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THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1920
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I PITTOCK.
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that would influence a prudent, solvent
business man In the sale of similar ves
sels or property which he is not forced
to sell.
In fixing: the prices which it asks
the board does not take into consid
eration the prevailing: market price,
which is less than half of its lowest
price; nor the available supply, which
is increasing; nor the demand, which
is diminishing-; nor existing: freight
rates, which must be based on the
market price of tonnage; nor the
prospect of their Nmaintenance. for
the trend is downward. It seems to
consider only the cost of construction
md to attempt to limit the loss to
an impossible figure. Unless it ad
justs its policy to the undeniable,
though to it unwelcome, facts, it will
not sell any ships and it will Indefi
nitely postpone execution of the pol
icy laid down by congress for Its
guidance. There is no lack of Amer
icans willing to invest at market
value and with freedom to operate.
A bargain should be made with them,
and the attempt to dictate should be
abandoned.
comixextal mail by air.
They say that failure to solve the
mystery of flight hastened the death
of Samuel Langley, an American pio
neer in aviation. Long years after
ward, when the Wright brothers had ranged to attain a definite goal, set
proved the heavier-than-air ma- l out In a formal budget: that goal
chines, the Langley aerodrome was I was a fund of approximately S3, 000,-
ROLLIXG IX IT.
Mr. Cox now charges "that Will
Hays perpetrated a deliberate false
hood when he said under oath that
there were' no quotas."
As it happens, Mr. Hays admitted
that there were quotas. His testi
mony wherein he definitely admitted
it was published in The Oragonian
and other newspapers on August 31.
It was in his sworn statement to the
senate committee investigating cam
paign contributions.
Mr. Hays said that the quotas were
always tentative, always high and
frequently changed. They were ar-
but slightly adjusted by experts and
launched upon a successful flight.
Though Langley did not live to know
it, it was he who gave the key to the
riddle and whose researches and ex
periments actually fathered the air
plane. One hears but little of the
man who gave over the search for
lack of funds, and died in the shame
of supposed failure. But it is certain
that Samuel Langley provided the
impetus that sped aviation on its way
and that will, within the week,
launch a flight of fast mail planes in
continental service from New York
to San Francisco.
Langley died in 1906. In less than
a score of years since he passed, be
lieving his work to have failed, a
myriad planes' have soared beyond
the clouds, have crossed continents
and oceans, have served In war and
peace, and have consistently im
proved in type and performance.
Critics of aviation, from within the
professional circle, complain that it
does not progress as it should, that
its development is retarded. Yet
fourteen ' years suffice to span the
time from Langley's death to the
inauguration of regular daily aerial
mail service across the continent.
All reasonable eagerness is answered
by such performance.
As though it were but yesterday
and it is little more one remembers
that airmen once talked of the un
ruly winds aloft and dreaded air
pockets and a score of perils to the
aerial seaman launched on an un
stable tide. They watched the
weather with cautious eyes, and
chose the quieter days for flying.
Yet here we have an official govern
ment mail venture, already tested by
trial flights, which is to thrust 'its
way through all manners of weather,
winter and summer, running on per
fect schedule and cutting the time of
the fastest mail trains in half. The
elimination of distance by increased
speed in transit means that our
boundaries draw nearer together
and that we profit by national com
pactness.
000. The substance of his statement
was that while quotas had been
named they signified nothing as to
the total amount that was desired
or would be collected.
Mr. Cox charges that Mr. Hays
said something which the record dis
closes he did not say and that this
thing which Mr. Hays did not say
was a deliberate falsehood.
It is a habit of slush to weigh down
and defile him who Insists upon
wading in it. But why roll in It?
On August 2 the New York World
and the New York Times, both dem
ocratic newspapers, quoted William
D. Jamieson, director of finance of
the democratic national committee,
in an announcement that an effort
would be made to collect $10,000,000
to finance the democratic campaign.
tr Mr. cox can get his feet out
of the mire, clean off his clothes and
become thoroughly rested he will say
something about that, too. Perhaps.
REVISION OF THE LEAGUE COVENANT
.Republican friends of A league of
nations will be reassured by George
W. Wickersham's statement after
extended conference with Senator
Harding that the latter would not
wholly and finally reject the (Wil
son) league but would take the lead
in revising" it.. Nor would he nego
tiate a separate treaty with Germany,
wnen an objections to the treaty of
Versailles can be removed by re
vision of the covenant in concert
with the allies. "
In order to accentuate his opposi
tion to the Wilson league, unchanged
and unchangeable, and to calm the
fears, actual or assumed, of its ex
treme opponents, Mr. Harding may
have been led to lay stress on those
features which he condemns and to
leave In the background those which
he approves. Mr. Wickersham has
stood with Mr. Taft in favor of the
Lodge reservations as a basis of com
promise, and may be presumed to
have called Mr. Harding's attention
to the good points of the Wilson
There is no need for concern over I covenant and to the manner In which.
the development of aviation. Within lne senator s criticisms may be met
the memory of children it has grown "y revision-in a way acceptable to
from timid experiment to assured the allies. The outcome may be
and mnflrtpnt Hnrr-oss. Tni-roasaH recognition of the peace terms with
stability, the art of rising from and Germany and of the. league as an
alighting in circumscribed areas, far accompnsnea iact, and American
smaller than those of today, are defi
nite objectives of the young science.
Past progress yields belief that these
demands will be answered in no
great length of time.
participation in the league and in en
forcement of the terms on Germany.
