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10 THE MORNING OREGOXIAN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1920 ill oTOuijg (d&gxmimi "ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I- PITTOCK. Published bv The Oregonian PubH.ehirg Co.. li5 Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C A. MOHDEN. . E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The CreKonian Is a member of the Ao eiated Presa. The Associated Press la ex clusively entitled to the ue lor publication 1 all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in thla paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. tarniDt of trie Ownership, Management, Circulation, V.tc, Required by tue Aft of Congress of Augu-Jt 24,' 1!13. Of Morning Oregonian. published dally ex cept Sunday at Portland. Oregon, for October 1. lirjo. State of Oregon. County of Multnomah. Hefore me. a notary public in and tor the state and county aforetaid. personally appeared C A. Morden. who, having been duly sworn according to Irw, depones and as that he is the manager of the Morn ing OreKonian. and that the following Is, to the best of bis knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, man agement tand if a daily papor, the circu lation), etc.. of the aforesaid publication lor the date shown in the above caption, required by the act of August 24, 112. embodied in section 443. Postal Laws and Kegula tions. to-wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and iiurness managers are: Publisher. oregonian Publishing Co., C. A. Morden, manager. Editor, E. B. Piper, Portland, Oregon. Business manager, W. E. Hartmus, Port land, Oregon. 2. That the owners are (Give names lnd addresses of the Individual owners, or It a corporation, give its name and the names anil .addresses of stockholders wn Jng or holding 1 per cent or more of the total amount of stock): Owner, Oregonian, Publishing: Co.. Inc., Fortland, Oregon. Stockholders: H. I Plttock estate, Portland, Oregon: The Scott company, Portland, Oregon. 3. That the known bondholders, mort gagees, and other security holders owning r holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other se curities are: (If there are none, so state.) None. 4. That the two paragraphs next above giving the names of the owners, stock holders and security holders. If any con tain not only the list of stockholders and security holders as they appear upon the hooka of the company, but also, in cases where the stockholder or security holder appears upon the books of the company as trustee or In any other fiduciary rela tion, the name of the person or corporation for whom such trustee is acting, is given; also that the said two paragraphs contain statements embracing affiant's full knowl edge and belief as to the circumstances and conditions under which stockholders and security holders who do not appear upon the books of the company as trus tees, hold stock and securities in a capac ity other than that of a bona fide owner; and this affiant has no reason to believe that any other person, association, or cor poration has any interest, direct or indi rect, in the said stock, bonds or other se curities than as so stated by him. 5. That the average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or distributed, through the malls or other wise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above is 7S1.U14. (This information is required from daily publications only.) C. A. MORDEN, Manager. Sworn to and subscribed before me this 4th day of October, 1H20. (Seal) W. E. HARTMUS. (My commission expires May 2., 1023.) ROLL YOCR OWN. The precise effect of President Wilson's formal appeal to the coun try to stand by the league of na tions (his league) may be measured in mathematical terms. The betting .odds in Wall street, vhere cash counts, and not sentiment, fell from five to one on Harding; as against Cox, to four to one. In other word the Cox prospect rose fom one chance in five to one chance In four. Either way it is evident that the moneyed friends of Mr. Cox have only the faintest hopes of his suc cess. Betting does not win or lose elec tlons; but it is an infallible baro meter of opinion and sentiment. The straw vote, too, is derided, usually by the partisans of the candidate who makes the worst showing:. Yet It continues to be the greatest indoor amusement of the campaign period. Anybody can take a straw vote, and read in the results what he pleases. One straw does not, of course, make much of a harvest, but many do. The Oregonian has been conduct ing an informal poll in Portland and the results have been most agree able to the Harding supporters. They Indicate that there are about three Harding voters to one Cox voter. We have no idea that the final returns w ill show so great a preponderance of republican strength; but we have no hesitation In stating as a conclu sion that the Indications of a great republican victory are unmistakable. It is the same throughout the entire country. The straw votes disclose a great lead for Harding. The final returns will vindicate them. A valley newspaper, dissatisfied with The Oregonlan's poll. Indicates that it was "doctored" and that sim ilar previous canvasses have been shown to be erroneous. Let us see about that. Last spring The Ore gonian sent out its reporters to see how the people stood on the presi dential primary. The results were: Republican Hoover 1053, Johnson 8 21. Wood 68 3, Lowden 4 36. Taft 130. Democratic McAdoo 210, Wil son 109, Edwards 70, Bryan 39. Mr. Hoover withdrew and it is evident that his followers mostly went to other candidates. Mr. Johnson car ried the republican primary and Mr JIcAdoo the democratic primary. The Oregonian looks for the state to go for Mr. Harding by 40,000 or more. But if any one does not fancy The Oregonlan's estimate, based largely upon the indications of un official and parole voting, let him take a straw vote and make an esti mate of his own. Such an enterprise is particularly commended to those democratic newspapers which are trying to fool the public by solemn announcements that Oregon is "doubtful" and that "Cox may win." Ah, slush! CMTE FOR WATER TRAXSTO RTATIOX General representation of the Pa cific northwest in the rivers and har bors conference