TltE MORNING OREG OXI AN, "WEDNESDAY, SEPTE3IBER 22, 1920
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ESTABLISHED BV HENRY I- PITTOCK.
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ognize the owners' property right and
only to claim an equal part in man
agement. Whether they will be
content with this arrangement, or
whether the owners will find it work
able is doubtful. If Russian expe
rience is to be a precedent, produc
tion will fa.ll off and cost will rise.
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main the greatest industrial nations
which cling to individualism, and
they show no sign of changing, for
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though ready for any desperate deed,
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test of socialist and individualist
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cover what truth is in the boasted
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men. Admissions of Lenine that
bolshevism will perish unless it be
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CAl'SKS OF I)r..MOK.TIC UI.OOM.
While Governor Cox is winding tip
his western trip, reports from inde
pendent sources are that gloom has
spread over democratic headquar
ters, and with good cause since the
Maine election and the New Hamp
shire primaries. The latter two
events tell that the solemn referen
dum on the league has gone against
him, and that general discontent
with democratic government has
swollen the adverse vote.
Maine has been the unfailing pur
litical barometer for many years, and
political straws in other states con
llrm its verdict.. Democrats have
, - J 1. .- . . i- '1 I wt lliAV
given up iiuiju i.itv -....-.
turn to the west for cheer, but ob
servers agree that Cox has not been
a winner. Ills talk of the league has
not caught on, his campaign fund
scandal ha been a dud. he has been
heckled on the wet and dry question
and his dodging answers have an
tagonized the rirys more than ever.
There ha-s been no popular outburst
of enthusiasm such as Koosevelt and
Wilson evoked. President Wilson's
'supreme confidence" before Maine
spoke has been followed by an ad
mission of "ovcrconfidcnce," and now
there is.no confidence among demo
crats. The worst danger to republicans
is overeoufldence on their part, for
they have taken to counting major
ities and to predicting that these
will be unprecedented. Their high!
hopes cause them to underrate some
unfavorable facts. For example in
New "York they have in their favor
dry disgust with Cox and his Tam
many ally, Italian disgruntlement
with Wilson's Fiume meddling, Irish
and German opposition to the league
and general discontent with demo
cratic rule. These will militate
against Gompers' influence with labor
and will weaken Tammany's hold on
its following. But republicans have
to contend with Governor Smith's
personal popularity, with the great
foreign-born wet vote, with Senator
Wadsworth's wet and anti-suffrage
record in the dry upstate districts,
nr..! -n'itVi nraiiiHifo nroimnrl hv A
reputed reactionary nominee for
governor. .The drift is strongly
toward the republicans, but there
are enougfl cross currents to keep
them fighting. New Jersey and Con
necticut were considered by demo
crats to be theirs, but they now
admit that they must right hard
while republicans are sure of these
states.
Having won in 1916 by combining
the almost solid west with the solid
south against the solid east, extend
ing to the Mississippi river, demo
crats turn from this gloomy prospect
to the west with hope, but here is
more gloom for them. Probably as
reliable a survey as any is that made
by the Fidelity & Casualty company
of Baltimore through its 900 agonts.
It finds the general sentiment to be
republican all along the Pacific
coast, and that of the mountain
states is pronounced as "republican
but considerable democratic and
doubtful," though since 1892 these
states have almost invariably gone
democratic except in 1901 and 1908.
But most significant is the statement
that the south Atlantic states are
"democratic with considerable re
publican sentiment," and that in the
east south central division, compris
ing Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi
and Alabama, sentiment is "demo
cratic but strongly divided." This
suggests decided possibility that the
republicans may win one or more
of the border states, which have
shown a growing disposition to wob
ble in the last twenty-four years.
If there should be a landslide
might sweep them into the repub
Lean column.
ON fiOING IT ALONK.
'Portland newspapers are friendly
toward the big Columbia basin proj-
ct in Washington; perhaps in time
we can line them up behind some
thing for Oregon like the John Day
project," says the Pendleton East
Oregonian.
It is natural enough that the news
papers of Portland should view with
friendly eye development of the
great Columbia basin. It is not pos
sible that the Pendleton paper would
xpect them to oppose a reclamation
plan which means population, wealth
nd growth for a territory directly
tributary to this city. The only
uestion is as to the feasibility of
the Columbia basin enterprise. It
is undoubtedly practicable, but it
will cost a large sum ot money. But
mere size, should be no bar, pro-
ided the results are sure to be com
mensurate with the investment.
The experience of Oregon with the
reclamation service of the govern
ment has not been altogether satis
factory or fortunate. The sense of
eglect and discrimination voiced by
the Pendleton paper is strong. Mil
lions realized from the sale of Ore
gon lands have been expended else
where. There are projects, like) the
John Day, which deserve considera-
ion, and they have not had it.
it they have had support, from
ortland.
What is to be done? Shall each
state or community make its own
fight for recognition? Or shall they
oin with others in the same general
erritory and make the interest of
one the common interest of all? The
state has been going it alone for
ears, and has got nowhere at least
not anywhere commensurate with its
deserts. Possibly a pooling of influ
ence, of method, of propaganda, of
effort will have better results.
If Oregon goes it alone, and Wash-
ngton goes it aione, and the other
states of the Pacific northwest go it
alone, there is no prospect that
reclamation as a national enterprise,
now in the doldrums, will soon get
under headway again.
and set the vessel aside for a day
or so. With the grape juice so ob
tained he made his persecutor tipsy,
so that the wretched old rascal
tumbled from Sinbad's back and was
slain. Fermented grape Juice Is as
old as the history of alcohol, and
older.
