10 THE MORNING OREGONIANV THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENKY I MTTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., 135 Sixth Street, i-ortland. Oregon, a A. MOK.DE.-. E. B. P1PEK. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Asso ciated Crrai. The Associated Frees la ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rlsnis of republication of special despatches Here in are also reserved. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Tally. Sunday Included, one year s.oo Daily, Sunday Included, six montns Dally, Sunday Included, three month, Dallv. Sunday Included, one month . Daily, without Sunday, one 'ear 4.-J5 2.25 .75 6.00 3. -'5 .uaiiy, wnnoui nunuay. .,...... n Dally, without Sunday, one month, .... .ou Sunday, one year (By Carrier.) . . . - p. 1 t . . . .4 AnAVABe i.UO .$9 .00 Dtilv. Sunday Included, three momwis. t.-- Dally. 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The Oregonian is doubtless anx ious for election of Mr. Harding an Mr. Stanfield," writes a reader who describes himself proudly aa a "100-per-cent republican." but who pre fers to avoid the blinding rays ol undesirable publicity, "but it seems to me that a more effective way of helping the cause would be to give just a little less prominence to alarmist reports of 'independent ob servers' that there is great danger that the republicans will lose the United States senate." It is quite true that The Oregonian desires the election of both Mr. Harding -and Mr. Stanfield, for the country's good, and is lending what ever influence it may have to that great consummation; but it will not consciously mislead the public as to the true situation about presidency or senate for that or. any other reason. It is a newspaper and not a party organ. The highest service a journal may perform, and should perform, is to give the public the facts. For them it may not be held responsible; but for a correct report of them, and intelligent interpreta tion of them, it is responsible. The Oregonian does not hesitate to say that If. during the present polit ical campaign, a survey of the situa tion through the eyes of reputable and experienced reporters, and through other informed agencies, had shown the likelihood of Mr. Cox's election, such a conclusion, sa'nd the reasons therefor, would have ap peared in these columns. It is not through design on our part that a different result has been so often in dicated. Likewise, if by painstaking Investigation it should appear prob able that the next congress will be democratic or republican, as the case may be, the outlook will be reported with fidelity, as it has been. This is not only good faith with the public but plalrst duty and downright com mon sense. Besides, it is good pol icy, ln-the sense that honesty Us the only way for one to serve himself or his fellows. So far as the presidency Is con cerned, it is all over but the shout ing and the inauguration. But the senate is much in doubt. With a single exception (Kentucky) all com petent' and disinterested observers say that In every northern or border state, where there is a senatorial contest, the republican candidate will surely run behind Mr. Harding. Nothing but a republican landslide for president will save the senate to the republicans if it shall be saved. Even then the avalanche in some states may not be sufficient. It 13 a hard problem for the republicans, which they may or may not solve. How may it best be solved? By hugging to themselves the delusion that there is no danger, and in that way putting a premium on indiffer ence, inaction and trust in fortune? Or by an actual knowledge of the truth, so that there may be a con certed effort to avert the disaster? We ask to know. Every sane person in Oregon knows that Mr. Stanfield has a hard fight to defeat Mr. Chamberlain. Every one knows that hundreds and thousands of republicans have had for years the habit of voting for Mr. Chamberlain, and that they, or many of them possibly' more, of them than ever have intended at this election to support Mr. Chamberlain. If they vote for -him this year, they should know that they are not only helping to elect a democratic senator for Oregon, but that they are taking a grave chance of helping to elect a democratic United States senate. They cannot evade their responsibil ity. A vote for Mr. Stanfield or Mr. Chamberlain thl3 year is a test of the . voter's sincerity and judgment in his choice of a . republican or a demo cratic national administration. The republican who votes for Mr. Hard ing and also votes for Mr. Chamber lain elects thus to hobble President Harding. That is the unescapable fact. CATECHIZING AN ABSENTEE. Among the. novelties which Gov ernor Cox has introduced in this campaign Is the practice of catechiz ing an opponent In the latter's ab sence a sort of political absent treatment. It Is very convenient to the cateehist, for it permits him to choose the subject and to frame his questions in such a manner as to convey the impression that the cate chized holds opinions which he does not hold, has said things which he has not said and has done things which he has not done. Such ques tions are called "leading" among lawyers, but the political orator has the advantage that there is no op posing attorney to object and answer, and there is no judge to call him down. But Mr. Cox should be careful, for his new weapon may be turned against him. He has already been catechized about what he would do with the Volstead act, but has evaded discussion. He might be asked what are his relations with the oligarchy of four bosses and what was ar ranged at that conference of the four at French Lick shortly before the democratic convention. He might be requested to explain what he would do with the league covenant if by some ui foreseeable chance he should be elected president and if the senate should have a republican or only a bare democratic majority. In order to make his catechisms of real value in instructing the voters, Mr. Cox should make them in the presence, not the absence, of the catechized, inviting' the victim to be present. If he were to undertake to catechize Senator Lodge, for exam ple, he would rivet the