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THE MORNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 3, 1920
I.ST ABUS HED BY HENRY 1. P1TTOCK.
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! 0 PESCHOTISM IN THE PLATFORM.
The Influence of Gifford Pinchot
- and his reservatlonist clique is evi
dent in a questionnaire on conserva
tion of national resources which has
i'been sent out by the sub-committee
of the republican national committee
that seeks suggestions for the plat
. form. 'There are no two opinions
-about the wisdom of the general
-'principles of conservation as stated
in the preamble to the questions, but
the questions themselves and the
discussion of each branch of the
y- subject which precedes them have the
peculiar Pinchot slant. They point to
the manner in which he would apply
the principles mentioned. By persis
tent lobbying in congress he has held
up development of the natural re
sources of the west for fifteen years
In the effort to have one great region
of the country treated as a great ex
periment station for tests of his the
ories by a bureaucracy.
The authors of this questionnaire
tell us that "conservation does not
contemplate non-use," but that has
been the effect of the Pinchot brand
of conservation, which its sponsors
have forced on the west until con
gress accepted their dictation. The
west has finally submitted to what is
called "an admirable leasing law for
oil, gas and coal and the bases of
fertilizers like phosphates." The ex
travagant claim is made for this law
that it "will undoubtedly yield in
royalties to the people of the United
States money enough from coal, and
- again enough from oil, to pay for
our share in the war." The leasing
6ystem has been tried on Alaska and
has attracted so few men to operate
coal mines that the Alaska engineer
ing1 commission was obliged to
develop government mines in order
to get coal for its locomotives,
and the coal traffic which was to
have loaded its trains does not exist.
The coal of Alaska was sadly needed
.. by the navy and the Pacific, coast
during the war, but Alaska with
"coal to burn" imported it from
Washington and British Columbia.
. '.- If the government should derive
jT-stny such revenue from western re-
" sources as is predicted, it would do
eo by levying tribute on the west to
' make it pay the entire war debt of
the whole nation. But it is very im
probable that it would gain any such
revenue. It is one thing for a lobby
cf doctrinaires to dictate to a con
gress of politicians the terms on
which natural resources may be de
veloped; it is quite another thing to
Induce enterprising prospectors to
discover those resources and to in
duce business men to develop them
under those terms. It was not by
any leasing and royalty system that
the metals and coal of the country
tvere discovered, and only the oil
fields have been developed under
- that system. It is yet to be proved
that the leasing law will be more
Z. than an obstruction or will yield
"7. enough revenue to pay the expenses
cf the horde of officials which it
makes necessary. The precedent of
Z. Alaska is not promising.
- The questions contain suggestions
f close regulation to prevent waste,
T not only on leased government land
but on private land. The law should
J, certainly be so framed as to discour-"-i
age waste, but that can best be done
f--' by giving free play to private inven
tion and enterprise. When it be
jeame profitable to save by-products
cf coke ovens and smelters, plants
Scere installed to save them.
T Questions as to whether public
Ownership of mineral-producing
-. properties should be adopted are out
Yf place in discussion of a republican
platform. Any person who. favors
-that policy shtjuld herd with social
ists or with democrats who are drift-
Ing toward socialism, not with re-
- publicans. They are a distinctive I
feature of the restrictive policy
-'- which merges into socialism.
We are treated to a dissertation
n waste of timber which is worded
. . as an indictment of lumbermen,
though it was the nautral conse
quence of laws passed by congress
men who were ignorant or improvi
dent and administered by officials
".Who sometimes combined corruption
with those vices. Waste cannot be
prevented nor can reforesting be
promoted by enacting a lot of re
.,'elrictive laws enforced by an army
."cf inspectors. Those methods ap
plied by the forestry bureau have
. caused the waste of billions of feet
- ef over-ripe timber on national for
ests which should have been cut. The
type of men who have caused this
waste are not the men to prevent
Other forms of waste. The high price
j. f stumpage is the strongest induce---
ment to save young trees and to re
plant logged-off land which is not
jf" batter adapted to agriculture. Those
".. practices can be encouraged by
spread of information, just as the
, ; agricultural department promotes
" better farming. Revision of the sys
tem of taxing forest land would also
. be a powerful aid, if taxes were so
levied that timbermen would not be
:-r tempted to log timber for tax money
but would pay taxes when they .har
vest the crop of trees. That policy,
skilfully applied, would cause grow
ing of timber on land which is best
suited fo that purpose and would
Cause constant reproduction.
' Continued opposition to the water--.
power bill now in conference is im
plied by the words: "If it shall be
brought into conformity with the
-t'- .-. Tloosevclt conservation policy." Such
opposition has put an embargo on
development for many years, and
placed the government under a seri
ous disadvantage in munition pro
duction. It springs from a desire to
limit leases to fifty years and to pre
vent full compensation to lessees at
the end of that period. As the chief
aim of the law should be to secure
electric current for the public at the
lowest possible cost, as rates and
service would be under strict public
regulation and as long tenure would
conduce to lower cost, a plant would
better remain in the same hands in
definitely, provided the lessees serve
the public well. Restrictions based on
the theory that corporations will
make excessive profit are superflur
ous under the present effective regu
lation, and would either raise the
cost of service or check development.
There Is no reason why powersites
should be leased rent free to a mu
nicipality, which would compete
with a neighbor served by a corpor
ation that was charged a rental. The
effect would be to drive out private
enterprise and extend socialism, but
for the fact, proved by experience,
that public is far more costly than
private operation.
