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TTir: MOIWfTXG OTtEGONTAN, FRIDAY, JULY 30, 1920 s .inammjjCDnjtmtmt KSTABUSHKO BY II EN R V I- FITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlun Publishing t-o.. loi Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. 1ICKIK.N. a- tr.. - MauaKer. Kditor. The Oregonian ! a member of the Aao elated Preoo. The Associated " .vt...i..iu lor puunw tion of all newa dispatches credited to it vr not otherwise credited in this paper ana also the local news published herein. ah r;ghts of republication of special dispatcnes herein are also reserved. r-ubkcription Kate Invariably In Adin. tBy Mail.) rallv. Sundav Included, one year l'aily. Sunday Included, six months . . 1 aily. Sunday included, three months l'aily, Sunday Included, one month ... iJally, without Sunday, on year .... lai:y. without Sunday, six months . . . l'aily, without Sunday, one month eekly. one year ...... Sunday, one year ....... By Carrier.) Ually. Sundsy Included, one year !?? ,aily. 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But when the railroads cannot move the cars they have any faster, how can they friend matters by buying more cars? THE TRUTH ABOIT MII.K. What -milk consumers want to know, and about all they care to know in connection with the milk Controversy in Portland, is the truth ' ibout the cost of producing milk and tlistributing it. There is little or no public interest in personalities and ti:ia .jt all in nnv issui not eprmane to the Question as stated! As to whatf constitutes a fair profit, once actual rost has been determined, people will readily enough make up their minds for themselves. There is suspicion that somebody is being gouged some where, but it is only fair to say that this is only a suspicion, though it .may have been fostered by the cir cumstance that the more that is said on the subject the less light seems to be shed on the . essential facts. ?harges and counter charges by dairymen and dealers ate apt to leave the plain citizen with the im pression that there must be truth in V- hut each side says about the other. Now there is talk about another "inquiry," or official investigation of some kind. Obviously this will be as much of a farce as others have been V-fore it, and as official inquiries asually are, unless it is impartial and rxpert and thorough. Remedies can be applied after the diagnosis has been made but it is essential to ob tain all the facts. The quasi-public nature of the milk industry is the warrant of the people for demanding candor from those engaged in it. A suggestion has been made by the head of the dairymen's organiza tion that a commission be ap pointed, to consist of the dairy and food commissioner of Oregon, the head of the bureau of markets of Oregon Agricultural college and "a representative of the public." Kvery member of the commission ought to be a representative of the public, but we may let that pass. The inves tigators chosen ought to have tech ' "nical knowledge of the industry in .. all of its ramifications and be compe tent to assemble facts and to appraise them. The agricultural college, as a servant of all the people, seems . a natural place to which to go for. im partial guidance, and there are others, it will be conceded, even among milk consumers themselves. . sufficiently un-biased and strongly OX GETTING A LEAGUE OF NATION'S. The Oregonian has from a both ered reader an inquiry on the league of nations that it will answer as it has heretofore answered others of the same tenor. It is: As The Oregonian does, not agree with Hiram Johnson's views on the league ot nations, I am naturally led to believe that it also opposes Senator Harding on the Issue, as Mr. Hardtig Is in perfect har mony with Hiram on the league plan.. ' I think Mr. Harding Is worse than Johnson on this matter, as he does not seem to want any league, unless it Is Hardlng madc. Does Mr. Harding think that the American people wish a league of nations aiciaiea ny njmxeir and the United States senate? I hardlv think they do. Sorely The Oregonian isn't going to let politics change Its view on the league ot nations. Mr. Harding has at no time de clared himself to be with Senator Johnson on the league of nations, though the California senator has gone on record as being satisfied with the Harding view. Mr. Johnson has opposed .the proposed league wjth or without reservations, and has made it apparent that he is fdr no league at all. Mr. Harding voted for the league with reservations, and has not traversed his own record, though he emphasizes in his letter of accept ance, the proposal for an association of nations. Evidently Mr. Harding is looking forward to the time when le must determine whether it is wise or practicable to seek ratification of the league with reservations, or to enter into negotiations for a new league. The Oregonian has been and it has often said 'that it is for "a" league of nations, and it has indicated its will- I ingness to accept "the" league with or without reservations. It has long been obvious that the league could never be ratified without reserva tions, and it is questionable now whether it can be ratified with reservations. The Oregonian would have desired the republican party to make clearer its attitude toward the league. It will after the election be found urg ing ratification of the league if there is a prospect of success; if not, it will insist that the republican party keep its platform pledges and undertake to- formulate a new covenant. It does not think the outlook for the league will be made brighter by a democratic victory, since the party is committed to the . league "without nullifying reservations" that is to say. reservations which alter in any respect the promises or commitments cf the covenant and since the dem ocratic candidate for president, Mr. Cox, has underwritten the uncompro mising' Wilson attitude. Let it be said further that' Mr. Harding as president will have the right to think though our corre spondent denies it that the Ameri can people want a league dictated by himself and the United States senate. It is quite clear now that they win not-have a league dictated by