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THE MORNING OREGON! AN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1920
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ways, and to back these lines with
their capital as well as- their- traf
fic. They may join in such a de
mand for improvement of rivers and
river ports and for interchange of
traffic with railroads, that congress
will feel bound to give heed. Thi3
is a summons to railroad men to
abandon their old rule-of-tbumb
methods in figuring' rates and han
dling traffic and to consider broad
questions of transportation policy.
APPLYING THE RATE INCREASE.
While it may seem on the face of
the interstate commerce commis
sion's decision that the railroads
must raise freight rates by the full
percentage authorized for -the sev
eral regions in order to realize the
full 6 per cent net Income desired,
and that therefore the adjustments
to meet the case of particular indus
tries and sections would cause sacri-
" fire of part of that needed revenue,
the decision in fact leaves a liberal
margin for concessions to meet ne
cessities. As the longest hauls are
. from the Pacific coast to the middle
west and east, the flat percentage in
crease would hit the industries of
this region harder than those of the
other sections, but for the fact that
the percentage for this region is
lower and the margin . for adjust
ments is wider than for other
regions.
In the aggregate the increase Is
about $41,000,000 less than the sum
asked by the railroads after allow
ing for the reduction in valuation
.made by 'the comriission. Against
' this fact must be set the fact that
the railroads based their figures on
; the business of the year when traf-
fic was worse and cost of materials
was higher than in any other year
and when cost of operation was en
hanced by labor ' disturbances in
many industries. Despite the out
law strikes, all these conditions have
already perceptibly improved, the
price of some construction materials
having fallen considerably, and the
general advance In wages should end
labor troubles. Congestion of traf.
fic is being relieved, its volume is
steadier than a year ago, more equip
ment is Deing provided, and opera
tion is gradually getting back to a
gait where the percentage of net to
gross revenue will be near the pre
war figure, a i argin for adjust
ment of rates below the maximum
percentage or increase without re
duction of net income below 6 per
cent is thus provided, even in those
regions where that percentage is no
higher than the railroads considered
necessary.
In the mountain and Pacific re
gion there is a fSrther wide margin.
especially on the northern transcon
tinental roads. They did not need
ail or trie 24 per cent on freight
originauy asiceu, and the 25 per cent
given, together with the advance on
passenger and other business, is not
only ample to pay the wage increase,
but to leave a .considerable surplus.
The commission has authorized an
Increase of 33 1-3 per cent on traf
fic passing from one region to an
other. All traffic parsing from the
Iacific coast to the middle west and
east will pay this increase for the
entire haul, hence the Pacific roads
will get an additional 8 per cent on
their part of the haul. We shall
have the anomaly of a higher rate
per mile on long than on short hauls.
If the railroads were to exact the
full increase authorized on staple
products of the Pacific coast which
compete with those of other regions
In middle western and eastern mar.
kets, they would . not only collect
more revenue than the law contem
" plates, provided the volume of traf
fic was not diminished, but they
would do serious injury to the indus
tries concerned and consequently to
themselves. With regard to lumber.
If shippers had no alternative, an
advance of 33 1-3 per cent would
make competition with southern yel
low pine in the middle west impos
Bible, would compel railroads to haul
.: eastward empty cars which had
brought export freight west, would
- cut off much traffic in iroods con
sumed by men engaged in the lum
ber industry and might cause a net
decrease in revenue in place of the
increase desired. It is to the rail-
roads' interest to prevent this, and
they can do so by increasing rates
much less than 25 per cent, yet can
- earn 6 per cent net income.
Lumbermen have the alternative
of water lines, vessels for which are
increasingly available, and they are
turning attention more in that direc-
... tion. They already ship lumber to
Atlantic coast ports by water for
..... rii naul several hundred miles
inland. They may go further by
.... . shipping te New Orleans for trans
fer to Mississippi river steamers to
-r ' tP-river points, whence there would
...... be a short rail haul to interior
towns. They may ship to New York
by sea. by barge through the Erie
canal and up the lakes to Chicago.
When the Panama canal was com
.. ... Ileted the railroads were preparing
to meet this competition, even at -the
stale of rates then prevailing. That
competition is now upon them, in-
tensified by the larger supply of ton
i nage and by the rate increases made
In 1918 and at the present time.
Kastern roads are not likely to ob
T -1ect- for a line extending from Chi
. cago to the Atlantic coast may be
.'. indifferent whether it hauls a car
, from Chicago to Pittsburg or from
' xurK io t-iiisourg; in fact it
may prefer the latter, for it would
n get a 40 per cent increase In rate as
. against 33 1-3 per cent on its shn
v... of a transcontinental haul.
We are at the beginning of a revo
- . r lution In the transportation business,
which the rate advance has hastened'.
V Shippers will seek the most econom
ical routes and, In doing so. will
shake themselves loose from old
, habits, for to many of them it will
. e a matter of life and death to
" escape the high rates of railroads.
They are apt to turn to water lines,
both by cea and on Inland water -
- STATING THE DIFFERENCE.
"What attitude will this self-appointed
and self-anointed champion of dry Amer
ica (The Oregonian) take on the candidacy
of Congressman . Pat McArthur. who has
frankly expressed himself against national
prohibition? We pause for an answer.
Pendleton East Oregonian.
Let us hasten to relieve the drab
suspense in the office of the Pendle
ton paper. The Oregonian will, of
Course, support Mr. McArthur. He
has served efficiently In congress, lie
has not played fast and loose on pro
hibition or .any other question. He
owes his nomination neither to the
clever manipulations- of any local
Tammany, nor any local Boss Nu
gent, nor Brennan, nor Taggart, nor
Moore, nor to the underhanded
schemings of any wet lobby, serving
an interest that hopes again to cater
to the appetite of thirsty millions.
