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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, MAT 10, 1920
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COM ITT IN EDUCATION.
A, correspondent who signs him
self "Conscientious Taxpayer" rises
to inquire whether or not it is true
that a "very large percentage" of
students in Oregon's higher institu
tions of education are not bona fide,
residents of other states, and
whether if this is true "it would
not be better to be just to our own
taxpayers before being so generous
to the residents of other states." I
A good deal might be said, on
merely business grounds, in behalf
of an educational policy which in
sited the ambitious youngsters of
other states to avail themselves of
its opportunities. It will be con
ceded, we think, that no better
scheme could be devised to add to
our human resources: that, viewed
only in its material aspects, itwould
Justify itself. It happens, however,
that Oregon is the beneficiary, on
the whole, of the prevailing comity
under which students choosing to
go away from home for education
are commonly admitted to other
colleges and universities on pay
ment of tuition fees which do not
represent the cost to the state of
educating them.
The university of Oregon, as ex-,
amination of the roll shows, has
182 non-resident students, or about
11 per cent of the student body.
There are at the Agricultural col
lege something more than 700, or
between 20 and 25 per cent. There
is, however, another side to the rec
ord. There were last autumn in tbe
university of Washington 280 stu
dents from Oregon. A canvass of
the 1917-18 catalogue of the uni
versity of California shows 115 Ore
Con students, and, although Califor
nia has failed to send figures for the
present year, it is known that there
has been a substantial increase. It
Is thus indicated that there are per
haps 500 Oregon youths in the state
universities of two adjoining states.
Stanford is known to have a large
number; there are others at Har
vard, Tale and Columbia. "Wash
ington State college. Whitman col
lege and the university of Idaho
have attracted a- not inconsiderable
quota. Scarcely a college catalogue
can be found that does not contain
an Oregon name or two.
It is probable that there are a
rood many more Oregon students in
outside colleges than there are for
eign students in Oregon institutions.
Tet we think that those who feel a
proper pride in their state will be
less concerned over the financial
considerations involved which at
present are in our favor than in
creating and maintaining an edu
cational atmosphere which will not
only seem salubrious to visitors, but
will tempt our own youth to remain
fit home.
LOSS OF SHIPS MADE GOOD.
The policy for sale of the emer
pency fleet which has been recom
mended by the business men's com
mittee appointed by Chairman Ben
son, of the shipping board, finds sup
port in an article published in the
London Times giving the totals of
new construction. At the end of
llarch- there were building through
out the world 7,941,000 gross tons of
ships as compared with 3,343,000
tons at the end of March, 1914. When
this tonnage is completed, the War
loss will have been made good with
several million tons to spare. Much
of the normal increase for the last
eix years will remain to be built, but
at the present rate that will be ac
complished in a year or two.
There is no longer a scarcity of
tonnage, and though the general
high level of prices and wages and
of new tonnage will keep freight
above the rates of 1914, it is bound
to fall below the rates recently rul
ing, in fact, it is already falling.
Conditions of sale of government
ships must be based on these condi
tions. Their buyers will have to com
pete with new ships, built in peace
time at lower cost, better construc
ted and better adapted to their trade
Chan are vessels built especially for
'ar service.
In order that the government may
Bell its fleet it will be necessary to
accept such terms as the committee
suggests. The price should be based
on the present cost of reproduction,
payment should extend over a term
of years and the price should be sub
ject to readjustment in accordance
with, the values prevailing at the
time of each payment. If this plan
should be adopted, no long period
would elapse before the entire fleet
would have passed into priva'te
hands. Its continuance as an Ameri
can merchant marine would then de
pend on laws enabling owners to op
erate economically and on their abil
ity and enterprise.
The house of representatives did
well in rejecting the proposal that
funds for the shipping board shoulo
be provided by direct appropriation
instead of being drawn, as at pres
ent, from the proceeds of operation
and sale. The ett'ect of its adoption
would have been to turn all funds de
rived from sales into the treasury,
where congress would treat them as
available to meet current expendi
tures. They are in fact salvage from
war expenditure and should be ap
plied to reduction of war debt.
There is room for doubt whether
there is urgent need to make good
the shortage in normal ship con-
struction which has accrued from I it should be fostered. There is some
the war. Europe is certainly short I cause for hope that the home pro
of many commodities and, if it I gramme will thus gain permanency,
should attempt immediately to make ' even after the way to Europe is free
good this deficiency, .the tonnage
available would be unequal to the
carrying trade. But practically the
whoje continent of Europe has sunk
to a lower standard of living than
prevailed before the war. Only by
degrees can it return to the old
standard replace old clothes with
new, eat as much and as good food
as before, rebuild ruined cities and
replace destroyed factories, farm im
plements and live stock. Hence the
volume of commerce, measured in
tons, may be for several years less
than it was six years ago, though the
totals, measured by inflated value,
are higher. The need to make up
fully the war deficit in tonnage of
ships may not arise until Europe is
in a position to.return to its former
standard of living and to restore all
its wreckage. This condition will re
strict the demand for ships and the
price at which they can be sold.
SUSPENDING A POOR LAW.
Certainly there will be no protest
from users of gasoline if, to meet a
shortage in Oregon's own peculiar
standard of the fuel, prosecutions
under the law be suspended by state
officials. There is no likelihood that
any user of gasoline will be able to
detect the difference.
