8. TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920 ESTABI-ISHKD BY HENRY I- PITTOCK. X'ubPshed by The Grcg-onlaa Publishing Co., lai Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MOHOEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. iSdltor. The Oregonian is a. member of the Aim elated Press. The Associated Press U exclusively entitled to the us for publica tion of all new, dispatchss credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year SS.00 Dally. Sunday Included, six months ... 4.3 iJally, Hunday Included, three months. 2.-5 luiily, Sunday Included, one month .... .75 ltaily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without fcunday, six. months .... a." Dally, without Sunday, one month .BO Weekly, on, ypar . ............. ...... l.OO Sunday, one year 5.00 (Py Carrier.) 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' Completion of the hearing by the interstate commerce commission on the proposed increase in freight rates confronts the people with the early prospect of a large addition to the cost of everything: that they produce and consume.- So far consideration Jkis been confined to the increase needed to insure a 6 per cent return after paying: present cost of ,opera- Ition. For this purpose advances of 24 to 30 per cent are asked. By July ,20 a decision will be rendered on railroad wages which is expected to necessitate a further advance at least half a3 great and possibly fully as great as that now under considera tion. If the plea of the railroads should be granted as made, rates would rise 36 to 48 per cenf in the 'west, 45 to 60 per cent in the east anil south. This increase would be added to ,the already excessive price of every commodity. It would not be added once only, but several times. It would be added at each stage in the transformation of any article from raw material to finished product. each time the finished product and its component parts change hands between producer and consumer. It might easily cause the item of trans portation included in the price of goods to be doubled. The necessity of an increase in railroad revenue is Federally recognized, for transporta tion is a necessary of life to the na tion and money will not be invested in it unless it earns a fair, return, which' the law fixes at 6 per cent. Jjui the extent of the need and its certain effect on prices demand that the increase shall not go beyond the -actual need and that it be so ad justed as to cause the least possible addition to the cost of necessaries and the least possible disturbance to commerce and industry. The percentages asked by the rail roads are based on the results of operation for the year 1919, which sh,ow the highest cost for tho lowest tonnago of recent years, while the traffic conditions of 1919 were ab normal, having been disturbed by the sudden slackening which followed the armistice, by the quick revival of industry and by the coal strike. The law specifies that the rates must yield the required return under "hon est, efficient and economical man agement," but the managers offer no increase in efficiency and economy which might provide part of the . needed addition to net Income. "Rea sonable expenditures" are another condition, yet "the abnormal expendi tures of an abnormal year are taken as a basis. Passenger traffic might fairly bear a part of the load, .but it is proposed that all be laid on freight. There is no good reason why passen ger traffic, especially on the luxu riously equipped first-class trains ehould not pay its share, for men who desire and can pay to travel in luxury win pay the price, whatever it may be. The most serious objection applies to the uniform percentage increase in tthree large sections of the country. While apparently equal, it is ac t tnally very unequal. It lumps to gether the northwest, "where 17 per cent would suffice to make up the deficiency, with the southwest, where S3 per cent would be necessary. It ignores the fact that the actual in crease would be much larger on goods that reach market by a long haul than on goods .which .have onlv a short haul. Pittsburg may sell as .targe a proportion of its steel within a radius of 600 miles as Portland must market of its lumber at . rii... tance of 2000 miles, and freight is a larger proportion of the final cost pi lumDer than of steel. In fact, a flat percentage increase znigm nave disastrous effects on in duitry and on the railroads thorn selves. It would disrupt the whole delicately adjusted relationship of trade in competitive markets by tuuing more to prices from produc ing centers which have a long haul than from those having a short hail. " wuuia divert much Facific coast - luniDer ror eastern markets from rail to water lines. This lumber would be hauled by rail for some distance inland from the Atlantic coast, thus giving to eastern lines revenue which the commission would intend to give to the western lines. The cars which Dring goods to this coast for con sumption or export would be de prived of their return load by this inversion or traffic to tho sea. Traf- itc or ine transcontinental lines might shrink to the point where the increase In rates would actually de crease revenue and the roads might apply for a further increase to make good the deficit caused by the first It should be realized bv mn whn have spent their lives in studying traffic problems that it is possible to raise prices to a point where sales Slop ana profits disappear. The very gravity of the present emergency imposes on the railroads the duty of suggesting a remedy marked by originality, such as will meet their need of more revenue witn the least possible disjointing o present arrangements and the lenst possible enhancement of prices. They can tor co-operation but their plan oetrays sucn narrow vision as " to offer no co-operation on ' their- "Dart, They should strike out boldly on a new path but they follow the old beaten track of past rate appllca tions. Much more is at stake than the revenue of the