Mr. McArthursaid four years ago he
would vote wet if his district went
wet; dry if it voted dry. It voted
wet. though the state went dry.
Mr. McArthur was not nominated
because he was not a dry; nor will
he be elected because he is not a dry.
His election- means nothing as to that
issue. -
Mr. Cox was nominated at San
Francisco because he was supposed
to be wet. If he is elected, it will be
through the wets. There is no hope
for him otherwise.
and will front on the Black sea In
the east. It will be the main link In
sea commerce between Europe and
Asia. Its ancient glory promises to
return. .
THE QUADRENNIAL GAME.
Every four years the United States
is stirred from border to border
from the hyperborean pinnacles of
the frozen north to the glistening
strands of the placid south, from the
storm-beaten rocks of the surging
Atlantic, to the golden sands of the
shining Pacific" (see report of any
political speech) by a political cam
paign. Then the American people
proceed noisily and enthusiastically
to elect a president. It is the great
quadrennial demonstration of the
successful operation of a self-govern
ing democracy. It is everybody's af
fair, and everybody takes a hand.
A reader from Eugene, writing to
day, objects to the use of money
for campaign purposes; and wants
quieter and saner methods. It may
be agreed that too much money is
often used, but it is not agreed that
the people should be left alone to de
cide the great question. The very
essence of life in a democracy is dis
cussion or agitation. Organizd action
tp persuade voters for or against a
cause is what is called a campaign,
and a campaign cannot be conducted
without funds. No sane man will
deny the necessity and duty of politi
cal action by men and women united
for a common purpose. Free speech
and free assembly; fundamental prin
ciples of a democracy, are useful
only as citizens may learn for them
selves through them the merits of
any public proposal. They are ve
hicles of political action; without
them and- their constant use no de
mocracy will survive.
The people want to know about
a candidate for the presidency. They
want to hear from him and, so far as
possible, to see him. They desire to
hear also from others about him. The
United States is the greatest nation
in the world and the presidency is
the biggest job in the world. Any
expense, any effort, that will thor
oughly inform the public about the
candidates should not be spared, but
Is wholly justifiable.
Besides, electing a president is the
greatest sport known, and every
American citizen is, or should be, one
of the players.
. FLYING TO DEATH.
They dare death once too oftem
Whereat the grim fellow retorts.
"You're on!" and collects the for
feit of a-life. So it was with Lieutenant-
Omar Locklear, whose " spe
cialty was aviation hazards before
the moving picture camera. ' His
plane failed to come out of a hurt
ling nose dive and the game of fly
ing recorded two additional dismis
sals by death, a companion crashing
with him. Locklear was a pioneer
in the new school of daredevil stunt
flying. Portland picture audiences
have thrilled" to his nonchalant,
nervy change from plane to plane in
mid-air. Taking risks was his voca
tion. It is probable that it paid well
enough up to that one tremendous
moment when the doomed flier real
ized that his plane would be wreck
age and his stunting ' forever con
cluded in the split fraction of an in
stant. There are laws against suicide.
There should be laws, while the
wings of a new mechanical art are
lifting, enacted against foolhardiness
in flying. The public may well dis
pense with the attendant thrills of
witnessing a venturesome aviator
plunging to his fate. It cannot be
said that stunt flying helps the
game. -Rather does it serve to retard
its proper progress, and to impress
upon all the belief that airplane traf
fic is' utterly unsafe and hazardous.
The barber who bobbed over Niagara
falls in a cask, and whose demise was
thorough and complete, was of a
kidney with the men who are play
ing the role of bravos of the air.
Sound, sensible fliers, who are out to
eliminate all possible risks, will soar
many a thousand miles before folk
forget that Locklear died in a. nose
dive. For it will not be recalled that
he tempted his fate.
the neighborhood of The Dalles, its
members constructed out of drift
wood a raft on which they conveyed
themselves and their belongings to
the lower river. We wonder how
many there are among the tenderfeet
of 1920, who permit themselves to
be turned aside by gruesome tales of
"no gas" atrocities, who would relish
an adventure every stage of which
was punctuated by such diversions as
whipsawing the material for one's
own boat, or digging ox teams out
of a mire, or surmounting other con
stantly recurring obstacles, each in
a different way! . Yet, as has been
said, 1845 gave the northwest some
sturdy citizens, whose names are still
well known. Of the clan of Cham
bers, except James and his family,
who remained hereabouts, most of
them found homes near Puget sound,
where Chambers creek still perpetu
ates the name. Other names re
called by the year are those of W. G.
T'Vault, Samuel K. Barlow, who de
veloped the trail that is named for
him and who was an early explorer
of Mount Hood; J. C. Avery, founder
of Corvallis; Solomon Tetherow,
Colonel T. R. Cornelius, the Rev.
William Helm, Joel Palmer, Presley
Welch, W. W. Buck, John and Fred
Maymire, Stephen Staats, William
J. Herren, Rufus Riggs, James H.
McMillan. James Terwilliger and
others. These were old-timers in the
territory when the eventful immigra
tion of 1852, from which so much of
our history is dated, set in.
GREECE FINISHING OFF THE TERES
In less than a month Greece has
captured two former capitals of the
Turks Brussa and Adrianople and
has slain, captured or scattered the
Mohammedan fanatics led by Mus-
tapha Kemal and Jaffa Tayer, which
have defied the allies for a year. Un
less the allies hold them in check
the Greeks may soon wipe out the
last band of militant Turks and may
bring welcome relief to the sorely
beset Armenians of Cilicia and Eri
van and to their compatriots at
Trebizond.
