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Just before June 28, In the present year of gTace, were loaded down with gentlemen who had important business there. Among them were hordes of govern ment officials with business there-: most important business. The busi ness was nomination of a president of the United States. Being both prateful for past favors and hopeful of the future, the motley crowd of cabinet officers, senators, represen tatives, secretaries, assistant secre taries, heads of departments, assis tants to heads of departments, dis trict attorneys, customs collectors, internal revenue officers, postmas ters and as many of the great host that make up the federal brigade as could get away without stopping the "wheels of government as most of them could foregathered to see that no mistake was made by the convention. They could not agree, and the lamentable blunder of Cox's nomination was committed. No fed eral job-holder was for Cox at least mot many. But now they are all for him. The persuasive powers of four anore years of ease and comfort on the public pay roll are very great Kour years hence, if Cox shall be elected, they will come together again, and all will be for his renomi nation. Some of the federal brigade paid their way. Others did not. The gov ernment paid it. The senatorial- investigating com mittee has struck pay dirt at last. It is uncovering the facts about the little journeys to San Francisco of some of the bureaucrats, red-tape experts, and chair-warmers who hurried out from Washington. They are interesting. One elegant pap sucker paid $136 for a Pullman drawing room to take him back home. But he put it in on his ex pense account. Uncle Sam had to foot the bill. Well, why not? He is rich, and it will be a long time be fore any deserving democrat, or company of deserving democrats, will be able to surround themselves at hia expense with such appetizing fleshpots unless Cox is elected. Josephus Kaniels was there, on a . battleship. Some kind of an inspec tion tour, no doubt.. Uncle Sam paid for that too. First and last, he has had to pay a great deal in various ways for Josephus. Secretary of State Colby was on hand to show Bryan where to head in or out. He showed Bryan, and it's out. Attorney-General Palmer, having deter mined that it was his solemn duty to his country to see that the con vention was guided aright, came with an army of retainers, fat and lean. Postmaster-General Burleson left the postoffice department to its own devices and brought along Uie boom of Iris friend ex-McAdoo, once also among the cabinet elect Franklin D. Roosevelt, fourth cousin or is it fifth? assistant naval secretary, came also, and went with the dubious vice-presidential prize. Then there was but what's the use? It would be a shorter tale if the Chronicler told who was not there. It costsjynoney to nominate a presi dent. Somebody has got to pay it. Why not Uncle Sam? He's easy. '" A SAMPLE OF COX PROGRESS. ! So much has been said about Governor Cox's progressive adminis tration in Ohio that that extremely inquisitive newspaper, the Provi dence Journal, has inquired into the subject. The Journal has earned a. reputation as an inquirer. While the United States was striving to be neutral it did more to expose Ger man bomb plots, plots to wreck factories and railroads, conspiracies to incite strikes and propaganda to Influence congress and public opin ion than did the secret service. It has been digging into the record of the Ohio banking department under Mr. Cox, its work being made easy by the report of a legislative inquiry. Mr. Cox reappointed Emery Lat tauer superintendent of banks and banking in spite of many protests, which his conduct justified. The committee found that he reported expenses for 1914 which were more than $6500 less than the actual amount, with the evident intention to "deceive the governor." At the end of 1914 he left less than $5000 in the fund to run his department for a month and a half, though expenses had been about $7000 a month, he left many bills unpaid, and an extra appropriation was necessary. "Extravagance and wastefulness" were declared to have marked liquidation of banks. From May 16, 1911, to December 31, 1914, 18 banks were liquidated at a cost of $96,191. of which sum $50,749 "was paid to favored attorneys, a majority of whom were appointed not because of their qualifications but in payment of political debts, some either upon the direct sugges tion of James M. Cox, then grover nor of Ohio, or by the superintend ent himself." Several of these were members of the legislature or rela tives of members, one was secretary of the democratic state . central committee, and another was ex Governor James E. Campbell, who "received compensation for making collections that were paid by debtors of the closed bank at the banking room without any demand being made upon them." Liquidating agents were appointed "to reward persons who had done the democratic party political serv- I may be pardoned for Wanting peace ices rather than for their ability to I particularly after a trial of revo perform the duties tf the positions lution. The most recent news from to which they were appointed." In I some instances Lattauer "was or- r,r-.l V. . . V. . - : . , iUa suvcuur to auum.. men Whom rn rfirl not rtrnnallv I know." In t.wn anrv, iictanra: th men were "unable to keep the ac- counts of collections and disburse- ments properly" and examiners were employed at excessive salaries to do this work. Many records "were loosely and careTessly kept." Some I banks were closed which could have continued in business if given a lit- tie more time. A Columbus bank was closed in I spite of the protest of the associated banks of that city and although they furnished the money to pay the depositors in full. This was done on condition that the bank remain open till the depositors were paid, but the bank was closed in violation of the agreement and remained closed till the associated banks forced its reopening. Banks were arbitrarily closed and securities