8
THE MOItNING OREGONIAN, WEDNESDAY, JULY 21, 1920
ESTABLISH EI BY HENRY L. PITTOCK-
Tubllshed by The Oregonian Publishing Co..
1S5 sixth Street, Foriland. Oregon.
C. A. UORDEN, K. B. P1PKR.
Alanager. fcuuor.
The Orrgonian is a member of the Asso
ciated Press. The Associated I l
exclusively entitled to the use for publica
tion of all news dispatches credited to It
or riot otherwise credited In this paper ana
also the local news published herein. All
rmhts of republication of special dispatches
herein are also reserved.
Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance.
' (By Mail.)
Tai1v, Sunday Included, one year
Daily, Sunday Included, six months ... 4.25
Iiallv. Sundav included, three months.
. C OO
. S.1'5
. CO
. 1.O0
. 6.00
.9.00
: 8$5
. 7.80
. .us
laily, Sunday Included, on montn
Ially. without Sunday, oue year ...
Daily, without Sunday, six months . .
rally. without Sunday, one montn .
Veekly, one year
Sunday, one year ...........?
(By Carrier.)
Tiailv, Sunday included, one year . . .
Dally, Sunday Included, three months
Daily, Sunday Included, one month ..
Dally, without Sunday, or.o year
Daily, without Sunday, three months.
Dally, without Sunday, one month . .
Mow to Remit. Send postoffice money
order, express cr personal check; on your
local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are
at owner's risk. Give postoffice address
in full, Including county and state.
Postage Rates. 1 to 10 pages, 1 cent;
IS to 32 pages, 2 cents; 34 to 48 pages, 3
cents; 60 to 64 pages, 4 cents; 68 to WJ
pages. 6 cents; 82 to 96 pages, 6 cents,
foreign postage, double rates.
Eastern Rnitiness Office. Vetree & Conk
lin, Hrunswlck building. New York; Verree
& Conklin, steger building, Chicago; Ver
ree Ac Conklin. Free Press building, De
troit, Mich. San Francisco representative.
It. J. Uidwell.
i COX A CHAMPION' OF GERMANY.
Governor Cox has been compelled
to turn to the arduous task of ex
plaining away the pro-German arti
cles which appeared in his news
paper, the Dayton News, before the
United States declared war. He
makes a sorry attempt. He does not
disclaim "the responsibility of a pub
lisher for the editorial statements
cf his newspapers," but he says to
the New York Tribune:
I do want to emphasize that I did not
Write one of these editorials myself, and
did not sea them before they went into
the paper. I defy any one to show a
single utterance or writing of mine in
which I have said anything that any red
blooded American could construe as dis
loyal. I stand on my record as Ohio's war
governor, and those who would criticize
me are directed to the soldiers Ohio gave
to the army. They know where I stand.
Mr. Cox said the editorials were
written by George F. Burba, editor
cf the News, and the governor's du
ties In Columbus prevented strict
personal supervision over his news
paper. He said further that the
articles "were written at a time when
-the feeling of the country was con
stantly fluctuating," thus implying
that expediency moved him to follow
the fluctuations. He refers to his
record after the United States went
to war as his vindication, and says
he "always opposed the German mili- j
tary oligarchy from the moment that j
the war began.".
The articles quoted were published
through a period of eighteen months
preceding the American declaration
of war. Mr. Cox was busy at Colum
bus, but it is to be presumed that he
read his own newspaper and directed
its policy. The mails were carried
and the wires were open between
Columbus and Dayton. The pretense
that the articles did not reflect his
opinion and policy will not be ac
cepted by any reasonable man. His
allusion to the fluctuation of feeling
at the time between the Germane
and the allies indicates that he did
direct the News policy according to
expediency, not according to con
viction. Moreover, sympathies ceased
to fluctuate among true Americans
with the torpedoing of the Lusitania
in May, 1315. The articles are thus
conclusive evidence of the pro-German
policy which he had adopted
which must have been directed or
approved by him, for they extend
over a considerable period and all
betray the same trend of thought.
On September 21, 1916, when the
allies were winning in both east and
west, and long after the sinking of
the Lusltanla, the News cheered its
German friends by reminding them
that "most of the news comes from
respected our borders.' We feel sorry for
the men who have lost their lives in the
war and for the women and children who
have been made to suffer through no fault 1
of the"ir own; but it is not our war; it i
the war of Great Britain and Germany,
and we are not going to interfere with
either side so long as our risrhts are r-'
spected.
It calmly assumed that our rights
were respected, though J20 Ameri
cans were sent to their death on the
Lusitania in defiance of the laws of
war.
On December 13, 1816, less than
two months before Germany pro
claimed ruthless submarine war, the
News observed that neither party to
the war, which it called "the crime
of all ages," had gained anything
but that both had lost much, and
then said:
God grant that the next arm lifted to
wield a sword so foolishly maybe paralyzed
and that the brain be stopped from think
ing before it conceives of war.
"The next arm," on which it
called down this curse, proved to be
that of the . United States.
liven when' war was inevitable, the
News proposed that the United States
should not fight. On April 1, 1917,
the day before the president urged
congress to declare war, it said that
"the best way to injure our enemy Js
to supply the deficiencies of the al
lies," which "consist of food, cloth
ing and munitions of war." It went
on:
Instead of diverting our resources to
raising an army of a couple of million
men; instead of sending men abroad for
sentimental purposes, we ought to go to
work to supply the allies with everything
they need, and they do not need men. We
can best serve our own purposes by fur
nishing other matter than men.
In other words, while the men of
the allies were fighting and dying,
the News would have had all our
men do as their women, old men and
physically -unfit men were doing,
stay at home in security and make
munitions at war wages. Yet the
owner of that paper runs for presi
dent on a platform that inveighs
against pcofiteering. That is the
policy which the ill-omened Hearst
advocated. Any man who has read
understanding the history of the
last two years of the war knows that
it would have meant defeat for the
allies, after which Germany would
have been free with a victorious
army and with a vastly superior
navy to attempt the invasion of he
uuitea Biates.
