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RAVING A (S.1.000,000 INVESTMENT.
The statement has been made by
persons who have studied traffic
laws that nowhere In the United
Slates is there a ntatute which pur
ports to establish a scale of compen
sation for use of public highways by
commercial vehicles based upon cost
to the public of the wear and tear
caused by such traffic. The com
mittee appointed by the governor to
recommend highway legislation
therefore found no precedent for It.l
guidance. Automobile truck and
; buss traffic Is a new Incident In
transportation. Vehicles have grown
in weight, speed and range of em
ployment as fast as, or faster than,
nard surfaced roads have developed
in traffic sustaining qualities. It la
a new problem in which various
elements have not been determined
The competitive influence of this
mode of transportation upon old
established moans' of transportation
has been an aggravating one. In
view of the circumstance that the
public provides right of way and
road bed for the automobile, while
the railroad must provide its own,
yet is taxed for Initial cost and for
maintenance of the road bed of Its
competitor. But while the competl
tion of commercial vehicles has been
growing, the use of private vehicles,
for which the roads were primarily
constructed, has also made inroads
upon railroad business and there hat
been, so far as can be ascertained,
no determination anywhere of the
loss of traffic by railroads to com
mercial vehicles alone.
The traffic of commercial vehicles
also lias been more or less seasonal
and also of a fluctuating character
at all times. They have the present
attractiveness of novelty and nobody
can pay what they could or should
pay over a period of systematized
operation. Likewise the effect of
weight and impact upon the dur
ability of pavements Is to be had
chiefly from observation. We know
that on olty streets, when they are
properly built, very heavy traffic,
though slow traffic, Is sustained
over long periods without appreci
able wear, whereas pave:nents built
in the country of equal strength and
thickness deteriorate quickly under
fast moving, but no heavier traffic.
It is not cause for surprise, there
fore, that the committee has decided
to make no recommendations on
remuneration for use of the high
ways, but has devoted Its findings
to matters of speed at given weights,
and has suggested that commercial
vehicular traffic be put under the
observation and regulation of the
public service commission. 'With a
system of reports before it, covering
a period of twelve months or more,
the public service commission should
be able to work out the compensa
tion particular on as near a scien
tific basis as euch a thing can be
done.
In two or three slates where a
form of regulation of trucks and
busses has been attempted a certifi
cate of public necessity and conveni
ence Is required before a franchise
will lssuo. In other words the public
utilities body having control of
franchises measures the necessity
for a new bus line and if it finds
that the territory which the line will
cover is already adequately served
by transportation It will deny the
application for franchise. This prin
ciple is not uncommon in issuance
of railroad, street railway, telephone
nnd other utility franchises, but it
is clear that buss and truck lines
are in a class that differs materially
from these.
The great portion of capital
required for road bed or plant is
already provided for the buss line
by the public. This condition invites
short lines and long lines, with con
sequent overlapping. The capital
required to establish a line Is com
paratively small. Speculation in
franchises which cost the promoters
little or nothing results Just as In
the days when franchises were given
by cities to railroads for nothing,
speculation or shoe-string promotion
was a common and disturbing
practice.
It appears from the committee's
letter to the governor that it has
adopted a middle ground. Franchises
are to be Issued by the public service
commission with minimum require
ments as to service and bonds. Com
peting lines will be admitted to an
occupied field only upon the same
terms on which the established Una
was admitted. Thus casual, seasonal
and cut-throat competition will be
avoided.
But If the committee has been :i
rareful with speed and weight regu
lations as conditions seem to war
rant, public necessity will be served
in still another way. The state has
expended so far on the set highway
programme about $53,000,000. It is
a capital Investment so huge that
pvery reasonable precaution must be
taken to preserve It. None of the
roads that make up this investment
of $53,000,000 was designed to carry
a heavily weighted vehicle hurtling
along at express train speed. As is
irue of city streets, the state high
ways will carry a very heavy load
if the load travels at a moderate
speed. Within certain limits It' is
not the deadweight but the impact
of the moving load that destroys the
pavement. If speed of the over
crown buss and large capacity truck
U cut down to the point where it
does not injure the pavement, they
will become less of a competitor with
the swifter moVing railroad train
they will move less of what is right
fully the railroad's and subsist on
that which public convenience
entitles them to. have.
But that result is oily for
incidental consideration. The main
consideration is preservation of the
investment in highway and the
safety of the public. Judging from
the speed at which large busses and
trucks travel it Is only good fortune
that there has not been damage to
life and property. It Is essential to
public safety that both be able to
stop within a defined distance and
the distance within which they can
stop is measured by the speed at
which they travel, assuming that
they have proper brakes. Inspection
by the public service should insure
adequate brakes and speed control
do the rest.
A more willing obedience to law
and better law enforcement ought to
result from the committee's recom
mendation, if it be adopted, that
police powers be granted to the
highway commission. The sugges
tion heretofore made in these
columns that the fixing of speed
limits on all state highways be
centralized in the highway com mis
sion and that It be given power to
make enforcement uniform is now
renewed.
