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BidwelL A COMBIXATIOX OF BENEFITS. plana for development of the Port of Portland are of such Importance to its future that a careful, success ful business man like Max Houser may well deliberate before commit ting himself finally to any scheme such as that for the improvement of Swan, island and adjacent land. Any policy which is adopted by the pcopla of Portland at this time will decide the course of the city's growth for many years to come, for it will establish certain facts to which later Improvements must be accommo dated. A mistake might seriously delay, stunt or distort its growth. Eut approval of the scheme by all the other members of the port com mission, by all the members of the dock commission and by all the members of the committee of fifteen, all of whom are known as citizens whose business judgment is sound and whose interests are bound up with those of the port, will tend to dispell doubt as to the wisdom of the plan which may be raised by Mr. Mouser'a objections. Portland is confronted with cer tain serious obstacles to its growth as a port and as an industrial center. It ha3 no extensive water frontage adjacent to its business center that is adapted to construction of ocean terminals and that can be acquired at moderate cost. For that reason the dock commission was forced to go down to St. Johns for a site for terminal No. 4. Admirable in every other respect, that site is discon nected by a wide gap from the busi ness center, from railroad terminals and from other docks. The west channel past Swan island, which is the natural channel, is closed, and vessels are forced into the east channel, which is narrow and lias a sharp curve at its lower end. It is therefore not easy to navigate and hides the North Bank railroad bridge from' view. The railroad terminals are not ade quate to handle the city's traffic, which is growing rapidly, and exten sions must be made, convenient to tho wholesale and manufacturing districts. There is a lack of good manufac turing sites at moderate prices with easy access to rail and water trans portation, and in consequence many industries which might have been secured have gone to other cities. On one side of Swan island is Guild's lake, ou the other Mock's bot tom, neither of which can be put to any practical use in their present condition. They are divided among a number of owners, who could not improve their individual holdings separately except at excessive cost, who could with difficulty combine to do tho work, and who could not then do it economically without aid from the port commission. These three areas of waste land Swan island. Guild's lake and Mock's bottom are a ba rrier to. the expansion of harbor facilities in the natural course down the river, as is proved by the neces sity of jumping past them in order to find a site for water terminals. That site is a makeshift, chosen to meet an emergency, and but for the obstruction mentioned would not have been reached in dock construc tion for several years at least. Cir cumstances justified that makeshift, but we cannot afford to adopt a series of "makeshifts; we must adopt a general plan which can be followed out continuously, unit by unit. The merit of the Swan island plan is that it meets all the needs and removes all the obstacles herein mentioned in a single operation. While the estimated cost of $10,000,- 000 may seem large for any one of the purposes in view, it is modera tion itself when all are served in one. It gives these things: A broad, straight channel west of the island, from which the North Bank bridge is in a pilot's full view. Ample room, both on the new west channel and on the closed east chan nel, for docks to serve commerce for many years. Space for railroad terminals on both sides of the river, which leaves much scope for extension and which on the west side is an expansion of the present inadequate terminals. A large area for industrial sites. convenient to both rail and water. which could be either leased or sold at figures so moderate as to attract manufactures, yet sufficient to pay off the cost of the entire improve ment in. thirty years. All of these permanent improve ments would closely adjoin the busi ness and manufacturing centers, and from them construction of docks and factories could extend down the river as the needs of commerce and Indus, try demand. It Is objected that by acquiring all the land on which the spoils of dredging would be deposited, the port commission would engage in "a huge real estate venture." Is that any valid reason why the barrier to the city's natural growth should not be removed, or why ground for all the purposes described should not be created? Under the proposed plan of consolidating the port and dock commissions the new commis sion would have power to buy land for docks and to deposit the spoils of dredging on it. If the commis sion should not buy all the land needed for the latter purpose, the alternative would be either to con tract with the owners to pay the value of the fill or to donate the material to them. Filling would add great value to land that Is of small value. Public opinion would not sanction' an arrangement which per mitted the enhanced value to accrue to the benefit of private parties, while the community received the mere cost of the work; much less would it approve a donation of the material. If after being filled, the land remained in private hands, the owners would not accept such mod erate prices or rentals for Industrial sites as would ' satisfy the commis sion. The temptation would be strong to engage in just such spec ulation as Mr. Houser deprecates. The way to avoid this evil is to ac quire the land for the public, to se cure for the community the enhanced value produced at public expense, and to use the land for railroad ter minals and for factories. The estimate of $10,000,000 as the total cost of the work is an out side figure, for the commission