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THE MORNING OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, NOVE3IBER, G, 1920
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THE WORK AlIDAD.
The nature of the epoch on which
the American people have entered
; by electing a republican president
' and congress may be safely inferred
from the result of a survey of public
opinion which was made by an
' eastern banking house through a
questionnaire addressed to 4310 men
; of affairs and completed about the
I middle of October. , Asked whether
; the league of nations or reduced tax
ation was considered more impor
tant by th voters,.of. their section,
' 2641 persons answered: "Reduced
taxation," and only 1032 answered:
"The league."
This confirms the opinion of The
' Oregonian and many other newspa
pers that the people passed judgment
on the general inefficiency of the
Wilson administration, of which the
president's autocratic control of the
government was the cause and the
league controversy but one of the
. results. This view does not relieve
the defeated party from the obliga
tion to abide by the decision on the
league to which they issued a chal
lenge, but it does indicate plainly
what the people think of the Wilson
administration as a whole and what
they expect of the victorious party.
Demand for reduced taxation is in
fact an expression of discontent with
the whole course of Mr. Wilson, for
that has been the cause of the ex
cessive taxation which prevails.
Taxes are affected by everything
that is wrong with the government
failure to make peace, primarily due
to tying up the league covenant with
the treaty; continuation of war
laws; failure to reduce the cost of
living or to stop profiteering; indus
trial strife and ineffincy of labor;
demoralization of the railroads; put
ting small men in big places; inef
ficiency of the government service,
resulting in an army of unnecessary
employes and in waste of money in
all directions; inflation of the cur
rency, which artificially raises
prices: uneconomic taxes, which
cramp industry by absorbing in
taxes or by driving into unproduc
tive, tax-exempt investments the
surplus money which should be ap
plied to expansion of industry.
In order to reduce taxes, the next
administration must find remedies
for all these evils, except that con
cerning railroads, for the present
congress has given relief in that case.
Its first duty will be to make peace,
repeal war laws and settle the league
question. Then it must apply itself
.to a mass ordomestic legislation and
;to a housecleaning in the depart
ments. This must be accompanied
by constructive- legislation, which
should include proper recognition of
the nation's debt to the war veterans,
reclamation of waste land, a budget
system, tariff revision, credit and
marketing systems for farmers, ad
justment of labor disputes, immigra
tion reform, Americanization of
aliens, suppression of sedition. Many
of these measures will cause acute
difference of opinion, but keeping of
the republican party's pledges will
demand them.
By its success in performing these
many, arduous duties the' Harding
administration will be judgAl by a
people which will attend the more
closely and critically to - domestic
problems because of its long digres
sion to foreign affairs. That the
party will succeed at ajl points can
not be hoped, but that it will live up
..to Its record as the great construc
tive party may be confidently expected.
TRAFFIC TrRNS TO WATER.
Water transportation constantly
finds new outlets for Oregon prod
ucts, and opens new markets. .The
scheme to establish a line of motor
ships from Portland to the Atlantic
'coast, which would carry lumber to
- a great terminal in the vicinity of
New York, whence the cargoes would
be distributed throughout the east, 4s
; one example. Another is the arrange
ment of a steamer line running from
Portland and other Pacific ports to
New Orleans for through rates with
barge lines running up the Missis
sippi river. ...
These are the actual beginnings of
diversion of traffic from railroads to
water, -both for the Atlantic coast
and the interior. Similar plans have
often been discussed, but have been
dismissed as 'impractical dreams.
"They were revived when the Panama
" canal was opened, but the war post
poned them. "Vessels were not avail
able, and sufficient incentive - was
lacking in economy of freight cost.
The whole situation has changed
to make these dreams practical. The
canal is in full operation, ocean ton
' nape is abundant, ocean freight is
falling, and modern barge lines ply
on the Mississippi river. Railroad
rates have risen to such a point that
substantial sums can be saved by re
sort to the water. Portland has
gone into the shipping business, and
its merchants are acquiring the
habit of using water lines. A revo
lution in methods of transportation
is taking place, and it makes more
than ever necessarythe provision of
ample docks, and maintenance of a
" deep channel to the sea.
It may prove that the railroads
k-will find revision of, their advanced
- .rates necessary to hold traffic from
. competing - water lines instead of
merely in response to protests' from
lumbermen against practical exclu-
sion from middle west markets.
Slowing down of industry may re-
-duce volume of traffic to the point
where it will be well within the ca-
r,
pacity of the railroads. They will-J
then be inclined to make rates at j
which traffic will move, rather than
choose which they will carry.
- A CONTRAST.
-A biographer once said of Presi
dent Wilson that his method of se
lectins: his appointees, big and little, J
was to shut his eyes and tag- the
first person that, came within his
reach. Since vSVy few citizens of
Eminence, or lack of it, were per
mitted to come in close contact with
our exclusive president, it followed
that his chances., were limited to a
narrow circle. 4
President-elect Harding will take
a different course. No one supposes
that he intends to surround him-
self with a cabinet of mere medio'
crities or to name tp distinguished
place of any ' kind men for the
mere 'reason that they are on his
personal or political . calling list.
