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G TIIE MORNIXG OEEGOXIAX, MONDAY, JULY 25, 1921 iltonmrg tetmmn KSTAULJSHEI) BY HJSXKY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publ!hlnx Co.. lj S.xth street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. iIOI:l)K.". K. B. PIPER. Mauaaer. editor. The Oregonian U a member of thii Asso ciated Pre. The. Associated PreM is ex c.ualvely entitled to the nee for pun icatlon f all news diEpatches credited to i'. or not otherwise credited In thin paper, and also the local news publlahed herein. All rights of publication of sptcial dispatcher herein re al?o reserved. SubocriDtiun Hales Inrariablr in Advance. (By Mail.) Dally. Sunday Included, una vear IS 00 Daily. Sunday included, six months' , 25 Daily. Sunday included, three months... 2.25 Xaily. Sunrfy Included, one month 75 2ai!y. without Sunday, one year n.00 Daily, without Sunday, six month 3.20. raily. without Sunday, one month 00 Weekly, one year 1.00 Sunday, one year 2.50 . B Carrier.) Imlly. 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In saying that "The Versailles treaty of peace was a monument to anger and vengeance" Maximilian Harden aims to discredit it in the eyes of the -world, though In the Fame sentence he says that it "dealt just punishment." That observa tion is typical of the view held by Germans in general, even those who liave renounced militarism, and Is designed to inculcate the Idea that anger and vengeance should not Jiave influenced the allies in making peace. When we recall the conduct ot Germany, the wonder is that the al lies did not yield more to those pas sions. A wanton attack on peace able nations was accompanied by acts of barbarity of which no na tion has been guilty that laid claim to such high civilization as Germany claimed, and acts of wholesale de struction were committed for the deliberate purpose of ruining other nations. The allies had good cause for anger. Though the allies had great prov ocation, to vengeance, they showed moderation. They might have been expected to wrest entire provinces from Germany without regard to the wish ot the population, but in every case of doubt they provided for a popular vote, as in Schleswig, parts of East Prussia, Eupen, Malmedy and Upper Silesia. If their purpose had been to cripple Germany eco nomically, they would have held to their original intention to give Up per Silesia outright to Poland, but they yielded to arguments about the disastrous effect on Germany and about the large German population. The result is the present critical condition of affairs. The warped German view is to be seen in the statement that the peace conference "insured the British of naval supremacy on all the oceans." It took from Germany the fleet which had been built to attack the freedom of other nations. Though Britain for the time is insured naval supremacy, it i9 so burdened that the United States is in a fair way to attain naval equality. We are told that the conference had "given France the iron and most of the coal on the continent." when in fact it simply restored to Prance terri tory which Germany had stolen and to the economic advantage of which France was justly entitled. We are told also that the con ference "had closed to Germany every door of economic domina tion." What the conference did was to tear up the roots of economic penetration which Germany had planted in other countries as one of the means of conquest, and to place Germany under a handicap at the start in the new race for world trude. This measure was rendered necessary to justice by the moder ation which the allies showed in not carrying the war into Germany and in not making that country the scene of devastation equal to that which the Germans perpetrated in France. If the allies had started France in the race with ruined in dustries against Germany with in dustries undamaged, they would 3inve handed the fruits of victory to the enemy. The only way to avoid this was to subject Germany to trade restrictions during the period of French reconstruction. There is evident in Harden'9 letter a design to arouse 111 will in America against Britain by dwelling on Brit ish relations with Japan as inimi cal to the United States, and on Anglo-American friction. How fatal to German hopes of escaping from treaty obligations and of making a new bid for world domination would te a close understanding between the United States and Britain may be inferred from the events of the last few months. So long as Ger many had to deal only with the three principal allies, could exploit their disagreements and believed that the United States would take no hand in the affair, it held out against paying reparation. When the United States said Germany must ray, Germany came to terms and paid. With that fact in mind, we can readily understand that Ger man discussion of the Japanese question alms to aggravate and ex ploit British-American differences in order to cause an open breach by which Germany may profit. Every existing subject of dispute between the United States and Brit ain is susceptible ot adjustment in friendly conference, or at the worst, by arbitration. On the main prin ciples of world policy the two na tions are of one mind, and by co operation they can contribute more than any two other nations to the success of the principles of democ racy, national independence, equal opportunities in trade, which will oo most to promote peace and dis armament. German effort to sow dissension between them is a good reason for their working together. That better times for lumbermen have already begun is the conclusion of the American Lumberman, from replies to several hundred letters sent to representative retail lumber men in all parts of the country. It sums them up thus: "Building ' is very noticeably and definitely on the Increase. Naturally, under present conditions, residential construction predominates. Some retailers men tion a heavy increase in farm build ing within the last thirty days. One writer, in particular, speaks of hav ing sold five barn bills, within the last two weeks, and having definite prospects for five more within