10 THE MORXIXG OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I PITTOCK. Published by The Oreronlan Publ!hin Co.. JU Sixth street, 1'ortland. Oregon. C. A. UOUDEN, E. B. FIFER. Manager. editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is c:uslveiy entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or riot otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All riBhts of republication of special dispatches Here in are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Fially. Sunday Included, one year laily, Sunday Included, six months ... --o Maliy, Sunday Included, three months . JJally. Sunday Included, one moma Jiallywithout Sunday, one year . . Iiaily. w ithout Sunday, six months Iai!y. without Sunday, one month, Weekly, one year ................ 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Through the neighborly medium of the more or less dependable Eu gene Guard, The Oregonian learns a bit of news, which in rairness it feels that it should pass along. It is: The national debt was reduced 23T,- S15.tHW.00 last month. However, you will not find this fact mentioned in any of the campaign literature Chairman Will Hays la flooding the country with. The final sentence, to be sure. Is not new, but it may be true. Chair man Hays is not flooding the country with it. Possibly he doesn't believe It. We don't. But, If it be assumed that It Is true, is it the duty of Chairman Hays to give it a neat and attractive cor ner In his grand scheme of repub lican publicity? What is a campaign text book for, anyway? To praise your side, and condemn the other side? Or to please everybody and displease nobody? If the democrats are to have the privilege of editing republican cam paign literature, the courtesy should be reciprocal. Probably in that case the democrats would find some slight objection made by the rest of the American people to the astonish ing and offensive claim that "demo crats won the war." It is boldly put forth in the democratic text book for 1920. It is not consistent with the indignant democratic denial of the statement that they sought to make partisan capital out of the war, and excluded republicans from any con trolling or potent voice or arm in war administration. Can the demo crats have both "won the war" and have been non-partisan in its con duct? They'll say so. We'll not say so. Let the campaign books, speeches, pamphlets, essays, letters and all the rest alone. Let every party put forth its claim in its own way. Let the candidates pierce the skies with their self - adulatory vocalizations. Let the spielers spiel and the stumpers stump and the hecklers heckle and the penny-a-liners sling their ink. It's the life. You can fool some of the people, etc., etc. The only persons really fooled are the candidates until the returns come in. DIVORCE AND REMARRIAGE. In one of its ethical aspects, the controversy over the right and wrong of divorce is in reality a dis cussion of the right to marry again. This is recognized by a large body of churchmen, who do not contend that there are no circumstances In which husband and wife ought to be per mitted to live apart. Laws which deny, or greatly restrict, the right of absolute divorce are in the main careful to protect the property rights of thoso who have made a mess of marriage. The husband may be compelled by the court to support his wife and children. Here the equities. are plain. The Implied obli gation of the husband as the breadwinner- is enforceable, as In any other civil contract. Denial of di vorce is a recognition of the more spiritual, hence more enduring, na ture of the bond. Judge Bennett, of the supreme court of Brooklyn, N. T., after an experience of many years on the bench, views the suggested remedy from its practical side. Recognizing the rapid growth of divorce as the evil it undoubtedly is, he seeks the most effective way of retarding it without incurring the opposition of those who realize the obvious in justice, if not the impossibility, of compelling married couples to live together where, for example, the husband is a brute who endan gers the wife's life by physical vio lence. It is not enough to say that he may be punished under existing laws against assault and battery, for they would seldom be adequate, and evidence sufficient to warrant crim inal prosecution would often be lack ing. But to remove one of the prin cipal Incentives for divorce, it goes almost without saying, would be to make it less popular than it Is. The'judge thinks that a large pro portion of actions would never be brought if remarriage were made illegal during the lifetime of the other rarty to the union. The eter nal triangle bulks immensely as the ieal divorce cause, whatever may be the ostensible reasons set forth in the pleadings. A good many mar riages are arranged beforehand, con tingently on the granting of a di vorce. This is particularly true in New York, where it has recently been shown that nominal defendants have been accustomed to employ witnesses to appear against them in the interest of plaintiffs, a form of collusion often winked at by courts. The scandal of a situation in wnicn one in every nine marriages ends In divorce court lies In utter lack of regard for the sanctity of the contract. Society is less in terested in the happiness of indi viduals now mated (or mismated) than in restoring the foundations of the institution f matrimony itself. The end to be sought is to rid the frivolous and the thoughtless of the notion that marriago Is a joyrlde, to be terminated on impulse, and to re store the idea that it is a covenant to be entered into only on solemn reflection. If Judge Bennett's plan will effect this result it deserves consideration. It is a companion plan to that which would restore in principle the old practice of publishing the banns, by which couples intending to marry would be given time in which, to re- pent before it was too late. The student of court procedure will think, also, that something more than is being done at present ought to be possible to prevent collusive divorce, which is nominally forbid den by existing statutes. The Ben