THE MOEXIXG OREGOXIAN. TUESDAY. MAY 0. 1922
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EVILS EXCHANGED FOR EVILS.
When the people of Oregon voted
to adopt the direct primary method
f nominating: party candidates, they
did not intend to abolish the repre
sentative system in conducting; party
affairs. If that had been their in
tention, they would have gone on to
abolish the legislature and they would
have joined other states in propos
ing to abolish congress, for both are
representative bodies. They became
so incensed at certain evils that had
grown up in the convention system
of nominations lhat in their haste to
cure those evils they swept away
that system itself, because the evils
had made conventions unrepresent
ative. The evils were not the product of
the convention, but of the manner in
which delegates had been elected.
Parties were regarded as voluntary
associations cf citizens." free to con
duct their affairs in their own way.
Their customs grew up before the
secret ballot was adopted, so they
had open voting for delegates. The
men who kept the organization go
ing naturally had much influence
and took control of primaries and
precinct caucuses, naming the men
who should conduct the voting and
count the votes. If the rank and file,
which paid little attention to politics
between elections, wanted other
delegates and other candidates than
those favored by the men in control
of the organization, they found them
selves at a disadvantage. Election
boards uncontrolled by law but con
trolled by the organization could
count out their men. Bribery and
intimidation wore often practiced,
being promoted by open voting. Al
most a small revolution was neces
sary to elect delegates against the
will of the men composing the or
ganization. Discouraged by failure
and disgusted with the methods that
prevailed, a steadily growing num
ber of citizens withdrew from parti
cipation in party affairs, and these
were left to the organization, leaders
of which often degenerated into
bosses.
These evils were the result of the
manner in which conventions were
constituted. Great reform in general
elections was effected by the secret
ballot, and it suggested the means of
improving methods of nomination.
In 1901 a law was passed establish
ing methods of conducting party pri
maries for election 6f delegates to
conventions. Voting was secret, and
election boards were appointed by the
city or county, were sworn officers
of the law and were amenable to the
law for acts of bribery, fraud or
other misdeeds. The pimaries in
Portland of 1902 and 1904 were held
under that law, and they resulted in
genuinely representative conventions.
But in 1904 the people were stam
peded into adoption of the primary
for direct nomination of candidates
as distinguished from the primary
for election of delegates to a nomi
nating convention. Not content with
reforming conventions, the people
abolished them.
That the present system has pro
duced new evils no less than those
which accompanied the convention
system is now generally agreed.
There are undisputed merits in a di
rect primary conducted under legal
safeguards. Conventions preseve to
paties the representative principle
which is the foundation of our form
of government. The problem is to
avoid both the evils which formerly
existed in the convention system and
those which are now recognized as
inherent in the primary system as
now established by law, while restor
ing representative government in
party affairs. This can be accom
plished by repealing the present ban
on party conventions and the pro
visions for direct nominations except
when one candidate has a majority
of all votes, and by then applying
the primary system to election of
delegates to conventions.
By reviving the representative sys
tem in nominating candidates and
officers of parties and in adopting
platforms, we should restore party
integrity and the responsibility of
parties for the candidates they name
and for the conduct of officials
elected by their efforts. With these
principles we should restore reason
able discipline in parties, the lack of
which is apparent in congress.
The statement of President Smith
of Berea college. Kentucky, that the
principal cause of poverty and crime
among the mountaineers is isola
tion can be taken with reserve as
to crime, in view of te historical
fact that the period of minimum
crime in Oregon was coincident with
the time when it was most com
pletely cut off from the outer world,
but it will hardly .be gainsaid that
isolation tends to foster poverty
under modern conditions. The people
whom Berea is trying to teach are
handicapped by their archaic meth
ods of production, they are unable to
compete with communities with
whom they ought to be in a position
to exchange goods, and by compari
son with others they are desperately
poor, though they may not be worse !
off than the average American was.
st after the revolution. The appeal
Berea's president is a reminder
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J THE OVLT WAY.
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fire fighting is one thing that
doe3 not lend Uself t the referen.
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, dum. It is utterly impracticable- for
j firemen to meet while a building
how best to subdue the flames. There
.IS.oojis only one practicable way to con-
j duct a fire department and that is
his confidence by extending the au-
; trouble brewers. i
! We are confident that the well-be
ing of the fire department has been
promoted. There will, or should be,
less running to the commissioner
with complaints that ought to be
dealt with by the fire chief. The au
thority of the chief is made broader
and more secure; his responsibility
more definite. It is up to him to
maintain the efficiency of both fire
department and fire prevention bu
reau so far as intelligent direction by
himself and insistence on willingness
and obedience by those under him
can do it. Chief Young, is respon
sible to Commissioner Bigelow in
these particulars and Commissioner
Bigelow is responsible to the people
for the efficiency of Chief Young. It
is the only way in which the depart
ment can be successfully conducted.
.4KIS OF LONG AGO.
