THE MORXIXG OltEGOXIAX, WEDNESDAY, MAY 11, 1921
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I. FITTOCK.
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GREED AM) DECENT WAGES.
When Samuel Gompers speaks) of
Treedy hordes of employers," he
teonfeniently overlooks the fact that
Treed is a vice common to all men,
Employers have their share, but so
Jiava the workmen for whom Mr.
Gompers professes to speak. The
problem is to effect a settlement be
tween the two greeds by imposing
-the restraints of justice, in order
that production may go on and that
the nation may prosper. This result
ja not promoted by utterances which
ascribe to one party to the contro
versy a monopoly of a human failing
that Is equally prevalent among the
jother party. " '
A false conception of the source of
sages is betrayed by this remark of
Che labor leader:
The Industry that cannot afford to pay
trend, decent wages to its workers ought
aot to exist.
Of aourse such an industry ought
not to exist, but the decision whether
"good, decent wages" shall be paid
and what their amount" does not ul
timately rest with the owner of the
industry, for he does not pay wages
out of capital or out of his profits.
Wages simply consist of the part of
the value of goods that is produced
ly labor, for wages are paid by pro
duction. Capital and labor each con
tribute their share to the value of
the goods, and the dispute concerns
the division. Ifabor is concede
more than its share, the industry
will cease to exist because it will be
unprofitable. If labor gets less than
its just share, it will drift to other
occupations or, if that way out fails,
will become inefficient and may de
stroy both profit and the opportunity
to earn "good, decent wages.
If Mr. Gompers and his follow
rs would act on this fact by striv
ing for a plan of adjustment by
which capital and labor will each
get its just share of what they jointly
produce and by then increasing pro
duction, they would automatically
raise wages, for they would realize
that the more they produce the more
they earn. When they demand time
wages in place of piece wages and
on getting them, reduce production
under the delusion that they are
"putting one over on" their employ
ers and are making sure of thei:
jobs and of more jobs, they actually
reduce their own wages, for they re
duce that out of which alone wages
are paid. Though wages measured
in dollars may not be reduced, their
(purchasing power is held down or
reduced by the higher overhead cost
and the limitation of supply which
would result from general adoption
f those practices.
By starting from the axiom that
wages are paid from production
labor would learn that the readjust'
ment of wage scales is a necessary
part of the general economic reor
conization that is in progress and
that it will be as well off after as it
was before the readjustment, pro
nided all' concerned do their part
1-abor would then put those employ
ers whose greed led them to resist in
an indefensible position and would
turn public opinion against them. It
would be supported by the people in
demanding that ail other interests in
the line of production come down to
the new level and that all obstrua
lions to readjustment be removed.
The difficulty is that each of these
Interests wants the others to come
down first, when all should come
down together. No good end is
served by calling each other greedy.
Greed is merely an opprobrious term
for that desire for gain which is
common to all. If all take that for
granted and start talking business
on the basis of established economic
facts, they will reach an agreement
and, industry can go ahead.
dustrialy' supremacy, especially in
steel manufacture. For this reason
Britain led-for many years, but by
increasing coal output and by acqui
sition of the Lorraine iron mines
Germany pushed Britain into second
place in Europe and was forging to
the front in industry and commerce.
As American coal production grew,
the United States gained in steel out
put until it has now passed both of
its European rivals in the race, and
has taken the lead in manufactures
generally. Now that oil is supplant
ing coal, this country still holds the
lead with its great petroleum lakes,
but it must reach out for more oil
lest its development be checked.
MOB IAW.
The awakening of public opinion
in Georgia, due to the sensational
disclosures made in the so-called
peonage trial, promises to lead to a
revolution against mob law, not only
in the south but in every other sec
tion of the union, and not only with
respect to its racial aspects but in
every other phase. The peonage
regime of temperance. At 80 he
wrote a pamphlet detailing the suc
cess of his experiment, and at 90
another, when he had recovered a
fortune which had been lost by his
grandson. At 100 another pamphlet
attested that Carnaro was still as vig
orous as ever. The lesson that Mr.
Depew derives from the life of Car
naro is two-fold that "the greatest
life-saver and health-preserver is to
be able to cut out whatever disagrees
with one, and to limit the quantity of
whatever agrees with one," and also
that the practice of over-indulgence
antedates the, discovery of America
by Columbus. Confidence in the
present and faith in the future are
strengthened by knowledge that
calamities have never proved as seri
ous as they seemed.
ENTER THE GOLDEN JAG.
Midas was so intoxicated with de
sire for wealth that he craved the
golden touch, and straightaway
transformed his own little daughter
to a statue of precious metal. Cap
tain Kidd, intent on pieces-of-eight,
! OCR NEED OF FOREIGN OIL.
Imports of oil from Mexico indi
cate the reason for the attention that
the administration gives to that fluid
in its foreign policy. They have in
creased from ,15,647,279 in 1917 to
68,277424 in 1920. Though im
ports of other commodities Increased
also, oil composed S6.2 per cent of
the total in 1920 as compared with
1J.9 per cent in 1917. In the first
three months of 1921 we imported
oil worth 123.467,657 as compared
with 810,355,977 in the first quarter
of 1920, and the former amount was
62 per cent of. our total imports from
Mexico.
Consumption of oil in this country
and refining for export grow faster
than domestic production. To a
rapidly Increasing degree we are de
pendent on foreign supplies, and pro
vision of an adequate supply has be
come a duty of the government This
situation explains President Hard
ing's cultivation of good relations
with Colombia and Venezuela. The
oil dispute with Mexico remains un
settled and if the supply of the two
South American republics had fallen
Into foreign hands, Mexico could
have driven a hard bargain with us.
