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8 tttt: Tiropvivr, OTtoONTAN, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1920 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I. I'lTTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co., Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C A. MORDEX, E. B. PIPER, Manager. Kditor. The Orejronlan U a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Prena is ex clusively entitled to the uaw for publication of all neg dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credUed in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special .dispatches here in are ajdo reserved. - Subscription Katr Invariably in Advsuice. (By Mall.) Iai!y, Sunday included, one year JS.Of) Ial!y, Sunday included, six months. . iJaily. Sunday Included, three months 2.25 I'aily. Sunday included, one month..- .75 laily. without Sunday, one year..,. 6.00 I'aily, without Sunday, six months... S.25 laily, without Sunday, one month . .GO "Weekly, one year m 1.00 Sunday, one year 5.00 (By Carrier.) 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The safe course ' Dia m a fA Vva QilAnflAn V-r tVia oriiii sjhj V vr a fc- a u v o u ment of the state supervised mar keting: system practiced successfully In California, which has been rejec ted by the voters of Oregon rather through lack of comprehension than through informed opposition. There is' need also of extension of paved highways from the trunk roads now building, to connect farms with mar ket centers, and of inland waterways to cheapen transportation and to supplement the railroads. Unless some such means are pro vided to secure for the farmers a larger proportion of what the con sumer -pays for his produce, only limited success will follow efforts to keep the farmer on the land and to win back those who have left it. The congressmen are evidently the more inclined to recommend gener ous provision for the Columbia river because Portland has always acted on the principle that God helps those who help themselves by putting up dollar for dollar with the govern ment. They have also seen from the growing volume of commerce and the number of ships that come here that good use is made of what the government has helped to provide. The progressive shipping policy de fined in the Jones law and the pres ence Kin the shipping board of a Portland man, in the person of J. N. Teal, who Is' in full sympathy with that policy, give assurance that the port will make the most of all that the government does in the future. It will follow that, as the Columbia Those means being provided the river grows In importance in the farm loan law would help to hold the farmers by enabling them to clear off mortgages and to buy equipment, the plan suggested by Leigh Hunt might be adopted to break up large holdings among men who would cultivate their own land, and arid, swamp and logged-off lands might be reclaimed with confidence that would attract men to farm them. The labor problem is one of secur ing for the workmen payment for all the value that his labor contributes to the product and for convincing him that he gets it. If that purpose be kept in mind, self-interest will lead the workman to produce as much as he can consistent with health and proper enjoyment of life, and the employer will recognize his selfish-interest in the workman's welfare and contentment. Then the employer will not want .men to work excessive hour3 or under un- IIIE KEPUBlirAV PARTY'S OPPOR TUNITY. Having won an unprecedented victory eight years after having suf fered such a defeat as caused its ex tinction to be freely predicted, the reDublican party must now use its victory so that the confidence of the healthy and dangerous conditions or people will be Justified and renewed, to live In crowded, insanitary tene- It must prove its claim to be both the great conservative and the great constructive force of the nation, in order that it may not only preserve its own life as a party but may save the republic from worse dangers than those of the recent past. The worst error in public affairs is as sumption that our institutions are preserved by opposition to change. That form of conservatism leads to destruction, for it rapidly makes re- ments. The two parties, once in spired with confidence In each otBer's good intentions and with a common interest in producing the most and best, should bo able to come to an understanding. The gov ernment can bring about this situa tion by establishing for industry means of adjusting disputes similar to the railroad labor board. If these tribunals are wisely constituted, each party should become confident of shipping world, it will also gain im portance as a naval center. emits for the forces of radicalism. I getting justice and hopeless of get- the conservation of the Bourbons in France and of the Stuarts in Eng land led to revolution, that of the southern slave-holders led to civil war in the United States. The con- ting more than justice, men tne evils which have accompanied the great good done by labor unions should gradually disappear. The first essential of the general stitution of the United States has progress that Mr. Kahn hopes to re- been preserved by the working of a process of evolution, and its contin uation of that process. These Ideas are well expressed by Otto H. Kahn in a letter which he wrote to Senator McCormick on October 2 6. Correctly foretelling the election of Senator Harding "by a very large majority" and welcoming the senator's advent to power "act ing with a party which stands com mitted to advance along the paths of the orderly processes of American government," he reminds the sena tor that "the republican party will be on trial; in fact, our whole sys tem of two-party government is on trial." He says "social and economic problems of immediate urgency are before us which call for wisdom, sympathy, courage and progress." "He thus depicts the state of the pub lic i ii i ii i.i . There Is restlessness and discontent in the land. The people's minds are aroused aearchine and testing. A ereat stirring and ferment is going on. The people "want to be shown." They will not simply take our word for it that, because a thing is so and has always