President Wilson without the United States senate. For itself. The Oregonian is for a league of nations without reference either to the republican or the demo cratic party. there will be room for' more train? and these men may be hired again. Back of the slackening of indus try, which has been observed at many points, "is the unsound financ ing of the war political interference with the banking business. It has leaded the banks with liberty bonds which have depreciated because they were sold below the market rate of interest. These bonds have caused the issue of a vast volume of currency, to reduce which efforts are now made with business expanded on an inflated basis. Hence the wool dealer cannot buy from the Oregon sheepmen and they can trace their troubles back to W. G. McAdoo's de sire to make a record in financing the. war, that he might advance his ambition to be president. y railroad over natural routes from the interior. It is manifestly absurd that a few of these doors should be jammed with traffic while the great umber are used little or not at all. This condition has not come about through natural causes; it is the re sult of powerful, selfish influences. nd it should end. The ports which have not enjoyed a part in the monopoly ask no spe cial favors; they ask only a fair field. The big ports are welcome to all the business that they can hold in open whole nation forbid that one port1 . . , . T- ' be choked with traffic, while the A CHAIN OF CAUSES AND EFFECTS. Closing of fifty-one out of fifty four mills of the American Woolen Mills company, discharge of 12,000 men by the Pennsylvania railroad company 'and stagnation of the wool market cause many people to ask What is the matter with business?"1 imbued with the gravity of the ques- Several things are the matter, some being the inevitable result of the war, others being the penalty of vio lation of sound economic principles during the war. Readjustment to peace conditions is under way, and in the process we pay the penalty for our attempts to defeat economic law. Try as we will, that law always "gets us" in the end. As regards wool, during the war tlie government bought up the supply and forced the woolen mills to make cloth for it at $4 a yard and to raise wages. The British government fol lowed the same course and also bought the Australian wool clip of three years, but allowed it to pile up in Australia for lack of ships to transport it. The United States gov ernment now sells its cloth at less than half the war price and the Brit ish government is selling its wool, much of which comes from Australia to compete with the American clip. The natural disposition of wool buy ers is to hold off from a falling market. At the same time the consumer has struck against high prices for clothing, which result from war prices for wool and cloth, from ex cess profit taxes added to the price each time that goods change hands, from increased freight rates and from high wages made necessary by high prices. This consumers strike ha- caused clothing merchants to cancel orders and cancellation has extended all along the line to the manufacturer. This has increased the wool dealer's indisposition to buy. Basic market conditions justify a higher price than now prevails and. if the dealer could borrow money to carry wool for a rise, he might buy. but banks have restricted credit for such transactions by order of the federal reserve board. The woolen manufacturer finds the demand for his product falling off and the price of his raw material weak just after he has raised wages 1)5 per cent, so he shuts down till affairs settle down lest he buy wool too dear and pro duce clothes at. too high cost. There is an immense potential de mand Tor wool which would quickly absorb the entire surplus, but the financial condition produced by the war prevents it from becoming ef fective. Germany, the states formed out of Austria-Hungary and Poland, nave uetu uiue new wool lor SIX years, but their money is depre dated and they are so poor that they How great a part slow movement I cannot buy for cash, and they cannot plays in shortage of cars appears 'get credit. Lack of credit blockades tion to put aside every other consid eration than the main one which is the price that milk users ought rea sonably to be expected to pay, in "'2 vicw of tlle importance of maintain ing the dairying industry on a sound ..and permanent footing. , The task has never been under- . taken, we believe, with any degree of thoroughness in Oregon. We are ; not quite satisfied with figures pur- -- porting to snow costs in other regions, i ! where conditions are greatly differ- cnt. Why not have a 'working basis ; of our own to go on? To the sug i " sestion that figures do not always tell the truth, it may be offered that i not only the figures but the processes by which they are arrived at should I be made public, that the people ; themselves may judge. It will be the business of experts to explain and to translate, but consumers are not lacking in capacity also to form " judgments, nor are.they inclined to be unfair. The trouble in the past ; .'Jias been that there have been no ; adequate data of any sort to work with. Accusations inspired, it may be, by self interest cannot take the place of facts. i If the thing is worth doing at all it j '.is worth doing well. Notwithstand j ing a certain justifiable prejudice Hguinst public inquisitorial commis sions in general, it does not appear to be impossible that such a body I" should be so constituted as to per- , ' sounel and so empowered with au 1 1 ithorlty as to be able to arrive at r something very like the truth. It should be understood beforehand that it is not primarily designed as Z war on present price schedules. It , may even be shown that dairymen J Xarc killing their calves, as some of ; . them say they are, because there is - -co profit in the business for them, I V'"'and that the industry is threatened - . with extinction, which is too serious . an eventuality to be thought of. It J ." '".may be that distributors are getting J ,. tco big a slice of the consumer's dol- lar. It may be that both are gouging Ub and that we are entitled