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THE . MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920
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KhTABLISHKD bl HENRY I- PITTOCK.
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I the plain people their heritage of . Daimler'for his gas engine, the quest
sport. I takes us no further than to 1834.
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day's. suggestion that license fees ' inder engine jeally made the automo-
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should be- increased. The license fee
at best has never been advanced as
a measure of protection, but as a
means for gathering funds for prop
agation and protective administra
tion. It Is only In this guise that the
direct license tax on anglers and
hunters is at all tolerable. Quite
sensibly the fee has been held down
to a minimum, within the financial
reach of all. so that sport may not
become the vested privilege of the
well-to-do, but the common pleasure
of all. To raise the license fee to the
point where personal economy would
bile feasible, did not perfect this de
vice until 1886., Compared with the
sixty-four years that intervened be
tween the atmospheric-pressure en
gine of Neweomen and Savery and
years from Watt to the present day,
progress of transportation since the
Invention of the internal combustion
vehicle has been as the flight of the
hummingbird to the crawling of the
snail.
It is interesting to recall that only
twenty-six years ago last Fourth of
July seven miles an hour was the au-
Infamy of Germany's conduct has
brought about that, however much
the allies may disagree on other sub
jects, they stand together against
Germany.
Delivery of coal as partial repara
tion Is of vital necessity to both
France and Italy. Owing to destruc
tion of the French mines and to de-
the steam engine of Watt, or the 151ficlent delivery by Germany, about
lessen the number of licenses issued tomobile record, and also that about
could have but one effect the ma- that time an attempt to propel a
trlculation of poachers, a most per- strange motor" craft through the
nicious result for any protective streets of Chicago was prevented by
reform to attain. Lessen the bag the police. Practically all that has
and creel limit If need be, shorten been accomplished in motor trans-
the season and circumscribe the
methods of taking game and fish,
but leave the moderate license fee
alone. It is one of the guarantees
of a democracy wherein laborer and
magnate have an equal standing.
portation is recorded In the annals
ot a quarter of a century.
WHAT SILENCE MEANS.
When asked whether prohibition would
WHICn BALKM LAUGHS NOWt
Salem, Oregon, is entitled to
chuckle again over a sequel to its
little pleasantry of a few years ago.
when it proposed In a letter to the
forty other Salenis In the United
- A BROOD OF NEW PARTIES.
Being a bolters convention, the
third-nartv convention naturally gave
: rise to two bolts. What else could
be expected? The only thing that
its several elements had in common
. 1 1 V..k 1 MnkllAan avtl
democratic parties are too conserva
tive for all of them, but they repre
sented every degree of radicalism
. from the progressive of 1912 who has
sinrA rnntinued to travel to the left.
to the out-and-out Bolshevist, who
wants revolution, red. terror and the
soviet commune tomorrow. ,
With grief the forty-eighters dis
covered that the labor party is com-
rrKA rt vor Solsri nviKt ft- th&t it VlP-
lieves In free speech for itself only
and also believes n free confiscation
and In free revolution In every other
country. So they flocked by them
' selves, but deferred nomination of a
ticket. The labor party was too
socialistic for both the single-taxers
and the non-partisan league, and the
league was too socialistic for the
singie-taxers, so tney eacn iiock uy
themselves and ntmt a ticket each.
. Out of this witch's caldron of
; political misfits emerge three new
pa i ties farmer-labor, with Parley
P. Christensen as its nominee for
-. president; single tax, with Robert O.
Macaulev: non-Dartisan league, with
. Rfihnrt M. La. Follette. The fortv-
eighters are off on one side, unde-'
;.' elded whether to make a nomination.
There are thus 6ix tickets in the
.' field, with a possibility of two more,
: for the prohibitionists refuse to die
as a party when their Issue is dead.
' These should be enough to satisfy
- tho most fastidious political taste.
-'. If La Follette should accept the
;, non-partisan league nomination, his
; career would end in a ridiculous antl
climax. Beginning as. a republican
: who fought the Wisconsin machine
r until he smashed it, he then became
the reform governor who forced
through many generally progressive
laws which set the pace for other
. states. But he rapidly became more
radical until he was completely out
. of tune with the republican party.
. and as a chronic candidate for the
presidential nomination he was
; soured by disappointed ambition un
. til In the war his radicalism degen
erated into disloyalty. He has long
been an incubus to the republican
party, and it would welcome his
- final departure from its ranks. J
The convention of assorted radicals
. ha? served a useful purpose. It has
" opened the eyes of the parlor bolshe
vists to the revolutionary and intol
erant character of the self-styled
aeienaea. it nas rorcea tne rarmer-
muor crowa to snow now Bmau it
; really Is and how revolutionary are
, its principles. Ta it free speech,
amnesty and no sedition laws mean
red terror for all others who seek
the benefit of such alleged reforms;
"democratic control of Industries"
means frankly communism; "public
i. ownership of public . utilities and
. natural resources" means confisca
tion or nnvate Dronprtv. for thr is
,.co suggestion of compensation; de
nunciation of the peace with Ger-
' many means exoneration of Prus-
sianism, and so on. The wonder is
that any supposed intellectual could
be deceived- lnto the belief that
greater freedom "or more nearly
Ideal justice could be won by the tri
umph of such men, or that a party
so incapable of conducting its own
affairs could rule the republic.