been so. therefore It is riphtly ordained and should remain so. They do not mean to stand still. They want proKress. To the extent that social , Institutions, however deep and ancient their -roots, may De xouna to stana? in tne way - r,f the hlerhejtt attainable level of social justice and the widest achievable exten sion of opportunity, welfare and content ment, they will have to submit to change. As a concrete instance he gives the case of the farmers, saying that their ' "just grievances call for immediate Intelligent consideration and for ef fective redress, that the demo cratic party has failed the farmer,' that "the republican party will now have its opportunity" and that "the farmer will not wait another eight years." If the republican party fails him too, "he will turn to other and new political instrumentalities, and then the grave evil of parties or fac tions constituted on class lines will manor.a tVia rpmi Vl i t ' ' 1 T o finrisa tnA same condition as to labor. Conced ing that some e-il as well as good re suits have flowed from labor union power, he says that "certain phases of employment in the steel industry , and he finds evils in the soft coal mining industry "which are a reflec tion on the sense of social duty or on the organizing capacity of business. These and other matters "challenge the capacity of the republican party. - Unless they are solved or greatly mitigated, those whom they -affect are liable to turn to "some radically novel or allegedly novel methods and Instrumentalities," most of which have been "tried and found wanting and discarded after sad disallusion- ment." He declares "the true road to welfare and progress" to be "the middle road of steady evolution." ine prouiem. ui tne tanner wmcn Mr. Kahn puts first is now seen to concern not his material welfare alone but that of all the. people. It concerns not only material welfare of the people but stability of the re public. Though the foundation of all industry and necessary to the life of the people, agriculture has been abandoned and is still being aban doned by many who have grown up on farms. Farm land is passing into the hands of large owners - and Is rented to tenants, who are disposed to impoverish the soil and n'eglect improvement. The chief cause is . the low price that the farmer re ceives for his product, which makes his occupation unattractive by com parison with city life. Yet the con sumer pays prices sufficient to com- - pensate the farmer liberally; he is ill paid because too much is ab sorbed in transportation and distrl- bution. Even after having been in creased, railroad rates take a small portion of the margin between pro ducers' and consumers' prices by comparison with the service ren dered. Too much is wasted in inade quate service, in getting crops to the railroad, but most of the waste is in the process oi distribution. Co-operation is the remedy for s this greatest waste. It is coming, for it has taken hor of the farmers' minds. The question is whether it shall be guided by federal and state agency into channels which shall benefit the whole nation together with the farmer, whether it shall be left entirely to voluntary action or whether the state shall become the farmer's middleman and banker " with the disastrous results seen in North Uakota. action, it would conceivably cover the country with great associations which might become instruments of oppression and dictate the policy of parties and of the government. Then restrictive legislation similar to that against industrial trusts might be- sult from republican government Is contentment among all who are di rectly engaged in production, in farm, mine or factory. This can be based only on a sense that they get justice. Then there will be no dan ger that class parties can exist or succeed for promition of radical the ories which are taken up mostly by those who feel a well-founded sense of wrong. HIGH COST OF LAW-GIVTNG. The worst beaten measure on the state ballot was the insane amend ment proposing to limit the rate of interest on loans. It was defeated by nearly a five-to-one vote. The next worst defeated measure was the single tax amendment. The voters stood nearly four to one against it. Official totals are not yet available but the figures are near enough complete to show that the record of declining interest in single tax has been maintained. Single tax has consistently record ed a waning affirmative vote since it was first proposed in 1908, with the single exception of the- time that a measure trending toward single tax was disguised as an anti-poll-tax amendment. The affirmative vote for single tax this year, it Is Indicated by the unof ficial returns, is the smallest re corded for the measure in its four times up since adoption of woman suffrage increased the total number of votes in the state. This year it won the smallest percentage of the total vote cast in its history and the smallest percentage of the total vote cast on the measure, excepting al ways the fraudulent poll-tax amend ment afterwards repealed. Yet we are gravely told that the proponents of single tax hope by re submissions to educate the people into a favorable mood. It is working the other way. It is now looked upon as a plain nuisance. It has been worked to death. Possibly the single taxers will con tinue their "educational" enterprise. Certainly so if the Fels fund or any other money chest remeains open for them. But there is the practical com pensation that experimenting with direct legislation is increasing in cost like everything else. Not only must the petition hawker be paid more but he must get more names. This, year about 10,000 names were re quired on an initiative petition. Next year the number will be close to 15,- 000, because ' of the large .vote cast for justice of the supreme court, which is the basis for determining the requisite number of names. AX EXPERT ON MCDDLTNG THROUGH. The book of Lieutenant-Colonel Charles a Court Replngton entitled "The First "World War" has an im portance arising from his expert ob servation of British conduct of the war and from his intimate 'confiden tial relations with generals aid statesman. It also has an interest arising from its revelation of the im