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THE MORNING OREGON IAN, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 4, 1920,
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certainly justifies continuance of the are celebrated cases in our own
quest for substitutes, but for the I annals. Benton and Lucas, Clay fend
present it would appear that nothing j Randolph, DeWitt Clinton and Swar
can quite take the place of sane and I tout, and Terry and Broderick by
widespread economy. It is by this ! their combats testified to the Impel-
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SUFFRAGE, AND TENNESSEE.
It is not easy to fathom the intent,
or the plan, of those members of the
Tennessee house of representatives
who, after concurring in the suffrage
amendment, reversed their action
and voted to non-concur. It is as
difficult to understand what the sen
ate hoped to gain by voting, also by
a substantial majority, last Thursday
to receive the house's message rela
tive o its action, and ordering it
spread on the minutes. Perhaps it
was a belated and peevish expression
of genuine hostility to suffrage,
vented after the members had been
lashed into doing their duty. It may
be that there is an undercurrent of
Insistence on state rights, although
it does not appear how this was
served. It will be generally agreed
that for a responsible body so to act
Is quite inexplicable.
It is all the more so because it
was all done after the nineteenth
amendment, by proclamation of the
secretary of state of the United
States, had been made a fait accom
pli. After that, nothing that Ten
nessee, or any other state that pre
viously had ratified the amendment,
could do would have the slightest
effect on the validity of the amend
ment. To the point at which ratifi
cation had been finally accomplished
it would have been possible for a
state to rescind a ratification: but
that day was passed when the
amendment passed into the consti
tution. Nothing less than an affirm
ative amendment, .ratified in the
usual way, can ever deprive women
of the ballot they have won.
The acumen of Miss Anthony in
insisting that the precise terminology
of the fifteenth amendment be ad
hered to in framing the nineteenth
is now more than ever apparent.
The quite ample precedents fur
nished by the United States supreme
court in sustaining the fifteenth
amendment will constitute a tower
of strength in the event of assault
In the courts. But there is an even
stronger reason for predicting that
these attacks will fail. This is fur
nlshed by' the recent decision of the
court in the case of the prohibition
amendment, involving its status in
Ohio. In that state the legislature
ratified, appeal was taken to the
people through the referendum, and
the amendment failed in the latter
instance by a small margin. The
high court held that the legislature
had ratified in the manner provided
for by the federal constitution, it
affirmed the principle that amend
ment of the federal constitution Is
a federal matter, and it sustained
the amendment, notwithstanding the
nugatory election.
The precedents are clear. Law is
all on the side of the women, who
possessing the other qualifications
required of men in the several states,
now become voters as a matter of
right, without necessity for further
administrative machinery. The fight
is over. The Tennessee exhibition
retains interest only as a strange
manifestation of what- aberrations
are possible to the human mental
process.
THE FINAL SURRENDER. .
The Oregon ian was not at all shocked by
the. recent attemip-ts to buy the presidency
for Leonard Wood aind Governor Lowden,
although evidence proved the expenditure
of over $3,000,000. It even defended pri
mary eiu&h funds. Nof was The Oregonlan
at all shocked by the purchase in Michi
gan of a seat In the United States senate
by Newiberry. Salem Capital Journal.
If The Oregonlan were not shock
proof it might well be disturbed by
the persistent and anallctous exhibi
tions of mendacity as to itself by this
poor little Salem paper. On the
whole, we think it gives every day a
mor perfect exhibition of a com
plete incapacity to recognize and tell
the truth than any other Oregon
newspaper. It is a real distinction,
achieved through unremitting devo
tion to its ideals,' or lack of them.
The low estate to which a so
called "independent" press (demo
cratic) has been brought in Oregon
is well illustrated by the readiness,
even eagerness, with which it ac
cepts and states as fact the Cox
charge that a $15,000,000 slush fund
is being raised by the republicans to
"buy the presidency" by "corrupting
the electorate." If any other proof
of the Intense democratic partisan
ship of such papers were needed,
this last surrender to yellow-dogism
would furnish it.
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TRIFLING WITH SUCCESS.
The unnamed legislator who, It is
stated in a Salem dispatch, will seek
by new law to reorganize the state
highway commission is trifling with
a system that has given singularly
satisfactory results. He is proposing
to adopt a plan that is common in
numerous states but has nowhere
been so successful or so free from
political manipulation and local in
trigue as the system employed now
Oregon.
The reorganization would provide
salaries for the commissioners and
add the state engineer to that body.
Without paying salaries to its high
way commissioners, Oregon has se-
ured the services of men of the
highest standing, and character and
the widest business experience.
They have accepted the positions as
matter of duty and out of a genu
ine interest in highway betterment.
To pay the commissioners would not
secure better men for the places.
It would in fact invite applicants for
the places who would have, an eye
more to the salary attached than for
the public welfare. The position of
ighway commissioner would be at
once thrown into politics.
Under the present - system the
highway commission is a body "with
discretionary powers and adopts the
ggneral road building policy, subject
to sucn limitations as are.iaia a own
by statute. The engineer is its ex
ecutive officer and, acts also in an
advisory capacity. Responsibility
for proper conduct of road affairs is
primarily the commission's, as it
hould be, and the commissioners are
conscious of that responsibility and
what it means. They are beholden
to no element or party for place
and need not favor politicians or
localities for fear of losing a liveli
hood. Their independence of pres
sure has in instances caused offense.
but their judgment in such instances
has been honest and sustained by
good reason.
