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Interpretation of things said or done by others just now being a pop ular pastime, a critical reader of The Oregonian at Sherwood has under taken to read into an article in this paper last Sunday something: which was neither said nor intended to be said or implied. Here is what The Oregonian said: Mr. Harding has nowhere said that be is for no league. He has said many times that he Is for an association, or so ciety, or union, or league, but aot for the Wilson league. At Des Moines he made a statement which was interpreted, or misinterpreted, to mean that bo was against the proposed league, with or with out reservations, clarifying. Interpretative, nullifying, or otherwl; but he made thereafter a formal explanatory declaration that he was "for a world association," but that he was "unalterably opposed to going- into the league of nations as that proposition now stands. Clear enough, it would seem: but this is the way our Sherwood friend gets it through his understanding, basing thereon certain objections to the candidacy of Mr. Harding: May I not ask you a question or two relative to your editorial in The Oregonian of October IS, under caption "Going Back to Normalcy," wherein you stats that Harding- In his Des Moines speech was misinter preted that he did not mean that he was asrainst the proposed league, with or with out reservations, etc. Did not M r. Hard ing say in his Des Moines speech, that it was not interpretations he was seeking, put rejection of the league? How do you xpect those in favor of a league to In terpret sut-h language? Of courso it is readily understood how those against the league would interpret it. We will admit Mr. Harding did modify this statement In later speeches. Well and good. The only reason this was done, Mr. Harding has been between the deep sea and the devil since he was nominated. Whichever water looks the safest for him to sail in. there you find him. Do you think this In tho rigtit kind of material to fill the great snd responsible position of chief magiKtrate of this nation? What assurance have we. when elected president, that the same deep sea and devil will exist, and wa will be finding our president "trying to swim in all waters, being ail things to ail men? Tf the eligibility of a candidate for office be determined by the consis tency of his public addresses, it 'may be greatly feared that the distin guished educator who now occupies the presidency would never have got to first base in any political contest. Cannot the Sherwood publicist think of a dozen aye, a hundred in stances where Professor Wilson has said one thing and Woodrow Wilson has done another? Cannot he recajl more than one glaring example of rhetorical affirmation and executive negation in the record of Mr. Wilson as president? We can. So can Mr. Bryan, whom Professor Wilson once wanted knocked into a cocked hat and who afterwards was summoned to head the Wilson cabinet. The great apostle of unpreparedness in 1914 certain people were "nervous and excited" he said became the ardent advocate of preparedness in 1916, and to that end he wanted the greatest navy in the world. "Watchful waiting" was followed by the attack on Ve"ra Cruz and no meddling in Mexico by the expedition to capture Villa. The democratic platform of 1912, the country was solemnly assured by Mr. Wilson, was not "molasses to catch flies with," but was a, sacred cove nant to be fulfilled: and it was fol lowed by the distinct repudiation of five or six planks. Including free Panama tolls, the single term, and Mexico. The world war was no con cern of ours, and its origins and causes were obscure and not to be determined; but we made tt our af fair and set out to make the world safe for democracy. Is It remem bered at Sherwood that "he kept us out of war"? Then the 14 points. How many of them but why continue? The sub ject is disheartening. Is not a "fool ish consistency the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines"? We reckon yes. To be great Is to be misunderstood. What, it may be asked at Sher wood, has all this got to do with Mr. Cox? He is named to be the sueces-, sor of Mr. Wilson, he is the chosen defender of his administration, and he is the champion at large of the league of nations, without reserva tions. Or are there to be reserva tions? If so, what reservations? Mr. Cox as publisher at .Dayton apolo-"- glzed for the sinking of the Lusl-t.-Hjla, and definitely shaped the coulse of his paper before the war to court German sentiment. Mr. Cox as governor was for the wets. Where is he now? Shall Mr. Harding be defeated because he is not always consistent or specific? And shall Mr. Cox ask for votes because he stands where he always stood and says what he always said. It is a poor reason, if it is true: it is, of course, no reason for his defeat if it la not true. The real decision of the country is between the republican party and its policies and the democratic party ana its record, ana between Mr. Harding and Mr. Cox as their respec tive representatives. The Oregonian thinks the welfare of the country will be better assured with the re publican party in power. It has had during the campaign a growing re spect for Mr. Harding, which it be lieves has been and is shared by the country; and all this despite certain apparent divagations of expression and shiftings of attitude. It has a growing disrespect for Mr. Cox. which it also believes is shared by the country. Judge Rossman expressed himself yesterday In the case of a young couple and "the other man" and life In an, apartment bouse a4 vising "a little house in the suburbs." . His views about the latter are all right, but not wholly so about life in the hive, which is in itself not wholly conducive to breaking the command ment that most concerns married people. There's the personal equa tion, so to speak. Sometimes it's Adam and sometimes it's Eve, and some more times it's the "snake." One can be as "bad" in a tent as in a mansard mansion. " THE SENATE CONTEST. 