perturbable calm with which the British aristocracy continued Its so cial pleasures and muddled through a war which was to decide whether Britain should be subject to a Ger man suzerain. It is the soldier newspaperman coldly judging the failures and blunders of men who were socially his friends, and vainly tryfhg to get his criticism past the censor. One of the many critical points In the war was reached when the cen sor was caught napping and per mitted Replngton to tell through the London Times of the British govern ment's neglect to produce enough shell of the right kind and to say that this neglect was "a fatal bar to success." The dispatch was resented as an attack on the popular idol Kitchener, but the gravity of the situation which it betrayed pene trated the people's minds. It forced formation of a coalition government. establishment of the munitions min istry and conversion of the British isles into a huge munition factory. If Britain 'had continued to muddle along after May, 1915, as It had in the preceding eight months, it is highly probable that the allies would have been beaten before the kaiser furnished the United States good cause to intervene; in fact the kaiser would not have needed to give such provocation. John Bull continued to muddle along in his strategy, but abundance of munitions and the aid of his allies enabled him to continue the process until Germany in des peration defied America. Even at that the question who would win re mained open till July, 1918, for the Wilson administration - was a good second to that of Asquith in mud dling. -' Muddling through was not pecu liar to Britain. The United States also muddled through, the bravery, and endurance of our soldiers and the ability of our generals compen sating for the incapacity of our gov ernment. This tribute of the colonel is the more valuable because it comes from a trained observer whtfse judgment was so unbiased that he did not scruple to censure his wn government or his friend. Kitchener: The Americans are earnest, serious peo ple, even the private soldiers, who have nothing of the devil-may-care Ilght heartedness of our men. They have come here to do or die and are as keen as mus tard, but still very serious and quiet about it alL They are in truth crusaders. Of the capture of the St. Mihiel salient he says: An extraordinarily successful operation. Even if the opposition was not of very high quality the question whether the Americans can conduct a great operation has been decidedly answered in the af firmative, and there is little that one can criticise. I found the staffs cool, mod est and very happy. The lesson of the war will have been largely wasted if it does not cause this and other free nations to make an end of muddling through. That habit tempts aggressive na tions to make war, and it enormously adds to the cost of war, both in life and money. . We cannot-be sure of always coming through with our national life; we might conceivably muddle into disastrous defeat, pos sibly into revolution, as did Russia. The nation should not tempt fate by being unprepared, when its life is the stake. to clear it of timber and leave it a hideous waste of stumps. Cost of clearing small tracts is so high and the time consumed before crops can be raised or sales made Is so long that the work of reclamation can be economically undertaken only on a large scale. In that way exten sive equipment of the best kind could be used to reclaim large areas. It has been shown that several valu able materials can be extracted from stumps, and operation on a large scale might recover these materials profitably. Possibly recovery of these products would go far to pay the cost of clearing. If this work were left to private enterprise, probably only isolated tracts most easily cleared and best adapted for cultivation would be re claimed, and a large profit would be asked from buyers in order to com pensate for the long period used in doing the work and finding a pur chaser. Some wholesale plan for re clamation under federal or state control or supervision may be neces sary. As much stump land is suited only to grow timber, it would be ad visable to survey all logged-off land. classify it and set aside tracts for re foresting. Taxation of timber land presents a difficult problem. This land yields a crop only when the timber is cut, , which may be once in a century, ' while farm land yields a crop every year and can therefore be taxed yearly. It is Impracticable for the state to wait a century for taxes, and if they -were levied on the timber when cut, the temptation would be strong to hold timber land for specu lation. On the other hand, the gen eral good requires that a large re serve of timber be held, and if tim ber were taxed In the same way as other land, owners would be tempted to cut the timber before it had ma tured, then to claim a lower assess ment orf- account of the depleted value. The entire problem of forestry should be worked out by the govern ment, the states and the owners of timber land in close co-operation. The forests of any one state are a national as well as a state asset, be ing needed to supply more than that one state, but national interests should b"e guarded in such a way that the revenue of the state will not be reduced by having large areas withdrawn from taxation or aban doned as barren wastes. It should be made to the Interest of the land owner to produce a steady supply of lumber at reasonable cost and at the same time to leave a reserve for the future and to put the land that he denudes of trees in condition for some other use. WHAT PRESS SAYS OF ELECTION Additional Oregon S(wpp Com- ' ment on Canws of Result. Perfection Could Not Have Stopped It. Weston Leader. ' Perhaps the best reason "to be as signed for the tremendous republican victory Is that the great American people again wanted a change. - ine country has prospered under a demo cratic administration the war was won under a democratic administra tion but perfection itself, which it indubitably did not and could not at tain, would not have saved the demo cratic party at this time from slaugh ter. We prefer to think this the true explanation, and not any popular dis favor with the league of