THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1920
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R. J. Bldwell.
secretary of the Cleveland Society
for the Blind. "When the blind
man's production ia up to normal it
is because most careful selection has
been made, first of the job. for the
man and then of the man for the
job."
. Cleveland answers the query of
how and why it took up this problem
of employment by declaring that it
perceived the essential injustice that
had been done to the blind in the
name of charity. It held that the
spirit of man is a proud essence, and
that the handicap of blindness does
not dim the courageous vision of the
soul if friendly hands but help the
afflicted one toward a firm, straight
pathway. Cleveland has proved the
theory.
surely we have persisted and so far
have we progressed that, within rea
son, we may safely cling to our faith
in ourselves.
ability to discover for what the
belligerents were fighting. Thus on
May 27, 1916, he said: "The obscure
fountains from which its stupendous
flood had burst we are not Interested
to search for or explore."
He said at Cincinnati on October
26, 1916: "Have you heard what
started the present war? If you
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cms Baer.
CENSTJBtN'O BOS OWN PARTY.
It Is most cruel of Governor Cox
to expatiate on the extent to which
profiteers have run rampant during
and since the war, for throughout
that period his party has been in
control of the executive department.
Until March, 1919, It controlled both
houses of congress, and since that
date the republican congress has
given the president the power that
he asked by continuing and reinforc
ing the food control act. Mr. Cox Is
expending his indignation on. his own
party.
Take sugar as an exam-pie: The
president had the opportunity to buy
the Cuban crop raw In 1919 at 6
cents, but he refused- to take it
Then he entrusted food administra
tion to Attorney-General Palmer,
who fixed the general wholesale price
of refined sugar at 12 cents, but
made an exception of Louisiana
sugar, which he placed at 17 cents.
George Zabrlskie, chairman of the
sugar equalization board, said that
without this action a reduction
might have been expected, but the
12-cent price was taken by refiners
and dealers as "an automatic mini
mum" and the price was raised above
that figure. The Cubans followed
suit and the retail price rose as high
as 30 cents. Though beet sugar
could be made at 10 cents whole
sale, Mr. Palmer permitted Utah re
finers to sell at 13 cents, but specu
lators bought their sugar at that
price, shipped it east and sold It at
2 3 cents. When the refiners raised
their price to 23 cents, Mr. Palmer
prosecuted them for profiteering.
The recent fall in the price was
not the result of anything that the
admlnistnation did, except inadvert
ently. High prices brought a flood
of imports from all parts of the
world, which forced the price down.
American housewives helped by re
ducing the amount of fruit that they
preserved. Relief has come from no
act of congress, much less of the
president: it has come from the op
eration of economic law.
Secretary of War Baker should
share the censure of his party's can
didate. He sold to the French govern
ment for ,400.000,000 surplus food
and other supplies in France valued
at $1,759,000,000, as well as docks
and railroads valued at $180,000,000.
The supplies, which were valued at
their original cost. Included millions
of pounds of sugar and bacon.
There was also a great quantity of
surplus food in the United States
which Mr. Baker proposed to export
to Europe for sale.
Mr. Cox said at Oakland:
The extent to which profiteering pre-alled
during the war and especially since the
signing of the armistice has been out
rageous. The amount stolen from house
holders of America In that time by profit
eers would pay off the greater part of the
funded debt arising from the war Itself.
Those remarks apply directly to
his own party, for that party made
the opportunity for the profiteers to
reap a harvest.
THEIR ONLY HOPE.
From the land flowing with milk
and honey and redolent with cheese
and its appetizing flavors, and lush
with the succulent grasses that feed
the fat cows that make the rich milk
that forms the best of all cheeses
Tillamook The Oregonian receives
this flippant challenge:
1 am sure you can do it. For your edi
torials plainly say that Mr. Cox has not
decle.ned Mmstflf dry, which your Mr.
Harding has. So kindily print In The Ore-
onian the -words of Mr. Harding- wmca
announce hHnseUa dry.
Well, we can do It. If onr sar
castic friend will take down his file
of the Congressional Record and
lcrok at the appropriate pages he
will find that Senator Harding regis
tered his vote for submission of the
prohibition amendment to the states,
and another vote for the Volstead
act, and still another vote to pass the
Volstead act over the presidential
veto. That is dry enough for any
body, we should think. Anyway, he
was dry in d-eed. Some others are
merely dry, or half-dry, in talk.
But let us not evade the facts. Mr.
Harding was doubtful about national
prohibition, and said so. But he
believed that the people had a right
to go dry if they wished, or stay wet.
When they became dry through rati
fication by the states of the consti
tutional amendment, he voted with
out hesitation for a law to make it
effective a law with teeth in it. As
president no one has a right to doubt
that he will stand for vigorous en
forcement of the law.
Harding was nominated for presi
dent by neither the drys nor the
wets. The republican convention
was not torn by conflict over the
question because it was taken for
granted that it would accept prohi
bition as an accomplished fact. But
the wets at San Francisco nominated
Cox because he was wet, or was sup
posed to be wet.
That is the difference. It is the
reason why the question of prohibi
tion does not worry -Harding, and
why it worries Cox. As the democ
racy is the final solace and refuge qf
the wets, so is Cox their last and
only hope.
THE PEOPLE'S CHOICE OF ISSUES.