If the legislature will require a
system of reports that will provide
definite Information on which later
to base remuneration for use of the
highways; If it will tighten enforce
ment provisions, limit speeds of
commercial vehicles to those that
will not endanger -roads or life,
provide for reasonable regulation of
such transportation by the public
service commission and Increase
license fees to pay for the added
cost of Inspection, regulation and
enforcement, it will have adopted a
programme that alone will Justify
the calling of the special session.
JIST AN AWKWARD MISTAKE.
A very regrettable Incident, occur
ring In the ordinary course of pub
lication of the Hearst newspapers,
will, we fear, cause uninvited and
undeserved embarrassment to our
esteemed contemporary, the Seattle
Post-Intelllgencer, which the public
has been more than once assured,
on the unimpeachable authority of
the Post-Intelllgencer itself, Is not a
Hearst newspaper. In an entirely
helpful spirit, and In the sole Interest
of fair play. The Oregonlan takes
great pleasure in explaining the
matter:
On November 15, 1921, the New
York American, which does not
deny, but boldly proclaims, that it
belongs to Mr. Hearst, printed an
editorial article, making sweeping
charges of a damaging nature
against lumber manufacturers of the
country ss profiteers. It was copied
in the Washington Times, a Hearst
newspaper, a few days later. The
publicity' director of the National
Lumbermens association at once got
Into touch with Mr. Hearst, then in
California, in the hope of a with
drawal of the charges, and of pre
venting further publication of the
same article in other Hearst publica
tions, in accord with the Hearst
practice. He was referred to Brad
ford Merrill, general manager of the
New Ttork American. The publicity
man placed the facts, supported by
abundant proof, before Mr. Merrill
and in consequence the American on
December 2, 1921, printed a satis
factory retraction. On the same day
Mr. Merrill wrote the gratified pub
licity agent the following letter:
I received your inelosures, but I am sorry
to say that they did not get to mo until
Tuesday arternoon, instead ot Monday
too late to have the editorial prepared
and printed In our Chicago paper on the
desired day.
I incloaa the editorial as printed In the
New York Amerian today, and am writing
to the editors of our papera In Chicago.
San Francisco, Milwaukee and Seattle to
publish It.
Now we submit that all this is both
grossly unfair and needlessly annoy
ing to our Seattle neighbor. The
Post-Intelligencer knows that it is
not a Hearst newspaper, but why
did not somebody tell Mr. Merrill?
Or is It possible, that Mr. Merrill
did not mean the Post-Intelllgencer
at all, but some other paper in Se
attle? what paper does our con.
temporary the Post-Intelligencer
think he meant?
ANOTHER HEAT FOR THE HORSE.
The horseless age, they called it a
few short years ago, so confident
were they that gasoline had driven
Dobbin Into obsolescence. Indeed,
the American nation found in the
omens of that time an opportunity
for sentimental reflection, for jokes
that were a trifle sad. No people
yields up 'Its traditions without sor
row. Most of us felt that our chil
dren's children would stare at the
last survivor of a glorious race as we
have gaped at the buffalo, and that
city street and country road should
never know him more. There are,
however, more than 19,000,001
horses and mules in the United
States today. Our fears and tear
were baseless. The horseless age has
not eventuated.
Naturally there must exist som
sound economic reason for this sur
vival, that is attested by census fig
ures which show 17,000,000 horses in
the rural districts and more than 2,
000,000 In the cities. The most ob
vious conjecture is that, colossal as
has been the growth in transporta
tion and industrial needs, the de
mand for power has exceeded the re
sponse of motor-driven facilities. Or
to. phrase It differently, there is room
on the continent for both machines
and horses, and there is employment
in which the horse is paramount.
Such is the conclusion reached by
Wayne Dinsmore, secretary of the
Horse Association of America, who
asserts that our industries can no
more dispense with the horse than
Alexander could have campaigned
without Bucephalus.
In pursuing the subject one dis
covers that Boston is honored as the
stronghold of the horse, a city in
which conservatism has insured con
tinued employment to the sleek stout
descendants of eohippus. The pro
ponents of the horse point out that
Boston is equipped with team tracks,
that seventy-five per cent of that
city's merchandise Is horse-drawn,
and that her haulage charges are ex
tremely low in comparison with
those of other cities. Team tracks as
an Integral feature of highway con
struction are earnestly advocated by
the association -side roads that
spare the feet of the horses and leave
the surfaced pavement to whirring
tires. It is rather odd, when we
build pavements for the convenience
of motor traffic, to be given this
glimpse of a probable day in which
the highways shall be widened, and
diversified for the convenience of
the horse.
Kohippus ranged the prehistoric
plains as an animal only slightly
larger than a fox, and with toes in
stead of hoofs. He was fleet of foot
and wise, oh, very wise. He had to
be, for nature intended that he
should cheat the desperate game
and survive. He was the remote
ancestor of the modern horse, and
he came down through the ages with
man while bulkier, more formidable
brutes meekly gave up the ghost and
were known no more. With man he
contracted a classic friendship, and
in the service of civilization his hoof
prints mark theong road that leads
back to antiquity and beyond. It is
good to be told, good to discover,
that the horse is yet indispensable
and that an ancient affinity, both
spiritual and utilitarian, is not to be
broken.
SOCSA AND HIS BlCCEfS.
