8 THE OREGOX1AJN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SO, Jllormwi 9rr rrimtnn ESTABLISHED BV UENBV L. FITTOCK Published by The Oreiroman Pub, Co.. 185 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C A. JIORDKX. E. B. PIPER. Manager. Editor. The regonian U a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Pres is exclusively entitled to the- use for publi cation of all news dispatches credited to It ox not otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news published herein All rights of publication of special dis patches herein axe aim reserved. Subscription Rates invariably In ' Advance. (By Mall.) Iaiiy, Sunday included, one year K Pally, Sunday Included, six months . . 4.25 r.iiy, Sunday Included, three month 2.25 JJatly. Sunday Included, one month .75 Iaily. without Sunday, one year ..... 6.00 Taiiy. without Sunday, six months 3.2-5 Pmilv. -without Sunday, one month -60 Sunday, one year 2-50 (By Carrier.) 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Tha purpose, of the traveling mis sionaries wag to assure the state that Portland would hold an expo sition In 1925, and would pay for It: and the 6tate gave, of course, Ita assent, so far as representative citizens, voicing their opinions and applauding the public-spirited proj ect of the metropolis, could do it. Yet there is a trace of skepticism about it. The Condon Globe-Times, for example, reports that Gilliam and Morrow counties or some of their citizens want further assur ances that there will be no increase in the tax burden. It reports that two spokesmen in Morrow, receiv ing the Portland visitors, said that "the people are suspicious of the statement that all Portland was asking is permission to bond itself for the fair, adding that when such authority has been granted, there is every probability that a powerful lobby from Portland will appear before the next legislature to put through legislation (probably with the emergency clause attached) bonding the state for additional funds for the fair, as it is already easy to foresee that Portland's lit tle old four millions will be but a drop in the bucket when it comes to putting on a real world's expo sition." A powerful lobby from Portland appeared before the legislature last winter and was not able to per suade that august body even to submit the fair . measure to the people of the state, so that they might decide for or against the enterprise. If the dubious citizens of Morrow and Gilliam are not willing to trust. Portland when it is asking for the privilege of put ting up its own money for the state's benefit, surely the legisla ture is a safe refuge. But even then it may be well to point out that the legislature has no authority to bond the state for the exposition, and can make no outright appropriation in any considerable sum. The six per cent constitutional limitation and an other constitutional limitation on indebtedness fix all that. All in all, the uneasy minority of taxpayers in Morrow and ' Gil liam should be able to put their trust in somebody in the fair busi ness in a metropolis which has only the best Intentions toward eastern Oregon and in a legislature which has good intentions and small powers. SENATORS MAKE CONFESSION. Most telling proof of the inher ent incapacity of congress to make a tariff that will accord with any recognized economic principle or that has a proper relation to the economic conditions governing for eign trade is to be found in the speeches of two senators who had much to do with the senate's re vision of the Fordney bill. These speeches were made on the day when the senate voted final pass age. Senator McCumber, chairman of the finance committee, who had 1 charge of the bill, said: I do get a little bit tired of those sen ators who appear before the committee and insist on and request rates which the committee consider are unconscion able and attempt to force them down the throats of the committee, coming up and complaining about rates being too high in other schedules when the rates, meas ured by the ad valorem in many in stances, are nowhere near as high as those which they have advocated. In other words, every man wants little or no duty on what he buys and high protection on what he " sells, and all make their demands to a committee or men who can not help but' think, when deciding, how many votes they will gain , or lose thereby. Hence the decision is political, when it should be scientifically economic. Senator Borah quoted Senator Watson of Indiarfa as having said that "in view of changing condi tions it was absolutely necessary for the finance committee to sug gest amendments from day to day." He might have added that those changes were going on while he spoke, would continue while the senate debated, while the conferees debated, while senate and house debated the conference report, and that by the time the bill received the president's approval, the eco nomic conditions to which it must then be applied would bear no re semblance to those to which it was framed to apply. All of this Jus tifies this further remark of Mr. Borah: We face conditions that !n my view make it impossible to frame a tariff bill at this time truly representative of the republican policy. lis night have added: Or the democratic policy or any definite policy. No legislative body can make a tariff to fit conditions that change as rapidly as the hues of a chameleon. These senators stated as well as they could be stated the reasons for congress to throw up the job of tariff-making, so far as the precise rates of duty are concerned, and to hand it over to a commis sion whifh will be deaf to the kln,d of pleas to which Mr. McCumber referred, which will pay attention to facts alone and which will act according to those facts and to the general rules of policy laid down by congress, but without regard to the effect on