MOKMSO OKEGOXIAX, MONDAY, OCTOBER 21. 1921
ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. 1'ITTOCK.
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WOOLGROWERS RKSFME AN OLD
ARGUMENT.
There seems to be no end to the
variety of forms which the efforts of
InlarlAK .1 1 rl t - . 41.
I nomic effects of water competition
with railroads assume. One of the
latest is protests against an applica
tion nf IHa trflnnrnntlnpntnl rnnl. tn
the interstate commerce commission
for leave to make rates on wool from
the intermountain country to the east
as an exception to the long-and-short-haul
clause of the law. This change
Jn rates would enable them to com
pete with the short rail haul to the
coast plus the water rate to the At
lantic coast. The protest began with
the Washington Woolgrowers" asso
ciation and the department of pub
lic works of Washington, but Has
been Joined by various commercial
bodies in Intermountain cities, com
posed largely of Jobbers, which have
always been foremost In rate contro
versies Involving the same question.
Strangest of all. It Is backed by Se
attle, which has stood with Portland
and other Tacifio terminal cities In
former contest
It i9 not difficult to understand
the motives of the Jobbers of Spo
Stane, Boise, Salt Lake, Reno and
Phoenix, but Seattle's reason appears
to have been clouded by envy at the
spectacle of great quantities of wool
coming to Portland for handling and
shipment by water. In their alarm
at seeing 8,000,000 pounds of wool
shipped from Portland In the first
seven months of 1921, the Seattle
folks have overlooked the fact that
they shipped 2,000,000 pounds in the
same period which they might never
have touched if the principle which
they now support had been in oper
ation. They also are opposing the
principle for which they have con
tended for a quarter of a century, by
virtue of which they enjoy water
competitive rates.
Woolgrowers state that practically
all wool from the 1,000,000 sheep In
eastern Washington now moves by
way of Portland by rail or water to
Boston: that large warehouses, grad
ing and compressing plants have
been established at Portland as the
result of maladjusted rail rates; and
that capital awaits a decision In this
case to establish similar plants in
easern Washington, eastern Oregon
and Idaho. They say that. If their
protest were heeded, all wool from
eastern Washington would be
shipped directly eastward by rail,
that they wish to use this route and
that the railroads need the business.
How would the woolgrowers bene
fit if they won their point? If the
long-and-short-haul clause were ap
plied absolutely, the highest rate to
Boston would be from Portland,-and
rates would be graded downward as
distance grew less. Then, but for
water competition, the farther west
a grower was, the more freight he
would pay and the lower net price
he would receive. The grower In
eastern Washington and eastern Ore
gon would pay more than the grower
in Idaho, Montana or Wyoming. In
practice the growers with a short
haul westward would ship to the
coast and thence by water. A divid
ing line would be found, east of
which it was most economical to ship
eastward wholly by rail and west of
which the rail and water route would
be cheaper. If no exception to the
long-and-short-haul clause were al
lowed, this line would be moved
eastward: allowance of the exception
would move it westward. The grow
ers affected by the moving of this
line westward would be deprived of
the advantage of the alternative
water route; the rail route alone
would be open to them. As water
rates fluctuate constantly, especially
In these days of depressed shipping,
that line would move frequenly, at
shorter intervals than rail rates can
under the cumbrous system of
rate regulation. The growers who
are making the present fight have
nothing to gain by it, for they are in
the territory nearest to the water.
The prediction that warehouses,
scouring, grading and compressing
plants would be established in the
intermountain country If water-competitive
rates were not granted is not
supported by experience. Such plants
have been established at points hav
ing the full advantage of both routes
' and have failed. They succeed at
Portland, because it Is the main as
sembling point for wool from the en
tire Columbia basin, the point of
transshipment from rail to water, and
the financial center where loans can
best be obtained and to which buyers
resort. Kqunlly important, it is the
only consuming market as well as
the main assembling and selling
market west of the Kocky mountains,
for it Is the center of a great woolen
manufacturing district, where Ore
gon consumers compete with those
of New Kngland for the raw product.
Competitive rail rates give the grow
er me full benefit of this competition
between buyers.
The law requires that the rates es
tablished by railroads, when excep
tions are allowed, shall be "reason
ably compensatory for the service
performed." This may fairly be con
strued to permit rates leaving some
margin over cost of operation,
though that margin may be less than
the general standard contemplated
by law, when otherwise the traffic
would either not move at all or
would be diverted to the water. The
effect In providing cars for other
traffic or In loading cars which
would otherwise be hauled empty, or
i in stimulating- other traffic on which
; the full lawful return is earned, may
surely be considered. Railroad traf
fic is not divided by airtight parti
tions, for each branch influences
! other branches. Thus the movement
of woolen goods and of the great
quantities of merchandise consumed
by the persons who make them is a
good reason for low rates on raw
wool to Portland, for which growers
should be as anxious as they are for
low rates across the continent to
New England.
WHERE FINAL ACTHORITY RESTJS.
Decision of leaders of 600,000 rail
road men not to sanction a strike
and of the chiefs of another 400.000
men to withdraw the strike order
finds its explanation in the tenor of
the messages which have been re
ceived from many quarters by gov
ernment officials "Let 'em strike."
Tbe people realize that the strike,
if It should come, would be against
them through the medium of the
railroads. They seek a just cause for
It, and they find none. They have
seen wages reduced In other occupa
tions, and they see no reason why
the railroad Industry should be ex
cepted. They have seen prices fall
and they see no reason why railroad
men should continue to receive war
wages while paying peace prices.
