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THE MOKNIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 24, 1920
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in an honest and above-board man
ner. To them honor was more im
portant than defeat. To three of
them success seems more important
than honor. 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."
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