votes. No matter how good the new tariff may be it will be bad by the time it is put in operation. V WAY TO THE XEHALEM OPES. There is good reason for the ex cursion to Vernonia that has been arranged by the Portland chamber of commerce, for it is a live, up-to-date town that has come into existence in the Nehaiem valley a country that a -few years ago was regarded as the most inacces sible part of Oregon. "Much has been published of its fine timber and rich farm land,: and many railroads into it have been pro jected, but at last a railroad has been built, the timber on 30,000 acres is to be cut, and Vernonia is to be the center of these active-, ties and the site of a great saw mill. The excursion will travel on the first passenger train. This-new enterprise marks an other advance in the development of Oregon and in establishment of the state's supremacy in the lum ber industry. Steadily the railroad. the highway, the- logger and the farmer have been pushing east and west from the Willamette river, north and south from the Umpqua and Rogue, up all the lateral val leys, and across the Coast range to the ocean. These advances mark the conquest of the wilderness of mountain and forest, opening the way to increased trade and for the lover of outdoors to hitherto inac cessible beauties. They widen the horizon, of urban dwellers and add to the wealth of the state. SEEKING THE IMPOSSIBLE.' The great difficulty about alle viating traffic congestion in Port land is that the public demands an impossible solution of the problem. There is a given street area in the congested district. That area is not large enough to accommodate all who wish to park or double park and yet perrftit complete free dom of movement by all vehicles which seek to go, in either direc tion. The desired though impos sible solution, it appears, is one that will not curtail anybody's right to park anywhere, and yet give more space for moving traf fic. . When somebody devises a system of pouring which will permit six gallons of water to be put into a five-gallon pail, that genius will be competent to solve the traffic prob lem to the applause of all con cerned. We doubt that it will ever be done. As it Is useless to consider the moving farther apart of office buildings, department stores, and other places of business, or the widening of all 'the downtown streets, it appears clearly that the only thing to do, if we would re lieve congestion, is to curtail park ing or vehicle movements to pour less water into the five-gallon pail. It cannot be done without incon veniencing some of the population. Every plan of the kind heretofore tried has brought forth protests, these protests have been heeded by the city council and conditions have gone promptly back to the old congestion, in which everybody is inconvenienced. Portland has not yet tried one way traffic on arterial streets in the congested district. Other cities have tried it and we have never heard of one that, having instituted the plan, later abolished it. It would not be put into effect in Portland without protests from some who were inconvenienced thereby. But as already indicated there is no conceivable scheme that will please everybody. The thing to do is to adopt a traffic system that is best for the greatest num ber of street users and stick to it. USEFUL MORONS. It is particularly significant. In view of a general looseness that has characterized recent discussion of the subposed predominance of sub normals in the population, that "fc speaker "at the national convention of the Society for'the Study of the Feeble Minded hits reported his con clusion, the result of a lifetime of research, that large numbers of so-called feeble-minded individuals are as a matter of fact capable of high service to society. The speak er related the experience of a Mas sachusetts "school for the sub normal covering a group of adults, all but two of whom are earning their own living and ony .three of whom had been returned to the institution, after having been edu cated for productive employment of some sort. The case is felted of a man who, although rated as of "a mental age of eight years," was receiving J26 a week at steady em ployment. In another instance a man classified as mentally but ten years old was earning $32 a week. With the exceptions previously noted, all were making their own way and were doing useful work. These revelations provoke reflec tion upon the accuracy, or the re verse, of the more or less arbitrary methods formulated by doctrin naires for determining mental ca pacity. The popular furore caused by reported disclosures of the army tests has been abated because, how ever scientific these may have seemed, they somehow did not square with the observation and experience of most men. For it is one thing to state dogmatically that a man is but eight years of age, according to an academic "I. Q.," and quite another to sup port that contention in the face of his subsequent conduct, if he is able to perform useful industrial tasks reasonably' well, if he shows capacity for sticking to his job and if he makes a fair showing of in dustry by comparison with his fel low workmen. Boys of eight and ten do not, of course, do either, unless they are most exceptional prodigies. It would appear that, for the purpose of a classification system that the ordinary run of men can understand, we need a new meas ure of intelligence. The leaders in the new science know it and are working to that end; the business meanwhile suffers from interpre tation by half-trained and un trained pretenders who generalize from insufficient data and draw premature conclusions"- from un completed research. To assume, for example, that the average mental age of the entire population is below fifteen years is to raise a question as to the accuracy of the basis used. Moreover, it invites alarm whicli is probably