8 THE MOKNIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920 EfcTABLlSHKD BV HEN BY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co.. 133 Sixth Strest. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. B. B. TIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian i a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated J"'"". exclusively entitled to the uee for pu oil. ca- lion oi an news dipioi' - ,i , or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published hereliu Ail rights of republication ol special herein are also reserved. - ; BubecrlpUon Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year ... Daliy. Sunday Included, six months . Pally, Sunday Included, three months ally. Sunduy included, one month .. Daily, without Sunday, one year . . . v.. j I . i.i , I- I n . . i months wt 'i'i. " i on 18.00 4.25 2.25 fl.'(H) 8.25 6.00 J9.00 2.25 .75 7.80 .05 Weekly, one year Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year . . . 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They discerned a chance to force . the will of the minority upon the majority of the people by falsification and untruths. So they bolted. It is not likely that the non-partisan combination will succeed in Washington. It lacks the solidarity of the North Dakota movement. The direct primary in Washing-ton, de spite its proved defects and its fail ures, was adopted in an honest effort to purify politics. That desire for decency is not dead, though faith In the primary as a means of attaining it may waver. It is not conceivable that reaction to chicanery worse than any which ever defiled a party con vention could succeed in capturing the machinery of that state. FOR SUCCESS WITHOUT HONOR. Whoever it was that Imagined that all the discordant offsprings and dis putatious outsiders of the two major political parties could be cemented and harmonized into one political party was afflicted with weird dreams. It was attempted in Chicago on a national basis and three tickets came out of the gathering. Now an attempt at Yakima to get harmony out of seven groups whose confirmed habit is inharmony goes the same way. The Washington convention, it is true, splits into only two frag ments, whereas the Chicago conven tion split into three, but the discord is none the less loud and painful. .Great political parties re built up on the give and take principle. There are within each of them countless voters who yield to the counsel of the majority. The two major parties as they emerge from convention tur moil are made up of those who sub scribe to certain broad doctrines, purposes and traditions. They have become great because the voters who constitute them discern a virtue in collective wisdom and are willing to make some compromise to secure unity on the issues they conceive to bo of paramount importance. But there are always some non yieiders dogmatists, uncompromis ing theorists, inflexible dissenters and unappeasable protesters who are no more inclined -to yield to each other than to yield to the majority of the party. They cannot be satisfied in the nature of things,' for to satisfy one group would antagonize another; so they depart. If there was ever as ambitious and as foolish an ef fort to find a common meeting place for those for whom there is no meet ing place, it has escaped our recol lection. A purpose to induce seven groups to subscribe to collective wisdom when the seven have al ready found themselves without party because they would not sub scribe to collective wisdom was bound to fail. F.ach of the seven groups at Yak ima was animated by one or more peculiar theories of government. Though each apparently had no real interest in the theories or ambitions of the six others, each was willing to let each of the others put its own oogma into the platform for the time being. The efficacy of the log-rolling game as a matter of vote-getting was plain enough. So the seven agreed upon a platform a hodge podge of radical, revolutionary or visionary doctrines. But having ap proved numerous and vaTiegated doc trines, the groups fell out on the manner of achieving the combined aims. Four of the groups insist that the way to do it is to form a new party. Three of the groups insist that the road to success is to invade the republican party. The primary system has made the - republican party vulnerable to in- ". vasion in Washington. There are nu merous aspirants for nomination for most of the important offices. These candidates subscribe to the platform adopted by the regular convention at Bellingham and to the platform adopted by the national convention at Chicago. They represent the best thought and judgment of the party The party is now divided only on the question of the fitness of these sev eral candidates. Its vulnarableness lies in this natural and usual division of partvover candidates. There is no process at present proposed by which the voters can center on one candidate for each office. There is no prospect that it will be done, Three of the seven groups the farmers' non - partisan league, the -workers' non-partisan league and the i railroad workers purpose to put candidates on the republican ballot . who are known not to be republicans. , who are known not to be in sympa thy with the party platforms adopted ; either at Bellingham or Chicago, but t to be in sympathy with the platform adopted by other than republicans : at Yakima. Though not republl- , cans themselves, they purpose to reg- isi.er as republicans and vote for these candidates, relvinir on the fact - lll.1t IhAllirh tlmv Ta- "i 1 1 1 . 