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THE 3IORXIXG OREGONIAN. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 1921
ESTABLISHED B BENBY L. PITTOCK.
Published by The Oregonian Publiahlns Co.,
Hi Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon.
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LESSONS IS LIVESTOCK.
There Is a lesson for Portland and
Oregon, for the entire western slope,
In the Pacific International Live
stock Exposition which opens here
this morning:. Truth to tell, there
are many lemons, as many as there
are pure-bred entries or some
three thousand convincing- argu
ments in all. In each instance the
exhibits teach that it pays, and pays
well, so to perfect our livestock that
the element of guesswork is dis
carded and the certainty of profit
and progress secured. There, In the
half-miliion-dollar exposition build
ings, stand the sleek aristocrats of
the livestock world, whose care and
cost Is no greater than that lavished
upon the scrubs; yet whose financial
return Is many times greater. Blood
will tell.
Portland, of course, Is by natural
advantage a livestock center. To lis
yards must come Inevitably not only
the herds of that vast sweep of
eastern range, but the stock of the
hill rancher, the livestock of the
diversified valley farms. How tre
mendous this animal Industry Is, in
the state of Oregon alone. Is attested
by the assessment rolls for 1920.
when the worth of the state's live
stock was conservatively computed
as $42,733,568. While the present
exposition, an annual event, Is com
prehensive of a far larger territory
than tnat defined by our boundaries,
and Is essentially western in char
acter, Portland were less than wise
If the city did not quicken to Its
profitable significance. To be a
great livestock center, In. the full
sense of the term, Is to be appreci
ative of the distinction. With every
means at their disposal, but particu
larly by exposition attendance, the
citizens of the city should manifest
their appreciation. They will not
find it tedious.
As an object lesson the exposition
cannot fall to inspire. To those who
visit It will come the ineradicable
conviction that pure-bred livestock
pays. It will stimulate, as in other
years, the desire of rancher and
farmer to Improve their herds and
flocks, and from that improvement
will result a very tangible and pleas
ing Increase In revenues a toning
up of neighborhood ideals in stock
breeding, and the gradual substitu
tion of profitable animals for The un
profitable. The Pacific northwest seems to
have been intended, among other ob
vious advantages, to become a na
tional area for the rearing of live
stock. In climate and grazing and
every natural advantage It la unex
celled. It shall become, as well, the
recognized source of pure-bred ani
mals who shall capture blue ribbons
in any company. By the measure of
public approval toward the present
exposition and its successors will this
end be hastened or delayed. Cer
tainly and selfishly there is no eco
nomic event on Portland's calendar
that should be more generally ob
served. ON FAVORITE FOnrtS.
a No sooner do we discover some
dish that Is delightful to the palate,
grateful to our own personal crav
ings, and thereafter indispensable to
our content, than some gaunt dieti
tian rises up before the groaning
board and In sepulchral accents ut
ters words of wisdom and warning
"Mustn't! Mustn't!" We may for
breakfast, so thev ordain, have seven
filberts and a brimming bowl of raw
oats; at luncheon it is permitted to
refresh oneself with a cold and clab
bered goblet of Buigarlnn butter
milk; at dinner the wary trencher
man la privileged to partake of
prune loaf, with an oatmeaf cracker
and, mayhap, some freshly chopped
cabbage. To follow this diet Is to
dwell long in the land of our fathers,
hungry but happy, somewhat emaci
ated but stringy and tough as any
loon.
The latest oracular pronounce
ment is that Americana are far too
fond of special dishes, of sectional
doliracles of the baked beans of
Boston, the corn pone of the south
land, the flannel cakes of old New
Kngland. These they attack with
persistent approval, over and over
ajratn. thereby neglecting much that
dietitians would have them include
In the daily fare; thereby neglecting
the elusive but essential vitamin;
and thereby throwing out of plumb
the table of calories. These are
ominous charges, if they be true, well
calculated to make the thoughtful
diner consider deeply before he
beckons the waiter. But of what are
they ominous? Of what eternal
truth do th-ay partake?
Nature is replete with Individuals
who are specialists in their fare, and
who round out their life cycles
barring ' mishap In contented ac
ceptance of the same familiar food.
Thus in the marshes stands the blue
heron, alert to spy a frog or fish,
and sends that long bill of his after
It with the thrust that never mia-ees.
The heron enjoys good health, as
we say. Also In the same marsh
swims the muskrat, sleek and per
sonable, diving for bulbs and lily
roots a vegetarian, he. If this quiet
little chap could be interrogated, as
Maeterlinck insists is possible, would
he not assure us that he never, had
an ache or pain in his uneventful
life? Puss of the opal eyes, sleek
and self-eatlsfied, a perfect mechan
ism in repose, mlstu answer that
flesh is the food of foods; or the
wallowing hippo gravely snort his
opinion as to the unexcelled savor
and sweetness of rank river grasses.
These are specialists in foods, as na
ture intended them to be. Man, of
course, is omnivorous but when he
becomes a specialist he sometimes
overturns the theories. The. endur
ance of the Chinese coolie, on rice
and rice alone, is an instance in
point.