unjustified and encourages pessimism which I serves no constructive purpose. We need a word to take the place of the much-abused "moron, which' almost before "it has achieved a place in the dictionary has outlived its usefulness. There are fewer morons, as measured by the actualities of life,- than may have been assumed. It will seem plausible, too, that society is not in as much danger from "sub normal" individuals capable of be ing trained for $32 jobs and of holding them as it is from those possessing theoretically higher "L Q's." who loaf and shirk and re fuse or neglect to improve or to utilize the natural gifts which they possess. - ' INCESSANT WARFARE. The announcement of the de partment of agriculture that it has its hands full in its efforts to com bat two new enemies of husbandry is an Indication of the unceasing vigilance that is required to main tain the balance between, our food plants and their enemies. The cot ton boll, weevil, which invaded our country from Mexico, the alfalfa weevil, which we imported from western Asia, and more remotely the San Jose scale which proved so destructive of fruit trees are examples of pests that got a foot hold before we were fully awake to the danger from outside sources. But now, notwithstanding rigid quarantine - laws and elaborate means for their enforcement, new and even more menacing insects have succeeded in breaking through the lines. The Japanese beetle and the Eu ropean corn-borer are the latest arrival of all. The former at tacks more than 200 varieties of plants, the latter threatens not only corn but other important food crops. The bettle, with a canny instinct for its own preservation, avoids leaves that have been sprayed, so that standard methods of combating it are unavailing. There Is work for a whole platoon of scientists . in the campaign against these two insects alone. Curiously, In the countries from which these insects come they are less destructive" than they are in their new home. Nature, which is as efficient in the long run as she is deliberate in her processes, has so contrived it that there is a natural enemy for each. Unfortu nately, however, the parasite does not always accompany its host upon its foreign journey and it must be sought for, imported and propagated by artificial meana Also in the countries of their origin plants acquire a certain immunity in the tedious course of years fof which we would be unwilling to wait. The work being done by the scientists of agriculture is un doubtedly vital to the existence of the people and deserves to be rated among the most important of our time. - . . . STRIKE AT THE ROOT OF THE STRIKE EVIL. Grave as is the situation pro duced in the manufacturing states by the simultaneous strikes of coal miners and railroad shopmen, it affords no excuse for the alarmist utterances and actions of Henry Ford. Just when the fuel supply had reached the danger point, set tlement of the coal strike began and has continued from state to state until, as our Washington cor respondent shows, production Will this week exceed current, demand. The railroad strike has reduced car and locomotive supply, and the need of equipment is the more acutely felt as movement of coal' increases, byrt the railroads steadily restore their shop forces to full strength both in numbers and effi ciency and danger of extension of the strike to the crafts that move trains has passed. If the bitumi nous coal strike had continued an other month, manufactures would have been paralyzed, crops could not have been moved, and millions of people would have entered win ter in imminent danger of famine and freezing. By a narrow margin the nation has turned the corner of economic disaster, but the corner is turned and we may reasonably expect steady improvement from day to day. Whatever justification there may be for Mr. Ford's intended shut down of his great industry is to be found in its peculiar character. It is so highly organized from the standpoint of economy that a steady flow of material at all stages of pro duction through all its departments, and full, uninterrupted operation (are essential. If one part stops, all must stop, like the cars of a train when the engine stops, and probably production to half or three-fourths of capacity would so increase cost per car as to wipe out profit. For such an industry less than a full supply of fuel may be useless and. unless a full supply is assured, sound business may dic tate a complete shutdown. When Mr. Ford attributes the deadlock in strike negotiations to "a plot to unload the demoralized and rundown railroads on the gov ernment at their own price and to mulct the people through excessive coal prices," he uses the special circumstances of his own industry for purposes of political propa ganda. The deadlock in the bitu minous coal strike has been broken and that in the railroad strike is being broken by the steady increase, in the shop forces, largely through the appearance, as strikebreakers at one place, of men who struck at some other place. The only dead lock remaining is in the anthra cite industry, which should not af fect the Ford industry. Mr. Ford issued his manifesto somewhat too late to serve his political end. Nevertheless the prospect con fronting that part of the popula tion that depends on anthracite for fuel is grave, and the bituminous coal business and the transporta tion system have been disorganized. The nation has had and is still having a stern lesson in the danger to its normal life of permitting strikes to cut off its supply of essential commodities and service. What President David Friday, of the Michigan agricultural college, said on this subject was true of the country in general when it was written, on August 15, is still true as to the anthracite supply, and is true as to proper distribution and control of prices for bituminous coal and as