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0 THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, AUGUST 5, 1920 KSTABI.ISIIED BY HEXBI L- 1'ITTOCK. faUlinrd by The Oregonian Publishing Co., 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C A. MORDEN. E. B- "run, Manager. Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Aaaociated rre" M eacluslvely entitled to the use lor publica tion of all neil dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. A" rights of republication of special dupakcnes herein are also reserved. Subscription Bate I.yariablj In Adrance. (Br Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year .....$8.00 XJally, Sunday Included, six months ... 4--o Daily, Sunday included, three months. 2. -.5 Jjaily, Sunday Included, one month .... 'J laiiy, without Sunday, one year ..... 6.00 iJaiiy. without Sunday, six months .... o-rj lJully. without Sunday, one month. .... 1Vekly, one year 1-00 Sunday, one year o.uu (By Carrier.) 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It Is true that they rifle a bird's nest occasionally, but a gopher, rat or mouse are the staples of their diet, while the garter snake is an insatiate gourmand when he finds a field re plete with grasshoppers. Far from being pests themselves, they are en listed in nature's campaign of sup pression against the pests. "Snakes are extremely useful in controlling the number of rodents," says David E. Lantz, assistant biolo gist in the. Department of Agricul ture. "That very few snakes are venomous is too often forgotten and all species are wantonly destroyed. People throughout the country should acquaint themselves with the habits of snakes and learn the folly of killing them." HIS DILEMMA. The democrats of Oklahoma re pudiate Senator Gore, who is anti- Wilson, and the democrats of Mis souri, by nominating a Wilson demo crat for senator, in effect repudiate Senator Reed. Evidently the hold of President Wilson on the democratic party is not broken, though greatly diminished. The nomination of Gov ernor Cox was in itself a delivery of the party to other hands; but the de liverance will not be complete until Cox is elected. He cannot be elected without the effective support of President Wilson. The Missouri and Oklahoma re sults will be gratifying to the White House. But they may or may not be so pleasing to Columbus. What can didate Cox will see in Missouri and Oklahoma Is that the democracy of those two great Western states takes the league of nations seriously. What be will also see is that prohibition has a firm bold on the party in Mis souri and 'doubtless in Oklahoma.- The dilemma of Governor Cox as to the league and as to prohibition will be increased by the verdict of Missouri and Oklahoma. He will know where the democracy there stands. But he knows also where stands the democratic party in New York, New Jersey, and the other eastern states. It is indifferent about the league and hostile to prohibition. It is at the same time, so far as its sentiment is reflected through the party management the bosses and the organization hostile to Wilson. The bossed democracy of New Tork, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Indiana, Pennsylvania, and other states, procured the nomination of Mr. Cox, The bossed democracy of Virginia , Texas, Georgia, Missouri, . Tennessee and many other states all bossed from the White House was not for Cox, and is for him now, only as he is acceptable to Mr. Wil son. The White House is suspicious of Mr. Cox. So are all its satellites everywhere. He must convince the president that he will as a candidate favor, and as president promote the Wilson policies. But in pleasing the president he takes the risk not only of displeasing Tammany and its al lies, but of offending the country besides. Mr. Cox has said that he and the president are in accord on the league of nations. But it is not enough. He must say it again in his letter of ac ceptance. It will not then be enough. He must say it again and again in the campaign, and must make it his treat issue. Otherwise the sensitive and uneasy mind in the White House will not track along with his mind. Next Saturday will be a critical day for Candidate Cox. He will then officially define himself to the coun try as a candidate. The democracy will learn then in what direction he purposes to travel. The White House will know. Tammany will also know. Ana .Bryan too. ENDING AN OLD FEUD, Since the dread fiat of banishment fell on Adam and his consort in their wondrous garden it has been the habit of mankind to hate the ser. pent. Whether this feud arose from the original temptation and its pun ishment, or from the fear of poi- euneu langs, must be left to theolo gians for settlement. At any rate it is written that the voice spoke to the serpent, saying: "And I will put enmity oetween tnee and the woman, and between thy seed and her sped' It shall bruise thy head, and thou Shalt bruise his heel." Even so has It been. Nowadays there are champions of the snake who, setting aside the scriptural contretemps of ever so long ago, make bold to say a word or so for him and to maintain that the traditional enemy of man has, with the exception of the venomous species, been his constant friend and servant since the first plowshare turned up a virgin sod. These well wishers of the snake are observant agriculturists, men of practical science, who have noted the inces sant warfare of many harmless va. rietics against thievish rodents. Through a more intelligent under standing of the role the snake occu pies in economic affairs much of his former disrepute has been dissipated. mere are certain rich agricultural sections of Oregon where the kill ing of one particular species, locally known as the king snake, is fully'as unpopular as raiding a hen roost. The king snake is not loved for his beauty, though his markings are so brilliant that he gleams like a living necklace in the young grain, but for his gastronomic fondness for the gray ground squirrel, or digger, the most harmful rodent of the west. Ranchers count the king snake among their assets, and defend him from all possible harm, declaring that an adult of the species