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(5 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 24, 1920 illoromg (&w$mnxt KSTAUL1SI1KO BY HKNBV I PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing-Co.. 133 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. ilanaser. Editor. The Oregoman Is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press la ex clusively entitled to the use for publicatioa of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights o republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved, ' Subscription .Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally, Sunday Included. ons year $8.00 Iaiiy. Sunday included, six months ... 4.25 Laily. Sunday Included, three months . 2.23 Laily. Sunday included, one month 75 Daily, without Sunday, one year ...... 6 00 Daily, without Sunday, six months .... 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, ou month 60 Weekly, one year ............. , . 1.00 Sfiday, one year 5.v0 (By Carrier.) Dally. 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Ger many by the act of the allies profits by the crimes of Frederick the Great, Bismarck and Von Buelow. As It has been applied by Mr. Wilson and his colleagues at Paris, self-determination has embittered old quarrels, it has brought discord where It should have brought peace, and it has sown the seeds of war where it should have prevented war. What the world most needs is de liverance from impractical idealists and exercise of common sense In its affairs. COUSIN F. KOOSEVSXT AND PROPH ECY. The Mr. Koosevelt who made a partisan democratic speech In Port land the other night Is the -democratic nominee for vice-president of the United States. He made a par tisan speech because he 13 the demo cratic nominee. He is the demo cratic nominee because he bears the distinguished name of Roosevelt and for no other reason. It was a demo cratic scheme to confiscate for the democratic party, for party purposes, the luster and prestige of the great name of Roosevelt. The quality of the speech of Fourth Cousin Roosevelt discloses In Itself the remoteness of his resem blance of and kinship to Theodore Roosevelt. He falls into the familiar democratic patter about non-partisanship. It goes In Oregon, some times; but it will not go this year. The people have come to understand the exact character of the non-partisanship fathered by democratic politicians. They have had nearly eight years of it in the White House, and a hundred years in the solid south. They are done with the one, and hope somehow at some time to be done with the other. Does Frank lin Roosevelt preach non-partisanship to the solid south? Yet we are a little more Interested in Mr. Roosevelt's prediction as to Oregon than in anything else he said. He says .it will go democratic in November. Doubtless he got his information from the same disinter ested sources that coached him on the best kind of non-partisan stuff to feed to the people of Oregon. The Oregonian would like to have the great unknown political prophet who told Mr. Roosevelt about the prospects in Oregon to come forward and over his own name make his estimate as to the democratic ma jority in this state. The Oregonian will then match it with one of its own, and, if it should prove to be mistaken, will agree to retire forever from the field of polMlcal prophecy. , AMERICAN 1.VCK. Tou may not know that France pro vided you with 80 per cent of your air planes, 60 per cent of your guns and 50 per cent of your war supplies. Froat a speech by Captain Andre Tardleu. But the United States supplied the men, all of them who fought under the American flag. Except for France, most of them would haVe had to go into the war bare-handed. The American people, however, furnished the money for itself and some of the money for Its allies. It gave what It had men and money. It was not able to furnish what it should have had airplanes, supplies, ships, guns and the like. The reason was that the country was "kept out of war." In the great project of keeping us out of war a pacific and improvident administra tion refused to get ready for prob able and even inevitable war. As a result It was more than a year after we entered the war before we fired a shot In battle. But there were others both to carry on our war and to help us get ready. We may never again be so lucky. ably have dowered the Finnish race with superior physical stamina and staying qualities. A hard land breeds hard men. if there Is the least spark In the cosmos,- even as an easy land spawns lotus-eaters. The inclement forces of nature do not make lor survival ' of . any save the fit. Arms that have tugged" for weary hours at the oars of fishing boats are ad mirably thewed for casting the jav elin; legs that have worsted snowy leagues on skis do not account the Marathon an extraordinary exertion. The point seems to be that nature has held the Finnish people in train ing for centuries, and that their suc cess in the Olympiad is the result of such super-coaching. SELF-DETERMINATION TO THE EX TREME. President Wilson has carried his devotion to the principle of self-de termination and his insistence on the letter of the treaty of Versailles to an extreme which aggravates the troubles of Europe. The treaty pro- vidus for a plebiscite in the duchy of Teschen which shall decide whether it shall be annexed to Po land or Czecho-Slovakia or how it shall be divided between them. Poles are in the majority in one part, Czechs in the other, while they are mixed with each other in the middle. A German minority throughout the duchy keeps bad blood stirred. The result has been occasional riots and bloodshed. A proposal for arbitration of the dispute by the allied ambassadors' council in place of a plebiscite was made by the Czech govern ment and was finally accepted by Poland about a month ago. Both countries objected to a plebiscite on the ground that It would lead to bloodshed and possibly to war be tween them. But Mr. Wilson has held out for a plebiscite' against the wish of the two interested nations. beemingly