to operation of rail roads to their capacity. This is in brief what he said: Coal and transportation are the two pivots on which our whole life turns. If either is cut elf we are tremendously crippled."" If both are cut off we cannot go OIL There is no exaarsreratina the essential character of these things. Heat, light. communication, food, drink, care of the sick are dependent on fuel and trans portation. Manufacturing, the greatest single activity of our people, depends wholly on fuel and transportation. I do not know how near we may be, even now, to the rationing of some im portant necessities of life. The crops are enormous, but if transportation is dis organized how shall the cities be fed? There Is no alternative if the coal and railroad disputes are not adjusted we shall see .starvation in some of our American cities, and starvation in a land which abounds in every kind of plenty. The people' will not stand it. In all the- necessities of life they demand cer tainty. - Coal and transportation are necessities of life. They are important to our life as a nation, as important to the life of every individual in the nation as water. And any man, or any condl dition which shuts off fuel and trans portation from our people will no more be tolerated than a - condition which would deprive the American people of their supply of water, or their supply of anv other necessity of existence. ,.I am satisfied that if this controversy goes on and on the people will be aroused as never . before over an eco nomic crisis. They will be aroused to take drastic action, through congress, to prevent any recurrences of such condi tions in the future. , Congress shows a disposition to dally with the measures giving President Harding the power to avert the catastrophe thus de scribed, not only in the present emergency but whenever in future a similar emergency shall arise. It seems inclined to place first the bill for a commission of inquiry into the coal industry, when the occasion demands that the presl dent he triven power to ACT promptly and effectively. The teeth which the house pulled from the transportation act, by striking out the clause which declared un lawful any combination of officials or employes of railroads that sus pended operation,, should be put back and sharpened with penal ties. Submission to decisions of the labor board should be made compulsory, and some similar tri bunal should be established for the coal industry. If the anthracite operators and miners should re main stubborn the president should have power to seize and operate the mines in the name 'of the govern ment, and a public tribunal should be given authority to decide dis putes when the parties immediate ly concerned fail to agree, and to enforce its decisions. It is more important that the people of the eastern coast have anthracite than that mine-owners, and miners be free to cut off the supply while they wrangle over a question of more or less wages or other differ ences even less important and while millions of people freeze. ., The fiction that a public tribunal cannot properly adjudicate indus trial disputes and prohibit and pre vent strikes has been exploded by the success of the Kansas court of industrial relations. Resort has been had to that court by both employers and workmen and the court has frequently acted on Its own initiative, those who resisted Its decisions have been punished its orders have been obeyed and industrial peace has been estab lished. As Governor Allen, of Kansas, proposes in a letter pub lished in another column,' the Kansas plan should be applied to railroads, and it could properly be extended to disputes affecting coal and other indispensable commodi ties. When supported by public opinion, decisions of such tribunals can be enforced, and legal power of enforcement should be given. Congress may quail before the anger .that such measures will surely arouse on the part of labor leaders like Gompers, Lewis and Jewell, who hold the right to strike more sacred than the right of the people to have the necessaries of life and who say that labor, de prived of that right, would be re duced to slavery. Congress would better take heed to the indignation that it would arouse among the far greater number of people by re fusing to give the president and the labor hoard the proposed power and from its fear of popular anger derive courage to defy the dictators who hold up the people with the threat of famine, freezing and in dustrial paralysis. A moonshiner has just been ar rested on two counts, beating his wife and making moonshine. What a fix he is in his only excuse for the beating is that moonshine drove him to it, and he probably will wish to plead that his wife drove him to the moonshine. , . t That is an unholy alliance in Nebraska democracy with Hitch cock out for re-election and 'Brother Charles" running for gov ernor. A wet and dry plan Is de signed to catch 'em both ways. But Bryan cannot go back on one of the family. New York is to have more sub ways. It was becoming apparent that something would have to be done toon for the relief of Tam many. The king of Siam, aged 42, has just, taken his first wife. His dad had 300 and most likely affairs around the house rather scared the son. One of the first essentials to saving Germany from the reds is to take effective measures to keep her people from getting the blues. A Bend woman admitted she made home brew so her husband would not have to drink the water. Can wifely devotion go farther? The man who raises his voice to yell around police headquarters is doing something worse than bearding the lion in his den. There is too much delay in bringing Dave Lightner here from Los Angeles to answer for his al leged crimes. '-."