10, TOE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MOND AT, NOVEMBER 1, 1920- iltorttin0 (fcptuau ESTABLISHED BY HENBV I PITTOCK. Published by Tin Oregonian Publishing Cow. 1U5 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. MORDE.N. ' E. B. PIPETl. Manager. .Editor. Tbe Oregonian Is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Kate Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Xaily. Sunday included, one year. .... .$800 Laiiy, Sunday included, six months.. 4.-3 Dally, Sunday Included, three month 2.2. Laily. Sunday included, one month., .7u Dally, without Sunday, one year.... 0.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months... i.i-t Daily, without Sunday, one month .. .o0 "Weekly, one year ............ buuday. one year 6.00 (By Carrier.) Dally. Sunday included, one year. ..$9.00 Daily. Sunday included, three month 2.-25 Dally, Sunday included, one month.. Daily, without Suaday, one year J. SO Daily, without Sunday, three month.. 1.08 Daily, without Sunday, one month.... .bo How to Remit Send postofflce money order, expretw or personai check on your local bank, stamps, coin or currency are at owner's rifk. (iive postofflc address In full. Including county and tate. Postajre Bates 1 to 16 pages. X cent: 18 to Z-2 pages. 2 cents; o4 to 48 Pages. 8 eents; 50 to 64 pages, 4 cents: e5 to 80 PUSH. 6 cents; 83 to 9 pages, tt cents. Foreign posta.se double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree at Conk Tin. Brunswick building, New York. Verree & Conklln, Steger building;. Chicago; Ver ree & Conklin, Frrae Pres building. De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, R. J. Bidwell. ; DOES PORTIJlXD WANT I.ES8T A 6-cent far for street cars Is an economic fallacy. Tet Mr. Kellaher promises it. He -would promise free daily balloon trips to Mars if it ZD cant votes for him- Mr. Richards, who wants munici pal ownership of all public utilities, Is at least not absurd. He repre sents an Idea, an honest one, and even a feasible one, If you regard e plan as logical and feasible which puts principle above expense and efficiency. The Richards principle la public ownership.' It stands frank ly on the foundation that service for the public should be performed by the public through its own agencies: and the public will foot the bills. That it will cost more than under private ownership may or may not be Important: but it is not important to Mr. Richards. The public at least knows where Mr. Richards stands. Neither the public nor Mr. Kellaher knows where he stands. Mr. Gordon proposes to introduce expert business management in mu nicipal affairs. It can't be done. Business and government are dif ferent institutions. The business which succeeds is conducted by a single directing mind, or by & re sponsible group management which accounts to the owners for results rather than for methods. The con trolling idea with government is service, not profits, though certainly there must be regard for income and outgo and the capacity and willing ness of the taxpayer to pay. But no business which must constantly con sult and defer to, say, 250,000 stock holders, can succeed. No govern ment which fails to consult, and defer to, all its citizens, expressing their will through a majority, will succeed. Mr. Gordon win not reduce taxes materially, or at all, if elected mayor, without largely curtailing many pub lic activities which the public has heretofore demanded and will con tinue to demand. Fewer police, fewer firemen, fewer public im provements, fewer parks, fewer bridges, fewer sewers, fewer lights, less traffic regulation, less health control, less water, less street clean ing and above all, less wages for city ' workers, are all out of the question. The public will not suffer it. To be sure, the auditorium might be closed up, but does anybody seriously pro pose it? Here and there- something may be lopped off, but it will not stay off if it means poorer service. The way to get lower taxes Is to have the people reconciled to the idea of getting along with less. Mr. Baker points to his record, and shows results. He is not a cheap mayor, but it is doubtless true that Portland has a lower tax rate than other coast cities of similar size and pretensions What the mayor has always sought tgdo was to repre sent, through his office and through his performance, in war and in peace, the ideal of a progressive, healthy, clean, growing and am bitious American city. Will Port land be content with less? Certain ly not. f two PKEDienojfS. The lard-shell partisan demo feratlc paper is having a sad time these days. Consider the painful predicament of the coerced Cox or gan, the. Journal. All authentic in formation points to Mr. Harding's election, yet the Journal conceives it to be its duty as a false-label "inde pendent" paper to hide the facts, and pretend confidence in Mr. Cox's .success. One of Its methods Is to Iterate that The Oregonian in 1916 predicted Mr. Hughes' victory. It had yester day a characteristic misstatement about what The Oregonian said in 191G, reproducing a prediction, said to- have 'been made on Sunday, No vember 6", 1916, that Hughes would have surely 270 electoral votes (266 were needed) with 824 probable, and 1di pusaiuie. What of it? This was, Indeed, the Chicago Tribune's forecast and was published as. The Tribune's a fact which our harassed friend ignores. On the following day The Oregonian printed, on its first page, a detailed dispatch from New York, showing a close election, though it indicated and said that "Hughes had a small Ion H " On TCr vo m h(.r 1 t snlH f f Oregon that the "majority (for Hughes) will not be large, but it will V be safe." ' So it was. The Journal yesterday printed the forecast of its own political corre- poLdent, Mr. David Lawrence. It hewed, he said, a "comparatively e iy victory" for Mr, Harding. But thu Journal of course buried the salient facts of the Lawrence sur vey under the misleading heading "Maximum Hope of Democrats is 293 Electoral Votes.". What they hope for and what they will get are. In Mr. Lawrence's judgment, dis- - tinct'.y different. Mr. Lawrence's1 prophecy Is that Mr. Harding will have 339 votes and Mr, Cox 192 votes. The