THE 'MORNING OREGONIAX, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1920
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!TAUI.IS1RD BY HENRY I FITTOCK.
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KiXWtO!( FAME.
The proudest youngsters in all Or
egon this week no doubt are Lester
Lynch, of Estacad-a, eleven years old,
and Miss Dorothy Briggs, of Hermis
ton, fifteen years old, two prize win
ners of the state fair. Master Lynch,
It seems, has won the state cham
pionship in "open class competi
tion," mind you for Chester White
pigs. Miss Brings, incredible as it
may seem when one considers her
tender years, stood second among all
entrants in boys' and girls' in
dustrial club livestock judging. The
winning of these important honors
by two children are excellent signs
of the times, and so are the enthusi
asm they inspired and the pride that
their neighbors and friends take In
them. We see in it all a healthy in
dication that the sense of values is
returning to normal, and that the
industrial balance is being restored.
It was a genius surely who first
conceived the idea that it would be
worth while to enlist the boys and
girls in food production. The boys'
and girls' pig clubs, like the boys'
and girls' corn clubs and others of
the same sort, were among the pi
oneer agencies to recognize the value
of inspiring a youth by giving him
an incentive. They struck, perhaps,
at the very heart of existing dissatis
faction with life on the farm. In
our search for the reason why the
younger generation moves to town as
soon as it is old enough to declare
its choice, we had too much disre
garded the now patent fact that the
boy or the girl was apt tq be
treated with little or no considera
tion. The endless round of "chores,"
In which the youngster could have
no interest because they inspired in
him no creative ambition,, only
deadened hope. The precise age at
which the child begins to develop
desire to do things with a definite
aim cannot be determined, but it is
probably lower than most parents
have supposed. And the spirit of in
dependence, which in the city youth
finds outlet in a thousand ways, and
which corresponds rather definitely
with the desire for freedom in the
elders, has always been held in check
In a rural environment.
It is with no idea of making a
plaything of the serious business of
agriculture that boys' and girls' clubs
are being encouraged, even to the
extent of paternal subsidy, in en-
lightened communities. The boy
whose eight-weeks-old pig is his very
own, to do with as he pleases and to
convert to his own ultimate profit
and pleasure, has a sense which is
even better than the sense of pro
prietorship of personal responsibil- j
ity which is too rich an asset to be
neglected. Only the mentally inert
are wholly and hopelessly without
initiative, and it is the really sound
BnJ worth-while qualities in boys
that make them want to pull up
stakes and get into a game where
those talents count or are supposed
to count. We immeasurably in
crease the prospect of holding our
youths to the land by giving them at
the earliest possible moment a stake
In the business.
The "Pride of Multnomah" is well
named. Though bestowed on an In
fant pig, the designation is not in the
least overdrawn. Doubtless certain
factors, such as a good lineage, a
sound constitution and an excellent
digestion, contributed to the perfec
tion of this porcine prodigy. The
thing most to be proud of, however,
is that his proprietor is an eleven-year-old
boy, whose horoscope would
not be hard to read. He is destined,
we think, to grow into a successful
farmer, of the type who improves
his stock and tends it well and gets
a fair price for it and who doesn't
ask the government to make good
his losses in a season when he has
guessed wrong. .He will learn by
experience -even by his mistakes
and he will found a home and some
day rear children who will be taught
that farming is a profession . good
enough for anybody to follow.
The equally talented young woman
of fifteen wbo"also stands out among
the prize-winners is another symbol
of the new idea. To know good live
stock is to have mastered half the
secret of possessing it. The agricul
tural colleges have recognized, this
principle in the emphasis they place
on understanding of form, and it is
a gyood augury that the young folks
are being given a part in this most
Interesting phase of the game.
MENTIONED IN FOOTNOTES.
If the bureau of markets of the
department of agriculture does not
soon revise the arrangement of its
tables of grain exports, the footnotes
will soon occupy more space than
the tables themselves. It sets aside
columns for Boston, New York. Phil
adelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans
and Galveston. All other ports are
not considered worthy of special
mention and their exports are in
cluded in the total with a footnote
naming the port and the quantity.
In the tables of northern spring
wheat for the week ending August
14 the columns for all the ports
named are blank, but there is a total
of 47.000 bushels, as to which a
footnote reads:
Includes 47.000 bushels shipped from
Portland, Or.
For dark hard winter wheat No. 1
there is another row of blanks, but
the total shows 69,000 bushels with
a footnote:
Includes B9.00O bushels shipped from
Partiaod, Or.
The same is the case with No. 2
dark hard winter. Ther is 128,000
bushels in the total column, a foot
note explaining that all was shipped
from Portland.
The other ports do not begin to
figure till
we reach hard winter i
wheat.
All the ports named except
n shipped some of this
Galvesto
grade, the total being 792,000 bush
els. A footnote explains that Port
land shipped 76,000 bushels of this
total, much wore than either Boston
or Philadelphia. Portland was the
only port shipping on type sample,
for which the total was 369,000
bushels, but again the fact is shown
in a footnote. The grand total of
wheat exports for the week is 6,198,-
000 bushels, of which, another foot
note tells us, 690,000 bushels was
shipped from Portland, while Boston
shipped 132,000, New York 337,000,
Philadelphia 1,344.000, Baltimore
1.104.000, New Orleans 1,343,000.
Galveston 1.248,000.
In view of the unimportance to
which New York and Boston have
sunk and of the high position at
tained by Portland, it might be well
for the bureau of markets to omit
those minor ports from its tables and
to take Portland out of the footnotes.