How little weight- President Wil
son's call for a solemn referendum
on his league of nations las with the T .,, ,,,, ' vi.a
voters is indicated by the survey of because nobody else. so far as I can
puiiLiuai ocii 1.1 luteal (, n uitii uas uccu i gather OSLS.
maoe oy a Baltimore insurance com- In keeplnK wlth this attitude of
pany. Its correspondents were asked coM neutrality the slogan, "He
to make a canvass as to the relative kept U8 out of .. on wn,ch he
importance of eight leading political won Peelectirm ,n 1916. He conUn.
questions in deciding the people how ue to act Jn ,rU after th(J
to vote in the presidential election. .lactlm. in December. 1916. he
sent a note to all belligerents
inquiring what were their war aims.
thus placing all on the same moral
level. In January, 1917, he further
emphasized this view by defining
what he thought should be the terms
of a "peace without victory," though
Germany had already decided on
ruthless submarine war and to order
American ships to keep off the sea.
The eight questions are:
1. Foreign relations.
2. Industrial questions.
8- Prohibition.
4. (High cost of living.
5. Taxation.
6. -Diaatlafactioa with present admin
istration. 7. Rarlroad policy of present adminis
tration.
8. Radical movements.
So far are the people from re
sponding to Mr. Wilson's summons When that defiance was issued, he
to give the league first place in saw no occasion for action further
forming their decision that in ail than protection of American rights
sections except the solid south they on the sea by arming merchant
give first place to "dissatisfaction ships.
with the present administration." In Between February 3. 1917. when
the three southern divisions that sub- 1 he dismissed the German ambassa-
ject ranks fifth, seventh and fourth, dor, and April 2, when he asked
In New England and the central congress to declare war, he executed
states "foreign relations," which a complete change of front. He then
cover tue league, rank second, also said that we must not only make
in that ever-faithful democratic di- war in defense of our national rights.
vision comprising Arkansas, Louisl- but we must fieht for humanity and
ana, Texas and Oklahoma, high cost to "make the world safe for democ-
or living coming- first, while in the racy." He suddenly discovered that
mountain and Pacific divisions the the conflict was between the con
league is fourth and in the middle tending principles of autocracy and
Atlantic division it is fifth. democracy.
'High cost of living," which is I Never was man riVhrn Jw fhn
closely connected with dissatisfaction J force of events to so complete a
-" nuuinHairauoa, raiiKjj nign, i reversal or the policy which he had
being first In two of the nine divt- I
sions, second in one, third in four greatest crises ln his country's hls
and fifth in one. torv a crisis which. .t he finnllv
Industrial questions" are rated sd mirtflrl. invnlVArl ft dArlsInn ho-
lowest where there are most manu- tween the life and death of the
factures, being second in the moun- principle on which his government
tain. Pacific and east south central was founded. That admission was
divisions, third in the east north cen- a confession that for two years and
tral, south Atlantic and west south eight months other nations had been
central, fifth in New England, and struggling desperately for that prin-
rjeing given no place in the middle ctple. but that he had only just dis-
JviidULlc states. covered what It -or a aU shnut
inrougnout the northern and Pa- It. must r niacsri t Mr wnnn'
ciuc states me general sentiment is credit that he did in effect confess
that the next administration will be his error and lead the country into
republican, while in the mountain th fle-ht for riirht -Rut roniiMiinn
states it leans that way, though many that he had been hopelessly wrong
uCUlutlduc or aoiiDiiui, ana even n a matter of tremendous import
DUUtu -o.na.iiuc snows an un- should have inspired him with doubt
wonted amount of republicanism. of the unerring accuracy of his own
The American people will have a I tirotirinrl Inrtcmont it hnuii v,n
solemn reierenaum, out it will not inclined him to take counsel with
, on lne. wnson league in partlcu- other men of diverse views, to weigh
lar, it win do on the Wilson admin- their opinions without pride in his
istration as a whole. The people, own nnlninn and thim to form ,(
not me candidates or their managers, I decisions.
mane tne issues, and their judgment But he had no sooner reversed
HELPING THE BLIND.
Crimes beyond computation have
been committed in the name of char
ity, with the kindliest motives. When
the physical equipment of certain
unfortunates was smashed, or injury
or disease left them blind, they had
ceased to be useful and were thrust,
perforce, into the role of mendicants.
Charity gave them doles. Gradually
the condition of the crippled has
been changed for the better. They
are no longer compassionately con
sidered as the wards of charity,
doomed to the rust of idleness and
the loss of self-respect, but are held
to be productive factors in the life
of their nation with the same right
to labor and be happy that is pos
sessed by the physically sound.
We were altering our attitude
toward the maimed and blind before
the world war came, with its insist
ent aftermath of rehabilitation. It
was then that vocational training
entered our roster of common terms
no longer a theory but a fact. Yet
the pioneering had been done before
we sensed the tragic need that soon
would be on us and one most im
portant instance is that of the blind
artisans of Cleveland. It was in this
city, before all others, that practical
benefactors proved the industrial
worth of the blind. In Cleveland
today sightless men and women, hap
pily employed and self-sustaining,
are proficient in not fewer than
sixty-nine manufacturing operations
-requiring skilled service and offering
good wages.
There was timidity on the part of
employers at first. They shrank
from setting the blind to tasks with
and amid the whir of machinery.
Yet the first venturesome attempt,
as it was held to be, resulted in
steady employment for a citizen who
had previously been ln the Industrial
discard. Now there are more than
eighty men and women performing
without sight the tasks that hereto
fore have been held to require per
fect vision. They are said to be
joyous In their new-found freedom
through productive effort. One can
well believe it. As for accidents,
- none has occurred, and observers
ascribe this apparently remarkable
record to the very .fact that the
workers are blind. The seeming
paradox is explained by the double
portion of caution that blindness
brings.