A lesson not commonly taught by
modern science is that notwithstand
ing our acquisition of new7 arts and
crafts and our constantly increasing
knowledge of natural phenomena
there arc still a number of secrets
that were held by the ancients that it
is beyond the capacity of modern
men to solve. The recent addition to
a London museum of a gruesome
specimen of the work of cmbalmers
who labored some hundreds if not
thousands of years ago is a reminder
that a good deal of the artisanship
of so-called primitive peoples is still
unapproachable and that many of
the processes which were compara
tively common then are now not only
unknown but undiscoverable.
The specimen in question is a
human head from Ecuador, which
scientists have pronounced genuine,
which has been reduced to the size
of a small orange and notwithstand
ing its shrinkage has retained its
original form practically in perfec
tion. It is insufficiently accounted
for by reference to the mummifying
art of the Egyptians, whose civiliza
tion was probably far in advance of
any that the ancient people of the
western continent attained, but it is a
reminder that another of the col
lateral arts of Egypt has never been
rediscovered. Another British mu
seum has acquired a wrapping from
a mummy believed to be 6000 years
old which consists of a linen of such
exquisite fineness that the most deli
cate fabric that Belfast can produce
is coarse by comparison.
The famous Portland vase, the
bronze Mercury of Epirus and other
ancient works of craftsmanship are
but of two of many others which
serve a high moral purpose as a
check upon the cocksureness of the
present age. For that matter, the
secret of the construction of the
pyramids is as deeply hidden as it
ever was. The cubic contents of the
greatest of the pyramids is equal to
7.000,000 tons, sufficient to build a
city of 22,000 houses of ordinary
size. But the method by which the
materials of the pyramids were trans
ported, and in particular the founda
tion stones, which are thirty feet
long and five feet high and five feet
wide, in a time when modern power
facilities were unknown, is as far
from being understood as it was
when research first began.
In our own country the secrets of
the artisanship of the mound build
ers, who are not known to have had
blast furnaces but who fabricated
metal objects which required enor
mously intense heat to reduce the
metals of which they were made, still
defy detection. These present an al
most exact parallel to certain Roman
bronzes found in England, which
were made in a period when charcoal
is believed to have been the only fuel
known by the people. The recent re
viva! of antiquarian research prom
ises to unearth a specimen of a lost
art to match each new discovery of
the present age.
THE NEW
WATCH DOG
TREASVRY.
OF THE
Director Dawes has neatly turned
an attempt to deprive the adminis
tration of credit for any economy
under the budget system against the
man who made it.
When the budget bureau asked for
deficiency appropriations of over
$1S0,000,000 Representative Byrns, a
democrat, offered a resolution stat
ing that President Harding claimed
to have saved $136,000,000, asking
why this saving could not be trans
ferred to meet the deficiencies, and
requesting the president to tell how
the savings had been made.
General Dawes, replying to the
president's request for this informa
tion, shows that during the present
fiscal year savings on expenditure
over which the president has control
will exceed a quarter of a billion dol
lars. Down to March 31 the depart
ments had saved by reserve from
their appropriations almost $136,
OfO.OOO, but he shows that this sum
is not available for expenditure
under new deficiencies appropria
tions, for money not spent is not nec
essarily in hand. shows that a
large proportion of the deficiency
appropriations consists of sums cut
out of the budget bureau's estimates
which congress afterward found nec
essary, while congress also made
further large appropriations in ex
cess of budget estimates. He thus
reduces the amount by which defi
ciency appropriations may possibly
exceed the nuaget estimates made
last December to a little over $43.
000,000, which Is "more than off
set by reductions in expenditures
under other appropriations."
Any question as to the reality of
the effort to save money is answ-ered
by the detailed statement of the sum
i which each department undertook to
I save. They agreed to reserve sums
,..nl Hlfl ;H B9f o n A Hurmir
I nnsa! nf the rfenji rt m en t until the end
of the year, when the balance re
maining, which may be still larger,
will leave the treasury so much
richer than it would otherwise have
been.
Illustrating the economy effected
by close co-ordination between de
partments is a detailed statement of
supplies purchased by one depart
! ment from another which would
have been bought in the open market
under the former practice of con
ducting each department as a dis
tinct business organization. For ex
ample, the emeregncy fleet corpor
ation sold a great variety of goods to
all branches of the government. If
sold to the public at forced sale these
goods would have brought $216,742,
so they were sold at that valuation.
If purchased in the open market at
their fair value, they would have cost
8492,596. Thus the departments
, which bought them saved J275.S54
and the fleet corporation lost noth
ing. The total of economies thus ef
fected runs into many millions.
The budget bureau has been in op
eration less than a year and it could
only influence expenditures for the
fiscal year ending June 30 after ap
propriations had been made. What
it has done is a foretaste of what it
will do in holding down expense
from th; initiation of estimates on
ward. It is the watchdog of the
treasury.
NEED OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION,
Few will dispute the statement
made by ex-Governor Brumbaugh of
Pennsylvania, m a recent number of
World's Work, that there is a gen
era! relationship between physical
and mental efficiency. This is likeiy
to be proved true by wide observa
tion, notwithstanding that some ex
ceptional individuals have performed
remarkable intellectual feats under
the handicap of partial or complete
invalidism. Mr. Brumbaugh, who is
by profession an educator and who is
writing in support of the federal
measure to aid the states in promot
ing physical training in the schools,
believes that the value of the system
has been sufficiently demonstrated
by results which he observed while
superintendent of schools of Phila
delphia. "Here," he says, "during the
first year in which it was adopted, I
an increase of 9 per cent in the in
tellectual average of 230,000 children
was reported."