- Rather an interesting study in
heredity and American influences is
the career of John Philip Sousa,
bandmaster, who again Is visiting
Portland. His father, Antonio, was
born and educated in Spain, though
of Portuguese family, and was a
musician from boyhood. Sousa him
self is an American, born at the na
tlonal capital, and like his sire has
followed the lure of tune since ever
he was a child. - It Is apparent then
that to a congenital devotion to mu
sic the famous bandmaster has
added a master touch typical of his
native country, expressive not only of
patriotism but of that gayety and
light-hearted pride which character
ize his home audiences.
Sousa was reared in an atmos
phere of vigorous band music.' His
father, a runaway at twelve, had
served in British naval bands over
the world and had. II tradition
speaks truth, followed vour own flag
In the Mexican war, doubtless as a
musician. MubIc to him first of all
meant military airs, and his career
In this country began when he joined
the Brooklyn navy yard band in
1850. Later he entered the Lnited
States Marines band as trombonist
and, naturally enough, it was to that
organization the son turned in his
fifteenth year. In time he was to
lead it, and to become the foremost
bandmaster of the nation, resigning
only to organize his own band "Ttnd
express himself through such a unit.
All folk who have faith in them
selves will be comforted by the fact
that John Philip Sousa, in those
earlier days, composed and sold two
of his marches, ' the "Washington
Post" and the "High School Cadet"
for the thrilling sum of $35.
The tremendous success of Sousa
as a musician is not far to seek. More
than any other composer, and wholly
without pandering to cheapness, he
expresses the popular tastes. Critics
who willingly admit his superiority
as a band leader sometimes cavil at
his marches as not sufficiently clas
sical, not entirely in harmony with
the elder precepts. The public re
serves to Itself, the right of approval
on disapproval and the verdict of the
public has been known these many
years. His marches throw back the
head, and straighten the shoulders,
and snout happily In one's ears, and
quicken strange but pleasurable
emotions of buoyant gallantry. It
would seem that this is the chief
function of a march, and that Sousa
sends his shafts of tune straight to
the target not once but many times.
He has visualized the American
spirit in band music.
SOME PROBLEMS FOR THE PEOPLE.
In undertaking a campaign of
popular education on economic prob
lems the National Security league
performs a public service second
only to that which it performed in
educating the people In the necessity
of preparedness for war. Largely as
a result of the preparedness cam
paign, the people readily accepted
the draft and threw all their ener
gies into the war with a unity which
bore down the opposition of the dis
loyal and enabled the government to
put an overpowering force in Krance.
There is equal need of a campaign
of education In economics, for the
troubles which are a legacy of the
war are almost entirely of an eco
nomic character, and propagators of
socialism have spread a great
amount of false teaching which
needs to be driven out of men's
minds that they may approach the
problems before them with minds
free from delusions and capable of
thinking straight.
As a result of the war we have
direct taxation paid by millions of
the people, whereas formerly we had
Indirect taxation which the con
sumer paid without knowing it, the
tax being included in the price of
jjroods. Therefore every man's mind
Is on who is taxed and how much.
The general idea is that ability to
pay should be the measure of taxa
tion, hence that the rich should pay
most. Then heavy taxes are imposed
on the incomes of the rich and on
excess profits. There is a wide field
for education In the questions: Do
the rich pay these taxes or manage
their affairs so as to escape them?
If they pay, do they collect the
money again with a profit from
somebody else? What is the effect
on the price paid by the consumer of
a tax paid by all persons all along
the line of production and distribu
tion, and added by each, with a
profit, to the price of goods? What
Is the effect on the community as a
whole of taking for taxes money
which would be Invested in produc
tion? How does this affect interest
rates, and how do interest rates af
fect industry and prices?
Before the war there was much
complaint about high cost of living,
but during and since the war prices
have risen to unheard-of figures, un
til about a year ago they began to
fall. How many workmen realize
that an advance in wages to meet
higher prices caused prices to go still
higher, and how many manufactur
ers and merchants realize that when
they raised prices to meet higher
wages they caused a demand for still
higher wages? How many realize
that this upward tendency was due
In large part to too much money, in
another large part to demand in ex
cess of supply? How many work
men traced slack work to its final
effect on themselves?
Before the war few people had
heard of foreign exchange, still
fewer knew what It was. Now we
read and talk about it every day, and
many have been speculating in the
rise and fall of foreign currencies.
There is much for many to learn in
the cause of variation in the value of
money. We are so accustomed to
think of a dollar as worth 100 cents,
that we can hardly conceive of its
being worth only 60 cents. Yet that
U all it was worth, when, prices
doubled and, though wages osten
sibly doubled, they were actually the
same In purchasing power. We need
to have it driven home that money is
but the representative of goods pro
duced and that, when Germany
manufactures marks without an
equivalent increase of goods, there is
no increase" of wealth; the value of
marks falls as the quantity of them
Increases out of proportion to pro
duction of wealth. Then there is
much to learn about currency infla
tion e.s the effect of national bank
ruptcy and as aggravating that evil,
and about its relation to foreign
trade and tariffe.