attention of the country and get more "of that newspaper space for which he is hungry. Then it would be real sport. Catechizing an absentee is too much like fanning the empty air with a baseball bat. It makes no home runs. NOT FOR ONE ALONE. A clean-cut analysis and summary of the league situation is thus made by the Eugene Register: - The truth of the matter is that the league of nations is a personal issue, so far as the United States is politically con cerned with It now. President Wilson has been and still is determined to force it thrcugh as he brought it back from Parte, if ho can, and because he must have ths support of the president's followers in the democratic party Governor Cox is stressing the league aa the leading Issue although he grew shaky recently and proclaimed his readiness to accept reservations. Repub lican senators, smarting under the presi dent's trea-tjiient of the senate, have Jbeen and still are determined to prevent ratifi cation of the unamended league. Because the ratification of the un amended league is a personal enter prise of President Wilson, the "great and solemn referendum" is a howl ing farce. If the democrats win, can President Cox force the unrevised league on an unwilling senate? Never. Yet, on the other hand, if Harding wins, it is also a fact that any plan for a league or association of nations, devised by him and his counselors, must have the sanction of two-thirds of the senate.. It will be impossible unless the democrats accept in good faith the results of the "solemn ref erendum" they have invoked. Can they say then that a solemn referen dum is no referendum? Or will they admit that the league has been scrapped by the people themselves? But. whoever is elected, it is ob vious that a league, or an association, or union, or whatever it may be called, can not be formed through one political party alone. THRIFT MAKES HEADWAY. Increase of more than a million small depositors in the savings de partments of national banks in a little more than 10 months, as recorded by Daily Financial Amer ica, is a sign of reaction from postwar extravagance, of return ing sanity. It will serve also to reassure the pessimists who lack faith In the innate stability of the people. The era jsf unwise spending may after all have been but a casual symptom. The figures seem to fur nish proof that in ' the long run Americans have common sense. The last report of the controller of the currency, for example, shows that the total of depositors in sav ings departments of navlonal banks Increased 14 per cent in the period in question. The total is now 8,035,000, or one in approximately each 13 of the population, including men, women and children. New depositors In national banks added $700,000,000 to deposits in 1919. Another indica tion of growing thrift is found in the fact that in numerous states the number of time deposit accounts ex ceeded that of demand accounts. In Oregon one person in every five has a checking account at a bank. Even in Massachusetts, long noted for the thrift of its people, the proportion is only one to 23. The geographical center of thrift appears to be shift ing. Perhaps this is due to the greater enterprise of the west, which realizes that mere enterprise is impotent without funds to give it force. Financiers are not of one mind as to the influences responsible ' for growth of the habit of saving. These in all probability have consisted of a number of factors, including thrift propaganda conducted during the war, education in the cumulative value of small capital, and better understanding of the relative satis factions obtainable from wise and foolish spending. The optimistic American, however, will say that he expected it all the time.' It was bound to occur some day, to a people cap able of reasoning, that the game was not worth the candle. The turning point, according to the statistics, has been reached. Thrift, once regarded as a kind of asceticism, may yet be come fashionable, and therefore uni versally popular. WILSON AUTOCRACY tV HAITI. Secretary of tate Colby's state ment of policy toward Haiti sheds light on the. working of that abso lute control over foreign relations which President Wilson claims for the chief executive. It also shows, when read with other acts of the Wilson administration in mind, when the great principle of . self- determination of peoples holds good and when it does not apply. Mr. Wilson sent the navy and ma rines to Haiti in 1915, when the black republic was in revolution as usual. The government was thrown out and under the supervision of American forces a new one was In stalled. This government was com pelled to accept a treaty dictated by the United States which practically annulled the republic's independ ence, and the marines chased Into the brush any Haitians who ob jected, killing many of them. Haiti has since been governed practically by the United States, with such beneficial results in the opinion of Mr. Colby that he hopes soon to leave It to govern itself. The armed occupation was an act of war, but congress was not even asked to declare war, and did not- American money was spent on the military operations, but it had not been appropriated by congress for that purpose. The treaty with the American - made government was ratified by the senate, probably be cause that body realized that affairs had been carried so far by the ad ministration as to make a halt im politic, also because It was evident that something must be done to pre vent intervention by some European power. Thus the president had cre ated precisely the situation that he had in mind when he said in his Constitutional History that a presi dent could so commit the govern ment to a certain foreign policy as to leave the senate no alternative to approval by ratifying . any treaty which grew out of that policy. Mr. Wilson put in practice his own theory that by committing the na tion he could deprive the senate of Its freedom of choice and thus be come absolute In foreign affairs. When Mr. Wilson entered upon the Haitian adventure - Mexico was In as anarchic a condition as Haiti, but in the main he showed respect for Mexico's right of self-determination. He intervened in