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8 THE MORNING OREGONIAN, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1922 jttormujgi 9pnum ESTABLISHED BT HEET I- PITTOCK Published by The Oreg-onlan Pub. Co.. 135 Sixth Street. Portland. Oregon. C. A. 1IOKDB.V. B. B. PIPBR. Manager. Editor. The Oregonian is a member of the As sociated Press. The Associated Press 19 exclusively entitled to the use for publi 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. t preaches from men like -Kipling, I cargo of package freight that is Subscription Kates Invariably in Advance. (By Mail.) ' - Dally. Sunday included, one year $8.00 Daily. Sunday included, six months .. 4.-5 Daily, Sunday included, three months 2.25 Daily. Sunday included, one month . .75 Daily, without Sunday, one year 6.00 Daily, without Sunday, six months . . 3.25 Daily, without Sunday, one month ... .BO Sunday one year -.50 (By Carrier.) 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CaL who evidently do not understand how execution of our good purpose nas been thwarted by our foreign policy's having become entangled with our domestic party politics. OUTLOOK FOR MR. POIJTDEXTER. The Oregonian has sought to maintain an attitude bf eminent impartiality in the primary contest in Washington, to be held today, involving the political fortunes of Senator Poindexter and sundry other gentlemen, and ' a " lady as well, who would like . to dispossess him of his congressional seat. But conspicuous impartiality does1 not imply disinterestedness;s we are frankly interested. We have been interested from the beginning of the campaign in discovering the reasons why the senator should be We have found out in desirable from an earning stand point. The shipping board former ly scorned these staples as cargo for passenger liners, but is now so eager to get them" that it even ships large lots from Portland to Seattle and reduo.es rates in order to fill its holds with them. .The great bulk of such cargo originat ing in Portland establishes the claim of this "port to ships that would also carry the general cargo for which' these staples form the base and which is naturally traffic belonging to this port. In order that a line may win back the gen-I eral cargo that has been diverted, its primary interest should be de velopment of Portland commerce. That commerce can never be fully developed by a line that is mainly interested in developing the com merce of a rival port and that operates from Portland in order to I. The Listening Post. By DeWltt Harry. designed. There was not an under ground conductor nor a dynamo of ; large capacity. Moreover, there were no mechanics trained in the art , of making them. Literally j every step in the undertaking in- I voivea a tas ror a pioneer. cuu , HEEE,S a corr6Spond,ent signing to teach engineering in its especial j I rr.,i nu. application to electric lighting had - " , 7 to bo established before it was pos- Patcher, who writes entertainingly sible to extend the benefits of the 'about "wildcat- railroad days. In new system on an adequate scale. ; these days of standard rules it s t hotu-oen. fnrlv VPa rs difficult to think that dispatching nnri thp r.rKnr isj hut inade- . was, at one time, such a .hit-or-miss Those Who Come and Go. Tale of Polka at the Hotels. part; but our related effort to find , . . rti4-- vrrrtir ,r Im'h nmnnnnno I -"0"fcw W . vui, vv 11 j an j til xi 10 vpyuiicuui WHS" AMERICA NEGLECTS EUROPE. Americans' first impulse on read ing Rudyard Kipling's condemna tion of our delay In going into the war, our premature ending of It and our withdrawal from the set tlement will be to express hot re sentment. As we review the his tory of the last eight years can didly, excluding partiality for coun try, party or men, we shall be forced to admit that there is much . truth in what he says of our being t,oo late in beginning to fight and too precipitate in stopping. But we deny that these admissions con tititute ground of censure, espe cially from the nation which re fused to adopt conscription wren the threat to its life was direct and close at hand, and we maintain that, when we did take, part, we were impelled less by selfishness and more by determination to pre serve imperilled democracy and civilization than were the allies, not excepting Great Britain. ' Each of them went in as it realized that its vital national interests , were at stake, and the cry that: democracy and civilization were in danger was raised in order to stir the deeps of sentiment in each nation senti ment that was common to all and that would hold them together by convincing them that they fought in a common cause. No American national interest was involved until our rights on the sea were attacked by Germany In inhuman violation of the laws of war. For that reason our neu trality, judged by the same stand ard as governed the conduct of the allies, was justified until the Lusi tania was sunk. Our failure from the outbreak of the war to realize that the central, powers aimed to extinguish the very principles of government of which we were the chief and , most successful propo nents was due to our traditional policy of non-intervention in Euro pean affairs and to our having a president who deliberately strove to discourage us from forming and acting on opinions as to the merits of the quarrel. So when the sink ing of the Lusltania gave us just cause to intervene, we were men tally unprepared. President Wilson was permitted to fight with notes instead of guns because many of our people still shrank from taking a hand in a European war, though many more, probably a majority, demanded that we should 'strike back at that time. When Mr. Wilson suddenly changed front in his thrilling war speech on April 2, 1917, the Amer ican people quickly demonstrated to which side their hearts and con sciences turned. , They wanted to forget party and to fight as a united nation, looking to the president to call all the best