THE HOUSING- OHEGONTAX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 27, 1920
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IDAHO'S KETCRN TO CONVENTIONS.
Idaho, we think, is the only state
that, itftcr a definite trial of the di
rect primary nominating system, has
returned to the convention plan. The
rejection by the republican conven
tion at Pocatello, despite the urging
of so powerful a political figure as
United States Senator Borah, of a
resolution calling for reinstatement
of the direct primary arouses new
interest in the possibility of perfect
ing the convention system so that
the political abuses that once char
ccterized it will not be possible of
repetition.
Idaho took its first step toward the
direct primary in 1903 when it placed
the safeguards of the general elec
tion law around the election of dele
pates to conventions. This was only
e. step, and in 1909 a direct primary
was made mandatory upon political
parties, which were defined as po
litical organizations which had cast
at least 10 per cent of the vote at
the preceding election. There was
adopted in connection therewith the
familiar corrupt practices act. Can
didates were limited in their ex
penditures to 25 per cent of the
5 early salary and to certain purposes
defined by the law. Publication. of
campaign expenditures was required.
The primary law provided for plat
form conventions ' and embodied
compulsory first and second-choice
voting. A majority of first-choice
votes was required to nominate on
tirst choice. If no one received a
majority of first-choice votes the
eecond-choice votes were added.
There was also a preferential United
States senatorial primary.
For a number of years following.
th&.Idaho effort seems to have been
to perfect this system. The alpha
betical arrangement of names on the
ballot, it was , discovered, gave a
marked advantage to those whose
names were at the head of the ticket.
Rotation of names was established
In 1911. An increase in campaign
expenditures was granted to aspir
ants for low-salaried offices. The
first and secorld-choice. provision
was modified to permit nomination
by 40 per cent of the first-choice
votes.
The primary law until 1918 failed
to recognize party allegience as a
lire-requisite to voting in a party pri
mary. The elector was priviliged to
ask for and receive all of the party
ballots. He could retain the one he
chose, and the others were returned
to the election judges and by them
destroyed. While registration of vot
ers had been established, there was
nothing in the system to prevent the
member of one party from voting in
the primary of another party.
In 1913 the law was again amend
ed. The elector was permitted to re
ceive only one party's ballot. He
could be challenged on the ground
that he was not a member of the
party for whose ballot he asked and
could be required to swear that "he
was affiliated with such party at the
last general election and that he In
tended in good faith to support Its
candidates generally." The second
choice provision was further modi
. fied to make it optional when more
than two candidates sought the same
office. The practice of some voters
and politicians of participating in a
primary and thereafter nominating
vr accepting a nomination on an in
dependent ticket was attacked with
a provision denying anyone who had
participated in a primary the right
to nominate or be nominated by
AJeimuu,
There seems to have been a sin
cere effort in Idaho to relieve the
direct primary of shortcomings that
had become apparent under its op-
ujuuon ana at. tne same time to re
serve party integrity. But there, as
elsewhere. It was found that tho
direct primary is not a poor, man's
enicie lor getting into office. Llmi
tations on campaign - expenditures
were consistently ignored. The fit
ness ol state officers was not im
proved. One man was elected stat
treasurer, who was known to his as
sociates to be of questionable char
acter. There was no way for them
to get what they knew befom tta
public without expending large sums
or money from their own norkofs
This officer stole $145,000 of state
funds and was sen.t to the peniten
tiary. The system developed a horde
of office seekers, each of whose out
standing qualification for the 1oh Tip
sought was that he wanted it. There
oeveiopea a general unfitness in can
iiiumea except among those who
sought xne most responsible places,
j-arty regularity and party responsl
bility.went under. Each candidate
was nis own party.
Possibly these conditions
have been endured much longer and
home enon made to correct them
had it not been for the activities of
ino non-partisan league. In 1918
that organization held a convpntinn
and selected a full complement of
eiate oincers. uut it did not for
mally effect a party-organization. It
aavisea its members to enter the
democratic primary and nominate
mere me men it had endorsed. Th
league's candidate for governor, run
ning on the democratic ticket, had
Deen cnairman of a county reDub
llcan central committee and, in June
of the same year of 1918, a member
of the republican platform com
mittce.
It Is a significant commentary on
loopholes in primary laws that
whereas an elector could be sub
Jected to criminal prosecution, for
making false oath as to party mem
bership upon voting in a primary,
the supreme court could discover
nothing in the law which prohibited
a member of one party from seeking
the nomination in another party.
Kffort in the courts to prevent in
vasion of the democratic party in
the form of. dishonest nominations
failed, and it was recognized that
invasions by voters in wholesale
number could not effectually be
reached under the provisions of the
party affiliation provisions of the
statute. The state was confronted
by the prospect that an organiza
tion, imported from another state
and headed by men in Idaho having
no intimate or - remote connection
with' the farming interests, would
gain control of the state government
and administer it in the interests of
a sinfle class. The primary law was
the vehicle upon which dishonesty
sought to ride and, discouraged and
disgusted, the legislature in 1919
abolished the law so far as it related
to nomination of candidates for
United States senator, presidential
elector, representative In congress
and state office.
The direct primary Is retained for
nomination of candidates for county
office, district judge, precinct com
mitteemen and delegates to the
county convention. The county con
vention adopts a county platform
and selects delegates to the state
convention and chooses a member of
the state central committee. An in
teresting feature is a provision which
virtually makes county or state con
vention he Judge of the party qual
ifications of its own members. If it
discovers irregularity or fraud which
has resulted in the election of dele
gates who do not correctly represent
the principles of the party to which
they are accredited, such delegates
may be denied seats in. the conven
tion. .
