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THE MORXING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, MAX 23, 1922 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY L. PITTOCK. published by The Oregonian Publishing Co., Mi Sixth Siren, fortltnd, Oregon. . C A. MORDEN, E. B. PIPER. Manager. . Editor. The Oregonian la a member of the Asso elated Press. The Associated Press Is ex clusively entitled to the use for publication ot all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local new, published herein. All rights or publication ut special dispatches herein are also reserved. Subscription Bates Invariably In Advance. (By Mail.) Dally, Sunday Included, one year. ... .$8.00 Dally, Sunday Included, six months.. 4.25 Daily, Sunday included, three months. 2.-5 Dally, Sunday included, one month... .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Dally, without Sunday, six months... S.i!5 Daily, without Sunday, one month 80 Sunday, one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) 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Watson's speech at the Indiana republican convention brings the public mind back to the real issue of the opening congres sional campaign. That is the con trast between the present state of the nation's affairs and their state dur ing the last year of the Wilson ad ministration. Democratic criticism is evidently designed to turn atten tion from this contrast and to arouse discontent because the administra tion has not completed in fourteen months the programme that it had laid out for four years. A fair judg ment can only be based on what has been accomplished in the time that has been consumed, though the work remaining to put the nation's affairs in order is so great as to dwarf the proportions of what has been done. It is "no exaggeration to say that the measures passed for relief of agriculture have saved the industry from bankruptcy and have raised it to a position where grain, wool, cotton and livestock are sold readily at profitable prices and where farm ers have materially reduced their frozen loans at the banks. The way has been opened for them to effect permanent economies by co-operation In marketing, and measures are under way which will give farmers as good facilities for financing their business as other Industries enjoy. When Mr. Harding entered the White House, confusion and extrava gance reigned in all departments. The budget bureau Is working with congress and has stopped waste, enormously reduced expenditures and brought the departments Into close co-ordination. Annual ex penses have been reduced by billions and taxes have been reduced in an amount which will not be fully real ized by the taxpayers till next year, yet government income and outgo are brought near a balance by strict economy to which the government had been a stranger. The new flood of immigrants has been stopped, and congress is working on a tariff bill which will maintain our American standards. L lb e r a 1 provision is made for disabled ex-soldiers at lower aggregate cost than when the spenders ruled at Washington. By the Washington conference Secretary Hughes not only removed danger of war in the far east and stopped the race in naval armament. He set before the world an example of actual achievement in limiting armament which has focused the minds of the nations on that one aim and has given old-world diplomacy a trend toward sanity that marks the proceedings of all its conferences Though accused of seeking national isolation, Mr. Harding, by the suc cessful outcome of that conference, has rendered the world a service that cannot be reckoned by the num ber and length of its treaties and covenants. He now stands ready to join in restoring the world's eco nomic health so soon as the nations come together on those first prin ciples of national and commercial honor which are essential to interna tional intercourse. . Sound republican administration already bears fruit in returning pros perity. It is lifting the nation from the slough Into which the Wilson ad ministration led it. The choice be fore the people is between traveling along the firm road on which its feet hare been set and sinking again in that slough. Critics of the admin istration presume too much on popu lar forgetfulness. CLEAN-UP WEEK. Despite the zealous and constant care of the home-owner, with pride in his domicile and its space of neat green lawn, . there comes a season when a trifle mofe zeal, a bit more constancy, are indicated if the civic countenance shall shine. For cities are much like urchins. In that they must be scrubbed and scoured and newly attired now and again if they measure up to their comely possi bllities. The resurgence of spring tide has long been held to be that . time of year when this hardy annual . reform should burgeon in the ob servance of clean-up week. . And clean-up week is again upon us, im perative and insistent. The necromancy of the paint brush needs must be resorted to, the shrubbery must be trimmed, the vacant lot searched for the ebullient thistle, now in tender infancy, and the odd chores that have ever a way of procrastinating themselves must be sentenced to accomplishment. It . is significant of what the city ex . pects, officially, that no permits are required for the kindling of. bonfires during clean-up week. It expects - that some thousands of tons of rub bish, always unsightly, If not worse, shall blaze into obsolescence and that the haze of this homely sacri - fice shall blend with the soft dusk of . tno May evening. There Is a deal of sociability about and around such a fire. It wakens the social Instinct that is old as the race, and neigh bors lean upon their rakes to gossip and dodge the smoke spurts. Also it should be remembered, by those who make a virtue of civic pride, that the vacant lot is often anathema to the neighborhood, and that from Its hospitable If ragged bosom wafts the thistledown, is borne the weed seed, that makes (rardening less a joy than a penance. The vacant lot and its care, of .. course, are quite properly the con , una oi the owner, who often dwells far and far away and refuses to be concerned. Thus we confront