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TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, AUGUST 2, 1921
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. TITTOCK.
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OUR TELEPHONE RATES.
The testimony In the telephone
rate Inquiry is taking the average
reader into a difficult maze. Meth
ods of calculating depreciation, for
example, are obscure to all save
those who delight In mathematics.
About all the casual reader gets out
of that portion of the testimony Is
that It is contended that too much
money 13 set aside for depreciation
before the profits are calculated and
compared -with the value of the
physical properties.
That there Is still a widespread
lack of understanding of public reg
ulation of utilities was Illustrated by
a statement that came from an up
state county the other day complain
ing of the" inadequacy of taxes levied
against public service corporations.
Utilities might pay more taxes with
out financial Injury to the utility or
financial betterment to payers In
general provided, of course, th'at
immediate recourse were had to the
law which in effect assures the
utility of a fair return on its In
vestment. It would mean that the
user would pay a higher rate in
order to enable the utility to pay
higher taxes. The taxpayer who
was not a user of the utility would
benefit but the taxpayer who was a
user would pay over to the corpor
ation substantially all that he saved
in taxes.
The outstanding feature of the re
hearing is the point that was raised
when the new rate order was issued.
That point is that in a time of de
clining prices telephone rates have
been increased to all telephone users
In percentages varying up to 200 or
more.
The increase was not all that the
company asked and one is caused. to
ponder over what the company
would have done had there been no
regulatory commission. In the old
pre-commission days we often
talked about the inclination of pub
lic corporations to charge all the
traffic would bear. It was an in
definite expression, in that some
times a people would quit using a
service not so much because they
were unable to pay the charges as
because they felt resentment against
the company levying them. Nowa
days the utility corporation escapes
the resentment over increased rates.
The increases are authorized by a
body chosen by the people and that
body gets the criticism. Instead of
quitting the service the angry user
circulates a recall petition. So why
should not the corporation assemble
its experts and its high-grade law
yers and present bewildering data
and ask for authority to double or
treble its rates?
The telephone company is inter
locked with other companies. The
detail of its business is enormous.
The state needs pretty nearly as
much of a force of experts to get at
the inside of the business as the
company needs to conduct it. That
we can never hope to maintain. The
state does do some deep investigat
ing and makes a fair show of know
ing what it is about when it raises
or reduces rates. But pessimism as
to its omnipotent power of pene
tration is justified. By and large the
public will look at the general re
sults, not at the apparent learning ot
the findings. And telephone in-
creases, which the present contro
versy concerns, have been astonish
ing. THE WAY CLEAR FOR WATERPOWER.
At last the way is open for de
velopment of waterpower on navi
gable streams and on public land.
After the waterpower law was
passed more than a year ago, the
way was blocked by adoption of
rules by the waterpower commission
under which capital could not be
procured on terms that state utility
commissions would sanction. That
was a survival of Pinchotism which
lingered in the minds of the three
democratic members then compos
ing the commission, and of O. C.
Merrill, its secretary. The effect
was not development on the Pinchot
rlan, but no development at all, for
the sufficient reason that, while the
government may name terms, it
cannot compel people to invest
money in their execution.
The present commission, com
posed of Secretaries Weeks. Wallace
and Kali, has applied itself to re
vision of the rules in such manner
that the public interest would be
fully protected and at the same time
that the investment in power plants
would be safe and attractive. These
rules were adopted on June 6, and
already 225 applications for tem
porary permits and licenses have
been filed, involving 14,500.000
horsepower, and thirteen prelimin
ary permits for 1,075.000 horse
power and fifteen licenses for 576,
000 primary and 460,000 secondary
horsepower have been granted. This
is a total of 2,111,000 horsepower,
or as much as was licensed by the
government in the entire ten years
preceding passage of the law. The
commission has begun investigation
of the Columbia and Deschutes
rivers and has acted on many ap
plications for restoration of power
site reserves to entry.
Economic conditions grow in
creasingly favorable to power de
velopment. A fall in the cost of
labor and material has been fol
lowed by easing up of the money
market, as evidenced by the de
crease of bank loans and currency.
by the great surplus gold reserve
held by the federal reserve banks
and by reduction of interest-rates.
Power companies will now be able I
to raise capital on terms that will
be practicable at the rates which the
states will permit. High cost of
fuel oil, the increased demand
for it at sea and for making gaso
line, and the inferior quality of coal
on the Pacific coast will encourage
use of water to develop power. High
freight rates on railroads and
abundance of ships will induce man
ufacture of raw materials into fin
ished shape on the Pacific coast, re
ducing transportation cost, A mar
ket for power will thus be provided.
New inventions extend the distance
from which hydro-electric power
can be transmitted and reduce cost
of transmission.
The complete system of public
regulation by either state or federal
authority, assuring fair rates and
equal, good service to consumers
and a fair return to the investor,
gives promise that power develop
ment will be carried on by private
enterprise rather than under public
ownership. The former plan gives
the public all the benefits without
the waste and risk3 of ownership.
