THE -MORNING OREGON! AX. FRIDAY, MAT 14, 1920 Iftcnrnhtjj Ottoman ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I.. prrTOCK. Published bv The Oreconian Publishing Co.. 133 Sixth Street. Portland, Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. K. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan la a member of the Asso iated Press. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. 75 . 6.00 . 3.25 . .60 . 1.00 . 5.00 . 9 00 Subscription Rates Invariably in Ad-iance. (By Mail.) Tally. Sunday Included, one year Hally. Sunday Included, six months ... Jallv. Sundav Included, three months.. 2.-; lally, Sunday Included, one month I'aiiy, without Sunday, one year Islly, without Sunday, six months . . . Iat:y. without Sunday, one month. .. . Weekly, one year Sonday. one year (By Carrier.) Eal'T. Sunday Included, one year . . . . 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This time Mr. Tumulty performs a rare feat of delphic artistry. "What he says causes the dazed inquirer to. ask if he would not better have been content with what he said before, which was not much only- that the president was not thinking of Senator Chamberlain when he wrote the Hamaker letter. This is the delicate Tumulty method of insinuating that the president never thinks of Chamberlain only of himself and his property, the democratic party somewhat rebel lious, disorganized and panic-stricken, but yet his property, even if it is only damaged goods. The chairman of the democratic state central committee of Oregon, Dr. C. J. Smith, wires Mr. Tumulty, and asks whether President Wilson's letter to Mr. Hamaker is to be con strued as an attack on Senator Chamberlain, or as something else. Behold the masterpiece of Tumulty evasion in the reply: Telegram received. The president's tele gram Is to be taken as exactly what it is the answer to a question. Certainly, certainly. The question was as to whether Mr. "Wilson con siders it "important to nominate candidates pledged to ratify the Versailles treaty without the Lodge reservations." The president replies that the democratic party should at once proclaim itself the uncompro mising champion of the nation's honor, and it should condemn the Lodge reservations as inconsistent with honor and destructive of world leadership for America. There is your answer for you. It meets the question. "What more do the democrats of Oregon want to know? What Mr. Tumulty said was that the president had answered the ques tion. What Mr. Tumulty did was to decline to say for the president that the message was not aimed at Senator Chamberlain. Of course it was aimed at Senator Chamberlain. And it hit home. Now we have in Oregon within the democratic party a fight for control by the Wilson faction and by the Chamberlain faction. If Chamber lain wins, Wilson loses. If Wilson wins. Chamberlain loses. Let interested democrats, through servile newspapers, deny it, as they are denying it. But on the morning after the primary election they will sing a different tune. For Oregon will have a message for the national ' democratic convention at San Fran cisco. If Chamberlain wins, the Cham berlain faction will make the most of the fact that Wilson was repudi ated by his party in Oregon. If Wilson wins, the Wilson faction will point to Oregon as having up held the president and as having defeated his enemies. Mr. Wilson has made the issue for Oregon democrats. It is up to them. They must give their answer on May 21. pleas for peace are backed by known readiness to fight against wrong. When Germany saw the United States in the hands of pacifists, whose quality was demonstrated by their policy in Mexico, it saw that the op portune time had arrived, and thus pacifism provoked war. With Roose velt at the White House, Germany would have waited, and perhaps the time for which it waited would never have come. The forces of disinte gration were working in the two em pires and they might have wrought changes toward democracy which would have removed occasion for war. A NEW ROLE FOR HIRAM. The Oregonian contained yester day a cheering statement, from no less an authority than Hiram John son himself, as to the intentions of that hard-to-please statesman toward the nominee of the Chicago conven tion; and, that full justice may be done all around, it reprints the mes sage in its entirety: Tour statement that charges are being made In Oregon that I would refuse to abide by the decision of the republican convention at Chicago in the event of the selection of a candidate other than rhy self Is before me. 1 have stated in many, many speeches that this contest Is within the party and that the selection of the candidate at Chicago will be final, and after that selection we will all go forward this year to an. overwhelming republican victory. The Johnson rule for some years has been that he will support no republican candidate for any office which he may have wanted unless perchance he should be the candi date. But now the party itself is to be permitted, through its accredited representatives, to have something to say about it. It is a gracious con cession no less gracious because un expected. There are fervent assertions not too fervent, we hope coming out of California, that Hiram Johnson keeps his word. A bargain with him is a bargain. When he promised Mike de Young and those nine mil lionaires who had always fought him that he would play the game if they would support him this year and go on his ticket of delegates to Chicago, it was apparently no empty pledge He needed them and they needed him. The rest was easy. But what, we wonder, are the de tails of the compact withMr. Hearst? Hearst wants a third party, and he is for Hiram. Somebody will be dis appointed if Hiram stays put. pression of the progress of aviation is gained from the fact that five years ago the contest would have been impossible, and a year ago it was not thought of. It is not un reasonable to expect that within five years air races will be an established feature of our intercollegiate sports. study without danger of being led astray