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Newspaper Page Text10 TIIE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1921 Ranting (Qte$mnn UTABUSHED BY HE.MIL FITTOCK. Published by The Oregonlan Publishing Co., 134 Blxlh Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A. MOBDEN. ' E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The Oreaonlan U a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ciuMvely entitled to the use tor publication of at) news dispatches credited to H or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are aso reserved. subscription Kates Invariably In Advance. (By Mall.) Pally. Pundsy Included, one year . . . . .$8 00 J'ally, Sunday included, six months ... 4 2.1 1'aliy. Sunday Included, three month.. 2.25 lnlly, Sunday Included, one month ... .73 Iiahy, without Hunday. one year 6. HO liitily, without Sunday, six months .... ft. 25 Italiy. without Sunday, one montb Weekly, one year 6unday.ne year 2.30 (By Carrier.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year $0 00 T'ally. Sunday Included, three months. . 2.25 Ially, Sunday Included, one month. ... .75 Iially. without Sunday, one year ...... 7.80 Jally, without Sunday, three months.. 1.95 lai!y, without Sunday, one month 63 How t) Remit Send postofflce money erder, express or personal check on your local bank. S:amps. coin or currency are : owner's risk. Give postofflce address In fu'l. Including county and state. Posture Rates 1 to In paaea. 1 rent; 18 to 82 prices. 2 cents: 84 to 48 pages. S c-nls; flu to 64 pages. 4 cents: 66 to 80 Tstres. 3 cents: S2 to 96 pages. 0 centa Foreign postage double rate. a Eastern rtnsineiM Office Verree A- Conk lln, 3t0 Madison avenue. New York: Verrel ex Conklln. Sieger building, Chlcaaro: Ver ree & t'onklin. Free Press building. re-t-olt, Mich.; Verrea Conklin. Belling building. Portland. WHY THE NATIONS ARE CALLED. In one respect the conference at Washington will differ from that at Paris In the fact that when It deals with disarmament, only five nations will be represented the United States, the British empire, France, Italy and Japan. When It consider far eastern affairs, China, Holland, Belgium and Portugal will be added. The first subject Is not an ordinary problem of diplomacy such as re quires negotiation on matters of in terest to individual nations; it is a matter of general Interest to all na tions as a community living together in the same world. The second sub ject concerns the particular interests of all the nations to be represented and those Interests that they have in common. It is to be taken up at this time because there remain open for solution questions In the far east problems which are an obstacle to reduction of armament. Until these problems have been solved by con ference or diplomacy to the satis faction of all the nations concerned, those nations will feel bound to re main prepared for a solution by force of arms. A general under standing among all nations having interests in that region must be reached In order that they may be gin to disarm. But why are only five nations to net on the question of armament? Because tpey are the nations which maintain the greatest armies and navies, which have the resources to expand their armament, which have the greatest need of armed force If this is to remain a warring world but which have the greatest eed of re lief from the burden that war im poses on nations. By their united effort they destroyed the military power of the empires which upheld the doctrine that might Is right and that treaties are scraps of paper when they stand in the way of mili tary necessity. By their victory they establish the principle that moral right and justice shall rule between nations as between men. Any one of them could cope with any natum which denied that principle: all col lectively could utterly crush it. There Is no power capable of defy ing them in the next generation, pro vided they enforce without flinching the complete disarmament of Ger many. Then their present forces could be used only against one an other, and, with the exception of the far east, no dispute Is open between any two of them which could Involve them in war. The duty falls on the five great powers to act first, for they as the greatest sufferers by the war stand In the greatest need of relief and their forces are taken as the stand ard by the lesser nations. When the war reached its climax, each able bodied man In each country was re garded as at least a potential soldier and the number of such men was taken as the measure of Its possible military power. If the great powers abandon that standard of measure ment they can reasonably expect the smaller powers to follow their ex ample. When some Ill-disciplined state attacks a neighbor as Jugo slavia has attacked Albania,, there will still be enough force and eco nomic resources In the hands of the great powers to chastise the aggres sor and restore peace. If some small state should seek a temporary ad vantage by arming Its whole popula tion to attack a partly disarmed big neighbor, It could not command the finances and material necessary to success. Any one of the great pow ers would control the sea , against any small one and could prevent Its obtaining essential supplies. Fur ther, the small nations are generally In a worse plight economically than their big neighbors, even the neu trals In the war suffering from Its reaction. If the great powers reduce armament, their action will Impress on others the wisdom of following suit by proving the sheer useles6aess of over-armament. The Unied States assumed fhe lead on both subjects to be considered because we have always been most averse to large armed force and be cause the condition of affairs In the far cast threatened to compel us to maintain a greater army and navy than we need elsewhere. That Is the primary reason from the view point of national self-interest. As to arms, we realize that the impover ishment of Europe is aggravated by their cost and that It injures us not only by preventing Europe from paying its debts to us but by prevent ing It from buying our goods. .These motives of self-interest lead on to the conclusion that our national