SILENT WILLIAM J.
Two days have elapsed since Gov
ernor Cox, on his triumphant (more
or less) advent into the enemy's
country Nebraska made a pathet
ic reach for Mr. Bryan's gratitude
and support. It will be recalled that
the gentle and forgiving candidate
poured coals of fire on Mr. Bryan'B
noble head, by paying a touching
tribute to his "influence for good,"
reminding him also that he (Cox)
had supported him (Bryan) in three
campaigns, and solemnly declaring
that he would have done the same
this year if Bryan had been the
nominee. Further no man could or
should go, as the agile politician
said when he was rebuked for bolt
ing his ticket after a previous pledge
that he would stand pat, even if a
yellow dog should be nominated.
"Yes," he said, "yes, I did, and I
would; but I'll go not an inch
farther."
Now of course Mr. Bryan is no
yellow-dog candidate; but it is the
solemn truth that he has put the
loyalty of the democracy through
more than one severe test, Mr. Cox
feels hurt. He Is a very sensitive
candidate, is Mr. Cox. He is willing
to injure the feelings of no fellow
democrat, however deserving or un
deserving. He reserves the thunders
of his vituperation and slander for
his opponents.
It is a fair assumption that Mr.
Bryan heard Mr. Cox's tearful ap
peal. But he remains silent. If he
should speak, what would he say,
in view of what he has said?
"After disgracing the state he
(Cox) aspires to a position in which
he would disgrace a nation," said
Mr. Bryan of the democratic nom
inee before the convention. He said
more things like it, but we refrain
from repeating them. The subject
is too painful.
WHO WON THE WART
The unfajling excuse of apologists
for unpreparedness for war is that
republicans were as much to blame
as democrats. They smooth over the
fact that the matter assumed a new
aspect in the summer of 1914, when
all Kurope became involved in war
Any man with the least foresight
knew then that there was danger of
this country's being drawn in, and
must have realized the danger of de
feat to the allies because Britain and
Russia were unprepared. The demo
cratic party was in full control of
the government, but President Wil
son and its other leaders opposed
every move for adequate prepared
ness. There were some honorable
exceptions like Lindley M. Garrison
whom Mr. Wilson expelled from the
war department to make way for the
pacifist Baker.
It was for persistence in unpre
paredness after war had begun that
the administration was criticized by
Theodore Roosevelt, General Wood,
the late A. P. Gardner and many
others who saw the danger. Still it
persisted. The consequences are
summed up in the final report of
General Pershing, who says
Our emtry in-to the war fo-u.no! us wftb
few of the auxiliaries necessary for its
conduct In the modern secse. The tank
of the ordnance department in supplying
artlllexy was especially difficult. In order
to meet our requirements as rapidly as
possible, we accepted the offer of the
French government to supply us with the
artillery equipment of T.w, J So mm
howitzers and 155 Q. P. V. guns from
their own factories for 80 divisions. The
wisdom of this course was fully demon
strated by the fact th-at, although we
soon began the manufacture! of these
classes of guns at home, there were no
guns of American manufacture of the
calibers mentioned on our front st ths
date of the armistice.
General Pershing goes on to say
that the only guns of American man
ufacture which reached France be
fore hostilities ceased were 109 75s,
24 eight-inch howitzers and eight 14-
inch naval guns.
General Pershing also says:
In aviation we were entirely deoenden
on our allies, and here again the French
government came to our aid until our
own programme could be set under way.
in tne matter or tanks we were corn'
pellea to rely on both the French and
the English. Here, however, we were less
tortunate, ror the -reason that our allle:
barely had sufficient tanks to meet the!
own requirement.
Then what did the democratic
party actually do to put the array in
the field and to equip it? President
Wilson recommended the selective
draft, but the charman of the house
military committee, Mr. Dent, op-
posea, ana air. ivahn, a republican
procured the insertion of that pro
vision in the war army bill. The
operation of the bill was effected bv
non-partisan draft boards composed
of citizens, by General Crowder and
other officers of the army, whose
position was not due to their party
affiliation. The democratic party
did not procure the men for the
army. That was the only part o
war preparation at home which was
not carried out by the democratic
politicians, and it was the only part
that was done efficiently.
Democratic officials conducted th
building of army camps under th
cost-plus system. They cost $1,200
000,000, of which $480,000,000 was
wasted.
They delayed large contracts fo
machine guns until September, 1917
and. Assistant Secretary of Wa
Crowell says that "at the beginning
of 1918 nine months after we en
tered war "our machine gun man
ufacture was well under way." To
that date we had procured only 7508
but we then put on speed and pro
duced to the end of 1918 226,557.
The administration fiddled away
almost the whole summer of 1917 in
deciding on designs for a service
rifle, so that to August 1 it made
only 16,666 Sprtngfields, and it did
not regin to produce Brownings till
August 24. From that date it was
up to the manufacturers, and the re
sult was a total production to the
end of 1918 of 2,606,307.
We thus had a great army or-
ganized, under a law that was due to
the initiative of a republican, by vol
unteer citizens of both parties and
by army officers. The war depart-
ment procured clothes, bedding and
shelter, also rifles and machine guns
in time for action after we had been
at war a year. The shipping board
was so slow in building ships that
the allies carried more than half of
ur men across the Atlantic.
They fought and they won, but
they had few American weapons dc
sides small arms and machine guns.
For the rest artillery, airplanes and
tanks they depended on the allies.
