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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MAY 11, 1922 established BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. Published by The Oregonian Publishing Co 13o Sixth Street, Portland, Oregon. C. A. MOEDEN, E. B. PIPER, Manager. 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 tbe local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) Daily, Sunday included, one year $8.00 Dally, Sunday included, six months... 4.25 Dally, Sunday Included, three months. :.25 Daily, Sunday Included, one month.. .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months. . . 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month 60 Sunday, one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) Daily, Sunday Included, one year. . . . $9.00 Daily. 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WHO IS BTjNNINO PORTLAND t One question involved In the waterfront strike is a subject for in vestigation, not by a state board of conciliation, nor by a committee of citizens, nor by an agent of the ship ping board but for both investigation and action by the mayor of Portland and by the courts. That is the ques tion whether men who work ships on the terms offered by the steve dores and accepted by themselves are to be protected or are bands of strong-arm men, either members of or in sympathy with the longshore men's union, or I. W. W. disturbers not in sympathy with them, to be permitted to beat, maim and kidnap, and to do so with impunity. There is abundance of investiga tion of the merits of the controversy between the employers and the union. The state board of concilia tion has offered its services, but, be ing composed of a representative of the unions, a representative of the employers and a representative of the public who is a candidate for of fice, its services do not seem to be acceptable to both parties. A com mittee appointed by Mayor Baker Is also holding an inquiry. The ship ping board has proclaimed neutrality and is also holding an inquiry. But the reign of terror that exists on the water front is not a subject for con ciliation or inquiry. It is an ugly, ominous, notorious fact. No board or committee of impartial citizens can conciliate the sluggers, for their only terms are unconditional surrender to force. The only appropriate way to conciliate them is to place them be hind strong bars for a stiff term. With few exceptions attacks on non-union workmen are committed when and where no police are at hand. Either the police are not all awake to their duty, or are not prop erly distributed to prevent mob at tacks, or there are not enough of them. If they need waking up, that ,is up to the mayor and the chief. If they are blinded by partiality for the sluggers or by fear of being slugged themselves, they should promptly lose their jobs, and that, too. Is up to the mayor and the chief. If they are not at the right place when wanted, that, too, is up to the same officials. If the police force is not large enough, it should be reinforced to the point where it can sufficiently guard all places where dock-workers are employed and lodged, and should be composed of men who have the strength and the will to subdue the sluggers and to capture them. The suggestion is frequently heard that some public officials are reluc tant to take vigorous action against the terrorists because they or their friends are candidates at the ap proaching primaries and because they fear to antagonize what is called "the labor vote." The Ore gonian refuses to believe, in the ab sence of proof, that the thousands of men in Portland who are members of labor unions approve of the slug ger method of trying to win a strike; In other words, that the sluggers control the labor vote. If this opin ion coincides with the facts, the only vote that can be lost by any official or candidate through drastic treat ment of the sluggers is the slugger vote. Against it is to be set the vote of every man and woman who up holds the right of every citizen to do lawful work free from lawless vio lence. If any official or candidate prefers to conciliate the slugger vote by dealing gently with the sluggers, let us know it; then those of us who stand for the supremacy of the law will know how to vote, and it will not be for the sluggers" friends. It is a plain question that is be fore us: Are the mayor and the courts or the sluggers running Port land? The Oregonian is ready to up hold the mayor in the employment of any additional number of police that is necessary to suppress the ter rorists and to bring them to justice. He is justified in incurring any ex pense that would necessarily be in volved, for money spent in crushing the lawless is well spent. Any judge who exerts the power of the courts to bring to the bar and J.o punish brutal assailants of men whose only offense is that they work will be sus tained by the great majority of citi zens. There Is no doubt that the people will stand by a judge who is fearless in punishing the lawless. Then let us have a prompt, emphatic answer to the question; Who is running Portland, the of ficers of the law or the sluggers? The finding of British military ex perts that Gibraltar is no longer im pregnable deprives the English lan guage of one of its most vivid fig ures of speech and puts us on our mettle to find a simile for strong de fense. The great rock now domi nates the strait of Gibraltar at the tolerance of Spain, which, if she were hostile, could reduce it with long-rango guns, and the abstention of enemy aircraft, which would find no competing airplanes there to re pel attack. Gibraltar is found to be unsuitable as an air base and conse quently Impotent under modern con ditions to withstand prolonged at tack, in consequence of which there Is talk in Grea' Britain of offering it to Spain in exchange for Ceuta and a corresponding zone in northern Morocco. Sentimental considerations pull in opposite directions. In point of years of possession Spain's claims - are the greater, but in vigor of de- fense those of Great Britain loom ! large. The famous