brains and pa triotism of the nation to his aid in his closest counsels. But he In sisted on making conduct of the war and shaping of policy the busi ness of himself and his party, ad mitting his political opponents only to subordinate parts. When the Germans were beaten to their knees and when a few months' fighting would have opened the road to Berlin, he accepted as gen uine and final their sudden conver sion to democracy and committed the allies to an armistice before any allied or American soldiers had 6et iooc on txerman son. ai uie same time he asked the people to elect a democratic congress as a man date to his party to end the war and negotiate peace. Though they refused, . he proceeded as if the mandate had been granted. He attempted to make this nation a member of a league of nations which he, as leader of one party, had formed and to force its accept ance by the opposing party, which he had denied any voice in its making. The natural reaction was criticism of his work, then attempts at amendment, then formation of an irreconcilable faction which, joined with his own irreconcilab'le supporters, defeated the treaty. The American people are still willing, as they were in 1919 with-' out regard to party, to join a league or association of nations. President Harding is pledged to such an association, and to co operation in economic reconstruc tion of Europe. The people are waiting for him to give them a lead, and his course with regard to the Washington conference jus tifies confidence that he would make fulfilment of their good pur pose the work of a united nation, not of his own party alone. Mr. Harding appears to be waiting in hope that the nations of Europe will agree on a plan of reconstruc tion in which they will invite the aid of this country, also until our industrial disturbances have so far suosided that the public mind can again be turned to foreign affairs. When he gives the lead the people will prove, we are confident, that they are not greedy and that their selfishness is of that enlightened kind that is gratified by benefits enjoyed in common by others as well as by those who entertain it. They will, support him in following aid to Europe's reconstruction with permanent association in maintain ing peace, in restraining aggression and in drastic reduction of arma ment. Then our renewed proof of devotion to the common welfare of nations will relieve us of re- should be elected is as yet a total loss. Mr. Hearst wants to defeat Mr. Poindexter, and has given several reasons through his Seattle news paper. In other circumstances some of them might be 'potent; but they are wholly overshadowed in the general mind by. the more obvious fact that the real reason for the Hearst activity has not been con fessed. It is that Mr. Hearst Is making a campaign througH his newspaper to control the Eplitics of Washington; and Senator Poin dexter is in his way. Small doubt exists as to the re sult. Mr. Poindexter will la all probability win by a large plurality by a majority, perhaps, over all. The democratic candidate will be Mr. Dill, once a member of con gress, and the farmer-labor candi date will be Mr. Duncan, whose radical ideas should make a special appeal to the crimsoned Hearst imagination. There will still be a chance for him to defeat Mr. Poin dexter in the generaL election by supporting Mr.. Duncan or Mr. Dill. If Mr. Hearst wants to elect Mr. Duncan, he can aid that more or less worthy cause materially by supporting Mr. Dill.' BOTH WRONG. The despair felt by a young girl when she realized that by "bob bing" her hair she had destroyed her beauty might be dismissed as but a pitiful though isolated in stance of lack of sense pf propor tlon if it were not suspected that there is something seriously twisted about the vision of a good many others nowadays. How deeply the young woman in question must have been affected by the tragic revelations of her mirror is evi dent from the circumstance that she thereupon took, her own life. Her tresses gone, her beauty (as she mistakenly imagined) impaired life for her was but the ashes of the rose. Not by any sane standard can it be maintained for even a brief mo ment that the sacrifice was worth while. Yet those who would lightly dismiss the incident as a neuras thenic and untypical manifestation will profit by being reminded that it is not alone the youngsters who bob their tresses, who hide their ears, who totter along the streets in pitifully unserviceable shoes and who struggle tragically to keep up with the "modes," who have a dis proportionate sense of the impor tance of minor things. Those, too, who proclaim that the world is going to the devil because women's skirts no longer sweep the ground and because a taste for the minuet has been supplanted by a passing love of jazz, contribute to the over emphasis and exaggeration which, more than any single phenomenon. are characteristic of the time. Norma Teffner did not know that the fashion of a coiffure weighs nothing in the scalepan opposite any one of a thousand graces of mind and soul. But for that matter the fanatical extrem ists who insist that trivial exhibi tions of lightheadedness are evi dences of total depravity are as myopic and as strabismic as she was, and with less excuse. Both groups are afflicted with a malady that only a serious study of the comparative philosophy of history can cure. FIGURES THAT ARE ELOQUENT. Though statistics are considered dry, they are often eloquent. Such are those of Portland shipping business during the seven months ending July, 1922, as compared with the corresponding perio'd of 1921, which have been prepared by the traffic department of the port and dock commissions. In the ag gregate they show that this port not only holds its own in general volume of exports -to foreign coun tries but has much increased its lumber exports, its intercoastal shipments and its imports. Though flour and wheat exports are small er, this port holds its