has adopted .the maximum on every Item; the actual cost may easily prove as low as $8,000,000. But if it should be $10,000,000, the many advantages to be derived from the work would be cheap at the price, for they are plainly necessary if the growth of the city is not to be stopped just when it has fairly be gun. After the work was completed the commission would still have a margin of credit amounting to sev eral million dollars, which could be used for construction of docks, while the railroad companies would lay their own tracks, and streets would be paved by the city. The Oregonian hopes to see Mr. Houser live up to his well-earned reputation as a leader in all sound enterprises for the progress of the city by dismissing misgivings from his mind and falling in line with his colleagues on the twin commissions. They would doubtless be glad to have him continue to lead, provided he will lead forward on the road selected by their combined judgment. THE NOISY MINORITY-. Senator Johnson's assertion that the majority is opposed to the league. even with reservations. Is contra dicted by the facts of the primaries. The majority is United against him on that subject, overwhelmingly so. and Is divided only as to candidates against him. When the leaders of a minority like Senators Johnson and Borah presume to dictate to the majority of the party whom it shall nominate or on what platform it shall stand, it is time for the majority to assert its supremacy, be the consequence what it may. That species of dic tation was attempted in 1896; it failed, the would-be dictators bolted and the ranks closed and went on to victory. So it would be this year if Mr. Johnson were to make the experiment. He may think to repeat tne precedent of 1912, but the at tractive power then was the person ality of Theodore Roosevelt. If the California senator imagines that he is another Roosevelt, he is due for a disillusionment. A Johnson bolt could not defeat the republican party this year. The most serious risk of defeat would hp taken if it were to display lack of courage to stand by its principles. SWORDS ANT sriRS. Enjoyment of the ludicrous is al ways keen. It accounted. In lurire part, for the popularity of the "bearded lady" in the sideshows of other days. The smallest urchin, gleefully regarding her facial flora, perceived at once that she had no possible uso for whiskers, and that they were not only incongruous but wholly without decorative worth. The indubitable fact that the beard was there, where curved and grace ful smoothness should have been, was a delight to contemplation. Something of the same elemental appreciation led our British allies, during the war, to mirthful comment upon the fact that American officers of aviation frequently garnished their uniforms with riding boots and spurs. If mishap met the airman in full flight, of what heavenly use were spurs? He could not prick his plane to renewed endeavor, nor could he compel one flickering snort or the motor when the last drop of petrol was spent and the enemy's lines lay beneath. It was a good jest, and it tickled the fifth rib of British humor for many a ha-ha, losing little savor from the undisputed fact that no American aviator wore such trap pings when on active duty. Had it been a cherished and ancient custom of the English to attire airmen in such fashion and, perhaps, only the recent advent of the airplane prevented the stoniest of stares would have put the reproof to Yankee risibilities. For English institutions are almost inviolable, though the purpose they served be long out grown. Quite lately has the house of commons inquired just why it is that British aviation officers wear swords with their full dress uni forms. There was only one answer. Secretary Churchill made it when he said that it had always been the custom for British officers to wear swords with full dress. As an integral of military equip ment the sword has seen its best day. Once its glimmer and glance above a charge, or on the duelling field, meant subsequent toil for the surgeon or the undertaker. Fallen from its high estate, the hilted blade Is now a social requisite in British military circles, designed to trip the unwary warrior as he enters drawing rooms. Under such circumstances it is quite as comic as spurs on aviators. Bussy, in the old days of France, as Dumas narrates in "Chicot the Jester," bore his blade to such purpose that he built a bulwark of hired assassins before its flashing, fatal point but Bussy dwells in his tory. The sword today is not even an efficient can-opener and the sin gle spit of an automatic pistol would halt the finest maestro of fence. But British aviation officers doubt less will continue to wear them, be cause tradition orders it, though Queen Elizabeth once slapped the face of custom when she decreed that the rapiers of her gentlemen had grown too lengthy and that onlv such as carried blades of a pre- scribed length might enter the city. Armorers met, the gallants at the gate, measured their sword blades and forthwith whacked off the of fending weapons if they did not con form to the royal ordinance. Tra dition is a jealous mistress. It was she who bade many desk gallants of our own, but a few months ago, to wear riding boots aud spurs while they served In military bureaus at Washington. There was the sensible objection that this militaristic hard-, ware marred, the oaken furniture, but the spurs jingled valiantly on promenade and must have borne their part in swelling the martial ardor that permeated the bosoms of their bearers. By all means let us keep them, both spurs and swords. They add to the diversity of human vanity. THE SCOLD. William Bouck, master of the Washington state grange, Is perpet ually pessimistic. With him pessi mism is chronic, ingrowing and virulent. He can discover more dev ilment in affairs of life than the originator of deviltry himself can Invent. In his speech to the grange at Aberdeen Mr. Bouck expressed his