railroads. Em ployes of the roads are thoroughly committed to their public ownership and the tendency is in that direction in other countries. Private owner- j ship is on trial and the next few jears must decide whether the Amer ican policy of reliance on private initiative and enterprise shall live or shall give place to a rigid bureau cracy ruled by mediocrities. The railroads should put forward young, courageous men, original thinkers who can see the nation's interest as well as that of the railroads, and can see that the two Interests are one. The imperatively needed qualities were not displayed in the applica tion now before the commission and it is to be hoped that that body will supply them. IS THE LIGHT BREAKING? Mr. McAdoo, who was not nomi nated at San Francisco, sees many things wrong with the present sys tem of nominating candidates for president. The recent presidential primaries in the various states, he says, were "a disgrace to the na tion." He proposes that "nomina tions be made in the national con ventions by plurality rule instead of the two-thirds vote of the democrats and the majority vote of the republi cans." Let us see about it. If the great McAdoo idea had been effective in the present year of political grace or disgrace McAdoo, who had a plurality on the first ballot, would have been nominated at San Fran c.'tco and General Wood at Chicago. We may acquit Mr. McAdoo of any selfish object in his suggestion. For proof let us cite that he says he is happy over the result. There is, however, a painful con flict of great democratic authorities over the subject of conventions. Here is the Portland Journal offer ing a fervid encomium of the demo cratic convention, saying: One of the blgfrest things In the world la a national party convention in Amer ica. . . . It is the worst about convention that is usually told. ... Other conventions doubtless have clnlms to a npirlt and purpose similar to thnt of Mn f ranclsro. All conventions are doubt less Inspired by a great thought of how to ouiia wen ior me country. It will be interesting to have the further testimony of our enlighten ing contemporary as to whether the republicans and democrats of Ore gon, unlike the republicans and democrats of practically all other stages, are -still unfit to hold any conventions. of the miscellaneous assortment of radicals were either openly opposed to the war or obstructed measures for its conduct or were lukewarm on the subject. La Follette by his shameful misrepresentation of the purpose of the war led many others astray and gave aid and comfort to tho nation's enemies in this country. His opinions are so steeped in social ism as to cause even the single-taxers to levolt tit the suggestion that he be nominated for president. The the Eskimos, came home to civ ilization with much the same view point as that of the American ex plorer. He, too, believes that the polar regions hold the inexhaustible solution of the world . food .problem, and he offers a menu of seal, octo pus soup, seal bacon and roast pen guin. He points out also the fact that residents of Eouth Africa have long utilized as staple articles of diet many animals that we regard as zoological exhibits. For years it single-taxers' neglect to mention his has been intermittently suggested anti-war record as an objection shows that the swampy recessesof the Flor- how little Importance they attach to Wa everglades would nurture the loyalty in that supreme crisis. 1 hippopotamus as nicely as his native If the third party's choice should streams in the dark continent.. Epi fall on La Follette the republican cures say that the genial old "hippo party will be well rid of him, for he Is fine, any way you fix him has long been a republican in name The merit of the Stefansson rein only and his attitude toward the war I deer project and of the proposals made him a dead weight for the of Shackleton Is that of utilizing party to carry. Whomever it may the waste lands of earth to increase nominate, it will confer a benefit on our food supply by the breeding of both old parties by purging them of wild species in their natural habi those who reject the decision of the tats. Baffin island is a northern majority if it does not suit them. I wilderness. The Florida everglades Tho new party will have no chance I are the "dismal swamp," indeed of winning the presidency and can 1 Both may some day figure largely influence the result only by drawing in the maintenance of man more heavily from one than the other. WHY TWO PRICES FOR MILK? Milk producers say that no signifi- provement of rivers. AX CUXD WATERWAY POLICY. Senator Smoot is one of the stern critics of all appropriations for im- He can safely ranee attaches to the fact that their product sells for less to the conden- sery rlants than to the public. Other than this, declares Lionel C. Mackay, in charge of the investigation, the milkmen decline to render explana tion. Merely to dismiss a discrep ancy is not to make clear why it should exist and until more adequate be so, for Utah has no navigable rivers, nor any that can be made navigable. He calculates interest on the cost of an Improvement, divides it by the number of tons carried on the stream in question and thereby proves the money to have been wasted. BY-PRODVCTS OF" THE TIMES Incident That Show How Every Americas Ha HIa Chance. When the author of "White Shad ows in the South Seas." Frederick O'Brien,' was tramping, about the world Mr. O'Brien has tried every possible occupation known to a free lance) Warren Q. Harding, the re publican candidate for president, was running a small paper in Marion, O. It would seem that Mr. O'Brien was on his way back across the coun try after having marched on Wash ington as a "general" in Coxey's army. He happened to step out of a side-door sleeper somewhere in Ohio and first began selling hedges to the farmers. There was a murder trial on in Marion, which attracted his at tention, and it is characteristic of the man that he revolved in his mind at once