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10 THE MORNING OREGONI AN, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1920 ESTABLISHED BIT HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Orsgonian Publishing Co.. 135 Siith Street, torlUnd. Oregon. C. A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oregonlan Is a member of the Auo elated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use tor publication ol all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of republication of special dispatches Here in are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) . Katly, Ennday Included, one year V" Iaily. Sunday Included, six months . . Daily, Sunday Included, three months . Daily, Sunday included, one month . ... Daily, without Sunday, one year Da:ly. without Sunday, six months Daily, without Sunday, one month .... "Weekly, one year Sunday, one year 4.23 2.3 .75 6 00 3.25 .6 1.00 5.00 (By Carrier.) Ta!lT. Sunday Included, one year . . . . 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Cox is somewhat versatile him self, as is pointed out by James G. Hlaine, son of the famous republican leader, in a letter to the San Fran cisco Argonaut. He follows Mr. Cox's trail from the Atlantic to the Pacific and back and by quotations from the governor's speeches invites our admiration for his mental agility. He skipped nimbly from the league to the imaginary slush fund, to the tariff, to the farm, back to the slush fund, to Harding's two shares ol brewery stock, then back again to the league, with small regard for cither accuracy or consistency of Statement. He started "absolutely at one" with President "Wilson "with regard to the great issue, the league of na tions" in the words of the president. This at-oneness continued from July 0, when the White House interview took place, to August 7, when he said: "The first duty of the new ad ministration clearly will be the rati fication of the treaty," regarding the senate as a cipher in true Wil eonlan style. Of late he has dwelt more and more on reservations that would be "clarifying and helpful." This did rot seem to indicate departure from the Wilson position, for the presi dent has professed receptiveness to reservations which made the cove nant say more clearly what it already said. He went a little farther on Thursday, for heaid he would "sit down with the senate" and would "accept reservations from any source whatever that, were sincerely offered in helpfulness." But Mr. Wilson sat down twice with the senate foreign relations committee and when they grot up they were farther apart than ever and began calling each other names. Then what does Mr. Cox mean by "helpful"? Helpful to what? To make the covenant more clearly express the Wilson meaning or to meet the objections raised by the republicans? Mr. Cox seemed to have moved, but close observation showed that he stood just where he yas. But on Saturday he actually tnoved, for he used that ominous word "compromise." In New York lie said: "It is going to be neccessary to make some compromise, and that I am willing to do. I am for ratifica tion with reservations." That sounded as if it was all over but. holding a love feast in the White House, taking a vote in the senate end signing on the dotted line. But let us not be hasty. He continued: "I will accept reservations that are helpful, that will clarify, that will reassure our people, and that will make clear to our associates in the league the limitations of our constitution, beyond which we can not go, beyond which are the Hitch' cock reservations." That puts us back where we were frefore, asking what he means by ""helpful" and "clarifying," but we find a clew in the allusion to "limita tions of our constitution" and the Hitchcock reservations. As Mr. Root Bays, to remind other nations of the limitations of the constitution mere ly tells them what they already know cf the process by which we fulfill our treaty obligations. That is all there was to the most crucial of the Hitchcock reservations that to Article X. It renews the bewilder ment caused by Mr. Wilson's dis tinction between a legal and a moral obligation. The purport of it is that a moral obligation is not legally binding because it is not legal, yet it Is more binding than a legal obliga tion because it is moral. All of this goes to show that Mr. Cox is trying to make the reserva tionists believe that he would give them real reservations and at the came time trying to make the anti reservationists believe that the kind of reservations he. would accept would not mean anything. Thus the compromise would resemble that which was arranged when a man and his wife disagreed as to whether ?he should have a new hat. She got the hat. Mr. Cox would make the republicans think they had got their reservations, but when they came to analyze what they had, it would be Just words artistically strung to gether to leave the covenant just as it is. Having got us all kerflummoxed, as the old lady said, by his intellec tual subtleties, it was most unfor tunate for Mr. Cox that he made that allusion to the shell game, for it makes folk fear that, if elected he would keep them in continuous perplexity for four years. In classifying poetry-, criticism. biography and history as the least remunerative branches of literature, and proposing to subsidize them with money prizes of substantial value, a London publisher who has left his fortune to that end invites study of the reasons why books of this class do not pay, while fiction continues on the whole to be the most profitable form of writing. One reason may be that publishers make no serious attempt to popularize them as to price, and another prob ably is that largely more people read to be entertained than to-' be edu cated or inspired, which has the nat ural effect of making publication more costly on a per volume basis. It remains to be shown, however, either, that production, of better works of this class will bo stimulat ed by money prizes, or that the pub lic can be led to read books it does not want merely by inducing more authors to enter the field. On gen eral principles, the subsidy method of inducing intellectual activity is likely to prove a failure as much so as would be an effort to