1 Vi n i- rnnuti tute a minority they would not be divided and believing that their can didates would win by a plurality by mson of their solidarity. ine dominant party in Washing' ton would by success of this scheme " be deprived of regularly nominated candidates in fact. Candidates would be on the ticket under the name of 'republican!' -but they would be an tagonistic to reriublican princi ples and adherents of doctrines; to which the republican party is opposed. True republicans would be virtually disfranchised and the general election contest would lie between the non-partisans, call ing themselves republicans, and the regr.larly nominated democrats. I It is the scheme by which the non partisan league gained control of the state of North Dakota. It is the scheme that was forecast in Idaho and led to the wrecking by the legis lature of the political - machinery which invited that particular form of dishonesty the direct primary. In the ..Yakima controversy over means to put the platform into effect there were numerous expressions of political decency. There were those who declared that they could not in conscience register as republicans '-' when they were 'not republicans. Four of the groups in the convention CHOOSING HIS COMPANY. Mr. Bryan's reasons for refusing to accept the prohibition nomination are understandable and sufficient. He is a democrat, and will remain a democrat. He belongs there;, any where else he would be a misfit Be sides he has been thrice honored by his party's nomination for the presi dency; and he is neither a quitter nor a sorehead. He is not a political prohibitionist, but a practicing pro hibitionist. - He doesn't like the com pany of the prohibition party, for it promises nothing for him and little for the cause. Your professional prohibitionist must find an excuse for existence. He must make an issue. Just now he is trying to find something in the attitude of Mr. Harding to quarrel about. He does not stop at misrep resentation, or outright misstatement, In order to make a point. Here is Candidate Watkins charging that Candidate Harding would repeal the prohibition law, basing his accusa tion on the Harding letter of accept ance. Candidate Colvin (the ob scurity from New York, who is also of the prohibition ticket) also makes an early bid for notice by supporting hiB colleague's charge. If they have read what Mr. Hard ing said they know better; evidently they hope that the public will not have read. The two paragraphs relating to prohibition in Mr. Harding's address are: that Representative G a n d y has charged down upon it, else the In dians might repay the white man, for his false gift of firewater,, with the mescal of Mexico. NATURE'S WONDERLAND. Thirty years ago no intrepid ex plorer had penetrated the difficult and remote fastnesses of the Olympic peninsula. Along some of the streams that rushed from its inac cessible m'ountains, Indians gained a hazardous existence; but for the most part the cougar, the elk and the other wild animals that made it' their home were never disturbed. The white settler rarely ventured beyond Its fringes. - , After awhile the government or ganized an expedition, and it broke through the great forests and as cended the gigantic hills, and made a survey: and hunters and fisher men gradually went farther into its wild domain. But even to this day the peninsula has the ' crude and picturesque aspects of terra incog nita, for in no material aspect has its rugged contour been subdued or its real mysteries solved. Yet great progress has been made. Roads have been built, valleys tenanted, forests penetrated and utilized, and civiliza tion made itself known and felt. But only in spots. For it is true today. as it always was, that the Olympic peninsula is dedicated to isolation and to primeval grandeur, and Ja thousand years of the subduing processes of man's handiwork will not greatly alter the decrees of nature. The Olympic highway, a fine state road, has been extended so that it nearly, but not quite, encircles the peninsula. It is a wonderful project, opening to the travelers' vision many of the marvels of the grand aggrega tion of mountain, forest, stream, ocean and canal which describe the peninsula or define its bounds. But not enough is known about the re gion or its attractions;, so they have organized the Olympio Highway & Development association and made Frank H. Lamb, an important citizen of Hoquiam, its president. ' TheSr work is to aid in completing the Olympic highway and spread abroad the facts about the Olympics. It is a laudable object, and it " should succeed. ' I believe In law enforcement. If elected I mean to be a constitutional president and It is Impossible to Ignore the consti tution, unthinkable to evade the law. when our every committal Is to orderly government. People ever will differ about the wisdom of the enactment of a law there is divided opinion respecting the 18th amendment and the laws enacted to make it operative but there can be no differ ence of opinion about honest law enforce ment. Neither government nor party can afford to cheat the American people. The laws of congress must harmonize with the con stitution, else they soon are adjudged to be void; congress enacts the laws and the executive branch of government is charged with enforcement. We cannot nullify be cause of divided opinion, we cannot jeop ardize orderly government with .contempt for law enforcement. Modification or re peal is the right of a free people, when ever the deliberate and intelligent public sentiment commands, but perversion and evasion mark the paths to the failure of government Itself. Here Mr. Harding declares for law enforcement and definitely rec ognizes and says he will assume the duty of the executive to uphold pro hibition. He assails those opponents cf prohibition who would nullify and cava that perversion and evasion are not to be tolerated, but that, of course, there may be modification or repeal wherever a free people in their deliberate and intelligent judgment demand it. What Candidate Watkins and Can didate Colvin clearly want is a denial by Mr. Harding that the people have a right to change or repeal the pro hibitlon amendment or the Volstead act in other words, that a free Deo pie are a free people. A MARVELOUS INTOXICANT. There used to.be a notion that for mescal one went to Mexico, If he elected to flirt with the fiery vice of the peon. All the geographies had pictures of the natives, sedulously tending the cactus which produced hilarity and subsequent nirvana. It seemed ever so far away, and quaint and romantic, and with a whimsi cally guilty feeling one felt a secret gladness that the poor peons had this solace down there among the horned toads and tarantulas. It can be studied nearer at home