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Newspaper Page Text10. THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1920 ESTABLISHED BV HEXRT I- TITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., loo Sixth Street, Portland. Oregou. . C A. MORDEN. E. B. PIPER. Manager. . . Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Anociated Press la ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches here in are also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Dally. Sunday Included, one year "-!M? I-ai'y. Sunday included, six months. . Laily. Sunciay included, three months 2.2. liaily. .Sunday -tncluded".one month.. . j Iaily. without Sunday, one year.,.. 6.00 I'ally, without Sunday, six months... o.-- Daily, without Sunday, one month .. .00 Weekly, one year 1-iW Sunday, one year 5.00 . t Hv Carrier. 1 Dally. Sundav Included, one year. . . I9.00 Daily. Sunday Included, three months Daily. Sunday included, one month.. . Dally, without Sunday, one year....... T.sO Daily, without Sunday, three months., l.y Daily, without Sunday, one month.... .00 How to Kemit Send postoffice money order. exnrers or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owners risk. Give postoffic address in full. Including; county ana s-tate. Postage KrUm I to 16 pages. 1 cent: IS to -11 pages. 2 cents: 4 to 4S pages. 3 cents, 50 to 64 pages, 4 cents; 68 to so Pages. 5 cents: 82 to 96 pages, 6 cents. Foreign postage double rates. Eastern Business Office Verree A Conk -lln. Brunswick building. New York. Verree A; Conklin. Steger building. Chicago; er ree & Conklin. Free Press building. De troit. Mich. San Francisco representative, n. J. Bidwell. POOR VOTER ON ELECTION DAY. The proudest now is but my peer. The highest not more higrh; Today of all the weary year, A kin? of men am L Today, alike are great and small. The nameless and the known; My palace is the people's -hall. The ballot box my throne! Who serves today upon the list Beside the served shall stand; Alike the brown and wrinkled fist. The gloved and dainty hand! The rich is level with the poor, The weak is strong today; The sleekest broadcloth counts no more Than homespun frock of gray. Today let pomp and vain pretense My stubborn right abide; I set a plain man's common sense Against the pedant's pride. Today shall simple manhood -try The strength of gold and land; The wide world has not wealth to buy The power In my right hand. While there's a grief to seek redress, Or balance to adjust,""-" Where weighs our living manhood less Than Mammon's vilest dust -. While there's a right to need my vote, A wrong to sweep away. Up' clouted knee and ragged coat! A man's a man today! John Greenleaf Whittier. THE SOLKMX BEFERKNDC3I. The great and solemn referendum, invoked months since by President Wilson, will function at the general election today. It is actually a ref erendum over the league of nations only in the sense that it will end for all time In the United States If Mr. Cox shall be beaten the great cani paign for the Paris league, nego tiated by the president without the advice or consent of the senate. If Cox should be elected, the agitation would doubtless continue until the senate had again rejected the Wil son covenant. THE league Is an Im possibility, referendum or no ref erendum. Only A league is possible. The president may: have attempted to ignore the senate; but the senate win not ne ignored. The exact situation ' has been as Obvious to Mr. Cox as to Mr. Hard ing. Realization that he m-ust abandon the Wilson policy first of ignoring and then of coercing the senate is doubtless responsible for th various statements of the demo cratic candidate that he "would ac cept reservations" and that he would "sit down with the senate" and reach an agreement. A fair interpretation of the Cox meaning is that he will not 'attempt to impose his will upon the senate, but that he will endeavor to find with it common ground in order to reach the common goal of a practicable' league of nations. If Cox does not mean to consult the senate his promise to "sit down" is not made in good faith. But it should be assumed that it is made with honest intent to recognize its constitutional position as the presi dent's co-partner in the making of treaties. What then? A compro mise, rjromispd An tho Rprannlnp tf the league as it is. Nothing else. Thus we see that the 'ultimate attitude of Mr. Cox will be substan tially identical with the present atti tude of Mr. Harding. He is not for the present covenant. He is for an association of nations which will prevent war, or tend to prevent it, and to promote peace, or tend to promote it. He will consult the sen ate. He will agree with it on a plan. He Is willing to take whatever Is good In the Wilson covenant. Mr. Cox does not promise to agree, but the implication is there. If he fails or refuses to agree, he will be back to the Wilson position, with nothing accomplished. The Oregonian believes, and has long believed, that the project of ratifying the league without sub stantial change, Mias doomed to failure. It believes, and it has long believed, that the only road to any league was through an agreement between president and senate. It has long believed that the movement for a league would be retarded and not promoted by the election of Mr. Cox, proclaiming himself "in per fect accord" with President Wilson; and it has believed that the outlook could and would be Improved only in so far as the "perfect accord" be came imperfect.' To the extent that Mr. Cox has abandoned the presi dent, and indicated a willingness to find himself in more or less perfect accord with the senate, is there a chance of doing anything whatever with the league, or any league, through Mr. Cox. Mr. . Cox has found himself too late. He has learned that the coun try is for A league and not for THE league. He has mistakenly sought to convert the sentiment for A league into support for THE league and he has failed. Knowing, doubt less, that he has failed, be has, so far as he has dared, faced in the direction of real reservations to THE league. In the end THE league, with reservations, and A league will approximate the same thing. The real referendum of today Is on President' Wilson and the demo cratic administration. The verdict to be returned today will be a judg ment for or against the president and all his acts, including