That the policy of the News was
in accord with the opinions of Mr.
Cox appears from the following- ex
tract from a speech which he deliv
ered at Cincinnati in October, 1916:
Two of the leading; sponsors for Justice
Hughes are Klihu Hoot of New York and
Theodore Roosevelt of Oyster Bay. In his
first speeches Mr. Root declared that the
president should have Intervened when
me uermans went into Belgium.
Theodore Roosevelt said this government
should have seized every ship in Ameri
can harbors. Both have criticized the
president for not doing the things which
would have embroiled us in a war with
Germany.
The Uermans are getting their eves
opened, and about one more speech- from
Teddy and the German-Americans will
oln in a triumphal victory for -Woodrow
Wilson in November. . .
The slogan "He kept us out of
war" was so varied for the ears of
Germans that it sounded to them
like, "He kept us from fighting Ger
many," and it was the basis for an
open bid for German votes.
On many parts of their front the
German retreat was precipitate.
Their morale was broken by the
knowledge that the Americans were
in France in force, that they fought
with the fury of men fresh in the
fray who had long been held in leash,
experiences of Holland.' Maxim and
Lewis, like that of the Wrights, is a
singular commentary on the contrast
between individual inventive ca
pacity and government shortsighted
ness in a democracy like ours.
The thought suggests itself that
that they could beat the Germans but for the Wrights the glorious
and that a torrent of them was pour-J chapter of war aviation might never
ing across the Atlantic. I have been written. This view, at
Realization of those facts whipped least, is accepted by the French. The
the Germans. It broke their-will to monument to Wilbur Wright is an
wia and they never, stopped losing earnest of their belief that it oper-
g-round till they finally gave up. Forjated in the end to our advantage.
that reason July 18 marks the turn
ing point of the war.
Olf BECOMING A CONVERT.
The Oregonian might confer a favor
upon the public by informing It Just when
It became converted to the principle of
bone-dry prohibition. Eugene Guard.
When it became the law of the
land.
"The Oregonian," exclaims another
contemporary, of the spurious "inde
pendent" breed, "fought prohibition
for years.". It is no great matter,
but it may be well enough to get the
lecord straight.
The Oregonian opposed prohibition
in several campaigns' up to 1914, on
the ground, mainly, that it would be
of doubtful efficacy and the cause of
temperance would not benefit. In
1910 the prohibitionists in Oregon
began a new campaign with high
hopes of success. The liquo inter
ests were much alarmed and prom
ised radical changes in the traffic,
among them enactment of a so-called
"model license law." The people ev
idently thought it well to give them
one more trial. They were so ad
vised by The Oregonian. Prohibition
was defeated 43,546 ayes, 61,221
nays. At the same time there w
beer without saloons? ' passed a so-called "home-rule act,"
It may be a sign of the political giving incorporated cities and towns
times, and yet it might have hap- exclusive power to regulate tlfe
pened in other circumstances that liquor traffic within their limits. It
George Turner, former United State wad a great victory for the anti-
senator and democrat should be I prohibitionists so great that the
agitating the Spokane press and pub-I liquor people forgot their many
he with advocacy of modification of I promises of drastic regulation and
the Volstead act to permit the manu- I reform.
facture and sale of light wines and I Four years later, the question was
beer. again submitted. The Oregonian
We should be more inclined to the I still doubtful of the merit of prohibi
opinion that politics had nothing to I tion, nevertheless declined to go fur
do with it were it not for these para- I ther in any effort to prevent it. It
WHEN TOM LANDS THE CUP,
The world loves a thoroughbred,
sportsman or parson, lord or layman,
and the best in this end of it wishes
good luck to the earnest of all, Sir
Thomas Upton, now in fair way to
achieve his hope of taking the Amer
ica's cup across the water.
If be shall win and thousands'
who have followed his efforts hope
so without injury to patriotism he
will be the object of more congrat
ulations than vouchsafed to any man
hitherto. For "Sir Tom" has played
a square 'game. Smiling In defeat,
always was he sincere in credit to
the victor. That the better boat won
wan enough for him.
So the' wish of "good luck" goes
across the land to him, as hearty as
it is spontaneous on the sight of
chance to win.
"Shamrock IV." This is his fourth
attempt and everybody knows of the
tour-leaved shamrock.
BY-PRODUCTS
OF" THE TIMES
f.
graphs in a letter -Senator Turner
writes to the Spokesman-Review, ex
plaining and upholding his position:
There is no reason why the workman I
should not have his glass of beer with his
noonday luncheon. Beer never made any-
Hflr uruna.
There is no reason why those who like before it had been fairly tried out. a
n snouia not nave wine with their din- bone-dry amendment was submitted
There is amiila room under el- paoaeu. n may never ue
eenth amendment to fix the standard of I known what would have happened if
i
the allies" and by observing:
The friends of Germany are still hope
ful. Tbey have an abiding faith In her
genius. They have seen her on other occa
sions at a disadvantage only to note her
working nor way out or the difficulty.
This article closely followed ore
published on September 3, 1916.
when anger against Germany was
: inflamed by conspiracies and out
rages, when 'Wilson was running for
president and Cox for governor. It
referred to the Germans as "splendid
people" and said that tens of thou
sands of them were "still sympathiz
ing with the Fatherland, still believ
ing in the righteousness of the Ger
man cause, still hopeful that Germany
will win, and It continued:
There la every evidence that their will
vwte for President Wilson for re-election as
the best means of aiding Germany, as well
b.9 because the re-election of President
vviison win tie an aid to the United States,
Reminding "our German friends"
that -"the most rabid anti-German
people in this country, from Roose
velt down, aro. for Hughes," the arti
cle said
So It ts evident In this Instance, as In
all others, -Woodrow Wilson has been the
real friend of the American citizen who
sympathizes with Germany.
