TITE MORNING OREGONIAN, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1922 jftormug (Dnpmmt ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co. ltfj Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. ilOKDEN. E. B. PIPER. iianaeer. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local newa published herein. Ail rights of publication of special dispatches herein axe also reserved. Subscription Katn Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Daily, Sundai included, one year $8.00 Daily, Sunday included, six months ... 4.25 Daily, Sunday included, three months . Daily, Sunday included, one month ... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months' ... 3.25 Daily, without. Sunday, one mont.li 60 Sunday, one year 2-50 (By Carrier.) Dally, Sunday included, one year J9.00 Daily. 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Tumulty conveyed to the New York demo cratic banqueters marks his es trangement from one more of his Intimate political associates. One by one the men closest to him have been dropped by the political way Bide as they expressed opinions of their own or brought their personali ties into prominence in the light re flected from Wilson Harvey, Garri son, Bryan, Lansing, House and now Tumulty, who was supposed to have retained favor when adversity and illness had made his chief's temper uncertain. All proved incapable of running lhat intellectual parallel to a three-legged race which was im plied in Mr. Wilson's phrase about minds that ran along with his. Mr. Tumulty's offense consisted in attributing to Mr. Wilson a platitude broad enoush to cover men of any opinions, so badly phrased as to grate on the ear Of the master phrase-maker. Whether Mr. Wilson uses words to express or conceal his thoughts, he selects them with taste and combines them in gracefully flowing sentences. But those who have analyzed Mr. Wilson's char acter had already inferred that loss of cordiality on Mr. Wilson's part must have followed his reading of Mr. Tumulty's book. "Woodrow Wil son as I Knew Him," and that Infer ence Is supported by reports of con versations between the ex-president and some of his friends about the book. Mr. Tumulty has depicted himself as the confidential adviser of a man who sought his advice and often followed it, when that man has frequently resented advice or the at tempt of any man to be his spokes man. The general effect has been to magnify Tumulty and to lessen the greatness of Wilson, all through the publication of incidents and letters that came to Tumulty's knowledge in his confidential position of private Becretary. The brief, unqualified repudiation of the Tumulty message is open to a further interpretation apart from its revelation of the personal relation between him and Mr. Tumulty. It confirms the opinion formed from his withdrawal into absolute silence on public affairs, that he considers his public life definitely ended and is determined not to speak or write a word to influence government or politics. Undoubtedly efforts were made to draw from him some ut terance in condemnation of the four power Pacific treaty, and he is known to have expressed disap proval in ' private conversation, but he could not be induced to encou rage opposition in the senate. He considers the record closed, and pur sues with inflexible will the course that he has marked out as befitting an ex-president. Not within living memory has a man after holding that office retired so completely from the public eye, but in this as in other respects Mr. Wilson is unlike any of his predecessors. TAKING UNDUE RISKS. We can commend the bravery of Captain Roald Amundsen, who had a narrow escape with his life when his plane turned a somersault in a Pennsylvania field, without com mending the foolhardiness that in duced him to take an unnecessary risk at the very outset of what prom ised to be one of the most significant of all expeditions to explore the north polar regions. The organiza tion and equipment of such a ven ture as Amundsen has now entered upon must have been a formidable undertaking; a great deal of money has been invested in it; but more than all, its success depends upon the personality of Amundsen him self. It will be admitted that someone was needed to fly across the conti nent the craft which Amundsen in tends to use in mapping the far north and that it was desirable that it should undergo severe preliminary tests. But there will be still other op portunities for Amundsen to take his life in his hands before he returns from the cruise which he now ex pects will consume from three to five years. The danger has by no means been removed from flying. The factor of the unexpected is al most as much to be counted on as it was when the NCI and the NC3 were wrecked off the Azores during the first transatlantic air flight and only the NC4 completed the ocean voy age. Every posslblj precaution was then employed, destroyers patrolled the course, yet the venture came near to ending in tragedy. All by himself, in an uncharted waste of ice and snow, Amundsen a little later is likely to find his chances of meeting with accident mathematically many times greater than those of the NG boats. One possibility of reducing this chance, however, remains. The radio has made considerably more rapid advance in the intervening period than aviation has done and the United States navy department has only recently perfected an antennae device for planes which will make It possible for the latter to keep in communication with ships and shore stations, even when compelled to alight. This had not been completed when Amundsen equipped his vessel but it is possible that he will