the league. It is unfortunate for the league that it is involved in the issue, but it was done by the president himself, and VA miiet ahllA rtv Ilia Henlt J n must Mr. Cox. So will Mr; Harding. So far as The Oregonian ' is con- cerned, it gives notice that if will I coaUjo.ua to support with, ail energy and with whatever influence it may have, the high aspiration of America to do its part, through a league of nations, for the preservation of the peace of the world by prevention of war. ON GUARD. . This is a reminder that the voter's duty is by no means performed when he or she has gone down the list of candidates and made the necessary crosses. The voter's duty is not then one-half performed. The measures on the ballot are more immediately vital than the success or defeat of any candidate who has the smallest chance of election". The fate of Harding, Cox and all the rest of them, whichever way it turns, will not prove as upsetting to the physical and economic welfare of Oregon citizens as, adoption of some of the amendments submitted to the voters. v One amendment imposing single tax and another restricting to an im possible minimum the rate at which money may be lent, strike at the business and industrial foundations of the state. Another amendment takes issue with established science, governmental records, insurance statistics and the experience of every civilized nation, and v prohibits the only efficacious restraint of- com municable diseases. ' If tax confiscation of land. In ability to borrow money and a dis ease epidemic struck us all at once. we fancy that the people would rise up and smite the system that gave us so much misery. If you believe In direct legislation you are belying your faith by not voting. The price of the Oregon system is constant vigilance. PORTLAND'S CROWING COMMERCE. Exports of a total value of nearly nine million dollars from Portland in October are a sign of the growing commerce of the port. They were shipped mostly on American vessels, and are. going to all parts of the world. The principal commodities are wheat, flour and" lumber, the staple products of the Oregon coun try. The number of vessels engaged in foreign trade from Portland is steadily increasing. For the first nine months of 1920 it was 137 of 421,077 tons against 119 of 314,922 tons in the whole year 1919. There are nine steamship lines from Port land to foreign ports, according to a report issued by the traffic depart ment of the Port of Portland com mission, six between the Pacific and Atlantic coasts, five coastwise lines on the Pacific, and new ones . are frequently added. This commerce is the fruit of the effort put forth by Portland for re moval of the Columbia river bar, im provement of the channel and con struction of public docks and eleva tor. For several years the people saw no result from this expenditure, but they now reap the benefits. By providing a better channel and add ing docks as the number and size of ships, grows, they can insure a con stant growth of both foreign and coastwise trade. A CAMPAIGN OF FALSEHOOD. In an effort to sustain the false charge that Senator Harding is the special friend of corporations the democratic state committee has dis tributed a circular stating that he voted against amendments to the war revenue act levying taxes of 73 per cent, 70 per cent, 65 per cent or 60 pr cent on war profits. It does not state the further fact that Sena tor Chamberlain also voted against those amendments. It does not state the further fact that the amend ments were supported by only seven teen or eighteen senators and were opposed by sixty-two senators of both parties. The Corvallis Gazette Times has investigated the facts with these very interesting results.' Worst of all, it does not tell the origin and motive of the amend ments. They were introduced by Senator La Follette, one of the will ful twelve who had filibustered against the armed neutrality bill. He proposed to place the tax rate so high that it would kill the business on which it was to be levied and would thus deprive the government of much revenue to carry on the war. His amendments were sup ported by those of the twelve whose terms had not expired or who had not seen their error. They voted against the war, only incidentally against the corporations. A quotation is-made from a speech made by Mr. Harding on February 26, 1917, before the declaration of war, against an increase of the nor mal corporation tax in such a man ner as to create the impression that he spoke against the war revenue bill, though it was passed in the fol lowing session, while we were at war. That tax would have been levied not only on great corporations but on all corporations, great and small. It was a viciously sectional tax, proposed by the Bourbon demo crats of the south to be paid mainly by the north and west. Even La Follette admitted that its effect would have been confiscation. Again Mr. Harding is misquoted in such manner as to make it ap pear that he accused the farmers in particular of greed. In the same speech of February 26, 1917,- he was denouncing the agitation against food shortage, which anti-war pro pagandists attributed to corporations which wanted war, when he said: I venture to say that If the corporations of this country were holding their food products for advanced prices as does the farmer within his rights, let it be said- there would be an outcry from one end of the country to the other. , Those who pretended to quote this passage omitted the words "within his rights, let it be said," and sup pressed the purpose of the speech. which was to expose the dishonesty of the pretense that agitation was directed against food speculators. when it was really directed against war in defense of American rights at sea. Another attempt is made to con vict Mr. Harding of having aimed a charge of greed at the farmers. This quotation was made: I share the anxiety to strike at rreed. I should like to strike at greed for power. I would be agreeable to strike at the mani fest greed in some of the agricultural sec tions of the United states. This is what he went on to say. but it is omitted from the demo cratic circular: i I am willing to strike at greed in some of the great industrial Institutions of the country. Sometimes I am inclined to ntter a warning to them that he who Is In busi ness In these difficult