with a fully developed appetite is easily worth 110 to the place" a most conservative estimate. To bruise the head of one of these, in fulfillment of the prophecy in Genesis, and to boast of the achievement, never fails to bring upon the stranger a torrent of reproach. Only the stranger slays them, for the residents number the king snakes among their friends. There are others as beneficial, as willing to carry on the work of as sistant to the farmer, and possess ing neither the dental equipment nor the desire to bruise anybody's heel. The pine snake and the common gar ter snake are anamg the number. DID IT DETER . LYNCHING f The Oregonian is not surprised to find that the atrocious Pendleton murder has given opportunity for comment of this kind from Hie Prineville Journal, a paper opposed to capital punishment. Four or five grown men at Pendleton last Sunday seemingly conspired and actually did commit coldblooded murder. What about the effect of the capital pun ishment law? In this instance did it act as a deterrent? Will It do so to others? Undoubtedly the existence of cap ital punishment in Oregon did not prevent the assassination of Sheriff Taylor. But we have an idea that it bad its influence in preventing the lynching of the murderers of the la mented sheriff. What does the Journal think about it? but were the personal Integrity of the silent Britisher to be attacked one fancies, you know, that he would find speech, even as others have found it. To be shy and maiden-modest in the presence of possible publicity Is quite as foolish, when publicity Is re quired, as to seek renown in the press. Interviewers are agreed that there Is quite as much distaste in the process of meeting a avid publicity ferret as there is joy In talking with big men who are willing, without condescension, to spare some mo ments from the day's demands. In fact, the interviewers would vote, If a tally of sentiment were to be called. that the manner in which an inter view is met and given is a true test of worth. They would cast this ballot with unanimous enthusiasm and mixed recollection. PORTLAND'S CROWING COMMERCE. Totals of Portland exports and im ports for July are eloquent evidence of the rapid growth of the port's commerce, and they justify all the expenditure in clearing the way for vessels to come here and in con structing docks and warehouses. They prove that ships and cargoes can be had by going after them, and that when ship-owners, importers and exporters learn of the traffic and facilities that Portland offers, they are quick to take advantage. Exports for the month exceeded $8,000,000 in value, an amount greater than that for a whole year not long ago. Fourteen steamships and three sailing vessels leaving for Europe, the orient, Egypt, Australia and South Africa and thirty-four vessels for coastwise ports compose a great merchant fleet in itself, and almost all are American vessels. This swelling volume of commerce is the fruit of persistent work ex tending back through a long period of years, of -large expenditures of public money made in abiding faith that, when the way was open by re moval of obstacles and when the port was properly equipped, com merce would flow through Portland1 in response to the unanswerable logic of its geographical position. This re sult has been promoted materially by the action of the Port of Portland commission in establishing a traffic department and in locating an agent In the orient. That which has been accomplished should lead the people to go on as they have begun by mak ing more improvements in channel and harbor, by building more docks and by establishing more shipping lines. The success so far gained has led the rivals of the port to redouble their efforts to prevent it from se curing ships for more lines on direct routes to other countries, from hav ing representation on the shipping board in common with other ports not favored by the shipping mo nopoly. That fact, coupled with the substantial results shown," is good cause for the people to stand behind the Chamber of Commerce in the struggle to overcome discrimination. CLOUDING THIS ISSUE. The news account of the "milk hearing," held at the Instance of the Oregon Taxpayers' league contains the significant statement that "con structive suggestions for the most part were lacking." It is plain that hearings of the sort at which charges and countercharges, recriminations and partisan arguments take the place of statements of fact such as consumers want to hear, and in which alone they are interested, will always be unproductive of results: One might read a transcript of all that was said at the meeting in the green room of the Chamber of Com merce on Tuesday without adding a single fact worth while to his store of knowledge of the Portland milk sit uation. The recommendation of the com mittee, that the mayor appoint a commission to conduct a thorough Investigation, holds out a faint prob- republican platform which he Is credited with having written. In the letter mentioned he showed that ; consistently for fifty years repub. lican presidents had been "urging I upon all the world the settlement of all such (justiciable) questions by arbitration,' had made arbitration treaties, had arbitrated disputes, had finally made obligatory arbitration treaties, and joined in formation of The Hague arbitral court. He pointed out that the league to enforce peace in this country and a similar group in Britain during the war urged a league which should make arbitra tion before the Hague court obliga tory. He then made this criticism of the Wilson covenant: "The scheme practically abandons all effort to promote or maintain anything like a system of Interna tional law, or a system of arbitration or of judicial settlement through which a nation can assert Its legal rights in lieu of war. It is true that article 13 mentions arbitration and makes the parties agree that, when ever a dispute arises "which they recognize to be suitable for submis sion to arbitration," they will submit it to a court "agreed upon by. the parties." That, Zc-ver, is merely an agreement to arbitrate when the parties choose to arbitrate, and It is therefore no