include it in his paraphernalia. It is re garded by some who have watched i the recent progress of events as sot I improbable that he may find the radiophone practicable for the use of scouting expeditions away from the mother ship. If this comes to pass, 3ince the mother ship is equipped with wireless having- a radius of 2000 miles, it will not be surprising if daily bulletins are received at shore stations telling of the progress of further exploration of the pole. These possibilities, together with other scientific purposes of the Amundsen expedition, make it more than ever expedient that the com manding officer shall conserve him self for greater things to come. It is profoundly to be wished that he has had enough of flying for the present and that he will finish the Journey to the Pacific coast by tram MERE NAGGING. Baiting Portland is still popular pastime in some upstate quarters; but is the game worth the candle? Here is a fair example from the Pendleton East Oregonian: The East Oregonian shares the view of Senator McNary that it will be possible to build the Umatilla rapids project n im J3"0,000.000 reclamation bill is adopted by congress. But we won't build this project or any other project of consequence unless Oregon shows more energy than in the past. We will not succeed unless Portland awakens to the situation and takes a vital, vigorous interest in seeing that it is put over, we will not get far If our metropolis takes a passive attitude towards Oregon develop ment and places chief stress on aiding the Columbia basin project in Washington or the great southwest scheme lor the oe velnnmpnt nf the Colorado nrolect. If the McNarv bill passes. Oregon will have a good chance to accomplish a big forward step. But we will not succeed in anything of that sort If Portland devotes Its time to looking always toward the sea and refuses to realize the opportunity that exists In Its own dooryard. Under the original reclamation law, it was provided that the greater portion of funds realized by the government from sale of public lands within any state should be ap piled to development of reclamation within such a state. Yet the law, which meant expenditure of many millions in Oregon in great public land enterprises, was repealed, with out a single word of protest from any democratic voice in the state. This Pendleton paper, a3 we recall, was among those who were silent when protest might and would have counted. The Oregonian alone ap peared to be alive to the disastrous consequences of the repeal. Somehow we think of what might have resulted for the benefit of all Oregon if there had been then a proper conjunction of opinion and work between all communities and all parties of Oregon for the general benefit. Just what service to itself, to its city or to the state does the East Oregonian think it is perform ing by its everlasting ' nagging of Portland ? CO-OPERATION BY THE CHILDREN. The Invitation containing more than 37,000 signatures and addressed to President Harding bidding him attend the Portland Rose Festival in June will have fulfilled a definite purpose whether or not the president is able to be present, as everyone in Oregon wishes that he may, A not inconsiderable value attaches to its enlistment of the interest of so many boys and girls and to the feeling that it ought to inspire in the mind of every youngster that he (or she) has personally joined in a communica tion to the highest official in the na tion. Back of all Is the idea of co-operation, of loyalty which begins at home, of doing something in unison for the good of town and state. It is understood that the aid of the chil dren is to be made available in other novel ways In making the rose fes tival a success, a form of activity that Is capable of being extended in definitely without interfering with classroocu work. Since a good part of the life of every normally-situated individual Involves contact with his fellowmen, it is desirable that the spirit of com munity co-operation, which is a branch of the duty of citizenship, shall be inculcated In the schools. It is an exemplification of the project method in an aspect with which no fault can be found. GOLD IS COMING BACK. When war prices were at the peak. no man Was so poor as he who had a gold mine, that is, an ordinary, average mine in which gold was the main content of the ore. Owners of bonanza mines continued to make profits, but these were often equaled by those of war industries. Hence production of gold decreased -when an increase was most needed as a basis for the enlarged volume of paper money, though all the gold deposits in the world, worked to the limit, could not have kept pace with the swelling flood of paper in which Europe is wading. Gold miners called for a premium over the mint price in order that they might con tend with the paper-money cost of production. Deflation has brought gold mining back and, as it continues and sends paper money to the ragman and pushes prices down, the gold miner will again become an object of envy. Closed mines are reopened in all parts of the United States, including Oregon. Bolshevism having been beaten in its attempt at revolution, the Transvaal Rand will cut costs of production to the point where low grade mines can be profitably oper ated. Prospectors have gone into the field in various countries, and rich placers have been discovered in Tanganyika, the British mandated territory which was formerly Ger man East Africa. Butte copper mines, being again in operation, will add to the total gold output, for both gold and silver are by-products. Having squandered most of the old imperial gold reserve on bootless propaganda, the