by some attractive fallacy. In proportion as they grasp and apply what they learn, their productive power will grow and they will be come agencies of true progress. How varuable such instruction would be in counteracting the dis ruptive and revolutionary tendencies Tun ji im:tts i nine was snown Dy fro lessor If there is any department of local Boea.rt when he said: government that deserves to be sep- le d7.T stX .r."eo!cV ."the arated from the ordinary ruck of I "pinion of the speaker, is that of social !f 4 t. :j:u, Ty, man Folluan? mo ot the economic lnterae- polltics It IS the judiciary. The man pendence of all classes of society. By who runs down the ballot marking tnis not meant a sentimental insistence hPr hraw nf a candidate's Tvonil- V"00 non-existent harmony of interests, nere Decause or a canamaies popu- but ratn an .ppreciat)on of tne abso. lanty, there because of the fascinat- uto interdependence of the different fac ing quality of a slogan and again out ?" r production in spite of real oon- - . . . , . filets of interest In the distribution of the of pure guesswork needs to halt and product. We are all members of the seriously to consider, if nowhere else, same body. when he reaches the judicial section. ? times of discontent like these there In Multnomah county, in the ..ou7 economic pr!ncipl and place In fourth judicial district, there are danger our social Institutions. On the three candidates on the republican other hand vested interests may oppose . . . desirable reforms and by so doing inflame ballot. One has never given evidence opposition. To both these extremes eco- of peculiar., judicial fitness: another nomlcs is a useful antidote. If disaster i .-;..,,., li.. a . rt -u ; rA I s to be averted, sane councils based upon I carefuf analysis and' comprehension must is the present incumbent. Judge 1 prevail. Right thinking is a matter of McCourt has not been long on the education. bench, but in a brief time he has I As 60 per cent of the students in demonstrated his fairness, courage high school carry their education no and knowledge. ' I farther, this instruction should be Likewise for judge of the court of given in high school. While the domestic relations there is an un- number of schools in which such in known candidate seeking the place I struction is given has increased, it of Judge Kanzler, who is up for re- is but a minority of the whole, and election. Judge Kanzler received his the amount of time devoted to it Is appointment to the place because of very limited and is not in proportion his experience with and active solici- I to its importance. Many teachers tude concerning the legal and moral tare socialists or are strongly inclined phases of child welfare. He has I toward socialism, and use their po given the department a gratifying I sitions to spread their own opinions. standing in the community. I It is essential that men be employed The Oregonian has no hesitancy in who will impress on the minds of saying that in both these instances students the axioms of the science the experience and demonstrated fit- and will then explain the several ness of the incumbents are sufficient lines of thought which have le"d from to count more than all the considera- them to various conclusions, without tions that can be advanced in behalf setting forth their own conclusions BV-PROBICTS of their opponents. A MOTIVE TOR EDUCATION. The reasons which have impelled ITia Til -i n 1 rnT-o r f o a-iGlarii eovl bank to publish statistics showing uired to accept the same conditions. as the only true ones. The believer in individualism has enough confi dence in his own principle to be ready for controversy from a fair start, and the socialist should be re OK TIIK XI MISS I Why "Little Brown Jngr" Doesn't Kind I Responsive Chord in Modern Heart. Jay E. House, colyumnist of the Philadelphia Public Ledger, publishes this letter: Sir While your heart was bleeding for the old songs, among wwrt you men Those Vho Ccme and Go. hvHV ROAD BONDS ARK NEEDED Previous Aorhorized Issnes Akoorkved by Contracts Now in Fsree. PHILOMATH. Or.. May 11. (To the "Train schedules are the nearest Editor.) In the year 1917 the voters aDrjroach T ever made to comDosinC of this state voted S6-0O0.00O in bonds I poetry,' reflected James C. Cummings. ! for roads. They were informed that ; chief clerk of the O.-W. R. & X. com- j the need was urgent, yet today only tioned "Annie Laurie," "Sweet Alice Ben ' pany, perched in his eyrie m tne i J,4U,uuo of these bonds have been Bolt," "Como Where My Love Lies Dream- Wells-Fargo building, "but the dope is sold. Again, in the legislature In ins, "Jay oia .enmcuy noma. ana that j ought to be the reincarnation Juanlta, how could you have forgotten - . , , , 1. i, .. T "Little Brown Jug, How I Love Thee?" ' f Milton or Mr. Shakespeare, or "Lord It is a song which might, indeed, touch the present human emotions and make the heart bleed hemorrbaglcally. H. E. S. And this is his repry: "Little Brown Jug" holds no lure for us. As a popular song it antedates our career as a voluntary minstrel, we are noi so old as all that. Such acquaint ance as we have with it Is devoid of the thril of Intimate contact. For the reason .that the composition has no "barber shop" minors, no lachry mose chords, it is. un suited to the uses of the night blooming warbler." A bunch of Innocent burros were responsible for the destruction by Mexican federal troops of steel' rail road bridges over which trains pass from the northward Into Mazalan. A confirmed report has been re-1 ceived here that before the federal commander gave orders to destroy the first bridge outposts discovered a large cloud of dust approaching from the north. They opined that it was the Sonora. revolutionary army under General Angel Flores pressing toward Ma sat lan. Orders were given as a "defensive precaution" to destroy the bridge as the federal troops fell back on the city. About the time the fighting should have begun the discovery was made that the dust cloud emanated from the hoofs of 160 litlo burros bring ing sugar from an American'-ownecT plantation -to Mazatlan. Meanwhile bridges had been damaged to the ex tent of about $100,000. Washington correspondent New York World. Byron. Personally. I have a hunch I'd rather be the latter, if I have to be any one ef 'em. This ring is the reason." On the fore finger of his right hand Mr. Cummings wears a heavy gold ring, of Chinese crafts manship, bearing spidery characters that mean nothing at all to the occi dental eye. "A Buddhist priest came in here- one day," resumed Mr. Cum mings. "Why? Oh. he was here to see about a reduced fare because of his calling as a clergyman. A pretty good sort, he was. The first thing that caught his eye was this ring. Ah, sir. I perceive that you are a poet,' he remarked. 