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factory. .'It is said the expense en
tailed in providing foundation and
incidental equipment for a tall build
ing: would suffice for the entire cost
of construction of a six-story office
structure.
Another argument for moderation
in altitude is that lower business
building's would broaden the business
area and create a corresponding increase-
in land values, with conse
quent advantage to the school budget
and the public improvement funds.
For land values respond to an in
crease in the resident population,
and not upon the height of the office
structure, and a more expansive busi
ness district would result in the lo
cation of more business enterprises.
The high cost of living is also jolted
by the crashing descent of the sky
scraper, says the architectural in
surgents, for more and lower busi
ness blocks will provide mercantile
competition and hew down the price
list.
The city" of the future, therefore,
if these prophecies are to be relied
upon, will reflect the rpacious dig
nity of ancient Greece will be
somewhat less braggart and upstart
than it now is, and more genuine and
efficient. There are numerous novel
routes to Utopia, but it seems that
the skyscraper- is reared in the very
center of a 'promising boulevardl
thither.
JiO MOKE WILSON PROSPERITY.
Mention of prosperity in the slo
gan which Democratic Chairman
White offered to Governor Cox and
which the governor rejected was
most impolitic, for it reminded the
people of the kind of prosperity that
democratic government b r o u g ht.
President Wilson was no sooner elec
ted than business slowed down and it
continued to shrink all through 1913
and 1914. He tried to reassure us
early in 1914 by telling us that busi
ness depression was the result of a
state of mind. This theory, while in
teresting, started no idle factories.
The prosperity that set in in 1915
was war prosperity manufacture of
munitions to be destroyed and supply
of food to be eaten and of clothing
to be worn by the men who were
working destruction and its inevi
table result must be depression at no
distant time. Mr. Wilson had no part
in bringing it, no more than a" fly has
in moving a wheel, until the kaiser
literally drove him to lead the nation
in war. The prosperity that "we now
have is also the consequence of war.
Wilson prosperity is the kind we had
before the war.
Democratic rule and prosperity do
not travel together, for prosperity
brings business success, which demo
crats treat as a crime. The law re
gards every man as innocent until he
is proved guilty, but democrats re
gard a successful business man as
guilty until he proves his innocence,
and it puts him to no end of trouble
and expense in proving it. In this
manner Wilson democracy produced
. a state of mind unfavorable to busi
ness enterprise and expansion. The
federal trade commission was estab
lished to guide business into lawful
channels, but it has been operated to
harry business men in the effort to
prove them guilty.
This did not hurt business men
only. Most of them. could stand it
better than any one else, at least un
til a change of administration came.
It .hurt much more the men who
worked for them. Until war pros
perity supplanted Wilson prosperity,
we had public relief work, parades
of the unemployed demanding work.
Unless we lay a solid foundation for
the healthy prosperity of peace by
getting rid of democratic rule, we
shall have those conditions again.
One peculiarity of Wilson prosper
ity is that the democrats practiced
as far as they were able their theory
that politicians can do business
better than business men can. Not
content with telling men how to run
their business, they put the govern
ment in business as far as they could.
The war was their opportunity. The
result was months wasted in wran
gling before the shipping board could
decide what kind of ships to build;
a billion dollars spent on airplanes
but no airplanes at the front except
flaming coffins; cantonments built
under cost-plus contracts with waste
and theft of tens of millions, and
with soldiers shivering in unheated
buildings in blizzard weather; months
wasted on considering types of ma
chine guns while men were ready to
make guns like those which were
shooting Germans by the thousand
every day. But that did not discour
age the Wilson democracy. It took
charge of the railroads and ran up
a deficit of a billion and a half dol
lars to be paid out of taxes. It
handed over the wires to Burleson.
He tangled them up and provoked
strikes by refusing to grant higher
ges.
To make bad matters worse, the
Wilson administration yielded to the
threats of a class y passing the
Adamson law. It thus put the gov
ernment of all the people in subjec
tion to a few of the people, and en
couraged warfare of class against
rlass. The result has been the in
dustrial strife which obstructed war
work and which became more in
tense after the war ended. Mr. Wil
on has practiced paternalism ad
vancing toward socialism, but has
been a stern stepfather to one part of
the population, though a very indul
lient parent to another part. Dis
cord has followed, though harmony
is needed to make a nation prosperous.
stoutly denied the petition for a re
duced assessment. There Is a demo
cratic justice in this conclusion that
must have been entirely gratifying to
the California sportsmen who have
hunted "cripples;' beyond the bar
riers. Just how matters might be more
equitably arranged, and duck shoot
ing made available to all, is difficult
to fathom. Perhaps, as the holders
of the preserves say, a more general
attack upon the waterfowl would ef
fectually exterminate or drive the
flocks away in a few seasons. And
they are clearly within their rights
in appropriating to themselves the
shooting privileges that are marketed
by land owners. Arrayed against this
logic is the element of sportsmen,
greatly in the majority, who have an
equal right to the birds if they
could lawfully approach within gun
shot. Eventually the superior rights
of production will take over such of
the land as is reclaimable, more val
uable for agricultural purposes than
for sport, and the bickering will be
at an end. But then, too, the water
fowl will be gone, and the grandsires
will tell wide-eyed youngsters of the
joys of a vanished pastime.
ONE HAY TO DISCOURAGE THEFT.