a limited de gree against Huerta, whom he did not like, and again to. catch Villa, but withdrew with Villa still at large when Carranza, 'whom he favored, made strenuous objection, but tb.es exceptions only emphasized his ob jection to meddling with Mexico's right of revolution. let the only real difference was that Mexico had ten" times as many people as Haiti. The inference is that the right of self-determination holds good for a nation of 15,000,000. but does ,not hold good for one of 1,500,000. When in the summer of 1918 Russia was struggling in the grip of the bolshevists, who were under the dic tation of Germany, with which we were at war, Mr. Wilson absolutely refused to intervene except to facili tate the escape of the Czechs. In the case of a nation of ISO, 000, 000 he held his sacred principle invio lable. Its sanctity depends on the Mze of the job. FIVE PKR CENT MONEY. The attention of those who think that the key to cheap money will be found in a legislative process Is in vited to the statement issued by the Federal Reserve bank of the San Francisco district, showing the yield from investments In Liberty bonds at the present; market price. A single example will suffice to illustrate the point. , Bonds known as "second 4s," now quoted at 88 1-8. are the equivalent of a 5.16 per cent Invest ment. Now the mortgage-debtor, owing money on a note on which interest is running at the current rate of 6, 7 or 8 per cent, is not going to find it easy to persuade any lender to ad vance funds to him on real estate at not to exceed 5 per cent, when the latter need only to go Into the open bond market to obtain a return of 5.16 per cent, with the security of the most solvent government in the world. With no risks as to title, and no question as to regularity of In terest ffayments, and for a loan that runs for years without the annoying necessity for renewal, the Liberty bond would be the better investment without the advantage of a fractional .16 of 1 per cent in the interest rate. If the proponents of 5 per cent money by legislation know a way to compel investors to sell 5.16 per cent, gilt-edge United States bonds, ob tainable in any quantity, and put the proceeds into 6 per cent private se curities they have failed to take the people into their confidence.' The question is vital to all borrowers. In cluding the considerable number of home owners owing money on mort gages that soon or late are likely to press for renewal. ROBERT E. LEG. The death of Robert E. Lee, news of which was printed in The Ore gonian 50 years ago today, is pro vocative of reflection on what the course of history would have been if Lee had made a different decision in response to the offew made him, on April 18, 1861, in behalf of President Lincoln, of the command of the army of the I United States. Lee, whose personal honor remained un tainted throughout the war between the states, had been governed In his resignation from the army by the prevailing opinion of his time, that the obligation of 'loyalty to a govern- f-ment whose policy he did not ap prove was cancelled by that resig nation. But he was from the be ginning, an earnest opponent of dis union; it had been he who com manded the federal troops that sup pressed the John Brown raid. When Texas seceded, on February 1, 18 61, he returned to Washington, still with no thought that he was destined to become the great leader of a rebel lion. In a letter to his son. he wrote: StUl. a union that can be only main tained by swords and bayonets, and in which strife and civ.il war are to take the place of brotherly love and kindnetw, has no charm for me. I- shall mourn for my country and for the welfare of mankind. If the union in dissolved and the govern ment disrupted, I shall return to my na tive state and share the miseries of my people, and, save in defense, will draw my sw-ord on none. Lee did not resign his commission In the army, as many officers of southern birth were doing, with the definite intention of entering the service of the seceding states, as his letter shows. He deplored indeed the actions of his people, though he was an ardent states' rights advocate and believed they had been wronged He would defend, he wrote, any state if her rights were Invaded." He declined President Lincoln's offer because, "though opposed to seces-1 sion and deprecating war,. I could take no part In an Invasion of the southern states. The blockade of the south was declared on April 19; the invasion. In Lee's opinion, had begun, and on April 20 he resigned hfs federal commissicm. His posi tion therein was defined as to offi cers of southern sympathy in gen eral by General Joseph E. Johnston, who said: The acceptance of an officer's resigna tion absolves him from the obligations of his military service as completely as it absolves the government from giving him tne- pay oi tne graae ne neia. An oiucer is bound by that oath of allegiance to the government of the United tatesand obedience - to the officers they may set4 over him.- When the contract between himself and the government is dissolved by mutual' consent, as In the 'cases In question, he is no more bound under hid oath of allegiance to the government than to obedience to his former oommv&nder. The two obligations are in force only dur ing his tenure of office. The individual who -as an officer has, when hs becomes a citizen, exactly' the esme obligations to the United States as other citizens. What might have come to pass" if the government had refused to ac cept these resignations, as post facto critics have held that It should have done, can only be conjectured, yet there is some reason, for supposing that Lee would have pursued another cfburse. And events proved, that an officer of tremendous capacity, of penetrating understanding and of downright military genius was lost to the union when, Lee cast his lot with the confederacy. If Lee had undertaken, in the larger interest of peace between neighbors, to check the rebellion in its inciplency. It Is probable that he would have acted with the vigor that characterized his acts when he proceeded to organize the defense of the southern coast. His serenity in the trying period of his association