Diet, it will be admitted, is an im
portant factor not only of tbe enjoy
ment of life, but of its duration. But
of all nationalities, the diet of the
American is the most varied, the
most admirably devised fare for the
assurance of balance and calories
and vltamines. The usual accompani
ments to popular dishes, the uncon
sidered vegetable trifles, the soups,
the fruit pastries, seem to insure
against any particular harm from
frequent indulgence in a favorite
food. This, of course, is applicable
only to those whose digestion is as
yet unimpaired. A most valuable as
set is digestion. The temperate diner
may, in most instances, continue to
eat as he chooses, despite the alarm
of the dietitians.
THREE ANSWERS.
Several questions which have
lately been greatly troubling the
American mind were answered yes
terday, on the unimpeachable, au
thority of the Associated Press,
through a Washington dispatch. The
questions were directed to the ap
proaching disarmament conference,
and, reduced to terms through an
interpretation . of their intent, they
are:
(1) Has America a programme
for consideration by the conference?
(2) What is the relationship of
Far-East problems to limitation of
armament?
(3) Are sessions to be secret or
open?
Here are the answers:
(1) America will present a con
crete plan for far-reaching reduction
of naval armament.
2) The Far-East problems will
be taken up as they naturally project
themselves. " - ,
(S) An effort will be made by the
United States to keep the negotia
tions in the open, so that public
opinion may exert Its pressure to
ward practical accomplishment.
The first answer Is specific and
final; the second is doubtless as
clear as the circb instances warrant;
the third is reassuring as to the de
sire of the administration to keep
the public freely advised as to dis
cussion and developments; but it is
at the same time a reminder that
the rules of the conference are not
made by America, but by all the na
tions. This is a conference called by the
United States; but it is not the
United States' conference.
OFF ABOl'T THE CIT-OFF.
.Discussing the proposed Wallula
cut-off, the Pendleton East Orego
nian reminds Portland that it "is not
the whole state." Assuredly not;
assuredly not. Only a part; but still
a part. Let us say at least as much
for Portland. The Wallula cut-off
(a proposed highway leading from
Umatilla on the Columbia River
highway to the state line, there to
join a road leading to Walla Walla,
through a most prosperous and
populous country), should not be
primarily built to benefit Portland,
nor to injure Pendleton.
How would It injure Pendleton?
We cannot see: but there are somt
people in Pendleton who think so.
We cannot account for- the excited
objections of the East Oregonian and
its violent attacks on Portland pool
old Portland! In any other way.
Evidently, there is a misunder
standing at Pendleton as to what the
Portland Chamber of Commerce has
done. It has not demsnded nor sug
gested, directly or indirectly, as the
East Oregonian says, that the "high
way commission ignore legitimate,
requests from Umatilla and other
eastern Oregon counties" and "ex
pend a very large sum of state
money on a road that is not needed."
The Oregonian is informed that the
Chamber has taken no official action;-but
has referred back to a
committee a recommendation that
the, Wallula' cut-off receive favor
able consideration after the present
state highway programme (trunk
roads) is completed. Is It possible
that anyone In Pendleton, or any
where, objects to such a plan. Be
sides, the state. It Is reported on au
thority, has no funds at present for
the out-off. It cajinot be built soon;
nor is it planned to do it.
Meanwhile The Oregonian will
nrit refrain from adding an opinion
tTiat the Wallula cut-off would be a
desirable and profitable Improve
ment and adjunct to the highway
system of Oregon. It hopes that it
will be built some day. It would
make for closer connection of Ore
gon with eastern Washington, es
pecially the great Walla Walla terri.
tory. . Is it forgotten . that the ties
between Oregon and Walla Walla
between Portland and Walla Walla
and between Pendleton and Walla
Walla, if you please. are historic
and have not been broken through
long years except by the nominal in
trusion of an invisible state line.
Just what difference has an imag
inary line made in the social, eco
nomic and Industrial relations of the
two regions? Or is not Walla Walla
now, as it long has been, an integral
part of one great region, the Colum
bia basin?
THE CHEHALIS JCVEM1 F. CASE.
Though earlier newspaper ac
counts were confusing, it now ap
pears that the inquiry at Chehalis.
Wash., into the killing of a nine-year-old
boy by his seven-year-old play
mate, actually was a juvenile delin
quency hearing and -at no time par
took of the nature of a trial for mur
der. Judge Reynolds of the superior
court for Lewis county is to be com
mended for his refusal to open the
doors of his courtroom to a morbid
and inquisitive public, and for the
holding of the Investigation In cham
bers. Equally sensible was his course In
not relying wholly upon the testi
mony advanced at the hearing,
largely contradictory and confusing;
and. perhaps, tinctured, not a little
by partisan feellnir such as must
arise tn small communities. Before
the court determines the future of
the small defendant, whether he is
incorrigible and vicious, or whether
the shooting of a playmate was but
a lamentable childish accident, an
independent Investigation is to be
made by an officer of the Juvenile
court. Eventually the case will be
disposed of in accordance with the
1 findings, and a most piteous episode
1 brought to its finis.
I Meantime, and for all time, there
J is a warning to parents In tbe facts
oi tne iewis county trageay. it is
scarcely necessary to point out this
lesson, but the sad repetition of such
affairs gives evidence of a gross and
terrible carelessness. Parents should
remember that seven-year-old boys
are not to be trusted with firearms
and should never have access to
them.
THE BOTTLE' FROM OVER THE
BORDER.