which opened in Portland on Monday bespeaks the Importance that is attached to trans portation as one of the necessities of national life and prosperity, and to harbors and waterways as means of water transportation. The people of the United" States have realized in the last few years that their future Is on the sea, and they logically aid the rivers. The railroads are un equal to the task of carrying all of the ration's interior traffic, and the people justly demand that the gov ernment make good the railroad's deficiencies by improving The means of water transportation by sea and by river. It is proper that the states of the Pacific northwest should act as a unit and should organize permanent ly as a unit to secure development of water transportation, for they are a unit geographically and economical ly. The greater part of this empire is drained by the Columbia river and its tributaries, and it can gain cheap est and easiest access to the sea by improvement of those waterways. The ports which are not in the Co lumbia basin have an ample field of commerce and have a common inter est with it Lu- the fact that tliey axe in the same group of states, having like products and trading in the same markets. By themselves they can gain much less than is possible by uniting their forces with those of the Columbia basin. The time is propitious for water way development, not only because of the need to supplement the rail roads but because we are at the opening of a too long delayed period of waterpower development. By linking power use with navigation use of rivers, canalization can be rushed forward at points where con struction of dams for one of those purposes alone would be financially impracticable. That partnership would bring many other vast bene fits, which would soon make the Pa cific northwest one of the most pros perous, best populated sections of the country. THE COMPLETE EVADER. If you were a humble member of the great democratic party; and if you had persuaded yourself that your candidate for president was fit to wear the mantle of the exalted and unapproachable Wilson; and if jour despised and unfeeling opponents had unearthed the foul charge .that your noble candidate had made a practice of helping wealthy young draft dodgers of much political In fluence to escape the service of their country at the front, and if they had completely proved it, in the case of the cowardly young Scripps, by the production of a letter written by your candidate to his employer, to be used by him withhe powers that be at Washington; and if you were then to encounter a denial of your candidate's interest, or concern in the affair, in the following language: I never spoke or wrote a word to the president, the secretary of war or to any draft board asking the exemption of Mr. Scripps. any one in his organization or any one else, wouldn't it worry you? FOR ORDERLY LAW-MAKO'G. Two amendments on the Novem ber ballot are designed to reducethe haste and confusion with which bills are passed by the brief legislative session in Oregon. One, submitted by the legislature itself, lengthens the session to 60 days and provides that after the fortieth day no bills, except appro priation bills or bills pertaining to the defense of state or nation, shall be introduced except by unanimous consent. In other words it requires that preliminary work shall be out of the way during the last 20 days, and that the work in the' latter period shall be confined to consider ation of bills on final passage. The amendment also increases the per diem for members from the present absurdly low figure of $3 to $5. The other amendment, presented by the State Taxpayers' league, di vides the legislative session into two periods. During the opening period of 40 days only bills appropriating money for legislative expenses or ex penses of state government or es tablished institutions may be finally enacted. All other bills will be car ried over, to the second period but only by majority vote of both houses. In the second period, which occurs after a recess of about 30 days, only bills on final passage will be con sidered and they may be amended only by vote of four-fifths of the members. The per diem of mem bers is not Increased. Oregon is now a state of such large population and such diversified interests that a 40-day session of the legislature is too short. The business of the legislature consequently is transacted in haste and thing are done which would not be done on mature deliberation. Either amendment would alleviate this condition and be worth while. The conflict between the two amend ments need not disturb the 'voter who believes' that an effort to get away from the usual legislative Jam should, be made. He will vote for both amendments,, knowing that if both pass, the one receiving the greater number of affirmative votes will prevail. VICTORY WON BY A GOOD FIGHT. Admiral Benson's decision, to transfer Portland from the Seattle to the San Francisco shipping board district Is the result of dogged per sistence on the part of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, backed from time to time and at the finish by the Oregon delegation in congress. The clinching argument was doubtless the question put by the congressional delegation, whether they should ad vise their constituents to favor for eign ships, for that was a direct challenge to the shipping board to make good on its policy that Ameri can commerce should be carried on American ships. The situation created by inclusion of Portland in the same district as Seattle with headquarters at that city was intolerable. The two ports are in keen competition for the same ocean traffic in the same commodi ties originating in the same territory. Even if the agent strove to be im partial, the port where he was lo cated would have a decided advan tage. Its business men would be in frequent personal contact with, him and they would be the first to ob tain information useful in securing business. But the present agent has not been impartial. He has with apparent deliberation made known to Seattle business men applications for tonnage by Portland firms and has delayed action, with the result that Seattle firms had an unfair op portunity to capture Portland busi