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10. THE MORNING O REG ONI AN, WEDNESDAY, MAY 12, 1020 ittornhijsCDraittnn KSTABMSilIKO BY 1IESBV 1- MTTOCK. 1'ub'ished by The Orcconlaii I'ublMins 1.0. i::r. Sixth Street, Portland. VJregou. ,C. A. MORDKN. K, B..F1FER. .Manapror. Editor. ; The Oresonlan.ts a memher of the Asso- . clatf-a J'reKb. The Associateo r , ...exclusively entitled to the use rr puouca- ; tion of all news dispatches credited to 11 or not otherwise credited In this paper and nl-o lite local news published herein, ah . riulil of republication of UI tptCiai Uioi-a"- ' herein are nlMo reserved. SuliM-rlption Kate Invariably W Advance. (By Mail.) Pally, Sunday included, one year L allv, Sunday Included, nix months .. Lially. Sunday Included, three months. . Uatly, Sun.lay Included, one nionin . J:i liy, without Sunday, one year . , . . l.'iuly, without Sunday, nix months .. Pally, without Sunday, one month. .. . L."vVecUly, one ear - Sunday, one year ............ (By Carrier.) - r?a Py. 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It is a part of his job as secretary to the "president, and often the biggest part. He says for President Wilson 'that -."there was no intention, in that justly runious Hamaker letter, to damage .the candidacy of Senator Cliamber-r-lain or any other senator who had voted for the T.odgc reservations. Hut Mr. Wrilson does not explain. .He never explains. He never yet Tniade a mistake, and, if ho did, there ''"is Tumulty to take the blame. He is the whipping-boy of the administra-v- tion. Yet no explanation that the v'X" president had nobody particularly in "jii'md, when he laid down the law "jfor friends and foes, will be convinc- ing unless it is made by the president himself. Even then, the letter con tains the whole record, and anybody 1,n-ho reads can explain it for him r: self. Let us see about it. Mr. Hamaker asked the president whether he con- sidcred It "important to nominate candidates pledged to ratify the Ver 7 sailles treaty without Lodge reserva tions." The apparent ingenuousness f:; ot the inquiry was only apparent. It 'i-wa.s a plain design to precipitate the Vhitc House into the Oregon cam paign. Mr. Hamaker is one of the leaders of the war on Mr. Chamber lain. He has a -candidate for sena tor, Mr. Starkweather, pledged to the treaty without reservations. Mr. Chamberlain supported the Lodge reservations against the influence and wishes of the president. Clearly, JZ the Wilson letter is both a repudia tion and a defiance of those senators who abandoned his leadership, in the . .vain hope of saving the treaty. He Z. "did not want it saved, except on his ;!? terms. It must be either the Wilson treaty or no treaty. " The apologists for the president say that he did not know Mr. Ha -w maker, and did not understand that C. a trap had been set for him, or that Mr. Wilson was to toe used in the Oregon campaign. The excuse does ,;2 no credit to Mr. Wilson's intelligence It cannot possibly be accepted at face v . value. It is the duty, and usually it 'is the practice, of all presidents, in their public utterances, to weigh carefully the consequences, both to causes and to men, of what they say. To declare that the president had no thought of the uses to which his let m ter would be put, in Oregon and else J where, is nonsensical. He should " have known. He did know. President Wilson does not favor " the renomination of Mr. Chamber i lain for the senate. There can be no m campaign made for him, as was made six years ago,' on the ground k that Air. Wilson desires his return Mr. Chamberlain must stand on his Tecord. The democrats of Oregon ; are to determine Whether they are to '-stand by Mr. Wilson or Mr. Cham berlain. If they are for Wilson, they will vote for Chamberlain's oppon- nejit. If they are for Chamberlain " tney will nominate Chamberlain on May 21. - me signuicance or tue Oregon j democratic primary is very great. It will be followed in June by the dera il ocratic national convention. No one I v with his eyes, even half open can ; fail to see that the result here will be used there to emphasize the , standing of the president in his own party, or the lack of it. If Cham berlain. wins, the democratic party t in the first referendum in any state will have declared against Mr. Wil ; son and the Versailles treaty with- out change. If Chamberlain loses, the president's stand will have been endorsed by his party. The democracy of Oregon nex - week must repudiate Wilson o re ; ,- pudiate Chamberlain. That is the issue. It cannot be escaped. It was intended by President Wilson tiiat there should be no escape. t AFTKIt-KAPKNSES OF WAR. ; umcussion or what the govern ment should do to pay what the na j -tion owes to th men who fought , against Germany has turned atten "Jion away from the fact that appro priations for pensions to veterans o t -. . former wars still grow. Congress has ; just passed a bill increasing the min .' lmum pension of civil war veteran - to $50 a month, and ex-Spea-ker Can " non informed the house that th pension appropriations for next year were the largest ever made. All ap X propriations for care of survivors o wars prior to that with Germany will -total $298,000,000, or $80,000,000 I ..'more than for-the present year. That sum will not cause much ex- I . citement now that we have become ; accustomed to big figures, but it is not many years since a pension bill Of $160,000,000 raised a storm in- congress. We must prepare our f ' " selves for big figures every year. Mr. J ' Cannon estimated '. at $4 34,000,000 J "the appropriations that will be nec- - essary to discharge the obligations of ! the government to the survivors of J . the war . with Germany" and. adding ; these to appropriations on account of . former wars, he reached a grand to- tal of $782,000,000. These just claims on the nation grow for many years before they begin to diminish. That was the case after the civil war and it will be the case after the world ' war. There were nearly 3,000.000 admissions of soldiers to hospitals 'I during the year 1918 and there wa3 an average of 155,957 men in hos- pital for every day In the year. As Mr. Cannon Said: . ""IMpeiise as well as wounds left its mark on these .men, and no one ran now esti mate how many of, thorn will in the fu ture be found mirforinjf from disability whjch can be traced to the service. lie predicted that within ten years "congress -will have to appropriate a . . , th . o. ". "' obligation to the survivors of all our When such tire after-ex- .