agreement at all. It puts the whole subject of arbitration back where It was twenty-five years ago. Instead of perfecting and putting teeth into the system of arbitration provided for by the Hague conven tions, it throws those conventions upon the scrap heap. By covering the ground of arbitration and pre scribing a new test of obligation. It apparently by virtue of the provis ions of article 25 abrogates all the 200 treaties by which the nations of the world have bound themselves with each other to submit to arbitra tion all questions arising under in Stars and Starmakers. By Irfflne Casta Baer. ability, however, of getting some where if the mayor can enlist un- ternational law or upon the lnterpre- oiasea ana expert investigators ior tation of treaties. the important task. Surely there are The Chicago platform proposes to many who are still open-minded to- amend these defects by forming an ward the controversy between rival association of nations, which shall interests, so that the first condition ought not to be hard to meet. Nor. in a state like Oregon, in which the dairy interest has long been growing in importance, should it be impos sible to discover some who are com. bind themselves to settle justiciable questions in the manner that Mr. Root describes and which shall "se cure Instant and general interna tional conference whenever peace shall be threatened." Those are the petent to delve to the very bottom. two pomts on which Mr. Root laid It is admitted that some phases of the problem are highly technical, and this only emphasizes the need for employing investigators who un derstand them. The public, as Mayor Baker sug gested the other day, does not "ex pect to receive products at a price less than the cost of production plus a reasonable profit," but it does ex pect, to be enlightened as to what stress. His 'selection by the league council as a member of the commis sion on the world court indicates that the statement of the great pow- ers highly value his judgment on league problems and are disposed to follow it In revising the covenant. Acceptance by the republican con vention of the league plank which he wrote suggests the probability that he will be chosen to act forthe cost of production plus a reasonable United States in the work of revision prom is. mat is tne thing which when finally adopted, the covenant tne mayor s commission will be wlu probably be a Root, not a Wil w-ciiieu on to ascertain, noining eiseiSOI1 covenant. is xor me present worm considering. Japan is less likely to yield to the THE BASEBALL BANISHMENTS. I American suggestion that it with The banishment of three baseball I draw from eastern Siberia, especially players from the Pacific Coast league, I Saghalien, since Its government has after an inquiry instituted by Presi- become the oDject oi puDiic wratn dent McCarthv. will serve to annrlsn Ion account or tne massacre at. jnico- fans and folk generally of the riirid laievsk. Premier Hara has been de code of honor prevailing in the na tional sport and the summary fash ion in which breaches of that code are punished. The dismissals were for alleged crookedness of the ac cused players', ordered when league officials became convinced that the evidence against the men was con clusive. Keeping the taint of trick. ery and double-dealing out of ath letics is an unremitting charge on the management, which sensibly enough realizes that each contest must be genuine if the confidence of the pub nounced for not sending a strong force to that city before ice made it inaccessible or not withdrawing all Japanese residents. The govern ment is therefore reluctant to expose more Japanese settlements to mas sacre by withdrawing before Siberia is reduced to order, and this policy coincides with the wishes of the mil itarists, who would like to postpone withdrawal indefinitely. " The future of eastern Siberia will have to be decided along with that of other oriental countries in concert with TALKING FOR PUBLICATION. The newspaper interview Is the commonly employed instrument of inquiry whereby the motives of men targeted for public attention are drawn out and considered some willingly, some with all the stub born drama of a dental struggle. Though the subject may seek to dissemble, and the actual objective of the conversation may not be gained by the interviewer, it is suf ficient that he speak, for to be guarded against a topic is frequently to betray one's hidden attitude toward it. There are men of promi nence who profess distaste and bore dom toward the newspaper inter view. These in their own esteem have scaled the alpine heights of greatness and are far removed from the vexations of the climbers below. Yet it is with introspective philoso phy, analytical of the human ego, that the interviewer listens to their loosened speech and ready reply when providence casts a brick or two toward them. England has a millionaire news paper publisher. Viscount Rother mere. whose recent gift to Oxford university for the endowment of a professorship of United States his tory has set the reporters a task that thus far records failure. Why, indeed, should Lord Rothermere so memorialize his eldest son, an officer of the Irish Guards, who was slain in the late war? Here is rro element of malignant mystery, no possible suspicion of motive, but rather a fine though commonplace tribute to love, extraordinary only in the choice of the endowment. Assuming that the British newspaper man fels a cer tain reticence to discuss the dearly intimate nature of his largess, and despite that, it is quite an anomalous position he has taken. Were it cur rently patterned after it would fill the columns of his own publications with stale, unprofitable news. Re porters, and particularly American reporters, obviously have the right and duty to seek the solution of his unusual endowment to Oxford. A score of possibilities leap to the mind, each of intriguing and inter esting aspect. One of the finest episodes of the war may lie locked in the memory that declines to ex plain. Certainly Lord Rothermere is with in the bounds of his own discre tion when he declines to be inter viewed. Quite as clearly his case is not