"The person having the responsi
bility of fitting the blind man into
his job must not only be familiar
with labor conditions but must know
blindness, its splendid possibilities
as well as its painful limitations,'
bays Miss Eva B. Palmer, executive
cannot be evaded.
THE "RED FLOWER."
V. Blasco Ibanez, having popped
from literary penury into profitable
fame, is reaping while the sun
shines. He has been syndicated for
the enlightenment of millions of
newspaper readers. Ail the world
knows that when an author is so
featured it is as though the most
Impeccable bay-wreath rested on his
brow. Many great writers, alas, are
called by the syndicate, but few sub
stantiate their fame by the forced
product thus vended. Inspiration is
not attendant. They confront a mere
task. So Blasco Ibanez, casting
about for a topic, fastens on the
gasoline shortage as material for a
column, anyhow, and writes about
petroleum and fire.
The Spanish novelist discusses the
"red flower" very entertainingly, per
haps, but without evolving any new
or thoughtful philosophy pertaining
to the elemental flame. In fire he
perceives a vitalizing force that
raised' man from savagery, and that
brought about 'wars and homicides
in those dim days when we did not
know that a shaft, twirled by a bow
string, would create flame by friction,
So there were fights, . he assumes,
for the possession of fire. And this
easy logic leads him to assume that
the future will present an analogy
to the prehistoric. As the petroleum
fields are drained, and the decreas
ing supply becomes the foremost
economic issue of the time, nations
will again fight for fire, says Blasco
Ibanez. For petroleum is the symbo
of fire.
Only the deleterious effect of the
syndicate could have forced the au
thor of "The Four Horsemen" into
so ill-considered a statement. Petro
leum is but one of the symbols of
fire. Because it was abundant the
use of petroleum superseded, to a
arge degree, all other fuels ln in
dustrial activity. It quickened, by
its challenge, the wits of inventors
and the world entered a new era
of improved mechanics. But it is
no more the exclusive symbol of
fire, in an industrial sense,, than sea
soned wood was before it was found
that a black, rock-like substance
would burn. One has the undeni
able right to expect from the vision
and depth of Blasco Ibanez some
thing more than the pitiful assertion
that we are slaves of oil endlessly
doomed-
He says that the unfortunate na
tions are those that beg their fuel
from the fortunate possessors of
petroleum. He foretells a time when
there will be none to. lend or sell.
and blades will be reddened and
cannon smutted in a revival of the
ancient struggle for fire. He deifies
crude oil much as the Persian fire-
worshiper exalts the sacred flame.
The frenzy of the moment and the
pressure of the syndicate have con
spired to mislead the fancy of the
eminent Spaniard.
The truth is that there, is fue.1
flame that will strive in the motor
and send it forward with undimin
ished energy in a stripped corn
stalk; that a meadow of hay holds
the potential power of many tanks
of high-grade gasoline. As Blasco
Ibanez pokes a flower through his
coat lapel he is decking himself with
an unextracted energy that would
lift the cylinders of his coupe. While
he writes of the dominion of petro
leum, and predicts that his four
horsemen shall ride again, various
practical visionaries are preparing
new and cheaper fuels to supplant
the old. We may even expect that.
long before the oil fields spout -their
last gusher, petroleum will no longer
stalk the industrial stage as its lead
ing character. It may even beg for
acceptance in the cast of the world's
affairs. For the "red flower" is not
patented ln petroleum.
- Someone has walked beside man
kind since the days of strife for
fire and guided us unfalteringly for
ward. Never an emergency has
arisen, aneed in the day's work, but
providence has met it through the
offering of some unobtrusive scien
tiat. some grimy-faced mechanic. So
THE CALIFORNIA CENSUS,
California is rejoiced at the census
returns. These show the remark
able increase of 44.1 per cent since
1910. and lift th5 state two or three
notches higher in the sisterhood,
Her pride is pardonable, for since the
days of the gold rush no other state
has made such lusty growth. It is
the capitalization of climate, the
advertisement of the idyllic, bringing
in the sneaves. Yet states that have
made far slower progress ln popu
lation, westward from where the
west begins, need feel no envy. For
while the figures are all In favor of
California, there is really the more
genuine growth
In 1850, when California was ad
mitted to statehood, her census
showed a total of 92,579. Within
ten -years the on to California
movement, a genuine trek .of pio
neers, nad increased the tally to
3V9.4. tsut in full thirty years, or
in 1880, the growth .was compara
tively slow, reaching the total of
864,694. From 1890 forward it was
rapid to the verge of the phenome
nal. In 1920 it stands at 3,426,536
In twenty years the state has more
than doubled its population.
The earlier increases -were eco
nomically sound. While all - far
western states have made their bids
for a proportion of the non-produc
tive emigration from the east, re
tired farmers and business mr.
families of means, it is a safe as-.
himself than he went ahead on the
new course with the same blind con
fidence ln his own judgment as be
fore. He alone should direct the
war, and the men who assisted him
should have minds which traveled
along with his own. He alone should
make peace, the senate should not
be consulted, and his fellow-dele
gates should be mere dummies.
When the treaty was made, none
should tamper with it, and all who
made the attempt were enemies of
humanity.
Is it not apparent that a great
obstacle to humanity's cause in these
last six years has been President
Wilson's determination to be the sole
arbiter of the country's foreign rela
tions? At first he was coldly indif
ferent, holding that the war was
none of our affair and. that he could
not fathom its cause, and he held
America aloof while millions died.
