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. . -",v. ..-.-c ' ' -. S A- j V . ' V : I. ' ". - 7 - - V , - . f - w : - i 1 .:-.Vt V " ;.' Tf... - j 10 , THE 3IORNING OltEGOyiAN, TUESDAY, MARCIT 30, 1920 . ... - - - - - - i ' a I mtwt ra .-n aravnA f .f .AT I ""i"""" LsTABMSURn BT HENRY I- PITT OCR. fr'ubltiched br The OreRnnlan PublleblnK Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. & A. MORDEN. E. B. F1PBR. Manaf-r. fc.dltor. The Orfonlu Is a member of the Asso- aciustv.lv entitled p. ihc u- for pubiica- tlon of all near dispatches credited to it r not otherwise credited In this paper and aIm .V.. I nnhllKMl hfrin. All risnts of republication of special dispatcher J Herein are also rewnea. Sabacrintioa Bate Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) DallT. Sunday tnrlui'ed. one year ... .$ 00 Daily. Sunday Included, six months .. Dally. Sunday Included, three months. Irally. Sunday Included, on month .. l'ally, without Sunday, one year Laily, without Sunday, six months . . . Pally, without Sunday, one month . . . . 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Senator Borah is proclaiming to the world that large .amounts of money are being expended in behalf of Leonard Wood and of Mr. Lowden. He is supported by the New York World, a democratic newspaper which has a candidate of its own for the presidency. The Idaho sen ator does not charge that the money is being corruptly expended how can the people be bonght? but he savs that the purpose of the men - who put up the money is to control - through money the republican na tional convention. It is well enough, in' weighing the " Borah statements, to consider the fact that he is probably in a definite alliance with Senator Johnson to procure the Californian's nomination at Chicago. The terms of that in terestins deal between the two statesmen, if made, would make good reading. Mr. Borah does not pre tend to have exact information as to the Wood expenditures exrept as to the so-called revelations of the World, and except also as to some mysterious telegrams which he has received. He is guessing. It may be a good guess. It would have been an equally safe conjecture that a great many thousand dollars were raised and disbursed in the Roose velt campaign of. 1912, and they came, doubtless, from approximately the same sources as are now supply ing the campaign fund for Leonard Wood. Senator Borah, who was for Roosevelt, did not permit himself to get excited then about the fact that men who had made their money in Wall street wanted to . elect Mr. IJoosevelt, and governed themselves accordingly. Nor do we find that his displeasure is directed toward any senator who neglects his duties at Washington to further his politi cal fortunes. ' The record of Senator Johnson's absenteeism, while going on his oratorical tours of the coun try, is somewhat extensive. It has been found in direct pri . xnary states, more than onc-e, that the candidate who has and spends the greatest sum has as a rule the best chance. It makes no difference whether the candidate pours It out cr his friends for him. "It costs money, and a great deal of it. to reach the voters in a single state. It costs forty-eight times as much In all the states. Publicity, organ : ization, meetings, brass bunds, head quarters, postage, literature, and the like cannot be had for nothing. , It Is given to few men, even candi dates for president, to confine in -themselves all the needed elements of country-wide propaganda. suw ss Senator Johnson has. Shall states men who are fit to be president be silent, and shall their supporters not venture to get together in any plan which involves money, unless they have the gift of gab? Shall the nomination go to Senator Johnson by default? ! The cfuestions as to what is too much money, and what is just X enough money, to use ina political campaign may not be determined by . any fixed rule. Undoubtedly any amount given with an ulterior mo tive, or secret understanding, or any amount expended scandalously or corruptly, is too much money. It is proper that the sources be made . known; but it is not proper to cover with hurtful suspicion and discredit the candidacy of any man for the august position of the presidency . until the facts are known. That is what Senator Borah intends. Leon ard Wood and Frank O. Lowden and all the others in the presidential race are entitled to fair play. The record of both of them justifies the assump tion that they countenance only honest and direct methods in their respective campaigns. - TENDENCIES IN FOREIGN TRADE. Steady rise in rates of exchange with the principal allied countries of Europe indicates that trade be tween them and the United States is approaching a balance. Though still buying heavily, Europe is said to have reduced the volume of manu factured goods and to be importing larger quantities, of raw materials as well as food. At the same time it has much increased exports of manu factures, which come especially from Britain and Germany. British steel exports have grown enormously. The British have a heavy balance in their favor on trade with the continent of Europe, but find an obstacle in the cheapness of foreign money when measured by pounds, thus duplicat ing American experience with dollar exchange. Thus low exchange due to a large excess of exports over imports has begun to react against American in dustry. Having to pay high prices as calculated in Its own . money, Europe restricts its purchases in this country to absolute necessities. It will be inclined to buy more freely when the earnings of its people are increased by larger production and when the value of its money is raised by larger exports. This condition supports the argument that, in order to keea American industry in full operation, American motrnv must fi nance' European industry. The longer this action is delayed, the stronger grip our chief competi tor, Britain, will gain on the trade of Europe, for it has the advantage both In rates of exchange and . in proximity to markets.