The west has had its fill of Pinchot
conservation and is likely to be re
pelled by any coloring of it which
may be injected into the republican
platform. It is pre-eminently the
land of private enterprise and initia
tive, for thereby it has been devel
oped by the Oregon pioneers of 1843
to the California argonauts of 1849,
and by their successors on down to
the present time. Its worse hin
drance has been pernicious land laws
passed by ignorant or prejudiced
congressmen, more recently at the
dictation of semi-socialist theorists.
Its unwavering allegiance to the re
publican party has been too much
taken for granted, and too much
consideration has been paid to a few
eastern pivotal states. The election
of 1916 proved that the west must
be considered, for by losing the west
Hughes lost the election. The west
wants conservation, for waste of its
wealth would be gradual economic
suicide, but it wants the way left
free for private enterprise. It wants
no more of the Pinchot - brand of
conservation, for that means stagna
tion. . . -
LIRE THE SANDS OF THE SEAT
Take all the hyperbolic similes
expressive of vastitude of numbers,
stir them well together, segregate
the triple-extracted essence and con
fine it in a genuine humdinger of
extravagant comparison, and one will
but have paid tribute to the fringes
of the Columbia river smelt run.
Naught save deity could give it cen
sus, for the count would worst mor
tal . mathematics as that science is
ordinarily employed. These obser
vations are by way 'of preface to the
statement that a Portland resident
has been arrested on the count of
wasting food fish, because he sought
to fertilize his fruit trees with passe
smelt.
There are those who will charge
the game department with mulish
conformance to law, asserting that
the statute, invoked was never in
tended to deal with billions upon bil
lions or silver noor.gans, swimming
up the Columbia just as they did on
the morning of Captain Gray's visit.
ever and ever so long ago. To chirk
up a cherry tree or two with half a
peck from that seemingly inexhaus
tible measure, the sea, would to
many commend itself not only as a
trifling tithe on nature's largess but
as a most sensible procedure.
When the grandfathers of the
present were the boys of yesterday,
back -in Ohio, ;and Michigan, and
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, and New
York, along the entire Atlantic coast
and well into the middle-west, the
flight of passenger pigeons was an
annual event comparable to the
smelt run of the Columbia. On sunny
days, with the spring mornings all
golden and green, when those ep
ochal pilgrimages were on the wing,
it is recorded that the face of the sky
was darkened as by a heavy cloud
a living veil of plumage that swept
on, and on, and endured till dusk.
And thus for many days. They nar
rate, those same grandsires, that one
might feed a bullet to the muzzle
loading squirrel rifle and fire at ran
dom upward, through the hurtling
aerial avalanche of Die-eons. Not nne
i but several birds would fall to that
hazard, it is recounted. Yet the pas
senger pigeon is gone, and wealth
would reward the man who could
prove the existence of a single flock.
a single bird. The species is with the
great auk and the dodo, and while
it may have perished in s3me stormy
passage between the northern and
southern continents, there is abun
dant evidence against the market
hunter and the game assassin.
Natural history is replete with
tragedies in which man plays the
role of villain. Ethically and eco
nomieally and merely, for an ad
ditional reason, because all waste. is
wicked the game department is
fortified in its enforcement of the
law with respect to the smelt run.
iOHNSOX-AXD DOW.
William E. ("Pussyfoot") Johnson
need not be discouraged if events
fail to make good his prediction that
he will live to see national prohibi
tion the law of England. Even if
Mr. Johnson should live far beyond
the scriptural allotment of years to
man, he would have sufficient
precedent for delay of the ultimate
triumph of a cause until its distin
guished avant couriers were dead.
Neal Dow, father of the temper
a nee movement in Maine and for
many years a militant advocate o
a dry America, was born in 1804. Mr,
Johnson is now fifty-eight years old.
When Dow was fifty-eight his swn
state was the only one in which pro
hibition had been formally adopted.
and there it was more honored in the
breach than in the Observance. Not
until Dow was seventy-six did the
idea prevail in Kansas, the first
western proniDiuon state. He was
seventy years old when the Women
unnsuan .temperance union was
born. He was seventy-eight when
the Iowa constitutional amendment
was adopted, seventy-nine when the
amendment was declared invalid and
eighty when Iowa was made dry by
statute. The first local prohibition
party was not organized until he was
sixty-four and the national prohibi
tion party did not enter politics until
a year later.
Neal Dow lived to the ripe age of
ninety-three, but the view of the
promised land was denied him.
Within his life, however, he had wit
nessed practically all the historic
events of the anti-liquor movement
in America except the climax, which
was delayed until twenty-three years
afterward. He was a. baby of four'
when the first temperance society In
the United States was organized in
New York in 1808, adopted what was
regarded as a radical programme by
pledging .its members to drink no
rum, gin, whisky or distilled spirits,
"except on the advice of a physician,
or in case of actual illness, or at a
public dinner." He was twenty-two
when the American Temperance so
ciety was organized and twenty-nine
when the Congressional -Temperance
society was formed by members of
congress who favored personal ab
stinence. He passed through the
emotional period of the anti-liquor
crusade, the era of the secret
temperance societies, the Sons of
1 T- . -
icmyeicinee movement oi ine ionics,
and other interesting but passing
phases. It was denied him to partici
pate In the concluding economic ap
peal which turned the scale.