forecast of Mr. Mark Sullivan, for The Oregon ian, -i9 that Mr. Harding will have 852 votes and Mr. Cox 179 votes. The similarity between the Law ronca and Sullivan reviews is re markublo. Their judgment disagrees only as to' three states Arizona. West 'Virginia and Missouri. Mr. ' Lawnnce puts Arizona (three votes) and Missouri (eighteen votes) in the Cox dolumn, and Went Virginia ( eight yotes) in the Harding column. Mr. Sullivan places Arizona and Missouri In the Harding column and West Mirginia in the Cox column. though he, too, thinks" West Vir ginia may go republican, but for safety's sake he gives it to Cox. The result is the same. They agree that the outlook is clearly for Harding's election. Mr. Lawrence in 1916 predicted Wilson's election. Does the Journal think that, though he was right then, he is wrong now? Or is he right only when his judg ment agrees with our twisted con temporary's prejudices and partisanship? NO HIGHER TAXES. It ought to be clearly understood that the 3-milI tax measure on the Portland city ballot is not a proposal to increase taxes. It Is a proposal to continue the present rate of taxa tion -that is all. If the measure Is defeated the tax revenues of the city will be reduced about 1900,000. Wages have not come down in Oie present year; the cost of materials has not come down. The only re course will be to reduce service cut down fire and police protection, park and playground maintenance, and reduce every other essential activity. The statement that the city can properly function without the 3-roill levy is preposterous. " THREE CHOICES, OR ONE Under the preferential system the elector may vote three choices for mayor of Portland first, second and third. For example, if he favors Mr. Baker, he may also put his "X" in the second choice column for Mr. Gordon, Mr. Kellaher or Mr. Rich ards. Or he may turn it all around as he pleases, except that he may not vote for Mr. Baker, or for any other one person, for first, second and third choices. He must indi cate by his "X" different candidates In the three columns. The purpose of the plan Is exactly what it implies. If you have a sec ond choice, or a third choice, you should vote it. But if you have but one choice, and one only, vote only one. It Is not mandatory to vote three choices. VOTK FOR A GREATER FORT. The people of Oregon are called upon to vote tomorrow on an initia tive bill consolidating the city dock commission of Portland with the Port of Portland commission and In creasing the financial resources of the latter. The people of Portland will vote on a charter, amendment authoriz ing the city commissioners to trans fer the city' docks to the Port of Portland upon the latter's assuming the dock bonds, and to abolish the dock commission. This Is proposed in order to complete the consolida tion. A vote for these measures Is not a vote for the Swan island project or any other scheme of improve ment. The members of the consoli dated . commission are publicly pledged that no bonds for acquisi tion of land except for improvement of the channel or to complete pres ent terminals, will be issued without direct vote of the people of the port. Adoption of the bills is necessary to continuance of work on the chan nel without regard to the Swan isl and scheme. Any plan to' acquire land for that or any other purpose than maintenance and improvement of the present channel will be sub mitted to the people. - A vote for 310, yes, and 510, yes, Is a vote for a greater port. TO SAVE THE REPUBLIC. Revolt of the people against democratic rule Is not confined to the north. It extends to the south, even to that rockribbed democratic state of Texas. The reasons are summed up in a declaration by John H. Kirby of. Houston, one of the democratic leaders in that state and president of the National " Lumber Manufacturers' association. He has announced his support of the repub lican party as the party which is to "save the republic." Mr. Kirby condemns the demo cratic party because it has "for eight years constantly increased the peo ple a taxes and reduced their liber ties." He believes in a government of laws tinder a written constitution and not a government of bureaus and commissions and a constant multiplication of tax-eaters. He "cannot subscribe to the mons trous idea that this government owes a higher duty to the peoples of other nations than it owes to Its Own citi zens." For this reason he is "unal terably opposed to the covenant of the league of nations as brought batfk from Europe by the president." He declares that the democratic party is "honeycombed with social ism" and that "its continuance in power will imperil the republic," for the success of socialism means the death of the republic." He con cludes: The republican party Bayed the TJnlon. It Is now up to it to save the republic. That is a creed to which every American can subscribe, whatever his former party affiliation. The questions at issue in the election are fundamental, going far deeper than any former differences between the two leading parties. They are whether the government shall be converted from a democratic repub lic founded on individual rights se cured by the constitution into a so cialist republic ruled by an auto cratic president as the head of an overgrown bureaucracy. The so cialist Virus has been at work for eight years. Only a complete change of administration and of the spirit animating it can cast out that virus, with all its consequences of waste, corruption and destruction of indi vidual rights in the name of a bogus idealism. WORRYING ABOCT BIRDS. Forty letters to the editor were published In the Sunday Oregonian. It is significant of the working of the oregon system that while there are measures on the ballot that in volve human life and the economio existence of the people, seven of the letters were an animated discussion over preservation of bird life, and not one was a protest against the amendment that endangers invest' merits and prosperity and not one protested against the throwing open or Oregon s doors to communicable death-dealing diseases. Over- In Harney county the ques tion whether the birds, which no body but the hardiest traveler ever sees, shall have 47,000 acres of marsh land or whether the marsh shall be used to grow food for man. is douDtiess an important one. But whichever way the bill goes the mass of Oregon people will never know the difference. Yet it is made the paramount issue of the campaign. On the ballot with the bird refuge bill is an amendment which would deprive the people of Oregon of the right to borrow money. Its adop- J tlon would have a disastrous effect 1 on every man, woman and child in the state. - There Is also an amendment which disputes every standard au thority governmental, insurance, ' encyclopedic scientific medical, military" everywhere throughout the civilized world. It defiantly as serts the right of any person afflict ed with a communicable disease to roam at will.