- British man- ufacturers are making-Herculean ef - forts to increase output, and with great success, as the rapid swelling! of the totals of exports discloses, desire to renew old and lucrative trade relations with Germany helps to explain the movement to revise the reparation terms of the treaty pn a manner which will hasten the economio and industrial revival of the latter country. HEADED OFF. - Mr. Went started out on his great; scheme of making Mr. Hoover Ore- " i ' . j,j . V .vT gons democratic candidate for the presidency with full notice that he was and is not a democrat. He had an idea that the way to make him a democrat was to call him one. Evidently it can't be done. Mr. West yields as gracefully as the circum stances will permit as readily as that, other surprised citizen who picked up the hot end of the poker. The, gentlemen of the University club who are promoting the cam paign of Mr. Hoover for the repub lican nomination are a little more astute. They are asking no ques tions but are going ahead. It ap- ' pears likely that if thev solicited Mr. Hoover's approval for their ac- ' j they would get the same re- j sponse as Mr. West got They know I , Mr- West knew it.' too: but that's another story. Mr. Hoover may not know what he is politically, but he knows what he is not. We can only ?uess whether he will find out soon. Our guess is that he will. But it is beyond oor present resources for speculation as to the future to haz- n rrl a nils u u In u'lial varinua tamn. cratic shouters for Hoover will do when and if he gets the republican nomination. THE EDUCATION OF OLE. It is calculated by A'rgus that one item ii the Seattle the educa- tion of Ole Hanson is costing that city at least $2000 a day. The sum is the estimated daily loss of the city-owned street' railway. It was the redoubtable Ole, who while mayor of Seattle, engineered the purchase of the Stone & Webster properties. , Now the former mayor is peregrinating for the purpose of unloading lectures upon the fascin ated and hero-worshipping east. In the course of his travels- he. spoke in Boston and there, according to newspaper accounts, confessed that whereas he had once -favored munic ipal ownership of all public utilities his experience in Seattle had caused him to change his views. It is a rare man indeed who will admit error as regards mjblic owner sjiip. Its advocates are generally unconvinced by the most pronoun?ed failures. They can always find some hitch somewhere in the system which shows that details of administration were wrong or hampered but which in ' no way affects the principle. Pride of opinion is about the hardest thing in the world to relinquish. The average man will invent a thousand excuses rather than give it up. Mr. Hanson's confession is a val uable contribution to candor in and out of public office. We. would not say that it is worth J2000 a day of our money but to us it is worth J2000 of Seattle's money any and every day in the week. FROM PALMER TO POST. Secretary of libor Wilson having been ill for several weeks, Assistant Secretary Louis F. Post acts in his stead, and uses the opportunity to undo the unfriendly acts vt his col league. Attorney - General Palmer, toward the reds. The course of procedure is this: The department of justice has de clared relentless war upon commun ist revolutionists and arrests them by hundreds, but it has no authority to bring the aliens to trial. It hands them over to the immigration bureau, deputy commissioners give hearings to determine whether they should be deported and issue warrants of de portation where evidence justifies. Commissioner-General CaminaUi us ually approves the wa'rrants and then Mr. Post reviews them. Being a friend of the soviet, he cancels many of them, and sets the reds free to resume their efforts at world-revolu tion. The situation would be laughable if it were not so serious. Mr. Palmer, zealous for protection of democracy against those who would destroy it, ruthlessly catches the reds and pushes them," through one doorway into a cage, then securely locks the door. Mr. Post," overflowing with sympathy with the persecuted prole tariat, opens another door on the op posite side and sets them free. By this means an endless chain of reds passes from the communist centers through the cage and out again to the starting point. Mr. Palmer ac quires much merit with unsuspecting Americans as a defender of the re public and Mr. Post acquires equal merit with the proletariat as a de fender of free revolution, and nobody is injured except the taxpayer, who pays the cost of keeping the chain moving. He is only a capitalistic bourgeois, so why should anybody care about him? If the administration were as deadly an enemy of the revolution ists as it professes to be, it would remove Mr. Post and. his like from office. But that would not accord with the established policy of striv ing tp please two distinct classes of voters, holding diametrically opposite opinions, at the same time. OFFERING BAIT TO THK -BOOKIE." Recruitsr" come so slowly to the regular army when the call of pa triotism is no longer urgent and when the allurements of high wages in civil life are Irresistible that Secre tary of War Baker has found it wise to soften the asperities of initiation for the "rookie." He has issued a circular addressed to the chief of staff, but Intended for the whole army and especially for the desired recruit, in which he tells how the embryo soldier should be treated. These young men are usually "going through their first experience away from home" and "their minds are peculiarly open to impressions." They should be met at the station by "a representative, preferably a commissioned officer," and "a hot meal should be waiting for them," foiL"there is no better first impres sion than that of the 'thought that provides this first essential of com fort." After a good night's sleep they should have "a personal inter view with the organization com mander" who must not "adopt an austere or unapproachable or bully ing tone with threats of dire punish ment for military misdemeanors as yet unknown to the recruit." The rookies" must be protected from the rapacity of the older soldierSj j Upon