times,- who expects to make an abnormal profit, is riding to his own destruction, because. In the tur moil of the world, this sort of thing is not going to be tolerated. That passage showed that the senator denounced inordinate greed in any quarter in war-time, whether -by great- industrial corporations or by farmers, In tost tha "agrifiui. tural sections" to which he referred were the cotton-growing districts of the south, where the administration refused to limit prices. But the pas sage relating to farmers is joined to the following taken from a latter part of the same ' speech by the authors of the campaign circular: I do not think it 12.29 wheat) will bring about the desired result, but I ven ture to say, Mr. President, that If the qualities of American patriots are such that we mast guarantee the American farmer a Price for his wheat in a world famine, then there is not patriotism enough in the country to win the war. Mr. Harding's confidence In the patriotism of the American farmer was such that he considered guar anty by the government of a mini mum price unnecessary to induce them to grow enough wheat. ' In practice the so-called minimum proved to be a maximum, above which the 'price did not rise. Be fore the law was passed the price was much higher and but for the law it would probably have con tinued higher, yet wheat acreage was enormously increased. Events justified the senator's confidence in patriotism of the farmers, but - the democrats gratified the greed of the cotton growers. When the democratic party re sorts to garbled extracts from speeches, even to downright false hood, it proves itself unworthy of public confidence. Its campaign methods are a good reason for its defeat. TAKING HIS MEAPTKE. Has there been one to attack the record of Governor Cox as governor of Ohio dur- ng this campaign? Have you heard one word in criticism of his administration of the affairs of the state of Ohio? Portland Journal. Tea, oh, yes. The Anti-saloon league has some ideas about the service of Governor Cox to the liquor interests of Ohio which it has ex pressed on more than one occasion, through its general superintendent. and otherwise. If anyone is curious on the subject of Governor Cox's record on prohibition he will be much enlightened by reading the American Issue of October 23, 1920. Some dispute has arisen, too, as to the exact responsibility of Governor Cox for the workmen's compensation act, and he has been charged cor rectly, we think with taking too much credit to himself. Some of it belonged to Governor Harmon, a predecessor, and some to the Ohio legislature. Yet it is fair to say that there has been no effort by his republican op ponent, or by republican organiza tions, or republican newspapers, to withhold from Governor Cox what ever commendation may be his due. In contrast, the false, vicious, scandalous and outrageous propa ganda against Senator Harding, some of it open, much of it secret, had its origin in democratic sources. Gov ernor Cox himself has not been any too scrupulous about his methods of attack on Senator Harding and he has been wholly unscrupulous in his assaults on the republican campaign management. As a result, the coun try has taken Cox's measure. THE LAST EFFORT OF DESPERATION. In an eleventh-hour effort to win votes by appeal to every prejudice and passion of race, creed and class the democratic county committee i and its various auxiliaries flooded the city on Sunday and Monday with circulars which are unsurpassed for falsehood, cunning mixture of the false with the true and for garbled quotation and telling of half-truths. Hundreds of persons were employed in this forlorn hope of the self-styled idealists and saviors of democracy and civilization. They may have won some by appeal? to Ignorance or prejudice, but they disgusted .far more with, this exhibition of the campaign liar at his worst. The most brazen misrepresenta tions were several circulars printed in red ink, one of which was headed: "Huns vote for Harding," and an other of ' which ends, "No wonder the Huns will vote for Harding," while another quotes from various democratic newspapers statements that the Germans will vote for Hard ing on the ground that he is for a separate peace. It is stated that "on May 4, 1918, Harding voted against placing heavy fines upon disloyal pro-Germans during the war." The sole founda tion for that statement is that Mr. Harding with twenty-five other senators on that day voted against adoption of the conference report on the amended espionage bill which they believed to restrict unduly the rights of free spech and free press. Debate and voting hung chiefly around an amendment by Senator France declaring "that nothing in this act shall be construed as limit ing the liberty or impairing the right of any individual to publish or speak what i3 true with good 'motives and for justifiable ends." Events have vindicated Mr. Harding, for the ad ministration has made many at tempts to suppress publication of the truth about its misconduct both during and since the war. Several fragmentary quotations are made from a speech of Mr. Hard ing on June 8, 1917, with the pur pose to show that he opposed the first liberty bond campaign, then in progress: that he lauded German at the expense of American patriotism and opposed destruction of the Ho- henzollern and Hapsburg dynasties. His words are given this appearan 2e by being tornr from their context. He was criticized by Senator Lewis for having said in a speech at Columbus, O., that the liberty bond campaign was "hysterical and unseemly," for having scouted the idea that the United States was fighting the head of the German empire, not the Ger man people, and for having spoken of "the fascinating devotion of Ger man citizens to their government." In reply Mr. Harding said: I have believed the liberty bond mm. paign hysterical and unseemly. I have not wished to hinder It. I have only wished that I might jnaRe the conditions which would have made this seemingly hysterical campaign unnecessary, and I am hesitant to say on the floor of the senate why It la so. America, with the ability to buy seven teen billions of bonds on any day, is re luctant to buy because or its lack of con fidence In the present administration. If someone could give the requisite assur ance to the United States concerning plans for financing