the next thirty days. Other letters, some of them not printed in this issue, speak of churches, school houses, apartments and store buildings hav ing recently been begun. MARKETING OF OREGON'S SURPLITS. The great value of cold storage warehouses on public docks and cold storage space on ships to the development of Oregon is forcibly brought out in a communication published in another pajre. The pro duction of all kinds of food in Ore gon is so greatly in excess of the ability of the small population of the state to consume that outside markets must be found or develop ment of the most profitable indus tries connected with the soil must halt. Possible markets are at great distances, so that perishable food cannot reach them in good condi tion without cold storage on docks and ships. But those markets are so great that, if'means of preserva tion and transportation are pro vided, they can absorb Oregon's surplus, even after the several food industries have been much ex panded. The distance from market is so great that, in order that a great vol ume of trade may be developed, close economy must be practiced lest high prices limit sales. This can best be effected by a system of co operative packing, shipment and sale by producers of fruit, cheese, butter, eggs, poultry and other per ishables; by erection of public cold storage houses on the docks from which goods can be transferred to ships without extra handling; ships having mucfl cold storage space, and cold storage warehouses at the various ports of destination. By this means the producer should be able to sell his surplus at a profit. . . This would be the most effective way to stimulate settlement of farm land. Boxes of fruit, cheese, butter, eggs, and other food bearing the name of Oregon to every eastern city and to many cities of Europe, prosperous producers of these com modities visiting eastern cities and telling the blessings of "God's country," would advertise the state as an inviting field for settlers. Western Oregon in particular ex cels in raising the things that would be transported in the manner de scribed. It is a land for intensive farming of small tracts by a large rural population. VETERAN CITIZEN-OFFICERS HELD - DOWN. If General Pershing expects to se cure from national guard and re serve officers the close co-operation which he invites from the several branches of the military forces, he will do well- to stop the discrimina tion in appointment to regular com missions and in promotion which the Army and Navy Register says is practiced against them. The law of 1920 provided that not less than half the vacancies by increase in the commissioned strength below the rank of brigadier general should be filled by appointment df former emergency officers. Under that rule 161 emergency officers should have been appointed colonel, but only six were appointed. In other ranks the appointments made, compared with those which should have been made, were: lieutenant-colonel, 16 against 165; major, 244 against 710; captain, 117, against 796; first lieutenant, 1653 against 5S4; second lieutenant. 1169 against 246. All vacancies in the higher grades made by these changes were filled by promoting regular army officers. The result is that the number of regular officers promoted to colonel exceeds the one-half provided by law by 154, Heutenant-coJonels by 485, majors by 1137. Crowding of the higher ranks with young regular officers and of the lower ranks with emergency of ficers operates in conjunction with the age limit to close the door" of promotion to the latter. The ma jority of emergency officers men who served in the war and won commissions or promotion thereby are perpetually barred from becom ing colonel, lieutenant-colonel or general. The men who suffer from this discrimination are the men who have stood the test in active service and have proved their merit. They are the men whose promotion should have stirred the ambition of young men and led them to join the national guard or to attend the of ficers' or civilian training camps. In order that citizens may fit them selves for a part In the national de fense, the door of opportunity should be open to them. PROSECCTIXG A GOVERNOR. Discussion of the power of a civil officer, such as a sheriff, to arrest a governor on a warrant alleging commission of a crime, or of a court to try him for the offense, is more or less academic in view of the fact that until he has been legally re moved from office he remains gov ernor, and that, in most states, the governor possesses power to pardon individuals convicted of offenses against the law. It is entirely pos sible for him to pardon himself. Obviously, then the chief purpose of prosecuting a governor is to enjoy the moral advantage of a conviction. It is quite improbable that an aver age governor would permit himself to be locked up in prison, with so plain a remedy at hand. There is a precedent for a gov ernor's pardoning himself, if his torical testimony is to be relied upon, in the early annals of the ter ritory of Washington. Governor Isaac I. Stevens, first governor of the territory, became involved in 1856 in a political and legalistic con troversy with Judge Edward Lander, one of the territorial judges. The courts - had been accused by the governor's partisans of showing too great leniency, or of requiring com plete proof, in the cases of certain settlers suspected of being in league with hostile Indians against the whites. Governor Stevens thereupon declared the county of Pierce, and afterward Thurston county, under martial law. Judge Lander retali ated by ordering the arrest of the governor for contempt of court. In a clash between marshals represent ing the dignity of the court and mounted militia personifying the power of the governor's office, the physical victory was for the time being with the governor. The Judge temporarily became a fugitive, but was arrested and held in nominal custody. The martial law procla mation was revoked in the course of time, however, and on resuming of fice one of Judge Lander's first acts was to revive the charge of con tempt and fine the governor $50. What happened