Mr. Harding feels that the public
service in the next four years will
need the best available brains. It
always needs brains, indeed, but has
Lnot had them. '
The new president has not made
up his cabinet; but the reporters are
making it for him. They are busy
with the names of Leonard Wood,
Herbert Hoover, John . W. Weeks,
Elihu Root, George Sutherland,
Frank O. Lowden and others like
them. There is not a nobody among
them. That President Harding is
considering them, and that he is
certain to choose men for their abil
ities to do, and not their facility in
talk, or their readiness in flattery, is
cause of much satisfaction.
For four years the United States
has had the best illustration in all
its history of the kind of cabinet a
president should not have.
TRADE WITH ALASKA.
Development of an Alaska .coal
mine and establishment of a steam
ship line from that territory to Port
land by Portland men will realize a
hope that has .been deferred for ten
years by the blight which Pinchot
fsm put on the northern land. Coal
will prove a return cargo for ves
sels which carry goods north from
this port, and will be a welcome ad
dition to the fuel supply. A nucleus
of traffic will thus be provided which
was not enjoyed when former un
successful attempts to establish
steamship lines were made.
The present is a most favorable
time for- Portland to break into the
Alaska trade field. The combined
copper mining, merchandising and
steamship interests have had tight
grip on the business? and those shipr
pers who were independent of them
hestitated to patronize a rival steam
ship line which might not survive,
as they would thereby incur the en
mity of the combination. The nejW
leasing law and approaching com
pletion of the government railroad
open the way to development of in
dependent coal mines and oil land
and to establishment of independent
stores which would be disposed to
give their traffic to an independent
steamship line if they could feel as
sured of its permanence. A return
cargo of coal supplied by the same
interests which own the ships would
give this assurance, and would put
the owners in position to compete as
to rates.
The slump in Alaska development
which resulted from the war and
from Pinchotism promises to be fol
lowed by a new burst of activity. Not
only will coal and oil be produced,
but gold mining will revive as cost of
production falls, and. farming and
stock raising are becoming important
industries. .There should be a larger
market for Portland merchants and
competition of Alaska coal should
have an effect on the price of coal
from Wyoming and Utah that would
benefit consumers.
A PESSIMIST ON THE MODERN WORLD
Frederic Harrison, distinguished
English author, editor and lecturer,
has created what is described as a
furore in British philosophical cir
cles by an interview given on his
eighty-ninth ' birthday in whjch he
frankly avows himself a pessimist as
to the future otMhe world. It is not
a novel phenomenon that reveals the
man of full years and presumedrjpe
ness of judgment as the prognosti
cate r of woe. Age brings, to some,
a certain sharpness of memory of
events as they were appraised in a
happier state of mind. The red ap
ples of youths are always rosier than
those in the modern orchard, . and
nobody's daughter ever makes the
pies that her mother used to make.
Eighty-nine, with perhaps a subcon
scious tendency to gloomy introspec
tion,, explains away a good deal of
pessimism.
The venerable Mr. Harrison in
dicts civilization on "Several counts.
He finds that the "boom" in educa
tion "has not brought any nobler lit
erature, any greater art, any purer
drama, any finer manners." As if
he judged the world by the bolsh
vist war on the intelligentsia, he
sees that "a leisured class, able to
study in peace and to produce from,
its learning is being abolished by the
mad whirl- of modern existence."
"Serious" literature is being choked
out by the high cost Of printing."
The churches, he believes, have not
"shown any power to ' restore rer
ligion to its true place as the guide
of modern life." And if this is not
enough .. -t
The result of this cnaoa In spiritual and
moral training .Is a manifest loosening of
the canons of moral life, defiance of disci
pline by the young and ambitious, mockery
of age and the lessons of age. Worst
of all, the sacrifice of the family as a
moral institution and the degradation of
marriage to be a temporary partnership
entered into as a frivolous mode of getting
a good time and to be cast off as easily
as a lodging which is not convenient.
The dominant note in the plaint is
impatience and disregard of his
tory. It is possible to assent to the
proposition that wider education has
not immediately produced a finer
literature or. a higher type of art
without assuming that It will not do
so, or that, failing in the impossible
task of creating . genius, it has not
improved the material lot and in
creased the-happiness of the race as
a whole. ' In judging the past solely
by i.ts most conspicuous figures, we
may have deprived ourselves of the
materials for a more faithful com
parison. The terrible upheavals of
other wars have never been followed
by speedy, restoration of the balance.
A whole half century following the
reformation demanded all the faith
and all the optimism that philoso
phers could summon,- and the ter
rible aftermath of the French revo
lution provoked even more intense
discouragements than those which
find voice through the pessimists of
today. i .
Mr. Harrison does not deny that
there has been ."vast material prog
ress," even since the war began, but
complains ,that "social improvement
has not been gained without grave
evils and cruel loss to good things
,'and worthy persons." That this is
both an assertion, of evil coming xut
of good and a denial that good may
come from evil marks its extraor
dinary pessimism as the view of a
discouraged individual father than a
philosophical generalization of value.
The indictment does not bear analy
sis. To concede that there has been
a boom in education is to admit that
there is a force at work that never
has' failed the world in all its his
tory. That moral progress presup
poses, or requires, existence of a pro
fessional , leisure class certainly is
open to grave dispute. We do not
believe that the kind of literature
thai will be suppressed beyond re
vival by higher cost of wood pulp
and rags is in reality worth saving.
The question whether the churches
pare "showing true power to restore
religion to its .true place" is now be
ing answered.' . No fatuous optimism
is involved in bidding the world to
suspend judgment foV a time: The
work of reconstruction is going on
and it is yet too early to pronounce
the final verdict.
