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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. TUESDAY, AUGUST 31, 1920
aggression, requires the coun
advlse as to the means of
putting that guaranty into effect.
The advice of the council Is griven
only by unanimous vote and the
United States would be a member of
the council. Undue shifting of obli-
STABL1SHI) BY HENRY I- FITTOCK.
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seems to offer no consolation for the 1 of the principles of the new science
doctrinaires who regard . industrial did not appear until 1830 only
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GIVE ITS PEACE.
The Oregonian is impelled to ac
knowledge that it does not look with
equanimity upon the apparent drift
of Senator Harding into the attitude
of the irreconcilables as regards the
league of nations covenant. The
league covenant is Inextricably inter
woven with the treaty of Versailles.
That it was so interwoven despite the
dictates of wisdom is beside the
mark. It was done, and failure by
this, the greatest of the several asso
ciated powers in the war against
Germany, to ratify the treaty con
stitutes one cause of the present
upset and warlike conditions that
prevail in Europe.
So long as America fails to ratify,
so long will hope exist within the
countries that lost the war that the
treaty may be ultimately over
thrown. So long will the propa
ganda prevail in Germany, Austria
and Turkey and be spread through
out the world insofar as those coun
tries may be able to do so, that the
peace of Versailles is an iniquitous
peace. It is a false propaganda. It
is the ever-ready cry of every loser
in the game of war. Europe, for
our own good as well as Europe's,
needs a settling down and the only
visible immediate means of accom
plishing that end is to impress upon
the nations now inciting turmoil that
the provisions of the treaty are the
Just and inescapable consequences of
their folly.
its duties as all the other members
of the council combined.
But it is an unfair assumption that
the league would be obligated to aid
Poland In the present circumstances.
Poland was the original aggressor
against soviet Russia. It sent, its
armies beyond the Polish border in
pursuit of territorial conquest. It
attacked a nation not a member of
the league. As Germany excused its
Invasion of Belgium by asserting that
had it notinvaded Belgium France
would, so Poland excuses Its at
tempted aggression by asserting that
had Poland not attacked the Soviets
the Soviets would have attacked
Poland. In the war that resulted
the Poles were thrown back into
their own country. In the progress
of this war, which the league of
nations and the council would
have discountenanced, Poland was
invaded. To hold that the league
would then have been obligated to
aid Poland transgresses the spirit
and purpose of the league. In such
circumstances the covenant provides
that the members of the league are
individually at liberty to take such
action as they may see fit.
Even if the league, despite the
plain intent of the covenant, had
decided to aid Poland the extent of
the aid required has been disclosed
by recent events. Assignment by
France of a few generals to com
mand the Polish armies, and French
aid in the form of munitions and
supplies enabled the Poles to drive
the Russians from their territory.
Thus are mountains made of mole
hills in politics.
total number of locomotives dimin
ishes constantly, and while raw ma
terial, fuel and food are unavailable,
offers no prospect of resumption of
dustry in time to avert the wreck
of the national machine.
NERVE.
The democratic campaign reaches
the perilous peak of absurdity when
it seeks to show that the real Issue
between the parties is progressivlsm
ersus reactionism. For example.
this shining gem gleams from a mass
of revamped 1912 propaganda In a
local democratic contemporary:
Today ha (Harding) la the nominee of
convention controlled by exactly the
same (reactionary! element xne ui
guard senate oligarchy named him, ac
claimed him, and put Ita seal on him.
Call the roll! Call the roll! Let
the progressives of 191Z speak.
Where are Senator Johnson, Senator
Borah, Senator Poindexter, Senator
McCormick and the other leading
lights of progressivlsm today? They
are supporting Harding, every one
of them. He Is good enougn pro
gressive for them. But what pro
gressive was ever good enough for
your democrat to support in an
election?
It takes unblushing nerve for a
democratic paper to denounce the
republican nominee as a reactionary
selected by reactionaries and at the
same time to appeal for support of
a practical politician nominated by
the bosses at French Lick, and rati
fied by a controlled convention at
San Francisco. But what would the
whole democratic campaign be
without nerve?
It is a sad fact that the attitude
of neither candidate gives prospect
or hope of early ratification of the
treaty. Governor Cox has occupied
an impossible ground. His Is the
Wilson take-it-or-leave-it attitude.
It must be; THE treaty, THE cove
nant, or none at all. He who be
lieves, whatever his desire In the
matter, that the covenant can now
be ratified without material reserva
tions has woefully failed to estimate
public opinion or to recognize the
source of the opposition to the Wil
son stubbornness that was disclosed
In the senate. There spoke the voice
of the people as distinctly as it will
be spoken in the coming referendum
that "solemn referendum" the
solemnity of which has been shat
tered by the democratic candidate's
descent into a petty whirl of ward
politics. Were there ever a chance
for the league without the dotting
of an "1" or the crossing of a "f
it has been ruined by Cox. He has
disclosed that he, like the Wilson
issue, is impossible. There can be
no solenm referendum when the
league issue is subordinated to one
that is usually associated with bar
room brawls a loud and mouthy
controversy over which Is the greater
thief and grafter, the republican
party or the democratic party.
Great statesmanship will not, can
not, be entrusted to Insignificant
statesmen.
It is doubtless too late for the
league formally to be withdrawn
from- politics, but we may expect to
see its importance as an issue dimin
ish. Obviously the democrats are
not delighted with it. Governor
Cox's departure far afield in pursuit
of a false and belittling issue is sig
nificant enough. There is no need
for the republican party definitely to
define a programme remote from
ratification of the whole treaty and
complete overthrow of the league
covenant contemplates nothing else.