being' discharged, they should have . some ' fuss made over them. They should depart with words of regret at losing them, of praise of their services, with good wishes for their future from their commanding officer, "whenever possible the divi sion commander," ringing in their ears. This is a remarkable reversal of form since the exciting days of 1917. Then boys fresh from home and mother were handed over to a "hard boiled" sergeant who whisked them across the continent, feeding them lco,d tooi out of tin cans. to strange .. . . . P. j surroundings in an abominable cli j mate and put to grueling work. They allotted part of their pay to their families, subscribed for liberty bonds and thought they would get the rest regularly for spending money. On going to Kurope, they were buoyed up by hopes of letters and presents from home. They. got no pay for six or eight months, and the letters and presents did not come, but in many instances were delivered after their return home, having trav eled acros the Atlantic and back. When ordered home, the men were stuck for weeks in a mudhole at Brest, and any complaint was si lenced by threats that they would be the last to sail for America. Many of them arrived penniless and were saved by civilian organizations from going hungry and without beds. During the war Mr. Baker had the finest opportunity ever offered to any man In. this country to make the army popular. He might have converted the vast majority of the 4,000,000 men who served in the lrmy into boosters for It. He might have made it so attractive that many men would have re-enlisted. He threw away this opportunity. He re served his solicitude for the soldiers welfare, his regard for humanity. for the sham conscientious objectors, He now has to live down the Dast and clumsily starts the laborious task of convincing young men that, if they enlist, they will "be treated with the same consideration as they would have' in any other occupation. He now enjoins a "welcome to our city" and a "good luck and God bless you" attitude on the officers, but their efforts will encounter the silent opposition of the experience of the men who know. MORE ABOUT OPAL'S STORY. ,The editor of the Atlantic Monthly, whose letter, published today, is" an interesting chapter in discussion cur rent of Opal Whiteley and of the mystery with which she has sur rounded her antecedents, and of her story, has come to believe in the au thenticity of the charming and ex traordinary diary, "because," he writes, "of the overwhelming testi mony which confronted all of us who have worked with it." The preponderance of evidence and circumstance well supports his conviction. Even without the ad vantage of the Atlantic editor's ex periences attending discovery of the diary and lacking his latter-day close contact with its author, one who has studied the case must yet incline strongly to coincide with his judge ment. "The Story of Opal," let it. be said quite freely, appears to have been written by Opal herself. The Atlantic editor challenges a quotation of Opal's words which ap peared in an article in The Orego nian of March 3, 1918, wherein Opal referred affectionately to the late Mrs. Whitely as her mother. Mr. Sedgwick believes this "was pub lished on the authority of a reporter who wrote his own story and did not report Miss Whiteley's own words, although he used quotation marks " The assumption is eTroneous. Not only were Opal's own words quoted in the passage referred to, but the quotation was later read to her- by the reporter prior to publication and Opal did not question its correct ness in any particular. Indeed, on that occasion and others Opal said much more than was published about the close Sympathy and affec tion between herself and Mrs. White ley, to whom she always referred to as her mother. One may fairly assume, perhaps, that the Atlantic editor, in calling at tention to other, statements in the article" which he terms not stricly correct, but which have no bearing on the question of Opal's origin, seeks to strengthen the doubt that he would cast on the reporter's exact ness in quoting Opal's statements about her mother. But Opal is not quoted for the statement that birds were in her collection of specimens which the Atlantic editor denies. On the contrary, she is quoted, in the very paragraph to which he draws attention, as saying: "I have never killed birds for my own work, for warm friendship thgobs for them in my heart." The statement, therefore, that "the diarist has always been vio lently opposed to 4cilling living crea tures" by no means indicates error on the part of the interviewer, but falls exactly into line with Opal's statement as quoted in The Orego nian. The impression that Opal pos sessed bird studies was obtained in the same interview, and recent in quiry has developed that members of the University of Oregon faculty received a similar Impression from their talks with Opal. It is certain Opal talked of her study of birds, but it is apparent now that she referred to them in their free state. The Atlantic editor thinks The Oregonian editorially has not stated accurately his position toward Opal and Ker claims. He quotes himself as having written: "About her past the editor knows only what she has told him, but about the manuscript he knows a great deal." The Orego nian based its statements concern ing the Atlantic editor's apparent ac ceptanceof Opal's story about her beginnings on the Introduction to her story as published in the Atlantic, signed with the initials "E. S." Therein the statements were made without qualification that she was the child of parents other than the Whiteleys; that pictures of her own parents which she had possessed were taken from her; that a "foster sister" tore the sheets of Opal's diary into fragments and that the name which Opal bears was originally that of another and real-daughter'of the Whiteleys, for whom, following her death, the present Opal was substi tuted. These statements were pub lished by the Atlantic editor, not as claims set forth by Opal, but as facts. They are all flatly contradicted by a considerable