h. aoveo; cUT.T. V..T, .'X States that they change their names,
custom to confine the speech to a dis-lin order to simplify the postal guide
cusaion oi tn party pisiform. The plat-1 ana avoid future misunderstandings,
Associated Press dissatch. Columbus. O.. I , B"" reiueiuuer uw neuieoun ih-
Juiy -is. I dignation, and the seriousness, with
So It is. So are both platforms. I which this suggestion was received
One mav wasto rits tim in tmssine 1 " &aiem, jyiassacnusetu tne town
it win do Dome in mina, woicn never
what either platform would have
said. If it said anything: but it Is no
waste of time to surmise what a can
didate should say on a vital subject,
i he says anything. If he says noth
ing,' there will be fruitful discussion
as to what Is meant by his failure,
or refusal, to say anything.
Candidate Cox knows that he has
tho name and fame of being wet.
His record is wet. Mr. Bryan says
he Is wet. Boss Murphy. Boss Nu
gent, Boss Brennan and the other
half of the restored Industries In
the war zone are idle, while German
Industries are in full operation ex
cept where they lack raw material.
If this condition were to continue,
Germany would win one of Its war
aims, which was to extinguish
France as a serious competitor. Ital
ian industry is under a like handi
cap, and Italy, already . poverty
stricken, is paying famine prices for
American cqal. Britain's labor trou
ble have reduced its coal output.
so that exports have diminished when
tht necessities of its allies demand
that they be increased. But the in
creased power of the German peo
ple's party, headed by the captains
of industry, is exercised to withhold
coal from France and to use it for
revival of German Industry. If the
allies had weakened on the coal
question, Germany would have won
an Important point for which it
fought the war.
The interests of the United States
in enforcing the peace terms is iden
tical with that of the allies, for that
Is essential to the purpose for which
fought destruction of German
military power and defeat of the
ends for which Germany fought. No
KEEPS HIS FEET ON THE GROUWDI
Hardin c Tfo Miracle Worker. Bat
Statesman of Common Sense.
Takima Republic
Even supposing that Mr. Harding Is
a reactionary and a member of the
ruling junta of the senate, whatever
these expressions may mean, we think
no one will have to stretch his imagi
nation much to believe that If he had
been president during the last eight
Those Who Come and Go.
burned a witch In all its history, but
banged them. Instead.
Now the census returns show that
Salem, Oregon, has a population in
1920 of 17.679, which represents a
gain for the decennlum of 8S8S, or
25.4 per cent, while Salem, Massa
chusetts, has 42,616, whfch is a de
crease of 2.7 per cent. Should the
Oregon Salem go on increasing at
the rate of 25.4 per cent per decen
nlum, which it is not at all impossible
IKlI If nrfll w.;ia I - Maw TT!
bosses made a last-ditch fight for I , , !.' n.
. . . 1 acbAiv, uamcoano i.i'ii Lilt uvo Lici ill v
him because they looked upon him
as wet. Candidate Cox purposes by
hls silence to confirm that opinion
which in the circumstances amounts
to actual knowledge.
What Is the reason? To the wets
he will continue to be wet; to the
drys be will hold out the promise
of law enforcement. But can he ride
both horses? It may be doubted,
at the rate of 2.7 per cent every ten
j ears, as to the probability of which
we offer no prediction, it Is only a
matter of a short while before our
Salem will be the Salem of Sal ems.
What then will become of the Mas
sachusetts Salem's contention, in
which, however, we take no stock,
that "when anybody speaks of 'Sa
lem.' the audience, be it two ears or
Mr. Bryan is also ominously silent twccontinents wn', add -Mass.'"?
for the present.
SOCNOS LIKE A BCD.
It may be true that population by
itstlf is not everything In the making
of a town. Otherwise. Salem in Brit
ish India, with its 70.621 souls at the
Harry McAllister, suave, smiling
and as well-groomed as ever, is in
town from Wallace, Idaho, on bis way
to Seaside with Mrs. McAllister and
their young daughter. A few years
ago Harry McAllister probably knew
more men In Portland than any other
years he wouldn't have kept us out citizen and in 1912, when the Elk
of war. He probably would have held their great reunion, he was the
plunged us into war very suddenly
after the Oermans sank the Lusltanla.
That Is what Roosevelt would have
done. It is what 'most anybody' but
Wilson would have done. If it had
been done the war would have ended
in a hurry, and. it would have cost
the country but a small fraction of
what It did cost.
W hen the war was over Harding as
president would not have gone to
Europe to settle the affairs of Eu
rope, but he would have picked out a
commission of men such as Root,
Lodge and Taft and given them lnr
structions to make peace with the
nemy. H probably wouldn't have
had a league of nations covenant to I arrive
submit to the senate after the peace
conference was over. If he had it
would have been a document separate
from the peace treaty. The treaty
would have been ratified without de
lay, and the senate, exercising its
judgment In the constitutional way,
would have approved or disapproved
the league idea If that had come be
fore It.
All this would have been done
months ago and the nation would
have been well on the way to a set
tlement of the questions raised1 by the
war. Its president would not, per
haps,' have been a world leader, anx
chap who had to plan the details.