Russian soviet may induce capital and skill to work the Ural and Siberian mines by robbing them in moderation. There has been some wild talk of demonetizing gold, because the flood of fiat paper is so great that to build a proportionate gold basis under it is impossible. That would not add even one soviet ruble the smallest mone tary unit now extant to the value of any paper currency. Nothing but productive labor can perform that feat, and gold is merely the measure of its value through use as the me dium for exchange of one commod ity for another. Its mere posses sion does not benefit a nation. Aside from the purposes of ornament, it de rives its value from use in exchange of useful things to be usefully em ployed. When the bolshevists won final victory in war, they had over $300,000,000 in gold, but they ruled over a nation of tattered, diseased starvelings. That part of this gold which was not wasted on propa- ganda was expended in buying loco- motives, cars, rails, farm, imple ments, but those things benefited Russia little, if at all, for the skill and the incentive to industry were lacking to put them to use; they sank in the bottomless bog of bol shevlst incompetence. Though bol shevism had ruined the railroads, skilled Americans, Britons, Swedes and men of other nations found ways to get food to the starving Volga valley, which gold could not have savec. Some mutterings have been heard from paper money countries about the huge accumulation of gold in the United States, amounting to half the world's visible supply. Currency based on natural resources has been suggested aj a means of demonetiz ing it and of removing a supposed obstruction to the economic recovery of Europe. Natural resources are the basis of the paper money circu lating in Europe, and that paper has depreciated because those resources have only potential value and can acquire exchajgeable value only when converted into useful shape by well directed labor, while the amount of such labor performed is far below the nominal value of the paper that Is based on these resources. There is one sure way for the people of Eu rope to get their share of that gold pile; that is, to earn it. As fast as they produce and sell to the Ameri can people goods in excess of what they buy from this country, that gold pile will shrink until no more re mains than is needed as a basis for our paper currency. Scarcity of gold is not the trouble with Europe; it is the attempt to substitute measures of value which are as fraudulent as a pair of short-weight scales, and the unwillingness of people to work or trade when paid by that measure, The remedy is to get their paper down to its gold value, then to work and exchange their products for gold or other commodities on that basis. FIRST GET YOUR SURPLUS. , It would be gratifying if means could be found for constructing a bridge across the river at Sellwood That a bridge at that point would be a public convenience cannot be disputed, but friends of the project must recognize the existence of dif ficulties in the way of financing it at present. The county commis sioners performed a friendly service in advising representatives of that district that submission of a bond issue now would be risky. The public is aware of an impending necessity to reconstruct the Burnside bridge. When that structure is no longer safe its reconstruction will be im perative. At present the public at titude is one of opposition to further indebtedness for aught but that which is imperative, while even in so fundamental a project as proper maintenance of the public schools it has but recently refused money for building purpose. But it is proposed by the commis sioners that the Sellwood bridge be financed by diverting the earnings from the interstate bridge tolls to that purpose. Presumably the plan is that any surplus after providing for annual redemption of bonds and payment of interest on the interstate structure be so used. The plan would be more promising if prospect of a surplus were better. In 1921 there was a surplus of about $50,000 after redemption and interest requirements were met, yet in 1917 and 1918, the general fund, which means the taxpaying public, was called upon for $173,844 for those purposes. Now, the toll reve nues are declining. In the first quarter of 1922 they fell off 32 per cent from the revenues of the same period of 1921. Unless there is a marked increase in traffic the tolls will no more than pay bond redemp tion and fnterest this year. They may do considerably less. The an nual requirement is practically $100,000. The first quarter's reve. nues aggregated $22,240.96. At the same rate of revenue throughout the year, the tolls will fall more than $10,000 short. An increase in bridge revenues may of course be expected with in dustrial and business improvement, Completion of the pavement in Washington on the Pacific highway will also promote larger travel over the bridge. But It should be remem. bered that the years during which the bridge yielded a surplus were the ears of war and after-war activity. The redemption and interest needs will be about $100,000 annually for the next ten years. It will, of course, be recognized that if bridge tolls are used to build other bridges and the interstate bridge be paid for out of general tax reserves, there has been no saving accomplished over a direct tax for the new bridges. It is well that these difficulties be understood. It is assumed that the most ardent advocates of the Sell wood bridge "do not desire imprac tical encouragement. THE STRUGGLE WITH BUREAUCRACY. When Dr. Graves rests his case for retaining the forestry bureau in the department of agriculture