This is easily credible, nor does the
thought that already there are a
superfluity of federal agencies en
gaged in supervising activities that
formerly were left to private indi
viduals and more recently have been
regarded as functions of the states
make it less true that both individu
als and the states have failed to ob
tain the results that advocates of the
system believe would flow from fed
eral direction and co-operation. The
draft board statistics of the late war
showed an unexpectedly low state of
physical efficiency for the country as
a whole, a condition that was all the
more surprising because Americans
had always plumed themselves on
being more than commonly fit. It
was the draft that gave new impetus
to the movement for physical train
ing in the schools, by showing that
some millions of young men are
growing up in ignorance of the laws
of hygiene. The people of the United
States are only partly committed to
healthful outdoor sports; larger num
bers neglect t6 take proper exercise
and a large proportion are the vic
tims of minor disabilities which
could be easily removed if they were
known.
As Mr. Brumbaugh points out,
physical education as it is understood
today is not a mere dumb-bell drill,
nor Is it a process for training pro
fessional gymnasts or strong men.
Its primary purpose is to give nor
mal children the sort of training that
will enable them to avoid the acqui
sition of physical defects. Definite
recognition that provision of abun
dant opportunity for wholesome rec
reation under proper supervision
may be an effective counteractant of
juvenile delinquency also has in
creased the interest of humanitarians
in this aspect of the question. The
system which its advocates hope to
establish, however, is somewhat
more comprehensive than a mere
programme of sports or play would
be. It would include education con
cerning the growth and use of the
body and in right habits of eating,
sleeping, clothing and personal sani
tation. These purposes are set forth
in detail in biils now pending in con
gress. "The modern tendency," says
Mr. Brumbaufh, "is not to give this
instruction in the dry method of the
old-time physiology, with emphasis
upon learning the number of bones
in the body, the course of the circu
lation and similar lessons. Children
are taught nowadays that a lunch
composed of baked beans, milk and
cheese does not furnish a well-balanced
diet. . . . The plan of ad
ministration proposed in the physical
education bill before congress rec
ognizes the responsibility of each
state to administer the programme,
but provides that the educational and
health agencies of the federal gov
ernment shall co-operate with the
states."
The proposed measure is interest
ing, too, because it is the first ex
ample of two government bureaus
attempting to co-ordinate their ac
tivities for the public benefit. It
also in all probability embodies the
idea that if th? states do not act on
their own account the federal gov
ernment will be even more strongly
urged to do so. Mr. Brumbaugh says
that only thirteen of the states now
require and promote physical educa
tion, that only eight have compul
sory education and that five have
pnysical education laws which are as
yet only slightly effective. Twenty
eight of the forty-eight states have
laws which in some degree relate to
the subject, but many of them take
little practical interest in the sub
ject. Twenty states have no physical
education laws of any kind.
Universal recognition by the col
leges of the necessity for establish
ing physical as well as mental stand
ards, and for the promotion either of
athletic or collegiate sports in some
form, has been arrived at by the
same process which has now induced
educators to take up the problem for
the schoolsas a whole.
The large
body of young men and women who
do not reach college in all probabil
ity require physical training as much
as those who do. There is evidence
in any event of widespread desire to
apply the lesson of the war to the
uses of peace. The tragedy in the
disclosure that more than one-third ;
I 01 me jounj men summouea uy me
I drait were pnysicany unm ior ser
vice was only half told by those fig
ures. Mr. Brumbaugh draws an
ven more thought-provoking con
clusion in the statement that "in our
lack of physical fitness we were
equally unprepared for the peace
that we sought so long to retain."
j PLAX TO ABSORB IMMIGRANTS.
t The feature of the immigration
I bill introduced by Senator Shortridge
! which will commend it to most peo
ple is that it requires immigrants
themselves to provide funds with
which to defray the cost of their in
struction as preparation for citizen
ship. The bill contains much more,
for it is a general codification of the
immigration laws and it removes
several serious defects and anachron
isms. The senator proposes that each
alien be required to enroll and pay
a fee of $24 a year, these funds to go
into a special state school fund for
establishment and maintenance of
citizenship- schools. The naturaliza
tion bureau, which he would change
to the bureau of citjzenship, would
prepare text books, to be supplied
free, and the courses would consist of
American history, American civics
and the common school branches.
Attendance would not be compul
sory, but it would be difficult to ob
tain citizenship without the instruc
tion thus provided and as soon as an
immigrant became a citizen he
would cease to pay the fee. An ap
plicant for citizenship would be re
quired not merely to speak English,
as under the present law, but to
"speak, read and write the English
language upderstandingly." He must
also have greater knowledge of
American history and form of gov
ernment than is at present de
manded. Minors between 18 and 21
must enroll and pay a fee of $10 a
year. Wives might be registered by
their husbands, but would pay no
fee unless gainfully employed.