Later Mr. McAllister was a candidate
for heriff and was nosed out.- "It
was a good thing that X was defeat
ed," admitted Mr. McAllister yester
day, "for it taught me to save my
money." For several years Mr. Mc
Allister has been In the mining busi
ness In the Coeur d'Alene country.
The weather around Wallace is now
so torrid that the stock exchange has
closed, and as Mr. McAllister is a
stock broker he decided to .do what
everyone else in Wallace does who
has money when the warm weather
seek a cooler climate.
Zig Zag dosn't appear on hotel reg
isters very often, because the few
people who live at" Zig Zag when the
snow Is gone, rarely come to town,
but D. B. Brown is an exception and
he registered yesterday at the Hotel
Oregon. Zig Zag is a spread in the
road near the base of Mount Hood
and takes its name from a stream
which starts up In the snow. The
PRESS OX NOWrVATlOX OF COX.
Convention, Repudiating Own Work.
Run True to Party Form.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The democratic convention ran true
to democratic form. It proclaimed its
trust in the president because it had
to swallow his policies and platform
precisely as he directed and then
proceeded to repudiate Its own work
by turning an entire dynasty out of
office In a bunch. While the demo
cratic party has taken over the Wil
son policies, it has jettisoned Wilson
and we can discuss policies and not
personalities. And let us now pro
ceed to grind the democratic party
Into fine powder.
Wilson Dynasty Frustrate.
Detroit Free Press.
In making Governor James M. Cox
of Ohio the democratic nominee for
the presidency the San Francisco con
vention put an end to all plans for
the establishment of a Wilson
dynasty In the White House. The
delegates' at San Francisco indulged
in action that looked much like an
open and deliberate repudiation of
Wllsonlerm in all Its aspects. In
spite of factional dislike of the nom
inee, in spite of the Ill-feeling gen
erated by the war of the ballots, the
San Francisco convention has chosen
the most formidable candidate With
in its reach.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
Platform and Candidate Harmonise,
New Tork Times.
The democrats enter the eampagin
with a candidate worthy of the noble
government, with state co-operation. I and compelling cause which they are
is building m link or the Mount nooa i resolved snail trlumpn tnrougn tneir
loop road from zig zag to oovern-1 victory at the pons. Their piatrorm
Mrirtn. attlHl.nl V, a a ha.n m.a 4m
this country of those parts of the ed nd U8eful adviser intent only on
treaty which deal with Germany
proper. Several clauses of the armi
stice remain unfulfilled, and the
getting American affairs back to
normal basis.
It is not hard to believe Harding
United States has the right to end it would have been that kind of an ex
and to send the armv at Coblens far- ecutlve, and we think it will be
ther Into Germany. If the Germans "redJ by thoughtful persons that if
y,- ,. .Ani,tr.Mn I w had had that kind of a man in the
magine that the league controversy whlt() Hou tne natlon would have
implies any weas-ening in American b.tn better served than it ha. been
ment Camp and beyond.
has been in progress
years, but the contractors have to
hustle during the few months when
the road! is free from snow. The com-
Dletion of the loon road around the
mountain may be celebrated about
1922 or 1923
The work I their purpose, their candidate are in
couple of I harmony. They seek good govern
ment and sound administration at
home, and such an advance toward
the moral regeneration of the world
as may be attained by the effort
of brave and sincere men unselfishly
devoted to the principles they profess
determination to compel disband-
ment of their army and destruction
of their armament, they are doomed
to a rude awakening.
by the great apostle of the New Free'
dom, who has always known more
than all the rest of the people put
together; who has always looked for
ward and not backward; who has
kept his eye on the man Instead of
THS SEASON OF SURCEASE. I the dollar and has posed as the friend
Vacations? The woods are full oflor the ideal instead of the practical.
it is possible, according to this the
ory, to have a president on the job
who Is too great, too able, too much
of a miracle worker. It's high time
we were trying one who Is Just a
plain, ordinary citizen who walks
with his feet on the ground.
If the fame of the bathing beach at
Honolulu has spread to the continent.
the fame of the Columbia river high
way has also spanned the Pacific
ocean from the mainland to the Ha
waiian Islands. Having heard tour
ists talk so much about the great Ore
gon attraction, who declared that the
Cox a Proved Vote-Getter,
New Tork Sun.
Governor Cox may be expected to
put Into this contest both speed an
power. He has shown himself a hard
campaigner and a good vote-getter.
It is no ordinary office-seeker wh
can win and hold a republican seat
The long-threatened, long-expect
ed. long-ranee thunderbolt hurled by last count, would be the greatest
Senator Johnson at Judge McCamant Salem of all of them. It is pretty
leaves that gentleman still perched geuerally conceded, however, that
cn his lofty eminence of anti-John- rate or progress is a pretty good crl
son defiance. According to all the terion. Go-ahead-itiveness certainly
rules he should have been annl- does count. And here the record Is
hllated. But to our Inexpert eye it clear. A gain of 25.4 per cent on the
looks as if the Jovian senator had one hand and a loss of 2.7 per cent
missed. Or perhaps it was just a on the other tell the whole story.
dud.
Mr. Johnson accused Mr. McCam
ant, delegate to the Chicago con
vention, of betraying the people of
Oregon. The betrayal consisted in
the McCamant refusal to vote for
Johnson for president, when the sen
ator by a narrow plurality. It will
be remembered had carried the
Oregon presidential primaries. Judge
McCamant has heretofore stoutly
The time is nearly propitious for the
folks up in Salem, Oregon, to renew
their campaign.
