8 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, JULY 31, 1920 ESTABLISHED BV HENRY U PITTOCK. Published by The Oreconlan Publlhln Co. 1.15 Milh Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A.AlCRDEN. B. B. firER. . M.uuer. : Editor. The Oresonian la a member of the Aibo- rlDlH Prt... TH- A r,riald ITeS It exclusively entitled to the use lor P""llc'ihe . , , , - . i.raaiTd to It I ii"n all newa ujbpi;"c or not otherwise credited In this paper ana also-the locai nei published herein. Ail rights of republication of special dispatches herein are aito reserved. cised by the despots whom we over- i of both the republican and demo thrtw in the war. The treaty was crutic platforms and to the practice sacrificed to save the constitution. of Senator Harding In his own busi The stand which the senate has I ness. Other unions, "however, will made insures that future presidents i greatly strengthen their own and the fcubaeriptlon Kates Invariably In Advance, Hw VI all 1 Pally. 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Verrea Conk lln. Brunswick bu'lldln-5. New York. Verree Conklln. Steaer build inn. Chlcaeo; Ver ree & Conklin. Free Press building. De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, B. J. Bldwell. ENOUGH UW FOB SOME. Four persons have been killed In Portland by automobiles this week. In each instance the driver of the car asserts that the Incident was Un- avoiaaDie. I'ernaps it was. xnore are more automobiles on the streets than ever before and there are more pedestrians. Some pedestrians are careless. But It will be admitted that It is unusual, even under these cir cumstances, for four fatal automo bile accidents to occur in one week, and all be unavoidable. But there was an automobile col lision yesterday that was not un avoidable. A large car whirled Into Fark street at a speed, it is estimated. of between thirty and forty miles an hour. Park street is coie of the nar rowest thoroug-h fares in the con- a-ac itialpit TliAea .1 - Vi I- -i t.t , flying car were certain in their own minds that an accident would hap pen. One man ran to the corner to witness the inevitable. He arrived just in time to see a motorcycle and hurled into the air. There are some kinds of accidents .which one-way traffic which we once discussed but seem to have for gotten will prevent. It is possible also that the new licensin , system for car operators will Induce drivers to be more careful, though we have never been able to understand ex actly how it is to be known whether a driver has a permit in his pocket or not. But more law and more regu lations will be only so much more law and regulations to break by those who are recklessly Indifferent of the laws and regulations we now have. At this writing- it is not known whether a fatality resulted from the Park street incident. But It may be said that he who drives in Park street in excess of the speed per mitted by law and thereby kills an other is guilty of something worse than manslaughter. "If any person shall, by an act imminently dangerous to others," says the law, "ana evincing a de praved mind, regardless of human me, annougn witnout design to ei ' feet the death of an;- particular in dividual, kill another, such person shall be deemed guilty of murder in the second degree." will seek and obtain the co-operation of the senate from the inception of treaties in order that their labor may not be wasted and that they may not humiliated in the eyes of the world. It also constitutes notice to other nations that before entering upon negotiations with American diplomats they should satisfy them selves that the senate is cognizant of the "matter and is of one mind Never again will steelworkers' case by recognizing that the right to join a union car ries with it the right not to join and that fair dealing and regard for the right of employers will go far to overcome the objection of many em ployers to dealing with organizations. a president feel safe in informing congress that he is going in his own proper person to a foreign capital to negotiate a treaty, or in taking with him four estimable but self-effacing men whose minds travel along with his own to figure as delegates. We pay dearly for our assurance, but it is worth the price. TOO MANY COOKS. In the full enthusiasm of his grat itude for the great hour he spent in the White House, Candidate' Cox emerged from the historic interview with the announcement that "what he (Wilson) promised I shall, if elected, endeavor with all my strength to carry out." Quite a large order. Having assayed to his entire satis faction the quality of his proposed successor's devotion to him and his causes, the president informed the nation that he and the governor "were absolutely at one with regard to the great issue of the league of nations" and that Mr. Cox was ready to be the "champion in everv re spect of the honor of the nation and to secure peace of the world." A big load, to be sure. Mr. Cox had passed some of the time following his nomination and prior to his advent into the Sacred Presence in "thinking up certain res ervations of his own to the league. He has not mentioned them lately. Apparently he has been persuaded that the league in its original form is the one perfect product of perfec tion itself. Or should we say Per fection Himself? Mr. White, with whom the world is just getting acquainted as chair man of the democratic committee, has been embarrassed so far by no summons to the White House and he says the issue is "progressivism" and the democratic slogan- is to be "peace, progress and . prosperity." There are a few more available words which might have been comman deered for their alliterative Value to the campaign and their specific re lation to the democratic party, such as pacificism, procrastination, pov erty and prohibition, but we can see v here they do not exactly fit in any appeal for votes. Mr. White is quite sure that the league is a secondary issue. The ."solemn referendum" of Mr. Wilson is to be a solemn fiasco under Mr. Cox' leadership. As an under study for Mr. Wilson he doesn't look the part, and can't play it. There are too many coaches on the side lines and they are already giving the wrong cues. MSSON8 OF THE