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Tirn Mcmxixa oregoxian, moxday, December 19, 1921
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THE L,EGISLATCKE'8 DCTT.
In a friendly and hopeful spirit
JThe Oregonian suggests to the legls-
ature which meets In special session
I'oday that its duty may be summed I duty largely perfunctory
proposed 19 the old. tried, established
ay of taxing; general property a
system which In its final analysis
taxes everyone, blgr and little, prop
erty owner or not, however super
ficially different It may appear.
This formal request, as already
said, comes from the ctly of Port
land, which by subscription and tax
ation, agrees to pay two-thirds of the
cost of the exposition. The city of
Portland contains one-third of the
taxable wealth and one-third of the
population of the state. Though
small in area In comparison to the
area of the state. It Is nevertheless as
much a part of the state as any other
portion. What would be the answer
of the legislature if any other third
of Oregon came before it with a
four-to-one petition for submission
to the electorate of an enterprise In
which it had the larger interest but
which was still of general state-wide
benefit? Has a referendum ever
been denied to eastern Oregon on a
similar showing? Was not state aid
to Irrigation submitted to the people
without Impossible conditions or cot
lateral issues? Were not the market
roads bill and ihe highway bonding
amendments, which tax Portland
for the primary benefit of the re
mainder of the state, submitted to
the people and submitted without
the complication of distracting de
partures from previous methods of
taxation?
In other Instances when confront
ed by a plain desire by one-third, or
even a lesser fraction, of the people
for opportunity to present a plan of
their own making to the voters at
large, the legislature has deemed Its
There is
Columbia river highway by Sydney
B. Vincent. The number should cer
tainly create an appetite for a tour
of God's country among the suffer
ing eastern people.
THE PASSING OF WOLITIIXE.
They were born with a savor of
the past, of a day long sped, those
stories that Alfred Henry Lewis told
of Wolfville. The scent of leather
and lathered horses was in them,
and the pungency of black powder
smoke, and the creak of stage
wheels, and lonely star-strewn nights
pendent government at Wuchang.
Then, we are told:
In various other provinces the military
commanders are really independent auto
crats, rendering lip-service to Pekin but
doing as they choose. During the last
fifteen monthe there have been four dis
tinct wars In the country, each involving
not less than 100,000 troop's. In these cam
paigns the casualties among the troops
are trifling, but the terror inspired in the
people and the loss and hardship Imposed
on them are ' incalculable. War in China
always means indiscriminate looting, and
frequently much worae by one side or the
other. In addition to war at the above
four points there Is in half the provinces
a plague of bandits that surpasses any
thing in the history of the country. Add
the great famine in north China and leaser
famines elsewhere, and immense damage
of the TIain. Wherefore manv .y .. . at innumerable points, nue mainly
ip in four paragraphs:
1. Adoption of & definite pro
gramme and completion of it within
he week.
2. Consideration of the prepared
plan for financing the exposition.
without interposition of revolution
ary changes In taxation or important
dependent issues.
3. Adoption of the report of the
no distinction between the present
proposal and established' precedent.
The Oregonian does not urge sub
mission by the legislature of the
Portland plan without the dotting of
an i or the crossing of a t. It Is
even reasonable to suppose that in
friendly conference the plan may be
modified in some particulars so as to
remove some of the objections which
pecial highway commission as the I members of the legislature believe
-round work, if not the text, of new
llghway legislation.
4. Rejection of miscellaneous leg.
Nation, and of all legislation not
oeclfied in the call unless it be
learly demonstrated that it Is both
mportant and urgent.
It is needless to remind the legisla-
ii re that there Is a disposition
mong an unfortunately large pro
ortlon of the people to refer to the
egislatura and to its deliberations In
ontemptuous terms. The Oregonian
oes not subscribe to this disposition.
t is not a captious critic but prefers
o analyze oerore it commenas or
ebukes. It merely states a fact,
hich it deplores, when it says that
nany of the people judge the legls
iture by its few mistakes and not
y Its many achievements.
This is one reason why it would
ave the legislature avoid a pro-
onged session or the enactment of
ilscellaneous 1 e g I s 1 a 1 1 o n. Such
ourse would be an obvious mistake,
n error that would overbalance
hatever good was done by other
gislation in the minds of those who
re prone to Judge harshly. It was
n error into wnicn the is:u special
ession fell, and from the larger con-
equences ot which to us repute it
as saved only by numerous guber-
Rtorial vetoes.
It is because the Oregonian be
eves thoroughly in representative
overnment, that It desires to see the
egislature grow stronger in public
ttim ation, and particularly in the
stlmation of those of hasty judg
lent. It would therefore have it
efrain from excursions into matters
which it is itself not strongly
nterested but which become mag
ified as evils when viewed by a con-
de table portion of the people.
the voters will find In it. It is in
opposition to destructive departures
and in support of submission of the
exposition issue on its own bottom
that this is written.
Proposed highway legislation has
eon heretofore discussed Jn these
olumns. In brief, it is apparent
om investigation that there are no
vallable data upon which may be
a Red a statute requiring automobile
urrlers to compensate the state for
ear of roads. There is a fairly ac-
urate guide, however, for laws
hich will guard against destruction.
here is need for curtailment of the
iced of heavy vehicles, for impact,
ot deadweight, is the important fac
r, within certain wide limits. There
need also for better enforcement
traffic laws, for regulation by
cans of franchises of carriers that
se.the highways and need for In
ections and reports upon which to
und future enactments.