If those who profess to be oil ex
perts speak truly this standardization
law Is not far different from a statute
that would require a percentage of
water in milk sold by dairies. The
test required actually forces an in
ferior grade of gasoline upon the
consumer, but unlike the milk paral
lel, it costs more for the poor gasoline
than it would for the grade which is
accepted by the government and pro
duced generally by the oil companies.
It is doubtful that a law limiting
the sale of milk, or shoes, or coal, or
any other product where quality is
quite readily determined by the con
sumer, to articles of poorer grade
would stand a legal test. One may
well wonder whether if anybody took
the trouble to attack the gravity gas
oline test law on the grounds that it
did not insure delivery of a superior
grade of gasoline, but on the con
trary imposed a needless burden of
cost upon consumers and violated
the principle of conservation of na
tural resources whether if attacked
on these points the. courts would not
hold the law invalid as contrary to
public policy.
THE POLL OF EDITORS.
There is one outstanding feature
of the poll of Oregon editors pub
lished in the Sunday Oregonian that
will not escape those who analyze
the results: That is the obvious dis
interestedness of the editors. Where
as eighteen out of fifty-nine editors
named Leonard Wood as their first
choice, thirty out of the same group
of editors expressed the belief that
General Wood was the first choice of
republicans ..in their communities.
They expressed an honest judgment,
although in numerous instances that
judgment was contrary to their own
desires.
The poll may be accepted as an es
timate of public opinion as accurate
as could be obtained from a limited
number of individuals. The news
paper man is a trained listener. It
in his business to know what the
people of his communitiy are doing
and what they are talking about. So
the number of persons whose es
timates are recorded is not large, in
comparison with the voting popula
tion, but it is representative of every
section of the state. And what is of
both interest and importance is the
fact disclosed by the figures and al
ready mentioned, that these editors
have detached themselves from their
own preferences in expressing what
they believe to be community senti
ment. '
THE TOURIST TIDE OF 1930.
With available passenger tonnage
reduced to less than half of that of
pre-war times, and with the effi
ciency of this tonnage further im
paired by strikes in a number of
the principal ports of Europe, there
is reason to believe that Americans
bent on travel this year will be com
pelled to visit their own country for
at least one more season. Reports
tnat trans-Atlantic liners have
booked their full accommodations
for months ahead are deceptive, at
the same time that they probably
are true. The fact that they are be
ing compelled to turn applicants
away is due to scarcity of berths
rather than to the rush to Europe
which has been assumed to prevail.
The .Nautical Gazette points out
that the present shortage, although
it undoubtedly grew out of the sub
marine campaign, has been aggra
vated by delay in converting the
passenger tonnage which survived
the war into shape for service such
as would be demanded by tourists.
Most of the big vessels are tetill
awaiting or undergoing transforma
tion, which in turn is made difficult
both by labor troubles and by short
age of necessary materials. The
Leviathan will not be ready for a
year. The next three largest- ves
sels, the Imperator, the Olympic and
the Aquitania, are out of service and
may not be ready during the present
season, although it is hoped to have
them in condition later in the pres
ent season. These four steamships
represent a total tonnage of 198,757,
or the equivalent of about twenty
good-sized ships, judged even by
present standards.
Meanwhile the harbor strike at
Rotterdam has tied up vessels since
February and there is another strike
at Copenhagen. Ports in the south
of Europe have not been organized
to accommodate passenger traffic on
its pre-war basis. In a single week
six years ago the number of pas
senger sailings from New York. was
twenty-seven. In the corresponding
wees or iszu u was only ten ships,
of much less than one-third of the
tonnage of the former. Passengers
who do succeed in crossing consist
largely either of business men or
passengers seeking to combine busi
ness with pleasure. A number are
going to visit relations from whom
they have been separated. by the war.
"Always," says a steamship official,
"it is either business or family ties
that is taking people to the other
side."
The situation is not an unmixed
evil. Assuming that the travel urge
is not greatly abated by failure to
get tickets for Europe, there is a
chance for the see-America-first
propaganda to, make further head
way, on economic grounds it is
desirable that this should be so
There are also patriotic reasons why
from obstacles. There is. however,
at present literally no place for an
American to go but home. . Europe
lacks both transportation and enter
tainment facilities; the orient is so
short of the latter. that a proposed
religious congress in Japan which
may attract a few hundred delegates
is already beginning to give serious
concern: Mexico is not yet cured of
the practice of killing or robbing its
visitors, and South America is under
a greater handicap of lack of pas
senger facilities than is Europe. It
is the year of years for prosperous
Americans to see the wonders of
their own land.
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A SAFE REFUGE FOR THE REDS.
Until Secretary of Labor Wilson
had spoken hope survived that, his
illness alone prevented him from re
versing the policy of his assistant,
Louis F. Post, in liberating members
of the communist labor party as
fast as they were arrested by the de
partment of justice. His ruling that
membership in that party does not
constitute ground for deportation of
aliens destroys that hope. The revo
lutionists have a champion in the
cabinet who undoes the work of the
attorney-general and leaves the reds
free to organize overthrow of the
constitution by the same methods as
have succeeded in Russia and as
have been tried in Germany.
Mr. Wilson's ruling does violence
to the plain meaning of the English
language and flatly contradicts facts.