The cause probably. is actually no
more hopeless in England now than
it was in America when Dow was
fifty-eight. Mr. Johnson is urged to
possess his soul in patience and to
bear in mind that reformers seldom
live to participate in the triumph
of the causes they espouse. -
THE SALVATION ARMY CRUSADE.
There are crusaders today, real
paladins, quite as certainly as there
were in the time of Richard of the
Lion Heart. More of them, and more
genuine, perhaps. For the middle
ages were not without lust for power
and glory, and many a lance was
broken for pride rather than prin
ciple. The Salvation Army of today
gives simple, sincere expression to
the sort of crusading that men and
women find to carry on when their
hearts are with the cause.
There is a Salvation Army cam
paign now in progress in Portland
and Oregon and throughout all Am
erica. Locally the funds so garnered
will be spent in maintenance of the
White bhield Rescue home for girls
who have taken the wrong turning
and are struggling back, and for the
farm home for neglected boys, who
must be saved to citizenry rather
trin permitted to swing Into the easy
dark eddies of crime and uselessness,
and for a general Portland head
quarters, to house all its activities.
Add to these cardinal aims the pur
pose of the Salvation Army to con
tinue with unabated zeal its emer
gency relief work among those who
have lost a tilt or two in the lists of
life, and you are informed of the des
tiny of the dollar that goes to the
campaign fund.
Portland and Oregon have ten
days in which to give answer. The
glamor and drumbeat of the wartime
appeal is gone, but here, if one
pauses to scan the circumstance, is
yet another war, not less, gloriously
waged, though it be silent and unob
trusive. It should have the support
of loyalists.
PETS AND PROGRESS.
There was a parade of pets at the
central library the other day. Small
girls and boys led, coaxed and car
ried a variety of inarticulate play
mates about the square. It was all
remindful of the hint that was pla
carded here and there during "hu
mane week." The person who read
it was jolted to reflection by the re
minder tse kind to animals you
are one yourself." A great deal of
common sensibility and truth then
that man in his might still is cousin
to the other sentient creatures of
creation, and in the blue-prints of
nflnity is but a pin-point, a dot, a
mote, not appreciably larger or more
important than his fellow animals.
Beneficent tolerance is apparent in
the ordinary . viewpoint regardin.
pets. Yet there is foundation for the
argument, as an academic proposi
tion without concrete proof, that the
race owes not a little of its culture
and progress to the friendships that
we have formed with our dumb
cousins. The cultural value of such
friendships, of course, "must lie in the
ability of the human soul to assim
ilate affection for the creature to
whom we have offered protection.
And it is blessed fortune, indeed, that
the hearts of children are open of
gate and . window to romping dogs
and kittens and fluttering, sweet
voiced birds to frogs, and bugs and
even the gaily striped garter snakes.
The first Towser or Bouncer, of
course, was some wild free-limbed
terror of the primeval forest or plain
wolf or dog or jackal, fanged and
belligerent. The horse ran free of
stride arid wide of range. The cattle
were creatures of impassable swamp
or illimitable pampas. Man, himself,
in the dawn of history that is etched
on bone and. ivory, and rudely
scratched on granite for the puzzle
ment of future ages, was no less wild
than were his companion creatures
of the waking world. One by one.
either for utilitarianism or comrade
ship mayhap more of the latter
than of the first he drew them.
wooed them to his side and together
they moved down the centuries on
the lane of progress. Who Is bold
enough to declare that the spiritual
nature of man was not plastic to the
affection that burgeoned for his
dumb friends and servants?
Whether he wear the finished
clothing of modernity, smart as Fifth
avenue can tailor, or the skin gar
ments of the neolithic age, one might
well decry the utterly abandoned
savage in the man whose heart finds
no haven for animal friendships. He
is a throw-back beyond the dimly re
mote ages when our forefathers
whistled the wild dogs to their dens.
THE FRIENDLY CITIZEN.
A-rtovel phase of the campaign of
the thirty co-operating Protestant
churches of the United States for
funds, which has been conducted
under the direction of the Inter-
church World Movement, isthat it
takes definite account of the ele
ment of the population which it hap
pily calls the "friendly citizen," an
individual not holding membership
in any, of the included denomina
tions, yet presumably in sympathy
with the cardinal purpose of a plan
that has been designated as the
"first great step toward church
unity." The number of these, not
withstanding decrease of actual
membership shown by several of the
large church organizations, prob
ably is very large. One way to enlist
the sympathy of a man whose sup
port fa wanted is to give him an op
portunity for service.
In other ays the experiment will
be regarded as epochal. . Never be
fore in the history of religion has
there been an effort on so large a
scale to invoke the principles of co
operation, waste elimination and ef
ficiency. It is, for example, as corn-
mittee on financial ingathering re-
J cently set forth, the first time that
the church has been able to "chal
lenge the attention of the world by
projecting the whole programme of
the whole church." It is made in a
period when the world more tban
ever needs evidence of singleness of
effort by the church. It promotes
economy of experience by making
the experiences of each the common
prope-ty of all. It eliminates costly
competitive -effort and promotes
economies of administration. There
probably are sound reasons for sup
posing that the very greatness of
the task will increase the enthusi
asm of the workers, and that exhibi
tion of unity , will compel the sym
pathy of most non-church members.
Finally the plan facilitates solution
of two of the most important prob
lems before the churches the en-
rance into unoccupied fields at
home and abroad, and adequate pro-
vision for projects of especial con-
cern to some or all of the co-operat-
ing bodies.