were declared worthless which were. after ward paid in full, suit being neces sary in only a few instances. Stocks and bonds were given to a favored broker for sale and were sold at great sacrifice. Funds of closed banks in all parts of the state were deposited in a favored bank at Co lumbus. Employes of the banking department were used to address and mail political literature and to write political letters while drawing state pay. The secretary of state, Charles H. Graves, was appointed special agent to investigate certain land in Oregon, for sale of which the owners wished permission from Ohio, arid his expenses were paid by the company concerned. All of these proceedings have a family resemblance to those of Mr. Cox's chief sponsor, Tammany. They call to mind W. J. Bryan's famous remark about "deserving democrats." But they do not raise rosy expecta tions of progressiveness under a national government headed by Mr. Cox. TO OJTE. Chairman Kenyolf read from the pink sheets editorials about the "senate oligarchy." "Wish yon would, tell us abqut the oligarchy," said Senator Reed, democrat, Missouri. "Most of the newspapers using the term refer to Senators Penrose. Smoot, Lodge and others." Mr. Rcrlpps replied. "That's a wide term others." said Sen ator Reed. "Whom do they boss?" "They are supposed to boss the senate." "A man who says that doesn't know about the senate." said Senator Reed. "I think it means they control the re publican party," Mr. Scripps continued. "I Just want to say that I consider this talk about 'senate oligarchs as rot. whether it comes from presidential candi dates or not," said Senator Reed. Krom the Associated Press Washington dispatch, September 23. No senatorial oligarchy, republican or democrat, could boss Senator Reed. He knows that it could not, and does not, boss the senate. Candidate Cox knows it too. ' "fret a candidate must say something. Mr. Cox thinks his little something must always be derogatory to the repub lican party. He is indifferent whether it be true or false. Mostly it is false. First it was the imaginary slush fund. Then it was the personally-conducted-by-Wilson league of na tions (THE league and no other). Then came progressivism, which he fed as oratorical fodder to the pro gressive people of progressive states coals to Newcastle. Now it is the fantastic story of the conspiracy of silence and suppression as to him by the republican newspapers. xes, a candidate must say some thing. But when Cox says it,' it is very cheap, being nine parts bun combe and one part fact. LIGHT IN RUSSIA. "What frightens the bolsheviks most of all, however." writes Can- tain McCullagh in the London Daily Mail, "is the discovery that the verv nninr. t Jl un.1UB isiiiioi. mem. it 13 a departure from the ancient theory that the bolsheviki have held in the past that man was by nature wolfish and needed only to be fed on spiritual raw meat to keeD him perpetually tearinE: at his fplinwo' throats. Reliance on innate savag- 1 ery has failed, according tn M1-C1I. I lagh. and the bolshevik Rvstem win collapse because civilized man has, after all is said and done, profited by the experiences of civilization. There are fanatics left, but they are in the minonty and do not ommt fo,. much. 1 It has been impossible to withhold from the Russian people illiterate as they are certain obvious farts to human progress. Ono r th t that there may be such a thing as a laUdaDle desire fnr coin a H.mr. which after all makes the world go around." It is beginning to be seen tnat tne attempt to abolish trading in some form or other is "as futile i-uiuus iBr wnn a swora and expecting the fissure to remain uvib ja already a return to the old ways, not because all men are essentially greedy in the meanest sense, dui Decause tney want to en- jj ami tne comiorts 01 lire; "'V 0.111. oudp ana ciean linen, " la via-in ooisnevism cannot " " ..cu me uouiiBans tire in time of anarchy. Man's better nature revolts against the long-con- tinued pabulum of terror. Captain McCullagh, who has been observing ivuoau tuuuiuons at iirst nand. L;uiniiiues: Not & month nasses vllhnut ih. ordinary commission discovering that some new financial or commerci:,! nii,iAa u - ucen Kirmeu on me old lines: and. for the past six months, a vast amount of specu lation has been connived at in MnBou, elsewhere. As much of this speculation is cairieu on. especially in the Moscow food ft8eff.0hey exhtrrd,fnfa'ry,1,,cor;rmLhs1on"0ro neart anogemer in April last and has practically ceased to protest against it le quotes Lenine as saying that there are 600,000 communists in TClisstin Hilt (haf Vi ..... , . . r. r , - " - ' i' i uub ouou Ti' V. n. n K 4 ......... . ; 1 : -. , m, .-cm " implicitly, xne otners long tor the flesfipots, as common men oo, and begin to feel tnat tney would be willing to settle aown to real production in order to enjoy the benefits thereof. The Rus- sians are not immune to considera - tions of a quiet home, it appears, and the graces and minor comforts that attend it. They begin to fear that the men who have led them astray are only wild, adventurers, fanatics who have nothing to lose and noth- ing in common with the everyday in dividual. It was ordained that the terror would spend itself, as it did on another historic occasion; no people not entirely mad could live long in the atmosphere that it cre ated. McCullagh thinks that Trotsky and Lenine have reached the point where .they live in constant fear of assassin ation. They never could rely on any but the most fanatical of their fol lowers, and fanaticism is a broken reed. Even a Russian revolutionary Russia is not altogether bad. PLANT WIZARDS, The world owes more than it realizes to the men and women whom their biographers like to call "plant wizards." Most of the points of excellence of our modern fruits. strains and vegetables are due either to - care In preserving the final strains which have occurred as sports in tne garden, or to definite efforts to produce improved variations by tedi. ous crossing and recrossing, such as those of