sietre of 1779-83 , con?titutes a chapter in the annals'of heroism unsurpassed by few events in the history of the world. PROFITS AND HOT AIR. The mind that conceived the amazing idea that the financial con dition of Multnomah county Is sound is the same mind, that imagines great and continuous profits from the interstate bridge. It Is County Commissioner Holman's mind, and it is the same commissioner's palaver that seeks to show that the county of Multnomah has taken more money out of the bridge than has been put in. Net dividends received from the bridge up to May 1, 1922, are said to total $1,265,230, of which Multno mah county received $759,011, and Clarke county (Washington) $506 219, making an excess of net re ceipts over the cost of the bridge span $234,404. "The main structure," cries the commissioner, "has not cost the county a cent. The county has re imbursed the state for construction of the bridge, and we are gradually retiring the bonds." Interesting, if true. But where are all those pleasing profits? Where are they? The public is easily puzzled by figures. But it knows that Multno mah county voted $1,250,000 bonds Tor the interstate bridge, and paid more than $100,000 besides from the general fund. Of this amount, $200 000 bonds have been retired, leaving $1,050,000 outstanding. Tet we are told that the net dividends to Mult nomah county have been over $750, 000. Where are they? SIMPLY STATED. The Oregonian regrets that it has lately given the Evening Telegram cause for worry about its attitude to wards the direct primary. Just now the Telegram is the last surviving newspaper champion of the primary in the republican party. Its affec tion for the primary is sudden, pas sionate and even violent, and has not heretofore been suspected by any body, least of all the Telegram. But when a feller needs a friend, you can count on the Telegram some times, when the friend is the Tele gram's friend. Our concern about the Telegram, however, centers chiefly about its complete inability to understand, and to state with the smallest approach toward accuracy, what The Orego nian said the other day in suggest ing for discussion a new nominating method. We shall repeat It In simple language so that it may be suited even to the Telegrun's waver ing intelligence. It was: (1) A county primary lor nomi nation of elective offices. Selection at the primary of delegates to a con vention which should have power to nominate candidates for offices, where there had been failure to nominate m tha primary by majority vote. (2) A state convention, made up of delegates named by the county conventions, with power to adopt a platform, and to nominate candi dates for office where there had been failure to nominate in the state primary by primary vote. Dis trict conventions also to be organized and held on a similar basis. It is not proposed to abandon the primary, nor to return to the boss ruled convention, which agitates the Telegram's democratic heart so pain fully. It is proposed to eliminate a system which puts a premium on self-seeking, enables the unfit to de feat the fit, and provides no alterna tive for c riection of grave errors. It is not merely a question of edu cating the electorate, as the Tele gram says. The Oregonian is not willing to think, as the Telegram evidently thinks, that the whole fault is with the voters. The trouble is with a system which divides and de moralizes intelligence, and prevents an intelligent and harmonious ex pression of the popular will. RAILROAD EARNINGS NORMAL AGAIN. A month more than two years after tne transportation act took ef fect and nineteen months after the government guaranty of earnings ex pired, the class 1 railroads of the United States are earning the stand ard 6 per cent on the valuation placed on them by the interstate commerce commission. For 197 out of 201 roads of that class the net operating income in March was $83, 374,000 agianst $30,638,000 in March, 1921, This was only $2,521,401 short of 6 per cent on all the 201 roads, and the four remaining roads should almost, if not quite, make up this difference. Gross earnings in March for the three districts, with the percentage of Increase or decrease over March, 1921, were: eastern. $242,243,784, 10.78 per cent increase; southern, $62,009,728, 2.58 per cent increase: western, $16S,435.657, 4.4 per cent decrease. Eastern Southern . "Western iNet earnings were: March, 1921. March. 1922. $11,755,351 $47,801,191 4.016.643 11.093.394 14.865.S13 24.479.714 The large Increase in the east was doubtless in part due to the impetus given to coal traffic by preparation for the miners' strike. The decrease in the west surely reflects diversion of traffic to water lines by enforce ment of the long-and-short-hall clause of the interstate commerce law, which practically forbids rail roads to compete with ships for transcontinental traffic, but it must also be due in part to inability of Pacific coast lumbermen to compete with the south in middle-western markets at the rates which the roads insist on exacting. The railroads are now in a position to maintain the standard earnings under materially reduced rates, which would relieve Industry and would increase volume of traffic. The good showing for March was made at abnormally high rates in spite of which industry was strug gling to revive, and with much rail road equipment idle. With lower rates and all cars earning revenue, the railroads should be able to earn aa much net income from the larger tonnage they would move. No doubt the interstate commission will take cognizance of the March results and of these plain inferences from them when it decides on the general appli cation for lower rates that is now before it. We may then have a practical demonstration of the effect on the standard of local rates that is pro duced by enforced elimination of railroad competition with water lines. The ratio of increase in net earnings is far less in the west han in the east or south, and the decrease in gross earnlngSaProves it to be due entirely to cuts If expense of opera- I tion. Consequently the west must ex