It has been dawning on religious
workers and on others for a good I
while that there were senseless waste
and duplication of effort in over-1 been completed and the financial pi
churched communities and pitiful rates who conceived and carried to a
want of any effort worthy of the
name in others. The fact that will
appeal most strongly to the "friendly
citizens" whose aid, together with
that of church members, is now be-
ing solicited, is the evidence given
of sincere desire to co-operate. The
outsider, no less than the .most de
vout member, will be won by the
suggestion that it is a practical step
toward ultimate church unity and
If it proves in fact to be so there no
doubt will be material accessions to
membership from the ranks of those
who just now are sitting on the
fence.
There are some members in con
gress who need education In the his
tory of their own country, especially
of the west, and Representatives
Walsh of Ohio and Gard of Ohio are
among them. A bill was before the
house granting the village of Dow
ney, Idaho, 640 acres of land at $1.25
an acre for the protection of its
water supply,.when these two mem
bers raised all manner of objections.
Though the land was described as
being in a rocky canyon, they feared
that the government might give
away something of great value. Mr.
Gard caused adoption of an amend
ment reserving to the government all
coal, oil and other mineral deposits,
thus offering a temptation to pros-
pectors to go on the land, to dig and
probably to pollute the water,-though
the main purpose of the reservation I
is to. prevent settlement. Such pica-
yunish objections inspire western
people with contempt for many east-
ern congressmen. I
The federal prohibition agent!
complains that most of the moon-1
shine sold hereabouts is poisonous,
because the moonshiners don't know
how to make their stills properly. I
We hopefully await directions from
him as to how a still should be
made.
Up the valley last week a motor-
cop who had been "deviled" by
speeders who identified him as far
as they could see, commandeered a
car and caught offenders red-handed.
They were much surprised and more
indignant for having been "fooled."
A wealthy Pasadena man who had
five sacks of sugar in the house dur
ing the rationing period finally has
been found guilty in the court of
appeals and must go to Jail and pay
a large fine.- This ought to end the
talk about two kinds of law.
A girl of fifteen, especially the
daughter of separated parents', does
not know her mind well enough, and
n sending back to her mother a run
away girl of that age Judge Tazwell
did what parents of both sexes will
think about right.
It seems, according to the federal
prohibition office, that there is good
moonshine and bad moonshine, de
pending on the kind of still used.
WiH somebody please see that At-
tornev-General Palmer e-ets the rlirht
kind of still?
Judge McCourt did somethine-
good in sending an automobile thief
to the county Jail for a year. He
will find pounding rock different
from pounding the road in a stolen
Burleson informs congress that he
incurred a $14,000,000 deficit in op
erating the telegraph and telephone
companies under government con
trol. The honorable secretary has
another laugh on the people.
Edsel Fords personal property
valuation was increased 1000 peri.,,, , snnn
itciib "ilk? WUI1U11, HI1U lll&l
shows the temper of official Detroit.
The son of a rich man rides a rocky
road.
Candidates for office have been in
vited to a dinner to be given by the
Multnomah Guard. What the boys
really want is not one little - dinner.
but a meal ticket.
With a hundred journeymen bak
ers "on vacation. this city is not
even considering the end crusts of
the loaf. Must be something wrong
in calculations.
The murder of a retired banker In
a resident section of Los Angeles is
of easy solution. Money and val
uables were on the body. Find the
woman.
Little need to ask rlftmnrrntA to
help Hiram irf the primary voting. It
is the onlv wav & democrat can as-
sert what he calls his "indepen
dence." -
The kaiser's second son wants to
become a movie star. If -recent re
ports of his divorce are correct, the
prince ought to qualify for a lead
role.
There's a Whisky creek in Ktam
ath and a man has filed on the water
in it. There's nothing in a name in
these days of prohibition.
Somebody remarks that fat men
seem always to have good jobs. Right
enough. But most of 'em got the
jobs before they got fat.
By the time all the clubs and or
ganizations have scanned the candi
dates, there may be a few good men
left in the running.
Watson, or Huirt, is. "a truthful
cuss," if he did have very, bad habits.
On wife is checked off. - 4 -
BY-PnODlCTS OK
THE TIMES
Com. Vanderbilt's Fimons Boomerang;
Almost I. out by Reporter.
How near was the escape from ob
livion of Commodore Vanderbilt's
famous explosion. "The public be
damned," Is related by C. K. C. in
"Forty Year a Newspaper Man." The
dullness of a reporter almost kept
from publication an expression that
afterwards was used effectively and
widely by reformers in curbing the
rapacity of targe corporations. The
story as told by C. E. C. follows:
It isn't often that the experienced
editor- is caught napping. It is more
apt t6 be the reporter. I recall that '
memorable night in the Chicago
Tribune office when a reporter who
had been'sent to interview Commodore
Vanderbllt strolled languidly into the
DI" ana announced, mat tne great
railroad magnate refused to talk. His
assignment had been an important
one. The Nickel Plate road, parallel-
ing the tracks of the Vanderbllt lines
between Chicago and Buffalo, had Just
finish what the public suspected was
the biggest gold brick game ever at-
tempted in high finance were waiting
for the commodore to open his money
bags and come across. Commodore
Vanderbilt had arrived that night in
his private car and the reporter was
sent to ask him what he was going
to do about It. . It was so late when
he got back the city editor had gone
home and his assistant, busy with be
lated copy, simply nodded as the re
porter turned In a brief item and said
he had failed to get an interview.