how that incident could be turned by him to profit. The idea occurred to him to offer himself as a great crime reporter to Mr. Harding, then proprietor of The Star. At that time Mr. Harding solicited advertis ing and Mrs. Harding kept the books and distributed papers to the news Is not that little tale typical of what happens in our great happy-go-lucky republic? Today Mr. Harding, the republican nominee for the presidency or ine United States, has all the advertising he wants without doing any solicit ing; and FrederlcH O'Brien seems to have found his niche in the literary life of the country as a best seller, whose work no less a publishing house than the Century company gladly accepts and values. Those Who Come and Go. Professor Edward L. Thorndike of Columbia university has an interest ing article In People's magazine on How Fast Can Tou Read?" He says: "Among adults who have read much and read without any conscious hesi- A senator from'a state composed of mountain -and arid nl ;i in rannnt response is given to the query the be expected to know all the factors public will maintain that homes and wh)cn should enter into the calcula- babtes, if there is to be discrimlna- tion- improvement of the channel tion. should benefit by it. The con- of a rive ls but the flrs, ,n d elusion is pardonable it one assumes veloping water traffic at the lowest mai ine price to ine conaensery practicable cost. Establishment of snouid approximate tne price on ine ports with modern facilities comes back stoop, making allowance ror the next. Then should come physical tatlon there are enormous differences cost of distribution. If the producers connection between these ports and 1" speed, and the rapid readers ap- care to aissipaie mis notion, wnicn railroads, then 1oint rates between narently save their time at no cost to rail and water lines, and next should! understanding or memory. If all of follow prohibition of rate-cutting by us read as fast as the fastest we railroads for the purpose of driving could, on the average, read half water lines out of business. much again as we do now, or we When these things have been done. I cnulri read what wa now read and Portland price, ine average citizen capital will be attracted to invest- Uav a thirii nf ;h time win tut quarrel wim uiese ment in water lines, and will build "Th. ft. f., tx r.arflns-. they are too technical and compiex modern tugs and barges capable of such as news items in the daily pa for his understanding. An official carrying a large volume of traffic at per, ordinary letters, stories and gen inquiry is already inspecting them Jow cost.. Then we may reasonably erai articles, and the like. The rate rv " 1 ni"ur"y inquire wny it expect that SO large a volume Of traf- of readinir matter that reouires care is that milK produced at a "certain ai- wm be carried bv water that the .... ... . . .v. - . . I interest on cost or improvement will Df difficult noints. as in contracts For ages and ages rye has been noted for its beard, but at the ex periment station at Union, Or., has been developed for the first time in the history of the world clean shaved rye, with nary a whisker. Robert Withycombe, .son of the late gov ernor, who is located at the experi ment station, was in .Portland yes terday, and told about the rye. "The dry land farmers grow rye for feed ing, but the beard always bothered the animal?," explained Mr. Withy combe, "and they asked us if they, could have beardless rye. Well, it sort of stumped us, for we had ab solutely nothing to go on. However, we picked out rye with short beards and experimented until finally we had what we wanted perfect rye, beard less as a babe." Another develop ment which is coming is silage for beef cattle. Silage has been used for dairy herds for years, but stockmen have thought that turning cattle. loose on the range was sufficient. The time will come, predicted Mr. Withycombe, when the silo will be as important for the stockman as it is for the dairyman. I. W. Smith, a multi-millionaire Quaker of Pennsylvania, devoted a day to the Columbia highway while registered at the Multnomah yester day. This is the first trip Mr. Smith has taken to the west, and he had a hard time trying to remember whether he was in Seattle. Spokane or Portland, having very little idea of geography. With Mr. and Mrs. Smith were Mr. and Mrs. Charles Samson of Chicago. Mr. Smith wanted to buy a touring car and drive from Portland to southern California, but when the gasoline shortage was discovered the visitors decided to for get the car purchase until they ar rive in San Francisco and go from Portland eouth on their railroad tlck- ts. Twenty-four years ago Mr. Sam son came to Portland looKing ror gold, and with five others he finally went to Medford and remained for wo years. The half dozen gold- unters eventually panned SS.zo of gold dust before returning to the ast and each spent fl2a on prospect- ng equipment. they rail against as erroneous, they should approach it in candor. Euckets of statistics have been poured to prove that milk produc tion is - not profitable, even at the WHICH ROAD DO WE TAKE? As motoring made Oregon a field for tourist travel, and for the vaca tion rambles of our own citizens, a thousand minor highways and by ways were opened to the exploration of the curious. Localities no longer concerned only their residents, fa miliar with every turn of the road, every Country lane, but a great many transient strangers as well. Not in frequently motorists from other states dash joyfully into Oregon to slacken their pace and their enthusiasm in a veritable labyrinth of unfamiliar roads, unmarked by signboards. As ono.local motorist phrases It: "They praise our scenery, but they curse our road signs." Recent legislation gave to the state highway commission a tithe of twenty-five cents from every auto license fee, for the purpose of establishing adequate road signs. Thus far the commission has not availed itself of the funds provided, and doubtless de lays in the