the war In the way of taxa' tlon, there would not be five days of delay In providing for over-subscription of the liberty bond Issue. I have not meant to be ugly in my refer ence to the hysteria. There Is very emi nent authority for use of that word over a little unseemly excitement. It is only about three years since the distinguished executive of this country, noting the anx iety of the American people about some preparedness for defense when the world was aflame with war, pronounced the de sire for American preparedness hysteria. It would have been well if we had take a the situation seriously then. That very timely reminder of the lack of a war financing policy, when Claude Kitchln, democrat and pa cifist, was saying to the north: "It's your war and we will make you pay tor it" did &t $uit the democrats, so they suppressed it and picked out an isolated sentence. When Mr. Harding spoke, the administration was making its first clumsy effort to prepare. To have recalled his re marks on unpreparedness would have brought to mind the whole story of democratic failure and waste,, by which we came far nearer losing the war than the people at the time knew. The democratic quoter has to be very careful when he gets on such dangerous ground. That is as true of Mr. Harding's statement of cur reasons for fight ing, for he said; In a patriotio address I did say this, and I choose to repeat lt- That It Is not up to the United States to force democracy on the world; that It were better by our own proof that democracy can defend It self ws make an ideal example which shall enlist the devotion of the world to the cause of democracy. Referring to - President-- Wilson's statement that we were riot in the war because of any particular griev ance of our own and that we want to make the world safe for democracy, Mr. Harding said: I subscribe to that sentiment, but you cannot Justify this war and you cannot unify the American people in defense of the American nation except on a Justifia ble ground of defending and preserving American national rights. I believe la democracy Just as much as any man on this floor. I can find my heart thrilled with the thought of this great nation taking Its part In the maintenance of human rights and the safety of the liberty of the world, and I am not a little impressed by the part of this great republio In mak ing sure the guaranties of the best civili sation the world has ever known. But nations called upon to fight must have a more defensible reason than even these ideals, and the one defensible reason for the United States, back of which every senator oan array himself and back of which every American citizen can and will array himself, no matter whence he comes. Is defense of American national rights, safety of American lives, maintenance of American honor and our freedom to par ticipate in the commerce of the seas. You can go to the people with that declaration and find an unfailing response In every American heart. I have heard talk abont the dethrone ment of the houses of Hohenzollern and Hapsburg until I have wearied of- It not because I have any sympathy with either house. I wonld welcome the establishment of democracy In Germany as readily as any man on this floor, but I call your at tention to the fact that there Is no likeli hood of its establishment there and. If It be treason to say it, I repeat It now. I cannot wish for anything more loyal from citizens of the United States than devotion to the Stars and Stripes like ,the.t which German cltizena show to the fatherland, and there is not an ounce of pro-German sympathy in my body. I should like Amer ican devotion similar to that which the people of Germany show to the govern ment of that country, and I say it now and I will repeat It again and again, it Is not any business of the American people .what class of government any nation on earth may have so long as that govern ment respects the requirements of inter national law and the tenets of civiliza tion. I think It ill becomes the United States to measure a man's patriotic devo tion In accordance with his determination that the houses of Hohenzollern and Haps burg shall be destroyed. American and allied propaganda undermined the loyalty of the Ger man "and Austrian people to their rulers, American arms convinced them that their governments had de ceived them and, contrary to Mr. Harding's expectation, the two dy nasties - were deposed.. But' if any man can find a trace of pro-Germanism, in that speech, let him make the most of it. Certainly it defined America's cause for war more truly than did Mr. Wilson. The statement that Mr. Harding voted for separate peace with .Ger many on May 15, 1920, has no bet ter foundation than the fact that he voted for the Knox resolution de claring the state of war at an end. That was the last effort of congress to get out of the state of war without surrender to Mr. Wilson's autocratic demand in regard to the peace treaty. It was the only way to annul the host of war laws which entrust ed despotic power to the president. That resolution did not declare for a separate peace, and Mr. Harding never did so. It seemed the only way out, but Mr. Wilson's veto closed it. Other circulars printed in green were addressed to advocates of free dom for Ireland and said that Cox favored that cause, though the democratic platform expresses only sympathy with Irish aspirations for self-government. That is the meas ure of freedom which England offers and which the- present Irish leaders reject. ' 1 Sentiments of Catholics were worked on by reproductions of. a caricature on Raphael's "Immacu late Conception" which the demo crats represent to have been pub lished by the republican- national committee, though it first appeared in Harvey's Weekly, is now circu lated by an independent publicity bureau and is repudiated by the re publican committee. Another appeal was made to re ligious prejudice by circulation of a purported article from a Catholic paper describing the republican party as "the recognized and open enemy of the Catholic church," and citing favors which President Wilson and his private secretary, J. P. Tu multy, have shown to that church. We find also sentimental appeals to women on the pretext that opposi tion to the Wilson league causes death of soldiers, and on the prepos terous pretense that Harding Is wet and Cox