on a prophecy, he betrays its weakness. He predicts that a generation hence forests will be owned in small tracts by farmers, therefore come under the head of agriculture and should be under the care of the agricultural department. He thus carries farther the 'argument that has been made, that the forestry bureau has to do with the growing of trees, their pres ervation from insects, rot depreda tion and fire, and their harvesting by loggers, when ripe, therefore is more closely related to agriculture than to public land. He proposes that the government found its pres ent policy on his prophecy as to what will be the situation a gener ation hence. . If he will look back a generation and study the predictions then made as to conditions at this time, he will realize that prophecy is an unsafe basis for government policy. It is fortunate for the prophets tiat their predictions are forgotten before the day for fulfil ment arives. Probably, as logged-off land that is adapted for agriculture is cleared and cut into farms, each farmer will preserve second-growth timber on a tract which he will use as a woodlot, but our main forest areas are moun tains that are unfit for other pur poses than forestry and mining. The larger proportion of these areas is Included in national forests, and is likely to be retained as such by the government. It is part of the public domain, therefore should be admin istered by the same department as manages all other classes of public land, especially as the same land is used for mining and other purposes over which the interior department has jurisdiction. Preservation of timber is simply an incident of gen eral land administration. The secre tary of the interior and his bureau chiefs are as competent to hire the right men to combat pine beetles as as are the secretary of agriculture and his assiiints to hire men for deadly war on the boll weevil. It is not necessary that the beetle-chaser and the weevil-chaser be in the same bureau in order to do their work well. The weightiest reason for placing all bueraus having to do with public land, of whatever kind and for what ever purpose used, in one depart ment under one chief is that this seems to be the only way of leading the several bureaus to work together. Pride, jealousy and greed for au thority cause them to get in one an other's way and to defeat the ends for which all of them exist the de velopment and use of the public do main. Alaska is a conspicuous ex ample. One bureau has built a rail road at a cost of $56,000,000, while thirty-six or thirty-seven other bu reaus block the pioneer's way and prevent him from producing traffic for the railroad; result, the railroad commission must mine coal to , run its locomotives, and this coal forms the bulk of the traffic. Oregon has an example in the wrangle between the forestry bureau and the park bureau as to whether Diamond lake shall be annexed to Crater Lake park; indeed, all of Oregon is an ex ample of the success with which bu reaucracy blocks the way of men who try to do things. The Jackson Hole country in Wyoming is yet an other example. Governor Carey of that state said in an address to the governors' conference: ' Most of this section Is In forest and game preserves, and here we have the best game country In the United States. The bureau of parks is endeavoring to add a large part of it to the Yellowstone national park which the biological survey wants for a game preserve. The forestry service is not in favor of park extension, for the reason that it would transfer control from the agricultural to the interior department The reclamation service has a large reser- voir at Jackson's lake which Is irrigating lands in Idaho, and on account of the large volume of water that is run during the irrigation season the river is impassable and there are no bridges. The land along the river is being constantly washed away and damaged, but the owners have no redress. There are two Carey act projects which ,the general land office will neither approve nor disapprove. Practically all lands for homesteading are withdrawn from entry and the development of the country is at a standstill. Numerous writers from the east have been imported into this section to write propaganda to assist the different Washington bureaus to get con trol of this section. Everyone has a press agent except the man who is trying to live in this country and to establish a home. In asking that the forestry bureau be transferred to the interior depart ment. Secretary Fall proposes one step toward ending such absurd demonstrations of how hot to let the country go ahead. UndeY a stong executive head all the bureaus deal ing with public land homesteads, grazing, reclamation, forests, parks, mining, coal and oil should work together to assist and encourage the people in development of the public land as the law provides; Any of ficial who prevents or obstructs that activity by senseless enforcement of red tape regulations, by inter-bureau feuds or by riding pet hobbies should be dismissed as out of harmony with the purpose to promote development of the west and Alaska. Control of the national forests is but one feature of general reorgan ization of the departments, a plan for which has been before President Harding for some time. The con troversy that has arisen on that subject is but a skirmish preliminary to the great battle which will surely be fought when the complete plan is laid before congress for action. All the driving force of the administra tion, which may be centered in the dynamic personality of Budget Di rector Dawes, will be needed to pre vent the scheme from being wrecked by the host of official