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TTTE MORNING OKEGOXIAN. SATURDAY, MAY 15, 1920
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ban by their denunciation of the war
in 1917, by their disloyal alliance
with Germany during the war and
by the presence in their ranks of
those who desire to win by violent
revolution, not by discussion and the
ballot. If they strike out on a new
tack, the field is open to them. They
may sain strength through secession
of the extremists if they cast out
their foreign leaders and agree to
abide by the decision of the majority.
But such socialism is Marxism denatured.
SHIBBOLETH.
Then Jephtluth catbered together all
the men of Gilead and fought with
Kph.-aim; and the men of Oilcad smote
fc'.phraim, because they said. Ye Oileadites
are fugitives of Ephraim among the
Ephraimltes, and among the Manassltes.
And the Gileadits took the passages of
Jordan before the Kpliralmttes: and it was
so, that when those Kphraimltes which
were escaped said. Let me go over, that
tha men of Gilead said unto him. Art thou
an Ephraimite? It he said. Nay:
Then said they unto him. Say now
Shibboleth; and he said Slhboleth: for he
could not frame to pronounce it right.
Thea they took him, and slew him at the
passa.'yjs of Jordan; and there fell at that
time of Ephraimites forty and two thou
sand. Judges xii:4-6.
'Twas ever thus. Even today,
when sundry democrats are asked
to pronounce Wilson as the Shibbo
leth of party faith, their tongues fail
them and they call it Chamberlain.
ed by the Letts, so they are safe
against being outflanked.
It is dangerous to make predic
tions about what might happen in
Russia, but it is quite possible that
the Poles may clear the Ukraine of
reds, may recapture Odessa and may
thus give Denikin a base from which
he may renew his -war on bolshe
vism. The great stores of wheat re
ported to have accumulated for ex
port would then be released for ex
port, hungry Poland could eat, and
western Europe could again draw
supplies from Russia. Poland's suc
cess would prove with what ease
the allies might have disposed of
bolshevism if they had struck early,
hard and with perseverance.
HOOVER'S MESSAGE TO ORECOX
Mr. Hoover esteems alignment of
the republican party on the ngnt
side of the league of nations issue
to be infinitely more important
to the future of the party, the Amer
ican people and, in the end, of the
world at large than the promotion
of his own candidacy. Though he
does not say it in so many words in
his telegram to Oregon supporters,
his desire evidently is that his
friends shall concentrate their votes
on the strongest pro-league, pro
reservation candidate as against the
no-lcague candidate. Senator John
son. A positive stand in favor of a
league is in accord with republican
principles and with republican pol
icy as enunciated by the party's
great leader, Theodore Roosevelt, in
the speech to which Mr. Hoover al
ludes. That speech, which was de
livered at Christiania on May 5, 1910,
defined a policy which would be put
in effect by the covenant as modi
fied by the senate majority. It em
phasized the need of force to execute
the decisions of a world court. The
same idea, forms the backbone of the
principles of the League to Enforce
Peace, which was organized by the
republican president, Taft. Presi
dent Wilson has endeavored to ap
propriate that policy to himself and
his party, but, as Mr. Hoover says,
it "is not the property of any one
party." By rejecting it, as they
.vmiiH Viv rn H nrsi ri ' a no-league can
didate, republicans would in effect
declare it to be the exclusive prop
erty of the democratic party, though
republican leaders were the first to
put it forward.
Mr. Hoover's devotion to this prin
"r.iiio nr the KnrrificR of his own am
bition is a worthy example for other
candidates to follow. He prefers
success of the republican party, as a
means to put in effect the principles
in which he believes, to the prospect
of winning the highest of offices.
He sees that, if the party were to
commit itself to the no-league idea,
i utfMil fnll i n tr q tr:in thA iaws
' 11 1. .. . - ,1 v. , - f
Wilson and Mr. Johnson. If the re
publican party fell into that trap,
the loyalty to its principles of many
of its members would be severely
strained, and many who -earnestly
desire that the American republic
take its proper place as the leader
in preserving world peace might be
driven into the Wilson camp as a
less evil.
By complying with the wish of Mr.
Hoover, his friends and admirers
- may serve him better than by act
ing contrary to that wish. He sets
desire for a league above ambition
for the presidency and by promoting
that desire his friends would most
gratify him. But if the earlier bal
lots at the convention should prove
that no other candidate has a ma
jority, the unselfish attitude which
he has assumed may lead the pro
v league forces to concentrate on him
Lcs the best compromise candidate.
..In any event, his place in the pub-
lie estimation would be secure far
-more so than if the ends sought by
-jeopardized Dy a contest in the pri
maries which would divide their
torces.
- Oregon has a peculiar onnortunitv
to serve the republican party, and.
-through it, the country. Senator
,jonn?ons success in iaiuornia nas
"'Treated a superficial impression tha
' 1 1. 1 i v . i .... i. . . . wi ii t in miu alio
- his victory was due rather to state
. pride in a native son, to support
of diversified radical elements who
are more interested in other issues
than the league and to the perfec
tion of his organization than to any
public opinion that is general on the
I'acific coast. Oregon has the op
portunity to prove this, to point the
way for other western states, and to
indicate the course which the con
vention should take in order that
. if Tt i i r A.nntA tha - i 1 1 cnrl . - . i . . ia
opinion of broad-visioned, progress
ive republicans.