he would rather have tnem fight than dot an i in the precious treaty. Working out of the settlement In Europe has proved that more ques tions than the race of the inhabi tants or their present preference are to be considered in applying xne principle of self-determination i nere are economic questions -as well. By dividing the Hapsburg em pire on strict lines of race without requiring that it should remain an economic unit, the allies have com mitted an act of cruelty to its peo- pie. Still inflamed by hatred, the several races overlooked the fact that the relations continued through centuries had made them dependent on each other for some of the neces saries of life and industry. The rail road system was a unit, but it has been cut in pieces by new boundaries. Money is worth only a small frac tion of its normal value. Mix strong dosg of race hatred with these ingredients, and we have a deadlock. Barter between govern ments is the only way to trade. Aus tria negotiates with Czecho-Slovakia for every trainload of coal, and Hungary trades coal for hogs with Jugo-Slavia. Each country is re luctant to let cars and locomotives cross the frontier lest they should not come back. Because they hate each other, these people have been starving not only each other but themselves. There is " also ground for doubt whether popular vote, or plebiscite, always brings a just decision. No doubt a majority of the Allensteln and Marlenwerder, districts of East Prussia were Poles when Prussia ac quired that territory, but Germany nas Deen juggling the population by various oppressive tricKS, such as buying up land and settling It with Germans, transferring Polish con scripts to other parts of the empire and importing officials with large families. East Prussia has been the camping ground of Von der Goltz' buccaneer army sinoe it was forced to evacuate the Baltic states and It has been used to intimidate the peo pie under the nose of the allied troops. The sequel is that both dis tricts have voted by large majorities to remain in Germany rather than join Poland. There is no reasonable doubt that, but for juggling of the population and intimidation, there SEVENTEEN DOLLARS VELVET. It Is estimated by Lloyd Riches, who has been over the states on a tour of investigation, that ten thou sand farmers have put up $18 apiece to join the non-partisan league. It is incredible that ten thousand per sons will pay $180,000 to accomplish something that can be accomplished for $10,000 If it can be accomplished at all. The pulling force of the league in Oregon is said to be promise of state owned stores, state owned elevators, state owned warehouses, state owned canneries, state owned banks, guar anty of bank deposits and similar in stitutions which can be established only by a vote of the electorate. The Oregon system invites sub mission of any sort of law or scheme. given number of names attached to a petition will put the scheme on the ballot. No elaborate cam paign for control of legislature pr state offices is necessary. It is as simple as A B C and comparatively inexpensive. But if the more elabo rate plan should be adopted and control of the legislature secured, the issues must finally go to vote of the people. Wherein amendments of the constitution are not required may be taken for granted that those opposed to socialistic enter prises will invoke the referendum. It takes a talkative and fascinat ing stranger to drag $18 out of the farmer on promise of an economic millennium. In the days when the people's power league was offering choice schemes biennially for the reiorm or perfection of this and that Mr. U'Ren never thought of in viting an in uregon who were in favor of the programme to nut ut $18 apiece. He could not have got it it ae naa. He was a home prophet. it takes a prophet from North Da- kota to gather the Oregon shekels. Mr. u Ken s single tax measures, we Deueve, were financed largely by money got elsewhere. He was not a home prophet in New York, Penn sylvania, Saskatchewan and other sources of single tax revenue. But for humanitarian instincts' we anouia iiKe to see a home crown product go out among the farmers and attempt to organize them on the same programme at a dollar a head. It would provide ample funds for all legitimate purposes if all who are said to have joined the North Da kota organization would join the dollar club. But he would be run out of the country as a faker, a grafter and a cheap skate princi pally as a cheap skate. OLYMPIC FINLANDERS. Above all other achievements at the seventh Olympiad shines the record of Finland, an inconspicuous land of misty fire and morass the very threshold of the arctic. With less than 3,000,000 inhabitants, and these condemned to Incessant toil against the rigors of a forbidding climate, Finland has sent to the Olympic games such men as any of the larger nations might well find pride in. Second only to America in the number of points won against the world, and winning place and prominence in every event her ath letes enter, to Finland has gone the honor of the classic Marathorr that I rate) mat. cans tor me last nicker or courage and the complete exhaustion of physical resource. It is Idle to comfort ourselves with the thought that Kolehmainen, victor of the sev enth Marathon, is an adopted American with enviable distance records on our soil. By birth and blood he is of the Finnish people, and it is none other than the north land strain that upbore him. The Olympic records of the Finns compel attention and invite query as to what manner of land it is that bears such sons. A bleak one. that much is certain, but lately freed from the blight of Russian autoc racy, which did not suffice to make dull plodding serfs of the stout fel lows who toil in the forests of Fin land or sweep the bitter waters of the north for sea-fish. The domain of the Finns ends at the bergs of the Arctic ocean. By summer it is dark with rain and mists, by winter it is the playground of old Boreas himself, where the snows pile high aDove tne farm bouses and even Steffanson would evince