Every candidate in order to secure
place on his party ticket, - must
also swear to a nomination paper de
claring among, other things, that he
as not voted at the primary of an
other political party within a period
of twp years, that he believes in
greater part in tho- principles of the
party from which he seeks nomina
tion, and that he is not becoming a
candidate as a member 6f any parti
san or non-partisan organization,
other than as the candidate of the
party whose favor he seeks. In ad
dition he must file a written certifi
cate of the county chairman or of a
majority of the county central com
mittee or of five reputable , party
members of at least five years' resi
dence in the county that he is .then
and has been for two years prior
thereto a member of the political
party .on whose ticket he desires to
become a candidate. -
Herein- one may read determina
tion to prevent seizure of the state
government by a minority through
manipulation of -party machinery
and party organization." Otherwise it
is a mixed primary and convention
system which occupies a middle
ground between that .upon which
primary supporters and convention
adherents stand. It provides an ex
periment in the nomination of can
didates that will be interesting to
watch. In time the organization
which it was devised to combat will
die. Then will come its true test. If
it insures the stability of the party
system of government and promotes
the nomination of better ratiHirtnroa
it will have corrected serious defects
in state election, for which the
irect primary can unquestionably
be blamed.
OCR NEW POSTMASTER.
No appointee ever enters office
with higher qualifications than those
of sound experience. Thus it is that
Portland citizens, despite the fact
that previous duties have not thrust
him into public prominence, are
moved to satisfaction with the ap
pointment of John M. Jones as post
master. An employe of the local of
fice for thirty years, winning con-
tant and consistent. promotion from
the grade of letter carrier, there is
an element of recompense and ac
knowledgement in this last appoint
ment that is essentially gratifying to
American spirit.
The appointment of Postmaster
Jones Is important from another, an
gle of view, in that it appears to in
dicate that the administration is re
deeming its pledge to remove such
appointments from politics. In this
instance the chief executive of a
first-class postoffice takes his desk
as the successful contestant in civil
service examination with a record
of loyal service and efficiency to
validate further his fitness to serve.
A similar instance of the man for
the office, not the office for the man.
s that of the present postmaster of
Boston whose republican political
affiliations did not bar him from
successful competition.
Portland has good cause to know
how rife with bickerings and parti
san affrays the office of postmaster
may be when under political con
trol. Its removal from politics, and
absolute elimination from the spoils
system, should not fail to improve
local postal service and redound 'to
the credit of the entire department.
This prediction is based upon the
previous record of Postmaster Jones,
serving in inconspicuous capacitv,
but with such attention to his tasks
that promotion constantly sought
mm. He has but to adhere to the
principles of his past to win contin
ued success and public approval.
The conclusion is mandatory that
application and honest service pay
and pay well. While.it is true that
there is not enough places of emi
nence to accommodate every toiler,
assuming that all were qualified to
rise, it Is a more practical truth to
observe that only occasionally do we
discover that man who is entirely
willing to work his way to the top.
, He would have been the prophetic
son of a prophet who could have
foretold that prohibition in America
would bring prosperity to the
swarthy Spanish farmers of the
Mediterranean coast. Malaga grows
the Muscat grape, and in its export
form we recognize it is a superior
raisin, withered to 30 per cent sugar
content beneath the genial sun of
ancient Granada. Before prohibition
the United States grew nearly all the
raisin grapes it found use for.' Im
ports from the Mediterranean vine
yards were negligible and served
merely to keep the price down. Now
the raisin aviates with other costly
articles of diet, because so many,
many folk are "making their own."
For the first six months of 1920
nearly 8,000.000 pounds of raisins
were imported from Malaga, exceed
ing the total raisin exports from that
port for " the previous seven-year
period, and even this tremendous
foreign purchase did not break the
price. Interesting as this informa
tion may be, it affords no cause for
alarm over the ultimate success of
Prohibition. Nor does it prove that
we are an abandoned nation ot law
breakers. A few million headaches,
a few thousand federal sentences.
and the raisin will retire to its pud
dings. IS BRYAN A CHCMP1
Replying to the Oregonian's query as to
whether or not we consider Bryan a liar,
we will say t'hat we do not. But we do
.think that now and then he qualifies as a
cnump. and that he isn t always right by
a Jugful of grapejuice. There was a time
when The Peerless One was the foremost
champion of free silver that the Orego
nian did not quote hhn with such gleeful
gusto. Weston Leader.
The test of MrBryan's. fidelity to
truth, as applied by our friend at
Weston, is to be found in his sup
port, or otherwise, of the democratic
party. When he's for the ticket, he
is the Peerless Leader; -when he is
not, he is a chump. , It is pretty
tough on Bryan that he should be
called names by a so-called "inde
pendent" paper for a real show of
independence.
We find ourselves ' wondering
whether the Leader thinks The Ore
gonian was right or wrong in its op
position to free silver and to Bryan
ism in 1896 and other times. But
let it go. It will be more to the
point to ask our eastern Oregon
neighbor to say In what particular
sentences Bryan showed .himself to
be a chump when he penned these
words about the Cox nomination:
The nomination of Governor Cox sig
nalizes the surrender of the democratic
party into- the hands of the reactionaries
on both the liquor question and financial
questions generally.