He says there is nothing in the com
munist labor platform "that dis
closes an Intention to use force or
violence or that is incompatible with
the use of the parliamentary ma
chinery to attain the radical view
that is expressed" and that belief in
that party's doctrines does not "bring
the organization within the purview
of the act as long as it does not pro
pose to use force or violence to ac
complish the purpose." That opin
ion is contradicted by the following
excerpts from the manifesto of the
communist labor party which were
admitted as evidence in the trials of
members in Portland under the Ore
gon criminal syndicalism act:
The most Important means of capturing
state power for the workers Is the action
of the masses, proceeding from the places
where the workers are gathered together
in the shops and factories. The use of the
political machinery of the capitalist state
for this purpose is only secondary. . . .
The constitution framed by the capitalist
class for the benefit of the capitalist class
cannot be amended in the workers' inter
est, no matter how huge a majority may
desire It.
Nor does it agree with the follow
ing extracts from articles in the first
number of "Communist Labor," the
official organ of the party of that
name:
We are revolutionary what does that
mean 7 It means two things. First, that
we believe that without a revolution the
transition from tho capitalist to the com
munist regime Is not possible and then
that we are determined to place all our
national and spiritual means at the service
of the revolution. What is revolution?
Such a question, if put previous to 1814.
would sound ridiculous. Everj'bodv un
derstood that a revolution was an Illegal,
sudden and inevitable potent overthrow of
the present social system. . . .
Not merely to talk about revolution, but
to fight for it. has become the task of the
socialist movement. 1 1 vnr.vo- thi.
awakening In the communist movement the
wgria over.
Mr. Wilson evidently does not un
derstand the plain meaning of thi3
passage in the manifesto of the third
international with headquarters at
Moscow, Ruesia, to which the com
munist labor party in its platform
subscribes "in essence": '
The working class must answer blow for
blow if it will not renounce Its own ob
ject and its o,wn future. . . , This makes
necessary the disarmament of the bour
geoisc at the DroDer tiino. the firmlno- .r
the laborer and the promotion of a com
IHUI1I3L army as me protection or the rule
of the proletariat and the inviolability of
the social structuie.
He evidently did not comprehend
the plain implication of these words
in the manifesto of the left wing of
the socialist party, from which the
communist labor party was formed:
The revolution starts with strikes of pro
test, developing Into mass political strikes
and then into revolutionary miss action for
the conquest of the power t the state.
Mr. Wilson's opinion is in direct
opposition to that of Attorney-Gen
eral Palmer, whose assistant says
that its effect will be to make the
communist labor party a refuge for
undesirable aliens, where they will
De iree rrom government inter
ference.
It is high time that President Wil
son should decide between two mem
bers of his cabinet who pursue dia
metrically opposing policies on a
question of vital importance to the
safety of the nation.- We know Mr.
Palmer's policy and Secretary Wil
son's policy: what is President Wil
son s policy?
DEMAND FOE SYSTEM IN GOVERN
MEM.
Letters suggesting planks for the
republican platform have been in
vited by the New York Tribune, and
almost all of those published on one
day deal with some phase of the
subject of organization and operation
of the machinery of government.
The main source of Governor Low-
den s strength as a candidate for
the republican nomination is his
success in reorganizing the gov
ernment and reducing the expenses
or Illinois. The same ability demon
strated by Leonard Wood in Cuba
and the Philippines and by Herbert
Hoover in Belgian relief and in food
administration attract people to
them. This question of administra
tive reform has not been able to get
public attention in former cam
paigns, but the monstrous extrava
gance of the Wilson government has
forced people to turn their minds to
it-
The great compensation to- the
people for the present disordered
state of their affairs is that it has
exposed to them the fact that the ex
ecutive branch of their government
is a patchwork to which pieces have
been added from time to time with
out regard to any general plan and
that revenue has been raised and ex
pended without any system providing
for a general budget and for cfose
check by congress to insure that
money shall be expended as the law
requires and that appropriations shall
not be exceeded. The result is that
functions which other nations con
centrate in a department of public
works are divided among bureaus of
several departments: that congress
appropriates money at the bidding of
small but well-organized and persist
ent classes, cliques and theorists
without due regard to the means pro
viding it: that the government of
Alaska, for example, is worse than
that of subject peoples by some Eu
ropean nations which senators freely
criticise; that executive departments
regularly exceed their appropriations
and that congress as regularly passes
huge deficiency bills.
The needed reorganization would
require no change in the constitution,
for congress has authority to legis
late on the subject. Successful oper
ation of a new plan would be ma
terially aided by amendments pro-j
viding that the president and con
gress should take office and that
congress should meet a month or at
most two months after their election,
and that no man should be elected
president for more than two terms.
Successful working of the present
confused machine has been contin
gent on the presence of an energetic
president, enjoying public ; confi
dence, and in congress of able, force
ful leaders. . Roosevelt'j success as
president was due to his power of
rallying public opinion to" his -support,
to his faculty of imposing hi
policy on congress, to his readiness
to compromise on non-essentials, to
the energy which he infused into his
subordinates and to his boldness in
cutting corners in order to get action.
By these means he got work out of a
machine which is cumbrous, unco
ordinated and has many obsolete
parts. During the last year espe
cially. President Wilson has shown
himself to lack these qualities at a
crisis where they are imperatively
necessary. His ' administration is
running at loose ' ends, for he has
ceased to function as its directing
head except in preventing peace, the
condition of the government is al
most chaotic and the people are
waiting for his successor to put the
machine in running order.