ness. If they did not actually cap ture it. There is no such competition be tween Portland and San Francisco as would leave openings for unfair ness. San Francisco is not a com petitor with Portland for the ocean traffic of Portland's trade territory, nor does Portland compete for the traffic of California. There may be some competition for transcontinen tal traffic, but that exists among all Pacific ports, and Portland shipping linos are less dependent on that class of traffic than those of other ports, for the bulk of cargoes leaving this port originate in the Columbia river basin. The men who made and won this fight are to be commended for their energy and public spirit in carrying It to a successful finish. We need not fear that they will rest on their laurels, for that is not their tempera ment. This first success m extort ing fair treatment from the shipping board should only incite them to press the long deferred claims of the port in. other respects. Portland is entitled to passenger liners to the orient and to Europe. It should have its own lines of American vessels running to all parts of the East Indies, to Central and South Amer ica and to Australia. It should be given a fair opportunity to build up trade with those, countries, not being judged by the small initial results. It, must insist on its right to rank as .one of the major ports of the Pacific coast. . - . Irrespective of the immediate re sults. Portland's success in this case will prove beneficial otherwise. The manifest injustice stirred the people's fighting blood, and kept it at fight ing temperature until the wrong was righted. The city had already been aroused from its complacency to a lively interest in the shipping busi ness. That interest has been intensi fied by the attempt to take shipping away from it. We-have proved that, if one wants anything, he must go after it, and that if he goes after it hard.eno"gh, he can get it. Portland has been jeeringly called "the Spin ster City." It is a very robust spin ster, and anybody who tries to put anything over on it would better look out. FIRE PREVENTION. The general purpose of the annual fire prevention campaign is three fold. It is, first, to educate the pub lic as a whole to a sense of its re sponsibility and to the importance of the subject; second, to Instruct all persons in practical precautions to be observed, and, third, to accom plish definite practical results, such as cleaning up premises, promoting formal inspections and removing all special hazards. Otherwise, a fire prevention week would sink to the level of a perfunctory observance. The importance of the subject is Indicated by the estimate that fires in the United States now cause 2000 fatalities a month and result in de struction of about 900,000 worth of natural products a day. There is a fjre a minute, on the average. It is believed that four-fifths of all fires are preventable, and It requires no argument to" convince the thought ful that conservation in this regard is the cheapest possible form of pro duction. The circumstance that burned property is in certain in stances "covered" by insurance does not change the fact that it is a total loss from the social point of view. The labor and material necessary to reproduce it could be employed in creation of new property that would enrich society. All share the loss caused by preventable fires, which are reflected directly in higher in surance rates and less directly in higher commodity prices. , In the long run waste in every form. is ab sorbed in this way. The more obvious offenders are defective flues, matches, lightning (which specializes in farmers' barns and cause h,eavy loss of foodstuffs), and various llluminants recklessly employed. The careless smoker is-a perpetual charge against consumers of every form of merchandise. Spon taneous combustion, due to neglect of proper precautions in storage, costs the country more than $10,000, 000 a year. Bonfires, kindled by children as well as adults, and matches, left carelessly where they may be stepped on or carried away by rodents, help swell the bill. The week now being given to the study of fire prevention methods Is the forty-ninth anniversary of the destruction of Chicago by fire, caused, the legend runs, by a lantern upset by a widow's cow. That fire swept over 2100 acres, caused more than 200 deaths, made more than 70,000 persons homeless, and de stroyed, property worth $190,000,000. After nearly half a century It still stands out as an example of the enormous value of minor precautions in fire prevention. The Chicago fire resulted in widespread reform of municipal building codes, bnt experi ence has shown that as to individual methods of precaution the people still have much to learn. THE JENNY LIXD CENTENARY. Jenny Llnd, whom the American public 70 years ago christened "Swedish nightingale," was born on October 6, 1820. There are not many persons now living who were here when she made her famous tour of the United States, and still fewer who can recall the pleasure of hear ing her sing, but the centenary of her birth is receiving attention be cause she is associated in memory with a picturesque epoch in our history. The story of her profes sional triumphs in this country, told by Phlneas T. Barnum in his autobi ography, is as interesting for its de scription of life in the young repub lic, before the tide of immigration to the Pacific coast had fairly set in, as for -the light it sheds on early American appreciation of art. Miss Lind came from an alien world in a dual sense. We had been too busy laying the material founda tion for a new civilization to give a great deal of thought to music. Ex cept among a few New England stay-at-homes we had not even the suspicion of a literature. The ameni ties were to come later if at an. The bringing to the country of a diva rated as a leader in Europe waa a dubious venture from the commer cial point of view. Barnum's agree ment, according to their original con tract, to pay her tlOOOefor each con cert, seemed then to be the height of business folly. It was at least a risky gamble. This was the period of which the author of "The Ordeal of Mark Twain" .has written that "essentially America was not happy." For details as to why it was