nations prin ciple. Those Who Copie and Go. KO ORDER I.N HCHAS ENDEAVOR Determined on Chasge. Gresham Outlook. It has been stated it was not the man Harding. Perhaps not. Per haps any other of the dozea or more republican leaders, with a properly conducted campaign, would have won. Undoubtedly the mass of the people was determined upon a change of executive personnel and policy. They know this could only-come from a change of party. As in 1916 many republicans voted for Wilson, so now many democrats voted for Harding which accounts for his securing about 400 of the 631 electoral votes. This situation was undoubtedly the great determining factor. The state banking department has been exonerated of 'blame in con nection with failure of the bank at Jacksonville by the grand jury of that oounty. Examinations were fre quent, but somehow those concerned managed to show affairs in a favor able light. Yet one may wonder what an examiner is for and how far his power can reach. The Bank of Jacksonville was a "one-man" in stitution, its president old-fashioned and the friend of everybody; now he Is In jail In default of $50,000 bail It will all come out in the trial. Mild adjectives may fit other of the many delinquencies of the gov ernment, but they will not fit that which brands as a slacker one who has died in battle, or even one who has volunteered without waiting to be drafted. These blunders are the more to be condemned because they delay Identification of, those who are actually slackers. The desire to place on the honor roll the names of those who did their duty is only equaled by the desire to pillory for public scorn those who shirked. World Affairs to Shape. . Hubbard Enterprise. The success of the next few years means not only that which shall ac crue to the republican party, but the shaping of the affairs of the world that a disaster which many nave professed to see in the offing for this nation, may be avoided and humanity launch out on a larger and better de velopment. The next few years will demand a high grade of manhood and womanhood. Let us all look to the god of nations and people that this may be so. Wilsonlsm Repudiated. Eugene" Register. There was widespread dissatisfac tlon, which was reflected in the land slide of Tuesday. This dissatisfaction in the abstract, was with the admin istration and the party in power, but there was specific dissatisfaction with the president himself and his theories of government. Senator Harding pledged himself to an ad ministration as dissimilar to that of Wilson as it could be made, and the response to this pledge is to be round in Tuesday's vote. Voters Not Deceived as to Issue. Hillsboro Independent. . The sole issue was whether the record of the democratic party dur ing the past eight years entitled it to further trust. The issue was evaded and the campaign of. the opposition conducted along lines intended to divert attention from the record, bu the strategy failed, as it was bound to fail, for the American people are not fools. "I was reminded of a New England incident of 40 years ago this morn ing," said Edwin A. Smith, managing, editor of the Oregon Farmer, yes terday, "being an Interested visitor t the opening session of the Western Dairy Instructors' association at the Multnomah hotel. An old-time Sunday school class of adults was recalled. The class was taught by the editor of the daily paper. In the course ef a sort of round-table talk I ventured to ask him if 90 cents a day was a religious Question. 'It certainly Is, he replied. In those da-3 and in that New England town there were mar ried men, the heads of families, whose wages did not exceed 90 cents daily. As the dairy instructors talked or the low pay of the young men who were employed as testers, of the courses of dairy study In the col leges, and especially when Editor Glover of Hoard's Dairyman de clared with all earnestness that the crying need of the dairy Industry was young men who were educated to understand all the conditions of farm life, I again was compelled to ask myself, are not these questions again at stake?" . Exhibitors at the livestock shew have" managed to take the major portion of the rooms at the Imperial over the week-end. In addition to the men who are showing their stock there are a great number of ship pers for this weekly trip who are taking the opportunity of combining business with pleasure, selling their stock and seeing the show. S. H. Edwards of the Alderdale-Hereford farm at Maysville is one of the ex hibitors along With H. E. Warner cf St. Johns, Wash., who shows horses and pigs, and G. O. Swales of the Crest stock farm, Johnson. Wash., who has Duroc-Jersey hogs. Many are the tales that are told of breed ing triumphs and prizes won or to be won. A. E. Robertson of Tamplco, Mexico, is at the Multnomah. Tamplco Is at last proceeding with Its oil industry without being hampered by continual revolutions. Internal trouble In Mex ico has kept the city back and it has been destroyed several times by op pesing factions. Since Obregon was elected president of Mexico Amer icans who formerly lived in Tampico are returning. Obregon has demon strated many times that he is very friendly to Americans and those who have had dealings with him know that he can be depended upon, ac cording to Robertson. Labor Heads Sorry Spectacle. Brownsville Times. 