STEEL STRIKE. The report of th'e Interchurch World Movement on the steel strike contains a lesson for both the steel corporation and i's employes. To the steel corporation it will teach that impartial bodies, such as the in vestigating committee presumably was, will not cease to condemn un reasonably long hours at exhausting labor, a boss system where there is no appeal and no medium for redress of grievances, and denial of the right of men to organize fnr thpir own nrn. There may be devised regulations , tection, except within each plant and under the eye of their employers. To OCR AXNCAI, 1TRE LOSS. The disquieting feature of the an nual report of the National Board of Fire Underwriters is not its showing familiar enough that the per cap ita property loss by fire in the United States enormously exceeds that of any other country in -the world, in cluding Russia, but the statement that the loss is increasing steadily. Leaving out 1906, when the excep tional San Francisco earthquake and. fire destroyed more than $200,000,000 of material assets, and 1918, in which the figures were adventitiously swelled by destruction of numerous war munitions plants, the loss in curred in 1919 was the greatest, both total and per capita, in our history. It was $225,000,000, or approximately $900,000 for each day in the year. On a per capita basis, this means a loss of J3.13 for each man, woman and child in the country. In Great Britain in the same period the per capita loss was the equivalent of 61 cents. Leading countries on the con tinent of Kurope have not reported as a whole, but local figures show no marked departure from the records of past years. For some of . these countries the last yearly figures available are: Russia, $1.16; France, S't cents; Austria, 37 cents; Ger many, 25 cents. The difference is partly due to dif ferences in construction methods in the countries cited, but the fact that the situation is growing worse in stead of better cannot be accounted for in this way, in the face of recent progress in fireproof ing. The view of an underwriter of national reputa tion, that "by no means the least important cause has been the herv ous temperament of our people," is worth considering, as a factor that can be eliminated in time. The spirit or haste Is akin to that of careless ness, which may rise to the height or criminal neglect. There is talk among fire under writers of introducing the study of fire prevention into the public schools. Perhaps this would accom plish something. But it would seem that a well-thought-out method of fixing civil responsibility for pre ventable fires might offer a more effective solution. Or both methods might be tried. The fact stands out that the destruction of $325,000,000 worth of property by fire, whether or not the loss is covered by insur ance, represents 100 per cent waste. mat win lessen tne number of un avoidable" accidents. But for those who evince "a depraved mind, re gardless of human life," there is now law enough. The law that fits such cases ought to be enforced re lentlessly. Penitentiary sentences imposed on a few will put sense into the heads of others. TIED VP TILL WILSON GOES. ' There i.-e several important mat ters of American foreign policy which should be settled without much delay if national interests are not to suffer. One is our relations with Russia, another is Japan's oc cupation of eastern Siberia, espe cially northern Saghalien, against which the government seems to have protested; a third is financing and development of China and protection of that country r.gainst domination - . by any one power. But the position .into which President Wilson has blundered by his conflict with the senate leaves him without authnrltu , iu iicguiiaia o-ii agieeuieuu Agreements on those questions can be reached only in conference with all the powers Interested, but ' when American riclpca tpq nnnnlntal ; by Mr. Wilson appeared at those - conferences the delegates from other powers would raise the point with each other: Would any bargains made by these Americans be ratified by the senate? They would want to be assured that the president had acted in concert with the senate in giving the delegates their instruc tions before they would negotiate. In the present state of relations be tween president and senate, that as surance could not be triven. Th ' president certainly will not yield at - this late day so far as to seek the ad vice and consent of the senate to the terms which he will propose; the senate will not ratify any treaty lie mav make in disretrm-rl nf I ta r.niti - tutional function. Then no out standing foreign problems can be solved until his successor takes office. Mr. Wilson, by attempting to make good the theory enunciated in his Constitutional History that the pres ident's control over foreign affairs - is absolute and that the senate's part is merely to act as a rubber stamp. has forced a choice between two evils. One is that the United States shall not join with the allies in mak ing and enforcing the treaties with Germany and the other central pow ers, in organizing the league and in settling all other foreign affairs so long as he remains president. The other is that the senate abandon is .. part in treaty-making and leave the r president alone to make treaties, "acting in his own name and by his own proper authority," like the former "all-highest" kaiser of Ger- 1' Vfl I 1 1 V. 1U I Hit 1 1. iiXl ul tX 1 1 Llie ..