now, on any Indian reservation, declared Representative Harry L. Gandy of South Dakota when he addressed his fellow-members on behalf of an anti- pcyote bill. For peyote is mescal flung far over the Rio Grande and into the South Dakota reservations. where the northern braves have caught it with approval. This is the question that Repre sentative Gandy propounded, in sup port of the prohibitory measure: If peyote Is non-alcoholic, as it is, yet produces the identical effects of al ccholic intoxication, do not we need a new definition for drunkenness? The purpose of the anti-peyote bill is to define the drug as pernicious and conducive to drunkenness and immorality, and to banish it by an edicts of prohibition. On the South Dakota reservations its use has be come identified with religious cere monials and authentic descriptions of .its peculiar influence compel th belief that the Mexican cactus but ton, brewed and quaffed, or eaten raw, would start a camp-meeting or a catastrophe most anywhere "Time is lengthened," said Re pre sentative Gandy, in an eloquent sum niary of the toxic properties of pey ote, "a minute is like an hour and a hour is a whole night. Things seem lar away. common sounds seem wonderful. Each note struck on pia.no seems a whole chord and pro duces a, new series of wonderful col crs. Clothed in these kaleidoscopic colors, all kinds of animals and ob- jects are seen, some beautiful and I alluring and some grotesque and fearful. But it is the colors con stantly coming and going that make the most fascinating appeal." The lonely peyote guzzler need never worry about the dearth of bright lights. He swallows one swig and the reservation is illuminated like a summer, carnival. Two and he beholds Noah's ark and its cargo, in multiplex color. Three and the howl of the distant coyote becomes the sustained glory of a great aria. It was not so with J. Barleycorn. He had nO" splendors to offer, even of the most transitory nature. A false and pervasive sense of well-being, perhaps, but no menageries, no mel odies, no marvels. Peyote in its creation of a chimeri cal paradise has been likened by men of science to hasheesh and. the weird drugs oi me. orient. it is more HARD TNG POLICY OX THE LEAGUE. Senator Harding has accepted the obligation that the republican plat form puts upon him. to bring about American membership in an associa tion of nations and in his speech he in dicated the manner in which he pro posed to perform it. His plan of action and its purpose are thus stated: I promise you formal and 'effective peace so quickly as a republican congress can pass Its declaration for a republican executive to sign. Then we may turn to our readjustment at home and proceed deliberately and reflectively to that hoped- for world relationship which shall satisfy both conscience and aspirations and still hold us free from menacing involvement. I can hear in the call of conscience an nslstent voice for the largely reduced armaments throughout the world, with attending reduction of burdens upon peace- loving humanity. We wish to give of American Influence and example; we must arive of American leadership to that in valuable accomplishment. Partisanship being thus subordinated and the authority of the senate rec ognized, there can be no such bitter antagonism as Mr. Wilson has pro voked with disastrous results to the country and the world. A good start will thus be made in that divorce ot foreign policy from party contro versy which is necessary to make it continuous and consistent and to in sure united support of the govern ment when acute disagreements with other nations arise. What about the league that al ready exists? All the other signato ries of the Versailles treaty and all the invited neutral states have be come members. It has already be gun registration of treaties and has arranged repatriation of prisoners from and to Russia, arranged the government of the Saar valley and Danzig and organized advisory com mittees on arrangements, health, transit and the world court. The committee on the world court, of which Elihu Root is a member, has completed a plan of organization. But the league is ' without power. When asked by the allies to take a mandate for Armenia, it replied that it had neither troops, money nor civ:l administrators. ' When Persia appealed to it for aid against bolshe vist invaders, it could do nothing. Its enthusiastic British advocates have urged the allied supreme coun cil to get out of the way and leave the league to enforce the peace treaties, but A. J. Balfour advised them to "remember Its immaturity and do not overload it." European nations are keenly alive to the weakness of the league with out the aid of the United States, and the minor members wpuld readily join them In revising its constitution to meet the objections of the United States. Lord Grey on behalf of Great Britain and the Temps on behalf of France have Intimated that the allies would welcome this nation on its own terms. Frequently, when asked why he did not do certain things that he admitted should have been done, Lloyd George has replied that they were impossible for want of Ameri can co-operation. Then we may infer that when a re publican administration makes pro posals for American co-operation through such an association as the Chicago platform outlines, it will find the leading members of the league ready to consider a complete evision of the covenant to accord with the obligations which this na tion is prepared to undertake, and that the lesser members will fall In line. The revised covenant will not impose the sweeping obligations which aroused antagonism in the senate, but this nation will readily ast-ume and: live up to the obligations which it will impose. . As it gains strength and wins confidence and as new occasion arises, its powers may be enlarged and the obligations of its members extended. The fatal mis take of the Paris conference was the attempt to launch a league full grown, whereas Its growth must in evitably be gradual if it is to live and become strong. deadly than alcohol -and more ener insisted on conducting their affairs ' vating than opium. And it is well The foregoing implies that in