Numerous substitutes have been
ggested for the prepared plan of
nancing the 1925 exposition. Pro
visions of friendship for the expo-
Ion are general, but there is con-
oversy over how the funds needed
r Jt shall be raised. The proponents
these substitute plans mav be
T-rndly and sincere, but the effect,
I htever their Intent, of substitution
that of a flank attack upon the ex-
sition Itself.
It is proposed, for one thing, that
income tax, detailed and sweep-
g in its provisions, shall be consid
ed by a legislature which by right
ould sit not more than five or six
ys, and that this measure shall be
tached as a rider to the exposition
11.
It is not befitting that a revolu-
onary system of taxation have the
atus of rider. It is unfair to the
rinciple of the income tax Itself that
s adoption or rejection be made de-
ndent upon public sentiment to-
ard a world's fair or any other
eaceful enterprise. The federal In-
ome tax law, as amended. Is not the
oduct of hasty congressional ae
on, but of weeks and months of
moderation. In which unlimited
rvice of experts was available to
e national lawmakers. No body of
perts anywhere can measure the
quirements of a state and equitably
pply the ramifications of an income
to meet them within the time
at the income tax has been under
ecific discussion in Oregon. An
come tax law, so drawn, and
assed in haste, would be exoerl-
ental and poKSibly destructive. A
ecial committee, appointed by au-
orlty of the last legislature, has
en working for several months on
income tax law. It Is not ready
submit it. It will not be ready
submit it until the legislature
eets if regular session in 1923.
is committee has among Its mem-
rs several who are sincere ad vo
tes of a state Income tax. The
mmittee Is united In Its request
at the special session do not at-
mpt legislation of that character.
The formal request of the voters
Portland is that the legislature
ve the people of the state an op-
rtunity to vote on the issue of tax-
themselves in a particular way.
Xinan.ce the exposition. The way
VF.VF CRIMES REQUIRE MORE JUDGES.
Congress has discovered that new
laws defining new crimes make more
work for the courts, which makes
more judges necessary. Hence a bill
providing for appointment of twenty-
two additional district judges who
may be assigned from time to time
to districts where there is congestion
of business.
There were on July 1 on the calen
dars of all the district courts in the
United States 156,000 cases, of which
9700 were civil and 66,000 criminal.
Since 1912 criminal business has in
creased nearly 800 per cent, due to
new laws against narcotics, . espion
age, smuggling, auto-theft and es
pecially the prohibition law.
We should punish these crimes,
since we have declared them to be
crimes, and we should not grudge
the cost of machinery for their
punishment. It adds to the cost of
government, but after all that Is
trifling by comparison with the
moral and economic waste caused by
drugs and alcohol alone, and the ef
fectiveness of law is greatly en
hanced by the sureness and prompt
ness of punishment.
TEAMWORK FOB A I.I. OREGON.
Progress of Oregon demands more
people to cultivate its soil, mine its
minerals, grow live stock, produce
lumber and convert all these prod
ucts into manufactured shape. The
welfare of every part of the state Is
advanced by advancement on these
lines in any other part, so that the
efforts of all the people should be
combined, as of one community. In
promoting progress in any one of its
parts. This is the principle on which
the Oregon State Chamber of Com
merce acts, and the manner In which
it has been applied, with the results,
is related in Its annual report.
"Influence of the state chamber has
been exerted in obtaining federal
aid to highway construction and In
ducing the state to build certain im
portant roads in all parts of the
state. Its support has been given to
particular Irrigation projects and to
legislation by congress for generous
federal aid by means of long-term
loans. It has co-operated with the
Union Pacific railroad in spreading
information which would attract set
tlers, and with the vocational edu
cation board and the Oregon vet
erans In settling service men on the
land. It has joined other bodies In
Oregon and Washington In support
of port development and river Im
provement. It has assisted in find
ing markets for Oregon products.
and has watched over Oregon inter
ests In the tariff and railroad rates.
It has endorsed the 1925 exposition
as a benefit to the whole state. It has
co-operated with other state organ
izations in many ways.
All these activities were inspired
by belief that Oregon is one big com
munity, not a mere bundle of small,
disconnected communities. Its peo
ple should pull together as a team,
for the parts are too small to ac
complish much alone and are apt to
nullify one another's efforts by
working at cross purposes. United,
they can advance irrigation in any
part of central, eastern or southern
Oregon, farming and fruit-growing In
all sections, lumbering in either the
west or northwest, mining In Jose
phine or Baker county, sheep-growing
in the Blue mountains or the Wil
lamette valley, cattle-growing on the
range of the southeast, and all can
promote Improvement of the Colum
bia as a waterway and of Portland
and other cities as seaports.
From this viewpoint the state
chamber works and helps to get
something done, and frou this view
point the 1925 exposition should be
considered not as an enterprise of
the ctly where it is to be held but as
that of the entire state which, with
Its products, will be the chief exhibit.
readers of fiction will sigh with at
least a passing regret to know that
a certain Arizona hamlet, listed in
the postal guide as Charleston, has
ceased to be. For Charleston was
the Wolfville. of fiction, and through
its streets there once swaggered and
swore those westerners who were
jthe prototypes of Lewis' characters.
Now, it has been said of the
Wolfville tales, by many men who
never wrote a vivid paragraph, that
they were overdrawn and that, raw
as real westerners may have been,
fact at no time approached fiction.
