T 12 THE MORMXG OREGOXI.VX, WEDNESDAY, MAY 19, 1920 ljSTABI.ISHKD BV HESKV 1.. PrrTOtK, Published by The Ortgonian Publishing Co. IJo Sixth Street. Portland.- Oregon. C. A SIORUE.N. E. B. PIPER. Manager. The nnni.n l.-r nf the Asso ciated 1'rens. The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. "Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. ' (By Mail.) ..Daily, Sunday Included, one year . Dally. Sunday Included, six months ... - TJally. Sunday included, three months.. - Uiiliy, Sunday Included, one montn . Daily, without Sunday, one year Dally, without Sunday, six months .. raily. without Sunday, one month. Weekly, one year Sunday, one year . . By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year 8 JO Daily. 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The present congress is not a do- ttditor. i nothing congress. It is a working congress, it is saving tne people money and is securing for them good value for what they spend. It is opening opportunity to develop tke country ami to expand its foreign commerce. This is progress, the kind of progress the people want. 6.00 8.25 .60 1.00 5.00 TO HOOVER'S FRIENDS: Mr. Hoover has directed that the campaign in Oregon in his behalf be suspended, and has made it clear that he desires the defeat of Hiram Johnson. To carry Oregon for Johnson, next Friday, is to repudiate Hoover. If you would prevent the repudiation of Hoover by Oregon, you will aid in the repudiation of Johnson. Tou can best serve Hoover and Oregon, and make sure the defeat of Johnson, by voting for Leonard Wood. July 1, 1919, about $1, 500,000,000 J would have been saved.. Current operation of the govern ment, exclusive of Interest, fixed an nual charges, sinking fund, pensions and provisions for disabled soldiers, in the year 1916 cost - J 550,695,360. For the year 1920 it was estimated by the administration to cost about $3, 000,000. 000, though the unit cost of material and personal service only increased 25 to 50 per cent. If it had doubled, expenditures should not have exceeded $1,100,000,000. Fixed charges, comprising, annual charges, interest, sinking fund, pen sions, provision for disabled soldiers and sailors have increased from $191,351,359 in 1916 to an estimate by the administration of $1,800,000, 000 for the year 1921. With a most generous allowance for new activities like road-building and for increase of the army and navy, there is still about $2,000,000, 000 of waste in these totals. There is no possibility that the administra tion can reduce them. That will be the task of the next administration. WHERE THEY STAND. ..' The alliance of destruction be . tween President Wilson and Senator Johnson, in their united opposition :" to any practicable plan to secure a league of nations, was fitly de " nounced by Herbert Hoover in his letter to his Oregon supporters. He asked that he be eliminated from consideration and that the position of Oregon be made clear by the elec tion of delegates to the national re publican convention who will en " dorse the senate's position on the '" treaty, The Hoover management has sought to ascertain where all the candidates for delegates stand on tho paramount issue. Some had already announced themselves. Others had not. It is well that the public should know. The only no-league candidate for president in Oregon is Senator Johnson. Against him are Wood, Lowdcn and Hoover (who is still on the ballot), all for the league with reservations. If Johnson should win by a plurality it will be by a plu iality if he wins the real attitude of Oregon will be shown by the com bined vote for the other candidates. It will also be shown, and can be made effective, by the decision as to the delegates. That the public may understand the respective positions of the candi dates, the results of the Hoover can vass up to this time are herewith summarized. Some candidates had otherwise expressed themselves, and they also are included. Others have not been heard from. Here is the list: For the leatrue with reservations (A large) Charles Jl. Carey. Oliver M. Hick- ey, John K. Kollock, Rdward A. MacLean, N. C .Marls. Conrad P. Olson. No league (At large) Daniel Boyd. John I.. Rand. , For Johnson, and presumably for no league (At large) Sanfleld Macdonald. Kor the league with reservations (1st district ) bl. 1. Adams. J. C. Booth. Wal ter L.. Tooze Jr., Frank Wrightman. For Wood or Hoover, and presumably " Cor the league (1st fllslrict) -J. C. Kendall. o league (iHt district) No candidates. WILSON VS. CHAMBERLAIN. It would be real funny if the democrats should renominate Senator Chamberlain, who voted for the Lodge reservations to the league of nations covenant, and then the democrat national convention should ndorse Pre. dent Wilson's administration and nominate a candidate standing for his policies and his ideals regarding world peace. Senator Chamberlain would have a pretty- hard time explaining nis position when he stumped the state in the fall, since to be consistent he should support the republican candidate for president, al though running for senator on the demo cratic ticket. Eugene Guard. Not exactly funny; merely pathetic. The Guard is one among the few democratic (it prefers to be called independent) papers in Oregon which correctly state the issue in the democratic party to be a straight-out test of strength between the Wilson faction and the Chamberlain faction. Sundry democratic politicians, like ex-Postmaster Myers, who was fired for cause, and does not like Cham berlain, are taking advantage of the situation to make war on him. But Myers did not write the Wilson letter, Mr. Hamaker nor Starkweather. President Wilson wrote it to Ha maker, and we have Tumulty's word for it that the president did not know who Hamaker was, beyond his po litical title. The crow-eating Journal, is now for Chamberlain and Wilson, and is making noisy efforts to persuade the democratic party to repudiate Myers Hamaker, et al, and to stand by Chamberlain: But if the democratic party endorses Chamberlain, it will stand by the senator who, through the Lodge reservations, sought to commit the nation to a policy of dishonor." Is that so? President Wilson says itls. A FA jT-RI"NNING