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9 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, FRIDAY, MAT 12, 1922 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I PITTOCK. Published by The Oregoman Publishing Co. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A- MOEDE.V, E- B. PIPER. Manager Editor. Ths Oregonian is a member of the Asso ciated Pre. The Associated Press is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication of all nswa dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dispatches herein ere also reserved. Subscription Rates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) rily, Sunday Included, one year ls X? Dally, Sunday Included, six months. . . 4.-5 Daily. Sunday Included, three months. 2.-. rij-J'v flnnt. In,.n. one month.. .3 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6-00 Daltv. without Kunrtav. six months... 3.-5 Dally, without Sunday, one month. Sunday, one year .00 .2.50 (By Carrier.) 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REYERStSO RAILROAD POLICY If the Interstate commerce- com- mission should sustain the findings of Examiner Disque in the trans continental rate case, it would re verse all the precedents that it has established In construing the long- and-short-haul clause, and its sole justification in law would be the fact that congress in the transpor tation act of 1920 slightly strength ensd tho limit on exceptions to en forcement of that clause ty adding tho proviso that water-competitive rates must be "reasonably compen satory" a rule which the commis- eion says it had already followed. This is the general conclusion formed after reading the brief of attorneys for the Portland Traffic & Transpor tation association, taking exception to the examiner's findings. The citation of errors found in the examiner's report shows that In his analysis of the case he at first traveled the straight track marked by law, precedent in application of the law, and sound reason. At the point where one expected h1rn to steam into the terminus with the conclusion that the railroads should be permitted to make rates competi tive with those of water lines, he switched off on a branch line, which wandered away from law, facts and logical deduction therefrom and meandered through the broad and misty fields of wide administrative discretion that has no warrant in law, of the disadvantage to be suf fered by one section from recogni tion of the natural advantages of another section, even of psychology, which forbids him to cast an inland nipper Into the melancholy follow ing on loss of a rate case. In his wanderings he forgot that the transportation act affirms the policy of congress to be that rail and water systems should be fostered as competitors in their full vigor, and he assumed the function of the com mission to be to protect water lines from railroad competition, even to the point of prohibiting the latter. though there is no warrant in law for any such assumption. He as sumed that the commission should protect inland points from the effect of their natural disadvantage in not being accessible to water lines by epriving 'other points of the benefit aturally arising from their being on hose lines. The dissection of Mr. Disque's irgument by the attorneys shows his srrors to arise from adoption of false premises. He regards seaports and the interior country behind them as distinct units of transportation terri tory having conflicting interests. In fact each port and its adjacent in terior country constitute a single such unit, and their interests are common and reciprocal. The port thrives by serving the interior, and the interior prospers by using the port. The benefits of water compe tition do not end at the coast; they extend Inland in decreasing ratio as distance increases. A port cannot develop to its full possibilities if the interior remains undeveloped. De velopment of the interior is stimu lated by the existence of the port to which, natural transportation routes lead, and it makes progress in pro portion to the improvement and use of the port s natural advantages, and of the routes leading to it. In order to form a sound conclusion, the commission will need to ignore the question whether the mercantile business of the interior shall be in the hands of inland or coast jobbers and to view the transportation prob lem of each port and its back coun try as a whole. It is strange that Mr. Disque should have gone astray In this par ticular, for his findings were made just when there is a great awakening among the people of the middle states to their interest in water transportation. Representatives of, the whole belt of states between the Allegheny and the Rocky mountains have contended before the joint committee of congress that is con sidering' the ship subsidy bill for development of the smaller ports, and for the first time in history they are ready to support a ship subsidy subject to this condition. Thus the interior realizes that it has a com mon interest with the ports in water competition. It sees a port and its I back country as a transportation uritt, thus establishing the basis for Iear understanding of the relation between rail and water competing systems, each i lines as I its own j way serving the entire unit. Having this conception, the people of the interior will not welcome removal of the spur of railroad competition from water lines, which may. by establishing conference rates, restrict competition among themselves. This I life, something more was achieved "a rough struggle of the workers to is not the way to bring transporta- j than the mere acquisition of facts, j find their way out," and that we tion down to the lowest level and which we are now inclined to de-1 must be patient. This was in refer thus to help manufacturers in the I spise. There -was character-building j ence to charges that building trade interior to export their goods in of a kind in the old method, for the j unions had signed contracts for fixed