A candidate, like an Individual, is to be
Judged by tho company he keeps, - and
Governor Cox's company leaves no doubt
as to the view entertained of him by those
interested in the manufacture, sale and
use of intoxicating liquorj and by those
who represent big business.
, But while the two most dangerous ele
ments In the country have taken control
of the party tor this campaign, it does
not mean that either element will sup
port the ticket.
Chump talk, perhaps, but wherein
is it not true, whoever says it?
FAIR PLAY IN THE LEGISLATURE.
' The Salem Statesman notes, with
some evidences pf perturbation, that
a movement is under way to reduce
the Marion county apportionment in
the lower house of the state legis
lature from five to four. It is to be
done through a combination of the
delegation of Multnomah and the
eastern Oregon representatives. It
is not recited what special sins have
been committed by Marion county,
but it is admitted that the Marion
delegation has not always conducted
itself to the liking of certain other
members and it is believed that a
spirit of revenge is a strong factor
Ijehind the scheme. .
The Oregonian has no other in
formation that there is any such
project In contemplation from any
quarter. It would have no injury
done Marion county; but it is among
those who believe that a reappor
tionment of legislative membership
is due. It does not speak particu
larly for Multnomah county nor for
Marion nor any of the large coun
ties, but for the smaller counties.
The present plan of apportionment
is absurd, discriminatory, unfair, not
truly representative. Here, for ex
ample, are six counties Crook, Des
chutes, Grant, Jefferson, Klamath,
Lake joined together in' a single
district and given a grand total of
two representatives. The result is
that four of the six counties must
always .be without direct representa
tion in me nouse. xney are certain
to feel that in many matters they
are denied a voice, and t will be
true.
A fair and practicable method of
apportionment would be to assign to
every county a single member and
to distribute the remainder accord
ing to population. It would be neces
sary to increase the membership of
the house in order to meet the just
requirements of the larger counties.
The result would be a proper bal
ance between the larger and smaller
counties, giving the latter the repre
sentation which they have not, and
not depriving the former of the rep
resentation which they have.
GROWING TWO BLADES OF GRASS.
And he gave it for his opinion that
whoever could make two ears of' corn or
two blades of grass to grow upon a spot
where only one grew before would deserve
better of mankind, and do more essential
service to hi-; country, than the whole race
of politicians put
together. Voyage
to
Erobdingnag.
. The world Is indebted to Swift for
his definition of greatness. Doubt
less many folk were of similar opin
ion when the lines were written. The
thought itself is a hardy perennial.
But Swift said it compactly and left
an imperishable precept. Though
the lines are almost two centuries
old, they are applicable today, to
James Wilson, former secretary of
agriculture, whose death Is recorded
in the news columns.
One imagines that Mr. Wilson did
not leave any considerable store of
material wealth. The biographers
are silent on this point. If we meas
ure public men by their fortunes we
choose a shortened yardstick. His
legacy was to the- agricultural work
ers of America and to the sound
prosperity of his nation. "Viewing it
so, one perceives that it races into
the billions. For of him it could be
said without etripty flattery, and
with statistics to back the statement,
that he made two blades to grow
where only one grew before in the
fields of this country. Statesmen
have left less valuable bequests to
those they served
President McKinlev named James
Wilson as secretary of agriculture,
and he served with eminent effi
ciency under three republican presi
dents McKinley, Roosevelt and.
Taft. It would cheapen a lust
tribute to claim party credit for the
accomplishments of- "Tamai Jim."
The fields and the fruits thereof are
of no political faith. Nor is the
genius that knows their usual needs,
anticipates their exigencies, and
makes the soil bear abundantly.
This was the strong forte of the
Iowa farmer who, for fifteen years,
shaped and directed the growth of
agricultural progress in the United
States. The lesson of his service is
that practical- men, fitted by funda
mental experience to serve, are those
to whom the portfolios of cabinet
office should be entrusted.
. Wheat is of such antiquity as a
food staple that the tombs of Egypt
yield their withered grains. In an
cient China the farmers termed it
the gift of heaven. They were not
alone in this conception of origin,, for
many races in antiquity have claimed
divine origin for this first of all
cereal crops. Our colonists grew it,
and shattered the tradition that
whi'te wheaten bread was an exclu
sive luxury of the aristocrat. One
would have said that we, as an agri
cultural people, knew a great deal
about wheat even before James Wil
son took his post in Washington. Yet
it was he who inttoduced durum
wheat to our farmers a crop which
is said to return approximately
$50,000,000 in annual revenues to
the northwest.
Sugar, the companion of bread as
a food staple, felt the Are touch of
"Tama Jim's" comprehension. In
foreign lands the beet-sugar indus
try was established and indispensa
ble," but it was this man who fos
tered the sugar beet in America and
placed the cane product in competi
tion on its own field.
The forests were merely fields on
a larger scale, to the practical vis
ionary from Iowa. He spoke for the
planting of trees on these unlovely
acres where ax and fire 'had left na
ture desolate. The results of his pol
icies in'forest conservation and re
forestation are but an item in the
valuable legacy he left his fellow
citizens. To hlmthe land of Amer
ica was a broad and fertile farm, dif
fering but little in indicated tillage
from his own acres in Iowa.
No biographer will ever compass
the. worth of James Wilson's service
as secretary of agriculture. We know
that the science of farming in Mc
Kinley's time was no science at all,
when contrasted with the agricul
tural methods of today. It was the
rule of thumb system, which held
that any dolt could tickle the soil
and make it bear some sort of crop.