They would have you believe that
the old cattleman, whose diversion
was reminiscence, romanced to s
degree incompatible with the truth
If one agrees with these critics he
must forsake much that is pleasant
and instructive in life and books, and
set himself up as a pedant who will
not be amused. Yet men who have
known the west, men who are in
contact with it today, shall continue
to find joy in Wolfville, recognizing
Its fictional characters as only
slightly embellished and its episodes
as entirely probable. Indeed, there
are nooks in the west of the present
where such congenial sages as Sam
Knrlght and Doc Peets still shed the
light of a rough but serviceable
erudition, and maintain the tradi
tions, though the bars and faro
tables have vanished.
In American literature Lewis,
though his stories lack the perfec
tion of plot that marked those of
his predecessor, was heir to- the
privilege of Bret Harte. Both wrote
of the west, and caught for dullards
and dreamers and fireside adven
turers its brilliant reflection of
humor, chivalry and careless cour
age. In a sense that should not be
minimized they were the chroniclers
of a period that will never be dupli
cated, that cannot otherwise be given
a place in national history, and that
it were grievous to lose. There is
no need for them now, or for their
like. The authors ot today and
tomorrow may busy themselves with
sprightly and well-seasoned stories
of fashionables, of maidens most
sophisticated and casually sinful, of
hungry hearts and empty heads, and
the tittle-tattle of watering places.
Old Sam Knrlght Is not for them,
nor Jack Hamlin, nor Faro Nell, nor
Melissa, nor Doc Peets. Let the
future judge between these vogues
in literature.
The townsite of Charleston, so ran
the news accounts, was sold to a
land and cattle company for $342,
a sum that, when Wolfville was at
Its zenith, would have been regarded
as small change. Did not the old
cattleman, yarning of Cherokee Hall,
assert .that, he had seen $5000
gambled on the turn of a card and
lost without the flicker of an eye
lash? Unquestionably this was truth,
and while it may be deemed im
proper to display pride in a practice
so reprehensible, so godless andlm
provident, there stirs in the reader
an answering thrill comparable to
the interest that followed the gam
bling exploits of the renowned Jack
Hamlin. The fact that so tremen
dous a wager was made Is, If we
analyze our sensations, merely
secondary to our vicarious enjoyment
of the might-have-been. We, too,
have had a hankering for Wolfville.
Those who have browsed through
histories, buffeted by dates and
ancient politics, have learned to
hunger for a foot-note for the
grudged lines that in anecdote or
Incident instantly illumine the page
and galvanize the characters. It is
granted that these are not historical,
and that they are appended on
sufferance, yet in them is a very
potent magic. They call back the
past, until its great ones are known
to us in a very human sort of way.
Thereafter they dp not bore the
reader. He feels the kinship of
acquaintance.
It is service such as this that
Lewis gave in the tiles of Wolfville,
or that isret Harte rendered in nis
stories of the mining .camps a
service both literary and historical.
Their places In the libraries of
America are permanent and assured.
But for them the most graphic
phase of our national development
would have passed with memory.
resulting
from the collapse in administration, and
we find a picture of woefulnesa that It
would be hard to equal.
The revenue from various sources
Is either mortgaged to cover debts or
is much diminished, and the Pekln
government "has nothing to live on
but odds and ends of revenue" and
what it can borrow at usurious rates,
but its credit has become so im
paired that borrowing Is almost im
possible. It has a large floating debt
and Is being pressed for payment of
this and large overdue American and
Japanese loans.
A large foreign loan could put the
government on its feet If It could es
tablish its authority in all parts of
China and could stop the waste of Its
revenue, but under present condi
tions nobody would make a loan
without control of its expenditures
and over the operation of improve
ments, like railroads, from which In
terest would have to be earned. That
would require subjugation of the
rebel governors and a large measure
of control over the government
through Its finances.
That is precisely what the present
nominal rulers at Pekin refuse to
consider. In an Interview with Lord
Northcliffe President Shu Chichang
said that foreign control "would only
cause further difficulties and
troubles;" that "the Chinese people
should be allowed to solve their own
Internal problems," which he de
described as "a natural step in the
evolution of government after the
overthrow of the monarchical form."
He recalled that "England and
America also had long periods of un
settled conditions before a stable ad
ministration was established." The
premier, Chin Hung-peng, said:
China wants money, and can offer imule
security. We are willing to discuss con
trol of expenditures if it does not interfere
with China's sovereign rights. Give us
the right to fix a tariff like anv other
nation ana we shall be able to help our
selves. The more we are left alone the
Deiter Tor all concerned. W need money
to aisoand the troops, and their pay is
many months In arrears. China Is abso
lutely solvent despite tb present confusion
of finance.
The powers represented at Wash
ington are asked then to deal with a
government as supreme in China
which faces secession, rebellion and
bankrupcty. They are asked to
strengthen it financially by restoring
tariff autonomy when it wastes its
present revenue in paying troops
which defy its authority. They are
told that it needs money to disband,
these troops which would not stay
disbanded so long as pay could be
extorted. Disbandment could prob
ably only be made permament and
rebellion suppressed by' a superior
army under complete control of the
Pekin government. But that gov
ernment Is itself controlled by the
principal rebel governor and refuses
to recognize the facts of the situation
facts which the conference must
consider in deciding how to help
China.