- Kussias. If the senate were to choose the latter alternative, it would not only condone violation of the consti :: tution by the president but would be guilty of the same offense itself. It would concentrate In one branch of . the government power which the -I 1 1 . . T . .1,4 . . ln V : IU111I.1V. Ik " U UIV1 . I .11. in 11IC ,11 1,111- dent power over foreign relations as absolute as that which, was exer- the steelworkers it will teach that, however just may be demands for which they strike, public sympathy is alienated by resort to violence and by mingling of revolutionary aims with the purely industrial aims of a strike. The industrial history of this country is full of examples of strikes for just ends that were ostensibly won by the employers, but where pressure of public opiniou finally drove them to give redress. In their demand for the eight-hour day, for the right to have their cause presented by their own representa tives and for the right to join na tional unions, the steelworkers had a strong case. They sacrificed the ad vantage which they thus gained by accepting such leaders as Foster and others, whose purpose was to use the strike for the purpose of starting a revolution which was by violence to have changed not only the industrial system, but the form of government in defiance of the will of the major ity as expressed at the ballot .box. The strike was accompanied by mob outbreaks at Stvc-al cities whereby men who went to work were brutally bepten for exercising an undoubted right. No doubt the peace officers violated the strikers' civil rights in some cases, but the lawless acts of the strikers put .theni in poor posi tion to complain. The activity of alien revolutionary societies deprived the strikers of the excuse that riots and assaults were merely the irregu lar acts of a few hotheads. Public sympathy was alienated by these features of the strike, the more decidedly because the steel strike fol lowed shortly after the revolutionary strikes at Seattle and Winnipeg and a number of -strikes flagrantly vio lating . union contracts, because- it came when railroad and miners' strikes were threatened with radical political aims in me DacKgrouna. With sound judgment the American people held that, however just may have been the demands of the steel workers, they had ruined their case by combining these ..with other de mands which could not be consid ered. Their claim to the right to or ganize is also injured by the unrea sonable demands which some unions have forced on employers by dicta tion and by threats of boycott and of strikes which would cause great loss. Seeing these practices, the steel ccrporation may have reasoned that it would prevent the first beginning of such practices by employing no union men and by having no dealings with unions. The steel corporation is not justi fied in inferring from the public con demnation of last year's strike that it would have the same sympathy in another strike that was unmarked by violence and if the just demands of the workmen were unaccompanied by violence and were dissociated from revolutionary aims and organi zations. Public opinion does not ap prove of shifts eleven, to fourteen hours and occasionally twenty-four hours long, nor of arbitrary power for bosses nor of absolute denial of the right to organize. That attitude or employers Is contrary to the spirit "BABE" RUTH IX THE MOVIES. News that George Herman, better known as "Babe" Ruth, intends to appear in moving pictures almost co incides with the threat of a strike of technical operators in the motion picture industry. An interesting study in relative values Is here pre sented. That "Babe," who is con ceded to be worth $125,000 in base ball, is to receive anything less than a "princely Si.lary" in the noiseless drama is of co rse unthinkable Nor are enormous stipends enor mous both actually and in proportion to dramatic ability a novelty in the business. Tfer the public, paus ing in Its denunciation of profiteers and profiteering to drop into a thea ter where its favorite is vicariously on view, never is stirred to rancor on that account. Ws may grit our teeth at the sight of a more or less' palatial home inhabited by a dairy man or a grocer, but we read of the marble hall that Doug Fairbanks calls home, or of a million or so a year in the pcy envelope of a Charlie Chaplin without the slightest thought of violating the tenth commandment. All good ball fans know, of course, that Ruth is a famous character. What they do not .know is whether he can act or not, nor for that matter do they care. We have not heard how much he is going to get, but the fact that his press agent will put the figure plenty high is proof that he observes no tendency on the public's part to be resentful, or envious, or anything like that. A millionaire oil magnate or a wool merchant may have reasons for minimizing his in come, but not a Fatty Arbuckle or a Caruso. As to how the public will react to the information, which we expect any day, that the chaps who only 1'shoot" the scenes, or develop the Jellulold, or manufacture the properties get as high as fifty or sixty dollars a -week if they work hard enough, we do not pretend to be able to prophesy. The people seem to be willing to pay whatever is asked of them for what they want provided it is not a necessity. Ruth with his eye on the kingship of Swat is a popular hero, just to see whom is a privilege. Nobody thinks that he has the mak ing of an o-ctor in him, yet it is a safe prediction that not a theatergoer in this broad land will object to his gathering in as many shekels as would make a hundred cranberry merchants reasonably rich. The problem of the unequal distribution of wealth has passed beyond the bounds of sociology it has become an issue that can be settled only by the psychologists. numbers who meanwhile had sev ered tribal relations. Excess of births over deaths, amounting to 1522 in 1916 and almost as great an in crease in 1917, reflects Indian adapt ability to new surroundings and re- ponsiveness to a less paternal policy. The race has profited by gradual withdrawal of the props by which it long was artificially sustained. Edu cation has paid in the long run, though it made headway slowly at first. Its chief discouragements were the impatient criticisms of persons who judged superficially. Progress Is not always measured by garb; if it were our white brethren would need to give a new account of themselves. Commissioner Sells illuminates this phase of the Indian advancement by saying: Too much has been said about Indian school graduates going back to the blanket. Any assumption that more than negligible percentage of such students are non-prosreasive is unwarranted. In some instances where pupils not long in school have returned to backward home conditions the result have been disap pointing, but by no means an entire loss. If thene boys and girls carry no more than a speaking use of English Into homes still under the thrall of- barbaric