It is conceding more to the pessi
mists than history warrants even to
admit that the most recent world
war has left mankind unhappier
than it ever has been in the history
of human progress. Happily or un
hand! v. there" have been a good
many periods more uncomfortable
for the worid than the present. The
lesson that the philosophers -would !
deduce from this is that patience is
conducive to optimism. There is
nothing unfathomable in the circum
stance that the damage done by a
cataclysm has not been repaired in a
day. . . .
CRIME DOESN'T PAY.
There died in poverty in Brooklyn,
N. Y., the other day a man with a
nation-wide reputation as a burglar.
He was eighty-two years old. More
than forty years, or two-thirds of
his adult life, had been spent behind
prison bars.
A thief captured by the New Tork
police the same week told his cap
tors that he had stolen $300,000
worth of jewelry at various times in
that city, but that he had not real
ized enough from his loot to insure
him a fair living. The other thieves
with whom he was forced to deal
got the lion's share. - For jewelry
fairly worth $50,000 In an honest,
open market he once received only
$600. He recalls with gratitude the
single instance in which he got what
he calls a "square deal." At the risk
of liberty and life he stole property
for which an intermediary btained.
$875, and the latter, who took prac
tically no risk, charged him a com
mission of only $275. The true value,
of the loot in this instance, however,
was many times the sum realized by
both men.
These are but two instances of
many that prove thatthere is no
profit in a criminal career. Crook
after crook, looking back on a mis
spent life, has testified to that. Want'
of material reward is not a high
motive to invoke, but it may help to
hold an occasional wavering one on
the straight path. It will do- no
harm to have it widely understood
that the talent and energy displayed
by the average high class criminal
would obtain a much more substan
tial reward if employed in lawful
ways. ' "
THE ItOCT OF THE EEPS.
Victory of the republican party
carries with it defeat of socialism in
every shade from the parlor bloshe-vism-which
taints the Wilson admin
istration to the outright red social
ism of the' non-partisan league, the
I. W. W. and the Debs socialists. It
is the recession of the tidal wave of
socialism in all civilized countries,
which started with adoption of semi
socialist measures by governments
to meet war . emergencies, which
received new impetus from work
in gmen's consciousness or power
when armies depended on them tbr
the wherewith to fight, and which
threatened to engulf the world when
bolshevism triumphed in Russia.
The most serious danger that so
cialism would gain a .. hold in this
country arose from the non-partisan
league. It caught the farmers of
North Dakota at the psychological
moment- when they sought relief
from middlemen and speculators, it
offered them the power of the state
in establishing a system of state dis
tribution and financing for their
crops, and they grasped eagerly at
it. It flooded the state with socialist
organizers and it built an organiza
tion more compact and more tyran
nical than any that a political boss
had ever controlled. It branched out
to other western states, and threat
ened to repeat its success there. But
the people of those states have seen
North Dakota loaded with debt, its
taxes trebled, its socialist institutions
burdened with high-salaried officials
whose claim to office is political and
oratorical, not business ability, free
dom of speech and the press greatly
restricted and a degree, of animosity
provoked that is without precedent
in the last generation. Even colonies
of socialists were planted in some
communities in order to insure a
majority for the league.
Although the league made great
inroads in other states, the spectacle
of its North Dakota experiment
drove people of all other parties to
combine for Its defeat, and it was
routed everywhere excep In North
Dakota, and there it was shaken.
That state has elected an anti
league legislature which may be
trusted to undo much of its work,
and its governor is re-elected by a
narrow margin. It showed much
strength in Washington, but was dis
credited in many eyes when Robert
Bridges, its candidate for governor,
was proved to have such pro-Jarpan-ese
leanings that he leased a farm to
men of that race. Like other crazes
of its kind, it is evidently doomed to
decline as rapidly as It grew.
The socialist, party, which, frankly
professes its economic and un-American
programme, has polled a larger
vote than ever, chiefly in the centers
of alien population, and the farmer
labor party, which is a refuge for
various brands of radicalism, . has
shown some strength among . the
same element and in such centers of
extreme opinion as Seattle. But the
huge majority polled for the repub
lican ticket clearly signifies that the
American people will have none of
socialism in any form, but; are de
termined to abide by the American
constitution and its principle of in
dividualism. Having seen the fruits
of socialism' in Russia and other
countries, the American people re
ject not only its open advocates but
the Wilson administration, which
has toyed with and pandered to it.
This does. not mean that progress
on American lines is to be arrested.
The republican platform and the
speeches of the republican president
elect prove that the party has movei
forward to the most distinctive prin
ciples of the progressive platform of
1912. Woman suffrage, which that
.platform proposed, has become a
fact. The direct primary, direct
legislation and recall of judicial de
cisions have been abandoned or have
been left to the choice of the states.
In other respects the platform of
1920 differs slightly from that on
which Roosevelt ran eight years ago.
The party under whcse. direction the
nation 'made its greatest progress in
the half century ending in 1912 is
completely reunited an4 is about to
carry the nation forward .another
great stage.