Experience has proved beyond dis
pute that when a government, either
federal, state or municipal, goes into
business, erection of the plant and
its operation cost more than under
private ownership. The latest ex
ample is that of Seattle with the
Skagit river scheme. Estimates of
cost of the first unit have grown
from $3,500,000 to $11,000,000 and
of the completed plant from $30,
000,000 to $75,000,000. Private en
terprise under a federal license will
know before it begins construction
what amount it must invest and
will exert itself to the utmost to keep
within that sum. The number of
applications or licenses that have
already been made is proof that
private enterprise is ready to under
take the work subject to full safe
guards to the public, and it should
be given the field.
NO JOKE.
The Seattle Times- is talking
plainly to the people of that city
about "our squandered millions."
The public investment in two pub
lic utilities a lighting plant and a
street railway system has reached
the staggering total of $34,297,003
quite a sum even for an ambitious
and self-reliant city like Seattle. The
results, according to the Times, have
been doubled streetcar fares, in
creased lighting rates, and a job
holding bureaucracy.
An eight-cent street railway fare
is bad, but fen cents is worse. Every
time the owner of the Seattle street
car system viz. Mr. Average Citi
zen gets aboard his property in
order to go anywhere, he must put
up two nickels unless she has had
the forethought to buy in advance
what are called "tokens" at three
for a quarter. Even at these higher
rates, which have-been attended by
decreased patronage, the system is
making no money, the rolling stock
is In bad shape, the rights-of-way
need repair, and the future does not
look bright.
Seattle would have its own way
about municipal ownership. Now
that Seattle has got it, It is pretty
nearly unanimous in blaming the
private corporation for selling out to
the public. Has Seattle no sense of
humor?
Probably not, considering 'the na
ture of the joke.
HE TOWNS AND SHE TOWNS.
One of the analysts of the last
census reports has discovered that
cities nave personalities much as
human beings do. This Is no strange
thing to most of us, though it is so
vague and evanescent as almost to
defy analysis. Professor Edward A.
Ross of the sociology department of
tne university or Wisconsin in a i
late book suggests that the differ
ence between cities is not Imaginary.
In other words, there are natural
differences, the varying degrees of
tone that exist, and the change in
virility.
For Instance, there are "he"
towns and "she" towns. Portland is
a "he" town and Oregon is a "he"
state, for the preliminary survey of
population shows that the state has
416,334 men and 367,055 women.
What a heaven for the numerous
spinsters of Europe!
In contrast to these figures we
have "she" towns in the United
states, such as Washington, Rich
mond, Cambridge and Nashville,
where the women" predominate. In
these cities the proportion Is about
113 to 116 women to each 100 men.
Textile pities like Lowell, Fall
River and Paterson draw more
women and men, while manufac
turing centers like Bridgeport,
Birmingham and Detroit have the
contrary experience.
The country at large is a "he"
country with 53,900,376 males and
51,410,244 females. It might seem
on the face of it that the 'he" town
should be the more vigorous in
growth and progress, but the lessons
of the west, with the mining settle
ments, would seem to teach other
wise. A male community had a
character then all its own. Without
women a place was in constant flux
and migration. It was women and
homes that gave a city a stable
character, for In a "he" town respect
for morals was likely to be weak
and respect for persons and prop
erty none too pronounced. ' Portland
as a "he" town shows pluck, energy
and plenty of purpose. This is likely
because there is the proper leaven
ing of women.
A MAJORITY OF HOME-OWNERS.
When Secretary of Commerce
Hoover said to the National Associ
ation of Real Estate boards that "a
nation of majority rule should be a
nation of majority ownership," he
sounded a slogan which should be
taken up and acted on in both town
and country. The number of people
wno own tne nomes they occupy i
steadily decreasing until now nearly
60 per cent are tenants. If the trend
continues, in two decades we shall
be a people 5 per cent of whom
are not home-owners. Then there
will be danger of a majority hostile
to private property rights. ,
He does not - propose any such
radical remedy as that the govern
ment go into the house-building or
Dunamg ana loan business. He pro
poses to remove . obstacles and to
facilitate building and building loans
by private enterprise. He would
drive out of business all combina
tions that restrain trade. Next he
would have the government remove
obstructions to the flow of credit, in
which connection he would make a
large part of the savings deposits of
national banks available for build
Ing loans. He would have the gov
ernment disseminate information
with a view to reduce waste and
thus decrease the cost of houses.
The nation that is most pros
perous and has the most stable
yet most progressive government is
that in which a majority of the
citizens have a stake in the soil. The
strength of France during the last
century has been the millions of
peasant proprietors. They put the
brakes on revolutionary tendencies
without blocking progress. They
save money, pay off war indemnities
and buy government bonds. When
war comes, they go to the front,
leaving their wives, children and old
folk to carry on. A people the ma
jority of whom own their homes in
city or country does not lose its
head.
WORRY.
a lecturer on optimism.
He was
whose oft repeated admonition to
the public was "Don't worry." He
held, and happily enough, that we
should not borrow a spoon to sup
with grief, and that the world is
always alright. Yet the other day,
in his Indiana home, he quit the
world by his own choice. Why is it
that the physician cannot heal him
self? Unlinctured by some portion of
sensible reserve, the "don't worry"
formula is the sorriest pabulum ever
offered to distressed humanity.