illustrative of the braggart in tolerance of certain public men who refuse, in their conceit, to speak for publication. But as an instance of the difficult interview, and of the mexpiicaDie refusal, the case pre sents a perfect type. From the viewpoint of other publishers and the public, the reticent Lord Rother mere is remiss, is not playing the game, when he ventures an act that piques the curiosity of two nations and preserves the stolid Impassivity of Miss sphinx of Egypt- They say that the subject of these reflections is a talented but taciturn genius, and that he has never been known to talk for publication. Which has been said of other men, wno talked fluently when destiny caught them in her coils. The Oxford en dowment may remain in mystery, in deed. It may be no mystery, at all. lie is to be retained. Perhaps the the principal European powers and most sorry knave of those who oper- Japan. ate just within the law is the dis honest athlete. Mrs. Charlie Chaplin complains The declared motive in the present that the estimable comedian was case Is that of serving a gambling tremely cruel to her in leaving home clique which hankered for the cer- at tinles and not returning for two tainty of a "sure thing" wager. For months. We should think the cruelty systematized vice overlooks no field in this case might be that he re so lertue in popular interest as that turned at all. or tne Dan park. Men will bet. They Those Who Come and Go. SEASIDE AND WAT POINTS, Aug 3. Bertha Grover says that people at the beach are divided into two kinds, "the stuck up and the commons." Ber tha is the 9-year-old protege of Mille Schloth, who comes to Gearhart to teach children to swim just as aoon as the public schools are out in Port land. Miss Schloth teaches swimming In the Portland schools and takes her vacation by teaching more swimmers. Bertha is her prize pupil and every one the length of the Clatsop beach knows her. She does the best all round work, diving, swimming and under water achievements. Her am bition is to be a movie queen and make Annette Kellerman look to her estates. Bertha looks like Nazlmova and acts like Mister Chaplin. She la a product of the Shattcuk school and has a philosophy gained from rub bing elbows with life. Her mother has seven children and Bertha's in troduction of herself three years ago to Miss Schloth is memorable. Bertha rattled: "I'm Bertha Grover, I'm Yid dish, I'm 6 years old and twins and the other half of me died." Her mother has practically turned Bertha over to Miss Schloth, and, like Mary's lamb, everywhere that Mille goes Bertha's sure to go." She scorns to work with children her own age, preferring to compete with grownups in the tank. and it is this spirit of competition that has sent her so far ahead of her competitors. The little band of sisters who run the oulja board are hard at it, on the sands, on porches of the cottages and In little get-together groups by a bon- Ore at night or in front of a fireplace. Psychic research is really being over done. "Have you a little ouija In your home?" they ask each other, and then exchange experiences, with much lowering of voices and pity for the unbelievers. Invariably they preface their remarks with something like My dear, I'm very mental and I don't go in for that sort of thing at all you just couldn't make me believe departed spirit would talk through a piece of wood, and I always laughed at the idea. But the other night 1 had the queerest experience; I just must tell you," and then she uses an hour of perfectly good time telling how she asked ouija if skirts were going to be tight or full this fall and ouija spelled y-e-s right away. Poor old psychic research, like charity, it uncovers a multitude of sins, and my poor weak sex heads the band of sin ners. Omar penned the correct dope many years ago, but it apparently means nothing In the lives of the ouija cult: Strange is It not that of the thousands who Have passed the Inner door of darkness through. Not one returns to tell us of the road Which to discover we must travel too? Verily, Omar slung a prophetic pencil. Portland pays one cent more a gallon for gasoline than any other city on the Pacific coast. But that extra cent goes into the state high way building fund, which puts a dif ferent light on it. will wager huge sums on all sorts of contests, even as Mark Twain nar rated in "The Jumping Frog of Cala veras." The reader will recall that duplicity triumphed in that instance. While it may be accepted as inevit able that the betting impulse of cer tain tVTJftS Of TtlPTI wilt nulflran , a ball rami, trio cnnr i r.c,.t,nc i I No more real whisky for New nrovocativo n immhiino- ,., Yorkers, announces the federal pro I . I WV.1, I. . tner of the vigorous amusements "lul""" " - which claim the attention of th 8aY. we suppose, mat now tne gov- American people. The fan does not eminent proposes to give the moon rely in the least upon a wager for sniners a cnance. his enjoyment of a closelv contested game. Sufficient to him is his keen I The federal prohibition commis- appreciation of the plays, his under- sioner has gone to New York to see standing of the opposed strategy and I whether liquor can be bought as nis almost Boswellian familiarity I easily as reportea. n ne nas tne with the records of the individual I price he will be accommodated. athletes. In baseball there are no white- I Ten thousand New Yorkers turned whiskered old gentry, with southern out for the funeral of a pet canary, accents and breaths, no red-nosed, Presume both the alienists and the diamond-studded individuals of birdseed makers will now Increase horsey savor, to make hypocritical I their prices. declaration that it is "the sport of Kings. These were common enough That old cobbler in New York who about the betting booths of the race I gave his canary a swell funeral is track, not so long ago. They bat tened on the sport they professed to admire. Horseracing descended into merited disrepute until anti-betting laws purged the track. American sport has no use whatever for ath letes and fans who would discredit baseball for the sake of easy money. not so bad. Think of how he could bury a wife! No use starting