con cert with congress, he will proceed to restore peace by means of a decla ration of peace rather than i by treaties with Germany, Austria and Hungary, and that he will then move for association of the United States with other nations for those purposes of the league In which he indicate" that we are prepared to co-operate. His reprobation of "personal gov ernment, individual, dictatorial, au tocratic" and his pledge of "restora tion of representative popular gov ernment under the constitution," of cordial understanding and co-ordi nated acitivities with a house of con gress fresh from the people" and of restored - functions of the senate" plainly tell how he will set about this work. He would consult at. each step with the foreign relations com mittee of the senate and as to the declaration of peace with that of the house also, and every treaty would be made by and with the advice and consent of the senate from the be ginning not mecely submitted for approval at the close. The situation with regard to the Wilson covenant will be fundamen tally different from that which ex isted when the Lodge reservations were adopted- by simple majorities and when ratification with those reservations was rejected because the majority was seven votes short of two-thirds. At that time repub lican senators were trying to make the best of the Wilson league by such modifications as would meet their scruples. Twenty-one demo cratlc senators joined them in an ef fort at compromise between Mr. Wilson, and the republicans as the only practicable means of attaining pence under the conditions then ex isting, vvnen a repuDiican president and congress take office next March it will no longer be necessary to patch up Mr. Wilson's work. The republicans will not be content to make the best of it by adopting res ervations. The twenty-one democrats will not feel under the necessity of accepting a compromise in order to save their leader from being thwarted in the object nearest his heart. Each party will approach the subject in the light of an entirely changed situation. - Mr. Harding evidently wants to be free to adopt whichever seems the most expedient means to carry out his policy. If he should find It prac ticable after consultation with th senate to adopt reservations to the present covenant not necessarily the Lodge reservations but perhaps in harmony with the republican plat form he would adopt that course If he thought it wiser to negotiate directly with the leading powers for revision of the covenant on lines on which he would have agreed with the senate, he would do so. He does not want his hands tied by definite pledges either to adopt the present covenant with any specific reserva tions or to discard it altogether. His mind Is on the principles of action which should be followed, and th covenant and reservations may or may not serve as the material oh which he will work. ' We may expect that Mr. Harding and his secretary of state will confer with republican senators and will agree, with them on the overtures to be made to other nations for Ameri can co - operation In the work ot keeping the peace. Respecting the prerogatives of the senate and know ing that the support of a number of democrats is necessary to a two thirds majority, the new president will confer with them also and will seek a basis of agreement with them. The federal bureau of standards makes us wonder, - by its concern over the accuracy of the measure of teaspoonful" in cookery, how our grandmothers managed so well when they were governed largely by in stinct and guesswork. The bureau finds that there Is a variation of twenty per cent in the cubic con tents of different designs of tea spoons, to which should be added further variation of thirty per cent in the personal equation of cooks, making a total variation o fifty per cent which may account for an occasional culinary tragedy, but certainly does not explain the toothsomeness of the biscuits that mother used to make. -But it may be that instinct in cookery is not so unerring as it was In the good old days, and that the bureau is per forming a real public service in setting forth that a standard tea spoon should hold five cubic centi meters, which, if it results in more homemade bread and less of the bakery article, will be worth to us all that the bureau of standards costs. COX' CABINET PICKED FOR HIM Promise of Real Dirt Parmer Inspires List of Lively Irrlvatlonlats. Corvallls Gaxette-Times. Governor Cox promises to put a real "dirt farmer" Into his cabinet as secretary of agriculture. That ought to make Mr. Meredith mad. Meredith, you know, is a man who farms the farmers. That being the case Dennis Stovall Is also out of the race. Some men from the eastern Oregon irri gation districts ought to land, for Cox is a great believer in irrigation. That's why Tammany nominated him. He has not announced the "rest of his cabinet yet. but as this is a per fectly independent paper, and as we nominated Harding's cabinet for him, it is only fair that we help Mr. Cox, too. For secretary of state we suggest the Hon. Mr. Gustave Pabst. For sec retary of the treasury, . the Hon. An heuser Busch. Mr. Busch was a crack erjack for keeping his own treasury full and nearly everybody else. For secretary of war nobody could beat his honor, the well-known Mr. Spirits Fruementi. He has been mixed up in more good fights than ny man living and ought to know 11 about It. Mr. Cox will need the right kind of an attorney general. What's the matter with the well-known -Mr. Porter not Johns, nor Jack but Mr. Malt Porter, the famous twin brother of Mr. Brown Ale. He can be count ed on to put plenty of kick into his work, even though he does rrotn ana team around more than would seem necessary. For postmaster general there is Al. Burleson, of course, but we need a chancre. Not too much change, to De sure, but a minor change, say Mr. Al. Cohol. The employes around the de partment wouldn't have to go to the trouble of learning a new name, iney are familiar with Al. For secretary of the navy, "may we not suggest that peerless sea man. Admiral Schliti? To be sure. he never saw the ocean. But neither did Admiral Grayson. Schlitx, on