Ignorance, they have started a lilting force. Some times young men returning from our schools resume a certain outward form of tribal fashion as a matter of expediency or of social deference to their elders, but their activities show what they are: their farming, their stockraising, the homes they build and the way they furnish them. and their des.re to have their children go to acnool are the best evidences of their progress. Nothing, on the other hand, is gained by exaggeration. The truth wili. suffice. The Indians did not, as has been stated, buy "more than $60,000,000 worth of Liberty bonds," but they did make an actual invest ment of $25,000,000 worth, which in proportion to their resources was a splendid showing. More than 10,000 served in the war. Acceptance, of white men's hospital facilities and practical. retirement of the medicine man are indubitable signs of prog ress. Fifty thousand Indian families now live in permanent homes and take an interest in sanitation. Three fourths of their children eligible for attendance are enrolled 'in some school. More than two-thirds of their population speak English and more than one-half read and. write English. Gain In use of civilized speech has been especially remarka ble in the past seven years and repre sents the harvest of years of educa tion which for a long time seemed to yield little or no return. About 225,- 000 allotments of land have been made since the government adopted the policy of giving full control of property to those who were cornpe tent to assume it, and in the last, three years 10,956 titles in fee slm- pie have been granted, or 1062 more than in the entire preceding decade. Emancipation of the Indians has been accompanied by a good deal of progress by the whites. The two events are rather closely related, as unbiased students of our early rela tions with the tribes are now willing to concede. Yet the true friends of the Indian are not now those who clamor for complete release from su pervision. As Mr. Sells observes: There are thousands whose personal possessions are suggestive of capacity for independent support, but who are not qualified to withstand the competitive tests that would follow withdrawal of federal guidance. To abandon these would be to leave them a prey to every kind of unscrupulous trickery that masks ltcelf In the conventions of civilization. The Indian's transformation from a game-hunter and nomad to a homebuilder constitutes an illumi nating chapter In our own history. We are beginning to make amends for the "early processes of treaty making and t.-eaty - breaking" to which the commissioner alludes as constituting a chapter that finds few defenders. It will be kept in mind that incapacity for combating the "unscrupulous trickery" to which many Indians have fallen victim may have been due to other factors than fundamental defects In char acter. CASE! OF ALASKA. BROWN BEAR Among the addresses at the ses sion here of the Pacific coast Oph thalmological soc' :y was one on the subject, "Chronic Dacryocystitis and Treatment by the West Operation." And yet Horace Gree'ey used to ad vise young men to go west! Some freak in a bureau has de vised a plan to pension women ste nographers when they reach 70 by making a small hold-out monthly as lr a woman would stenog all those years; she d marry first. Mr. Ilorsadiy Denies He Ever Char acterised Animal aa "Hsrmleu." - NEW YORK, July 22. (To the Ed itor.) For about three years a few people in Alaska have been demand ing from the department of agricul ture the right to hunt Alaskan brown bears all the year round for their rklts, on the amazing ground that the bears seriously interfere with the stockraising industries of Alaska, and later on the further ground that the bears are a menace and a positive danger to the residents of Alaska. A few prominent American mammalo gists, headed by Dr. C. Hart Merriam, have opposed the proposed wholesale slaughter and the extermination of the moat interesting carnivorous ani mal in North America and the statue quo ante bellum has been maintained. Last spring a citizen of Alaska and an ex-soldier named Clarence Thomp son took his rifle and went out bear hunting on Chicago island. We are assured that Mr. Thompson went bear hunting by the fact that no other game killable with a rifle was in sea son at the time of his sad misadven ture. Mr. Thompson found a bear, fired at it twice, failed to kill it, and the bear injured him so terribly that after a most harrowing experience he died in the Chicagof hospital a few days after the encounter. Promptly seeking someone on whom to lay the blame for this tragedy, the editor of the Alaska Daily Empire published a long and violent edito rrial which from beginning to end virtually held William T. Hornaday responsible for the death of Mr. Thompson. This was based on a long period of pernicious activities in fa vor of the Alaskan brown bear by the accused party, whose whole burden of offense is to be found in one page of statement and protest in a pam phlet published by the Permanent Wild Life Protection Fund on Feb ruary 15, 1920. as bulletin No. 6. in an article entitled "The Free Killing of Alaskan Brown Bears." Just why the editor of the Dally Empire should elect to give the au thor of the pamphlet ten times more credit than he deserves for the. pro tection that the Alaskan brown bear has received up to date does not ap pear, and therefore apologies are due to Dr. C. Hart Merriam, the real lead er of the opposition to Alaskan brown bear extermination. The article in the Daily Empire ap plies various opprobrious epithets to the campaigning trustee of the Per manent Wild Life Protection Fund, who has noted with Interest the fact that he has not yet been called a horsethief or a murderer by direct attack. On May 7 T. B. Drayton, a writer of special newspaper articles at Seward, Alaska, sent out to four newspapers in the states the story of the death of Mr. Thompson and the dangerous nature of Alaskan brown bears. Along with this he Incorpo rated a story to the effect that Will iam T. Hornaday had been publishing the statement that the great Alaskan brown bears are "harmless animals.1 nd he cited the alleged arrival in Alaska of those