unhappy the author refers us to "The Story of a Country Town," "A Son of the Middle Bor der." and "Ethan Frome." For that matter, the journal of Miss Lind's tour would illumine the topic further. We detect less of apprecia tion of Miss Lind's art than of being taken in by the scheming of the craftiest showman who ever plied his, trade. The frenzied receptlon.of the, singer by the populace was carefully "worked up" by her "impresario." The sum of $225 bid for the first choice of seats at fier opening con cert was relatively huge, but it seems that it reflected no overweening de sire to hear the artist sing. Barnum had contrived hat one Genin, a pop ular hatter, and Brandreth, a pill maker, should be impressed, each by himself, with the advertising value ofa high bid. Neither was a patron of the humanities. Genin, who, as it was afterwards disclosed, was will ing to go as high as $1000 in a pub licity venture, outstayed Brandreth, but the latter's pills also reaped a re flected glory. Both made fortunes from their wares, with Miss Lind's unwitting aid. We were, as the apologist for Mark Twain says, "a dark , jumble of de cayed faiths, of repressed desires, of inarticulate misery." And we "had no folk-music, no folk-art, no folk poetry, or next to none," to console us, but "to have said so would have been to 'hurt business.'" Perhaps the picture is overdrawn in the state ment that ours "was a horde life, a herd life, without sun or stars, the twilight of a human spirit which had nothing upon which to feed but the living waters of Camden and the dried manna of Concord," but the sordid details of the Jenny Lind ven ture, which we must obtain by read ing between the lines, bear out the generalities. The trip. of the Lind Barnum cohorts up the Mississippi river was a triumph, although not fundamentally satisfying to one .whose soul was in her art. The pub lic had heard of Barnum's boast that he "always got the best in every line," and it manifested the truth of the charge that it was guided by the herd spirit by the alacrity with which it fell into the Barnum snare. "Un confessed class distinctions" were openly confessed when the shrewd showman saw to it that patronage of the esthetic should be made a mark of social inferiority. Other impresarios, of a different type, have repeated the Barnum ex periment and often- at financial loss but never with the sensational accompaniments that marked the Lind tour. Art for its own sake, it seems, may still require subsidy. Yet, for all his blatant trumpeting, Bar num performed a service when he revealed the foreigr1 singer to a peo ple who had not had so much as a glimpse of the world outside of that in which they moved. Miss Llnd was the avant courier of a new period, in which, little by little, appreciation of the beautiful waito gain grounX In the 70 years since her first ap pearance at Castle Garden a good deal of water has gone over the wheel, a good many changes have taken place in the capacity of the people for enjoyment, a generous measure of the credit for which, it is not too much to say, is due to the personality1 and the supreme art of Jenny Lind. We may well be appalled by the recent achievement of scientists in prolonging the life of a fruit fly to 900 times its usual length, when we reflect that to duplicate the feat in humans would mean the pro longation of the scriptural allotment of life to 6300 years. Yet Dr. Eugene Fisk, president of the Life Extension society, is probably within the bounds of probability in pre dicting that, while the extreme limit is a fantastic conception, it is entirely possible materially to post pone the disadvantage of old age. The amazing work accomplished within a decade in reduction - of infant mortality is an augury of what may be accomplished through health education, the present advan tage on the side of the babies being that they submit to hygenic measures In their behalf, while adults have a way of asserting their Indepen dence by recklessly throwing away their chances. Good health is even now more nearly within the control of the individual than most persons realize it is. It would be interesting to know the exact words in which Governor Cox fired the writer for one of his papers who called salesmen "para sitest" thus "offending the men who dp more talking to more people tfhan any other class in the country, per haps not excepting presidential can didates. That article must have been written before Cox's presidential bee began to buzz. Mr. Joe Hutchinson, who is pretty well known in this city, and his brothers and sisters are to be con gratulated on the possession of father and mother who have Just observed their sixtieth wedding anni versary. Sixty years, of married life is a record worth the observation of those who go to Vancouver one year and dissolve in Portland the next. "Woman .suffrage did it," com plains a defeated candidate for the democratic nomination for United States senator from Illinois. If the woman vote did defeat him, we'll venture the surmise 'that it was for some mighty good reason. According to Addison Bennett, ex pert and connoisseur on cattle shows," the Gresham fair is worth while attending. Mr. 'Bennett has been going to fairs for half a cen tury, iiiayue uiuie, muu auuws a- guuu one at first sight. One of the men who race a street car to a crossing where people await the trolley car got a victim the other day. Only a few drivers are guilty of this reprehensible habit. Careful people swing around and bend the traffic law. Fewer jobs this winter Is the fore cast for the big cities, a likely finish of eight years of democratic admin istration. If Wilson bad not "kept us out of war" it would have hap pened a few years ago. Hood River objects to a "wild west" show on Sunday and is right. Even Portland, open to most any thing, would not stand for a circus on that day, though the tent would be filled if it did. The former kaiser has an income of 1,500.000 guilders on which the Dutch want him to pay tax. No body supposed he was chopping wood for a living. The willingness of the Russian soviet forces to listen to compromise with the Poles is all' the more ex plicable now in view of the news from Warsaw. Here's hoping Mr. Edison succeeds in his scheme to get messages from the dead. It would be worth it just to hear Roosevelt's comments on Candidate Cox. Secretary Baker has announced that he will make several political speeches for Cox. Safe to say no American Legion gatherings are on his list. Mrs. Mary Crossman Brickley. 