Luther Burbank of Galifor- nia, Charles Haralson of Minnesota and others. Although Europeans excel in painstaking methods of cul- ture of known varieties, discovery and development of new ones have reached their height in America. Our eontrioutlons to horticulture in par ticular possess incalculable value. News that more than 3000 new varieties of edible fruits have been developed within a few years by the Minnesota scientist to whom allu sion has been made is interesting chiefly because of the effort that his work represents to attain as near as possible to pomological perfection. It is not pretended that so bewildering a variety is in itself desirable. Mul tiplicity of kinds, the vast majority of which will live only briefly, is part of the indispensable waste. The nursery catalogues of a generation ago contain relatively few familiar names, for the sufficient reason that the new fruits have demonstrated their better right to hold the field. The fancied superiority of the elder fruits is chiefly due to the sharp ap petite of youth anfc the faulty recol lection of age. Among apples, for' example, the fall Pippirju. the None such, the Seek-No-Further and the Ontario, about which our grand fathers used to boast, have been crowded out by varieties more de pendable as to yield or possessing greater adaptability to local situa tions. The faults of the Ben Davis apple, . once a meritorious product of the middle west, did not discover themselves until too hopeful pio neers tried to reproduce it in an un friendly habitat- It has become known only within half ,a century or so that agriculture and horticul ture involve an incessant struggle not only for intrinsic improvement of types in themselves, but for develop ment of new varieties to which all the elements will prove hospitable. It is difficult to conceive how we should be able to sustain our pres ent population if we had relied wholly on Indigenous products. Maize, which constitutes one of the most momentous economic results flowing from Columbus' discovery of America and which is now our most important single grain crop, owes more to the science of plant selection as practiced within a generation than to all the uncounted centuries of its haphazard growth while the conti nent was in possession of the Indians. The modern potato, now the staple diet of millions, would be regarded as an inedible weed in the state in which it was first carried to Europe by the Spanish conquerors of Peru. The grape, which flourished in the old world in antiquity, made a sorry struggle in America until pomolog ical adventurers with imagination conceived the notion that it could be wedded to the indigenous wild stock of pre-Columbian times. The exchange of benefits between hemi spheres and localities proceeds con stantly, but it becomes feasible only because some thousands of mute Burbanks and Haralsons, in field and orchard, are tirelessly striving not only for perfection of flavor and substance, but for substantial results under every sort of local environ ment. Recognition of the fact that only the fittest in every respect has the right to survive in each instance has operated enormously to broaden, the field of agricultural research and to. 'end fascination to a pursuit in wnicn me ideal and the practical are singularly united It incidentally fortifies our faith in the innate altruism of men to re nect that the workers in this branch of science are for the greater part ""inspired by dreams of riches or by the hope of creating natural monop- ones ior tneir own enrichment- The personal pride with which each in dividual publishes broadcast the re Buiu "l researcn is redolent of tne true sP'rit of the scientist. There are no mlIionaires among profes- 8ional food Plant breeders, who ap- fear 10 ue content witn tne durable satisfactions that attend good work wel1 done- The Plant wizard is unlcluo among philanthropists, in tnat ne ls a valuable contributor to the world s wealth without being an inordlnate sharer in the proceeds ot I " " " oti.revcinpiiui. 1 IMPROVING THE PORT FOR OREGON, Objections in some quarters to the I proposed Swan island improvement of the Willamette river channel on the score of. probable high cost of I the land required are obviated by the report of the appraisal committee to the committee of 15. The original estimate of the Port of Portland commission, which was admittedly an outside figure, was $4,300,000, and the appraisal is more than $600. uuo less. 1'he committee names figures as the limit hovnnrt whioh the commission should not go, but it is known that some tracts can be purchased by negotiation at less than the appraisement. It sonable to expect the cost will prove to be $1,000,000 less than the price at which the land Is appraised. The experience of the dock commission in purchasing the site for terminal No. 1 goes to show that the Port would fare worse in rondprnnatin 1?"?'' 1 "J?"1 haV? .VUght I -. xvl vv,vvu, WUUB me condemnation award exceeded that I sum by more than $60,000. The most persistent critic of th I Swan island project has insisted that . 1 T : , , , ' i iaic run uuuiuubsiun snouici not pay I . , . ., .. more tnan oouDie tne assessed valu for the land. The appraisement is 2.03 times the assessment, and there is good reason for confidence that the actual cost will be less tha double the assessed value. Then the way should be open to go ahead, so far as the cost of the necessary land is concerned. The suggestion is made by a local paper that the need of funds to keep the channel open to the sea is so I urgent that the port should not rest its chance of obtaining those funds on what that paper calls "the Swan island measure" and that a new initiative bill should be submitted to the voters of the port district- It misapprehends the whole plan of port development. The bill which has been submitted to the voters of the state is not simply a "Swan island measure"; it is a bill author izing the Port of Portland commis sion and the city dock commission to consolidate under the state laws governing the former, and