'Poet, shucks.' said I. 'Where do you get that stuff?" 'Your honorable ring so announces.' replied the priest. That's the fact. He told me that these characters spell j 'poet' In Chinese. I don't know what to do about it. 'Koses are red, violets are blue,' would about appraise my status as a buckaroo of the wild Pegasus." To visit his mess sergeant, who is a student at the University of Ore gon. Captain John Kearny came to Oregon. Captain Kearny has been in the regular army for 31 years and has been stationed in nearly every state but Oregon, and while at the Hotel Portland yesterday he declared that the people of Oregon have the most attractive state in the union. "Joseph C. Hedges, whose father is an attorney at Oregon City, was my More Truth Than Poetry. By Jasaes J. Moots me. "My Old Kentucky Home." and that j ougrit to be the reincarnation 1919. $10,000,000 of bonds were made available for good road purposes, and the need was so urgent at this time that the emergency clause was at- j tached to the measure, which, by the way. prevented a referendum vote of the question in the election which was held last June. But the state treas urer Informs me that of this $10,000. 000 bond issue only $5,000,000 have been sold, and now, notwithstanding the fact that out of almost $20,000,000 of road bonds available for the build ing of roads, only about $10,000,000 have been sold. Still there comes the annual call for more bonds, this time approximately $20,000,000 more be ing wanted in the next five years, so that the total will aggregate $40,000, 000 of state bonds. In the name of common sense, where is this thing going to stop? In addition to this, every county, ev ery city and almost every school dis trict is bonded, and the sum total of all these Oregon bonds will reach up to $100,000,000, if it does not exceed that amount. In the effort to put over the road and reconstruction bonds last year almost every county and city paper carried big advertisements, lengthy editorials, and even speakers went all over the state boosting for the bonds, and again this year the same tactics are being employed. Accountants have been put to work to 6how us how BLOCKING THE WHEELS OF PROGRESS. The good days are gone," sighed the Mexican chief. "Time was when a man of ambition. Who really had mastered the trade of a thief. Was certain of wealth and position. But lately one always is running be hind); If he plunders a prosperous neigh bor. Or kidnaps a consul, he's certain to find That the proceeds won't pay for the labor. "A peso a day was the regular rate That one paid to a journeyman bandit, But now they are asking for seven or eight. And business conditions won't stand it. The market for all kinds of labor in fact, i At such a preposterous stage is. The commonplace homicides calmly exact, Experienced murderers' wages. "When farmers had plenty of cattle and sheep, And consuls were worth a big ran som. And good high-class help was abun dant and cheap. Our annual profits were handsome. A franchise to prey In a single good state. Was likely to prove a bonanza, And the chief who could get it wotf'd soon be as great Ac I'.t l- .... it will Vt. no- tr KV. . I CC l 111,1. terest and principal of this $40,000,000 j .. road bond issue. There is a force at work in this state mess sergeant," says the veteran, "and to pile up the bonded indebtedness, he is a student at Eugene. I thought L,iUo the hoy who crams pie into his I'd come out and visit him, and I j mouth and calls for more pie. they discovered there are about B0 lads at ; vainly endeavor to use up what road the material value of education may have been selfish, but they are none There are girls and girls. Some ItOOSKVELT AS A PEACEMAKER, New light is thrown on the great work of Theodore Roosevelt as a peacemaker and as a peacekeeper as more incidents of his activity in international affairs become public. One such incident is recited bv Joseph Bucklin Bishop in the article ' In Seribner's, some extracts from which were published in The Sun day Oregonian. He at the urgent request of the kaiser arranged the Algeeiras conference on Morocco and when that body threatened to break tip in a disagreement he "drew up the terms of settlement which were adopted." and he "fairly compelled the kaiser to give his unwilling con sent to them." When Roosevelt saw an opportu nity, he did not hesitate to intervene as mediator in European affairs, always in the cause of peace. The settlement which he dictated in 1906 kept peace for five years, or until 1911. when the Mogador incident again brought France and Germany I to the verge of war. Compromise I averted the outbreak for three years, but only through Britain's declara tion that it would stand by France. " From Roosevelt's familiarity with foreign affairs and from his prompt ness and vigor In action we may in fer that, if he had been president during those fateful last eight days of July, 1914, he would have inter vened in support of Grey's pica for a conference on the Serbian crisis and would have given such a plain hint of the consequences if Germany refused that the kaiser would have consented. Austria's demands on Serbia could not have stood the fire of discussion at such a gathering. At the worst it would have given BACK TO BOWI.BY. The Evening Telegram does not yet vouchsafe authentic information as to the