-. As the days pass there still is hope for the men In the mine at Jackson. There is hope until they are found. This week sees the reaL. begin ning of the fair season. Gresham ran a bluff and won. - Man can have no finer ambition than to live as did Frank Akin and go as he went. The Beavers are toning, up. Losing in a 2-to-l game with Ver non is not bad. Miners in western Washington have resumed, but lay in your fuel now. The Listening Post. By DeWItt Harry. THE old style "lover's lane" has been supplanted. No longer do the spoony ones care to roam be neath spreading boughs they take to the automobile and this has cre ated a nuisance. It used to be that the country was considered a sim ple, innocent place, but the farmer of this day is up in arms. "Petting parties" on lonely roads have aroused his ire. One-farmer whose place is on a side lane just ever in the Tualatin valley claims that on, warm, moon lights nights he finds half a dozen cars parked near his home. The con duct of the occupants, according to this man, indicates that they have no sense of shame. It seems as if all feeling of restraint is lost by some motorists as soon as the .city limits are left behind. This has created a growing demand that law enforcement agencies take steps to patrol country lanes as effectively as city streets are guarded. Not onlv do the country side roads suffer from this practice, according to residents of some localities, but city officers frequently find similar "conditions in districts inside the cor porate limits. On one recent night, while searching for a fleeing out law, nearly every blind street in a subdivision hack of the city park was found to have its one or more automobiles containing "snuggle pups." Just a few months ago the eher iff's office killed one and caught an other brigand who were preying on these parties. It was the practice of the outlaws to hold up couples they found in remote autos. Though they "framed" many couples few com plaints were received. The natural conclusion is that the ones victim ized did not care to let it be known that they were petting in a secluded nook. He's the same old moon, but the sights are different. . Eend merchants gave a picnic and the prize for the three-legged race was one silk shirt. The difficulty came in adjusting the dispute over ownership between the two compon ent parts of the winning team. The victors were the Eev. Jackson L. Webster, Presbyterian, and Judge Ross Farnham, municipal bench. Upon rejecting the suggestion to wear the garment on alternate days the winners, according to the Bulle tin, they were asked to shoot craps to remove the cloud on the title. This method was also declined, in view of their prominent positions in the' community whereia they were expected to" set a worthy example and the decision was appealed to Emil Pearl, who had given the prize. He came through manfully, doubled his gift and the team now wear their silk shirts in peace. OH, WELL Heaven bless the wives, They fill our hives with little B s and honey! They ease life's shocks they mend our sox. But don't they spend the money? When we are sick, they heal us quick That is if they do love us; If not, we die, and yet they cry, AND RAISE TOMBSTONES ABOVE US. Billbates. Fred G. Dunnicliff, former editor of the White $almon Enterpri$e, hav ing " read that there i$ a tobacco which, if smoked by a man, would make him forget that he owed a $cent in the world po$ibly inno cently concluded that several ox h.$ $ub$criber$ $surely had Deen $upplied with $everal pound? of the "dete$table $tuff. Here's a dreadful suggestion from a Washington street cafeteria win dow: "Hot weather lunch hard boiled eggs cheese sanawicn coia vege tables stewed rhubarb." a Commercial Terms. Letters of credit IOU. A circular letter O. Our Sally Conundrum. Why does a chicken cross the street? To- hire a taxi. The tongue of a woman her sword and she never lets it get rusty from want of using. OH, LADY Oh, Lady, who walks in the garden When the moon of the soutn riaes hierh. You promised (but you have for gotten) That your love should no, never die. - , Still, it died, just the same, oh, my Lady Spite of all the prayer I could Dray But the ghost of it, lingering, shall haunt you And you will remember some day. JOSEPH ANDREW GALAHAD. . She had several small holes in front of her dress and took great care in explaining how ferocious the oths were this summer. The skep tical observer, familiar with her habits, refused to be impressed. He pointed out that the holes looked as if they had been scorched in and attributed them to carelessness in handling cigarettes. "How's your garden getting along, professor?" was asked the Reed col lege instructor. "Horticulturally it's very poor; biologically it's a dream." Some makeup man threw in a classified ad upside down the other day. Before noon Chatterton, the expert, had more than 50 requests for similar treatment of copy from clients. Anything to attract atten tion. ' - The youngster came with his parents from one of the interior tates by auto. He had never seen the ocean or even a good-sized riv er, but of autos he was familiar ever since his birth. After registering at the auto park the family were sightseeing and, as they crossed one of the bridges, his mother pointed out a sailbdkt skimming across the river quite a distance away. For a long time the boy was unable to find it, and when he spied it he said: "Oh you mean that auto with the white side curtains." Since then he has talked incessantly on the auto that puts up side curtains and then runs on .the water. 