This war. is undertaken with the
more zest by the Greeks because
they have a long score to settle with
the Turks. While the great war was
on and ,while they were held in un
willing neutrality by King Constan-
tlue, the Greeks saw their brethren
in Thrace and Asia 'Minor robbed,
outraged, murdered or deported by
hundreds of thousands. Having thus
changed the ratio of the two races
In the population, the Turks had the
impudence to make the artificially
changed totals the basis for disput
ing Greek claims to more territory.
The Greeks were forced to endure
these outrages in inaction, for when
they finally got into the war they
had to co-operate with their allies
in driving the enemy out of Mace
donia ana serma. xne attack on
Thrace was about to begin when the
Turks surrendered and were given
an armistice. Delay in making
peace with Turkey proved that the
Turks would not accept defeat until
all their territory had been con
quered. for it gave opportunity fo
the Nationalists to rebel and to form
an alliance with the Tartars and
Bolshevists. Having had little part
in the war, the Greeks accept with
alacrity the task entrusted to them
oy me great powers, and they are
doing the job well.
It is eminently appropriate that
final destruction of the last remnant
of Turkish military power shou!
fall to Greece, for it is but one yea
short of a century since the Greeks
rebelled against Turkish tyranny
finally gaining their independence i
loou. me territory tnat they are
now occupying was the last which
the Greek emperors held before the
fall of Constantinople. Thrace and
the Asiatic shore of the straits and
the sea of Marmora were conquered
long before they took the capital
and Greece bids fair to attain the
same position as the Turks then
held, with the important exception
that a strip along the straits will be
partly under jurisdiction of an inte
national commission. Nothing wi:
then remain of Turkey except Asia
Minor exclusive of the Symrna dis
trict and Armenia and Constanti
nople. Greece will now be one of the
great maritime and naval powers of
Europe. Its territory will front on
the Adriatic sea in the west, will
completely control the Aegean sea
BY - FRODCCTS OF THE TIMES
School Arithmetics Now 1st t'se Dc
elaureel Kali of Romance.
Arithmetic Is supposed to be a matter-of-fact
study, but the school
arithmetics now in use are full of
romance. " They need immediate re
vision tf this most practical and Im
portant branch of learning is to be
kept In . touch with the realities of
life.
tor example, what respect can a
modern boy or girl have for a text
book which propounds so absurd a
problem as the following:
If a dozen eggs cost 27 cents, how
many may be bought for S1.39?
If a quart of milk at 6 cents a
quart produces four ounces of butter.
what will be the profit on five pounds
of butter at 35 cents a pound?
Or this:
If five men, working ten hours a
day. earn a total of -J75 in six days,
how much will seven men working 11
hours a day earn in three days?
An arithmetic that was up to date
would contain problems like the following:
If gasoline costs 28 cents a gallon
and silk shirts X13 apiece, at what
rate must a bricklayer be paid, work
ing eight hours a day, in order to
support his wife and three children,
keep the family flivver running and
buy two new shirts a month? Chi
cago Evening Post.
THE IMMIGRATION OF 1843.
The immigration into Oregon in
1845, which is recalled by the death
of Mrs. Martha P. J. Comstock.
who as a girl of seven, was a member
of a noteworthy party that reached
the Oregon country in that eventful
year, was of historical importance
because of the motives that prompt
ed it, as well as because it resulted
in practically doubling our popula
tion. There were a few more than
2000 inhabitants here then, and the
estimate made by the historian
Bancroft, that about 3000 started
across the plains in that year, of
whom about 1000 were diverted to
California while en route, closely cor
responds with the investigations
made by our own official historian,
Mr. rlimes, on the point in question.
The tale that is told to the effect that
California boomers even in that re
mote period had agents stationed at
strategic points on the western trail,
to win travelers with accounts of the
incomparable advantages of Cali
fornia, its resources and climate and
insurmountable obstacles on the
way to Oregon, are remindful of
more recent happenings. Recalling
the charge made only the other day
of a California conspiracy to divert
utomobiles to the more southern
route with tales of a gasoline famine
n the north, one will be apt to be
ieve that the methods of our neigh
bors have not been reformed with
the passage of three-quarters of a
entury. There is, nevertheless, an
other side to the old story.
The year 1845 was momentous in
the struggle for possession of the ter
ritory on the Pacific coast. Rumors
that the British were preparing to
concentrate naval forces on this coast
ith a' view to asserting title by
possession at an appropriate moment
had stirred patriots of California as
well as of Oregon. This was prior
to the discovery of gold on. Sutter
creek, which was to take the prob
lem out of the hands of diplomats
and politicians. A few far-seeing
statesmen are now suspected of hav
ing secretely encouraged the immi
gration for reasons of national in
terest. We risk little in crediting
those who then sought to persuade
wayfarers to travel south with being
inspired by sincere belief that the is
sue would first be fought out there.
With California under the flag, the
case for Oregon, it seemed to them,
would be much simplified. There
were differences of opinion as to
matters of method and expediency;
but there was unanimity as to the
purpose to be achieved.
In any event, twice as many con
tinued on the way here as were per
suaded otherwise. To the immigra
tion to Oregon of the two years fol-
owing, settlers who had thus changed
their plans but afterward repented
contributed a considerable quota.
