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V THE MORNING OREGONIAN, MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1923 ESTABLISHED BY HENRY I- FITTOCK .Published by The Oreitonian Pub. Co.. 136 Sixth Street, Portland. Oregon. C. A- MORDEN, E. B. PIPER. .Manager. Editor. The Oreeonian la member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press t exclusively entitled to the use tor puou cation of all news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited in this paper . and also the local news published herein. All rights of publication of special dis patches herein are also reserved. Subscription Bates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) Pally, Sunday Included, one year . . . .$8.00 Xfe-Uy, Sunday included, six months . 4.2a Daily, Sunday included, three months 2.23 Dally, Sunday included, one month . . .73 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months .. 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month ... .60 Sunday one year 2.50 (By Carrier.) 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The great salt day wages obstructs the working of i lake may have been the Pacific this law, for it removes the incen-1 ocean, and the river may have been tive to greater production as- the -i either the Colorado or the Colum- means to larger earnings, but labor bia, but the six noble cities are not DEDICATED TO HUMANITY. Of the various memorials that recall to us", as they will to poster ity, the lives of men who lived their span and left the world, none can be more enduring than the altruis tic. Bronze may tarnish and mar ble crumble, but a bequest to hu manity ia itself a living thing-a memory forever vitalized by the spirit of the donor. Reflections such as these must come to all who give thought to the recent dedica- order, express or personal check on your local bank. Stamps, coin or currency are at owner's risk. Give postofflce address In full, including oounty and state. Postae-e Rates 1 to 18 pags, 1 cent: 18 to iS2 pages, 2 cents; 84 to 48 pages, 3 cents; 60 to 64 rages. 4 cents: 68 to 80 pags, 5 cents; 82 to 96 pages, 6 cents. Kastern BnHlnew Offices Verree & Conklln, 300 Madison avenue. New Tork; Verree 4 Conklln Steger Building, Chi cago; Verree & Conklln, Free Press build ing, Detroit. Mich. ; Verree & Conklln. Konadnock building. San Francisco. CaL I j I . THE SOBER EFFECTIVE WAT. , There was nothing sensational on the subject of taxation in Governor Otcott's address to the gathering of republicans at Eugene. It was a plain, matter-of-fact statement re garding conditions that must be overcome in order to obtain a re duction in cost of government. 'i t-x ' hoan rnlntpil nut riArAinfnrA other sober-minded students of to overcome the demagogy with vhlch high cost of government is so frequently discussed by persons less sincere of purpose. In Oregon we have a close ap proach to a pure democracy, a srovernment. the cost of which, as . well as its purposes, activities and i oeneilLS as Buujttcit to uuccl uuu- trol by the people. Notwithstand ing the democratic form of our government and' the frequent ap plication by the whole people of their unusual powers, many of us still prone to think that the 3re at the head of this pure liocracy has and exercises the 3r which the people themselves and exercise. Candidates fre tly take advantage of this ital reversion to the days "when Irnment was autocratic and .ise things that they alone have Jwer to bring about. sample the governor of the Oregon haa only the power Iimend to the legislature buld be done, and to veto tch the legislature does ol does not approve. For looses there was levied In fat $9,000,000. Yet of this people themselves In the of their rights - under a emocracy, levied about $6,- 000,(77,, by their votes duly reg istered at the polls. Of the $9,000 000 raised by taxation for purely state purposes, less than $3,000,000 consequently passed under the scrutiny of the governor. And while the state was collecting this $9,000,000 for the purpose of pay ing for purely state functions, other tax-levying and collecting agencies were gathering together from the property owners $32,000, 000 more. In short, in the tax bill of the average property owner, less than one-fourth of the sum called for is for state purposes, and two-thirds of that one-fourth were voted by the people themselves. There are 2749 tax-levying bodies in this state.- Each Individual comes in financial contact with only a few of them, but their multiplicity creates a condition which makes real economy In taxation a prob lem of reaching each of the 2749 in- order that every taxpayer may be benefited toy reduction. Every body pays state taxes but If the en tire legislative appropriations for official salaries, maintenance of ln- 'U.tfAna n i-i -J nil mliAllananna affairs"1 state government, were abolished, the present average tax bill of $100 would be reduced ' only $7. The thirty-six boards that levy county taxes, the many bodies that levy town and city taxes, the many more that levy school taxes, port taxes and road taxes, must be reached with the economy pro gramme If the tax bill is to be re duced perceptibly. For tax-levying bodies are also the tax-spending bodies, and as Governor Olcott remarks, "down to the smallest po litical subdivision where money is raised and expended for public pur poses, thrift must prevanN it we bring about a material lessening of the taxpayer's burden." The ramifications of the tax sys tem are not to be successfully at tacked with a cleaver; mere de nunciations by politicians do not affect them. There is only one way to attain genuine reform in taxa tion, and that is by adoption of a comprehensive programme deter mined upon through Intelligent, systematic survey of tax methods, tax inequalities and tax extrava gances. Such a survey has been under taken in Oregon. A capable com mittee, created by the legislature at the suggestion of the