pessimism. He denounced the league of nations, war statesmanship, con gress, the state legislature, Wall street, railroad ownership, the oil trust, big business, the press, the tax system, the beef trust, the priv ilged few, the profiteers, the reac tionaries, the capitalists, the cement trust and numerous laws and pro posed laws by name or author. "God's on vacation, all's wrong with the world," Is his slogan. Doubtless there is ground for crit icism of many things that are, but when one devotes thirty pages to denouncing everything that is and some things that are not, pessimism as to the speaker's sincerity or good sense is engendered in others. Our forefathers were a little more serious-minded than we. They had ducking stools for common scolds, though it is our understanding that it was usuafiy old women, not dis gruntled men, who suffered the cruel penalty. The point is that scolding is not an exclusively modern insti tution, but one to which we have granted greater tolerance as we have become used to it. But what a life it must be to one who in anything and everything sees only wrong, con spiracy, ignominy, abuse or illegality! TWO CODES OF ETHICS. Rather a grim question in ethics is that raised by the Italian cham ber of deputies, in its consideration of a measure requiring the economic servitude of convicted murderers, the Intent being to afford financial support to the dependents of the victims. Lombardi, professor of criminal law at the University of Naples, is the author of the pro posed statute. It is reported to have the support of many influential members of the Italian parliament and is regarded as almost assured of enactment. Only the land of the vendetta, the feud to the death, would impose such a punishment for capital crime. There is a retributive practicality about the suggestion that not only feeds the flame of vengeance but that rendered such vengeance uniquely profitable though Its Ital ian proponents would decry such an interpretation. To understand the popularity of such a law the Anglo-Saxon must be capable of comprehending the tor tuous logic and ethics- of the Roman psychology a research that has long been abandoned. For to us in Amer ica the contemplation of eating bread won by the toil of a kinsman's slay er would be abhorrent to the point of repulsion. There is no question ing the abstract justice of the pro posal. But something innate in the so-called colder races, untouched by the fervor of Latin temperament, will forbid the inscription of any. such section in our code of justice. To us such a situation, for all its eco nomic advantages, would be bizarre and terrible. Italian pride is pro verbial and one brooks it at his own personal risk. Yet it would accept such legislation as ideal, while ours would bid us starve before we touched a penny of this weird penance. THE PROBLEM OF OVER-URBANIZATION. The drift of population toward the cities, as Professor Arthur R. Marsh, editor of the Economic World, has pointed out in a recent statement, is not comparable with the similar movement which was particularly strong between 1880 and 1890, and is a distinct menace to comfortable existence, which the tide of the eighties was not. During the decade in question there was epochal de velopment of farm machinery. "The use of the reaper, the self-binder and the mowing machine." says Profes sor Marsh, "reached its maximum acceleration then, and set free large numbers of farm hands." Invention of the steel moldboard plow alone quadrupled the producing capacity of agricultural workers at seeding time. Farmers soon found that they could do more work with fewer hands. The cities were not as popu lous as they now are. Men left the farms then because there was not enough work to go around; they are leaving now because there is too much work to do. In contrast with these conditions, there are at present no inventions in sight which promise to atone for the shortage of farm labor. The tractor has accomplished something, but in proportion to the whole amount of work required on the farms of the United States the total is small. No other' Invention, Pro fessor Marsh reminds us, has come into agriculture or is in sight to in crease the productivity of farm labor in the same manner as did the me chanical inventions of former days. The extent of the farm labor def icit, bearing in, mind that there has been practically no offset through increased use of labor-saving devices, may be apprehended by a study of figures recently issued by the fed eral department of agriculture, which indicated that in March, 1920, the number of farm workers was only 72 per cent of what it was two years ago. This is the average for the entire country. In some states the situation is much worse. In New Jersey, for example, the farm labor supply is only 42 per cent of normal. In those western states which rely on supplies of migratory labor for the harvest, the chance for saving the forthcoming crop is purely specu lative. Professor Marsh takes the view that this condition is due almost wholly to the circumstance that the farmer's son or hired man now craves the "easier, brighter life of the city worker." During the past fifty years or so the lot of the in dustrial worker has been steadily im proved. His rights are emphasized on all sides, but In particular his opportunities for social life are ex panding steadily. Professor Marsh continues: What is necessary Is an equalizing- of the benefits of civilization between town and country. The lot of the industrial worker today Is far better than that of the farm worker. Tho agricultural pro ducer is Irritated by the Inequality. He cannot see wny be la not entitled to share In the usufruct of mechanical progress, which means snorter hours, wider associ ations, pleasurable recreations, and so on. I do not wLsh to imply t-hat the lot of the Industrial KArk,r m nuf ji,t,Hnrat. irk rrjit. ify the farmer. There is no reason why the ! condition of both should not be consider