-., i,Cli;tJ 04. Will , CUII L11I II I up, i u I in ' . years, what short-sighted economy it is to balk at those measures of pre paredness which will cither deter any other nation from attacking us or will make a future war short and decisive, with onlv a short list of dis- abled soldiers to care for. Pension payments on account of the civil war have already doubled its direct cost. If the nation had been ready, that war could, in the opinion of military authorities, have been ended In vic tory for the union in a few months. Then most of the lives -lost would have been saved, most of the disabil ities would have been escaped, there would liave been few to suffer after effects of wounds and disease, and the cost of pensions would have been a fraction of the present total. MISS CAMILI.K DOSCIt. Long will it be remembered in The Oregonian news rooms that Miss Camille Dosch, after she awakened to consciousness in the hospital last Sunday, asked first about the fate of her little nephew, and then requested that word be sent to the city editor that she would be unable to report for duty on that day. Miss Dosc.h was society editor of The Oregonian. On her way to work Sunday morning she had taken the electric train at her Hillsdale home and was bringing the six-year-old boy to meet his mother, her sister. The wreck occurred, and her little companion was killed instantly. Miss Dosch was herself sorely injured: but it was clear that in the very in- tant of disaster, and in the face of probable death, her only thought was of the boy. ' It was characteristic of her. She ived a life of devotion to others. Her father, her mother, her - relatives were always the objects of her con stant affection and tenderest atten- lons; her friends, who were many. came after them", but before any thought of herself. Hers was a beau tiful life. It had its share ot trouble and affliction: but her serene and gentle nature triumphed over all vi cissitudes, as a. light in dark places. She was, in a marked sense, the mainstay of her family, as she was the confidante and. solace of many friends, old and young. To The Oregonian Miss Dosch gave invaluable service. Her large acquaintance, her high standing, her industry and competence were great assets in iier work. But it is not so much on these accounts that she will be missed. Another can be found to take her place. Her gra cious presence, her friendliness, her thoughtfulness, and her willingness to help others, can have no substi tutes. ONE OF.. THE POSSIBILITIES. Possibilities of prolongation of the American people's sojourn in the no man's land between war and peace were brought out by Representative Temple of Pennsylvania in the de bate on the house peace resolution, when he cited a precedent. . A treaty with other powers for protection of industrial property was signed at Paris March 20, 1883. It was rejected by the senate June 12, 1884, and President Arthur sent it back for reconsideration February 2, 1S85. After two more years, on March 2, 1887, the senate ratified it. fbur years thus passing between its signature and its ratification. Four years from the date of signa ture of the treaty of Versailles would bring us to June 28, 1923, or more than two years after inauguration of the next president. Is there no law ful means by which we can escape the risk of havingto wait four years for the president and senate to get together, and thus escape having to live under, the restrictions of war laws, which make the president die tator in many things and which re strict our liberties in many ways If not, an obstinate and autocratic president might continue exercise of his war powers throughout his term by refusing to make a treaty such as the senate was willing to ratify. TAXED TO TKACn SOCIALISM The people of the United States are rudely awakened to the- fact that they have been paying taxes for the teaching of socialism awakened by such bulletins as the San Francisco Argonaut says have been posted around Berkeley and the neighboring big cities of California, bearing the legend: "Debs for President C,Iub of the University of California." So the facilities for education which, are provided by the people of California at Berkeley have produced a crop of students who want the man for president who obstructed the efforts of the United States to crush Prussianism, the man who would establish in this country a government like that which has wrecked Russia. This is the result of that easy-going confidence which has allowed the votaries of Karl Marx to instil his doctrines in the minds of the young, all m the name of free speech and free thought. The system of free public -education which is the pride of America is thus perverted to become the means of undermining faith in American institutions in the minds of young Americans. It is well that the youth of the country should learn what socialism is, but the knowledge should be im parted by teachers who will honestly place in fair contrast with it that principle of individualism which is the essence of Americanism. Social- i ism is a disease bred by autocracy I and privilege in the' minds of their victims. .It saps that self-reliance which is the first requisite to at tainment of true freedom. It cause? men to expect government to turn from the knout and the noose to the faeding bottle when it changes from autocracy to democracy. It deadens initiative, invention, enterprise, in dustry and thrift, and changes men from subjects of a monarch to slaves of a system. American schools and colleges should be teaching that the personal efforts of the individual man won America from the wilderness and the savage and made itia great, rich, prosperous, and, above all, a free arid happy republic. Men work together by thousands, but in voluntary co operation, not as parts of a machine. Thus they founded the original col onies, then cities and towns, then won independence and founded the republic, then conquered the west and built railroads which bind the nation together. Socialism never did and never can do these