Being in a position to make favor
able terms with Colombia and Its
neighbor, the president can safely
take a more independent stand in
dealing with Obregon.
The nation with the largest oil re
sources will be in a fair way to lead
the world In industry and commerce,
for oil and its derivatives are the
fuel for locomotives, ships, automo
biles, aircraft and stationary en
gines, coal being outclassed wher
ever oil can be obtained without
prohibitive transportation cost Be
fore the oil age opened, supremacy
la cpu proauEuon.carried with, it iv
thought nothing whatever of pistol-
cases having aroused the better cm- ing all who stood between him and
zens of Georgia, the governor called I treasure. Thirty pieces of silver
dazzled Judas. And so we are to
some extent prepared for the other
wise unique hypothesis of a. Chicago
jury, which held that a youthful
Dank messenger was "intoxicated by
bonds." To be fair with the jury it
must be said that they disagreed, a
stubborn minority of five insisting
that the possession in trust of $700
000 worth of liberty bonds wrought
upon the messenger like forty-rod
whisky.
"He was bond drunk when he
stole those securities," insisted one
juror. "He did not know any more
what he was doing than a drunken
man knows when he draws off and
slugs somebody. The lad was groggy
from the bonds.
This successful plea for leniency
opens up a new avenue of escape for
the detected criminal. More and
more does error become psycho
pathic, and less criminal. We seem
not half so much concerned with the
punishment' of guilt as with the dis
covery of something that will con
done it Bond drunkenness, the in
toxication of handling wealth, has
long been a familiar malady. Those
who succumb to it flee, without
sense of direction, to Canada or
South America, wretched inebriates
who know not what they do. But
because we were unaware of this
quaint affliction, styling it merely
embezzlement many a poor wight
has been run down and locked in the
penitentiary, to sober up from ten to
twenty years.
a conference at which ways ana
means for promoting justice were
discussed, and the following signifi
cant statement was given out:
No falser appeal can be made to south-
era chivalry than that mob violence is
necessary for the protection of woman
hood. It is no protection to anything or
anybody. It Jeopardises every right and
every security we possess.
Governor Dorsey's statement to
the public meanwhile shows that out
of 135 cases of lynching reported to
the state authorities, only two were
based on the crime which is usually
made the excuse for lynching in the
south, and that this is not a new
situation because of 145 cases re
ported in the same state prior to
1912, only five had this excuse. The
facts seem to be, on the governor's
own showing, that these were mostly
plain cases of mob violence, with
which chivalry had nothing to do
and that they were threatening to
become a public vice when the gov-
ernor stepped into the breach. There
is no doubt that the plain statement
of fact made by this courageous of
ficial and the frank admission it
contains will do more good than all
the propaganda by distant reformer
in many years.
The evil of lynching is neverthe
less not exclusively chargeable
against the south. In the thirty-five
years for which statistics have been
collected, the record shows that
there have been 375 lynchings in the
states of the north and west Oregon
being credited with ten, Washington
with fourteen, Idaho with eight and
California with thirty. Only six
states of the union, five of them in
New England, have a clean record.
The example set by the Georgia gov
ernor has the advantage of calling
attention to a great evil while dis-
tools on the instant the whistle
blows. It is doubtful if these will be
disclosed by examinations of the type
under discussion. We doubt indeed,
whether Mr. Edison himself leans
very heavily on them. The man who
not only has invented a score of
amazing instruments of modern civ
ilization but who instantly solved
the practical problem of maintaining
a nation's supply of phenol when we
were suddenly cut off from foreign
sources by the war, can hardly have
fallen into the error of supposing
that the encyclopedia is the best test
of character or of intellectual power.
arming sectional antagonism, an
the lesson ought not to be ignored
by other communities. The over
whelming phase of mob violence is
its effect upon those who perpe
trate it. and the disrespect for all
order that it breeds. Governor Dor
sey's declaration that it "is no pro
tection for anything or anybody" is
not an overstatement of the case.
A PERENNIAL LESSON IN OPTIMISM.
Chauncey Depew, who celebrated
his 87th birthday the other day, em
bodies in his own person the opti
mism of a sound philosopher to
whom the years have granted a fine
perspective. Happy are they wh
are able to view life as a whole, as
does Mr. Depew, and have not re
tained exclusively the impression of
calamities which, because they have
been exceptional, stand out most
vividly in the experiences of men of
another type. The past and the
present taken together and not sep
arately, constitute the groundwork
of Mr. Depew's hope for the future,
"It is an almost forgotten memory,'
he says, "how often the country has
gone to the dogs during these thirty
years." But he has little patience
with those who continue to talk of
the growing selfishness of communi
ties, of their jealousies, rivalries and
competitions which separate them
Into hostile groups talk which gives
a general idea that good fellowship
and unselfish companionship have
largely disappeared."
Yet no one knows, better than Mr.
Depew that generalizations from in
complete data are apt to be untrue.
By reviewing the history of the com
paratlvely recent past he is able to
discover that most so-called crises
have dissolved Into nothingness. The
singular and almost universal craze'
for silver money, the threatened col
lapse of railway transportation, at
tempted legislation which "would
have speedily resulted in the United
States taking Us place alongside of
that of Mexico and China, were but
the passing manifestations of an
hour. Nothing that occurred in
those times, and which then seemed
to promise only calamity, gives rise
for uneasiness now. The logic of Mr
Depew's review lies In his Implica
tion that a nation that has success
fully weathered the storms of the
past can be expected to survive those
of the present
It will be suspected that In reveal
ing his capacity for contemplating
without pessimism the events that
have ocurred during his long life Mr.