to a re duction. But these are questions of fact, and not of guesswork, and they ought to he determined judicially and not emotionally. If there is to be an investigation it should be a genuine one. Other- wise it would be better that the sub ject be left in the muddle that now ... distinguishes it. OCR DAILY OAS DRIBBLE. Prospect that the gasoline short age will be prolonged throughout August and perhaps until fall gives rise, we think, to a general public desire that a more equitable and con venient system of rationing than the one now in use be devised. The several gasoline distributors mu-:l know almost with exactness the requirements for commercial and in dustrial uses and the amount of sur plus, that will be available for pleas ure cars. They can without much difficulty ascertain the number of pleasure cars and how much gasoline can safely be allotted to each of the latter by the week. A card system providing for weekly allotments of gasoline would not only dispense with a vast amount of inconvenience to the consumers but ought to con serve gasoline. Hundreds of motorists now waste gasoline daily going from filling sta tion to filling station hunting a sup ply, or else they waste time waiting in line. Others have bought rubbef hose and storage cans, make several trips back and forth between home and filling station, and in the seclu sion of the home garage syphon out the two gallons or so obtained on each trip. Gasoline is consumed in carting these meager supplies, gaso line is wasted in the syphoning proc ess, and the other motorists who are practicing real economy are thereby subjected to greater con gestion .t the filling station or are deprived wholly of the allotments they should receive. If the owner of a pleasure car is to be permitted to use it at all, he ought to be permitted to use it in the way that suits him best. To some owners the week-end trip into the country is more important than daily use of the car; to others daily use of the car in going to and from business, or in shopping, or calling, or in making frequent short trips is more import ant than a week-end journey. Certainty of an occasional full tank will enable the motorist to ob tain the service from his car that pleases him most, limited though that service may be. In the present situation he wh would motor to the fishing stream tne mountain resort, the beach, th scenic highway or any other point within a day's journey is virtually ex cluded from that enjoyment, unless he is one of those who have set out to beat the rationing system. Those who use the automobile only as a town car, while still getting full use of it, are forced to waste time and patience getting their daily dribble of gasoline. Just now there is mighty little voluntary economy of gasoline. There is a quiet game going on among pleasure car owners to see who can gel the most. The oil companies, 60 long as there is an actual shortage, would be fully justified in devising a definite rationing system so much gasoline to a particular car within a certain period and no more. Co operation by the city or other public authority in devising an equitable system would not be improper and it would give an acceptable color of authority to the plan. UT-PRODCCT! OF THE TIMES Car Hire Their Day aa In the Time of Whlttlngrtoa. In the 'old nursery story of "Puss-In-Boots" a clever cat made his mas ter's fortune and turned him from a poor miller into a rich man who mar ried the king's daughter, says Lon don Answers. Today it almost seems as if puss, whether clever or not, is again in a position to make her owner a wealthy person, for nowadays, when all furs facilities of another are only half used. THE Bl'RLESON GAG.- ' Indignation is expressed in the democratic platform at attacks on the alleged efficiency of the post of fice department and at the sugges tion that the administration has In- erfered with freedom of speech and of the press. About the time when the platform was written, Postmaster-General Burleson issued an order to postal employes, which reads: The attention of the department has been called to many circulars and letters ssued fay persons connected with the postal service which contain erroneous state ments and are not based on. facts. The postal servlc-e is conducted in the Interest of the public, and the public is entitled to correct information at all times regarding this branch of the government service: and the department will gladly and willingly furnish such information. Employes of the postal service, in making any state ments about the postal establishment or its service, who make false or slanderous statements, will be summarily dismissed from the service. Postmasters and officers of the service will be held responsible for the enforcement of these instruotioas. Of course Mr. Burleson and his lieutenants will be the judges whether statements are "erroneous and not based on facts" and any statements which reflect pn Mr. Burleson or his policy will be held "false and slan derous." We may bo sure that none of the "correct information" which the department will gladly and will ingly furnish" will contain anything but praise of Mr. Burleson and his methods. If all employes of the postal service are to be gagged on pain of dismissal, the public will gain precious little information as to how the service is run. Such is bureaucratic oligarchy in practical operation. With this ex ample before them railroad employes who are enamored of the Plumb plan are, according to the Railway Age, "engaged In attacking, through the press and orally to persons they meet, the management of the railways un der private control" and "charging that the officers did everything they could under government control to discredit it." Does it ever occur to the Plumb planners that under gov ernment operation, any statements they made reflecting on the manage-mr-nt would be branded as "false and slanderous" and that the makers would be "summarily dismissed"? They would noi have the freedom of speech and writing that they now enjoy; they would be subject to the Burleson gag. Those Who Come and Go. FOLLY OK TOO MANY PAROLKS of our household pet is worth quite respectable sum