nett remedy may or may not find favor, but the wide discussion that it has provoked is evidence that the gravity of the problem is being in creasingly appreciated. A MONSTROSITY. The Astoria Budget may be cred ited with a striking and homely il lustration of the utter futility of the 4 and B per cent interest bill. It is: Would a law prohibiting fishermen from selling salmon in Oregon for more than 5 cents a ound compel them to sell for 6 cents? It would not. They would market their salmon In Washington, where higher prices were offered. No more, either, will a law limiting the legal rate of interest to 4 and & per cent compel lenders to put out their money in Oregon. They would send it across the border, where they can get 7 and 8. True: and if they cannot get In Washington a fair price for their salmon, the fishermen will not fish, and the industry will be at an end. If the man with money to lend can not lend it profitably, here or else where, he will not lend it at all. But if he can lend it profitably elsewhere, he will not lend it here. What will the borrower do then? Economic law is not concerned with state lines. No mere state statute can repeal it. But it may do great mischief. That was what was intended, no doubt. It is inconceiv able that so bald and gross a mon strosity was put on the ballot in good faith. THE PROOF OF A TRUTH The people of Seattle, we learn from an editorial in the Post-Intelligencer, have made . aa Important, and as it now turns out, a depressing discovery. It is that the former owners of the street railway com pany were actually telling the truth when they said they were losing money. The discovery by the Seattle popu lace has come about through the purchase of the street railway sys tem by the city and an attempt to show the world that the people can purchase, maintain and operate a street railway and make money. In a pessimistic message, the mayor of Seattle now informs his constituents that the system has been going in the hole ever since it was taken over, about eighteen months ago, and is destined to go deeper and deeper into the hole in the coming months. The city has had certain advan tages over the former owners, too, in the matter of outlay. When owned by a private corporation there were to be paid large sums in gen eral taxes, and certain extraordinary charges similar to those exacted of the street railway company in Port land. Of taxes and extraordinary charges, the system has been re lieved under municipal ownership. They doubtless amount to several hundred thousand dollars yearly. But still the city goes into the hole. There have been, on the other hand, certain conditions imposed on the system that were not present when the corporation owned it. The street railway was promptly im mersed in practical politics. We read that the council has yielded to every sectional, political and class demand for deviation in the matter of service from a course demanded by a strictly business policy. The former owners, it may confidently be presumed, had gained the usual reputation of corporations by refus ing, except under irresistible pres sure, to grant improvements or ex tensions of service which they could not afford to grant or make. But the Seattle case discloses that the taxpayers are far from willing to pay for the other fellow's ride. They are Just as averse to digging into their own pockets to pay the ldsses of a utility as private stockholders are. That may be inconceivable to those who have the municipal own ership whlmsey but it is the sad, sad truth. Seattle Is going in the hole every month. Worse, it can see no way of getting out. So there is lamentation and even denunciation. The denunciation concerns the fact that the corporation that sold re ceived a fair price for its property. Thus there is not the uplifting am bition which soothes the soul of the San Francisco taxpayer as he con tributes to the losses of the munici pal system there. The San Francisco municipal lines are not a monopoly There is a hated, soulless corporation competing with the ctiy. It is a pleasant and exciting tug of war to see which can stand its losses long est, the corporation or the public. Let us be happy in the thought that others, not we, are testing the truth of the great maxim that if a thing costs so much money to pro duce, whether it be a streetcar ride or a quart of milk, it cannot be had for less without somebody sustain ing the loss. TO DETECT CRANKS. Let us hope for the speedy per fection of the instrument known as the psychometer. Described by a New York physician who heads the clinic for examining cases from the children s court as an instrument for detecting the responses of the ner vous system of the subject to strong waves of feeling, it is said to give promise of usefulness in detecting unbalanced personalities before crimes have been committed. If, the physician suggests, the recent Wall street bomb explosion was the work of psychologically defective individ uals, it might have been possible to take precautions against It- The process, would be as follows: The machine, -which Is simply a gal vanic circuit with the human being made part of the circuit by placing the hands or leet in a mercury Oath, shows by fluctuating needle the responses of the nervous system to strong waves of feel ing, such as fear. With these abnorma cases toe fluctuations ot the needle are more marked, and when the apparatus has been made considerably more delicate, we should be able to detect all dangerous cases with tar greater accuracy than la now possible. It is necessary to realize, in order to appreciate the potential value of the instrument in question, that there is a class much more menac ing to. society than those obviously branded with the stigma of insanity, It seems to scientists more probable that the perpetrators of the bomb crime were in this category than that they were actually insane There is a large group of persons who are apparently normal, but who are mentally deficient in the respect that their intellects are incapable of checking strong waves of feeling. They include individuals who be come the prey of