All's quiet along the Canadian
border. Peace broods over that imag
inary line which separates two great
and amiable nations three thou
sand miles of mutual boundary. But
quietude does not necessarily denote
inaction and, as a matter of fact, the
border these days is quite the busiest
zone on the continent. Over it pours
tn a silent tide a very profitable traf
fic in Canadian liquor exports, to the
scandal of both countries and the
mockery of the eighteenth amend
ment. Admittedly the rum runners,
as our headline writers call them,
constitute tbe greatest obstacle to
the success of prohibition; admit
tedly the importation of Canadian
liquor is a difficult tide to check,
with the thousands of roads that
lead southward inviting a dash in
defiance of enforcement squads.
It is not ours to censure the Do
minion government for neglecting
to assume an altruistic attitude, and
by forbidding the exportation of
liquor to prohibition United States
aid us in enforcing an excellent law.
We may, indeed, like to believe that
if the positions were- reversed
Canada arid and thirsty and our land
brimming with rye we should with
stern alacrity put down the traffic
that would inevitably arise and lend
our utmost aid to law enforcement
In Canada. But this is a hypothetical
situation, and we are not put to the
test, fossibly the profit of liquor
running would induce us to wink
most soberly at the tireach of na
tional ethics, as Canada winks. One
never knows his own weaknesses un
til they are upon him. As it is, we
can but hope that there will arise
in Canada a public sentiment against
the abuse, a sentiment such as'the
Toronto Globe pleads for when it
asserts that
Canadian soil Is dishonored and the rood
name of Canada dragged in tbe dust by
scoundrels who make fortunes through
providing our neighbors to the south with
the means of debauchery in deTlance of the
laws of the United States. Tne action cf
the customs department In Clearing ship
ments of liquor for export from border
points to the Ignited States makes the gov
ernment rnd the people of Canada part
ners in the Illicit trade. What becomes of
vexsels laden with liquor after they leave
Canadian porta is said to be "none of the
business" of the customs department of
Canada.
Undoubtedly In strict accord with
Canadian law it is none of the busi
ness of their customs department
to interfere with exports that are
legal north of the line. Undoubtedly
the Canadian magistrate who, a few
weeks ago, declared that liquor ex
ports to the United States are legal
if cleared through a Canadian cus
toms house, is right in an exact in
terpretation of the statutes which
govern htm. Nevertheless the traf
fic is undeniably wrong and harmful
to a friendly neighbor, repugnant to
the best citizenry tn both countries,
and a matter of concern to the two
governments. It is difficult to be
lieve, here in the United States, that,
as the Globe suggests, the official at
titude in Canada is really one of
sympathy for the whisky smugglers.
Perhaps this statement is ill-chosen.
It is difficult to believe that the
Dominion government itself is in
sympathy, or is favorably inclined
toward the continuance of a traffic
that defeats .the purpose of the
neighboring nation.
Prohibition as a national resolve
was hot lightly undertaken. It is
entitled to the same respectful con
sideration from other governments
that they would expect us to accord
to some progressive design of their
own, expressed in national law. If
any attempt has been made by the
United States to secure the co-operation
of Canada in preventing ex
ports of liquor there is, at least, no
public knowledge of it One may
be pardoned for assuming that the
attempt has never been made. The
obvious Is often the neglected. Cer
tainly It seems obvious that the
United States government should. In
all politeness, solicit the neighborly
assistance of the Canadian govern
ment in our endeavor to prevent a
mockery of the national law. The
attitude of the Toronto Globe cannot
be unique in Canada.
TIME FOR A NEW DECLARATION.
Ambassador Harvey has an un
fortunate habit of dispelling illu
sions without offering a consoling
substitute. Worse, in so doing he
presents a negative side of our for
etgn policy without at the same time
throwing on the screen the corres
ponding affirmative side. He thus
gives a distorted view of our posi
tion, chills friendship and turns
away from the band that 1t holds
out. That will be the general effect
on the British people of his declara
tion against an alliance between tbe
United States and Britain.
There are practically no two opin
ions in this country on the subject
of such an alliance. The American
people are opposed to alliances with
any one or more nations, as they al
ways have been. But there are other
ways besides alliances in which two
nations having the same ends iu
view, the same conceptions of inter
national right and wrong, can work
and set together. They may have a
general understanding, as we had
with the allies during the war. Each
may separately define an identical
policy which they will pursue in
common. Such understandings on a
common purpose have been fruitful
of good results and have prevented
rather than caused war when made
between two such nations as the
American and British. The great
majority of well-informed Britons
know well that the United States
will not enter into a formal, perma
nent alliance with their or other
nation. In destroying the hope of
those who are .too enthusiastic for a
British - American partnership In
work for "the world's welfare Mr.
Harvey might have told in what
form it would be welcomed. His
words were peculiarly tactless on the
eve of an international conference
which our president has summoned
and the success of which hangs
mainly on good teamwork between
this country and Great Britain.
The man must be wilfully blind
who does not see that, for our own
interest as well as for the general
interest of the world with which our
welfare is bound up. the British em
pire with its population of 440,-
000,000 is a valuable co-worker
which cannot be matched. The
problems which confront us in the
far east, in' Europe and in conse
quence of these in armament are
not ours alone; they are those of
other nations, principally of the
British empire, that being tbe great
est among the other powers. It
would have been possible to say that,
while we cannot form an alliance,
we can join Great Britain in ac
complishing its purpose by another
form of understanding that would be
equally effective.