personnel of its legislative ticket, except as to Representative Richards, who incurred the ever lasting gratitude of our ingenuous contemporary by voting according to its dictates on fish and paving. We are left to assume that the Telegram's ideal legislature should be made up of 90 men like Richards. He fathered more freak bills than all others together and he voted wrong on sane legislation more times than any other member. But what of that? What of the public inter est? He is for the Telegram's pet schemes, and the Telegram is for him, though the world goes smash. But the Telegram is against State Senator Day. It denies that he is a legislator of efficiency and character and presents against him a fearful indictment, to wit: that he was the author of the bill abolishing the office of the state engineer, thus also removing the incumbent Bowlby This was five or six years ago. The Bowlby incident was all but forgotten in Oregon. It should be. But it is well enough to recall the fact that his forced retirement was received at the time with an enthu siasm that was both genuine and uni versal. Bowlby made a sad mess of the road programme and the demand for his official head came from every part of Oregon. It was sponsored mainly by the commissioners of many counties some 15 or 20 which had roads under way in co operation with the state. They could not work with him; he would not work with them. They set about to get rid of him. They succeeded, for the legislature helped them. It was a good job. The Oregonian repeats that a leg islature made up of men like I. N. Day, E. V. Carter, W. H. Gore, K. K. Ivubli. Denton Burdick, W. B. Den nis, E. G. McFarland, Herbert Gor don and others of their caliber and standing will on the whole fairly and capably represent the public interest. Let us add the name of Senator Gus Moser. We will not say that we have approved all the acts of Sen ator Moser, but we will not oppose him for the trifling reason that he was too often in accord with the Telegram's ideas. He is experienced, aiert, Honest and courageous, and the Multnomah delegation will be better oft with him than without him. the less logical, and the figures sneak sta.y at home nights and some go joy- for themselves. It is shown, for I riding": but the girls who stay at illustration, that of 5.000.000 children noma never go joy-riding and the who have no formal education, or Bins wno joy-riae never stay at on average rise above the dead level to knows where to find her and the man attain anv form of distinction. In oinerw ise Knows ine address, it s a 33,000.000 who receive elementary world ot mixed qualities and the schooling but no more there may be revelations are made in the courts 808 who gain distinction: of 2.000.000 ano, or. course, in the daily papers. high school graduates, 1245 probably The "sex problem" figures, but why will be distinguished: in 1.000.000 05111 " tnat bex is problem. college graduates, or a trifle less than 1 per cent of the population of the! It s a mistake to call those fellows country, are found the names of 5768 In Chicago farmers who are demand- distinguished men and women. In I ing things from the best bidders the last named class are 55 per cent I politically. When- the farmer gets of presidents of the United States, high up in his mind he is an "agri- 54 per cent of the vice-presidents, 62 j culturist" as the ward heeler is a per cent of our secretaries of state, I statesman. The republican party is and 62 per cent of our attorneys-1 the farmers party. Read history general. The banks admitted purpose in Attendance at the boxing matches gathering the data in question is to I is falling off, due to the time of year. persuade parents to open education I The "fight" indoors is a cold-weather accounts for their young children, I affair and interest fails when the setting aside money now to provide mercury rises. It may be a scheme against needs of the college age. This of nature to give the "pugs" a chance is, of course, a high form of thrift at legitimate labor. and business enterprise, both on the pare or parents and oi tne Dank, it No ma.ttr what th r.,n r.r v, does not. however, present the fur- Sims investigation, Admiral Sims has ther, and also obvious, argument that performed a real public service in .itgt sulihc iimii .a compelling Secretary Daniels to make public secret actions of his de partment. Presently we shall have the whole truth. more likely to become a bank de positor than the uneducated youth. It may be true that there are edu cated men so improvident that they do not have bank accounts and do not expect to have them, but it will be conceded by the most casual ob server that they are only the excep tion that test the rule. Xor will it be seriously contended that the materialistic motive for go ing to college renders education much less desirable. To strive by every fair means to fit The city of Portland has discov ered it pays $304 for something that cost $150 four years ago, and so has the man who now has to pay "four bits" for a collar that cost half that much at the same period. Governor Sleeper of Michigan will oneself to De popular with the "fellers" in ad one's environment, which includes vocating less wages for youths be preparation for making one's living cause they are extravagant. It is a under average conditions, is a high duty of the individual both to himself and to society. When it is shown that the trained, or educated, indi vidual has a better chance for sue fact, though, that high pay ruins most youths. The selection by the Bahai conven tion of a design for a great Mashrak Klazkar, or place of worship, to be erected In Chicago, reveal what is said to be one of the most original ideas in' architecture since the 13th century. f The temple model selected was constructed by Louis Bourgeois of New York. It Is of terra cotta and has been pronounced by experts to be unique in its beauty and ap peal. It has nine sides topped by a transparent dome. The new temple will bo a place of universal worship, as the Bahai movement is based on the principle