Any nope that the Germans may
entertain or escape from their obli
gatlons and of failure of the league
to thwart any evil designs of theirs
aS a retllt n f rrnil Vllionn vintnm, la
HOW NOT TO SELL SHIPS. doomed to diSannnintmnr W V,
When business men refuse to bid the United States imrw Afe Moti
on vessels of the emergency fleet at ing's administration becomes a full
me prices ana terms nxea oy .the- party to the treaty, it will add Its
shipping board, that body has no full weieht to that of t.h m
cause ior surprise, ino man in ms
senses would bid $165 to $185 a ton
for steel vessels when he can con
tract for building them at $72 a ton.
Much less will he be inclined to pay
that price when he must submit to
restrictions on disposal of profits,
on the route on which he must run
his vessels and on the manner in
which he must operate them. As
the supply of tonnage is growing and
as ocean freights are falling, he
would run some risk by buying at
only $72 a ton. If he were to pay
the prices fixed by the board, he
would head straight for bankruptcy.
For the board to refuse to reduce
its prices to the figure at which its
vessels can be duplicated on the
ground that
fulfillment' or the terms and will do
much to restore the shaken unity of
the allies. Active participation of
this nation in the league will chancre
it rrora the weak, impotent thing it
now is into a great, moral force
which will crush aggressive desie-ns
irom any quarter.
bound tonnage tends in larger de
gree to exceed that which comes
west. Unless railroads are permit-J
ted to compete for a liberal share of
westbound traffic, they must haul
many empty trains west In order to
carry the excess eastward. That is
as great economic waste as sending
a number of ships in ballast across
the Pacific ocean would be. If per
mitted to make low competitive
rates to the coast, they can load
those trains with goods for consump
tion on the coast and in the inter
mountain country and for export
from Pacific ports. They, will then
assist development of trade with the
orient over roads that are not con
gested and from ports which can
handle much more trade, and will
relieve eastern roads and ports which
are seriously congested. This, policy
will tend to weld all the railroads
and water lines into one national
transportation system."
The examiner's findings forecast a
decision by the commission which
should dispose finally of the false
reasoning on which the objection of
the intermountain country to com
petitive rates to the coast is based.
Shippers of that section assume that
the question is whether the distribu
tive trade of the interior shall be
done by interior or coast cities. The
question actually is whether the
coast cities shall transport goods for
distribution In the interior by rail or
water, for their location on water
lines insures that, in one way or the
other, they will have the trade. It
is to the advantage of the interior
that they should, for the people of
the interior profit by use of the most
economical routes of transport, both
for what they consume and for what
they export. The front door of the
whole country west of the Rockies
opens on the Pacific ocean, and
through that door the goods which
it produces and consumes must pass.
They can enter and pass out at the
back door only at the same cost as
supplies to the front door.
WHEN GASOLINE IS SCARCE.
Figures presented the other day
by the secretary of state give the
surprising information that in July
more gasoline was consumed, or at
least sold to consumers, in Oregon
than in any previous month. July
was a month of acute gasoline short
age on this coast. A rationing sys
tem was enforced by the distributing
companies at their filling stations
and, generally, the independent sta
tions had none to sell.
We wotild not hastily conclude
that more gasoline would have been
sold had there been no regulation of
sales. The loose rationing system
adopted was not conducive to econ
omy of gasoline among a populace
determined to burn gasoline if they
could get it. Many automobile own
ers learned to beat the game. They
procured cans and syphons and made
frequent trips between homes and
filling stations, acquiring a gallon or
two a trip, and thereby accumulated
surplus for a real journey. Many
were content , to do their riding
within a short radius of filling sta
tions. They could obtain the limited
ration several times a day, or at least
ntil stocks reached a certain mln
lmum at supply stations. It is not
disputed that town use of a- car re
quires more gasoline per mile than
the so-called Joyride. This is caused
by the frequent necessary stops. The
gasoline engine is most economical
when it is run steadily at a moderate
speed. Much gasoline was wasted in
the hunt for supplies and much more
in the journeys back and forth of
the syphon users.
Undoubtedly in that month there
was a falling off of touring and all
ay trips and an increase of town
use. In view of the secretary of
state s records, and despite the
wastes and secret storage hereinbe
fore cited, the inquiry may naturally
arise as to whether the gasoline used
for touring and long pleasure trips
bulks so large after all, in compari
son with the amount consumed by
those who confine their riding to the
cities.
Probably there will be no further
shortage of gasoline this fall, but if
it is to recur next summer, the July
experience seems to call for analysis
of gasoline consumption figures by
those having to do with adoption of
a rationing system. Certainly a bet
ter plan than the one used can be
devised one that will not only in
sure conservatism but recognize the
different uses to which automobiles
are commonly put.
course, of little moment for phre
nology Is not classed among the
exact sciences. Lenlne in the Ruo-
tolo bust looks not unlike some satyr
of old Greece. He is dehumanized.
And to the north and east of his
satyr's' ears is the phrenological
realm of acquisitiveness, a pro
nounced plateau. Just past the cra
nial summit and on the first slope
toward his retreating halrv-llne He
those provinces dedicated to appro
batlveness, or the desire for praise
and fame, and the kindred seat of
self-esteem. Both are pronounced
in the bust as in the man.