The time is past when congress
can appropriate money in happy
confidence that: the revenue will be
ample without provoking a protest
from taxpayers or when bureaus can
be added to departments like an
nexes to an old house, - without re
gard to any definite scheme. The
tax collector dives his hand directly
into so many men's pockets, the ex
pense of government and . the na
tional debt have reached such mag
nitude, and - the operations of gov
ernment have become so extensive
that the people will keep their eye on
Washington. They will look critically
at the work of the departments, they
will watch where the money goes,
and they will judge an administra-
tlon by the test of whether it gives
them a dollar's worth for every dol
lar, as well as by the promises which
it makes and by the achievements of
which it boasts.
THE BASK OP THE KINT PYRAMID.
Mayor Baker's committee on high
rents will have justified itself if it
does no more than to reveal the part
which, the middleman plays in rais
ing rents of apartments. Censure has
been directed "at owners, when it
seems to have been due to lessees
urged on by agents.
The owner of an apartment house
leases it for several years to a per
son who furnishes and operates it.
Many csf these leases were made be
fore the rise in rent, and they are
good material for the broker to work
on. There is a wide" margin between
the rent'paid to the owner and that
which is collected by the lessee, after
allowing Tor Interest and cost of fur
niture, cost of replacing it and cost
of operation. The broker finds a
buyer for the lease and furniture at
a price which represents the, capital-
zed value of this margin and he gets
a fat commission. The buyer raises
the rent to his tenants, and thus adds
to the margin, which is capitalized in
a higher price paid by another buyer,
who raises rents another notch and
repeats the operation, with another
commission for the broker. The
lessee who has a house on his hands
when a lease expires is often "out
and injured," for then the owner
raises his rent to a figure which ab
sorbs the margin that has been capi
talized in the' price that the lessee
has paid. In order to escape loss,
the lessee must make a hurried sale
before the lease expires or must re
new it at the higherrate and squeeze
his tenants again in order to recoup
himself.
"In this, as in other lines of busi
ness, the main cause of high prices Is
the middleman.
Hoover, a novice in seeking nomi
nation for high office, may have let
friends spend much money, but what
of Johnson seeking to call him down
for it? The pot might call the kettle
black, only in this case it is like the
new-fangled ware that does not show
it.
In the commercial columns yester
day appeared this bit of news:
"Growers who thought the market
would reach 10 cents are now trying
to find buyers at 6 cents." That de
scribes the potato situation that was
acute a few weeks ago.
Judge Land is was disgusted to
learn that the head of a department
of the Chicago federal reserve bank,
with sixty people under him, received
$30 a week. OtTiers, who think bank
oficials get big pay, are surprised as
well as disgusted.
A Chicago woman whose husband
died on a Monday married again on
a Tuesday and deputized her mother
to represent her at the funeral., In
a case of that kind all No. 2 can do
is repress his feelings and wonder
at his future. : '
Canned fruit that must be bought
from the grocer next winter bids fair
to be in the superluxury class. As
first aid to the agony now, one may
indulge in strawberries at 25 cents.
Alas, the poor shortcake!
Idaho democrats would profit by
the neglect of Idaho republicans to
send women to the Chicago conven
tion, but Idaho republican women
are a sensible lot and do not change
party as they do apparel.
When any other candidate than
Senator Johnson spends money on a
primary campaign, it is a crime, for
the money is a "slush fund." When
Johnson spends money, it is "legiti
mate expenses.
No wonder Washington outranks
other large cities with its army of
"unemployed' ' clerks and wartime
hangovers. Ten years from now, un
less much happens, the national cap
ital may feel as now does Spokane. .
A $5000 bond will hold the head
of the biggest kind of corporation as
tightly as one for ten times the
amount, but the common people look
upon It as rank favoritism.
Democratic managers need not
worry about disposing of Bryan. He
has a way of attending to that.
The "June rise" is due in a fewjner. If that is justice we have been
J weeks, but forget it, ,
BY - PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES i
Paintings Bought for Originals Prove
to Be Only Copies.
A collection of paintings being held
In a St. Louis warehouse which were
purchased for $100,000 by the late
John T Milliken through Furooean
jonn a. jvuniKen through European
agents before his death, were found
to contain copies of well-known
works which Milliken had believed to
be originals.
The dlscoery was made by Arthur
Kocian. an art expert of St. Louis,
1
to whom the pictures were shown for
appraisal by the trustees of the Milll- I
ken estate. The appraisal was ordered
with, tho Intention nf sending: the col-!
lection.' numbering 20 paintings, to
he. aold at auction ln New Tork. i
Kocian said It was not unusual for a
number of paintings 'bought through
agents to contain duplicates of
famous masters.
The copies are cleverly executed,
Kocian said, and . are imitations of
works.of Corot and Daubigny.
According to Virgil M. Harris, one ,
of th trustees of the Milliken estate.;
Milliken bought the pictures about j
two years ago. without first examln- Paper contests and was a great uttie
Jz A. . . I subscription chaser until two. years
Ing them. He said they were not de-, ago 80meone enticed hlm mto invest
livered ln St. Louis until three ta , th Columbia County Dispatch
months ago. after the death of Milli
ken. January 31. 1919.
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Any theory which attempts to ex
plain the formation of our world must
take .into account certain curious
facts, says Howard Carrington in
Leslie's. Among these are, first:
There. Is a great preponderance of
land in the. northern hemisphere, and
of 'water in. the southern. Second:
Most oceans and most continents are
more or less triangular in shape, and
they nearly all point southward.