One of its greatest tasks will be
to remove the cause for adoption of
such un-American doctrines as so
cialism. The permanent remedy is
that policy of social and industrial
justice which holds place in the
platform of this year, for a sense of
wrong prepares men's minds to re
ceive the false, teachings of radical
theorists. As these theories are of
alien origin and are most readily ac
cepted by those of alien birth, train
ing and experience, measures of
broad national scope must be pro
vided to Americanize both the pres
ent foreign-born population and new
immigrants as fast as ? they arrive.
By familiarizing immigrants with
the language and lnstjtutions"of the
country, by teaching them their
rights and privileges and by making
them feel that they are welcome
members of the American nation, we
can make them immune to un-
American ideas and"" convert them
into a. source of strength, whereas
in recent years many of them have
been a danger 'to the nation.' We
have witnessed wonders of unity and
power performed by peoples which
have the tie of common racial origin.
We have the more difficult task of
uniting, men of various races with
the tie of devotion to democratic in
stitutions as they exist in this coun
try in more perfect form than in any
other, country. If this task be well
performed, no wave of revolution
starting - from the old world can
shake the republic.
The prediction of an eastern prod
uce merchant that the time will
come when apples will be shipped
loose in carload lots, owing to the
high price of containers, and will
arrive in market ungraded because
of scarcity of labor to .handle them,
can be taken as the picturesque
hyperbole of a man who "sees that
there are difficulties but has no
clear idea how they are to be met.
It serves, however, as a reminder of
the widening gap between prices paid
by consumers and those received by
growers of this as well as other com
modities, and will not have been
amiss if it results in the invention
of -"a cheap and efficient' substitute
for present containers.. Both in the
box and the barrel districts costs of
packages have soared. Consumers
nevertheless will be in error if they
do not insist on graded products,
which will prove cheaper, in the long
run. The long fight to popularize
the honest pack was won . at too
great cost for the advantage to be
yielded lightly, and growers who un
derstand the value of a wide market
will be last to advocate a return to
the old ways.
Expenditure of $1500 for leather
covers for diplomas of graduates
puts the "sheepskins" Into the lux
ury class. The greatest men of the
country never had them. But It is
public school money, on . which
there are no strings.
A Seattle man who had just mar
ried athird woman without dissolv
ing bonds with" the two tried to com
mit suicide when arrested. As a
crazy man he was ; choosing the
easier prospect.
Harding starts well in declining
the Wilson offer of a . battleship to
take him to Panama. Like Jonah,
when he tookthe .ship at Joppa for
Tarshish, he'll pay his fare and go.
In place of writing his contem
plated history of the world war, it
might be better if Mr. Wilson would
explain just what he really did with
the 14 points. '
Voters evidently thought Judge
Rossman was too good a man . to
need help. Nevertheless, there
should be 'a municipal court on the
east side.
With hold-upa early in the eve
ning and burglars early in the morn
ing, there is. greater merit in the old
advice of "early to bed and early to
rise."
Another big shipment of. New
Zealand butter is expected next
week, to go to the eastern markets.
By nd by these importations will
stop.
Up in Linn, where they are more
or lees' "sot" in their ways, two
women were re-elected to county of
fices. Good plan anywhere.
Governor Cox has decided to make
a tour to Europe next spring. It
does seem advisable for him to go
somewhere a long way off.
There will be only two democrats
in the coming Oregon legislature.
Still they won't be half as lonesome
as Mr. Cox must feel.
. .. -
Following election comes news of
restoration of train service of be
fore the war. First pointer to 'pros
perity. One of the first acts of the repub
lican administration should be to
send Mr. Burleson to the dead letter
office.
An unfortunate,' misguided boy
met his end in Salem yesterday. "Are
there others growing to follow? "
;Th"e best eggs are selling around
85 cents, but poultryipen are' not
getting rich noticeably.
Tes, Mr. Wilson should write a
book; but republicans must buy it
to make it pay.
Not having spent all their money,
the British miners are returning to
work slowly.
We'd give a quarter to hear Colo
nel House say what he really thinks
about it.
Dr. Bryan'a, prescription lacks a
sugar coating and cannot be -taken.
Possibly Bill Hanley's "Birds' or
babies?" did it.
Suppose turkey goes to a dbllar.
Crow is cheap. . ,
Mr.. Gompers is on thand with the
benedictions .. . ,
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DEr'KNIJJI HIGHER- RATE
Vhm Are! Times, Says Writer, Wken
"Practical Nsme" la a Menace.
PORTLAND," Nov, 5. (To the Kdi
tor.) There are two sides to every
question and undoubtedly there is an
other side to the issue which "A
Physician." discussed in this morn
ing's paper.- I wish he would look at
It from a nurse's point of view.
Evidently, he has not taken cogni
zance of several things: that the
American dollar at present is only
worth about. 40 or 50 cents, that all
the coal heavers, carpenters, plaster
ers, pa'nters and such a. e getting
$1 an "hourf that the average factory
and shop girl in most cities gets $30
a week and does not consider that as
beins extraordinarily "good pay."
The)', unlike a nurse, u.l take these
positions, without years of training.
A nurse spends U.ree years cf hard
work, physical and mental, at a mere
pittance, before she can take her state
board examination and practice as a
registered nurse.
Living costs food, apartments,
rooms, traveling expenses have
trebled and quadrupled. The trained
nurse has expenses that the average
working girl has not. She must have
a telephone, her own clinical ther
mometers and hypodermic and other
devices trsed, a large supply of white
clothes to keep laundered, and regis
tration fees. Her work is not con
stant. Weeks go by sometimes with
out a cent of income. Her life is en
dangered by contact with-deadly dis
ease. A nurse must giv-e more of her
spiritual nature than a mechanical
worker. -She must always be cheer
ful and never "tired."