The success of Oregon s highway
building programme has not been
altogether due to the process of
financing it. An important factor
has been the adoption of a definite
policy and its administration by men
of firmness and character.' Now to
depart from this carefully devised
and proved plan would be to invite
disaster.
SUBSTITUTE FOR ALCOHOL.
The report of the American Cham
ber of Commerce in London on the
progress of research into alternative
fuels for petroleum in the production
of .power is not encouraging to those
who have thought that a substitute
-would be found merely because the
need of it exists. A British fuel
committee has found' that produc
tion of power alcohol from food ma-
terials is not economically possible
on an adequate scale In- Great Brit
ain, and that it is not practicable as
yet in other parts of the British
empire. It is highly essential that
land in the British isles shall be
conserved for the growing of crops
for human consumption, and there
is no evidence that it can be profit
ably employed otherwise.
The British commission takes the
surprising view that coal is still the
fuel of promise in the emergency.
It would save gasoline, in other
words, by expanding the field of coal
products. That this may be an at
tractive iuest has been indicated by
scientists like Edison, , who have
pointed out that there is much to be
done before we shall have extracted
the full pdwer contained in that fuel
Mr. Edison's widely quoted state
ment that not more than 10 per cent
of the potential energy of coal is
now being employed would seem to
indicate that industrial engineers
have as much to do in this direction
as have the chemists who are seek
Ing, and apparently in vain, to find
an economically feasible process of
converting starch-bearing vegetabl
products into alcohol.
The whole fuel question Is so in
volved in politico-economics .that it
is doubtful whether there will be
a striking departure from present
methods for a considerable period.
Theoretically, as ha3 repeatedly been
pointed out, the tropics should be
capable of filling all the alcoholic
needs of man without making visible
Inroads on food production. In prac
tice, there are many factors to be
considered. Encouraging progress
has been made in. Improvement of
health conditions in tropical lands,
but we are not yet warranted in
assuming that thise have yet been
converted into a "white man's coun
try." Tropical labor is still ineffi
cient and unambitious, while enor
mous capital that would be required
In reclaiming the jungles is now
profitably employed in' development
enterprises nearer home.
The gravity of the fuel outlook
vate inclinations of men from whom
saner judgments might have been
expected. We then needed, and
presently were to obtain, a different
interpretation of' the sense of. the
words "cowardice" and "courage,"
such as that which In 1900 inspired
the organization of an international
society for the abolition of "the duel
in Europe. France gained a note
worthy convert to the cause when
SI. Paul, de Cassagnac, formerly a
noted duelist, gave his support to the
league, and it made another step
forward when, a year afterward, the
French Marquis d'Elbee refused to
accept the challenge of the Marquis
de Chauvelin. The world war put
a different aspect on the practice by
making it appear that young men
who desired to fight for their honor
were better employed in risking their
lives in the service of their country.
It now appears that there has been
a revival of dueling, for which there
is no war safety valve, and it is be
cause of this that France again has
taken up the problem seriously.
Laws by themselves probably will
not suffice to put an end to the prac
tice. A good many classical en
counters have taken place in which
defiance of the law appeared to
contribute to their assumption of
merit. The French propose to
penalize newspapers for printing ac
counts of duels. The more effective
remedy, long ago enforced in many
of th states of this country, of de
priving the guilty persons of their
civil rights, does not seem to have
occurred to French lawmakers, ac
cording to the cable dispatches. It
was this stroke, in all probability,
that put the final quietus on dueling
In the United States. We have, in
any event, achieved the distinction,
in company with a few other pre
dominating Anglo-Saxon communi
ties, of making dueling not only un
lawful but shameful in popular
opinion. The moral quality that has
brought this to pass is not the least
of the achievements of which as
nation we have a right to be proud.
AT THE SECOND-HAND BOOKSTORE.
Foremost among the follies of
versifiers is the tendency to moral
ize, to philosophize, to say something
cleveY or cutting- or pathetic about
the theme which inspires. The
wearied reading public, though often
caught by the tinkle or diapason of
pure rhyme, devoutly prays that
poets will some time write of life
and leave deduction to the reader.
For your usual poet, fired by an in
nate conceit, is quite apt to' invent
situations that are not real, that
have no place in mortal affairs, for
no other purpose than that of drama.
So actuated, for we deny an inspira
tion, Muriel Stuart wrote these lines
on "The Second-hand Bookshelf,"
and offered them as interpretative:
Dust is deep on Marlowe's lip.
Hell holds Dante in these streets,
Milton takes the gutter's drip.
Mud is on the breast of Keats.
SUPPRESSION OF DUELING.
It is a curious fact that the prac
tice of dueling in France, to suppress
which General Castelnau has drafted
a bill now pending before the cham
ber of deputies, was greatly stimu
lated by, if it did not owe its actual
origin to, a suggestion that the world
would now pretty generally com
mend. V A bright spot in the dark
picture of the sixteenth century in
Europe is the memorable challenge
of Francis I to his rival, Charles V,
In 1528, to decide their quarrel by
single combat. It would have been
peculiarly appropriate to determine
the issue in that way at that time:
the quarrel had long been petty and
personal, and had ceased to be the
concern of the peoples who were the
chief sufferers. The, challenge seems
to have been accepted, though we
record regretfully that the meeting
never took place. But the effect of
the challenge, for some reason which
historians do not satisfactorily ex
plain, was to cfeate tremendous
enthusiasm for dueling throughout
France. Says a trustworthy chron
icler: . --,'.