Depew has betrayed the secret of his
own longevity. Yet it will Interest
those who seek the fountain of youth
for themselves to know that he has
an even more specific recipe. The
lesson of Benjamin Franklin's life
which Mr. Depew has adopted as ap
plicable to his own, was variety of
occupation. "It is the most valuable
lesson for continuing intellectual and
physical vigor and for success in the
career which yoiihave selected as
our life work. On the other hand,
one of the greatest crimes which
shorten life is indifference." The
two most fatal phrases and the most
common are, "What's the use?" and
Why should I?" A hungry and needy
world "answers both with open op
portunities for- service, helpfulness
and good fellowship."
Mr. Depew makes an interesting
distinction between hobbies and
fads." He looks over with interest
and amusement the fads of the past
The Millerites, predicting the speedy
end of the world, the blue glass cure,
the enthusiasts who walked bare
footed in the grass in the belief that
they would be cured of all their ills
by the morning dew, the craze for
eating fish to increase one's brain
power these have had their day,
though Mr. Depew regards over-indulgence
as perhaps the world's be
setting sin. But herejie is under no
illusion that it is a sin peculiar to
the present day. There was, for si
mple, the Venetian Carnaro, who at
60, realizing that most of his con-
EDISON AND THE COLLEGE MAN.
It is reported again that Thomas
A. Edison holds a low opinion of
college men, based on their inability
to answer a lot of miscellaneous
questions which prove little or noth
ing as to the general Intelligence of
the individual to whom they are pro
pounded. If It is true that Edison
selects his technical employes on the
basis of such purely informational
examinations as the one which re
cently appeared In a news dispatch,
the wonder is not so much that the
wizard has been disappointed, as
that he has obtained any recruits at
all. For while it is true that here
and there in the list we find a ques
tion that seems a fair test of an ap
plicant's capacity for observation
and his curiosity concerning common
phenomena, most of the questions do
not meet that fundamental require
ment. For example, we suppose that
the young man in his twenties Vhose
mind does not react to the name of
Cleopatra is in some way defective;
but we still believe that there is hope
for one who does not know that
John Napier, baron of Merchiston,
Invented logarithms, or for the fel
low who cannot bound the state of
West Virginia. We had thought in
deed, that this latter particularly ab
surd conception of the functions of
geography had been abandoned some
time ago.
Much may depend on chance as to
the kind of information the young
man picks up. No Oregon candi
date would fail to score at least a
partial credit for his answer to the
question, "Where do we get prunes?"
but we are not so certain what
he would do with "Why is cast iron
called pig iron?" How many know
that John Howard Payne wrote
Home, Sweet Home," that the con
dor is an Andean vulture or . that
cork comes from Spain? We shall
not belittle the man whose encyclo
pedic cranium is stored like a well-
equipped property room with these
strangely assorted odds and ends,
but on the other hand we are
anxious not to overestimate the
value of them. It does not take an
Edison to stump a college boy; any
bright six-year-old In a half hour
could make Edison himself feel like
the proverbial thirty cents.
"What ingredients are in the beet
white paint?" We thought we knew
until we read an advertisement the
other day that almost convinced ns
that this was a matter of personal
taste. "Where do we get domestic
sardines?" Is It no.t unfair to expect
the boy just out of school to know
the intimate secrets of the food
trade? We should enjoy asking Mr.
Edison a question or two though
we don't suppose that our present
high opinion of his intelligence, in
which we yield to no one, would
suffer in the least If he should fail
to answer them. What Mr. Edison,
is the difference between a- manatee
and a dugong? Who wrote "Curfew
Must Not Ring Tonight?" To what
family does the lentil belong? What
Is Labrador tea? Bound Jugo-Sla
via. What is the state flower of
Delaware? And so on. It is of such
that our compendiums of handy
facts and useful information" are
made. Yet such Is the fallibility of
human institutions that we have
never yet come upon one of those
books of ten thousand facts and
fancies that contained the answer to
a particular question that we wanted
answered at a particular time.
It is, moreover, to the credit of
many colleges that they are aban
doning the Gradgrlndlan theory of
instruction, as they are also begin-
ing to place less emphasis than
formerly on the text book as the
boundary of knowledge. The main
purpose of education is not to stuff
the human attic with unrelated facts
but to -stimulate initiative and in
crease the power or independent
thinking. Gladstone's ignorance of
the value of Darwin's scientific labor
was matched by the naturalist's in
capacity for political science. .Yet
the Issue of relative intelligence is
not solved by either of them.
We suppose that Mr. Edison wants
to surround himself with young men
in whom the fire of enthusiasm
burns fiercely, whose curiosity Is un
bounded, who can think for them-
LIGHT ON FOE'S PERSONALITY.
It is inevitable that punsters
should greet the discovery of numer
ous original manuscripts of Edgar
Allan Poe with reference to his first
literary success, "A Manuscript
Found in a Bottle." For the ery
valuable specimens of Poe's script
were recently brought to light from a
pillow case a novel repository filled
with treasure that will be much
sought after by collectors. The find
was made by an eastern woman, the
direct descendant of Henry B. Hirst a
New England poet contemporaneous
with Poe, but unlike ' him in that
fame cast no laurels on his last sleep,
Not only did that ancient pillow-case
furnish the originals of "Lenore,1
"Annabel Lee," and "Eulalie," but it
presented many letters from Poe to
Hirst several of which were foreign
to the muse and frankly discussed
Poe's personal quarrels and tribulations.
