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THE MOBNIXG OREGOXIAX, SATURDAY, APRIL, 29, 1922
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WHAT THE FARMERS' BLOC WANTS.
. Denunciation of the farm bloc In'
congress -would lead one who. had
not read Its programme to suppose
that It stood for radical legislation
favoring the agricultural interest at
the expense of other classes. Any
person who has that impression
would probably be surprised at the
moderation of the plans stated by
Senator Capper as those put forward
in behalf of agriculture.
He says: "The farm bloc favors
. a. liberal bnt sane appropriation for
1 the department of agriculture." So
does everybody else, farmer or not.
who realizes that prosperous agri
culture Is the foundation of national
prosperity, and who appreciates the
immense value to the whole nation
of the work done by that department
in its 30-odd years of life. The
words "liberal but sane" may be va
riousiy construed. But if congress
has a true conception of the relation
between the well-being of the farm
ers and that of the nation, it will
not go wide of the mark.
The senator next said:
Tie farm bloc believes railway freights
mx-e too nign ana must come down.
So does everybody else, even in
cluding the railroad companies. The
only difference of opinion is as to
whether rates or wages should come
down first, as to which rates should
be reduced first and to what extent.
As to the next plank in Mr. Cap
per's platform there is more debate,
but there Is nothing revolutionary
about it. It reads:
The farm bioo would restore to state
railway commissions much of the power
taken away from them by an unwarranta
ble interpretation of the transportation act
by the interstate commerce commission.
It is generally agreed that the fed
eral commission should have power
to bring railroad rates within the
slates into harmony with interstate
rates and to prevent state commis
Fions from enforcing rates which
effect discrimination against other
plates. But that can be done with
out depriving state commissions of
control over railroad problems that
arise entirely within their states or
over other public utilities. These
are strictly local affairs, so numer
ous that they would swamp the in
terstate commission and of such a
character that they could not be
handled intelligently by a body a
thousand or more miles from the
scene.
The Muscle Shoals project should
be developed, says the senator, and
tlio government should resume work
on the power and nitrate plants on
the Tennessee river, so the nation's
annual fertilizer bill of $250,000,000
could be reduced. There are prob
ably no two opinions on the proposal
that the plants be finished and that
precaution should be taken for
cheap fertilizer to be furnished by
them, but many believe that the
work could be done more promptly
nnd more economically by private
enterprise under lease strictly safe
guarding the public interest than by
the government. That is one sub
ject on which the bloc seems to ns
too radical.
Credit reform is demanded in or
der that the farmer may have more
money to finance his slow turn-over
and that the activities of the farm
land banks may be enlarged. As a
temporary remedy, extension of the
loan powers of the war finance cor
poration for one year is proposed.
As to financing crops, this is asking
no more than, other industries have
a banking system fitted to the na
ture of their business. As to mort
gage loans, it is only proposed to
extend a system which did great
things for agriculture for the great
est farming countries of Europe.
Producing farms are the best secur
ity in the country, and nothing but
organization is needed to obtain low
interest for loans on this security.
It is provided by a bill which has
passed the senate and is pending in
the house that in appointing mem
bers of the federal reserve aoard the
president "shall have due regard to
a fair representation of the different
agricultural, commercial, industrial
and geographic divisions of the
rountry." the only change from ex
isting law being insertion of the
word "agricultural." Agriculture
equals in magnitude any of the other
interests named and has a just claim
to equal consideration.
There is nothing to justify alarm
in any of these proposals. In fact
alarm is aroused by the fact the pro
ponents of the farmers' programme
have come together in a bloc rather
than by the programme itself. There
have been "blocs" in congress be
fore, as sponsors for particular in
terests, though not called by that
name. They have been short-lived
affairs, falling apart when some par
ticular end was gained or hopelessly
lost. So we may expect it to be with
the farmers' bloc. It came into be
ing to compel attention to a great
industry which was in deep distress
and which had been neglected. It is
likely to dissolve spontaneously when
the need has passed. If it should
attempt to live too long and to abuse
its power, there will surely be an
uprising against it, as there has been
ogainst former blocs, and it will be
broken up.
The creator of Nick Carter died
with a conscience less burdened than
that of many an author of the mod
ern successor to the dime novel will
le. Nick Carter was pure trash, but
he at least omitted the appeal to the
prurient mind and he did not distort
sex. The oid 10-cent thrillers were
innocuous by comparison with some
of their
$2.50.
successors that retail at
A CAMPAIGN TRIC5IPH.
Let us all be thankful for the wis
dom of the lawmakers in putting the
dates of the primary and the spring
taxpaying period so close together.
By close economy between now and
May 19, the county of Multnomah
may be able to go over the top with
out a treasury deficit. Whereas yes
terday there was an apparent deficit
of $106,000, today by dexterous
transfer of funds there is a surplus
of $109,000 in the general fund.
County finances are thus placed on
a rock foundation, at least until the
election is over.
