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THE 3IORXIXG OREGOXIAN, SATURDAY. AUGUST 26, 1922
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KDtTATIXG THE SHIPPIXQ BOARD.
Nothing could more forcibly
demonstrate the need and wisdom
of public inquiry into the many
questions upon which the shipping
board is required to act than the j
volume of information called forth
by the hearings which a committee
of its members held recently, yet in
oniy one particular does the subsidy
bill now before congress require
such hearings. By coming to Port
land the committee discovered the
need of the information conveyed
in the letter of General Manager
Podson of the chamber of com
nierce to George K. Chamberlain
regarding diversion of ocean traf
fic from the Columbia river to
- Puget sound by the board's policy
as published in The Oregonian Fri
day, and that conveyed by the at
torneys for the chamber of com
merce. port commission and dock
commission regarding the effect of
section 28 of the Jones law in their
letter to Meyer Lissner. The board
will be able to decide more wisely
and justly in the light of this in
formation, openly communicated by
representatives of official bodies
and complementary to public hear
ings, than on that privately con
veyed by lobbyists for private in
terests and never subjected to the
test of public criticism. The way
pursued by the committee is the
American way of dealing with pub
lic affairs; that which was for
merly pursued savored more of
czarism and its incompetent, op
pressive bureaucracy.
When the board reads and pon
ders over the letter of Attorneys
Teal, Moser and La Roche, the im
pression which it must have gained
from the hearings by its committee
as to how denial to foreign vessels
of the benefit of import and export
railroad rates- would work will
surely be deepened. On first im
pression it seemed very simple to
transfer from foreign to American
vessels a large amount of cargo by
granting reduced rail rates to ship
pers who use American vessels, but
the board will learn that the rates
in question were established for a
very different purpose. Those rates
cannot accomplish the new pur
. pose to which section 28 aims to
divert them, and the attempt so to
divert .them would wreck the orig
inal purpose1.
Import and export rates were
made to distribute overseas traffic
more evenly among the porta,, the
coasts and the railroads leading to
them than is possible when our
great manufacturing area is in one
corner of the country and when
distances from that area to the
various ports of our three coasts
vary greatly. .Their main purpose
was to bring to Pacific ports over
railroads that have light domestic
traffic westbound a large amount
of export and Import traffic that
would otherwise have gone to At
lantic or gulf ports. By making
cost of transportation to south At
lantic ports for foreign trade the
same as that to New York for both
foreign and domestic trade, these
rates tend to distribute traffic to
and from Atlantic ports more
evenly.
Refusal of the benefit of these
rates to foreign ships would fail to
increase cargo for American ships,
therefore would not attain the pur
pose of section 28. It would, how
ever, derange the entire rate struc
ture and would defeat the purpose
for which the rates in question
were established. Traffic which
would have come to the Pacific
coast would go to Atlantic or gulf
ports, and foreign ships would take
it there; that which would have
gone to south Atlantic ports would
go to New York to be loaded on
foreign ships and to aggravate con
gestion at that port.
As the law practically requires
suspension of section 28 until ade
quate service under the American
flag exists between American and
foreign ports, the board in its
anxiety to place the section in effect
has put some familiar English
words under a severe strain. It
has discriminated in favor of Puget
sound and San Francisco and
against Portland by giving the
former porta fast passenger ships
and slow freight ships also, while
giving Portland no passenger ships
and only the same number of
freight ships aa it gives to the
sound ports. It strains the word
' "adequate" by calling this adequate
service. It then suppresses Port
land's individual claims as a port
entitled to equal service with its
competitors by calling this grossly
discriminative service adequate for
the Pacific coast, thus treating this
coast as one traffic area the com
merce of which may be concen
trated by the board at one or two
ports at its arbitrary pleasure.
How contrary is this procedure
to the American principle of com
petition the attorneys show well.
The Columbia basin has a right to
adequate service from its natural
port. Seattle and Portland are
rivals for that position, and the
attorneys say:
Only by giving each adequate facili
ties on the same terms can it be deter
mined which is the natural port, and
the producers get ths best, most effi
cient and economical service. Fair com
petition would desido the question on its
merits.
That is all that Portland asks,
and the port and city have, ex
pended about $18,000,000 in pro-
' ..-
v.iiiiii& me cnu"-t an i jii tsvi ia
cilities for ships. But, as Mr.
Iodson shows, the "board by its
discrimination has diverted to Pu
get sound 160,000 tons of trans
Pacific cargo which would with
equal service have come to Port
land. It then states'the small pro
portion of such traffic passing
through Portland as a reason for
not providing the service lack .of
which has driven away traffic. The
board needs the -reminder of the
attorneys that under the Jones law
"it is the duty of the shipping
board and its policy to build up all
ports" and that "a reasonable dis
tribution of export and import
traffic among all the ports is dis
tinctly in the public interest." ' '
It does not rest with the shipping
board, alone to form a "conclusion
as to whether section 28 should e
made operative. The board is re
quired to certify to' the interstate
commerce commission when ade
quate service exists under the
American flag, but the attorneys
say that the commission "has the
power to determine the length of
time and the terms and conditions
under which a suspension of the
provisions of the act may become
operative." Evidently the juris
diction of the two bodies is in
tended to be co-ordinate and, in
view of the Importance of the sub
ject and of the disturbance to the
railroad rate structure which would
follow operation of the section, the
request for an oral hearing by the
board and commission jointly
should be' granted.