of the brotherhood of man. The nine doors of the temple never will be closed. Chicago Tribune. A French magazine claims to have discovered in a New York paper an advertisement to this effect: "A gen tleman who has lost his right leg is desirous of making the acquaintance of some one who has lost his left leg in order to become associated with him in the purchase of boots and shoes, size 8." The very observ ant French editor very politely com ments: "An American may occasion alv lose a leg, but he never loses hie head." "I am out of humanity's reach, and all that," admitted Alexander faeiKirK "But my isolation is nowhere near utter and absolute as that of a giggling girl and yaw-hawing youth in the crowded lobby of the postot fice in the Old Home Town on i Sunday morning." Kansas City Star. The umbrela is an English inveu tion and" the first man to carry one was stoned and hooted. Shortly after, its possibilities for theft became ap parent and like the more modern mo tor car. was readily accepted Into al grades of society. Kansas City Star . "About the ony thing that can be successfully home-brewed is trouble," confidently asserts the editor ot the Nashville Tennesseean. Cherries are in the market at ship yarders' prices, but one would better cess than the untrained the value wait a month or two and get the real of education is proved. Desirability I thing, fresh off the Oregon tree. that the community shall furnish the Nothing surpasses the home-grown paraphernalia of education, rather cherry. than force those who seek it to rely on private enterprise or benevolence. Will R. King has something up his is conceoea Dy an wno accept tne sleeve besides his immaculate cuffs principle that public schools of every Mr. King is of eastern Oregon, where graoe are powenui instruments in the sage tick tickles and the grease tne inculcation oi tne spirit of wood grows and nothing is made in democracy. vain but the machine ticket There is a technical flaw In the statistics and S.he conclusions drawn from them, which is that the number of wholly unschooled includes those Armchairs and rockers are to be supplied vessels of the British navy and that spells decadence. The men w t- i. , ,cc"lv"'s or who blazed the way of civilization a profiting by higher educational ex- century or two ago sat on benches if they could find them. FLTLNti AS A I'BACIICAL SPOUT. The intercollegiate aviation meet i at Mineola, X. Y., the first event of its kind in the world, was more than a sporting event; it was a test of the practical side of flying under , every day conditions, and of the ability of aviators to maintain themselves In condition without constant practice in their art. The college men who were the pilots had seen service in the army, largely overseas, and had returned to their studies at the first opportunity after the armistice was signed. The fact that colleges were competing against each other for the greatest number of points in the re spective contests might have added to popular interest in the event, but there were more serious purposes behind it. It is worth while to note that the meet was without spectacular fea tures. "Stunt" flying has shown it self to be almost without value in times of peace, and it has been the means of creating a false impression in the minds of the public as to the permanent mission of aircraft. The army air service, which furnished the planes flown by college pilots, has wisely adopted the policy of put ting the practical phases of aviation to the fore. The contests included altitude tests of 20 minutes' dura- The heaviest hog in Gaston came down to Portland yesterday and weighed 679 pounds, dressed, of course, having been a lady hog. perience, but the proportion of these grows steadily smaller as the scale is ascended. All would be benefited in some degree by extension of edu cational opportunity, and on the showing that high school training gives the youth 25. times as good a chance as elementary education only, while this chance is multiplied bv I Just a suggestion to the Sinn Fein- nine in tbe case of the college-bred ers: Why not cross the channel and youth, the proponents of education take England? Then the capture of are safe in resting their case. Ireland would be easy. The young man should beware of the lure of politics and power. Eu gene Debs would be better off if he had stuck to his trade. TEACHING OF ECONOMICS. Economic causes lay behind the war and they explain the disturbed condition which has followed. They have been involved with moral ques tions like slavery, which oaused the civil war, and with the idealism which caused the war with Spain They are at the bottom of the labor Oliestion. It follows that oritleaHrtn in economics n? essential to rie-ht rtn. To make it unanimous. "Blue cisions of a democratic people on all bear1" "Watson should now be nomi- The world certainly is growing better when Will R. King will quit a government "job nine months before he has to. nated as the running mate for Con vict Debs. Portland firemen are consistent to the letter. They purpose having a picnic Sunday on the double-battalion lion, races over relatively short Britain and Russia time to prepare courses and a few exhibition flights. or considerable value in the devel opment of routine flying were the trials at landing on a mark. But even more important were the data obtained concerning the ability of a pilot to "i-omo back" after absence from the game. The .tests in this regard were an earnest of the war department's intention to give re serve tiycrs an opportunity to keep in and to draw Italy away from the triple alliance at that time rather than ten months later. The central powers would have lost the opportu nity of sudden attack, on which they relied for early and complete vic tory, and they would have feared that Roosevelt might throw the power of the United States into the scales against them, and the war might have been averted. It is not the men who are the mtfM vociferous champions of peace that preserve peace, but those whose important questions. These truths were