extending the taxing and bonding power of the consolidated body. The increased credit is not designed to carry out the Swan island project alone; it is to be used to continue the work of improving and maintaining, the channel from Portland to the sea, of which the west channel of Swan island is but a part, though a highly important part. The law has not given the voters of the Port of Portland district the right to initiate and vote on issue of bonds; that right can only be given to the Port of Portland commission the voters of the whole state through adoption of the consolida tion bill now on the ballot. Four months are necessary to put a meas ure on the state ballot, and little more than five weeks remain before the election. The present bill pro vides funds for work on the chan nel, and its adoption is the only means by which they can be pro vided at the November election. The memorandum presented by the committee of 15 to the city com missioners demonstrates that, even no Swan island project were un der- consideration, increase of the port's credit is needed in order that may build and operate the dredge ecessary to deepen the channel to thirty feet and to maintain it at that depth, and afterward to increase both width and depth to meet the emands of shipping. For much of the year the depth is less than thirty feet, and the present plant, even ith the aid of government dredges. cannot maintain It without increase of funds. Repair and operation of that plant requires more money than the port has in prospect . from its present source of revenue. Greater epth and width are imperative, for the draft of vessels coming into the river grows steadily. To make a channel In the Columbia 32 by 500 feet is five years' work and to im prove the channel of the Willamette, exclusive of Swan island or other work, will occupy four years, both projects to be carried on simultane ously. The Swan island project Is designed to extend the latter im provement to the upper harbor by providing a wide, deep, straight channel in place of one that is nar row and crooked, the filling of ad joining land being only Incidental to that work. Its completion cannot be expected short of ten years, and dur ing that period the lower channel should have been permanently fixed at 35 by 500 feet, while the amount of tonnage entering the river may ave grown to such a total that the additional dock space to be provided will by that time-lae urgently needed. All of this goes to show that the primary question submitted to the voters of Oregon is whether they shall enable the Port of Portland to provide them with a water high way to the sea. While the cost is to be paid and the work to be done by the people of the Port of Portland, the benefits will accrue to the whole state; in fact, of the whole Columbia river basin. This port and its chan nel to the sea form a public utility to this whole region, as truly as do the railroads and highways radiating from this city. They provide the producers and consumers of the in terior with cheap water transporta tion to the Atlantic coast, which is more than ever valuable in these days of high railroad rates and in adequate railroad facilities. The benefits which the state at large de rives are a close second to those which accrue to the port itself, but the pexple of Oregon are only asked to authorize the people of the port at their own expense to provide these means of transportation for the whole state. The people of Oregon are certainly awake to their interest in development of their greatest port, and there is no cause to appre hend that they will not approve the Port of Portland bill. A few vcars ago George Cornwall was working with might and main to establish a school of forestry In the.Corvallis college. He succeeded and this is one of the results: A dozen graduates are filling positions that pay up to $4000 a year in the logging industry. The' little country girls beat their city sisters in the local canning con test- It was not much of a beat one point but it showed intensity of spirit. It showed,, too, that the city girl is speeding up, for canning naturally is a country affair. Unless baseball gambling is stopped and stopped short, the great American game as played profes sionally will go the way of horse racing. But baseball as an amateur sport can never be "fixed." Now comes a prohibition member of congress and says he will intro duce a law requiring Americans in China to be bone dry. Might be just as well first to require Americans in America to be bone dry. The same old high prices, it's de clared, will prevail in men's hats this winter. The men will take to wear ing Fords if the hatters don't watch out. A Spokane doctor asserts that tired scholars need an hour's sleep at noon. That's the ailmyit of a lot oi grown loin, too. Chicago restaurants have been taking twenty cuts from a water melon. They must have a cafeteria carver on the job. A horoscope says today is a day of promise, especially to writers for the press. Sure thing. Pay day is but a few days off. Most any fellow charged with crime can find a possible defense in atavism. Monkeys never are held responsible. "Babe" Ruth has just made his fifty-first home run. Well, nobody can say that any gambler fixed that up for him. Seeing is believing in the drop in commodity prices. The big mail order houses are not corner grocery stores. rsut even n it were true, a sena torial oligarchy would surely be preferable to the present monarchy. Betting in New York is 6 to 1 on Harding, but the Cox money wants more. Mean anything? Match the president," declares Chairman White. What a run on pennies there will be! If "Diamond Bill" Barrett Is go ing into the movies, all the publicity ls good advertising. Cheer up. Bright days are com PROPERTY OWNERS' SIDE GIVEJf Stringent Fire RcKulatlona Likely to Deprive Poor Folk of Lodging. PORTLAND, Sept. 24. (To the Edi tor.) There has been a good deal ot hysteria regarding fire protection since the fire at Elton court. There ! are two sides to all questions, and the owners