Worry is the giant taskmaster that
sends us again and again to cope
with the impossible task, to take up
the hopeless- quest, until against all
odds we give the lie to cowardice
and sloth and do succeed. Things
are not so ordered in the world that
we can dispense with worry, a tyrant
ever, but a stout friend, for all that.
Those who worry should recall these
lines: .- ,
Out of the nl?ht that covers me.
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
It were pleasant to dispense with
worry entirely, to bid it begone and
never return, but destiny forbids.
The 'fellow who steadfastly refuses
to worry is not necessarily an opti
mist. He may be, as he often is, a
shirker In remodeled guise. Most
of the work of the world, the great
achievement, is done by folk who
worry but who refuse to let the per
plexities of the moment hinder their
advance. If men had conformed to
the creed of "don't worry," from our
racial dawn till today, we should
have vastly more to worry about
than plagues us now.
Optimism should be strong and
trenchant, not affably weak and
compliant. It is fitting that the
worker should seek out the diffi
culties of his task, and regard them
with the worry they deserve, until
solution comes to him with that de
gree of spiritual salvation that keeps
the world happy. It all befell, of
course, when Pandora opened the
box. But no way has ever been de
vised of driving back again, to per
petual confinement, the woes of hu
manity. Since we must make the
best of them we should admit that
worry is not the worst.
RATE DECISION Ml' ST BE OBEYED.
By issuing a mandatory order to
the railroads to establish the differ
ential in rates from the Columbia
river basin between Portland and
Vancouver on the one part and
Puget sound. Grays harbor and As
toria on the other part the interstate
commerce commission evinces its
determination to assert its authority
and to establish the principle for
which the Columbia river ports con
tend. Hereafter the contest is not
between the two interested groups
of ports; it is between the interstate
commission and the Washington di
rector of public works, urged on by
the Puget sound and Grays harbor
ports, though Portland and Van
couver will be extremely interested
spectators, ready to intervene if
their rights should appear in danger.
No laxity on the part of the inter
state commission in maintaining its
position need be apprehended, for
its jurisdiction has been attacked by
the order of the Washington author
ity that the railroads shall not put
the differential in effect between
points in that state. To yield in this
case would be tantamount to sur
render to many other states which
deny its authority over intrastate
rates. That surrender would entail
abandonment of power to keep rates
within the states in harmony with
rates between the states; it would
disjoint the rate structure of the
whole country and would produce a
chaotic condition. By it the com
mission would disobey the plain In
structions of congress, contained in
the transportation act.
The state of Washington has
placed itself in the impossible posi
tion of assuming to act as judge in
a case to which it is a party. It
joined the railroads and the ports
north of and at the mouth of the
Columbia in opposing the claims of
Portland and Vancouver. Decision
having gone against It, it in effect
climbs from the defendant's seat In
the court room V5 the judge's bench
and presumes to reverse the de
cision. Even backwoods justice
would not permit anybody to make
such a transformation.
In setting September 28 as the
date by which the new rates must
be put in effect, the commission
doubtless had in mind the several
cases now before the supreme court
covering the question at issue its
own jurisdiction over intrastate
rates and expected that before that
date decision would be rendered af
firming Its powers. Previous .de
cisions leave no room for doubt as
to the attitude of the supreme court.
In the Shreveport case it held the
authority in question to be the log
ical implication from the interstate
commerce clause of the constitution
and within the intent of the laws
passed prior to that time. Since
then congress has in specific terms
directed the commission to exercise
that authority. Thus the most that
Washington can accomplish for Its
citizens is delay in making the dif
ferential effective. Delay beyond
September 28 is not to be expected,
for the railroads will surely obey the
mandatory order of the commission
by establishing the new rates.
Washington and its ports may ap
peal to the courts notwithstanding
an adverse decision in parallel cases,
but this would be a last-ditch fight,
the . outcome of which would be a
foregone conclusion, and meanwhile
the new rates would be in effect.
Success of Portland in securing
the benefits of its geographical po
sition after a long and strenuously
waged contest conveys a moral
which should not be lost. Neither
a city nor an Individual can main
tain its rights by sitting inactive and
assuming that they will automat
ically flow to it without effort on its
part. Nor is the fact that powerful
interests are arrayed against the
port any reason for supine acqui
escence in loss of those rights. By
constant . exertion through many
years our competitors were able to
deprive us of them; by less, though
great, exertion we have regained
them.i When we contemplate the
splendid growth of our commerce
and industry in the last few years,
we shall surely agree that it was
worth a fight. Further growth will
come from-the fight that we have
now won. Then it behooves us to be
ever united and watchful and ready
to resist efforts to take away what
is justly ours or to retain what has
been unjustly taken from us. Apart
from the material gain, there is a
moral gain in the knowledge im
parted to the world that Portland is
a doughty antagonist.
One good reason for believing that
the Czechoslovakia people are go
ing to make a sucess of self-government
is the emphasis already being
placed by their government orf the
public importance of private health.