that story of forty- foot sharks coming out of the Arctic. Bathers at the Oregon beaches will not scare. In Denver, where the sun shines 364 days in the year, the tramway strike is producing pleased pedes trians. It Is no trick at all for the Beavers to beat a nine of the first division; they are on their toes to win, and do Make a mental picture of a Greek chasing a Turk and you will under tand why the Greeks are winning. Thrifty people will do their travel ing during the next three weeks; that is, if thrifty folk indulge that way. An ad writer suggests buying furs in August and the coal man talks the same way. Both are right. A ROOT COVENANT FINALLY. While President Wilson has been vainly trying to force the unchanged covenant through the senate in face of the demand of all the republicans and half of the democrats for reser vations, ex-Senator Root, the fore most authority on international law and the foremost advocate of league before Mr. Wilson came to the front, has taken the leading part in forming the machinery of the league that has been organized. As the American member of the com mission appointed by the league council to devise a plan for a world court of justice, he took an import ant part in preparing the scheme which will most probably be adopted by the council. This is a notable advance toward international justice, for the 'agree ment of this commission removes an obstacle which has blocked the way since the second Hague conference of 1907. That conference endeavored to agree, but jealousy of each nation for its sovereignty caused a dead lock on the manner of selecting judges. The war has drawn nations closer together and has tempered this jealousy, and the commission ac complished in three weeks that which many statesmen failed to do in thirteen years. This achievement of Mr. Root and his associates is noteworthy because I breath. it Is In pursuance of the line of ac tion which, he said in his letter criti cizing the Wilson covenant, should be followed. It is also in line with the policy of International co-oper- I Both sides in the milk fight pro ation laid down In the plank of the test too much. Wonder why Cox doesn't make the race on the slogan, "A full stein of beer for five cents." Why -worry about the beaches when Portland enjoys summer weather like this? Mrs. Chaplin alleges cruelty of a mental nature, much worse than beating her up. Oregon's population will be an nounced today. Do not hold your Every year, along about May, the constables at seashore resorts by constables I mean one constable for each resort) rush Into print through the home paper to say that one-piece bathing suits will not be allowed. Along about May 2 or 4 two of the village hoydens, with secret yearn ings to go in the movies and put the Sennet bathing beauties' noses out of joint at least I suppose they have noses, although I've never paid much attention to their faces anyway a couple of the home-grown bathing beauties will romp out on the sands and be arrested for violating the rules. All over the civilized world we read of the episode and see pictures of the girls wearing the banned suits. Then along about the middle of May the constable says that girls dassent come on the beach in gents' box. Promptly the next day some vaude ville actress resting at the beach for a day or so will promenade in box, get herself arrested and into, print and Into illustrations. All of this I reckon as.a moral example. Then the first of July the constabulary forces pounce on the acutely short skirt and the mandate goes forth that the "gels must leave their short skirts to hum and wear full-length skirts if pos sible with trains on 'em. The next yelp we hear from the moral squad at the seashore is about thin blouses or the stockingless legs, or dancing on the beach. There is always some thing to reform, especially at a beach Heaven may protect us poor working girls, but heaven does it only when we are working. When we are at the beach vacationing it's mostly up to us and the constable. If there is one thing more than sm other that is an abomination to me It Is a colored picture postal card bear ing a flat, highly colored, exagger ated study of some building, or Main street, or bird's eye view of some place I've never seen and hope never to see. My abomination was Intensified yes terday when I got one in the mail from an old couple who are galloping around in Europe. I didn't notice the picture. The words inflicted enough sadness. They were scribbled across one side: "Here we are at a quaint seaside resort out from London. The BEER is simply wonderful. Wish you were here." Met a woman here who Is one of those "See America first" hounds. Sb aw Yellowstone park last summe and tried for an hour to explain geyser to a group around her. She keeps the pamphlets and "lltteratoor the trains people and agents give her and, what is even more astonishing. she looks at them. It's easy enough to be pleasant When life flows by like a song; But th girl worth while Is tha girl who can smile When she gets all marcelled so that her waves rival those of the ocean and then a darned mist drizzles the wave out of her hair. Margaret Casey, who is In M. J. Buckley's office in the O.-W. R. & N. company, has a cottage here and she said she overheard a married pair quarreling so systematically one day on the beach that now she under stands what Is meant by the "moan ing of . the tied." "By the first of the year the new dormitory for young women will be ready for occupancy at the Univer sity of Oregon," says A. C Dixon of Eugene who for about nine years has been a regent of tha university. "The work is progressing and the new structure cannot be finished too soon. It will have about the same capacity as Hendricks Hall, which Ls now overcrowded. Two rest sta tions will also be built." Mr. Dixon, aside from his educational hobby, is with h Rrmth-Kellv Lumber com pany. He explains the presence of so many lumbermen from tne east i oroirnn this vear by saying that they see the finish of the lumber garni where they come from and are anxious to buy standing timber or irnSntr Bawmilla in this state and while a number have been scouting mruum and some