Whoever remembers Sweet Alice
and the sorrow of her lover will
quicken to interest 'when it is an
nounced that Poe not only held the
writer of the song in scorn, but ac
tually met him In physical encounter.
Thomas Dunn English was the au
thor of "Ben Bolt" written Iifl842
and the enmity In which Poe held
him was shared by Hirst, with whom
English fought a duel. The yellowed
pages of Poe's old letters, though
they discuss this bond of contempt
for English, do not enlighten a curi
ous posterity as to the origin of the
quarrels. Evident it is that in those
days poets were not merely gracile
darlings of the drawing room, but
defenders of their honor with fists
and pistol. And although duelling
has quite-vanished from the mode,
modern poets proved their mettle in
the world war. But the parallel is
not exact, as a parallel should be.
Who, please inform us, has the har
dihood to imagine the male members
of Amy Lowell's cult descending to a
brawl with some brawny champion
of metrical rhyming verse? Of his
encounter with English, which ap
pears to have given him more grati
fication than a publisher's accept
ance, Poe wrote to Hirst:
I gave E. a flogging which he will re
member to the day of his death and,
luckily, In the presence of witnesses. He
thinks to avenge himself by lies but I
shall be a match for him by means of
simple truth.
We have been taught to regard
Poe as a moody genius, given to
those excesses which are the perqui
sites of the gifted, and in some de
gree dogged to his death by the
cruelty of an unappreciative world.
His letters to Hirst present the com
bative phase of his character and
would indicate, if we accepted his
own appraisal, that Poe was well
able to return the buffets of ad
versity.
BY - PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS
Newspaper Mem Fall to Save Wslle
Nation Seta Record.
Married men save more than single
men, says Richard Splllane in the
Philadelphia Public Ledger.
More bank accounts are opened In
June, the month of marriage, than
any other time in the year. The
American people particularly the
working people are doing well In
the way of thrift Never were the
savings of the people greater than in
1920.
The foregoing are facts which were
brought out at the national confer
ence of savings bank men in Phila
delphia. Some of the figures are astounding.
For example: The deposits in the 619
mutual, savings institutions aggre
gate ,5,535.389,907. It is difficult for
the mind to grasp the immensity of
amounts when billions are in question.
Suppose then you use some illustra
tions. That 5H billions almost totals
all the currency in circulation in
America. It is equal to more than
half of the bar and minted gold in the
world. It is nearly double the stock
of money gold in America. It means
about 861.70 per capita 851.70 for
every man, woman and child of the
107.668,000 in the United States.
New York may be a spendthrift city,
yet its savings banks have 31,832,666,
688 on deposit. In the emigrant in
dustrial it has the greatest savings
institution of the world. If the rest
of America did so wen as New York
city the savings accounts of the
United States would approximate 30
billion dollars.
The figures show that 1920 was the
banner year for savings banks. The
increase over 1919 totaled 8471,760,885.
Now, where did this come from? Was
the American workman "blowing In
his money as generally supposed?
Was he squandering his high wages
on silk shirts and expensive shoes
and; was his wife decking herself
out in furs and gew-gaws? May
be some were, but assuredly the vast
majority were not.
Many, very many, of the wage earn
ers were pruaenr. Maniiunuuij
shows that mechanics bulk large
among the depositors; that the foreign-born
have a larger proportion of
new accounts than the native-born.
and that it is getting to be more and
more of a custom of parents to open
n account for a babe at Its birth and
deposit a stipulated sura lor tne
youngster each week or each month.
In the case of young married couples,
the majority of the accounts were in
the name of the bride. This is fitting
and chivalrous.
It may seem queer, but policemen,
firemen and newspaper men are at
the tail of the procession of savers
In these banks. The explanation as
to policemen and firemen is that they
have their pension and disability
funds. There is no explanation as to
newsDaner men. They seem to be
hopeless.
Those Who Come and Go.
Talea of Folk at the Hotels.
"I can die anywhere, but what J
want is to find a place where I can
live. That is what I told my family
one evening in Kansas, in 1891. and
the next morning I had packed up
and left I arrived in Oregon a liv
ing skeleton, and since then I have
weighed 261 pounds." So said W. H.
Burghardt -of Salem, registered at
the Perkins.1 "I arrived at Oregon
City and met George C. Brownell.
whom I knew back home, and he in
duced me to remain. I was in. busi
ness In Oregon City for nine years,
and then I moved to Salem. When I
came to Oregon I had a cough that
sounded like a four-year-old steer
bellowing In a 40-acre lot, but after
the rains came, a few weeks after,
ward, my cough left me and I began
to take on fleeh." Mr. Burghardt,
who is now 82 years old, was actively
engaged in mining up to half a dozen
years ago. He gays one of the finest
gold and silver mines In the state is
on Gold Creek, in Marlon county
One of his last mining operations
was in buying the Oriole, in Jose
phine county, in which he Invested
one dollar to bind the bargain with
the owner, and later he sold his
quarter interest for 88.000. which he
admits was a good return on the In
vestment. The Oriole, insists Mr.
Burkhardt Is a great mining property.
General business conditions In Dal
las, Or., are good, according to R- G.
Baldree. registered at the Multno
mah. "Lumber mills are running
giving employment to many." sail
Mr. Baldree. "Prune raising is a big
Industry with us, but prune raisers
are not overly optimistio over the
price prospects for their crops this
summer. . However, with all prices
down it will not be necessary to ob
tain the high prices formerly given
in order to break even. Berries look
good. Grain Is In excellent condition.