bribe people to read books merely because such books were "good for them." USELESS It is remarked by a contemporary that if the compulsory voting amend ment is adopted, the legislature, through disinclination or inability, may never pass the necessary statute and that if it does there is the ref erendum to safeguard the people's liberties. The conclusion is that the amendment should be approved be cause it authorizes voting by mail. But Oregon now has voting by mail. True, it is limited to 6om mercial travelers and students at tending educational institutions, but there is no apparent constitutional reason why the principle should not be extended to all classes of absent voters. Moreover, the voter now ab sent from his precinct on election day, if still within the state, loses only his vote on county officers, and on congressional officers if he is ab sent from his congressional district. No matter where he is in the state he may vote for presidential jelectors. United States senator and all state officers elected by state-wide vote. The latter is a provision of "the pres ent constitution. The only new authority the amendment grants is the authority to make registration and voting com pulsory. Compulsory voting without police espionage is wholly imprac ticable and not fully practicable with it. It is certain that the voters would never consent to a compulsory voting statute, once they were aware of its un-American terms. The amendment would merely waste space in the constitution- and be as useless and as unornamental as the amendment authorizing proportional representation adopted 12 years ago. TRTING TO TTNMAKK A SPEECH. Franklin D. Roosevelt lacks one distinguishing quality of his famous fifth cousin, Theodore. He does not stand up under fire. When a speech of Theodore Roosevelt provoked hostile comment, he would stand up to it and was very apt to say it again and make it stronger. Franklin's method is to repudiate .the speech, or at least to say he was misquoted. The fifth cousin believed he had a crushing reply to the six-votes-to-one objection to the league covenant. He fired it at Butte. He said: I honestly think that "Wilson put one over on Liloyd George. As a matter of fact, the United States has about twelve votes in the assembly. Until last week I had two of them my self and now Secretary Daniels has them. You know, I have had something to do with the running of a couple of little republics. Facts are that I wrote Hayti's constitution myself, and. If 1 do say It. I thins: It a pretty good constitution. He then enumerated about a dozen West Indian and Central American republics and boasted that "this country would practically have their votes in the league." That speech raised a storm. It did not please the Central Americans and it particu larly displeased the Santo Domingans and the Haitians and it provoked some sarcastic remarks about self determination. The fifth cousin wished he had not said it, so he tried to unsay it by the simple process of denying that be had said it. But by some strange coincidence correspondents of newspapers at Spokane, Billings, Deer Lodge and Helena, who heard the speech, all "misquoted" him in precisely the same words. Then came the Asso ciated Press correspondent at Butte and testified that they had quoted correctly. Then forty citizens of Butte who heard the speech signed a statement that . it had been cor rectly reported. In trying to unsay what he said the fifth cousin finds himself op posed by odds of 45 to 1, to say noth. ing of others who may yet bear wit ness. A DEMOCRATIC FALSE ALARM. Having no hope of winning the presidency, democrats now center their efforts on capture of a major ity in the senate. To influence those who are unfamiliar with the records of the two parties and with the re publican platform, they circulate the absurd falsehood that the repub licans propose to repeal the most im portant laws passed during Presi dent Wilson's two terms. For ex ample the Scio Tribune says: "With the senate democratic much of the fool legislation now contemplated will not disgrace our statute books, for let it be understood many radical republicans ex pect to repeal every piece of legislation placed thereon during the entire Wilson regime. farmers throughout the nation ao not wish the federal land Dank law repealed. Neither do they want the regional bank law taken from the statutes. They do no wish the finances of our country acrain placed at the questionable mercy of Wall street. Yet the repealing of these two laws Is just what Wall street expects and will demand If the entire government passes under republican control. Neither do the people want the Income tax and ottter revenue laws repealed which place at least a part ol the burden supporting the government upon the rich, who now pay taxes upon huge incomes. How false are these statements and all that they imply is plain from these passages of the republican platform: The federal farm loan law should be so administered as to facilitate the acaul sition of farm land by those desiring to become owners and proprietors and thas minimize tne evils or xarm tenantry, and to furnish such long-time credits as farm. ers may need to finance adequately their larger ana long-time operations. The federal reserve system should be free from political Influence which is quite as important as lis inaepenoence ol aoml- nation oy xinanciai comoinations. "We advocate the Issuance of a slmpli. fied form of income returns, authorising the treasury department to make changes in regulations effective only from date of their approval; empowering the commis sioner of internal revenue with the consent of the taxpayer to make final and con elusive settlements of tax claims and . sossments. barring fraud, and the creation of a tax board consisting of at least three representatives of the taxpaylna rjubli and the heads of the principal divlaions of the bureau of internal revenue to act as a standing committee on the simplification of forms, procedure and law and to make representations to congress. All of those declarations of repub yean policy set forth plans for ad ministering the laws in question. They therefore preclude repeal. That referring to the federal reserve law deprecates domination