the other hand, has floated more old hulks than anybody living and is the man who invented schooners. He has taken the blue ribbon so many times that he has been often and fondly called "blue ribbon Schlltz.1 For secretary of the interior we think the famous Mr. Bock would be satisfactory. He has satisfied a great many Interiors and has probably seen the workings of more interiors man any other with half his fame. Mr. Cox has his own secretary or agriculture in mind it seems, a "real dirt farmer." We presume his name is John Barleycorn. So we have only secretary of commerce left; for that place we are sure we have the right man, "a man than whom, etc., there is none so sophisticated, comma, man who could not be fooled by the bisr Interests for he knows them all, a man than whom, etc., there Is none wiser, the Hon. Mr. Bud Weiser." We 'trust Mr. Cox will put a real laborer into the office of secretary of labor, too. It will be a difflcul job to find one in these degenerate days. But there Is one concerning whose work there Is no question, one who works night and day, a regular white mule for work, Mr. Razin Moon shine. Because of his well-known caDacitv for working overtime, he may not be satisfactory to the union but if Mr. Cox really wants a worke as knows how to work, we Can re commend our candidate. to 4he limit. As for a private secretary Mr. Cox Is understood to have selected two, both of them life-long friends and enjoying Tammany's favor Tom and Jerry. Boy! Bring on the mint juleps! Those Who Come and Go. STATE KNOWS GOV, COX AS WET Mrs. Lehman itrauss and her daughter Mildred of New York City are two of a host ot summer visitors who certify that they are In Portland as a result of the persuasive lectures of Frank Branch Riley, wandering into the Horace Mann auditorium or Columbia university, near their home on Mornlngside Heights, one nignt last spring, they came face to face with the appeal of the northwestern national parks and the gorge oi tne Columbia. They went again to hear the lecture at Aeolian hall and were among a great crowd who gathered about the lecturer afterward to prom- se that they were going out to see his country. Returning from a day on the highway yesterday, they en- huslastically declared that tnere were no exaggerations In Mr. Riley's story, and that next season they in- end personally to conduct every friend they have in New York to the lecture In order to help prove the ac counts of their western tour which they will give when they get back home. Mrs. Strauss and her daugh ter are at the Benson. Canada is wet enough for any one, asserts a Portland man who has just arrived from a trip across Can ada from the east. "There Is a law governing the sale of liquor which Is more honored In the breach than In the observance. For example, crossing the continent we stopped for 2 0 minutes at a station where there was a beer saloon, 2H per cent beer. I asked If it was Dossible to obtain a bottle of whisky, and the proprie tor said he could only sell beer, but that quart bottles were obtainable on physician's, prescription. I ex plained that I was on the train pass ing through. He demanded to see my ticket, but the conductor had it, so I showed him my sleeper ticket. me proprietor instantly turned it over to read the date, and as this was proof that I was actually trav eling throusrh. he nroduceri a. bottle of whisky. Well, thereafter, in every town the men in the smoking com partment tried the same scheme with success." Two hundred tourists. In one swarm, will arrive at the Multnomah this morning, will spend the day here and then pass onward. This large group, piloted by ' guides and In charge of a travel bureau. Is "doing" the country as fast as pos sible. For this reason, one day only le all that has been assigned on the tourist schedule for Portland. Some day tourist agencies will devote three or four days to Portland in order that their clients can see the Colum bla highway, make the trip to Mount Hood and run down to the beaches. Anyone who knows about Portland and Ita scenic resources and points of interest Is aware that the city Itself cannot be more than sketchily seen in one day, and not Including four hours or more for the highway trip. Hotel business In Portland Is still moving at top pace, for there has been no let-down since the Shrine convention. ' The great bulk of hotel patrons now is composed of traveling sight-seers. The most satisfactory feature of yesterday's victory of -Resolute over Shamrock is that it was a clean win, without need of taking time allow ance into the reckoning. Prior to this series time allowance, the bug- rear ot the non-expert, was used only once and then only . three seconds were needed. But Resolute left no doubt, even In the landsman's mind as to her rigTit to the fourth heat of the race, and it will be hoped that the deciding event will be won as unmistakably. The latest publication of the Port land Chamber of Commerce is a book J" half-tone views of scenes in and udoui tne city, or tne highest artistic merit and printed on fine, heavy paper under the title, "Portland. Ore gon, city or the West." It does credit to Sydney B. Vincent, director of the chamber s news service. MAKE TEAl'HIXG A PROFESSION Three Important Items In Ulscnssion 1 of School Crisis. E. A. Cross in Tale Review. The public should begin now to pay highly intelligent, well-trained teach ers with a natural aptitude for teach ing such salaries as will suggest to keen-minded young people that teach ing for the trained man or woman Is to become a profession with profes sional standards, professional social recognition and with professional re- uneration comparable to that oi law and medicine. The first item in the new pro gramme, designed to make teaching a real profession and to induce cap able men and women of the highest intelligence to select teaching as their life work Is remuneration for teaching comparable to that of other standard professions, and involving a schedule of salaries ranging from a comparatively small amount for the apprentice up to a liberal Income for the professional teacher. The second is the disqualifying of all who are without training for