THE SOCIALISTS' DEPARTURE.
The socialist party is to be con
gratulated oi its repudiation of the
dictatorship of the proletariat, on its
disposition to admit that "bourgeois
democracy permits in normal times
decision by an honest and fair dis
cussion," and on its inclination to
rely for success on lawful agitation
and discussion. It has profited by
the imprisonment of disloyal leaders,
by the expulsion of its members from
the New York legislature and by the
..secession of the revolutionary left
wing. If it should renounce any de-
gree of control by an international
body and should abolish the pledges
; which deprive socialist officials of
" their freedom of action, it may be
come Americanized.
There is nothing in the socialist
economic theory to prevent its open
discussion in the press and on the
" platform or its advocacy by a politi
; cal party. The American people have
extended to its adherents full political
rights. It succeeded so well by con
stitutional agitation that it polled
almost a million votes for its candi
date for president in 1912. Yet it.s
opponents do not fear to meet it in
open discussion, for they have such
confidence in the soundness of their
..own principles that they feel sure of
..victory in the forum of argument.
M-inlists put themselves under a
MAX HOISER VINDICATED.
Vindication of Max Houser from
the charges of using his position as
vice-president of the United States
grain corporation to manipulate
prices for his own profit confirms
the belief which was expressed at
the time when they were published
that they were without foundation
and were" prompted by personal and
sectional jealousy and malice. After
thorough inquiry the United States
attorney finds that they were totally
baseless.
So far is Mr. Houser from hav
ing been guilty of any reprehensible
conduct that he is deserving of the
highest commendation. He neglected
his own business in order to devote
his time to public service", and at a
time when almost everybody else
was profiteering, his profits were
small. Yet his reward has been de
famation through being accused of
having perverted his public trust to
make an illicit profit.
Only by sinister influences could
the federal grand jury at Spokane
have been led to make findings
which had no foundation in fact,
which indeed were in direct contra
diction of the facts. The men who
exercised these influences concealed
the truth and imposed on the juror
with false and distorted statements
for the purpose of using the ma
chinery of justice to gratify their
private, malicious passion. Even
they could find nothing on which a
formal accusation could be founded.
There was then no basis for a report
of any kind by the grand jury. Yet
the men who prompted the grand
jury induced it to express a belief
or suspicion which reflected .on Mr.
Houser's integrity, and thus secured
publicity for their slanders, yet
gained for themselves immunity
fronl the prosecution which would
have followed publication on their
own authority. They should not be
permitted to escape punishment.
Complete disproof of the slanders
makes the best amends possible to
Mr. Houser by clearing him of all
suspicion in the eyes of those who
do not know him. Those who do know
him never credited the charges.
therefore he needs no vindication in
their eyes. But some means should
be found to protect from such at
tacks the reputation of men who in
times of emergency render valuable,
voluntary service to the public.
PCJfCTCKING TE BOLSHEVIST
BIBK1.E.
The unbroken series of victories
which the Poles have won over the
bolshevists in the last two months
may be a surprise to those who have
Judged the latter by their victories
over Yudenitch, Kolchak and Deni
kin, but a reasonable explanation is
available. The reds defeated the
whites by propaganda rather than
by fighting, and the errors of judg
ment committed by the whites
helped them. .
By common consent the reds are
experts at propaganda. They were
able to send agents through the
enemies' lines and to stir up disaf
fection in the rear. These agents
pointed to well known czarist offi
cials at headquarters of the white
armies as proof that the whites were
fighting to restore the autocracy.
These agents enlisted in the white
armies and incited desertion and mu
tiny. The two armies were Russians
fighting against Russians, and it was
not easy to distinguish.a red from a
white; they all talked and looked
alike. When the whites occupied
new territory they had no able men
qualified to administer it bv demo
cratic methods: they had to fall back
on former czarist officials, who pur
sued oppressive czarist methods. This
gave color to stories that the whites
fought to restore monarchy and
arouseo. antagonism. w Hole regi
ments and divisions deserted or were
taken prisoner by the whites and
were taken into their ranks. They
included bolshevist agents, who in
cited mutiny when reverses came.
The bolshevists outdo the Germans
at terrorism. They circulated ex
travagant reports of the overpower
ing size of their army and of the
terrible revenge they would take on
those who resided them. By these
means they cfesfroyed the morale of
their enemies and of the people in
their enemies' rear, and they dis
solved rather than conquered oppos
ing armies. This is evidently the
opinion of General Niessel, the
Frenchman who headed the allied
mission on the Baltic, for he said to
the London Post:
DKiiUEKS OF POLITICAL EVIL.
In commenting upon the Marlon frrand
Jury's report upon State Treasurer HolTs
conduct of his office The Portland OreKo-
nlan taken a slap at the direct primary,
styling tho selection of lloff "the full
fruits of the .self-nominating system."
Vet if occasionally an incompetent of
ficial Is selected under the primary system.
so were incompetents selected under the
o'd convention system. As a whole, the
Bisections mada by tho people compare
lavoraniy witti rnose formerly made oy
ti'e bosses. We may get more self-seeking
demagogues, but we get fewer political
crocks. Salem Capital Journal.