The theory that the way to prevent
crime is to repeal all laws against it
receives a jolt from the figures com
piled by the National Automobile
Dealers' association, which show that
while there has been an increase of
22.4 per cent in automobile thefts in
single year in the country as a
whole, the single large city in which
decrease is shown is St. Louis, in
which a vigorous law enforcement
campaign was waged during 1919,
and in which sentences running up to
twenty years in prison for hardened
offenders have been imposed.
The report covers nineteen cities,
which 31,349 automobiles were
stolen in 1919, by comparison with
25,613 in 1918. The larger number of
automobiles in use in 1919 does not
account wholly for the increase in
theft, as some observers have con
tended. Opportunities for theft in
all probability were not exhausted in
the year in which the smaller num
ber of machines were in use. The
answer to the increase is more likely
to be found in laxity of law enforce
ment. In light sentences or in sen
tences promptly nullified by paroles.
and in the general tendency to regard
the stealing of an automobile as not
a serious offense.
The showing made in St. Louis, it
will appear, confirms the latter im
pression. Here there was not only a
decrease, but it was a large one
from 2241 to 1240. A number of
other cities in the same period al
most doubled their theft records.
New York, for illustration, jumped
from 3340 to 5527, Chicago from
2611 to 4447, Kansas City from 1144
to 1661. Our own Portland is not
lagging behind. Here 1528 automo
biles were stolen in 1919, as com
pared with only 1088 in 1918. The
policy of soft-pedaling crime is here
seen in perfect flower.
The federal government still has
the reputation of being somewhat
hardboiled in the matter of punish
ment for crime. The United States
courts are not yet ornamented with
emotional frills, as some of the state
courts are. Consequently the auto
mobile experts who have studied the
question count for a good deal from
the operation of the Dyer law, which
makes it a federal offense to trans
port a stolen automobile from one
state to another. The national motor
vehicle law did not go into effect
until November, 1919, but numerous
convictions have been obtained and
the certainty of punishment follow
ing them is already reflected in re
duction of the total number of thefts,
as indicated by Informal statistics.
The results of vigorous prosecu
tions in St. Louis and of certainty of
punishment in the federal courts ap
pear to contain a moral for those
who care to seek it.
KRAN'CE'S FINANCIAL STRENGTH.
France has met the demand of fi
nanciers that European nations must
make their taxes pay expenses of
government by giving a great demon
stration of financial strength for a
country which has been ravaged by
war. It has imposed for 1920 new
taxes amounting to about 80 per cent
of 'old taxes and bringing total re
ceipts to nearly $4,000,000,000, which
balances ordinary expenses. By loans
it is raising about $700,000,000 for
-expenses of its military occupation of
Syria and Turkey, for a subvention
to Alsace-Lorraine and for demobili
zation, or reconstruction of the de
vastated area and for pensions it is
borrowing more than $5,000,000,000,
which it expects to recover from Ger
many. The national debt is about
$44,000,000,000 and the annual inter
est is about $10,000,000,000, or about
40 per cent of the American debt.
This is a tremendous load to be
carried by a nation whose population
has been reduced to about 38,000,000,
the most productive part of whose
territory has been changed from a
source of revenue to a cause of heavy
expense and the per capita income of
which is far less than that of the
American people. To bear the bur
den of victory requires no less forti
tude than to bear that of war, and
the French people have that virtue
in a degree, to command admiration.
When the war has left such a
legacy, small blame attaches to
France for having desired to occupy
the Rhine provinces in order that the
river might serve as a defense
against another invasion, or for in
sisting on total disarmament of Ger
many. There is a limit to what even
such a nation as France' can endure,
and another invasion might cripple
it past recovery.
tive but for the fact that dams do
double service.
It fortunately happens that the
need of waterway development on a
definite plan is realized at the time
that development of waterpower is
about to begin. Every dam built for
navigation develops power, and every
dam built on a navigable river to
develop power Is an aid to. navigation.
Waterpower and navigation are thus
natural partners. The greater the
task of building a dam for naviga
tion, the more power it will develop.
One of the biggest undertakings of
the kind would be elimination of the
rapids at Celilo and The Dalles, but
it would also, create an immense
volume of power. Expenditure
which might be considered prohibi
tive for one of these two purposes
would be justified for the two com
bined. . f
Each power plant will become the
center of great industries which will
also want cheap transportation from
the interior to the sea. Manufac
turers will desire barge lines -carry
ing material to their doors, and they
will invite power companies to join
in establishing them. One obstacle
to establishment of water lines with
modern craft has been that the men
who controlled big blocks of capital
were interested in railroads and
would not assist water lines, which
they regard as competitors of rail
roads. Big capital is available for
waterpower, and will be ready to ex
tend its investment to inland water
lines, since the latter will contribute
to success of their power enterprises.
They will feel safe in making such
investments since the interstate com
merce commission will prevent de
structive competition and will com
pel making of joint rates by rail
roads. A peculiarly favorable field for
joint development- of navigation and
waterpower is the Columbia river.
Though the great cost of the Celilo
and The Dalles plants will delay
their construction until others in
volving less outlay have been con
sirucieo, not many years will pass
Deiore tne Columbia as far as the
mouth of the Okanogan and even
tually up to the boundary will be con
tinuously navigable and will be gen
erating immense power, and the
waterway will be used in carrying
material to mills at power plants and
manufactures thence to Portland
for shipment to the east coast and
abroad. The same process of im
provement will extend up the Snake
and Willamette rivers. Power and
water transportation together will
stimulate development of the re
sources of the entire Columbia basin
and will send an immense volume of
traffic flowing through Portland to
tne sea.