statements coincident with the killing of Mr. Thompson by a bear. This statement, being without foun dation In fact, was Immediately de nounced by Mr. Hornaday as wholly false. The New York World pub lished the disclaimer and promptly referred It to Mr. Drayton for a re port. On June 10 Mr. Drayton wrote to the World a long letter of explana tion. without furnishing one line or reference in support of his "harmless" yarn, yet lacking the manhood to ad mit that he was in the wrong. Mr. Drayton represents a small but very noisy group of Alaskan editors and writers who see red every time their views and their demands are criticised or opposed by anyone in the hated "States." It looks as if they are fostering the growth of hostile feeling in Alaska toward the national government and especially toward those who wish to see the resources of Alaska conserved and utliizea ror the greatest good of the greatest number. And Mr. Drayton complains that he can induce only four news papers to give him "half a chance at accuracy, much less lair play, wnen he writes on "that rotten subject." It is the opinion of the writer that there are in Alaska a few men who just now are doing Alaska more harm than good and that Mr. jjrayion ana the eflltor of the JuTieau Daily Em pire are two of them. WILLIAM T. HORNADAY. Those Who Come and Go. 'ORGANIZATION OP WOMEN VOTERS It Is evident that The Portland Orego nian is badly worried over the Cox can didacy. Pendleton East Oregonian. Not so badly. We are worried chiefly over the worries of our demo cratic friends. They are only be ginning. The germ that made the olive deadly has been located as a soil product, but how iti climbs the tree to get Into the fruit is not stated Fine thing the "bug" does not grow in the watermelon patch. No postal employe can be a politi cian, according to Burleson, but he can send a check for a month's pay to Dr. Morrow's office and no ques tions will be asked. The trail is getting cold after nearly a week, but there are man hunters determine'd to get the mur derers of Til Taylor. They cannot stay free for long. "Ten acres of Rogue River valley pears, at the average yield and the average price for the past four years. net $o00 a year more than 100 acres of Kansas wheat, ot average yieia ana average price for the past four years." asserts Sumpter S. Smith of Medford. who is at the Benson with Mrs. Smith. "We've been collecting some statistics for comparison and we're ready to demonstrate that Rogue River vaiiey is a land of sunshine and prosperity. The pear crop this year will be Immense. Heretofore we've never made enough boxes for our fruit crop, but now there are two box factories in the field and there is as surance of a bountiful supply." Mr. Smith is a member of the republican state executive committee and in that capacity he was in Portland yesterday attending an organization of the com mittee. If any fish are left in the Rogue river it will not be the fault of Charles Reanes. This afternoon Mr. Reames will forget that he is an as sistant United States attorney; will load his 111" ol' bus with camp outfit, put In a five-gallon can of gasoline in the tonneau ana start ior soumern Oregon. Some time tonight he will get about as far as Cottage Grove and will go into camp, and tomorrow ne expects to be on the Rogue. Yester day Clarence L. Reames, Charley's brother, arrived in Portland from Se attle on business bent. Clarence L who wae formerly United States at torney for Oregon, being a democrat, refuses to admit that Harding and Coolidge will wipe up the country with Cox and Roosevelt. This." said a traveler, exhibiting small round disk with a triangular hole in the center, is one of the tokens .used for street car fares in Seattle. They have just gone into circulation." In Seattle it costs you 10 cents to ride on a street car if you are alone, but if you have a companion the two of you can ride lor la cents; if you use these tokens you can get four rides for 25 cents. It sounds somewhat complicated, and it Is. The system went into operation while 1 was in Seattle a few days ago and the people were confused and so were the conductors. The token, in a way, re sembles the Chinese cash ana tne hole in the center enables a person to string them after the manner of the 'cash'." Most of the "hotels in Portland dur insr this past week have had a num ber of patrons from Phoenix, Arizona. The Invasion began about 10 days ago and has been steadily increasing. until scarcely a day passes witnout three or four from Phoenix arriving at each of the principal down town hotels. The situation is somewhat un usual, but there is an explanation. The temperature reports issued by the weather bureau enow that the thermometer at Phoenix is fluttering around 108 degrees. That's hot enough to force anyone to seek a more con genial summer climate. Robert N. Stanfield, republican nominee for United States senator, re turned to Portland yesterday after a business trip in eastern Oregon. Mr. Stanfield is chased arourfd the coun try hv loner-distance calls more than any other man in Oregon. He never lands In a town but several long distance calls are awaiting him. Next to Mr. Stanfield. probably tho greatest long-distance talker in the state is Max Houser, who talks to New York twice a day, and in between times he talks on the phone to his agents in all parts of the northwest. "Do you know why people write their names so poorly on hotel regis ters'.'" inquired H. B. Thorsnes, clerk at the Hotel- Oregon, as he scanned several lines of miserable penman ship. "Ordinarily a person writes his name distinctly, but on a hotel regis ter the signature is usually of poorer quality. Here is the reason: The pat ron has been carrying a grip or suit case and when he comes to the desk to register his fingers are crampea. "This week we have roomed a num ber of parties of transcontinental tourists," says Clerk King at the Imperial. "Mostly these tourists are from New York and they are handled by agencies. In talking to the visitors they have, informed me that Portland people Bave been more courteous and obliging than the resi dents of any other city they have visited since leaving home. The re suit, of course, is that they are boost