With this off his mind, the re
porter went to the telegraph editor's
room. In search of a poker game. I
was there, chatting with Tod Cowles,
the night editor." It was almost time
for the last edition to go to press. We
heard the reporter tell the poker
players how he boarded the Vanderbilt
car and asked the commodore if he
had come to buy the Nickel Plate and
the commodore had sneeringly called
it a 'streak of rust.' The reporter had
insisted on an interview as a matter
of 'great public Interest and the irate
old magnate had arrogantly ex
claimed: 'The public be damned.'
The old devil actually pushed me
out of the car and slammed the door
in my face,' indignantly concluded the
reporter, as he
began to deal the
cards. I saw an angry glitter in the
night editor's eyes as he glanced at
a proof containing a brief item of
Commodore Vanderbilt's arrival. He
ordered the reporter to drop his cards
and tell him every word the co
modore had uttered. Then he got as
busy as a boy killing rattlesnakes.
The most striking story on the front
page that morning was headed "The
Public Be Damned." The expression
spread all over the world and is still
frequently quoted, nearly 40 years
afterward.1
Rockaway Beach has another sen
sation. Not content with washing up
hundreds of thousands of crabs, lob-
8ters and cUms. the great tide recent-
ly dug an ancient oceanic relic out of
the sands and left it to bleach in a
winter's sun, like some skeleton of a
departed dinosaur. According to
Captain Joseph Meade of the Rocka
way coast guard station, it is an old
sloop-o'-war.
Nobody knows It history. From all
appearances this washed out corpse in
an ooean graveyard was once a saucy
war vessel, mounting nine guns, in
eluding the old-time bow-chaser that
used to bark with ferocity at pur
suing vengeance.
The ship is bluff-bowed, her spikes
are handwrought, her ribs are of
stout oak and her bowsprit, broken
short at the cap, is a mighty head
stone on a sandy grave.
Tne ola salts wno are experts on
such matters say the buried hull is an
old British sloop. During the war of
1812, privateers manned by adven
turous Yankees frequently hung about
Jones', inlet, towing in their prizes for
anchorage and running to shelter
when British men-o'-war, out for re
venge, bore down upon them.
Another tradition unearthed from
ins oiu snippers ox clipper snips, now
come to anchor on the Rockaway
snores, nas it,: mat t-aptain Jones, ror
whom Jones' inlet was named, at one
time JU8t Prlor t0 the revolutionary
war' Pursued a profitable trade In
contraoana in me vicinity, unKnown
to tne tritisn customs. The hand
wrought spikes and the general shape
of the rotting wreck plainly indicate
that she was an oldtlmer, very likely
of revolutionary times. Brooklyn
Eagle.
The last Arctic sea cow; was seen
in 1S4 about a century after the
first discovery of the species by white
men. When full grown, the creature
These animals frequented shallows
at the mouths of rivers in herds; and
while feeding they drove before them
their young, to protect the latter from
danger. So tame were they that one
could stroke their backs without ob
jection on their part.
Unfortunately, their flesh was good
to eat, resembling beef. Whalers got
in the way of depending on them for
stores of fresh meat, and so, in the
natural course of events, they were
wiped out. Detroit News.
Threl Fall of the Los Angeles
Times tells this for a Sunday school
story and declares It must be so, for
a preacher told It to him:
The plagues of Egypt was the les
son of the day and the teacher said
to Henry: "Well, Henry, of what
did the first plague consist?"
"The first plague," said Henry
thoughtfully, "was the plagu
of
I lice.
"No, Henry, you are wrong, but let
us pass on to the second plague. What
was the second plague?"
"You are right about the first
plague," Bald Henry, "and I admit my
mistake
it was the second plague
that was the plague of lice
"No. Henry," said the teacher, "you
are wrong again, but we will let it
- 1 go while we pass on for a moment
I to the third plague; what was the
I third plague?'
"The third plague was the plague
of lice. I remember now perfectly.
The teacher turned to the class in
despair.
"It is easy," said he, "to see what is
running; through Henry's bead this
morning."
I. iked Only for Money.
Kansas City Star.
Mabel Edith is one of those girls
whose Interest in a man Is governed
by his wealth. Jack I see; the
greater the principal the greater the
interest. -
i-
Those Who Ccme and Go.
A. D. Leedy. district attorney of
Grant county, isn't satisfied with the
way the state highway commission
is treating his county. The commis
sion pro rated the market road funds
among the counties, but Mr. Leedy
maintains that Grant county is enti
tled to a bigger share than it re
ceived, because it raised a larger mill
age for market roads than most other
counties. "Our county." says Mr.
Leedy. who is at the Multnomah, "is
about 100 miles square, and we have
only 30 miles of finished
nignway.
However, the. com in c summer will see
a great lot of work accomplished In
the road line. We have much placer
mining in Grant county, which is
done in an unobtrusive way, and often
some of our Deoiile will come into
Canyon City with a lard pail full of
gold nuggets. There is one grand
eanytn through which the John Day
highway will pass, which makes the
Columbia river gorge look Bmall in
comparison." .