'The extremely doubtful status of the fight for control of the United States senate may be shown by a summary of the situation in the various states. Thirty-three senators are to be elected. Of the thirty three, seventeen are to be chosen to fill places now occupied by demo crats, and sixteen to fill places now occupied by republicans. The re publican majority in the present senate is two. But it includes New berry of Michigan, and Gronna of North Dakota, the latter defeated for renomination in the republican pri mary by Dr. E. J. Ladd, the can didate of the Non-Partisan League. Unless the republicans make actual gains, their position will be most precarious. If the democrats gain two or even one. perhaps they will be able to organize the new senate. The consensus of opinion by im partial observers shows that the respective chances not certainties, all of them, but probabilities of the two parties in the several states stand about as follows: " Dem. (11). Rep. (9). Dcubt. (13) Alabama (2) ..Connecticut California Arizona Illinois Colorado Arkansas Kansas Idaho - Florida N. Hampshire Indiana Georgia New York Iowa Kentucky Ohio Maryland Louisiana Pennsylvania Missouri N. Carolina Vermont Nevada Oklahoma - Washington Oregon 3. Carolina - X. Dakota S. Dakota ' Utah Wisconsin In the doubtful states the present representation is seven republicans and six democrats. BAD IN PRINCIPLE AND DETAIL. "The components used in the manufacture of oleomargarine, when properly made, are all wholesome and digestible materials such as are consumed in eating various food products. It does not appear, there fore, that any valid objection can be made against the use of oleomarga rine from a physiological stand point." Harvey W. Wiley. Harvey W. Wiley Is the country's best - known dietician, yet despite what he and other scientific au thorities have said there remains unrna.vtniiie nrf i i wi i co in some onar. ters against oleomargarine. ' It is not this prejudice, however. that is back of the anti-oleomarga rine bill on the November ballot. But the prejudice against the product has plainly been recognized by Inclusion In the bill In the category of "oleo margarine" of all forms of nut butter and vegetable oil products used as butter substitutes. The intent of the bill is to im pose a license fee high enough to make unprofitable the manufacture. sale, and. use in public places of all butter substitutes. It is an attempt to legislate them out of use by the high license method, regardless of their wholesomeness and regardless of the fact that under present laws oleomargarine or any other butter substitute cannot be imposed upon the people as true butter. AH butter substitutes must now be so labeled. The user buys them under present laws with full knowledge. The pro posed law seeks to make them too expensive for him to buy at all. But the bill is defective in the particular that while it requires the retailer of butter substitutes to be licensed it fixes no license fee for him. The effect therefore would be to exclude from the market the home manufacturer and home wholesaler of such products, who must pay a high license, and permit the manufacturer and wholesaler of other states to dispense the product in Oregon through the retailers True oleomargarine is but a small percentage of the butter substitutes sold in Oregon. The manufacture of cocoanut butter is a growing busi ness in Oregon and Importation of the raw product is an important element of ocean commerce. Adop tion of the measure would tend to drive this business to other states on the coast. The bill is bad also in principle, in that It attempts to deny the con sumer the right to use a wholesome product merely because It happens to be cheaper than dairy butter. Vote "no" on the oleomargarine bill. TO PROVIDE FOR GBOWTNG BCSFVESS. In deciding how they shall vote on the Port of Portland consolida tion bill the people of Portland would do well to consider .the need of constantly adding to their facili ties for handling ships as their foreign and coastwise commerce increases. Foreign vessels alone are more than twice as numerous in 1920 as in 1910, and their number has grown in proportion to the population of the port and the pro duction of its tributary country. To this number have been added the great number of vessels of the American merchant marine. This Increase has been made in spite of depression in foreign mar kets and of the adverse effect of foreign exchange. As these obstacles to commerce are removed, it will grow at a more rapid pace, if the port provides a good ship channel and ample docks and other harbor facilities. Jixtent of the possible in crease may be judged by the fact that Portland's trade territory is but 30 per cent developed and that only 60 per cent of present produc tion is absorbed in domestic markets. If Portland neglects to provide means for export of the surplus from increased production, either develop ment will be retarded or the surplus will go to other porta for export. Increase of shipping has been so great that continued increase at the same rate will soon employ the capacity of the present terminals, in cluding No. 4 when completed. The only feasible plan for further dock is the Swan Island project. It will create frontage for docks accommo dating 76 ships on the Guild's lake side and 11 ships on the Mock's bottom side. These docks would be constructed as the demands of com merce grow. Space will also be pro vided for enlarged railroad terminals. which will be necessary as com merce swells traffic with the in terior; also for manufactures, which will be attracted by cheat) sites ad jacent to rail and water transporta tion. Expenditure on this Improvement will not be unproductive. It will yield a direct revenue to the port in rentals and dock dues. It will yield ft M leas certain, tbp.ugb. lo direct revenue to the people in Increase of the' general volume of business. It is a wise investment to be made for the purpose of handling the growing business of the Dort such as anv