Today our agricultural industry is
broadly diversified, intelligently ad
ministered, and certain of success in
any season. The farmer is no longer
a rural character or gaping yokel
he is a modern business man whose
factories are the fecund fields. Re
sults are cumulative, tier on tier,
but it is safe to say that the founda
tions of this agricultural success
were laid by an Iowa farmer.
Two blades of grass, two ears of
corn, to grow where one grew be
fore surely there is at a glance
nothing of inspiration in such a task.
It is prosy with hard work. But the
completed project, tall forests and
green and golden fields, illimitable
save for the oceans, mean that
America is economically secure even
though the imports of the . world
were denied to her. Among those
Americana who have striven effec
tively, and to enduring results, there
is no minor place in appreciative
memory for "Tama Jim." Swift
knew whereof he spoke.
DOWN ON THE FARM.
What the world is going to do
about those misguided fellows who
will not return to the farm remains
one of the deep mysteries. Well
n:ighr they buy tickets back to the
old place, celebrating their prodigal
return with the passe popular songs
that declared the joys of rural life.
Some commentators hold that the
vanished order of hire'd men will
begin the higera back to the old
place when there isn't food enough
in the cities. Such a circumstance
may well come to pass. It is. the
land that, when all is said and done,
furnishes the fuel for humanity.
While those who will not take up
the role of farmers are dissenting
with an agricultural career one may
open almost any paper and find that
not all gold mines are in the bosom
of earth, nor all riches concentrated
in urban communities. The daily
news reports celebrate this or that
record of crop production, or of
achievement in stock raising; the
market columns set forth prices that
would have wrung tears of utter joy
from the-eyes of farmers a decade
ago. One perceives that the honor
able vocation of the soil is not with
out its compensations and very
adequate ones at that.
For example, there is the story of
a champion hen, whose coop is down
Corvallis way. In 131 days she sent
to market 131 eggs, took a brief and
well-earned recess and resumed
work with a contented cluck. A
North Dakota farmer owns a cow
that produced in one calendar year
$500 worth of milk and a calf that
sold for an equal sum. Both hen
and cow are symbols" of the agricul
tural times. Each in its way is an
exceptional creature, but is signift
capt in illustrating how high the
standards have been set in later
years.
Qne cannot decree a return to the
farms. There await rewards for
such as will return. But by no flat
will the soil be tilled. Some time
in the post-war period sanity -will
come back to us and the shortage
of farm labor will no longer prevail,
It may be well, as some predict.
that elemental deprivation will dic
tate the return, even as Mowgli
drove Mowgli from the Jungles in
the Ivipling tales.
Some of these cars are of evil dis
position, to say tne least. A minor
city official, held on a charge of
driving while drunk, has been re
lieved of the odium by proving that
it was the machine that - was
wobbly. x
A New Hampshire man succeeds
Roosevelt as assistant secretary of
the navy, and as that state has more
than a foot and a half, of coast line
he may know something of the needs
of the department.
Colby's signature was not needed
to a document that makes woman as
good as man, and, as many men will
concede, a little bit better for the
long wait.
One swallow does make a summer
and one fatality does not make the
one-man car a ruthless juggernaut,
yet it is well to keep out of the way
when any car comes teetering by on
a"1 gallop.
Business must be getting In des
perate shape in Los Angeles when
a thief has to take Xwo pianos,
seventy chairs and other furniture
from a church school, as a man did
Tuesday.
: The activities of the order of booze
hounds should be stirred to extra
endeavor around Bend, where the
natives see meteors and things and
tell of them.
Did the city officials of Hood
River ever read that inspiring poem,
"Woodman, Spare That Tree"? If
they did, they should not cut down
the big oak.
The mayor of Astoria trumps
Mayor Baker's lead and will run
again. It is well for a country when
good men recognize the call to serve
Revision of the census trims
Marion a matter of 700, but that is
not because a man to be famous lives
there.
These are supposed to be dog days
and the dogs are in luck in this kind
of weather.
-Joined the Harding -and Coolidge
club? Why delay?
The mercury Is backing up for
, fresh start, that's all,
BY-PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES
Venerable Tortoise Seems to Prove
That Civilisation. Is Out of Gear.
He waited 375 years to have his
photograph taken, but "everything
comes to him who waits" tf only he
waits long enough! writes Hereward
Carrington in Leslie's. He is a giant
tortoise,- which weighs 350 pounds,
and is said to be at least' 375 years
of age. That is, he was born soon
after this country was discovered by
Columbus and is still alive and going
strong!. If the tortoise coulU only talk
what an encyclopedia of history he
could relate! Tortoises are among the
longest-lived of reptiles probably
because their rate of growth (and
life) is so slow. It has long been
known that the Aldabra tortoises
have reached the age of from 100 to
150 years. Carrp are said to live over
100 years. It was formerly thought
that whales lived to a great age, but
this is now questioned. Seals are long-
lived if they reach the age of 20. The
alligator and crocodile are quite long-
lived, and so is the elephant. As a
general rule, among mammals, it may
be said that their span of life is about
five times the length of their ma
turity. That is, a dog matures at two
and dies at ten. -etc. According to this.
man should reach the age of at least
100 years, assuming that ha matures
at 20; and the fact that the average
length of life today is less than half
this proves that something is wrong
with our modern "civilization" and
methods of living. Modern students of
hygiene are inclined to. believe that
food excessive in quantity and wrong
n quality is the chief cause for this
remature breaking-down and loss of
life on the part of man.