Many goats are raised near Dallas
and they do exceedingly well. With
industries varied, the residents of Dal
las have not been partlculadly hard
hit by price declines and most all are
looking forward to prosperity."
"If I were to choose a place to live
In which had the best all-around cli
mate in the world, that place would
be Salt Lake City." said A. W. Smith,
representing a large creditors asso
ciation. "We have the four seasons,
which I thing makes and city more
healthy. In the summer we have no
great heat and in the winter no se
vere cold. Our citizens are as a mass
a fine cut lot. Portland is. In my
estimation, destined to have the
greatest development of any city,
commercially, on the Paslfic coast.
The Rose City is a conservative bosl
ness center and has few booms or
bad depressions which follow boom
cities." Mr. Smith is registered at
the Multnomah.
The marine strike is not getting
anywhere except in spots. Branches
In the Gulf ports sign up; so does a
China liner at San Francisco. Riot
ing and other disorder prevail a
Atlantic ports. Government will be
asked to interfere and probably a
salt-water Adamson will be found In
the house, though there is no elec
tion issue at. stake. Meanwhile
Alaska will get relief from hunger
by voluntary act of engineers here.
Secretary of the Navy Denby' says
the statement that United States
marines committed atrocities in
Haiti is "all rot." Very likely it is.
But it would prove his case much
more satisfactorily to have the pre
vious navy investigations supple
mented by a real investigation by
congress.
Commissioner Pier thinks it would
add dignity to Portland's "free" auto
park to charge tourists 60 cents for
the privilege of using It. Most vis
iting motorists would prefer less dig
nity and red tape and a little more
of the hospitality they get in other
cities.
The hew commissioner for Indian
affairs wants to bar the ancient
tribal dances of the Chippewa In
dians as being "immoral." Will he
give them a clean bill of morality if
they substitute the bunny hug and
the moonlight jazz? "
General March and all the rest of
them are trying vigorously to "pass
the buck" for responsibility In
Bergdoll's escape. A general can do
that but If a mere buck private tried
It, what an awful mess he'd bring
about his ears!
A woman arrested yesterday for
speeding did, according to the officer,
skid sixty yards before she stopped.
Sixty yards is almost a block. She
is some skidder.
The Bergdolls obtained $105,000 In
gold from the United States treasury
in 1919 and the rest of the people
used paper money. The trail is get
ting slimy.
A compromise settlement of the
fishermen's strike shows good feel
ing on both sides. Good sense can
settle any labor trouble.
The first circus is a spring tonic.
Every child who "goes" is In better
health for It. So Is the old fellow
who takes the child.
A small tin cup will be best to
hold the half-dollars taken from
users of the auto park.
Most of the radicals really are
lunatics, faultily classed as cured
after the first term.
temporaries were dying young as a
esult et their excesses, resolved PS a selves, and who wiU ot drop, tieir
John McNamara is one of the few
men who do not want their pictures
"in the paper."
A "Tom" show in town Indicates
In strongest terms a return to "normalcy."
The boy with the movie habit
could sit out two circus shows easily.
One-way traffic on First will show
the efficacy of the plan.
Yesterday's weather proved the
rule of "liain before 7,"
Mill creek, roaring down the steep
slopes of the San Bernardino moun
tains, in California, gains what might
be called a well-earned living for it
aelf bv eenerating electric power, irri
eating thousands of arid acres,
even suDDlyine water for a fish
hatchery.
The hatchery is new, and' the com
mercial purpose for which it has bee
established is oddly novel. It breeds
trout for fishermen to catch from
artificial pools. They come from
near and far for the pleasure of
angling, and for the fish they take
with rod and reel they pay 50 cents
apiece.
It is angling de luxe. One may go
on an ordinary fishing excursion and
get hardly a bite; but here results are
virtually guaranteed.
The pools are within three hours'
easy ride by motor from Los Angeles.
The arriving fisherman does not even
need to bring tackle with him. Rod.
line and suitable flies are furnished.
If desired, by the management.
The angler pays for nothing except
the fish he actually catches. When
tired of the sport he hands his trout
over to an attendant to be cleaned
getting a receipt for them. He turns
In the receipt at the office, and a box
containing the fish is handed to him.
A payment of half a dollar apiece
squares his obligation. Minneapolis
Tribune.
W. E. D. Stokes appears to have es
tablished a key-trying vogue, of
which a brown-stone house at 244
West Seventieth street is the victim.
says the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
That was the dwelling In which Jo
senti Bowie EI well, horseman and
whist expert, was murdered nearly a
year ago. Related the policeman on
the corner: "The first to come whom
I caught I took to the police atatron.
Then the sergeant said for me to lay
off. So I now question them to sat
isfy myself that they are not thieves,
and then turn" them loose. It came
out in the Stokes divorce case that
certain keys found in the wife's
rooms had been taken and tried In
the Elwell door. That started it.
Since then there has been no let up.
Every husband who suspected that
his wife knew the racing man has
either sent someone or come himself
to test some keys in the lock of the
house where Elwell lived. Oh, the
worrying and watching a husband has
to do In New York. It Is something
terrible."
The Hawaiian long-distance record
for marriage proposals in the shortest
space of time is held by Miss Mae E.
Burt, a Rochester, N. Y, girl, who.
with Mrs. G. C. Saeger, also of Roches
ter, has been wintering at Honolulu.
She arrived In San Francisco on the
China Mail steamer Nanking.