by financiers equally with that by politicians. therefore forbids the placing of fi nances "at the questionable mercy of Wall street." The republican party took the inl tiative to all these laws for which the democrats take sole credit. President Taft started the movement for the rural credit law by sending commission to Europe to report on the systems in vogue there. It re ported shortly before his term ended. The bill passed by the democratic congress was supported by repub licans and democrats alike. The federal reserve system was Propoed unanimously by. the bi-par tisan monetary commission estab lished tinder republican administra tion. The bill passed in 1913 took this plan and placed it under politi cal control, which resulted in politics permeating its operations. Federal reserve banks were located at Rich mond in place of Baltimore, Atlanta in place of Nw Orleans, Dallas and Minneapolis in place of Omaha or Denver. After the war was over Seoretary of the Treasury Glass used his influence with the federal re serve board to secure a rediscount rate lower than the money market justified in order that he might sell ictory bonds at low interest. The result was further inflation of the currency when end of the war ac tivities dictated deflation, a fever of peculation, further advance in prices and the fall of liberty bonds to a heavy discount- These were the consequences of that political domination which republicans intend to end. The income tax amendment to the constitution was recommended to congress by President Taft, a repub lican, in 1909; it was submitted to the states by a republican congress in 1910 and ratified and declared in force February 25, 1913, before the xpiration of Mr. Taft's term. With- ut this republican action the in come tax provisions could not have been included in the Underwood law. n the main, those provisions were supported by republicans, though riticized as to details bv members at both parties. The rural credit system, the fed eral reserve system and the income tax all embody republican principles. which the republican party certainly does not repudiate, but to which it expressly adheres. Their safety does not require a democratic senate. MORE LETTERS. The Oregonian will devote extra space again next Sunday to the pub lication of letters from the people, and it must warn again against un due length of articles. Communications, otherwise ac- eptable but too long for. pnolica- tion, will be cut down by the editor in charge unless specific objection is made by the writers. In the event more communications are received than can be given space The Oregonian can do no more than exercise its own selection. An ef fort will be made in that event to give as fair a representation as pos sible with an eye, also, to variety of subjects discussed. The invitation to write" on election issues is addressed to voters who write without being coached or re quested so to do by propagandists. setters from hired or formally ap pointed writers are not welcome. In selecting material for publication preference will be given to letters that discuss issues and measures, as distinguished from those that discuss the personality of candidates. THE PLUMB rXANjS FRIENDS. No room for doubt as to the atti tude which Dr. Lovejoy would as sume on the Plumb plan for railroads remains when the support of the flumb plan league is considered in conjunction with her failure to de clare herself for or against that measure. She would be under the influence of her friends, who would set up a moral claim to her advocacy or that which they have at heart. The Plumb plan is in substance that the government buy . the rail roads and hand them' over to the managers and employes to operate, tne employes to be strongly repre sented on the boards. There would result a gigantic political machine of about two million well organized men. There would be every oppor tunity to increase expenses, but little. if any, incentive to keep them down and to give efficient service to the public. Under such a system there would be small prospect that rates would fall as prices receded toward the pre-war level. An insuperable obstacle would thus be offered to such a fall in the cost of living as might otherwise come. The price of each article includes not only one freight charge. Including the raw materials and the several transfers before it reaches the retailer, every article pays the freight almost five times. The whole population would pay dearly for this experiment. Dr. Lovejoy is supported and Rep resentative McArthur opposed be cause the latter opposed the Plumb plan and voted for the Esch'-Cum- mins railroad law. Then the question Is whether Mr. McArthur is to be upheld in refus ing to subordinate the rights of all the people to continuous traffic to the demands of a part of the people that they have unlimited right to enforce their claims by strikes, to the injury or all the people. . MAINTAIN THE CHANNEL TO THE SEA Discussion of the port of Portland consolidation bill has been so cen tered on the Swan island project that many persons may overlook the fact that the additional funds which the bill provides are absolutely necessary to continued maintenance and im provement of the channel from Port land to the sea. To restore a depth of 30 feet this year will employ three dredges owned by the government and three by the port until about the end of November. The revenue of the port under the present law is so limited that it would be able to keep only one dredge in operation for three months in the year. This would be utterly insufficient, even with the aid of government dredges. But if the port were to reduce its work on the channel to such small proportions, it would have small prospect of such liberal government aid as it has had in the past. In recommending river and harbor work, government engineers are re quired to report what amount of local aid is offered, and congress shows a growing disposition to regu late appropriations by the amount of local aid offered. The extensive co operation of the port of Portland has been instrumental in procuring liberal appropriations for the chan nel, and the contribution of $475,000 by the port of Portland, and S25,000 by the port of Astoria some