9 7, living at -Middleton, has 75 grand children, which makes her the "most grandma" in Oregon on record. Jail yawns for Bill Haywood and the ninety-three, who lost- on ap peal. Bill has been a long time get ting his, but it is coming. The October sun puts the red cheek on the winter apple, and indi cations are the fruit will be much of a peroxide blonde. The candidate who would take for his slogan, "I'm a Vacuum Cleaner Watch My Dust," would stand a good chance. Portland shipping interests will not be a child of Stepmamma Seattle, at any rate. A shower or two will not hurt the fair at Gresham. . . BY-PRODUCTS OF THE TIMES. Who Wrote "Fifteen Men in a Dead Man's Chest" J. J. Dickinson sends to the New York Globe this interesting corres pondence concerning the ballad which Robert Louis Stevenson made famous in "Treasure Island." New York, July 31. 1919. My Dear Marse Henry: There has been a violent recrudescence of the dispute over the authorship of "Fif teen Men on a Dead Man's Chest." Some 'of 'em are fighting over the claim that it was written years ago by one of your young men. If that is so you will know. Please have Bomebody drop me a line on this. ' Faithfully. J. J. DICKINSON. My De"ar Young: You will please answer this for Mr, Watterson. Yours, G. E. JOHNSON. August 2, 1919. Secretary to H. W. The Insurance Field. Editorial loonn. Louisville. Ky., Aug. 4. 1919. My Dear Mr. Watterson: That in nocent old ballad of mine about "Fif teen Men" and "a bottle of rum" re turns to me frequently from all around the world perhaps for my sin In writing it. It was first pub lished by William A. Pond & Co., New York (three verses only), as a song In 1891, with music by Henry Waller. The three verses were later elaborated into six and In that form it has had all sorts of publication. The New Y'ork Times four or five years ago scared up an anonymous con tributor who had seen It written out In the "scrap-book" of his grand-fathec-(who, though a wayfaring sail orman could read), somewhere in the youth of the nineteenth century. The anonymous contributor was such a plausible liar that he provoked a book on me and the ballad called "The Dead Men's Song," by my old friend anil Journalist accomplice. Champion I. Hitchcock. It is a book that makes the blood of book collectors leap with the insanity of their nefarious avo cation. There never was such an other book, because there never waa but one Champ Hitchcock born to the office of friendship and to the curious convolutions of queer book making and writing. Mr. Dickinson can find the book at the Times office probably. The Times apologized edi torially for its heresy in believing the anonymous contributor. The bal lad is in a number of anthologies and has been printed throughout the whole league of nations, including Hedjas. Maybe you feel able to as sure Mr. Dickinson that I am mid dling honest and a man of agandsity in my neighborhood. Your political reminiscences are good to read - Yours very truly, YOUNG E. ALLISON Mr. Henry Watterson. Mansfield. Dear Mr. Watterson: I enclose the within as the best means of- han dling Ed Johnson's request. You can send my letter to Mr. Dickinson. Yours, Y. E. A. (This is Marse Henry's own hand writing): Young E. Allison is a man of the very highest credit and character. There is no manner of doubt that he wrote the lines. Whoever else claims that he wrote tbm writes himself down as a skunk and a liar. H. W. - A Montreal newspaper contains two city hall advertisements, one for a "senior law clerk, $1020 a year," and the other for a "furnace man for mu nicipal bath, $1080 a year." Here is a text for the organizer of the brain workers' union. Toronto Globe. There once was a person named Cox, Who' wanted to wear Wilson's sox. But his friends made a holler When they found Wilson's-collar Was wrapped in the very same box. Nick West. e Chief Harrison Connell, an Indian, who bought an airplane in Kansas City for $2"50," according to the Hi awatha (Kansas) World, recently sold what was left of it for $100. The chief had been making some exhibition flights when he had a crash. Bethany Presbyterian church,Phil adelphia, known as John Wanamak er's church, has an origin as dramatic and full of human interest as any of the old wosld cathedrals. In Dr. Ford C. Ottman's Biograph of-Dr. Chapman, the famous evangelist, under whose pastorate Bethany became the largest Presbyterian church In the world, one finds the story. In the middle of the 80s the region between Broad street and the Schuyl kill river and below South street, had degenerated into a wilderness of brick yards and had been set apart as the city dump and was inhabited by a band of ruffians who had come to be known as "the Schuylkill Rang ers." There came into this plague spot one Sunday morning two young men from the Chambers church. Their evangel was received with blows and curses and they left the field de feated. One of them was John Wan amaksr. The following Sunday tbey returned and, in a little upper room at 2135 South street, established "the Chambers Mission." This became Bethony church. a When Rudyard Kipling was award ed the degree of L.L.D. by the Uni versity of Edinburg recently he paid the following tribute to John Knox, the great nonconformists "The driving force behind this 300-year-old dominion of the Scot de rives Its essence from the strict and unbreakable spirit of that great edu cationist. John Knox, who neither flattered nor feared any flesh. It was John Knox who, at lifelong haz ard, laid down and maintained the canon that it should be lawful for men so to use themselves in matters of religion and conscience as they should answer to their Maker. Is it too much to say that, after all these years, on these triple foundations of freedom, authority and responsibility, the moral fabric of your university was reared?" While making excavations for a car barn in Christiana workmen found the remains of the stronghold of the no torious Bishop Nikolas Arneson, who figures in IbBen's "Kongsemnerne" as Bishop Nikolas. The "building was erected in. the eleventh century and the find is considered of such un-' usual historical Importance that the authorities of Christiana are trying to reach an agreement with the rail road by which the ruins can be sci entifically excavated and the car barn built somewhere else. - Those Who Come and Go. Bolsheviki In Poland have abso lutely no conception of sanitation, de clares E. B. Lockhart, at the Hotel Washington. The red army Is about as unwholesome a looking aggrega tion as one can find, and they are all filthy. If the Poles can overcome the reds, which they give indications of doing. Poland, after centuries of oppression, will resume Its place among the nations of the earth, for the Poles, says Mr. Lockhart, are a fine and intelligent people. Mr. Lock hart. whose "home is at Salem, has recently returned from his second trip to Europe for the Y. M. C. A. "One hundred miles an hour is what a man told me he made on the Co lumbia river highway between Pen dleton and Arlington," announced J. W. Donnelly of the latter place. "Mr. Conn, who makes musical instru ments,, was in Arlington a few days ago, coming from Spokane. His car. a hiirh-powered one, was out of whack and had to be repaired. He said that' whenever he could hit 'or up on the highway there were times when he was golngt 100 miles. Any way, that shows that the road is in good condition for about- 65 miles." Smiling from ear to ear. although his back was bent under his load of pheasants, E. N. Kurd of Seaside was at the Imperial yesterday. Mr. Hurd, who is a. member of the legis lature, representing Clatsop county, was invited by L. E. Bean, representa tive, of. Lane county, to hunt upland birds. s Mr. Bean apparently knew where the birds could be found, for Mr. Hurd shot the limit and was lug ging tbem home when he arrived in Portland. Mr. Bean accompanied, him as far as this city. , - Brighton, which was one of the best spruce camps In the country during the war, is where Roy Currey comes from to the Perkins. Brighton has a mill which got in early in the spruce business and when the soldiers were sent there to help get out the airplane material Brighton was a busy place. Now it ts almost devoid of excitement, although there is sup posed to be good deer and bear hunt ing in the mountains back of the mill town. Having collected about all the blue ribbons at the Oregon state ' fair, Frank Loughary is in the city with the ambition to duplicate the feat when the Pacific International live stock show is held here next month. Mr. Loughary, who lives at Mon mouth, Or., has 20 head of Jersey cattle which he registered for the exhibit yesterday. He has some of the finest Jerseys in Orecon. as is attested by the winnings be rAVde at Salem. . " Most people have heard of the Thousand islands, and a dressing by that name goes well with crab Louie, but the Ten Thousand lakes is an Important recreation section not so well known. These lakes are about half way between Winnipeg and Min neapolis. In the very heart of the Ten Thousand lakes district is Vir ginia, Minn., and it is from this place that Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hill have co ay, to register at the Multnomah. In an effort to help the road-building programme, J. M. Devers Is In Portland to appear before the public service commission.- Mr. Devers, who is assistant attorney-general assigned to look after legal matters for the highway commission, is arguing to secure a reduction of freight rates on cement, asphalt, gravel and other road-building materials. Mrs. J. L. Dfmick of Walfa Walla. Wash., is seriously ill in a Portland hospital and waa operated on Mon day. Mr. DImiok and Mrs. W. O. Cordiner of Walla Walla are at the Hotel Washington to be in attend ance. Mrs. Cordlner's husband is well known in sfbek circles and has served as a judge at livestock shows in Portland. Y. Ichimura of Japan, who looks after the silk department for Mitsui & Co., arrived at the Benson yester day. The raw silk market is prac tically controlled by Japan, and the slump in the market about six months ago caused scores of old-established houses to go into bankruptcy. Bill Hanley, who was a candidate for the United States senate in Ore gon six years ago and received 26, 220 votes as a bull moose nominee, is registered at the Multnomah from Burns. Mr. HanPey is probably the most generally, known citizen east of the Cascade mountains. Mount Vernon, in Oregon, nestles In Grant county, toe most mountain ous and. rugged county in Oregon and the one which probably contains the most mineral wealth undeveloped. George Sigfrit, whose address is .Mount Vernon, is among the Imper ial arrivals. A. H. Powers, who has a town named after him in Coos county, is at the Multnomah with Mrs. Pow ers. Logging Is the specialty of Mr. Powers and in this line he is out of the most important factors in the de velopment of the Coos Bay country. For years Chester S. ' Keenan. of Spokane, has been following the min ing game as a geologist and engin eer. At present he is interested in a smelter at Sumpter, some mines near Baker, and mining property in Shoshone county. Idaho. He is regis tered at the Multnomah. E. N. Kavanaugh and family have located at the Hotel Washington. Mr. Kavanaugh. who is in the govern ment service, was stationed in Port land before, but was moved away and much to the delight of his family he has been returned to the Rose City. , Up at Olex. which is a trading point not far from Condon, they say that Charles Martin is practically a resident of Portland, because he is here so often. Mr. Martin, who is a stockman and farmer, with a place on Rock creek, is in town again. W. S. Dinwiddle, of Oakland. Cal.. who has arrived at the Benson. Is here for the purpose of creating the new tourist hotel on the Columbia river highway which Simon S. Ben son is financing for the chef of the Benson. Mrs. Glenn Hite. wif of the mana ger of the Hotel Washington, has gone to Walla Walla. Wash., to visit relatives. She is a member of the pioneer Blalock family of Eastern Washington. Something is the matter with one of the eyes of George Smith, so he has left his warehouse and lumber business at Arlington to come to Portland for