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8 TIIE UrORXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, APRIE 3, 1920 ESTABLISHED BV HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. i--. unpHjinH. Oreeon. P. A. HORDES. E. B. PIPER. Manager. kditor. The Oregonlan la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all newi dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatcher herein are also reserved. . Subscription Bates Invariably to AdTance. (By Mall.) Uallv. Sunday Included, one year . . . . Imlv. Sundav Included, six months . . Dally. Sunday included, three months. Dally, Sunday Included, one month . Dally, without Sunday, one year . . ; . . Dail v, without Sunday, six months . . . Dallv. without Sunday, one month .$8.00 . .'JS . 2.1'5 . ..75 . t oo . 3.23 . .60 Weekly, one year i'0 Sunday, one year i . . . " 1.00 (By Carrier.) Dally. 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W. leader, was both a tribute to me i Ion z-suf ferine patience of the Amer- ican people and a confession tnati pressed envelope from the Johnson the I. W. W. and kindred revolu--lfor president campaign committee tionarV bodies had tried that pa tience to the breaking point. The American people are so loath to re strict the freedom of citizens to ex press opinion and to combine for the promotion of any new idea, they are so firmly opposed to limitation of the right of workmen to unite tor betterment of their condition, mat for vears they permitted the I. "W. W. to prow unhindered. Not until its obstruction of the draft and of war industries plainly revealed us aan- gerous, disloyal character am tneyicje found in envelopes No. 1 and invoke the law against it. and tnen I both nation and states prosecuted its members with mild discrimination, Not until the I. W. W. murclerea four men who had fought for Amer- reckless with its stamps and sta ica was the conviction forced upon tionery. But stay. There may be the public mind that mercy to sucn miscreants was misapplied. if.c Laundy verdict is an expression of that conviction. Pretense that the government is bo conducted as to enable the em-1 ployer to oppress the workmen and as to deny workmen justice in the courts was proved false by the man ner in which Vanderveer was per mitted to conduct Laundy's defense. He was given more latitude than would have been permitted in the courts of any other country, and he abused it shamefully. Laundy's friends crowded the courtroom, and by their presence and conduct they evidentlv aimed to influence the jury. The jury was composed in large part of working men, whose natural inclination would be to acquit a man who was being wrong- fully prosecuted for mere excess oflanl1ln the Morning Astnrlan of this morn- . 4. . j , ,I'nB- They spurned Will as a Standard- seal in the cause of hien whom he believed to be oppressed. Division of opinion in the early ballots, the long deliberation and the strong rec ommendation to clemency which ac companied the verdict of guilty are plain indications of the strength of this sentiment and that it yielded slowly to reason, which left no doubt of guilt. Full exposure at this trial of the teachings and practices of the I. V. V. will have a most healthy effect. The defense that it seeks only to relieve the working class from economic oppression is proved I false, and its true character and I purpose are clearly revealed. It aims) not to raise a subiued class to equal- ity with other classes, but to estab- lish the supremacy of one class over all others, to take away one man's property and give it to another, and to do this by violent, revolutionary means. . When Vanderveer and his friends raise the cry, as they doubtless will, that Laundy's conviction is a blow at liberty, it should receive no atten- tlon except to be denounced as false. The verdict is a blow at an organ-1 ization which aims to destroy liberty and to subject the American people to the rule of a merciless ollgart-hy simnar- to mat wmcn nas ruinea demands the destruction of the I. W. W. and of all similar con- t piracies. A THRILLING RESCUE. One of Portland's "Soldiers of the Common Good," as active advocates of single tax hereabouts were once poetically called, aspires to election as delegate to the democratic con- vention, where he would impress the beauties of his doctrine upon several hundred other delegates in - frantic eearcn lor an attractive national issue. It is not the purpose herein to condemn the ambition of this sol- dier of the common good but rather to invite otners to marvel with us over the pertinacity of man's opln- ions. We have just obtained access to an extract from the financial report of the commissioner of the British Columbia city of Vancouver. It will be remembered that in one absorb- ing campaign in Oregon, Vancouver was presented as a snining uiustra- tion of the economic soundness of - single tax. Vancouver had what passed for single tax. It had been extraordinarily prosperous and its building growth had been marvelous, The city was spending barrels of money ior municipal Denents. This same aspiring democrat was one with whom Vancouver was a round mouthful. But along about 1913 many land owners in Vancouver quit paying taxes. . One tax sale was tried in 1916 but it was not a success. No- body seemed to want the tax-ridden land. Early in 1918 it was discov . ered that $790,000 In treasury cer tificates could not be met, a new loan could not be secured oh favor- able terms, and.it was also found impossible to pay $102,000 in interest has warded off the bolshevlst men due in London. ace and has enlisted American capi Then the provincial government tal in his country's development. It . decided to abolish all boards and of- bids fair to be first of the new states fices created under the municipal! act and place municipal affairs in . the hands of a commission. The " provincial government arranged for the payment of the certificates and defaulted interest and authorized the city to borrow mpney from the banks to pay its floating indebtedness. The tax on improvements was restored. It was a grand rescue. In 1919 the city struggled to pay off arrearages and came within $190,000 of making ends meet. Says the commissioner in his report: I really believe that In the next two or three years, at the outside, theomunlcl