Another article on October 5, 1916
was a studied argument to Germans
to vote for Wilson and against
Hughes. It quoted a speech by
Itoosevelt in which Wilson was de
nounced for not exacting atonement
for the Lusitania affair, for writing
notes about it, for not taking the
right position in regard to Belgium,
una it said:
Can any German sympathizer doubt
where Roosevelt's heart Is. or where
.rustlce Hughes would be compelled to
.-tana ir Koosevelt were back of him. as
he will be If Hughes is elected president?
Mr. Cox's paper did not believe
that "all of our German friends have
so lost their love for the Fatherland
as to line up on the side of those who
find fault because this government
did not go to war with Germany over
the invasion of Belgium"; they would
cot give aid and comfort to the
worst enemies of Germany In this
ccuntry namely, the rabid Roose
velt and his personal choice for pres
ident." There was much more to
the same effect.
On October 6 the News said that
the only alternative to Wilson's pol
icy .of peace was war and that, if
Hughes should be-elected, "he would,
if he is a man of conscience, take
Germany to task for the sinking of
the Lusitania," protest against Ger
man occupation of Belgium and fix
a time limit for the Germans to get
out. Of course Germany would re
fuse and then a state of war would
exist.
Most enlightening as to the News'
view of submarine war was its article
of October 16, 1916. It extended
sympathy to all who suffered by
these operations as for "miserable
humanity in general," then said:
But our skirts are clear as regards the
activities of the German U-boats. Thev
r.ave committed no crime against us. They i
QUEER MATHEMATICS.
Hiram Johnson -is still firmly con
vinced that one hundred and fifty is
majority of. nine hundred and
ninety-two, and that -a "cynical and
contemptuous disregard of the ex
pressed will of the people" was
shown at Chicago.
It may be well to deal gently with
Hiram, for his wounds are still un
healed, nd time should be given a
chance to work its wonders. Yet it
is proper to correct the Johnson sys
tern of political arithmetic, wherein
the Californian figures that one vote
for Johnson is better than four or
five for someone else. How other
wise can Mr. Johnson be understood?
Mr. Johnson had about one hun
dred and fifty votes on the first
ballot at Chicago and he had fewer
and fewer as the voting progressed.
ii ne nan naa rour Hundred and
ninety-two votes on any ballot he
would have been nominated. But
having one hundred and fifty and
some other having achieved four
hundred and ninety-two, Hiram
thinks he was cheated and howls
fraud.
Mr. Johnson got his grand aggre
gate of one hundred and fifty by
carrying Michigan, Nebraska, Mon
tana, North Dakota, Oregon and Cal
ifornia. Having carried six states,
he demands a nomination from the
delegates of forty-eight states as a
matter of right.
JCT.Y 18 IS EVER MEMORABLE.
July 18 will be a date remembered
in American history, as in that of
France, Britain and Belgium, for
that is the -date on which, in 1918
the Americans and the allies turned
on the Germans and began that of
tensive which was always victorious
and which did not end till the Ger
mans ran up the white flag and the
kaiser was an exile.
The day is memorable In Ameri
can military annals for a reason
apart from those for which the allies
will remember it. The allies had
been so impressed with the intense
strain which that war, above all for
mer wars, put on the soldier and
with the need for thorough training
that they could not believe the un
tried American troops capable of a
successful offensive. They therefore
did not count on our troops as avail
able for such an operation and, when
Pershing proposed it, they objected
that they had not enough men
Knowing his men, Pershing insisted
that they be sent into the line. Their
mettle had been proved in small at
tacks and on the defensive, and he
was confident that they would make
good. The allied commanders yield
ed in some trepidation.
The Germans had not recovered
from the defeat of their great attack
on July 15 and the two succeeding
days when the Americans, French,
British and a contingent of Italians
turned upon them in a furious attack
on all three sides of the Marne sa
lient. Americans were at the front
in the south at Chateau Thierry, In
the north at Soissons and between
those cities, shoulder to shoulder
with the allies. In less than three
weeks the Germans were driven
from the Marne to the Vesle, Sois
sons was recovered, the salient was
no more, and the threat to Paris was
ended. The Americans had 'proved,
not only that they could and would
fight, but that they could beat the
boches and could keep on beating
them day after day.
The effect of that proof was vic
tory. It stiffened the badlv shaken
"morale of the allies, and it broke
that of the Germans. On August 6
the British began a new offensive on
offered no objections and made no
recommendation whatever on -the
subject. The amendment was passed,
136.842 ayes and 100,362 nays.
The new law went into effect Jan
uary 1, 1916, but in that same year.
ntoalcants so that the people may eninv I O rnn oAnt .. 1. ; ; . i i
the innocent indulgence of light wines and I.e.? . , . ,.
beer without reintroducing the evils of the 1 1 8 8 When it was, we believe, first
saloon and the general indulgence in raw submitted as a constitutional amend
Spirits. 1 man! fnllrtnrmw a hnlcf o n
Ah, the worklngman and his noon- satisfactory essay of the same kind
day luncheon! Where did he get I in the long-ago territorial days. But
his glass of beer at noon on a sum- it would probably have been a fail
mer's day when beer was lawfully I ure. Now it is not regarded as a
obtainable? From a bottle carried failure because there has been a de
in his lunch-b'ox and given insipid I termination from various factors in
flavor by the heat of day, or from I law-enforcement to make it. a 6uc
the chilled vats of the saloon that I cess, and because surrounding con-
was always present where men con- I ditions have been far more favorable
gregated for work? The Oregonian makes no point of
What is the scheme for giving the the fact that when it opposed prohi-
workingman beer with his noonday bition it was beaten (with a single
luncneon now, unless the. saloon shall exception), and when it did not op
be restored? We can t think of one pose prohibition it was adopted. A
ourselves that does not contemplate coincidence, perhaps. The agitated
a sloppy bar, a sour odor and a loaf- critics of The Oregonian, who are
ing place of idle individuals. exactly as dry or as wet as the demo
Beer for the workingman's noon- cratic party is dry or wet. will sav so.