Facts and figures regarding the
New York girl's impetuous wooers
were adduced by Miss Burt's fellow
passengers, who pronounced her the
most popular of the girls aboard the
ship. So many pretty girls were
aboard the Nanking that the vessel
was termed the "Beauty Ship of the
Pacific" by the. score of newspaper
men boarding the liner here at quarantine.
Pressed for verification of the re
port that she .had hung up a cham
pionship pennant as a heart-breaker,
Miss Burt said:
I think there were 82 proposals in
all, but the right on was not among
them. You might add that the ardent
32 ranged through the scale of rank
and color. However, there was noth
ing remarkable in my experience, for
I know of several girls who I think
had as many, but hardly In eo short
a 8Dac of time. I guess the tropical
lnoonlight was to blame." ,
A couple of days ago W. T. Simons,
who arrived yesterday at the Ben
son, received some very pleasant
news. Mr. Simons is one of a group
of men who have been grubstaking
mining deal. A piece of property
which they have been teasing along for
some time suddenly developed into a
real mine, and Mr. Simons has already
refused a cash offer of many thou
sand dollars for his Interest Mr.
Simons, who Is accompanied to Port
land by his wife, is cashier of the
First National bank at Kellogg,
Idaho. This town is the headquar
ters of the famous Bunker Hill-Sul
livan mine, which was discovered by
a mule.
To look over the proposed Mount
Hood loop location In Clackamas
county, W. D. Clarke and Charles
Wanzer left yesterday morning for
Zigzag. Messrs. Clarke and Warner
are division eng'neers of the state
highway department. The proposed
loop has been in Mr. Warner1! dis
trict, but this work will now be trans
ferred to Mr. Clarke, Mr. Wanzer to
take up the market road problems.
At the meeting of the state highway
commission the latter part of the
month the plan is to invite bids for
work on a section of the loop road.
Mr. Clarke Is registered at the Hotel
Oregon.
Rigged out like an admiral, at least
to the eye of a landlubber, is John
C. "Lane. Before the war John Lane
was one of Portland's best soapbox
orators and he orated in political
campaigns to his own satisfaction
and to the disgust of the candidates
he was opposing. With the war Mr.
Lane "signed on," for he was an old
seadog, and now he is skipper of a
government boat which is placed at
the disposal of congressional com
mittees when they go to Puget sound
Mr. Lane he ranks somewhere be
tween a . rear-admiral and a chief
boatswain is in town for a few
hours.
Registered at the Seward is Robert
G. Woodside, commander-in-chief of
the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Cap
tain Woodside Is making a tour of
the principal cities of the United
States in the Interests of the organ
ization. The captain served in the
Philippines, the Boxer rebellion and
during the world war held a com
mission as captain in Company M,
38th infantry, 3d division. Captain
Woodside was severely wounded dur
ing the Meuse-Argonne offensive and
was awarded the distinguished serv
ice medal for his work during this
offensive.
WHEN HARDEN WAS .MILITARIST
Writing im 114 Qalte Different
Froaa Today Appeals.
PORTLAND, May 10. (To the Edi
tor.) There are few. If any, Ameri
cans who will take stock in Maxi
milian Harden's solution of Ger
many's way of dealing with her repa
ration problem. They clearly can
see In his correspondence to the
American press tnat Ms sole intention
is to raise. If possiole, a scruple in
American mlnde, whether Germany
would be able. In event of further
invasion by the allies, to make any
sort of reparation to them at all.
Mr. Harden adroitly explains that
such move would render Germany
bankrupt and unbalance the finances
of the entire world. There are men
yet alive who remember Germany's
audacious way of collecting repara
tions from France in 1871. Germany
then did not withdraw her last troops
from Paris until the last penny of
81.000.000,000 had been collected. Did
that unbalance the financial affairs
of the world? Would it do so now,
with the case reversed? Would not
.the financial affairs of any nation be
more disturbed by the non-payment
of some huge debt owed it than by
full payment of the same?
Mr. Harden assumes,' possibly, that
what he had to say following the
German Invasion of Belgium and
northern France has been forgotten
by the American people. Here is his
opinion (German) of conquered terri
tory in 1914, and how Germany should
deal with it:
Now we know what the war Is for. It It
to hoist the storm flsg of ths empire on
the narrow channel that opens and locks
the road Into ths ocean. We shall remain
In Belgian Netherlands, to which we shall
add the thin strip of coast up to the rear
-iia. r rum t aiais to Antwerp.
Flanders, Llmburg. Brabant, to behind the
lines of the Krench forts Prussian. The
southern triangle with Alsace-I,nrralne
and Luxemburg. We need land for our
inuustries, a road Into the ocean. Never
was there a war more Just. It shall. It
must. It will conquer new provinces for
the majesty of the noble German spirit.
Maximilian Harden In Zukunft, Decem
ber. 1914.
(Copied from National Geographic
Magazine June number, 1918. Page
865.)
Mr. Harden was a German mili
tarist in 1914. but does not now be
lieve in military - force. He writes
today: "Not for love of Germany, bu
for the sake of European peace, le
an well-meaning men prevent thl
new step of the allies the establish
ment of military and economic for-
eign rule over the industrial district
of the lower Rhine and Ruhr."
There is a noticeable difference be
tween his bold and defiant exorra
sions or the early war days and th
begging, deceptive ones of today,
T.ne American people cannot be mis
led by such talk. We shall stand
with England and France In the col
lection from Germany of every dollar
sne owes. W..C.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jarnee J. Montague.