competition with those of other! countries, nor is it the ws a cent from grain freight it to the farm price. The conclusion drawn cut . d add the examiner from the most recent laws j does not get as much of that spirit I Mr. Gompers' present attitude is on the subject, that "congress seems i as his grandfather did. Pupils got j consistent with the persistent oppo to have thus indicated that the I their lessons without adventitious sition of labor leaders to any sug commission shall at least feel free ! aids, and what they knew they knew, j gestion that labor unions be required to divert traffic from rail to water If there was drudgery, that too was ; to incorporate as a condition of rec lines." is contrary to the purpose of tha whole series of interstate com- i Uwa Thia was Trt nMdori-a and regulate competition among railroads and between them and ' red schoolhouse were deeply In ear-i responsibility as employers, who are ships. Under the Disque theory the i nest there is no doubt about that, i Incorporated and have large prop interstate commission would cease I The point is not that we want the ' erty holdings. The defense is made to be a merely regulative body, little red schoolhouse with its only that labor contracts could not in holding the railroads to observance ! semi-competent teachers back again, j practice be enforced when large of principles and rules laid down in 1 or that we shouidgnot adopt every numbers of union members refused the law: it would become vested with unlimited discretion to dictate aroitrarny, according to us own view of policy, the management of rail ; roads and the division of traffic j between railroads and ships. The I brief well says that under the theory quoted: The routing or traffic by shippers, car riers, or others Interested, at their option, will be done only through the grace of the commission and not because of any in herent right In the shipper. - If this pro nouncement states the law correctly, then under usual conditions. In the due course of business, if the commission deems It in the public interest that water carriers should be encouraged, that one port should handle the business rather than another, the commission has power to take the business from one railroad and give It to another, to say what port It shall move through, or to take it from rail and divert it to water. The findings are founded on belief in a complete reversal of policy on the part of congress. That policy compelled railroads to com pete with one another; it built the Panama canal in order to stimulate water competition and it forbade railroads to control ships operating through the canal in order that this competition might be actual; in the transportation act it enounced the policy of continuing both rail and water transportation in full vigor. It is now asserted that congress intended to prevent railroads from competing with water lines. Here is an inexplicable contradiction be tween the whole tenor of more than thirty years' legislation and the Disque Interpretation of it. CHEAP AND UNWARRANTED. Oregon had statewide, bone-dry prohibition before adoption of the federal amendment and before en actment of the "Volstead act. By constitutional Inhibition and by strict enforcement statute the manufac ture and sale of intoxicating liquor In Oregon were ended by Oregon on its own account. The state consti tutional inhibition and the enforce ment statute still exist. Modification of the Volstead act to permit the sale of light wines and beer would have no effect whatever on Oregon's right to decide for Itself whether it would permit their sale. It would not repeal, or modify, or change in any particular the exist ing state constitution or the state bone-dry law. Repeal even of the federal prohi bition amendment would not affect Oregon laws on the subject of pro hibition. In Itself it would not dis courage or minimize the bootlegging in Oregon which is presented as an excuse for modification or repeal of federal prohibition. Oregon would remain bone dry until the people of Oregon determined upon a change, and there is no indication of a wide spread desire for such a change. Nomination by one political party of a candidate for congress pledged to a modification of the Volstead act would provide no relief whatever for Oregon tipplers. In the present cam paign it would signify nothing in the world but that a division in one party over several issues unrelated to pro hibition had been taken advantage of and that a plurality consisting but a minority of one political party had gone on record against bone-dry prohibition. Injection of prohibition into the Portland congressional campaign is an unwarranted, unwelcome, inex cusable and cheap political intrusion into the issues of the election. OLD WAYS IN EDUCATION. President Suzallo of the Univer sity of Washington is probably right in saying that the monotony of the old education forced Inattention," as a result of which we had a select ive school, but there is some question as to how far we ought to go in the opposite direction in our effort to correct the mistakes of the past. By and large, the schools undoubtedly are improving, as most institutions do that are lighted by the lamp of experience and motivated by sincere desire for improvement. The little red schoolhouse was the best school that we had in its day, it served a high purpose well, It is not dispar aging of it to say that it has been vastly improved upon in many re spects. Indeed, to admit otherwise would be to confess that as a people we are incapable of learning any thing as we go along. In two important particulars pub lic education has gone forward by leaps and bounds since about the time of the civil war. It is more in clusive, as the result of aroused sentiment for education and of com pulsory attendance laws. It Is in the hands of vastly better trained men and women than it used to be, for professional training for teachers has been practically a matter of less than half a century. The little