The caduceus, which waa intro
duced in 1902 by Colonel John Van
R. Hoff, M. C, U. S. A., editor of the
Military Surgeon, as part of the medi
cal officers' insignia, dates back 4000
years, says a writer in the Journal of
the American Medical Association.
For a number of reasons the serpent
was always the symbol of medicine In
antiquity. The Babylonians' caduceus,
which as the Insignia shows today
wo snakes entwined with wings at
the top of the staff occurs in Hittit
remains.
It stands for an actual serpent god
Ningishzida, who as the special mes
senger of Ishtar was the awakening
of life In the springtime and the
Mesopotamian prototype of theGreek
Hermes.
The Romans had a special function
ary, the caduceator who was a sort of
peace commissioner. The caduceus was
used on the title pages of books pub
lished by the famous medical printer.
Frobenius, in 1460 to 1527.
The "wand of Mercury," as it Is
sometimes calledf was also carried by
merchant traders In ancient times, on
excursions where peaceful negotia
tlons were desired and they wanted to
be known as neutrals.
It was the bishop bold of a colonial
see, and in the course of hia episcopal
visitation he arrived at an up-country
farm, many miles from anywhere, the
proprietor of which was very proud o
his knowledge of the world and had
instructed his wife to be sure and call
the visitor "Lord" whenever she ad
dressed him. The good wife was more
generous-minded than her husband,
and when dinner began she broke
silence with tho remark, "Well, Bill
I don't think much of you as a helper
Give the Lord some more gravy."!
London Morning Post.
The meeting was interrupted by
the entrance of one who made his
way to the platform and whispered
excitedly- to the chairman.- -
"Is Mr. Smith in the audience?'
broke. 'forth the presiding officer. "
am informed that his house is afire.
Forty men sprang to their feet.
"It Is the house of Mr. John Smith,1
added the chairman.
xnana goodness:' fervently ex
claimed one man, resuming his seat.
"Good old college days" ' are no
always convenient social assets. A
Columbia alumnus recently Invited
pretty young woman to dine with him
at a restaurant near the crynpus.
"I used to go there when J was at
college," he explained. "And I'll show
you something of the atmosphere we
used to have.
The young woman consented eag
erly, i
"Ah," remarked the man as they
eat down, "there's the fellow who
used to wait on me. Hello, Tony!"
Tony greeted his customer ef
fusively.
"See?" said -the man. "Tony re
members me from the old days.
Sure. I remember him, miss."
agreed Tony. "He used to come in
here every noon with a different
girl." New York Poet.
The Juvenile son of a professor of
botany in one of the eastern universi
ties seems likely to become as learned
as his father; already he is familiar
with the Latin names of many of
the specimens in the professor's her
barium. But the boy is not all botanist. He
is ready to fight, as well as to study.
Recently be returned home with one
eye half closed and discolored. His
mother greted him with dismay.
"Oh, Aleck," she cried, "you have
been fighting again!"
"But It wasn't my fault, mother,"
the boy hastened to explain. "Bill
Johnson said Taraxacum afficinale
didn't mean a danaeliion." Youth's
Companion.
.
The Indianapolis News, replying to
a correspondent; gives the following
explanation of Indiana's nickname,
the Hoosier state:
In the early days of the state the
people were called Hoosiers. There is
a wide difference of opinion as to
why they were called Hooslere. Mere
dith Nicholson, in his book, "The Hoo
siers,'' says in the course" of an ex
tended discussion of the origin of the
word: "Both Governor Wright and
O. H. Smith were of the opinion that
'Hoosier' was a corruption of "Who's
here' (yere or hyer)." It is also
thought to be a corruption of hussar.
and other explanations are advanced.
,Sweeping his long hair back with
an impressive gesture the visitor
faced the proprietor of the film stu
dio. "I would like to secure a place
in your "moving picture company," he
said. -
"You are an actor?" asked the film
man.
. "Yes." '
"Had any experience acting without
audiences?"
A flicker of sadness shone in the
visitor's eyes as he replied:
"Acting- without audiences is what
brought me her." Emburgh Scotsman.
Those Who Come and Go.
"All Tillamook county except the
cheeses," gloated Manager Meyers
of the Oregon yesterday for on
his register he had come on a
handful of familiar names from
that section. There was Dr. J. E.
Reedy, who up to three years
ago used to be a veterinary, but who
now operates the Tillamook Cattle ex
change. About ten weeks ago "Doc"
became the father of an Infant son.
who all that haife viewed him predict
will follow the paternal footsteps and
stand by the animals. Another of the
neighbors from the same section is
M. D. Aikley, who operates a garage.
Then there are a party ot tnree, Ice
land B. Ervin. F. L. Eberman and J.
A. Mullen, who motored to town. Er
vin. they say, has Just solved me
problem of hired help in his music
store by marrying his clerk. Mrs. Er
vin sUll is to be found in the song
shop. Eberman is proprietor of a con
fectionary and Mullen runs a restau
rant.
Fresh from , the high grass around
Corvallis, Dick Rutherford, director of
physical education and athletics at
Oregon Agricultural College, and
James J. Richardson, general manager
of student activities at the same in
stitution, arrived yesterday'. They are
making the Imperial tlieir Headquar
ters for several days. Richardson has
habit of breezing into town every
week of so. but this time ne nas oroK
en his record and made the interval
three months. He has been browsing
around in California getting informa
tion on the prospects of the univer
sities down south for the coming sea
son. Ia 1909 William T. Hall and J. B.