They know that high rates have
squeezed the profit out of many com
modities, and that high wages are a
main cause of high rates. Finally
tliey know that full Inquiry has been
made by an impartial board, estab
lished by the government, that its
verdict has been given, and that the
proposed strike Is against that de
cision. Thus the case against the
strike Is clinched In the public mind.
Decision of the million railroad
men not to strike answers the objec
tion to the labor board that it has no
authority to enforce Its decisions.
That authority is to be read between
the lines of those provisions of the
transportation act requiring publicity
for its decisions. It is to publish all of
them and, upon determining that
any of them has been violated. Is to
"make public its decision in such
manner as it may determine."
That provision for publicity trans
fers the final decision to public opt
ion. ' The decision has been given,
and It is: "Let 'em strike." From
early in 1916 to the present time the
American people have been intimi
dated by threats of a railroad strike.
A craven congress, imbued with the
"kept us out of war" spirit, sub
mitted in 1916, and constant new
demands, accompanied by the strike
threat, have been the sequel. The
people have been through war,
through the after-war agony, and
a railroad strike has not the ter
rors for them that it had in 1916.
They do not believe that any class
should be exempt from what ill
others have endured, their backs are
up and, if a strike comes, they are
ready to go through with it and win
it not for the railroads, except inci
dentally, but for the American peo
ple. Consciousness of this state of the
public mind has Caused chiefs of
some unions to hold back their men.
It may lead the chiefs of the most
belligerent unions to reconsider after
the labor board gives its final ver
dict on October 26. If they remain
obdurate, they will find public opin
ion so strongly against them as to
Insure their defeat. ' That Is the au
thority behind labor board decisions,
and very few strikes have been won
against it. Those few do not stay
won. '
THE TOWN WHERE DOGS GROW OLD.
Hereafter the town of Lincoln,
Neb., is to be noted for something
more than the distinction which ac
crues to It as the occasional habitat
of Mr. Bryan. It will be known as
the town where dogs grow old con
tentedly, mumbling soup-bones, with
the pound and the lethal chamber
happily forgotten. Lincoln has dared
to enact an ordinance which prohib
its the destroying of dogs in any
manner an act that implies recog
nition of the spiritual intelligence
of the dog. ,
It is the belief of the Lancaster
county humane society that the right
of the dog to live, liberty and the
pursuit of happiness is second only
to the inalienable rights of man.
Acting upon this conclusion the so
ciety has constructed a home and
hospital for homeless dogs, ringed
round with a generous acreage for
the frolic of puppies. Here the
broken leg is set. the painful sore
conquered by skillful treatment, the
belly filled and the heart uplifted.
All citizens of Lincoln are required
by ordinance to report to the society
the presence of stray dogs, that hos
pitality may bring them Into the
circle of friendship. No shivering.
friendless pup, his gaunt ribs proph
esying death, will bay the moon on
a winter's night In that dog's town.
It seems a lot to do for dogs. Just
dogs, yet he who has a dog for a
friend will kindle to the thought.
This ' altruism of the Lincoln
townsfolk is not without practical
worth. There will be times, though
rarely, when the kind hosts shall
deem death the greatest kindness for
some tired charge. But only in ex
treme instances will this apply, for
the Lincolnians have built their
home for orphan dogs on the rock
of a great truth namely, that some
where always there is some one who
needs a dog, and who gives no
thought to pedigree and the charmed
talk of the breeder. To these desir
ous ones, in quest of dogs to harry
the prowler and drive' the stock, to
laugh and leap and bark and fetch-
and-carry, the society will provide
dogs that are practically as good as
new. There is no need for comment.
save to reflect that after all our no
bility is never greater than our dis
position to be merciful.
RELIGHTING WAR FIRES.
Return of ex-Emperor Charles to
Hungary as king makes war immi
nent between that country and the
little entente, composed of Czecho
slovakia, Jugoslavia and Roumania,
which is pledged to prevent by force
of arms restoration of the Haps
burgs. Fall of the Wirth cabinet brings
near a monarchist uprising in Ger
many, to be followed by civil war
and, if successful, by restoraion of
the Hohenzollerns and repudiation
of the Versailles treaty.
Though force alone will avail, the
exhausted and divided allies send
notes and ultimatums in protest
against Hungarian seizure of the
Burgenland, which was an insolent
violation of the treaty of Trianon and
was a preclude to Charles' adven
ture. Distracted by Internal troubles,
the allies lack the will and grudge
the means to crush this revival of
autocracy and militarism.
In this crisis, it would be futile to
ask France or any other of the coun
tries which fought against autocracy
to reduce their armies. Either In
company with the other Allies or
alone, France could find safety only
in an advance to Berlin and Buda
pest, in the final crushing of mili
tarism In its breeding places and In
the captivity of the heads Of two im
perial dynasties on another St.
Helena.
Unless some such forceful action
Is taken by the powers of Europe,
the United States may at no distant
day face ' the necessitiy of deciding
whether it shall veto the restoration
of the deposed dynasties and be pre
pared to use its army in finishing
beyond danger of renewal the war
that was left unfinished in 1918.