Those who incline toward phrenol
ogy should study the cranium of
Lenine. through the medium of the
Ruotolo bust. That the readings
would not agree does not matter in
the least. For others the face and
the facts will suffice. That which
has happened to Russia found its
Inspiration in the mentality behind
those contentious brows and issued
in orders from those cynically. con
temptuous lips. Which is precisely
what Bertrand Russell, noted British
socialist, found , when he visited
soviet-land and talked with the pre
mier. Russell made the pilgrimage
in sympathy with bolshevism. He
returned a disillusioned man, per
suaded that Nicolai Lenine is a dan
gerous and cruel tyrant of impossible
idealism.
BACK TO NORMAL RATE CONDITION&
Back to normal conditions is the
effect of Examiner Disque's recom
mendations to the Interstate com
merce commission on " the inter
mountain rate case. The normal
condition is that railroads charge
such rates on shipments from the
middle west to tb.e Pacific coast as
any reduction would "1 equal th.e shorter rail rate from
mean Just that much loss" is to blind
Itself to facts. The loss represented
by the difference between the cost
Of the ships and the present market
price of similar vessels has already
accrued everywhere except on the
shipping board's books. The . only
rational course is to sell the ships at
their present value, thus ascertained.
and to treat the loss as part of the
cost of the war. By so doing and by
the middle west to the Atlantic or
gulf coast plus the water rate to the
Pacific coast. They must either do
tms or abandon the attempt to
compete with water lines, thus de
priving the coast of the benefit of
an alternative route. Suspension of
water competition with railroads was
due 'to an artificial condition pro
aucea 'oy war, which might at any
time pass away. There was never
Imposing no restrictions which would I anY justification for suspending com
limit the freedom of the purchasers
in competing with shipowners' of
other nations, the board can find
purchasers who would operate under
the American flaj
The opinion which The Oregonian
correspondent attributes to the board
that "the intent of congress was gov.
ernment ownership and operation
rather than a sacrifice of the ves
sels" and that "a reduction below th-e
present minimum price would be a
sacrifice" is not borne out by the
provisions of the Jones law; in fact.
is directly contradictory to them.
Section 1 declares:
That It Is necessary . . . that the
United States shall have a merchant ma
rine . . . ultimately to be owned and
operated privately by citizens of- the
United States: and It is hereby declared
to be the policy of, the United States to
petltive rail rates. The non-competi-
tive rates now prevailing have been
in effect for only two years, when
operation of economic law forces
revival of competitive rates.
By recommending return to water
competition as a basis of railroad
rates to the coast, Mr. Disque rein
forces the case -for that basis. He
acknowledges that . natural law is
stronger than acts of congress or
decisions of commissions, and can
only be obstructed, not defeated, by
them. If the cost of transportation
between the interior and the coast
were alone to be considered. Pacific
ports could afford to be indifferent
whether they used rail or water. If
railroads were practically forbidden
to compete with water by being com
pelled to charge rates which drove
all traffic to water, they would lose
lo whatever may be necessary to develop
ana encourago me maintenance or such .vn. .. .... . i ,i .
" u vw.u 1.11 1 1 V C U
a degree,
merchant marine.
In order to accomplish this pur
pose the board by section 5 "is au
thorized and directed to sell as soon
as practicable consistent with good
business methods and the objects
and purposes to be attained by this
act." The principles to govern sales
are thus stated:
The board In fixing or accepting the
sale price of such vessels shall take into
consideration the prevailing domestic and
foreign market price of, the available sup
ply of and the demand for vessels, existing
freight rates and prospects of their main
tenance, the cost of constructing vessels
of similar type under prevailing conditions
aa wall as any other tacts or conditions
But maintenance of a large volume
of rail traffic from the Interior to the
coast is closely related to develop
ment of Pacific coast industries and
foreign trade. The Pacific coast
yearly becomes more self-contained
by producing a growing proportion
of the commodities needed for its
own consumption, which were for
merly brought overland. 'The vol
ume of commodities which it pro
duces and ships to the interior,
which becomes increasingly depend
ent on it far- many staples, grows
yearly. It follows that the east
BY-PRODUCTS OP THE TIMES
The human cosmos is a queer mix
ture and is forever furnishing its
illustrations of contrariety. Poor
little Ponzi, who skinned credulous
investors with, deft enjoyment, once
submitted to the surgical removal of
his own epidermis to save the life
of a housewife who had been burned
by a gasoline stove explosion. This
was down Alabama way, in 1912,
soon after the rising young financier
had been released from the Atlanta
federal prison, where he 'had been
imprisoned for violating the federal
mrnigration laws. Ponzl did not
know the woman whose life he
saved. He sought no reward. The
surgeons skinned him for no less
than 125 inches of epidermis, at his
own suggestion. The Alabama folk
were keen on nominating the youth
ful Italian for a Carnegie medal, but
he flitted away as soon as his hide
healed, with his mind full of money
Of course, this episode didn't cost
Ponzi anything, and it should not
weigh- in consideration of his finan
cial trickery, but It sort of creates a
warmth in the cardiac regions for
the fellow who was a man as well as
a scamp.
The enormous extent to which
road building and maintenance have
been stimulated by the" growth of
the automobile is set out in the peri
odical Public Roads, which finds that
whereas in 1906 practically no. ve
hicle license fees were expended for
roads, the proportion in 1919 was 92
per cent and the total $59,907,136,
the whole contribution to public gov
ernment made by the owners of
7,565,446 motor cars and 241,038
motorcycles being $64,697,255. This
was an increase over 1918 of 1,418,
829 vehicles and $13,219,838 in fees,
and the statistician gives a fillip to
the bare figures by reminding us that
the Increase for 1919 is more than
million dollars more than the total
revenue from this source only five
years ago, while the inconsiderable
state of Arizona now derives a
greater revenue from automobile
licenses than did the entire United
States In 1906.