Ko special tax to clear up out
standing county warrants wl be
needed not right now. Of course
$109,000 is only chicken feed for a
county the size of Multnomah and
there will be nothing more coming
in, except a few scattering thou
sands, until next October. But, as
said before, the emergency of a
deficit right in the middle of a pri
mary campaign has been met. The
amount the county will go in the
hole before the next tax revenues are
paid -need not worry us now. All's
right with the world.
Still we are intrigued by Commis
sioner Holman's ingenious explana
tion of the why of a deficit at any
time during the year. It appears
that it is due to the fact that war
rants issued in the early part of the
year cannot be paid until taxes roll
in. Tet under other administrations
the county came up to the first of
each year with cash on hand to tide
it over until the taxes were due
There was no deficit for years and
years. What happened to the sur
plus?
What is the true analysis of conn
ty finances not the condition of the
treasury at the moment, when spring
taxes have just been turned over and
current indebtedness barely met?
What orderly, intelligent plan for
clearing up the current indebtedness
that will Inevitably recur before
Jun 1 and continue to mount until
the end of the year has been pre
pared by the commissioners?
19 IT WORTH WHILE?
A Detroit man is pictured in one
of the home newspapers as fishing
from a wharf, a radio telephone re
ceiver attached to his head, from
which he is receiving the latest news
of what is going on in the world.
The fish line is used as an antenna.
When the news is not coming he
listens to a concert. When he gets
a bite, the fish is presumed to be a
sufficient recompense for the mo
mentaxy interruption of his other
pleasures. The picture represents
him as wearing an expression of
blissful contentment. He need be
out of touch with the world for only
a few seconds at a time night or
day.
Yet we are convinced that the re
porter who wrote the text accom
panying the photograph has never
been a fisherman and moreover that
he hasn't the making of one in him.
For example, he says: "Fishing is
a great sport, but it is a very tire
some and lonesome pleasure when
the fish don't bite. However, with
the present-day craze for radio, fish
ing kits will Include one of the sets
shown here.
Anyone who doesn't know that
part of the pleasure of fishing is
getting away from the current of
events would better take down his
Isaak Walton and read it again. A
sport for contemplative men, not a
trifling episode snatched from the
crevices of a busy life, fishing owes
its fascination to the opportunity it
affords for reflection, for complete
idleness or the next thing to it, for
isolation from the excitement of a
hurly-burly world. If the fish con
servationists were seeking a way to
destroy the sport, they could find no
better one than to make use of one
of these news-casting devices com
pulsory. Time-saying devices multiply,, not
withstanding which we don't seem to
have any more leisure than our
grandfathers had. . All is dynamic,
nothing is static, every minute must
be made to count, cessation of ac
tivity is waste. As an isolated in
stance the radio fisherman is insig
nificant, as a symbol he looms im
mense. But there is reasonable
ground for wondering, whether it is
worth while. Every time-saving ap
pliance but gives us more time 'in
which to invent other time-saving
appliances. Not even the fisherman
is left alone to let his thoughts
dwell on the inner philosophies of
life.
THE HOPES OF ZIONISM.
The issuance of the British govern
ment's order in council for the or
ganization of the government of Pal
estine, in furtherance of the promise
made five years ago to establish a
national home for the Jewish people,
will cause reflection on the -difficulties
attending the fulfillment of that
promise. Undoubtedly it has been the
desire of British officials to keep
faith with the Zionists who have
pinned hopes on the development of
a social order of their own on the
soil made sacred to them by tradi
tion. At the same time it happens
that the present population, of the
country is overwhelmingly Arab. The
Mohammedans claim through their
representatives to number some 600,
000. The remaining 120,000 at the
time the count was made, about a
year ago, are about evenly divided
between Christians and Jews.
Here the problem of doing justice to
conflicting elements is a knotty one,
involving considerations of which a
homogeneous people cannot easily
conceive. The present generation of
Arabs feel that whatever the sins of
their forefathers may have been,
they themselves have rights of which
they cannot be violently dispossessed.
That the numerical balance will be
changed when the Zionist immigra
tion gets fully under way is a fact ;
tending to work toward eventual
domination by the newcomers, but if
they are to enjoy the benefit of their
preponderance later on they must
be careful not to establish vexatious
precedents while they are in the
minority. The issues are so complex
that it will be no wonder if there has
been failure to please everybody in
the solution.
There has been an attempt to safe
guard the principle of religious lib
erty, which is an even more difficult
matter in the old world than in the
new. Each religious community has
Veen placed on an equal basis, no
sect having authority over another,
while an intensely complicated basis
of representation in the legislative
council hag been deemed necessary
to carry these plans into effect. Of
, twe'nty-five members of the council.
twelve are elected by secondary
electoral bodies or colleges chosen by
the people; three are chosen by cer
tain representative bodies, and ten
are appointed. The acts of the coun
cil are subject to disapproval by the
imperial government. The present
character of the population makes
it impracticable to guarantee against
a non-Jewish legislative body, but
the order in council, which promul
gates what amounts to a constitution
for' Palestine, prohibits the enact
ment of any laws restricting re
ligious freedom. For the time being,
however, the majority of the legis
lators will be Mohammedans.