with the other advis ers of President Davis is a warrant for assuming that he might have weathere'd the politico-militacy storms that swept the capital at Washington. His diplomacy, the drawing quality of his magnetic per sonality, more than his unquestioned personal bravery, commanded the situation in the rebellious states dur ing the whole progress of the war. More than once it seemed that Lee would win. He stopped McClellan's advance in the Seven Days Battle and defeated the federal army under Pope. He Mtgorously pushed the in vasion of Maryland, and won the vic tory of Fredericksburg. In the years that followed, he displayed his genius against odds, which, however, event ually wore him down. The history of the civil war, as every schoolboy knows, is the story of Robert E. Lee at this period. After Appomattox he lost none of his prestige; in his formal submission to the federal authorities and his urging of his own people to accept the new conditions he maintained the dignity of his po sition and continued to command the reverence pf his vanquished com rades. The closing years of his life fittingly illustrated his character. Without bitterness, he strove to build up where war had torn down. From October, 1865, until his death he served as president of Washington college. "The five years of his serv ice here," -says a historian, "were marked by steady recuperation from the desolation of war. New chairs were founded, the scheme of study was enlarged, and from the moral side it would have been impossible to secure finer results." His place in history has been assured no less by his extraordinary comprehension of strategy, though hampered by want 'of material, than by the purity of his motives, the excellence of his private life and the example which he set of unselfish devotion to the task of rebuilding a commonwealth when peace had been restored. MONOPOLY IN PCBLIC T.TII.ITIES. Public regulation of public utili ties has become so well established that it is generally accepted as a fixed policy. It has led to discussion of the question whether monopoly in each field, thus regulated, would not be to the public advantage, and has produced a strong tendency in that direction. The subject was well treated by George L. Myers, assistant to the president of the Pacific Power & Light company, at the recent con vention of the Northwest Power & Light association at Spokane. The principle followed by public commissions in fixing rates Is that after value of the property has been ascertained without regard to capi talization all expenses of operation, depreciation and repair should be calculated and that a rate should be allowed sufficient to yield a certain percentage of- profit above this amount. It follows that in any cer tain community one corporation can render service at lower cost than two or more corporations. Competition means duplication of plant and over head expense to serve the same num ber of-people as one would serve. If the customers of both are to pay rate's sufficient to pay double over head expense and to pay profit on double investment,xConsumers must pay higher rates to competing com panies than it need pay to one com pany, if both are to live. If one buys the other out. the buyer must have rates high enougrh to pay interest on this dead investment or must lose It. In the latter case it3 credit would then be injured, and its ability to obtain capital to extend its plant would be impaired. Having abso lute control over rates, the public Is a greater beneficiary of monopoly than the owners and therefore has a greater Interest in its protection. One - objection to monopoly for regulated public utilities hi that they would be loath to adopt new inven tions and improvements if the incen tive of competition were removed. On this point Mr. Myers said: It is within the power of regulatory authorities to compel utilities to give serv ice in keeping with modern methods. Mani festly under regulation it Is as much the duty of regulatory authorities to enforce modesn standards of service as It is the obligation of the utility to nse and apply them. Incompetence and neglect' by either does not absolve or excuse the other. "Both hate a public trust to perform and respect. That suggestion implies that an inventor would ask the public ser vice commission to require adoption of his device by the utility to which it would apply. ,The utility manager might be sceptical and. If the com missioner Insisted, the upshot might be a test at public expense. -Jnven tlons which work well in tests often fail in practical working. In that case the commission would be open to much criticism. The woods are full of inventors and after ninety nine tests the commission might be come "hard-boiled" and refuse even to try the one hundredth, though it might be the very thing thati had merit. It is not easy to imagine the average public service commissioner as having such an open mind that he would have been willing to risk public ridicule by trying" the tele phone or the wireless when they were in their infancy. The next problem Is how to get for I the public the benefits of mononolv and at the same time not lose' those Dt invention. We mav wind ur bv maintaining a state experiment sta tion where all new devices for im provement of public utilities shall be tested. , It is not in the scheme of nature that lives are to be snuffed out by a contraption using gasoline, but It is done. Isn't it time that something realty was done to stop the practice for that is what it is. There are thousands of drivers in this city who never have killed anybody never have htt anybody .even; and there are those who take a chance. After arresting a woman for break ing an umbrella over her husband's head and chasing him down tlte street with a hammer, the police brought the umbrella and hammer along as evidence. They went to a lot f of unnecessary bother. Any woman who can handle her husband like that would admit it. One of the jokes seen in trans ferring afoot on the Morrisom bridge is the advice to "Follow the string of lights." On a bad night some times one needs a pocket torch to uncover them. "Rube" Marquard's fool re ply. cost him his place on the Brooklyn