What other trade or profession, in
the present day world work 18 hours
or even 12 hours? A nurse's average
nursing life is supposed to be 10 years
if she does private nursing.
A physician has a sliding scale of
prices, according to the financial
status cf the pat'ent. What he loses
on one he makes up on another. A
nurse can not do that. '
The practical nurse, shown by the
nurses' aides during the war, has a
place in. the nursing world. But there
are times when a trained nurse is
absolutely necessary, when an un
skilled nurse would undo all the most
careful work of a doctor, where a
great deal of the outcome of the case
depends on the unremitting care of a
good, skilled nurse. In the care of
communicable diseases, the knowl;
edge of surgical cleanliness and asep
sis is absolutely necessary, and an un
trained nurse has not got that.
Physicians in general do not ad
vocate the practising of mldwives and
occasionally the work of practical
nurses is as fraught with danger as
that bt midwives. I know of specific
cases. In the influenza epidemic of
the past two-years, it was found that
a great many practicarnurses charged
more than the graduate nurse. They
are governed by no fcet prices, as are
the graduate nurses, who must abide
by the rulings of the state and federal
associations.
I am glad to know that "A Physi
cian" is only one individual and that
his thoughts are not the thoughts-of
the entire profession. Doctors as a
general rule can put themselves in the
other fellow's shoes.
A TRAINED NURSE.
EMPLOYMENT NORMALCY WANTED
Service Man Would Have Business
Afcrniii RecoKalie Male aa Provider.
PORTLAND, Nov. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) ow that the period of "nor
malcy" is about to return, an ex
service man would like to make a
suggestion to the men in political
and busjness life.
As everyone knows skilled and un
skilled help was at a premium during,
the war. At this time It appears
that there is going to begin the period
of labor surplus. Already we are be
ginning to see men tramping the
streets in search of employment. In
vestigation discloses that many of
these men are men who served 'in
the late war and returned to employ
ment under priority rule-last on,
first to go.
In all industries and businesses we
find the women who came into posi
tions during the emergency are being
retained. In a great many cases they
are not compelled to support them
selves and did not work before the
war. Now they want to work that
they may be dressed -fn finest silks
and. most fashionable modes and for
no other reason. They have. come to
believe that marriage is not for them,
because the average man does not
make any more money than they do
and so could not Bupply their demand
for fine things and plenty of money
to opend. And when a man cannot
secure employment how is he going
to support himself, let alone a wife
and finery. Is it not true that the
very life of the American nation Is
at stake in a condition such as this?
It is my suggestion that men of
affairs look into - the matter and
where it would entail no suffering,
that men be put back In their right
ful place, that of breadwinners, so
that the future peace and prosperity
of this nation may 'be duly per
petuated. E. D. GILBERT.
MOAN OF THE EX-CANDIDATE
Post-Election Reflections Inspired by
Asvtker Historic Event.
Ben Lampman in the Gold Hill Neva, 1812.
Sleazily, wheezily blew the breeze.
It strummed In the boughs 'of the
dir.l-.ii3 trees; the grey whangdoodl,
crouched to leap, yawned in,- the
thicket and slumped to sleep; some
where out in the bunchgrass hid, the
cricket courted the katydid and over
wold and wood there lay tlje gloom
of the glum November day. .
Crouched alone on -a chilly stone,
the former candidate made his moan;
little he recked and little he wot
whether the breeze blew chill or hot,
but over and over he made his plaint
to the perverse god of Things That
Ain't ever and ever he swore anu
swore from holy writ and pagan lore.
This is the wail the dinkus trees
heard to the strum of the sleazy
breeze: "Where, oh where, were my
plighted votes?' he queried aloud of
the strolling shoats. "Never a lout
for leagues around but pledged hlmr
self as he tilled the p-oun4 nver
a village vagrant yet but toofc.'the
oath that he'di not forget!
"Shades of havanas and . vanished
beers, gather about me now, my dears!
Lightly, hopefully, freely cast to bind
the pledge and the promise fast; free
ly, hopefully, lightly bought foam
and flavor, alas, forgot! I who would
carry the county shires make my
moan In a world of liars!"
Wheezily, sleazily blew the breeze,
it droned in the boughs of the dinkus
trees, the tree-frog whittled away at
a tune, wralthl. wobbled the gibbous
moon; musing alone and recking not
whether the breeze blew chill or hot,
the former candidate mourned his
votes to wold and wood and strolling
shoats.
' Ilia Nineteenth Election.
GRANTS PASS, Nov, 4. (To the
Editor.) I have noticed several items
In reerard to old men who were to
east their 15th or 16th' presidential
ballot.
I walked to the polls Tuesday with
W. D. Baker of this place. He cele
brated his 93d birthday several
months ago and he voted for presi
dent for the 19th time. The first
time was in 1848 for Cass. His mind
is clear, his hearing apparently as
good as ever and he needed no help to
mark his ballot.
In one respect his record is not so
good as the other men mentioned as
he voted for Cox and said he had
always- voted for the . democratic
candidates. GEORGE H. PARKER,
Those Who Come and Go.