Until the discovery of gold, and the
altered character of the westward
movement which then ensued, Ore
gon was pre-eminently the place for
the home-seeker. The historians who
have sought to analyze the motive
underlying the movement of this
earlier period have been betrayed
largely by a superficial view. There
was one, for example, who attributed
the hegira almost wholly to a "rest
less spirit, dissatisfaction with home,
want of a market and distance from
the sea." It is assumed by others
that poverty loomed large behind the
spirit of restlessness. But this does
not sufficiently account for what
must be set down as an aimless and
thoughtless rush of large numbers of
well-confiitioned people to seek the
privations and hardships of an un
known frontier, unless the origin of
the western travel of the early forties
is more deeply probed for. Of the
motive of poverty there was a little,
but not much; of simple desire for
adventure and change,- there was a
little. Market difficulties were
chronic in that time and for long
afterward. The motive of patriotism.
united with desire to make homes in
a smiling and fertile land beneath
the stars and stripes, must be in
voked in order to satisfy the impar
tial inquirer who in reading the rec
ord sees also that which is written
between the lines.
The Chambers party, one among
several of that year, was headed by
Thomas M. Chambers, father of
James Chambers, the latter the step
father of Mrs. Comstock. Captain
Chambers was a striking character,
in whose veins ran the blood of An
drew Jackson, whose cousin he was.
Something of the Jackson spirit
probably determined the undeviating
course he took that brought him to
the goal of his desire, avoiding both
the lure of California and the peril of
the Meek cut-off. For 1845 was also
the year of that ill-starred adven
ture, which would be worth a chap
ter by itself. There is also an in
teresting relic in the possession of
the Oregon Historical society that
Those Who Come and Go.
COMMtNISTS BROUGHT TO JISTICE.
Conviction and sentence of Wil
liam Bross Lloyd and his nineteen
fellow-communists is notice to all
revolutionists that there is law to
punish them and that it will be en
forced. In insolent reliance on the
mpotence or forbearance of the
American people they undertook to
use the rights granted by the Ameri
can constitution in overturning the
government. Their plans have been
halted, though the sentences Imposed
are so light by comparison with the
gravity of the crime as to be admoni
tory rather than punitive.
No doubt we shall have the usual
outcry about violation of the rights
of free speech, free press and free
assembly from the convicted conspir
ators and their brother-communists,
Appeal to those rights as a shield for
their crimes Is a specimen of typi
cally bolshevist logic. Grant of the
rights mentioned does not debar the
government from preventing and
punishing abuse of them, that Is, use
of them for a criminal purpose. To
say that the rights mentioned in
clude the right to incite and concoct
conspiracies for change in the form
of government by force is absurd on
the face of it. It is the height of
absurdity when this plea is offered
by those whose declared aim is to
establish a dictatorship of one class
which would deny free speech, press
and assemblage to all others. How
little respect communists have for
those rights of others than their own
party was learned by the BrlMsh
labor delegation which recently vis
ited Russia. When bolshevist liberty
was mentioned to one of the dele
gates, ne laughed In derision. What
these mouthers about liberty would
do. if they had the power, is to es
tablish as damnable a tyranny a3
rules and ruins Russia. -
No credit is due to the federal gov
ernment for the successful prosecu
tion of Lloyd and his gang. They
were convicted by the state of Illi
nois under a state anti-syndicalism
law, as were those revolutionists who
were convicted in Oregon, Washing
ton and California. The federal law
is so weak that Attorney-General
Palmer asked that It be strengthened
in order that he might bring the reds
to justice, but bills were no sooner
introduced in congress than dema
gogues raised the cry that free
speech and free press were In danger.
though nothing was in danger but
the right of free revolution. This
bluff so scared the timid that they
put the bills to sleep. At the same
time Secretary of Labor Wilson and
nis assistant, Post, liberated alinn
reds as fast as Mr. Palmer caused
tneir arrest. The federal govern
ment has abandoned the dutv of h.
fending itself against its would-be
uestroyers to the Individual states,
A Washington reporter, happening
to pass the St. Elizabeth's hospital
for the insane, noticed an inmate
standing and painting a wall with
a dry brush, saya the Fourth Estate.
ine reporter, somewhat of a sports
man, noticed a racing sheet In the
back pocket of the painter and think
ing to have a little fun. he said:
"Who are you picking today V
"Take Little Eva In the fourth race
at Laurel," said the nalnter. Shu's .
200-to-l shot and she's carrying 88
pounds she can't lose."
The reporter, perhaps thinking one
hunch as good as another, went down
to the office, drew out 25 advance
salary and put it all on Little Eva.
Then Little Eva stumbled on the first
quarter and was out of the race.
About two weeks later the reporter
was passing the hospital and he again
noticed the painter, busily painting
with a dry brush.
"Well," he said to the painter, "I
put 825 on Little Eva, at 200 to 1.
carrying 88 pounds. In the fourth
race. She stumbled on the first
quarter and lost."
"You took my tip," said the painter.
"Yes," said the reporter.
"Get a brush," said the painter.
A few years ago there was a scan
dal in the east growing out of the
salo of land in the Florida everglades
to non-resident buyers. Today some
of th same land is producing fabulous
returns in sugar cane, according to
Lloyd W. Thayer, of Palm Beach, who
has been a Portland visitor for two
weeks, a guest at the home of C. B.
Hurtt. of the Hartinan & Thompson
bank. Mr. Thayer represents the
Southern State Land & Timber com
pany, which owns several million
acres of land, is just now engaged in
draining 400,000 acres and has a part
of its holdings producing. The Penn
sylvania Sugar company Is planting
a tract of 70,000 acres to sugar cane,
and in the opinion of Mr. Thayer that
is the section that will increase the
visible supply of saccharine tp satisfy
the sweet tooth of a hungry world.
He left yesterday for California where
he will sojourn a few weeks before
returning to the Florida peninsula.
Fishing at Fisk lake once a month
and other outdoor sports will be the
chief business, of Sam Garland, the
sil er-tongued orator of Lebanon, for
some time to come. Mr. Garland, who
was formerly state senator for Linn
county, was in Portland yesterday.