Yet the democratic campaign text
book contains this positive declara
tion in large type:
The democratic administration -won the
sr. ami therein lies its fault In the eyes
of republican leaders. ,
In the light of the facts above
stated, it is apparent, that, if the
rray had depended on the resources
which the administration provided
only about half as many men would
have reached France as actually
crossed the Atlantic and they would
ave had few arms beyond rifles and
machine guns with which to face the
intense German artillery fire, gas,
grenades, bombs and aircraft fire.
Then if he army under demo
cratic administration had had to
fight Germany alone, without aid
rom allies, who would have won the
war?
ON AND OFT THE FRONT PORCH.
Mr. Harding is off the front porch.
but he may be glad to get back. For
it must be admitted that the front
porch has vindicated itself. Or, per
haps it would be more nearly correct
to say that Mr. Cox has vindicated it.
So far, Mr. Harding has made no
mistak.es by his adventure in Mary
land and. West Virginia. . But you
never, can tell. Mr. Cox seizes his
admission that he has no construc
tive programme for the league of
nations as a fatal weakness. We
doubt it. Mr. Cox has a panacea for
everything. Mr. Harding, when in
doubt, will think it over, and consult
with others. Mr. Harding is candid;
Mr. Cox strives hard to appear can
did: but he Isn't.
Mr. Harding treats his opponent
with courtesy when he mentions him.
which is not often; 'Mr. Cox is con
temptuous, insulting, vituperative.
ugly, when he speaks of Mr. Hard
ing, which is quite often. Mr. Hard-
ng has a becoming dignity which
fits the public ideal of a president;
Mr. Cox has no dignity, which of
fends the general sense of the pro
prieties for a candidate.
Great crowds turn out to see and
hear Mr. Cox, because he is a candi
date for president. They are fired
by only a mild enthusiasm, and are
left in doubt about the quality of
the man and the effectiveness of his
campaign; or, when they are not in
doubt, the verdict is adverse. Greater
crowds greet Mr. Harding, because
he is a candidate for president and
because he is commonly believed to
be the winner. They agree that he
looks, acts, talks like a president,
and are pleased. Harding grows in
the public confidence and respect;
Cox does not-
As to the front porch and its vir
tues, much depends on the occupant.
If he be a little man, it is well to
keep him there, and cultivate by art
ful propaganda the notion among
faithful partisans . and any others
that he is a big man. If he be a big
man. he cannot decrease in stature
by staying and he may not gain by
going. But again if he be a big
man or a little man the public is
ikely to recognize it whether he goes
or stays.
THE TARIFF AS AN ISSUE.
A certain amount of bias was to
have been expected in the demo
cratic campaign textbook, but we
might reasonably have expected care
not to make bald misstatements
which would be instantly disproved
by reference to the documents to
which they refer. That is the offense
into which the democrats have been
led in statement of republican tariff
policy by blind confidence in their
ability to deceive the people. Their
textbook contains this paragraph:
The Chicago platform abandons the tar
iff question as an issue. That platform
embraces no more amusing pleasantry than
the admission that there is neither neces
sity nor Justification for revision of the
tariff. For fear, however, that the pluto
cratic oenef tclarles of protection may be
come Indifferent to republican success and
forget or refuse to make campaign contrl
buttons, the platform reaffirms adherence
to the principle of tariff protection.
This is what the republican plat
form says of the tariff:
The uncertain and unsettled condition of
International trade balances, the abnormal
economic trade situation of the world
and the Impossibility of forecasting ac
curately even the near future preclude the
formulation of a definite programme to
meet conditions a year hence. But the
republican party reaffirms its belief in
the protective principle, and pledges Itself
to a revision of the tariff as soon as con
ditions shall make It necessary for the
provision of a home market for American
labor, agriculture and Industry.
That is no anandonment of the
tariff question as an issue. It is
frank reassertlon of the republican
policy, accompanied by an equally
frank admission that in the present
confused condition of world trade
the manner In which that principle
should be given effect cannot be de
cided. Trade conditions throughout
the world are changing rapidly, and
change will continue rapid and un
foreseen. For the republicans to
make promises which in the course
of a year it might prove impossible
or, in the interest of the country, un
wise to keep, would have been dis
honest. To have laid out a pro
gramme of action which might be
come impracticable within a year
would have raised just doubt of their
fitness to conduct the government.
Any tariff that is enacted In this
country must fit existing conditions
of foreign trade. That trade is in a
state of flux in consequence of the
war. It is by no means everywhere
settling back into old channels, but
Is forming new channels. New stand
ards have been made for cost of pro
duction and transportation, or they
are being made. Tariff rates must
be regulated by those costs, and the
protective principle permits wide
va-riation to accord with those costs.
The republican party could not
honestly have done mpre than re
affirm its faith in the protective
system and leave to future develop
ments the manner in which it shall
give that principle effect. ,
The weather in England during
the past summer has been colder
than that of Iceland, which is likely
to give rise to belief in both coun
tries to the effect that the "climate
is changing." Nothing is more te
nacious of life than the notion that
weather is no longer what it used to
be. Scientists explain it away, and
the first unusual manifestation re
vives it again. In Portland it will
be remarked that tomatoes do not
ripen in the open the way they used
to do, although only two years ago
there was an exceptionally favorable
tomato season. The ordinary meteor
ological data, are disregarded and
the exceptional are remembered un
til a new record is set, whereupon
everything else is forgotten. Yet only
a little reflection will convince the
local sharps that in Oregon at least
the weather is running true to form.
It rains as usual as prunes and hops
are ripening, as is its custom, and it
holds off for the state fair, just as,
according to The Oregonian of Sep
tember 29, 1895, it was doing pre
cisely 25 years ago.