red schoolhouse struggled along with a staff the most of whom had less than what would be termed a grade school education now. Not very much was known of the science of pedagogy and psychology was unheard of in connection with ordinary affairs. The rural teacher, frequently a youth in his or her teens, was restricted to Imparting "information." of greater or less value, because that was the popular conception of edu cation then. The notion that it was part of the function of the teacher to develop the natural faculties of the pupil, to teach him how to think for himself, did not then widely pre vail. Yet there was one thing to the credit of the little red schoolhouse that is not to be despised, and that was that it was very apt to be ex tremely thorough so far as it went, Fiftv vears ago, when children were required to bound the counties of Oregon, to draw maps of the remote countries of the world, to parse and to spell, and when the multiplication table was so insistently imparted and . so often reviewed that it stayed by the pupil through all his natural i adage that if a thing is worth j doing it is worth doing well has a ! wide application and not a few old- ) that some contractors procured im timers who are not hopeless pessi- j munity from wage increases by brib mists think that the modern student ing labor leaders. not without its compensations by way i of nrenaration for a life that is not 1 Kaa. oH alritflae wifi mnot ef itc And those who did attend the little ; new idea that promises to serve the ; purpose of fitting our youngsters i oetter ior iite s struggle, DUt mat we ought not to discount too greatly some of the sound principles that would not go with men who struck were developed there. Reforms are j in open violation of a contract that apt to go in waves, pendulums swing j had been upheld as valid by the as much too far in one direction as) courts. in the other, excesses are to be j The distinction is drawn that em guarded against as ultra-conserva-; plovers' associations deal in com tism is. The little red schoolhouse j modities, while labor unions deal on the whole turned out a pretty j with labor, and that labor is not a good product in spite of its admitted I commodity, being made up of human defects and mainly because it cotn pelled the pupil to work for what he got and taught the value of thor oughness in little things. ABOUT THE WAR GRATTERS. Why was it that a republican, not a democratic, congressman called Attorney-General Daugherty to ac count for not earlier prosecutin; men guilty of fraud in war con tracts? If Mr. Daugherty has been derelict, it was a fine opportunity for the democrats to score off him for campaign purposes. Why their si lence ? The attorney-general has con firmed the prevailing suspicion that there were frauds. There were ras cals among the munition contractors. but they were Wilson's rascals, not Harding's, to the extent that their crimes were committed under Wil son's administration.' Probably most of them were democrats, as men of that party would get the best oppor tunity, but graft is strictly non-par tisan, and there were surely some re publicans among them. To indict them is a ticklish job for any at torney-general, republican or demo crat. Though the democrats are doubt less anxious that some of the war grafters be indicted, they must fear that Mr. Daugherty will proceed against men of their own party, and, worse still, prove his charges. They must also hope that he will proceed against some prominent republicans and at least even up matters. But nothing would please them more than to have him accuse some dis tinguished democrat and fail to make good. Then they would have martyr wearing the martyr's crown of thorns to trot around the country next fall. Until Mr. Daugherty ex plodes his mine, there will be fierce conflict of emotions in the demo cratic breast. KEEPING THE PLEDGE. President Harding's quiet prepara tion to co-operate with other nations in economic reconstruction of Europe is the occasion for this taunt by the Eugene Guard: Here is an administration elected by a great majority on the pledge to keep out of foreign affairs, laying the ground work for getting in with both feet. Far from being pledged to "keep out of foreign affairs," the admin istration is bound by thi3 pledge, contained in the republican platform on which Mr. Harding was elected: The republican party stands for agree ment among the nations to preserve the peace of the world. We believe that such an international association must be based upon international justice and must pro vide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by the development of law and the decision of impartial courts, and which shall secure Instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the, nations pledged to do and insist upon what is Just and fair may exercise their influence and power for the pre vention of war. The Washington conference is a conspicuous example of fulfilment of this pledge. It has removed the threat of war in the far east, and has ended the naval armament race. When the way is open for another conference to consider those interests which the United States has in com mon with Europe, distinct from affairs which are strictly European, Mr. Harding stands ready to partici pate. Nor will he be deterred by the opposition of those senators whose slogan is, "Stay out of Europe," for the ratification of the Washington treaties showed their influence to be negligible. Referring to President Wilson and his fight for the league covenant, the. Guard says : The people placed In the presidential chair ono of the members of the senate who aided in defeating the league of na tions. Mr. Harding did not vote against ratification of the treaty which in cluded the league covenant. He voted for ratification with the reser vations which were said by ex-President Taft, a stalwart champion of the league, to leave it 90 per cent good. It was defeated by a combi nation of two bands of irreconcil ables