The Oregonian hopes that it will not.
Without relaxing its concern that
something be salvaged from the
league, it is more concerned in the
fate of the main treaty. It hopes
to see it resubmitted to the senate
and ratified with reservations to the
league covenant that will banish all
oubts in the minds of patriotic citi
zens as to Americas preservation
from the dictation of European poli
tics. It has not been alarmed itself
over the purported surrender of our
constitutional rights, but it is willing
to have the alarm of others allayed,
Let there be conference of states
men of both parties; let there be a
meeting of minds; but let not the
painstaking work of the peace con
ference be rejected, world turmoil
prolonged, and world reconstruction
postponed, because of a half-hearted
political challenge from the demo
cratic party.
There is but one straw at which
to grasp in the recent speech of Sen
ator Harding as regards the treaty
and the league. He will, he prom
ises, summon for conference the
wisest men of both parties, that a
solution consonant with America's
world dignity and importance may
be devised. It is a purpose with
which those who occupy a reason
able and a middle ground on the
league of nations principle would not
quarrel were the worth of trie plan
presented without discount. But it
is discounted by the present and ex
pressed doubts of Senator Harding
that it will not be necessary to scrap
the entire league covenant, abandon
the entire treaty, proclaim by fiat of
congress a state of peace, and pro
ceed to establish something different
from the league in the form of
world court.
A conference called with an 1m
plied limitation upon what it shall
do Is not a free conference. If the
executive seeks advice it. ought to
be untrammeled advice. There
no good reason why a free and un
trammeled conference should not be
called now a conference of. the
wisest minds of both parties. The
injection of the league into politics
was senseless procedure. Prior
the- national conventions it was not
a political issue in the sense that on
party approved the principle and the
other opposed it. Members of each
party were divided on the question
of A league or THE league, with a
smattering in each organization that
' was opposed to any kind of league.
The basis upon which this country
should enter the league was an issue,
but not a political one; moreover, it
was a passing Issue. Politically it is
not the paramount question. Voters
will not abandon long-established
party allegiance because of it. It
is an issue that could be resolved by
real conference and real statesman
ship and one that would be resolved
and the treaty saved and enforced
were there less of stubbornness in
high places.
SOVIET ECONOMICS.
One is reminded, by reading ex
tracts from the report of the chair
man of the supreme council of na
tional economy of the Russian soviet
government, of sundry questions that
used to be asked of the class in
arithmetic. How long would It take
an express train, traveling at the
rate of forty miles an hour, and stop
ping one hour In twenty-four to take
on coal and water, to reach the sun?
was one of them. No one, of course
expected ever to undertake the jour
ney, but the example served the pur
pose of helping us to apprehend an
otherwise incomprehensible expanse
Similarly the report of the soviet of
ficial visualizes economic chaos that
without some kind of lesson-help
would with difficulty penetrate our
understanding.
The director describes the utte
collapse of transportation under the
new regime. He cities concrete in
stances. For example, Russia has
metallurgical region in the Ural
mountains, "but we have at our dis
posal until now but one single spe
ciai train a montn to carry our
metals from the Urals to central
Russia." To transport ten millio
poods (about 180.000 tons) at this
rate would require several decades.
assuming that the scanty supplies
now ready were available all the
time. But steel mills cannot be
maintained without raw material.
and there is meanwhile no assur
ance that conditions will improve.
As a matter of fact, they are grow
ing worse, as the report clearly
shows.
Another easily understood illustra
tion is given:
under their feet.
Examination of the phenomena of
earthquakes and volcanoes should be
BREED-
FORETHOUGHT IN SALMON
The statement that increased
catches of salmon on the Columbia
river are "at the expense of future
years ana constitute an linpsmtive
warning to Oregon, is contained in
the annual report of L. H. Darwin,
fish commissioner for Washington.
This assertion is a mere aside to
Commissioner Darwin's portrayal of
the depleted salmon fisheries of Pu-
eet sound and his recommendation
of measures to protect the fish and
restore the runs to normal size.
Without denying in the least
the necessity, particularly on Puget
sound, of fostering, and protecting
the salmon run, and of devising im
proved systems of propagation, it
must be observed tnat tne iacts or
the present season on the Columbia
river do not warrant an opinion tnat
the Oregon industry is1 waning or is
in peril. In no sense was the record
spring catch of 1920 the largest ever
taken drawn from the Columbia
river at the expense of future years.
A brief summary of the situation
will suffice to show that Columbia
river salmon fishing is in healthier
state than ever.
The test of endurance in the sal
mon fishing Industry, under Oregon's
system of protection and propaga
tion, is found in the annual take of
eggs for the hatcheries. If tne sal
mon catch Is large and the take, of
eggs also large the industry Is thriv
ing and the future Is insured, ll a
large catch of fish is contrasted with
a small take of eggs, or a decreasing
take, then and then only is the future
imperiled. But so long as both are
increasing, and at the. proper ratio,
there is an unbroken era of pros
perity in sight for fishermen and
packers. It is this condition that
applies to the Columbia river the
present season, and that has applied
for a number of years past, as the
steadily Increasing catch attests.