dry. Another effort is made to marshal working men on the side of Dr. Lovejoy because Representa tive McArthur voted against the Adamson law and for the Esch Cummins railroad law, the pamphlet showing the earmarks of the Plumb plan league. ' These are the tactics which fling away all. scruples in the face of Im pending defeat. They contain no sign of faith in that love of freedom and good government which all Ameri cans have in common. They stir all that Is un-American in racial, re ligious and class antagonism. They are good reasons for democratic de feat. The Cape Codder won the second race yesterday off .Halifax. If you would know how they do it, read about Captain Dlsko Troop of the "We're Here," by Kipling in "Cap tains Courageous." It's a good ticket from top to bot tom and ought to go through straight. Some will vote for Debs, knowing he cannot- get out to doany harm if elected. - Today's forecast: Fair weather; northerly winds; republican majori ties. The river was here before any of us, but we need to make it fit- The city hall will be open all day. Likewise the city Jail. Mr. Bryan, in doing nothing, has done well. "What fools these mortals be!" "May X not" &sk -who. bit us.? PRINCIPLES HIGHER THAN HEN Repnbllcan Wants Own Say In Cong ress ThronKh Republican Members. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Oct. 31. (To the Editor.) The Apostle Paul rebuked the church at Corinth for Admiring men" above principle, saying "One of you says, I am for Paul; another,- I am for Appolos and another, I am for Cephas." Then he said, "They, are ministers through whom you believed."- Believed what? Christian ity. Now I am for republican doc trine and I want to be represented that way In Washington, in Salem and in Hood River county. I ehall vote the republican ticket all down the line because that is the way- I want to have my say at the councils of county, state and nation. Because of our Institutions and standard of living we need protec tion. We need more than tariff for revenue. I used to farm a large area. I followed the principle of keeping my fences high enough to keep other men's tock out and my own in. I grew -products for my o.wn stock. Sometimes roaming stock broke over the fence and ate "up what mine should have. Then I put the fence higher. v Chamberlain stands for the Under wood tariff by which the present administration fell behind its own support $52,000,000 in the first ten months. They let the fence between us and other nations down and other people got the profits In our markets that our people should have.. The only way I can have my say at Washington relative to the fence around our markets with their prof Its, is to vote for republican senators and representatives. . I had a very clear vision of this principle when I was living in Canada near Buffalo and other United States markets. Canadians were selling their products across the line at better prices than they Could get at home; butter, eggs, chickens, beef and veal and especially at that time barley. The United States govern ment put a rail or. two on the fence to protect their markets for their growers. The Canadian products backed up onto their own markets and their pj.'ces went down. The Canadians "lifted up their voices and wept." Growers In the United States got their own profits in their markets and rejoiced. J. B. LISTER. . IT HAS SOIL, AS WELL AS BODY Roosevelt's, Reference to) Nation Quoted In Behalf of Bird Bill. .PORTLAND, Oct. 31. (To the Edi tor.) The following letter was writ ten by President Theodore Roosevelt to M. Frederic Mistral, the famous Provencal poet. In was published in the Outlook of October 27, 1920, in connection with a letter written by William Agnew Paton of Princeton In February, 1918, to Mrs. Corinne Roosevelt Robinson. Mr. Paton says of this letter: "I believe (it) to be one of the most inspired and inspir ing letters ever written by one man of genius to another." It has seemed to me that this letter is a most valuable, contribution to the discussion of the Roosevelt bird refuse initiative measure. If you will reprint It in The Oregonian all lovers of "beauty of nature," will be greatly obliged. FATE EANDLB. WHITS HOUSE, Washington Deo. 15. lf0. My Dear M, Mistral: Mrs. Roosevelt and I were equally "leased with the book and the medal, and none the less because for nearly 20 years we have possessed a copy of iWirellle." That- copy we siiaU keep for old association's sake; though this new copy with the personal inscrip tion by you must- hereafter occupy the place of honor. All success to you and your associates. You are teaching the lesson that none need more to learn than Wc of the west, we of the eager, restless, wealth-seeking nation, the lesson that after a certain not very hlg level of material well-being has been reached, then the things that really count In life are the things of the spirit. Fac tories and railways are good up to a cer tain point; but courage and endurance, love of wife and child, love of home and country, love of lover for sweetheart, love of beauty and man's work and In nature, love of emulation of daring and of lofty endeavor, the homely, workaday virtues and the heroic of virtues these are better still, and if they are lacking, no piled-up riches, no roaring, clanging industrialism, no feverish and many-sided activity shall avail either the Individual or the nation. I do not undervalue these things of a nation's body; I only desire that they shall not make us forget that beside the nation's body there is also the nation's soul. Aaaln thanking you on behalf of both of. us, believe me, very faithfully your THEODORE ROOSEVELT. OLD AUTUMN DAYS. Do you remember the old autumn days, when out ia the orchard together. We gathered the apples and stored them away, with hearts as light as a feather? . i There were bins of blue pearmalns, mealy and rich, and Winesaps, juicy and red; Big gloria mundls for early fall eat ing, and Russets that kept while winter months sped. And we passed in review and chose from the hoard our favorite Baldwin, pippin or spy. In' a group round the hearth their merits discussing. In those happy old days that quickly passed by. Ah me, long since o'er the old or chard plot, a city's harshetruc tures have spread; " " Old ties are severed, the grbup ha . dispersed and those days for ever have fled. Out ' of date and