programme of sign plant ing, until such time as its highway projects . are . completed and made permanent. The criticism of the motorists - toward such a course - is that, under existing -circumstances, when many roads are not clearly de fined as - main thoroughfares, the need for guidance is greater than ever. And they ask for sign boards. oheap and transitory, to render the motoris't service-in this hour of trial. It is perhaps true that the motor ing tourist occasionally challenges adventure by testing strange roads, but in most instances he is bound for some definite point, and his itinerary requires that he reach it on a given day. Instances are plentiful, say the petitioners for sign boards, when California tourists have been lost for hours in the mazes of central Ore gon, and have traveled 9 0 miles or more out of the course. Such inci dents do not tend to popularize mo toring in Oregon, and lend color to the plaint of those who are asking for -the immediate installation of a system of road signs. said 10 De ruinous can De panea have to be divided among many SDeciflc. tlons instructions reclDes or with for. a figure substantially less times the number of tons on which !?'U"V when bought by the packing plant Mr. Smoot based his calculation and 'f " with ,h. vartaUon. In th latter instance it would spem . :,. , - "ere. With such the variations wot uci Luu wiii ua a. liieic: i i mi:- i mat tne producers are wuruily court- tion of the sum at which he arrived. lng bankruptcy and sustaining heavy That is how it worked out in France losses with each delivery. and Germany-, where the rivers are The inquiry is scarcely launched shorter and needed" more work to and there is time enough for the in- make them navigable than is the vestigators to solve this queer anom aly on their own account. It may be susceptible of satisfactory explana tion, but while the threat of still further increases is current it re mains to puzzle the public. The pro ducers are aggrieved at the attitude of their patrons and of the city off! cials and protest their absolute hon esty in service. Is it too much to ask that they respond without con- case in this country. Anything they have done can be done in America if we go about it as thoroughly and stick to it. One of our great needs ls consist- among indivjduals in the rate of read lng would be still greater. The facts given above also refer to reading by practical adults, who read much and easily, say those who have read at least 50,000,000 words. If persons with little practice in reading were included the variations among indi viduals would be, much greater.. 'After reading over 50,000,000 Words many of us still read at a rate far Ticonderoga, where Ethan Allen emanded that the Britieh troops urrender in the name' of the great ehovah and the continental congress. Is represented at the Multnomah by- Roy Lockwood, a New York delegate to the democratic convention. Mr. Eockwood was one of the 20 New York delegates not bossed by Tarn many, but it didn't do a great deal of good, because the New York dele gation started with the unit rule, and Mr. Lockwood, who favored Mc Adoo, was not voted as he wished. After the New York delegation tired of voting for Governor Smith as the favorite son nominee, the 70 Tammany votes went to Governor Cox. and Mr. Lack wood and 19 others flew to the McAdoo carhp. "I don't know whether Cox and Roosevelt will carry New York," confessed Mr. Lockwood. "It's going to be a fight, and we'll do the best we can." ent prosecution of a welNdefined policy of developing inland water below that whicn others use comrort transportatlon. . We need it as much ably. We who are slow apparently for the benefit of the railroads as for Set no more from our reading than that of the general public. The rail- they do who are fast. How can we roads cannot extend and imurove save part of all of this excess read i .. .. i i ceaimeni to ine necessary questions 1 their facilities fast enough to keep ing time? or tftfc inquiry.' up with the growth of traffic: thev "To answer this question it is nec are so far behind that they cannot essary to know Just what happens in HEW SOCRCES OP POOD SCPPLY. I catch up. The way. out is to take the 1 this case of easy reading by a prac Vilhjalmur Stefansson has come rivers, on which nature has already I ticed reader just what the eyes do Into his heritage. Perhaps Vilhjal-I done half tne work, and make them I and just what the mind does. Thanks mur wouldn't phrase it that way, but paraueir suDsiaiary ana connect the notion that the laws of heredity must be served is an obstinate one. He grew to manhood on the plains df North Dakota, but his Viking blood turned him from the prosaic profits of & wheat farmer to the white silence of the far north, as our fictiomsts delight to depict the arctic. As an explorer he won his spurs with little ado, often accounted dead during long intervals of isola- on, but always emerging with, topo to the" experiments of Cattell, Erd mann. Dodge, Huey, Judd, Dearborn and many others the essential facts aro fairly certain. A REFUGE FOR THE CRANKS. Both republicans and democrats will view with equanimity, even sat isfaction, the departure from their ranks of those discordant elements which refuse to accept the decisions of their national conventions. Each of the two great parties by tradition and practice stands for certain fund- damental principles of government. but fidelity to those principles leaves scope for wide difference, of opinion within each party on their applica tion to the problems of the time. If a man be truly attached to those principles he will be loyal also to the party which represents them and for their sake will not permit minor dis agreements or disappointment at nominations to cause him to desert it There are. both inside and outside the great parties, groups of faddists, cranks and extremists who feel at home nowhere but in a third party. At eacn election the old parties slough off some of these, who flock by themservea