- Its adoption without a doubt, unless It shall be illegally Ignored in time of disease peril, will be the death warrant of many, many persons. Not a voice In all. the forty was raised in defense of human life, the people's homes, the people's Invest ments. But seven worried over the birds, and numerous others over our duty to make the European nations behave. Where were the home missionaries the intelligent folk who are Inter ested in the health of children, vthe vigor of adults and the security of the fireside? Perhaps they take the people's good sense for granted. If so, we hope they are right. But for the lovers of the pretty birds, for the admirers of the waving oats, for the folk who know more about dis ease prevention without half think ing about it than all those who have given It a lifetime of scientific study and investigation, Sunday was field day. THE FATE OF THE FOURTEEN POINTS Amid all the confusion of tongues about the league of nations, what has become of the fourteen points? They were to have been a new char ter of liberty for all nations. By observing them the world was to have entered upon a millennium of brotherly love and peace among na tions. They were the main instru ment of allied propaganda in Ger many, and that country offered to accept them as the basis of peace. The offer was accepted, and natural ly the world expected, to see them sticking out all over the peace treaties. The first point was "open coven ants of peace openly arrived at with out private international ' under standings." That led all to expect publicity as to the proceedings of the peace conference, but the cen sorship was clapped on, and all the news that the public got was con tained in brief official communica tions which concealed the most im portant news, and the versions given unofficially to correspondents, which were colored with the Interest of the person giving them. - Secrecy was not confined to the general public. Delegates who were entitled to full participation in the conference on . behalf of some of the allies were kept - jn the dark. Beginning with a coun cil of fourteen, the conference was reduced to a council of five, repre senting ' the United States, Great Britain, France, Italy and Japan. One of the five was President Wil son, who thus cast aside Point 1. The other powers were invited one by one to state their case to this world oligarchy, wnlch then decided their fate. When Japan's claims had been disposed of, it dropped-out; then there were four. When Mr. Wilson issued his Fiume manifesto, the Italian delegates withdrew for several weeks; then there were three. When Italy returned, there were four again. When the Ver sailles treaty bogged down In the senate, American delegates sat only as observers, and practically there were only three. Italy did not join In the.Hythe and Boulogne confer ences on reparations, and there were only two participants Britain and France. Differences of opinion be tween these two have at times been so serious that France alone may be left to enforce what Is left of the fourteen points; then there will be only one. "Absolut freedom of the seas" went by the board very early in the peace negotiations. Britain would not hear of it and made its abandon ment a condition of negotiation for a league of najtions. President Wilson claimed that it was "won by forma tion of the league, which would pre vent all war except against nations which violated their obligations. These would be outlaws, entitled to no freedom on sea or land. In fact the league is powerless to preserve freedom of the seas, Britain' naval supremacy places It at that coun try's mercy, and at Mr. Wilson's in stigation the United States is build ing a navy to match that of Britain In order to share the guardianship of the seas or to dispute naval su premacy. But freedom of the seas has so many meanings that we shall not know whether we have lost anything until the nations agree on a definition. .. "Removal of all economic bar riers," according to point 3 comes In conflict with the right of self-determination claimed for Italy, the peoples of Austria-Hungary and the Balkans under points 9, 10 and 11. At Flume D'Annunzio defies the world and denies use of the port to the Slavs in the back country. The states formed out of the Hapsburg empire gratify their hatred of each other by setting up barriers to starve their enemies and incidentally them selves, and a somewhat milder situa tion of the same kind exists between Bulgaria and the other Balkan states. No guaranty for reduction of armaments has been obtained, and war promises to continue till all the surplus material of the great war has been used up and no credit can be obtained for more. The league council may recommend reductions of armament, but the members re main free to ignore them. Mutual confidence and good will are pre requisites to disarmament, but na tional lines are more sharply de fined, national animosities more in tense, than ever. Point 4 is far in the future. Point 5 in regard to colonies has been disposed of by awarding Ger man colonies to the allied powers that wanted them on a give-and-take principle. The rights of inhabitants are supposed to be secured by man dates given by the league, but Lloyd George has reduced this to a nullity by asserting that the mandate for Mesopotamia will be drawn up by Jsritam and recorded with the league and by asserting this rule for all mandates. Russian territory was n,ot