THE SHIVERING JOBXSOS.
Announcing a Johnson-for-sen-
ator meeting at San Francisco, the
enlightening and enlightened Chron
icle, which has always heretofore
opposed him, has this: -
Senator Hiram W. Johnson will speak
at a great mw meeting at the civic
auditorium tonight. It will be a thrill
ing meeting. The amazing scheme to
scuttle Johnson's candidacy will be re
vealed." There will be hot shot for the
scuttlers. Best of all. Senator
Johnson will be there to tell you the in
side story of what venal men are trying
to do to California.
What venal men are trying to do
to California is doubtless to de
feat Johnson. Proof that they are
venal lies in the fact that they are
supporting someone else. It la
axiomatic.
California will'probably re-nominate
and re-elect Senator Johnson.
But his supporters are driven to
sad extremities in trying to find a
reason, except that he is Hiram
Johnson and belongs to California
and California belongs to him. He
has fathered no legislation of con
sequence, his alliance with Mr.
Hearst is notorious, and he fought
the four-power treaty. Seeking to
find a concrete argument for John
son, Mr. Hearst's "writer Brisbane
says:
In the east Hiram Johnson has been
criticised for the hard fight which lie
won to get high protection for Califor
nia's product, fruit, almonds, etc But
in fighting for California he fought for
the whole country, interested in the
prosperity of the magnificent Pacific
state. In any case, his tariff work
surely will not hurt him, with Calif or
nians. It will not, indeed. But how hard
a fight was it to get high protec
tion, for any commodity from soup
to nuts, in the highest tariff bill
ever known? Nothing was left
out, if any senator wanted It pro
tected, and paid for it by deliver
ing his vote for the completed bill
By the old legislative method of
trade and barter, a Jiuge majority
was ronea up, ana jonnson was in
it neck deep, and got out of It what
he wanted. If he had fought to
keep nuts and fruits out of the bill.
he could not have beaten the tariff
machine.
Johnson will probably be elected,
but they have got him badly scared.
A great reformer, shaking in his
boots and appealing to his record
on vhigh protection to save him, is
an edifying sight.
BOYS' AXD GIRLS' CLCBS.
Evidence that boys' and girls'
club work Is attaining recognition
a . movement which is greatly
facilitating agricultural progress is
found in the fact that nearly
$750,000 in prize money is offered
this year to stimulate and to re
ward juvenile interest. This amount
represents private contributions
alone, and is exclusive of the
Smith-Lever funds appropriated by
the government and matched by
many states to further the work.
The diversity of sources whence
came the prize money speaks con
vincingly of the widespread recog
nition of real merit. It has been
contributed by fair associations.
live stock and breed associations,
manufacturers, bankers and bank
ers' associations, packers, chambers
of commerce, farm bureaus, land
companies, publishers, boards of
agriculture, granges, stockyard
companies, county commissioners,
school boards, seed firms, railroads,
retailers, livestock commission
firms, livestock exchanges, direct
ors of extension, individuals and by
the junior clubs themselves. The
awards posted by fair associations
total $90,000.
Similarly the breed associations'
have not failed to recognize the
very active value of children's club
wc-rk in stock breeding. Three of
the large pure-bred cattle associa
tions have offered $10,000 each,
while other smaller associations
have been generous according to
their resources. The aggregate of
these awards is $48,000. It is not
only good business for the present
and -for the immediate future, but
it tends to stabilize a great industry
and lay for it foundations that will
long endure. The various county
fairs of Minnesota offer prizes ag
gregating $28,000, and in Oregon
the counties have appropriated
from $250 to $1000 each for the
work. -
The work of the juvenile clubs
is, of course, hand in hand with
that of the agricultrual colleges,
serving these institutes as a con
stant feeder. According to G. L.
Noble, secretary of the national
committee on boys' and girls' club
work, the enterprise is of "utmost
importance because a boy or girl
adopting a modern - practice has
from 40 to 60 years to use it as
against 20 years for the average
man who adopts a new practice.
Boys and girls are more easily in
fluenced to take up the modern
methods advocated by the agricul
tural colleges than are adults.
More boys and girls can be reached
per agent than can adults. By
reaching the boys and girls the
adults are influenced at the same
time."
In other words, through this
work, America stands at the outset
of a new and infinitely more pros-
perous agricultural era In which
science will have a hand, and the
guess will be eliminated. As for
immediate and tangible results it
should be remarked that in 1921
the clubs produced over $7,000,000
worth of products, while the actual
cost of production, plus the cost
of leadership, was but $4,500,000.
KELSO'S QUEST FOR A NEW NAME.
