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G THE MORNING OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1921 .illonunjOiCDrirjimmn KHTABLI8HED BY HENRY U PITTOCK. Published by The Orekonlan Publishing Co.. 134 sixth street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. HORDES', E. B. PIPER. Manager. .Kdaor. The Oregonlan la member of the Am elated I'msa The Aeoctate4 I'rtM e clusively entitled to ih ih for publication of all nawa d.spatchrs credited to It or not olherarlae cre.lited In thla paper and alao the local nawa published herein. All righte I publication or special diepalcbee) herein re alao reaerved. BuhecrlpUoa Rates Inrarlably la Ad (By Mall.) Pally, Sunday Included, ona year M 00 r. ouonay included, all month! ... 4 iei,y, Sunday Included, three month! 'ally. Sunday Included, ona month . Jtally. wlthntif Knn4. 2.23 .71 a 0 Ially, without Hunrtayi six monthi"".' I 21 .. '. w"houl hunday. ona month (Ml Weekly, one year l.uo Sunday, ona year 2.M (By Carrier.) Jally, Sunday Included, ona year $ 00 Ii:y. Hinday Included, three montha.. S.2J naily, Sunday Included, one month ... .71 Ially, without Kunday, one year T.RO Ially, without Sunday, three months.. 1.K3 Dally, without Sunday, ona month el How to Remit Send poatofflce money order, express or personal check on your local bank, fltampa, coin or currency are t owner's rlak. uiva postnfflce addraaa in full, including county and slate. Poatag Kalea 1 to 1 pages. 1 cent: 1. to 21 pages, 2 cental 34 to 48 pnges. 3 eenta; ;0 to S4 pages. 4 eente; 6 to 80 v-x. a centa: i to Be page, e centa. Jorelgn postage double rata. Kaatern R,,lnMa nttlfm v. a, r..i,- Iln. ion Madison avenue. New York; Verrea m uonaiin. meger ouiioing. Chleago; Ver- r-w m ytnaijo. r ree irese building, Ie trolt. Mich.; Verrea Conklln. Bellini building. Portland; San ITranclaco repre entatlve, R. J. Bldwell. BATE THE SALMON. The Oreg-on legislature by an en actment In 1921 attempted to pre vent the use of purse seines in the taking of fish In Oregon waters. It not only prohibited the operation of purse seines in waters over which .the state has jurisdiction but pro hibited the sale within Oregon of fish caught In that appliance. The law does not go Into effect Uistll January 1, 1912. Now Andrew J. Xaterfln of Dahlia. Washington, has sent to all the Port land newspapers a letter which de nies that purse seines are de structive of Immature fish, which Is the chief ground for their prohibi tion. He accuses the Oregon fish commission of having made no in vestigation, and he refers to a re port Issued by the Washington bu reau of fisheries which he says ac quits the purse seine of the charges made against It. The Washington report referred to by the correspondent has not come to our attention and the Ore gon fish commission knows nothing of It. If the Washington fisheries department has Issued such a report it has reversed a previous opinion nd has set aside an exhaustive In vestigation made by Dr. E. Victor frmlth, bead of the department of oology of the University of Wash ington, made at its own Instance. This report, which relates the re sults of investigations conducted on the fishing grounds during a part of the 1918 season and during all of the 1919 season is one of the official publications of the Washington de partment. In passing it may be said that it quotes certain statistics sup plied by the Oregon commission through the Investigations . of Its deputies. In addition the United States bu reau of fisheries has Issued a re port, following investigations by Dr. Willis H. Rich, field assistant of the bureau, in which the United States bureau goes on record against out side fishing and presents tables demonstrating that 70 per cent of the salmon thus caught would not reach maturity for one or two years. The purse seine Is operated from mail, but staunch, sea-going ves sels. These vessels range from the Interior waters of Puget sound to the waters off the mouth of the Columbia river. They go where the finning is good. The purse seine encloses an area of four or five acres and is then pursed at the bottom. Usually the vessels travel in fleets, each boat watching for signs of a kchool of fish. When one lets down its net it is a signal for the others to rush to the same locality. What thirty or forty purse seeing each en closing an area of four or five acres may do to a school of fish is obvious. The habits of the salmon in some particulars are now so well known that further Investigation is needless. It is known that in the main they re main in salt water during their early period of life and that at the time they enter fresh water to spawn are at maximum development. Both the government report and that Is sued by Or. Smith condemn outside fishing whether it be done by purse seiners or by trollera. , me sale or immature salmon may be likened to the harvesting and caJe of unripe fruit or the market ing of underfed livestock. There is a large loss not only In weight or quantity but In food value. An analysis made at the University of Washington of the food value of im mature Chinook salmon disclosed that it was but little better as a food than was npawned-out salmon, a product ordinarily not considered worth preserving. In one check made by Dr. Smith it was ascertained that the average liver salmon taken by purse seines on the banks of Cape Flattery had tut little more than one-half the weight of the mature fish. The fish would not have been lost had they been permitted to mature. The weight loss on 46.102 Immature salmon taken was 204.110 pounds. It is clear that if salmon are not per. mltted to attain their full develop ment but are sought out on their feeding and growing grounds, the supply of fish will progressively diminish. If It requires two small salmon to provide the same amount of food that one salmon would supply, and If the food supplied by the two salmon Is of inferior quality, and It costs noting to permit them to grow to maturity, a waste has oc curred that Is inexcusable and Is a menace to the well-being of the public. There are rival forma of salmon fishing. One makes Inroads upon the other. That there Is bitter jeal ousy among them is but natural. The svrgurosnt of one fisherman in be half of his appliance and against that of another fisherman Is not a cafe reliance for the public. It only safe course In the desire to preserve a great and valuable food supply and a great and. profitable in. dustry is to heed the reports of dis interested and expert observers. - The great runs of some species of salmon In Puget sound have been virtually destroyed by one form of greed or another. Iconoclasts are attacking the story of fifty years ago that the Widow O'Leaxy's cow kicked over the lamp and started the big fire, when every man old enough knows the cow did just that. Some of these fellows would strike out Noah and the ark and even the garden of Eden. OFF THE KEY. Portland has often been the ob ject of stern lectnres delivered by two or three up-state newspapers on its duty to aid and encourage state wide development. It is their theme that what is good for Oregon is good for Portland. It is a truth, too, but It is usually stated in a way which ignores that which Portland has done and that which it is quite will ing to do. But one of these few newspapers, the 8alem Capital Journal, refuses to admit that the rule works both ways. It asserts that Portland will receive all the benefits from the 1925 exposition and that therefore Portland should pay the whole cost. Let it be emphasised that the Sa lem newspaper is discussing the 1925 exposition, not the Oregon state fair which will shortly open at Sa lem. The two are enterprises dif fering in magnitude and scope but with comparative benefits alike. It has not been heard in any outside quarter,, nor in Portland, which pays one-third of the cost of the state fair, that Salem gets all the benefit and ought to go it alone. The benefits to all of Oregon from the proposed exposition are so plain that they need not be recited here. It is true ltfcas conceived In Port land and that if held It will be held in Portland. But Portland Invited representatives from all parts of the state to meet In conference and asked these representatives if they wanted the exposition and were will ing to support it. It was thus in formally put up to the remainder of the state and the answer was an un qualified "Yes." If there Is a good argument gainst the exposition it is not that It will be solely of benefit to Port land. The argument that such will be the case is on its face insincere. Of the cost of the exposition Port land will contribute two-thirds: the remainder of the state one-third. When the exposition comes up for formal ratification or rejection the true issue here and elsewhere in the state will be. whether the benefits to accrue will be worth the price, end if so whether we can afford the investment. But if there is to be a raise issue raised as to relative bene fits it will come In better grace from somebody who has not heretofore sung In all keys the doctrine that an enterprise anywhere in Oregon is good for all of Oregon. DAWES STOPS A BIO LEAK. Budget Director Dawes believes ha ran dnnhla hi orieinal estimate of $112,000,000 as the amount that he can save on apprbpriatlons for the present fiscal year. Finding that each deoartment has been buy ing supplies without regard to a surplus obtainable rrom some outer riannrtmant. ha has StODDed buying as needs of one department can be met by transfer from anotner. as the government will thus buy from itself, an equivalent amount of mnnev will remain in the treasury. There is further economy in salary of men employed in buying ana handling of supplies. This Is an advance In breaking riown alrtie-ht partitions between de partments, which caused each to be managed as a distinct Dustness, not as a branch of the same business. An example of that system was the hnrrnr nf the war department shortly after the war ended, when congress ordered it to hand over its thousands of surplus auto trucks to the good roads bureau, which should utrihiite them among the states for use in roadmaklng. Secretary Baker disobeyed the order as an infringe ment on the sacred rights or the army. Mr. Dawes efforts at economy are likely to be blocked unless congress abandons the habit of continuing useless offices in existence. Every effort to abolish land offices, cus toms houses and assay offices where little or no business was done has m with determined resistance. and there Is further work for the abolition ax. The office of surveyor general in most of the western states has become a sinecure and should go to limbo. Before Mr. Dawes finishes his Job, he will find more offices which exist for the sole pur nruA of orO vldin&r somebody with a salary with no work attached. TRANSITION IN TRANSPORTATION. The question "Are Railroads Pass ing?" is answered emphatically in the negative In a little pamphlet un- der that title by Paul Shoup, vice president of the Southern Pacific company, and he makes a good case. Far from conceding that railroads are being superseded by other forms of transportation, he predicts that moderate industrial revival will bring "imperative demand for addi tional railroad service." He answers complaint of high rates by saying that "business suffers rrom the after-war stagnation" and by dis puting the theory that railroad rates are responsible, when much traffic moves by sea and when a third of the ships of the world are tied up. He points out the Inequality of bur dens borne by motor vehicles and railroads and suggests that the for mer be taxed for uxe and main tenance of the highways. He recom mends consideration whether enough traffic exists or could be de veloped for both rail and motor or whether one or both would be made Inefficiently weak by operation in competition. A transition in transportation Is taking place, due to revival of active sea competition with railroads, which is stimulated by the Panama canal, and to use of motor vehicles on highways. We have been made' to realize the Importance of trans portation as an item In the cost of production and of living, and as a means of distribution. This inclines many to exaggerate the part that the motor is to play in future. So long as the motor Is free from regulation and does not pay its fair share of taxes, a fair comparison of its capa bilities with those of the railroad is not possible. The ability of the rail road to carry far heavier, lurger loads with a single engine seems to put limits on the motor's competi tion, though It may compete suc cessfully in carrying comparatively light loads In local traffic and is bie to go from door to door, while the railroad must use It to make col lections or deliveries. It may serve I as a goad to railroads to reduce cost of trafflce 'and to expedite move ment, and may thus render them a service. The present stagnation, which made over 800,000 freight cars idle, should not blind us to the fact that in times of normal .industrial ac tivity the railroad system was unable to carry all the traffic of the coun try. When good times return. It may prove that ocean lines and motors are relieving railroads of traffic which they cannot carry and which would cause congestion with out this relief. Then we may bring inland waterways into use in con junction with railroads. When the transition la complete, we may find railroads serving as long connecting links between waterways and mak ing long hauls only in directions which cut across the course of the great rivers, while motors may com pete only locally on particular classes of traffic or as feeders to rail and water lines. Traffic may become so dense through the econ omy effected by co-ordinating the three systems that there will be work enough for all and that rall loads will prosper a wej as when they tried to carry all the traffic. ' CONGRESS NEEDS DISCIPLINE. If the republican majority in con gress should fail to complete the legislative programme set before It for the extra session, the cause will be lack of party discipline. Though men were elected as republicans they constantly act less as members of a party and more as go-as-you-please Individuals. Some take any attempt to get them to act with the party on important measures as a signal for violent opposition to its decisions. ' Party government cannot be suc cessfully carried on in that manner. Membership in a party carries with it an obligation to support a pro gramme that accords with its prin ciples. Agreement on the details of each number in that programme necessarily involves compromise, but when the many have thus yielded points to the few, it also obliges the few to remain within the party ranks. The alternative is group government as distinguished from party government. That system causes instability of governments in France and Italy, where the number of groups la so great and so change ful as to tax the memory. Our constitution prevents a complete turnover of the government with every change In control of the legis lature, but group control leads to in terminable debate and paucity of re sult. A number of measures of first Im portance are to be crowded into the ten remaining weeks of the extra session tariff, taxes, peace treaties, the railroad settlement, adjustment of allied debts, while prohibition presses its claim to consideration. All of that work can be done only if the majority in senate and house selects strong leaders, decides on the main features of the bills it will support with reasonable concessions to conciliate dissentients, then agrees to give those bills its united support. If any refuse to join in or abide by such agreements, let them be classed with the minority party as political mavericks. With all their faults, there is this much to say of Aldrich, Cannon and their kind that they lined up their party In support of Its legislative programme and got things done. Though the present congress has done much, it has not completed the big things and the majority has not united on them. In default of ef fective leadership in congress, Presi Jent Harding has been compelled to take the lead. The best, work done and In prospect is due to him. The effect is to weaken the power of the legislative and to strengthen the executive branch of the government, end for this congress is responsible. That situation creates the oppor tunity for an autocratic president to gather more power into his hands. THE Ml'TATlONS OF HISTORY. Civilization does not view with alarm the disastrous defeat of the Spanish forces in their strife with the Moors of Morocco. Without a hastened pulse beat we read that the loss to Spain, In a single engage ment with her ancient foeman, wae 24.000 men and great stores of mu nitions and arms. Including 120 air planes. The fact that, of a mighty army, only 200 escaped the onslaught of the Moors and left the field with their lives does not particularly Im press us. We are entirely uncon cerned and altogether Inclined to consider It as Spain's own affair, as it is. Yet there was a time when, if word could have been carried to Christendom of such a defeat, kings would have crossed themselves hur riedly and hastened to muster their troops to meet the Moslem hordes. The fact that such a day is dim in history, coupled with the fact that the crescent has been for centuries in the descendant, warrants the Christian nonchalance of the pres ent. It is a Spanish quarrel for ter ritorial purposes, and so democratic U the spirit of the times that, if we give the situation the least thought, our sympathies are with the Moors. There is no need, as Chesterton phrased It In Lepanto, to "call the kings of Christendom to rally round the cross." But in a far day Spain was the frontier of Christianity, and the strife for supremacy between two faiths. Christian and Moslem, was bitterly waged for centuries upon her soil. Her enemies then were the ancestors of those same rebellious tribesmen who are at grips with her today, but they were in the middle ages the enemies of civilization as well, and, save' for the price of conflict which Spain paid, the culture of the present might have been that of the crescent and not of the cross. With Turkey as an evidence of the blight that Moham medanism casta upon its countries, the thought is one to recoil from. Yet it is a thought that finds dtf, inlte place In the might-have-been. Three factors prevented the su premacy of the Moslem faith and conquest in the period of national formations. These were the opposi tion of Spain to the advance of the Moors, or Saracens; the victory of Charles "Martel, or Charles the Ham mer, at Poitiers in 732 over the ad vancing hordes of Abd-er-Rahman, and the sealous, intrepid front which the Polish cavalry presented to the Tartar and Turkish onslaughts in eastern Europe. It is difficult to assign in history a position of su perior importance to either service, tor they are inseparably linked In the chain of stubborn opposition which met the ambition and might of the prophet's armies over a period of several centuries. True to his surname, Charles Martel smote mightily at Poitiers, but for many a lifetime thereafter the fight was the fight of Spain, and the great victory of Christian arms in France might quite conceivably have come to naught save for ' the valor of the dons. The Turkish siege of Vienna, in 1682, would have triumphed in the fall of the city and laid bare the heart of Christian Europe had It not been for John Sobieski, king of Poland, and his eager army of deeply religious' warlike Poles the superlative cavalry of their time. We hold In light esteem today the po tency of the crescent, but in the past the Issue between two faiths, two modes of culture, was In. hazardous Jeopardy. Early in the 'eighth century the Saracens gained4 mastery of Spain through their victory at Jeres de la Frontera, and almost ceaseless war fare followed, with varying suc cesses until the fall of Granada be fore the Christian arms of Ferdi nand and Isabella In 1492. This strife was of grave concern to every nation of Europe. One remembers the old ballad of how the Scottish knights took ship to carry the heart of the Bruce to the holy land, and off the Spanish coast caught the sheen of tossing spears and heard the blare of the trumpets. You may be sure they landed then. It was their fight. The Moors had come from Africa, and it was the concern the first concern of every Chris tian knight to give them battle. Have down! Hart down! my merry men all! Have down upon the plain! We'll let the Scottish Hon looaa moos the nil la of Spain! And Poland, poor Poland, soon to be torn and dismembered by the rapacity of Prussia, Austria and Rus sia, waited not for a second sum mons when word came that the Turks iwere to advance on Vienna. A faulty. Imperfect, quarrelsome na tion was Poland, where knighthood rested its heel on the neck of the peasant, but she had stout hearts and keen sabers, and Sobieski gave these without stint to the cause of the cross. Europe did not hesitate to accord all praise to the Poles and their king in the exuberant relief that followed that victory. In St. Stephen's cathedral in Vienna, at a Thanksgiving mass after the raising of the siege, the text was: "There was a maa sent from God whose name was John." John Sobieski, king of Poland. When the Poles went to Rome to beg relics of the pope he .answered them that the sa cred soli of their conflict should suffice. "Take earth," he said. "steeped In blood from the field where your countrymen fell at Vienna." The crusades, with all their ro mance and religious fervor, pale be fore the matter-of-fact valor of the Spaniards and Poles in their seem ingly Interminable warfare' against the Moslem aggressors Moors, Tar tars and Turks. They were forever on the frontier, looking to the south or the east for the vanguard of a new horde, another invasion. Zeal fed their souls and sharpened their swords, and both nations held them selves to be as undoubtedly they were the chosen instruments of providence to repel barbarism. Some thing of the spirit that animated them, that sustained them against odds and terrible hardship, is to be found in the Polish novels of Henry Sienkiewicx, Thus in "On the Field of Glory," which chronicles the preparations for the Vienna cam paign under Sobieski, one of hi characters, a priest who had been in his youth a celebrated knight, speaks the Polish thought, aod put the Poltati people on horeeback. and turned their breaeta eaatward; by that aame act he ehowed them hia will and their calling. He knew why he cboee ua for that poettlon, and put othra 'behind our ahouldera; hence. If we wieh to fulfill hia command and our mission with worth In ran. we must face that vile aea and break lis wavea with our bosoms. And so, as they rode to meet the Turk, rode with the confidence of their faith and their own incom parable swordsmanship, they shouted a battle song that would ring strangely on a modern field: For thee. O pure lady. O mother Immaculate. W so to defend Christ. Our Lord. For thee, O dear country, For you. O white eaglea. We will crush every enemy On the field of (lory! If a knight of Spain or Poland had been told, at that time, that a day would come when the Christian na tions would hear of a Moorish vic tory without alarm or the fire of religious partisanship, doubtless he would have stricken the soothsayer down. Such are the mutations of history. Gentlemen who accompany their wives to the circus will be wary of what follows soon after entrance. It is difficult of explanation. Freddie Briggs is one of the great female impersonators. There is a bargain in a "William and Mary" dining suite in a local store; but lots of Williams and Marys began life with a pine table. If the right kind, they get the other later. The Woodrow Wilson foundation will be opportunity for loyal demo crats to show seal by contribution. The more zeal, the bigger the foun dation. Fellows who ask clemency be cause of the delicate condition of their wives should consider before they commit crimes. Kansas is making a campaign e gainst watered gasoline. But isn't that one of the natural effects of prohibition? It may be the circus, it may be the equinoctial or lt may be the Gresham. fair whatever the cause, it's rain. Big liners are common sights in this port, yet everybody stops per force to see one pass the bridges. A parade gives a view of some of s. circus to those too poor to pay in as if there were any such folk. The Golden Rule could be invoked to advantage in that case of a house erected on the wrong lot. It seems vacant ground can earn good rent as parking space. Noth ing is made in vain. . Do not put away the "little gas by by." Plenty of pleasant days are coming. In his planning, the robber falls down on his getaway. The mainstay of a growing city is Us fire bureau. Let's go to Gresham, rain or bhine. Watch the elephants. BY-PRODUCTS OP THE PRESS W omen Grow Beards Result of To baeeo an4 Cocktails. Beards and moustaches are Increas ing alarmingly among women an nually, Parisian doctors blaming cig arette smoking and alcohol drinking principally for this phenomenon. Statistics at -Paris hospitals show 11 per cent of the women Inmates have an abnormal growth of hair on their upper lips and chins, and 17 per cent of the women inmates in the In sane asylums are bearded or have moustaches. Paris society, which has taken up intensive cigarette smoking since the armistice, when Turkish-scented to bacco became available once more, and have contracted the American cocktail habit from the A. E. F.. are aghast at the statements of leading Paris savants that tobacco and al cohol are conducive to unsightly hair. Leading beauty doctors assert that a big percentage of their clientele continually are under treatment for hair roots being electrically burned out or otherwise eradicated. a a a It took the oulja board to betray the secret marriage of two young couplea of Reading. Mass. Lionel Springford and Helen Delano and H. Leslie Hill and Madeline MacKenxle, Springford and Miss Delano were married at Dover, N. H., on August 10, while the other couple became man and wife in a secret marriage in the same city last April. The revelations were a sensation at a party at which all the principals, together with a score of others, were present. Somebody produced a oulja board. A young woman asked, "When will Leslie Hill be married?" "He is married;" came the amazing reply. Hill was-rjuestloned and ad mitted the oulja charge. Then the board was asked, "Is Lio nel Springford married T" - "Yes," was the answer. Then Springford and his bride also confessed. Although both the couples are Inti mate friends, each stoutly denied all knowledge of the marriage of the other. Pretty girls on an Illuminated run way a bare back too alluringly dis played, and a boyish enthusiasm all figure In the sad tale Edward New hall, 19, unfolded in police court in Oakland, following the youth'a arrest at the Century theater, where it is charged by the management he slapped Nell Harding, chorus girl. In the back while she paraded. She is 40 years old. The affair occurred In a show pre sented by Will King, during which a bevy of girls marched over a glass runway in the audience. -Young New hall says he was carried away by his enthusiasm and that the slap was a boyish prank. He was surprised, he said, at his arrest, and suggested that the scantily clad "beauty chorus" mingling in the audience was the principal provocation for his act. He admitted he was "in wrong." The Judge continued the case two months, placing the youth on proba tion. a The latest type of British passenger-carrying airplane has an inclosed cabin for eight passengers and an open cockpit for the pilot and me chanic, says the Vancouver Colonist. It Is a biplane driven by a single en gine of 450 horae power. The seats are made pollapsibie so that prac tically the whole of the cabin space may be used for cargo If desired. An interesting detail is that for the ben efit of passengers liable to air sick ness a small concealed self-emptying basin is provided close to each seat. Windows to open are fitted on the full length of each side of the cabin, and heating is provided by hot-air muffs around the exhaust pipes. The pilot's cockpit is fitted with a com plete wireless telephone and tele graph Installation. - This machine, when fully loaded, takes only nine minutes to climb 5000 feet, at which height its speed is 118 miles per hour. Fuel and oil sufficient for a Journey of 400 miles are carried on board, a a e It happened in the Greek theater at the University of California, The occasion was the first university meeting, the Ingathering of the thou sands of old and new students. To one of the neophytes, she was particularly appealing. He thought of his 12-year-old sister on the little farm at home, and when after watching her climb nearly to the top of the steps, she tripped and fell a short distance, he was the first to reach her side. He lifted her gently. ' "Are you hurt?" he gargled. "Not even a scratch," she said. He glanced down. Her knee seemed raw and bleeding. Ha stooped, and as he was about to check the flow of blood with his hands, he said, "But your knees " "Hands off. you rube." she shrieked, "it's only rouge." e a a It takes a soldier your trained regular to meet eventualities with aplomb, says the Vancouver World. He was one of our own Royal Cana dian Mounted Police scarlet tunic, orange stripes, spurs and alL He swung'hie crop nonchalantly as he strolled 'along- the way. content, and doubtless fully conscious of the striking figure he cut. A stranger approached our R. C. M. P. diffidently and looked him over. Apparently sat Is fie Id with his ex amination, he stepped up to the scarlet-coated one and declared himself; "I didn't know your uniform at first and I didn't know you Salvation Army men ever rode horses, but will you please tell me where I can find a good, moderate prioed hotel?" Our soldier took the shock with out the flicker of a lash, and with ut most courtesy directed the stranger to the nearest Salvation Army building, there to learn his mistake without embarrassment, a Bernard Statey of Huntington. W. Vs., has a hound-that is worth a million, claims the Pittsburg Chronicle-Telegraph. His name la William Jennings Volstead. They call him "Bone Dry" for short, and he's a hooch hound. "Bone Dry" is a rat terrier and he has a red nose and his nose got that way digging for liquor. The prohi bition authorities want him, but they can't have him. In two days "Bone Dry" unearthed two caches of burled hooch. His master, hearing him bark at a stump in a neighboring field, in vestigated and dug up a q.imrt bottle of very fine moonshine. H'.n -second feat of the 48 hours was discovering several gallons buried in a creek bed. Staley has refused fabulous offers for ths hound. It is said. I Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folk at ike Hotela. Effective work for Portland and the Columbia river is being done in the orient by W. G. Talt. foreign traf fic agent for the Port of Portland, according to Roy O. Hadley. formerly secretary of the Seattle chamber of commerce, who recently returned from a trip through Japan. Mr. Had ley was secretary of a delegation of Washington people who made a visit to the orient on the initial trip of a passenger steamship line between Puget sound and China and Japan. "Wherever we went we. found that the Port of Portland had been placed on the map by Mr. Talt." said Had ley. "His knowledge of transporta tion and his ability to render direct service to shippers have been impor tant in the bringing of orient freight shipments to Portland." Fed up on trout and deer meat R. D. Cooper Is In Portland telling stories around the lobby of the Im perial regarding the great hunting and f'shlng 'n his country near Alsea. When making the trip here by auto Mr. Cooper almost ran over five deer that had deserted the timber and taken to the highway. "There has been some great hunting near Alsea this season." he said yesterday. "I have hadaall the venison I could eat. So far as fishing is concerned, all I have to do Is to go out for half an hour and I come back with a basket of fine trout." Mr. Cooper has the reputation of being willing at any time to desert work or business for a fishing trip. Last year he took Representative "Pat" McArthur Into the Alsea country and accompanied him on a fishing and hunting trip. He Is endeavoring to get Mr. Mc Arthur to make another trip with him while' he Is here on his vacation. After having spent two weeks In Oregon making an investigation of lumbering conditions in the Nehalem district, where he recently purchased 27.000 acres of valuable timber, Charles Keith has departed for Kan sas citv. Mr. Keith is president of the Central Coke & Coal company of Kansas City and is one of the big gest lumbermen in the south. His purchase of the David Eccles timber . . . , A Ai ftftO urn at an esumaiea coat 01 n,v v.. the largest timber deal that has been made in Oregon since the war. With his associates Mr. Keith will develop the property, construct mills and move their lumber operations, which have been confined to the yellow pine of the pouth. to Oregon. Mr. Keith was the guest of A. 8. Kerry at a dinner given in his honor at the Arlington club Friday night. While in Portland Mr. Keith registered at the Portland hotel. Lelf S. Flnseth of Dallas, who is the vice-grand chancellor of "the Knights of Pythias, is in Portland attending to lodge affairs, and making ready to assume the position as grand chan cellor of the state, which will fall to his lof at the next election. For the past few months he has been kept in Dallas, due to the fact that his father has been in Europe, and the business of running a dry goods store kept him closely engaged. With the re turn of his father Mr. Finseth has been given an opportunity to get tway from the store. He is at the Imperial hotel. Three Star" ie the nickname car ried by J. B. Hennessey of Cincinnati, who travels for a large shoe manu facturing concern. He has been mak ing annual trips to Portland for 12 years and has always registered at the Imperial hotel. W. K. McCormack, who owns a big cattle ranch in the Deschutes coufitry, came to Portland yesterday with s load of stock and put up at the Im perial hotel. Another stockman seen around the Imperial lobby yesterday was J. L. Maxwell of Wallowa. J. R. Clinton, who works in the office of the clerk of Clatsop county In Astoria, came to Portland, Satur day with his daughter, Sadie, who Is going to Corvallls to attend the state agricultural college. They stopped at the Imperial hotel. En route to Corvallis to attend the agricultural college, Miss Mildred Rogers and Miss G. Winn of Pendleton (topped off in Portland Saturday. They registered at the Imperial hotel. Professor A. B. Cordley. known to Oregon Agricultural college students at "Alphabet" Cordley. came down from Corvallls Saturday and spent the afternoon on the golf links. He Is registered at the Imperial hotel. Mrs. Minnie Letaon. grand worthy matron of the Eastern Star, whose home Is in Ontario, Or., is registered at the Imperial hotel. She is In Port land transacting busineas in connec tion with her fraternal work. Mrs. Eugene Lorton, wife of. the editor and owner of the Tulsa World, one of the leading newspapers of Oklahoma, is a guest at the Portland hotel. She comes from the big oil town of the United States. Mr. and Mrs. E. J. McCIenahan of Astoria drove to Portland over the Lower Columbia River highway yes terday and registered at the Beason hotel. F. Klevenhausen, president of the Columbia Northern Canning company of Astoria, was a guest at the. Oregon hotel yesterday. Professor Harry C. Seymour of Ore gon Agricultural college, was in Portland yesterday and put up at the Imperial hotel. Leslie Butler, banker of Hood River, was in Portland yesterday and could be found in the lobby of the Benson hotel. Dr. W. E. Wrrightman of Silverton spent the week end in Portland and was at the Imperial hotel. J. B. Cuslck, one of the prominent business men of Albany, is registered at the Multnomah hotel. Wife Not Liable for Uaaband'a Drkts. PORTLAND. Or.. Sept. 17. (To the Editor.) A husband borrows money and gives a note which is overdue, the wife knowing nothing of the transaction. Can the party holding the note at tach household goods, or personal property, of the wife to satisfy the note? A SUBSCRIBER. The wife's separate property can not be attached for an indebtedness of the husband ev.c enced by a prom issory note. Household goods, furniture and utensils to the value of $300 and Looks, pictures and musical instru ments to the value of 175 are ex empt from execution. Meehaslcal Mneenonlrs. ' Roseburg News-Review. Errant husbands should not place inn much confidence in the Drevalllna- epidemic of "loss of memory" when; explaining to innr ,iei auy anon- comlngs and conflicting engagements. The average wife Is pretty handy with wam,Ib.W vhlfh hv tha wav la a mlahty good Implement to restore a fellow's faculties when he gets a HJtle off In ths upper aparunenu. t MOT HIS IDEA OF I.OOD SPORT j Well Eneloweal Mas Who Ckooaes Life of 'Crime la Contemptible. j PORTLAND, Sept. 18. (To the Edi tor.) Will you allow the writer, as a believer In "good sportsmanship," to enter his protest against any apologist for a criminal of the type of Roy Gardner, posing as a repre sentative of the "good-sports" of the country? of, all the contemptible breed of law breakers one having the qualities of Gardner is the most dan gerous and the most contemptible, for he has the capacity and the personal endowment to make a good and use ful citlxen, but has deliberately chosen to be an-outlaw. One might have some charity for a poor devil wlthot the mental or physical capacity to make good and who be cause of his limitations seemed to be destined to be an "under dog." If he were forced Into crime, but there i no excuse for Gardner. Even "Fatty" Arbuckle, according to his wife, has always been kind to her. and during their entire five years' separation has liberally . supported her, although she has no dependent child as Mrs. Gard ner has. A fine "sport" Is Gardner to! aban don his wife and child for a criminal career, and then write her muhy letters, evidently for publication, tell ing of his agonizing and undying love for her and the child. Much food and clothing and happiness surh lovers as that will bring her. Oh, but he la so smart, and merry and magnetic. What does the companion that he abandoned at Castle Rock think of that? What do the two men at McNeil's Island who were shot In the back while he was using them as a screen to shelter him think of It? We may feel like excusing members of the sob sister sororities for blub bering over "sports" of the Gardner type about our Jails and court rooms, but that any man having any respect for the laws of the country and the orderly processes that are needed to protect society from the predatory criminals that infest the country should openly boast of his friendship and express a hone that an habitual criminal should escape the penalty of his crime is past comprehension. If every citizen were to take that po sition we mifrht as well open our Jails and close our courts. We are told that 25 per cent of an Francisco Is pleading leniency for "Fatty" Arbuckle because he is such a good natured fellow and so liberal with his money. His only re gret probably is that he was found out, Gardner is a fine fellow because he has never shot anybody. He simply hasn't found it necessary. Arbuckle took his chances and his victim is dead. If the "sports" of the country continue to coddle Gardner his victim will be found in the morgue some day. LAW AND ORDER. APPLIANCE DECLARED HARMLESS Commlaaloa Aecnaed of Not Investi gating Parse Seine Operations. DAHLIA. Wash..' Sept. 17. (To the Editor.) During the last summer numerous articles against the purse seiners appeared under glaring head lines In the Astoria press. They were accused of being "fish destroy ers," 'pirates," Austrian aliens and what not.. The press, guided by the anti-purse seine sentiment of Astoria glllnetters and trollers, (who for the most part are foreigners fishing un der cannery licenses in order to get around the law which prohibits the Issuing of licenses to non-citizens), did not attempt to verify these accu sations In order to see how much truth was in them. It immediately proceeded to print these articles de nouncing the purae seiners. Investigations made by the Wash ington bureau of fisheries showed that the purse seiners were not de stroying young salmon, crabs or feed ing g.-ounds; that all purse seine cap tains were full American citizens, while the crews had at least their first papers; that they were operating mostly in Washington waters under Washington licenses; that Oregon was deriving a benefit by canning Wash ington fish brought in by the purse seiners. It seems to me that It is the duty of the press to enlighten the public on such questions as this by making Investigations, and not by taking any body's and everybody's word for It. We must remember that no one is guilty until proven '0be so. The same holds true with purse seiners. How many of the men who were responsible for these accusations have ever been aboard a purse seiner; have ever seen one operate: or have Inves tigated the fishing grounds to see if there really was any vegetation which the fish were supposed to be feeding on? Has the, Oregon fish commission ever made any of these Investigations? To make a long story short, the Washington commissioners, who made Investigations, say. that the purse aelnes are not destructive; while the Oregon commissioners, who made no attempt to Investigate, say that they are destructive. The result la we have words versus facts, and yet the Astoria press sides up with old Dame Rumor against concrete facts. ANDREW J. NATERLIN. SENSE DWARFED BY OCt I PATIOX Bnalneaa of Making Fools Laugh Halts IntelUs-enr. Saya Writer. PORTLAND. September 1. (To the Editor.) Mr. Perry's cartoon. "The Only Remedy In Some Cases." which appeared in The Oregonlan Saturday conveys more truth and common sense than I can express In words in mucn more space. Nature, I believe, gave to every man a modicum of common sense, but in the case with Roscoe Arbuckle it was never developed. But a good sledge hammer Jolt of the law will very likely force him into some serious thinking and wake up hia reasoning faculties. Arbuckle, no doubt, started out in life acting silly, and it made fools laugh. Then he acted all the more silly and made more fools laugh. His common sense was dwarfed and fool ishness became his stock In trade. "Fatty" Arbuckle never produced anything that wasn't silly and very disgustingly so. Nevertheless I pity him. But "Fatty" Arbuckle is not the only one that has been producing light and rotten stuff for the film. Hollywood seems to be about rotten to the core with such a class of stuff. It is about ripe for a good sledge hammer blow of the law. to drive the wedge of decency Into the core and open up that doty old haunt of free lancers and foolmakers. Somebody must make the sacrifice for extremes, and Arbuckle no doubt has gone the limit and "the only remedy In some cases" should be ap plied, not only to Arbuckle but to the whole colony, and teach more of the foolmakers that it pays to be decent CHAS. BAR.NETT. The Taeoma Girl's Camisole. Cottage Grove Sentinel. Tacoma girls nave declared aealnst the walat which shows the camisole. Not having any positive Information, we presume that the camisole reposes Inside the diaphragm. In such case It seems reasonable that the Tacoma girls have decided that what they show outside Is enough. Their cami soles should be their own anyway. More Truth Than Poetry. My James J. Moatigor, Watch Vest Clanrrl A Chicago Judge fined a man $5 for giving him a "naaty look." It is easy enough to be honrst. It Is easy enough to be good; You will not go to Ja'l unless haply you fail To behave as a gentleman should. Keep your hands out of other folks' pockets, Be civil, as onward you trudge. Be placid of mind, gentle mannered and kind. And never look cross at a Judge. You may scowl at a street-car con ductor, e You may frown at a grocery clerk. You may take a long chance and dis gustedly glance At the fellow who sings at his work. You may even look black at a lawyer. But when Judges you happen to view. Do not ever appear to be wearing a sneer. It will cost you five bucks If you do. The silken gowned gents on the benches Whose Job Is to lay down the law. Arc certain to get rather badly upset If we do not regard them with awe. It matters not what is your station. Neither wealthy nor poor are ex empt, Tney will all have to pay If they dare to betray The tiniest sign of contempt, And so, when you alt lna court room To watch some sensational trial. Be sure that you wear, as about you you stare. A meek and subservient smile. Fcr your eyes may collide with the Judge's And If you're too bold with your gaze. Or your glance is malign, you'll be sure of a fine. And maybe you'll get 30 days, a a a Aa They Say In London. The golf that most Americans play '. simply topping. a a a It's Never Very Popnlnr. Lenlne found the empty dinner pail a pretty poor rallying cry. e a a Otherwise Engaged. The Turks and Greeks cannot come to the disarmament conference on ac count of the war. Copyright by the Pell syndicate, Ine.) Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Ilouablon-Mif flln Co. Can Tes Anawer These Queatlonaf 1. Can you Identify a spldi-r with el low back that spins a web each evening on the rose bushes or vines, removing the web every morning. Is it poisonous? 2. Do both male and femaje cedar waxwing have thrir little red "sealing-wax" tips on their wings? Z Is a chameleon a snake or a lls a'.d? , Answers In tomorrow's nature notes, a a a Anawrra to Previous Qneatlona. 1 Is the Persian cat the same as an Angora? Yes, it is supposed to have been de veloped from a w'ld cat called "ma liul." from east of the Caspian sea. llsfur was longer and softer thttn the ftu of other wild cats, and it had a short, ringed tail. The luxurious An gora of today Is said to be the prod uct of artificial sclrctiori, by which the short tail was replaced by a long ta.i. through crossing these oriental "ats with domestic long-tailed breeda. a a a 2. Will birds uat peanuts? t'nroasted peanuts are good winter iO-d for insect-e.n. ng and seed-eating hi-ds, or any shelled-out nuts. They contain oil' and are fuel-food. Dough rnts or crullers ire also good. But seed and Insect eaters require a differ ent tood. as the latter eaters have not nrfl hills to crunch seed. Suet, figs, crumbs and similar soft foods must he provided for Insect eaters. a a a 3. How many f the eggs laid by fish reach maturity? We take It you mean grow to ma ture fish. Under natural conditions, ulatlvely few. Some are not fertl .id. some are eaten, and many reach only Infant-fish size before eaten. In iiatcheries, under artiflc(al care, fully tirce-fourths of the eggs are reared successfully. Trout and salmon par ticularly are reared In quantities. In Other Days. Fifty Years Abo. From Tha Oregonlan of September 10, 1S71 New York Sixty thousand torpedoes were seized today and were opened and emptied Into the Hudson river. Paris Victor Huko Is sick with pleurisy. His condition occasioned alarm. . The annual target practice of the Washington guard will take placs near the Forest House, west of the city, on Friday. The Clarke county fair begins to day at Vancouver. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From Tha Oregonlan nf September , 18M. Vienna The inspection of the forts of the Dardanelles by a Russian gen eral is the sultan's reply to the Eng lish effort to force him to abdicate. Russia has taken tha sultan under its protection. At 7 o'clock tonight the doors of the Oregon Industrial Exposition will be thrown open to the public, and a sea son of 30 days' enjoyment will com mence. About E0 people were at the union station last niht to witness the de parture for the east of the Portland party of college students who went east to take up their year's studies. The ladies' handicap bowling tour nament of the Multnomah club was won for the third time yesterday by Miss Carolyn Shanahan, which makes (he handsome gold bowling medal her permanent property. Heat Vnlta la Wood. McMINNVILLE, Or.. Sept. 1. (To the Editor.) Will a cord of wood sawed In 12-Inch leng-ths last longer and give more heat than wnen cut in 16-Inch lengths? There has been quite a lot of argument hers about the above. D. C. ROBBINS. There are a given number of heat units In a four-foot stick or wooa ana ... inneaaua the niimhee tiV yuu bftiii'vk ...... . ...... i any method of cutting. Whether short lengths will last longer or mm to give more heat depends upon what lengths the heating appliance in which the fuel Is burned was designed to use and upon whether the appliance Is ex pertly handled to preclude waste of heat up the flue. Gardner's Friends Need Watrhlnar. LA GRANDE. Or.. Sept. 17. (To th, Editor.) It seemsto me it would t a good idea for the police to keep ts1' or. the acknowledged "friends'' of t!i. escaped convict, Gardner, as "birds v'. a feather flock together." There are always more or less burglaries being pulled off in Portland. WYZE GUY.