Every man of France seemed to think
that he was called on to use his sword
to defend his honor against the slightest
imputation. Some kings endeavored to sup.
press, others encouraged, dueling. Within
eighteen years, in -the reign ot rlenry IV,
It is said, no fewer than. 4000 persons fell
in duels. Rigid measures were passed
but were rarely enforced. Up to the pres
ent time -duels aTe much' more common in
France than elsewhere, but fatal results
are Infrequent.
The whole history of the duel has
presented a strange series of contra-
dictions."" Once it was so regarded as
a test of personal courage that it was
morally impossible for a citizen chal
lensed to refuse to fight. There is
no doubt that by fostering .bragga
docio and creating false moral stand
ards it not only caused the waste of
many useful lives but sapped the
ethical foundations of peoples. Yet
it mysteriously served a purpose in
demonstrating that there is a definite
power in publie opinion, and this
in time developed into the- germs
of democratic responsibility. Its
fundamental unsoundness, however.
doomed it among enlightened peo
ples. France has been slow to ban
ish the practice actually, but the
hapmlessness of the "French duel,"
which for -more than a generation
has been' a fruitful topic fo? humor
ists, has indicated a kind of response
to , the growing sentiment against
taking human life needlessly.
Nevertheless, it was Written of our
own country only a century ago that
"in no part of the world was dueling
so earnestly engaged in as in Amer
ica.". The peculiar earnestness of our
pioneers of the frontier was mani
fested by the zest with which, they
carried the duel to its extreme con
clusion.' . "Combats under all softs
of conditions, ani with every con
ceivable variety of weapon," says a
historian, "and in the majority of
instances fights fatal t8 one or both
combatants, were of frequent occur
rence." Andrew Jackson's encflunter
with Dickinson and the killing of
All the lovely thoughts men think,
All their rapture, love and pain, -
God comes down in blood and ink.
Sold fpr sixpence in the rain.p
Whoever prowled gladly about a
second-hand bookstore and pondered
in this wise? The tattered old vol
umes are covered with dust and
spattered with rain, it is true, but
the imperishable contents are still
guarded by the dog-eared covers
and one buys classics for a thin
dime. In material estate these fine
old books have fallen, perhaps, but
providence s.ees to it that their use
fulness, their joy, is by no means at
an end. At heart they are as young
as the ' leather-and-vellum of the
newest editions. It is a fine thing
to dwell upon, rather than a sad,
that the faded books of the old shop
are perennially young the college
widows of -the world of letters. So
many hands have turned their pages,
so many eyes have discerned tneir
truth and loveliness, that they are
n fact bequests to us from our own
folk. Our eyes are quite undimmed
by any sense of pathos as we see
them "sold for sixpence in the rain.
that the lost garden lay somewhere
between Armenia and the Persian
gulf, near the rivers Tigris and
Euphrates. When our American
savants reach the southern shore of
the Caspian sea, the narrowest
northern territory of Persia alone
will separate them from those lands
in which scripture directs the search
should be made. From Tabriz, near
the Caspian, they will halt less than
four hundred miles from the main
stream of the Tigris and approxi
mately five hundred miles from the
entrance of the conjoined rivers.
Tigris and Euphrates, into the Cas
pian. Science and theology will not
bide far apart, even by linear
measurement.
It is here, however, that anthro
pology and sorlpture part company.
if we Insist upon dogmatic transla
tion bf the significance bf the book
of Genesis. For Adam stood erect
in lions own image, nrst ot an
men, perfect In physique. And Eve
was fashioned to the perfection of
womanhood. But the fossil bones
of our first father, such as the an
thropologists seek, will not bear out
this version of the creation a ver
sion, indeed, accepted Jy advanced
tueoiugians as doih ngurauve anu
real, affording basis for comprehen
sion rather than material for the
stern logician. If the quest of the
savants is successful they will prq,ve
that the Darwinian theory is correct,
and that our unthinkably remote
forefathers were but a span re
moved from the anthropoid ape,
though human. Fancy pauses to
contemplate the dazed surprise of
the searchers if, in the vale of the
Tigris, they should exhume from the
undeniable records of rock the bones
of man as we know him today. But
this Is utterly beyond the realm 'of
probability. There stands our old
friend and alleged forefather, for
instance. Pithecanthropus himself.
Who was he? As to 'that the sci
entists are not agreed. He fished
and hunted, and wooed and fought
so long ago "-that his fragmentary
remains . rested In the Pliocene for
mation of Java. Darwin in his ex
position of evolution had called for
the missing link, an assumed physi
ological specimen that might join
the -broken structural chain between
anthropoid and man. When the
bones of this primeval Javanese were
exhumed he was rechristened Pithe
canthropus erectus. In life he walked
upright, after the manner of men
His brain capacity was less than that
of mazi and greater than that of the
anthropoid, and some there were
who acclaimed him as the missing
link. . But scientists fell out in the
clash of theory, and Pithecanthropus
remains classified with the family of
primates, or monkey-folk and still
the quest goes on.
The fossil remains of man have
been found with those of the mam
moth, the cave-bear and the saber
tooth tiger with all that sepulchral
evidence ' of which no living trace
remains, save only ourselves. Be
neath sixty feet of Nile mud. hard
ened into rock at the rate of a few
alluvial incnes eacn. century, are
found the evidences of a compara
tively competent civilization. The
Garden of Eden'recedes into the cen
turles, the thousands of years, and
the tens of thousands. Scriptural
or .scientific, one stands amazed at
the 'happy temerity with which we
seek to solve its riddle of locality.
But with what strange admixture
of awe and piety should the quest
of the savants prove successful
would we greet word that the lost
garden had been found in Babylonia,
between the Tigris and the Eu
phrates, where theologians say the
scriptural site ef Eden is situate! It
is written: "And the Lord God
planted a garden eastward in Eden,
and there he put the man whom he
had formed."