1 Numerous sideshow tickets "also ran," but as usual they cut no figure. The Gompcrs extremists, falsely claiming to represent American labor and to have power to make and un make national legislators and dictate laws to the American people, afford about the sorriest fizzle exposed by the election. A Tillamook, party in the city to look over the dairy cattle at the stock show consists of Dr. J E. Reedy. B. W. and F. H. Neil son and C. r. Lucas, who are at the Oregon hotel. They are Interested In the cheese factories in their lo cality and want to see how their stock stacks up against the winners being shown In North Portland. Many women are in business these days and few of them have taken up packing lines for their efforts but Mrs. J. G. Megler of Brookfield, Wash., is one of those who find they can make a success of this line. Everyone knows Brookfield sausages but it is not known for certain if Mrs. Megler originated this choice breakfast dainty. Mrs. Megler is at the Hotel Portland. There is a hint for criminals In the New York World's exposure of the cause of the Wall street explosion, namely, the safest place for a crim inal when the New York police and the United States secret service seek him is right on the scene of his crime, but he should keep a sharp lookout for the eagle-eyed reporter. No Solid Group Voting. Monmouth Herald. Studying the election returns we may wonder what became of the labor vote and the railroad vote through which Cox was to profit. We suspect (hat labor men and rail road men divide on political lines very much as other groups of people do and their suffrage is not to be handed bodily to anyone. Not All Republicans. Dufur Dispatch. Many of the votes came from in dependent voters who are tired of the wastefulness and mismanage ment of the democrats; who are tired of the one-man autocracy from which we have -suffered for the past eight years, and tired of countless other things for which the present admin istration has been responsible. A man now can take the fastest train across the continent and land in New York or San Francisco in less than 9 3 hours. If he Is in a hurry, well and good. He will be on the safest train for one reason, that less time is spent on the rails; but that might be phrased to tit a plane. SHOWING THE COLUMBIA RIVER. While the members of the con gressional committee on naval bases and their expert advisers are natur ally reticent about their conclusions, nothing but good tor Portland and the whole Columbia river basin can result from their visit. Kach visit of men actively engaged in the work of developing ports, foreign com merce and naval defense forms part of a campaign of education, in which the people of this region show what they have done and what can be done in that direction. The men who have "been shown" become al lies of the Oregon delegation in con gress when It seeks due considera tion for the claims of Portland, the Columbia river and its tributaries. While no plan is under consider ation to locate any naval facilities at Portland, existence of this port with in 100 miles cannot fail to have a favorable bearing on plans for the Tongue Point base. From a naval viewpoint the lower Columbia river, as far as it is navigable by ocean-going vessels, is one. The extent of the structures to be erected at Tongue Point will be influencl by the ex istence of docks and repair facilities and the availability of supplies and rail transportation not only at As toria but at Portland, for all of these will be valuable auxiliaries to the fa cilities which the navy itself pro vides. By being the assembling point for the products for the entire Columbia basin, by having railroads radiating in all directions, by having docks at which ships can expedi tiously load, and shops at which ships can repair. Portland offers in- If left to voluntary ducements for naval vessels to come up the river for supplies and, when the plant at Tongue Point is over taxed, to have repairs made. The ex tent of the interests in Portland and the Columbia and Willamette val leys will also influence the extent of the defenses on both land and water. MAKE THE OLD ORGEON A SHRINK. The suggestion of Representative Britten, which has been taken up by Mayor Baker and President Van Duzer of the Portland Chamber of Commerce, that the people of Ore gon make a combined effort to se cure the permanent location of the battleship Oregon at Portland should be taken up and acted upon heartily. The Oregon is the most historic ship remaining in the American navy and will hold a place in the glorious annals of the American navy beside the old Constitution. Its last home Is properly in the waters of the state whose name it bears. The Oregon is much more than an obsolete craft which a coldly prac tical navy department would con sign to the boneyard to be scrapped. As a symbol it is worth many times its value as scrap metal. it sym bolizes the skill with -which Captain Clark and his crew took it around Cape Horn to take part in the battle of Santiago, the glory that the American navy won In that battle, and the humanity that was shown when the order was given to cease firing at the dying Spaniards. Thus it represents all that is best in American naval traditions. Resting in Oregon waters, the Oregon would also symbolize the patriotism with which Oregon men placed their state in the front rank when the call to arms came in 1917. It would be a shrine where the les sons of patriotism would be learned. As the merchant marine of Portland grew, it would become an inspiration to seamen, prompting them to enroll in the naval reserve, of .which it should be Oregon headquarters. This port would be only its custodian, for it would belong to all of Oregon, and every citizen of the state would take pride In" its possession and would make a pilgrimage to see It. Its work for the nation is not yet fin ished, for its presence will keep alive that fighting spirit which carried it to victory. Representative Sherman Miles of Columbia county presents reasons for action by the legislature both in regard to reclamation of logged-off land and revision of the system of timber taxation. Clearing off the timber leaves land almost worthless and, if continued without remedy, may deprive some counties of the means of maintaining government. But the present system of taxing "When the edict shall go forth that shall stop the sale of the Ingredients for the home brew, there will be nothing left but dandelion wine and perhaps that much-despised weed will come into a use more or less useful. The request of the telephone com pany for increased rates will affect its greatest class of customers, the two-party people. Once the tele phone like the bathtub, was a lux ury. Now, "they have to have them." The ice cream men open a con vention with display this morning, but do they give away samples? That's the main question in these days of food shows. Eight girls have been picked for the debate squad at Corvallis, and why not? Was there ever time when the sex could not talk and say some thing? Send the -wagon ut for the parent and one boy will