afterward is un fortunately a matter of dispute. Governor Stevens' son, who was also his biographer, has said that the governor promptly paid the fine, but . painstaking historian. Pro fessor Edmond S. Meany, says in his "History of the State of Washing ton" that a remarkable document was found at Olympia by the late Henry G. Struve of Seattle which showed that "Isaac I. Stevens as governor pardoned Isaac Stevens, convicted of contempt of court." The document, together with, other val uable historical papers, was lost in the Seattle fire of 1889. There is nothing unreasonable, however, in the supposition that H was genuine. It is highly interesting, in any event, as indicating possibilities in a more recent case. The constitutions of various states prescribe methods of removing their governors usually by impeach ment; occasionally, we believe, by recall. Until the official is duly re moved in the regular way, he re mains governor, with all the powers of a governor. The logical course to adopt, to make sure of getting a governor into jail, would be to im peach and remove him from office first, and prosecute him afterward. THE WEATHER AS A TOPIC OF CON VERSATION. The correspondent who Intimates that he believes in taking weather for granted, and suggests that par ticularly here in Oregon nothing ought to be said about it on the principle, perhaps, that a good wine needs no bush--betrays his own in terest in that most nearly universal of all topics of conversation by tak ing time to write a letter on the subject- The fact seems to be that the weather preferably the ideal kind in which the leader of the dis course happens to dwell, although any other kind will do, at a pinch has easily outlasted every other fact of human concern as a means of lubricating the media of social In tercourse. Even people who may never have heard of the league of nations, or who have been too busy earning a living to have acquired views on sex problems or on modern psychology, or who care little or nothing about the latest styles in bathing suits, can hold forth on the weather with absolute ease and in perfect safety. It provokes no un seemly antipathies, as religion and racial issues do; it requires no pe culiar erudition and it involves no profound study. While if it were taken out of the conversational ar mamentarium of some folks, they would be mere stoughton-bottles at the intellectual feast. The weather, as -Mark Twain once reminded a New England audience, lends itself to comment by always doing something. It is always at tending strictly to business thereby, it might be added, setting an excel lent example and it Is always get ting up new designs and trying them on people to see how they will go. It is closer to us than our clothiag and as all-pervading as the air around us. We are unable to es cape it, wherever we may go. It has its advantages and its disadvantages, according not only to the locality but also to the temperament of the indi vidual. It is a prime topic of argu ment, for these reasons and also be cause when one talks about the weather he nearly always relies on the data accumulated by an imper fect memory; and since no two indi viduals are ever Impressed equally by the same phenomena it is always possible for them to disagree utterly and all be right. The sense of moral righteousness which the weather as a topic of conversation makes pos sible is not without value in the eternal scheme. An enormous advantage, more over, of the weather over many other topics is that it expands in precise ratio to the capacity of the person making it the subject of his choice. It is impossible to exhaust fts resources, no matter how hard we try. It is not only bound up in fact, and in near-fact, but it even contains the seeds of a philosophy. Profound scholars have regarded It as not beneath their notice. Pro fessor Ellsworth Huntington, to cite a single example, has written an im posing and authoritative volume on "The Influence of Climate on Civi lization," from which we were able to deduce, in time past, the highly satisfactory conclusion that here in Oregon exist the meteorological con ditions which are precisely requisite to development of the nearest con ceivable approach to human per fection. No doubt" others, dwelling in vastly different weather situa tions, will be able to do as much for their localities. And if that is not an inspiring subject, where are we going to find one? Let Us not too hastily ban the weather from the round table. It is the one remaining topic that is abso lutely Inocuous. We hope to live to hear it discussed for many years to come. TWO WATS OF KOieUNG IT. Haply that day may never come when the west shall forget the west ern tradition of casual camaraderie with nature. For the western con ception of roughing it is at variance with that of the east, and to a greater degree have westerners in their outings retained the old code of the woodsman and the trapper. This requires, first of all, that meji shall meet Dame Nature in her own forest halls at something like an equal social footing, and while ac cepting her hospitality shall repay by a zeetful appreciation of an un artificial out-door life. And it is to be hoped, with a prayer for the wonder of the west, that never shall westerners, by birth or adoption, in vade the cool and pleasant forests with any replicas of those simple little 12-room, hot-and-cold-water residences that across the continent do duty as hunting and fishing lodges. It were unjust to assume that eastern sportsmen as a class are in disagreement with those of the west in how to fraternize with nature. All hunters are of one clan. All anglers speak a kindred tongue. But there are tendencies in the more modish eastern manner of roughing it that can only be regarded with amused apprehension, -and that at their height of rugged response to na ture's primitive play are comparable only to the coy daring of a seminary pillow fight. Concerning this retro gression in roughing it an eastern paper recently observed: The Irresistible appeal comes from the simple comforts, mostly American devices, which sons and daughters of American pio neers demand even while roughing It: bathrooms, servants' hall, electric light ing, heating- and cooking appliances. Let your fancy dally with, what Theodore Roosevelt would have said in comment on this sacrilege of the wild. What stinging, contemptu ous, galvanic phrase he might have coined to fit the crime! He who knew, as woodsmen know, that for est and field are friendly, and that they who return to the larches and the waterways without pomp and creature comfort drink deeply of restoration and health. Born and bred in the east, who thinks of this man as an easterner? He was of the west, and comfort came, to him more naturally on a bed of - fir boughs than on the most luxurious couch. 