Hotel clerks are still trying to fig-
out what was the matter with a
young woman who appeared on the
scene yesterday. She went to one
hotel, engaged a room, occupied it for
few minutes and then went down
to the desk and informed the clerk
that she would have to leave town
at once. A similar performance was
staged at a second hotel and again at
third hotel, fossibly she went to
one or two more. The young woman
registered rrom Los Angeles.
Andy Rood of Heppner Is watching
the wheat market while at the Im
perial. When wheat was at the ton
notch last year Mr. Rood failed to
sell and now that wheat went to the
bottom and is slowly climbing he Is
receiving all manner of advice from
the sages of the lobby and the advice
principally Is recommending that he
hold on for a while longer. That Is
what Mr. Rood Intends doing.
....
as tne circus wasn't enina- to
Kainier, dt. Schmidt had to come to
Portland to look It over. Of course
the doctor wasn't interested partic-
lariy in coming to Portland to see
circus, but his 6-year-old boy was
very anxious to see the menagerie
no tne ciowns ana tne trained horses
everything, to the indulgent doctor
just naa to Dring the boy to the show.
They were at the Imperial yesterday.
There is to be a tunnel driven
through Elk rock between Portland
and Oswego, George W. Bosche. chief
engineer for the Southern Pacific
system, has arrived in the city to
arrange for the tunnel.
A group of telephone officials are
registered at the Hotel Portland from
New York. They are Bancroft
Gherardl, E. 8. Wilson, R. H. Burchen
and F. R. Estabrook. From San Fran
cisco comes J. C. Nowell.
Thomas B. Kay was in town yester
day to buy wool for his woolen mill
plant at Salem. He casually observed
that "Salem is the best town in the
state."
8. O. Correll. of "Baker. U. S. A"
as he registered at the Imperial is
a lawyer and an official of the stock
men's association.
OUTSIDE ADVICE MAY BU KEKDEU
Unprejudiced Srleetloa of Exposition
Site ThonRfet Neceaaery.
PORTLAND, May 9. (To the Ed
Itor.) The many diverse views sofa
propounded for the 1926 exposition
site are largely sectional, and with
all due respect to their proponent
savor largely of personal and selfish
Interests.
I am of the belief that this Is the
one opportunity in the past and fu
ture history of Portland that it wil
be necessary to call men outside of
Portland and without any private In
terests to subserve to make such
selection.
If It Is to be an ideal and practica
location, as also a permanent park
site that will come Into the zone of a
one-fare location although I think
this of small importance and at the
same time combine the possibilities
of the minimum of expense and con
ciliation of Vancouver co-operation
and practical use for all time, I will
suggest a site that I have not yet
seen mentioned.
In bulletin No. 7 of the city plan
ning commission I find the reference
to the Burson tract and Mocks bot
tom, "with Its wonderful view of the
Willamette river without question
one or the finest views in the world
Here is a crescent frontage of
nearly one mile overlooking the WII
lamette river which can be seen from
all steamers coming to Portland and
from five transcontinental railroads
traversing the Willamette river.
Its possibilities of Importance are
greater than any site so far advo
cated, and access thereto can be made
lit from five to 20 minutes from the
center of Portland. It Is a irltc In
the preparation of which not a dollar
would be wasted and would add
large investment to Portland and
Oregon.
The exposition board has a "big job
ahead." and it must have the co
operation of ail of the city of Port
land and the state of Oregon, and
also our sister city of Vancouver and
the state of Washington.
It is my hope that the selection
will redound to th beet Interests of
the present and future of Portland
and Oregon end also our sinter city
of Vancouver and the state of Wash
ington. J. H. F.
AHhl for Everyone Rnt Nrnspiser.
TORTLAND, May 9 (To the Edi
tor.)- From an editorial In The Ore
gonlan May 4, two false Impressions
may be gained by the public
It Is Indicated that unfairness may
have been dealt to the "Old Salt."
Lieutenant-Commander John A. Beck
wlth. and that the writer Is unac
quainted with the correct spelling of
the word "pogy."
1 hasten to lay the correct fact he
fore you. The spelling of the word
"pogy" did not come up during the
spelling match. The word given to
Lieutenant Beckwlth was "menhaden"
and It was explained to him that it
was the polite society word for pogy.
The spelling "pogey," as appearing
in a recent Issue of one of your con
temporaries, is an invention, pure and
simple, on Its part.
P. H. KNE ELAND.
Signs Highways.
MONROE, Or., May 9. (To th Edl.
tor.) There Is a law,.! there not,
prohibiting these ugly advertising
signs being tacked on the fences along
the Pacific highway io wnom should
one make complaint? Th highway
near Monroe Is certainly plastered up
with these offensive signs. R. C,
No advertising signs can be posted
on the right of way of th state high'
ways, a the state highway commie,
slon will not give cohsent. There
no law en th subject. Signs can be
placed on private property along th
state roads. If th local communities
have Insufficient pride to prohibit this
defacing of the countryside.
Whe Paper ta Gift.
PORTLAND. May 10, (To the Edi
tor.)!- I am a subscriber to an eve
ning paper nd for nearly two week
I received two paper Instead of one.
At the end of the first week I notified
headquarters of the mistake, but I
continued to receive two paper until
notified them a second time. Will
I have to pay for both papers? '
2. Would I have to pay for both
paper if I had not notified them of
their error? J. E. S.
(1) No.
2 No. A nwpapr eni without
order Is a gift In th eye of th law,
whether accepted or not
AS GOOD AS THS SOIL.