SEEKING THE LOST GARDEN.
Science does not contend with
scripture concerning the geograph
ical existence of a Garden of Eden,
wherein mankind was cradled. It
holds logically enough that some-
where is hidden the province that
first beheld our kind beyond the
primitive. Nor does it dispute with
the scriptural narrative of creation
in the presumable location of the
shire that- was given to our first
father. The book "of Genesis appar
ently grants to the storied garden
some fruitful nook of southwestern
Asia. And it is in Asia that anthro
pologists are agreed man rose from
his. fours, forsook mere mimicry
and became both reasoning and
articulate.
-For the purpose of again attempt
ing to locate the lost garden as the
birthplace of the race, anthropolo
gists of the American Museum of
Natural History are now organizing
an expedition to search the continent
of Asia. They will penetrate the in
terior of China, where one of the
elder civilizations rests impassively
at its crest of a thousand years ago.
and thrust westward through wild
Thibet and Turkestan to the shores
of the Caspian sea. There, indeed,
they will be near to the boundaries
of those sweet fields of Eden, de
scribed in Genesis. Somewhere in
this vast area they hope, with the
inextinguishable optimism of sci
entists, to come on fossil remain:-, to
prove the theory that, man and most.
of his fellow mammals rose from the
dust of Asia, or. rather the jkrimeval
and fecund' swamps, to disperse
themselves' to the uttermost ends of
earth.
But at the Caspian sea these sa
vants -will "be warm," as we used
to sayswhen playing hide-the-thim
ble, not only by climatic Conditions
but according to the scriptural text
relative to their quest. Josephus
declared -his belief - that Eden lay
hidden between the Ganges and the
Nile. Thus' we perceive that in
general sense the territory which
Josephus thought likely to contain
Eden is that which the American
scientists are to investigate. Save
for the search in the Chinese inte
rior and Thibet these modern an
thropologists will indeed delve west
ward from the Ganges and almost to
the Nile, though their search does
not include the shores of Africa.
Calvin held that Kornah In Baby
lonia, near the Persian gulf, was the
setting in which light first smote
the eyes of man, and where there
grew that unforgetable tree of
knowledge of good and evil. For
centuries the quest for Eden was
solely the search of theologians, but
it is of interest that the theory of
theology and the dictum of science
run closely parallel. The theologians
Alexander Hamilton-by Aaron Burr were almost unanimously agreed
No longer is it necessary to be
bald headed, we are informed. He
who is irked by the hirsute toll of
time need only submit to a trifling
operation a mere matter of scalp
ing in order to recruit a new
growth, banish the housefly from his
skating rink, and attain a "part.1
bhrewd surgeons, having demon
strated something or nothing about
transplanted goat glands, have turned
their skill to the denuded cranium.
They have observed that the last
hairs to fall are those which deco
rate the sides and base of the skull,
and that usually these defy the en
croachments of time. It is a simple
matter, tnererore, to lift a few se
lected strips in flourishing condition
and transplant them on the desert
areas to reforestize the cranial
apex. Inasmuch as this surgical in
novation bids fair to destroy the
toupee Industry and deprive the
jokesmiths of their favorite topic,
one perceives that it Is dangerous
aad should be frowned upon.
WHEAT PRICE RECORD GARBLED f
Harding; Never treed 91 War Price. I
bat Advocated S2.QO.
The charge that Senator Harding
opposed guaranteeing the American
farmer more than $1 per bushel for
wheat during the war has been wide
ly and mendaciously circulated by
his opponents. The facta are that
Senator Harding voted -to guarantee
the farmer 2.50, while President Wil
son, when the power was placed in j
his hands, fixed the guarantee at
2.:o. " r
During the consideration of the
Lever bill to encourage increased food
production and for other purposes,
on July 21, 1917, in the course of a
running debate that embraced the
whole question of encouraging food
production. Senator Harding stated:
I said that raisins 1 wheat was a
profitable occupation in times of peace
and X said to the senator from North
Dakota (Mr. McCumber) that the know
ing; - farmers of the country are buying
land in Ohio at $150 per acre for the
very purpose of irolnr Into a commer
cial proposition of raisins; wheat profit
ably at 91 per bushel "in times of peace
to oe sure." ,
That reference was to wheat pro
duction in normal times. Everybody
knows that many years before .the
war the ideal of the wheat farmer
had been "$1 wheat." One dollar
wheat meant profitable farming. It
was the assurance that the wheat
farmer was doing well and such as
surance to the wheat farmers meant
that their agricultural products were
commanding prices fairly propor
tionate to the price of wheat- Because
the experience of centuries had proven
this, J1 wheat" had become equiva-
lenit to agricultural prosperity.
Senator Harding's opponents, al
though they knew perfectly well
for It was part of the same record
that when It came to' fixing the war
time guarantee, the senator voted for
J.o0 price, nevertheless garbled
the statement here quoted by cutting
out the last seven words, "in times of
peace to be sure," and circulating the
rest of it so as to give the impre
sion that he had declared that tl
was as much ae the farmer ought to
get for wheat in war times.
This was the origin of the "$1 per
Dusnei story.
On March 21. 1918, the senate had
under consideration a bill to fix the
guarantee on wheat. Senator Gore
offered an amendment, which among
other things made the guarantee $2.60
instead of $2. Also. It made No. 2
northern wheat Instead of No. 1
northern wheat the standard, and it
provided that the -local elevator or
local railway market should be the
basing point, rather than the "prin
cipal interior primary market." All
this would have helped further to In
crease the price guaranteed to the
farmer.