of property certainly have their side to this question. In the frist place, the property af fected by the proposed new ordinance is all old and unprofitable, which the owners have had to carry for the last six or eight years without receiving enough revenue to pay the taxes, un til the last two years. These properties complied with the laws in force at the time they were built, also with the ordinances en acted from time to time as new of ficials were elected, each with some new hobby. There have been so-' called safet.y ordinances passed which have been a burden. Owners have been required to put on fire escapes, of the platform and ladder type; then they were required to take these off, as they were found to be of no value, and put on the new style with stairs but the price of the old ones was not remitted by the city. Then a hose was required on each floor; then red lights; then fire gongs, etc. All these did not save the people at Elton court, and are now claimed to be no good. The officials are proposing an ordi nance to make these old buildings more fireproof, in order to give the fellow who pays 50 cents to 75 cents for a room the same protection that others have to pay $5 or $6 for. It would seem that he is entitled to only the service, comfort and protection that he pays for. Such an ordinance would mean confiscation of a lot of these old buildings, because their owners are unable to make the neces sary changes. This would necessitate their closing them. In this way the patron of these cheap lodgings would be deprived of sleeping quarters, as he could not afford a fireproof room so it might prove to be a double edged knife cutting both the lodger and owner. If the owner should raise his rent. everybody is ready to holler " "rent 1 hog." But no one says a word about the "tax hogs." With taxes going up all the time, and property depreciat ing, and a lot of more stringent regu lations being passed, where is the property owner going to get off? I notice in one of the evening pa pers where the fire at Klamath Falls was supposed to be due to discarded gars or cigarats. Why doesn't some ne agitate an ordinance to eliminate his risk, by requiring smokers to go nto a fire-proof stall of some sort. such as is required for the lantern rooms of picture shows? Instead of confiscating these old properties, why not appoint apprals- rs to appraise and condemn them, and let the city take them over at the appraised value, and pay the poor owner, who in years gone by did not ave any more foresight than to help build up the town, and in doing so complied with all laws in force, but could not foresee all the laws that were going to be passed and made retroactive? II they can t hang a murderer for deeds done before capital punishment was restored, why estroy a bulla. r.g that does not com ply with a law passed 20 or 30 years fter it was built? The cheap lodger is not asking for ny such protection, why force it on im " The taxpayer is asking for some rotectlon against those who seem determined to confiscate his prop- rty, why not give it to him? A TAXPAYER. FARM AGENTS NOT MERE BOYS Policy of Agricultural College Im to Employ Experienced Men. CORVALLIS, Or.. Sept. 23. (To the Editor.) Will you kindly permit me o reply through your columns to the statement reported In The Oregonian to have been made by Judge Stapleton at the weekly luncheon of the Port land Press club during the course of his remarks on "The Non-partisan League and Co-operative Marketing"? Producers Held Misled" and "Inex perienced Boys as Farm Agents De rided" are two of the headlines in viting the reader's attention to a criticism of the custom of giving agricultural college graduates posi- ions as farm agents and Industrial club leaders. Very clearly the infer ence is that the positions nayned are filled by young men fresh from col lege, who could serve humanity better by following the plow than by giving out half-baked advice on everything but the important matter of market ing farm produce. The inference is so out of harmony with the facts that to permit it to go unchallenged might impair the use fulness of an important public service. The agricultural agent in Judge Stapleton s own county is 35 years of age, and 10 years have passed since he received his college diploma. The neighboring county agent in Clacka mas county is 40 years old. He had farmed nine years in- -Washington county before he assumed hia present duties, and it has been 18 years since he occupied the rostrum with his fel low graduating class. The man who has been county agent in Douglas county for the last two years has son in a sold'er's grave in France and grandchildren on the old home place in Lane county. Twenty of the 24 men in county agent service in Ore gon at the present time have passed their thirtieth birthday. Fifty per cent of them are past 35 years, and on the average they have been out of college nine and a half years. In the entire service there are only two young men just graduated from col lege. The above facts represent the pol icy of the Oregon Agricultural col lege with reepect to employing well trained, experienced and mature men as county agents and leaders in boys and girls' club work. Furthermore, selections are made in consultation with leading farmers occupying posl tions on the executive boards of the various county farm bureaus. The county agents and those who are co-operating with them in farm bureau work are devoting effective effort to solving the marketing problem, and it is to be regretted that an attack-upon thia very service should be made in connection with an appeal for more generous support of the co-operative movement among farmers. PAUL V. MARIS, Director Extension Service, Oregon Agricultural College. Only Railroads Benefit, PORTLAND, Sept. 24. (Td the Edi tor.) -Can you tell me, in view of the Pullman company's having just de clared a surplus for the year of over $3,000,000 after paying taxes and divi dends, why it was necessary to grant them advance fares of approximately SO per cent? SUBSCRIBER. The