business man would make who found his business growing beyond the capacity of his plant. PROFESSIONALS BARRED. In inviting letters on election is sues for publication Sunday In this newspaper. The Oregonian. had in mind the doing of a particular serv ice and that service was the spread of information as to the opinions held by those not actually associated with specific movements. That was all. Therefore it distinctly and def initely extended its invitation to "the people." . The Oregonian had no intention of inviting propaganda from habitual, professional or paid propagandists or agitators or from publicity agents paid or 'unpaid by candidates or leagues. Letters are desired and will be printed only when voluntarily written. Letters obviously prepared by propagandists or professional writers, even though signed by per sons not actively engaged in manu facturing sentiment, are unwelcome. The Oregonian also invited argu ment. Letters which are pure In vective against those who do not believe as the authors believe are not argument and will not be printed. In most instances the existence of so-called leagues In behalf of spe cific legislation is due wholly to a lack of genuine public Interest in the doctrines these leagues pro pound. The principle of direct leg islation was adopted in this state with the understanding on the part of most persons that it was to be solely a means for determining the judgment of the people on funda mental laws and on issues in which there was wide divergence of opin ion and a real public interest. In stead it is being made the conveni ent instrument of every person who has a half-baked theory that he would like to put to experimental test. The Oregonian never has given, and will not now knowingly give, free assistance to those who openly abuse the rights and privileges con ferred upon the people by the Ore gon system. MB. COX'S SMALL GROUP. Nomination of Senator Harding for president is ascribed by Governor Cox to this "small group of men": Senators Lodge, Watson. Harding, Brandegee, Wadsworth. McCormick, Smoot and Col. George Harvey. With the exception of Colonel Harvey, each of these men was elected by the people, of an entire state to represent It in the United States senate. They are the ckosen leaders of the republican senators, who represent more than half of the states. Mr. Cox's nomination was brought about by Murphy, Nugent. Taggart and Brennan, another smaller group of men. Each represents a political machine, chosen not by direct vote, of the people, but nobody knows how. By his reference to the republican group, which in fact did not dictate Harding's nomination, Mr. Cox only calls attention to the method of his own nomination. The four bosses met at French Lick, Ind.. before the convention and agreed to combine their forces in his support. They did not control the majority of the con vention, much less the two-thirds which the rules of the democratic party require to nominate. They held their delegates in a solid pha lanx and thus prevented the nomina tion of any other candidate until the convention in sheer weariness but with evident reluctance accepted their choice. Being the personal choice of four bosses forced on an unwilling con vention, Mr. Cox would better re main pilent about small groups and oligarchies. HOOVER'S BODY BLOWS. The democratic. party still staggers under the blows dealt by Herbert Hoover in his Indianapolis speech. Its principal newspaper organs, the New York World and Times, are thrown into confusion, for they had borne testimony to Mr. Hoover's ability, judgment and patriotism while they hoped that he would accept the democratic nomination for president. Now that he has be come an open assailant of the Wilson administration, the worst they can say against him is that he has been inconsistent and insincere in chang ing front. Yet bis course has been quite con sistent. While the war was on, he served under the Wilson administra tion because it was charged with conduct of the war and because for that reason he could serve in no ether way. In October, 1918, when the war drew near its end, he even supported Mr. Wilson's appeal for election of a democratic congress, because Mr. Wilson would remain in office through the period which should be devoted to making peace and to reconstruction. He finds that Mr. Wilson and his party have ut terly failed in both those tasks. The time having come for decision to which party the government shall be entrusted when Mr. Wilson's term expires, he turns from the. party which has failed to that which suc ceeded in former great national emergencies, in confidence that it will again succeed. There could not have been a more forcible and " accurate statement of the case which is submitted to the judgment of the people than that which was made by Mr. Hoover. He said that "the democratic party has, at least for the present, ceased to function" and he continued: To have obstinately held up the peace of the world for eighteen months, to hava rejected tho opportunity of amicable ad justment of differences as to methods, to have projected the Issue which, with in telligent co-operation, would never havs existed, Into the presidential election, la the greatest failure of American states manship since th civil war. The solemn referendum is not on the league. Jt is oa the failure of the democratic party. He brushed aside the false pre tense that opposition to the Wilson league Is opposition to any league by saying that he was committed to some sort of league, that the re publican party and nominee were pledged to formulation of a pro gramme to work out the principle of organized action to prevent war, and that if the republican party failed to carry out that pledge, "it should and must pay the penalty for that failure which we demand must be paid by the democratic party." The major issue, he declared, was not the league but 'party responsi bility. The democratic party had "failed in its responsibilities." The republican party made certain def inite promises. The question