The Columbia river smelt, on
their .way up the Cowlitz, won't
know the old town any more, when
Kelso changes its" name to Long-
view or Long-Bell. Peter W. Craw
ford, who took up a donation land
claim there quite a long while ago
and filed the plat of the townsite in
1884, gave to it the name of his I
home town in Scotland and Kelso
it has been ever since Mr. Crawford
paid this filial tribute to lang syne.
It ia a pleasing name for a town,
with a bit of music in its syllables.
It Is honored by years. Yet,
alas, one cannot advocate its reten
tion on grounds of uniqueness.
There are nine towns of the
name in the United States; pre
sumably -all alike named for the
Scottish market place on the banks
of the river Tweed. But for apt
ness the Washington Kelso is pe
culiarly well named, as both the
Tweed and the Cowlitz are salmon
rivers, rapid and hill-born. The
Scottish Kelso is also far famed for
the ruins of a -: great abbey, once
the most prosperous in Scotland,
which was built in 112S. As for
the derivation of the unusual name,
it springs from the old Wglah word
"calch," or chalk, and the Scottish
word "how," or hollow literally
"chalk hollow." The sons of Kelso
seem to have been loyal to their
native town, for in addition to those
in America there are several other
towns of Kelso scattered about the
globe. ,
When we approach, howeer, a
study of town names in which the
prefix "long" figures, the several
Kelsos pale into numerical insig
nificance. There are no fewer than
six Longviews in the United States
one of the substitute names sug
gested and one of these is in the
state bf Washington. Of towns in
which the word "long" appears,
always as a prefix, there are. near
to five-score. However, as prob
ably will be suggested, the .re
naming of their prosperous, and
stoon to be more so, city on the
Cowlitz is quite properly the con
cern of its citizens.
THOl"GHTIIE WAS A DEER.
The first accident of the. deer
hunting season occurred on sched
ule, and by Its circumstances again
tests the propriety of terming such
sylvan misadventures accidental.
The sportsman had wounded a
buck. At a distance he saw some
thing moving along a rock face. It
might have been his wounded
quarry, it might have been another
deer, it migrht have been a doe, a
fawn but it chanced to be his
hunting companion and the nickle-
jacketed bullet entered the body of
a human target. Only by a most
liberal and forgiving usage may we
characterise such an episode as
accidental.
The truth- of the matter is that
each year, duly licensed by a pa
ternal state that bids them bear
arms, unskilled and unschooled
riflemen and tyro hunters invest
and infest the forests. No prelim
inary attempt is made to ascertain
the qualifications of the hunter, his
knowledge -of firearms or his de
pendability. Youths and men re
pair happily to the hills, often, so
entirely ignorant of the death deal,
ing mechanisms they bear that the
rear sight means nothing whatever
to them. Though their marksman
ship may be of the poorest when
game is in sight it is1 never at fault
when they mistake some unfortu
nate fellow hunter for a deer.
These conclusions may seem far
fetched, but they are to some ex
tent justified by the annual injuries
aftd fatalities incident to the season.
Some forceful means of impress
ing upon license bearers the respon
sibilities attached should be taken
fct the time of issuance, by brief
oral instruction orby printed ' slip,
or by the refusal '"of the state, in
instances of marked 'unfitness, to
issue a license.
COMPERS' CRY OF "SLA VERT."
Adverse comment of Samuel
Gompers, president of the Ameri
can Federation of Labor, -on Presi
dent Harding's strike speech to
congress was to have been expected.
He cannot or wijl not see the dis
tinction" between suspension of
work by one or a few men and by
hundreds of thousands of men act
ing in concert on the same day,
nor the distinction between this
action by men engaged in essential
public service and those in non
essential industries. Mr. Harding
distributed censure with fair equal
ity between the railroad executives
and the strikers, but Mr. Gompers
is blind to the fact that the presi
dent proposes a 'rule which would
work both ways by making --decisions'
of the railroad labor board
enforceable. He can see only Its
effect on the employes' right to
strike; he cannot see that it de
prives- the railroad executives of
the right to refuse to operate at
the terms named by the board.
This one-sided view Is exempli
fied by the following paragraph in
Mr. Gompers' statement:
He (the president) says now that the
decisions- of the raltroad labor board
must be made enforceable. No other
construction can be placed upon that
statement, but that if the railroad labor
board or any other similar body renders
a decision further reducing wages or im
posing repugnant conditions upon the
workers they will have to go to work or
go to Jail. .
With equal truth the substantial
part of that paragraph might be
paraphrased to read thus
No other construction can be placed
on that statement but that, if the rail
road labor board or any other similar
body renders a decision Increasing wages
or Imposing repugnant conditions upon
the railroad executives, they will have
to Work (Operate the roads) under those
conditions or go to jail.