NIGHTMARE. It is our recollection that the "Midnight resolution" was haled forth and exhibited in all its pre tended viciousness four years ago to demonstrate why Gus C. Moser, one of its sponsors in the legislature, should not be re-elected. Yet he was re-elected. He led the senatorial ticket. It appears that the voting public doe-? not care a hoot whether a reso lution is passed at midnight or at For the league with reservations CM dis-noon by the legislature if it is a good PASSIONATE, VET PERSONAL. The passionate Evening Telegram, prosecutor, judge and jury in all that is Impure in pontics, jConvicts Senator Day of having in 1913 protected patented pavements from being leg islated out of business. George W. Joseph makes a similar charge, and J the Telegram prints a picture or tne defiled and doctored law. Strange things are paving politics. On the score of what he did in 1913 the Telegram pronounces Day unfit for election. Yet the Telegram in 1915, two years later, did exactly the same thing that Hay did. Beginning on February 1 of that year, it gave its correspondent at the legislature carte blanche to combine news with editorial comment and turned its seven-column heads loose. all to condemn what was known as the Bingham bill. And the angry and resounding complaint that the Tele gram made was that the Bingham bill put patented pavements out of business. It spoke sternly and In dignantly of the "big Interests" that had tried to "slip" the bill over, and it referred with a sort of pity to Sen ator Bingham, who as the author, it predicted, was destined to become the object of public condemnation. If any there be who wish to make painstaking investigation, they will find the passionate Telegram's sym pathy for "patent pavement trust" set forth in the bound files of the Telegram in the public library. The articles begin on February 1, 1915. On February 8. 1915, there was a legislative committee meeting at Sa- lem to consider the Bingham bill. There went up to oppose it John B. Yeon, the late E. E. Coo vert, 'and who else do you supp jse? Xone other than George W. Joseph. Mr. Joseph, who today excoriates Day for preventing in 1913 the in hibition by law of patented pave ments, in February, 1915, went to Salem and appeared before the com mittee in defense of patented pave ments. He was for open bids. He was for competition. He was for the law as It then stood, though the law as it then stood was the law which he and the Telegram now charge Day with doctoring. "Joseph" (we now quote the Tele gram of February 9, 1915) "praised them (the present laws) as - much should be handicapped In commercial! competition and In war. The oil land leasing law has been enacted barely in time to make good the deficiency which is already apparent. If Great Britain should attempt a monopoly of the oil of Mesopotamia and other countries which pass un der its rule through the peace treaties, it should be opposed by the United States. One of the principles accepted by this country and the al lies was that -all territory taken from the defeated nations should be ad ministered for the benefit of its people and that all nations should have equal opportunity in its trade and development. Any attempt at exclusive control of oil fields tn in dependent countries like Persia should also be opposed and, if con tinued, should be met by similar ac tion on the part of this nation. Am ericans are already chief owners of the Tampico field in Mexico, and" the fall of Carranza opens the way to secure those rights and to extend de velopment under a new government. American enterprise and capital are certainly a match for those of Brit ain in. a contest for control of oil in other countries and, if pushed to it. this country might assert a first claim to all oil produced in foreign countries by Americans who claim protection from the American gov ernment. Far better would be an international agreement through the league establishing each nation's prior claim to its own resources with equality of right for all nations to develop and export oil In each other's territory subject to that claim. This nation would be blind if it were not to act upon one of the les sons of the war that control of those resources which are essential to its life, industry and armament is necessary to its defense. By sup porting the bill for protection of dye- stuffs and chemicals, republicans in congress have proved themselves awake to the wisdom of this policy. By their opposition to that bill many democrats have proved themselves as blind as they were before 1917. American products for American in dustry, commerce and defense should be one of the principles of the re publican platform.- TAXPAYER WOll.D CALL. HALT trict) W. H. Brooke. M. Z. Lion ne II No league -d district! No candidates announcing such a platform. For the league (3d district) David M. Dunne. Dow V. Walker, Mrs. F. o. North Tup. No league (3d district ) Da n Kellaher. For .lohn.son. and presumably for no league (3d district) John W. Miller. Will accept the people's decision (3d district) Hamilton Johnstone. There are ten delegates to elect. Four of them are to be at large and two in each of the three districts. SLAVERY TO THE MODE. Katherine Fullerton Gerould, au thor of "Vain Obligations" and "The Great Tradition," points out in an essay on "Dress and the Woman' that the worst phase of slavery to fashion is that the pressure Is ' much economic as mental. It particularly true of women that they are bound, except as to those who can afford their own dressmakers. by what they can find conveniently in the shops. But it is only infre quently true that those who could afford the expense of creating their own modes care to run counter to prevailing ones. The hobble skirt, she contends, is worn in the hobble skirt year by multitudes of women who find it not only an inconveni ence but a positive handicap, but who are compelled to accept it be cause it is the only skirt that is being manufactured in quantity and is available at a standardized price. The less the suit costs, the more like ly it is to be made according to the current pattern. Meanwhile those who could stem the tide if they chose to do so are-' .ikely rather to go