Hugh Mitchell, government super
intendent of the Clackamas hatchery,
in charge of the Columbia river dis
trict, reports that the station on
Salmon river; in Idaho, has taken its
full quota of 6,000,000 eggs and is
releasing thousands of ripe salmon
from its racks, free to seek the
spawning riffles. The take of -eggs
on the upper Clackamas river, he
advises, will be the largest in the
history of that station. Operations
of the state fish commission on the
Columbia, the Willamette, the San-
tiam and the Mackenzie are meeting
with similar success and the egg.
take is said to be better than normal.
It Is predicted, that the government
report from White Salmon will also
show an unusually large take of
eggs.
The season of 1920 thus presents
record catch of Columbia river
salmon, and a take of eggs, directly
tributary to this district, also con
stituting a record. Considering these
facte it is difficult to perceive the
existence of any peril, present or
prospective, to the salmon fishing
industry of the Columbia river dis
trict, insofar as scientific and
sensible replenishment of the stream
is concerned.
eleven years ago, at the time of an
Italian earthquake disaster. Pro
fessor William Hallock of Columbia
university spoke of the interior of
the earth as a seat of eternal activi
ty and of a physical vitality "as rest
less and eager as the life of a child."
It contained, he held, "energies ever
capable of repeating in the future
processes which have taken place in
the past." This, after a dim and
hazy fashion, has been the notion of
many who have been aroused to
wonder by the paradoxical existence
of the ice-cold reservoirs and hot
springs in the .same lithosphere.
Possibilities of a radio-active core
have furnished material for specula
tion all the more Intriguing because
of its sister theory that when we
have discovered this secret we shall
have solved for all time the problem
of power. Engineers In southern
Italy have succeeded in harnessing
volcanic energy, but have done so in
full realization that they know al
most nothing about the forces with
which they deal. Less than two de
cades ago it was gravely proposed to
ask congress for an appropriation of
$25,000,000 to be expended in bor
ing an exploratory well ten miles
deep. Yet It is possible that the in
ventors of the geopbone have accom
plished more than a hundred such
wells would have done. They have
at least indicated the way for a new
line of Inquiry, and unlocked a po
tential storehouse of knowledge, the
value of whose contents we can only
surmise.
For one thing, it may be that we
shall be able to determine by the
new instrument and its refinements
whether our planet Is a dying star or
is yet in its adolescence. But it Is as
an earthquake prognostlcator that
Its function would seem to be most
Immediately promising. If, as has
been demonstrated, the devictf1-' is so
delicate that the fluttenngs of a
gnat's wings are magnified to the
volume of noise made by an air
plane, it seems not unreasonable to
hope that it will be equal to detect
ing the premonitory rumblings of
disaster. But this is only one of
many engaging possibilities that the
geophone holds forth.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES
New Ancle of Agrricultaral problem
Worthy of Note.
Eavesdroppers are Bald to hear
little that is of benefit to themselves
or any one else, but occasionally one
overbears a bit of conversation that
tends to prove otherwise. In the lulls
of interest during a baseball game re
cently two young men were discuss
ing work and especially work in the
country.
Much was said that was enlighten
ing about the conditions under which
I farm labor earns Its bread, butter and
occasional ice cream, but the man who
was most against the farm said: "No
sir! Tou don't see a companionable
girl from one week's end to the other;
most of the farm workers are foreign
ers and not the kind you want to
waste your time with; the people in
the village look down on us and the
girls are all grabbed by the city boys
who drive oat in their cars every eve
ning; we are regarded as 'hicks and
can sit on the fence and whistle. Even
at church we 'are more or less patron
ized and It doesn't look good enough
to me to coax me out again. What's
the use of earning good money If you
haven't any girl to spend some of It
on V
This is an angle of the agricultural
problem that has not been discussed,
but It sounds as though the roan had
omethlng in his argument to explain
partially the reluctance with which
the worker approaches the farm. A
pi-etty girl to dress up for and to take
riding in the modern substitute for
the old-fashioned buggy Is a boy's
privilege whether he is on the farm
or works In a city office. If this lack
of the girls is to stand In the way of
tilling the fields and meadows, some
Ingenious organization will have to
stir Itself Into coaxing, cajoling or
bribing the desirable girl Into trans
ferrlng her attentions to the farm.
Rochester (N. T.) Post-Express.
Those Who Come and Go.
f SEEK BETTER TAX DISTRIBUTORS
Is
As a political issue the league is re
duced to prejudiced discussion instead
of careful analysis. We hear from
both Senator Harding and Senator
Lodge that were America now a mem
ber of the league it would. In all prob
ability, be Involved In the war be
tween Poland and soviet Russia; that
under article 10 we would have guar
anteed Poland against external ag
gression, and, being the strongest
power, would have been called upon
by the council of the league to put
the necesscry force Into play to pro
tect Poland.
Tet article 10, while guaranteeing
mombera of the league against ex-
In order to deliver cotton from Turkes
tan to the textile factories In. Moscow, we
should have to carry more than one-half
million poods per month up to 600,000
poods (10,833 tons). But at this time we
have only about two trains a month, i. e.,
scores of years will be required for trans
porting from Turkestan, under present con
ditions, the eagtit million poods of cotton
wnicn we could utilize but are unable to
deliver to the factories.