years ago won a large sum from congress for construction of the north jetty. As economy and efficiency bid fair to be the watchwords of the next administration, congress may be ex pected to follow that policy more closely than ever. In his . address to the Chamber of Commerce Briga dier-General Taylor called attention to the provision of the last river and harbor act that government aid be withheld from communities which fail to ' provide necessary facilities for the handling of water commerce. Certainly a channel, particularly into the main harbor, is a "neces sary facility" and if the port were-to reduce its dredge fleet from three for the full season to one for only three months, it would have a poor case to asking government Aid. If this aid were not given, it would be impossible after next year's freshet to restore the" established depth of 30 , feet, much less to attain the greater depth required for the large ships now coming to the river. Not only the Swan island project is at stake in the decision on the consolidation bill. The stake is the maintenance of the present channel, which is absolutely necessary to pre serve the commerce of Portland. That commerce has reached such large volume after a long struggle against many obstacles that nothing should be allowed to obstruct its growth. . . KING FACL AND THE ACTUAL RULER. It is small recommendation for the "king business" that the bite of a monkey should be able to throw a whole nation into doubt as to the stability of its gbvernme'nt. That is the misfortune of Greece in conse quence of Kmg Alexander's death, while the adherents of his exiled father Constantino are still active in intrigue. Fortunately for Greece, -Its pre mier, Venizelos, is equal to the occa sion and the people have unlimited faith iii him. Although for motives of expediency he favors preservation of the monarchy, he takes precau tions that it shall be as strictly lim ited as any in Europe.- Soon after Constantino was deposed and Alex ander elevated to the throne in 1917, the latter showed a disposition to rule in fact by saying that he would follow., his father's nolicv. In heart-to-heart t'alk Venizelos gave him to understand that, if he wanted to hold his. job, his policy must be that of his cabinet, representing the majority of the people. Alexander subsided, and Venizelos continued to govern the country so successfully that he added Thrace and the Smyrna province to It and disposed of Mustapha Kemal's rebel Turkish army in ten days. Constantino has not given up hope of regaining his lost throne; deposed kings never do. But he finds his refuge in Switzerland a prison, for he is not permitted to enter France or Italy, and the allies have prob ably closed the way through Ger many by suggesting an extra turn of the screw if he should escape. His son Paul, who has been proclaimed king, has been with him since his deposition and may have imbibed his autocratic, pro-German ideas. but is young enough to unlearn them, and Venizelos has proved a good tamer of unruly kings. Venizelos shines - through these changes as the greatest of the Greeks. Liberator of his native Crete from the Turks, he was called to Athens to become premier and save Greece from factional quarrels which threatened ruin. He restored order and unity and brought the formerly mutinous army to such dis cipline that it easily beat the Turks, then the Bulgarians and won half of Macedonia, much of Epirus and many islands. Its latest acquisitions have doubled the population and area of the kingdom, and there is prospect that the islands of Rhodes and Cyprus will be added. If King 1'aul plays his cards well, he will have a long, agreeable reign while Venizelos and other premiers govern. The lane that leads to Philander- ! ing has some queer crooks and angles, as witness the case of a blind husband an4 wife and the latter's al leged blind affinity, reported from Georgia in an account of a battle royal when the husband got "next." The police judge embraced the chance of his life when he sent the other man to a dark cell for a day. If A and B are partners in a groc ery store and if A and Mrs. B go to B's house one night and find him there with Mrs. A and a "ruccus" with threats to kill ensues why, thafs the problem Judge Rossman will have to solve. It's an old rule of law that the acts of a partner are binding on the other partner, but it does not always work. Dempsey and Carpentier have been signed and for five or six months the country will be regaled with the preliminaries of a half hour affair. However, election will be over in a week and the people must have something to thrill. The postoffice department has de cided to extend second-class mail delivery to Nenana, Alaska, now that the railroad has been built most of the way. Under Mr. Burleson's well known system of course this means second-class mail service, too. Halifax was the only part of Nova Scotia that voted wet ia the prohibi tion referendum In that province. Evidently just the drys' little way of serving notice on the wets to go to Halifax. In every newspaper office in the land but the yellow ones. Cox's of fense in breaking a "release" Is con. sidered a cardinal crime. Cox, be ing of the fourth estate," knew It. Investment in fire apparatus is buying an asset. No "department ever had too much apparatus. It's there when . needed and nobody knows wnen tnat time will come. The irreconcilable conflict is due in New York, where teamsters want a shorter day and more wages and the employers counter with a longer day and less pay. Canada enjoys "states' rights" in one respect. Four provinces voted "dry." That starts her great trouble of holding down the whisky runners The plan for Secretary Baker to harmonize local democrats has dis solved. There is no such- animal in that party here. Novel but true Is Lowden's asser tion that this country is getting too big to be handled by democrats. Some of the advocates of compul sory voting ought to suffer a com. pulsory hair cut. The war must be oyer, for a ship. load of "made in Germany" toys is in the river. Charlie Chaplin seems determined to prove what a comedy marriage can be made. Courts have declared Fonzi a bankrupt, as if be could be anything else. . Are you wearing the