pality will be back In splendid financial position. This has been largely brought about by the abolition of single tax, and the assistance . received from the govern ment enabling us to borrow money at a much lower rate than the municipality had been paying. In 1018 and 1919 Improvements were taxed one-third of their assessed value. We only assess lands and buildings here. Now. if a piece of land was assessed for $500. and had on it a building assessed at $3000, the owner would pay taxes on $1300. It is possible that owing to the increase in, wages and salaries, the im provement tax will go up to 50, per cent of the assessed value this year. One of the worst evils the municipality had to contend against was single tax. "With Its abolition the municipality at once began to pick op, and, I have every reason to believe, will continue to do so until it is again on easy street. One is now tempted to ask, 'vVhy in a single taxer? But of what avail ts the auestion? The soldier of the common good herein referred to, it a r . ' . " " i nwi. iui6much, o a. wtuiviLi fti. Not only has he had the experience ot Vancouver before him as regards single tax but he has had the in efficiency of our own national ad ministration before him for seven years as regards democratic politics. Why is a democrat, for that matter? Yet many still are democrats. Tut, tut for facts and unpleasant exper iences. Give us unproved theories and lots of them, plentifully larded with hope. RECKXKSS! The Oregonian acknowledges re .: this dav o a stamped and ad containing an article on the unde- Sireability of Herbert Hoover as a candidate for president. It also acknowledges receipt from the Johnson for president committee of a second envelope, also stamped and properly addressed, conttftning the same article found in envelope No. 1. It furthermore acknowledges re ceipt of a third envelope from the same source, properly stamped and addressed, containing the same artl No. 2. s the onlv srenuinelv Dovertv- striken, presidential campaign corn- mittee Mr. Johnson's organization is KOUnd business methods in this seem Ing extravagance. Can it be true that he Burlesonized postal system is. falling down and to be safe one must send mail in triplicate? Maybe that is why the once volumlnou Poindexter publicity material has ceased to come. Oh, well, if the postal service is careless only with the press agents' efforts any forthcoming campaign of denunciation will be conducted by others than the newspapers. SUSPENSE. The following appeared in the Astoria Evening Budget last "Wednes day: Indicative of the attitude of the stand- pat republican papers toward Herbert Hoover as a presidential prospect were the lead editorials in the Sunday Oregonian bearer. There is nothing particularly sur prising about that. The remarkable part of it Is that their condemnation was phrased In exactly the same language, even to phrase, word and syllable. If they must use the canned editorials which come out of republican headquarters, we suggest that they be careful and not use the same ones, else their readers might get the im pression that they delegate their thinking to Jonathan ourne. The "lead editorial" in the Sunday Oregonian preceding publication of the foregoing paragraph was on an historical subject and Mr. Hoover's name was not mentioned therein, nor was Mr. Hoover or his candidacy discussed editorially by The Ore- goman on that day. The editorial in the Astorian on Wednesday did concern Mr. Hoover's candidacy. It offered opinions" of Mr. Hoover and the league of na- tions that are wholly foreign to any I Phraseology, opinion -or implication I expressed by The Oregonian on (Sunday or on any other day. We shall now await Information I as to whether the Budget has fallen I into an unaccountable error or has I purposely misrepresented for polit- 1 'cal or other mysterious purpose. If the former, of course a correction I will be made. If the latter, silence I will be its watchword. 1 GREAT UKADKR8 OF MAxii NATIONS, When the historian to whom time Klves a true Perspective of the great war comes to measure the men whom it brought into prominence, he may easily decide that the states men of the small far outshone those of the great nations. He will com pare what men accomplished with the materials at their disposal and will judge accordingly Premier Venizelos of Greece was driven from office by a traitor king and by the divisions among the allies which prevented them from driving out Constantine until Russia had de pdsed the czar and until the United States had intervened. Yet he formed an army to which all liberty loving Greeks rallied, he became virtual ruler of the country after Constantine's expulsion, he organized the people for an effective part in defeat of Bulgaria and he has won for Greece the whole Aegean Coast of Macedonia and the Smyrna district of Asia Minor. He has put Greece in a position to win naval and com I mercial supremacy in the eastern Mediterranean, and again to become a great power. Thomas Mazaryck. president of Czecho-Slovakia, kept alive the ha- tional spirit of Bohemia despite all efforts of the Hapsburgs to crush it, and the first results were the whole sale desertion of Bohemian troops I to Russia, which contributed much to Austria's defeat in 1916. He or- gartized the Czechs in Russia for their heroic, fighting march to the Pacific ocean, won recognition of his country by the United States, organ ized Czech divisions to fight in Italy - and when the Hapsburg empire col - 1 lapsed he brought about a bloodless revolution At Prague. First presi I dent of the republic, he has organ I ized it under incredible difficulties to &et firmly to its feet. General Pilsudski gathered around him the Polish troops in the Russian army when the bolshevists betrayed I Russia to Germany and, after fight- I ing first one, then the other, of I Poland s enemies, he was elected I first president of the Polish, republic after Germany surrendered. He has gathered together the broken frag ments of his people, organized a gov ernment and beaten attacks of en emies on all sides. His army of half a million ill-armed, half-clad, half starved soldiers has just beaten back the onslaught of six times its num ber of red soldiers continuing through more than a month, and has ! made the soviet