dayfuncheon is bunk without the sa- I Let it go, as they will say whatever
loon, ana the saloon is dead beyond I they think or know
resurrection. If Cox shall be elected When prohibition passed from the
and the Volstead act modified wines ory to law The Oregonian vigorously
may grace the fine table appoint- upheld the law. Should it have done
ments of the house on the hill, but I otherwise?
the factory and the cottage in the hol
low will still be dry. Let the working- For the first time In their llva th
men before .they marshal their votes Turks are compelled to hurry. The
tor Deer witn tne noonday lunch- government is hurried by the allies
eon aemanu specilicaiiy to know to sie-n the trpatv nnrt th noiinn.i.
by what means they are going to :Sts are hurried bv the Greeks across
1U Analolia. After all his bluffing and
threats, Mustapha Kemal Pasha
MOVEMENT OF THE WHEAT CROP. I niaKes a sorry spectacle, for his army
An exceDtional onoortunltv Is af- "as been whipped in every fight in
forded to the farmers of the Pacific less tnan a month, but the Greeks
northwest by the present congested are having the time of their lives,
condition of the railroads to dispose Their traitor king Constantino cheat-
of their wheat rnin nrnmntlv nnrl tn c them OUt Of their Share Of the
advantage. Th railroad rf , nst fighting in the war, but they now
aTid middle west have been so choked liave assigned tq them the agreeable
with traffic durintr the last r-rnn venr "l iy"5 hum wieir iinai
"Second-hand Newspapers Find Novel
Use In Sumatra.
A curious item, of commercial news
is that the east coast district of the
island of Sumatra in 1918 imported
866,835 pounds of "second-hand news
papers" from the United States.. Im
ports of the same kind of merchandise
from January 1 to September 1, of
last year, were 572,585 pounds.
Now, one might well ask what on
earth the natives of Sumatra want
with old newspapers from America.
They cannot read them, and it would
urely not be worth while to trans
port them all that distance for any
commercial purpose.
Inquiry at the department of com
merce developed the fact that the pa
pers are wanted to cover young
sprouts of rubber trees and sugar
cane. The climate of the island Is
mighty hot as might be surmised
from the circumstance that the equa
tor runs through the middle of it
and.- to prevent the aforementioned
sprouts burning up in the fierce sun
shine, sheets of paper are spread over
them. Old newspapers serve the pur
pose very well, ea,ch sheet being held
down witn stones at the corners. -
The Sumatran retail trade In sec
ond-hand newspapers is wholly in the
hands of Chinese, who sell them to
the planters.
In Hawaii the same method of pro
tection is adopted, but in that archi
pelago sheets of rice paper." imported
from Japan, are used. This kind of
paper is made from rice straw and is ,
o melted after a short time by rains
that it dissolves and disappears the
sprouts having meanwhile had time
to grow big and hardy enough to re
sist the sun's heat. '
It is a notable advantage, inasmuch
as there is no bother with picking up
the papers and disposing of them
afterward.
The telephone service in Tokio is
very poor, according to a letter from
Miss Klizabeth Dunning, a Wisconsin
girl, who is in Tokio as a secretary
of the Y. W. C. A. The policy of
the telephone company there in apol
ogizing for poor service is to call
the attention of the public to the
extreme rush of business and to ex
hort them to be very patient. Not
so different from occidental meth
ods! A Tokio exchange is very different
in appearance, if not in efficiency,
from an American exchange. The
girls are nearly all between the ages
of 13 and 20 and very tiny and child
ish in appearance. They wear a
white costume with a red "bakama"
a plaited skirt which is required
over the kimono in schools and busi
ness houses in Japan and have snow-
white stockings on their feet.
The rooms in which they work are
scrupulously clean, but poorly venti
lated, and they work for eight hours
at a stretch with only a brief rest
period when they can find time for it.
The service is exceedingly rushed.
and the nerve strain, especially for
mere children, as so many of the
operators are, is very trying. Never
theless, many of the girls attend
night school in order to prepare for
better positions.
e
It pays to be homely, says Mrs.
Mary A. Bevan of London. She ar
rived in port, on the steamer Phila
delphia to claim the distinction of be
ing the world's homeliest wbman and
is ready to contest the title with all
comers. She is here under contract
to appear with the Ringling-Barnum
& Bailey circus.
Mrs. Bevan's only concern is that
she did not discover years ago the
value of being homely. She feels she
has lost many thousand dollars by
her failure to recognize the fact that
people are willing to pay to see
homely women as well as beautiful
ones. ,
Last year she entered a contest at
an English seaside resort and won
the 15000 first prize, the judges de
ciding she was the ugliest woman in
England. She has two boys and two
girls. She said positively that her
husband never commented on her
looks. New York American.
Those Who Gome and Go.
The range isn't as good as it used
to be, for homesteaders are moving
in and taking up the water, and
stock must have water," observed H.
E. Lausrhlin. whose ranch is on Sugar
creek, in the Paulina country of Crook
county. The Laughlin stock carry a
triangle brand, and that s the name
of his ranch. Mr. Laughlin, who is
registered at the Imperial, escorted a I
carload of . cattle to Portland last
evening. Although a resident of
Crook county for 30 years, Mr. Laugh
lin was born in lamhil county, nis
father, S. D. Laughlin, coming to
Oregon in. 1847 and settling in the
Willamette valley. The carload of
Btock which Mr. Laughlin brought to
Portland had to be driven 60 miles,
and it was a six-day walk, for stock
are not driven more than 10 or 12
miles a day. because otherwise they
would lose weight.