to extremes than to modify them. broader than the bill proposed, be- j it will be wondered whether the cause they allowed open bidding and j economic appeal will ever be greatly needed only slight amendments to t influential. Or, for that matter, the. Real rroperty. He Observes, Xow Bears 85 Per Oat of Burden. PORTLAND, May 18. (To the Edi tor.) I have heard it mentioned that I am opposed to the two educational measures (why the two only 1 do not know) that are to appear on the bal lot at the election Just at hand: also that I am opposed to increase in teachers' salaries. I wish to define my position before the public, though just why my attitude should interest anybody or cause any comment Is be yond me. I certainly do think that the pub lic's attention should be brought to see the serious condition staring the propertj- owner In the face. By piop erty owner I do not mean the large owner only, but more particularly the small home owner, cn whom the bur den falls hardest, as the large owner can meet the condition much better than the small one. The largest amount of money col lected by taxation is collected, from real estate. We have been fighting single tax for a number of years, but how many people realize that real property today in Multnomah county is paying at least 85 per cent of the total tax collected? This is nearly single tax now. How many people iealize the amount of property that is owned today by Multnomah county rnd how'.much more will be owned by it before long through inability of private owners to hold their property through excess high taxation, and when through this process of confis cation of property through the in ability of the private owner to meet this obligation, where is the state, county and city to derive funds to meet the cost of government? Through the poor laws of our state constitution, the tax-levying bodies are arso the tax-spending bodies and there is no check between them. The absolute indifference of these same bodies to the value of public moneys, the duplications and extravagances, the -always new innovations, more particularly in our public schools, teaching the pupils the extravagances of iifa and not the essentials at the public expense, merely to carry out the thoughts and selfish aims of some individuals of our community. Now I may be wrong, tut never theless I do sincerely believe, if the taxpayer, through the ballot, will by a lesson to these same tax-levying and tax-spending bodies to them say that until you can show us that you are going to try and conserve, reduce duplications, cut out all con-essential departments end also extrava gances in all essential departments of the government we will refuse you through the ballot any more moneys, then and not until then will there be conservation of public moneys. - As a concrete example, a year or so ago the state came to the voters ask ing for some $900,000 to meet a deficit and that it was absolutely necessary at that time that this amount be voted, but the voters thought other wise and- declined to vote this amount. Nevertheless 1 have never seen that the state suffered by the lack of this amount, but everything went along just as smoothly as be fore. All . the foregoinc is my private opinion, but through its suggestion to the public who might never have been given this phase of our most serious condition any thought, I here- Dy give it. thinking that this little thought may do Rome good. L. J. GOLDSMITH. Those vVho Come and Go. Fish in the Deschutes hive tempted James A. Farrell of the United States Steel corporation across the continent. Mr. Farrell and party arrived at the Benson yesterday on their way to the Deschutes. A few years ago Mr. Far rell was taken to the Deschutes and for the first time in his life he held a fishline In his hands.' The sport was so thrilling that he declared, that some day he would return, and now he is making good. When he gets through with the Deschutes he will find the Chinook running in the Klickitat river, near Lyle. Wash., where one angler from- Dhe Dalles caught 11 salmon a few days ago. one weighing 62 pounds. And. if Mr. Farrell has time, he can try the sal mon fishing in the rapids below Ore gon City. Accompanying Mr. Farrell are Mrs. Farrell. John Farrell and M. G. Traylor of New York and Mr. and Mrs. A. F. DeForest and Mrs. A. R. Edwards of San Francisco. Ever hear of Holland, Or., the place that W. R. Bunn registers from at the Perkins? It is in the midst of the Siskiyou mountains and only about 10 miles from the Joseph'ne marble caves, one of the many natural REFEREXDVM AGAIX OX TRIAL Chnsabrrlaia Nomination Teat of Sea- timent on League ( Xatloaa. PORTLAND, May 18. (To the Edi tor.) It occurs to me that Mr. VTRen has always, been a friend of the principle of referendum. If not a sponsor therefor. N Is not the Cham berlain nomination a question of ap plying the referendum? Granted that Senator Chamberlain voted con scientiously upon the Lodge reser vations and that he represented a number of ' his constituent, he is now ut before, his democratic con stituents. and if his conscience and his judgment represent neither their conscience nor their judgment, v, ny should they renominate him? It oc curs to me also that just now so- called "senatorial independence is not in need of vindication. What about vindicating our national honor? Are we losing our perspective? Cer tainly there is such a thing as per spective in politics, a true regard for minor and major, the little and the big. Unquestionably the league of nations Is the big issue before us. Would that the people might express themselves directly upon this issue. But since .we must vote indirectly, should we not disregard all minor considerations and vote according to our convictions upon this great ques More Truth Than Poetry. By Janes J. Moatagae. wonders of Oregon. So far as anyone 'tion? All along the line- there seems know s, the caves -may extend right I persistent inclination to confuse the WHAT CONt.KT.gS MAS DONE. One of the standard planks In democratic platforms has become the accusation that the republican con- ... gress has done nothing. That idea got into the head of a constituent of Representative Summers of Wash