HOW TO SQUASH PROFITEERING
Those Who Come and Go.
Price Fixing:. Honest Labor and Moral
Education Are SusTftreated.
ROGUE RIVER. Or., Aug. 6. (To 1 A sawmill with a yearly capacity of
the E'ditor.) The American people about 60.000,000 feet is planned by
are facing a great national evil which Charles Hall and his associates. The
ANOTHER SORT OF PRESERVES.
Poaching has never been classi-
A GROAN AT PIDXIC OWNERSHIP.
While the several socialist partie3
in the United States, under various
names, demand government owner
ship of public utilities, the results of
private ownership of one utility the
telephone are held up by a special
correspondent of the London Times
as an example of how much better
things are done than under public
ownership, as in Britain, where the
postoffice department runs both tele
graph and telephone systems.
Many travelers have told of the ex
asperating delays and inefficiency
which mark British telephone ser
vice. He comments on the fact that
in America telephones are found
everywhere, but more particularly on
the fact that "the telephone actually
works; you get results." He tells that
while in New York he called up a
friend in Garden City, an hour's
Journey by rail, and continues:
There was no extensive preliminary ne
gotiation, no asking for "trunks," no Riv
ing of double numbers and settling down
for a half-hour or so of waiting. The hotel
operator said "Garden City 800" and within
50 seconds I was talking to my man. I
timed many other suburban calls, distances
ranging from 110 to 30 miles; none of them
was over a minute, and most were between
60 and 40 seconds.
This extraordinarily rapid suburban tele
phone service seems like magic to the
visitors from England.
The Canadian reindeer experiment
is now regarded as a complete suc
cess, as official figures show that the
original herd of 128 0 imported into
the western part of the dominion has
been increased to 200,000, in addition
to about 100,000 that have been
killed meanwhile for food. That the
caribou thrives on forage common to
the arctic circle but which is value
less as food for others, makes this
animal an important potential
factor in the meat supply of the
world. A million square miles of un
used land are said to await the de
velopment of a possible herd of 60.
000,000 animals. Allowance will be
made for the enthusiasm of -converts
to a new cause, but even if the num
ber were some millions less, it would
seem as if the enterprise warranted
tne serious attention that the Cana
aian government is giving it.- The
meat scarcity has long since ceased
to be a local and has become an in
ternational problem.
The city council has a great plan
for combating the earwig pest,
nameiy, to pass an ordinance declar
ng the earwigs a public nuisance
When thfiv hear nhiiir tii hhk
rthe earwigs will be so chagrined that
they will curl up and die.
Delay in appointing a postmaste
at Portland is declared due to the
postoffice department's desire
avoid a mistake." Like accidentally
nammg a republican when so man
deserving democrats are sticking
around.
INRKRVIINlNti TIIE SKYSCRAPER.
All cities have been kindred in
their satisfaction with towering
buildings, the skyscrapers of tho
down-town district. They have been
popularized on postcards, and their
fume is even greater than that of the
tower of Bitbel for that renowned
structure was a flivver because of
linguistic difficulties between the j
foremen and the artisans. But
prophets now arise to inform us that
the lofty and majestic office struc
ture us a mistake a most expensive
one and that the city of the future
will spread nobly oat in an expanse
of six and eight-story buildings.
Sound economy and good sense will
be the determining factors in this re
form, it is said.
No sooner do we awaken to the
. wonder of the Woolworth tower, so
to speak, when along comes the
' Iconoclast and tumbles it down on
Manhattan, fifty-one stories in all,
and from an aggregate height of 750
feet. The claim is made that the
tremendous cost of foundation and
of elevator equipment, as contrasted
with the comparative figures for
lesser structures, renders the invest-
ment a doubtful one. Should the cen
ter of business shift in the growth of
the city, as it has been known to, the
lonely skyscraper represents an al
most total loss, wiine the fix or
eisut-gtory- building is easily couvert-
fied among the honorable avocations,
but it was a sprightly diversion and a
degree of adventurous glamor shone
around it even as in privateering or
smuggling. The question of why the
king should have a royal right to
venison, or the squire an exclusive
domain over rabbit and grouse,
sponsored many a squabble and
cracked crown. To us of the western
world the thought of poaching sum
mons, to the vast delight of fancy,
none other than Robin Hood of Sher
wood and his merry company in Lin
coln green. Truly this was a poacher
pre-eminent, but. one need not fare
to medieval England to observe the
species. The rapid and thorough as
similation, by lease or purchase, of
lakes and swamp land for the per
sonal delight of a decided minority
of sportsmen, has in many districts
resulted in the practical prohibition
of duck and goose shooting on the
part of hunters in general. And
poaching, as a consequence, is not
entirely unknown in a state that has
scarcely emerged from the trail of
the pioneer.
It is presumable that all sportsmen
quicken at the same singular and in
comparable delight, when a flock. of
widgeon comes driving through tho
rain with a sharp whistle of wings,
or a lordly company of Canada geese
loom like epic targets in the swirling
winter fog. -But the thrill of such
wing shooting is reserved for the
few, and an expensive system of pri
vate game-keepers sees, to it that no
unauthorized twelve-gauge violates
the pleasure of those preserves.