In further explanation of his pro
posed amendment Senator Gore said
(Congressional Recordi March 21.
1918. pages 38-31.
Another change is a nrovlso far not 1 1 Ins-
the question which was raised some weeks
ago as to whether the guaranteed price of
$2 per bushel was an absolute and a
maximum price, or was only a minimum
price, subject to increase by the president.
It makes clear that the price was pre
scribed by congress as a minimum and
that it was subject to change by the
president.
In short, adoption of the 'Gore
amendment would have fixed a mini
mum price of $2.60, on the basis of
No. 2 northern-' wheat at the local
market. That price would have still
been, subject to increase by the presi
dent. But it could not have been
reduced.
For this amendment Senator Hard
ing voted. The president had already
proclaimed a price of $2.20. Had the
Gore amendment, as Senator Harding
voted ror it. passed, it would not only
have made th price $2.50 Instead of
$3.20, as fixed by the president, but
It would have enforced other condi
tions to protect the farmers' interest
that would have insured the farmer
a price probably averaging 60 cents
more for his war-time- wheat than
he actually received1.
The guarantee of $2.20. on the basis
of 'iso. 1 northern wheat at the "Drln
Clpal interior markets" did not by
any means Insure the average wheat
larmer anytning like $2.20 for hi
wheat. Much more commonly, h
actually got less than $2. The Gore
amendment, as supported by Senator
Harding, would have meant a very
considerable Increase to the farmer
over the price he was actually nald
during tne war.
Those Who Come and Go.
"Rotten" is the brief and Inelegant,
but expressive description given of
the highway between Seattle and
Portland, by motorists arriving here.
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Edwards arrived
at the Hotel Portland from Seattle
yesterday, coming by machine. Mr.
Edwards, who sells ice machines, de
clares that he was off the highway
more than he was on it, Decause oi
the numerous detours. H. Gilman, who
also drove down a few days ago, said
that he had to.be towed four times
by teams to get through. Mr. Gilman
is so disgusted that he decided he
would not attempt the Pacific high
way in Oregon, but would shipi his
car to California ajid says he will
hip his car from San Francisco di
rect to Puget sound. The detours are
due. of course, to road construction
or the main highway, but the places
designated as detours are in bad condition.
Hornbrook. Cal., isn't as interesting
a spot as it was a cpuple of years ago.
so Li. B. Collins or Hornbrook. Knows
that he is missing nothing at home
by coming to Portland for a few days.
He is at the Hotel Oregon. After Ore
gon became bone dry. Hornbrook was
the first oasis across the line and
Oregon people flocked there for their
supplies and then ran the gauntlet of
deputy Bherlffs trying to get the
liquor through the Rogue and Limp-
qua valleys. Right now, at the sign
post which says "California on one
side and "Oregon" on the other, there
are thousands of broken bottles.
where Oregonians drank their dock
and dorris and then smashed the glass
container on the ground before cross
ing Into the beaver state.
Prosperity in the south is such that
the . colored people who formerly
bought large quantities of the inferior
cannea saimon now aemana ana pay
for the best. Warehouses along the
Columbia river are filled with last
year's pack and large quantities of
canned salmon of the "chum" variety
are still on hand, the chum fish hav
ing in the past been a good seller in
the south, around Louisiana. Such is
the information which F. H. Haradon
of Astoria, related at the Benson yes
teroay. Mr. Haradon also said that
some of the canneries have closed.
T. Vincent Keenan, a former Co
lumbia university student who for the
past two .years has been studying
for the priesthood, returned yester
day to take up his third year work in
theology at St. Patrick's seminary,
Menlo Park, Cal. The past two
months he has been spending an en
Jpyable vacation with his parents,
Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Keenan. 771 Com
mercial street. He is being accom
panied to San Fraioisco on the steam
er Rose City by his brother, George
E. Keenan, who will visit relative and
friends lor tne ensuing three weeks.
I
One . of the saddest srntj).rrl rf
t"he times is that of Governor Cox
offering proof. He reminds Us of
the baldheaded man who had a sure
cure for baldness. Folks looked at
the cure and then at his head and
they mistrusted his intentions.
Indorsement by Typographical Union.
Be It resolved.. by the Marion Tvtw.
rraphlcal Union, No. 6T5. of Marlon. O.,
mat we .most neartuy indorse the can
didacy or Senator Warren n Hintim
lot uio repuDiican nomination for nresi.
dent. We have always found him fair and
considerate of all-of hi .ni.)nv, ,iwnv.
paying more than the established scale of
wages and his DlAnt At Xfarinn rt vQ
never known any strike or lockout or any
dispute witn rile employes. . He himself,
in his younger days, was a practical
printer and knows from actual ezoerlMu-i
and ions hours at the case the trials and
cares of a fellow craftsman, and we are
partially proud of Having one of our fel
low- citizens and fellow workmen as a
candidate for this hiKh office, enneclallv
when we know- from our lonx association
with hi-m that he possesses the petrsonal
traits and business quajlfications essential
to this hifrh office. Resolution unanimous
ly adopted by the Marion (O.J Tvoorranh-
Ical union.
r or tne nrst time In many years
Portland has not had a water short
age this summer. Perhaps this may
be due to the fact that for the first
time In many years intelligent steps carelessness
BAD VISION . ACCIDENT CAtSE
Sog-grention Hade That Eyealsi-t of
.Auto Drivers Be Tested.