The feature of interest to the Zion
ists is that the immigration move
ment is growing rapidly, in response
to the success of those who have
already established themselves in
Palestine. Manufacturing is alread
being undertaken on a large scale.
The strongly individualistic character
of the newcomers has made for en
terprise: capital has taken the ini
tiative in discovering the need of the
world and in developing markets for
goods. The hum of the loom and
the clatter of machinery are in
strange contrast to the pastoral still
ness that has reigned during the
entire period of Arab possession.
COMMON INTERESTS.
A writer in Leslie's Weekly, dis
cussing the momentous question,
"Are the railroads doomed?" uses
as an illustration of the growing
conflict between the railroad train
and the automotive method of trans
portation a recent deadlock between
the people of Linnton and the United
Railways, as the result of which the
latter abandoned its line between
Portland and Linnton and the people
of the latter community were left
with auto busses and auto trucks as
their only convenient public means
of communication. The citation fur
nishes material for reflection upon
an incident in which we think it will
now be conceded that both sides
were at fault. A spirit of concession
would have resulted advantageously
both for the people of Linnton by
hastening development and for the
railroads by fostering increased busi
ness for the steam line which had
exclusive access to it.
. Insistence by the United Railways,
the Hill subsidiary, on a 10 or 15
cent fare and by citizens on the
terms of an utdated franchise
which called for a 5-cent rate, in
the light of subsequent events, has
demonstrated the folly of acrimony
in dealing with what is essentially a
purely business proposition. On the
one hand it now appears that the
people would have been wise to ac
cept a means of communication
without which the building up of
new industries was bound to be
retarded; on the other it is probable
the railroads would have profited in
the long run by willingness to absorb
a loss on local passenger business,
since a larger volume of freight
traffic to which they alone woufu
have been entitled would have there
by been created.
As it is, the people have the du
bious satisfaction of having driven a
railroad company to tear up its
tracks and a corporation has won
another Pyrrhic victory. The 10-
cent jitneys, once utilized by the citi
zens as an argument-against a 15
cent fare, have ceased to function; I
their autobus successors can by no
stretch of the imagination be re
garded as being as satisfactory as a
well-regulated street railway service
would have been, the railroad will
be a long time regaining public favor
in that quarter, and all parties to
the transaction seem to - have lost
ground.
The writer in Leslies deduces
from these incidents that "even au
tomotive transportation, for the peo
ple, may not be all peaches and
cream, and that there is over
whelming evidence that the pioneer
automobile operators are behaving
very much as the pioneer railroad
operators behaved." Both were
after all the traffic will bear. May
It not be pertinent to suggest also
that in view of the situation it would
be wisdom on the part of both the
citizens and the transportation inter
ests, here and elsewhere, to get to
gether in the spirit of readjustment.
It has been, a good while coming,
but the day when the people and the
railroads have a common interest
seems already to have dawned.
ONTARIO TESTS A THEORY
Good material for study by Oregon
advocates1 of public ownership of
hydro-electric plants is to be found
in the report of W. S. Murray and
Henry Flood Jr. on the results of
that policy in Ontario by comparison
with private ownership under public
regulation in Quebec and adjacent
parts of the United States. As power
s taken from Niagara b alls for both
Ontario and the Buffalo district, the
two policies are brought into con
trast under closely similar condi
tions. Public ownership has a de
cided advantage in this comparison.
for the Ontario hydro-electric power
commission constructed only 23 per
cent of its capacity, having acquired
the rest from private investors, who
had constructed It at their own ini
tiative and risk, and it did not pay
anything for franchises and good
will.
The Ontario commission generates
power, distributes it to aDout zuu
municipalities, and is compelled by
law to sell it at cost, which varies
with distance and other factors,
while in the Ignited States under
public regulation the price to airier-
ent communities is equalized as far
as possible' and includes taxes and
profit. The Ontario system is
brought into close comparison with
that of private ownership, for pri
vate companies deliver power to
cities in the same zone as those that
are served by the commission.
Power from the government
owned plants in the Niagara district
of Ontario costs an average of 9.25
mills per kilowatt hour, while that
from private plants in the same dis-
trict costs 7.6 mills, and that from
the Niagara zone in the United
States costs 7.65 mills. In Quebec,
where 9 6 per cent of the power is
generated by private enterprise and
where the zone of transmission re
sembles that of Ontario, the cost to
the consumer is 6. 6. mills. In these
figures taxes are deducted from the
cost by private enterprise, as none
are paid on public plants, though in
fact the consumer is relieved of them
and tlie sum exacted from the whole
body of taxpayers is correspondingly
increased. On this basis the cost of
power to the consumer in 1920 was
29 per cent greater from the local
system in Toronto under public own
ership than in MontreaJ and 25 per
cent greater than in Buffalo, the two
latter cities relying on private enter
prise. More strongly adverse to the On
tario policy is the comparison of its
results with those of regulated pri
vate enterprise in California.- The
report says that "Niagara Falls
should make the production of con
tinuous power the cheapest for any
part of the American continent,"
while in California "the hydro-electric
power developments are small
in capacity and are. subject to vari
ation in streamflow, thus requiring
that their systems be supplemented
with steam electric plants." Also
Ontario has only 35 per cent as
many miles of transmission lines as
California, and the, area served has
483 inhabitants per square mile in
California against 587 in Ontario.