A LABOR ORGAN'S RIGHT TO DISTORT
Because the Journal took the same po
sition (that of the labor board and farm
bureau federation) It Is called an "organ
of class prejudice" by the Portland Or
gonlan. Should not some newspaper sometime
speak for men who work? Are tne men
and women who do the world's work to
be without right to have their side pre
sented in a newspaper? How long would
this republic last If all the newspapers in
America suppliant!? sat at the feet of
big and powerful Interests and arrogantly
sneered at all who dared present the side
vi muse woo loll I
What better than the foregoing
from the Portland Journal could be
said to foster the charge of I. W. W.
and communists that publications
are divided into two classes a kept
press and workers organs?
No newspaper with a spark of
self-respect sets out always to de
fend capital, right or wrong; no
similarly constituted newspaper ever
sets out to support labor, right or
wrong. One is as contemptible as is
the other. Only that publication
which sets itself up as a newspaper
not a class organ and forms an
honest opinion and honestly ex
presses it is worthy of or obtains re
spect. It can almost be said that all the
newspapers of America newspaper
as distinguished from class publica
tions have condemned the railroad
strike as a strike against the wage
award of a government arbitration
board, as a strike against even the
right of railroad executives to apply
to this government arbitration board
for authority to reduce wages as a
strike, in short, against the govern
ment itself. 'North, east, south and
west, newspapers generally are in
accord. Throughout Oregon, even to
the remote towns where influence of
"big business" does not penetrate,
they are of the same mind. The
Portland Journal stands almost alone
in state and nation in lending moral
support to this blow at the industrial
life of the people. Are all other news
papers but this saintly one members
of the kept press?
Tet in no large newspaper are the
workers denied a hearing, as this
Portland newspaper implies. Every
statement from those authorized to
speak for the brotherhoods is given
pot only space but prominence. The
columns of The Oregonian are open
not only to these statements but to
communications from those who
wish to defend the railroad brother
hoods, excepting only that this news
paper will not print vituperative let
ters on that subject or any other.
Nothing could be remoter from
truth than that The Oregonian re
ferred to its neighbor as "an organ
of special class prejudice" because it
endorsed the position of the labor
board and the farm bureau feder
ation. The Oregonian grants to any
newspaper the right to speak for the
workers. It speaks for the workers
Itself when they are in the right.
But it denied then and it denies
again the sincerity of any newspaper
which, in purporting to speak for the
workers, distorts and misrepresents
the facts and uses its columns to
provoke class hatred.
What else than a deliberate provo
cation to class hatred can the Port
land newspaper's reference to the
Erie scandal be? The Incident oc
curred long before the days of public
regulation of railroads. It' is an in
cident of more than fifty years ago
and the railroad manipulator who
perpetrated it has been dead nearly
thirty years. It has no more bearing
on the present crisis than the Punic
wars or Salem witchcraft.
The Portland class organ has said
that the 12 per cent wage cut of last
July was accepted by the railroad
workers, when in fact it was the
basis of tbe strike vote. Therein it
denied even that which the brother
hood leaders themselves say. It has
said that the strike was against, the
proposed additional 10 per cent cut;
against mere announcement of an
intent to apply to a government arbi
tration board against that which
had not happened.
Later, in referring to the latter
point it has said that the employes
could not strike against a windmill
or a rumor or an apprehension and
that the strike was in fact predicated
on the 12 per cent cut. It ha no
settled mind on tbe strike issue, ex
cept that whatever the issue may be
the workers are right
It has pretended to see in orderly
applications for authority to reduce
wages and to alter working rules,
made in the manner required by law,
an attempt by the railroad executives
to break down government regula
tion of rates and government super
vision of wage controversies, mean
while excusing the general strike,
which is the only concerted act
threatened by either side to destroy
government railroad wage arbitra
tion. It has denounced the railroad ex
ecutives for opposing the translation
of the 12 per cent cut into a rate re
duction as a, means of settling the
strike, but it has not had one word
to say against the brotherhood chiefs
for taking the same attitude.
It calls loudly for greater indus
trial development in one column and
in another supports an unreasoning
attack upon that same industrial de
velopment. It is strong for present
wage schedules and working condi
tions for the railroads' employes, but
it is silent as to tbe same schedules
and conditions for other employ
ments that are comparative in skill,
experience and intelligence require
ments. Notwithstanding, it Is a labor
organ. It impliedly but nevertheless
certainly admits it. It is welcome to
Its proud status. Meanwhile public
trust and public support will con
tinue to go not to prejudiced class
publications but to newspapers.
One error of strategy on the part
of the railroad men is that they
threaten to strike too soon after the
war. The people have not yet for
gotten the expedients to which they
resorted to provide food and to avoid
buying clothes, and could use them
again. If city supplies should run
short, they could take the family
flivver and go foraging in the coun
try. Long trips might have to be
cut out, but it will not hurt any of
us to stay home for a few weeks.
SWORDS FOR SALE.
Most potent is the advertisement.
Among other wares It sells logical
arguments. Why, indeed, should it
not sell to the war-weary world the
truth that disarmament cannot fall
of returning titanic dividends? It Is
surprising that this question, ad
vanced in all its simple force at the
press congress in Honolulu, has not
been asked heretofore. The proposi
tion easily Is demonstrable. It can
be shown that the bulk of the tax
burden is carried at the behest of the
classic loafer. Mars, and that the
cost of a battleship would build a
highway through some baffling
swamp. The proposal Is most en
ticing, yet obvious as it is it faces
difficulties still more obvious.