Black skins are the most valuable. Those of ordinary house cat3 fetch from 6s to 13s ($1.50 to $3.25 normal ly) each, and the demand for them can be estimated from the fact that one catalogue alone, of all those issued by different furriers for the recent big London fur sales, offered 20,000 house cat skins The fur of our domestic pet is, in fact, extensively used for coat lin ings. Her fur' is not her only asset. The rat plague is one of the topics of the moment; its extension is causing wide-spread consternation; and In thia connection the household cat is al most worth her weight in gold The damage done by rat3 is almost Incredible. It is calculated that their ravages cost Great Britain something more than $250,000,000 a year. Rats are ex ceedingly rapid breeders, and multi ply at an almost incredible rate, and they can gnaw their way through brick walls and everything short of concrete. One rat will consume 60 pounds of grain in a year. In a period of a fortnight rats carried away 71 dozen eggs from a certain merchant's premises think what eggs cost at the present time! Kvery cargo ship that sails bears its complement of scores of rats which carry 'disease to all parts of the world. They are a great menace. " Here again we see the value of pussy as a rat killer. Instead of drowning kittens we ought to be rear ine every one of them to help us fight against the great rat plague. It will surprise many who never gave the matter a thought to learn that the Southern Pacific electric line is not equipped with a block sig nal system, and the public service commission has found it necessary to order that equipment. The latest of Los Angeles" daily earthquakes has opened up a couple of oil wells right in town. Well, it will take something like an oil stam pede to replace population that has beat it out of the city because of the quake's. A Royal Anne tree near Forest Grove produced more than $80 worth thi'3 season. With fifty trees to the acre on eighty acres ah ha! It beats raising chickens with pencil and paper. Ta. ta. Mr. Rockefeller! BREAKING THE TORT MONOPOLY. New York is becoming seriously alarmed for its ' monopoly of ship ping business, which is admitted by the Evening Post to have reached the point where "our combined exports and imports have usually exceeded those of any eight other ports by a wide margin." It quotes Chairman Benson of the shipping board as say- jng that the " 'monopoly of shipping heretofore held by a few ,ports' has incurred the hostility of the govern ment, which intends trying to end it." The Post then says: la our port between the devil and the sea between striking longshoremen and congested terminals on the one hand and an implacable shipping board on the other? The Post ends with this frank statement: But New Yorkers need not Jump to the conclusion that our gallant fight for the port's position la a fight for a national evil. It Is only In the degree that the "monopoly" ia unnatural and uneconomical that it is objectionable, in so far as we fairly earn our easy primacy, we should retain, it ; in so far a It is ours by mere custom, it can be assailed. It behooves New York to realize that her rivals are doing their best tc make much of her shipping No wonder Lloyd George has been ordered to take a rest. Welshmen are tough, but the little prime minis ter has been holding down a job that would have put many into the hos pital or wheel-chair long ago. That the remote ancestors of the American Indians may have lived in Spain in prehistoric days is indicated by some very remarkable discoveries of rock paintings that archaeologists have made at El Bosque, in the hilly country north of Alpera. a Spanish town about half way between Alba sete, situated in the plains of La Mancha. and Alicante, on the Medi terraneai. Anthropologists also say that these discoveries throw a fresh light upon the life of prehistoric man in southwestern Europe during the Magdalenian period of the great ice age. These Palaeolithic tribes, when not compelled by the rigor of the climate to find their dwelling in caverns where they obtained protection against both the intense cold and the attacks of ferocious animals, lived under rock shelters on . the sides ot valleys. The New York city florist revels in the part he takes in making milady superb for spring. The charming fashion of wearing natural flowers at balls, luncheons, teas and sucn has returned, borrowed by New York from the ancients, who wore wreaths on their heads. But, ah, far more distinctive is the American vogue! Cut flowers are wired in the form of wreaths ind garlands arranged to adorn the hair or gown. The fad originated in New York City several weeks ago and was quickly Indorsed by the smart set. who employed sweetheart roses to wear over the shoulder and el bow. "I watchd a wonderful mnchine at our shop work this morning." "And how does it work?" we asked "Well, was tne reply, "Dy means of a pedal attachment, a fulcrumed lever converts a vertical reciprocat ing motion into a circular move To see the granger revel in his lair. go out to Gresham tomorrow for the farmers' picnic and stay all day. See the horny-handed son of toil, to-wit, George Chamberlain or George Sta ple-ton, get next to the soil. from a statement of the Railway - Age that the average movement has declined from 26.9 miles a day in 1916 to 23.1 miles in 1919, and that every increase of one mile a day is equivalent to an increase of 100.000 in the number available. Further economy may be effected by prompt rt pairs, for the number in bad order it 180.000, or about 7 per cent of ; J the total supply, and great effort to reduce this number by one-half is lecommended. An average move ment of only 23 miles a day seems to 1 I be only a snail's pace, with all due . 