ing Portland." Republican Success Belter Attaured If Tula Be Not Neglected. NEWPORT, Or.. July 2S. (To the Editor.) The republican women of Lincoln county are very much inter ested in a statewide organization. So far as we know there is no working league of republican women by coun ties and it was very gratifying to read that State Chairman Tongue was tak ing up this matter. We must admit that the republican women of Oregon are not as well organized as the women of California or even the dem ocratic women of Oregon. We read great deal about the activities of the democratic women leaders in this states. They had candidates for More Truth Than Poetry. By Jamea J. Montague. TO prominent orttces In the primaries and have been represented in the leg islature. I know personally that a great ma jority of the women of Lincoln county are republicans and are going to cast their ballots for Harding and Cool idge If they are registered and are got out to the polls. The same is true of other coast counties. -It will only be neglecting to do proper or ganization work that any of these counties go democratic. I think there should be a state con ference of republican women from every county at an early day and a detailed state organization perfected. It is a matter of general observation that women voters are not Intense partisans because they have not been trained in party affiliation. Those who have worked on election boards can testify that many women are rtially non-partisans and scratch their tickets awfully. How many of us to day are not even registered? How many are prepared to vote intelli gently on Important Issues between the dominant parties? I dare say not very many, and a great many men fonr that matter would be puzzled to name tne issues upon which the parties really divide, such as: Ratification of a peace treaty that is soundly American. How to stop spending billions as it has been carried on by the democratic party. A just industrial system where wo men wage earners are fully protected in their rights to living wages and iair worKing conditions We must have local organizations for our women that recognize compe tent workers in each county. We must have literature that will interest women in their political capacity and in discussion of all matters in which women are interested and which they can unaerstand. There has been too much assumed that because women have the ballot they all know just now to vote. They have been flat tered with the idea that they can vote more intelligently, more patriotically and along higher lines of mornj tnougnt, out tills remains to be proved. The ballot is after all the re sult of training and actually, dealing witn puonc matters. We are loarn lng to vote bv doinsr It. and too manv of us are indifferent and neglect to go to the polls on election day. How can we remedy this? How can we get out a tun republican women vote? These are matters that can be prop erly taken up and threshed out only in state and county conferences of women. Let us not go into the cam paign unprepared and unorganized if we hope to carry Oregon for the re publican standard bearers and for re publican principles. Let no false democratic slogan like "He kept ua out of war" again be used to deceive our trusting women. MRS L. E. WILSON. OAE-S IDEAS ARE SUBJECT CHANGE. I used to think Id like to wed The daughter of a millionaire. And look upon th wine when red And dine on quail and caviar. For wl.en the old man quits, thought L An eager light upon my face. Or drops the cares of business, why His son-in-law will take his place. When but a child I used to love To think that in my twentieth year, I might espouse the daughter of A locomotive engineer. Perched high within a cab to sit. I Knew would be a lot of fun. And it the old man ever 'quit They'd send for me to take his run. But now I do not trouble much The daughters of the rich or creat. With candy, auto rides and mirh Or beg said Janes to share rr.v fai I'd like to be a m i 1 1 Inn ra i m I'd like to be an encrineor- But when I stroll the thoron irh rum Their daughters need to have no fear. For though - - w L 1., W t course. That when a doHnsr narnt - A chance to do so. he would force T.he job UDOn his ,nn.in.t.. In the convention hall I sat Ml on a sad and heaw And casually I noticed that ' it hardly ever works that way. A Master. Directors etairinsr mvi. will do well to study the example of Mr. Grover Cleveland t?-,i.,ii It's An III Wind. Anyway, the conventions got rid of 300 or 400 absolutely superfluous presidential candidates. -Alo. And the denfocrats kept us out of Bryan. Copyright 1820 by the Bell Syndicate. Inc. In Other Days. INDIANS AS CITIZENS. - Indian Commissioner Sells confirms In a letter written to a critic of the administration of Indian affairs the statement made some months ago by Dr. Lawrence W. White, one of the scientists of the bureau, that the In dians are no longer a dying race. Despite popular belief that the civi lization forced on him by the white man would mean his ultimate ex tinction. Dr. White now contends that Indians are not much less nu merous now than when Columbus discovered America. It is necessary first, as Dr. White says, to disabuse the public mind of .the tradition handed down by early colonists that the American forests of their day swarmed with the dusky figures of the red men. Later scientists know ; better than that. It is conceded that the Indian of the sixteenth century to all intents and purposes neglected agriculture completely. It is highly improbable, having regard for his wasteful reliance on hunting for his food supply, that the continent could have supported more than a few hundred thousand of the race. The first reliable census of Ameri can Indians was made in 1870, when it was shown that they numbered 313,712. The annual reports of vari ous Indian superintendents in 1917 took account of 335,993, and prob ably did not include considerable Fattig, the draft evader, who sur rendered after three lonesome years in the mountains, will find his next nine months In Jail lively enough to make up. The country to the south of us Is bearing false witness against Oregon in the gasoline matter, but It cannot disguise its earthquakes. Days