Tet the cost to the people is 4 per
cent-less in California than in On
tario, though it includes profit,
while Ontario power is sold at cost.
The elements working in favor of
economy in public ownership that
are cited by its advocates are cited
as:
Elimination of taxes.
Elimination of dividends.
Elimination of high-salaried executives.
More economical wage and higher effi
ciency in labor, scale.
Taxes are not eliminated. Those
which would under private owner
ship be paid on power property, ul
timately by the consumer, are sim
ply transferred to taxpayers in gen
eral. As power is sold cheaper un
der private than under public owner
ship, even after dividends and high
salaries to executives have been paid,
the economy effected under these
heads and through higher efficiency
of labor is evidently a fiction. That
it is true economy to employ skilled
business men at high salaries in
stead of politicians to run the power
business- is indicated by this para
graph from the report:
The revenue per dollar of salary paid
employes of electric power plants is almost
35.2 per cent greater in Quebec than in
Ontario, and the revenue per employe
earned by private electric companies in
Ontario is 81.5 per cent greater than that
earned from government-owned utilities.
whereas the revenue per employe earned
in the province of Quebec is 42 per cent
greater than that for the governmentally
owned and operated properties of Ontario.
By paying its managers well and
by judging whether they have made
good by their efficiency in business,
not in politics, private companies get
more ' per dollar paid out than does
a government commission. This is
the whole case against government
in business, stated in a sentence. It
is as true in Oregon as in Ontario, in
the United States as in Russia, but
the mixers of government with busi
ness will never admit it. Their only
chance of being trusted to run a
business is that they be judged by
their political, not their business,
qualifications. That is why they try
to put the government in business
and why they exclude business con
siderations from the operation of
government.
Mr. Wells, who "keeps store" with
weather, says officially there is a
deficiency of five inches in rainfall
just now. Very well; nobody dis
putes it; but the lack need not be
made up- during ball weeks nor until
after the rose festival. The ground
now is soaked and the season is late,
One court rules that a husband Is
under no obligations to furnish his
wife with anything higher-toned
than a flivver, and another holds
that it isn't right for a wife to pur
sue her husband with a pitchfork.
Even justice as between the sexes is
mighty and is bound to prevail.
When the last man shall have
passed from the American side of
the globe the floods in the Missis
sippi valley will have ceased, for one
of the causes in -elimination of man
will have been no more rainfall. '
A burglar overpowered by mem
bers of the family in Vancouver,
B. C, had three sticks of dynamite.
They1 took a big chance without
knowing it. There may be safety in
keeping, heads under blankets.
New York is to have a ninerstory
church. That is either too large or
too small not large enough to ac
commodate all the sinners In New
Tork, but about nine times too large
to hold the repentant ones.
In place of being merely high
commissioner of baseball. Judge
Landis should go in for the playing
end of the game. He'd bring the
spectators to their feet with a grand
stand play every inning.
A miss is as good as a mile for
president or citizen. Harding was
on another boat when the one he
intended taking met disaster. Some
may call it luck, but the' better word
is "providential."
Congratulations to Seattle on land
ing the next triennial conclave.
Portland will see much of the
Knights and some drills by them, for
that will be in "Oregon 1925" year.
A man convicted of stealing an
automobile said he was "vamped" by
an "attractive widow." How like!
His first ancestor lost a fine country
estate by blaming it on the woman.
Kipling a generation ago rejoiced
that he had "lived" after landing a
big salmon in the Clackamas river;
but a Canby man presses the record
with a 58-pounder a day or two ago.
Replying to an inquiry a short
time ago, the Sacramento Bee said
the next world's fair will be held in
Philadelphia in 1926, which is a few
thousand miles and a year off.
When the Shriners' hospital for
crippled children is erected on the
Columbia highway at the edge of the
city, every tourist will see something
to tell about at home.
While England is pepping up on
American jazz, a good many Ameri
cans are jazzing up on British
Scotch. Balance of trade heavily
British.
Striking stevedores are becoming
boisterous, to say the least. It is a
free country for the man who wants
work and can get it and do it-
The ex-kaiser is said to have
turned prohibitionist. He's a trifle
late with that. issue to get anywhere
in politics.
Preserving scenery is not wholly a
forestry service job. Some women
do it with rag and puff.