ington. He retailed it to a neigh bor, who seems to have written to Mr. Summers asking what this con cress actually has done. Mr. Sum mers replied, telling a few things .which it has done, as well as things which were done by the last demo cratic congress. It would be well for the public to keep in mind the achievements of the present con gress. Appropriations for the year end- trig June 30, 1920, which remained from the preceding congress, were reduced about $1,600,000,000. A further cut of about $1,000, 000,000 is being made in appropria tions for the year ending next June. Coal. oil. gas and phosphate land has been opened to lease on terms which add materially to the reve " nue of the public land states and add $5,000,000 a year to the reclama tion fund. This law lifts the em bargo which Pinchotisra put on the I development of the west. A bill for development of water power has .just been agreed on in conrerence. permitting the west to have abundant electric power and light. This is a further deliverance from embargo. Marketing of agricultural prod ucts and livestock has been facili- tated by a law increasing the amounts which banks may loan on them. The federal reserve act has been amended to enable national banks to finance export trade. A law restricting immigration of undesirable aliens has been passed. The stock-raising homestead law has been extended. The daylight saving law has been repealed. Provision has been made for en forcement of prohibition. A law has been passed returning the railroads to their owners on terms which end government lia " .ability after August 31," 1910, provide for their regulation and for scttle- ment of labor disputes without - strikes. Vocational training has been pro vided for wounded ex-soldiers and - . ex-sailors. Allowances for injured cx-soldiers and ox-sailors under the wtir risk act have been increased. me woman suiiragc amendment has been submitted to the states. I'ony mousuna government em ployes have been cut off the payroll. , . Congress is still at work. It has . " teforc it bills to satisfy the just ; ; , claims of veterans of the world war, to direct sale of the emergency fleet to American owners for uso in resolution. Still the Portland Jour nal, despite public indifference to that newspaper's hatret. of the night, invites attention once more to the desperate character of a person who will participate in passing a resolution after the curfew has tolled the knell of parting day. The midnight resolution, let it be recalled, had to do with forfeiture of the railroad grant lands, then in liti gation. It expressed an earnest de sire that the decision so read that the lands would be disposed of for settlement and development in such way that they would not be with drawn from taxation. Taxes amount ed to about $500,000 a year to the counties in which the lands were lo cated. This resolution had an important influence on the character of sub sequent congressional legislation reg ulating disposition of the lands which the courts held were subject to re-purcha- by the government. The losses to Oregon if the lands should be placed in a reserve were forcibly brought to national attention by the resolution. Congress provided for purchase of the lands and to offset the loss of taxes also provided that Oregon should have the promise and assurance of one-half the money de rived from sale of the lands when the government sold them, It was a nice promise but it has not yet been a profitable one. And we should quite likely not have got the promise had it nob been for the midnight resolution. Xo doubt some persons and newspapers in Oregon would be gratified if the state were permanently deprived both of taxes and of interest in the sales money in behalf of the great Pinchot prin ciple that all government land should be bottled up. Xot so the land grant counties. They have lost $500,000 a year foi several years in (taxes and are be coming restive. The promise of con gress is fine and all that but the land grant counties would far more appreciate the money. We fancy that today a referendum on the leg islature's resolution would be carried handsomely in those counties whether submitted in the forenoon, afternoon cr dead or nis.it. We fancy also that if Mr. Moser were running for senator in the land grant counties his election would be virtually unanimous. make them perfect. Kiddle (one of the senators and committee mem bers) wanted to know if the present law is not good enough and was answered emphatically in the affir-1 mative." I,et us repeat for emphasis. All that Day actually did in 1913, both the Telegram and Joseph did two years' later. That which Day did in 1913 was to use whatever influence he possessed to insure the widest competition among classes of pave ment. To those whose recollections may be hazy it may be said that the Tele gram, which stood for open paving competition in 1915, was then under the same ownership which is direct ing its influence today against open competition in road work and which is today defaming the man with whose broad and unselfish course it was then in accord. There is not the slightest sincerity in its present at titude, as its own pages disclose. Its opposition to Day, as is that of Jo seph, is purely personal nothing else. under the village of Holland. To get out of Holland into civilization. Mr. Bunn has to ramble along a mountain river and finally reaching the old Crescent City and Grants Pass road. Then Mr. Bunn traverses through the ancient mining camp of Kerby, w'th the traces of the placer miners, and then he goes through Selma, Love, Wonder and. Wilderville to Grants Pass. Part of this road is now being Improved by Josephine county and the government is looking after' Haines .hill, which was not considered a bad grade until the days of the automobile. An international organization of business men is the Old Colonies club. Edward S. DeWolf. general nULnaner. is at the Hotel Portland, and while here he will arrange to have a club room established in one of the local hotels. The Old Colonies club plans erecting a hotel in London and an other in Paris and, it is said, offered to buy $100,000 worth of stock in a big hotel projected on the Pacific