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TITE MORXIXG OREG ONI AX, FRIDAY, AUGUST 19, 193 . tVWtttirrtr tftffTrmtMtt ! coin of the realm for such an ap- J5vW $ lMy .Vi'il' i pearance. One of the chief assets KSTABL1SHED BY HENBT I PITTOCK. Published by The Oreftonian Publishing- Co.. 13a Sixth Street. i"ort;and. Oregon. C. A. MORDEX. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The OreRonlan la a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use tor publication of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this pa-per and also the loal news published herein. All rlKnts of publication of special dispatches herein are aiso reserveed. Subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Daily. Sunday Included, one year s do laily. Sunday Included, six months ... Jally, Sunday Included, three months.. Tally. 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Mich.: Verree Conklin. Belling building, Portland: San Francisco repre sentative. R. J. BldwelL of the champion pugilist is notoriety, easily convertible to cash. Let us assume, however, that out of respect for the cloth, Dempsey will blunder out the story of his fight with Car pentier, detailing his generalship and his deadly science before the astounded sisters and grave breth ren. What purpose will it serve? Does Dr. Crafts intend to thus ob tain a few expert pointers on how to knock out the devil? Or is It. this invitation, but one of those Is those who can hardly be induced to read at all who perplex most teachers, and it Is vastly more diffi cult to guide the latter than to re strain the former. For while read ing is not everything, and a goodly number of men who have figured prominently in history had no taste for books, our system of education is so organized that there is a certain economy in obtaining necessary in formation, if nothing else, in the printed page. It is for this reason that the reading habit is a profitable one and that parents are lucky whose queer reflexes of the mind, that i children do not need to be driven to force men to a contemplation of I their books. the thing they profess to- hold in contempt? Ah, Dr. Crafts, the old Adam is in all of us, and the old adage yet applies. "Physician, heal thyself." riACB THE BLAME. IF ANT. . It is well that the Portland Cham ber of Commerce has moved for an The boy who is the cause of the inquiry is 12 years old. And 12 is a good age to begin reading serious books or any other kind, for that matter. It is an age in which many habits are formed that influence after life. The habit of jreading books that some grownups think were meant for them exclusively is probably capable of as little harm as inquiry into the conduct of the pilots any habit of which we can now on tne several vessels wnicn recently i conceive. ran aground in the Willamette ana Columbia rlvrs. In order that Kllch incidents may be prevented in f u- BE.member THE STOKT OF THE FOX? ture. it is necessary to ascertain- the In his anxiety to live down his cause, to what extent they were un-I reputation as an irreconcilable foe ACCOUNTABILITY. Suicide, said a great lawyer In a famous murder case,, is confession. Po is flight. No innocent man is likely to flee from the consequences of a crime he may be falsely charged with having committed. If he does, he invites a strong presumption that lie is guilty and he can remove it only by a complete and convincing showing that-he had some other reason for running away. Why should an Innocent man run .way from anybody or anything? They do not hang innocent men on mere presumption. They hang guilty men in those rare instances where they are hanged only on the most absolute showing of account ability. Generally the easiest and safest way is to admit the deed and plead insanity or self-defense. If there tan be no plausible showing of self-defense, there is always a good chance to plead and prove mental irresponsibility. It is a pretty fair technical substitute .for moral irresponsibility. It is not necessary to say dog matically that Dr. Brumfield slew Dennis Russell in order to affirm the entire validity of the above observations. He should have the customary benefit of the doubt, and there always is a legal doubt until the jury has rendered its verdict. But obviously the doctor is in a tight fix. There was an atrocious murder at Roseburg, with many un questionable circumstances connect ing him with the crime. He dis appeared at once. There was con fusion about whose charred body it was that was found at the road side in the wrecked and burned automobile, until the coroner's jury definitely declared it to be Dennis Russell's. If anyone still had a question about it, it was fully an swered when Dr. Brumfield was arrested in Canada. The outcome shows that the contention that it was not Russell's remains was not only futile but foolish.. The theory of the authorities that Dr. "Brumfield slew Russell, and surrounded the crime with such evi dences as would indicate that it was not a murder of Russell but a murder or suicide of Brumfield, or an accident, has up to this time met with no disconcerting attacks, or apparent failures. That is now the problem of Dr. Brumfield. He is going back to Roseburg in manacles and he is to stand trial. He must successfully resist a prosecution which will seek to show that Dennis Russell was foully murdered and that Dr. Brumfield was the mur derer or he will be hanged or go to prison for life, unless indeed he admits the charge and makes good a plea of insanity. There are puzzling factors in the case, even if it be. agreed that Dennis Russell was elain by Dr. Brumfield. The- common theory is that Brumfield was in financial straits, that his life was heavily in sured, that he devised a plot to kill a harmless and comparatively friendless man, and arranged to make it appear that the body was his own (Brumfield's), intending to collect the. insurance, said to amount to $26,000. But how collect the in surance? His wife was the benefi ciary, and any suspicion that she was a party to such a horrible con