Approach of Christmas is always
heralded by arrival of the Christmas
number of the Seattle Argus with its
wealth of beautiful photo-engravings
and descriptions of the Pacific
northwest. The present number is
devoted to the attractions of this
section for the tourist by automobile.
and H. A. Chadwlck, the editor.
proves his breadth of view by includ
ing all from the Canadian Rockies
and the British Columbia coast to
the southern boundary of Oregon In
Its scope. While the most prominence
is naturally given to scenes on Pueet
sound, around Mount Rainier and on
the Sunset highway, there are two
pages of pictures of Oregon's beau
ties and a well, written article pa the
THE PROBLEM OF CHINA.
The most serious difficulty with
which, the Washington conference
has to deal will arise when it comes
finally to settle, relations with China.
Talk about China has slurred over
the fact that it has not one govern
ment ruling over the whole former
empire and capable of being held re
sponsible by other nations. The Pe
kin correspondent of the London
Times says that "in effect there are
a dozen different governments in
China, some entirely Independent of
each other, some recognizing others
and having relations of a kind." He
gives a map which, as regards its
many subdivisions, has a family re
semblance to a map of the Balkan
peninsula.
The recognized government is in
Pekin, of which "the machinery
works around the capital, but weak
ens In the near distance, and far
away ceases to pulsate altogether."
In the south the Canton government
rules over Kwangtung and Kwangsi.
In the north Chang Tso-lin rules
over Manchuria and a large area in
north Chihli, and really controls the
PekLn . government, having nom
inated several cabinet members. He
"has his own foreign office, and
rules as an autocrat, pure and
simple." Yunnan and Szechuan have
"provincial military governments
owing allegiance to noboay." Yun
nan works more or less with Kwei
chow, and Szechuan Is now attack
ing westeraf Hupeh. Shensi is ruled
by a nominee of Pekin, but a hench
man of Wu-Pei-Fu threatens its cap
ital with a large army. Wu-Pei-Fu
has been appointed inspector-general
of Hupeh and Hunan, has an
army of 100,000 men, proposes a na
tional convention to reconstruct the
government and "In effect Is acting
independently of Pekln." In fighting
against Hunan and western Hupeh
' . . . . . n ............ ..J L lit I -
orders of Pekin," but his policy is' That was
expectea to result la another lade- j winter.
Japan wants a rubber island; so
does the United States. But all the
Islands have been distributed, and
we have promised not to steal any
other nation's islands for ten years.
Both countries are In the same boat.
and will have to buy rubber from
other nations. No serious Injury will
result unless we go to war and lose
control of the sea. For that con
tingency some chemical genius
should invent a substitute, which
will come handy if we have no war.
News writers again are flirting
with the name of A. D. Charlton in
connection with a high railway of
fice. Mr. Charlton could have had
all that years ago, but prefers to live
in Portland. Portland prefers to
have him, too.
BT PRODUCTS OF THE PRESS
Bachelors Tell Why They Doi't Wed
Modern GIrL
Seven bachelors, each of whom
would be considered an excellent
"catch" by mothers wjth marriage
able daughters, tell why they have
lefused to wed the modern girl, in
the Delineator. As a whole, they
think she would be a failure as a
wife. More specifically:
No. 1. Age 26, good looking, and
earning $8000 a year, says she is "too
easy." Hence he will continue In
single blessedness.
No. 2. Twenty-nine years of age,
with a salary of $35,000, thinks the
present day young woman Is "looking
for a good thing" and doesn't Intend
to be "It."
No. 3. With an income ot $7500,
this bachelor insists the girl of today
has no reticence and lives only for a
good time. He is 30.
No. 4. This one Is 40. with $35,000
year. "They demand too much," 1
asserts, "and possess Intellects below
those of average men."
No. 5. "They are selfish, superficial
and conceited," is the opinion of thi
bachelor, who Is an ad-vertlslng'eales
man, well able to support a wife.
No. 6. This one accuses the flappe
and even her older sister, of "In sat!
able romanticism," and wails that
Lman to meet her demands must pos
sess every virtue.
No. 7. He Is 80 and has kept from
the marriage altar because "there 1
something a little ridiculous about
any woman."
Many employers believe that
workman can vivify the routine of hi
lab6r by visualizing the complete con
trlbutlon to civilization made possibl
by his seemingly unimportant task.
To illustrate the spirit which they ar
trying to develop E. K. Hall, vice'
president of the American Telephon
& Telegraph company, recently told
the Ajcademy of Political Science th
story of the third stone cutter i
story old, but timely Just at present
Three stone cutters were working
on a stone. A stranger asked the
first what he was doing.
"I'm working for $7.50 a day," h
replied.
"And you?" the stranger-asked the
second.
"I'm cutting this stone," growled
the laborer.
When the question was put to th
third stone cutter, he answered, "I'm
building a cathedral." New York
Evening Post.
It used to be that a beard was a
senatorial badge says the New York
Sun. Not whiskers, but beards were
worn by the senators, beards tha
covered their neckties or the lack o
them, beards that had to be tucked
into collars, If any. when the wearers
ate soup, beards that were braided
and tucked into shirt! bosoms.