Third: The land forms an almost
unbroken ring in the north and water
in the south. Fourth: If we place
a map of the northern hemisphere
over the southern, it will be found
that land never falls over land, but
always over water,, except in a few
small patches. These curious facts
have given rise to the so-called
"tetrahedral" theory of the forma
tion of our globe. It has been found,
by experiment, that a round tube, un
der pressure, tends to collapse into a
triangular form. This gives the
greatest amount of surface for the
relative area. Our earth, in cooling.
shrinks, and consequently its spher
ical form (maintained by its revolu
tion or spinning) tends to fall into
this triangular or tetrahedral shape.
The result of this is that certain, flat
surfaces are formed, and also cer
tain points or angles which project.
Water, being fluid, tends to flow "onto
the flat spaces, being nearer the
center of gravity than the propecting
corners. The result is tnat tne con
tinents," 'which correspond on this
theory to the corners would project
or rise above the level of the water;
and if we examine a .map of the
world, with this theory in view, it
will be found that the general con
formation of the land and water, and
their distribution on our globe, corre
spond precisely to this theory.
No apprehension need be felt as to
the ultimate and continuous naviga
bility of the Panama canal. That is
shown clearly entough by the fact
that the once frequent slips from
the disturbed hills and related ele
vation of the bottom at the great
cut already had ceased for many
months, and that their recent recup
rence has involved the movement of
rock masses of trivial extent In com
parison with those that formerly
took place. It . may, and probably
will be, many years before those
harshly treated little mountains again
gain a permanently stable equilib
rium. They must do it some time,
however, and then that trouble will
be over.
' The most plaueible doubt of the
canal's success is based, not on the
land slips at the Culebra cut, but on
the possibility that the foundations
of the Gatun dam may give way un
der the pressure of the water be
hind that colossal work. But that
is only a possibility, " and that it is
even a possibility is denied by higher
engineering authorities than assert
it.
At any rate, this heavily taxed
generation can thank such rather In
efficient stars as it has that its pre
decessor did .. not impose on it the
task of keeping open a sea-level
canal. That would have saved worry
about the big dam, but it would have
meant land slides and land pushes
without end, humanly speaking. New
Tork Times.
Flames will soon destroy all that
can be burned of the historic old war
ship Richmond, used during the civil
war as a flagship by Admiral Far
ragut, which has been tied up in the
morgue for disabled and superannu
ated craft in the Delaware, near
Bridesburg, for nearly a year. The
government recently disposed of the
Richmond at auction. The new owner
sent the vessel to Kastport, Me..
where it will be beached and burned
for the iron, brass and copper in the
hulk.
The warship was built in 1858 as a
first-class sloop-of-war. It is be
lieved to be the first naval vessel to
be camouflaged, as It was coated with
mud to conceal its presence during
the action before New Orleans.
Soon after the war the Richmond
was taken out of commission and con
verted into a receiving ship and sta
tioned at League Island. Later it
was taken to the Norfolk navy yard,
where It remained until sold to a
Philadelphia shipbreaker.
It is said the ship contains at least
1000 tons of iron and 40,000 tons of
copper and brass. Philadelphia Pub
lie Ledger.
When the ultra Bostonese Boston
Transcript quotes the tenth chapter
of Luke to prove that "the laborer is
worthy otw his higher," what chanpe
have the 'outlanders to keep their
balance? Let the deformed spellers
and the punk punsters do their worst.
And that is saying nothing about the
Transcript's "unsqueakable Turk."
St. Paul Pioneer Press.
" 'Department of Justice,, penalty for
rrlvate use, $300.' this was on one of
he envelopes we received In our
mail," notes the editor of the Higglns
ville. Mo., Jeffersonian. "On opening
the letter we found it was from some
home economic women in St. Louis
advocating buying cheaper meat and
giving advice- how to make hash for
I supper from the left overs from din-
I getting it all our life."
Those Who Come and Go.
"Just my luck " sighed C. F. Barnes
I of Bristol. Conn., yesterday, as he
registered at the Portland. "After
rve been clear across tne continent in
- 1 ve Been clear across tne coimutui
without a mishap somebody
had to smash it up at a garage. Mr.
Karnes, who came north from Cali-
f,ruia:, Wh-,Fe 6 VZT '"n "
with his wife and mother, Mrs. C. N. ,
Barnes, took his machine down to a
repair shop for a little overhauling
as soon as he reached Portland. The
car was put on the elevator, which
car was put uii io .- -
refused to move to the floor above. A
mechanic experimented with it and
et t T?&ctinaZ " 1 ."atSe
e--.,. nff the elevator it
t,u uu Llic ua XV llli'i v
..v... - - - -
shot up into the air ana jammed tne .
auto. DSLa: i"ne
( . ,
. - ,.., In. eountrv 1
"Say. I wouldn t leave the country ,
editing game now for anything, ae-
clared R. P. Richardson yesterday ;
when he ran across some "lends in ;
the Imperial lobby. You ought to
tr3 Hie- UHUUjr unit ,,
paper I'm putting out in Dayton, I
Wash., now-. That's some country.
Mr. Richardson used to put on news- ,
and he's been with It ever since.. The
editor is accompanied to Portland by
fc. C. Churchman of the same town.
The latter represents Max Houser in
the grain business at Dayton.
The register at the Seward yester
day looked much like an educational
directory. Among those whose names
appeared on the book were Carl G.
Doney, president of Willamette uni
versity at Salem, and P. L. Campbell,
president of the University of Oregon.