coast. The club issues a magazine and specializes in maritime informa tion and international trade relations. The roster of directors contains the names of some of the most prominent business men in America. In various parts of the United States a club- room has been established in hotels for the members of the Old Colonies club are mainly birds of passage. Lexington, Ky.. isn't quite as lively as it once was, apd the town is un dergoing a sort of transformation. The people are trying to adjust them selves to new conditions, brought about by the 18th amendment to the federal constitution. In short, hard liquor manufacture has long been a source of profit to Lexington, and the abolition of John Barleycorn has had Its effect on the community. John J. Hutchison of Lexington is at the Perkins. There is some betting going on in the Perkins lobby, by the way. that the supreme court will declare the 18th amendment unconstitutional. little with the big. We want straight- I forward, undevlating action upon tne covenant of nations. We want tne league and we do not wish a 101 of hold-back attachments. It is our right and our duty to say so. As for rubber-stamp people, per haps it is a question here also of big and little: of great and small "impresario." Shall wa compare the image and inscription of the arch obstructionist Lodge with those, of the great progressive leader. Wilson. Pseudo-leadership is a danger to which democracies are especially liable. To follow a leader of proved greatness is not a thing for which to be discredited. Conversely, to fail tn ,.r-nfnl7.e and yield to such a leadership, especially on critical and mnmntnuR occasions, is not a kind of independence" to be exalted. - Mr. Starkweather's candidacy gives ODDortunity in the democratic pn- moni at luiit for an unqualified in dorsement of the league of nations and of President Wilson's sterling moral leadership. T BERTHA SLAItK saim. WASTE KINS IP TO BILLIONS. High taxes and resulting high prices are chiefly caused by extend ing war expenditure long after the war is over. The administration either does not know how to econ omize or will not discharge officials who have become useless, will not stop expenditures once begun no matter how needless they may be. The total revenue for the present fiscal year willV.bc $6,500,000,000. but this huge sum will fall short of es timated expenditure by about $600, 000,000. This deficit exceeds the total cost of current operation for 1916. Of the total government expense, $1,813,276,000 is incurred for con tinuance of expenditures which were begun for the war. If the railroads had been handed tack to their own ers and if construction of the emer gency fleet had been stopped before WORLD COMPETITION' FOR OIL. In excluding aliens from control of oil in the British empire and in ob taining control of oil in other coun tries the British government assures for the empire a first claim on a commodity which has become essen tial to its life. The United States should imitate rather than condemn its pejicy so far as domestic oil pro duction is concerned, but should vigorously oppose any attempted British monopoly of the production of other countries, especially coun tries which have been freed from German, Turkish or Magyar rule by the war. British policy is actuated by real ization that oil has become one of the first necessities of life. It is nec essary to drive motors on automo biles, aircraft and ships, and is fast supplanting coal as fuel on railroads and stationary engines. The neces sity for it has been enhanced by de struction of French coal mines. By Its adoption as fuel the British people can escape the exorbitant de mands of their socialist coal miners. Britain has undertaken to siipplj the deficiencies in French and Ital ian coal supply caused by destruc tion of French mines and by failure of Germany to deliver the quan tities to France and Italy which were stipulated in the treaty. This duty has been, assumed in the face of diminished output. Resort to oil and its derivatives as fuel would bring the miners to reason by depriv ing them of a large part of their market and by making transporta tion and manufactures independent of them. It would enable Britain to supply France and Italy by increas ing the surplus over domestic needs. It would effect great economy in op eration of railroads, ships and fac tories. It would relieve the congested railroads of much coal traffic and would increase cargo space on ships. The United States would be wise to follow the British example by giving its own people a first claim on its own production. This is a measure of national defense, for oil has be come as essential to that end as wheat, cotton, steel or explosives. Without enough for all our needs we reminder that fashions nearly al ways disfigure more wearers than they beautifj'. "The most damning thing about fashions," Mrs. Gerould observes, "is that they make, inevit ably, nine years out of ten, for the greatest ugliness of the greatest number." The fat and the thin, the short and the tall, the blonde and the brunette, take the garments that are offered them, or forced on them, because there is nothing else for them to do. We do not see c.uite where the remedy is coming from. Obedience to fashion is immemorial. This peculiar manifestation of the gre garious spirit was as common in the days of the spinning wheel and the hand loom a.s it .o now. Crinolines and hoop skirts antedated quantity production. Manufacturers are ac cused of "setting fashions" for their own advantage, and of cunningly timing them so that old garments never can be worn out before radical departure from the vogue requires them to be cast into the rag bag. But, as ha. been said, there were fashions before there were manufacturers, and women were slaves to them then. The waste of materials is in the aggregate enormous. But it does not seem to matter. "It is one of the few true paradoxes that those who must dress cheaply must dress in style." The overall craze passes in a day; it fails to become the fashion and it is promptly abated. No one seems to think or the obvious remedy or at least no one seems to be willing to apply it which would be for all to wear the clothes