ably improved. The question whether, in all Its aspects, the life of the agricultural worker is inferior to that of the city laborer is open, however, to serious discussion. Secretary of Agriculture Meredith, who before he entered the cabinet was an agricultural editor of note, thinks that for the type of man who does not want to be a wage-worker all his life, and who hopes for independence in middle age and for an old age of comfort and freedom from worry, "there may be more chances on the farm thi they realize." He contends that liv ing conditions in the country are not what they were a generation ago. There is more democracy in the country than in the city. He adds: In the right sort of farming community and the right kind of farmer's household, the hired man is received on his merits as a man. If he Is a straight, clean sort of fellow, his good Qualities will be appre ciated In the country as readily as in the city. A great deal more so. I should say, for the Individual human being seems to count for more out on the farm than he does In the city, where great numbers of them are crowded together. In short, it Is strictly up to the man himself to make good, and if he does he will have no rea son to complain of his social status. . . The American farming regions form the great reservoirs of traditional democracy. Secretary Meredith thinks that the movement to draw the farmers to gether in social life is only in its infancy. An idea of what the farm er is buying for his home may be obtained by reading the advertising in any of the farm journals. Lux uries and high-grade necessities are widely advertised by manufacturers who would not spend money for ad vertising if they were not selling their goods to the readers. There is still room in the country for the young man who has the spirit of the pioneer. There is opportunity for the man with initiative and new ideas to help make the community just what he wants it to be. Yet this is not perhaps the chief attrac tion to one of the type to which Secretary Meredith appeals. He con tinues: The business of agriculture is different from that of most Industries. It gives the all-around man a chance to use his tal ents. It 1a not a matter of doing the same thing over and over again day after day. as in some factories, for every month and every day brings Its own special problem on the farm, and the man who Is In genious and clever at doing a variety of things has a chance to make good. In the comparison of urban and rural advantages, it is plain that much still depends on the point of view. The opinions of Professor Marsh and Secretary Meredith are not necessarily out of harmony with each other. City work usually has shorter hours, and city life more superficial social attractions; farm work may possess greater variety and the social aspects of rural life are more democratic, if not more exciting. City wages are often only theoretically higher than farm wages, when the cost- of living is taken into account. Chances of ad vancement in either case depend on the individual's capacity and on his aspirations. Mr. Mredith believes that a man's chances for owning his business, as well as his home, are on the average greater in the coun try than in town. There are elements in both that will appeal to different types of men. Nothing permanent will be gained by over-persuading those who desire chiefly to be wage-earners to take jobs on the farms, but a good deal may come of Mr. Meredith's plan to stimulate men who are adapted to agriculture to make it their life work. It is doubtful if it is safe to rely on artificial methods to bring about the change. Secretary Mere dith himself probably would agree heartily with Professor Marsh when the latter says that "a systematic re organization of economic life pre supposes an organization of society that is incompatible with freedom." Natural processes .must be relied on. These are aided, however, by such wise guidance as in future will avoid the placing, either in town or coun try, of round pegs in square holes. Joe Wilson of Baltimore called on his brother Tom in the White House Thursday and reports him looking remarkably well. Most people did not know Woodrow had a brother Joe. The man who committed the as sault on Miss Bender no doubt wilj set up insanity and perhaps he I insane. If so. we need a new ktnt of penitentiary. Every community of size in Ore gon should arrange a celebration of the Fourth. It is bad ethics to go away from home to celebrate, though many do so. The falls discovered in the Bull Run reserve are not needed as an Oregon attraction. The other hesmtv spots are a long way from being worn out. Hatfield, the "medicine man" at Ephrata, needs watch the stops on his rainmaker or he may have a cloudburst and do some damage. Admiral Oman Is to be governor of the Virgin islands and perhaps the "virgins" will make two words of it. Eventually most all cars will be propelled by electricity, the supply of which can never be short. Halfway, in Baker county, had a fire yesterday that threatened to send it the whole way. They do not do it purposely of course, but an explosion is sheer waste of gasoline. Got any buttons left from four years ago? Dark horses loom on the horizon. Depend upon it, Mr. Bryan will be shocked by the aroma at San Francisco. A man's honesty of purpose judged by his gasoline bill. is It's an ill wind that blows nobody good. Ride the street cars. SOTOIUOCS WOMAN IS Dlil'KN DKD. Pardon of Om Who Defamed Country. Motherhood and Soldiers) Approved. CEXTRALIA, Wash., June 3. (To the Editor.) In the fifty years that I have been a reader of The Ore gonian I have not been so astounded as when I read your editorial, "Clem--ency for Kate O'Hare." In these try ing times when the world is weeping and praying for peace against the world-wide wars that are desolating the earth and the muttering of greater wars, the clouds of which are rising so ominously above the horizon even at this moment, is It possible