Sugar has started upward to meet
the strawberry coming down. I
EAKXT TRIP TO HOT SPRINGS.
Onr-Armed Dutchman Not First White
Man at Breitenbush.
WARRKNTTON. Or., April 27. (To
the Editor.) In an article appearing
in The Sunday Oregonian April 16
describing the mineral springs of
Oregon, a pioneer called the one
armed Dutchman is given credit for
the discovery of the hot springs on
the Breitenbush. My father, Don A.
Smith, a pioneer of the North Santiam
country, calls my attention to the
fact that several white men had vis
ited the springs before the advent of
the one-armed Dutchman.
In the early 70s John B. Waldo and
Henry States came to King s prairie
on the North Santiam, and invited my
father to join them in a trip-up the
Santiam. As a sidelight on the en
ergy and endurance of Judge Waldo
I will mention that my father tooK
Henry States aside and pointed out
the folly of- undertaking a mountain
trip with a man as frail as Waldo.
"Why, he is practically a corpse,"
said my father.
Henry States laughed and gave as
surance that the "corpse" would keep
the rest of the party bpsy taking care
of themselves. Tears afterward Don
A. Smith acknowledged that Judge
Waldo was the one man who had
given him all the walking he wanted.
My father agreed to join the party
provided the trip should be made up
what is now called the Breitenbush.
His reason for this choice was that
prior to that time the Thomas broth
ers of Kings Prairie had ascended the
Breitenbush some five miles and re
turned with flattering stories of the
region. The Waldo party on their way
up the Breitenbush camped at the
hot springs and were told by some
Warm Springs Indians that - aside
from the French trappers of an early
day, only three white men, so far as
they knew, "had visited the springs
before the Waldo party. These three
men, the Indians said, had come in
with the Indians about 1860. Two of
the men were from The Dalles. The
names of the three were carved on
trees at the springs. No other trace
of white men was found there.
From the springs the Waldo party
followed the stream to near its source,
climbed the divide west of Olallie
mountain and traveled north two days
before turning back. On their way
out they found Elk lake. Indians
were camped there also, hunting elk.
Returning to King's prairie and the
Willamette valley after 17 days of
tramping, the Waldo party found the
people inclined to take the proverbial
grain of salt with that part of the
story concerning the existence of hot
springs in the Santiam country.
Before this time, my grandfather.
Captain David B. Smith, and Ephriam
Henness of King's prairie, had taken
a skiff up the North Santiam as far
as the glades, which they named In
dependence prairie.
On their return they - reported an
open pass through the mountains by
way or lnaependence Prairie, John
Minto of Salem at once enlisted the
interest of Henry States and together
they explored the pass through into
the pine belt. Thereafter John Minto's
purpose never wavered until he had
established the Minto trail through
the mountains to eastern Oregon. ,
DAVID. B. SMITH.
DARWINISM
MISREPRESENTED
Doctrine of Maii's Descent From Mon
keys Not TnuKbt, Says Writer.
PORTLAND,' April 28. (To the Ed
itor.) Every few years some one feels
called upon to air the orthodox repu
diation of what is generally termed
"Darwinian theory" without taking
the pains to find out what Darwin's
theory really was. The latest effort
comes from W. J. Bryan, who, like all
the rest, feels solicitude for his an
cestry and does not want to believe
that he "descended" from monkeys.
Darwin wrote for thoughtful people
and whoever reads his "Origin of
Species" or "Descent of Man" with
the intention of finding out what he
actually taught will not fall into the
error for such it is of believing that
he formed any such conclusion.
A careful perusal of these works
cannot fail to impress one of Dar
w'n's absolute fairness and honesty
and, whatever one may think of his
conclusions, no one can fail to recog
nize the truth that he was a most
conscientious and painstaking col
lector of facts. This sterling quality
is what has attracted the scientific
wond to his work and won for him
the eternal admiration and gratitude
of all thinking -men.
All through Darwin's work one finds
ample proof that he held no such
theory as is so ignorantly urged
against him. On page 162 of the 1910
edition of "Origin of Species" he says:
The affinities of all beings of the same
class have sometimes been represented by
a great tree. The green and budding twigs
may represent existing species; and those
produced during former years may repre
sent the long succession of extinct species.
At each period of growth all the growing
twigs have tried-to branch out on all sides,
and to overtop and kill the surrounding
twigs and branches, in the same manner
as species and groups of species have at all
times overmastered other species in the
great battle for life. ... Of many
twigs which flourished when the tree was
a mere bush only two or three, now grown
into great branches, yet survive and bear
the other branches; so with the species
which lived during the long past geological
periods, very few have left living and mod
ified descendants.
On page 193 we find: "I look at all
species of the same genus as having
as certainly descended from a com
mon progenitor as have the two
sexes of any one species." Nowhere
in the work have I been able to find
anything that indicates the idea that
one branch of a tree is the progeni
tor, or has -descended from another. I
know two families of double cousins,
brothers having married sisters, yet
no one, although admitting the abso
lute identity of their blood or pro
geniture, would claim that either of
these cousins was the descendant of
the others. They and their descend
ants are merely the branches of the
tree.