glad to discuss peace. He found his country with railroads, factories, mines wrecked, with thousands of houses In ruins, almost devoid of livestock and with hundreds of thousands of unem ployed ideal conditions for spread of bolshevism but he purged it of the ptest and is rebuilding amid the ruins. However proud the gTeat powers may be of what they did to destroy autocracy, their achievements do not compare with those of these leaders of people who had little beyond their unquenchable love of liberty to sus tain them. wh.son and A Third term. In view of the silence of President Wilson as to whether he will seek re-election in view also of the reluc tance of other candidates to enter the field for the democratic nomina tion, which is a sign that he may yet declare his candidacy, peculiar interest attaches to the, speech of Representative Humphreys of .Missis sippi on the subject of a third term. Proclaiming himself a democrat Who had loyally supported the president, Mr. Humphreys expressed regret that Mr. Wilson had remained silent and had "permitted so many of his friends, including members of his own cabinet, to advocate publicly his re-election to a third term and, by remaining silent, Allowed the coUniry to believe that he was ready to break the ancient precedent." Mr. Humphreys, in tracing- the his tory of the precedent, assembled a mass" of authority- which should daunt any but the most egotistic and ambitious. There was an article in the New Tork Tribune of September 14, 1874, saying that President Grant had 'allowed the public to believe that a third nomination would be agree able to him" and describing the pro posal as one "that contemplated a fundamental change in the form and policy of our political institutions." It said that the question would turn upon "whether it would be prudent to confide to any chief magistrate more power than could accumulate in his hands in the course of two consecutive terms," and added: We shall not ask whether General Grant should be re-elected, but whether any man. however popular and capable, should be elevated to the chief magistracy of thLi country for more than two consecutive terms. The decision of the republican convention of 1876 went against Grant. So did that of 1880 against a third non-consecutive term. Mc- Kinley followed the first precedent by writing after having begun his second term: I not only am not and will not hn a candidate for a third term, but I would not accept a nomination for it if it were tendered to me. Having served three and a half years in succession to McKinley, Roosevelt vwrote on the night of his election to a second term in 1904: The wise custom which limits presidents to two terms regards the substance and not the form, and under no circumstances will I be a candidate for or accept an other nomination. After four years in retirement Roosevelt was overpersuaded by his friends to seek a third term in 1912 and then explained that "to any reasonable man the precedent has reference to a third consecutive term" for this reason: It grew out of the fact that a president of the United States under the convention system of electing delegates can, if he Knows now to use the machinery at his disposal, renominate himself, even though the majority of his party Is against him. But after he has been out of office for a term he has lost control of that ma chinery. The people did not accept that explanation and by defeating him declared against a third non-con secutive term, as at conventions they had already declared against a third consecutive term. Though Mr. Wilson has written much on American history, Mr. Humphrey said: He has never Intimated in any of Ms books that he sulisrrlbed to the principle, taucht by most of the fathers, of the in eligibility of the president to a third elec tion. From "Congressional Government" the speaker q-uoted: Except In so far as his power of vete constitutes him a part of the legislature. the president might not inconveniently be a permanent otiicer. , In another place Mr. Wilson says: One cannot have too much preparatory training ana experience who is to fin so high a magistracy. It Is difficult there fore to perceive upon what safe ground of reason is built the opinion of those per sons who regard short terms of service aa sat-redly and peculiarly republican In prin ciple. If republicanism is founded upon good sense, nothing 'go far removed from good senso can be part and parcel of it. By so saying Mr. Wilson pro nounced the judgment of Washing ton, Jefferson and Jackson to be "far removed from good sense." The constitutional convention fixed ' the term at four years with the way open to a second term, as a compromise with those who proposed seven years with Ineligibility for a second term. Jefferson at first favored the latter plan, but said: The service for eight years, with a remf to remove at the end of the first four. comes nearly to my principle as corrected by experience. Lafayette was disappointed that the constitution did not declare the president ineligible for re-election tor, said Mr. riumpnreys, he- was fearful that some ambitious' man might by successive re-elections t nally Convert the government into a real monarchy." Washington dif fered with him and Jefferson "as to the expediency or necessity of rota tion" arid wrote to Lafayette in 1788: I can see no propriety in precluding our selves from the services of any man who in some great emergency shall be deemed universally most capable of serving the public. That referred to a second four year term as against a single seven year term. Only with great effort did his friends convince him. in 1T92 that a great emergency demanded his re-election; though the republic was weak, he was regarded as its creator and monarchists predicted that it would fall apart on his re tirement. In that year he had in tended writing a farewell address and wrote to Madison asking him to draft it as he outlined. In that letter he spoke of "a rotation in office" as being "more congenial with the ideas of liberty and safety," plainly implying opposition to con tinuance of the president in office for successive terms. The draft of the farewell address which he finally delivered four years later was made by Alexander Hamilton, who favored election for life, and to that fact is attributed