demagogues of various sorts, and who constitute the real menace of anti-social propa ganda. It is through these, for ex. ample, that anarchist agitators, un willing to expose themselves to dan ger, are wont to operate. Emotional instability, recognized by psychia trists as a definite disqualification. Is probably a graver problem than calculated criminality. If scientists can devise a method of determining its existence in advance of the overt act, a grer.t stride will have been made not only toward crime preven tion but also toward exclusion of undesirable immigrants. Mechanical delicacy and precision seemed to have reached their height with the perfection during the war of a method of measuring the mil lionth of an inch. Thomas Edison is said to be at work on an appa ratus for recording messages from the beyond. Science bids us regard nothing as impossible and to hope for the solution of all problems. Just now we are inclined to choose the psychometer, with its possibilities in the way of crank-detection, as the coming boon to the human race. THE WORK CURE. Two instances of cures effected by the therapy of work are xeported by an exchange. In one, a man appar ently a hopeless mental sufferer, was sent to a state institution, where he was put to work with pick and hovel. Before long his mental and physical condition improved and he appeared to be normal. "Physi cians," says the account, "expressed the opinion that his troubles had been cured by excessive perspira tion." The other case is similar. Having contracted the work habit, both patients continued to work and their maladies did not recur. There is an oriental fable of a cer tain satrap who was ailing and who summoned his court physician, on pain of losing his head, to cure him. The fact seems to have been that the satrap "needed nothing so much as work to make him whole. But the physician was also a diplomat, and presenting his master with a hoe, told him that the handle pos sessed certain healing properties, to njoy which it was necessary that the implement be wielded vigorously several hours a day. The magic, so the tale relates, did Its perfect work. A few, like the oriental emperor. need to have their work recipe coat ed with the sugar of deception, but it amounts to the same thing In the end. Golfing or walking, digging potatoes or carrying in the winter's coal, frankly toiling or beguiling himself with the notion that his labor is play, the man who exerts his muscles is apt to add years to his life. If we could popularize work. we would- enormously reduce -the cost of life insurance but inciden tally we would also reduce the cost of other things. The hygienic twins are diet and exercise. With due attention to the latter, the for mer is quite likely to. take care of tself. MAKE CLOTH TELX THE TRUTH. Arrival at Boston from Germany ot a steamer with a cargo of woolen rags moves a correspondent of the Rural New Yorker to protest againstf' wearing of shoddy made from Ger man rags when good American wool is a drug on the market. He objects to a protective tariff on pure woolen cloth- and clothing when shoddy is free. He Is indignant that wool deal ers should sit tight in" confidence that they will get all the wool they need by simply paying the freight. His remedy is that '.'wool and cloth ing be manipulated where it Is grown, in mills owrted and controlled by wool growers, and the cloth sold direct to the people there who want it." An approach to that is belnir made In Oregon, for a great wool manu facturing industry has grown up here, using the wool grown in the inland empire, and it provides good woolen cloth and blankets without shipment of the material to the At lantic coast to be woven, then back to the Pacific coast to be worn. At present there is an accumula tion of wool left over from the war. Woolen rags have also accumulated in countries where the people are buying new clothes after being de prived of wool by the blockades. Possibly the world has enough wool on hand to make an all-wool suit for everybody once, but ordinarily not enough wool is produced to clothe everybody in that way. Omitting- the tropics, where cotton and linen are the rule, some wear mixed wool and cotton or shoddy because there Is not enough new wool to go around. That does not say that there should not be a duty on shoddy and raffs. They should be dutiable for the same reason as wool because they compete witn American clothing materials. The market for wool can be im proved by requiring that all cloth shall bear a stamp showing the ma terials of which it Is made. That rule Is applied to food and drutrs. and there Is as good reason for ap plying it to cloth. There was a time when everybody knew pure wool wheii he saw it, but that Is true no longer. Probably if a man knew that a suit was made of shoddy or mixed material he would reject it and buy one of new wool. Enough might do so to swell the demand for wool ma terially. At least, everybody would know what he was buying. After the first shock had passed, many would knowingly be content with the cheaper goods. Material is a small item in the cost of a suit of clothing. but better work is put on higher quality material, and it commands a higher price. The existing glut-of wool Is of so temporary a character that probably before a law could be passed pro viding a remedy, the situation would have so changed as to make the law useless. But a requirement that all goods travel under their true colors demands only common honesty, and is tnereiore pood for all time. BOLSHEVISM LOSIKG ITS GRIP. Armistice between Poland and the soviet government ot Russia marks the first decisive defeat suffered by the bolshevists since they made peace with the Baltic states. That defeat marks beginning of decadence of bolshevist power. It won and ex tended that power by terror1 and by propaganda backed by the prestige or power. Crushing defeat of its most ambitious attempt at foreign conquest has deprived it of the pres tige, and the fear which its terror ism inspired may now give place to exhibitions of that hatred which fear alone has held in check. The Russian people are not and