But that day has passed and so
have the beards. That this is the day
of youth arid the clean shaven legis
lator is attested by the fact that only
four senators wear even whiskers
Besides Senator Lodge, there is Sen
ator Nelson of Minnesota with his
close cropped sailor's whiskers and
Senator Ladd of North Dakota, who
wears a scant gray patch of whiskers
Senator Ransdell of Louisiana, with a
bunch of paint brush whiskers, wears
the whiskers for the democratic side
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
Another Portland woman on the
trail of a burglar and getting a piece
of his coattalls as a clew makes us
think once more that it might be
well to turn over to the women the
job of suppressing the wave of crime.
A junior state official, married in
the afternoon, was arrested for
speeding later in the day at Wood
burn. Traffic officers should exempt
honeymooners.
Br.ndits must be asleep at the
switch. A cargo of 31,000 cases of
Scotch whisky is passing through
Portland In bond to Canada but it's
the other Portland.
However, if it comes to it. the
United States can very easily check
French naval ambitions by declining
to lend the money to build those ad
ditional ships.
have the third greatest navy in the
world, she may run headlong into
the world s greatest surprise.
Down in Florida they tar and
feather men who sell liquor to boys.
Florida s ethics are not so over
whelmingly bad.
mug ueorge ana wire annpar to
be glad the daughter is to be mar
ried. Royalty does have Its trials.
When the forecaster just now savs
proDamy ram or snow," that's what
will happen, most likely.
The parrot fish, found in the east
ern Mediterranean, chews Its cud like
a cow says the Scientific American
In other words, it cuts off its food in
relatively large bits, stores it away
until it has time for the business of
thorough chewing, and then reduces
it to a fine pulp.
Curiously enough, the ancients
called this fish a ruminant, but their
tales of It had been taken with man;
grains of salt, until recently, by mod
ern naturalists.
As far back as the fourth century
H. C, Aristotle asserted that the par
rot fish, is to be classed among ru
minant animals.
This Btory was repeated by the
Roman writer on natural history,
Pliny. It passed as a fable, like so
many other ancient statements of
fact since verified.
In a neighbor's house not long since
little Georgie for the first time saw a
face vibrator. At home, shortly aft
erward, the youngster said: "Mrs.
Umson's face must get awful dirty,
moither."
"Why do you think that?" the
mother asked.
"Because," replied Georgie, "while
I was there I saw her trying to fix
It up with a vacuum cleaner." New
l'ork Globe.
Until this year musical tmd other
plays were built around the charms
or derelictions of women says a New
Tork news letter. But this season
mere man has his fling. Walking
along Forty-second street I saw the
following electric signs: "What Do
Men Want?" "Nature's Nobleman."
"The Man's Name," "The Grand
Duke," "The Wandering Jew," "Daddy
Goes A-Hunting," "The Sheik," "A
Prince There Was" and "Peter Ibbet
son." More than a sixth of the people
" a"?f V011" t0 h.er deraand .to I lose their lives because of lack of
sufficient street lighting, according
to a report made by Earl A. Anderson
ar.d O. F. Hess to the Illuminating
Engineering society.
It is estimated that $1,000,000,000
in money each year is lost on ac
count of all street accidents, and that
nearly half of this is due to lack of
light. According to the census re
ports, the total expenditure for street
lighting In the United States is not
in excess of $50,000,000. Three to
ten times as much light as is fur
nished on most city streets Is an en
tirely feasible proposition and would
largely reduce the present accidents,
these investigators declare.
"We are looking forward to , the
time when our section of the country
becomes a part of Oregon instead of
a part of Idaho." said Sam Mother
head of Burns yesterday at the Im
perial. He had Just returned from
Pendleton where he attended the ir
rigation congress. "As we are now
situated we cannot trade with Tort
land. All of our merchants and farm
ers go to either Boise or Nampa. If
the road from Crane to Bend is ever
completed so that we may have rail
connections we will become a part of
Oregon. We are now busy with our
irrigation projects. Not long ago $3,
200,000 worth of bonds for the de
velopment of the Harney valley proj
ect were voted. The people are soon
to vote on the bonds for the Blitzen
V'alicy and Silver Creek projects.
These three projects when developed
will upen up 160. 0C0 acres of wonder
ful land for development and the
country around Burns will become the
garden spot of the state. There is not
a man in our district who would not
prefer to trade with the merchants of
Portland if such a thing were pos
sible, but as conditions exist now our
enly outlet is bjt way of Ontario and
our nearest market is Boise." Mr.
Motherhead Is going to spend a few
days in Salem where he will take in
the special session of the legislature..
"I have no bills to propose but I went
to look on and see what the boys are
going tVdo," he said.
Rupert Wanless, ambulance driving
hero of the world war. was at the
Multnomah hotel yesterday enroute to
La Grande. Wanless was a meinher
of the 363d ambulance company of the
91st division during the war. He was
decorated for bravery. When his di
vision was fighting in Flanders Wan
less was busy hauling wounded men
from the front. One day he lost his
way and ran almost into the German
lines. As he was preparing to turn
around he saw several Americans
merge from a dilapidated dwelling
and motion to him. He turned hack
his machine and drove towards their
hiding place. Frenchmen who were
in the vicinity motioned frantically
for him to withdraw as they had
never seen an ambulance so close to
the front. Wanless kept on. stopped
his machine behind an embankment
and rescued several wounded men
from the buildings despite the lact
that his pathway from the machine to
the spot was swept with machine-gun
fire. Several holes were shot in the
ambulance but Wanless escaped un
hurt and won a coveted decoration,
the French de Guerre, and a citation
for his bravery.
Lettuce end celery growing are be
coming great industries around
Nampa. Idaho, according to K. It.