Another from the state capital was
E. F. Carleton, assistant state super
intendent of education, who was ac
companied by his wife. Oregon Agri
cultural college contributed to the
list with E. L. Westove, one of the
veterinaries on the faculty.
"Lumber prices are going to remain
stationary fcr a while," was the state
ment made by Jacob Mortenson, big
mill owner from Oak Park, I1L. who
registered at the Portland yesterday.
He Is here to look over his interests
at Silverton and Klamath Falls and
has cdrae north from Pasadena with
Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Stone. Accompany
ing the party to Portland was H. M.
Wheaton. who is connected with Mr.
Mortenson's mill at Silverton.
W. J. Emery is fasting. He arrived
yesterday from Newport and has since
spent his time around the Oregon get
ting in condition for the banquet to
be tendered Carl D. Shoemaker, retir
ing state game warden, this evening,
following a meeting of the game com
mission, which Mr. Emery will attend.
The Newport man has charge of pro
tection of wild life in 3000 square
miles of Oregon, including three coun
ties. Among the people who are thank
ing fate that they didn't choose to
come to Portland yesterday on the
Southern Pacific train which was
wrecked Is Thomas Nolan, dry p-.o(1.4
merchant of Corvallis. "I don't know
why 1 changed my mind, but at the
last minute I decided to come on the
Orepron Electric," Mr. Nolan said, as
he registered at the Portland and
learned for the first time of the
smash-up.
Stanley E. Bates, vice-president and
chief construction engineer of the
Lee Loader & Body company, wil!
arrive here today to spend several
days as guest of the Portland branch
of the William I.. Hughson automobile
company. Mr. Bates is an engineer
experienced particularly in transpor
tation problems and while here will
give several lectures on this subject.
"Lead' me to some good fishing
again," demanded Frank 1. Gibbs of
Spokane, when he descended upon his
old friend. A H. Meyers, manager of
the Oregon hotol. Saturday. Meyers
proceeded lo do the honors and took
his guest out on the river yesterday
after stcelheads. Mr. Gibbs was for
merly connected with the firm of Tull
& Gibbs of this city.
"I just hoard good news-from my
home town." F. G. Foster of Hoquiam
announced Saturday at the Benson.
"The city hall has burned up. It was
about time we got a new one." Mr.
Foster, who is a wholesale grocer, has
gone to San Francisco on a pleasure
trip accompanied by Mr. Lamb, a real
estate dealer in his home town.
Just to forget the cares associated
with selecting new teachers for the
fall term when there are none to be
had, John W. Todd, superintendent
of the Salem schools, breezed down
to Portland over the week-end. Good
weather favoring his outing, he
brought his family along and spent
most of his time providing entertain
ment for them.
Delmonlca, Cal., is the place Mr.
and Mrs. R- G. Chamberlain have
chosen in which to pass their honey
moon. Mr. Chamberlain, has been a
permanent guest at the Benson, but
last week made a flying trip to Se
attle and brought back with him a
bride. They left yesterday for the
south.
Miss Delphine .F. Rosenfeld, who
hast been attending school in Cali
fornia, returned to the city yesterday.
She will Join her parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Charles Rosenfeld, who are stay
ing at the Multnomah.
H. -W. Collins, wht is a big wheat
dealer at Pendleton, and R. M. Crora
lirr; manager of the flour mills in
the same city, passed through Port
land on their way to California. They
stopped at the Benson before leaving
for San Francisco on business.
B. F. McCullough of Echo is at the
Oregon for the first time in many
months. Mr. McCullough owns a large
stock ranch.
PASSING DOUBTS ARE SETTLED
Senator Pierce Declares Emphatically
for Chamberlain's Re-election.
' LA GRANDE, Or.. May 8. (To the
Editor.) In The Oregonian May 1
the question is raised as to my posi
tion in the senatorial contest in the
democratic primaries.
There is not now and never has
been any question as to where I stand
on this question. I am for the re
nominatios and re-election of George
E. Chamberlain for many reasons, and
I wish to state a few of them.
Senator Chamberlain is an Ameri
can citizen first; his party affiliation
has always been subservient to. his
duties as a citizen. He Is honest, en
ergetic, brilliant, true as steel; he
has grown stronger and more able
with each of the 20 years of his public
life. The interests have not enough
money in Wall street to buy him. He
has served the people ever. He was
foremost ln the fight to prepare
America for the great war; he is a
national character, occupying posi
tions on committees in the United
States senate that Oregon cannot af
ford to sacrifice.
I have not agreed with him on all
questions, but I am willing to forget
some things that seem tp me to be
errors of Judgment in he great
amount of good that he has done.
I sincerely hope that he will be re
nominated and re-elected.
WALTER M. PIERCE.
EDUCATION FOR ALC APPLICANTS
Bad Effects of Limitations Told by
Supporter of Millage Tax.
PORTLAND. May 9. (To the Edi
tor. )-May I plead through The Ore
gonian for the support of the millage
bill, by which the badly needed funds
for our institutions of higher educa-I
tlon are to be provided? I wish es- .
.,, . ,., ..'
who ave decided to vote against this
.
measure, or perhaps by not voting at
all on this question will impliedly
give it their disapproval.
Since the purpose or nigher educa
tion is to study and profit by the ex
perience of others in. the affairs of
life. It is essential for the future
welfare of our great state that we
hi a. kuiuuiuu
have a continuous line of young peo
pie ln training. At present we are
tolJ only about one-half of 1 per
ji n uu. cuic
I themselves to advanced study. Surely I
ni an over abundant number.