PORTLAND, Sept. 3. (To the Bdl-
tor.) Anent The Oregonlan' "Auto
mobile Accident-Control" editorial it
would seem that one avenue of acci
dent cause .has been quite overlooked
by those whom you quote. Doubtless
is the greatest causal
have been
shortage.
taken to prevent
We are glad to note that postmen
will get a rest on Labor dav. The
one' weknow has a' trick of smiling
in the rain, with umpteen pounds of
missives on his hack. We hope that
he goes fishing and cat as the limit-
The. sweetest sound we ever heard
was not the twitter of a bird like
Chillon's prisoner;- it was those hon
eyed words, that told how sugar
finally sold for fifteen pennies per.
Word comes from Ireland that
gold has been discovered near Horse
leap, County Westmeath. But no
body has yet discovered a silver lin
ing for the Irish war cloud.
In short, the Poles tell Mr. Colby
that they enjoyed his letter very
much, but will handle their ca"m
paign to please themselves, thank
you.
factor In motor-vehicle accidents, but
who can doubt that poor or faulty
vision plays its part.
Myopia (near-sight) would preclude
the discernment of danger: oCtlmes
until too late to avoid -an accident.
Again, there are defects of vision
which make it impossible for one so
afflicted accurately to estimate dis
tances.
Lastly, while I would not say that
persons blind In one eye should be
denied a driver's license, yet the fact
remains that in addition to having
their visual field thus narrowed, per
sons dependent upon monocular vision
lack the perspective that accompanies
binocular vision.
Therefore. I do believe that a per
son blind in one eye should be denied
a driver's license, unless he has nor
mal oe nearly normal vision in the
other. In fact, should not every per
so if be compelled to pass an adequate
acuity test before he be privileged . to
drive a motor vehicle?
FLOYD B. DAYTON.
The wife of the American cham
pion hurdler at the Olympic games
has sued him for divorce. Hurdling
seems to run in the family.
News dispatches say that Rosebud
county, Montana, had its first
hanging yesterday. Must be a new
county. '
When we heard that d'Annunzio
might leave Flume we refused to be
come excited. Flume isn't that
lucky.
The fellows who aren't going to
observe Labor day are Billy Miske
and J. Dempsey.
Liquid Caroling for Cox.
HOOD RIVER. Or., Sept. 2. (To
the Editor.) That Carroll letter!
"Isn't that great!" Let all the "Coxey
ites" deny who will, that Carroll let
ter tells to whom "the wers" are car
oling Carrolling and caroling to Cox.
They must be nightingales, they have
such a habit of singing in the dark
The "voice is that of Jacob but the
hand is the hand of Esau."
Don't be fooled. The liquor inter
ests are working hard night and day
for Jeems and nullification of any
thing and everything that stands in
the way of complete re-enthronement
of King Alcohol, as if ha were the de
bauchee Charles himself.
These organized liquor Interests
cannot stand it, now that "a stranger
fills the Stuarts' throne."
W. J. P.
Herman Wise came to the Hote
Portland yesterday with the wife of
the postmaster of Astoria. Mr. wise
it the postmaster, a Job he has held
down throughout the Wilson admin
lstration, Mr. Wise being a democrat
and proud of it. He was even a djrao
crat when Grover Cleveland was in
the white house and the information
trickled back to Mr. Cleveland, who
promptly recognized such fortitud
In a republican community by making
Mr. Wise postmaster.
.Louis Lachmund came to Portland
for a few hours yesterday and
chugged out over the Columbia high
way. Senator Lachmund had as a
point of destination the fish hatchery
at Bonneville, which is one of the
show places on the highway. Senator
Lachmund is quite interested in fish,
of late, for he was appointed as a
member of the legislative ommittee
to hear complaints against the fish
commission.
Walla Walla people are heading
back for the inland empire, which
is a good place to get away from in
summer, because of the heat. A
crowd of citizens from Walla Walla,
who have been at the Newport
beaches, have arrived at the Hotel
Washington. In the list are Miss
Millicent King. Miss J. J. King. Miss
Gloria Morrison, Miss L. A. Ramsey,
Miss Elizabeth Ramsey. Mrs. E. V.
Pense and children, and Mrs. J. L.
Smith and daughter.
F. H. Malcolm, of Edmundton, Al
berta, registered at the Seward from
Seattle yesterday. Just because he
came down on the train from the
principal town on Elliott bay. Mr.
Malcolm has taken an active hand In
the development of his part of the
world and is said to have sold $7,000.-
000 of securities issued by one of the
Canadian railroads.
Having heard of the Columbia high
way back In Ohio and Illinois, trav
elers from those states at the Hotel
Washington made the trip over the
scenic road yesterday and returned
raving over its beauties. The visitors
are Mr. and Mrs. ueorge w. bmitn oi
Evanston. 111.. and Mr. and Mrs.
George Colbentz of Springfield, O.
F. G. Deckebach of the "Marion
Creamery company at Salem was
dodging street cars In Portland yes- i
terday. Once upon a time Mr. Deck
ebach was the headquarters of the
creamery across the street from one
paper office and a block from another.
W. C. Hawley. representative from
the first congressional district, is reg-
stered at the Multnomah from Salem.
Mr. Hawley, as usual. Isn't worrying
about the outcome of the election in
November, .for the people In his dis
trict vote for him every two years
as a matter of habit.
Henry Oliver, .who is one of the
steel magnates of Pittsburg, Pa., has
been over in Honolulu with his fam
ily and arrived at the Benson with
wife and children yesterday. The
family is on its way across the con
tinent to the city of smoke and sto
gies.