One problem is why Great Britain
wants German reparation payments
delayed while France wants them
promptly. Not from love of Germany
but from self-interest does Great
Britain want to strengthen Germany
economically. Why is there such re
luctance to have the allies pay large
Installments on the $11,000,000,000
they owe the I'nited States? Why
has the United States one-third of all
the world's gold, with more coming?
The correct answer to all of these
questions is necessary to a full un.
derstandlng of the problems now be
ing discussed by the American peo
ple, and pending before congress and
the administration. They are closely
involved with our present troubles
industrial depression, unemployed
workmen, bankrupt farmers, rail
roads just nosing out without defi
cits. In instructing the people on
them, the National Security league
has Its work cut out.'
PROVIDE FOR MORE WHEAT.
With wheat shipments in this crop
year about five times as great as
those of Puget sound and with the
municipal elevator and warehouses
full of wheat, no" question remains
that Portland is the great grain port
of the Pacific, coast. In deciding to
move its headquarters here, the
Grain Growers' association of the
four states of Oregon, Washington,
Idaho and Montana yields to the
logic of these facts.
The same conditions which have
made Portland supreme In wheat ex
ports have made It the export point
for fruit in cold storage to the Atlan
tic coast and Kurope for warehousing
wool and shipping it to the Atlantic
ports, for cutting and exporting lum
ber and for packing meat and mar
keting livestock. The ships which
come to take these commodities
abroad and to Atlantic ports will
bring foreign products and develop
intercoastal trade, and will cause
manufactures to grow. Having made
a good start, the port cannot fail to
grow through its own momentum
provided its people enlarge its facil
ities to accommodate growing busi
ness.
If the volume of, wheat shipments
should continue near this year's total,
it may soon be necessary to consider
further provision for them at publio
docks. Arrangements of the Grain
Growers' association, not only to con
centrate Us business here, but to
finance the crops on a more satis
factory basis, warrant expectation
that the present volume will be
maintained. The proposed finance
company, which will assume finan
cial responsibility for loans from
banks, such as neither the" individual
farmers nor the association can give,
should enable the growers to carry a
large part of the crop until it can be
marketed to the best advantage, and
should draw more wheat to the asso
ciation's hands'1 to be shipped here.
This will require more storage room
and more docks.
Anthony Ferrera, who died the
other day at the age of eighty-one,
was typical of the men who leave
their native Italy and make good in
America. His residence here covered
nearly three-score years. In early
manhood he was Identified with the
municipal activities of the day;
naturally he was a volunteer fire
man. That firemen' . roll bears the
names of men who built the founda
tions of this city, and not the least
outstanding on it is that of Anthony
Ferrera.
A correspondent mourns the cur
rent disrespect for law and says that
the blue laws are surely coming
back. Has It neer occurred to him
that an excess of blue laws in the
past may be largely responsible for
the general disrespect at present?
In any event the warship builders
who will be thrown out of jobs by
disarmament will be no worse off
than a. lot of men in another non
constructive occupiftlon were when
the Volstead law went into effect.
Baseball is full of surprises). Here
the new Beaver owners trade two of
last year's tailender players for eight
new men, whereas most folks would
have hesitated to give two men for
eight Beavers.
Just think of the danger of being
disqualified that Oregon Agricultural
college hen which laid 324 eggs In
one year faces if she neglected to
register under Amateur Athletic
union rules.
With seventy-five years in prison
sentences to serve and Leavenworth
his destination, it begins to look as
if Roy Gardner's next escape will
have to be to another world.
Before we agree to recognize that
Russian soviet government, there
ought to be some guarantee that rec
ognition will not encourage the bol
shevists to get too familiar.
The crown prince wants to return
to Germany next April, which is Just
when the boys will bef doing their
spring planting. Doesn't that mean
anything to him?
The autoist who ran down a po
liceman had nerve. No wonder he
tried to get away when he realized
the enormity of his act.
The sparrows will find water
somewhere, but other birds need
cold-weather attention.
Be careful of fires. Have a heart!
These are cold nights to drag out the
apparatus.
This weather will inspire the boy
to hope for ice skates a week later.
"Santa Claus" day today andx let
the little ones make the most of it.
The shoplifters seem to be doing
their Christmas Bhopplng early.
The "sooner" Is known by his 192J
license tag yellow, too.
Be merciful to the radiator,
the torse blanket.
Use
The Listening Post.
By DeWItt Harry.
.'J'ef e.''i F. Len'd ial
iv me uuneu stales irom r.uaeia auu
last Thanksgiving day he. saw his
first football game. Here is how he
describes It: "
"I don't care if any football fan
will call me by all names which he
could not find in the dictionary.
can get out more 'kick,' like some
Americans express, from 'watching
the censorship board In a movie, try
ing to catch the unmoral moment In
a risky picture, Chan sea how a bunch
of husky boys try to abuse one poor
ball. Truly, when I saw the entire
amphitheater occupied, I began to
think that football must be a really
wonderful game, because I never saw
so many people at our symphony con
certs.
"The game started in the most
funny way. Two rows of boys stand
ing in a position like fighting roosters
and the ball on the ground between
them. Instead of kicking the ball In
the air they rolled It on the ground,
and the entire bunch plied on the ball
trying to squeeze it. They did not
mind the mud, the rain nor the fellow
under the weight of so many.