This denial to railroad employes
of the right to strike against an
impartial decision on their condi
tions of work is said by the labor
chief to "impose a Condition of
slavery," but the same condition of
slavery would be Imposed on their
employers. If it should not be
imposed, the people would have to
pay the railroads any rates that
might be made necessary to pay
the employes whatever wages' they
demanded under pain Of being de
prived of transportation. When we
consider what that would mean,
we realize that the people would
then be reduced to slavery under
the railroad men. The people might .
I then resolve that, if there was to
be any condition of slavery, the
railroad men should become slaves
io them rather than that they
should be enslaved by the railroad
men.
Of course this talk about slavery
is "all bunk." Hosts of men make
agreements to render personal
service extending over a specified
period, but they - do not consider
themselves slaves. Men make con
tracts to build railroads, bridges,
buildings, work that occupies
months, sometimes years, and have
to apply all their mental and phys
ical energy to the Job. They may
realize before the work is half fin
ished that they will lose money,
but they are held by heavy bond to
complete the job, and they usually
go through with it without crying
about slavery. No man denies the
right of any individual railroad
man to quit his Job. The right that
is denied is that of all the men
employed in any one branch or
several branches of railroad service
to quif work in agreement for the,
purpose of inflicting such loss on
the railroads and the public as' will
compel grant of their demands, lit
the high officials of all the rail
roads were to ."lay down on the
job" in combination, with a demand
that their salaries be doubled,
something worse than loss of
seniority would happen to them. If
all the producers of a certain com
modity were to combine for a sus
pension of operations in order to
raise prices, they would; be prose
cuted for conspiracy and. their
cries of "slavery" would be greeted
with derision. In fact any number
of examples might be given to
prove the absurdity of Mr. Gom
pers' slavery cry.
STORY OF , THE BROOM.
When witches bestrode brooms
and with the black , cat on their
shoulders galloped away to plague
the early colonists there were no
brooms such as we "have today
such as are, for instance, made in
Portland. For the modern broom
is distinctly an American enterprise.
and but superficially resambles the
bundle of branches tied on a stick
which seryed the old witch both as
steed and household utensil. While
it is generally known that Benja
min Franklin founded the Saturday
Evening Post, and tampered with
electrical experiments, the partially
authenticated tradition that he gave
us the modern broom 19 not so
widely spread. Yet, on the whole,
the fame of many a man rests on
less.
It is said that Franklin found a
single seed attached to a curious
whisk broom brought to America
from the East Indies by a sea cap
tain. This he planted and propa
gated, the culture of broom corn
spreading to such extent that in
1781 Thomas Jefferson listed the
product as one of the staples of
Virginia. Prior to this the colonial
brooms, and those of the old world,
had been made of twigs, of splin
ters, or of rushes. The Indians of
the Atlantic coast developed qujte
an industry by the manufacture and
sale to the colonists .of splint
brooms, which were valued at re
tail, in 1762, at sixpense each.
But the real pioneer in the broom
industry was Levi Dickonson, of
Wethersfield, Conn., who planted
seed in his garden and eventually
cultivated a half acre. With the
aid of negro servants he manufac
tured a few brooms, which he sold
to inquiring strangers who paused
to ask of him what curious plant
it was he grew in his fields. Mr.
Dickonson became in time a ped
dler of brooms, driving his nag
about the country and demonstrat
ing the superiority of the new
product. He was chaffed unmerci
fully by his townsfolk for embark
ing upon such an enterprise, in
competition with the Indians. Mr.
Dickonson's reply to this, said to
have been made in 1801, was the
prophecy that the making of
brooms from broom corn would
some day be One of the - greatest
American industries. Beyond the
Styx the joke is on his critics.
It really Ought to lend attraction
to the broom, - and vigor- to its
manipulation, to reflect that Ben
jamin Franklin sponsored it, . and
that Thomas Jefferson teok note
of its possibilities. The homeliest
of household implements is touched
by genuine romance.
xne liooa tuver ghost with a
halo turned out to be a most ordi
nary .tramp, which ruined a most
absorbing situation for the psychic
Investigators. As for the halo,
that's simple enough It was either
ectoplasm or cut-plug.
Dear little weeds that the council
detests -blow away, sow away,
you've time to spare maybe to-
morrow they'll make some arrests
but blow away, sow away, why
should you care?
News of the rediscovery of the
Island of Tagawa will not start any
appreciable exodus of would-be
victims of polyandry. The enchant
ment of distance-can be discounted
by facts.
Ninety-five girl strikers employed
in a powder-puff factory insisted
on kissing the mediator who set
tled the strike. ".What, not one
grateful one in the entire ninety
five? Germany dragged Austria Into
the war and the dragging was not
hard to do.. Suppose that Germany
were required to feed Austria this
winter when the famine starts.
The rescue of the shipwrecked
mariners from a. south sea isle was
a most misfortunate affair. No
body ever really asked them if they
wished to be rescued. ,
Ex-Vice-President Marshall is
one of the few satisfied men In the
land. No more office-holding for
him.
The extremely low rate is likely
to swamp Seaside. One gets a bit
of the ocean at small cost.
The forecaster makes It ".fair and
warm." He could not use the com
parative term and be fair. -
An "easy firing" clause in civil
service regulations seems hot con
ducive to civility.