A number of Pendleton citizetw
were ' in Portland yesterday after
noon. They had been to Salem to at
tend the execution of leil Hart,' the
slaver of Sheriff Til Taylor. Among
them was "Jinks" Taylor, brother of
the murdered peace officer: Sheldon
Taylor, son of Til? Guy Wyrick, a
farmer, who was with Sheriff Taylor
when he waa killed; James Estes, a
real estate dealer: Elmer Moore. -farmer;
John . Montgomery. grain
dealer, and N. L. Swearington, man
ager of the Hotel Pendleton. Glen
Bu'rshee, a deputy- sheriff of Uma
tilla county, was also In . the party.
Jinks Taylor was a candidate for
sheriff, but was defeated Tuesday by
Zoe Houser (rep.) on the "vote it
straight" slogan. ilr. Houser was
formerly United States marshal for
Oregon. , .
For. 40 years "Captain H. . J., Koner
has been handling- freighter between
Chicago, and points on Lake Michi
gan. The captain, who Is one of the
Veteran skippers of the lakes, is at
the Multnomah. He says that he has
seen worse storms on the gr,eat lakes
than there ever were on the Pacific
or Atlantic oceans and that to keep a
craft going In these storms required
better seamanship - andT navigation
than is called for from a blue-water
skipper. The lake waters are treach
erous and there' are - thousands of
shoals and current so that handling
a big freighter is. about, as delicate a
Job as trying to run a tank over a
case of egg's .without cracking: a
shell. 0 . -
'I saw some of the greatest base
ball playing that has ever been wit
nessed and I saw the greatest race
horses in the world," declares George
McKay, who is back at -the Perkins
from a -visit of two months In the
east. Every season the retired cat
tleman goes to witness the world's
series. He was particularly interested
in the games this "year because the
star pitchers were formerly In the
coast league and were- not -thought
much of in those days.-..-Mr. McKay
was on the, train when election day
arrived, so he missed an opportunity
taf vote, but when he saw the re
publican landslide he came to' the con
clusion that his-f personal -vote wasn't
missed.V. . -
- ' - -: -
After travelings sagebrush and tule
country you do not expect a small
paradise, yet that is what the Wood
River valley is in Klamath county.
J. H. Beckley, who is registered from
there at the Imperial, declares it to
be the most fertile and beautiful spot
In the world. While this view ' is
not accepted by many, there is a
general agreement ' that the Wood"
River valley is one-, of "the most de
llghtfttj, and pleasant sections in the
state. .'It Is a place where there are
no -crop failures, forrthere is a good
climate and always plenty of water.
Mr. Beckley, .who Is a cattleman,- is
registered at the Imperial.
Wearing his new title of senator
rakishly, Charles Hall is at the Ben
son with Mrs. Hall and his boy.-. So
certain was Senator Hall of elec
tion that he had the foresight, as far
back as the Elks' convention at Salem,
to engage hie rooms for the 1921 ses
sion of the legislature. He will have
rooms 224 and 225, on the second floor
of the Hotel Marion, overlooking Com
mercial street, in which rooms, by the
way, he will be able to hear the
owners of automobiles- testiffg their
motors from 5:30 to 7 AJVM. every day.
About the happiest . man In Port
land is the mayor of Arlington. . Dr.
J. W. Donnelly has been coming to
the meetings of the state highway
.commission for a couple of years, beg
ging the commissioners to locate the
John Day .highway connection with
the Columbia River highway at Ar
lington. Yesterday afternoon, with
out fuss or feathers, the commission
made this location. The doctor
mayor was almost tickeled to death
at the Benson and proceeded to tell
the, world that Arlington will now
experience a great boom. - -
Appointed as a special committee
by the chamber of commerce at
Reedsport, E. L. Robinaon. Joseph
Lyons and Russell J. Hibbard landed
at the Imperial yesterday, and they
sought out the state highway com
mission. 'The delegation wants a road
built from Reedsport "to Scottsburg,
but the road will go through the for
est reserve and the committee wanted
the commission to take up the mat
ter with the forestry bureau. Such a
road would be a new one on the state
map and the commission took no def
inite action.
Marshfield's representative in the
house, T. T. Bennett, otherwise Tom
Bennett, is at the Imperial. He headed
for Portland just as soon as it became
assured in Coos county that he had
won the election. -Mr. Bennett Is a son
of Mr. Bennett of Flanagan & Bennett,
pioneer banking concern, on Coos bay.
Representative-elect Bennett succeeds
Representative Thrift, who ran for his
old Job as assessor of Coos county.
George H. "WTieeler of Wallnla.
Wash., wants to see the Columbia
river highway extended from Uma
tilla to ..the Washington state line, ap
proximately 20 miles. The commission
had the matter under advisement yes
terday, but decided that the proposi
tion would be placed in cold storage
for the present, although there is said
to be a strong demand for the con
struction of this extension among the
people of eastern Washington. Mr.
Wheeler is registered at the Perkins.
Newly elected members of the leg
islature began gathering in Portland
yesterday, probably to escape the con
gratulations of their constituents.
Among the number was Frank Sloan
of Stanfleld, who is one of the two
representatives elected from Umatilla
county to the lower house. Mr. Sloan
is a sheepman and is ao silent that his
friends are ready to bet that he will
not make an oration during the entire
40 days In the statehouse. He is at the
Imperial. , .