Judge Rossman of the municipal
court does well to Impose drastic
punishment on those who seek to
evade the law through the sale of
illegal grape juice. It represents one
of the last-ditches into which drink
has been driven. It should be sup
pressed, as rigorously as the sale of
whisky in an open barroom.
COX, THE PERFECT THIRTY-SIX.
The other day, to our pleased sur
prise, we were informed that Candi
date Cox "has the deep insight and
profound analyzing power of an
Elihu Root. He has the progressive
conviction and the dynamic force
of a Theodore Roosevelt. He has the
idealism and humanism of a Wood
row Wilson. He has the Christian
conceptions and the high sense of
justice of an Abraham Lincoln." In
short, that mentally and morally, if
not physically, the democratic can
didate is a perfect thirty-six.
The pleasure with which this in
formation was received is now some
what depressed by the researches of
the Corvallis Gazette-Times. It has
discovered that the romantic chron
icler of the perfections of Candidate
Cox once wrote deprecatingly of his
nomination. It was, it will bere
called, the Portland Journal that
discovered that Candidate Cox pos
sessed more pure and soulful attri
butes than were ever before rolled
into one man, yet the editor of that
newspaper, while attending the San
Francisco convention in the capacity
of a contributor to his newspaper,
said, before the nomination of-Can-
didate Cox:
The wet delegates are operating on the
convention floor and are a part of the
utrorig opposition to McAdoo. Another
force is a minority of delee-ates who are
at heart reactionary and wedded to old
political Ideas. They are the force that
nominated Parker In 1004.
After the nomination of Candidate
Cox the editor wrote to his Portland
newspaper:
The wet delegates In New York and
the group ot states around New Tork. and
the Murphy delegates didn't want Alc
Adoo because he had been Indorsed by
the autf-saloon leag-ue. These and nu
merous southern delegates who were. In
the same boat circulated about the con
vention hall last night printed slips saying
that a t.ox speech in Ohio was used as a
mpaia-n document In the fight against
prohibition. It also contained a letter
from th liquor men indorsing Cox. as a
candidate for governor.
And the editor also said that it
was not true that Tammany.-Nugent,
Tom Taggart and that crowd nomi
nated Cox "entirely" to spite the ad
ministration, but "they went to Cox
because they believed htm to be
wet."
The nomination was further ex
cused by. the same writer on the
ground that the delegates were tired
out and, as sometimes happens when
a convention Becomes all but ex
hausted; it went on a "rampage.
Of course the Journal may have
been spoofing at one time or the
other about Cox. but again it may
be that it is entirely consistent. If,
as now said, Cox is a perfect thirty
six mentally and morally, no con
vention ever before had under con
sideration & person of such excep
tional virtues and such perfect at
tainments. Hdw- it would act under
the circumstances history fails to
disclose, because history, not know
ing, cannot disclose.
Maybe any super-man would be
thought wet by Tammany. Who
knows? Even now, after we have it
on sucj unimpeachable authority
that he is a demi-god, he looks wet
to us and acts wet. Perhapsto a
reactionary, a super-man would ap
pear to be reactionary. Who knows
otherwise as to that? Bear in mind
that this is a unique experience. We
never before had with us the best
THE LOSER'S ALIBL
Candidate Cox complains that the
newspapers of the west have treated
him unfairly, in that they have failed
to report hi3 speeches fully, that one
of them did not publish his speech
of acceptance, and that another
maintained a mysterious silence
about his itinerary and presence
when he was in what might be
called the editorial midst.
Let us refrain from defending the
offending papers by saying that they
were doing Cox a service by quoting
him as little as possible. It was un-
ntentional, and they are entitled to
no credit.
How much of the Cox indictment
against the newspapers is merely a
oser's alibi? So tar as The Orego
nian has noted, the press of the west
has given Cox generous and impar
tial attention in its news columns.
Here in Portland, for example, the I attributes of Root, Roosevelt, Wil
full text of his main address, occu- 1 son and Lincoln rolled into one
pying many columns, was printed by I Maybe super-men and demi-gods
The Oregonian and alsoa large part I are in fact wet and reactionary. It
of his second speech, .which was in I is a startling thought. It is almost
some respects a repetition of the enough to make anybody go on a
first. - Yet, painful as it is to recount 1 rampage.
the facte, the candidate did not
scruple to refer to The Oregonian co-operation ihe AMKRICAN l'L.N.
hi uiaicfiuctLLui ieiiii, aiiu-iu inane
at least one outright misstatement
about it. We will be charitable about
it and use no harsher term. Doubt
less he to the victim of. the wily
and secret misrepresentations of that
certain local sponsor, whoever he
was, that coached him on Oregon
conditions.
Only one newspaper of importance
in any northwestern city is for. Mr.
Cox. Most California papers are
against him. Does Mr. Cox think
that there is a common duty of
Journalists to stand together? If so.
how about his persistent, ill-devised.
Ill-natured, impolite, unethical and
groundless assaults on his fellow-
editor, Mr. Harding.
American agriculture will be destroyed. It
cannot endure on such prices as have been
paid during the past year.
. In time the southwestern growers, who
have been lamentably alow to awaken, may
learn that they must organize politically
if they are to drive out the gamblers who
now juggle prices, and that the non
partisan league plan offers the only way
out.