that a woman who baa de voted her life to- the establishment of "peace on earth and good will to all men" should be branded as a sedi tionist and blasphemer? Kate Richard O'Hare was tried by a court and jury that were agains-t her politically and industrially, and they readily found her guilty of sedition for saying that "A woman who raises her sons to be soldiers is no better than a brood sow." In other words, "a woman who raises her sons to be slaughterers of men upon the battle fields is of no greater worth than a brood sow." Her words ap plied as well to German or French mothers who raise their boys to be soldiers as to those of any other nation. She made no reflection in any way against our soldier boys' moth ers, and I sincerely doubt if any of those mothers raised their boys to be soldiers. It has been asserted, and I think without contradiction, that 85 per cent of the boys drafted offered ex cuses against going, and many of them were "conscientious objectors." Surely their mothers did not raise them to be soldiers. Mrs. O'Hare was replying to one of our ex-presidents who asserted that "any mother who did not raise her boy to be a soldier should be confined In a Chinese harem." Which of the two are "blas phemers against American mother hood? W. RL'BLE. The correspondent does not quote In full the statements made by Mrs. O'Hare which were the basis of her conviction. She said: "A woman who rears sons to be soldiers is no better than a brood sow. It is a good thing to send sol diers to France. The ground will be enriched by their carcasses." Numerous excerpts from the writ ings and speeches of Mrs. O'Hare were quoted by the court in sen tencing her. They included the fol lowing: We will resist conscription with every force at our command. The only struggle which would justify the workers in tukinfr ud arms Is the frreaf .struggle of the working class of the world to iree ltselt from economic exploitation. As against false doctrines of national patriotism we uphold the ideal of inter national working clam solidarity. The forces of capitalism which nave led the war in Europe are even more hideously transparent in the war provoked by the ruling class of this country. The war against Germany cannot be justified even in the plea that ft is a war in defense of American rights or American honor. In all modern history there has been no war more unjustifiable than the war in which we are about to engage. Mrs. O'Hare was convicted of vio lating a vital war measure and as such violator became a common crim inal. The stigma of her criminality still exists, for the' president only commuted her sentence. It requires a full pardon to restore her to citizen ship. YELLOWBACKS' NOW ON 8CRKUV Writer Deplores Public Taatc If Public Want What It Gets. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi tor.) "Tlie pen is mightier than the sword," and now they say the movie is mightier than the pen. I think that is so. Books with suggestive pictures have always been taboo. Why not movies? When I was a little girl, some 40 years ago. if one of Vny brothers was caught with a dime novel having a yellow back he was invited into the cellar where my father kept a cat-o-nine-tails and then and there welt ed into repentance. Now the boy of 9 or 10 goes to the movie where these same old stories are told on the screen and the more guns used the. louder the encore. Do any murders accrue therefrom? I'm just wonder ing. I do not set myself up as in any way paramount to others and enjoy to the full a good, clean play or trav elogue. If one could only get away from many of the unwholesome films that are flooding the country! In little towns especially, the movie is the temple of learning, and how im portant that it should be inspiring, elevating and instructive. Do tell me why must the majority of the pictures shown be of such a sensual character? Seemingly they must have a scoundrel and some inert young girl led astray or the picture is not up to date. It Is immorality and more immorality.. It apparently is the aim to see how near the verge one can go without hearing from the law. The picture man says he gives what the people want. "How have the mighty fallen" if we want what we get. AN ENQUIRER. HIU HUAHTS AM) SMALL HHAI.NS Debs' Defender Advlned to Look to the Head as Well as the Chest. HARRISBURG, Or., June 3. (To the Kditor.) I note that a man writes in The Oregonian, "now that the war Is happily ended Debs should be liberated." Happily? Just think of the lost sons, fathers, brothers, sweet hearts and all that war entails and say happily! However, we will give him the credit of using the word in a com parative degree. It is a very little stretch of the ear to hear Lenine and Trotsky say amen to the loosing of this' arch traitor who needs hemp worse than liberty. Let's tell the Dutch to let the kaiser and his son go now that the war Is happily ended. Let's tell the murderers at Centralia to go. Let's have freedom for every one. Why pick out a few? Every community has a few like this friend? of Debs, who talks about the bigness of hearts when they should be talking of the smallness of brains. The war is ended, but not by these allies of the kaiser, who bought no bonds or helped In charity unless they were pressed into it. There can be no government where every one does as he pleases. Our government perhaps comes as near as it is possible and every one has a vote. If you don't like It, vote It different. The majority should and shall rule. We will not have the false liberty of Lenine liberty stripped of indus try, morals and Christianity, only a phantom of hades. No! Not we Americans. G. G. BELTS. Oil Fields In Kgrypt. Indianapolis News. Observing a passage of Exodus which refers to the discovery of Moses in the bullrushes In an ark "daubed with slime and with pitch," Standard Oil engineers recently went to Egypt on a little trip of explora tion and made discoveries as the re sult of which there soon will be ex