"Carpets, rugs and tapestries are
hiprher now than they were a year
ago, and will probably go higher,"
says a salesman in that line. "I.bor
is the reason. Weavers who uscl to
make $18 to $25 a week and now get
from $40 to $80 a week are demanding
an Increase of 40 per cent. The dyers
are also making demands. Two
batches are made a day, and a batch
consumes" five hours' time. They have
been working ten hours. Now they
demand an eight-hour day. As it
takes five hours to make a batch, this
means that the men will work only
five out of the eight hours, as for the
remaining three hours they would be
doing nothing. One of the largest of
the tapestry factories has closed be
cause of the demands made by the
men. The manufacturer could not see
his way clear to paying the increase
and still expect the consumers to buy
the goods. Carpet which was sold
wholesale at $1.30 a yard three years
ago now commands $4.20."
Having caught a 17-pound salmon
n the rapids of the Willamette near
the falls yesterday. Dr. E. V. Jerome
of Los Angeles. Cal., is convinced that
his trip to Portland has not been a
total loss. Dr. Jerome, who is at the
Multnomah, arrayed himself in the
togs of a professional angler yester
day and fussed around the stream
near Oregon City until he caught his
fish. Tile doctor is only one of a
number of tourists who are here for
the salmon fishing, for the fame of
the sport in the Willamette river and
the Clackamas is international since
Rudyard Kipling wrote about it In his
American Notes. And the fishing
at the Clackamas was about the only
thing In America that the British
writer was pleased with.
Please." begs Phil Metschan Jr., of
the House of Personal Service, "please
tell the world that the roads are good
and that the Pacific highway can be
traveled by machines. Manager Weav
er of the Umpqua, at Roseburg, re
fused to ride to Portland with a pass
ing tourist in a big car, explaining
that he was in a hurry to arrive in
Portland and so would take the train.
When Mr. Weaver landed In town the
first man he saw in the lobby was
the automobillst. The latter had beat
the train from Roseburg to Portland.
That shows the road is good."
There is considerable satisfaction
at the Hotel Portland over the razing
of Liberty temple. The building, for
months past has been an eyesore
In fact, it looked so disreputable
with its old posters when General
Pershing came to Portland, that Man
ager Richard Childs donated enough
white paint to clean it up somewhat.
For months a few tattered and faded
flags have languidly floated from the
roof and the building has lost its in
terest for the public.
Peter Zeblck does not say where he is
from, but he has been attracting con
siderable attention around the Hotel
Portland lobby. He is not on very fa
miliar terms with the English lan
guage, so he is not communicative
Mons. Zebick arrived with a portman
teau so heavy that the porter couldn't
handle it alone. The stranger wears
a spade beard, giving him the resem
blance of the king of clubs; wears a
roughing suit, leather puttees and car
ries a walking stick. The betting
around the lobbies is that he is a
Russian.'
Sherman M. Miles, who has an at
tractive farm about three miles this
side of St. Helens, and who is in the
banking business in the town, arrived
at the Benson yesterday with Editor
Morton. Mr. Miles is known to
large number of Portlanders, because
when the income tax first reached
out and began sapping incomes, Mr.
Miles was looking after that branch
of the office of collector of Internal
revenue for his father-in-law. Milt A.
Miller.
C. J. Hurd, who Is the county agent
for Douglas county. Is registered at
the Imperial from Roseburg. The an
nual strawberry festival will be held
in Roseburg the latter part of the
month and It is one time when Rose
burgers get more shortcake than they
can eat So famous are the straw
berry festivals that there is always
an - influx of hungry outsiders who
fill up on enough berries to last them
a year.
Mr. and Mrs. Ray E. Jenkins of
Alsea are registered at the Hotel
Portland. Mr. Jenkins is interested
in the dairy business, and over the
Alsea road there is shipped hundreds
of thousands of dollars' worth of dairy
products every year. To accommo
date this growing industry, there is
a demand that the road be improved
The county has money ready, but
needs help from the highway commis
sion. Situated between Jackass mountain
and Stein mountains, is Diamond, in
Harney county. It has the distinction
of being a postoffice and that is about
all. Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. Smyth ot
Diamond came out for a trip and are
at the Imperial while looking at the
sights of Portland.
L. McArthur of McArthur. Cal.. is
at the Multnomah. The town was
named by his father a good many
years ago. Mr. McArthur is here to
see relatives, among them being an
uncle 60 years old.
H. R. Hocfler of Astoria, registered
at the Multnomah yesterday. Mr
Hoefler is a candy manufacturer and
Monday started suit in the federal
court in San Francisco against his
son, Harry, to restrain him. from
manufacturing candy.
Mrs. Jane Stevens is registered at
the Imperial from South Beach, Or.
There isn't one person in a thousand
who knows where South Beach is lo
cated. It is a postoffice in Lincoln
county, and that's about all it is.
Stockmen from Idaho at the Per
kins are William Hastings of New
Plymouth, and Frank Harrington.
who registers from the same place.
They escorted some livestock to Port
land for the market.
Mrs. Ed. Cary of Carlton, Or.,
whose husband is a candidate for
representative in the legislature, and
Mrs. Alice Cary Williams of Bay City,
are among the arrivals at the Im
perial. L. C. Carlisle, representing the
United States public health bureau, is
an arrival at the Seward.
1 State Engineer Percy R. Cupper is
registered at the Seward. .
MORE INCOME OR LESS SERVICE ,
I ttm ativM Thii r'nnfrnnl, tfAlljira
1st People Oivm Problem.
CORVALLIS, Or., May 3. (To the t
Editor.) Now as never before the i
schools and colleges are confronted
by a crisis and it is a struggle almost
for their very existence. This Is
especially true all over the United
States of the colleges and universities.