larger share in handling a decreased total for the Pacific northwest. Prosperity of the lumber busi ness is shown by an increase of shipments to foreign ports from over 75,000,000 to over 166,000,000 feet, and to domestic ports from 17,000,000 to almost 60,000,000 feet. Wheat shipments foreign .show a decrease from 16,670,797 to 12, 822,95 bushels, domestic from 74,084 to 31,343 bushels. Flour shipments foreign decreased from 613,006 to 518,412 barrels, domes tic increased from 240,171 to 319, 940 bushels. Total number of ves sels entered from foreign ports in creased from 8 3 to 122, from do mestic ports from 365 to 510, and total tonnage employed , in both trades increased from about 1,200, 000 to more than 1,750,000. Most encouraging, as indicating a tendency toward full cargoes both ways, is the increase in value of imports for the six months end ing June from $1,789,6S1 in 1921 to $3,820,698 in 1922. The great inroads that ships make on the transcontinental traf fic of railroads may be judged from the increase of traffic from Portland to Atlantic ports from 60,543,563 to 98,470,094 pounds in the first seven months, from Atlan tic ports to Portland from 40,275, 301 to' 123,720,815 pounds; from Portland to gulf ports from 50,100 pounds to 2,978,188 pounds,' though shipment from gulf ports to Port land decreased from 38,760,167 to 34,566,573 pounds. The steady and growing move ment of staple commodities like lumber, wheat and flour through Portland proves that this port has the base cargo for fast regular liners which would attract general ' GOING TO CHURCH. ' Concerned as they are with broad principles of fraternity and sound morality, the Oregon Elks are con sistent in indorsing the movement for a "go-to-church day," which has as its purpose the. extension of a practice fundamentally desirable from the viewpoint of community interest. . The statement of the resolution that "there Is no force in the world today as potent as the various churches in the United States" for furthering all endeavors that make for the better citizenship of the state and nation does not err on the side of overemphasis. It is quite capable of proof, and it is conceded by all but a negligible few of the hopelessly pessimistic that the great need of the people is more religion in their daily lives Undoubtedly the hope accompanies the plea for church attendance on at least one day of the year that this will grow into the habit of at tendance on other days also. Such indeed is the genius of the .various 'days" and "weeks" that we are called on from time to time to observe. The familiar question, "What is the matter with the church?" sug gests the answer that those who most- frequently and least often in good faith are wont to ask, it are prone to cavil "on the strength of inadequate information, or of mis information, or both. The distrac tions of modern life have imposed upon religion a good many com petitive Interests not of its own choosing and have fostered a ten dency to neglect spiritual duties and obligations not calculated to promote the welfare either of the individual or of neighborhoods as a whole. It is profoundly to be desired that a large measure of the spirit of reverence, of appreciation of the things of the soul as well as of the flesh, may be revived as an offset to the too materialistic mani festations of the times. It is deeply significant that the charge that Christianity has failed to fulfill expectations emanates from those who are least inclined, it would seem, to give Christianity a trial. Staying away from church is plainly not the-way to co-operate in making the church all that it ought to be and all that its.sin cerest supporters wish that it were. It so often happens that those who have gone to scoff have remained to pray that more general church attendance would seem to be well worth while, as an experiment if nothing more. We have never heard of a case of a man who was hurt by it and there are instances innumerable that testify to the power of active participation in re ligious matters as a regenerator of character and a boon to everyone concerned. quately depicted by figures, but they must necessarily serve for those who are without imaginations or who are so very young that they cannot remember,, those good old days." The first' lighting station had fifty-two customers, which number had increased to 445 by the end of the first year. After forty years there are 5654 operat ing companies, serving approxi mately 14,500 communities. The number of customers is now estl mated at 10,375,200, of whom 8,467,600 take residential electric light service. Expressed technic ally, the output of the first station to its original customers was 1284 fifty-watt equivalents, or 64.2 kilo watt hours. The output of electric al energy in 1921 was 43,100,000,- 000 kilowatt hours. The original distriet served by the first station was about 2000 feet square and the feat of trans mitting current over a distance of thirteen miles was regarded as highly satisfactory. Now 220,000 volts are transmitted 250 miles and Dr. Steinmetz has experimentally transmitted a million volts for a short distance. The financial sta tistics of the Industry are not less striking. The original capital In vestment, which was nominal, com pares with more than $4,500,00'0. 