Regulation of immigration at the
source is proposed by a provision
that immigrants register with the
American consul abroad before start
ing and to state their destination in
this country. The registrar in that
city would be notified of their ar
rival and would demand that they
register.
The citizenship law would be
brought into harmony with the new
status of women by doing away with
the present law which gives auto
matic citizenship to women whose
husbands become naturalized, but it
permits an American woman who
marries an alien to retain her citi
zenship. Children born abroad to an
American woman may secure citi
zenship by registering at an Ameri
can consulate on reaching the age
of 21.
A complete census of aliens resi
dent in the United States would re
sult from this bill. It should prove
an effective means of moral compul
sion to qualify for citizenship by
educa'tion and then to become natur
alized, especially as the penalty for
refusal to enroll is deportation or an
additional fee of $2 for each month
of delinquency. Education is the
best solvent for undigested masses of
.alien population. A foreigner ignor
ant of the language of the country is
naturally reluctant to wander from
settlements of his own people, but
when he has learned English he is
apt to overcome this feeling, to ven
ture forth, mingle with the general
population and thus acquire Ameri
canism by association as well as
from schools. The annual tJx will
goad him to qualify for citizenship,
both by its exaction and by the an
nual reminder that he is a stranger
in a strange land, but has the oppor
tunity of escaping the tax and be
coming a citizen in one act.
The body proud to call itself the
"Klick" is typically democratic in its
estimation of women. Despite the
law of it, the members do not give
womah the right of candidacy. Its
antipathy toward medical men is
temporary under pactional defeat;
but women make them stay at home
and cook and raise babies. Yet just
before election day they will shout
for help of the woman voter typi
cally democratic in that, too.
A prominent Portland man uses a
most fitting term for plan or project
in which he has little or no faith -"a
great bunko game." That might
be applied to the tender solicitude
for the welfare of the state mani
fested by democratic newspapers
when they refer to an incumbent
seeking renomination in a republican
primary. Know-any?
Polygamous-minded men may find
comfort in the statement of the
psycho-analyst that a man can love
two women at the same time; but if
they try it they better would hide
the" fact of either woman from the
other.
Some genius has devised a means
of sending pictures by radio. Never
theless it will be a good many cen
turies before other folks can enjoy
the scenery of the Columbia river
highway without coming to see it.
There are Portland people who
have been "going" to Al G. Barnes"
circus since his first trip this way
with the delightful little dog and
pony show and the older they get the
worse the habit.
So many mothers find it necessary
to bring the babes in arms to town to
see the parade that the Order of
Grandpas taken to the show by little
fellows is being backnumbered.
"Scientists to seek Nebraska fos
sils," said a headline. Why waste the
time of the expedition in Nebraska
when exhibit A has migrated to
Florida!
Another man with defective hear
ing has been killed by a fast train.
Despite example, men with this af
fliction are most obstinate to warn
ing:. The guards in charge of Abe
Evans, due for the gallows, display
a pernicious activity in preventing
Abe's premature departure.
"When radio develops visual as well
as present aural possibilities the
circus will have charms for the bed
ridden. Among other evidences of increas
ing prosperity, the bootleggers ail re
port that business is picking up.
Auto-suggestion
to most persons
means a hin
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1923 niodeL
The Listening Post.
By DeWitt Harry.
o
X CIRCUS day big cities seem to
relax and step back to their
childish days. The glamor of the
metropolis the hurry and bustle is
hushed while the population throws
off years and takes on childish roles
once more. Stenos and clerks cluster
in the windows, messenger boys for
get their errands, staid business men
get as close to the parades as they
can and help children to the best
places. Hard-faced old bankers have
even been known to listen to the
ballyhoo tones of the calliope during
the course of their arguments over
the renewal of a note.
From miles around the suburban
dwellers flock in. It's something like
"fair day" in some ways. Bright
dashes of color betray the Indian
strain in some of them. Yesterday
one woman walked down Broadway
garbed in a loose-belted cerise gown
girdled with a wide gold embroidered
belt and a brilliant crimson cloak
flying with the winds. Her costume
was crowned by one of the reddest
turbans that ever invaded the city
and right in the center of the hat,
giving a real barbarous note to the
getup, was a huge crescent with a
large brilliant. (Some description for
mere man.)
Yet, at that, she did not have any
thing on the old gent of abotrt 60,
soft, furry, cream-toned hat cocked
at a jaunty angle, long cigarette
hclderheld with a rakish droop, cham
ois gloves with wide black stitching,
tan button shoes, white spats and a
lavender colored suit and yellow tie.
The woman could be spotted for a
stranger, the man for a regular, both
types and oddities proving that the
sights are not all in the country or
vice versa.
A correspondent in a local weekly
takes Julius Meier severely to task
for an alleged intent to import a cou
ple of pagodas. After rehearsing the
sad history of the Scotch broom and
the hold it has obtained on the coast
tine about Coos county, the writer
goes on to arraign the public-spirited
resident of the state who brought
in the first sparrow and to scorify the
importer of the dandelion. Recalling
the experience that Oregon has had
with these other innovations, this
alarmed resident visualizes a state 20
years hence covered with pagodas. It
serves to once again bring to mind
the resolution offered in the city of
New York council by one of the ward
representatives some years ago. This
alert representative took exception
to a series of appropriations for gon
dolas for Central park and suggested
'that a male and female gondola be
purchased, let nature take its course
and stop this waste of the people's
money."