Every "old boat" In town will
be tuned np today for tomorrow's
trip.
Sweet summer hadn't gone away.
Gosh, no 1
WHY SCHOOL SITE IS OPPOSED
Objectors - Believe Another Wonld
Serve Public Better.
PORTLAND, Aug. 24. (To the
Editor.) In the report of the meet-,
ing of the school board appearing in
The Oregonian, Mr. Woodward is re
ported to have said: ,
A mysterious group of obstructionists
are attempting to hamper the members
of the school board in their plans by
blocking the vacation of certain streets
to be used in the new Holladay school
and playground site.
They are , trying to prevent us from
putting up a school In the four-block
area we have chosen by opposing the
vacation of the streets.
Judge Munly is one of the leaders of
this movement.
Many of the obstructionists Jive at
least a mile from the proposed site.
The idea of Judge Munly and his con
ferees is not born of any real idea to
protect traffic; it is the work of ob
structionists or worse.
As the ine responsible for the
circulation of the petition renion
strating against the vacation
Clackamas and East Eighth streets,
I wish to clear up the mystery eur
rounding the matter, that no blame
be laid upon a mythical "mysteri
ous srroup of obstructionists or
worse."
The petitioners are property own
ers living upon the streets named
and adjacent thereto, whose inter
ests are injuriously affected by th
proposed vacation; home owners of
character, reputation and responsi
bility and not a "mysterious group
of obstructionists or worse."
That a i body of property and
home-owning citizens acting in con
formity with established custom and
law by circulating a petition to be
presented to the duly constituted
authority having jurisdiction ove
the subject matter should be de
nounced as a "mysterious group
of obstructionists or worse" i
gratuitious insult and affront which
if it came from any other than Mr,
Woodward, would be resented.
The statement that Judge Munly
is one of the leaders of this move
ment is untrue.
Judge Munly has participated to
the extent of signing the petition,
which he has the legal and moral
rieht to do and, further, to be
leader of the movement without
atiolosrv to or permission of Mr,
Woodward. 1
A "mysterious group of obstruc
tionists or worse." What could be
worse than to be an obstructionist
and oppose the chimerical plans of
a school director?
All of which has nothing to d
with the merits of the -ca.se.
The signers of these petitions are
residents of East Eighth street and
Clackamas street, about 100 in hum
ber up to date and all living with
in a half mile of the property af
fected.
These are the "mysterious ob
structionists or worse," as Mr.
Woodward would have you believe,
Despite the hard names applied to
them, these citizens are acting with
in their rights. They are offering
this protest in the public interest.
The -public is interested in select
ing a centrally located site for the
new Holladay school.
It is interesting in not selecting
a site which is fast becoming
industrial and .business district.
from which children and families
are moving away.
The population now west of Sixth
Seventh and Eighth streets in this
district is largely a shifting Topu
lation.
If a new school is built on th
grounds contemplated by the board
it will soon be in the situation of
the Stephens school and the Shaver
and the Thompson schools, which
have vacant rooms.
Even Buckman school is now" on
the border line. of a business and
industrial district.
The petitioners recommend a more
centrally located site, near Holla
day park, not a thousand feet away
from the site recommended by the
school district. East, west and
south of the park are a dozen
vacant lots where a joint school and
nark plan could be worked out.
Such action would be in accord with
the programme recently adopted by
the Bchool board in other district
The two blocks now owned, by the
district and the other three blocks
which they propose to acquire
could doubtless be exchanged on
favorable terms for property ad
Jolnintr the park.
With some co-operation or tne
city, such park plan might be en
larged and made more attractive.
It would certainly work serious
local and general inconvenience to
traffic to close these streets Clacka
mas street is a cross-town thor
ouehfare from the river to the city
boundary. East Eighth street is
one of the important north and
south thoroughfares through the
citv. The area to be closed oil bath
streets is on the threshold of the
city, close to the two large bridges,
the railroad bridge and the Broad
way bridge. A check on the traffic
going over the area in question will
disclose the volume. It is espe
cia.llv heavy morninsrs and evenings.
It is the duty of citizens general
ly to look Into the proposed street
vacations in view of the public in
terests involved. A' study of the
situation will repay every citizen
who is interested in , school matters
and in questions affecting the pub
lie Convenience. DANIEL KERN.
BILLINGS NOT DOWN OR OUT
People Encouraged By One of Bi(f -Best
Crops Ever Grown.
BILLINGS, Mont., Aug. 22. (To
the Editor.) Our attention has been
invited to some clippings from your
paper, in the tourist park section,
wherein you quote some families
from Billings in stating that they
have left Billings for good oh ac
count of "the slump" here.
We are of course loyal to the old
town and regret very much to see
such articles in print, for the reason
that we know the persons quoted
and the true conditions here, where
we have one of the greatest crops
we have ever grown.
Montana has been hard hit In the
past, as other places have, and the
writer traveled from Denver to
Sheridan last week with a gentle
man who lives in Seattle and who
is a booster for that good city, and
he stated that you have had a very
dry season all along the coast this
year.