at the beach may be more pleasant than days in town, but you've got to show the man who cannot get away. COMPACT WITH JAPAN OPPOSED Chlneae Already Suspect Vm of Inca pacity la Korelsvn Affaira. PORTLAND, July 29. (To the Edi tor.) I noted with much interest the remarks last Monday evening regard ing China. One of the speakers ad vised that we combine with Japan In the development . of China. It is surprising that a man who has trav eled through China, Korea (Chosen) and Siberia and eeen the results of Japanese blunderlngs could still sug gest such a combination. Let him in vestigate what Japan has done in Siberia since the coup d'etat of April 4 and 5, or what she has done in Shantung since she took control. Did the speaker travel through China without finding the results of Jap anese money Judiciously distributed among the officials at Pekin? Let us stand on our own feet. Our; prior behavior has left with many Chinese, especially those who have not been in the United States, the impression that we are not. in our foreign dealings, a very practical people, that we lack alertness, quick ness of decision in emergencies, promptness of action and especially persistence, and all this even when our own interests are at stake. Even gratitude for our refusal to enter into the game or grabbing China is colored by a suspicion that perhaps we lacked the energy and skill to engage successfully in the game. The war has now conclusively dem onstrated that the United States can act promptly, efficiently and on a large scale in its foreign affairs. We have never, beyond the Monroe doc trine, gone in for a continuous for eign policy, as have other great pow ers. Let us now adopt one towards China. Baron Shibusawa suggested a Japanese-American co-operation, the United States to furnish the money and Japan the brains, but let us stand on our own feet In the development of China. H. P. FERGUSON. Tillamook is not doing much "blowing" about her attractions, yet Is finding tourist travel a big asset. The census gives Lane county 617 less than ten years ago. The stork must have been a slacker. Americans, may be the smartest people in the world, but Ponzl can teach them finance. Leroy's next woman will give him away on the trunk murder before she gets hers. Villa retires with i catch - as -catch-can bandit championship of the world. If Bergdoll is in these parts he him, "Victoria Cross Women" Next. Kansas City Star. A royal warrant consolidating and xtendir.g previous royal warrants regarding the Victoria cross was pub lished recently !n the London Gazette. The principal feature is that women are now made eligible for decoration. It being ordained that matrons, sis ters, nuraes and the staff of the nurs ing services and other services per taining to hospitals and nursing, and cliiviaiis of either sex serving regu larly or temporarily under the or ders. direction or supervision of any of the armed forces of the crown- shall be eligible for the ctobs. The Political Pointera. Marshfield Record. The platform is silent on the liquor question, but the candidate is a man concerning whom it will be whis pered, in quarters where it will do good, that he is "wet," and stands for the loosening up of the 18th amend. would better not let Joe Day glimpse merit. Bryan will point to the plat- I rorm; Tammany 10 me cano.io.aie Exactly So. Hillsboro Independent. Portland newspapers are throwing unnecessary fits over the Terwilliger boulevard which carries most of the traffic from Washington county. It is true a grave engineering mistake was made in banking its curves, but this does not mean that it should be con demned and rebuilt, for thousands of cars which pass over it both in wet and dry weather prove that it is not unduly dangerous when reasonable care is ex.ercieed. If we are to make our highways foolproof we will face a big Job, and common sense appears to dictate that we eliminate the fool, as the great majority of the accidents which have occurred on the boulevard can be traced directly to recklessness. Speaking of prunes, the winter strawberry of the boardinghouse cir cuit. C. W. Vale or Carlton, who is at the Hotel Oregon, says that he sold to A. H. Laughlin. a prune orchard fur s.-,n.000. The orchard consists of 100 acres 22 miles south of Corvallis and the croD alone is estimated at $3r,000. which means that the land brought J15.000, or $150 an acre. From a clerk in the office of . the O. R. & N. Co. in Portland to vice president of a railroad is the record of II. M. Adams wno came to tne Benson vesterday. Mr. Adams is vice president of the United Pacific sys tem, in charge of traffic and was formerly vice-president of the Mis souri Pacific. His headquarters are at Omaha. With him are Mrs. Adams-. B. C. Crooks and A. J. Seitz. Representative McKarland. who fathered the game code in the 1919 session of the legislature. Is angry. The doctor is a most ardent angler, none more so In the state, and he had the equipment of an enthusi ast. "Had" is right. Dr. McFarland parked his car for a few minutes and when he returned $150 worth of fishing tackle had disappeared. Harry Owens, hotel greeter of Pen dleton. wa at the Multnomah yestei- day shaking hands with .his fellow greeters. He reports that the ex citement over the slaying of Sheriff Til Taylor has not abated and that the search for the murderers win continue u-ntil the outlaws have been captured. G. H. Raleigh, the new manager of the Bank of California, at Taco ma, registered at the Multnomah yes terday, with S. Conrow. Mr. Raleigh has been making a tour of investiga tion and has been inspecting some large land holdings in which the bank is interested near Stanfield, Or. When the heat registered 104 at Yakima. A. E. Schultz decided that it was time to register in Portland., so he did so at the Perkins. The I demand for ice cream and cold drinks i has increased in Yakima about 100 i per cent with the coming of the hot wave. W. Clayton and daughter of San Francisco are at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Clayton Is on the stafr which looks after the Spreckles Interests, at San Diego. E. H. Dewey, formerly owner ot the Dewey hotel at Boise. Is regis tered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Dewey