1 allowance for time spent at stations and for short hauls tho central European markets as ef fectively as did the allied navies, and it depresses the value of wool in Oregon and Australia. There is a simple explanation of the discharge of men from the Penn sylvanta railroad. Traffic is so con gested that cars cannot move fast enough to keep these men employed Their product is transportation which Is movement of trains, and if they do not move trains they do not earn their pay. It matters not i what department they are employed the ultimate purpose of their work is movement of trains. When the jam Summer weather in the Garden of Eden must have been something like that of Portland. Just enough mel- owed by the sun to make, a fellow lazy and just glorious at night to make sleep a joy. Los Angeles might begin its morn ing prayers, "Give us this day our daily quake . . . ' " but for the fact that IOs Angeles never holds morning prayers or any other kind of prayers. usiness uneconomical. Our antiouated erminal facilities, our costly lighterage system, our jammed wharvea and yards. our delay in carrying through the port treaty all these conditions give them right to demand government help in reight diversion. Nobody wishes to deprive New York of the primacy, if it can hold primacy on its merits. It is obvious to any person who studies the nat ural lines of traffic and compares hem with the actual routes by which traffic reaches the seaboard that the situation is both unnatural and un economic. Traffic is directed to New York and a few other ports by men who control railroads and men who control the principal- Ameri can steamship lines, the two be ing often the same or- allied. They have concentrated shipping at their favorite ports to the disadvantage or total exclusion of other ports. With growth of ship ping business this has grown to. a point where it has caused a positive congestion of traffic at the chosen pcrU. and on the railroads leading to them. That condition was largely re sponsible for the terrible blockade which occurred during the war, and heroic measures were necessary to prevent it from having a disastrous effect on the result of the conflict. It contributes to the presont traffic congestion 'and thereby injures in dustry and by delaying shipments affects, financial conditions. v In transportation by either rail or ship time Is money, and congestion causes serious loss of money through delay in movement of trains and in dis charge and loading of ships. The ports of the country may be compared to the doors of a building, and the Lnited States has many doors on all parts of its three sea boards, also through the great lakes Sir Thomas Lipton should issue his next challenge to a Pacific coast defender, where the waters are wide and broad and long, with thousand- mile legs, and winds always just right. The Columbia highway, between Astoria and Clatskanie is closed all day. but can be used after 5 o'clock P. M. and up to' 7 o'clock A. M-, says State Highway Engineer Nunn, who was in the city yesterday. "There are four paving plants operating be tween those two points and they win have the road hard surfaced oeiore the end of the season. Good progress is being made on the bridge across Young's bay. the piling for the ap proaches have been driven. The first section of the concrete road west ot the; bridsre is beine laid. The entire project is moving forward at gooo. soeed." Mr. Nunn and Commissioner Kiddle have just completed a swing from Portland through Tillamook to Seaside and Astoria. One of the ob ieets of the triD was to see the work which the highway commission una awarded to Tillamook county and to enable Mr. Kiddle to get an idea of the country through which the lina mook people want a road along the beaches through Rockaway. Brighton and Wheeler. After his steamer was, subbed be r-ausA tha American flag was not lowered, the German U-boat shelled the small boats In which the Amer ican crew were escaping. That is one of the experiences which Captain Fred J. McGuiness had during thi war. Captain McGuiness. who i: travelinsr representative for the Nep tune association, composed of deck officers on Atlantic coast vessels. rived in Portland yesterday' and rea-istered. with his wife, at the 1m perial. The captain says mat tne American boys are taking to the sea and that the farther in the woods th boys come from the better sailormen they make. Captain McGuiness is an ardent believer that the masters o American ships should be America citizens Yesterday the captain wa entertained by the Hi-Hi club, there being a quorum present, althougn John Burgard is at Gearhart and Russell Hawkins is at Kilchis Point. "Many of the tourists coming- to Portland now have left Los Anseles," said Charles Schreibcr. assistant man ager of the Hotel Portland. "There has been quite an exodus of tourists from Los Angeles because of the quakes. One family, which arrived in Portland yesterday, went to Los Angeles to spend a month. The morn ing of their arrival there was a shake and they immediately decided to come north but had to wait three days be fore they could secure reservations, so great was the number of people trying to get away. A Dr. Wolf, from the middle west, went to Los Angeles to locate, but a couple of Inuakes caused him to cnange nia "mind. He is now here and will lo cate in Portland or Astoria. I don't know whether permanent residents of Los Angeles are getting out, but it is a fact that thousands of tour ists are leaving the town." Tommy Lipps, or rather ex-Ser geant Thomas H. Lipps, sprucer, is back in town and registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Lipps now hails from Los Angeles, where he is study- ng law. A couple of years ago na was much in tne iimensnt as m private secretary of Mayor H:.rley of Astoria. After Mr. Harley was de feated for the republican nomination for governor on the platform of ngnt wines and beer. Tommy became dis gusted with politics and went to war. but he became even more disgusted with war when he was stationed as a soldier-laborer In a lumber camp up near the British Columbia line. Dr. J. H. Rosenberg of Prineville. is at the Benson. A. ween ago. at Salem, the doctor was the center ot a warm political contest, the outcome nf which was his election as presi dent of the State Elks' association. The main reason that Dr. Rosenberg was elected was to have mm worh. nvortime In helDlnK to have a hunt ng lodge for members ot tne oraer established on the Metolius river in central Oregon. The plan is to have every Eik in the nation contriouie tne price Of one