It is not sufficient In fighting the
league to expose its fallacies, its
waste. Its socialist character and its
disloyal leadership. An adequate
alternative must be offered which
will better remedy the evils that it
professes to cure and which will
confer the benefits that it pretends
to give. The Co-operative marketing
system is recommended at the same
time by the American Farm Bureau
federation, composed of practical
farmers, and by Senator Flarding,
who is something of a farmer him
self, though he has not so much as
Governor Cox to say about stone
bruises. It. is an eminently Ameri
can plan, for by it farmers combine
their individual effort, to help them
selves by helping each other, and it
does not require construction of a
costly but inefficient government
machine. By contrast the league
system Is of distinctly foreign origin.
which in perfect flower is proving a
disastrous failure in Russia; it is un-
suited to the American character
and it divides those who should be
united in common devotion lo a com
mon country.
If the size of his subscription
measures his desire for the success
of his party. President Wilson's anxi
ety for the election of Cox in 1920 is
only one-fifth as great as that, for
s own election-in 1916. Perhaps
he does not believe the country needs
Cox more than one-fifth as badly as
it needed himself; perhaps he thinks
the nation needs chastisement for
having embarrassed him with a re
fractory senate, or he may think the
democratic party would make a fail
ure without himself to lead it. and
perhaps he hates to back a loser.
We could go on speculating without
limit, but the impressive fact is that
Mr. Wilson put up $2500 to elect
himself, but only $500 to elect Cox.
There's a little valley in southern
Wasco where they grow pretty much
all one needs outside of Paradise,
and for years it has had a fair that
was more than satisfactory in ex
hibits and all els: but this year the
county fair at The Dalles rather
overshadowed it until a week or
two ago. Then the people of Tygh
Valley decided to go ahead with
their show, claimed a date, and are
hustling to the usual finish. That's
the proper spirit.
BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES.
Needs of Small Towns Are Xow Re
' cclvlna; More Attention.
Despite the fact that 8,000,000
Americans live in villages, the needs
of the'small town have not received
due attention, declares the Minneapo
lis Journal. This conviction prompted
the bureau of municipal research in
Whitman college to gather data on
village needs. One hundred and thirty
mayors of villages claiming from 300
to 3000 inhabitants responded to the
question, "What do you think your
town most needs?"
One mayor replies that two or three
funerals would most benefit his 'vil
lage, while another wants fewer I.
W. W.'s. Some of the answers call
for better public buildings, more pav
ing and sewerage, while others ask
for more "live wires." A few of the
mayors would like to have more
schools, parks, lights and hospitals.
TJie total number demanding public
improvements is 65.
Few of the village mayors note any
such house famine as is troubling the
large cities. Most of them are im
pressed wholly by the material needs
of their towns. Only 34 speak of any
moral or intellectual shortcomings,
and few express any desire for li
braries or better amusements. V
The American village today faces
the problem of existence. And yt
the small town offers unprecedented
opportunities.
The town-meeting plan originated
in the email towns of New England
The people gathered, discussed their
affairs and appointed officers to
carry out their will. The clue to
greater success in the management of
villages lies, perhaps, in retracing the
way to direct communal action of
this sort.
And then the small town offers un
excelled opportunities for neighborll
ness and friendship. A poem recently
reprinted in the Journal sings the
praises of
Those Who Come and Go.
Why anybody should want to sco
a man hanged is one of the unsolv
able problems. A atieriff who has
such an affair in prospect can be
excused on the ground of learning
how to do it; but since the state
attends to the task, even that officer
need not be present. Warden Comp-
ton does well to deny requests.
Free eight years, a prisoner who
escaped from Salem, where he was
serving from one to five years, has
been, retaken. Hrf ought to be glad
of it. His eight years of fear of re
capture must have been worse than
the time he should have served.
While the divorce courts show
how easy it is to ' get married, the
wonder is that anybody bites on
a mail proposition. There is one
good, old-fashioned way to marriage
that sticks, and it is hardly necessary
to tell it- .
Professor Irving' Fisher, Tale econ
omist, predicts that the republicans
will be snowed under by a demo
cratic landslide. ' In view of what
has already happened in Maine, he'd
better stick to economics.
Financial conditions in the orient
are such that failures are being re
ported every day, according to A. Ia.
Fenton of Yokohama, who is at the
Multnomah. Mr. Fenton is an im
porter and. exporter of steel and iron
in Japan. , The financial crisis, par
ticularly in Japan, he explains, is due
to speculation. The break began
when the raw silk market went to
pieces ar few months ago. This car
ried to ruin scores of banks and im
poverished thousands of business con
cerns and Individuals. The situation
was very grave when Mr. Fenton
sailed for the United States, but he
says that there is hope that in the
near future normal conditions will be
restored. Adjustment and retrench
ment is being undertaken and in
practically all lines new business is
rigidly avoided. The money market
stands at a deadlock, as it did last
March, and the official report of the
department of agriculture and com
merce says the bankers' attitude is
one of extreme caution and fear. The
stock market is practically lifeless,
the volume of daily transactions
hardly going beyond 50,000 shares.
with operators becoming disgusted
and apathetic.
When Colonel X. W. Flaisig's un'on
command was surrounded by an over
whelming number of confederates.
commanded by his brother, the fed
eral officer, in reply to an order for
surrender, sent this note: "'Colonel
N. N. Flaisig will please accept the
compliments of his brother Bill, who
wants to say that if you take these
forces it will be after one of the
d st fights you ever had. The
confederates attacked and were
routed w'th great losses and the con
federate colonel was captured by his
younger brother Bill. Colonel Bill
Flaisig is at the Hotel Portland. He
sells needles and has been on the road
for one house since 1858. save for the
war period. . He has been in every
country and his circled the globe
seven times and traveled a million
miles. The record of Colonel Flaisig
as a traveling man is probably with
out parallel. However, owing to the
The little, small-town sympathy thatlline of soods he carries, he does not
runs across the fields
In 1lue-checked gingham aprons,
and with flour on its hands.