The advertising of disarmament
arguments must needs be at the suf
ferance of the nations in which the
advertisements are published. It
miiat have the sanction of govern
ments, and the fact is that those
governments which might reasonably
be relied upon to favor the dissemi
nation of truth already are converted,
together with their peoples. There
is little need to advertise the advan
tage of peace in Great Britain,
France, Italy or America. One doe
not seek to convert the converted.
The most that could be achieved in
these countries, and an undeniably
beneficial lesson it would prove to
be, would be the quickening into
activity of a sentiment that la pas
siveboth as pertains to the gov
ernment and to the individual
citizens. The awakening of this
moral force for disarmament might
serve to press the argument upon
less enlightened and considerably
less compliant countries. Neverthe
less it would be necessary first to
procure the permission of militarist
nations, before their conversion by
an advertising campaign could be
attempted.
All of the nations are armed and
arming, but four at least are def
initely committed to militarism for
the advantages they affect to see in
such a policy. These are Japan,
Germany, Russia and Turkey, in each
of which there is no talk or thought
of a continued peace. Greece might
as well be added to the roster of the
rebellious. In at least two of the
five the popular sentiment la for
continued militarism, Japan and
Germany- In every instance, however,
the spirit of government is com
mitted to arms. Though all the
rest of the world were brought to
repentance and light by the admir
able arguments for disarmament,
blazoned in the newspapers of the
willing nations, there would yet re
main the problem of persuading hos
tile governments to introduce or per.
mlt propaganda, directly opposed to
their point of view.
The power of publicity is tre
mendous, yet it is rendered impotent
when it strikes the citadel of stub
born disbelief. It cannot convert
governments who, already cognizant
of every fact, pin their faith to war.
Failing to persuade the militaristic
over-lords, it follows that it will not
be permitted to preach discontent to
their peoples. Disarmament in such
instances must be forced by the ex
ample of other nations who, as they
disarm. Insist that the movement
shall be general and that positive
guarantees of good faith shall ac
company the act-
Recently a Portland detective
pleaded guilty by proxy and paid a
fine of $25 in a Polk county court
for simple assault on a farmer on
whose land he was hunting despite
trespass notices. The aggrieved
farmer says the officer pointed his
shotgun and displayed his star.
Naughty! Naughty! Portland po
lloemen should behave better when
away from home.
The man who robbed the Jefferson
bank a month ago lost his head. Now
he will lose his liberty. Again it is
demonstrated only a master mind
can pull off a crime deal, and all
the master minds are dead.
Progress of the strike of trainmen
on the Texas road that began Satur
day will be watched. It will forecast
what may happen in a week. If com
petent help is secured the same will
be obtained elsewhere.
The Jollet girl who offered to
marry a man who would give her
flOOO to complete ber education
found it fcasy to marry a man who
"fell in love at first sight." He is
wealthy.
The latest burglar who robbed a
woman in daylight in her home
"spoke with a foreign accent." Let
us hope he some day meets with a
gun that speaks pure American.
The Idea of a food show is not so
much display of what to eat as how
to eat it. Variety spurs the appetite
and various ways of cooking an
article of food puts jazz Into it.
Secretary Davis is coming west
next month "with the horns on" as
head of an extensive fraternity. He
should drift north on the way home.
Portland would like to see him.
Coos county is coming down here
with an exhibit at the big show next
week determined to win. Coos has
the goods and does not fear others.
That is the proper spirit.
"Irish negotiations barely miss
wreck." says a headline. Two or
three head-on collisions may be ex
pected before that subject :is settled.
Great Britain has ordered four
more battleships. Now who's been
tipping off the verdict of the dis
armament conference?
"Last dam unit begun," says a
headline. It may be the last dam
unit, but we'll bet it's just a starter
of the dam expense.
The main Idea in the Balkans
seems to be to sign the peace treaty
In a hurry so they can start another
war.
The Turks were perfectly pleasant
about it until the Greeks tried to get
their Angora.
One month from today will be
Thanksgiving day. Will it, though,
for many?
The lobster season is on at Los
Angeles, especially outside Hollywood.
BVj PRODVCTS OF TRB PRESS
Live Coyote " Preaeatee to Coast?
Clerk for Bounty.
Moss Averill. well-known Curry
county resident and hunter, brought
in a live coyote to County Clerk
Walker, relates the Bandon (Or.)
Western World. Mr. Averill said that
tbe bounty law requirements were so
complicated that he did not want to
take any chsnces of falling to collect
the $75 reward offered for killing
them. The coyote was about two
thirds grown and was caught in a
trap. Averill put a collar and chain
on the animal and released it from
the trap. Lugging it into the county
clerk's office, he alsiost caused .a
bargain counter rush in the exodus
to escape from the room. The coyote
held back on the chain.
"Well, here is a coyote. Walker,
and it -is up to you to perform your
duties .of stamping the hide and see
ing that it is legally killed," declared
Averill.
Walker insisted that bis duties did
not begin until the coyote was killed
and the Joint debate aroused about
as much interest as a sensational
trial.
Anyway the coyote was legally
slain and Averill received, his S7
reward.