recent advance in rates does not affect the Pullman company's revenues. The Increase In sleeping car rates goes to the railroad com panies. Ports of Immigration. SHERIDAN, Or., Sept. 23. (To the Editor.) Please give the names of the ports of entry for immigration on the Pacific coast. A READER. Both white and Chinese Immigrants may enter at the following ports: San Diego, Los Angeles, San Fran cisco, Astoria, Portland, Seattle, Ta coma. Port Townsend and Bellingham. The last three are not ports of entry") for Chin&ea. Those Who Come and Go. In the legislative session of 1909. Senator Frank J. Miller of Albany wan on of tha hitter oDDOnents of the state normal school appropriations. For years the normal school appropri ations had played an important part in legislation, even having an influ ence on the election of candidates for the United States senate that being before people of Oregon elected the senators by direct vote. The log rolling of the normal school politi cians was put an end to in the 1909 session, partly through the efforts of Senator Miller. Now Senator Miller is a member of the board of directors of the Monmouth normal school and was in Portland yesterday attending a meeting of the committee which is in charge of a new building to be erected. "But." explained senator Miller, reverting to 190'J. "1 was op posed then to having a number of normals and I am of the same opinion today. When Monmouth cannot take care of its applicants, then 1 will favor the establishment oi anotner state normal." , They miss the glass-bottom boats, the submarine gardens, the souvenir peddlers, the raucus cries of Aoatmen and the tourists who arrive and de part by boat every few hours, do Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Wilkie at the Hotel Oregon, but in Portland they have found good substitutes in beautiful residential gardens and unsurpassed scenery. The Wilkles are from Ava lon, which is the one and only settle ment on Santa Catalina, an island about 20 miles off the California coast. Although Catalina island is far beyond the three-mile limit, wnicn is supposed to be where the jurisdic tion tn tTnited States terminates. Catalina is listed as part of California and is governed by the laws of that state. The island has been recently purchased by a man wno oecamo millionaire because the American peo pie bought hia chewing gum. Thev tell a story of C. C. Kelly, as- io,m cmte hlrhwav engineer, wnen hn wa.s in France. There was plenty of rain in France, as a million or two former service men will attest. ' Kelly had some men struggling to get up equipment, supplies or something, and they were working in the drenching rain and floundering in the mud. Finally one of the buck privates went to Kelly and sal he simply couldn't stand working in the rain any longer. "WrierA'rl vou come from in the states?" demanded Kelly. "Oregon." ncnrsr-ori ihs nrivate. "Then get back on the job." ordered Kelly. "If you lived in Oregon you know that it doesn't know how to rain in France, and a little moisture won't hurt a webfoot." Engineer Kelly is rec-lstered at the Imperial and com ments in passing that the present rains are not helping the road work just now. Once upon a time when Joe Knowles came to town everyone was talking ihnni him.. He registered at the Multnomah yesterday and didn't cre ate a ripple of excitement. Joe Knowles broke onto the front page of the newspapers as a "nature man" and he specialized in enter ing the Oregon forests au natural and nomine- out again a few weeks later wearing clothing of skins which he made himself from ani mals which he trapped. Tarzan of fiftion had nothing on Joe Knowles but just because Mr. Knowles dem onstrated that a man could go into the forest without even a match and live for several weeks, there has Deen no stampede among "the consumers to adopt this system of circumvent ing the hitrh cost of living. Air Knowles is now . a resident of bea view. Wash. None the worse for wear after crossing the continent in an automo bile. Mr. and Mrs. Paul Smith reg intered at the Hotel Portland yester day with maid and chauffeur. The nuartet will travel into Californi from the Rose City and swing DacK to Manhattan via the southern roads. Transcontinental travel in motor cars was considered quite an event a few years ago, but scarcely a day passes now that several parties do not ar rive here from the Atlantic coast- William Galloway heads anotner mo tor party which signed the Hotel Portland book yesterday. This group journeyed from Waterloo, Iowa. Warren G. Harding will be visited by a well-known Oregonian within, a few days. Colonel David M. Dunne, veteran republican, and tor aDout m years collector of interanl revenue fnr the ureeon oistnct. lett last ihkiii for the east. He carries a letter of in troduction to Senator Harding and will assure the candidate that Hard ing and Coolidge haye trie live elec toral votes of Oregon as good as in their vest pocket already, coronei Dunne will continue to West Point where he has a son at the military academy. . We've got just as wet weather in Astoria as you have in Portlano, was the asurance brought to the Mo tel Washington by Ray Wimbler, who is a produce dealer in the seaport at the mouth of the Columbia river. There are more hip rubber boots wnrn in Astoria than in any other town in Oregon; probably more than. In all the other towns. This demand for the hip boots in Astoria is not due to the rains, but to the thousands of fishermen who make Astoria their headquarters. Boots are about as es sential to a fisherman a3 the gear itself. "We're getting thlnsrs ready as fast us we can. huskily said Kusseu mw kins of Kilches Point, who is regis tered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Hawkins had reference to the big sawmill which is at Garibaldi Cove on the Tillamook bay. A large and extensive wharf is being bult along the edge of the bay from which ves sels can be loaded. Mr. Hawkins is a member of th Tort of Bay City commission, as well as being In the lumber business. To study the workmen's