, a few
days before. Later, maps were issue
of where bombs had fallen on Lon
don. There wasn't a district that
hadn't been hit. So my experience was
fairly typical."
A straw will show which way the
wind blows, says a correspondent of
the Glasgow Herald. I lately met
with an illustration of this truth at
a literary gathering, where a young
lady, herself an authoress, referring
to the title of Mr. Hardy's popular
novel, asked, "Why the 'madding'
crowd? Surely 'maddening' would be
better?" I replied by recommendln
her to get Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to
put her in touch with tho spirit of
Gray she knew Gray? "Maxwell
Gray?" she asked. "Oh,yes, rather
That was the pseudonym of Miss
M. G. Tuttlett, whose 'Silence of Dean
Maitland' was quite good." I fore
bore to pursue the subject at the
time, but mentioned the little lncidcn
later on to an elder lady, a member
of the teaching profession, who was
well acquainted with the young au
thoress. "I am not surprised," said
she. "Dear 'a culture is exclu
sively modern' Well, it is good to
go on learning, specially when one
has passed the meridian of life, and
now know that there is such i
thing as an "exclusively modern1
English culture which is consistent
with ignorance of the greatest poem
in the English language.
Sir Oliver Joseph Lodge, the noted
English physicist, who gave a series
of lectures in Detroit recently, was
educated at a grammar school. He
was intended for a business career,
but being attracted to science he en
tered University college, London, in
1872. Five years later he became as
sistant professor of applied- mathe
matics in the same college. Two years
later he was called to the chair df
physics In University college. Liver
pool, where he remained till 1900,
when he was chosen first principal of
the new Birmingham university. He
was knighted In 1(02.
His original work includes investi
gations on lighting, the seat of the
electromotive force In the voltaic cell,
the phenomena of electrolysis and the
speed of the I -n. electromagnetic
waves and wireless telegraphy, the
motion of ether near the earth and
the application of electricity to the
dispersal of fog and smoke. Among
the numerous scientific memoirs are
Modern Views of Electricity," "Mod
ern Views on Matter."
E. L. Godkin, the founder of the
New York Nation, was one of the
closest friends of the late Henry
James, -arid he described him in one
of his letters as "a delightful creature,
too good for either England or Amer
ica." Their acquaintance. It appears,
began in the '60s, when the James
family was living In Cambridge, Mass.
The future novelist was then a youth
f 19 or 20, Just beginning to try his
literary wings.
There could not be a more enter
taining treat, Mr. Godkin recalled
afterward, than a dinner at the James
house when all the young people were
at home. They were full of stories
of the oddest kind and discussed ques
tions of morals or taste or literature
with a vociferous vigor so great as
ometlmes to lead the young men to
leave their seats and gesticulate on
the floor.
Thirteen states now have laws re
quiring physical training in all their
schools, and nine others are about
ready to follow. Out of 73 repre
sentative colleges Investigated re
cently seven gave four hours credit
for physical education - out of 120
hours required for graduation; five
gave two hours, one gave five hours
and one three. By 1920 12 state uni
versities will require all men to take
physical education.
Universal physical education is not
far away. The public school is the
place to start it Indianapolis Star.
As an instance of what has already
been achieved by the Canadian soldier
settlement board might be cited the
success of the 77 settlers established
last year in the immediate vicinity
of Wetaskiwin, Alberta. Last season
the total crops harvested by these 77
settlers were valued at $76,397. This
is equal to an average production of
$1000 each, which ts considered espe
cially encouraging In view of the fact
that last year the majority of these
settlers were established 'late.
Assuming that under favorable
conditions the annual production
should average $2000, which Is a very
conservative estimate, as these set
tlers are given every opportunity and
assistance to secure good land well
situated, some idea of the ultimate re
sult hoped for may be had when it ts
realized, that there are now actually
15,023 soldier settlers upon land. This
number, if producing a yearly average
of $2000 worth of farm produce,
would aggregate $30,046,000. Soldier
settlement is progressing very rapid
ly, particularly in the three western
provinces, of Manitoba, Saskatchewan J
and Alberta. .'..-. - I
Those Who Come and Go.
