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THE BIORXTN'G OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, JUXE 5, 1920
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KSTABLISHKI) BY HENRY T- PITTOCK.
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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?
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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.
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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."
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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.
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