compensa tion law in Oregon and get first-hand information from the Oregon com mission, the members of the state in dustrial commission of Minnesota have arrived in Portland. The visitors are registered fct the Hotel Washing ton. Those present are: John H. Le- vine and J. M. McGrath of fat. ra.ul, and W. J. Knowland and.W. C. Nor ton of Minneapolis. There are more millionaires to the unna.ro Inch in Tulsa, Okia.. than any other town in this or any other country. It s the oil. ui course, not everyone in Tulsa is a millionaire, explains Dr. M. P. Springer, who is at the Multnomah with Mrs. Springer but those who are not expect to be and many of them will have their hopes realized. W. F. Bold of Bonanza ls a hard ware merchant registered at the Im perial. Bonanza doesn't have more than a 100 people or thereabouts, but is a good shipping point for cattle. It Is located on Lost River, 25 miles east of Klamath Falls. An old-timer in Chewaucan valley is Virgil Conn, ex-postmaster at Paisley and once upon a time a mem ber of the legislature. Every so often Mr. Conn comes to Portland and he is now registered at the Imperial. Donald E. Conn, traffic manager for the Shevlln-Hicks company of Minneapolis, is registered at the Benson. S. R. Sinne. who operates a cine- matograph palace at Bend. Or., is among the arrivals at the Imperial. MORAL, PLUS PHYSICAL, FORCE Power Behind Law Is Required to Make It Effectual. PORTLAND, Sept. 24. (To the Ed itor.) As summed up from Mr. Cox's speeches at Portland and other places the democratic party nolds that the Wilson league of nations Is a failure In Europe, that conditions are chaotic over there, and that it will take the moral force of the United States to stabilize conditions. Hence the neces sity of the ratification of the league by, the United States. This ls not original with Mr. Cox; it Is in fact the Wilsonian idea. The republican party agrees with Mr. Cox that Wilson's league, which was made in Europe, is a failure, that conditions are chaotic, but it holds that it will take the physiral force of the United States to remedy present conditions overseas. In a few words, this is the real differ ence between the two parties. In the world's history what have these two forces accomplished? First, how will we measure a nation's moral force? By its population? If so, then China must exercise the greatest moral force in the civilized world. By its wealth? No. Then how? Why, by what it has accom plished and can accomplish. What has Uncle Sam's moral forces ac complished within our own borders, within our league of states? Why, every petty thief, every outlaw, re sists and defies this thing you call moral force. Does Cox clothe his policemen with the majesty of the law? Yes, and he puts a hickory club and a revolver In the peace of ficer s hands, and the thief or law breaker surrenders, not to the moral force, but to the physical force. Does our next-door national neigh bor stand in awe of the great moral force of Uncle Sam? Has that so- called omnipotent moral force saved the lives of American citizens who have perished by the hundreds in a time of peace? If. then, our moral force cannot settle domestic troubles. oes not reach across the boundary line of Mexico how It will stop the strife between England and Ireland, how satisfy the Italian with the set tlement of the Flume question, how stop the red army that is storming the forts of civilization? When David went out to meet the giant Goliath he said,' "Thou comest to me with a sword and with staves, but I come to thee in the name of the Ood of Israel." Did he then sit down and adopt a watchful waiting policy, to see this moral force slay the giant, or did he use all the physi cal force he had In hurling his smooth stone? Moral force as between moral na tions may and does exert an influ ence, but the history of the world proves that it never gets us anywhere unless accompanied by physical force. Stop the building of battleships, as Governor Cox proposes to do. and the moral force of the United States sinks to the level of China. The republican party is right. Moral force must be backed up by physical force. Behind every effec tual law there must be a law giver with power to enforce law. and the mere fact of the United States rati fying the league will not Insure peace in Europe. Some people who claim to be pro gressives, but who In reality are only fifth cousins to progress, would have us shut our eyes to historical facts. They try to explain to us that Eu rope is only 15 hours away, when our recent experience in transport ing an army proved to us that we were a long 3000 miles distant. They ask us the question, will we keep the faith? Did America ever falter in her duty to the nations of the world? Sure we will keep faith. We will save our boys from participa tion in European wars, reserving the right voluntarily to help In our own way. Our mission is on the western hemisphere, a greater than the senate separated us from Europe. J. S. McMURTRY. Stntute of Limitation. PORTLAND, Sept. 24. (To the Kdi- tor.) 1. Can a grocery bill be col lected after six years' standing, or is it outlawed? 2. Can the man be sued and made to pay? A REAUEK. 1. If six years have elapsed since the last item was purchased and the debtor has not in the meantime done anything to halt the running of the law against It. the account is "out lawed." 