The situation which now does us
most injury and in which British co
operation would be most valuable it
that of Europe. The root of Euro
pean unrest and economic chaos is
in Germany. While tBat country
neglects to disarm in good faith, at
tempts to prosper on bankruptcy
and tolerates monarchist agitation
and conspiracy. It cannot make
reparation payments, France dare
not disarm, and the disorder in Ger
man affairs reacts on surrounding
countries with the effect of eco
nomic chaos and threat of war. The
waves of this disturbance sweep not
only on our shores but to the heart
of this country, producing a ratio of
unemployment greater than that of
Britain.
The Monroe doctrine established a
precedent which could properly be
followed at this time. President
Monroe . faced a situation where
revolution in Spanish America and
threats of European intervention
were fraught with danger to the in
dependence of this country. He
formed no alliance, but he made his
famous declaration and stood ready
to uphold it. It goes without saying
that he would have accepted the aid
of any nation that offered it. Great
Britain stood by him, and is ready
to stand with us now in a policy of
world re-organization. The Monroe
doctrine lives today unchallenged
and we have never had to make war
in its defense, though backed by no
alliance.
A similar declaration by President
Harding' would meet the present sit
uatlon. A warning to that country
that it must forthwith disarm com
pletely, must place its finances in
shape to meet reparation payments,
which would be revised if at present
too burdensome, must suppress all
monarchist activities and must for
ever bar the Hohenzollerns from
any part in the government as ene
mies of mankind, and that an un
provoked attack on France would
find us on, France's side, would com
mand the support of all Europe and
would be obeyed In anger but Is
fear, Britain, France, Italy and the
smaller nations would endorse the
demand, and tbe mere threat to ex
ert our power would suffice. Obedi
ence could properly be followed in
co-operation with the allies by aid
to Germany in putting its affairs in
order and like service could be ren
dered to other nations. Economic
stability could reasonably be ex
pected, to follow, and disarmament
would be : spontaneous, for nations
do not support armies to no purpose,
any more than a man lugs a gun to
a prayer meeting.
Intimation from Mr. Harvey that
the president proposed to make such
a declaration would have come with
far better grace than the rebuff
which he gave to the generous.
though ill-advised. overtures of
British enthusiasts, and would have
been more appropriate to the day
when the delegates are assembling
at Washington.
A strike of milk-wagon drivers
that keeps milk from babies and
sick people, as it does in New York,
is an absurdity. No doubt the fam
ilies of members of other unions get
their milk and no doubt they don't.
The union running amuck cares
neither for friend nor foe. -
It is ridiculous to assert that Irish
leaders are arranging with German
military men to conduct the Irish
rebellion said to be "coming." In
the first place, the Irish party would
not let the news out, and in the sec
ond Great Britain would not let
those Germans In.
A man with some experience In
dodging says the left-side crossing
is safer for the pedestrian, though
both sides are risky since the left
hand turn has been restored. He
concludes the only real safety is
found indoors.
The government of British Co
lumbia is making a profit of about
140,000 a week on liquor sales, the
provincial secretary announces. Of
ficial bootlegging seems to be about
as profitable as the unofficial kind.
Motor vehicles killed almost 9000
persons in the United States last
year. Before we begin worrying
about the Japanese peril, it might
be well to disarm a few of these
reckless automobile drivers.
The dean of women at Oregon
Agricultural college tells the young
men it's selfish and wrong of them
to be embarrassed. Maybe they
won't be so embarrassed after the
new styles come out.
What has become of the shotgun
guards who were to accompany mail
trucks? Bandits Thursday night got
away with four sacks in Los Angeles.
It was the driver's second experi
ence. McMinnvllle has applied for rightB
on the Nestucca that will give her
power under a head of 1460 fee for
municipal purposes, and, by the way,
watch her get what she goes after.
Mr. Plummer is singing a little
rhapsody these days that has a re
frain of "Equine, ovine, porcine,
bovine, the greatest livestock show
in America!" And it will be-
That crew of a Greek steamship, as
soon as it docked here in America,
promptly went on a strike for more
pay. The foreigner "catches on"
quickly.
Russia says she will not be bound
by the acts of tbe conference. Rus
sia will find herself hogtied, rather,
before she is done.
Some time in the distant future
"Fatty" on the griddle will replace
"Fatty" on the screen.
The auto will thin the ranks of the
pioneers faster than the Reaper.
The German mark is becoming as
valuable as a cigar-store coupon.
It's on today, the biggest show of
the year. '
PRANKS "-CAVSK OF MICH LOSS
Halloweea) as Excuse for Gang Icp re
lations Sho-ald Be Ended.
PORTLAND, Nov. 4. (To the Ed
itor.) Of course older person have
been boys and had their fling, but
this Is no Justification for present
day halloween acts. During the war
we were compelled to practice econo
my to' the smallest details. Now we
are asked for salvage to aid unemployment-
Children an over the world
are starving. In spite of these things
boys nearly put a transformer out of
commission, or shoot up an insulator,
with possible result of damaging
power lines, thus interrupting trans
portation and business plants. Two
policemen are severely hurt, while
lawfully traveling a highway, by a
can rolled in front of their motor
car. They. lose time and incur hos
pital and doctor bills, besides uncalled
for suffering. Candle grease is placed
on windows, not one but three nights.