not violate the cur few law again this winter. But there must be no favors. Tou might drop in at the corn show in the Oregon building and see what can be done in that line in this state. Hood River apples have had a good year and the quality of the 1920 crop was exceptional, according to J. E. Fercuson. who manaeres to sell the- fruit from his orchard there each season. Mr. Ferguson is at the Imperial. The Idaho State university stock judging team expect to show thei supremacy as real pickers of blooded stock In competition with the many other teams entered in the present livestock show, acoording to H. A Bendixen, who is in charge of the students. The experts from this school are at the Imperial. Admirals W. L. Capps, R. E. Koontz, H. W. Hill and Representatives in Congress Britton and Pag-et and Senator Ball all are registered at the Multnomah. They are members of the congressional naval investigating party. World "Oat of WhacK Because Peo ple Are Not Properly Instructed. EST ACAD A. Or., ITov. 13. (To the Editor.) The way of the transgressor is hard, said Solomon Or maybe it was Shakespeare. Anyhow It is true, no matter wno said it, and whatever is true is the word of God. Transgression Is a Latin word that means running across or working at cross purposes. Theologically speak ing. It means crossing or violating the laws of God. Physiologically, it means violating the lawj of nature. Vulgarly speaking. It is called get ting "out of whack." . This is right. also. The vulgar tongue (so called) hits the spot as nimbly as or more so than -the highbrow stuff the ec clesiastics pour out so profusely over the heads of those "who sit or stand for the operation. Getting out of whack" is good English even if it 13 vulgar. Vulgar is a Latin word that means common. It is no crime to be vulgar. The common people are all vulgar because they are common. There are too many of them, but Abe Lincoln said joa loved them because he made so many of them. It is an open question whether God made them or not. I don't believe that he did. Some are self-made. Others are products of heredity and environment. But God overlooks thtm. That is, he looks over them from his throne in heaven and suffers them to go ahead and suffer the consequences of their own disorderly conduct. Transgression in business is as de structive and wasteful as it is in re llglon. It is always a violation of the laws of order, but its effects are most obvious in business. There Is order In a beehive. The bees do not transgress by crowding, fighting and crushing as humans do. They know their occupations. Ten stores In a place like Estacada where there should be only one; hun dreds or thousands in Portland where there should be only'one perfectly or ganized department of distribution thousands of delivery vehicles run ning across one another's paths in wasteful duplication or multiplication of work, are evidences of transgres sion. This continual Interference due to competition instead of co-operation is transgression. It is anarchy, fo anarchy means disorder, nothing more. Disorder means disease. If we expelled all the .anarchists from the country there would not be mortal man left. The country would be entirely depopulated. The world Is In a state of anarchy now because its people are not in structed in the laws of order. Thes laws are. more simple and easy t bear than those we suffer from now Even children could learn them if tft.ey had competent instructors. An by the way the people are all chil dren. There is no way to get Int the kingdom of heaven except as little child, a beginner, a learner. Dis ciDle means a learner. Righteousnes is a theological term that means just the same as Tightness In mathemat ics. It is easier to learn things right than to learn them wrong if we only knew how. Whack means a blow or beat. Out of whack means out of tune or har monv. Soldiers move in order an keen in nroner Dlaca and time. So d and dancers. The laws of. numhora are the laws of music an harmonv. They are simple and if applied to business would solve every problem, settle every dispute ana enu all the strife that if not so ended must exhaust itself in universal de struction. J- L. JONES. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. HOW THEY GET IT. Time was that college presidents. .engaged in seeking contribution. Enlarged upon the excellence Of their scholastic Inm It nt ton On magnates they paid frequent call Aua long ana earnestly they pleaded. For dorms and labs and lecture hslls Ana other things the college needed. And when their story was all told They found it left the magnates cold. But when a millionaire today. a college president approaches. The only words he has to say nelate to costly football coaches. He tells the captain of finance lilt if hell only hark to reason. The team may have a bully chance 10 be the champs the coming season. And without parley or ado The gentleman of wealth comes through. For It Is not the college which heeps bright the lamp of know ledge burnlntr. That's looked on by the Idle rich as a aeservlner seat of learning: An institution may begin Its worn of uplift in a. shantv. But if its football team can win the gents of cash will always ante. Which proves that in these glorious days The etrong--arm stuff is all that pays. Working 'Km TJp. If Dempsey and Carrjentlei- tinue to play golf together the bis fight will be a real quarrel. e Something; to Be Grateful Per. Well, anyway, well soon have a new postmaster-general. Looks Small to the Guests. The hotel man who got only SOOO per cent profit must have been a- tonisnea at his own moderation. lv,opyriKht By the Bell Syndicate. I no ) John Burroughs' Nature Notes. The Thanksgiving day feast this year should contain something made of Indian corn, the maize of the Pil grims. The hunger strikers in Cork jail will be hollering for the national dish In a few days and getting it. Bryan dropped into Washington Saturday and, for a wonder, was not arrested for disorderly conduct. What do the aristocratic cattle at the live stock show care about the high cost of living? j , Great Opportunity for Party. Coquille Sentinel. Never before in this country has any party received sucn an over whelming indorsement as nas just