Here you have an example of the
sort of argument used to oppose and
obstruct improvement in the elec
tion system. Nobody proposes a re
turn to the old-style convention
nominating system. Nor has that
system anything to do with the de
fects of the direct primary. Yet the
argument is continually hurled at
us that the direct primary is no
worse than that which was very
bad. It compares in a faintly fa
vorablo way with that which is de
clared to have been rotten. We now
get self-seeking demagogues in place
of political crooks so our Salem
neighbor informs us, with a smack of
satisfaction over so vast an improve
ment in political affairs.
But why put up with either dema
gognes or crooks? Because we are not
worse off than we were when deep in
tho depths of political infamy shall
we seek no betterment? Something is
wrong when a system must be de
fended on the degree of its evil.
A STEAMSHIP LINE TO THE GCLF,
Establishment of a steamship
line to carry sulphur direct from
Galveston to Portland forms one
more thread in that web of com
merce which Portland is casting out
to the world. With sulphur as a
beginning cargoes can be completed
with cotton for transshipment to the
orient and with other southern prod
ucts. There will be no difficulty
In making return cargoes of the
paper in malting which the sulphur
is used and of other products of
the northwest.
This new business connection will
be one of great mutual advantage
It gives to the southern sulphur
mines a market which has hitherto
Been held Dy Japan, and it opens
this market also to the early fruits
and vegetables of the gulf states
It develops a southern market for
northwestern products which is now
reached only by long, vcostly railroad
routes. In these days of congestion
the railroads will not miss traffic
which they are often physically un
able to carry, and steamships will
add much to its volume.'
Portland is now getting the bene
fits of the Panama canal, which were
expected when the canal was opened
six years ago. The war postponed
those benefits, but its end has re
moved the obstacles to them and has
brought a greater volume of traffic
than would have been possible six
years ago. We were then dependent
mainly on foreign vessels to carry
our ocean trade, and those ships
yere subject, to withdrawal at any
time to distant routes; we now have
a great American merchant marine
employed especially in developing
American commerce. No long time
may elapse before a line may run
between Portland and New Orleans
to carry the products of the middle
west which will follow the Missis
sippl river to the sea. The shipping
lines of the present are merely the
skeleton of a system which will con
nect Portland with every port of the
United States and the whole world.
Bolshevism as a military danger to Eu
rope is ail nonsense. F.ven a small armv,
properly equipped, would be able to over
come that aspect of the bolshevist scare
crow with ease. What is far more dan
gerous to Europe is bolshevist propaganda,
because that has behind it the full
strength of an unrepentant Germany.
Poland seems to have that "small
army, properly equipped." The al
lies have doubtless supplied It with
arms and ammunition, and it is com
posed of veterans. Poland has been
thoroughly purged of bolshevist
agcrtts. the entire executive commit
tee having been captured at Warsaw
a Tew months ago and shot, and
national feeling has made the Poles
proof against anything offered by
the Russians. The Poles are on their
toes with patriotism and would
Lrather fight Russians than anybody.
unless it De Germans. They have
been famous throughout their his
tory for winning victories against
DANIELS' SMOKE SCREEN.
Secretary Daniels' reply to Ad
miral Sims' criticism of the naval
conduct of the -.r is that Sims
"lacked vision to see that a great
and new project to bar the submar
ines from their hunting ground
should be promptly adopted and car
ried out"; that Sims accepted Brit
isn views as superior to anything
that would come from America'
that he magnified British and mini
mized American effort and was gen
erally pro-British. He quotes
speech of President Wilson to of
ficers of the , Atlantic fleet urgin
the seamen to te old ia do th
unheard-of thing. He quotes a critl
cism of the president on British
naval strategy as being slow to
adopt new measures, especially th
convoy system, and urged attacks on
the hornets' nest the submarine
base.
All of this talk is a mere smok
screen designed to distract atten
lion from the subject of Sims' criti
cisms and from the question whether
they are justified. Probably the Brit
ish were at times over-prudent,
though often they did the bold and
daring thing. They may have been
slow to adopt new devices and to
make inventions, though they di
use the mystery ship and the depth
charge. They may have had too
strong a voice in allied naval coun
cils, though their naval forces were
ten times those of any other ally.
But the actual question in contro-1
versy is whether the American navy '
was prepared when war was declared;-
whether the recommenda
tions of Sims were good: whether
the department responded promptly
and adequately to his appeals for
more ships and men; whether the
department started with a plan or
merely made day-to-day decisions;
whether the American forces in
European waters were sufficient to
enable them to fling aside prudence
and do the bold, daring, original
things which Mr. Wilson urged.
From the outbreak of the war the
task of holding command of the sea
both against the German battle fleet
and the U boats devolved on the
British. The most effective anti
submarine vessel proved to be the
destroyer. Jellicoe shows that at the
beginning the British were weaker
in such ships than the Germans and,
though they concentrated on build
ing destroyers, this inferiority con
tinued till after the battle of Jut
land. They did not combat the U
boat more effectively because thev
were so strained that they could not
rapidly add to the number. The
hope of the allies was that American
intervention would make good this
deficiency and would bring with it
ew devices and means of putting in
effect those of which the-allies had
already thought but had not adopted
for lack of means. ;
The United States had in commis
sion in the Atlantic fleet on Novem
ber 1, 1916, 46 destroyers, others were
building and 50 more were author
ized' in that year. Almost from the
ay of his arrival in Europe Sims
mpressed on the department that
the war might be won or lost at sea
nthe conflict with submarines, that
the destroyer was the latter's most
effective foe and that every possible
destroyer and other craft fitted to
hunt the U boats should bo sent to
the eastern Atlantic ocean with the
tmost haste. At that time there was
margin of only 500,000 tons of
merchant ships over the minimum
absolutely necessary to fight the war
and supply the armies and the allied
nations and the Germans were sink
ing ships at the rate of 640,000 tons
a, month. He told the senate com
mittee that, if this had continued for
few months, the allies would have
failed for lack of supplies, an Ameri
can army of any size could not have
been sent to France and, if sent,
could not have been supplied. That
was the burden of every cablegram
sent by Sims from April 14, 1917, on.