Soviet armies are able to extend
the boundaries of soviet Russia,
where opposition is poorly organized
or not organized at all, but the lead
ers are unequal to the task of put
ting the country In economic order,
"As for the broad masses of the pop
ulation, there is no possibility," the
director concedes, "of utilizing any
of those regions producing grain,
raw' material and fuel." The break
down is absolute. Rolling stock
simply cannot be kept in condition to
do the work required of it. There is
a review of the situation as to- loco
motives that would, be pathetic if it
were not so tragic: '
Before the war the percentage of dis
abled locomotives, even in Che worst oT
times, never rose above -15 per cent. At
the present time, however, out of every
luu locomotive in soviet Kussia sixty are
disabled and only forty capable of working.
The repair of disabled locomotives also
keeps on declining with extraordinary rap
idity. Before the war we used to repair
up to 8 per cent; this percentage after
the November revolutions sometlmea
dropped to 1 per cent; now we have gone
up, but only 1 per cent. Under present
conditions of railway transportation the
repairs do not keep abreast of the dete
rioration or our locomotives, and every
month we have, In definite figures, 300
locomotive less than in the preceding
month.
The official from whose report
these striking figures are taken is
A. Rykov. The report is translated
by Joseph Shaplen, who has been a
correspondent in' Russia, and has
lived in the chief cities of old Rus
sia under the soviet government. His
article, printed in the Weekly Re
view of New York, is a dispassion
ate examination into actual eco
nomic conditions in that country. It
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STATUS OF LITERATURE.
News from Paris that a French
court has decreed that an author is
entitled to extension of his lease on
his domicile under a war-emergency
aw still leaves doubt whether litera
ture is a trade or profession. The
law in question, passed in an
effort to protect necessary industries
against profiteering, provided that
premises devoted exclusively to the
exercise of a trade or profession
should be entitled at the close of the
war to an extension of lease for a
period equalling the duration of the
war.
Eugene Montfort, well - known
French author, beoame the instru
ment by which the test was, made
His landlord having raised his rent.
he appealed to the courts. The land
lord pleaded that literature was not
'trade or profession" in the sense
that an author, like a physician or
dentist or a merchant, is com
pelled to provide premises where cli
ents or customers can be received
But the . court thought otherwise,
It held that a suitable place in which
to work is the "plant and material1
of the "business" of authorship. The
comparison here is quite as pertinent
to the factory as to the office of
professional man. Allusion to the
apartment of the writer as "the bust
ness premises where he earns his
living" destroys another illusion.
the court intended that it should be
taken literally. Writing, in the one
view, is a manufacturing enterprise
in tne other, a business venture
of predominatingly bread-and-butter
aspect. Nothing is said .as to quality
of product, but all authors are
grouped as necessities" by their in
ciusion in tne terms or the war
emergency act.
It is something of a victory for
literature nevertheless. It is not a
great while, by comparison with the
age of the world, since writing was
done in more or less shamefaonrl
concealment by men who had regard
for their standing in the community.
The explanation offered by the Ba
conian theorists for the
modesty of their hero is based on
a supposition of this nature, and the
public until recently has seened to
hold in practice that people who
write ought to have somA nthar
means of livelihood. In other words.
authorship has been neither a trade,
profession nor a business, but an
incident in our social life. The im
portant phase of the French decision
is not that it protects the writer
against being gouged by rapacious
landlords, but that it recognizes the
commodity of culture as necessary
to the people.
He bought a lower berth from Se
attle to Portland, but when he went
to occupy his berth there was a
strange man in It. The sleeper con
ductor and the porter tried to have
him take an upper, but he refused.
Also he refused to hand over his
berth ticket to the conductor, but
held It cupped in his hand so that
the conductor could read it. "We
haven't any more lowers," protested
the conductor. "That's not my trou
ble," replied the passenger. "My
money has been taken for a lower
berth, and you'll have to furnish me
with one. I know the law and there
are several .men here who are wit
nesses." The train did not pull out
on time from Seattle. An hour
elapsed and then another sleeper was
added to the train and the passenger
with the ticket for a lower berth was
taken care of. He was the only
passenger in that sleeper from Seattle
to Portland. The man who stood on
his rights was W. N. Dennis, of Carl
ton, Or., who was In town yesterday.
With a well exuding 700 barrels of
oil a day, John W. Considine Isn't
worrying about any wolf being at his
door. Mr. Considine, who used to
open and operate theaters in Portland,
passed throujrh the city yesterday on
his way to The Hague, via Sao Fran
cisco, Los Angeles, Texas, Washing
ton. D. C, and way points. Since
leaving vaudeville to others, Mr. Con
sidine has been Interested in oil and
says that the well his company
brought In is now pouring out a
steady stream, all of which is caught
In pipes and conveyed to a refinery.
The well started slow, developed a
burst of speed and gave up some 1200
barrels a day and then dropped back
to 700 barrels, which amount It Is
steadily turning out. Although main
taining a residence In Seattle, Mr.
Considine says he doesn't live there
much. John, Jr., his son, is now ' In
his last year at Yale, and next year
will be a student at Oxford, England.
A NEW EPOCH IN GEOLOGY.
The plaint of a writer in the Scien
tific American, that "It is rather
humiliating to think that that we
know more about the sun, 90,000,000
miles away, than we do of the solid
earth under our feet," comes almost
coincidentally with the announce
ment of the invention, by engineers
of the United States army,, of an in
strument called a "geophone," fo
listening to sounds within the earth
The geophone is another example o
war science adapted to the needs of
peace. Its basic principle is said to
be identical with that of the magno
phone, which was employed in
trench operations to discover the
underground operations of the en
emy. It also makes use of certai
other laws of nature with which we
began to become acquainted with
when telegraphy was invented. The
ground circuit, using the earth itself
as a. return wire, was one phase.