Much of this misunderstanding
arises from those of Darwin's follow
ers who carelessly accept this "mon
key business" without trying to find
out what he really taught, just as
many a worthy cause has been dis
credited by its indiscreet "friends."
Read Darwin with the same open
mind and fearless devotion to facts
and you can hardly reach any other
conclusion than that, here is truth.
Darwin, as I understand, was a de
vout man, certainly not an atheist,
and one reading his works with care
and discrimination need npt drop the
essential principles upon which the
modern creeds are founded.
T. S. WILKES.
THE WIND.
Wind, when thou blowest fierce and
strong.
Driving the sullen clouds along
Across the sky,
My timid soul in terror cowers
Before the grandeur of thy powers
A-rushing b.
When autumn
comes with falling
leaves.
Inside the chimney
'neath the eaves
I hear thee sigh.
Is it remorse that makes thee moan?
A sin, for which thou wouldst atone
Of days gone by?
But. oh, dear wind, I love thee best,
When, warm, thou comest from the
west.
And whispering low.
Weave softly through the lazy grass.
Telling the buds, as thou dost pass,
'Tis time to blow.
ANNIE M. REALS.
Corvallis, Or.
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
It was 13 years ago that T. W.
Russell left Portland for Los Angeles.
He returned yesterday for the first
time since his departure long ago.
Mr. Russell at one time was well
known here, for he founded the La
Grande creamery and operated it at
Third and Tamhill streets when no
one' thought of such a thing as a
public market. In those earlier days
Mr. Russell used to sell butter in
little earthen jars and after the but
ter was used the jar came In handy
for preserves, or salt or almost any
thing. Mr. Russell sold out and went
to -Los Angeles, where he has been
successful in the real estate business,
buying and selling houses, and has a
fine home on Peco street, about five
miles out. The reason Mr. Russell
is here now is to dispose of five
houses which he owns on the east
side and clean out his holdings in
this city. He observed yesterday that
Portland had greatly changed since
he lived here and there was a notable
absence of familiar faces.
Fossil' remains of a whale are being
excavated in the southeastern section
of Crook county, according to
stranger, who informed a group in
the Imperial lobby. In the past fossil
remains nf camels, rhinoceros, the
three-toed horse, elephJnts and other
land animals have been uncovered
and have found their way to mu
seums, but a fossil whale is some
thing new. Of course, as is generally
known, Oregon was once covered by a
sea and marine shells are round on
mountain tops in many parts of the
state, so there were probably whales
and other creatures of the deep pad
dling around what is now central
Oregon, these being subsequently fol
lewed by the camels, horses and rhi
noceros. The stranger said that the
whale is being taken from its bed by
an expedition from an eastern insti
tution. "It looks as though the controversy
over- the courthouses in Klamath
county will be settled," predicted
E. 'B. Hall, hotelman of Klamath
Falls, registered at the Imperial. Mr.
Hall is here to attend a meeting of
the state chamber of commerce.
The Main-street courthouse, under
the proposed arrangement, is to be
used as a county building wniie me
other courthouse can be used as a
high school. We need a new high
school and by using the courthouse
building for that purpose it will serve
valuable requirement. Mr. Man
says that Klamath Falls is tied up
by the strike among the mill workers.
The mills, which are largely respon
sible for prosperity in Klamath Falls,
have been virtually shut down by
the strike and the market is being
invaded by the product of California
lumber mills.
Among the local hotel fraternity
there is a candidate for political of
fice. Probably because he saw so
many politicians around the lobby he
caught the fever, but be that as it
may, A. H. Meyers, manager of the
Hotel Oregon, has become a full
fledged candidate. He aspires to the
position of precinct committeeman,
which is the lowest rung of the po
litical ladder. As there is another
candidate for the same place, the
campaign which Manager Meyers
makes will be watched "with Interest
by the other hotel men of the city.
By traveling only in daytime,
Monte M. Gwinn drove from San
Francisco to Portland in three days.
Mr. Gwinn reports that the roads are
in excellent condition. Throughout
Idaho and Oregon there is no one
better known in the sheep business
than Mr. Gwinn, whose headquarters
are at Boise. He has been an exten
sive operator for years and if he had
a dollar for every sheep that he has
bought or sold he would have to
build libraries or something to get
rid of it.
A group of eastern Oregon women
are at the Benson. They are Mrs.
N. R. Martin of Pendleton, Martha L.
McCully of La Grande, Katie J. Heyde
and Hester L. Nichols of Baker and
Hilda M. Mulcare of Canyon City.
Edward McCabe, who has a lumber
camn near Timber, Or., is at the
Perkins. Once upon a time the tallest
flae-Dole in America was at Timber,
but that was before the forest in that
section was wiped out.