Then he led us into and out of the
war, insisting that he should run the
affair himself. The outcome Is that
we have to hold aloof again while
more hosts suffer and die, and this
must continue until lapse of time re
lieves us of the man who, after being
proved wrong in going in one direc
tion, insists that he is infallibly right
in his present course. There could
not- be a more unanswerable argu
ment against autocracy.
Those Who Come and Go.
Katharine Graham, who is in a
headline act touring Pantages cir
cuit, will by a fortuitous move ar
rive in Portland to play Thanksgiv
ing week in her home town and inci
dentally eat turkey with her father
and mother. Captain and Mrs. A. B.
Graham. Miss Graham has not been
home for nearly two years. She left
to join May Robson in "Tish" and
played through Canada and through
the east with that play. She spent
the summer in New York and Atlantic
City and when Miss Robson opened
her new season Miss Graham had a
place ln the company second to Miss
Robson'a. Just before the latter be
gan rehearsals Miss Graham was of
fered a place In one of Langdon Mc
Cormack's spectacular vaudeville pro
ductions, "Roaring River," in which
she is featured. The tour would bring
her home, the salary was more at
tractive and carries with It a New
York appearance next season. Re
views from Detroit, Cleveland and
Chicago, where Miss Graham has ap
peared, speak in warmest praise of
the young Portlander's work and com
pare her with Elsie Ferguson. Mrs.
Graham plans to accompany her
daughter during the tatter's California
engagements after she plays Port
land's Pantages.
From far-away Johannesburg. South
Africa, comes news of Florence Rob
erta (not the tragedy queen and emo
tional Florence of the hectic dramas
of other days, but the other Florence
Roberts, who played character roles
at the Baker stock a half dozen sea
sons ago). Miss Roberts wrote a
lengthy letter to Walter Gilbert, di
rector of the Baker Players, and told
entertainingly of her engagements in
the antipodes. She has been in South
Africa for four years and says that
next to the United States Africa Is
the most wonderful country -in the
world. She has recently received an
offer to go to Australia to play in
stock.
One of the most important theat
rical announcements of recent years
Is made by George C. Tyler, who has
given out word that he has signed
contracts with Francis Wilson and De
Wolf Hopper, the two most famous
comic opera comedians in America,
to appear ln a pictorial revival of per
haps the most famous of modern
comic operas "Erminie." The con
tracts run two seasons. The first year
the two stars will be seen in New
York, Chicago, Philadelphia and Bos
ton. The second year they will make
a tour of the country from coast to
coast.
Mr. Wilson will, of course, be seen
in his original role of Cad-eaux. a
part which he has played for thou
sands of times since he first appeared
in the opera at the Casino in the
eighties. Mr. Hopper will have the
role of the majestic Ravennes, his
companion in misadventure. Though
the two comedians have been fast
friends for many years they have
never appeared together on the stage.
A company in keeping with the elab
orate nature of the undertaking is
now ln process of formation, and Nor
man-Bel Geddes. whose scenery has
been one of the distinctive features
of the Chicago Opera company's pro
ductions for several seasons past, will
design both the settings and the cos
tumes.
The. New York engagement will be
gin on or about November 1.
Mr. and Mrs. B. C. Trowbridge of
the John Day country, who were
among the. earliest settlers in Grant
county, checked out of the Imperial
yesterday and have gone to visit
friends in Washington. Mr. Trow
bridge, who is more than 80 years old,
is somewhat dubious of elevators and
so he declined to patronize those ln
the hotel. He preferred to climb the
stairs and didn't mind it. While this
80-plus pioneer was clambering up
stairs to the upper reaches of the Im
perial, youths insisted on riding in
the elevators because the stairs made
them tired.
Increased railroad fares has not
cut down railroad travel, judging
from the business the hotels in Port
land are doing. The hotels are as
congested now as they have been for
the past year and? a half and, although
the increased railroad fare has been
in effect for almost a month, the
crowds continue coming. There Is a
scramble for rooms with baths almost
nightly at the leading hotels, and
tourists who arrive ln the morning
have to wait around until evening
before they can be taken care of.
Now that the war is over, the Brit
ish people have discovered that their
craving for American apples has not
left them. There is a big and grow
ing market for good apples in Eng
land and It Is the business of S. P.
Buck to try. In a measure, to meet the
demand. Mr. Buck, who Is registered
at the Multnomah, is ln Oregon from
London for the express purpose of
buying up immense quantities of the
fruit for shipment to the old country.
Nephew of the late Count Leo Tol
stoi, Baron Eugene Ferson is at the
Multnomah, accompanied by his
mother. Althousrh the Tolstoi familv
is Russian. Baron Ferson makes his
neaoquarters at Washine-ton. r. C
During the war he was actively en-
gagea on all fronts as a member of
the Ked Cross. Tha baron is rm
lecture tour. specializing in mam
physical discourses.