The work of scientists of the navy in
developing instruments like the hy
drophone and the submarine direc
tion detector also has borne fruit in
the; hew instrument, of which it is
predated that it will usher in a new
era jn geognosy.
It is curiously illustrative of man
kind's instinct to hitch its wagon to
a star that while astronomy is re
garded as the oldest of all the sci
ences, geology undoubtedly is one of
the youngest. While it may be said
that a study of the state of scientific
culture among early peoples amounts
to little more than an examination
of their ideas as to astronomy,, the
whole development of geology has
occurred' since the signing of the
Declaration of Independence. Only
a century and a half ago the doc
trine of catastrophism was common
ly accepted. James Hutton, the
father of modern geology, did not
publish his speculations until 1785,
and Sir Charles Lyell's codification
Rather odd for a sailor to drown
in this river, but one who had too
much aboard slipped off the gang
plank yesterday and the grappler
recovered the body.
It was a gracious act of Pope Ben
edict in posing for a moving picture.
Americans generally will be pleased
to see the venerable man on the
screen. .
The principal legacies left by the
late Nat Goodwin, actor, appear to
have consisted of debts. He should
have willed everything to his wives
Why all this outcry against Can
didate Cox? The good .man is only
in tne preliminary process of fer
mentation for a wet -campaign.
Seattle is, indeed, a wonderful citv.
The coming tax levy Is expected to
be somewnat smaller than the last
one.
The rate of growth of Utah in the
decade was 20.4 per cent and there's
a good, old-fashioned reason.
Now the world can see the sinister
"German hand in the submarine de
fenses of soviet Russia.
History ha been at its old game
again, repeating this t.me with the
mouth of a Kansas City child the
words uttered long ago by a Dutch
workman In the Antwerp picture
gallery.
It was a little boy about - years of
age. bright-eyed ana somewnat sur
prised at the great size and Impres
sive coloring of the classic master
pieces In the Western Gallery of Art
at the public library. As they moved
through the Dutch room he clung to
his mother's hand and his eyes trav
eled quickly from the Rubens war
picture to the Hals and Van Heist
banqueters. At the end of the room
they came to rest on Rembrandt's
Night Watch."
After a few moments, the mother
started to move on. "Come, we must
be going," she said.
"Wait," said 6-year-old, "wait.
mother,- let's see what they're going
to do."
The "Night Watch" is full of ac
tion and palpitant with life. A dog
is barking and running about among
the men, whose faces are vivid and
manners are alert.
It was a splendid tribute to Rem
brandts picture, and the words were
exactly the same as those with which
a workman in Antwerp once compli
mented a picture of Rubens. The
picture, was "The Descent From the
Cross," a fine photograph of which
hangs In another room of the West
em gallery. Men at work in another
part of the building had gathered
near the picture at the noon hour. It
was time to return to work, but one
of the men remained stationary.
"Come," said another, "it's time to
80."
"Walt," said the man, who had
fallen under the spell of the picture,
"let us ee what they are going to do.
e
When Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis has occasion to utter words
of stern rebuke from the Federal
bench nobody has to Interpret his
(-.words. They speak for themselves.
A millionaire cattle king named
Dorsey was recently sentenced to
eight years' imprisonment after be
f ing- found guilty of using the mails
to sell tubercular cattle over the west.
The white plague Is readily commu
nlcated to human beings through die
eased cattle, and this man's crime
was a dreadful thing to think about.
Complaints of his criminal conduct
came "from Mexico to Alaska," the
court said.
But a man with a million has many
avenues through which to reach par
doning power, and this convict was
able to get to President Wilson, who
reduced his sentence to four years.
Commenting on the executive act
Judge Landis said: "When the pres
ident of the United States paused in
the midst of great affairs to cut this
sentence in two, I wonder what frame
of mind he must have been in. I
suppose Dorsey 8 pardon is about
ready."
The swindled farmers, and meat
eaters generally, must be in "a frame
of mind" for a general house-clean
ing in official Washington. Verily
it Is time for a change. Omaha Bee.
In the general rain and wind storm
which swept the Pacific northwest a
few days ago, Ed E. Kiddle of Island
City admits that he experienced hla
share. About the time that the storm
was cutting up plentifully Mr. Kiddle,
In his capacity of state highway com
missioner, was traversing the narrow,
winding roads which trickle along
the edge of the Oregon coast down
In Curry county. At best It is a ten-mile-an-hour
road, but mostly It Is
five-mile-an-hour thoroughfare. At
places you can throw a cigar stub
out of the side of the car and it will
fall into the bounding billows of the
Pacific ocean. When there Is a strong
wind blowing, mixed with rain, this
highway is anything but a pleasure
boulevard, but Mr. Kiddle managed
to get through to Crescent City, cal..
and then backtracked Into Oregon
over the Siskiyou mountains into
Grants Pass. The commissioner ar
rived in Portland yesterday.
Mark Holmes is wearing a-clean-
shaved face today. Mr. Holmes, who
is a democrat of democrats, has been
working with a highway construction
outfit near Amity, or. tie naa oa
veloped a most luxuriant mess of
whiskers, of which he was becoming
insflv nroud. when in some manner
few chunks oi -not siuu num
th hard-surface paving plant got
into the beard. The "not stutt
wouldn't r-.omb out. and as Mr. Holmes
did not hanker to display samples of
bituminous pavement on nis iace no
came to town and managed to have
the whiskers and tne "not stun pneu
nrr vhon h went to the courthouse
and testified in the Polk country road
controversy.