spiracy is precluded by common assent, by her fine character,- and supported by no development before or since the deed. This Is what the sheriff of Douglas county doubtless has in mind when he says that he Is at a loss to find a motive. If Brum field conceived the whole atrocious plan to get the money due his wife after his own supposed -death, it is clear that, whatever his idea was, it would be most difficult to realize. It is a plausible, but not very con vincing, thought that he may have desired to give her all the benefit of his insurance and to disappear for ever. No man who commits murder is entirely sane, no matter how cal culating and calm he may be in his premeditation, and how careful in his execution. Murder is one awful expression of vicious abnormality, of overwhelming passion, of diabolical hatred, of inhuman cruelty. But what of that? There may be lack of balance, weakness of control, or failure of reasoning powers, but there is still and must be accounta bility. Murder Is murder, and no plea that the murderer was unable to reason the thing clear through Is adequate to acquit him. It is only when his unreason "reaches the point that he does not know right from wrong, and is utterly unable to con trol his impulses, however homi cidal, that he must be dealt with as one without mind or conscience, and put away where he can do no fur ther harm. That is the way it should be, .but too often is not. Whatever sympathy may be felt for the pitiable condition of one ac cused of murder, or the sorrows of ' his family, it must not be forgotten that an appalling crime was com mitted near Roseburg one night in July, and that someone did it, and the law should take its course. avoidable and to what extent some human agency is responsible. Then blame should be placed where it belongs, and the culpable should be disciplined. Certainly when a pilot finds a dredge lying in the channel he should be open to advice as to whether, there is room for his ship to pass. When his ship goes aground, Its "presence should be notice to ap proaching ships to beware of at tempts to pass. Notice from the PortVif Portland as to whether there is sufficient depth or width should be heeded. There are no doubt seri ous objections to delay of a ship until the channel is clear or hi been deepened enough, but delay Is of the peace treaty of Versailles, Senator Borah tries to hurry the United States into disarmament without awaiting like action by any other nation, much as W. J. Bryan wanted us to adopt free coinage of silver without the aid or consent of any other nation. Of course we could disarm without any nation's aid and we should have its ready consent, but whither Would that lead us? We should be in the posi tion of the fox whose tail had been cut off when we met the other na tions at the disarmament conference. The story goes that the other foxes laughed at the suggestion that they should part with their tails. If we much to be preferred to grounding should reduce our armament before of a ship with injury to her hull and to the good name of the port added to delay. It is to be hoped that the state pilot commission will inquire strict ly into the facts of the recent grounding of ships, will fix responsi bility and, if any of the pilots are to blame, will act upon its findings. Next to improvement of the channel which will remove the primary cause of these accidents, careful and skil ful use of the channel, as it is, is incumbent on those who navigate it. In the Interest of safe navigation, it is desirable that control of the pilots who use the channel should be in the hands of the body that is charged with its maintenance the Port of Portland commission. As the city, through its knowledge of the streets, is best qualified to regu late traffic on them, "the port. through knowledge of every detail of the channel, can best regulate traffic therein. For several months of each year Its dredges are at work in the channel and its engineers are in the best position to direct a ship where it can safely pass or to give warning that it cannot pass until a way is cleared. A pilot who is in other nations had joined in a gen eral movement, we should fling away the most forcible argument at our command. Much is said in reprobation of the British decision to build four up-to- date battle cruisers to replace others which have .become obsolete, thus actually adding to the strength of the navy through nominally main taining its present strength; also of Japan's continuance with its naval programme, but what else could we expect? Britain and Japan have decided on a certain relation be tween their navies and ours and those of other nations. Whatever basis may be agreed on, they will not change their relative strength to their disadvantage. If by reduc ing our navy Independent of them, we make them relatively stronger without added expense to them, they will be well pleased and we shall have weakened our case for all around reduction. The most forcible argument we can use Is readiness to maintain our relative strength on the present basis, unless they agree to a proportionate reduction. Know ing we could outbuild them and, being sadly . impoverished, they a hurry to take a vessel into port would quickly consent to reduce. or to sea is often disposed to ignore such warnings and to take a chance. especially as the port has no au thority over him. In order that he may give heed, authority over the Recent tests with aircraft against battleships are taken by the senator and several of his colleagues to prove the battleship Obsolete and further building of such craft ' to pilots might Well be transferred to be inexcusable waste. Those tests the port commission. As the port maintains and improves the channel and seeks traffic for Portland, it is interested in seeing that careless navigation does not damage the reputation of Portland and would hold pilots to careful performance of their duty. -This is a proper sub ject for action by the next legisla ture. prove the need of aircraft to de fend battleships against air attack just as destroyers were built for de fense against torpedoes and as vari ous devices were adopted for de fense against submarines. Progress in land warfare has produced new weapons against heavy guns, but no general of any standing pronounces heavy guns obsolete for that reason. One shell from a battleship hitting another in the vitals will sink her. What does that prove? That the battleship is supreme or that It is obsolete? Britain has been build ing battleships of wood or steel for centuries, and its national life de pends on control, of the sea. It is safe to presume that the admiralty knows what It Is about and that in designing the new battle cruisers, it also designed means to prevent air craft from sinking them.'