been given the republican party. And if the new administration lives up to the hopes of the vast majority of peo ple who have entrusted it with a new lease of power, it will be one of the grandest, in our history. It Was Solemn Referendum. McMinnvIlle Telephone-Register. The returns jot Tuesday's election certainly indicate that the voters were ripe for a change, and the result must be taken as a solemn referen dum that' the old regime does not suit and that the nation is ready to try new policies. One Man Government Ended. Springfield News. The country has signified that it is done with one-man government. The management of the government re quires the counsel and guidance of many minds and the efforts and work of a multitude of hands. As president Mr. Harding will see to it that such a condition prevails. Bryan Talk Unwelcome. Baker Democrat. "Bill" Bryan came out of his hole Wednesday long enough to give his opinion of the causes which defeated Governor Cox. In all propriety he should keep his mouth shut now as he did during the campaign. The people might respect him more. Not Personal Tribute. Bend Press. Warren G. Harding has not been elected president of the United States because of any commanding states man ability or personal appeal to the populace. His election is more In the nature of a protest against, the usur pation of power by an executive. League Little to Do With It. St. Helens Mist. Our opinion is that neither the league of nations or the prohibition Questions had much to do with the re suit. The people were tired of the democratic administration especially the chief executive of this country. Clean Campaign! Clean Administration. - North Powder News. Mr. Harding and his constituents conducted a clean, fair campaign and if the next four years administration is conducted on these same principals, there need be no fear for the result. Last year ville, Idaho, Red Harris of Grange- had his cowboy band HIGH PRICES AND THE WAR DEBT What It Means to Pay Our Creditors In Dearer Money, PENDLETON. Or., Nov. 13. (To the Editor.) There is a problem In economics, and a very eerjoua hloh the writer has not seen dis cussed either on the floor of congress or in the press, and he teg3 space to present it. Prices are falling everywhere in re sponse to a somewhat unreasoning demand for lower cost of living. That there has been unconscionable prof iteering no one doubts, but whether it la nrt hetter to continue an era of high prices for a few years rather than to return suddenly to pre-war conditions is worthy serious con sideration in every walk of life. The nation owes, roughly speaKing Can You Answer These QuestionsT 1. Is the hen hawk a friend of the farmers? 2. Why does snow kill tho appear ance of landscape? 3. How does a snake affect a dog? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. see Answers to Previous Questions. 1- What birds flock In the fall? Many species of our birds flock in the fall the various blackbirds, the cedar birds, the goldfinches, the sis kins, the snowbirds, the bank and tree swallows, to say nothing of waterfowl some to migrate and some to pass the winter in the north. 2. Do cattle and horses act simi larly in facing danger? When cattle or horses form a cir cle when attack In the open by wild beases, the cattle form with their heads outward, and the horses with their heels. Of course all this is in stinctive, and not the result of de liberation. The horse always turns his tail to the storm as well, and cows and steers, if I remember right ly, turn their heads. 3. What is the origin of many of our rocks? Many If not all of the sedimentary rocks that were laid down in the abysms of the old ocean, out o which our soil has been produced, and that are being laid down now, out of which future soils will be produced, were and are largely of orp-antc origin, the leavings of untold myriads of minute marine animals that lived millions of years ago. (Rights reserved by Houghton Mif flin Co.) In Other Days. down for the stock show and this I $22,000,000,000, the most of which in year, though the entire band could not make the trip. Red came to see that they were not forgotten. He is at the Hotel Portland. Walter L. Tooze Jr. spends the most of his time attornaylng and politicat- ing about the state at large, but claims McMinnvIlle as his home. He is in Portland on a business trip and stopping at the Imperial. Portland stores have been receiving a great deal of attention at the hands of Mr, and Mrs; Robert Foster of Salem, who are registered at the Portland and have spent the past sev eral days shopping. Robert Withycon.be is superintend ent of the Oregon Agricultural col lege experiment station at Union, Or. He is the son of the late governor of this state and is registered at the Imperial. Frank Belshee of Moro, Sherman county, is visiting his sister who has Just undergone a serious operation in a local hospital. Mr. Belshee Is a wheatgrpwer and is stopping at the Imperial. Charles A. Johns, chief justice of the state supreme court, is at the Oregon hotel. He Is making his way back to Salem after the session of the court in Pendleton. F. H. Ladd of Seattle is a merchant who is mainly interested in dairying and kindred industries, so he found that he Just had to visit the stock show and is at the Imperial. Lumber la Tillamook Is the means by which A. G. Beals earns his liveli hood. He is at the Imperial. Mr. and Mrs. Davis Wilcox of Haynes, Or,, are at the Imperial. Mr. Wileox Is a banker and merchant. Mrs. M. E. Hay, wife of ex-Governor Hay of Washington, and daughter are at the Multnomah Captain J. McKallan of the steamer El Segundo Is registered at the Multnomah. Be one of the 250,000 to attend the livestock show. The way is easy and clear. Speaking of utilities, Mr. Mann is not asking increase in water rates. Old D.r. Stork, too, is considering the "back to normalcy" business. It Is not too early to lay plans for timber land is a constant temptation ' going borne for Thanksgiving. People Asrnin Rule. Sheridan Sun. "The solemn referendum" has been heard from and its reverberation Is still echoing throughout the nation. The people, themselves have spoken, and by the grace of a democratic gov ernment the people