satisfaction at tne northern setting. Winter is long and cruel, summer is swift and ardent. A scanty three per cent of land is arable, and full thirty-five per cent is clothed with coniferous forest. Surroundings such as these, cou pled with the toil that must be arrayed against nature, are not con ducive to light hearts and laughter. They have bred in the Finn a trait of introspection that marks him, among other nationalities, as lonely, taciturn man. Perhaps it is this predominant trait that gave to him among the Norsemen some idle fame as' a warlock, and that induced sailormen to accredit him with the psychic power of second sight. His oaths are dark ones, invocations of the devil and of sundry bloody rites but, even so, they are no whi more dreadful than the familiar blasphemy of the Anglo-Saxon. , But the same sources unquestlon GOVERNOR OLCOTT'S WORD TO SCOT LAND. ' Governor Olcott's reply to the anti-prohibition campaign council of Scotland, respecting the actual ef fects of an arid condition in Oregon, presents, in a few words the facts that are familiar to all of us, but which are little dwelt upon owing to that familiarity. Unquestion ably he is eorrect in assuming that the voters of Oregon "would never consent to the return of licensed saloons." The poorly hidden issue of the pres ent presidential campaign, wherein the democratic party has been attired in the livery of the "wets," is proof that even such progress as prohibi tion records in Oregon will not be admitted as evidence by the liquor crowd. Considered in this light it appears that Governor Olcott's reply to the Scottish champions of booze is timely in a national sense. Not only does it give hih official' sanc tion to proof of prohibition's success, but it arrays that proof, and consti tutes a prophecy that our citizenry is never to turn its back to progress. No one will claim that as Oregon goes, so goes the nation, but it is entirely safe to wager that on this matter our state does not differ a whit from her sisters. Critics will say to Governor Olcott that drunkenness is still prevalent, and that liquor is illicitly made and sold. All of which is partially true. but the court records will attest that drunkenness has receded to a mini mum unheard of in the old days of the saloon. As for all law violations incident to illicit liquor traffic they are but a -tithe of the tide that choked our courts a few years since. Reform is not .attained by statute, runs the recent intimation by a high priest of democracy. Yet, where the will of the people is behind that reform as in prohibition the stat ute is destined to take care of all practical dissenters. As for the the orists of freedom for booze the same public conscience that approved pro hibition will disapprove of them. A CAMPAIGN OF SLANDER. A sure sign of weakness in the democratic case is its resort to cam paign falsehoods which can easily be disproved, for the purpose of black ening the good name of the oppos ing party and of awakening the-prej udices, of the people who can be thus influenced. Chairman Hays of the republican national committee gives notice that "neither the repub lican candidates nor the republican management will take false asper sions lying down." If the democrats are bent on a mudslinging cam paign, the republicans will seek out every weak point in their record and will find plenty of truth to use as ammunition without resort to such transparent falsehoods as Mr. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt tell about campaign funds. The mendacity of the charges made by the democratic candidates is proof of their folly. Full publicity of campaign funds of both parties before the election cannot be avoid ed. The senate committee to inves tigate them, which was appointed on republican, not democratic initiative, still exists and can and will extort and publish the truth. If it were true that the republicans are raising $30,000,000, they could not do so without either accepting individual subscriptions of far more than $1000 or obtaining -at least 30,000 subscriptions of thatsum. Certainly many more will be of much smaller sums. There will probably be twice as many of $500 each, four times as many of $250 each and so on down the scale. Thus the total number of subscribers might easily reach 300,- 00, if the $1000 maximum plan should succeed. If it should be abandoned, Mr. Hays promises pub licity of the fact, and the senate committee under pressure of public opinion would compel publicity. Every possible effort for success will doubtless be made, for failure would be injurious to the party. By their slanders the democratic candidates add to the incentive to make it suc ceed. Well knowing that this plan of raising funds had been adopted, Mr. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt have re peatedly said that great sums are contributed by large interests. On the day when Mr. Hays branded such statements as false, Mr. Cox said at Canton: Large interests are contributing- to the republican campaljen fund, because they want to buy an administration under which soldiers ana the bayonet will be used to settle difficulties. If that had been true, it would have been capable of proof to the inestimable damage of the repub lican party. That party being led by men of ordinary intelligence and judgment, Its adherence to its an nounced plan is to be presumed.' Then the democratic candidates not only brand themselves as maligners of their opponents but direct atten tion to the plan of maximum popu lar subscriptions which the repub licans have adopted and to the. full significance of its suecess. If 300,000 persons should sub scribe to the republican fund, they would constitute one in every hun dred voters. There would be in each state an average or 62 50 persons who would have given an average of $10 each. to the fund of $3,000,000 proposed by Mr. Hays. They would put their zeal and energy where they had put their money, and would work persistently for republican sue. cess. By their aspersions on repub lican methods, the democrats impel their