wel fare is so involved with that of all other nations as to be best served by common action against a common evil. Japan was invited to the confer ence as the power with which we have a conflict of policy which might become embittered by the im migration question to the point of armed .conflict, and because Japan Is expanding Its navy with the evi dent purpose to be prepared against such a conflict. Adjustment of af fairs irt the far east would reconcile the policies of the two nations, and would thereby remove the main In centive for Japan's naval expansion, consequently for ours, since we have no dispute or conflict of policy with any other nation requiring a larger navy. Great Britain, must be a chief party to any accommodation, for it ' is the ally of Japan and we regard that alliance with aversion and It is j the greatest Asiatic power, not ex cepting Japan and has large Interests in and adjacent to China. The Brit ish dominions, which now have an equal voice with the mother country In foreign policy, are as deeply con cerned as we with particular regard to Immigration and they desire a substitute for the Anglo-Japanese alliance which will divert the Japan ese from their shores and will re move any possibility of conflict with the United States. The mother coun try desires such an arrangement, for it. is reluctant to desert a faithful ally, yet desires friendship with both Japan and the United States. A general agreement will serve these ends. Chtna Is to sit in council with the great powers because the far eastern question centers in that country. Its size and helplessness have invited aggression, while its wealth, more potential than actual, has Invited commerce and enterprise. The United States has refused to join in the game of grab, but desires equal participation with other nations in Its commerce and development. China is drifting Into dissolution. Americans see that the only alter native to a struggle for the remains is a joint agreement with China's consent to keep it united, to make it strong and to open it to the com merce and enterprise of all nations without infringement on its inde pendence. - ... France has a great colony In Indo-China and Interests in China which will be materially affected by any settlement, therefore mu;g be a party to It. Italy has no territory In the far east, but must be a party to any arms limitation on which the agreement as to that region has a great bearing and in which Its po sition in Europe must be considered. Italy can do valuable service as a disinterested party In bringing the others together. Holland has great, populous colonies in the East India Islands which will be affected only less than those of France and may well desire a part In building up China. Belgium owns railroads and concessions in China, and Portugal holds the colony of Macao, off the Chinese coast, which they both wish to protect. When the European settlement now nearing completion has been followed by that In the far east, the path will be clear fey the nations to end the era of competitive arma ment which has almost wrecked many of them and to open the era when any future quarrels shall be tried out in the council of mediation or before the tribunal of Justice or arbitration, not on the field of battle. This Is one good result of the world war. It lias destroyed the romance and inspired horror of war. TOMORROW IS ARMISTICE DAT. At noon tomorrow a hush will fall upon America, while the nation gives silent tribute to an unknown soldier, slain In democracy's cause. If he can know, that boy who never marched home again, how the great heart of "his country has shrined him as a symbol of sacrifice, pride must be his In the far land wliere he dwells. For tomorrow is Armis tice day. AH true Americans will remember and observe these outward evidences of an inward love and loyalty: To reverence our soldier dead In those silent moments at mid-day. To fly the flag at full mast in token of a righteous national pride. To salute the colors as the parading veterans pass in review to stand with bared head while the emblem passes. To morrow is Armistice day. Faith, if it has faltered, should be born again on such a day. And If it be undiminished and confident of America's sure path to greater ser vice, it should be the brighter for the memories that will come. Mem ories of exaltation, of courage, and self-denial, of utter sacrifice when the colors crossed the seas to the baptism of battle. Memories of men and boys who went to war with a clean purpose, light-heartedly, laughing, as to a great adventure for a well-loved cause. Memories of those who died so splendidly in rain and mud and the multiple horrors of conflict. Tomorrow Is Armistice day. It were well for America If, through out the year that follows and the years to come, the spirit that rises to greet that day should stand sen tinel at the soul of the nation, vig ilant, high of heart, reverent, and wholly unafraid. Not lost in the narrow ways of selfishness, nor for gotten in the paths of pleasure, nor thrust aside until a grand occasion comes but omnipresent and eter nal. It is called patriotism. It made America. BAD NEWS FOR TRAIN ROBBERS. By assigning a body of marines to guard mall trains, the government has doubtless driven a growing class of criminals to seek a new field of occupation. The spectacle of a couple of deviIdog9 on the tender of an engine confronting them with sawed-off shotguns or revolvers or in a mall car blazing away at them will be very discouraging to the train-robber. The marines showed that they can shoot straight and are "scared o' nothin' " by what they did to the kaiser's finest at Belleau wood and other places In France. They can also run, and they always run toward the enemy, not away from him. A cross-country chase at night after a party of bandits would be mere pastime for them. Train-robbers have an undeserved reputation for daredeviltry. In climbing over the tender to the loco motive cab. they take practically no risk when they poke revolvers in the ribs of the engineer and fireman and growl "Stick 'em up." for, the en ginemen are unarmed and so busy with their work that it is easy to cover them with a revolver. The