Tar and paint are placed on buildings
and walks. One grocer said it took
him three hours to clean his win
dows. Theae are 'only a few of the
acts.
Sober reflection will cast a spot
light on the huge loss in time and re
pairs needed because of these things.
If the perpetrators omitted the acts
and by honest work translated this
criminal waste into money and gave
it to the community chest it would
fill it perhaps 50 per cent.
However, parents lightly say.
"boyish pranks." and only old fogies
complain. The Fourth was made aane
and safe, and no reason exists why
any city should tolerate gangs of
boys from 10 to 20 years of age roam
ing about and causing actual loss to
Individuals and taxpayers. Not only.
this, but injury or loss of life. What
happened to policemen may happen
to any innocent person. It Is now a
fight for life against gangs.
If parents condone, or say they can
not keep their offspring from these
"pranks," then an ordinance should
be passed requiring all boys, from 10
to 18 years of age. unaccompanied
by parents or guardians, to keep off
the streeta October 30. 31 and Novem
ber 1. A corral should be established
to receive promptly all uncontrolled
gangs found abroad on those nights.
Leave it to the police to control the
contents of the corral, and the work
will be short, sharp and effective. It
will Insure a oeaceful and inexpensive
Halloween. The Grocers' association is
urged to press for such an ordinance
while the matter is ripe for action.
ROBERT C WRIGHT.
TWO LOLO PASS ROAD PROJECTS
Bull Run Link Should Not Be Con
fused With Idaho Enterprise.
PORTLAND. Nov. 4. (To the Ed
itor.) It i unfortunate that two new
road projects, both of considerable
interest to the city of Portlind, are
confused because they bear the same
name.
The people of Lewlston. Idaho, are
vitally interested in the improve
ment of a new highway over the Bitter
Root mountains to connect the
metropolis of northern Idaho with
Missoula. This proposed road will go
over Lolo pass, one of the most ro
mantic and scenic geographic fea
tures of the west and every effort is
now being made to get the United
States forest service sufficiently In
terested In the project to get actual
construction under way. The road
will eliminate many miles of extra
travel between the Pacific coast and
the east, and will be particularly at
tractive to those persons who desire
to make a short cut from either the
Yellowstone or the Glacier National
park through Lewiston and thence
down the Columbia River highway to
Portland or over the Inland Empire
highway to Seattle.
It seems to the writer that Port
land people sheuld be enthusiastic for
this proposed Lolo pass road and do
everything in their power to procure
Its early completion. Lewis and
Clark traveled over Lolo pass, and
it was over this road that the early
pack trains passed which assisted in
developing the mining Industry In
western Montana, all of which was
done from Portland as a base.
In the Oregon national forest, near
Bull Run reserve, there is another
geographical feature called Lolo pass,
and certain enthusiasts have urged
the forest service to build a road oer
this gap In the Cascade range. The
ciiy authorities hav objected to it
and are to advise representatives of
congress to urge the forest service
that this road will be too near Port
land's water supply.
It is particularly important that
those who are opposing the Lolo pass
road in the Oregon national forest so
word their objections that there will
be no possible confusion with the
Idaho project, which is full of merit
from one end to the other.
LEWIS A. McARTHL'R.
TEACHERS CARELESS IX SPEECH
One Recites Some Errors Committed
by Inatitute Instructors.
QUINCY, Or., Nov. 3. (To the Edi
tor.) The season of tne county
teachers' institutes Is upon us. and
tt.--- ra hAine- held in various Darts
of the state. An institute is profit
able to an attentive listener, nut
withstanding the stress placed on
some hobby by the average lecturer,
nearly always by an extremist, who is
proud of the fact. A teacher who
must instruct in different branches,
ki.h - , r ,, a it manv tear-hers. Is
usually capable of blending the views
of all these extremists into ay nai
anced" course.
tirv, n- istliita Instructors are men
and women of educational attainment.
their careless use or language in
grammar and in pronunciation does
not indicate it; and this is not as it
should be. Passing over without
comment the glaring errors in gram
mar made at a recent institute, ana
wi,i.n,, an .ve.ntlnti to aDealcega.
a few of the many words mispro
nounces: are aa xuiiuwa.
"Adult" was pronounced "ad-ult,"
with acce"ht on the first syllable:
"apex was pronounced ap-ex. snort
"presentation" was pronounced "pre
sentation." long "e" and accent on
first syllable; "conversant" (meaning
familiar Wltni was pronounteu c-vn-
vers-ant," with accent on second
...iiaKiA- "hincranhv" was oronounced
aa if spelled "be-ography." long "e"
and accent on iirai gyuaoie.
Numerous other mistakes were
wnaAm nf nwa nature.- Thia is Inex
cusable -m persons who assume to
Instruct in tne important woric or
teaching. Sueh should speak aright
or not at all, for "if Ihe blind lead the
blind they aball both fall into the
ditch." TELL ME TRULY.
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I.btt Aa to Engineers.
SILVERTON, Or.. Nov. 3. (To the
Edrtor.) Kindly inform me. If a man
holds himself out as city engineer to
practice professional engineering
without a license ana estaousnes
street grades for the laying of pave
ment is he entitled to collect his com
mission? A READER
Since January 1. 1910. a person who
practlcea professional engineering
without having complied with the reg
istration law commits a misdemeanor.