things. It is a confession of individual impotence on the part of its followers. Our colleges need a house-cleaning, that they may be manned by those who, will teach these things. Here is work worthy of those stal wart young Americans who carried the American flag to Sedan and the Rhine. WILD FOOD riASTS AND TAJIK. Authors have not yet done with calling attention, as Charles 1 Saun ders does in his "Useful Wild Plants in the United States and Canada," to the theoretical possibilities of certain indigenous products in the event that we were faced by famine, but the trouble is that as a practical propo sition most of them either exist in too small quantities' to be valuable" or have been rejected In the past be cause experience has shown their unfitness to survive. The ground nut, which heads the list, is an ex ample of thiSi It was familiar to the pioneers who came to Oregon from the Ohio valley; it was a tuber much relished by the Indians, but it had no chance in the economic race with the potato, and it would not be worth while to try to. revive it now. The potato would serve every purpose belter. . There was, too, the' Indian bread root, which is open' to the came ob jection. It is not of much utilitarian value to know that the Jack-in-the-pulpit loses its sting when cooked and is good and nutritious, since we could better employ our time than in hunting it, and it is of only academic interest that acorns can be cured of their bitter, astringent prop erties by a certain .method of treat ment. The Indians of the Pacific Northwest were eating acorns when the earliest white men came here, but they were not an agricultural people and if they had been they would have developed a much more promising substitute for cereals. The present need of the country' is not agricultural atavism, but more planting of tested products, Even the vacant lot gardener may his tribe increase! can hardly risk much' on the chance of getting a crop of acorns while there-are other and much more promising vege tables. WHAT TO I0 WITH LKISUItK. It used to be regarded as a truism that one of the things that it was necessary for a man to learn if he expected to amount to much in the world was how to dispose of his time to advantage. Toets and philoso phers, no less than educators, have descanted or the value of the passing moments. "Remember," said the thrifty Ben Franklin, "that time is money." "I recommend you," wrote Chesterfield to his son, "to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves." The "little drops of water" jingle wound up with a caution that the "little minutes. humble though they be, make the mighty ages of eternity,"and Oliver Wendell Holmes reminded us: Old Time, in whose banks we deposit our notes. Is a miser, who always wants grulneas tor groats; He .keeps all his customers still In arrears By lending- them minutes and charg-ins them years. Another count is. added to the in dictment of the time wasters by David Harold Colcord, who suggests in the Review that unrest of ma chine workers may have been errone ously attributed to disagreeable working conditions, which-create the vague feeling called "dissatisfaction with the job," and that it may on the contrary be due to incapacity to find contentment, notwithstanding im provement in wages and surround- Ungs. It. will hardly be contended mat, aitnougn perfection has not been attained, there are not num bers of -workers who have been greatly benefited by the progress of recent times and who were happier a few years ago, when jobs were scarcer and luxuries unattainable on any scale at all, than they are to day. As tor these, Mr. Colcord writes The discontented man is not discontented because of what he does, but because he doesn't know what to do with his surplus time, so that after several rounds of the movies, a plate of ice cream and a jazs selection on the piionosrrapli, his store of amusements is exhausted. . It isn't the eight hours at the machine that makes the anarchist; it is the eight hours of idleness. Since of course it is" not seriously prpposed by any thoughtful student to try to force men to be contented by requiring them to work overtime in order to earn the bare necessi ties of life, the way out seems to be to inspire them to utilize their in creasing leisure in a manner that will promote satisfaction with life rather than lead, them to turn their thoughts to morbid introspection. No man who is pleasantly employed is likely to think of treason, strata gem or spoils; the grumbler in the factory is less common than the idler outside of it, and the problem of what to do with "odd time" may be. as Mr. Colcord thinks, more pressing than uplift during working hours, mere seems to be a too-general notion that amusement is the chief end of the individual off duty. Wre misinterpret the meaning of "fun." The writer goes on: Man's first duty is to provide food, shel ter and clothing for his family. The twen tieth century man sacrifices but eight nours oi tne twenty-four for these. Let him call the first eight hours a sacrifice oi iime ana interest ana find satisfaction lor me aeslres of his soul in the other eight. He should be honest, nlav am, re with his employer, give a full eight hours of labor: but get enough fun out of the other eight so that when he reports for ora eacn aay ne is ready to give his part to wie worm s woric and do it gladly The suggested remedy is to get a hobby and ride it until it gets stale and then get another one. Nor need it be useless or even amusing In the common sense of the latter word to deserve the designation -of "fun.1 The broader culture on which higher education places emphasis as in con trast to the narrower concept of training as worth-while only as it prepares one for a bread-and-butter vocation includes development of the resources which most people have within themselves, though they may not always know it. The reason why one of the most to be pitied creatures On earth is the poor man suddenly become rich and unable to employ his new wealth for the gratification of his soul's desires is the same as that which makes men rabidly de claim against "social conditions" at the same time that they are buying grand pianos on the instalment plan. It is fun to do what one wants to do only if one is sure that the thing he has chosen is really what he wants. The- philosophy of the j sensual .pleasures Is baffling; there is less difficulty in discovering that the sense of duty helps us to extract more durable satisfaction from life's game. 