cigar towara tins recrea tion resort Dit. not nica-et tisms. On a voyage of discovery. F. C. Martin, assistant manager of the fct. Francis, is in Portland from San Francisco. He is looking over the local hotels and will go to Spokane, Seattle and across the line to British Columbia. Mr. Martin has been in i ho hotel game In San trancisco h insists on referring to city tsince tuts coi.j Law Officers and Thoughtful lit Urns See Absurdity of Practice. LA GRANDE. Or., July 29 (To the Editor.) In The SAiday Oregonian ou have an editorial on the "Folly of Premature Paroles" which is tinie- v and to the point. Judge Stapleton s statement that the parole of criminals is getting to be a farce states a fact hat is well known to every law-en forcing officer of this state and to every thoughtful and observant citi- sen therein. There are cases in which a young and inexperienced person has been led astray by older criminal companions and there is a chance for his reforma tion, which mitht be accomplished by his being placed under a parole con ditioned on his leading a law-abidiim life: but in the case of a hardened criminal or a mature man who wilful ly violates the law. the chances arc many to one that a parole Is a rafce and the court granting such is mere ly, making: a farce out of Justice and bringing that institution into con tempt among honest peopie. Especial ly is this true when the defendant stands trial, goes upon the witness stand, testities that he never com mitted the act and gets others to do so. and the jury who hear the evi dence find him guilty, thereby indi rectly finding that his t-ta-tements are j false and that he. In addition to the offense charse. also committed per jury. A parole under such circum stances is a travesty on justice. The object of punishment is two fold justice to the criminal and hi reformation, and deterring of others from crime. U is poor logic and worse policy to turn a criminal loose without a thorough investigation imo his past life, the state beins a party, because someone has asked this to he done, either publicly or privately; and not only the acts that the de fendant is on trial for and for which he has Dleaded aruilty or the jury has found him guilty should bo. consid ered, but his general character in other transactions should and must be considered if there is an honest effort to determine the probability of a parole reforming the accused. The parole Is not based on the facts alone of the individual case. The jury de termines these under the constitution and the law. The second "object of punishment the deterrins of others from criine cannot but be impaired by any paroles, and especially so when not deserved. The chances are ten to one that the paroled defendant has many companions of like bent with himself, who. seeing the farci cal proceeding:, will expect a uniform course of procedure in their own cases should they be caught and con victed. While it is a reputed fact that a criminal wave follows a preat war. yet I do not believe that this is alto gether responsible for the great in crease in crime that is sweeping over the country. While it might be said More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. A PARTY PLATFORM. We view with alarm the man-eating shark ; We point with pride to the setting sun; We hichly commend the song of the lark; The poisonous snake we severelv shun. In fact, we have very decided views On aiinost everying barring booze. DOOIO. We hold that burxlars are bold and had : We're strong for virtue, and books, and schools: We find all funerals sad: We don't believe in the word of Tools ; We disapprove of a rainv dav But as for booze, we-ha ve "nothing to say. We fearlessly speak for the good and ris ht : We boldly denounce all evil and crime; We firmly declare that black's not white: We give great praise to the summer lime: We bravely say what we renllv tv,ir,v- On all great tonics, exrentinir" rtrink Of what we have done we arc truly proud. Our record's a slorious thing to see. We say straight out that the other crowd Is all that a party should not be. Our platfor makes our party's tone. But booze is safer to let alone! 1C Her Own Quarrel. Why not let Ohio settle the dispute between her two sons and save the rest of the country ten or twenty iniiiiun uonars in election expenses? Reform at I. nut. fine comforting thine about the coming election is that St the present price of labor nobody will be able to hire repeaters. Too l.ate. Mr. Hoover hears a good deal of knocking nowadays, but it isn't done by opportunity. (Copyright. 1920. by tho Lell Syndi cate. Inc.) Silence. By tirsioe li Hall. hat war naturally lessens the appre ciation for human life on the theory hat those who participate in war or read accounts of wholesale bloodshed become hardened to some extent, yet his cannot account for the many cases of petty larceny, burclaries and statutory crimes against ftirls on the part of young men and boys who took no part in the war. The only reason able explanation is the laxness In law enforcement and the uncertainty of being: punished. The best antidote Is unfailing certainy of punishment for crime: that every man will be treated alike; that there is no chance for in fluential nersons to visit the district attorney's office or the chambers of the juclse and divert the pure stream of justice from the channel in which It should now. When Judces like Judge Stnpleton denounce the wholesale practice of narolinir and judges like Judpre Aic- Court require the proper showing to rebut the assumption mat a person Is not entitled to a divorce, then we may hope to see crime decrease and the traffic in fraudulent divorces cease. These noiaings souna soon to us. JOHN S. HODGIX. CUSTOM BILES PROM'M I lTIO it as "the 90s. He con ment. The principal part of the ma- tends that Kan Francisco Is to the Panif p nnast wnat. - e w iuik i " chine is a huge disk that -evolves In a vertical plane. Power is ap plied through the axis of the disk. and work Is done on tho periphery, and the hardest substance, by mere impact, may be reduced to any iap?." "What is this wonderful machine?" we asked.' "A grindstone." was the reply.