Carey came out from tne east together
and settled down at vvnite baimon
Wash. Then the bright lights beck
oned to Hall and he went to Chicago
to go in the dry goods business while
the old friend stayed here ana grew
fruit. The two men have met again
and are around the Oregon while in
the city on a pleasure trip.
While M.' O. Scroggs has been swel
tering In his merchandise store up at
Hermiston, his wife and ramiiy nave
been enjoying ocean breezes at Sea-
ide. Vacations have to end some time,
however, and Mrs. Scroggs started her
folks out for home, brought tl.em in
to the Seward to spend a night ana
now has them heading for Eastern
Oregon.
They still call J. W. Siemans of
Klamath Falls "Captain" though he
forsook the army many years ago for
the banking business. In the early
days he Was sent out west to keep
an eye on tne Indians, out now mo
only thing ho watches around them
is the savincrs accounts. Captain bie-
mans was to be found at the Imperial
yesterday.
C. P. Dorian, who represents an In
surance company, is Just DacK trom a
two weeks' automobile tour to Seattle
and northern points. He also visited
the -beaches and is now headed for
Bend. He dropped in at the Imperial
yesterday to recount all his expe
riences with the machine.
Dr. Fred Elli3 and Mrs. Ellis of
Salpm were registered at the Imperial
yesterday. The former can always look
on a toothache optimistically ana re
mind himself of the motto. "Every
cloud has a silver lining." for-he is
one of the dentists of the capital city.
Mrs. C. S. Benson and daughter of
Bend are registered at the Imperial.
For many years Mrs. Benson's hus
band has been sponsor for the ordi
nances enacted by the city council of
the Deschutes county seat, in his ca
pacity as city attorney.
Mrs. Percy R. Kelly paid a visit to
the Oregon yesterday on her way
home to Albany. She has been in
Pendleton with a sister who is ser
iously ill. Mrs. Kelly is the wife of
the circuit Judge of department No.
1 in Linn and Marion countiea
The stock men's corner in the Im
perial lobby yesterday claimed two
more recruits on -the arrival of W.
H. Switzler and H. M. Moore of Echo.
They brought in several carloads of
livestock from their ranches.
G. A. Edwards is a business visitor
at the' Oregon. Mr. Edwards is an
auditor for the inland empire raliroad
and has his headquarters in Spokane.
Miss Jan Campbell, daughter of
President Campbell of the University
of Oregon, is registered at the Seward
from Eugene. She is accompanied
by Mrs. S. E. Henderson of Joplin, Mo.
Mrs. Marie P. Morse and Margaret
Stirton of Detroit. Mich., are at the
Oregon while .sightseeing. They are
making a tour of the west.
Mrs. H. Rush of Eugene paid a
visit to the Benson yesterday while
in the city getting ideas on fall milli
nery for her store. She was accom
panied by her sister. Anna Rush.
Laura Rogers, familiar to Baker
theater - fans, has returned to the
Multnomah hotel after a trip to New
York City. She is back for the open
ing of the fall theatrical season
Mr. and Mrs. S. J. Mayhood ate reg
istered at the Seward. Mr. Mai'hood
la a mining man from Spokane and
has been out in the hills, looking
over property while his wife waited
for him hira.
L Y. Mackintosh and S. J. Pritchard
are two Seattle lumbermen to be
found at the Multnomah.
Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hirsch are British
Columbia folk staying at the Ben
son. Mr. Hirsch operates a coal mine
at Nelson. f
K. Zelaslto. retired merchant of
Aberdeen. Is passing a few days at
the Perkins. Mr. Zela-sko was for
merly in the furniture business.
J. B. Morrison, who grows wheat
up around Arlington, is at the Per
kins hotel.
TRUTH AS TO 1.IST IS DEMANDED
Particularly Does Writer Want io
Know If Grantee Head Is Leaguer.
ALBANY, Or., Aug. 25. (To the Ed
itor.) Recently The Oregonian pub
lished a copy of a letter from the
Non-partisan leage headquarters In
which that organization promised to
begin, a vigorous campaign for mem
bers in Oregon in November, prom
ised to throw the entire strength of
the national organization behind that
campaign and gave a list of the Ore
gon members.
As one of the men whose name
appeared on his list has already dis
avowed any connection with the Non
partisan league, would it not be
proper for the other men whose
names were listed to state frankly
whether they are for or against the
league? I think it is- particularly
important that Mr. C. E. Spence, mas
ter of the state grange, whose name
appears in the list as a member.
should frankly state his position. Is
it not a fact that the grange has re
pudiated the Non-partisan league, and
if that is the case, are not the mem
bers of the grange entitled to know
how the head - of that organization
stands on this question?
I should like to know whether it Is
a fact, as has teen charged, that Mr,
Spence has acted as a Non-partisan
league organizer in Idaho and North
Dakota, and how the members of the
executive committee and other prom
inent members of the grange stand on
this proposition. SUBSCRIBER.
IIOl'SI.VG PROBLEM FOR TEACHER
Householder freed as CIvIe Duty to
Rent Quarters to Them.
PORTLAND, Aug. 36. (To the Edi
tor.) The housing problem for teach
ers will soon be at hand over the
entire United "States. This is not only
the teachers' problem and that of the
city superintendents and of the dis
trict clerks, but snouid be the concern
of every household.
Most people who have children at
tending the public schools are more
or less Interested in the teachers who
are going to shape the direction of
those young minds. But, do those
parents ever concern themselves over
the fact that those school teachers are
human creatures and therefore need
a comfortable place to live?