That bakes and brews, and sweeps
and dusts, that wakeful serves
and shields
The little, small-town sympathy
that knows and understands.
This, indeed, is a pearl of great
price, too often lacking in city life.
While the London Daily Mirror
boasts of having received photographs
pocket wallet contains a complete as
sortment of samples.
With improved transportation fa
cilities between the coast and the
Hawaiian islands, the hotel managers
In Honolulu are expecting a record
breaking business the coming winter.
For the past couple of years, due to
war conditions and a shortage of
passenger ships, the travel to the
inlands fell off. although at that the
ships which did touch at the islands
were carrying all the passengers
which their licenses permitted. A. C
by cable, the London Daily Mail has Luke of Honolulu, at the Multnomah,
Glen Sawyer did naturally what
any father will do when he saw his
little daughter adrift- in a boat.
Though he knew he was not much
of a swimmer, he did his besL and
lost his life.
SOCIAL RKVOLITION IK ITALY.
ivunds ot Americans are so occu
pied with their own affairs that th
industrial revolution which is i
progress in Italy has not received
the attention that its importance de
serves. By seizing the metal works
and holding them with arms, also by
threatening to wreck them if at
tacked, the workmen have forced th
government to intervene and to ar
range that they shall share in control
of the industries. !
This is socialism in practice, and
it comes at the same time as British
labor threatens a general coal strike.
supported ty railroad and transport
. workers, to compel nationalization of
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inline, cii'i . iiviivio uut a. Buiiuar
menace to prevent military aid to
Poland". It is a result of the pre
tended . triumph of communism in
Russia r-though in fact Russian labor
has been gnslaved by the most grind
ing oligarchy and of the recent
visit of a delegationof Italian social
ists to that country. The revolt has
' been hastened by the economic trou-
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prices, the same is true in only less
degree as to imported materials, and
depreciation of the currency aggra
vates these evils. Socialism has
taken a stronger hold on the Italian
.. working people than on those of
other countries of western Europe,
and a combination of causes has In
stigated them to action. We cannot
expect that the movement will not
' extend to other industries the peas-
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' and a social revolution is afoot.
TheYe lias been moderation, evpn
in this radical movement. In Russia
factories were confiscated and both
. owners and managers were driven
out, workmen undertaking to run
the business, only to realize their
Incapacity and call the executives
back. Italian workmen seem to rec-
The success of the non-partisan
league among the farmers Is due to
conviction that present methods of
marketing crops are too costly 'and
are marKeci Dy exaction and specu
lation on the part of middlemen. As
substitute the league gives North
Dakota and offers other states
system where the state stores and
markets crops and lends money on
them.
-The fruitgrowers of California and
to a large extent those of the other
Pacific states and of some southern
states have formed voluntary asso
ciations to pack and market their
crops, and in California these asso
ciations market 88 per cent of the
raisins, 83 per cent of the prunes and
96 per cent of the berries.
The league plan is managed by
men who have won distinction as
political organizers and orators, and
it is. promoted by inspiring class
hatred among farmers toward mer
chants, brokers, millers and bankers.
San Francisco has had to cut down
its streetcar" service to save -electricity,
because the streams from which
li gets. its power are so low. After
all, ji. rainy climate has compensations.
The cost of living is coming down.
A local bakery announces its dough
nuts at five cents less a dozen.
Though not statod, it is presumed
the size of the hole remains the
same.
JIU'K OF THE GRAPE.
Sale of fermented grape juice in
fourth-rate soft drink bars has
brought to municipal court the same
old company of thralls to alcohol.
Their plight proves that the price of
prohibition is eternal vigilance. 1 It is overloaded with officials at high
Drunkenness will not be downed in a salaries who have no skill in the line
day. 'Hut it does, not prove that
prohibition is unsuccessful. Quite
to the contrary it offers proof that
the thirsty are forced to seek less
potent substitutes, that have not yet
been spotted and suppressed by the
authorities. The fact that it over
comes its devotees, this mild but ef
ficacious drink in itself serves as an
aid to prohibitory enforcement by
exposing the source of supply. Jail
of business that they conduct and
who lack incentive to good service
since their retention in office depends
on political influence, not on business
ability and business success.
Co-operative marketing associa
tions employ good business men of
proved ability and skill to manage
their affairs, and these men have
every incentive to give good service.
managing affairs with economy and
sentences and finesowill remove both efficiency, widening t,he market and
pleasure and profit for the appre- maKing money ror the producers. If
hended vendors of fermented grape ! they do not, they lose their jobs, for
juice and will make this beverage as
hard to find as are the whiskies and
brandies of yesteryear.
Grape Juice, as a healthful, invig
orating drink, is probably all that
Mr. Daniels and Mr. Bryan have
declared it to be, in its unfermented
state. The unscrupulous vendors
have taken advantage of its fair re
pute, stored it away until the proc
ess of fermentation evolved the
kick." and blandly proffered it a a
soft drink. Thus they have had the
comforting knowledge that crusaders
would pass it by as harmless, while
the wise old taproom loungers would
slink in and quaff a glass to mem
ory, led by infallible instinct straight
to the forbidden fount.
Fermented grape juice, as the
north end parlors dispense it, is
merely the cheapest of cheap wine.
Were it prune juice, or loganberry,
or the rich fluid from a two-quart
jar of peaches, subjected to the same
process of fermentation, the result
would be the same. There is noth
ing novel about this thrifty and un
lawful recourse to it. The weakest
plea in court is for the dealer to
protest that he was unaware of its
alcoholic content. Sinbad, in his
adventure with the Old Man of the
Sea, crushed wild grapes in a gourd
business results are the sole test.