1 Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotels. What is being done with the spruce now being shipped to Eng land and France the . dealers in America apparently do not know. J. P. Jennings of Vancouver, B. C, who is - a heavy buyer of Oregon spruce, which is shipped overseas, declares that he hasn't an idea what so much spruce is being devoted to. The airplane theory has been some what flattened out since the British air service has just awarded a con tract for 500 planes and there isn't an inch of wood in any of the machines, the contrivances being all-metal affairs. The air service for the next' war is much discussed in English and Canadian papers at present. A London paper, much quoted, declares that the largest bomb dropped from a plane in the word war was 100 pounds, but now there are airships which can drop a 4000-pound bomb. The attitude of the British is that in the next war the civil population will be in greater jeopardy than the soldiers because of the aerial attacks. Mr. and Mrs. Jennings are at the Benson. ."Cabbage hill is the designation for- the mountain near Pendleton, from the top of which 10,080,000 bushels of wheat can be seen grow ing. The old Oregon trail winds down this mountain in a series of loops -and there is nothing more sightly on any highway in the state," said County Judge Shannep of Umatilla, who Is in Portland. "There are many people who do not like the name of Cabbage hill, and I have received at least 200 suggestions for other names. When the trail is completed something may be done about making the change, but the present generation will have to go to the happy hunt ing grounds before any name will get into more common use than Cabbage hill." The judge says among other suggestions received is one to the effect that a vista house be erected on the hill. Dr. E. H. Smith, county judge of Lake county, is in the city with his daughter. He was here to attend the opening of bids for road work in his county. One of the jobs is to grade and surface about eight miles of the highway between Lake view and' Klamath Falls and another is for 12 miles of surfacing from Valley Falls to Chewauean. Sat urday Lakeview is to stage a round up for three days and all the bucka roos in that section of Oregon are heading for the rodeo, wearing their silk shirts and kerchiefs, their high heeled boots and som,breros. Judge Smith will leave Portland today in ordeV to be on hand f.r the festivi ties. Ice cream is now being shipped in from across the line over the narrow-gauge railroad to cool the throngs. E. B. Aldrich, newspaper man of Pendleton, is strong for the construc tion of a highway from Pendleton to John Day along the North Fork grade, which means through Ukiah, Dale and Ritter. The highway com mission doesn't think much of the road, and as the Umatilla county court hasn't made much progress convincing the highway commission, Mr. Aldrich came to Portland yes terday to show how to bring home the bacon. When the Umatilla dele gation presented, its plea it was the county judge arid county commis sioners who made the argument, as usual, and the newspaper man watched from the sidelines F. O. Young, owner of a large gen eral store at Paisley, Or., is regis tered at the Hotel Oregon. Paisley is on the edge of a large marsh and because of the dampness there are so many mosquitoes that every door and window in the town has screens, and when women are in the gardens picking berries they wear a net around their head and neck. Aside from the mosquitoes. Paisley is a clean and attractive littje set tlement and will soon be connected with Lakeview by a good state highway, suitably surfaced. Much of the land around Paisley is owned by the Chewauean Land & Cattle company, which is owned by a flock of California millionaires. Mapleton, in Lajie county, consists of Joe Morris' store and the other store. Mr. Morris is at the Imperial. Mapleton is at the head of naviga tion on the -Siuslaw river arid is the principal town on the lower Sius law, providing you forget Florence. Mr. Morris has been active in county matters for several years and is an enthusiastic road booster. He has been consulting forest officials while here to see when Mapleton will be connected with the Roose velt highway. In politics Mr. Morris is a republican and says that the recent visit of the democratic nomi nee for governor in the Mapleton district was a frost. Twenty-three dollars stood be tween Kenneth Hodgman and a road contract yesterday afternoon. 1 Mr. Hodgman has been a division engineer with the department, re signing a few days ago. He put in a bid for a job yesterday and was nosed out by another contractor who offered to do the work $23 cheaper than the bid of Mr. Hodg man. . "Anyway," observed Mr. Hodgman philosophically, "it is bet ter to cry that you didn't get a job than to get a job and then cry be cause you did." Mr. Hodgman Was been one of the star men in the engineering force of the highway department. M. L. Kent of Reno, Wash., was in , Portland yesterday passing around pears and peaches to show what can be produced in that sec tion. Reno is about eight miles up the Lewis river from Woodland, and when people there are asked the name of the governor of Washing ton they have to stop and think. The Renoites do their trading in Portland and take the Portland pa pers and know more about Oregon politics than they 8o about the sit uation and candidates in their own state. , A few years ago G. W. Bentz went to Lake county to help build the irrigation project near Lakeview. He liked the country and now he is the roadmaster. with more than 2000 miles under his charge and not enough money to take care of all of them. Mr. Bentz is registered at the Imperial, having come to Portland to submit a road-job bid to the highway commission. L. B. Cleaster of Silver Lake. Or., is registered at the Imperial. Silver Lake has a brand-new irrigation project, with plenty of water and plenty of land, and it looks like a winner. The. town has one of the most substantial school buildings in the state and it is by far the largest. most substantial and attractive structure at Silver Lake and would be a credit to any metropolitan city. G. W. Hobson of Tumalo, Or., Is at the Imperial. Mr. Hobson is the president of the project which is now being extended and getting or. its feet. The town was recently used as a wild-west location by a motion picture outfit. A. A. Smith, an attorney of Baker and formerly a member of the house of representatives, is in the city and registered at the Benson. P. McD. Fuller" Prineville is at the ' Benson. Mr. Fuller, is one of the best-known residents of Crook county, ; Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright, Houghton-Mifflin Co. Can Yon Answer These Question f 1. Can birds that are day-time, or night-time, feeders feed at other times? 