Any plat which the law requires shall
be certified by a professional en
gineer must be certified by one who
is registered. The law does not apply
to an engineer who Is employed as an
assistant to a registered . engineer.
Also a qualified engineer from an
other state may practice not to exceed
four months pending registration.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
There are more American automo
biles than ever in Vancouver. B, C
according to E. R. Vigor, manager of
the. Warren Bros- company of that
city, and every effort is being made
to have the provincial legislature.
which is in session, appropriate
money for the completion of the Pa
cific highway between Vancouver and
the border line. "Our mayor, Harry
Gale," says Mr. Vigor, "who Is well
known by many of your Portland
citizens, is one of our best boosters
for good roads, and is making every
effort to have our roads in ahape eo
that the tourists coming to your 1925
exposition will find our section of the
country ready to receive them. We
are watching with a great deal of
interest, your election to see if the
people will back the fair with their
votes and make it a reality. The
eyes of the world are upon Portland
now, and it is up to her to make
good. Recently one of the members
of the committee, E. V. Hauser, spoke
before our Rotary club and Impressed
cn us the good results which will
come from the fair, not only to Port
land, but to the entire Pacifio coast."
Mr. Vigor is attending to some busi
ness matters and is registered at the
Multnomah.
"Trayeling salesmen, who leave
New York at the rate of 1000 a day,
were being held back by the-houses
when there was a prospect of a rail
road strike," explained Mr. Myers of
the Benson. "Now that the strike hag
been called off. the salesmen are
being rushed out of New York in
such numbers a regular army that
it is impossible to secure sleeper ac
commodations on the trains, espe
cially those headed west. After strik
ing the middle west the salesmen
scatter, headed for their respective
territory, so that the congestion on
the trains breaks up about half way
across the continent. Those who are
headed for the Pacific coast will be
gin arriving in Portland about next
Monday, and everyone will be clam
oring at the hotels for sample rooms.
The threatened strike disarranged the
business plans of these salesmen and
now they are speeding up to get even
once more. The salesmen will repre
sent many lines.-but principally cloth
ing and millinery. The latter, of
course, are carrying samples for the
spring and Easter trade."
. Just now, with the recent rains, the
road from Brlghtwood to Sandy is
not exactly a boulevard. The new
grade has not been covered with rock,
so that machines hare hard going in
Hpots. This is a section of the Mount
Hood loop and is In Clackamas coun
ty. O. G. Mclntyre. an old resident
of the Brightwood section, la an arri
val at the Imperial. Near Brightwood
the old road took a sharp grade to
negotiate Mclntyre hill, and this
grade was a bugbear fo many mo
torists. The new grade, laid out by
the state highway engineers, hits the
hill at a higher level and when th
cectlon is rocked next year it will
efimiate tho troubles of .the hill for
ever. Charlea H. Medley, who deals in
furniture and harness at Oakland. Or.,
pne of the best shipping points south
of Portland. Is registered at the Im
perial witjj. hia wife and eon. In a
couple of weeks Oakland will assume
its annual importance, for from that
town are shipped thousands of tur
keys. The turkeys are raised as a
sort of by-product by the farmers.
Oakland and vicinity being apparently
especially suitable for the growing
of the great American Thanksgiving
bird.
It is a toss-up whether J. A. Wes
terlund of Medford prefers the hotel
business or the fruit industry, for he
Is interested in both. Mr. Westerlund.
proprietor of the Holland house, is
registered at the Hotel Oregon. He
brought with him a shipment of ap
ples for the horticultural display at
the livestock show. In a couple of
sessions of the legislature Mr. Wes
terlund served as a representative for
Jackson county.
TKar, fa a iH v f ailsnt men in the
outskirts of Salem, and the mayor of
this city is L. ri. tjompion. Among
. V. ......... , 1 f H Pancnn la Warden
Comptoh, who is away from the peni
tentiary on ousiness. una oi tne aia-
.0-rB.ah!a features fit running the
Oregon prison at this time is the Im
minent prospect of having to reduce
the population by a srles of execu
tions. It Is one of the flrawDacks to
the Job.
John Clark Burgard of Seattle, wii
In the city yesterday on his way to
Arlington cemetery to represent Ore
gon at the funeral of the unknown
soldier. Mr. Burgard was seriously
wounded In the Argonne and, was
awarded the distinguished service
cross. Mr. Burgard is the son of
John Burgard of the Portland dock
commission.
From the University of Idaho at
Moscow, has come a Judging team to
attend the livestock exposition. The
team consists of F. W. Atkensen.
Ralph 8. Bristol, J. L. Teevs and U N.
Wilson The party is registered at
the Multnomah, This is the first
group of judges to arrive from col
leges in the northwest.
J. D. Farrell, one of the best known
railroad men in the west and located
in Portland for several yearn, ar
rived at the Hotel Portland yesterday
with his family. The Farrells are
here to attend the horse show and
livestock exposition.
E. E. Woodward of Pullman eollegav
Is at the Multnomah. He Is an
authority on dairy husbandry and has
been attracted to Portland by the
livestock show. Sometime next week
he expects to bring a committee of
judges from the college.