Twenty miles of barb-wire fencing
is to be constructed by the Eastern
Oregon Land company in Malheur
county within a. shor time and, to
prevent difficulties after the fences
are up, Julien A. Hurley is- tn tow;
to ask the highway commission to
locate the John Day highway from
the edge of Cow valley, near Brogan
to Ironside. After the location is
made the company will know where
to fence without interfering with th
highway right of way. Also Senator
Hurley wants the commission to sur
vey the road to Jordan valley, so tha
work can be started. this year with
county money. The people In Jorda
valley are without mail three month
in the year because of the lmpassabl
condition of the roads. This is th
road that Representative P. J. Gal
lagher put on the road map and which
Governor Olcott promptly, wiped off
again, with a dozen other roads simi
larly placed on the map at the spe
eial sessaion of the legislature. The
commission has agreed to hasten th
preliminaries for building a bridge
across Malheur river.
Cabbage Hill, in Umatilla county. I
so called because it grows a luxuriou
crop of skunk cabbages, which, say
County Judge Marsh, "smell some
thing awful." This hill is mile
from Pendleton and is on the old
Oregon trail. It will be graveled this
season. On April 7, according to th
Judge, contracts will be let for con
structing the road between Havana
and Helix, nine miles, and between
Pendleton anil Pilot Rock, 15 miles
These two Jons will be finished uu
year. There is a ten-mile strip on th
Oregon nnd Washington highway, be
tween Milton and Athena, which will
be paved this year, and then there
win Do an unoroKen strcicn or nara
surface from Pendleton to Walla
Walla. Wash. Gravel on the Columbia
highway from Echo to Pendleton, 2
miles, will be completed by Round-up
time.
Indians were the uhief population
at Myrtle Creek when Edwin Wca
vers first appeared there 68 years
ago. Mr. Weavers, who ts registered
at the Perkins, came to Oregon In
1S53 and went to Douglas county.
Later he came to Portland and whs a
blacksmith, and in that capacity he
assisted in the building of tho rail
road between Portland and McMinn
vllle. When Mr. Weavers first ap
peared at Roseburg there was only
one building in tho town. The limp
qua Indians and the Rogue Rive
Indians were still plentiful and, on
occasion, somewhat hostile. Mr. Wca
vers finally determined to settle down
at Myrtle Creek, a few miles south o
Roseburg, on the Umpqua river, and
he has been there ever since, with
an occasional tour of inspection to
Portland.
Farmers have the lumber on the
ground and want to build and lm
prove their places in that section
between Dayville and the iron bridge
to the east, in Grant county, declares
District Attorney Leedy, a Portland
visitor. There are irrigation ditches,
too, which are about to be construct
ed. Therefore, Mr. Leedy and County
Judge George H. Gaguey are plead
ing with the highway commission to
locate the John Day highway between
those points. As soon as the location
is made the farmers can build their
houses and barns with respect to con
venience to the future highway and
the ditches can be located to advan
tage.
But for the storage water, Crook
county would be In a bad way this
summer, and even the storage water
lsn t any too plentiful, reports Coun
ty Judge N. G. Wallace of Prineville,
who is at the Imperial. This water
ituation Is common throughout the
country east of the Cascades in cen
tral Oregon. Judge Wallace came to
town to see aoout contracts lor one
concrete and six wooden bridges in
his county. He states that construe
tion work has started on two high
way Jobs in Crook and a survey will
begin next week to finish the McKun
zie highway through Crook county
from Prineville toward Mitchell,
distance of 19 miles.
From the top of Stage Road pass
to Wolf Creek It Is all macadamized
and you can go at 40 miles an hour
if you ignore speed regulations," says
Engineer McLeod of the highway de
partment "This rocking was done
during the winter, the weather hav
ing been particularly favorable. A
considerable portion of Pass Creek
canyon has also been macadamized
during the winter. Paving operations
will be resumed, today on the Junc
tion City-Eugene Job. Half of the
work was finished last season and
the latter half, toward Eugene, will
be paved now."
One of the many residents of Fossil
and Condon who are leaving that sec
tion to make permanent headquarters
In the Rogue River valley is R. W,
Johnson of Fossil. Mr. Johnson is a
retired sheepman and has been to
Ashland, where he bought a home and
intends remaining there after shift-
ng his household goods from Fossil.
The milder winter climate of the
Rogue River valley appeals to the
Wheeler county men more than the
blistering sunshine of southern Call
fornia, which attracts the Walla
Walla retired wheat ranchers. Mr.
Johnson is at the Perkins.
The baby judge of Oregon is County
Judge Sawyer of Deschutes, for he
was appointed to the position less
than a fortnight since. The judge is
making his first official visit to Port
land and, like his predecessor, is here
to ask that the highway commission
speed up the surfacing of The Dalles
California highway between Bend and
Redmond. The nature of the soil is
such that it is likely to blow away the
new grade unless a surface Is placed
upon it.