A ministry of health has already
been established and a definite
policy has been adopted, the cardi
nal principle of which is that popular
education in hygiene is the prime
necessity. If the old centers of the
Czechoslovakian region have been
remiss in this regard in the past,
they promise now to make up for
lost time, and the power conferred
on health officials, as well as the
decision to employ foreign scien
tists in the training of a new gener
ation of health officials, indicates
determination to take advantage of
every opportunity to progress, with
out prejudice against foreigners and
without blind adherence to old
practices on sentimental grounds.
The American aid which is being
extended to the movement is fully
justified by the principle that our
own health interests are bound up
in those of the- rest of the world,
just as those of" one individual are
concerned with that of another.
The Carpentier-Dempsey affair
having been a boxing exhibition and
not a prizefight, the pictures will be
exhibited without violating the law
that .said they could not cross state
lines. This does not increase one's
respect for the law.
The discovery that Marshal Foch
smoked stogies until his famous pipe
was presented to him by an English
man will not diminish his popularity
a whit. The amalgamated associa
tion of stogie smokers is gaining re
cruits every day.
The amount of propaganda that
the average citizen receives in his
mail nowadays must suggest the
thought that if all the propagandists
were engaged in useful production
there wouldn't be so much to propa-
gand about.
Farmers, and farmers only, are to
be sought for membership in the
non-partisan league of Oregon,
Many a poor lawyer Is a good farmer
in politics. Once the Grange did not
want lawyers, but they got in.
The commandant of the Washing
ton state highway patrol suggests as
a slogan for motorists, "Drive slow
and see our town; drive fast and see
our. jail." That's good enough for
Oregon to borrow.
Here is an educator complaining
that college graduates are ignorant
of history. If we were willing to
believe all the pessimists, including
Edison, the schools might as well
shut up shop.
When we read that Henry Ford
thinks of buying a railroad we think
that there is one high authority at
least who doesn't believe the jitney
is going to put the steam cars out of
business.
New York is raising a hue and
cry over the alleged prevalence or
profiteering in sundaes and porfaits,
again reminding us that the luxuries
of yesterday are the necessities of
today.
These dispatches about the great
famine in soviet Russia should be
taken with due caution. We'll lay
a wager that neither Lenine nor
Trotsky has missed a meal yet.
Lloyd George Is said to be con
templating an early visit to the
United States. Well, that will give
Portland a good chance to speak to
him about the fair.
It must be disheartening to those
moralists who have been so busy
fixing the blame for the crime wave
to learn that there isn't any crime
wave after all.
Speaking of King George's elap at
Northcliffe, It's interesting to know
there is one king left in the world
with spunk enough to talk right out
in meeting.
Mr. Howat, who is president of a
miners' union, advises labor not to
produce too much. Yet nobody ever
makes anything by lying down on
the job.
There's an understudy presiding
in the municipal court and offenders
better would beware. An under
study strives to emulate and oft ex
ceeds.
A New York confectioner who has
cut his prices 50 per cent says the
trade has been making 300 per cent
profit. The purchasers thought sc.
too.
The young Cudahys set example
to first families, in going out to
gether the other day. An explosion
assisted.
Rather a warm month to start in
on next year's politics. This year's
"pie" has not yet been cut.
Buyers from the north of us, from
the east and from the south, all
welcome to the best we have.
The Chicago exhibition has every
thing but good weather. Portland,
1925, will have everything.
Mr. Coberly lacked the stone
hatchet, but acted the part of cave
man to perfection.
Portland temperatures: Maximum
81, minimum 56 deg. Tell the
world!
Crime and casualty run riot in hot
weather, no place excepted.
The Listening Post.
Stages In Reincarnation.
OLD-TIMERS have many recollec
tions of stage coaches but few of
them thought they would ever see their
second appearance on earth. This
Is taking place in Oregon now, Port
land being) the hub for a well-developed
system of stage lines, only 1
instead of the daring driver of old
with his ribbons on the box seat we
have the chauffeur at his wheel. In
stead of the six or eight-horse teams
of old the stage of today has 50
to 100 horses in the motor under
the hood.
Portland has several stage depots.
and one company operating here
Sheaard's auto bus lines has 30
busses on regular schedule. Their
manager had some interesting data
of their .activities. They have been
In business two years and dispatch
23 stages daily, having a regular
dispatcher system. They publish time
tables and adhere rigidly ' to them,
and claim to have not been late but
half a dozen times during the en
tire period of their operation. It is
possible to travel 221 miles, or from
The Dalles to Seaside, by their line,
In a single day. From Portland their
lines radiate to nearly every city of
any size within 150 miles.
They cover 2500 miles daily with
their combined stages and give em
ployment to 75 persons. They have
six garages and three repair shops,
and in two years have had no damage
claims.- They claim that they have
held to schedule and given service In
all manner of weather, snow, rain and
gales. Five of their busses are now
in California angaged in transport
ing the Whitney Boys' Chorus of
Portland.
Six years ago even the most vision
ary would have been hard put to
realize the future of the'motor stage
line. It is the development of scant
transportation during war times and
the direct result of the building of
good roads. In the south there are
long trips, one from San Francisco
to Los Angeles, 466 miles, being very
popular.
On the southeast side there is a
section of the city called Waverly
likely so named after one of Sir
Walter Scott's novels, for nearby are
Woodstock and Richmond. However,
just south of Waverly can be found
an addition called Waverleigh
Heights, and the Waverley Golf club
is nearby. It is just a sample of di
versified spelling, the original name
being changed to suit the whim of
other persons. Most of the stores In
that locality spell it Waverley.