Amotg the Tillamook contingent
here to attend the livestock show
are J. A. Nellson, Paul Fitzpatrick
and Albert F. Krake. who are regis
tered at the Hotel Portland. Tilla
mook boasts of gome of . the finest
dairy cattle in Oregon.
T. H. Foley, who is the Franklin
T. Griffith of Bend. Is in the city on
business. Mr. Foley says there is
more horsepower In the Deschutes
than can be used for a century, at
least, and his company uses but a
fraction of this power.
0. B. Robertson, state senator, and
Frank Sloan, representative, both- ef
whom are in the sheep business, were
in town yesterday, one from Condoo
and the other from Umatilla.
L. D. Drake, of the Budget, at As
toria, Is registered at the Hotel Ore
gon. The former boss of the Budget
is John Gratke, exploiter of the lit. 5
exposition.
C. L. Grutx of Salem, member of the
state highway organisation. i regis
tered ,at the Multnomah. Mr. Gruts
is in charge of the shop department
Mrs. W. W. Keyes of Taeoma. who
has entered a horse exhibit in the
livestock show, is registered at the
Benson.
1. W. Veatch. member of the city
council at Cottage Grove, Or., u
registered at the imperial.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. HmcktOB-atKrlla C-s.
Can Yon Answer These Questional
1. Please advise what to teed a
your g -allow.
2. How fast do bedbugs multiply?
3. Is rice wafer all right for gold
fishes?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers te Previous Queatlona.
1. If a speckled trout Is opened and
tbe spawn put into a pond. Will it
brouuee young fish?
Not uniesa the eggs are ripe and
can be fertilized by milt from a male
trout. If the latter can be obtained
and poured over the eggs, and they
are put into a pond where there is
clean, cool water, part of the eggs
anyway are likely to hatch. This
is, roughly speaking, the method of
artificial hatcheries.
s
1- Do partridges' select their mates
from within their respective coveys?
Until great numbers of individuals
are banded or tagged in some way
for identification, nobody can reply
pos tively to this. A covey is simply
a pair, with their brood, which keep
together until the young are about
a year old. They then disperse, hunt
ing up mates. These may be found
among strangers, but there is no evi
dence th.it after dispersal members
of the same brood do not mate. Or
nithologists disagree even as to
whether or not partridges are polyga
mous. 3. Is the spotted skunk the same as
a civet cat?
No, but these little' skunks are
wrongly called civet cats sometimes,
and their fur sold under the name of
civet. The, true civet Is found In Af
rica and southwestern Asia, but not
in America. Civet fur is still taken
in China and is dark gray, with black
barj and splotches.
STORY OF OXE CAXAL TREATY
Reason for the Clayton - Bulwer Com
pact and the Outcome.
EU8ENE, Or., Nov. S. (To the Ed
itor.) Why did the United States
enter into the Clayton-Bulwer treaty?
Was not the Joint arrangement with
Great Britain contrary to the Monroe
doctrine, or inconsistent with It?
WILLIAM A. CROSBY.
The Clayton-Bulwer treaty was a
settlement of a long controversy
which arose fjpm attempts of Britain
to extend the territory of British
Honduras to the mouth of the San
Juan river in Nicaragua, and from
American opposition to these at
tempts, both nations regarding the
mouth of that river aa the terminus
of a future Nicaraguan canal. Each
at first aimed at exclusive control of
the canal route; and by the treaty
they agreed that neither should have
such control, but that they should
control it Jointly.
Britain used a protectorate over the
Mosquito, Indians as the pretext for
extension of the boundary of British
Honduras to the San Juan river, and
in 1847 occupied the territory and the
town of San Juan del Norte, changing
its name to Greytown, and made a
treaty by which Nicaragua recognized
the occupation. This was denounced
as an infringement on the Monroe
doctrine, which Britain then de
clared no part of international law,
and war threatened, but Clayton
averted it by making the treaty. Con
troversy over its meaning and execu
tion continued till the Buchanan ad
ministration, when Britain abandoned
the protectorate over the Mosquitoes,
retroceded other seized territory and
made Greytown a free port under
Nicaraguan sovereignty.
A feeling prevailed that Joint con
trol of the proposed canal was con
trary to the Monroe doctrine and
caused persistent efforts at sole
American control, which culminated
in the Hay-Pauncefote treaty, ap
plying to any Isthmian canaL
To Heighten Visibility at Mgkt.
PORTLAND, Nov. 3. (To the Edi
tor.) During foggy nights on the
highways, where there are no road
lights, it is very difficult to see
while driving; an automobile. To
lower the glass windshield so that
one rr.av gee the road more clearly
admits a cold draft, which is un
pleasant. It one will take dark
gree-n tissue paper, or the same color
of thin cloth, and paste or tie it
over headlights, also spotlight, you
may gee your way much better and
perhaps avoid accidents, which might
occur by your lights reflecting oaca
from the fog D. n MORKI.AND.
Oregon As a film Location
Paradise
It makes no difference what you want in the way of scenery an
old mill or a thunderous waterfall, plain or mountain Oregon has
the! variety. In the vernacular of the motion picture producer these
choice bits of setting are "locations." Because so many films have
been taken in the same general territory the locations of other
districts are beginning to pall upon the public as well at to weary
the producers themselves. In a special Sunday feature story, accom
panied by admirable illustrations in color, De Witt Harry tells
what Oregon has to offer and how the. producing: companies are
already capitalizing: the state's scenic charm. First page, the
magazine section.