Dewey who is at the Multnomah for
a few days before leavlnsr for Cali
fornia where he will eend the winter.
is n stooq conaition riKni
now and lettuce and celery have
helped make It so." he said vesterdav.
We shipped 200 cars of It-ttuce out of
Nampa this season. This netted our
growers more than $80,000. Many of
our farmers are now specializing on
celery and they hope to make Nampa
the celery center of the west. Other
parts of Idaho have had bank failures
and business conditions have been
bad but Nampa has not suffered." Mr.
Dewey was formerly one of the
owners of the Dewey. Palace hotel in
Nampa.
J. R. Lynch of Los Angeles, who Is
t the Multnomah, claims that a
negro mammy in the south is respon
sible for his success in business. He
has added a new thought to the
laundry business. One day he was
walking by a'stream in one of the
southern states when ho noticed en
old negro woman busily enKSEed
washing clothes. She had several pili s
of clothing placed In rows along the
stream bank. Lynch asked her why
she separated the clothes into piles
and she declared that they belonged
to different families. Lynch started
thinking and started a laundry In
which the washings of families were
kept separate.
The people of the Coos bay country
are not in favor of any legislative
measures that will cause them to pay
taxes for the 1925 exposition, aocord-
ng to Thomas T. Bennett of Marali-
field who was here yesterday en route
o halem to attend the special session
The bill as framed would make us
pay $90,000 in taxes for the fair." he
said yesterday at the Imperial. "After
we had paid that amount of money
we would Just be started. We would
be called upon to spend $100,000 or
more to build a building at the fair
advertise the Coos bay country, i
We have a small county and cannot
afford any more taxes than those we
now have."
"What's the matter with these rail
road companies"? inquired a guest of
the Multnomah yesterday of one of
he clerks, as he held a railroad ticket
in his hand. "Here they have it
tamped '1 A. M December, 1921," and
with that 'on it how do I know what
train to take?" The clerk looked at
he ticket. "Why that's O. K.," he
said. "Your ticket reads '1 A. M., De-
ember 19, '21.'" The guest was sat
isfied.
When It comes to names that are
hort Miss Clara Ek. at the Oregon,
as anyone on the register defeated.
Miss Ek Is from Rhineiander. Wlscon-
in, and with Mr. and Mrs. W. C.
Cartwrieht of Lancaster, Wisconsin,
s touring the Pacific coast.
W. A. Johnston of the Dalles who
as rocently elected one of the dele
gates from Al Kader temple of the
Shrine 'to the imperial conclave, was
In Portland yesterday and was at the
mperial.
ROADS ENTITLED TO ROAD MONEY
Writer Opposes Joseph Pisa for Re
Imborslna; Fair Taxpayers.
FOREST GROVE, Or., Dec. 17. (To
The Editor.) I have been reading
considerable favorable comment re
garding Senator Joseph's plan to
finance the exposition by depleting
the revenues derived from the gaso
line tax for the year 1925. It is
claimed that if the excess of taxes
received by the state for the year
1925 over what would be received in
1924 were turned into the general
fund of the state, instead of into the
highway funds, the taxpayer would
be benefited thereby.
Will some one explain to me In
what way the farmer would be re
paid for the 1-mill tax proposed to be
levied from now on to the exposition
year upon his property, which he had
paid and which had been turned over
to the state? Senator Joseph claims
there will be 1.000.000 more cars
brought into Oregon during 1925 with I
the exposition than without it. Grant
ing that this estimate is right, then
it means that there will be much
more travel on our highways, that
much more wear, that much more de
struction of the roads. Yet he would
take away from the highway funds
all the benefits to the roads by re
ducing the attending added revenue
needed for repairs of the roads.
If the exposition brings more peo
ple to the state to travel our roads,
as It undoubtedly will, thereby con
suming more gasoline, and increasing
our road tax funds, why should not
the roads of the state receive the
benefit? If this exposition will bring
$2,000,000 more Into the road funds
by additional consumption of gasoline
In what way can the farmers be more
largely benefited than by expending
that sum in betterment of the roads?
I am of the opinion that the manner
of securing funds for. financing the
exposition proposed by Senator Jo
seph will not meet with the approval
of the farmer. I doubt if the farmer
will like remaining stuck in the mud
any better than he will enjoy Increas
ing his already heavy burden of
taxes.
1 hope you will not consider me an
opponent of the exposition. I have
property In Portland and favor hold
ing the exposition. I had the pleas
ure of drafting the gasoline tax law
of 1919. also the bond measures of
1919 and 1920 for building our high
ways, and I am a good roads enthu
siast. 1 am not willing that a dollar
of our road money should be diverted
from Its sacred purpose. You need
no better proof of good roads bene
fiting the state than to travel along
our paved highways and see the im
provements going on.
Let us have the exposition, hut let
us find some better way of financ
ing it than by robbing our highway
funds.
I would suggest, if It Is the sincere
desire of those who favor the plan of
Senator Joseph to lessen the burden
on the taxpayer by appropriating the
profits of the road funds to the pay
ment of the exposition tax, that they
study the possibilities of an income
tax as a means of raising tho neces
sary funds. I am quite sure that
would bo a greater blessing to the
farmer than to tso the gasoline tax.
There can bo no greater or more
lasting benefit come to our state than
a betterment of our road system as a
result of the exposition. When the
effects of the exposition on Portland
have been long forgotten we can still
point to better roads as a lasting re
ward for our present efforts.