F. G. Bruce of the Boise Stone com
pany is at the Multnomah. He is
here negotiating a deal for the use
of Idaho stone in some contemplated
local construction.
W. R. Lalond of Independence,
lumberman, came to Portland by
train, registered at the Hotel Port
land, went out and bought a six-cylinder
sedan and drove home in it.
Dan Moore, hotelman. is recovering
from an operation for mastoid, caused
by his attack of the influenza. Mr.
Moore is at the Portland Surgical
hospital.- . .
Having been in California for a
few weeks. G. Scott Anderson, mining
man and hardware dealer at Wallace,,
Idaho, is at the Hotel Portland on his
way home.
W. R. Putnam ot Boise is at the
Hotel Portland. He is the general
manager of the Idaho Power com
pany and has been in the city on
power matters.
Mrs. G. A. Bell, Dorothy Messinger
and W. S. Chinault of Hood River,
where Mrs. Bell's husband is in the
hotel business, are at the Multnomah.
E. S. Chadwick, the vice-president
and general manager of the Idaho
Life Insurance company, is among
the Hotel Portland arrivals.
Visiting- Nurses Association.
PORTLAND, April 28. (To the Edi
tor.) 1. Is the visiting nurse asso
ciation a charity? If it is not how
then would you classify such an or
ganization? . 2. What Is its main source of in
come? 3. What percentage of the total
costs of running this Institution is
paid bv the recipients of this benefit?
M. B. W. C.
1. Charity, but encourages those who
can pay to pay if only a few cents to
ward, the support of the organizaiton.
2. From community chest, about
$25,000; from city for tuberculous
work, 5000. . '
3. Very small percentage, at the
most not more than $600 a year. Most
of the patients are unable to pay any
thing. The association will be glad to
answer all questions if you care to
call upon them at their office, 1004
Spalding building.
Value of Indian Rupees.
PORTLAND, April 28. (To the Edi
tor.) I want to subscribe for a paper
published in Bombay, India. The sub
scription price as published in the pa
per is as follows: Terms for the Ex
aminei -. Indian Post, Rs. 8. Foreign
Post, Rs. 9. in advance. Back num
bers 3 Annas. Address: trjuitor or
Manager), Examiner Press, Fort.
Bombay. Can you translate this into
our money. E. T. O.
Rupees'are quoted at $28.10 per
An anna is 1-16 of a rupee.
100.
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. Montacae.
WHAT'S THE I'SEf
It was the man of science.
Who to the flapper said.
"I see a trace upon your face
Of arsenate of lead.
My duty is to warn you
That, if you don't eschew
The powder rag, you'll be & hag
Before you're forty-two!
"A'nd as for pamt. It's poison;
That lovely shade of pink
You dab in streaks across your
cheeks, -
Is carbureted zinc.
It ruins the complexion.
And kills the appetite;
At forty-three you're bound to be
A most appalling sight."
It was the placid flapper
Who heard the words we quote.
And went ahead and powdered lead
Upon her face and throat.
And also daily tinted
Her full and rounded cheeks.
A lovely pink with gobs of zinc.
In undulating streaks.
For flappers are but flappers.
And that's the reason why
They take advice with looks of ice.
And scorn to make reply.
And if they're old and ugly,
- When they are forty-two.
They'll slap on paint without re
straint The way their mothers do.
Absolutely Necessary.
In answer to a correspondent who
wants to know the reasons for frosts
in May.-we reply that this is the only
means of insuring the failure of the
Delaware peach crop.
Ineffective.
Despite Mr. Bryan's instructions,
evolution Is still going on.
Class Will Tell.
Wages are still ahead in the down
hill race with the cost of living.
(Copyright by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.)
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hongfc ton-Miff Itn Co.
Can Von Answer These Qnestlonsf
1. What sort of nest does the crow
use, and what do its eggs look like?
2. How can a lizard shed its tail?
3. How does the caterpillar of the
black swallowtail butterfly escape
being eaten by birds?
Answers in tomorrow's Nature
Notes.
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Answers to Previous Questions.
1. How do shrikes kill their prey?
They have strong muscles in the
head and neck, and are said to grab
the victim with a powerful nip of the
stout bill, by the neck, pinching the
latter until breath iR shut off and the
prey strangled. They use the bill,
not the feet, to tear their food, con
trary to the custom of the regular
bird of prey, which has talons for
tearing up its victim.
.
2. Why do some oaKs have acorns
on them all winter, while others do
not?
There may be several explanations.
The tree may be too young to hear
acorns. It is more likely the acorn
less specimens belong to the white-
oak group, whose acorns ripen in one
year and fall. This kind is sweet
flavor. The black-oak group takes
two years to mature acorns, so the
latter are on the tree the first winter.
They are bitter.
3. Are the young of pronghorn an
telope spotted? I have lived around
these animals for 16 years, but now I
want some information, can't find it
in books available.