Tr blockaded the Columbia high
way this side of Astoria," reports Joe
Jenson. Imperial porter, who arrived
in town yesterday, --we naa to cnup
our way through four trees which
hori fallen nrrnss the road and it took
us a solid hour to chop through one of
these trees before we couia ins u.
.1.,. of the road. There had been
heavy rain and wind storm and the
hicrhwav showed evidences of It In
monv hIucm."' Counties are supposed
to maintain the highways in their
territory, but automobllists in a hurry
to tret home, where things are warm
and dry. prefer trying to remove sucn
htrurtions as an occasional tree
rath.r than wait for the county to
clear the road.
F. o. SloDrelL at the Imperial, ad
mlts that things are looking pretty
promising "down Garibaldi way. The
bie mill there is being made ready
for operation and a long wharf is be
Ing built out into Tillamook bay, so
that the wharf can be used as a lum
ber yard and as a point for loading
ih finished oroduct on board steam
n.-nnoners. There is a shortage of
housing facilities, but when the mill
starts operating the mill company
will have Its own lumber avanaDie
for constructing homes for the work
men. -
County Judge Malone of Benton
county was among those present yes
terday to attend the Polk county road
hearing. Judge Malone Isn't Interest
ed in the road controversy in Polk
county other than that Benton county
would like to see the font county
difficulties settled and road work
continued to connect with the Benton
county road system.
W. T. Vinton, who is heir apparent
to the governorship of Oregon In his
official capacity as president of the
state senate, was In Portland yester
day to testify in the Polk county road
case. Senator Vinton is a hold-over
for the 1921 session of the legislature.
Mr. Davy's I lam Not One to Increase
Amount of Money Raised.
SALEM, Or.," Aug. 29. To the Edi
tor..) My attention has been called
to a clipping from the Oregon City
Enterprise criticising my attitude for
a system of Indirect taxation to re
lieve property of its tax burdens. In
that criticism, the Enterprise brings
in a matter that is entirely separate
and distinct from tne policy I have
suggested. My idea is to distribute
the tax burdens more equitably by
laising a good portion of the neces
sary revenue from sources which
yield no direct property taxes; sources
wherein the revenue is paid so in
directly as not to be seriously felt
I or recognized by those who pay.
These thoughts did not occur to
me from a desire or purpose to In
crease the amount of money to be
raised, or from any desire or purpose
to encourace or make possible ex
travagance of appropriations and ex
penditures. I am assuming that legis
lators personally and collectively are
honest and wish to serve the state
faithfully. I don't like to see a paper
of the strength and influence of the
Enterprise assume that three men
chosen by Its party to represent its
county in the lower house and the
one distinguished official chosen to
represent it in the senate are liable
to Join in a treasury-looting waste
of money, and I know that the men
to represent Marion county will not
join in It; then I am willing to admit
that the delegations in the legisla
ture from other counties are just as
honest and patriotic toward the state
as are those- from Clackamas and
Marion, hence the conclusion I ac-
ept that only such appropriations
will be made as are absolutely needed
and only such increases in official
compensation will be made as are
desired by the several localities in
terested.
I do not believe that an increase
of resources always leads to extrav
agance. I do believe, however, that
an increase of resources, especially
through indirect agencies, encourages
and makes possible improvement and
progress and the Invitation of sub
stantial immigration, with consequent
Increase of capital for financing var
ious industries, and I do not know
of a state in the union more In need
of that influence than Oregon.
With a great empire within its bor
ders; with possibilities of soil, -climate
and natural productiveness un
surpassed on earth; with water pow
ers, mineral wealth, building rock
and timber; with scenery, sporting
and pleasure opportunities unrivaled
and in reach of all, it is a sad com
mentary on progress that such a state
can yet boast of less than 800,000
Inhabitants.
I think It is time for Oregonians to
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Iloatsriie.
ONLY HUMAN.
When Jones misreads his Ouljee
(As often he has done)
And bets upon a Gee-gee
That never learned to run.
The nlch In his resources
Moves Mrs. Jones to say.
That betting on the horses
vv ill starve them both some day.
Says she: "I hate to scold you.
But many and many a time
As well, you know, I've told you
That gambling is a crime.
When Jones gets on a winner
And wins an X or so.
And takes his wife to dinner
And then to see a show.
She murmurs, as she places
Her hand upon his arm.
That betting on the races
Can't really do much harm.
She says with approbation
Her conscience should deplore:
"You need the recreation
You ought to gamble mone."
The moral of this lyric.
In metre brief expressed.
Is not at all satiric
As you perhaps have guessed.
We would not wake dissension
The female heart to vex;
It was not our Intention
To slam the fairer sex;
The point that we would limn in.
With our too clumsy pen.
Is simply this: that women
Are much the same as men!
Since That Railroad Advance.
Once we didn't understand what
the British press meant by the word
"Rate-payers." Now we do.
Forever and Ever.
People that left the
Mr. Ponzi never suspected that they
were making permanent investments.
Too I.ate Now.
If the great parties had known that
Babe Ruth was going to make so
many home runs they'd have heen
after him to take the vice-nresirl en-
ial nomination.
(Copyright, 1020, by the Bell Syndicate.
Inc.)
jar loose and get a move on them
selves. FRANK DAVEY.
In the Children's Ward.