000 atfpresent, with securities held by more than 1,600,000 investors Social transformation has attended the growth of the business, which now employs 150,000 workers. People who like to speculate on what might have been will find an inexhaustible, theme in what mighl otherwise be produced by the labor now required by this and cognate enterprises, and on whether society has profited by the change. proposition. OB quotes typical or ders of. the old regime, from recol lection. One of them is: When George H. Himes, curator of the Oregon Historical society, was running a newspaper here years ago, I. B. Bowen learned the printing trade. Mr." Bowen, who is registered at the Hotel Oregon, launched the Bedrock Democrat at Baker in 1870 and in 1887 started the Daily Democrat, with George B. Small, who sold out a couple of years ago, but Mr. Bowen still sticks to the ship. When three "Take .empty dumps and run wild years old, Mr. Bowen crossed the this A M. Lowell to Cambridge." plains with his parents, so that will In these davs of dense traffic and give some idea of his age. Thus. double tracks It would be difficult SCHEME TO RUSH SUBSIDY BILL. According to a bulletin of the National Merchant Marine associa tion, the ship subsidy bill "will be taken up in the house shortly after election and acted upon promptly," will be in the hands of the senate before the end of November and will be finally passed about the beginning of next year. An un derstanding has been reached be tween President Harding and Rep resentative Mondell, the latter giv ing assurances of a majority in the house for the bill. It is proposed tha the senate debate the bill in December while waiting for ap propriation bills to come from the house. This plan to rush the bill through with minimum debate would give small opportunity for amendment of the administrative provisions, which is absolutely necessary to prevent the shipping board from being vested with arbitrary power, 1 and to insure that all ports and their shipping companies have equal opportunity to develdp their business. The board is to admin ister a large fund, to be taken from the treasury for aid ; to the mer chant marine, and is to sell the emergency fleet. If the bill should be passed as reported to the house, the board would have practically unlimited power to sell ships to whom it pleased provided they were Americans, to grant or re fuse subsidy, to increase or de crease the rate of subsidy from that named in the bill, to annul contracts with ship-owners on the ground that they had violated the terms of . subsidy, all without prior hearing of the claims of interested communities and without appeal from its decisions. Such power has never been, given to any govern ment body, except in war, and it is open to great abuse. The same power has been exercised and abused by the board in the past. That fact warrants efforts to pre vent continuance of this unabridged authority. If those ports and interior com munities which have not enjoyed the favor of the board and of the big shipping companies desire to share in the benefits of govern ment aid by developing their com merce and by exporting their prod ucts by the-shortest route through the nearest port, they should com bine their forces for amendment of the bill to protect' their rights and interests. About two months re main before the bill will be taken up in the house, and its rules give small opportunity for amendment in the face of opposition by the committee in charge. The first real opportunity to correct the bill's deformities will come in the senate, and the communities inter ested should center their efforts on that point. to imagine a train running "wild." They all have their closely calcu lated schedules and! hold to them; a few minutes might mean disaster. The dispatcher has a tremendous responsibility and his work is gov erned by a set of "standard rules" the same on every road and by precedent firmly .established. The men who mustt accept the responsi bility for moving trains lavish much time on close study of their manuals. OB tells how he went on his first job and how they had a regular sys tern of orders.' The first one is sued when a conductor reported! on the division was elmply "wildcat to Blmlra."- No matter If 20 trains re ported they eaoh received the same order, and then it was up to them, a happy gamble that somehow man- roost along the right of way of the as an infant, Mr. Bowen traversed the old Oregon trail and now the Old Oregon trail, as a fine, broad highway, runs through, his town of Baker. And it was east of Baker, along Burnt river, that the emi grants had some of the toughest going in their entire Journey. Portlanders who Imagine that this town has all the fine stores should drop into Redmond and see the establishment conducted by M. A Lynch. The style shows which are staged there are as nifty and up to date as those which are held in Portland and people come" for miles around to watch the models parade. Mr. Lynch, who is a member of the state game commission, is in the city attending the regular meeting of that body. The commission says that there will be more China pheasants this year than ever be fore. The pheasants are so thick in the Willamette valley that they Burroughs Nature Club. Copyright. Honh ton-Miff I i Co electric lines and steam roads and show an utter contempt for the passing cars. He is said to hold the- record for automobile traveling between De troit and Los Angeles. He is E. E. McLaughlin of Chicago, and he ar rived by car with H. E. Langlois of Los Angeles from California yes terday. They are registered at the Hotel Portland. Mr. McLaughlin made the run from Detroit to Los Aigeles in 92 hours. He says he would like to establish a new record between Los Angeles and San Diego but he Is afraid of the speed pops. "Down there," explained Mr. Mc Laughlin, "it is not a matter of a fine but a jail sentence. A friend of mine was caught while going 72 miles an hour and he had to serve 72 days in prison." While Mr. McLaughlin made good time from Los Angeles to Portland, he did not establish a record nor make the attempt. . ' - FORTY YEARS OF ELECTRICITY. Except for the statistics of the business that the occasion was sure to elicit, the outstanding fact of which - we are reminded by the observance of the fortieth anniver sary of the incandescent electric lamp is that most of the men, in cluding those possessing consider able scientific knowledge for their time, to whom Thomas A. Edison submitted his scheme for lighting houses from a central station ex pressed doubt of its feasibility. This more than anything else