Germany suffers in nerves as a
result of the war quite as much, ai
the rest of the world, avers the Ne
braska State Journal. One of the
odd manifestations of this national
hysteria is the enormous Increase in
the number of people who live by
feeding the credulity of others. An
Investigation of mysterious advertise
ments' shows that there are not less
than 600 people In Berlin engaged In
interpreting the stars at a few marks
per head. Their victims are drawn
from all classes, but a majority ap
pear to be poor people who find It
difficult to provide themselves with
the necessaries of life. In their des
peration they turn to the soothsayers.
Just as the British people gave them
selves over during the war depres
sion to the comforts of spiritualism.
Germany is a particularly fertile
field for these charlatans because
the people under the empire were so
protected against fraudulent opera
tions that they quite lost the power
of discrimination. So they support
about 100O people in Berlin alone
who pretend to read character and
forecast the future by interpreting
handwriting. Doctors of hypnotism
and magnetism abound, preying upon
rich and poor alike. The entire world
is afflicted with more or less of this
sort of thing, and such conditions will
last until stability is restored in the
world's thinking.
The Lore of the Ring;.
His nam la e thoueand years old.
And the title h held In fee
Is an asset to turn into sold. ,
H comes from over th sea,
A wooer to woo comes hen
He brings, as they wed to bring
Th gem to th maid of Chaldo
The lur of the lordllug's ring.
Oh. maidens of delicate mould.
Bid boldly! Though such as ye
May never hi station hold.
H offer a pedigree!
The bondag to Infamy
Of tainted caste Its sting
What matter? For who would fie
Th lur of & lordling's qagt
Hit father, swashbucklers bold.
How proud their stern ghosts must b
Of th son, the patrician, sold.
With a prise, by his family!
Oh. y capLalns of Industry
I wealth not a sovereign th.ng?
It will buy the nobility.
The lure of tbe lordling' ring.
Envoy.
Fair lady, for such as she.
The gutter-girl trafficking
For bread, you have pity! Ah ma,
Th lur OX a lordllng's ring!
STOKtLT 8. FISHER.
In Kansas City Star.
Bees have a language and a system
of telegraphy, according to Profesoot
Francis Jager, chief of the division
of bee culture at the University of
Pennsylvania farm. Wonderful prog
ress has been made in bee culture,
but their means of communication
still remains a mystery, according to
Professor Jager. -
Professor Jager has conducted many
experiments in an effort to learn
something of the bee's mysterious
form of communication. In one of
them he took the queen bee out of a
hive, which was fjur or five feet
high. As soon as the working bees
discovered their leader wag missing
they began "crying."
The noise was audible four or five
feet from the hive. Within 36 sec
onds after the queen been had been
replaced at the bottom of the hive
the sound subsided st the top of the
hive and they showed their Joy by
standing on their heads, according to-
Professor Jager. Philadelphia In
quirer. When President Harding drives a
golf ball into the rough he might as
well consider it lost and shoot an
other, says the Lincoln Journal. The
caddies search for these Presidential
balls with tremendous seal,- but with
little direct result. The reason is that
the president uses a special ball
marked with IS start, and his initials.
When a caddy runs across such a
ball it offers him an almost irresisti
ble temptation to slip it into his
pocket or under a stone, for he knows
he can get 50 for It from some tuft
hunter. The fact that as much as
this has been paid for these souvenirs
is responsible for the circulation of
the foolish story that President Hard,
ing uses balls' costing 1-50 apiece.
e
Thirty-six bottles of Ink were con
sumed by Mayor James Rolph of San
Francisco in two days In signing his
name to the I13,!i00,000 worth of
Hetch Hetchy bonds, which are being
placed' on the market. He signed his
name 13.500 times. .
His ink well was filled 36 times
during the process. It was figured
that he signed his name 340 2-3 times
with each filling.
"I wonder how Solomon got his
reputation for wisdom?" said the
large wife, according to the New
York Globe.
"I am sure, Susan, it was not
through anything he thought out for
himself." said the meek little hus
band. "Tou see he had a great many
wives, and he must have listened very
carefully to their advice."
Anxious to secure three more chil
dren for the district so money may be
available to start a school, the resi
dents of Lovelock, Nev have appealed
to the San Jose, Cal., free employment
bureau to find a father with that
number of children, and have agreed
to supply him with a job paying la a
day as mucker or tramway man at a
mine, and to supply him with a bouse.
partly furnished.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
Portland must keep Its eyes on I
Idaho, for that state is going to bring
its products her, according to George
F. Bruce of the Boise Stone company
of Boise, who Is registered at the
Multnomah. He is here endeavoring
to supply the contractors for the pro
posed new Elks' club with Idaho
stone. "The people of Oregon little
realize the possibilities that there are
in Idaho," said Mr. Bruce. "Business
men of Salt Lake have their eyes on
the state and see in it great oppor
tunities for development snd Invest
ment. We have some of the greatest
building stone In the world in Idaho.
Our fruit industry is developing.
None of the orchard men of th state
bad any complaint to make of their
crops this season, for the fruit has
been wonderful. Sheep men have been
badly up against it, but there is a
strong indication now that there will
be an Increased demand for wool at
better prices than for some time."
The "Cafeteria King" fs the title
that has been given H. Boos of Los
Angeles. He owns a large chain of
cafeterias In the southern California
city and now, In company with J.
Hansen, a restaurant man of Ban
Francisco, a tour of the northwest ts
being made by automobile. Satur
day they drove down to Seaside over
the Columbia river highway, and Fri
day they visited the upper highway,
taking in Multnomah falls and other
places of scenic interest along the
route. "Of course we Californlans will
never admit that Oregon has scen
ery that surpasses ours," said Mr.