By Grace E. Hall.
It is not so much seeing Portland
in sixth place as it is with Seattle
In third that jars.
Wear a Harding and CooIIdge but
ton. It may start a first voter on the
right way.
Oklahoma revised the record Sun
day night by lynching a negro.
Politics is a machine that needs
j constant oiling. . . .1.
The Gold TJup. which rewards the
winner of the chief event at the As
cot meeting. Is perhaps the most cov
eted prize of the turf. It has had a
varied history. In 1807 the first
race for the Gold Cup was witnessed
by George Ill's queen and "the three
princesses in white Spanish mantles,
and the 'brince of Wales glorious In
bottle-green." Thirty-seven years
later the Czar Nicholas I was so de
lighted with the race for the cup that
he begged to be allowed to substitute
a piece of plate, which, appropriately
enough, was won in the following
year by Lord Albemarle's Emperor, so
named in honor of the czar. This
"Emperor's Plate" was a very hand
some trophy, being a reduced copy of
the famous statue of Peter the Great
at Petrograd, ornamented with fig
ures of Russian soldiers and with
views of Windsor castle, the Kremlin
and the Winter palace. When the I
Crimean war broke out the Gold Cup
regained the place of honor. Man
chester Guardian.
a '
John Bunton was certainly a steady
man; but he was a bit too steady for
Clara Hoi kins.
They had been engaged to be mar
ried IS years, and etlll be had never
asked her to name the happy day.
One evening John called in a ro
mantic frame of mind, and asked
Clara to sing something tender and
touching something that would move
him. .
. After a moment's thought she sat
down at the piano and sang an old
ballad, with meaning.
It . was entitled, "Darling, X Am
Grow tin; Old."
"All five of 'em will hang," an
nounced A. A. Roberts, chief of police
of Pendleton, who is at the Perkins.
Chief Roberta was referring to the
f.ve prisoners who broke jail at
Pendleton a few weeks ago and in
making their escape murdered Sheriff
Taylor.
J. C. Lawrence, who has been ac
tive In the politics of the state of
'Washington for years, was registered
at the Perkins yesterday. Mr. Law
rence has been a member of the
Washington legislature and -was at
one time an aspirant for governor.
M. H. De Young, who owns the San
Francisco Chronicle, arrived in Port
land yesterday .from the north, hav
ing been touring the southwestern
part of Alaska. Accompanying him
are his daughter, Mrs. Nlon Tucker,
and her husband.
Oscar Hayter, of Dallas, Or., is
registered at the hotel Portland. He
is here In behalf of his county and
town, the latter not wishing to be put
on an "L of the Pacific highway.
With a shipment of livestock,' D.
H. MoRae and E. A. Maurer. promi
nent stockmen of Antelope, are in the
city and are registered at the Perkins.
J. E. McCormick, a lumberman. Is
at the Benson. Mr. McCormick reg
isters from McCormick, Wash., a mill
town which was named after his
family.
ACHIEVEMENT BY HEN AND MAN
Beat Laying; Strains Owe Much to Hu
man Labor, Skill and Science.
EST ACAD A, Or., Aug. 29. (To the
Editor.) Yes, when a hen rolls up a
fine egg record that Is a worthy
achievement, in Its way. Few people
however, realize the skill, care and
application which go to make a heavy
laying strain of fowls. They do not
come from nothing like Athena, who
sprang full grown from the forehead
of Zeus, fully equipped to perform the
alloted task. On the contrary, they
stand out as the finished product the
ultimate result of much labor and
skill, a large share of which is not
ppreciated by the average person
simply because it is work that is ac
complished in a quiet way, in a pains
taking manner and with science as its
guiding principle. Few things of real
worth have ever been accomplished
in any other way. "The gourd that
came up In a day withered in a day.
Much has been written in recent
times concerning the nutritive value
of certain foods. In this respect it
should be remembered that fresh-laid
eggs rank well toward the head of the
list from the nutritive standpoint, be
ing well stocked with body-building
and life-sustaining vltamines. It
must be confessed that a great deal is
not known about vltamines, but this
much at least is known that without
them In the human dietary bodily
growth would be greatly retarded and
life -Itself would be endangered.
The necessary vitamines can be
supplied In no better way than
through the medium of fresh-laid
eggs those palatable and delicious
morsels which bring vltamines and
health alike to kingly palaces and
loggers' huts.
Certainly fresh eggs are a univer
sal food. Wherever man dwells there
will be found the cackling hen fur
nishing him new-laid eggs for his
breakfast table.
Yet, the cackling hen and crowing
cock are very ancient birds on this
earth. Out of the dim foretime their
descendants have come, at least par
tially, to supply the needs of man.
Under the guiding hand of science
the poultry industry has attained a
magnitude never dreamed of by the
prehistoric man who first took cap
tive a pair of wild Indian jungle fowl
and domesticated the same. From
these primitive ancestors have come.
In large measure, all the poultry of
the world.
The high degree of egg production
that the modern hen has attained Is
wonderful, indeed. Just how far in
dividual production can be carried
without a lessening of vigor just to
what degree of high productivity the
domestic fowl can be made to attain
and still remain a chicken we do not
know; and it is sufficient to say that
these are. of course, questions that
only the future time can decide
It's not so bad when It's broad day
light And the kids are awake: but lit th
night
When the lights are low and the queer
shapes crawl
On the floor out thrr vhr ti,.
moonbeams fall.