opponents to persevere in their plan, thus to furnish practical proof that no great interests finance their campaign and establish a claim on them, and to enroll that- great army; or worKers tor republican success. The slanders of Mr. Cox and Franklin Roosevelt are disgusting because they bespeak an estimate of political morals which, if correct, would bode ill for the future of the republic. To say that the managers of a party comprising about half the nation are willing to sell the govern ment implies that there are men who not only are willing to buy but who believe it can be bought, and that the people are so corrupt, indif ferent, hence unpatriotic, that these men imagine they would permit the sale. The charge being notoriously false, the making of it lowers its makers to the plane of depravity on which they put those whom they malign. -The election is not to be decided by the weapons of mendacious scan dal and it is to Je hoped that Mr. nays win nut permit nimseii. tu uc driven into meeting his opponents with such weapons, for which he rightly expresses distaste. It should be the "fair contest" which he says we propose to have." The question before the people is whether in Uie light of the conduct of the two par ties in the last eight years, repub licans or democrats are more fit to be entrusted with the government The questions for discussion are the conduct of public affairs by the democratic administration, the rec ord of both parties in the war and the acts of "the republican congress since the war; also the qualifications of their respective candidates. When Mr. Cox turns aside from these ques tions to accuse the republican man agers of an offense which is tan tamount to treason, he confesses that his case is weak and he brands himself and his party as unfit for public trust, for he lowers himself and it to the level on which he puts those whom he maligns. KEEP THE CHANNEL OPEN. Grounding of two steamers on the way down the river recently is a practical demonstration of the wis dom of the policy adopted by the Port of Portland commission, of concentrating its entire dredging fleet on the Channel until the estab lisbed depth and width have been secured throughout. Though the workebeing done in the harbor is presumably necessary, it is to be hoped that no more will be under taken until the channel has been put In condition to make its safe naviga tion a matter of course with ship captains. Such incidents as those mentioned cannot be concealed from shipping men, who spread "the news at every port. Their unfavorable effect is not removed by silence, or by explana tion that pilots were guilty of errors of judgment and that in the actual channel? there was enough water to keep the vessel afloat. It is advis able to take precautions against the possibility that such errors may be made and may put a vessel aground By this means alone can the reputa tion of Portland be established among shipping men all over the world as a port having a safe entrance from the sea, where the most ordinary navi gating ability can keep a vessel out of trouble. Then we can with con fidence demand that naval vessels of deep draft come here and that great vessels of the emergency fleet be sent here. Otherwise the coming of such vessels would only do us an injury. The people of Portland should be spurred on by these mishaps to sup port the measures now before them giving the Port of Portland commis sion the power and means to meet all demands of our fast growing commerce. It is composed ot men of high business ability who devote themselves to the service of the port. and it behooves the public to show appreciation of their work by grant ing what Is necessary to enable them to do it well. Calls on the dredging plant are many and grow in number, and it is sometimes difficult to de cide which is the more urgent. That plant should be enlarged to the point where it can meet the needs of both channel and harbor prompt ly. The expenditure will be recov ered in increase of commerce. A correspondent observes that Mexico needs only a stable govern ment to make it a garden of Eden. There is a more or less familiar tale about a certain place whose name was changed in the Revised Version and that needs only a good climate to make it habitable. We thought that dear old Mexico would never be the real con carne after Villa quit the game. Yet on the spur of the moment up bobs an enterprising bandit and captures eleven Americanos. That would have been quite a bag even for Villa, BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES Example of Enhancement of Value of Work of LI Tina; Painter. "Mark Twain's" publishers tay that last year they paid $78,000 in royalties to the heirs of Samuel L. Clemens. This is more money that the distin guished humorist himself ever earned in a single year. It is also an inter esting sidelight on the class of liter- ture the reading public most prefers. Raymond G. Carroll, writing in the Philadelphia Public Ledger, gives this instance of the enhancement in values of the work of a living painter: Bela Lyon Pratt, the sculptor, was in New York several years ago. He had been trying to take out some life insur ance was was repeatedly rejected by ths insurance companies after physi cal examination. All that he pos sessed in cash was $2500, which he decided to invest. After looking over a list of etooks he came up town un decided, and entered an exhibition of paintings. One picture done by Ed mund C. Tarbell, the Boston artist, took hold of his fancy. The price asked for it was exactly $2500. He bought It. Three years later the sculptor-patron died and not long ago his heirs realized $17,500 from the sale of the Tarbell. Joseph. Jefferson, the actor, had an unshakable faith in American art. His wife frequently remonstrated with him for "wasting money,"' she said on pictures done by "unknowns." He remarked: "What is my pleasure in life will be the family's profit when I am gone." After hie death pictures that I am told cost him about $12,000, sold for around $200,000. But then Mr. Jefferson was a picture buyer of rare judgment. Those Who Come and Go. It is impossible to have one's cake and eat It, too. We cannot help thinking that the man who boasts that he is wearing a suit that cost him $25 fifty years ago must have conserved his resources at the cost of enjoying them. 