those republicans and demo crats who were opposed to any league, and .those democrats who stood pat for the league as Mr. Wilson framed it. Not till the league by the action of these two factions had become the subject of hopeless political conflict did Mr. Harding cast it aside. He has made a most auspicious start to bring the United States into an association of nations, and he is still working on that line. The success with which Mr. Harding consummated the work of the Washington conference is largely due to his making it the achieve ment of both parties, acting in co operation. Mr. Wilson's failure was due to his attempt to make forma tion of the league and conclusion of the peace treaties the work of his party alone. This contrast should be a make hint to our neighbor not to foreign affairs a subject of party controversy. MAKING LABOR UNIONS RESPONSIBLE. When questioned about the remedy for violation of contracts by labor unions. President Uompers, of the American Federation of Labor, told the Lockwood committee, investigat ing the New York building trades, that labor unions would not submit l lo regulation l lav. xxe is quoteu to regulation as having no remedy to suggest and as spying that the labor movement is wages, but that, after jobs were started, thev enforced advances: also ognition by employers. Yet so long I m unions are not lesallv liable for 1 n..rn.TnanrA j-if ti)r pmttnl ta,- cannot be held to the same degree of i to fulfil them by striking. As to j strikes of any magnitude, public sym- , patny usually aeciaes wnetner a ' strike shall be won or lost, and it beings and the activity of their minds and bodies. But churches have to do with the spiritual part of man and they do not object to incorporation, though contending with all the forces of evil. Fraternal societies render brotherly help to their members, but they incorporate. They derive sub stantial advantages from the corpor ation laws, which are equally open to labor unions. By refusing to assume legal re sponsibility corresponding with the rights that they exercise, labor unions put weapons In the armory of their enemies. The case for the open shop or for refusal to employ any union men at all is made stronger by unions' refusal to place themselves on an equality with employers as to judicial enforcement of contracts An incorporated union which made and lived up to a contract to supply only faithful, competent workmen for a stipulated term at agreed wages and which voluntarily assumed legal liability for performance or break ing of the contract by any of its members would commend itself to some employers who refuse to deal with a loosely organized union which does not hold its members to their obligations. That is to be inferred from the fact that the oldest, strong est unions, those with which large numbers of employers have made collective bargains for many years, are those which have held their members to their contracts, which have accepted adverse arbitration awards and have fought outlaw strikes. These have a standing to which others that cherish the right to be irresponsible cannot attain. The incorporated union would have the means to free itself from the taint of bribery by its officials, of violence and intimidation by its members, and thus to gain a degree of public confidence which the old. carefully managed unions have ac quired in the course of long years. Discussion of the "breakdown" of the English language may well be left to the ultra-purists while its use by the people of the world continues to grow. We are less concerned with the theories of German professors that the changes it is undergoing are signs of degeneration than with the obvious fact that it is constantly proving itself "more serviceable, more labor-saving and a more direct instrument of thought," as Sir Henry Newbolt of London says it is. We probably gain more than we lose by not having an academy of final arbi tration for words, as the French have, and in the end the new words that creep in and survive do so be cause they fill some obvious need. Even slang has its uses, though there are forms of it that we condemn. The final effect is to preduce a form of speech that because of its very fluidity seems destined to prevail over those which, more conserva tively managed, fail to meet the needs of an ever progressive world. With consumption of manufac tured goods in this country exceed ing production, as Harvard econo mists say it is, an export market is a matter of more or less academic in terest. Yet permanent prosperity de mands an outlet for future surplus. and there will be a surplus when all hands are employed. The Great Northern railway has announced that it will meet jitney stage-line competition out of Spo kane by putting into service four gasoline motor cars that will out- jitney the jitneys. And after all. sn't that the real railroad answer to the challenge of the stages? Something good can be said even for the longshoremen's strike. It keeps the traffic police so busy on the waterfront that" a motorist can park his car downtown for hours without being tagged. A general election is one of the few luxuries in which Oregon can in dulge that the people are willing to pay for.' As they want to learn re sults quickly, the count should be hastened everywhere. The United States is to make a $5,000,000 loan to Liberia. We pre sume a cold winter is expected and that the purpose of the loan is to enable the Libef-ians to buy stove pipe hats. The season is certainly devastating to the profits of the makers of straw hat cleaners. It begins to look as if one furbishing would last through all the summer that is likely to be left. One big business man blames the universal use of automobiles for the high cost of living. Don't know about that, but it certainly has added to the cost of dying. Tradition requires that fashionable weddings shall be contracted at "high noon." but any old hour does well enough when the judge says, "Divorce granted." Down here, where there