never have been bolshevist. The bol shevist system was imposed on them by Germany through the importation of a band of communist fanatics and greeay adventurers, wnich won power by intrigue and the most brutal force and maintained it by the terrorism of wholesale murder and torture, starvation, corruption, spying and a propaganda of lies. When Germany was beaten, the bol shevists ceased working for their masters, and set to work to establish their system in Russia for their own profit and to extend it by propa ganda and revolution throughout the world. The military victories of the bol shevists have given them an unde served reputation for strategy and material prowess. They have a nu cleus of highly paid hired soldiers Chinese, Bashkirs, German and Mag yar prisoners of war who are mis called Letts In gross libel on that brave little nation which abhors bol shevlsm. By force they conscript unwilling peasants and workmen, whom these shock troops compel to fight. They coerce ex-officers of the czar's army to serve by starvation and by holding the officers' families as hostages. Trotsky is a great or ganizing genius, having much bold ness, daring and quick resource, and several times he has changed im pending defeat into victory, but the soviet has won by propaganda rather than by arms. It has been greatly aided by the errors of its enemies. Czarlst officials and army officers were many and influential among the supporters of Kolchak and Yu denltch, and they revived tyrannical czarlst methods in the white armies and in the territory occupied by them. Red agents capitalized these facts to the utmost, with the result that the whites had an enemy in their rear as well as in front. The Russian people have been torn loose from their mental and moral moor ings by the revolution, feel no alle giance to anything and are easily In duced to change sides. They had no morale to make them fight with de termination, and so long as the reds, with their nucleus of mercenary des peradoes, fought against such Rus- ians, they found victory compara tively easy. Whenever they came in conflict with a people that had national pirit, was well armed and had had practical experience with bolshe vism, the reds were beaten. The Finns, Esthonians and Letts felt their filthy touch, got arms from the allies, and drove them out, winning every battle. Patriotism combined with bitter experience made a nation proof against propaganda. This has been the case with Poland. The Poles, burning with patriotism, beat the reds all through 1919 and even after the whole red army was massed against them they beat it until May, 1920, when great red reinforcements and their own shortage of artillery, tanks, armored cars, aircraft and ammunition forced them to retreat. As they withdrew, their line was shortened and stiffened by volun- eers who crowded into the army, while the red communications were lengthened. When the allies sup plied arms and expert advice, the Poles turned the tables completely and have not ceased to win until they have almost recovered the f ron tier cf 1772, have utterly routed the red armies and have given an armis tice practically oa their own terms. Bolshevism cannot stand against a united, armed nation, and when it infects a people it proves to be Its own cure. The reds are low free to throw their whole strength against Wran- gel, but that strength is terribly di minished. Their best troops have been broken especially the great cavalry army of Dubenny they have lost hundreds of guns and ar mored cars and vast quantities of railroad equipment, which they can not replace. The armistice line pre vents Lithuania from being a corn dor through which arms can be smuggled from Germany. France Is pouring arms and munitions Into the Crimea, and the Cossacks of the Don and the Caucasus are in arms again Wrangel Is avoiding the fatal errors of former white leaders, for he con solidates his hold on newly won ter ritory before making further ad vance, organizes popular government and secures the land to the peasants. The red3 are embarrassed by risings In the interior, by wholesale deser tion, by breakdown of industry and railroads. Wrangel may be able to make headway against them, even without Poland to divide their forces. With the big milk factories stocked up to the extent of $300,- 000,000 and foreign demand off, buying of the raw milk will stop and dairymen must find customers else where.- That's about the situation. The man who confessed ho killed Denton, whose body was found in a cellar in Los Angeles, must produce corroborative evidence before he Is believed. It's got so down there that they know a liar on sight. The Italian government has de clined to permit ex-King Constan tino of Greece to pay Italy a visit. Probably figure they have enough excitement already without Import ing more. One of the mysteries of automo- biiing is why men riding with wives not their own have more mishaps than when with their marital part ners. Don Jaime of Bourbon, pretender to the Spanish throne, is back in Spain again. What a waste of time! With that name he could make his fortune over here aa a bootlegger. A candidate for mayor says war days are over and we must be pre pared to work, Where does he get the idea that war days were days of leisure and Idleness? According to Tumulty there is no record of the proceedings of the day in dispute. According to Spencer, there was one. It's up to Missouri to settle. Every time a new non-skid tire design comes out, the well-dressed girls soon vear an open-work imita tion of it on their stockings. In Aberdeen deaths are less than half the births and boys outnumber girls two to one. Does that mean more war to come? The population gain In the United States since 1910 totals 14.9 per cent That more than offsets the 2.75 per cent loss on beer. This day is sacred to the memory of the Widow O Leary"s cow in Chi cago. She had the kick that made a new city. Looks as if one walk at .least on the end oS the Morrison bridge might be laid to favor pedestrians. - The United States has gained 14.9 per cent in population since 1910 Still paying- good dividends. Revenge