omission of any allusion to the subject. The situation of the republic was no less perilous in 1796, and dangers from abroad still threatened it. The emergency was held to demand his continuance in office and ' John Marshall says: . It was believed to be apparent that the election would be unanimous when he an nounced his resolution to withdraw from the honors and toils of office. When Jefferson was about to enter upon his second term, he wrote in January, 1805, to J. Taylor against a thtrd term: The danrer Is that the Indulgence and attachments of the people will keep a man In the ehalr after he Deoomes a aoiaro. that re-elections through life shall become habitual, and election for life follow that. He quoted the example of Wash ington, said he should follow it and Predicted that "a few more prec edents will oppose the obstacle Of habit" to any man who seeks a third term. A great emergency might well have been pleaded as cause for Jefferson's re-election in 1808 to a third term, for war with Britain was imminent, and many states passed resolutions in favor of it, but he stood firm, "believing that a defi nite period of retiring from this sta tion will tend materially to secure our elective form of government" and holding it a duty "to strengthen by practice a principle which I deem salutary." Believing with Jefferson that to extend the term beyond one re-election would in effect be to elect the president for life, and that would mean the end of liberty as we under stand it,' Mr. Humphreys passed to the example set by Jackson. The latter in his first message recom mended direct election of president and said: It would , seeni advisable to limit the service of the chief magistrate to a single term of either four or six years. He repeated that recommendation in each message for eight years and in his last message he said: All history tells us that a free people should be, watchful of delegated power and should never acquiesce In a practice which should diminish their control over it. Lincoln never experienced the temptation to seek a third term, but of him the speaker said: I do not beileve' that Lincoln's heart could ever have entertained for a moment the suggestion that he should attempt the overthrow of the palladium Of our liber' ties. It Is unthinkable that the voice which spoke the Immortal words at Gettys burg could ever have been tempted into an utterance which runfl so counter to all the snirit of our Institutions and jangles, so harshly out of tune with the teaching's of the fathers. Wh the temptation to seek a third term came to both Washington and Jefferson, the republic was young,, weak and surrounded by enemies, and Europe was aflame with the French revolutionary wars yet they saw no emergency which demanded their continuance in of fice. Events proved them to be right. The republic i3 now strong and firmly established, and the world is calming down after war. No emergency exists which would justify departure from a wise custom. An almost medieval issue is raised in British Columbia in discussion. now pending, of the provincial gov ernment's proposal to change the "rule of the road" In conformity with the practice in the United States. Canadians, being accustomed to keep to the left instead of to the right as we do, are asked to reverse the custom in the interest of tourist travel. The Victoria Colonist, which is leading the opposition, contends that the change will be made only at the risk of life or limb, and de clares that "sympathy with the de sire to bring large numbers of tour ists to the province does not run to the extent of penalizing ourselves and jeopardizing the lives of our people in order to put into voghe a rule of the road which prevails else where." The British rule is sup ported by the weight of precedent; the right-hand turn was the out growth . of necessity in a frontier country in which it was more im portant to keep from plunging from the road into an abyss than it was to avoid collision with the passing vehicle. But it is now the rule of more than 100,000.000 people, and if there is to be uniformity it would seem reasonable that Canadians should make the change a con tingency that, judging from the vio lence of the opposition, is unlikely tp occur for some time. Secretary Daniels protests against misleading" reports of what he told the senate naval affairs committee at a secret session, about the Japan ese menace. The secretary ought to know by this time that these mys terious star chamber sessions do more to spread alarmist and exag gerated reports than the truth. frankly expressed in open meeting, ever did or will do. A federal prohibition agent lays down the rule that a special permit is necessary even for the - manufac ture of vinegar. We await with ex pectancy -a ruling to prohibit cu cumbers from getting pickled. Perhaps the discovery that light, not heat, controls Vegetable growth will explain why war gardens within the glare of the arc lamps' flourished better than their neighbors in the shade of the house. The report of a discovery in New Mexico .of prevolcanic skeletons in a prehistoric house .was revival of the prehistoric joke on the day that prehistoric "sucker" naturally would bite. Klamath Falls is putting on too much "dog" altogether with its freight-handling trouble. Yet, in proportion, its affair beats New Tork. A Seattle man is advertising small locomotives for sale and there 8 a chance for the owner grown- blase on gasoline. When he comes to Oregon, Sir Oliver Lodge will find all the spirits in bottles and jugs, well under con trol. . If there is anything in tradition or superstition, that Easter hat can not radiate for a number of Sundays. What's that? A near tornado Klamath? As if such could be Oregon! This will be the year of the dream of dollar hops. Wash, day La Michigan, BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES. "- Masterpiece ( Art by Habeas Cleverly Hidden During War. How Peter Paul Rubens' greatest masterpiece, "The Descent from the Cross," whicE had hung for years in the famous Antwerp cathedral, was hidden, during the German occupation of Belgium has just been described by Henri Maurice, famous Belgian engi neer, whd remained in the city dur ing the period of German possession. The painting, so ' precious, accord ing: to art authorities, that "no money can buy it," was taken from Its place In the cathedral when the Germans were approaching- the city and. hidden lit a dugout on the outskirts of the town. In order to avoid suspicion it was removed from its frame, rolled. and concealed in, a common piece of canvas wrapping cloth. "It was evident the Germans knew of the presence of the valuable picture and would lose no time" in searching for it," said M. Maurice. "We punled many hours over the best place to hide it and finally de cided to conceal it In the wall of one of the rooms of my house. 