pect a proportionately smaller gen- era! reduction in rates by the commis- sion tnan wiu De given to tne umer districts. The people of the inter mountain country who have cried oat against terminal rates which would permit railroads to compete with ships will then discover that they have been conducting a successful fight against reduction of local rates, including those for the back-haul from the seaboard to their own sta tions. The rate adjustment cn which they insist simply compels Pacific terminals to ship by water and de prives them of the alternative rail road route and of markets on that route that cannot be reached by water, but, in the shape of higher rates than could otherwise be main tained, It takes money right out of the pockets of the inland empire people on every carload that they ship, either from the east or from the coast. How much longer will it take them to awaken to this situ ation 7 BEATING McARTRL'R. It is doubtful if there is another man in congress who has as much courage (as McArthur) in following his own inclina tions and setting the wishes of the major ity of his constituency at naught. He doesn't dodge or straddle, but stands up and faces the music. His courage is ad mirable, but his statesmanship is bad. Portland Journal. These words appear in an editorial article setting forth reasons why Mr. McArthur should not be elected to congress. They would be more fitting in any statement as to why Mr. Mc Arthur, or anybody, should be elec ted to congress. If Mr. McArthur is to be defeated, there should be a better reason than his persistent ex hibition of independence and cour age. But now that we know whom the Journal is against, can it not serve its readers and the public generally with a discussion of the qualities, good and bad, of the other candi dates? Whom is it for? Naturally it will be against any republican candi date who may be nominated. But what about the democratic candidates Duncan, or Miller, or Watkins? Does our democratic friend find it difficult to choose mong them? If so, why? Are they all equally fit? WOMAN SUFFRAGE GAINS. The International Alliance for Woman Suffrage is encouraged by reports of progress of the cause in other countries than the United States. Numerous gains for 1921 are recorded in the annual report. Aus tralia, Belgium and Norway have elected women members of parlia ment. Rumania for the first time has admitted the sex to communal suffrage, which in all likelihood is the forerunner of other gains. A town in South Africa has elected a woman mayor. Women have cabi net portfolios in Canada. Even In dia has advanced; here women have obtained the same rights as men in half a dozen provinces, including Bombay and Madras. Surprise is expressed that France has nothing to report of feminist progress. The answer probably is that the actual position of women be fore the law in France is less disad vantageous than it was in the coun tries in which the feminist move ment had its inception. The essen tial partnership of the relation of husband and wife, which pervades the civil law and which is exempli fied in the statutes of states of the United States which received their inheritance from the French code, is likely to have been instrumental in postponing the day of feminine pro test. The French woman has been ess inclined to demand the ballot because she has had fewer civil grievances to repair. Inequality of women before the law, particularly n her right to hold property and to control her children, was the potent motive of the early suffrage move ment in this country. The Anglo-Saxon male, with his age-old assumption of superiority, has not always demonstrated his ht to the overlordship that he claimed. Wanting in foresight, if not n the sense of practical justice, it was he who precipitated the suffrage issue. From the viewpoint of the i opponents of w o m a n suffrage. Frenchmen were wiser than their fellows in other lands. Absence of an important feminist movement in France is a testimonial to the tact of French men, rather than to the want of intelligence of their daughters and wives. POSTPONE THE JOY RIDE. There is wholesome truth in the strictures of John E. Edgerton, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, on the expenditure of money and energy on luxuries, pleasure and non-essentials at a time when half the world is famishing through need of increased produc tion of the necessaries, hence in need of all that can be saved from these uses in order that it may be applied to greater production of es sentials. In this country more than in those countries which were the scene of actual hostilities there has been too great a descent from the exalted devotion that patriotism in spired during the war to the grossly selfish practice of every man for himself and the devil take the hind most, of enjoying today without thought of the morrow. That is not the way to rebuild a world half the civilized part -of which is half wrecked. It is as true as ever that no man can live to himself alone, and that is as true of nations as of men. It is truer than ever since steam, electri city and chemistry worked their wonders, for men are more depen dent on their neighbors, nations on one another. Hence he who wastes or unwisely uses, energy, time, money, wastes part of a common stock, hinders the recovery of the world and delays improvement of his own fortune. Every hour saved from useless labor or from recreation in excess of that needed to maintain health can be used in rebuilding that which has been destroyed. Though f it may not be thus applied directly, the money earned and saved from it can be used in employing others to rebuild. By spending less and earn ing more, we can save more to go into the fund of general reconstruc tion capital. That may be a very vague motive for a man of moderate income to earn $100 a year more and to spend $200 a year less on pleasure, or for a city to forego for two or three years a new park or city hall, but the money thus saved would pass through vr.rious channels into the fund which is to replace the fixed capital destroyed by