THE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1920
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LET CJiCLE SAM PAT IT.
The trains steaming their way to
San Francisco on certain teeming
epring days. 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
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.-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
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i iaic run uuuiuubsiun snouici not pay
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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.
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