their vocation and of those who have failed because of inadequate native ability, moral slack ness or other Index of incompetency. The third step is a comprehensive na tional plan for teacher training and the certification of teachers similar in scope to that now obtaining in France. When the United States adopts such a programme and sees its 650.000 schools under the control of profes sionally trained teachers, it may with confidence look to the schools to teach stability, moderation, property rights, moral rectitude and a pro gramme of Americanism based upon a democratic co-operation In industry. Then the country may confidently ex pect to find in the schools an impreg nable defense against imported radi calism which flouts the painful les sons in civilization that the world has struggled through in ages past. Then the nation may reasonably look to the schools for ll,jht and leading. General Pershing went unnoticed wnen he walked about Boston in civilian clothes. Take off the brass buttons and any army officer be comes plain human being. Presidential candidates of the re publican, democratic and prohibition parties all come . from Ohio. That state must want to make the buceye tne national emblem. The co-operative retail store of or ganized labor Is a failure. There was no personal incentive to make money and that is the first necessity for making a business go. What's come over people? Here William G. McAdoo, Robert M. La Follette and William Jennings Bryan all declined presidential nominations within three rweeks. Branding by the Washougal plan is a novel way of punishing a breaker of the tenth commandment, as ef fective as it is rigorous. Looks as if the Poles stirred up something In their " offensive last spring that they can't finish. A good deal of the day's news is of a criminal nature and about Ruth's thirty-third home run. A fire was needed to revive the name of Hornbrook in the minds of men with memories. About time they were hanging that negro in California who confessed to seven murders. -C - EVERY EMPLOYER COlLD SELL IT Writer Has Scheme for Getting Beer to Worklagura. PORTLAND, July 23. (To the Edi tor.) You asked how can the work lngman have his beer and light wines without the saloon. The answer is simple. His restaurant or employer could keep them on ice and supply him at so much per. ' We have not yet the correct eolu- tion of the liquor question. Driyiken- hbhs n ue reuucea as mucn as wished, but never prevented. It can be cured If treated In time In any event. When one yields to liquor it means deficiency of stamina, mental. moral or physical, as the case may be. Make drunkenness & crime by all means, but punish the criminal, not the public, as In the case of mur der or theft. If we citizens can choose wife, husband, calling, home, diet and all essentials, we are perfectly - able to choose our drinks without the aid of any fanatical sect. We want strict laws strictly en forced agalnet supplying dives and intoxicated persons. We must thus license a limited number of makers and dealers and watch them care fully. Wo shall thus have all of the advantages of prohibition with out tyrannies. The subject Is too long and complex for any detailed dincsion, so will close with the above simple suggestions. JAMES H. S. BATES. "Laundry causes us more trouble than any other thing, confided local hotel clerk. "Bunches come back short; bundles are sent out without a name; laundry Is sent out marked for one room and later the patrons ehift to another room, so when the laundry returns it goes to the wrong room. And again the laundry does not return in time for the patrons, who have to catch their train or steamer a few hours before the laundryman shows up with the clean clothes. Other people go away and forget laundry In their room and a week or a month later they write and want It forwarded to them." Results of the way Portland Im pressed the Shriners recently are be ginning to appear. W. J. McKlnney of Mobile, Ala., heard the Shrinere on their return home speak In such glowing terms of Portland, Its beauty, resources and general all around attractiveness that he decided he had lived in Mobile long enough and would venture forth to Oregon. Mr. McKlnney has arrived at the Perkins with the determination of locating in this city. While he hasn't had time to turn around yet to see what Portland really looks like, he says that so far it measures up to the laudatory remarks he heard In Mobile. The Initials C. P. A. are too long and cumbersome, so Mr. Lonergan of Pen dleton tosses them all aside and pre fers to be known as and called Pat. He carries he Idea to the extent of signing his checks as Pat Lonergan Instead of C. P. A Lonergan, and the abbreviated and more catchy name is painted on his office. Mr. Lonergan is in the.paving business and the ice manufacturing business and the Ice cream business. He passed through Portland, accompanied by his wife, to visit the Elks at Salem. The last of about J600.000 worth of material has been removed from the McEachern shipyard in Astoria to the storage yard at St. Johns. E. W. Wright, manager of the yard, who is In the city from Astoria, says that the odds and ends of the shipyard are now being cleaned up. and he gives a sigh as he thinks of the fine shipbuilding industry which has. been suffered to lapse: What will be done with the abandoned shipyard property Mr. Wright does not say. Having loked over the Elks' con vention at Salem, Phil Metschan and Tony Metschan returned home yes terday. They made the trip by auto mobile and report that rapid prog ress is being made on paving the Pa cific highway between Salem and Hubbard. This stretch is almost fin ished and a few weeks more will see the pavement completed, if nothing unforeseen occurs. Ohloan Visiting; in Oregon Tells How HIsi People Look I pon Candidate. CORVALL1S, Or., July 23. (To the Editor.) I am visiting at Corvallis. but I live in Ohio and know some thing about Ohio politics. I am sure I know a lot more about our state than the Weston Leader seems to know. I delight to follow the opin ion of The Oregronian on the real is sues that confront the people of the United States at present and that must