The young, usually two, are borh
In May or early June, in secret places
where the mothers hide. The fawns
are plain dun color, like tiny repro
ductions of the mother. Ingersoll's
Life of Animals: Mammals, and the
Riverside Natural History, both take
up this point; also about structure
of horns.
In Other Days.
Twenty-five Tears Ann.
From The Oregonian of April 29. 1807.
Guthrie, O. T. The Canadian val
ley is completely inundated by a dev
astating flood which swept over Ok
lahoma, drowning and killing hun
dreds of persons.
Constantinople. Great Britain, Rus
sia and France having officially no
tified the Turkish government that
they will protect the Greeks in Tur
key. '
Coroner Koehler yesterday sum
moned a jury to determine the cause
of the street car accident on East
Morrison street in which three were
killed when the car went Into the
slough.
An eavesdropper fell through ths
ceiling over Turn Verein hall during
the course of a meeting last night and
caused a panic
Fifty Years Aa-o.
From The Oregonian of April 29, 1872.
Chicago. The presidential nomina
tions at the Cincinnati convention are
privately reported to be narrowed
down to Adams and Davis, with Davis
almost certain of nomination.
Colonel Chapman will return from
Washington within a few days with
plans for the bridge across the Wil
lamete, approved by the secretary of
state, and with assurance that it will
be rushed to completion.
A party of surveys are locating the
line of the Oregon Central railroad
across the Tamhill river.
New gates have been swung at each
end of the Stark-street ferryboat to
eliminate the danger ot teams back
ing off into the river.
Stars in Daytime.
PORTLAND, April 28. (To the Ed
itor.; 1. Is the north star directly
in the north?
2. Is it visible in the daytime?
3. - Is the-group of stars called the
"big dipper" visible from here, say at
12 noon?
I mean, would they be visible with
out aid of telescope, the same as at
night? 33d DEGREE.
1. No. It is about lhi degrees from
the pole. It Is generally moving
nearer, owing to- the motion of the
polo of the heavens around the pole
of the ecliptic. It is expected that
w'thin the next few centuries It will
gradually approach to a distance of
one-half degree of the pole and then
recede.
2. No.
4. The big dipper or great bear Is
visible at 12 noon only by the aid of
a telescope.
How it Ts in Berlin.
s Exchange.
"That's Herr Glantzmuller. Made
a colossal fortune in marks this year."
"Ach. so! Speculation?"
. "No, he. controls the paper trust."
Fairy Lore
Is Surpassed by
The Sunday Oregonian's
New
Invisible Color Book
All the kiddies are delighted
with this new addition to the
Sunday paper. Just brush the
picture with a moist brush er a
ball of cotton and see the hid
den colors come out like magic.
Final Design for
Roosevelt Statue
President Harding: to attend
ceremony to be held here dur
ing; summer. The Sunday
paper has a large colored illus
tration of the final model just
completed.
Intimate Incidents
From Grant's Life
Story in tomorrow's paper
gives anecdotes and stories of
the life of the great leader as
related to a friend by the late
George H. Williams.
Another of Lady
Asquith's Articles
The famous Englishwoman
gives more of her impressions
gained during her trip through
this country.
In the Magazine
When Mixed Juries
Are Locked Up
How the need of a new code of
etiquette to supplement court
room procedure has grown out
of "equal wrongs for women."
Does a Countess
Mend Your Clothes?
These are parlous times for
noblemen. One czar's favorite
is now a public singer and a
princess came as a stowaway.
Another Fiction Feature
Hitherto Unpublished
"Sister Anne," by Henry
Kitchell Webster, tells what
happens sometimes when one
sister tries to vamp another's
husband.
Soldiers of War
Prepare for Peace
Six thousand Oregon men in
jured or handicapped in army
being fitted to cope with life.
Moonshiners Lured
by Commercialism
Dollars and cents behind war
fare in southern mountains
romance has waned.
Would Give Hearts
But Keep Names
Brides prepare for nation-wide
organization to reject prefix
"Mrs."
"Spring in
the Air"
Another of those delightful
series of Hill's cartoons
"Among Us Mortals."
Other Features
A'etv Bust of
General Grant
Work is unveiled in the hall of
fame for great Americans at
New York university.
New Church
Is Dedicated
Portland council of churches
announces series of confer
ences. All the church news on
the church page.
Lamp Is New Radio
Receiving Source
New invention of army man
told of in radio department, to
gether with other wireless gos
sip and doings.
"Married Life of
Helen and Warren"
How a day of polite effusions
over a country home leaves
both exhausted.
Cactus Dahlias
Are Popular
Tips of planting various kinds
of dahlias given in the garden
department of the Sunday
paper.
Dope on the Games
For the Baseball Fan
Box scores of all the big games,
together with stories on the
Pacific Coast league, in the
sporting department.
Moving Pictures
Coming Back
Magnate says the cinema busi
ness is due for a revival. All
the late gossip on the movies.
Many Other Features
Are to Be Found
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