was: fioau iae golltiraJ, fiarUa be mad smm responsibility for their actions and promises, both now and In tho future 7 . He said that the ability to change the government by organized polit ical parties "is the substitute democ racy has discovered for the violence of revolution" and he went on: Therefore, as oars ts a government that mast be based on parties. It Is fundamental that, when a party falls In statesmanship or falls to carry out its promises. It must accept the penalties of that failurs; it must be retired, that Its leadership may be reformed. This Is the real Issue and is Immensely deeper seated than superficial partisanship. Starting from this principle, he declared -that "since the armistice the present administration has made a failure by all the testa that we can apply," and, "if we are to maintain and sustain party government . . . any party that fails as a party should and must be retired , from office. He said that "in a supreme national crisis" such as the war, "even party government should be laid aside." The republicans recognized this duty by unqualified support of the government during the -war, but, he continued: With victory accomplished, the leaders of the democratic party, disregarding this co-operation, decided to ignore one-half the people of the United States and to make peace alons. Here. I believe, lies the be ginning of Its failure in statesmanship. By our government alone, of aU the great governments engaged npon ths allied side, was It Insisted that a single party should dominate ths Issues in making peace. In the resulting bitterness "the democratic administration has so disintegrated as to be incapable of a developed programme for the great measures of reconstruction which must follow from the war" and "has ceased to function." He disposed of the democrats" claim to martyrdom for their adher ence to the unmodified league by saying: This Is seeking' martyrdom on a false premise. There is but one principle In volved, and that Is the preservation of peace by organized International action. All elso merely Involves methods of reach ing this great object, and some of the methods proposed are today regarded by the majority of our people as being dan gerous methods. Compromise on method Is the essence of a statesmanship that would plant the foundations of principle solidly upon the rock of public support. The dispute has not been one of principle, for the republican party has supported and does support the principle. The conten tion has been over methods, and on meth ods men must divide and good statesman ship will compromise. Mr. Hoover's arraignment of the democratic party for failure in many other respects was severe but un answerable. It has failed to stop profiteering and to lower the cost of living. It has failed in reorgani zation of the government, which is "the result of a hundred years of patchwork." It has prevented adop tion of a budget system. It has failed In handling problems of trans portation. Industry and development of natural resources. By its policy it has undermined private initiative, and its socialist conception of prog ress has failed. These strictures 'on the democratic party by the man who has served wih President Wilson as food ad ministrator, who made the one suc cess when all other departments were making failures and whom many democrats would have made their candidate for president, will have more effect than the secession from the republican ranks of a hun dred lesser lights. A car load of New Zealand butter is due in this market Monday. It will be good butter, of . course; but a carload will not affect prices much in a market that consumes a car load in short time. It is for the people fighting the substitutes for butter to consider, however, as well as those opposed to a protective tar iff. One carload means more, and the dairy folk, who are most con cerned, need consider whether it is better to compete with an Imported product or to compete with a prod uct made by manufacturers who maintain a home payroll. Once there was formed here a "rainy day club" to meet conditions of unpaved streets. It was a pioneer in the line of short skirts, but twenty years later the idea has run away with itself. So far only the "good lookers" have embraced it; the worst is yet to be seen. The municipal campaign is- Hear ing to vicious personalities. That is something that must be encoun tered by an official who does his duty as he sees it. This refers to George L. Baker, mayor. Attorney-General Palmer says he knew nothing of those forty gallons of whisky distributed to the deserv. ing democrats at San Francisco. His simple-minded faith in Providence is truly touching. A. Chicagd mail carrier has been arrested for .burning political mail matter "because it made his pack too heavy." Better turn him loose and give him a vote of grateful ap preciation. No wonder Mr. Bryan's heart is in the grave. All that enthusiasm the delegates displayed over his cele brated dry speech at San Francisco seems to have had a whisky breath. Two men In Greeley1, Colo., traded wives, but when one wanted to trade back, murder followed. There's a proper way to do this, but we are not giving free advice. Chairman White disputes Chair man Hays' claims, but ten days will convince him that while some fig ures may lie, those of republicans do not. The democratic candidate for con gress in this district is billed to ad dress a labor meeting next week, but must not talk politics. The idea! Whose is the Insidious and in visible hand that would swap Cox to gain control of the senate? Is this part of the "May I not" plan? Bourke Cockran has an impossible job to win the Irish vote to the league of nations. But he is a lawyer and takes the job. Bobby Stagg has been restored to his mother at Tacoma and the inci dent that threatened to become na tional soon should close. The all-important thing now is to see that President Harding's repub lican administration is backed up by a republican senate. If the Greeks are so hard tip for a new king, why