J hese days every thinking person
realizes that next to the church and
home, the responsibility of the citi
zenship of the rising generation falls
on the publio school teacher. We are
constantly reminded of the tremen
dous influence the teacher has, both
consciqris and unconscious, over the
indiviutrals in her class.
My own experience has been that
each child (with but few exceptions)
has a high regard for his teacher. He
thinks the present one the best he has
ever had, just a little better than the
last. The child, by nature, is a hero-
worshipper.
Every mother, too. desires that her
child have the finest, most capable
teacher available.
Now, mothers, remember that a
teacher is riot a machine that can run
in perpetual motion by using som
lubricating oil or three-in-one. Neither
is she a storage battery which, the
harder she works with your restless,
stupid boy, the more energy and
power she creates.
No. - But the twentieth century
school teacher will work patiently
with your children with 100 per cent
efficiency in the clatsroom under one
condition. That is. that she have
pleasant home to live in and plenty
of outdoor recreation.
Families should offer their homes to
the teachers as a civic duty. Thou
sands ot teachers will be coming to
your city and hundreds to the farm
ing communities. Where are they
iroincr to stav?
Why not clear out that storeroom?
Set up that comfortable old bed that
hasn't been used for five years. Ap
ply soap and water and quick relief
will follow. Buy a few yards of
pink chintz at the bargain counter
and let the sun shine in. Notify your
city superintendent or your district
clerk that you have a room tor
(school teacher and that your neighbor
s a good cook. Then you will have
gone the second mile.
HILDA SCrlL.liU.11
CHURCH PARTISANSHIP IS DENIED
Southern Methodist Declared io Be
Undertaking; 'World-AVide Mission.
PORTLAND. Aug. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) When the Rev. C. E. Cline
states that "the Methodist cnurcn
south, in its origin and history, 1
et for the administration -oi spirit
ual comfort to tha democratic party.
hp tliprchv shows himself to be
either inexcusably ignorant or delib
eratelv false. The Methodist church
south, traces its origin, in no forced
wav. in John Weslev. and is in no
Kcnsn ashamed, ot Its ancestry.
stands today as a truer exponent of
the doctrines which that great man
wrought out of scripture than any
body of Methodism in existence.
Anvone who knows anything o
the Viistorv of the separation of th
nriiriniil rhurch into the two main
branches, or who will take the troub!
in look un facta easily accessible l
all. knows that the Methodist church
south, no more . came into existenc
to minister spiritual comfort to th
democratic party than the northern
branch came Into existence to rende
like service to the republican
nartv. To assert such ot enne
church is to falsify facts.
As to the local church being
failure, it needs only to be said that
during last year, when practically
all churches were losing members)
the Methodist Episcopal church hold
ing the record over us in- that re-spect-this
one was one of the few
that made a gain. Its percentage ot
gain suffers not at all in comparison
with any church in the city. More
over, the building is out of debt, and
t is in a position to renuer euitiem
service in this great city. i ou
are so broad-minded prove that you
are by coming along and helping in
the work of the . kingdom, rather
than grouching around 'because the
Southern Methodist enrn-cn oares m
assert that it is larger than any sec
tion by undertaking to fulfill its
world-wide mission even in the
northwest.
This church is a world organiza
tion in its executive reaches and
world-wide in its visions, and has no
intention of being a secttonal church,
and least of all a political church.
Wherever it is needed, and there is a
possibility of its rendering service,
there it will go. even though it has
to endure the criticisms and unfair
judgment of many such as the Rev.
C. E. Cline. J. W. BYRD.
Pastor First ' Methodist Episcopal
Church, South.
SLANG AND 3RAGS DAMPENING
Cox and Franklin D. Give Democratic
Enthusiasm Thorough Wetting.
PORTLAND, Aug. 26. (To the Ed
itor.) Mr. Cox says the republicans
are trying "to annex the presidency"
by spending $15,000,000 in the cam
paign, to be used efficiently, of course,
among opposition voters. He also-accuses
the republicans of endeavoring
to "buy the next administration." In
one of his speeches he said some man
he mentioned had "put one over" on
Bomebody e'se, and told a questioner
in one of his audiences that if he
would remain he would "give him an
earful" from all of which one may
infer that Mr. Cox isa regular Johnny-on-the-spot
when it conies to sling
ing nasty chin-muc' , and is heeled to
wallop all comers in a rough-and-tumble
go, as you please.
He eats 'em alive; lives at the back
of the field and drinks out of the
creek.
He has sent the "solemn referen
dum" to the scrap heap, but puts up
his mitts 'gainst any move towards
putting such a sum as $13,000,000 be
fore the lamps of anti-republican
voters.
In the meantime Franklin D. writes
constitutions xor budding republics
and makes the United States the cock
of the walk in voting strength in the
league of nations. All this for the
glorification of the time-honored
Indeed, It throws a degree of damp
principles of the democratic party,
ness. around one's enthusiasm, closely
approaching actual wetness.
T. T. GEER,
Lands Open for Entry.
PORTLAND, Aug. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) Can you tell me if there is any
government land open for homesteads
or claims in Oregon, and where? If
there Is any, how would one get the
land? Also ' how long do you have
to live on land to prove up on it?
SUBSCRIBER.
The amount of government land in
Oregon open for entry exceds 13.
000,00,0 acres. - There is no public
agency which directs homeseekers to
desirable claims, .and the lands are
scattered over much of Oregon. For
further information apply to U. S.
land'office, Postoffice building, Portland,
More Truth Than Poetry
By James J. Montague.