A Yale professor contends that Tals Is
falling off in athletics becaass the Impov
erished soil of Connecticut raises Inferior
vegelablea
Silas Jones of Mlddlcbury
Didn't fertilize hi soil;
Silas wasn't ever very
Keen for any form of toll.
All th spuds he lug last autumn
Turned up kind o' gaunt and pals.
But a wholesale grocer bought 'em
For the football squad at Vale.
Weren't like real potatoes should b;
Didn't look nor taste th same;
Weak and watery a could be;
That why Princeton won the
garnet
Henry Smith, just out of Groton,
Thought old way were good
nough.
Henry didn't seem to rottoa
To the scientific stuff.
Sickly looking were hi squashes.
Like a child that' nourished wrong.
But the young New Haven froshes
Bought and at 'em, right along.
This mistake In dietetic
They adhered to as a rule
Till their rank in frosh athletic
Was a theme of ridiuul.
Jasper Hosklns of East Haddara
Wasn't smart by any means;
Knew about as much as Adam
Of tbe way to raise airing beans.
Crops were never alternated.
Thin and droopy wer th vines.
And th beans weren't saturated
With the needful vltamlnrs.
Notwithstanding, Jasper sold 'em
In New Haven, for the crew;
That' why Yale could never hold'em
When th routers tuld 'am tul
A Sapersnaa.
Rfng Lardner assprts that rrfsidmt
Harding always counts his strokes
on th golf course, which Is a bigger
boost than even his campaign man
ager ever gave him.
Prwfasmel Mr firry.
We don't see many clothing manu
facturers' ads In the Dearborn Inde
pendent. Taat ll Do It Fast (.ah.
Apparently the only way to reduce
navies I to have another war.
(Copyright. li2l. by Bell Kyndlrate. Tne )
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Heugktoa-Mlff Ha te.
fa a Voa Answer Tkeae derations r
1. Docs the cottontail rabbit turn
white In winter?
2. Which mate Is the active part
ner of a bird pair?
3. What harm do cat and dog dn,
what disease do thry carry, and how
can it be treated?
- Answer in tomorrow' Nature
Notes.
A jit era to Prevloaa Qneatloaa.
1. Doe tbe male oriole enter th
nest?
It Is the exception for the male bird
to enter the nest or take part In build
ing It. but the male oriole visits the
half-finished structure of his mate,
looks it over, tug at the strings now
and then as If to try them, and, I
suppose, has his own "opinion about
the work, but 1 have never seen him
actually lend a band or bring a string
or a hair.
2. Can anything be done to rid a
cottage situated In a spruce grove of
wasps?
If these wasps or hornets are ac
tually in tho cottage or flying near
the entrance and disputing right of
way with human tenants, thry csn hn
ousted In several was. Try a sulphur
candle If thry have nested In a gable.
Cracks must be scalrd to keep the
fumes In. Nests outside can be lo
cated and burned at night applying
a torch. If the situation Is not too
dangerous. Ground-dwelling kinds
can have blsulphldo of carbon poured
in. It Is explosive and dangerous
Old tin cans with half an Inch of cane
molasses at the bottom can be burled
to their tops and will catch some.
Hornet re useful as fly catchers,
and should be protected unless actual
ly annoying human neighbors.
3. Do mosqultors cause malaria?
Tes, In a sense, though tho actual
disease is a poison in the blond
caused by the presence of parasites
that feed on the red blood cells, and
reproduce rapidly In the blood. Tho
mosquito' part is carrying these par
asites on Its brak, after biting an In
fected person.
In Other Days.
Tneaty-flve Year Age,
From The Oregonlan of May II, IM
The battleship Oregon reached Fan
Francisco on her trial trip, which
proved the boat to be the peer or
fighting ships when she made a trial
average of 11.34 knots an hour
against the previous record of II. li
knots, held by the Massachusetts.
Subscriptions are being asked In
he upper Rogue river valley to help
Improve the highway rrom the sum
mit of the Cascades to Craier lake
The new Kalrfiela. Wash.. che
factory has started operations.
Citizens of Cottage Grove hav
started work on tbe Bohemia road.
which will tap the gold mining dis-
rlct adjacent to that city.
Fifty Years Ago,
Fmn The Oregonlan of May II. 1x51.
Within tho last three days 724 pas
sengers arrived In Portland by boat.
A new business enterprise I slated
for Portland with th application to
the city council for billboard accom
modation for a new advertising con
cern. With the Installation of a steam
engine for power the state peniten
tiary expect to make 2 Ovo.OoO brick
this season.
Copies of Sr Law.
OAKLAND, Or.. May 9. (To the
Editor.) How can person familiar
Iza oneself with the following law,
effective May th. without employing
an attorney?
H. B. 74. pertaining to took run
ning at larg In Douglas eounly.
H. K. 141, relating to line fences.
H. B. S57, providing for eompulsorv
dipping of goat for eradication of
lice.
H. A SSI. providing for th fnrm'
t!on of weed control districts. Touri
truly, E. C. MOORE.
At least two of thesa law have had
preliminary publication In pamphlet
form. Apply to secretary of Stat.
Salem, Or.
Iriah Toiim Hon as
COTTAGE GROVE, Or., May 9. (To
th Editor.) I. Pleast tell me If ther
Is auch a language a th Irian
language.
t. Doe Colorado pay a bonus to ex-
service men? A READIER.
(1) Tea It I omtlms referred
to a Caelle and again a th Ert
tongue. It ha largely fallen Into
disuse.
(2) Colorado has had a bonus bill
under consideration, but we nav no
information on It present status.