OPPOSITION TO CONSTITUTION
Just why should a Portland newspaper
print tne oplnlcii or a traveirna- corre
spondent., who spends a day in Portland,
on the political situation in Oreiron T Just
why should the Journal, for ax am pie, print
sumption that California won the I political situation In Oregon, when the
great majority of these, and that it I "u1 ' on tne ground 2 hours out
la thair T-otho,. v. j.o.,.. - I of overy day and ln the business ot know-
T"7 """" linn t political and other conditions in
agricultural element, thJs state? Must the Journal go to an
mat nave swelled the census figures I outsider in tne state lor a day to tearn
Of that state. Thev hrlns mon about Oregon? Hardly Portta-nd Journal,
California, but they are a negligible I So the testimony of its own accred
lactor in production, and the pros- I 'tea ana louaiy vaunted correspond
penty of tne state is bolstered in no ent as to uregon is worth nothing?
greater degree by the tourist than it Well, well! If valueless as to Ore-
is by these residents who dwell "in I eTon, how about the forty-Beven other
a house by tr side of the road" and states? Not worth-printing, either?
add no genuine effort to the upbuild- 11 not why not? If so, why. Is
rng of the commonwealth. I the Journal willing to go on record
The grapes are not sour. When I with an estimate of what will hap-
the work of the Pacific Northwest Pen n Oregon on November 2? It
Tonrist association bears its full I would be real interesting to see in
fruit, Oregon will claim and gladly I what particular its views differ from
many such reformed and retired i lcs corresponnent s.
easterners. A considerable number
already make their homes here. But I Except for the pumpkins and other
the fact remains that the bulk of the I vegetables that require a long season
population of Pacific coast states. I to mature, Oregon fairs might as
aside from California, is comprised I well be held in July and August and
01 mose wno are the children of dodge tne rains. Holdover stuff from
genuine pioneers and communitv I the previous year would not be a bad
builders, or who themselves came to I exhibit and would show keeping
tne west witn the spirit of pioneers. I qualities. enough early fruits and
No state is so inhospitable, or so I vegetables are grown to make good
Dimaea to its own interests, as to I displays.
disregard the "Importance of offering
sanctuary to those who are throutrh Governor Cox is crvintr out acmln
with active affairs and seek retire- I that the enemies of Roosevelt have
ment. Jut that state builds more regained power. Well, yes temno
solidly, from the viewpoint of citi- rarily. But the Wilson administra-
zenry, tnat nrst calls to the con- tion goes out of office March 4.
structlve homeseeker.
The Pullman company has three
millions left above dividends and all
overheads, and ' will somebody ex
plain the necessity for that 50 per
cent rise In rates?
Now Governor Cox proposes to
curb the profiteers by "moral force."
Henry Ford hag a slightly different
idea. He euts prices on 'em
The weather people are accurate
about the rainfall in a heavy shower.
but the man caught in it has his own
.idea.
INFALLIBLE. WHICHEVER WAY HE
GOES.
President Wilson's course since the
league covenant took final form is
apt to create the impression that-
having once formed a conclusion on
any important matter, he never
swerves from it, but comparison of
his utterances in the first and second
halves of the war proves . that im
pression to be erroneous.
When the war began he was totally
indifferent to the question of right
and wrong that was involved. He
warned the people in his neutrality
proclamation to Jae "impartial in
tnougnt as wen as .action
Makes the ordinary fellow feel
aged to read of a great-grandson of
When Belgium appealed to him neral Grant old enough to marry.
The kaiser has written a new last
will and testament? Wonder to whom
lie will bequeath Gott this time? '
against violation of The Ha true
treaties by Germany; he said the sub
ject could not be considered until
"after the war." When asked for
a statement of opinion to be included
in a book to be given to King Albert
of Belgium, he said: "It is improper
that I should join in any judgment
whatever.
Addressing congress in December. I Search for the author of the New
1914, he said the conflict was "a war York explosion has gone into the
elimination class.
Our main objection to these au
tumnal equinoxes is that they do too
much equinoxlng.
Leo Carlllo la rehearsing in the
new play, "The Toreador," In which
he Is being presented by the Seluryns.
Louise Coleman wrote the piece, and
it will .have its premier some time
thier next month ln Baltimore before
going Into New York. The scene of
the play is laid in Mexico.
Maude Hanaford, last season In
"The Jest" with the Barrymore broth
ers and several years prior to that an
ingenue with the Baker stock for
about two weeks, is to have an im
portant role in A. H. Woods' newest
production, "Crooked Gamblers." Tay
lor Holmes will have the leac'lng
role ln the play and It will markl
his first appearance on the stage o
severa) seasons, as he has been con
flntngk his activities to making faces
at the camera men on the coast
late.
Arthur Hammeceteln. son of the
late operatic impressario, is the
plaintiff In an action filed yesterday
n the supreme court through his at
torneys. House, Friend & Vorhouse,
against Herbert Corthell, a ' singer,
from whom he seeks to recove
110,000. Hammerstein alleges that on
June 4 last Corthell represented to
him that he owned the excluslv
rights to the song, "The Argentines,
the Portuguese and the Greeks," an
reposing confidence in CorthelVs al
legation was Induced to buy from th
latter a half Interest In the song.
Recently, Hammerstein alleges, n
found that Corthell's only Interest ln
the song was that conferred by its
rightful owners, allowing Corthell to
render the song for the stage.
. -
William Faversnam will be pre
sented by Lee Shubert In a dramatic
version of "The Prince and the
Pauner." by Mark Twain. Amelia
Rives is doing this version. The las
one seen professionally was presented
in 1899 by Daniel Frohman with Elsi
Leslie. .
A letter to local frienes of Fred
erick Warde, the eminent Shakespear
ean actor and scholar, says he is par
ticularly happy Just now for t
reasons. The first is that his book
"Fifty Years of Make-Believe,". Is off
the press and ready for distribution.
and the second is that he has just
caught the largest black bass that
has ever come out of the waters of
White lake. New York, on the shores
of which the veteran actor has his
summer home. Mr. Warde is Just as
enthusiastic an angler as he Is write
and actor and it is doubtful which of
his two achievements pleases him
most. He uses a fly and casts whil
fishing, and has small sympathy 'f o
the "still fisherman." This fall Mr.