With a carload of hogs, H. E. Sun
day came to Portland front Hood River
yesterday and registered at the
Perkins. The hogs, however, went
to the stockyard when Mr. Sunday
went to the hotel. Mr. Sunday is the
brother of the pyrotechnical. slang-
whanging evangelist, Billy, and looks
after the Sunday ranch every day in,
toe week in Hood Kiver valley, t
County Commissioner Fordyce of
Klamath, who Is more than 6 feet
tall and wears the complexion of
the out-door man, is at the Hotel Ore
gon. His mission to Portland is to get
information regarding market road
projects in his county. The county has
its money on hand and is anxious to
spend it for development purposes
pronto.
There l more food value in cheese
than In- almost any other article of
diet. If you have any doubt vn this
matter. Just ask R. Robinson of Clats-
anie, who is among the arrivals at
the Perkins, Mr. Robinson Is a cheese
maker and after several years in the
business, in Tillamook county, he
transferred his activities to his pres-
nt location.
Horse races will be held in Can
ada pretty soon and so L. Galbraith
t Independence registered at the
Perkins yesterday on his Way to the
dominion. He Is taking some fast ones
with him and expects to pick off a
few purses.
J. R. Roberts, at the Imperial, reg
isters from Redmond, Or., and he has
perfect right to do so because he
is the mayor at the town. The popula
tion is more or less than 1000 prob-
bly less.
MAS 71 A M ES REQMREMKSTS
Eugene (o.Mi' Hnibsnd Specifica
tions Rrpilrd lo In Kind.
FOP.KST GROVE. March 21. (To
ths Editor.) Since University of Ore
gon co-eds have given requirements
for husbands there ts no reason why
any young man vhould not have
few requirement of his own.
I am an average young nisn. phys
ically, mentally and morally right. 1
am only starting in business snd am
working for a small salary. I am not
a woman-hater. In tact, l nae
very tender spot iu my heart for th
right sort of woman. I have plan
for a home and family, but. arcord
Ing to the University of Oregon youn
women my plana are Impossible.
A man must have a salary of a
least $250 per- month or more. Th
sounds as if they were marrying th
tt:Q and the man was a second con
ideration. Any woman whom 1
would consider fit to be my wife
must: .
First Love me enough to marry
me on a salary of $10 per mont
as quick as on $250. if a girl would
be willing to be my partner on $100
a month I might with her love an
encouragement be able to earn $-!
in a short time.
Second She must be able and will
tng to cook If it should bo necessary,
Third She must be physlcully
mentally and morally right. For In
stance. I would not consider a girl
who was a olgarctto smoker.
Fourth She must bo of tho hrish
unselfish, broad-minded sort.
Fifth She must be willing to get
along without a certain money al
lowance. If she were a real part ne
I would be willing to give her lic
what she asked when she needed
Sixth She must b kind, consider
ate nnd honest, not only with me, but
lth others.
Keventh She must he neat and nl
tractive, but not necessarily beautiful
Eighth, and least important She
ought to be aDIn to play aim su
ought to have a good education.
A certain woman attorney civ
mnsi of the divorce cases are causal
by the women being too willing t
command. I think this is right.
A .V1A!.
FEW nKMRABI.E TRACTS l-KI
Farmer Aenualnlril ll
Urant (itvea I)lcoiiraain llrport,
RIDGKKTKIJ. Wash.. March 22
(Tn the Editor.) As several person
have uxked me regnrding the value ci
the Southern Tacific railroad land
recently forfeited and now cprn to
settlement. I wish to atate mat i wa
formerly a resldfnt of lmngla.- county
and am well acquainted wnn t"
valim of the lands in question su
uated in Douglas, Jackson and Jose
nhina counties.
Ill my opinion there are oniy a i"
tracts that are worth locating, snd
most of those are Isolated inne
from th railroad. One seldom find
mnra than five acres susceptible o
cultivation on 160 acres, the naianis
being brush, small tlmoer or mocy,
rocky hillsides. As Lnrle, t-am re
quires $2.00 per acre and three year
reldnce. cutting out or reserving all
good timber, it seems to me that there
are some narties that musi iio -
grudge against our soldier Doy. iu
u-iish m locate them on sunt lana.