4-ks) knew a thousand and one sec rats that made life in- the open, a rough and ready life, the acme of content. - No woodsman scorns a shelter, but he does not mourn the lack of one. His wants are primitive a thatch to fend the rain and dew. a fire to .cook his food and cheer him. In urban life he may, by the western code, be somewhat addicted to ele gance. But in the timber he is a woodsman, asking little odds of nature, and he sloughs off super ficial refinement without a thought of effort. There is in southern Ore gon a woodsman whose renown is more than local, and whose pro tracted absences from town invari ably indicate that he is following cougar sign somewhere into the ranges. As woodsmen go in the west he is not in the least excep tional. Early one morning on the upper reaches of the Rogue river he left his party to take the trail of a wounded bear. Fifteen miles from there, and half that distance Into the tumbled hills and -canyons of the Crater Lake national forest, he was to rejoin them at night. No trails. When night fell the tenderfeet members of the party were ill at ease for his safety. Yet in due sea son he came out of that jumble of forest straight to their camp-fire, and dropped to his heels to munch a platter of trout. It was all simple enough, he said. No, he had never been In this particular locality be fore. You merely decided where you wished to go, and then you fol lowed the ridges that defined ti waterways. Had the bear not taken to a stream, and so eluded his dogs, he might not have returned that night. Bear were getting scarce and this was a genuine old he-bruin. Two days? j Maybe three. Imma terial. This confidence in nature, the calm acceptance of her friendship, did not pass with the pioneer in the west, at least. It will be an ill day for America when it does, if ever that day comes. We have no wish, that the hot-and-cold-water theory of comfort shall pervade our most secluded sanctuaries, and that sugar-wafer tins shall strew the trail to nirvana. An aviator having ascended to an altitude of 34,768 feet, found the other day a temperature of minus 69. The world's next great inven tion may- be a device for drawing that cool air down to the lower levels for summer denizens to enjoy. The corn crop needs rain, but the corn crop seems to be always want ing something. A few weeks ago it was hot weather it wanted to ripen the ears. We begin to understand why agriculture can never hope to be listed as an exact science. Mexico City has doubled in popu lation in the last decade, largely be cause it has been about the safest place in the country in which to re side. Yet nobody thinks that that is a sound foundation on which to build the growth of cities. French women now cudgel their brains for a way to expose their skins without becoming so sunburnt that they might be taken for mem bers of the dark races, for the sun never had any respect for a fair lady's complexion. Traffic Captain Lewis jias figures to show that Portland is the safest city in the land, with a small per centage of automobile accidents. Thefe 'are two causes- for this fine result vigilance of drivers and agil ity of pedestrians. The French are said to have re vived the perfumed glove. They will not, however, put it on the next man they send over to wrest the boxing championship from the United States. Harding is human. He likes to get away from the womenfolk for the week-end. Tom Edison and Hen Ford, the old codgers, must be good company, not to mention the bishop. Two men in Butte who killed a man while raiding his home for liquor have been given the death sentence. Butte Is disposed to go the limit on almost everything. Certain Michigan residents have petitioned President Harding to put Henry Ford in control of the coun try's railroads. Don't the trains rattle enough to suit them now? One is tempted sometimes to wonder whether the shipping board's idea of Its function isn't to throttle the American merchant marine rather than to foster it. The first real sign we've noticed that the country is going dry is the fact that head line write,., have for gotten how to spell mint julep", and write it "julip." Before women generally adopt fhoczA new Rtvlf rallinsr for abbrevi ated stockings or no stockings at all. they should agree on a standard sized leg. "Limbs," says the headline writer, "menace traffic." He means limbs of trees. The semaphore cop might be able to tell of other dangers. Samuel Hill wants a peace portal on the border near Blaine. That will do nicely, since a pipeline will be unlawful and impracticable. Government Investigators say the cost ot living has declined 21 per cent in a year. It has a long way to go yet. ' The McMinnville boosters are the nerviest folk in Oregon. They show it by calling themselves Nuts. Identity of the supposed pirate ship does not solve the mystery of the missing vessels. This is baseball weather without a baseball team. BTT-PRODCCTS OF" THE PRESS Mrs. Sinclair Lewis Advocates Scien tific Rearing of Children. . Mrs. Sinclair Lewis, wife or the author of "Main Street." does not be lieve in bringing up children by hand, says the New York Sun. Mothers need scientific as well as ethical training before they are fitted for the care of their children, thinks this young mother. "Rearing children Is a profession and no woman ought to feel that be cause she has become a mother she has suddenly and miraculously dis covered the proper care of infants," asserted