A horse-drawn vehicle on a country
road thronged with cars is a more or
less helpless outfit and the conscien
tious driver will, use more than ordi
nary care to avoid collision. There
is no glory In running down a rig of
that kind, yet it is done, not by de
sign, of course, but In a spirit of
deviltry to see how closely it can be
shaved. On the other hand, a man
went over the bank at Cascade Locks
because he gave too much room to a
wagon. He was but slightly injured,
as reward for his courtesy. There
ought to be a mean, easy to find, in
these affairs.
THE BUST OF NICOLAI LENINE.
One glimpse at the bust of Nicolai
Lenine, as pictorially reproduced,
brings to an American the spontane
ous thought, "This man is not one of
us." Alien in feature and the im
press of mood, the countenance of
the soviet premier gazes from the
page, its somewhat cynical lips
parted as though he were delivering
a ukase that afforded contemptuous
amusement. It was so that he
smiled, said Bertrand Russell, when
he spoke of the worthlessness of the
soviet ruble. Alien as are the fea
tures of- Lenine, we of America are
not unfamiliar with them. We. have
seen such' eyes, deep and narrowed,
such cranial roundness with its fore
head of the thinker, under the street
lights when their possessors poured
out the vials of wrath against the
foremost, republican government of
the world. Lenine is the type of
radicalism of the super-egotist if
his sculptor has carved truly.'
We do not relish this contempla
tion of the bust of Nicolai Lenine.
The sentiment that arises is not one
of fear, but of antagonistic amaze
ment that Europe should be perme
ated with the destructive craft that
bides behind those bushy brows. By
specious appeal to the Innate selfish
ness and envy of man he dominates
Russia yet he has failed to bring
to the rreed giant of the north the
fruits of freedom. Russia cast oft
the gyves of imperial tyranny to
enter the fellowhood of democracy.
It was this man who bound her with
the chains of a new tyranny an
idealistic despotism which forced her
peasantry into military service and
left the land without bread. Amer
ica need never fear Lenine. He is
not of us, in face or thought. The
least of our leaders Is of finer fiber
than the soviet premier, of larger
heart, of kindlier conscience, and
more fully cognizant of the rights of
man.
There Is the pictured bust of
Lenine, the head thrust from its
stocky neck the head of a fighter
or a huckster, as you choose, ample
in intellect but stamped with an
egotistic shrewdness that brings the
mental hackles to stiff attention. An
intolerant, aggressive, cynical face.
surmounted by the perfect curvature
qjL baldness. Phrenologists would
rtyard such a cranium as the pros
pector looks upon pay dirt. For ease
of operation it presents an unequaled
project to their science. , What they
would say of the soviet premier is, of
Despite the automobile there is a
fair demand for horses in Oregon,
according to Dr. Lytle, state veter
inarian, and the farmer who can
turn out two 4-year-olds every year
need not worry for "small change."
One of the speakers at a teachers'
Institute in Tacoma urged all women
teachers to become suffragettes and
assert their independence. Confound
the fellow! Doesn't he ever expect
to be married himself?
Thomas A. Edison, who says that
he never in his life has worn -a pair
or shoes that cost more than $6,
needs only to have been dead ten
years to be assured of election to the
Hall of Fame.
A man named Cox of St Louis will
be on the ticket as presidential can
didate of the industrial labor party.
This complicates things. Two Coxes
will be confusing to the average
democrat.
The triple to the credit of Guv
Godfrey, playing in the Montana
league, should get into the record.
but whether as an assist or a hit
must be settled by the sporting
writers.
The new state of Lebanon has been
proclaimed, with Beirut as its cap
ital. Looks like the chance of a
lifetime for the Honorable Milton A.
Miller to get into the king business,
A New York police commissioner
willed several hundred thousand dol
lars to his landlady. What makes
this unusual is that so few landlords
wait till the tenant dies.
Speeders who take Salem for a jay
town will find their fines doubled
after this. Salem does not need the
money. What she seeks is a proper
spirit or respect.
Uoth Sexea Uaed Tobacco Following
Introduction to England.
When tobacco first reached England
it was enjoyed in common by both
sexes. In the 17th century, according
to John Ashton, "it was not only usual
for the women to join the men in
smoking, but in Worcestershire the
children were sent to school with
pipes in their satchels, and the school
master called a halt in their studies
while they all - smoked he teaching
the neophyte."
Scotch women used to enjoy a pipe
the same way as they enjoyed & pinch
of snuff. One of the compilers of the
Statistical Account of Scotland," pub
lished in 1791, records that "the chief
luxuries in the rural districts are
snuff, tobacco and whisky. Tea and
sugar are little used, but the use of
whisky has become very great. The
use of tobacco may almost be said to
be excessive, especially among the
female sex. There is scarcely a young
woman by the time she has been
taught to spin but has also learned to
smoke. Smoking seems to have been
introduced as an antidote to rheuma
tism and ague. The favorable altera
tion with respect to these diseases has
only produced a greater avidity for
tobacco." Detroit News.
With the air of one startled from
his well-earned sleep, the clerk con
voyed the visitor into his employer's
office, and gently closed the door.