against those sugar spec ulators should be especially sweet. Hiram starts east tomorrow, load ed for bear and donkey. Last call for Gresham- LOVpUOY WORKERS W.iST LIGHT Q.neatlona Deallns With Consistency Submitted to McArthur. PORTLAND, Oct. 8. (To the Editor.) Congressman McArthur, alarmed at the rising tide of indignation among the voters of Multnomah county at his persistent wet vote in the house of representatives, assures the public in a signed statement that he will no upport the Volstead act. Why this late reform? Surely this pseudo reform this sudden change of heart has come too late in the politi cal, day to accomplish its evident pur pose to get the votes. in view oi tnis Delated pieage properly to represent his own bone- dry state, the undersigned supporters of the dry candidate, Ur. Esther Pohl Lovejoy. ask: If Mr. McArthur's persistent wet vote represents the majority In the election of 1916, who and what repre sents the dry element which, as every one knows. Is the better element among his constitunts, whose fre quent appeals to him have Been treat ed with contempt for nearly six years? Why should this element support one who has so misrepresented them? If Mr. McArthur was instructed by the comparatively small majority in Mult nomah county-(not the state) In laie, when has that instruction been changed there having been no test vote since and why does not that "sacred" Dladge still hold him? VV hy change at the eleventh hour? Is the answer "Lovejoy"? Should the vote return him to con gress, what pledge have we that he will not consider this an indorsement of his wet vote and so continae to represent the liquor Interests, in stead of the bone-dry state from which he is sent? Will Mr. McArthur explain why the exigencies of war, when a starving world was looking- to the United States for bread, did not release him from his "solemn" pledge to the small wet Interests of the state, as ex pressed in 1916? Does Mr. McArthur not Know mat when the food conservation measure, which he opposed, was pending; that aged and Invalid women in Portland and all over this country , were com pelled by war restrictions to eat coarse bread and forego needful deli cacies and so undergo great suffering, that our allies and our soldier boys might be fed, and that the manufac turer of beer at that time was using bread material with his consent thus robbing these helpless victims? Will Mr. McArthur explain to a long-suffering constituency why, if the fact that the Volstead act is the law of the land releases him from his solemn" pledge to vote wet, the fact that the bone-dry law was the law of his state did not also supersede his instrirctions" from his district? , Mr. McArthur states he voted against the repeal of the Volstead act, but is not this more than balanced by the fact that he voted against passage of the act over the presidential veto when the world was starving for bread? We ask why the Christian people ot this district should so easily forget Mr. McArthur's past wet record, as confessed by him, as to vote their ap proval of such wet vote in the Novem ber election? If Mr. McArthur repents of his past, well and good; we will try to forgive, but the present prospect Is that, as Christians, we will senii to congress this time one who could not be pledged" to stultify her conscience by a wet vote. (Sogned) ADA WAL.LALK U.MIUH, For the Dry Congressional Committee. REV. E. C. HICKMAN, For Portland Ministerial Association. d. V. MacDO.NAU), For Oregon Popular Government League. W1IY CONSTITUTION ENDURES, j Frimrn Refused to Adopt "Palliatives and Half Measures." PORTLAND, 'Oct. 8. (To the Ed- tor.) In The Oregonian on September 23 you published a letter signed Mil ton A. Miller, whicn. If sensed cor rectly by the writer. Is Intended as a Justification for ratification of the laae-ue of nations as well as Presi dent Wilson's course in regard to the same. But, to argue that on account of the 'opposition It is meeting with the league of nations should be rati fied because the constitution of the United States was adopted by small majorities after violent opposition. which was very pronounced even in the constitutional convention, is falla cious. In that convention, according to Professor Fisk, it was suggested that "palliatives and half -measures would be far more likely to find fa vor with the people than any thorough-going reform," to which George Washington replied in these words: "It is too probanie tnat no plan we propose will be adopted. Per haps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. It, to please tne people, we offer what we ourselves disap prove, how can we afterward defend our work?" Eventually this convention present ed to the people a constitution not framed to please the people, but to provide a mode of government as safe, sound and Just as human minds could conceive. The wisdom and fore sight with which their work abounds possibly could not be fully sensed at that period, hut time has vindicated the product of those screat minds. The league of nations was framed to please those people who place their hope for universal peace in some such measure, and the plea for ratification as written is not being supported by analytical reasons. That a majority of the framers thereof did not believe in its being workable -is amply proved by the fact that it has not been made use of to prevent all the different wars in progress now, nor to enforce treaty terms and awards, and the doubt of Its being ratified by the United States is shown by the clause in the treaty specifying that "th's treaty shall become effective upon ratification by three of the high contracting powers." The members of the constitutional convention were men who knew the history of the past and could reason correctly as to the future, and their work is enduring. They also provided a mode of procedure for adoption of amendments as time and exigency might demand, which, as proposed, is to be,- Indirectly, set aside by "a solemn referendum." MAX KRAMER. Electoral Votes by State. PORTLAND, Oct. 8. (To the Ed tor.) Kindly publish the number of electoral votes each tate has and thus oblige some of your interested subscribers. W. O. F. The states are herewith arranged in the order of their voting strength in the electoral , college: New Torlc 4VSouth Carolina . 