'As the Germans were actually en tering Antwerp we began work on the place. We removed the picture from the dugout without discovery, although it was actually inspected by a German non-commissioned officer who didn't realize Its value. We con cealed it. and although for four years the Invaders made determined efforts to find) it they were unsuccessful." . Dr. Wo If sang Kapp. who recently came into world notice as a result of the revolutionary coup In Germany, was born in the German settlement at Slsterdale, Tex., an mad-e his home in the Slsterdale community until he was 16 years old, old settlers there say. It Is asserted that Dr. Kapp's father Was art exiled intellectual from Germany. He -vas known In Sister dale as Professor Kapp. He went to Slsterdale In 1861 with his bride, di rect from Germariy. For several years Professor Kapp farmed on art extensive scale In that locality. He kept in close touch with old friends in Germany by means of correspondence. When the civil war came on he joined the confederate army. During the progress of the war he died. In the meantime six children had been born' to him and Mrs. Kapp. One of the daughters married a German named Wipprecht and they lived at Bryan, Tex., for several years. Another daughter mar ried and moved to Colorado. When Wolfgang- Kapp was 15 years old he went to Germany with- his widowed mother. Another sort, Albert. andi two unmarried daughters accom panied her. They never returned to Texas. From time to time old friends of the family here received letters from Mrs. Kapp and Wolfgang. The letter told of his education and of his ambition to enter politics. That he should have attempted to restore to power the old government of Ger many is not a surprise to the people here who knew him as a boy. They say he was self-willed andi of pro nounced political opinions even Instils youth. The village painter was painting the inside walls of the church and was getting on remarkably Well with the work, his brush Keeping time to a lively Jazz tune which he was whistling, The vicar walked in and exclaimed: "John, you should not whistle in church." "I can work better while whistling, sir," said John. "Then whistle a hymn, tune," said the vicar. "Very well, sir," replied John, and commenced whistling that well known tune, "The Old Hundredth," very slowly, his brush alio keeping tune. The vicar hastily went up to hi in and said: "Whistle the other tune, John, of else the painting will never be done." London Ideas, Wichita, Kan., which has a sensitive musical taste, complains that the re cent San Carlo performance of "Madame Butterfly" in that City was marred) by the use of an 8-year-old child In, the role of "Trouble," the 2-year-old heir of Lieutenant Pinker ton and Cio-Cio-San. Similar criticism was heard in Kansas City lat fall because the Chicago singers used a big doll In that perplexing role. These disappointing shifts are not made, however, for convenience, but from necessity. Real 2-year-old children have been tried in that part many times, but usually misbehaved in i manner that almost broke up the per formance. "Trouble" probably. Is the right nfime for this baffling char acter. Kansas City Star. A safety pin ' seems a small and trifling object, but an entire nation can use and- lose a good many of them In the course of a year, and the fact that before the war Germany made about 80 per cent of all the safety pins used and lost in Spain is matter for consideration for honest men. who make safety pins for a living in. other countries. Germany, in fact; provided Spain with all the safety pins not manu factured by Spanish safety pin makers, and-when in 1914 the German safety pin failed to continue its kind ly offices in Spain, that nation turned to Great Britain, for help and the British safety pin became a helpful adjunct to Spanish domesticity. Then when Britain in turn became too busy with more important mat ters. Spain looked further across the water and began to get safety pins from the United States.' Now that the war is over Germany Is trying to regain her former com manding position as purveyor of safety pins In the Spanish nation, and even during the war an effort was made to retain It by establishing a German owned safety pin factory at Barcelona and making- the useful little things, when steel tre failed, out of soldered iron fiire. "What's up now?" asked Jeremiah, who was half asleep. "Well, it cays here about the launching- of a- ship. 'With graceful ease the huge vessel slid into the water Just after the Duchess of Dumpshire had cracked a bottle of champaign on her nose.' It must have hurt hert Why should she mu tilate her face like that, Jeremiah?" Houston Post. There ai a time when the wife whose husband came home with clothes smelling of tobacco smoke knew that he had been out with a bunch of men.