Mrs. Lewis. ' "Only the scientifically trained wo man fully understands the baby prob lem. The mother's responsibility con sists In either training herself for the job before the baby's birth or, falling that, in providing a trained nurse. "The reason I am so Interested In child welfare (Mrs. Lewis has been doing publicity for child welfare movements lately) "is that my own boy, 3 years old, has had the best care that I could provide and I want every other child to have as good. "My child has had a German nurse and there are none better trained in the world; he has no illneBs: nothing queer happens to his eyes, his ears or his throat; he eats and sleeps like a healthy animal, which Is all a baby Is. I could not have kept him in that per fect condition constantly, because I am not trained to take care of chil dren. If it were necessary, I should do without clothes to pay for a nurse." New York haberdashers have trade aids impossible in Portland, but that would not be desired here under like conditions, according to a dispatch from the east. The latest salesmanship stunt Is to attract the man with a wilted collar. It is done with a mirror, a large ther mometer to show the beat and a sign inviting customers to come in and change their collars. "We've got a special room where they can change 'em," said the man ager, "and customers seem to appre ciate it. We take care of the old one for them if they like and they can take their best girls out to sup per looking fresh and clean. Of course, we often sell shirts and neckties, too, for those who want to look particu larly nice." The finest cork in the world comes from Spain, says the Kansas City Star. The province of Andalusia is particularly famous for its cork trees. Cork stoppers manufactured in Spain are exported thence to all parts of the world; likewise fine and very smooth sheets of cork, which are used for tips of cigarettes, linings of hats and helmets and to some extent (curiously enough) for the printing of visiting cards. Cork sawdust Is used for making bricks, and combined with coal dust and tar, for fuel briquettes; also for packing fruit. The extent of its con sumption for this last purpose may be judged by the fact that each barrel of grapes exported contains eight pounds of the material, and annually the exportation of grapes from Spain amounts to 3.000,000 barfels. Finally, the waste scraps of cork are pressed Into bales, dried and shipped to France, England and the United States, where they are used for Insulating and various other pur poses. "When San Francisco returns from the summer vacation she will return limping, predicts the. Chronicle. A new summer epidemic is' at large In the ranks of vacationists. The new ailment has been given the popular name of "Motor Foot." In the language ofsurgical chiropody it is indexed and classified under the name of "metatarsal displacement." Contiupus motoring Is the cause of the ailment. It is a right foot trouble caused by the continuous strain oc casioned by long motor trips when the driver keeps his foot in the strained position required by the use of the car accelerator. This position causes a displacement of the metatarsal bones which In turn causes them In motor language to "short" the nerves of that part of the foot. This in turn is the answer for the pain that accompanies the-distinction of possessing "motor foot." "Motor foot" not only makes walk ing painful, but practically eliminates golf, tennis or any of the other popu lar forms of active recreation. Persons who have the habit of pay ing offhand for parcel post packages delivered C. O. D., without taking the precaution qf determining something about the senders are warned by the postoffice department to control the habit. - Postoffice inspectors have begun investigation into the operations of various persons who have been using the mails to extort, one of them a woman who at one time ran a New York beauty parlor. The different persons have all used the same sys tem; sending packages of small value at high prices to persons whose names had been selected with consid erable care and who were considered likely to pay first and examine after ward. Packages In the name of the one time beauty specialist have been ar riving recently at out-of-town hotels, addressed to women whose names ap parently were copied off the hotel registers. A number of the packages were paid for before they were ex amined and found to contain bottles filled with fluid which, according to the labels, were Invaluable for sun burn and tan. There were, however, insufficient bottles, even at a fancy price, to balance the $7 paid in each case for the package. An abnormal demand for hats of unusually large sizes is noted by the hatters of London, according to the London Daily News. In the words of one who carries on a high-class trade, "there is an epi demic of big heads." "Formerly the normal size was 6 to 7, with a small percentage running to 754," he said. "Seven and three eighths was the largest size. "Today I am frequently asked for a 1xrz and 7. And three weeks ago J. was asked for a size 8! In these cases, of course, we have to make to measure. "The only cause I can suggest," he added, "is the presence In London of an unusually large number of Irish men. "It is a fact that Irish hatters have to Btock larger sizes than their Eng lish confreres, and on the average Irishmen have larger heads than Englishmen." Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk: at the Hotels. Crowded out of the California eUd of Imperial valley because of inabil ity to renew land leases. Japanese are moving in large numbers to the Mexican side and next year 75 per cent of the cantaloupe crop will be raised across the line, according to Otis B. Tout, newspaper editor and president of the chamber of commerce of El Centro, Cal., who is registered at- the Oregon. "Although we have no race strife such as was recently experienced in Turlock. our people do not like the Japanese and are not sorry -to see them moving to the Mex ico side," said Mr. Tout. "It will mean that we will lose a great deal of the cantaloupe industry, but the farmers will put their land to other uses. This year we shipped 10.000 cars of can taloupes out of Imperial valley. Most of these were raised by Jaapnese. The restrictions which prevent the leasing of land to the Japanese have not af fected the orientals a great deal. The land in the Mexican erTd of the valley is just as fertile and can be secured under 50-year leases." Twenty years ago Mr. Tout was a student at Uni versity of Oregon. "I went there three years, then met a pretty girl, got married and had to go to work." he said. Mr. and Mrs. Tout are en route to Canada for a vacation. Portland Is one of the most for tunate cities in the country so far as housing problems are concerned, according to F. S. Terrell of Chicago, who is registered at the Multnomah. "Chicago today needs homes for 50.- 000 people who are now crowded in apartments and tenement houses." de clared Mr. Terrell. "Building mate rials are so expensive and the cost of labor so high that men who might be expected to construct dwellings to remedy the condition are hesitat ing. Relief must come soon, but building costs must be decreased first. Chicago is constantly increasing in population and the marriage rate is about 10,000 a year, making a natural increased demand for homes. The ho tel problem in Chicago was Improved to a large degree when the new struc tures were erected on the north side, but I feel that these were constructed at such a cost that they will never be paying investments' Sir. Terrell recently visited Rattier national park. -"There was a great deal of snow in the park and it was a novel experience for me to walk through an archway of snow into the park hotel during the hot month of July." Tourists today are keeping the proverbial wolf from the doors of Portland's leading hotels. Were it not for the vacationists and sight seers who constantly come and go, the lobbies of the hotels would be almost deserted and the job of bell hop would be lacking in compensa tion. Despite increased railroad rates, tourists are coming to the city in almost as large numbers an they did last season. The automobile en ables may to escape payment of high rail rates, but scores of people from New York and other eastern states are continually coming to Portland. According to hotel men, each tourist who comes here goes away a booster for Oregon's scenery, and this forms an advertising agency through which the state reaps great benefits by in creased travel. "Portland is surrounded by the greatest scenery in the world, and that's saying a great deal," declared P. M. Metcalf of Chicago yesterday after a return from the Columbia river highway. "The thing about the highway scenery is that it is close at hand. One drives so close to beau tiful waterfalls that he can almost touch them from the automobile and everything is so near. Other scenic places I have visited and I have spent a great deal of time in travel 1 have found beautiful, but the scen ery cannot easily be reached. Oregon has a wonderful opportunity to make itself world-famous for its beauty." "I like your highways, your beau tiful mountains and rivers, but I am getting homesick," said G. E. Waren, who is registered at the Multnomah. "I won't feel bad at all when I get back down south In Shreveport, La. The old Red river is muddy and is a pretty poor stream in comparison with the Willamette and the Colum bia, but it runs by my home and I'll be tickled to death to see It once more." W. c. Birdsall, hotel man of Bend Who has been 111 at the Multnomah hotel for several weeks, following an operation, is recovering, according to a report from his physicians yester day. For a time fears were enter tained by Mr. Birdsall's many friends regarding his condition, but a marked improvement has been noted. . Fred A. Geier, one of the directors Of the Sinton hotel of Cincinnati and a business man of that city, accom panied by his wife, js spending a rew days in Portland. They are regis tered at the Multnoamh and are pass ins a prreat share of their time on the Columbia river highway and at other points of scenic interest. State Highway, Commissioner Bar rett of Heppner. accompanied by his family, drove to Portland yesterday and are registered at the Imperial. "I am not here to attend to any high way business," said Mr. Barrett. -"I am just giving the family a little out ing in the automobile." W. H. Sheerin. a paving contractor and business man of eastern Oregon, was registered at the Multnomah yes terady. He spent the day with Eric Hauser, making a trip to Bull Run, where work on the Portland water works system was inspected. Phil Metschan of the Imperial hotel, with his family, left Saturday for an extended automobile trip through central and southern Oregon. They will drive to Crater lake. PKOIHBITIOS AXD CRIME WAVE Mr. Joyce Thinks Relationship May Be Only Temporary.' NEW YORK, July 19. (To the Ed itor.) May I state that yoor worthy newspaper unintentionally exagger ated my statements regarding prohi bition as a crime cause in your re cent otherwise excellent article. I did not say that prohibition was largely responsible for present crime conditions. I gave eleven causes which I re garded as leading factorB in the pres ent crime wave. Answering a question. I added that a number of crimes were at present occurring in connection with the pro hibition law everyone knows that a great deal of liquor has been stolen. I do not consider prohibition at all a leading cause of present crimes. It is one factor and possibly a temporary factor. Please set me straight with your readers on this important point WILLIAM B. JOYCE, . President the National Surety Company. Property of Husband and Wife. OREGON CITY, July 21. (To the Editor.) When property is in name of husband and wife and the deed reads "each an undivided half" what part does wife inherit if husband has children by former marriage? WOULD KNOW. Presumably the property was ac quired during their married life and if this is true the wife would inherit all. RILE BY MOB LAW DEPLORED Twin Falls Incident Wroaslr Attrib uted to Retarned Soldiers. TWIN FALLS. Idaho. July IS. (To the Editor.) Several weeks ago Mrs. Kate Richards O'Hare, a