don t they crown the monkey that bit Alexander? Just aa one thinks the weather "settled" comes a rain in the night- The wild and woolly west gives way to the wild ad s oeUf-hixed. touUij BY-PRODUCTS OP THR TIMES Domestic Tragedy Cosseete4 Wit k Bronze Statue of Bacchus. . In the center of a little garden out west stands a huge bronze statue of Bacchus. j It Is a very peculiar status. Both the trail are outstretched, and the fingers of each hand clutch one end of a washline. The lines extend in opposite direc tions, and they are practically al ways loaded down with wash." c Sometimes, apparently, the lines do not suffice for some of the wash is placed on the statue itself sim ply spread over Bacchus's face and body, wound about his legs and head stuck wherever" space can be you -feel .the statue hides a silent, eloquent tragedy.. , For weeks I had tried to get the story, but nobody in the neighborhood knew It. The owner of the bronze, a quiet little rldow, with many children, would say: "I'd rather not talk about it," Somehow you could not press the matter. One day, just as I had about given up all hope, she told me. "I'm getting back at Bacchns," she said to me. "I'm squaring accounts with him in the only, way I can. "We used to own a beautiful home in a large city. My husband was a wonderful sweetheart and daddy. Ha was in love with his business, with music, with art; he adored his family. "Then the devil's poison got into hie blood. He drank little at first, then more. I pleaded with him not to. He used to say it was nothing, that he could stop any time he wanted to. 1 begged him dayaand night trying to tear him from it. Finally he Baid he would show me and stop. "But it was too late. It had gotten too much of a hold on him. One night when he . wasn't quite himself he slipped and fell and mortally hurt himself. The house had been mort gaged, but I sold what little things we had that would bring some money and came out here. I kept only that bronze statue. "I once beard somebody say it was a shame to spoil such a beautiful work of art with wash. To me that statue Is ugly, the ugliest thing on God's earth. I'm getting back at Bac chus." Herman J. Stich in Public Ledger. For the year ending June 30, 1920, the coffee consumption of the United States Increased 16,000,000,000 cups over any preceding year, according to estimates. If we calculate foV convenience the number of Inhabitants at 100,000,000 this means that every man, woman and child on the 'average drank 160 cups of coffee more in the twelve months than in any corresponding previous period, or, roughly speaking, half a cup of coffee more a day. Of course comparatively few children of tender age drink coffee at all, and a good many adults rarely or never touch it. so that the number of users must be considerably below 100,000, 000, which implies that the per capita increased use of the drink was more than 160 cups in the year. The total consumption in the coun try for the twelve months ended last June Is placed at 1,358,000,000 pounds. Certainly we are a coffee-drinking people. Providence Journal. Thomas A. Edison was eo stranded financially when he first landed in New York, in 1869, that he hadn't a cent to buy food. Seeing a tea-taster at work. Edison begged him for some tea, and this formed his first break fast in New York. Three days later Edison was sitting in the offices of the Gold & Stock Telegraph com pany watching the gold ticker at work speculation in gold was .then at fever pitch. Suddenly scores of boys rushed into the place excitedly. explaining that the ticker in their em ployer's offices had stopp-. working. Dr. Laws, head of the concern, also arrived breathless. The apparatus had broken down. Edison calmly told Laws that he thought he could fix it, and proceed ed to do so. The grateful and astonished doctor asked the stranger his name, and next day, after a searching quizzing be, he put Edison in charge of the whole business at a salary of 300 a month When the hungry, penniless, out-of-work operator heard the amount be was to receive he nearly fainted.- Detroit News. The -unsettlement of foreign ex change has bred a considerable con tempt for foreign currency in the minds of certain Americans. The American father of one Yank who had stayed in France to "clean things up' had established a generous line of credit for him. Friend Son began to hit things up rather hard, and in con sequence the father received a cable gram reading: "Your son's account already overdrawn 100,000." To which he cabled back to xtha bankers: , "If you mean dollars, send him home; if you mean pounds, tell him to be careful; if you mean those fun ny little things, let him have all he wants.'' American Legion Weekly. There is always, somebody who wants to know. Right now one ol these pesky mar-Joys is writing to the newspapers that he is much con cerned over what the boys and girls of 1920 are reading. Well, we will warrant that ifs etuff every bit as healthy and sane as their predecea sors read 20 or even 50 years ago. The old favorites are steadily in de mand. "Treasure Island" and "Be fore the Mast" and even "Alice in Wonderland" leave the shelves as often ae ever they did, and the pub lic libraries are doing more and more successfully the excellent work of guidance, which isn't coddling, which they have made their mission. Louis . e Herald. "You made a great many promises before you were elected to office." That's) true," said the Hon. Thomas Jefferson Wapples. "Some of your constituents say you haven't kept a single one of your pre election pledges." "It's this way. When I went to Washington as a member of congress I thought the eyes of the nation were upon me and I could put through some constructive legislation that would band my name down to posterity. I've been there four years now and one half the tonsorlal artists n a barber shop I patronize every day don't know wXo I jB."crSlrnilpgham Age-Herald, Those Who Come and Go. Long before there was a Harney county, aa such. "Rye ismitn uvea there. He