forgotten those apples of yore, we replace with new kinds by the dozen. And around the hearth we gather no more, brother, sister, aunt, uncle and cousin. JANETTE MARTIN. KIGHT ON THE RANGE. Come, sweet night and let thy soft, grey skies Kiss the greyer hills. Bid thy gentle moon arise. With tender light to change To wraiths of dusty gold, The waving range. Oh. let thy warm and loving winds Sweep across the grass; Bid them breathe a sighing peace Where they pass. Let the patient stars come out. Keep them smiling bright For they, thy Jewel-bearers are. Thou grey and golden night! Oh, dear, and quiet scene. No sound, no restless change. Come; thou sign, thou voice of God, Sweet night on the range. MARGARET NELSON. Questions on Citizenship. -KERRY, Or., Oct. 31.r (To the Edi tor.) 1. Kindly inform me whether a foreign-born person is a citizen . of the United States who's father be came naturalized before his son be come of age. 2. Is a person a citizen who Is born In the United States of foreign-born parents-who are not naturalized? LOUIS JURGENS. 1. He is a citizen. 2. Yes. Pronunciation of Word. PENDLETON, Or., Oct. SI. (To the J Editor.) Kindly advise what the cor rect pronunciation is or the word "vitamines," as used regarding a life giving element In food, especially cereals? I have looked In three large popular dictionaries, but cannot lo cate it. T. G. ZIMMERER. It is pronounced either vl-tam-In, accent on "tam" with short sound of "a," or. vl-ta-mean, accent on 'mean." Those Who Come and Go. Rotary plows may toon be manu factured In Portland, if the wishes of F. T. Hamahaw of Seattle materialize. Mr. Hamahaw, together with his brother. C M. Hamshaw. has invented a rotary plow, which- he believe 'means the last word in tractor and soil reduction engineering." His plow is designed to till and seed the soil at one operation.. It performs, he ex plained yesterday, the functions of all soil reduction machinery now in use. The plow has been passed on by many engineers' throughout this country. Mr. Hamshaw has Just returned from Nets York and will leave today for San Francisco to arrange, for imme diate production of the plow. He plan to demonstrate ItMn all the countries of the world. He is a former Port land man and is registered' at the Benson, Dean John StrAub, dean of men at the University of Oregon, and spe cial adviser of each freshman class, reports that this year's class of nearly 600 is really the largest and best In the history of the university. Even the sophomores admit, he said yester day, that this year's class excels that of last year. The freshmen are plan ning a huge bonfire with fireworks for the annual rally to be held Home coming week end the night of 'Novem ber 12, before the Washington-Oregon game. Dean Straub, who has been at the Imperial since Friday, spent the week end at West Linn, where he ad dressed the high school students. He will return to Eugene this morning Dr. EL A. Sommer has Just returned from a trip to Canada and the eastern states. Dr. Sommer went to Montreal to attend the meeting of the Ameri can College of Surgeons, and while at that convention he was honored by being appointed on the board of gov ernors. He will represent Oregon on the board of the" College of Surgeons and succeeds to the honors and the office formerly held by the late Dr. K. A J. MacKenzie. J Mrs. W. W. Calkins, prominent clubwoman of Eugene, Is at the Ben son on her way home from the east, where she went to settle her father's estate. Mrs. Calkins is taking her mother home with her to live. Mr. Calkins, who is president of the Unit ed States National bank of Eugene, came to Portland last night to take them to Eugene. Some persons may think it doesn't pay to be a bell hop. but there is one at the Multnomah who owns his own car. "His name is Weldon Fowler and he decided last week that he wanted to rest, so he invited his mother and sister to drive with him overland to visit their old home in Texas. They will visit California cities en route. One convention that did not meet in Portland this year was. that of the commercial travelers, who have just completed a get-together meeting at San Francisco. C. A Stahl of Seat- ties who represents a .s.;arator com pany, was at the Imperial yesterday on his way home from the conven tion. - ' W. A Marshall, state industrial ac cident commissioner, and Fred G. Buchtel, public service commissioner, both brought their wives to Portland to spend the week-end. They will return to Salem today. They were at the Seward. Rev. W. P. White and II. IL Iron side, both of Oakland. Cal., are in this city to deliver a series of lectures on present day topics. They will give their addresses during the week as well as on Sundays. They are at. the Hotel Portland. Senator Morris Shepherd of Tex arkana, "Texas, which takes its name from the fact that it is on the Texas-Arkansas line, registered at the Benson Sunday. He spoke at the democratic meeting at the auditorium last night. Mrs. M. A. Regan, whose home is in Manila, P. I., has come to the states to pass the winter. She is registered at the Hotel Portland and will spend some time in this city before visiting other parts of this country. J. L. Porter, president of the Grant-Smith-Porter shipyards, is at the Multnomah. Mr. Porter's name Is known throughout the United States for the number -of wooden ships his yards turned out for the government during' the war. The owners of the Elmore hotel at Elmore Park, one of the Tillamook beaches, did a rushing business last summer and are now in Portland. They are Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Krebs, who are staying at the Oregon hotel. James Snipes of The Dalles, man ager of the Lewlston apple orchards at Lewlston, Idaho, was in Portland yesterday at the Imperial. Mr. Snipes formerly ran a large flouring mill at The .Dalles. i- S. L. Hauser, well-known business man of Chicago, registered at the Multnomah yesterday. He says he ia no relation to Eric V. Hauser, al though they are very good friends. M. Compton, prominent New York City hotel man, who is identified with one of the largest hotel systems in the east, arrived at the Multnomah yesterday. W. W. Caldwell, a merchant of Cen tralia. Wash., brought his wife with him to Portland on this trip, which combines business and pleasure. They are at the Perkins. Clement W. Ausman, formerly of