A Portland girl who abhors open-
air camping trips and hikes, but who
"just loves to dance," took a pedom
eter with her the other night and
found that she had covered 15 miles
in her trots, steps and waltzes. She
came home at 2 A. M., tired but
happy.
A friend the next day went on a
hike to Larch mountain. She arrived
at Multnomah falls late in the after
noon, walked until time to camp, fin
ished the ascent early the next morn
ing and returned later in the day.
She also had a pedometer along and
It registered 16 miles.
The outdoors girl has a complexion
like a rose. True, she sometimes
powders her nose, but the dancer has
much more color. The dancer's is
not the kind that comes from fresh
Oregon outdoor life.
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Miss Lucile Saunders, the adven
turous reporter who is now In Buenos
Aires, writes of one of her mi-shaps
that illustrates her ability to care
for herself. "Lucy," as we called her
on The Oregonian. is now working on
the Herald and was arrested one Sun
day morning at 1:10 as she was
going home. The policeman charged
her with being a vagrant. It appears
that, women found on the streets at
that time would usually rather do
anything than face the shame of ex
plaining their business to the police
lieutenant. In Lucy, however, the
patrolman struck a Tartar, for she
refused to pay a bribe for her release
and after 45 minutes or so of argu
ment finally got to the station in a
changed role, she accompanying the
patrolman as accuser.
Tne united btates consul, a man
from the embassy, one of the Herald
reporters and the publisher of the
paper let the chief of polce know
what they thought of him with the
result that the policeman is now
serving a 15-day sentence for false
arrest. Lucy says that there will
never be any civilized assignment too
terrifying for her after this.
Some fellows are awfully mean.
She was standing at the corner of
Park and Washington streets last
night and she was dressed. Oh! so
nice. She had plenty of color and a
cute little waist cut real, real low
and nice, lacy, pink underthings, and
she did not wear any hat for her
hair was fluffed out too much and
her cute little knees were displayed
along with several other odd inches
of epidermis, for her stockings came
to an end below the joint and her
skirt finished some place above It,
Rather Incoherent, but then she was
just that way, and how she did pose
Across the street came two fine
looking young fellows. The leader
noticed her; she smirked; he laughed,
Yessir he laughed, right out loud
stopped dead In his tracks and rocked
with merriment.
She was astonished, couldn't under
stand, but when he erabbed his c-hnm
and pointed to her. to her exposed
knees and to her rouged cheeks and
her getup and continued laughing
and the chum joined in she tumbled
to the fact that they were laughing
at her. Now wasn't that too mean
The most frequently asked ques
tion for the automobile editor these
days: "How are the roads to the
north?"
Greatly Increased travel to Canada
is reported, indicating that British
Columbia is' in a fair way to make
good her boast and pay off her public
debt at the expense of American tour
ists. THE SCOUT.
Voting; and Citizenship.
PORTLAND, Or., July 31. (To the
Editor.) Can an alien who has Just
received his final papers vote as soon
as he becomes a citizen, or must his
papers be a year old? READER.
He can vote as soon as he Is other
wise qualified, as to residence in state
and precinct, registration, etc
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folic at tne Hotels.
"Wrote a letter to - a Broadway
friend that when I get back there I'll
have to get a blanket roll and sleep
out in the park. I won't be able to
live In a stuffy hotel or apartment
house," observed Joe Smith Marba,
actor, who is at the Imperial. Mr.
Marba, one of Robert Bruce's motion
picture expedition, had been adven
turing down the Clackamas river
from Estacada and discovered more
white water and thrills than the av
erage player experiences. As an out
ing the trip was immense and pro
fessionally it was splendid. Mr.
Marba now conceals himself behind
an immense bush of Jet-black whis
kers of the Jesse James style. A man
with whiskers now is such a rare
sight that Mr. Marba attracts as much
attention in the Imperial lobby as a
horse does on Washington street. If
Georgie Cohan could see Mr. Marba
now he would throw a fit.
Flaunting his noted red necktie.
H. B. Van Duzer, president of the
Chamber of Commerce, has heen fish
ing In the Trask. And this Is no
fish yarn caught enough trout to sup
ply the new hotel at Lake Lytle. Be
ing an enthusiastic angler, as any
one knows who attended the lively
meetings a couple of years ago, when
there was a bitter fight over the state
fish and game commission, Mr. Van
Duzer decided to whip the stream in
stead of trying the ocean bathing.
He went to Trask and was so suc
cessful that he got the limit In al
most no time at all. The basket was
so large that when he returned to
the hotel it was found that he had
enough trout for all the guests, the
help and some of the cottagers in
Rockaway. The guests and manage
ment are honinir that the presiaent
of the Chamber of Commerce will re
peat the performance this week.
Radium, uranium and platinum
have been found in southern Oregon
by Dr. W. H. Robinson and C. H.
Johnson, who returned to Portland
yesterday. The doctor has been seek
ing platinum deposits for a score ot
years and his finding of the radium
ore was a secondary atrair. ur.