Warde will devote ten weeks or more
to the lecture platform before re
suming his role o9 Father Serra in
'The Mission Play" at Los Angeles.
with which we have nothing to do,
whose causes cannot touch us,
So he continued through 1915 and "See the Roundup First" will be
1916, - though during those years an American slogan ere many years
Germany was guilty of numerous I pass-
violations of American rights, against
which he felt compelled to enter I "The Mystery of the Sunken
paper protests. He professed, in- I Auto" would make a reel thriller.
financiers are Decomine- as
common in Portland hotels as resi-
ents of Ohio. Amonir yeeterdav's
arrivals at the Multnomah was L.
Brown of Dunedin, N. Z. Mr. Brown
is Keeping an eye on the nolitical d
velopments of America, since many
i tne reiorms here, such as a sroodlv
pari or tne Oregon system of rov
ernment. had their inspiration in New
Zealand.
Mr. and Mrs. J.' P. Abbott of
v apinitia are at the Perkins. The
plains of Waplnitla will some day
connected with the Mount Hood
loop, accordinir to boosters for the
loop. Waplnitia itself is Just a Dost-
office. as Carl Shoemaker, executive
ecretary of the fish commission, dls
covered when he arrived there late
ne night last week, exnectinar to
una accommodations.
Tourist travel has been exception
ally heavy In Salt Lake City this
ear. according to F w. Merrill, who
Is at the Multnomah. The sieht
eeing wagons have coined money.
for there are many attractive features
t Salt Lake City, not to mention
he lake, which most tourists, if they
have time, want to take a bath in.
Summer visitors have deserted Can
on Beach, in Ciats-op county, and
the beach has lost its appearance of
activity. This is one of the reasons
that Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Lamphers
ave come to Portland for the time
being and are registered at the
eward.
F. Zin Baldwin, who is in the farm
Ing and automobile business at Lake-
lew, Or., is registered at the Imper
ial. Mr. Baldwin is a son of the
late State Senator George W. Bald
win, one of the foremost developers
f that part of Oregon.
Mrs. W. A. High and children ar
rived at the Perkins from Cloverdale
yesterday. Cloverdale is a cheese
center in Tillamook county and is
rovided with a fairly good road mofi
of the way into Tillamook town, and
ome pavement.
R. A. Booth, state highway commis-
loner, passed through Portland yes
erday. There will be a meeting of
the comisslon next Tuesday, when
number of important matters will
come up for consideration and dis
position.
Harmon S. August, at the Multno
mah. aside from being a director I
investment compasnies and a motio
picture concern, is vire-president
the Mays Department Stores compan
of New York.
William L. Thompson, now of th
First National in Portland, but to
vears president of a Pendleton bank
eft last night for his old stampin
ground in Pendleton and, of course, to
be on hand for the Round-up.
Judg Webster Holmes, one of the
best-known citizens of Tillamook
county. Is an arrival at the Imperial.
He reports the county as maintaining
its prosperous condition.
Sydney B. Bryan, who has been
with the Portland branch of the John
Ballman company, will sail in a few
days for Shanghai, China, to be at
tached to the John Ballman cempany
branch there.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Childs left
last night for Boise to attend the
Idaho state fair. Mr. Childs. who is
anaeer of the Hotel Portland, was
for many years a resident of Idaho.
People Probably Would Have defeat
ed It on Popular Vote.
PORTLAND. Sept. 22. (To the Edi
tor.) The Oregonian on Saturday
contained an extract from the speech
delivered by Judge Guy C. H. Corliss
on Constitution day.
I cannot understand why. in dis
cussing the adoption of the constitu
tion as one of the great achievements
of our fathers, under which we have
grown to be the mightiest na
tion of the earth, Judge Corliss or
any other citizen should consider it
proper to find fault with or criticize
the president of the United States in
connection with his course on the
league of nations.
It has been my privilege on more
than one occasion publicly to discuss
the ratification and adoption or tne
American constitution, and in so do
ing to show that it was a magnificent
achievement, and that ln the language 1
of Gladstone, "it was perhaps one of
the greatest works of men."
As a matter of fact, the constitu
tion was as bitterly opposed in its
formation and adoption as the league
of nations is at the present time. I
must confess that I am unable to
fathom what Judge Corliss is driving
at. It eeems to me he has gone out
f his way to abuse the president of
the United States and to find fault
with the league of nations, and that
ln so doing he crosses his wires when
he says if the constitution had been
submitted to the people It probably
would have been defeated.
As a matter of fact, as I read his
tory, I believe that this statement is
true. The constitutional convention
was in session for four months; it was
composed of 65 members. Its deliber
ations were in secret. At many times
it was on the verge of breaking up.
After its adjournment the work of
the convention was bitterly denounced
by leading men of the time and by
people ln general.
It waa opposed by Patrick Henry,
James Monroe, John Tyler, Benjamin
Harrison. George Mason. Richard
Henry Lee. Governor Hancock of
Massachusetts. Governor Clinton of
New York and many 6ther leading
and prominent men of that time. It
was characterized as a repudiation ot
the states' rights that they would
lose their liberties that they were
giving up the power of taxation, etc
"Che first colony which met to con
sider the adoption of the constitution
was Pennsylvania. There were not
lng and bloodshed over the matter.