BRINGING GERMANY TO TIME.
. Once more the Germans have tried
to bluff the allies into letting them
escape from fulfilling the terms of
peace, but their bluff has been
called. . Once more the allies have
had to nrnv that on one Tkoint at
defended his action, contending that ,eaBt they are united compelling
ne nau urnen no pieage to accept tne Germany to execute the treaty. And
people's choice (so-called) and that once more we mav extect that after
he had publicly announced before Mn .e.rf,mer.t n.rm.n. will
the primary that he would under no break u unlesa the allies take Bevere
circumstances vote for Johnson. I n,iv moceoa rumanu- t;n
Let us leave the argument there. noMa - tr,atv to h a srrar. of naner.
since there is no blood shed and no
great harm done.. Judge McCam
ant might have voted for Johnson
a thousand times at Chicago, and
been joined by several hundred oth
ers, and Johnson would not have
been nominated. Some other con
vention may some day honor Senator
Johnson by making him its candidate.
but among the thousand delegates
at Chicago there were at least eight
hundred who were agreed absolutely
that their choice should fall on some
other.
The Johnson-McCamant Incident
illustrates anew the ineffectiveness
and executes it only if self-interest
dictates or under compulsion.
The present trouble which the
allies are having with Germany is
the plain consequence of the Origi
nal error of Judgment in granting
an armistice before Germany was
fully occupied by the allied armies.
Occupation of a strategic position
liko the line of the Rhine and en
forced surrender of the 'fleet and of
large quantities of arms might have
been sufficient guaranty with almost
any other nation for the faithful
fulfillment of terms of peace, but
trift sallies riarl rtnrt ahnnrtant nmnf
.a v. - . t . . : . i i I "
.u .uu.u,i, U1 uo ptraiucauai pu- thlit it would not be enough with
mary law. ui tne ten aeiegaies irom flermanv. The doctrlns, that min-bt
Oregon no one was personally for ,.,nt ,, tn,t tret,.s arB mn
only- to be broken had been
Johnson. Mr. McCamant led all
others In the state's poll, probably
because he had said he would never
vote for Johnson. Every candidate
who " pronounced for Johnson was
beaten. Why? Because the major
ity of republicans were against
them in Oregon. There are less
favored states, of course, where the
season of respite from endeavor finds
the freed toller struggling with the
perplexities of time-tables and rue
fully scanning his bank balance.
To such the gift of vacation Is even
as the offering of a white elephant
from some friendly rajah who
wished to make his favor felt. Ob
viously you cannot stable, the beast
in town, and his tonnage speaks for
fields and forests far away. But there
are no such problems here. Vacation
bides at the-very door of the city.
and but an hour or so suffices to
set its pilgrims down in some un
rifled depth of ancient wood, with
hills and streams adjacent thereto.
or on the. alluring sands where Pa
cific, comes thundering In with Its
diapason of mysterious infinitude. So
that's arranged. .
Inasmuch as the best authorities
agree that the vacation is indispen
sable,, it follows that it possesses a
value in accord and constitutes a
treasure to be expended wisely and
well. There are no set rules for the
pleasurable passage' of time in vaca-
tion-land, but there are certain ob
Jectives that must be attained If the
season Is at all successful. And the
first of these are fresh air and exer.
else, in copious portions. Anywhere
will do, so long as there is space to
stride or hills to climb, creeks to ford
and waves to swim, for it is there
that the calm, pervasive tonic of
Dame Nature seeps into the tired
tissues and builds them up in
strength. - Whether it be a trout or a
sunset, a hilltop or a huckleberry
patch, tho specific programme of va
cation is but an incidental' to the
game of catching up with health and
happiness.
If all the league and alliances
composing the third party should
succeed In having their names In
cluded In the party name, the latter
will be longer than any of the many
branches of the soviet government.
But it will be appropriate, for the
third-party men are chiefly noted
for lavish consumtption of words.
BUILDING OF RAILROAD URGED
Wenatchee Man Argnes (or Contrac
tion to Develop Present Resources.
WENATCHEE. Wash. July 14.
(To the Editor.) Noting the favor
able newspaper articles regarding
proposed Irrigation, and noting that
a great many people of your state, as
well as The Oregonlan are quite fa
vorable to the project, let me add that
It would mean 'millions of dollars,
not only to our section, but to Port
land and Oregon as well.
The Intention of this article, how
ever, is to cite your attention more
fully to the already developed re
sources existing here, which would be
source of untold wealth to your
people if a railroad were built from
here to Pasco, a distance of 105 miles.
There is a railroad line from here to
the British line at Orovllle, with
scenery on the road to the volcano I and win thricA over th
nouse is insignmcani oj companauu,
a party of residents from Honolulu
arrived yesterday. to see tor tnem
selves. In the group are Mrs. W. H
Babbett. Miss E. C Babbett and H. C,
Babbett. They are registered at the
Hotel Portland.
County Judge Malone. of Benton
county, reports that "op conditions or mor( votes fTQm h,m ,n thf) coun'
in nis section are gooa, annousu mo
recent rains hammered down some of
the fall wheat. Judge Malone Is
particularly interested in the road
problem in his county and is still
hoping that the state highway com
mission will make good on the prom
ise made long ago to develop the
Alsea road.
governorship of a leading state whlc
is normally, traditionally and fa
mousy republican.