or with others of their general kind. It is well that there should be a rofuge where these politi cal misfits can be corralled and iden tiqed as what they are men whose forte is destruction rather than con struction, who can see only the de recrs or the present governmental system and are blind to its merits, who deny the established truths de rived from past experience and are net content to work out present problems in " accordance with those truths, who aim to make all manner ot political and economic experi ments and are ready for revolution in order to gain the opportunity. Their aims are so conflicting that they agree only in opposition to what is. If they should attain power they would engage in strife and could ac complish nothing but confusion. Such are the liberals, non-partisans, labor radicals, public-ownership advocates and single-taxers who are gathered in convention at Chicago. Most significant of the un-Ameri cau character of this gathering and of the unrepublican character o Senator La Follette is the fact that all except the single taxers look to the Wisconsin senator as their nat ural leader. For the great majority ing lines to relieve the railroads. The railroads would lose nothing. They would escape the necessity of bor rowing much money at excessive rates. They 'could move trains so -u , ... uiii iLer, especially oy avoiding ar,w about answering questions, ueiay a. L leriilinais, mat iney WOUld get far more service out of cars, en gines, terminals and tracks with smaller Investment. They could specialize on high-class freight which requires fast movement, leaving low- graphical or ethnologicar facts that class freight, which may move slowly, were, eae-erlv Reizpri nnnn bv .r.. to the water lines. If the water trans- Fame came to Stefansson in his pul lallu" poucy snouid De onowea vouth. and he is vet a vnnnn- mn oul lo completion, it would furnish On Jiis laurels alreadv attained and a complete refutation 'of Mr. Smoot's on the not inconsiderable financial I b;ection to rlver lnrprovement. advantages that fame hsalnwuH ha Is to retire. Other explorers came A silk throwing company in New home to their cozy clubs when they Yorlc- Prta.bly the largest, has been were done with the north, hut Stf- lu'ueu ovr to trustees on a lu,ooo,- ansson's dream of rtiroment i n I 000 basis for lack of Jiquid assets. reindeer ranch on desolate Baffin "Throwing" is .the process that takes island, off the Greenland coast. lne mamem or tne cocoon to the The Canadian irov-prnmnt v,s tnreao ready ror the loom. Collapse easad the southern half of thA Island ot values in Japan, the greatest to the American explorer for a period source or raw 8uPPlv. and cancella- gins appeared at ine ooor. of 15 years, rental free, during which 1 on f orders are given as the causes "This isn't the place! First door time he is at liberty to test his the- of the difficultY- The latter shows on the right," he said sternly, shooing ories of reindeer and musk-ox ranch- lne country nas to an extent quit its tnem out line so many cnicnens. njr for the incrpase of tn mntl. maoness ror "everything silk" and He turned to me again. "There nental meat supply. At the close of that 18 a, healthy sign. you see;, they can't keep away from the 15-year experiment Stefansson Those kids come to the building is to render to Canada a rental of J"r KocKereller, who was eighty, for their birth certificates so. that one tne otner day, is real example I they can get working papers; and to youth. Not in accumulating the when they see the word 'Marriage greatest fortune, for anybody can over the door they walk right in "It isn't only the women who are sale, one of the clerks in the marriage license bureau. Quite often a man comes in here for a license without I knowing the name of the girl he is going to marry. He calls her 'Honey I and he can't spell her last name, and that's all he knows about it." The clerk shook his head, which had grown gray making out marriage licenses, and refused to guess at the reason for he unusual number of June weddings this year. "People will get married," he said portent ously. "There's lots of money about now; men can afford luxuries like flivvers and wives and diamond rings. But they'd get married, anyway." Again he shook his head over the frailty of humanity. A party of smiling, eager school ?11,000 a year. Baffin island has an area of 236.000 square miles. Stefansson's province in the south, comprising one-half the island, is a fit realm for one whose veins have never forgotten the blood of the Norse sea-kings. There it is his de sign to prove in practice the theories of arctic stock-growing that came to him -when he was as much an igloo-dweller as any,Eskimo. Two save money and grow rich, but in the here." Chicago Evening Post. daily outdoor exercise that would u.anc iwi.i a. irai lur an uisur- Curious wavers are less common ance company and his pleasant way today than they were in earlier days ul nianiiiB me oesi. oi ure generally. wv.en men would undergo personal It is not as easy to hang a man for murder in Nebraska as it was. years ago, upon his return from the Two who are due tcf dle for kininB north, Stefansson lectured in Port- the mother-in-law of one have been, land. He was filled with the fnpme reprieved a dozen times on techni- of reindeer raising, enthusiastic over calities. Certainly they have good the possibilities of the animal that lawyers. has made northern Siboria. habitnVno Stefansson s project on Baffin is- "- committee or newspapermen land is not unique In the western t having, after due inspection, decided world, though it Is planned on a that the one-piece bathing suit is more extensive scale. Reindeer have I neitner improper nor immodest. been bred and raised in Alaska for may have based their decision op the a lifetime, and the exnerimpntal flocks that were brought from Si- precedent in the river that ran out of Eden the first summer. beria have multiplied prodigiouslv. The meat and hides are even now on export, but the quantity that is available ove local consumntion "What's the idea. Eve?" asked Adam as she reached for a limb on tho bank of the river that flowed has not served to displace nackine I oul ' Eden. "My one-piece suit. house beef. It is still in the cate-leno said. And 6000 years later the gory of the unknown, so far as the fashion Is coming very close to that public is concerned. But expert prophecy declares that reindeer meat Poland holds the line for civiliza will in the near future be common I tion and to such purpose that she I Possibly reached by in the meat stalls of every Ame'ri- sends her daughters into battle with Canadian town who propelled a green can market. Ventures of the ma?