well-known lecturer on socialism and kindred subjects, was billed to speak at this town. A body of local citizens inter fered with programme and wickedly escorted Mrs. O'Hare out of the state and safely deposited her somewhere in Nevada. The men engaged in these very questionable ouster proceedings, after the deed had been done, returned to the bosoms of their families and there received the congratulations of many of their neighbors on the skill with which the episode had been pulled off. Mrs. O'Hare did not enjoy the ride through the sandy desart as much as her escorts and most naturally pro poses now to Bet a little fun out of the affair for herself. The newspaper accounts of the ab duction have generally asserted that the culprits are all former soldiers. There is no foundation at all for this charge against the legionnaires. Of the 2o or 30 who took part in the act perhaps some were returned soldiers. But the inference sought to be pub lished that the soldier boys acted in concert and exclusively as law break ers to expel this old woman from Idaho is wholly unfair to the soldiers. I have made diligent injuiry as an officer of the legion to get the true facts and I am now able to assert that the disturbance was not insti gated by members of any military post but was a movement of Twin Falls people irrespective of their mili tary affiliations or antecedents or social or political connections. No indictments have been returned and it is generally believed and hoped the incident now very much re gretted has passed into local his tory. It is quite likely those who took part In it will make satisfac tory amends to the victim and in addition a public apology will be offered. Having given the proceedings a sober second thought, such of the sol dier boys as did fall into the unusual and ungallant caper are repentant and more than anxious to right the wrong they may have done an inno cent old woman. They humbly and readily acknowledge its lack of chiv alry. The statement that Governor Davis of this state has exhibited indiffer ence to this instance of mob rule is not deserved. He Is greatly affected by the insinuation. ' At the time the lady was seized and deportad Governor Davis was out of the state. He knew nothing about it till the offense had been ac complished. Since learning- the full and exact facts.he has been unsparing in his denunciation of all forms of disobedience to the law. He does not believe the soldiers were guilty as an organization. The local peace officers of our city and the sheriff of the county have done all in their power to identify the offenders. The gov ernor has issued orders to the chief of state constabulary to make a thor ough investigation and to proceed against the guilty ones. This investi gation is now under way. What with the precinct constabulary, the county sheriff and the state constabulary, under the direct supervision of the governor, there is no occasion to take the matter into the federal courts as is threatened. Idaho can enforce its own oriminal laws and may be trusted to do so. In connection with this it might be truthfully said there is no more law-abiding state in the Union than Idaho. A mob Is an unlawful com bination no matter ot what elements of the citizenry it may be composed, and this is the view of our present executive. May I not hope that The Oregonian. a lover of fair play, will publish our side of the regrettable happening? JOHN REV'ELSTORK. WHY IS WEATHER MENTIONED! Writer Apprehensive Lest Jealoas Rivals Slay Attempt Reprisals. PORTLAND, July 24. (To the Ed itor.) Durinsr my residence in Port land of tne past two- years my atten tion has been repeatedly attracted to editorials in your paper along the line of that on "The Weather Here and There." These have impressed me as defensive: in other words, as the rest of the world (which is of course of small concern to an Oregonian) were attacking the weather of Oregon and you were called upon to make a vig orous defense, even a counter offens ive. Why all this weather talk. Per haps you really believe your own ar guments to the effect that, taken the year round, each season is best as found in Oregon. I wonder if this ego tism is not a part of the people of a new, young country and quite excus able because they are trying to build up and atract others? I have grown to like the climate of Oregon (this part of it anyway) very much, but then one becomes accus tomed to most anything in tinse and memory gradually loses its keenness and when it is called upon for duty In connection with weather It is gen erally along the lines of the disagree able; when the east is thought of in this country of Oregon. But my mem ory has not lost one bit of pleasant recollection of the unmatched springs, summers and falls of good old New York state. True enough, there are spells of extreme warm and cold, but these are generally of short duration and are compensated for by the won derful vigor and beauty of "the rest of the time." Back east they take It for granted that we have good days and bad here in Oregon and I'll bet you can hunt the New York papers through for a year and fail to find any reefrence to the terrible climate of the west. Soon the other season will be on us. and then I expect to read editorials something like this: "Our Rainfall Less Than the East's." Why not point out to the people that rainfall In the east includes "snowfall?" You may not believe it, but snow has Its com pensations ask the Canadians and a few other millions of people in this good old world. Yours for this mighty fine country of Oregon. VICTOR VERNON. No Penalty of Banishment. DREDGE COLUMBIA. Portland. July 22. (To the Editor.) To settle an argument will you kindly publish an answer to the following: Is it within the power of the federal government to prescribe banishment as penalty for any political crime, assuming of fender to be a native born American? CREW OF COLUMBIA Banishment has never been a legal form of punishment in the United States and is not now practised. The term should not be confounded with deportation of aliens who have vio lated the conditions of lawful admis sion to the country. A