number of reputable persons in Oregon, who say they have known Opal from infancy. For itself and for the present The Oregonian takes Its stand neither with Opal and those who accept her story of her origin, nor with those who declare she has wandered afield from the facts In Its telling. We are content to await the unfolding of the Interesting mystery. . FOR THE SLACKER CITIZENS. There is undeniable truth in these words of Raymond'Benjamln, Pacific coast representative of the repub lican national committee: v No cltlzan has a right to complain if things go wrong. If the best men are not selected for office. If the elector has not registered and voted. Ths citlsen who re fuses to give that much attention to the operation of the government, of assistinr that much In the selection or tne omcers who will impose the taxes and govern him. Is a citizen slacker and la entitled to whatever ui coming to him. The man or -woman who neglects to take enough part in politics to vote at the primaries and at the elec tion, because politics does not in terest him, professes not to be inter ested in the. question who shall gov ern, him, how they shall do it, how much of his income they shall take in taxes and whether that money shall be well or ill spent. Whether he likes it or not, those are his own affairs, and he cannot escape them by neglecting them. Politics Is the means by which these affairs are managed, and will interest itself in him. There is as little defense for the man who abstains from voting be cause parties are corrupt and be cause, if he votes, he must vote for the candidates of parties. If he speaks the truth, it is his duty as a citizen jto do his pai;t in purifying parties, and his inaction brands him as a slacker citizen.- As an individ ual, he can accomplish nothing. The country has been governed by one or the other of two. great parties throughout its history except for brief "eras of good feeling," and the conduct of the government has been a decisive factor in the progress that has been made and in the undoubted decrease in the degree of corruption that has prevailed. There was cer tainly progressive, purifying in fluence at work in the parties, their average of sound thinking, high principlrd men must have risen, or this could not have been said. Bet ter government, better laws, cleaner administration are the product of parties more and more controlled by a higher average of membership, ac tively working to those ends. The progress that has been made was not the work of arm-chair re formers who deplore the evils of the day but never vote, any more than independence was won by colonists who merely sat at home and cursed King George. If the stay-at-homes honestly wish to see politics purified and government made better, they should study the principles of the two great parties, particularly the manner in which those principles have been applied, and should ally themselves with the one which more nearly approaches their own belief. If they agree with neither, they would better combine with other men and women who hold like opin ions with themselves and form a third party than remain idle. 'Con tinued inaction would render them in a degree responsible for the evils which they condemn. By activity within a party they can help to re move those evils. I It is a wonder the officers did not laugh so much as to let the man get away when they found a band of Chinamen pursuing a negro whose offense was theft of a can of peas. The movies miss the really comical tilings of life. Cabbage is coming, from the south by the carload and selling at war prices. Yet there is no better field for growing cabbage than in Oregon and a market that is good for close , to a hundred dollars a ton any year. Spain proposes a tax on apartment house rents with a view of keeping them within reasonable limits. Of course, the landlords will show their stalwart patriotism by constituting themselves the tax collectors. If it was not for politics. Miles Cannon, Idaho's secretary of agri culture, would make a great farmer member of Mr. Wilson's cabinet. He could knock out the rowd be fore the gong sounded. Mr. McAdoo wants his name kept eff the ballot in Oregon. This is one of the most reasonable requests we ever heard and ought to be granted quickly, before he . can change his mind. ' There must be good reasons for presidential pardons for moonshiners or they would not be given. One cannot, however, ask the president for them, so perhaps the recipients will loosen. There were eighty-seven earth quakes in the United States last year, according to the department of agriculture. These were only pre monitory to the big earthquake due November next. Anybody fond of the onion would better put by a box of them, for there is scarcity in sight, and an improper price to go with it. This applies to the lowly potato as well. Now the price of Pullman car berths has been advanced. Strange as it may seem, this is concrete evi dence that the Pullman company has never been on its uppers. Latest reports from Russia are that everybody there is required to work. This should allay fears that the Soviets have anything in common with the I. W. W. Montana men are coming this way to buy dairy cows, too many dry sea sons of burnt ranges being too much. Silage and the milch cow will be their best bet. Says Herb of Os: "Come off, old top!" and Os "corned." . Alas and alack, for many a day 'tis a sad old world, political speaking. Bread and water for a month win take the rash out of that bad man at Issaquah who frightens only women and children. The Great Time in June will be the reason for Portland's first and real housecleanlng, andwe will be a wonderful city. One American industry not much heard from these days is the manu facture of mint juleps. And McAdoo. too, wants off in Oregon! Are those fellows despising this state? - f BY PRODUCTS OF THK TIMES. Story mt Slrlola Falls oa. Uaihceding Ears af Hatter-of-Faet Batcher. They stood in the meat shop, the good - looking, middle aged woman with her assured air, alert glance and gracious manner andvher good-look ing, successful,' complacent