Wetness Will Have No Effect.
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
No doubt the wetness attributed to
Cox will draw many votes to him
but whether it will not take as man
try, from the women especially.
it least an open question. He is
plain American citizen of a Judicla
temperament and disposed to be f4
to all Interests.
A PROTEST.
The president vetoed a bill receatlr
because its grammar was faulty.
Tls the voice of the statesman; Just
bark to bis clamor;
"Look a' this, what the newspaper
spills; a
Us members of congress has got to
learn grammar
Or Woodrow will veto our bills.
No matter how good is said bills tor
the nation.
He says he will turn 'em all down. "
Unless they've got la what he calls
conjugation.
An' the adverb agrees with, tho
noun.
Now how can a fellow like I get
elected.
In a district where grammar is nix.
And a guy ain't supposed, not even
expected.
To know no rhetorical tricks?
Old LiOdge can converse like the col
leges teaches.
But say, it is different with me!
If I was to pull that "to-whom" stuff
in speeches,
I would not bo no congressman.
See?
Tim Sullivan wasn't bo college pro
fessor.
But you notice he never was beat.
His gang never tried for to pick, bis
successor
As long as he wanted his seat.
But If Tim had have talked these hero
tenses and cases.
Addressing a meeting some eight.
And you could of looked at his fol
lowers faces,
Tou'd seen something doing, all
right.
I've drawed lots. of bills for tho good
of my city
And nobody's lifted a hammer:
They passed just as soon as they left
the committee
In spite of their help-wanted gram
mar. And if Woodrow is going to call for
declension.
A member of Tammany hall.
Whose monicker's one that I needn't
to mention.
Will get out of congress that's all.
Proverb,
and his cellar
A Tool and his cellar are soon
parted.
Sunlight Won't Quench TnlrsC
A lot of people are mbre Interested
in hoarding moonshine than they are
in saving daylight-
(Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndicate.
Inc.)
In Other Days.
Whatever Portlanders may think of
the weather yesterday. Miss Cornelia
J. Spencer contends that it isn't
marker to what she experienced in
Salt Lake City. Miss Spencer, who
is at the Hotel Portland, has been
attending the National Education as
sociation convention on the shore of
the great Inland sea.
Joseph Patterson, newspaperman of
Newport, who handled the publicity
for the good roads amendment to the
state constitution in the June cam
paign, has deserted the cool breezes
ot Yaquina bay and the crabs and
Will He Make It m Referendum t
Bufalo Express.
If he (Cox) is going to carry out
the original administration plan of
making this election a referendum, a
league of nations, without reserva
tions,, he will need. to do more than
offer a formal Indorsement of the
president's favorite policy. He will
have to go to the White House for
his ideas and talk Wilson and the
league of nations as Wilson himself
would have done.
thoroughly drilled into the minds of
the German people for two genera
tions until they have become inca
pable of conceiving any other way
of dealing with other nations. Noth
ing but the presence of the allied
Johnson. They were divided among ,.., in .,, ,.( ,,..
three candidates and in this way only all tne territory that was to be ceded
J" '"7 camea yregon. could have convinced them of utter
n it oe agreea mat u is proper defeat and of the uselessness of re
for any candidate for president to Sis4anr or evasion.
carry the state, and have its vote In The first pIea ,Jor peace havlng
a national convention, by a plurality. been sent to-president Wilson, the
it will also be conceded that it Is inference is that he was prlrnarily
uo piuper to s.ect aeiegaies nosuie rB.ponslb,e for granting the armi-
IVJ (.ailUlUBLO. 11 1E UllloVtr IU III (J
GAME AND TISH PROTECTION.
While streams and fields and
thickets endure we will have with us
always the occasional game or fish
"hog," with his boast that he has
taken more trout or slain more birds
in a given period of time than any of
his fellow sportsmen. That last clas
sitication is- inadmissible, however,
for by no elastic, easy courtesy does
such a porcine plunderer gain admis
sion to the fellowship of sport. It is
with delight' and approval that the
genuine sportsman watches reform
ers target their shafts on the thick
hide of these offenders, and looses
an occasional arrow himself. For
they are outlawed, both In law and
theory. But Dr. William 1. Horna
day, director of the New York Zo
ological park, one of the foremost
champions of game' preservation, is
often carried far afield in his Heal,
suggesting restrictions that are im
practicable and undemocratic.