It was not true, as said by Mr.
Daniels, that Sims held protection
f merchant ships superior to that of
transports. He urged that more pro
tection be given to merchant ships
because our ability to keep an. army
n the field hung on our ability to
supply them. The troop movement
in the first critical six months was
small, was better protected than that
of any allied troops and from three
to ten times as much as merchant
ships. But Sims attached importance
to merchant ships because "we were
confronted with the danger of hav-
ng an army abroad which could not
be supplied."
But Daniels started only six de
stroyers from Boston on April 24,
1917, and the best that he could pro
mise on May 3, 1917, was that "ulti
mately there will be 36 destroyers
sent." He cut this number to 32,
which number had sailed by June 20.
The next day Sims cabled to send the
majority of the vessels patrolling our
own coast line and, when Daniels
replied vaguely that he would "con
sider the question of supplying ad
ditional naval forces," Sims appealed
to Ambassador Page. He said that
the enemy is winning the war" and
protested against maintaining anti
submarine craft on the . American
coast, 3000 miles from the area
where the enemy is operating.
Not until Admiral Mayo went to
London in August was Sims given
the destroyers he asked for, nor until
Admiral -Benson went over in No
vember was a battle squadron sent
to Scapa Flow. Thus the soundness
of Sims" conclusions was conceded
months after it should have been fol
lowed. It had been neglected because
the navy-had been unprepared when
war was declared, -because it had no
plan and because for six months it
followed a hand-to-mouth policy.
After making such a record, Mr.
Daniels is in no position to cast dis
credit on his critic for no better rea
son than that he was friendly to an
ally. Nor is the president who kept
a large part of the fleet 3000 miles
away from the fighting in a posi
tion to taunt anybody with excess of
prudence. Nor was delay in adopt
ing the convoy system due to lack of
vision. It had been considered by
the British before we went to war
and by Sims after his arrival in Lon
don, and was not adopted sooner
because Daniels did not send the
necessary ships.
HIGH PRICE BAD FOR INDUSTRY
Logaaberres Above I Cents Will Pre
vent Canned Stocks From Moving;.
CORVALLIS, Or., May 13. (To the
Editor.) Several times in the past
few weeks there have been articles in
The Oregonian relative to the logan
berry situation, especially as to prices
being asked by the growers who
pooled their berries around Salem.
The writer has been watching this
loganberry propaganda with much in
terest, as perhaps have the rest of the
canners in the state of Oregon.
Berries at a 12-cent basis placed in
cans ready for shipment to the job
bing trade would supply the common
two-pound can of loganberries to the
jobber at around 50 cents. By the
time he had placed these goods out
to the retailer with a small margin
of profit-to himself and thus from
the retailer to the consumer these
cans of loganberries would have to
be sold to the consumer at not less
than 75 cents to 85 cents per can. In
the opinion of the writer fhis will be
disastrous to the loganberry Industry
of the Willamette valley, for the fol
lowing reasons:
These goods will be so extremely
high that the consumer, the house
wife, will refrain from purchasing
them, and therefore these berries
will be left on the retailers' shelf to
a great extent. Continuation of this
high price will mean that another
year our retailers throughout the
United States will be carrying over a
surplus of loganberries. No doubt
the jobber will have a few left on
hand. The growers should under
stand that in the spring of the year
the jobber goes out and takes future
orders from the retail grocery to be
delivered in the fall. The jobber then
gets his orders together and sizes up
the amount of fruit which he has sold.
He then places his order with his
canners to be filled. I believe if this
is thoroughly explained to the logan
berry growers of this valley that they
will see where there is liable to be a
surplus of berries left on the shelf
and thus be injurious to the sale of
the crop not only for this year but
for the coming years.
I have been informed that tho
makers of loganberry juice cannot af
ford to manufacture this juice at a
cost (to exceed 10 cents per pound
for the fresh berries. This naturally
is going to throw a surplus of berries
to the canner and naturally the ex
treme high price of berries and the
extreme high price of sugar are going
to cause the canner to can only what
he has orders on file for. This com
pany will not pack any surplus and I
have talked with a number of the
canners throughout the state and find
that they are all of the same opinion.
Therefore I believe as, does our friend
H. K. Davidson of Hood R'.ver whose
article was in the Tuesday Oregonian.
I firmly believe that it is to the in
terest of the loganberry industry of
the Willamette valley that the grow
ers make a price on these berries that
will keep them moving to the con
suming world.
I must say in favor of the majority
of the loganberry growers of Benton
county that they have awakened to
the fact that an extreme high price
is disastrous to the industry and a
number of our growers have come in
voluntarily and have signed contracts
with the Brownsville Canning com
pany to deliver loganberries for the
season of 1920 at a price of 10 cents.