The evils from which farmers suf
fer, whether in the fruit belt of the
Pacific coast or in the wheat belt of
the middle west, are due to lack of
efficiency and economy. Tliey are
offered two alternative methods the
league plan of North Dakota and the
co-operative plan of the coast. The
success of the co-operative plan is
proved, by the fact that the league
has been unable to gain a foothold
in California, where co-operation is
most extensively practiced, and that
its greatest strength is in states
where lhat system is almost un.
known. Co-operation has the fur
her recommendation that, instead
of inflaming farmers with class hat
red for the business men of the cities
and towns, who are their customers,
it extends, its system to consumers,
benefits them also, and thus binds
together producers and consumers
in friendship.
How the league Is using the bait
of higher prices for wheat to be ob
tained through political co-operation
is indicated by the following from
the Fargo Courier-News, a league
organ:
Farmers are becoming more aroused tha
ever before to the necessity of oowibinl
if they are to secure justice in the markets.
They have to untie or, at the present rate.
The best engineers in the country
report the Burnside bridge is good
for several years. The old bridge
was one of the first official jobs and
good work was put into lt
The dangers of automobiling are
not all in speeding. There is the
case of the man in Texas whose head
was blown off by explosion of the
tire he was inflating.
The writer of a letter to The Ore
gonian declares that all Candidate
Cox's ideas are borrowed. The whole
batch of them doesn't leave h4m
much in debt, either.
Officially it has been determined
the fire at Klamath Falls was caused
by rubbish. Are there other hotels
in the state that have rubbish to
burn?
The women of Condon are deter
mined to elect a full set of city offi
cials, just to assert their right, of
course. Go to it, sisters; it is your
right. v
The Scotch are reported to, fear
a soviet plot to seize their coal mines.
If there really is any danger, a few
volleys of highballs should remove it.
The man in Argentina supposed to
be Leroy, the trunk murderer, turned
out to be the one he said he was.
His finger prints saved his neck.
given news aseignments to its report
ers by wireless telephone. One of the
staff of the Mail was halted recently
in Hempstead Heath by a voice from
the upper air ordering him to report
a fire at Bishopsgate. Though he
wore a "light loop aerial,"- an instru
ment of about the size of a corset,
and at times held a receiver to his
ear, the voices he caught were spirit
voices the spirit voices of a new age.
Wireless telephony is a socializing
influence of high effectiveness. No
longer can man escape the supervision
of friend wife. Even in the depths
of Africa he can be assailed by aerial
voices bidding him not to stay out
too late and not to take off his chol
era band-
Inevitably men are drawing to
gether. The occult magnetism of civ
ilization increases. The wireless tele
phone is an instrument, devised by hu
man destiny to solidify the human
race. It is part of the irresistible cen
tripetal energy of civilization.
m
The peculiarity of the cardinal's hat
is that it Is not intended to be worn.
On one occasion only is it to be seen
on the head of a cardinal, and that is
when the pope himself places it. there
as a symbol of its owner's elevation
to the sacred college. When th
cardinal dies it is placed upon his
coffih.
The hat is of a deeper red than that
or the robe worn by a cardinal. It
has long heavy silken cords, each
with 15 tassels at the end, hanging on
either side. There are at present
three "red hats" in Westminster ca
thedral. They are those of Cardinals
Wiseman. Manning and Vaughan.
The crimson robes, which, like the
hat. denote the cardinal's office, ere
made of a cloth which for several
generations past has been supplied by
firm of cloth merchants at Burt
scheid, near Aix-la-Chapelle. The
process by which the dye is distilled
is a jealously guarded secret.
' m m
In these days of high prices, when
everything in general and shirts in
particular are so dear, it makes one
envy the natives of New Granada,
ho are" provided with ready made
shirts free of charge.
'The Song of the Shirt" is not ap
plicable in Oronoko, which is situa
ted on the Cerra Drida slope. New
Granada, for it is there that the na
tives wear nature's ready-made shirts.
No stftches are needed in these shirts,
and as they grow they are carefully
watched until they have become large
enough to be utilized for clothing
purposes.
The marina tree is
shirt-producing, palm,
cies of tropical palm.
fiborous red bark.
When an Indian wants a shirt, all
he has to do is to cut off a peice of
one of these palms, about eighteen
Inches or thereabouts in diameter. He
next removes the bark, taking par.
ticular care that he does not cut it
in any way, and tnus ne now pos
sesses a hollow cylinder of flexible
bark, which somewhat resembles
sack without a bottom.
He -next makes a small slit in each
side for his arms to go through, and
nature's ready-made shirt, which re
quires no stitching nor laundering,
is complete. tLondon Answers.)
brings word
hotel men.
of the hopes ot the
Two chaplains are enough for any
stiit e institution, and in most of them
thy service might be volunteered by
clergymen with zeal.
'Wilson's contribution shows his
idea of Cox's chances, and what's
the use of sending good money after
bad? ,
Mr. Bryan should cheer up. His
heart may still be in the grave, but
so are Governor Cox's chances.
California must be a little envious
of the spot that "enjoyed" a quake
that lasted two hours.
Jack Johnson has been put away
for a year .at last.
Going to Pendleton?
to go.
Good place
the wonderful
it being a spe-
having a thin
The sportsman strode into a poul
terer's shop, and with the air of a
man who meant, business, said:
"Can you sell me a nice, plump
pheasant?" i
"I'm sorry, I have not a pheasant
left, sir," replied the shopman, "but
here are some fine sausages that I
can highly recommend. I'm sure your
wife will be delighted with them."