'The shorter workday is a genuine boon only to those who are able to use it-as its original propon ents argued that they had the right to do for their permanent advant age, which is for self-improvement, and not altogether for the lengthen ing of the time in which no duty calls. The home garden, not neces sarily a vegetable garden; improve ment of the home surroundings; books; a thousand and one diversions suggest themselves that would give the fillip of purpose to an aimless leisure, and that it is easy to believe would make even the necessary task of the formal workday more toler able. WHAT SENATOR POINPEXTEB IMKS KOT KNOW. Senator Poindexter's reply to the letter from Representative Bean in quiring how he stood on Pinchot conservation, which is published in another column, is a remarkable ex- ample of ignorance on the part of a senator from a state which has suf fered only less than Oregon from Pinchotism. The entire letter shows that the senator docs not understand the question at issue. Pinchotism is not conservation as commonly understood; it is a distor tion and perversion of that policy. While professing to favor conserva tion so applied that it is synonymous with use and development of natural resources, Pinchot insists on so nar row a construction that the effect is to obstruct and often to prevent en tirely either development or use. He would surround the right to use with restrictions that in fact render use and development impossible. He would impose terms on development of non-metallic mineral land and of powersites that in practice would discourage men from investing or would enhance cost of development to the final injury of the public. He views with suspicion as a would-be robber of the public every man who seeks to use or develop the public land. - The consequence is that, on pretense of conserving forests, he and his votaries have allowed billions of feet to decay and on pretense of protecting waterpower from mono poly the Pinchotites have caused it to run to waste during ten years when the country was in dire need of it. Pinchotism would continue as the perpetual property of the gov ernment about half the area of the western, states, exceeding in area the vast private domains of the czars. It would thus cramp the development and dwarf 'the sovereignty of the western states. The senator refers to the laws which open to use the agricultural. grazing and mirreral land in national forests. He does not appear to know that Mr, Pinchot bitterly opposed those features of the law and after being defeated in congress he and his successors and their henchmen so administered them as to nullify them. man who proposed to' locate a homestead In a national forest would be refused a permit on the plea that the land in question was to be used as a ranger station, or his boundaries would be so changed that his farm would be cut in pieces. Regulations for cutting timber were such as often to be prohibitive. On one occasion. when Pinchot had waterpower on the brain, before powersites had been withdrawn from location, he earned that a location was to be made on a river in Utah. He hurried a man to the scene to take it as a ranger station. A forest ranger needs a house, soil, for a garden and pas ture for his horse, but that ranger station was a stretch of lava rock, in which a man would have to drill holes in order to anchor his house Development of the west is obstruc ted as much by unfriendly adminis tration of existing law as by opposi tion to the laws for which it has called for many years. By expressing surprise at the sup port which acquisition and mainte nance of government forests receives the senator further betrays his ignor ance of the subject. Western people want their forests conserved, and tney are gratified to see eastern neo pie replanting the forests of the Al legheny mountains which they have wasted. But conservation is quite consistent with use, while the effect of the Pinchot policy is reservation. very strict reservation at that. Mr. Poindexter needs further edu cation in the affairs of his own state. If he would go into the back country, among the forests and mountains. and talk with the men who wrestle wth nature In the raw, he would learn the difference between conser vation and Pinchotism.- "When H. D. Winters died a dozen years ago he left no- will purposely probably, for he was peculiar. Peo pie had been picking on" him to grab his money, in season and out of season. Knowing he could not take it with him, he may have enjoyed in anticipation the scramble of his 176 or more relatives. If he did, it worked. In the course of all the law- ing, what was worth then $60,000 has shrunk to one-third, and the old man may be happy if cognizant. Old Bill Taft and there's no dis respect' intended in the phrase is about' the serenest person in the land. He does not fear to put the blame where it belongs and he does not hesitate to laugh at his "pros pects." If one refinery is making $14 profit on a sack of sugar, Mr. "Pamnfer" need go no farther to get a victim. The Utah delegation is not large and its vote will not count much in San Francisco. "Loyalty to his shop killed John Kampf in the fire yesterday. . He hoped to put It out or stay it, no doubt, and in his frenzy overlooked escape. It's a fine ideal, but foolish. The latest in strike is that of the petition-circulators' union for 100 per cent increase, and they deserve it. Theirs is ornery labor., The socialists have nominated Debs for president. Well, there's one com fort in it for him. He won't need any campaign expenses. ICo doubt this gasoline "shortage," if there is a shortage, will be the ex cuse for an increase of another cent or two per gallon. It is a real pity that what Cham berlain said to Tumulty cannot come over the wires. Hamaker, eh? Hellma'ker, thinks "our George." KDICATIOXAI, TAX IS KAVORED. Many Oregon ewpaner Approve Aid tf Oregron tollenes. Jefferson Review. Good schools and colleges are just as essential to the upbuilding of our state as good roads, and if we do not have good schools and colleges. the tide