native-born citizen could not be "banished", law fully. ! Wooed One Is Wrong-. London News. "How did it come about," a friend of the family aeked, "that old Gold bug's daughter refused Lord ?" "Well, you see," another friend of the family answered. "Jane Goldbu is slightly deaf and when the earl proposed to her she thought he was soliciting for the Ked Cross, and so she told him she was very sorry, but she had promised her money in an other direction.' More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moatucrae. EIXSTEIY PASSES. When Einstein said we couldn't guess How big a place is space. We very cheerfully said: "Yes, That seems to be tl case. When space we seek to contemplate Our vision Is but dim. And that is why we venerate Enlightened men like him." But when he said that he had found That here, where men are kings. The lovely ladies lead them round Like dogs, on leading strings, "The man is not so much," we cried, "Though what he says is so. It's idle chatter, and beside We knew it long aso!" We knowthat we adore our wives, And heed their least commands; We know the object of our lives Is eating from their hands; We know that we are never free In palace or in flat: It took no super brain to see So plain a thir.g as that. It Einstein hopes for our applause. When he comes back again. He'd better talk of cosmic laws. For they're beyond our ken. But we shall think that he's a bluff And that he's bound to blow. If all he talks about is stuff That we already know! There's Always Something. Peace may come to Ireland, but it Is certain to be followed by a terrible epidemic of ennui. . The Grasping; Jeha. A taxi driver drove off with $70,000 in gems, and was arrested, probably on a charge of exceeding the legal fare. Two Birds With One Stone. We hope Mr. Dawes carries out his purpose of suppressing the Congres sional Record. It will aare, money and keep members from talking so much. Burroughs Nature Club. CopjTlRht, Honghton-Mlfflln Co. Can Yon Answer These Questions 1. What is the difference between a cyclone and a tornado? 2. Is snow-on-the-mountaln poi sonous? 3. Will wrens and martins live In the same house? We have a large wren house but would like to have some martins in it. Answers in ( tomorrow's nature notes. - Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Are angleworms the same as earthworms and if so, how did they get tne name?. Yes, earthworms is the commoner name for that member of the Oli gochaeta, or "segmented, bristle-bearing worms" used as bait by one who angles, or fishes. The word angle comes from an old Greek one mean ing a hook or barb. Hence to angle is to fish with a hook, and an angle worm is the bait put on the hook. e 2. In making a web, how does a spider get from one place to another to make the first line. It may begin by forcing fluid from the spinnerets against some point of attachment, to which it sticks, and then extending this nucleus- by more spinning, may either drop to some point below, paying out line, or travel to some nearby point, in both cases attaching the new end to some firm object. This makes a bridge. If the web is to span a gap the spider can not drop or crawl to, it spins out a length of line and lets the wind carry the line till it strikes some object and sticks fast. The spider then fastens its own end of the line, and a bridge is ready for use. 3. Is the Carolina parroquet ex tinct? We cannot answer positively. As a wild species, this bird has probably gone the way of the wild pigeon, partly as a result of its being hunted for its feathers, and partly because farmers have shot it to end its depre dations on fruit trees. Up to a few years ago a few specimens were liv ing in the zoological gardens at Washington, D. C. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Yean Ago. From The Oreponlan of July 25. ISO Cleveland. The opening meeting of the McKinley campaign will be at Omaha August 5, when Hon. Roswell G. Horr and Senator Burrows Will speak. Senator Sherman will stnmp the west 'in opposition to free silver. St.' Louis. Thomas F. Watson of Georgia, who was a member of the 51st congress, was nominated for vice-president by the populist con vention on the first ballot shortly after midnight. The catch of salmon is very light all along the Columbia. No large body of fish has reached The Dalles from the great school which. halted at the Cascades some time since. The reception tendered Rear-Admiral Beardslee and the officers of the Philadelphia by the Oregon Road clob last night was a social event of such brilliance as to eclipse anything of the kind ever held in Portland. Fifty Years A so. From The Oresronlan of Jnly 25, 1871. San Diego. Captain Smith and company, with a supply train en route to Camp Bowie, were attacked by 100 Indians when 30 miles east of Tucson. Ariz. Thirteen Indians and one sol dier were killed. New York. Reports from Cuba mention several important engage ments in which the Cubans were suc cessful. One of them is said to have lasted five hours and resulted in the capture of 600 Spanish prisoners. There are 28 Christian preachers in Oregon. Test of Tubercular Cattle. MULINO, Or.. July 22. (To the Edi tor.) If a certain person has a cow and wishes to have her tested for tuberculosis, whom should he notify? Does the owner of cow have to pay anything for the test? Does the own er get any thing for loss of cow if she proves to be tubercular? OLD SUBSCRIBER! Tubercular tests for cattle are taken care of by the state livestock sanitary board. Dr. W. H. Lytle, secre tary, at Salem. Tests are made free . of cost to the owner. If the cow proves tubercular the owner gets $25 for the cow, $12.50 is paid by the state and $12.50 by the county. Before the test i3 made the cow is appraised, then if she has reached the stage at which she cannot be sold for meat and the carcass fails to sell for the amount of the appraisement, the state and coun ty make up the amount of the ap praisement, providing it does not reach more than $25. If a cow is ap praised at $60 for example, and the carcass can be disposed of for $50, then state and county make up the additional $10 of the appraisement.