- the bolshevists. Meantime the allies pea with a toothpick for about 80 nitude that Stefansson is attempting, j open trade with Russia. Kosciuszko, I yards along the pavement within if they are successful, can have no I your dream of freedom troubled? I half an hour of the stipulated time, otner result. I . I and won the wager. Detroit News. humiliation and discomfitures to win a purse. One of the strangest is that regard ing Lord Digby in 1670, when he walked five miles around Newmarket Heath in a certain time, barefoote and naked, while the king and hi court watched him. Lord Digby lost the wager by a margin of half minute. In the ISth century a Liverpool scientist bet a brother scientist that he could read a newspaper by the ?lgn of a farthing dip at a distance ot 30 feet. The scientist performed the feat by coating the inside of a shallow wooden box with sloping pieces of looking glass. The idea led to th modern reflected light system. Another example of a curious wager was that of a Liverpool cotton broker who, on a bet, wore a pair of wooden shoes to the cotton exchange. The limit in reature wagers was man in a small 'We're a year behind in manufac turing our orders," says Thomas O'Neill of Cincinnati, O., who is brother of Mark O'Neill, president of the Kentucky-Klick. The O'Neill from Ohio marched about a million miles in San Francisco as a member of the marching club which had the Cox band at the convention. "We manufac ture furniture, and there is such a de mand that salesmen are not required on the road. Costs have gone up tre mendously, from labor to mirrors, The automobile makers buy so much glass for windshields that getting mirrors for furniture is becoming problem." Mr. O'Neil predicts that Cox will carry Ohio. 'We're going to get the money fo the Crater lake road, notwithstand ing the decision of the supreme court, which has Invalidated the road bond of a number of counties," asserts S. S. Smith, of Medfosd, who is at the Ben son. Mr. Smith is in town as com mitteeman for Jackson county to aid in organizing the republican state central committee today. Mr. Smith says that the lumber industry is rap idly developing in his section. Th Brownlee company, which has been operating in Mississippi, is moving It logging roads and mill equipment to Medford and. will erect a big plan north of the town this year. Anvone who wants to hunt moose can find plenty of game bacK or w oil ville. Nova Scotia. There are trout 1 abundance in the streams, too. bu Orecon anglers need not travel so fa to fill a basket. W. L. Arcnioaio. irom Wolfvllle. arrived at the Imperial yes terday. Wolfville is near the mouth of Cornwallis river, named in hono of the British general who said h was too ill to appear when George Washington was waiting to receiv his sword. Wolfville has a populatio of about 1800 and is a settlement used by hunters for outfitting. "Here, boy, I want you," command ed a young woman who had Just ar rived at the Multnomah witn a motor nartv. The uniformed young man kept moving away, paying no atten tion. so the young woman bega snanDinir her fingers and callin "Bov. come here. Up stepped Kay Clark, of the house staff, inquiring what the woman wished. i want that bellboy to tell me where the manicurist is," explained the young woman. "That." said Mr. Clark, point ing an accusing finger t the retreat ing uniformed back, "is a naval of ficer." MEJV OWE THEIR ALL TO WOMEN Sexes: Already Running Close Race In Intellectual Sense. KELSO, Wash.. July 9. (To the Editor.) I have read with much in terest the correspondence regarding the Inferiority of women. I think the last phrase should be reversed into superiority of women. There never was a man who ever reached an exalted position without first tak ing counsel with his wife or his mother as his first impulse. Of course, it is a fact that men have been directly credited with the honor of alUgreat achievments. There never was a great mac but' there waa a great woman who was the mother him. There is a law that never lils to hold good, and that is he is flesh of her flesh and blood of her blood, and brain of her brain. The part the male sex plays in the source of reproduction you would have to use a high-power microscope to see. As we go down through the ages. uch a thing as a prominent women was unknown. She was not allowed o speak in church, and if she was to learn anything she was to ask her usband, and if the 'case might be he id not know anything, now much wiser was she? The time never will come when women will be physically r.an'o equal, ut the time is here and now that the feminine sex is running neck, and neck with the male sex in the intel lectual sense. Go to any public school. In any of the grades, and you will ind that the girls are equal, if nt uperior, in their examinations. The fact ls the female sex just now coming into Us own. A onmn as been classed as dependent on mnn or support, and her safetv depi-nds on mans superior strength. Th eclaration of independence declares hat all men are created equal, but ince women have the rint of suf frage that phrase .-.hould be modified o read that all mankind are treated qual. That they are endowed with ertain inalienable rights, for it is fact and it cannot be gotten away rom, that what concerns one stx concerns the other during th3 course of human epnts and future posterity We are one people and inseperable vv hatever achievements are accom plished by one sex, the other shares in the reward.