He is returning from California
where, with his family, he has been
touring since last September. Being
a democrat of democrats, Mr. Gar
land timed his arrival in San Fran
cisco to coincide with', the national
convention, and he is well satisfied
with the party's prospects. Mr. Gar
land insists that as soon as he and
hia family chugged across the Oregon
linr to the Siskiyous there was a dif
ferent atmosphere, a different feel
ing and a different spirit, for Oregon
Is home.
Thomas Kay. former state treasurer
ariti now republican nominee for repre
sentative in the legislature from
Marion county, was in Portland yes
terday to discuss changes in the state
compensation law. Mr. Kay is one ot
the five representatives of employers
on the commission , another five
representing labor and a third five
being representatives of the public.
Mr. Kay says that he has no intention
at this time of being a candidate for
speaker of the house in the 1921 ses
sion. rumors to the contrary notwith
standing. Of course, ho explained
conaitions may arise which might in
duce him to be a candidate for speak
er, but he Is nursing no such ambi
tion just now.
DEALERS' PAMPHLET SLHPBISES
Dairyman Never Had "Glowing
Praalan of Kant Profits,"
HILLS BORO, Or.. Aug. 3. (To the
Editor.) -.Two or three days prior to
the announcement that Ue city ol
Portland was going to prosecute the
officials of the Oregon Dairymen's
Co-operative league, the league mem
bers In this county received a nice,
expensive booklet from the Portland
milk dealers wherein are set forth
the many alleged Iniquities of the
league.
It seems the milk distributors have
just discovered that they have a deep
affection for the dairyman very deep
t deep as his pocketbook. And it
pains them very much to think that
the dairymen would join any associa
tion having for iu goal the better
ment of his financial condition. 1
svppose they consider their oratory
very convincing arguments, but it
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jamea J. Montague.
THE STORY OK OLD SOL CAHOON.
When Sol Cahoon came up from Maine
io close a codfish dicker.
We warned him of the evil bane
Of city bootleg liquor.
"Lay off that stuff, old man." we said
"Eschew the raw tobasco,
Or in the baggage coach ahead.
They'll cart you back to-Casco."
And then we told of Homer Bligh
Who sipped from a decanter
That he had bought for high proof
rye.
And went to rest, lnstanter.
Of Abner Glass, of hardy life
And marvelous endurance.
Who took one drink, and now his wife
Is getting his insurance.
But Sol Cahoon went forth one night.
rucureo a ooot-lcg flagon.
COesn t BOUnd un in th rl-iirv rr a n whn 1 a .
has been making the entries on the i'ifeS S "X' ' deLiSht
rea"sVasdte ' - cion. died
5 p Hls awful hootch revilins:
They talk glibly of "promoters," Next morning, with a glow of Dride
exploitation." "high financiers." "in- The old man turncS up smfling
side ring." manipulation." "control of "
prices." "glowing promises." etc. I
have kept pretty close tab on league
affairs for two years past, and that's
he Ilrst I ever heard of such things.
No one has ever held out "glowing
promises" of "vast profits" to league
members here. It is the hope that
we will, by co-operation, be enabled
to secure a greater per cent of the
fctail price of milk, that has caused
us to band ourselves together.
They call it "selfishness." Well. I
A reader of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch
furnishes the editor with a list
of old superstitions which were part
of our folk lore In that part of the
country before we had to have folk
lore societies to preserve this sort of
thing:
A rooster crowing at the front door
meant visitor coming.
A twig catching a young ladv'a
dress meant a beau.
An itching ear meant that someone
was talking about you.
To turn back after starting meant
dou iuck.
Opening an umbrella in the house
meant bad luck to the house.
n. measuring worm on a woman's
frock meant a new dress.
An itching left hand meant that
you would marry soon.
An itching right hand meant that
you would shake hands with
stranger. '
Seeing the new moon over the left
shoulder meant one would soon get
money.
Probably most of us are supersti
tious about the number 13, . just as
people were a long time ago. Our
own superstitions will amuse a sub
sequent generation, as those recalled
by our reader amuse us. Only a sub
sequent generation- can safely laugh
at superstitions. Socrates was put to
death for laughing' at some of the
superstitions of the Greeks. Let us,
then, laugh at these and take the
superstitions of our own time as seri
ously as you please.
A beaver in a park was expert-
"Cottages at Newport are filled with
summer visitors; there is an abun
dance of seafood and great fishing.'
reports Glen Hlte, manager of the
Hotel Washington, who has returned
from Lincoln county, where his family
were pioneers. "People are lookine
for a boom at Toledo when the timber
In the Si lets is developed. There Is
considerable activity now, not only in
tne umber business but also in harbo
Development. work Is now in pro
gress on the south jetty and the north
Jetty will soon receive attention." Mr
Hite says that the bay and sea are so
smooth that the water is dotted with
Do&ts of amateur fishermen.
There have been five surveys mad
for the road to connect Sandy and
uresnam witn the Mount Hood loop.'
says Harry Hamilton, who haa beai
vacationing at Brightwood and is now
oacK on the job at the Imperial
Every survey, to hear the ranchers
talk, runs straight through the center
of some field. Progress is being made
on the section of the loop from Zig
zag to Government camp, three crews
being worked one coming, one on
the Job and one going." No matter
what route the state highway com
mission selects to connect between
Multnomah county and Zigzag it will
have to go through Brightwood.
Spar-varnish and wood alcohol,
A dash of prussic acid
And sal ammoniac," said Sol
His face benignly placid.
"I know what these drinks here con
tain They keep you In condition
I drink -em right along in Maine
tor Maine's HAD prohibition.
Worse and Worse.