These conditions cannot be pre
vented in any locality, but It is ab
solutely unfair to capitalize the mis
fortunes of any locality.
Montana is not down and out and
will never be so long as men and
women are able to work.
AUSTIN NORTH,
President North Real Estate Invest.
ment Company.
Ashland Entry in Cucumber Derby.
ASHLAND, Or., Aug. 24. -(To the
Editor.)! note an item from Al
bany, Or., in The Oregonian men
tioning a cucumber weighing one
pound and seven Ounces and measur
ing eight and three-quarters inches
in circumference byjtine and a Quar
ter from tip to tip.
Therefore I feel moved to give the
following figures ef one of three
large ones grown in my kitchen gar
den this season. Its Weight is two
pounds and a quarter and measured
11 inches in circumference by 11 1
laches from Up to tip. . j
Those Who Come and Go.
Tales of Folks at the Hotels.
-Conditions in the oil country of
Oklahoma are not what they might
be from the viewpoint of the pro-ducer-and
the man who is dependent
on the operations for his livelihood,
according to J. S. Griffin of Tulsa,
who, with his wife, is at the Ben
son. Operators some time ago met
and decided to close down opera
tions for such a peYiod as i neces
sary to prevent a decrease in the
prices of crude oil. This naturally
threw a large number of persons out
of employment. In the late fall of
1920 oil prices started to drop from
war levels that had prevailed and
many small operators were forced
out of business. The companies are
seeking to keep prices up. Tulsa is
1 one town where the ppearance of
a. mans snuca o i his nuuncia uuoa
not indicate his station. He may
be clad in the roughest of garments
and have a week's growth of whis
kers, while his financial statement
will show that he is owner of an
oil well that i-s paying him royalties
of J10O0 a day. In times of booms
high prices make no difference with
oil men. It is "come easy, go easy
with them and they spend liberally.
Citizens of New Orleans are pre
paring for the biff national conven
tion of 'the American Legion, which
is to be held in their city in October,
according to Mr. and Mrs. M. J.
Saunders, who are at the Imperial.
Like those of St. Louis, Minneapolis,
Cleveland and Kansas City, where
previous conventions have been held,
the doors of New Orleans will be
thrown wide open to the thousands
of legionnaires who will flock there
from all parts of the country. Ho
tels have already reserved all of
their rooms for the visitors and
preparations are being made for
rooms in private homes. Also ar
rangements are being made for the
sidetracking of special trains so
that the delegates who are without
hotel accommodations can make
their headquarters on the cars. In
addition to the leaders of the legion
there will be a number of military
leaders and dignitaries from Europe
who will participate in the conven
tion as guests of honor.
Business conditions In Racine,
Wis., are much better now than they
have been in a long time, according
to 'John Jorgenson, who is at the
Portland hotel. Racine is the home
of a large number of manufacturing
plants, among which.are the J. I.
Case Plow Works, J. I. Case Thresh
ing Machine- company, Hamilton
Beach company, Moline Manufactur
ing company, Racine Manufacturing
company, Hartmann Trunk company,
Mitchell- Motor Car company and
Ajax Tire company. Three years
ago the reconstruction period had
its effect on many of these plants
and thousands of men were made
idle. Since that time there have
been readjustments and business is
now on the uphill grade.
Among those registered at the Im
perial hotel yesterday were Mr. and
Mrs. Walter R. Welch of Oklahoma
City, who have been touring the
northwest and have stopped over in
Portland for a short visit. Okla
homa during the summer months is
an exceedingly hot place to live in.
There are few resorts where the va
cationists may go to spend a few
days that will relieve them from the
cares of business and the heat of a
country that in many places is prac
ically barren of trees. As a conse
quence most of the natives of the
state journey to other climes to en
joy a vacation. It was with the idea
of seeing the country and gaining a
vacation that Mr. and Mrs. Welch
came to the northwest.
A'period of 38 years, during which
skyscrapers, automobiles, electric
signs, etc., have come into existence
have made a great change in Port
land. This Is the idea of C. L. Gage,
city passenger agent for the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy railroad
of San Francisco, who is at the
Multnomah hotel. Mr. Gage visited
Portland 38 years ago and made his
second visit yesterday. "I have
been planning each year to come
here, but something has always hap
pened to prevent it," he said yes
terday. "This year I made up my
mind to tome and see the town that
has been talked so much about iti
recent years and here I am. I hardly
recognised Portland as the same
city. .
This proposition you call prohi
bitlon is a mighty peculiar thing,'
declared Wright C. Pierce of "Van
couver, B. C, when staying here
for a few minutes yesterday while
en route by automobile back to his
home after a visit in San Francisco.
"It has meant money to Canada. I
am told that more than luu.oou
Americans have registered at the
Vancouver hotels as residents in
order that they may have permits
to purchase liquor. When you get
down here, where do you find pro
hibition? Since I have been on my
trip I have visited hotels where bell
boys make no hesitancy in asking
you if you care for a bottle. Pe
culiar thing, prohibition."