How long has that man been work
ing for you?" asked the visitor, in
amused tones, ' after they had ex
changed greetings.
Oh, about four hours. I think," was
the business man's reply.
'But surely he's beer here longer
than that!" exclaimed the other. "I've
seen him here for the last few weeks."
"He has," was the grim" statement.
He has been here about four months."
Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
"Well, profesor," inquired the young
musician, "how do my compositions
please you?"
"Why, I think," responded the
older man, "that they may perhaps
be played when Mozart, Haydn. Men
delssohn and Meyerbeer have been
forgotten."
"Really?" exclaimed the young mu
sician in ecstasy.
"Certainly, but not till then," re
marked the other. Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
Frederic Harrison, English Journal
ist and philosopher, is close to his
oth year, yet his handwriting ii
firmer than that of many a man of
naif his age, and he still contributes
trenchant articles to reviews and
magazines.
Theodore Roosevelt was at times
spectacular in his emphasis of rell
glous fundamentals. A story of his
conversation with the newspaper cor
tespondent who insisted that he could
worship as reverently under a tree
with a cigar and a book or in the
fields or on the hills with his dog, is
typical.
Doubtless you can, my friend, but
no one would ever suspect, you of it,"
he snapped.
After weary months of waiting, the
newly married couple had at last got
a house and with Joyful hearts were
setting things straight. At length
John came across a little picture of
which he was very fond, but which
was too small to hang from the pic
ture rail. So he got a nail and ham
mered It firmly Into the wall. A few
moments later there was a loud knock
at the front door. "Oh, John, dear,"
whispered the bride anxiously as she
peeped through the window. "It's the
man from next door. I'm afraid your
hammering has disturbed him." John
"hastened to greet the visitor and be
gan to apologize.
'That's all right," said the neighbor
heartily. "I don't mind the noise a bit.
I've only come to ask if-you'd mind
me hanging a picture on the other
end of the nail." Edinburgh Scots
man.
Those Who Come and Go.
Wearing a gold watch, presented
by his friends of Gilliam and Viheeler
counties. O. B. Robertson of Condon
is at the Imperial. For years Mr.
Robertson was in the banking busi
ness, and now that he Is out of that
line of endeavor his friends decided
to show their appreciation for past
favors- -A banquet was staged in
Jack Crow's hotel, which will be
fondly remembered by all present,
for the chef outdid himself. The
upshot of the banquet was that O. B.
got the watch. Mr. Robertson, who
will be a member of the state eenate
I after the .November election, says
mat w insu.1. is coming into tjonaon at
tne rate of about 20,000 bushels
day. It Is expected that about 700,000
bushels of wheat will pass through
Condon this season, that town being
tne shipping point for a large area.
The aggregate of wheat will not
touch the big year of 1907, however,
when Condon established Its famous
record for wheat shipments.
Making a net profit of $13,000 in
three years on a pear orchard beats
being In the motion picture busi
ness, asserts H. C. Houck, who has
arrived at the Multnomah from Cal
ifornia. Mr. Houck was formerly an
exhibitor in Portland, but went south
and three years ago he bought a pear
orchard of 20 acres for $350 an acre.
For three years he has gathered and
sold the crop and in addition to the
profit from the fruit, he sold tne
orchard a few days ago for $1000 an
acre, which is an advance of $650 an
acre over what he paid for it, or a
total of $13,000 for the land, not in
cluding what he took In for the crop.
With all this money to his credit. Mr.
Houck is back in Portland looking
for something to invest it in.
"It looks close in northern Califor
nia," says F. N. Meyer, who has ar
rived at the Multnomah with Ir.a
wife and two children from San
Francisco. "About avery other man
you meet wears a cox or riaraing
button and the Indications are that
In northern California the contest
between the republican and demo
cratic national tickets will run pretty
close." Mr. Meyer has not been in
Portland In more than 80 years, hav
ing passed through here when a small
boy, so that when he returned here
yesterday he did not recognize the
place, for even the horse cars have
disappeared from Firet street and the
Stark street ferry is no more. It is
the intention of Mr. Meyer to locate
here permanently.
Having passed the immigration of
ficials successfully, Mrs. A. Fletcher
has arrived at the Seward from Vic
toria. B. C. Since the war the immi
gration officials are more active and
curious than they were in antebellum
days. All tourists who are not citi
zens of the United States have to go
to the office of the American con
sulate In Victoria and receive a per
mit to cross the line. The American
citizens have to give their name, des
tination, business and whatever other
Information the immigration officers
want. And when that is all done, cus
toms officers frisk the hand baggage
to- see if there Is any contraband
liquor In Uia suitcases.
Any town in" the state with a three
story hotel in a row of frame con
struction is liable to what happened
in Klamath Falls.
Denver had a repetition of the
Bertha accident yesterday. Some
how, human endeavor cannot stop
these disasters.
Death and disaster, robberies and
murders, the world is paying a fear
ful bill, and Portland has an account
on the book.
The "little man" going to school
for the first time does not need to be
awakened early this morning.
It was a wise hunch that sched
uled Portland out of ball games on
Labor day this year.
Front street on Labor day. is the
real thing nothing doing.
London's oldest inhabitant gets this
little notice In the London Times:
Even Marmaduke was seen to move
on one of these fine days. Marma
duke is the vast tortoise at the Zoo,
who, though centuries old, is said to
be still growing. He Is old enough
to be as impervious to the weather
Dr. Johnson held a sage ought to
be. Marmaduke Is more quaint than
handsome; and if his relations in the
Galapagos Islands, whence he came
long ago, are like himself, beauty
will not suffer when their race dies
out, as naturalists say It Is doing.