evacuat ed by Germahy till a year after the armistice was triads, the German army defeated the effort to rescue Petrograd from the bolshevlsts, and Russia derives more hope of future development from the victories of Poland and General Wrangel than from the great powers, whose ac tivity consists chiefly In writing notes. France has recovered Alsace-Lorraine, but without reparation for its taking in 1S70 and has received little reparation for the devastation of its territory. - Turkey is reduced to Anatolia and Constantinople, but is- so far from "secure sovereignty' that it cannot cope with Mustapha Kemal's rebel army, which Greece routed in ten days. Of the other nationalities of Turkey only the Greeks have been returned to their motherland and Arabia is free, but Syria and Meso potamia have been handed over to France and Britain under mandates against which they fought. Ar menia and Georgia are derelicts fighting for their lives against bol shevlsm. Poland has become an indepen dent state with little aid from the allies, but chiefly through the valor of its own people in driving out the bolshevists. Its "free access to the sea" at Danzig is a grim jest, for it is gained through a narrow corridor between hostile German provinces and In a city that is intensely Ger man. The late war in Poland proves that its "political and economic in tegrity" is not "guaranteed by inter national covenant" but by its own capacity for self-defense. Point 14 Is of particular interest at present, for it furnishes the justi fication for inserting Article X in the league covenant. It reads: Genera association of nations . under specific covenants for mutual guaranties of political independence and territorial integrity to large and email states alike. Possibly if Mr. Wilson had taken the senate into co-operation from the beginning of the peace negotia tions, he might have saved this point. His course aroused the senate to antagonism, the battle has raged around Article X, and the United States is still out of the league. The other members cannot, and the United States will not, give the guar anty mentioned, and the chief mem bers of the league are ready to excise. Artlcle X In order to meet American objections. Thus point 14 is doomed. All of which goes to prove the vanity of high Ideals when imprac tical means are used to realize them. The wars after the war and the strife about the league in the United States have been due In part to the impracticability of some of the four teen points and to the unwise man ner in which Mr. Wilson tried to drive others home. The last two years in particular should have con vinced the world that idealism alone cannot disentangle the knot in which the world's affairs are tied. Prac tical statesmanship is needed. That Is why Senator Harding will be elect ed president as head of a republican administration. The bureau of crop estimates of the department of agriculture, in warning potato growers that it is go ing to be unusually difficult this year to decide when to market the crop to the best advantage, furnishes a convincing argument for co-opera tion among producers in obtaining reliable market information, as well as in selling their products, "and shows that so many complex factors enter into the question that it be comes one for experts to pass upon. There Is this year an excess of 55,000,000 bushels over the crop of 1919, but prices are also influenced by the size of the sweet potato and other food crops, and it is to be ex pected that they will be excessive In some localities and unprofltably low In others simultaneously because of local conditions and faulty distribu tion. Export trade, the department points out, cannot be considered as a factor of weight. Hardly more than 1 per cent of a domestic po tato crop is ever exported.)' Produc tion and consumption of potatoes are peculiarly matters of local con cern. Ex-King Constantine now has a fine opportunity to hold up Greece for a comfortable income for the rest of his life by refusing to -abdicate in favor of Paul till he gets it. As reports are that funds are run ning short in his Swiss retreat, there is small doubt that he will hold out. In republican countries this would be called a hold-up, but It Is part of the game with kings, and their people are willing to buy off at any price those whom they have ex pelled. When editors like Killep of Wash ington, Ingalls of Benton, Hendricks of . Marlon, Bates of Douglas, Thom Ison of Hood River. Kuck of Uma tilla Why extend the list? predict majorities in four figures In their counties for Harding and Stan field, there is no doubt of Oregon tomor row. There is some dispute in Idaho about the circle and name over the independent party on the official ballots and in most of the counties the ballots have been reprinted. The matter is not of value enough to In validate results, which, it appears now, will be republican generally. Thomas Sweeney, who was de feated for the nomination by Mr. McArthUr, is supporting the candi date with all his power. He is;a re publican in the highest sense of the term. There are days In store for Tom Sweeney, who is young yet.'" It should not be necessary to ask let alone implore every . legal voter to come out tomorrow; but nearly half the registered voters of this city have the bad habit Of Ignor ing an election. Rains make doubtful states demo cratic. Some republicans depend on the other fellows to do the voting. The woman vote, cast In most states the first time, may change this ex pectation. An attorney for a bootlegger in federal court a few days ago pleaded for a money fine, alleging a jail sen tence would be bad for his client's epilepsy. He received sixty days for his "fits," however. There are two ways to keep Port land right. One Is to start voting right and the other is to keep on down the line. The Deaf school football team at Vancouver beat a Portland hljgh team Saturday, probably because of being "handy with their mitts." To vote for some democrats to morrow is to commit tone of the deadly sins politically. Reading the signs, Lassen's big blowout Saturday means Sam Short ridge for senator. Keep the fire and police depart ments up to efficiency. ' The Cape Codder. won