gives us a picture of the time; 1882 was almost in the period of scientific ancient history, as Qne would now contemplate it. The transformation through which the world has since passed has been a change of mental atti tude no less than of added com forts and conveniences. But it is known that in September of that year only four decades ago, power was turned on for the first time at a small station in New York city. It served a few customers along an underground line thirteen miles long, its success confounded the croakers, justified the optimism of the wizard and marked the be ginning of the era that finds elec tric lights commoner than kerosene lamps and candles were in our grandfathers' time. It was not, however, as some of the younger generation may hastily assume, the sudden triumph of a lucky conception. There had. been plenty of preliminary toil and al most innumerable difficulties. Edi,' son got the idea In If IS, his first plan being not only ' perfect the lamp on which he v, ien work ing, but also to desig. . distribut ing system and to complete devices which would permit lamps to give an equal supply of light regardless of their distance from the central station and a meter for measuring current. " So, too, it was regarded as necessary to invent certain safety devices, made all the more neces sary by the hazy notions which prevailed as to the behavior of electricity in general. All of this preparation has been alluded to by an anniversary orator as a ."grop ing in the dark," which seems to us to be as far as possible from the actuality. The inner history of Mr. Edison's work reveals him as a systematic, purposeful worker, who left almost nothing to chance. The idea of the incandescent lamp itself was not much more than a small beginning, and it is likely that we should still be using petroleum and tallow instead of electricity in lighting if the myriad of other de tails had not been painstakingly and laboriously worked out. Edison's former secretary, Sam uel Insull, reminds us that at the time when the pioneer lighting sta tion was being installed there was not a manufacturing establishment in the world producing electrical machinery. Apparatus needed in the business had not even been School "took up" too soon. Think invented, to say nothing of being of all these fine days for vacation! The outrage on the O'Hare fam ily near Olympia, following several attacks on women in Portland, proves that insane perverts are at la.rge who should be confined in an asylum for life. There should be no release for such maniacs, for the appearance of return to nor malcy is either due to lack of op portunity to offend or to a criminal maniac's cunning. Safety of wom en from such assault should count for more than a pervert's liberty or the cost of his support by the state. Apologies to visitors for the heated term, ft may be the usual thing for September, but natives forget about It year after year. Tears ago one's most supreme contempt was expressed by calling a performance "a leg show." How times have changed k aged to unravel Itself daily. It was simplicity, "for the "book of rules" had not been written then; like much common law, it existed merely in the minds of men. Some of these old orders . are worth any amount in money as souvenirs of a time when American railroads were making history, when' they were working out, by the simplest meth od possible, the future of safe rail roading over tracks Jammed with traffic Golf .links are essential things these days,. "Victor Johnson avers. When a municipal course will act as a magnet and hold a couple of world tourists nearly two months over their schedule It must be worth while. Johnson likes to roam over the Eastmoreland links and see who is playing. .Kecently ne was checking over the day's sched ules and saw a familiar name W. H. Frank. Frank was playing. He registered from New Zealand, and Johnson went out to meet him. He was easily spotted, typically Brit ish and all that. Then came a story rather unusual. Mr. Frank and his wife were on world tour, had no hard and fast route or time to travel, but they liked! golf. They landed in Cali fornia and came on to Portland ex pecting to stay two days. However, they were induced to go out to Eastmoreland and then decided to lengthen their stay six weeks. They naar not round a better place to play can vouch for me. Drive on, golf on the face of the globe and ordered the cop, "but be careful. thev wanteri to itiaVa the. moat- nf it. Frank, before h'e. left wnrA Best-Known resident 01 warn V. i. T-. , . ,,.,... I i'Vl L. CllO ULUC VllldBO UCOLJIIIK U" '"""'weanQ naa it an over ,-, ha iH n, T.inton We i Del Monte or any of the California versatile chap and besides taking show courses. an interest in local politics, he owns a drug store. The main delight and LIFE'S RECOMPENSE. hobby of the doctor, however, is the To sing- a simple unassuming sons- writing of fiction. Dr. Linton' ror common folks, in our own home Several candidates for the legis lature were held up by a speed cop in Albany Sunday morning about 1:30 o'clock, while coming to Port land from Eugene. K. K. Kubll was driving the car and was hitting 'er up at oh, about 25 or 30 miles an hour. With him were Fred Meindl, Cyrfl Brownell and M. J. Lee. Mr. Kubli admitted that he might be going a little fast, but there was no traffic in sight and he was not only using judgment but had his car under control. The officer was a bit dubious. Mr. Kubli had an inspiration. "If you doubt me," said he, "Governor Olcott is in a car behind us, riding with Adjutant General White, and the governor Can Yon Aimer Theme Questional 1. Is it true cuckoos pick out a nest in wh'ch to lay their eggs, where the natural eggs will be the same color as the cuckoo's eggs? ' 2. Do bats live In chimneys? They bother us falling down our chim neys. How can I get rid of them 7 3. Do trees grow from the inside out, or outside in? Answers in tomorrow's nature notes. Anawera to Previous Questions. 