Although Labor day Is "getaway"
day at the beach, A. Van Nortwick
decided to come to town ahead of
the rush and is registered at the
Hotel Oregon. Mr. Van Nortwick is
one of the permanent residents of
Rockaway.
d. A.. Schoolmaster doesn't live
up to bis name, for instead of teach
ing the young idea how to shoot, he
sells saws and similar machinery for
millmen. Mr. Schoolmaster is at the
Perkins from Chehalis.
There will be a good crop of ap
ples, according to R. P. Loomis. who
has an orchard about 15 miles up the
valley in Hood River. Mr. Loomis
is among the arrivals at the Benson.
FEMALE WORKER'S LOT IS HARD
Lax Unionism and Competition of
Loose Women Complained Of.
ABERDEEN. Wash.. Sept. 2. (To
the Editor.) I am a union waitress.
Under our regulations we have to
give a certain period of notice if we
wish to quit employment, and have a
promise in our byiaws of a similar
notice on the part of employers who.,
agree to union regulations.
Recently I was employed in a
union house where the bosses them
selves were employed until they be
came proprietors, and I was admon
ished, with other employes, that the
house was union and they should all
belong. I, without cause or notice,
was discharged to give place to a
person who has a home and husband.
am told, and who, I understood, is
working as a waitress to buy a motor
car for pleasure. I Inquired if unions
made pledges only to break them, and
was told that they did not follow the
bylaws very close. 1 had noticed that
fact.
I have heretofore stoutly defended
union organization, believing that
they increased the fidelity of service
and united to a better end the inter
ests of the employer and the com
munity with labor, but I certainly
have no use for any man or organiza
tion which will swear upon the Holy
Bible to do certain law-abiding and
brotherly acts, and then deliberately
break that oath and treat the act as
merely a small Item If such be
sample of unionism. That Is not the
spirit which makes good citizens, par
ticularly when persons who do not
need to work for a living are given
the preference, and for the purchase
of non-essentials and luxuries, when
the government is carrying such vast
burdens of debt.
Hundreds of women who entered
the trades and crafts during the war,
who do not need such employment to
support them, have remained, and
more are being recruited from the
ranks of the well-to-do, while the
needy are denied work. I have found
this and other evils to be the case in
several cities, but it is the first time
I have been made a victim of Just that
kind of Instance.
We working women have the red
light woman to work with, whose ex
travagancea ana presence in the wage
field in competition is a grievous
wrong against clean womanhood, fo
we have not only our own work to do
but also much of hers to do In orde
to hold our Jobs. Then we must dres
as up to date as she or get canned
many times. We can thank th
churches for the evils of the red
light women in the wage field, and in
our rooming and boarding-houses, fo
they have raised our rents and in
many other ways increased the cost
of living by their enforced presence
in our midst. As a working woma
I believe they are better off and th
working women would be safer-
the restricted 'districts were restore
and they could return to the confines
of that district and not be forced to
use an honest trade to camouflag
prostitution. Their presence has
creased the lust for dress in all
classes or society and also increased
crimes and divorce evils. They would
oe oetier protected, as would also so
ciety, and the business world would be
better off if the restricted district
were restored. MAY SMITH.
CKABBE'S LINE ON DOGS GIVE
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montasrne.
THRIFT AND THE DEJIOX.
Scotland Is going dry.
n Poet Bobby Burns slay.
When every Scot was gay and
happy.
When shadows lengthened on the brae.
The good-folk had their wee bit
drappie.
The dominie would leave the kirk.
The shepherd hie him from the
heather.
The sporran maker drop his work
And all would have a nip together.
For In those days on every hill '
They stewed the maltie in kittle.
And' ran it through a home-made still.
So whuskey cost but very little,
very hearty brew it was.
As pow.erful as it was filling.
And no one grudged the cost, because
One got blind drunk for half a
shilling.
But through the Caledonian hills
They ve lately clapped a tax on
sperrits
And sent to hunt illicit stills
Big Englishmen with eyes like fer
rets; .
And when one's sorrow must be
drown.
With goodly stoups of Scots and
water.
It sometimes cost a half a erown
xo get a fairish Hielan-d totter.
And as the Scot is loath to part
w nn any or his boarded siller.
Although it breaks his honest heart
He's bid good-bye to the distiller.
He likes his wee-bit drappie yet.
But what It costs to get a steam oa
Is something that he can't forget.
Ana tnriit Is driving out the demon.
Look at the Price of Ratalns!
The fact that sugar, is coming down
proves that they can't be using much
of it in home-made hootch.
He'll Get It.
If Mr. Trotsky wants some good ad
vice about whether to go on fighting
or not, let him talk, to Mr. Hohenzol-
lern.
'
Be Gallant.
Now you can put your vote In your
wife's name and stop worrying about
politics.
(Copyright, 1920, by Jhe Bell Syn- .
dlcate. Inc.)
In Other Days.
Admirer of Poet Tell Also of His In
spiration to Others.
.
1 UKTLA.ND. Sept. 3. (To the Ed
itor.) The Oregonian's editorial Sep
temDer J concerning Dogs recall
tne poet Crabbe s line "That a dog.
though a flatterer. Is still a friend."
Crabbe, a realist, his revolt against
Idealization inspired many modern
writers. Newcome read Crabbe in his
advanced years. Fox soothed his dy
ing ear with Crabbe's poems. Burke
and Johnson were his admirers. Wal
ter Scot, asked for the Bible and
Crabbe to be read to him to comfort
his last hours. Wordsworth srid
Crabbe's poems would last. Byron
styled him "nature's sternest painter,
yet her best."