"Cherry crop in Lane county is 600
tons," says M. H. Harlowe of Eugene,
one of the commissioners of that
county, who is at the Hotel Oregrjn.
"We expected a crop of 400 tons. We
have an orchard of a little less than
eight acres which produced 54 tons.
We have 3H acres which produced 40
tons. One tree in this orchard, which
is about 30 years old. yielded 30 boxes,
each weighing from 42 to 45 pounds.
Yes, our cherry crop has been fine."
A little calculating, on a basis of 10
cents a pound, shows that the eight
acre orchard produced $11,000, which
Is a good income for anyone with rea
sonable tastes. Of course, the short
age of cherries in other and less
favored parts of the state is partly
responsible for the big price which
the Lane county growers will receive.
Tons of prunes will soon be ready
to move to market, but the growers
need a passable road and they want
the Mosier-Rowena section of the
Columbia highway rocked before the
rains come. So eloquently did M. A.
Mayer of Mayerdale paint the neces
sity of getting the prunes to the con
suming public that the state highway
commission agreed to advertise for
bids for rocking the surface at th
next meeting. Having accomplished
this good deed for his own and his
neighbors' prunes, Mr. Mayer bought
a brand-new automobile, a seven-pas
senger car, and drove out over the
highway to his orchard.
He is a youngish-looking man to
have such a reputation, is J. R. McKy
of Eugene. Mr. McKy and he spells
it just like that is considered the
best roadmaster employed by any
county in Oregon, and the highway
system of Lane county is the testi
monial to his qualifications. Mr. McKy
has a brother who is a roadmaster
in Benton county, and the roadbulld
ing talent appears to run in the
family, for Benton, too, has roads of
which it is proud. Mr. McKy, who is
registered at the Hotel Oregon, drove
from Eugene to Salem in three hours
and 20 minutes and from Salem to
Portland in two hours and ten minutes.
that an abnormally large proportion
of.it remains on the farm, and it
cannot be out of the way before the
new crop is harvested. Much of the
bank funds i tied up in loans on this
whipping. Greece has many a score
to pay off, and may be trusted to pay
it in full.
The occasional visitor to McMinn-
unshipped wheat, which thus be- vlIle notes the air of prosperity in
comes responsible for the stringency tne old town dressed up in brick and
of the money market. Slow move
ment of traffic generally has had
like effect.
This section is comparatively free
from these difficulties, and is in a
petition to take advantage of them.
concrete, with hard-surfaced streets
for trimming. What makes the
county seat of "Old Yamhill" is no
wonder to one who knows. Its mer
chants are progressive advertisers in
its two good newspapers; it has as
The old crop of wheat is about out of many national banks as Portland
the way and harvesting of a new and even its garages buy their gas
crop of at least 60,000,000 bushels independently by the carload. The
has begun. The railroads are not m3-n wn started the phrase, "You
crowded with traffic to any such de- Det our life!" whenever he heard
gree that they cannot move wheat the word "Yamhill" was inspired by
trains promptly. Ships are available more than loyalty of birth
to carry the crop abroad
All the conditions are propitious man is in jail here for alleged
for prompt sale and shipment of the violation of the Mann act in bringing
crop. The obstacles to movement of from Ohio a woman whose basis of
the middle western and eastern crop complaint against ber husband is
create an opportunity to sell the an alleged wooden leg. It s a queer
crop of the Pacific northwest in w'orld we're living in, 'and queer
European markets at a price which I people are in it,
should turn loose about $150,000,000
tn the next few months. The farmers I Bandits who rob country banks
would then be-enabled to pay their I appear to have a prosperous season
loans and . the banks would have I To fight or ts,surrender is the ques
funds to finance manufacturing and I tion, but the life of an employe has
general business. Much employment more than money value
would be given to all branches of the
shipping business at Portland. This
section would close the year in fine
shape for another year's business.
A line of action which would be of
advantage to all interests should
command the co-operation of all. If
the railroads provide cars; of which
there is no such famine as prevails
In the east, and If the farmers make
the most of a favorable market, It
can be done. 4
This is the time of year when the
big railroads lay off men wholesale
The bosses have a "poor month" fol
lowing the close of the fiscal year.
R. D. Cannon, not the newspaper
man, but the Mitchell, Or., rancher,
is at the Imperial. Mr. Cannon owns
a gold mine at Mule Gulch, which is
near Spanish Gulch in Wheeler county.
The mine in Mule gulch was good
for $30,000 for Mr. Cannon one year,
when the placer business was par
ticularly good. And, funny thing, this
mine was offered to several other
men for $2500 and refused, but that
was before Mr. Cannon bought it and
began to clean up.
Cal Engdahl of Helix is registered
at the Benson, along with railroad
magnates, millionaire timbermen and
the like. Anyone who lives at Helix,
MILK PRODUCER HAS HARD LOT
Former Dairyman Tells of Labor,
Feed and Loss Factors.
PORTLAND, Or.. July 20. (To the
Editor.) I haven't any financial in
terest in milk production and there
fore cannot be accused of prejudice
or bias. I have produced milk on a
small scale in the past, both for the
condensers and for consumption as
raw milk, and I have distributed it
from house to house as well. I think
know the problems of both pro
ducer and distributor from actual ex
perience; and I can assure the public
that both factors concerned in the
supplying of milk to the consumer
have real troubles, and always will
have as long as the present system
continues. I am not a dairyman at
present.