Portland, who is now a member of the staff of the Los Angeles Exam iner, is visiting his mother, Mrs. J. Ausman, of 804 Haight avenue. George Mayer Arrived at the New Perkins hotel Sunday with his family, after a motor trip from Ashley, N. D. The Mayers are on their way to Cali fornia. George E. Love, a Portland aviator, has Just returned to Portland after a trip to California, where he visited friends. He is at. the Portland hotel. Jaik McNair Is at the Multnomah from Casper, Wyo. He Is well known in political and business circles in Wyoming. M. A- Lynch of McOby, Or., brought some cattle to "Portland yesterday morning. He is at the Perkins. I. H. Van Winkle of Salem, a can didate for attorney-general, was at the Imperial yesterday. Great Family for Ttv-lns,-PORTLAND. Or., Oct. 31. (To the Editor.) Reading In The Oregonian a clipping from Kansas City telling of four generations who could .how four pairs of twins, I would like to tell our experience. In f've generations seve- paira'of twins have been born orr- maternal side, the last pair being Lloyd C, and Floyd C, sons of O. P. Bernett, of 1012 Woodward avenue. Their gre'at-great-grandmother had twin sons, . and great-grandmother twin sons, and grandmother twins twice, their father being one who has a twin sister. On paternal side three pairs of twins have been born in two genera tions. Would like to hear from any one who can duplicate it. MR3. THOMAS BENNETT. John Burroughs' Nature Notes. Can You Answer These Questions! Will a phoebe bird pick rasp berries? 2. How is the enow nature's news paper T S. " How do squirrels eot when jumping from heights? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Prey Ions Questions. . What northern Canadian bird sometimes visits the states in win ter? ' Walking along the road one day, feeling a cold, driving snow etorm, I saw some large birds n the top of a maple as I passed by. They were nearly as large as robins, of a dark ash color, very plump, with tails much forked. I Instantly knew them to be pine grosbeaks from the far north. They come down from the north at Irregular Intervals and are seen In flocks in various parts of the states. - 2. How can an otter breathe un der the Ice? The olter will travel a long dis tance under the Ice on a single breath of air. which will form a large bubble next the ice, where in a few moments it becomes purified and ready to be taken into the creature's lungs again. If by any accident the bubble were to be broken up and scattered, the otter might drown be fore he could collect it together again. S. Why is making something bet ter than juet seeing it? To do a thing, to make aometh'ng, the powers of the mind must be fo cused. A boy in building a boat will get something' that all the books In the world cannot give him. The concrete, the definite, the discipline of real things, the educational val- ues that lie there, are not enougn appreciated. (Rights reserved, Houghton-M'imn company.) THE BALLAD O' BELLE McCEE, There's many a high brow actorlne Can throw the hypnotic spell. But mighty few can carry a scene On the edze o roarm bjell. Or raise a laugh In the teeth o' Death, But that Is the stunt I see Pulled one time at The Alcazar . By a skirt named Balle Mcues. She lister top the burlesque bIMs With The Girls from Oay Ftree Looked like a kid from boardin' school Did that little lielle McGte. She had the style of a Vare dee Vare. The voice of a happy tnrush. But her lurid rep and her line o' swear lister make the stage hands blush. I mind one night how The Alcazar Had hung out the S. R. O. Jammed from the top o the buzzard roost Clean down to the bald-head row. Belrle was on In a solo song And cuttin' the Mobile Buck-. When "Blaae backstage!" was passed along ' And the damned as-bestos stuctt: The crowd out front got a kind o" hunch That some sort o hell had brolie You could see "em shift liks a nervous herd At the first faint smell o' smoke. And Death stood back in the wings to wait For Fear to give him the cue, But Beauty smiled In the face o' Fate And then Belle MoGee came through. Sihe rattled 'em off a smutty Joke Like a drunken bar fly pulls. That roughneck audience lo.st its fears And bol-iowed like full fed bulls. She shook 'em a seven veil, wild Salome Till everything they could see Was a pink silk rag and a back hair comb, And the rest was Belle McGee. You could hear the hiss of a fire boss Through the orchestra's torn torn beats, But Belle took her house by their popping eyes And nailed 'em down to their seats. Then all at once the asbestos fell! "Thank Gawd!" says myself to me; "Fetch me a beer as deep as a weft," Says bad little Belle McJee. X guess no doll who wasn't some tough. Could ever held that crowd; 1 don't deny that the act. was rough And shouldn't have been' allowed. But many a guy, that night, came 4ftafe And sound to the lively street. Who might have slept In a cosy morgue, Done up in a clean white sheet. There's many a Jane sets up to be A regular, plaster saint. Who don't pack half the sure-'nuff white That Belle wears under her paint. There's many, a biazin Broadway star. Who's there wlfh t'he goods. But geel loud oughter been to The Alcazar And seen little Belle McGee. By James StuaVt Montgomery, Place to Obtain Leafcue Covenant. SUTHERLIN, Or.. Oct. 31. (To the Editor.) Please inform me where ! can get a copy of -"The League of Nations" and also The Constitution of the United States." "A READER." The peace treaty, including the league covenant Is published in the 1920 World Almanac. The constitu tion Is In the same volume. The league covenant and the Lodge reser vations are printed in" the Literary Digest for October 23, 1920. You can also obtain a pamphlet copy of the peace treaty. Including the covenant, by sending five cents to the Ameri ca,n Association for International Conciliation, 407 West 117th street. New York. The constitution of the United States is printed in the Oregon Blue Book, obtained free of cost from the- secretary fo state, Salem. THE FLIGHT OF THE WILD GEESE. Baffled, doubting, discouraged I turned and toesed ott. my bed: From the past all my moorings seemed broken And uncertainty loomed ahead. Then out of the rain and the dark- ;:ness ' i As though they pitied my plight I heard the call of the wild geese flying over in the night. And into my mind came the question "are you not of- more worth than