tensive oil operations there. His Wife's Bills In Evidence. Boston Transcript. Wife Do you expect to get to hea ven by hanging On to my skirts? it.. . . . . . . . . t t. v . . . c.).nn. Ii 1 U n 1 1 1 1 ' .t i i in. .... . . o 1 1 u v Ids St. Peter the bills for them. Those Who Come and Go. "Victoria, B. C-. is a nice town and we like it. We also' like Seattle, but Portland is the best of all, for It is homelike and reminds us so much of our own city, Sydney. We have seen more beautiful homes in Portland in the past 4S hours than we did in a week in Seattle. The people here are homelike, while in Seattle they ap pear to be more for business," said Miss Smith who, with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Smith and two brothers, are at the Hotel Portland. The party landed on the North Ameri can continent two weeks ago and in tend touring the United States. "We cannot familiarize ourselves with American money," continued Miss Smith. "Here 5 and 10 make 15. but at home we have halfpennies, shillings, guineas and the like. Do you know what a guinea, is? It is a pound . and a shilling. We have no nickels or dimes or two-bit pieces and that sort of thing. However, I sup pose that when Americans visit Aus tralia they have just as much diffi culty trying to understand our money." Today the Smith party will visit the highway. John Bell, state senator for Lane county, arrived in town from Eugene last-night to tackle a big job. The 1919 session of the legislature ap pointed a committee, of which Senator Bell is a member, to make a survey of the salaries paid officers of the various counties in Oregon. This committee was the outgrowth of the usual salary-grab bills and the inten tion is to make a survey of the salary situation and draft salary schedule bill which will be equitable and which will give about the same compensa tion for the same line of duties. There has been no system about fixing coun ty salaries in the legislature since the l'ear One. A county officer who wanted a few more dollars would lobby through a bill for his special benefit, notwithstanding that his re sponsibilities may be less than those of a similar officer In another county. It is to bring about a little more jus tice, that the committee was ap pointed. Conditions are so unsettled in Scot land that Alexander Stewart of Blair gowrie, Perthshire, says he would rather be back in the war where a man Is more at peace.' And this feel ing is shared by thousands of the veteran lads. People are spending money prodigously In Scotland and the age of thrift has disappeared, but the people are restless and uneasy. Mr. Stewart, who is visiting his brother. T. M. Stewart, a local grocer, enlisted when he was 19 years old and put in four years in the army, and of this period he spent 2i years in the Gallipoli campaign, where he was wounded. And so, with condi tions as they are in Perthshire, the ancient capital of Scotland, and duplicated in all other parts of that land. Mr. Stewart decided to come to the United States and make his home. He knows the raspberry busi ness from the ground up to the fruit, for his father, who was also the father of J. S. Stewart of Corvallis. was a berry king, and the fighting man will probably bo a loganberry producer in the Willamette valley. . "It took us . seven days to .come from Los Angeles to Portland, and three days of this time were wasted while waiting for gasoline." eaid J. V. Tallman of Pendleton, who has ar rived at the Imperial with Mrs. Tall man. "There is a gasoline shortage in California as bad. apparently, as there is in Oregon." Mr. Tallman tells of paying l a gallon for two gallons of the fuel, all that he was allowed, and then he had to tip the service station man another $1. lie would get barely enough gasoline to drive to the next town and then would come another search for a few gal Ions of the fuel. By thi tedious method the Pendleton citizen managed to crawl along through California and then over the Pacific highway to Portland. Here he was confronted with a similar scarcity, with filling stations more scarce between Port land and Pendleton than in California. t Harry Ooetz, manager of the Coeur d'Alene hotel in Spokane, anil Assist ant Manager Quinley of the Spaulding in Duluth landed in town yesterday and began shakiner hands with the hotel fraternity. Mr. Quisley arrived in from I-os Angeles." where he re ports that automobiles are not so conspicuous since the gasoline short age. Mr. Goetz reports that his town was out of gas. but now there is an abundance and no one la being curtailed. James Richardson of the Oregon Agricultural college arrived at the Multnomah from Corvallis yesterday to fight for a 50-r.O split on the gate receipts when the Pacific Coast Inter collegiate conference is held today. Other colleges up and down the coast will have their representatives on the ground this morning. The delegation from tho University of Washington prefer a different arrangement which would give them the long end of the receipts. A. P. Gordon found how a school teacher could make more money. Mr. Gordon, who is at the Perkins, was once the superintendent of the Wheel er county high school at Kossil, but he resigned and went to Carson, Wash., where he became a merchant. Now he is a prosperous rancher near Carson and could probably buy the Wheeler county high school without going broke. Mr. and Mrs. O. Slyter of Canhy, Or., are registered at the Hotel Oregon. Can by is the place on the Pacific highway where the dust flies in clouds on the new grade. Just south of the town is' a wooden bridge built 60 years ago, according to the sign, but. probably all that remains of the original bridge is the sign, as most of the timbers have been renewed since. A couple of optimists arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday from Cor vallis. They are Major E. C. Han ford and Captain Cushman Hartwell. They motored from the college town to the Rose City and the plan is to motor