Dr. Hornaday attacks the game
and fish "hog" with spirited zeal, but
he errs in assuming that the mass
of collected evidence proves tho
culpability of a majority of sports-
. men. The realm of gun and rod in
America is far flung, and Incidental
violations of the sportsmen's code.
though bulking huge In the mass, are
far less frequent than one would
imagine after perusing a hornaday
Indictmtnt.. Not only is public senti
ment a4.inst gluttonish game and
fish slaughter, but the law is unl-
.fcrmlv against it and is uniformly
' enforced. We nave attained an era
of sanity in game and fish protection,
and while the splendid work of pro
tective propaganda should not cease
there is little reason for alarm and
apprehension concerning the sur--vival
of-our wild fowl, big game and
game fish. The errors of the past
will not be resurrected, and though
more stringent laws would In certain
instances be advisable there is dan-
candidate, unfair to the state, unfair
to the delegates themselves.
stice and that he alone carried the
matter so far as to leave the allies
no alternative but to assent. But it
has been stated that Marshal Foch
THE FIRST AUTOMOBILE. believed Germany to be crippled be
As the smoke of controversy overljond recovery and that the allies
who built the first automobile clears I were nOt justified in expending an
away, we salvage an important fact I other life in further fighting. Re-
froni among the debris. That islcently it has been said that Lloyd
that, no matter whom the credit be-I George was eager for the armistice
longs to, it is less than thirty years I because he feared that continuance
since the occurrence of the event. Itlof the war would establish American
shows how fast the world of lnven-1 commercial supremacy, also because
tion le moving In the current genera- I he was hungry for the political fruits
tion. lof victory. Whoever is responsible
In a laudable effort to pour oil on I the allies acted without regard to
the troubled waters at Kokomo, 1 long and painful experience of the
where two concerns are conducting I depravity of German mentality. If
campaigns to establish priority fori they had continued the war until the
the first successful car, the Indian- I Germans were driven by force to the
apollt- News suggests that something I Rhine, all military authorities agree
might be saved by admitting that! that they could have destroyed the
three years prior to 1892, the yearl German army . totally before it
in which it Is admitted the pioneer I reached that river. By not adopting
Kokomo horseless carriage was taken I that policy, the allies rendered nec
out on its trial run, an Indianapolis I essary continuance of the blockad
blacksmith "built and ran what he I until peace was signed, although
called a motor wagon." This was in I from the day when hostilities ceased
1891, and a touch of verity is added the prosperity of Germany became
by the statement that Benjamin Har- I an asset of theirs, as the source from
rifcon and Thomas Taggart were I which they must collect indemnities.
among the first passengers. Mr. The y- had to maintain the blockad
Taggart, who is far from being an I until Germany ratified the ' treaty,
old man. now, was thirty-five at the though- by so doing they Impaired
time of this historic occurrence, an-1 the assets of their debtor. From
other reminder of the eventfulness of I that error of policy has flowed much
life in the twentieth century. We I of the economic disturbance which
very much doubt that Mr. Taggart at I still prevails.
the time-of that first ride was daring Germany's violation tf the treaty
enough to predict that before eight! has - been encouraged by discord
more presidential elections had rolled among the allies, much of which has
around there would be upward of I been incited by propaganda and
7,000,000 motor vehicles in the United I which has been exaggerated by Ger
States and that the problem of get
ting fuel enough to propel them
would have attained the proportions
Harold Bell Wright, preacher-au
thor, whose specialty is novels of the
uplift type, has -obtained a divorce
Presume we must now await the
ordeal of "The Losing of Barbara I land?
Worth."
prospects of a line from there to the clams and rock oysters for the awel
Canadian Pacific railroad. You have
two lines running from, and through
Pasco to Portland. With this line,
built from Wenatchee to Pasco, would
give a water grade, free from snow
blockades in the winter and mud
slides in the spring, direct to Port
land.
We shipped more than 12.000 car
loads of fruit from here last year.
and as the present orchards will pro
duce more each year as they grow in
age, and other orchards will be plant
ed, it means many more carloads In
the future.. The Okanogan is just be
ginning to produce.
Passengers leaving for either point
would eliminate the present detour
via Puget sound, saving time and ex
pense. Such conditions would put
the Portland wholesale houses in this
district. Most all California tourists
would pass through Portland by this
route.
The people from Oroville to Pasco
are as a unit favorable to the build
ing of this road, as was proved by a
delegation of our citizens that visited
each locality in a body to ascertain
facts, and would help further the en
terprise. We of the Wenatchee valley
would be willing to give a percen
tage of the boxed products of the or
chards, as well as the different busi
ness concerns, to help it along.
The estimated cost of the road
would be about $3,500,000. Is not
this worthy of the consideration of
the residents of a rich city like Port-
N. N. BROWN.
WHAT OF DAIRYMEN'S CHILDREN f
Farm Mother Says Their Labor Alone
Now Saves Industry Prom Rnln.
HILLSBORO, Or., July 15. (To the
Editor.) Will you permit a mere
woman to say a tew words now on the
milk situation?
I am a dairyman's wife. I have fed
and milked cows, got in green feed
and cleaned stables, planted and hoed
corn and kale and helped haul hay.
and doctored sick animals. On this
last Item I will-not go Into details.
Suffice It to say that I have done
veterinary work that would make
many women faint. And many times
I have done these things that my hus
band might work away from home
to get money to pay our feed bills.
Mayor Baker is rieht. If evert I A good deal has been said about
man contemplating entering politics I the laboring man's children, now that
There are as many claimants for
the sack of sugar taken from the
Pawner sent to Jail on suspicion a I
there would be foe a gold niece
picked up on the street.
iieien -rait, president of a wo
man's college and daughter of the
ex-president, spoils her career by
marrying. let that is the better
way.
The ascemt of Pike's peak, a cen
tury ago. Is a trivial achievement
when contrasted with the more re
cent alpine exploits of sugar.
would consult his wife there would
be many fewer "also-rans."