"I met with a peculiar kind of citi
zen yesterday," writes Charles O. Ol
sen of Oswego, "and the experience
moved me to the picturing of an ex
tinct (almost) species of bird that
used to infest the jungles of Oregon
in the old days.
The Side-Hill Chaw.
"The darnedest bird I ever saw
Was a bird they called the side-hill
chaw;
It hadn't a wing and it didn't sing.
And it couldn't walk straight it
walked in a ring
'Round and 'round the same mountain
top,
With the funniest kind of a foolish
hop
That made me laugh though I ought
to have cried
For the leg it had on the downhill
side
Was twice as long as its uphill mate,
Which gave it a rollicking, comical
gait.
"P. S. It must have been tough to
be born that way
To hop round in a ring till your dying
day.
And never be able to turn at all,
'Cause if you did, you'd surely fall,
'Count of the way your legs were
made
To fit the slant of a side-hill grade."
CHARLES O. OLSEN.
One circus incident that will stand
out occurrred Sunday as the show
moved on the lot when a certain busi
ness man escorted three of his neigh
borhood children to see the sights.
Nearby was a poor old horse, one that
had evidently seen many a better day.
The old fellow was peacefully crop
ping grass and could hardly stand up.
he was so weak.
"What's that horse for?" came the
first childish inquiry.
"Lion feed," the heartless human
brute assured the children. "They
have to have fresh meat for the lions,
so they feed them old horses like that
one."
If ever a man was scorched by the
fire of youthful scorn this one should
have been. Of all the indignation in
the world it would be difficult to im
agine stronger or more vitriolic stutf
than that the children looked and
voiced. The kids trembled in fear at
the mention of the lions and other
savage beasts, but they just could not
make themselves believe that men
would be so cruel as to feed a nice old
horse like that to lions. While the
statement was likely a little exag
gerated, the fact exists that lions do
get meat and that some animal has
to furnish the necessary food.
Intense rivalry exists between
fraternal organizations that have
adopted animals for trade-marks. A
couple of weeks ago one of these so
cieties began to raffle off an automo
bile on the streets, selling chances
by means of uniformed members of
their drill team, both male and
female. Not to be outdone in this
firce competition the opponents have
now made their appearance in a
similar role. It might be said thfl
they saw the first, bunch and went
them one better, raised the ante, for
the second car seems to have much
more red paint and wire wheels and
all that stuff, while the first one was
just an ordinary car.
Mrs. Jared Moore of Seaside went
out on the beach to search for clams,
according to the Signal. She noticed
a silver gleam in the surf and on
investigation found a big Chinook
salmon floundering in the shallow
water. "With her clam shovel she
managed to push the fish up high
I and dry and when she got it home
jit weighed 18 pounds.
Those Who Come and Go.
Talcs of Folks at the Hotel.
No wonder Editor George K. Aiken
of the Argus at Ontario, Or., is wear
ing a smile. Conditions in Malheur
county are so improved that the
newspaper publisher is happy. "There
will be a 2,000.000-pound wool clip in
Malheur county this year," says Mr.
Aiken, who is in Portland, "and it is
practically all sold now at prices
ranging from 30 cents to 35 cents,
which means more than $600,000 in
the county. We will ship 1500 car
loads of spuds and a few hundred
carloads of lettuce. And then there is
the lamb situation. February and
March lambs in Malheur are selling
at 10 cents a pound for June delivery
and the buyers are not cutting, but
taking everything, in Harney county
the lambs are selling at 9 cents a
pound for September delivery and no
cutting. There is no hay left, all
having been consumed during the
winter. Bankers and stockmen say
that hay will be bringing $10 a ton,
and be hard to get at that. The al
falfa farmers in our section will not
raise much hay. as the weevil has
been doing damage, just as it has
been in parts of Idaho. Over in
southern Idaho 70 per cent of the
wool has been contracted for at
prices running from 27 cents to 33
cents."
Road matters are moving along in
Malheur county, according to Gilbert
W. Dean, one of the commissioners
of that county, who is here to attend
the state highway commission today.
The market road into Jordan valley is
being pushed as fast as possible. Two
miles of road are under contract and
bids are now asked for six more miles
and a survey is planned from the
point where the work stopped last
year to the end of the road. When
this road is finished it will keep
much of the trade of Jordan valley
in Oregon which now goes t Idaho.
Mr. Dean is here to ask the highway
commission for work between Vale
and Ontario and to finish the John
Day highway in Malheur county from
Unity to Cow valley, which will wind
up that highway. The commission
will also be requested to survey and
locate the section of the Central Ore
gon highway between Burr ell ranch
and Harper. Malheur county has
some rnOney to spend on this high
way, but does not want to use the
funds until the commission has des-i
ignated the proper place to spend it.