Lelf S. Finseth, grand chancellor
of the Knights of Pythias of Ore
gon, who makes his home in Dallas,
where he is engaged with his father
in the mercantile business, was at
the Imperial hotel yesterday. He
has been making a tour of eastern
Oregon, where he visited a number
of lodges of his organization. Since
he accepted the position of grand
chancellor several months ago Mr.
Finseth has been active most of his
ime in behalf of the lodge. He
pends most of his time out over
the state.
Speed cops of Washington county
have Jlttle to do nowadays, accord
ing to Thomas H. Tongue, attorney
of Hillsboro. The reason for the in
activity, which is oausing sorrow
for the enemies of the speeding mo-
orlsts, is found in the fact that the
highway is being repaired in so
many places that the automobiles
ave to drive slowly of necessity.
Mr. Tongue, who formerly was state
chairman of the republican comtYiit-
tee, was in the city on legal busi
ness.
John P. Gray and W. G. Van Feet
of Coeur a'Alene, Idaho, were at the
Portland hotel yesterday. Mr. Gray
is one of the leading republicans
f northern Idaho. In the last presi
dential campaign he was a delegate
to the republican national conven
tion held in Chicago and helped
nominate President Harding.
Judge J. W. Knowles of La Grande,
accompanied by Mrs. Knowles, ar
lved here yesterday and put up at
the Imperial. "I came here to es
cape the heat," declared the jurist as
be wiped the perspiration from his
brow, "but it teems to have fol
lowed me here." Judge Knowles Is
one of the best-known citizens of
eastern Oregon. - He will remain
here a few days.
SOMETIMES.
Sometimes I softly cry at night,
Sometimes I sing by day,
For if I couldn't cry or sing,
I'd surely waste away.
It's like the sunshine after rain,
When comes a quiet peace,
If I could ever silent be,
I'd never find release.
HELEN CRAWFORD,
More Truth Than Poetry.
By Janet J. Montague.
THE BOV.
He doesn't know what flowers spring
Beside the leafy lane:
The modest violet is a thing
He views with mild disdain,
A primrose by the river's brim
He tramps beneath his heel
Its fragile loveliness to him
Has not the least appeal.
But sitting on the pasture bars,
And swinging idle feet,
He'll spot the make of all the cars
That pass along the street.
He does not heed the robin's note
Or seek to find its raest.
No useful time Would- he devote
To such a childish quest
He doesn't think what wondrous
words ' ' '
They chirp from tree to tree
The little things are only birds
As far as he can see.
But it will set his eyes a-dance
To hear a motor whizz,
And he will tell you at & glance
Exactly what it is.
The barefoot boy, with cheeks of tan
Of Mr. Whittier's lays
When six or eight years old began
To study nature's ways.
He knew the songsters overhead
And spent his leisure hours
Among the fields with eager tread
Collecting fragrant flowers.
But if he were alive today
He'd loll upon the bars,
His shining eyes fixed far away
To spot the motor cars.
A Magnificent Service.
It appears to be the present object
of congress to make the world safe
for the sheep.
Protected.
By the time the boys get the
bonus they won't be able to waste
their money on any youthful follies.
Hope.
, In Ireland, the first 700 years of
warfare were the hardest.
Burroughs Nature Club.
Copyright, HooRkton-MlffHm C-
Can Ton Answer These ftueatlonsf
1. Is the Baltimore oriole found
In the west?
2. At what season do bears mate?
S. I have trouble with a. fruit
conserve kept in a stone crock in
the pantry. Swarms of tiny flies
hover over It. Can I get rid of
them?
Answers In tomorrow's nature
notes.
Answers to Previous Questions.
1. Are wild birds' eggs good to
eat?
Many are, unfortunately for the
birds. Sea-birds' eggs, as those of
gulls, murres, herons and duck's
have been so marketed that the
birds were driven from famous
breeding grounds. It is on record
that in 1854 the San Francisco mar
ket consumed more than 600,000
murre's ggs. This is but one item
in the wild-bird egg industry. Ad
ditional details can be looked up in
the 1899 Yearbook of - the United
States department of agriculture.
2. Do green and black teas come
from different plants?
No, tea is the leaves of -a shrub,
thea sinensis, of very ancient cul
tivation in China. Mentioned in
Chinese literature 2700 B. C. Bot
anists suppose- it originally grew
wild in mountainous parts of China.
Now cultivated in China, Japan,
Assam, Ceylon and Brazil. The black
or green colors are purely a matter
of treatment of the plucked product
3. Do garden moles gnaw root
vegetables, bulbs, etc?
Probably not, as they are flesh-
eaters. Some students claim wholly
carniverous; but stomach analysis
shows a trifle of vegetable food.
Earthworms- are the principal diet,
with some ground-burrowing insect
larvae. It is true roots around
which mole tunnels run do show
damage from gnawing at times but
it is thought the gnawing comes
from small rodents which run
through the convenient tunnels. Of
course exposing roots hurts the
plants.