a con dition, not a theory, and perceive that the very highest form of neigh borhood service is to assault the nuisance as a freelance to perspire over that vaaant lot for a half hour and charge it up to exercise and sub sequent complacency. It is quite proper that elean-up week should be the institution it has become. The observance of such a period does not convict us of sloven liness during the fifty-one preceding weeks. Not at all. No more than one annual housekeeping orgy in dicts the housewife as an incompe tent. Clean-up week enables us to see the city as it should be, and to bring it, with each successive year, nearer to perfection and unalloyed llveablenesa ' ' . MISTAKE SOMEWHERE. Here are the figures on congressman in last Friday's republican primaries McArthur 15,449. Korell 14.811. Crumpacker 10.464. Macdonald 2214. Total 42.438. Mr. McArthur got only 15.449 republican votea Twenty-six thousand nine hundred and eighty-nine republicans voted, against him. Over 63 per cent of the republicans of his district did not want Mr. McArthur. Nearly two-thirds of his republican con stituents who voted in Friday's primaries think Mr. McArthur's votes and speeches in congress are wholly out of harmony with, their views and their wish. Port land Journal. If we get our horrified contem porary correctly, the republicans of the Third Oregon district have been buncoed into nominating a candi date for congress a majority of them do not want, and the majority are entitled to name the candidate. What is our democratic friend go ng to do about it? It is a stout sup porter of the plurality primary. which it has long contended pro vided for the perfect expression of the people's will. Can there, be a mistake about it? SOLACE OF THE SOFT DRINK. That oasis of the sultry summer, almost equally popular at any other season, the soda fountain, win divert from the American pocket this year not less than $1,000,000,000. Such Is the forecast of the statisticians, who inform us that many a more pretentious industry, blazoned from coast to coast, is far from equalling the financial stature of the soft drink bar. The estimate is stupendous, and the more so when we consider that it will be realized in a tide of small change from high and low, proving the essential democracy of this peculiarly national institution. Tet the price seems little enough to pay for the solace of those nec- tared drinks that blase boys mix and flip so deftly. On some torrid eve ning of July, when the presence of summer rests like a Pullman blanket over the wearied city, who would be grudge his tithe of that tremendous total for a frosted and mysterious glass that is coolth itself? The growth of the soda fountain industry, observers comment, was vigorously stimulated by the advent of prohibi tion, which fact rather points a jeer toward those pessimists who held that a gentleman without his high ball would be the easy convert of some darker, vice,. Thus it is that we discover him today, placid and contemplative, spooning away at his nut sundae. The desperate picture of a dissolute man. RAILROAD RATES START DOWN, Having cast away the Opportunity offered by President Harding to make a voluntary reduction of freight rates on the lines suggested by Secretary Hoover, the railroads are now ordered by the interstate commerce commission to make a horizontal reduction on all commodi- ties except those on which they have already scaled down rates. They might have earned credit with the public for regard to the. general wel fare by making reductions varying according to the circumstances gov erning each commodity, as they would doubtless have preferred. They must now see rates cut with the ax of horizontal reduction. Certainly the reduction was over due and will be a decided relief to industry, but it is by no means ex cessive. Though on Its face it ranges from 12 to 14 per cent of the rates prevailing before the commission ordered the general advance in August, 1920, it does not extend to commodities on which reductions have already been made since that date, and the average cut is thus about 10 per cent. In the meantime wages have been reduced, cost of material has fallen, and the volume of traffic has swollen slightly, with the result that in March the first class roads earned the standard re turn of 6 per cent. Interest is far lower than in August, 1920, hence the credit of the roads should be well sustained by the new standard return of 5.75 per cent adopted by the eomission. Business is on the upgrade, demand is increasing, prices are stiffening, and traffic is heavier. This improvement will be acceler ated by lower cost of transportation. The net result should be so complete employment of the railroad plant that on the larger tonnage at re duced rates it will earn as large revenue as it has earned on a smaller tonnage at higher rates. The rail roads will soon be as well off finan cially as before, and they will share the general benefit derived from this step toward normal, stable values. Better results could have been ob tained if the commission had fol lowed Mr. Hoover's suggestion that rates be reduced first on basic com modities used in manufacture and building, on farm produce and articles used on the farm, those on manufac tures and other goods of high value being left for later adjustment. By that means a deeper cut could have been made on the selected commo llties, prices of finished goods could have been brought lower, and indus try could have been stimulated. Cost of transportation is a higher propor tion of the price of staple raw ma terials than of manufactures, there fore is a heavier tax, and a horizon tal increase weighs more heavily on goods of low value than on those of high value. For these reasons hori zontal advance and reduction of rates disturb their relation to prices. When the commission says that "the needs of commerce cannot be met if rates are to fluctuate with the market price of commodities," it misses this point. Before the prac tice of general horizontal advances was initiated by the United States railroad administration, transporta tion cost bore some relation to the normal range of price for various commodities, but this