'Germany in Throes of Another Economic Crisis.," says a headline. On reading further we are not sur prised to discover that an effort is being made to solve the underpro duction, problem by going on strike. Fellow freemen, we knew it all the time! When General Pllsudski took command of the Polish armies the doom of the bolshevik! was sealed. How could they fight against so eloquent a cognomen? We venture to suggest to the editor of the new Commercial Bribery and Tipping Review that he enroll under the banner of his crusade the power of organized labor. If the waiters' unions and barbers' unions will in corporate in their, demands a plank calling for the abolition of tipping, coupled with an increase in wages to make up for the -immediate loss in income, they will have taken a step ot Infinitely greater importance than all the anti-tipping legislation on the statute books. The average citizen can do little. To refuse to pay a tip at your restaurant is merely to penal ize the waiter who is so unlucky as to be assigned to your table. The in dividual worker also can hardly be expected to decline the tips from which he is expected to eke out hia insufficient wage. But the labor union has the power to enforce a no-tipping rule, and to enforce it in such a way that the burden of the transaction will not fall on the laborer. Anti-tip- ping legislation is perhaps useful, as a supplement, but without the back ing and power of organized labor it is futile. In the meantime more power to William Rufus Scott and his Com mercial Bribery and Tipping Review He may not succeed in organizing a general strike to abolish tipping, but he can at least serve to remind us once a month of the truth of William Graham Summer's dictum: "Sover eigne do not take tips." The New Republic William Dean Howells was talking about the American novelist, new style and old. recalls a writer in the Washington Star. "A novelist of the new style," he aid, "pulled up his Rolls-Royce on Fifth avenue one afternoon and hailed an old-style novelist, who was just coming out of the public library. " 'Well, Bill,' said the new-style novelist, 'have you had any press no tices lately? I had 37 this morning nine about my divorce, six about my new car, three about what I like for dinner, two about my 105 suits of clothes, five about my lost $2000 bull dog and twelve about the funny anec dote I told the Prince of Wales during his New York visit. Now, how about you. Bill? Any press notices today?' " 'Only one," the old-style novelist answered, meekly. 'Only one. Bob, Only. a review which said that my new novel was well written." " J. L Fellows, secretary of a com pany at Grlnnen. Ia.. that makes washing machines and F. L. Snyder, western representative of the firm with headquarters in Los Angeles, put up at the Benson Sunday. Early yesterday while they were paying a call upon the local agency the tele phone rang and a very much excited young woman informed the store that her new machine refused to work. "Leave that to us," Fellows and Snyder chorused. ' They secured the address and in answer to tne found a bewildered wife attempting to put out her first washing. Every piece of laundry was rammed into the machine and the amateur was waiting for something to happen. It happened. The two heroes .washed out every bit of that prodigious tub full. One of the sure signs that organi zation of the Old Colony club is well under way is the arrival of H. E. W. Wilson from San Francisco to take charge of the establishment to be opened in the Multnomah hotel. Mr. Wilson is accompanied by E. C. Batr ten. also of the California city, who is executive secretary of the advisory board for the international club. Within several months Old Colony members are to have headquarters on the mezzanine floor of the hotel, a tandard branch similar to those opened In the larger cities of the east. C. W. Neimeyer of Salem, who is registered with his wife at the Ben on, has always been a good friend of the papers in his home town. Re porters regard him as a sure source of good little news stories, but once about two years ago he had a yarn that he declined to give out. Mr. Neimeyer had made himself famous by a fishing excursion and it didn't ake a reporter long to find out that the real estate man had good rea- ons for not wishing publicity in the matter. Something had happened to he boat and Neimeyer found himself tranded the greater part of the night on a two-by-rour island out in tne Willamette. Marshal Foch should not remind us that France furnished most of the weapons with which we fought else we may remind the French that we did the subsequent vitally important lighting. speaking or tne nsn and game commission, one notices that . post thereon is rar from .enviable. Its payment includes not a little crab bing and carping. Portland is temporarily twenty- mm city in America. .Next season someone else may have her seat as she moves toward the head of the class. whatever that Seattle boy may have in those mystery coils, the "at mospheric generators," it seems des tined to lay the gasoline ghost. 