Robinson and Mr. Johnson are or
the opinion that their discovery will
produce several million aouars
worth of wealth to the state. Plati
num has been taken out of Oregon
for manv years, and deposits ot pitcn-
blend. from which radium is extract
ed, have long been known in the
state. The men who - were getting
platinum 'during the war were malt
ing good money, although the amount
recovered was comparatively small.
"I want to boost the 1925 exposi
tion. Where are your stickers?" in
quired C. E. McKinney, in charge of
the Gillespie. Klnports & Beard tours
party at the Multnomah. The stick
ers were furnished and the party
started for California with every bag
a booster for the fair, and these bags
will carry the news back to New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Also Mr. McKinney gave an idea.
Hereafter whenever possible luggage
will be decorated with one of these
1925 stickers. They are as serviceable
as the labels which hotels stick on
traveling bags and they will afford
a 'means of advertising which local
hotelmen will not overlook.
From Chetco river comes C. M. Ben
ham to the Hotel Oregon. Chetco
river flows into the Pacific ocean a
few miles north of the California line,
and on the banks of the stream is the
settlement of Harbor. It Is from
Harbor that Mr. Benham registers.
Across the stream is Brookings,
which is kept alive by an immense
sawmill. All ,around Harbor are im
mense forests, with a few redwood
trees, which are part of the redwood
belt of Del Norte county, California.
Also wild blackberries are 60 thick
that a water bucket can be filled in
a Jiffy. The way "out" from Harbor
is via Crescent City, Cal.
"Found It cold at Newport, so I'm
on my way back to Bend." says
Thomas Foley, manager of the power
company at Bend, which town at
present is many degrees hotter than
Newport. "Returning I went down
to Waldport and drove into Corvallis
over the Alsea road. From Alsea in
the road is fine, but between Wald
port and Alsea it is a rough proposi
tion. Heavy trucks rutted the road
in wet weather and the ruts still re
main. I've traveled 1000 miles on
this trip and so far I haven't even
had a puncture."
H. F. Dickie, manager of the Utah
Power & Light company of Salt Lake
City, is, with his family, exchanging
the hot breezes of his home town for
the cool weather of Portland. The
Dickies are registered at the Multno
mah while on their way to the beach.
They will find the water of the Pa
cific ocean far less full of salt than
Great Salt Lake, which is at their
door at home.
Having scaled Mount Hood and
looking like a piece of raw be-ef, Ly
man Rice, banker of Pendleton and
member of the state bonus commis
sion, is registered at the Benson. He
arrived somewhat fatigued but en
thusiastic over his experience and the
view which was obtained from the
summit.
Rev. Alfred Bates of Salem, who has
been attending the Epworth League
institute at Jefferson. Or., is in the
city and preached at Sellwood Methodist-Episcopal
church Sunday. Mrs.
Bates, who had classes In junior meth
ods at the Jefferson institute, will
visit her parents In Sellwood in a few
days.
"A tire blow out. a broken spring
and an ulcerated tooth yes, I had a
good vacation trip," reports Thomas
Finnegan, at the Hotel Portland.
"There was nothing exciting and
everything was lovely. Went crab
bing at the Nehalem Jetty. Caught no
crabs. Went clamming at Gearhart.
Caught no clams."
"Mill is closed but I expect to open
It shortly," said Jack Magladry, saw
mill man of Row River, at the Im
perial. "There is quite a demand for
lumber, but the prices are awful. I
mean they are so low that I don't see
how some of the mills can run at a
profit."
E. E. Nelson, assistant general pas
senger agent for the Northern Pa
cific, with headquarters at St. Paul,
was a Portland visitor yesterday, and
spent some time with officials of his
company here. Routine business only,
it was said, claimed his attention.
Professor G. W. Peary, dean of the
forest department of the Oregon Agri
cultural college, is attending confer
ences with the forestry committee ot
the national chamber of commerce.
He is registered at the Multnomah.
Phoenix was well represented in
Portland yesterday. Andrew Ilearn
of Phoenix. Or., was at the Hotel Ore
gon, and H. H. O'Brien of Phoenix.
N. Y., was at the Hotel Portland.
A. C. Hampton, a merchant of La
Grande, is at the Hotel Portland. He
Is he-re attending buyers' week and
is accompanied by Mrs. Hampton.
Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Boyer of Kerry,
Or., are at the Perkins. Mr. Boyer is
in the lumber business.
BIGGER SHARES IS DUE FARMER J
Producer Entitled to More Money and
More Conveniences.
PORTLAND. Aug. 1. (To the Edi
tor.) Having circulated among the
farmers near the citv to a consider
able extent for the last 'year or so I
have been greatly impressed with the
tone of discontent and disappoint
ment that one finds among these peo
ple. I am not referring to the radi
cals, agitators or trouble-makers who
are merely the froth and foam, but to
the solid, staid and well-to-do farmers
who are the main-stays, the real tax
payers of bur country. They see that
they are not getting a square deal
and while they realize that their in
capacity or disinclination for organi
zation is to a certain extent the cause
of much of their woes, they feel that
they are getting decidedly the short
end of the deal and this feeling will
make many of them willing converts
to anything that promises a change.
Here lies the secret of the non
partisan league's success and it be
hooves us to cast about for such rem
edies for these unfair conditions as it
lies in our power to provide.
In one little west side district not
long ago I saw five milk-delivery
truck3 in three blocks and upon In
quiry learned that there were three
more serving that district. One of
the drivers told me that he began de
livering milk on East Fifty-second
street. Now the delivery of that milk
was costing those people fully five
times as much as it need to have cost
and this cost, no matter who wrote
the checks, comes out of the dairyman
in the reduced proceeds of his efforts.
True, much of this arises from his un
willingness to co-operate and con
solidate with his fellow dairymen but
as a general thing he is too busy dig
ging out a living to take time to work
up these schemes of consolidation and
he sees his fellow farmers in other
states arrested, jailed, denounced as
unpatriotic when they try to effect
an organization and, being patriotic
to the core, he fights shy of anything
that may look like disloyalty.
A remedy that could be easily ap
plied lies with the city government.
Let the council divide the city into
convenient zones or districts of such
size as one truck can supply. This
needs ,but a little inquiry to determine
how many houses could be Included
Issue permits for one truck in each
district upon request or the payment
of but a small license fee; if one
dairyman wants to deliver in more
than one district make the license
much higher and if he wants a free
ranze over the whole city put the fee
so high as to oe pronitmive. inis
would soon do away with this scatter
brained, wasteful method of delivery
and the dairyman could get more for
his milk at a less cost to the con
sumer. A reasonable time could be
given for dairymen and patrons to
adjust their supply areas and in the
end all would be benefited.
. Another thing that looks decidedly
unfair and one-sided. We sit in our
offices and the carriers bring our
mail to us and place it on our desks
four or five times a day while our
rural cousin is in luck If he can have
his paper delivered once a day at the
nearest cross roads in a box that he
has to provide at his own expense. It
wouldn't be such a great chore for us
to go down the elevator to the street
floor and get our mail out of lock
boxes when we want it and the sav
ing in cost would extend the rural
mail service to many a farmhouse
that now has to make a long trip to
get the mail once a week. Many more of
the conveniences we in the city enjoy
are afforded at the expense of our
rural friends and I feel that we are
taking more than belongs to us. and
we could well afford to give up a lit
tle to help our worthy farmer friends
to secure a more equitable share of
the good things with which we are
surrounding ourselves.
T. S. WILKES.
AWFUL SIGHT IN PUBLIC PARK
How a Dreadful Exposure Was Pre
vented by Prompt Action.
PORTLAND, Aug. 1. (To the Edi
tor.) When it comes to looking zeal
ously after the morals of Portland
the city administration scores 100 per
cent. I do not refer to the tenderloin.
That is hopeless and the mayor is do
ing as well there. I suppose, as any
good and pure mayor can do. But I
am talking about the public parks
which may be made dens of iniquity,
in broad daylight, if the mistaken
mothers of Portland have their way.
What I saw with my own eyrs In
Peninsula park last week should
bring the blush of shame to the moth
erhood of Portland. I myself aw a
young woman, who had all the out
ward appearance of decency but of
course it was all disguise undress
her two strapping young sons aged
about 6 and 4 in the glaring light of
the afternoon sun, and put one-pieoe
bathing suits on them and turn them
loose before the eyes of a shocked
group of spectators to wade in the
children's pool. At least eisht inches
of bare arm. two inches of bare neck,
and ten Inches of bare leg, from the
knee down were brazenly exposed to
the general view.
The amazed onlookers gasped with
consternation. But the great city of
Portland, as represented in the of
ficial custodian of the pool, rose to
the emergency. She viz: the duly
authorized and commissioned arm ot
the 'law instantly notified the cal
loused mother that the virtuous mu
nicipality did not furnish wading
pools for children so sfiamelessly
dressed or undressed and they
could not go in the water. Nor could
boys and girls of any age not even
an Infant ot the tender age of 1 year
be permitted to wade, or splash, in
the paol unless the aforesaid juvenile
wader or splasher, was fully dressed,
except his feet.
Now what do you think of that? I
think It's great. The parks are for
-the people, and you can bet they are
getting their money's worth in
senseless rules. A wading pool being
made to wade in. the park officials
have apparently decided that the way
to let the youngsters wade is to re
quire them to keep on their boys'
suits, or girls dresses, so that when
they wade they will not be able to go
in more than toe-deep. The result
doubtless is that when the little
waders emerge from their watery ad
venture. ' their clothes are wet and
bedragged likely they are wet
through. But why should the city ad
ministration worry about that? Let
the mothers worry.
ONE OF THE MOTHERS.
Security for Veteran's Loan.
DAYTON, Or., Jujy 30. (To the Ed
itor.) Under the state bonus bill,
would it be possible for an ex-service
man to obtain the loan on real
estate purchased if the original owner
were willing to take second mortgage?
INTERESTED WIFE.
So long as the state is fully se
cured by a first mortgage for a sum
Knot greater than three-fourths of the
value of the entire property, it is
Immaterial what private arrange
ments are made otherwise.
Wraith of Cox and Harding.