As has been explained several tintes a
price of 10 cents per pound is a good
legitimate price for the grower and
also a price at which the berries can
be placed on the market. Above this
price I am doubtful if one-half of the
crop of loganberries of the 1920
growth will be consumed.
BROWNSVILLE CANNING CO.
Ira Hutchings, Manager.
Those vVho Come and Go.
John and George Sulzer and their j
wives like Portland so well that in
stead of remaining here one day they
have been at the Hotel "Portland for
; five. . The Sulzers have the largest
seed company in the united fatates.
which same is at LaCrosse, Wis. They
import their, supplies from the far
corners of the world. Also they are
interested In the lumber business and
have their headquarters for their ac
tivity at Minneapolis, but they have
many lumber yards scattered through
out North and South Dakota. The
families came west to say farewell
to the daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
George Sulzer, who sailed from Brit
ish Columbia for India. This is the
first time in 25 years that the seed
and lumbermen have visited Port
land and they do not recognize the
town. Assistant Manager Charles
Schreiber. of the Hotel Portland, sent
them over the Columbia highway and
on their return the party talked for
hours about the wonde-.- of that
drive. The visitors are also being
shown the shipyards, sawmills and
other points of interest.
Louis P. Swift, who knows more
about the meat packing business than
almost any other man in the coun
try, arrived at the Hotel Portland
yesterday and devoted the time un
til his train departed for Chicago
inspecting the Union stockyards, the
Peninsula district in jenral, and
looking the town over. Mr. Swift
Is the executive head of Swift & Co.,
and has been president of that con
cern for 16 years. Mr. Swift declares
that there isn't any such animal as a
packer profiteer. The way the Swift
dollar is split shows that the profit
is the smallest part of the dollar.
Mr. Swift was partly responsible for
the Peninsula Industrial company's
purchase of thousands of acres on
the Peninsula and developing it for
present needs and future growth. His
trip to Portland is one f his regular
calls, and he stopped off in town
while on his way to Chicago from
his home in southern California.
In the course of the celebration of
the 250th anniversary of the found
ing of the Hudson's Bay company it
was pointed out that, partly as the
result of the game conservation pol
icy of that famous concern, there
now exists in the northern wilds a
potential supply far exceeding that
furnished by the western buffalo In
its palmiest days. The buffalo herd
in the beginning of the immigration
to Oregon is estimated to have num
bered about 4,000,000. In the region
north of the .Canadian forests, where
the moss meadows begin, however.
there are believed to be" 30,000,000
caribou, protected by the fact of their
isolation. With an estimated annual
killing of some 100,000 by Indians
and Eskimos, the caribou is finding
no difficulty in maintaining or even
increasing its original numbers. At
tention has been called recently to
the desirability of protective meas
ures, on the ground that scarcity of
meat in other countries is likely to
furnish temptation . for wholesale
slaughter. We regret the virtual
annihilation of the buffalo for senti
mental reasons; for the caribou to
share its fate might be also an eco
nomic calamity.
The Evening Telegram on April
9, 1920, introduced Mr. Richards,
legislator and candidate for re-elec
tion, to public notice with conspic
uous commendation of his "clean
record. A clean " record," in the
lexicon of the Telegram, is any
record which pivots on approval of
that paper s peculiar and fantastic
ideas of good legislative service, as
illustrated by its absurd and mis
chievous effort to make fish and
patent-paving matters of first and
exclusive importance. Now the Tele
gram in effect denies that it has
endorsed Richards. Evidently the
Telegram, in common with the pub
lie, doesn t take Itself seriously.
The leap-year proposal has been
considered a joke, but a Chicago girl
found it different. A cruel man re
jected her. even with a furnished
apartment in sight, and she shot her
self. Women have niuch to learn.
A man never shoots himself that way
not if he can get the "stuff."
The murderer of an entire family
in North Dakota two weeks ago has
confessed he did it because the vic
tims' dog worried his cattle. That's
.enough to prove him crazy.
EVERYTHING THEIRS BUT OFFICE
No Honor Too Great for Soldier Until
He Is Offered as Candidate.
ALGOMA, Or., May 13. (To the
Editor.) There is a growing senti
ment in this country that needs a
black eye, followed by a solar-plexus
blow. That sentiment is. "we do not
want a military man for president.
That kind of doctrine is pernicious,
un-American, unpatriotic, an abom
inable insult to every American sol
dier. It is the fruit of seed sown by
copperheads and is now being agitat
ed by pacifists.
This republic is the heritage of
American soldiers. They won n
from the crown: established it, pro
tected it, preserved it. They made
all nations recognize it as a world
power. Their efforts in the late war
made all nations recognize it as the
grandest, the greatest, the mightiest
nation on the globe.
When soldiers leave for the battle-
front great demonstrations are given
in honor of them and the theme on
every tongue is, "there's nothing too
good for our soldiers." When units
of the army return great ovations
are given and words of praise for
victory are spoken by all. In many
localities imposing monuments are
erected to perpetuate the memory of
those who gave their lives to make
the world better. But when a capa
ble, worthy soldier seeks a position
of trust and responsibility the piping
voices of pacifists are raised against
him in every section of our great do
main. During the days the Lord deat
with material things he took cogni
zance of battles and on divers occa
sions gave divine aid that victories
might be won. Hence the Lord Is not
a pacifist. Those who believe in an
American custom a custom to honor
successful military men can truly
say the Lord is on our side. One
half the presidents of this republic
were men with military experience
and all the pacifists in Christendom
cannot .prove wherein a single admin
istration of our soldier statesmen was
in any manner a detriment, to the
nation. If some military genius had
been at the helm during the past
three years the affairs of state would
be Jn much better condition than they
are now. W. O. BINXS.
ounf-. i ncy nave roraraned forres hul not enough or the right type of
with Ukraine and their left is guard- vessel and because their resources
Aerial fare between the two big
cities of California will be a hun
dred dollars,, with good highways
for walking back and the handicap
of a detestable climate.