be met this fall. Two minor fssuea have been forced to the front by the Democrats, solely to hide their inefficiency and their absolute lack of both business sense and common sense, but these minor issues (though both dead) must be met, and The Oregonian is absolutely right July 12 when it said that Cox counts on booze and nothing else to elect him. The Oregonian's exposition of the statement made by the Weston Leader suits me exactly. The Leader either does not know the truth or it fails to state the truth when it says: "To say that Cox is the cham pion of booze and boose alone is non sense. It is an Insult to the great commonwealth of Ohio." The fact is that booze is the only issue by which Cox has any chance in Ohio. Cox' success as a vote-getter in Ohio, no doubt, got him the nomina tion for president, but he reached the high tide of his success in Ohio in his last election. In that campaign Americanism was the only issue and we were so angry at the bosses for nominating former Governor Willis for governor that thousands of us declared that we would rebuke Willis nd punish the republican narty by voting for Governor Cox. We knew Willis' position on Americanism, but we did not know Cox' position. Willis In a former campaign had a pro-German speech for German neighborhoods and a nice American speech for American neighborhoods, and there were but few people in the state knew that Governor Cox owned or had anything to do with the Dav- ton News nor did they know that it was a pro-German paper. When Roosevelt rebuked Willis for un Americanlsm and praised Cox for Americanism it was easy for thous ands of us to decide to vote for Cox, but about three weeks before the election someone got hold of some of the back numbers of the Dayton News wnicn snowed him ud inohis true light, not only that he was pro-Ger man but that he was ashamed of it. and tried to deceive the public. The tide turned gainst him and one more week of exposure would have over whelmed him. His Influence with the decent people of Ohio is absolutely gone and his only hope is from the saloon element of Cleveland and Cin cinnati, and they are powerful enough sometimes to control the state. At the last election when a refer endum was up in regard to the eight eenth amendment the wets by reason of their strength in the two cities mentioned) won only by a thread (about 100 majority on a recount) and that, too, with a very light coun try vote, where the real dry strength lies. So that the saloon support Is the only shadow of a chance Cox has in Ohio and if the country vote gets out, which generally gets out at a presidential election. Cox will need about 100,000 more bums to break even. GEORGE L HTSLOP. Deshler. Ohio. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Slontagme. Day's Worlt In Cannery. ALBANY, Or., Julv 22. (To the Editor.) Please tell me what con stitutes a woman's day's work In a cannery. Is it eight hours and is she entitled to one and one-half pay for overtime after eight hours and for Sunday work? e. m. d. Because of the emergency nature of the work in a cannery, it is covered by a special ruling of the industrial welfare commission which does not restrict the hours to eight and does not take Sunday into account differ ently from any other day of the week. Pay and one-half for overtime work is not allowed unless the day is longer than ten hours. In most industries in Oregon the ruling Is no more than nine hours a day or 48 hours e. week. In canneries a ten-hour day and 60 hours a week are permitted. THE DIFFERENCE. WAn1l ET WS ftVe PlaSS And whisky ten a drink, w n toners we would pass ..JC!e usually would think: Though lots of fun they had In yonder rornnr k.. - , It really is too bad. rur urunkards that they are." But whisky sells today At twenty-five a quart And stowing it away Is an expensive sport. While beer cannot be had For any sort of pelf Except the very bad Home-brew you make yourself. And those who have a store. -ueneath the cellar stair. Are getting more and more Disposed to keep it there. A miser and his gold Are easier to part Than those who have and hold The makings of a start. And when a toper now w Pass upon the street, v ith an uncertain brow And more uncertain feet. Who goes upon his way In sodden stupor sunk, W e look at him and say: 'He must be rich he's drunk:" It's Very Arid. Tou could drink all the moisture In the democratic platform and Ftill be able to walk one of its planks without wabbling. There Are Miles and Lilies. W. c. T. U. leader says that rouge ing a woman is like paintinsr a lilv. v e have seen some lilies that wouid be improved by painting. iCopjright by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) MORE ABOrT SAME WEISER." Family Pronounced It Tnlike People or Idaho Town Do. PORTLAND. July 22. (To the Edi tor.) Perhaps I can further answer C. W. Hastings relative to his inquiry about the name of "Weiser." As I recall the Weisers lived In the Domuii vuuiuy. Dome time in tne pus the elder Weiser and a neighbor were returning from Portland by team. Father and I were making a similar trip and traveled with them a dav or two. Mr. Weiser told us that his son had made a good strike m the mines east of the mountains. He spoke in German dialect and pro nounced his name "Wiser" ionir T. That I am absolutely certain, I will relate a trival incident. One night we campel in the Chehalem mountains. J near the gap through which the P. & W. V. R R. was afterward built. He remarked that his friend was near ly out of horse feed but that he (Weiser) would cut some grass in a nearby meadow with his pocket knife. I was a callow youth with a penchant for occasional rhyming so I composed a little doggerel commencing: The wiser In his wisdom clearly saw The fellow's horses needed straw. P.i to the meatlow he did go With knife In hand and stoonlne; low. Cut with firm fcrlp the Juicy food, etc. But for this incident your readers might not have known that I was ever afflicted with the "divine af flatus." It was a very mild case. J. D. LEE. A Cowboy's Song. Jack Thorpe, In Poetry. For this is the law of the western, range When a stranger hails in sight "Just tie up "your hoss in the old corral. En 'light, stranger, 'light V 'TIs a land of hospitable people. You're welcome in daytime or night: Always one more chair at the table. So it's " 'Light, stranjrer. 