LUNCH IN A PAPER BAG.
In letting it be known that he fre
quently carries his luncheon in a
paper bag to his office and eats it
there in order to discomfit, so far as
one man's simple act can do so, the
lunch-room profiteers of his city.
Mayor Peters of Boston lends the
weight .of an official position to a
propaganda that is as timely as the
kind-of thrift it exemplifies is per
sonal. Like the overalls crusade and
the sugar boycott, the carry-your-own-Iunch
movement must stand or
fall in accordance with public appre
ciation of the principle it symbolizes.
Nothing will be gained if the exam
ple is followed because a public of
ficial sets a fashion, or If it is con
fined to luncheon only. TheTe are
some thousand ways in which thrift
can be practiced, both with individ
ual profit and with confusion to the
makers of extortionate prices, and
whenever buyers are sufficiently im
pressed with the foolishness of think
ing economy shameful they will have
the remedy largely in their own
hands.
The point is that no merchant is
to be blamed for setting a high price
on an article if experience seems to
have shown him that his customers
would a little rather pay more than
s. The consumer who sniffs at
the "cheap" and who acts as if
thrift were fit only for those beneath
him. In the social scale is pretty sure
to be accommodated in his desire to
get rid of his shekels in the shortest
possible time. It should not be for
gotten that the very word "profiteer'
fls of recent coinage, and that until
only the other day it was universally
held a sign of merchandising ability
to be able to ask high prices and
get them. Now -that we have en
couraged profiteering and have, in
deed, played into its hands, we for
get sometimes that we can defeat it
almost as easily as we created it, by
the simple process of applying thrift
to every buying transaction.
It is eaey to visualize the effect of
universal adoption of the practice of
the Boston mayor. Not on lunch
rooms alone, for the man who has
the sand to carry his lunch probably
will muster up courage to be thrifty
in other things. The paper-bag
luncheon, as we have suggested.
the symbol only. But nothing coul.l
stop the downward trend of the cost
of living if the Peters principle were
widely recognized. So long as there
are customers to buy without ques
tioning quality or price, there will
be found sellers waiting for them.
The chief drawback about Cox's
profusion with promises Is not so
much that he makes them but that
he makes them on behalf of a party
which has recently played that game
and been found out. The democrats
won on their promises in 1912, and
were called on to make good. That
was the first . time they had won,
therefore the first time they had
had to make good, though they were
always liberal with promises.
Twenty, even 16, years is a' long time
in politics, long enough for people
to forget. But the promises of 1912
and 1916 lie scattered, broken, all
over the map. They are fresh in the
people's minds, for the consequences
of their breach is still acutely felt.
It is the wrong year for a democrat
to win on promises.
No mercy is due to the crooked
players who befouled the national
game, but no punishment can be too
severe for the crooked gambler who
bought them and then double
crossed them. Deportation to Mos
cow would be appropriate but that
he would find himself among men
of his own kind and might soon
bloom out as commissar of some
thing or other. It might be better
to send him on the diamond to take
the whipping whenever the crowd
mobs the umpire.
Conditions in Chicago are so bad
that tanks and armored cars are to
be used to convey money for payrolls
to factories and shops. Yet the auto
bandits will find a way to beat them,
for crime usually is a leg ahead of
prevention.
An autoist on the Linnton road
the other day hit a man who was
hazing a bunch of cows, but it will
be observed he hit no cows. The
autoist knows how to hit.
The shipping board has cut its
payroll more than five millions, a
little more than 2 0 per cent. Reduc
ing a force that an "easy" govern
ment pays is a hard job.
The rankest and rawest egotist is
the man who makes moonshine. He
believes he can get away with it,
though he knows the keenest
"hounds" will trail him.
- The humble flivver may not be
the fastest car on the road, 'but
Henry certainly sets the pace in
naming what automobile prices shall
be.
Speaking of reducing, the woman
with a perfect 46 wishes the papers
would tell of something practical in
stead of prices of autos.
Homer Cummings and McAdoo
are to talk in California, but the
Crolden state follows Hiram this
year.
You may lead the grocer to the
milk bottle, but you cannot compel
him to sell it unless he gets bis
price.
Buildings in Portland to be blown
up within 20 days! Let not every
body stay at home on that account.
This is Portland day at Salem and
even the late arrival will find him
self where he would be.
If you have not anything to show
at Gresham next week, arrange to
show yourself.
It now appears to tie the turn of
the sugar speculators to sweeten the
pot.
sugar is zaiung, Dut it s . still a
long, long way from where it started
up.
If this weather does not give one
the state fair fever, he Is immune.
Stars and Starmakers.
By Leone Cass Baer.
Charles P. Salisbury r in Portland j
In advanr,. or Mr-Inlvra and Heath who
will be here in their latest New York
musical revue called "Hello, Alexan
der." Mr. Salisbury had charge of the
cantonment theater ' at Camp Lewis
during the war. In the Mclntyre an-d
Heath show is one of Sophie Tucker's
many protegees, a clever little maid
named Chick Barrymore, whose danc
ing is sensational. Miss Tucker dis
covered her in Chicago in a small
vaudeville act and promptly took the
very youthful Barrymore child under
her wing. Last season Miss Barry
more was featured the Mclntyre-
tieath revue and all along the road
tour reviewers sing the praises of her
dancing.