of immigrants that is headed westward will pass us by and eettle tn Washington and California, or some other western state, where. edu cational institutions are known to be among the best in the country. For ward or backward which shall it be? Income Not on I 'alr Ban In. Polk County Observer, Dallas. Notwithstanding the great in crease in -the cost of everything, the higher educational institutions have been compelled to get along with the same amount allowed them in years past when prices were chcaner. This should not be. Great Steadying Influence. Grass Valley Journal. Higher education is a safeguard against anarchy on the one hand and aristocracy and reaction on the other. Individual Cost I.t Low. Athena Press. It will he found by the individual taxpayer that while the cost of main taining the higher educational insti tutions may look pretty high in cold print, it is comparatively low per student. He will also find that it adds a mere trifle to his individual tax bill. . If he is an average tax payer, he will save the added costs of the schools by doing without a few cigars during the year. IVnaltira of Nlssrardlineaa. Pendleton Tribune. A state which is so niggardly as to subordinate education to utilitarian ism is in danger of moral and social bankruptcy. Loan of Inntructora Menace. Salem Statesman. Scientific agriculture has made its advance so recently that few success ful experimenters and teachers of ag riculture are available, and these are naturally in great demand. What states will profit by the services of iiieo capaDie, lew: l noee whose peo ple have sufficient foresight to em ploy them, of course. I'auprrlrr, Teachers Had for School. Marshfield Record. o young man worthy of teaching youth will train himself for the vo cation when ho knows that his max- mum earning capacity is held down to the poverty line or lower. If the situation is not remedied American universities must break down. Limit Has Been Reached. Forest Grove News-Times. Higher education in ' Oregon has reached its limit under the present ncome. The University. Agricultural college and the normal nchool must have relief or close their doors. What of Itcpnlatlonf Woodburn Independent There is not a loyal citizen of Ore gon who dsires the news to reach the outside that the people of this state are opposed to higher educa tion and believe In closing the doors of their universities, thereby actually driving our young men and women to other spates to seek an education to be followed by their parents in many instances. Pour Reasons Given. Baker City Herald. Why do state institutions of higher learning need more money? There are four reasons for this and they may be briefly stated as follows: First, the buying power of the dollar has fallen to 45 cents; second, the operat ing costs (excepting salaries) have more tnan aouDled; third, the num ber of students has increased 150 per cent; fourth, the revenue from the state has practically stood still. Why Neighbors Outrun Is. Eugene Guard. California and Washington, our neighbors on either side, have grown and developed far ahead of Oregon, and we believe it is because in all things they have been broader, their- vision clearer, and because they educational institutions and made publio improvements almost without have gone ahead and built (.heir counting the cost, thus attracting weaitn, population ana development. Muat Have More Money. Dufur Dispatch. ithout any discussion as to the colleges themselves. If they are to continue and keep pace with other institutions of the United States, they must have more money. Hence the millage bill which will be voted on next month. Grasye Kolk in I, Ins-. Oregon Grange Bulletin. If the success of the higher edu cational tax measure depended fi nally on the support offered by the members of the Grange, no concern as to the outcome would be felt by the sponsors for the bills. Kducation has always been one of the fundamen tala of Grange doctrines' and prac tices. - Leaving in Droves. Heppner Herald. In 18 months, 154 members of the Oregon agricultural college faculty have resigned. This is an average o one to each three and one-half days, Resignations at the state university have also been numerous. Many these men were technical specialist in branches of agriculture, whom the state can ill afford to lose, as new men cannot learn the state in a yea or two. Three Things That Co Together. Stayton Mail. It is unthinkable that our peopl will deliberately refuse to give ih boys and girls of this state an equal opportunity with those of other states for higher education. Good roads good schools and good colleges go hand In hand. Good Kecor? In Issue. Hood River News. No other state maintains such high rate of students who seek th advantages of higher education. The fathers and mothers of Oregon'a boy and girls want their children to re ceive the advantages of a higher edu cation, but just as surely as th higher educational millage bill fail to pass at the polls next May, man people will find their boys' careers checked because Oregon young me and women will have no place to go High Standard Involved. Junction City Times. - These three schools have been hit hard by the high cost of living just a individuals have been inconvenienced and are greatly in need of increased revenues to continue their work the standard we have a right to ex pect of our educational institutions. Tax Increase Not Large. Turner Tribune. A quiet campaign-of education bein waged as to these proposed measures seem to be developing the fact that their enactment into law would not paralyze the pocketbooks of the peo ple nor would such enactment result in the gross increase- in taxes which many are claiming. As a matter of fact, enactment of the various meas ures would not mean such an enor mous increase in direct taxation as some people have been led to believe. S Those vVho Ccme and Go. Burned to the water's edge and beached is a trawler in the waters of Puget sound. The craft was laden with some liquor of unquestioned age and quality, destined for a conven tion now being held in one of the hotels at Portland. An American revenue boat pursued the trawler, and in an effort to escape the boat was set on fire and run ashore, but th federal officers found sufficient evi dence, and the rum