The experience of the iate worij
war has shown that of tne thousands
of suggestions made by untrained
persons "to help win the war.- hardly
any were of practlcal use The BUg.
7SL nn wh ph ,11,1 ho n 11 pr, thnno
brought out in the research work of
trained men and women.
None of us wish our own state to
lag behind others in the matter of j
promoting advancement. But since
our institutions of higher education
are already crowded to the point
where no longer all the young people
who would enter may be admitted, the
question is, what are we going to do
about it?
Shall we deny an opportunity te
those who are unfortunately to be ex
cluded because of lack of room: shall
we cast our Just pride aside and tell
those so excluded to try and get into
the colleges of other states, because
our own is too poor to afford the
needed money? Or shall we ' tell
those excluded that higher education
is really only a luxury, and if they
wish it under the circumstances, they
must buy it in the pay institutions,
instead of impressing upon our young
people the fact that higher education
is open to all, depending only on their
own application? Surely no. voter
would be willing to give any of the
above reasons as his reason for vot
ing no. And yet that is Just what
those who vote no must do.
As is well known, the greater pro
portion of the students now in our col
leges are working their way through;
that is, earning their board and lodg
ing. In doing this they are straining
themselves to the utmost, and any
added expense for paying tuitions
would render the .burden too heavy
in many instances.
Finally, shall we break faith with
our soldier boys, to whom we prom
ised every gift within our power
and surely an education is the great
est gift? We -are allowing these
young men $25 per month, but what
good Is that if we must exclude them
from our colleges for lack of room?
The circumstances admit of but enc
way out of the difficulty. That is
support of the millage bill; all asked
is merely 1.26 mills.
T. J. GR1SLER.
WKLl GOT WHAT WIO PAY FOR
Inadequate Compensation Will Mean
Misfit Teachers and Short Terms.
UNIVERSITY PARK, Or., Mry 9.
(To the Editor.) The appeal to in
crease th pay given to the teachers
of the elementary schools of the state,
as well as to the instructors of the
higher schools, including the s,tate
university and the agricultural col
lege, will be heard and acted upon by
the electorate of Oregon. Why not?
These schools open their doors to all
boys and girls that are to be the fu
ture guardians of our civilization. If
teachers are inadequately compen
sated there will be a crop of poorly
equipped teachers, and misfits, and a
less number of months will be used
in the operation of schools. That
nioro attention should be given to
breeding Jerseys. Guernseys and Hol
steins. than to developing human
minds is pitiful were it i.ot tragedy.
All through the past of any people
worth anything, the teacher's place
has been supreme in importance. The
name given our Lord was teacher,
and not master, as we often have it
in improper translation, lie was the
great teacher. Teachers are the
werkmen that let daylight come into
the dwelling places of darkness.
That our church schools such as
we have sufficiently In Oregon should
have more highly paid teachers is un
doubtedly true, but the state declines
to support them by tax upon its citi
zens, as they are kept alive by volun
tary offerings of the denominations
represented by them.
Many of these teachers are women
who become gray headed in public
service, and sacrifice the charms of
domestic life. Many a leading citizen
of the commonwealth remembers
gratefully the old teachers.
They who attend our state schools
are not all preparing to be lawyers
or editors, hut many of them expect to
work in electricity, mechanics, agri
culture teaching and housekeeping.
To receive something from public
servants, it is a mistake to ask them
to live on nothing.
B. J. HOADLEY.
APPEAL IS HELD INCONSISTENT
Johnson's Republicanism Not to Be
Questioned by Wood Man.
PORTLAND, May 9. (To the Edi
tor.) Within the past few days The
Oregonian carried an article purport
ing to come from the Oregon man
ager of the Wood campaign, calling
upon the republican voters of Ore
gon to concentrate their vote in the
coming primary upon General Wood,
so as to prevent Hiram Johnson from
winning the preferential indorse
ment for president in this state, and
urging as a basis for such appeal the,
claim that Wood is a regular repub
lican, whereas Johnson is "not much
of a republican."
It is quite evident from this state
ment that only such persons as voted
for Mr. Taft in 1912 are to be con
sidered regular republicans, and that
the vast majority of republicans who
in Oregon and Elsewhere in the United
States voted for Mr. Roosevelt in that
year are to be considered as not real
republicans.
General Wood in seeking the presi
dency is urging as one of his strong
est claims for preferment the fact
that he was Roosevelt's friend, and
his supporters are claiming that he
is the logical successor of and the
one upon whom the mantle pf the
dead Roosevelt should fall.
Under the circumstances it does not
seem becoming that the Oregon man
ager of the Wood campaign should
condemn Hiram Johnson for standing
loyally by Roosevelt in 1912 and for
doing exactly what Roosevelt himself
did.
I am sure that the great majority
of republican voters who followed
Roosevelt in 1912 will not take kindly
to this attack upon themselves and
upon their former leader.
EDWARD J. BRAZELL.
f-
Wants to Be Remembered.
London Saturday Journal.
The lawyer was drawing up En
peck's wilL
"I hereby bequeath all my property
to my wife," dictated Enpeck. "Got
that down?"
"Yes," answered the lawy. '
"On condition," continued Enpeck,
"that she marries within a year."
"But why that condition?" asked
the man of law.
"Because," answered the meek and
lowly testator "I want somebody to
be sorry that I died."
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
A MILLION DOLLARS.
(Which will be spent on the coming con
gressional Junket to the orient.)
