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TTTE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 10, 1920
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, A CRISIS IN TRANSrORTATIOX. '
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
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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