runners were caught and fined. All of which ex Plains why the local gathering has been an arid affair. It is the first time this trade convention has been held without a sufficient quality of spirits frumenti to put pep into the proceedings. Several delegates, with tonguea hanging out. induced a Port land friend Monday night to dig a quart out Of his cellar and at 2 A. M. yesterday the loss of the trawler on I'uget sound was not being so keenly regretted. "The captain of the boat wanted to pay 5 for a ticket to ride from ortland to Oregon City. I said that I'd walked across the continent. d walk to Oregon City, so 1 paid man two-bits to row me across the Willamette river and I followed he trail on the east side until I got to Clackamas river. That clumped me. for there was no ferry. I peeled ff my clothes and began fording. and when I was about halt way across looked around and saw the bwat eing pulled over the rapids by the ajssengcrs. This gave mo courage nd I waded right through the Clack mas. I kept walking and pretty ootr I asked a man where Oregon City was, and he told me that Id ased it and wAa nearly 'to Canemah. nd now I can go to Oregon . lty or 2d cents tn a iifty. euch was he story that John Marshall related o a lobby group at the Imperial yes crday. , "When a woman comes to my store ow for shoes I tell her to go over and see if -he can find a pair that will fit her," declares G. W. Scram- in. merchant of Macksburg, Clacka- nas county. 1 ni not ordering any more shoes for women, with condi- ione unsettled a.s they are, so I'm K-tting my women customers either ake what they find to suit them in my store or patronize tne mau-oraer house in Chicago. And, say, the mail- rdcr hoWse has been built up by the farmers of America. The house I have in mind makes more profit than Henry Pord, and that's saying lot." Since the roads have been improved Mr. Scramlin doesn't have o remain in Portland over night as ho ueed to, for he says that after a ball game he can crank up his tin lizzio and chug out to Macksburg. May vllle. Or., is the postoffice ad dress of R. L. Morris who, with Mrs. Morris, is registered at the Imperial. Mr. Morris is a wheat rancher. May ville has a couple of blacksmith shops, a couple of stores, a church and a school and the big news at Mayville is the information that at the June meeting the state highway commission will probably award a contract for grading and surfacing the terribly bad seven-mile stretch near Thirty Mile. This is part of the John Day Highway. Already a big passenger bus has been engaged to operate over the highway. They're offering only $4.30 for yearlings," complained Henry Ear tholome of Echo, to a group of sheep men in the Imperial lobby. He con tended that at this figure there is no money in the sheep business. An other chap, who was in the sheep game, replied that he used to sell yearlings for $1.50 and was happy as a lark when he did so, but that was before the war came along and sheep herders were raised from $30 a month and found to $100. Anyone who wants to know what an on town is liKe, wttn its ricnes and excitement and spending fever, should talk to J. G. Catlett, who is registered at the Benson from Tulsa, tJkla. Just at present Tulsa is about as busy a burg as can be found and oil millionaires are as common as are congressmen in Washington. En route to New York to see if Broadway is still torn up by street contractors its chronic condition E. W. Moller of Hood River, is in Portland. Mr. Moller. who raises ap ples for a living, is registered at the Multnomah. In New lork he is not likely to buy any Hood River apples, because the price is pretty steep. D. E. Gindy, a farmer near Olex, Or., is at the Imperial while in Port land on business. Olex consists of store on Rock creek, between Ar lington and Condop, and the general impression is that Rock creek is so called because there are more rocks than there is water in it. Mayor D. F. Stewart of Prineville dodging street cars on Washing ton street and, incidentally, is reen tered at the Imperial. The mayor says that Prineville is moving rignt along. Devitt, In Benton county, which rises to the distinction of having a postoffice. but does not appear on the average map, is - the home place of A. C. Adams, who is at the Perkins while shopping in Portland. Robert W. Sawyer, who was just a newspaper fellow until a few months ago, is the new county judge of Deschutes county. Judge Sawyer is registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cooper of Coop erstownv N. D., are at the Seward. Scarcely a day arrives but someone registers at a local hotel from a personally-owned town. Charles F. Stone, enthusiastic sports man and attorney at other times, is headed back for Klamath Falls, hav ing attendetl a meeting of the state game commission of which he is a member. Washougal, Wash., is so near to Portland that dropping into the Rose City is a habit with C. M. Keep, who is at the Hotel Oregon. Banker Keep manages to be in town at least once a week. f Among the lumber contingent at the Multnomah are Mr. and Mr. J. C. Flora of Kerry. Or., and E. H. Thomp son of the lumber company at Bridal Veil, Or. ' . Frank McKnight, a sheepman of Vale, is in the city. Mr. McKnight has a brother who was judge of Mal heur county and another brother who was judge in Linn. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Kuykendall of Pomeroy, Wash., where Mr. Kuyken dall is in the drug business, are at the Multnomah for a few days. L. Gilbraith of Independence, who knows more about race horses than the average citizen, is at the Perkins with Mrs. Galbraith. Robert E. Strahorn. whose head quarters are at Spokane, but . who hankers to build a new railroad in Oregon, is at the Hotel Portland. Mr. and Mrs. D. J. Ledwich, with daugliter Ruth, are at the Multnomah from Wapato, Wash., where Mr. Led wich is a fruit grower. One of Silverton's half dozen coun cilmerk is George W". Steelhammer, who is registered at the Benson. FEAIl FOR AMERICANS IN MKXICO rast Kallnre to Protect Illurnes De parture tp'rora JackNOnlan Principles. PORTLAND, May 11 (To the Kdi tor.) Have we any assurance that American citizens would be allowed to go aboard L'nited States war ves sels In case of trouble in Mexico. Let it be remembered that some years