to San Krancisco. In view of the "gas" shortage their optimism is apparent. Robert M. Betts, manager of the Cornucopia Mining company, is at the Hotel Portland. The town of Cornu copia, in Baker county, takes Its name from this property. There has been a general renewal of activity in min ing in Oregon in. the past couple of years. About half a hundred Elks are coming to Portland today. They have engaged a flock of rooms at the Hotel Oregon for the week-end. To take out one of the ships in the harbor. F. J. McNichoIs and O. Buhlert arrived at the Perkins yesterday from San Francisco. Henry J. Schulderman, erstwhile state corporation commissioner, reg istered at the Hotel Oregon yesterday from Salem. Dr. E. B. Stewart, who Is on call for the railroad men at Roseburg, is registered at the Hotel Oregon. O. H. Test, county Judge for Mal heur county, is at the Imperial with Mrs. Test from Vale. E. S. Alford,. editor and owner of the Lewlston Tribune, is registered at the Multnomah with. Mrs. Alford. SPECIAL. TUtulT FOR SIIKIXERS. Iloyd River Berries Ripened on Vines Proponed by Correspondent. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi tor.) Unless some provision has al ready been made along this line. I would like to suggest that during Shrine week arrangements be made to make a specialty of Hood River strawberries and to have the grow ers instructed to- allow the berries to- stand until they are fully ripe be fore picking. While Hood River strawberries have a national reputation of being the best there is in the strawberry line, there are but very few who have eaten Hood River strawberries when they were at their best. Most of these strawberries are marketed in the east and they are picked from three , to four days before they are fully ripe so that they will stand transportation. A certain acreage could be set aside and allowed to ripen fully before being picked, and arrangements made with the restau rants and hotels to get their supplies fresh every morning; also a good sup ply of 20 to 25 per cent butterlat cream reserved to go with the straw berries. Our visitors would then have a dish that they have never been able to get heretofore, and one that I be lieve would do more to advertise Ore gon and delight our visitors than any thing we could possibly do for the same amount of money. It would also cive our home folks here a taste of the genuine Hood River berries fully matured in that dark red color showing clear through the berry when fully ripe. H. F. Davidson of Hood River, I am sure, will be glad to make the necessary arrangements with the growers, and the only difficulty would be. if this plan is carried out. to get enough of them to suppiy the demand. S. E. HOLCOMB. HIBLK UKADlXi; JOT IX MIXD 'r. Woodward Favors rtelisioas In struetlon Without Scriptural. PORTLAND, June 4. (To the Edi-tr-) This morning The Oregonian carried a report on page 16 of state ments of candidates for school direc tor at a meeting of the teachers yes terday afternoon and with it this: "Mr. Woodward made a plea for the return of the Bible to the public schools." If possible the writer will not per mit himself to become involved in any controversy upon this question. He has not and does "not favor any attempt to return the use of the Bible in our public schools. He be lieves that any effort in this direc tion would be mistaken and ill advised; that it would arouse onlv bitterness of feeling and defeat of his object. His views in this matter are clearly set out in the statement which you very kindly printed yes terday and which reads as follows: The Bible was thrust from our public schools at the behest of -those-who feared Its efl'ect upon their own doctrinal viewy. Yet there should be as a part of the daily life and instruction of the child such rec ognition in simplest form of the creator as will give to the child that true concept of our reliance upon the divine being in separable from the highest ideals of life. There may be those who are un able to conceive of any fundamental religious teaching which does not involve the use of the Bible. The writer firmly believes that the sim ple statement which he advocates covering this question can be made and without reference to the scrip tures and without offence to the many adherents of the. many religious views and whose motives In opposing the return of the Bible to the public schools the writer does not impugn. WILLIAM F. WOODWARD. HnKlinnd's Cnrltny In Kslnte. PORTLAND. June 4. (To the Edi tor.) When a widow for 1 years has toiled and raised a family of four children and in that time through economy accumulated a little prop erty in her own name through eooI. honest work, and when the children arc grown and married then she mar ries again, what right, if any, would this second husband have to some thing he never exerted himself to get, and on which he lias never paid taxes? Some say by law he has a curtesy right as long as he lives. Is this true'.' Please state all facts plainly. M. K. B. The husband, after the death of tho wife, would be entitled to a life in terest in the income from one-half of the wife's estate. Of this he cannot be legally deprived by will or agreement. True Tent Indicated. Cincinnati Enquirer. "tioca success mean setting what you want?" asked the young man. "No," replied the old man. "Suc cess isn't so much getting what you want as getting what other people want." t Molding Childish Minds Through Play In his Portland excursions for unusual Sunday feature stories, De Witt Harry has found the story of a citizen whose life work has been the vocational training of children and whose ready fund of sympathetic understanding has made that work a joy, contributing largely to the growth of a particular branch of the Portland public schools system. He is William J. Standley, and you want to meet him in the Sunday issue. Unearthing Crimes of Illuebeards. A shuddery story is this one, based upon the bringing to justice of many depraved