Hopping between Medford and
Camas valley, William Stone has
been very busy of late. He hurried
into Pftrtland yesterday and began
preparing to bid on some of the road
work to be let by the highway com
mission today. Mr. Stone has the
contract for SJ miles from Medford
toward Eagle Point, on the Crater
Lake road, and will be running gravel
next week. Two miles of the job are
now graded. On the Camas mountain
job, a section of the Coos Bay-Rose-hurg
highway. 6.6 milee of the clear
ing has been finished, with two milos
more to do. A mile and a half of
grading has been finished. Three
weeks ago there were seven inches of
snow on the mountain, and while the
weather is warmer now than it is in
Portland, the weather has held back
the work considerably.
Many have been the improvements
in the great packing houses where
hams are prepared for, the market.
Wonderful machinery has been in
vented to take the place of laborers,
but the hickory stick and sawdust
still give flavor and color to the ham
as in the days of old when early set
tlers jn New England discovered that
hickory wood supplied the flavor
when used in the smokehouse. J. H.
Deering, northwestern manager of
Morrell & Co. registered at the
Multnomah, says that is why his firm
is glad to get even hickory shavings
from mills where ax handles are
turned out in order to get the right
flavor. Sawdust from such mills need
never be dumped into the river or
used to make steam in boilers, as it
has a higher calling.
Mr. and Mrs. H. P. Wilson of Chi
cago, who are registered at the Mult
nomah, state that they are the first
touring party this season to come
over the northern route from the
.east by way of the Yellowstone trail
to Missoula, Mont. At the latter place
they detoured to Sand Point, Idaho,
as the pass over the mountains was
closed by snow. From Spokane to
Portland they found the roads in ex
cellent condition and made Portland
from Dayton, Wash., in one day. "This
is our seventh trip west by auto and
we find a big change in the roads
since our first trip," said Mr. Wilson.
"We are also converts to the closed
car and had more comfort in our
coupe this trip than we ever had in
a touring car."
"This is one of the finest times in
the year to travel," says Sidney
Steam, who is at the MuUnomah from
Cleveland, O., "and we have enjoyed
motoring from California over the
fine roads, and especially through
Oregon. It is a wonderful sight to
pass through. the valley around Med
ford and Ashland, as the orchards are
in bloom." Mr. Stearn is out on a
vacation trip and now that he has
caught trout in Oregon he is anxious
to try his luck for salmon at Oregon
City.
After a couple ot days in Portland
confabbing together and with friends,
Roy W. Ritner, president of the state
senate and,- by virtue of that office,
heir apparent to the -governor, and
Jay Upton, senator for a flock of
counties,- checked out of the Benson f
is a wheat grower of Umatilla county
and Mr. Upton, although a lawyer,
likes to refer to himself as a dairy
man. Carl A. Johnson of Bend is at the
Hotel Portland. There is no resident
of Bend who is not an optimist and a
firm believer in his town, which is
one reason why Bend has been mov
ing along rapidly and has made re
markable gains in population as com
pared with other Oregon communities.
Major and Mrs. Charles Steinhauser,
who have an apple orchard in upper
Hood river valley, are registered at
the Benson. The snow was so deep
this winter that it was an easy matter
to stand on the crust and prune the
fruit trees, said Major Steinhauser.
L. Li. Lewis, salesmanager for the
Booth-Kelly Lumber company at Eu
gene, is at the Hotel Portland.
J. D. Hoge, owner of the Hoge
building in Seatje, Wash., is among
the arrivals at the Benson.
Score One for KnglfMli.
Philippines Herald.
For the first time in the history of
the Philippines a political campaign
wil' be carried on in English this com
ing election'by Juan B. Alegre, who is
running for senator for the sixth dis
trict, comprising the Bikol province.
"I will make my appeal directly to
the people through the English lan
guage," Allegre stated yesterday to a
Herald representative. "I will de
liver all my speeches in English."
The reason why Allgre has decided
to use the English language In the
coming campaign is his belief that the
Bikol region has advanced so mucn in
public education that those who have
been educated in the public schools
will now control the political situa
tion of the district.
"I will cot .speak Bikol; neither
Spanish," Allegre continued. I have
told Governor wood about tnis ana
he was very much pleased with my
decision." i
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, Hons hton-Mlffll Co,
Can Yon Ansvrer T! e Questions?
1. How do toads drink?
2. Where did the potato come
from?
3. Why do roosters always crow
between 11 and 12 every night?
Answers in tomorrow's nature notes.
AnNwrrg to Previous Question.
1. At what season are young minks
oorn, ana is there more than one
litter.
In April, either in a burrow or hol
low of a ltg or stump. One litter.
Young are tiny, blind like kittens. In
captivity the litter has been known to
number as high as ten kits, but five
to six is the natural family.
2. Does the ostrich have any note?
Yes, a loud one, somewhat re
sembling the voice of the lion. In
spite of the fact that the ostrich has
an imperfectly developed syrinx, or
set of vocal rings. The explorer Liv
ingston noted that the voice of the
lion and that of the ostrich were
easily confused in the wilderness.
I have a fern which this winter has
been infested with a small black fly.
I find lots of little- white Insects in
the plate on which the fern stands.