-
A feminist note, or rather two fem
inist notes were struck when the
Murray sisters, who have played here
In vaudeville had an altercation with
a man in their audience at Walth&m,
Mass., a week ago and had 16 weeks
of their time canceled. Later the
time was restored to them. It seems
that while the two girls were playing
some youths who occupied box seats
became unruly and passed remarks
which one of the sisters resented.
She retaliated by striking the insulter
over the head with a cane they were
using in the number. Following this
the act was canceled, by the manage
ment but a full week's salary paid the
team.
Upon reports from the house man
ager Mr. Albee ordered the future
time of the act. amounting to about
IS weeks, canceled. The matter was
finally aired at headquarters and the
time restored after the act had been
warned not to take matters of that
nature into its own hands.
i
Harry Bulger is having George
Ade's "A Night of the 4th" re-written
into a musical version for his own
use next season. Mr. Bulger appeared
in- the original farce several years
ago. He starts his vaudeville tour
next week in a vehicle written by
Billy Jerome and himself In which
he will be assisted by his son. Harry
Bulger, Jr.
"So This Is a Restaurant?" is the
title of a new sketch the Foy family
will use this season.
Marie Cahill is coming out in a new
vaudeville act.
Mayo Methot isn't in the bill "Pen
rod" at the Baker next week, and so
she is vacationing this week while
the others rehearse. Mayo is just at
an age and size where she Is too
voung for a very big girl and too big
for one of the children in the play,
and not old enough to be put into a
character role. 7.'uesday she went to
Salem with, friends to see the fair and
every other day she is going horse
back riding, a form of exercise of
which she Is very fund.
Frank McGettigan, manager of the
Orpheum, accompanied by Mrs. Mc
Gettigan, attended the Pendleton
Round-up. Guests with them were
Robert Stevens, former sheriff, and
Archie Leonard.
A violent lurch of the Lusltania, the
Ill-fated, on which Harry Coleman
made a voyage across the Atlantic on
one of her early trips helped him to
complete the idea he had partly for
mulated for making the walking dolls
which he uses ip his act at Pantages
this week. For nearly a dozen years
he had been experimenting with clock,
work and mechanical devices to make
dolls walk. He Is known nation
wide as a ventriloquist and the popu
larity of his work is attributed by
managers to the fact that he changes
his act constantly, adding fresh ma
terlai and timely topics for his wood
en dollies to discuss. He was not
satisfied with the jerky mechanical
way his automatons walked, and he
spent hours working on new devices.
Then one day he lurched hfs body
with the swing of the ship from side
to side, and quick as a flash the
idea was born for a walking doll with
not mechanism, but working on a law
of balance. Now he has a big fac
tory turning out flocks of dolls, and
two seasons ago he retired to look
after the business. Then the lure of
the theater called again, and he h
returned, bringing along his clever
and talented wife, professionally
known as Miss Ray. With a group
of walking dollies which talk when
ever Mr. Coleman doesn't talk, the ven
triloquist and his pretty wife are at
tracting attention at Pantages. On
Saturday afternoon every little maid
going into the matinee will be given
numbered ticket and six lucky
numbers will draw eix lovely walking
dollies.
Alice Lloyd and herhuerband, Tom
McNaughton. have returned to their
home in England. They were offered
dozen engagements over here, in
cluding a starring together in "Flor
adora," revived by the Shuberts. Mc
Kaughton sailed home to recover
from a severe neryous breakdown.
and his wife accompanied him.
Belle Bennett, who replaces Muriel
Martin Harvey in the leading role of
"Happy Go Lucky" at the Booth
theater in New York, is a newcomer
to Broadway. She has just com
pleted a long engagement with the
Alcazar stock company in San Fran
cteco.
The rumor is current that Willard
Mack is engaged to be married to
Barbara Castleton,. the film and legit
actress. They have been seen to
gether very much of late and the
friends of both, while unable to con
firm the report officially, seem to
think the matter Is settled. The first
Mrs. Mack was Maude Leone, the
second was Marjorie Rambeau. the
third was Pauline Frederick. The
latter, by the way, wired "the com
mittee" at Pendleton that she would
be among those present at the Round
up, but after a series of telegrams
were sent to ascertain the hour o
her arrival and every provision made
for her reception and comfort the
committee was informed that she had
changed her mind.
Maude Fulton is coming to Portland
in "The Humming Bird," which she
wrote.
The 'William H. Powell who is scor
ing heavily in "Spanish Love" is
Pittsburger by birth, and played ju
venlles a few seasons ago at the Baker
here. His wife is Aileen Wilson.
Those Who Come and Go.
"California highway commissioners
were in our town recently. says
JUage UUiene or JC.sepn.no uouuu,
' ...... ,i
and told of their plans as they af
fect Oregon. They said they intend
building a new grade from Gasquet
to the summit of Elk creek." The
present road is full of curves and
heavy gnades. It was built by a man
named Gasquet years ago, when he
had the contract for carrying the
mail, and when he didn't carry the
mail he charged toll, so the road was
a good investment for him. The Ore
gon commission can connect with the
Elk creek route with ease and have
a i per cent grade. There is a rumor
that the California commission
planned building a road down Klam
ath river to the sea. instead of im
proving the road from Crescent City
via Gasquet to Grants Pass. The bond
issue of California, however, allows
some 1400,000 for the Crescent City
road and more than a million for the
proposed Klamath river highway.
About noon Tuesday the state
highway commission sold $2,000,000
of highway bonds. Yesterday morn
ing, less than 24 hours later. J. G.
Richardson, deputy state treasurer,
arrived at the Hotel Oregon with the
bonds, all in denominations of $1000,
and-with nice little coupons attached.