button where it shows? What makes a big city? riverj . : ; . " ; ;, A big BIT - PRODUCTS OF" THE TIMES Snowy "Wastes of Far North Dusted With Ashes of Shooting; Stars. "Shooting .stars" is an unfortunate name for small masses weighing usu ally only a few ounces that enter the earth's atmosphere from outer space. are ignited by friction with the air. glow brightly for a few seconds and then fall to the surface In the form of dust. These meteors enter the earth's atmosphere by the millions every day, but only a small percent age is visible to the naked eye at any one place. They fall by day and by night, over land and sea, in polar re gions and in the tropics. The enowy wastes of the far north are dusted with the ashes of shooting stars that have been consumed by friction with the earth's atmosphere, which they enter at a speed varying from 10 to 40 miles a second. Astronomers quite frequently ob serve meteoric particles, invisible to the naked eye, flitting across the field of the telescope. Some of the larger of these masses weigh several pounds, in rarer in stances even several hundred pounds. They are thus referred to as meteor ites or fireballs. These are not en tirely consumed by friction with the earth's atmosphere, but after travel ing with loud reports and explosions a distance' of many miles, fall to the earth's surface. ' Comets, It is generally believed, dis integrate gradually into swarms of meteors and the earth and other plan ets are constantly encountering these fragmentary particles lo their jour neys around the sun. Erodic swarms are encountered at certain definite times of the year whenever the earth's path crosses the paths of these disintegrated comets. "No, George, hold it higher; put it over your heart!" A young woman with a brand new engagement ring on her finger was instructing a very embarrassed and red-faced fiance how to adjust the fluoroscopic screen at the X-ray booth in the electrical show, so she might view his heart and (perhaps) see how It reacted In her presence. George blushed at the grins of the onlookers and shifted the screen to the middle of his breastbone. Finally with the young woman's assistance he moved it over on the left' side. The attendant adjusted the green ish, flickering light in the X-ray bulb at his back, while George gazed wide eyed in the mirror attachment, and the firm-jawed young woman watched the shadows on the screen. A queer snake-like object moved quivered spasmodically, and came to sudden rest. There was a strained silence, ' but still the shadow rested immovable on the screen. Suddenly the girl shrieked and clutched the attendant's arm. "Turn it off!" she cried. "Turn It off! It's stopped his heart!" And she collapsed on .George's breast, while George, too embarrassed to even mumble reassurances, attained a rich scarlet hue about his face. The attendant, lrritatingly calm and unconcerned, came around in front and, pulling the hysterical fiancee away, peered at the screen. "Aw, said he disgustedly, "you were lookln' at his esophagus. His heart's up there in the right-hand corner!" New York Evening Post. In the east if you give a man 6ilver dollar in change or a dirty bill you insult him. The east has been educated into a liking for nice, neat, crackly currency, the triumph of the money engraver's art.' Not only has it been necessary to launder, drvf clean and press a good deal of old money, but the demand of the public for nice new paper bills to reiplace its dirty currency has grown to such an extent that the treasury now has to print about $11,000,000 worth a day to meet the demand and it has become necessary to check the practice. Any person who doesn't like dirty money may of course get rid of it withou much trouble. Giant sea sleds capable of carrying airplanes out in mldocean are being developed by a Boston concern. Sum are equBpped with four motors, total Ing 1750-horse power, and have speed of 55 miles an hour. In the event of war with a foreign nation these sea sleds would be util ized to . transport heavy bombing planes across the ocean. Thousands could be sent at a comparatively low cost. While It is possible for an airplane to leave the deck of a sea sled, there is not sufficient room for a landing to be made. The flying machine would have to work out its own salvation once its wheels left the sled. These sea sleds are built to lift and run on the surface of the water. When a speed of 50 miles an hour is reached it is possible for an airplane to open its motors and leave the deck without any further runway. Experiments made off the New England coast show that a small air plane can "take off when the sea sled is making but 40 miles an hour In a heavy sea. Other tests are being made to develop the high-power plan ing sea sleds 'into pleasure craft as well as for military and naval pur poses. Gordon S. Orme of New Orleans, a wealthy sportsman, has had a 32 fo'oter built for his use in the gulf of Mexico. Factories have been estab lished In Atlantic City to aid in pro ducing these sea sleds, which are now being tested off the New Eng land coast. Boston Post. The average doughboy is no ad mirer of the Frenchwoman's exagger ated makeup rouged lips, painted eyebrows and very thick layer of powder. I was strolling one day on the Promenade des Anglais with a young corporal when an extremely chio and at the same time much made-utp French girl" passed. 