LOYAL M. GRAHAM.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Jaanes J. Hostssnc.
PLAYING SAFE.
We've written verses for release.
And marked "em, "Run in full!"
The day that Ireland makes her peace
With merry Mr. BulL
But every time we were about
To swim them In the puiblic'a ken.
Hostilities have broken out
Again.
Though years ago those lines were
minted
We thought we'd never get 'em
printed.
It cheered us up when Mr. George
And Mr. Griffith, wreathed in
smiles.
In conference began to forge
The links of love between the Isles.
We told ourselves, "It's almost done;
The clouds of bitterness disperse;
The chances are we soon will run
That verse."
morning we were
But while next
napping.
Good gracious!
strapping!
How they started
They met again these statesmen did
And. from the cable news that
night.
It seemed that they had clapped the
lid
Upon the then prevailing fight.
We muttered softly, "Hip hurray!
They're both conciliatory chape;
We'll print that ode next Saturday,
Perhaps!"
A hopeful notion, but we dropped it;
A lively row in, Dublin stopped it.
They've now agreed, so they aver.
So everybody's satisfied
No more disturbance will occur
And Joy is spreading far and wide.
Tha dove of peace speeds o'er the
foam
Glad hands extend from Isle to Isle,
And yet we think we'll hold that pome
A while!
t'errul.
A little scrapping now and then
Lifts taxes oft hard working men.
Ineffectual.
Mr. Brishane says that Shelley was
a splendid advertiser, but we don't
notice any particularly active demand
for skylarks.
Roth Worthless.
Germany's marks do her about as
much good as her Marx did.
(Copyright. by the Bell Syndicate,.
Inc )
CONTROL OF SPEED JS COMING
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright. IIonahton-Mlf flla Co.
Can ou Answer These Quretlonaf
1. Does a centipede really have a
hundred legs? .
2. How can I prepare skunk hides
to avoid rank smell?
3. How do sea gulls arrange at the
breeding season about following ves
sels for food ?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
Hood River will have good apples
next year. The mercury has been
down to 6 below already.
Anybody who would buy a claim
that had been "salted" with kero
sene is easily deluded.
The unsettled question Is on which
day to eat the Christmas dinner.
Last week for the Christmas shop
ping. Make a whirlwind finish.
The quake at
was not extensive.
Guam necessarily
Where are all the calendar men
this year?
enough snow for the
One often hears of a rose diamond,
says the Kansas City Star. The stone
is not different In kind from any
other diamond, the -name "rose dia
mond" having relation only to the
form or cutting of the stone. A rose
diamond is one that has a flat bot
tom and only the upper half of the
stone being cut into facets, or little
faces, and polished.
The diamond called a brilliant Is
so called not because of Its brilliancy.
A brilliant is the technical or trade
name for a diamond that is com
pletely cut and polished.
The task of tabulating army slang
for the Imperial 'ft'ar museum will
take some months, says Punch. A
L. C. Falkenhagen of Grants Tass Is
In Portland to attend the convention
of the Marshall-Wells sales force
which will be held in the Multnomah
hotel during the week.
C. J. Harrison, a -lumberman of
White Salmon, Wash., is in Portland
In connection with business Interests
and is at the Oregon.
Dr. C. D. Donahue, one of the lead
ing dentists of Euirene. spent the
week end in Portland and stopped at
the Multnomah.
A. H. Brown, who Is engaged in the
lumber business in Chehalis. Wash.,
spent the week end in Portland and
was registered at the Oregon.
H. F. and E. D. Bothwell. brothers
of Maupin. Oregon, ere registered at
the Oregon and they are both well.
E. D. Miles of Salem, who is engaged
in the retail lumber business is at the
Multnomah.
Charles R. Peterson, stockman from
Crane, Oregon, is at the Imperial.
Automatic Register or Gear Control
Inevitable If Gait Continues.
PORTLAND. Dec. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) At last the speeding motorist
is to be curbed in a very practical
way. Congressman Jones of New
Jersey is preparing a bill which will
make It compulsory to equip every
automobile with a speed recorder,
such as the Maihak instrument, which
records the speed for each minute the
car is run, making it possible for any
observer to look at his watch, take
the license number and then assume
the position of the complainant.
These Instruments are now used In
mr.ny parts of Europe and at some
places In the United States in locomo
tive practice and in fact are very
simple in construction, the clock be
ing wound once In eight days from
the battery or ignition line, the speed
curve registering on a card provided
with space for each day in the year,
the whole device being encased in a
steel box which is sealed by the
license bureau when license is Issued.
The Maihak recorder or one similar
could be applied at a cost of about $16
That Is about the sort of a news
item we may expect to sec in the year
1929: the writer has driven automo
biles in New York, Chicago and many
other large cities of the United States
ar.d Canada, but for Insane driving.
Portland, or rather the drivers of
Portland, take the palm.
Does the average driver know that
a lawful maximum could be placed on
the gear ratio on third or high speed?
In the Hotel Sherman lobby. Chicago,
several years ago a mnn was heard .to
say he would bet $50,000 that not one
present would live to see liquor pro
hibition. Moral Don't monkey with public
sentiment. II. T. S.
Pooling; of Ronuaco.
TORTIAND. Dec. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Under the interpretations and
rulings of the world war veterans'
state aid commission veterans are not
allowed 'to pool their borrowing
rights, the security offered by each
applicant to be separate from that
offered by any other, and must be on
a farm or residence.