jealousies, hopes and fears that it will arouse. The public is caught in the labyrinth of bureaucracy, in which every path that should lead to progress ends against a blind wall. The forestry controversy and predicament of Alaska show the evil consequences. Discovery of a London skin sur geon that doses of the thyroid gland will cure baldness by starting hir sute growth will decimate the lower animals if only a fraction of bald- heads try the treatment. In years to come (say 5000) a bald head may be an honor instead of as now, an irritation or joke. Reclamation of the Guild's lake district for an industrial center and more than a mile of deep-water frontage is just one item in the de velopment of a newer Portland. Most cities progress upstream, but here the field is the other way and un limited. The season's honors are at Or chards. ' near Vancouver, where a deluded hen, contemplating Easter, i no aouDt, nas produced an egg that measured eleven inches the long way around. This ought to squelch rivalry. The bitter part of it must be that the democratic party really doesn't care a hang whether Mr. Wilson said it or whether Tumulty said It for him the effect being nil in either case. Those persistent sleepers in Ar kansas must have been cowhands in youth and are just catching up. Any rider of the range can tell how far behind he is. Centralia has a fire chief "worse" than our Johnnie Young. He orders the firemen to take physical exer cise daily. Maybe he would better beware. After surviving an eight-hour de bate in congress, the dangers of combat with any foreign power must seem like mighty small potatoes to the navy. Mrs. Medill McCprmick tells Penn sylvania women to get in and be come "real politicians." Needless ad vice there or anywhere. They are. Still, there must be a certain fas cination to being a democrat. It's so easy to get a nomination for of fice at any old time- More than praying people will halt for a moment to wish recovery for John McCormack, with the won derful tenor voice. Some men did not fear the crack of doom by filing'on the last day, though it was Friday. What will that Genoa conference be when it really gets a good start! What a wonderful oil stock sales-1 man Lenine would make. The Listening Post. By DeWltt Harry. 0 NE of the ne'st places In the city! to oDserve newiyweas is me . i . . . . . , , ... . a market on Yamhill street. Appar - ently as soon as the knot is tied the better-half begins to feel her terrific responsibility and seeks every means of beinfr economical. Those are the wonderful days of budgets and the ,.,.. ivi many plans about the things "he likes." Always some surprise or other, but once in a while bitter tears ac company some failure. Arm. in arm, neat little market basket in fcer hands, they approach the stalls. Little do they realize what is in store. She wants to show her skill, for did she not take a domestic science course and learn how to make muffins and those dainty desserts with whippe4 cream and nuts and pineapple cores and all that? So they stop at the first stall and she gives a few dainty punches to a head of cabbage and then pays for it, from her little purse that contains the household allowance. Allowances must not be mixed, every item in the budget generally has a separate hid ing place and the wife is the squirrel who knows where the money is. Then, in rapid sequence she buys ten pounds of potatoes, a dozen oranges, three grapefruit, two heads of cauli flower, a pound of butter, two dozen eggs, a jar of honey, some cottage cheese, a bottle of cream, a pound of coffee, half a dozen cans of condensed milk, a bag of rice, half a side of bacon, a ' pot of primroses in full bloom and half a dozen sprays of teazels. By now they are no longer arm in arm. The capacity of the cute little market basket proved limited at the second stop and he bought one of those big bags. Since then, on their trip, he has accumulated two more bags and as he is too proud to allow his wife to carry anything he cer tainly is packing one load, with the pot of primroses capping the heap, and the teazel burrs in his ear. The final act nears. It often comes over the meat. She has picked out a shop with such a nice butcher he waited on her the other morning when she got the dozen small steaks. She hesitates between a pork roast and a leg of mutton. Hubby, foolisn fellow, thinking he knows something about meat, breaks in and tells her of the virtues of T-bone steak, just as If she "didn't know nothing," and they get into an argument. He gets the steak, and gets some more when he gets home, and it dosen't usually take him more than six years to tumble to the fact that marketing expeditions are not journeys of joy. Cat fanciers, both amateur and pro fessional, made life more than in teresting for Miss Thelma Pauline Flint a few weeks ago when the picture of her 25-pound pet and his two bulky playmates was published in The Oregonian. The day follow ing the appearance . of the picture Miss Flint reported herself in a state of siege, and while she did not wish to appear discourteous she was forced to barricade herself and refuse to answer the door. At that, when she emerged, . half a dozen people were waiting. Then R. E. Hobbs came into the controversy with another gi gantic feline. And now the sage of Hebo, Or., enters with yet an other cat tale. He says: "I noticed under date of April 8 a story about a large cat that a Mr. R. E. Hobbs has. Now, if Mr. Hobbs had been with me while .duck hunting over at Sand Lake, Or., he could have seen some real cats. "I stopped with a man named Wild, and while waiting for dinner I looked around and there was one of the largest cats that I ever saw. I re marked to Mr. Wild 'that sure is some cat." ' Why,' he said, that's just a kitten. Come on out in the barn and I'll show you a cat.' And I'll say it was. The one he showed me weighed almost 122 pounds. I asked Wild if this was some unknown strain of cats that he had. No,' he said. 