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A Scot was taken out of the train
at Willesden for toeing drunk and dls
orderly. He had got into bad com
pany, he said. "Bad company how?"
the magistrate asked, "weel, sir, ye
see, I had twa boattles o' speerlts in
ma bag, an a the ither men in ma
compairtment wis teetotal." London
Standard.
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The plowman used to plod his way.
The old-style plowman is today
Not such a factor.
For we have been progressing some;
The modern plowman rattles home
Upon a tractor. Louisville Courier-
Journal.
...
George H. T. Sparling, health
officer of King county, Washington,
has addressed a letter to the various
school boards throughout the county
suggesting that each and every school
room be supplied with scales. He
wants the children weighed every
day. "At first I thought that the
scheme was to weigh them In morn
ings and out nights in order to have
a check on the amount of heavy
learning they had acquired," writes a
contributor to the Seattle Argus. But
that is not the point. "One of the
greatest indices to health," says Dr.
Sparling, "lis weight. A boy from
S to 12 years of age should gain eight
ounces per day."
This bit of information is as novel
as it is interesting. If a boy keeps
up to that schedule he will weigh by
the time he is 12 years old 720 pounds
and that Is assuming that he weighs
nothing at all at the beginning of the
four-year period.
All schoolrooms should be provided
with scales In order that the children
may be accurately weighed. It would
be a calamity if any of them failed
to come up to this weight.
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A speaker at a municipal debate on
child labor Is reported to have, said
the other day: "I want to see an
equal chance for those children born
with a silver spoon and those with a
pick and shovel In their mouths." The
buLl would have done credit to Sir
For the holiday James S. Stewart
left his farm at Corvallis and came
with Mrs. Stewart to Portland, regis
tering at the Perkins. Mr. Stewart's
farm is both inside and outside the
city limits of Corvallis and he has de
voted almost the entire summer to
hoeing it. Although living in the
Willamette valley, Mr. Stewart Is still
keeping an eye on the John Day high
way In eastern Oregon, and when he
gets homesick for th range country
he goes over to the Oregon Agricui
tural college and takes a sniff at the
essence of sagebrush which they have
on exhibition there.
Road work on the McKenzie pass
road Is progressing so well that
Belknap springs is not as difficult to
reach as It was formerly. H. B.
Sloan, who Is registered at the Hotel
Oregon from the springs, is sanguine
that the highway across from Lane
county into central Oregon will soon
be one of the greatest scenic routes
in the state. The forest department
has been making big strides on the
road between Sisters, in Deschutes
county, and the summit of the Cas
cade range.
Mr. and Mrs. A Rothschild of Bruns
wick, Ga., are at the Benson. Their
home town Is best known for the
stew named after It. Billy Elliott,
who went to show Oregon bird pic
tures to the soldiers In France, In
troduced Brunswick stew to Portland
about 1906 The stew consists of
tomatoes, corn. peas. green lima
beans, a few small red peppers and
chicken, although as a rule veal Is
substituted for the chicken. The
Brunswick stew tastes as good as It
sounds.
John Monahan. who has been
around Condon for the past 15 years
or more, Is In town. Mr. Monahan is
in the sheep and cattle business and
sold out last-year at the right time,
He is now accumulating some sheep
and cattle slowly. There is a pretty
fair demand for sheen, that is. people
are willing to buy, but the owners do
not want to sail at present prices, fo
they contend that they can't break
even if they do.
There was very little toetting on
the Dempsey fight among the local
hotels yesterday. J. A Hermann of
the Portland, however, managed to
Inveigle the porter to bet a dollar
even money" and took the porter'
money in jig-time. The porter im
mediately took a keen interest In
seeing that the trunks of departing
patrons were promptly bandied in or
der to recuperate his loss.
L. Davenport, who has a hotel
named after him in Spokane, is at th
Benson with his family. A feature o
the Davenport is its lobby, with an
immense fireplace at one end which
contains a fire almost all the year.
About as many local people as tour
lets can be found in the lobby, a con
ditlon which does not obtain in any
of the hotels of Portland.
HORSE HEAVEN LAND OF PROMISE
Irrigation Will Turn Vast Area Into'
Paradlae for Man.
VANCOUVER, Wash.. Sept- 5. (To
the Editor.) The decision of the su
preme court of the state of Washing
ton, holding the bonds of the Horse
Heaven irrigation district valid, will
be welcomed by everybody interested
in the project to get water upon the
trrltory involved at the earliest possi
ble moment.
The Horse Heaven plateau is a
beautiful stretch of country, ideally
situated for irrigation. The slope is
gradual from its northern elevation,
along the hills bordering the Yakima
river to the Columbia on the south.
The drainage is perfect, and not a
drop of the water used need be wast
ed. Practically 270.000 acres can be
Irrigated, the percentage of non
irrigable land being very small. The
soil Is wonderfully fertile, and of
that peculiar quality which makes
the most of every particle of moisture.
It is of great depth, and upon it every
variety of crop known to temperate
or semi-tropical zones can be grown.
Grains, fruits and vegetables raised
In Horse Heaven will equal anything
Droducedany where in the world.