- the Atlantic seaboard and he doesn't hoaitnt to declare that "sun rran Cisco Is the cocktail of the world.' Will E. Purdy, who started out to be s. stormy petrel in tne uregon delegation at the . democratic con vention in San Francisco. Is regis tered at the Hotel Oregon from Salem. Mr. Purdy, who once was an John Glenn In Electric Experimenter. I asdrant for governor of this state ,.. a last ditcher for William G In the old mining town of Shasta, I McAdoo in the convention, as per the Cal.. once the largest town In Shasta I primary obligation, but at one time county. Western Star lodge No. The last American taken prisoner by Francisco Villa was a brewer, and Villa let him go. Might at least have extracted from him first a contribu tion to the Cox campaign fund. Free and Accepted Masons, still has 95 members, though there Is only one member living thers. He is Orant Schroter, who is always elected secre tary. The other members are scat tered In all parts of the globe. Several are in South Africa. But dues are kept paid up, and every one of tha 95 may be satd to be an active mem ber. "It was too much education that anded me here, mum," said the bur glar to the visitor at the peniten tiary. "1 had an assistant who was one whose praise I Somewhere crave More than the laurel crown: A smile in the eyes so blue and grave Meotins my own of brown: Clasp of a tender hand and strong. Words in a mellow tone. The vibrant note in my sweetest sonp: A lilt that has waned. I own. Silence across the space of years; Never a word has come: silence across the waste of tears; Silence! and yet that one Could waken chords of a lost refrain On the harp of my soul's desire. But only an echo, dull with pain. Drift from that muted lyre. In Other Days. Fattig, the draft-evader, who did not know better and whom nobody advised, gets nine months on sur rendering. Bergdoll, who did know, will get nine years when caught. The- search for the killers of Til Taylor needs- airplane service and bombs. .They must not be given op portunity for more murder. McAdoo has been "licked" into promising speeches -for Cox. The worst (or best) of McAdoo is his sin cerity in politics. The fool white man who thought he could say anything to a colored woman had another say to the judge. Lipton is to visit this coast and Portland will delight to honor the game old boy if he comes this way. he talked of bolting and offering the name of G. E. Chamheriain ror tne presidential nomination Art Miner Is- a resourceful chap. When at home he is In the sheep an cattle business at Heppner. He start ed on a trip to the coast the other day and when he arrived in iina mook he was out of gas. This didn't bother Mr. Miner however, tor ne bought a can of coal oil. poured it into his tank, gave the starter a kick? and away he went to Seaside, and thereafter he managed to reach Astoria and buy some fuel which wouldn't gag his carburetor. Phil Metschan etarted for Seaside born in Boston. One night we had a I yesterday by way of Tillamook. .This Somehow we suspect that Fran Cisco Villa is pulling: a Patti on the Mexican public. What the democrat thinks of woman in politics is not at all like what he says. Seattle continues to draw the best men from Portland. It's all in the training. Like every successful The average ; Is cleared and trains move faster on its fourth sidej AH are reached man. Villa now retires. business S iL'ood second-story job, but he queered the whole thing at the las', minute. How do you mean?" asked the visitor. When I told him to climb up The down spout to get the swat; out of the second story he said, "I refuse io do anything so paradoxical;' and just then the copper woke up and collared us." Pittsburg Chronicle- Telegraph. ' George Locke, returned soldier, had been a persistent wooer of Miss Myra Fidler of Winnipeg, -Manitoba, but had been unable to induce the young lady to 'Viet the date." George had almost given up hope when he read a novel by a Spanish author, advocat int the "treat 'em rough" method and immadiately prepared to carry out the author's suggestions. A few days later George was ar rested for shooting Miss Fidler through the thig and attempting suicide. During his convalescence at a local hospital Miss Fidler waa a constant attendant upon him. At Locke's trial she said: "I didn't love him well enough before he shot me to marry him, but I do now." All was in readiness for the wed ding in case Locke was freed, but the judge sentenced him to three years at Stoney Mountain prison. New York Sun. Words Are Diamond. Yonkers (N. Y.) Statesman. Mrs. Flatte What was it I told you a little while ago, John? Mr. Flatte I don't know; I wasn't listening. Mrs. Flatte Now, isn't that provoking? tid I just can't think what It was to (repeat it. is now becoming one of -the mosc popular routes to Seaside from Port land. It is more circuitous than the Columbia river highway, but for most of the distance the road is good and some of it is paved. John Hampshire and Frank' C. Bramwell, of Grants Pass, are in town on a deal ana ar ai me noiei rurt- land. where Arthur Bramwell, Frank's brother. Is behind the desk. AYeUer t'ltUenn Have loauenanie RlBht o Call It "Wersfr." PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Kd itor.) Would it be imposing too mucn upon your good nature to aaK tne privilege of adding a few lines to the discussion now on in your columns anent the pronunciation of a name of a certain city in Idaho? C. I. (lep hart seems to be very much exercised over the fact that the citizens of that little community conclude to Ignore rules and regulations bearina the trade-mark "made in Germany" when pronouncing the name of their home town. They are committine no crime thereby, as he must admit on sober second thought, but are simply op erating under the old rule whereby Jrivate persons, and others directly Interested therein, may be consid ered the sole judges of the proper methods of either spelling or pro nouncing a proper name or surname. The law itself directly supports such a rule, and never questions the right to such action. I have been a resident of Idaho (and not far from Weiser) for over S years, and have never heard the name pronounced "Wiser" save