is now retired from business and taking things as they come. . F. L. Stewart, who Is a banker in the town of Kelso, Wash., Is an ar rival at the Hotel Oregon. He is ac companied by Mrs. Stewart- S. Z. Culver, an auditor of the state treasurers department, is in town on business and is registered at the Hotel Oregon. J. H. Myers, clerk at the Benson, I informed the world yesterday that a 9-pound son arrived at the home Fri day morning. Termination of Tenancy. PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Edi tor.) Please Inform me how much time is required to get possession of a house, said house having been sold? OLD SUBSCRIBER. If the property is occupied by a tenant who rents from month to month, possession can be obtained by the owner at the end of any rental month by giving notice not less than 20 days prior to the expiration of such month. Tt enty-fivej Veara Ajto. From The Oregonian of July SI. 1S!S. Milwaukee. It is reported that Ed ward C. Wall, ex-chairman of the democratic central committee In Wis consin, has been appointed minister! to Japan to succeed Dun. The Southern Tacific company has arranged new traffic rates effecting sweeping reductions on its lines be tween Portland and San Francisco. A train carrying 2S cars loaded with tea. which came in from China on the steamer Asloun, started east ward on Tuesday. The work of demolishing the old Williams - avenue school building. now to De replaced with a new struc ture, was begun yesterday. MOIXTAIX NAME SO TEARS AGO Flrmt Ascent Ilalng Been Mentioned Tacoman Offers Few Remarks. TACOM.V, Wash.. July 29. (To the Editor.) In an editorial of Sunday. July 25, The Oregonian states that Rainier was first scaled by Stevens and Van Tromp in August, 1S70, nearly 50 years ago. It would be but fair to state that both these men were advocates of the aboriginal name. Stevens pronounced it Tack homa and Van Tromp Takoma. Neither of them, to the best of my knowledge and belief, was ever a resident of Tacoma. Van Tromp was a university grad uate and one of nature's noblemen. He often talked to the writer of the trip and how their Indian guide. Slueskin. warned them of the terrors of the great Takoma. where anger was manifested in the snow slides that shook the earth. In the water falls he imagined that he heard the murmuring voice of spirits. Slueskin would go no further than Paradise valley, and when Stevens and Van Tromp returned from the summit the old Indian could not believe that he beheld them in the flesh, but thought that their disembodied spirits stood before him. When convinced that they were really still incarnate. Slue skin's joy knew no bounds. Slueskin knew the mountain by no other name than Takoma. General Spot, who belonged to the Puyallups, always called it Taco-hut. JA.TIES A. SPROULE. Queation In Grammar. PORTLAND, July 30. (To the Edi tor.) Which Is correct, "I want you and I to be friends" or "I want you and me to be frienue ? KENT VERNON. The eecond sentence i3 the correct one. An Dld-Tlmer I to Date. Louisville Courier-Journal. 1 HO tUlllCIUIUll lection it could have made, with the possible exception of that of John W. Davis. Governor Cox is an old time democrat In principle and an up-to-date democrat In action. On the issues which are to dominate the campaign Mr. Cox well represents the party as it has declared itself in Us platform. Pity the Poor Mosquito His Festive Haunt Is Due to Disappear Out in the sloughs where that pestiferous skeeter raised his fam ily and sent the little fellows forth in armies, equipped with a million barbed needles, there are soon to rise onion patches and every kind of truck garden 12,000 acres of them. De Witt Harry, in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow, tells about the vast projects that will create a veritable Netherlands on the delta of the Willamette. He tells just how much potential wealth this will add to Portland and just why it is to be the finest garden spot in the valley. His story is the story of a dream that has come true. Twenty-seven Hours on Ocean's Floor The story of a deep-sea diver who lived through an eternity of horrors when trapped by a falling hatch within the hold of a sunken monitor is one to be remembered- Few men have had the harrowing experience of facing sea monsters they could not themselves discerti of facing swordfish, hunger and fatigue many leagues under the ocean. Another New Industry One of the common materials about the house or store is diatomite and yet few had heard of it. Lucile F. Saunders tells just what this product is and how one of the biggest deposits of it in Oregon was discovered through the activities of a few herds of hungry cattle. It is now in the class of products, that the United States no longer has to depend upon Germany to supply. ' Other Side of the Columbia No, Oregon can't claim quite all the honors when it comes to mapping out a really enjoyable auto road down the Columbia gorge. Washington has one on the north bank that is comparatively .little known and little traveled, but in The Sunday Oregonian L. H. Gregory describes just what the motorist is missing who fails to acquaint himself with the beauties of the route. His trusty camera has secured some brand new views of the land mark of the north bank highway, Beacon rock. What the World Thinks It doesn't like nakedness and it's put ting up a protest. Frank Dallam describes the newest insurrection, the insurrection against the under-dressed woman. "Go home and put on more clothes," he says, is the emphatic order of church and state to the untra-fashionable set. Mary in Style Elopements are quite the thing, says Nina Mar bourg in her article describing many of the recent love affairs that have had such a termination. How the Gould children have added to the popularity of the runaway match and set a pace in high society is told in this account. Port of Missing Girls The District of Columbia has a metropol itan police department that gives missing girls special attention. It has demonstrated the need for similar branches in every city. These are just a few of the special articles that combine with all the news . of all the world to make Sunday's paper worth just "twice the price." A.