robbers' guns are always ready when they order mall clerks to open the door, so that they have the drop, and they can play safe by throwing bombs or blowing up the car with dynamite. But the men who have fought and beaten the boche will be ready to defeat these tactics, and will not hesitate to shoot to kill. When the robber looks into the stern face and shining gun of a marine, he is very apt to wilt and become a sorry hero for boys fiction. The war seems to have let loose a mass of new recruits to the army of crime that-is prone to acts of mur der and other violence, and they have been encouraged by new types of weapon and the facility for es cape that Is offered by the automo bile. The law has been a little be hind In adopting these means for their pursuit and -capture. The prompt action of Postmaster-Gen eral Hays and Secretary of the Navy Denby in adopting the latest weap ons after the Paxton robbery and ijr placing them In the hands of ma rines shows that the law has caught up. We shall look for a story very different from that of Paxton when the next robbery Is attempted and for grave depression in the train robbing industry. The bandits know there will be small chance to take advantage of the law's delays when a marine shoots. GO AHEAD. The Oregonlan Is not a little in trigued by the following paragraph from a news account in its columns of a recent meeting of the repub lican county central committee: Mr. Dunne proposed a resolution In which It was declared that the county central committee support only such can didates for the atate leglslatnre as would favor an amendment to the state primary Jaw that would permit county central com mlttees to Indorse or disapprove of can' dldatea. This was adopted unanimously. Well, what's to prevent it? Far be It from us to poke fun at so august an organization as a central committee, made up of a large num ber of earnest persons who take their politics seriously; but what's the use asking the legislature to per mit them to do what they solemnly announce a purpose to do without legisiativessanction ? Let us say that amending the pri mary law Is some task some task. Not that -it suits anybody, and not that It should' not be changed in many material ways. But it cannot be amended by the politicians, and nobody else seem to care. When the public understands a little better that under the primary party organ ization is supplanted, and individual and personal politics takes its place, with no improvement over the old condition not wholly due to public sentiment, there may be Invented and adopted a better method of se lecting candidates for office. PERFORMING A DITTY. Let The Oregonlan say to several persons who have made direct in quiry, and to many other persons who are no doubt curious, that the attack of Mr. Wells on the arma ment conference has taken the form of declaration as to the complete fu tility of mere limitation, and of great elaboration of argument about It, or any attempt at It, all leading by Wells to a confederate world .con trol, a "pax mundi," a co-operative society of all mankind, with a "merging of sovereignty" and an utter abandonment of . "patriotic cant." All this might possibly be overlooked as the beautiful, but Im possible, creation of the dreamer, If it were not attended by Intrinsic evi dence of the purpose of Mr. Wells to place every possible obstacle In the way of any practicable solution of its problems by the conference such as a studied defense of Ger many and Russia, with a direct Im plication that their present troubles are due to the inconsiderate and un justifiable attitude of the allies. There is long complaint that Russia Is overlooked, and is not to have a seat at the conference table. The American citizen, or citizen of any nation associated with America in the war, or represented at the Wash ington conference, who can read the Wells articles without boiling resent ment that his sense of loyalty and of duty to his country is being boldly attacked, or without a perfect un derstanding that in Wells the holy cause of peace, through interna tional agreement for armament limi tation, has an open and avowed enemy, has singularly dense percep tions. The Oregonlan has, it thinks, no parochial view of its duty to its readers to permit through Its col umns the expression of all points of view, either of opinion or of fact; and It cites publication of the Tumulty articles on Woodrow Wil son, in evidence. But it has a re sponsibility to Its public and to its government and to all-good causes, which it will perform. It will be no vehicle for merely destructive prop aganda for any one or for any pro gramme, personal, political, social or religious. A BATTLE ON RATES IMPENDS. Proposed reduction of transcon tinental railroad rates all the way from 20 to 60 per cent is dictated by the absolute necessity that rail roads get enough traffic to employ their plant. Unrestricted water competiton through the Panama canal with a surplus of vessels now has its full effect, and railroads have to fight for traffic in order to keep their immense plant employed. As measured by number of idle cars, this plant is working to only 75 per cent of capacity, and that 75 per cent has to bear overhead expense and Interest on the entire 100 per cent. At all costs they. must fight for traffic to load the 675,000 cars that were Idle a month ago. Whether the roads would obtain adequate revenue at these rates to pay interest on the Investment and to repair and improve their badly run-down property can only be proved by experience. In the eight months ending with August, with a decrease in revenue on every class of traffic, they contrived to increase their net operating Income from less than nothing in the same period of 1920 to 2.6 per cent, but this was accomplished by decreasing not only cost of transportation but that of maintenance-of-way and equipment 26.8 and 18.2 per cent respectively at a time when it was notorious that expenditure should have been largely increased In order to make good the deterioration of a long period of years. In August gross operating revenue decreased 9 per cent as compared with a decrease of 4.7 per cent in August, 1920. but net operating