- Milwaukee Journal. Those Who Come and Go. f Hotel lobbies in Portland yesterday looked as though the annual conven tion of the cattle dealers' association mvlght be scheduled for this city. Cattle men from every part of east ern Oregon and Idaho were registered at the various hotels. More tnan au carloads of stock arrived yesterday, this being the largest shipment of the spring season. Perhaps you don't recall Saglmura Ito, who used to wear the livery of the Hotel Portland as bellboy? At any rate you won't see him again un less he returns to America on a visit and travels de luxe possibly occupy ing a royal suite at the hostelry where once he answered "Front!" Ito returned to Japan two years ago and friends and fellow countrymen who have heard word of him say that has succeeded to a title and landed estates In the klncdom of cherry blooms and Is to enter the diplomatic service. Ito had the pleasantest smile imaginable and was a premier "bellhop." Opinion Is general that if he succeeds as well In the role of nobleman the Japanese peerage is to be felicitated. Milt Fox of Troutdale, who ts to that thriving hamlet what Colonel Joe Bush Is to Bull Run. motored into Portland yesterday and spent an hour or'so at the press club as the guest of James Henry CasselL publisher or me Automotive News. "Out Troutdale way." said Mr. Fox, "we natives are deploring the failure of the smelt run to arrive on schedule time. In fact, we are beginning to wonder if it will come at all. For three years past. with each returning March and April, the lower Sandy river has been pop ulous with these fine little fish and we have come to look upon it as a local industry, even as they do at Kelso on the Cowlitz river. But the smelt are delayed this year, and Trout dale folk are worrying and wonder ing." SUlt Fox always catches the first bass, shoots the first duck and hooks the first steelhead in the Sandy river district not as a "sodVier." but as the earliest sportsman who ever watched the calendar. "You know. I believe pretty thor oughly in the -wisdom of God Al mighty. He has never turned us down yet and I don't beileve he is going to let us suffer all the damage some of the alarmists are predicting for this snrlnsc." Thus spoke- James (.Tim) Kyle, prominent banker of Stanfleld, Or, apropos of the threatened water shortage in eastern Oregon this sum mer. Mr. Kyle said the snow and rain now deluging eastern and central Ore gon will more than offset the all-too-moderate winter weather, and when it comes time for the crops to expect the nourishing water it will be there. Mr. Kyle, who signed the register at the Imperial, says the farmers are too busy putting ih crops to think or talk much about politics. It it wasn't a cattle man it was a preacher that you bumped into in a stroll about hotel lobbies yesterday afternoon. Preachers of every de nomination and from every part of the state were in the city making train connections and arranging for speaking tours which will take them into every county or Oregon mis week in the interests of Inter-church world movement. County confer ences are scheduled in many of the towns and cities of Oregon during the present week. Paul Cowles, superintendent of the western division of, the Associated Press, with headquarters at San Fran cisco, Is at the Multnomah hotel to day, en route to Spokane where a regional conference of this great news association is scheduled for to morrow. Mr. Cowles was formerly superintendent of the Associated Press in Portland and was trans ferred to Chicago from here. He re turned west as chief of the entire western division. F. S. Wheeler, an official of the Burroughs Adding Machine company at New York city, is at the Multno man hotel with Mrs. Wheeler. They are touring Pacific coast cities on a pleasure trip. Grover S. Powers, fruit broker of Salem, is stopping at the Oregon on a brief business trip to Portland. Mr. Powers Is authority for the state ment that Salem at the present time is showing more real progress than any other city of Its size In the Unit ed States. Reliable statistics gath ered recently show that Sale,m has more manufacturing? plants for . its population than any other city be tween the Atlantic and tJKe Pacific. Mr. Powers ought to know about the city's constant rise in industrial growth for he has liven under the shadow of the capitol dome since his school days. Judge John Twohy of the Twohy brothers, railroad contractors, is a guest at the Multnomah whild in the city on a business mission. Jackson county and aJl of southern Oregon will continue to market an amazing supply of fruit products dur ing the coming summer and fall, ac cording to M. F. Hawley, one of the most extensive fruit growers of south ern Oregon, who is registered at the Multn6mah from his home at Medford. A. W. Stone, president of the Apple Growers' association at Hood River, is registered at the Portland. Mr. Stone came down from Hood River to attend an Ad club meeting and re mained over on business connected with the fruit interests of his section of the state. E.'M. Page, a Salem 'attorney who is associated with the law. firm of United States Senator McNary in the capital city, is registered at the Sew ard while in the city on legal busi ness. W. H. Hall, a retired farmer of White Salmon, Wash., is registered at the Seward with Mrs, Hall. Mr. Hall followed the plow for years in the White Salmon country until he reached a point where he had ceased to worry about the high cost of living. Mrs. Hall and ho are now enjoying the fruits of their farm labor and they travel wherever impulse leads them. It is only natural that they should be frequent visitors to Portland. F. S. Stanley, an official of the Deschutes Irrigation company and a staunch booster for everything which originates east of the mountains, is stopping at the Imperial from his home at Deschutes. A. A. Elmore, president of the Farmers' union, with headquarters at Spokane, is registered at the Mult nomah, x A. C. Murphy, railroad man" whose headquarters are at The Dalles, is registered at the Oregon while here on business. A VAIX.KXCCSE. "I did not mean to" do words excuse When a thing is carelessly wrought? Did you look to your building ma terials. Was perfection the thing yon sought?. If the nails that you drove were favlty And you drove them, heeding not; And the tools you used were another's Then your soul will carry the blot Of careless. Imperfect achievement; "I meant to," excuses not JANETTE MAR TIX. CONGRESS' RIGHT TO END WAR Mr. Watson Quotes Constitution to Prove Where Authority It rata. GOLD HILL, Or., April S. (To the Editor.) Section 8. article 1 of the constitution of the United States, provides, among other things, as fol lows: The congress shall have namer To declare war, grant letters of mark and reprisal, and make rules concerning! cap tures on land and water. . . .- The powers and duties of the presi dent ir defined, in Aeotinn. 