George Eliot was inspired by
Crabbe. Maria Edgworth, Campbell.
Southey. Hardy and numerous other
writers were influenced by the poet's
village themes of every-day life, but
Hazlitt in his moments of spleen was
Crabbe's detractor. Crabbe's tribute
to- lawyers and reasoners Is one to
be thought over:
But time convinced him that we cannot
keep
A breed of reasoners like a flock of Kheep.
LlN'TjEX.
Tvenry-flve Years Ago.
From The Oresonlan of September 4. 1893.
Klamath, an Oregon-bred trotter,
owned by Thomas Raymond, has made
a record of 2:08 on eastern tracks,
the fastest time ever made by an
Oregon horse.
Entries are being received from all
over the northwest for the Portland
Amateur Athletic club annual iall
games, to be beld next Saturday.
Vancouver Fully 10,000 persons
yesterday witnessed the contests held
here under auspices of the Oregon
Volunteer Firemen's association.
At the second day's session of the
Multnomah county teachers' institute
Professor Grout gave the second por
tion of his lecture on "History."
TROUBLESOME TO BUY STAMPS
Writer Complains of Inconveniences
of Uptown Postofflce.
PORTLAND, Sept. 3. (To the Edi
tor.) Portland is a beautiful 61ty; it
is advertised as such and fills the
bill, but one thing I should like to call
your attention to is your postofflce.
I desire to buy 50 cents' worth of
stamped envelopes and I must either
Fro a half mile down toward the rail
road jards, to the main office, wade
through the shoppers at the depart
ment store sub-stations or stand in
line 20 minutes at the' Fifth and Mor
rison office while all manner of pack
ages are dispatched through the
"stamp window." This at 10 A. M. on
Thursday, whlph should not be con
sidered a rush period.
Why not a stamp window for
stamps and not delay five people who
want stamps with one person who is
sending out a number of parcels that
have to be weighed and rated at the
window? R. K. SULLIVAN.
Among the arrivals at the Impe
rial yesterday was Mrs. C. J. Bright
of The Dalles. Mrs. Bright's .husband
is one of the presidentlalelectors on
the prohibition ticket.
H. J. Maier. for many years in the
grocery business at The Dalles, and
Interested In higher education, was
registered at the Imperial yesterday
with Mrs. Maier.
B. H. Maxwell, who considers that
he has the last word in wooden over
coats, is registered at the Hotel Port
land from California.
Fred A. Bushnell arrived at the
Benson from St. Paul yesterday. Mr.
Bushnell is the general purchasing
asent for the Great Northern railroad.
Behind the Scenes in the
Big Store
When you thread through the crowded aisles of your favorite
department 6tore, seeking a paper of pins or a new lawnmower, the
hum of industry all around is but an external of the vast merchan
dising machine. There. are hundreds of hidden human cogs, with
which the' purchaser never comes in contact, to function toward
perfect service. De Witt Harry, in the Sunday issue, takes the '
reader with him behind the scenes, into the heart of the enterprise.
You'll enjoy the visit.
Europe's Opportunities for Oregon "We are content with Oregon
and that content is our undoing. . A gTeat state, with giant re
sources, but scarcely known to the nations of Europe, all of whom
are in the market for our products declares George M. Vinton, of
Portland, in an article direct from London. He has toured Europe,
with an eye to the exports of Oregon, and he knows whereof he
speaks. Citizens will open their eyes to this article, and vision the
fleets that should carry our wares to the markets overseas.
Winning a Home in the Cascades--Want to read a story from
life, a story of heroism? YouH fiftd it in the Sunday issue, as told
by Naomi Swett, the narrative of Mrs. E. A. Pierce who spent ten
years in the solitude of the Cascades to win a home and who now
has it, at the age of 76. Adventure? You'd better believe she had
it and was equal to the emergency.
Look Onf for These Jewels Diamonds that once blazed on royalty
are to sparkle in America duty free if the smugglers can contrive
it. But the inspectors of customs are experienced lads, themselves,
and the profits of smuggling the crown-jewels are scarcely com
mensurate with the risk. Frank Dallam has a story about this
secret enterprise in the Sunday magazine' section, with illustrations.
Women in New Lands When you cut your finger, whom do you
wish to bind it up ? Well, then, is it at all amazing that the recon
struction of the bruised old world is deftly soothed by the ministra
' Hons of women thousands of them, who are playing the game with
fortitude and zeal in the strange lands of earth. Read Constance
Drexel's story in the Sunday issue, illustrated.
- Don't Marry Money, Says Handsome Jack This advice from
"Handsome Jack" Geraghty, son of a cab-driver, would seem to be
expert for Jack wedded a petted society favorite and found that
romance in a cottage isn't always what it should be. Neither of the
lovers was at fault they found that in appreciation of the values
of life they were strangers. And another elopement finished in the
divorce court. . . .
"Tell Your Master, 'No!'" Prince Joachim has plunged into the
past as a suicide, and the kaiser's scapegrace son will never lift his
wineglass again to beauty. Hence this story of the time he proffered
,a tete-a-tete dinner invitation to an American girj singer and re
ceived the quite decided negative that heads this paragraph. Barbara
Crayd-on writes of the incident for the Sunday issue. Youll find it
in the magazine section. -
Centenary of the American Collar They're celebrating it in Troy,
N. Y., or will be soon. If you are curious and wear a collar the
laundry kind you'll want to read about it. In the Sunday issue.
Bigger and Better Than Most Magazines
THE SUNDAY OREGOMAN