Boos, "but I will admit that th
Columbia river highway ia wonder
ful. Proper advertisement will bring
thousands of people to the state. Al
ready many people of our state are
making tourist trips here to see what
you have."
In the days when "Wee" Coyle
played quarterback for Gllmore
Dobie's University of Washington
football eleven. Oregon Agricultural
college made no such oors as they
made Saturday when the Fuget
sound varsity men went down to de
feat. Coyle was one of the best
players ever turned out on the Pa
cific coast. He is now lieutenant
governor of his state, but his duties
were not so exacting that they kept
him from going to Corvallis to see
his alma mater trampled tn the mud.
Mr. Coyle came to Portland Saturday
night following the game and reg
istered at the Multnomah. He was
asked to participate in the res
planting exercises yesterday, but
could not spare the time and left for
Seattle. He served as a captain dur
ing the war and went overseas with
the tlat division.
Financial conditions throughout the
nation are improving, according to H.
J. Taylor, commercial man of De
troit, Mich.-, who ia at the Mult
nomah. "The worst stages of the
financial depression which has en
veloped the entire east have passed
and business men all over feel en
couraged," said Mr. Taylor. "The
railroad trouble is coming at a bad
time, for It Is unfortunate when euch
troubles arrive Just at the time when
a better feeling has started."
Unfortunately a policeman was hid
ing behind a telephone pole when L.
A. Duncan, insurance ian of The
Dalles, "out" a corner in Portland
yesterday. The policeman halted the
visitor from up the river and es
corted him to the central station,
where, without payment of a fine, he
was given a mild lecture of the whys
and wherefores of traffic ordinances
as applied in Portland, presented with
a copy of the traffic laws, and per
mitted to go to the Imperial hotel,
where he registered.
Mr. and Mrs. George V. Marsden of
Canyon City are registered at the
Imperial. Mr. Marsden is a stock
raiser in eastern Oregon and Is one
of the best known citizens of Grant
county. His grandfather, William
Byram, went to Grant county many
years ago when the district was first
opened, and when the principal In
habitants were coyotes snd Jack
rabbits. Ther the family, has re
mained following the business of
raising cattle.
.There Is little concern expressed
by the traveling men at the various
hotels of the city regarding the
threatened strike of the railroad com
panies. There have been a few men
who have hurried up their business
affairs here and left for the east in
order to get to their homes and of
fices before there can possibly be
a rail tie-up.. However, the most of
th men are of the opinion that there
will be no strike.
Pear growers of the Rogue river
valley have no complaint about the
prices of their fruit this year, ac
cording to Bon C. Sheldon, member
of the legislature and one of the
leading citizens of Medford, who is
at the Imperial. Bozc pers are sell
ing for .25 a box In Chicago. "We
raise the best pears In thu world
down In the Rogue river country,"
said Mr. Sheldon.
Governor Olcott, Mrs. Olcott, Dr.
end Mrs. W. H. Lytle snd Mrs.
George Rogers motored fram Salem
yesterday afternoon to participate in
the rose planting exercises They
registered at the Multnomah hotel.
After witnessing the O. A. C.-U. of
W. football game at Corvallis Satur
day. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Johnson and
family of Cottage Grove motored to
Portland. They registered at the
Benson hotel. Mr. Johnson it in the
lumber business in Cottage Grove.
Ben Collins and son Fred C. of
Grants Pass are registered at the
Imperial hotel. Mr. Collins is en
gaged in the automobile business in
the southern Oregon city.
The Aberdeen High school football
team, which played Vancouver High
Saturday, spent Sunday in Portland
and the players put up at the Oregon
hotel.
Lee Hersberger, a grain dealer of
Hubbard, is spending a few c'ays In
Portland transacting business. He is
at the Oregon.
Mrs. E. E. Johnson, wife of one of
the leading lumbermen of the Coos
bay district, is registered at the Im
perial hotel.
George X Wendling, one of the
leading lumbermen of San Francisco,
la registered at the Oregon.
George H. Graves, a broker of
Salem, Is in Portland for the week
end and he is at the Oregon.
F. E. Shaw of Salem, examiner for
the corporation commissioner, is reg
istered at tbe Oregon.
The name of Frank C. Bramwell,
state superintendent of banks, is on
the register of the Oregon.
A. E. Crosby, a druggist of The
Dalles, with Mrs. Crosby, it at the
Imperial.
C. VV. Barrick, one of the leading
attorneys of Tillamook, is registered
at the Imperial.
Mr. and Mrs. Pat Lonergan of Pen
dleton are at the Portland hotel.
R. L. Good, a business man of The
Dalles, is at the Multnom&n.
NOW NOT TIME TO SELECT SITE
i .
Mr. Moo res Tell War and Also Dla
' rasses Harden Island.
j TORTLAXD. Oct. 22. (To the Edi
tor.) Like former Governor Geer, the
writer is considerably interested in
learning, in what way and by what
route, Ross island, sometimes under
water, is to be "linked up" as an
exposition site with Council Crest
which Is across the river and 1200 feet
high, but he differs from him In think
ing that a selection of a site in ad
vance will make votes for the exposi
tion tax. It will have exactly the op
posite effeot, for the site rivalry ts al
ready so acute thaf threats are being
made that if this or that location is
chosen a fight will ensu against the
whole proposition. The voters, in the
very nature of things, cannot select
the site. It must be left to a commis
sion of responsible men, and selected
after long and careful consideration.