Property rights are too well defined
for any quarrel with this situation,
and an altogether human propensity
for seizing and keeping a purchas
able advantage is not to be denied.
But it is also undeniable that the re
sult is to place waterfowl shooting,
to. an overwhelming degree, among
those sports that only more than or
dinary means may afford. The
winged wanderers, splendid vagrants
from the nesting grounds of the
north, are temporarily the wards of
the state and federal government,
subject to any hunter's aim in legal
season and manner. But circum
stance has conspired with opportun
ity to forbid the average sportsman
the day of which he dreams.
Recently in California a waterfowl
hunting club, of prominent and care
fully chosen membership, protested
in its combined power the tax assess
ment levied against its extensive pre
serves of marsh land, asking that the
levy of $50 an acre be reduced to
$10, and asserting that the land was
practically valueless for purposes
other than those of sport. To this
the hard-headed county supervisors
retorted that the acres of the pre
serve were almost identical with sur
rounding agricultural laud, and
That which he remarks upon with
delighted surprise is taken as a mat
ter of course by us. We are used to
it. it seems incredible that one
should have to engage in "extensive
preliminary negotiation" for a tele
phone call, but that is the regular
thing under public ownership, not
only in Britain but i:i France, Italy
and other countries where the gov
ernment runs the phones.
We need not flatter ourselves that
bureaucracy would run the wires or
the railroads better in this country
than in Europe. We had only a
slight taste of its effect while the
government ran the railroads, for
Mr. McAdoo took over the entire of
ficial and working staff which had
been trained and built up under pri
vate operation, and the government
did not hold the roads long enough
to fill these men with the inertia
which bureaucracy imparts. If it
had held the roads, places of men
who died or resigned would grad
ually have been filled with deserting
partisans and the quality of service
would have depreciated to a par with
that which makes a man wait half
an hour for a telephone call. The
characteristics of government own
ership are inefficiency, red tape, high
costs and deficits.
Machine guns will stop the riotin
in Denver and it will likely be found
that no carmen are among the casu
alties. In that respect, bloodlettin
will be beneficial in removing th
rioter who butts in where he has n
right.
The man who pushed his wife out
of a boat near Tongue Point con
fessed after his 4-year-old son told o
the occurrence and will be rive
proper punishment. But what
horrible heritage for the little boy!
Possibly a republican ranks high
est In the list of applicants for th
postmastersnip ana tnat may ac
count for the delay in filling the
place. This administration is mighty
non-partisan in theory.
Governors who are asking Hardin
mill Is to be built in the forest about
20 miles northwest of Lakevlew, Or.,
in timber recently purchased. The mill
will be constructed early next spring
and will start operating as soon as
possible. A railroad will have to be
built for about 16 miles as part of
the undertaking. Mr. Hall, who Is at
the Benson, Is Indignant over the
census returns, not only of Oregon.
In his capacity of president of the
state chamber of commerce, but in
particular over the census report of
Marshfleld. where he lives. The
enumerators give Marshfield 4034
people within the incorparted limits.
Mr. Hall declares this must be wrong.
There are 1054 telephone subscribers
in the same territory and a ratio of
one phone to every three people In
a city is unheard of. Mr. Hall thinks
there should be a recount.
Rather than continue to Portland!
by steamer, Mr. and Mrs. McCorraick
and Mrs. 6. W. Hargett of San Fran
cisco, went ashore at Eureka, Cal.,
and staged It to the nearest railroad.
They were recommended to take a
coastwise vessel from the Golden
Gate to Portland, but the boat was
so unstable and the accommodations
so Inferior, that when the steamer
put In to Eureka the grown ups were
thankful to get ashore with the baby.
They staged across the mountains
from Eureka to Grants Pass, via
Crescent City, and took the train at
Grants Pass -for Portland. Staging
was a hard trip for the infant, but
Mrs. Hargett considered it better than
remaining on shipboard. The visitors
are registered at the Hotel Portland.
"The largest tuberculosis free area
in the United States will be Tillamook
county," declares Dr. W. H. Lytle,
state veterinarian. "There are 13.000
head of dairy cows there and they are
being tested. When the work has
been completed It will be maintained
as a tuberculosis free area and even
the cheese of Tillamook will have
that guarantee stamped upon It. There
Is such an area In Clatsop county
and one over in the state of Vash
Ington, but these are small compared
if not dealt with promptly can only
end in a cataclysmic crisis, which will
shake the very foundations of society.
The food gambler and profiteer can
only be dealt with by drastic legis
lative action. They are greater ene
mies to the commonwealth than any
foreign foe could be, and the country
which could mobilize many millions
of men to deal with the latter can
surely evolve a method to check their
depredations.
Producer and consumer must be
brought more closely In touch and the
unnecessary shoals of middlemen who
prey upon both must bo eliminated.
Exhaustive data should be collected
by which It will be possible to fix
hat is a generous profit for pro-
ucer, wholesaler and retailer to
ake and lay down heavy penalties
those who make more. Producers
hould be allowed to sell to whole
salers, retailers or the public; whole
salers to retailers or the public, and
retailers to the public only. By pre
venting sales between wholesalers, or
etween retailers, the present scandal
consignments being sold several
times over In many cases to people
who never handle them and never
tend to before they reach the counter
ill be checked. The penalties for
Infringement must he made severe.
Next we have labor. Workers should
receive the utmost cent the Industry
they are employed in can pay, but It
is up to them to work honestly. The
man who sells his labor without de
livering -the goods is just as dishon-
st as any other pickpocket. He adds
the cost of production and bleeds
he community equally with the prof
iteer. Legislation cannot deal with
this disturbing factor, but the hard
times to which under-production is
ure to lead will show those who ex
pect high wages, short hours and no
weat their folly.
Finally I come to what is the only
real permanent solution. Our educa
tional system Is frankly materialistic.
Everything Is done to turn out a gen
eration of efficient dollar hunters and
othlng to turn out good citizens with
an appreciation of their duty to their to the slze of .Tillamook county and
HOOD LOOP NOT FARM HIGHWAY
Mr. Crissey Appeals for Scenic Charm
of Ball Ran Ronte.
BORING, Or., Aug. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) When I read recently that the
state highway commission had said
that the location of the Mount Hood
loop between Gresham and Zigzag
would be determined solely by the
cheapest route and the number of
farmers to be served, I could not be
lieve that It had been correctly quoted
In the matter.
The very name of the road Implies
scenic beauty as its reason for ex
istence. Linked with the Columbia
highway It can be made America's
most famous pleasure drive, but to
achieve this end no natural charm
can be consistently overlooked.
In no sense should the road be con
sidered a farm highway. In this case
the people to be 'served" are the
tourists who will flock here from
every part of the United States and
even from abroad. To subject these
travelled and discriminating people to
tne teaium or a drive through a farm
ing community when the gorge of the
Sandy river, beautiful Dodge park and
unmatcneel panoramas dominated by
majestic Mount Hood, might as easily
be had may surely be regarded as a
questionable economy.
This is an appeal for the location
of the loop via the Bull Run road.
Its superior charm is undisputed by
thousands of Portlanders familiar
with the various routes proposed, and
It is earnestly hoped may influence
the commission's decision.
W. L. CRISSET.
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague
fellow man. Morality should be a
part of the daily Instruction. Rub It
nto youngsters that a lie is contempt
ible, that only cowards lie because
they fear to tell the truth and they
will soon loathe a lie. Teach them
what constitutes dishonesty, never to
do an action they would be ashamed
let their mother or the person
whose good opinion they valued most.
know they have done. Teach them
o be-polite, considerate of the feel-
ngs and the property of others; never
to try to benefit sthemselves at the
expense of others. To do a good turn
whenever they can; to keep their
word under all circumstances In
short to be ladies and gentlemen.
It will take three generations of
this training before its effects become
nationally manifest, but when It does
ight between labor and capital
will cease, each will be too fairminded
to impose on the other that uncon
scionable social parasite the profiteer
will be as extinct as the dodo, ana
dollar-grabbing will be a lost art
It is-a big contract, but surely there
are sufficient earnest minded men
and-women desirous of serving their
country and humanity to start it. All
the old religions have come from the
east. Let this new one, which will
surely bring the kingdom of God on
earth, Epring up from the west to its
enduring glory.
J. S. KAYLOR, C. E.
PROPOSED SITE: OF NO BENEFIT
Ladd A Strong Tract Not Readily Ac
cessible as Parle for St. Johns.
PORTLAND. Aug. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) Regarding the St. Johns park
the number of cows. Of course, the
herds will have to be watched care
fully every few months." Dr. Lytle,
who has just returned from Tilla
mook, says that the gasoline shortage
was so acute that there was a short
age of fuel for the mechanical milkers
Earthquakes In California may have
spoiled the fishing In Marlon lake
If It wasn't the earthquakes It must
have been something just about as
bad. Anyway, Dr. W. M. Campbell
didn't have much luck. The lake Is
roily, this being the first time that
the water has been so turbid, ac
cording to people familiar with that
body of water. The bottom of the
lake is covered with slit which has
been churned up by some force, and
has been for several weeks, although
usually it is possible to see far into
the water. The few fish which were
tempted to bite looked fat. so the
substance in suspense in the water
doesn't appear to have injured the fish
"We got thousands of fish," declared
C. N. McArthur, congressional repre
sentative for the third district, who
returned to Portland yesterday after
week In the Siletz. "well, maybe
we didn't catch that many, but we
caught a dozen." With Representative
McArthur were Dr. E. A. Mann, S. J.
Cooper and Riley Cooper.
Brighton. Or., where J. R. Simonton
registers from at the Hotel Oregon,
is somewhat cut off tnrougn lacK
of suitable roads. The Tillamook coun
ty commissioners hope that some day
the highway commission will build
a road which will reach Brighton, and
the meanwhile there is a prospect
FIXE SAMPLE FOR YOUNG MEN'
THE CANDIDATE ON THIS SCREEN.
Behold! The candidate has come!
1th calm, unruffled brow
He yanks the lacteal fluid from
The unresisting cow.
Or with a keen and ringing axs
And undulating spine.
With clumsy and unskilful hacks
He fells the towering pine.
Xext picture: With a scowl severe.
In overalls is he.
And. posing as the engineer
He takes out number threo.
Or with a stern expression which
Lights up his kindly eye.
He hustles up and pulls the switch
And lets the train go by.
Again with easy grace he stands
Upon the rustic soil
And warmly shakes the horny hands
Of whiskered sons of toil.
Or. proving that his heart is gold
(A touching picture, this).
He has admiring ladies hold
Their babies up to kiss.
We see him groping through the mines,
A headlight on his cap:
We see him stroll among the pines
That dot our western map.
The fillum shows from shore to shorn
Flashed nightly, everywhere.
All demonstrate his fitness for
Ths presidential chair.
Easy Victory.
The race is not always to the swift.
especially when a presidential candi
date is. being pursued by a moving
picture operator.
Mr.
In-
Grllley Leaves Herltnfe in
aplrarion to Clean Manhood.
PORTLAND, Aug. 5. (To the Ed-
Itor.) In the passing of Albert M
Grilley this community has lost one
of those virile types of manhood that
It can ill afford to lose. Those of us
who had the privilege of association
with him, and fortunately many of
our athletic-inclined young men had,
can testify to his love of clean sport
and fair play. He endeared himself
to this legion of friends because he
had imbued in his makeup Uhe qual
ities embodied in the best type of cit
izen, namely, the spiritual, mental
and physical.
Despite the fact that he had been
fighting a losing battle with disease
for many months, doubtless accentu
ated by his unsparing devotion to his
duties as chief of the welfare activ
ities at Camp Lewis during the war,
he maintained an optimism and hope
fulness up to the last. No finer ex
ample of a life well lived can be left
as a heritage to the young men of
this community than this life f untir
ing service to the cause of clean man
hood and they who knew him and
loved him will forever enshrine in
their hearts the memory of this splen
did Y. M. C. A. worker.
JOHN G. KILPACK.
Awful Thought.
Wouldn't It have been a dreadful
jolt to the G. O. P. and the democrats
if Mr. Harding and Mr. Cox hadn't
accepted?
No Sbortage of Political Timber.
After that "big family' propaganda
of Teddy's, the supply of Roosevelta
will never run so low as to embarrass
either of the great parties.
(Copyright by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)'
In Other Days.
and playground it is now proposed ot a road, somewnat sleep, oeing con-
by the city council to purchase a 65- sirucieu oein vvnceici um dh5-
acre tract in an outlying district with ton-
no means of access. Paved streets
will have to be made for a consider
able distance which, with the high
purchase price and cost of improve
ments and upkeep of a 65-acre tract.
will mean aditdional heavy taxes to
the residents of the St. Johns district
for a park which they do not want
So far as known. F. R. Hedrlck, of
the Stockmen's National bank at
Nampa, Idaho, is the first one to make
reservations for the livestock show lA
November. The Imperial received a
letter from Mr. Hedrick yesterday
making the request for accommoda-
WE SHOULD SING.
Dear hens.
Kind he"hs.
Good old hens, I say
You have saved me many times
Save again I pray.
Last year 'twas a rug or two
Now I need a dress
And it all depends on you,
So please acquiesce.
Dear hens.
Kind hens.
Good old Plymouth Rocks
Lo these many years you've kept
La folks in shoes and socks.
But our shoes are wearing out
Soon we'll need some mure
The larder's nearly empty too.
Save us, we implore.
Dear hens.
Kind hens.
Good old angel birds
Gratitude is in our henrts
Much too deep for words.
Winged saints, we'll serve thee well.
Guard thee from all ill
Lice and rats and skunks and such
Yes, you bet we will.
FLORENCE KING.
Corvallis, Or.
Twenty-Five Y'enrs Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 7, 1S0S. '
St. Paul. James J. Hill announced
todav that the security holders or
the Northern Pacific will reorganize
their property. .
The bridge committee created by
the last legislature, composed of
Solomon Hirsch, J. E. Beach and N.
K. West, yesterday completed its
work and turned over to the county
court the properties acquired. The
property turned over was the Morrison-street
bridge, the Stark-street
ferry and the upper deck of the
Steel bridge.
Governor William P. Lord and
Chief Justice R. S. Bean Friday re
ceived degrees of T.I,. B. from Wtl
hunette university.
Forest fires are .sweeping the east
side of the Olympic mountains. Along
the north side of the straits and
north of Hood canal the damage is
greatest.
and which only a few of the residents tions durin8 th show.
will be able to use.
The Ladd & Strong tract is fully a
mile from the center of the district
and as the street cars run on a loop
ine only residents on the upper end
of Fessenden street, could take the
car without going around-about way
for nearly three miles, transferring at
Wall street. The mothers and fathers
of large families could not afford to
pay street-car fare every time they
wanted to go to the park or play
ground and, it being too far to walk
they would be deprived of the pleas
ure which should be theirs, it would
be just as reasonable to suggest hav
ing a playground for the children of
St. Johns across the river at binnton
It would not be any farther than the
Ladd & Strong tract and would be far
easier of access with a free ferry,
and perhaps some day a bridge
In viewing several tracts of land
last winter for playground sites In
St. Johns district. Commissioner Pier
stated that the bonds were not voted
for parks but for playgrounds. Why
does Mr. Pier now recommend the
purchase of a 65-acre tract for park
purposes and endeavor to throw out
the Caples tract, which was promised
the people for a playground? Every
one knows the Caples tract In this
district. It is the most suitable, beln
to appoint a western man to a cabi- 0 centYally located and within easy
net position are taking his election
for granted. Nobody seems to be
asking Cox anything; not even to
"have something."
Here in placid old Portland, where
nothing happens, one reads of
troubles elsewhere and seeks some
thing cooling. It's . great place to
live in, is Portland.