ago, when soma 1200 to 1000 Ameri cans gathered at Tanipiuo in order to be under the protection of the l'nited States navy, the fleet was ordered out of port, against the protest of tho United States consul. So extraordi nary seemed the order that the com mander wired Washington to see if it was correctly received. He was in formed that it was and ordered to leave the port. He did so. The United States citizens then appealed to Ger many and Great Kritain for protec tion and from Germany and Great Kritain they roeeived the protection denied them by their own govern-1 incut. loiter when' a committee waited on Secretary Daniels to protest the treat ment they had received, he said: "I supposed they called to thank me for what we had done for them, but when I found they 'came to complain, I told them they may thank God that thej' got out of the country alive. If they went down there for the purpose of making money or to better their con dition, they may look for nothing from the United Stales army, navy or flag." This is the first time I have known a government of standing to deny its citizens protection, if they go into a foreign country for commercial pur poses. This is WMlsonian democracy. It is not Jackson ian, "Old liough h.im1 Ready", would have sworn by the eternal, that a citizen of the l'nited States is under protection-of the flag in any country at any time. He would have made It. good too If called on to do so. But. hold! President Wilson snvs "Tf there is anything lam ashamed of it is the fear that business men the United States have of going into foreign countries, establishing them selves In business and extending the trade of the United States." (Address to business men in Baltimore Septem ber, 1916). His secretary ot the navy says if they do. in case of trouble, they may look for nothing from the l'nited States army, navy or flag. This looks a little like the celebrated coon trap it catches them "asiwine an' acomin'", or a team that should be traveling together, going in op posite directions. k: c Mcdowell. KLICKITAT DOES NOT WANT III.M Republicans There Will ioie for Dem ocrat in Preference to Johnson- KLICKITAT, Wash., May 10. (To the Editor.) The republicans around here agree with The'Oregonian in its stand for the league of nations and heartily agree with The Oregonian in its stand against Hiram Johnson for president. They say he is no friend to the republican party and doubt his being a friend to the L'nited States. This Is a strong republieun precinct and loyal to the party, but if Hiram Johnson is nominated for president on the republican ticket they will vote for a democrat who is in favor of deporting alien enemies and who is in favor of stopping immigration to this country. That is what the soldiers expected when they returned home and their parents expected the same. We don't think we would get this or any other thing of value if Johnson were elected. We people up here will help defeat him if we have to vote with the democrats. - A READER. Law of the Hond. PORTLAND, May 11. (To the Edi tor.) Please tell me if there is a state law or city law relating to fol lowing quest-ions: If a driver driving an auto, is be hind another and he (the back car) wishes to go around and sounds his horn for warning for front car, has front car a right to speed up so back car can't go around. Can you explain who has the right-of-way, or what side ot the car you have to watch. Also can you tell me where you can get the state laws and rules for driv ing au auto? MRS. O. B. NELSE. The state law requires ark overtaken vehicle to turn to the right and give one-half the road to the overtaking vehicle and prohibits it from increas ing the speed while being passed. The overtaking vehicle should sound a warning first with one blast of the horn and then, if the overtaken ve hicle fails to give way, with three blasts. ' Copies of the state law may be ob tained by applying to the secretary of state, Salem, Or. Where Johnson's Strength Lies. SAN FRANCISCO, May S. (To the Editor.) It is noteworthy and signifi cant that in I-os Angeles, the largest purely American city in the country. Hiram Johnpon was beaten. The Johnsonites are swallowing that fact very hard here. Fresno, another American city of about 50,000 went against Johnson, while in Berkeley (65.000) a former Johnson strong hold, the "native son" had a hard time gettiog a few hundred majority. He used to get nearly every vote in the place. These facts seem to point out that dved-in-the-wool Americans are some what doubtful about jonnson s quail- fications for the high office of prcsi dent. Wherever the hyphen predom inates though and they shout "native son" the strongest, Johnson goes big. Trust that you stop Johnson with a good stiff jolt in the American state of Oregon. EX-HOOVER WORKER. Ice Prices AdvancesL PORTLAND. May 11. (To the Edi tor.) The advertisement of the nu merous ice companies of this citiy in The Oregonian that ice is not going to be advanced to the consumer for the season of 1920 is erroneous and misleading, as they have already ad vanced the price. They are now asking $10 per ton on Portland heights for their ice, where last year they asked $S.50 per ton. If you buy ice books in advance and pay cash you can still get ice for $8.50, but why should the ice dealers have thousands of dollars of the con sumers' money before they make de livery of the goods? I would like the ice companies to refute these charges, if they can. A CONSUMER. Date of Oregon's Primaries. CHARLESTON. Wash., May 10. (To the Editor.) Kindly inform me as to the date of the primary election in Portland. I am a registered voter and wish to be present to vote on that ocoasion. J. A. SPEER. Friday, May 21. Representative From Third District. PORTLAND, May -11. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly print who the United States representative from our dis trict is. A SCBSCRIBER. Clifton N. McArthur. Senator Johnson's Church. PORTLAND. May 11. (To the Ed tor.) Kindly Inform me what church if any, Hiram W. Johnson is affiliated with. . G. M. He is an Episcopalian. In Other Days. Tnenty-five tears A(co. From The Oregonian of May 12. ISO 3. Milton will ship an Immense quantity of fruit this year. 