In Other Days.
Fifty Years Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 25. 1872.
Leavenworth. A large excursion
party from here celebrated the
completion of the Leavenworth &
Denver railroad 56 miles past the
city of Halton.
Denver. Denver has one saloon
to every seven inhabitants.
New York.- The alarming reports
which most of the continental jour
nals have recently circulated in re
gard to the impending meeting of
the three emperors at Berlin have
at last caused the official organ of
Bismarck to break its silence and
declare that the meeting of Alex
ander of Russia, William of Ger
many, and Francis Joseph of Aus
tria will be a guarantee of peace
for Europe.
New York. The constitution of
West Virginia has been defeated
by the black vote, because 01 the
word "white" therein as a qualifi
cation .for office.
Twenty-five Tears Ago.
From The Oregonian of August 26, 18D7.
Bombay.-r-The latest dispatches
received from the Indian-Afghan
frontier state that the government
is in grave- danger. The Ameer of
Afghanistan, however, swears : fi
delity to the English.
The hearing of the steel bridge
matter was continued in the county
court yesterday. The question is
whether the county court will pro
vide means for the operation and
maintenance of the steel bridge.
St. Louis. The first convention
of the American party, which an
nounces as its object the restora
tion of the spirit and sentiment ot
the original federal constitution,
met oday wfth delegates present
from nine states and one territory
Washington. The gold reserve
today was $143,278,538.
Married After Divorce in Moirtana.
- PORTLAND, Aug. 20. (To the
Editor.) Will a woman who was
divorced in Montana on June 4 and
married in Oregon on October 26
following be legally married?
READER.
y
The Montana divorce law forbid
the marriage of the innocent party
within two years, and of the guilty
party within three years, of the
4tate of the decree.
Piscatorial Postgraduates
Vancouver Columbian.
"Drouth dry weather, did
you
say?" asked a Kansas resident who
overheard a Vancouver man talk of
the recent lack of rain. "Say broth
er, this isn't a drouth. Some years
back east wo have summers So dry
the baby fish tret six months old be
fore they itarn, to wim."-
Picture of
Miss
Portland '
in Color
A full page picture of Miss
Virginia Edwards, Portland's
prize-winning beauty, will ap
pear in tomorrow's issue of The
Oregonian.
Developing New
Timber Country
H. W. Lyman, automobile
editor, tells of an automobile
trip made through the new
timber country surrounding
Vernonia.
Lumber Industry
Is Reviewed
A staff writer for The Ore
gonian has written an article
for tomorrow's issue in which
the story of the development
of the Pacific Spruce Corpor
ation at Toledo is related.
IN THE MAGAZINE
Kisses Are
Costing More
Elizabeth Shields, feature
writer warns of the costs
courts have levied, and crimes
that have been committed
over kissing.
Royalty Would
Star on Screen
A feature article relates the
attempts of real lords and
duchesses- to play parts in
the movies.
Out of the
Golden Pack
Another romantic story wrtt
ten by Ida M. Evans will ap
pear as a feature that will
please.
Is Asia Mother
of Continents?
Scientist tells of the discov
ery of birthplace from which
reptiles and mammals spread
over the globe. '
You Are Well if
You Think You Are
This is the opinion of Emil
Goue, who preaches auto sug
gestion as a cure for ills.
m
News of the World
in Pictures
Camera men catch views of
men, women and scenes that
are of interest to all.
Sketches of
People You Know -
"Better. Late Than Never" is
the title which artist W. E.
Hill gives to his Sunday's
human interest sketches.
Hunters of
Antiques Warned
Fake art industry continues
to dupe Americans yearly to
the tune of millions of dol
lars. Writer warns hunters
to consult experts.
Don't Miss The
Oregonian's Comics
See Andy Gump, Min and
Little Chester. . Also keep
track of Polly and Her Pals
and Gasoline Alley. These
features have no equal.
You Would
Dress in Style
See the Sunday feature deal
ing with the latest autumn
plans for women's wearing
apparel, and Madam Richet's
"Problems in Dressmaking."
Lilian Tingle's
Advice on Cooking
Inquiries of housewives who
are faced with culinary prob
lems are answered.
Caravan Trip in
Word and Picture
Illustrated article by The
Oregonian correspondent tells
of the 1325 exposition boost
er's trip through the state. .
Food for
Radio Fans
Each Sunday a special 6ec-'
tion of The OTegonian is
devoted exclusively to the
achievements of radio. Don't
miss reading it if you are
a fan.
Oregonian's Sporting
apartment Complete
Read the box scores of the
big league teams, follow golf,
boxing and other sports as
they are featured in the Sun
day sport section.
What the War
Veterans Are Doing
Don't fail to read The Ore
gonian's Citizen Veteran sec
tion each Sunday a it
appears.
Of Interest to
All Married Persons
Is the Sunday feature deal
ing with the problems in
married life of "Helen and
Warren."
THE SUNDAY OREGONIAN
"A Nickel and a Nod"