Well, at that, It might be a good
thing for us if Sir Thomas Llpton
did win the cup. Too much success I cows, and many times their mothers
milk Is so high. What about the
dairyman's children? You didn't
know they existed, did you?
I can show you little children from
8 to 12 years of age who rise at 6
o clock to ' help feed and milk the
has become monotonous.
x m opposed to screens, I am.'
observed a prominent fly of the pub
lie market. "They interfere with, our
soviet system."
The milk-punch cow has arrived.
A North Carolina farmer found two
of his bovines "beastly" full on a lot
of mash.
.
And Harold Bell Wright, who tells
the delicious love stories, has got his
decree. Fame comes high in a way.
A thunder storm that drops in un
expectedly will not injure the fore
caster's reputation as a prophet.
of a burning Issue
Whether It was 1891 or 1894 that
saw the first car in operation, the
speed with which it has been devel
oped Is amazing. Even If we are in
clined to go back to first principles
ter that extremists will take from and give griQcigal credit to Gottlieb
man hopes. At soon as the allied
premiers, meet and talk things over,
disagreements are smoothed over
and whenever Germany attempts to
profit by them by violating the treaty
or seeking its revision, the allies pre
sent a united front. That happened
prior to exchange of ratifications,
again at the San Remo conference,
If Los Angeles is to be the big city
of California she - must take the
things that go with the honor.
take the place of a man in the fields.
That's why milk is produced and
sold In this county for $2.80 per hun
dred weight.
Eliminate the labor of women and
children and half of the cows would
go to the block immediately, for they
could not be kept If the labor of oar
ing for them had to be bought.
But are these condition right? It
takes the farmer-dairyman's whole
family and a considerable Investment
to earn less than the average laborer
earns.
These things can be proved. An
impartial investigator won't have any
trouble in getting these facts that
the dairyman is not getting anything
like a just return on his labor and In
vestment. MRS. W. E. RICE.
terlng pavements ot Portland. He
is on the book at the Hotel Oregon.
M. P. McCowan. who has the repu
tation of having made the survey for
the road to Crater Lake from Med-
ford, is an arrival at the Perkini
The location which the state high
way commission is to make will prob
ably be determined, at least In part.
sometime this year.
E. L. Hales, who has a hardware
store at Wallace, Idaho, arrived at the
Hotel Portland yesterday while her
on a business trip. . Mr. Hales drove
the distance by machine and succeed
ed In getting enough gas along the
line to enable him to make the run.
Mr. and Mrs. C. A- Ficke of Daven.
port, la., "where the tall corn grows,"
are out in Oregon visiting with Mr.
ana Mrs. c H. watzek. of wauna. a
lumbertown. The Flcke and Wat-
zeks are quartered at the Hotel Port
land while viewing the sights.
No one In Portland read the newt
of the Los Angeles earthquakes yes
terday with greater Interest than Mr.
and Mr J. W. Morris, who are at
the Multnomah with their three chil
dren. The Morris family had just
arrived from Los Angeles, which Is
their home. ,
Sherman Miles, who used to make
out income tax statemen,ts for other
people when he was In the depart
ment of tne collector of Internal rev
enue, now has to make out statements
of his own, for he is In the banking
Dusiness aown tt. rieien way.
George H. Durham was for years in
the banking business In Portland, but
now he makes his headquarters at
Grants Pass and doesn't mind the pul
verized granite dust- Mr. Durham
came to town to look around and reg
istered at tne imperial.
M. E. Jarnagin of Coburg, Lane
county. Is at the Imperial. He is
treasurer of the town. Coburg wants
the Pacific highway to percolate
through that place.
H. H. Corey, member of the public
service commission, passed through
Portland yesterday, registering at the
Imperial. He is a candidate for re
election.
Mrs. H. K. Brooks and son are at
the Benson from Bend, where her
husband Is one of the sawmill mag
nates.
. Sam Vsn Vactor. one of the beet
known residents of Morrow county.
is In Portland and is registered at
the Imperial.
Charles Gram, state labor commis
sioner, is registered at the Seward
from Salem.
M. H. Abbey, one of the members
of the port of Newport commission.
Is at the Hotel Oregon.
Carries Liquor on On Sboulder.
Bismarck (N. D.) Tribune.
Governor James M. Cox of Ohio
has before him the great and dan
gerous task of carrying liquor on one
shoulder to please "wet" democrats
and of carrying water on the other
to avert defection of the Bryn wing.
It Is perhaps fortunate for democ
racy that the party has a candidate
who cannot be accused of being nom
inated by the White House.
.
Not a Lender of National Type.
Baltimore Evening Sun.
Mr. Cox has made rather more than
a creditable record as governor of
Ohio. A mass of progressive legisla
tion has been put on the statute
books during his terms of office.
And as a result of his leadership
these things can be said in his favor.
But the fact remains he has never
given evidence of being a leader or
an official of the highest type. If
he shines in the campaign it will
likely be merely in comparison with
the lesser luster of the republican
candidate. -
Twenty-five 1'emra Afro-
From Th Oresonlaa of July 17. 1805.
Washington. The report of the
Olympia inspection board, made pub
lic today, shows that she has broken
the record of the American men-of-war.
She developed 19.6 knots speed.
Lewiston. Idaho. The annual race
meeting on the Nes Perce traoks
closed today.