big transactions have been reported, others are also figuring on coming to Oregon to operate. -The English are taking a great fancv to Port Orford cedar." said Hewett Davenport of San Francisco p r the Benson. "Japan Has oeen ouy tng until recently, but owing to tne rinnruiil crash due to the silk market. nriiari for the celebrated cedar of Or fir on were cancelled by the Japs. And. by the way, I am toia mat Be cause of the panic the Japanese haVe cancelled orders for 25,000,000 of goods In thia country. The English men like the Port Orford cedar im mensely. The wood is used for many purposes and makes beautiful jewel cases, as well as the more utilitarian baUery boxes. Some Idea cf the value of Port Orford cedar can be gained from a remark I heo-rd at Coos Bay recently. A man there was quoted $90 a thousand feet for peeling cedar cedar which can be thinly shaved for a venler." Mr. Davenport is in the lumber game and makes four trips to Oregon a year from his habitat on California street. Crossing the continent In an auto mobile. Mrs. M. McMurray arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday after noon. Mrs. McMurray WM accom panied on the journey by Miss M. Duncan, A. Duble being the pilot for the party. For ten weeks the party have been on the. road and the journey was made without accident, major or minor. The route selected after arriving at Denver was northward, the New Yorkers coming into Ore- eron over the Old Oregon trail and the Columbia river highway. The only place on the entire trip where there was any difficulty in securing gasoline was a small town east of The Dalles. From Portland Mrs. Mc- Murray's party will drive to Puget Sound and Brftlsh Columbia and then back east by the northern route. Thirty-one tourists arrived over the Columbia highway last evening and registered at the Multnomah for the night. The visitors are making the our from the east Dy automooue, which is a novelty from the tradi tional train tourist parties. They have been through the Yellowstone park and, after leaving Portland, they wUl visit the Canadian Rockies. Members of the party are from a score of dif ferent mid-western cities. At tne Benson there Is a group of tourists under another agency and at the Im perial still another large party. It was with no little satisfaction that C. W. McCullagh of Hood River stood on one foot and then another as he watched the last batch of hot stuff" spread and rolled on tne Co lumbia highway. With the rolling ot this batch the pavement between Hood River, where M. McCullagh is president of the Commercial club, and Portland, -was Iinisnea ana tne con tractors ''pulled the bin." yawned and paid off the rakers. Mr. ana jurs. McCullagh arrived at tne jsenson yesterday. i LAW OF MOSES STILL SOUND Consulting; Dead One of Sims That Canned Downfall of Nation. RIDGEFJELD. Wash.. Aug. 3. (To the Editor.) In your editorial. "The Return to Normal." you say. "better the old faiths that made men strong than queer superstition clung to without reason." True! We of to day cannot live- by the things which were proved lies in the past. Had Sir Oliver Lodge had faith in the truth of the Bible he would not be a spiritualist. Consulting the dead was one of the sins for which the seven nations in the land of Canaan were cast cfttt, and one that Moses warned his people against, that they should not likewise perish. On divine justice. God relating himself to man, Moses is yet for universal mankind the highest authority. His writings stand to teach all generations of our race the laws of causes and effects in moral principles and relationship of life, our blessings or curses, here and now, being conditioned on our obedience or disobedience to them Christ did not abolish the law of divine justice, but revealed divine love to pardon our sins. A revival of ancient heathen dolus Ions will not bless us, though all the most eminent scientists and actors of the world may promulgate them. Isaiah warned his people against false heathen teachers: "When they shall say unto you, seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizaraa that chirp and mutter; should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto tha dead? he asks. He swers: 'To the law and to the testi mony, if they speak not according to this word, surely there is no morning, for them." No hope of life, no morning light of eternal day fo people who follow such teachers. The sun of righteousness arises to shine for those only who heed the testl mony of the one universal law and gospel for all. In a revival ancient heathenism we may look fo the consequences to follow a peopl In their own land. "They shall pass through it hard plagued and hungry, they shall fret themselves and curse by their king and their God and turn their face upwards and they shall look unto the earth, and behold distress, th gloom of any wish, and into thick darkness they shall be driven away. Do we see something of this on earth today 7 The trail of delusions leads to A word to the upstate buyer com ing next week: Bring your wife. spiritual derogation, mental derange ment, hopeless despair and deprave departure. "They that lead thl people cause them to err and the that are led of them are destroyed.' Isaiah lx:10. N. M. HANSEN. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatsgae, W. R. Hoean was quite elated at the Perkins yesterday when he read the census report of his home town. Mr. Hogan is from Sandy and the cen- 9 people officially acknowledge that there are 242 people in the town, although they carefully refrain from entioning how many people were at Sandy ten years ago. Anyway, jar. Hogan and his fellow Sandyites are willing to bet that sanay win in crease more than 100 per cent by the time Uncle Sam counts noses in 1930. When a soldier wants to have a good time he patronizes a shooting gallery; when tne ice man taxes a day off he rides over his route with his substitute, ana wnen a raiiroaa conductor gets a vacation he rides trains. Mr. and Mrs. J. JB. Hanks or Elmlra, N. Y., and Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Gramwell of Davenport. Ia. landed at the Perkins yesterday. Both Mr. Banks and Mr. Oram well are