team and perhaps in baseball. The fool always opens his mouth to his sor row. If the people who ordered repairs and tie up of the Morrison bridge figured on a spell of good weather, they are mighty poor at figuring. The cornstalks that were a part of the garden on a city lot are no longer ornamental. Boosters' clubs that at tend to this must be in politics. The eastern lobster transplanted does not thrive in Pacific waters.. Maybe he misses the vernacular of the men who tend the pots. Some of the fellows who confess to murder without corroborative evi dence might as well be railroaded f or the good of the world. The name "Sandy Road" is his toric; "Sandy Boulevard" Is fashion' able; . but Roseway win be es thetic. Rain In the valley and snow in the mountains Oregon's fall affinities. Only dispute among republicans is as to size of the majorities. Stars and Starmakers. By Leoae Caaa Baer. Sophie Tucker Is suing her hus band, Frank Westphal, for divorce, but neither Mies Tucker nor her hus band Is talking for publication. It is known that the comedienne settled all financial affairs with Mr. Westphal In writing: and the fact that both are appearing simultaneously la Chicago is only a coincidence. The Chicago papers are devoting columns of apace to Miss Tucker's appearance at Edel weiss gardens. She played two weeks as an Orpheum headliner in Chicago and then opened the Edelweiss last week, bringing- to the tctppiest resort in Chicago the most glittering and most numerous audience In its his tory. The limousines were lined out for blocks. The Edelweiss Is nine miles from downtown and is ordi narily a summer rendezvous. But, Tuckerized, It seems on Its way to become a winter resort. ' The "loop" ticket stands" have picked the gardens for a "buy." The downtown ticket brokers are han dling tables at the Edelweiss at $1 a seat. Never ln Chicago history had this been done, even on New Year's eves. They bought 200 seats nightly for the first six weeks, with further options. Meanwhile Miss Tucker's husband. who never -was heard of until the slever Sophie married him. Is playing at a Pant ages theater In Chicago and is programmed as "The Man Who Made Sophie Tuefker Famous." West phal says he was indignant about it and that it was due to a house kress agent who took it on himself. Bryan Foy, eldest son of Eddie Foy, it at West Baden following a nervous breakdown. Young Foy was ordered to take a long rest by the family physician and will remain at the health resort for at least a month. He retired from the family act at the beginning of last season to enter the offices of a brokerage concern. ' Frank Dekum, former Portlander. is playing a part in a new play called "The Outrageous Mrs. Palmer." in which Mary Young Is the star. Also in the company is Eugenie Blair, a one-time favorite on this coast. F.ay- mond Hackett and Henry E. Dlxey are in the cast. Flora Zabelle (Mrs. Raymond Hitchcock), a patient in a lying-in hospital in New York, is reported as having a chance of recovery. She had been on tour with "The r"se Girl," and although being very ill in sisted on working. A collapse occurred on her return to New rorn last week. She was rushed to the hospital and operated on Immediately. Irene Castle will dance in London this season, at the Grafton galleries. Gene Buck and Ring Lardner are collaborating on a play, the baeis of which is to .be the Lardner stories "The Busher." Lardner and Buck are working on the piece at Buck's coun try home at Great Neck. L. L a tneaincai exenange tells or an innovation for stage folk which is original with Mildred Campbell of The Londui Belles" Columbia bur iesyue) at the Columbia, New York, last week. In reviewing the show the paper passed favorable comment upon Miss Campbell, who is the prima donna. Following through the malls, came a printed card, signed Mildred Camp bell, reading: "Your kind mention of Mildred Campbell in your write-up of the London Belles company is most sin' cerely appreciated." ""Miss Campbell may ease upln ag gravated . feeling of curiosity," ays tne reviewer, uy iorwaraing me pre pared card she may have ready when the notice is 'bad. " Charles E. Bray, general western representative of the Orpheum circuit, is convalescing at Byron Hot Springs, near San Francisco, from an Injury to his hip which he sustained early in September after a fall in the lobby of the Orpheum theater. The musical version of "The Sol diers of Fortune" is the vehicle for which Mischa Elman is to furnish the score. Flo iegfeld Jn. is to make the production. The. book of the piece is by Augus tus Thomas, who originally adapted the Richard Harding Davis story for the stage, when- it was presented with Robert Edeeon as the star. The lyrics for the numbers are be ef! g done by Gene Buck. . Percy Burton and Richard Walton Tully have secured the American and Canadian production rights to "The Right to Strike." which is now run ning at the Garrick under the man agement of Leon M. Lion. A London account says that Jennie Dolly won more than 150,000 at the gaming tables In Deauville when she was there on a holiday recently. Jen' nle is Yanscf Dolly. Jennie Is the name she was given and Yansci is the modern twist she gave It. She and her sister Rozika are playing In London. The point in the following account from a San Francisco paper Is that the Mrs. Watson Eastman mentioned , is a Portlander: "Juanlta Russell, a cafe entertainer, last week turned over to the police diamond brooch, valued at $1000. which was lost by Mrs. Watson East man, a guest at the St. Francis hotel. Miss Russell explained that she had picked up the brooch in a cafe after Mrs. Eastman and party had de parted." Answer to Out-of-Town: Maxine Elliott will play at her own theater on Thirty-ninth street. New York, in a new comedy, under management of the Shuberts. Questions of Citizenship. PORTLAND. Oct. 13. (To the Ed ritor.) (1) Kindly publish whether or not a person born in the United States of foreign parents, who were not naturalized, is eligible to vote, .having- reached the age of 21. (2) If so. what are the laws concern ing the children born to foreign am bassadors? T. C. .M (1) Such person is a citizen and en titled to vote. t!) Children