- A. M. JESS. More Truth Than Poetry. By Junes J. Montague I-IOPLE STILL, WAM SKUMO.NS THEM THAT HAS GITS. Caruso need only to sing. Which he does with remarkable ease. And the papers f lambuoyantly fling His name and his fame to the " breeze. No feverish press agents labor like mad To boast him from Bangor to Chico: If ever a fellow did not need an ad. That fellow is Signor Enrico! Yet dozens of actors there are. With names ineffulgent and dim. Whose fame doesn't carry as far As a restaurant gold-fish can swim. And even when press agents work over time Inventing extravagant capers. Or mixing them up with spectacular crime. They can't get them into the papers. Now burglars might work at their job And not be accounted so bad. If they picked out the people to rob Who stood in some need of the ad. But passing poor Thespians placidly by. With a cruel and sardonic -gurgle. When they go out at night for a jewel supply Caruso's the lad that they burgle! The man who has all of the gold That the bankers will willingly store. And all that the strong rooms can hold. Is the person who always gets more. While dozens of actors, who hungered for fame Were flaunted, ignored and un heeded, Caruso, who's oversupplied with the same Of course, grabbed off more than he needed! - Hope for the ( hlirrhf . If all profiteers are going to hell, as a clergyman predicts, there is a big incentive to the rest of us to lead blameless lives. a Easy. It is hard for men to fall upstairs, but prices seem to have no trouble in doing it. Jir. Cllne Soya It Depend nn Whnt Preacher Una to "oj. PORTLAND, July 10. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonian last Sunday contained the rather lengthy state ment of a former Portland clergyman giving his reasons for abandoning the pulpit, chief of which was, the people have outgrown the sermon, and there fore "I quit." That, it will occur to some, depends upon the sermon. If the preacher, be he ever so philosophic and learned. Indulges in far-fetched conceits, pret- tinesses and divers clap-trap, the average congregation will in due time have little interest in his preaching. . The power of the pulpit lies alto gether in preaching the gospel. The successful minister respects both phi losophy and science, and has no fear of either, but the average man, while heartily supporting education, is not disturbed by either philosophy or sci entific difficulties. Not one in twen ty in our congregations knows or cares anything about the so-called "burning" questions that befuddle an occasional preacher and knock him off the Christmas tree. Questions of an altogether different type concern most men conscience. sin, life, death and the vast forever; how to live worthily the life we now live these are the things that appeal to earnest people, and Christ's utter ances relative to these have not ceased to carry weight, greater than any amount of abstract talk. If, ordinarily, the preacher is not engaged in attracting attention to himself, more than expounding in a competent manner the gospel, the people, as may be seen In not a few Portland churches, are not found out growing the sermon. C. E. CLINE. Well Supplied. They are. talking of nationalizing women in Turkey, and no Turk has lo regret that he has but one wife to give to his country. (Copyright, 19J0. by .the Bell Syndi cate. Inc.) In Other Days. What the Hut-tons Said. rORTLAND, July 10. (To the Edi tor.) In your news report this morn ing relative to the arrival of the dem ocrats from San Francisco wearing Cox rooster buttons the statement is made that the legend on the decora tion read: "I will crow in November." Isn't there a mistake somewhere? My recollection Is that it said: "I will rronk in November." Kindly put us right on this matter. C. W. HODSON. Tnenlr-fh Years Ago. I-'rom The Oregonian of July lo, lsor,. This Is ildzama day and every snow-capped peak in Oregon and Washington will have visitors and ueliographic messages will be flashed front one mountain to another through the Cascade range. Because of a shortage of funds the board of police commissioners last nierht reduced the police force by dropping out Captain J. N. James and. ten patrolmen. The special four-day bicycle race meeting starting at the lrvindton track this afternoon promises thrill lng dashes, as the best riders of the northwest are entered. Bathing Suit Suggestion. PORTLAND. Or., July 9. (To the Editor.) May I suggest for these bathers of the stronger sex who per sist to wear tight suits a city or dinance prescribing light trouserettes over their suits and, for, the little boys of the swimming 'ole, white chemisettes covering their heels. SIS. rOHTLANU SESSIO.V WAS BEST Milwaukee Shrine Dlnnltnrj Enfhusl antic Over llonpicnlily Shown. ON TRAIN. En Route to Milwaukee, Wis., July 7. (To the Editor.) The Portland session of the Hhrine was the biggest, best managed and most delightful in the history of Shrlne doni. We stood in open-eyed and open-mouthed wonder at the magnifi cence of the street decorations. Their handling of the vast throng of visitors would have done credit to the allied general statf. In the matter of courtesy and hospitality, we of Wis consin discovered to our chagrin that we are only in the kindergarten stage, so much have we to learn from our Pacific slope friends. In Augustus Ceaear's time "See Rome and die" was a saying among the provincials. Somehow, the Port land session recalls these words and leaves -visiting temples In despair of every duplicating it. Now, I must stop or be accused of slopping over, but ask any of our party whether I exaggerate. Anyhow, no temple in North America feels pre pared to entertain the li21 conven tion of the imperial council and there by furnish an anti-climax to the memorable Portland meeting. The only way out of the dilemma was to accept the standing invitation of the mayor of