governor, has been at work for more than a year. It has discovered Inequalities In the assessed value of property, the es cape of great values from the tax rolls, a need for uniform account ing necessity for a more positive Triidget system, and a want for su pervision of tax-levying to the end that tax-raising and tax-spending bodies shall not be identical. It has found, too, that county courts are compelled by state law to levy purposes to the aetnmem oi nome rule and to the defeat of efforts by local taxing bodies to obtain economies. The report of this commission ,-111 be presented to the next legis ature, and If there shall be ac complished any well - deliberated. pale, consistent, permanent reduc- Itlon of the tax load, and a fairer f equalization of the tax burden, the accomplishment will be founded on I that report. As hereinbefore Indicated, this Commission was created on the rec- j-nmendation of Governor Olcott. is a business man's not a poli- plan'8 method of attacking a com- ficated problem. It. Is the method Good Samaritan hospital. On a tablet In the surgery corridor runs the. Inscription: "Dedicated to the relief of hu man suffering through, the science and art of surgery, In memory tit Joseph Kltchcart Clark." Few pause to appreciate the hu manitarian motive, bo clearly illus trated in this memorial gift, that finds expression in the modern hos pital '-In such a sanctuary of heal ing as Good Samaritan hospital. To appreciate we would have need for contrast between the medical and surgical service of the present, in America, and that of the dark cen turies when all was guess work and pain and terror, and to be stricken was to die or live at the whim of malady or wound. Or contrast with modern Russia, so atavistic that plague rules under the sufferance of the soviet. Sanitation, medical and surgica knowledge, and the cool clean comfort of the hospital are taken for granted. But the ideal is as a vital flame, that men cherish and guard and minister to. Good Samaritan hospital has the most exacting of scriptural tradl tions to live up to and to be worthy of. It is no idle tribute nor vain flattery to say, in all simplicity. that the Institution well merits its appellation, and that the Clark memorial surgery is one with the thought and purpose which have created and maintained a refuge and remedy for suffering. unions are the greatest champions of time wages and opponents of piece-work wages. If they would center their efforts on establishing piece-work scales, graduated by the accounted for. As recently as 1846 maps were offered as evidence in the north west boundary dispute which per petuated the Buenaventura legend DISPENSARY PROVED A FAILURE price of the commodity they pro- j and which represented the Willam duce, and on resistance to efforts ette river, then written "Walamet," as turning snarpiy irom ,tne east In the vicinity of the present city of Eugene. But for the develop ment of railroad building, with Its instruments of precision in survey ing and Its demand for complete and authentic reconnolssance, it is likely that the practical science of map-making would have been in definitely retarded, even as to re gions now familiar to every student of local geography. of greedy employers to .lower the scale when earnings increase, workmen could automatically raise their standard of living by increas ing their earnings. MR. HOHENZOLLERN'S HEART. To be informed, as International gossip has it, that Mr. Hohenzollern will alleviate his lonely life at Doom by remarriage, would have stirred the world to comment a few brief years ago. How time flies and with it crewns and kings! At the most we can but yield a yawn to this tattle of William's tender affair. Princess or hausfrau It is all one to us, though the opinion persists that the bride of the .royal exile is about to be buncoed. The shell of a withered monarch, brood ing by its moth-gnawed trappings of state, what manner of husband is this? Political strategy may pull the heart strings of Mr. Hohenzollern, as a puppet is jerked by the mountebank for It might be haz arded by the hopeful that romance , northwest credlted the supposition MAPPING THE WORLD. It Is not surprising that the Arctic explorer, Donald McMillan, should have discovered, as he re lates that he did, many grave errors in the latest available maps of the polar regions. One of the chief tasks of the modern geog rapher is to correct the mistakes in the rough outlines of the work of the pioneers. In his brief ac count of his voyage in the Bowdoin which he recently sent by courier to Newfoundland, McMillan de scribes the difficulties he met in trying to steer by the charts cover Ing the region he traversed, but these appear to be but difficulties that have 'been common in all time. "When he says that he entered territory In Baffin Land that no white .-man has visited since the voyage of "Northwest" Fox, three centuries- ago, he gives an under standable explanation of the dis crepancies he found. Maps of the world three hundred years ago were relatively crude, highly mis leading where they purported to set down definite locations, and usually wrong In important par ticulars. Much more recent charts than those of Fox have erred so grossly that It Is wholly credible that McMillan should have "sailed over an area Indicated as land on all the latest and most authorita tive maps, and indeed fifteen miles into a hypothetical interior." The cartography of the Arctic zone is yet In a condition relatively similar to that of western North America In a time still within the memories of men now living. It Is interesting " to recall that when John C. Fremont set out on hia journey from Oregon to California in the winter of 1843 he confidently expected to find pasture for his horses and rest for his men In a salubrious valley not a great dis tance south of The Dalles. No other hypothesis justifies his un dertakjng of what proved to be an extraordinarily