relation has been disturbed by that practice, and still further by the more rapid defla tion of prices for basic commodities and farm produce than for manufac tures. Probably the commission as so divided as to the manner la which a detailed downward revision of rates should be made that it found agreement Impossible and fell back on the percentage plan as the only way to avoid interminable delay. An Intimation is given that the public need not expect any further reduction at an early date, but one will be due when the railroad labor board finishes its revision of working rules and wages. It has been toil ing at this task ever since it averted a strike last October, and its action on wages is certainly due. As the railroads have increased their net In come to 6 per cent without securing this reduction in cost of operation and as they promised to hand on to the shipper all saving that would arise from wage reduction, they will be under a moral obligation to re duce rates again whenever the labor board acts. Rates have just started downward, and the present cut Is only the first'installment. CHILDREN AS DISLOYALIST TOOLS.: Sympathy and mendacity are mingled in the letter of Eugene V. Debs to Kate Richards O'Hare oh the so-called "political prisoners." who are in prison for obstructing conduct of the war. President Hard ing la not responsible for the pil grimage of those "sad, weary and bedraggled little children." That re sponsibility rests on those who or ganized the children s crusade with the coldly calculated purpose of arousing the president's sympathy for the children and thereby of turn ing his mind from the guilt of their fathers. When Debs quotes from the Bible the words "forbid them not," applied to little children, he calls to mind those other words denouncing "scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites," uttered from the same mouth. When he says that not one of the prisoners for whom the children ig norantly and innocently plead "com mitted an overt act or any other crime other than that of belonging to a labor union and expressing his honest," he both misstates the facts and glosses over the crimes. The prisoners were guilty of ob structing the effort of the United States to defeat Germany. If this obstruction had achieved complete ! success, Germany would haye mas- I tered Europe and much of Asia and Africa, and the United States and j other American nations would have had to fight alone against th tre- j mendous forces that Germany could then have marshaled. This was the almost certain consequence if Amer ican military power had not been exerted,, for all new evidence cor roborates the opinion that the Amer ican forces alone stopped the Ger man advance and turned the tide of battle. By this the enormity of the crime committed by the" "political prisoners" majst be measured. Their failure is no palliation of the of fense; the consequence of their pos sible success, had they not been hin dered, should be considered. When Debs says that. If his fel-low-seditlonists are not released, he "shall insist upon being returned to the penitentiary with them," he plays a safe game of bluff.- His sen tence was commuted to. end on the day of his release and until he is convicted of a new offense there is no authority in law for his being re turned to prison. No marshal can lawfully arrest him and no prison warden can lawfully receive him, and he knows it. A ceaseless propaganda Is kept up by the civil liberties union and all champions of the traitors. There fore it is necessary to keep in mind the nature of the 'offense for which these prisoners are confined, lest our judgment be overcome by cunning appeal to pity for the children whom the propagandists use as tools. The prisoners were lawfully convicted by juries with all the safeguards of jus tice that the constitution enjoins, and theln, sentences were affirmed on ap peal. The fact that this happened in time of war does not support a" pre sumption of prejudice or undue severity, for at such times men are best able to gauge the gravity of the offense; when no danger threatened the nation, judges and juries would be inclined to undue leniency. THE NAVIES OF THE FCTCRE. Out of the naval limitation treaty has grown a lively debate As to whether the United States or Great Britain made a sacrifice, as to which nation the treaty leaves worse off. The debate has extended to a re newal of the controversy as to whether aircraft and submarines have made the battleship obsolete. The discussion has been carried on by British champions of the sub marine by means of letters to the London Times, and they have been reinforced by airmen In opposition to building any more battleships. At the same time Lord Wester-Wemyss, admiral of the British fleet, writing In the Nineteenth Century and After maintains that, his counry must compensate for its racrifice in con senting to naval equality with the United States by building an in creased number of submarines and other auxiliaries, which would re store its superiority. Admiral Sims, replying in the Current History Monthly, maintains that the Ameri can navy is inferior In all types of auxiliary vessels except destroyers, that congress will not vote money to make good the deficiency and. that, as the treaty does not limit the num ber of such ships, Great Britain is free to build, therefore makes no sacrifice. While both Admiral Wemyss and Admiral Sims still regard the battle ship as the backbone of the fleet, champions of both submarines and aircraft contend that it is of no use at all. Tests of airplane attack on the American battleship Iowa by American airmen and on the former German battleship Ostfriesland by British airmen are cited as proof that its day is done. It Is said to be at a hopeless disadvantage against the submarine and airplane, for its movement Is limited to length and breadth, while the submarine also has depth and the airplane also has height. On behalf of the submarines we are told that they "need not even go to sea automatically to-cut down the endurance of all our surface fleet by at least sixty per cent by compelling all ships to go at high speed on a zigzag course"; also that "dose