The problem Of what to do wHh the
huge Increase in enrollment with the
buying price of the dollar cut almost
in half is one not to be lightly re- I
garaea Dy me puDiic.
In general the larger Institutions j
derive their financial support from ;
moneys supplied by huge endowments. :
state or government appropriations
or by fees levied upon the student. I
Some are operated upon a combina- !
tion of these methods. The costs of I
operating in the last three years have j
almost doubled. Laboratory supplies,
books, overhead and everything have i
risen almost to a prohibitive price !
while the incomes in most cases have
risen but a small fraction. The sal
aries of professors have lagged far
behind the cost of living, consequent
ly many have secured positions re
muneratively far in advance in the
commercial world and the Industries
have profited greatly by the addition
of "brains." The day laborer receives
nearly twice as much for his daily
toil as the college professor. A $1200
a year instructor cannot turn ouj
510,000 engineers, lawyers or doctors.
Aside from the natural Increase in
students, a large number of young
men of college age and inclination
have returned from the war actively
to take up their studies where they
were interrupted two or three years
ago. After having seen a large part
r-tif the world they realize the value
of a college training in fitting them
for their . parts In the world's work.
At present there 'is but small accom
modation at the institutions of higher
earning for the undergraduates.
Classes are excessively large and all
work is overcrowded with resulting
oss in efficiency.
There seem to be three solutions
to this lamentable condition. (1)
There must be a curtailment or elimi
nation of all but the brightest stu
dents; (2) higher fees and tuition
must be charged to the student; (3)
or there must be larger appropria
tions from the state or government.
The latter is the only feasible plan.
The average student would be
eliminated entirely by the first and
it Is upon the average that the
strength of a nation is built. A raise
in student fees would place the bene
fits of a college education only in the
hands of those financially able to
carry the added burden. The young
man who has already given two or
three years of the best part of his
life, and possibly that little "college
education bank account" to tide over
the "folks back home." while he was
4-tway fighting the battles of our na
tion, finds it when he comes back
nearly impossible in view of the ex
cessive tuitions, to say nothing of the
Increased price of board and rooms
and clothes, to fit himself better to
gain a livelihood by attending an
institution of higher learning. Is
is fair to him, just because the taxes
will be increased a few mills? Are
we to deny the coming generation
our own children, who will be the
mainstay of the nation tomorrow an
education? Think it over!
AWAKE TO THE SITUATION'.
NO TAXATION FOR CAR COMPANY
But Writer la Willing That Needed
RUe in Fares Be Granted.
PORTLAND. May 4. (To the Ed
itor.) While it may not be consid- i
ered absolutely necessary for the city
to maintain a street railway in order
to exist. It is nevertheless most es
sential.
Several years ago we managed to
get along without such a system of
transportation as we now have. Now
we don't care to trade the modern
electric cars for that of the mule type.
nor the bright electric light for the
old-time oil burner lamp. I, being
young, cannot remember the mule
cars, nor do I know what the admis
sion charge for a haul was, but I don't
suppose it was much less than that
charged now for a car ride by our
local car company. We are indeed
living in a far better world than our
forefathers did.. We are at this time
witnessing a record high cost of liv
ing. But at the same time we are
witnessing a record high wages for
our services. It is true that there is
lots of poverty in the country at this
time and always will be regardless of
what the condition may be. But we
find that regardless of the high cost
of living there are more automobiles,
more home owners and more bank ac
counts among the common class than
there ever were before. If this is not
true I am committing no sin in saying
it, for it is a good way to look at it.
I know that I have prospered and feel
that we ail have.
So if we are making more we nat
urally must spend more, and we do
so oecause we demand it. Why, wc
even demand a five or six thousand
dollar auto-hearse to haul us to our
final resting place when we don't
know whether we are riding in a fine
auto or an ox wagon. Of course there
is profiteering that causes some high
prices, but this cannot apply to ev
erything. It would be the height of
folly to say that the local street car
company is profiteering on a 6-cent
fare, yet it seems to be the opinion of
some people in this city. We have
tad men to examine the books of the
car company and they have told us
that the company was in great need
of financial relief, but have thev got
relief? No, we still sit by and watch
the car company carry the unjust bur
den. I say give the company a 10-cent
fare if it need be to keep it doing bus
iness. But I am opposed to taxing the peo
ple to keep a corporation in business,
for If the city is to do this it had bet
ter buy the car company out, and then
it would not be so insane to talk of
taxing the people to run 'the cars. I
am not a taxpayer, either. I know
that the company has raised the wages
of Its employes to a much higher
standard than the majority of big
corporations in the west. They have
played fair; let us also play fair.
J. P. P.
Presidential Campaign Headquarters.
YAMHILL. Or.. May 3. (To the
Kditor.) Please inform me as to the
names of the campaign leaders and
headquarters in Portland of the fol
lowing men: Johnson, Hoover, Mc
Adoo. Palmer, Wood. Harding. Low
den and Edwards. I would like the
campaign material and ehould like to
know where and to whom to write
to get it. ALTA BLACK.
Johnson headquarters in Beck
building. Portland. Sanfield McDon
ald, manager.
Wood headquarters in Wilcox build
ing, Portland. Dow V. Walker, man
ager. Hoover headquarters
building, Portland. O. C.
In Morgan
Leiter, sec-
retary.