brought out by Professor E. L. Bogart of the University of Illinois at the National Foreign Trade Council. In order that young men and women may deal successfully with Plan every difficulty which will confront them, may develop their highest When "grub" doesn't taste and life usefulness to themselves and to the is Srloom, ever try making a meal of nation, and may exercise the f ran-I a bowl of milk and box of crackers? chise wisely, they should be well grounded in the fundamental truths! T" role of female Impersonator of economics before they leave htghlls 'eft for Carranza, though a noted school. The world is full of false personage once essayed It and failed. economic teaching, which can be fought best by instilling the truth in I Do not blame the inmate who the minds of the j-oung. False elopes from the state hospital farm. teaching of economics, together with I The feel' of the air is incentive militarism, prepared the German people for their war of conquest, which aimed at commercial through military supremacy. The false teachings of Karl Marx and other socialists and communists have borne fruit in revolution and political strikes. The best cure for these evils and the best preventive of their continuance is to start people on the roiid of correct thinking. They will form for immediate service if the need should arise. I welvc colleges ami 56 pilots imr-' tictpittcd in the meet. A vivid ini-ithcn be equipped to continue the . Standing notice: Rain is needed. Wear old clothes if you will, but be sure they are half-soled in the sections in striking view. Carranza can escape in the guise of a clean shave. Now Debs really is a political prisoner. It cannot be said, in verity, .writes Samuel G. Blythe in the Saturday Evening Post, that Thomas Hardy expressed any passionate eagerness to greet me at his Wessex home, but it came about, none the less. How keenly I recall the grizzled author of "Tess" and "Jude" as he stood that morning on his terrace, and his words the words of the master! "Mr. Hardy, I have traveled 300 miles to see you." This reverently. "Really?" This politely, but with a certain disinterestedness that was depressing. "Yes, I have traveled 3000 miles to see you." This with less reverence and with more emphasis. "Really?" This with an intonation that expressed, with sufficient clar ity, the thought: "Well, you've seen me; what else do you want?" Imagine an earnest pilgrim at a literary shrine able to dig out but two cold and clammy "reallys" as a starter! The situation was most pre carious and needed the tonic of in stant diversion into other channels. "You have a lot of crows on your place." This with an appropriate sweep of tbe arm' that included an immense flock of black and busy birds on the lawn. "My word: Thas are not crows: those are rooks!" And the author of Under the Greenwood-Tree" and "Far From the Madding Crowd" proceded along the terrace by himself if you can picture the scene that morning I with the bright Wessex sunshine flooding the landscape alone in dubitably alone. j Firing a test shot with its barrel full of water was the unusual per formance of an improved form of gun for shooting a life line over a wrecked vessel, in' recent official trials, says the Popular Mechanics magazine. A one-piece shell containing powder and projectile gives the new gun a great advantage over the old muzzle loading type. -The barrel may be regulated to elevations of 30, 45, 60 or SO degrees, and its range Is 1700 feet. The barrel is readily carried by oae man, and the one-piece car riage has a pair of wheels for easy hauling. The firing meciianism is actuated by a lanyard, and the life line, attached to the projectile, un winds from the center of the reel without kinking. A mathematical shark has calculat ed that Great Britain's war debt now amounts to $25 for every member of the human race. If they will let us off with that, we'll pay ours now, if it will reduce the after-the-war costs of living, tlei-larcB the editor of the SeUalia (Mo.) Capital. the university who were either with me or in my company in France. Fine boys, too. Then I wanted to look up Father Murphy, who was sta tioned at St. Nazalre when we were in the thick of the Influenza, so I found him at Forest Grove after searching for him in McMinnville." When the university has its vacation. Captain Kearny and Sergeant Hedges and maybe some of the other boys of the old command are going to New port for a few weeks. Once more a delegation from New port, Or., has arrived in town to see what can be done about taking ovc the spruce-built railroad north of that place. The delegation consists of Carl S. Davis, secretary of the New port Commercial club; M. H. Abbey, member of the Port of Newport com mission, and Claude Fright, port en gineer. The delegation has estab lished headquarters at the Hotel Ore gon. Newport people are confident that if the port commission can lease the railroad it will be the means of opening up the immense bodies of timber adjacent to the right-of-way and cause the establishment of new sawmills on Yaqulna bay. Inasmuch as the Newport people are dickering with the government, considerable time is required for negotiations. Engineer on the Panama canal for 14 years, W. G. Comber arrived at the Multnomah yesterday with Lieutenant-Colonel A. F. Allen. They are with the United States engineers de partment and are on a tour of inspec tion from Galveston, Tex., up the coast to the British Columbia line. They report to Colonel Cavanaugh, district representative, headquarters Portland. Mr. Comber, after his canal experience, where he called steam shovels and things like that by their first names, was stationed in the Mississippi river district. This is his first Invasion of the Pacific northwest. A reuglar bang-up time is planned at Boardman, Or., May 31. according to L. H. Boardman, from whom the town took its name. Mr. Boardman has been in Portland a few days tal-k-Ing over details with officials of the state chamber of commerce. The town plans a big celebration, the purpose of which is to Bhow outsiders what can be done with irrigated land. Part of the programme consists in having a delegation from Portland go to Boardman In a special car. which will be parked and used as a hotel. "I did a nice business in Portland for a couple of days," says a salesman registered at the Benson, "and than I went to Seattle for business. Well, the merchants over there wouldn't even let me talk to them, to say noth ing about giving me orders. This ap pears to be the experience of a num ber of traveling salesmen of late, for many are complaining that they can not do business in Seattle and condi tions are becoming dull over there. bonds they now have, and call loudly for more. It might be interesting to know who it is that foots the bills for all this bond boosting. Do the pat ent paving companies contribute to this fund? The table of figures given out by these accountants represents a lot of hard work. Somebody paid for this work. Voter, did you? It is not right that any part of this money be applied to other than build ing roads, but when you vote bonds then it will be necessary to send at least 40 per cent of this gasoline and auto tax out of the state as interest on these bonds. The bonds draw 4 and 4 Vi per cent interest. They run for 25 years; 4 times 25 is 100, or as much as the principal of the bond. Of course, by beginning at the fifth year and paying one-twentieth of the principal you reduce the interest pay ment, but it is poor business policy to vote bonds when this auto and gas tax will furnish the money as fast as we have been able to use it in the construction of state roads. The statement that we need this extra $20,000,000 of bonds at this Lime is not true. The records will show that since the year 1917 we have used about one-half of the bonds author ized by the vote of the people and the 1919 legislature. Why, over $2,000,000 of the 1J17 bond issue are yet unsold, and $5,000,000 of the $10,000,000 are yet unsold. None of the Roosevelt highway bonds have been used. Then why not wait until we use up the bonds already available? By that time the surplus from the automobile and gas tax over and above the require ments of interest payments on the bonds already issued, added to the j yearly tax income, will keep us going. 1 If you are a. doubting Thomas, read j again the table of figures, especially I columns 5 and 7, certified to by the i public accountants, dated Portland. Or.. April 14. 1920. The reason that we have not been j able to use up the bonds as fast as j they have been voted is that this state cannot furnish the labor to do the work in the workable months of the year. The state, this and other coun ties have been advertising for men for road work, and if they get more men this year than they have in the past they will have to outbid other Oregon state industries. Men will not work for the county or state for less , But labor has foolishily epille. 11 . the beans. The workman is getting too thrifty; Though taxes exhaust all our visible means He wants us to go fifty-fifty. The brigandage business is sadly up set Because of this fool agitation, And Mexico's biggest industrial hot Is utterly lost to the nation." The Real Incentive. With rents where they are, we can easily understand why so many men want to live in the White House for the next four years. Kstablishlsi; a Record. Now that the stuff can only be ob tained on prescription, doctors are beginning to take some of their own medicine. m m w Just As Wrll Off. California can't sell any more wine but those home brew recipes will call for a lot of raisins. (Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) In Other Days. 'nes(j-Ki Years Ago. l-'rora The Oreffonlan of May 14. 103. Thomas W. Winder, who is making a trip around the borders of the United States on a bicycle, having left New Orleans March 14, arrived in Portland yesterday. Postmaster Eugene Protzman will leave today for Chicago on a business trip, to include also a visit to his old home haunts. "icsteruiiy was the warmest day of the present year the temperature rl.iii'S t Sti degrees. Sk:: Kra ncisco. It is made known hero th.il tile Salvation. Army is plan ning on en.ci'iug China in attempt to b:i:i.i mil'ions of the Orientals into the fold o:" Christianity. l-'itfly Years Ao. I'roiii The Oresonlan of May 14. 1S71. asliirgtou. The Crand Army of the Republic has elected General Lua u commander-in-chief. The Republican clubroonis wert opc-a?d last night with a rousing demonstration. A private dispatch from Washing- said, states that the ran- money man tnej can Eci at omer rm ,,,,., f.ons.r,i.-t branch to con work; that is. not many will This is the time to sit steady in the ; boat and not rock It. When people J are joining the anti-high cost of liv- ing ranks with a vengeance it is no j time to increase expenditures, no time J to take Oregon money and send it out of the state as interest on bonds. J. S. McMURTRT. neet t!ie Central Pacific with trie Ore gon & California road, by the Hum bold i route, has passed both houses. The Beth Israel school, under su pervision of Miss Phillips, will hold u picnic tomorrow morning lihs: Portland park. at the To find a cook and a gardener, M. A. Mayer came to Portland and signed up at the Benson, from Mayerdale orchards, which same are a suburb of Mosier and directly on the Colum bia highway. A gardener called at 11:30 A. M.. to talk over the matter with Mr. Mayer, but discovering that the orchardist was still in bed, de parted. Since then Mr. Mayer has been trying to locate that gardener. As for-a cook, he hasn't even found a trace. County Commissioner Wyers of White Salmon, Wash., who is at the Imperial, says that the proposed paved road from White Salmon to Trout lake, 25 miles in length, has been held UP by injunction. The case is in the courts to determine to what amount the county can bond itself for roads, whether the bonds should be based on the actual valuation or the assessed valuation. A Gosling, a Kurd, and a Fox all registered at the Hotel f ortland yes-terdas-. George J. Gosling came from San Francisco:- L J. Burd registered