"Sausages be blowed!" yelled the
sportsman. "How can I tell my wife
I shot sausages?" Los Angeles Times.
He hated having his photograph
taken but his wife, indirectly, had
force'd him to undergo the"" much
dreaded ordeal. Whe she saw the pho
tograph she "cried out in horror, "Oh,
George, you have only one button on
your coat!" "Thank heavens," replied
friend husband, "you've noticed it at
last. That's why I had the photograph
taken." San Francisco Argonaut-
Gophers and moles In Oregon have
an arch-enemy m Vernon Bailey,
who arrived with Mrs. Bailey from
Washington, D. C. yesterday. Mr.
Bailey is assistant United States
biologist and is making a survey of
the mole and gopher situation in the
Beaver state. If Mr. Bailey can give
ure-fire remedy for ridding lawns
of moles lie will confer a boon oh
several thousand Portlarrd household
ers. Mr. Bailey is at the Benson.
Before the days of prohibition
Crescent City, Cal., was a wild, wet
town. There were more saloons than
there were grocery stores or butcher
shops. Wherfprohibition finally .over
took Crescent City a bartender walked
out to the end of the long wharf in
the harbor and Jumped into the bay.
Crescent City is now adjusting itself
to the dry era. B. C. Kndert, from
Crescent City, is an arrival at the
Hotel Oregon.
Tn 21 day Mr. and Mrs. John H.
Miller have covered the distance from
Chicago to Portland by automobile.
They could have made the 'trip in
four days by train, but tney wouion i
have had so much fun. Mr. Miller is
real estate dealer and intends re
maining on the Pacific coast lor tne
winter rather than face the storms
which sweep Michigan boulevard and
the rest of Chicago.
Shanghai, China, is about the live
liest spot in the orient. It has the
r.in and DeD Ot a inorouaniy cucum-
politan city and Is in snarp contrast
to Hongkong, according to j-i. ur-
shall Sanderson, who is registered
at the Multnomah from Shanghai. In
Hongkong there are conservativeness
and sedateness foreign to Shanghai.
Ttoosevelt. Wash., is represented at
the ImDpriat by Mrs. J. Lugenbuhl.
while Taft, Or., Is represented at tne
MuiinAmih bv H. P. George. ROose-
velt 1 a short distance DacK irom
the Columbia river. Dut to ream
Taft one must go to Grand Ronde.
then cut over about 36 miles toward
the coast and then journey down tne
coast half a dozen miles.
To examine the Malheur lake bird
rMprVA H. t . istone ot lYHniiiiiiwii,
r c . arrived in Oregon and is
.t th. Renson. iHe is with trie mam
m.t anfl bira preservation ourenii.
nhn. th Malheur lake proposition
Is not the only reason for his advent
in the state, it will receive his pro
fessional attention.
With h's wife, three boys and a
dog, L. E. Jxjomis ot ucean r-arn..
Wash., is at the Perkins. Mr. Looinis.
who is areal estate dealer in tne
North Beach region, is the son or l..
A. Loomis, who used to do. most ot
the operating and managing force of
the little railroad which trickled its
way along the beach years ago.
Know has already set 'n at Glacier
park and cut short the season, reports
Robert Mcsworiey. who ui ucc.i
perlntendent of service and train
master at the park for the past five
vears. M r. .Mcowonej, w ou .
M,,lt nomah FSYS that It was a grca.1
season for tourists at the park.
On his way to China to combat the
philosophy of Confucius. Bishop L J.
Birney and nis wub ...
Seward from Boston. The Bishop nas
been recently appo-ntea to
station and leaves on the F.mness of
Russia this-week irom Vancouver.
B. C.
Long Creek is rather remote from
Portland, but Mr. and Mrs A F.
Meyer were willing to make the trip
to see what the Rose City looks like
after a long absence Mr Meyer is a
merchant at Long Creek. Or. The
couple Is registered at tne oev.i.u.
He is the mayor, the chief of po
lice, the banker, the merchant and all
the' rest at Lone Rock, Or., is John
Madden, who is at the Seward for a
few days. Mr. Madden s a sort of
e plurlbus unum at home.
All the way from Devil's Lake.
N IX, comes the Baker family by
automobile. The party consists of V.
A Baker, Mrs. Baker and the five
Baker children. They chugged up to
the Perkins and registered yesterday.
Honeymoontrs at the Nortortia are
Mr and Mrs. R. M. Wood of Bend.
Mr. Wood is chief clerk of the Pilot
Butte inn and the bride was formerly
Miss Phyllis Painter of Salem.
r. A. Walmsey, who is a timber op
erator at Kelso, Wash., is among the
arrivals at the Perkins.
W. W. Baker, who is a banker at
Walla Walla, Wash., Is registered at
the Benson. t
COTTSfTIlY'S CONDITION VIEWED
Prosperity and Soundness in All Sec
tions Shown by Survey.
A most instructive survey of the
condition of the country, industrial,
agricultural, financial and political,
has been made by the Fidelity & Cas
ualty company of Baltimore, primar
ily tor the information of its directors
but finally for general information.
Instructions were sent to 900 of its
representatives to interview bankers.
morchants, professional men, farmers,
industrial leaders and chambers of
commerce and telegraph a consensus
of their views. These were tabulated
on September 15 in the shape of an
swers to 32 questions, divided among
nine sections of the country.