Tillamook's representative, elected
Tuesday, is F. R. Beals. He arrived
in Portland yesterjay and registered
at the Imperial. The Beals family is
not unknown In the legislative halls,
'so F. R. will not be a greenhorn when
he answers the rollcall for the first
time. His will be the third name on
every rollcall. if L. E. Bean of Lane
Is speaker. The first two names on
the roll- will be Acheson of Linn and
Allen of Lane.
To meet Standard Oil company rep
resentatives from about 20 Oregon
towns, who are mobilized at the Ben
son, G. H. Richardson and W. A.
Brady, officials of the oil company,
are in the city. t
Dr. J. H. Reddy of Josephine coun
ty, who maintains that he is still one
of the few surviving democrats, was
being commiserated at the Imp
fperial
yesterday.
Dr. H. A." Hogan. who looks after
the welfare of the citizenry of Steven
son. Wash., is among the Hotel Ore
gon arrivals.
After a visit to California Dr. A. R.
Reiter of Spokane has arrived at the
Hotel Portland on his way home.
Guy LaFollette, editor, of Prine
ville. is at the Hotel Portland from
Crook county. ,
E. O. McCoy, banker of The Dalles,
is among the arrivals at the Hotel
Portland,
John Burroughs' Nature
Kote. '
Can You Answer These durational
1. What- is the appearance of. the
yellow-winged sparrow?
2- Do bears show. human traits?
3. Does a fly act automatically or
use judgment? ,
Answers in Monday's nature notes.
Anawera to Previous Questions.
- 1. Are birds of the same habits nec
essarily of like color?
That birds of the same habits and
of the-same or similar habitat are
Bimilar or identical in color is not
commonly the case. Thus among the
birds, the wariAt-a all v. .. i i
- - ' -J - ' - .,G ICb"
and long necks, but they are. not all
oi me same color. The divers all
have short ni.n.j i . i .
but they vary greatly in color-mark-
2. Can fur sealsfind their way back
to their breeding place? .
The fur seals find their way back
from the "vast wilderness of the Pa
cific ocean, where there is, apparent
ly, nothing for the eye, or the ear, or
the nose, to seize upon in guiding
them, to the little island in Bering
sea that Ms their' breeding haunt in
spring., "
3. How can a tree grow on the face
of a rock?
I know of a little birch tree that is
planted In the niche on the face of an
almost perpendicular rock in the edge
of the woods. It started a root diag
onally down the face of the rock to
ward the ground, about four eet dis
tant. Eventually it reached the ground
and is now the size of a broom handle,
and is doubtless the tree's'main source
of sustenance. , -
(Rights reserved Houghton Mifflin
Co.)
ILI..l:SS NOT CONFINED TO RICH
New Nurse and Hospital Fees Held
Impossible for Ordinary Folk. .
PORTLAND, Or.. Nov. 6. (To the
Editor.) The article in The Ore
gonian signed "Physician regarding
the rise in rates of trained ' nurses
and hospitals is timely, and to the
point. Why this great advance? It
was already high enough (16 per day)
for the average poor sick sufferer
and now they ask 1 7. 60 -and $8. SO.
Is there no way to put a stop to
suoh arbitrary actions? All are not
bankers or capitalists. Where It Is
required for one to have In attend
ance a day and night nurse It would
cost a patient over 120 per day in
cluding hospital charges. . In a case
of prolonged sickness how could a
person.,-in. ordinary circumstances
meet this, extraordinary expense?
This increase in the pay aked ought
to be investigated by the proper offi
cials. -
It Is understood that some olf the
nurses are not in -accord with the
raise, but are compelled to demand it
In order to stay with the association.
JUSTICE.
National and Legal Holidays.
PORTLAND, Nov. 5. (To the Edi-ttr-)
To settle a mooted question,
please state whether or not election
day is a 'nat'onal hol'day." If so.
what other .days are "national . hol
idays"? What is the distinction be
tween a "national" and "legal" hol
iday, and what constitutes a na
tional holiday? I have heard this
question argued so many times,. I
would like to have authoritative in
formation on .the subject. N.
E. MILLER.
A national holiday would be a day
fixed as a holiday by act of con
gress. The United States' has .no
"national holiday." A legal holWay
is a day appointed by state law as
a holiday, particularly as regards
suspension of Judicial proceedings
apd general business and closing of
public offices.
Probating of Estate. ,
PORTLAND. Nov. &. (To the Edi
tor.) 1. - When' deed to real estate is
held in husband's name or both hus
band and wife's name and one dies
leavingVio will, can survivor dispose
of:! the property, there being minor
children? ... r
2. In order to make ta will legal
must it be signed before witnesses
or notary public or both? ,
1. The estate must firs.t go. to pro
bate in the usual way.
2. The" will must be signed in the
presence of two witnesses, who attest
that they signed their names at the
testator's request, in his presence and
in the presence of each other. A no
tary Is unnecessary. '
The Cloistered Rpck Oysters of
the Oregon; Reefs
Gourmands all, here is a dish for you! Gold and silver cannot
- buy it, db to speak, and he who smacks his lips -at the east must
.first have toiled with-nhe pick. , DeWitt Harry, in the Sunday
magazine, unfolds the story of the cloistered rock oyster, the strange ,
bivalve of the Oregon coast, which is not found anywhere else in the
world. Those who have delved for this strange delicacy, ho have
moiled and toiled as the tide swept in, will relish the yarn as they
relished the unique spoils of their toil. And those who have not will
like it anyhow, and resolve to some day go and do likewise. Illus
trated with photographs.