from Browning, Mont., and Miss Elizabeth Fox registered from Eugene, Or. A bunch of Keys landed at. the Benson yesterday, coasisting of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Keys and Miss Florence Keys of Clarksburg, Pa. They are making a sight-seeing tour of the Pacific northwest. Mr. and Mrs. W. .A. Gray, with their daughter, are at the Multnomah from Detroit, .Mich., where Mr. Gray Is secretary-treasurer and gerteral manager of a brass and pin company. One of the men interested in the irrigation project near Princville is S A. Moffatt, who arrived at the Imperial yesterday for a. business trip to Fortland. R. B. Phillips, traffic manager, and F. M. Barnes, manager of. the cotton seed oil department of Procter & Gamble, are at the Multnomah from Cincinnati, O. Luther N. Flagg. president of the Spokane Fruitgrowers association, is registered at the Multnomah. Crabtree, in Linn county, is rep resented on the Imperial register by Stanley Hoffman and Joseph Munsell. Rate Fixed by l nits. PORTLAND. May 13. (To the Edi tor.) When the expert appointed by the mayor or council to investigate the conditions of the street railways made his report showing the bad financial conditions, did such report pertain to the whole system, cr only the lines in the city limits? under way and contractors are not j ,.h resorts, restau- The correspondent is in error in several particulars. The accountants' report to which he refers was con tributed without charge to the good roads cause. All the bond money heretofore authorized has been ap propriated. The reason all the bonds have not been issued is that work is fully paid until the work is done. To sell the bonds before the money is needed would be a waste of interest. It is expected that these resources will be exhausted this year. The Roosevelt highway bonds have not been sold because the lay author izing construction of the road is contingent upon a like appropriation by congress, which has not been made. There is no $20,000,000 bonding pro posal at present before the people. It is a $10,000,000 road bond issue, which will be validated by the road ax lim itation amendment, if it carries. Adop tion of the amendment would make legal a still further issue of $10,000. 0(H), but legislative enactment wouW be recognized in addition. rants and all prorty belonging to the company, why not? We are called upon to vote on thres "relief measures" at the coming elec tion, and if all the cards are pot on the table face up. we will vote "No." We working peopie do not have time to study finanei.il jugglery and it must be made plain to us. J. I. Ancient Trick Question Revives". YACOLT, AVash.. May 10. (To the Editor.) To settle an argument, will you kindly ' answer the following question? A hunter in trying to get a shot at a gray squirrel walks around a tree several times, but the little animal Is wise and always keeps far enough ahead on the tree to be practically out of sight and safe. The question to be decided is: Did .the hunter walk around the squirrel or did he not? CURIOUS. The Oregonian has answered this question on numerous occasions. If the controversy is whether the hunter ever reached a point where he could see the whole squirrel the answer is no. If yie argument is whether the hunter walked around the location of the squirrel and therefore around the squirrel the answer is yes. The only basis for argument is the fact that it is a question susceptible of more than one construction. The electric lighting system, the In'terurbun system f nd the street rail way system are valued as units, and rates in each are censidered and reg ulated by the public service commis sion s2purately. The electric lighting rates and interurban rates have been Investigated and priced on a reason- ; able basis bv the commission without i reference to the ity railways. The ', latter nre now subject to readjust ment. 1 OU will not gain anmins i-.v defeating the measures if you are a car-rider as they are offered as an alternative. If defeated it is indicated fares so much higher will be authorized. Slojcnn for Dmoerals. PORTLAND. May 13. (To the Ed itor.) When President Wilson was last elected, if I remember, the great slogan was "He kept us out of war." How about giving the democrats an other one: "He kept ns in war?" It might nound well to them. 15. B. DKOWN. Simplified Calendar MoTentent. CLATSKAMK, Or.. May 11. (To the Kditor.) Last winter I read in a magazine that there was a bill before congress to change our present cal ander. Did this bill pass and can you give me the details of the proposed change. M It's. (J. Congress has not passed any law revising the calendar. Some months ago a movement was begun, but it gained little headway, to divide the year into 13 months of IS d,is each with new year's d:iy se t npari as not l.eiining to any month. A second similar day would be designated in lea ii j cur Definition of Chauvinism. NEWBERG. Or., May 5. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly explain the meaning and origin of the word "chauvinism?" SUBSCRIBER AND TEACHER. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary defines "chauvinism" as: "The senti ments or disposition of a chauvin; blind and absurd devotion to a fallen leader or an obsolete cause; hence, absurdly vainglorious or exaggerated patriotism." The word is derived from the name of Nicholas Chauvin of Rochefort. a veteran soldier of the first republic and empire, whose demonstrative patriotism and attach ment to Napoleon came to be ridiculed by his comrades. Chauvin has been taken as the name of such a char acter in various French plays. ew Pension Law. OL.YMPIA. Wash.. May 12. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly advise me whether the pension bill recently ap proved by the president increased the pensions of widows of .Mexican war vetcrans.i as provided by senate amendment. ROBKRT NORTON. Yes. Pair r fhrine Convention. KELLOGG. Idaho. May 10. (To the. Editor.) Kindly advise in The Ore gonian the exact date of Shriners' convent ii KOBKUT L DUVALL. June 22-J-4. t . . ......