treatment. - He is regis tered at the Imperial. Marshall Hooper, bank examiner, is registered at the Hotel Washington. Mr. Hooper has been In Jacksonville. Or., looking into the condition of the bank suspended there. Estacada. being a regularly jneor porated town, has a full quota of of ficials. The health officer is Dr. R. G. McCall, who was registered yesterday at the Imperial. C. A. Schoolmaster, who drops in at the Perkins occasionally from the state of Washington, Is registered there at present. He recently pur chased a sawmill at Chehalls. S1EA.V TRICK ON MR. Cl'MMINGS Democrats. Treated to ItrpublU-an Song. Stuff Straw Ballot. HEPPNER, Or., Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) Eecaus of the misleading statement in Portland Journal. I sub mit the following: I advertised in the JK-p,.i.. r papers that I had rented th""e Sim theater, that I would sing my republican cam paign song and expound republican principles on October 1 at the con clusion or the first show. In re sponse to this call I pot the largest j number of people ever known to at- ifim & puiuicai meeting in rieppner. The theater was literally jammed to the doors. It was most difficult to get along the aisles to the stage. Fully 150 persons were turned away. The show consisted of eight reels and took three full hours to deliver. The theater is not fit to hMd public speaking in. When filled with people the air soon becomes stuffy and foul. Yet I held the crowd for more than one hour, and they cheered me heartily during- the entire time I was addressing them, keeping splendid order. It was a first-class, jolly, good crowd. To say the meeting was not a great starcess is untrue. In taking the straw voto I took much precaution to have it reliable. I went through the entire audience twice before 1 could find two gentle men whom I believed careful enough. I cautioned them not to give out any ballots in bunches and to watch most carefully. But the ballots were given out in bunches from the aisles and supposed to be passed along the rows. Had I known this I would not be permitted any announcement of the vote. Frank Gilliam, ex-mayor of Hepp ner and head of the large hardware firm of Gilliam & Bisbee, told me he saw one fellow write "Cox" on fully 20 ballots and put them in the hat. The printer on the Gazette Times, a radical Cox supporter, told me he saw one fellow write "Cox" on six ballots and put them in the hat, and saw many others vote more than one ballot. There was more than 100 votes short. It is perfectly reasonable to believe they were Hard ing votes and that as they were passed through these stuffers' hands were suppressed. The real issue here is whisky against prohibition. I will at any time substantiate every word of the above. H.K".V CUMMINGS. EVERT COX VICT Wl-.ItillS rilAXCE Opportunity to Klee Generally Re jected as Matter of Wisdnm. OREGON CITT. Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) I ask a bit of space to show the fallacy of an Inference taken by- Frank Tannenbaum in his essay. "Prison Democracy." published in the October Atlantic Monthly. The inference is that prison democracy tends to the reformation of the con vict. This, r consider, is a mistake, for no penitentiary can give a con vict the privileges he enjoyed before he became a convict, and he becomes a convict by betraying a trust and abusing his freedom. If democracy could reform a man it would surely do the work before he becomes 'a convict. Mr. Tannenbaum also fails to see what it is that makes the convict faithful. From one of tbem he quotes these word. "You see we were all free men at least, free to run away, but our responsibility carried us back to prison." The author of these words either stated what he knows is not true or he is incapable of discerning clearly. Every convict, either before or after becoming a convict, care fully weighs the life of a fugitive with that of a convict, and only a rash impetuous fool will choose the life of a fugitive. Wisdom dictates to the convict that he must buy his freedom by such methods as prison rules permit. He will feign reform, be true to a trust or whatever he thinks was taken from him because he was careless in his operations. By all moans give us prison democracy, but society should not expect from it the impossible. F. W. PARKER. If Presidential Nominee- Should Die. CATHLAMET, Wash., Oct. 4. (To the Editor.) 1. The report of Senator Harding's narrow escape from death has brought up this question: In case of the death of a candidate for the presidency, what, if anythtnp. would be done by the party represented to furnish another candidate? 2. Also, in the event of the death of a president-elect, who would be president after the fourth of the fol lowing March? F. B. CUTTING. 1. There if no precedent for guid ance except that of 1912. such as it was. In that year the republican vice-presidential nominee. W. S. Sher man, died a few days before election. No effort was made to fill his place on the ticket. Election disclosed the choice of only eight republican elec tors and. as it was a lost election, little Interest was shown in the ticket vacancy. The eight voted for Nich olas Murray Butler. Tn the event Of the death of the more Important nominee for presi dent, if it occurred early enough to give opportunity for reconvening the convention, there would probably be a demand for the second convention. Such a convention might even be held after election, if the deceased nom inee had been the candidate of the successful party. The presidential electors do not cast their ballots until the second Monday In January. We do not vote direct for president, but for electors, who register the con vention will. It Is therefore possi ble for the party to win the election without having a formally appointed candidate for president. Failure by the successful party, in event ot the death of its candidate, to name an other before the eect'oral college casts Its vote, would probably result in a division of the electors of the successful party and no candidate would have the necessary majority of the electoral college. In the latter event the election would go to the 'house of representatives, which would choose a president from the three men who received the highest number of votes