'There,' I said to my corporal, 'what do you think of her?" The corporal, a Texas farmer, eyed the young woman for a minute and then said: "Well, sir, it's bad ground that takes so much top dressing.' " San Francisco Argonaut. Great Interest attaches to the one time residence of President James Monroe, recently, sold at auction to close an estate. It is at the. north west corner of Prince and Lafayette streets. New York, and consists of a three-story building erected in 1823 by Samuel L. Gouvernear. son-in-law of the president. President Monroe lived the latter part of his life there. He died on July 4, 1831. and the fol lowing year the house was sold to Miles R. Burke, Those Who Come and Go. Young New Englanders will be heading for the Pacifio northwest within a few years to escape the con gestion of the . New England states. ccording to J. C. Huriburt oi j-,ynn. Mass., who has been discovering Oregon. Mr. Huriburt. who is reg istered at the Multnomah, gained some idea of the immenseness of Ore gon when he rode through Eastern Oregon and traveled for hours on end before arriving at a town. In New England, he said, the cities are large and are so close together that their boundaries almost overlap, and there is almost an interrupted line of build ings. After visiting Eastern Oregon and discovering the magnificient dis tances, Mr. Huriburt realizes that here is the place for some of the sur plus population of his section of the country. That Germany is once more try- ng to get into the American market with its manufactured goods, was dis closed this week by the wares of two traveling salesmen who were at the Hotel Portland" calling on the local trade. One of the salesmen was of fering a line pf very efficient revol vers. These weapons are called fepan- ish revolvers and were shipped from Spain to the United States. They are supposed to have been manufactured in whole or part in Germany and then shipped to Spain and thence to the world market. The price was consid erably lower than similar revolvers manufactured in America. A second salesman is offering aluminum ware made in Germany. Recently a sales man handled a line of silverware, the base of which was made in Geynany, then sent to Switzerland, where it was nlckelplated, and sent out as a Swiss product. To see what he can do about as sisting in the defeat of the Malheur lake bird bill. Jay Upton is in town from Priheville. As former president of the Oregon Irrigation congress, Mr. Upton has taken unusual interest in the development of the state through irrigation projects. The bird bill. according to Mr. Upton, will be a ser ious handicap to the proposed irri gation project in Harney county. Ad vocates of the irrigation project are against the bird bill and explain that when the project is realized, the birds can nest in the reservoir, a few miles away, instead of in the tules of the Malheur lake. Next Tuesday Mr. Up ton expects to be elected a member of the state senate. Quite proud of discovering one of the largest stills ever found in Or egon, W. T. Campbell, sheriff of Tilla mook county, was in Portland yester day. The still was located at Mohler, on Nehalem bay. It was four feet long, two feet wide and two feet high, with a double boiler arrange ment, and was buried under a garage. The sheriff had to go into a base ment, then into a pit and follow a tunnel 20 feet in length. After nego tiating this underground passage he came to a room illuminated by elec tricity and there found 15 gallons of moonshine and between 300 and 400 gallons of mash. The hide business isn't what it used to be, and prices and business have slumped, according to H. W. Mc Crabbe, of Seattle, who represents one of the largest hide concerns in the country. The hide market has been falling off for several months and some dealers who failed to see it coming were caught with heavy stocks on their hands and these will be unable to realize a profit on their holdings. Mr. and Mrs. C. N. Tice of Sandy, were registered at the Imperial yes terday, after being married at Van couver, Wash. Mrs. L. W. Tice, mother of the bride, is a sister-in-law of the groom as well as his mother-in-law, for she married his brother. The bride's stepfather has now become her brother-in-law, and one of the broth ers becomes the stepfather-in-law .of the other brother. "We're building the tallest timber bridge in the world." says James F. Clarkson, a Portland contractor, who has just returned from Columbia county where he is constructing a railroad. "The bridge is made of six decks and is 171 feet high. It is wonderful thing to look at and as an advertisement for Oregon, it would be a good thing to be displayed in some of the news films. Carey Martin and Walter Winslow, Salem attorneys, were in Portland yesterday on legal business. When Mr. Winslow tries a case In Salem and an equally vociferous attorney is on the other side, the walls of the courtroom bulge from the vocal vibra tions. Mr. Martin was formerly a' newspaperman. It has been a year since George D. Beveridge has registered at the Hotel Oregon. He has mining properties in Idaho which had been commanding his attention, but he left the diggings long enough to come to Portland for a few days. "When the tide is out the table Is spread," is what they say at Pacific City, a Tillamook county settlement, whence comes D. T. Edmunds to the Hotel Oregon. There is a wide vari ety of seafood at Pacific City and all anyone has to do is to get it. A man of many activities is A. E. Adelsperger of Marshfield. He is an attorney, he is vice-president of the Bank of Southwestern Oregon and he is a timber broker on the side. Mr. Adelsperger, with his wife, is at the Benson on a business trip. "'w J. R. McKay, the roadmaster of Lane county, is at the Imperial. Lane county has one of the best road sys tems of any county in Oregon, and the credit for the system is given to Mr. McKay. Guy La Follette, editor of the Crook County Journal, which has been filling a long-felt want since 1894, is registered at the Hotel Port land from Prineville. Thomas Carmlchael. with his red hair and his reputation for being an authority'on Holstein. cattle, is at the Imperial from Gaston, Or. s Harry L. Sherwood, who Is at the Multnomah on his way to California, is inspector-general of the British consulates in the United States. South America and Canada. J. C. Kirkpatrick. who Is one of the largest dealers in the tountry in pole piling, is at the Multnomah, with Mrs. Kirkpatrick. They are from Esca naba, Mich. Helen Lee Davis, who specializes in home economics at the Oregon Agri cultural college, is registered at the Seward. . H. H. De Armond, who was former ly district attorney in Deschutes county, is registered at the Imperial from Bend. -N Clark Davis, a prominent mining man of Alaska, is at the Seward with Mrs. Davis. .' George W. Sanborn, one of the salmon packers of Astoria, Is regis tered at the Benson. Charles W. Alward, a druggist of Seaside, is among the arrivals at the Hotel Oregon. "W. R. McCormack. a sheepman of Bend, is an arrival at the Imperial. "W. P. Myers, an attorney