'Oregon City rKlectric current was sent to Portland tonight from the new power house here. Charles Rivers. Portland contractor, purchased the l.oewenborg residence at auction yesterday for J.'iO. 11 stands at the southwest corner of West Park and Washington streets and cost $22,000. The residence is to be removed to give place to a fine block. The driver of tho Wallowa stage reports thut Knterprisc received a slii;ht earthquake shock several days Kllensburg, Wash., "is rejoicing over cheese factory and creamery as established facts. Tifiy Years Aero. From The Orcsotiian of Mav 12. 1 m. The green on the new tlin e-ccnt stamps is poison and a number of people have died since they came into use. , The splendid baggage, mail and ex press car. just completed at the shops of the Oregon & California Railroad company at east Portland, is a superb affair for Oregon. .Charles McKay's mill on Tualatin plain was destroyed by fire two clays Joseph Teal and 15 recently purchased e Linn county land, ass C000 acres. G. Goldsmith ilu tracts of cgating about MR. lHMMJi;XTI-:it ON IMNCHOT1SH Candidate llrplics in 1tcans lmjulry About Conservation Ilcllcf. The following letter, dated .May 7. lias been received by Kspresontat i lxviis 1-:. ltcan of Eugene from Sen ator Poindextcr of Washington in re ply to his letter to presidential can didates inquiring how they stood on the Pinchot policy of conservation: "Spokane, Wash., May. 7. I am .iust in receipt of yours of recent date, and am glad to have our views in the matter of forest reserves; also data enclosed. "In reply, would say that I am heartily in favor of the conservation of our natural resources. 1 do not know what you mean by the Pinchot policy of conservation, as this has been suhjet-teu to various conflict ing explanations. My own idea is that every natural resource siioijld be utilised and used to it5 very best advantage. My understanding of tho law is that all agricultural land within forest reservations are open for agricultural settlement: that all timber and grass is available, under proper government regulation. for manufacturing and sale in the one case, and for the grazing of flocks and herds in tile other. All minerals in the various reservations are like wise, under the law, subject to entry under the mineral laws of the United States.- "I am not in favor of any undue extension of this policy, nor its adopt tion at all except under such re strictions as prevent its abuse. I have, been somewhat surprised to see the extended demand throughout the country among those who heretofore opposed this policy for the acquisition and maintenance of government for ests, in the Alleghanies especially. "Water power should be developed under reasonable conditions. The de velopment of water power affects water power outside of, ne well as in, the forest reserves, and in the latter there seems to be just a.s much, if not more, of water power as outside. "I am sure that tho bill recently approved between the house and sen ate, which embraces points which have been contended tor by thoe who believe in the protection of pub lic interest in the development ot these great natursl resources, will soon ba enacted into law, and that as fast as practicable and as fast as needed in the growth of popula tion and of industries these great powers will be put to work for the benefit of those who have the capac ity. Initiative and industry to pro mote and effect their development, and also in the interests of the gen eral public, whose needs will be sub served by their use. "I am not familiar with the details as to area or the character of land, or as to the method of administra tion of the various reservations in Oregon. I have noticed what I re garded aa, abuses in the administra tion of these reserves in some states, and I am, of course, opposed to su oh abuse." CIIANBK11LAIV IS PARTY'S HOPK- Democrat Resentful of President's In terference In Oregon I'oliiics. PORTLAND, May 11. (To the Edi tor.) I notice that President Wilson takes a rap at Senator Chamberlain and telegraphs to Gilbert E. Hamaker that the democratic party must stand squarely for an unamended treaty, which means that democrats of this state should not return George Cham berlain to the senate. This is petty politics of the worst sort, and it dazes my vision and amazes my soul to find that any one occupving the exalted position of president of the United States would stoop to such petty politics. For the democratic party of Oregon at this time to reject Senator Cham- ; berlain would he suicidal, ior il is nlain that heis one of the few true democrats who have tried insistently and consistently to do their duty by the people. Many fathers and mothers as well as the man in uniform have cause to be thankful that there is a man like George Chamberlain and that be raised his voice in their behalf, and the whole nation has cause to be thankful to George Chamberlain that he criticised the national adminisira tion and told the departments ther were not doing their duty to the peo ple. Like many others he tried to provide this nation with a workable treaty, and this telegram of the presi dent's shows that the truth did hurt. Simply because Mr, Wilson had no hand in the making of the reserva tions he is saying to the American people, "You cannot have a better treaty than I made for the reason that I did not make it." which is nothing short of stupidity personitled. This whole nation has a right to question the president's ability to make a treaty, for the following rea sons: He was self-anointed, self appointed peace delegate who carried 14 points to Paris, and brought back not one of them in his hobby treaty; he tells the American people they must swallow it. regardless ot the fact that they can have a better and mor8workable treaty than the one he brought back. In this he has failed us. Chamberlain has not failed us. Democrats vote for Chamberlain. J. A. ARMBRKSTER. An Old-Time Southern Democrat. W hat Is Night f PORTLAND. May 11. (To the Edi tor.) A bets B that it rains tonight. B bets A that it does not rain. It rains at 2 A- M. Who wins the bet? LEO LKVENSON. We suggest that you leave it to the dictionary. "Night" according to that veracious volume is "that part of the natural day when the sun is beneath the horizon, especially the time from dusk' to dawn wheu no, light of the sun Is visible.". 1