is rain "to burn," It sounds odd to hear a com plaint of lack of rain in Josephine county at this time of year. Long ago John H. Cradlebaugh wrote of this as "the land where the dreams come true," and it is, some times even political, dreams. Gifford Pinchot seems tp have con fined his forestry practice in late years mainly to conservation of him self as political timber. Fining a man for eating a crane would seem like unnecessary pun ishment if a crane is anything like as tough as it looks. Oregon is in pretty deep on its good roads programme, but that's one expenditure worth every cent of it. Llovd George can come nearer to i KAnin? bis WP. V Sll CCPSSf II 11 V Ollf nf a . crisis than any man in world politics, i The Listening Post. By DeWitt Harry. .TTXHERALDED and unsung are deeds accom- , many Df the good ; plished ip Portland, and, but for a well-wishing friend, the great eerv , ice that Leonard Christofero ren- j dered his home city would never be known. Christofero had lived in Port land for 2S years, ever since he left a little Italian village near Rome, and he has grown to love his adopted city with a devotion rare even among those native-born. Portland means so much to Christofero that he would do everything possible' for her sake. A famous priest from Christofero's former home, a man learned and with an enviable reputation as an -author, came to the United States to visit and write a book about us. In the course of his travels he reached Port land, drenched with winter rains, a city where he knew no one. Dispir ited, uninterested, the author was about to leave the city with a very unfavorable impression, without hav ing had an opportunity to see her commerce, her unmatched scenery, her industries or beauties. Chris tofero heard the circumstances, and though he works for a small wage, he managed to get a few days' leave from his job and with a couple of other Italian friends from the same district that the priest lived hired an automobile and took the author In charge. They took the priest out on the highway, they feasted and feted him, they showed him the attentions proper to a man ofhis standing and learning, they unfolded before his astonished eyes such scenic delights as could -not help but move even the most passive of mankind and then they told him the matchless tale of Portland's progress. The result was that the visitor lengthened his stay from two to four days and now has written from Italy that he met with the best reception of his entire trip at Portland. Instead of .a paragraph telling of rain and damp there will be an en tire chapter in the forthcoming book that traveler will write for his Ital ian public and Portland will have the most enviable reputation of any city in the United States. All because cno of her adopted sons thought enough of his home to devote a little of his own time and money to seeing that she was not done a wrong. Men like Christofero are the reasons why cities like Portland progress. - President Odd Names Club We know of lots of gals up here who wish to be enrolled in your ODD NAMES GAL-LERY, f'r instance: Iva Orville Stocking of Lyle, Wash., wishes to get in the swim. Will Swett of Grand Dalles says an optimist is a man who uses a one way ticket to his town and just misses the last ferry for The Dalles. BILBATES. Secy. White Salmon Stuffed Club. And another local man is placed in nomination by Dewey L. Carpenter. Carpenter says no club of this sort could be complete without Lynn C. Doyle, who Is a lubricant salesman. As advertising experts are ever In search for the novel and new, this little bit is herewith tendered for what it may be worth. The first inkling that such a state of affairs existed came from the Wheeler Re porter when that sheet exposed one Henry Haak for his skill in adver tising his special line of business. It appears that Haak is a timber oper ator and in order that all who met him might know his calling he is aid to have purchased a sack op sawdust, that he kept at home, and sprinkled on his clothing for the ben efit of those he met during the day. This little stunt likely could be turned to excellent use by others. Why not a hairdresser with several long, golden hairs on his lapel? Or a baker with a quart of flour on his shoulders? Or the restaurant owner with soup samples on the vest? Likely some men have already stumbled on this method of personal advertisement, but it would seem to open vistas of possibilities. It was just sucn a day as this," said the old fisherman, as he lit his corn-cob pipe and moved nearer the stove. "There was a warm drizzly rain falling, with a light wind from the south, a most favorable day to fish. It was down on the south fork along in the late '90s that I made the big catch." "How many did you get?" I asked as I moved my chair closer, so as not to miss any of the story. 'Well, it was no use to try to count them," .said the old fisherman, as he refilled his pipe. "I was raking hay down on a big meadow near the river, when a big school of salmon trout came up, so I just drove back and forth across the river and raked them out, you could see piles of fish for miles on both sides of the river." "That sure must of been some big school of fish," I remarked. "Well, that was the most fish I ever seen," he said as he tilted back in his chair and crossed his legs. "They had to put new piers under all the bridges on the river, those fish . had completely Worn them off where they rubbed them coming up the river." "Were there are very big ones?" I asked. "Well, yes," drolled the old man, "some' of the farmers along the river used the back bones of the largest ones to stake their beans on." "I suppose the ribs formed a ladder to gather the beans with," I said. "Yes, that's right," said th-3 old man as he plodded off down the hill. BROWN HACKLE. Almost everyone likes popcorn, and nearly everyone eats it and finds no discomfort in the fact. However, three girls a few days ago were nearly induced to swear off for life. They went to