What are they, and what is the rem
edy? Probably the "fly" is the winged
male of one of the aphids that infest
many indoor plants. The smaller
light-colored creatures may be the
grub or immature form that keeps
hatching out. Impossible to identify
without a specimen. A slow but good
way to treat is to use either soap
suds or nicotine solution, with a
camel's hair brush, and patiently
swab off the insects. Be sure to ex
amine the under sides of. the leaves.
LAW VIOLATIOV IS INDICATED
Mr, Fin I,. y Condemn Btilrk Stunt.
Manager Deniew . Chara;e.
JENNINGS LODGE. Or.. Mav 7.
(To the Editor.) 1 wish to nrntent 1
against the boasted and open viola
tion of the state highway laws as
published In the public press. On
May 2 Claude McGee, manager of the
Howard Auto company, accompanied
by Mrs. Z. Kathleen Ayres, drove a
F.uick coupe from San Francisco to
Portland in 22 hours and 43 minutes,
ending, as the article states, by "dash
ing up to the Howard Auto company
Quarters in Portland."
The account. If true, spread broad
cast through the country, states that
all records between San Francisco
and Portland were shattered. To any
one who has driven from San Fran
cisco to Portland, it will be easily
understood that In the brief period of
less than one day and one night all
records for the violation of state and
county laws, town and city ordinances,
have been smashed to smithereens. It
was one prolonged spree of crime,
menacing thousands of law-abiding
tourists and citizens from the Bay
City to Portland.
There is evidently a certain tendency
on the part of the Howard Auto
company handling Buick cars to en
courage open violation of state laws
in the hope of building up trade by
showing that a Buick is better than
a Franklin, Hudson or any other car.
If a Buick manager is allowed openly
to violate the highway laws, as is
self-evident, in going 724.1 in 22 hours
and 43 minutes, there Is no reason
why all salesmen should not be al
lowed to turn the public highways
into a speed course.
Why is it necessary for any auto
mobile company to countenance and
encourage the violation of trafffc
laws? The tendency to make speed
records on state and country roads
should be openly condemned because
it is a menace to public safety. Sup
pose the agent for the Winchester
Arms company should encourage his
salesmen to take a shot at some cit
izen in the hope of proving that his
is the best shooting rifle on the
market. Suppose tomorrow the agent
for the Remington should go out and
shoot a deer In violation of the state
law. It would not be countenanced by
either the public or any sportsmen's
organization. There are many organ
izations interested in the public wel
fare. There are many newspapers
and many other publications favor
able to "safety first" on the high
ways. There are many officers of
county and city government who are
hired to enforce the laws. If this pub
lic account of smashing the records
from San Francisco to Portland is
true, something should be done to
prevent another incident of this kind.
WILLIAM L. FIN LEY.
According to Mr. McGee, the car
did not travel at an excessive rate,
and he also insists that long-distance
records cannot be lowered ordinarily
by spurts of high speed. The record
was made by maintaining a consist
ent average speed, without stops, ex
cept fora few minutes each, for fuel
and oil. The average speed for this
trip was about 32 miltjs an hour.
California law permits 35, while ar
rests are not ordinarily made under
40 miles. It is asserted that the
record was broken by keeping con
stantly a pace no greater than the
average tourist travels part of the
time witliout molestation by traffic
officers.
PRIMARY FOR DKLKUATES ONLY
Regulation Woald Provide Against
Boss-Ruled Convention.
PORTLAND, May 8. (To the Edi
tor.) If we must have a primary
election let it be held for the pur
pose of electing delegates from each
precinct or other subdivision of the
state, to nominating conventions of
the parties wishing to participate.
Let these primaries be held under
sanction of law, duly guarded against
fraudulent voting such as is practiced
under the present primary system,
democrats and others falsely regis
tering as republicans, or vice versa.
Delegates elected at these primaries
would then represent their parties
and would make their nominations
with the certainty of condemnation
by the public at the polls If such
nominees were not fit and proper
men.
Should anybody be aggrieved at the
result of the conventions let the way
be made open for them to get upon
the ballot without the costly and
cumbersome method Indicated in your
editorial May 6.
Such a plan would provide against
a boss-ruled convention, and would
extinguish the unfit, self-seeking,
self-nominated candidates who ap
pear in every primary to the disgust
of the plain, ordinary voter.
J. W. CAMPBELL,
1B7S East Fifteenth Street.
H'hnt Her Home Locks.
Judge.
Small Mary returned again and
again to the swing on the public
playground. At last the supervisor
remarked:
"I guess you don't have a chance
to swing at home, do you, Mary?"
"Oh, yes! I have a chance, but I
haven't any swing."
Facta About a Position.
Judge.
"You said you'd never get on
water wagon
Gosh, man, I've got a job on It!"
More Truth Than Poetry.
By James J. MonUgs.
POPE WAS KK.HT.
We hold with Alexander Pop.
Who frequently expressed
The thought that man ha little hop
Of befng wholly blessed.
When we believe at last that all
Our wishes are fulfilled.
Mischance is certain to befall.
And lo, the beans are spilled.
I For instance, we have yearned to oB
And wear upon our tie
A rare and radiant precious stone
To catch the public's eye.
We meant to sport it on Broadway.
And fondly pictured how
The girls would gaxeit it and say,
"Ain't that the cat's me-ow?"