'You see, I am the original Mr. Wild that put the wild in wildcats and these are some in which I left the wild out.' " While It is not the intention in this department to feature crime, the Great Hot Cross Bun Robbery" is too glaring to overlook. The daring and artistic pair of thieves might have aggregated 14 years In age, and it was a difficult matter to judge w! ether they were accustomed to shoplifting or not, but they certainly possessed a technique that a master crook would envy. The two 7-year-olds took a position near one of those traveling sets of wheeled shelves used by a depart ment store bakery department to han dle goods. Innocent in appearance they looked like they were accom panying mother shopping, for each one carried a big paper bag. One would back up to the laden cart while the other took a shielding po sition and the "lifters" would reach back and grab a bun and drop it Into the big bag, then another into the bag and then possibly the next one into a pocket and then a change ol position while the inactive half of the sketch would step in arid resume the raid. It was an artistic exhibition, and while there is no means of know ing whether they got away with it, the one who saw is willing to bet they were not caught. They were talking about Howard and Mifton and Ida and their essays, the interesting documents of child hood that appeared in The Listening Post yesterday.. The outstanding fea ture was how exact each story about the domestic pets was in. its knowl edge of sex. "Now, these kids were about 8 or 9 years of age," remarked one woman. "They know all about sex. Young sters know a lot these days. I have a daughter and a mother. Mother is getting along about three score and ten, but life even yet is a great mys tery to her. Now, I'll bet that my girl, aged 11, or any other child of that age today, can give the average old woman of the previous generation or more ago cards and spades when it comes to a question of sex and yet more than hold her own." Give me a glass of milk, hall cream, oraered the customer. Why not order a glass of cream, half milk?" asked the curious one on the next stool. "There can't be any difference." "Tes there is five cents some- times." Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotels. W. A. Wood, judge of Curry county. lis in i r,c p iv a n r-. m . . iart . ivi -- - "j ' vwuu. iucj are residents or joia ! Beacn the countv seat Curry county ,1s the only county in Oregon which cannot point to a single incorporated i town. The judge is particularly in - terested In the improvement of the 00fe'n'snway along tne coast in hls county. While Curry county has a small population and a lim ited valuation because so much of the territory is in the reserve, still the per capita wealth far surpasses that of more than half of the other coun ties in the state. It has been said that Curry county is one of the least ex plored sections of Oregon and one of the wildest sections of the United States. The Rogue river, which cuts the county In two, flows through can yons, the walls of which in places are more than half a mile high. "It doesn't hurt to ask and maybe we can get something if we do," is the philosophical viewpoint taken by Ernest Johnson, county commissioner of Wallowa. Mr. Johnson is here to request the highway commission to improve seven miles of state road between Lostine and Enterprise. The rest of the road has been improved, but this section Is so bad that it has been impassable for weeks at a time. Mr. Johnson says that the winter has been long drawn out in Wallowa, and that feeding has been going on for five and a half months. The hay, ac cumulations of two years, has been used and some has been brought in. As is the case in other places, the grass is slow in coming. Captain Ward M. Ackley, one of the army instructors now stationed at Oregon Agricultural college, was in Portland yesterday and "fought over the war" with a number of his old comrades of the 91st division. Cap tain Ackley trained with the Powder river unit at Camp Lewis and went overseas. He served with the 363d infantry In the Meuse-Argonne as a first lieutenant. When Captain Charles M. Abercombe Of Portland was killed Ackley was promoted to a captain and took command of his comrade's com pany. Following the war he took a regular army commission and now is endeavoring to instill military knowl edge into the cadets at the state ag ricultural college. C. P. Wade, Judge of Coos county, is among the arrivals at the Imper ial. The judge is desirous of speed ing nn the location of the road be tween Coquille and Bandon, as the county has some money to put on that section for co-operation with the highway commission. This link, when built, will be a section of the Coast or Roosevelt highway and will connect at Coquille with the high way across the coast range to the Pacific highway near Roseburg. The commission has been considering three possible routes for a year and is expected to make a decision be fore the adjournment of the present session. "Two or three days of weather like this," commented Division Engineer Clarke, of the highway forces, as he watched the rain storm pelting the pavements and the people, "will de lay road construction as many weeks. After this kind of a storm it requires time for the conditions to become . favorable for outdoor work. There are three jobs in my district