Atlantic City to cavort on his long board walk next summer. The drives about Portland made rabid see-America first propagandists Of us all. CHKSTKR M. ECHOLS, Potentate. Tripoli Temple. To the head of the famllv. chaf fering with the butcher, the arctic and antarctic, dashes of intrepid ex plorers, hitherto commonly classed as eccentric and perilous jaunts without proportionate benefit to mankind, become genuine excursions of service when the hardy adventur ers bring .home the bacon." as it scheme of American politics a third my mind what to do, I simply flip a were. The average citizen will con- party seems necessary for dumping coin." Washington Star. ress a Keener interest in cutlets than purposes. In continental coastlines. I 1 "Suppose, Job had had some of our felr lamest Shackleton, British ant- One of the biggest coal men of the modern afflictions." arctic explorer, who was fussing 1 country declares there is no shortage. I "Yes. and suppose Solomon had to around the south pole while Stef- I This is a good time to put in aEup-lgive judgment as umpire in a base- anbbon was Dandj ing blubber with 1 ply, all the same. -- 1 ball game. ' V Boston Transcript. Albany, which took the county I fair from Scio on a business basis, "I understand you have told your I plans "to have "the best fair in the ! wife to throw the ouija board into the Willamette valley", this year, and it I wood-box." will hustle to make good. "Tes. I'm not going to have any such superstitious nonsense deciding A modern Pandora's box will be questions around my house. When 1 opened ' in Chicago today. In the I come to, a point where I can't make up In two days J. H. Beckley drove from Fort Klamath to Portland, mak ing the run to Roseburg the first day and traveling from Roaeburg to Port land, 200 miles, the second. He says that the trip is now a pleasure, al though there are a few rough spots due to construction work. Fort Klamath is the paradise of the world, according to Mr. Beckley, who is a stockman, and he declares that con ditions in his vicinity are glowing, particularly since recent rains. The stock is in good shape, but he mar ket is "off." He is at the Imperial. Celery interests Dan Waldo Boss more than anything else, although Mr. Boss has many Interests. He has a ranch near Corvallis, he is president of the Washington Hotel Men's asso ciation; he is part owner of a Seattle hotel and he Is an owner In a sawmill. Mr. Boss, who is at the Multnomah to attend a session of the West Coast Lumbermen's association, forgets all these Interests when the celery crop Is ready to harvest. Bummln'am boasts of its" pig-iron Industry. There Is plenty of cotton grown In Alabama and tributary to Bummln'am. but the town takes more pride In its raw iron resources. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Barrett of Birmingham have arrived at the Multnomah and just missed meeting their chief exec utive, Governor Kilby, who passed through the day before from the dem ocratic convention. This is vouched for by Miss Flor ence Goodenough, who registered at the Multnomah yesterday from Spo kane. Her father, Mr. Goodenough, owned a mine near Spokane which he sold to a Mr. Toogood. and the name of the mine foreman Is Mr. Bctteryet. James Cram and W. I. Dishman of Prineville have been in town selling some cattle which they brought down to market. How Fairy Queen Goodman Turns Cities Into Bowers of Beauty Inasmuch as Portland, for a generation or so, will continue to discuss the Shrine convention of 1920, it is not amiss that some post-festival credit should be given, here and now, to the genius who transformed the city into an oriental capital when the caravans headed this way. That gifted personage was none other than Charles W. Goodman, of Seattle, and his work attested the fact that he is no novice. De Witt Harry, writing in the Sunday paper, tosses other laurels on the brow of the Seattle decorative specialist, and tells who he is and what he has accomplished. A good yarn and a Lively one, with illustrations. Three dunces of Clothes Mercy on us! And also lackaday! Such, we blush to recount, is the exact weight of the fashionable attire that Parisian beauties are wearing this season. To wear four ounces is to be a frump, and to wear five is to me hopelessly im possible. Ethel Thurston chats of this charming foible in the Sun day magazine section, and proves that three ounces, judiciously chosen, will insure safety from arrest. With illustrations. Princess Cantacuzene, General Grant's Granddaughter Bio graphical sketches are always interesting when they concern people who are likewise, and this article in the Sunday issue bears the dual mark of merit. Born in the White House, during the presi dential term of General Grant, she wedded a Russian prince in her 20th year and is home again from bolshevik-land. Her -message is a plea for Russia, the land she learned to love and whose plight wrings her sympathetic heart. In Washington they call her "our Russian princess," but the matron whose girlhood began in the capital is still an American, as you will perceive when you have read the charming interview by Clara Whiteside. Heart Problems That Men Have Just Faced This is a story of drama and sacrifice, of the real sort, that happened to actual people, and that did not originate' in the moon-stricken fancy of fiction. It tells why Lieutenant Schwartz, U. S. N., surrendered his wife to another man, and why Captain Stokes, U. S. A., retired, refused to plead the unwritten law. In the Sunday magazine section, with illustrations. All the News of All the World No matter where it happened, or when, the item of news finds its speedy way to the wires and cables and reaches the linotypes and presses of The Oregonian as fast as current can carry it. It is reliable and complete. And the big Sun day issues, specializing in all the news, home and foreign, carries scores of features as well. Bigger and Better Than Most Magazines THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN