TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 10, 1920 . ESTABLISHED BY HENBT I PITTOCK- JPukllshed by The Oregonlan Publishing Co.. 134 Sixth Street. .Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOB DEN,' B. B. Pi Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan Is a member of the Asso ciated Frees. The Associated Preji la exclusively entitled to the ue for publica tion of all iei dispatches credited to It or not otherwise creaitert In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rlKhts of republication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. IBy siau. . . nday Included, one year ......00 nday Included, six months .. . nday Included, three months.. .i. 5 .00 3.5 .60 1.00 5.O0 bubwrlptloa Rates Invariably U Advance, (By Mall.) Dally, Sundi l)aily. Sund. Xatly.' Sunday included, one month .. . Dally, without Sunday, one year Iiaily, without Sunday, six months Daily, without Sunday, one month. Weekly, one year Sunday, on year (By Carrier.) rally. Sunday included, one year - IJ-JJ Daily. 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That which it accom plished In spite of executive obstruc tion is an earnest of what it will do when that obstruction is removed. rflVSTRUCTIVE REPUBLICAN LAWS. In the course of his speech of ac ceptance Governor Cox said of the present congress: "Not a construc tive law can be cited." In. the light of what the 6th congress did, that is a most audacious statement, for It assumes that the people do not know and will not Inform themselves on recent legislation. The fact is that the 6th congress passed a num ber of laws which unprejudiced peo ple will regard as highly construc tive. These are, briefly: Woman's suffrage amendment submit- Daw for enforcement of prohibition. Keturn of telegraph, telephone and cabla lines to their owners. Vocational training ana rehabilitation for wounded soldiers and sailors. Extension of food, control with addition al penalties. Prevention of dumping of German dyes. Incorporation of American Legion. Increasa of allowance for serious Injury tinder war risk act. Additional compensation for postal em- P,Facllltatlns? marketing of agricultural products by Increasing amounts that banks may loan. Enabling natlenal banks to facilitate foreign trade. Increasing restrictions on entry of aliens. Providing for completion of Alaska rall- rExtension ef stock-raslnir homestead Relief of stricken peoples of near east Those laws were passed at the first session, at which much legislation was prepared for enactment at the second session. The great construc tive laws passed at -the second ses sion were: Returning railroads to their owners for private operation. Established a budget system, vetoed. PfnrcHniilm the army. Reform of house and senate rules to facilitate budget system. F.Ktiihll.hln new shipping board and providing for operation and sals of emer gency fleet. Leasing coal and oil land, l.enMinir wateroower sites. Vocational rehabilitation of persons in iqrwd In industry. For retirement of old and disabled civil Service employes. Establishing woman's bureau In labor tfepartment. Tlte peace resolution. Vetoed. Repeal of war laws. Vetoed. Raising eaiaries of postal employes. Increasing pensions of veterans of civil, Mexican. Spanish and Philippine wars. To exclude and expel anarchistic aliens. Increasing pay and efficiency of army, navy, marine corps, coast guard, cosst and geodetic survey and public health service. I Furnishing flour worth tiO.000,000 to peoples of Europe and near east. Transferring motor vehicles from, war department to ether departments and States for road building. Authorizing formation of banks to con duct foreign trade. Amending war risk get to Increase com pensation to disabled soldiers and sailors. Authorising treasury department to buy farm loan bonds. That la a record of achievement ef which the republican party has pood cause to be proud. Of particu lar interest to the west are the laws which lift the embargo on develop ment of coal, oil and phosphate land and waterpower. That embargo, which was imposed on the eve of President Taft's inauguration, was the chief cause of the slow progress of the west during the last ten years and of the comparatively small in crease of population in Oregon and other states. Year after year, while congress was under democratic con trol, it failed to agree on measures unlocking these resources of the west, and the whole nation paid Iieavily in addition to the cost of the -war. As soon as the republicans gained control they began enactment of laws and completed it at the sec ond session. In the same class Is provision for completion of the Alaska railroad, by which the coal and oil of that territory will be made available for the people of the whole Pacific coast. As a means of economy In govern ment expenditures and of efficiency In public service, the budget bill, the reform in the rules of congress re lating to appropriations and the civil service retirement law are in one group. The budget bill would have brought system and proper control Into government expenditures, but President Wilson denied the people the economy which would have been effected out of extreme jealousy for his powers, which contrasts with the contempt that he has shown for tha powers of congress, especially the senate. He thus made ineffective the reform in the rules of congress. The retirement law vill rid the civil service of a lot of old and infirm em ployes who are unable to do a full day's work, and will result in further economy. Nothing could be more construc tive than vocational education and rehabilitation of disabled soldiers and sailors, for it makes them self supporting members of, instead of a burden to, the community. The same statement is true of rehabilitation of persons injured In industry. What could be more constructive than putting the railroads in the hands of men who have made the American railroad system the best in the world, with the lowest rates for the best service, even after the re cent increase in rates? Provision Js xnuue to put. Litem m ounu iittunciai condition, to prevent labor disputes from leading to strikes and for more complete public regulation. Under republican legislation vve can now feel assured that the railroads will adequately serve the people. The mercantile marine law estab lishes a shipping policy under which American ships will serve American coastwise and foreign trade in the hands of American owners and un der which commerce will grow at all American ports Instead of being con centrated at a few ports favored by big shipping companies. A good resjon for not having passed further laxys of tha same BY THE COMPANY HE KEEPS. The Oregonian still contends that a man must be estimated by the company he keep's. This Is a safe rule In a general way. but it cannot apply in all cases to men who are candidates for office. Possibly a thief may have been a delegate In the convention and might have voted for the Cox candidacy. This fact would not have made a thief of Governor Cox. Scio Tribune. ... . Oh, not at all, not at all. But if a thief had gone to San Francisco and with others of his kind had been the chief sponsor for the candidacy of Mr. Cox, or any one else, and had succeeded in persuading a majority of delegates to nominate his candi date, that fact would have been of tremendous significance. Let " us make haste to add that there were no delegates at San Francisco, so far as we know, guilty of any felonious acts, except, of course, that there was the usual effort to steal for the democratic party all the glory of the accomplishment ' of the past eight years. . ' . Now we see that Mr. Cox is to be the heir and champion of the Wil son policies. No doubt our Sclo con temporary feels better about It, for it will be inclined to judge the man by the new company he proposes to keep. As he was the candidate of the allied Tammanies for the nomi nation, now he is to be the choice of Woodrow Wilson for the election. But does any one for a moment pre tend that Tammany is for the league of nations, including Article X? It is, as it was, for Cox for other reasons satisfactory to Tammany. A nXAKCIAZ, CINDERELLA. Garbage collection has never been classed among the desirable careers upon which young men may te ad vised to embark. It Is a business dis tinctly on the night side of life a rather noisesome, lowly calling, how ever essential it may be to the pub lic health. Tha there are millions in it, and that shrewd business men are beginning to extract them, may in time elevate this necessary service to no mean status in the social and economic world. For money will talk. An excuse fofthese reflections exists in the announced purpose of the city council to call for garbage disposal bids. If willful waste makes woeful want, as the old copybooks used to ' assure us, it is high time that capable business methods applied their com mon sense and genius to plain, every day garbage. The waste of cities is prolific of profit, and will restore fertility to the same country fields that have been looted to feed the metropolitan centers. It is poetic justice, also, if the term may be par doned, that the 34 Per cent of grease contained in every ton of gar bage should be largely employed in the manufacture of soap, a scant 8 per cent' being utilized in making glycerine. Each ton of garbage, so the sta tisticians inform us, contains sixty five pounds of grease, with a market value of $5.85. The remainder of each ton, transformed into dried fer- I Jilizer, becomes 400 pounds of super lative son tonic, vaiuea at a. ine hard cash that is resident in each ton is therefore fixed, not estimated, at not less than $8.85. The receipts of the plant which disposes of the Los Angeles garbage are approximately $1100 per day. That is, you might say, a pretty fair financial hand to pick out of the discard. civilization. If all Europe were to become bolshevist, nothing would remain of modern civilization but America and the colonies of Europe. It would be folly to suppose that, with the disease spreading un checked through Europe, we could exclude it from this country. A red invasion is not begun by an army but by a swarm of agents who scat ter unnoticed through the country and talk to unlettered, discontented workmen of the dictatorship of the proletariat, of the workingman's re public in Russia, of world revolution. They break down faith in God. country, marriage, morals. Thus the morale of the people, without which wars cannot be fought, is broken be fore the red army appears. In this manner war was carried on in the rear of the white Russian armies, and reports of hordes of propagan dists in Poland indicate that the hard-pressed republic was weakened by the same destructive influences. If the reds should overrun Europe, they would press on by the same means to conquer America. Polapd is fighting for civilization as truly as France fought. Shall America stand idly by and see a thousand years of human progress extinguished ? ' . . Bt'VERe' WEEK, v As an institution, Portland's Buy. ers' week seems to possess, the re quisites of permanency. Statistics tell an eloquent stary. In 1913," the year it was instituted, for example. 263 buyers availed themselves of certain commercial perquisites to which attendance entitled them. By 1917 the number had increased to 1116. Registration in 1918 was 1550, and this seems to warrant the pre diction that tha number in 1920 will reach 1800 or 2000. The fact about i it that impresses us is that it has proved to be what your specialty salesman would call a "repeater." People wjio have tried it want more of it which Is the mercantile test of an excellent article. The movement deserves mention, not alone because it is a successful enterprise reflecting credit on the initiative and the business Integrity of Portland wholesalers and manu facturers, but also because of the high degree of co-operation of which it is the outward and visible sign. Those who are acquainted with the minutiae of a Buyers' week organ ization know that success is depen dent on a large measure of the spirit of get-together, and on far-sighted business policy, and on wise and prudent direction. It is not by acci dent that the occasion has grown in popularity year by year. The business has been compe tently managed from the beginning and credit is due to its presiding geniuses for the results obtained. As for our visitors on these occasions may their tribe ever increase! it is appropriate to suggest that their welcome Is only in part due to their role of present and prospective cus tomers. Bringing as they do the at mosphere of many communities with them, they are an antidote for provincialism, a broadening influ ence which we would be ungrateful not to acknowledge. Friendships based on agreeable business rela tionships are by no means to be de spised among the amenities that make for a sounder social fabric and a pleasanter world. the savants, wttk Dr. Hindhede Jubi- I BY lantly leading the chorus, to assure a I PRODUCTS or THE TIMES rather apathetic world that.aot only J did the Danes hold their customary good health, but that the death rate declined sharply during the period of the blockade. It is difficult, if one chose .the task, to answer an argument so con clusive. White bread, once the hall mark of nobility and wealth, will as- Profeasor See Tries to Remove Mys tery Element from Earthquake. Much of the horror of earthquakes in the minds of average persons is due to ignorance of their cause. While knowing what causes earthquakes will not prevent the physical dangers which they effect, persons are nat Those Who Come and Go. suredly continue in preference de- rurally less terrified when the ele. mem or mystery Is removed. spite the latest warning from Den mark. With it in public favor will remain pastries and pot-pies, thick steaks and the morning's monument of buckwheat cakes and sausage. Someone is always coming forward with a new salvation for mankind, and citing the fact if it is the fact that every joy is a harmful excess. fA.llT'f.i1!6 l05 ln tne ! Thomas J. J. See in th. Americana. miiu ui vua iaLiieia wc ijuni , pain fully wary. The most immediate sentiment in reply Is that if the Panes prefer to live on black bread and cabbage, let them do so. Next century some statistic digger may find happy employment in tabulat ing the eventual comparative result. Good sense in diet does not imply asceticism. POLAND'S FIGHT FOR CIVILIZATION, The disaster which hangs over Po land would be a disaster to all white civilization, therefore to the whole world. It would carry forward the blight of bolshevism to the eastern frontier of Germany, front which red propagandists would spread over that country. Lenin would extend his soviet system to Poland, as he already has to the Trans-Caucasus, and he would make it a base for op erations against Germany. He would destroy the already weak morale of the German people and would plunge the country into civil war, for the junkers and capitalists would certainly use the arm)', which they still hold under their control, to re sist. The plague of bolshevism would extend all over western Eu rope, where it has many adherents, and civilization might die there, it has died in Russia. Renewal of the blockade as the chief means of averting this disaster is a confession of impotence on the part of the allies. It did not prevent the crushing of Kolchak, Denikin and Yudenieh, and it cannot save Poland. The red army will cat Up all that is left in that thrice-ravaged country, and the Germans will cer tainly not scruple to sell goods for stolen gold. The only entrance from tha sea is Danzig, but before the al lies hava landed munitions the cor ridor connecting that port with Po land is already in the hands of the reds. Nothing but a considerable army could open it, and the allies have resolved not to send an array, Unless Poland can save Itself with its own resources, it seems doomed once more to extinction as an inde pendent nation. Any semblance of independence that the bolshevists leave will be a mockery. ExplanaMon of the allies' decision to send no army is simple. They cannot. Bolshevism has already eaten its way deep Into tha minds of their working people. It has less hold in France than in the other two western powers, but it got enough hold to start a general strike last spring and when the leaders were arrested, letters from. Trotsky were found appointing- them officers of the third international. Strikes have occurred at Marseilles against ship ment of munitions to Poland, and if troops were ordered to sail, there might be mutiny and strikes against manufacture and shipment of muni tions. The British labor party with, sixty members of parliament has de manded that the blockade ba lifted, the soviet recognized and that all in tervention in Russia cease. Several proposals for a political strike against intervention against the soviet have been voted down, but if war were actually declared or made, the radicals might carry their point. Tha socialist party of Italy, which is stronger than those of either Franca or Britain, has taken up the cause of tha soviet and has sent a delega tion to Moscow, which was raptur ously welcomed. Its extreme wing has caused great strikes, and In July there were mutiny and armed rebel, lion at Ancona. Nations thus divided cannot make foreign war. BLACK BREAD AND CABBAGE. When Schacabac the beggar en tered the home of the wealthy Bar mecide, his genial host, waving a liberal band at the napery, bade the hungry mendicant partake of wholly imaginary repast, with en trees of figments and a dessert of delusion. The feast of the Barme clde, though it is followed in the ancient story by a full course dinner, has become an accepted phrase for an illusive meal. It is not always the festal board that sets forth ration best calculated to sustain and enhance bodily -and mental vigor, and it may be that the plentiful ar. ray of food on the American table of today is in truth a Barmecldlal feast. The vegetarians are given to the declaration that we, as a nation of indiscriminate gourmands, are digging our graves with our teeth. Perhaps the nut and cabbage fan cies are correct in this assumption Diet exercises a powerful influence both for and against good health and athletes are rigidly committed to abstemious common sense in eating before they are considered fit to un dertake contests of physical prowess and supremacy. But the essential of the indictment against our na tional diet Is that we are too fond of flesh foods, and that the rice and water" of. the Canton coolie were better suited to our actual needs than .the traditional rare beef o England. Of course, the arguments are both for and against a revolu tion in diet, and the average person is content to assuage his hunger with that which tickles his palate the most, leaving contention to the savants. Pending a conclusive set tlement he is inclined to regard his dental equipment as proof that na ture designed all manner of food for his sustenance. Experiments to determine the truth or error of a strictly vege tarian diet have been numerous, but the most extensive ever recorded is undoubtedly that of the Danish na tion. Suffering with Germany in the allied blockade, Denmark was face to face with famine. Only a drastic revolution in the customary diet of the Danes would avail to save them from such hunger as stalked Vienna and Berlin. Of meat they had no more than the cupboard held in tha nursery rhyme. Of milk and cereals the nation possessed a supply suffi cient to maintain with economy the lives of its people, but none to spare for the rearing and fattening of ani. mals for food. An enduring Lent descended on Denmark. It was tha Danish war committee, under the tutelage of Dr. Hindhede, that saved 3,000,000 Danes from starvation, and the resource on which tha entire nation leaned throughout that trying period was nona other than our old friend. bread, which appears to have been termed the staff of life with good reason. It was not white bread from the bakery of pre-war days, nor was It half so white as the bread of hungry Belgium. It was quite Sty gian in complexion, so they say, but science was the master baker at Its compounding and some quite ex traordinary results were attained by the eating of it. apart from the fact that it banished starvation. The Danish war-broad was a mix ture of whole-rye, whole-wheat and whole-barley flours, together with a double portion of wheat bran. Dur, ing the continuance of the blockade it was not only a staple, but was the staple, of the Danish dietary. Milk and cabbage were its lowly eompan- CBITICISM Or CRATER LAKE. Of a certain depth of divine blue that defies both measurement and description, and set on the topmost knuckle of the range, yonder lies Crater "Lake unquestionably a na tural gem of purest ray serene, as we have repeatedly been "assured in hyperbolic phrase. There is no gain saying the richness of this dower to the state of Oregon, both as a spir itual and a financial asset. It com pels the tourist to tour. But it is said that the enraptured pilgrim, who gazes on the glory in its rugged setting, departs in disappointment. Not with this sentiment toward the scenic marvel itself, but for the ac commodations that greet him when he has reached this Mecca of tha West. Stephen T. Mather, director of na tional parks, is the most recent vis itor . to mane this ooservation, or substantially the same criticism. Mr, Mather's words have official point, and they present the uncomforting promise that unless Oregon interests itself in better hotel service at the famous resort both the federal gov ernment and the railroads will feel compelled to withdraw encourage ment to tourists to visit the lake. He speaks with seeming exasperation, as one whose patience has endured to the limit. It may be recalled that Oregon has had not a little to say of the superiority of Its scenery over that of any other state, commonwealth or country listed in the geographies. This is a contention that must be maintained for, being the fact, it merits reiteration. But it is rather too much to expect of tourists that they shall "rough it" as they pay their devoirs to the divine lake of the crater, and Mr. Mather has the better of the argument ln asserting this view. Portland and southern Oregon should co-operate in re deeming the lake from criticism of its tourist accommodations. Scenery is not discounted in the least by an utter absence of hotel facilities, but the pleasure of Its enjoyment often is denied for that lack. Retarded production is a factor in the high co3t of living. Strikes serve to promote delay and boost the price scale. Thus we twirl madly around in our economic dilemma, like a pun pursuing the nib of his tail. During the year 1919 there were 3874 strikes and lockouts in the United States, in volving more than 4,000.000 persons. and covering a wide range of vital necessities. Of strikes officially noted and observed there were 1961 according to the bureau of labor sta tistics. Arbitration might well have been resorted to in each instance, for the eventual average approxi mated ft draw between employer and employe. Employers won 624 and employes won 633. the remainder be ing compromised or otherwise dis. posed of by arbitration. BLAME FOB DELAY OK SVFFBAGE Record far Ratification Still Ftaadai Repah-Ucana, 2Sl Democrats, . -I counted ten earthquake shocks I PORTLAND. Or., Aug. 7. (To the in Los Angeles," said E. J. w ooa, Editor.) Although like all good clti- who returned to Portland yesterday , ens of Portland I read The Oregon from California, where he went to I iri. yet I did not notice the ed- attend the democratic convention injitcrial ia reply to my article of Aug- i More. Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Hsstiiae. WOLF! WOLF! A New York movie bresa a&rent bar! the police called out to search for tha victim of a fake drowning. June. " "One of the shocks was so j heavy that It mads me sick for It hours. I was in a theater when one shock came and in a .Jlffy the exit doors were opened and tne audience stampeded into the street. Later the people quieted down and returned and the show proceeded, but before It was over there came another ehock and again the audience rushed out doors. The residents of Los Angeles ap peared to be more scared than the visitors, probably because the natives knew how dangerous a quake can be. Many people left Los Angeles and I was told that at least 10,000 took their departure as quickly as they could get train accommodations. -I had to wait a week to make a reser vation and then I got the last berth in the third section of a train. "We want the state highway eom- "All important earthquakes are due to steam pressure accumulating with in or Just under the earth's crust, which must have relief, whether by volcanic eruption, uplifting of moun tain chains parallel to the sea, or the formation and movements of faults in the earth's crust." writes Professor The earth has a temperature of some 2000 degrees Fahrenheit at a epth of less than 20 miles and the eakage of the earth's crust is well known. But In connection with the penetration of water we may recall the porosity of - all rock's and even metals. Under sufficient pressure water has been forced through solid i mission to build roads to develop layers of gold, silver, lead. ' Iron anil I Oreeron and not Ida'oo." declares P. J, steel end under a pressure of 4000 Gallagher, representative ot Maineur atmosphere. Amagat forced mercury '' ill through three inches of solid steel. eateI.my nd went Intc session with The oceans are deep enough to give 1 kizhwav Commissioners Benson and a pressure of about 1000 atmospheres i Kiddle yesterday Afternoon. The on their bottoms, and as the water penetrate downward the pressure steadily Increases. "As Sir Archibald Getkie justly re marks, Daubree's experiments showej an(j Frultlanol, instead of building on that owing to capillarity water may I the Oregon side from Laker south to permeate rocks against a high coun- I Ontario. Mr. Gallagher is champion ter pressure of steam on the further the construction .f road on the side, and that eo long as water "uVZZrA supplied, whether by minute fis- th irf.hn.n. .ia:et. will be to over tures or through pores of the rocks, I look the development of Dead Ox Flat it may. under pressure of its own I and other Important Oregon territory SUDerlnCUmbent lnlltmn. malcA It . wnv J I . ... v r. hio-hiv o . ' ...t... t . i Bomewnat auety, ju. "lvLi"J Idaho people, explains Mr. Gallagher, want the Oregon commission to build to Olds Ferry, and connect witn tne Idaho system of roads run-sing down Snake tlver from Weiser to Payette may thus increase the steam pressure arrived at the Imperial, ready to function today as a state hignway within until it Is sufficient to raise commissioner. Mr. Kiddle traveled lava In the vent of a volcano or pro- last week throuerh central Oregon and duce earthquakes by the movement I tha eastern part of the state, and he Of the crust along an adjacent fault. I even slipped over into Idaho. Ha was It has been found by experiment ,a B"' f T.1'1'' ralr,V , 1 that gases are rapld.y abeorbe, InlriinVlp hot steel and other metals, and th ln th. Willamette know nothing rapid absorption of water in molten I about- He wanted to go to Iron rock is. proved by the vast clouds ol 1 sides, but the road was lropassable. steam arising from lava as it pours Accompanied by C. C. Kelly, assistant from a volcano. The vapors which I BLl . "v, J. ,k ' . . , ... . I rode ln the first car over the new are thus freely emitted are as readily Columbla highway grade between aDeoroea. Hence It follows that as pn.ns and Mosier. water permeates downward into-the I earth 1-finally geta hot enough to become steam in spite of the pres sure, and tends to diffuse among the molten rocks below. But it cannot descend to great depths without be- "No one wants to buy a sheep out fit and no one want to sell one in Idaho." savs J. E. Clinton, vice president of a Boise, Idaho, panic. "Last year Idaho wool men received an average of 56 cents a pound and coming superheated and having its! this year, on the basis of sales now explosive power enormouslyincreased, I they are receiving about 10 cents a and the result is that It is spread in a layer Just under the crust, and finally brings on an earthquake. "Since volcanoes occur only in the sea, on islands and along the shores of continents, but always die ou. in land, while all the vapor they emit' is steam, except one part In a thou sand, which is of secondary charac ter, made up of by-products due to moisture and high temperature. It follows that steam is the sole original cause of volcanic activity. It hi long been observed that earthquakes I tropolis. "1 think we've been euchered Dound less. The price is net bad considering the demand, which is not strong, but the belief now exists that the market will steadily im prove. Idaho raises the finest sneep in America and the sheep industry is now our largest resource. W e've plenty of hay, which is selling at $7 ton. "If Tillamook has no more people than the 1930 which the census re turns give, then I'll say that It' is the best city in the world for its sice. asserted K. T. Halton, who has i department store in the cheese me in a region near an active volcano cease when the steam escapes, and therefore Imprisoned steam was tha sole cause of the previous shocks. "The distribution of earthquakes in i the interior of the great oceans is on the population, for there must be between 2500 and 3000 people in the town. It's a dandy place for busi ness and is going right ahead. The town is now improving about two miles of streets and it already naa all of lt3 main streets hard-surfaced Imperfectly known, and hence the ir. Haltom Is at the Hotel Oregon, known earthquakes appear mainly as . , . , . , K.i,- ... ,. I To feed the hungry people of Chl PoVTfiT , r 7 " cago wlth Oregon spring lamb is the Pacific, which includes in its boun- pre8ent mission of Robert N. Stan dary eeven-eighths of the active vol- field who is, in addiion to being the canoes ln the interior of continents 1 largest individual wool producer ust Z until this morning or I certain ly would have hastened to reinforce what I said by more statements given me by the women at head qvartere of the National Equal Suffrage association who have for months, even yeara, been keeping their eyes on congress, state legis latures and everybody concerned, and who are thoroughly informed and acting in their capacity as officers, speaking with authority and not as partisans. Although the sixty-fifth corgrees was democratic, yet it is conceded that the republicans in the sixty-fifth congress, no matter what the demo cratic opposition might have been, could have submitted the amendment two years earlier, had it not been for a small group of senators who with a number of southern senators persist ently directed a continual and never pausing campaign aga':. t it, and It was because of this opposition of this same group of senators who nomin ated Harding in Chicago that the amendmcat "did not eee the light of day.' At a meeting held at the Hotel Mc- Alpin, New York. July 23, 1920. led by Misa Mary G. Hay, the leading re publican woman at the Chicago con vention, a questionnaire waa prepared and sent to Senator Wadsworth of New York, which includes the follow ng: 1. Is It not a fact that except for your refusal to represent the people of New York In the United States sen ate the federal suffrage amendment would have been submitted to th state legislatures in the regular ses sion of 11. all the delay and ex pense of Z special sessions in 192 would have been saved and all the women of merica would be com pletely enfranchised at this moment 2. Did you not plot and plan with others to put into operation this very programme of delay? . Are 'ot etui plotting ana planning with others to hold back the 36th ratification of the amendment? The account of this meeting and above action further says: "Around the standard of Miss Hay, as the leader of the opposition to Senator Wadsworth, the women massed with old-time fervor and the old-time con secration." I This is not "democratic propa ganda," but republican facts which should be known. It is true that 29 republican legis latures have ratified the federal amendment, and that is good, but by far the larger responsibility rests upon republicans, for they control 32 out of the 48 state legislatures. The republican legislatures not yet called tamely, Vermont and Connecticut stand ready to ratify when called, but under the direct influence of the same group of senators who for two yeb.rs and a half prevented the sub mission of the federal amendment, the governors of those states refused to call those sessions. This might be accepted as an evi dence of personal hostility on the part of these governors were it not for the fact that ln different portions of the country republican men have caid in definite terms that the republican party does not intend to allow the women of the country to have the 26th state at this time, because "there are enough women voting now." Connecticut republican women suf fragists have pointed out that as long as the most powerful republican group in Connecticut is working against ratification it is idle for the republican party to disclaim respon sibility for the Connecticut situation. It is good American doctrine that a governor should yield to the demands of the people who elected him, and the Vermont and Connecticut leg is latures stand ready to ratify. In the 12 states which the republi can party controls there is no com Oh! Fireman! fireman! save me child!" a mother shrieked. In anguish wild, "The r Lames burn hot. and. like aa not Eventually they'll kill kar" I'll have to wait." the chief explained, " "till I have fully ascertained If tips Is not a crafty plot To boost a movie thriller." Tubo Off the Juice!" the lineman cried, "'till I have time to thrust aside This cable here across my ear; It's full of electricity. "No good!" replied the passer-by. a chill ssupicion in his eye, "Tm not the man to help a plan For movie chow publicity!" Heip! help!" observed the drowning girl, "my hair is getting out of curl. "And furthermore, I'm far from shore Amidst the raz-ine- itrun The fisherman pulled in his Una and leaning out across the brine He loudly hissed: "I'll not assist In movie show promotion." "Police!" the stranger said, "this crook . has just removed my pocketbook; Pray reprehend the rogue, my friend. For this illegal action." "Not me," the passing cop exclaimed. "I certainly would be ashamed To pinch a thug like him to plug A photoplay attraction!" e e Too Bad. As the mother of presidents, Ohio probably regrets that she has only two sons to give to her country. After the Shrinkage. Nowadays dollar diplomacy la noth ing but peanut politics. e Let Reds Take Warning. A porch campaign may not have much punch, but it will be more pop ular than a torch campaign. (Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) nd all that was Is One little hour dead. The heart's sweet peace disturbed and sorrow th.r.- Light gladdomeness on silent wings u lieu. And solemnly there enters dark Despair, And at the table takes the vacant chair. One little hour! where cheer Has easy access; Play In sweet contentment- and clear. And then a storm that sweeps that home away - And blossoms heaped upon of clay. in America, the republican candidate ' pllcating factor like the negro prob Filipino newspaper employes in Manila are on strike because the paper, took the stand that the Fili pinos aren't ready for self-government. Which seems to indicate that the papers were right. for United States senator. Mr. Stan- field arrived ln Portland from eastern Oregon late yesterday afternoon and caught the night train for Klamath Falls. He will ship from the Klamato country a train of 25 cars of spring is recognised and the rarity of earth. quakes within these inland regions is also conspicuous.' e Letters written by King Nebuchad- nezsar or Babylon some 3000 years ago have recently turned up ln the I lambs, there being about 7500 lambs Yale Babylonian collection, and have tho trainload. There are some been translated by Professor Albert 20.000 lambs in the Klamath district. T. Clay, curator of the Babylonian Wond.r,ur. ,. the way Mrs. E. 8, section at Kale. Rynenson of Dayton. Wash., describes Nebuchadnezzer wrote his letter In the Evergreen highway and the Co- a lordly tone, and his eoistles convev I lumbia highway. Accompanied by the word of the kinir" tn th -hif her husband and family ana miss The world may think it is getting callous to accidents, but there Is a grip at the heart when reading of the child, playing - in the grain, whose feet were cut off by the fath er's reaper. Mayor Bill Thompson telling Gov. ernor Frank Lowden he is a better American citizen than the state's ex ecutive gets into the wrong part of the paper. He belongs in the funny column. The small boy missing these warm days has hearkened to the call of the wild, if not drowned. One way is to let him run and pay the damage. A boy is worth a lot after he is tamed. Germany has been cheered by the news that hereafter beer is to be cheaper and stronger. What are the Germans trying to do tempt an in vasion by "Pussyfoot" Johnson? The United States cannot remain Indifferent to a peril which menaces ions on the tables of those 8,000,000 not only one nation but all modem ' enforced health faddists. Now come A "consortium" is not as big as it sounds. It means a union or fellow ship and, in the case of China, a partnership to keep one another from grabbing too much. The man from the big city dls- posed to rail at the small town for its lack of street signs will be sur prised to learn that Portland has a crying need in that line. L. D. Kinney, who died in the asylum, made things whirl on Coos Bay a few years ago when he was only as crazy aa tha average pro. moter. Representative Sims, who cham. pioned the Plumb plan bill in the house, has been defeated. Plumb out of luck, we'll say. of the temple of the god Marduk con cerning the Jurisdiction of temple matters. Before being sent, a Bab ylonian letter was placed In a nice Conrad, Mrs. Rynerson arrived at the Hotel Washington yesterday. Tne party motored the distance. This Is the first time mat sir. ana airs. Rynerson have visited Portland ln flat clay envelope. A lot of loose! IS years, their last call helng whan the Lewis A Clark exposition waa in bloom. Mr. Rynerson has been . in business at Dayton since 181)3. F. L. Hult of Seattle arrived at the Hotel Washington yesterday, which sand was then shaken iq around the letter 'to protect It from scraping against the inside of the envelope and thus obliterating the message. The top was sealed with hot clay and stamped with the sianet set in the I hotel is managed by Mr. Hult's uncle, sender's ring. Glen Hite. Mr. and Mrs. Hult and Many of tha Babylonian letters H'88 Oberanoer oi iwoma "eveiea , . . . . , I iil esV tiUUV" fS-itu, l ajLiua L. V - lll a vatuw show that they were lncaeed, and betwearl PuKet .ound and Portland not a few bear the seal impressions are jn fir condition and a vast inl and the remainder of envelopes still orovement over what they were a few adhering to them. Few of the letters weeks ago. They left Seattle at 10 P. M. and arrived at the Washington at A. M. Mr. Hult is connected with an iron works. W. 8. Mangenheimer of Chicago, but were actually dated, and the senders of some cannot be determined, having probably been sent by the hand of a family slave, and tha name of the sender was therefore not a necessary I with extensive Interests In Oregon, is adjunct. -Detroit News. I at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Mangen eee helmer s company owns tne oiggest Diogenes, lighted lantern In hand, ""bard' In Malheur county and last ,,,, .'..' !Y . . . year shipped 60 carloads of apples, ln tramping . through the streets of ltlo they raise other tralnloada aujchs luyningy-ior an nonest man, i 0f alfalfa and produce. naa nis trouble for his pains, and this. lem. If the republican party prevents the 38th state from ratifying, all its past record will be as nothing. Thirty-five states having ratified means simply 36 ratifications, but the 36th ratification means the enfran chisement of the entire womanhood of our country. MARIA L. T. HIDDEN. What authority has this corre spondent for her statement that the governors of Connecticut and Ver mont, ln refusing to call special leg islative sessions, are acting for the republican senatorial group? None whatever we venture to declare. To say that the republican party must be held accountable for the fail ure of the democratic congress (the CSth) to submit the suffrage amend ment ia the extreme of unreason and unfairness. To assume fur ther that the democratic party mus be excused from action because of the 'complicating negro problem" Is go Ing the full length of partisanship.. Twenty-nine republican states have ratified suffrage. Six democratic states have done the same. They ex plain the whole situation, and no sophistry nor twisted logic can avert the full force of the facts. according to current report, is about as far as dress manufacturers are progressing nowadays in their quest for the "perfect thirty-six." This very essential adjunct to every com- plete dressmaking establishment le said to be rapidly becoming extinct an far Aja ft r-o . . mnitl ff-n iiithA.I ties on the subject incline to the view Owyhee ditch, is at the Hotel Portland . . , .. , from Ontario, Or. The Owyhee ditch that the dearth of perfect thirty-sixes waterg bout 15.000 acres. Mr. Oakes I sonly- another of the ill effects of j, ln town to consult with extensive tne war ana the kaleidoscopic changes land owners of Malheur county. in economic Among the out-of-town merchants who are at the Perkins while attend ing buyers' week are Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Wilson of teoanon, mr. ana jvirs. C. Anderson of Chapman, Mrs. P. Haley of LaCamas, Mrs. B. L. Jenkins and Mrs. W. L. Levins of faker. Ivan Oakts. who Is manager of the Doors leading to fire escapes must have breakable panels, preferably glass. That rule should be enforbed always." Fifteen thousand In the Harding and Coolidge club put Oregon in the grand old column. Now is the time to join. Mr. Chrlstenson of the third party says he sees nothing in the Cox speech. Waa he looking for something? Baseball is the great clean sport of America and Its managers must keep it so. The visiting buyers get the best we have and need not ask for it. - conditions since the signing of the armistice. Whatever may be the cause, the fact remains that the national organization of dress' manufacturers has sent out a hurry call for models as near the "perfect thlrty-slx" standard as pos sible. New York Sun and Herald. Motoring from Mitchell. S. D., party arrived at the Perkins yester day, slicked up and then proceeded on their way. The party consisted of Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Kelly and A. G. Cox and brothers, "Sea trout are coming in, and 1 saw a lot ot chinooks leaping ln the .. nAA Ratiarann ' ' r.nnrt. T T- Leonard was Interested in rabbits. Charles Stolte. who haa returned from So much so that his family gave him I an angling expedition in Tillamook. pair ana let him go into the busi- R. N. Northrup of Dead ox flat, which same is In Malheur county, is in the city to meet with the state highway commission today. ness." When the baby bunnies ar rived excitement filled the neighbor hood. The father of one of Leonard's chums kept several hives of bees which were ever a source of curiosity to 'the boys. "Whatcha goln' to name "em?" en thusiastically demanded the chum of the proud possessor of the baby rab bits. - "Huh, what did you name all your bees?" Indianapolis Star. -e e What can worn-out phonograph discs be used for? asks C. B. A. So far as our observation goes, C. B. A. they can be. and are used on phono graphs just the same as er. Louis Globe-Democrat. J. L. Calvert, who Is a contractor on the Pacific highway, is registered at the Hotel Oregon from Granta Pass. George W. Kleiser, erstwhile of Portland and ln the billboard busi ness, is registered at the Benson from San Francisco, A Matter of Aces. Baltimore American. "I came within an ace of winning the game." "Then, why dldn t you.' "Because the other' fellow had the ace." Federal Tests Show Wheat Saved, Washington.' D. C. correspondent In Kansas City star. Nearly 22 million bushels of wheat were saved in 21 states through tests and adjustments of threshing ma chines carried on under observation of specialists of the United States de partment of agriculture. These 22 million Dusneis would have been lost to the farmer without the adjustments. They made up wast from hasty threshing and poorly ad Justed machines. In North Dakota observations showed the average waste a day o about 26 per cent of the rigs in op eration was 14.6 bushels for each rig. After testing the machine and makin adjustments, this loss was cut dow to 4.03 bushels a day, or a saving o 10.6 bushels, with a total saving of 1,600,000 bushels in the entire state for the season. In South Dakota the testing and re adlustment effected a saving of 13.1 bushels a day on 18 per cent of th rigs tested or 1 million bushels for the state. Tbe estimatea total sav In ir for the 21 states in which th work was carried on waa 21,903,600 bushels. Wants to Kboot What a Tammany I LAFAYETTE. Or., Aug. 9. (To the Editor.) I read a good deal aoou Tammany at present and I wish to be informed what kind of an article It is. Sometimes I think it is a man or croup of men; again. I think is a hall. The cartoons show a tiger. I am ettill of tne impression m guesses are aH wrong. I know belonas in New York, but Is it a good? If no good why not deport it How old is it? Why don't othe states have some? Could you sho a picture of it other than a cartoon Gas Shortage to Tune of "Iowa." Standard Oil! Standard Oil! Cannot get the gas. Sell "Henry" cheap for cash. Standard Oil! Standard Oil! Where has the gas all gone? A. BLY. One Little Hour. By Grace E. HalL l happy home little children kles all blue mound O, fill each to the One little hour! brim With love and kindnes ere some one Is gone Out where the twilight shadows hover UJJU, Out where the silence waits the rosy dawn. Out where the veil o'er hope's dear face Is drawn. In Other Days Twenty.flve Years An. From The Oreg-onian of August 10 lsr, New lork. DisDatchns (rum' Chow say that the situation in China critical lor foreigners. A mob has ust looted the American mieainn chapel at Inghok. 60 miles from Foo Chow. The Chinese soldiers sent n Ku Cheng to protect foreign prop erty plundered the Stewart residence. Buffalo. Joe Patchan wna .in... in the match trotting race with Robert J., winning the first, second and fourth heats, the average time, being 2.0514. John W. Mckay. the bonanza kinar of the Comstock mines, waa a Port land visitor Wednesday night, return ing irom a trip to Alaska. Three hundred head of Benton county sheep have been driven to Portland for J. L. Castle. The drive occupied seven days and the total cost was 330. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oresonian of August 10, 170. inuuit. v. general Battle in iront of Metx Is considered imminent. The Prussians are moving in that direc tion by forced marches. Denver. The Kansas Pacific rail road laid five miles of track Satur day, making 14V miles in three days. There is now a gap of only 29 miles to be completed. Real estate has risen very raDidly at East Portland. A block ln Mc- . Millen's addition several blocks back from the river, in the timber, has just sold for $1700.' But little more than a year ago the block in front of it was sold by the proprietor of the townslte for JtoO. Yesterday a double cross was erected on the new Fpire of the Taylor Street Methodist Episcopal church. The bars are 160 feet above the ground. Meaning of Bolshevik. INDEPENDENCE, Or.. Aug. 8. (To the Editor.) Being an old sub scriber of your paper I write to aFk Is there a man at the head of the Russian government by the name of Bolshevik or was there ever a per son by that name that took a part in the overthrow of Russia? My con tention is that there never was such a man, that bolshevik is not a name but a word. The information is desired to settle a dispute. JEROME DORNSIFE. Bolshevik ia a word. Freely trans lated it means "the most." It waa used to designate the radical factior that would be satisfied with nothing short of its extreme aemanae. A DAY DIIEASL Far away "the birds are singing. And the trees a,re telling etories to the nestlings; Stories of the world beyond the shel tering, comforting arms Of the moss-lined rudely fashioned home of moss and twigs: Stories of the world of men, of chil dren's Joys and playtime In tbe sunshine; Stories of the adventures of the wind, postman of the flowers As he bears messaee from the violet to the timid oren.ot; Stories of fairies abroad at early dawn, unseen by man: Stories of all that I would know I, imprisoned between walls. LOIS SMITH. The Walter Explains. I.ondon Telegraph. "Here, waiter; take this stuff away. It's as tough as leather. I ordered, mutton, not old boots!" "Saddle of mutton you said, sir, and so it is."