Things are gettlnsr sn brt nnn-ri.-.
guess that's right. We would like (that there is talk of rationing oui'ja
Suaplcloua.
We don't know what's become of
the whiskers Kansas farmers used to
wear, but the print paper shortage ia
maRing some people very ruthless.
Just Let 'Km Try It.
The Italians have decider in cal
the money belonging to the profiteers.
""" reminas us that the mice once
decided to bell the cal.
(Copyright, 1J0. by the Bell Svndleata.
inc. i
Drakes ends in fatality. Another
fact is that not everybody can drive
ana meet the tests of emergency.
While there are hills and vales and
bluffs there will be accidents.
Ponzf, the juggler of finance, ad
mits Columbus and Marconi rank
him, but says he is next. A man
who can make dollars from nickels
need not sit far back of a real estater
or lightning catcher.
Little things neglected cause dis
aster. The going dead of an enirina
when climbing and forgetting the ! mentally placed at work on a tree 12
feet long and two feet six inches
thick, just as the town clock sounded
the hour of noon. The beaver began
by barking the tree a foot above the
ground. That done, he attacked the
wood. He worked hard, alternating
his labor with dips in his bathing
pond. He bathed and labored alter
nately; then he ate his supper of
bread and carrots, which the keeper
brought him, and paddled about in
his pond until half past . 5 o'clock.
Ten minutes later, when only one Inch
of the tree's diameter remained in
tact, he bore upon his work and the
tree fell. Before it fell the beaver
ran as men run when they have fTred
a blast. Then as the tree lay on the
ground he portioned it out mentally
and began to gnaw. He worked at
intervals all night; cut the log into
three parts, rolled two of the portions
Into the water and reserved the other
third for his permanent shelter. The
work done, he took a bath. Christian
Science Monthly.
America would have less difficulty
in believing Japan's promises that Its
occupation of Saghalln is to be only
temporary, If it were not for tlje fact
that the same promises were made
about Shantung.
The world is not merely movine-.
it's galloping. The shoe workers in
Haverhill want increase of 818 a
week, which figure eighteen many
years ago was fair pay for the week.
The park superintendent shows
hesitation in moving to eradicate the
earwig pest. Perhaps a good earwig-
ging irom nis superiors would help
him make up his mind.
Convicts at a penitentiary baseball
game killed the umpire, also a con
vict. Well, he must have been past
reforming or he wouldn't have been
an umpire.
The Cedars was established for a
purpose. Occassionally a "bad egg"
gets in. Nevertheless, the inmates
are human and must be treated as
such.
The business of robbing the countv
bank is picking up. The gang at llo-
line, ill., got away with 820,000.
Perhaps the only way the milk
wrangle can be settled is by cham
pions with four-ounce gloves.
In Kansas, where liars flourish In
hot weather, six-inch hailstones Jiave
ruined crops and auto tops.
J. P. Morgan plans a thirty-three-story
office building in New York for
high financing.
Another has rolled off Terwilliger
boulevard, yet hundreds negotiate it
in safety.
Georgia shows little census gain in
the decade. Too many colored exo-dusters.
has an eloquence cf its own. It Is a 1 Unhappy Poland, as ever, and not
whipsaw which the Chambers party a sign of relief. The allies are too
brought along, and with which, la busy.
England today has no law school in
existence. Harvard's Law school la
not only the oldest existing law
school in the United States, but it is
the oldest existing academic law
school in the English-speaking world.
They have a professor of law at Cam
bridge and a professor of law at
Oxford, in England, but they do not
teach law in the manner of a profes
sional school. They simply lecture
upon law, or endeavor to give a
scientific preparation for the profes
sion of law, but do not give a scien
tific, professional training.
Admiral Browning of the British
navy Is a wit as well as a disciplin
arian. A story is told of his quick
repartee when he was captain of a
battleship. A ready-tongued member
of the crew was brought before him
charged with having broken his leave
outrageously. The evidence being
heard, the captain asked the culprit,
"Have you anything to say in your
defense?" "Nothing, sir," came the
reply, "except, to err is human, to
forgive divine Shakespeare." "Nine
ty days' detention without the option
of a fine Browning," was the apt but
stern rejoinder.
The fashionable physician walked
in. in his breezy way. and nodded
smilingly at his patient.
"Well, here I am, Mrs. Adams." he
announced. "What do you think is
the matter with you this morning?"
"Doctor. I hardly know," murmured
the fashionable patient, languidly.
l"What is new V Life.
P. J. Neff and J. W. Mitchell of
Medford. were in Portland yesterday
to talk fishing matters with state
Game Warden Berghduff. They wanted
to discuss tne proper methods of
screening irrigation ditches to save
game rish. According to the visitors,
the Rogue river valley is full of fish
an.-i motoring tourists. Sam Crouch, of
nuseourg, was also in the city yester
day and was rooting for the Umpqua
river, declaring that everyone got a
big catch Sunday.
"The last time I went fishinz- down
ClatsKanie way I fished because I
wanted something to eat. That was
over 30 years ago. Now I'm imlnir
back to the same old stream to fish
for fun." said Simon Benson, chair
man or the state highway commls
ion, as he left yesterday for his old
stamping grounds. It was in the
vicinity of Clatskanie that Mr. Ben
son began building his fortune. He
intends looking around for a couple
of days to see how the country has
cnagea.
"Bathing girls are likely to cause
a serious accident In our mill." said
deorge Jacobs of Twin Rocks yes
terday. in the saw room on the
second floor the boys can look out
at the beach, a few yards away, and
see tne surf and the bathine- rirls.
I've told the boys they'd better be
careful, for they can't keep their
eyes on the bathers and saw wood
without running the risk of sawing
orr a few fingers or maybe a hand.