2. The "outlawing" of an account does enable the debtor to sit down nd forget his troubles. He can be sued, and to avoid payment of his debt he must affirmatively eet out in his answer and prove in court that the action is barred by law. Uncle Sam's Gatekeepers Sort Human Freight With the resumption of foreign traffic in Tortland, Oregon, the envied, Portland the peaceful are drawing the eyes of the country. De Witt Harry, in The Sunday Oregonian tomorrow, gets to the root of the explanation in a clear, concise accounting of how Uncle Sam's gatekeepers sort human freight in this district and so hold radicalism in check. In an informative way Mr. Harry tells of im migration inspectors who deal exclusively in rights and privileges of human beings and of how Uncle Sam's guardians watch foreign pas senger ships for undesirable aliens. When a Woman Is 40 Are marriage and business likely to be closed to the woman of forty unless she is happily wedded or finan cially independent? A woman writer who has made a country wide investigation of conditions avows in The Sunday Oregonian that woman's old problem is more puzzling than ever. The tremendous social and economic upheaval which has thrown woman into compe tition with man in industrial and political as well as domestic circles has made the problem of the forty-year-old woman assume broader and more serious aspect. Here Is Latest Dance It is a poor season indeed which sees no new dance created and added to the list. An authority, Arthur Murray, has invented a new one and tells about it, with illustrations, in Sunday's magazine. After trotting, tangoing, limping, walking, gliding, sinking, dipping and jazzing through a dozen seasons, dancers have now taken up the new gait, Mr. Murray's creation, called "The College Rock." An Amazing Love Tangle A special writer, Frank Dallam, re veals a remarkable story of love, riches, hate, intrigue, retribution and penance, showing how Pierre Mortissac suddenly disappeared from gayest Paris and is now doing penance as a monk. The woman in the case was Mata Hari, a beautiful dancer, condemned and exe cuted by French soldiers as a spy. Their amazing love tragedy i3 one of the interesting stories in tomorrow's paper. Woman Who Is Winning Fame The widow of Louis Saint Gaudens is a picturesque figure, of Quaker stock, who is translating her messages into imperishable marble. A forcibly written and compelling account of her life and work in her home, an old shaker meeting house transformed into a studio-home, is told by a corre spondent, with illustrations of sculpture and pottery made by Mrs. Saint-Gaudens. Close-up of John Kcndrick Bangs An intimate sketch of John Kendrick Bangs is given in a delightfully entertaining interview in which he talks on free speech, the peace "muss," writers and the un repentant Hun and his works. Many Other Features Special features in the big section de voted to automobile news includes an authentic and personally con ducted trip through the Columbia's rugged gateway to The Dalles, illustrated handsomely by Lair H. Gregory, who also takes the pictures which illustrate his articles. Other features which compel interest are the sections devoted to churches, books and women's activities, the big society section and the discussions of the drama, music and motion pictures and the big sporting section all in The Sunday Oregonian. More Truth Than. Poetry. By James J. Montague. TROTZKY AD LEMMS, From Azov's frozen border To Poland's boundary line They're brinVingr law and order. Are Trotzky and Lenine. The hicrh ideals that fill 'era No turbulence can stem. If people kick they kill 'em, And that's the last of them- Well may the people heed 'em. When fervently they cry, "You need the brand of freedom That only we supply. In etiil enslaved dominions The luckless subject cowers To other men's opinions. But you can cringd to ours! "You buy the goods we sell you Without a growl or kick; You do just what we tell you. And do it mighty quick. And while we reign re.pendent You thank your kindly fates, , That you are not dependent On haughty potentates" Within all Russia's border There eoon would be once mor9 A state of law and order. Excepting: for the war. And thus the propagation Of freedom will be spread. Till all the population Is either free or dead. The High Cot of Education. Experience is an expensive school, but it isn't a marker to a modern political primary. Round to Come. Now they are making fireless fire works. A nation accustomed to kick less drinks will stand for anything. It'M n Habit. Even airplanes slow up when Mr. Burleson puts the mails on "em. (Copyright, 1920, by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-Firf Yran Ajro. From The Orpgonian of Scptempr 25, Salem. Friends of Willamette uni versity are airitatini: the question of bringing the school's medical depart ment here, since it has been voted to , discontinue, the school in Portland. Thft Oregon annual conference ot the Methodist Episcopal church con vened yesterday at the Taylor-Street Melhodbst church. Members of the Manufacturers' as sociation of the northwest, to the number of 70 or Sn. will gro to the state fair at Salem Thursday by spe cial train. The county court will today decide the question of continuance and re pair of the Stark-street ferry, in answer to .the petitions of property owners. THAT PF.STF.HINO PEST. The clock struck six, I reared upright. My hair disheveled from the nisht. And then as though from heaven borne, A voice proclaimed "It's Sunday morn." Oh. blessed thought, oh, joy supreme, I settled back to eleep and dream. When I relaxed in semi-doze, A sticky fly lit on my nose. I shimmied weirdly with my face. The fly stuck bravely to his place. I blew a sudden peevish blast. He clung like sailor to the mast. My hand shot out. my aim was true. My nose is now a fiery hue. Again he came with hateful zip And landed boldly on my lip. And then he'd buzz and hum and peer. Right in the caverns of my ear. He'd sing and preen and exercise. By jumping creases round my eyes. I diil not laugh nor squirm iu glee At all his stunts to tickle me. I was not filled with Sabbath calm, N'or sang my heart a soothing psalm. I did not pray, 1 swore in fact. And fixed to do no Christian act. I rose in stealth, I smote with hate. To kill and to annihilate. I grinned in glee: the Cly was crushed. His sticky buzz forever hushed. And then as peace stole through my frame. His brother came his brother came. WILLIAM VAX GROOS. Price linn tJonr l"p. Washington ( L. C.i Star. "The farimr is no longer depicted with havseed in his hair." "I should say not!" said Mr. Corntosscl. "Hay seed is too valuable a necessity just noi- to bo used merely as an article of personal adornment. 1 A