1. Is there any reason to believe the birds will migrate early this year? I ask because I have recently seen (August, in Connecticut) a Bal timore oriole and two black and white warblers. Seeing a black-and-white warbler is not a sign that general migra tion will be early, as these birds are slow migrants anyway, and custom arily start early. We do not see how It is possible to predict early migration if it begins early, the fact can be observed when it occurs. W. W. Cooke, a United States gov ernment ornithologist, states tn his work on migration that weather heat and cold does not in itself cause migration , but that ts effect on food supply does. The heat and unusual drought of this past sum mer may have made food scantier, and possible dwindling food supply might start the birds along toward south. 2. Can I get any account of the Arctic sea cow? An authentic write-up of this mammal (now extinct) was made about the middle of the 18th century by George William Steller. who was shipwrecked on Bering island, 1741, with the Russian navigator, Capt. Vitus Bering. We don't know where you would find any copy of this, unless in the library of a standard natural history Institution, or one of the biggest of city public libraries. This "cow" was not unlike the man atee or dugout of southern waters, weighed 80-00 pounds, and was 20-30 feet long. Steller and his com panions ate its flesh. 3. What do garter snakes eat? As adults, largely frogs and toads, commonly swallowed, head first. Also eat many earthworms, and as youngsters feed chiefly on these. They never take warm-blooded prey. More Truth Than Poetry. By Jame J. Moataana. THE SO.I AXDEHKR, (A Boston economist has figured out that a working girl getting $3 a week ought to save at least bo cents of it.) The working girl can well af.'ord y Three dollars for her room; Four dollars ought to pay her lioard, Economists assume. So she has wealth to put away These learned folk contend. Nine dollars Is her weekly pay Which leaves her two to spend. Of course she has to dress herself. The theorists admit. But, if Bhe's careful with her pelf. She ought to save a bit. One-fifty buys a lot of clothes A very small expense What does she do. do you suppose With that odd fifty cents? Perhaps It goes for chowlng gum; It may be that she pays A portion of this goodly sum To go to movie plays. Perhaps she gives too many tips. Or spends her hard earned hoard On powder puffs, or trolley trips Which she can ill-afford. At all events her pay ta rpont Before the week is out. She never saves a single cent. Of that there Is no doubt. She goes ahead and has her fling Like one with cash to burn. And It would seem, poor silly thing. That aha will never learn! Too Bis; a Job. Apparently the Irish can lick everybody but the IrlBh. Modern Version. "See Naples and die" runs the pro verb. The same thing Is true of a bootleg Joint. Useless. Diamonds are carbon, but the deuce of It Is you rsn't burn 'cm aurlng a coal shortage. DRY CLAIMS TOO SWEEPING. ly tongue; A fellow-toiler who, at eventide, with duty done and daily labor past. Takes from the cabin wall his violin 10 woo a tune with unpretending art And court foregetfulness from fret ting ills; To give a fleeting pleasure, awake Within a comrade's breast a sweeter longing; To stir a fragrant memory, and, perchance. Win as reward a nod, a friendly smile Or hand-clasp of an understanding soul, O recompense to bless a hundred fold! CHARLES O. OLSEN. Eyesight is a serious matter for some. Bifocal glasses help solve the dual sight problem but there are those who don't seem to care to adopt the latest near-and-distant vision glasses. Just yesterday the man with three pairs of glasses was observed, all presumably for a dif ferent purpose. He spent half his time changing spectacles. , There were a lot of men in the world war. It was the cause of vast amount of book and record yarns run along the lines blazed by Jules Verne, and he can turn out a serial, with a thrill In every chapter, more readily than the average politician can write a cam paign platform. Whether the re wards of authorship compensate for the labor, the doctor does not say, but he at least has a whale of a lot of fun out of piloting his charac ters through the earth, under the sea or to the most distant planets. N. Bangs, the mayor of Timber, Or,, is at the Hotel Portland, and Mr. and Mrs. G. Griffith, two of his constituents, are registered at the Perkins. Timber is the place where the Tillamook train stops long enough for the passengers to rush Into a dining room and inhale a hunk of pie. a sandwich and a cup of coffee. One of the main attrac tions at Timber is to stand 'on the depot grounds, and watch the flap per passengers try to take the long step from the ground to the cars. Thus it is said that the residents of Timber knew even before the general public in Portland that the girls were "rolling 'em down." Louis E. Bean, speaker of the house of representatives of the Oregon legislature, arrived In Port land yesterday to attend the meet ing of the state game commission. of which he is a member. Mr. Bean was one of the leading figures at the republican conference held at keeping. No one classed as any slower than others. Though the armistice was signed nearly four years ago a Portland resident who eerved with the Cana dian farces just received his service medals this week. The brakeman walks down the aisle of the passenger coach like in days of yore, but some of the old- time atmosphere of the coach is missing. We refer to the acrid nation could be Eugene Saturday. In his speech at Eugene, Mr. Bean said that the high taxes are largely due to the people who voted them and although it may not be possible now to decrease taxes, still a programme may be worked- out . which will hoUaxes where they are and prevent them from going higher. A few miles east of La Grande there are springs which bring hot water from the earth's Interior