. We need to keep our heads cool about disarmament and not to be in haste to save the immediate dollar. We were led by the sophistries of the pacifists to go. to war unpre pared, and for every dollar we saved In the years of peace we spent ten dollars in war. If we hasten to disarm ahead of other nations, we may pay as dearly in the future for our present economy. BOOKS THAT A BOY HEADS. We can easily find time to drop a figurative tear over the case of the boy who insists on reading every. thing that he can lay his hands on, and his mother, who is trying, un successfully, it appears, to restrain him. Our tears are not, however for the mother, who writes of her troubles to the Kansas City Star, but for the boy. The home in which this youngster dwells contains, among other things, a fairly well-stocked library, in which he is wont to browse, with what his parents re gard as a total want of discrimina tion. There are books, in their view, that are too old" or something for a boy to read, and they wish that his tastes might be directed into "proper channels." She is looking for a list of books for boys" through which his literary taste may be sys tematlcally cultivated and his educa tion developed along conventioal 1 tourists and development. lines. 1 Tn their excursion throueh south. J.he attempt to classify certain ern and central Oregon the Portland books as juveniles, except for the Ad club members undoubtedly dis very young, represents an archaic covered much that would appear to misconception or the capacities of I be in the line of duty. They found most young people and is. not likely sections of Oregon that,, to the rest to be persisted in by those who really dent of the western slope of the understand Doys. -lne precise mo- I Cascades, and particularly to a resi uuout. .. w ii uuja ur gins uegin i aent or tne Willamette valley, are to comprehend matters in which as remote as though thev were in adults are interested cannot be de- I another state. And in each of these termined, nor is It likely that there communities they found problems, is any definite line. The glimpse peculiarly local problems that. here and there, the momentary flash I nevertheless, have great bearing on or eniigntenment, orten a quite sur- I the prosperous future of all Oregon prising interest are revealed in the It is to be hoped that the excursion- youth s unrestrained choice of read- ists will not lose sight of the funda lng in a manner quite similar to. that mental principles of their, organiza- which characterizes the relationship tion, but will turn to good account of the boy and his father. Parents the knowledge gained in their thou- wno are surprised, as many are, by sand-mile tour, the precocious development of their Primarily the trip was taken for offspring, owe their surprise to their the purpose of familiarizing Port habit of underestimation. They con- land business men with the 'great tinue to regard the youngster as an scenic attraction of the Cascade infant long after his unfolding curi- range. Crater lake. There are way Crater lake is proving itself an ' asset of widely separated sections of Oregon, though it is hidden away in the Cascades almost at the door to California. As the magnet' that draws tourists it does not cease to function beneficially after the tour ists have visited it, or before. For it sends them through Oregon, through a state of 96,000 square miles, the seventh in the union by the scale of area. 'We have an axiom in Oregon that those who visit the state are thereafter alien to content, until they return. Un questionably the blue waters of Crater lake, the majesty of the great scenic spectacle in the west, will contribute to the settlement of Ore gon. They will return, some of them, at least. The late Governor Withy combe, who believed in the state, and who was an authority on agri cultural development, once predicted that the time would come when our lands should yield $500,000,000 an nually. And this, though it is the greatest, is but one phase of future development. Eager to hasten the day of realization "we perceive that the' scenic assets of Oregon, such as Crater lake, play no inconspicuous role in the development programme. Because prosperity has always dwelt In the Willamette valley, to gether with content, the favored residents of the western slope are apt to forget that there are won derful districts yet undeveloped, and requiring neighborly assistance to become productive in the full sense of the term. To such as these a trip over the route taken by the excursionists, or by the business men who visited eastern Oregon last fall, should prove to be a revelation. Then only would they realize, or ap preciate, the fact that adverse forces of nature must be conquered before the greater Oregon enters into her own. The communities beyond the Cascades are waging the fight in their own behalf, but they cannot be censured for bespeaking occasional aid from the western slope and from Portland. Until Oregon forgets in fact, as well as in oratory, the geo graphical isolation of these districts and by highways and irrigation, by railroad construction and complete good will, binds them Into a smooth ly co-ordinating whole 'the full measure of success will never be known. There are encouraging evi dences. The sectional viewpoint is passing. Naturally enough the