Bearing on industry, the first ques
tion is whether building operations
are increasing or decreasing. They
are increasing in New England, south
Atlantic, east south central Ken
tucky, Tennessee, Mississippi and
Alabama west south central Arkan
sas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma
and the Pacific coast, and decrcas
ing in the middle Atlantic, north ccn
tral and mountain divisions. In al
most all sections the most activity
is in building low-price dwellings
warehouses usually ranking next,
then factories and stores. The west
norm central division the grander
states reports high-grade dwellings
and apartments, and the west south
central and mountain states erect of
fice buildings.
Cost of labor has risen since 1919
most on the Atlantic coast and in the
north central states, the range beinir
irom xu to bu per cent in three divi
sions, 20 to 40 per cent in another, 10
to 40 Br cent in yet another. In the
central south the rise has been 5 to
50 per cent. The mountain region
shows 5 to 30, the Pacific coast 10 to
iv. But this increase in wages has
not been accompanied by Increase in
productivity per man anywhere ex
cept in one part of the middle west
and there it is but slight. There l.
shortage of labor in the middle Allan
tic and a slight shortage in the south
Atlantic states, but nowhere else i
it reported. Nor is there evidenc
of unemployment except that -it i
slight in the middle Atlantic division
Almost everywhere wholesalers and
ret.-iilersrcsard the prospect for fall
anu winter as good, the exception
being 'uncertain'' In the middle At
lanttc. 'fair to good" In the east north
central and mountain divisions. Man
ufacturlng plants are well filled wit
orders everywhere except that New
n-ngland reports some cancellation
and the west south centra divisio
answers "jo." Nowhere Is thcr
suen shortage of raw material
would curtail production, but ther
is a positive shortafte of coal through
out the east, middle west and Foutl
tnougn only slight on the south At
lantic. Only In the mountain and I'a
fine divisons Is there no shortage
enortatre or freight cars is bclrir sub
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
MortftTsisres.
A grandmother sits by the window.
With tremulous tears on her cheek.
And says with a sigh that she knows
she will die
From grief and starvation next
week.
The audience -weeps on beholdlns?
The woe that has furrowed her
brow.
And the air of despair that Is regis
tered there
Because she has mortgaged the cow.
The artist bends over the cello
(Or tuba or trombone, mayhap).
And you see at a glance that he
hasn't a change
From the pallor that's spread on
his map.
He might have won fame and a for
tune.
For at classical stuff he's a bear.
But, alas, he will not: he complied
with the plot
And foolishly mortgaged his hair.
The gambler looks down at the river.
While the gallery gazes aghast.
For it's painfully clear that his lurid
career
Will soon be a thinjr of the oist
And yet he has rings on his fingers.
And also a horse-choking roll.
And he only has need of this desper
ate deed
Because he has mortgaged his soul.
Oh, Mortgage! Oh, terrible Mort
gage:
The most of us start ud in bed
When we think of your Doner snd
shudder and cower
In deep and perspiring dread!
We are taught from our earliest
childhood
To shrink at the sound of
name.
Too would never be missed if vou
didn't exist.
But 'twould bust up the playwr't
ing game!
Propheer.
Lloyd George would have been
rieht had he said to MacSwinev,
This will hurt me more than it will
you.
your
Canny.
The reds are invading
they keep out of Fiume.
Italy, but
A fhanffed Man.
The ex-kaiser is dodging photogra
phers, fie used to decorate 'era.
tCopyrlght, 19l!0. by the Bell Syndi
cate. Inc.)
In Other Days.
sittniiHiiy reoucc in all divisions ex
cept the. south central and mountai
divisions, where the improvement
Slight, and general transportatio
ronaiiions are Improving overywh
industrial concerns carry larg
aiuuums ot tneir customers naDer
wic oasiern nair or tne country ex
cept the middle Atlantic, but not I
tne west south central and Pacifl
ana tney discount their bills in all I
divisions except the west south
tral. The whole country opposes cov
ernment ownership of railroads. Gen
nrai co-operative movement are fu
vored in the middle Atlantic, we
north central, south central and A
nnnc. oiipr'sea in cew I'.ngland an
Pacific and divided in the east nori
central.
The condition of farmer in nil
tions is pronounced good, and the
are well supplied with fjjnds every
wnere. except in tne west north cen
tral division, where oronH nri hmK.,
They are favorable to co-onerative
movements in all, sections except the
Pacific division, where sentiment is
growing favorable. The recent drop
in grain prices has had no effect ex
cept that in the east north
at.d mountain divisions farmers hold
crops, and in the mountain region de
pression results.
In all parts of the country banks
have funds to lend. Rates of inter
est are 6 to S per cent in all sec
tions, except that 8 to 10 per rent
rules in west south cenlrnl and Pa
cific divisions and 8 to 12 per cent
in the mountain region. Banks are
wen loaned up everywhere. Deposits
nave increased during the last six
months throughout the east inri mid
dle west, the west south central and
r-acine divisions, are stationary in
the south Atlantic and east south
central -and nave decreased in the
mountain division. Corporation ac
counts are stationary generallv. hut
have increased iji the middle Atlan
tic and south central divisions. In
dividual savings accounts have in
creased throughout the country. Al
most everywhere the excess profits
tax is condemned, but a sales tax as
a substitute is favored decidedly only
in JSew Lngland. middle Atlantic and
east norm central divisions, la op
posed in the mountain region and
opinion is divided in all other divi
sions.
Tirenty-flve Years Aro,
Km-n The Orecronlaji of Sortero'ber 22. 1o.
Tacoma The Multnomah Amateur
Athletic club won first honors at the
championship games of the Pacific
Northwest association of the Amateur
Athletic union, taking nine of 1j
firsts.