lived there so far back that it took several weeks for the election returns to come in. Once there was a man elected sheriff and he had been holding office two weeks be fore the returns arrived from a pre cinct in the southern part of the county, and these returns defeated him and threw him out of office. Means of transportation are better now, but are far from perfect- Burns, Is still demanding speedier matl service and wants quick action across the desert between Bend and Burns. Mr. Smith's name isn't "Rye. that being only an abbreviation. It is Darias H. Smith, and he is the father of "Hungry" Smith, who was a line man on the Oregon Agricultural col lege football team a few years ago. In the early days the Indiana were sometimes hostile and tne redskins killed the father of "Rye" Smith. Bus iness has brought the Central Oregon rancher to Portland and he la at the Imperial. "Here's good news," announced Stephen Jones, at the Hotel Port land, as he opened a telegram from his manager, Thomas Stevenson, at Victoria. "The message says that government regulation has swept the province of British Columbia, two to one. This means that the prohibition regulations existing will be wiped put and that the government will regu late the sale of liquor In original packages. The price under the pro hibition rule is $45 a case for goods wh'ch cost the wholesalers' about 116 a case. The wholesalers have been profiteering, as can readily be seen. Being in the hotel business I have watched the campaign closely and wondered how the women would vote. The women turned out by the thousand and voted against prohi bition and in favor of government regulation, being disgusted with the farce of prohibition as we have it. We don't know what the government regulations will be, but the govern ment takes its cue from the people and the vote is unmistakable." Mr. Jones is proprietor of the Dominion, at Victoria Have you seen any $5 gold pieces lately? No, you have not, because a couple of years ago the government, through the banks, quietly took them out of circulation and when you cashed a check at a bank the teller slipped you Borne greenbacks. The big pile of gold fives, tens and twen ties which formerly were racked so attraatively in the paying tellers' cage are gone. In the west, gold coins were the only circulating medium prior to the war and anyone who flashed a greenback was a ten derfoot from the east. Now a gold piece is as scarce as a frog with feathers. A. B. Mattingly of Denver, where there is a mint, wanted four S5 gold pieces to give as presents, and couldn't get them in his home town. When he made his wants known at the Multnomah yesterday, there was a little heart-to-heart talk with one of the banks, and Mr. Mat tingly was given his honest-to-good-ness gold- coin "I get my Oregonian at the post office at Suntex, and all there is at Suntex is the postoffice," said. Abraham Lincoln Hutton, better known in Harney and Lake counties as Link Hutton. With his brother. who registered from Bend, Mr. Hutton is at the Imperial for a few days. Hie home Is at Wagon Tire, which up to a few months ago was known as EglL Wagon Tire is named after Wagon Tire mountains, which poke their way as a sort of boundary line between Lake and Harney counties for a few miles. A wagon tire was found there years ago, but how It got there no one ever discovered. The supposition is that some emigrant lost it Link Hutton's ranch extends across the county line and is in Lake and Harney counties. It is devoted to cattle. Tygh valley has one of the toughest grades in the state of Oregon, and when a motorist attempts to nego tiate the grade for the first time his heart nestles about where his tonsils are. If the latter haven't been re moved, in which case the driver' heart is right in hie mouth. It is one of those roads which, once traveled, a tourist doesn't forget- It pretty nearly got the goat of Irvin S. Cobb when he was taken over the road a few weeks ago. S. T. Bennett, however, who is at the Perkins from Tygh Valley, has traversed the grade so many times that he doesn t think anything of it After signing the register in red ink at the Hotel Portland. J. C Bel mont said that the Columbia River highway Is so wonderful that he felt like turning around and going right back over it. Mr. and Mrs. Belmont, with D. G. Walklay. chauffeur, mo tored from Calgary to Portland, and, while most people arrive from a long Journey tired and grouchy. Mr. Bel mont "raved" over the highway and said be hadn't, noticed the distance from The Dalles to the Rose City. To iron out a little trouble. J. H. Devers, assistant attorney-general, who looks after legal matters for the state highway commission, passed through Portland on his way to Bend last night. The commission wants to build a certain type of bridge near Bend, such as it has been building elsewhere, but an irrigation company wants something entirely different. To attend to the law end of the con troversy for the commission is the mission of Mr. Devers. Conveyinig -shavings and sawdust and the like from mills to by-product plants is the specialty of Charles Will meroth of Chicago, who is registered at the Multnomah. Sometimes these pipe lines are built 9000 feet long, which is approximately a mile and a half. The concern which Mr. Will meroth represents is now Installing one of these sawdust conveyors at the Whitney mill at Garibaldi, on Tillamook bay. Don Carlos Boyd, who used to be in the newspaper business at Junction City, but has shifted his activities to Oakland, Or.. Is registered at the Per kins. Oakland will soon be taking its annual place in the headlines, for it Is from that town in Douglas county- that more turkey are shipped than from any other point in the state. California and Puget sound markets are always seeking the Oak land birds. On business bent, W. E. Grace is in town from Astoria and is registered at the Multnomah. Mr. Graoe, who used to be a druggist in eastern Ore gon, and served in the legislature as a democrat, is now one of the Astoria colony of bankers. Henry Ward Beecher Hewen of South Bend, Wash., is at the Perkins. Judge Hewen has been a resident of South Bend for a great many years and everyone there knows him. C. L. Koster, who has a factory which makes barrels in Portland and in Kan Francisco, arrived from the latter place yesterday and is at the Hotel Portland. Robert Sawyer, newspaper publisher and county judge for Deschutes county, is at the Hotel Portland with Mrs. Sawyer. J. M- Crawford, who is in the lum ber business at Wslla Walla, Wash., is mong the Hotel Portland arrivals. John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Cast Yon Answer These Q,uettonsr. 