district be yond the Cascade divide feels that the western communities, and par. ticularly Portland, should be inter ested, and actively so, in its develop ment. They believe, out there, that their development will benefit the entire state that Portland will prosper with them and through their efforts. This seems irrefutable logic, yet something more than ora torical assurance is necessary in re sponse. Generalized expressions of good will will not water the arid acres or bring capital in for in dustry. The function of a trade ex curslon is not concluded when the banquet tables are cleared. Two factors toward the rapid development of Oregon's resources are in prospect. They are the con- i tinued increase of tourist travel and j the beneficial influence of the 1925 exposition. Yet a third is of more importance than these. It is the rational rapproachement of the vari ous districts of the state, bent upon helping themselves through co-oper ative effort. But though the third is of greater importance, the singu lar fact is that it has not as yet taken the definite and determined form of the ' others. Those who sponsor the fair predict that it will bring to Oregon sufficient home seekers to swell the census to 1.000, 000 or more. In an inconspicuous manner, but just as certainly, tourist travel Is achieving identical pur poses. Climate and scenery are powerful agents, for, settlement, there can be no doubt of that. But a more power ful agent Is prosperity. An acre of alfalfa, knee deep and verdant, is somewhat of an argument on its own account. Though Oregon should avail herself of every possible means of Influencing settlement the strong est factor will prove to be her de velopment by the means at hand, through the efforts of those who already reside here. The Listening Post. Tourists Increase Portland Star. FACTS EINSTEIN OVERLOOKED , How Americans Compare In ('allure ! WltH Masses of Europeans. a Kenneth TT Payne. Editor of the Popular 1 Science -Mnnrhlv In v . t I TOURISTS are increasing their stay Ths enrollment of students in in Portland. It used to be that I Amf 7lcn. unlvelties represents two travelers only changed trains here rf"thS 1 ""cent of the popula and continued their journey. .: lng the two to four hour. . between ; hundredths of 1 per cent. If Dr. trains in the city and setting but a i Albert Einstein is correctly quoted in fleeting glimpse of what Portland had his interview published in the Times, to show. Then came the second stage, he has challenged the American peo when they had about two days, and Ple to an extremely stimulating sur now the slogan is "a week in Port-I vey of its Intellectual standards. In land for each visitor." Tourist agen cies in the east in planning the itineraries for their clients now ad vise spending more time in Portland. Most of those who have spent a week or more here have been more than pleased. seeming derision, he has unwittingly given brilliant indorsement to our experiment in democracy. Because no European populace would welcome a distinguished Scientist With such enthusiasm rr I Einstein has completely misinter- Thls year has been a slack one for tourist travel, estimates put it fully 30 per cent less than last season.- Where they used to nee Portland In the old days, -and later took a rush trip out on the Columbia highway. they now go to Mount Hood, see the Willamette valley to Salem, visit Sea side and the beaches at the mouth of the river, go through Hood .River valley and take innumerable side trips as well as several sightly routes about the city. One firm that operates sightseeing cars In Portland handled mis year an average of 100 persons a day and this should continue until the middle of September. This means 12,000 DeoDle who have seen the sights under the charge of this one com pany alone during the four-moath summer season. They operate winter and summer and have nothing but touring cars, most of them to carry seven passengers, thougn a coupie are fitted with special bodies to carry ten. The old rubber-neck wagons have goae. Their guests are all cared for on schedule, their tickets booked mostly in advance and reservations made for any trip. The manager of this firm estimates that each visitor to the city spends at least $8 daily while here, and he has 14 cars to care lor them. They expect a greatly Increased business in 1922 and plan to put at least ten more cars in commission at that time and their ultimate development by the time of the 1925 exposition calls Tor a fleet of 125 c-rs. or about ten times as many as are now in use. The drivers on these cars know every bit of the city and surrounding country and are skilled lecturers. In the winter they have closed cars. limousines or sedans, to protect their customers, and they cnly manage to keep their business by hustling, for there is much competition in this line as In most others. Ultlmus, sire of many fast step pers, who died Tuesday, was insured for $25,000, which reminds us that many men who do not get anywhere such results are not carrying much against the future. The Honorable Milton A. Miller has just celebrated the end of his eighth year as collector of internal revenue for Oregon. Even a demo crat is long lived In this balmy climate. Dr. Wilbur Crafts, reformer, has asked Jack Dempsey, Hiampion heavyweight, to address a New Jer sey congregation on the topic of his recent encounter with the ill-starred Frenchman, one Georges Carpentier, Ordinarily Mr. Dempsey and his astute manager would demand much If the postoffice department were conducted like any other business, those fifteen candidates for post master would have a tryout to see which could sell the most stamps. osity ought to warn them that he is beginning to do a good deal of think ing for himself. Assuming, as we have a perfect right to do, that the library in ques tion contains no books that the par ents themselves would be ashamed I other scenic attractions, of course, scattered by the lavish hand of omnipotence, throughout the moun tains that divide the state into two great areas, but it may safely be assumed that the transcendent at traction island will remain, that to admit they own, it is noNeasy to great bowl of unbelievably blue conceive how harm could come from water that rests In the chalice of giving any normal boy free access old Mount Mazama. The feeling, if to it- As a matter of fact, the fresh such there was, that Crater lake is viewpoint from which a boy is apt distinctly a southern Oregon ' asset. to approach some of the old stand- was entirely dissipated by a few bys for the first time make him an days on the motoring roads. South object of envy rather than of con- ward from Portland the excursion cern. An adult could afford to give ists'were Identified with that con- a good deal for the capacity to be I stant current of pilgims who seek thrilled by "Robinson Crusoe" once the lake by the Pacific highway. Hosiery factories have reduced their working forces. They'll have to reduce 'em more yet If they con tinue training the women to get along with half stockings. . The Philippine constabulary may be primitive, but it is effective. There are protests that Moros who complain of the service get killed in one way and another. Among her many boasts Portland brags on the courtesy of her street car men. The operators of the one man cars especially seem to have some claim on the palm for being accommodating. Out on East Twenty eighth street is a one-man line operated and managed by one of the oldest conductors in the employ of the company. Mike does not adhere to schedule, he runs his car to ac commodate his customers, has It there to mset them at the right corner and the right time and even has been known to go over to their homes and call them if they did not appear. On the Fulton line the conductors know every patron and there is little need to ask for a stop, they do it automatically. They know much of the history of their customers and go out of their way to pay little at tentions, and it is rumored do little errands for them downtown. Just a few nights ago, the north bound DM car stopped at Thirteenth and Morrison to drop passengers. One of them was a blind man. He asked the conductor if thir was near the camp meeting. That conductor helped the unfortunate man off the car. escorted him across the street cross ings and safely to the gospel tent and then returned to his car and resumed his outward trip. This extra atten tion could hardly have been called for among the company's rules, but it just goes to stamp the Portland motorman as one out of the ordinary. The organists were at Jake's the other night eating crawfish. Jake's, let it be known, is the little place off the main streets where they have a knack of boiling the little crustaceans in these prohibition times so that they taste like the real old dish that was cooked in wine. Anyway the "guild" was there, and in action. Jake has some noisy parties, but this crowd, who tickle the ivories in the movies for a liveli hood and diamonds, pulled out all the stops and went to It strong. Clamor A boiler shop must have been quiet in comparison. They ate crawfish Oregon style, that is with the fingers; Boston style, with an oyster fork; crudely with an ordinary fork, used all manner of table tools with aban don, but the most talented of them all it was his first experience with the unruly shellfish invented a pe cu'.lar style all his own that gave, forth a decided liquid note. Reports are that they enjoyed their feed intensely. preted the popular sensation accom panying his reception here. He could not understand a people mentally alert and youthfully imaginative, thrilling to scientific achievement, recognizing the possible "influence on all future life" of a stupendous new theory striving to comprehend the incomprehensible craving more widely than in any other land that knowledge which is the breath and zest 'of life. Dr. Einstein Is perhaps too familiar with the appalling Ignorance of the European masses that ignorance which so astonished our war corre spondents who talked with German prisoners. Hence he charges us with the very "boredom" which might better be applied to our -elders abroad. Grant that we have no few individ uals who have attained in pure science the level of some few abroad; forget the names of Edison, Flexner, Bell. Maxim. Sperry. Hammond, Hew itt, bastman, Westinghouse and a host of others; forget that America has given the world the automobile. airplane, telegraph, telephone, sub marine in fact that we have brought forward the most nearly conclusive proof for Dr. Einstein a own theory, Take the general intellectual level which Dr. Einstein makes the basis of his comments. And look at the facts. We have over 1.500,000 readers of the popular scientific magazine over 3,500,000 if engineering and technical magazines are included, What European nation can even ap proach such figures showing wide spread popular Interest in science? We have over 50,000.000 readers of the daily and Sunday papers. And where are the European papers that give the some consistent play to scientific development that ours do? We had 20.000,000 pupils in the common schools four years ago; 1,500,000 in the high schools; over 250.000,000 students In colleges and universities. The most quickly avail able figures show our university en rollment to be .002 of tty.e population as against .0009 in Great Britain 0008 in Germany and Italy .0003 in France. Finally take the most sig nificant figures of those who are seeking education under difficulties. Three large correspondence scnoois alone show over 3.000.000 students. One western university has , 20,000 correspondence students. Our sewing and business schools claim over 700,- 000 students; our summer schools in 1918 had 160.000 enrolled. No, America doeen t boast a leisure class that dabbles conversationally in science and philosophy. Jui tne figures of reading and educational efforts in this country bear out the belief that Dr. Einstein should have taken the honors bestowed upon him bv our public at their lace vaiu aa a. sincere tribute to his eminence and as evidence of profound popular interest in the field wnere no nas few peers Well, somebody aided Bergdoll and one goat is as good as another for punishment; but it jars one to think a man in uniform would .take money for doing that. NEED OF UNIVERSAL LANGUAGE I Snajarestlon That Esperaito Be Pushed at Portland 1825 Fair. McMINNVILLE. Or.. Aug. IS. (To the Editor.) Tour article, "In Justi fication of Esperanto," makes me want to add something more. The leading advocates of that language never claimed that it would supplant all other languages, or that its author intended that it should. It was in tended only as an auxiliary to other languages. It should not be classed as a jargon, although composed of the j acven leaaing languages or iiurope. It is based on such scientific princi ples as to make it one of the most ef ficient instruments of communication ever evolved by man. The promoters of Esperanto early learned mat the best method of mak ing the language an Instrument of value was through the international channels of trade and intercourse be tween nations of different languages. For this purpose the chief promoters of this work organized the Universal Esperanto association, known to Es perantists by the initials. It was or ganized in 190S and undertook the ed ucation of railroad conductors, hotel waiters, traveling salesmen and all who were most in touch with the pub lic They also established consuls and agents in all the principal cities and towns wherever Esperantists could be found or made. Their duties were to give information to tourists,, travel ers, tradesmen, immigrants -and cor respondents who enclosed a stamp (international coupon of 5 cents ob- tamed at any postoffice) on any sub Ject not in violation of the rules of the countries concerned. The year book of the U. E. A. for 1914 contained over 300 pages of information valu able to International trade sfiid Inter course. The principal office of this association is at Geneva, Switzerland. When the world war broke over Europe. Germany used the lists of Esperantists found in the U. E. A year-book for their propaganda abroad to Justify their cause. They were quickly followed by France. Austria, Italy, Russia. Greece and the Balkan states, sending red books, blue books, white books, magazines and leaflets, all printed in Esperanto. Ger many being first in the field probably had the the most influence, especially in the countries where the language flourished as in some South Ameri can countries. That war stifled the spread of Esperanto In most coun tries, temporarily at least, but the ef forts of the representatives of eight governments at the council of tire- league of nations to have' it adopted as a diplomatic language give it a rank and prestige in favor of its pres ent potency. If The Oregonlan reallv believes the commerce of the world needs a business tongue and will lend Us great power and influence to have one selected, with the aid of the busi ness men, of Portland, the 1925 exposi tion offers a rare opportunity to that end. It will be a year of many meet ings and congresses of importance in the rose city. Let the business men who are engaged in foreign trade form a committee to call a congress of international traders selected from all commercial countries available. Then Issue a protocol with force enough to make their work binding on the nations represented really to adopt a tongue for use in interna tional business. This meeting should be composed of level-headed business men, not faddists. They can invite linguists and language experts for advice and assistance. Then Issue simple textbooks. J. C. COOPER. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Mentacne. NO ISE. (A bill forbidding- women to smoke has been offered to congress.) W hen Ivan the Terrible ruled o'er the Russ, Though his fury was easy enough to provoke. He never was known to kick up any fuss If the Janes of the court asked per mission to smoke. He may have believed that the habit a was bad; He may have thought smoking would make 'em all wrecks. But his conduct was ruled by the knowledge he had That law never governs the femi nine sex. When Bonaparte looked from hia porch in Versailles , And sniffed the tobacco that scented the air. He called in a footman and asked of him why The grooms and the hostlers were smoking out there. "It's women. Your Higness," the foot man replied, "They puff cigarettes afternoons as they chat." "So women are smoking!" the em peror sighed, "Well, even a Bonaparte cannot stop that." Victoria's glorious ministers sadly more as he was inspired by it in his youth. But the boy, too, reaches the age, sooner than some suppose, when the juvenile edition of this masterpiece is Insufficient for him, and when his growing mentality de mands a more serious pabulum. The true reader never, perhaps, reaches the age when It is not a pleasure just to "browse" in a well-stocked li brary, and the instinct of selection, of finding the grains among the chaff, can hardly be cultivated in a better way than by leaving him to his own devices. Heading boys are no problem it and who are a distinct asset to the communities en route. And north ward, too, flows the counter-current of those who already have visited the lake and are pursuing their way through Oregon. A similar condi tion prevails on The Dalles-California highway. Thrusting south ward through the splendid pines of the Deschutes national forest, there are long miles when the road does not touch at any humarf habitation. Yet the procession of autos en route to or returning from the lake is end less. It thus appears that in a practical Some fellows do not know they are getting old until they become grandfathers, while as for grandmothers- gracious! It is unbe lievable. t The Klamaths are 'getting $200,000 from the government distribution of sale of timber. The auto salesman probably Is on his job. . It is to Dr. Harding's credit that he did not pick "some young thing" for a bride, as many septuagenarians are disposed to do. ' Wonder if Mr. Wilson in his new capacity as attorney-at-law will ac cept only clients whose minds run along with his? With Burns at the head of the secret service we ought to get Berg doll some dark night. Geraldine Farrar declines to say a word. But maybe Lou Tellegen knows, differently. If noise can do it, the 1925 fair Is off to a running start. Meet "Dike" a powderhound. Not a talcum powder hound, but a Jud sOn or dynamite animal without fear. Dike is only an insignificant sort of a fox terrier, but he has one besetting weakness that will likely result in his being reduced to bits some fine day very soon. 