Guess I'll have to place curtains on
the windows or frost the glass as a
means of safety first."
Leaving the beautiful weather of
Manhattan beach for the heat of the
Portland pavements. V. D. Walker
Is at the Imperial. Manhattan beach
is the first beach station on the
Tillamook railroad. Just now ther
are plenty of blackberries In the foot
hills a few hundred yards back from
the station, which the summer vis
itors are picking and doing their
best to can without much sugar.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Berdam of Great
Falls, Mont., were among the tour
ists present when the last batch of
"hot stuff" was spread and rolled,
completing the hard-surface pave
ment between Hood River and Port
land Monday afternoon. Mr. Berdam
Is connected with the United States
bureau of animal Industry and with
Mrs. Berdam has been motoring to
Portland from Montana. They are
registered at the Hotel Washington.
William von der Hellen. who has
the contract for grading 22 miles of
the Crater lake highway, wae in the
city yesterday submitting a bid to
the government for rock surfacing
seven miles of the stretch. Mr. von
der Hellen says that he will have
the grading finished by October 1.
to have for a 16-hour day for several
people something like what other
laborers get for an 8-hour day for
one person. "Selfish"? That's the
time they hit the nail on the head.
They say also that two factors
enter into the cost of milk in the
home. First, co&t of production, sec-!
ond. cost of distribution. The dairy-
man didn't know that cost of pro
duction had anything to do with it.
That must have been forgotten when
hl check was made.
They also make much fuss ahnnt the
league employing an attorney. Well,
1 i just like to know of anv transac
tion of importance from the cradle to
the grave in which the formalities of
law can be Ignored. Many infringe
ments of law are not criminal in them
selves. Getting married, going hunt
ing or fishing and driving an auto
mobile are not wicked acts., hu? lust
do any of these without getting a
license ana see where you land.
And still this slush keens pominar.
itsitraaya mall brought some more.
Apparently there is considerable
money behind this camnaiirn.
The dairyman is wonderina- who !a
supplying 117 MRS, W. E. RICE.
TWO OLD SAYINGS RECALLED
Do "People like to Be nsmhnntriir
- n iou Always Fool Tkrmf
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Auir. 2. ITn
the Editor.) In conducting their 1920
campaign the democrats are evidently
banking on the truth of that saying
of P. T. Barnum. "the American
people like to be humbugged.'
In 1916 the humbug was "he kept
us out of war," when at that time
president Wilson and his close ad
visors, if members of the president's
cabii.et may be so designated, knew
that we would inevitably be drawn
into the conflict. The humbUK in
1920 is three-headed, "peace, prog
ress and prosperity."
Certainly we will have peace. We
have had actual peace since Novem
ber, 191S. and that actual peace will
continue, although a state of war
still exists because of the autocratic
obstinacy of President Wilsnn an
that state of war will continue in
definitely if Mr. Cox is elected and
carries out his promise to continue
tne Wilson policy of no reservations
for the league of nations, as it will be
impossiDie to obtain a two-thirri ma
jority of the senate for unreserved
ratmcation.
In the matter of progress anrl nm.
perity. future democratis. .performances
may do juagea oy past actions of
that party. Progress has been made
in the dlrcetion of wastins- hlninnc
of dollars of public funds nrt nf
clogging the wheels of government
with thousands of unnecessary clerks
and office holders, all deserving
democrats. The great majority of
important chairmanships in both
branches of congress was held hv
southern members, and the south is
tne least progressive section of the
union.
Those who can remember the two
administrations of Grover Cleveland
or even the period between March
4. 1913. and the fall of 1914. when
the war stopped Importation of for
eign goods and started American
plants on the production of war goods
for Europe, will not be fooled by the
democratis promise of prosperity.
That oft-quoted saying of Abraham
Lincoln, "you can fool all the people
ume oi tne time and some of the
peopie an of the time, but you can't
fool all of the people all of the time."
may apply to the present situation.
Mr. Wilson fooled all of the people in
- - - " " oumo ui ine people (a ma
jority, in un. it now remains to
oe seen wnetner or not Mr. Cox can
loot a majority in 1920.
FRANK W. STONE.
In Other Days,
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of Aucust 4. 1S.
San Francisco. Lumbermen nt th
Pacific coast, met here yesterday to
formulate a plan whereby the pine
lumber mills and manufacturers of
the coast may combine to raise prices
and shut out foreign competition, es
pecially from British Columbia.
Philadelphia. In a horseshoe-making
contest in this city last night
Pugilist Bob Fitzsimmons broke the
record by forging 30 horseshoes in
27 minutes.
Dr. J. Hunter Wells, who recently
left this city as medical missionary to
Corca. is physician-in-chief to the
Royal hospital in Seoul, Corea.
William Wadhams has sold out his
interest and severed his connection
witn tne Incorporated firm of Wad
lams & Co.. and is now a member of
the firm of Wadhams & Kerr Bros.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oresonian of Ausuat 4. 1S70.
Paris. An official dispatch from
Metz announces that after three hours
fighting the French took the heights
wl.ich overlook Saarbrucken. The
first installment of French troops
frcm Rome has arrived at Marseilles.
Vienna Austria is mobilizing 60 -000
men to watch Bohemia. '
Salem is to have a city calaboose,
the council having accepted a bid to
build one for $297.
The Kentucky, from San Francisco
for this port has been out 32 days.
The Tordeusklold and Lovied, loaded
with railroad Iron for the Oregon &
California road are out, the first
nearly 190 days and the latter 147
days.