hazardous expedi tion at - a peculiarly unpropitlous time. A great Fiver was presumed to flow from Salt lake westward into the Pacific ocean at San Fran cisco. The Santa Fe trail had been explored on the south and Jededlah Smith had twice crossed the great American desert, without, however. leaving an authentic repudiation of the old tradition which so nearly cost Fremont and his men their lives. The best information then available to the Oregon attaches of the Hudson's Bay. company, the center of official knowledge In the is the key wherewith to unlock the stolid opposition of the republic to another reign of the all-highest. Financial advantage may also in fluence the drabbled amour, for ru. mor reports that the gold of the Hohenzollerns took flight with the crown and that a fat goose is a problem. We move these possibil ities first of all, having learned at some cost of steel and blood that eentiment of the more human sort had little to do with the de signs of German princes. Practical fellows they were, and none more practical than William Hohenzol lern. What a figure he cut, this arbiter of mortal destinies, ten years ago! But a more generous theory Is that when a man is stripped of his prestige, and brought low, and reft of his friends and his fortune, the "heart of him cries out for com panionship and sympathy and he turns to a woman. If a woman will have him. And the singular truth is women are always waiting some where for these broken lives, to mend them like crockery, and watch them jealously lest they crack again. A great pity it seems, with the ex-kaiser about to make his bid for happiness, that some similar dispensation could" not be granted those millions who, willy nilly, like cards on a table, went down to misery before the gust of his imperial vanity. UNIONS AND ITvTNO STANDARDS. Such speakers as Miss Mary "Van Kleeck so confuse questions of economics with sentiment that one no sooner exposes their fallacies than one exposes himself to the charge of being Callously indiffer ent to the sufferings of the poor. Yet It Is not those who call atten tion to economic truth who are wanting in sympathy; it Is that truth Itself.1 Those who control capital" are said to be In an attitude of "antag onism to labor" and the Implica tion plainly is that by "labor" is meant union labor, though only a fraction of the labor of the country is in the unions. The millions of farmers have no union, though they have various co-operative as sociations to secure the full share of the price paid by consumers for their products, but they certainly labor. Nor is It true that capital in general is antagonistic to labor unions, though it opposes some of their policies. In many industries employers welcome active co-operation of unions, and opposition to unions which refuse to abide by the ver dict of an impartial government board or to arbitrate disputes does not bespeak antagonism to unions in general. Yet a sweeping charge that capital conspires to destroy unions is founded on resistance to the railroad shopmen's demands after the latter had rejected the labor board's award. The theory seems to. be that any employer who refuses to grant whatever a union demands is an enemy of unionism. This Is simply not true. Then we are told that "the wages of too large a number in all In dustries are too low for an ade quate standard family life." The only basis on which employers can possibly fix wagesNis the value of the work done. Tft fact is that economic law does take account of the human factor in industry, for at its. base is the instinctive dis position of man to work for the comfort of himself and his family, that what is now known to be an Irreclaimable desert was a smiling valley basking under a perpetual sun. Captain Benjamin L. E. Bonne ville, whose labors it Is likely would have gone for naught but for the literary genius of Irving,, was In deed the first to, represent With even approximate accuracy the lar ger natural features of the western country. But his map, which would have disposed of the mistaken no tion that a Buenaventura river ex isted, was not published until 1837 and then in a limited edition which appears to have attracted so little attention that Fremont probably did not receive a copy at all. Thomas H. Benton, who was deeply concerned with western affairs and whose memory is embalmed In the name of a county of Oregon, wrote in 1856, in his "Thirty Years' View," how his son-in-law, Fre mont, was misled though he acted on the best knowledge that Oregon then possessed of Its immediate neighbors.- Fremont, says Benton, "was at Fort Vancouver the guest of the hospitable Dr. McLaughlin, and ob tained from him all possible Infor mation upon his line of return, faithfully given, but which, proved to be disastrously erroneous in Its leading and governing features. All maps up to that time had shown this region traversed from east to west, from the base of the Rocky mountains to the bay of San Fran cisco, by a great river called the Buenaventura, which, may be trans lated the Good Chance. Fremont believed in It, and his plan was to reach it before the dead of winter and hibernate upon it."" "It is evident," says Lieutenant Gouverneur K. Warren, whose geo graphical researches are the most thorough of any up to his time, "that Colonel Benton had never seen Captain Bonneville's map." Few others had been so exception ally fortunate and belief in the ex istence of this fabulous stream per sisted throughout the Oregon coun try for a long time. It was riot until the decade of the fifties that the fruits of Bonneville's work be gan to be harvested and, although that adventurer destroyed the Buenaventura illusion and placed the Humboldt river approximately where it belonged, he was guilty of Inadvertencies and inaccuracies of another character, which were not repaired until the surveys for the Pacific railroads were made. It Is but a century and a half since existence of the River of the West was postulated and but a century and a third since the dls-1 covery of Its mouth . removed it from the realm of controversy. The practice of basing charts on the unverified accounts of Irresponsible savages has only lately fallen Into disrepute. Baron La Hontan's ac count, written in 1689 and pub lished forty-six years later, of a journey of six weeks' duration up a river which he declared to flow into- the Mississippi from the west, was widely discredited, although it now appears to have been reason able, but a contemporaneous story, resting on the authority of certain Indian slaves, of the existence of a far western river flowing Into a great salt lake was generally be lieved, though it curiously com bined the Buenaventura tradition and the aboriginal lore concerning the Columbia. "The lower part of that river," said the annalist, "is adorned with six noble cities, sur rpunded with, gtone, cemented, witti Reports to the department of commerce that the foreign demand for American automobiles is In-" creasing ought tp be followed by news that the good roads move ment has been extended to the farthest corners of the world. Burmah, which is just awakening to the advantages of quick trans portation, is described by travelers as one of the principal mudholes of the world, and Japan, which is about to supplant the Jinrlksha with light motor cars, finds the field for four-wheeled vehicles much circumscribed by the road system in vogue. The Impossibility of Imagining a man who owns an automobile as anything else than a roads booster makes it seem prob able that the matter of finding employment for populations will solve Itself as soon as the primary necessitiee, such as food, have been provided for. The Fascisti of Italy by resort to direct action gave the Communists a dose of their own medicine and went them one better. . That is a fit penalty for any party which at tempts by force to usurp the power of government and to set Itself up as dictator, but. what must?be thought of "ja government that leaves suppression of such an ele ment to the private initiative of an other armed faction ? It will in evitably be at the mercy of the vic torious party and will have given its sanction to private war. The settlement of the anthracite strike is only a truce like that of the bituminous coal strike. -Unless action Is taken to assert the rights of the people, the operators and miners will again have the busi ness of the country at their mercy a year hence. What' 13 wanted is a settlement of the coal strike that will Insure Its being the last. A fine characteristic of the miner Is the readiness and devotion with which he goes to the rescue of comrade's trapped underground. It is a tradition of the craft, similar to seamen's efforts at the peril of their lives to save mariners in distress. Wet Recommendations of Mr. Fair man Tried and Found Wanting. PORTLAND. Sept. 9. (To the Edi tor.) I was amused by an article by a Mr. J. D. Fairman on the sub ject ofre-openlng the saloon. He., thinks "strict government regulation" means something. We now have strict government prohibi tion with the state, county and city assisting and he seems to know what we really have. In 1810 when a prohibition campaign was on in Oregon Miss Marie Brehm of Chi cago went to the internal revenue office here and counted the; govern ment liquor licenses issued for Port land. I went to the city hall and secured the number of licenses is sued by the city. After allowing for drug stores, breweries and rec tifiers we found there were over 500 bootlegger or blind pigs, as you please. Again, he thinks that if the gov ernment sold the stuff and saw that it wag property manufactured It would help. The government always did supervise the manufacture. So far as the government selling it Is concerned the state of South Caro lina tried that under the Tillman "dispensary" arrangement. The state only was permitted to sell, those who sold were salaried men with no incentive to increase 'sales, the places did 'not open until 8 AM. and closed at S P. M. and it was sold In original -package and not permitted to be opened on the prem ises. The. result was that after a trial the state went to straight pro hibition, for the dispensary has not helped at all. A few hundred years ago England decided that If the clergy only were permitted to sell liquor the abuse would be cured because no clergy man would sell to a man who was becoming a drunkard nor to a man who had enough. The result of that was that the clergy became de bauched and today a great many English clergy are owners of brew ery stocks, but drunkenness was not helped. Mr. Fairman thinks that under government sale a good stiff price could be charged. The dubs who buy it now tell me they have to pay a good stiff prioe now. Last year the enforcement (?) cost the gov eminent $9,600,000 and the revenue from fines, etc., was $62,000,000, so the people are making some money out or It now. ' . - Beer is the most Injurious of all the drinks. In the old days when an epidemic ran through the country it was the beer drinkers who died like flies. The reason is that while the alcohol vitiates the blood the quantities of fluid taken in beer drinking overwork the kidneys and fill the system with poison. The whole thing is that it is the alcohol in the liquor that does the work, whether In 6 per cent beer drunk In large quantities, or 20 per cent wine or 40 per cent whisky. No matter how ybu sell it, if the people get the alcohol you will see the re suits Just the same. John G. Wooley used to say there was one thing worse than the saloon and that was the moral condition of a people who would license it for a price. He was right. , E. T. JOHNSON. Those Who Come and Go. Tales of Folks at the Hotel.' There has not been an escape from the Oregon prison for a year. Warden Lewis must not make life there too delightful or there may be an epidemic of breaking in. It Is a good record, all the same. Some young woman clerk chucked those missing ballots Into a drawer and forgot about them while the furore raged. Confound it, can't the women keep their housekeep ing ideas out of public office? Mrs. Price shows possession of sound sense in asking whatever sum Is raised be put into a trust. That way it will be safe from birds of prey, of whom there are too many and too few punished. An (Aberdeen millhand ' whose wife had begun suit for separation simplified matters by committing suicide. This course Is not to be recommended generally. Tfhere may be possibilities in living. When Stephen Foster sang, of 'the "mild September," he did not contemplate a warm September Sunday afternoon in Oregon as he listened to the mockingbird." The city commissioners today be gin the pleasant work of fitting a twelve-foot carpet to a twenty foot room, : only they call it 'budgets." The haste with which the Greeks get out of Asia Minor-Is a humili ating contrast to the retreat of Xenophon's 10,000 through that eountry. Two carloads of Oregon walnuts will be sent east to supply a de mand started by people who know a good thing when they see It. . The probe result that more wom en named "Anna" get divorced did not go far enough. Maybe more get into politics, too. Quite likely the reason it's so hard to induce the Turks to give up their harems is the enormous first cost of alimony. The man who commits suicide on the grave of his wife, recently deceased, take a mighty long chance on reunion. The daughter of the sultan of Sulu may be able to introduce something new in grass skirts in Berkeley. With most present-day folks the Important thing Isn't so much re vision of prayer as praying at all. And the outcome is that both the coal owners and the miners have had a nice summer vacation. Here's a consolatory idea. None of the visiting prelates will be in jured in a joy ride today. To realize how the year Is run ning down, consider the state fair to begin In two weeks. The Turks probably feared the Greek army would take a shine to Constantinople. Has the fiend who terrorized the Peninsula district moved to Olympia? ' - The auto camper is really "-the. fctrd of freedom,' , REASONS FOR LOSS OF STRIKE Laboring; Clnns ' Divided l Striker Desert Ranks; Public Blind. In the Roseburg News-Review. ROSEBTJRG. Or., Sept. 1. (Editor News-Review.) Will you permit me to say a few words regarding the strike? The strike is lost as far as the men that went out are concerned Why Is it lost? Because the public is blind, people are divided even the laboring classes pull . against one another. The engineers ahd conductors are better than the firemen and brake- men. All are above me, don't even recognize me because I am a la borer. I can not even lace their shoes. ' The strike is lost because many deserted the ranks, went back and acted as instructors. Of course the Inexperienced men can do the work under competent mechanics. The railroad heads are not to blame, the" officials are not to blame, it is because the men are di vided among themselves too many unions. Are the public, the churches, the law-makers, the rulers of this Christian land (so-called) going to see our brothers go down? The striking shopmen are good men, competent men, the backbone of our country. Are we going to see our brothers go down in defeat? Are we truly a Christian nation, or in name only? Will violence win justice? No! a thousand times no! One wrong will not ngnt anotner. Where cometh Justice? From the men we elect to represent us at Washington? No other source un less from the God of heaven through Christ who was rejected, oeirayeu and murdered by mankind. Are we going to let our brothers go down In defeat? Yes, unless we try to do something. Is the Big Four going to do any thing? We think not their time will come. The shopmen can take their places while they rest a w and meditate. i Railroads are public utilities and must and will continue to operate. We can not get along without them. They should and must be controlled as public property. Will. Justice ever come? Yes, when we asTk nation wake up and bring It about by Intelligent thinking and action. The ballot Is our weapon. We must use it or go down In de feat, peonage, slavery! ' CLARENCE WHITE. It Wns Over His Head. Judge. A Baptist minister who practiced Immersion was asked to tell what was his most awkward; experience. He said: 'One (Sunday afternoon I was to have an Immersion in the river on the outskirts of town. A great crowd had assembled. There were two candidates for baptism. One was an extraordinarily tall woman, - coming almost up to njy own 6 foot 3 in height. The other was a little runt of a man hardly five feet tall. When it came time for the ceremony I took the tower ing lady by the arm. intending to immerse her first, and told the little man to follow us. The lady and I had gone into the water until it was about up to our waistev when I heard very improper tittering among the spectators. Looking back to discover the eause of this un timely levity, I beheld the little candidate for baptism coming along swimming!" Montague, California, that little oid town which Is' located between Weed and the Oregon line, is off of the map so far as the Pacific High way is concerned, according to R. C. Hale, who with his wife were at the Imperial yesterday. Montague is their home. When plane were being made for the Pacific High way construction, the citizens of Montague were of the opinion that it weuld extend through their town. Everything seemed to indi cate it until the California state highway commission got busy and located the road through the old town of Yreka. Montague citizens were up in arms but they could do nothing. Their town is still on the main line of the railroad but It is off the highway and miasea the great tourist travel that passes be tween Portland and San Francisco. Montague Is a peculiar little village, according to Mr. Hale. Its streets are exceedingly narrow and its buildings, still carry the old-fash ioned wooden awnings. Before tn Pacific Highway was constructed the majority of the automobile travel went through Montague, and traffic) officers kept a constant guard for speeders. The man who was so careless as to drive hi m chine down one of the eity'e narrow streets at a rate of more than 15 miles an hour would find himself facing the Justice of the peace be fore many minutes had passed, There he was called upon to con tribute liberally to the city treas ury. The Montague citizens have searched the justice of peace rec ords to determine whether or not at some time members of the Call fornia State Highway commission were not "pinched"' by the trafflo officers. Al Brown who Is almost as well known in Oregon as his birthplace, Salem, was given the treat of his life Saturday when he, as the gues of Phil Metschan of the Imperial hotel, took a trip over the Pacific Highway as far as Corvallis. Brown, who has been a railroad man for many years, knows almost every railroad tie and telegraph pole along the right-of-way of the Southern Pacific In Oregon, but he had never been over the highway until Mr. Metschan took him Satur day. "It was the greatest trip I ever had," he declared yesterday. "I did turn enjoy it so much until I got in the red hills beyond Salem. There I began to see country that was familiar to me as a boy. I had quite an argument with Mr. Metschan re garding the location of the old "Gassy" Smith place, but I won out. You can't fool me about that coun try. I knew every foot of it when a boy." Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Homta ton-Miff lin Co. Isaac Fell In. Argonaut. The gentile bought a packet of cigarets from Isaac Isaacstein, his regular tobacconist. "Isaac" said the customer, after the purchase had been completed, "you gave me a bad shilling, in my change the other night." "Impossible," answered Isaac. "I never took or gave a bad coin away in my life. With my 40 years' ex perience in handling money I can tell by the touch at once; physical instinct, my boy; I suppose you managed to get rid of it?" "Yes. was the reply. T have just paid It to you for these cigarets," Among the guests of the Imperial hotel , yesterday was H. R. Good willie of the new town of Grand Ronde. That little city, which has bedn built up by the Spaulding- Mlaml Lumber company, is active now, Mr. (ioodwlllle said. L,arge numbers of men are being employed in the two big logging camps of the lumber company. Thousands of feet of logs are iaily being taken from the timber and sent to the mills of the Spaulding Lumber com pany at Newberg and Salem. The interests that brought about the building of the new Grand Ronde are deeply interested in having the bootlegger wiped out of their dis trict. Bootleg whisky sold to an Indian from the old reservation was responsible for the deaths of Grover Todd and Glenn H. Price, prohibition agents, in Grand Ronde a week ago. When it comes to saddles and other equipment that a modern cowpuncher should have, L. H. Ham ley of Pendleton Is not only an authority, but a manufacturer. The Hamley saddles are known from one end of the country to the other. Even before the Pendleton Round up came Into existence annually Mr. Hamley was making saddles and other cowpuncher equipment. Now the concern has a mail order busi ness from all parts of the United States. None but stock saddles are made by the company. Each year the saddles are seen In the Round up. With Mr. Hamley at the Benson yesterday were Rudy Tanler, gar age owner, and Fred Donert, grain man of - Pendleton. They drove here by automobile. Lyman G. Rice, banker of Pendle- ton, after a few days here, will leave the Benson for his home to prepare for the Round-up. "I must get up there and prepare for the big show," he said yesterday. "I will nave to grease up my cowboy clothes and make ready for the affair. I am not saying that I am going to ride a horse but I will doll myself up in a rig that makes me look like I could ride. A Pendle ton man's life is not worth a cent unless he looks the part of a cow puncher during the Round-up." Mr. tice is a member of the state bonus commission and has been spending a great deal of time between Port land and Salem recently. S. W. Morris, general manaerer of the affairs of the Lonir Bell Lum ber Company in the West, Is at the Portland hotel. Mr. Morris Is in charge of the plant of his company il weea, iai., ana also over seeing the work of the big lumber company at Kelso, Wash. Sam Garland, attorney of Leb anon and one of the democratic warhorses of the state, was 1 n Portland yesterday and his name appeared on tne register of ih (-imperial hotel. Mr. 'and Mrs. A. Scnnsln t. Angeles were guests of the Imperial jcswiuay. xney nave been mnk-fnc an automobile tour of the northwest aim were on tneir way back to their southern California They had visited Vancouver, B. C, and Seattle before arriving here. C. D. Butler, of Th riaii has been active in Mie affair. American legion and the republican ""'J ul wasco county for the last few years, was at the Benson hotel yesterday. Among the guests of th Mult. nomah yesterday was n.nrir. t Collins, of Medford. Mr. Collins Is manager or the branch house of Mason, Ehrman & Co. fr. ford and Is a director of the Crater Lake National Park company. E. L. Potter, a niAmti., faculty of Oregon Agriculture col lege, was at the Imperial hotel yes terday. He Is making preparations for the opening of the school year. Can Yon Anawwer Theao (locations t 1. Is there any reason to believe the birds will migrate early this year? I ask because I have recently KKfln CAne-UBt. In Connecticut! a Baltimore oriole and two black and white warblers. 2. Can I get any account of the Arctic sea cow? S. What do garter snakes eat? Answers to Prevlons Questions. 1. What kind of song has the Baltimore oriole? . Its note Is usually characterized as a whistlenot actually a song, though during the nesting season the male often groups his notes in a short musical phrase. The fe male also has a whistle at this time, and both mates break Into a nolxy chatter If disturbed. The male's tune is quieted when the nesting season is ovsr, but toward the end of summer, after moulting the weu ding plumage, he resumes whistling until fall'mlgration. 2. How can I protect my horses from having their hoofs nibbled by rats In the stable? If you can get a druggist to sell you some diluted carbolic acid, ap ply it as a wash to the hoofs, using a brush or bit of sponge. It is a good clean antiseptic, and will dis courage the rats considerably. 3. Occasionally I get a sealed Dackage of cereal that Is webby in side and has white worms In it. How is It possible for them to get Into the sealed box? The "worms" get Into the cereal before it Is packed. In the egg stage, and hatch in the meal, feeding on it. and leaving a webby silk as they move through the food. This worm Is the grub or larva of a small moth that Infests grinding mills either the Indian meal moth or the Medi terranean flour moth. Sometimes the webs of the larvae become so extensive that the machinery gets clogged. ADVERTISING OREGON'S NEED Traveler Commends What Haa Been Done bnt It Is Not Enoish. PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) I have Just returned from an automobile trip lasting many months, during which I traveled through many eastern and middle west states, and was careful to makeclose observance of conditions generally. While it is not our province to disparage other states, my comparisons all were in favor of Oregon. I would not give one square mile of the Willamette val ley for all of Ohio if I had to live there, and yet Ohio Is a wonderully rich state. Generally, the same sit uation applies. This leads me to a question which I believe is of paramount Impor tance, if Oregon is to come into her own. We lack advertising. Our Chamber of Commerce has done a lot of good work, but what Port land needs is a large advertising fund that her advantages might be spread before the people of the country. It seems to me we are neglecting our opportunities. We spend comparatively nothing, while Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle and other coast cities are spending Immense sums for publicity and reaping the rewards of Intelligent advertising. I was immensely pleased to see in the hands of tourists bound for Oregon road maps of this state. issued by the Oregon Tourist and Information bureau, which is a new creation since I left the state oc my long Journey. I saw large num bers of cars in Idaho and in Wash nigton, and even farther- east, the drivers of which rather proudly dls played the free maps issued by the bureau. That la what I consider good advertising, but it should be followed up with a larger campaign, Just east of Salt Lake, at the junction of the Lincoln and Pikes Peak highways, I was made glad to see an immense sign directing tour ists to Oregon over the Old Oregon trail. The sign was made attractive by a well painted picture of Wal Iowa lake. Thousands of tourists pass this point every week. It was good for an Oregonlan to see. East of Pocatello we saw another of these fine signs. I was impressed with the beauties of the Blue moun tains whloh were shown. Return ing west from Yellowstone park. and as we neared Spokane, a splen did picture of the Columbia river highway was shown on a board which was about SO feet long, and on the Yellowstone trail, east of Walla Walla, we encountered sign number four, showing Mount Hood in all her glory, and making an appeal to tourists to visit Oregon. The signs were erected by the Ore gon Tourist and Information bu reau. I have ascertained since return ing to Portland that the tourist bureau was created by the last legislature, and that only the paltry sum of $12,500 for two successive years was appropriated to carry on ts work. Oregon might easily spend $50,000 a year on Just such work as the bureau in question is so well performing. I want to see Oregon advertised, not In a better way, but in a larger way. I want to see Portland ad vertised In both a better and a larger way. The exposition will help, but there should be provided other means for letting the world know that Portland Is the finest city on the Pacific coast In which to live. GEORGE R. KING, 720 East Davis street. More Truth Than Poetry. By James J. Moataa-ne. THE BITERS BITTEN. On learning that all the mosquitoes Within a few days were destroyed In lakelets and pools where militant schools Of bug-eating fish were employed. We purchased a Utter of minnows. And sowed them all over the place. Where water was found, to go hus tling around The myriad pests to efface. We waited with grim satisfaction Till the minnowa their harvest should reap. And at last we should find, when they freely bad dined, A chance for a good resiful slrep. Our soul was serenely exultant To think of the terrlfli-l, squeals Of the mean little thlnajs when they folded their wings As they served our wild minnows for meals. Yet they multiplied faster than ever. And when to the ponds we re paired, . As the season advanced, t learn how it chanced That the needle-jawed pefts had been spared. We found our demoralised minnows With punctures tn all of their scales. And a dull baffled air that bospoke their despair Were scratching their backs with their talis. see A Part Equal to the Whole. Francs maintains that she doesn't like keeping the watch on the Rhine, but she doesn't deny that she Intends some day to take the whole works. ftomrthlnir Just aa Good. Senator Lodge never heard Colonel Roosevelt say "damn," but he could say "ham and eggs" so It sounded just as dreadful. (Oop?rtrtit. 11)22. by Pell srniltoate, In Other Days. After having spent several days at Seaside and other coast points J. L. Niday, attorney of Boise, ac companied by his family, was at the Multnomah yesterday. "W"- Sawyer, publisher of the Bulletin, of Bend, was at the Oregon hotel yesterday. Another newspaper man who was at the Oregon was L B. Bowen, of Baker. The name of Coy Burnett, who formerly practiced law here but now Is a resident of Los Angeles, appeared on the register of the Portland hotel yesterday. F. S. Lamport, of the United States National Bank of Salem, was In Portland yesterday and stopped at the Benson, . Command on Vessel. PORTLAND, Sept. 10. (To the Editor) A contends that the cap tain and the chief engineer on board a United States shipping board boat are of equal rank and that the captain cannot give orders to the engineer, and if given he can use his own discretion as to obey ing them. B contends that the captain is in supreme command and must be obeyed by aj.1 on board. Who is right? H. C F. The captain is in supreme command. Twenty-five Tears Ago. From The Oresonlun of September II, Berlin. The appointment of Baron Thelmann. retiring Oerman am bassador to the United States, secretary of the imperial treasury In succession to Count Posadowskl Wehner is gazetted. Lima, Peru. Telegraphic adviceH just received annourue the deuh by drowning of the celebrated Ama zon explorer, Fiscarraldo. Mount Hood loomed up In the same old place yesterday, grand, gloomy and peculiar as usual, the first time that It has been visible from this city for several weeks. Deputy City Surveyor J. F. Chase and five assistants are busy survy- lng In the Macteay park, in Uulch Creek canyon. Fifty Years Age, From The Oreg-onlmn of Bptember 11. ls.i. Paris. Orders have been Issued stopping work on the military de fenses near Mont Cents tunnel. New York. A special from Con stantinople says that Mohammed Pascha has been consigned to ban ishment by the sultan and his es tates are to be confiscated for ap propriating public moneys to his own use. Several workmen were engaged yesterday In making a brace on the eastern bank of the river to which will be attached one end of the new cable soon to be stretched from shore to shore at the foot of Stark and L streets. Bonna Law In Wash In at on. VADER. Wash., Sept. 9. (To the Editor) Why Is not a deceased vet eran's widow allowed bonus? My late husband served for the duration of the war. Our home was In Wash ington and he enlisted there. He died February 25, 1920. Why does not the state of Washington pay the bonus to me? Apply to the auditor of your coun ty for form on which to make appli cation to the state. A widow is al lowed the bonus of her husband If it has not been paid. SCHOOL "PIECE" IS PVRI.OI.M-:i Writer Offers Favorite Poem of 'OOn aa Ills Own Product. VANCOUVER, Wash., Sept. 9. (To the Editor.) I wonder how many readers of The OreKonian rec ognize the poem which "Hllbates" I don't know who he Is sprung oven his own name In the Listening Post column September 7. I am wondering, also, just what his ob ject was in using it In such con nection as a very funny thing when It would seem he must kr.ow that many would recognize It and 1 sorry that he should cheapen his efforts by stealing some other man's thunder. Changing a few words and at tempting to adapt the verse to later- day conditions does not help tne case a bit. The original of that Doem was written a great many years ago by John W. Pulmer. noted physician, poet and man oi uterary attalnmenls. Under the title "The Smack In School," It may be found on page 25 of William Cullen Dry ant's "Library of Poetry and Song," memorial edition. It was a favorite poem In the schools of the east and middle wei-t In the '60s, and was more than once spoken by ambitious pupils as a "piece" on exhibition occasions. It read as follows: A district nohool. not fur awny. Mid Berkhlr hills, one winters any. Was humming- with ita wont,l none Of three. score mingled glr.s and buya; Some few upon their tanks lnlnnt. Hut more on furtive mischief bnt. The while the master's downward look Was fastened on a copy-book. When auddenly, behind hLn back, Koae sharp and clear a rouilnc smack 1 Aa 'twere a battery of bliss Let off in one tremendoua kiss! What's that? the startled master cries; That, thlr," a little Imp replies. Wath William Wllllth. l you plestlie . I thaw him kith Thuthanna 1'eathe!" With frown to make a statue thrill. The master thundered. "Hither, Will:" I.Ike wretch o'eruken In his track. With stolen chattels on hia back. Will hunr hia head In rear and ahsmr. And to (he awful presence came A great, green, bashful simpleton. The butt of all good-natured run. With smile suppressed and birch upraised. The threatener faltered "I'm imaird That you. my biggest pupil, should De guilty of an act so rune! Before the whole set acliool. to boot What evil genlu put you to 't?" " 'Twaa she. herself, sir," sobbed the Isil. "I did not mean to be so b&U ; But when Susannah shook her cur's. And whispered. I was 'frshl of gtil. And dursn't kiss a baby's doll. I couldn't stand it, sir. at a:). But up and kissed her on the spot! I know boo-hoo I ought to not. But. somehow, from her looks boo-ho I thought she kind o' wished me to"' P. A DURA NT. Airy Abont It. Boston Transcript. "I am quite taken up with this thing." s&ld the man who was en-Joying- bin first ride la no, airplane. Whence Comes School Board's Au thority PORTLAND, Or., Sept. 10 (Jo tli Editor) I notice that tU school board directors ktv eontemplallntr purchase of land in connection wttli the erection of new school hulldinus other than what Is required for purely educational purposes. I have always thought the authority of the board was limited to the erection of necessary buildings, equipment of the school rooms and maintenance of the same. What are the limitations of their acts In this respect? Under our pres ent law do they have the authority to create civic centers, lay out oarks, build swimming pools, mako restricted building districts? Chii taxes levied and collected lor edu cational purposes be lawfully used for. these purposes? TAXPAYER.