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THE MORNING OREGONIANV THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1920
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ON TKLI.ING THE TRUTH.
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.