How a Professor of Football Teaches the 'Coaches "Go gat 'era!"
used to be the simple sfrategy of the gridiron, but it is not todaji
not by any means. The coaches themselves are pupils of dignified
instructors who recognize the finer theoretical and strategical moves
of the game and who lend the dash of pure science that sends a good
team to victory, frequently over more powerful antagonists. William
Hamlin, in The Sunday Oregonian, has a snappy story of the foot
ball course under "highbrow" tutelage. Illustrated.
Talks With T. Two very positive characters, and fighters
both, were Colonal Roosevelt and John L. Sullivan though they
wrought in different spheres. Their meeting as related by John J.
Leary, from his diaries, cannot fail to arouse the interest of Sunday
readers of the magazine section. And there are' other episodes as
engrossing "The Newspaper Cabinet," for example.
Legs Are Jow Part of the Portrait Ah, shocking! Not so, say
the artists of photography, who advance numerous reasons why the
feminine pose is incomplete unless it exposes an alluring glimpse or
more of silken hogiery. Ethel Thurston takes the case for the
defense, in the 'Sunday issue, and routs prudery with the modern
argument. " And there are photographs to illustrate the idea. Were
you aware that there are legs, mere locomotion appendages, that
are insured for $100,000? '
How Our Girl Swimmers -Won Olympic Honors Tfiis is a story
of the Olympic games, and the glory that American girl swimmers
won at Antwerp, as told by Betty Grimec ' It is analytical, and when
one reads it there comes an understanding of why our mermaids'are
the most splendid performers in all the seas of earth. , In the Sunday
magazine section, with pictures taken abroad. " "
Former Presidents Are Busy Men What do they" do, our. ex
presidents, when the White House ceases to be home and private life
summons them to its tasks. They should worry. The mere distinc
tion of their service is worth $50,000 a year, says Rene Bache, in the
Sunday issue, where he disiusses the continued careers of those who
led the nation. Well told and informative, with many an adminis
'" tration under scrutiny.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
v More Truth Than Poetry.
Iy Jnnies J. Montague
TOO MANV.
In far Japan, where 'neath the trees
The sentimental peasants drowse
and
Make pretty songs in Japanese
The poets number sixty thousand;
The market place is filled with bards,
On corners you are pestered with'
"em,
In Tokio the very guards
Will teU.'.you to "Move on!" In
rhythm.
Nobody can explain the cause;
It must be something in the climate.
But almost every one will pause, '
Before he makes a speech, to rhyme
', it.
"Banzais" are fashioned Into verse,
A bare "Good morning" seldom
spoke is,
Unrhymed, and almost every curse
Is put in anapests and throcrhees.
The beggar'clutches at the yen
That you contemptuously throw
'im,
And snatches out a fountain pen
And writes a long and grateful
poem. '
The waiter girl, when told your tea
Would be more to your taste if
Bweeter,
Lays down a pad upon her knee
And notes your preference In
vaaeter.
. '
If you, by any circumstance.
Our census figures should examine,
Tou see that there is little chance '
That we may have a poet famine.
But though our case ia pretty bad,
'It serves our-cup of woe to sweeten'.
And 'makes our life a little glad.
To know the Japs have got us
' beaten.
. '
Not Yet Settled.
It now remains for congress to in
terpret the meaning of the election.
v
' Not Much Speed. .
Prices may be on the toboggan, but
there doesnwseem to be any Ice on
the slide.
Epidemic.
Baseball hasn't a monopoly of graft.
A New York labor leader has just
been caught accepting J25.000 for
throwing a strike.
(Copyright 1920. by the Bell Syndi-
cate. Inc.) '
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
Vrom The Oreironian of November 6.
An ordinance will be introduced in
the council today to prohibit the .
carrying of advertising devices more -than
3 feet in width and 20 feet in
length through the Btreets of the city.
- The industrial fair at the Portland
Exposition building ended ast night.
'
A petition will be presented before
the city council this afternoon ask-'
Ing that a special ordinance be passed
making it a misdemeanor for too
sorlal artists to open their shops on
Sundays.
The Madison-street bridge, after ex
tensive repairs, will open for wagon
travel Thursday.
z' . LIFE'S WAV,
If weare looking for trouble, " . t
There is trouble everywhere: '
And a furrow and frown will bid us
bow down,.
To the ehape. of the trouble we wear.
Jf we are looking for gladness,
There is gladness In everything;
There is pleasure to share, and beauty
. to spare.
In the least and the lowliest thing.
" . s
So It may be trouble or sorrow,
Or gladness, we cannot say;
But there is an hour for tomorrow.
And there Is an hour for today;
And a moment or two for a brief re
view Of the hour that has flitted away.
BERTHA E. HUGHEY.
Klectlon on First Choice.
PORTLAND. Nov. 5. (To the Edi
tor.) We wish to decide a bet. The
bet was that Baker would get twice
as many votes as the next highest
man. No mention made of second or
third choice votes. Will the bet be
paid on first choice or on combined
second and third choice. W. E.MEL.
Mayor Baker was elected on first
choice votes. For official purposes
the second and third-choice votes
have no more standing than If they
were not recorded. The first-choice
votes should similarly decide the
wager.