It was finally adopted by the requisite
number of votes. In Massachusetts
we find Samuel Adams first opposed
to it. They wanted to amend it and
ratify it afterwards. It was finally
adopted by a majority of 20 in a mem
bership of 355.
In Maryland Luther Martin and
Samuel Chase were bitterly opposed
to It.
When it was considered by the col
ony of Virginia PatrlcK Henry oi
fered 20 amendments, including a bill
of rights, which came within eight
votes of passing. Virginia finally
adopted it by a vote of ten majority
in a membership of 3bS.
In New York it was considered amid
bloodshed and rioting. Governor
Clinton opposed it, and the legisla
ture wanted another convention
wanted reservations w anted the
right to withdraw if they didn't like
it. At first it was defeated, but later.
through the power and eloquence o
Alexander Hamilton. New York ac
cepted the constitution of the United
States by a majority ot three.
When it reached the colony
Rhode Island a mob of a thousand
men. headed by a Judge, forced the
legislature to adjourn. Knode isiana
did not ratify until 1790. after the
union had been formed and the othe
states were proceeding to eniorce
customs duties against her.
From the facts above stated, and
others, it is fair to assume that if the
constitution had been submitted to
the people It would have been de
feated. I might add that ir Judge
Corliss desires further arguments
against the league of nations I sug
gest that he delve into history and
dig up some of the speeches opposing
the constitution of the United States.
They could be used as forcibly against
the league of nations today as they
were against the constitution 133
years ago.
1 would also call Judge Corliss' at
tention to the hard sledding that the
Jay treaty encountered during the ad
ministration of George Washington.
Societies and newspapers resolved to
oppose and attack the treaty. Mobs
threatened personal violence to the
supporters of the treaty. Alexander
Hamilton was stoned in the streets of
New York for speaking in favor of it.
Jay was denounced as a traitor and
his effigy burned in many places.
Washington, the father of our coun
try, was bitterly denounced for his
support of this same treaty: so bitter
was the denunciation of him that this
grand man remarked that he wished
he was in his grave.
MILTON A. MILLER.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
STOTHIXG TO WORRY ABO IT.
The devil wKl fret the Jaxsera The Ror,
John Roach Straton.
George Washington, we've often read,
a lively measure used to tread.
With zip and pep in every step, and
sinuous gyration.
He did the minuet, it s true, for that's
the only dance they knew.
For only one was ever done in
George's generation.
If George were in our midst today,
we doubt not that he'd swing
and sway
And take a chance on every dance
he found was in fashion.
The general was never slow, and
from our history we know
It's gospel truth that in his youth
the jig-step was his passion.
Yet Washington did fairly well He
wooed and won a stately belle.
And though he danced as years
advanced and honors rained
around him
His countrymen revered his name.
they gave him opulence and
fame.
And if he'd stood for it they would
have actually crowned him.
And when today we're sternly told
tne aevii has a strangle hold
On every girl and boy who whirls
around the iazzina- -nalacn
The fact that George was never much
entangled in said devil's clutch
We don't forget; and so the threat
We take cum grano salis.
Going and Coming.
Between the income tax and th
campaign fund collector, these are
sad days for the idle rich.
Dost Tear 'Em Down.
Even if prohibition emnties th
jails, it will only make room for a lot
or speeding chauffeurs that ought to
be sent there.
What Can the Matter Be!
A whole month has passed without
a demand from the railroads for aiw
otner rate advance.
(Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndicate.
Ino
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Airo.
From The Oreionian of September 23, IS?
xliis m do an eventful week- in
church circles, for 300 delegates will
be here to attend the Oregon con
ference of the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Multnomah club athletes returned
last night on a special car from
Tacoma loaded down with medals
and trophies captured when they
won the pennant of the P. N. A.
games.
Total attendance of the city schools
for the opening week showed an
increase of 100 over last year. The
number of pupils registered is 73S.
Fifty Years Ako.
From The Oreconian of September 23. 1870.
Another section of 20 miles of the
Oregon & California railroad is ready
for inspection by the United States
commissioners. In fact, about 30
miles are now ready.
Salem. A fire occurred here which
destroyed the sash and door factory
of Boothby & Stapleton, B. F.
Drake's iron foundry. Mr. Drake's
dwelling, a blacksmith's shop and a
barn. The loss is between JSO.OOfl
and $40,000.
The city council will be called to
gether tonight by Mayor Scott for
the purpose of extending an invita
tion to General Sherman to visit the
city.
Captain La Follett states that the
Grand Ronde Indians on the reser
vation have raised 30(10 bushels ot
grain this year, more than sufficient
to supply their breadstuffs.
WASTE OF WAR PUT TOO HIGH
Money Spent on Men Wno Didn't Go
Aeroas Not Sacrificed.
PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 21. (To the
Editor.) Your editorial In this morn
ing's Issue regarding the awful war
expenditures, gave facts and figures,
with one exception. I would not place
the amount of wastage as high as
you have.
Governor Harding gave the same
information Saturday nighC only he
said these facts were what caused
the depreciation of his liberty bonds.
Never mind, what I want to say Is,
that you left out of your article a
most important Item. There was a
large amount -spent to train and
equip about two million men who
never reached the firing line. It
could well be classed! as wastage, ac
cordina: to your theory.
It is a horrible thing to have to
spend so much money in such a use
less way. but from the fact that two
million, or more, of our boys never
saw the front, 1 1 wouldn t say that
a penny was wasted.