blockade is dead, and there is no one we can distantly blockade, as in the Jast war, by reason of the submarine, which has also cut down the capabilities of capital ships In other directions too much to leave them the power to accomplish any thing." Though still upholding the supremacy of the battleship, both Admiral Wemyss and Admiral Sims concede the efficiency of the sub marine for both offense and defense and that it has rendered close block ade impossible. But it is aircraft that have sealed the final doom of the battleship, ac cording lo the airmen. A fleet of them will approach from an un known direction at dusk or dawn, when visibility is low, and from great height will drop smoke bombs on a battle fleet. Then, having blinded the gunners with a smoke screen, they will fly low and drop bombs containing 5000 pounds of TNT, which, even if they explode at a depth of ten feet five yards from a ship's side, will blow her to atoms, or they will fire aerial torpedoes with the same effect. Aircraft can attack ships in harbor and can bomb shore bases of the fleet, while battle ships would be useless against a country which had none and which relied for defense on aircraft, sub marines and minefields. . Against the submarine, defenders of the , battleship reply that in the war its power against surface war vessels "was proved to be strictly limited"; it "suffers in attack from blindness and lack of mobility." The airman is informed that bombing a battleship will not be a simple mat ter of touching a button and settling its fate when 100 miles away, for a smaller plane can outmaneuver' a bomber, which will not be a handy machine. Tests made with station ary ships, not defended by guns or airplanes, are declared" no guide to what would happen to swiftly mov ing ships defended by guns that are undergoing constant improvement. and by aircraft. Nor can aircraft operate on many days under such weather as frequently occurs at sea. As to the effect of explosives in the water, it is said tnae a 4ouo pound bomb containing 2000 pounds of explosive exploding ten feet from a ship at the right depth would be equivalent only to a 250-pound bomb fired in actual contact, whereas it would take an 8000-pound bomb ex ploded ten feet distant to equal a torpedo fh actual contact. The effect of a 4000-pound bomb exploding thirty yards from a battleship would have no more effect than three pounds of explosive In actual contact, and the effect at 100 yards would be equal to that of two or three ounces against the ship itself. These statements are contested by the authority on aviation, who says that there is a wide divergence of opinion among experts on the effect of under-water explosions, and that 'thirteen direct hits with compara tively small bombs rendered the Ostfriesland unseaworthy, and two 1000-pound bombs dropped close alongside sank her." But the battle fleet would be defended against sub marines by destroyers and cruisers and against aircraft by other air craft As usual with sponsors for ' new weapons, admirers of the undersea and aircraft exaggerate their possi bilities, for they give too little thought to what "the other fellow' will be doing while they do what they threaten. In the aggregate the accomplishments of submarines against armed ships defending them- selves were not so appalling as to establish their supremacy and to consign the battleship to the bone- yard. At Jutland the Germans seemed to exhaust their torpedoes, but with very limited result. These craft can be adequately countered In a battle fleet. As the Washington treaty limits the number and size of aircraft carriers, it limits the num ber of aircraft to the needs of a de fensive navy. Then an offensive air fleet could only operate against the battle fleet and coast of a near coun try until great flocks of planes are able to cross an ocean. Battle fleets will be screened from air attack by air fleets as they are now screened from torpedo attack by screens of destroyers and cruisers. i . The attention concentrated on auxiliaries and aircraft by the Wash ington treaty goes to show that other nations will try to develop their power In these respects to the full in order to compensate for the limit on capital ships and to make better than well balanced fleets. If the United States should pretend that by maintaining the treaty maximum of capital ships while neglecting other types and aircraft, it would preserve equality with Great Britain, it would deceive itself; its fleet might quickly sink to third or even lower rank We can preserve equality only by building and keeping prepared a bal anced fleet of ships of all types, plus a proportionate air fleet for the navy. Ezra Meeker is to travel the Ore gon trail once more, as 'he did in the early days of 1S54, but this time with camera men attending to take pic tures of historic places along the way. Now well past the 90-year milestone, but still strong and hearty and full of interest in life, Ezra Meeker is' one of the most remark able pioneer characters of all time. May he have luck In his present ven ture, which has a real historic value, and may he live to retrace the trail many times more. The Flappers' protective associa tion has been organized In Los Angeles with a motion picture ac tress as president. Some press agent has smashed the protective feature right oft the reel. The Stanfield clip of nearly two million pounds will be handled here. More like that and Portland will be the wool mart of the world. John Barrett sees a city of three millions here. The electricity peopl are not using John's glasses, but have a pretty long vision. Oregon's next progressive political step should be to Install voting ma chines. Then we'd have the count complete the first night. However, France " said nothing about a Monroe doctrine for Europe when she wanted American help to win the war. M. Protopapad'akis is the new premier of Greece. If the Turks ever survive that, they re hardy custom ers. In convention days It was cus tomary for the defeated- man to move lu mane it unanimous. 