Road work has been going so fast,
reports Mr. Richardson, that the
highway department has been run
ning the etate treasury ragged keep
ing enough money available to pay
the billa A number of jobs are ap
proaching completion, and this means
that the contractors are being paid
goodly chunks of money. Mr. Rich
ardson says the latest sale will not
keep the treasury supplied very long.
Although overcoats were popular
an-d there was, more rain than the na
tives expected, C. P. A. Lonergan of
Pendleton declares that the Round-up
last week was a great show, the best
yet staged in his home town. While
Mr. Lonergan didn't say it, others
state that the Pendleton people felt
miffed because a couple of movie
players announced their coming and
then didn't show up. The stage coach
was at the depot to escort the movie
queen who didn't arrive, and when a
film of the movie cowboy who also
canceled his date was flashed at one
of the theaters, the Round-up people
announced that they were "off him
for life." Mr. Lonergan is at the
Hotel Portland.
"Across the Umpqua river at Myr
tle creek the highway commission will
build a bridge which will be a com
bination of bridge'and overhead cros
sing. It may be either of steel or
concrete, for we are preparing plans
for both types and alternate bids
will be asked." said Bridge Engi
neer McCollough, of the state depart
ment. "On the cut-off, near Canyon-
vtlle. on the South Umqpua river,
there will be another bridge of two
spans. These are the two largest
bridges yft to be constructed on the
Pacific highway."
He Is roadmaster of Wallowa coun-
to, Is R. W. Kellogg, who Is registered
at the Imperial. Wallowa county has
fertile valley, long and narrow, , in
which Enterprise and Joseph are sit
uated, but what the county wants is
way "out" from this valley. Also
it wants to develop the road to Flora,
but its first anxiety is to have a
real road into Union county. Work on
this project will probably start next
spring.
There are no accommodations for
campers or visitors in Superior Na
tional park, but this defect is to be
remedied. Robert Prosser of Du
luth, has been making a survey of
camps and hotels in the Glacier. Yel
lowstone and Ypsemite parks to get
Ideas, and he plans the construction
of a number of camps anl hoteU in
the Superior park in Minnesota Mr.
Prosser registered at the Multnomah.
Captain A. W. Pierce, of the steam
er Memphis, a British boat, is at the
Multnomah. The Memphis is one oi
the British Control System, which
corresponds to the United States Ship.
ping Board. Under the direction of
the British system, the ships are as
signed to divisions. There are four
of these divisions in the Americas,
one of the west and east coasts of
North America, and similiar divisions
east and west of South America.
Headed for Lakevlew, Klamath
Falls. Silver Lake, Paisley and other
points in Oregon which are terra
Incognito to most residents ot tne
state. N. J. Sinnott checked out or Ahe
Imperial last night. The towns are
in the congressional district of Rep
resentative Sinnott. and he is making
the rounds to see what the conditions
are. Mr. Sinnott's district is larger
than some states.
Although long a resident of Seattle,
Miss Jean McAllister says she likes
Portland and is quye impressed with
the Rose City. Miss McAllister, who
has been a government employe in
Seattle and was one of the people who
had a narrow escape in the Lincoln
hotel fire, is registered at the Hotel
Washington.
Coquille flats. In Coquille valley.
Coos county, have suffered from the
incessant rains of this month. The
rains came before all the crops were
gathered and the rains beat the grain
to the ground. J. E. Paulson, of
Coquille, arrived at the Hotel Oregon
yesterday and was surprised to una
that the sun was shining.
To enter a horse in the races at the
state fair. J. D. Cole is on his way to
Salem. He Is registered at the Hotel
Portland. For the past 14 years Mr.
Cole has been a resident of Butte,
Mont., but prior to that time he lived
In Oregon, or made It his headquar
ters. Next month the Old Colony club
will open headquarters in the Mult
nomah, taking the Grey parlors.
About 200 Portlanders have been en
rolled. John T. Lane, field secretary,
has arrived to look after the opening
of this branch of the International
organization.
W. H. Wright, who manages the
restaurants In the Davenport, at
Spokane, Is at the Multnomah with
Mrs. Wright and Mrs. Guy Tombs,
who is the assistant manager of the
Davenport.
Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hover of Seattle
are at the Hotel Washington, driving
to California. Mr. Hover is in the real
estate business on Puget sound.
E. J. Sullivan, formerly clerk at the
Hotel Osborn. at Eugene, is at the
Hotel Washington.
Auditorium Settlement ' Urged.
PORTLAND. Sept. 29. (To the
Editor.) I - read with Interest Th
Oregonian of Sunday, the report of
the committee which was appointed
to investigate the auditorium matter.
I am not acquainted with Mr. Peter
son or either of his bondsmen, but
I have discussed the matter with
some of the architects of the city
who are familiar with the matter,
and had thus formed an impression
that there was merit in Mr. Peter
Bon's contention.
Now, that a board of prominent
citizens of this city. In whom I think
everyone has confidence, has re
ported that the city honestly and
fairly owes a part of the claim, I
hope that it will be accepted by both
sides, and ths matter ended. If Mr.
Peterson's claim is just, it is cer
tainly unfair that he should b kept
out of his money any longer.
S. B. HUSTON.
EVOLUTION IS HELD SETTLED
Diversity of Scientific Opinion Exists
Only as to Minor Details.
PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 29. (To the
Editor.) In the Oregonian there ap
pears a letter from L N. B. Anderson,
under the caption, "Is Hunt for the
Garden Sincere?" Your correspondent
endeavors to saddle on believers in
evolution responsibility for the ex
pedition which has as part of its pur
pose the finding of the described site
of the Garden of Eden. If there are
back of the expedition any evolution
ists, they are not interested in dis
proving the existence of such site, as
negative evidence would prove noth
ing to either party, but they must be
interested in really finding the site,
as such a discovery would go far to
refute the biblical statements, if their
theory is correct.
What your correspondent's letter
does prove is that he has a very
rudimentary knowledge of the sci
entific status of evolution. I have
long been connected with various
scientific societies here and abroad
and have yet to meet a thoroughly
trained and expert zoologist or pal
eontologist who does not believe in
evolution. No one who has studied
anatomy either of plants or animals
to any extent can have any reason
able doubt about the truth of evolu
tion in nature. The records of past
ages as depicted in the earth in the
various geological eras cannot be
doubted, and the lack of any geologi
cal evidence that there ever was a
general deluge should give pause to
persons who by making sweeping
statements such as your correspond
ent does injure their own cause more
than do those who are opposed to
them.
Your correspondent falls into the
error of believing that Darwin's
"theory" is evolution. No scientist
has, so far as I am aware, success
fully attacked the theory of evolution.
In fact, it is accepted as a fact. But
some of the attendant theories such
as. and particularly, the one called
"natural selection" as responsible for
the origin of species have been to
large extent discarded. It is not
evolution Itself which has been re
cently debated, but the causes thereof.
If your correspondent will go to the
trouble to look up the data he will
find that in genuine scientific circles
there Is practical unanimity with re
gard to evolution, but that in matters
of detail there is a great diversity of
opinion. That there is such diversity
is nothing against evolution any more
than the existence of so many differ
ent churches Is anything against
Christianity.
Even in agriculture evolution has
been proved, and one of those who
has done more to prove the mutation
of species than any other is the great
plant wizard. Burbank. bystemalic
workers In the natural sciences have
as one of their principal stumbling
blocks the separation of closely allied
species. In fact so closely allied are
some or the species that It is almost
impossible for even the specialist to
separate them. That each species is
a separate creation has long been dis
carded by scientists and tnat tnis
must apply to man as to other animals
must be apparent even to your cor
respondent, if he will but give It his
unbiased consideration. n ne oe
lieves man impossible of mutation.
how can he explain the various races
which exist and account for the dis
covery of the different types of pre
historic human remains in Europe
and America?
It were better if your correspond
ent let sleeping dogs lie, as by stir
ring up an agitation and argument ne
will bring into the field many who
know little of the subject in hand, but
who have a lot to say on it. and very
few there are who can enter Into a
discussion on this matter without
bias, especially when their ideas have
been very largely inherited or im
pressed upon them from their earliest
infancy. J. R. MALJX H.
Illinois Natural History Survey.
JEFFERSON AND BILL OF RIGHTS
Cox's Statement Defe-nded and fiover
nor tieer Dinputed.
PORTLAND, Sept. 28. (To the Ed
itor.) In The Oregonian a lew days
ago appeared a letter from ex-Gov
ernor Geer criticising Governor Cox
for an alleged misstatement and in
which it was said "misstatement" was
his middle name. The Btltement
that Governor, Cox had made was
that Jefferson wrote the bill of rights
Into the constitution. Governor Geer
says the. constitution was adopted in
1787 and that Jefferson was in France
at that time and did not return until
17S9; all of which is true, but the
bill of rights was not a part of the
original constitution.
The American bill of rights was
copied largely after the English and
is embodied in the first ten amend
ments to the constitution. These were
proposed by congress on the 25th
day of September, 1789. Jefferson
was appointed secretary of state Sep
tember 26, 1789. and the amendments
were not ratified until December 15.
1791. Jefferson had, years before,
procured the adoption by the Vir
ginia legislature of the one concern
ing religious liberty and some others,
and from his well-known opinions on
the subject we may be assured that
he supported and urged the adoption
of the entire ten amendments, while
Hamilton and the entire federalist
crowd opposed them.
JefferBon was accustomed to write
letters from France to his political
friends in this country, many of which
ardently breathed the spirit of the bill
of rights. Writing to F. Hopkins in
March, 1789, he says "the enlightened
people of Europe have been not a
little surprised that, It (the bill of
rights) was not incorporated in the
constitution." To James Madison, in
December. 1787, he says. "1 do not
like it (the constitution) because of
the omission of the bill of rights."
To Washington, in December, 1788,
he writes, ."I am in hopes that the an
nexation of the bill of rights to the
constitution may be proposed by con
gress." And to a great many others
he writes in the same strain.
With all due respect to Governor
Geer's intimate knowledge of political
history. I think it safe to say that he
Is wrong in this matter and that Gov
ernor Cox was historically correct in
his statement. H. B. NICHOLAS.
BEAUTY.
The sun is smiling in the sky.
Blue are the heavens and blue the
sea.
Fleecy the clouds that float high
o'er me,
The singing birds wing thro' the sky.
Music is stealing thro' the air.
Joyous- the strain and hauntingly
gay.
Loud sing the sailors down in the
bay.
Odors of fragrance fill the air.
Nature today is'at her best.
Children merrily laugh as they
play.
Everyone's happy and blithe as the
day.
Beauty and love are at their best.
But most beautiful in time or in
space
Is the smile of love on my mother's
face.
EMEROI STACY.
Indorsement of Mr. Gordon Denied.
