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ia THE MOItNIXG OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1921 .. ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. P1TTOCK. Published br The Oresonlan Publishing Co.. lii Slxih Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. 1IORDEN, E. B. PIPER. Uariffr. Editor. The Oreiconlan la a member of the Asso ciated Preaa The Aocialed Pre la ex clusively entitled to the uu (or publlcat.on of all newa dianatchea credited to It or not etherwlae credited In this paper and a'.ao , the local newa published herein. All rtKhte f publication of speciai dispatcher herein mi biw reserveo. and federal judges from paying an income tax. All exemption of office holders should be stricken out fed- j eral, state and local. An Income tax is supposed to be equable. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (Br Mail.) " rally. Sunday Included, one year 1 00 J'aily. Sunday Included, six months ... 4.23 -'. Tally. Sunday Included, three months..' 2.2S Dally. Sundav inrltiHf.H nna month ... 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De troit, Mich.; Verree A Conklln, Selling building. Portland: San Francisco repre sentative, R. J. Bidwell. TWO VIEW 8 OF SUFFRAGE. Were you aware that the Susan B. Anthony amendment, which gave suffrage to women, was no more than the beginning: and hardly worth ' while considering as a genuine achievement? Doubtless you were .. one with the rest of the herd in '. your belief that It marked a real accomplishment and meant much to , the ration. However, upon the word of no less an authority than Miss Alice Paul, you were wrong. Suf- . frage, to her way of thinking, is but ,. the most trifling dent in the armor : of special privilege which clothes the male. Of course, it is rather ., difficult to remember just who Miss ' Paul is, though her name sounds sort of familiar, but when one re tails the "militant" demonstrations at Washington, which preceded the enactment of the suffrage amend merit, it comes to him that she was the talented young woman who di rected those fearless maneuvers. She lb "the" Miss Paul. "Sometimes," quoth she, In a re cent interview, "it seems as though there has hardly been a beginning. Women vote, to be sure, but can anyone say that they are free? The ballot means nothing at all except as an attainment of human rights, and the status of women in most of the states Is just about what It was before the amendment was passed." With the trifling exception that women have the.. vote, and can, if they choose, correct any legal dis crimination which displeases them, the status is just about what it was. It is to be suspected that Miss Paul, now that the tumult and the shout ing have died down, sighs for the good' old days the girls could hoist their banners and parade to and fro as militant pickets, with all eyes upon them and gratifying headlines, - - accompanied by half-tone portraits in every edition. Grieved that there are no more worlds to conquer, she ... disparages the epochal victory and -i peers ahead for another field. One ;- would liken her, with appropriate apology, to the stalled warhorse who , neighs at the memory of the charge. For, truth to tell, Miss Paul, the militant, is rather nebulous .In her conception of jut-t what remains to ' be accomplished before women actually are free. Speculatively, she 1 assumes that men have a great many . privileges that women should have - the right to- decline at least. Smok ing is one of them. Playing draw poker probably is another, though , she doesn't say so. In these she is mistaken. The right of women to participate In all sorts of folly is well recognized. But we do not wish her to avail herself of the privilege. We - have, for all our masculine knavery, the thought that women should be spared contamination of even the lesser vice In other' Words, the average male American sets a higher appraisal upon womanhood than does Miss Paul, its champion. Then, too, she is perturbed over the compensations of motherhood. None will quarrel with the fair milU tant in her position that motherhood is quite the most important business in the country. She would have it so recognized by legal act, with so - cial remunerations, whatever they are, for the bearing of children. Until this is done the American woman cannot consider herself the equal of the American man, she asserts. But her mind is an absolute blank on the method to be pursued. What is the solution? "I don't know," she answered. "I'm. trying to think." Perhaps the entire difficulty, so far as Miss Paul is concerned, rests in the exhaustion of this mental ex . erclse. Motherhood is not to become one of the best-paid professions, by material standards, with a bonus for twins and a grand prize for the largest family. In the thought of all rood folk it is, as it always has been, the calling that determines the fu ture of the nation, and of happiness everywhere. It has -Its compensa tions, as it has its sacrifices. How is a material world ever to set about rewarding it, other than in the di- rection already taken that of pen sions and protection? Does Miss Paul have some dim, hazy vision of B super-stock show? One is glad tc discover that Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, who needs no introduction, does not agree with the musings of the perplexed militant. "Equality between man and woman seems to mean in the minds of some that they should be treated exactly 8 like," said Mrs. Catt not long ago. "Others would prefer to define equality as an equal chance for each to express whatever each is capable of expressing. Men and women are equal, but not duplicate, and each demands a somewhat different ex- " pression. The attainment of suffrage very nearly completed one emancipation- of women in America." Which view is the more sensible? Mrs. Catt knows instinctively and otherwise that a loud, assertive fe male, wreathed in tobacco smoke, and chanting her claim to wear trousers if she