1. Does a bird's aona- varv in dif ferent localities? 2. What peculiarity of muscle have the Cape Cod horses? S. v hat may a close observer note in winter? Answers in tomorrow's nature notea Asuswera to Prrvloni qnmrloBsi 1. In what different locations may the gray fox and the red fox be found? The gray fox. which rs much smaller and less valuable than the red, Is the southern species, and is said to be rarely found north of Maryland. though in certain rocky localities along the Hudson it is common. The red fox is the northern species, and Is rarely found farther south than the mountainous districts of Virginia. In the Arctic regions it gives place to the Arctic fox, which most of the season is white. 2. What European bird corresponds to our robin? The European bird that corresponds to our robin is the black-bird In size. form, flight, manners, note, call, there i hardly an appreciable difference. The bird starts up with the same flirt of the wings, and calls out in the same Jocund, salutatory way, as he hastens off. The nest, of coarse mortar in the fork of a tree, or in an outbuilding, or in the side of a wall, is also the same. . S. Name the three most precious re sources of life. If I were to name the three most precious resources of life. I should say books, friends and nature: and the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always .at hand, is nature. Nature we have always with us, an Inexhaustible storehouse of that which moves the heart, appeals to tne mind, and fires the imaeina tion health to the body, a stimulus to the intellect, and Joy to the soul. tKlgnts reserved by Houghton-Mlfflta Co.) WOT, STOW MtDDLKD OJT ISSUES Writer Once la Doubt Now Finds Hopes Fixed oa Sea. Harding. PHILOMATH. Or, Qct. 20. (To the Editor.) Just a personal word, please, to thank yon for the editorial in The Oregonian Monday. "Back To Normalcy." which was prompted by the Tnixed missive"" I sent you. "Mixed" was right. The commonsense reasoning In that editorial has just about placed me on the right track. To tell the plain truth 1 have been pretty badly mud died. But I honestly believe I have been led to see the light. If this were a camp-meeting, and you were the preacher, I'd be thinking very seri ously of taking my place on the mourners bench. Right here let me interject a con fession: I'm no "progressive reDubll can." You guessed that, of course when you analyzed that "mixed mis sive," pulling it to pieces, bit by bit, the way my wife does a chicken when she gets it ready for the skillet. I am a democrat. Texas born. But I spoke the truth when I said I have been a studious reader of The Ore gonian for a number of years. I had no inter tion Oi' being "smart" or funny when I sent in that mixed missive." As I have stated, I am muddled, or was In that unhappy con dition. So is the girl I married and some of our neighbors. And you have put us right. A lot of our folks have read the editorial, and are discussing it soberly. Also, some of them are slapping their thighs and laughing at the way you skinned the feller who was foolish enough to butt in where he didn't belong. And as neighbors, we airree. that "normalcy" is right "normalcy" commonsense in government Is the big thing our counrty needs. It must have It If it gets back to adjustment, back to working order, back to nor mal. Any sane person, who places his country above party, and who is an American first and a partisan aft erward, must admit this. Also, he must agree that the administration has failed utterly in its efforts to operate the nation's machinery. With a boss who has insisted either in di recting things with a high hand, or in keeping himself locked securely in his office, and a crew of incompetents running the works, the old mill is in mighty bad shape. It will take a long time to get it in smooth running order strain. Undoubtedly Harding is the right man to put in charge. The sooner he fires the whole bun gling outfit and fills their places with competent workers, the better will be for America and the sooner will we. as a nation, get back to "nor malcy." So kindly let me sign myself. A CONVERTED DEMOCRAT SWEET CIDER PROBLEM PUZZLES Farmers Worried Over What to Do x With Apple Calls. WARREN. Or., Oct. 20. (To the Editor.) As an advocate of the "dry law" I would like to be informed what we can do with the tons of apples going to waste that were formerly made into cider. . Cider can only be kept sweet by drugging it with, ben zoate of soda, or it will harden within two weeks or even one week with warm weather, and will contain from 1V4 to 2 per cent alcohol. Heretofore all farmers have had their own cider and their own vinegar, but now they will be obliged to buy vinegar as in making it the fermenta tion contains much more than the law ful percentage of alcohol. With the many laws that are work ing a hardship on the farmer the law makers of the country and those re sponsible are doing more to foster the non-partisan league than could possibly be done by any other cause. The market pages of the daily papers are sufficient evidence of the graft perpetrated on the producer. Com pare the buying and selling prices. We must have relief or quit produc ing more than enough to supply our own household, as many are now be ing forced to do. Please left me kjiow as regards the saving of the cider apples or can we make cider without using a preservative