Even without water other than the
extremely light annual rainfall al
most a negligible quantity the yield
of wheat from these lands ln some
years has been phenomenal. Under
present conditions, however, a crop is
very uncertain, and the experience of
those who have operated the farms
under the most discouraging circum
stances has been anything but profit
able. The writer's first glimpse of the
Horse Heaven country was in the
early fall of 1907, from the top of
the hills south of Prosser, in Benton
county. A splendid crop of the fin
est grade of wheat was harvested that
year, and it was an Inspiring sight as
the big six-horse teams, pulling heavy
loads of the precious grain, moved
own the winding roads to the wait-
ng warehouses at Prosser. In nearly
all instances there were at least two
heavy loads drawn by each team.
In viewing the country at sucn a
time the thought that would not down
was this: "If this land will produce
such a crop practically without water,
what would it do with irrigation? It
would become a veritable paradise."
That Idea has never been dispelled,
and all who are familiar with the
region will uphold such a conclusion.
There are men who have occupied
homesteads, and land later acquired
for many years, who have struggled
ith fate and hung on in the face
of every discouragement, looking and
longing for the glad day when their
efforts would be rewarded. They have
become worn almost to the limit, but
heir faith that water would some
time be provided has not wavered, and
now it looks as though they were to
realide their ereat hope.
Competent engineers have declared
the plan tor Irrigating this territory
entirely feasible. The supply or water
wll come from the eternal snows of
Mount Adams, utilizing the Klickitat
river and its tributaries. The main
canal, as projected along the upper
ridire. will be more than 100 miles
loner, with laterals wherever neces
sary. It is figured that great elec
tric power can also be generated, and
the use of the latest improved ma
chinery will largely diminish the cost
of construction over old methods. The
scheme is tremendous, but the bene
fits upon completion will be incalcu
lable. The land can be cut into small
subdivisions and supply profitable
homes for thousands of people. There
is not at this time in the United States
a tract of country offering greater ad
vantages in an agricultural line.
The matter of financing the project
has been the greatest problem. With
the bond issue fully approved, it
would see that the solution would now
be comparatively easy. The writer
of these lines hopes, for the good of
everyone concerned, tnat mere may
be no further delay in tne worn oi
developing this new and splendid ag
ricultural empire. P. A. DVRAN'T,
Former Secretary Horse Heaven irri
gation District.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James- J. Montagu
IT NEVER LASTS.
Where are the unctuous, excitable
gents
Who vowed that till clothing cam
down.
They'd prove they had courage and
hard common cense
By wearing blue jeans around town '
You will see' them parading all over
the lot
Wherever you h?pen to S"
Arrayed in the bast that the tailor
has got .
At a hundred and fifty a throw.
And what of the prices that wakened
their ire?
Tou'll find it, if you ask, they're con- .
siderably higher!
Where Is the sturdy, unterrified crew'
Who swore that till meat took a
drop
They never would order a steak or a
stew
Or a roast or a joint or a chop?
With fat filet mignons and saddles
of lamb.
That coat them a quarter a bite,
Cheateurbriand steaks and Virginia
ham
They're filling themselves every
night.
And has meat shrunk in price since
they made their complaint?
Go ask of the butcher. You'll hear
that it ain't!
Where is the angry and talkative
crowd
That said that if liquor stayed up.
And said it in accents that rang rath
er loud.
They never would take one more
sip?
You'll find them in alleys that lead
to a slum
Where bootleggers slyly resort, '
Providing themselves with Inferior
rum
At thirty-five dollars a quart.
And have prices gone down for hard
liquor and such?
Well, hardly! They're selling for
three times as much!
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J oat a Tip.
Election officials who want to get
the vote in early won't leave any mir
rors in the voting booths.
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But There Never la.
If there was as big a howl about a
sugar shortage as there is about a
gasoline shortage there never would
be any sugar shortage.
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Everything Helps.
One reason liquor costs so much is
that leather prices keep up the cost
of bootlegs.
Copyright lfliO by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.
Jim.
By Grace E. HalL
MODEST WOMAN IS USUALLY SAFE
Men Generally Ready to Judge Wheth
er Attentions Are Welcome.
PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (To the Ed
itor.) No doubt a great deal of good
could be accomplished by ridding
Portland's streets of some of the
"buzzards" pictured in a recent car
toon in The Oregonian, and referred
to in subsequent letters from cor
respondents. . However, I want to
say from my own experience that if a
woman will go about her own busi
ness, in a business-like way, she"need
have very little fear of insult.
For quite a number of years I
lived in. Portland, away from home.
and often found it necessary -to be
out alone at night, but I must say
that the times when I was molested
were very few. Of course, there are
always men ready to accept an Invl
tation. but the majority of men are
always very ready to judge where
their attentions will be welcome. I
do not believe that I am wholly un
attractive to men, but I have always
made It a point, whether on th
streets or in the office, to conduct
myself In such a manner that it
would not be up to the man to have
to decide where I stood.
There are a few deals in which, in
my estimation, the man gets credit
for being worse than he is, and this
is one of them. I don't think that I a
alone in this opinion, either, for I have
heard a number of my business girl
friends say the same thing. I have
other friends, though, who are al
ways expecting some man to insult
them, and I have noticed that they
are the ones who are usually insulted
Of course there are exceptions to ev
ery rule, but the exceptions In this
case are usually drunks or degen
erates, and It s hardly lair to man
kind in general to place them in that
class. A BUSINESS GIRL.
His hair is colored like the straw that
bleaches in the sun.
His nose is not a Grecian type nor
small;
His smile extends from ear to ear and
reaches everyone.