2 of ar ticle 2 of the constitution of the I united states in wnicn aerinition. i among other things, we find the fol lowing: Ha shall have power, by and with the advice and consent of the senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the sena tors present concur: and he shall nominate and hv mnA vltVi the advice and consent of the senate shall appoint, ambassadors, I other public ministers and consuls. It is specifically declared power of congress to declare war; not the president but congress, and in this the president has no specifically provided part. ' Section m of said article 2 provides: I e neid tonight in behalf of Cuban in He shall, from time to time, give to the I dependence, promises to be. an imnn. congress information of the state of 'the union, ana recommend to tneir considera tion such measures as he shall judge neces sary and expedient. ... Congress has the power to declare I war; rot the president, but there Is no specifically placed power in the constitution for a method of termi nating war. If congress has power to declare war, and the power of I other branch of the eovemment. does it not logically rest with congress, I and not with the president? I ending-a war and maKing a treaty i are two different things. The presi- I dent by and with the advice and con sent of the senate may make treaties, but no delegated power specifies how, or by whom war may be ended, but it does say that the congress has power to declare war. The United States senate Is not "the congress. That is composed of both houses and the popular branch is the lower house. Is it not to be heard In the matter at all? It is necessary for a declaration of war, but has no power nor word in the making of treaties: but shall It have nothing to say in bringing to an end that which could only be called into action by it? If the treaty-making branches of the government become deadlocked, as they are now, is it not loprical that the, house by and with the advice, consent and co-operation of the sen ate shall settle the deadlock, so far as the further technical continuing of the war is concerned. leaving the treaty to be dispos-ide of in some other wav? We find also in said section 2 of article 2 that the president shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the senate shall ap point ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls." Were not the repregjntatives at the great peace convention at Paris, am bassadors, ministers, etc,, and was the advice or consent of the senate obtained or asked for by the president before he appointed them? Could the president even appoint himself am bassador to that great function with out the advice and consent of the senate? Was not his action in that respect a violation of the constitution? If so, was there any constitutionally constituted body of men represent ing the United States at the Paris convention? One thin is very sure: we have discovered a weaJc SDOt in our con stitution. There is no question that the founders of onr government In- tended the various branches snoma nave scenery. There are our snow be properly co-ordinated with powers I capped mountains, our corrrs. nn- and duties defined, so that one should not usurp tne powers or mo omer. ueauium wateriaiis. Hut the tour We have them deadlocked, however, ist would also know of the orchards by an autocrat posing as the world abounding everywhere, our own champion of democracy. C B. WAISU.N. rROFlT IS FOl'SD IN GARDENING Family of Six Supplied and !0 Netted by Enthnslaatlc Woman. ECHO. Or.. April 3. (To the Ed itor.) Would not potatoes look as good growing between the roses to help bring down the H. C. of L. as they did when we were helping win the war, or is the fad over? At least, anyone who has a 25-foot squaro of ground that would raise garden and doesn't use it has.no right to icom plain. It is the most healthful and inter esting work one can do. and such a rest from housework. In January I begin doing my spring sewing and get all plain articles- and "make overs" out of the way &hlle tho days are gloomy. Then I am free when the sun shines to get out and enjoy it. Although I have a family of five to sew for. and dx it all. I do very little in April and May. It is time now that lettuce, radishes, peas, carrots, beets and turnips were in the ground. It is not necessary to have a large space. Last year I raised enough for our family of six and sold over $S0 worth on two lots. A small space well cultivated is much better. I have learned in planting radishe. lettuce and peas, instead of making the row with the point of the hoe, that if one pulls it through flat, making a trench about six inches across on the bottom, and sprinkles the seed cross wise, nearly four times s many seed can be planted In the old way. Yes. I have some friends who turn up their noses at making gra-rden. and if they have a rose bush to plant, call In a man to use the shovel, but whet they come to see me I notice they are just delighted to carry home a little bundle, and my garden Is a gathering place for all the children in the neigh borhood. I know Just what my own are doing. I would rather have a lit tle earden tramped out than soma other things that might be mentioned. AN AMATEUR. COLLEGE GIRLS ARB BKST COOKS Testimony of Reader Disputes That of Country Girl's Admirer. CORVALLIS. Or.. April 3. (To the Editor.) "A Man" has been given ad vice by "A Girl" to the effect that he look to the country for a good cook and housekeeper, and not to the col lege. I have eaten meals prepared by country maidens and have also eaten meals prepared by college maidens. The country, girl has no idea of what constitutes a well balanced meal. Neither can she mak ". light and whole- Bome desserts, nor heavenly salads. Added to their scientific knowledge of cooking, the college . girls have been educated in sewing, millinery and many other things pertaining to home life, in fact, everything. With all this training they receive a lib eral education. 'Tis true there are some few who attend college who are mere "vamps," "parasites who think of nothing but dates." They can dance gracefully, but when A Man" cul tures that kind of a girl, he wonJ-rs why he didn't look at her plainer sis ter, who, he knew all the time, was an efficient, useful girl. If "A Man" would seek an inter view with some of the college teach ers I am sure he would not be disap- pointed in the present-day girl. INTERESTED READER. No Bonus for S. A. T. C PORTLAND. April 4. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me if a member of the S. A. T. C. holding a discharge can get the soldier's $60 bonus. A READER. He is not entitled to the bonus. In Other Days. Twenty-fire Years Ate. From The Oregonian of April 5. 