of ambassadors are children of persons temporarily in the country and, aa such, do not become citizens. . NO I Those Who Come and Go. j "We do not spend a cent to attract tourists to Massachusetts, yet you cannot keep them away with a ma chine gun." asserts Robert B. Hlg gins of Boston, where he is a banker and for 20 years has been a director of the Massachusetts historical so ciety. Mr. Hlgglns, who Is at the Multnomah on his way to ay suburb of Los Angeles, says that places of historical Interest, are great drawing cards. "Possibly every man, woman and child in America hopes sometime," said he, - "to see Bunker hill monu ment. Plymouth Rock, Fanueil hall and the tea wharf, where the Boston tea party was held. These are only some of the points of Interest in and around Boston which bring thousands of tourists to our city every summer. There Is such an army of these visi tors that the hotels cannot take care of them all. The New England states are rich in the early history of this country and through the efforts of various ' historical societies all the relics of the early days have been preserved. There is scarcely a place of historic notice which has not been marked." The lumber business Is 1 far from alluring, according to A. L. Cooper of Tenino, Wash., who Is registered at the Perkins, but the operators live in hope for an improvement next year Mill men bought logs at high prices and the cost of production was high. and now the market has gone skid ding, until the price of common lura ber s said to be less than the price of logs. The Increased railroad rate scared the buyers, so orders fell off. Some lumbermen suspect that the in creased rate is a business move by the railroads to bear down the market, for since the market dropped railroads have bought million of feet of lum ber for their own purposes. The sus picious lumbermen predict that when the railroads have all the lumber they need at the low price, the in created rate will be knocked off or modified. There are three courthouses In Klamath county and the county court holds its sessions in the city hall at Klamath Falls. The courthouse situa tion in Klamath has been a joke to everyone, in Oregon outside of those who live in Klamath county, and there it has been a serious matter for sev eral years, resulting in recall elec tions and other unpleasantnesses. Long age the courthouse tangle be came an Issue In the courts and it Is now before the supreme court. C. F. Stone has been at fc'alem, arguing the case and other Klamath county peo ple here in connection with the court house trouble are E. L. Elliott and F. C. Mills. A, E. Reames of Med ford, who represents one side of the argument, -has also arrived in the city. Messrs. Elliott and Mills are at the Imperial and Mr. Reames is at the Hotel Portland. There are hotel families just as there are circus families, people who are in the business for feneration after generation. Charles B. Hervey comes from a hotel foully that goes back to the days when a hotelman was an inn-keeper, with entertain ment for man and beast. Mr. Hervey has for years owned and operated hotels In Florida and Alabama. He s at the Multnomah Just now on vacation trip, having sold his San Carlos hotel at Penacola, Fla.. to syndicate. While here Mr. Hervey Is looking over the local hotels with professional eye and is familiarizing himself with local travel conditions. Mrs. George Flavel and Miss Nellie Flavel are at the Hotel Portland from Astoria. The town of Flavel was named after the family and once on a time there was hope that I would outshine Astoria and an im mense hotel was erected on the shore of the Columbia. Flavel had new leae of life when the Grea Northern and Northern Pacific, the big steamers, made the run from Flavel to San Francisco in 24 hours but the war came and these speedy steamers were taken off to be used as transports. After two months In New England, Mr. and Mrs. William Goldman have returned home and. as on previous trips, returned with the conviction that there is no place like Portland. "Nowhere that we visited." saya Mr. Goldman, could we find water to comnare with the Bull Run supplied to Portland, and nowhere did we find a city in such beautiful surroundings The " way for Portlanders to appre elate their city is to visit others. Under a more or less recent federal statute, imported plants must go through a stage of quarantine th same as immigrants arriving on these shores, for the government does not want the native plants infected with alien disease. H. Sergeant, of the department of agriculture, ha arrived in Portland to enforce th plan? quarantine act. This is the first time since the law became e.ffectlv that such an officer has been stationed at this port. Instead of being a hotel man. R. C. Brooks might have been a school ceacher. He put in two years at normal school preparatory to teach Ing, but he evinced so much Interest in athletics that he shifted his race for the staff of life from teaching to the hotel business. He Is now the new assistant manager at the Multno mah and was formerly at the Rain bow, at Great Falls, Mont., and was for several years purchasing agent at the sanatorium at Hot Lake, Or. "How's business?" inquired a trav eling, man of another at the HoteJ Portland counter yesterday. "Look In your own order book." replied the sec ond "peddler" In disgust. The travel ing salesmen in most lines are unani mous In the expression that business has slumped, and they blame the pub lic for not buying, as the curtailing of sales is making the dealers more con servative in loadtng up with etocks. G. A. Edmunds, business man of Tillamook, is at the Hotel Oregon, ac companied by Mrs. Edmunds. He ad mits that Tillamook has bad Its full quota of rainfall in the past six weeks, ' with an -occasional storm thrown in for good measure, but "Til lamook is the best county In Oregon." E. P. Mahaffey of the Central Ore gon bank at Bend, is at the Hotel Oregon. The business situation in Bend is excellent, he declares, with the mills well supplied with orders and the sheep business Improving. Bowling Arthur Johnson, editor of a lumber trade paper published In Chicago, is among the Hotel Portland