the race off Halifax, of course. first "Democrats claim Oregon!" They'll be claiming heaven next. LICENSE IS MOT PROHIBITIVE Mr. Sfarock Figures) That Oleo Mak ers Can Well Afford It. PORTLAND, Oct. 31. (To the Ed itor.) I have recently read several letters on the oleomargarine bill that is to be voted on next Tuesday. Those who speak against the bill say the Ucense fee provided for' in the bill will destroy the oleomargarine busi ness. Let us see what it will do to the business. Americans consume on the average four pounds of oleomargarine each annually. Then Oregon ought" to consume about 3,000.000 pounds. There is only one factory in Oregon, which would have to pay $500 license. If this factory manufactures one third of Oregon's consumption, then its $500 license fee will amount to 5-100 of one cent a pound. There are only a few wholesale houses handling oleomargarine in Oregon, but let us be more ti.an fe,ir and say that ten houses handle Oregon's 3,000,000 pounds consumed. In that case the $250 license fee for wholesalers would amount to S-100 of a cent a pound. The retailer is not required to pay a license fee if this bill is passed and hotels and restanrants will be re quired to pay a nominal fee ot $5 annually. . In view of the fact that govern ment statistics give the cost of the raw material in oleomargarine as 52 per cent of the retail price, as com pared with a raw material . cost of 84 per cent of the retail price in case of butter, there must be suf ficient profits in- the oleomargarine to absorb many times the license fees stipulated in this bill. Had the oleo margarine people not tried to parade under false colors and had they not tried by every fair means or foul to palm it off on the public under the guise of butter, there would be no need of sales regulation. . There are two more very vital points to the discussion of this bill. - As a human food the fat of milk has yio equal. Tbe pooples of the earth that have used milk and but ter most abundantly, viz., Europeans and Americans, are the only ones that have progressed in science, art, literature and politics. They are the tallest of stature,, the longest lived, and have the lowest infant mortality, greater resistance to disease, and the greatest degree of intelligence. Fat soluble "A," found only in butter fat. the fat of eggs, and in small quanti ties in the leafy vegetables, is re sponsible for this progress, say our greatest scientists who have studied this subject. The Asiatics, who have for ages tried to get their fat soluble 'A" from the leafy vegetables and who have used little or no milk, are the small est of stature, the shortest lived, have the highest infant mortality, the least resistance to disease, and have progressed only as they have copied after milk-consuming Americans and Europeans. In .experiments with animals growth ceased and disease overcame animals deprived of fat soluble "A." After it was again supplied, disease vanished and growth was resumed. Surveys made in our own public schools have shown those children that are insufficiently supplied with milk and butter to be the ones with low grades and slow mentality. The protection of the dairy indus try, which represents over 3200,000. 000 In this state and which employs 20,000 people on the farms besides the thousands employed in manufac ture and distribution. The oleomargarine industry, which they claim will be ruined if this measure carries, is mere piffle as compared with the dairy industry of the state. The dairy industry is a vital necessity in our system of agri culture. It is the only means of maintaining aOll fertility. -Without legumes, such as clover, vetch and alfalfa, which 'are grown chiefly for cow feed, and without barnyard ma nure, utter soil depletion" will result. The horse is almost displaced by the motor vehicle, leaving the sole re sponsibility upon the cow. M. S. SHROCK. NOTHING- LIKE IT IN HIS DAY Veteran .of 15 Elections Never Saw Cox's Equal for Vituperation. PORTLAND, Oct. 80. (To the Edi tor.) I have voted for every presi dent since Fremont's time and I am bold to say that I cannot remember that in all those years any candidate for the presidency ever indulged in such personal, vituperative, unfair. false and malicious utterances as Governor Cox has delivered In his tirades against the opposite party, particularly against Mr. Harding. Our neighbor across the river pub lished nearly two columns .in the Columbian the present week of charges (52. In number) against the republican candidate, not one of which would convey the design in tended If placed in its true setting all from Governor Cox's stock in trade, during his swing around the circle. He started out to alarm the nation that the republican party was raising a slush fund of 15 to 30 millions of dollars with which to "buy the presi dency." He sounded that gong until it began to nauseate his own best friends. When he saw that the falsehood was discovered he dropped that and pitched into the "senate oligarchy" and into Senator Lodge particularly, who was denounced as a "tralter" and "conspirator," although some of his own party, notably Senators Reed and Walsh, were more drastic in their denunciations of the Wilson league than any republican. When, in one of his southern audiences he found he was crushing the toes of some of his widest fritends, he whirled about and declared if elected he would "sit down" with this same oligarchy and accept their advice in securing the most honorable method Of settling the league question. When, in an audience sprinkled with I. W. W., he used the bayonet charge against Harding. When among laboring men his opponent was bit terly denounced as the enemy of the laboring man. . 