'I tried to concentrate what they
were going to do with that ball after
the mass of men, dirty all over with
mud, numbered like horsed on their
backs lift themselves from the
ground but they did the rolling of
the ball all over again. The scream
Ing and hollering of the spectators
was something awful.
" 'Touch it down, Oregon touch It
down!" I heard by familiar voices
of some newsboys and from charm
ing ladies from the blue book; also
from some dignified business people
and of some overpowering in ecstacy.
students of a certain group of play
ers. I was terribly excited by them
ana everybody around me was so
nervous as though the ball was filled
with dynamite and was liable to ex
plode every minute and kill the bunch.
"It was a horrible sight. They were
like cannibals and the crowd thought
It wa smart when so many were on
one. Then somebody shot from a gun
and the game (topped. 'Hurray for
Oregon" was moBt of the screaming.
This gives them seven! Hqw they
count seven I don't know yet, but I
suppose it must be the amount of the
boys the doctor gave his aid, and 1
cannot understand why there were so
many cheers and enthusiasm."
Europe Is again contributing to our
holiday happiness. ' Her store of toys
and novelties have invaded the mar
kets this year in a near-approach to
past seasons, but 1921 marks the first
real entry of song birds for over
four years. Canaries, bred and
trained In Germany and Switzerland,
are present in numbers once more.
A few have come each year but the
demand has been so great that high
prices wre the rule. Now a good
St. Andreasburg roller can be had
for about $15 and in some cases even
less, contrasted with four Umes the
price last year.
One good feature has been the
stimulation of local breeding. Several
Portland breeders have established
enviable business connections during
the period of dearth of Importations.
The imported birds come In bis
shipping cases, several hundred In
each box, the individuals being In
tiny wicker cages each equipped with
seed and water compartments that
are kept filled in transit. It must be
a cramped voyage for the feathered
immigrants who come to America in
bird steerage, as It were.
She was angry, "mad" in other
words, at the groccryman. He was
trying to "shove" some certain line
and she had not wanted it. She had
asked for the brand she liked and
always used, only to find that he n
longer carried It and, lacking di
plomacy, the grocer had Insisted that
".Mrs. Soanso used nothing else."
It was a "con" argument as far at
she was concerned, not a "pro" one,
and she had departed In high dudgeon,
vowing never to return to that store
When will grocers, and others for
that matter, learn that just because
"Mrs. Soanso" used anything It Is no
reason for others to accept It?
Slumber experts tell us that tht
hours before midnight are best for
sleep, but almost everyone, including
Sir Harry Lauder, Insists that you can
get the best rest Just about the time
to get up. If you can stay in bed
for half an hour longer it would be
worth untold wealth In many cases.
Which all relates to the young man
In Irvlngton who does not have to
get to work until 10 A. M. and sets
his alarm for 7 o'clock so that be
can turn over for another long cap.
"An alarm clock always makes me
sleepy," was his comment.
A boy lay In a local hospital after
an abdominal operation that necessi
tatedgreat care to avoid infection.
Pajamas were a necessity, but new
ones would not do; they had likely
picked up germ life on the shelves or
by handling during the process .of
manufacture and sale. The problem
was put up to the store, and they
promised to have half a dozen pair
in .the hospital within an hour, prop
erly sterilized.
The newr pajamas were taken to a
washing machine demonstrator and
washed, and then run through an
olectric mangle, being dried and
Ironed' in the process. Wltbfn 40
minutes a special messenger had the
package at the hospital, and in an
other ten minutes the boy was wear
ing the clean, fresh and sterilized
linen.
There are few birds more beautiful
than a China pheasant cock, and
many of them make their homes
within . the city limits. Orton E.
Goodwin Jr., way out on Fremont
street, has admired the gorgeous
birds many times and Jiad his heart
set on one. Sunday ha got one, all
by himself.
His mother was In the house when
she heard screams of delight from
the garage. The youngster called her
out, and inside the garage was a big t
cock pheasant. Orton Jr. had opened
the door, scattered some grain on the
floor, and when the hungry bird
entered had merely closed the door
on him, result a captive.
It nearly broke the boy's heart
when the bird was liberated, but it
Is always against the law to trap or
kill the game birds In cities, so Mr.
C Pheasant is once more a free agent
ln the open fields he loves so well,
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folka at the Hotels.
I Klickitat valley is In the beat ehape
of any part of Washington, according
to W. J. Story, editor of the Klickitat
County Agriculturist, published at
Goldendale. The valley and county
are rapidly returning to normal and
the people are readjusting themselves
and getting down to hard work.
Lumbering, a considerable industry
of the county, is still below normal,
but livestock Is showing nm Im
provement. There was a big 1921
wheat crop, much of which is still on
hand, but it is expected that im
proved general conditions will soon
help the sale. Retail stores In Gold
endale are doing a better business
than at the same time last year.
Merchants are expecting a substan
tial increase in trade in the spring
and consider the outlook bright. One
of the big undertakings in the Klick
itat and Wasco sections, says Mr.
Story, is the proposed building of a
bridge across the Columbia river at
the narrows, three miles above The
Dalles. The proposed North Bank
highway will come within half a mile
of the north end of the brldise. This
highway may be constructed within
the next two years. Stock Is now
being' sold in Uoldendaie and other
communities for financing the inter
state bridge project. Mr. Story is at
the Hotel Portland.