9 Pennsylvania 381 rkansas o Illinois 2!.bra.ska g Ohio 24iVest Virginia 8 Texas 20!Taryland g Massachusetts . . .ISlWashinfrton ....... 7 Missouri ......... .ISIConnectiout ....... 7 Indiana 15IColorado 6 Michigan . .13 Florida. 6 Georgia. .14, Maine 6 New jersey itnaano 4 Iowa ............. J3(Ore ron fi Wisconsin ........ 13 North Iakot&. ... . & Kentucky l.'ltSouth Dakota 5 California lJiRhode Island 5 Alabama lJiMontana 4 Minnesota 12lNew Hampshire.... 4 North Carolina.. .. .12 Utah 4 Tennessee l- Vlreinla. 12 Oklahoma 10 Mississippi 10 Louisiana. ....... .10 Vermont .......... 4 Arizona 3 New Mexico S Wyomlns; 3 Delaware 3 Kaaaia . UoUevada ..IMim Those Who Come and Go. Rains have sadly Interfered with the road construction work 4 the valley, says Engineer Clarks of the highway department, who arrived from Tillamook yesterday with N. J. Drew, chief inspector of construc tion. But for the rains the Warren Job In Tillamook, six miles in length, would have been finished this sea son. It lacks a mile and a quarter of being completed. At Rickreall. where an injunction held up the work, the contractors have an exceptional subgrade and got enough base laid on good days to permit resumption of the pavement despite the rain. The Amity paving job has shut down ana the Jobs at Corvallis and Monroe will not get through owing to the rains. The only Jobs which there is a pros pect of carrying on with paving are such as those where the contractors have laid considerable blackbase. The grades are bo soaked with rain that a base cannot be well laid this sea son, and without the base, of course, the top pavement cannot be put In place. Departure of William Hanley for Burns recalls an exciting two days he had in the wilds of Southern Ore gon, dodging a subpena as a witness a few weeks ago. An old timer killed a deer before the season opened and sold some of the meat to Mr. Hanley. The hunter was arrested and Mr. Hanley was needed as a witness, so Jim Birdseye was sent out to serve the papers. Mr. Hanley got wind that he was wanted and went into the brush, with Mr. Birdseye after him. Both are good outdoor men and they circled around, pursued and pur suer, for two days during which time Mr. Hanley had to sleep out at night. Finally, Mr. Hanley managed to con nect with an automobile and. was whisked to a northbound train just in time to catch it, and thus was transported beyond the jurisdiction of the court. About half a mile off shore, be tween Nehalem and Tillamook bays, are two large rocks jutting out of the sea. The gulls have nested on them for ages and the dashing waves have worn a large arch through the base of one of the rocks. Some people imagine that the two rocks, when seen from Nehalem side, look like an elephant, and they have been called Elephant rock, but the accepted des ignation Is Twin Rocks, and as such, a railroad station has been named after them. B. J. Cooper, of Twin Rocks. Is at the Imperial. Although the cottages were filled during the summer with visitors, the little set tlement is about aa croweded now with workmen as it was in July and August. According to F. E. Frasier. the shoe manufacturers, although accused of profiteering, are going into bank ruptcy. Leather, he asserts, is scarce and substitutes are being used exten sively in the cheap and moderately priced shoes' and in some instances these substitutes are proving quite satisfactory. Boots and shoes will eventually get down to normal prices, but this happy day may be a long time in arriving. Mr. Frazier comes to the Multnomah from Lynn, Mass., and is in the shoe business at Lynn and Haverhill. For years he was an official for the largest shoemaking concern at Brockton, Mass. C. H. Poole, who travels oiJt of Boston for a shoe house, calls him self a basement Inspector. Last year, when making the rounds, he was met by his customers, who invited him into the basement, and there he was shown large stocks of unsold shoes. The contents of the basement proved a sufficient reason why the trade did not give him orders. There Is a little better feeling toward shoes than there was 12 months ago. Mr. Pool is registered at the Imperial. j Looking after his candidacy for attorney-general, I. H. Van Winkle was at the Imperial yesterday. Mr. Van Winkle, who has been assistant attorney-general and was made acting attorney-general by the governor, vice George M. Brown, appointed to the supreme court, is now a candidate for the office. He is opposed by J. O. Bailey, another assistant attorney general. The man elected will be the one who can have his name written on the November ballot the greatest number of times by the voters. C. Ed Ross, who was secretary of the ctate highway commission until he resigned to go into the fruit grow, ing business, was in town yesterday. His headquarters are now at Yakima, Wash., and he is interested in a saw mill at TIeton Basin. 42 miles from Yakima. When he was a boy Mr. Ross worked In a sawmill, but de clares that he has bought mora ex perience In the mill Industry this year than he ever believed was possible wnen he was a yard boy. She walked Into the Perkins, fol lowed by a man. Picking up the pen she registered In a firm hand, thus: L. B. Peterson and husband, Newberg. Mrs. Teterson did all the talking as to what kind of accommodations were desired. Once tl. husband started to inquire about trains, but before the clerk could reply the woman eaid she would attend to all such matters. About every two weeks Mrs. R. D. Parker comes to the Perkins from Reliance and whenever she comes there is a neat sum of money left here. Mrs. Parker buys a couple of wagon loads of groceries, which are sent to Reliance and distributed to logging camps in that vicinity. Port land Is the nearest source of supply for the commissary department. Marlon F. Davies of Union, who Is handling 20,000 acres of timber In Union county, is In the city. He is a past grand chancellor of the Kn'ghts of Pythias and is waiting to leave on a special train tomorrow for Marshfleld, where the grand lodge win hold its session during the com ing week. A. D. Church was one of the early day hotel men ot California. His son. Heck Church,' is general manager of the Cornell. Keystone, Federal and Dudley hotels in San Francisco. Heck is at the Multnomah and has been look'ng around the Pacific northwest to gather information on the -winter business. Although having a large and suc cessful farm. It cannot keep all of the energy of Ross Nelson. 