will again rule. Two Mandates Given. Ontario Argus. This much ia evident. Tha people of America have-declared against the entry of the country into the league of nations, and at the same time have given a mandate to return to a pro tective tariff- Savin a; on tmslF Income. PORTLAND, Nov. 13. (To the Ed itor.) I have read with interest the article on nurses and especially refer to an article entitled "High Cost of Illness," in The Oregonian November 10, signed "An Interested Woman." I am a business woman; support myself and two girls, ages 2 and 10 years. I earn J145 a month, pay rent and we live very comfortably and dress wsll. Business life requires a woman to dress better than were she in her own home, and girls' clothes cost far more than boys. Out of my salary I pay $1 Insurance monthly and save from $10 to $15 monthly for that time when sickness might require the services of a trained nurse. It is very possible to save money and. still enjoy life on very moderate incomes. Nursing, like any other profession, requires time for preparation, beside3i .being confining work and requiring lots of patience properly to care for sickness in all cases, pleasant and otherwise A BUSINESS WOMAN. debtednesa was incurred with a dollar value of from 47 cents to 70 cents. If we are promptly to go back to that economic basis where a dollar is worth 100 cents, then our national indebtedness is in effect ?44, 000,000. 000. In other words, it has doubled by the process of raising the value of the dollar. This debt must be paid. How is it to be naid? Presumably thV most of 'it will have to be met by the income tax. Very well. Where is tne tax to come from? Let me speak from the current experience of my own county of Umatilla, with the business with which I am best acquainted, ine falling price of wheat is leaving the farmer where he will have no prof its, hence can pay the government no income tax. The distressing situation in the wool and sheep industry is driving the flockmasters upon the rocks of fi nancial disaster. Most of them will end the year in material loss, and will thus be free from the tax. Thia county hitherto has probably been the largest Oregon contributor, outside of Multnomah, to tha government treas ury under the Income tax law, but unless a halt is called in t mbllng prices lt contributions in the future are likely to be meager indeed. Since all other business rests fun damentally upon agriculture and live stock, I apprehend that the illustra tion here used will not be far afield, if applied anywhere throughout the republic. Unless we can retain for a con siderable period substantially the past high level of prices for labor, for wheat, for sheep and cattle, for dairy products, for hay, for cotton, for wool, for corn, indeed for all "the primary natural productions, tha nation is not only confronted by financial disaster. but its staggering debt may sooner or later invite revolution and repudia tion. Indebtedness incurred in cheap money ought to be paid in cheap money,-otherwise both injustice and economic chaos Impend. It required about 13 years to re turn to normal times after the civil war. Is It not better to utilize that period now? A man high up in a tree can climb down slowly and safely, or he can Jump down quickly and suffer painful injury. Most men se lect the former course. STEPHEN A. LOWELL. Twenty-f Ive Years Ako. From The Ortronlan of November 15. 18B5. Salem. The Williams & England Banking company suspended today, making the first suspension of the kind ever recorded against Salem. London. The little torpedo boat destroyer built for the Russian gov ernment, which will leave the Thames for St. Petersburg in a few days, is said by experts to be the fastest ves sel in the world. Much interest attaches to the com inff football game between Portland university and the University of Ore gon, to be played here Saturday. A Stark-street realty firm offers a four-room plastered house, with 25x 100-foot lot, near the university, for $1G0. Fifty Years Ago. From The Orejronlnn of November IS, 1870. London. The French have achieved a notable victory in forcing the Prus sians to evacuate Orleans, which is now held by the French forces. The George S. Wright, after an ex traordinarily bad voyage because of weather conditions, has arrived in the Willamette from Sitka, Alaska. Ezra St. John, superintendent of construction for the new custom house, has been instructed to inspect the quality of stone to be obtained from the Bellingham Bay quarry. from which the lowest bid has been received. Voting; on First Pnpers. POWERS, Or., Nov. 13. (To the Editor.) Please inform me If an alien in possession of the first citizen papers can vote in some states. A says he can vote in some states for all, but not for president. C says he can't vote at all. A SUBSCRIBER. Declarants may vote for all offices. Including presidential electors, in Indiana, Kansas, Nebraska, North Da kota and Texas. Give Her More Time. Philadelphia Bulletin. "What's that grass widow's last name?" "Nobody knows. She hasn't come to it jet." THE FRUITAGE. Wipding from reddening gateways of the east. The newborn nations of the world close throng. With their soul's fruitage sheaved for God's great feast. And on their lips Immortal free dom's song. The scars of ancient wounds yet show their trace. The dimness of their lives' dark dungeoned years. The sweat of war's hot harvest on their face. Their eyes yet film with weight of long shed tears. What mystic foliage now will leap and grow. From precious seed long prisoned in war's soil. Fed by soft springs of peace that steadfast flow. Warmed by love's sun and brother hood's sweet toil? What passion flower will spring from Poland's heart. What storm of music crash from unknown chords? What lightning flash from stormy Russian dart, With treasures that the clouded fu ture hoards? What spirit flowers lie dormant on the crest Or hid in glaciered slopes of Slavic heights? What truth from God, by sluggard hearts unguessed. Will spread its lustrous petals our sight? Arabia and Saba bring their gifts And bow beneath the eternal Shr. herd s rod And prophecy's dark lift!,; We are at last his God! MARY ALETHEA WOODWAR . 1 cu. .ain siowi people, he, oJ I