Washington Major C. J. Post. In
charge of river and harbor improve
ments in Oregon, has made his an
nual report. A Jetty at the mouth of
the Columbia river is under consid
eration. New Tork Maria Barbaria, who
murdered her sweetheart, was found
guilty of first degree murder today
and will be the first woman to be
electrocuted.
Fifty Years Ago.
From Th Oresnlan of July 17. 17";,
It is stated that the upper Wil
lamette river above the falls la
nearly down to low water mark and
that boats find navigation difficult.
PARIS. The government has no
news of th reported massacre In
China, and the story is generally con
sidered false.
Berlin. Confidence la restored and
stocks are rising. War Is considered
as certain.
The democrats of Indiana demand
that Thomas A. Hendricks shall be
their next candidate for the pres
idency.
LIMIT ON DRIVING BY BOYS.
Pica for Farm Lads Who Br-infr. Anton
to Town With Produce,
HILLSBORO, Or.. July 15. (To the
Editor.) The new automobile license
law just Into effect Is Just and fair.
whereas a reckless driver will be de
prived of his license to drive an au
tomobile. But that provision in the
law which will prohibit persons under
16 from driving is a narrow and un
just gauge of the situation. It is un
fair to class the farm boy with the
Alsea has a sex problem ending in
murder. There is no town so small
that it cannot have one.
Nobody takes a sympathetic strike
seriously but the lawyers and the
courts. ,
and it Is happening now at Spa. The best-
There can be nothing but misery
come from "baby larming" at Its
From San Francisco to Oakland.
PORTLANTY. July 14. (To the Ed
itor.) Kindly tell me how far Oak
irtH is from jan Fmnrfai-rt V, , ... 1 .
It takes the ferry to cross and th shiftless, "hard-boiled kids" mentioned
fare. SUBSCRIBER in 1 no wrcBu.no.... i.uo aruunu
T"he distance is about six miles. tb
time about 15 minutes, the fare 15
cents.
Representative Hawley Address.
WENDLING. Or.. July 15. (To the
Editor.) Please publish Representa
tive W. C. Hawley's present address.
READER.
Mr. Hawley's address Is Salem, Or.
making life uncertain for pedestrians.
Farm help is scarce and In marry in
stances the farm boy has been de.
pended on to drive the automobile to
town with farm produce and to bring
home groceries and other essentials
for the farm home.
Many boys of that age on the farms
are now more proficient and careful
drivers than some men twice that ag.
Record proves that it Is not the boys
who cause accidents.
A FARMER'S WIFE.
Potential Labor Wasted in
Portland While Oregon
Clamors for Help.
Were you aware that Portland rapidly is becoming the national
rendezvous for the Journeyman floater, the Itinerant laborer wh
labors when the notion pleases him and nob at any Other time.
De Witt Harry says so, in a special article in the Sunday issue, and
he gathered his material where the fellowship of floaters is in
perennial convention the city parkways. This is a story of facts
that will widen your eyes, well told and timely and replete with
actual data. Read it and profit thereby.
Bryan's Speech at the Convention There have been some rather
tragic disappointments in the career of William Jennings Bryan, but
none may say that he did not take his medicine manfully. They
concerned himself alone in other days, but with the victory of the
"wets" at the democratic national convention in San Francisco they
concerned the common cause to which the "great commoner" is
pledged. It was then that he said, "My heart is in the grave with
the cause." Bryan's speech in advocacy of a prohibition plank -was
an able and eloquent appeal to the party that denied it. It is given
in full text in the Sunday issue. -
A Thundering Good Lawyer! Who is? Why, Mrs. Annette
Adams, of course, the newly appointed assistant attorney-general of
the United States. In the Sunday magazine section, with illustra
tions, this able woman attorney is introduced by Mayme Ober Park
' in a special story written for The Sunday Oregoman. She is a
western woman, who gained high appointment through clean-cut
merit in competition with the best legal talent of the coast. You'll
want to know her.
Solving the Divorce Problem If you had missed your romance,
or thought you had, would you turn to divorce when you knew that
never again might you re-marry? A great many. theorists of ex
cellent judgment say that such a provision would give pause to
petulance and lengthen the happiness of married life. They say it
would swat the demon divorce so effectively that he'd take the count.
YouH find this discussion in amplified form, with illuminating
instances, in the Sunday issue.
The .White House Orchids Men have given their lives to the
collection of these rare tropic blooms, the most exotic and highly
prized of flowers. The price at the florist's, as any swain will tell
you, is almost prohibitive. But the first la.dy of the land has the
finest collection in America, representing the choicest orchids and
garnered from every quarter of the globe. An illustrated article
in the Sunday magazine section.
Present Industrial Conditions of Belgium A Portland man brings
word of things as they are today in the domain of King Albert, and
has -written an analysis of his recent observations for Ths Sunday
Oregonian. This instructive and appealing portrayal of the hero
nation is by George M. Vinton, who recently visited Belgium,-and
' appears in section five of tomorrow's issue.
Columbia Basin Needs Only Water Let the Pend d'Oreille river
loose in the irid empire and straightaway more than 1,700,000 acres
of fertile land will bear abundantly. R. G. Callvert, of The Oregonian,
who recently isifced the district on a tour of inspection with other
newspapermen, writes of this mammoth project in the Sunday issue.
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