Seattlo evidently has had enough
of strikes, which may be the reason
the longshoremen called off theirs of
ten days' duration.
Why is it necessary for anybody
to declare himself "100 per cent
American"? What's eating hiiu?
EASY ENOUGH TO FIGURE OUT
Mysterious Presidential Candidate Re
duces Politics to Exact Science.
SAX FRANCISCO, Cal., May 11.
(To the Editor.) I present the mathe
matical candidate:
"I denounce my opponents. This
impresses a portion of the electorate.
"I shout Americanism. I wrap my
self in the flag. Then I denounce the
patrioteers. This brings me an un
discerning part of the sincene Amer
ican vote.
"I denounce the president and op
pose the league of nations. I call it
an English league. I denounce Eng
land. This attracts. to me the undis
cerning part of the impulsive Irish
American vote. This is many times
the English-American vote.
"I denounce tne allies and the treaty
of Versailles; this brings me the un
discerning "ulk of the German-American
vote.
"These votes, combined with those
votes I can orate Into my camp, ought
to constitute a majority.
"I slur a former president; this be
littles a possible opponent.
"I oppose interference in European
affairs, and seek support from those
who hope' America will interfere in
certain affairs of Europe if I become
president.
."I am not pro-Irish. If there were
more English-American votes 1 would
be called pro-English.
"I am not pro-German. If there
were more Prench-Anieriean votes, I
would be called pro-French.
"None of these things are true.
"I am pro-self."
The candidacy is respectfully sub-
mttcd.
U. C G.
Since my arrival in the United
States I have heard so many motor
ists complaining at the price of gaso
line that I wonder what they would
say did they own and try to operate
an automobile in Australia." re
marked Frank Keiran. of Melbourne,
Australia, who is at the Hotel Port
land this week. Mr. Keiran. who is a
real estate dealer, says that gasoline
in Australia sells for So cents a gal
lon and that it is difficult to obtain
at that price. "All the gasoline in
Australia is Imported from the United
States." he continued, "and Sumatra.
The Shell and Vacuum Oil companies
have control and with the high price
per gallon only the well-to-do can
afford to run an automobile for
pleasure purposes." Mr. Keiran ex
pects to locate permanently some
where on the Pacific coast.
A lumberman at Bend offered a so
lution to the frost problem in that
country," said George Shepard, who
returned from Redmond and Bend
yesterday. "This chap declares that
the sagebrush contains ammonia and
that the ammonia in the sagebrush
draws the frost, the same system as
is used in cold storage plants. This
man predicts that when tbi sage
brush is1 removed there will be no
more frost -in the desert country.
On the train I met a family of home
steaders, whose place is 75 miles
south of Bend, just over the line in
Klamath county. I was informed that
water, cold clear water, can be found
on their ranch anywhere by digging
four or five feet down."
There are 28,000 books traveling
around Oregon not including those
which are borrowed and never return
home. The 28,000 volumes constitute
the state traveling library, and Miss
Eleanor Davis, who is the head li
brarian, is in Portland on a visit.
There are DO books in a case and
when special requests are made, other
books are added, sometimes as many
as 25 additional books being thus pro
vided. There is a strong demand for
out-door fiction, but there is also an
unusual demand for serious books and
technical works. After one of these
libraries has been thoroughly used in
one locality it is shipped on to an
other community where there is no
public library.
"There will be about 2000 peopls at
Boardman May 31." says C. C. Clark
of Arlington, at the Imperial. "The
plan is to make a practical demon
stration of what water will do in that
country. Visitors will be shown the
raw land and the watered land. Three
years ago a horse would have starved
to death on all (he food he could find
within 20 miles of Boardman. Last
winter when the storm hit us. Board
man had enough feed to save the situ
ation and the stock."
Charles M. Hatfield, who is known
as the rainmaker, passed through
Portland yesterday on his way to
Ephrata. Grant county. Wash., where
he has a contract to deliver three
inches of rain. He will begin mak'ng
medicine May 20 and his contract is
to have the rain on the ground by
July 25. A few years ago Mr. Hat
field was considered somewhat of a
joke and many snappy paragraphs
were printed about him. Now, how
ever, the novelty has worn off, for
he has completed a score of contracts
with success. The method pursued by
Mr. Hatfield is a secret, but he points
to his record as to its getting results. -.
R. A. Long of the Long-Bell com
pany, one of the prominent figures
in the lumber world, is at the Benson
from Kansas City. Accompanying Mr.
Long are J. D. Tennant and M. Bur
genstal, also of Kansas City. Mr.
Long's holdings are considerable in
this part of the world, and there is a
rumor that his company may build
an Immense sawmill on Young's bay,
near Astoria. .
With a piece of steel in his eye,
Clair Edwards came from Pendleton
to Portland to have it extricated.