husband, who, above all thlnsrs. admired his capable, attractive wife. Aa the butcher received the order and made rafcdy to cut the meat Mrs. Van Arden was minded to tell him the unusual tale relating to the meat be was carving. "I fancy you have not heard the story of the English king, James the first, who loved good food," began the lady. The butcher, a rather inarticulate Individual, vouchsafed no perceptible response. Possibly he grunted. Noth ing daunted, Mrs. Van Arden went on. "It was like this: King James came in from hunting in Epplng for est one day, naturally keen for his dinner, and as he sat at the table he pointed to a loin of beet at one side just such beef as you are cutting (the butcher sawed on) and said the old story goes: " 'Bring hither that surloin, sirrah, for it is worthy a moTe honorable post, not surloin, but Sir Loin,' and then he brought down his ever ready sword upon the meat as the custom was In making men knights." Mrs. Van Arden paused but the butcher sawed on "and repeated, 'Sir Loin, the noblest Joint of all.' " Mrs. Van Arden sought Vainly the butcher's unresponsive countenance for the effect of her climax, but she erely heard him say to her amused husband. "A dollarand a half," as he wrapped the meat. The lady's tale to the bored butcher was Interesting, but unfortunately it has come down to us mors as fiction than fact, sirloin being an adaptation of the French surlongs, and knighting the meat is told in connection with two other kings, Charles II and the redoubtable Henry VIII. Kansas City Star. In a recent Issue of L'Aerophile, Paris, Dr. Guglielminetti discusses the possibility of constructing special cabins for carrying passengers at high altitudes. With the use of the turbo-compressor and the mainten ance of engine power with altitude. It will be possible to fly at tremen dous speed in the rarefied regions of 20,000 feet or thereabouts. The prob lem of such special cabins becomes an important one, therefore. There seems to be no insuperable difficulty In the construction of a cabin which passengers would always find .the same atmospheric conditions as at ground level. The pressure would be maintained by an air pump; heating and ventilation would offer no Insuperable difficulties. The struc tural ditficulties present in the sub marine when pressure of three or four atmospheres have to be met would not have to be faced in aerial navigation where half an atmosphere would be about the maximum to be considered. Ai early as 1903 such a cabin was suggested by M. DeFonvielle before the Societe Francalse de Navigation Aericnne, to be attached to a free balloon. ' At high altitudes the aeronaut was to desoend through the manhole into the air-tight cabin. A safety valve, an air pump, compressed oxygen un derneath the cabin proper, and a hot water system complete the simple ap paratus. Possibly the most Interesting book revealing Stevenson and the environ ment In which he lived, since the publication of his letters and the of ficial life of Balfour is the. "Life of Mrs. Robert Louis Stevenson" by her sister, Mrs. Sanchez, which the Scrib ners have published. Mrs. Stevenson, according to her sister, became a great favorite of her husband's father! who came to rely upon her: "A rather amusing thing happened once when the two were together In Lon don picking out furnishings for the house he had bought for her at Bournemouth. One afternoons they dropped in at a hotel for tea. It had been ordered by the doctors that he should have bicarbonate of soda in his tea, but if he did not see It never know the difference. When the tea was brought his daughter-in-law, having diverged his attention, slyly dropped In the soda. Glancing up. she saw in the looking-glass the re flection of the horrified face of the waiter. When she told this story to her husband he Immediately began to weave a thrilling plot around the suspicion that might have fallen upon her if her father-in-law had happened to die suddenly just then. especially as his son was his chief heir. ' f India is In the midst of one of her greatest famines. Grain is twice as high as it was In 1900, but In spite of this people are not dying as they did then. ' A missionary gives two reasons for the lower death' rate: In the last 20 years the people have learned to work. Formerly one or two members of a family supported ths rest. Now all who are able to work earn something, and so during the years of plenty something has been saved up not much, but enough to help a little. Another reason why India is in a better condition now than in 1900 Is, that the caste system Is breaking down. Now you will find men and women of many castes doing work which formerly was done by one caste alone. High caste Hindoos are coming to see that manual-labor is not a disgrace. The World Out look. An Indianapolis lawyer, who handles many divorce cases in th'e county courts, was approached by a man Who contemplated bringing di vorce proceedings against his wife. "I want to find out if I have grounds for a divorce," he informed the at torney on entering his office. "Are you married 7" the lawyer asked. "Why, yes, of course," responded the client. - "Then you have grounds," the at torney said. Indianapolis Star. s King George's latest photographs show that he has revived a fashion set , long ago by his fatner. King Edward his trousers "are creased at the sides Instead of down the center. This style of crease never attained great popularity, except among a few elderly courtiers. Tailors say' that In their opinion most men will stick to the old front crease. ' i i obur ? banana auai. v. - i Those Who Come and Go. Fighting in the Alps was one of the most spectacular features of 4he late and unpopular war. Ths men who did this fighting for ths Italians were the Alpine chasseurs, and Captain E. B. Bertalot, who commanded a troop of these climbing soldiers. Is at the Hotel Portland. Captain Bertalot is a, fighting parson, for he is pastor of the Waldensian church, a very old Protestant church. The captain's mis sion in America is to see about rais ing funds for some orphanages in the northern part