TAMPERING WITH THE RECORD
It was a sad-eyed shipping clerk,
No references giving.
Who asked us for a job of work
With which to earn a living.
And when we cried: "There's no ex
cuse .
For any Idle man. rlr!
He let his lachrymals run loose
And made the following answer
"For seven years or thereabout
l Handled all tne trainc
Connected jvith the shipping out
Uf records phonographic;
And then, like Little Butteroup.
By some ill star inspired.
One night I mixed a shipment up
And that s what got me fired.
Next day a letter, I was told,
Came in from Locust Valley,
Where they were Just about to hold
A democratic rally. A
It read: 'Your humor gets our goats.
You may believe you're clever:
But jazz-tunes don't get any votes;
e re off of you forever.'
"Then Mrs. Jones of Truro wrote
The firm a little missive
Whose wording, as perhaps youH
note.
Was more or less derisive:
Do you believe, by any chance.
The girls alonir these beaches
Derive much pleasure when they
dance
To Mr. Cox's speeches?"
-
9 One Hundred Per Cent.
Mr. McGraw is always looking for
a licking, and it must ho admitted
that he has wonderful success.
Ponsfs Out.
The treasury estimated the other
day that there were 20.000 million
aires in the country, but now there
are only 19,599.
Honorable Emulation.
Babe Ruth's confession that he Is a '
graduate of a reform school is goins
to increase vastly next year's regis
tration at those institutions.
(Copyright by Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
The Return.
By Grace E. Hall.
The skies were bright and fair.
And glad notes of the nesting birds
I heard.
Life was a pleasure rare.
Banished the thought of care.
We laughed with lite
Grief seemed absurd.
You went away and seemingly forgot;
The summer sped, its golden radiance
fled,
I loved it not;
The autumn's wealth of bronze and
yellow came.
Its mellow flame
A burning anguish brought.
And, then again, the spring
The vital primal
surge
Of glaclsomeness;
and after
The pall of gloom,
Sweet loom.
And O. dear love,
urge, the
eager
then your return,
your laughtert
In Other Days.
Tweny-IrIve Years Ago.
r-Yom The Oresonian of August 2T, 18!S.
New members are fast enrolling in
tho Oregon Road club and the or
ganization may enter its new club
house with 500 members.
All arrangements for the big
barbecue to he a feature of the mer
chants' picnic, were completed at a
meeting last night.
Boston. Thi city is In the hands
of 2"..00O Knights Templars, who
opened their annual grand conimand
ery yesterday.
Kirty Years Ago. -
From The Oreironlan of AuKUSt -"T. 1ST0.
Athens. The Prussian ship Viladen
was captured by a French man-of-war
and taken to Syria.
Miss Lillie. late of Sah Francisco,
has opened a select school for young
pupils at her father's residence on
Clay street.
McLeran's mills are now running
full time on new white wheat.
Cars on the Oregon & California
line passed nearly two miles beyond
Aurora yesterday, according to
ports here.
re-
rillUCHES ARE DRAWING CLOSF.R
Dogmas With Denominational Crlti
' cisms Now Museum Curiosities.
CNIVERSITY PARK. Aug. 26. (To
the Editor.) A personal friend dif
fering somewhat through The Orego
nian with views expressed by the
writer, courtesy persuades , a re
joinder. The enforced brevity of
communications to the public prints"
exposes the writers to being misin
terpreted and even a seeming super
ficiality. But in a very few words
the writer would say that churches
are coming nearer to each other, part
ly by exchange of pulpits and min
isterial monthly gatherings. Min
isters go from one denomination t
another with good results. Two Metli
odist preachers years ago went to
leading pulpits of the tolerant Congre
gationalists and they have been fre-s
to express their thought. The names
of these men are Jefferson and Cad
man. Dogmas with theological spec
ulations and criticisms of one an
other have found way to museums,
and they who are fond of skins and
skeletons can walk through them.
As to two Methodisms, the writer
still opines one is enough for the
United States. The fact that two
Methodist churches in many a town
in' Oregon, whose pastors live on
nothing, are to be seen is sad. That
the Northern Methodists should be
over southern states to take care of
negroes could be different if ambi
tious leaders would permit our col
ored brethren to keep house by them
selves. Then think of two Method
isms entering dark lands! The black
cancer of slavery that divided Meth
odism has been cut out of the body
politic by the sword of battle. That
there should be a Methodist church
south for the welfare of southern
democrats surpasses the curiosities of
opinion. How would it do for enough
democrats to become republicans to
break up the solid south? Gone the
exhilaration of corn, and-now going
the exhjlaration of a Methodism!
Shame! They love Dixie in south
land! Did not the great north shoot
enough loyalty into southerneres to
prefer "My Country, 'Tis of Thee?"
"Star-Spangled Banner," sounds well.
B. J. HOADLEY.
Winners of Marathon.
PORTLAND. Aug. 26. (To the Edi
tor.) To settle a dispute kindly pub
lish the names of the winners of nil
the Marathons that have been run in
the Olympic games and their nation
ality. INQUIRER.
Winners of Marathon races in the
Olympic games have been. Athens,
1S96, Loues, Greece; Paris. 1900, Teato,
France; St. Louis. 1901, Hicks, United
States; Athens, J 906, Sherring, Can
ada; London, 1908, Hayes, . United
States; Stockholm, 1912, McArthur,
South Africa; Antwerp, 1920. Koleh
ruainen, Finland.