WATER-POWER AID TO NAVIGATION
Though included in the middle of
a paragraph as one of the measures
for the benefit of agriculture, one o
the most important promises of the
republican platform Is the following
A national Inquiry on the co-ordination
of rail, water and motor transportation,
with adequate facilities .for receiving,
handling and marketing food.
It is a pledge that points to adop
tion of a national transportation
policy under which railroads, water
ways and highways will be developed
to their capacity for economically
carrying the traffic for which each
is adapted. It is contemplated that
all three shall be worked Jnto one
scheme, each co-operating with and
helping the others. The time is ripe
for this policy. Volume of traffic
has far outgrown tho capacity of the
railroads to handle all of it, and their
capacity can be increased to the
point where it would handle all only
at excessive cost and at a slower pace
than traffic promises to grow. Na
tion and states are building highways
and the people are employing auto
mobiles to carry much traffic which
without them would have been carried-by
rail, and they also serve as
feeders to railroads. Waterways
are far behind, their ports are unde
veloped, and many of them need
dams to fit them for navigation by
tugs and barges, which are the only
economical craft. Cost of dam con
struction has more than doubled in
six years, and woul seem prohibi-
Now comes news of the death at
Raleigh, N. C, of a spinster, aged
117 years. No wonder she lived so
long, with no divorce problem to
worry about.
One thing that makes the earwigs
so hard to combat is the fact that
they work at night. .That's easy.
Arrest 'em for being out after hours.
One way to Increase Oregon's pop
ulation for 1930 is to pass a law
permitting children to live in apart
ment houses.
A newspaper "feller" must have
written the Idaho non-partisan plat
form. It is altogether too brief for
a lawyer.
Some day, maybe, the Beavers
will have a hitter like Ruth. Then
the park will not hold all of us.
walking distahae from any part of
St. Johns. Let the citizens get to
gether and demand that the city
council purchase this tract as prom
ised. TAXPAYER.
HOW DIATOM ITE IS FORMED
Minute rinntu. Not Animals. Almost
Universal Where There Is Water.
PORTLAND, Aug. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) In an article in The Sunday
Oregonian the statement is made that
diatomite is formed by the skeletons
of minute animals. This mistake has
been made by many writers and the
helief at one time was general.
Diatoms are minute plants singly
Invisible to the eye, but almost uni
versally distributed throughout both
salt and fresh water. They are found
in rain troughs, in ditches, on the
sand at the bottom of clear brooks,
on snow and even in the dust of
volcanoes. Countless millions of them
exist in the -water where they form
a large portion of the food of lower
marine animals.
Under the microscope they are
found to have hard coverings which
are exquisitely sculptured and exist
In a great variety r.f beautiful forms.
It is estimated that It takes 40.000,000
diatoms to make a cubic inch. Dt
atomaceous earth, also known as un
crvstallized silica, chemically is a
form of opal. C. JU ELLIOTT.
Victoria Is where P. L. Campbell,
president of the University of Oregon,
is spending his vacation. rroiessor
Campbell cams to the Hotel Portland
yesterday and as soon as be can see
whether the front door of the uni
versity is locked, he will return to
British Columbia.
Mr. and Mrs. B. Lowe and daughter,
and Mr. and Mrs. L. C. Brown, who
have been touring the Canadian rock
les, arrived at the Benson yesterday
on their way back to San Francisco.
Messrs Brown and Lowe are con
nected with the Orpheum in California.
Captain T. J. Macgenn, the bard of
the bounding billows, and now skipper
of the packet Rose City, is using the
Perkins as a port of call while in
Portland. Captain Macgenn not only
writes verse but he memorizes it.
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. KIrkpatrick. of
Dallas, left for homo yesterday after
a shopping tour in Portland. Mr.
Kirkpatrick is in the hop business and
there are prospects for a pretty good
crop and a pretty good price.
One of the well-known sheepmen
of the Antelope country is M. J. Find-
layson, who is registered at the Per-j
kins. Sheepmen are ieenng oetier
than they did recently as the wool
market shows signs of improving.
A. Marwick, a merchant of Vale,
Or., arrived at the Perkins yesterday
In order to be on hand early for
buyers' week, which starts Monday.
Also from Vale and at the same hotel
is George E. Hayes, an attorney.
Albert Anderson, who has been con
tracting highway work for the past
three years. Is at tne rermns. tie
registers from Grants Pass, as he has
a highway job in tnat section.
R. Hinton is one of the sheepmen
who have made Shaniko ono of tne
Important wool points in Oregon. Mr.
Hinton is in town on business and is
at. the Perkins.
A. C. Marsters and Mrs. Marsters
are at the Imperi i!. Mr. Marsters is
interested In politics and banking in
Douglas county. He formtrly served
in the legislature.
John Davies, who lives at Coos Bay
and is helping to make Port Orford
cedar known to tha world, is in town
on business and is at the Benson.
Harry O. Wilcox, clerk at the
Umpqua hotel in Roseburg, is looking
around Portland rnd is making head
quarters at the Multnomah.
No Common-Law Marriages.
PORTLAND, Aug. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) Please tell me what constitutes
a common-law marriage. If a man
and woman live together several
years and have a child, is that a com
mon-law marriage? Does this state
recognize such a marriage, and stand
by the woman in any way?
DAILY READER.