chooses, is not an edifying spectacle to either sex nor one that expresses the spirit of sex equality. Mrs. Catt isn't merely trying to think. She does and the achievement of suffrage attests that lact. FOB PUBLIC JUDGMENT. The school board announces that "except for the presence of wit nesses subpoenaed by both sides, the Thelander hearing will be private." Presumably, however, reporters will be admitted, and the public will, through' the press, glean all the further Interesting details of a lively controversy over the qualifications and methods of a school teacher. She is accused of being "cruel, un just, sarcastic, cynical and unfair in discipline and in grading." The charges are made by a number of fathers and mothers who have chil- dren in her school. Other fathers and mothers have come forward in defense of Miss Thelander and are not at all complimentary in their references to the accusers, who are said to have no just reason to com plain of a teacher who has without discrimination or - favoritism en forced ordinary discipline. Now, here it Is to be seen that the upheaval in the Laurelhurst school is no small affair; nor ia it a private row. It has reached the dimensions of a public matter, because the method of getting rid of a teacher, under the tenure act, has publicity for its essence. What is there about this whole business that might not have been settled by private investigation by the city superintendent? If his de cision were not acceptable either to the teacher or to school patrons an appeal to the board would then have been in order; but the chances are good, in any such trouble, that an adjustment could be made by the superintendent that would compose the whole thing without undue no toriety. Yet now the superintendent, the board, school teachers, school pa trons and the whole public will sit in judgment, and nearly everybody will have his own. opinion in the end, whatever the finding of the board. crime of which Arbuckle Is accused and the crimes committed by Gard ner so far. The law does distin guish between degrees of crime. The law cannot, in safety to society, dis tinguish between persons who com mit crimes of the same degree.' Yesterday nine convicts escaped from three prisons in the United States five from Utah state prison, two from Joliet and one from Sing Sing. One of the fleeing prisoners bad escaped before. If society is to give Gardner sympathy because he has been ingenious and spectacular and has killed .no one in his escapes, where is the line to be drawn? In the instances at Utah, Joliet and Sing Sing the escapes were ingeniou and spectacular. No guards or war dens were killed. Robin Hoods, all of them, in the mind of this and aim ilarly minded correspondents, if they are consistent.. The senate finance committee has stricken out of the house bill the provision exempting the president TAMMANY'S LATEST FGHT, Tammany has as many lives as a cat That is the reason, probably, why its emblem is a striped tiger, At every election it fights for its life. It thrives as much on fighting as on winning, for the record of its defeats in recent years has been rather extensive. New York has had four years of Mayor Hylan, who baa made a mess of his administration, for under him taxes have increased, the difficulties cf the public utilities .have reached the breaking point, the police au thority has all but been shattered and the schools have been sadly de moralized. Yet it is a serious ques tion whether he can be beaten, for the opposition is not any too well united. Mr. Curran, the coalition candidate, now borough president of Manhattan", with a record of ten years in the municipal government, is said to be the best-equipped man in New York for mayor, but New York showed in its overwhelming defeat of Mayor Mitchel and its election of Hylan that it resented efficiency, impartiality and nonpartl- sanship in its mayor. It is interesting to note the planks in the Curran platform. They are: More houses, ftlore schoola More playgrounds, parks and beachea Better transit for a 6-cent fare. ' Home rule. Full value for each taxpayer's dollar spent. v Law enforcement. Intelligent development of the port and harbor of New York. Fair pay, fair hours of work and fair treatment for all city employes. Disposal of the city's refuse without polluting the city. Police administration free from favoritism. Revision of the city's charter. A city plan that will help people to live near their work and work near their homes. Courtesy and decency at the board of estimate meetings. A board of estimate that is devoted to the city. Most of these things are familiar, The problems of municipal govern ment are much alike everywhere They are never solved anywhere. "HE Z.O'ES HIS WIFE." There is a phenomenon In con, nection with crime that engages at tentlon. It is the resurgence of love of wife and family after it has for a time been wantonly abandoned and dishonored. It has not escaped, in a way, the attention of a correspond ent today, but it is probable that he has failed to analyze It. In compar ing Arbuckle with Gardner he finds reinforcement for his admiration of the escaped convict in the nice let ters Gardner wrote from prison under prison inspection to his wife in California. The uaurorma newspapers say that Gardner, among other things, is a wife deserter. It is not proved by his letters that he is not. It is, as hereinbefore indicated, a common trait of the male and female when in trouble to think for the first time in a long while of those who were once tied to them by bonds of love. . Arbuckle has a wife with whom he has not lived for five years, Whose fault it was has not been dis closed, but it may be suspected that it was the party-loving Arbuckle's. Now the wife packs up her clothes and hastens from New York to his side. It is a safe prediction that when they meet Arbuckle, if his life or liberty is still in jeopardy, ' will blubber on her shoulder. Brumfield ran away from wife and family under most distressing