which could be under way now if the weather was at all suit able." One of the things for which M. C. I Conlon is noted is his specialty of Percheron horses, those big husky animals which look like an elephant and have legs on them like a grand piano. Mr. Conlon became a com missioner of Deschutes county about a year ago, succeeding C. H. Miller, and now he Is a candidate for re election. Mr. Conlon,. who farms near Redmond, is in the city attend ing the highway commission meet ing. W. H. Malone, former judge of Ben ton county, is attending the meeting of the highway .commission as a con tractor, whereas before he left his official position, he used to appear before the commission and urge road construction in his county. The former judge is a resident of Cor vallis. John C. Kendall of Coos Bay ar rived at the Multnomah yesterday from the coast metropolis. Mr. Ken dall is interested in highways and politics, and while in Portland yes- . . . : : .1 .1 i., . .ll. 1. ... n n these two subjects. Guy E. Dobson, once in the build ing inspection department In Port land, but for the last ten years a resident of Redmond, Or., s regis tered at the Imperial. Mr. Dobson is president of the First National bank in his town. Fred J. Palmer, the mayor of dis tant Jordan Valley, which is in the valley of the same name, in Malheur county, is la Portland. The town is an important trading point for a ter ritory which spreads over a great area. Judge Marvin of Wallowa county is one of the throng of county offi cials gathered from all sections of the state to be present at the high way meeting He is registered at the Imperial. J. R. Blackaby, democrat and banker of Ontario, Or., is in the city meeting democratic leaders who are In town planning the spring offensive which will be held May 19. Sc'o Is one of the old settlements in the Willamette valley. Dr. A. F. Pr.'ll, who combines the duties of mayor end health officer, is an ar rival at the Imperial. Fred N. Wallace of Tumalo passed through Portland yesterday on his way to Salem in connection with busi ness matters for the Tumalo irriga tion district. Forms of National Bonus. PORTLAND, April 13. (To the Edi tor.) Has the United States passed the soldiers' bonus bill? If so, how much bonus will a man get who was enlisted in the naval aviation from December, 1917. until February 1, 1919, and 11 months of this time re ceived $40 and the balance $60 per month? If he owes a debt which more than covers his bonus can this bonus be taken or garnisheed before it passes into his hands? SUBSCRIBER. The bill has passed the house but not the senate. It provides five op tions, the total of adjusted service pay on which they are based varying in each.. It is therefore not possible to figure your bonus without know ing which form you elect. Better visit the public library reference de partment and study the articles de scribing the bill. Days In Other Years. LAUREL, Or., April 13. (To the Editor.) Please publish what day of the week April 6, 1905, fell on, and April 6, 1906, and April 10, 1900. CONSTANT SUBSCRIBER. April 6. 1905, Thursday. April 6, 1906, Friday. April 10. 1900. Tuesday. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague- NOW WE KNOW THE IIF.ASOX. (Baker-made bread . has developed , y -. . , h. 0f -"3 impptji, , . wholesome work in the kitchen A baking machine manufacturer.) What makes her so flippity-floppity, i So foolishly fond of romance, j So skippity, hippity-hoppity When jazzinir about in the dance? What makes her so nervous and Jlg gilty With never a thought in her head? Her rearing was higgilty-plggilty ; She never was taught to make bread! She wouldn't be nearly so fluttery. Her mind on her feminine charms. ; if she'd put in her time in the buttery With flour all over her arms. She wouldn't be raucously chattery. Spilling words in an unending flow. If her apron had ever been splattery With the good honest makings of dough. She wouldn't belong to sororities, Which high schools now seek to forbid. If she'd toiled as the homey major- ities Of our bread-making grandmothers did. She'd never behave hlghty-tightily And act so new-fangled and strange. In fact she would benefit mightily By spending her days at her range. But bread is now made by the bakery. All lovely and crusty and brown. And maidens will never get Quakery " By dressing and going down town. They talk' most inanely and vapidly; Their dress fills their mothers with shame. They're growing Intractable rapidly, But the baking machine is to blame. A Cinch. The coal operators may have no power over the miners, but they know that in the event of a strike they can always make the public dig. An Absentee. The truth is mighty and will pre vail, but it is mighty hard to find i- A Proud Record-Holder. There is no scorn like the scorn ol a New Yorker listening to the crime statistics of other cities. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houa-hton-MUf flln Co. Can Yon Answer These Questions f 1. Do birds all have the same num ber of feathers in their wings? 2. Please tell me how to rid my seashore cottage of fleas. My last tenant had two dogs and left the place swarming. 3. Why should bread turn moldy in a clean place, sometimes? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. I notice a small bird in my or chard, on the trunks of trees a good deal, white underneath, black on top, with a good many white stripes and marks on wings and tail. Can you tell me what it is? Undoubtedly a black-and-white creeper, or more properly, creeping warbler. Very useful. You will find jt working on woodland trees also, and on old half-rotted wood fences where lichen has accumulated, beside the orchard, usually working rather near the ground. It takes caterpil lars, small insects and insect eggs, moving rather restlessly from tree to tree. 2. What makes the earth worm crawl? Supposing you mean by what meth od It crawls the earth worm has on its under side some minute points like the ends of bristles. These are thrust backward, which thrusts the body slowly forward. The points are called Setae. By their help the worm clings to its burrow when a robin tries to pry or pull it out, and sometimes holds on too tightly to be dislodged. 3. What will a horned toad eat? Insects. Though a lizard and not a real toad, the "horned toad" eats much as a real toad does, bending its neck down toward the prey and darting out a thick and sticky tongue to snap up the mouthful. Specimens kept in cap tivity will eat mealworms and cock roaches, but won't take angleworms. They must be kept warm and dry a-nd have sunshine. Water in a shallow dish is needed, but it must be level with the sand at the bottom of the pen and not tip over to wet the sand. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of April 15, 1897. Mayor Pennoyer yesterday appoint ed p'rancis A. Watts police commis sioner as successor to Sylvester B. Riggen. The proposal to hold a brigade en campment of the Oregon national guard this summer is meeting with aproval and Salem will probably be picked as the site. Captain Thomas N. Valllns, who has been appointed chief of police in Kansas City, has many friends here, having been connected with the Pin kerton agency in Portland. The new building of the Oregon Cracker company, on Sixth, near Glisan street, is nearly completed, and the company expects to move in about May 15. Fifty Years Ago. Brom The Oregonian of April 15, 1872. The yield of wheat for the coming harvest In this state Is variously esti mated at from 30.000,000 to 35,000,000 bushels. The various Oddfellows' lodges of the city have appointed committees to complete arrangements for a grand picnic to be held in celebration of the 53d anniversary of the order on April 26. The rival candidates for congress, Hon. Joseph G. Wilson, republican, and John Burnett, Esq., democrat, will address their fellow citizens at the courthouse tonight. ITse of Soldier's Compensation. PORT TOWN-SEND, Wash.. April 12 (To the Editor.) 1. I am an ex service man and In a hospital have been ever since the war. One leg is gone. I have a family and am draw ing $100 per month compensation. I send my family $75 per month. I am trying to save most of the other $25. but some of the people around our home have threatened to report me to the government for laying away some of my compensation. What can I do with them for meddling in my affairs? 2. Isn't it true the government wants the ex-service men to save their com pensation or as much of It as they can? SUBSCRIBER. Your compensation Is yours to do with as you see fit, except that under state law you can be required to sup port your family. If $75 Is enough to support them, the fact that you are I laying away $25 is no one's business but your own. EASTER Spirit Declared Essence of Spring Season Story of the resurrc-ction re told together with legends of feast and pagan customs handed down in myths of an cients in article, voicing the sacred beliefs of the Christian, which will appear in tomor rows Oregonian. The article is illustrated with a beautiful Easter "study by Leonid Fink. Little Stories of Married Life The first of a series of stories on "The Married Life of Helen and Warren" will appear in The Sunday Oregonian. In the Magazine When Fame Is Embarrassing Husband calls for help when wife's face smiles at him from posters and bottles everywhere. Spring Brings Moonshine Flood Sudden death awaits many in southern hills where drama and' novel have brought glamour of romance. Fiction Feature by Samuel Merwin This hitherto unpublished story tells how shadows from past flit before possessor of great fortune. Woman Keeps Figure and Her First Love Modern Galatea, whose romance began in studio, declares any woman may attain beauty. Oregon Springs Are Curative Startling government analysis shows arsenic tonic in waters found in Cascade forest. Ghosts That Have Challenged Science The myths of haunted houses. many of which have remained unexplained to the present day. Other Features Churches to Observe Easter Fittingly What the various churches are planning for the Sunday's ob servance, in the church section. Three-piece Costume Is Fashion Feature The up-to-date woman reads The Oregonian's fashion sec tion to get the latest in the world of dress. Economical Use of Gas Given This is one of various features in the special section devoted to the gas ranges in honor of gas-range week. Benson "Tech" to Hold Show Big annual exhibition set for three nights. Other news of schools contained in school de partment. Page of Cartoons on Newsy Topics A series of Darling's famous cartoons depicting events hap pening in the world of news. How to Make Ambrosia Pudding Many interesting bits of infor mation in the world of cookery in Miss Tingle's department. Latest Gossip in the Movies The news of the various Port land theaters and of plays and pictures to come told in spe cial departments. Beautiful Drive for Motorists The story of a trip along the Clackamas river is told by II. W. Lyman, automobile editor. What Is Doing in Radio World The latest gossip of this new method of communication re lated in illustrated department. Scores for the Baseball Fan The Oregonian carries in daily and Sunday papers all the box scores of the big league games, in addition to other sports. All the News of All the World in The Sunday Oregonian Just 5 Cents