But years of poverty ensued
While all our earnings went
To meet the cost of clothes and food
And pay tbe monthly rent.
Our spirits fell with each advance.
Despair sat on our brow;
Alas, there seemed but little chance
To buy the bauble now!
Then lo! the cost of living fell,
A tidy sum we saved,
And hastened cityward pell-mell
To get the stone we craved.
We still are wearing sorrow's crown
And wormwood fills our cup.
While living costs were going down
The cost of stones went UP
Accounting for Absentees.
The reason that the Turks snd
Greeks were absent from Genoa wa
that they couldn't quite make up their
minds to Interrupt such an enjoyable
war.
Before It In Too Late.
Isn't It about time that the editors
and the flappers declared an armis
tice? Not Playing Fair.
Mr Hays says that the movies don't
want to reform the people, which Is
mean of them, considering the number
of people who want to reform the
movies.
Copyright by th Ball Syndicate, Ine
In Other Day.
Xwrnly-KIre Yrara A ,e.
From The Or.Konl.ii of May 0, 1tT.
The Umatilla reef llghtuhlp. No. 7,
waw launched from the way of Stef
fen'a yard yesterday afternoon.
Marcus Wolf was acquitted of ths
charee of arson yesterday morntnt;.
A mass meeting of wheelmen will
be held In the courthouse Tuesday
afternoon.
Athens. Greece Is evacuating the
Island of Crete: the Turks have en
tered and burned Velestluo.
flltf Years Abo.
From The Orcsonlan of May I). 1B72.
New York. The arrival of Immi
grants In New Tork since January 1
exceed by 20,000 those of last year.
Plank for the Wlllametts river
bridge were submitted to city council
yesterday by the officials of the
Portland. Dalles & Salt Uike Ilailruad
company.
Tngersol. Canada. Two men wers
burned to death and the entire busi
ness portion of the town destroyed
by fire last night.
Mexico City. Mexico. A hlh offi
cial snys: "It Is the universal opinion
that Diaz is dead, and that the report
of his being at sea with Callcas la
untrue."
HOW IMIIAVS OXCI TOOK MOtltT
nlls in Cunoe Pmlrilra Impnlrd I i.h.
Recalls Cnptnln V.rmy.
PASCO, Wash., May 7. (To the
Editor.) The Oregonian's editorial.
"Marvel of the Smelt," reminds me of
the first runs of smalt in the Cowlitz
river. The Indians drove sharp point
ed nails through thin paddles, and as
they forced their canoes upstream
through the school, or rather stream,
of smelt would soon fill their canoes
by shaking the smelt from tho nails
In their paddles.
I have not been on the Cowlitz for
many years, but understand that the
smelt runs on that river do not com
pare with the runs of tho '60s, when
steamboats did not run above Monti
cello or Freeport -they now run tc
Kelso. Did steamboats on the Cow
litz or log booms at its mouth check
its smelt runs? If so your Bandy
river runs are safe, as steamboats
cannot disturb them.
We used to know when the smelt
were in the Columbia by the number
of seagulls that followed the schools.
Another thought: Is there not a
danger of "overpopulation" of smelt
if their taking is restricted? Hun
dreds of millions of egs-s ar de
posited every year. Will the ftw
thousands of fish captured rellers a
congestion that would drive the smelt
to some other stream? You are In
error in saying the smelt Is properly
called a candle fish. The candle flsb
Is only taken In salt waters like
Puget sound, and takes its name
from the fact that when It Is dried lt
mouth opens wide and makes a base
to support the greasy bones that stand
upright. A lighten matcn touencu
to the tail of the dried fish makes a
perfect candle. Ths flesh of ths
candle fish is far Inferior to ths
smelt.
The Columbia seems to b tho only
river that has the two distinct varie
ties of the best of fish, salmon and
smelt.
The Yukon river salmon Is larger
and compares In flavor with our Co
lumbia river variety, but thers are
no smelt to compare with the genuine
Columbia river variety, which ssek
the Cowlitz. Kalama, Bandy and other
small streams every spring to spawn.
W. 1 . UKAX.
Date of Rerall Klectloa.
OREGON CITY. Or., May 7. (To ths
Editor.) (1) What are the Initials or
United States Senator McNary and
where would a letter reach him at
this time? How should It be sd-
dressed? (I) When does the public
vote to fill the offices of the public
service commissioners recently re
called and about when will tho re
sults be known? Also, when will ths
successful candidate actually take of
fice. Would thank you If you would
answer these questions in your Tues
day morning Issue. I remain yours
truly, C O. a
L Hon. Charles L McNary. senats
office building, Washington. D. C
2. The recall election is on the day
of the primaries. May 1. Tho result
will be known unofficially probably
the next day. Successful recall can
didates will take office as soon as
the result Is officially announced.
Skakrspeare Staa Clab.
PORTLAND, May f. (To the Edi
tor.) Kindly state where the Bhake
speare society or dramatic club In
Portland Is located.
A SUBSCRIBER.
The Portland Shakespeare Study
i club president. Mrs. R. E. Jones, Zt
Laurelhurst avenue. Tabor MM.