a movie about noon time, when the place was very quiet and just a few people in attendance. One of the trio had purchased an ample supply of crackerjack. ana or arlj two commissioners in No they sat and munched and looked, vember. The commissioners whose and were having a thoroughly en- term8 expire are Commissioners yier joyable time. Finally they noticed anfl Bigeiow. that several people who had been sitting nearby had moved away and then the reason dawned on them. Ever hear a horse grinding grain with his teeth when hungry? Well, Ihe noise the thre girls male in that quiet theater must have been some thing like that made by a strong- iawed hOTSe before well-filled manger after hard day's toil, ' Those Who Come and Go. Tnlea of Polks at the Hotels. Ben. Dorris, popular war veteran of Enene, has attacked a new problem. When he came home from the war. disabled to the point where he could no longer laarsue his work as a rail read man. he started farming. Ho is now an authority on the growing of filberts and is known as the "fil bert king" of Lane county. His new problem is that of raising artichokes. He believes that there is a big field for artichoke growing in the State and is trying out. the vegetable on a commercial scale. He also believes that Oregon is not paying enough at tention to asparagus growing. "An acre of ground well cared for will net an asparagus grower J200 a year." he said at the Portland hotel yesterday. "It is one of the most reliable crops I know of." Dorris Is one of the most active men in the' American Legion in the state. He is regarded as the leader of the legion in Lane county. "When a man makes a dollar out of the soil that is a new dollar," con tinued Dorris. "I get out on the farm and igrow filberts asparagus and other fruits and. vegetables. When I sell them in the markets and convert them into dollars I am making: new money and putting It into circu lation. A fellow knows he's really doing something when he is growing things." "We've got two railroads built Into our timber, and we've got the finest body of standing timber in the world," said S. G. Irvin of Newport at the Imperial yesterday. "The railroads Will bring out the timber and the sawmills will do the rest and, as we are getting a fine harbor, there is every reason to predict that Lincoln county has a great future of pros perity. Some day the Roosevelt high way will be the great traffic road along the coast into California, as it will be free from snow in the winter and travel can avoid the Slskiyous, which have snow. We are very in terested in having the Roosevelt high way completed and are hoping that the federal government will soon make generous appropriations for the construction of this road." Mr. Irvin has been a resident of Newport for more than 30 years. He is now on his way east to attend a convention. "I've been buying a dress for my wife as a sort of peace offering," confesse-d an eastern Oregon man, at the Hotel Portland. "I came away from home n a hurry and have been gone longer than 1 expected. You see, if a husband stays away from home one night he gets 'Hail, Colum bia' when he shows up the next morn ing, but if he remains away a week the anger of his wife has cooled down and she is tickled to death to see him come home. That's the pojicy I am working now. Got a message from my wife the other day that was a hummer, so I've been remaining in town waiting for the storm to blow over. Today I bought a dre I hope it fits her, for I had to guess at the sis and I'm taking it home as a sort of souvenir." Talk about roads in Oregon and speed and things of that sort! Clar ence Underwood of Klamath Palls ar rived in Portland Wednesday night. He had left Klamath Falls at 4:30 c'clock Wednesday morning. Accord ing to the story going the rounds in the hotel lobbies, Mr. Underwood made the run of 350 miles in a day. So far as known, this is the best run ning time that has ever been made between Klamath Falls and Portland and it probably is one of the longest day's runs in the state. J. S. Dellinger, newspaper publisher of Astoria and enthusiastic grower of cranberries, Is in Portland and regis tered at the Imperial. Mr. Dellinger is one of the severa. candidates run ning for the republican nomination for state senator of Clatsop county. The contest for the nomination is quite keen. C. L. Lieuallen, one of the state traffic officers In the eastern Oregon district, is registered at the Imperial lie came here to att.-nd the state high way commission meeting and make a report on the use of highways in that district by tractors and other farm equipment. Dr. W. T. Williamson left yesterday for California to read a paper on ner vous diseases at the California state society meeting at Yosemite. Thence he will attend meetings of the trus tees of the American Medical associa tion at St. Louis and also the scientific convention of the American Medical association. Pacific avenue in Tacoma, the widest street In the city and one which is a real show street, is to have a new pavement. That is, the bricks which have done service for years are to be covered with bitumin. Ernest Dolge. a lumberman from Tacoma, is at the Hotel Portland. William E. Coman and wife are at the Hotel Portland. Mr. Coman is general agent for the Northern Pa cific in the northwest, with headquar ters at Seattle. Robert B. Ailen of Seattle, with the West Ccast Lumbermen's association, Is at the Hotel Portland while attend ing a meeting cf lumbermen In this city. C. S. Winser, manager of the Simp son estate, is at the Benson from North Bend. Mr. Winser is one of the boosters for the new North Bend hotel and is also interested in bank ins. Speaking of Olcotta, Ben and Chaun. cey are both registered at the Hotel Portland. The governor of Oregon and the celebrated elrfger met each other. J. Fred Larson, formerlj of Portland but now one of the active citizens of Astoria, is registered at the Multno mah. Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner and wife and Secretary of State Kozer and wife arrived at the Hotel Portland yester day from Salem. W. H. Pr;-ston, sales manager of the North Bend Mill & Lumber company is among the trrivai at the Benson. M. R. CoJt, a contractor of Seattle, is at the Hctel Portland. City Election In P-.-tlnnd. PORTLAND, May n (To the Editor.)- When is city primary, or how are City officers elected? When is city election, and how many officer have we to vote for? Whose term ex pires?? SUBSCRIBER. Election of city officers In Port land is non-partisan, .'here :s no pri mary election, but candidates get on the general election ballot by peti tion and are chosen by the preferen tial system. There are only five elec tive offices m-aycr, four comm's- eioners and auditor. We elect an au- Date of Earthquake and Eire. pnPTI AND May "1 (To the t.Mi-! tor -Please give the date of the j San Francisco earthquake and f ire, ! as I am trying to trace something nf much importance to me MRS. M. it WATSON earthquake ' The ano fire occurred on April IS, isuto. Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Houschton-Mifflln Co. Can You Answer These Questions f 1. Is there a plant or tree that catches and coneumes mammals or even people? 2. Why do parrots have such hooked bills If they are not birds of preyr 3. What should rabbits eat? Answers tn Tomorrow's Nature Notts. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Are the rings of growth at ths top of a trunk of a tree fewer in num ber than at the base? Yes, the annual layers of new growth lap one over the other like a nest of truncated cones, with more layers at the bottom, or old part of the trunk which has. had time to ac cumulate them. 2. What Is a mongoose? It Is one of ths cat-like vlverrlne animals, to which civet-cats belong, and comes from India, where it is found both In wild state, and domes ticated. Greatly valued In India as a snake and rat killer. In 18"2 the mongoose was introduced into Ja maica and later into Porto Rioo and Hawaii. Though beneficial in killing pests, it proved troublesome In ex terminating ground birds and attack ing poultry. The law finally forbade Its importation. s 3. Is the heron the same as a crane. only called differently? No, they belong to different fami lies, though often confused. Cranes, Gruldae. are usually larger, have close plumage, partly naked head and long but blunt-tipped bill. Nes. in marshes or lonely plains, and have down-covered young that run about soon after hatching, though fed by the parents for a time. Herons, Ardeldae, have soft plumage and some have ndptial plumes. Bills long and sharp-pointed. Commonly nest In trees, in colonies, and have helpless young cared for by the parents for some time. WHERE LINCOLN MYTH STARTED Denunciation of Prohibition Disproved and Untruth Traced to Source. The Union Signal. The effort of the opponents of pro hibition to convince the people that Abraham Lincoln, were he living, would line up with them In their campaign against the eighteenth amendment, is pathetic. In a circu lar sent out by the association throughout the country they give the following statement as purporting to have been used by Abraham Lincoln: "Prohibition will work great injury to the cause of temperance. It is a species of intemperance within Itself for it goes beyond the bounds of rea son, in that it attempts to control men's appetities by legislation and makes a crime of things that are not crimes. A prohibition law strikes a blow at the very principles on which our government was founded. I have always been found laboring to protect the weaker from the stronger and I never can give my consent to such a law as you propose to enact." Investigation as to the authenticity of this statement was made years ago by Rev. Duncan C. Milner of Chicago. He sent copies of it to John Hay and J. G. Nicolay, Lincoln's great bio graphers, who collected and edited his complete works. They replied that they had never found anything to warrant the statement and re ferred to Mr. Lincoln's great temper ance speech in 1842 as giving his real sentiments. Officials of the liquor societies were asked where the quo tation was to be found but none of them could tell of any edition of Lin coln's speeches where It appeared. At last, however, the false statement seems to have been traced to its source. The Rev. Duncan O. Milner, in an open letter dated March 26, 1922, published in the Chicago Trib une, tells Its history as follows: "It made Its first public appearance in an anti-saloon campaign In At lanta, Ga., in 1887. A circular was issued, addressed to the negroes and appealing to them in the name of their emancipator. The handbills were headed in large letters, 'For Liberty: Abraham Lincoln's Procla mation.' Underneath was a picture of a negro kissing Lincoln's hand, which was striking off his shackles. and then the professed quotation. A few days ago Dr. Sam Small, the noted evangelist and lecturer, told me that he was In the Atlanta cam paign in 1887, that the man who in vented this false message confessed the fact to him. Mr. Small says he Is ready to make his affidavit to this statement. This might settle the question." This disclosure of the origin of the false statement, used so widely by the liquor interests, ought to be given extended publicity. THE DOUBLE STANDARD. Aye, stone the woman let the man go free! Draw back your garments lest per chance they touch Hers as she passes by, but to him Put forth a willing hand to clasp with his That led her to destruction and dis grace. Shut up from her the sacred ways of toil, That she no more may gain an honest meal; But open to him all honorable paths Where he may win distinction. Give to him Pressed-down, heaped-up and run ning over Measures full of life's sweetest Joys. Pass her, O maiden, with disdainful face. If she puts forth a poor, polluted palm; But lay thy hand in his on bridal day. And swear to cling to him with wifely love And tender reverence. Trust him whe led A sister woman to this fearful fate! Aye, stone the woman -let the man go free! Let one soul suffer for the guilt of two It is the doctrine of a hurried world Too out of breath for holding bal ances Where nice distinctions and injus tices Are calmly weighed. But. ah. how will it be On that strange day of final fire and flame. When men shall wither with a mystic fear. And all shall stand before the one true judge? Shall sex meke then a difference In sin , . .... , . he, the searcher of tne hidden Shall h In his eternal and divine decree Condemn the woman and forgive the man? MARIAN D. MERRY. Birtltplnrr of Cnndlrlnte. FORKPT GROVE. Or.. May 10 (T. the Editor. )--Please advise where A. W. Norblad. candidate fo.