Lowden headquarters in Gasco
building. Portland. Joseph Dunne,
manager.
The other candidates mentioned
have no recognized headquarters nor
representatives in Oregon.
Bobble Is the Thunder.
Yonkers (N. Y.) Statesman.
"Why, Robbie, can't you play with
out making all that noise?" "No.
mamma. You see, we's playin' picnic,
and a storm has come up and I'm the
thunder."
More Truth Than Ppetry.
Bt James J. Hoitiiu,
SPRING WAST ADS.
WANTED A home in the country
Surrounded by garden or lawn
A house that will do for a family or
two,
And maybe eight more later on.
Prefer a bright, sunny location.
With outlook on woodlands and
glens.
But won't pay
a cent in the nature
if you want us
of rent.
Speak quick,
TWO WRENS.
WANTED A site in. the suburbs.
Will build upon same right away.
Hy young wedded pair, fond of fresh
country air
And needing a home before May.
Can't pay a deposit this season.
Returning from Klorida broke.
Describe what you've got, and we'll
visit the spot.
Apply
HOMELESS ROBINS. The Oak.
WANTICD A place by the water.
Till some time in early July;
Our family is small just a couple.
that s all
But we think it will grow by
and by.
Please don't expect pay for the pres
ent; Have just had a streak of hard
luck;
We'll be happy, indeed, if you have
what we need.
Please hurry your answer
A DUCK.
WANTED A home in a forest.
Afar from the town and its noise.
Safe hidden away from the creatures
of prey.
Those murderous demons called
boys.
A place where it's safe to rear chil
dren. And handy for nocturnal prowls;
No lucre .have we, so the rent must
be free.
Write quickly
A COUPLE OF OWLS.
It Isn't Going to Re a Clneh.
Perhaps If we could read the future
there wouldn't be so many candi
dates for the presidency.
How Conld We Do Itf
After listening to a speech by Ad
miral Sims we sometimes wonder if
it is really tru that we licked Ger
many. Compensations.
The wets can't be made to feel
sorry for central Europe. There is
no food there, but still there is plenty
f hard liquor.
(Copyrifrht. 1020. by Bell Syndicate Inc.)
A Dream Come True.
Ujr Grace 13. Hall.
Lonely and sad I knelt and humbly
prayed
For one great gift that I had been .
denied.
Asked for a casket by the Master
made.
With rare and sparkling gems ar
ranged inside;
So. long had I this priceless gift im
plored. So long its need had burned within
my heart.
That 1 in dreaming had its worth
adored.
Though in despair had seen each hope
aepart;
Then when there seemed no longer
chance of grasping c..
The . priceless gift my vision showed
to me.
A hand touched mine and lo! its ten
der clasping
Left in my own a wondrous irniHan
key;
The lift of life came surging back.
ana giaaiy
I sang again; of joy there is no enH-
The jwel-casket that I nmi-oH
sadly
Is mine: The gem-stored mind of one
real friend!
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of May 5. 1S95.
Chief Justice R. S. Bean and Jus
tices F. A. Moore and C. K. Wolver
ton passed through Portland to hold
session of the supreme court at Pen
dleton. Henry Blackmail, collector of in
ternal revenue, returned yesterday
from a trip into eastern Oregon.
A reception was last night tend
ered Miss Kate Wheelock, the noted
whist player, now visiting in Port
land. According to compilations !n the as
sessor's office the value of all river
boats here is approximately $3,000,000.
Fifty Years Abo.
From The Oreeonian of May 5. 1870.
Washington. In the senate the
house resolution to create May 30 a
holiday was opposed by Sherman, but
was referred to the committee on
military affairs.
General Joel Palmer and L. F.
Grover, opposing candidates for gov
ernor, accompanied by Governor
Woods, will speak in Hillsboro next
Monday and in Portland Tuesday.
A cargo of stone from the Cement
vllle quarry arrived on the Elinora
yesterday.
Democratic candidates named at
the county conventi3n yesterday in
clude H. C. Leonard, state senator;
.Vat H. Lane. L F. Scoggins, A. E.
Walt and Charles Holman, state rep
resentatives. SYNTHETIC PROCESS NOT ISKU
Government Not Eipcrimtnllng With
Robinson Flax Retting; Invention.
WASHINGTON. April 28. (To ths
Editor.) I am told that The Orego
nian April 4 contains an article on
flax in which it is stated that the
department of agriculture at Wash
ington Is using William Jay Robin
son's synthetic process -for retting
flax. The department does not use.
and never , has used, Mr. Robinson's
process.
Mr. Robinson has never at any time
during the past ten years been con
nected with any branch of the gov
ernment. He attended the meetings
of a committee of the war trad a
board in October, 1918. but he was
not chairman of the committee, as
has been stated, and, furthermore,
he had very little to do In the prepa
ration of the report of the commit
tee, extracts from which are quoted
in the prospectus of one of his com
panies. There is an increasing demand for
flax fiber of good quality, and it is
to be desired that an increased acre
age of fiber flax may be grown re
Oregon this year, but I hope tnat
the industry there may not receive
a severe setback by the investment
in pure promotion schemes.
LTSTER H. DEWEY,
Botanist in charge of fiber investiga
tions, department of agriculture.
Freedom of Seas Defined.
Yonkers (N. Y.) Statesman.
Yeast What's this freedom of th
seas we're hearing so much about Just
now? Crimsonbeak Why, man can
drink ail of it he wants.