THE -MORNING OREGON! AX. FRIDAY, MAT 14, 1920
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ANOTHER EXPLANATION.
Mr. Tumulty explains again. But
Mr. Tumulty's new and quite wonder
ful explanation only serves to In
crease the distress and agitation of
the democratic mind. 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.
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