Half a century has elapsed since
S. A. Miller first appeared at Milton,
Or. He was there before there were
those inseparable municipalities. Mil
ton and Kreewater. but as Milton first
appeared on the horizon he has
elected to call Milton his postoffice
address. Mr. Miller is In the nursery
business and heads one of the oldest
and largest nurseries in the Pacific
northwest. For 14 years Mr. Miller
was a councilman and 10 years a
mayor, and for a quarter of a century
he was a school director. At present
Mr. Miller is one of the two repre
sentatives of Umatilla county. lie
said, when he arrived In Portland
yesterday, that he hopes the session
will complete Its duties in a week,
and, speaking Of the 195 exposition,
observed that the people up his way
are not opposed to a fair, but they do
not want it financed by a property
tax.
Speaking of paradise listen. Colo
nel Lawson of Wedderburn is In
town. Wedderburn is on the Rogue
river, near the mouth. It consists
o' a large general store, a cannery
and a collection of coaages. It was
t.-unded hy the late Robert Hume,
pioneer salmon packer, who was the
first to can fish on that stream
Colonel Lawson says that when he
left Wedderburn a few cays ago ripe
tomatoes could be gathered in the
gardens and ereen corn was an every
day affair. In the several years he
nas uvea mere no has never seen any
mow and the recent storm did not
disturb the hamlet, which is scarcely
rifle shot from thj ocean. The
colonel is thankful for the improve
ment being made on :ne coast high
way. Last Christmas It required four
iorsea half a day to reaotiute one
eight-mile stretch, and when he was
coming to Portland th'strlp he cov
ered the eight miles in 45 minutes.
W. C. Stone has Just completed
grading and graveling 14.6 miles of
tt.e old Oregon trail. The work is
between Ontario, the end of the trail.
nd Weiser. The bridges have been
built and will be open for traffic as
ioon as the concrete his cured, which
will be next month. Mr Stone states
that the gravel road makes a splendid
roulevard and machln? go spinning
rvcr the sections whicii are open at
the maximum speed limit and then
some. 1 he surface is now as hard
as a marble f!o,or where there has
been traffic and as smooth as a bil
liard table. Mr. Stone finished the
job Just in time to get to Portland
and submit the low bid for the Med-ford-Agate
section of the Crater lake
road.
Financing the 1925 exposition is
simple," explained H. J. Overturf of
Bend at the Benson. "All you have
to do is to sell short-term bonds.
dated to mature In 1925, and then
tuke up the bonds by the money from
the gate receipts of the fair. Doesn't
t sound grand? The idea was shipped
to me in a letter. The weak spot
about It is that the promoters of the
scheme do not say who will purchaso
the blonds." Mr. Overturf has "a few
little bills" which he contemplates
dropping Into the hopper when tho
special session gets to that order of
business
Due to the great development of
the automobile Industry in and
around Detroit, 75 per cent of the
varnish used in the country is shipped
to that city, according to I. H. Peter
son of San Francisco, registered at
the Multnomah. It is estimated that
2 per cent of the population of Amer
ica use varnish in one way or another,
making it necessary to search foreign
lands for gums and oils to turn out
the finished product. From New
Zealand and Manila American fac
tories receive large shipments of gum
and Phosphorus tap, which has de
cayed In the ground and become
hardened. From China comes oil
from nuts gathered by hundreds of
colilies, the nuts being shipped to
central points. where they are
crushed.
A delayed train prevented Roy W.
Ritner of Pendleton from voicing his
protest against the Wallula cutoff be
fore the highway commission yester
day. When the Wallula cutoff was
being discussed, Mr. Ritner was miles
and miles away. His train was four
hours late, and as it was a local, It
was shunted on side tracks when
ever a faster train came alonj.
Anxiety to make an argument against
the cutoff caused him to leave the
irrigation congress at Pendleton
earlier than he wished. Mr. Ritner
will remain in Portland until Sunday,
when he will go to Salem to preside
as president of the state senate dur
ing the special session.
Judge Patterson of Grant county
left for his home at Canyon City yes
terday. The judge was here to see
If the hlgUway commission would
develop the John Day highway be
tween Prairie City and Unity. The
latter town is in Baker and the road
between the two towns will have to
penetrate a forest reserve. It will
be an expensive piece of construction,
as it will cross -the Blue Mountains
and, anyway. Grant county is quite a
hilly country. Nothing definite was
decided, but the jude was given
hope.
G. Scott Anderson of, Wallace.
Idaho, is at the Multnomah. For many
years Mr. Anderson has been Inter
ested in the mines in the Coeur
d'Alene district and has watched the
growth and development of sbme of
the largest lead mine's in the United
States. He will spend a few days in
Portland before returning to Idaho.
R. W. Bowman of Boise, Idaho, Is
at the Multnomah. After spending
several months looking after his
ranches, Mr. Bowman and family will
remain for several weeks in this
city.
Fred C. Baker, for years In the
newspaper business at Tillamook, Is
in the city attending the Roosevelt
Memorial Highway association, of
which he is secretary.