A million dollars, more or less.
-
Conservatively spent.
""u'a e'P ane-iate distress
An.a Promulgate content.
But it will take a few M. C.'s.
To junket with the Japanese.
And spend a month or two of ease
Around the orient.
A million dollars of our debt.
A goodly boon would be;
"Twould save a lot of toil and sweat
To folks like you and me.
But sundry statesmen it will teach.
The habits of the dusky peach.
"Who rides the billows on the beach
At sunny Wakikiki
minion dollars could be placed
Where it would serve us well
I In cutting down excessive waste
To check the H C L.
! But it will be expended straight
j To help the lads who legislate
'To cross the seas and contemplate
j Manila for a spell.
A million dollars would no doubt
Assist our Uncle Sam.
Who's almost busted, to get out
Of something of a jam.
But congressmen on junkets bent
And headed to the orient
Don't care how much of it is spent
Jr give a tinker's dam.
Corlons Effect of the 18h Amend
ment. Time was when some whisky was
better than other whisky. Now some
whisky is worse than other whisky.
Tne Poor Alan Must Wear Something;.
About the only effect of the over
all movement thus far is to put up
the price of barrels.
He's Servinp: n Lons; Term.
Debs can honestly promise the vo
ters that if elected president he'll
not leave, the country.
(Copyricht hy the Bell Syndicate. Inc.
In Other- Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
iFrora The Oreironian of May 10. 1305.1
Yokohama China has withdrawn
her Bequest that the armistice be pro
longed and ratifications of the treaty
of peace were exchanged at Che-Foo
at midnight.
The tenth annual convention of the
Oregon Sunday School association, the
most successful since its organization,
adjourned yesterday.
The census books have been locked
up in the assessor's vaults and there
is little possibility that the enumera
tion will be completed and the result
made known before next December.
The effort being made to secure an
early closing of business houses on
Saturday afternoons during the com
ing summer season is meetins with
success.
Fifty Years Aro.
From The Oregonian of May 10. 1SI0.)
Philadelphia A terrible hail storm
swept the city, there being left hardly
a whole pane of glass on the south
ide of Chestnut street.
Applications continue to increase at
the labor exchange, nine having
sought work there yesterday.
On next -Saturday ail Sabbath
schools of the city will have an ex
cursion and picnic and Mr. llolladay
has promised to take the children to
the grounds on the cars.
Portland comes to the fore with
claims to beinsr several hundred miles
nearer, by a direct line, in the agita
tion for a Pacific cable to Japan and
China, a project now seriously ad
vaneed. CLOSKD SHOP IN" HKDICAL (LAS
Vriter Accuses Doctors of Adopting
Labor Vninn Tat-tlcs.
PORTLAND. May 9. I To the Edi
tor.) The public are generally agreed
that the closed shop for bakers is
not conducive to the best interests of
the consuming public. Also many
ether businesses best serve the public
by the principle of the open shop,
for the unprejudiced and open-minded
man will say no one should be de
prived of the privilege of earning a
living because he does, or does not,
belong to a union.
What about a union for doctors?
An advertisement in The Oregonian
proposes exactly that, or rather ex
poses what is in reality an attempt to
unionize all practices of healing.
I hope every candidate who signs
that card secretly or otherwise will
feel so ashamed of the deed that tags
him as an advocate of a closed shop
for doctors that he will cut loose
and declare himself against every
thing so unjust.
The medical doctors have fought
every advance in the science of heal
ing in the last hundreds of years,
and still think no one should have
the privilege of choosing how he
should be treated but would dose hira
with the same drugs that his great
grandfather was healed or not with.
No man dares say that many are not
being cured by the so-called drugless
healers of today.
I am not a doctor or any kind of
healer. I am only a man who be
lieves in justice and if I do need a
doctor I want the privilege" of choos
ing whom or what I will.
II. T. ADAMS.
EXCLUSIVE DISPLAY PROTESTED
"arlety ln Windows "While Visitors
Are Here Is What Writer Vrges.
PORTLAND, May 9. (To the Edi
tor.) In answer to Mr. Clark's letter
in The Oregonian May 6, I wish to
say that I agree most lieartily with
him that the display of Oregon made
goods, is of inestimable value to our
state.
I, like Mr. Clark, am most proud of
the activities aid achievements of
Oregon, and of the place she has won
for herself in the commerce of our
country, and believe that advertising
them to the fullest will make for her
continued prosperity.
I still contend, however, that to
give over to its display our entire
shop windows would be a mistake.
Women are attracted to the shops and
take pleasure in prettily dressed
windows, and I am sure that their
enthusiasm over our stores would add
greatly to Portland's reputation.
I should like to have both the
pleasing appearance of our shops and
the display of our home products.
Could we not set aside some build
ing, centrally located, and devote it
entirely to the exhibit of Oregon's
activities? L. B. R.
Machine Cleans Carpets on Floor.
Exchange.
With a new electrically-operated
carpet washer. Just developed, car
pets are not taken up, leaving the
floors bare, but are left in position
when washed and. it is said, are ready
for use within two hours. No water
touches the rug or carpet. Instead,
a warm, "sudsy" cleaning compound
Is scrubbed down to the bottom of the
nap. thereby, it is claimed, cleaning
every fiber thoroughly and taking out
all the dirt or grit. Two brushes
made of soft, yielding rubber are
oscillated by an electric motor -500
times a minute, thus, the malr dis
clares, duplicating the scrubbing mo
tion of the human hand.