Many men are not attracted by
farm or even rural life and single
men generally do not care for a resi
dence.
If this fund could be loaned out to
veterans acting alone or to a pool of
several and for the purpose of pur
chasing or erecting buildings for busi
ness purposes, more veterans would
be helped and business all along the
line would gain.
This would require more legislation,
bui would it not be well to "help the
boys" in a way that would be a real
help and not spoil a good man by
making a poor farmer?
C. G. THAYER.
Ananrri to Previous Questions.
1. Is there any book telling Incu
bation periods for all the common
birds?
We do not know of one with tables
A good many ornithologies give incu
bation period'for at least part of the
blrtl. Nuttall being helpful this way.
Occasional papers In ornithological
magazines like The Auk and Condor
supply some data. It is a good ides
fls one comes across bits of Informa
tion, to Jot It down, thus gradually
building up a list, with reference to
authority.
2. Please tell me how many poison
snakes we have in tho southern part
of tho U. S., and give names they are
cc-nimonly known by.
We cannot give a detailed report on
every poison snake ever found In the
south, but can name as dangerous and
well established kinds, the ground and
diamond-back rattlers, the water
moccasin or cotton-mouth, coral
snake and king snake.
3. How can I free my English Ivy
from scale insects?
We have answered this before, but
an so many readers have ivy for a
window plant, we repeat: Wash with
soap suds frequently, eponging the
leaves upper and under and stems
thoroughly ; or, better still, use kero
sene emulsion, a strong soap suds
with about a teaspoonful of kerosene
to a quart of euds. Wash the stems.
Repeat until the scale Insect no long
er hatches. If you can In summer
catch a ladybug and induce It to stay
on your ivy, it will clean up the plant
beautifully by eating the Insects.
In Other Days.
I'ne of "Shall" and "Will."
PORTLAND, Dec. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Which of the following sen
tences is correct?
I shall (or will) work a month for
you for $60.
I shall (or will) sell you' my suit
for 15.
I shall not (or will not) be . re
sponsible for any debts contracted by
my wife. W. E. TRAVIS.
620 Second street, city.
Price Paid for Cr.lna.
"DALLAS. Or.. Dec. 17. (To the Edi
tor.) Would like to know the value
t a 10 gold piece of 1852. On, one
aide It has 13 stars, a lady's head an-
the letters W. M. & Co. on the lady's
crown; also the date 18S2. On the
other side has an eagla and the let
ters S. M. V.; also says "California
gold. Ten D." This coin does net
frave U. S. A on it.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Oregonian 'cannot quote market
prices on old coins. Subscribers de
siring address of a coin dealer should
enclose stamped envelope for reply
by mail.
Twenty-five Years Aao.
From The Oregonian of December 1H, lRfia.
Tlfis was the special Cascade Locks
edition which contained the first col
ored supplement ever printed in an
Oregon paper.
Washington. The senate commit
tee on foreign relations favor Cuban
Independence, It was announced after
a meeting today.
Oregon City. Burglars made a
clean sweep In robbing the postofflce
here last night, breaking open the
safe and taking $2800 in cash and
stamps.
The burelars who have been dor
mant in Portland in the last two
weeks have again come forth and
resumed operations on a larger scale.
The first Oregon road convention
adjourned yesterday after adopting
a plan to prepare a bi.'l for the im
provement of country roads.
Employment of Vulcanlxers.
FOREST GROVE, Or.. Dec. 17. (To
the Editor.) After a person learns
tire .repairing or vulcanizing for a
trade, does he have to own his own
tire repair shop to do vulcanizing or
can he find places where be can do
vulcanizing for someone else?
The person does not want to own
Y.lr. own business and wants to do vul
canizing for someone else, and wants
to know if vulcanlzers are hired the
same as some other kinds of work.
JOHN B.
In the first person "shall" denotes
simple futurity; "will" implies will-
good plan would be to knock some i lngness, consent, promise or determi-'
ex-sergeant-major's beer over and I nation. In the examples given "will"! Vulcanizing is a trade at which
get tha .whole Issue at one sitting-. lis the correct word la each instance. ! men are often employed in Ultra.
Fifty Yearn Ako.
From The Oresronlan of December 10. 1S7I.
The Northern Pacific Railroad com
pany has been obliged to pay con
siderable sums for the right of way
at places on the Cowlitz.
One of the towns on Pusret sound
that Is struggling for terminal hon
ors has been referred to as "Olympla,
alias Brown's wharf."
Notwithstanding the extremely cold
weathor last niirht the Oro Flno thea
ter was crowded to witness the first
performance of Purdy & Vincent's
minstrels.
Teople of north Idaho are laboring
for the reformation of the territorial
lipes whereby that section is to be
dissevered from south Idaho.
DONALD. Wash., Dec. 1. (To the
Editor.) Please tell me whether or
not "superior" can be compared. Is
It dramatically Incorrect to say the
following:
1 A sergeant Is superior to the
private.
2 A lieutenant Is more superior
than the sergeant.
3 The general is the most superior
of all the men to the private.
MILDRED S WALLING.
In the sense here used "superior"
has no positive degree and Is an ad
jective not subject to the grammati
cal comparison expressed In the sen
tences. Its eia-t meaning Is hiicher
in rank. You would not say: "In
rank a lieutenant H more higher than
,lie aergeant,"