R. D. Plnneo, manager for the port
of Astoria, is registered at the Mult-
nouiah.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, llouKbton-Mirriln Co.
I Can You Answer Thexe Quratinnaf
I 1. Is there any book telling Incuba
i t'lon periods for all the common
birds?
2. Please tell me how marty poion
snakes we have in the southern part
of the UniiTd States, and give name)
they are commonly known by.
3. How can I free an English Ivy
from scale insects?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes
Answers to Pren Inns Questions.
1. Does the gooo turn her eggs
during the incubating time?
Yes. As we replied to a question
bearing on this subject recently, this
is to secure an even brooding so that
all the eggs will hatch out together,
and allow the mother to give her at
tention to all the young at once. The
eggs cannot be laid all at the same
time, and if the first-laid ones were
immediately Incubated, the young
would hatch while the mother was
still busy with incubating later eggs
a a
!. What Is a baskinc shark, and
what does the name mean?
The name Is only a common one for
Cetorhinus maximus, one of the big
gest varieties of North Atlantic Fhark.
It has the habit of coming to thf
surface of the ocean, with a whole
group or school of Its follows, and
lying there motionless, or "basking"
in the sun.
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3. Is the ocean equally salty all
over?
No. and different bodies of water
differ as to salinity. Kuropenn
shores are said to be washed by salter
water than our own; and where great
volumes of fresh water empty Into
the ocean from rivers, the water at
such points Is probably- dllutiif. It
has been estimated that a ton of salt
water from tho Atlantic ocean con
tains 81 pounds of salt; while a like
amount from the Dead sea 187 pounds.
The Great Salt lake is even more
salty.
J bout Snmurl A. ( Inrkr.
PF.VDLKTON. Or.. Dec. 15.To
the Krtttor.) Kindly publish anv in
formation you mav have, or can ob
tain, regarding the f. A. Clarke men
tioned in "Do You Remember?" col
umn as being one of the tet itlonor.i
for the Incorporation, or Portland
his antecedents, place of hirth. etc.
W. J. CLAIIKK.
Samuel Asahel Clarke was born In
Cuba In 1827. of Knglieh ancestry. hl
parents, turnover, being natives of
Connecticut. Ho camn to Oregon
about 1850. in the winter of which
year he obtained the signature of
every voter In Portland to a potitlon
asking the legislature to Incorporate
me. town, lie was one of the early
newspaper men of the territory, and
was correspondent of the New York
Times and Sncramento Union in the
decade of the '50s. From September,
1S64, until May, 186.", he was editor
of The Oregonlan. In 1867 he was
editor of the Salem Record. later edi
tor of the Salem Statesman for sev
eral yearB and still later editor of the
Willamette Farmer. He was one of
the first men In Oregon to grow
prunes and In varloua ways was a
public spirited and enterprising
citizen. "
What Kurope Pays for Whrnt.
YAMHILL, Or.. Dec. 15. (To the
Liiitor ) LI. Y. Roe of this countv
stated at McMinnville In a public meet
ing Tuesday "that Kurope pays 33.20
a bushel for wheat In the United
States before it Is shipped, for which
the farmer tec-elves 31 a bushel and
that the speculators git the differ
ence." Is there any foundation in fact for
this statement or Is it bunk?
FARMER.
There Is no ground for tho state
ment. The ncrmul profit to the ex
porter of wheat Is a few cents a
bushel. It Is known that on the de
clining market several cargoes have
gene from Portland recently at a loss
tc the exporters. Europe does not
pay $3.20 bushel for wheat before
It Is shipped, nor after It Is shipped.
As an illustration, rejection was re
ceived In Portland yesterday of a ca
bled offer of wheat delivered at Liv
erpool at $1.26 Vj.
Heredity la Again Invoked.
The American Legion Weekly.
"Late for reveille arrain, I iee,
O'Malloy," snorted the irate captain.
"How do you account for this per
sistent tarjiness?" -
" 'Tis inherited, sir," answered Pri
vate O'Malley. "Me father was the
lute Michael O'Malley."
Mystery of Our Missing Girls
Here is a serial that never has been told before, in any guise,
and which never can be duplicated for the sufficient reason that
its facto are known only to Mrs. Grace Humiston, noted New ork
lawyer, who narrates it. It is a saddening story, this of the 100,000
jdrls who annually' leave their homes and often disappear forever.
The enigma of the missin? JTiil constitutes the life work of Mrs.
Humiston, and though the facts appal us it is well that she presents
them. For she not only directs attention to a most critical fault
in our national life, but to its remedy. The serial begins in tomor
row's big Sunday issue. Authoritative and insistent. You must
follow it through.
Which Woman' Must ray in the Love Triangle? One of them
always pays, of course, and yet the very unexpected Fequels to the
problems of Mrs. Spiker and Mrs. Shippey cannot fail to leave the
matter somewhat in dispute. For both confronted the other woman,
in each instance a war bride, yet they adopted different tactics with
totally different results. A Sunday magazine story, illustrated,
that draws its plot from real life and most perplexing human prob
lems. Read it tomorrow and form your own conclusions.