arrivals. He Is one of the biggest edi tors, considered by the pound, In the country. Mrs. T. B. Kay of Salem, wife f the former state treasurer and now rep resentative for Marlon county in. the legislature, is registered at the Sew ard. Business manager of the Gazette Times at Corvallis, Charles L. Spring er is at 'ths Multnomah. The Gazette Times is an out-and-out republican daily. Mr. and Mrs. Harold Eskildsen are at the Hotel Portland from Cornuco pia, which has long been a mining center In Baker county. George Love, who runs arf airplane bus between Bf-nd and Burns, is amnnir tha arrivals at the Hotel Port. ' land. MIDDLE GROUND FOR VOTER Supreme Issse Is Return to Constitu tional Government. PES'DLETON. Oct. 12. (To the Edi tor.) The writer desires to address himself briefly to those citizens of all parties who, like himself, while utterly opposed to the Wilson com pact, usually styled the league of nations, are yet proponents of the principle involved and conceive that It would have been both wiser and braver for . the republican national convention to stand squarely upon the covenant as amended by the enate. Those amendments served to Americanize the treaty and in no manner weakened its ultimate pur pose. They expressed the cryataliza tlon of the best thought of the re public and reflected, as most of us believe, the basic sentiment of the nation. To them the statesmen of Europe raised no objection. Forty nine senators out of a total senate membership of 96 voted affirmative ly upon them. Thirty-five senators opposed. Twelve either dodged or were absent during the ballot. Thus 15 votes were lacking to make the two-thirds constitutionally requisite for adoption. A favorable word from the presl dent would have assured sufficient votes at any time. Indeed it was long an open secret at Washington that most of the 35 administration sena tors were at heart favora-ble to the amendments, but that they refrained from voting favorably solely be cause or party loyalty. In arrogance and pride Mr. Wilson arbitrarily ar rayed his own will not only aeainst the considerate judgment of publicists and statesmen at home and abroad. but in hostility to peace and to our early participation in the harmoniza tion of a torn and discouraged world bpon his wilfulness ho now pleads for a solemn referendum a thintr as Impossible as would be the turning backward of the hands of time on the dial plate of history. Hie one great opportunity he deliberately de stroyed. here, then, lies the duty at the polls of those of us who orlginally eppoused the amended covenant. and who regret Its defeat? Shall we re iuse to vote oecauso. forsooth, we are not wholly in accord with the views of Senator Hardins, or the Involved and meaningless verbiage of the republican platform? Cox is not entitled to support for two reasons, namely: Ills nomination by a coterie of notorious political bosses, who, are known to be opposed to anv len'eue and the fact that he proclaims him- seir the lesratee of the president, and to De piedfcea to the origins! Ver sanies covenant, with its suotle un dermining of our nationalism nnd ir Independence. erily thoughtful demo crats and Independents must view this candidate as the political Dr. Jekyll ana Air. riyae In a drama staged by laeausis ana creamers. There seems to be no middle rrnund cnoice must be made between the republican candidate and the demo cratic candidate. He who refrain from voting in times like these Is noth a coward and a doubtful citizen .Neither Mr. Harding nor Mr. Cox a great man. in the sense that Mn- Kinley. Cleveland and Roosevelt are thus ranked. Neither has been an original thinker or a leader of men. ihe die must be cast with each of us upon issue of public policy and not of individuals. Perhaps the country needs a. rest from the strenu osity of Roosevelt and Wilson. The following facts now seem self evident: "irst The treaty as brought from Paris by Mr. Wilson Is dead, no mat ter who Is elected president. A two thirds senatorial majority- In ratifi cation can never be secured. Second The exlsMnsr leatrue is a disappointment to Its old world spon sors. Conditions have radically changed since the armistice. The covenant as formulated is not func tioning In a manner eiual to the un forseen emergencies. There is reason to believe that our allies will wel come an opportunity to reconsider and to co-operate with us In the creation of a real league of nations, suited to the vital demands of the epoch of reconstruction. Ihree Mr. Harding promise to call promptly Into conference, upon his induction into office, the best minds of all parties to formulate a new compact which shall assure alike our separate national life and our in ternational duty. Fourth The election of Mr. Cox would mean another four yerers of absolutism, of unseemly bickering, the exaltation of Tammany Hall, with its sinister and kindred associa tions and a perpetuation of the hated Wlonlan dogmatism and waste. The league at best can be but a minor issue in this campaign. Under such cirrtimtatis is not our duty clear? If we. who vision our country as the ultimate guarantor of world llherty and world Justice, support Harding we shall assure a re turn to the constitutional government framed by the fathers, to an era where once more the legislative, the judicial and the executive depart ments shall be equal in dignity and neither shall trespass upon the pre rogatives of another. That after all Is the supreme goal of this election and the one hope which the republic has of securing a treaty which shall enthrone alike American traditions and American d-itv. STEPHEN A LOWELL. Slnndrr nnd Estoppel. NEWPORT. Or., Oct. 12 (To the Editor.) (1) Please advise me If there Is a law In Oregon providing for prosecution for slanr-jr calling vile names about an lrklivldual to another person. (2) Also, what Is the law of estoppel? SUBSCRIBER. (1) The legal recourse when slan dered Is to sue for damages. (2) Estoppel, in law, is the stopping of a person from asserting, a fact or claim, irrespective of its truth, by reason of previous' representation, act or adjudication inconsistent there with, i. e., a property owner who has had notice and an opportunity