they have until their day of usefulness is done. Our streets might look queer to the ob server accustomed to seeing people in a kind of uniform, but there might be compensating advantages. Ye we hesitate to say that there is no ground at all for the belief expressed in the extravagant aphorism that "one might as well be dead as to be out of style." WHY .NOT tHARI.Es E. HK.Hl-.Sf Both He and Taft Kmerse wita Credit from TrjInB Period. PORTLAND. May 17. (To the Edi tor.) Oregon four years ago instruct ed its delegation to the republican national convention to vole for Charles ISvans Hughes for presiident. Should Oregon so instruct its dele gation in 19-0 it might have the dis tinction of leading the van that will nominate again Mr. Hughes. As the primaries warm up and con siderable feeling is engendered, com ment is more than pronounced among those that 1 come in contact with in my travels that it would be a stroke of good politics to name Hughes again. Hughes and Taft have both come through the trying period of our his tory stronger, and safer men to deal with the problems of today than any one named, unless it should be Gen eral Wood, whom it may not be ex pedient to nominate. Hughes, with a national campaign committee that is big enough and practical enough to give the candi date that freedom of thought and action to which he is entitled, could not be beaten in 1920. The defeat of the republican party in 1916 was not Hughes' weakness, but the hide-bound narrowness of the national committee and -that' small coterie of hide-bound standpatters in California. The same dictatorial pol icy defeated Blaine in 1884. The Literary Digest's canvass re veals Hughes as the leading second choice among the dark horses. C. W. STUTTS. THE BOOZR HOt'ND. I had a quart once on a time And knowing it was rather risky In fact a statutory crime To drink, or own, or harbor whisky, When I was worn, or sad, or sore : And felt the need of stimulation, I'd wait till dead of night to pour Mysef a moderate libation. " And then the bell would always ring. And when I answered. "Well, what is it?" A voice would cry: "7t's me old thing. I've come to pay a little visit." The .voice was Bill's just passing by -no somehow kind of fell to think ing He hardly knew the reason why That I'd need help to do my drink- . ing. I've locked myself inside a room. Arid feeling quite secure, proceeded To lighten my abounding gloom By taking something that I needed. But always I would hear a knock. Insistent and unhesitating, A husky hand would try the lock. 'And Bill. I knew, was out thers waiting. Fve heard a scient'st declare That scent's the weakest of our senses. The animals can beat us there. here ours leaves off, the dog's commences. The most amazing things they tell ui Diooa-nound. beagle, pointer, setter. But I'll back my friend Bill to smell as well as they can yes. and better! Xot Hopeless. If the democrats can be persuaded to accept a used candidate, Mr. Hoover may still have a chance. X Time far a Prime Fight. After what is goinc to hannen at Chicago that Dempsey-Carpentier squabble will be a pretty tame affair. Safe Geaeroslty. Party leaders are always liberal in offering the vice-presidency to people they know will refuse to accept it. (Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) Henry Blackman has landed back In Oregon just in time to see the liveliest fight the democrats have had in years. Mr. Blackman, who used to live at Heppner and who Insists on registering from that town on the Imperial register, Vas formerly col lector of customs. In those days the democratis were pretty strong in Oregon and there was a fairly active organization, but latterly it went to seed. Now Mr. Blackman returns to find the democratic brothers knifing one another like Roman gladiators. J. H. Fell, the health officer, of. frame c:ity, is among the arrivals at the Imperial. People at Prairie City are watting for the state highway commission to get Into that county and make a location of the John Day highway east or that point. The commission has promised to go there sometime this summer. "Jack salmon are running at Oregon City." says Clyde Huntley, druggist. former member of the legislature and PITY FELT FOR POOR GEORGE With So Much at Stake Hl Defenders) Help to Seal Hla Doom. PORTLAND. May 18. (To the Ed Itor.) The Journal renders the days hideous with its lamentations. It pre tends to believe that the Starkweather movement is the dark plot of disap pointed office-seekers. This is the r,nt,it niffle unworthy of a novice. Let us pity poor George with such feeble defenders and so much at stake. The Journal knows that Chamberlain richly deserves the defeat that will be his next Friday. They know that he is reaping-now the fruits of years of "non-partisanship," to which phrase Chamberlain gave a new and wonderful meaning here in Oregon. ' All this solicitude on the part of the Journal for the sanctity of the civil service and executive orders is a scream in view of past history. For instance. Senator Chamberlain claims to have had absolutely nothing to do with Mvurs' dismissal, yet through rh Journal he threatened Myers with incarceration in jail if he did not yield up the postoffice Immeaiateiy. Manv readers of the Journal remem ber "it yet. Probably it is to this touching instance ot LnamDeriaui o co-operation with President Wilson that the Journal refers when it claims that Chamberlain has worked hand in hand with Wilson. One could hardly call this more than moral support. ' Myers may be against Chamberlain. If he still loves President Wilson he must be. If he Is he is one of a nni..,rii nnri A istln truished company. President Wilson furnishes partvf the distinction: he is against Cham berlain. Hundredj of people are working for Starkweather and against Chamberlain who never saw Myers; some are against Chamberlain in spite of Myers. The misdemeanors, if any, of the ex-postmaster do not excuse Chamberlain s miserable record or op In Other Days. Tweaty-flve Years Asa. From The Orexonlan of May 1. 