60 he also op erates a movie theater at Indepen dence. Mr. Nelson, farmer and mo tion picture manager, is at tho Ben son for a few days. Walter L. Talbot of Philadelphia, who is president of an insurance com pany, is registered at the Benson. Accompanying him Is F. W. Heron of San Franelsco, who is district man ager for the company in this section. Having ivppeared before the supreme court and talked politics with the boys at the state house, A. W. Nor blad. state senator for Clatsop county, passed through Portland on his way to Astoria from Salem. C L. Hawley of McCoy, 'who has won the nomination for state food and dairy commissioner, was in Portland yesterday and registered at the Im perial. Gabriel Wingate of Astoria, for merly of the port commission there, is an arrival at the Hotel Oregon. Lieutenant-Colonel and Mrs. S. J. Sclater of Victoria, B. C, are arrivals 8jat the Hotel Portland. I FATAL BLUNDER SIADISBV COX 'People Believe Mnd-Sluigbi( Hides Candidate's Incapabilities. PORTLAND. Oct. 8. (To the Ed tor.) The accusatorial propaganda that (Jovernor Cox fired at the repub lican party has resulted In nothing but fatal discouragement of demo cratic political hopes. It not only has defeated the very purpose for which it was designed, but it also brought into full visibility of public opinion the true characteristics of the man himself. When the falsity of the stories concerning the "slush fund" became apparent, a great reaction of public feeling occurred. This reaction became so strong that it broke down even the residual strength of Wilson's following and left him (Cox), without a nucleus around which to build an organization of sufficient power to carry on an effective campaign. It has proved the most ruinous of polit ical blunders. His accusations were too contemptuous to be endured even by thousands of his own political faith. The consequence was a revolt which did not spring from any momentary passion, but which had an obstinaney of deep feeling behind. Governor Cox. the accuser, is now become Governor Cox the accused. He and his asrents set on foot a movement to prostrate the republican party by accusations of theft, but have failed miserably in their attempted implications. Governor Cox selected the poorest way of all to win. There were two roots this year. In the democratic soil that were ready for culture, and from either of them Cox possibly could have grown some strength had he possessed the foresight to take the advantage. (1) He ardently could have fought for a new "league of na tions policy other than the one whiol Wilson killed. (2) He scould have made a fighting issue on the modifi cation of the Volstead act. but he rejected the sap from both and elected instead to besmear his opponents with a coat of slime. In the face of the exigent demands for clean and practical politics he di gresses far from the dignity of a can didate for so high an office as presi dent of a great nation. He has utterly failed to Inspire Into the minds and hearts of a great peo ple a single thought that is construc tive or brilliant. He stands as no other democratic candidate has stood before him without raising some lofty political project to offer to his countrymen. "Senatorial oligarchy." "Harding's brewery stock." "slush funds" and "newspaper silence" con stitute his sole campaign palaver. The respectable American -oter does not like a mud slinger. He is set down either as a political bully or a man who wishes to hide his in capabilities behind it. Governor Cox has made anything but a clean fight. J. W. C. OLD FRIEND IS BACK AGAIN Subscriber's Plaa to Sever Self From World News Not Satisfactory. EDENBOWER, Or.. Oct. 8. (To the Editor.) Three months ago the idea struck me I was getting old I likely was taking too seriously the world news. To relieve a nervous tension I dropped the Oregonian for three months. I was simply lost In the realms of lonesomeness. Last week the mail brought me a bargain coupon from The Oregonian. one every week day and a veritable feast on Sunday for only $7. My check went by next mail and the following day here it was my old friend since 1875. It acted as a tonic. Somehow it just fits the fingers. Should I be blindfolded and dif ferent papers handed me one at a time, I believe I could recognize its velvety folds, not by the weighty news with which it is always bur dened but by instinctive old friend ship. Long -may she wave. JOHN AV. TOLLMAN. Mason and Dixon'a Line. PORTLAND, Oct. 8. (To the Edi tor.) 1. Is the state of Texas con sidered a southern state? 2. Would one born in Texas be considered a southerner? 3. Where is the Mason Dixon line; also where did the name of such a line originate? SUBSCRIBER. 