war. Replace ment of that capital would mean rebuilding- of factories, railroads, high- - t way: s, houses, for which much of the goods produced by the owner of that $2 00 would be used. It would mean employment of millions of men In many lands who would replace wrecked furniture and ragged cloth ing with new, much of them bought in America. Europe is in no po sition as yet to add to the stock of capital available for these purposes. For our own benefit as well as for the general good, America should strive to provide an increased share. If any man asks why he should thus deny himself, what direct gain he will make, the answer is that the larger the aggregate of the world's production and the more he con tributes to it, the larger share he will get; that prices, buying and selling are but the means by which each man's share is determined in relation to what he contributes. Prices are now about 50 per cent higher than before the war because aggregate production is less per capita and be cause much of it is absorbed in pay ing interest on capital that was burned up by war and for which the recipient makes no present return In production of goods. As we ap proach the pre-war scale of produc tion, prices will fall and each one's share will be larger if he does his share of work. When war debts are paid, the bondholder must either go to work or invest his capital in in dustry, either case adding to the world's stock of goods and making the shares larger. Then the capital that was destroyed will have been re placed and the labor that was di verted to its replacement can be em ployed in producing more goods for consumption, of which a part can properly be used for the luxuries and pleasures with which we should now dispense. When half of a town is burned, the population does not go on a joyride next day. In a sense, half the world has been burned, and America, whrth is in the fortunate other half should help to rebuild and should postpone its joyride till the roof is on LET BOTH USE THE RIVER. Astoria shows a commendable dis position to help itself by chartering steamboats and barges to transport grain from the upper Columbia and thus overcame the handicap imposed by the differential in railroad rates in favor of Portland. The port by the mouth of the Columbia may overcome the .differential and more too. Of course, Portland can follow its lead by taking to the river route also and gain the benefit of being a hundred miles higher up the river, but Astoria can gain much by be ing the first to move. But there is no ground for saying, as the Astoria Budget dees, that "the differential, instead of going to the farmer, has been appropriated by the grain buyers of Portland." Seattle has done something to nullify its effect by inducing steamship lines to absorb part and by reducing wharf and dock charges to absorb another part, but the quantity of wheat shipped to Portland in the present cereal year is so much greater than that shipped to all Puget sound ports as to prove that growers derive some decided advantage from exporting through this port. Portland will al ways strive to handle wheat at as low charges as are made at any competing port. That is one of the principal motives for the present struggle by shipping men to equalize longshoremen's wages with those paid on the sound. A useful hint is conveyed by As toria's efforts to retain its place as a wheat port. Like Seattle, it will exhaust its resources In the effort to wipe out the effect of the rate dif ferential. The safest way for Port land to retain its advantages is to hold all other charges down to the minimum on an equality with other ports, and thus to give the producer the full benefit of the differential in the shape of higher prices on the farm. Then Portland will profit by volume of business and will strengthen its hold on the grain trade. One way is not to be content with the railroad differential, but to use the river. The real signs of a building boom come when mole permits are issued for new houses than for garages. After "the car" has been provided for, the rest of the family come into their own. Just as we'.! for Oregonians to have a cold winter now and then. Think of the educational value of knowing at first hand how the rest of the world lives. A rose festival should have a mov able date; it depends on the bloorn, which varies according to season. The occasion can be as joyous a few weeks later. The Bar association is ponderous and at times slow of motion, but when it slips off the incubus of in ertia to clean house it is irresistible. Mrs. Sangster doubtless read with particular interest what Conan Doyle said about there being no children as the result of marriages in heaven. After a few years of "everything but," the Chicago palate has lost its sensitiveness if it cannot detect the absence of the kick in near beer. The Russians may not win official recognition from the powers but they certainly are getting plenty of the unofficial kind. Mr. Rockefeiler says it is hard work to give away a million dollars. Lots of us would like to have a chance to try. The Great Northern is arranging to sell real service to the suburbs of Spokane. It will meet the buses, card for card. Gouverneur Morris, a fiction writer of "sex stories," is suing his wife for divorce. Maybe she took his fiction to:) seriously. The Florida supreme court says Crokor was competent and any old Tammany man will affirm: "Always was!" A free running translation of "noblesse oblige" is that an official should not break the speed law. Canneries are going ahead, not worried about frosts and injury to fruit crops. Now is the time to work off pes simism. There will be fruit galore. The grower who loses by late frosts can recoup on late potatoes, Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Casa Baer. Sophie Tucker is proving a sensa tion in London, and the critics there hail her as a greater comedienne than any of her predecessors, Ethel Levey, Elsie Janis, Frank Tinney, or even their own English idols. The Sunday Times says: "Sophie Tucker has a reputation in America as big as that of Marie Lloyd