when some unsophisticated recent arrival from the old country tried to refer to it Now I am not calling into question the rule of the German or any othe' grammar or dictionary, which rule that "ei" is to be pronounced as "i.' which in most cases is right and proper, but I am only objecting to the attempt on the part of thegentle man of Teutonic lineage to interfere with the "inalienable American priv ilege" of the citizens of Weiser to designate the manner in which the said name should be pronounced. This particular instance is not the first by many, many thousands in which the spelling of a foreign proper name lias been used in this country, while the: pronunciation. a.s used In the country of Its origin, has been slg- mllv iirnored. The translation or name with the accompanying grafting thereon of a pronunciation twisted to suit the vagaries or colloquial ideas the eountrv of its adoption is so old a thins: that it no longer excites more than passing interest. The good citizens of the city of Weiser will In all probability pay little attention to the wishes of Brotner uepnari. EDWARD BLAKE Twe.nty-I-'lve Yrara Ago. From The Oregonian of July SO, 1S96. Rexhurgr. Idaho. The five com panies of troops which have arrived to protect settlers of the Jackson Hole country have been ordered to proceed from Market Luke. The committee appointed to pro cure the tlS.000 fund needed to assure the Oregon industrial exposition is meeting with excellent succebs. The new 24-inch water main on Fourth street, between Ankeny and Burnside, burst yesterday and flooded the streets in that vicinity. A train of 15 cars, loaded with 400 horses for the abattoir at Linnton, arrived yesterday from eastern Oregon. Fifty Yrara Aico. From The Oregonian of July ISO. Is70. Paris The emperor left today by special train for the army, accom panied hy Prince Napoleon. Rev. f'lark Smith has been re-elected by the trustees to the principal ahip of the Vancouver Seminary. There is a bis fire on the moun tain side west of the city and there may be others nearby, as the atmos phere Is very smoky. The Beth Israel school will open Monday mornine, August 1, with Miss H. R. Phillips in charge. Birth tllc In Ore iron. VANCOUVER. Wash.. July 28. (To the Kditor.) Would you kindly an swer the following questions: is n compulsory in Oregon for a parent or physician in attendance to register a birth in the family? If so. .where Is the registry . kept and ii it open-to public inspection? INTERESTED. 1. The attending physician or mid wife is required to register a birth: if no physician or midwife is em ployed, then it is the duty of the par ent. 2. County records of births are kept by the county clerks; the complete state records by the secretary of the state board of health. Dr. David N. Roberg. Selling building. Portland. They re public records, but a small fee is charged for certified copies of birth certificates or for searching the records. Two civil engineers from Japan are K. Takaniski and H. Komura, who are at the Hotel Portland. They ex pressed themselves as wen satisneo with the Columbia highway and ad mitted that there is no road like it in Japan. Mrs. Lucy Ennis, for several years telephone operator at the Hotel Ore gon, died yesterday. Mrs. Ennis had a toothache a few days ago and had the tooth extracted. Complications set in and death ensued. J. Bruce Byall and party have ar rived from Philadelphia and are at the Perkins. The party drove across the continent in an automobile and covered the distance to Portland without accident. Charles L. MCNary. United States senator, who is in Oregon during the nummer season, arrived at the Im perial yesterday, coming rrom Salem. A. W. Davidson of Hove. England, arrived at the Benson yesterday. Mr. Davidson is by way of being a grain dealer in the old country. Ben Alexander, graduate of Stan ford and expert lumber, piler in a JSilverton sawmill, is Portland. Presidency. Divorce and Politic. HOCLTON. Or., July 251. (To the Editor.) (1) Does tne president oi tne United states nave to kiw; onu be fore assuming the presidency? (2) A man's wife deserted him 24 vears ago and he has never heard of her since. What course must he take to get free from her? (3) Would Bryan have turned down the San Francisco nomination If ten dered him? A SUBSCRIBER. (1) No.. (2) Sue for divorce. (3) Mr. Bryan has never said. We fancy he would not have.declined. Application for Patent. CH EH A LIS. Wash.. July 2S. (To the Editor.) What are the necessary Eteoa in order to ootain a patent." D. M. You can obtain a copy. of the rules of practice by addressing the Com missioner of Patents. Washington, D. c. The' patent office, however, advises employment of a competent Weler Forty Year Ako. PORTLAND. Or.. July 29. (To the Editor.) When I knew the Weiser. coming 40 years ago. nobody thought of calling it anything but "Weeser." giving the "s" the hissing sound. This was good enoush for old John Hailey, Governor Bill Stewart, the Callaways Ab and'Doc Tim Regan and the rest of the men who made the territory. I've heard a thousand of them say it that way. The river may have been named for a German l do not know; but if it was, he is long for gotten. Next we know, somebody will be calling us down for saying "Pl-ette" when we refer to a neighboring stream. W. J. CUDDY. work on Karma. PORTLAND, July 29 (To the Edi tor.) When and where can a man spend two weeks this fall, to the best of advantage, helping some farmer or fruit grower? An early reply on the editorial page of The Oregonian will be appreciated. EZRA BUTTERWORTH. The municipal employment bureau. Sixth and Pine streets, will probably be in a position to fill your request, as they constantly have call for fruit pickers ana farm helpers. Authority for "You All." Manufacturers' Record. Would-be purists in language often criticise the south for the expression "you all." but the south has the High est authority on earth for its use. Paul, in his epistle to the Phllippiaiis. wrote "vou all.' 'and no higher au- ! thority than the Bible need be looked t the Hotel ' registered patent attorney in every for. pain knew rull well the strenglh instance. and force of "you all." ' -