When he arrived at the Perkins half
a dozen physicians were called up
before one could be found who would
attempt the delicate operation of re
moving the fragment of steel.
Olive Graham, who deserted the
mail clerk desk at the Hotel Portland
to become a motion picture player,
returned to the old haunts yesterday
as a patron of the house. She is well
pleased with her adventures in the
land of the celluloid fillum.
"1 tried to get a couple of tickets
to see Galli-Curcl, but they were all
gone," said one patron to another at
the cigar stand in the Imperial. "Who
is he going to fight" asked Jack Ben
nett, the smoke clerk.
The manager of Government Camp,
near Zig Zag. is at the Multnomah.
He is F. L. Pridemore, and if there is
one thing more than another he wants
it is to see the Mount Hood loop
gra'ded and paved.
Mfs. Mary Edwards, who has the
Fossil hotel, is at the Perkins on the
same mission that other outside hotel
people are coming to Portland about
the help problem.
D. C. Eccles of Ogden. Utah, who
is deeply interested in the sugar busi
ness, arrived at the Hotel Portland
yesterday with Mrs. Eccles.
Horace White, who runs sheep up j
Mount Adams way. is in town and
rrciMlerert at the Imperial. Mr. :
White's home is at Kooscvclt, Wash. j
EXCEPTION IS !OT SAFE tiUlDE J
Rond-Ballding- Plan Ilased on Contri
butions of Autos as a t'las.
EUGENE. Or., May 13. (To the Ed
itor.) Referring to the answer to my
communication regarding whether au
tomobile fees were building our roads,
please permit a further word:
The Oregonian says, speaking of
assessments in Multnomah county, "A
1915 Dodge Bros, car, for instance,
paid about U in 1919. It pays now
J22. of which more than ?5 will be
returned in lieu of taxes."
If you mean by this that the aver
age Dodge car in 1919. in your county
paid but J4, then as Mr. Lincoln once
said. "There's a knot-hole in your
courthouse that needs looking into."
I do not know your aggregate tax
rate, but a $4 tax would probably de
note a 135 valuation per Dodge car.
Under our law that requires assess
ment of property at true value, a very
lenient observance of the law would
have made the average Dodge car in
1919, with the fee of 3 then asked,
pay an amount equal to the present
license fee.
Of course some old cars would nat
urally go on the roll at a small valu
ation. "The new law catches the poor
car and its poor owner. This is ev
ened up, if one may use that term.
by the fact that the costly, luxurious
car gets off at one-half or one-third
of what It would pay if taxed like
other property. I know an Oldsmo
bile Six, bought in the fall of 1919,
that pays but $15 total license fee.
1 still maintain that under any fair
execution of the old law autos paid
as much as, or more than, tinder the
new system. The only difference I
can see is that they have been re
lieved from supporting city, school,
county and state, and allowed to put
their contribution on a subject in
which they have an especial interest.
In addition they are on a fixed sched
ule and not subject to that slight an
noyance of a continually rising tax
rate. - S. D. ALLEN.
The Oregonian does not dispute that
a license fee system based on horse
power arrived at by a more or less
arbitrary calculation is bound to fa
vor an occasional car owner at the
expense of others. The Oregon law
does that. A few makes of cars are.
during their period of newness, get
ting off with a smaller public conTi
bution than they would have paid un
der the old system of general taxa
tion plus low license fees. But the
general effect of the law cannot be
determined by singling out one of
these exceptions as Mr. Allen docs in
this letter. N
To say that the automobiles have
been relieved from supporting city,
school, county and state and allowed
to put their contribution on roads in
which they have a special interest is
quibble. If two persons who room to
gether and put into a common fund
to pay for electric lights and tele
phone finally decide that one shall
pay for telephone and the other for
lights, neither thereafter has cause
for complaint if the proportionate
burdens are the same. That is the
effect of the new automobile license
law. In the counties the automobiles
contribute only to county roads
whereas they heretofore contributed
to all purposes. But other property
also contributed to county roads and
it is now relieved of so much of the
county road fund needs as the auto
mobiles are paying. Automobiles, as
a class, according to estimates made
for Multnomah county, are paying
just as much as they ever did in
general taxes. In addition they are
building the state highways and
without a murmur. Strangely enough
the only noticeable objection comes
from persons who do not own auto
mobiles. The Oregonian did not in
timate that the average Dodge car
paid only $4 in taxes for 1919.
" .
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Hontacie,
THE ALL AD DAILY.
The Congressional Record - is ths
only daily paper which contains no
advertising. A Congressman.
When Congressman Bolus is not quite "
so strong
With, the folks in the district back
i home.
He makes an oration on tariff infla
tion Which rings to the capitol dome.
It runs in the Record in full the next
. day
And it makes his constituents glad
To read their own praises in eloquent
phrases.
In Congressman Bolus' ad.
When Senator Sugar believes there'
a chance
To land in the president's chair.
In dozens of speeches he begs and be
seeches The profiteer crew to beware.
The Record displays it in beautiful
type
In its issue the following day:
And, filling its mission of boosting
ambition.
Another ad speeds on its way.
Whenever a statesman 1 hunting a
men?,
A broken down fence to repair.
Or seeking promotion with earnest
devotion.
He flies winjr-ed words in the air.
And straightway the Record appears
on the street
AVilh all that he says, good or bad.