Japanese Character We have with its, honorable sir, a certain
Louis Seibold, whose recent contributions to our somewhat sketchy
knowledge of the Japanese nation have been distinctly worth while.
Seibold it was who went and1 saw for himself, returning" with the
greatest series of articles ever penned around the theme of Japan.
In the big Sunday issue, somewhere in the magazine section, you'll
discover his human and authoritative appraisal of Japanese char
' actoer. That it will interest you, troes without sayinir that it will
give you invaluable facts is the important thing. Illustrated.
Hereafter Commit Your Crimes in the Air There is one realm
that is lawless, and its area is many times that of land and sea. It
is the air. As a Sunday magazine topic, with which one may spend
an instructive half hour, permit the Sunday editor to suggest that
you read Benedict Crowell's views on the need for aerial statutes, as
repeated in an entertaining interview by William Atherton Du Puy.
Who is Mr. Crowell? Head of the Aero Club of America, and an
"authority of corresponding note. With' pictures.
Its Triteness Recommends It Dana Catlin is a prince of story
tellersone of the royal family of raconteurs who have sold to the
Sunday editor certain pleasing bits of fiction that are new and
unpublished. He is, as we have said, a humdinger yet he never
wrote a better story, a more intriguing one, than that which appears
in tomerrow's issue with its narrative of two men and some deep
dyed feminine diplomatists.
Was Ever a Young Wife Treated Like This? A most distressing
account, direct from Paris, of the family troubles that befell Mrs.
Robert W. Goelet, the former Princess Riabouchinsky, when she tried
to enter the charmed circle. Newport ignored her beauty, her
mother-in-law snubbed her, and there were more flies in the hymeneal
honey than one could count in a week. Wherefore she went to Paris
where she .could be properly appreciated, and is, and where there is
n finical Newport nicety to overwhelm. Told is the Sunday issue,
together with illustrations.
All the News of All the World
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
Just Five Cents
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jasnea J. Montague.
LOST OPPORTl.MTY.
"I come too late to skim the cream.
The screen producer sighed.
"The folks whose films would be a
scream
Most all of them have died.
This Cleopatra, so I hear,
lirove fellers off their domes
And handed out their wives a sneer
While bustin' up their homes.
If 1 had ever had a chance
To put her in a show
And do that poison adder dance.
We'd both have copped the dough.
"This Borgia woman, so they say.
Asked people to a vpread.
And built 'em up a pouasa cafe
With arsenato of lead.
Or, with a prussio acid cup,
She settled 'em for good.
An" no ono ever wised her up
To come to Hollywood. -All
Rome was scared to say her name.
But she was never screened.
If I had ever met that dame
We'd certainly have cleaned!
An" this Delilah-Samson's fluff
Way back in early days
The papers must of buzzed with stuff
About her cunning ways.
The hicks would give up all they've
got
To see that twirl and twist:
But did they film her? They did nott
Another chance 1 missed!
Today, of course, there's lota o' stars,
But none that's really great.
I'd have my yachts and private cars,
But 1 was born too late!
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Loral Condition.
In Washington the house shortage
Is largely a shortage of political in
telligence. e
Vnchanged..
German merchants say they wilt
get world trade. Headline. Using
-as even In a trade war.
Very Much.
It looks Tike a blue Christmas.
In Other Days.
Twenty-Five Years Ago.
Trom The Oregonian of November 8. lfs.
The latest election returns give Mc
Kinley 277 votes and Bryan 12i votes.
Those stilt in doubt number 48.
There will be a celebration at the
Cascade Locks today In honor of the
formal opening of this great enter
prise that is so greatly to benefit the
northwest.
The relations of the United Statea
with Spain regarding the laland of
Cuba are likely to prove one of the
most puzzling of public questions
which will come before the next ad
ministration. The meeting of the council ad
journed so suddenly yesterday that
Mayor Pennoyer had no chance to
present his resignation, oven if he
intended to do so.
Misrepresentation by Agent.
TILLAMOOK, Or, Nov. 3 (To the
Editor.) A year and a half ago I
bought "sight and unseen" a certain
parcel of land in this state through
some real estate men operating under
the Oregon laws. These men are now
in an adjoining state in the same bus
iness. Three months after making the
deal I aaw the place and found it to
be grossly misrepresented aa regards
tillable land, water rights, etc
Now these men were acting as my
agents in the matter In good faith on
my part and I would like to know how
I can recover at a minimum of expense
to me? Would it be necessary to take
the matter through the courts or is
there a state board looking after
"-tutiga of this nature? S.
There is no board which can ob
tain money damages for you. If the
agents were still operating In Oregoa
you could file a petition with the state
insurance commission charging fraud
and thereby start a proceeding whick
if sustained would mean revocation, ot
their license. Your civil remedy it
you have one Is In the courts and aa
examination Into the facts by a law
yer would be needed to determine the
advisability of suit.
Pencil Changed for Message-
Life.
Newlywed -Take a letter to my
vslfe.
- Stenographer Jnat a minute till I
get out a soft pencil.
1 i
Thla Woman Is Safe.
Exchange.
"Tour wife has an trnprotected hat-i
pin. It Is dangerous."
"Tt Isn't nobody will gs near her