of Bend. Or, is at the Perkins for a lew days. DAIRYMEN NEED CITY StJTPORT Chance for Much Talked of Co-opera tion In Oleo BllL PORTLAND, Oct. 26. (To the Edi tor.) 1 have read with much interest the statement of Mr. A. G. Clark that Oregon cannot tax oleomargarine manufactured outside the state. He gives that as his big reason for op posing the referred oleomargarine bill. The oleomargarine bill s a li cense bill. It taxes hotels and Boarding houses that serve butter substitutes from $5 to $25 per annum. Besides that, it makes them serve it as butter substitute, with a sign so stating in the dining room, and the oleo in its natural color instead ot camouflaged as butter. This part, which is simply a requirement to be honest with patrons, Mr. Clark over looks. It charges a license on whole salers $250 and manufacturers $500. I would like to ask how it is we license autos manufactured outside the state, if we cannot tax oleo? The assertion is ' nonsensical. His point, of course, is found in the fact that most of the butter substitute sold in Oregon is manufactured outside the state. Even the one little factory in the state is owned by Chicago capital. Opposed to that is the $200,000,000 in vested in dairy farms and the big in vestment in both privately owned and co-operative creameries. The dairy farmers have been struggling along with high priced feeds and labor ever since the war started. They are not making dividends on their investment. These men. the bone and sinew of the prosperity of Oregon, are entitled to consideration for their own sake and for the con tinued prosperity of the state. They submit to more "regulation" than any other industry and are entitled to protection at least against unfair competition of an inferior substitute. Those who think defeat of the oleo bill means cheaper butter are mis taken. Oleo, profit to the manufac turer is five times as much as that on butter. Some interests are manu facturing both products. They do not want cheap butter, but they do want to tear down the butter market to build up one for oleomargerine. The city people who vote against the dairy interest are voting against their, own interest. If butter is too high, with its superior food value, especially for children, beef or pork gravy is a better substitute than the cheap vegetable oil used in oleo margerihe, no matter what fancy name it is given. The business and the labor Inter ests of the city talk much about co operation with the farmers. I know the farmers and dairymen appreciate and welcome such co-operation. Here is a chance for practical co-operation, for helping to eave the great dairy industry of Oregon and at the same time really benefit themselves. HORACE ADDIS. HARNEY IS ALMOST IXAXIMOl'S Opposition to Bird Bill Not That of Speculators. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 26. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian October 25 is a letter from Dr. L. H. Hibbard of Burns, Oregon, in relation to the Malheur bird bill. Among other mis. statements, he says, "The most of the people here that are fighting the bill, from C. B. McConnell to Jimmy, are doing so for the chance of a little personal gain." Insomuch as every one in Harney county and a great many people throughout the state know that the "Jimmy" referred to is myself, I want to brand the above statement as a plain, unvarnished lie. I have In my possession an appeal to the voters of Oregon asking them to defeat the bird bill, signed by 75 of the bankers, merchants, farmers and stockgrowers. As a matter of fact, outside of Dr. Hibbard himself I know of no one in Harney county who favors the measure. Section 6 of the appeal says: "One of the effects of the bill will be to cede" this large body of land to the United States without the common school fund receiving any land from the United States in lieu thereof, or compensation therefor." This is not an attempt (as stated by Mr. Finley and Dr. Hibbard) on the part of land speculators to acquire title to the Malheur lake. Without an exception the people of Harney county desire to have the state of Oregon assert its title to the 47,000 acres of land em braced in this bird preserve have the lands sold in small tracts to ac tual settlers and the proceeds ap plied to the already depleted school fund. ?The enactment of this bill will stifle all future irrigation develop ment in Harney county and railroad development in central Oregon. JAS. J. DOXEGAN. Off of Chamberlain. PORTLAND, Oct. 26. (To the Ed itor.) As a republican who voted for Chanvberlain six years ago, I want to say that the importance of electing a republican senate this year is now supreme. We had just begun to feel the bad effects of the Underwood tariff when along came the war and gave us the highest tariff ever known and protec tion on every commodity produced. The Underwood tariff is a southern tariff, wrtten by that southern gen tleman. Mr. Underwood of Alabama, and is the most sectional tariff bill ever written. Every southern com modity is protected, some even higher than under the so-called "indefen sible" Payne-Aldrich bill, which it re pealed. Senator Chamberlain voted for a high protective tariff on the cotton goods, tobacco, - sugar, peanuts, rice and spices of the south, and put the lumber, shingles, wool, potatoes and wheat of Oregon on the free list. I am therefore going to work and vote for Stanfield for senator. ROGER NELSON. Boy Scouts Could Do It. EST ACAD A, Or.. Oct. 25. (To the Editor.) Why does it not occur to the city fathers and mothers to or ganize the Boy Scouts to run down those degenerates that they say are harassing the school children of Port land? Three Boy Scouts a little bigger than weazels would do more to locate and identify the villains than a dozen ponderous policemen. Besides, the scouts would work for nothing, just for the love of the job, while police men are almost as expensive as bat tleships. Heavy police are all right for sta tionary work, iut ire not adapted for scouting or spying. They are visible too far. It needs kids who can make themselves Invisible Instantaneously bv sliDDiner through a crack or crawl ing into a bunch of weeds. Give the kids a chance to distinguish them selves as detectives. They are just going to loss, anyhow, pining away and dying for the want of some such exercise. J. L. JONES. No State Haa Single Tax. ASTORIA, Or.. Oct. 20. (To the Editor.) In regard to the single tax measure coming on the ballot this election, has the state of California such an article in the state constitu tlons? Has any state? If so, is it successful and in which way? H. L. G. Neither California nor any other state has such a provision. Words Are Pronounced. VANCOUVER. Wash., Oct. 25. (To the Editor.) 