'Politics is about the only diversion in which a man can count his chicks before they incubate. Daylight saving is the only kind of economy the public is at all likely to get from its officials. Peace-time slogan of the modern mother: "I didn't raise my boy to be a bootlegger." Stars and Starmakers. By Leone Caaa Baer. Ruth St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, have been booked for a London engagement, opening at the Coliseum this month. Several of their pupils will appear with them In the act. - Isidora Duncan is planning to re turn to the United States from Russia In the fall, accompanied by 25 pupils and her husband. Serge Yessenin, to whom she was married recently in Moscow. Marjorie Rambeau is considering a tour in Shakespearean repertoire next season. Marjorie rushes in where many an older, more seasoned and more gifted actress fears to tread. Evelyn Nesbit, appearing In a caba ret in Atlantic City, contemplates marrying Sandor Dewlndt, a Hunga rian baron, as soon as she secures her divorce from Jack Clifford. The baron is at present employed as as sistant manager of a billiard room of an Atlantic City hotel. De Lyle Alda is co-featured with Richard Carle In "Molly Darling" at the Palace in Chicago. Edna Goodrich is convalescent after an Illness of several months. She will star next season in a new melo drama of the underworld, designed for a Broadway appearance. Appeal was filed in the state su preme court of California last week by Gertrude Steele, surgeon and dermatologist of Los Angeles, for a reversal of the decision of the lower courts that she pay $2500 damages to Pauline Hall, picture actress. Dam age were awarded Miss Hall after a legal battle in which tt was learned the actress had consulted Miss Steele about reducing the size of her lower lip. Miss Hall thought that her Hp was too full to correspond with her face if the was to be a big success in pictures. The dermatologist. Miss Hail said, had agreed to mend her lip to add to the harmony of her face. An operation was performed October 11, 1920. but because "it did not re suit In facial harmony suit was brought against the surgeon for $15, 000. Photographs of "before and after' were admitted as exhibits and di rectly resulted in the Jury awarding Miss Hall $2500. Court proceedings show that Miss Hall played a maid In "Are Passions Inherited?" Robert Warwick has been offered the male lead and co-star role with Peggy Hopkins In the forthcoming French farce for which they were to havo started rehearsals this week. So far the entire venture is in doubt. as Miss Hopkins' plans are unsettled and the effect of the picture an nouncement, barring her films, may cause her to throw up her stage ca reer entirely, and, perhaps, quit America for good. Frances Starr has a new play. "Shore Leave," produced by David Belasco. In the fall it is to open in New Tork, following a tryout in near-by towns. . Patla Power, former wife of Tyrone Power and now leading woman of the famous "Mission Play" in Los Ange les, was married last June to Clarence Thomas Arpen, also of the "Mission Play." News of the wedding was made public last week at the ending of the 1900th performance of the play. Mrs. Arper was divorced from Powers in 1920. Shortly afterward he married Bertha Knight, daughter of Professor William H. Knight of Pasa dena. Frederick Warde is with the "Mission Play." Filing of a belated marriage license with the town clerk of Greenwich, Conn., recently revealed that on March 12 the justice of the peace of that municipality united in marriage Philip Decker of Mamaroneck and Clarice Vance of New Tork. Mr. Decker said he was 35. Miss Vance, who announced herself as a divorcee, gave Tier age in confidence. Justice of the Peace Mead, who has made many stage people more or less happy by officiating at weddings. could not say whether the Miss Vance then participating was the "Clarice Vance" Broadway knew so long and favorably, but friends in the city said that it was. Clarice Vance made an episode of her stage career by a union with Mose Gumble, composer and music pub lisher, and for years it seemed as if the yiarrlage was a permanent af fair. However, in time a divorce was quietly obtained. William Morris, manager of Lauder, has mapped out the next Lauder tour. The Scot will return to America in October for a tour of 20 weeks over here. Afterward he will sail from the Pacifio coast for his second tour of Australia. Instead of continuing home westward through the Suez canal after the Australian tour, Lauder will take the back -track across the Pa cific, returning to England after play ing once again across the United States. In that event we shall catch Lauder either coming or going, or both. Eugenie Blair, who died suddenly at the Cort theater a week ago, dur? Ing the performance of "Anna Chris tie," was well known along the Pa cific coast, where she appeared as leading woman in productions In her early days. She was the mother of Eleanor Montell, who came to Port land as leading woman for the Alca zar stock a few years ago, and who was compelled to return east because of ill-health. Miss Blair was 54 years old, and had been the wife of Robert Downing, the tragedian, from whom she was divorced In 1913. Her fore most appearances had been in "The Light That Failed," "Day of Reckon ing," "A Lady of Quality," "Zaza" and "Madame X." As her days increased, Miss Blair took up character work. Helen Kiely Bartlett, niece of Jessie Bartlett, contralto with the Bos tonlans and other noted musical or ganizations. Is going in for a season of opera abroad. She has beenven gaged for the summer at the Del Verme theater in Milan, Italy, and will leave for that country within the next few weeks. Miss . Bartlett recently made her public debut In a recital in Chicago. Those Who Come and Go. Tales or Folks at the Hotels. A town with a population of 4600 people, with an additional 2000 peo ple working in the town and a uni formed police force of 61 men, where 1000 people and 8000 letters arrive every day from the outside, with res taurants serving 9000 meals a day, would certainly be considered a live little city, yet all of this town is under the roof of one New York hotel. It requires eight clerks at the desk of the Commodore hotel to receive the incoming patrons and 2000 em ployes to keep It running, declares Roy S. Hubbell, manager of the hotel. who is visiting E. V. Hauser at the Multnomah. "We do our share to help dispose of your big red apples," Mr. Hubbell said, "by using 2000 ap ples a day, and we also help the sugar industry by using 13,000 pounds of sugar a month. In making tests of our elevators we found that they carried on the average of 27,000 pas sengers a day, or 3000 per elevator. In addition, it takes nine freight ele vators to carry baggage and trunks. J. McE. Bowman is taking ' a deep interest in the development of the Pacific coast and made me make this trip in order to study at first hand the great opportunities that are oc curring here and report to him. With the completion of our big hotel in Los Angeles we will feel even closerto this great land of opportunity than ever before. Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Goettsche of Grants Pass are in the city for a few days. The chamber ef commerce of Grants Pass U now putting on strong publicity campaign -to attract tourists and have the gasoline visit ors make headquarters at the Pass for several days. Attractive maps and literature have been prepared to show tourists what they can see by traveling around In that section. The town has a beautiful spot for the auto camp, down near the banks of the Rogue river, and in the hot days of summer, and it gets hot at the Pass, the dust-covered travelers can slip into the stream and really enjoy themselves. Grants Pass is especially featuring the Oregon caves, which are situated in that county, over the mountains not far from the California line, on the road to Crescent City. Davis Wilcox, well-known resident of Baker, landed in Portland yester day about the same time that the last precinct in Baker county reported the election returns. Copperfield was the last of the 1700-odd precincts in Ore gon to turn In its count. Copperfield achieved fame when Oswald West then governor, sent his private secre tary there to clean up the town. Cop perfield was pretty wild in those days, but since, then it has been very pale pink affair. At the time of the Copperfield sensation Ben W. Olcott was secretary of state. Cop perfield gave Olcott seven votes for governor and Hall received a goose egg. Nelson W. Pierce, assistant freight agent of the Chicago office of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul rail road, has the record of 55 years with one company, and after 25 years' ab sence is visiting Portland, where he was bnce connected with the company office here. He predicts a large tour ist business this year and says that on Thursday the train out of Seattle will have to be sent out in two sec tions due to the increase of traffic. Mr. Pierce is registered at the Mult nomah. E. E. Johnson, sawmill man of Co quille and former mayor of that town, is at the Imperial. When travel opens up on the newly built Coos bay-Rose burg highway all the traffic headed for the coast will have to pass through Coquille, and then it will either take the concrete highway northward to Marshfleld and North Bend or will go to Bandon and thence down the coast. The Coqullle-Ban don location, however, has not been made, but the highway commission ers have promised to go there In the near future and decide where the road should be laid out. " Partly on business and partly on pleasure W. R. Dawes, vice-president of the Central Trust company of 111! nois, arrived In Portland and is regis tered at the Multnomah. Mr. Dawes is convinced that Portland has a fine opportunity to develop the trade with the orient and also become more of a manufacturing city, as it is fre quently cheaper to manufacture prod ucts In the west for the orient than to ship the raw products east and then back again as a finished product. "Radio Is great stuff on election nights," observed Thomas H. Tongue, Jr., state chairman of the republican committee, who is In Portland on business. "Instead of having to com to Portland to hear the returns or have bulletins telegraphed, the radio does the work. We had a radio in strument and all we had to do was fit around and listen to the returns s they were broadcast in Portland. J. A. Churchill of Salem is in th city. Mr. Churchill was renominated last Friday as the republican cndi date for state superintendent of pub Ho instruction. It Is Mr. ChurcliUI'i job to be overseer for all o th county school superintendents and teachers and pupils In Oregon. In the primaries Mr. Churchill had no op position in the republican party and no democrat filed for the nomination. G. Clifford Barlow of Warrenton Or., the town nearest the Pacific ocean on the Columbia rive. is re istered at the Imperial. Mr. Barlow has been active as one of the board of directors of the state chamber of commerce and he was elected last week as one of the members of th Port of Astoria commission. People of Warrenton have an abiding faith that some day it will eclipse Astoria. H. van Schmalz, at the Hotel Ore gon, Is an attorney of Burnt, Harne county, and Is here on law ousiness. Harney county was hard hit fo- two or three years because of the market for cattle, but the people are now looking forward with confidence, as things are more promising. William J. McGinley, Bupreme sec retary of the Knights of Columbus, arrived at the Hotel Portland yester day. He is on a tour Of inspection of the local councils throughout, the country. R. M. Crommelin of the Crommelln flour mills at Pendleton, is an arrival at the Benson. Pendleton has hard recovered from the primary election- Protest Slavery to Clocks. PORTLAND, May 24. (To the Edi tor.-) As one of thousands of work ingmen who have to rise at 5 A. M.- my wife has to be up earlier in orde to get to work in time, I protest with all the power In my soul against mov ing the clock in any way. Are w to please the people of the east or some nonpractlcal fancy to make real shows of ourselves? Never. . , CHARLES F. SMITH. Is a Friend of Grandpa's. Judge. "Sam Hill" was one of grandad favorite expressions, and he used it frequently. One day Willie, aged went over to a friend's house to play and almost every other sentence h used was "Sam Hill." The mother of his little friends said, "Well, Willie, who Is this Sam Hill?" "Oh," replied Willie, "he's one of granddaddie's friends!" Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co. Can You Answer These Questional 1. Why Is It necessary to spray or chards for coddling moth immediately after the blossoms fall apart? ?. DO birds want salt, the way cheep and cattle do? i. Give name and description of a spider in North Carolina that lives in poke-like web from four to six nches in the ground, and web ex tends about six inches above ground. end attached to body of small trees? Answers in tomorrow's Nature Notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. How do birds manage their food do they break it up before swallow ing? Seed eaters crack the hard husks to get at the edible kernel; birds of prey tear off gobbets of flesh, when the prey Is too big to be bolted; fishing birds swallow at a gulp. Birds have strong digestive Juices, and dissolve the nourisning part oi tne aiet. ieav- ng the bones and fur when there ere any to be regurgitated or cast up. Where the food is hard enough to need grinding, the strong muscle and hard pads of the gizzard reinforced by some emallowed gravel reduce it to a digestible condition. i 2. Do all caterpillars make cocoons for their winged adults to hatch from? No. not even If we count the chry- alls stage of the butterfly as a co coon. The larva of the sphinx moth (often called hummingbird moth) at full growth takes to -the earth in stead of hanging itself from a tree. It makes a little burrow to hide in while it changes from a pupa to a winged adult. m w v 8. Kindly tell what species the tailless cat belongs to. I have one without tail, and like a rabbit In the back. If the short tall is not caused by an accident, the cat is a Manx-cat. They are a distinct breed, coming original ly from the Isle of Man. Not alto gether tailless, as there are tnree ver tebrae in the tail.. They do have longer hind legs than common cats, giving them a rabblt-uke shape. SI RE, THEY HAVE GOOD HEARTS But What Are Other Qualifications of Recall Nominees f PORTLAND, May 23 (To the Ed itor.) I have your editorial entitled Obvious Absurdity." I have been secretary of the public eervice recall committee, "so-called, since Its In corporation and- I am familiar with its entire workings, and I wish to inform you that we have no apologies to make for either of the candidates chosen by the people. I assure 'you that my reason for presenting the na.me of T. M. Kerrigan before the convention was the fact that I knew him to be an honest and-upright young lawyer who had spent 17 months on the French front and was In A company, 1st Ln'ted States engi neers, as a private. He nas never held public office, therefore he is not n the public glare, but I feel that ne can be trusted and that his actions will be such as the public, labor or actual investment will never be able t-i say that they have been unjustly dealt with, but lobbyists and crooks had better look out. It may be true that some of the members of the recall committee may have a grievance against your paper and you have judged the recall com mittee by your views of those par tlcular persons; but I assure you that the recall committee never does any thing without cool deliberation and that it has been a personal sacrifice from every member of the committee to carry on the work. Our only mo tive is to help put in a commission that will be just, honorable and fair to all parties concerned). We have no desire to strike capital. We wan only a fair measure of Justice for th people. We are ce-rtainly friends o labor. Why not credit us with sin cerity even though you do not ap prove our Judgment? PUBLIC SERVICE RECALL COMMIT TEE, INC. By W. Ellis Richardson, Secretary. This is- a very feeling letter and It almost moves The Oregonian to tears, If the furious uproar which marked the so-called convention which nornl nated the recall candidates Is "cool deliberation," then hadiea Is an Ice btrg. We have no doubt at all that the recall candidates, now trium phantly elected to the public utilities commission, have good hearts. Have we not admitted it proclaimed It heretofore? We shall be glad to prln at any time a supplementary list of ihelr qualifications for the jobs to which they can be elected. MEANS GETTING TP AT 3 A. M. Worklngrnan'a Wife Telia Why She Opposes Daylight Saving. PORTLAND, May 22. (To the Edi tor.) I have read "Just One's" pro test against daylight saving. I wish to say that there are a good many o us who object very strongly to th plan. At the plant where my hus band works they have to ring in at 6 o'clock. In order to get there on time he has to catch the 6:lu car an has to walk several blocks to catch it, which makes him leave the hous at 6 sharp or before. In order to get his breakfast and lunch ready an get him started on time I have to arise at 4 o clock, ana "aayngnt sav ing" (so called) would make It o'clock, which is out of all reason. There are hundreds in the same fix Let the Chamber of Commerce and the others who do not have to be at their offices until S:30 or 9 every morning (of whom they are many know personally) take oar (place; week in and week out and see where their "daylight saving" puts them. If we all had a "position" instead of a "Job" the plan would bo very nice But for the ones who really have to work for their living, it is nothin hut an added hardship. I am with "Just One," and say, let the clock stand as they aj-e. WORKINGMAN'S WIFE. What the Recall Indicates. Aberdeen (Wash.) World. The recall of the public servic commissioners who voted to raise phone rates simply shows that public officials dare not tase action, n matter how Justified by the facts, that -Is unpopular. The tendency of that is to reduce courage in publi officials and to make them attempt to conform all their acts to what they believe to be popular sentiment. You can judge for yourself whether yo are apt to get either honest govern ment or good government under such types of public officials. But that 1 the type you will get If the recall is to be exercised aga'nst unpopular de cisions. There has been talk In time past of applying the reaM to judicial decisions. The Oregon Instance sim piy emphasizes the claim that If th recall is ever applied to court deel slons the courts would become ghast ly jokes and Justice wouldi be a by word. Radicals assert that Is the case new to a more or less degree. It would be Infinitely worse, even if th radical claim should be conceded a to present conditions, under any re call procedure. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montague. BLIGHTED AMBITION. (A French lion tamer says that only those who are gifted by nature c.-.n get along safely with wild ani mals). When I was young I used to yearn To stroll about a cage. And brave, with placid unconcern. A lion s savage rage. hoped, on reaching man's estate, To look him in the eye. Although he stared his furious hat When he came snarling by. Arrayed in gay resplendent tights That left my movements fiee, meant to dodge the vicious bites The monster aimed at me. And then, in accents stern and gruff, , lo make him sheath his claws And cease his srrowls and do his stuff Amid profound applause. do not mind admitting now, Though frost has touched my hair. That I'd be pleased if I could cow The lion in his lair, d give well almost anything If I possessed the skill To make the growling jungle king Obey my human will. But these great brutes are lightly miffed And prone to slash and malm man unless ie has the gift To make the creatures tame. To me was this denied by fate. And though I'm not afraid Since I have grown to man's estate I've plied another trade. Pretty Tough. Nc wonder the statesmen are badly fussed If the bonus don't get them, the tar- 11 f must. It Doesn't Poll. Conan Doyle has given the spirit land a lot of publicity, but it hasn't done much to stimulate emigration thither. Life Is Never Perfect. Just as we were beginning to en- jry the beautiful spring weather, along comes the Stillman case again. (Copyright by the Bell Syndicate. Inc.) In Other Days. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From The Oreironlan of May 25. 188T. Pittsburg. The 83d anniversary meeting of the American Baptist mis sionary union began here today. Gambling houses in the city closed down shortly before the state grand jury began a tour of inspection. The effort under way to reorganize completely the Portland Chamber of Commerce gives every promise of ul timate success. Havana. The Ruiz investigating committee will reconvene today. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oresonlan of May 25. 1STS. Washington. Senator Corbett called up in the senate the bill to authorize the auditing of claims of Oregon for suppressing Indian hostilities in 1855 and 1S56. The bill was discussed and laid over. Elisha L. Applegate is to deliver one of his stirring speeches in favor ot the principles of the republican party at the courthouse tonight. By order of city council three fire cisterns will be constructed at Harri son and Seventh streets. Washington and Tenth streets, and E and Fourth street. . London. An English paper states that there are altogether 202 princes and princesses 1 of royal blood in Europe. MUST DISCOVER SOME WAY OCT Defects of Primary System Proved and Admitted. Warrenton Newa Whatever the result of today's pri maries may be, the closing campaign has demonstrated to our satisfaction. at least the need of some charge In the direct primary law and the aban donment of the present "everyone for h'mself and the devil for the hind most" system of seeking nominations. There Is no deliberation or considera tion of the merits of a candidate for the nomination prior to the time of his placing himself before the people. Then the self-appointed .nominees for the nomination insist, each In his own way, that he Is the only cure for ex isting evils and he is, as a rule, ready tc crack his credit at the bank and wear out his tires in the effort to convince a plurality of the voter that unless he becomes the nominee of the party there will be no hope for success and the worst of it is (at least in the present campaign) that Individually andi collectively they have stirred up enough stink to make that prediction a success. ... There should' be a way out that does not lead, back to the discredited methods of the old system of boss rule, and that is one of the problem that should engage the attention ot members of the next legislature, both republicans and democrats. An or ganization should be effected: for tha purpose of workiing out the neces sary amendments to the present law, and a system agreed upon which will commend itself to the great majority who see clearly the extreme to which we have gone, yet would earnestly oppose any change to the undeniable evils of the old system. WOIt KM EX NEED THEIR SLEEP Sun, Disregarding Clock, Refuses to Set by Artificial Timetable. PORTLAND, Or.. May 24 (To the Editor.) Congress rejected the day light saving bill, so why should the infernal thing be brought up again? If the members of the Chamber of Commerce feel the pressing need of an hour more of daylight, why not let them arise an hour earlier Instead of trying to pass an undesired law to further their selfish plans? The people of the middle and lower classes have to retire at an early hour in order to get sufficient rest. These same people have to report for work at 7 o'clock, while the members of the Chamber of Commerce are turning over for another good nap. 1 am glad some one can take a nap at this pleasant hour. But I am not glad when I think this same man is willing to deprive me and mine of an hour's rest. One cannot go to sleep when it is extremely warm. Setting the clock ahead does not make the sun, go down an hour earlier; neither does it cool the atmosphere. Therefore, there is one hour of well earned reat that we lose. We men can probably stand this for some time, but what about our wives and mothers? Think of an al ready tired mother with four or five children trying to struggle through the summer. They deserve better treatment and are worthy of our first consideration. So think this over. Don't be selfish. Live and let live. I- C. L. Good Advice to a Lover. Saphead My dear, you art my har bor of love. Miss Sweet Well, don't think about anchoring until your ship conies in.