1S9S. Florence, Italy. The earthquake here last night was more serious than first reported and many persons are believed to have .been killed. The Mount Tabor Villa school will close next Friday afternoon, the term having been curtailed somewhat this year. Candidate Sibley, ex-congressman from Pennsylvania, who wishes to run for president next year -on the free-coinage platform, was tendered a large reception here last night. A meeting of the executive commit tee of the Oregon Press assocation was held yesterday in the parlors of tho Multorpor club. member of the republican state cen- position to Woodrow Wilson's admin istration Tne journal na urnri busy and try to discredit President Wilson if that is the way to save Chamberlain, for Woodrow Wilson is Chamberlain's most dangerous enemy, not Frank Myers. Senator Reed spoke the truth for once in his lire wncn nt The melancholy days come in No vember in other parts of this coun try, but here they drift with June, when it's a little too warm for the furnace and a little too cool without. The inventions using "juice" and gas keep harmony in the early morning circle. Generally- the lilacs and snowballs have bloomed out before memorial day here, but the lateness of the season assures flowers for decoration though the early roses are missed. TOO MICH I'KIDERV IX LIBRARY Complaint Made of Eseluslos of Zola'o and De Maupaiiaant'a Work. PORTLAND, May 17. (To the Edi tor.) I wish to protest against the mid-Victorianlsm of the Portland public libraries. They have carried prudery to the point of absurdity. Recently I tried to get "Une Vie" (A Life), Guy de Maupassant's famous novel, and Kola's masterpiece, "Ger minal," at the public library. I found that the library has Xhe complete works of neither'of these great writ ers in any language, and very few of their books in the original French or in English translation. The only copy of "A Life" was in Yiddish: the only copy of "Germinal" in Polish. Possibly there are 500 out of over 300,000 English-reading people in Portland who can read Polish, and a few more who can read Yiddish, vet the two above books are unobtainable for these English readers. I asked for Flaubert's "Madame Bovary" in English and was given a cheap paper-covered edition, almost falling to pieces. Our movie houses are crowded everv 'week by audiences for pictures deal ing with sex in an unhealthy manner, Dut wnen tne matter is treated by- great novelists in a nealthy way their books are banned from our public libraries and the - shelves stocked with sentimental rubbish of the "Pollyanna" variety. It is the result of having the public's reading cnosen ior it Dy pia maids with un healthy inhibitions. HARVEY' EAGLESOX. . Possibly Adam did "not wear beard, as a Hungarian art fellow de clares. Adam was the first conser vationist of record, with Eve a good second. DUTY ! TO HELP EVERY CHILD Will A cut of 20 per cent in the retail price of a suit is not much, but it leaves enough to buy a hat. The benefit in general is the downward start. Delaware dodges the suffrage amendment and, flea-sized, may con tinue dodging. The cigar men are not making any 20 per cent cuts to help reduce the cost of living. Any Citlnea Sar He Csisst Afford to Support Srolry PORTLAND, Mav 17. (To the Edi tor.) As a patron of the Clinton Ielly school I am vitally Interested in the Z-mill tax levy lor the ele mentarv schools. A 2-mill state tax will place all the property of every county back of the education of every child. Millions it dollars' worth of property that now pays little or noth ing for Echools will be compelled to pay at least 2 mills for school pur poses. This levy will cost Portland tax payers only 20 cents on every $1000 because it replaces the 1.8 mill bonus that was voted last year. The public schools belong to the people. They will be exictly what the people make them. Is any I'ortland citizen going to say he can't afford to support the public athools? LAURA DAT LEONARD. tral committee, who is registered at the Imperial. "Fishing for jack is more exciting than catching Chinook, and that is great sport in itself." Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Haviland of To ledo, O., are at the Multnomah. Mr. Haviland is in the boot and shoe busl- ess. Morris Schnal, who also sells boots and shoes and they really use uuma in iiii.iiiuun is aim at llic Multnomah from the cheese metropolis. R. A. Pulzier of the Yellowstne park, which same is tucked away in a corner of Wyoming, is at the Mult nomah. The park is anticipating one of the greatest seasons in its history, . and that is going some, for in 1919 the tourists swarmed into the park by the thousand. C..O. Hawkins, cashier of a bank at Newport, is at the Imperial. Mr. Hawkins Is one of a committee ap pointed to see if something can be done to speed up the government about turning over one of the'spruce- built railroads to the port commission of Newport. The Spokane branch of the John Deere Plow company is well repre sented at the Multnomah. The bunch includes W. L. Taylor, the manager; George V. Taylor. W. W. Evans and O. C. Thayer. . William A. Sailer, secretary and general manager of a firm of manu facturing chemists of Baltimore, Md., at the Multnomah while looking over Portland and vicinity. Ben Alexander of Wausau. Mich., who is interested In the lumber busi ness at Silverton. Or., is registered at the Hotel Portland while looking after business. W. F. McGregor, president o one of Astoria's numerous banks, is at the Multnomah. Mr. McGregor hops up to Portland about as often as any of his fellow townsmen. H. Burgoyne. who is in the restau rant business at Eugene, arrived at the Benson yesterday with Mrs. Bur goyne. They drove over the Pacific highway. . E. E. Cleaver, who once was a can didate for congress in the second con gressional district, is registered at the Multnomah from Pendleton. days ago in the senate that Chamber lain was doomed with the president's opposition. Doomed ne is to a wen earned oblivion. GROVER C. BROWN. PREDICTS REPl BLICAX WILL WIX Uithrr Wood or I.owden Worthy to Be Party Staadard-Bearer. CAMAS. Wash.. May 18. (To the Editor.) In see in The Oregonian a note by Mrs. E. G. Kester in regard to the stability of character of Frank O Lowden of Illinois. I, too. formerly lived and. in fact, grew up in Hardin countv. Iowa, and knew of Mr. Low den there. I heartily indorse Mrs. Kester's opinion of him and will do my bit to elect him. should he be the choice of the republican party for rt-sirlent. However. I believe and it nei Fifty Years Ago. ' From The Orejtonlan of May 19. 