In reading letters as to the advan
tages of the various sites one can al
most determine where He the homes
and property Interests of the writers.
Ross island pleads that it is near th
business center, and a location ther
will bring more trade to the shop
keepers of Portland, and that to locate
It at Hayden island might help the
stores and hotels of Vancouver. This,
although we are asking for the help
and co-operation of Washington snd
the whole northwest. Think of it!
How will this appeal te voters In out
sides counties? Fortunately Portland
has outgrown th small town fear and
Jealousy of Its suburbs. The very
thing we do not want la to get too
near to the congestion of the business
center which is already a very serious
problem.
Today th population center of
Portland is said to be at Sixth and
Holladay avenue on the eaat side. This
Is nearly two miles north of Haw
thorne avenue, and for the last ten
years the trend of th city's growth
has been north and east. To reach
Ross island mors than four-fifths of
the population would have to concen
trate on Hawthorn avenue Just eaat
of th bridge. No location would tend
to greater congestion. The serious
problem Is not distance but avoidance
Of congestion.
In spite of its greater distance Hay
den island can be reached sooner than
Ross island for the great majority of
Portland people. Congestion is i
greater consumer of time than die
tance. There are today two straight
car lines through to Hayden Island
one of which crosses it, the Kenton
and the Union avenue lines, which
would carry fair visitors from the
business heart of both the east and
west sides to the exposition grounds
without a transfer. There are already
two continuous paved streets to the
same point. The North Bank and all
of the Puget sound railroads cross the
island, and a branch of the O..W. R
& N. passes within a short distance of
it. It is the front door of Portland
and at the gateway through which
every river and ocean steamer passes.
Immeasurably the greatest volume of
travel comes Into Portland over these
lines.
The prestige of Portland a a port,
the one thing we wish to advertise, Is
based, not upon the Willamette, but the
Columbia river. There ia no broader or
more majestic sweep of the Columbia.
this side of Astoria, than at the Inter
state bridge. There is no view of the
river on the Columbia highway that
equal It, and there is no more beauti
ful and impressive view of the river
and the mountain than there Is Just
east of where the) two river mingle
their water. While the view' from
Rocky butte la wonderful It affords a
very unsatisfactory view of the Co
lumbia, and here too comes up another
problem of congestion.
The Columbia highway Is already so
congested that many timid drivers
avoid it. The shortest route to Rocky
butte snd the one which nearly all
will travel will be the Sandy boule
vard. To the congestion already ex
lsting on that highway the exposition
travel ahould not be added. We are
told that to redeem Mock's bottom will
require from 13,000,000 to $4,644,000
(and no cents) and that Hayden island
will have to be protected by a cement
wall 30 feet high or more, but no en
glneer is or will be sponsor for the
figures. A few day ago a statement
was published that the owners of
4000 acres of Sauvles Island were ar.
ranging to dyke the whole tract by a
wall 25 feet high at an expense of
$200,000. Hayden Island comprises
800 acres. The cost of raising the site
of terminal No. 4 to a height of 20 or
30 feet was a very small part of the
cost or that Improvement.
Few realize the capacity and speed
of a Port of Portland or government
dredge, or with what ease they can
profitably reclaim the waste places
Hayden island can be made the equal
of Belle Isle in spite of the alleged
marvelous assistance of the Detroit
climate. Th Broadway bridge even
now Is not the north boundary of
Portland. In ten year Los Angeles
has added a city a larg as Portland
to her population and Detroit has done
twice as well. In another generation
no one will dare to refer to th
peninsula as foreign territory and a
generation is a short tim in the life
of a city. All bf our great national
expositions have sought a water front.
Portland ha special reasons to do so.
CHAS. B. MOORES.
POIXTS OVERLOOKED BY CIUTIC
Fair Has State-vtlde Endorsement and
National Recognition.
PORTLAND, Oct. 22. (To the Ed
itor.) I read the letter of Henry S.
Mean in The Oregonian and the in
ference from It Is that Inasmuch as
he falls to appreciate a far-seeing
suggestion, making for the welfare
of the people of this state, it must be
a boyish action, or as he further adds,
an impulse of mob psychology.
He falls to realize that over 100 of
the most prominent organizations,
with a total membership of at least
10,000 people, have already indorsed
the 1925 exposition organizations
composed of many of the leading men
of the state and that the exposition
has received national recognition, and
ha emerged from a suggestion of
ideas to a concrete proposition.
The general benefits of exposition
seem to be world recognized, and our
national congress only the other day
appropriated by taxation the million
dollars for an international exposition
to be held next year in Brazil.
This Brazilian exposition will un
questionably receive indorsement and
financial support from the leading
countries of the world. It would cer
tainly be in bad taste to assume to
say governments lending aid to ex
positions are moved by mob psy
chology. I believe there are many thought
ful men who appreciate by past tests
the value snd worth of holding ex
positions, and I rejoice to think such
a body exists in Portland who are ac
tively at work in a cause which will
bring results for the improvement
and betterment of the state.
Mr. Mears is no exception to others
"who do not wish to argue against
the fair," and at heart really would
enjoy seeing the exposition progress
with success if a means could be
reached whereby he and a coterie of
others could be e.evmpc from a tax
necessary to accomplish a great good
for a great number of the people of
the northwest.