'Our hoDes of getting reproduc tion on the cut-over timber lands of Oregon are being fulfilled," declared C. Carter of Washington, u. yesterday. Mr. Carter has charge of forest management for the United States forest service and is on his annual inspection tour of the west. With T. T. Munger he has gone through reforested areas near Port land and has since expressed him self entirely satisfied with results being- obtained. He will remain In the city possibly two days longer. According to Lloyd Solomon, Ore gon is the best place on earth except southern Idaho. Mr. Solomon is will ing to make further concessions and admitted yesterday while he was at the Benson hotel that the business which brought him here involved the possibility of his moving to Port land. Hitherto he has been selling U the prosperous Idaho farmers Ford automobiles and came through the city on his way back from Call fornia. Getting married hasn't interfered with Mrs. L. H. Taggert's instinct fo business and she is once more in town on a buying trip for the Peo pie's warehouse of Pendleton. Abou two months ago Mrs. Taggert, for merly Miss Jessie Creighton, stepped up to the altar and said, "I do" and her friends around the Benson feared the event would terminate her perl odical visits, but it seems that th company still thinks a lot of th buyer's taste. CONDITIONS AT NAVAL PRISON Mr: Rooaevent Makes Denial of News paper Allegation. EN ROUTE TO SAN FRANCISCO. Cal.. Aug. 22. (To the Editor.) My attention has been called to an edi torial in The Sunday Oregonian of August 22. I am not in the least con cerned with your opinion of me or of my candidacy, but I am forced to take notice of two definite statements made regarding mySelf. You say, first, "Franklin Roosevelt has gone to extremes in covering the shameful moral conditions which pre vailed at the Portsmouth naval ehool." This is a direct allegation. It la more; it is a clear libel. I am very glad to give you a Driet tateraent of the exact situation in this particular. The Portsmouth aval prison not a naval school was conducted during the war by homas Mott Osborne, a lieutenant- commander in the naval reserve force and a man who has had wide experi- nce in prison reform. Some time last year tne attention f the navy department was called to certain alleged lrregulatlties by eub- rdinates in the Issuing of supplies to the prisoners. An investigation was conducted by agents of the de- artment of Justice. During their investigation, suggestions were made to them by several witnesses that conditions of moral turpitude also xiisted amone the Inmates of the prison. As a result of this, a board of three was appointed by the secre tary of the navy. This board con isted of Rear-Admiral Dunn, Rear Admiral Halstead and myself. After several meetings at Portsmouth and after an examination of the evidence handed to us by the department of justice agents, the board came to the conclusion that the alleged immoral conditions did not exist, but had been charged by persons who were anxious to repay private grudges against Mr. Osborne and others connected with the prison. The board made several recommendations relating to the method of administering the prison but these in no case had anything to do with moral conditions. They related purely to administrative ques tions. The report of the board was unanimous and was signed by both the rear-admirals and by myself. The editorial further states: Ac cording to the Providence Journal he has destroyed or sequestered navy records in order to shield himself or Secretary Daniels"; "Has given the lie to naval officers of the highest standing"; "Has attempted to prevent the truth becoming known by trick ery which bears all the earmarks of the discredited politician. I realize, of course, that this Is quotation from another newspaper. It is, nevexthless, libelous to re publish it. I think that it is almost unneces sary for me to answer statements o this kind. If it will give you any particular pleasure, however, I am only too glad to tell you that I never destroyed or sequestered any navy records for any purpose. Secondly that I have not given the lie to naval officers of the highest standing, though it is, of course, natural that I have not wholly agreed with every officer of high standing In every par ticular during the nearly eight years I have been connected with the navy department. And. finally. I hav never prevented any truth from be coming known by trickery or other wise. I have never run for national offic until this year, but, neverthelss, I ca see no reason why journalistic truth fulness should not apply to editorial comments about national candidate just as much as to any other citize in the community. In the case of The Sunday Orego nian 1 feel that you would not wil fully allow a wrong of this kind to go unrignted. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J, Montague Mns. Emma Royal, stenographer at the Benson, sprung a surprise on th hotel staff yesterday by announcing that she had last June plunged int- matrimony and changed her name to Walker. She leaves today with he husband for Indiana, Minnesota and Georgia and plans to come back by way of Los Angeles. While everybody is sweltering dow in Texas Mr. and Mrs. George Macatee are getting nicely cooled off by touring the coast states. They stopped at the Benson hotel on thei way to Yellowstone park, which Is t cap the climax of the trip. M Macatee is connected with large hotel interests in Houston. "THE BEST-LAID PLANS." Crime terms rurk In the teeth, and when they are .out in order the criminal turns from tafcs evil ways. A Scte-ntlfi3 Journal. "Some years ago," the burglar said, "My loving wife and I decided Our little son must earn his bread In less precarious ways than I did. For cops are growing keen and stern - And judges harsh and unforgiving. And now a burglar scarce can earn Without great risk a decent living. So when we read that teeth and crime By scientists have been connected. And most of those now doing time Have left their molars lone neerlected. We bound the younester. hand and foot To quell his bitter onnosition. And had a high-priced dentist nut His little teeth in good condition. Our child win live within the law," baia we, his trimmed incisors view ing, A sound and renovated Jaw Will turn his mind from vll -rir,t- He'll gain a fortune of his own y "ving straight and clean and thrifty. And. in old age, he'll not be known as in umber Four-Eleven-Fifty. Alas, our cherished plans went wrong Although his teeth, as wa int.nH.H Continued to be sound and rnp- He recently was annrohorwi.H .me BKies that seemed bright. Alas for us can nvv i,.. For In a fight the other night ' xi went ana bit a party's ear ofC" Look Oat! If we were Mr: de i tt,,.