A "common-law" marriage has no
legal standing in Oregon. The father
can be compelled to support
illegitimate child.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 7, 1870.
Weisenburg via Berlin. Prince
Frederick William, crown prince of
Prussia, reports having won a vic
tory in a battle near Worth with the
French forces under General Mc
Mahon. London. It is understood that Eng
land has decided- to make the in
vasion of Belgium a castus belli. If
the territory of Belgium is invaded
England will respond to a call of the
king of the Belgians for protection
from the powers that guaranteed
neutrality.
The ship Garibaldi has been char
tered by leading Chinese firms for
a trip to Hongkong and return.
Sodaville is the name of a town
that has just been laid out at the
Soda Springs, six miles above Leba
non. Linn county.
Mall for V. S. S. Wyoming;.
CASTLE ROCK. Wash.. Aug. 5. (To
the Editor.) Will you please give me
the location of the U. S. S. Wyoming,
also the mailing address by which it
can be reached.
A CONSTANT READER.
The U. S. S. Wyoming is at present
operating off San Pedro. Mail should
be addressed care of the postmaster,
either at Pan Francisco or San Pedro.
What the Poles need is a few
Babe Ruths to knock the bolshevik
pitchers out of the box.
' August weather conduces riots and
disorders. In extreme heat, temper
is on edge.
In a strike of barbers, think what
they could do with razors and things.
A fatal accident a'day is too high a
death, rate and. it Is time to stop.
Where to Get Cimpalcs Pins.
WHITE SALMON. WASH., Aug. 5.
(To the Editor.) Kindly inform me
where I can get the coming political
campaign pins. ANXIOLS.
At republican and democratic head
quarters, Morgan building. Portland.
Explanation Is Furnished.
Boston Globe.
The customer "How's this? You've
charged me tS cents for a shave."
The barber "Oh, no. I charged only
IS cents for the shave. The four bits
is my overcharge.
Mrs. Hugh O'Kane, wife of the big
gest man In Bend. Is at the Hotel
Oregon. When Hugh trains down he
Is only about 300 pounds.
C. E. Arney. who is in the railroad
business at Spokane, is on one of his
trips to Portland and Is registered at
the Hotel Portland.
K. H. Gowman and E. J. Hardebeck,
who are interested In several hotels
in Seattle, are in Portland and are
registered at the Imperial.
Governor Olcott passed through
Portland yesterday on his way to iSa-
I leitl from Seaside.
Hugh Brady and the Secrets of
the Willamette
Here is a story that was waiting for De Witt Harry, special con
tributor to the magazine section of the big Sunday issue. It is the
story of Hugh Brady, whose queer vocation is that of municipal
grappler, and of the wore: of the Portland harbor patrol, the marine
branch of the police force. Just a few people know Hugh Brady,
whose uncanny skill and insight have mapped the bottom of the
Willamette and explored each current and eddy. He seeks the
drowned the desperate who look their last on life and leap from
barge and bridge; the children who at play slip into the treach
erous blue water; the spent swimmer; the capsized canoeist. A
good yarn, of your own town. Read it.
THE NEW REVISED COMIC SECTION. Hawkshaw, old fel
low, we have long awaited you! No fellowship of funnies is com
plete without your inimitable burlesque, your foilings of the Pro
fessor and "de gang." And here you are, in good company, an
accredited member of the jolly crowd in the Sunday funnies of
The Oregonian. And listen, folks, there are four other new features,
compressed in a single sparkling page, and our old friends, as well,
"Polly and Her Pals" and "The Captain and the Kids." Four full
color pages of fun, with seven superior features, comprise the new
revised comic section.
WHAT IS YOUR LOVING LIMIT? The chevaliers of France,
the gay dogs of Queen Elizabeth's court, were amatory pikers be
side the modern love pirate Jack Drew. It was Mess Sergeant
Larry Hogan who listed 535 fair correspondents as the captives
of his blarney, but Jack Drew's achievements in the lists of love
make the Hogan boy take rank as an amateur. A Sunday maga
zine story, illustrated, as told by Frank Dallam.
THE UNBREAKABLE WEB. Break the law, if you will, but
spare the inevitable web of evidence you weave in testimony to
your crime. For the web is unbreakable, anyhow, no matter how
skillful your dissimulation, how carefully you have obliterated the
obvious, and in its meshes you will await-the law. In the Sunday
magazine section there is a story of the web and how it holds fast
the criminal. It is a study in crime and human nature and in the
eventual magnitude of .trifling detail.
OUR FIVE-DOLLAR-A-WEEK VACATION. Vacation would
be all delight, were it not for the rueful contemplation of attendant
expense. But Helen Hoffman, in a special Sunday story, tells how
two young women clipped the vacation budget to a mere $5 a week
and had an outing that was worth was worth oh, thousands of
dollars, anyhow. And the trip that these two took, though its
trails were laid in New England, is even more applicable to Oregon
and the Pacific coast. To all who have ndl bid dull care adieu,
for the summer frolic, this article will be filled with timely tips.
AN INTERVIEW WITH MAJOR-GENERAL LEJUENE. At
tention, soldiers of the sea and ordinary mortals! Tomorrow's issue
will contain an exclusive interview -with the new commander of
the marine corps, who led the 2d division of the American Expe
ditionary force, and whose sobriquet is "the old Indian." t
AH the News of All the W3rld
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN