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TIIE MOKXIXG OREGOXIAX, MONDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1921
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A STRIKE AGAINST THE PEOPLE.
The union of railroad employes
assert their right to deprive the peo
ple of railroad service as a means of
forcing the railroad companies to
frrant their wage demands. The very
nature of railroad service renders It
a public service. A railroad is a
public highway the special character
cf which makes advisable that its
maintenance and the operation of
traffic over It be by a private cor
poration under governmental regu
lation. Though policy dictates that
practice, the duty of service to the
public by all concerned In operation
cf railroads is not lessened, and the
nature of the service requires that
It be not interrupted. Men are pre
sumed to accept employment on
railroads with knowledge of this
condition and subject to it. Strikes
being Inconsistent with that condi
tion, they are precluded by implica
tion though not by law.
The transportation act of 1920 as
serts the public Interest In preven
tion of strikes by providing means of
adjusting wages and terms without
cessation of work. In the first In
stance disputes are regarded as the
affair of the road and Its employes
directly concerned, but for cases
where they fail to agree and where a
strike might result, a railroad labor
board was created, on which the
public Is equally represented with
the railroads and their employes.
Thus the law provides for just de
cinlon by appeal to reason, and by
making representatives of the peo
ple virtual umpires between the
parties. It recognizes the duty of thej
people to see mat justice is none ne
tween them and it asserts the right
of the people to continuous service
as superior to any pretended right of
the parties to fight out the dispute
by means of a strike.
This Is clearly the intent of the
law, for It directs the labor board
to take up consideration of a diwpute
Of its own motion without awaiting
an appeal from either party "if it
Is of the opinion that the dispute Is
likely substantially to Interrupt
commerce." Decisions are to be
published, and reliance 1b placed on
public opinion to secure obedience to'
them.
Under the law the labor board de
rided that wages should be adduced
about 12 per cent on July 1. Though
the reduction took effect on that
day, a vote on the queston of strik
ing against It has since been taken
end has resulted in a 80 per cent
majority for a strike. Thus the rail
road men reject the verdict of the
labor board, and assert their right
by depriving the pepple of railroad
service to enforce a demand which
It has condemned. Before the strike
was ordered the railroad executives
had announced their Intention to
Apply to the labor board for a
further reduction In wages of 10 per
cent in order that they might make
ft proportionate reduction In rates.
The strike Is .called not only against
the decision already marie and in ef
feet for three and a half months but
against a reduction for which appli
cation has not actually been made,
much less considered by the labor
board. The whole system provided
for adjustlng'dlpputes Is swept aside.
Thus the issue Is clearly drawn
between the right of the people to
uninterrupted railroad service and
the right of a class to exact what
ever wages they choose by depriving
the people of servire after an im
partial board has found these de
mands to be just. This is an appeal
to the moral coercion of great loss
and Inconvenience against justice
determined by the best means known
to a free people. Industry runs at
half capacity, prices of farm prod
uce and live stock -are depressed,
commerce baa shrunk. largely be
cause of the high cost of transpor
tation, and millions of men are out
of employment In consequence. This
cost can only be reduced by cutting
cost of operating railroads. In which
labor is the largest factor. Yet this
labor refuges to do its part In bring
ing about revival; It purposes to par
alyze all business in order that It
may extort its price.
Though President Harding has
not yet spoken, his action are elo
quent. Dy bringing together and
conferring with the two bodies that
represent the public Interest in the
transportation business, he has
evinced his purpose to prevent the
strike If possible, to kep the roads
In oporatlon In spite of it if neces
sary. No doubt exists that he will
have the united support of the peo
ple except those whom he opposes
and their associates. The people will
look to him to use all the power of
the government, all Us physical
force if necessary, to protect the
railroad companies and their em
ployes In operating trains. The de
lusion that operation of mall trains
can be stopped without falling foul
of the government and the courts
will soon be swept away, for that
point was settled In Uie Pullman
strike of 1894.
If the brotherhood chiefs imagine
that the strike will render the rail
roads helpless, they will be enlight
ened. Among the millions of un
employed are certainly many men
competent to operate trains and
enger to accept the wages that the
strikers would urorn, and much of
the work Is of a character which
can soon be learned. Shipper and
travelers will be of practically one
opinion on the merit of the dispute
and will patiently endure its ill ef
fects. They will be far from help
less, for they can supplement dimin
ished railroad service with auto
stages and trucks on the highways.
Indeed, the unions could hardly
choose a more inopportune time to
tie up the railroads, for the latter
are having a fight for traffic with
motor vehicles and ships,- Much of
the traffic which may go perforce to
these other means of transport may
never return ' to the railroads and
when the strike ends they may find
that the job they so lightly left
have become permanently vacant.
If the railroad men actually carry
out their threat, they will strike not
only against the railroad companies
but against the government of the
United States, the verdict of which,
given by the labor board, they reject;
they will strike against the Ameri
can people whom that government
represents and which will bear the
brunt of the struggle. But what
should make them pause after all
other arguments fall is that they
will be striking against Inexorable
economic law the law against
which mighty nations are Impotent
and which will not spare even the
most powerful labor unions.
A COUNTS' IN THE BED.
The tax supervising and conser
ration commission that newly cre
ated body which has autocratic au
thority over the items and totals In
the various tax budgets will doubt
less give painstaking consideration
to the disturbing condition of county
finance.
The county Is the only one of the
several tax-levying and tax-disbursing
bodies which faces a deficit at
the close of the year. The county is
now on a warrant' basis and the
county auditor, after anticipating all
possible revenues, can see no other
prospect than a beginning of the
new year with an outstanding war
rant indebtedness of $500,000 or
more. A warrant Indebtedness of
1500.000 means payment of $30,000
a year In interest!
Conduct of county affairs Is no
more complicated than that of port.
city, library or public schools. The
men in charge of these other public
activities have been able bo to plan
affairs that any shortage of funds is
but incidental and temporary. The
county commissioners have not. Nor
have they, so far as the public is
aware, developed any promising
plan for quick retirement of out
standing current indebtedness. They
are in the hole, hopelessly in the
hole, while officials conducting
other departments of local govern
ment are not.
It is a condition that discloses a
lack of sound financial policy and of
a general incapacity of the commis
sioners properly to conduct the busi
ness of the county. Conduct of
county business is largely incidental
to conduct of their own. They are
not harmonious among themselves
and at least one of them Is out) of
harmony with other county officers.
It is not expected of the tax-snper-
vlsing commission that it will pro
mote harmony among public offi
cials or curefhdivldual incapacity.
But It has broad authority to com
pel a readjustment of financial in
discretions that are disclosed in the
budget. That it Is expected to do
and no doubt will do.
Further corrections rest with other
authority. Conceivably a system
which permits the county commis
sionership to be a mere avocation
for men engrossed In other business
will not always attract to that office
the most competent material. We
are now trying the plan of paying
pretty liberally for the part-time
work of county commissioners, but
It has not put it on a par with the
work of either the school board,
library boa'rd or port commission,
which receive no pay at all, or of the
city council, whose members are
amply paid and forbidden to engage
In other business. The middle
ground Is obviously unsatisfactory.
There is a variety of other methods
from which to choose the county
manager plan, consolidation of city
and county government, a non-paid
county commission, a commission
paid and required to devote Us time
exclusively to the duties of office.
The need for legislative consider
ation is obvious.
TUB MATTER WITH NOBTH DAKOTA
William C. Gregg gives in the Out
look one of the clearest expositions
of what Is the matter with North
Dakota that we have seen. It is
written In conservative tone and
with a degree of sympathy for North
Dakota problems, but through it all
there runs enough (jf bitter truth
to stir the farmers of North Dakota
if they will but read and ponder.
North Dakota Is a one-crop state.
Its one product is wheat, but the
yield is small. The farmer works
about four months of the year and
does nothing much for eight months,
except brood over what might have
been had conditions weather,
freight rates, labor costs, market
price been different. He want a
price on hi wheat that will make
him prosperous but -expects tbe
banks to lend him money at less
than current rates and would have
the tradesmen sell him everything
he haa to buy at prices fixed by the
state. In short, "Instead of apply
ing themselves to diversified farm
ing they are depending on socialism
and farmer welfare legislation to
take Its place."
Here are Mr. Gregg's suggestions
as to what North Dakota ought to
do, presented by him "with apolo
gies for intruding where no advice is
asked":
Reconsider and abolish the Ventura in
mills, elevators and banks.
Throw out the socialists who are antl
capltal and Incapable of constructive lead
ership. Keep the grain, tax and other reforms,
with such modlf Icattoru aa asperlence
may suggest.
Keep In soms capscity of aervtce the
men. Ilka Governor Prsxter and Judge
Hoblnson. who. in spite of league handi
caps, are working honestly for the good
of the state.
And. above all. diversify Industries and
forget animosities.
Twenty-five years or so ago Kan
sas was somewhat like the North
Dakota of today. It had not estab
lished socialistic enterprises but the
name Kansas conjured up a wild
eyed individual who spent more trme
raising political cain than he did In
raising crops. The state's financial
stability was looked upon with sus
plctpn and its people were viewed
by others with a sort of amused in
tolerance. In 1896 one of Kansas'
own oitlrens, William Allen White,
read his people a lecture In the
newspaper he published. If the
people of Kansas did not grasp its
truth at first, they did later, for it
was printed with approval by nearly
every newspaper in the. United
States. It was a fiery dose, but it
was a wholesome one. Whether Mr.
White's article, "What's the Matter
with Kansas," or something else did
it, Kansas from then on became
more constructive nd less experi
mental. The real remedy for its
Industrial ills was applied. It was
diversification of industries, not so
cialism. Kansas today is not given
to extreme conservatism of stand
patism. It is progressive but not
revolutionary. It has legislation not
found elsewhere Its Industrial
court, for example. But its people
are not brooders, nor complainers,
nor filled with animosity, and they
are prosperous. It is a great state.
Diversity of Industries would,
doubtless do as much for North Dakota.
THOSE INTERESTING 8YDISLO08.
From trivial incidents may spring
profound disturbance and unnum
bered woes. History is replete one
might almost say sated with In
stances in point. Despite these les
sons from the past, however, the
supreme court of Michigan has up
held a decision of the lower court
sentencing a certain John Sydlsloo
for an infraction of the prohibition
law. Tbe circumstances were unique
and Involved a principle of law that,
now it has been recognized, is
fraught with storm. For It appears
that Mr. Sydlsloo himself was guilt
less of conspiring to concoct. He
lifted in his own defense the ancient
plea of Father Adam. It was the
woman.
Mistress Sydlsloo was not in sym
pathy with the Volstead act. There
were times when her whistle became
parched and petulant, times when
she speculated not only upon the de
light of three-fingers of mellow
moonshine, but also upon the profit
that awaited the bold. Poor, patient,
plodding John was the numbskull of
the Sydlsloo menage. Like Jiggs,
his impulses toward self-improvement
never rose above corned beef.
Wherefore his impatient helpmate
procured a still and without his aid
or approval installed it in the base
ment. It 'worked wonders with the
crude mash that Mistress Sydlsloo
supplied, and drop by drop it dis
tilled such liquor as old Bacchus
never knew white whisky with I
raw red ego. She sold the product
for silver.
We are approaching the crux of
the situation. In time the federal
agents sniffed down upon the Syd
lsloo residence, burst into the base
ment, appropriated the still and ar
rested not Mistress Sydisloo, the
skilled distiller, but patient, plod
ding John, her numbskull husband.
The learned lower court convicted
him of the crime, In spite of all the
testimony, holding that he and he
alone was masster of, the home and
hence accountable for the naughti
ness of his wife. When John ap
pealed, being stubbornly-minded to
let the actual culprit stew in ner
own broth, the supreme court sus
tained his.conviction and the prin
ciple involved. "The husband is the
head of the home," observed the
grave and righteous justices, "and
hris the right at 'common law to
regulate his household, its expenses
and visitors, and to exercise the gen
eral control of the family manage
ment" John had reached one end
of his legal tether. A bailiff picked
up the other and led him awayto
expiate her sins.
Close upon the achievement of
suffrage this decision would seem to
flout the new freedom of the gentler
sex. In character it harks back to
those stern days when It was the
right of the husband nay, his duty
to slipper an obstreperous wife.
Its judicial logic supports the re
peated claim of the militants, that
In receiving the vote they have been
yielded the form and not the sub
stance of equality. As likely as not
the case of Mistress. Sydisloo will
become a cause celebre with discon
tented champions of woman's rights.
Has not she been deprived of her
Inalienable human right to go to
jail? Indeed, she has. There in hs
comfortable cell, with a friendly
jailer to wait upon him, sit the
mutton-headed John enjoying an
unearned vacation and an unde
served distinction. It is all 'wrong.
Yet the case has even more dire
ful aspects. It pretends to deter
mine, onee and for all, the who's
who of the American home. It
awards to John, who is not now at
liberty to avail himself of the rights
conferred, the privilege of determin
ing not only the weekly expenditures
but the character of all visitors who
would cross his threshold. Should
his mother-in-law offend him John
Is empowered to casther out, par
rot and all. If Mistress Sydisloo'
second cousin insists on engulfing
his goulash to the accompaniment of
a rising inflection, her lord may
forthwith give him the gate. Should
she acquire a Pomeranian puppy
and perch the animal at the break
fast table It Is the legal privilege of
Sydlsloo to remonstrate by bestow
ing her pet upon the rag man. All
this and more. It was an ominous
day for marital tranquility when
Mistress Sydisloo installed that still.
Doubtless John Sydisloo, musing
in his cell, has given some thought
to these prospects. His vicarious
penance is not to be without reward.
The courts have spoken. Yet if he
be wise after the manner of a true
mate he will think twice and thrice
before he avails himself of his priv
ileges. He will even refrain from
twitting Mistress Sydisloo about her
misadventure with the Volstead act.
Out of such tolerance, such notable
disregard for the common law, arose
domestic tranquillity and even suf
frage itself. As many a better man
has done. John will annex his dinner
pail, pick up his battered old felt,
and drift quietly and without osten
tation toward the factory.
THEY WOULDN'T KNOW HIM NOW,
The west has always been right
proud of Berton Braley, poet. You
ce, he was born in the sleepy little
capital city of Wisconsin, and while
tuat isn't within the province of the
west, to our way of thinking, the
cast considers it to be remotely
western. But he did become a
westerner when he Joined the staff
cf the Butte (Motit.) Inter-Mountain,
and began his novitiate as a
writer. He won hi literary spurs in
the west, where they jangled pleas
antly, and while he was engaged in
compelling the attention of the mag
azines he also tarried at Billings.
Almost everyone, without reserva
tion, prophesied that young Braley
was chock-full of the spirit of the
west and would go far. Thereupon,
with these kindly words tingling in
his era, Berton migrated to New
York, bearing his pack . o' dreams.
These facta are but preliminary
to Mr. Braley's unquestioned success
as poet and author, and sadly pref
atory to a consideration of his
present views regarding the small
townr-say Billings. Montana, for in
stance, or Maeilson, Wisconsin. He
has become a true urbanist, and so
asserts himself in a recent article
that Tor its interest relies upon In
vidious comparisons of life in New
York with life In the benighted dis
tricts of rurality. Berton hasi he
says, become ennuied with the re
peated discoveries of "tourists and
failures," who pronounce the me
tropolis to be cold at heart, lonely,
self-centered, and attired in tawdry.
He is bored, politely but beyond en
durance, by the reiterated refrain of
the yokels, who sing of country
grass and daisies and grazing herds
and the wind over the meadow. In
contrast to sultry pavements, orchids,
bustling Broadway and the devital
ized air of the great city.
He says that he picks his friends
in New York, with rare discern
ment; that rudcTand uncouth neigh
bors and acquaintances are not
forced upon him; and that he is en
tirely willing to barter all the daisies
In the world, and every breeze that
blows, for opera stars, the Metro
politan museum, and the culture of
the perfected specimen. This from a
poet? Ah, Berton! Berton! Twelve
years have passed since you bade the
.boys farewell at Billings, yet they
wouldn't know you now. You have
been assimilated by New York and
its ways s completely as Cleopatra
engulfed the pearl. Yet your
mother's given name had the fond
old-fashioned twang, a country
melody, a line from some old album
Alta Electra, her folks called her
back in the Madison days. . -
It was Caesar was it not? who
once observed, the while he tarried
in some country town, that he would
rather be the first man among these
rural! ties than the second man in
Rome. When Rome descended to
decadence some lowly wight rescued
the aphorism and sent it town the
ages in the toad-and-puddle guise.
Mr. Braley's mind does not trail
along with Caesar's. With himself,
with his lot, with hi flat, with his
club, but above all. with himself, he
is well content content to be sub-'
merge'd in a city of 5,621,151 Individ
uals as completely lost as is Mr.
Braley. The peril of cities, their
deadliest peril, is insularlsm. When
It comes to the matter' of penning
up individuality and making It re
volve in self-sufficient grooves the
city need ask no odds of (he country.
It were scarcely worth while to
discuss) Mr. Braley's preferences at
such length if he had not raised an
issue of national moment. It is only
too obvious that if all men were of
one mind with the erstwhile bard of
Butte and Billings the crops would
suffer. No hand would be set to the
plow, nohens would cackle for the
regalement of clubmen, and poets
would incontinently bestir them
selves to quit New York and experi
ment at growing Early Rose pota
toes the earlier the better, good
potato, we beseech you! In a trice
Mr. Braley would find himself elbow
to elbow with folk he had never
been introduced to, perspiring, toil
ing craftsmen of food, not one' of
whom would know whether Freud
was that remarkable savant ef
dreams, you know, or a new variety
of curly kale. It is not Improbable,
as the days wore on, that he would
discover very likable human traits
in these enforced companions and
come to esteem them as friends. Joe
SplvU, chewing a straw, would re
mind him most affectionately of a
fellow be used to know in Billings.
As Riley phrased it, he would be
back again to first principles, "back
where he used to be so happy apd
po pore." ' Some morning in May,
the month of poets, Mr. Braley
would become aware that the
verdant mead,' the conventional,
daisy freckled, cow-cropped pasture,
was a thing of such rare beauty that
nothing in the Metropolitan museum
could hold a candle to It. Some
noontide in June, as he lowered the
scythe and applied the .red ban
danna, there would waft from the
hills a whisper of breeze, and Ber
ton, filling his lungs with the cool.
cleanly air and his soul with the
fragrance, would once more under
stand why folk from the country
are dismayed to find no pastures and
no breezes In New York.
Yet Mr. Braley was temperate in
his declaration of rights. He in
sisted that he preferred the city to
the country, and yielded to peculiarly-minded
folk the privilege of
preference for New York. As Mr.
Braley so modestly says, many who
seek to storm the ramparts of
metropolitan approval "lack that
subtle something which Is necessary
to success anywhere." Inferentially,
Berton was born to "New York. In
his Infant hand was clasped the
amulet. So regarded, perhaps he
could not avoid the strain of com
placency, of urban sophistication,
that threads his remarks like a
motif. But the boys in Butte and
Billings, and the family friends in
Madison, will be grieved to learn of
Mr. Braley's final and irrevocable
defection. They wouldn't know him
now.
Thomas M. Finney, Inventor, has
patented art airship that will cruise
at 100 miles an hour. A day and a
night will bring it from New York
to Portland. It will accommodate
250 passengers. The huge bag will
contain S, 800,000 cubic feet of gas,
or almost as much as congress ex
pends in a day's session. "These be
matters of interest, and yet. more
than all else, the public would like
to know about Its capabilities for
staying aloft when nobody wants it
to come down.
For two reasons the eclipse of the
moon last night was not visible here.
The sky was cloudy and we were
out of the track.
There may be. doubt of the mean
ing of the name "Oregon," but
there's none of the state of Oregon
in any way.
If Lloyd George only might get
here early he could tell how to
settle the big strike before it started.
Henry Ford's road Is exempt from
trouble. Now who will say he Is not
a wise old Henry?
Something besides the weather
bureau will be issuing "storm"
warnings.
An Adamson in the house might
settle it the wrong way.
i .
Some affair look darkest before
they are started.
Mr. Wells Is not wasting language.
He says: "Rain."
Only a foolish auto will buck a
Mount Scott car.
BT-PBODICTS OP THE PRESS
"Flapper" Originated tm Engllak
Chores, gays Author.
(Why is a flapper? ' Who knows?
Well, why Is she called a flapper?
Now, that' different. V
In "Bunker Bean," a story pub
lished 12 years ago," Harry Leon
Wilson, the author, called the little,
dumpling girl to wljom "Our Hero,
Bunker Bean," found himself mar
ried, the "Flapper."
The name "just klnd-a fitted" that
type of girl and it caught on, slowly
at first, through use of Joke writer,
on the vaudeville stage and In hort
story magazines. Its use became
general with a rush about a year
ago, perhaps because short skirts and
bobbed hair seemed to Increase the
tribe of "flapper types."
-When asked recently why he called
bis Bunker Bean girl a flapper, Mr.
Wilson said he didn't exactly know.
"I heard the term first in England,
I believe," he Bald. "Over there 15
years ago the little, plump chorus
girl was called a flapper. Later
England dropped-he word and called
her a pony', a she Is still known.
But flapper originated, I believe. In
the English, chorus." Kansas City
Star.
The leader of a Jazz band recently
approached Richard Strauss' Ameri
can manager and demanded the
rights to "Tram Doo Dee Dam Rung."
Investigation revealed that the piece
In question was the song "Traum
Durch Die Dammerung," says the
New York Evening Post-
"What do you want with it?" asked
the representative.
"Want to make It a fox-trot," re
sponded the leader. "My customers
are wild for new tunes. I'm going
to call it the 'Strauss 'Rag'."
He didn't get the rights.
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There i an Epglish church where
a box hangs in the porch, say the
Christian Register. It Is used for
communications for the pastor.
Cranks put their notes in It, but occa
sionally it does fulfill its purpose.
Recently the minister preached, by
request, a sermon on "Recognition of
Friends in Heaven," and during the
week the following note was found
in the box:
"Dear Sir: I should be much
obliged if you could make It conven
ient to preach to your congregation
on The Recognition of Friends on
Earth,' as I have been coming to your
church for nearly six months and
nobody has taken any notice of me
yet"
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F. B. Tichenor, writing In the North
Bend, Or., Bee, informs an exchange
that never heard svf a man who could
tarr.e fish of ' the accomplishment of
George Forty of Port Orford, the
most western town In the United
States. Tichenor brings in the names
of two other veraaious friends, Ames
Johnson and Willis White, who, he
claims, will swear to the truth of
his yarn of forty and! his tame school
of squawflsh.
, Forty, according to this yarn, was
curing eeallon hides and In the habit
of taking a morning dip in a quiet
cove. One morning as he sto'od In
five feet of water, he felt' a tapping
on the bright metallic button .of bis
overshoes. (This Is likely only an
odd circumstance of Forty's charao-
ter, his taking a bath In overshoes.
He moved gently to the shore and
some two dozen squawfish followed
him.
Tichenor goes on to tell how Forty
got on friendly terms with'- the
squawfish school and of how White,
Johnson and he saw Forty and his
fond fish, tamed through a long
course of kind treatment and ju
dicious feeding. Tichenor says Forty
would walk out In the water, hold
some clam meat In his hands and the
fish would jump out of the water for
their food.
The question of what a really good
wife Is worth has been brought up
again by the action of William Deme
tropoulxis of Chicago, who refused to
pay 1000 ransom to get his wife back
from her abductors.
Wiliara appeared and asked a war
rant for Gus Granapuulos. William
Eald Gus approached him Sunday
night and put the proposition up to
him.
"I have your wife," said Gus. "If
you will come across with J1000 I'll
give her back. Otherwise I'll keep
her myself."
"What! One thousand dollars for
a wife?" William responded. "I don't
want her; you can keep her."
Whew Maple Leaves Am Bluahln.
When de maple leaves am blushin'
Down de woods path to de spring ,
An' I -smells de rlpenin' fragrance
Giben off by eb'ryt'lng;
When I sees de fox squirrel scurry
Where eha'p wlnde de walnuts fling
An' I tastes de burnln' forests
By de swamp smoke's acrid sting;
When I heahs de southwa'd quackin'
O' wild mallards on de wing
Den de time's most heah for co'n pone
An de cracklln' pot to sing.
L. F. M. In Kansas City Star.
m
The most remarkable thing about
vanadium steels la their almost mirac
ulous elasticity. Today the metal
vanadium is comparatively cheap.
Yet only 30 years ago it -sold at $450
a pound, and was hardly more than
a curiosity of the chemical labora
tory. When a use Is found for a rare
metal, sources from which It may be
obtained In quantity are sure to be
discovered. Thus, when the value of
vanadium for steel alloys was as
certained, the fact was soon dis
closed that vast ore beds containing
it existed In Colorado. It is fr5m
these beds that the demand is now
supplied. The ores are sandstone. Im
pregnated with vanadium, and are
dug out In enormous quantities. A
by-product of vanadium mining Is
uranium, from which radium is ob
tained. Philadelphia Publio Ledger,
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It was atop a lurching, lumbering
Fifth avenue bus where New York's
great middle-class does Its love-making,
says a recent news letter.- He
was making no progress that was evi
dent. Other couples were cuddled up
In each other' arms unabashed. He
and she sat straight and prim. "You
didn't tike olive at first?" he asked.
She agreed. "But you Ilk them now."
Sha nodded. "Well." he pleaded, "cer
tainly you will give me the same
chance that you would an olive."
e e
The admission fee at a Moscow the
ater Is four pounds of peas. In the
distressed state of Russia an actor Is
safe from eggs and tomatoes, tays the
New York Herald.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tale ef Folk at the Hotels.
Seaside Is destined to become a
great summer resort now that the
Columbia river highway has been ex
tended down to the city, according to
John McBride, real estate man, who
is registered at the Multnomah. "If
tne government would devote the
necessary funds for the construction
of the much-talked-of Roosevelt
Highway along the coast, Oregon
would be greatly aided." declared Mr.
McBride. "Tourists would come here
rrora all part of the United States
to take the automobile driv along
the coastline. The drive would be
even greater than the Columbia river
highway. Things that benefit any
city along the Columbia river benefit
Portland," he continued. "Astoria has
been shipping more wheat and other
produce this year than ever before,
and by so doing Portland has been
Indirectly benefited." Mr. McBride
declares that the rate war between
the railroads and the river steamers
during; the season past aided the
business men of Seaside materially
because larger crowds than were ever
expected were brought to the resort.
Corvallls is declared to be the fast
est growing city of it size In Ore
gon oy o. H. Barnhill, associate
editor of the Pacific Homestead and
all around agricultural writer, who
was in Portland on business yester
day.'' Mr. Barnhill said that nearly
100 residence have been erected
this season, or are In course of con
struction in that city. "They are all
needed to shelter the ever-increasing
army of young people who come
to our city to get a practical educa
tion," he said. "It wa thought that
depressed business conditions would
cause a falling off in the attendance
this year, but there are about 500
more students than last year.." Mr.
Barnhill said that in addition to the
new commerce building and the resi
dences mentioned,- four business
blocks are being erected, an 180.000
theater and a $60,000 hospital. "Next
year we expect to build a (100.000
church, another costing $40,000, and
a $60,000 apartment house,"- he said.
"Denver and the Rocky mountain
country Is all right, but give me Ore
gon," declared Frank 8. Ward of
Salem, at the Imperial yesterday.
"Happy" that Is the name Ward Is
called by his friends recently re
turned from attending the conven
tion of the National Drug, associa
tion In Denver. "The more I travel
around the -more I think of Oregon.
All we need to do is advertise the
Columbia river highway. Crater lake
and other scenic places and bring
people out.- here. Then the future
of the Btate will be an assured suc
cess in every respect."
Lumber men of Reedsport are en
thusiastic over the business prospects
of the future, according to C. McC.
Johnson, president of the C. McC
Johnson Lumber company. "We are
cutting 250.000 feet of spruce daily
at the three mills In Reedsport." said
Mr. jonnson at tne imperial yester
day. "The Winchester Bay mill is
hipping Its lumber by barges to San
Pedro, while the other mills are using
the rails. Should the threatened
railroad strike become a fact we will
not be affected greatly as w can rely
on water transportation to ship our
products."
Obak" Wallace, one of Eugene's
premier boosters for the University
of Oregon football eleven, drove down
from Eugene Saturday to witness
his favorites make their unsuccessful
effort to defeat Idaho. "Give the boys
time," urged Obak, when he saw the
Oregon men playing a listless game.
"They may look bad now, but they
will develop and make good with a
vengeance before the season Is at an
end. We'll defeat O. A. C. the same
as we usually do." He scorned the
Idea of putting roller skates on the
Oregon backfleld to speed it up a
bit.
Sam P.,rch, apple buyer of London,
recently had a box of Yakima apples
branded with the Skookum Indian
head and sent to friends In England.
Birch is registered at the Multnomah
and claims to be the first man to
send branded apples to Europe. Apple
growers have adopted a new sys
tem of advertising their apples. They
have Invented an electrical branding
Instrument which marks the skin of
the apple and does not effect the
fruit. The machine will brand 300
apples a minute.
Duties in connection with the vet
erans' bonus are monopolizing the
time of Lyman G. Rice of Pendleton
these days. Mr. Rice is a member
of the bonus commission and is await
ing the outcome of the friendly suit
that has been started in the supreme
court to test the legality of the law
that was enacted by the 1921 ses
sion of the- state legislature. Mr.
Rice Is registered at the Benson.
In an effort to recover from the
strain of the Round-up and at the
same time take a needed vacation,
O. H. Shultx ami J. R. Light, Pendle
ton bankers, are stopping at the Im
perial for a few days. They, are al
ready spreading propaganda for the
1922 Round-up.
" When Judge N. G. Wallace signs
his name on the register of the Im
perial hotel he always gives his resi
dence at "Crook County." He re
sides In Prineville, but being county
Judge of Crook he feels that he can
not confine himself to just one lo
cality. In search of . first hand Informa
tion relative to highway conditions,
John N. Edy, highway engineer for
Montana, arrived in Portland Satur
day, after making a tour of the roads
of the northwest. He will return to
Montana, by way of Nevada, Colorado,
Utah and Wyoming.
Having recently been elected grand
vice-chancellor of the Knights of
Pythias of the state, M. F. Hardesty,
one of the leading business men of
Seaside, is In Portland attending to
business and fraternal affairs. He
is registered at the Imperial.
P. H. Watt, manager of the Hotel
Frye of Seattle and vice-president of
the Northwest Tourist association,
who has been In Portland for a few
days, -checked out of the Imperial
yesterday and left, for Puget sound
Webster Holmes, banker and real
estate man of Tillamook and one of
the best boosters the cheese and
dairy products center has, is regis
tered at the Imperial.
Dr. C. V. Herdllska of Washington.
D. C, is registered at the Multnomah
hotel. He Is connected with the hu
rt au of health of the federal gov
ernment. Robert W. Sawyer, one of the lead
ing citizens of Bend, spent the week
end here and was registered at, the
Portland.
Bert T. Jones, prominent in Marlon
county politics and a resident of
Salem, Is In Portland for the week
end and is registered atthe Imperial.
L. F. and R. M. Hofer of Salem, with
their families, drove here Saturday
and registered at the Portland hotel.
H. F. Pemberton. a prominent mer
chant and business man of The Dalles,
is registered at the Perkins hotel.
J. P. Lottrldge, attorney of Baker,
la registered at the Benson,
TWO VIEWS OS DISARM AMEN
Some Hopeful In Varying; Dearreel
Others Are Skeptical.
PORTLAND, Oct. 15. (To the Edl- j
tor.) People who' love their kin and
who profess kindly feeling toward
their fellow beings are looking lor
ward with sincere hope to the com
ing disarmament conference. The
people in this class paobably Include
all whose thoughts, expressions or
deeds cut much Ice In the affairs of
thlr world, Nbut there is a difference
in the degree of hope with which
they are looking forward. Probably
the great majority believe that a few
heads with unquestionable sincerity,
and with nothing but the future wel
fare .of mankind at heart can work
a miracle at this coming conference.
But another portion of the people of
America are merely hoping that some
kind of understanding and arrange
ment will be arrived at whereby it
will be so difficult to set another war
in motion that in the meantime the
Initiation of uniform world sentiment
for permanent peace shall result In
still more powerful arrangements
that shall make ware still more un
likely to occur.
Then there la another class of peo
ple In this land where the scope of
mental freedom provides the greatest
opportunity for good, If not also for
evil, who view the prospect In the
widest manner, and who believe that
the possibility of recurrence of war
cannot be put off for any very great
period, except by a miracle, and who
believe that such a miracle can only
be brouglTt about by force.
With these thinkers the question
then la what is the difference be
tween war and peace kept by force?
These people consider that the peace
in the universe ia kept by force. The
force of the sun Is supposed by Its
attraction to keep the planets from
gettlrtg out of their course and
smashing together. If that law of
gravitation sometimes miscarries, as
for instance, in the flight of meteors,
the force of resistance of the atmos
phere surrounding a living planet ap
parently reduces it to a certain de
gree of harmlessnese. In observations
that concern us more closely it ia
perceived that on occasions when our
atmosDhere becomes so stifling that
it-, threatens to overcome living ob
jects a terrific thunderstorm de
velops, and after the lightning hag
done a considerable damage and per
haps killed a number of humane as
well as other creatures tne eiemen
tary warfare quickly removes the
unbearable condition. It Is also be
lieved that if the winter did not come
along and destroy the beauties ot
summer and by its more or less rig
orous process refit the soil for new
production the next summer the soil
would sooner or later ran to proauce,
except of tropical kind.
These people who, are dubious
about the permanent banishment of
war are mindful that humankind Is
compelled to war persistently against
pests and Insects and otner agencies
that threaten to prevent the 'safe
erowlnir and gathering and keeping
of foodstuffs necessary to preserve
life, and even'go so far aa to wonder
how humans would manage to gather
a living In this day were it not that
wars and pestilence and other forms
of cause for premature decease had
Drevented oeonle from living to an
average age of a hundred year dur
ing the past few centuries.
These skeptics concerning the
scheme of man-made permanent
neace also wonder how the world
can consistently hope for abolition of
war as long as the extreme socialist
who professes to be against war,
nevertheless puts dynamite under the
home of the man who has made a sue
cess of life. They wonder how the
world can Betle down to permanent
peace as long as the man who Is too
lazy to work persists in carrying a
orun with which to kill a person who
refuses to yield up his money during
a hold-jjp on a peaceful at-reei.
These doubters who have to be
shown everything before they will
also believe that peace without force
cannot be permanently established
without such a miracle as universal
contentment having first been insti
tuted in humanity, and they doubt
that this miracle can be brought
about as long as It is human nature
for one persen to shirk the duty he
owes another. They even doubt that
permanent contentment can become
the guiding star of humanity as long
aa the weakness of man Impels him
to war upon Innocence, or as long aa
womankind will persist in condemn
ing her fallen sister when she knows
that the man who betrayed her is
more than likely totally to blame.
But these people whoRe lives were
cast In a land where moral and hon
orable liberty Is unbounded believe
that world peace can be kept by hon
orable force. These people whose
fortunes were laid In a government
and constituency that is willing to go
to war for peace, but never for con
quest, believe that, whether the world
wills it or not, ,the coming conference
will prove the first step toward po
licing the world and keeping the
peace by honorable force.
J. A. CLBMENSON.
Something Must Be Done.
PORTLAND. Oct. IB. (To the Edi
tor.) May I say a word, as a parent
of small children, vln regard to the
numerous automobile accidents oc
curring? Ia' there not some way to punish
those who run over people in our
streets? To my mind any man who
mnB down a child in front of a pub
lio school la guilty of manslaughter.
The very lease the state could do la
to forbid Vim ever to drive again.
Now we have a driver knocking a
man down and another running over
him. Something must be done. How
would it do to have all machines
throttled down to ten mllea an hour?
We need to think of these things.
Human life Is yet precloue. to the
parents, at least. I am heartily In
accord with the officers of Columbia
county In their efforts to abate apeed
lng May their kind lnnreaae.
WORRIED.
Tales of a Baseball Romance.
Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch.
"Mamma," said the Young Thing.
"I want you to stop forcing me into
Mr. Gott-it's company all the time.
People are talking."
"But, my dear," protested the So
licitous Lady, "he is a wonderful
catch!"
"He may be. n.amma, but If you
keep on thinking you are pitcher,
he'll get onto your curves and throw
the game1
Addreas at Closed Meeting.
OAKLAND, Or., Oct. 15. (To the
Editor.) Several of ua expected to
see quite a full report of Dr. F. L.
Loveland'a address at the auditorium
aome daya ago. Was this a closed
meeting? If not, why waa not aome
mention made of It?
JESS R. LASSWELL.
It waa a closed meeting, for Masons
only.
( Dntra and Days.
SEASIDE, Or., Oct. 15. (To the
Editor.) On what day did August 6,
1881, fall? Also, on what daya did
December 8, 1866, and February 13,
1890, fall? MRS. A M. J.
August 6, 1881, came on Saturday;
December E, 1866, on Wednesday, and
February 13, 1890, on Thursday.
Prospective Juror Advised.
Wayside Tales.
"I am going to serve on a jury. I
think I will knit all the time."
"Huh! It'a more likely they will
want you to unravel."
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moataroe.
SO.G OF KINO COXSTASJTIXE. .
m a wily and far-sighted monarch
With an eye on the aweet bye and
Some bone-headed rulers may lan
guish In coolers
When thrown from their thronea;
but not Tt '
Though other great eoverelgna go
oungry.
Til never h. B-.-,ii sA.
My purse won't grow lanky while etlll
tuoree a lanKe
My royal relation can wed.
I have seen many scepter grow shaky
-"a, paiaces totter and fall;
I have read In the headlines. "Ex-
jving-s ln the Breadlines!"
And never h,u, um.,i. -. n
No matter how lavish my living.
No matter how mnh t m- . ...
For balls and ootlUiona, I spend the
mil i ions
Of my Pittsburger daughter-in-law.
But atill with an eye on the future.
XaAHt. ft At- nn L. a 1 j .
That eomehow or other he'll get from
"w iiivinrr,
TVViv v. i ..
"j. ue a in tne lamiiv, loo.
And mo. though my subject depose
ma.
me unainoiy away,
I'll have no employment except the
entnvmAn.
A -j, . , ..
Of an Income from Pittsburg, P. A.
I'm a wily and far-sighted monarch.
Aa I think that I recently said.
Some kinga of tomorrow may well
need to borrow
Their houses and clothing nd
bread "
But the trouble of bankrupted ov-
vi eiKiiB
Will matter a nothing ts me.
I II not lack for ration when half my
relations
Own mills n the land of tha free
Peace Insurance. x
Judging by the way he I worshiped
in London. England will always b
friendly toward us aa long as we pro
vide a home for rharllo Ccaphn.
a
Where the Experts Are.
Perhapa Lloyd George went to Scot
land to learn-how to drive a bargain
with Ireland.
a
Put 'Em Down.
Every time prosperity tries to turn
the corner It trips over high prices.
ui. runt py tne Hell Syndicate. Ino )
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian of October IT, 1A.
Bombay. Further outrage have
been perpetrated by the Afghan tribe
cf Marrig on the Quetta railway In
Beloochlstan,
The next attraction at the Marquam
Orand will be the Initial production
here of the charming romance of the
mountains entitled "Tennesee'a Pard
ner." The crusade In N'ew York city
against long aklrts for wet weather
Is to be carried on, and the Rainy
Day club la now an established fact.
N'ow'that Washington and Morrison
streets are well paved and are fine
business streets, there Is talk of hav
ing Alder street Improved, and also
talk of some rather important build
ing Improvements on the street it
McKinley is elected.
Fifty Years Aaro.
From The Oregonian of October J7, 1871.
The regular business of the rail
road ferryboat has Increased so much
of late It Is not uncommon to see a
dozen or more teams cross at one
time.
Receipts from the state fair foot up
about m.nno, slightly less than last
year.
London. An addresa has been is
sued by representative workmen de
manding a separation of church and
state.
Washington. The secretary of the
treasury has authorised the Issuance
of a million and a half of United
States notes to replace United States
notes and national bank notes burned
in the government vault at the Chi
cago fire.
EASTMOBEIAXD IS IDEAL SITE
Writer Commends It for Fair After
Seeing nil Proposed Locations.
MILW AUKIE. Or.. Oct. 16 (To the
Editor.) There has been a great deal
of discussion of late as to the beat
location for the proposed alle for the
worlds fair here. After having seen
several of the proposed sites I have
concluded that Eastmoreland would
be the most logical site in Multnomah
county for the fair and 1 am sure
that anyone else who carea to vlait
the different sites and compare them
will agree with me completely.
In the first place, it is close to
Portland, which will enable Port
landera and visitor to the fair In
the city to attend the fair more often.
It is near city carlinea and Inter
urban electric lines anfl st-esm roads,
as well as paved roads for automo
biles, which could come from every
direction. There would be no ex
pense attached for filling in or build
ing bridges as would be the case were
it held on an Island. There' Is a
beautiful lake here also and plenty
of room to hold any size fair.
I hope the fair oommlttee will look
this site over carefully before they
finally decide on the location. I don't
believe that an island alte would be
a vary good place to hold the fair
on account of Inaccessibility to either
Rosa Island or Hayden island. Then
there is high water we would have
to contend with also.
I don't believe that there is a more
Ideal place ln the whole state than
Eastmoreland for the fair. It Is Jutt
like a big, beautiful park. Visitors
to the fair from other cities and
countries would, go away with a fine
Wnpression of the splendid location
we had for the fair, and many of them
would come back again aome day to
viait our beautiful city.
T. P. THOMPSON.
Oregon Means "Ore Region.
PORTLAND, Oct. 15. (To the Edi
tor.) I wish to advance an idea as
to how the word "Oregon" came Intc
existence. Take the two words "ore"
and "region" and Oregon and notice
the similar aound In expression, espe
cially when spoken quickly. It is
easy to see that old-timera careless In
words, aa Americans are, when in the
rough would naturally run the two
words together and make a alang
word and a shorter words Ameri
cans love to do.
The American frontiersman pro
duced the word from a locality,
namely ore region, and not from a
word. Therefore, It ia no doubt an
American word produced by the
early aettlera in slang English by and
in tha atate of Oregon, ao I claim
Oregon produced ita own name.
T. B.
Consideration for Her Employer,
Life.
Mistress Hridjet. six people art
coming for dinner tonight.
Cook Will yea be able to cook foz
that many?