and the flow is so large that a body of water has been formed which Is scent of Pintsch gas. Railroading known as Hot lake. Long before is one of the most progressive busi- I the coming of the white men, the neses in the country and though it Indians used to pitch their camps was only the show trains, the spe- at the edge of the lake and use the cially equipped limiteds, that boast ed electric lights a few years ago. now almost every train carries its generator plant. No longer does the brakeman go through the coach at dusk and turn on the gas and light It with a taper and the coaches become a dim mass of shadows. Now he punches a switch. Just like any place else, and the bright lights come into being. Pendleton, with an eye to the unique and practical, stages its has show in an edifice whose walls are bales of -alfalfa. When these visiting prelates gather in small bunches they ap pear to be Intensely and wholly human. . McAdoo denies that he will be a candidate in 1924. Yet his party easily might do worse and ho doubt will. To most people Einstein's theory is nothing more than how much to get on a watch. ONE DAY AT SUNSET One day at sunset, e'er the night Had drawn her sable pinions round The polished dome and minaret Of yonder valley's peaceful town That gleamed in shafted light, I climbed far up the eastern walls. That watqh so stately o'er the sea Of graceful valley, hill and town, That lay in gorgeous panoply, Where each gold sun-shaft falls. Here brooding pines their dirges sing. The mysteries of forgotten years; Here through their tops the clouds of spring Sift down their requiem of tears, That only hope can bring. Here, as I watched, the western sky Threw down its bars, its gates unflung, To let thesun's blazed train pass by; While in the east the pale moon hung To watch her rival die. Then slowly west reset her bars. And patiently her curtains drew; Shut out the day with all its cares. Shut in the silent night, and you Tou everlasting stars. : HOWARD M. CORNING. waters for medicinal purposes. Now, however, there are large and attractive buildings at the lake. over which Dr. W. T. Phy presides. The doctor is at present In Portland and registered at the Imperial. Don H. Dickerson of the United States forest service Is In town from Welch's, which has been a popular summer camp in the Mount Hood foothills between Huckleberry mountain and Hunchback, along the Salmon river, for about 30 years. The forest service has been con structing a trail up the Salmon river and this makes it easier for fishermen and hikers to reach the falls and the rocky gorge in the upper reaches of the mountain torrent. Mr. and Mrs. L. Bundy of Cherry- ville. Or., are at the Hotel Oregon. The Cherryvllle hill has been notor ious on the road to Mount Hood and more cars have been stalled on that grade than on any other part of the road. The new loop road will elim inate Cherryville hill, but at present the grade in that section is not open to traffic. The hill is particularly bad in wet weather. Riley Atkinson, who is president of the commercial club at Boise, Idaho, is at the Multnomah. Mr. Atkinson is in the brokerage busi ness and is here conferring with wholesalers. Boise is prospering and the town offers an active appearance, . although the weather has been uncomfortably warm for much of the time during the past summer. J. T. Brand, city attorney for Marshfield, Or., is at the Imperial, accompanied by Mrs. Brand. Prohibition Grta Undue Credit from Abolishment of Saloon Evils. OLYMPIA, Wash., Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) The Oregonian's edi torial on "Practical Effects of Prohibition" was most Interesting. The credit you give to "prohibition" had better be given to closing of the saloons and forbidding drinking in public places, which as pointed out in a former communication are strong points of the British Colum bia law. Prohibition as every one knows is not enforced and so far has proved non-enforceable. I read the report of Judge William M. GemmlU of Chicago. He notes much that is very interesting and is very fair with many points of view. You do not clearly state In quoting many points of his that he says that the arrests for drunkenness have much increased for 1921 and 1922 beyond the figures for 1919 and 1920 owing to the improved tech nlque of the bootleggers a very important point indeed. The claim that prohibition h diminished crime has been over stated. The number of crooks has not diminished as Is proved by bootlegging on such a vast scale The last Christian Register, or rather a very recent number, in an editorial very tersely observes that great numbers of burglars and pickpockets have given up their former crimes for bootlegging ow ing to the easy and enormous profits of the latter. The diminution of crime might easily be very appar ent under such conditions. In the better payments of debts the drys have a far stronger argument, pro vided that their claims-for this can be substantiated. Of this let debt collectors and credit agents speak. But the vast scale of bootlegging. operations, especially all they ac complish in their devilish work, are answers of the most hideously con elusive kind to only too many of the claims of the drys. Roger Babson, the noted statlstl cian, has recently told his customers in a communication that prohibition will be a subject of ridicule and contempt till the public Is more ready for it; for until such time he says legislation, even constitutional amendments, are of little value. He adds that a great mistake was made in forcing It upon the country under stress of war before the public was ready for it. It is resentment over this impos.tlon that is now causing such a strong reaction today, sucn an achievement by a fanatical mi nority backed by greedy vested in terests, together with the errors of the Wilson administration so ably discussed by you. have shown weak nesses and dangers In our form of government and political methods not suspected before. The proper solution Is a limited amount of liquor traffic under the strictest vigilance and regulation by a government commission, and on In Other Days. Fifty Yrara Aid. From Tbe Oresonlun of September U. Washington. The president h Issued a proclamation abolishing all duties on Imports from Japan In Japanese vessels as long as Japan preserves a similar rule In rraurd to exports to that country from the United States. Paris. The last wrekly edition of The Illustration whs -lz-d by the police because it contained Insult ing caricatures of the l'russlans. At a meeting of th common council to be held next Saturday a report will be heard from a special committee on watrr supplies for consideration of the brst nd ninsl economical method of furnishing the city with water. A party of surveyors is now en gaged In running the preliminary line on the north sid of the "n lumbla river for the Northern l'a clfic Hallway company. nn amount allow any drinking in any public place only in private places like homes and clubs. The suggested plan of the writer, twice published in The Oregonian. also the laws of Quebec and British Columbia for the same plan prac tically, will alone suppress saloons, drunkards and bootleggers as much as is humanly possible. Dr. Dole, a lAadine Unitarian minister of Bos ton recently stated In the above named Christian Register that pro hibition of liquor traffic by law has been tried a number of times In hu man history and has never been a success. It never will be till public opinion radically changes. JAMES II. S. BATES. Interstate Bridge F.arnlnga. CATHLAMET. Wash.. Sept. 10. (To the Editor.) Kindly publish a statement showing the financial condition of the Vancouver Inter state bridge. Some claim that It has paid for itself In earnings. The writer thinks not. W. Multnomah county's share of bridge tolls has not been sufficient to pay Interest and annual bond re demption. Its net collections have been J757.386.86 to September 1, 1922. It has retired $250,000 In bonds and ald out in Interest $623,839.99, and has a balance tn the bridge fund of $857,391.36. The tolls have fallen about $116,000 short of interest and redemption requirements, so far as Multnomah county is concerned. Clarke county. Washington, receives two-fifths of the tolls and does not have so large an investment In approaches, and the showing is better as to Its share of 'the Investment, but total tolls have not equaled the total invest ment of both counties, much less been sufficient to pay Interest and principal. Twenty-five irora Am". From The Oregonian of Hrptrmher 12. Constantinople. The suli.in has ordered a commission composed of two Musselmans. three Armenians, and one Greek to visit the Armenian vlllayettes which have t.een the chief sufferers from the tnas.sarres and raise funds to rebuild the Ar menian schools, churches and mnn asteries, and build orplinnKes. Hazelton, Pa. Twenty-one are dead as a result of a clah between coal mine strikers and deputies. Militia and county police are belnff rushed to the scene. Yellow fever In the south, itarva tlon in the Yukon, and bloody riots In Pennsylvania. Let us lie thank ful for the peace and plenty In Ore gon. The project for beet-sugar busi ness In Oregon has a most, promis ing prospect. LIKE RAISING HKLHilOl'S ISSUE T'llna Deplored by Mr. Pierre Seem Inerly Done by Ills Manager. PORTLAND. Sept. 11. (To the Editor.) T. II. Crawford, campaign manager for Walter M. 1'lerce, dem ocratic candidate for governor, in a published letter tells us who Mr. Pierce Is. Among other th'nits we are informed that the camllnate is religiously a Protestant, aUhoush the nature of his protest Js not dis closed. However, It Is explained that his wife is a Methodist, which is more specific. Again it appears, that the canrti- date 18 a memoer in oon manning sons, Hhrlners, Knights n fry of of the M Pythias. Elks. Oddfellow liiltei Artisans, Woodmen of the World nd Modern Woodmen of Amrrira. which makes him out as some Join er, sure enougn. All of this has a human lnlere:, hut what bearing has it upon the present political campalun? Have we not been told by Mr. Pierce him self and wome of his newspaper sup porters that we should isnore tmv religious issue raised and look only to the fitness of tlio candidate to administer the office of governor nd carry on most effect Ivi ly on the side of the taxpayer In his fi lit for less cost of governments w ny men drag Mr. Pierce's Indefinite r;ll;lon called "Protestant, ae.d trore ,. f.- nite lodi,'e affiliations, etuht or them In all by name, out before the pub lic gaze? What Is the ol.Ject c.f 1:, will you tell us Mr. Crawford, cam- palprn manager? Many of us certainly would !i.e to know. It cannot be that a lM ! being made to that cVspica li thins called religious prejudice. Yet. s. far the democratic Candida le lias re fused to commit hlrtihilf u ti.e K. K. K or other necrei "patriotic societies whose chief object .r to be the capitalization " ;,it,..l:-.. and hate for business a::d i .!' ..: purports. The views of Mr. I'icui subject would be a f.nr,, iv.t r, portant matter fo .!.- su...... ., manager to enlighu-:! 1 ' .. ;: either the religious or :dc c.;:i..i tiona of the candidate i' -;; '. "ii. be. Vi.ji:.: h. Ffflrlrne-T Fir?. Wn'.I Street Jourt An applicant for wr-t V. :: plant asked a vet. r.rr. if it were true that th cmi always finding mciiiul, . up production hv tiMtirf fi The veteran replied: "Most certainly. In fact tinued. "I Just had a .Ileum v.:;tc:i Illustrates the point. Mr. !'. !,: i dead and I could sec te pal . 1 Jt 1 1 ' carrying the body Miiii.tl, tiic procession stopped. .Mr. !': Kul come to life. As soon a Hit .1 .).! was opened he sat upright. "'i. or seeing six pallbearers, cried oiu a! once: Put this casket on wheeir, nl lay off five men. Sex F.qnallty, Ohio State Journal. Our own position on the sex prob lem: Equal rights for nil i nd spe cial shooting privileges for none. N 1