1 1 say again, for personal abuse and wilful misrepresentation, he has had no equal In any campaign eince the great Lincoln's time. On the other hand. Senator Hard ing has hardly mentioned his oppon ent's name. His speeches have been marked by modesty, sincerity and with a dignity that stamps him as an honest, level-headed statesman. How any man or woman can hesitate about Which of these two men is entitled to their suffrage is a mystery to me. OBSERVER. Rouble fullo In BOO. BANDON. Or., Oct. SO. (To the Editor.) In the game or 500 what is a double hullo hand? How la It played and how counted? MRS T. E. THORN. The one who bids double nullo must take no tricks. He does not have the assistance of his partner and he cannot use or look at the widow. If be takes one or more tricks he loses his bid of 500 and each trick he is forced to take counts for hie opponents. Address Not Given. PORTLAND, Oct. 30. (To the Ed itor.) Please let me know the ad dress of a matrimonial paper. M. LEE. There Is none that we feel justi fied in recommending. - Those Who Come and Go. The lull before the election storm was apparent in most of the hotel lob bies yesterday, the indications being that the majority of the state travel ers were either staying at home so that they could vote Tuesday or scur rying back as fast as they could. A. B. Guernsey and Ed 1. boutnwortn ot Valley City were two of those who had to come to Portland with a ship ment of cattle and reported that Grant county sent in 11 carloads, ar riving here yesterday. "We lose money on every animal we sell," said Southworth, "the market seems to want cows and we raise steers mainly. but when we get only six cents a pound in the market It is Impossible to make two ends meet, but we have to sell. This meat, when sold at market at six cents, should not cost the butcher more than 12 cents over the block. It is a certainty that we do not get the profit." Honeymoon atmosphere predomin ated at the Multnomah hotel over the week end as a number, of newly mar ried couples were registered. C. CI Wright brought the new Mrs. Wright to the hotel Saturday night to a room that he had spent several hours trans forming into a bower of floral beauty during the day, only to find that it had been despoiled of its blooms by a raiding party of friends. Ed Cohen of Chicago, who has a host or menus in Portland, was constantly receiving remembrances yesterday for Mrs. Cohen, who was with him. Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Resare were another cou ple Just embarking on life's Journey tosrether who were recipients of many attentions at the hands of their friends. Brewer A. Billie is understood to have told, friends in the lobby of the Multnomah hotel yesterday that he was fairly well satisfied with tne work of O. A. C. this year In holding California to the low score they did Saturday In the football game, but he was especially proud of the manner in which the team scored on the Bear state eleven, something that is seldom done this year to date. Billie is a former backfield star for O. A. C. and last year was assistant coach. . M. E. Sinclair of Ilwaco, Wash., son of the member of the Washington state legislature. Is at the Hotel Port land on his way home after accom panying his father to Olympta. The Sinclalrs have one of the longest trips on record to get to and from their district to their state capiat, as' they have to journey through Oregon and across the mouth of the Columbia In their trips. Harry L. Sale, who travels out of Portland calling on the silk trade, is at the Hotel Portland for a few days with his new partner, who was a Miss Curtis of this city up to the day she decided to take an interest in Sale's business as his better half Mr. and Mrs. Sale will travel the silk route together this time for their honeymoon. , It Is more than possible that inter est in the proposed Swan Island har bor bill may have been the magnet that draws R. L. Johnson and S. H Daniels of San Francisco to Port land, as they represent the Califor nia Hydraulic Engineering company and there will be lots of dirt to move In the local harbor If the port blllB carry. They are registered at the Multnomah. Mr. and Mrs. J. Thornberg of Forest Grove, where Mr. Thornberg is one of the bankers, are at the Oregon ho tel while they visit some of the shows and other amusements that Portland has which are lacking In Forest Grove. Frank G. Deckenbach Jr. of Salem Is at the Oregon hotel resting up after taking several degrees In the Ancient Order of United Workmen. Decken bach was a - member of one of the largest classes that the order has ever put through their traces in this state. Pat Morrison arid lira. Morrison ot Mobridge, South Dakota, are resting at the Hotel Portland for several days while they see the many points of Interest In this vioinity. They are touring by auto and have been eev eral weeks on their trip. Lewis A Gans of New York brought Mrs. Gans with him this trip and they are stopping at the Benson, where Mr. Gans is showing his wife about the city that is one of his best mar kets. He is a manufacturer of um brellas. "Tillamook county for Harding by 1000. for Stanfield by 500." This was the prediction yesterday of J. O. Bo- Earth,- one of the real estate oper ators of Bay City, as he registered at the Oregon hotel. Mrs. H. V. Mayo and sister of Ma nila, P. I., are at the Hotel Portland They are making a tour of the United States and are enthralled with their first visit to the northwest. J. G. Morrison, assistant general traffic manager of the Northern Pa cific of St. Paul, left the Multnomah hotel yesterday on his way to Call fornia in the Interest of his road. Catherine Cook, specialist m rural education for the department of the interior, is at the Multnomah. Moore's Peom Recalled. PORTLAND, Oct. 31. (To the Edi tor.) The following verses written by Thomas Moore In memory of Robert Emmet, seem appropriate also to the memory of Terence MacSwlney: O breath not his name! Let it sleep in the shade. Where cold and nnhonored his relics are laid,; " Sad, silent and darlc be the tears that we shed. As the nlRht dew that falls on the crave o'er his head. But the night dew th&t falls, though In silence It weeps; And the tear that we shed, though tn se cret it rolls. Shall long keep his memory green in our souls. , ERIN. Apes In Holy Writ. SHEDD, Or.. Oct. 30. (To the Ed itor.) Under "By-products of the Times," October 26, I find a para graph, "Holy writ tells that King Solomon had many such pets" (mon keys), etc Please . tell me where I can find this in the holy writ. W. J. DUNLAP. "For the king (Solomon) had at sea a navy of Tharshlsh with the navy of Hiram; once in three years came the navy of Tharshish bringing gold and silver, ivory, and apes and peacooks." Kings 1:10:22. See also Chron. 