2. . Is the coca in the drink coca cola from the same plant as cocoa? 3. Why do coyotes persist so suc cessfully in settled neighborhoods, even when hunted? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Answers to Previous Questions. 1. Do any birds but vultures eat carrion? Yes, crows often do, and a dead cat or similar carcass is recom mended as bait when crows are to be caught. The Canada jay, or "whiskey jack" of the northeast woods, is another well-known eater of dead flesh, and commonly called "carrion bird" by lumbermen. 2. Do garden, slugs have any nat ural enemies? Yes, some toads eat the slime sing a good reason in some localities for protecting the toad. 3. How did our garden vegetables get started?- Are they just culti vated from wild plants, or devel oped from seed brought here? The origin of garden vegetables is undoubtedly in wild plants; but most of them have been under culti vation so many years that the his tory of their gradual development is lost. Cauliflower, for instance, which is a much modified form of the wild cabbage, has been devel oped into a vegetable almost 600 years B. C. Most of the ordinary market vegetables were Imported to this country from abroad, but the shoots or seeds that established them here, had their origin cen turies back In wild plants of Eu rope, Asia and Africa MORE POWER TO LABOR BOARD Governor Allen Recommends Han 't sas Plan to Prevent Strikes. TOPEKA, Kan., Aug. 25. (To the Editor.) My belief is that the con gress should Immediately enact an amendment to the law which created the railway labor board, giving to that board the power to enforce its rulings in a fashion somewhat similar to the powers now possessed by the Kansas court of industrial relations. This provision should have been in the law which created this elab orate machinery, and doubtless it would have been there had the con gress not been timid in reference to its obvious'"duty. The act of creat ing as elaborate an? expensive a piece of machinery as the federal labor board and then leaving it entirely without the necessary power to function effectively made of the labor board little more than a costly debating society. The present grave danger which menaces the public as the result of the threatened cessation of trans portation emphasizes again the need of a federal tribunal which shall guarantee justice to those who labor in the essential industries and safety , to the public that is served by those industries. It is insup portable that the nation should be called upon to endure any longer the waste, and the danger which accompanies the strike method of settling a wage controversy. Both the men and the companies would be better off,i( a righteous and responsible government guaranteed that there should be a just and im partial adjudication of all the wage controversies that arise in either the railway activities or the coal mining activities. It is unspeakable that the wel fare of the public should be men aced every time a new contract is to be signed between the employers and the employes in one of these essential industries. The govern ment has found a just way of put ting a stop to every other quarrel that endangers the public peace. It should now have the courage to enact such just 'legislation as will put -a stop to this menace. The safety of the public has been a supreme principle in every well ordered civilization from the be ginning of organized government. It is the duty of this great coun try, which has been able to find such wise remedies for all its other perils, to act now with decision and wisdom to the end that we may have that security to our general wex'fare which is the right of an orderly civilization. The success with which the gov ernment has found justice for the citizen in all his other relations of life certainly is abundant proof that with equal success it could guar antee justice in a labor controversy in an essential industry in which the public is an intimate partner. HENRY J. ALLEN, Governor of Kansas. WOMAN'S SURRENDER DOUBTED That She Will Not Submit to Long Skirt Dictation Is Predicted. PORTLAND, Or., Aug. 29. (To the Editor.) The "dictator" of fash ions has been heard -from. He at tempts to gain position in the cen ter of the stage. The headlines an nounce: "Milady' Defied. Skirt to Be Long Down to Ankles Ukase of Fashion King." Maybe so, and then maybe not. The "dictator" is none other than M. Poiret of Paris, now visiting in New York. He says: "But skirts must be long now and will eventual ly reach the ground. This will come by degrees, ankle length being proper at this stage of the rever sion from short skirts." Naturally the manufacturers of dress goods will be interested In re turn of the custom of other days when skirts were long, even to the very long skirt which swept the street and toyed with the cigar stumps and other filth the kind of a skirt which employed, all the time, one hand of "milady" when on a shopping tour, Will the women ba driven back to "normalcy"? We are betting they will not. They will prefer the nobby short skirt, the comfortable, sensible, sanitary skirts in preference to some of the new styles that make a woman look like a wet hen in an Oregon rain storm. The woman whs has sense and independence will go back to long skirts when the men go back to