And the sad little winds that are still
all day
Come in through the window thera.
and say
That the ghosts and the goblins are
hiding near
Why, then I can almost almost hear
The funniest sounds! And I hide my
head
Way under the covers, until Tve said
A prayer that my ma taught me to
pray
And then those queer things fade
away!
But it's lonesome here In the Land of
Nod
When no one's awake but me and God.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Aero.
From The Oregonian of August 81. 1895.
New York. The yacht Defender
won the contests with the Vigilant
and will race the Valkyrie for the
America cup.
Nichols. Multnomah club crack bi
cycle rider, lowered two records last
nigm. ie covered five miles in
12:313-5 and a half in 1:10 3-5.
Property owners on Seventh street
are interested in a movement to nave
that street from Ankeny north to Gll
san street.
PHIL. MARQUAM.
Positions in Honolulu.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 30. (To the
Editor.) Where could I secure In
formation with reference to obtaining'
a clerical or stenographic position in
Honolulu? A READER.
Concerning civil positions write to
the Honolulu agency of any of the
leading typewriters, or advertise for
a place In the Honolulu Times-Star or
Commercial Advertiser.
Identity of Sand-Dabs.
PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 30. (To the
Editor.) A says that sand-dabs are
found In the rivers and streams of
Oregon and that they were planted
during the Lewis and Clark expos!
tion. B says no. that they are
ahlnnnri here from other localities.
Who is right? A SUBSCRIBER.
B is right. The sand-dab. as lo
cally known. Is a salt water fish of
the flounder family, indigenous to
the California coast, whence comes
the market supply. In Oregon coastal
vnoni small flounders are some
times termed sand-dabs, but the point
is In dispute. Flounders often travel
short distances up river during hign
tide, and by reason of this fact are
frequently taken In fresh water. But
they are distinctly of the sea and are
..nknown above the first few miles
of tidewater.
Health Campaign Aided.
POTITLAND. Aug. 30. (To the Edi
tor 1 I wish to thank The Oregonian
. , . . i : . i .. 1 ... lO
for the spienaia euuyui -.ue"o-1920.
on "Purchasable Health."
Such editorials mean a great . deal
to those who are actively engaged in
health campaigns, tour fetate Tuber
culosis association is in reality a pub
lic health association and is conduct
ing an earnest campaign for better
health In Oregon.
One of the chief features in our
campaign are the county public health
nurses. Their reports prove the value
of the money thus expended and in
those counties where the county
courts have appropriated public funds
you will find that the nurse is re
garded as one of the most valuable of
the .county officials.
SAIDIE ORR-DUNBAR.
Executive Secretary, Oregon
Tuberculosis Association.
Fifty Years Ako.
From The Oregonian of August 31, 1870.
London. The French say that the
next general action will be in the
vicinity of Metz. The Prussians have
captured Vouziers.
Yreka. Cal. New gold discoveries
have been made about 45 miles from
Susanville. in Lassen county. One
spot of pay dirt is producing from
$200 to $500 per day to the hand with
a rocker.
The railroad and stage companies
are arranging to make connections at
Waconda as soon as the track is com
pleted to that point, which will be
during this week. This arrangement
will put passengers and mail through
between Salem ur.d Portland in less
than four hours.
The schooner Hattie C. Besse. 21
days from San Francisco, brought a
30-ton first-class locomotive for the
Oregon & California railroad. It Is
called the "Salem" and is the sixth
received for the road.
FRANKLIN D. IS IMITATION FLY
Democrats Seem to Thlnlc
Ives Are Foolish Fish.
PORTLAND, Aug. 30. (To the Edi
tor.) Franklin D. Roosevelt is posing
as the successor to the great progres
sive, Theodore Roosevelt. It reminds
me of the fly used by the nimrod to
catch the speckled beauty. When
Mr. Nimrod has no real fly he re
sorts to the Imitation; and when the
democratic party has no real progres
sive it resorts to the imitation to
catch the progressive vote.
Theodore Roosevelt believed In meas
ures that meant advancement In the
Interests of the people-rail the peo
ple. But Franklin 'D. was not advo
cating either Theodore or his iTeas.
Theodore Roosevelt believed in hon
esty in politics, and the democratic
party gives him credit. for reforming
the republican party, (would that he
had succeeded in reforming the dem
ocratic party as well); but Franklin
D. is still found the candidate of the
most corrupt ring of leaders to be
found in the republic, and working
hand and glove- with them in their
schemes. Theodore Roosevelt was
preaching preparedness for two years
before we entered into the late war;
but Franklin D. stood solidly with
those forces which obstructed such
preparation as would have probably
kept us out of war and saved hun
dreds of thousands of lives, and mil
lions upon millions of treasure. Theo
dore Roosevelt demanded that every
dollar of public money should buy a
real dollar's worth in return; but
Franklin D. has been among those,
himself largely responsible, who
have wasted millions upon millions of
the public funds.
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. Is his
father's successor and is still preach
ing progressive doctrines In the r.eal
progressive party. Franklin D. is a
mere imitation, a poor imitation at
that. The democratic party will find
it difficult to catch nroErecslve votes
with such bait; they may catch a fewi
suckers, but no real speckled beau
ties. '
soiomon, tne wisest man, saia:
"Dead flies cause the ointment of an
apothecary to send forth a stinking
savour.". And it will probably be
found after election that Franklin D.
Roosevelt is a dead fly in the demo
cratic ointment. PKOGRESSIVS.