'Dike makes his home on the T. J. Potter with Kenneth Hauser's famed deep-sea tunnel crew. This gang of hard-rock men are driving a half mile tunnel under Elk Rock for the Southern Pacific and Dike Is their mascot. Dike carefully watches the powder men tamp their shots, rushes I out with them when the fuse is lit, but at the first rumble from within the great bore rushes in again. He never considers that there might be more shots and several times has been blown out again, but he is per sistent .and will likely meet a blast some day that will terminate hia career. On a recent trip to Alaska a Port land girl wanted her hair shampooed and had the ships' barber do the Job as there was no beauty parlor aboard the vessel. Since her return she re ports that the barber has proposed to her. "He said that after working hard on a long cruise he longed to go home to a face that didn't ncd any. thing done to it," Bhe explained to a confidante. Rather a tender senti ment. THE SCOUT. PASTEURIZED LONGEVITY. lor many years I strove to find the secret of old age, Consulting books and press reports each advertisement page: But heretofore I have refrained from setting forth my views. Anticipating as it were much skepti cal abuse. Octogenarians live and die like other folks you say. But still they pass the prime of life before they pass away; Nonagenarians far exceed the octuple expanse. While yet centurlans grace the years with Father Time s advance. ''The secret Is," says Grandpa Dix who's reached four score and ten. "Is not to court the worrying tho'ts that govern other men Don't chew tobacco, drink or smoke or go these things In length. But take a shower bath each morn to husband up the strength." I've led a strictly out-door life, quoth Aunt Matilda Quine; I never lie aflat In bed, it corrugates the spine; - Drink buttermilk In copious draughts and diet on Jeli-o To keep the skin pores opened up and make the rich blood flow. "I'll be Just ninety-six years old the tenth of next July. Announces Uncle Jasper Mills, in framing his reply; ' i "I've used tobacco all my life par took of liquor too; But here's the secret of it all plain vegetable stew." "To what do I attribute it?" exclaims John Peter Gage. When quizzed about the formula for reck'nlng ripe old age; Just exercise ten hours each day re tire each night at eight. And eat two soft boiled eggs each morn to keep the system straight." 'I've never smoked," says Martin Joy, "the deadly cigarette," The pipe has been by constant friend, 'tis my companion yet; Don't overwork, but take things slow abstain from pie and meat. In fact, don't compromise your meals with anything that's sweet. I had a friend who once essayed to carry out a plan. To break the record of Methusselah and beat the five-score span; Ke loitered on a railroad track one day, his pipe to fix; Now his obituary registers somewhere near forty-six. ORR O. SMITH. In good Queen reign She often with would Plead For laws which would make the court ladies refrain From staining their fingers and souls with the weed. The ministers told her they'd freely' admit Tobacco addiction was dreadfully low. But always they added, "We can't make 'em quit. .... uu.u i do legal they're women, y' know." We venerate Congress with all of our heart We bow to their edicts with rev erent awe. However, we warn 'em they'd better not start To regulate femlnino habits bv law. For if the proposed legislation is passed. It will not work out as reformers have planned. The welkin with smoke clouds will be overcast And women will puff 'em all over the land. But So Goes the World. We can't help observing on our travels that vacations are taken most ly oy people who never work an way. iny- 5PEED PECULATION IS UNEVEN Too Late. When we see a copy of "Ships That I ass in the Night" nowadays vf e sup pose of course it is a new novel about the rum runners. Rawe Suspicions. Some people are mean enough to .mm mey see. woven Into the sea son's crop of Armenian rugs, the old fancy vests they gave to the relief commission. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Houghton-Mifflin Co. THE VICTOR. When Morning spread her mystio wings And preened herself for flight. She hurled ten thousand arrows Through the barricades of night. Each golden missile serrated With shafts of burning light: Now. donned in robes all glorious She' entered in the fray And blotted out the stars that gleamed Along the milky way Advancing in at early dawn; And thus she won the day. MILTON C. ARMSTRONG. Antomobillst Complains of Discrimi nation In Columbia County. PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (To the Edi tor.) Contributions to the Columbia county speed controversy in The Ore- gonian yesterday interested me. Your editorial suggestion that county offi cers "should enforce the law without discrimination and with full regard to its intent and spirit, if not the letter." if heeded would silence criticism because there would be nothing left to criticise. Necessity compels me to travel through Columbia county quite fre quently, and early in the season I con tributed to the growing fund which is now drawing our neighboring of fice seekers into a spirited contest for the offices that accumulate and dis burse this fundj With a broken speedometer. I was timing ray speed by the mileposts and doing my best to get something better than 25 miles an hour out of the veteran junk heap I was driving. Not being very suc cessful in my efforts., the fact that a speed cop was trailing along behind and occasionally passing me neither interested nor disturbed me. It was a dull day on the highway, however, and after permitting me to get far enough away from St. Helens to make it reasonably certain that I would not return to protest, I was stopped. He said I was running more than 37 miles an hour (Columbia county standard, but don't try It) and my offer to present him with the car if he could get that speed out of it was met with "Tell it to the Jedge ,and hand over 25 bucks or go back to St. Helens with me." I paid. There must have been a disagreement over the allotment of the loot, for ten days later I received a letter from a Co lumbia county official asking me . , .i I . ... a .OA nH I4C ...I. ,' . 