'light!" We don't ask no inquisitive questions. If your people are native or white. At our ranch you will find you are welcome. So it's "'Light, stranger, 'light'." You may be an outlaw, or preacher, Uot into some place kinda tight Some day you'll return the favor. So It's "Light, stranger, "light:" We are Just plain cow-folk In Texas, But you'll find we are all about right, You may stay for a year and be welcome. so its " umnt, stranger. -light: . Pis Expense Hnrts J'mnll Oil Men. Oklahoman. Waste In the oil Industry, as It is conducted in many of the mid-continent fields, is enormous according to Frederick A. Delano, federal re ceiver of the Red river disputed territory. "The day of the little lellow is pass ing," Mr. Delano points out. because the great overhead expense of the small independent operator Is too large to allow a fair profit for the money Invested." As an Illustration Mr. Delano cites many of the small operators In the bed of the river who were operating producing wells at a loss through in dependent pumping methods. Many of these were running crews with boilers merely to pump wells while others were swabbing the wells In stead of pumping. Large field and office forces were necessary in most cases. "Co-operation or merging of these companies is the only remedy," he says Wonder lien Lives In Rood River. HOOD RIVER, Or., July 23. (To the Editor.) I am an enthusiastic poultry raiser and have In my flock a White Leghorn pullet which I think has performed a feat worthy of men tion. She began laying at the ace of 4 months and 11 days, producing on LJuly 9 a double yolked egg. on juiy 11 a triple yoiKeti aim u - another double yolked one. She Is strictlv Oregon breed and raised. SIRS. T. W. BERRY. Jke World In Two Acres. Exchange. At "Boy Land," a school for boys In California, it is possible to view the whole earth, laid out fiat like a map over about two acres of giound Rivers, lakes, mountains, valitji, con tinents and oceans are all complete. The boys can paddle through the larger waterways. T. G. Smith of Spray, where he Is In the livestock business, is an ar rival at the Perkins. Not so many years ago Spray was simply a spot covered with sagebrush growing as tall as a man on horseback, but now it is a trading point on the John Day highway for ranchers for miles around. For many years H. S. Johnson has been In the stock game near Mitchell, Or., until he knows practically every foot of the land for miles In every direction. Turning his back on Mitch ell for the time being. Mr. Johnson has come to Portland on a business trip and is registered at the Perkins. To have a conference with the dis trict attorney of Klamath county rel ative to legal phases of highway con struction in that section, J. M. Devers, assistant attorney-general, is at the Imperial. Alexander H. Kerr, formerly of Portland but now of Tulsa. Okla., Is at the Hotel Portland on one of his periodic visits to his old stamping ground. Charles H. Fisher, newspaper editor of Eugene, is in Portland on a busi ness trip. How It Is nt Home. Cincinnati Enquirer. Willie Paw, what is the difference between an engaged girl and a mar ried woman? Maw A married woman personally attends to the work of put ting on her robbers, my son. Paw Willie, you keep your mouth shut. . v No Wonder Girls Enjoy Working for a Corporation With a Heart De Witt Harry in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow tells how the "Golden Rule in Business Brings Full Meed of Success." It's a full page and more of good interesting reading, all about the telephone girls and the comforts provided for them by the corporation with .a heart. Mr. Harry is much impressed with the fact that the girls can get a "full meal and all the fixings for 25 cents" and, too, he tells little inside facts about the workings of a telephone exchange that are not known to the average citizen. Over-plus in service are the employes who benefit by the comforts supplied by this far-seeing corporation. Being a telephone girl has far more possibilities, according to the article, than many other vocations. Scenery That Thrills Oregon is a wonderland of beauty. We have seen the Columbia River Highway, the mountains, Crater lake, Wallowa lake and many spots of scenic splendor, but Lucile F. Saunders presents some central Oregon scenes that are described in a way that makes one want to see for himself. Read about Dillman's cave and the register kept in a fruit jar. See the picture of the falls where a "glacier went overboard." Frank Branch Riley should put these scenes into one of his soul-stirring lectures on Oregon. Midst Oregon's Big Trees One needn't be able to afford an auto trip or have the luck to get gasoline, to be able to appreciate the story L. H. Gregory tells this week about a trip to Astoria over the inland highway. Part of the journey is through the tall stately trees that are so plentiful along this route. Of course for those who plan the trip there is the technical "dope" or log of the road. Lies! White lies, polite lies, business lies, all the varieties that human kind is heir to are depicted by W. E. Hill whose cartoons, "Among Us Mortals," find a response in all hearts. Have you ever told any lies like these? Be honest. An Authoress, Fires and Babies Read about Mary Roberts Rine hart and see the pictures of her in several poses and with her very own grandchild. It's all in a story in the magazine section. Society Girls, Attention! It's polite and proper to have a regular job and be a working girl nowadays. Helen H. Hoffman has written a bright article to that effect for the Sunday section. Society news of local interest is to be found 'in the regular place, section three, as usual. America and Olympic Games Oregon will have some fine lads at Antwerp. They sail soon. Read Walter Dunn's story about the world-thrilling events. Sports, special articles, bridge, a story by . Admiral Sims about a great sea victory, cartoons, and a score of other attractions will make tomorrow's paper worth "twice the price." A