A verdict of manslaughter wa? re
turned by the jury in the Lllaworth
murder trial.
United States Senator McESride ar
rived yesterday, going to St. Helens
by boat in the evening.
St. Johns. N. F. The steamer Kite
has arrived here having aboard Lieu
tenant Peary, who failed in his at
tempt to make a land expeditiun
northward.
Fifty Venn. Ago.
Krom The Oremnian of September 22, 170.
Florence Rome has been occupied
hy the Italian army without blood
shed, the pope having forbidden resistance.
Three young met of the city a few
days aco captured a deer in a hand
hand encounter.
The Whistler and Live Tankee have
th gone to sea with full cargoes
for San Francisco.
PARDON NOT FITI.L RUCOMPHA SH
State Should Pay Men Jailed and Then
Found Innocent.
GOLDEN-DA LB, Wash., Sept. 20.
(To the Kditor.) The governor of
Oregon has probably done what he
considers his whole duty in freeing
fencer and Branson and has m-ob
ably done about all he can do under
existing laws althuuzh, as he admits.
it nas taken nim a long time to act
after having made up his mind that
lender was Innocent.
But the question arises very strong
ly in my mind as to whether society
has done its full duty when it taken
nine years from en innocent man's
life and then turns him loose bare
handed with the impression that it is
doing him full justice. A man
tiither Innocent or guilty. If guiltv
he ought not to be pardoned without
some good and sufficient reason. But
f he is innocent he deserves not onlv
pay for his lost time but something
for his suffering and loss of reputa
tion.
We probably have the best govern
ment in the world, but the only way
to keep it best is to administer full
Justice to all of its citizens and it
seems to me that in our system of
trying supposed criminals we fall far
short of this. Sometimes an innocent
man i convicted and although this
may not very often happen it is" the
common practice to keep a man
penned up ror weeks and sometimes
months awaiting trial, (especially
he chances to be a man not rich
enough to furnish bail), finally to be
found not guilty and turned loose with
more or less stain On his reputation
and not a red cent in his pocket to
show for all of his loss of time and
trouble.
Why should one innocent man be
made to suffer more than another be
cause some crime haj been committed
by some one else. 11 Is necessary of
course to hold men awaiting trial
and innocent persons wiU sometimes
be convicted but it setmn to me. when
they are found to have been, innocen
there ought to be some way provided
bv law to pay them well for thei
time and suffering. If the state i
tinable to determine a person's guili
or innocence immediately and with
out causing him inconvenience then
the burden ou:rht to be borne by the
state as a whole and not by the vie
tim. It too often happens that of
ficials will juggle a man's life and
happiness to bolster up their own
i pulitical reputations.
I , J. C. BUKER,
AinM,AH COJIPANY WAS UIPEIJ
ConDlTsnee In Dropping: t.eaf1es Over
Clly Denic-d by Manager.
PORTLAND. Sept. 20. To the Edi
tor: Last Saturday evening, Septem
ber IS, my attention was called to an
article in your newspaper headed
'Theaters Attacked by Using Sea
plane" and followed by an unsigned
criticism addressed to you. Sunday
morning in a later edition of your
paper this criticism was duplicated,
but was signed.
As manager of the Oregon. Wash
ington and Idaho Airplane company I
wish to offer this statement and apol
ogy to the public and particularly any
responsible business interests or indi
vidual affected by the dropping of
leaflets from one of our flying boats
by an unknown party.
While Mr. H. C. Charlton, assistant
manager, and myself were absent.
from the company s field the purchaser
of an airplane ride over the city ap
peared, presented his ticket to our
pilot on duty at that time, who imme
diately honored said ticket, as he
should have doife. The pilot noted a
package of leaflets carried, but saw
no objection to their being dropped.
presuming a permit had been secured
from the proper authority, and po one
connected with this company had any
knowledge of any printing on said
leaflets until one was picked up from
a street.
As manager of the Oregon, Wash
ington and Idaho Aplane company I
strongly resent any implication or in
sinuation by any newspaper or indi
vidual to the effect that this company
connived with the distributor of these
leaflets "to break the law.
The public will judge them, as well
as this company, correctly.
V. VKRXOX,
Manager Oregon, Washington and
Idaho Airplane Company.
JKFFERSON I" FRANCE IX 17S7
Mr. Cox S-t Klpht as to the Making
of the Constitution.
PORTLAND. Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor): The Oregonian says "Governor
Cox cannot be accurate about even so
simple a fact as the length of Presi
dent Wilson's illness." Of course not.
Inaccuracy in his middle name. In
his Portland speech he said that
"Thomas Jefferson wrote the billof
rights in the American constitution
and gave the people the right of as
sembly." etc.
The truth is that Jefferson was in
France from 1TS4 until 1789 five
ycars and had nothing whatever to
do with the formation of the consti
tution. He was a great statesman, to
be sure, but there were others
Washington, Madison. Hamilton and a
few such men who were more or les
prominent in that day. .
The constitutional convention eat
and did Its work in 1787. Have a
heart. Governor Cox. T. T. GEEK.
In Gratitude for an Omlxnion Klehtrd.
PORTLAND, Sept. 21. (To the Edi
tor.) We are always ready to com
plain when things are not right are
we just as ready to say "thank you"
when they are righted?
This reminds me how I hated to
pass the union depot before June of
this year. 1 always thought and
many times said:- "It's a disgrace to
Portland beautiful." I always no
ticed it. and now as I pass it from
day to day I can't help saying: "How
attractive," and thanks to the one
who made it so. I am grateful each
day for just such and many other
things and want to voice it.,
I M. H. M. '