which is injur ious. Can't we have the pure cider without adulteration? A FRUIT GROWER. College bulletin No. 128 of the Ore gon Agricultural college contains on page 39 a description of processes for keeping cider sweet. Write to the college for a copy of the bulletin. Immigration From Germany. ASTORIA, Or., Oct 20. (To the Edi tor.) Kindly oblige an old subscriber by stating the conditions and line of procedure under which immigrants from Germany are permitted to enter the United States. FRED ULMER. We know of no legal way by which it may be done at present. Travel and emigration of German citizens to the United States must await re sumption of diplomatic relations. One Wife. PORTLAND. Or., Oct. 21. (To the Editor.) I have just been informed that Governor Cox has two living wives. Is this true? WOMAN "VOTER. Mr. Cox has of course only one liv ing wife. Some years ago he was divorced, but the circumstances were. The Oregonian understands, such as la no wise reflects oa Mr, Cox, More Truth Than Poetry. By Jrs J. HsatagM, TYVA8 EVER TftUS. In the days when gowns of goatskta were the fashion. When a man desired a maiden fer his wife. He would rap her en the ahooldecr with a heavy limestone boulder. Which (he fancied) made a slave of her for life. But tn after years it very oftea nap pe neu That the cave man cooked th-e rrnt and milked the cow. While beneath an oak tree shady oa a tussock sat My Lady, And In shrill, emphatio language told him how. In the days . when mei went round in iron clothing. Though King Arthur thought ruled his brilliant snhera. All the "seneschals and warders, H ne gave them any orders. Had to get the same confirmed by Guinevere. Though the knights were full of pep and nerve and muscles. And at Jousts and other forma of noble sport Did the fighting and the drinking. 'twas their wives who did the thinking. And in consequence were bosses at the court. Though Mark Antony believed he'd - conquered Egypt. Cleopatra had a different idea, "He's a handsome little geezer. Mar cus is," she wrote to Caesar, "But he'll never get this piao away from me." And though lotus flowers she twined to trim his brows with. And bestowed on him her loveliest vampire smile. All the soldiers in the legions which were quartered in those regions Knew that she was bossing Egypt all the while. So we're not surprised to read the news from Russia That some ladies in the song an, dancing line. Trim, petite and gauzy-skirted, their dominion have exerted Very deftly over Trotzy and Lenin. So It's been since kings and bosses first existed; They are only human beings after all. And though males abjectly cower to their majesty and power, When a looker comes along they always fall. What More Conld One Askf Prices are getting quite reason able In New York. You can get a moderate dinner for about six dollars and fifty cents, not counting the tip. mm Why Confiscate 'Kmf The government has confiscated several Chicago breweries, and the question arises, "Now that ifs got "em," etc. Bearing the Boas to It. Before Manager Comiskey had a chance to sell his crooked ballplayers they had sold themselves. (Copyright. 1920. by the Bell Syndi cate, Inc.) Autumn Leaves. By Grace E. Hull. There is a sunlit trail forever calling. A gold splashed, zig-zagged patii beneath the trees; The first brown leaves, like tender touches falling Upon the face of nature, meet the breeze; A sighing that is not of mortal making Creeps through the forest, hinting of decay. The maple and the oak are softly taking A mellow tone before the skies turn gray And dim the brilliance of their gowns so gay. The hills are turning brown; the cur rents moving Within the streams, go softly to wards the sea; The pillaged fields their season's work are proving By scattered blades, where gleaners used to be; There is a silent, mystic tense of grieving When autumn leaves are drifting on the trail. As though the hopes of summer were deceiving. As though the hopes of man must ever fall, . As though the cypress voiced our own' heart's wail. In Other Days. Fifty Years Ago. (From The Oregonian of October 02, 1870 Bozeman, Montana. Henry P. Com stock, discoverer of the great silver lode in Nevada bearing his name, committed suicide here by shooting a bullet through his head. Olympia. Wash. The North Paciflo railroad map shows that the route of the road passes five miles east of here and two miles east of Seattle. Rev. T. L Eliot, of the Unitarian church of this city, will soon be In St. Louis and will start overland for Oregon November 1. The ship Montgomery Castle, first vessel of her class ever to visit this port, arrived last night direct from Liverpool via Victoria. Twenty-five Years Ago. CFroro The Oregonian jt October 22. IsfiS.) As a novel feature of the Oregon Industrial exposition, four couples were married before the big as semblage last night Board of directors of the Manu facturers association' of the north west organized last night, by naming R. D. Inman. president; A. H. Devers, vice-president; E. C. Masten, secre tary. General Edward S. Salomon, former governor of the territory of Wash ington, who was well known In this city many years ago. faces a charge of embezzlement and possible disbar ment as an attorney at Ean Francisco. J. H. Paddock, secretary of the Ill inois senate, is visiting here with his sister, Mrs. D. A. Sherman- Britain's Votes In Leagae. HOT LAKE, Or.. Oct. 20. (To tho Editor.) How many votes does the British empire have In "the assembly of the league of nations? Could her influence dominate the acts of the council? INQUIRER. Great Britain and the British self governing dominions have combined a total of six votes in the assembly of the league. The council is a separata body not subject to domination by the ' assembly. In the council .the British empire has but one vote. Winning Crihbaae Coant. DEE. Or., Oct. 20. ,To the Editor.) Kindly advise me, either through the columns of your paper or by mail, the winning count in a crih bage game, whether it is 120 or 121. N. E. NELSON. K J 123- . .