Trim. It him been stated ny severs
loartlnir tiers of Oregon that there.
are fine homes to be secured lor
several thousand Or one-half million
nonl. Perhaps the writers anow
where they are located, for I am sure
I do not.
During a number or years tnai in.
railroad company had theae lands on
the market at 12.50 an acre
.11 the tracts of much value were se
lected bv the settlers, generally In 40
and 80-acre lots tha.t Joined their
farms. L U Pfc.iuL r..
r armer.
UEST SLEEP IN JIORMNU HOIRS
Workers Deprived of Healthful Real
by Time hnnse.
PORTLAND. March 23. (To the Ed
itor.) In regard to turning the clock
back one hour, I am sure if the work
ing class of people had a vote on the
matter it would not go into effect.
All I can see who would benefit by it
are the business men that do not
open their stores or offices before 9
or 10 A. M. If they wish to open
earlier let their associations pasa
rules to control their own interests
and not handicap the working mass
of people.
There are a great many such as
cooks, firemen, teamsters and others
who have to get up one or two nours
earlier, also women who work or
keep house. It Imposes hardsnip on
hese to give a few more .time leisure
to seek recreation. There is more
rest and healthful sleep In the morn
na- hours to the really tired working
people then at any time auring tne
sleeping period. The man who li
lucky enough to have a garden will
find Just as much time for it a tew
minutes before breakfast and after
working hours as he did when he
used to grind from 10 to 16 hours and
then make garden.
No one likes to go to bed with the
sun still shining. I am for letting
tho clock stay where nature Intended
it to stay and let business adjust it-
elf to the clock.
BLANCHE WHITE.
Value of Old Books.
PORTLAND. March M. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me where I could
dispose of an old volume of 'Paradise
Lost of the date of libi.
MRS. E. O.
It Is stated at bookstores that
there is no general market in
Portland for rare editions. Your best
source of Information as to the value
of your book Is probably Krentana's,
New York city. No other address is
required. It is a fact little under-
tood, however, that age slone does
not give extraordinary value to a
book such as "Paradise Lost." ir
valuable It will be for other reasons.
9ome distinguishing feature In print
or binding not commonly found In
editions of that period.
Many Available Helpmates.
PORTLAND. March 23 (To the
Editor.) In answer to a "mere" man!
He should branch out a little more.
Meet girls who are not college gradu-
tea and may not have so many inns,
but they make the best of wives.
The majority of men take up wnn
he ones "mere man calls ornaments.
In going to -a dance he no doubt
would take the girl that couldn't
cook or care for a baby, Dut si a
ance she's a wonder.
A man wouldn't have to he a bacn-
lor If he looked around a little more.
Take notice of the girl who makes
er own clothes and can cook a good
eal. The right kind or a girl wants
sood. strong, clean sort of a man
nd a good home and not the Im
possible. JUST A U1KU
Address of Composer.
rENDLETON. Or.. March 22. (To
the Editor.) Please Inform me of the
ddress of the music composer, .Airs.
Carrie Jacobs Bond. lNQl'lHER.
Her office address In 74 4 South
Michigan avenue, Chicago, ene nas
homes in Grossmont,Cal., and at 690
Jeffercy avenue, Chicago.
lure for Reckless DrlrlaK.
PORTLAND. March 23. (To the Ed
itor.) The following should be a sure
cure for reckless auto drivers:
Let the relatives of the auto drivers
wear mourning Instead of the victim'
relatives. PACKARD-FORD.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moatacne.
Till KM HAVE ('HANdKD,
Former Prince Joachim of Germany
has hern sent to Jail for throwing a
platter at a man who refused to stand
when "Deulavhlaud Leber Allea" was
being played.
When Pill the Kaiser ruled the Reich,
(The German word for nation).
Mia youthful sons could atsaon buns.
And misbehave Ilka sons of guns.
And all the solid, stolid Huns
Looked on with admiration.
When cuffed and slapped they cried,
"llar-har!
What playful kids those princes ars!"
Whenevor they reeled down the street
With more than they could carrv.
And loudly cried. "One aide! One .i.l.t
i ou common kerla wo can t ahldo,"
The people that they snarled at sighed:
"Their Highnesses are merry
Let's follow them from place to p!cs
And let them biff us In the face!"
A subject beaten by a prince,
Who'd ladled In a hldeful.
Would straight expose his battered
nose,
Tolnt out the spots where princely
blows
Had landed, and would strut snd pose.
All puffed and grand and prldeful.