in the electoral college. The successful candidate Is not technically president-elect until after the ballots of the presidential electors have been counted by congress on the second Wednesday in February. If he died thereafter and before March 4. '.he newly olected vice-president would become president. We are unable to Inform you whether this electors could ballot on a later day if the nominee died after the second Mon day in January and before the second Wednesday in February. Almost 1 nnulmoiiK. ALGOMA, Or.. Oct. 4. To the Ed itor.) Straw votes being- the order of the day .we would like publicity in The Oregonian of the following one. Each vote cast was by a bona fide registered-voter of this precinct. Harding Cox Men ' 44 2 Women 10 2 Total 54 4 W. O. E1NNS. More Truth. Than Poetry. Ity James J. Montague. Pie. When I was six or eight years old I very frequently was toid That cold or hot mince pio was not A salutary diet. Ar..l in the watches of the night when things were often far from right Within my turn, this caused mo some Foreboding and disquiet. When people shuffled off the stage before attaining middle age j Beneath my belt I often felt An apprehension fill me. That pie had brought them to their doom, and steeped in bleak abysmal gloom My heart would sink as I would think That pie perhaps would kill ma. But now a man who leads the lists of gastroenterologists Says pie's a good and wholesome food And that beyond a question There's nothing tucked beneath Its lids that's harmful to the frail est kids Or interfere with their careers Ky crabbing their digestion. If, when an adolescent youth I'd known this scientific truth. My conscience might have been more light. But still I don't regret it. For though I felt quite satisfied that gastronomis suicide Would be a sin. I packed it in Whenever I could get it m With Burleaon on the Job. If the election is at all close the, voting-by-mail law may leave it un decided at this time next year. Your Own Concluniona. Now we begin to see why baseball is eo popular at Sing Sing. V The Millennium. Prices havo gone down so fast that a man drawing more than $5000 a year can aford to have a flivver and a oulja board at the same time. (Copyright. 1620. by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Cnn Too Answer These Questions! 1. Which Is the finest songster among the finches? 'i Is the raccoon a good fighter? 3. What similarity is there be tween fall -and spring? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Are many bjrds killed by loco motives? I have read that many horned larks arc killed by railroad locomotives in Minnesota. It is thought that the bilds sat behind the rails to (ret out of the wind. and. on starting up in front of the advancing train, were struck down by the engine. Trob 'oiy the wind which they might have to fr.ee in getting up was the prime cause of their beinsr. struck. 2. When does the katydid stop piping? Insects in all stages of their growth are creatures of warmth: the heat i3 the motive power that makes them a-o; when this fails, they are still. The katydids rasp away in the fall as long as there is warmth enough to keep them going; as the heat faiis, they fail, till from the emphatic "Kj,ty did It" of August they dwindle to a hoarse, dying, "Kate, Kate," in October. 3. What animal can sing a duet? Invade some butternut or hickory nut grove on a frosty October morn ing, and hear the red squirrel beat the "juba" on a horizontal branch. The mosi noticeable peculiarity about the vocal part of it is the fact that it is a kind of duet. He appears to accom pany himself, as if his voice split up, a part forming a low gutteral sound, and a part a shrill nasal sound. (Rights rest-rved by Houghton Mifflin Co. I In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oreironlan of October 6. 1S0S. Corpus Christi, Tex. Today Fitz slmmons was informed that he was to be admitted to the Chickasaw tribe nf rnrtinnw In order to escape federal interference when he went to the In dian territory to light Cornell. Heading its advertisement with the, slogan "Patronize Horne Industry," a Portland men's futrnishings firm ad vertised all-wool suits for $9.65. The New Plaza restaurant adver- tises a Sunday dinner menu of soups, roasts, roast chicken, young venison, stuffed turkey, chicken fricassee, boiled salmon with egg sauce., salad, celery, fruits, ice cream and cake, wine or beer, all for 25 cents. Idaho Falls. J. W. Wilson, who lives near Jackson's Hole, brinss in the report that three men were killed from ambush by Indians at the lower end of Jackson's Hole on the morning of the third. Firty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of OctobT 8. 1ST0. A letter from Cassell states that Napoleon and his fellow-officers havo no doubt of his restoration, and that Prussia will put him upon the throns In return for the surrender of Alsace Lorraine. The sky-piercing summits about this city, within sight, have lately re ceived their winter garb. Yesterday we visited the premises of City Recorder Levi Anderson and there plucked from the living bush figs of the third crop for this year. The Parisians have been trying to persuade themselves that Prussia can only bring from 180,000 to 200.000 men to the investment of Taris. Mr. Benjamin Not Canrlldnte. PORTLAND. Oct. 5. (To the Edi tor.) The Oregonian contains the statement that I am "said to have informed friends" that I am consid ering becoming the candidate for the office of attorney-general. This statement Is incorrect. During my service with the state I have been larsrely occupied with the legal work arising from the work men's compensation law and other la bor legislation. The office of attorney-ceneral should not be filled by a man who has specialized in any particular branch of the law, but rather by a man of broad experience who knows where to find the law and is energetic and courageous enough to enforce the law as he finds it. JOSEPH A. BENJAMIN. Does She Want the1 Names f PORTLAND. Or.. Oct- 5. (To the Editor.) Would the good lady, Mrs. L'nruh, like to have published the names of members of the Ministerial association who knew nothing of the support the democratic candidate for congress? Was the meeting a mod est little frame-up? C. E. CLINK.