powdered wigs or stiff-starched shirt fronts in lieu of close-cropped hair and the modern shirt of com fort. Suppose the women, old and young, do show their legs! Anything wrong about having legs? The short skirt has done much to wipe out a lot of false modesty. It is a safe bet that it has come to stay. JUST A MARRIED MAN. Important Disclosure. Boston Transcript. "John," said his young wife, "have yo-u any secrets you keep from me?" "Why, no," he replied, wondering what in the world was coming. "Then I am determined I will have none from you." "You have secrets, then?" "Only one, and I am resolved to make a clean breast of it. I'm afraid It will disturb you, John." "Go on," he said hoarsely. "For several weeks I have had a secret, John a secret longing for a new. dress, with hat to match." More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Montasjae. THE ELUSIVE MORAL. Before there was a Volstead law The village gossips used to mutter In pitying accents when they saw A friend and neighbor in the gutter: "How dreadful was the fellow's fall! How terrible i his condition! He wouldn't be that way at alt If only we had prohibition!" They knew the drunkards all by name, And when they came around with edges Some elderly and kindly dame Would get their signature to pledge. And If they all appeared next Oay Still far too merry and seraphic. The troubled townsfolk used to av Hard things about the liquor traf fic. Today, when some gojd man goes wrong. The villagers with whom he's mingled Observe his frequent bursts of song. And thus discover he is Jingled. "Too bad about that chap," they cry, "He might have kept his high position If Volstead hadn't made us dry What ruined him is prohibition!" There is some moral In this tale I fancied so when I designed it But I have searched without avail For nearly half an hour to find it! It Must Be Done. If we don't lower the immigration bars to Italy, how are we going to get our future golf champions? And More to Follow. Nicholas Lenine doesn't share the regret of Nathan Hale. He's already given six or seven lives to his coun try. , Needed Amendment. The pure food law ought to insist that on every bootleg liquor lahel the wood alcoholic content be plain ly printed. Tribute Delayed. By Grace E. Hall. Bring your rare flowers and lay them on her breast. Tell tenderly her loving deeds of yore; Sing loud your praise you will not mar her rest. Not still the fluttering black thing on the door. A dozen words of tenderness from you And her sad lips had found their old-time song. The flowers you bring are lovely. It is true; But you have waited long, yes, far too long. You mlghf have seen the love-light in her eye A woman's soul so quickly over- flows You waited till today your flowers to buy While on the door a black rag writhes and blows. In Other Days. Twenty-five Years Ago. From The Oresroman of Aucuxt 3n, lh!'7 St. Louis. The attendance of labor ieaders upon tomorrow's united labor convention Is considerable of a disappointment so far. The most important arrivals of the day were D. R. Sovereign, grand master work man of the Knights of Labor, and W. C. Pearce, secretary of the United Mlneworkers of America. Dr. Charles Edward Locke deliv ered an earnest sermon Inst eve ning at the Taylor-street First Methodist church, on the subject. The Saloon Must Go." Oregon City. The dedication of the Magdalen Home of the Sisters of the Good Shepherd at Park plare took place today. Hartford. .The country in now pleased to know that President Mc Klnley is well pleased with Vice President Hobart and vice versa. Fifty Years Ago. From The Oregonian of AuRunt 80. 1ST?. St. Louis. A state convention of soldiers and ' sailors is called here for September 5 to appoint dele gates to Pittsburg. Lisbon. Cholera is reported to be raging in India. The fatal cases have reached appalling figure. Thousands have died in the city of Lahore and other large cities. A new bridge is soon to be built across the Pudding river, near Au rora. The contract will be let Sep tember 2 to the lowest bidder on the grounds by Stephen Smith, su perintendent. Seattle. Sailors are now asking $120 to go from Puiret sound to Hongkong. ROAD IS FIT ONLY FOR HASH Three Inches of Asphalt Proposed for Hillshoro Hlg;bviay. HILLSBORO. Or.. Aug. 28. (To the Editor.) As an Oregon taxpay er uiiu a. Diiuiif$ auvut.ci.ie u roads, I have taken a great deal ofi interest in tne concrete pavement laid by the state between Portland and Hillsboro. This so-called "per manent" concrete pavement was laid less than three years ago at a great expense to the taxpayer and it has been steadily going to pieces ever since. At the present time this pave ment is lined on one side, from one end to the other, with hundreds of barricades and pieces of broken concrete to keep traffic off the new patches, while the other side of the road, which has already been patched, is again going to pieces. The patching of this road Is cost ing the state thousands of dollars and the results at best are only temporary. Would it not be a better investment for the state to utiliz the present bae and cover this with about three Inches of hot stuff, which would give us a durable pavement? In this way the orig inal investment could be saved and the public relieved of a heavy bur den and continual inconvenience. ' , O. HANSEN'. Citizenship In Mexico. TIMBER, Or.. Aug. 28. (To the Editor.) Kindly advise me how long a person must live in Mexico before he can take out his ffrst citizenship papers. This is quite important but not because I am con templating such a move. A SUBSCRIBER. Address Mexican consul. Sail Francisco, Cal. Pamphlets on Mllklna- Machlnr-SM 11. (To St.- Editor.) Can you inform me where I can procure literature regarding simple hand or foot power milking machines? ROBERT CURRIER. Apply to' Associated Industries of Oregon, Oregon building, Portland,