"Look, Herren," ho would say, "and
see
Just how Mcin PuorMcben walloped
mo."
But now If any prince gets lit.
The Herlln coppers trail him.
And if he fights or quarrels of nights,
or rhoola out the electric light-.
The guardians of the people s rights
Im ont Ineiitly jail him.
They're taking lcsiis now In free
dom. Tho Huns are and they surely need
'em!
Attention, Candidates.
The middle of the road la the surest
place to get lilt by tlio steam roller.
The Hirrereaee.
The railroads need a rnl.e of .rates
and we need an overcoat. The rail
roads will get the raise In rates.
Almost Prehlslorlo.
Old man Shell of Kentucky. Is 1.10
years old. He can remember when.
Hrvan wasn't a candidate for Presi
dent.
(Copjrlrlit. 1!:. Kr th Bn Pj-ni1lc(.
Inc.)
Complexity.
By Graro 1-. Halt.
There Is wine In tlis purple lobules.
And dew on the grapes at dawn.
There In liquid of warm life flowing
In the veins till tho spark has rone;
Tha brooks overrun with nectar.
And th maples yield their flow.
Vet fields burn dry and warm hearts
die
And streams forget to go.
There are glitter and tinseled baubles.
And scones that are wondrous bright.
There are Rem of a princely pricing.
There Is glamour of win and llghi;
There are hearts with th swift blood
beating.
And humana like toy ships
They sail klu seas that ar smooth
with ease i
And anchor at fairy slips.
O. I wonder at life's confusion.
At the complexity of Its schemes:
There's the pessimist with his doubt
ing; ,
The artist with golden dreams:
There's a wall In the winds cc-lcstlal.
Poseidon moans at sea.
r lie vineyards die and the brooks run
dry
And always th mystery.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Yeara Ago.
From Th Orejonlan of Marrh 21, lfS.
Ucrlln After a period of compara
tive calm a shell burst In Ocrman
politics today, when the relchstag de.
cllned tn cnnsratulata Trine Ills
marck on his birthday.
Portland's defeat In the second an-'
nual tournament of th North Paclflo
Whist association was made complete
yesterday, when Tacoma carried away
ths honors.
A large mass meeting waa held last
night In-Allilna and arranged to con
tinue the free ferry for another month
at least.
Judge Chnrlea E. Wolverton of th
state supreme court came down from
Salem yesterday, accompany by Mrs.
Wolverton.
Fifty Tears Ago.
From Ths Orejcnntan of March 24. IS70.
Vice-President Colfax has Just pul-
lslied ill the New York Independent a
descriptive letter itbout Oregon w hich
conceived in a kindly and apprecia
tive spirit toward our state.
Two Oregon young men, A. C Kin
ney of Salem and S. V. Klchanlson of
lamhlll. were graduated In th class
ust sent out by the liellevua Medi
al college. New York City.
The locomotive I'ortlnnd was re
ported on board ship snd about ready
leave for her when the Moses
Taylor sailed from San Francisco.
United Htatea Marshal Young of
his district, tn whoso, rhnrg th
work of taking the census about two
months hence la placed, has received
most of the necessary paper and
blanks.
layflower SoHety,
PORTLAND. March M (To the
dltor.) Please print th names of
the leading officers In th Mayflower
ociety of Oregon. Also Just what
Is a lineal descendant
SL'LSCRIBER.
Ther Is no Mayflower toclety of
iregon, although a large number of
those eligible to the national organ
ization live here. ou have probably
onfiised It with the Mayflower club
f Portland, a small woman's social
rganUiUlon. of which Mrs. Helen
arkson Panghart Is president.
riiFRrc a bamit nrti ix t
tOt R HOMi: t.AUUF.t I
IS T
If you hav, you ought to
know how to make war upon
him before he forages the fruits
of your toll. There are ways
to mak him th sickest, most
sincerely sorrowful bug that
ever planned a raid.
Professor A. L. Ixivett, ento
mologist, of Oregon Agricul
tural college. Is the author of a
series of articles, featured In
each Issue of The Sunday oie
gonian, which deal with the
subject of the tnssct pest of
Oregon. Th professor knows
every bug by Its first name
long na these sognoniens are
and by the spots and stripes
that appertain to said bug.
Moreover. Professor Lovcit
knows precisely how to dial
with, discourage and effectually
dispose of any or all of 'em. If
you have a bandit bug In your
home garden, you ought to read
these.