to be heard in regard to an assessment for public improvement, but falls to ap pear and make objection at the proper time, is estopped from seek ing relief in a court of equity against such assessment on the ground of Its irregularity or inequltableness; or.one who advises another to purchase property without mentioning a ven dor's lien, which he himself claims thereon. Is estopped from asserting It after the negotiations are. completed and the consideration paid. These are illustrations which might be extend ed almost indefinitely as regards number and variety. Oregon Woman Remembers - Jenny Und. CORVALLIS. Or.. Oct. IS. (To the Editor.) In a recent reference to Jennie Lind, The Oregonian says: "There are no doubt few living that heard her fine notes. I am one whe did. I am past SO years. My birth place was Boston. I do not remember my age correctly at that time, but when quite young was in New York two years, and I have also had the pleasure of hearing Patti. 1 also had the pleasure of shaking hands with Governor Coolidge of Boston, as I was a delegate to the G. A. R. con vention In 1617. May we be able to elect him for the office for which he is nominated. MRS. D. C. ROSS. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. I need a suit; I need another Kelly, And therefore It is good to call to mind These well remembered words of Mr. Shelley: "If winter comes, can spring be far behind?" For when dissolved and goo th snow and ice is. When in the trees' the robins etngr once more. The clothing men aver that present prices Will flop to where they wero before the war. man like me, who's no financial wizard. Nor" yet a coupon-clipping- money king. Can buy a coat to keep away the bliz zard For maybe twenty dollars is ths spring. Already I've a fondly pleasing; vision ur strutting in a suit of clothes again That doesn't rouse the passer-by's de rision For I can buy a snappy model then. And for the first time In my recent annals Til rornp my thin and shredded B. V. D.'s, And wrap my room tn sephyr proof red flannels About the time the green Is on ths trees. ril wear a hat that isn't worn audi battered, A nice new hat, of lovely brown or gray. And by admiring glances Til bs flat tered I think Til get It Decoration day. The dawn of hope la always most al- luring. And In a somewhat brutal northern clime. A person finds It rather reassuring To know that spring; is due oa schedule time. But a" I badly need that emit and Kelly And often have been much misled by hope, I cannot help but fear that Mr. Ehel Icy Is possibly mistaken rtt-hls dope! Ifandins; It to Them. Trotzky and Lenine have continued to eet awav with a eet-rlch-oulclc scheme longer than any one else ever dirt. Get 'Em Somehow. Even if It Is Impossible to Jail the crooked ballplayers there ought to be some way to make 'em pay Income taxes on that bribe money. Aa to the Pun. Although it is too early to be cer tain, we begin to suspect that Joshua had nothing on Frank A. Munsev. (Copyright. 1320, by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) John Burroughs Nature Notes. Csn You Answer These Questions f 1 What kind of tracks does the partridge make in the snow? 2 Does the skunk make any sound? 3 Is a beehive a monarchy or democracy? Answers In tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Prevlitas Questions. 1 Has the buzzard any vocal powers? The worst thing about the buzzard Is his silence. The crow caws, the hawk screams, the eagle barks, but the buzzard Bays not a word. So far as I have observed, he has no vocal powers whatever. Nature dare not trust him to speak. In his case she preserves a discreet silence. 2 What are the advantages of walking? No one else looks out upon the world so kindly and charitably as the pedestrian; no one else gives and takes so much from the country he passes through. Next to the laborer in the fields, the walker holds the closest relation to the soil; and ha holas a closer and more vital relation to. nature because he Is freer and his mind more at leisure. S Does a chipmunk stray far from home? There Is one thing about a chln- munk that is peculiar: he Is never more than one Jump from bome.-Mako dive at him anywhere and In he goes. He knows where the hole is. even when it is covered up with, leaves. There Is no doubt, also, thaf he ba his own sense of humor and fun. as what squirrel has not? (Rights reserved bv Houghton-Mlf-flln Co.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Acs. From The Oreironlsn of October 14. 1J5. Congressman Binger Hermann, rep resenting the second district, and Congressman Ellis, of the first dis trict, are in Portland. Both have been attending district and county fairs. Beginning tomorrow it is probable that the game market will bo well supplied with grouse, pheasant, quail. Mongolian pheasant, as the game cods permits shooting and sale between October 15 and November 15. Two stories of the Presbyterian academy building on Montgomery street are up. and the third is near completion. Atlanta,..Ga. Sam Jones, the south ern evangelist, it Is said, smokes 15 cigars a day. Fifty Team Aso. From The Orecnian of October 14. 1870. Lexington. Va. General Robert E. Lee died yesterday morning of con gestion of the brain, at the age of 63 years. Colonel' Joe Meek arrived yesterday and is stopping at the Cosmopolitan. For a man of his years Colonel Meek is exceedingly smart. For ten days paBt an average of 60 wagons, containing an average of 30 bushels each of wheat, have unloaded in this city. T. B. Oder.eal, of Corvallis, has been appointed assistant United States as sessor for the second district of Or egon. lluntina; on Own Lasd. EUGENE, Or., Oct. 12. (To the Edi tor.) Can a man hunt without a hunt ing license on his own land? If he can. does this apply to members of his immediate family or sons? I have heard the statement made that a man does not need a hunting license to hunt on his own land. A SUBSCRIBER. No license is required for hunting or angling on one's own property. The exemption extends to members of the owner's family. Day on Which Date Fell. STANFIELD. Or.. Oct. 12. (To the Editor.) Please publish the day on which April 1, 1905, came. READER. April 1, 1S03. was Saturday.