2:9:21. Oregonian Poet Seeks Friend. PORTLAND, Oct. 30. (To the Ed itor.) May I have 6pace for a re quest? Will the person who recent ly sent me an exquisite present, and who has twice written me over the signature "A Woman," kindly com municate with me In her own name? However kind they may be, anony mous letters are very unsatisfactory, and place the recipient at a disad vantage that cannot be -overcome. They seem to be without excuse as well, for no friendship can be es tablished upon 'concealment and sub terfuge. GRACE E. HALL. , 507 East Forty-ninth street North. Portland, Oregon. WAH.H SPOT IN HEART S OU UAKIJK War Mother Points Oat That Soldiers He Helped Are Also Tax I'syers. PORTLAND. Oct. 30. (To the Edi tor.) In The Oregonian recently. Herbert Gordon, candidate for mayor, was quoted as having said: "Mr. Baker did very well as a war mayor. Now the war Is over and It Is time to work." If Mr. Gordon can put In ny more hours of work In a day than Mayor Baker can. he will have to ask Dan Kellaher to add a few to ' the existing twenty-four. It is true that Mr. Baker was a good war mayor and the very quali ties that made him that, will make him a good mayor again. What made him a good mayor during the war? Perservance, untiring and unflagging energy, strength of char acter that enabled him to stand by his convictions and a personality that grips everyone who comes in contact with him. Those are only a few, but above any is his progresslveism. Portland will never stagnate under his guidance, but will forge to the front as ehe has during his admin istration. Mr. Gordon surely cannot win many votes by condemning Mr. Baker's auditorium policy. He cannot if people of Portland remember how the auditorium was used- as an emer gency hospital that housed thousands of needy patients during the epidemic of influenza; as an open house for every sort of war activity; the Mothers' organization, the Daddies' club, the Red Cross. Because Mr. Baker did not attempt to make money, for the city by charging for soldiers' farewell dinners and welcoming dances, he is charged with extrava gance by men who are trying to work their way into office by playing on the sympathies of the taxpayers. But those men forget that the tax payers include those very soldiers who were entertained there and who were helped on "over there" by George L. Baker's policy of working !or the service men. Also among the taxpayers are. the mothers, fathers, wives, sisters, of those service men. And they all know how Mr. Baker worked with them and for them at all hours of the day and night. Are they going to listen to the talk of men who are small enough to object to the big policies of a big man? Fathers! Mothers! Ex-service men! In short, citizens! Stand by the man who helped you through the war and who Is helping you now. Don't forget that it f is George L. Baker who is makng the Marine hospital possible to Portland. Let's have another term of advancement with a wide-awake, progressive man to direct It. "Mayor Baker has made good. Re-elect him." A WAR-MOTHER. DEFINITION OF NON-PARTISAN Professed Friend of All Parties bnt Worker Only for Own. PORTLAND, Oct. 30. (To the Edi tor.) It is going to take something more' than the harpings of "he stood four-square," "he got the boys over just in the nick of time," "he was true blue," etc., io convince the re publican voters of Oregon that Cham berlain Is the man to elect to the United States senate this year. The voters Just now are demanding of the candidate much more than his 100 per cent - record of loyalty and his activities In war work before they vote for him. They are de manding that he possess certain and specific political principles which are in accord with their own. They are going to judge him by his political past and not by his percentage of loyalty during the war. Chamber lain's 100 per cent loyalty during the war was no higher than it waj ex pected by his constituents to be. or. in fact, no higher than it should have been. Millions upon millions of oth ers were just as loyal as he and la bored in equal proportion with him self to win the war. Everyone (except a democrat) now adays knows the exact definition of the, word non-partisan wnen applied to campaign politics. A non-partisan is a man who pro fesses friendship for the principles and doctrines of all the political par ties on earth but votes and works for only his own. He is sort of a Confucian-Methodist, or a Presby terian - Bhuddist, or the like. Mr. Chamberlain has been for more than seven years a prominent part and parcel of Wilsonlsm and the Wil son party. Does anyone believe Wil son a non-partisan? Mr. Chamberlain is now an ardent supporter of Cox and Coxism. Does anyone believe Cox a non-partisan? Chamberlain rallied round the Tammany flag when Tammany waved it in a demo cratic convention. Does anyone be lieve Tammany non-partisan? Cham berlain worked and voted for the "Underwood tariff law." Is that law a non-partisan law? When George Chamberlain voted "aye" on the final roll of that law his voice sent a cold chill over the entire state of Oregon. It sounded the death warrant to scores of our sustaining industries and plunged the business of our com monwealth Into practical ruin. If for no other political reason than that alone, Mr. Chamberlain should be overwhelmingly condemned by the vote of those who have the interests of our state at heart. Think first of old Oregon and Ore gon's best Interests before you vote. J. W. C. HE IS CALLED ON TWO COUNTS Mr. Kellaher Misrepresents Mr. New ell's Employment and Report. MONTREAL, Quebec, Oct. 25. (To the Editor.) In The Oregonian of October 18 there appears a letter from Mr. Dan Kellaher, In which he asserts that previous to my employment by the city in the street-car rate hearing I was for a long time employed by the Portland Railway, Light & Power company. Mr. Kellaher is entirely mistaken. Having been a life-long resident of Portland, my record is easily traced by any one who cares to do so. From 1894 to 1907 I was continuously em ployed by the O.