1. What Is the correct pronunciation of "antipodes"? 2. Also "Crichton." the character In "The Admirable Crichton"? SUBSCRIBER. 1. An-tip-o-dez; accent on "tip." 2. Krl-ton; accent oa "KsL" More Truth Than Poetry. By Jnme J. Montague. A LAMENT. On learning that imported cheeses are to be deodorized. I've learned to be a connoisseur; I order dinners now with ease; I'm always careful to prefer The more dynamic forms of cheese. I sniff the humid camembert. When with discerning friends I sup. And if it does not taint the air i pass it up. This knowledge came with riper years; There was a tim. T fviv nwr. That I was filled with rtiro'f.il (un When cheeses made their presence known. At gorgonzola I recoiled: At font lEveaua I tonic affright? Fromage de Brie and Roquefort spoiled My appetite. But now I've learned to pick and cnoose; I feast on cheese without rpci rain. And at my dinner I enthuse At scents that turn most people faint. I cannot say I like the stuff. But having a discerning: nose, I have discovered, is a bluff That always goes. But science now has wrought a spell Limburgers, Pont l'Eveques and Bries Hereafter, so we're told, will smell Like ordinary grocery cheese. And so, alas, my hard won rep Of being erudite and clever Enough to judge them by their pep Is gone forever. . Almost There Now. Cooks will never be satisfied till they get on a basis of all pay and no work. Almost the Record. Obregon has been president of Mexico nearly a month, and he is beginning to get nervous. No Longer Starving, Apparently. Armenia has gone to war. Wonder if that's what she wanted our assist ance for? (Copyright, 1920. by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can Yon Answer These Questions f 1. Is the great crested fly-catcher a common bird? 2. What is the right way to make a stone wall? 3. What effect on the color of fur " may temperature have? (Answers in tomorrow's "Nature Notes.") Answers to Previous Questions! 1. When does the woodpecker make his winter home? The woodpeckers, both hairy and. the downy, usually excavate their winter retreat in the fall. They pass the nights and the stormy days in them. So far as I have observed they do not use them as nesting places the following season. 2. Does the art of nature tend to ward concealment? The art of the bird Is to h!de her nest; the art of the game you are in quest of is to make itself invisible. The flower seeks to attract the bee and the moth by its color and per fume, because they are of service to it; but I presume it would hide from the excursionists and the picnickers if it could, because they extirpate it. 3. Has the northern hare any ad vantages over the gray rabbit? The northern hare, which changes to white in winter, would seem to haVe an advantage over the little gray rabbit, which is as conspicuous upon the snow as a brown leaf, and yet such does not seem to be the case. . It is true that the rabbit often passes the day in holes and beneath rocks and the hare does not; but it is only at night that the natural enemies of each foxes, minks, weasels, wildcats, owls are abroad. (Rigrhts reserved by Houghton-Mil-flin Co.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Yeors Ago, From The Oregonian of October 27, 1805. The Portland Amateur Athletic club defeated the Tacoma athletic club in a football game yesterday, 6 to 4, before a crowd of 1500. The hearing of applications of char- ' itable. benevolent and other institu tions claiming exemption from taxa tion will be held in the county court Monday. The U. S. Grant Republican club Is considering buying a hall in which to hold meetings. ; Dr. Charles Fdward Locke will de liver a .sermon this morning on "Is the Union of All Churches Possible, and What, in That Event, Might Be Accomplished" Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of October 27, 1870. Tracklaying is resumed beyond Sa lem. The end of the track is about 5 miles south of that place. Oregon City Steam was raised on the new Senator yesterday and she works admirably. She will come to Portland today. r Tents were pitched on Park block, above Columbia street, Tuesday eve ning for another surveying party un der charge of one of the Oregon & California Railroad, company's en gineers. London A dispatch from Berlin . states that the latest negotiations for peace have come to naught, owing to the persistence of the Prussians in their demands for the cession of French territory. Traffic Law Quia of Autoists. PORTLAND. Oct. 26. (To the Edi toro.) Any one driving an automo bile will agree that a great deal of the pleasure is lost, and the danger of collisions unnecessarily increased, by the fact that the great majority of drivers do not understand the sig nals to be given before turning or stopping. Very few people seem to understand these signals. Giving the wrong signal is not only annoying to the person behind, but also "dangerous. Why not issue a questionnaire to every applicant for a license and on -same make him answer in regard to the rules of the road, and if he doesn't answer them correctly send them . back for correction so he will look . them up and find out for himself? AUTOIST. What T Chamberlain Introduce Baker t . PORTLAND, Or.. Oct. 26. (To the Editor.) I am a republican, but I-. venture to sugge-t that when Secre tary of War Baker comes to Portland to speak. If he does, that Senator Chamberlain will be chosen to pre side at the meeting and to introduce the distinguished orator. Remembering l.ow gracefully the senator performed this function when Governor Cox was Jiere, there are many republicans who will go to hear the secretary and who would immensely enjoy seeing him again ac quit himself so splendidly by Intro- 1 ducing his eminent co-worker in the democratic cause. OBSERVfi&