in England. Tet, un heralded and unboomed, she stood up suddenly in the middle of the 'Mid night Follies' revel on. Friday night, her name, which had just been shout ed, conveying nothing to the English people present. In a minute her ar tistry had triumphed over her lack of natural possessions. She is now the Tvette Guilbert of ragtime. Almost plain, with nothing much of a voice, and with a figure against her, she is a genius. She sang four syncopated songs to a tumult of enthusiasm. She laughed at herself In melody; she made fun of her own limitations, and the audience rocked itself in a frenzy of appreciation. She made the mid night revellers sing with her, like Lauder does; and they encored her until the small hours of the morning." Henry Lehrman, who figured as the fiance of Virginia Rappe in the Ar buckle .case, is reported to have mar ried Jocelyn Leigh, the "Follies" beauty, last week in Los Angeles. The bride is in Los Angeles with her par ents from Chicago, but denies that she is to enter pictures. Lehrman is now directing comedies for the Century company. Alice Brady (Crane), has received her final decree of divorce from James A. Crane, a resettled order of final judgment making provision for the custody of Miss Brady's child. She is awarded its custody, but has waived any claims to alimony. The issues were submitted to a referee, who rec ommended the interlocutory decree, which the judge affirmed. The ad vent of the baby necessitated a re settlement of the order. m m Art Hickman and his jazz artists are going into vaudeville via the Or pheum circuit. They have been en gaged by Martin Beck. Beck heard Hickman and his or chestra while they were playing in the Ambassador hotel in Los Angeles, and is said to have made them an offer. From Chicago comes a line concern ing Walter Siegfried, who used to be here with the Baker Stock. The para graph, in a theatrical exchange, says that 'Varieties of 1922' is the title of a vaudeville road show composed of Walter Weems, Gallarini Sisters, Olga and Mishka, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Sieg fried and Middletown's Mannikins, which was formed in Chicago for the purpose of touring the middle west ern states and playing the interme diate towns. 'The show has had block paper made and will play all engagements on a percentage basis, with the company share split up among the acts. It be gins its engagement next week in Wisconsin and will play through that territory first. It expects to remain intact until August." Alice Fleming has returned to the stage. She was married recently and retired, but a few weeks ago returned to the footlights in "The Nest," a new play, running at the Forty-eighth-street theater in New York. a a Va A London correspondent says that the long rest which followed Marie Lloyd's illness last year was supposed to have resulted in a complete resto ration to health. She returned to her audience recently, and the audience received her with all the old enthu siasm. The "come-back" unfortunately seems to have only been of a tem porary nature, for she collapsed on the stage of the Empire, Cardiff. After singing one number she burst into tears and the curtain was run down. The management explained to the audience that the comedienne had recently been seriously ill and was unable to bear the strain. Henry Miller and Blanche Bates are playing a five-week engagement in repertoire at the Columbia in San Francisco. a a . a Geraldine Farrar is going to make her debut on the legitimate stage un der the management of David Belasco in about a year's time. It is understood that Mr. Belasco Is already at work on, a play for the grand opera favorite who left the ranks of the Metropolitan company at the close of the season there. Her reason for leaving the Metro politan was that she and Gatti-Casaz-za could not agree on the terms of a new contract. The Metropolitan man agement wished to cut down the num ber of appearances that Miss Farrar was to make during the season, and, rather than accept a curtailment of her performances, which would natu rally cut down her income, she ar ranged for a concert tour under the management -of Charles Foley of Boston. She announced she would appear in the legitimate following her concert tour. Pauline FredericK's play for next season is "Fire of Spring," written by Robert McLaughlin. w m "Wild Birds," a three-act tragedy written by Dan Totheroh of San Fran cisco and which won a $300 prize in a contest conducted by the University of California, stirred up great excite ment in San Francisco last week dur ing its production at the Players' club, an amateur organization, when the police censor ordered it taken off be cause he characterized the lines as "pretty strong stuff." The play and the Players' club came into a world of publicity because of a controversy which was started when Chief of Police Dan O'Brien said he would put the author, the producer and all of the actors in jail if they did not take off the play. The author. Totheroh, and the producer, Irving Pichel, defied Chief O'Brien. In the meantime a group of citizens interested in the club "went to the bat" for them and urged the chief to be more considerate. In the face of this showing Chief O'Brien finally agreed that if they would change one word in the dialogue "Wild Birds" could continue its flight. This seemed like a fair proposition and Author Totheroh and Producer Pichel agreed to have the father of the "heroine" call the girl "hussy" in stead of a more picturesque epithet that was formerly used, j Those Who Come and Go. Tale of Folks at the Hotel. "Beginning June 15 the rock sur facing of the Corvallis-Newport high way will start on the Blodgett-To-ledo section," reports J. C. McLeod, division engineer of the highway de partment. "The contract calls for the work being completed by October 15, so that the 34 miles will all be sur faced in four months. Three quarries have been secured and are being opened up. One quarry is estimated to have at least 100,000 cubic yards of the finest kind of rock and we do not know how much more rock can be taken from