-. - should be suspicions that vni, v.j surrendered with reservation. Coming Down. You can tro un in an for a dollar a mlmtia -u.v.v. 1 it about as cheap as drinking bootleg whisky. Competent. Conan Doyle ought to be ahl. te, summon up the dead if anybody can. Ho revived Sherlock Holmes after he naa Killed him. so fair and A Wheel Chair. By Grace E. Hall, When the sunshine filters on the trail through interlacing boughs. And the uaraas flowers are nodding of the pleasant things they know. While the cows in sweet contentment in the curly clover browse. It is then my thoughts turn gently to a friend of long ago. She could never climb the hillside when the west was gold and red. For affliction laid Its heavy hand upon her youthful head. And she spent the precious hours in a wheel chair; but each day She dispensed a wealth of sunshine to the ones who passed that way. at the In- very often have I marveled patience ehe possessed. u""' ana gemie sne was ever spiratlon of the best; And when I am prone to murmur at my burdens and my care. I can still the impulse quickly with a memory of that chair. In Other Days. The performance of the all-metal airplane will not, however, detract from the importance of the spruce division in the late war. Increase of 1400 per cent in raisin Imports from Spain last year is not accounted for by increased consump tion of light bread. The mint industry is. another one that continues to grow, confounding the prophets of dire disaster as the result of prohibition.' A real mystery about the mystery generator is 'that so much mystery is permitted to envelop its "demonstration." They are hanging the "Welcome" sign over the east side police sub station, those courteous cops. Recurring forest fires show that the national habit of carelessness is not easily reformed, "There are certain bird notes which strike strange chords, whose vlbra tions are lost in a mist of dreams, says Samuel Scovllle Jr., writing in the Yale Review. "I remember a little runaway boy who stood in a clove field in a gray twilight and heard the clanging calls of wild geese shouting down from mid-sky. Frightened, he ran home, a vast distance, at least the width of two fields. As he ran there seemed to come back to him the mem ory of a forgotten dream, if it were a dream, in which he lay in another land on a chill hillside. Overhead in the darkness passed a burst of tri umphant music and the strong sing ing of voices not of this earth. From that day the trumpet notes, of the wild geess bring back through the fog of the drifting years that same dream' to him who heard them first in that faraway, long ago clover field." A young newspaper woman of At lanta, who was planning to try her wings- as a journalist 'in New York, went to the bank where she kept her meager funds. "I'm sorry to discon tinue my business relations with you," she said pleasantly, "but it will, or course, be more convenient to keep my money in New York in the future. Please tell me how much I have on hand." The clerk disappeared and returned after a moment, hiding a smile. "We are sorry to lose your patronage," he said politely. But at present you haven't any money with us. You are $9.50 overdrawn. Atlanta Constitution. A young newspaper man of Kokomo wrote a short story and sent it to a magazine. In due time there came back to him one of those gloom-dis trlbutors called rejection slips. It ran somewhat like this: "We have read your story and are sorry to say It is not suited to our needs. Red Book. Blue "Book. Green Book." The young newspaper man looked at the slip and then at his story. "Well," he said, "I don't know what color to play now." Indianapolis News. From an article in the August American magazine: "She lives in Chicago. has one daughter, and is married." So that's all right. And, advertising for a stenographer in the Cleveland Plaindealer, the prospective employer says: "Experi ence is not unnecessary, but character is." Knickerbocker Press. I A conference of officials of th Montgomery-W ard company, which is putting up a new warehouse her brought a party of Kansas City peo pie to. the Multnomah for a few days. In the group are Mr. and Mrs. Will iam R. De Field and Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Young. Subscription lists, advertising rates and all the excitement of the town of Moro have been forgotten for sev eral days by C. L. Ireland, editor of the newspaper there. Mr. Ireland is with his wife at the Perkins hotel. Theater fans may view one of their old favorites at the Benson, Edwin Everett Horton, who has Just arrived from Los Angeles. He is one of the Baker stock company's former lead ing men. "Don't call it the Pacific highway; call it the Terrific highway," groaned Dr. P. Woerner after driving his car into Portland from Aberdeen. He dropped into the Oregon and an nounced hia intention of shipping the machine home by rail. Mall clerks at the Portland are scarce articles these days. Harold Olson, one of the desk squad, has Just contrived to contract pleurisy In his left lung about the time Roy Cook was due to go on his vacation. Cook will depart today. The Imperial has its usual quota of stock men sitting around the lobby "swapping" yarns this week. There are among the recent arrivals H. L. Cooper and Sol Dickerson of Weiser, Idaho, and F. W. Lee of Fossil. M. T. O'Connell, who believes in the adage about the early worm, is at the Oregon. He is a lumberman from Winlock, Wash., whose friends know him as an early riser. Mrs. C. F. Weiss and Lillian Rogers of Walla Walla, spent a day at the Imperial on the way home from the beach. They have been passing the summer at Seavlew. Mrs. F. W. Settlemeler of Wood burn is registered at the Imperial. She is one of the active members of the Eastern Star. Dr. E. W. Welty -and family motored through here from1 Spokane and stopped at the Oregon. They are spending their vacation on an auto mobile tour. Among recent arrivals at the Nor tonia are Mr. and Mrs. R. S. All bright of Tacoma. They motored to Portland on a vacation trip. From a far off land has come Miss Evelyn Teltel, who is registered at the Portland. Her .home is in Johan nesburg, Africa. Fully Informed. "What we need is production." "So I have heard," replied Farmer Corntossel, "from a whole lot of sum mer boarders who don't do anything except sit around and wait for some one to bring the glad tidings that dinner is ready." Washington Star. The paragraph from the editorial article to which Mr. Roosevelt refers was based wholly on statements from the Providence (R. I.) Journal. The quotations from that paper by The Oregonian were explicit and un qualified. The Journal is a news paper of high standing as its editor, Mr. Rathom, is a journalist of cour age, enterprise and demonstrated patriotism. The Journal several months since made damaging charges -about moral conditions at Portsmouth naval prison and has repeated them, not withstanding the naval board reported they were unfounded. It was the Providence Journal which early in the European war ax- posed the vast extent of German propaganda in America. Directly as a result of its publications various high, German officials were sent home. Ambassador Be-matoff him self was implicated and should also have been sooner dismissed. There were many denials of the Journal's disclosures, but their essential truth was nevertheless fully established. It was a service for which the Ameri can people may well have been grate ful. But .if the president and his administration were graiteful for the performance by a courageous news paper of a duty whicn distinctly be longed to them, they have never shown it. Twenty-fire Years Ago. From The Ore eon lan of August 24, 1805. London. A special disDatch from Shanghai says that many Chinese converts were massacred when the American mission outside of Foo Chow was attacked. Atlanta. President Cleveland will touch an electric button to unfurl the flags and open the gates for the Cotton States International exposi tion. Captain Robinson, who keeps a talley on the women who cross the Stark-street ferry, says that 300 out of every 1800 are very beautiful. He will be very careful not to give out the names of those not in the list. The school board has had all" the school buildings repaired during the summer vacation and they are now ready for the fall term. Paper Sent Without Order. CORNELIUS, Or., Aug. 20. (To the Editor.) If a newspaper is mailed to a person a length of time after his subscription has expired, can that paper force him through law to pay for it? Or can this same paper give the account to an adjusting associa tion to collect? A SUBSCRIBER. A newspaper or periodical sent without order is, by the terms of the law of Oregon, a gift, and payment therefor cannot be enforced. There is no prohibition against asking for payment either direct or through collection agency, but if the recipient does not desire to pay he need not do so. ' Once in Jeopardy for Same Offense, TACOMA, Wash., Aug. 20. (To the Editor.) In order to settle an argu ment will you plSase answer the fol lowing questions: If a person is once declared inno cent of murder by a Jury and given bis freedom, can he be brought to court and tried again for that mur der. against his will? If so. in what states? CLIFFORD FAIRFAX. The answer is no. The United States constitution pro vldes that no person shall be sub ject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb. Unique Menu. Old Portly found himself stranded for an hour or so in a strange town and decided to have something to eat. He entered the only restaurant b could find and called for a menu. "There ain't one, eair," said th waiter, who looked as if he'd been blighted in infancy, "but I can tell you what's on." "Let's have It, then," said Portly. The waiter took a deep breath and reeled off a lengthy list. "You have good memory, my man," said Portly. "No, sir," said the waiter meekly, "I Just looked at the tablecloth. Houston Post. Fifty Yearn Ago. From The Oregonian of August 24, 1S70. London Advices from the seat of war show that the Germans are try ing to surround Bazaine to prevent reinforcements from joining him. Salt Lake The railroad was washed away in a terrific hail storm which fell at Hot Springs yester day. Hail resembling large pieces of ice fell in great quantities. Oakland. Owing to the extreme heat, the July yield of grain and fruit in the Umpqua valley is just one-half of the usual average. Many new books were received yes terday at the Portland library, and are now ready for the reading public Descent of Property. CAMAS, Wash., Aug. 21. (To the Editor.) A man and wife own land in Oregon, (community property.) The wife dies leaving three children, one a minor, and two past 21 years old and the husband. Who owns the land; the children or husband? W. A. MANSFIELD. The descent of the property would depend upon who was the record owner. If the deed ran to husband and wife, the property would all go to the husband upon the wife's demise; if the property was held solely in the name of the husband, the wife left no estate and the ownership status would remain unchanged; if the prop erty was wholly in the wife's name it would descend to the children in equal parts subject to the husband's life interest in the income from one half the estate. Boom in Flax In Morocco. Exchange. The cultivation of flax in Morocco is yielding excellent results, and It Is possible to foresee that in the near future Morocco will replace Russia as the principal source of French flax spinners, says information received by the bureau of foreign and domes tic commerce. The first attempts at cultivation were made in 1917 by Bontemy Derives & Co., and 600 hec tares were sown in 1919. The crop is of good quality, equal to the flax pro duction in France, and the land which could be utilized is enormous in extent. . Portrait Gallery on Skin. Indianapolis News. Perhaps the most extraordinary tattooing idea ever carried out was that of a French coachman, who at the time of the celebrated Dreyfus trial, had his body covered with no fewer than 120 illustrations of the case. Including portraits of the lead ing personages. The work occupied nearly twq years. f. -