The dairyman nas an expensive
equipment on which in the past he has
derived little return lor overneaa ana
labor for himself and family. He
works long hours, every day in the
year, and his family often are called
into service wun nu reiui , v
least a very slight one. for their
labor. After his concentrate bill is
paid, there is little left for the dairy
man. I have seen milk producers, effi-
ient ones, too, pay a feed bill of $00
when their milk check amounted to
$250 or thereabouts. Were it not for
the fact that his own living is com
paratively inexpensive in that it is
home-raised, he coulan t stay in tne
business at all at present milk prices.
The distributor's problems are the
result -of competition rather than any
thing else. . The bottle wear and tear
s heavy: I have lound families using
my bottRs for kerosene, fruit juices
or anything they come in handy for.
There was also a certain percentage
of bad bills ' although early in the
game I found I couldn t give credit.
Where there are a large numoer or
distributors supplying a city, each
seeks to hold his route and add to it
if possible, hence they are all lax in
collecting the bottles closely for fear
of losing customers.
The dairymen s league was the re
sult of an intolerable situation 111 the
milk-production industry. The story
of its formation and the abuses
which the dairyman suffered for years
previous, is too long to recite here.
Suffice to say it was a case of or
ganize in self-protection or quit the
business, and many were not so situ
ated as to get out, so organization
was perfected. I personally know
many of the officers of the league;
able, conservative, honest men. with
the interests of the dairymen at heart.
I have been at league meetings: they
are absolutely democratic, and the of
ficers are wholly responsive to the
wishes of the members by whom they
were chosen.
The league soon found it had the
organized distributors to fight if it
was to function, and that conflict ap
pears to have started. The distribu
tors want as much of a return as
they Can get, and until the disorgani
zation of the league can be accom
plished and each small dairyman
forced to sell his milk under the old
sj'stem of taking what the dis
tributors care to give him, the dis
tributors find themselves balked. The
day has gone when milk will whole
sale In May and June for $1.40 per
hundred (3 cents a quart) and sell for
10 or 11 cents; not with $60 mill feed
and $90 high protein.
In passing, some of the conclusions
and assumptions of Mr. Mackay s re
port are amusing. He asserts that
roughage costing $12 or $15 a ton to
raise and selling at $24 in the open
market should be fed to cows and the
return in milk sold upon the cost
basis. If this was forced upon the
dairyman, he naturally would sell his
hay in the open market, where It
would command the highest price.
Again, he makes considerable stir
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janra J. Montague.
TO A XKW FATHER.
Forget the nags; forget the fights;
rorgft the nluunr fou..ino.sn
Of wearing out succeeding niirhta
In loud and eager
The lure of them will still be st-.
But there's another lure that's
stronger:
Put on your hat and run along
lou're not a free man any longer.
ThAe J0's w''-l gather just the same
And. maybe josh a bit about you.
But after this the little game
W ill have to get along without you.
Tou liked it once You lik Ir Ktm
But poker, lad, has had its innings.
At home you'll find a bigger thrill
Than you have found in any win
nings. You'll work a little harder now.
And do a little bit more pinching:
You're not an egg. but then. .somehow
Success seems rather more worth
cinchin g.
You'll think about the years to be
And less about the years behind
you.
And, though you'll never more be
free
You'll glory in the chains that bind
you.
a
They Coald Abolish Taxes.
Colorado Springs has elected to have
a manager instead of a mayor. We
suggest Descamp. the eloquent man
ager of Carpcntier. if the city is look
ing for financial returns.
Poor Management.
Kind Gold Hidden in Ship's Water
Tank. Newspaper headline. What a
horrible waste of epace when it could
have been used to smuggle some
thing more valuable.
boy.
lchabod.
Alas, the boy orator f.sn't
nd isn't much of an orator.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Bell S ndi-
catc. Inc.)
Or., can travel in such company, for about a large spring surplus being di-
Helix is one of the richest communi
ties In the state. Probably the per
capita wealth is greater in Helix than
elsewhere in Oregon. The little set
tlement is in the heart of the wheat
belt, and everyone is making money
these days and has been for several
years past.
Five carloads of stock from the
O. K. ranch, on Waterman flat, were
piloted to the yards in North Port
land last evening by C. R. Cawthorne,
who is at the Imperial.
F. H. Robinson of lone, where he
runs a law business, is among the
arrivals at the Imperial. Mr. Robin
son belongs In that country, for he
was born and reared at Lone Rock.
SLOGAN OFFERED REPl'BLIC.WS
Two hundred colleens landed in
New York Saturday and there are
more than two hundred broths of
boys aching to "own" them.
rave comminea no crime against us. rney i h- nmm and nroverl irrAdstihla
have played the part of combatant and rne omme ana proved irresistible.
' Portland will have a vegetable oils
company of its own that cannot be
taken away. That's another perma
nent payroll.
Higher prices for meat are ex
pected. People should eat more fish.
monument TO wiLBm WRTr.nT I That, . too, is expensive. But the
The monument just dedicated bv I fcapge " diet aias neaun.
the French government to Wilbur
Wright Is another reminder that
honor often comes tardily to
prophets in their own country." The
formal monument is by no means
France's first recognition of the
genius and vision of the Wrights. One of the first things Mr. Cox
When the brothers made their first I should do if elected is to standardize
successful . flight, and when their th size of moonshine quart bottles.
countrymen, who had not yet ceased
laughing at Professor Langley. con- Five hundred foolish women pur
tinued to regard the flying machine P3 to picket Harding's home to-
as a toy, France paid the tribute of morrow, it win be a joyous picnic
sincere attention to the discovery.
The Wrights were hospitably re
ceived by the French government
and by French commercial Interests.
The French have imagination. The
monument at Mons is a testimonial
not alone to the inventor, but to -the
fact that Paris was the first capital
in the world to comprehend that
war might be fought in the air, and
to prepare for that eventuality. The
Lawyers seem to have persuaded
Wanderer, the wife-murderer, to
fight going to the gallows.
If in doubt about going to Salem,
just go and settle the doubt In the
right way.
Tilt freight rates to meet increase
In wages. The public is the goat.
Although the tunnels which now
connect Switzerland with Italy have
greatly decreased the importance of
the St. Bernard and other passes, es
pecially during the eight months of
snow, it is still deemed advisable to
employ St. Bernard dogs. It is no
longer customary, however, to send
out the dogs alone with baskets of
food and drink; a man always accom
panies them. These dogs are not
really of the famous old St. Bernard
breed. .That originated In the 14th
century, through a cross between a
shepherd dog from Wales and a Scan
dinavian dog whose parents were a
Great Dane and a Pyreneean mastiff.'
The last pure descendant of this tribe
was buried under an avalanche in
1816. Fortunately, there were found
subsequently at-Martigny and on the
Simplon pass a few dogs which by
crossing with mates from Wales
yielded the modern St. Bernard dog,
which is physically even stronger
than his medieval namesake and
shares most of his traits.
A London newspaper says that a
recently discharged soldier, who had
unpleasant memories of h'is military
experience, took the first opportunity
after resuming his civilian clothes to
write to his former colonel:
"Sir: After what I have suffered
for the last . two years, it gives me
much pleasure to tell you and the
army 'to go to ," a place to which
only the wicked are consigned.
In due course he got this reply: .
"Sir: Any suggestions or inquiries
concerning the movement of troops
must be entered on army form 2132,
copy of which I enclose."
An American, Dr. Harlan of Phila
delphia, was once ruler over the
brave and stalwart Sikhs of India, and
was also governor under Ranjit Singh,
the Sikh king of the Punjab. In 1825,
at the time of the first Burmese war.
Dr. Harlan enlisted with the British
forces in their campaign against the
natives. After the campaign, how
ever, he was discharged, which of
fended his sense of justice, and moved
him to take the side of the Indian
princes in their conflicts with the
British.
Ranjit Singh, who had confederated
the Sikh states Into a single national
ity under his power at Lahore, ap
pointed Dr. Harlan governor of the
province of Gujarat In 1827. Dr.
Harlan ruled there for 10 years, when
he resigned and made for Kabul, In
Afghanistan, where Dost Mohammed,
the Ameer, was preparing for war
with the British. He soon came to
stand high in the Ameer's opinion, but
Dost Mohammed failed to take the ad
vice of the American, and the British
defeated the latter's troops and en
tered Kabul. Detroit News.
''Harding and Home" Suggested in
Response to "Cox and Cocktails."
PENDLETON. Or., July 1. (To the
Editor.) Four years ago the demo
cratic party won an unmerited vic
tory at the polls upon a false slogan,
"He has kept us out of war." Now
the same party is to attempt the
same tactics, and its campaign will
be an appeal to the dregs of the great
centers of population, and to the foreign-born
element in our citizenship.
"Cox and cocktail3" may not be an
elevated party platform, but it is
folly to Ignore its compelling force
among the mighty army of thought
less voters.
The democrats at San Francisco
nominated the one man whom they
have any chance to elect to trte presi
dency, and the republican managers
will be puerile if they do not prepare
to meet this beer issue, false though
it be.
It is not enough to say that the
question has been finally settled by
constitutional amendment. The inter
pretation of that amendment, the ma
chinery of its enforcement, all lie
with congress and the executive, and
we have learned by sad experience
bow helpless the average congress
man or senator is before a strong
president. The power of patronage is
almost limitless.
The republican party must sum
mon to its aid the militant support of
all the moral factors in our national
life. It must stand courageously for
decency and law. Over against the
low appeal, "Cox and cocktails," let
us demand support for the lofty sen
timent, "Harding and home."
STEPHEN A. LOWELL.
verted, ajid the public not given the
benefit of cheap milk. As a matter
of fact the surplus was made into
butter or cheese; the milk is not wast
ed in that event. It would be suicidal
for the dairymen to flood the Taw
milk market. Made into butter or
cheese, there is only a small loss ;ro
rata among the members, and certain
ly no one has suffered for want of
milk or paid an excessive price for it
It is only the real surplus so utilized
It is true conservation that makes
this surplus valuable.
My own experiences lead me to the,
conclusion mat notning dui a super
vised monopoly will be instrumenta
In giving the consumer cheap milk
with present feed prices. If the pro
ducers were permitted to monopolize
the entire industry, forming an effi
cient and economical distributing cys
tern, and enforcing immediate return
of bottles and collection of accounts
strictly in advance, both producer and
consumer would benefit, and Portland
would have tho cheapest milk in the
country, as well as the best. I doubt
very much whether this could be
brought about, for it smells too
strongly of socialism for all excepting
the general public to permit.
Until a really unprejudiced investl
gation Is made the consumer will re
main in the air and feel that he is the
target of both producer and dis
tributor. Such an investigation and
report will never be made by any
attorney working upon the advice and
from the information furnished by one
side alone. Nor will it be made hasti
ly, in two or three days, to settle the
reasonableness of an expected boos
to the consumer. It will be necessary
to go into the producing districts fo
facts and figures, to the dairy au
thorities in our agricultural colleges,
to the dairymen's league for its com
prehensive summaries of costs and
conditions, and to the distributors fo
information regarding duplication o
routes and equipment. To do it thor
oughly will take a longer time tha
any milk investigating commissio
has devoted in the past. The dairy
man will welcome it if the commis
sion's personnel is unbiased and rep
resenting the general public
I am not a member of the dairy
men s league, and this communicatto
was not written at the instigation o
any of the league's officers or mem
bers, or with their knowledge.
A FORMER DAIRYMAN.
Exhaustion la 'Measured.
Boys' Life.
An unique method has been discov
ered to measure just how tired one's
body becomes after hours of work.
A line is drawn across the forearm
with a sharp point, not sharp enough
to break the skin, but only to drive
out the blood and leave a straight
white line on the skin. An observer
holding a stop watch measures the
time it takes for the blood to rush
back into the skin and the white line
to fade. The exact number of seconds
and fraction of a second is recorded.
This test is repeated say at intervals
of one hour all day until the working
hours are over. When these read
ings are plotted on paper a curve is
drawn which tells at a glance just
how one's energy ebbs throughout the
day. There is always a marked jump
in the line after lunch hour.
Law of Divorce.
PORTLAND, Or July 20. (To th
Editor.) (1) How long must a hus
band and wife be separated in the
state or Oregon before they can be
granted legal separation? (2) How
long must they wait before they can
marry again? A SUBSCRIBER.
(1) Separation by agreement is not
ground for divorce. Desertion must
be for a period of one year. (2) Six
months in any event or until case la
finally decided If appeal is taken.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ag-o.
From The Oregonian of July :M. lSOS.
Berlin. On Monday next an'ehini-
tion of California products will he
opened In Berlin.
Company G of the first regiment
has decided to offer a trophy to pro
mote interest in rifle shooting in tha
Oregon national guard.
Mayor Frank is learning to ride a
bike" and enters into the amuse
ment, with all the zest and hilarity
of a schoolboy.
Negotiations have so far progressed
toward securing the lease of tha
upper deck of the steel bridge and
it is anticipated tUat the bridge will
De tnrown open to the public by
Wednesday.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oreg-fintan of Juiv 21. 1STO.
The city council adjourned last
night with more celerity than com
ported with high legislative dignity.
When the shooting began they ehut
down in double quick time and joined
in the chase after the desperado,
Wilson.
A Northern Pacific surveying nartv
left last night for Olympia and will
begin surveying a line to the Co
lumbia river and Portland.
Hot weather has done much to in
jure fruit in Wasco county and Walia
alia valley.
The municipal authorities at Gold
Hill advertise for a family to reside
at the reservlor so they may be on
hand to turn in the water in case of
fire.
TREES NEAR HOUSE DANGEROUS
Tall Isolated Growths on South Like
ly to Surcumh to Wind.
SEAVIEW. Wash.. July 19. (To the
Editor.) On a recent visit to Port
land, after an absence of several
years, I notice! in eeveral places, es
pecially in the district near Mt. Tabor
between Hawthorne avenue and Di
vision street, a number of large fir
trees, in many places quite close to
residences.
Now anyone living in or near Port
land on or about January 9, 1880 (I
forget the exact date), will remem
ber the terrific wind storm from the
southwest which uprooted trees by
the hundreds in the space of about
two hours. Also several years later
(I forget the year) there was a wind
storm which covered but a small ter
ritory and wrecked several buildings
on or near West avenue.
The writer of this could not be
hired by any amount of money to
sleep for a single night where there
was a large fir tree growing on the
south or southwest and trees do not
always fall straight before the wind,
sometimes falling sideways. The dan
ger is especially great where large
trees have been left standing alone
where they originally crowded together-
H. FREEBOROL'GH.
Charity la sought.
Boston Transcript.
. "I never throw away old junk, fpr
that would make me feel wasteful."
-What do you do with It?"
"I give it away and feci charitable."
HOW TO CHECK TUB PROFITEER
Restrictions on Loans Now In Effect
Suggested by Correspondent.
PORTLAND, July 20. (To the Edi
tor.) In The Oregonian July 16 we
have-with us "Boycott of Sugar Starts
Prices Down," and good luck, say I,
to the housewives who ure starting
to battle with the demon profiteer,
although they have been a mighy
long time thinking about it. I am
much afraid that their feeble efforts
will not avail much until the public,
or, better still the government, gets
after the banks, who enable the prof
iteers or gougers to rob the public
by lending them the public's money
in order to , enable them to hold on
to the foodstuffs and other necessi
ties of life, as clothes, etc.
We all know that 1-nding money is
the banks' life and nobody would
kick where It is for legitimate busi
ness, but when it is advanced on the
necessities of life on indeterminate
terms to facilitate the profiteer's
gouging the public, then it becomes
criminal.
Only last week I saw in the paper
that one bank was suing to fore
close on $70,000 on a note over nine
months old, and all against food
stuffs. There is little doubt but
that the firm could have sold out
had it wished to, and as a legitimate
business course the borrowers fail
ing to meet their obligations after
reasonable delay, the bank should
have sold the stuff for what it would
fetch and sued for the difference.
If a few of the banks would act
on this basis we should in a very
short time have everything at pre
war prices. It is absolutely sicken
ing to read about the hoarded sugar
which the probers locate and. as far
as the public is concerned, leave it
located where they find it.
Make it illegal for banks to lend
money against the necessities of life
on indeterminate notes, or terms, and
you kill the germ of the people's
disease, chronic impecunioslty.
F. BAYARD.
That which the correspondent sug
gests has already been done, so far
as is at present practicable by re
fusal of the federal reserve banks
to rediscount so-called frozen securi
ties. In other words, the federal re
serve banks will not rediscount paper
secured by commodities held in stor
age for speculative purposes. As
banks generally rely In their large
transactions on this rediscount priv
ilege the result has been that money
is generally advanced now on moving
commodities or on those the sale of
which has been contracted. This is
said to be one of the causes of the
decline in price of sugar, wool, hides
and some other Important products.
FIR TREES
Fir tree, that stands before my open
door.
You are more wonderful than poet's
lore.
Your warm brown trunk and shiny
bright jade dress
Exceeds an artist's dream of loveli
ness. You thrill me as no strain of music
can.
Inspire me till I lose my sense of man
And time and space prosaic, stale
and good
And stand with you In great infini
tude. My feet on clay but head in pure,
clear air
Where all is big and calm and sane
and fair
And just and true complete for God
is there!
Emeroi Stacy.