PORTLAND, Sept. 29. (To the
Editor.) By order the Oregon State
Hotel association in session Monday,
the secretary was directed to advise
you that this association has not
endorsed the candidacy of Mr. Her
bert Gordon, as indicated in a story
in Thp Oreironian a few davs aero.
Will you kindly set us right In this
matter?
F. W. BEACH, Secretary,
More 'Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montague.
M-'.IIVKS.
Europe la suffering from a touch of
nerres. A Returned Traveler.
When bandits in Napoli
Their keen stilletos flash.
And, later, leave you wholly
Bereft of clothes and cash.
It's quite to be expected.
Don't call for the police:
Their nerves have been affected
By peace.
Though living costs in Paris
Would soon, the tourists swear.
Financially embarrass
A Pittsburg millionaire.
He doesn't mean to serve us
Unkindly, but the Gall
Is Just a little nervous
That's all.
Though Russia swoops on Poland
1th sabre, shell and shot,
To seize her grain and coal and
Whatever else she's got.
The Russian is not savage;
No censure he deserves.
What makes his raid and ravage
Is nerves.
Though in the Balkan passes
On every pleasant night
The military classes
Foregather for a fight.
They're peaceful folk at bottom
They hate to kill and slay,
A touch of nerves has got 'em
That way.
Tke-yTl Be Few.
Any differences of opniion that re
main after the post-season series will
be settled on election day.
Everybody's Doing: It.
Mr. Bryan will not attract any at
tention In this campaign. He's going
to talk about liquor.
Divided Affections.
Ohio is a good deal in the fix of
the old woman who lived in a shoe.
John Burroughs' Nature
Notes.
Can Yon Answer These Questions
1. How does our horned lark act
when it sings?
2. What Is the most striking
feature of the fox?
3. Is the. apple easily affected bv
frosts?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Q next ions t
1. When do crows flock?
Crows do not flock till fall. Appar
ently, all the crows from a large
area assemble at these times: you
may see them coming singly or in
loose bands, from all directions to
the rendezvous, till there are hun
dreds of them together. I notice
that this rally is always preliminary
to their going into winter quarters.
2. How do squirrels tell a false
nut from a good one?
The squirrel knows a false nut
from a good one without biting Into'
it. The false or dead nut is lighter,
and most persons think this fact
guides the squirrel. But this, it
seems to me. implies an association
of ideas beyond the reach of instinct.
A young squirrel will reject a worth
less nut as promptly as an old one
will. The sense of smell is the
guide: the sound-meated nut has an
odor which the other has not.
3. How does the growth of a weed
progress durinsr the months?
In the growth of most plants or
weeds. April and May represent their
root. June and July their stalk, and
August and September their flower
and seed. Hence, when the stalk
months are stricken out. there is only
timp for a shallow root and a fore
shortened head. I think most weeds
that get a late start show this cur
tailment of stalk, and this solicitude
to rprod'ice themselves.
(Klehts Reserved by Houirhton Mifflin Co.)
In Other Days.
Twenty-f Ive learn Ago.
From The OrcgonUn of September SO. inns.
New York. There Is no longer any
doubt that General Miles is to suc
ceed General Schofleld in the office
of general in command of the army.
General Schofield retired from active
service today.
The British Columbia cricket cham
pions, the crack eleven of the Vic
toria Cricket club, was defeated on
Multnomah field by a picked team of
local and Astoria players by one run
and five wickets.
Probably 100 families in the vicinity
of Mount Scott spent a sleepless
night In expectation that their homes
would be destroyed by the fires rag
ing through the timber around them.
Tea from the steamer Chittagong's
cargo filled 52 cars and was sent east
with $230,000 worth of raw silk from
the east in three trains.
Fifty Yeara Ago.
From The Orefronlan of September 30. 1870
Xew York. Startling news of the
massing of an immense Russian army
on the frontiers of Prussia Is con
tained in a special dispatch from Lon-
don. '
McLaren Bros', city mills are now
running ten hours daily and will
soon be compelled to grind day and
night.
Smith & Davis' new storehouse on
Front street is about ready for oc
cupancy. The celebrated horse Greyhound.
which won the queen's plate in Vic
toria recently, is now it
training for races at the
Washington county fairs.
Portland
state and
CO.V ALWAYS WRT CANDIDATE.
Truth About Candidate's Ohio Record
as Told by a Neighbor.
COLUMBUS, O.. Sept. 23. (To the
Editor.) A published report In the
local papers, telling about the speech
of Governor Cox. who was in your
state recently in the interest of hrs
candidacy for the presidency on the
democratic ticket, calls for some an
swer. In view of your nosition in
this election, the facts concerning
Cox should be of value and Interest to
you and your readers in Oregon.
Regardless of what Governor Cox
may have said. It is true that he has
always been the "wet" candidate In
Ohio, receiving their open ana active
support. That situation remains un
changed today. Liquor organizations
are shown on the public records to
have contributed to his campaigns.
The writer's word need not be taken
for this, but Investigation of the pub
lic records can be made.
It is also reported here that Cox
has taken credit for the adoption ot
a Sunday saloon closing law in Ohio.
That is absurd and positively false, as
the state Sunday saloon closing law
was passed in Ohio many years ago
before Cox appeared upon the political
arena. Its enforcement was always
up to the mayors of the cities, some
enforcing it and some not, and the
state official paying no attention to
it. though it was a state statute. If
Governor Cox ever closed the saloons
on Sunday In any part of the state. It
was because he was forced to act.
This is the fact in the case, and It is
j ridiculous, if not really laughable to
I us. to hear him take credit to himself
ifor this moral reform. G. S. J.