PORTLAND, Aug. 1. (To the Edi
tor.) To settle an argument please
adviBe me who is better off finan
cially. President Harding or Mr. Cox
the last democratic nominee for presi
dent. MARCUS COHN.
Mr. Cox is reputed to be several
times as wealthy as Mr. Harding. No
precise data as to the private fortunes
of either are available.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Mantnsrae.
THERE'S ALWAYS A REASON.
I do not spend what others earn
On meaningless display;
Extravagance I sternly spurn,
I hoard my cash away.
By smoking fifty-cent cigars
I don't impair my liver,
I do not use expensive cars.
Nor even own a flivver.
I seldom see a Broadway show
The prices are too steep;
The moving pictures may be low. "
But they are also cheap.
With any form of bootleg booee.
I do not numb my senses.
The only drinks I ever use
The soda man dispenses.
I do not pay a fortune for
My shirts or my cravats,
I always hunt a bargain store
When I'm In need of hats.
I never wear imported boots
Or hand-stitched English collars
My winter and my summer suits
I buy for twenty dollars.
In closing. I will frankly state
I do not live this way
because of any heart-felt hate
I or frivolous disDlay.
The cash I keep no solace brings.
-mat isn't why I hoard it:
I simply do not do these things
Because i can't afford it.
It's a Touch Life.
Guides have no cinch. Those who
don't get shot are haled to court as
co-respondents.
Natural Enough.
Having at last visited Ireland, Mr.
de Valera has decided that he doesn't
want to be president of it.
Exceptions.
Apparently nothing was straight
In that post-season series but the
base lines.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co.
Can Ton AnxTver These O.nrstionst
1. What color is the true polecat?
2. Will ring-neck pheasants mate
our native pheasants?
3. How long will a plant live?
Answers in tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. What will cure mosquito bites?
Different skins are helned bv rlif-
! ferent remedies. Touchine: the bitten
oi-ui. iieiniy wnn moist toilet soap
onen sooxnes. arious washes ar
s
comforting, carbolic and water, ea
phenol and water, hut disagreeable in
odor. Iodin Is used, napthalated moth
hall, etc. Rubbing the spot simply
improves circulation and spreads the
poison over more space.
2. What can I feed a common mud
turtle? Can I tame it?
The common mud turtle, Cinoster
num pennsylvanicum, is aquatic when
wild, and finds food at the- bottom
of ponds and rivers. In captivity it
should eat small minnow, frogs, tad
poles, worms, grubs, shrimp, small
crabs, freshly chopped meat, fish or
clam and oyster, and probably some
green food, as celery, lettuce, toma
to, etc. Experiment until you find
what food is best liked. A certain
degree of tameness will come from
the creature's being fed regularly by
the same person.
3. riease describe the bobolink,
also his song, food, nest and color of
eggs.
Female, yellowish brown under
neath, brown streaked atop, with buff
fine dividing crown and over the eye.
By August, after breeding season,
the male resembles her. In spring
he is black beneath, black head with
large buff spot at the back, black
and white streaks on wings, white
upper tail coverts. Eggs light tinted
buff or green, nest dried grasses on
grounl, song rapid and Jingling. Eats
many noxious insects and a good
deal of rice.
The hopes of men must once have
known
A quickening In this sluggish tide;
We see the imprint, dimmer grown.
Of aspirations cast aside;
The visions of a vanished host
Whose tents were here but yester
day. Are what attract the traveler most
Amid this sad decay.
Each loosened shingle that is caueht
From crumbling roof by passing
gale.
Releases memory of the thought
That placed it there and drofe the
nail:
The wheels are silent in the mill.
And wait for waters that have
passed :
The old church bell is sagged and
still.
Its loud tongue mute at last.
And so shall those whose soundless
feet
Are marching toward us evermore.
Behold our visions', incomplete.
Far-flung, like wreckage on the
shore:
And when beside our tents they stand.
Reviewing what we plan today.
May some among them understand
The pathos of decay!
In Other Days.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The OrpRonian of August 2. 1S71.
London. The house of commons to
night pased a bill granting an allow
ance of 100,000 per annum to Prince
Arthur.
C. A. Dolph, I;tte- city attorney, in
forms us that he will leave by steamer
this evening for a visit in the east
ern states.
T. II. Crawford of the North Tort
land school returned yesterday from
an extended trip to Linn county, across
the Cascade mountains and to the
Ochoco valley.
It is estimated that not less than
15,000 tons of freight were moved last
month by the dray company.
Twenty-five Years Apo.
From The Oregonian of August 2, ISItfi.
London. Mohammedan depositors in
the postoffice savings bank are en
riching the British government, as
their religion forbids them to receive
interest. They insist on taking out
no more than they put in.
Oakland, Cal. A two-story building:
at Seventh and Clay streets collapse-1
last nicht. Nine people narrowly es
caped with their live's.
The bicycle thief is getting in his
deadly work among the, office build
ings of the city and during the last
week three or four cases of theft were
reported to the police.
Mr. Lydell Baker has presented tn
the department of literaturo of Ore
gon Agricultural college, a handsome
life-size portrait of Colonel E. D. Ba
ker, formerly senator from Oregon,
A Deserted Village.
By Grace K. Hall.