circumstances. That he intended to remain away was indicated by re vealed plans to go to Australia and by his Invitation to another woman to accompany him. But now that he is caught his love of wife and children is not only overpowering to Brumfield, but affecting to all who witness its manifestations. There is the. young and beautiful Mrs. Obenchain, who divorced her husband, followed another man to California and is now accused of hU murder. Obenchain has abandoned his law practice, upon her appeal, and has gone to comfort, help and sustain her. The meeting, if there has been one, was no doubt tender and tearful. Our correspondent is plainly in fluenced by crocodile emotions. His letter supports an earlier statement that those who have become charmed by the escapades of Gardner are of the same type as the sentimental females who send flowers and fruit to degenerate criminals. "You talk like the law talks, with out distinction or remorse." We would be the last to assert that there is no distinction between the major PORTLAND WLN8 FIGHT FOB SHirS. When the logic of the shipping situation at north Pacific porte was put clearly before the shippin board, it could not evade the only possible conclusion. That is, that economy demanding reduction in the number of vessels operating from each port, the trans-Pacific business of that port should be concentrated In the management of one company and that that company should be the one which has operated at a profit, which Is owned by the people of the port and which will serve their in terests. That Is the ground of the decision that the Pacific Steamship company shall retire from Portland and transfer its south China and Manila business to the Columbia- Pacific, to be conducted in conjunc. tion with the latter's north China line, and of the consolidation of the three lines from Seattle in the hands cf one company. The acute controversy which pre ceded this action resulted from ef forts to induce the board to act on s business proposition in an unbus inesslike manner for other than business reasons, or to deceive it as to the pertinent facts of the case. That was the work of lobbyists. whose influence was so great as t be felt by operating heads, though their judgment was in line with the board's action. Not until the matter was forced upon the atten tion of the board nor until ex-Sen ator Chamberlain insisted on action vas a decision reached on business principles. Portland is now recognized by the shipping board as a port able to sup port a trans-Pacific steamship line with ' the business originating in its territory without special aid from railroads in securing transconti nental traffic for export and import It has won this recognition on its merits and on the merits of the Co-ljmbia-Pacific, which is a distinctly Portland institution.- The port has furnished the cargo and the com pany has managed the ships so that they yielded a profit when othei companies were incurring a loss, which was made good out of the public funds. Those facts were the eloquent, incontrovertible argument which brought about a verdict in the port's favor. That is the more forci ble evidence in behalf of Portland's long-disputed claim to be a port of the first rank, because it was ren dered against strong, adverse influ ences, which sought to smother the facts. But Portland will not attain full equality with other Pacific ports until it has passenger as well as freight service across the ocean. While the board gave this port full freight service to China, Japan and Manila in the hands of its own com pany, it decided to continue running passenger ships from San Francisco and Seattle only. The volume of ireight moving through Portland gives this port a just claim to as fast ships as run from any competing port and to passenger service also. Without, these 'we should be at an unfair disadvantage as compared with other ports. The trans-Pacific traffic that we do and the location of the port warrant the belief that a fast passenger and freight line from this port would succeed at least as well as those from its competitors. It is well known that vessels of this type are operated at a loss, but the beard is understood to run them as an essential part of a well-rounded American merchant marine In the j burg. expectation mat mey win uuua up traffic to a paying basis. The Columbia-Pacific has made a record in operating freight ships, which is good ground for the belief that it would operate a passenger line with, at the worst, the smallest possible loss and would exert itself to convert loss into profit. Pacific commerce Ik evidently destined to grow rapidly, and travel across the ocean will surely grow with It. Portland should have its part in that travel as well as in commerce. The confidence displayed in the port's ability to carry on ocean com merce should add energy to our ef forts to improve channel, harbor and docks for the safe navigation, accommodation and quick dispatch of ships. While all possible aid should be obtained from the gov ernment, we should recognize that the amount of this aid is likely to and more on our own resources The b, , J desired. What would splendid results of past expenditure I aU 7 tbese- prohlbition enforcement ether colonies and Siberia, but be fore the war there was just about enough to go around. Demand and supply were so evenly balanced that millions in such countries as India and China lived on the; edge of starvation, and one drought pushed them over the edge.. If this country consumed all that it produced, com petition in a year of plenty might drive prices below cost of produc tion and there might be valid argu ment for restricting acreage. But improvement and extension of, the machinery of distribution has kept pace with Increase of production. Each country's food market is world wide, and the surplus of one makes good the deficiency of another. As food production has increased through cultivation of hitherto waste land, population has grown, so that the food supply is about enough for the mouths to be fed. - In fact, some economists attribute the war to pressure of population on the means cf subsistence, on the ground that population grew faster than food supply. The effect of increased production i less to Intensify competition for the existing markets than to broaden those markets and to develop new ones. The Increased wheat crop of America, north and south, and of Australia serves not only to feed the greater population of those countries and to make good the deficiencies of Europe; it makes wheat eaters of people who have never eaten wheat tefore. We now ship wheat not only to Europe but to Japan and China, Though wages in Japan are still far lower than in America, they have risen so far that the minimum of subsistence is rising slowly above rice to include wheat. So also with fruit. Larger production in America has driven growers to seek new markets, and improved transporta- tion has provided opportunity to i each them, while opportunity to buy has stimulated an appetite for fruit abroad, and thus new markets have been created'. Farmers as food-producers need have no fear of overproduction, for the only limit to the demand for their products is that of the craving of the world's stomach for food. Any seeming surplus is due to clogging or breakdown of the complex ma chinery of distribution, for there will surely somewhere be stomachs craving for that supposed surplns and hands ready to pay. Any addi tion to the productive area of this country is so small by comparison with the world's needs that its crops are soon swallowed, and the farm er's only care need be to keep the machinery of distribution working smoothly. Stars and Starmakers.- By Leone Caan Baer. Edna Goodrich, who is one of the rocst beautiful women oft the stage and almost the worst actress in the world, Is to appear In vaudeville. She has had a sketch written for her and calls it.- "I Hope to Die." One other besides Miss Goodrich will be in the ecst. The other is a man. So far his identity is being carefully concealed, all of the publicity being given Mini Goodrich.- ' ' John Holland la in Portland ahead Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk at the Hotels. BAD ARBllKlbi NOBLE GAItD UIll My, Writer Ia Friend of Hoy bnt. How He Hates Fatty. PORTLAND. Sept.. 14. (To the Ed itor.) You are usually so fair in "Remains of old Chief Josech and ' your comment on men and events More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moataane. young Chief Joseph are to be placed in an Indian cemetery at the foot or Wallowa lake," said H. M. Swartwood of Joseph, Or- who is at the Imperial. Mr. Swartwood, cashier of the First National bank of Joseph, says that there is a movement on foot to have five Indian county. You buried a pressed a wish to be buried at Lake Wallowa, and anyone who has ever seen that beautiful body of water fail to discriminate between Roscoe Arbuckle, the fat libertine, and Hoy Gardner, the escaped convict. 1 have read with Interest your views on each and for once I must disagree with your conclusions. For my part, I am one of those "good sports'' who hop d n cemeteries In Wallowa J . p, i oung Chief Joseph, who is ,hat Odner will fool them-all and t Neepelim, Wash.. ,x. away for anoth.r chance at life of "Robin Hood." which the Dunbar will agree that the India chieftain . ... ., , ,h. Ti-iuar "ad the right Idea. Old Chief Joseph Company win bring to the Heilig bured at forks of Wgl Andre Trldon, psycho - analyst. holds that we dream because we are dissatisfied. This is quite contrary to the generally accepted theory that we dream because we have dined too heavily. Yet, says he, dreams re the subconscious reactions of waking problems. The more one is dissatisfied the more he will dream. By this test children should be the most peevish of earth's creatures. for slumberland to them is a world of dreams. Doubtless this is the ex ception that proves Mr. Tridon's rule. He says, further, that early peoples dreamed of flying, being dis satisfied with the bondage of the soil. Hence the airplane. This also runs counter to psychological theory, for the reason that the dream of flying is called the dream of levita tlon, and is common today. It hasn't anything in the world, this one or the next, to do with aviation. Dream students have puzzled over it and given up the riddle long since. It simply is, that's all. As a psycho- early in Octobr. Charlotte Walker, who is Eugene Waiter's wife. Is to appear In a vaude ville act. She recently was a member of the lllfated-play, "The Skylark." which eame a cropper a the Belmont, Albertlna Rascb. who has danced over the Orpheum circuit on several occasions, has canceled her bookings In Vienna and is very ill -following the sudden death of her mother. She saya she may be able to return to her work around Christmas time. She is booked for a tour of Germany. France, Belgium and Holland. m Taylor Holmes, etar of "Smooth as Silk," which" just concluded a long engagement at the Cort in Chicago, has purchased the touring rights of the play from Harry Frazee and Wil lard Mack, the" author. - Mme. Bertha Kalich is to return to the stage this season. Her New York appearance Is to be made during No vember in "The KreuUer Sonata." In the meantime a number of plays are being read with a view to furnish ing her with a new vehicle some time in the spring. ' The stage production to be used as a starring vehicle for Mae Marsh, un der the management of J. D. Williams, has been Indefinitely called off. Iowa river. Those two chiefs helped to make history, and one of them led a detachment of ,the American army a merry chaste. Mr. Swartwood tells of what the B. P. O. Klks arc doing! There are about 140 members of the erder In Wallowa county and they have formed a branch line club. The Elks have built a cluMiouse, 40x80 feet, on the shore cf Wallowa 'lake, and this is to be the summer home of any and all, Elks of the Paclfio norenwest wno wish to avail