Let us get together and fix it so
such expenditures will never be called
for again. God helping us, we ..will.
I have but half of my lung power,
the other half Is a sacrifice to the
cause of humanity in the Spanish
American war. I would gladly sacrl
flee a few dollars and the remaining
half of me to etop "an wars.
H D. NORTHROP.
MAJESTY.
"Heaven and earth are full of the
majesty of Thy giory."
A radiance rest upon the ripening
grain;
Soft glory from the sun, to rise again.
And swiftly, through the hurrying
shadows, pass.
To play among red fields of fleecy
grass;
Or rose embedded homes of happy
toil.
Drawing their food from the full-
breasted soil.
Young, new born glory rests on
ripening fruit;
And seeks the cell of the dark
prisoned root:
Or floats with shining morning wings
agleam;
Between the lips of every mountain
stream.
These are . the messengers of God,
to show
His Spirit's presence, but what mind
can know
His majesty, that, with a solemn
strength.
Runs through the mountains' long.
reposeful length?
That binds the fetters of the stub
born shore.
And holds His vialed wrath within
- ths ocean's roar.
That steels the cedar's sinewy iron
lines;
And moulds the mighty limbs of
rugged pines;
Glows in the angry sun, as in the
west.
He dyes the colors of the ocean's
crest ;
And finds at last, its cradle, and its
goal.
Upon the secret aitar of the soul!
MARY ALETHEA WOODWARD.
enship we 1
ite in the A
3vernmenr I
A second company ' of "East
West" opened Its season last week in
Paterson, N. J. Helene Slnnott, who
played the role of Ming Toy at the
Astor theater during Fay Balnter's
illness, has the leading role In the
production- ,
Definition of Brother-in-law.
KERRY, Or.. Sept. 31. (To the
Editor.) To settle an argument,
kindly advise the correct relationship
of the following: A and B married
sisters. Are the men brothers-in-law,
technically? C E. H.
The standard dictionary defines
brother-in-law as follows:
A husband's brother; a wife's
brother; a sister's husband; loosely
ln England and legally in the United
States; a wife's eister'a husband.'
German Taxation Figures Questioned.
COSMOPOLIS, Wash.. Sept. 21. (To
the Editor.) In an editorial on Sep
tember 18, you charge the Germans
as not paying enough taxes, saying
that per capita they pay only $11.43.
There must be a mistake in those
figures, as the workers are taxed 10
per cent of their income, deducted
from the wages through their em
ployers. That rich men have to pay
much is evident, as according to the
Aberdeen World President Evert pays
60.000 marks taxes, leaving him only
40.000 marks, or about $1800.
It is also coincident that France
needs money badly to get the north
ern provinces back to normal and for
her many doubtful military enter
prises, but we Bhould also be fair to
ward the former enemies in putting
up matter of facts. Then and not be
fore will friendship between nations
be possible. J6K-ED HART.
VALtU OF SENATORIAL SI I'l'IIHT
Slates That Get Results Furnish Con
sistent Support to President.
ASTORIA, Or.. Sept. 21. (To the
Editor.) I have noticed for many
years that certain states, when men
tioned politically, are always spoken
of as being great republican states.
Among the states so classed, in the
public mind, are Iowa. Kansas and
Minnesota, in the middle west, and
Pennsylvania, Vermont and Connecti
cut in the east.
Why does the general public think
of these as being great, republican
states? Is it not because we think
of such states as being, not only
sound in principle, but as consistent
when it comes to supporting those
principles on election day?
Who would ever think of calling
Oregon a great republican state? No
one. And yet, when it comes to
registering and giving our party
preferences, we show as large a pre
ponderance of republicans as the best
of the states named above. When it
comes to boasting of a high standard
of educated, intelligent citizenship we
take off our hats to no stat
union.
We all know that our gov
is a government of parties. The
trouble is too many forget this when
voting. We are there with the goods
when it comes to rolling up a big
vote for the republican nominee for
president and we can be reasonably
well depended on to send republican
congressmen to support our choice of
president, but we have been too much
in the habit of late years of spoiling
the whole thing by voting for a
democrat for senator not only vot
ing for a democrat but electing him,
too. The democrats can elect nothing
in this state without big help from
republicans.
As matters now stand with us, we
are absolutely without representation
in the United States senate, on all
great party questions for the vote
of your democratic senator can- be
depended on to kill the vote of your
republican senator. If you will look
into the. records of congress for the
past 50 years, you will see that those
states having the consistency to sup
port their party principles, both in
the house and senate as well as in
the executive, are the states that get
results. This is as true of democratic
as of republican states.
Take those states known as the
solid south. Do you find them send
ing one democrat and one republican
to the United States senate? Not on
your life.
I have not a word to say against
Senator Chamberlain, but he does not
happen to represent my party prin
ciples and I cannot for the life of me
see why I should vote for him. I
want Senator Harding to give us
results during the next four years.
Let us not forget that the aim of the
non-partisan league is to hold the
balance of power In the senate.
A. H. H.
Coofclnc Expert Explains.
New York World.
Doctor As for your trouble with
your husband, madam. I may ten you
it is a scientific fact that meat causes
bad temper. Mrs. Bloggs Oh. yes,
I've noticed that it always does when
It Is burned.
Srrn-w Vote on Train.
THE DALLES. Or.. Sept. 21. (To
the Editor.) Result of straw vote
taken on east bound O. W. R. & N,
train No. 18: Harding, 11S, Cox, 44,
Debs, 40.
. W. W C, JR.
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