- nomination. for cor;ssnian. first d.sn-ict was norn juy - L, 31TBBCRJBER. Mr Norblad was hcrp in Sweden and came to this country with his parent3 wneu an inwm More Truth Than Poetry. Br James J. Montagus. A CHANCE FOR COMPOSERS. Opera, fitted with phonograph scores, is soon to be put on the film. Whan movies are given to music And opera's sung on the screen, Whsn the baritones croon an appro priate tune As they work In a hair-raising scene. There'll be need of mors modern com posers To harmonise picture and score A good lively bunch that will furnish the punch For the thrills that the people adore. The dear little child, for example. When he's thrown from a passenger train. Should fold his frail hands o'er his heart when he lands And warble a plaintive refrain A piteous song, out forgiving. To prove that, though shocked by the fall And dented a bit by the rock that he hit. His feelings aren't woundsd at all The villain who poisons the haro Should fade from the film with a song. With deep organ notes to show how he gloats' Over deeds that are dreadfully wrong. The hero would be mors herolo And knock 'em all dead. If he sang A red-blooded lay while he stood thsrs at bay And shot up the Mexican gang. Not even the late Richard Wagner Could write, in his noisiest time, A score that would fit In ths wild western kit That is one savage carnage of crlms. He writes pretty rough-housing music. But It Isn't half peppy enough. For the opera-screen if you know what I mean We have got to have livelier otuffl pas A Terrific Demand. This country Is Increasing Its chem ical output, but not half fast enough to meet the needs of the bootleggers. Father Gave Him II Is. Young John D. say It U difficult to dispose of large sums of money. That Is because hs never had occasion to buy any oil stock. Of Course. New York easily placed a $43,000,000 bond issue. Burglars and bootleggers find it to their interest to support the city government. (Copyright hy Hi- 11-11 Sny.'.l-nlie. lnr 1 I Must Go Down. Br E. Hall. I must go down into the depths of me To find myself. The surface of my being Is s mask I wear. Because it Is the rule. And from behind it 1 can scan the other masks And find rare entertainrnent In the quest of other selves. Playing at hlde-and-scck with ms As I with them. It would be most alarming to con front A naked soul, Stripped of sll pretense, with no faint effort to conceal Its actual thoughts, desires and bit terness Scorn, envy, malice, venom AH that blends Into each life, however fine It b For even In the best of mortal stuff Are traces of Ingredients that We much deplore. So. lost the friction be indoed too great Between these human aloms. moved By self-made greeds. We wear our masks for saffty. know. Ing well That as we are, we merit llltle love. And, being all love-hungry, then must show The sweetest surface that we each May know. But when I would acquaint myself with self I dig deep In my heart to find Us core: Look frankly at lis tendencies and faults. Its pettiness, perhaps Its callousness To others' struggles whate'sr. In deed, is there; And having been abashed, dismajen And humbled quite. By what I find, then do I strlvs to prav In wordless uplift of the oul-thlng In my breast For grace to wear the ugly traits away. And e'en behind my mask, be swset and fine. In Other Days. Twenty-five Yrnrw Affo. From The Oregonian of May 12. 1S9". Athens The end "f the Creek Turk war Is In sight with the Creek government accepting tho offer of European powers for mediation Washington O N Denny of Ore Ron, who has the backing of the Ore gon delegation for the Chinese mis sion, called upon the president today. The body of Judge I,. L. Mi-Arthur, who died at Walla Walla Monday reached here yesterday. Funeral services will be held this afternoon. Articles of Incorporation, a consti tution and by-laws were adopted by the United Wheelmen's association yesterday. GRANT GREAT AS STATESMAN Achievements as President Enumer ated ly nr. Hondlrr, UNIVERSITY PARK. May 11. (To the Editor.) In the tribute given I p Grant by speakers and the press, inspired by the centennial, th em phasis has been placed upon Gram, soldier, and hut lltte has been said in aomc Instances, nothing at Sll about Grant, the statesman. lnd ed. many Ihink Grant as a president was a failure. Not so. Although Grant began his presidency as lie com manded an army, he om saw that a nation and an army arc quite dUfsr nt and thst as a statesman he must take a large counsel from others. Real achievements mark the terms of President Grant. The outstanding features of MS two tSTrSs of admin istration were the settUment of our difficulties with Crent Hritain by ar bitration, the reorganisation of states which had been in revolt, a bravs stand for sound money, the In.-ugur-atlon of a humane Indian policy, and Line sending on Inlu the futurs Ihe plhe nd, gf Take the adjustment of the rebel- llous states i tii1- oiunp n'Tii wimii they struggled an.'i we see that was greater . accomplishment than what happened at Appamotax. llranl ma:e Lincoln with his sword lull united a new nation out of ui-ed-un frogmen , left by revolt. B. I. HOADLET Dote of Eaatcr In UM PORTLAND. May 11 (To the Edi tor.) Flense Inform Ms III whs: month and what rii ; of th mjni" was Easter of l9nn? MI'.S'.'ltlllKn. Sastur fell on April 11, lt'ti i