them selves of It. Individual Elks are planning to build small summer cot tages In the vicinity, and the plans call for electric lihts. paved streets ana all the modern fixings. "I was with 'Fatty' Arbuckle at a party in Los Angeles about three weeks ago," stated a traveling sales man at the Benson yesterday, "There were five men In the group, and we went into a restaurant. Arbuckle took the five straw hats of the men, threw them on the floor and then lay down and rolled on them. That ruined the hats completely. Arbuckle tnougnt it was a srood Joke." Ira O. Fortlouis, the traveling salesman who expressed a wish to meet Miss Vir ginia Rappe the actress who died after Arbuckle's party in San Fran cisco, registers at the Benson when he comes to Portland. Fortlouis Is "on ths road," and makes this terri tory for a New York house. Visitors who have arrived In local hotels from San Francisco In the past three days report that San Francisco is talking of nothing else but the Arbuckle party and .that feeling ie runnlnig high against the Falstafflan film player. Bearded like a pard, an expedition of the Educational Film cornoration arrived In town from the region of mount Adams. They looked so touch and hard-boiled when thev entered the diner at Castle Rock, Wash., that, Ona Munson and members of her Manly Revue" received gold police whistles appropriately engraved from the White Plains, N. Y police de partment as a token for their part in a recent benefit show held back east for the "cops." Ona Munson Is Owens Wnl,,tt i, n n- PnrHonH 0-frl whose dancing has put' her at the top of th. "n. "'' c" w" e'ed. th. , . . I crew immediately proceeded to give . lnera service. Joe Smith Marba. who Speaking of poverty, the two anJrinf comedian in Cohan and .u-. , K.u k.. n Kleir- '""i .uuwa until ne started u,uaw.a "r" u. v- out as fiIm ac'"' th'" summer. feld Jr. on the 120-foot yacht which i00ked so like a desperado that the he rented from a Philadelphia mil-1 colored waiters fumbled the sllver llonaire for $10,000 a month, expires ware and the dishes every time they tnriov. Rentembep IB. He has been got near him. Robert Bruce, head of cruising in it along the Atlantic coast, expedition, shed fully three pounds accompanied by his-- wife (BUUe birp'rruclon ZJ&JfZ ou.n., .u " fortland. The expedition will have brated beauty specialist Traveling to go to the coast for the final scenes on shore and keeping pace witn tne in the scenario being filmed. yacht are Ziegfeld s three Rons Royce cars and one Cadillac car. He left his Dodge machine at his country home for depot work. Mme. LeOlair's red Packard has also been following the yacht. -Alan Brooks is leaving vaudeville t'o "Forty carloads of blackberries and 30 carloads of loganberries . were packed at our cannery this season," says Fred Kurti of Salem, who came to Portland last evening, registering at the Imperial. Mr. Kurt, who is particularly interested in prunes, savs that h han hnri rh. haot wnn appear in a icsmiuii.o p,UUiiu lni, year that he has ever had. The called 'The Dangerous Man." The! price also, says he, is higher than in Shuberts are presenting h'm. tne past, save the year before last. when the price of nrunes wan an hle-h Rose Coghlan, veteran actress, who I that no one could afford to buy them. was last seen here in "Fine Feathers, I nere are none or the old stock on and that Arbuckle will pay dearly for nis ounce. You condemn Arbuckle. So do I. So does every ri-ht-mlnded person. But you also condemn Gardner, and would be the first to gloat over hit capture. You talk like the law talks. without distinction or remorse. But something goes before the law, or should. It is the spirit of fair play, something that we had before there was i.ny law. As for Fatty, with hie hog's lust, I want him to have exact and scrupulous Justice. If he gets it he'll never prance again. To my way of thlnklrfg he has forfeited his chance under the rules ot fair play. He is an outlaw. But It's different with my friend Roy. I call him my friend Roy be cause I please to and because I feel that way, not because I ever was held up by him. He has to thousands of us the same old appeal that Robin Hood is said to have had to the ng lish villagers. Frankly, I'm for Tim. Of course, he has violated the law, but he has never harmed a soul 1 mean both ways and he seems to be In the game for the game's sake. Ha loves his wife. He writes to her. He writes such letters as any of us would write. I believe that the law, while it is entitled to his body, dead or alive, will not suffer one lota if It doesn't bring him in. I believe that Roy Gardner has learned his lesson. I don't expect the law to "lay off" him, but by the rules o: good sports manship, as I understand them, I hope that he beats the law in the game of wits and makes a clean get away. That's me. , L. B. ATHERTON. PENAL TAGS FOR AUTOMOBILES is to re-enter vaudeville In a sketch. Ethel . Levey has been given 20 weeks at $3000 per week over Keith and Orpheum time, opening In Novem ber in Washington, D. C. hand. The old stock was offered at t cents a pound last spring and such as is now moving is commanding 8 analyst Andre may be all that hells included in the toun pretends to be, but as an experi mental psychologist in the dream realm he is the wild Brazilian fil berts, and nothing more. One of the mysteries of automobile accidents is why they happen when a man is riding with a woman other than his wife. Perhaps she does not "grab the lines" as a wife would in emergency. Those eight shocks of earthquake at Dixie early yesterday morning were not recorded on any t seismo graph. Perhaps eight people fell out of bed in Walla Walla and Waits- Good morning, Mayor Bigelow, and may your way be easy and the salubrity . of the municipal atmos phere be temperamentally harmonious! ' The new parking ordinance for bids left-hand turns In the congested district' But no law in the world can stop left-handed head work in the pinches. It begins to look as if the Irish negotiations might possibly" be con cluded in time to become an Issue at the , next presidential election here. - A lot of energy is used in motion picture censorship that might be better applied in censoring some of the people who make them. are' ample cause for not stinting further- expenditure for the same purpose. As the focal point to which railroads, inland waterways and deep-sea channels lead, Portland should not rest until all these lines of transportation are wide open and free from obstruction, in order that the flow of traffic may be unim peded. NO FEAR OF TOO MICH FOOD. The opinion prevalent in the mid dle west that reclamation of arid land in the far west would injure farmers of that section by increasing competition is so obviously a fallacy that Secretary Fall hardly needed to refute it. That opinion is put for ward at a time when Russia, nor mally the greatest food-producing country ot the old world, has not only ceased to produce a surplus for export but calls on the rest of the world for food for many starving millions. Similar conditions prevail in Turkey and Transcaucasia, and the rest of Europe has barely re turned to pre-war production. How ever much more food the United States might produce, the effect would be that more people would eat who now are hungry and that with renewed strength, they would produce something to pay for their food. - ' The food-pruducing area of the world has been increased in the last century by the addition of almost all of North America, much of South America, the British, French and officials do then for jobs? The "wet" candidate for the re publican nomination for mayor of New York did not win. The big city is not as "wet" as It is noisy. Agate Beach, In Lincoln countv. was Portland I spread on the Hotel Oregon register by is. u. Johnson. Agate Beach Is just what the name implies, a beach Sarah Bernhardt has agreed to make "here moss agates and water agates and a score of other varieties can be picked up in abundance. Where Is Saddle Mountain? Louis Feary came to the Multnomah, regis tered from Saddle Mountain. Or., and another farewell tour of America. This time it will be a Shubert vaude ville appearance followed by a run in a New York house, with a possible road trio thereafter. The dramatic engagement was an essential part of fave no further information as to its t, ,. tf ha, i. w th. location. There are at least three . , 7 .1 . Saddle Mountains in Oregon one In ambition of the divine one to reap- cutsop county, another in the Mc- pear on tsroaaway m a iuu piay. xier Kenrie country and a third down on vitality is said to be amazingly sound the sjuth coast. Saddle mountains In at this time, despite her age and dis abilities. - Women smoking in the lobbies of theaters and on the sidewalks during Intermissions is growing to be "a fa miliar sight at first nights of the new plays in New York. At the Lyceum on the premiere of the revived Belasco's "Easiest Way.' several women of the audience con tentedly puffed at their cigarettes uregon are almost as numerous as Willow creeks and Lava buttes. Dr. Brumberg's attorney. A. N. Orcutt, arrived at the Hotel Portland yesterday from Roseburg. Mr. Orcutt says that he is working hard pre paring the case for the defense, as there are a multitude of details which must be looked after and rot into shape before the trial starts next month. John Kilkenny of Heppner, em- durlng the interludes, some strolling phatlcally denied yesterday that he Dr. Brumfield should go a little slow in any attempt to escape. He's probably safer in jail than he would be out of it. To thwart the daylight burglar an automatic should be in the house hold equipment Women can hit by accident Warden Maloney Intended sending Gardner to Leavenworth and some body tipped the vanishing bandit, of course. Many pedestrians will appreciate elimination of the left-hand turn, but it is bard on the delivery boys. "Fatty" gets into the "rogues' gal lery," and not everybody can do that Mrs.. Arbuckle is coming west to help her husband, and he needs help. It is Arbuckle's future more than his past that concerns him. Gardner one week, Arbuckle the next. Who's "on deck"? Perhaps a "mountie" Gardner eventually. will catch up and down with their escorts, who were also smoking. . The habit was formerly confined to the ladies' , room in the theaters. Chauncey Olcott opens this next week In Pennsylvania Altoona to be j exact and his bookings will bring him across the continent this winter. He is reviving an old play, "Ragged Robin," which was written by Rida Johnson Young In collaboration with Rita Olcott, who is Mrs. Chauncey Olcott a. After an absence of some years, Marie Doro will return to the speak ing stage this autumn In a new three- act play from the pen of William J. Hurlbut, to be called "Lilies ot the Field." The actress has been in Paris se lecting her costumes for the new vehicle. Marie Doro appeared In Portland over a dozen years ago in "The But terfly on the Wheel." New York Is witnessing a revival of "The Merry Widow," most 'cele brated of the Viennese operettas, at the Knickerbocker theater. Henry W. Savage will present the Lehar I work for a period of seven weeks. The plot has been slightly modern ized, but isj in the main the same as wu w. ... urouucea in Landell J. Larson, . federa. labor this country by Mr. bavage 14 years I commissioner, was an arrival at tbe ago. Joseph Urban had done the I Multnomah yesterday, where he found was one of the few wise sheepmen who sold all their wool at the top price. He says that he hai about 100,000 pounds of wool still undis posed of. C. C. Berkeley, manager of tbe Hay Creek company ranches, checked out of the Imperial for home yester day. The company, which owns about 100,000 acres, is in the hans of a group of prominent Portland busi ness men. The prospect of a special session of the legislature to act on the proposed 1925 fair tax measure Is viewed with satisfaction by A. N. Pierce, manager of the Hotel Marlon, who was in Portland yesterday. Peter Dougherty, Arthur Unger and the latter's sister. Mrs. F. Flynn. are at the Hotel Oregon from California. They are motoring and lik"d Port land so well that they have remained here almost a week. Gene Garrett of Pacific City. Or.. It at the Perkins. Pacific City is on the coast, in Tillamook, and is off the main highway. The main attrac tion is the abundance of seafood that can be found there. W. F. Douglas, of the bank at Half- hay, xiaker county, Oregon, oas been attending the conferences he'd by the officials of the federal reserve board. He registered at the Imperial Plan Indorsed Reqnlrlns; Traffic Of fenders to L'ae Special Licence Plate. FOREST GROVE. Or.. Sept. 13 (To the Editor.) This statement was made by Magistrate Freds.ick B. House of the New York traff.c court: '"Here In this city we kill on an aver age of three persons a day." If Magistrate House's estimate is correct, and there is no reason to suppose It Is not, the death toll for the current year in his city will amount to very nearly 1100 persons. Only a few weeks ago a Philadel phia Judge was reported to hive said: 'Car owners should not be allowed In hire chauffeurs to do their killing for thetr," which was interpreted to mean tl.r.t when the owner of the car is Wding in It and the driver causes loss of life, the employer must bear his proper ehare of the legal responsibility for the accident. Fines especially heavy ha"e some deterrent effect upon irieiponsible drivers, but unfortunately it often happens that 'he most flagrant of fenders are those who are least In convenienced by a penalty that may be paid on the spot by mere'y hand ing over a check to the clerk of the court. There is urgent need for some entirely new and adequate form of punishment for such delinquents, and It Is to the Interest of every com munity to find it even though the task may Involve some experimenta tion and time. Nearly a year ago an Ingenious and Interesting proposal was mad b. K. A. Skelton of New York. In the col umns of the Tribune of that city. Mr. Skelton's suggestion with ome abridg ment and certain modifications Is here presented. An act of the legislature would authorize and require boards or com missions Issuing licenses to furnish license tags of various distinctive forms and colors. There woold be a stock pattern and color for the use of law-abiding motorists, and contrast ingly different designs to be displayed by persons convicted of violitlon of traffic laws. Without rescinding exit ing penalties for misdemeanors of the road, the act would empower the court to compel convicted car owners tr turn in their ordinary tags and to display in their stead during the period designated by the court, one of the special penal tags which by Its form and color would adveitise the fact that the driver of the car had been convicted of speeding, criminal carelessness or driving while Vtoxl cated. Such a label would Inform every traffic officer and every chauffeur on the road or tne nature oi tne urlver's offence. It would tag him as a dangerous man. The poll-e would watch him as a susp'clous character and other drivers would witch him for their own safety. His smallest transgression would bring dovn upon him the wrath of the road as long as he sported the renal tag. W. J. R. BKACH, ADDRESS TO A CAItBAGU. "Flowers and vegetables only grow for people whom they like." A Gar dener. I've tried, dear cabbage, haw I've tried! To roune your Interest in me The hoe I patiently have plied; With lime and phosphate I've bees free; J' tended you In ra'n and sun; I've toiled until the twil'rht dim; There's nothing that I haven't done To gratify your lightest whim And yet you always seam to ail; Despondent on your stalk you sit Tour leaves awry, your vliage pale; iou do not care for me a bit. The beans and peas, which I neglect As dally gardenward I go, Are not like you In this respect; I love them not. but how they growl They thrust their leaves up toward the skies; Their vines hang thick with swell ing pods; Day In day out they rise and rise As creatures summoned iy the Gods And yet I always pass them by. As sadly for my step they wait They're very fond of me. but I Their love do not reciprocate. Dear rahhage, fair aristocrat. You win nt hearken to my plea. Yet truly, life la murh like that, Those I have loved have not loved me. While those whose love I to not deem Worth winning, always strive to please. And vainly vie for my esteem Exactly like the beans and peas, A deep affection is hut vain, It always meets with a Mbuff, What we don't wnnt Is all we gain; Dear cabbage, life is protty toughl . A Saving of 12,000 a Tear. So successful have been the vsrlous anti-vice crusades that It looks as though we'd soon be able to dispense with the vice-president, e e SuNplelona, Maybe th allies are waiting till those debts are outlawed. e Force of Habit. Everytlme Hoover takes his eye oft it, the cost of living goes jp again. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co, Can Yon Answer These Questions! 1. Ia It true that milkweed can be cooked and eaten as a substitute for asparagus? 2. Is it true that dogs were origin ally wolves? - 3. Does any bird drum except the grouse? Answers in tomorrow's nuture notes A nan era to Previous Questions. 1. I saw a large bird about the size of a small goose, wnlklng In the field It had a white head and '.he rest of it was brown. Can you tell me what It Is? No, not with so little detail. No date of the observation is given. If In win ter the bird might have been the red phalarope, both male and female hav ing white heads and gruviali barks in winter, but In summer they are not white headed. A bald i:ixle bus a white hear1, but would nit be settn walking In a field. The killdeer plover would be a good giuss for build, but Its head Is only partly white, with conspicuous blmk crown and band running below the eye, see 2 Do fish show any care for their young? Generally speaking, no. They have ucnri aujr PfraniiiK, IM. III, m no responsibility for the welfare of I the eggs or new ly hatched young. (In I the case of salmon death follows I spawning). But the male ol the fresh I water sickle-hack builds a neat of 3 aquatic vegetation, and f:"ri" the 1 eggs and the young throush infancy. S. Is anything known of the home life of apes? Not much reliable Information ex ists, but the belief Is that (hey live like human families to th? extent that an adult pair, with nffapring (one usually an Infant that must be car r'ed) generally travel together. As the young gain strength, and new infants are horn, requiring the par ents' care, the older children stem to be thrust out of the family, and In time form groups of their own. In Other Days. a stack ot mall a foot high awaiting him. L. A. Ellsworth, a stockman of Wasco, is registered at the Perkins J. W. Hull, also in tbe stock busi- scenery and George Marlon has Btaged the production. The costumes are by Peggy Hoyt Mr. Savage has assembled a sing ing cast of rare quality for the occa sion. Lydia Lipkowska. the younir ness in the same section, is like- Russian soprano formerly of the Im- I "ise at the Perklna- periat opem, rntu.rsu, wno oas sung Edward Bair of Newport. Or.. Is in in mis cour.iry witn me juecropon-1 tne city. Formerly Mr. Balr was a tan and Chicago opera companies, meat dealer, but now he is thi owner takes the title role, with Reginald of a motion-picture tneater. Yl V. ..Ann,. tt th. T?Av,K a . I. I ' V ' I t .1 r Vnma ltiiMttrmn , m I cago, is among the arrivals at the Hotel Portland. ter, Amsterdam as the prince. Dor othy Francis of the Chicago opera company, Jefferson de Angells, Frank Webster of English opera, George du Franne of the Gaiet'e Lyrlque, Paris; Marie Wells. Ray mond Crane. William H. White, Charles Angelo and Ralph Soule have important role . Carl M. Stolle, representing Carstens & Earles of Seattle, is registered at the Multnomah. On the Multnomah register yeter- IIIGHWAV FOlMDATIo:S FAILTH Writer Presents Tlaa Which He De elnrcs Will Carry Any Load. PORTLAND, Sept 14. (To the Ed itor.) I have read with Interest the editorials on the permanent highways and cost of same, and agree that as built they are not very much account owing to construction of a worthless foundation for the surfacing at an excessive cost. That highways be built o. suffi cient strength to carry capacity loads for trucks or vehicles of any kind, is necessary as they will be thi life ot the back to the land movement. Those having small holdings will surely need some such way to get small amounts of produce to markac cheap ly, which also benefits the consumer A highway can be built so as to be permanent at the present cost if the bed or foundation Is rightly put In. Discard crushed rock for base, also the steamroller. Use commjn ruble rock and make it firm by tamping with a tool of sufficient weight Jo crush the surface. It should be built thout any subgrade. Employ a V-shaped tool to make a trench each side of the grade, first rill these trenches with rock and tamp with a hammer like a pile driver uses, only it should be toothed to fine the sur face of the rock. Then form a trench in the center of the grade and fill In same manner. By using a tool weigh ing three-fourths of a ton to form the trench, the earth Is made firm bv pressing four feet into 11. Drive one foot of rock Into balance of sur face between trenches, put any kind of surface concrete or asphalt and you can discharge your police. You have a road that will carry any kind of a load. J. B. BYRNES. Alchemy at Crater Lake. EDENBOWER, Or.. Sept. II To the Editor.) Little wonder the boys got their dates mixed when suddenly com ing in contact with the carving of the female figure at Crater lake, at tired as it was In the 1922 or 1921 styles. I will give the Btory the way I heard It. Billy Woodand Charles Stone were together In 1914, when it suddenly burst on their vision. Stone turned to Wood and Wood turned to Tenty-flve Vfr Abo. From The Ori-tonlin. Keptrmber IA. !(.. It is expected that a viaoroua re publican club will be organized at Lents this wek. The fall fishing along the Columbia Is rather poor as yet. Even the wheels at The Dalles are not doing much and the big schools of salmon which have been expected have iot yet arrived. Mrs. John W. Mlnto left last evening for a brief visit to Salem. Mr. E. Werleln. grand maxter of the A. O. U. W., leaves for The Dalles tomorrow to deliver his lecture on fraternity In the opera house. Fifty Tears Abo. From The Oregonlarv. Scptemb-r 13. l7t. New York Approximately 13,000 members of the worklngmen's union l-araded through the streets today de manding an eight-hour day. It has been learned here that Brig ham Young Is buying out all the set tlers around Soda Springs, Idaho, and paying them their own prices. Boise. Idaho The Boise News, a democratic paper, has departed this life. The Stateaman la now the only paper published In tbe city. R R. Rounds of Long Tom had H bushels of wheal to tbe acre, so ha reports. . "Dived" or "Dove." SALEM, Or.. Sept. 14 (To the Edi tor.) Which of these twu sentences has the more common usage: "He dove off of the bridge " "He dived off of the bridge?" G. J. 8. "Dived" la colloquial. preferable. "Dove' Is day appeared this: John. Barley, Corn . stone, and they both turned to rub- Hollow. Jber. J. W. TALLMAN Hockrfrllrr lnalltote. PORTLAND, Kept. 14 (To the Edi tor.) (1) Does the John D Rocke feller foundation carry a tu'.crcular research? (2) What is Its address? BAJtNETT. 1. Yes. Through the Rockefeller institute for Medical Research 2. New York. ftallroad Knalneer Honored. Indianapolis News. Erie railroad engineers who have achieved a certain standard In the care and handling of their engines are elected to the Order of the Rid Spot and a red spot Is placed on the locomotive of the engineer. A aecond desree of the order provides for thi subntltutlon of the engineers name In gold letters for the number plate on his cab.