1S9S. Tampa. Fla. A letter received hero by a prominent Cuban from a friend in Cuba states that the conservative? party wants Cuba annexed to the United States. Portland Tent No. L Knights of Maccabees, crowded Good TemDlars nan last evening to welcome Supreme Commander D. P. Markey of Saginaw. -u. The official count of the census will have to be made before the final re sult Is known, but the enumeration will snow 75,000 people for Portland. The new stairway which was erect- ed from the approach, of the Burnsid oriage to fc-ast Second atret has proved a great convenience. Fifty Tears Age. Prom The Oregonian of April S. 1ST0. New York The mass meeting t ling demonstration. The new boat which th Wmn- ette Trading company is buildinsr at Corvallis is nrosrreaRine- ranMl. towards completion. An unconfirmed rennrt rin)i,ii ,. last evening that the west side rail- road bill had passed the hnn of e.r e understand that Ben Holladav Lo- Propose building a larco w nan and warehouse between and D streets on the river this spring. ART OK REAPIXG TOURIST CROP California clique Drowns All Word f Orejron In South. SANTA MONICA. Cal.. Ma-eh !M (To the. Editor.) There are many loyal Oregonians in southern' Califor nia enjoying vacations, and their loyalty is severely strained. The in habitants here are tourists. Some-are, tourists of yesterdav , tomorrow. Man are the tourixtn iyar rttwo aS nw firmly domi- V.. ae tourist, you are in formed.- is the best, the most valu able crop in southern California. All other crops trail behlnrt Th. ist is nursed and coddled from tho minute ho arrives. First, they plant for these tourists in other states so when he arrives he has germinated. Here they do the cultivating, the de veloping. They are so versed in tho art here that in a little while tho erstwhile Kansan or lowan become a blooming Caiifornian. It's not that that irritates the Ore gonian. It's the uiter vnlA f thing of Oregon. Where, oh. where Is Oregon? For all th infArm.ti obtainable here, it might be In Africa. The voice that the individual, loyal Oregonian would raise here In h half of his state Is lost in the babel of bras drowning every effort to suggest that one of tho most won derful countries on God's green earth .o u.i.j, . mite way oti. The torui.st eagerly seeks for in formation, for scenery, for the un usual, for data that will tell of the remarkable in one's travels. But nothing to tell of Oregon with its wonderful forests, its hills forever green, its valleys, the gorgeous llv- iionurama at every citizen s door- this but a beginning of what might be the tourist's mecca, if he would grreat highways, our Crater lake, our I Willamette valley. Our state is a.1 i paraaise. DUt why keep it a secret? Contrast all this with the Califor nian's ways. I.Os Angeles is a great city of some 600,000 people, but why slop over 20-odd miles away to make it larger? One travels through miles and miles of country and. coming to some little town, discovers that one is still in Los Angeles. And the scen ery! They are in ecstasy about their scenery. Oh. those mountains, those drives! "Mountains" are.barren. bald, bleak, dull hills. During the short period of rains they begin to be green. Begin only. The rains usually stop before the hills are green. What a contrast with the lite and glory of the everlasting green of the Oregon forest! Orchards are remarkable here because bearing semi-tropical fruits, but think, too, of the orchards abound ing in every corner of our state. The depressions one crosses occa sionally when vieiwing the scenery here are rivers. One sees only sand and white-lookinc- stones. Thsrn no water -visible. But vou are assured that during severe rains these rivers of sand become floods of wa ter. The srhnraes to lure the tourist to settle here are astounding, but sue cesfful. An instance: One is besieged in many maces by voluble criers of fering tickets to a free excursion in cluding automobile ride of two or three hours, a fine dinner, a view of I thn harbor, etc. They tell me It's true, too. Alter a wnne. it seems. one discovers that the opportunity of a lifetime will be missed if one fails to invest in a lot. "1100 down and 110 a month thereafter. Moving pic tures show the country and lectures give lurid descriptions of the wealth awaiting Investors. why don t Portland and Oretori find a way to acquaint tho tens of thousands of tourists always here with the wonders of our state that can be reached In a day or two of the most picturesque travel? The tourists are eager for information, for scenery. for climate ana wnat climate mors delightful than ours but many, too. for possmie Investment and for pos sible homes. They have made a great Lios Angeles; they have given millions to California's popnlation. hundreds of millions to its wealth. A large por tion of them would want Oregon to travel in, for our scenery, for our climate, for investment and to makl nomes. i -au l we give inem tne in. formation? ISAAC SWETT. WHEJi BOY'S ARDOR IS AROUSED Another Anecdote Told of Youthful Insistenee on School Attendance. REEDSPORT. Or., April 8. (Te the Editor.) 1 saw the item in The Ore gonian on the editorial page, en titled "Wasco Has Unusual Scholar." When doubts are admitted. I thought I should set at least one of them at rest by telling an experi ence X had while teaching- at Coos bay. One boy of 10 years or age was never present over three days out of five and consequently was a poor "scholar." But he finally became so Interested in his work that he came every day. One morning he had the misfortune to scald his foot, though not seriously, and his mother told him to stay at home. - He made it known that he wanted to come to school, so she sent him upstairs to be sure he stayed at home. Well, to make a long story short, he climbed out an upstairs win dow and dropped off a low shed roof I and came to school. He was late, but when 1 learned the circumstances, I did not count him tardy. I wonder if I should have done so. G. M. D. Man nnd Woman Compared. Washington (D. C.) Post. She If you tell a man anything it goes in at one ear and out at the other. He If you tell a woman any thing it goes in at both ears and out at her mouth.