And soon all tho nation In rapt con
templation. Is gazing agape at his ad.
Compare this commercial congres
sional sheet
With the papers you daily peruse.
They offer you I'oaturcs by muck
raking preachers.
And pictures and headlines and
news.
And verses liks this one and base
ball reports.
And comics, and feminine fads,
And gossip and chatter and pure
reading matter.
While the Record is "nothing" but
ads!
It (an't lie Done.
We'd aporociato General Town-
rhend's offer topive his sword to the
United States in case of war far more
if he hadn't already presented it to
the sultan of Turkey.
Anil So It Goes.
The chief objection to fiv-dollar
theater Seats is that the speculators
want ten dollars apiece as commission
for selling them.
The Kent Mnntle.
It is a stupendous tribute to Theo
dora Roosevelt that the only two con
tenders for the republican nomination
were his two most intimate disciples.
In Other Days.
In Behalf of 4COO Children.
PORTLAND, May 14. (To the Ed
itor.) May I plead through your col
umns for the support of the "chil
dren's bill," the elementary education
bill? Four thousand six hundred chil
dren now in Oregon are without
schools more next year if this bill
falls. Vote for this bill for the chil
dren's sake. MRS. C. A. BASS.
Harold Showed Experience.
London Tit-Bits.
Bella I think Harold must have
loved before.
Gladys What makes you think
that,- dear?
Bella Oh, I don't know, but he
seems to search carefully for pins be
fore he puts his arms around my
waist.
Tw-enly-five Years Ago.
From The OreRonian of May 15. 1S95.
Salem. Busy sessions of the grand
encampment of Oddfellows and l!e
bekahs were held here yesterday. The
Oddfellows elected W. T. Williamson
grand senior guardian and E. E.
Sharon grand secretary.
Mrs. Susannah Woods, for nearly 18
years matron of the Children's Home
in South Portland, died yesterday
morning.
The opening session of the nine
teenth annual meeting of the Homeo
pathic State society was held yester
day morning in the parlors of the
Portland hotel.
Parish L. Williams, ex-state sena
tor, was .yesterday appointed police
commissioner v to eucceed Henry
Haussman, removed.
CANDIDATE GREETS CANDIDATE
Mr. Woodward Compliments Fellow
Aspirant for School Director.
PORTLAND. May 14. (To the Edi
tor.) Citizens of Portland will. I am
sure, note with profound satisfaction
the announced candidacy for school
director of Frank L. Shull, citizen,
parent and successful business man.
When men of the type Mr. Shull so
fully represents lay aside all selfish
promptings and bravely and unself
ishly take up the vexing problems of
our present public school system they
encourage all other citizens to as
sume their share of public and civic
service.
Our public schools, in all they stand
for, are facing a real crisis. The fate
of our nation, the success of our in
stitutions, the preservation and main
tenance of our ideals rest upon those
who have to do with the moral, men
tal and phvsical training of our chil
dren. WILLIAM F. WOODWARD.
With the Merry Month of May
on the Pacific Highway
How fares it with the Pacific Highway, that thoroughfare of the
tootling tourist, that stretches far and away to the California line?
Time was when the famous road had its sloughs of despond, in which
many a staunch car came to grief and paid tribute to the farmer and
his team. But it's fine now, says Lair H. Gregory, automobile editor
of The Oregonian, in a special article appearing in the Sunday issue.
Read the log of Mr. Gregory's regent scouting dash down the high
way to Medford in the vale of the rambling Rogue. It answers
all the queries that motorists will ask about the Pacific highway
and is a condensed handbook for motor cruisers who are going to
make the trip.
Work and Fun on City's Farm Municipalities are matter-of-fact
institutions, take 'em by and large but occasionally one of the better
sort finds time for a trifle of practical sentiment, such as holding
out the helping hand to folk who have slipped toward the abyss.
That is what Portland has done in the establishment of the Cedars,
a comfy, care-free, sensible home for girls who weren't started right.
In the Sunday issue appears a special story about the Cedars. It
illustrates how beautifully a benefaction can be bestowed and how
a big city may live up to its trust.
Romanoff Princess Sings for Her Supper Catherine Yourievski
was a princess of the blood royal in the days before the house of
Romanoff swirled to oblivion in the eddies of red revolution. She
might have been a titled beggar, seeking generous alms and ease on
the prestige of her former glory and the romance of her misfortune.
But Catherine was a real princess a credit to her ruined line, of the
stuff that genuine womanhood is fashioned. She trained her naturally
beautiful voice and set forth to become a concert singer in London
where she succeeded on merit. This is one of those stories that is
finer than fiction and it appears in the magazine section tomorrow.
Do Our Scourges Come From the Sky? When you sneeze in
the first preliminary kerchoo of influenza, whence came the maleficent
germ that plagues you? The ancients asseverated that many ills
came from the sky. Scientists of today are turning to the opinion
that comets and volcanoes and star dust have not a little to do
with mortal ailments. Read this engrossing feature article in the
Sunday issue.
Finery for the Forehead Cleopatra, queen .of the Xile, wore
gleaming jewels and beaten gold above the eyes that enthralled
Anthony. The lures of the ancients and tho orient are with us here
in America. In the Sunday paper, magazine section, profusely
illustrated, is Jean Scivwright's story of the picturesque modern
revival of jeweled head-dress.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN