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THE OREGOX1AJN, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST SO,
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NOTED G TO WORRY ABOUT.
The- Portland caravan's educative
mission to tht) state was highly
successful, except in a spot or two.
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."
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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,