"Til no one notices his mouth at all:
He's loose of Joint, raw of bone, with
queerish kind of feet.
And dangling hands that seem to
bother him.
But when you're feeling blue and lone
and chance his eye to meet
You know somewhere a warm heart
beats in Jim.
It's not the smooth and clever speech
that cheers one up. always. ,
Nor yet the broadcloth nor the satin
gown:
A loyal hand within one's reach when
days are drear with haze
And sorrow spreads its shadows,
gray and brown
Is more than gold and more than
dress it tells of love witnin.
And heart-glow is elixir to the sad;
And so I weave my little wreath tor
homely, honest Jim,
Who makes the hearts of other peo
ple glad.
Post, which is the only postoffice
east of the Cascades, must be pretty
nearly deserted, for at the Imperial
from that dot on the map are J. W,
Johnson. E. B. King and H. D. Dun
ham. The "postoffice receives its
name from an old settler named Post,
who established the office in a room
in his ranch house years ago.
Miss Ada Klrkpatrick. who has
been to Lake Tahoe and at Pasadena
hotels, le the new front office cashier
at the Multnomah, replacing Mi
Clair Madigan. who has decided to
resign In order to take a rest. Miss
Madigan may return to the Mult
nomah later.
John W. Cochran, assistant sec
retary of state, was at the Imper'al
yesterday from Salem. Mr. Cochran
was formerly secretary of the repub
lican state central committee.
P. C. Trout, who is one of those
efficiency sharks, has arrived at the
Multnomah. His specialty is to go
over a big hotel and then work out
a system for the plant.
Charles R. McCormack. thbig man
of the McCormack enterprises in Ore
gon and California. arrived from
San Frnacisco yesterday and is at
the Benson.
J. W. Scriber, formerly a member
of the state senate, is registered at
.In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Yearn Ago.
From The Oregonian of September T. 18!5.
San Francisco. Incorporation of the
Central Lumber company here is said
to be the initial step in the largest
combination of lumber Interest ever
effected. It is said to be a combina
tion of the pine lumber manufacturers
of the entire Pacific coast, including
the big mill owners of Oregon and
Washington.
Lewiston, Me. At the state fair
today the 2-year-old Kentucky bred
colt Bingen made a record of 2:204.
the record for a i-year-old on a half
mile track.
Work on the new approach to the
upper deck of. the Steel bridge is
being rushed to' completion.
Work of laying the water mains to
supply the Sellwood district with Bull
Run water will begin Monday. Yes
terday 300 tona of Iron pipe was dis
tributed along the streets where it
ia to be laid.
Boyle Roche. London Morning Post, the Imperial from Silverton, Oregon.
Injuries to Farm Employe.
EUGENE, Or.. Sept. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) Can a man who was Injured
on a farm collect damages from the
farmer when the cause of the accident
was from defective machinery or lack
of proper equipment for the work?
Would it come under the same act as
for mills, logging camps, etc.?
OLD READER.
Farmers may. on application and
notice, get the benefits of the work
men's compensation act for themselves
and such employes who do not offer
formal objections. In such cases ccrm
oensation for Injuries is fixed and
automatic. Farming; not brought un
der the compensation act is subject to
the employers' liability law and dam
ages for injuries are sought by an
action at law. This answer does not
apply to building or other hazardous
construction work not ordinarily In
cidental to farming or to stump blast
ing, these being covered by the com
pensation act.
Property Left to Grandchildren.
PORTLAND, Sept. 6. (To the Edi
tor.) A man dies leaving a will in
which he divided a parcel of land to
each of his children to control and
use during their lifetime, but his
children are not to sell or mortgage
the property and at their death the
property Is to descend to the grand
children of the testator. Is such a
will legal and binding upon the chil
dren of the testator?
INTERESTED.
The provision is valid if the grand
children are in being at the time the
testator dies.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of September 7. 1870.
Paris. The Empress Eugenie Is ex
pected to abdicate in favor of the na
tion. She Joins the prince imperial in
Belgium on Monday.
New York. Dispatches from Lon
don say a republic has been pro
claimed In France. Gambetti. Jules
Simon and Jules Favre have been
named as council.
The schooner Louisa Simpson, serized
at Kotzebue sound. Alaska, for viola
tion of the revenue laws. Is en route
to Portland in charge of Lieutenant
Thomas Mason, for trial before the
United States circuit court here.
Colonel R. S. Williamson of tire
United States engineer corps, super
intendent of river and harbor Im
provements on the Pacific coast, ar
rived by the steamer Ortflamme yes
terday. It is stated that he will de
termine the location for the Willam
ette river bridge.
EARTH'S RESFJTfc.
If I were an angel.
I'd slip from the Ve.y.
And sing to the earth
A aweet lullaby.
I'd sing her to sleep
For an aeon or two.
Rocked safe in a cradM
Of infinite blue.
I'd sing till all sobbing
And heart-ache should ceaTsc,
Buried deep In an ocean
Of fathomless peace.
I'd soothe every throbbing
And overwrought nerve
Of an age so dynamic
To act and to serve.
I'l lead earth so gently
T a-aarnland s 13 :r senra
Till she caught a sweet vision
Of Eden once more.
Then perhaps earth would wake
With radiant smile.
Because of her brief respite
From care for awhile.
For the earth's heart is human.
And we all are made strong
By a trip into dreamland
And an angel's sweet song.
Elizabeth E. Sherwooi