raiiroaa conductors. Jamt Embarrassment, That's AIL Stray Stories. "That young fellow looks furtive, remarked the customer. "Isn't he apt to try to pinch something?" "No," said the experienced Jeweler. "He wants to buy an engagement I ring." To bury himself in the woods for two weeks, fishing and hunting, a. F. Chanev has arrived from Detroit- Mr. Cbaney, formerly with the C. A. Smith Lumber company at coos nay, left orders at the Benson to hold all mail and telegrams until his return, and then he sneaked off for the for ests and streams without announcing his destination. The tourist fever germ has attacked Richard Childs, manager of the Hotel Portland. He withstood the action of the bug as long as he could, but finally surrendered and has gone to Seaside to listen to the sad sea waves and eive the once over to the new hotel there. j Weather warming up in Walla Wal la, Wash., Mrs. Frank W. Tierney. wife of a well-known Implement man of that place, is at the Hotel Wash ington on her way to the coast. Ac companying her are her daughter and Miss Anna M. Fitzgerald. For a general overhauling and go ing into drydock for minor operations, C E. Reynolds is in Portland from Salem, where he is in the seed busi ness. Mr. Reynolds is registered at the Hotel Washington. W. L. Thompson, former member of the state highway commission and now vice-president of the First Na tional bank in Portland, left last night for Pendleton, where he is still president of a bank. Henry J. Schulderman, former state corporation commissioner, landed in town yesterday from Salem and left last night for California, Mr. scnuia erman is now specializing in corpora tion law. Portland's summer climate suits Manley Chaplan exactly, so he refuses to go elsewhere. Mr. Chaplan. who is a business man of Boise, is at the Hotel Washington with Mrs. Chaplan. To talk over matters of interest to the state and to some of his constitu ents, C. L. McNary, United States senator, was In Portland yesterday from Salem. D. J. Griffin, who registered at the Benson yesterday from Chicago, really belongs to the American Medi cal society of Vienna. Veterinarians from all over will talk horse sense at a conference to be held today in the Imperial. C. C. Hamilton and his brother, T. J., are at the Hotel Washington from Trcut Lake, Wash., where there are stockmen. L. C Hammond, who Is a son of A. B. Hammjnd, lumberman. Is at the Benson with his bride. MOTORIST NEEDS CAMP OUTFIT Fallore of Lights on Some Roads Makes All-Mght Stop Wise. NEWBERG. Or.. Aug. 1". (To th Editor.) Should business or pleasure require one to be out after dark on the highways between Portland an Forest Grove or Newberg it is advi able not to depend upon the spotlight If one front light should happen to become useless. The wise and con venlent thing to do will" be to stop and make camp in order to be spare the embarrassment of being stoppe and ordered to report 40 or 50 mile from one's place of business by som parasitic, not to mention bard-boiled. road agent for disobeying the law. Hence the equipment of the suc cessful Washington county motorist should necessarily include the fol lowing items: 1. A permit to carry weapons; 2. A serviceable tent suit-, able for camping out over night should the way become dim; 3. Other camping paraphernalia. The latter articles may be purchased at any reli able Bporting goods store. Of course, the wise reader will not be misled by the altruistic caption of this bumble appeal. For let it be here proclaimed if not heretofore guessed that the writer was actually caught in the act of proceeding along said highway Insufficiently lighted, on a brilliant moonlight nisht,, a night manifestly more suited to kind words than to harsh action. Furthermore be was fined in the customary man ner at the justice court, situate, lying and being on the main street of Hlllsboro. before which court he was duly summoned through the efforts of a zealous and efficient deputy who skillfully guards the way and who. it Is rumored, receives of this world's goods in proportion to the delays he causes. Truly, they shall not pass. Now if Justice cannot be tempered with merov. let alone reason, we should adhere strictly to the letter of the law. The same reads (General laws of Oretcon. 1919, p. 710): Every motor vehicle shall outplay at least two white lamps on the front and one red light on the rear. The light of the front 'lamps shall be visible at least 200 feet in the direction in which the vehicle is proceeding." It will be seen that no mention Is made as to the position of the lights In front. YAMHILL CO. ROADS SCHOLAR. TO THE NEWEST ROMANOFF In PariS last WAAlc VMM hrn - RnnaartAtr who might have been ths heir to the 2u Oh! little lucky Romanoff. wea wrinkled, blinkinar mite- No cannon thundered to the skies when first vou saw the lie-ht: Lake any other fledgling soul you fluttered to the earth. And only your indignant wail an nounced your royal birth. About your little dingy bed. no noble men gased down Upon the funny fuzzy head that might have worn a crown. That might have worn a golden crown through routrh and bitter years. A crown for which a nation paid with suffering and tears. While you sat on a golden throne In high majestic state The target of your people's jeers the object of their hate. A furtive, cringing, shuddering thing unloved, remote, alone. Who feared the very men who stood on guard about your throne. Oh! lucky little Romanoff today you laugh and coo And try to bite your shell-pink toes. like other babies do. And sleep serenely all night long w'th quiet, baby breath. For there are none about yon now to wish or plan your death. For happiness. In days to come you need but stretch your hand. Nor find that hatred bars the way tnrougnout an ev'.l land. For vanished is the golden crown predestined for your brow: The throne on which you might have reigned is dust and ashea now. And you may walk about the world ana never know the fears That crushed and tortured royalty tor many oarrowinsr years. So coo amid the shadows thero, wee wrinaied blinking thing. And thank the God who banished czars you were not born a king! One Born Erery Minute. What's the use of Insisting that nobody reads party platforms when we know that there are people who even buy phonograph records of po litical speeches? They SeU It for 6 a Qonrt. Canada is prosperous, and she will be still more prosperous as soon as she discovers what Scotch whisky is worth nowadays. Little Room Left. Between Japanese and Iowans the Native Son bids fair to be completely crowded out of California. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate.) ; A Name. By Grace E. Hall. Somewhere, hidden in a crevice Of the conscious, seething brain. There's indenture deep and lasting Made by finger-tips of pain; And the snows of many a winter Of those long-gone yester-years Lie against sweet memory's doorway, Crusted o'er with glistening tears. But love's impress everlasting Burns again beneath the flame When perchance a passing stranger Speaks a half-forgotten name; , And the memory snows are melted By the blaze of swift r.e(rret, When a stranger, all unheeding. Speaks a name you can't forget. In Other Days. . T-wenty-flve Yearn Aco. Prom The Oregonian of August fi, 1S95. Sprsgue, Wash. Fire which de stroyed th-3 business district of this city yesterday caused a loss estimated at J2.000.000. The Northern Pacific lost in locomotives, cars, shops, office and depot and other buildings $500.- . 000. The remainder of the total was buildings and stocks of goods in the business district, which was laid waste. The price of lumber will be ad vanced by all the local mills today an average of 20 to 25 per cent. The new prices will be as follows: No. 1 stepping, S25; No. 1 flooring. SIS; No. 2 flooring, (12; No. 1 rustic and ceiling, ;il; No. 2 rustic and ceiling, $10; common rough, $7; common dressed, $8; lath. 1.50. The office of the state board of horticulture, located in Portland since its organization, will be moved to Salem tomorrow. S. H. Friendly delivered the first load of wheat to the new Eugene flouring mill last Saturday. SMALL FARMER'S LOT IS BARD Poultry and Cows Eat Heads Off and Crop Pests Get Surplus. NORTH PLAINS. Or.. Aug. 1. (To the Editor.) I wisn you would allow me space in your paper to protest against the United States letting any more Japanese Into the country. There are plenty of white Americans wno would increase the food supply If they could get a fair price to enable them to make a living wage. I know whereof I speak. We have a small place and I have tried to raise a few vegetables to sell. I had more than I could take care of and my husband laid off a few days to help me, losing in wages $4.40 per day by laying off. He lost more than we will both earn from the vegetables, counting our seed, plow ing and labor. Talking about raising chickens, we can buy what eggs we want to use and the chickens we eat. cheaper than we can raise them. We pay 4 to 5 cents a pound for feed, besides medicine to fight lice and mites all the time and the work of taking care of them and the months you feed them without getting any returns. As to the price of milk, if a farmer keeps one or two cows for his own use. he makes a fair return on his money invested, but if he keeps more he does not. because he has to buy and teed mill feed and it takes so long to care for them and the con sumer pays three times what the nroducer crets. Still another thing. Logged-off land is too high priced, for it takes a man with lots of money to go on a piece, clear It. put It in crop and wait for It to grow, and build the necessary buildings and there Is no surety of crops, as there are always lots of bugs, diseases ana contrary weather to contend with and the raiser has to take just what the buyer offers. A poor man who has nothing cannot make It and a man with money can lend It out and live oft of the interest without all that hard work. MRS. RISA T. FAIR. Wefaer in Sonar. PORTLAND. Aug. 4. (To the Edl tor.) A controversy seems to have arisen Over the pronunciation of the name of the Idaho town of Welser. Perhaps the following may offer some explanation: Idaho has a town they call Weiser. Twaa named by a Teutonic Oftezer, Though he called his name Welser Like kaiser that's why. sir. The wiser say Weiaer. yon so, sir. Fifty Tesrs Ago. From The Oregonian of August 5. 1670. Paris. A combat is repoi-ted to have taken place on the Baltic in which two Prussian gunboats were captured. The French are advan cing. Cheyenne. The Yale' college scien tific expedition, with Professor Marsh, left here today to make geological surveys of the country between the forks of the Platte river. George H. Williams. United States senator, and General Canby arrived on the steamship California from San Francisco. A reception commutes with about 209 guests on board pro ceeded down the river on tho starrrer Cascade to a point near Rainier to welcome the senator on his reMirn. The Wallamet Baptist association embraces 11 churches with S85 mem ber. The largest congregation is at Salem, which numbers 121 persons. Old Quibble About "Sound," WHITE SALMON. Wash.. Aug. 8. (To the Editor.) If a cannon went off way out in a desert, and no ear was there to hear it, would there be a sound? BARBARA MAINE. The question contains an ancient quibble. The answer depends on what you mean by "a sound." Un doubtedly sound waves would be set In motion. Some physicists contend that there is no sound until the wava has come in contact with a receiving medium. But one definition of "sound" accepted by the dictionaries is: "The physical cause of the sensa tion produced through the organs of hearing; waves of alternate conden sation and rarefaction through an elastic body, whether solid, liquid or gaseous, but especially through the atmosphere." This definition does not require the presence of an ear a create "a sound." Half Brothers Share Equally. PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 4. (To the Editor.) To settle an argument, does the Oregon law give half blood brothers and sisters a share In In testate estates? IGNORAMUS. The provision (section 7353 of the general laws of Oregon) reads: "The degrees of kindred shall be computed according to the civil law: and the kindred of the half-blood shall In herit or receive equally with the whole bloo4 of the same degree.''