Portland and Oregon compare very
favorably with Tallahassee and Flor
Ida. according to Miss Mary Harden
and Miss Alice Haughter. who are at
the Hotel Washington. On the other
hand. 'the Rose City Is almost as in
teresting to Miss Wllletta Evans as
her home town of Etenton, N. C.
O. K. Olson is at the Imperial from
Redmond to see about having hie foot
fixed. Last week his foot went back
on him without cause and so he se
cured a crutch and came to Portland
Mr. and Mrs. J. r Alpeles regis
tered at the Hotel Portland from
Los Angeles. They came by motor
and what they wanted above any
thing else was a room with bath.
Donald McKay, a stockman from
Gateway, Or., ie among the arrivals
at the Perkins.
PARTY THAT CATCHES RADICALS
It's the One Tfcat Gives Free Round
Trip Excursion to Kills Island.
PORTLAND. Aug. 3. (Ti. the l,li.
ottm me jrortiana Journal on
juiy :
There Is a nnlitirnl imi ih., .k- t
al will give out. The attempt to raise i
jiuuauaooo auout Gnvprnn, r-n u-
prohibttion question is effort to divert ths
attention in dry Orcrnn from tk. ,..
ament of Candidate Harding. . . . He
is uacaea oy tne solid pro-German vote on
a no-league platform. . . . His leagut
plank la a made-ln-Germany nlank.
German planks for Hardinir's luni-n.
platform! Ye gods!
W ho is It that believes the pro-Ger
man vote is solidly back of Hardinr s
league pfank? What rational man or
woman can see the occasion, even, for
such a childish and insane statement?
tne pro-uermanB. the bolsheviki.
the seditionists and the I. W. w.
are not going to support Harding.
Far from them be it to do so. They
belong to no part of Mr. Harding's
true American principles. They be
long and vote with the party that
furnishes them free excursions to
EUis island and returns them safe
home again.
The Journal begins another cam
paign in its accustomed manner. It
seems always to be hard up for truth.
The shallowness of its political man
ners reflects the genuine character of
its worth"-as a medium of enlighten
ment to intelligent men and women
who seek for political truths.
Political secrets: ."Made in Ger
many." What rot!
There is a suspicion of desperation
in its remarks. 'Goaded and stung
to despair by the rank failure of
Wilsonism, in which it took so prom
inent a part, it becomes frantic at
the plight its own disrupted party is
in. But it is idle for the Journal to
vituperate Harding. Perfectly idle'!
There is no one who forgets the
energetic political propaganda the
Journal and Wilson party put into
force to catch the pro-German vote
in 1916. No one has forgotten that
dissembling cry1, "He kept us out of
war." But that cry Is dead. Wilson
Ism is dead and the Journal is nearly
so, politically.
Where, where Is the self-respecting
democrat (and there are many) who
will go around with such a lie in his
TOO MUCH MO.XEY !' CAMPAIGNS
People Should be Left to Decide
Presidency for Themselves.
EUGENE, Or., Aug. 1. (To the Ed
itor.) In an editorial article en
titled "Publicity for Campaign Funds"
The Oregonian it is stated.
among other things. "The public
demands that the contest be waged
iu such a way that large sums of
money must be spent" and further
on it says: "The people expect the
candidates and many others on their
behalf to travel all over the country
and to speak on the questions at
issue. They expect pamphlets and all
manner of printed matter to be liber
ally circulated. They expect men to
be busy getting out the vote."
This Is in part correct and in part
incorrect, if you will pardon my
criticism. I believe that the ma
jority of the thinking men who are
interested in politics without at the
same time being politicians are con
vinced that there is entirely - too
much of the tactics above described.
If it is safe to assume that a man's
record of efficient and loyal service
to the nation is a sufficient reason
for considering him as a presidential
candidate, then that record itself
should be his principal claim to con
sideration of the voters. Of course,
it Is reasonable that he should make
his attitude clear as regards issues
which are to be dealt with upon his
taking the oath of office, but making
himself clear on such matters does
not call for the expenditure of mil
lions of dollars or the hiring of hun
dreds of "silvery tongued orators.
The method in vogue in this coun-
try more closely resembles a tremen
dous selling campaign conducted
along gigantic lines and without
regard to cost, providing the results
materialize, than a dignified expres
sion of choice on the part of free
citizens as to whom they wish to
make their chief executive. In the
opinion of the writer a return to
saner and more dignified election
methods would reflect great credit
on any who might care to sponsor
such a move. L. W. JACOBS.
STATE'S EARLY MASONIC LODGES
Correction Made of Statement as to
Senator Stelwer's Part Therein.
OAKLAND, Cal., July 28. (To the
Editor.) I have Just read, with sad
Interest, the notice of the death of
ex-Senator Winlock Steiwer, with a
brief account of his public services,
in which it is said he "was instru
mental in establishing the first Ma
sonic lodge in eastern Oregon." That
statement is erroneous. The first
Masonic lodge in eastern Oregon was
established at The Dalles when Sen
ator Steiwer was a child, and the
writer of this correction was himself
initiated into the Masonic order in a
lodge at Canyon City in 1865. when
Senator Steiwer was . only 13 years
old and still living at the home of
his childhood In Marlon county. There
were still other Masonic lodges in
eastern Oregon before Mr. Steiwer
could have been received In a lodge
of Maaons that is, before he at
tained the age of majority.
I hope it is unnecessary for me, a
friend of the senator from the dnys
of his youth, to say that I am not
prompted to call attention to this
error by any wish or willingness to
remove one stone, however small,
from the cairn his deeds have erected
to his memory, but solely by the
mouth as "Harding's league plank is! thought that it is important to keep
a made-in-Cermany plank"? the facts of history straight as we
GEOKGE ATWOOD. I go on.
W. LAllt HILL.