this spot. From Cor vallis to Blodgett the road is now in fine shape. When the 34 miles from Blodgett to Toledo are surfaced the people of the Willamette valley will be able to reach the Yaquina bay beaches by automobile over a very at tractive route." Mr. McLeod was in Portland yesterday arranging for en croachments on the railroad property where the highway needs a little more room. It is just a little puzzle and you have to jump pegs one over the other till all but one is gone, yet 4000 a day are being manufactured and by summertime 12,000 a day will be necessary to take care of the demand, according to A. H. Rose of Clinton, la., registered at the Multnomah. This shows what a smiple little article can do In the way of building up-the re sources of a town and increasing the payroll. Speaking of this puzzle, it appears that bankers fall for it more quickly than children or other people, possibly because they want something to take their minds off of more serious matters, on the same theory that Thomas Edison reads nickel detective novels when working on a compli cated Invention. Looking a typical outdoor man, al though he is now a practicing phy sician in San Francisco, Dr F. S. Pyle registered at the Multnomah yester day. Twenty-four years ago the doc tor was a cowpuncher and rode the range in eastern and central Oregon and in southern Idaho. The years In the saddle gave him his build and ap pearance. "In those days in the sad dle," explained the doctor, "I used to ride all day without seeing a soul and there was nothing but jackrab bits, sagebrush and sand where towns now flourish. Twin Falls, Idaho, was, when I rode the range, non-existent and there was a very generous quantity of sagebrush where the town is now situated." John F. Moss, manager of the Lee Hardware company of Salina, Kan., is registered at the Multnomah while making a business tour of the Pacific coast. He states that Portland is several jumps ahead of other western cities in the return to normalcy and claims that the hum of activity is now apparent all along the coast, with Portland manifesting leadership in the last 60 days. Having made a trip over the Columbia river highway, Mr. Moss is now as enthusiastic as every one else who has toured that road of scenic splendors. "An apartment house containing 50 apartments is to be built in Rose burg," says R. M. Jennings, manager of the power company in that city. "This is a building which would be a credit to Portland and there is no doubt but what it will be a paying in vestment. The site is excellent and the people of the town are already proud of the impending structure. Business in Roseubrg is doing nicely and the town, in addition to the apartment house referred to, is hav ing a number of residences built." The roads are good and the fishing fine, so says Clyde M. McKay of the Bend Press, who motored to Port land with C. A. Hayden, superintend ent of the box department of the Shevlin-Hlxon mill, and O. F. Larsen, jeweler. The tourist crop will be large thte year in that section is the belief of these visitors, who are reg istered at the Multnomah, due to the wide publicity given Bend by Irvin Cobb. "Eugene is looking fine, the town is prosperous and houses are going up. Eugene is on the upgrade," de clares Charles Hardy of the univer sity town, who came to Portland yes terday. Mr. Hardy's mission was to appear before the state highway com mission at the hearing scheduled for the truck owners, Mr. Hardy repre senting some of these owners. John Goss of Coos bay is in town with a case in the federal court in volving a violation of the prohibi tion law. Among the witnesses in the case are A. S. Miller, A. B. Miller and J. Milville, farmers living near Gold Beach, In Curry county. Judge Goss was one of the pioneer boosters for the Roosevelt highway. J. N. Alnutt of Klamath Falls ar rived at the Imperial yesterday. The town of Klamath Falls is suffering from the strike among the mills and this affects the entire community, for the reason the mills are largely re sponsible for the payroll of the town. "Sheep business on the coast is do ing nicely and the price of wool is getting better," says I. B. Cushman of Cushman, who is a visitor at the Im perial. Mr. Cushman is also presi dent of the port of Siuslaw. Twenty-five laundry men from Cal ifornia, most of them from San Fran cisco, registered at the Multnomah yesterday while on their way to The Dalles to attend a convention of the laundrymen of Oregon. BIRDS' HEARTS NOT BROKEN Writer Distinguishes Between Love and the Mating Instinct. PORTLAND, May 10. (To the Edi tor.) The poem, "The Bird With a Broken Heart," is inspiring, yet I have a few words of criticism. As a student of birds, flowers and animals, such as are found in our Oregon woods, I think that the author has allowed his poetic dream to cause him to err, in intimating that a robin was singing "its wild, sweet, radiant note." It is going beyond poetic license to give robins credit for a "radiant note." I am also sure that no creature knows anything of the experience of a broken heart except man. Birds (I mean Oregon birds) have but two songs. the mating song and the cradle song and both are instinc tively produced. I feel quite sure that birds think and plan, but not over love matters. It is a common error of many poets and all story writers to fancy they are writing of love affairs when it is only the ever-vacillating, ever uncer tain, extremely notional, always per sistent fires of sex. Our need of to day is a novelist who will teach our children the vast difference between the mating instinct and love that, in fact, there is no kinship whatever. It is the mating Instinct that drives a man to marriage and woos a woman to the altar. Love, with the vast majority of men, is an after-marriage growth; and doubtless this is also true of more women than we are wont to think. This instinct is so sacred and fraught with such import to the children of men that writers have un wittingly called it love. When we understand these facts marriage will be made with more discretion. F. W. PARiWJUK. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Houghton-Mifflin Co. Can Yon Anawer These Qneatlonar 1. Are the rings of growth at the top of a trunk of a tree fewer in num ber than at the base? 2. What is a mongoose? 3. Is the heron the same as a crane, only called differently? Answers in tomorrow's nature notea. Answers to Prevlona Questions. 1. How do birds drink? Most birds drink rather awk wardly, dipping in the bill and get ting only a sip. or what water can be dipped up by the lower mandible. It is then allowed to run down the throat. Pigeons, however, can drink a draught of water about as horses and cattle do. 2. What is the sticky brown stuff from grasshoppers that children call "grasshopper molasses"? This liquid is a part of the grass hoppers' means of defense and Is a mouth secretion with a disagreeable odor which discourages certain of its enemies from a grasshopper diet. 3., Why don't pines and such trees shed their needles as other trees do? They do shed, but not in the same fashion as deciduous trees. In spring new needles push out, but the old ones do not drop off immediately, waiting, instead, for the new needles to be well grown. Then they drop a few at a time. Often the tree looks quite yellow for a brief time in fall when the old needles are ready to drop. The theory of this style of shedding is, that the pines, etc., be long to the most ancient type of tree, and reflect a habit that was common to their original period, when climate influenced their leafing ways. FORGIVENESS MEANS PAYMENT If World Would Exculpate Germany. It Should Shoulder Burden. HOOD RIVER, Or.. May 10. (To the Editor.) Did anyone compel Germany to devastate Europe as she did? Let us say that she was not wholly re sponsible for the war, yet was she under compulsion wantonly to devas tate the countries where she waged war? Are not these countries devas tated? And now that Germany has been brought to terme, if she does not repair these wanton devastations, have not the people of the devastated region to pay for the crimes of Ger many? If France and Belgium and Italy and Serbia and Poland forgive the central powers a part of the debt due they have to pay that debt them selves. Now. if the world, as such, wants to forgive Germany, the thing to do, in justice, is for the whole world, the nations which have suf fered and those who have not, to pay the damage done by Germany. Thus Germany owing its debt to the world, let the world forgive Germany if Ger many is willing to accept this as a forgiveness. In this manner forgive ness and justice would go hand in hand. But for the world to say to Germany, we are of a forgiving spirit, and therefore we forgive you a part of your debt, and then ask the devastated country to pay the whole price of this forgiveness, is the very height of hypocrisy. It is on the level of Germany forgiving Russia and Russia forgiving Germany; for let it not be forgotten that most of the in juries worked by each of these coun tries on the other was worked on Polish territory; so they are well willing to forgive if Poland pays the bill. The world is saturated with false ideas of forgiveness, ideas which make forgiveness the antithesis of justice, so that you have to choose between justice and forgiveness. This is deplorable, for it destroys the sense of justice and the sanctity of con tracts. Let the world face the truth and realize that if anyone forgives, he must pay the price of forgiveness this is the wonder of forgiveness But then forgiveness must be what It Is really, an act of free will on the part of him that forgives, and a thing of unmerited mercy to the one that is forgiven, as well as an act of free grace on the part of him that for gives and pays the price of forgive ness. Then justice and mercy can walk hand in hand. If the whole world would indorse the debt to the suffering countries, they themselves taking their share of it, then would call on Germany fend say, You owe this righteous debt to the whole world; if you are willing to recognize it as a just debt, and ac cept a part remission of it as an act of unmerited forgiveness, it is for given to you, the world will pay the debt for you. Then we would have an act of forgiveness in full harmetny with justice, and we could iook witn some strong hope to a real reconstruc- tion of the world on a basis of jus tice and mercy. C. R. DELEPINK. TOMATO-PLANTING TIME NEAR Successful Amateur Grower Gives Pointers on Cultivation In Garden. PORTLAND, May 10. (To the Edi tor.) The successful raising of toma toes in and about Portland may be termed a purely local issue. For 28 years the writer has planted, assidu ously cultivated and prayerfully watched this vegetable-fruit attain various degrees of perfection, too often blighted, however, by early or late frosts. The soil in Irvington Inclines to a heavy clay. Successive failures yeara ago prompted him to turn for advice to a neighboring florist who in his hothouse kindly started individual plants early in February and by May 15, having been transferred to six- inch containers. these individual plants had acquired a degree of size and vigor, even to blossoms, as would make transplanting safe and give to the grower two extra months at least of growth. The soil into which the tomatoes are to he placed should not only be stirred up, but a liberal admixture of sand and well-rotted fertiliser pre vents the slightly delay in formation of fruit buds. In removing from the pot always set the plant three or four inches lower In the ground, pressing the earth firmly down about them and mulching with an additional sup ply of the soil, sand and fertilizer. This will hold the moisture. Now for the trellis: 2x4s set at an angle of 45 degrees in the ground and carrying a strip of poultry netting, 2 or 3-inch mesh. 6 feet wide, presents a safe and easy resting place for the tomato vines as they spring upward. A vertical trellis Is too much of a strain on the tender plants and shoots. It should incline enough to enable the plants to grow at ease. Do not allow the plants to grow higher than the top of the trellis; six feet of stalk Is sufficient. Pinch off as they appear any excess or unneces sary number of side shoots; allow a sufficient number of laterals to grow on either side of the main stalk to cover the trellis well. Pinch off any excess of fruit. Fruit In actual con tact on the growing vine Is apt to mildew and blight. Water well of an evening, at the roots; never the vines. If there are signs of mildew on the leaves, dust with sulphur. If the weather moderates a bit it should be safe to set the plants out next Sunday, either before or aftef church. WILLIAM F. WOODWARD. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. slavla. a. I don't believe In portents. I don't believe In signs. Nor In the switch of haxel which A hidden spring divines. I know no valid reason A simple fish could have To cross the deep a tryst to keep With any Jugoslav, Though statesmen In this action. A prophecy may aee, I must admit it's not a bit Significant to me. The fishermen of Venice Their baited lines still sst Upon the main, but all In vain, For not a bite they sat in blue Sicilian waters The sardine nets are spread. Without a haul, the fishes all Flumeward have fled. Believe this curious conduct An omen If you wish, v e re not incunea to cnang w mind Because of any fish. How fickle are these fishes All anglers are aware; Thmr hinnri vm, aeeir in or eras But seldom find them thers, I fall to aee how statesmen Possessing common sense rn(n 1. K ,r tn n-Ar, Their racial preference. They know no flag or country And It's of no avail To hang the fate of any state Upon a fish's tall. a A Healthful Gait. The horse that lived to be 61 years old Is a running horse. It la the psce that kills. e rob people of their sleep, the jails would be overcrowded with the oper ators of pneumatic riveters. It Will Nat - Agala. A New York taxi driver recently ran over a dog. Jt was a foggy day and he prohahly mistook the animal for a pedestrian. (Copyright by the Bell aydleae. lne In Other Days. Twenty-Five Years Ago. From The Oregonian of May 11. 1S7 Judec Lewis L. McArthur. one the most prominent lawyers In the tate, died at Walla Walla yesterday. Washington The Cuban situation was reviewed In the senste yesterday and opposition was shown to Mor gan's resolution for the first time. Athens Germany'a demanda that Greece give her formal consent to the principle of autonomy for Crete will be accepted by the Greek government New York The 20-round bout be tween Joe Choynski and Denver Ed Smith was stopped at two mlnutr of fighting In the fourth round to night, after Smith had repeatedly at tempted to hold his opponent's hand. Klfly Year Agfa. From The Oregonian of May 11. 1S72. Dallas, Texas. It Is now the style for barefooted bridesmaids to assist at Texas weddings. The authorities are having great difficulties In putting an end to seriea of burglariea which have been taking place in East Portland. Washlnglon A large number of the members of congress are comlnc to the opinion that no tariff bill will be passed this session. London Accouchement of her royal highness, the Princess of Wales, Is expected the latter part of June or early in July. M. Mitt hi -i nw: Changes rgrd in mil Now l .-..lion Before Consrrsa. EUGENE, Or., May 9. (To tho Edi tor.) Tho Oregon ex-naval-reaerve men, who are scheduled to meet at Portland In the course of the next lew days, and all other cltisens con cerned with our maritime life, with an equal pride in both of Its sea services, the navy and tha merchant marine, should give careful consid eration to House Bill 11.066. Intro duced In congress last month. "i" provide for the creation and maintenance of a naval reserve." and secure certain changes in It, there after swinging to a full-hearted sup port of It. This hill furnishes the first oppor tunity since the war to define of ficially the two services and the na ture of a naval reserve as the liai son factor between them. The prin ciple that a naval reserve Is estab lished to assure a navy additional prompt support for Its fighting serv ice In time of wsr or emergency needs to be understood In this coun try and accepted by our navy de partment, as In every other mari time country It is assumed without discussion. We need to take the lead of Ad miral Sims in this matter. But naval authorities at Washington are on rer ord as intending to get authority from congress to take over all mer chant shipping In the event of an other war. They are trying to get the carrying service at sea In time of war, that Is, as well as the fight ing service. It Is a measure not con templated by any other navy and It is a measure that neither the admir able record of civilian seamen oper ating under civilian organisation through the recent war, nor the rec ord of the navy also operating In tho carrying tradee, at all Justifies. Un til this principle, that s navsl re serve gives the navy a right to call unto Itself such ships and surh sail ors as it needs for It k fighting serv ices, capital and auxiliary, and noi for carrying service otherwise, is un reservedly recognised and accepted by our navy, there should be no favor able action on any bill that would make civilian seamen who enter the reserve with this traditional idea of what they are doing "obligate them selves .to serve In the navy In time of war or during the existence of a national emergency declared by the president." Nor should the thrifty provision he accepted that their retainer pay dependent upon the arrangement "that funds equal to the amount re quired shall have first been trans ferred to the navy department from the United States shipping board ." A navy operating within its pr"i" -and advantageous functions, the pro tection of coasts from Invasions and the protection of merchant ships and crews In the operation of the carry ing trades, will have the eager and proud help aboard Its own ships of every civilian seaman It needs t" amplify Its fighting forces. In re turn, the navy should, at least, b. willing to ask congress direct tot the money to pay the customary re talners Implied by this naval rela tion, not try to pull it from the ship ping board. NELSON COLLINS.