1. Tes. 2. Yes. 3. Mason and Dixon's line is the boundary between Maryland and Pennsylvania as surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon in 1763-7. It was popularly accepted prior to the civil war as the dividing line between the free states and the slave states. Address of Mayo Ifoapital. PORTLAND. Oct. 8. (To the Edi tor.) Please inform me the initials of the Drs. Mayo and the address of their hospital. A SUBSCRIBER. Dr. William James Mayo and Dr. Charles Horace Mayo, Rochester, Minnesota. Oregon's Millions of Feathered Tourists It would be rather a dreary old world without birds, however cas ually we regard these feathered folk who are bipeds like ourselves. Not a little of the charm of Oregon is in its hedgerow residents, it3 jays of the deep timber, and the flocks that turn thither from the north when winter comes down. DeWitt Harry has written a story about Oregon birds and it appears in the Sunday issue with photo graphs. An intereBting story, too, that takes one into forset lanes and out on the wide marshes. Can a Dead Wife Be Jealous? We are fed full with the psychic, and it takes rather more than a stale story of spooks to quicken our interest. Well, draw near, for there is a story in the Sunday maga zine section that reaches beyond the weird, and that is the narrative of the influence of a soul long departed. Tyrone Power says that his first love from the other world is jealous of her mortal suc cessor. Can such thing be? Read this queerly unusual story from real life and the unreal. There is Better Art Coming Heaven bless the sane son of genius who first described cubist art as "an explosion in a shingle factory." The Sunday Oregonian is fortunate to be permitted the expression, of his views on art in the future. He is George Julian Zolnay, sculptor, who holds that the world is to know great days again, when colors and cold stone will yield the true expression of the human soul. Illustrated. The Beauty Battle of the Nations The presumptuous English, gazing upon the pink and golden perfection of their daughters, in formed the world that these were the fairest maidens to be found. Now it follows that such a challenge could not go unrebuked for many a land clings to the same belief concerning its own lasses. In the Sunday magazine section, with illustrations of renowned na tional beauties, is an article dealing with the beauty battle that Eng land brought about.. Pastor Is Jack-of-AU-Trades Yes, indeed, and he gives the lie to the old adage, does the Rev. Joel Hastings Metcalf, by being master of two. Not only is he the shepherd of his flock, and an excellent spiritual provider, but the scientific world recognizes in him the master astronomer one who calls the stars by their first names and knows where their places are in the infinite meadows. Told in the Sunday issue by Mary Harrod Northend. Talks with T. R. In this Sunday's chapters of the Roosevelt serial, from the diaries of John J. L'eary, Jr., a variety of interesting topics are dwelt upon. They bring the cheerful, fighting colonel back again, as though he were confiding in us as, indeed, he was in Mr. Leary. Here are the sub-titles: How I Lost My Eye; The Drink Story; The Break With Tafte the Attempt on His Life; Why the Politicians Failed. Don't miss this installment, nor the others that will follow in successive issues. All the News of All the World. The Sunday Oregonian. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. AMELIA GRAY. Erastus Boggs had power and place, Elijah Biggs was quite obscure; Erastus Boggs was rich and base, Elijah Biggs was poor and pure. While eating luncheon every day Their hearts were equally upset. For both adored Amelia Gray Who punched their tickets ere they et. Impassively she let them kid. As patros of such rlaces do. Her choice if choice she had she hid. Her smiles were rare her words were few. But 'Lige had looks though lacking gold. And lovely ties and snappy collars. And 'Rastus. who was fat and old Had nothing but four-million dol lars. "Youth answers youth" you know the rest. Old age a way has never found To wake within a maiden's breast The love that makes the world go round. Besides. Erastus was a gent Who'd led a black and evil life, And could a lovely girl consent To be an aged scoundrel's wife? They both proposed; she asked for time. Her heart she said, could not be sure. One man was rich, but steeped la ' crime The other poor, but oh! so pure! One would be tender, fond and true; The other buy her rings and togs. She did what all of 'em would do In such a fix accepted Boggs. They Always Cloned the Ban. Will the soda fountains be closed on election day after this? Dusting Up a Maxim. It is a pretty mean thief that would rob a'hotel guest, and a mighty un ethical one. Gurus Way. Somehow or other that Russian army reminds us of John McGraw. (Copyright. 1920. The Bell Syndicate. Inc.) John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can Yon Answer These Questions f 1. What birds are songless? 2. When do most animals begin to hibernate ? 3. What is the difference between fall and spring rains? Answers in Monday's nature notes. Answers to Prevloua Question. 1. Is the Simon-pure crow found in the south? The crow in his purity. I believe, is seen and heard only in the north. Be fore you reach the Potomac there is an -refusion of a weaker element, the fish crow, whose helpless feminine call contrasts strongly with the hearty masculine caw of the original Simon. 2. Does the skunk ever hurry? There is no such word as hurry in the skunk's dictionary, as you may see by his path upon the snow. He has a very sneaking, insinuating way, and goes creeping about the fields and woods, never once in a perceptible degree altering his gait, and, if a fence crosses his course, steers for a break or opening to avoid climbing. 3. How does the maple reward one In the fall? When the maples have burst out into color, showing like great bon fires along the hills, there is Indeed a fdast for the eye. A maple before your windows in October, when the sun shines upon it, will make up for a good deal of the light it has excluded; it fills the room with a soft gulden glow. (Rights reserved by Houffhton. Mifflin Co.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. (From Tho Oreponian. October 9. 1S!5 Coincident with the vote of the trustees to remove the medical de partment of Willamette university to Salem, the faculty members here announced their withdrawal from the institution. The Portia ndpresbytery Is now in session at the Forbes Presbyterian church. Rev. J. V. Milligan an nounced his resignation as pastor of the St. Johns church to go to the First church in Boise, Idaho. A spiritualistic seance was broken up Saturday evening when a suspi cious woman seated in the "circle" suddenly grasped the very material form of the "medium" as he was performing his stunts in the dark. Tho combine of brewers, which has long maintained tho price at $9 a barrel, has gone to pieces and beer is now being sold at $7 .SO a barrel.