-W. R & N. company. From 1907 to date I have been in pri vate practice. From 1909 to date 1 have been Consulting engineer for the Oregon public service commission, to whom all my business connectione have been well known. I have never, at any time or In any manner,' been employed by the Port land Railway, Light & Power com pany, save once when Mr. Griffith asked me to act as the company's; member of a board of arbitration in a wage dispute, and I did so serve for three days. This is the sole basis for Mr. Kellaher's statement. Mr. Kellaher asserts that in my In vestigation no. attention was given to the fact that double fares are col lected on the Vancouver line. While the effect of such an error, if made, would be trifling. Mr. Kellaher will find, if he will take the trouble to examine my report, that a proper al lowance was made for all double fares J. P. NEW" ELL. More Truth Than Poetry. My James J. Muntasuc. CKUAT ntOSI'KCTS. When some one tells me of a bock I really ought to read I don an interested look And murmur, "yes indeed!" But I do not 1 wait a bit For soon some gentlemen Will make a movie play of it And I can Bee it then. I mean to eee them all In time. The gloomy, the jocose. The melancholy, the sublime. ine gay, the lachrymoFe. I'll gather literary spoil. Wide learning I shall gain. And never burn the midnight oil Or even tax my brain. I always have had lofty alms To read and comprehend The massive works of William James (Not Henry) to the end. But I ehall freely undertake This mighty urge to stem. Until scenario writers make A movie play of them. Psychology, the calculus. And Mr. Freud on dreams I know are eomowbat strenuous And esoteric themes. But very shortly I suppose They'll be In the town hall. Converted Into movie shows And I shall see 'em all! No Profit In 'Cm. They are making clothes out of pa per now. Apparently the cotton ones last too long. , Naturally. Debs Is one presidential candidate who is in favor of a short term. Thrift. Don't throw away the ouija board. They'll be in demand by and by to shingle houses with. (Copyright by th Bell Syndicate. Ine. John Burroughs' Nature) Notes. Cn Vou Answer These Questions f 1. What northern Canadian bird sometimes visits the state in winter? 2. How can an otter breathe under the ice? 3. Why Is making something better than just seeing it? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers io Previous Questions. 1. Does the humming bird injure fruit? I one day saw humming birds ap parently probing the ripe yellow cheeks of my finest poaches, but I was not certain till I saw a bird hov ering over a particular peach, and then mounting upon a ladder I ex amined it, when, sure enough, the rolden cheek was full of pin-holes. The orioles destroy many of my ear liest pears, but it required much watching to catch them in the very act. 2. When does the skunk use Its odor? The skunk is represented as adver tising his course through the woods to all other creatures by his charac teristic odor. As a matter of fact, however, the skunk emits that odor only when attacked, and is at all other times as odorless as a squirrel. 3 Has fear the same effect on ani mals as on man? Fear seems to have the same effect upon both man and boast, causing trembling of the muscles, a rapid beating of the heart, a relaxation of the sphincters, momentary weakness, confusion, panic, flight. It would be interesting to know If the blood leaves the capillaries in the faces of animals during sudden fright, as It does in man. producing paleness. (Rights reserved by Houghton, Mif flin Co.) In Other Days. TwenryFlve Years Abo. From The Oregonian of November 1, 1886. The month of October Is remark able for the fact that during tbe 31 days there was no rainfall other than a bare trace reported a few days ago. Numerous cases of scarlet fever and a few of diphtheria are reported among the school children of the city. Governor Lord came to Portland rrom Salem yesterday to attend tl. dress parade of the militia at the ex position. Manager Calvin Heilig of the Mar quam returned yesterday from a week's visit in Seattle. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of November 1, 1970. A few of the leading citizens of Oregon have turned their attention to the subject of shipping grain from this state in bulk. Perhaps an ele vator will be erected for this purpose during next year. The federal census for San Fran cisco is shown to be 150,361. Of this number 12,017 are Chinese. The vote of Cincinnati, including Hamilton county, in the late election showed a republican gain since last fall of 8947. LONDON. The spoils of capitula tion at Metz include 3000 guns, forty millions of the French war funds, and twenty millions of the French, civil government department funds. Duties of Tariff Commission. MILWAUKIE. Or. Ont n fT .1, - I Editor.) We are engaged in a po litical aiscussion in wnlch the pres ent form of a tariff is involevd. The opposing side maintains that there is a tariff commission which has power to regulate completely the tariff. I question this and can find no evi dence of such a commission except that appointed by the party in power. We would like to know the exact form by which the tariff may be al tered, not too detailed, of course. R. W. G. The tariff" commission established In 1916 has authority only to Investi gate and ascertain facts connected with the tariff and its effects and to make reports both yearly and upon request of the president, the house ways and means committee or the senate finance committee. It has no power to regulate the tariff. Con gress alone can do that by bills passed first by the house, then by the senate. Senate and house then reconcile points of difference, pass the conference bill and send It to the president for approval. l.t-1 Lair Take Course. C1IEHALIS, Wash., Oct. 30. (To the Editor.) Sheriff Taylor'B slayers should hung! Governor Oloott is wise and right in refusing recon sideration of the Jury's decision. The iiiiuiKter and others from Pendleton are simply encouraging future lynch ing. Why do people resort to lynohing? Because clearly guilty prisoners too often are dealt with softly put in the pen for a very few years; finally the lawyers get them their liberty, ready to kill another one. KARL W1LLRIOU.