they?" . Yet your heavenly father is guiding and guarding them on their way As they speed over mountain, valley and stream; r Unquestioning, unafraid. Then over my darkened spirit there burst a glorious light And I gave my life to his keeping as the wild geese do in their flight. MAUD SPAFFORD BURLEY. Home Gets It AIL PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 31. (To the Editor.) Please Inform me if any of -the workers for the Albertina Kerr baby home drive are to be paid for their services. MRS. JOHN ALEXANDER. Not one cent of money gathered for the building of the nursery will be used for any other cause, we are as sured. The books of. the Pacific Coast Rescue and Protective, society are open to Inspection and you may go and examine them If you wish. The expenses of printing and other publicity are met by a donation from a friend of the nursery. Saith a Yamhill Iconoclast. McMlnnvllle News-Reporter. Local housewives have recently dis covered that palatable pies may be made of carrots. The vegetables are treated in the same way as pumpkin and when served the pies taste very similar to real pumpkin pie. Some have declared carrot pies superior to pumpkin pies. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Uostagne, DOWS COMES THE COST OF LXFIXG We do not believe we were ver se vere In hinting at theft and extortion. And insisting roast beef was a trifle too dear When sold at two dollars a portion. But now our objections have melted away: -They've reformed have the res taurant gents They are serving roast beef to all diners today At a dollar and ninety-five cents. We feel that our heart should have freauentlv MoH For the person of moderate means. Who paid ninety cents for a wisp of brown bread And perhaps half a dozen baked beans. But the virtuous men In the restau rant game, With kindlier impulses thrill. And now, if you look, you'll discover the same At flat eighty-five on the bill. Mince pie. upon which, in the day of our youth We whetted our appetite's edge, "We' fancied a little expensive, for sooth. At fiftv nr ai-rtv - But that has been chaneadfop Ih. restaurant men Have been touched by their custom- -j 1 j & ii And now are purveying their pastry At merely a quarter a bite. The man who pursus th laborious griaa At forty or fiftv a. weak-. Must now be extremely delighted to The outlook a little lass blenir- For now he can dine out at night wuu nis who On steak and fresh mushrooms and toast. And get a square meal and a taste of mgn itie For twenty-five dollars, at most. Bard Lock. Connecticut will market a hnmnni. tobacco crop in November, and there won't be another presidential cam paign for four years. , Hot Suck Prodlgry. Just as we were about tn ho inn. ished at the 12-year-old bov who has been admitted to Columbia, we read about a man who BUDDorts a famiiv on J20 a week and saves money. w w m Since the StrUte Was On. The reason people don't carry coals to Newcastle any more is b the union rules won't let 'em. (Copyright, 1920, The Itoll Syndicate, v Inc.) The Mystic God. By Grace E. Hall. He eat in silence like the Sphinx. inscrutable his wizened face, As one who deeply, wisely thinks Beyond his day and race; The curling smoke above his head Was as a breath from Araby; I wondered what such lips had said When not of clay! lie lounged In most artistic pose. With poise and dignity replete; Fantastic were his bright - hued clothes. An urn was at his feet; And In the clouds of drifting smoke Strange pictures formed and float ed by. As though sweet alien voices spoke Across the sky. I saw a lotus Ian of dreams. The place where Joy and mirth and song Are blended Into true love themes That urge the soul along; There care comes never to disturb. Nor sorrow's shadows to provoke And still the mystic god, superb. Puffed Incense smoke! In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of November 2, 1805. After 42 days of drought, an un paralleled spell of dry weather at this season of the year, the rain pre dicted by Weather Observer Pague arrived yesterday. Charles Phillips, nephew of the great antl - slavery philanthropist, Wendell Phillips, 'the "grand old man of American history," Is in Portland. He has achieved fame as a cook. There is quite a building boom in progress In and around Mount Scott. The value of the bullion sent to San Francisco from the Everett, Wash., smelter last week amounted to $30,000. Fifty Yean, Ago.' From The Oregonian of November 2, 1870. Hamilton, Nev. A man named Kit Carson was found dead at Piocha City with a -pistol In his hand and several bullet holes in his head and body. Deceased was a nephew of the celebrated Kit Carson. A S?ldler at Alcatraz Island haj succeeded, arter years or patient toi and study, in effecting an improve ment in breech-loading ca..non. f The wood-eawlng business in this city Is nearly monopolized by China men, and these miserable monopolists have lately put up the price to'J1.75 a card. Outrageous! J. Wilson Shafer, governor" of Utah, died at S o'clock this morning. College or Business. PORTLAND, ,Or.. Oct. 31. (To the Euitor.) Which programme do you consider the best for a young man, 22, mechanically inclined to pursue? To enter on a four year college en gineering course, or enter Into some business of his own. E. J. HANSEN. College training is well worth the time spent on it. The Oregonian can not, however, give advice in speclflo cases because of intimate personal circumstances which may exist into which it would not presume to In quire. Republican at 03. McMTNNVILLE, Or., Oct 31. (To the Editor.) 1 notice in The Ore gonian a communication from John Velead, Lents, telling rrow many times he had voted for president. I an beat him. He first voted for Abraham XjIIIcuiii. vuteu tor r r&ntt lin Pierce. He feels like a kid at 71. I feel fine at 92. He, being a republican accounts for his long life. I, too, am a republican, but also a follower of Jesus and try to walk in His steps hence my long life. JOSEPH HOBEEG. Citizen Enters Objection. PORTLAND, Or., Oct. 31. (To the, Editor.) It seems to me that the so- ,,M, TTnltAd Irish SoietlfR of OrA- gon" presume a good deal when, in the name of "Citizens of Oregon," they cabled- their condolence to Ire land upon the death of MacSwIney. I am a citizen of Oregon and they certainly did not speak for me and I know there are others wha :ee! the same. OREGON CITIZEN.