super-criminals whose crimes make Bluebeard stand in the light of apprentice ship. 1 For there was a Bluebeard, just as we learned in the nursery story, and his prototypes of this century have eclipsed his perfidy and bloodthirst. There is a lesson to be learned, the lesson of wari ness, in this recital of the crimes of monsters who beguile women, to marriage and then even as Bluebeard and Harvey Bend them to the vale of shadows. Illustrated in the Sunday issue. The Friendship of a Runt Pig. This is the story of Edwin T. Meredifh, secretary of agriculture, who had a pet pig in his boyhood and whose considerate rearing of that lonely grunter gave him the first glimpse of agricultural opportunity and was rife with pros perous augury for the farmers of the United States. That pig was the squealing, pink-tailed originator of a career, and he launched his small owner upon the way to Washington. Pass the sausage, Maria. In the Sunday paper with illustrations. Women Fashioned to Order. Basically, as Rudyard indiscreetly observed, she may be but a rag and a bone and a hank of hair, but the arts of the modern designer oh, la, la! It is this shade, madame, and nVme other; this drapery; that flounce; a touch here; a flourish there; the hair just so behold the siren! A Kansas sunflower be-, comes the gay bloom of Paris by the modish magic of the designer. Read how women are fashioned to order, girls, in the Sunday maga zine section, as told by Helen Bullitt Lowry and take hope. Too Busy to Marry. Suitors used to swagger in and condescend to ask her hand. Nowadays they approach the subject with all due ' humility, for modern girls are not 'all inclined toward baking gra ham gems in an August kitchen. Careers call to them, as to their swains. And quite frequently the fair one of heart's desire is con strained to answer, "I'm too busy to marry." It's the fact There's . a story, with abundant notable instances, in the Sunday maga zine section. From Funnies to Finance. Everything worth while is in the big Sunday issue. Wherever it happened, if cable and telegraph have had time to flash it, you'll find that news recounted from home and abroad. And there are departments for . everyone, feature articles by the score, and a gorgeous folder of popular funnies.. You can buy it anywhere. All the News of all the World THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN In Other Days. Fifty Years Aro. From Tho Oregonian of June 5. If 70. Sioux City. General Hancock ar rived here today from the upper Mis souri, where he has been distributing troops about the various Indian agen cies. He reports all quiet along the river. Baker City. A nugget of gold val ued at $3966 was taken from a mining claim in Baker county last week by Dr. S. A. Caldwell, owner of a claim at Gimletville. The county court has established the location for the eight voting pre cincts inside the city limits of Port land. A farmer's team of horses made a desperate run down Sixth street yes terday and kept blindly on until they ran into the marsh at the foot of Third street. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From The Oregonian of June 5. 1S9.". Rochester. Susan B.Anthony to day announced that at the next gen eral convention of the National Amer ican Suffrage association she will re sign the presidency which she has held for so long. The park committee has been of fered two young timber wolves for the park zoo by G. A. Rath. Forty-eight cents a bushel was paid for wheat yesterday at The Dalles and the trend appears to be upward. Preparations for the rose show which starts at 2 o'clock tomorrow afternoon at Parson's hall are near ing completion. LOVE. Since beaming beauty you descry. In vale and mount and sea and glen. And in the velvet-studded sky. I'll tell you what is on my pen.' I see it on the rocks and rills. In mossy fen and flower-strewn lea: In vine-clad hills where water spills And trickles onward to the sea. I note It in the fan-tailed suirrel That hops and chatters in the corn. In childish laugh and knotted curl. And in the early flush of morn. I pee it in a mother's eyes As she gazes on her dying child; I hear its wild despairing cries That rends a heart forever mild. It rests upon the autumn leaves. And loiters blithely in the wold: It nestles in the nut-brown sheaves And sprinkles them with mellow gold. In nests seuestered 'neath the trees Where wild canaries gaily sing; It wells upon the gentle breeze. And spreads the tender leaves of spring. It dwells within the forest dense. Where wild does and young fawn roam; It rests in rosy, sweet content Within each cosy, happy home. It bubbles in this heart of mine. And sparkles in fair beauty's eyes: It's love, sweet love, supreme, divine The cornerstone of paradise. M. C. ARMSTRONG. Kerry, Or. If People Ruled. PORTLAND. June 3. (To the Edi tor.) The republicans of Oregon cast 120.0i6 votes for presidential candi dates. Of these Johnson received 46. 163. Opposing him are 73.90.1. He is a minority candidate by 37,840 votes. Of the entire vote cast Johnson re ceives 38 'i per cent, Wood 36Vi per cent. Lowden 13 per cent. Hoover 12 per cent. Ttm apportionment of the vote cast would be 2000 to each delegate. Should the delogRte vote ill the con vention as the republicans voted "in Oregon for candidates. Johnson would rei-eive four votes. Wood four, Low den one, and Hoover one. How Is thiB for people's choioe? E. C. M. Snrrlhfart Is Bothered. Louisville Courier-Journal. li. dear. I'm bothered to death." "Over what?" 'Two men want to marry me and I can't tell which to accept." "I'd take the one I loved the best." "Why. that i a unique idea. It never occurred to me. I'll think it over along those lines." Anierlenns V.nt Less Rice. Indianapolis News. Scarcely six pounds of rice is con sumed tiich year by every resident of the United States, as compared with a per capita consumption in England of 27 pounds, in France of Si pounds and in Italy of 101 pounds. v..-': - " -. :.-:V. . t-