' Santa Claus, Inventor, Has Been Busy Again. What a fertile
old fancy ho has, to think up all of those toys thousands and thou
sands of them, and every last one different. This Christmas he ha3
an exceptionally fine line, as far removed from the clothes-pin dolly
as a court beauty is from a kitchen drudge. He has made dolls
straight from the storybook pages, toys that act and games that
develop music and artistic talent. Told in the Sunday issue.
And Then the Detective's Camera Snapped Them! Being the
sprightly chroniclepf an adventure in Chicago, when a bald-headed
reincarnation of Don Juan loved not wisely but too well, and rather
too often. While he entertained in his "love bungalow" certain prying
photographers, in the pay of his wife, caught him, so to speak, "with
the goods." Told in the Sunday magazine, with illustrations.
America Making the World Safe for Nobility. Such is the
caustic fling of a wise but tart French dowager, who observes that
Yankee marriages are stalvaging the ancient titles of Europe. A spe
cial Sunday article, illustrated with pretty instances, seems to prove
her contention. '
Grace Torrey'a "Survivals." Here, readers all, is an exception
ally welt told narrative, wherein the generation that strives to please
collides with the generation that prefers to shock. On merit alone
it iB a splendid bit of fiction, but it' has additional claims to local
interest. For Grace Torrey, who wrote it, first won recognition
as an author while residing in Portland, and is at present a resident
of Eugene. Turn to it in the Sunday magazine section, page 3, for
a half -hour of contentment.
All the News of All the World
t THE SUNDAY OREGOMAN
' Just 5 Cents .
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Moataicus.
AIS AMI Till-: M .
My wr.nts about a month ag
Wore rel'itivoly few;
I dil net care for stylo or show.
i'Knoiiiih to wear, enough to cat.
j nine motley saveu.
A house upon a quiet street.
Were all I thought I craved.
Content I roamed the city when
Tiie yuletide season neared.
CnconsrloDS of desires and then
The Christmas ads appeared.
And now my peace of mln-1 has fled;
I want a Itestwell chair,
A Hammock Spring Sleepcasy lpd,
A Zip electric flare.
A Kit-Pail Hag for Motor Trips.
A Find-It letter file,
A set of (Jrippy Clothing Clips
That keep your pntits in stylo.
A Last-Forever Limousine,
A Chime-Tone pa dor clock.
An Ajax bottle-tip machine,
A Guardwell cellar lock.
Alas, an altered man am T,
Mv means are very small:
A month ago I would not buy
This kind of thing at all.
But all these ads before my eyes
rrnde each day. until
They fairly seem to hypnotize
A weak and yielding will.
And as my shopward way 1 wend
When my day's work Is done.
If hut my coin holds out to spend
I'll get them, every one.
Phenomenon.
Despite prohibition, money seems
to bo tighter than ever.
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A'ntfurnl Inquiry.
Soon our grandchildren will be
nsklnir us what wo did in the great
Stillmun case.
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Ti the Conference.
More scrapping and fower scraps.
Auto License In Oregon.
SPOKANE. Wash.. Dec. 15. (To tho
Editor.) 1 am living in the state of
Washington, but npi going to move
to Oregon In February or March. I
have an automobile and want to drive
It to Oregon, and waul to know It a
1922 license boutht In Washington
will be good In the state of Oregon
during 1922. If not. ran I buy an
Oregon license for my car while I
am still here?
In other words. Is there any way
so I do not have to buy two different
licenses in the same year?
A. D. R1DOLET.
As soon as you move lo Oregon and
become a resident of this state you
will have to lake out an Oregon
license for your car. The courtesy of
operating a car under foreign license
in Oregon is granted to motor tour
ists w hose liotnes are In other states,
for short periods of time, and of
course Washington residents mny
urive tncir cars in urrRun m any iimu
under their Washington licenses. The
law rtquiren. However, uiii an buimi
as you give up your residence in an
other state and take up residence in
Oregon you must take out an Oregon
license in order to operate your car
lawfully. Such license taken out any
.1 ... I.. I,. 1 ...ul. IhA fi.lt
lllUC (IIIUI 1U UUi; VM'.II, HIV .HI.
yearly fie. A license tukin out on
or surr inai unie nun uji kvu. ,
1 costs one-half the yearly foe. and
licenses taken out between October
1 and the end of the year cost one
fourth the annual fee. There is no
way that you can lawfully evade tak
ing out an Oregon license after you
move to this state, and if you move
bore In February or March you will
be forced to take out two licenses for
1922, one for each state, unless you
can make Rome special arrangements
with tho Washington officials to cover
your case.
I.nvr on trrlllxntlnn.
PASO RO ISLES, Cat.. Dec. 13 (To
tn E'litor.) How many states have
a human sterilization law? (Jive the
nam's- of tiic states also, please.
O. I!. WH1T.MOKE.
Indiana. Washington, California.
Connecticut. Nevada, Iowa, New Jer
sr, Now York, North Dakota, Mich
igan, Kansas. Oregon and Wisconsin.
Knelling of Word.
HARDMAV Or., Dec. 15 (To the
Editor.) Which Is the correct way to
spell the word "enclose" or "Inclose."
meaning to tt.close something In an
envelope? HAUA M. S.NELL.
Either way.