income was Increased to 5 per cent, apparently by reducing maintenance-of-way 60.2 per cent, maintenance of equipment 41.8 per cent, cost of transportation 44 per cent, as well as all other elements of cost. When the roads get enough traffic to load all their cars, they will, if present conditions continue, find 275,000 of them in bad order and will probably find their track in no condition to speed up move ment. Unless cost of transportation can be further reduced, they will then be driven to desperate expedi ents to get their lines in condition to carry the traffic that they will have stimulated by reducing rates. If they should not recover much of the traffic that has been captured by water lines, they will have re duced" gross revenue without mate rially reducing expenses. The. new rates cannot become ef fective without concurrence of east ern connecting lines and consent of the Interstate commerce commission to suspend the long-and-short-haul clause of the law. Some of the eastern lines would rather take traf fic to the Atlantic seaboard for de livery to ships coming through the canal than haul it a shorter distance west for delivery to the transconti nental lines. Atlantic ports are also likely to oppose approval of the new rates by the commission, as they wish to handle this business by water. The intermountain cities are armed for another fight against lower rates to Pacific terminals than they enjoy. Notice of the rate reductions Is thus the opening of another long battle in which the issue will be far Droader than it has been in past con troversies of the same kind. This is the battle which would have be gun with the opening of the canal in 1914 if the war had not inter vened. It will be the fiercer because of the great merchant fleet that now bids for traffic of which the rail roads are in dire need.- Intervention of Atlantic porta against capture by railroads of traffic that they wish to handle by water will tend to has ten that definition of natural routes to the seaboard for which recent laws provide. AN EXPLANATION REQUIRED. It is generally conceded that if crime is to be discouraged Judicial leniency should be Infrequent, and always well advised. Such Is the purpose of the law to discourage crime by drastic examples. No more conspicuous instance of clemency from the bench, without the merit of an explanation, has arisen in Oregon than that currently reported from Fossil. There it was, a day or so ago, that Judge Parker Immediately paroled Oscar Kelsay, ex-sheriff of Wheeler county, after sentencing the convicted man to fifteen years for embezzlement. z It appears that Kelsay as sheriff was guilty of an outrageous breach of trust. His misappropriations of the public funds covered a period of years and approximated $29,000, only a small portion of which he re turned after arrest. Appearing be fore Judge Parker he entered a plea of guilty, received his sentence to the penitentiary and was no sooner sen tenced than he was free by parole. "Judge Parker made no statement as to why he paroled the prisoner," ran the news account. Why did not the Judge make an explanation? Surely the exercise of clemency in such a case, when the offender was a defaulting public of ficial, a persistent violator of the public trust and his own oath of of fice, requires some logical statement. The Judicial privilege to parole sel dom is exercised save in conviction for minor offenses: and far more rarely when the culprit is one who In public office betrayed the confi dence that placed him there. The instance was an aggravated one, ap parently indefensible so much so that Judge Parker was constrained to pronounce a sentence of fifteen years. The public may be pardoned for viewing his judicial act witn amazement, askance and critical. It is entitled to its explanation. It Is terrible to contemplate the possibilities of a dollar; awesome to reflect that each of us has wasted so many of "em. Methuselah was gathered to his fathers at the ripe age of 969 years. If the voice of prudence had whispered to him in his youth, at 21, bidding him invest SI at 6 per cent Interest, compounded annually, his estate would have amounted to $977,157,900,000,000,-, 000;000,000. The computation is not ours, nor have we found time to verify it. The reprehensible rogue who cast this mathematical object lesson adrift is Joseph S. McCoy, government actuary. , That was remarkable treatment given five former American soldiers in detention at Fort Leavenworth under sentence for alleged killing of a British officer at Coblenz. Par doned by the president, they were re-enlisted, with honorable dis charges and back pay for full time. What a "whale" of a story Senator Watson can make of this! The city council says people mustn't get married any more in theaters or dance halls. When will our fatherly city fathers pass an ordinance regulating the times a man may kiss his wife? The head of the new party called the "committee of forty-eight" pur poses trying to organize in what may be called the "sucker" states, and for a wonder Oregon Is not on his list. "Bie Tim" Murphy, who has dis graced union labor in Chicago, will no mora after Landis pronounces sentence for complicity with mail bandits. Still there's one comfort In the reduced state of German finances. So long as the mark stays where It Is, there can be no German military peril. Hood River growers will ship 200, 000 boxes of apples to England alone, which may be why Hood Rivers are scarce here. It's a new one and beats pulling out the watch. An orator who talked too long found his car with a traffic tag in it. The police bureau shows its sin cerity in promoting Sergeant West to the vacancy in the list of captains. A Colt see Grove woman has a Jar a century old. Plenty wives have them new every day. Perhaps the packers will cut the prices of cured meats when the wage cut is established. Mayor Hylan forgot Napoleon when he talked to Chief Johnnie Young about size. Police shake-ups nowadays are about as common as the shake-downs used to be. A revolution in South America must be something like a Kentucky election. The Tammany candidate is in by the largest vote ever and women voting! A low-down burglar Is one who steals a baby's bank. Portland has one. Mail-car banditry will cease with a "leatherneck" aboard. Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Bner. EVERT once In a while some ad mirer of Prlscilla Knowles writes to this department to ask for news of that actress. For the last three years Prlscilla must have been re tired, for nothing concerning her his trionic activities has come to us from the east- Since she left here a dozen years ago she played for six years as leading woman with the Academy of Music stock la New York and then took a flyer In vaudeville. Now comes news that will Interest her friends here. Miss KnowKi and Scott Hitch ner are appearing d'n tour in vaude ville with Florence Walton and will vis't Portland some time this winter. a E. D. Price, who used to be a hus band to Catherine Countlss and who is an old theatrical figure of Califor nia's early days, is advance man for "The Merry Widow," on tour. . m m m Llane Carrera, daughter of the late Anna Held, has petitioned for the re moval of Charles F. Hanlon of 8an Francisco as executor of her mother'! estate, saying he Is withholding as sets from her. Mrs. Enrico Caruso is in New York cn business connected with the set tlement of the estate of her late hus band. When she has completed the business she will return, with her baby, Gloria, to live permanently In Italy. Anna McKenzle Is suing her ex husband, Bert Savoy, for breach of promise. She values his loss at $25. 000. They were married once, and to each other, and after they were divorced decided to remarry, or that Is what Mrs. Savoy says In her com plaint. She alleges that her ex-hus-hand has reneged on his part of the bargain and he says he never made any proposal of remarriage. " a Before George Cohan left for Eng land he took a trip to the town of North Brookfleld. Mass., where he spent many days in his boyhood. While there he decided to make the town hall over Into a theater. . All equipment necessary has been ordered and 'n the absence of Cohan himself his mother, Mrs. Jerry Cohan, will dedicate the house at Its initial performance. m m Stan Stanley has been made defend ant In a suit for separate maintenance by his wife. She has retained an at torney, who has set forth in'her -complaint that she Is May Childrey and the wife of Stanley Morgan Childrey, who is known as Stan Stanley In vaudeville, and- therefore she has taken the name of May Stanley. According to Mrs. Stanley, they were married in Indianapolis in 1910 and from that time on her husband has treated her In a brutal manner. The couple were separated on July 25. 1921, and she Is asking 1175 a week to Support herself and two children. Rita Florence Stanley and Stan Stanley Jr., and $1750 counsel fees. ' . . ' ' - ' Helena Jesmer, formerly a cUkrus girl with the "Greenwich Village Fol lies," has started salt against Philip Morgan Plant, a son of Morton. F. Plant, the multi-millionaire, for 250. 000 damages. The suit Is the outcome of an automobile accident whioh oc curred while the plaintiff was riding with young Plant and several friends from New York to New Haven about a year ago. Miss Jesmer was confined to a hospital for several months and alleges that she is unable to return to stage work. A. H. Van Buren, who Is Dorothy Bernard's husband. Is featured along with Ruth Shepley In one of John Cort's new plays, "Her Salary Man." a comedy by Forrest Rutherford. e Now William Faversham arises to speak a few more or less well chosen words on the subject of being an actor and producer, too, and' he ex presses himself as deeply pained If not outrlghtly chagrined at the atti tude of Arnold Daly, who recently declared that the two professions couldn't be combined successfully un uer one head. "I am surprised to read Mr. Daly's statement," declared Mr. Faversham. "The actor by reason of coming Into such close personal contact with the play and players has unique oppor tunities for far more finished pro ducing than the commercial manager can ever be expected to possess. "I consider It the duty of an actor whose experience qualifies him for producing plays to take a very active and progressive part In his profes sion, an d there Is no doubt that he can best fulfil this duty by becoming an actor-manager providing he Is t.repared to produce plays for their own sake and not for the star lime light in the center of the stage." John Barrymore. the actor, has re turned to New York from a four months' trip abroad. During his stay In Europe, Mr. Barrymore has been making scenes in the film version of "Sherlock Holmes." Many of the smnsi warn made In England. . The company which Mr. Barrymore headed was located for a number of weeks in l London, where a part of the film was taken. The Sir A. Conan Doyle etory Is not yet completed, and much studio work will be necessary before the pic ture is ready for release. The actor Pflas not decided If he will return to the speaking stage as he Is still under contract for a number of motion pic tures. . "Michael Strange," who Is Mrs. John! Barrymore, was at me pier to meet him. a Marie Dressier raised a tempest In a teapot last week in an Interview given one of the Baltimore dailies. The buxom Marie said in part: 'I have traveled all over the coun try and have discounted 75 per cent of the unemployment talk. The whole troutle Is that there is work for the man who wants to work and who Is tatisfied tc go back to a pre-war wage. Personally, I was absolutely broke last year, having made and lost two fortunes. My Jewelry had been sold or was in hock. I had not worked In four years. When I applied for a job the managers looked me over and as much as said. What can this old woman do.' But I rfd to eat and to eat I had to work. I really went td work for much less a week in vaudeville than I had been receiving when I quit. But I had to do it. "What I did every man out of em ployment will have to do." Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotels. "There are 60.000 tons of hay in Klamath county and what to do wltb It la a problem." says E. B. Hall of the Klamath Falls Commercial club, now In Portland. "Cattle are being shipped out of the county Into California at tnich a rapid rate that the hay stands a chance of going to wasted or about half of It. I saw 90 cars of stock leaving Klamath Falls the other day. headed for the California market, and out of this number 35 carloads were feeders, which should have been kept right at home to use the hay. It looks as though the men who have the ha cannot buy stock to feed It to. and the men who have stock cannot buy the feed, and they don't appear able to get together. If there was some way of financing these hay owners with the federal aid. enabling them to buy cattle, the new legislation would be of material benefit, but ap parently the ones who will be bene fited are those whose paper is already good enough for borrowing purposes." Gold mining in Baker county is looking up. During the war period the gold mines were not considered profitable enough to work, so most of them closed. With a change" In conditions, some of the principal gold properties are about to be resumed as active producers. John Arthur, engi neer for the Oregon? A Idaho Develop ment company, who is In town from Baker, gays that formerly active properties are In motion. The Cornu copia has discovered a new vela and Is arranging; to follow it ud. At Bourne, In the Blue mountains, there are 90 men at development work. The Highland mine is putting in a force of men In the Elkhorn range. The Sump ter smelter is being repaired It was recently purchased and will be ready for operation In 1922. Dredge mining Is continuing In Powder river. In Sumpter valley, In a successful man ner. It all looks as though the gold mining industry ia about to Increase the world's visible supply of wealth. Although he Is an apple raiser, T. A. Sammis of The Dalles Is most de lighted because his wheat at the live stock show took the sweepstake prize. Tnts "Wheat was raised on Mount Hood Flat, before the war known as Dutch Flat.- Mr. Sammis has about. 150 acres of apples and about 40 acres of wheat, so that while he isn't much of a wheat farmer, he has been able to raise quality The Sammis wheat surpassed that of Hsrhsrt lTo-herf memhni n tK. IaI. Mature for Wasco and Hood River counties, although the wheat of both men was shown at the Pendleton show and Egbert's was the prize win ner there. Speaking of apples, Mr. Sammis says that about 200 carloads ot apples will be shipped from the Dufur orchards this year and only half of the orchard was worked this season. According to J. L. Kelly of The Dalles there are likely to be some resolutions adopted In Wasco crunty against the proposed tax for the con templated exposition of 1925. The people, he explains, are not opposed to the exposition, but they are opposed to "any increase in taxes and claim that a special tax for the exposition would be a bad precedent to establish. Grain growers In Wasco county are still financially bent. They went deeply Into debt last year, and while they raised a large crop this season the price was not big enough for them to liquidate all of the outstand ing debts. The Dalles, he continues. is going to have a "white way," the main street elng speckled with orna mental cluster lights. Major-General William M. Wright, commanding the ninth army corps, with headquarters at the Presidio, is at the Multnomah with h's son, Lieu tenant Wright. The general com manded the 89th division, which Leon ard Wood organized, after the organ ization reached France, and took It through all of Its engagements. He also commanded the 35th division and during the days following the armis tice he was in command of three or four of the main army corps, A. E. F. Edd'e Sammons of Portland was one of his division Inspectors. The gen eral has charge of all of the army activities In the west. O. O. Edwards, or as he called him self "Double O." is a wheat rancher, but when the war was on he was In the RDruce division and worked In a sawmill in the Siletx country for aomething like 14 a day. Mr. to wards, whose place Is at the Junction of Black Horse and Sand canyons, in Morrow county, says that most of the wheat was hauled by private truck owners this year. Two truck men from - Portland began hauling wheat when the first grain was threnhed. and they have been hauling ever since, with several weeks of work still In sight. These trucks car ry SO sacks of wheat to the load. John W. McKenzle from the bus tling town of Port Orford Is regis tered at the Multnomah. Port Or ford Is bustling because the Japanese are buying so much of the Port Or ford cedar that everyone in the com munity is kept busy supplying the demand, thereby making ugly gaps 'n the wonderful stand of this re trial kable type of cedar. In addition to the logging operations, which have caused the town to revive, there has been considerable road work on the coast highway in that section. That there Is a lot of building In Salem, not for speculative purposes, but to take care of people needing homes, la the statement of George E. Ifalverson, mayor of the place, reg istered at the Multnomah. "Through out the Willamette valley," says the mayor, "I f.nd things on the mend. I have visited several stock shows In different parts of the country, but never have I seen one to equal the exh tit now being staged In Port land." Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Brown of Cor vallis, where Mr. Brown la with the Oregon Agricultural college, are at the Multnomah. Professor Brown Is here to act as one of the Judges of the displays in the industrial build liig at the stopk show. ' J. Shedd. after whose family the sf Shads wnn named la at the lns. Shedd Is at present In the V.rt of construction work of a sec uon of the Pacific highway, headed south through Linn county. A. H. McDonald, who Is the movie magnate of Eugene. Or., Is registered at the Benson. When- U. of O. stu dents come to Portland and see mo tion picture bills advertised here, they sniff and say "we saw that in Eugene weeks ago." Keloey Vander Cook, registering from Kelso. Wash., is at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Cook Is with the Long Bell Lumber company, which is de veloping a big sawmill .in the vicinity of Kelso. W. T. Lee, assessor for Klamath county, and his deputy, M. L. John son, were In Portland yesterday, hav ing attended a meeting of assessors at Salem. ' Now a respectable farmer of Linn county, but formerly In politics in Portland. H. J. Mclnnls Is here from Albany for a few days. Webster Holmes of Tillamook, for merly a circuit judge, ia registered at the Imperial. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Hoaahton-Mlfflln Co. Caa Yon Answer These Quest Ions f 1. I have noticed an oriole's nest about 20 feet from the bank of a river. How do the young orioles get over the space of water if they don't know how to fly? 2. Are snakes slimy to the touch? 1. From what animal a fisher fur taken? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Asiwers to Previous taueatlona. 1. Do vultures locate their food by scent? Probably not. It Is said that strongly tainted carrion In a wicker basket, that hides the food without hiding its odor, gets no attention from vultures. The sense of smell Is not as strong In birds as in quad rupeds, but to make up, the bird has keener vision and can recognize food from a distance Impracticable for man or beast. m 2. Why Is ammonia sometimes called hartshorn? It Isn't often so called nowadays, but In old-fashioned novels was pop ularly mentioned as a remedy for r.woontng. The word Is curiously de rived, but to the practice of using scraps from the antlers of fallow deer, sometimes called "hart." In making ammonia. Hence "harts horn." Of course, this is not a mod ern chemical method. a 3. Is It true that sharks lie on their backs to bite? Probably In many Instances, if the prey Is near the surface. A shark attacking a whale, for Instance, would have to bite from below, as the shark's mouth Is on the under side of Its head and the whale too near the top of the water to be bitten from above. But In attacking schools of fishes in deep water, there is no apparent reason for thinking that attack could not be made from above the fishes. SAFETY DEVICES NOW IGNORED Enforce Laws Ia Railroad) Engineer's Solution of Crossing Problem. PORTLAND. November 9. (To the tor.) As a railroad engineer I read with considerable interest an editorial In The Oregonlan November 2, entitled "Who Is Accountable." The entire ar ticle dealt with accidents at railroad grade crossings. I have made an ac tive study of automobile, accidents, with particular relation to those hap pening on railroad grade crossings, and my answer to your question would be. "The automobile driver In 999 cases out of 1000." Every day I observe cases of fool hardy driving in the vicinity of rail road tracks. In some caseB they ap proach the railroad track at high rate of speed, bring their automobile to a sudden stop, and then laugh gleefully as the train speeds by. presumably at the distress they see registered on the face of myself or fireman. In other cases they (will dash up to the rail road track 'and instead of stopping, continue acrosB and then look back and laugh at the train. In other cases they will disregard the approaching train entirely, dash over the crossing ahead and continue on their trip with out paying the respect of a passing glance. If installation .of crossing bells at each and every railroad crossing would eliminate automobile accidents. I would be the first to step forward and say by all means Install them, re gardless of expense, but unfortunately crossing bells will not protect the au tomobile driver against foolhardy practices or callous Indifference. If accountability could be placed on other than automobile drivers, it should be placed on the shoulders of the public at large, who wink at flagrant violations ot the traffic laws such as the recent enactment by the state legislature ordering automobiles to reduce speed to 15 miles per hour approaching railroad crossings, 'out side of Incorporated towns and mu nicipalities. This law is more hon ored In the breach than In observance, as are also the various laws restrict ing speed of automobiles on different highways. Why should the public at large as sume a vast burden of expense to eliminate grade crossings, or Install other safety devices at crossings, in order that a small proportion of au tomobile drivers may violate the law with more Impunity. Wtiy not put on more officers to enforce the traffic laws, and charge the expense up to the violators of such traffic laws? Take Portland for Instance at dif ferent crossings where gates are in stalled for the protection of the peo ple. Almost every day automobile or automobiles will make a dash to get across the railroad track after the tower bell has sounded warning, and It Is not unusual to have the crossing gate broken In their mad rush to eliminate time. In most of these cases there is no better reason for their haste other than that they, wish to get home quickly to dinner, or to go to a theater or dance. . Similarly, .where crossing flagmen are maintained, and a train Is approaching, automobiles will approach the crossing, utterly disregard the presence of the watch man, and It Is not unusual for men so employed to have to Jump for safety. As before stated I feel,, therefore, that If any further expense Is in curred It should be for officers to enforce the law, and the expense of such officers should be charged up to the violators In the shape of fines and prison sentences. FRANK J. CONNOLLY, Southern Pacific Company. EXPOSITION AND THE SCHOOLS Mr. Woodward Holds "abject Proper One for Children's Consideration. PORTLAND, Nov. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Solicitude in behalf of our pub lic schools, teachers and children alike, is expressed by Mr. Joseph N. Teal In his -letter criticising the unanimous action of the school board in permitting matter having to do with the proposed exposition to be placed before the children In the higher grades of our public schools. The question at Issue came before the board at a regular meeting, af firmative action being taken by unanimous vote. Statistlcical infor mation having to do with the re sources. Industries of our state, our city have a proper place within our schools. The writer fails to see In this mat ter what there Is that "promotes po litical Interests." Nor are the teach ers and children in any sense "co erced." To the educational commit tee of the board and superintendent of schools has been entrusted the task of inspecting any and all matter of fered. There will he nothing which should in any way arouse the appre hensions of Mr. Teal nor others of his associates, who fear the results of such a procedure on the mind orSour children. . Mr. Teal Is one who seldom speaks of our public schools or school board save in terms of criticism or re proach. There should be no fault found over the introduction Into our schools of matter which will en lighten our children as to our state's resources, when presented truthfully, clearly, succinctly, and a proposed ex position which has this task pri marily In view may Indeed be re garded as matter if true educational value. WILLIAM F. WOODWARD, i More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. IT'S TUB CLOTHES THAT MAKE ' THE LOVEIt- Pollremen ara forbidden to flirt while uniform. When the copper Isn't beating up ma rauders. When ne isn't using language to chauffeurs. And he turns from dreary duty to indulge his sense of beauty An engaging metamox phosis occurs. For a copper, after all is somewhat human; He grows weary of the baser sorts of men. And by way of relaxation he enjoys a mild flirtation W'th the maidens of the precinct now and then. But beware of him! Beware of hlml young woman! He must court you In his hours ot repose; He's forbiddif to meander with a charmer and philander When he's tricked out in his blue official clothes. If he asks you to go with him to the opera. Or to have a little dinner at the Rita, If he says he adores you and to wed him he Implores you. Just be careful that he's dressed up In his "oils." A proposal In the harness of his duty Isn't legal, and 'n case his ardor cools. He can eay. In accents chilly, "Awl I didn't mean U, Tillle, Proposals is forbidden by the rules!" So, whenever you are winked at by a . copper. As you may be. If you get within his range. Look at him wide eyed and boldy, and observe severe and coldly, "If you want to flirt wUh me, go home and channel" a a a Firm Friends. We'll never quarrel with the Cana dian people. We like the spirit they show. To Preserve the Balance. If Taft should resign the president would have to appoint a couple of justice's to his seat. . A Matter of Comparison. After viewing the Trinceton-Har-vard football game, last July's battle between Messrs. Dempsey and Car pentler seems like a love feast. In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonlan of November 10, lSHS Thomas B. Reed, ex-senator of ths house of representatives, arrived In Portland yesterday, visiting the Cas cade locks and was honored guest at a hanquet given here by the New Eng land society. H. L. Ferguson, assistant naval con structor of the United States navy, has arrived to superintend the build ing of the two torpedo boats by Wolff & Zwicker. There will be eight divisions In the grand ratification parade tomorrow night celebrating the election of Me Kinley and Hobart. Omaha Zera Snow after conference here with Union Pacific officials said that segregation of the Oregon Short Line and Union Pacific will probably occur February 1. Fifty Year Ago. ' - From The Oregonlan of November 10, 1R71. New York There Is general feeling of demoralization among the defeated Tammany crowd. The senate will probably contain 24 republicans and six democrats and the assembly will have 90 republicans and 32 democrats. Governor Grover has appointed these men as commissioners of deeds for Oregon: F. R. Anderson, New York city; P. A. Hayne, Chicago; James Ham, Mem-phis, Tenn. A big meeting for the purpose of memorializing congress to aid in the construction of a railroad from Port land by way of Salt Lake will be held hhis evening In the courthouse. . DROPPING OF WELLS APPROVED Grave Issue Only Clouded by Literary Skill of Visionary Doctrinaire. PORTLAND, Nov 9. (To the Ed itor.) I wish to compliment you on your decision In regard to the arti cles of H. G. Wells. They are, or would have been, Impractical, vision ary and foolish. His articles in the Saturday Evening Post a few months ago were a portent of what we might expect from him at this time. 1 am anxious to see some form of arma ment limitation and a good under standing with our natural J'y. Eng land, but given a choice1 between heavy taxation for war purposes and being guided by the Wells type, I prefer the former. Armament is at, least practical for the purpose In tended. The literary skill of Wells Is very practical to himself, but a seri ous Injury to those who are un thinkingly Influenced by it. J. ARCH STEWART. PORTLAND, Nov. 9. (To the Ed itor.) 1 was very glad to read your remarks In today's issue regarding your suspension of publication of the articles by H. U. Wells. Every reputable newspaper In the United States would, I believe, have the approval of the large majority of their patrons by doing the same thing and giving It the widest noto riety. REGULAR SUBSCRIBER Advice to Dairymen's League Sound. M1LWAUK1E, Nov. . (To the Edi tor.) I wish to compliment you on your editorial In yesterday's paper entitled "Put the Machine In Repair." You show by this editorial that you have a much clearer understanding of the farmer's position than most news papermen have. Your advice is sound and your analysis of the situa tion clear. I spent nearly three years with the league and very likely contributed to some of the many errors made in Its management. Being a farmer myBelf and a member of two of the other state-wide farmers' commodity mar keting associations. I am deeply in terested in the success of them all, and especially In the success of the league, to which I gave three years j of hard work. M. H. 6HROCK. Vote on Expoaltlna Tax. PORTLAND. Nov. 9. (To the Edi tor.) Please Inform me through the columns of your paper who votes on the 191:5 exposition tax. Just Port land or the state of Oregon? MRS. J. H. SMITH. In the election to be held on Novem ber 19 only the city of Portland will vote. It Is expected if the citizens of this county express desire for the exposition by voting for its support, that a general election will be held later, at which the question of voting additional support will be submitted, to the entire state.