Tbe public at large will indorse a
tax measure as the most equitable
means of reaching a result giving the
greatest good to the greatest number
and a boon to civilization.
LEO FRIEDE.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jane J. Montague.
A LONG NBF.DED REFORM
No longer the fair and beribbontd
co-ed
Or the lovely young visiting dame.
By the freshie or Junior or soph can
be led
To her seat at th critical game.
No longer her voice eh can Joyfully
raise
In the lttlng and rollicking song.
Or fix the great stars with her glo
rious gaze
From the seat where the under
grade throng,
C - -... V. - - . ... ....It.. -1 A 1
-s.cn in. ius u i in uuujr viu wi
Will slip from an undergrad's mind.
When he sits by the ld of a beautl-
xut aou
Unless he should haply be blind.
He often forget to get up on hi toe
" jm in me general oncer.
If a damsel in pink with a face like
I sitting a trifle too near.
The cheer leader moan that a (tapd
full of Janes
So affects th young fellow around
That in spit of the rushea and 20
yard gain
They seldom will utter a sound.
A fellow Intent on th bright shining
lamps.
Filled with light as ftulgnt as
dawn.
Which gleam from th face of
charming young vamps.
Forget there's a gam going on.
And o in th future if ladles appear
On occasion when games may be
tight.
They shall not b permitted to put on .
the chser
A heavy and dangerous blight.
Of course they won't bar from all
seat In th bowl
Th radiant wonderful elves,
But the squads with the lung will
be kept in control
For the girls will be parked by
themaelv.
HI Own Fanlt.
How can Obrgon expect us to rec
ognize Mexico? It doesn't look, like
the same old place since he' been
president Of it.
Kfflcleney.
The I. W. W. certainly know how
to operate recruiting stations for the
army of th unemployed.
s e
I nfrrltng.
Apparently Mr. Hays expect post
master to deliver Sunday newspapers
before they have had time to read the
comic supplements.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.)
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. Hooahton-Mlfflln Co.
Can Ton Answer Theae Questions?
1. How many kinds of fishes are
there?
2. How fast' can antelope run?
1. I have a small turtle sent me
from West Virginia, about 6 inches
long, oval shell, prettily marked on
back. It stays In the shade under
vegetation, and I never see It eat any
thing, but it drinks water. What
shall I feed it and how care for it
next winter?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
Answers to Previous Question.
1. How did the petrel get its name?
According to legend, from that of
the Apostle Peter, because the bird
appears to "walk on water." It feeds
on floating marine forma near the
surface, and does not dive, but dips
Its head, meantime fluttering its
wings to keep poised and dabbling Its
feet. There are several petrels. The
common stormy petrel or Mother
Carey's ohicken, is Wilson's petrel,
with sooty plumage and a quarter
moon white band between back and
tall.
2. Kindly tell m how to make a
sun dial that works, and how to make
an instrument to take the latitude of
a place from the stars.
Impossible to attempt anything so
elaborate in these notes. An excellent
article on makinir a sun dial is found
in Comatock's "Handbook of Nature
Study" page 815-917. A sextant would
b almost too difficult for amateur
construction, but about a year ago a
magazine called "The Rudder" gave
directions.
What Is a Phoby cat? Is it reaJly a
skunk? N
Phoby cat is a local name, with Hy
drophobia cat, for the small spotted
skunk. This name Is based on report
that Its bit Invariably produces hy
drophobia. The notion Is untrue, gen
erally speaking; but If the animal has
been bitten by a rabid dog or wolf, of
course its bite (or that of any Infected
animal) ia a mean of introducing
rabies.
In Other Days.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of October 24. 1S7I.
The iron work for the new peni
tentiary at Salem has been completed
at Drake' foundry in that city and
delivered.
An order has beeen received by the
mall contractors from the postoffice
department directing them to carry
the mails on the route between Port
land and Olympla every day.
Cars on the Oregon and California
railroad now run to Red Bluff. This
is somewhat more than half way
from Sacramento to Yreka.
A new Invention called "love letter
ink" is said to be a sure cure for
breach of promise cases, as the Ink
fades sway and leaves a perfectly
blank sheet after about four weeks.
Twenty-five Years Ago.
From Th Oregonian of October 24. 1R96.
. Montreal. J. J. Corbett, pugilist,
and his wife had a fight last nigH
In which dinner plates were the chief
weapons, after Mrs. Corbett received
a letter about her husband. Corbett
is said to have left the hotel on the
run.
The postoffice department has made
arrangements to carry letter mall
from Juneau, Alaska, to Circle City
four times 'during the coming winter.
The Chinese gamblers, whose fan
tan game was raided because they
refused to contribute to the campaign
fund for Bryan's election, were ar
raigned in municipal court yesterday.
The elevated roadway on Union
avenue and other places on the east
side Is being examined to determine
the condition of the planking.
"Billion" in America and England.
TILLAMOOK, Or., Oct. 22. (To the
Editor.) To settle a friendly debate
nlease staU how many figures are re
quired to write one billion. "A" con
tends, for instance, mat t.uuu.uuu.oiio
is one billion and "B" contends that
it Is ony one thousand million and
that one billion must contain at least
13 figures. J. McCOLGAN.
Probably the difficulty Is that B
learned the English system. There
under a billion Is a million millions.
In the United States and France a bil
lion is a thousand millions.