1870. At a meeting of the city council yesterday formal request of the Port land Bridge company for permission to construct a bridge across the Wil lamette river was referred to a spe cial committee. Nearly every unemployed person in the city rushed to the dock yesterday to welcome the Hattie C. Bessie steamer of the China, New York Ai Liverpool line. It is said that Rev. Thomas H. Pearne. formerly of this city, has been nominated for the consulate at Kingston. Jamaica. The Moses Taylor brought on her last trip two very large bells one for the new Lutheran churchy weigh ing approximately 1000 pounds. HOW TO ISi;RB F1M3 ROSES Cnlttvation Shoold Be Shallow, but Constant and Intensive. PORTLAND, May 18. (To the Edi tor.) When it was determined to have the rose show in the week in June. 1920, beginning June 20. I thought it probably would be too late for a display of Portland roses in their perfection. Although most of the rose bushes in the city were killed down to the snow line that is. about one foot above the ground during the freeze last December, and the late spring has delayed the growing of the rose bushes, from all indications roses in Portland will be in their perfection at the time of the Shriners' conven tion. Bv reason of severe "pruning of the bushes due to the freeze, there will not be so many roses, but there will be a great deal better specimens, and as there are several hundred thousand rose bushes in Portland, there will undoubtedly be sufficient roses for the rose festival and for display and distribution during the Shriners' convention. As the roses are now grownig. the rose beds should not be dug or culti vated with spade, shovel, garden fork, nor should there be any deep cultiva- . . - . ' r 1 T nr,t Yl-l I 1 h ttlO fcj.f r th- renublican party and tion. for that will damage the bushes our next president. I believe the republican party will make no mistake at the coming con vention and whoever the choice may be I will stand by that choice for president. I expect to see the great est republican victory for the coun try at our next election that we have ever had since the. civil war. It will be the onl remedy that will brine us back to normal. J. E. WILLIAMS TV. R. McCormack of Bend, who likes the open spaces of central Ore gon and Is interested in stock and sheep, is at the Imperial. . . Katherine Philips Edson, secretary of the industrial welfare commission of California, is registered at the Hotel Portland. C. L. Mannhclmer of Bend is at the Multnomah." Mannheimer Bros., have one of the largest department stores in central Oregon. f ' S. P. Wood, who is president of Wood & Co., lumber dealers of Minne- aDolls.'Minn., is an arrival at the Multnomah. ' Frank S. Dement, one of the promi nent gratndealers of Walla Walla,. Wash., Is at the Multnomah with Mrs. Dement. Oar Way to Simplify the lse. ' PORTLAND. May 18. (To the Ed itor.) There are really only four can didates in the field for president who merit recognition at this time, as standing on the principal issues that the neonle are interested in. and they should be made candidates for presi dent and vice-president. The republicans should nominate Hiram Johnson for president and Borah for vice-president. The democrats should nominate Woodrow Wilson for president and Mr McAdoo for ice-prestdent. Should there be reliable evidence that Presi dent Wilson's health would not allow him to assume further responsibility, then someone known to indorse his stand on the league of nations whole heartedly should take his place. Pre snmably Gilbert M. Hitchcock will leomr as near filling the bill as any one. But should Mr. Wilsons healtn allow him to assume the less arduous task of vice-president, then McAdoo should head the ticket. All others should be excluded be cause they confuse the issue, and the pexple should not encourage any other parties of whatever kind and when the election - Is over we will know by breaking the white roots. But the rose beds should be cultivated with hoes, preferably with small garden hose, and the hoeing should not be to a depth of more than three Inches. There should be intensive cultivation of the rose bushes from now on, and it would do no harm if the rose beds were hoed twice a week. The method of cultivation should be similar to that which Is used in the apple or chards at Hood River. By hoeing, the ground is broken into very small par ticles, which allows capillarity to act and is the best cultivation for the growing of rose bushes and produc tion of flowers. If the beds are prop erly cultivated, it will not be neces sary to use any water from now until the first of July, except possibly for small bushes which have been planted this spring. FREDERICK V. HOLMAN. Teachem' Pay Xot Inereaaed. PORTLAND. May 18. (To the Edi tor.) in discussing ' the ."children's bill." No. 814. a lady.askesj me: "Why are the Portland teachers asking for more money? Aren't they already falrly well paid?" I have many friends among the teachers and I should like everyone to know that even though our teachers are getting less than the teachers in Seattle and Tacoma. they are, not asking for more money. This bill, if passed, simply guaran tees to them their present salary, as voted by the teP'e ,ast May. A TAXPAYER. Newnpnper Support Kncournjces. PORTLAND, May 17. (To the Edi- tor.)- Just a wora ti where we stand. This will be espe-1 you for your timely eoitoriais aria tonal can-I cartoons on tne cicr-iiLi j "" "'' - riallv true if the congress dldates line uo tinder their respective heads. SAMUEL MONTGOMERY. Dlsrrellos In Defined. Cincinnati Enquirer. 'Willie Paw, what Is discretion? javv Discretion Is something that comes to a man when he is- too old to benefit by It, my son. tax. ' Your championing or our cause puts heart Into us and helps repay us for some of the drudgery of teaching. But most or all you are seeing the bill in its true light from the standpoint of the child as well h.v from that of the teacher. EDITH P. DARLING. Glencoe school. fi