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THE MORMXG OREGOXI.VX, WEDNESDAY,
MAY 19, 1920
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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.
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