1. T V. .1 wneiner it v - ui v -1 " , , v , i nou . notH th. rnn On comnarinir notps! with some others who passed through Columbia county within 48 hours of the time I was held up I found that one man was taxed 115. another $10 and one was taxed but $7. The $10 man had been arrested twice before, but apparently, being a good customer, was let off easy. It was my first offense and they probably thought 1 would not come back. This discriminatory method of levy ing fines is, of course, objectionable, hut an AVAn mnra fl(T3flt Hlfiprlmi. nation is shown In -the latitude given' certain drivers. About a month ago. a short distance this side of St. Hel ens. I was passed by a youth making at least 45 miles an hour. The speed cop was coming toward us, and the youth,, who was steering with ons hand and using the other to prevent his girl companion from falling out, freed one hand long enough to wave a friendly greeting to the stern min ion of the law; but there was no ar ret. Like my friend. John H. Ste venson, who recently commented on the situation, 1 yearned for a speed cop when the youth passed me, but not the kind of one that appeared. The official figures on July viola tions of the speed laws, taken in con nection with the Columbia county sheriff's statement on deaths and ac cidents are illuminating: Columbia county, 157 violations and $1519.50 fires; Multnomah county, 515 viola tions. $3565 fines. Perhaps if more effort were made to curb real speed sters and road hogs and less time to picking up easy money from others. Columbia county would have less money to distribute and fewer acci dents to report. E. W. WRIGHT. Can You Answer These Qnestlonsf 1. Does Boston ivy injure walls it grows on? 2. What color eggs do kingfishers, crows, hawks, thrushes, goldfinches and woodpeckers lay? 3. Is a sponge a plant or an ani mal? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. AnKwers to Previous Questions. 1. Please identify a bird new to me, seen in Maryland. Dark brown ish, with spotted breast, between a robin and sparrow In size, with long, slim bill. Has a shrill note like a person whistling to attract attention. A Swiss neighbor tells me in his country these birds learn to talk. Presumably a starling, and in win ter plumage. In spring and summer It is black, with iridescent green and purple, and spotted breast. In win ter the green, etc., is overlaid with buffy or brownish. Bill is ivory color. Introduced from Europe to New York city In 1890, and has since then spread widely. 2. How do they get the silk out of silk worm cocoons? The cocoon is spun (except for some loose outside filaments) in one unbroken thread about 1000 feet long. Under natural conditions the creature changes to the moth stage in this cocoon, and must push its way out, which would break numerous layers of thread. Professional grow ers of cocoons kill the insect inside the finished cocoon with heat or hot water,, and reel off the silk. 2. Do squirrels live in holes In trees, or in nests of twins? 1 have been told both places were squirrel homes. The hole home Is used most of the year, but In warm weather often be comes full of vermin, a fact that has led some naturalists to think It ex plains the summer structure of twigs and leaves high in tree tops, as a refuge. In Other Days. I'se of Maiden Name. HOOD RIVER. Or.. Aug. 16. (To the Editor.) Kindly tell me if , a married woman can use her maiden name without first securing a. di vorce? Is it lawful to do so? A SUBSCRIBER. It Is often done by actresses and authors. We know of no law to pre vent it. ' Bonus Information. . PORTLAND. Aug. 18. (To the Ed itor.) Please inform me as to the in clusive dates for the soldier's state bonus? Also to whom I should write for complete information regarding the same." EX-SERVICE MAN. The bonus law provides that elig ibles ars those who served at any time between April 6. 1917. and No vember 11, 1918, and who saw 60 days or more of service. Write to the adjutant-general. Oregon national guard, Salem, Or. Twesly-Flve Year Ako. From the Oreeonian of August 19. 1896. Portland. Me. Professor C. N. Crouch, the famous author of "Kath leen Mavoureen," died in this city today. He was 88 years old. San Francesco. Nat Goodwin, the actor, has commenced proceedings for a divorce from his wife. Nella Good win. Today will witness the celebratiou of the annual merchants' picnic at Magoon's park on the Willamette river. J. B. Davidson presented an appli cation to the license committee yes- terday to open a saloon in Woodlawn, which was refused. Hon to Become a Navy Paymaster. TOLEDO, Wash.. Aug. 16. (To the Editor.) Please inform me how my boy could enter the navy to qualify as a paymaster. Full particulars as to study and salary to commence would be appreciated. OLD NAVY MAN. There are two methods by which the commissiqn of paymaster may be reached in the navy. For one who has not received a college or business education, but who has. acquired a common school education, the plan is to enlist as an apprentice seaman, following which the young man will have a chance after three or four months' training to select the branch of work he likes best in the navy and start working up to the rank of pay master after he has selected that branch. The other method is for the applicant to take an examination for the commission, which is open to civilians twice each year.