of Italy. He says that the Italian people want Flume and that thsv rln not aDDreciate the atti tude of President Wilson in regard to that place. Conditions in Italy, says the captain, are much the same as in other countries, the salaried class being the principal sufferers because of the high cost of living. "Every day in February it was rero weather, and there were snow storms, varied by an occasional sleet storm. Boston was crippled by the weather. It was not like'a bad storm in Port land for a couple of days, for-it spread over the entire month," says G. H. L Sharp, who is registered at the Hotel Portland with Mrs. Sharp. Mr. Sharp, of Johnson, Sharp & Co., Boston, is a wool buyer and gets considerable of the Oregon wool. There has been very little wool buying of late, ex plains Mr. Sharp, because the market is erratic and is fluctuating so that the buyers are holding off to see what is going to happen. According to Sol Dlckerson, stock man, at the Imperial, the cattle and sheep business is limited by the range rights regulation of tne government. A new man cannot run more than 60 cattle nor a couple of hundred head of sheep unless he can buy the range right from some man who received such a right when allotments were made. Mr. Dlckerson says that he has known of T1000 having tfcen paid for a transfer of a range right. Also he reports that with the prospect of an exceptionally dry summer In sight, stockmen are talking of selling off their cattle as fast as they can. Two wanderers from Brookings, on the edge of the state, are at the Hotel Oregon. They are George Gates and Leo Bach. Brookings Is on Chetco river, gunshot distance from the Call-fornia-oiegon interstate line, and when Brookings people want a good time they drive down she coast to Crescent City, where there are movies. Brookings is supported by one of the finest Bawmill plants In the state, the output being shipped by steamer, as there Is no other means of transpor tation in that section of Curry county. Jack Magladry is probably one of the few people who ever registered at a Portland hotel from Row River. There it stands on the book at the Hotel Portland, plain as day: J. G. Magladry, Row River. Lnless the average Oregonian has a clew, it would require a long time to locate Row River. The town is located on the little stream of the same name, and is In the mountains of Lana county. Aside from the lumber out fit, the town of Row River, with Its almost 50 people, would scarcely be justified for existing. It Is to be expected that a newly married man will be flustered, snil this was the state of mind of Charles Mohler of Teko. Wash., when he ar rived at the Multnomah and forgot to reeister his bride: Mr. Mohler Is here attending the general committee of adjustment of the order of rail road conductors "at the Multnomah. Those participating arc J. B. Rhodes, chairman and secretary; H. F. Keller, Spokane; R. A. Harned, Centralis; C. S. Sandborg, La Grande;. D. A. Danes, Walla Walla. About every man, woman and child In Sherman county is known to C. L. Ireland, which isn't surprising. In view of the fact that he Is the ed itor and proprietor of the t.usorver, which Is published at Moro. When Mr. Ireland tires of the wheat fields he hops down to Portland, registers at the Perkins and makes inquiries at the paper houses as to when the price of news print will get back to normal. After an absence of 15 years, H. G. Swanson of Port Angeles, vvasn.. ais covers there has been a wonderful change in Portland. With Mrs. Swan son he is at the Multnomah. "I am In the automobile business In fort Angeles and naturally take a great irfterest In road building. This com lnir summer we expect to complete the auto road around Lake Crescent, making a good auto road from Port land and Seattle to the Pacific ocean via Sol Due Hot Springs, and we ex pect Seattle interests to rebuild Sol Due." Joseph Morris landed yesterday at the Imperial from Burns. Just now there is on foot a drive to finance a hospital at Burns. At present the nearest hospital is more than SO miles from that town, and a com mittee composed of many prominent citizens has been organized to see ( that Burns people have some prace near at home to go when they are sick. It is admitted that even In Harney county people sometimes be come sick enough to go to a hospital, or are hurt out on the range. R. D. Cooper from Alsca, Benton county, Is In town looking around. The people at Alsea are hoping that some day a good road will be built to that settlemeW, and beyond to Waldport. Once upon a time ine state highway commissioners prom ised, but since then there appears to have developed a disagreement among the commissioners relative to the promise at least, Alsea Isn't get ting any of the promised help. Minneapolis arrivals at the Multno mah are Mr. and Mrs. Frank Boutin and Mr. and Mrs. u. K. Mcuregor. Mr. Boutin has extensive timber in terests in Minnesota and is out in Oregon on a little business mission. Mr. McGregor Is a deafer in lumber and coaL p. C. Garrison, who is the city re corder of the town of Prineville, is registered with Mrs. Garrison, at tne Hotel Portland. By the end of the year the citizens oi rnnemm nuie to see a good roaa completed towaru Redmond, as contractors are now working on the job. Mrs. J. J. . Gorman and daughter. Ruth, are at the Multnomah from Se attle. They are the wife and daugn ter of the vice-president of one of the large salmon packing plants on Puget sound. Crawford Moore, president of the First National bank of Boise, Idaho, Is an arrival at the Hotel Portland, accompanied by his family. Walter B. Jones, state senator for Lane county, is registered at the Im perial. Mr. Jones Is a "hold-over" senator. Manager of the Western Union company at Victoria. B. C, is F. H. Blashfiold; who Is a Multnomah ar rival. , Mrs. C. A. Bell, whose husband is manager of the Hood Rived hotel at Hood River, is at the Multnomah for a few days. One of the several Stanfield broth-j ers, H. L. Stanfield, is at the Imperial i from Echo, Or. 1 Ore grow Repsjbllraas ttksald Is4arM Fit Jtmm for Vlee-Preeldent. PORTLAND, March . (To the Editor.) Ifthere Is any one thing that will dMlrnv tha liaeftllneaS of the direct primary law In Oregon it is I the silly attempt of nincompoops to get their names upon ths ballot for the great office of vice-president of the United States. I understand that three ambitious and self-advertlslnc g-entlemen have already filed their declarations of can didacy. None of them is known to the people of our state, and none of them has by any conspicuous act or val uable service established af national reputation. It may be assumed that none Is worthy of consideration In connection with the place that has been filled by such men as dams, Jefferson. Calhoun. Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Are the republicans of Oregon then to be compelled to vote for one of these three simply bemuse they have had the temerity to offer themselves, and is there no alternative? Must our delegation to the Chicago con vention be obligated under the Ore gon law to support some cheap fellow who has thus succeeded in getting a few votes in the primary election? Mcglomania, itch for notoriety, shameless effrontery. unbalanced Judgment, shallow egotism whatever name is given to the cau?e or motive the result is that our state Is In danger of being disgraced by having its delegates bound to vote for an un worthy man. In 1918 the Oregon delegation at the Chicago convention had the duty under the law to vote for such a can didate for the same exalted position. Fortunately for their dignity and the good name of the state, it turned out that the convention nominated its candidate for vice-president by ac clamation and no ballot was taken, so that there was no opportunity to cast a vote for one who was not be fore the convention. He must.have been sorely disappointed, however. for to be mentioned In connection with the great office would have brought bim as near to human greatness as his cunning and petty mind had con ceived it possible to approach. I would like to go as a delegate; to the convention If I could take a part In selecting as candidates for presi dent and vice-president men of high Ideals and broad statesmanship, en dowed by nature and equipped by ex perience and training with te al most superhuman qualities required to fulfill the duties In this hour of supreme need. During the period ol the next administration the sick and war-weary world will look to our government for advice and Inspira tion, and our own domestic affairs will require the highest degree of wisdom and prudence in manage ment. The country Is entitled to our very best men, and perchance the one we select as vice-president may some time be called upon to take the chief place. Never In the history of our nation has there-been greater need for big men In these positions. I trust that The Oregonian will urge upon the republicans the duty of de feating these three ambitious self seekers and electing a renl man as the candidate for vice-president. CHARLES H. CAREY. SOME REMARKS AUOIT IIOOtEK Both Admiration said DUfavor Km preaaed by Oregon rwssssfrs. Dallas Observer. But our original and main reason for opposing: the nomination of Mr. Hoover Is that he is an International ist one who believes that America's duty Is to reculate the affairs of the world. Our idea that it Is Rulna: ti keep us Americans pretty busy taklnic care of our own affairs. Meddling In European muddles slimitd be avoided. Mr. Honver comes naturally by these supposed sentiments, for he has spent most uf his life In foreign countries. Therefore, the Observer reiterates lis opposition to Mr. Hoover, and prtlcu larly to hia nomination by the re publicans. Likewise w shall oppose his election if he is nominated by the acmuuraia. For Old I'Sng u ne. Newberg Graphic. While the fellows in both the old parties who are In the game for what they get out of It hoot at the name of Hoover as a presidential possibility. It is surprising how many voters in both parties one connects with In conversa tion who assert that they are for Hoover regardless of politics. Prefers a Mevrrlek. Athena Press. If Hoover Is neither a republican nor a democrat, It Is distinctly not disqualification for the White House. For once, we would rather have a president belonging to the nation than one belonging to a party. Handsome Ilerble. Monmouth Herald. Hoover's chances are looking up a bit. The New York Sun refers to him as handsome, a remark that Is espe cially pertinent now that so many women have tho vote. Prlneelonlnn Praiae. Roscburg News. It is said that at least half of the professors at Princeton are for Hoover for president. For seven years the country has been surcharged who the Prlncetonian brand of wisdom, and it is not likely that pedagogical praise from that quarter will aid anyone upon whom it is bestowed. DOG SALMOX MARKKT VA.VISHINU tanned Product That Once Hold la South, Now Mcorned by Negroes. PORTLAND. March 29. (To the Ed itor.) The writer has just returned from the east, where he found the canned salmon market, at least ss concerns the dog salmon product, in a very deplorable state. It is not many years ago since my uncle, Samuel Gorman, contracted with J. W, Cook to can dog salmon and he. In his turn, contracted with Hes Caples, who made many trips to the headwaters of the Lewis river witli his ox team, armed with a pitch fork, and who undertook to supply all the fish required at 12.50 a fish. At this time-the entire pack found a ready market In the south, where It was eagerly bought up by the colored folks. The wages of the colored folks being then but 50 cents a day, the better grades of fish were entirely out of their reach. How times have I changed! Now, they are getting $6.50 to I li a day, and if a storekeeper has the temerity to suggest dog salmon they go straight up In the air and make as If to draw a razor on him. I regret my Inability to suggcat a solution to the packers' difficulties, but sincerely hope that one will be found. HENRY GORMAN. History of the Emerald. Indianapolis News. The emerald has been known since early times both In Europe and In cer tain parts of the orient, where Its at tractive color and rarity have en dowed It with the highest Tank and a varied lore. Its name may be traced back to an old word which appeared In Greek as smaragdo. mentioned by TheophrastuB over 300 years before the Christian era. In Latin it appears as smaragdus, seen In. the writings of Pliny, who particularized some what on Its properties and supposed medical virtues. He was even shrewd enough to suapect Its Identity with the much more common beryl, al though 18 centuries elapsed before this suspicion was derived by scien tific proof. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jaaaes 1. Msittisa, ' TO A SOQ SPARROW. Morning, Mr. Sparrow, Swinging to and fro. Caroling a song of spring. Through tbjsT falling snow. What Is that you're singing? "Skies will soon be bluer Wish that we could ever ba) As full of hop as you. Long before the robin Takes his northward wsy. You srs here to pipe the cheer 1 Of flower-sprinkled May. Still the winter tempests Blow like Jill possessed: But nothing chills ths hops thrills Your dauntless Uttls breast. that Last to leave In autumn. First to corns In spring, In snow or hall, or breeie er ml You sing and sing and slngl Cynic hluejays flout you. Crows sneer, dour and glum: Still you shout your tidings out Of better days to com! Even wben your happy rropliccies go wrong. Beneath the lea of some great tree You lift your voire in song. And. though, the enowflakes whiten Your sturdy little wing. Your lilting vole proclaims "Rejoica! On sparrow makes a spring!" lasaaase. Apparently It Is sgalnst ths Isw to' sell any kind of alcohol but wood al cohol, The Raaner Vp. Mexico has had 62 revolutions In 3 years. But Just gtv Germany a little mora timet A fiood Tlaae tsntag. The problem of colored unemploy ment In the south will soon be re lieved hy the demand for delegates to the G. O. P. convention at Chicaco. (Copyright, 1!0. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) In Other Days. Tnestj-flve Years Age. Frem Ths OrefnnUn of March 36. lMI. Tokio. The official declaration of an unconditional armistice with China was made public by Hi emparor of Japan today. Nice. Ths Alls won a victory ovar the Brlttanla today over a triangular course of 30 miles, eight turns In a piping breese. Ths time was I hour, ;J minute and la second", besting tho UrittsnU by 1 minutas, 17 seconds. The Oregon Railroad A Navlgstlon company yesterday completed nego tiations by which a line of steam ships will be established between this port and Hong Kong, Yokohama, Kobe and Nagasaki, with monthly sailings. Huli-hcrs have advancer tha pries of porterhouse steak and prune roast of beef 1- to il cents per pound. Round steak remains at three pounds tor ii cents. Farmers are selling Iilks at 3't cents live weliiht. I If I jr. 1 ears Asa. I'rnin The OregonUtl of Mar-i :tn, 1;n . Washington. The supreme court today affirmed the decision of the court of appeals of Kentucky that a state nuiy levy s lux upon shares of a natloiiul bank and euforco coil so tlon. Washington. Senator George H Williams Male that the house com mittee has asreed to the Portland, Astoria & Mc.Mlnnvlllc railroad bill, which will pass as soon as It can ha matched. HalUax. N. S. The steamer City of Cork, from Liverpool for New York, has 'arrived, having taken the south ern pasnugfl In search of the t'lty of Boston, without success. DIMTIIIIU TIO roVT TOO IIK.H Almost Any Kierlmeal Justified By Overlapping Milk ItoBles. PORTLAND, March 59. (To the Editor.) Regarding the local milk situation, please permit a few r imirks. At my ranch, within an hour's drive, we produce rral cream, receiv ing therefor anywhere from $12.50 to about $15 per ten gallons, or an aver age of less than $1.50 per gallon. In the city my wife paya $0 cents per half pint or $2.40 per gallon for "whipping cream" which does not "whip." As for quality the city pur chased article hears little resemblance to the country product and the dif ference In such resemblance mean a profit to someone. On the other hand the distributers still cling to an antiquated, useless and wasteful system of overlapping milk routes "twelve milk men to th block" and tho expense, aa alwaya. Is borne by the consumer and the pro ducer. Why not let the grocer deliver the milk along with the bread? I am fully aware of the difficulties Involved and that only a radical change, amounting to practically a one-man control, could accomplish an Ideal distrlbutlnK system, yet why not try out almost any system rather than tolerate the present lack of one? ROBERT G. HOFEK. en tiM':mkt. Could we but know how much of Joy or pain Tho future holds for us In lows or gain, Perhaps we'd turn aside and choos some other way, Than that In which our footsteps walked today. At morn the cup we quairea seeoitu bright and clear. Down In Its depths no bitter dregs appear: But soon perforce, all things semea contrawlse. We grieved because some cherished wlhh of ours was not auiiiu. To learn In after yeara t was tsn- drrest lova, That had the hurtful wish denied, Theicfore In confidence we say, Hold thou my hand; sometimes ins way Seems lono and drear. Hut with my hand In thine wnat neea I fear? Some chastisement perhaps must ne4s be mlns. The dross ta burn, and thus th gold refine. N. 8. Keasey. Where T.oae Fare Has Joker. NEWPORT, Or., March 2$. (To th Editor.) Anothtr increas in Port land atreet car farea la facing th public regardless of th fact that San Francisco and Loa Angelea, th two largest cities on tha coast, still charge only S cents, and ths sonlng system will probsbly be the result In Pittsburg. Pa., my horn city, w hav th son system and there is a Joker In lt Ths first son in cludes anywhere within two miles of th center of th business district and ths residential aertlon Is therefor In tha second sone. Th first son ooata 6 cents and the aecond son 10 csnts unless chocks, eight for " cents. ar purchased. Going toward ths crty you pay as you enter and going from the city you psy ss you leave. Ther fore. If anybody gets on a car In th second sone and rides only two blocks he must pay the second-zone fsr. JOSEPH PAXTEKouN. I .' -"' ' .l '-.